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Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research: A Workshop Summary Pdf
Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research: A Workshop Summary Pdf The enactment of this America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the growth in research expenditures under the 2009 American Retrieval and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also President Obama's general emphasis on the participation of science and technology to economic expansion have heightened interest in the function of scientific and technology research in generating jobs, producing innovative technology, spawning new businesses, improving wellness , and generating other economic and societal benefits. In addition to this attention has come a renewed emphasis on a query that's been requested for decades: Could the consequences and practical advantages of research to society be measured either quantitatively or qualitatively?
On April 18-19, 2011, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) and the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, held a workshop to examine that issue. The workshop sought to build the selection of work that's been performed in measuring research results and to offer a forum to examine its method. The workshop was inspired by a 2009 letter by Congressman Rush Holt (D-New Jersey). He asked the National Academies to start looking into a variety of complex and interconnected problems, like the short-term and long-term economic and non-economic effect of national research funding, variables that determine whether federally funded research discoveries lead to economic gains, and quantification of these consequences of research on federal safety , the environment, health, schooling , public wellbeing, and decision making.
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My Kinda Player (Summer Sisters #5) by Lacey Black
AJ Summer witnessed four of her sisters fall in love and settle down. But not her. She's stuck in a rut, destined to spend the rest of her life watching from the dugout, kissing frogs. Then one night, she meets a mysterious stranger, who makes her feel alive and realize she's not as broken as she thought–until she wakes up alone.
Sawyer Randall lost everything in a split-second when a game-winning play resulted in a career-ending injury. Looking for a fresh start, he settles into the cozy beach town of Jupiter Bay. A chance meeting with a gorgeous woman leaves him restless and anxious for something he swore he'd never want again–love.
But sometimes Prince Charming isn't who he seems. What happens when circumstances are misleading? Will their love be strong enough to see them through unscathed? Or will AJ be played by the player?
My Review:
My Kinda Player by Lacey Black
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Where can I possibly start with this book? I'll just go ahead and throw it out there. Even though there were some serious parts in this book, some parts where I had a few tears in my eyes, and some parts that made me want to smack someone, mostly I laughed throughout this book. Those grandparents are a hoot! And the closeness of the Summer sisters that has been a running theme throughout the series is more than evident in this story too.
AJ is a middle school math teacher, who has had no luck at love. She even tries for a one night stand that definitely doesn't go the way it should! (Again, I couldn't help laughing!) Sawyer is a former pro baseball player, who is trying to pick up the pieces of his life and move on, following a career ending injury. So what happens when a middle school math teacher and a former pro baseball player meet up? Fireworks! Add in nosy sisters, inappropriate grandparents, and a crazy ex, and you have all the makings of a fantastic story!
I've loved all of the Summer Sisters stories, and this one is no exception. I enjoyed the sparks between AJ and Sawyer, and I loved catching up with the other sisters and their significant others. This story goes beyond a romance, and focuses on family that is always there for you, no matter what the circumstances are, no questions asked. It makes for a story that hits close to home, and brings out all kinds of feelings!
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One-two Finish for Italy at Opening Leg on FEI World Cup™ Vaulting
Monday, November 12, 2012
Posted by FEI Communications
At The Top With Pavarotti
In the first round Anna Cavallaro, performing on the 15-year-old Harley lunged by Nelson Vidoni, executed a high-level gymnastic routine which put her in second place. Her training partner and fellow Italian Silvia Stopazzini, also competing on Harley, took an early lead scoring 0,041 points higher than Cavallaro.
In the second round the Italian ladies were outstanding once again. Anna Cavallaro excelled in her new complex choreography performed to opera music sung by Luciano Pavarotti. Her performance earned her 8,797 points and put her in the lead of the World Cup standings with 14 points. Stopazzini made a mistake just before the end of her routine which cost her valuable points putting her in second place. Nevertheless the 19-year-old former European Junior champion got over her mistake quickly and said, "I'm so happy to be part of the FEI World Cup Vaulting. I didn't expect such a good result in this competitive field." Stopazzini, who was 15th on the FE World Vaulting Rankings, qualified for the World Cup because several of the female vaulters who were in front of her on the ranking list were not able to participate in this season's series.
Simone Jäiser (SUI), the highest placed female vaulter on the FEI Rankings to participate in the World Cup, performing on Luk lunged by her mother Rita Blieske, took third place with 7,996 points.
Germany's Regina Burgmayr and Susanne Schmidt, who were the local heroes as their home club Ingelsberg is based near Munich, and world bronze medallist Sarah Kay also representing the host nation, placed fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively.
Last year's FEI World Cup™ Vaulting champion Joanne Eccles (GBR), who was following the event online, commented, "It was a high-level competition. I would have loved to be part of it but there's always next year."
Klouda is Back in Full Force
Lukas Klouda representing the Czech Republic was the strongest in the male category. The 28-year-old, who is based in Cologne, won the first round on Radix SB lunged by Maria Imhäuser collecting 8,598 points. After a disappointing performance in the FEI World Vaulting Championships in Le Mans (FRA) in August where he placed seventh, he was happy to be back at the top. "I'm looking forward for the next qualifiers," he commented. He was complimented on his significant improvement by Nadia Ehning, the most successful vaulter of all times, who was watching the competition live.
In the next round Klouda was second only to the 23-year-old German Viktor Brüsewitz on Lazio lunged by Alexander Hartl. Brüsewitz was the best in the Final but despite his result of 8,693 points, he could not overtake Klouda. "In the first round I was not able to show my best," the German vaulter said. "But today it was fun to perform. I had great confidence in my horse," he added.
The third place went to Torben Jacobs from Cologne who performed on the same horse as the winner. He finished on 8,254 and secured eight World Cup points.
The night before the Final in Munich, second-placed Brüsewitz had wanted to challenge Klouda, who had beaten him in the inaugural FEI World Cup™ Vaulting Final in Bordeaux (FRA) in February, in an arm wrestling contest. Klouda had however preferred to save his strength for Vaulting which turned out to be the right decision. The next chance for the two opponents to measure their merit will be in the second FEI World Cup™ Vaulting qualifier which takes place in Salzburg (AUT) in December. The series' third leg will be held in Paris (FRA) at the same time where reigning male world champion Nicolas Andreani will make his FEI World Cup™ Vaulting season debut on home ground.
The complete results and standings after CVI-W Munich are available HERE.
Photo caption: Italy's Anna Anna Cavallaro was the best female vaulter at the opening leg of the FEI World Cup™ Vaulting held in Munich (GER). ©Karl-Heinz Frieler/FEI
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Mind Your Thinking, Mine Your Self-Confidence
February 6, 2013
— Attention, Decision making, emotion, Health, mental-health, self-confidence, Self-esteem, self-talk, Thought, Valentine's Day
With Valentine's Day around the corner, many of us will focus our attention on love and appreciation of someone else.
When we feel loved, and appreciated by others, positive emotions follow (e.g. security, confidence, goodwill, comfort), which create more mental and physical energy, which are important for us to perform well and achieve success in life (whatever "success" means for us).
But to rely or depend upon others to supply us with love and approval, to feel good about ourselves, can be a risky strategy. What if, one day, the validation, feedback or appreciation we seek wanes, is inconsistent, or is not as forthcoming in the way we would like it to be? What if we don't receive any of the attention we want or expect from someone else… what does all this do to our self-esteem and self-confidence?
Answer: Our emotional wellbeing and energy levels spiral up and down like a roller coaster ride. Sometimes we feel strong and resourceful, other times we feel helpless and stuck. Sometimes we feel joyful and resilient, other times we feel depressed and defeated.
It's like handing over your self-esteem to someone else and keeping your fingers crossed that they do a good job for you.
The most important person in your life, as far as your emotional wellbeing is concerned, is you.
If you don't love yourself enough, you will never allow yourself to reach your full potential for achievement and happiness. When you have low self-esteem, it's easier to feel stressed and overwhelmed by external events that happen to you and challenging circumstances you may find yourself in. Under stress, your brain is much less efficient, making it easy to fall prey to that vicious cycle of negative self-talk.
Negative self-talk is most people's worst emotional habit. Our thought patterns have become distorted, so our mind plays tricks on us. Here's a sample of some unhealthy thought patterns:
Mind reading (assuming what people think), catastrophizing (believing what will happen will be so awful you won't be able to cope), blaming (seeing someone else as the source of your feelings), making unfair comparisons (focusing on others who you perceive to be doing better than you) and labelling (assigning negative traits to ourselves).
These negative thoughts become a critical voice, whispering in your ear, dragging you down, leading to unhelpful behaviours and poor decision making.
Mind your thinking. Recognize when your mind starts playing tricks on you and see if you can challenge the distorted thinking that's driving it. Rather than allow your thoughts to spin into a negative spiral, consciously stop, observe and cancel. See if you can choose to let go of the thought pattern and break its power. Think about something else; acknowledge the facts; accept the uncertainty; counter the self-critical voice with a more compassionate one. Be your own best friend.
All too often in life we focus on our flaws and the things we dislike about ourselves; the things we wish were different. We can become too dependent upon others to "fill our bucket" with approval and appreciation.
Self-confidence is an attractive quality to others, especially employers and co-workers. It can generate more interest, resources, goodwill and support which in turn will increase the likelihood of success.
Someone else on this planet thinks you're special. Do you think you're as special as they think you are?
Hazel Morley is principal of Think Smart: Training and Coaching with Change in Mind. She can be contacted at email@example.com


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I was in the 2nd grade the first time I hurt myself. I would cut my nails so that it made a point and cut myself. I would look at myself in the mirror and pick apart what was wrong with me. Sometimes I'd try to work up the courage to cut off the parts I didn't like. At this point I just wanted to hurt myself. I thought I deserved it. Within a year I wanted to die. I would try to cut deeper. I jumped off trees a few times. I got really lucky that I never got badly hurt. Though I wonder now if pains I have now are from the effects of all those years of hurting myself. Like I know I use to make huge bruises on my body all the time. I would find ways to beat myself. I was always careful and did it where people couldn't see or not too much in places people could see. I was a kid and people knew kids get hurt. So no one questioned if my legs were a little cut up and black and blue.
It would be in middle school that I got serious about killing myself. I would OD many times. Middle school were some of the worst years in my life. I had so much abuse going on in those years. I wanted to die most days. I was in denial about being gay. I also would have a miscarriage at 14. Much of the horribleness going on during this time I told no one. I held onto it. I still was looking in mirrors and saying out loud what was wrong with me. I would tell myself everyday why I should die. I felt like I lost most of my life. I felt like most of my family that I loved so much just stopped loving me. I could see how different they were with me. I felt like it was all my fault. I would try to remember I told on my father to protect my sister. I couldn't let her be abused like that. I didn't care if it killed me.
I was 19 the last time I tried to kill myself. I do still think about it sometimes. I have had moments when I still was self harming after 19. Some days I really struggle with this. I find myself questioning my worth. I find myself in the mirror trying to tear myself apart. Depression loves to lie to you in that abusive relationship way. It lures you in and then rips you apart. At least for me that is how it is. I have gotten so much better at recognizing the voice of depression.
I am writing all this to say you may not be able to look at me and see how much I was suffering from depression because depression doesn't have a face. People didn't know what I was going through. I am also writing this because it shouldn't be this way. We shouldn't fear talking about depression. We shouldn't fear how it looks if we reach out for help. Please if you are struggling get help. You are worthy! You are needed!


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - EchoStar Communications, which last year failed to acquire DirecTV, is trying to block News Corp.'s $6.6 billion acquisition of Hughes Electronics.
Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar
The News Corp.-Hughes deal will lead to fewer consumer choices and higher fees, EchoStar said.
"By acquiring its crown jewel of nationwide U.S. distribution for its core programming assets, News Corp.
EchoStar's opposition was expected. In 2001, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. dropped out of negotiations to acquire Hughes once EchoStar came in with a higher bid. But late last year, EchoStar was forced to dump its own $19 billion acquisition of Hughes, when regulators sought to oppose the deal.
In April, News Corp. finally clinched a deal to acquire DirecTV by agreeing to take a 34 percent stake in El Segundo, Calif.-based Hughes
for $6.6 billion. General Motors
DirecTV remains the top U.S. satellite broadcaster with 11 million subscribers, while EchoStar, with 8.2 million, is second.
On Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the merger will make DirecTV a more formidable competitor to cable. He maintained that there are no horizontal or vertical merger concerns arising from the News Corp.-Hughes deal.
"DirecTV has every incentive to draw from the widest spectrum of attractive programming regardless of its source," Murdoch said.
DirecTV is looking to improve its offering of local channels which means subscribers will enjoy more local TV stations, Murdoch said.
Eddy Hartenstein, DirecTV Chairman and CEO, referred to one of his last appearances before Congress, where he was also testified in support of EchoStar's buy of Hughes.
"I believe that the current transaction raises none of the concerns that the DOJ cited in the prior transaction," Hartenstein said.
Shares of EchoStar dropped 15 cents to close at $35.56, News Corp. lost 62 cents to $31.77, and Hughes shed 20 cents to $13.35 Wednesday. GM fell by 59 cents to $38.55.


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Drummer and promoter Paul Smith writes with information about the autumn season at the Head of Steam at Huddersfield Railway Station. An eclectic mix of Jazz/Blues & Latin.
Sept 10th Adrian Ingram (guitar) with Terry Kenyon (vocals) - Blues Groove
Sept 17th Nikki Allen (vocals) with Rod Mason guesting on sax Double Star Bill
Sept 24th Brendan Duffy (sax) with Al Morrison (guitar) and Jez Platt (keyboards)
Oct 1st Rod Mason and Stuart McDonald – (Saxpalation)
Oct 8th Jenny Smith (vocals) with Derrick Harris (guitar) Paul Baxter (bass) and 'King' Ronnie Bottomley on drums
Oct 15th Matt Ball (trombone) with Ben Lowman (sax) Martin Longhorn (keyboards) and Paul Baxter (bass)
Oct 22nd Kevin & Julie Edwards (vocals and guitar) Jez Platt (keyboards) and Ben Crosland (bass)
Oct 29th Derrick Harris (guitar) with Jez Platt (keyboards) Jazz Collective
Wednesdays at the Head of Steam
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Dear Rhonda and Dr. Cheri,
I have a senior manager who's from a different country. She's so tough. Everyone's afraid of her.
I have seven people working for me. They've all come to me about her abuse and rage.
The CEO has been notified. He defended her and said she was very effective in her management style.
One of my team employees from the same country complained to me because she was berated in front of everyone.
When I defended my employee, I was called into Human Resources. My employee got mad that I defended her. The HR manager said nothing about her anger, but asked me if I've heard of the acronym F.E.A.R. meaning False Evidence Appearing Real. Is she saying that I'm crazy?
I was so stunned. Then she said to let the two people from the same culture work it out. She defended my boss's management "style," and asked if I wanted to keep working there.
I'm a single mom. I'm paid well. I don't understand how my boss gets away with this.
Can't Leave
Dear Valiant Worker,
Fear is not a management style.
You're not wrong to speak up about the abuse. However, in the future, try to "save face" in privacy to avoid humiliation.
Knowledge is power. Now you know the parameters of your work expectations, and you have difficult decisions to make. As a single mother you need to observe, document, and look for other employment options, if it becomes intolerable.
Fear means anxiety, the unknown, reluctance, and losing courage. Fear can lead to procrastination, creativity blocks, and loss of confidence. Taking action steps, even if the steps fail, is important for you to find a way to change your situation. Change is scary, and that's what most people fear.
Cognitive psychological research helps us to realize that even though we know we can't always control how we feel, we can control our action steps.
Physical and mental action steps:
1. Physical gestures lessons anxiety adrenaline. Push your fingers together hard (maybe under the table where no one can see) for a minute. It stops the paralyzing effects of fear, and helps you take a positive action. Scream or punch into a pillow.
2. Turn anxiety into excitement. While you still have your job, put feelers out to see if you can get a different job with a better environment, or a whole different career.
Anxiety is mostly about control. You've done everything you can to change your reality. Don't worry about the acronym regarding F.E.A.R. You know what is true. Remember, you can only change yourself.
Rhonda and Dr. Cheri


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Is WFTV Channel 9, Showing Racial Bias By Denying Pam Keith A Place On The Stage?
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- Published: Wednesday, 27 July 2016 20:30
- Written by Attorney Pam Keith, Esq.
By Attorney Pam Keith (Pam Keith is a candidate for US Senate)
Here is the skinny on the debates:
WFTV Channel 9, in Orlando is televising a debate the second week of August. We have been informed that the station "reached agreement" with Murphy and Grayson to keep me out of the debate. As far as we can tell, it's the only debate Murphy has agreed to. The decision was not based on polling, as I am polling above 10% and neither opponent is polling above 30%. This is particularly important as more than 30% of voters remain undecided and are likely to make up their minds based on the debates and Editorial Board endorsements.
Read more: Is WFTV Channel 9, Showing Racial Bias By Denying Pam Keith A Place On The Stage?


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The Internet of Things is changing our world.
John Jones
Director of Innovation Avnet Silica
But just to capture the data, store it on a server and present it to the business software means that the customer will have to meet many, many challenges that he never had to deal with before. Usually, they already have the necessary actuators which are part of the embedded product, but then you need to get the data through some kind of gateway and some kind of common infrastructure, then probably out into the cloud where it in turn needs to be linked back to the enterprise software you're using every day anyway.
However, things like gateways and clouds are usually quite foreign to these traditional manufacturing companies. In fact, it's a whole new world; one of messaging protocols and telecoms; a world full of strange new low-power standards like NarrowBand IoT, Sigfox or LoRaWAN. How do you choose which one to use? What's the network coverage like? Does it really penetrate deeply into buildings if your application requires it? And while many companies may have heard of these things, most of them simply aren't prepared to deaogy is forcing them to go through public communications networks, so they need to know how good coverage is in, say, Benelux, or whether the new network standards have already been rolled out in, say, the UK. What does the roadmap look like in each individual country? Is putting in a private network a viable alternative costwise? What new standards for narrowband is GSMA driving? The world is getting more and more complex even just where it means picking the right network, much less to implement a solution. Working with a broad range of technology partners we at Avnet Silica have come up with an IOT reference platform, called Visible Things which we are currently deploying in the U.S. and Europe and which will enable customers to roll out IoT solutions quickly and easily. We have put all of the technology building blocks together along with the gateway and cloud infrastructure and used our expertise to pre-integrate and package them so they are very easy to evaluate and implement. Our customers are used to buying components, and that's exactly what we're giving them through Visible Things.
One example is cloud services as a component. Technically all we did was just integrate everything and make it easy to use. And that allows customers to simply take the starter kit we provide and use it to extract data from their systems, visualize it through a cloud service and then do something with the data using a simple rules engine. This demonstrates that all the challenges of going from edge to enterprise have been met.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing our world, including our development and strategies for buildings, equipment, devices and applications. It is shaping the way people acquire information, how they interact with each other, and how they make decisions. But unless we reduce complexity, these promises will remain empty. Hopefully, Visible Things will be the first of many steps that can get our customers started on their journey to the exciting new world of IoT.


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Rasta Boy and Girl 5cm Worry Dolls in Handwoven Pouch
Rasta Worry Dolls for boys and girls in a cute little handwoven pouch. These Worry Dolls stand approximately 5cm high and are dressed in beautiful bright Rasta textiles. The pouches come in a range of different Rasta colours. Our Worry Dolls are handmade with special attention to detail. A beautifully presented Pouch to keep away your worries. These Worry Dolls are part of our new exclusive Rasta Range.


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The International Ship and Port Facility Security is a set of measures and procedures to protect ships and port installations from eventual terrorist attacks. It demands that ports evaluate risks in order to single out vulnerable areas and consequently prepare a security plan to address these vulnerabilities. The code determines the appointment of a Port Installation Protection Officer, in case necessary. This official is responsible for the enforcement of the norms described in the ISPS code.
The ISPS code surfaced as a response to the World Trade Center terrorist attack, in New York, on September 11, 2001, in the USA. This event triggered a series of discussions that intended to prevent the occurrence of other terrorist attacks.
The ISPS code's goal is to establish an international cooperation among governments, governmental organisms, local administrators of the naval and port sectors, in order to detect threats to the protection of ships or port installations that are used by the international market.
At Suape's Port, the ISPS Code's Executive Coordination is responsible for the coordination of the port area's security and the execution of the Port's Public Security Plan.
Controlled Area – consists of the area between the Control Station #1 (main entrance) and the access limits for the remaining control stations (PC) and local control stations (PCL), up to the Restricted Area.
Restricted Area – consists of the area from the control stations and local control stations until the customs area.


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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three British-born scientists for discoveries about strange forms of matter. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz will share the prize. Their work could result in improved materials for electronics and is already informing one approach to super-fast computing.
Dr. Thouless, 82, was born in Bearsden, Scotland, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University and received a Ph.D. in 1958 from Cornell. From 1965 to 1978, he taught mathematical physics at the University of Birmingham in England, where he collaborated with Dr. Kosterlitz. In 1980, he joined the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is now an emeritus professor.
Dr. Haldane, 65, was born in London. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge, where he was also an undergraduate, in 1978. He worked at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France; the University of Southern California; Bell Laboratories; and the University of California, San Diego, before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990.
Dr. Kosterlitz, 73, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and received his doctorate in high-energy physics from Oxford University in 1969. He has worked at the University of Birmingham; the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Turin, Italy; and Cornell, Princeton, Bell Laboratories and Harvard.


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Close Quarter Combat training will not be about an even playing field, It truly is about being sure that the specific situation you're involved in is actually a completely uneven playing field along with the scales are tipped as part of your favour. Consequently, you must always produce a thorough
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Our objective is survival. It is actually to instruct you how simply to walk away and survive each particular debilitating situation, whether or not the threat you're related to is twice as large as you, massively muscular, and wants to fight. The goal is to check out using an improvised weapon to defend yourself because we realize the scales are certainly not tipped in this favour. Smart people tip the scales within their favour when street fighting. When making threat assessments, we are searching for common 'carry signs' for example - is that this person carrying a weapon, is there an imprint of a weapon, what is the clip of a tactical folder present or perhaps is there and imprint of any hand gun? Being aware of a weapon threat causes us to be aware of the dangers that might be involved in engaging with this particular person.
We also have to consider if your threat has any friends present., is he by himself or does he have back-up? Many of these things determines the type of tactics that individuals may need to use. For example, the inclusion of friends indicate it could stop being the smartest tactics to go into there and try and grab the opponent down to the floor, holding them there till the police come. Why? Everyone knows that it must be very likely that our opponent's mates will likely come straight in and engage us. A logical assessment of a situation like this is to take into consideration using a very heavy striking-orientated module. Most importantly, the striking module used should immediately knock on the opponent, inflicting severe damage. The aim is always to maximize the psychological impact preventing others engaging, because in group situations people often adopt a 'pack mentality'.
In case you begin striking someone, and strike them again and again, along with the conflict happening for a long time, what starts out as a one-on-one encounter quickly leaves you outnumbered. The pack will begin to relocate since they note that there is very minimal chance of them getting injured. However, when you get inside and apply very heavy striking blows intended for weaknesses in the human anatomy to quickly knock people down, the pack will tend not to engage. They logically asses the risk on their own safety if they join the fray. Threat assessment is a thing you need to do in a few seconds, and you should practice all the time to ensure you are going to have the appropriate survival instincts and skills to defend yourself in your life threatening situations.
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By Ryan Fleming
Let's breathe for a second. Sure, they are 1-0-1. Yes, they are just a measly two games in. So, should the New England Revolution fans be that excited? Probably not, but I'm impressed.
This isn't saying that if I was a fan, I wouldn't be over the moon, as they say. Fans of any teams, but especially soccer ones, have a long memory. It wasn't that long ago (a year) that the Revs played some uninspired ball. Sure, they were stricken with injuries, players were playing out of position, but the bottom line is they just plain stunk.
For now, the stormy days in New England seem to be fading.
Shalrie Joseph, who took a leave of absence from the team to enter the league's substance abuse program is with the team, is playing his part – dominating the midfield, spraying passes and for now, scoring goals. Much can be said about the presence of Joseph. The lanky midfielder is by far the best player on the New England roster and as important as any player to any team in the league. Scoring two goals in two games will get your name recognized and published, but for an underrated midfielder in a market that isn't anywhere near the top of the league, Joseph could start getting some much-deserved publicity — especially if the Revs continue to play well.
For a second year forward who played some of the worst ball on the team toward the end of the season, Zack Schilawski has turned it around. For now. Schilawski, hands down the man of the match in New England's 2-1 win over DC United, looked fit, appeared confident and morphed into a Jozy Altidore type forward who can hold the ball and pass when necessary. There are a couple problems, though. United's defense is nothing to fear and what cannot escape the memory is that the Wake Forest product's goal should have never counted. Either way, there is improvement, but let's wait to see before we get carried away.
One of the biggest areas of concern, despite Schilawski's play, is where all the goals are going to come from. Currently Marko Perovic remains out with a left hamstring strain. Perovic led the lowly Revs last year with six goals and showed he had more creativity in his boots than any teammate out there. Give props to Nicol and team GM Michael Burns for spotting the Serb. Even with Perovic in the the lineup, the Revs averaged a goal a game, without him a bit over (24 goals in 24 appearances with, eight goals in six games without). That's hardly evidence that Perovic makes the team better or worse, but watching him on the field, you can sense an element that he brings, which stats don't account for.. But without a real goal-scoring forward or a poacher, this team will end up near the depths of the league in goals scored
The defense, though, could be a different story. By far the most glaring stat the Revolution owned was their 50 goals allowed – the most in the league. Nicol and Co. added French veteran Didier Domi, drafted AJ Soares out of California in the first round; ex-Houston defender Ryan Cochrane; and Argentine youngster Franco Coria. As a whole, the newcomers have only allowed two goals in two games, a feat that's impressive when you see that they lined up against Landon Donovan, David Beckham and Charlie Davies (yes, I'm saying that Davies will be among the top scorers in the league). A reason for concern though is how Coria, when he is healthy, and Soares will stack up when they are under pressure.
So far the two have passed each test they've come across, and impressively so. Cochrane is a nice addition, but not a player who is a game changer. In Saturday's win Domi showed that he isn't afraid to push forward and take matters into his own hands offensively. He wasn't tested all that much defensively, but handled himself when he was called on.
The Revs do deserve credit for the way they have started the season. They've played solid defensively, created a number of chances offensively and have taken points out of both games. It's too early to get excited, too early to start calling them the comeback team of the year. Two games in is hardly enough of a sample. One fact that is true, this team is improved and ready to face adversity this year.
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Egyptian obelisks are a common sight at ceremonial spaces all around the world. What is it about them that you'll find one standing at the most unlikely of places? Here is some interesting information on Egyptian obelisks.
This one has stood the test of time!
The earliest surviving obelisk dates back from the reign of Sesostris I (1918 - 1875 BCE). The structure is in Heliopolis, on the outskirts of Cairo, where there once stood a temple dedicated to Ra, the Sun God of the ancient Egyptians.
An obelisk is a pillar-like structure with a tapering, pyramid-shaped end at the top. These structures were originally built by the ancient Egyptians as early as the 4th Dynasty (c. 2575 - 2465 BCE), who called them
. It was the Greeks who named them 'obeliskos' (pointed pillars), which is how the word found its way into Latin, and eventually English.
These Egyptian obelisks are on display in museums and public places in all major cities around the world. What is it about these structures from ancient Egypt that every country wishes to call their own?
Facts About the Egyptian Obelisk
► The ancient Egyptians used to build grand obelisks, usually in pairs at the entrance of their temples. In accordance with the overall grandeur of their architecture, these pillars were rather humongous.
► These structures were monolithic, that is, they were carved out of a single stone usually sourced from the red granite quarries at Aswan.
► They were designed to have a broader base in the shape of a square or a rectangle at the bottom, tapering towards the top in a pyramid. The pyramidal top used to be covered with an alloy of gold and silver.
► All four sides of the obelisk used to be carved with hieroglyphs depicting religious motifs and dedications to the current king.
► Most of the religious inscriptions were dedicated to their Sun God and Creator,
, considered to be the most powerful among all deities by the ancient Egyptians.
► The Romans were highly inspired by these lofty pillars and built a significant number in their capital city of Rome. Cut to the present, there are
eight ancient Egyptian
five ancient Roman
obelisks standing in Rome today.
8 Prominent Egyptian Obelisks
The obelisk at the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt, is one of the oldest in the world.
The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is a modern version of the obelisk.
The obelisk at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, was sourced from the Luxor Temple, Egypt, where its twin structure still stands.
Emperor Theodosius had an Egyptian obelisk transported to Constantinople in AD 390, which still stands in the Hippodrome square in modern-day Istanbul, Turkey.
Cleopatra's Needle obelisk, located in the City of Westminster, London, was presented by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan, Muhammad Ali, to the United Kingdom in 1819.
Cleopatra's Needle in London and in New York City's Central Park are a pair sourced from the same site in Luxor, Egypt. Incidentally, the obelisk in Paris' Place de la Concorde was also taken from the same site, where its twin still stands.
The obelisk at the Piazza del Popolo in Rome was brought here by Augustus in 10 BC from Heliopolis, Egypt.
This obelisk was brought to Rome by Augustus from Alexandria, Egypt in 30 - 28 BC.
Egyptian Obelisks and Controversies
► The Egyptian obelisks are structures that have truly stood the test of time. With a long history of having endured hundreds of years of human evolution, it isn't surprising that there are several conspiracy theories surrounding these ancient monuments.
► The ancient Egyptians had made it pretty apparent that they built these obelisks as a tribute to their highest deity, the Sun God, Ra. They symbolized the absolute authority of the Pharaoh and his connection with divinity.
► Therefore, it does seem to strike as odd when we see these structures in places where you'd never imagined they would be, for instance, at various piazzas in Rome, central Paris, and Central Park in New York City. Let's not forget, there are also a large number of people who wonder why there is an Egyptian obelisk in the Vatican.
► The ancient Romans bowed down to the elements just like the ancient Egyptians did, and were naturally influenced by these lofty tributes created in reverence of the Sun. Therefore, they actually took great efforts to lift these grand monuments from Egypt and install them in central areas of their capital city, Rome.
► With the advent of Christianity, the Roman empire laid rest their pagan beliefs and began to unify under one religion, Roman Catholicism.
► The obelisk in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City is known to have been sourced from Alexandria, Egypt, on Emperor Augustus's command (30 - 28 BC). It was on Pope Sixtus V's orders that it was relocated to the Vatican in 1586.
Though Christianity had more or less taken over the Roman Empire by this time, the influence of ancient paganism clearly prevailed to a certain extent.
► Obelisks have also been (in)famously connected with the Freemasons, alluding to their influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
► The Washington Monument, built to commemorate George Washington (a Freemason himself), is a stellar example of a modern-day obelisk. Entirely made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, the monument is the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, measuring 555 feet or 169.294 m tall.
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Community recalls Alana Donohue '18
For Alana Donohue '18, life was about making those around her as happy as they could be. Friends and family said that Donohue strove to put a smile on everyone's face, an effort that came from her kindness and lively spirit.
On June 23, Donohue died at a New York hospital as a result of anaphylaxis. She was 19.
"She literally gave to all her heart, her joy and her optimism," Donohue's father Ted Donohue said in her eulogy.
Ted Donohue described his daughter as someone who could effortlessly charm a room full of strangers with her playful wit and mischevous grin. He described her as a "lightbulb" in a room — the first to raise her hand, the first to laugh, the first to be silly or the first to hug. He added, though, that this was coupled with an intense intellectual curiosity. He said it is rare to find someone with such a balance of gifts.
"We almost felt guilty as parents," Ted Donohue said. "It's rare that you get the intellect, and the academics, but also the fun and the free spirit."
Ted Donohue said Alana had struggled with various illnesses from a young age, including asthma, neurofibromatosis, celiac disease and various allergies, relentlessly harming her body and rarely providing any respite. Donohue had been on medical leave from the College for the past two terms, but had been planning to return for her sophomore summer.
He described his daughter's many trips to hospitals, emergency rooms, ambulances, x-rays and MRIs, starting at a very young age. But amidst all the pain and struggles, Donohue's father said she never "wallowed in self-pity."
Furthermore, despite all this pain and "toxic onslaught," Ted Donohue said that instead of letting these sicknesses consume her, his daughter saw them as a lesson to appreciate life, as she understood how fleeting a moment could be.
"Once [the illnesses] broke, that would be a reason she kind of exploded on the scene the next day," he said. "She really knew what it was like to feel good, and to savor the preciousness of the moment."
Donohue's close friend Emilia Baldwin '18 reflected on Donohue's uncanny and extraordinary ability to bring joy to other people.
"Making others happy was a virtue that she achieved within her 19 years and one that I'm not sure I and many other people will ever be able to achieve," Baldwin said.
Donohue was born on July 3, 1996. In her eulogy, her father recalled that she came into the world "jaundiced and screaming at the top of her little lungs," already a force to be reckoned with. Donohue attended a preschool in Manhattan called Christ Church Day School, and then from kindergarten until senior year attended The Chapin School, an all-girls independent day school also located in Manhattan.
Sophia Diserio '18, Donohue's classmate both at Chapin and at Dartmouth, said that Donohue was energetic, funny and spirited, even from a very young age. She said that Donohue, the shortest student in the class during lower and middle school, used to joke when lining up in order of height that "you always have to save the best for last."
Diserio remarked that although Donohue might have been small in size, her benevolence and compassion were tremendous.
"She may have been the last to hit her growth spurt, but her heart and soul were mature beyond her years," Diserio said.
In particular, Diserio recalled how Donohue would forgo giving into the typical seventh-grade cliques and would sit with anyone in the class during lunch. She attributed this to Donohue's quality of being kind to everyone.
Ted Donohue remembered how his daughter was nearly "obsessed" with making her friends happy and ensuring that they got along.
"That was kind of her mission, in the end," he said. "To make sure her friends were always happy."
Close family friend and Dartmouth classmate Dean Marriott '18 expressed a similar sentiment about Donohue's altruistic and "unselfish" nature, especially toward her friends.
"She had a wide reach and affected people from all ages and backgrounds, which is difficult to do," Marriott wrote in an email.
Close friend Ross Bower '18 spoke similarly to Marriott about Donohue's dedication to her friends and her efforts to ensure they were happy.
"She was the truest friend, always putting the needs of others before her own," Bower said "She showed her affection by always hugging and kissing and her friends, and making sure they knew how loved, appreciated and special they were to her."
Friends and family also remarked on Donohue's boundless energy and effortless sense of humor. Diserio recalled how, when standing in line for assemblies or class pictures, Donohue's enthusiasm and zest could not be restrained.
"[Donohue] would bounce out of line and bound up to me with bundles of energy, usually to give me an unsolicited hug or share a silly story," Diserio said. "Her energy could not be contained even by teachers begging her to return to her spot."
Marriott echoed this sentiment.
"Alana was crazy, but in a great way," Marriott said. "Everyone loved her for her quirkiness."
Ted Donohue recounted a funny memory from his daughter's Hawaiian-themed seventh-birthday party when Donohue spontaneously threw off her top and started dancing around with her grass skirt. A few moments later, the other girls at the party were dancing around with their skirts too. He said this moment was representative of Donohue's constant "zaniness."
Baldwin spoke similarly about Donohue's energy and humor.
"When she noticed a boring moment, she would do something ridiculous, like show us unflattering photos of herself as an adolescent, which she was very proud of," Baldwin said.
She said that this example of Donohue's spontaneous humor served to show that "her greatest joy in life was being happy."
Ted Donohue said that Donohue was particularly close with her parents and brother Peter, who is 17. He described his daughter and son's relationship as typical of siblings, but said that Donohue adopted a particularly maternal role with her brother.
"Alana truly thought she was like [Peter's] co-mother," Ted Donohue said with a laugh. "She definitely reveled in his success and happiness, but also felt it was completely within her boundaries and protocol to discipline or lecture or tell him what to do."
He said his son would turn to Donohue for help with math homework to confirmation that his outfit was okay before leaving home. He said Peter Donohue looked up to his sister's accomplishments and was proud to be her brother.
As for Donohue's relationship with her mother Niki Donohue, Ted Donohue compared it to "Fourth of July fireworks." He said the two were very close. He noted they both possessed emotional and outgoing personalities and knew that even when they argued, they would inevitably make up.
"No matter what, they both always went to bed with a kiss and a hug," he said.
He noted that Donohue's close relationship with her mother was especially evident during her numerous bouts in the hospital. He humorously recalled that his daughter would text her mother when she was in the emergency room, pleading her to come, but then upon her arrival Donohue would tease her mother about her outfit.
"She'd say, 'How could you wear that to the hospital? Did you look in a mirror?'" Ted Donohue recalled with a laugh.
Ted Donohue remarked that this was the kind of playful relationship the two had, but said it was ultimately "enveloped in deep and enduring love".
He described his and his daughter's own relationship as "phenomenally close," saying that they shared more with one another that he ever thought he would share with his teenage daughter. He said this was largely because she was a big believer that sharing and telling was healthy and cathartic.
Throughout her life, Donohue was a passionate explorer, traveling to Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, Turkey, Egypt, Dubai, Brazil and Peru, many of these on vacations with her family. When she was 16, Donohue spent her junior year of high school in Beijing, China, studying Mandarin as part of the School Year Abroad program, immersing herself in the language and culture of the area and living with a host family. She attended a school in Bejing with a combination of Chinese and American high school students.
Ted Donohue said her year in China was not the easiest for Donohue, largely due to her health issues and missing her friends from home, but she wanted a challenge.
"She wanted to have a full, adventuresome life," he said.
Diserio added that even when Donohue faced difficult times during high school, she never failed to maintain her positive attitude.
"In high school when her health and the pressure of academics dwelled over her, her smile and laughter never ceased to fill the halls of Chapin," Diserio said.
In addition to Mandarin, which she began learning in third grade, Donohue showed a passion and aptitude for mathematics early in her academic career. This became her intended major at the College, her father said.
He said that upon arriving in Hanover, Donohue "fell madly in love" with the College. She considered Dartmouth to be the best place in the world, as it was a school where people were smart but also knew how to have a good time, he said.
"She was lucky to have found [Dartmouth]," he said. "That was really what she wanted to be — somebody who was both fun and a really serious student."
Bower said that although Donohue was a "New York spirit," her love for the College was "unmatched," and she was often in full Dartmouth garb.
"She was often seen in a Dartmouth-on-Dartmouth outfit, like sweats on sweats," Bower said. "Only she could pull it off because she exuded confidence."
Writing professor Jennifer Sargent taught Donohue in her Writing 5 class, "Crime, the Criminal Mind and the Courtroom." She noted that she and Donohue connected over both being from New York City.
Echoing the words of others, she described Donohue as energetic, blowing in and out of every place like a "whirlwind." She added that she had an effortless sense of humor and often made the class laugh without even trying.
Sargent said that as a student, Donohue had a brilliant mind. She described Donohue's unusual intellect, explaining that her ability to observe, analyze and think critically had a depth that Sargent didn't often see with students just starting their freshman year.
"She had a way of latching on to the critical facts and ideas that pushed our class to the next level," she explained. "I could always rely on her to move us in the next direction."
Donohue also had a gift for writing, Sargent said, and this reflected her sharp intellectual mind.
"She was an excellent writer, very mellifluous," Sargent said. "[Her pieces] flowed [and] had beautiful cadence. Her writing had this beautiful sort of quality to it."
Sargent humorously recalled how during office hours, Donohue would again appear in her "whirlwind" at the last moment, speaking a mile a minute, but once she got talking, she was able to sustain a deep conversation. Sargent said that she engaged with academic material because she genuinely wanted to learn it.
Sargent also recalled how Donohue would often come into class with four or five iced teas from King Arthur Flour. When Sargent commented to Donohue, at the beginning of the term, how nice it was that she had brought the iced teas for the class, Donohue responded that she actually drank them herself throughout the day — but would be happy to share if Sargent wanted one.
"I thought that was so funny, because she was so honest, and so genuine," Sargent said, laughing. "She was always full of surprises."
In her eulogy, Donohue's father recalled a funny recent memory, where Donohue insisted to her parents that she needed a car during her sophomore summer. Her parents agreed and soon the car that she had originally desired turned into a truck, and before they knew it, Donohue and her parents were in the Bronx picking up a F-150 4x4 pickup truck. Ted Donohue joked that his daughter had never even "changed a lightbulb." Although Donohue originally remarked that the car was "so damn ghetto," her face lit up and soon enough she was asking her dad how many people could fit in the back of it.
"It was so illogical, incongruous, nonsensical for her to have a 4x4 pickup truck living in a Manhattan apartment," Ted Donohue said. "As Alana said, 'It makes no sense, but it just makes me so happy.'"
Donohue's dean Kent Shoemaker said her "quick mind, even quicker sense of humor, resilience and vibrancy" will be deeply missed by all those who knew her on campus.
Ted Donohue recalled another recent instance where an employee at Tuk Tuk Thai Cuisine restaurant said "there's nobody more fun" than Alana. He speculated that employees at other Hanover establishments would probably say the same thing. In a similar vein, her friends joked that she loved socializing and chatting with Uber drivers.
"She so, so loved to make those people happy," Ted Donohue said. "She was relentless and real. And I wish I was more like that."
Ultimately, friends and family said that beyond her intelligence and talent, it was her kindness and positivity that made Donohue who she was.
"Despite all of her accomplishments, all her vast travels around the world, all her brilliance and her beauty, it was her capacity to act as a messenger of goodness, happiness and healing others in the end that most defined her," Donohue's father said in his eulogy.
A memorial service is planned for some point in the coming weeks. Bower said he and Donohue's friends are currently in the process of collecting funds to place a bench in New York's Central Park in her honor.
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Gun control legislation passes New Hampshire Senate
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Three bills aimed at preventing gun violence have cleared the state Senate.
The Senate on Thursday passed bills imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm, requiring background checks for commercial gun sales, and enabling school boards to declare gun-free zones on school property. While all three bills previously passed the House, the Senate made changes to each and sent them back to the House.
"With homicides on the rise, including with firearms, it's now more important than ever that we pass common-sense gun violence prevention legislation," Sen. Martha Hennessey, D-Hanover, said in a statement. "Today's Senate votes move New Hampshire forward on common-sense gun reform that strikes a reasonable balance between protecting public safety and second amendment rights."
The first bill would create a three-day waiting period before a gun could be delivered to a buyer, in contrast to the House version, which called for a seven-day waiting period. Opponents called it an attack on gun shows and auctions, but supporters said creating a buffer between impulse and action could prevent violence and suicide.
Under the background check bill, all transfers of gun ownership will be subject to criminal background checks. The legislation also would close the so-called Charleston loophole used by the shooter in a 2015 massacre at a historic black church to buy a gun. The gun-free zone bill would allow individual school boards to develop policies regulating the possession of guns on public school property. Any proposed policy change would have to be presented at a public hearing to get input from students.
Opponents of gun-free school zones argue they would criminalize the behavior of otherwise law-abiding citizens and would embolden would-be school shooters because they would know teachers wouldn't be trying to stop them.


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User Centric Monitoring relies on identifying network traffic by user, not IP just address, to significantly improve network visibility and reduce time to resolve issues across the network.
The network exists to serve users, to facilitate communication between users and applications. There is much talk of monitoring 'user experience' but from a visibility perspective we still seem to be restricted in identifying network traffic by IP address, not by user.
User Centric Monitoring goes beyond traditional visibility tools to associate traffic with an actual user not just an IP address. When anomalous activity is identified in the network this allows quick and easy identification of not just 'what' is generating traffic, but more importantly 'who'.
To illustrate let's look at a quick example. It is relatively easy to identify large traffic downloads, say streaming video like NetFlix, across the network. Most monitoring products can easily provide the source IP address of the offending machine. This is a start, but in the doesn't necessarily help the network support in pinpointing the precise location of the device or more important who actually initiated the download. User centric monitoring provides the username associated with the IP address to resolve this issue.
This is great for network visibility, but User Centric Monitoring goes much further than just associating usernames with network flows. If we step outside of pure network flow data to produce an enhanced data set that includes data from other sources like server logs, vulnerability management and threat detection systems we can profile an individual's entire online activity and experience from both a performance and security perspective.
User Centric Monitoring presents is a significant improvement over traditional monitoring techniques. Managing the network by user, not just IP address, allows for greater insight to both performance and security issues, reducing the time and effort required to resolve issues and maintain network performance and security.


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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Movie Review: Despicable Me 2
Was able to see Despicable Me 2 over the weekend with the family. The youngest is 12 and the others range from 18 to 25. Oh and me, the 44 year-old old fart. We all enjoyed the movie and it is very funny. They were able to keep a good balance between all the characters as they each are important to making this franchise funny - Gru, the girls and of course the minions ( who doesn't love the minions). New to the mix was Lucy as a partner to Gru (you'll have to watch for the details). She is good add to the mix. As this is an animated movie I won't try to dissect it too much but some of my favorite parts were watching Gru struggle with Margo's "dating" a boy. As a father of four girls I can so relate. Bottom line is it was funny and very easy to watch. I highly recommend it to everyone.
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Daughter India has now found love and is trying to piece her life back together after enduring painful branding, starvation diets and losing her entire inheritance to NXIVM
ACTRESS Catherine Oxenberg says she feared for her life as she worked to dismantle a crazed sex slave cult – and rescue her daughter India and others from its clutches.
Catherine, who grew up in Britain before starring in Dynasty in the 80s, said she endured terrifying threats, legal letters saying she would be thrown in jail and feared both she and India would end up dead – as she battled against NXIVM, a dangerous cult masquerading as a self-help group.
In an exclusive interview with Sun Online, the mum-of-four revealed how India, now 27, is now safe and "in a really good place".
NXIVM's founder Keith Raniere and his alleged "deputy", actress Allison Mack, were arrested on a slew of charges relating to the cult – including sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labour – earlier this year. Raniere is currently in prison – and Mack on house arrest as they await trial in October.
Catherine, 56, has now written a book called Captive about her nightmarish journey to save India – and how she and the NXIVM's former publicist Frank Parlato risked their lives to expose and destroy the group.
She said: "This was a dangerous group and I had witnessed what they had done to other people, but I also I discovered I'm the type of parent that would be willing to take a bullet for my child and I couldn't stop.
"I didn't care what it costs me because I wouldn't stop until I knew she was safe.
"This whole journey for me, the burden, the weight that I felt not knowing if my daughter was going to be okay. I felt like I was in hell.
"And just now the feeling of what it's like to come out of hell and feeling the relief of that burden.
"People said I seemed like I was wearing this cloak of darkness. And I was – I never in my life felt so incredibly burdened and grief stricken."
Catherine and India first attended a NXIVM seminar in 2011 in Venice, California, believing it to be a business skills course.
It wasn't long before Catherine realized the truth – but by then India was already being brainwashed and sucked deeper into the group.
India, only 20 at the time, spent thousands on more NXIVM course and eventually left her home in Malibu and moved to Albany, New York, to be nearer the NXIVM's headquarters.
It was here she fell under leader Raniere's spell, and joined a secretive and disturbing sect at the core of NXIVM, a master-slave cult which branded, beat and starved women called DOS.
DOS – which claimed to be a "badass" female empowerment group forced each member to hand over damaging collateral each month – including naked pictures, vows of obedience and taped confessions about their family members, which they threatened to release should they ever leave.
Many of the DOS women were told to have sex with leader Raniere as a way of achieving "enlightenment" as well as being branded on her pubic area with he initials of Raniere and Mack.
When Catherine discovered what was happening she "lost her mind".
"I wasn't happy with India's involvement in NXIVM, but I had no idea what was really going on beneath the surface until a young woman, a defector, who reached out to me and said 'You have to save her'," she said.
"She started to explain the dynamics of what was going on, that there was this slave-master hierarchy that these women were being recruited, under the pretext of being involved with the female empowerment group and that actually Keith Raneire was orchestrating the whole thing as their ultimate master. None of them knew this.
"So all of the practices of this group were based on deception, coercion and manipulation.
"In order to gain admission, they had to give damaging collateral that would be ruinous if it was ever revealed.
"If Keith wanted them for himself – for his own sexual gratification – they were put on these very strict diets, between 500 and 800 calories a day, which is starvation.
"Then I found out about the branding and I think at that point I lost my mind. If it wasn't bad enough already – with the recruiting for sex and the slaves having to recruit more young women aggressively. It was growing like an evil vine.
"Each 'slave' was pressured to recruit between five to six slaves of her own so it had the potential to spread dangerously – Keith's own lawyer admitted 150 women had been recruited into DOS.
"From what I understood, the women had to be held down by the other women in their slave cell.
"They would hold down their legs and their arms because they would be struggling to get free, it's just excruciating and it took them 30-40 minutes for the entire procedure.
"I'm just imagining that my daughter had been subjected to this. How is that even possible?
"So I knew that my mission was to rescue her from an environment that was encouraging this level of abuse against women and cruelty and making sure that nobody else was subjected to this type of torture."
Catherine teamed up with Frank Parlato, NXIVM's former publicist who had turned against the group and first exposed them as a cult.
Together the pair risked their lives, receiving numerous death threats, as they tried to expose the NXIVM, help women leave the group and collect evidence that would ultimately lead to the arrests and indictment.
Catherine added: "I heard through the grapevine that they were planning on suing me and that I was going to be put in jail.
"I was warned not to go to Mexico because I would get killed. I received threat letters from Mexican attorneys and a Mexican state attorney general that were issued by Emiliano Salinas who runs NXIVM, Mexico. And a lawsuit accusing me of fraud and extortion."
Frank added: "One of my sources told me they'd hired two people to assassinate us and they even described how they were going to find us and how they were going to do it.
"I would receive death threats over the phone, emails – and for a long time we were out on our own against this group. It was a lonely four months just me and Catherine up against all these forces.
"It was definitely a risk, there were threatening letters from Mexico where lawlessness is commonplace. We knew if either one of us went to Mexico we'd never come back.
"We were Raniere's public enemies number one and two.
"It was terrifying but that was dwarfed by the joy we got from all these women who were escaping the cult and coming to us one after the other and saying thank you.
"We stopped many women from even being branded – once we started exposing it they started cancelling the branding."
Throughout it all Catherine's biggest fear was that she'd lose her beloved daughter – either through a suicide pact or worse.
"There was a moment when I was convinced that they were all involved in some suicide pact," she said.
"I felt that perhaps Keith needed some sort of distraction to take the attention away from what he was doing and maybe get some poor young woman to do that and I thought, what if it's India because it would be a perfect way to punish her mum for causing the demise of his group."
Catherine and Frank compiled files of evidence to law enforcement and eventually in March this year Raniere was arrested, quickly followed by Allison Mack and other high profile members.
As the cult collapsed around her, India found work at a vegan restaurant in New York before finding love and finally returning home to Malibu where she is now trying to put her life back together.
"India is in a really good place," Catherine said. "She's moving forward with her life and of course I want to share everything about the time that we spend together, which I'm treasuring after a long period of estrangement, but I'm as protective of privacy as I have been for her safety.
"I have watched other young women come out of NXIVM and this transition period is a very fragile moment in these women's lives where everything that they believed has imploded and most of them have asked the question 'was everything I believed in a lie?' and it's a very frightening moment. I would liken it to an identity crisis.
"I want to make very clear to people is that this was no 50 Shades of Grey. This was not consenting adults.
"This was a coercive, exploitive, dangerous group that was abusing women and it needed to be stopped."
Catherine's book Captive is out now.


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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Cairo Tuesday, September 11, 2012, shouting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans along with "there is no God but Allah," and scaling the US Embassy's walls to pull down the American flag. The protests come in response to an inflammatory trailer to a film called "The Innocence of Islam," posted on youtube, which reportedly depicts the prophet Mohammed as a homosexual pedophile. While people's anger in Egypt propelled them to protest at the US embassy in Cairo, in Libya, enraged mobs attacked the US consulate in Benghazi. The US Ambassador to Libya and three staff members were killed during the attack. In this exclusive video, interviews with local Egyptians and protesters illustrate their religious sentiment, for a full transcription click here.
8:15: "I am Sabir Shartout from Giza, and when I heard about the protest I was one of the first people to confirm my attendance-- it's the least one can do. It is a protest to express the people's anger. This situation is in need of investigation. To those who insulted the prophet: he is the greatest symbol of Islam and he is the root of existence for all Muslims, for all Muslims are alive to love their God and their Prophet. It is really hard and painful for our people and people like us to have to go through those situations. Do we, as people, really deserve this insult? As Muslim, do we really deserve this humiliation? Someone has insulted a symbol, a great symbol that gives meaning to my whole life, and that is the Prophet Mohamed (PBUH). Why are they doing this?"
After the Tunisian Minister of Education Abdul Latif Obaid deducted 100 dinars (63$) from the wages of junior high school teachers who protested in May, the General Union of Tunisian Workers organized a demonstration with many of the teachers and trade unionists from different parts of the Republic.
Massive Demonstration For Independence of Catalonia
Angelina Jolie Meets With PM Mikati & Visits Syrian Refugees In Lebanon
Kandil: Egypt's Budget Deficit Higher Than Anticipated
Discussing Syria:
Arab League Chief Meets With Britain's Hague
& Arab League Chief and Envoy Meet With Qatari PM


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The Barrigudo
Arthur O. Friel
HAVE you noticed, senhores, the big, slow-moving monkey which that oily- faced trader over yonder is taking down the river with him?
It is a barrigudo?the "bag-belly" monkey? and one of the largest I have seen, though I have met many of those big fellows during my years of service as a rubber-worker in the Javary jungle. From the end of its solemn nose to the tip of that strong tail, which it can use as a fifth leg in the trees, it must be more than four feet long.
The trader tells me that he intends to sell it as a pet in Para. But unless he is very lucky his monkey will be dead long before the end of his journey. For the barrigudo, senhores, is a creature of this upper Amazon alone, and when he is taken away from his own country he dies.
Why this is so I cannot tell you. Looking at his bulky body, you would think he could endure almost anything. Yet he is mortal, as we Brazilians say?delicate, not hardy. It may be that in his silent way he grieves himself to death because he has lost his own land and his old friends. You cannot always tell, by looking at either monkey or man, what sort of heart is hidden in his breast. And, after all, the heart is the only thing that really counts.
This may seem, senhores, like idle talk, but it is not. I have a tale to tell you?a tale of the most surprising barrigudo I ever met.
I CAME upon this creature at the time when the great yearly floods had passed their crest and were going down again. Indeed, they had gone down so far that I was worried; for I was far from where I ought to be, and in strange country where I might soon find myself stranded in the midst of unknown jungle.
With my comrade Pedro Andrada, a fellow workman on the big rubber estate of old Coronel Nunes, I had paddled across country from our Javary region into the upper reaches of the Jurua, a low-lying and very crooked river to the south and east. Then, after meeting with queer experiences and traveling some distance down the river, we had turned homeward, journeying along a flooded furo, or natural canal, until we met a number of roving North American soldiers who saved us from death at the hands of a horde of fierce savages. Now these men had left us and gone back toward the Amazon, whence they had come; and we were trying hard to reach our own territory before the ebbing waters should leave us trapped in some blind flood-channel.
As I say, I was worried. If we had known where we were I should not have cared so much, for then we should have been able to judge our course. But neither of us had passed this way before, our only guide was the sun, and we had to trust to that and to luck to carry us through the maze of twisting water- courses opening around us on all sides.
The furo itself, which had been fairly plain, now was becoming harder to follow, winding here and there in a confusing way; and already we had blundered off it more than once and lost much time in learning our mistake. Besides this, our food supply now was none too plentiful, and we found little game to shoot. And inch by inch, day and night, the thick tangle of bush was rising steadily around us as the waters slipped away.
Yet these things, serious though they seemed, suddenly became nothing at all. They were swallowed up by something far more grave.
Pedro fell sick. It must have been the Spotted People who gave the disease to him. We came upon them in the morning of a sweltering day when no breeze stirred. We were stripped almost naked, breathing with mouths hanging open, gasping now and then for the air which it seemed we could not get, but shoving steadily onward. All at once my comrade, up in the bow, held his paddle and called sharply:
"Quem vai la? Who goes there?" No answer came. No sound of any kind followed his hail. He was peering at a tangle of trees rising from the water at his left.
"Do you see anything, Lourenço?" he asked. "Nothing," I replied.
"Yet I thought I heard? Let us go and look." We turned the canoe into the trees. As we neared them a figure rose behind a big blown-down tree-trunk. It held a bow and arrow. Instantly we backed water and snatched up our rifles.
For a moment we hung there, the man menacing us with his arrow but not daring to loose it with our gun-muzzles covering him. He was a naked Indian, and seemed to be standing on the water.
"Baah derekoh? What is the matter with you?" he growled sullenly in the Tupi tongue.
"Anih baah. Nothing," I answered in the same language. "Put down that arrow if you would not be shot."
He lowered his weapon in a surly way.
"What are you doing here?" Pedro snapped. For answer the man stooped and held up a spear, on which a fine big fish hung quivering.
Laying down our rifles, but keeping them within instant reach, we pushed up to him and found that he was in a small canoe hidden by the prostrate tree. He still held the spear, and the water on its shaft showed that he had plunged the barb into the fish just before Pedro shouted. We saw that he was peaceable enough, and that he was a very ordinary- looking fellow except for one thing. His face was blotched with hard, rough, black spots.
After telling him we meant no harm to him or to any other man who did not attack us, we asked him whence he came. In a slow, heavy manner he replied that his people lived close by, up on a little hill above the reach of the floods. We asked him if they were many, and he said no. Then, without questioning us in turn, he dropped spear and fish into his canoe, picked up a paddle, and began to move away.
"Wait," said Pedro. "Will you sell that fish?" He stopped, squinted at the fish and at us, and said he would barter for beads. But we had no beads, for we were not on a trading trip. We offered him some empty cartridge shells, though, telling him they were lucky bells which would keep demons away. He hesitated so long that we thought the fish was ours. But then he grunted, "No," and started on.
"Wait," Pedro commanded again. "Is there fruit at your town?"
The fellow said there was much fruit. So then we told him that if he would give us fruit he could have the lucky bells. At once he consented. We followed him a short distance through the watery forest to the hill where his village stood.
IT WAS a miserable little place of a few scattered huts, and the people in it seemed as wretched as the town. When we walked boldly in among them, following our guide, they gathered around us in a sluggish way and looked us over without saying anything. Their eyes were dull, their expressions blank, their movements lifeless and their skins spotted with those same black patches which disfigured the fisherman. Everyone of them?men, women, children?was spotted.
The older they were, the worse they looked. The children had only small spots, with lighter rings around each blotch. But the grown people were crusted with hard patches, and among them I saw a withered man whose face was one great black scab. And not only the people, but the town itself, seemed sick; for there was a smell in the air?a heavy, depressing odor of disease which made me wish we had not come.
"Let us get our fruit at once and go," I muttered. "I cannot breathe well."
"Nor I," my partner agreed. "But I want something fresh to eat, and I will have it. Here, stabber of fish! Fetch the fruit quickly, or we will go and keep our demon-bells."
The fisherman grunted, moved his head for us to stay there, and went away. He was gone for what seemed a long time. We stood still, and all the others stood still, staring without a blink. And the odd thing was that they stared not so much at our guns and breeches as at our skins. After a time it dawned on me that they marveled because we were not blemished as they were.
"Por Deus!" muttered Pedro. "When we leave this place I shall take a bath. These people make me feel slimy."
"I feel the same way, and the smell here makes my stomach squirm," I said. "But here comes our man."
The fisherman was returning, bent forward under a long atura basket which hung down his back. We turned at once toward the water. He followed, and at the canoe he put basket and headline and all into the bottom.
Handing him the empty shells, we pushed off and away, leaving him jangling his "demon-bells" in his palms. No doubt he thought we were great fools to give such a charm for a simple basket of fruit. And the time was not far off when I was to believe we had indeed lost our luck at that place.
We paddled away fast and traveled some distance before we either ate of the fruit or took the bath we had promised ourselves. Somehow the sickly smell of that village seemed to stay with us long after the town itself had disappeared behind us. A thin mist had hung over the place of the Spotted People, and the same vapor was crawling along the water and keeping up with us. Not until we finally got clear of it and breathed clean air once more did the odor fade away.
"Phew!" whistled Pedro, his nose wrinkled. "What an unwholesome hole! Now that we are quit of it, let us bathe and eat."
So we found a firm bare spot where we could stand and pour gourds of water over ourselves. We wanted to take a swim, but the water did not look inviting and we knew well that under its surface might be lurking death in the shape of fish or reptile, so we bathed on land.
When we felt clean again we ate heartily of the fruit, which tasted very good. And as we paddled onward after that we munched now and then at other fruits taken from the basket.
That night neither of us ate well. Our stomachs did not want the usual ration of dried pirarucu and farinha. So we devoured the rest of the fruit and were satisfied.
Before dawn I awoke to hear Pedro moaning softly in his sleep. He had a bad dream, I thought. So I yelled and roused him, grumbled that he was disturbing me, turned over in my hammock and shut my eyes again. He said nothing, and I slept almost at once.
When next I looked around me it was day, and my partner was sitting up and holding his head in his hands. He only grunted when I spoke.
I got breakfast, but he would eat none. This was so uncommon that I looked sharply at him, finding his skin pale and his face drawn. But when I asked him what ailed him he said only that he had not slept well.
We paddled away as usual, and all through the hot, sunny morning he said no word. His stroke lacked its regular power, and several times he stopped work and bent forward as if to favor his stomach. I grinned, thinking he had a touch of colic from eating too much fruit and was too stubborn to admit it. At last I snickered outright.
"Poor little man!" I mocked. "Does his little belly ache? Perhaps he needs a little drink?"
I DID not finish. He groaned, wavered dizzily, and slumped into the bottom of the boat.
This scared me. He was not the man to let anything overpower him as long as he had an ounce of fight left in him, and I realized that he must be very sick.
As quickly as possible I got the boat to shore. There I found that his illness was not a mere ache of the stomach.
He had fever. And it was not the ordinary jungle swamp-fever?which is bad enough?but a deadly sickness which burned and froze and griped and turned him inside out. When at last his spasms ceased he lay so limp that I thought him dead.
He could not even whisper. He could not move. He lay like a corpse and he looked like one, and only the feeble throb of his heart and his shallow breathing told me that he still lived. And there was not a single thing that I could do to help him, for we had no medicine?not even a mouthful of rum to strengthen his heart.
Squatting beside him, I tried in a dumb, dazed way to think of something I could do.
He was more to me than anyone else in the world. He was far closer than a blood brother?he seemed a part of myself. A handsome, happy-hearted, boyish man, strong of hand and quick of thought and action, he had been my comrade in fair weather and foul, in times of merriment and times of deadly fight. Either of us would throw away his own life to save the other?yes, or endure torment worse than death, if by it the other might escape.
And at that very moment I was in such torment of mind as I hope will never come to me again. I could not let him die, but it seemed that I could not aid him to live.
At last I thought of a thing, though it seemed of little use. If I could find some pajemarioba, a bitter medicinal herb sometimes used by the Indians to make a sort of tea, it might start him to sweating and drive the fever out. The pajemarioba grows wild in many places, and some might be there.
I started at once and hunted all about the spot where we were. But I found none.
I came back to him just in time. He lay on the ground as I had left him, limp and motionless. And halfway out of the water, crawling up toward him, was a big alligator.
I leaped at the beast in fury. It slewed and slid back under the surface. Then, lifting my partner, I laid him in the canoe and stroked swiftly away from that accursed place.
As we went onward I watched along both sides, hoping to see a patch of pajemarioba on some point of land. The ch...
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15 Times YouTubers Understood Being Socially Awkward
11 May 2016, 15:06 | Updated: 17 July 2017, 12:16
This article is painfully true.
Are you ready to get the feels? As human beings on this planet, being socially awkward is something we've all experienced at some point; dancing at weddings, doing a presentation to your whole school or being near people making out MASSIVELY in public. But don't worry, you're not alone in your awkwardness because we've all been there.
So for all the people out there who would much rather spend their time with the cat at a house party or enjoy the comfort of Tumblr and a bowl of Dorrito's, this article is for just you.
That moment when you see your tagged pictures from last night and immediately decide to delete your Facebook account.
That feeling when you're asked to do a presentation in front of your friends and colleagues.
When you're talking on the phone to someone important and hang up by saying "I love you".
Not hearing what someone has said to you, but not wanting to ask them to repeat it three times, so you just nod and laugh.
When you wave at someone across the road who absolutely was definitely not looking at you.
Telling your waitress to enjoy her meal too.
Purposefully crossing the road/walking faster/looking at your phone to avoid making eye contact with that guy in your History class from three years ago and making small talk.
Meeting someone else who's just as awkward as you and gets it.
Hearing that your friends idea of an amazing time is the 40-person-deep mosh pit they got into last night.
That amazing moment when you win awards for being the most awkward person on the planet.
Trying to act totally normal in front of bae.
Having to introduce yourself in group scenarios.
That relief when you're simmering in awkward silence and your friend rushes over to rescue you.
When you're desperately trying to end a conversation naturally even though you stopped concentrating ages ago.
Being so awkward in front of other people that you immediately forget everything you wanted to say.