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Updates to Developer Mode: New Instrumentation and Debugging Tools for Tracing
by Austin Parker
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Developing modern, microservice-based applications can be challenging. When we launched Developer Mode last month, we were interested in seeing how providing a stream of structured trace data could make it easier to instrument and write applications.
What We Heard
People who have tried developer mode really like it! The ability to quickly start tracing your applications — and get real-time feedback on your tracing instrumentation — is super valuable. What we saw and heard from users who had more complex applications, though, was that it was very challenging to filter through the firehose of data that multiple services could generate. With that in mind, we've made some changes to Developer Mode to support everyone from first-time users to customers with large existing applications.
What's New?
You'll now be able to see a list of services reporting to your developer satellite in the sidebar, along with a count of spans that you've sent. Clicking on these service names will filter to a view that only contains spans from that service. In addition, we've added the ability to search for operations in the event stream — great for narrowing down your view to locate just the spans you're looking for.
Ever wanted to have someone else on your team look at a trace in Developer Mode? You now can! The URL for a Developer Mode trace is now shareable with other users in your organization.
Ready To Go?
These new features should make Developer Mode more powerful for everyone, regardless of where you are in your tracing journey. Not already using Developer Mode? Head to Lightstep Play to get started! Questions or comments? Drop us a line at email@example.com, we'll be in touch!


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Nostalgia is a funny thing.
It is infinitely more complex than most people will allow. By its very nature, it is highly fungible, intertwined with concepts like memory and politics in a way that does not always make it easy to parse. Nostalgia hits in waves, but those waves do not always hit at the same time with the same intensity. Nostalgia is not a single monolithic concept, it pulls and pushes from moment to moment. What is the nostalgia of the moment? The eighties nostalgia of Stranger Things? The nineties nostalgia of Independence Day: Resurgence?
Trying to define a pattern in pop culture's nostalgia is like trying to read the tea leaves, falling somewhere between a conversational art and outright hucksterism. Still, one of the more interesting – and least discussed – aspects of the grand nostalgia industrial complex is the state of transition. Big waves become little waves, emphasis shifts, focus goes elsewhere. One of the more interesting shifts in nostalgia over the past couple of years has been a transition from a strong sixties nostalgia into something altogether more seventies.
It is a rather weird sight to behold, as if watching the popular image of one decade fade into the popular image of the other.
There was a very strong wave of sixties nostalgia that rippled through popular consciousness towards the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. That sixties influence was felt at all levels of popular culture. Nobody was spared, whether the families sitting at home watching prestige television or the crowds pouring out to catch blockbuster movies. Towards the end of the second Bush administration, the public seemed in the mood for that species sixties aesthetic.
Mad Men remains perhaps the most obvious example of this trend. In terms of high culture, it stands at the very pinnacle. There are many who would point to Mad Men as the medium's crowning cultural accomplishment, to the point that many would identify at as signifying the end of the so-called "golden age" of television as it ceded ground to pulpier genre-driven fare like Game of Thrones or True Detective or The Americans. This narrative of television history points to Mad Men as the end point of an evolutionary chain stretching back to The Sopranos.
However, Mad Men was not the only such example, although it was a very influential one. Indeed, the success of prestige television shows is often judged not through anything as meagre and transitory as ratings, but through the trends that it inspires. Mad Men sparked an interest in prestige television in the decade, to the point that the short-lived and doomed Pan Am could be described as an ineffectual "knock-off." Nevertheless, other period-specific programming followed in its wake, although their focus began to shift.
Meanwhile, at the cinema, there was a marked return to sixties properties and iconography. JJ Abrams' rebooted Star Trek franchise is a prime example. Launching in 2009, the new film series abandoned the eighties and nineties aesthetic of the Berman in era in order to return to a move vibrant and dynamic sixties setting. Abrams revelled in the bright colours of the franchise, from red-haired women with green skin to bright primary colour shirts to a planet with fauna so red that it practically popped off the screen.
Star Trek might be the most obvious example, but it is far from the only such illustration of the trend. When Fox decided to reboot their faltering X-Men film franchise in 2011, they did so by returning to the sixties for X-Men: First Class. Christopher Nolan decided to follow up The Dark Knight Rises with an extended tribute to fascination with the space exploration that defined the sixties in Interstellar. Fox resurrected a classic sixties franchise with Rise of the Planet of the Apes to considerable acclaim.
In some respects, this might be said to mirror the narrative unfolding in the real world around that time. If Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight was the defining blockbuster of the Bush era, then perhaps JJ Abrams' Star Trek set the tone for the early years of the Obama Presidency. Barrack Obama won the Democratic nomination in 2008, but he also won the United States Presidency. Obama's campaign was notably positive; he campaigned on "Hope", in sharp contrast to the climate of the War on Terror.
Obama's narrative fits a very familiar archetype. A best-selling German biography of Barrack Obama is titled "Obama: The Black Kennedy." While Kennedy was the first Irish-American Roman Catholic to hold the presidency, Obama was the first African American to take the office. Both Kennedy and Obama had vanquished the forces of the political establishment to win the election; Kennedy defeated former Vice-President Richard Milhous Nixon in the general election, while Obama defeated former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries.
More than that, there were broader social similarities between the sixties and the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Much like the sixties witnessed the end of the conservative fifties, the end of the twenty-first century's first decade saw the fading of a social and political conservatism that had been swelling since the late nineties. The moral majority that had hounded President Bill Clinton and been so firm in their support of President George Bush were reinventing themselves as an insurgent Tea Party.
Social activism was also a massive part of the decade. Although there was nothing quite on the scale of the civil strife that marked the mid-to-late-sixties, there were a number of high-profile grass roots movements. The Occupy Movement arose in response to the Great Recession, with people like Frank Miller describing the movement in terms that many conservatives would have used to describe hippies. The campaign for equality for gay and transgender people has been described (controversially) as this generation's "civil rights" moment.
However, something interesting has happened in the past couple of years. That nostalgia for the sixties has faded somewhat. Instead, a new nostalgia has emerged to take its place. That nostalgia… is not the wave of nineties nostalgia sweeping through cinemas and television with the release of long-delayed sequels like Jurassic World or Zoolander II. It is not the renewed interest in nineties properties like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows or American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson. Or The X-Files.
It is a concurrently wave of seventies nostalgia that seems to overlap (or perhaps nestle snuggly within) that wave of nineties nostalgia. After all, it could legitimately be argued that Chris Carter's classic nineties television show The X-Files was largely a gigantic homage to seventies paranoia and pop culture, a blend of All the President's Men with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Once again, nostalgia is a far more complicated beast than most give it credit for, intertwining and overlapping.
This seventies nostalgia seemed to really kick in towards the end of Obama's second term. The Conjuring provided a sharp contrast to contemporary horror trends by embraced an old-school seventies aesthetic in 2013. The Conjuring II retained that seventies aesthetic to become one of the biggest (and most satisfying) box office draws of 2016. Television's second seasons seemed to embrace the seventies, whether literally in the case of Fargo or in spirit in the case of True Detective. It appears that Patrick Wilson is our retro seventies leading man of choice. Even the second season of Daredevil had a pulpy seventies New York vibe.
As with sixties nostalgia, that fascination with seventies ripples through all levels of popular culture. Facing the end of Game of Thrones, HBO has placed a lot of hope (and money) in Westworld, a sprawling television adaptation of a cult seventies film. Some of the smaller and more satisfying films of the summer have been seventies throwbacks like The Nice Guys or Elvis and Nixon. Even the popular culture still set within the sixties seems to be transitioning towards the end of that decade.
Even Star Trek seems to making a similar transition. Star Trek Beyond underperformed at the box office in a way that throws the JJ Abrams franchise into doubt. Meanwhile, Bryan Fuller has announce plans for Star Trek: Discovery. Although it is technically a prequel, and Fuller cannot comment on this decision for legal reasons, what little of the show has been glimpsed to date recalls the production design of artist Ralph McQuarrie on the abandoned mid-seventies Star Trek feature film Star Trek: Planet of the Titans.
On television, David Duchovny is hunting down the serial killer Charlie Manson in Aquarius, an event that marks the end of the sixties – at least in spiritual terms. This is perhaps the most telling indication. The Manson murders seem to be back in the public consciousness. Karina Longworth hosted an excellent extended exploration of the murders on her podcast You Must Remember This over the summer. With the publication of The Girls and American Girls, Hadley Freeman dubbed 2016 "the second summer of Charles Manson."
This is important, because it signifies the end of the sixties. If nostalgia is a linear thing, then arriving at the Manson murders means arriving at the point of transition between the sixties and seventies; it is the death of the idealism of the sixties and the emergence of the cynicism that marked so much of the seventies. Again, it is easy to put this in a social and political context. Many commentators have rushed to compare the sense of dread hanging over 2016 to that of 1968, although others have been as quick to dismiss the comparison.
The comparisons are easy enough to make. If Hillary Clinton was cast as the 1960 version of Nixon to young Barrack Obama's Kennedy, she is now being allowed to play the 1968 version of Nixon to an older Barrack Obama's Lyndon B. Johnson. This is an election in which the race is effectively to determine which of the major candidates is least disliked, with none of the optimism and enthusiasm that marked the election eight years prior. This is to say nothing Donald Trump cribbing freely from Nixon's 1968 Republican National Convention address.
There is a sense of palpable despair hanging in the air. After all, many contemporary horror movies seem to have turned to Detroit as the embodiment of American dread; Only Lovers Left Alive, Lost River, It Follows, Don't Breathe. The fear at the heart of many contemporary horror movies is not something foreign or alien, like terrorism. Films like Green Room and 10 Cloverfield Lane suggest a more internal anxiety and uncertainty. In many ways, these films recall the anxieties of the seventies, a country dealing with recession and legacy of war.
It is a cliché to suggest that cinema is a window into the popular consciousness, but it is fascinating to watch that shift take place in something approaching real time. Nostalgia moves like time, shifting its gaze as time moves forwards.
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Vernon Hershberger is a farmer in Wisconsin who raises dairy cattle in the best way that he sees fit. The cattle eat natural grass, are treated humanely, and have little or no hormones, etc. The grass is not treated with herbicides or weedkillers.
What results is a healthy milk product that the local community claims is an important factor in their good health. Mr. Hershberger may be headed for jail.
It appears that Mr. Hershberger is producing milk without a permit or license, and is being prosecuted by the state of Wisconsin.
The trial began this week. It will be interesting to hear what the outcome is, and observe how much media coverage their is on the subject.
Update : 6/19/2013 – In the end, he was fined $1000, and the verdict on raw milk sales in Wisconsin remains an issue.


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A letter from Helen
God sure has been blessing me and I wanted to share my past couple of months in my journey.
Last year, I was doing the whole roller coaster ride, feeling great one week, and then as lost and 'struggling as ever' another week. Certain things like the books I was reading, the sermons I was listening to and some seminars I went to (like the talks Exodus organised) gave me big boosts and helped me strive to be healed and free. Yet in my low times, I so often had no energy to keep fighting it, and in a way I felt my desires do a 360 and wanted to give in to my feelings. I'm sure this must be something many people experience.
This 'up and down' of emotions lead me to seek counselling help again, which honestly was something I didn't particularly want to do, but I was again running out of options. So about late October last year I contacted a counsellor and was recommended someone who has experience in helping people with SSA; although I found out on my last session that he had never counselled a woman until me.
So I went to see him and cried all through my sessions! But slowly we made progress. I was almost getting frustrated by him constantly asking me, "so what was that like", "how did that make you feel", "why do you think that happened" etc... and I kept saying, "I don't know?" "I'm not sure"... in the end I said, "If I had those answers I wouldn't be here....". It confirmed everything I thought about counsellors or psychologists, asking those kinds of soft 'feelings' questions!!! But he understood I didn't know the answers and he was trying to dig for the answers together.
We made progress, and quite quickly. It was the second or third session when he kept probing and there was a stage where I felt my heart being opened up and layers being pulled back. It was quite surreal to be honest! It would take a while to retell what we talked about, but to summarize the main two breakthroughs were:
1) The girl I had not "gotten over" was still so much in my mind. And quite simply this counsellor told me that I had to "get over her" like any person would get over an ex. (He very rarely gave advice apart from on this occasion.)
I found this really hard to do because I didn't want to consider her and me as being in a relationship because I felt so guilty about it and knew it was wrong. But fact is that it was a relationship. And in a moment when my black heart was open and all the layers were peeled back, the counsellor spoke truth into me and said that the relationship was over and I needed to move on like anyone does when they've been dumped or heartbroken. How simple! Why didn't I think of that?! I felt stupid hearing it, but while he was talking, I literally felt something in my brain disconnect. It sounds weird to describe it like that, but that's how it felt.
I've been aware of the literature that indicates that our upbringing or life experiences dictate how our brain is "wired". Well, I felt the wire snap, and I knew it was a breakthrough. Praise God. The minute I left the session, I just prayed that those wires may be reconnected in a path that pleases Him, and I continue to hope and pray that. I have since not felt any connections to this girl and I feel free from her.
2) Then he asked me, "What would it be like to live life with no issue/ no problem with SSA?"
I had never thought of it that way so I couldn't really answer the question, but that was my take-home homework: to be in a situation and imagine what it would be like with no issue.
The more I did it, the more answers came to me:
- I wouldn't feel so trapped and burdened.
- I wouldn't even think about the burden, it wouldn't even enter my mind; it wouldn't consume my everyday thoughts!
- I wouldn't feel like I had a secret when being around my family,
- I wouldn't have this constant guilt that only I was aware of.
- I wouldn't have a barrier in my relationship with God.
- I would be able to talk to girls without thinking about if I liked them.
- I could talk to them and treat them like friends without being cautious of whether I was creating a wrong impression.
- I could hang out with guys and be free to be me, and not feel unavailable because I have an issue.
These answers and more came into my head, and I'm sure it was Spirit lead because the more I thought about it, the more real it started to become. The only difference was, I was turning the thoughts of "I wouldn't have..." to: I AM FREE My mind is free and released!!I have no present secret that I'm hiding, I am myself to everybody and anybody!I I am guilt free and forgiven. I am barrier free in my relationship with God! And what is exciting is... when I hang out with guys, I'm available. That is a nice thought. I'll be honest and say that the thought of liking a guy is still quite foreign and I think it will be a process to grow in attraction towards guys, but all in good time.
So there you have it, the highlights of what has happened these past months and I couldn't begin to describe how wonderful I feel. I have since shared my story with a close friend and also the couple I opened up to a few years ago in another State.
Every time I retell it, I feel like its further cementing in what has happened, and it's a huge excitement in my life. I know that this is just one step in my journey of life and my journey of a relationship with God, there are going to be more struggles ahead in many areas of life, but praise be to God that I got over this huge boulder! The work that God has done in my life in the last couple of years has been all for a reason and all heading to this result and hopefully more results. I am thankful to God everyday for the miracle He has done in my life!
My life now is great. I am still excited four months after my healing. I won't hide the fact that even though I feel different, I still have memories of the past. I do notice that my interest in entertaining those thoughts are far less and almost non-existent. I hope that the memories will dissipate and that more wholesome memories will be created to replace them, but I pray that God will protect me from attacks that we are all exposed to in this life and world.
Something that came from my last session with the counsellor was that it would be in my best interest, while this new found freedom is still fresh, for me to cease reading the books to do with this SSA and to stop seeking the website forums, newsletters and seminars. So I won't be coming to any events, but I'm still happy to keep in contact. The thought of being involved in a ministry in the future to help others interests me a lot, but all in good time too!!!
Let's allow God to concrete all this, hey!


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Intellectual property may be off the table, for now, but it sure seems like Red Hat and Microsoft are still dancing around coming to some kind of partnership relationship.
In a recent eWEEK news story by Peter Galli, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's vice president of intellectual property and licensing, said, "Red Hat and Microsoft have previously had conversations about interoperability, but none of our recent conversations have included discussions about intellectual property cooperation."
Ah! Notice the start of the last phrase, "none of our recent conversations." So, they are still talking.
In reply, Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice president of engineering, told eWEEK that the company is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front, but that it wants to limit those talks to pure interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Linux.
If you look at it one way, the gap between the leading Linux company and Microsoft is as wide as ever. Microsoft insists that any deal with a Linux distributor has to address its IP (intellectual property) concerns. Cormier's position continues to be: "I want to talk to the folks at Microsoft about our two operating systems and how we can work together to solve real customer problems without attaching any unrelated strings, such as intellectual property.
Let me translate that for you. Red Hat is saying that no way in hell will we make a deal involving any kind of acknowledgment that your IP, expressly your patents, have anything to do with Linux.
So why are they still talking?
Well, for one thing, Microsoft has been making deals with at least one Linux company, Turbolinux, that doesn't seem to involve any kind of patent agreement. In its most recent partnership, Turbolinux has joined in the Open XML/ODF translator project with Microsoft. Years before that, Turbolinux became the first Linux company to let its desktop users play WMF (Windows Media Format) with Microsoft's own proprietary WMF codices.
In the older deal, Turbolinux recognized Microsoft's rights to its audio and video codices, but then there's never been any question that Microsoft owns those lock, stock and barrel. In this month's partnership deal, there is no mention of an IP deal.
It sure looks to me like Microsoft is ready to make at least limited deals at times with Linux without attaching its patent FUD to the deal. Besides, what does Microsoft really gain from these clauses? No one who has signed one–Novell, Linspire and Xandros–agrees with Microsoft that they somehow confirm that Linux violates Microsoft's patents.
Heck, for that matter, the Novell deal has blown up in Microsoft's face. The SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) claims that Microsoft's deal has made it potentially subject to the GPLv3.
Microsoft's reaction to this proclamation is something like a major health care provider being told that filmmaker Michael Moore will now be on its board of directors: "No! No! No!" Too bad Microsoft. It looks to me like you're still stuck with it.
It seems to me that since Microsoft's IP stance has only gotten the company into more trouble, It's worthless anyway and, lest we forget, Microsoft won't show a shred of evidence that its patent claims amount to anything. It's time for Microsoft to drop it.
Oh, Microsoft can still let Ballmer be Ballmer and let him rave and rant every now and again. But, away from the spotlight, maybe it's time for Microsoft to make pure technology partnerships. Red Hat wants it; other Linux companies want it; and Microsoft's own customers want it, as Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president for server and tools, admits.
Stop being a wallflower Microsoft, and come on out and join the interoperability dance. You can always try to steal away the customers later. We know you will. But, for a while anyway, both Windows and Linux users will benefit.


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Sir Thomas Allen has been awarded this year's Queen's Medal for Music for the major influence he has had on the musical life of the nation. The Queen presented him with his medal at Buckingham Palace.
Thomas Allen – whose Gramilano Questionnaire you can read here – said,
I was surprised and thrilled to hear I would receive the Queen's Medal for Music, having had so much recognition over many years. This very special award means so much to me and I'm very proud to have been selected.
Interestingly, Sir Thomas is said to be the inspiration behind the character of Billy Elliot. Playwright Lee Hall, who was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, just half an hour's drive from Allen's birthplace in the mining village of Seaham, set his drama in a fictional town in the same area. Like Billy, Thomas Allen went to London to train when he won a place at the Royal College of Music in 1964.
Allen was made a CBE in 1989, and was knighted in 1999.


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Christian hip hop is making a difference for African students in the Congo this winter. In conjunction with Syntax Creative, we will be releasing a compilation album entitled 'King Kulture' on January 31st. Proceeds from the album benefit Ecole de la Borne, a school in the Congo. Stay tuned for the official press release containing more info.
Release Date: January 31, 2012
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1. Welcome to the Kulture – George Moss (produced by Tony Stone)
2. Beautiful Thing – GRITS (produced by Mo Henderson and Michael Millionz)
3. Lift Up – Braille (produced by Theory Hazit)
4. Faith – Dezcry (produced by C-Life)
5. Get Wise – Sho Baraka (produced by Swoope)
6. Breaking Out the Box – theBREAX (produced by Jruckers)
7. It's Going Down – Benjah featuring Watchman, and Stefanatto (produced by Benjah & Sky)
8. Drop It On Em – KJ-52 ft. Japhia Life and Kelly Kelz (produced by Tony Stone)
9. Nothing For Us – Eshon Burgundy ft. HotHandz (produced by HotHandz)
10. Fight On – Young Joshua (produced by Chrys Beats)
11. Beautiful Struggle – Yaves The Street Pastor ft. Ron Riley (produced by Cephas)
12. Don't Leave the Dash Out – K-Drama (produced by GeeDa)
13. Stop – Jeremiah Bonds (produced by Timothy "rocdomz" Trudeau)
14. King Kulture – Beautiful Eulogy (Braille, Odd Thomas, Courtland Urbano) ft. Theory Hazit and Lee Green (produced by Courtland Urbano)
15. Bars – T-Word (produced by D-Hood)
16. New Shalom (Karac dubstep remix) – Lecrae featuring PRo
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Sean Penn makes Team America's day
You'd almost think that Sean Penn was in cahoots with Parker and Stone in promoting their movie featuring a puppet Penn. Surely a smart fellow would know not to make a public outburst as Penn did.
Surprisingly however, Jeff Spicoli turns out not to be a brain trust. Someone who's been a pretty big celebrity for 25 years should know not to lend credence to a satire by being publicly offended by it. Duh. That's celebrity pr 101. Spicoli apparently cut class that semester.
Thus, before the movie came out, one of their prime satirical targets had published this little blast:
October 6, 2004
To Trey Parker and Matt Stone,
I remember a cordial hello when you guys were beginning to be famous guys around Hollywood at some party. I remember several times getting a few giggles out of your humor. I remember not being bothered as you traded on my name among others to appear witty, above it all, and likeable to your crowd. I never mind being of service, in satire and silliness.
I do mind when anybody who doesn't have a child, doesn't have a child at war, or isn't or won't be in harm's way themselves, is encouraging that there's "no shame in not voting" "if you don't know what you're talking about" (Mr. Stone) without mentioning the shame of not knowing what you're talking about, and encouraging people to know. You guys are talented young guys but alas, primarily young guys. It's all well to joke about me or whomever you choose. Not so well, to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation, and death of innocent people throughout the world. The vote matters to them. No one's ignorance, indcluding a couple of hip cross-dressers, is an excuse.
All best, and a sincere fuck you,
Sean Penn
P.S. Take this as a personal invitation from me to you (you can ask Dennis Miller along for the ride as well) to escort you on a trip, which I took last Christmas. We'll fly to Amman, Jordan and I'll ride with you in a (?) 12 hours through the Sunni Triangle into Fallujah and Baghdad and I'll show you around. When we return, make all the fun you want.
Man alive, Parker and Stone have gotten Spiccola's goat, and weren't about to give it back. What could they have said to cheese him off enough to act that dumb? Boy, they must have got him good.
This certainly generated in me a great anticipation to see what they did. Thus, the Sean Penn stuff really stood out twice as funny to me for how it was burning the target. Ha!
The best bit for Puppet Penn (Parker's puppet Penn, not Saddam's) was a little tv speech:
It's not really a partisan thing, though. I don't recall Parker or Stone ever specifically endorsing the Iraq War. For starters, based on their work, you'd probably have to deduce that they would have very mixed feelings. But still, as Matt Stone told a 60 Minutes reporter, "When Sean Penn is on TV before the Iraq War talking about the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...that is pure comic gold. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on."
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Should Insurers Contribute To Graduate Medical Education Funding?
Graduate Medical Education has for the most part escaped big budget cuts in the past, mainly because powerful lawmakers have aligned to protect funding for teaching hospitals in their own states and districts. Plus, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American College of Physicians, hospital organizations, and many others long have made funding for GME a top legislative priority.
GME, though, could be on the chopping block as Congress's new "Super Committee" comes up with recommendations to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. A report from the Congressional Budget Office of options to reduce the deficit to suggests that $69.4 billion could be saved over the next decade by consolidating and reducing GME payments. Earlier this year, the bipartisan Fiscal Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform also proposed trimming GME payments.
How then should those who believe that GME is a public good respond? One way is to circle the wagons and just fight like heck to stop the cuts. But that raises a basic question: is GME so sacrosanct that there shouldn't be any discussion of its value and whether the current financing structure is effective and sustainable?
Another approach, the one taken by the ACP in a position paper released last week, is to acknowledge that GME financing needs to be aligned more strategically with the country's workforce needs, and that the responsibility of paying for it should be shared among all payers, so the federal government's share would gradually decline.
In its 26-page policy paper, ACP provides 11 recommendations to preserve sufficient funding to support GME in the United States while ensuring that such spending is used effectively, including policies to:
• Require that all payers (insurers) be required to contribute to GME financing.
• Strengthen transparencies, accountabilities and value, including aligning financing with an assessment of workforce needs,
• Weighting funding to support programs that train primary care physicians and other specialties facing shortages,
• and funding pilots of innovative models to train physicians in the specialties and with the skills needed to meet societal needs.
ACP notes that the recommendations are made with the perspective that the federal deficit is at an all-time high and that there is an increased commitment to fiscal responsibility.
GME, in ACP's view, is a public good. GME is a public good— it benefits all of society, not just those who directly purchase or receive it. All payers depend on well-trained medical graduates, medical research, and technical advances from teaching hospitals to meet the nation's demand for a high standard of care. ACP believes that all payers derive value from this system and should share the investment in education and research. All payers should be concerned about preserving the nation's system of GME, maintaining high standards of quality for patient care services and that opportunities for entry into the medical profession are available to the best-qualified candidates. Accordingly, ACP calls for a mechanism to be established to require all payers to explicitly contribute to GME.
I anticipate that there will howls of protest from the health insurance industry about having to pay their fair share of GME; many Republican lawmakers are likely to resist imposing a GME "tax" on health plans, and many Democrats will be concerned about even opening the door to any reduction in the federal government's contributions to GME. But if we all benefit from having well-trained doctors, shouldn't we all chip in? Why should taxpayers—and seniors enrolled in Medicare—be expected to pay almost the full freight?
And shouldn't taxpayers, and others who contribute directly or indirectly to GME, have the right to insist that GME funds be spent more strategically, based on an assessment of the workforce that the country actually needs and the success of programs in producing doctors with the right skills and training?
Today's questions: Do you think GME is a public good? Should all payers be required to contribute so that the federal government's share gradually declines? Should training programs be accountable in how they use GME funds?
*This blog post was originally published at The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty*


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Rheology of Synthetic Polymers in Porous Media
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This master thesis is written out of the Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (UNI CIPR) at the University of Bergen (UiB). The aim of this study has been to describe the polymer rheology of the high molecular weight synthetic polymer HPAM 3630S and the lower molecular weight synthetic polymer HPAM 3230S in a linear flow through porous media. The experiments were set up with a pump, two core samples wired in series, two differential pressure gauges, and a backpressure regulator. The idea behind the experiment is to inject low and high molecular weight polymer solutions through both core samples and measure the differential pressures at different injection rates at steady state. With this information it is possible, with help from Darcy's Law and a proportionality formula between injection rate and shear rate, to calculate the apparent viscosity and apparent shear rate of the polymer solution in the porous media. The apparent viscosity could then be compared to other apparent viscosities and rheometer measurements. In the experiments it was found that the rheological behavior of viscoelastic synthetic polymers is different from rheometer measurements. The degree of shear thickening (viscoelasticity) seems to be larger in porous media, a steeper viscosity increase compared to what was expected, especially for the high molecular weight polymer. In the rather short cores used for injections there was also an evident shear thinning region at injection rates lower than the onset of shear thickening. In the rheometer data there was found to be a large deviation in viscous properties for high molecular weight and low molecular weight polymers. The low molecular polymer did not only show less viscosity per ppm solution, but also a less shear thinning and shear thickening effect at concentrations where the viscosity at a shear rate of 10s-1 was nearly identical. The viscous behavior in porous media showed that the low molecular weight polymer showed a later onset of shear thickening, although more viscous at medium to low injection rates than what to be expected from rheometer results. The low molecular weight polymer also showed less permeability reduction and less mechanical degradation of the two.


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A lawsuit filed by FedEx against the U.S. government over export rules follows a dispute over diverted shipments that were intended for Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications-equipment giant.
The lawsuit challenges changes to export rules designed to keep technology out of the hands of entities or people that the U.S. government considers potential risks to national security.
In May, the U.S. government added Huawei to a list of entities and people barred from receiving U.S. technology without a special license from the Commerce Department. Shortly after that, Huawei complained about FedEx diverting several company shipments.
FedEx apologized to Huawei for the missed deliveries, which it said were accidental. However, China announced that it was investigating FedEx over the matter.
The delivery company complains that the rules "essentially deputize FedEx to police the contents of the millions of packages it ships daily even though doing so is a virtually impossible task."
FedEx Corp. sued the Commerce Department and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in federal district court in Washington on Monday. It asked the court to block the government from enforcing export controls against it.
The Commerce Department said in a statement that it has not reviewed the complaint but looks forward to "defending our role in protecting U.S. national security."
On Sunday, the dispute flared again when Huawei complained on Twitter about FedEx blocking shipment of a Huawei phone from the United Kingdom to the U.S. FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith called it a mistake by a junior employee and took a swipe at the export regulations.
"We are expected to be policemen for these export and import controls, and there are about 1,100 entities now on this list," Smith told Fox News. If the company makes a mistake on any shipment, he said, it can be fined $250,000 per piece without having a trial or due process of law.
In its lawsuit, FedEx said most packages are sealed when customers drop them off, making it impossible for the company to know the contents. FedEx said it compares names and addresses of shippers and recipients against the government's watch list of restricted groups and people.
Meanwhile, tension between the U.S. and China over trade, tariffs and the export rules continues to rise. Huawei filed a lawsuit in federal court in Texas to challenge the constitutionality of a law that bars the government and its contractors from using Huawei equipment.
FedEx has run afoul of export controls before. Last year, the company agreed to pay $500,000 to settle government allegations that it violated the rules with some shipments to flagged entities in France and Pakistan.
Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx was scheduled to release its latest financial results later Tuesday.
FedEx shares were down for a second straight day. In afternoon trading, they lost $4, or 2.5%, to $156.90 after falling 2.7% on Monday.
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Riverwood hosts events and festivals throughout the year. In the past, street festivals, triathlons, artists-in-the-village concerts, Easter egg hunts, Christmas in Riverwood, and dinner with Santa have been held. Families can explore a wide array of amenities to extend their ties beyond the walls of their homes while simultaneously establishing themsleves as families. Riverwood's elementary and middle schools join the proud list of Johnston County schools which rank among the top in the Triangle area. Riverwood Elementary School and Riverwood Middle School have been designated as Schools of Excellence by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.


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In Depth: Souring Debt in China's 'Lemon Capital' Warns of Looming Local Fiscal Crisis
Two county-level governments in the heart of China's lemon-growing country are leading a nascent wave of local governments turning to emergency measures to deal with buckets of souring debt.
Such local governments lack major tax revenues usually seen in the West, and instead rely heavily on land sales to fill their coffers. Yet a campaign to cool the nation's overheated property markets has severely hurt demand for new homes, in turn reducing land sales. As that traditional revenue source dries up, many governments are finding themselves increasingly unable to service their debt.
Two such governments are Anyue county, known as the country's "lemon capital," and Yanjiang district. Both are in Ziyang, a small city in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Both Anyue (link in Chinese) and Yanjiang (link in Chinese) took emergency fiscal restructuring measures last year, according to official documents issued by each. Such restructuring is an international practice taken by governments in an attempt to return to financial health after their debt conditions worsen.
"Fiscal restructuring is a normal market-clearing mechanism," a person close to the Ministry of Finance told Caixin, adding that local governments shouldn't view this as a negative step, but rather an opportunity to achieve fiscal sustainability.
Many believe that Anyue and Yanjiang are only the tip of the iceberg, and that China's other small local governments may be sitting on a ticking time bomb of unsustainable debt. At the end of February, local government outstanding debt on the books had reached 19.1 trillion yuan ($2.8 trillion), equal to more than a fifth of China's gross domestic product last year, data from the finance ministry showed. The number could be much higher when off-the-books debt is added.
Any city- or county-level government entering fiscal restructuring must use all means to reduce its debt load by increasing revenue, cutting spending or selling state-owned assets, according to China's emergency instructions for resolving local debt risks given out by the central government (link in Chinese) in late 2016. Last year, Sichuan issued supporting regulations (link in Chinese) for the policy, becoming the first provincial government to do so.
Fiscal restructuring at the first signs of debt troubles can not only prevent further risk deterioration, but also help avoid broader systemic risks, the person close to the finance ministry said.
Warning signs emerged
Anyue and Yanjiang made their moves in response to deteriorating debt situations. In 2017, both of their annual interest payments (link in Chinese) on special-purpose government bonds as a percentage of expenditures of their government-managed funds exceeded 10% (link in Chinese), a red line that triggers a fiscal restructuring under the 2016 policy.
Local governments' special-purpose bonds, designated to fund public works projects including infrastructure, are generally repaid with returns from specific projects that receive the investment. Those projects are usually incorporated into local government-managed funds. The lion's share of revenue for those local funds comes from land sales, with last year's national average percentage at 91%, data from the finance ministry (link in Chinese) showed.
Anyue and Yanjiang may have crossed the 10% red line as spending by their government-managed funds dropped due to declining revenue, said Zheng Chunrong, a professor specializing in public finance at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Anyue stands out as an example. In 2017, its revenue from land sales plummeted 87% from the previous year, leading to a similar 85% decline in revenue for its government-managed funds, according to its financial report (link in Chinese). Accordingly, the funds' spending slumped by two-thirds year-on-year to around 445 million yuan. Of that spending, 121 million yuan, or 27%, went to interest payments on special-purpose bonds, triggering the emergency alarm.
China's real estate market reached a turning point in late 2016 after years of rapid growth, as multiple cities tightened property regulations in response to Beijing's call to curb soaring home prices and cool speculation. Resulting caution among property developers led to shrinking government land sales, hitting small cities especially hard.
Bigger challenge ahead
Shrinking coffers of recent years, coupled with increasing on-the-books debt, have become increasingly common among small cities and districts. Beijing has called on local governments to issue bonds rather than rely on other forms of fundraising. Partly as a result of following that call, Anyue's interest payments on special government bonds surged more than nine-fold in 2017 from a year earlier (link in Chinese),
Lack of public information makes it unclear if other local governments have triggered the fiscal-restructuring alarm like Anyue and Yanjiang. Although the finance ministry has built an assessment and warning system targeting local debt, it's not public, an official with the ministry told Caixin.
A decision on whether to launch a fiscal restructuring depends on the will of local governments that trigger the alarm, and also on their higher-level government supervisors, the official said. He suggested that China should make the fiscal restructuring mechanism more coercive to constrain local governments' options.
From the national perspective, the surfacing of debt risks at several county-level governments doesn't necessarily point to a bigger local debt crisis, Zheng said.
The fiscal restructuring mechanism only targets local governments' debt on their books. Yet economists widely believe that the bigger challenge lies in hidden debt. Such debt refers to liabilities that local governments generally take through financing vehicles, public-private partnerships or procurement contracts.
Local government financing vehicles failing to repay debt has become quite common, Zheng said.
Beijing's stimulus policies after the 2008 global financial crisis touched off a local government borrowing binge, resulting in mountains of hidden debt that are now becoming a major burden as the world's second-largest economy gradually loses steam.
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A special report on how local governments are hunting high and low for money to balance Beijing's competing policy goals of bolstering economic growth while keeping their debts in check
"The value of the hidden debt of some local governments has exceeded the legal quota of their official debt," Zhu Mingchun, a senior lawmaker, said earlier this month. "The risks of some regions are quite outstanding."
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Do You Want Some Woodworking Advice? Read These Pointers.
Have you got a desire for woodworking but didn't know where to start. That is the cause of this informative article. Woodworking may be hard if you don't really know what you're doing, but when you get the proper advice it will be easier to do. Below, you will discover tips to get you started.
The height from the work bench you make use of affects the quality of your finished product.
To get the ideal height, require a measurement in the distance involving the floor as well as your waist's midline. That tells you the finest height for the good workbench.
Stir stains and finishes rather than shaking those to mix. Some of the ingredients during these stains and finishes tend to settle for the bottom over time. Shaking can cause bubbling and prevent it from mixing well. Stir as best as you can to preclude this from happening.
Select the right type of wood for each and every project. In woodworking, not every wood can sustain all types of stress. When you don't know how different kinds of wood works, hang out studying both wood as well as the project you would like to complete.
If you're thinking of leasing a fresh tool you've never used, check if the organization can instruct you how it works. An expert can easily educate you on what you must know about the tool. Some places even have detailed handouts with tips that can help you improve results together with the new tools you might be using.
If you use laminate, a good way to cut the wood is to use tin snips. They create cutting the laminate to the right sizes effortless. Take advantage of the tin snips for laminate only so they stay sharp.
Dry fittings ahead of glue application are always a good idea. Trying to fix a problem after you've applied glue is really a recipe for damage and disaster. Performing a dry-fit provides you with the opportunity to see how everything should go together when you apply glue.
All woodworking shops need stair gauges. These gauges are used to lay out stair jacks but they are incredibly useful should you need something to clamp a carpenter's square. This may turn your square straight into a circular saw guide. This can help you with making straight cuts every time.
It's crucial that you are aware of the wood's characteristics before starting working with it. Wood that is paint grade is not top quality. On the other hand, wood which is stain grade will stain better. Also, particleboard and veneer is a much more different. Veneer isn't going to absorb a great deal of stain while your particleboard will absorb too much. The correct wood helps your project emerge the way that you hoped.
Comprehend the properties from the wood you're using. All wood will not be the same. All the trees react differently to the stainssell Cuts will react differently, too. Therefore, you will need to take a look at all the types possible. These will all aspect in to the way your project progresses.
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Did you enjoy having your funny bone tickled by our very own Humorous Speech Champion, Eugene Ng CTM and amazed by the Evaluation Contest Champion, G. Sivalingam DTM ?!?
The moment has arrived, our club's very best will be pitting their wits againts the best of the best at The Division B's Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest !!!
The contest details are as follows:
Date: Saturday, 3 November 2007
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: Auditorium 7, 2nd Floor, Sunway University College, Jalan Lagun Utara, Bandar Sunway.
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Tickets are priced at RM10.00 and they are going fast !! How fast you ask?
Well the tickets are available from Johnson Yike and he only has 4 left in hand. Members who are interested, please contact Johnson and any reserve ticket payment are to be made by 1st November 2007 (Thursday).
Let is go cheer and support our best !!!
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A good friend recently asked me, "What does it feel like to embrace the pain?"
It's an interesting question to ponder, and one that I wouldn't have had an answer to before Ultraman Canada. For all other events in my life I've fought the mental, emotional, and physical pain, gone to battle with it in an attempt to hold it at bay, or hopefully fight it away.
Other than recently, the only time I haven't waged war against the pain was once, while in the depths of depression, when I no longer had the energy to hold up the mask of who I wanted to be, or show to the world. In an instant the backpack of it all fell off my shoulders: I stopped fighting, not because I embraced anything but instead out of forced surrender. Quite literally, I only had enough energy to breathe; not even one breath at a time, but rather just to watch an inhalation, then watch to see if an exhalation would happen. The burden of holding an identity and taking things personally surprisingly, but freeingly, crashed to the floor. Depression didn't suddenly disappear for me at that moment; there was a lot of work, time, and support needed for that to happen. But there was a very poignant shift.
During Ultraman, a similar shedding occurred, although different in the timeframe and life-integration. I did a lot of internal work this spring while living at a cabin in the woods. It brought me more into the focus that each step *is* the journey, versus steps *on* the journey: I carried this perspective into the three-day ultra-endurance event. Right from the start I was focused on, and committed to, being present. The immensity of what I was about to take on was too much to grasp: the only thing I could do was take small bites at a time without focusing on the entire pie, let alone the finish line. Of course, the logistical planning and preparations were complete, and I'd turned it all over to the incredibly skilful, talented, and thoughtful hands of my crew, Dan & Alex, trusting them fully. Even still, I was the person who had to face the fear of 515 km's of swim, bike, run.
Throughout day two, the quads ached, but that soreness became, in a way, a friend. When I started the run on day 3 I focused on getting into that same space—feeling the throbbing in the muscles as the pistons just moved—nothing more, nothing less. It was an art of simplicity. However, partway through the double marathon, I felt out of touch with my body. I got distracted by the uneven road surface, the traffic, the noise of my crew car behind me, the overwhelming information about the course in front of me. Fortunately, I realised what was going on and told my crew that I needed 10 minutes on my own (1 min walking while eating & drinking + 9 minutes of jogging in silence with nature). During that time I re-focused into my body, feeling for the sensations that I knew were there. I longed for the pain; not because it was pain but because it was the overarching sensation—in that moment—that I knew was present and that connected the mind & spirit to the body. I needed to feel connected because that was how I was using my mind to move the body. I wanted to feel connected because that's where the endless energy of solitude within resides. If I couldn't feel the sensations I knew that the experience would be less than satisfactory and that the body would stop because there was nothing to direct the symphony.
As I reconnected with the kinaesthetics it was like breathing fresh air. There was peace, and an experience of being complete. Again, this wasn't because of the pain, it was thanks to a connection to the sensations and movement of the body. In this case, the awareness experience happened to be pain and tiredness, which normally are something we try to avoid. But the intensity of the kinaesthetics took the experience to a new level. It was as beautiful as a rose is divinely fragrant.
I knew then what it means to embrace the pain.
It has nothing to do with the pain itself, at least not for me. It has to do with being present with what is, and in being an active, responsible, committed, and integral person in Life. Sitting in meditation each morning is very similar in connection, although different in the manifested experience.
Siddhartha points to the koan of striving and avoidance when he quietly talks to himself:
"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine or fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self anymore, then he won't feel the pains of life anymore, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through long exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is, oh Govinda. …Now Siddhartha also got some idea of why he had fought this self in vain as a Brahman, as a penitent. Too much knowledge had held him back, too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rules, too much self-castigation, so much doing and striving for that goal!"
~Hermann Hesse, "Siddhartha"
In other words, it's not the pain itself, or any practice that's important. As Siddhartha points out, it's the death of all that, and instead just being with what is that gives rise to life, that is Life.
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Who Weighs What Puzzle
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Once the weighing machine has shown a reading the dial can only go down to a lower weight. So this is what Horace did. He and his two friends sorted themselves out in order of weight (they knew that Horace was the heaviest and that Tiny Tim was the lightest), and then followed this plan:
Hungry Horace and Curly Kate put the 10c in and got on the scales.
The dial showed 85 kg
Tiny Tim got on and Curly Kate got off.
The dial went down to 75 kg
Curly Kate got back on and Hungry Horace got off.
The dial went down to 60 kg.
Find the correct individual weights of Hungry Horace, Curly Kate and Tiny Tim.
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During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the U.S. government. In Looking After Minidoka the "internment camp" years become a prism for understanding three generations of Japanese American life, from immigration to the end of the twentieth century. Nakadate blends history, poetry, rescued memory, and family stories in an American narrative of hope and disappointment, language and education, employment and social standing, prejudice and pain, communal values and personal dreams.
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Shah Ebrahim was born in England, his father South Africa and his grandfather India. Now, back in India himself, he studies the impact of migration on health.
Professor Shah Ebrahim steps out of his office for nearly the last time. In the meeting room, ten of his 25-strong staff have gathered to discuss their application for another five years of funding for research into chronic health conditions, including the impact of factors like migration and urbanisation. He will not be part of the work that the money, if they get it, will fund: he is handing over to a new generation.
Outside, the Delhi traffic brays its incessant tune. It is distinctive enough that when Ebrahim talks to people on the phone, they can tell where he is by the background noise. The car horn is not as much of an indication of objection as it is in some other countries. In India, it is a more neutral, if noisy and continual, expression of existence: "I am here, I am moving, I am not going to stop."
He remarks to the team, only half-joking, that auditory environment is often overlooked as a factor influencing people's state of mind and health. But the offices of the South Asia Network for Chronic Disease (SANCD) are far from the busiest parts of the city. Two decades ago, this part of Delhi was a sleepy green suburb where children would ride their bikes in the street and stare up at the aeroplanes dreaming that they might one day get a chance to fly away somewhere. The planes multiplied and the roads got busier as the city grew; there is no safe passage for children's bikes any more, although patches of greenery remain.
SANCD is based in a partly converted residential building on the corner of a garden square – it is spring, and the staff often eat lunch on the grass or walk around its perimeter. Their offices are on the ground floor, while the basement houses laboratories. Also in the basement are two rooms with rows of freezers: they store blood and urine samples from the Indian Migration Study, which assessed the health of 6,500 rural, migrant and urban people to understand the biological effects of moving from a village to a city.
The Indian Migration Study was led by Ebrahim, then based in the UK, and its success led him to set up SANCD in 2009. Its aims were to support the development of scientific research in India and neighbouring countries, as well as to continue investigating people's long-term health in ever more urban environments.
It was also a chance for him to move to India, to explore the prospect of living there permanently and closing a loop of his family history. But the loop will not close. India – Delhi, in particular – has proved too bad for his health.
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Shah Ebrahim's grandfather was Mohammed Kassim Ebrahim. His name was on a list telegraphed from a steamship anchored in Table Bay, South Africa, in 1899. A list of "prohibited immigrants" on board – of passengers unwelcome in Cape Town.
Kassim's descendants agree that he was born in a village near Ratnagiri, the Indian port at which he boarded the ship to South Africa. No one knows exactly why he went, what problems he was trying to solve, what hopes he took with him. They're not sure if he was a legal migrant or planned to jump ship. They know only that he never set foot in India again – though being on that list meant his immediate problem was setting foot in Africa.
At the end of the 19th century, nations had begun to discriminate more than ever about who to let in and how to treat them when they were there. Health concerns were a particularly convenient mask behind which racial discrimination could cower. In his letters to the Times of India, Mohandas Gandhi (who was living in Durban in 1899) reported a speech by a medical officer in Maritzburg, Natal. A (false) rumour of an outbreak of bubonic plague was spreading through the colony, and Indians were again being blamed. The medical officer supported drastic measures, including a complete ban on the import of rice and other food from India: "If it is an Indian ship it must have a secret manifest," he railed. "Infection, unlike everywhere else, is in South Africa personal to the Indian. He and his goods only can bring the infection."
Kassim Ebrahim got off the boat eventually. Relatives who had migrated to Cape Town in more amenable times helped him acquire a permit and legal status. He joined the family's trading business, settled down, found love with an African woman and started a family. Life was far from easy – they were still dependent on the support of his relatives – but it paid off in 1946 when his son Donald enrolled at the University of Cape Town to read medicine. Their plan was that Donald would qualify as one of the first ever 'Cape Coloured' doctors and then support his family by running a small medical practice in the city.
In a single generation, the Ebrahims had risen from "prohibited immigrant" to pioneering medical student. But it was far from the end of the journey.
In 1948, when Donald Ebrahim was two years into his medical studies, the South African National Party came to power and instituted a regime of apartheid. Pernicious limits were set on interactions between people of different races. The University of Cape Town became an almost all-white institution, and Donald was sent to England to complete his training at the University of Sheffield instead. Still, the hope was that he would come home to repay the family's investment in his education.
A combination of love and politics scuppered the plan. Donald married Marjorie Evans, a nurse at Sheffield Children's Hospital. Marjorie was half-English, half-Welsh; wholly white. As 'mixed' marriage was by then outlawed in South Africa, Donald and Marjorie couldn't live there. He did end up running a general practice but it was in Coventry, not Cape Town. Unable to fulfil his familial obligations, Donald disguised his guilt with a clipped English accent and cut his cultural ties to South Africa. But another heritage remained strong: for his first-born son, he chose a name with Indian and Muslim resonance.
Shah Ebrahim followed his father into the medical profession. A geriatrician, he also developed interests in epidemiology, public health and research, and he spent at least a month every year working in a developing country, supporting local scientists and sharing ideas. Perhaps it was inevitable, given his family history, that he would decide to investigate the effects of migration.
Now in his 60s, Ebrahim describes his career as a "wonderful meander" between the UK and Thailand, the jungles of Malaysia, the mountains of Laos. More recently, it brought him to India to find out how moving from villages to cities affects people's long-term health.
The staff meeting draws to a close. Professor Ebrahim has offered his advice on each of the research themes being developed in the grant application in an open, questioning discussion in which everyone was encouraged to have their say. It is in keeping with his style: soft-spoken, good-humoured, but not willing to let ideas pass if he thinks they are "bonkers". He apologises for being blunt (an "un-Indian" characteristic) but the others are familiar with his sense of humour by now.
However, five years in Delhi has proved enough for Ebrahim and his wife, Fiona Taylor. When he describes his time in India as potentially closing the circle traced by his grandfather and father in their international migrations, she quickly jumps in to say that the circle will have to remain open because they are not staying.
Ebrahim had lived in developing countries before, and worked in India, too, but Delhi was much harder than he had expected. "Every day there was a minor crisis, and every week a major one," he says. "For the first year and a half, there was never a day when you could say, 'Good day'."
The crises encompassed their home, their finances, work, everything, especially their health. Lactose-intolerant and wary of eating meat in India, Ebrahim developed a deficiency in vitamin B12 because of the restrictions in his new diet. He got bronchitis every winter, presumably from the pollution and smoke that often hangs in the Delhi air. They both got constant gut infections, no matter how careful with food and water and hygiene. These niggles might have been manageable except that they came on top of a litany of underlying anxieties of Delhi life: hassles, minor and major, chipping away at their mental health and their relationship. Taylor says it took her six months to overcome the culture shock, and she can see distinct stages of adjustment in other Westerners who move here. Even crossing the road in Delhi requires a strategy – Ebrahim has been known to hire an auto rickshaw just to get from one side of a six-lane road to the other.
So they are putting their affairs in order ready to leave. Ebrahim is proud of what has been achieved with SANCD but, he says, "I've exhausted my capacity." He is making one last migration, retiring to rural Spain. He's looking forward to doing some fishing.
Reflecting on his experiences and research, Ebrahim is confident we will one day be able to connect migration behaviour to biology. As a result, we might be able to broaden our understanding of human behaviour more generally. If migrants are, as he puts it, "in the vanguard of social change", if they are physiologically primed to leap into the unknown, whether the leap is a few kilometres or a few thousand, then perhaps they can help the rest of us to adapt as the world changes around us.
The Indian Migration Study was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the publisher of Mosaic; the South Asia Network for Chronic Diseases was a collaborative venture between the Public Health Foundation of India and constituent colleges of the Wellcome Trust Bloomsbury Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine.


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Ask the Experts: Pro Tips for Building Sponsor Relations
by Callie Walker
If you work in marketing, event planning, or a position that requires you to wear many hats (Executive Directors and Membership Managers, we're looking at you), chances are, you've had to work with sponsors at some point in time — whether it was recruiting sponsors, developing sponsorship packages, creating recap reports to demonstrate ROI, or all of the above.
And if you have had experience in sponsor relations, well…you know it's no easy task. We could ALL use a little help!
That's why I've turned to the experts. I asked a few marketing pros here at MemberClicks what advice they'd pass along to other professionals seeking to build sponsor relations. Here's what they had to say:
Erin Hall, Product Marketing Manager at MemberClicks
"Always remember, your sponsors are more than their logo. In other words, allowing them to have a space to contribute to the association or chamber just as much as professional-side members do, is a really good way to create engagement and instill organizational pride in the sponsor representatives who are involved. This, of course, makes the decision to re-up a sponsorship on a yearly basis much easier.
Also, if you're going to ask your sponsors for feedback on the value of their sponsorship, you should be prepared to make some changes based on that feedback, especially if turnover is high.
And one more tip: This is a little tactical, but a very nice touch. At the end of each year, maybe at your final board meeting, take 20 minutes to pass around thank you cards for each board member to sign. Those cards will then go to supporting sponsors. The personal touch goes along way! Maybe have the Executive Director write a nice heartfelt note in there as well."
Colleen Bottorff, Inbound Marketing Specialist at MemberClicks
"It's important to have a plan of attack for managing each sponsor's activation while you're on-site. One thing I've done in the past is create a matrix so I can keep track of what each sponsor has in their package, and what's already been taken care of before the event starts. (That'll typically be things like logos are on correct signage, they've received attendee lists, a guest blog post has been published, etc.) Then, create a checklist per sponsor for the things you need to ensure will happen on-site. Keeping yourself organized will make it easy to fulfill your end of the sponsorship agreement and give you more time and energy to go above and beyond the value they were expecting and really build a relationship. You want them to return, after all!"
Lindsay Smith, Director of Marketing at MemberClicks
"Sponsorships are a two-way street. Yes, you want and need suppliers at your event to help with funding and to provide your attendees with even more value. But, what are their goals? To generate leads? To build brand awareness? To network with other industry professionals?
Having a better understanding of what your sponsors are trying to get from the event will not only help you build the right sponsorship package for them, but also help you understand how to appropriately measure success.
And speaking of sponsorship packages, don't try and box all of your sponsors into the same three or four (or more) packages. Allow some flexibility! And don't be afraid to think outside the box in terms of your offerings. More creativity will likely lead to a better attendee experience, which will then likely lead to a better sponsor experience."
So there you have it: Tips from the pros for building sponsor relations. Have any pro tips you'd like to share? We'd love to hear them in the comments below!
And if you are planning an event and need help beyond the sponsorship component, check out our free guide below. In it, you'll find tips and best practices for before, during, and after your event — to really make it top-notch!


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Part Two of our visit to Flixton's Air Museum, deep in the heart of Suffolk, UK. Above, shades of the early Airfix kit, a Bristol Bloodhound missile stands aimed at the sky, looking ready for its original task, knocking Soviet bombers out of the air.
David Jefferis: Here's a wrap-up set of pix from Flixton, starting with these ace magazines from the 1960s, the science-fiction lookalike art on the Practical Mechanics cover, a typically upbeat take on yesterday's world of the future.
There are scale models aplenty, and even an elderly manual typewriter on display, much like the one I started out using. Can't say I miss it though - I'll stick to a state-of-the-art MacBook Pro, thanks!
On the grass outside, there's a range of hardware that will make any air buff drool. Below, top to bottom: French Dassault Mystere IVa, entrance to the Museum, Gloster Javelin interceptor, tail view of the same Mystere IVa.
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In the event that the particulate is administered to a patient,it could result in local swelling, irritation of blood vessels or tissue, blockage of blood vessels and/or systemic allergic response to the particulate. Administration of the particulate could also result in localized phlebitis, pulmonary emboli, pulmonary granulomas, immune system dysfunction, pulmonary dysfunction, and pulmonary infarction. The risk is reduced bythe possibility of detection, as the label contains a clear statement directing the physician to visually inspect the product for particulate matter and discoloration prior to administration. To date, Hospira has not received reports of any adverse events associated with this issue for this lot. Hospira places the utmost emphasis on patient safety and product quality at everystep in the manufacturing and supply chain process.-more–2-25% Dextrose Injection, USP,(Infant) is indicated for use via slow IV injection to treat symptomatic episodes of hypoglycemia (fasting blood glucose < 40 mg/100 ml) in neonates or older infants to restore depressed blood glucose values and control symptoms.
25% Dextrose Injection, USP,(Infant) 2.5 grams (250 mg/mL), 10 mL Single-dose prefilled syringe, NDC:0409-1775-10, Lot 58382EV, Expiry Date 1OCT 2017 is packaged in a carton containing 1 pre- filled syringe per carton, 5 x 10 syringes per case. The lot was distributed from February 2016 through October 2016 nationwide in the United States and Puerto Rico. Anyone with an existing inventory of the recalled lot should stop use and distributionand quarantine the product immediately. Inform health care professionals in your organization of this recall. If you have further distributed the recalled product, please notify any accounts or additional locations which may have received the recalled product from you. Further, please instruct entities that may have received the recalled product from you that if they redistributed the product, they should notify their accounts, locations or facilities of the recall to the hospital/user level. Hospira will be notifying its direct customers via a recallletter and is arranging for impacted product to be returned toStericycle in the United States.
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External Account Manager
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The candidate, who must be able to demonstrate sustained high performance with consistent over-achievement in similar positions, will be expected to function independently, while meeting the goals set by the management team. The Account Manager position will require one to effectively manage a complex sales cycle from lead generation to sale and then follow-on growth at each new account. The major day-to-day interactions will be with the inside sales, prospects and customers.
You must have information security sales experience to be considered for the external account manager role.
The external account manager will report to the Director of Sales.
Build and maintain a pipeline that will exceed monthly, quarterly, and yearly quotas
Occasional cold calling to prop up prospect pipeline.
Coordinate on site meetings and presentations for prospects and clients
Attending prospect meetings
Manage the sale from first contact through the close and identify and win follow-on opportunities
Researching organizations and markets to develop new prospects, leads and opportunities.
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Produce strategy and business plans to penetrate specific target markets.
Manage and develop new clients won to maximize both client satisfaction and revenue within defined time periods before passing client to account management for on-going management.
Achieving the sales target as set out by the business.
Experience with IT security services, especially application and network penetration testing are a major plus
Working with an internal account manager to assist in the targeting of prospects.
Generate leads through prospecting and networking
Work as part of a team with inside sales and marketing to conceive and execute lead gen campaigns
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Experience of selling SaaS based managed services is highly desirable.
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For me, life at remote Camp Langano in Ethiopia had many moments of struggle, i.e. suffering.
But on the very first day of the very first camp, God did something to prove that He would help me.
When we arrived, there was no place for us to live, but a one-room camper cabin, with an outhouse.
I had a major bad attitude. I was upset at our mission and at God for not providing what I thought was a mere basic need.
How could You, God?
Bring us to this remote camp with no place for us to live?
It didn't take long to get our room cleaned and painted and set up with a few bits of furniture, and a few days later — that first day of camp, just before the first boys arrived — one of the ladies on the American workteam gave me a brand new Baby Taylor guitar.
Gave. Me. A beautiful guitar.
She had taken this special little guitar to Ethiopia precisely to give it away, and try as I might, I could not convince her to give it to an Ethiopian.
She insisted it was from God for me.
So I sheepishly accepted it.
As I walked down the sandy road to my cabin that morning, with that Baby Taylor on my back, I cried salty tears, disbelieving this.
How could you, God?
Give me this gift when I have been in an angry huff against You?
It was more than the guitar; it was the message God sent: I see you, Sarah. I know this will be hard for you. But do not fear, I will help you sing your way through.
And He did.
For me, life on earth has many moments of struggle. Suffering.
Recently I have been disturbed with God, crying salty tears, disbelieving this: my long, dear friend with terminal cancer had serious spinal nerve damage caused by the radiation and now she is paralyzed from her waist down.
How could You, God?
Isn't the slow death from cancer bad enough?
So this is a good week to remember that little guitar.
But there is more to my story.
We'd been living at Langano in that cabin for about three months when one of our colleagues finished her assignment and left the country.
We were then given permission to move into her house, a cozy cottage under a massive sycamore fig tree, outfitted with her green gingham curtains.
Green just 'happens' to be my favorite color.
And gingham is one of my all-time favorite fabrics.
Those curtains had another message from God: I know you, Sarah, and I prepared this house especially for you. You just had to wait.
Remembering this story brings me hope that God will give gifts and messages to my dear friend, to help in her every moment of struggle, suffering, as she waits for all He is preparing especially for her.
Yes, it is good to remember – and to praise God! – for that little guitar and those green gingham curtains.


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Spot's Easter Surprise (Board book)
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It's Easter, and Spot and his friends hunt for eggs at Spot's grandparent's house. Once everyone has collected the eggs, there is still a surprise waiting in the bushes. What could it be? This charming reissue of Spot's Easter Surprise is perfect for children to share with their grandparents this Easter.
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Photo Recollect is memory booster. This Fun game is way to improve your concentration and memory. Either pick 8 photos / images from your photo library or pick existing picture to play this photo recollect game. Also known as Pairs, Pexeso, Match Match, Shinkei-suijaku or Memory.
Important Features of Photo Recollect game.
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- Can pick different set of photos to make the game interesting and boost your memory.
- Improves the concentration to kids, teens.
- While being boredom buster for Adults, makes your brain younger.
- Cool animation for placing the cards
- Attractive animation once the images/photos are matched.
- Timer makes it the game interesting to completed it with in limited time.


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Elliott, C M, Giga, Y and Goto, S (2003) Dynamic Boundary cndition for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 34 (4). pp. 861-881. ISSN 0036-1410Full text not available from this repository.
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A Quote to Inspire You This Week
April 7, 2014 at 6:28 am (Attachment Parenting)
Connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgement;
and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
~Brene Brown
This week, let's strive to deepen the connection with our children and be conscious of the ways in which we make sure they feel seen, heard and valued.
Feelings are ok, mistakes are fixable, and there's nothing our children can do to push us away or make themselves un-lovable. We won't judge their behavior as right or wrong, good or bad, but see it for what it is–communication.
Let's embrace the imperfect and show our children they are worth holding close to our hearts, no matter what. Let's nourish them with the strength of our relationship.
3 Comments
amyphoenixffp said,
April 7, 2014 at 6:45 am
Thank you for this, Kelly. Beautiful reminder and inspiration for the week.
Kelly said,
April 7, 2014 at 8:00 am
Thank you Amy!
agnessakulakov said,
April 8, 2014 at 2:19 am
This is the best definition of Connection I have ever come across. Thanks for sharing:)


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Valerie Kelly is a Paediatric Dietician at Temple Street Children's Hospital.
Good nutrition in infancy and early childhood lays the foundations for a healthy life. This common-sense guide – now in its fourth edition – provides reliable, practical and unbiased advice on everything from the basics of nutrition to shopping wisely, from dealing with food refusal to allergies and obesity.