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"I want to say how thankful I am to have learned about magnesium and how much it has helped me. I have ankylosing spondilitus, degenerative disc disease, have 4 vertebrae fused together naturally from no discs and calcification of the tendons as well, like hacksaw blades in my back. I am a 59 yr. old disabled electrician."
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"Transdermal Magnesium oil caused my muscles to relax for the first time in 30 yrs. I had been to physical therapists who tried everything in their book and nothing worked, they had to stop as my legs were going numb from their protocol. They never did use magnesium oil. I think they know and are not telling people."
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"I am a LMT in New Mexico and am having fantastic results with Transdermal magnesium massage and magnesium calm combination use. I'm finding by the quality of the tissue and subjective input I can now pretty much tell which clients are symptomatic of magnesium depletion and educate them an start the protocol. I've had one client who suffered almost daily with migraines go to one a week and now to none! Talk about increasing quality of life! I've also had those rock backs practically dissolve and much more freedom of movement and decreased pain with several clients as well. Passing on the wisdom! Much thanks to you and others sharing about magnesium depletion!! I too have been helped 5 years back and have been sharing and incorporating it in my practice ever since!"
These testimonies did not surprise me. My book Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, available in print or E-book form, covers the science and practice of magnesium medicine. I continue to rely on magnesium massge myself for stress reduction and fortification.
Regular massage is an effective way of lowering stress hormone cortisol levels so I recommend magnesium massage for all cancer patients. The use of massage for lowering cortisol levels levels and restoring adrenaline levels started at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which is generally considered to be one of the world's top-ranked cancer hospitals. They recognized the importance of this practice for the cancer patient in order for the immune system to recover and to prevent new cancer cell mutations. This practice has become the cornerstone of alternative cancer treatment at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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Massage therapists should be introducing their clients to the tremendous benefits of a magnesium massage and it is they who should suggest to their clients to start using it at home. Transdermal application of magnesium is superior to the commonly recommended oral magnesium supplements where absorption is not guaranteed. In magnesium chloride oil we have a potent natural substance that penetrates the cells with stunning result on cell biochemistry and when loving touch is added to the mix the results are heartwarming to say the least.
What a few can do with intravenous magnesium injections everyone can do with transdermal magnesium. One can get weary of taking magnesium orally but I think its impossible to get tired of magnesium massages and magnesium and bicarbonate baths.
Transdermal administration of magnesium bypasses the liver and creates "tissue saturation," the ability to get the nutrients where we want them, directly in the circulation, where they can reach body tissues at high doses, without loss. Combined with tissue manipulation that occurs during massage, the blood is also brought closer to the surface of the skin thus allowing faster absorption of magnesium chloride into the cells.
Transdermal mineral therapy with magnesium chloride is the most powerful, safe medical intervention we have to care for many of our patients needs. With the simple application of this slightly oily solution on the skin or used in baths we can easily have our clients take up their magnesium to healthier levels. Magnesium Oil is the perfect companion to a massage in any setting, fulfilling further the purposes of giving healing touch to patients.
This does not all mean I am in any way opposed to oral magnesium intake, which I suggest heavily to cancer patients and others who are suffereing from serious acute or chronic disorders. I am a champion of magnesium bicarbonate, which has unequalled anti-aging firepower as well as Dr. Carolyn Dean's ReMag Solution, which is another convienent way to add muscle to ones magnesium supplementation program. For beginners to magnesium I recommend all methods simultaneously. The sicker a person is the more we want to pump into them in the first few months of treatment. This holds true unless a person is facing massive kidney failure, which prevents excess magnesium from being cleared from the blood.
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Uehara S, Shimizu M, Uno Y et al.
Showa Pharmaceutical University.
Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals. Mar 2017.
Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) are potentially primate models for preclinical drug metabolism studies because the molecular characteristics of cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes have similarities between this species and humans. However, characterization of non-P450 enzymes have not been clarified in marmosets. Here, we report characterization of flavin-containing monooxygenase (FMO) 1-5 identified in marmoset tissues. Marmoset FMO forms shared high amino acid sequence identities (93-95%) and phylogenetic closeness with human homologue FMO forms. FMO1 and FMO3 mRNA were abundantly expressed in livers and kidneys among five marmoset tissues examined, where FMO3 protein were detected by immunoblotting. FMO inhibition assays using preheated tissue microsomes indicated that benzydamine N-oxygenation and sulindac sulfide S-oxygenation in marmoset livers was mainly catalyzed by FMO3, the major hepatic FMO. Marmoset FMO3 protein heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli effectively catalyzed benzydamine N-oxygenation and sulindac sulfide S-oxygenation comparable to marmoset liver microsomes. These results indicated that FMO3 enzyme expressed in marmoset livers mainly metabolized benzydamine and sulindac sulfide, typical human FMO substrates, suggesting its importance for FMO-dependent drug metabolism in marmosets.


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American film producer and screenwriter Boaz Yakin is best known for successful movies like Remember the Titans, Fresh, and 2013's Now You See Me. But his latest release isn't a movie, but a graphic novel based on his own family's experiences.
The trials and tribulations of the pre-1948 Jewish resistance groups Irgun (also known by its Hebrew acronym ETZEL) and Lehi - including difficult historical incidents like the bombing of the British Officers Club and the Deir Yassin battle - are all dramatized in graphic black-and-white drawings.
But Yakin's vision was not to create a historical document; the result is a poignant and emotional novel about one family's struggle.
For the full podcast click here.
Yakin spoke to Arutz Sheva from his home in New York about the project.
"The book is inspired by my father and uncles' experiences in Jerusalem in the 1940s, but it's also heavily fictionalized and draws from a number of people I interviewed," he explains. The Yakin family, like the fictional Halaby family of the novel, were born in Syria and immigrated to Israel in the late 1800s. Yakin's own parents moved to France where they became theater instructors before moving to New York, where Yakin was born and raised.
The book is not meant to be "hasbara" or pro-Israel advocacy, but tells a multi-faceted story of interweaving, realistic characters. One particularly memorable scene is when two of the Halaby brothers get into an argument over hanging a Communist poster in the house verses an ETZEL poster, something based on a real family incident.
Another brother, named Ezra, is loosely based on Yakin's real life uncle Ezra Yakhin (sometimes spelled Yachin). The elderly veteran of the Lehi today is well-known for his lectures at army bases around the country, telling his tale of being a young post office employee turned Jewish revolutionary.
Some scenes in the graphic novel reflect Yachin's autobiography "Elnakam," such as passing out flyers deemed illegal by the British under the guise of delivering the mail and eventually getting into violent shoot-outs with British police.
The real drama of the story comes from the characterization of a family trying to keep it all together just after the Holocaust and just before Israel's War of Independence. Characterizations of Arabs, hareidi Jews, secular communists and the British are shown with a sense of humanism that does not try to push a certain viewpoint. For example, the depiction of the battle of Deir Yassin shows multiple sides of the story, unlike many of the contemporary narratives,
"At the end of the day I guess you would have to say I'm a Zionist because I'm happy Jews have a place in Israel," Yakin comments.
"But I think you can be a Zionist and support Jews living in Israel and also have a clear eyed perspective about the pain and turmoil that happened. I think people tend to seek simplicity where there is none. People will inflict and create a narrative that will support their point of view. But I think its possible to support something and still be clear-eyed about its effects," he adds.
"This book is about loss of innocence and the difficult and painful things that sometimes have to be done when you're trying to survive.
"When I spoke with my family, even before I wrote the book, within the same family there were communists and right-wing and left-wing. It's such a small place geographically and there were so few people, and yet everything that happens there seems to resonate outwards so strongly," Yakin added.
"For such a long time, for several millennia, anything that happens in Israel between just two or three people seems to blow up into a kind of mythology that extends to the entire Western world."
For the full interview, download the mp3 by clicking here.
Ben Bresky is a music journalist living in Jerusalem. He hosts The Israel Beat Jewish Music Podcast interviewing a wide range of Jewish and Israeli musicians from Carlebach to klezmer, from hassidic to trance. For mp3 archives click here. For Facebook click here. For Twitter click here.


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Creativity in the 21st Century
Creativity used to be seen as the exclusive domain of artists, musicians, inventors and writers. In our contemporary, technology-driven world, that has changed. Creativity is now acknowledged as being a vital skill for succeeding in the 21st century.
A recent IBM survey of more than 1500 CEOs demonstrated that creativity is viewed as the most important leadership skill for dealing with the complexities of global organisations.
I recently came across a scholarly article by Alfonso Montuori, a respected professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, discussing everyday creativity. This term resonated with me, and made me think of my Everyday Magic series of paintings.
Just as I believe we can find magic in the ordinary moments of our every day, so Montuori, and other writers, are beginning to write about creativity as something accessible to everyone, and essential to the successful development of our everyday lives.
Photographer, Dewitt Jones, made a beautiful video of his work, entitled Everyday Creativity. In this short YouTube video showing snippets of an updated version of his video, he gives us glimpses of how we can be creative in our own perspective of our everyday world.


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Marianne Rizkallah is the Director of North London Music Therapy and Music Therapy Outreach and Enterprise Tutor for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Marianne qualified as a music therapist from the Guildhall in 2013.
As a music therapist, Marianne has worked with children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, working with clinical groups including mental health, SEBD, psychosis, autism and dementia. She has worked in the NHS, the education sector (including work in a PRU), the third sector and in private practice. Marianne specialises in setting up new work and in service evaluation.
Marianne also works as a professional singer and vocal coach. She plays flute, piano, ukulele and drums.
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New Music, Old Favorites, Buried Treasures, Imports and Indies.
Indie rock [ˈin-dē ˈräk] comes from "independent," describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved. Although distribution deals are often struck with major corporate companies, these labels and the bands they host have attempted to retain their autonomy, leaving them free to explore sounds, emotions and subjects of limited appeal to large, mainstream audiences.
Your host Mark Copeland presents music that's made for the radio, that corporate & commercial radio tends to ignore, direct from the Motor City, Detroit MI!


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Genesis of Species/IV
CHAPTER IV.Edit
MINUTE AND GRADUAL MODIFICATIONS.Edit
- There are difficulties as to minute modifications, even if not fortuitous.—Examples of sudden and considerable modifications of different kinds.—Professor Owen's view.—Mr. Wallace.—Professor Huxley.—Objections to sudden changes.—Labyrinthodont.—Potto.—Cetacea.—As to origin of bird's wing.—Tendrils of climbing plants.—Animals once supposed to be connecting links.—Early specialization of structure.—Macrauchenia.—Glyptodon.—Sabre-toothed tiger.—Conclusion.
Not only are there good reasons against the acceptance of the exclusive operation of "Natural Selection" as the one means of specific origination, but there are difficulties in the way of accounting for such origination by the sole action of modifications which are infinitesimal and minute, whether fortuitous or not.
Arguments may yet be advanced in favour of the view that new species have from time to time manifested themselves with suddenness, and by modifications appearing at once (as great in degree as are those which separate Hipparion from Equus), the species remaining stable in the intervals of such modifications: by stable being meant that their variations only extend for a certain degree in various directions, like oscillations in a stable equilibrium. This is the conception of Mr. Galton,[1] who compares the development of species with a many facetted spheroid tumbling over from one facet, or stable equilibrium, to another. The existence of internal conditions in animals corresponding with such facets is denied by pure Darwinians, but it is contended in this work, though not in this chapter, that something may also be said for their existence.
The considerations brought forward in the last two chapters, namely, the difficulties with regard to incipient and closely similar structures respectively, together with palæontological considerations to be noticed later, appear to point strongly in the direction of sudden and considerable changes. This is notably the case as regards the young oysters already mentioned, which were taken from the shores of England and placed in the Mediterranean, and at once altered their mode of growth and formed prominent diverging rays, like those of the proper Mediterranean oyster; as also the twenty-nine kinds of American trees, all differing from their nearest European allies similarly—"leaves less toothed, buds and seeds smaller, fewer branchlets," &c. To these may be added other facts given by Mr. Darwin. Thus he says, "that climate, to a certain extent, directly modifies the form of dogs."[2]
The Rev. R. Everett found that setters at Delhi, though most carefully paired, yet had young with "nostrils more contracted, noses more pointed, size inferior, and limbs more slender." Again, cats at Mombas, on the coast of Africa, have short stiff hairs instead of fur, and a cat at Algoa Bay, when left only eight weeks at Mombas, "underwent a complete metamorphosis, having parted with its sandy-coloured fur."[3] The conditions of life seem to produce a considerable effect on horses, and instances are given by Mr. Darwin of pony breeds[4] having independently arisen in different parts of the world, possessing a certain similarity in their physical conditions. Also changes due to climate may be brought about at once in a second generation, though no appreciable modification is shown by the first. Thus "Sir Charles Lyell mentions that some Englishmen, engaged in conducting the operations of the Real del Monte Company in Mexico, carried out with them some greyhounds of the best breed to hunt the hares which abound in that country. It was found that the greyhounds could not support the fatigues of a long chase in this attenuated atmosphere, and before they could come up with their prey they lay down gasping for breath; but these same animals have produced whelps, which have grown up, and are not in the least degree incommoded by the want of density in the air, but run down the hares with as much ease as do the fleetest of their race in this country."[5]
We have here no action of "Natural Selection;" it was not that certain puppies happened accidentally to be capable of enduring more rarefied air, and so survived, but the offspring were directly modified by the action of surrounding conditions. Neither was the change elaborated by minute modifications in many successive generations, but appeared at once in the second.
With regard once more to sudden alterations of form, Nathusius is said to state positively as to pigs,[6] that the result of common experience and of his experiments was that rich and abundant food, given during youth, tends by some direct action to make the head broader and shorter. Curious jaw appendages often characterize Normandy pigs, according to M. Eudes Deslongchamps. Richardson figures these appendages on the old "Irish greyhound pig," and they are said by Nathusius to appear occasionally in all the long-eared races. Mr. Darwin observes,[7] "As no wild pigs are known to have analogous appendages, we have at present no reason to suppose that their appearance is due to reversion; and if this be so, we are forced to admit that somewhat complex, though apparently useless structures may be suddenly developed without the aid of selection." Again, "Climate directly affects the thickness of the skin and hair" of cattle.[8] In the English climate an individual Porto Santo rabbit[9] recovered the proper colour of its fur in rather less than four years. The effect of the climate of India on the turkey is considerable. Mr. Blyth[10] describes it as being much degenerated in size, "utterly incapable of rising on the wing," of a black colour, and "with long pendulous appendages over the beak enormously developed." Mr. Darwin again tells us that there has suddenly appeared in a bed of common broccoli a peculiar variety, faithfully transmitting its newly acquired and remarkable characters;[11] also that there have been a rapid transformation and transplantation of American varieties of maize with a European variety;[12] that certainly "the Ancon and Manchamp breeds of sheep," and that (all but certainly) Niata cattle, turnspit and pug dogs, jumper and frizzled fowls, short-faced tumbler pigeons, hook-billed ducks, &c., and a multitude of vegetable varieties, have suddenly appeared in nearly the same state as we now see them.[13] Lastly, Mr. Darwin tells us, that there has been an occasional development (in five distinct cases) in England of the "japanned" or "black-shouldered peacock" (Pavo nigripennis), a distinct species, according to Dr. Sclater,[14] yet arising in Sir J. Trevelyan's flock composed entirely of the common kind, and increasing, "to the extinction of the previously existing breed."[15] Mr. Darwin's only explanation of the phenomena (on the supposition of the species being distinct) is by reversion, owing to a supposed ancestral cross. But he candidly admits, "I have heard of no other such case in the animal or vegetable kingdom." On the supposition of its being only a variety, he observes, "The case is the most remarkable ever recorded of the abrupt appearance of a new form, which so closely resembles a true species, that it has deceived one of the most experienced of living ornithologists."
As to plants, M. C. Naudin[16] has given the following instances of the sudden origination of apparently permanent forms. "The first case mentioned is that of a poppy, which took on a remarkable variation in its fruit—a crown of secondary capsules being added to the normal central capsule. A field of such poppies was grown, and M. Göppert, with seed from this field, obtained still this monstrous form in great quantity. Deformities of ferns are sometimes sought after by fern-growers. They are now always obtained by taking spores from the abnormal parts of the monstrous fern; from which spores ferns presenting the same peculiarities invariably grow.... The most remarkable case is that observed by Dr. Godron, of Nancy. In 1861 that botanist observed, amongst a sowing of Datura tatula, the fruits of which are very spinous, a single individual of which the capsule was perfectly smooth. The seeds taken from this plant all furnished plants having the character of this individual. The fifth and sixth generations are now growing without exhibiting the least tendency to revert to the spinous form. More remarkable still, when crossed with the normal Datura tatula, hybrids were produced, which, in the second generation, reverted to the original types, as true hybrids do."
There are, then, abundant instances to prove that considerable modifications may suddenly develop themselves, either due to external conditions or to obscure internal causes in the organisms which exhibit them. Moreover, these modifications, from whatever cause arising, are capable of reproduction—the modified individuals "breeding true."
The question is whether new species have been developed by non-fortuitous variations which are insignificant and minute, or whether such variations have been comparatively sudden, and of appreciable size and importance? Either hypothesis will suit the views here maintained equally well (those views being opposed only to fortuitous, indefinite variations), but the latter is the more remote from the Darwinian conception, and yet has much to be said in its favour.
Professor Owen considers, with regard to specific origination, that natural history "teaches that the change would be sudden and considerable: it opposes the idea that species are transmitted by minute and slow degrees."[17] "An innate tendency to deviate from parental type, operating through periods of adequate duration," being "the most probable nature, or way of operation of the secondary law, whereby species have been derived one from the other."[18]
Now, considering the number of instances adduced of sudden modifications in domestic animals, it is somewhat startling to meet with Mr. Darwin's dogmatic assertion that it is "a false belief" that natural species have often originated in the same abrupt manner. The belief may be false, but it is difficult to see how its falsehood can be positively asserted.
It is demonstrated by Mr. Darwin's careful weighings and measurements, that, though little used parts in domestic animals get reduced in weight and somewhat in size, yet that they show no inclination to become truly "rudimentary structures." Accordingly he asserts[19] that such rudimentary parts are formed "suddenly, by arrest of development" in domesticated animals, but in wild animals slowly. The latter assertion, however, is a mere assertion; necessary, perhaps, for the theory of "Natural Selection," but as yet unproved by facts.
But why should not these changes take place suddenly in a state of nature? As Mr. Murphy says,[20] "It may be true that we have no evidence of the origin of wild species in this way. But this is not a case in which negative evidence proves anything. We have never witnessed the origin of a wild species by any process whatever; and if a species were to come suddenly into being in the wild state, as the Ancon Sheep did under domestication, how could you ascertain the fact? If the first of a newly-begotten species were found, the fact of its discovery would tell nothing about its origin. Naturalists would register it as a very rare species, having been only once met with, but they would have no means of knowing whether it were the first or the last of its race."
To this Mr. Wallace has replied (in his review of Mr. Murphy's work in Nature[21]), by objecting that sudden changes could very rarely be useful, because each kind of animal is a nicely balanced and adjusted whole, any one sudden modification of which would in most cases be hurtful unless accompanied by other simultaneous and harmonious modifications. If, however, it is not unlikely that there is an innate tendency to deviate at certain times, and under certain conditions, it is no more unlikely that that innate tendency should be an harmonious one, calculated to simultaneously adjust the various parts of the organism to their new relations. The objection as to the sudden abortion of rudimentary organs may be similarly met.
Professor Huxley seems now disposed to accept the, at least occasional, intervention of sudden and considerable variations. In his review of Professor Kölliker's[22] criticisms, he himself says,[23] "We greatly suspect that she" (i.e. Nature) "does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms."
In addition to the instances brought forward in the second chapter against the minute action of Natural Selection, may be mentioned such structures as the wonderfully folded teeth of the labyrinthodonts. The marvellously complex structure of these organs is not merely unaccountable as due to Natural "Selection," but its production by insignificant increments of complexity is hardly less difficult to comprehend.
Similarly the aborted index of the Potto (Perodicticus) is a structure not likely to have been induced by minute changes; while, as to "Natural Selection," the reduction of the fore-finger to a mere rudiment is inexplicable indeed! "How this mutilation can have aided in the struggle for life, we must confess, baffles our conjectures on the subject; for that any very appreciable gain to the individual can have resulted from the slightly lessened degree of required nourishment thence resulting (i.e. from the suppression), seems to us to be an almost absurd proposition."[24]
Again, to anticipate somewhat, the great group of whales (Cetacea) was fully developed at the deposition of the Eocene strata. On the other hand, we may pretty safely conclude that these animals were absent as late as the latest secondary rocks, so that their development could not have been so very slow, unless geological time is (although we shall presently see there are grounds to believe it is not) practically infinite. It is quite true that it is, in general, very unsafe to infer the absence of any animal forms during a certain geological period, because no remains of them have as yet been found in the strata then deposited: but in the case of the Cetacea it is safe to do so; for, as Sir Charles Lyell remarks,[25] they are animals, the remains of which are singularly likely to have been preserved had they existed, in the same way that the remains were preserved of the Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, which appear to have represented the Cetacea during the secondary geological period.
As another example, let us take the origin of wings, such as exist in birds. Here we find an arm, the bones of the hand of which are atrophied and reduced in number, as compared with those of most other Vertebrates. Now, if the wing arose from a terrestrial or subaërial organ, this abortion of the bones could hardly have been serviceable—hardly have preserved individuals in the struggle for life. If it arose from an aquatic organ, like the wing of the penguin, we have then a singular divergence from the ordinary vertebrate fin-limb. In the ichthyosaurus, in the plesiosaurus, in the whales, in the porpoises, in the seals, and in others, we have shortening of the bones, but no reduction in the number either of the fingers or of their joints, which are, on the contrary, multiplied in Cetacea and the ichthyosaurus. And even in the turtles we have eight carpal bones and five digits, while no finger has less than two phalanges. It is difficult, then, to believe that the Avian limb was developed in any other way than by a comparatively sudden modification of a marked and important kind.
How, once more, can we conceive the peculiar actions of the tendrils of some climbing plants to have been produced by minute modifications? These, according to Mr. Darwin,[26] oscillate till they touch an object, and then embrace it. It is stated by that observer, "that a thread weighing no more than the thirty-second of a grain, if placed on the tendril of the Passiflora gracilis, will cause it to bend; and merely to touch the tendril with a twig causes it to bend; but if the twig is at once removed, the tendril soon straightens itself. But the contact of other tendrils of the plant, or of the falling of drops of rain, do not produce these effects."[27] But some of the zoological and anatomical discoveries of late years tend rather to diminish than to augment the evidence in favour of minute and gradual modification. Thus all naturalists now admit that certain animals, which were at one time supposed to be connecting links between groups, belong altogether to one group, and not at all to the other. For example, the aye-aye[28] (Chiromys Madagascariensis). was till lately considered to be allied to the squirrels, and was often classed with them in the rodent order, principally on account of its dentition; at the same time that its affinities to the lemurs and apes were admitted. The thorough investigation into its anatomy that has now been made, demonstrates that it has no more essential affinity to rodents than any other lemurine creature has.
Bats were, by the earliest observers, naturally supposed to have a close relationship to birds, and cetaceans to fishes. It is almost superfluous to observe that all now agree that these mammals make not even an approach to either one or other of the two inferior classes.
In the same way it has been recently supposed that those extinct flying saurians, the pterodactyles, had an affinity with birds more marked than any other known animals. Now, however, as has been said earlier, it is contended that not only had they no such close affinity, but that other extinct reptiles had a far closer one.
The amphibia (i.e. frogs, toads, and efts) were long considered (and are so still by some) to be reptiles, showing an affinity to fishes. It now appears that they form with the latter one great group—the ichthyopsida of Professor Huxley—which differs widely from reptiles; while its two component classes (fishes and amphibians) are difficult to separate from each other in a thoroughly satisfactory manner.
If we admit the hypothesis of gradual and minute modification, the succession of organisms on this planet must have been a progress from the more general to the more special, and no doubt this has been the case in the majority of instances. Yet it cannot be denied that some of the most recently formed fossils show a structure singularly more generalized than any exhibited by older forms; while others are more specialized than are any allied creatures of the existing creation.
A notable example of the former circumstance is offered by macrauchenia—a hoofed animal, which was at first supposed to be a kind of great llama (whence its name)—the llama being a ruminant, which, like all the rest, has two toes to each foot. Now hoofed animals are divisible into two very distinct series, according as the number of functional toes on each hind foot is odd or even. And many other characters are found to go with this obvious one. Even the very earliest Ungulata show this distinction, which is completely developed and marked even in the Eocene palæotherium and anoplotherium found in Paris by Cuvier. The former of these has the toes odd (perissodactyle), the other has them even (artiodactyle).
Now, the macrauchenia, from the first relics of it which were found, was thought to belong, as has been said, to the even-toed division. Subsequent discoveries, however, seemed to give it an equal claim to rank amongst the perissodactyle forms. Others again inclined the balance of probability towards the artiodactyle. Finally, it appears that this very recently extinct beast presents a highly generalized type of structure, uniting in one organic form both artiodactyle and perissodactyle characters, and that in a manner not similarly found in any other known creature living, or fossil. At the same time the differentiation of artiodactyle and perissodactyle forms existed as long ago as in the period of the Eocene ungulata, and that in a marked degree, as has been before observed.
Again, no armadillo now living presents nearly so remarkable a speciality of structure as was possessed by the extinct glyptodon. In that singular animal the spinal column had most of its joints fused together, forming a rigid cylindrical rod, a modification, as far as yet known, absolutely peculiar to it.
In a similar way the extinct machairodus, or sabre-toothed tiger, is characterized by a more highly differentiated and specially carnivorous dentition than is shown by any predacious beast of the present day. The specialization is of this kind. The grinding teeth (or molars) of beasts are divided into premolars and true molars. The premolars are molars which have deciduous vertical predecessors (or milk teeth), and any which are in front of such, i.e. between such and the canine tooth. The true molars are those placed behind the molars having deciduous vertical predecessors. Now, as a dentition becomes more distinctly carnivorous, so the hindmost molars and the foremost premolars disappear. In the existing cats this process is carried so far that in the upper jaw only one true molar is left on each side. In the machairodus there is no upper true molar at all, while the premolars are reduced to two, there being only these two teeth above, on each side, behind the canine.
Now, with regard to these instances of early specialization, as also with regard to the changed estimate of the degrees of affinity between forms, it is not pretended for a moment that such facts are irreconcilable with "Natural Selection." Nevertheless, they point in an opposite direction. Of course not only is it conceivable that certain antique types arrived at a high degree of specialization and then disappeared; but it is manifest they did do so. Still the fact of this early degree of excessive specialization tells to a certain, however small, extent against a progress through excessively minute steps, whether fortuitous or not; as also does the distinctness of forms formerly supposed to constitute connecting links. For, it must not be forgotten, that if species have manifested themselves generally by gradual and minute modifications, then the absence, not in one but in all cases, of such connecting links, is a phenomenon which remains to be accounted for.
It appears then that, apart from fortuitous changes, there are certain difficulties in the way of accepting extremely minute modifications of any kind, although these difficulties may not be insuperable. Something, at all events, is to be said in favour of the opinion that sudden and appreciable changes have from time to time occurred, however they may have been induced. Marked races have undoubtedly so arisen (some striking instances having been here recorded), and it is at least conceivable that such may be the mode of specific manifestation generally, the possible conditions as to which will be considered in a later chapter.
- ↑ "Hereditary Genius, an Inquiry into its Laws," &c. By Francis Galton, F.R.S. (London: Macmillan.)
- ↑ "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. i. p. 37.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 47.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 52.
- ↑ Carpenter's "Comparative Physiology," p. 987, quoted by Mr. J. J. Murphy, "Habit and Intelligence," vol. i. p. 171.
- ↑ "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. i. p. 72.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 76.
- ↑ "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. i. p. 71.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 114.
- ↑ Quoted, Ibid. p. 274.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 324.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 322.
- ↑ Ibid. vol. ii. p. 414.
- ↑ Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, April 24, 1860.
- ↑ "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. i. p. 291.
- ↑ Extracted by J. J. Murphy, vol. i. p. 197, from the Quarterly Journal of Science, of October 1867, p. 527.
- ↑ "Anatomy of Vertebrates," vol. iii. p. 795.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 807.
- ↑ "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. ii. p. 318.
- ↑ "Habit and Intelligence," vol. i. p. 344.
- ↑ See Dec. 2, 1869, vol. i. p. 132.
- ↑ "Über die Darwin'sche Schöpfungstheorie:" ein Vortrag, von Kölliker; Leipzig, 1864.
- ↑ See "Lay Sermons," p. 342.
- ↑ "Anatomy of the Lemuroidea." By James Murie, M.D., and St. George Mivart. Trans. Zool. Soc., March 1866, p. 91.
- ↑ "Principles of Geology," last edition, vol. i. p. 163.
- ↑ Quarterly Journal of Science, April 1866, pp. 257-8.
- ↑ "Habit and Intelligence," vol. i. p. 178.
- ↑ This animal belongs to the order Primates, which includes man, the apes, and the lemurs. The lemurs are the lower kinds of the order, and differ much from the apes. They have their head-quarters in the Island of Madagascar. The aye-aye is a lemur, but it differs singularly from all its congeners, and still more from all apes. In its dentition it strongly approximates to the rodent (rat, squirrel, and guinea-pig) order, as it has two cutting teeth above, and two below, growing from permanent pulps, and in the adult condition has no canines.


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By Christie Ileto – December 20, 2017
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Post office employees are in the middle of their busiest mailing week of the year, with many working overtime to help Santa get those packages delivered before the 25th.
"We're the first people to touch the mail," said Sherisse Harris, USPS employee. "So we have to make sure the mail gets done in a fashionable time."
Normally, the Postal Service's Philadelphia plant processes an average of 405,000 letters and cards a day, but Monday and Tuesday of this week that average has skyrocketed to an estimated 2 million a day. Officials are anticipating that it will remain above average for the rest of the week.
"It's literally crazy, everyone is working like 7 days a week, 12 hour shifts, just to make sure that we get basically serve our customers," said Harris.
This is the U.S. Postal Service's peak week of the year.
"For the most part, you're looking at all holiday packages coming and going to customers," said USPS Manager Robert Frisch.
This week, an average of 190,000 packages a day will come through this 900,000 square foot facility. And with Christmas falling on a Monday this year, about 1800 of Santa's helpers in this building will be doubling down on package handling alone.
"We're trying to get the mail in as early as we can," said Frisch. "So we can process with the capacity of the equipment that we have in the building."
The plant has automated packaging processing systems that sort an average of 7000 pieces per hour. It's an intense 24-hour operation, that won't likely lighten until after December 25.
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The issue of whether two adjoining bodies of water are connected in such a way that a change in flow in one will affect the flow in the other is a complex question. In Fellows v. Office of Water Commission for the Perry v. Beattie Decree, the Montana Supreme Court decided it is possible for two waterways to be hydrologically interconnected in a way that affects water rights holders on the two waterways.


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screw in
1. To drive or tighten a screw or similar fastener (into something). A noun or pronoun can be used between "screw" and "in." You forgot to screw in these last two screws, so the whole thing fell apart! We just need to screw this last one in the bed frame, and it will be finished.
2. To affix or secure something (into or onto something) with screws or in the manner of a screw. A noun or pronoun can be used between "screw" and "in." Remember to screw in the safety latch when you're reassembling the washing machine. We should start getting a better signal once I screw the new antenna in on the roof.
See also: screw
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HOLTSVILLE — Nearly 60 workers at an Internal Revenue Service office on eastern Long Island were briefly evacuated after an employee opened an envelope containing a suspicious powder. An IRS spokeswoman said the substance was later determined to be baking soda.
There were no injuries.
Suffolk County police did not immediately comment.
IRS spokeswoman Dianne Besunder said the evacuation happened around 10 a.m. at the IRS office in Holtsville. About 55 workers and three managers were evacuated from the building and hazardous materials rescue teams examined the substance.
She said by 11 a.m. the evacuation was over and all employees were back at work.
The spokeswoman said she could not recall any similar incidents at the Long Island office.


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Mather, George and Challinor, Kirsten (2009) Psychophysical properties of two-stroke apparent motion. Journal of Vision, 9 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1534-7362Full text not available from this repository.
In two-stroke apparent movement, repeated presentation of a two-frame pattern displacement followed by a brief inter-stimulus interval (ISI) can create an impression of continuous forward motion (G. Mather, 2006). Does the ISI in two-stroke motion just break the connection between adjacent frames, switching off the motion signal they normally generate, or does it actually generate a reversed motion signal? Reversed apparent motion in two-frame stimuli separated by a brief ISI has been reported in several previous papers (ISI reversal), which found that the effect is optimal at short, mean-luminance ISIs, and is abolished at scotopic luminances. A series of five experiments compared two-stroke apparent motion with ISI reversal using the same stimulus display. The two effects show the same dependence on ISI duration and luminance and are both abolished at low mean luminance. Results therefore support the conclusion that the ISI in two-stroke apparent motion does contribute a reversed motion signal and constrain theoretical explanations of two-stroke apparent motion.
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- The cinema must have at least 100 seats.
- Only new facilities (not used items) that have been listed as attachment 1 will be considered.
- Owner or operator entrepreneur is subjected to Custom Control regulations regarding duty exemption of equipment.
How to Apply
- Application for Import Duty exemption can be made using form BCP/PWG/83. The form must be completed and submitted in three copies to FINAS.
- FINAS will process the forms and submit acknowledgement of the application to the Ministry of Finance.


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Imedi TV resumed broadcasts on Wednesday evening, December 12, thirty four days after the television station was shut down in a police raid and twenty four days ahead of early presidential polls.
"Imedi is back," Giorgi Targamadze, an anchor and head of Imedi TV political programs said. "Unwelcome guests have left the studio and Imedi journalists are back… We hope to be the last journalists to be forced out of their studio at gun point." Targamadze was on air on November 7 when police broke in and pulled the plug.
Imedi's first hour back on air was devoted to recounting the November 7 events when riot police broke up demonstrations and raided the Imedi studios.
The station claimed that about 30 Imedi journalists and cameramen were injured during the November 7 events. Amiran Murvanidze, a veteran cameraman, said that riot police, when breaking up the demonstration, "were especially aggressive towards Imedi TV crews."
The narrative of the November 7 events also included footage of senior ruling party lawmakers slamming Imedi journalists for "inciting panic."
There was also a separate report on the damage inflicted on the studios by the police. The program did not, however, put a figure on what the financial implications were. "It is still too early to estimate an exact or even approximate sum," it said.
A promo advertising the daily late-night political talk show On the Air was also shown. The promo introduced Magda Anikashvili, a former Imedi newscaster, as the host of the talk show, replacing Inga Grigolia and Eka Khoperia, who quit the station following its closure.
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"I'm confident if I lost everything today and had to start over, I could do it just as well—or better—considering what I know now. I've learned that relationships are everything, and my relationships are better than 10 years ago, so it wouldn't be a problem. When you've built relationships from being in service and adding value to others, there will always be opportunities and support available for you." ~ Lewis Howes
That's from someone that has lived a bit and knows how the world works in his recent interview on Early to Rise.
I like to ask myself regularly,
"Am I adding value?"
"Am I valuable to others?"
"Do I like the people I work with?"
It's a barometer of whether I am on track living congruently, freely and with conviction.
Money happens to be a natural benefit when I am being valuable to others and increasing my own value.
And, I think if you are efficient, you tend to avoid working with people you don't like. Too much cost and grief.
The holidays are upon us and as you get some down time, perhaps you can take an inventory of your relationships. Are they what you want them to be? Can you upgrade your relationships and add value to some solid, worthy and likable people?
When we are in the grind pushing hard, it's often hard to reflect and see if we are truly doing what we want.
It is about relationships and the great thing is that you can choose who you want to exchange value with.
I want good, solid people in my life. It makes it fun and motivating to give my best and be my best. I hope you can do likewise.


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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ungula \Un"gu*la\, n.; pl. Ungulae. [L., a claw, hoof, from unguis a nail, claw, hoof.] 1. A hoof, claw, or talon. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) Same as Unguis, 3. [1913 Webster] Spherical ungula (Geom.), a part of a sphere bounded by two planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the surface of the sphere. [1913 Webster]


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A Mark Sadowski post
The subject of the United States "fiscal cliff" as a test of monetary policy offset at the zero lower bound in interest rates has recently come up yet again. Russ Roberts brought it up here.
Simon Wren-Lewis responds here.
To which Scott Sumner replies here.
For what it's worth, here's my two cents worth. I've said some the following before in more than one place, but this time I'll try and be even more complete and explicit.
To begin with, the sequester was only a small part of the U.S. fiscal consolidation that took place in 2013. The "sequester" refers to the automatic spending cuts in particular categories of outlays that were initially set to begin on January 1, 2013, as a result of the Budget Control Act (BCA), and were postponed by two months by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) until March 1. ATRA also addressed the expiration of certain provisions of EGTRRA and JGTRRA (the "Bush Tax Cuts"), the 2-year old cut to payroll taxes (the "Payroll Tax Holiday") and federal extended unemployment insurance. An increase in income tax rates applicable to high income tax payers, an increase in the payroll tax, and a continuation of federal extended unemployment insurance went into effect on January 1, 2013.
In short, the sequester only refers to the spending cuts that went into effect on March 1, 2013 and does not include the two major tax increases that went into effect on January 1, 2013. Based on the CBO's November 2012 analysis of the "fiscal cliff", and adjusting for the late start of the sequester, the tax increases that went into effect constituted approximately 70% of the budgetary effect of going over the "cliff". This is why analyses such as these are far less than fully satisfactory.
Furthermore, none of the forecasts concerning the effects of fiscal consolidation, by either the CBO, or the major private forecasters, referred to annual 2013 RGDP growth. They all referred to quarterly RGDP growth in 2013 or to year on year RGDP growth in 2013Q4. This because this is the more reasonable measure when the question is what impact a budgetary change starting at or near the beginning of a given year will have on subsequent growth. The Q4/Q4 measure is approximately the average of the four quarterly growth rates following the budgetary change, whereas the Year/Year annual measure is essentially a weighted average of the previous and current year's quarterly growth rates. In this particular instance 3/8ths of the weights in the Year/Year measure come from quarters that occurred before even a single act of the federal fiscal consolidation went into effect on January 1, 2013. For more on why the Q4/Q4 measure might be preferred to the Year/Year measure in this case, see this for example.
The CBO's last full economic forecast of 2012 (which came out just weeks before QE3 was announced) called for 0.5% year on year decrease in RGDP in 2013Q4 assuming all of the projected fiscal tightening went into effect (Table 2-1).
The previously mentioned November 2012 CBO analysis of the effects of the fiscal cliff states that eliminating all of its components would result in year on year RGDP growth in 2013Q4 being 2.9 percentage points higher (Figure 1). This implies that the CBO was forecasting that year on year RGDP growth would be 2.4% in 2013Q4 without any of the components of the fiscal cliff.
A careful reading of the CBO's estimates from November 2012 indicates that the fiscal consolidation (the 2% payroll tax increase, the high income tax increase and the sequester) should have subtracted 1.4 points from year on year RGDP growth through 2013Q4.
Figure 1 shows that the CBO were estimating that extending the reduction in the payroll tax and extending emergency unemployment benefits would increase year on year RGDP growth by 0.7 points in 2013Q4 (line five). Footnote 15 on page 11 indicates that approximately 80% of the budgetary effect of this component was due to the reduction in the payroll tax. Assuming the fiscal multiplier for the reduction in the payroll tax and emergency unemployment benefits is about the same, the economic effect of not extending the reduction in the payroll tax thus was about 0.56% of RGDP (i.e. 80% of 0.7 points).
Also, Figure 1 suggests that the economic effect of not extending lower tax rates for those with high incomes (the difference between line three and line four) is 0.1% of RGDP. The increase in income tax rates applicable to high income tax payers that went into effect under ATRA was actually somewhat smaller than what the CBO estimates were assuming, but probably not significantly enough to make it worth refining any further.
And lastly, Figure 1 shows that the CBO were estimating that eliminating the defense and nondefense spending reductions (i.e. the "sequester") would increase year on year RGDP growth by 0.8 points in 2014Q4 (the sum of lines one and two). But the implementation of the sequester was delayed by two months. A crude adjustment to this figure may be obtained by reducing it by one sixth (two out of 12 months) or to about 0.67% of RGDP.
The sum of these three components totals about 1.4% of RGDP. Combining the CBO's estimated effect of the three components of the fiscal cliff that actually did go into effect, with the CBO's implied forecast in the absence of any of the components of the fiscal cliff of 2.4% RGDP growth, results in a forecast of 1.0% year on year increase in RGDP in 2013Q4.
A similar thing applies to the major private forecasters. (Sorry, no links, but some of this can probably still be googled.) The effect of the fiscal consolidation (again, the 2% payroll tax increase, the high income tax increase and the sequester) according to Bank of America, IHS Global Insight, Moody's, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Macroeconomic Advisers and Credit Suisse ranged from 1.0% to 2.0% of GDP, with the average estimate being about 1.6%. The baseline forecast (i.e. the RGDP growth without any components of the fiscal cliff) prior to the beginning of 2013 of these same seven private forecasters was for year on year RGDP growth of 2.0% to 3.5% in 2013Q4 with the average forecast being about 2.7%. Thus the average forecasted year on year RGDP growth in 2013Q4 adjusted for fiscal consolidation was about 1.1%. This is almost exactly the same as the CBO forecast that I've teased out above.
We now know that year on year RGDP growth in 2013Q4 was 3.1%, or significantly higher than what the CBO was forecasting, and higher than what most of the major private forecasters were estimating would occur without any fiscal consolidation at all.
Or, in plain English, taking into account the monetary policy offset, the fiscal multiplier still appears to be zero, even at the zero lower bound in interest rates.


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"I started thinking about my mum (a former solicitor turned Director in Compliance), who increasingly struggled to find clothes she loved and felt great in, as she aged. Hence, the-Bias-Cut.com was born." Blogger Lucy Fry catches up with Jacynth Bassett, founder of the-Bias-Cut.com, the first age-inclusive online premium fashion boutique and the campaign Ageism Is Never In Style.
LC: What is the-Bias-Cut.com and what do you do that's different from other online boutiques?
JB: The-Bias-Cut.com – Shopping With Attitude – is the first age-inclusive, independent designers' online boutique. Our mission is to cut through ageism in the fashion industry, as a shopping destination and platform that truly empowers women of all ages, defies stereotypes, and encourages women to embrace and be the best version of themselves today.
We uniquely curate our collections with the stylish, grown-up, discerning woman in mind. Our collections feature independent designers you won't find easily elsewhere, as well as my exclusive eponymous label Jacynth London, and we focus on quality, flattering cut and modern style in equal measure. Overall we have 30+ independent labels, each selected for its unique – often playful – point of view, and we're particularly known for our love of colour, fun prints, tactical fabrics and attention to detail. We're certainly not the place to go for basics, but our pieces are very versatile and will always make the wearer feel fabulous.
In line with our age-inclusive ethos, our models are 'real women' of different shapes, heights, sizes and ethnicities. And customers can shop by their body shape and tailored filters such as areas they want to cover or show off. We're primarily based online, but we host pop-up shops around the UK so customers can explore, feel and try on our collections.
We also have a movement called Ageism Is Never In Style, which unites women and men globally to further the conversation, inspire one another, and push for change. It also includes a badge campaign – as seen at London Fashion Week – and hosts panel events.
LC: How did studying law at Cambridge influence your choices / your decision to set up the-Bias-Cut.com?
JB: I had always intended to become a barrister from the age of 13, but while studying Law I wasn't passionate enough about it for a career. However, as President of one of the biggest law societies in the world, my responsibilities included chairing a committee of 20+ students; personally negotiating sponsorship (which I increased by 25% despite economic hardship); resolving a long-term confidential financial issue; and restructuring the society to become stable and sustainable. I loved every aspect of it, so it became clear business was the right path for me!
Fashion had always been a passion of mine from a young age, so it felt natural to enter into the industry. But equally I wanted to make a difference. Soon I started thinking about my mum (a former solicitor turned director in compliance) and how she increasingly struggled to find clothes she loved and would feel great in as she got older. So that's how the idea of the-Bias-Cut.com was born.
LC: What does it mean to you to be 'age-inclusive'?
JB: Age inclusivity means celebrating women (and men) at every age, and encouraging them to proudly embrace and be proud of who they are today. We live in a ageist society where youth is craved, and ageing is something to be ashamed of. This is particularly true in fashion and beauty, which consistently reinforces this message through promoting anti-ageing products, only featuring younger models, and most brands seemingly treating people as invisible or irrelevant as they age. And those few brands that do target older consumers, tend to treat them as secondary, or assume they're no longer interested in style and just want easy, boring clothing, elasticated waste bands and so on.
At the-Bias-Cut.com, our mission is to cut through this age bias, and prove that women can be modern and stylish at any age. This doesn't mean treating age as completely irrelevant – women's bodies do change as they age, along with their lifestyle and preferences, so it is important to recognise and cater to that. But aesthetically speaking, style is ageless; so our clothes are pieces that women of any age would love to wear. So being age-inclusive means that we understand and champion this, openly welcoming of all ages to shop with us.
LC: How is age-inclusivity related to sustainability?
JB: By curating ageless, quality collections, not only are our customers investing in pieces for themselves, but they can be enjoyed by their mothers and daughters too. We have lots of customers who share our pieces with their daughters because they both love them – they simply style them differently. This means the garments have better cost per wear and longevity, and reduces the need to buy more overall.
LC: What are the main things you believe consumers (and readers of our blog) should consider when shopping, in order to help reduce the negative impact of the fashion industry?
JB: The key is to shop smart and responsibly – be well informed and make sensible purchases. There's a lot of information out there now on the sustainable and ethical practises of businesses, so you can educate yourself and make sure you buy only from brands that uphold the values you care about. I also recommend investing a little more in quality, as the pieces will last much longer. Discovering smaller independent labels is a good way to find unusual, quality designs. Unfortunately there are a lot of misconceptions about the price of clothes due to cheap, disposable fast fashion at one end of the spectrum, and over-inflated designer prices at the other. Quality does cost more, as do ethical and sustainable practices, but typically it is the smaller, independent designers in the middle who have tighter margins, and offer great quality at very reasonable prices.
Cost Per Wear is a good measure of sustainability, so when choosing which pieces to invest in, it's worth honestly considering how much wear you (any maybe others) will really get out of it. It's why, at the-Bias-Cut.com, we've introduced the Cost Per Wear Calculator – a first of its kind – that helps you quickly calculate how much value you'll get out of a garment.


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This Note is part of a series of Notes on key City issues to update City Council at the start of its 2018 – 2022 term.
Toronto's population is made up of diverse communities and groups. The City of Toronto values the contributions made by all residents and is committed to its motto, "Diversity Our Strength".
The City recognizes the barriers presented by discrimination and the disadvantages faced by equity-seeking groups and vulnerable populations. In particular, the City recognizes the unique status and cultural diversity of Indigenous communities and their right to self-determination.
To address these barriers, the City strives to create and sustain equity in government to serve and reflect all people and implement positive changes in its workforce and communities to achieve access and realize equitable outcomes for all residents. The goal of these actions is to achieve inclusive and safe environments, free from discrimination, harassment and hate.
To recognize the dignity and worth of all people, the City continues to improve the equitable treatment of community members and employees, and aims to provide services by consulting with communities and making sure everyone can participate in decision-making.
City staff are developing a plan in 2019 to accelerate progress toward its goal of reflecting the diversity of the population it serves. Executive Committee will consider a report with a plan for accelerating the City's progress toward this goal.
The plan will include rolling out an inclusive hiring framework to provide tools and resources to support a diverse talent pipeline and improving the collection of diversity-related data to measure and evaluate the impact of diversity initiatives.
The City will be rolling out training programs to City staff on Indigenous cultural competency, confronting anti-Black racism, and disability awareness so that City staff have the skills and knowledge they need to meet the needs of the public and create and maintain an inclusive workforce.
For many years, the City has been at the forefront of promoting access, equity, diversity and human rights through innovative policies, programs and services that consider the needs of equity-seeking groups and vulnerable populations.
Equity, Diversity, and Human Rights (EDHR) is developing strategies and undertaking work to identify current and emerging equity-related issues and creating relevant resources and supports to address gaps. In addition, EDHR consults with and advises City divisions on equity-related matters as they plan, budget and provide services and programs to residents.
The City is applying an Equity Lens tool to assists in identifying and removing barriers for the City's most marginalized and vulnerable communities. The Equity Lens supports best practices in the development and evaluation of policies, services, and programs. It can also be used to conduct and generate an Equity Impact Statement, which is a requirement for all major policies and reports to City Council.
The City recognizes that building an inclusive workforce that reflects the population it serves at all levels within the Toronto Public Service (TPS) will promote public confidence and ensure that its decision-making processes include a range of perspectives. Accordingly, diversity is one of four strategic focus areas in the City's five-year workforce plan, the Talent Blueprint.
The City's Employment Equity Policy directs the City to conduct a voluntary workforce survey, Count Yourself In. The survey invites employees to voluntarily disclose how they self- identify. Questions are asked about an employee's gender, racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation, whether they identify as Indigenous, and as a person with a disability.
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The Executive Committee adopted a report on Equity Responsive Budgeting, which provides an overview of progress towards incorporating an equity and gender analysis into the City budget process.
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Introduce your child to different skiing styles and winter sport vocabulary with this entertaining set of worksheets! This printable will get him interested in alpine skiing as his fine motor skills receive a boost. Just don't be surprised if he wants to take up skiing this winter!
To keep him occupied all winter break, print out this entire set of winter sports coloring sheets!


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|Problems? Is your data what you think it is?
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An excellent technique which will find its way to my code very soon :)
My variation was to have a human-readable config file, but keep the actual data in a hash written out by Storable. At startup the program checked the dates of the two files and re-parsed the config file if needed. I hadn't thought of using it to maintain user state though, nice job.
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New to PowerAutomate and floundering a bit here.
My organisation is looking at Approvals in Teams and likes the idea of being able to use Chat with a person to start and an approval. So far so good.
They had one additional requirement. "When the item is approved, could you make it that Person X is also informed; via e-mail or Teams Chat?"
"That sounds simple enough", I thought, I'll look at the existing Flow and just tinker with it.
Except, of course I can't find the existing flow to modify and I can't work out which Template or From Scratch method to use in Power Automate. Most examples trigger when something is added to Sharepoint.
So I'm looking for tips on
1. How to create/amend something that allows an additional person to be notified when an item is approved.
2. Bonus points if the Approver can input the e-mail/identity of the person to be notified, rather than it being hardwired.
I'm not a coder, more a power user who has spent too long building stuff in SharePoint 2016 with classic Workflows and Sharepoint Designer, so be gentle 🙂
The Teams Approvals App is a custom built app and doesn't use a flow. It uses the Approval action in flow directly. The documentation implies that you can create a pre or post approval flow but doesn't really suggest how.
Approvals in Microsoft Teams - Power Automate | Microsoft Docs
There are 4 templates available for doing approvals in Teams
If any of those are close you can build out from there. The approval process itself has an option to inform the original submitter in advanced settings.
Many thanks:
> The documentation implies that you can create a pre or post approval flow but doesn't really suggest how.
It's a relief to know that it's not just me thinking it leaves you high & dry at that point. Phew.
I've been staring at those templates for the last couple of days, and am I right in thinking that, though Teams Chat stores its files in Onedrive, there's no real way to add an additional custom type of approval to the Teams Approval App and I'm barking up an impossible tree?
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
I do believe you can use Approvals in Power Automate to accomplish what you have described. I just don't see a way to extend the built-in Approval app in Teams to do it. But you should be able to build something similar that will meet all your requirements.
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Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek, joins co-host Marrie Stone to talk about marrying two separate stories together, the importance of plot, writing across genres, and how being steeped in the mountains of Montana and a dismal life of social work gave rise to a beautiful novel. In the second half, James Ellroy, author of Perfidia, talks about the definition of noir, immersing oneself in story and the past, living without technology, and how stories are born in his brain.
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It's not so much that Nick Foles is going to blow this season and take the No. 1 seed down with him. It's that he's failing at being Carson Wentz, which most quarterbacks in the NFL would.
And that the handful of quarterbacks in the NFC who have been on Wentz's level this season and, more important, previously, are all lying in wait for the Eagles in the playoffs. They have home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs, yet folks are shouting one and done about the Eagles right now more than they do about Kentucky's basketball recruits.
Not only that, but Georgia will have the advantage of playing this neutral-site game in Atlanta, a city that is one hour from campus and has 90,000 alumni in the metro area. Remember, Saban won his first national championship coaching LSU on a neutral field against Oklahoma in the 2004 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
But that's about where Georgia's advantages stop. Alabama under Saban has been most vulnerable to dual-threat quarterbacks in an up-tempo spread. Think of Deshaun Watson at Clemson or Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M.
That is not what the Georgia offense is. As good as Bulldogs seniors Nick Chubb and Sony Michel are, does anyone think an offense that ran the ball 69 percent of the time, that is run by a true freshman quarterback (Jake Fromm), can turn back a Saban defense?
On the other hand, Georgia will have a much easier time stopping Alabama, which Clemson held to 261 total yards, than it did stopping Oklahoma, which gained 531 yards Monday in the Rose Bowl. And that's before factoring in the knowledge that Smart will bring to bear against the Tide.
It will be very weird, Tide defensive back Anthony Averett said. He was my coach my first three years I was here. He's a great coach. [Georgia defensive coordinator] Coach [Mel] Tucker coached me as well. They know what we're going to do. We know what they're going to do, like Clemson. It definitely makes it more fun.


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MMAWeekly Radio returns for Wednesday's show with UFC on Fuel fighter Stipe Miocic, UFC on FX's Ian McCall, Ken Pavia and lots of debate about the proposed Condit vs. Diaz rematch.
Stipe Miocic talks to the radio show about his upcoming fight against Phil De Fries and how he dreams of one day meeting one of his idols, Mirko Cro Cop.
Ian McCall joins the show to discuss his fight coming up with Demetrious Johnson and finally getting his shot in the UFC.
Ken Pavia talks about his role in the new Super Fight League, how MMA is perceived in India, and reaction to recent comments by UFC President Dana White.
The debate topics today focus a lot around the recent reports about a possible Condit vs. Diaz rematch:
– Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz have agreed in principle to a rematch. Good idea or bad idea?
– Does this set a precedent when it comes to agreeing or disagreeing with a decision regarding a rematch?
– How does a rematch between Condit and Diaz go?
– Both Renan Barao and Dustin Poirier won at UFC 143. Who do you believe will get a title shot first?
– Ben Askren will face Douglas Lima in April. How good of a prospect is Askren? Should he consider a move to the UFC?
– UFC on FX 2 and Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey same weekend…good idea or bad idea?
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In general, I don't use those systems, but I ran something similar to for f in $(seq -w 01 33); do patch -p0 < /path/to/patches/bash32-0$f; done on RHE3 without errors, compiled that version, ran for f in $(seq -w 34 39); do patch -p0 < /path/to/patches/bash32-0$f; done and ran `make' again. The first thing it did was rebuild y.tab.c and went on from there. Chet
Thanks, guys. I knew what I did originally was far too complicated. I've followed Stephane's instructions and it worked with no problems.What's the significance of compiling after patch 33? I had a quick glance at patches 33 and 34 and nothing really suggested that step. Is there something obvious in the patch files that makes it clear that you need to rebuild the intermediate patch level?
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Thought I'd do a little research to find out what kind of local Android apps we have from the Philippines. Here are some:
Philippine Daily Inquirer
GMA News Online
Philippine News by Danigo
Philippine News by Levitan Software (company based in Aklan)
Kabayan News by Harold Mondonedo
Globe Muzta
Movies for Smart
Games for Smart
Music for Smart
Flames by Jerome Locson
Life Stories by Marc Tan
FML Widget by Marc Tan
Manila: Open City Movie
PBA Official
Cebu Running Events by Max Limpag
Philippines Travel Options
General Douglas MacArthur
NDrive Indonesia & Philippines
MRT-LRT Station Guide
Manila Manual
Taxi Mate (Manila)
Manila City App
Manila Street Map
The Last Jeep to Baclaran
Cebu City App
Travel Guide - PH - Cebu City
Davao Manual
Baguio City App
Magical Shirt
Ang Mahiwagang Kamisetang Lite
D Source Boxing
Click the City
Philippines Quick Facts
Flashcards - Tagalog
Conversational Tagalog
Moon Phase Widget by Marc Tan
125+Venture Capitalists by Marc Tan
Order ni Mrs. (recipes)
Real Estate
It's My Pad
Enjoy PH
Tapa Boy
SM Malls Map and Directory
FullPage for Ebay PH
Philippines ADW Theme
Mercedes Benz PH
APKoptic by Marc Tan
Handy Poll by Marc Tan
Clickr by Marc Tan
Shake2Random by Jerome Locson
Learn Filipino Free Wordpower
Tagalog Slang
English to Filipino Flash Cards
My Words Learn Filipino
Tagalog Verbs
Tagalog FilipinoTranslator
Tagalog Basics
Flashcards - Tagalog
Learn Tagalog
123s sa Tagalog
Lingopal Tagalog (Filipino)
Filipino English Jibbigo
Tagalog Daily 10
Tagalog Vocabulary Quiz
Plugin Filipino Tagalog
Tagalog Tutor
(and there's a lot more in this category)
I just found these by doing a search for "Philippines" on the Android Market. Please let me know if you know of any Philippine-made Android apps.
Martes, Mayo 17, 2011
Philippine Android Apps
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- Hindi-nagpakilalaMayo 17, 2011 nang 5:35 PM
- Clickthecity app for schedules of Philippine entertainment.TumugonBurahin
- Jobstreet app for looking for jobs (it includes Singapore, other countries, but you can limit your location the Philippines.
Great apps in android !!TumugonBurahin
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Some not so fresh stuff. Slow blogging is slow, as we might say on Twitter.
Putting Shakespeare's First Folio on line during the Olympics means you have to "Sprint For Shakespeare". Via Corsair Books on Twitter.
A very attractive way to document train readings, and also to present potential readers with the library's holdings. Via Karen Andrews (@Miscmum) on Twitter.
When I find a typo in a piece of work that''s already sent out...
Introducing Spineless Wonders Audio, along with a bunch of links to other Australian fiction recorded online.
Cabaret writer-performer Michael Dalley's new show, Mademoiselle, will finish at fortyfivedownstairs on the 19th of August, so be quick.
If you haven't seen my tweet already, here is Bill Murray doing more stunts for Poetry House. Here he reads Wallace Stevens, with some reverence. Rather delightful.


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It's early, foggy, and the sun's working its way up. I'm running as I do every morning on the long dirt road that shoots off the main drag and goes way back into the woods behind our house. Dew is everywhere, glistening, and the damp dirt gives, feels good under my feet. I'm coming up on the brook that goes under the road around the second bend, and I hear a rustling over the rushing of the water. Then I hear a great breaking out of running, jumping, and branches snapping and cracking hard in the woods. I look left, toward the sounds, just in time to see the white tail of a deer bouncing away from me through the barely lit trees. The racket goes diagonally ahead of me quickly, fades in a few minutes to no sound.
I shake my head and smile. And I think about deer hunting, what an unequal match deer and hunters are. In my car on the back roads especially, I've had many a stand-off with a deer all locked up, dead-on in my headlights and staring at me, incapable of making a decision. And countless times I've watched deer come into clearings during the day so nervous they can't eat the grass they came out to eat in the first place. They end up having to high-tail it back into the woods and I end up wondering why they bothered. So it's not as if hunting deer is like hunting something particularly cunning, like a wolf, say, so that if you manage to kill it, you've accomplished quite some thing.
I finally come around to supposing it's a Paleolithic thing—a primeval desire to hunt and fish and bring one's kill proudly home—when again the deer startles me, at least I think it's the same deer. It's a nice-sized buck, real pretty. He busts out of the woods just up ahead in front of me and runs all unnerved and majestic across the road to the right side now. He crashes into the woods and I see him jumping over downed and new trees, through ferns, and into the thickness. And then I can only hear him, sounding like he's running southeast up the hill toward the Greeleys' place.
Now I begin to think something's not right with this buck. Even if deer aren't the sharpest of creatures, they're aware of human presence and have base instincts to stay clear. The fact that this one has exposed itself to me twice makes me nervous and I begin to think about what I'd do if it's screwed up and gets it in its head to mess with me. But then, concern for the buck rises up in me just as quickly as the fear did. Then I start thinking about the buck heading toward Greeleys' place and that's not a good place to head to. It's a long way off from deer season, but Mr. Greeley and his people go way back to this land and they give and take from it as they please in the old way of things.
About then I hear what sounds like a rifle shot. I don't even know if that's what it is, don't even know if it's Mr. Greeley doing the shooting, but I feel bad either way, and suddenly deeply sad. I think about what if it was the buck and how maybe he wouldn't have gotten shot if I hadn't come along and scared him, rattled his brains. But that's absurd. I'm just trying to live my life, that's all, and that's all the buck's doing. I feel better thinking that way and the run feels good, too. I've hit that good place where my heart rate's just right and even and I'm feeling strong, like I could go on and on.
Right when I reach the old, falling-down sugar shack, I hear more crashing in the woods and I'll be darned if it's not that buck again way ahead of me busting back out of the woods from the right. I see him start across the road, blood streaming from his side and my heart breaks, and in that instant of breaking I'm acutely aware of an otherworldly feeling that I could trade places with him. It could be me going to run until I can't anymore, until I fall to the ground and bleed the rest of the way to death. Strangely, I feel myself not only willing to do that but yearning to. It'd be the last living thing Mr. Greeley shot for awhile once they found me and found out where that bullet came from. And that's all it took.
It was a surreal moment or moments, I couldn't tell which, of running toward the deer up ahead of me as he crashed unharmed and spotless into the woods on the left now, snapping branches, rustling up underbrush with his pounding hooves, pounding and leaping, until I can't hear him anymore. Until my eye catches a glimpse of red and I look down and realize blood is flowing down my left leg from a blasted-out place in my left side. I keep running, not believing what I'm seeing is real. It's too absurd. Things like this don't happen these days when we leave the house. We go about our business. We run, go to work, go to the store, go back home, have dinner.
"Foggy Morning" by RoyJr found here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2935787357_a67042d6d3.jpg?v=0
Visit RoyJr's flickr photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/roy/ for more good shots.
The above was spun off the Sunday Scribblings prompt "#167 – absurd." Click here for more on prompt #167 from other Sunday Scribblings participants.


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