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Using your microwave more efficiently and turning it off when not in use can help cut energy consumption. Photograph: Huw Jones/Getty Images
The biggest impact comes from electricity used to power the microwaves, but study also highlights rising environmental cost of our throwaway culture...
(Job Ones News Blog Editor's note: Now where is the tally for the USA and the rest of the world with microwaves??? )
Popping frozen peas into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, but Europe's stock of these quick-cook ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7m cars, a new study has found.
And the problem is growing: with costs falling and kitchen appliances becoming "status" items, owners are throwing away microwaves after an average of eight years, pushing rising sales.
A study by the University of Manchester worked out the emissions of carbon dioxide – the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change – at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.
"It is electricity consumption by microwaves that has the biggest impact on the environment," say the authors, who also calculate that the emissions from using 19 microwaves over a year are the same as those from a car.
"Efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour to use appliances more efficiently. For example, electricity consumption by microwaves can be reduced by adjusting the time of cooking to the type of food."
Each year more microwaves are sold than any other type of oven in the EU: annual sales are expected to reach 135m by the end of the decade.
David Reay, professor of carbon management at the University of Edinburgh, pointed out that the damage done by microwaves is still a fraction of that done by cars. "Yes, there are a lot of microwaves in the EU, and yes they use electricity," he said.
"But their emissions are dwarfed by those from cars – there are around 30m cars in the UK alone and these emit way more than all the emissions from microwaves in the EU. Latest data show that passenger cars in the UK emitted 69m tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2015. This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the whole of the EU."
The energy used by microwaves is lower than any other form of cooking. uSwitch, the price comparison website, lists microwaves as the most energy efficient, followed by a hob and finally an oven, advising readers to buy a microwave if they don't have one. However, they urge owners to switch them off at the wall after use, to avoid powering the clock.
"Yes, it's important to use microwaves efficiently," said Simon Bullock, senior climate change campaigner for the charity Friends of the Earth. "But so is making sure the electricity that powers them is as low pollution as possible. The government should reverse its policy attacks on solar and onshore wind. We need green electrons powering all the nation's tellies, microwaves and fridges."
Alejandro Gallego-Schmid, one of the report's authors, said: "The aim of our study was not to compare microwaves to other cooking appliances but to look at the environmental impacts of microwaves as ubiquitous devices in households in Europe and draw attention to the need to make their design, use and end-of-life waste management more efficient."
The report also reveals that the lifespan of microwaves has reduced by nearly seven years over the last 20 years – from more than a decade to six-eight years. By the end of this decade 16m microwaves are expected to be discarded each year.
"Given that microwaves account for the largest percentage of sales of all types of oven in the EU, it is increasingly important to start addressing their impact on resource use and end-of-life waste," said Gallego-Schmid.
Existing regulation is not enough to reduce those environmental impacts, and specific regulations are needed for microwaves, says the report.
"My microwave's not too high impact at the moment," said Bullock. "It's broken, waiting in a corner for me to work out where best to recycle it."
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UCAS Clearing 2020
Apply Now – 01483 500 841
Final Deadline: 20th October 2020
If you'd like to join us at ACM in September 2020, but think it's too late to apply, then you couldn't be more wrong! UCAS Clearing is now open until late September, so there's never been a better time to fast-track your music career by starting your journey with ACM.
What is Clearing?
'Clearing' is a part of the UCAS application process which enables universities to fill any spaces they have left available on their courses by publishing a list of those available places and offering them to potential students directly. It's especially suitable for those who still haven't secured a university place following the application deadline on 30th June, or if you don't achieve your required grades on A-Level Results Day on 13th August.
Here at ACM, we have limited spaces available for the 2020 / 2021 academic year at ACM Guildford, ACM London, and the new ACM Birmingham campus, so if it's a sustainable career in the music industry you're after, then get in touch today.
How to apply
Applying to ACM during Clearing is easy – just follow these simple steps:
- Choose your preferred Degree course at your desired ACM campus.
- Contact our Admissions Team on 01483 500 841 to discuss whether this option is a viable choice, in the hope of receiving an informal offer.
- Book in an audition / interview with the Applicant Advisor team. You can audition/interview either in person or over Skype.
- Visit the UCAS Track system to add ACM as your Clearing choice.
Apply today
To talk through your Clearing study options for September 2020 and beyond, simply get in touch with the ACM Admissions Team by calling 01483 500 841 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
ACM courses available via Clearing
This year we've seen unprecedented demand for our whole range of hugely popular contemporary music courses across all our campuses, but we still have plenty of options for you to choose from for 2020 / 2021 via Clearing.
ACM Guildford & ACM Birmingham
BA (Hons) Music Industry Practice
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Ever since last semester when I've come to the US, I've been really Gung Ho about gaining weight. No, I don't mean that I want to become fat. I wanna become more muscular since all the fucking ang mohs here so big size. If I'm too weak I might get gang raped and I will have trauma for the rest of my life. So decided to do some body building to build some muscles and flex at the ang mohs when they try to "assault" me.
Yea, that book is supposedly written by Arnold Scwarzenegger. Though I really doubt it as the contents have better grammar than my college textbooks. Heck, look damn macho right the cover. I got half of that good enough liao keke.
At first it was just frequent visits to the gym. Seeing no results after one month, Terence and I decided to go buy some protein powder to boost up our progress.
One thing I can tell you is, I definitely don't drink that stuff for the taste. But oh what the heck, I'm too vain so I can't help it. Heck we even went to buy some Black Powder that supposedly improve our performance.
It says here that we are supposed to have more energy and all that crap.
The only thing I end up with are sleepless nights after drinking that thing due to all the caffeine and sugar in there.
With all these so called "body building products" to motivate me, I frequented the gym even more until my gloves are worn out.
See see, color faded liao wtf.
Some weeks later, I weighed myself and was thrilled to find that I have gained weight. After all, they say muscles weigh 3 times as heavy as fat right?
But KNN, I have been gaining weight in the wrong place!!!!
Sien lan dou. And I found out who the culprit was.
Too many midnight encounters with this little bugger has made all the effort at the gym gone down the drain.
Got whole box somemore wtf. Shit, so irresistible. MCH the dark side is calling out to me~~~ NOOOO!!!
Sigh got to start watching what I eat. Bye bye yummies and hello veggies T.T
Parents that want their children to gain weight should buy stacks of CQYD and keep them in stock. Fuck all that Appeton crap. If I was the marketing head this would be my Campaign Ad.
You have no idea how good they taste when you are 16,410 km from home.
Looks yummy right?
Sigh~~~ Now I gotta start embracing my green juicy little friend T.T
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Safety, Exercises & Rehabilitation
After your acoustic neuroma treatment, refer to the following pages for information on safety and exercises:
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- Eye Exercises: Exercises to improve your eye movement.
- Eye Care for Facial Weakness: Eye care guidelines if you have facial weakness.
- Rehabilitation for Single-Sided Hearing Loss: Hearing aid information for single-sided hearing loss.
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- Acoustic Neuroma Clinic
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- Making Your Treatment Decision
- Preparing for Your Acoustic Neuroma Surgery
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Tiffany Hayes' UConn career ended with a loss to Notre Dame in the Final Four. She leaves the Huskies as something of an enigma: a long-range shooter who, when she gets hot, can take over the game, but also a player the media often characterize as one who didn't show up for the big games.
Fair or not, here's the reality: she won't ever play college basketball again and now she's focusing on the WNBA.
Unlike Maya Moore, arguably the best player to ever come through UConn, and the 2011 first-overall pick in the WNBA Draft, Hayes' future is less certain. She's expected to be a late first-round pick.
"I think my transition is going to be a pretty good one, and playing [at UConn] is definitely going to help me out a lot," she told the Hartford Courant's John Altavilla. "It's taught me a lot, from learning from the players to learning from the coaches."
Hayes may be lacking Moore's talents but they share the same pedigree and that counts for something. More from Altavilla:
"The one thing that I always say about players from Connecticut, and also players from Tennessee, the rich tradition-type programs, is that they always kept their college coaches, staffs in high regard," said Seattle coach Brian Agler, who has coached former UConn players Sue Bird, Swin Cash and Svetlana Abrosimova with the Storm. "The players speak highly of them; they tended to be a big part of their lives, even once they get in the pro level. I think that's important in our evaluation, because they are very team oriented.
"And Tiffany definitely is like that. She's had a great career there. I anticipate her going in the first round at some point. You know, she's got some versatility and some length [5 feet 9]. But definitely her pedigree going to that program for four years, playing on the great teams that she has will help her. It's a very competitive situation, and that's what she comes from."
Scouts and coaches know about Hayes' inconsistent career. But they're also in the business of projecting college talent into a much different pro game.
"I think for Tiffany, when you make that jump to the WNBA, the expectations of her as a player will change a little bit in terms of what she is asked to do or what they needed her to do, and I think that led to some of the inconsistencies," Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve told Altavilla. "For her, I'm sure she's better for it, all of the experiences that she had, and I think she'll be able to take all of those things and figure out how to be impactful in our league."
That's an enlightened statement and one that can only be welcome news to Hayes. Wherever she ends up, the leadership expectations won't be what they were during her final season in Storrs. And we can talk all we want about "seniors needing to step up" but the reality is that not every senior is cut out to be a vocal leader. And that's fine.
Geno Auriemma has exceedingly high expectations and it's served his players well. But in this instance, it seems that Hayes was never comfortable in that role. Maybe the faceless rookie in a new city will be what she needs to become a more consistent player.


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CNN correspondent sued for alleged drunken attack on medical workers in Baghdad
On Tuesday, the two emergency medical technicians — Charles Simons and Tracy Lamar — filed the suit in New York County Supreme Court against CNN and Damon, Courthouse News reported, and together they're requesting $2 million on account of the correspondent's alleged "outrageous conduct."
According to the New York Daily News, the two EMTs were working for a private contractor in Baghdad on July 19 when a "seriously intoxicated" Damon became "unruly and violent" towards embassy staff, prompting the medics to try and calm the correspondent down. Damon reportedly shrugged off those attempts, however, and then boasted of being "a major reporter for CNN" before biting the EMTs, the suit suggests.
"She was biting them both pretty furiously. She has good teeth," David Jaroslawicz, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told the Daily News. "Eventually they subdued her."
Courthouse News reported that the Simons and Lamar also allege that Damon "has a history of becoming intoxicated and then abusive" and write in the suit that, "In fact, defendant Damon has a history of and penchant for violence even when sober."
When TMZ first reported on the lawsuit on Monday, a spokesperson for CNN told POLITICO that they were "not aware" of any legal action being taken against the network or the correspondent. Soon after, though, the New York Post reported that Damon had personally owned up to her behavior and even wrote an apology to the embassy staff last month after the ordeal — despite not recalling the details of the incident.
"I want to extent [sic] my sincerest apologies and deepest gratitude to all that were involved in helping me out," the letter reads. "It's been an extremely stressful time, I was exhausted, I had not had proper food all day and clearly miscalculated how my body would handle the alcohol consumed. . .Needless to say, I am utterly mortified and take full responsibility for my actions, which are inexcusable."
"I am being filled in on the details of my behavior. I am beyond embarrassed. My actions and words were entirely out of my character, and I hope that everyone can at some point forgive me," the letter continues. "So once again, I am apologizing and extending my thanks to all that were involved in ensuring that I am, thankfully, in the end, taken care of and physically at least OK. Everyone was extremely professional and courteous in the face of my unjustified behavior."
Speaking to the Daily News, Jaroslawicz said that "Legally, this is an admission," and will likely be entered into the case as evidence. Additionally, the attorney claimed that both the US Department of Justice and Department of State are investigating the incident.
"To get so very drunk and attack people who are trying to help you is somewhat disturbing, particularly as a reporter," Jaroslawicz told the New York Post.
Damon, 36, has worked at CNN since 2006, and won an Investigative Reporters and Editors' IRE Award for her coverage of the September 11, 2012 attack on the US consulate building in Benghazi, Libya.


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Your Microsoft Sticky Notes Can Be Accessed via a Browser Anywhere Anytime
Microsoft has finally released the web version of Microsoft Sticky Notes. Your Sticky Notes can be accessed at https://www.onenote.com/stickynotes and all notes will be sync with all devices using the same Microsoft account.
ALSO READ: Goodbye to Microsoft OneNote Desktop Application
The web version functions more or less the same as the Windows 10 Sticky Notes app by enabling you to alter the note's colour from the top-right corner menu but at the same time includes some text formatting options as well along the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately, there's no support for handwritten notes with neither touch nor Surface Pen currently working but typing works fine.
Do you think you'll ever use Sticky Notes on the web instead of the official app?
The post Your Microsoft Sticky Notes Can Be Accessed via a Browser Anywhere Anytime appeared first on Descasio Blog.


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- Ensure systemd services restart on failure by Jon Archer
- php-fpm systemd unit with auto-restart by Juan Luis Boya García
- systemd Project Web Page
systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system and services. The main command used to introspect and control systemd is systemctl.
Basically do the following to let a service restart automatically…
- Edit /lib/systemd/system/name.service file
- Insert "Restart=on-failure" under the section "Service". Save the file
- Execute the command… systemctl daemon-reload
- Execute the command… systemctl restart name_of_the_service
- (optional) try killing the process now
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Examples for more examples.


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In the twenty-first century, men are not allowed to purchase or own decent clothes. If sustainability and half-decent look are on your list of priorities, just change your gender now. The world of clothing is ruled by feminist fashion fascists.
The requirement for sustainability has severe implications. One of them is that the item must be vegan. Furthermore, cotton is unspeakable horror that all thinking humans should avoid. The damage cotton production does to the planet is grossly underrated. Cotton-free vegan clothing items are the target, and I would prefer if they would withstand the scrutiny of the gender I prefer to launch romantic enterprises with — women.
These very same women have an unbounded set of options that fit the bill. They have a range of fabrics to choose from: bamboo, tencil, modal and god only knows what other awesome stuff they make from plant origin. While not vegan, I consider silk sustainable, so I add that to the list of acceptable fabrics. Let those little worms boil alive. Silk opens the way to satin and velvet. All of these fabrics are available for women in any given department store around the world.
Walk over to the men's department. The reality of men's clothing is sordid. You will encounter two kinds of products: one that proudly advertises 100% cotton, and the other type which is an abhorrent blend of plastics. Linen, bamboo, hemp, tencil, modal — forget this stuff. If you are a man, the feminist fashion fascists will force you to wear cotton and feel terrible about yourself. My task is made even harder by having a body mass index below twenty. If size small fits without too much extra fabric flapping around, I consider myself lucky.
We are not even talking about practical issues here, like why pants do not have hidden pockets to make them safer to stow valuables in. I only require the damned thing to be comfortable to wear, looking okay-ish, and being produced without destroying nature or relying on slave labour. If practicality is an another factor to consider, I might as well make a rope of silk panties, and hang myself from a tree after hugging it.
Buying a pair of pants takes months for me. Even if I give up and compromise with cotton, most jeans have a leather label sewn on them. The ones with plastic labels look like something truck drivers would wear on non-special occasions.
Formal shirts are never made of anything else than planet-destroying horror cotton from hell. Quality varies so much it is hard to believe it is the same fabric: compare a double-threaded Egyptian cotton fabric that is coated with ironing-enhancing compounds to a single-threaded shirt that sells for twenty dollars and smells bad even before you put it on. Yet, cotton is cotton, no matter what you do with it. There are reasons to why a shirt cannot be made from bamboo. Bamboo is too soft, no matter how you treat it, it will never have the same structure as an upper-scale cotton shirt. Linen, however, is perfect for shirts. You have to devote a disproportionate amount of time to find a store that sells linen shirts.
Most shoes are ruled out, and even if the shoes are not leather, the glue probably still contains remnants of deceased animals. I am not a hippy, I do not want to wear plastic sandals. The challenge of finding shoes that do not look ridiculous yet that are vegan is an impossible undertaking.
Underwear is the only area where I might be in luck. Bamboo, tencil and modal are sometimes available, if I look hard enough. Socks can be a tougher challenge to buy. If you see a stash of bamboo socks, buy a heap — their lifetime is limited, as bamboo is a soft fabric.
The reduction of the rate of consumption is essential in maintaining my sanity. This is why I prefer to pay a premium, but get items that last longer. This way I reduce the effort spent on finding suitable clothes. In contrast, in the world of cotton, clothes were meant to be disposable. Wear a cotton T-shirt once, and its fabric will be out of shape after a single washing.
My clothing crisis is permanent. No matter which part of the world I live in, clothes meeting the parameters are simply not made. A key element of the suppression of men in contemporary matriarchal societies is the enslavement of men to cotton and to other obnoxious fabrics. The day we overcome this will be the day of masculine emancipation. The koteka is the only way to go.
PS: Today I got a pair of undies made of soy protein that were the byproduct of tofu production. I feel sexy wearing beans.


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The legacy of Kathleen Cooks lives on. In 2012 the Kathleen Cooks Fund made awards totalling just over £5,400. Might you benefit from Kathleen's generous bequest in 2013?
In 2012 the Fund provided financial assistance for the following events in Wales:
What have you got to loose, and think what you could gain!
· Conversations with Cataloguers
· Forum for Interlending
and enabled individual CILIP members to attend training events including:
· Training the trainers
· DARTS3 conference (blogged about here)
· University Science & Technology Libraries Meeting
· Day delegate attendance at CILIP Cymru Wales Conference in 2012 (blogged here)
The Fund also supports the Welsh Books Council in the annual awards of the Tir na n'Og prizes for children's books published with genuine Welsh background in English and Welsh.
The legacy of Kathleen proudly lives on. Will you join those in benefiting from Kathleen's generosity in 2013? Applying for financial support is straight-forward!
Who can apply?
· Welsh Library Authorities
· CILIP groups in Wales
· Individual members of CILIP in Wales
Awards are granted where applications meet at least ONE of the following criteria:
· Result in a new or improved service to users of library and information services in Wales
· Add to knowledge in Welsh libraries and information services
· Improve professional knowledge among members of CILIP Wales
· Assist in the production or purchase of specific items or collections of permanent value to WalesAwards are typically in the region of £500 - £1000, but may on occasion be greater. Decisions are usually made within 10 days and the process is very straight-forward.
What have you got to loose, and think what you could gain!


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Signs Now Development Website Recognized at 12th Annual Franchise Leadership & Development Conference
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Signs Now Development Website Recognized at 12th Annual Franchise Leadership & Development Conference
SARASOTA, Fla. (October 12, 2010)—Signs Now was among top award winners for "Best Recruitment Websites," earning second place at the STAR Awards during the 12th Annual Franchise Leadership & Development Conference held Sept. 23 in Atlanta. Signs Now is a member of Allegra Network LLC, one of the world's largest marketing, print, graphic communications and signs franchises in the world. The Signs Now site (www.signsnowfranchise.com) was launched in May.
The franchise network's Allegra Marketing· Print· Mail development site (www.allegrafranchise.com) was also recognized, earning third place.
All of the website entries were graded anonymously with a mystery shopping appraisal of approximately 150 competing sites. The judging criteria included overall appeal; ease of navigation; content delivery and process; response time to inquiries; conversion rate and other key metrics.
"We were thrilled to receive recognition for our online development marketing efforts," Allegra Network Vice President of Franchise Development Phil LeBlanc said. "When we launched the sites, we wanted site visitors to see what was different about Signs Now and Allegra Marketing · Print · Mail. These awards give us validation that our sites do stand out against our competitors.
" Both the STAR Awards and the Franchise Leadership & Development Conference are produced by Franchise Update Media Group. This year's event attracted approximately 350 attendees representing approximately 150 top franchise companies and supplier partners.
The Signs Now and Allegra Marketing · Print · Mail development websites were designed to introduce entrepreneurs to their marketing print, graphic communications and signage franchise opportunities. Key features include step-by-step presentations of the companies' proven business models; free, downloadable franchise kits with frequently-asked questions; testimonials from current franchise members; details of franchise training and operational support; and a comprehensive look at the benefits of having the backing of a recognized brand with a proven track record.
About Signs Now, a division of Allegra Network LLC
As a leader and top innovator in the sign and graphics industry, Signs Now truly stands out in a crowded world. Signs Now has nearly 200 franchise locations across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Founded in 1983, the Signs Now service base includes solutions and digital imaging for outdoor and indoor signage, exhibit and vehicle graphics, magnetic signs, banners, window graphics, ADA signage, dimensional letters, directional systems and other visual communications tools to businesses worldwide. For more information on Signs Now, call (800) 356-3373 or visit their website at www.signsnow.com.
About Allegra Network
Allegra Network LLC is one of world's largest marketing, print and graphic communications franchises linking nearly 550 locations across North America. The company ranks in the top 200 among all franchise companies in the world and is considered a leader in franchise training, technology implementation and system profitability. Allegra Network was founded in 1976 and today supports three primary brands under its print division – Allegra, American Speedy Printing and Insty-Prints, and the Signs Now brand under its sign division. The company is privately owned by an investor group including Michael Marcantonio, former vice president of Domino's Pizza and Thomas S. Monaghan, the founder and former CEO of Domino's Pizza and founder of Ave Maria University. For more information on Allegra Network, please call (800) 726-9050 or visit www.allegranetwork.com.Back


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This recipe is a snap. It's a great way to get warm, delicious bread with minimal effort, time or talent. It took only 3 minutes to mix together, and beer bread is the perfect companion to almost any fall soup!
Simple Beer Bread
3 cups self-rising flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 - 12oz can beer
1/4 cup melted butter
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray. Put the flour and sugar in the loaf pan and mix to combine (I mix mine right in the loaf pan, which also means fewer dishes!). Pour beer on top and mix until the dry ingredients and beer are completely combined. Melt butter and pour on top of bread. Bake for 1 hour.
Blake is trying is heading out to the woods deer hunting this weekend, so I'm hoping to have time to work on some cool projects for my blog this weekend!


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55 x 70 cm | 21 x 27 in
Subject: Places/landscapes/interiors
Tags: Snow, Waterfall, Wild, Abstract, Pale Blue
Original painting in oil on linen.
Be pulled deeper and deeper, into the atmospheric terrains of Kathryn Johnson. A recent graduate from Gray's School of Art, Johnson's deft understanding of her palette, coupled with her unique talent, gives way to a number of radiant canvases.
Johnson, deals with the beautiful and broad topic: 'things bigger than yourself...' Therefore, she often tends to lean towards the loveliness of nature, and the uplifting emotional impact nature can have on the soul. She takes her 'bigger than yourself...' motif to heart in her latest piece, Searching For Snow. A sprawling oil on linen, the work measures 140 x 180 cm and makes for a magnificent feature piece depicting the misty Scottish Highlands.
It's a real treat when an artist understands their work and palette like Johnson does, the payoff is spectacular. She layers lavender, cerise, and palest blue, to create this impression of an emotion and a conversation.
Embark, with Kathryn Johnson upon her fantastical mountain trail...


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I have been doing more miles on the bike this year than i normally do
I am nearly 1000km up on where i was at this time last year. I also have been a bit more focused on riding rather than my other loves of kitesurfing, swimming and running.
The end result is that I am doing between 1 and 2 100km rides a week and they are beginning to feel easy.
This morning I headed west into a 15mph wind on a gravel towpath and then around an exposed headland with nary a thought about the wind. Sure I felt it but i just thought 'more resistance then' which I think is a positive.
It wasnt the hilliest route but even after 80km I was tootling along then came home to discover i had knocked off an impressive 56 Strava trophies – most of them PR's for sections as well as a mysterious top 10 placing and all this with an average Heart Rate of 121bpm (in my fat burn / low cardio zone)
So then i thought i really should be cycling either quicker or longer or BOTH. So my next challenge …….
There comes a time for most road riders and this includes me, where you focus on the 100-mile (160.93km) target. This can be in the shape of a sportive, club ride or a personal challenge, alone or with a group.
For some, 100 miles is no big deal, just something they do every Sunday. For others it can be the single biggest physical challenge they will ever undertake on a bike. For me it is something I have never done but feel that i am nearly ready to do it. The precursor to this is the eTape Caledonia in a fortnight, an 82 mile ride sportive done at a much higher pace with no stopping.
From Cycling Weekly – Many cyclists, however, fall somewhere between the two and may already be comfortable with 50-60 mile rides but are eyeing the triple-figured milestone for their next achievement.
Just how big is the jump from 60 to 100 miles? How will you know if it'll be a cakewalk or a frustrating grovel ending in a miserable train journey back home?
Let's take a look at the factors that come into play with the extended mileage and see how best to prepare for 100 miles so you can undertake that distance with a realistic chance of it being an enjoyable and achievable target.
We've split it up into five sections, which we think need to be nailed in order to smash the 100-mile barrier. So let's start with the biggie: training.
1 – Train!
The physical aspect of training is usually the most common focus for people with a new goal or challenge, and many folks will think that riding as much as possible in the two weeks leading up to the big ride is sufficient. This isn't the best approach though, and what we need to do is 'train smarter'.
This doesn't mean we are striving for marginal gains like the GB squad; it means that we should be looking to maximise our training so that we are doing the right things at the right times.
If you are regularly riding 50-60 miles then that is already a great start; you could probably get through a century ride without too much bother, although you could be far better prepared if you have gradually increased your riding time and distance on your training rides.
Remember, to do the 100, you don't need to be training by doing 100 miles all the time — 75-80 per cent is ample preparation without adding excessive volume.
- Your physical training should take into account the following points:
Specificity: Is your 100-mile ride going to be hilly? Then ride hills on your 60-milers! Some riders really struggle on the climbs. If you are one of them then make sure you are addressing them in your training. In many cases, 100 flat miles can seem very easy and very different when compared to a hilly 60 or 70.
- Saddle time: Try and focus more on the time in the saddle without stopping, rather than miles covered on your training rides. Try riding at a lower intensity and see if you can stick it out for longer. If your average speed over three hours is 15mph, do you think you can hold it for over six hours? If you can comfortably ride your bike for 4-4.5 hours, then you are in a good place to think about the century.
- Rest: This is so important. Include active recovery in your training weeks and make sure you are resting properly. Keep the legs turning in the week leading up to the big ride, but don't do anything that will make you excessively tired.
Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/fitness/training/five-invaluable-tips-to-help-you-step-up-from-riding-60-to-100-miles-170890#h3Z75lQPY2WLY6f9.99
2 – Effort levels
Whether you are riding an individual pursuit over 4km or a whole Grand Tour, pacing your effort will be of maximum importance.
For 100 miles, you will want to make sure you don't use up all your energy too early and struggle badly in the last third of the ride. You can use a simple speedometer to gauge an average speed which you know you are comfortable with, or a heart rate monitor to keep around a particular BPM, or even old-fashioned perceived exertion — simply going by feel.
>>> Build your strength and big gear efforts
However you pace yourself, it's a good idea to also have a psychological pacing strategy, such as waypoints you think you should be at during particular times. For example: "I should be at the sharp climb at 40 miles in 150 minutes." You can adjust your effort to ensure that you avoid blowing up too early, but that you also aren't dawdling unnecessarily and missing out on a faster time.
3 – Getting in the zone
We all know how powerful the mind can be, and how it can affect performance both positively and negatively. If you are riding 100 miles alone, the mind can be a helpful ally, or a destructive pest. We want to enjoy our ride, so learning during training how to disassociate ourselves from feelings of discomfort is a useful skill.
Try to focus on other things, like the scenery, your pedalling technique, or holding an aerodynamic position. The small 'process goals' of each waypoint within your pacing strategy will also help to break down the ride in your head into more manageable sections.
Remember, no matter how demoralising the weather, the hills or the headwinds might be, think about how amazing you will feel at the end of the ride, and always look ahead, up the road to where things will be changing.
4 – Fuelling
How you approach your nutrition both before and during the ride can be the difference between a great performance and a trip to A&E.
How you refuel afterwards can also be a factor, which will have a huge influence on your general health and your future riding plans.
Nutrition tips
Before: The day before your 100-miler needs to be seriously considered — this is where the ride actually starts. You may have heard of 'carb loading' but the simplest advice here is to make sure you take on a healthy, balanced meal with fresh vegetables and low glycaemic index carbs. It's also worth considering a bowl of cereal two hours before bed as a booster.
Leave off the alcohol or fizzy pop, and drink plenty of water. In the morning, go for the cereal and fruit, and drink at least 500ml of water before you set out.
During: Avoid taking on a whole bunch of energy gels; these are mostly designed to help riders through the last few demanding kilometres of a road race.
You might want to take along something with caffeine and sugar just in case, but don't be tempted to break into this unless you are getting really fatigued and have already covered a good distance. All you really need is adequate carbohydrate to fuel from. An average sized cereal bar of about 30 grams for every 45-60 minutes of riding is ideal. Take along some bananas too.
Don't forget to keep eating! A critical stumbling point for many riders is the inability to fuel while riding, so make sure you are able to take a drink from a bottle whenever you need to.
When drinking, tilt the bottle up and to the side to avoid tilting your head (so you can still look where you're going) and keep your food to hand in jersey pockets. You will need around 500ml of water per hour (more if it's very hot and you are losing it through sweat). And to help replenish the lost minerals, your second bottle should contain a small amount of an additive which contains electrolytes. Go for the powders that are aimed at hydration rather than energy. Don't try anything you haven't already used and are happy with — the big ride isn't the one for experimenting with nutrition and hydration.
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After: Your muscles need glycogen now, so this is the time for fruit juice or a purpose made recovery shake. Get those sugars in within 20 minutes —even 'bad' sugars like fizzy drinks and sweets (in moderation) can help at this point. Remember to keep hydrating and sit down to a decent meal containing some good protein within about an hour.
5 – Bike fit
When you are on the bike for several hours, little imperfections in position or fit can evolve into very major issues. If you have any niggles or particular localised discomfort during your normal rides, then it pays to get these seen to before the century ride.
A professional bike-fit can improve comfort and performance, while reducing fatigue and the risk of injury. It's not just how the bike fits you though — how you fit yourself to the bike also matters.
What we are talking about here is your ability to hold your position, your pedalling efficiency and flexibility.
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Check out the pros with their slightly bent elbows and stable upper body, their flat backs and aerodynamic positions. OK, you might not be able to emulate them immediately, but you will probably be able to improve your current position with a few tweaks and off-bike exercises and stretches.
Get advice from a physio if needed, and make sure that you don't attempt the big ride without properly testing new positions or bike parts beforehand.
Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/fitness/training/five-invaluable-tips-to-help-you-step-up-from-riding-60-to-100-miles-170890#h3Z75lQPY2WLY6f9.99


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VSTO takes a very strong stance on security to prevent the spread of macro viruses or worms. VSTO's security model involves the trust of two things: 1) the assembly associated with the document must be trusted and 2) the location the document is coming from must be trusted. VSTO's default security model for assemblies is that no assembly is trusted by default. VSTO's default security model for documents is that only documents on the local machine are trusted by default. When a VSTO customized document is loaded both assembly trust and document location trust are checked to determine whether to load. No matter where the assembly is, you must have .NET policy in place to trust the assembly. If the customized document resides locally on your computer this is sufficient.
But if the customized document is being opened from the intranet or internet zone (such as from http://myserver/myvstodoc.xls) then you must add additional .NET policy to trust the location the document is coming from. This is to prevent a repurposing attack where a document from an untrusted intranet or more likely internet zone tries to repurpose a VSTO document customization that the attacker knows is trusted within an organization. It is also to protect from an attack where a repurposed document comes in through e-mail--any document opened directly from e-mail is in the internet zone and won't be trusted until you "save it to disk" e.g. copy it to your local computer.
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In the debate about education in our state, schools outside of the big cities often get overlooked.
But a new report from the Rural School and Community Trust shows that when it comes to rural schools in Arizona, there are many challenges.
The report found more than half of all of Arizona's rural student population are minorities. We have a high percentage of English Language Learner students, and seven in 10 rural students in our state live in poverty. And, at the same time, spending on instruction per student here is the second lowest in the nation.
I spoke with Don German more about the results of this report. He's the executive director of the Arizona Rural Schools Association. And he says many of our rural schools are in farming communities, where English is a second language for many students. And, with a statewide teacher shortage, rural schools are in an even tougher spot.
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Sometimes, a disease named after a person has to be renamed because disturbing information later comes to light. One such case is Friedrich Wegener, a celebrated German pathologist. Working off of a description of a rare disorder first described by a German medical student in 1931, Wegener wrote about three additional cases and figured out that they were all the same distinct form of vasculitis, which is an inflammation of the blood vessels. Eventually this disease became known as Wegener's granulomatosis [source: The Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center].
Wegener's, which typically strikes people in middle age, can affect any area of the body, although it tends to be found in the kidneys, lungs and upper respiratory tract. Symptoms are wide ranging and can include frequent sinus infections, ear infections that are slow to clear, a collapsed nose bridge due to cartilage inflammation and kidney inflammation that can lead to renal failure. Wegener's was almost always a fatal condition until the 1970s, when new pharmaceutical treatments changed it into a chronic condition [source: The Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center].
In 2011, Mayo Clinic rheumatologist Eric Matteson was researching an article on Wegener and discovered he had a sordid past. Wegener had been a member of the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (the "brown shirts"), a paramilitary organization that terrorized opponents of Hitler. Wegener had also worked in an office in Lodz, Poland, where medical experiments were conducted on Jewish and gypsy prisoners held in the nearby ghetto. Matteson successfully pushed three medical societies to rename Wegener's granulomatosis as "granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's)"; eventually the societies plan to simply call the disease "granulomatosis with polyangiitis" [source: Benson].


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Can we get smarter or is academic potential predetermined? Professor Guy Claxton of Department of Learning Science at the University of Winchester and originator of Building Learning Power says, the ability to learn is in itself very learnable. It consists of curiosity, the ability to ask good questions, persisting in the face of difficulty, being resourceful, being able to have a range of different strategies to call upon, being a good collaborator and to be able to be thoughtful or reflective. It is a balance of being imaginative while being able to think clearly and rigorously and in a disciplined manner. He believes it is possible to address these skills in lessons to strengthen these real-life intelligences.
By making small adjustments to the way we talk to children about the activities they complete in class, we can shift the focus from perceived 'work' to 'learning'. We can see children become more interested in the process of learning itself. Making simple changes to how we display work on the walls can illustrate this. We generally display the edited and crafted final product. By displaying the initial versions, we highlight and recognise the learning that has taken place to lead to the finished piece. This learning will have involved the drafting, the trying, the steps forward or back that have assisted the student to learn and to achieve success.
This approach leads to a culture change. The children see that what they do at school is not about completing tasks but is about stretching their learning muscles, their mental 'fitness' in ways they will understand will help them in all aspects of their life.
Children who feel more confident, more resourceful, more resilient, do better. They are able to talk about their learning. When faced with a challenging or confusing question or problem, they are able to stay engaged and give their best effort. The goal of education is not just about exams or qualifications. It is about the acquisition of skills that will help a person to succeed in a range of areas.
At Scotch, we are privileged to have two programmes that by design, lend themselves to helping a child to learn how to learn. The Reggio Emilia approach we follow in the ELC, as well as the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, provide the children with opportunities to explore how they learn, to consider questions they want to explore, to use their imagination and to try, regroup and try again. Both programmes aim to develop resilience in the children while teaching them how to learn.
We work to ensure we address the key building blocks for long term success in terms of basic skills while presenting the children with a range of opportunities to assist them to acquire and refine their learning skills and style. We do not believe academic potential is predetermined, we believe every child can improve and grow. By teaching them how to learn, we set them up for success now and in years to come.
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If you ever find yourself struggling to explain to a foreign friend why the U.S. Congress is so universally reviled, look no further than this bit of political cowardice.
In an explosive report by The Hill's Alexander Bolton, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office freely and openly admitted that his party's legislative goal for the next 11 months is to do absolutely nothing.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), seeking to protect his majority in a tough cycle for Republicans, is leaning toward holding back several measures that have bipartisan support but are divisive in his conference.
Some of these "divisive" bills that Republicans want to shove under the rug until they win their re-elections? A crucial justice reform bill. A long sought after authorization bill to combat ISIS (Remember when Republicans said they were serious about fighting terrorism? Ha!). A minimum wage increase? Any action on immigration? Nothing. They'll show up to their office to collect their paychecks, hold a few fundraisers, but don't expect them to do their jobs. Not this year.
Astoundingly, McConnell's "Do Nothing" strategy is being praised by fellow Republicans. Here's The Hill again:
"McConnell is smart to wait on issues that divide us until such time as we can achieve a consensus," said a senior Republican aide. "There's no question that some members want to turn to some things sooner than others. But McConnell's duty is to do what's best for the entire conference. Seems what's best for the conference is to focus on the things that unite us."
Yeah, sitting on his hands until they go numb, what a hero.
But if cowardice permeates every corner of the Republican Party, it's not without reason. For years Republican politicians have been held hostage by a radical fringe of their base that says any bipartisan cooperation means you aren't a "true" conservative. Just passing a bill to give more support to veterans is considered a "betrayal" to the party if it means working with Democrats. You accomplish exclusively conservative goals or you don't accomplish anything at all.
McConnell, with all the backbone of a snail, isn't taking any chances. He'll wait out the election and hope that voters focus on how his party never once compromised with "the enemy," and not, say, on the fact that they hadn't done their jobs for 12 months.
How does he plan to cover his tracks? It's shameless – but kind of clever. McConnell plans to intentionally slow down and string out the dozen annual appropriations bills. Those can be addressed individually and, if time is properly squandered, can go on pretty much indefinitely. By the end of the year, with 12 appropriations bills in hand, he can brag about having done something. Just not very much.
When we think about how the election cycle brings out the worst in politicians, we typically picture the attack ads, the rat race, the pettiness. There's another side: The craven attempt to cling onto jobs by a group of people who demonstrably do not deserve them. It means in this crucial year, when the United States faces a ton of major challenges, Americans will be treated to nothing – and all because a few politicians are worried what their most toxic supporters would think if they actually bothered show up to work.
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WelcomeSaturday, February 9th, 2002
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." —George Santayana
The World of "is" & the World of "ought to be"
Timothy Wilken, MD
Did you watch the opening ceremony for 2002 Winter Olympics? It was beautiful. We sure put on a good show for the rest of the world. We honor and cherish the first humans to inhabit North America — the Native Americans. We respect and protect the native animals of America — the Buffalo, Coyote, and Eagle. And, did you see the beautiful paper puppets? Wasn't the one of the giant American Bison cool with all the little buffalos running inside of it?
Of course, our show for the rest of the world wasn't really the truth. It was only a picture of the world as it "ought to be". An "ideal" picture of early America. This is the way our Amercian history "ought to have been".
In the "real" world — in the world of "is", those arriving from Europe would kill or imprison most of the Native Americans, use the Chinese and African immigrants as slave labor, and kill all but 800 of the millions of mighty Buffalo that ran on the American plains. This was the number of living Buffalo at the end of the 19th century. Our American history "could have been different". But it wasn't.
I am suggesting that the opening ceremony "could" also have been different. It could have presented the settlement of the American west with a little more respect for the truth. It could have still been beautiful, perhaps even more beautiful. I think it would have been much more valuable to show the rest of the world that we know that real adversity is a part of our history. That we know we made mistakes in the past, and have committed to learn from those mistakes. That we now have respect for Native Americans, Chinese Americans and African Americans. That we wish we had not made so many native animal species extinct, and that today we cherish all live on planet Earth.
This would have shown the world that we did remember the past.
Human intelligence science has revealed that our enormous intelligence is the result of possessing dual minds. These dual minds create pictures of a dual world in which we live. Most of us don't know we have dual minds and almost all of us don't know we live in a dual world. We live in two worlds all of the time.
Let us begin by examining the world created by the space-mind. It creates a picture of reality. Space-mind is in charge of survival. So it needs to know what the world is really like. Boy if you are in your space-mind, you better live in the real world. Right? Ever play dodge ball? When I was a kid, dodge ball was a big game. I don't know whether they even play it any more. You go into the gym and line up against the wall and somebody throws a volleyball at you at high speed. Right? You dodge it Right? You better know where the ball really is or you are going to get hit. Ever play snow ball fights? Same thing right? You better know where those snowballs really are or you're going to get hit. The space-mind has to know where things are in space. Where they really are. When I'm teaching this lesson to a group of students I'll suddenly toss a pencil to someone sitting in the first row, and it's amazing, they almost always catch it. One hand will fly up and catch the unexpected object. Their space-mind reflex puts their hand up. The space-mind has to know what's real and what's really going on or you don't survive. If there is a tiger in this room I had better know it's here. So the space mind makes a picture of reality from its sense images and feelings. That's picture of reality is what I call the world of "is".
The world of "is" is the way things really are. And, at its very best this picture of reality approaches the "real" world. Now we don't have a perfect picture of the universe the way it really is. But our space-mind is pretty good. It keeps me from running into the walls and safe in high speed motor traffic. My student in the front row demonstrated his ability to catch the pencil perfectly when it came flying through the air unexpectedly.
Now we humans also have a time-mind which is into becoming, it's interested in cause and effect, it is always predicting the future based on its understanding of the past. So the time-mind forms an opinion of reality from words and thoughts. This opinion of reality is what I call the world of "ought to be".
Every human has two worlds created by their two minds. Everyone of us has a world of "is" and a world of "ought to be". I've got mother "is" and mother "ought to be". Teacher "is" and teacher "ought to be". Son "is" and son "ought to be". Dad "is" and dad "ought to be". Husband "is" and husband"ought to be".
By the way, our husband "is"and wife "is" are always comes up short. Aren't they? They are never the way they ought to be. Also, our son "is" and daughter "is" are also coming up short. They are also never the way they ought to be.
Why are they coming up short? Why are they never the way they ought to be?
Our time-mind uses all of its cause and effect knowledge to predict the way things "ought to be". And we are always carrying our opinions of how it "out to be" with us at all times. Seven o'clock in the evening, and I run out of milk. So I get in my car and go down to Seven-Eleven only to discover they're closed. "Damn it! That's not the way it ought to be!" My space-mind shows me a picture of a closed store — the world the way it is. My time-mind tells me in words,"That's not the way it ought to be."And, so my space-mind prepares my body to fight.
All of us are rejected to some extent because we are never the way our parents think we ought to be. Because you see an ought to be at its very best is an ideal. The world of "ought to be" at its very best is an ideal. Well in the ideal world, the Seven-Eleven Store would be open, right? I'd go in and get my milk. Right? My son, in the world of ought to be, would get straight A's. Right? That's an ideal. Ideally my son would get straight A's. Ideally my husband would remember my birthday. Ideally the people on the road would be more courteous. Ideally the government would lower our taxes, right? In the world of "ought to be" the government would operate economically, and give the taxpayers a large refund. But in the world of "is" we just keep paying more taxes.
Now knowledge of the dual-world can be of great help to you. Whenever you find yourself angry at the world of "is", it probably is because you are mistaking your world of "ought to be" for the real world. Imagine, I am reading my newspaper when I come across a story I don't like. I exclaim: "I can't believe this! This can't be happening." In other words, in my world of "ought to be", this doesn't happen.
There are none so blind as those that will not see.
Not believing reality can be very dangerous. The Jewish people during WWII were very much victimized by the world of "ought to be". The American government played into that tragedy in a very large way. There was a group of Jewish people who suffered even more than those who were gassed in the concentration camp gas chambers. These were extraordinarily brave individuals who risked their lives to smuggle out pictures of the death camps. These photographs eventually reached the American government providing proof of Hitler's atrocities. The American government said they were fake. Why? In the American government's world of "ought to be", atrocities like those shown in the photos just didn't happen. In their world of ought to be those kinds of things simply don't happen. The photographs had to have been faked. Sadly, the whole world learned four years later that the photographs were not faked.
If I'm angry about the world of "is", it's often because I am convinced that my ideal world of "ought to be" is the real world.
This is the most powerful lesson that I teach in stress medicine. It's the single one tool that can help you make a major change in your life. I can teach you how to desensitize yourself to hostility. I can teach you how to do all kinds of relaxation, biofeedback. But if you understand about the world of "is" and the world of "ought to be", and you understand that the world of "is" is the real world, and that the world of "ought to be" is only an ideal world, you can unstress yourself greatly.
When my daughter was only four years old I taught her about the dual-world. I remember when something wouldn't work out for her, she would say, "Well, that's not the way it ought to be, but that's the way it is." If adults could learn to say those words they could help themselves a lot. "That's not the way it ought to be, but that's the way it is."
But because we don't understand the dual-world, we "should" all over each other? You see the world "should" comes from our world of "ought to be". This ought to be "should" is an ideal. When I say,"You shouldn't have said that." I mean in my world of "ought to be", you wouldn't have said that. Ideally, you wouldn't have said that.
The real "should" is from the world of "is". If I drop this pencil it should hit the floor. I drop the pencil and it does hit the floor.
The ideal "should" is from the world of "ought to be". I should weigh twenty pounds less, but nothing happens. What's wrong here. Why didn't I magically lose twenty pounds. This must be a different kind of should. This is an ought to be "should", not an is "should". Ignorance of our dual-world can make life very confusing.
To take advantage of our new knowledge of the dual-world, we must learn to "could" on each other. Let us learn how to "could" on each other rather than "should" on each other. This becomes very important. Why? Because see when I "could" on you it's an invitation. But when I "should" on you it's a push and your space-mind fights all pushes. Remember the space-mind fights all pushes.
To demonstrate this point in the classroom, I approach one of my students and ask the other students to turn to each other and do what I'm doing. Then I take the hand and wrist of my student, and move the arm around without the student's control. I push the student around a little. Not causing any real pain.Then I ask, "How does that feel? How does your space-mind like it? Here, feel it. Don't think it. What does space-mind say? Now you know I'm doing an experiment. But what does space mind-feel?"
Of course the space-mind doesn't talk but if it did it would say, "Leave me alone. Get off me. Don't touch me. Don't push me."
When we "should" on each other we are pushing,"You should have done a lot better on that test."
"Damn it. I'm all right. I'm ok. You can't tell me I should have done better."
My space mind defends against all pushes. And a "should" is a push. Anytime you "should" on somebody you invoke their space-mind and they shut down. They rebel. They push back and they won't do anything you tell them.
If you want to win friends and influence others, you need to learn how to "could" on people — a "could" is a pull — a "could" is an invitation.
"You could study a little more and maybe your grades would come up." The student says, "Yes, I could study a little more and maybe my grades would come up." That's not a push. That's an invitation. That's a pull. That's a possibility.
"You could make a note in your schedule about my birthday because it's real important to me." And I reply,"You know I could do that. Maybe I will do that. This is a better alternative to: "You shouldn't have forgotten my birthday. You never have time for me." To that I may reply, "Damn it. I'll forget your birthday every year from now on."
Our space-mind does not like to be pushed around. And so, what do we do? We humans push each other all day long.
We also push ourselves don't we? Ever hear your little time-mind "shoulding" on yourself? "I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have said this." "I should have done this. I should have told my boss off. I should have told him what I really thought of him. With knowledge of the dual-world, it is much more effective to could on yourself. I could have communicated my point of view more effectively to my boss.
In summary then, all humans have two minds — the space-mind and the time-mind. These two minds create two worlds — the world of "is" and the world of "ought to be" — a picture of the real world and an opinion of the ideal world.
It is our ability to create these two worlds that makes us human.


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Umno's vigilantes tour Shah Alam January 12, 2009Posted by elizabethwong in Current Affairs, Democracy, Politics, Race Relations.
(You can also read YB Khalid Samad's personal account here)
An incident of how UMNO goons intend to destabilise society
Published by guansin on January 11, 2009 11:59 am
Today I want to publish a letter from Shah Alam MP, Khalid Abdul Samad of PAS, and expose the conspiracy by UMNO to create tension in the multiracial Malaysia for its own political objective.
In his letter (abdulsamad-section19-temple.pdf), YB Khald Samad describes an incident that he had to respond to in his constituency. In brief, there was a group of troublemakers from Malacca who were planning to build a field to practise Silat (without permit) right besides a Hindu temple in Section 19 Shah Alam. (Yes, you can almost say that "UMNO Malacca is busy to destabilise Selangor PR state government", rather than focusing on Malacca's state development.) The letter carries some interactions between the MP and the leader of the troublemakers; those are interesting reads.
I commend the sensibility and fairness demonstrated by YB Khalid Samad. Residents of Shah Alam are fortunate to have elected such a representative. And to many Chinese Malaysians, who have for years misled by BN propaganda machinery and the mainstream media, this MP is the voice of conscience of PAS.
Let me highlight some of the interesting parts of the letter below. (Highlights are mine.)
Kerajaan BN telah meninggalkan banyak perkara yang perlu diperbetulkan… Di antara yang 'lain-lain' itu adalah persoalan kuil-kuil yang bertaburan yang telah tidak diurus dengan baik apatah lagi bertanggung jawab oleh BN.
Dasar kerajaan PR adalah mudah. Pertama, kuil-kuil yang lama ini perlu dipindahkan
ke satu tempat yang lebih sesuai. Tempat perlu dikenal pasti oleh PBT dan semestinya dipersetujui oleh pengguna kuil berkenaan. PBT perlu mengambil kira segala permasalahan yang akan dihadapi oleh pengguna kuil hasil dari pemindahan tersebut. Sambil itu, pembinaan kuil baru, selain dari hasil perpindahan, juga dihentikan.
Translation: PR state government's policy is simple. First, old temples need to relocate to more appropriate locations. Relocation sites must be identified by PBT and the sites agreed by the temple visitors. PBT must take into consideration inconveniences that the temple visitors will face as a result of the relocation. At the same time, new temple construction, except for the relocation, must be stopped.
It is all fairness and sensibility to all members of the society.
… saya mendapat maklumat dari seorang penduduk Melayu Seksyen
19 bahawa ada sekumpulan Melayu telah datang untuk menimbulkan ketegangan di
kuil tersebut. … kebanyakan mereka orang luar… Mereka … akan mengadakan kenduri … Untuk kenduri itu mereka akan tumbangkan 2 ekor lembu! … Orang yang mengetuai kumpulan tersebut datangnya dari Melaka! Dia menyatakan dia 'mewakili rakyat' dan tindakan ini terpaksa mereka ambil melalui persatuan NGO mereka yang bernama 'PEWARIS' … Amat jelas, soal gelanggang silat dan sebagainya hanya satu helah. Sebenarnya mereka mahu provoke pihak kuil berkenaan.
Translation: … I was tipped off by a Section 19 Malay resident that a group of Malays have come to create tension at the temple… most of them are outsiders… They … will have a function … For the function they will slaughter two cows (which are sacred to Hindus)! … The leader of the group comes from Malacca! He said he 'represents the people' and they were forced to take the action through an NGO called 'PEWARIS'.. Clearly, the silat practising ground is only an excuse. They actually wanted to provoke the temple's management.
… dia mencabar saya … "awak orang Melayu, orang Islam, kenapa awak sibuk sangat nak membela kuil ini"? Saya jawab, "kerana Islam mengajar saya supaya bertindak adil terhadap semua manusia. Mereka, walaupun bukan Islam, ada hak dan Islam menuntut kita menghormati hak mereka". Dia diam. Seterusnya dia berkata dia tak tahu sangat soal agama ini.
Translation: … he challenged me … "you are a Malay and Muslim, why are you so busy with defending the temple?" Saya responded, "because Islam teaches me to be fair to all. They, though not Muslim, have rights and Islam teaches us to respect their rights." He was silent. Then he said he was not sure on religious matters.
This is the voice of conscience by educated Muslim leaders of PAS. This will definitely not come from most UMNO leaders, who although are Muslim do not practise what the religion teaches them.
Melihat dia mula teragak-agak saya pun menyatakan bahawa saya tahu Pewaris dan
Pekida adalah NGO yang adik beradik. Penaung Pekida adalah PM maka semestinya
begitu juga Pewaris. Kedua-dua NGO ini dikuasai oleh ahli UMNO. Saya tahu juga
bahawa tindakan mereka ini, pada masa ini, ada hubung kait dengan PR kecil KT.
Mereka ingin menimbulkan ketegangan dan masalah kaum supaya dengan itu mereka boleh menjaja keseluruh negara bahawa PR telah gagal menyelesaikan masalah ini di Selangor; dan Selangor sekarang ada masalah perkauman. Dia diam dan selepas itu dia menegur saya kerana buruk sangka, tetapi dia tidak menafikannya.
Translation: He appeared lost for words and I told him that I knew Pewaris and Pekida are two sister NGOs. The patron of Pekida is the prime minister and therefore the same for Pewaris. Both NGOs are controlled by UMNO members. I also knew that their action at that time was related to the by-election of Kuala Terengganu. They intended to create tension and racial issue so that they could make claim to the country that PR has failed to resolve the problem in Selangor; and Selangor now has racial problem. He was quiet and later commented me for making the assumptions, but he did not renied them.
Saya difahamkan walaupun gelanggang tidak dibina, namun mereka ingin teruskan kenduri mereka. Mereka kata mereka akan menjemput saya sekali. Saya menjawab, ikut undang-undang. Kalau pembinaan gelanggang dapat kelulusan MBSA, saya datang. Kalau tidak, program Aman Palestine di stadium Melawati pada 10hb jam 10 pagi adalah tempat yang lebih afdal bagi saya untuk hadir, begitu juga dia!
Translation: I was informed that the ground was not constructed, but they intend to proceed with the function. They said they would invite me again. I responded that according to the law, if the construction of the ground is approved by MBSA, I would attend. If not, the Palestine Peace programme at Melawati Stadium on 10th Jan at 10am is a better place for me to attend, likewise for him.
NOTA PENTING: Minta disebarkan perkara ini kerana dijangka provokasi yang
sedemikian rupa akan digunakan lebih kerap lagi menjelang PRK-KT, maka harus
sentiasa berwaspada. Jangan kita terpedaya!
Translation: IMPORTANT NOTE: Please disseminate this matter because provocation of this manner is expected to be abound with the upcoming Kuala Terengganu by-election. We should be vigilant. We should not be exploited!
What we can conclude from this incident and the pattern that we can derive from the recent incidents (or even those of years ago!) is that, it completely goes counter to the popular belief that a BN government is for stability of Malaysia. It is now clear that BN, with UMNO goons around, is the most destabilising factor to Malaysia now. With their resources, many of which are gained through dubious tactics and corrupt practices from 51 years of power, and their organisation, filled with goons like those involved in the incident at Section 19, BN is in the best position to manipulate the political situation. Malaysians certainly need to open up their eyes to a powerful machinery for racial and religious tensions in Malaysia. (by Guansin, Airkosong.com)
- 1. oA - January 12, 2009
of course – now is the time for such goons to prove their worth to the supposedly next PM to reap the many benefits that come with the display of such heinuos stupidity.
it also gives you a very conspicuous idea what this current dpm represents – racism, bigotry etc. the very root of evil that he has had planted in the past.
racism and bigotry have always been dpm's cup of tea – how else can you explain their brazen and audacity racism and bigotry in the first place with the backing and support of some vvips.
- 2. aditia - January 12, 2009
Well, Shah Alam did not need them !!!
Did we not say a BIG NO on 08/03/2008 ?
Thanks to all for upholding the RIGHTS of every Malaysians regardless of race and creed.
Let us celebrate the new Malaysia without the hindrance of racial politics.
- 3. queequeg - January 12, 2009
Be careful for this is what those who lost power tend to do now. Out to destabilise all state govts under PR. Such despicable acts should NEVER be condoned and I deplore the way this Malacca vigilantes attempt to stir ugly racism in Selangor.
Then again I wonder who is behind this and how much moolah went out to sponsor this so-called champions of Malays from of all places Malacca – a state without a monarch due to infighting & betrayal of the highest degree 500 years ago.
- 4. Devan - January 12, 2009
What are the UMNO Police doing about this???
This 2 so called NGO's are filled with gangsters out to create trouble.They go about with their 3 coloured stickers….
They are supported fully by UMNO.
Can someone make a POLICE report against this stupid NGO???
- 5. david - January 12, 2009
Good work, Lizzie in exposing such a plot by UMNO troublemakers to destabilize Selangor and extend this to KT by-election. It seems Pewaris,fresh from the incident of burning effigies of pigs in Masjid Tanah in Malacca to provoke the Chinese, now want to slaughter two cows to provoke the Indians. This is the dirty work of UMNO and CM Malacca Ali Rustam is behind it. Good of Khalid Samad to counter them and show to non-Malays that it is UMNO, not PAS, that is exploiting racial and religious issues to create trouble and that PAS is defending rights of non-Malays in the name of Islam. All the more the Chinese and Indians should vote for PAS and reject UMNO in KT by-election
- 6. Are They Still Cronies .. | bobjots : redux - January 12, 2009
[…] speaking of provocation, you might wanna pop by at Elizabeth Wong's blog for an account of how Shah Alam MP, Khalid Samad, exposed an attempt by an UMNO linked NGO to provoke ethnic and […]
- 7. lord - January 13, 2009
- 8. PAS idealist leaders « BJ Thoughts… - January 13, 2009
[…] about it here and […]
- 9. temenggong - January 14, 2009
Well done Liz,
On another issue, could you bring this other issue up with MB Tan Sri Khalid. The rakyat expects to see a change in the Selangor govt bureaucracy. We vote for change and we need to see that. We do not want status quo.
In practical terms what we need to see is that the old entrenched umno bureaucracy who are the little napoleans replaced. We need to see dozens of bureaucrats shuffled around or given VSS. We need to see *the entire board of directors and the senior managers* of the 100 odd SEDC companies replaced, shuffled or given VSS. We also need to see many in the old religious council and state mufti's office replaced with fresh new faces.
This matter will become an issue in the next few months. Please inform Khalid and impress upon him that the raykat needs to see changes being made. It must be visible and loud. Right now the impression given is that Khalid is maintaining the status quo, keeping the old umno infrastructure and is not rocking the boat. Please tell Khalid that we want the boat rocked!
In this regard even a bad decision in changing staff will go down well with the PR supporters, because we'll see it as Khalid's attempts to change the status quo.
- 10. ruyom - January 15, 2009
Malaysia two million Indians make up less than 8% of the population today but have been the victims of the NEP policy since 1971.
Today after 51 years of independence, the definition for "Indian" has become a metaphor for backwardness.
Even though the median family income of Indian Malaysians according to official statistics is higher than that of malays, certain segments of the Indian Malaysians population live in with hardcore poverty and form part of the lowest strata in terms of economic ownership.
The official statistics show that the national wealth owned by Indians is only 1.2% of traded equity since 1971.
And according to Hindraf, 15% of Malaysian juvenile delinquents are Indian while 50% of all convicts in prison since 2004 and 41% of beggars in 2003 were Indians.
The percentage of Indians in the civil service fell from 40% in 1957 to less than 2% in 2005.
According to official records, 30 to 35 Indians per 100000 commit or attempt to commit suicide annually as compared to 10 to 12 Malaysians per 100000 in 2006.
In education, the Indians make up less than 5% of the university intake of over 45000 annually.
The Indians in the country are seeking equality after 51 years of independence and what Malaysia needs now is a sacrifice of the rich and super-rich of all races in staying clear of the NEP to allow the poor of all races to move up and progress.
- 11. Astaghfirullah (God forgive me) « - January 16, 2009
[…] leave a comment » Siapa yang ajar orang Melayu Islam jadi seperti ini? It's good that there are people like Khalid Samad, who are brave and sensible enough to confront and question the actions and motives of Pewaris members in his constituency recently. Elizabeth Wong also gives a commentary/translation of Khalid's site here. […]
- 12. sans - January 16, 2009
can I bring to your attention 2 interesting articles I have come across.
Article 1
The article above (last paragraph on the 2nd has more details), indicates there is a network of companies in Malaysia aiding Iran to get banned US technology.
See quote below
By 2007, the Dubai-based operation had been almost entirely replaced by the Malaysian networks, the ISIS study found. Yet, while perhaps less conspicuous than before, the Dubai network probably continues to exist, though in a different form. Typically, the new front companies will not be discovered until long after crucial technology has left American shores aboard ships ultimately bound for Iran, Albright said.
Article 2
In a rather longish article in the New York Times, I came across a reference to a Malaysia company, the Malaysian Smelting Co. this is a company listed on the KLSE but it looks like the majority shareholders are Singaporeans.
The relevant page is below.
on the 2nd last paragraph on this page, it implies that Malaysian Smelting Company is buying Tin from international brokers who source from the conflict zone in Congo.
the exact extract is :-
The flights land in Goma, the provincial capital, where other middlemen buy and process the ore for export. Alexis Makabuza's Global Mining Company is one of these buyers. Amid the sorting and cleaning equipment of his rudimentary processing plant sit dozens of barrels of tin ore. On each is stenciled the address of Malaysian Smelting Company Berhad, a major tin smelter. Mr. Makabuza said he sold to the company via a minerals broker.
Further reference to Malaysian companies buying tin from warlords in the Congo is here from the BBC
The extract from the BBC article is below :-
Located predominantly in India, China, Malaysia and Thailand, these smelters sell tin to component manufacturers.
So while Malaysian Smelting Co buys from an international broker, it can request that they not source from Congo. If you read the entire article you will realise that buying these ore's are only lining the pockets of these warlords and destabilising the country.
I e-mailed the company but they have not replied. I would have not replied too in similar circumstances.
- 13. peter - January 17, 2009
you have my deepest respect. a truly good and fair hearted Muslim for others to emulate.
God always bless you, Khalid.
- 14. lord - January 21, 2009
I'd trust a PAS politician as far as I could throw him.
- 15. CHINESE MALAYA COMMUNIST - January 26, 2009
EW: Dude, you really have got to change that medication of yours…


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Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma; has sent message of felicitations to the people of Benin as they go to the polls to elect a successor to outgoing Thomas Boni Yayi.
The AU Chief posted two messages on social media (micro blogging platform, twitter) tasking Beninese to conduct 'peaceful and orderly' polls and beyond the polls resort to due process to address any post electoral issues that may arise.Her first tweet read as follows:
''Best wishes to our Sisters & Brothers in #Benin voting today to elect a new President. May the polls be peaceful & orderly. #BeninDecides.''
Best wishes to our Sisters & Brothers in #Benin voting today to elect a new President. May the polls be peaceful & orderly. #BeninDecides.— Dr Dlamini Zuma (@DlaminiZuma) March 6, 2016
Dr. Zuma in a second tweet further tasked the candidates to ensure that beyond the polls being peaceful, they would seek any redress through the proper channels.
''I urge all to accept the results of the #Benin Presidential#Elections. Sh'd (should) there be disputes, pls (please) use recognised channels to seek redress,'' she tweeted again.
I urge all to accept the results of the #Benin Presidential #Elections. Sh'd there be disputes, pls use recognised channels to seek redress.— Dr Dlamini Zuma (@DlaminiZuma) March 6, 2016
About the Benin polls
There are a record 33 candidates on the ballot sheet. Voting has started since morning and so far reports indicate that it has been smooth.
President Yayi Boni has already voted as have several of the candidates in the race. The ruling party chose Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou, who is seen in some quarters as the candidate of the French government given his Franco-Beninese roots.
Beside Zinsou, front runners in the race include two prominent businessmen, Sebastian Avajon and Patrice Talon. Also in the race are Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, an economist and financier Pascal Irenee Koupaki.
Thomas Boni Yayi has served two terms of five years each since assuming power in 2006 and was barred from extending his stay in power as per the constitutional term limit.