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It's tricky to put a price on feeling, and looking, your fittest.
A set of one-to-one PT sessions? Makes sense. Half the supplements sitting in a Holland & Barrett stockroom? As long as pay day's on the horizon. Your sex life? Er, what?
Yes – the true cost of peak fitness may not be financial, but sexual.
The link between sex and exercise could be obvious, or could be barely noticeable. It could be as simple as ditching Ben from Bumble for a class at Barry's Bootcamp. Or marking your long training runs with a shake and bed, rather than any kind of shenanigans in bed.
When the University of North Carolina took 1,077 men and studied their long-term exercise habits and self-reported libido levels, a clear, but rarely talked about, trend emerged between sex and exercise.
'If you're male and train for a large number of hours of training or it's at a high intensity, your libido will decrease,' reveals study author Anthony Hackney, professor of exercise physiology and nutrition.
'And while there's no solid research as yet, there's no reason to suspect that women would be any different.'
Sex and exercise - what do we already know?
Let's take a look at what we know about the relationship between sex and exercise.
Unlike Dr Hackney's research, studies into female arousal tend to focus on the acute effects of exercise – that is, your body's immediate genital response to a single sweat session. And findings suggest the flush in your face is repeated down below.
'At the most basic level, genital arousal is dependent on blood flow to that area,' says sex researcher Dr Tierney Lorenz.
'So it stands to reason that anything that promotes blood flow – exercise included - will help boost sexual feeling.'
Back in 1996, Dr Cindy Meston, now director of the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, asked 15 women to bicycle for 20 minutes before showing them an erotic film.
This short burst of activity triggered the women's sympathetic nervous systems (SNS) to their sweet spot where, come porn time, researchers found an increase in 'vaginal pulse amplitude', the measure of vaginal engorgement specific to sexual arousal.
Dr Lorenz reproduced these findings in 2012, swapping bikes for treadmills.
'Moderate levels of SNS activity prime a woman's body to experience higher genital arousal than if she is at a very low or very high SNS activity,' she says.
'So you'll experience a difference from when you're totally at rest or in a state of high physical stress.'
And it's here that the argument that too much exercise at a too high intensity could affect your mojo starts to take off.
Low libido - does sex cause it?
The 20 minutes of moderate exercise participants did in the aforementioned research - recording an energy expenditure level of around 70% of maximum heart rate - doesn't quite do justice to the average fitness-lover's schedule these days.
Whether it be short, sweaty HIIT sessions or multiple morning weights workouts every week, there's nothing chilled about it.
Link this back to sex, and it's not as simple as getting hot in a spin class leading to things heating up in the bedroom.
Instead, Dr Hackney presents what he calls the 'inverted U'. Up to a point, exercise will increase your sex drive, thanks to that SNS boost, but train beyond this point and you're likely to experience low libido.
Harkirat Mahal, CEO of MotivatePT frequently sees this inverted U effect in women endurance training.
'One client trained for a marathon, half-marathon and triathlon in a single year, which meant an hour's combining strength, bodyweight resistance and cardio five days a week. With the stress on her body, pressure of the races – and resulting exhaustion – she confided in me that her sex drive had disappeared.
'When she dropped to twice-weekly workouts after competing, her sex drive would return. In essence, she rides a libido rollercoaster dependent on her training - a sacrifice she's willing to take to achieve peak performance.'
And numbers of low libido are on the up. Sex therapist Peter Saddington, a couples counsellor at Relate, has seen a massive increase in female exercisers coming to him to talk libido.
'Two or three years ago, I would see one female client each year who said exercise was affecting their sex life,' he says.
'Now I see 12 to 14 women, particularly in the 25-40 age group. They can get hooked on the endorphin rush fitness delivers, booking in marathon after marathon or continually upping the intensity of their workouts to the point where sex suffers.'
There's another blow for us females; women tend to react more sensitively to over-exercising than men. Not a good link for the ladies between sex and exercise.
'When women exercise to an extreme or endurance level, hypopituitarism (an under-function of the pituitary gland) can develop, leading to low levels of testosterone and oestrogen," explains Peter Sönksen, visiting professor of endocrinology at the University of Southampton and member of the Society for Endocrinology.
'Women need a certain level of body fat for the reproductive system, with all its hormones, to work effectively,' confirms Lisa Dawn Hamilton, associate professor of psychology at Mount Allison University.
'So if over-exercising leads to low body fat, your body essentially shuts down its capacity to become pregnant. It would make sense for this to extend to the desire for sex too.'
And for the average woman - where cramming in multiple training sessions a week calls for early morning alarms, skipped lunch breaks and delayed bedtimes to merely fit all your other life crap in, so follows fatigue – you're often simply too knackered to even consider sex.
Sex and exercise - does the pelvic floor come in to play?
Another sexual player in all this is the pelvic floor.
It isn't just the slackening of this 'hammock' of muscles after childbirth that disturbs sexual sensation; being too fit can actually tighten them to the point where intercourse becomes challenging.
'Athletes typically have a high amount of tone in their pelvic floor – called hypertonicity – and this tends to go hand-in-hand with pain during penetration,' explains Julia Di Paolo, a leading pelvic floor physiotherapist.
'There's just no give. The vagina is designed to close down on itself when there's nothing in it, then stretch to accommodate a penis, finger or tampon. But force-stretch a tissue that is mega toned and the brain will interpret that as pain.'
Di Paolo admits we lack the exact science to explain why hypertonicity is seen so commonly in heavy exercisers, but it's likely down to the fact that your pelvic floor is the internal equivalent of a good sports bra.
'They have to shock-absorb and decelerate motion while simultaneously supporting the pelvic organs, similar to your quads when running downhill,' she explains.
And tight muscles elsewhere don't help.
'Tight calves can pull down on your hamstrings, tilting your pelvis and tightening the floor.' It's why maintaining a groin prepped for good times is no longer simply about teaching the right muscles to contract, but also learning to relax them. 'We call it downtraining, or reverse Kegel,' explains Di Paolo.
Imagine picking up a blueberry with your vagina and anus as you exhale, then fully let the blueberry go as you inhale.
Eye roll, sure, but it's worth unwinding: research in the International Urogynecology Journal linked optimum pelvic floor function to increased arousal and orgasms.
But beyond the science, what do workout shakes really mean for your low libido? Somewhere between the blood-flow boost of moderate workouts and the reproductive dysfunction of extreme sports is a sexual middle ground that experts are beginning to unravel.
While widely acknowledged, the existence of a training tipping point that kills libido faster than the familiar ringtone of your parents on Facetime remains undefined.
'It should be possible to do so with in-depth hormone profiling, or monitoring sex life via structured interview or questionnaire, but no one's done it yet,' says Sönksen.
Until then, Pete McCall, a fitness educator who has taught at the National Academy of Sports Medicine, suggests a 45-minute session cap: 'To protect the libido, limit high intensity exercise to 40-45 minutes, two to three times a week.'
Dr Hackney, the academic behind the surprising libido results in men, is now calling for research into the opposite sex, too.
"I'm hopeful our conclusions will generate interest in investigating the same topic using women,' he says. 'It's crucial. We know a lot about the development of reproductive dysfunction, 'athletic amenorrhea' (lack of periods), but other consequences, such as low libido, need to be addressed to ensure a women's overall health.'
Until that intel is nailed down, it's down to you to reach a state of equilibrium between the thrill of scoring a PB and, well, just scoring.
Can there be room for both sex and exercise?
Aimee Leigh Smith, 35, a former nurse and life coach from Somerset says yes.
"I often go fell running and mountain biking, but I definitely consider my choice of exercise when making date night plans. The running is fine, however four hours sitting on an uncomfortable bike seat absolutely puts me off intimacy with my husband for a few days afterwards.
It's partly tenderness, killing any mental desire to go anywhere near the area. I've also tried to have sex and it's just been too uncomfortable. It doesn't affect our relationship; we just plan around it.
I know some women, though, who struggle to have these conversations with their partners. My husband and I are pretty open and relaxed regarding our sex life, and have no problems talking openly about it.
Before date night, I go running or practice yoga instead of biking so it doesn't ruin our plans.
We have two children so need to use nights alone wisely. I make sure no biking ruins that."
Adi Smith, 30, General Manager at The Gym Purley Way, Croydon, says it can "kill [a] relationship".
"I used to hit the gym during the day, then run and do martial arts in the evening. My sex drive was next to zero because my body was under so much stress. Your brain doesn't switch off. All you think about is planning your next meal and exercise session.
If I did boxing or heavy circuit training, my mind would buzz more – I just wanted to calm down, and having sex is not calming, let's be honest. Then, after dinner, you're so tired that your body crashes.
From the start of last year I made a conscious choice to lessen training to boost my sex drive.
I still exercised and broke out a sweat, but when it became too much, I stopped.
For the first three months, I enjoyed time more with my partner: the sex was better, I wanted it more, I initiated sex rather than him constantly trying. What I didn't realise was that my previously decreased sex drive had already affected things irreparably.
In April, we broke up. By constantly training and dieting, the social side of our relationship had gone. You don't realise things are slipping because you're too busy focusing on yourself. Sex is what brings you back to each other; you shouldn't sacrifice that for the sake of training constantly.
I now say to clients: train first thing in the morning so you have more time to recover. Meditate for 10 minutes a day. Balance your diet.
If you're training for a marathon, you can't say, 'I'm not going to exercise'. But you can lessen the stress from work and diet.
When you finish exercise, you've got to be able to switch off training mode."
Still wondering why you can't get in the mood? Read about why you don't want sex, or the factors that affect orgasms.


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The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians' Four Winds® Casinos are pleased to announce several holiday events including concerts, dining experiences, and New Year's Eve activities with the theme of "Bubbles, Bow Ties & Burlesque." Players can also win a share of $115,000 in cash prizes on Tuesday, December 31 and Wednesday, January 1.
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The Buffet at Four Winds South Bend will also feature a selection of entrées from around the globe including shrimp, slow roasted New York Strip, and one lobster tail, plus a wide selection of desserts to celebrate the New Year. The South Bend Buffet is open from noon to 11 p.m. Eastern and is $32 per person for guests 13 years and older and $16 for guests ages four through 12.
Kankakee Grille, Copper Rock and Hard Rock Cafe will also offer special New Year's Eve dining options that can be reserved through OpenTable.
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About The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians' sovereignty was reaffirmed under legislation signed into law by President Clinton in September of 1994. The Pokagon Band is dedicated to providing community development initiatives such as housing, education, family services, medical care and cultural preservation for its approximately 5,700 citizens. The Pokagon Band's ten-county service area includes four counties in Southwestern Michigan and six in Northern Indiana. Its main administrative offices are located in Dowagiac, Mich., with a satellite office in South Bend, Ind. In 2007, it opened Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Mich., followed by Four Winds Hartford in 2011, Four Winds Dowagiac in 2013 and Four Winds South Bend in January 2018. It owns and operates a variety of businesses via Mno-Bmadsen, the tribe's non-gaming investment enterprise. More information is available at www.pokagonband-nsn.gov, www.fourwindscasino.com and www.mno-bmadsen.com.
About Four Winds Casinos
Four Winds New Buffalo, located at 11111 Wilson Road in New Buffalo, Mich., Four Winds Hartford®, located at 68600 Red Arrow Highway in Hartford, Mich., Four Winds Dowagiac®, located at 58700 M-51 South in Dowagiac, Mich., and Four Winds South Bend, located at 3000 Prairie Road in South Bend, Ind., are owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. Four Winds New Buffalo offers nearly 125,000 square feet of gaming with more than 2,400 slot machines, 48 table games, five restaurants, entertainment bars, retail venues, a pool, and a 415-room hotel, making it the premier gaming resort in the Midwest. Four Winds Hartford features more than 500 slot machines, eight table games, a 74-seat restaurant, and a 15-seat bar. Four Winds Dowagiac features 400 slot machines, seven table games and one restaurant. Four Winds South Bend has over 55,000 square feet of gaming space, 1,400 games, four restaurants, three bars, a players lounge, a coffee shop, and a 10-table, live dealer poker room. Please play responsibly. You must be 21 years of age to gamble. To make a hotel reservation at Four Winds New Buffalo or for more information on Four Winds New Buffalo, Four Winds Hartford®, Four Winds Dowagiac® or Four Winds South Bend®, please call 1 (866)-4WINDS1, (866) 494-6371 or visit www.fourwindscasino.com. Additionally, be sure to like Four Winds Casinos on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fourwindscasino and follow on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/fourwindscasino.
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If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us at (770-781-9445 or email@example.com.
Information We Collect From Children, How We Use It, And How And When We Communicate With Parents
RMPD offers to its users a range of sites and applications, some of which are primarily targeted at children, however we do not collect personal information from children.
About The Collection of Parent Email Address:
Consistent with the requirements of COPPA, on any child-targeted site or application, we do not collection personal information from children. If you have questions regarding parental email address please feel free to contact us at email@example.com. We will not market to children.
About Verifiable Parental Consent
Teacher consent in lieu of a parent. With regard to school-based activities, COPPA allows teachers and school administrators to act in the stead of parents to provide consent for the collection of personal information from children. Schools should always notify parents about these activities. For more information on parental rights with respect to a child's educational record under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), please visit the FERPA site.
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The pair trading strategy was opened in the 1980s by a group of quanta operating at Morgan Stanley. Since then, this strategy is the main one in many large investment banks and hedge funds. However, since large investors prefer not to share successful strategies with the public, pair trading has long remained unknown to the general public until the advent of the Internet. Now, with the spread of online trading, many trading strategies, including paired trading, have become available to ordinary traders.
What is paired trading?
The essence of the strategy is to find two trading instruments that have a high correlation and open counter positions on them each time the difference between their prices (taking into account the correction for the scaling factors) will exceed its average historical value by a given level. With this trade, the bet is made that the price difference will always tend to return to its average value, which means that profits will be earned at one or both positions. It is important to note that paired deals always remain neutral to the market, i.å. The general direction of the market does not affect their winnings or losses.
The pair trading strategy works well not only with stocks, but also with currencies, commodities and even options. Forex contracts for difference (CFD), which require significantly less diversion than the underlying asset, allow you to successfully use pair trading, including small investors.
How to choose couples?
The first step in developing a pair trading strategy is to search for two instruments that have a high correlation. Typically, this means that they must belong to the same industry or sector, but this is not necessary. As an example, consider the shares of two companies that have a high correlation: GM and Ford. Since both companies are American automakers, their shares tend to move together. To see this, it is enough to impose a graph of their prices on each other.
However, selecting couples, focusing only on economic analysis and fundamental indicators, is difficult and not always effective. Because, firstly, it is necessary to be an expert in this field and have a good understanding of the state of affairs of the companies in question, and secondly, even having the necessary knowledge and information, manually sort through many combinations of pairs of instruments to assess their suitability for pair trading, very laborious. In addition, relying only on fundamental considerations, it is possible to miss a lot of prospective pairs, connected by dependencies, the presence of which even an experienced analyst can not guess.
Therefore, institutional investors have long started to use in their practice various statistical methods for selecting promising pairs. The simplest and most well-known method is the calculation of pairwise correlation of instruments with the subsequent selection of pairs having a high correlation coefficient (more than 80%). Now on the Internet you can find a lot of services with already calculated correlations. For example, on the site megatrader.org there is an interactive correlation table of pairs with the possibility of plotting a pair.
How to trade?
Potential entry points in a position can be determined by plotting a spread between instruments. In this case, the spread is understood as the difference in prices of these instruments, taking into account the scaling factors. Coefficients are needed in order to bring the prices of instruments to commensurate values.
With the help of the spread schedule, it is easy to determine the moments of price divergence. To do this, it is enough to draw on the moving average chart a fairly long period – it will show the established historical price ratio of the instruments. And then – to track the deviation of the spread from this average. When there is a deviation greater than a given level, you can open a pair deal: take a long position on an undervalued instrument and a short one – overvalued. The optimal level can be easily determined using historical testing.
Pair trading is one of not many trading strategies that have proved themselves over time. Unlike various "shamanistic" methods of technical analysis, like graphical analysis, Elliott waves or Fibonacci numbers, this strategy has a strict scientific foundation. Detailed information about the pair trading and the ways of its implementation can be found here. Also on the site megatrader.org there are free services for auto-selection of pairs, greatly facilitating the construction of a trading strategy.


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When engaging a certifier (Principal Certifying Authority) for your development, you have a choice of using a private certifier or council certifiers. Council certifiers provide experienced and competitively priced building certification services throughout the Shire for:
Customers can expect council's certification services to provide:
The following information sets out the stages of the assessment.
To begin, you will need to give us:
Apply for a Complying Development Certificate
We will assess your proposal to ensure it meets Building Code of Australia (BCA), local or state planning requirements for complying development. We will also check for any existing restrictions applicable to the site. If some minor amendments are required in order to meet complying development standards, we may be able to provide you with advice and possible solutions.
If your proposal meets complying development standards we will issue your complying development certificate.
At the time we issue the complying development certificate we will provide you the following accompanying documentation:
Depending upon the scale of your project you may have to pay a bond or levy before collecting your complying development certificate. You will be advised by letter when your complying development certificate is issued if any bond or levy is required.
Request a PCA inspection (existing customers)
Before starting building work you need to appoint an accredited PCA to conduct mandatory critical stage inspections throughout the project. The PCA will ensure that your builder does the work in accordance with your complying development approval. Failure to have critical stage inspections may result in the PCA not being able to issue the occupation certificate at completion of the works.
You need to lodge the notice of commencement with council at least two days before you start work.
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Save The World's Oldest Tattoo Studio
Tattoo Ole has been a fixture in Copenhagen for 133 years but may soon lose its lease. Learn about the shop and what you can do to save it.
Setting up and running a successful business is an incredibly difficult task, even if you have a killer idea and a dedicated and talented staff. Every week brings new challenges and only the select few are able to say that their business has been around for years, even fewer can say decades. This is even more true in the tattoo industry where new shops pop up only to disappear a few months later all the time. So when we found out that Tattoo Ole in Copenhagen, Denmark, had been open for 133 years our collective jaw hit the floor.
Yet, business can be savage, and even the status that comes along with being the oldest tattoo parlor in the world can't buy stability. The owners of Tattoo Ole's lease at Nyhavn 17 want to use the space to expand their restaurant's kitchen and the shop is scrambling to show that they have the support of the community and maybe, just maybe, they'll be able to stay put.
From its humble beginnings sharing the space with a bar, to tattooing members of the Danish royal family, the spot at Nyhavn 17 has seen it all. Majbritt Petersen, better known to the world as Lille Ole, is the current owner and leading the fight to keep Tattoo Ole in its home. "It is a living institution of art and believed to be the oldest parlor in the world still remaining at its original location," Petersen says. "In the beginning it was a table in the far corner, and as far as we know, there was always a tattoo artist working there."
As one of the busiest shipping ports in Europe, Copenhagen has a strong seafaring culture. And where there are sailors there tend to be tattoos. The port district of the city, Nyhavn, was the center of Scandinavian tattooing, and Nyhavn 17 is the beating heart that drives it all. Looking at the roster of artists who have spent time at the shop feels like walking the halls of a tattoo artist Hall of Fame — Hans Hansen, Tato Jack/Helmuth Mikaelsen, Ole Valdemar Hansen (Tatovør Ole), Henning Jørgensen and even Mike "Rollo Banks" Malone.
Since the shop isn't owned by some mystical tattooer who hasn't aged in 133 years, it's been quite a chore to make sure that the shop has been passed down to the right people. As Peterson found out 10 years ago when she first came to the shop, there is a method to the madness. "When I got to the store, it was a requirement that I should be put into all the old hands," she explains. "All the shop owners have worked and known each other, so I have a very close relationship with the store. It's a very big responsibility, it's not just a shop you take over but also a family and tradition to be transported and cared for."
Now, in order to keep that tradition alive, Peterson will be going to court in an effort to prevent the landlord from turning this vital piece of tattoo history into a kitchen. As members of the tattoo community, Peterson is calling on you to raise your voice and help. "We are going to court very soon, I hope we will be allowed to stay but my little shop may have seen its last days," Peterson says. "We have made a signature collection that you can share and sign, so we can show how much our story and store mean to us. I hope with all my heart that you will support my fight."
One hundred and thirty-three years is a long time to be doing something as historically subversive as tattooing, it would be a damn shame to see the shop shutter its doors during a period when tattoos are more socially acceptable than ever before. Please, click on this link and help the artists at Tattoo Ole keep the dream alive. Let's keep this thing going another 133 years, at least.


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Impress your Customer by Customizing the Tracking Details in the Order Completion Email using WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro
WooCommerce provides a lot of options for an Online store. But the area where it lacks is the ability to notify the customer as well as the store owner via email. Email notification is one of the smartest to notify the customers as well as the store owner. However, a predefined email template is useless when it comes to impressing your customers. There needs to be a bit of personalization so that your customers feel special.
According to June, one of the WooCommerce store owners,"…I want my customers to get the email notification in a different manner as it is right now… My customers get an order completion email where they get the tracking info within the same email…Is there any way to translate the header "Shipping Detail" to "Följ din leverans"..? Appreciate your help."
In this article, we will be discussing WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro plugin and how using that plugin you can change the header for the Order Completion Email based on your preference. This way you can add personalized messages in any language and leave an impression on your customers.
Changing the Email Header
WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro lets you send the tracking details for your packages to the customers. These details are added to the Order Completion email along with the tracking number. WooCommerce store owners can remove the boring header text and personalize it with a message of their preference by adding the code in this link.
Using this link, you can add your preferred header in any language, and it will be displayed on the Order Completion email. This way you can create personalized messages or translate the text into the local language.
In this article, we covered WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro plugin and how you can leave an impression on your customers by personalizing the header in the order completion email. Using the plugin and the code, there are unlimited ways you can make your customers feel special with the help of custom messages.
If you have any suggestion regarding the article, feel free to share your views in the comment section below. We have also attached some details about the plugin that we had discussed in this article.
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WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro plugin
- Get Tracking details for your packages
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Annie Perkins has her fingers in lots of pies, and her business has taken off
It's hard to know which came first, her love of pie-making, her love of animals or her attachment as a proud fifth generation tenant farmer who grew up among orchards bursting with plums on her family's 40-acre farm in picturesque Warwickshire countryside. The care Annie Perkins has taken with all these things and efforts to supplement her income have led her to forge them into an intricate pattern of daily life.
Annie has lived near the village of Bidford-on-Avon all her life and all the land thereabouts is part of an ancient trust to which she pays an annual rent to farm there.
Whether technically a smallholder or not, given her acreage, Annie is certainly as versatile as most smallholders in using a variety of talents to sustain a rural life with animals, and is one of that happy band that produces food from them. "My family have traditionally all been market gardeners," she says. "We have lots of orchards (20 acres), pick lots of plums and other fruit and we once grew asparagus. The time to diversify into production of native and rare breed meat coincided largely with the drop in the plum trade some 30 years ago, when cheaper imports stole a march on fruit picked by local farmers." The spin-off is that Annie can make anything, whether savoury or sweet, like jams or preserves. She also has turkeys, and two horses.Annie loves her Highland cows, and she has farmed her pedigree native herd for 21 years, since taking over from her mum. "We've put most of our land down to grass and started showing them 16 years ago," she says. "We sell our own Highland grass-fed beef, which we started 20 years ago by selling in freezer packs (25lb/11.3kg for £100) as fillet, sirloin and rump steaks, stew, braising steak, mince and joints. Each beast does at least eight packs and there's always some left over for ourselves or to make pies, the money we make from it paying for the running of the farm."
Like everyone with animals, health scares can threaten. "Two years ago we got shut down with TB and lost two of our best breeding cows, which meant I couldn't show that year." Today they have 44 cows: 10 breeding cows with one calf each and one breeding bull. The rest are young heifers and steers, some for breeding, some for beef. Annie explains her strong attachment to them: "It is a native breed so it's hardy and can live outside, and although they have horns they are very gentle."
Food trail
Annie promotes their meat on the Artisan Food Trail website (www.artisanfoodtrail.co.uk), and writes: "The fantastic meat we produce is a direct result of the way we look after our animals. They graze freely in the orchards around the farm and we firmly believe in resting not only the animals but the meat they produce as well. They forage on natural pasture and eat the plums as they fall, and they don't need to be kept inside in winter. They are majestic and very beautiful."
Annie loves taking the meat a stage further and making pies. Not only has her herd won prizes but her cooking has too. Her pies have featured at the British Pie Awards and her apple and currant pie and three-meat pork pie (from Berkshire & Gloucester Old Spots pigs) helped Annie win the title of Overall Pie Champion at the 2011 Evesham Pie and Ale Festival. She has also won Champion and/or Reserve every year since the festival started, each time with a different product/flavour, taking after her master baker grandfather who, Annie says, loved the land and his baking.
Annie also makes pasties, sausage rolls and does hampers, and lamb from her flock of Herdwick and Jacob sheep is delicious. "It's nice to have native lamb; it tastes better. We sell a whole or half-lamb. The Herdwicks are slow-grown and graze with the cows in the old meadows and orchards and the flavour is good."
Customers have noticed. "My pie business has taken off," Annie says. "So much so that we have just had a cheap kit-built log cabin/summer-house put up in one of our fields as a pie-making kitchen." The cost of this was met by a DEFRA grant through the Warwickshire Rural Growth Network. Annie supplies the local Hook Norton Brewery with a steak and Old Hooky ale pie which has won many accolades.
Flying high
To supplement her farm income, Annie runs the cafe she rents part-time from the local gliding and flying club behind her farm. Annie says "our farm" modestly although "it's mainly me running it as a family concern with my two sons, aged five and nine. Although separated from my husband, we still work together on the farm happily." Unwittingly or not, this weekend venture highlights Annie's cooking, and her summer evening meals made from local ingredients such as her native and rare breed beef, lamb, pork and sausages are becoming well known.
Asked if this venue meant she'd be teased by local Red Baron types into getting airborne at the club, Annie admits they got her eventually. "I avoided it for two years but gave in last year and went to Orkney in a restored 70-year-old de Havilland Dragon Rapide biplane." Like Annie, her pies are flying out, her buffet and party catering spreading the word as much as Nick Knowles did when the TV series DIY SOS turned up in her village and he pronounced Annie's 'Old Hooky' pie and her steak and kidney pie 'the best by a country mile'.
"Effectively, we've diversified the farm into producing traditional meat, and selling through the cafe we make more money than by selling cows to the commercial market," she said. "I don't do farmers' markets; I keep the cows I love; we keep it all going and pay the bills." But it wasn't always as comfortable as it sounds, and there was a transition period, Annie saying that until five years ago she had a full-time job with DEFRA.
"I took a redundancy package when they closed their Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency. It was after my second child was born and it allowed me to start working with pies and meat, which was easier with children. Terry was a self-employed mechanic and farming stresses made life quite intense, worrying about money. We needed extra income as it grew and he looked for other work too. He was here farming; I was in a full-time job. Now it's the reverse."
Their children have their own herd of two. They are Belted Galloways, from the west side of southern Scotland, where they adapted to living in windy upland moors. They breed from them, her sons keep an eye on them and, when calves are sold, they receive pocket money. This careful nurturing typifies the future their mum has in mind for Annie's Market Garden as a veritable haven of fresh natural local produce to be enjoyed by families far and wide. Judging by the excited customers on her Facebook page, she is well on her way already.
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A Short History of Wood Turnings
Turning is the art of shaping wood while it is revolving, consequently to produce curved surfaces that may be anything from simple cylinders to more complex wreathed or spiral shapes.
As such, for a very long time the art and trade of the turner was considered and kept separate from that of the joiner, although there was inevitably much overlap as when, for example, a joiner needed to produce turned chair or table legs, balusters, or bedposts, or when a turner needed to produce flat seats for chairs that were largely "throwne" (made of turned legs and rungs).
Aside from such structural parts mentioned above, which might be used whole or split and then applied as surface decoration, contemporary turning is also largely concerned with producing bowls, hollow vessels, and spindles. Sometimes lidded, either by simple friction fit or by having threads "chased" around the edge of the lid, turning may be practiced on single solid pieces of wood or upon segmented, made-up blanks, thereby producing not only pleasing shapes but also interesting patterns of different color and species.
Graham Blackburn is a furniture maker, author, and illustrator, and publisher of Blackburn Books (www.blackburnbooks.com) in Bearsville, N.Y.


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A Rocket To The Moon On Touring With Hanson Vs. All Time Low
A Rocket To The Moon stop by The Fueled By Ramen Studio to discuss their recent tours with All Time Low and Hanson, what it likes hearing themselves on the radio, who they've been listening to lately and where they like to eat while on tour. "It's a totally different audience for sure," drummer Andrew Cook said about touring with Hanson versus All Time Low. "It's a younger audience. Both of them are pretty much all girls. That's pretty much the same. All Time Low fans I'd say are a little louder and rowdier, whereas the Hanson fans kind of chill a little more and listen."


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Lost from start
Matsuzaka digs hole, and Braves bury him
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When Daisuke Matsuzaka walked off the mound two batters into the fifth inning last night, he was walking away from a chance to prove to himself, to his teammates, and to his coaches and manager that he belonged in an overcrowded rotation.
As Matsuzaka acknowledged afterward through interpreter Masa Hoshino, "If I keep going like this, I have no right to be part of this rotation.''
He added, "I can probably say that never before have I faced such a tough time period, but I also believe that it has to end sometime and I have to do what it takes.''
He did not do that last night, leading to the Sox losing their second straight home game to a National League club. Upstaged by fellow Japanese national Kenshin Kawakami, Matsuzaka took the loss, 8-2, to the Braves in front of 37,703.
At the moment, Matsuzaka does not have a next scheduled start. John Smoltz is slated to go Thursday in Matsuzaka's normal turn in the rotation. Pitching coach John Farrell said after the game, "I think until a determination comes from within, we haven't announced a rotation beyond that.''
"There's certainly no imminent announcement, if that's what you're asking for,'' Farrell added of what comes next for Matsuzaka. "But knowing how determined he is, knowing the work ethic that he has, he's disappointed, I'm sure. But at the same time we can't forget that this is a 33-game winner over the previous two years coming into this season. We certainly have some work to do. Consistency of strikes, particularly with his fastball, is the primary target. We'll continue to work toward that.''
Manager Terry Francona said that with Monday's offday, the Sox have "the ability to be a little flexible in what we do going forward.'' He also said that nothing is likely to be an nounced before Monday, prior to the team's trip to Washington.
When Francona said before the game, "The best way is for him to pound the strike zone,'' he probably wasn't referring to what ensued in the first inning. The embattled Matsuzaka allowed three hits in his first four pitches.
"I couldn't get strikes with either my fastball or my breaking balls, and I had a hard time hitting my locations with any of my pitches,'' Matsuzaka said.
His first pitch was deposited into the visitors' bullpen by Nate McLouth, a quick way to a one-run deficit. And it got worse. Two of the next three pitches resulted in a single by Yunel Escobar and a double by Chipper Jones. The boos began. It was at that point that Matsuzaka seemed to lose the strike zone entirely.
His next eight pitches were balls, to Brian McCann and Garret Anderson, forcing home a run. That left the Sox down, 2-0, with no outs and Justin Masterson warming up. But Matt Diaz gifted a strikeout to Matsuzaka and Casey Kotchman lined to Kevin Youkilis for an unassisted double play.
The problems continued with a two-out walk to Kelly Johnson in the fourth. At that point, the Sox were down just two. But McLouth followed with an RBI double and Escobar with an RBI single.
"When he did make mistakes on the plate, it seemingly was with fastballs that found the middle of the plate. That's where the damage by the Braves came in,'' Farrell said. "His subsequent walks later in the [first] inning probably are more of an indication of maybe pitching a little bit too fine and not fully trusting his stuff and pitching to contact.''
The bottom line was Matsuzaka looked horrible. He lasted two batters into the fifth inning, but did nothing to prove he belongs in a rotation set to add Smoltz. Matsuzaka got 12 outs, allowed six runs on eight hits, and walked four.
"I'm sure it's tough for anybody,'' Francona said. "It looked like he was out there early and it looked like he wasn't as confident as we've seen him. It's not a lack of trying. He wants to pitch and we know that. Just got to keep fighting. This is a guy that has won a lot of games for us, even if it's not always how you draw it up. It's a lot of wins. We need to try to figure it out and do better.''
Matsuzaka's ERA ballooned to 8.23 and he has zero quality starts in eight tries, yet to last more than 5 2/3 innings in an appearance. Matsuzaka (1-5) has yielded fewer than four runs only twice in eight starts.
Before the game, Francona said, "As with all pitchers, if they pound the zone and they stay out of the middle, that's a recipe for winning. That's kind of what we're hoping for. Consistency, repeating his delivery, all those kinds of things will lead to him having success.''
After the game, he said, "They looked like they were hunting fastballs left over the plate.''
Consecutive doubles to open the fifth knocked Matsuzaka out of the game, and when Masterson allowed a sacrifice fly (run charged to Matsuzaka), the Sox were down, 6-0, with just one hit to their credit.
Jason Bay had the hit, a double in the second inning, only the second for the Sox at that point in the span of two games. But Bay (homer No. 18) cleared everything in left, the Green Monster, probably Lansdowne Street, perhaps the Mass. Pike, for a two-run homer that cut the deficit to 6-2 in the sixth. The Sox, however, finished with just those two hits, and have had a mere three in their last 14 innings.
"Thank God for Jason Bay,'' Dustin Pedroia said, "otherwise we'd have gotten no-hit.''
Two hits wasn't nearly enough, not with Matsuzaka's difficulties. But last night seemed a culmination of sorts. Even Matsuzaka acknowledged this cannot go on. His struggles must end, and soon.
"I've had tough moments in the past, but each time I thought out and tried different ways to get through it,'' Matsuzaka said. "Even if I couldn't see the answer right away, often I was able to push myself to work my way out of it. This time I feel it's taking way too much time to break through, so now might be the time where I need to reach out for some advice and some help.''
Amalie Benjamin can be reached at email@example.com.


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Many Trance songs speak of how we are affected by the people in our lives. I have invited Sameer Mohamed, aka Birdman, to be a guest on "Lyric Picks" today. We will look at how trance lyrics address the comings and goings of people in our lives. It is fun to dig deep and discuss the meaning of a song with another listener. We may never figure out what the writer truly intended, but we will grow to know each other through the conversation. I can always count on Birdman to make me stop and think, and he is just one example of the amazing people I have met around the world through a shared love of music! I hope you will enjoy this column, as we welcome you to join our conversation as well.
1) Jes – People Will Go
"People will go
People will come"
Birdman: I think the lyrics above summarize the crux of the matter I am trying to convey today: People come into your life for a reason, and people leave your life for a reason. Personally I believe each experience or social encounter in life is a learning opportunity, either about you or the other person involved. It is up to the individual to find the lesson implicated. The individual needs to introspect, understand and analyze to allow growth from the experience.
Marcie: I read a quote recently that goes right along with this, Sameer! It's from a book called 'Practicing The Power of Now, and says
"…if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation…."
This quote has altered my perspective about my own relationships. Relationships are not meant to fill every void I feel in my soul. They aren't meant to 'complete' me. They are meant to make me aware of my journey through life and to allow me to focus on the here and now, instead of dwelling in the past or worrying about the future. I am grateful to the people in my life who grab my attention and help me accept and fully experience the here and now.
2) Arnej feat Josie – Strangers we've Become
"We fell so hard, so young
look at the strangers we've become"
Birdman: Off the cuff, it would seem that the lyric speaks only to the aspect of people leaving your life. Well it does in a sense, but I think we need to look prior to the incident of friends becoming strangers. Looking back to our youth, there would be many an instance where we would deem ourselves as not with the best of manner and behaviour. Ultimately, the petty childish behaviour and traits from our self or the other party involved led to a breaking tie in a friendship. I think now as adults, we should ponder the variables of our youth to allow ourselves not to fall into the same traps of "friendship" again.
I believe that an incident is only a mistake when you do it for the second time around. Use the experiences of the people who are out of your life as an assessment criterion of those you now allow in, and on the same note, adjust traits of yourself from the past that pushed people away – to allow people to let you into their life.
Marcie: Everyone deserves a chance. We are all very busy, and it's impossible to meet and know everyone around us. I don't think every relationship is meant to last forever, but every interaction teaches us something we can carry forward.
3) Mazzy Star- Into Dust
"It was you breathless and tall
I could feel my eyes turning into dust
And two strangers turning into dust
Turning into dust"
Marcie: For me, this is about fleeting moments with others, and how losing someone important can make us feel we have lost everything we are made of.
3) Cor Fijneman ft. Melissa Mathes – Disappear (Cliff Coenraad & Thomas Hagenbeek Repimp)
"What are you waiting for?
I might disappear
I really need to know
I need to know"
Birdman: As human beings we are generally oblivious to what is good for us. The person we are searching for, the completion of our being and soul could be right under our noses. People are in your life for a moment, for a reason, do not let them disappear.
Marcie: When I hear these lyrics, I hear a desperate plea from a person caught up in a passionate entanglement. There's desperation here, for while she is saying she may not be there forever, I think deep down she feels that she has no choice but to wait. She cannot turn off her emotions, even though logically she knows that she should walk away. Passion can lead us to traps that are not good for us, but are difficult to escape from. Passion can also illuminate our priorities, and cloud our judgments.
5) The Doppler Effect – Beauty Hides In The Deep
"A little pearl
Locked in a shell…
Beauty hides in the deep"
Birdman: A direct stem from the above, personally I don't make friends or acquaintances – I make brothers and sisters. To find those people who are not of your blood yet they pulsate through every heartbeat of your being, is no easy feat. Their beauty hides in the deep, it is up to us to find it – before they disappear.
Marcie: This is so well said, Sameer! I don't always find it easy to like everyone around me, or to accept my own faults or the faults of others. We're all human, with limits as to what makes us comfortable, and how close we allow ourselves to get to others. I like to believe that people usually have good intentions. Most people are more complicated than we give them credit for. It's worth it to try to see people for who they really are. Often this is how we learn about ourselves as well.
6) Armin van Buuren feat. Jennifer Rene- Fine Without You
You've made it clear now
This is the end
No more goodbyes and sympathies from me
All you still want is a physical thing
But you've taken enough from me
Marcie: How much change do we accept in a relationship? That answer is different for everyone. I don't find it's healthy to allow myself to become drained from too much more give than take. I think these lyrics are about reaching our bottom line, where we decide we won't give up any more of our energy to save a relationship.
7) Kirsty Hawkshaw Meets Tenishia – Reasons To Forgive (The Blizzard Remix)
Birdman: Again as humans, we have flaws. A sad one is finding a reason to forgive. If a person is out of your life due to a breach of trust or promise, we need to look past the nostalgia, and not find a reason to forgive. Trust is earned.
Marcie: I see what you're saying here, Sameer. If someone has proven untrustworthy, then we shouldn't be naive and allow them to regain our trust only to hurt us again. I agree that the lyrics address how difficult it is to trust, but I also think forgiveness is helping Kirsty find a way to trust again.
I focus on the positive
Remember why I live
Thank you for reminding me
Reasons to forgive
I think forgiveness is something that can be granted without giving others a free pass to hurt us. In my mind, forgiveness is meant to liberate ourselves from the suffering that comes with holding on to our pain. When we forgive someone, we are not condoning their actions. We are not seeking reconciliation. We are forgiving in order to gain an inner peace that comes from taking our life experience less personally, and we are moving forward with a positive outlook on the future.
Thanks to Birdman for taking time to discuss his feelings about lyrics with me. Thank YOU for joining in as readers! Let's keep getting to know each other.
Stay tuned for more of Marcie's Lyric Picks. For more thoughts straight from your favourite Artists on their own lyrics.
Check out "Marcie presents Behind The lyric" at http://www.mugasha.com/browse/Behind-The-Lyric
Thanks Marcie


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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared at an hour-long on-the-record event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York yesterday afternoon. The complete — if not entirely coherent — transcript of the English-language simultaneous translation can be found here. I attended the meeting along with many other members (so many attended that an overflow room was needed) and I offer some responses and reflections about him:
The Council hosts its fair share of heads of state and government, all of whom arrive surrounded by bodyguards and aides, but Erdogan had a far more massive entourage than any I'd ever seen; by my estimate, they numbered 35, nearly all of them young men in dark suits. Odder yet, they took up the first three rows, where they sat spellbound to their leader's every word, as though they had never heard any of it before. Even before he spoke, then, the profusion of fluttering staffers conveyed an aura of grandiosity — as was no doubt their intended purpose.
The Council rarely permits teleprompters but Erdogan relied on one, although it's unclear why it was necessary, given that he spoke in Turkish and gave his standard attack-dog speech berating many of Turkey's neighbors and going after such current favorite targets as Fethullah Gülen, the Moody's and Fitch credit-rating agencies, and The New York Times.
A protracted "I'm not an anti-Semite" defense was the only content specifically designed for a New York audience: "I am very sad to see that my country, myself, and my colleagues, sometimes, are labeled as being anti-Semitic." As Erdogan spoke these words, I admit to taking advantage of sitting directly in front of him, just behind his three rows of dark-suited young men, vigorously nodding my head in assent, thinking all the while that I was glad to be in New York and not Istanbul.
Perhaps most amusing was the argument that all was well when the Ottoman Empire ruled and things fell apart after its demise in 1923. "The Ottoman State had a very successful administration system, and for centuries, these areas of crisis today had maintained their existence without problems. The Palestinian issue, the problems in Iraq and Syria, Crimea, Balkans, are all issues that came about after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire."
The question period, as usual, held special interest because it is the only part of the meeting that is unscripted. The moderator, Fareed Zakaria, pressed Erdogan on the quid pro quo for the release by the Islamic State of the 49 Mosul hostages; Erdogan all but explicitly admitted that his government had exchanged prisoners for the hostages. Peter Galbraith asked about the possibility of Turkish recognition of an independent Iraqi Kurdistan, to which Erdogan replied no, that he opposes any division of Iraq. On behalf of the International Press Institute and the Committee to Protect Journalists, Harold Evans of Reuters requested a meeting with Erdogan to discuss the treatment of journalists in Turkey, to which Erdogan gave his immediate assent. Margaret Warner of PBS asked about Turkish efforts to stop the flow of foreign jihadis going into Syria and Iraq, to which Erdogan piously replied that the government is doing all it can, even professing to be insulted when Warner pressed him about Turkey's porous border with Syria.
I then asked my own question: "Your government as prime minister pursued a policy of 'zero problems with neighbors.' Now that that has failed, do you have a new policy towards the region?" My intent was to provoke the speaker by asserting the failure of this policy. Erdogan replied that the "zero problems policy is still ongoing" and then insisted that the failures were those of the neighbors, rather than of Turkey, mentioning Iraq, Syria, and Egypt in this context. Especially noteworthy was the withering disdain he expressed for President Sisi of Egypt, to whom he referred as "a soldier in [Morsi's] cabinet [who] organized a coup."
In sum, experiencing Erdogan in person confirmed my sense of him as an ambitious and aggressive populist whose electoral successes have gone to his head and spell trouble both for his country and the world.
Daniel Pipes Sep 24, 2014


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Citing Steve Jobs email, DOJ claims Apple changed in-app purchase to retaliate against Amazon
The federal government outlined a revised punishment for Apple in the ebook pricing case Friday. It argued that Apple changed its in-app purchase rules to retaliate against Amazon. And it wants to make big changes in the way Apple does business in the iTunes Store.


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'Is this new wave of philosophers exploiting pop culture in the service of philosophical inquiry? What can Dylan's lyrics tell us about our concepts of God? What can Monty Python teach us about epistemology?', asks Stephen Asma. He makes a case that 'cultural-studies scholars may balk, claiming that, in the hands of philosophers, popular culture is not being analyzed on its own terms, but is being used only to get at perennial intellectual issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. That's probably true, but pop-culture philosophers are unapologetic'.
In this article, Stephen T. Asma, Professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, argues that 'despite the hurdles of making philosophy popular (and pop culture more philosophical), there is still plenty of room to make it more enjoyable. And here the new publishing trend is definitely resonating with the next generation of philosophers. Old-school philosophers may see pop culture as a gutter, but I believe it was Oscar Wilde (or was it Chrissie Hynde, of the Pretenders?) who said, "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."Popular culture may be a filthy gutter, but philosophers can still lie there and look at the stars'. Read the full article here. It's good fun, but now I think it's time to listen to some Bach! Anyone for a bash of St. John's Passion?


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Have no fear, my dear friend.
Stand in the sunlight and in the rain.
Love the wind and the raging fires.
Be still and bear witness to all creation and taste its goodness.
For with each moment, another precious grain tumbles through the emptiness to find its place in your heart. And with it, you will become whole.


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Some close-in gaseous exoplanets are nearly in Roche-lobe contact, and previous studies show tidal decay can drive hot Jupiters into contact during the main sequence of their host stars. Improving upon a previous model, we present a revised model for mass transfer in a semi-detached binary system that incorporates an extended atmosphere around the donor and allows for an arbitrary mass ratio. We apply this new formalism to hypothetical, confirmed, and candidate planetary systems to estimate mass loss rates and compare with models of evaporative mass loss. Overflow may be significant for hot Neptunes out to periods of ∼ 2 days, while for hot Jupiters, it may only be important inward of 0.5 days. We find that CoRoT-24 b may be losing mass at a rate of more than an Earth mass in a Gyr. The hot Jupiter WASP-12 b may lose an Earth mass in a Myr, while the putative planet orbiting a T-Tauri star PTFO8-8695 might shed its atmosphere in a few Myrs. We point out that the orbital expansion that can accompany mass transfer may be less effective than previously considered because the gas accreted by the host star removes some of the system's angular momentum from the orbit, but simple scaling arguments suggest that the Roche-lobe overflow might remain stable. Consequently, the recently discovered small planets in ultra-short-periods (< 1 day) may not be the remnants of hot Jupiters/Neptunes. The new model presented here has been incorporated into Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA).
The published title is "A New Model of Roche Lobe Overflow for Short-period Gaseous Planets and Binary Stars".
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This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article published in The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing Ltd. is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/145.
Publication Information
Jackson, Brian; Arras, Phil; Penev, Kaloyan; Peacock, Sarah; and Marchant, Pablo. (2017). "A New Model of Roche-Lobe Overflow for Short-Period Gaseous Planets and Binary Stars". The Astrophysical Journal, 835(2), 145-1 - 145-13.


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(Bio as of December 2015)
Shawn Sagady returns to the Goodman, where he previously designed projections for stop. reset., The White Snake and Brigadoon. His Broadway credits include All The Way (also at American Repertory Theatre), Leap of Faith and Memphis. Mr. Sagady's off-Broadway work includes stop. reset., Mound Builders and Emotional Creature (Signature Theatre Company); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Second Stage) and Father Comes Home From the War (The Public Theater). He has worked on the national tours of Memphis and Julius Caesar. Regionally, his work has appeared in The Little Mermaid (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Fingersmith, The Great Society, A Wrinkle in Time, The White Snake, Measure for Measure and American Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Back Back Back (The Old Globe); Carmen (La Jolla Playhouse) and Cowboy Vs. Samurai (Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company).


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East Timor Independence?
- Introduction …………………………………………………………….. 3
- Ethnological origin, demography and policy …………………………. 3
- Before and after the arrival of the Europeans ……………………….. 6
- Japanese occupation during World War II ……………………………7
- The Portuguese colonial empire ……………………………………….. 8
- Indonesian invasion …………………………………………………….. 10
- Introduction to Indonesia ………………………………………………. 12
- Independence of Indonesia and Sukarno ……………………………… 13
- Formation of East-Timorese political associations …………………… 17
- The parties ………………………………………………………………. 18
- Australian support ………………………………………………………. 21
- USA admits Timorese right to self-determination …………………….. 23
- Indonesia admits independence …………………………………………. 23
- Agreement Between the Republic of Indonesia and the Portugese
Republic on the Question of East Timor ……………………………….. 24
- Conclusion ………………………………………………………………… 26
It is not easy to write with feigned calm and dispassion about the events that have been unfolding in East Timor. Horror and shame are compounded by the fact that the crimes are so familiar and could so easily have been halted by the international community a long time ago.
Timor, the Malay word for "Orient", is an island of the Malay Archipelago, the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sundas, lying between parallels 8 deg. 17' and 10 deg. 22' of south latitude and meridians 123 deg. 25' and 127 deg. 19' of latitude east from Greenwich. It is bathed by the Indian Ocean (Timor Sea) at South, and Pacific Ocean (Banda Sea) at North and has an oblong configuration in the direction of southwest -- northeast. The island is surrounded by the Roti and Saval islands through the Roti Strait, by the Lomblem, Pantar and Ombai islands across the Ombai Strait and by Kissar isle to the northeast. Southwards, Australia dists about 500 km, and 1000 km separates the southwest point of Timor from Java.
The total area of Timor is of 32 350 sq km, measuring the maximums of 470 km in length and 110 km in width. About 480 km wide, and a surface of 450 000 sq km, the Timor Sea which is divided between the two territories, opening west into the Indian Ocean and east into the Arafura Sea, part of the Pacific Ocean.
The territory of the island -- East Timor-- of which Portugal was recognized administrative power by United Nations, occupies an estimated area of almost 19 000 km, and comprises the eastern half of the island, with 265 km in length and 92 km of maximum width and an area of 16 384 km and the enclave of Ocussi-Ambeno that dists 70 km from Batugadi, with 2 461 sq km and a coastline 48 km long. Still part of East Timor is the island of Ataero (or Pulo-Cambing) with 144 sq km, just 23 km northwards of the capital Dili and the tiny isle of Jaco with 8 sq km, being the oriental extreme of East Timor just ahead of Tutuala.
Ethnological origin, demography and policy.
There are 12 ethnic groups in East Timor each of which has its own language: 9 Austronesian language groups - Tetum, Mambai, Tokodede, Kemak, Galoli, Idate, Waima'a, Naueti; and 3 Papuan language groups - Bunak, Makasae, Fatuluku. The Tetum live in two separate geographic areas within East Timor. A simplified version of the Tetum language was utilised in Dili by the Portuguese as a lingua franca. This language has spread throughout East Timor so that Tetum, in its original or simplified form, came to be spoken by about 60% of the population. Though widespread, it is not understood by all.
One of the first references to the natives of East Timor is expressed in the description that in 1514 the Portuguese Rui de Brito sent to king D. Manuel. In our free transcription, he wrote in these terms: "Timor is an island beyond Java, has plenty sandalwood, plenty honey, plenty wax, hasn't junks for navigating, is a big island of kaffirs."
The `kaffir' is meant to refer to the "black and of troubled hair". Timorese what, not being untrue, was an imprecise observation as the type was to be found only in some regions, specially in Ocussi, and generically in West Timor.
From the antrophological point of view, the island arouses the upmost scientific interest such is the heterogeneity of it's people.
For centuries the East Timorese had been farmers, living in scattered hamlets and eating what they grew. Only a few coastal East Timorese were fishermen. Trading and shop keeping had for generations been in the hands of the Chinese. East Timor is extremely mountainous, so the majority of East Timorese had always lived in isolation, far from towns and foreign influences, tied to their fields and animistic practices. In spite of centuries of Catholic missionary work by the Portuguese, in 1975 animists still numbered as much as 72 % of the population. The local Timorese kings still played an important part in their lives and allegiances, whilst interference from Portuguese administrators and military was almost non-existent.
In the period between World War 2 and the 1975 Indonesian invasion, a number of East Timorese managed to gain an education in the colony's few schools. Some were mestizos, of Timorese and Portuguese parentage, others were Timorese from traditional ruling families, but the majority were native Timorese who gained their education through the Catholic minor seminary. The emergence of this small educated elite in the 1960s and 1970s ensured that, when the Portuguese left East Timor in 1975, these people with schooling, and nationalist aspirations, became the territory's leaders.
Politically, socially and ethnologically Timorese differ amongst themselves in groups. There is the division in independent sucos (kingdoms), the distinction between the Atoni tribes of the Servian kingdom, in West Timor, and the Belos of the Portuguese territory, groups such as the Firacos, ethnic designation adopted by the Timorese in between Baucau and Luca, or the Caladi which are the inhabitants of the central crest , Malays and non-Malays, so many "sucos" and more than twenty languages and dialects, the contribution of the exogamy, of parties irreconcilable. In conclusion, that is the expression of a relative absence of bio-ethnic unity of the populations.
The history of a People and their Culture voted to banishment from their motherland, the eastern half of an island, former Portuguese colony is the much unknown. Timor lies in South East Asia enclosed in world's largest archipelago. That is Indonesia, which gave it's name to the Republic constituted after the dutch withdrawl. Since the beginning, Indonesian governments have experienced resistance coming from independist movements of various islands which claim ethnical and cultural diveristy from the predominant Javanese type. Nonetheless they were continuously silenced thus unable to internationalize the situation to a stage that would force foreign intervention. When it became inevitable, in that single exception of the western half of New Guinea, the autodetermination of the papuans in favour of an integration in Indonesia was observed as an Indonesian orchestrated act, and remembered until today as the darkest episode in the history of UN.
Indonesia couldn't either afford the regional instability that the prospect of a small nation rising in between the empire would arouse .This solitary piece of territory and it's inhabitants had to be sacrificed for a hugger cause.
Portugal which's vast colonial possessions had once made the country great, with times had become responsible for it's retardment. The drawling of the situation was put to an end with a successful coup d'etat, in April '74, which engaged a national revolution ceasing dictatorship and commited to decolonization. Meanwhile, if East Timor, due to distance and expense, was already the most forgotten colony, less attention it was given towards the definition of it's future as the longed changes in the metropolis didn't avoid internal deviations and contradictions. It brought instability to the government of the country and the urgence to lay the basis of democracy.
For Indonesia however, the solution was announced: annexation by any terms. As it couldn't be done without cover-up, the Indonesian accounted the "ignorance" of Timor's closest neighbor, Australia, offering access to the Timor Gap for oil. The maintenance of economic and institutional relations was (is) too important. Necessary non-interference from superpower USA was also naturally reached. Having the Americans weakened their position in South East Asia after Vietnam, Indonesia was regarded as the last great bastion of anti-communism in the region, essentially in those years for reasons of military strategy as we'll see ahead. Thus friendly relations were very important to preserve.
So, in name of political, economical and military goals, with two major countries making it possible for the pretender of East Timor, and before the impotence of Administrative Power Portugal, Indonesia invaded in December '75, interrupting a process of decolonization in course. The action was promptly condemned by the United Nations. Although in face of International Law, and of the most elementary human rights, Indonesia is


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I Now Pronounce You Merged!
I'll admit, I sometimes get a little teary-eyed at weddings. There's something particularly moving about watching a happy couple exchange vows and prepare for a long future together. So you can imagine how excited I was at a sudden uptick in M&A activity this past week-especially since the deals weren't of the multi-billion dollar, anti-competitive type that prompts regulators to speak now or forever hold their peace.
This week alone, European multilateral trading facility Chi-X tied the knot with data technology provider Cicada, while Swedish news provider Direkt divorced Swedish electronic publishing house Bisnode to elope with Norwegian data vendor Infront, and Interactive Data remarried the NTT Data Financial Corp. subsidiary of Japan's NTT data, the two having previously divorced in the 1990s.
Chi-X's purchase of Cicada gives the market operator a second, established technology platform at its fingertips, in addition to its current trading and data engine, to sell to other markets. However, it's unclear how the deal will impact clients that are also competitors-for example, Nasdaq OMX Europe also uses Cicada's technology for some key components of its MTF platform. How comfortable will Nasdaq OMX Europe feel about a core part of its proposition being controlled by a direct competitor?
Buying Direkt strengthens Infront's offering with news and estimates data, although one of the main drivers of the deal appears to have been both vendors' desire to prevent Direkt being picked off by un-named third parties that officials imply may have led to less competition in the Nordic news space. So, a win-win situation?
Meanwhile, Interactive Data is buying back its former Japanese subsidiary from NTT Data, in order to support a more targeted push into the country. Though notoriously protective of domestic vendors, Interactive Data Asia Pacific managing director Jim Farrer says the country has opened up to global vendors as it has opened up to global investment strategies, making now the perfect time for Interactive to redouble its efforts in Japan to grab a share of that market. Importantly, though, by buying an established domestic vendor, Interactive neatly sidesteps any problems associated with breaking into a new market as a foreign vendor.
You can, of course, find more details on all these stories in this issue of Inside Market Data.
So why all the sudden activity? Each of these has a specific strategy behind it. But also, with no end in sight to the world's economic woes, while some firms are putting off deals and projects until such time when greater market certainty returns, others may simply be deciding to act now on the basis that tomorrow could bring even greater uncertainty.
Michael Maxworthy, partner at Marlin & Associates, an investment banking and advisory firm that specializes in brokering deals between technology and data vendors, describes the current climate as "an interesting time" for mergers and acquisitions.
"It is plainly evident that parts of the M&A market have been seriously impacted by the current financial and economic turbulence-particularly larger deals that rely on debt leverage," Maxworthy says, though he adds that "the market certainly is not dead, and deals are getting done. In fact, we still see keen interest from sellers who are ready to exit, and from buyers with cash looking for firms that lead their niche and have managed to continue growing through this cycle."
Or maybe everyone's just desperate to get nominated for the "Acquisition of the Year" category in next year's IMD Awards?