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On April 7th, Obama told NPR that the time Iran would need to construct a nuclear weapon would substantially shrink in year 13 of a final nuclear agreement, an admission that administration spokespeople then struggled to walk back.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York), the likely top Senate Democrat after the impending retirement of Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), came out in support of a bill that would give a skeptical and Republican-controlled Congress enhanced oversight over the rollback of sanctions under a final agreement.
And on April 9th, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei derided many of the central aspects of the Lausanne announcement without explicitly coming out against it.
There's no agreement as to what was really agreed to in Switzerland, while Schumer's criticism raises the possibility of significant Democratic party opposition to a deal that even Obama admits would leave Iran in a position to quickly assemble a nuclear warhead.It's the last of these setbacks that's the most significant, and that exposes an asymmetry that could prove fatal to Obama's highest foreign policy priority.
Obama and Khamenei's goals in the nuclear negotiations may be irreconcilable.
Obama views detente with Iran as a legacy item, and wants to affect a shift in US policy that would be a Middle Eastern version of the Nixon administration's China thaw. As an anonymous administration official put it to Politico, a deal with Iran would be a "game-changing, legacy-setting nuclear accord."
Khamenei does not view the nuclear negotiations in the same light. He probably doesn't see rapprochement with a country that he frequently refers to as the "great Satan" as a desirable objective unto itself, never mind an initiative on which to hang his legacy as Supreme Leader.
"For Obama and Kerry, detente with Iran would be a proud part of their legacy. Khamenei on the other hand has prided himself on defiance of the US," Karim Sadjapour, a senior associate at the Carnegie Center for International Peace, told Business Insider.
Sadjapour adds that Khamenei's statements over his 26 years as Supreme Leader have remained remarkably consistent: He sees the US as an implacable national enemy, and cares more about preserving the ideological and institutional pillars of the revolutionary regime above all else.
Sadjapour said that the technical details of a final agreement matter far less to Khamenei than these bigger-picture issues.
"I don't think Khamenei is crunching numbers and thinking to himself, OK we can live with an 11 month breakout capacity but not a 13 month breakout," says Sadjapour. "This is less about nukes and more about domestic political calculations. How does he best ensure his own political survival and that of the regime?"It's simplistic to reduce the negotiating dynamic to Obama "wanting" a deal more than Iran does. Iran certainly wants to lift sanctions and to have the international community affirm its rights as a uranium-enriching, industrial-scale nuclear power. It could accomplish both through an agreement.
Rather, the Obama administration's goals in the negotiations are broadly strategic. And those goals can only be satisfied if Iran desires a similar shift in orientation — or at least enough of one to get Tehran to relax its demands for immediate sanctions relief, the barring of nuclear inspectors from military sites, and unfettered nuclear research and development.
Obama wants an end to the US's confrontational relationship with Iran. But Khamenei wants a diplomatic victory on Iran's own terms.
Those terms are flexible — but only to a point. If "victory" as the Iranians define it isn't attainable at the negotiating table, the regime will simply walk away from the negotiating process without a final deal, as the Supreme Leader suggested it might during his April 9th speech.Sadjapour says that Khamenei has shown some flexibility around the nuclear issue thus far, but not to a point that proves the Supreme Leader is undergoing a change in worldview. "The Islamic Republic's economic challenge has forced him to reassess his longtime calculations," Sadjapour says. "The question is whether he's contemplating merely a short-term tactical compromise, or a more profound strategic shift."
Khamenei could eventually reach the conclusion that the regime's long-term survival actually is served by entering into an agreement with the US and its partners. He may also decide that even a deal on somewhat favorable terms for the US could be spun as a victory for the regime. Further US concessions could also alter his thinking. The asymmetry between Obama and Khamenei's motivations and goals doesn't doom the negotiating process.
But it could make things more complicated from the US's perspective.There's a lot of ambiguity as to what the sides actually agreed to in Lausanne. With the Supreme Leader taking such a critical position, Iranian negotiators have an even stronger incentive to exploit that vagueness for their benefit, rather than finding a diplomatic middle-ground: "When it comes to negotiating the remaining discrepancies to finalize the deal, I would anticipate Iran driving a hard bargain, believing that America wants this deal more than they do," says Sadjapour.
And the US will be hesitant to walk away from the talks for reasons that go beyond Obama's desire for a "legacy-setting" diplomatic breakthrough.
The talks' collapse would throw a wrench into Obama's implementation of an Iran strategy that goes beyond just repairing ties and getting past the nuclear issue: People briefed on a October 2014 letter from Obama to Khamenei told the Wall Street Journal that Obama "described a shared interest in fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria" and "sought to assuage Iran's concerns about the future of its close ally, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria."A senior congressional staffer who spoke to Business Insider thinks that the asymmetry between all sides may only cause the US's negotiating position to erode even further.
The source said that he or she had no knowledge of any single agreement actually being signed in Lausanne (but added that it's at least possible that there were secret annexes to the Lausanne announcement that the administration won't disclose).
"On many key issues they've agreed to disagree but claim to the world that they've agreed," the source said. "It's very clear that the administration at the highest level wants something no matter what it is."
And if Khamenei's position doesn't soften in the coming months, that could mean more big concessions from the US side — or that there won't be a deal at all.


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Having a low level of HDL, or "good," cholesterol, is a risk factor for diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease), according to new research published in the journal Diabetes Care. Diabetes is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in the United States; between 5% and 15% of people with Type 2 diabetes, and between 25% and 40% of people with Type 1 diabetes, will someday develop diabetic nephropathy.
Diabetic nephropathy begins with changes to the glomeruli, or filtering units, of the kidneys. Over time, the tissue between the blood vessels of the glomeruli may expand, compressing the vessels and reducing their ability to filter waste products from the blood. Eventually, the glomeruli become a mass of scar tissue. Trace amounts of protein in the urine and high blood pressure are signs that a person may have nephropathy.
Low levels of HDL cholesterol are a known risk factor for atherosclerosis, or a buildup of fats and cholesterol in and on the artery walls, but there is little information about the link between low HDL and complications that involve the small blood vessels such as nephropathy. To evaluate the relationship between nephropathy, retinopathy (diabetic eye disease), and HDL cholesterol, researchers followed 11,140 people with Type 2 diabetes and at least one additional blood vessel–related risk factor for a median of five years as part of the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: preterAx and diamicroN-MR Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) Study.
The researchers found that 3,585, or 32%, of the participants developed or experienced worsening of a microvascular condition over the follow-up period; 28% of the people had a kidney condition, while 6% had a retinal condition. The third of people with the lowest HDL cholesterol levels had a 19% higher risk of a kidney event than the third of people with the highest HDL cholesterol level. There was no link found between HDL cholesterol and retinopathy.
"Our findings provide the strongest evidence to date for a role of HDL-C [cholesterol] in the development and progression of diabetic nephropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes," the researchers note.
According to Harvard Medical School, strategies for raising your HDL levels include getting aerobic exercise such as swimming or bicycling, losing weight, stopping smoking, eating a healthful diet that does not include any trans fats, and taking a medicine such as niacin if recommended by your doctor.
For more information, read the article "Low HDL Cholesterol Ups Risk of Diabetic Nephropathy" or see the study's abstract in the journal Diabetes Care. And to learn more about keeping your cholesterol levels in a healthy range, see the article "Lifestyle Habits for Lipid Management."

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How To Make Garlic Butter Naan:
The mere mention of soft, smokey and charred Naan makes me go weak in my knees. Getting it exactly the way I have mentioned above in a rice dominated city is quite some task. So for a long time I was testing my skills to master the art of making Naans at home. The word "Tandoor" is a method of cooking, where a cylindrical Clay or Oven is used for cooking. Heated to a very high temperature by using wood or charcoal, in which any kind of marinated meat or bread can be cooked. Non availability of tandoor prompted me to try it out in a humble pressure cooker which came to my rescue and delivered the same charred, very soft Naan that could be torn into finger bites. I hate chewy Naans that need both hands to tear it off and then when you chew it becomes an exercise for your gums ! Talking about Naans here I should mention my Indian Flatbread Recipe is one of my most visited recipe also do check out shahi (royal) version of Naan called Baked Peshawari Naan .
Coming back to today's Garlic Butter Naan, the dough after kneading should be very soft not very sticky. Since this recipe doesn't have yeast in it so you do not need to leave the dough for hours. It is more kind of a quick fix for your naan craving. But I can assure you of taste and softness of my Garlic Butter Naan. Adding nigella seeds, sesame seeds along with chopped garlic not only adds prettiness but also add a lot of flavour. At the end do apply generous amount of melted Ghee ( yes, please don't compromise here if you want to have restaurant style Garlic Butter Naan) and sprinkle some chaat masala. I promise the easier process and fluffier texture due to baking soda and baking powder will encourage you to make it more often. As these are made with equal portions of Wheat flour and all purpose flour.
1 cup All purpose flour
1 cup Wheat flour
1 cup Yogurt (not very fresh, little sour is perfect)
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking powder
2 tbsp Oil
1 tbsp Sugar
1/2 cup Warm milk ( you may need more while kneading the dough)
1/2 tsp Salt
5-6 Garlic cloves, finely minced
3-4 tbsp melted Butter or Ghee
3-4 tbsp chopped Cilantro
1 tbsp Nigella seeds
1 tbsp Sesame seeds
Red chilly powder to sprinkle
1 tsp Chaat masala
Sift the flours with salt, baking soda and baking powder. Make a well in the dry ingredients, add yogurt, oil right into the middle and mix well. Do add milk in between while kneading. Initially the dough will be sticky but keep kneading it for few more minutes and it should be fine. The dough should be of soft consistency. Lightly grease a large mixing bowl, place the dough and cover with a damp kitchen cloth. Find the hottest area in your kitchen and keep it aside for an hour.
Punch down the dough and throw in some chopped garlic, divide and shape them into bigger size than of a golfball. Keep everything ready near stove and put the pressure cooker on high flame then on low flame.
Stretch naan dough rather than rolling it and give oblong shaped( if you are not able to stretch it by hand then go ahead and use a rolling pin). While stretching it, try to get thicker around the edge and with another hand give it a teardrop shape from one side. Sprinkle some sesame seeds, nigella seeds, finely chopped garlic cloves, chopped cilantro and press with slightly wet hand on one side. For color I sprinkle red chili powder and believe me it gives a nice color once cooked.
Take the rolled naan in your palm and wet the back side with very little water with your fingertips, stick the wet side of naan inside the wall of pressure cooker and place it evenly. Press lightly with your fingertips so that when you play around with the pressure cooker upside down it should stick and not fall off.
As soon as you place the rolled naan, put the flame on high and let it cook for 1 minute, that's when you will see lots of bubbles right away (takes about few seconds). Lower the heat and after that keep rotating the cooker by holding the handle with a wrapped cloth or else you will feel the heat directly on your palm. I know it sounds a challenge but soon after 2-3 naans you will get the hang of it.
If you want it lightly charred then flip the pressure cooker upside down and put the flame on high (in a matter of few seconds you will see brown spots are visible), always be vigilant when doing this step or else it will turn into total burnt piece of naan !
With Seekh Kebab skewers take the naan out and immediately apply ghee with a brush. Sprinkle chaat masala and serve with your choice of side dish. I served it with Mutton Keema curry. These remain very soft if nicely wrapped( with a clean cloth) in a casserole for next 30 minutes.


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Ubicentrex is a start-up that was founded in 2009 in Strasbourg with aim to create a simplified tool centralizing all the tools for the offices and call centers.
We have developed an agenda that meets the needs of demanding as medicine occupations or the liberal professions. In order to give more values, we then developed centrex, i.e. in IP telephony. This ambivalence of the solution allows us to offer our customers an all-in-one pack that meets all needs.
Ubicentrex offers a software solution and phone mainly for the telesecretariats and hotlines. You can view your calendar online on computer, smartphone, Tablet, add and edit appointments quickly wherever you are!
Growing a small business
Thanks to the effectiveness of its solution and the loyalty of its customers, Ubicentrex is consistently growing. + 50% in 2015. We do not plan to rest on our laurels and have ambitions to offer always more powerful tools tailored to the daily needs of our customers. Since last year, we doubled our staff using the following ratio: half a commercial and a half of developers.
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Last week Sunday we got invited to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the amazing company Under 1 Roof. Under 1 Roof is a new and unique children's space in the heart of South East London; it's the modern day kids urban oasis. What I love about Under 1 Roof is that it literally is … Continue reading Under 1 Roof
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As a first time mom I find I am learning on the role, yes I see motherhood as a role just probably the most important role I'll play in life. This morning taliyah wanted to do a little dress up and be mummy in a headscarf, her level of sassiness has skyrocketed since she pierced … Continue reading Nov 11
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Born December 30, 2012 at 3:08am
7 pounds 6 ounces
20 inches long
Blue eyes
Blond hair (we think)
Born feet first
Amazing mother (Julie)
We love this little girl so much. So far she has been an absolute angel. I don't pride myself in taking photos of people (not something I am used to doing), but I got some good advice from Saydi and we gave it a shot. Here she is at one week:
Zara is quite the little girl. We have only known her for 11 days, but the bond you feel as a parent is just so cool. They say that babies come with their personalities intact – and I think that is the case with Zara. She seems to be very sweet, very laid back, very strong willed (judging by the fact that she wouldn't flip inside Julie and came out feet first), and very aware of her surroundings.
Julie and I are working on our Cliff Notes version of the birth story and will be posting it on here soon for those that are interested. To put it briefly, it was a miracle. There were angels in there assisting the midwife and the doctor as Zara came in to the world feet first and ready to start her life!


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Stolen Wednesday 10/3 between 7pm and 10pm off our patio, my wife's Breezer Uptown 8. Light blue. Stock except for Ergo handlebar grips.
The thief appears to have arrived via Capital Bike Share bike (abandoned at the bottom of my driveway #W22092) and departed via my wife's bike.
Here's a stock photo of that model and color of bike since we don't have a great side view of the bike.
Here's a photo of the actual bike that was stolen.
Here are what the grips look like:
Text 571-482-8454 with any info. Spread the word. Here's a poster image you could use on Social Media.
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer made a very 20th-century management decision when she decided to recall the company's telecommuters and revoke their remote work privileges. She could have offered industry leadership for distributed workforce management, but instead, she acted like a typical industrial age manager by deciding that seeing people's butts in seats would result in a better managed workforce.
As a scenario planner, I know telecommuting may not be inevitable, but companies as far ranging as Jet Blue, American Express, and GlaxoSmithKline all offer various forms of telecommuting, and many seek to reduce real estate costs by replacing personal workspaces with communal workspace when people do work in the office. With past layoffs and the typical over-leasing common in an early Silicon Valley firm, better space utilization is probably not part of Mayer's equation.
Perhaps Mayer's knee-jerk reaction to telecommuting employee abuses doesn't just ignore good practice examples, it speaks to the post-recession proclivity to retrench and bring back old models. Perhaps it was, as noted in Business Insider, because "A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo." Many in the blogosphere see innovation and general cultural shakeup as her impetus to action.
Regardless of Mayer's motivations, she should have taken on telecommuting as a learning moment for Yahoo and its customers. She should have publicly asserted Twenty-First Century leadership to create a new, positive aura around the number one Internet portal. Instead, Mayer has invoked ire, the indignance of workplace trend watchers, and even the support those who favor old-style management to empowerment.
Before others take the great leap of retrenchment and draw back from brink of perceived telecommuting chaos, they should try these ideas first:
Commitment-based Management
Failure to assert commitment-based management is the number one failure related to telecommuting and distributed work in my opinion. Commitment-based management simply captures people's commitments to the organization, and to each other, and holds them accountable for meeting those commitments. It also explicitly states that where and when the commitment is achieved doesn't matter, unless place is explicitly included in the agreement.
For many activities, from writing reports to reading the status reports of others, place is unimportant. People who have an office, as American Express found (see "") that office occupation around 50% is common they account for sick time, vacation and travel. So even having an office doesn't mean people will be in an office, just as working from home on a regular basis does not preclude face-to-face meetings.
Organizations can't simply eliminate observational management practices without replacing them with an idea that works equally well in the virtual world, as it does in the physical world. Commitment-based management springs from Peter Drucker's Management by Objectives, which could be argued already encompasses enough intellectual rigor to support distributed work. But for many, MBOs remained rooted in the industrial age, so new terminology is required. Commitment-based management adds an extra set of details and accountabilities, but it also requires follow-through and follow-up to ensure that employees, partners and others are meeting their commitments.
Designing the Collaborative Work Experience
A good work experience requires a balance between technology, policy and practice and space. I conducted research a few years ago that demonstrated that just moving between floors created distance issues similar to telecommuting. The camaraderie, in-office support, access to talent and other items often cited as the benefit to co-location are often mythical. Some R&D facilities achieve a modicum of intensive co-located creation, but most people conduct their work in isolated offices, coming together in unproductive meetings so they can share their status and activities. In their book, Uniting the Virtual Workforce (Wiley, 2008), Karen Sobel Lojeski and Richard R. Reilly see distance as not only an issue of physicality, but also one of operational practice and affinity. In some software companies people in offices next door to each other, working for different product teams, have no more of a relationship in the physical space than they would if both telecommuted.
According to Business Insider, VPNs were a major indicator of telecommuting employee disengagement. That is a difficult case to make with the likes of Dropbox, Google Drive and Skydrive circumventing the need for VPNs. Most e-mail retrieval doesn't require a VPN anymore, and if a team creates a shared space externally, they don't need to go through the pain of using a VPN. VPNs also often make it difficult to use non-standard services like Internet file synchronization. The lack of VPN use may have been more a statement about Yahoo's IT infrastructure than one about disengagement. Yahoo is also one of the few major players in the Internet space that doesn't offer free, synchronized file services. Perhaps that is a competitive offer that Mayer should look into.
Yahoo clearly didn't align management practice with new remote work policy. They didn't rethink communications and camaraderie, they didn't think about synchronizing clocks or enhancing people's personal time management skills–and they certainly didn't think about how to measure success or failure, or the intervention and remediation would like if required. As with most companies, Yahoo did not design their work experience, they just let it happen.
Distributed Work Professional Development
Mayer presumably experienced much of her career inside an office. Experience is a powerful crutch. People tend to fall back on experience rather than emerging behavior when things need correction. Working in a distributed fashion is not unusual for individuals, which is why many take to it so readily. Working is a cubicle or working at the kitchen table offers little difference when a back is arched aggressively toward a monitor and fingers type furiously away.
Managing people is different. Designing work experiences is different. Conversations are different. Rarely do companies invest in grappling with the differences and helping both the worker and the manager understand what they need to do to be successful–including the policies and practice. Once a work experience is designed, it must be communicated and inculcated. And this doesn't mean a short course or an annual video lecture with a few inane questions to see if you still get it–it means a constant, ongoing endeavor to understand how people are working, how work conditions are affecting results and what needs to change to improve performance, or keep it at desirable levels. Workers and managers need to develop professionally together, not apart, because telecommuting is a feedback loop, not a linear activity.
Giving Time to Get Time
If Mayer completely reverts to a hierarchical, command-and-control management style, we may also see her monitoring for personal calls made on company supplied equipment, but I doubt Yahoo employees will see that kind of management reversion. In my early career, I was issued a phone code that allowed me to access an outside line. The telephone system could then report every call, its destination and its duration. People guarded these codes better than people secure passwords today. Rarely did any manager bring up the reports though, unless they were trying to make a case or someone was pretty blatantly abusing their privileges. These systems represented a clear demarcation between work and life. As people started acquiring their own phones which couldn't be traced, telephone monitoring became less relevant.
But that wasn't the only reason. More subtly, as people were able to connect tangibly to work via phone, e-mail and eventually the Internet, they started to give their personal time to the company so that the occasional call to the wife, the boyfriend, or placing an order on Amazon, seemed more give-and-take than violation of the Company Temporal Code. People no longer worked 9-to-5. They didn't leave work in the rearview with their departure from the office–they integrated work into their lives. People now work whenever they feel compelled, and many often feel compelled on dates and vacations, even in the hospital. What Mayer doesn't realize is that putting people back into perceived physical and temporal constraints may erode this goodwill of work and actually reduce, rather than increase, engagement.
Phoning in a Conclusion
I'm working from home for more than one client today, so I obviously have a bias. Working from my home office does, and has for years, been much more productive for me than time spent commuting in traffic, and I produce a lower carbon footprint. Don't get me wrong, I like cavorting with colleagues as much as the next person, but when I'm doing my work, I prefer an environment I can control, where my boss or client feels compelled to schedule and interruption rather than just stop by.
If Mayer did have employees hiding poor performance behind telecommuting the failure was not the concept, but the practice implemented by Yahoo managers. Seldom do radical departures from existing practice, especially retrograde actions benefit the company or its workers. Organizations with a perceived problem should address the problem directly. Successful telecommuting exists, and it can be studied. If Yahoo implemented telecommuting as poorly as they did other pre-Mayer decisions , then the better answer would have been intervention and correction, not abandonment.
I hope Mayer is not being overly assertive just to prove she can be so. That would not bode well for Yahoo or Mayer. Sometimes managers do need to eliminate bad investments, legacy divisions, or poorly performing employees, but telecommuting remains a growing practice, and one that pays dividends to those who do it well. Calling back the troops was the wrong area for Mayer to show her assertiveness. This decision has no bearing on Yahoo as a business, and in many ways, it fails to reinforce some of their core business and value propositions.
Even if Mayer's decision ultimately proves more or less impactful to Yahoo's workforce and business, Mayer has generated a flurry of serious discussion around telecommuting, remote work and distributed teams. Some may see Yahoo's decision to revoke telecommuting as an inflection point, but more likely, Yahoo's action will spur reexaminations and improvements in the telecommuting and management practices of other firms, which would be a good thing.
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A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these unfortunate women that are applied to others. In doing so, they uncover a snake pit of sexual couplings, both lesbian and heterosexual, as well as many tools for masturbation. At the same time, a particularly disturbed inmate manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.Release Date: 26 January 1978
Runtime: 95 min
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- Francesca Balletta
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- Howard Ross
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Almost the whole of my text at the moment, in my head as I fall asleep, is summed up by the word "contempt". Contempt, in politics, for the hypocrisy, the double standards, the double dealing, the corruption and the moral suasion. It's almost impossible for me to explain just how deeply I feel contempt. I want to go into detail - and I think you'll be rather shocked, and I hope rather edified, by what I have to say. So who are these terrible hypocrites? Who are these double dealers? Who are these liars and fraudulent corrupt people? Well, you're listening to one of them: that's me. And I'm talking to millions of them: that's you. It's not the politicians, God bless them. Sexless, uninteresting, graceless and very often styleless people as they may be, it is we who are the problem in politics. We expect a very high standard of living. We expect food to be cheap and available. We expect energy to be cheap and available. we also expect to be able to mouth off at parties about how terrible it is that the ozone layer is being eaten away and the glaciers are melting and how awful it is that people are starving in other countries. And we pay this group of styleless sexless people whom we call politicians a small amount of money in order to lay off our own guilt. Our own cant and hypocrisy is laid at their door. And apparently, it's they who are the hypocrites. It is they who are corrupt. It is they who refuse to solve the problems of the world. Well, it isn't. It's us. It's me, and it's you. Take this week, for example. Suppose you're prime minister, you've got all these illegal immigrants. What are you supposed to do? Are you supposed to hide the true facts? That's hardly something the public would accept, so you campaign and you say "we don't know how many there are - let's do something about it", and then you're accused of incompetence. Well, of course you don't know how many there are: they're illegal immigrants. Do we expect magic from our politicians? We're not going to get it. They're just human beings like you and me. And what about this "Let's Talk" business? Yes, it sounds like a very bad BT advert. On the other hand, what would we say if they didn't say that? We'd say that they're arrogant, and that they never listen. They can't win because they've got us to serve, and we are filth. The wheels have come off the New Labour project, everyone agrees, and so therefore it will come to pass. All aeroplanes have a certain amount of life in the sky, and then metal fatigue hits and they fall out of it. As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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On the subject of biblical texts and examples to why you can't do certain things with your body that you wish to, I find that absolutely absurd. I've always been extremely uncomfortable with the idea in any society that the belief is based on revealed truth, that's to say on a text like a Bible or a Qur'an, or whatever it is. It seems to me that the greatness of our culture, for all its incredible faults, is that we have grown up on the Greek ideal of discovering the truth, discovering by looking around us, by empirical experiment, by the combination of the experience of generations of ancestors who have contributed to our sum knowledge of the way the world works, and so on. And to have that snatched away and to be told what to think by a book, however great it may be in places, this is a book that says you can sell your daughter into slavery, it's a book that bans menstruating women from within miles of temples. The fact that it also says that for one man to lie with another man is an abomination, is no more made relevant or important than the fact that you can't eat shellfish.
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
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All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way—don't get me started!
Fry Stephen
I have always disbelieved that Sicilian saying about revenge being a dish best served cold. I feel that--don't you?--when I see blinking, quivering octogenarian Nazi war criminals being led away in chains. Why not then? It's too late now. I want to see them taken back in time and punished then...Blame, certainly, is a dish only edible when served fresh and warm. Old blames, grudges and scores congeal and curdle and cause the most terrible indigestion.
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LSD reveals the whatness of things, their quiddity, their essence. The wateriness of water is suddenly revealed to you, the carpetness of carpets, the woodness of wood, the yellowness of yellow, the fingernailness of fingernails, the allness of all, the nothingness of all, the allness of nothing. For me music gives access to every one of these essences of existence, but at a fraction of the social or financial cost of a drug and without the need to cry 'Wow!' all the time, which is one of LSD's most distressing and least endearing side-effects.
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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.
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It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?
I don't think we should ever allow religion the trick of maintaining that the spiritual and the beautiful and the noble and the altruistic and the morally strong and the virtuous are in any way inventions of religion or particular or peculiar to religion. It's certainly true that you could say the Christ who said "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" — that's a wonderful to have said. Anyone who said that would earn a great deal of respect and interest, you'd say that's one of most beautiful phrases ever, ever uttered. But there is no, absolutely no monopoly on beauty and truth in religion, and I suppose one of the reasons that I'm so fond of the Greeks, and one of the reasons that the great radical and poet Shelley wrote his Prometheus Unbound was that he understood that if you were to compare the Genesis myth, which has, which had bedeviled our culture, the Western European culture for a very long time indeed, for two thousand years, it was essentially a myth in which we should be ashamed of ourselves. God says: who told you you were naked? What possible reason have we to believe that we are naked or that if we are naked there is something to be ashamed of, that what we are and what we do is something for which we should ever apologise, we should apologise for our dreams, our impulses, our appetites, our drives, our desires, are not things to apologise for. Our actions sometimes we do apologise for and we excoriate ourselves for and rightly, but that's the Genesis myth. The Greek myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven and who gave to his favourite — his favourite mortal: man. In other words what the Greeks were saying is that we have divine fire, whatever is divine is in us, as humans. We are as good as the gods. The gods are capricious and mean and foolish and stupid and jealous and rapine and all the things that Greek mythology show us that they are, and that's a much better it seems to me — and for that the gods punished Prometheus and chained him to the Caucasus and vultures chewed away at his liver everyday as it regrew because he was immortal of course, and Shelley quite rightly understood — and interestingly his wife of course wrote Frankenstein as the modern Prometheus — understood that that mythological idea, that champion of a real humanity and a real humanism, as we've come to call it, is we are captains of our soul and masters of our destiny, and that we contain any divine fire that there is, divine fire that is fine and great. I mean it's perfectly obvious that if there were ever a God he has lost all possible taste. You've only got to look — forget the aggression and unpleasantness of the radical right or the Islamic hordes to the East - the sheer lack of intelligence and insight and ability to express themselves and to enthuse others of the priesthood and the clerisy here, in this country, and indeed in Europe, you know God once had Bach and Michelangelo on his side, he had Mozart, and now who does he have? People with ginger whiskers and tinted spectacles who reduce the glories of theology to a kind of sharing, you know? That's what religion has become, a feeble and anaemic nonsense, because we understood that the fire was within us, it was not in some idol on an altar, whether it was a gold cross or whether it was a Buddha or anything else, that we have it. The fault is in our stars, but also the glory is (correcting himself) in us not in our stars. The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too. We have to grow up, which is partly what Christopher was saying.
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(On libraries) What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'
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Well, my interpretation is no more valid than anyone else's, but I would say in terms of medicine, people want to take control of their own lives, and ironically they seem to think that they are taking control of their lives more by using so-called complementary or alternative medicines than by using orthodox medicine. In other words, they think it's a statement of originality and individuality. To you and me it seems self-evidently ridiculous, this homeopathic medicine. It is so preposterous, and yet some people I know and respect insist on believing it.
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You cannot work too hard at poetry. People are bad at it not because they have tin ears, but because they simply don't have the faintest idea how much work goes into it. It's not as if you're ordering a pizza or doing something that requires direct communication in a very banal way. But it seems these days the only people who spend time over things are retired people and prisoners. We bolt things, untasted. It's so easy to say, 'That'll do.' Everyone's in a hurry. People are intellectually lazy, morally lazy, ethically lazy...All the time. When people get angry with a traffic warden they don't stop and think what it would be like to be a traffic warden or how annoying it would be if people could park wherever they liked. People talk lazily about how hypocritical politicians are. But everyone is. On the one hand we hate that petrol is expensive and on the other we go on about global warming. We abrogate the responsibility for thought and moral decisions onto others and then have the luxury of saying it's not good enough.
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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
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I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God or faith in crystals. I very rarely have faith in God; I occasionally have little spasms of it, but they go away, if I think hard enough about it. I am incandescent with rage at the idea of horoscopes and of crystals and of the nonsense of 'New Age', or indeed even more pseudo-scientific things: self-help, and the whole culture of 'searching for answers', when for me, as someone brought up in the unashamed Western tradition of music and poetry and philosophy, all the answers are there in the work that has been done by humanity before us, in literature, in art, in science, in all the marvels that have created this moment now, instead of people looking away. The image to me . . . is gold does exist, and for 'gold' say 'truth', say 'the answer', say 'love', say 'justice', say anything: it does exist. But the only way in this world you can achieve gold is to be incredibly intelligent about geology, to learn what mankind has learnt, to learn where it might lie, and then break your fingers and blister your skin in digging for it, and then sweat and sweat in a forge, and smelt it. And you will have gold, but you will never have it by closing your eyes and wishing for it. No angel will lean out of the bar of heaven and drop down sheets of gold for you. And we live in a society in which people believe they will. But the real answer, that there is gold, and that all you have to do is try and understand the world enough to get down into the muck of it, and you will have it, you will have truth, you will have justice, you will have understanding, but not by wishing for it.
Fry Stephen
Swearing is a really important part of one's life. It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing... There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary -such utter nonsense. The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies and the kind of person who says swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary usually have a pretty poor vocabulary themselves... The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest or -is just a fucking lunatic... I haven't met anybody who's truly shocked at swearing, really, they're only shocked on behalf of other people. Well, you know, that's preposterous... or they say 'it's not necessary'. As if that should stop one doing it! It's not necessary to have coloured socks, it's not necessary for this cushion to be here, but is anyone going to write in and say 'I was shocked to see that cushion there, it really wasn't necessary'? No, things not being necessary is what makes life interesting -the little extras in life.
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I genuinely believe that the Catholic church is not, to put it at its mildest, a force for good in the world. And therefore it is important for me to try and marshal my facts as well I can to explain why I think that. But I want first of all to say that I have no quarrel, no argument and I wish to express no contempt for individual devout and pious members of that church. It would be impertinent and wrong of me to express any antagonism towards any individual who wishes to find salvation in whatever form they wish to express it. That to me is sacrosanct as much as any article of faith is sacrosanct to anyone of any church or any faith in the world. It's very important. It's also very important to me as it happens that I have my own beliefs. They are a belief in the Enlightenment, they're a belief in the eternal adventure of trying to discover moral truth in the world. And there is nothing, sadly, that the Catholic church and its hierarchs likes to do more than to attack the Enlightenment. It did so at the time – reference was made to Galileo and the fact that he was tortured for trying to explain the Copernican theory of the universe. Just imagine in this square mile how many people were burned for reading the Bible in English. And one of the principle burners and torturers of those who tried to read the Bible in English here in London was Thomas More. Now, that's a long time ago, it's not relevant. Except, that it was only last century that Thomas More was made a saint and it was only in the year 2000 that the last pope, the Pole, he made Thomas More the Patron Saint of Politicians. This is a man who put people on the rack for daring to own a Bible in English. He tortured them for owning a Bible in their own language. The idea that the Catholic church exists to disseminate the word of the Lord is nonsense. It is the only owner of the truth for the billions that it likes to boast about. Because those billions are uneducated and poor, as again it likes to boast about. It's perhaps unfair of me as a gay man to moan this enormous institution, which is the largest and most powerful church on earth. It has over a billion, as they like to tell us, members, each one of whom is under strict instructions to believe the dogmas of the church, but may wrestle personally with them of course. It's hard for me to be told that I am evil, because I think of myself as someone who is filled with love. Whose only purpose in life is to achieve love and who feels love for so much of nature and the world and for everything else. We certainly don't need the stigmatisation, the victimisation that leads to the playground bullying when people say: "You're a disordered, morally evil individual." That's not nice, it isn't nice. The kind of cruelty in Catholic education and the kind of child abuse – let's not call it child abuse, it was child rape – the kind of child rape that went on systematically for so long... Let's imagine that we can overlook this and say it has nothing whatever to do with the structure and nature of the Catholic church and the twisted and neurotic and hysterical way that its leaders are chosen, the celibacy, the nuns, the monks, the priesthood: this is not natural and normal, ladies and gentlemen, in 2009. It really isn't. I have yet to approach one of the subject dearest to my heart. I've made three documentary films on subject of AIDS in Africa. My particular love is the country of Uganda, it's one of the countries that I love most in the world. There was a period when Uganda had the worst incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world. But through an amazing initiative called ABC: Abstinence, Be faithful, Correct use of condoms... Those three – I am not denying that abstinence is a very good way of not getting AIDS, it really is, it works. So does being faithful, but so do condoms! And do not deny it! And this Pope not satisfied with saying: "Condoms are against our religion. Please consider first abstinence, second being faithful to your partner," he spreads that lie that condoms actually increase the incidence of AIDS. He actually makes sure that aid is conditional on saying "no" to condoms. I have been to – there is a hospital in Bwindi in the west of Uganda where I do quite a lot of work – it is unbelievable, the pain and suffering you see. Now yes, yes it is true, abstinence will stop it. It's the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it's fun, it's jolly; because it's a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It's a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell. Do you know who would be the last person ever to be accepted as a prince of the church? The Galilean carpenter, that Jew. They would kick him out before he tried to cross the threshold. He would be so ill at ease in the church. What would he think – what would he think of St. Peter's? What would he think of the wealth and the power and the self-justification and the wheedling apologies? The Pope could decide that all this power, all this wealth, this hierarchy of princes and bishops and archbishops and priests and monks and nuns could be sent out in the world with money and art treasures to put the back in the countries that they once raped and violated. They could give that money away and they could concentrate on the apparent essence of their belief. And then I would stand here and say that Catholic church may well be a force for good in the world, but until that day, it is not. Thank you.
Stephen Fry
What decent person would want to spend a life picking and cavilling? Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.
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I should say today that it's tragic that people lose faith in what was once an honourable profession but people will lose faith in journalists. There's nothing one can do about it. People no longer trust journalists - we'll have to turn to politics instead for our belief in people. I almost mean that. Although, of course, anybody can talk about snouts in troughs and go on about it, for journalists to do so is almost beyond belief. Beyond belief. I know lots of journalists - I know more journalists than I know politicians - and I've never met a more venal and disgusting crowd of people when it comes to expenses and allowances...Not all [of them] but then not all human beings are either. I've cheated expenses. I've fiddled things. You have, of course you have. Let's not confuse what politicians get really wrong - things like wars, things where people die - with the rather tedious bourgeois obsession with whether or not they've charged for their wisteria. It's not that important, it really isn't. It isn't what we're fighting for. It isn't what voting is for and the idea that 'Oh, we've all lost faith in politics' [is] nonsense. It's a journalistic made-up frenzy. I know you don't want me to say that. You want me to say "No, it matters, it's important." It isn't it. Believe me, it isn't. It's not the big deal; it's not what we should be worrying about. I know no one's going to pay any attention and newspapers will great joy over filling yards and yards of newsprint with tiny, pointless details of this politician's or that politician's squalid and sad little life as they see it. It's not the big picture, it really isn't. You know, we get the politicians we deserve, it's our fault as much as anybody else's. This has been going on for years and suddenly because a journalist discovers it it's the biggest story ever! It's absolute nonsense, it really is.
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Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
Fry Stephen
Well I'm afraid it simply does, um, [the Catholic Church] does condemn [homosexuality], yes, it calls it a -the official word is disorder, but it was refined by the current Pontiff, Ratzinger, who called it a 'moral evil'. But on the other hand we must remember, as the point that was made is that the church is very loose on moral evils because, although they try to accuse people like me who believe in the empiricism and the enlightenment of somehow what they call moral relativism, as if it's some appalling sin where what it actually means is thought, um, they um, they for example thought that slavery was perfectly fine... absolutely okay, and then they didn't, and what is the point of the Catholic Church if it says 'oh well we couldn't know better because nobody else did'? (To the affirmative team) Then what are you for?!
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As an overseas visitor I've been taking vacations at Santa Monica for many years now, enjoying the relaxed, laid back, almost seaside town ambiance, but this year, for the first time, I feel more anxious than relaxed, too many cars, too many people, too much crime, and taking my life in my hands avoiding errant cyclists and skateboarders on the sidewalks and crosswalks.
I also used to enjoy shopping in Santa Monica Place, but now it's nothing more than an expensive designer label showcase for the rich and famous.
All the present discussion on high-rise development is only going to make things worse, too
Sorry Santa Monica, you've lost it. Goodbye.
George Philipson
Melbourne, Australia


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Youth baseball has been a fixture at the National Little League park at Cook Street and Hillside Avenue for six-plus decades.
This year the region's oldest Little League (founded 1953) is adding a new wrinkle to play on the field, with the addition of the Doug Hudlin Challenger Baseball program for children with cognitive or physical disabilities.
The new division, part of a Baseball Canada initiative partially funded by the Jays Care Foundation, is being spearheaded by Barb Hudlin in memory of her uncle Doug, the beloved umpire who was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame last summer.
"It's a way for kids to have fun, they're outside and playing with other kids," Hudlin says. "It's about being out there in the world and society and they're accepted for who they are. It's kids with different abilities, just like Doug would have wanted."
More players from Victoria and Esquimalt are needed for the 2017 season, to help make the experience even more fun for all involved.
Regulation bats, balls and helmets are used, with hats, jerseys and specially tailored gloves provided, and the weekly sessions go Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. on the diamond at Jerry Hale Field.
There are already plenty of "buddy" volunteers available to help out, Hudlin says, which is a key part of making this style of baseball accessible.
Longtime Baseball Canada president Ray Carter from Nanaimo was inducted into the Hall with Doug Hudlin last year and is the founder of Challenger Baseball.
Carter's efforts inspired Barb to get the first Challenger program off the ground in the City of Victoria, she says.
"It's about making baseball available to everyone," she adds.
The season gets underway April 15. Registrations are still being taken by calling Hudlin at 250-891-4974 or emailing her at email@example.com. More information on Challenger Baseball can be found at nationallittleleague.org/programs/challenger.


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Bangles, bling, and monograms.
Who could ask for a better summer?!
It's been exactly a week since I finished my Moon and Lola internship! It was definitely a bittersweet goodbye. I am so excited to head back to school on Wednesday but it was so sad leaving the wonderful team at Moon and Lola.
When most people think of internships they think of coffee runs and filing stacks of papers but that was in no way my internship experience. I was given responsibility and got to learn the ins and outs of the company behind the pretty pink storefront. I got to learn all different parts of the company from shipping to marketing to production to social media.
Last summer, I did an internship in a fashion showroom in NYC, so this year I knew I wanted to find something a little closer to home (not to mention NYC is kinda expensive…). I've always known about Moon and Lola because they are based out of Apex, NC where I went to high school! I decided to look into it and a little after Christmas it all seemed to fall in place. The best part was I didn't have to compromise on the quality of the internship at all just because I wasn't going to be in a major fashion city like New York or Los Angles.
Working for a company is a little easier when you love their product so much. One of my favorite parts was learning about their social media tips and tricks. They gave me some freedom and let my creativity take over as they trusted me to take some Instagram photos for them! Here a sneak peek into my summer working at Moon and Lola!
It was definitely a sparkly summer! Moon and Lola is truly a great company and I can't wait to see what the future holds for them. Here are some of my favorites!


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Maple syrup
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There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees. Which means plenty of tasty treeblood for you.
(In-game plural: bottles of maple syrup)
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- John Lumberto, the lumberjack (Occurs with the OK Lumberjack Outfit equipped)
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|You guzzle the bottle of maple syrup, and let loose a resounding belch.
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- The use link for this item is "chug" instead of "eat" or "drink".
- The description of this item quotes the song "The Trees" by the Canadian band Rush, which begins "There is unrest in the forest / There is trouble with the trees."
- The movie Super Troopers is referenced several times; the use link "chug" references a scene where the highway patrol officers chug maple syrup, the character Thorny belches loudly when he finishes a bottle. Antsy in your Pantsy also references a line by Brian Cox in the movie.
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A group of water-skiers waiting their turn at the Water-Sports Carnival at Kairaki. 1961.
Opposite is the entrance to Brooklands Lagoon.
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Ladies and gentleman, today is a bad day.
A very bad day.
At approximately, 10:45am, while checking and responding to emails and making some phone calls to coordinate the day's activities with some staff members, I got the sudden urge to make pancakes.
Yes, pancakes.
I don't know why I was craving pancakes really. I don't really eat them much and usually try to stay away from anything that's too sugary or syrupy. But for some reason, I was craving them, so I figured why not.
I got up and placed my MacBook Pro (which you all know I've come to love so much and now consider a member of the family) on the couch.
I closed the lid so that the laptop would go to sleep and conserve some battery power while I get my Aunt Jemima fix on.
After I made a short stack, I walked back to grab my laptop so that I could continue my work, but when I opened up the lid, the screen didn't turn back on.
I figured maybe it was still asleep so I tried waking it up, but nothing worked.
Getting crazy paranoid, I pressed the power button for a bit to let it shut down, then tried turning it back on again.
I heard a beep and got the white screen that the grey apple usually shows up on… only… this time the gray apple didn't show up.
This scene repeated itself for about 30 minutes, with my heart beating faster and faster as time passed.
Luckily, I purchased the AppleCare Protection Plan, so I called them up and described the issue I was having.
The tech rep tried helping me troubleshoot it but nothing worked. He booked me an appointment to go to The Genius Bar the closest Apple Store by me.
When I got there, I repeated everything I told the tech guy over the phone, then the "Genius" checked everything out on my 2 month old baby.
10 minutes later, he looked at me and told me my hard drive is completely gone and that I had a faulty logic board.
I don't know what a logic board is but if you're telling me it's faulty, then I definitely don't want that, and I want my hard drive back.
It might've only been 2 months old, but I have a ton of stuff on there and I want access to it.
He looked into it more and said I can pay for a data recovery service, to get my files back, but from the looks of it, it's highly unlikely to work.
Now I have to wait until they receive the parts that my laptop needs, which he said will probably be around next Wednesday or Thursday, at which point they'll call me to bring my laptop for repair and the repair will be another 3-5 business days.
2 weeks without my computer?
2 weeks?
That's a LONG ASS TIME!
Especially, when you're always working on a computer and spend more time with it than you do with anybody else.
I don't know what I'm going to do until then.
Apple should have a loaner service like some big chain mechanics. Give me a MacBook Air or something as a loaner while I wait these 2 long weeks to get back my system.
This sucks. My MacBook Pro is only 2 months old. It's too young to go through such an unfortunate incident.
By the way, I wrote this on a PC.
Yeah. It's bad!


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We are at the end of May for this blog which began at the first of this year. I started the blog for a couple of reasons. One is that there was a lot speculation/buzz at the first of this year that some type of "global currency reset" would take place in 2014. Secondly, I wanted to collect articles relevant to the topic of major monetary system change in one place as an archive (see the right hand column for list of prior posts).
Now we are nearly midway through 2014 and as events have unfolded, it appears less likely that anything major will change in 2014 even though a sudden global financial crisis is still possible to arise at any time. This is because of the inherent instability of the system itself. Jim Rickards uses his "snowflake" analogy to explain that when a system is unstable any new snowflake could be the one that triggers an avalanche. But he points out that no one can know which snowflake will be the trigger (no one can know precise timing).
With all that in mind, we have continued to capture what we feel are the major news articles and events around the world that are leading to eventual major monetary system change. We don't try to force a conclusion or predict timing here. We go where the available evidence leads us.
Right now it suggests that major change is NOT imminent this year, but events unfolding this year seem to be setting up 2015 as a year where significant changes could begin because of actions in motion by the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). They are increasingly moving away from the IMF and World Bank and working on serious projects to by pass those institutions and also the US dollar as global reserve currency. We follow those events closely and if you read through the linked articles here you will see it plainly.
If a crisis suddenly arises or events quickly change, we will try to be on top of that as quickly as possible and will post that information here for readers as quickly as we can (this blog is a hobby and not my source of employment).
Reviewing the stats for this blog we see that we continue to get a lot of new readers here from all around the world. The blog now has over 25,000 page views and regular readers from over 20 countries around the world. More than anything we ever imagined. We thank our readers and hope you find the information here useful and will recommend it to others.
This site is free and will always be free. We don't even allow ads to run on this site. The purpose of this site is to be a free resource for everyone interested in this topic.
We also are happy to post articles submitted by readers so long as they relate to our topic here. We have a number of high profile readers who do send us articles to look at. They also give us some updates on things happening behind the scenes (some of which we cannot publish at their request). But this information does factor in our view that major change is not imminent this year. However, we do think a lot of things are in progress that will lead to major changes eventually.
We are very picky as to what articles we will post here. We try to avoid hype and speculation that we see around the internet quite a bit.
We will post some speculative theories if we think the author has presented a solid factual basis for the theory. That is why we post a lot from Jim Rickards here. We feel he is the best source right now for fact based information on this topic along with a few others. Rickards tries to minimize speculation and emphasize factual data and analysis.
For the next week I do not anticipate running as many articles unless some news breaks that changes our view on current situation as I will be tied up on some other activities the next week or so.
If you are a new reader, I suggest looking at our most recent posts below related to the May Bretton Woods annual Meeting. They explain why we think major change is not imminent right now. This can change at any time and if it does, we will post that here as soon as possible.


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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Getting to know the Android Developer Challenge finalists
By Chukwuemeka Afigbo, Program Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa
Cross-posted from the Google Africa Blog
Last month, the five finalists of the Android Developer Challenge came together to share their experiences with the world via Google+ Hangouts.
Selected from a group of more than 200 submissions and 30 semi-finalists, the five finalists were Chike Maduegbuna, Bobola Oniwura and Tope Omotunde of AfriNolly (Nigeria); David Lemayian of Olalashe (Kenya); Gerald Kibugi of Shopper's Delight (Kenya); Herko Lategan of Rainbow Racer (South Africa); and Richard Marsh of Wedding Plandroid (South Africa).
The interview was hosted by CP Africa, a popular African blog and Gbenga Sesan, Nigerian tech evangelist, who conducted the interview while sitting in the departure lounge of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos as he waited to board his flight to Addis Ababa.
Thanks to the power of the internet and Google+, the interview was held simultaneously in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, in collaboration with three developer hubs: Umbono (Cape Town, South Africa), Co Creation Hub (Lagos, Nigeria) and iHub (Nairobi, Kenya). The finalists answered live questions and questions from people around the world including Ghana, Italy, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda using Google Moderator.
The top-voted question was on how to prioritize features when building an application, while another participant wanted to know what kind of changes the finalists hoped to create in Africa with their applications.
To learn more about the finalists for the Android Developer Challenge and their applications, please visit the new case studies section of the Google Africa Developers website. If you create solutions using Google services for developers (Google Apps, Chrome extensions, Android, App Engine, etc.) and want to share your story with the world, let us know!
Chukwuemeka Afigbo is a Program Manager in the Sub-Saharan Africa Outreach Team. He is an avid football (soccer) fan.
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Plan 036H-0064
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Plan Details
Plan Features
Plan Description
Stylish stonework and a covered front porch give this one-story traditional house plan plenty of curb appeal. The covered front porch opens to a classy gallery which directs traffic in various directions. A split-bedroom floor plan arranges the main living areas at the center of the home where an island kitchen, boasts a walk-in pantry and snack bar while serving the sunny breakfast nook and formal dining room with equal ease. Multi-tasking and unloading groceries are a snap with the utility room positioned just steps from the kitchen and the pantry situated near the garage entrance. The great room is generously-sized and features a crackling fireplace and views of the rear patio. Tucked away for privacy, the master bedroom indulges in peace and quiet while offering rest and relaxation. A corner soaking tub, dual vanities and a shower with seat deliver soothing refreshment. Don't miss the huge walk-in closet. Across the home, two family bedrooms are neatly arranged at the front of the home. Ample closet space and a full bath serve the children's needs. Pay attention to the game room, perfect for a pool table or play area for the kids. If need be, this space could easily serve as another bedroom instead. Thoughtfully designed for an active family this ranch home plan is sure to accommodate your needs.
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Drive To Stop Diabetes 300 Odds
BRISTOL, TN (TheSpread) – The 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series gets the weekend racing started with the Drive To Stop Diabetes 300 on Saturday. Here is a look at the odds for this race.
According to oddsmakers at Bovada.lv, Kyle Busch is the favorite to win the race, as he has 3/2 odds. Other short odds to win are Kevin Harvick (13/4) and Matt Kenseth (15/4).
Busch won this race in 2013, 2011 and 2006. Busch has competed in all three Nationwide races this season, winning one and finishing in the top 5 in all three.
Harvick won this race in 2009, 2005 and 2003. Harvick has competed in one Nationwide race this year, placing second.
Kenseth has never won this race. Kenseth has competed in all three Nationwide events this year. He is winless with one top 5 and two top 10s.
The Drive To Stop Diabetes 300 will take place Saturday, March 15 at 2:13PM ET from Bristol Motor Speedway. For complete odds and track information on this year's race, see below.
Odds to win the Drive To Stop Diabetes 300 – 2014 Drive To Stop Diabetes 300 – Bristol Motor Speedway – Saturday, March 15
Kyle Busch 3/2
Kevin Harvick 13/4
Matt Kenseth 15/4
Eliiott Sadler 12/1
Ryan Blaney 12/1
Kyle Larson 14/1
Regan Smith 14/1
Trevor Bayne 16/1
Ty Dillon 16/1
Brian Scott 18/1
James Buescher 28/1
Field (Any Other Driver) 12/1
2014 Drive To Stop Diabetes 300 Information
Race Date: Saturday, March 15
Location: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN
Pre-Race: 1PM ET
Green Flag: 2:13PM ET
TV Coverage: ESPN2
Track Type: Speedway (300 laps)
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Infection Prevention
Helpful Tips
If possible, avoid smoking at least one month before and after your treatment. Always keep the treated area clean and covered. Never scrub the treated area – gentle patting will suffice. Bandages should cover the treated area while allowing the skin to breathe. A cool compress may be applied the first 24 hours after treatment at fifteen minute intervals.
Tylenol may be taken – DO NOT take Aspirin or Ibuprofen products.
First Three Days Following Treatment:
- Do not soak treated area in water.
- If instructed by laser specialist, the treated area should be covered with a thin layer of polysporin and a gauze bandage. Some treatments will not require a bandage, though all will require being kept clean and dry.
- With bandaging, apply a thin layer of antibiotic ointment and cover loosely with gauze for the first two days.
After The Third Day:
- If bandage is required, remove bandage and allow area to dry.
- No soaking the area in water until all scabs or blisters are completely healed.
- When bathing or showering, keep the treated area out of water as much as possible. Use cool/lukewarm water, mild soap and gentle patting (no scrubbing).
- Keep hydrated and keep the treated area out of the Sun!


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Clemency draws fire from GOP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Republican Party delegates on Sunday denounced the decision by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute the manslaughter sentence of the son of a political ally, saying the action undermined the party's message of being tough on crime while advocating for the rights of victims.
The resolution approved during the state party's spring convention in Sacramento condemns the former Republican governor's action, which reduced Esteban Nunez's prison sentence from 16 years to seven. Nunez, the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, pleaded guilty for his role in the 2008 stabbing death of a college student in San Diego.
Schwarzenegger's action during his final night in office angered the San Diego County district attorney and enraged the victim's family. The governor's office did not notify either party before the decision.
The resolution said the state GOP stands for tough punishment "for murderers and violent criminals" and notes that the party's platform includes a statement saying victims' rights are paramount.
Schwarzenegger's action, it said, "created the appearance that a favor was done" for Fabian Nunez, who was one of Schwarzenegger's closest allies in the Legislature and worked with him to pass California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law, which Schwarzenegger cites as one of his legacy accomplishments.
"Now, therefore be it resolved, that the California Republican Party condemns the commutation of the prison sentence for Esteban Nunez and further condemns the manner in which it was done, without concern for the victims and their suffering, and without respect for the message this action will send to potential criminals with connections to those in power," the resolution states.
The resolution was approved without comment from the delegates. A spokesman for Schwarzenegger, Daniel Ketchell, said the former governor declined to comment.
Esteban Nunez and others were convicted in the stabbing death of 22-year-old Luis Santos, a business student at San Diego's Mesa College. Prosecutors say Nunez and his friends from Sacramento were upset about being kicked out of a fraternity party, had been drinking alcohol and were seeking revenge when they encountered a group of unarmed students that included Santos.
Three others were injured in the attack on the campus of San Diego State University, including two people stabbed by Esteban Nunez. The group then fled to Sacramento, where prosecutors say they hid and destroyed evidence.
According to court documents, a co-defendant told police that Esteban Nunez assured him he would "take the rap" for whatever happened and that "hopefully his dad would take care of it and could get them off on self-defense."
Nunez, 21, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Santos' parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to restore the sentence under a state law ensuring that victims have advance notice of legal proceedings and the right to fight early release of felons. Schwarzenegger's action also has prompted a number of bills seeking to reduce the governor's clemency powers or ensure that victims' families are notified before such decisions are made public.
In his clemency statement, Schwarzenegger said the 16-year sentence given to Nunez was "excessive," in part because he was not the one who inflicted the fatal wound on Santos and had no prior criminal record. After extensive media reporting about the commutation, Schwarzenegger wrote a letter to Santos' parents acknowledging that his last-minute action provided no notice.
Associated Press writer Juliet Williams contributed to this report.


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Far more women than men suffer insomnia or chronic sleep trouble, and middle-aged women suffer most of all, according to an international study commissioned by Calm.
Women are 40% more likely than men "always" to sleep badly, reveals the survey of 4,279 Britons and Americans, conducted by pollsters YouGov, on our behalf.
Women are 40% more likely than men to sleep badly on a regular basis, reveals the survey of 4,279 Britons and Americans.
This figure rises to 55% in middle age [aged 45-54], when the gender gap hits its peak, as does the number of women who report "always" sleeping badly.
"I certainly see more women with sleep trouble than men", says Dr Steve Orma, a clinical psychologist and insomnia specialist, whose talk on sleep science and advice is one of Calm's 30+ Sleep Stories.
There are several possible reasons that so many more women than men sleep badly, says Dr Orma, author of the book, Stop Worrying & Go To Sleep.
"One is hormones – such as estrogen and progesterone – which fluctuate more in women." Such fluctuations can cause physical discomfort, which in turn can disturb sleep.
Hormonal changes can also cause mood changes and intensity both anxiety and depression, says Orma. "All those things can disturb sleep."
Indeed, for various reasons, women get diagnosed with anxiety and depression about twice as often as men do, says Orma. Depression can either increase or decrease the amount someone sleeps, while anxiety tends to disrupt sleep.
Other factors include pregnancy and children.
"Pregnancy involves a lot of discomfort", says Orma. "You have an increased need to urinate. It can also cause breathing difficulties during sleep, such as sleep apnoea (where sleepers temporarily stop breathing)."
Having young children can also often disturb sleep. New-borns are usually bad for both women and men but even nowadays, suggests Orma, women still tend to take more responsibility for getting up at night and child-raising in general.
Restless leg problem – whether related to pregnancy or not – is also more common in women, says Orma. "And that's something that also disturbs sleep."
"People in general start sleeping worse when they get older and sleep becomes lighter, particularly in the latter part of the night", says Orma. "But for women, specifically the menopause and resulting hormonal fluctuations and hot flushes can be another cause of sleep problems."
Six Reasons That Women Sleep Worse Than Men
- Greater fluctuations in hormones like estrogen and progesterone, causing discomfort.
- Anxiety and depression are twice as common for women.
- Pregnancy and the associated discomfort.
- More responsibility for new-borns and young children.
- Restless leg syndrome – women get it more.
- The menopause brings more hormone fluctuations, hot flushes.
Psychologist's Three Top Tips For Women With Insomnia
With women more than men, it's important to identify any biological factors (such as hormones, pregnancy, menopause, etc) causing insomnia, says Dr Steve Orma, a clinical psychologist, insomnia specialist and author of the book, Stop Worrying & Go To Sleep.
So his top tips are:
- First, seek to determine the cause of the sleep trouble: i.e., is it psychological, or is there something biological or hormonal going on?
- Seek treatment based on the specific cause: e.g. CBT-I (cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia) and/or medical treatment for the biological issue.
- Maintain good sleep habits over time (based on what you learn from CBT-I).


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Centura Health
Denver, CO, United States
Registered Nurse (RN)- Prep / Recovery- Main OR / Endo
Job Description
Welcome to Centura Health - the largest health ecosystem in Colorado and Kansas. Welcome to living your mission among thousands of people on fire to live theirs too. Welcome to options and possibility where you can chart the direction and flow of your career. Welcome to the freedom to believe in what you believe, and welcome to a family guided by shared values and a commitment to extending the healing ministry of Christ. Welcome to extremely important industry challenges and opportunities to solve complex problems. Welcome to highly intelligent teams and overflowing community. And welcome to wholeness of mind, body and spirit. Welcome to Centura Health.
Qualified external applicants eligible for a $15,000 sign-on bonus, no contract required! Cannot be a current or recent Centura employee to qualify. Minimum of 1 year experience required. Must be hired into a Full-Time or Part-time position; PRN positions are not eligible.
Schedule: full-time, 3, 12-hour shifts/week (variable start times in the morning hours). Variable days of the week and occassional Saturdays. Additional call required: approximately 12-16 hours in a six-week schedule, dependent on staffing (60 minute callback radius required).Pay Range
$28.85 - $40.62/hrFlourishing Begins Here
You have a purpose, unique talents and NOW is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. At Centura Health, we value incredible people with incredible skills - but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.
Centura Health's nurses have the right resources and leadership to practice at the top of their license with an organization that is consistently raising the bar on care excellence. Our system includes several Magnet-designated facilities (with more hospitals on the Magnet journey) and provides nurses with development, cross-training and options to flex and advance throughout their career journey.
Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient. Promotes the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act. Demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.What You Bring/Job Requirements
In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:
- RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact,
- Colorado Only: RNs working in Colorado under a multi-state license must obtain their CO RN license within 30 days of establishing residency, i.e., drivers license, register to vote, etc. Compact to Compact. Upon issuance of a new multistate license, the former license is inactivated. For more information visit Colorado Board of Nursing - Compact Licensure
- Nursing Diploma or Associates Degree in Nursing required; Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
- Minimum of one year of Med/Surg RN or higher acuity experience required
- BLS from the American Heart Association required
- ACLS from the American Heart Association required within 3 months of hire
- PALS from the American Heart Association or ENPC certification required within 6 months of hire
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty
Physical Requirements - Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)Your Connected Community
When people and places align, incredible things happen. Just like the 21,000+ amazing associates who work here, every community within Centura Health's connected ecosystem has its own unique history, story and personality.
St. Anthony Hospital, located in Lakewood, Colorado, is a Level I Trauma Center with four trauma rooms including the T-10 room, a dedicated field-to-surgery suite ready 24/7 for trauma surgeons and specially trained teams who provide life-saving care to the most severely ill and injured patients. St. Anthony proudly provides a full range of medical specialties and health care services to Denver and the surrounding region with a state-of-the-art medical campus and Flight for Life. We're also proud to be the recipient of numerous awards, certifications and accreditations from the American Heart Association; Chest Pain Center (CPC); American College of Cardiology; The Joint Commission's National Quality Approval; Healthgrades; the Emergency Nurses Association Lantern Award; NAPBC Accreditation; American College of Radiology and many others. The St. Anthony Medical Campus in Lakewood combines our heritage of expert care with the latest in technology and innovation. If you're looking to be part of a fast-paced environment where you can practice to the top of your profession in trauma, cardiology, stroke, neurosciences, breast imaging, cancer/oncology care, surgery and more, we invite you to apply.Caring for Your Whole Well Being
We're committed to delivering whole person care and understand that a comprehensive benefits package will enrich the lives of our associates at work and at home. At Centura Health, we offer incredible benefits that impact mind, body, and spirit to eligible associates. Our total rewards are designed with your well-being in mind and may include:
- 401K, which includes matching when eligible
- Three Health Insurance Plan Options including covering eligible dependents
- Two Dental Insurance Plan Options including covering eligible dependents
- Vision Insurance including covering eligible dependents
- Daycare & Medical Flexible Spending Account Options
- Leaves of Absence, Short Term Disability, and Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance and Spouse & Child/Dependent Life Insurance Coverage Options
- Voluntary Benefits including Hospital Indemnity Coverage, Critical Illness, Accident, Permanent Life insurance, and Norton LifeLock
- Paid Time Off
- Shift Differentials
- Employee Wellness Resources
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation assistance based on location
- Associate Discounts for Phone, Cell Phone Plans, Auto Insurance, Home Insurance, Auto Buying, Pet Insurance, and much more...
Colorado Only: Pay Ranges between $28.85 - 40.62/Hr. Evening, Night and Weekend shift differentials available. The starting pay rate for this position varies based on experience, skills, and comparison to others who are currently in the same role. *If you do not see the pay range for this position listed, you are on a third party job board. All of our pay ranges are clearly posted on our careers site www.centura.org/careers. Please visit our Careers page and apply today!