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Science Friday Covering everything about science and technology -- from the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies -- Science Friday is your source for entertaining and educational stories and activities. Each week, host Ira Flatow interviews scientists and inventors like Sylvia Earle, Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more.
Future Telescopes, Caterpillars. Dec 14, 2018, Part 2 2018-12-14 13:58:26 28 years ago, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery gently raised the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST, up from the shuttle bay, and released it into space. Geologist and astronaut Kathryn Sullivan commemorated the moment with a short speech, as she floated in the shuttle. It would be a few years (and a repair job) before the truly historic nature of the telescope was revealed, showing us new views of the cosmos, and wonders it wasn't even designed to study, like exoplanets. But Hubble is getting up there in years, and it's time for new history to be made. Lots of new telescopes are waiting in the wings: The James Webb Space Telescope, W-FIRST, plus a collection of others vying to be the next big thing in space telescopes.
Caterpillars might be the squirming, crawling larval stage of butterflies and moths, but they have defenses, behaviors, and lives of their own. Second grader Nina Del Bosque from Houston, Texas was stung by an asp caterpillar. She wanted to know about other stinging caterpillars in the world and what role they play in the ecosystemâso she sent Science Friday a handwritten letter with her questions. We invited Nina on the show with biologist David Wagner, author of Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History, to talk about the stinging asp caterpillar, the woolly bear, and all things caterpillar. View a few of these unique critters below. 47 minutes, 58 seconds
Cancer Immunotherapy, Raccoons, Frog Calls. Dec 14, 2018, Part 1 2018-12-14 13:57:47 For years, cancer treatment has largely involved one of three optionsâsurgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. In recent years, however, a new treatment option, immunotherapy, has entered the playing field. It has become the first-line preferred treatment for certain cancers. Immunotherapy is a class of treatments that use some aspect of the body's own immune response to help battle cancer cells. There are several different approaches, each with their own advantages and weaknesses.This year, the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation." The Nobel committee called their discoveries a landmark in our fight against cancer. Treatments based on their work are now in use against several forms of cancer, with many more trials underway. Still, the approach doesn't work in all cases, and researchers are working to try to better understand why.
How do raccoons keep getting into people's trash? It might just be one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time. No matter what kind of fancy lid, bungee cord, or alarm system we use, somehow these masked creatures always find a way into our smelly garbage. But are they just dexterous or actually smart? Lauren Stanton, Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab at the University of Wyoming, joins Ira to talk about testing the animal's smarts.
City mouse and country mouse aren't just characters from storiesâcities are unique ecosystems built by humans, and animals adapt when they move into urban areas. Researchers recently compared the calls of male tÃºngara frogs in Panama that lived in the forest with those in the city. They found that the city frogs had more complex calls and that female frogs preferred these callsâbut the less complex calls of country frogs made them easier to hide from predators. Biologist Alex Trillo, an author on the study, talks about the costs and benefits of changing calls for the tÃºngara frog. 47 minutes, 39 seconds
Microbes and Art, Science Books 2018. Dec 7, 2018, Part 2 2018-12-07 13:46:53 Here at Science Friday, our jobs involve reading a lot of science books every year. We have piles and piles of them at the office. Hundreds of titles about biology and art and technology and space, and sometimes even sci-fi. Now, the time has come for our annual roundup of the books we couldn't forget. We have plenty of picks from you, our listeners, as well as from our panel of expert guests: Stephanie Sendaula of Library Journal Reviews, Deborah Blum of MIT's Knight Science Journalism Program, and Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Research. See our favorite science books of 2018 here.
Fungi, bacteria and lichens can grow on paintings, monuments, and other types of artwork. They feed on different pigments, oils, and canvas. In a study out this week in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers analyzed a 17th century painting and found microbes that could degrade and others that could protect the painting. Robert Kesseler, the Director of the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute (who was not a part of that study), discusses why microbes like to munch on paintings and what can be done to protect these works of art.
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Hemp and CBD, Phytosaurs, Mosquito Control. Dec 7, 2018, Part 1 2018-12-07 12:51:37 Good news could be coming soon for anyone interested in hemp, the THC-free, no-high strain of cannabis whose use ranges from fibers to food to pharmaceuticals. If the 2018 Farm Bill passes Congress in its current form, growing hemp would be legal and products derived from hemp would be removed from their current legal gray area. Cornell horticulture professor Larry Smart explains why a plant that hasn't been grown legally in the U.S. for nearly a century will require a monumental effort from scientists to catch up to crops like soybean and tomatoes. Plus, Dr. Esther Blessing, an assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, breaks down where the research stands on other uses of CBD, and what we still don't know.
Then: Mass extinctions are a window into past climate disasters. They give a glimpse of the chemical and atmospheric ingredients that spell out doom for the Earth's biodiversity. Scientists have identified five big mass extinctions that have happened in the past. The end Triassic mass extinctionânumber four on the listâhappened around 200 million years ago, when three-quarters of the Earth's species went extinct. But the exact play-by-play is still a mystery. Paleontologist Randy Irmis at the Natural History Museum of Utah and his team are searching for phytosaur fossils, and Science Friday producers Katie Hiler and Lauren J. Young joined him in the field.
Plus, could the answer to controlling mosquitos be...more mosquitos? Or, at least, more mosquitos with a bacterial infection. We check in with Valley Public Radio reporter Kerry Klein on the State Of Science.
And it's been a big week for space news. Science Friday director Charles Bergquist joins Ira for the News Round-up.
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Gene-Editing Humans, Asymmetry, Ancient Whale Ancestor. Nov 30, 2018, Part 2 2018-11-30 14:03:50 The first CRISPR-edited babies are (probably) here. The news raises social, ethical, and regulatory questionsâfor both scientists and society.
Then, why are human bodies asymmetrical? A single protein could help explain why.
And finally, ever wondered how whales got their mouth bristles? It's possible that they went through a phase where they sucked up their food like vacuums before they evolved baleen. 47 minutes, 26 seconds
Climate Report, Wind Energy, SciFri Educator Collaborative. Nov 30, 2018, Part 1 2018-11-30 14:02:38 This Monday, Mars fans rejoiced as NASA's lander Mars InSight successfully parachuted safely onto the large, flat plain of Elysium Planitia. In the days that followed, the lander successfully has deployed its solar panels and begun to unstow its robotic arm. Learn more about the landing, plus the latest science news.
Then, wind energy development is spreading around the nation. But as developers move to identify promising locations for wind farms, however, they may need to consider more than just logistics, wind speeds, and distribution lines. Researchers report that "wake effects" from one wind farm can sap the energy of a downwind generating facility as far as 50 km away.
Part II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment describes how every part of our society and every state in our country will be impacted by a warmer world. Not just by hurricanes, floods and wildfires, but by more rainfall in the Midwest, thawing permafrost in Alaska, and drier air in the Southeast.
And finally, calling all science educators! We're teaming up with science educators across the country in our Science Friday Educator Collaborative Program, in which educators work with SciFri staff to develop resources for science learners everywhere. Applications are open now. 47 minutes, 34 seconds
Caves And Climate, Environmental Archeology, Scanning The Past. Nov 23, 2018, Part 2 2018-11-23 09:00:00 When you think of an archaeologist, you might imagine a scientist in the field wielding shovels and pickaxes, screening through dirt to uncover artifacts and structures buried deep in the ground. But what about those areas that you can't reach or even see? That's when you call archaeologist Lori Collins from the University of South Florida. Collins uses LIDARâa detection system that uses lasersâto map out the cracks and details of a prehistoric cat sculpture created by the Calusa people, sinkholes that pop up in Florida, and even a former NASA launch pad. She talks how this technology can preserve these archaeological finds in the face of climate change, natural disaster, and war.
When archaeologists unearth past societies, the story of those people is written in human remains and artifacts. But it's also written in environmental remains: bones of animals, preserved plants, and even the rocks around them. Kitty Emery and Nicole Cannarozzi, both environmental archaeologists at the Florida Museum, lead an onstage expedition through the earliest known domestication of turkeys in Guatemala and Mexico, the 4,000-year-old shell middens of indigenous people of coastal Southeast United States, and even sites that could tell us more about the African American diaspora and the lives of slaves mere hundreds of years ago. Plus, the two archaeologists tell us how understanding the environmental choices of past people can lead to better insight into ourselves.
Sea level rise and fall over hundreds of thousands of years. Ancient vegetation. The diets of early human ancestors and the temperatures they lived in. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and how it changed over time. All of these are data sought by paleoclimatologists, who study the prevailing climate during times past. And the clues of this data are buried in the rock formations of caves around the world. Paleoclimatologist and cave researcher Bogdan Onac of the University of South Florida travels from New Mexico to Romania to Spain to find the stories hidden in millenia-old cave ice, bat guano, and rock formations. He joins Ira to tell tales from the trail. 47 minutes, 39 seconds
2018 Ig Nobel Prizes. Nov 23, 2018, Part 1 2018-11-23 09:00:00 When you go to the zoo, maybe you imitate the chimps, copying their faces, their gestures, or their walk. But it turns out the chimps imitate you just about as oftenâand as well, according to scientists. Other researchers have found that a trained nose can detect the odor of a single fly floating in a glass of wine. And that sometimes, a trip to the amusement park may be an effective treatment to aid in the passage of kidney stones.
These projects are among the 10 selected by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research to be honored at this year's 28th first annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies. The prizes, awarded in September at Harvard's Sanders Theatre, salute work that "first makes you laugh, and then, makes you think." 47 minutes, 47 seconds
California Fires, Fire Engineering, Flu Near You. Nov 16, 2018, Part 1 2018-11-16 14:14:37 When wildfires strike, the conversation typically centers around natural factors: forest management, climate change, or hot dry winds that fan the flames. But there's another important factor in wildfire risk: what humans build. Not just where we build, adjacent to flammable landscapes, but how we build it. Fire historian Stephen Pyne joins us to talk about what we might learn from the way we build in big city centers, where we've been largely successful at stamping out big blazes, and Sascha von Meier of UC Berkeley tells us a few ways power companies might fortify the grid to avoid sparking fires.
And could California use more planned burns to prevent forest fires? Molly Peterson of KQED tells us more.
Plus: Flu season has already begun, and Science Friday is teaming up with Flu Near You to recruit a national team of everyday citizens to build a real-time map of the rise and fall of influenza-like-illness in the United States. It's as simple as reporting how you feel each week. Science Friday education director Ariel Zych and Flu Near You co-founder John Brownstein of Boston Children's Hospital kick off the project with information and some of the trends they'll be tracking throughout the season, and biologist Matt Smith tells about the dangers of flu season for people living with cystic fibrosis.
Plus, Annalee Newitz joins Ira to tell us the latest science news in the News Round-up. 46 minutes, 54 seconds
Smell Science, Reader Come Home, Sonar Smackdown. Nov 16, 2018, Part 2 2018-11-16 14:13:46 If you had to give up one of your senses, which would you pick? If you think that "smell" might be the obvious answer, consider that your nose plays a crucial role in how you perceive the taste of your food or that it's a sophisticated sensor capable of synthesizing the hundreds of different molecules into the floral fragrance we know as "roses." University of Florida professor Steven Munger explains the nuances of smell.
Plus: The digital world is changing how we read. What does that mean for the next generation of readers? As Maryanne Wolf describes in her newest book, Reader, Come Home, we may be at risk of raising a generation of people who don't have those skills simply because of our changing reading habits. She joins Ira to discuss how our reading brain has changed since moving into the digital world and what we can do to fall in love with reading again.
Are you team bat? Or team dolphin? Earlier this month at the Acoustical Society of America Conference two groups of scientists argued the finer points of each animal's echolocation excellence. Things got heated, words were exchanged. But in this battle between the sonar specialists, which creature comes out the winner? To settle the debate, two researchers join Ira for a good, old-fashioned "rumble on the radio." Laura Kloepper, assistant professor at St. Mary's College backs up the agile, winged masters of the sky, while Brian Branstetter, research scientist at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, vouches for the swift swimmers of the sea. Both are ready for Science Friday's first ever "Sonar Smackdown." 46 minutes, 55 seconds
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Circular We're told if the economy is growing, and if we keep producing, that's a good thing. But at what cost? This hour, TED speakers explore circular systems that regenerate and re-use what we already have. Guests include economist Kate Raworth, environmental activist Tristram Stuart, landscape architect Kate Orff, entrepreneur David Katz, and graphic designer Jessi Arrington.
#504 The Art of Logic How can mathematics help us have better arguments? This week we spend the hour with "The Art of Logic in an Illogical World" author, mathematician Eugenia Cheng, as she makes her case that the logic of mathematics can combine with emotional resonance to allow us to have better debates and arguments. Along the way we learn a lot about rigorous logic using arguments you're probably having every day, while also learning a lot about our own underlying beliefs and assumptions.


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7 Nutrients Your Diet May Be Missing
Chances are, you need some more of seven nutrients in particular. Many adults don't get enough of them.
You can fix that problem by following these simple steps for each nutrient.
1. Calcium Why It’s Good for You: Your bones need it. So do your heart and other muscles. Studies have shown a link between getting enough calcium and lower blood pressure, as well as weight control. How Much You Need: You need more calcium as you age, according to the Institute of Medicine, the group of experts that sets nutrient quotas. Here's what you need every day: 19- to 50-year-olds: 1,000 milligrams 51 years and up: 1,200 mg How to Get More of It: Three servings of low-fat dairy foods each day, as part of a balanced diet, provide you with the calcium you need. If you have dairy or lactose intolerance, you can get calcium from calcium-fortified products, dark green leafy vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
Some examples of foods that provide around 300 milligrams of calcium per serving include:
8 ounces milk or yogurt 8 ounces calcium-added orange juice 1 1/2 ounces hard cheese 8 ounces calcium-fortified soy milk, almond milk, or another alternative 2. Fiber Why It’s Good for You: Fiber is good for your digestion, lowering cholesterol, and managing blood sugar levels. It's filling, and it's found in foods that are low in calories, so it helps you manage your weight. How Much You Need: Men 19 to 50 years old: 38 grams; 51 years and older: 30 grams Women 19 to 50 years old: 25 grams; 51 years and older: 21 grams How to Get More of It: Include fruits and vegetables and high-fiber whole grains at every meal. Snack on whole-grain crackers, fruit, vegetables, or popcorn (a whole grain) instead of cookies, candy, or chips. Choose whole-grain breads and cereals, whole wheat pasta, and other whole grains, such as quinoa, millet, barley, cracked wheat, and wild rice. Look for breads with more than 3 grams of fiber per slice. Go for cereals with 5 or more grams of dietary fiber per serving. Start a meal with a bean soup, such as lentil or black bean. Add canned, rinsed chickpeas to salads, soups, eggs, and pasta dishes. 3. Vitamin A : Essential Nutrient for Eyes Why It’s Good for You: You need vitamin A for your vision, genes, immune system, and many other things. How Much You Need: Vitamin A comes in two forms: as retinol (which is ready for the body to use) and carotenoids, the raw materials the body makes into vitamin A. How to Get More of It: Make your diet colorful. Top picks include: Carrots Sweet potatoes Pumpkin Spinach Cantaloupe Sweet red pepper Broccoli

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Sergei Eisenstein included in the group exhibition Le Violin d'Ingres curated by Christian Boltanski at the Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome, Rome, Italy.
Institution's press release:
Le Violon d’Ingres is an exhibition that was developed through a dialogue between the curator and the artist Christian Boltanski, an exceptional exhibition on the transversal and radical practices of great personalities of all times.
Centered on the figure of Victor Hugo with a rigorous and dazzling selection of his drawings – whose importance and inspiration for many contemporary artists become more and more significant – the exhibition presents in the same time the passions and the obsessions, less known by the public, of extraordinary figures such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Jean Cocteau, Sergueï Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Jean Genet, Sacha Guitry, Franz Kafka, Pierre Klossowski, Carlo Levi, René Magritte, Nelson Mandela, Louise Michel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Arnold Schönberg, and contemporary artists: Etel Adnan, Chantal Akerman, Christian Boltanski, Chris Kraus, Pierre Guyotat, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch, Patti Smith and Robert Wilson.
Materialized by his famous violin, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ presence in the exhibition is quite exceptional: an artist – Rome Price and director of Villa Medici from 1835 to 1841 – who never subordinated his musical passion to that for painting. The idiomatic expression “avoir un violon d’Ingres (to have a violin of Ingres)” takes its very origin in his person and was created, in reference to the less visible passions, sometimes real obsessions, which overlap with the “official” practices, intertwined with them, accompany them, ‘deviate’ them and densify artistic thought.
The project intends to show how the idea of artistic creation cannot be reduced or categorized with disciplinary grids, but finds its own life from the very tangle of different practices and disciplines which contribute to the creation of poetics, visions and changes, beyond the context – political, literary, philosophical, artistic, musical…
In harmony with the spirit of openness to all forms of expression that characterizes Villa Medici, Le Violon d’Ingres is conceived around artworks, from installation, painting, drawing to the tapestry, the sculpture, and moving image … thus revealing a free path within the most intimate, obsessive and radical aspects of personalities who have marked forever our vision of the world.
Le Violon d’Ingres
November 1, 2018 – February 3, 2019
Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome
Viale della Trinità dei Monti
1, 00187 Roma RM, Italy

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I really appreciated reading Charles Yu’s compelling piece in The Atlantic. I wasn’t happy about what he said, but I sure appreciated his perspective. He wrote:
“Human civilization – thanks to advancements in science, medicine, social and governmental structures – exists inside a bubble, protected from the kind of cataclysmic event we are currently experiencing.”
Yu makes a solid point about this “bubble”, particularly for those of us living with a chronic and progressive illness like heart disease, which made us particularly vulnerable to the “cataclysmic event” called COVID-19. .
I must add that Yu is a Columbia University-trained corporate lawyer-turned-TV-writer-turned novelist living in California, so he might be forgiven for omitting in that sentence what he really means: “human civilization in first world countries“.
Developing countries may or may not enjoy the advancement privileges that he (or I) enjoy, and it could be further argued that countless neighbourhoods within his own United States cannot take privileges for granted either.
It took a global pandemic to remind us that any modern advantage we enjoy exists only within this fragile bubble, described by Yu as having a “thin layer that pops easily”. Events that were once considered inviolable – sending our kids to school, for example, or weddings, graduations, even funerals – were postponed indefinitely. Lineups for food banks. Nursing homes filled with COVID-19 infected seniors whose families were not allowed to hold their hands while they were dying.
That bubble has popped. But the centre of that bubble, the part that will persist long after COVID-19 precautions are lifted, according to Yu, is the psychological bubble that many of us still cling to.
“What we really mean when we say that this pandemic feels ‘unimaginable’ is that we had not imagined it. Even as our stark new reality becomes clear, it remains hard to accept that ‘normal’ was the fiction.
“It will take some time to let go of the long-held, seldom-questioned assumptions of everyday life: that tomorrow will look like yesterday, next year like the last.
“The current pandemic crisis and our responses to it (both individual and institutional) have reminded us that it’s not the unreality of the pandemic, but the illusions shattered by it: the grand, shared illusion that we are separate from nature, that life on Earth is generally stable, not precarious.”
Within the first few short months, we graduated together from a crash course that taught us how unstable our life on this precious earth can indeed be, as precarious as it has always been for others who are “not like us”.
As many seem to believe, bad things are what happen to other people. And if they do happen to us (through death or divorce or a life-altering medical diagnosis), we will somehow survive by clutching at trite platitudes like “Everything happens for a reason!” or “God never gives you more than you can handle!”
What we’ve been experiencing during this COVID-19 crisis is a thin sliver of the catastrophic reality happening day after day, year after year worldwide, far beyond the perimeter of our cozy bubbles: devastating droughts, famine, war zones, earthquakes, hurricanes, monsoons, forest fires, refugee camps and other sources of fear and suffering that we mistakenly believe will never touch us.
Here’s a closer-to-home example: consider the people we see interviewed on the news whose homes are built in the middle of a flood plain. Decade after decade, tearful families share truly awful stories of being homeless after yet another devastating flood, as if surprised this could have happened to them. Again.
Julie Morse once interviewed her neighbours in western Washington state about this phenomenon. It’s an area so prone to flooding that rivers there have reached flood stage more than 1,400 times in the last 20 years. Yet people continue to rebuild their flood-damaged homes on flood plains (usually with the assistance of government-funded disaster relief programs) – as if they don’t believe they live on a flood plain. They simply cannot accept it.
Of course, we long for a return to the way our lives were, pre-COVID-19, but first we needed to face reality head on, and to learn what the countries affected before us have had to teach us.
When early public health precautions were abandoned in favour of hugging strangers at indoor parties, arena-sized crowds, and packed airline flights once again, the novel coronavirus almost certainly re-emerged in another wave, just as every global pandemic in history has re-emerged.
The true end of the COVID-19 virus crisis won’t be like shutting off a tap, although we may dream longingly about how great it will be “when this is over”. We have to accept that.
My five-year old granddaughter Everly Rose asked me in the early days of the pandemic, “But when can we have sleepovers at your house again, Baba?” One day, precious girl, one day. . .
For those living with chronic illness who have been white-knuckling through months of self-isolation, so scared to catch this virus, it’s especially important for us to acknowledge reality instead of politicized bafflegab at spoiled brat anti-mask protests.
First, hospitals and medical specialists have been busy playing catch-up, treating worsening medical conditions of those whose treatments had been delayed by more urgent COVID-19 priorities. See also: “Empty beds: when heart patients are afraid to seek help“
Charles Yu concluded his perspective in The Atlantic with a nod to the lived reality of the majority of the globe’s citizens:
” Things aren’t necessarily going to be okay in a reasonable time frame just because we want them to be.
“To think otherwise is to succumb to the fiction, a sheltered, resource-rich mindset, presumably not shared by the billions of people who have long lived in volatile conditions and are thus under no such illusions.”
People whose expertise and experience have been built on global front lines studying how pandemics actually work will not be making idle promises to patch up that magic bubble for us, just because that’s what we want to hear.
Please. Stay safe.
Q: Does giving up public safety precautions mean the pandemic is “over”?
NOTE FROM CAROLYN: I wrote much more about how heart patients manage health crises in my book, A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease. You can ask for it at your local bookshop, or order it online (paperback, hardcover or e-book) at Amazon, or order it directly from my publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press (use their code HTWN to save 30% off the list price).
♥–CardioSmart (a report from the American College of Cardiology on how COVID-19 affects heart patients)

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We got up at 4:00 in the morning, because our car was set to depart at 4:30. They had prepared a couple of snacks for us to eat on the way. We checked out, and then headed back on the long drive to the airport, reminiscent of our long drive from Torres del Paine to Punta Arenas. We had a hard time getting to sleep until we got off the dirt road onto the paved road.
Check-in at the airport was easy, and again our bags were checked through to our final destination, in this case Rio de Janeiro. We went to a different airport in Sao Paulo, CGH instead of GRU. We're not sure why, since both times we went to Sao Paulo we were coming from one Brazilian city and leaving for another. We think this must have been the airport where there was an accident a couple months back, because when we landed the pilot slammed on the brakes - the runway did not seem very long at all. We didn't have a long layover, and were soon on the plane to Rio.
There were clouds everywhere, so we didn't get that good a view of the city until right when we were landing. It was before rush hour, and we landed at the domestic airport (in the city), so the ride from the airport to the hotel was 10 minutes. Our guide, Vinny (short for Venilton), was very good, probably one of the best we have had on any of our trips. He gave us a ton of information, made dinner reservations for us, and attempted to move around our scheduled events so that we would have the most free time on Friday.
The view from our room was spectacular - we had a room on the 18th floor overlooking Copacabana beach, with a balcony. After checking in, we just walked down the beach south towards Ipanema. We got to Arpoador, a little hill that separates Copacabana from Ipanema, and took some photos of the sunset. There was a cute French bulldog running around the beach in that area. We walked back mostly the same way, getting back in time to change before dinner.
For dinner, we walked north along the beach to Marius, a meat joint (churrascaria). We had heard many good things, and it did not disappoint. The ribeye, the T-bone, the sausages, the chicken - they all were extremely good. We were a little surprised by the décor and the costumes - it was like a Pirates of the Caribbean theme. Somehow we willed ourselves to walk back to the hotel (rather than catch a cab). We quickly fell asleep.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Activist Hishamuddin Rais said today he was not “fabricating stories” when he said PKR was not happy with Lim Guan Eng being appointed as finance minister.
He insisted that everything he had written about behind-the-scenes events immediately after Pakatan Harapan (PH) won the 2018 election was true.
He was referring to remarks by PKR president-elect Anwar Ibrahim yesterday that he (Hishamuddin) was “great at fabricating stories”.
In articles he wrote in news portal Malaysiakini last week, Hishamuddin claimed that PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail had opposed Lim’s appointment as finance minister and had proposed Rafizi Ramli instead.
Hishamuddin claimed he wanted to explain why the swearing-in of the cabinet was delayed and why Wan Azizah was absent when Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced the appointments of Muhyiddin Yassin, Mohamad Sabu and Lim as home, defence and finance ministers.
He said in a statement: “What I wrote was facts. I know what I wrote. It’s not a fabrication. It’s not rumours or hearsay.”
He said he felt compelled to write because he wanted to record history, adding that the agenda today was to defend the democratic space.
“This democratic space can vanish if we of all races do not reject those who are greedy for power, those who fight for power, not to defend the reform agenda and democratic space but to sabotage the reform agenda and return to the old feudal Malaysia,” Hishamuddin added.


The ICS CXP-08 Proline AEG was designed primarily to pack features and performance into a small and comfortable package.
The CXP-08 from is not your grandpa's M4. This rifle, as is made evident by the external design, brings with it new features and surprising performance while maintaining a compact size. The rail system included on this rifle has two removable rail sections on the side, allowing the user to slim down the rifle if they would like, or to leave them attached in order to hold lights and lasers and the like. The metal collapsible stock is comfortable and looks unique, while cutting down on size when compared with a standard collapsible stock and especially full stock. The iron sights on this rifle are integrated a bit more than on a typical M4, as they're built into the top rail section. The build quality of the CXP-08 is solid, with a full metal rail system, barrel, body, and stock. The only notable plastic component on this rifle is the pistol grip, which happens to have a nice texture on it to provide the user with a better hold on the gun. The overall compact size of this weapon makes it easy to wield and navigate corners and other obstacles, but there's no sacrifice in performance made for this gun. Internally it sports a Version 2 Split Design Gearbox by ICS, which makes changing your FPS, maintaing your gun, or swapping a broken part easier than ever.
The ICS CXP-08 is a very versatile and well built platform that can fit into just about anyone's playstyle.
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Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he "loves" karaoke and recently performed with his Harry Potter castmates.
The actor, who plays the title character in the magical franchise, told MTV News that his favourite tracks are 'Hound Dog' by Elvis Presley and Muse's 'Feeling Good'.
"That was my proudest moment, because I actually did that rather well," he said, referring to the Muse cover. "I was really pleased, because I can sing. I've been having singing lessons for two-and-a-half years. I'm not amazing, obviously, but I'm all right."
The actor continued to say that he recently enjoyed a karaoke night with co-stars including Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Oliver Phelps (George Weasley) at the launch party for the new 'Wizarding World Of Harry Potter' attraction in Florida.
"I think [Rupert] and Sarah his chaperone did 'I Got You Babe', which is the sweetest thing because they are awesome," he said. "Sarah has worked with Rupert pretty much since the beginning. That was very, very sweet.
"I think [Rupert] and Ollie Phelps did 'Fight For Your Right', and then him and Anthony - who is his double on the film - did 'We Are Family' which is awesome!"
It was recently reported that the movie's cast celebrated the end of filming on Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by gathering at Emma Watson's (Hermione Granger) house for a dinner party where they recalled some of their favourite memories from the franchise.


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Links to some charts are posted but first lets discuss the "recovery".
Gold just finished exploding on the news that Austraila raised its interest rates. Inflation speculators wasted no time to jump on this chance to send Gold to a brand new record high.
The thing you learn about the market however the longer you are in it, is that it very often moves to hurt the most people.
Everyone and their dog are bullish on Gold. 1200, 1500, 2000, 5000, 15000 LOL There are many arguements why Gold should go up, and not as many to be sure why it wont, at least just yet.
The USD, has the exact opposite case and scenario. Most people say it will be toasted forever, very few think it will go up .
I think you see where I am going with this. Now add in the markets. Since 2000 when the tech bubble burst after 20 years of solid buy and hold investing, the market has changed. It heavily corrected and then recovered in early 2003. Now we come to the big problem.
GREED from years and years heaped with more greed created a bubble of its own. Lehman, Fannie, now we are up to about 100 bank failures, these are not small problems folks. So of course when they became public knowledge the market reacted just how you would expect, FEAR. The two most dominant emotions that drive the market and even the economy.
Now we come to my main point. What has changed since a bunch of greedy good for nothings ruined the economy? I tell you what, not a damn thing. The government threw a bunch of money at the problem and people got greedy all over again driving the markets higher thinking everything is going to be just fine. HAH.
The first clue that they learned absolutely nothing is look where some of the money went, MORE AIG bonuses. Here is the government bailing out a failed business model to try and save the day and the greedy no good SOB's pay themselves an immediate bonus with the money?
The list goes on here, Chrysler, Citi, look at it seriously and you realized nothing has changed. The piper was not paid and the dumb motha's never even changed many of the policies that brought everything down in the first place.
Now look at job numbers. I'm not going to go any farther, lets just say that there is overwhelming evidence that we still have all the same problems we did when this all exploded.
Okay now some charts. Back to how the market moves to hurt the most people. So everyone is bullish on Gold and with good reason, after printing a gazillion dollars eventually the USD will have to pay the piper. This will not happen until we are really in an inflationary environment and right now we are not. Austraila is the first to push this envelope but I really think this is premature.
We have just witnessed one of the strngest rallies in all of history. Truly greed took over at some point and this right now is NOT trading on fundamentals but on "thin air". So what I see here is the "deflationary" environment is about to come back, in a big way. This means that commodities like Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil are all going to go back down and the USD believe or not, and I know most wont, will go back up. Most people realize the USD has been inverse to the markets since about 2003 and when we crashed last fall guess where the dollar went, UP.
Right now, I see definite signs that Gold may be hitting a "top" and the USD will be bottoming very soon. These charts show Elliot Wave patterns and are complex to explain but I think you will see the patterns I am refering to.
So while i think the USD will eventually bite the big one, I dont think its time is just yet since the markets have got WAY ahead of themselves and the economy, and I am not talking about the usual 6 months ahead.
Food for thought. Happy trading
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CLARK, NJ - Winners of the annual UNICO Columbus Day Essay Contest were recognized during a ceremony held on Sunday before the start of the final day of the Italian-American Feast.
Numerous UNICO members, government officials, students and parents gathered in the Clark Recreation center as these students gave tribute to the contributions of Italians to America.
This year’s winners included:
Michael Buttleman of the Arthur L. Johnson High School
Nicholas Cardoso of the Frank K. Hehnley School
John Fleckenstein of the Carl H. Kumpf Middle School
Emma Herko of the Valley Road School;
This annual tradition has become a well known event in the Clark Schools with numerous students taking part annually. “We are most proud of our student author winners and am beyond appreciative of Clark UNICO for their ongoing support of our students and schools” said Superintendent Ed Grande.
Other dignitaries in attendance included Union County Freeholders Angel Estrada, Chris Hudak and Al Mirabella. Local officials consisted of Clark Mayor Sal Bonaccorso, Clark Council Members Al Barr, Steve Hund, Bill Smith, Brian Toal and Henry Varriano representing the Clark Public Schools.
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Layoffs at Hilton Timeshare Questioned in the Face of Hilton Expansion
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Hilton Grand Vacations (Hilton Timeshare) is headquartered in Orlando. Over approximately the past 6 months, Hilton has laid off some 187 of its 3500 employees. Yet, according to information confirmed by Channel 9 reporters, Hilton timeshare is actually expanding in Orlando by launching the first phase of Club Parc Soleil (a 7-phase project in the tourist area of Orlando); building a new Hilton hotel on International Drive in Orlando; and continuing construction on the 1400 Orlando Hilton set to open later this year.
When reporters pursued the question of why the employee layoffs at a time the company was expanding, they did not receive answers from the spokesperson for Hilton timeshares. There is no information on whether any of the employees who had been let go were offered the opportunity to relocate to other positions at Hilton.


Neighbors optimistic about Decatur’s purchase of blighted Commerce Drive property600 Commerce Drive, Decatur, GA. Image obtained via Google Maps
Decatur, GA — Neighbors of the property occupying 600 and 604 Commerce Drive spoke at Tuesday’s city commission meeting in favor of the city of Decatur paying $600,000 to buy it.
At one point the property was slated to be a halfway house for veterans leaving drug rehab, according to one neighbor, but the neighbors fought it. The property has been in a sorry state for years, the neighbor said. At one point in 2021, a developer was eyeing the property as a site for townhomes.
At its June 21 meeting, the Decatur City Commission approved the purchase, and with it comes the promise of something better for the neighborhood.
“I think being able to come to you with the transparency that entails is a far better situation than the developers we have already dealt with,” said neighbor Rachel “Susie” Kezh.
City Manager Andrea Arnold said the city currently has no plans for the property, aside from making sure it’s secure and cleaning up the outstanding code violations. It could eventually be used for greenspace or for modeling how affordable housing could be built in a single-family neighborhood. At a work session before the June 21 meeting, the city discussed the possibility of the city once again allowing duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes in the city. They’ve been prohibited in Decatur since 1988.
Commissioners agreed that the city is paying a fair price for the property and said whatever the city does with it will be subject to the same laws that govern every other development in the city.
“Whatever comes next, we will make sure it involves a public input process,” Mayor Patti Garrett said.
In other business at the June 21 meeting:
– The city commission approved the city’s budget, millage rate and a new pay and employee classification plan.
The Decatur City Commission lowered the millage rate by 0.75 mills, from 13.92 mills to 13.17 mills.
For a fair market value home that is $500,000 and had no change in property value from 2021 to 2022, the property owner would pay $3,193.50 in taxes if the city’s millage rate stayed at 13.92 mills. The property owner will now pay $3,018.25 in taxes under the new rate of 13.17 mills.
The FY 22-23 budget anticipates the city will receive about $32.6 million in general fund revenue and will spend the same amount. The new budget is about $3 million higher than the revised FY 21-22 budget. To balance the budget based on predicted revenues and expenditures, city staff recommend using about $3.8 million in fund balance from the general fund. To see the new budget, click here.
The new pay and classification plan adds nine full-time positions to the city’s staff, for a total of 243. New positions include Facilities Operations Manager, Urban Naturalist and Equity and Engagement Director. To see the new pay and classification plan, click here.
For our previous story about the city’s budget and millage rate, click here.
– The city commission adopted a new fee schedule. The fee schedule reduces the fee for wholesale dealer’s license to sell spirituous liquors from $5,050 to $5,000 because state law limits that fee to $5,000. It increases the fee for review of sprinkler plans and fire alarm plans from $50 to $100 to bring the fee in line with what other local governments charge. It also adjusts camp and class fees in Decatur Active Living by $15 per session.
“A session is a 20 school day period,” a memo from City Clerk Meredith Roark says. “In FY 21-22, the session fee for Animal Crackers (K-2) and Whiz Kids (3-5) was $340 per session for city residents. In FY 22-23 the proposed fee is $355. This increase is necessary in order to cover the additional $2 per hour pay increase for part-time counselors approved in FY 21-22 as a critical effort to attract and retain an adequate number of staff members to operate the city’s seven afterschool programs.”
Reporters Zoe Seiler and Cathi Harris contributed to this story.
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At the Pekan Umno annual assembly today, Najib said there’s a need to recover even though the party won the seat in 2018 with a 24,859-vote majority.
“Umno/BN is strong in Pekan, so our goal is not just to win the seat but to also get the highest majority votes among all our candidates.
“What we obtained in 2018 was not as encouraging as the 2013 election. We want to get back to previous levels where the margin was even larger,” said the Pekan MP.
In 2018, amid public anger over the 1MDB scandal, Najib’s majority in Pekan slipped to 24,859 compared to a 35,613 majority in 2013.
“We should focus on voters aged between 18 and 40, who made up 56.77 percent of the 118,835 voters. We should also focus on voters aged between 18 and 20 because they have lower (political) awareness and knowledge.
“Some don’t even know their representatives. So, this group of voters would go for personality and charisma. Secondly, they also look at current issues,” he said.
Therefore, Najib said, the youth and women wings should organise events to cater to these voters’ needs.
In particular, he instructed the wings to set up a call centre, which will work full time until the general election to reach out to the youth.
He urged Umno wings to play an active role in the membership recruitment exercise given the current members only made up 26 percent of total voters.
In his 30-minute speech during the assembly, Najib also urged party members to either pray for him or show solidarity with him by showing up at the Federal Court next week.
The apex court will hear the MP’s final appeal to set aside his conviction and sentence in the RM42 million SRC International corruption case.
Najib’s eldest son Mohd Nizar, 44, has been touted as the best candidate to replace him in the Pekan constituency if Najib is no longer eligible to be fielded as a candidate following an unfavourable court ruling.
Nizar was with accounting firm Deloitte for 18 years before joining the Pahang state government as the Pahang Social Action Council’s economy and human capital bureau chief.


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Ceramic honeycomb blocks are used as heat exchanger material in regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTO’s). They provide both an increased active surface and a lower flow resistance. An even distribution of air flow within the regenerators results in an improved usage of the honeycomb material's heat storage capacity, thus increasing the regenerators' efficiency.
To date standard blocks, mainly with vertical flow, have been used. The newly patented honeycomb structure of the "Ecopure® ARC Block" also allows horizontal flow distribution between the different bed layers by using horizontally arched blocks. So, the additional spacers used previously are no longer needed; this also reduces the installation work required.
Compared to the previously used honeycomb structures, the "Ecopure® ARC Block" achieves energy savings of up to 10 %. This allows running the equipment at higher volumetric loads at a reduced capital cost.
Source: Final report titled "Testing preheating efficiency of arc honeycomb blocks in RTO plants" by CUTEC of 16 July 08.
Measurements and tests at the renowned Clausthaler Umwelttechnik-Institut GmbH (CUTEC) proved the efficiency of the honeycomb structure developed by Dürr. They were carried out by Karl-Heinz Dammeyer (Dipl. Ing.) under the direction of Otto Carlowitz (Prof. Dr.-Ing.).
The "Ecopure® ARC Blocks" developed by Dürr can easily be used not only for new regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTO’s), but also to retrofit existing equipment at any time. The new arc blocks have been successfully used in several units running in continuous operation.


Union County's road warriors end four-week trek with return to renovated home park
HENDERSON, Ky. – Four weeks into the season, it has been bus ride after bus ride for the Union County baseball team.
The Braves were forced to play the season’s first 12 games on the road while improvements to Sid Stone Stadium were being completed.
Union County coach Chad Robison isn’t complaining especially since his team is off to an 8-4 start.
“It’s difficult, but you know it’s funny, it’s a routine. When you’re playing that many games on the road, you’re almost get in a routine,” Robison said. “That’s a big thing about high school baseball. It always scares me at regional time. That’s about the time we get out of school and it throws everything up into the wind because the kids get out of their routine.”
The Braves will give the bus a break when their four-week journey ends Thursday with the home opener against Henderson County. The Colonels claimed a 1-0 win over Union County on Tuesday in Henderson.
There is plenty of upside to the remainder of Union County’s season, not the least of which is the improvements to their home field. The renovations include a new press box, concession stand and restrooms behind home plate, new dugouts, handicap accessible bleachers and a handicap accessible parking lot.
The remainder of the Braves’ schedule will be heavy with home games. They are scheduled to play 14 of their last 25 games at Sid Stone Stadium and will also host the Second Region Tournament.
“When you’re at home, you get more advantages, like getting more swings before the game,” Robison said.
Hitting has been a strength of the Braves in the early season. “Our bats have been ahead of the game normally from where we are this time of the year,” said Robison, whose teams have usually started slow but turn into regional contenders by season’s end. Cade Duncan, Coy Burns and Riley Jones are all batting above .400 for the Braves.
Union County, which won region titles in 2011 and 2014, has been the regional runner-up the last three years.
With a veteran pitching staff led by seniors Duncan and Burns, the Braves expect to be in the regional hunt again this season. Duncan, who has signed with Lindsey Wilson College, is 3-0 with a 1.94 earned run average. Burns, who will play at Southeastern Illinois College, has a 2.16 ERA with a 2-2 record and one save. He pitched a two-hitter in the one-run loss to Henderson County on Tuesday.
There will be ribbon cutting for the new facilities at Sid Stone Stadium Thursday at 5:15 p.m. before the game begins.
Finally breaking out the home uniforms for the remainder of the season has another advantage.
“I’m sure the moms don’t appreciate us playing all of these road games, having to wash all of the clothes and stuff,” Robison said.


No Budget day would be complete without the Chancellor of the Exchequer proudly brandishing the red box outside Number 11 Downing Street.
The iconic briefcase will once again be called into action today, to safely carry Philip Hammond’s final pre-Brexit statement to the House of Commons.
The Budget red box: a brief history
The iconic Budget red box was produced around 1860 for William Gladstone, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer before becoming Prime Minister.
The box was then used by the vast majority of chancellors for a century and a half, although James Callaghan and Gordon Brown bucked the trend by having their own bespoke versions commissioned.
Its final outing came at the 2010 Autumn Statement in the hands of George Osborne, before the increasingly fragile political relic retired to the Cabinet War Rooms.
Philip Hammond uses a red box commissioned by The National Archives and handcrafted by official despatch boxes provider Barrow Hepburn & Gale in 2011.
However, for this year’s spring statement the Chancellor eschewed the red box and shunned the traditional photo op before delivering a shorter, low-key speech.
Although the Budget box is the best known, Barrow Hepburn & Gale produces dispatch boxes for all government ministers to transport their confidential documents.
It is thought that the red colour was introduced at the behest of Prince Albert, to match the dominant colour in his family’s coat of arms.
The government’s website states: “Ministers are permitted to use ordinary lockable briefcases to transport information which has been classified ‘Confidential’ or below.
“For information with a higher security level (such as ‘Secret’) they are required to use dispatch boxes, which offer a higher level of security, and which are usually red. ”
According to Treasury figures, a single dispatch box cost £865.43 in 2010.
Budget 2018: what you need to know
This year’s Budget speech will start at 3.30pm on 29 October, exactly five months before the official Brexit date.
It is the first time since 1962 that a UK government has unveiled its budget on a Monday, with reports suggesting aides did not want Mr Hammond to give his speech on Halloween.
The Chancellor’s statement is expected to focus on Brexit and the Prime Minister’s pledge to end austerity. Theresa May has confirmed that fuel duties would be frozen for the ninth consecutive year.


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This study investigated alcohol use, misuse and abuse in a sample of dentists, nurses, pharmacists and physicians. Previous studies have lacked cross healthcare group comparisons and have rarely included dentists. METHODS: As part of a larger mail survey, 479 healthcare professionals (68.7% response) completed self-report items on patterns of alcohol use, monthly drinking, heavy episodic …∞
7-year trajectories of Alcoholics Anonymous attendance and associations with treatment Although many members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are introduced to AA during treatment, the relationship between treatment and AA attendance over time is unknown. This paper describes four latent classes of AA attendance among 586 dependent alcoholics interviewed by telephone 1, 3, 5 and 7 …∞
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Brief-TSF Treatment Setting Brief-TSF can be used with both individuals who have never sought treatment and those who had previous treatment and aftercare clients. The model is flexible enough to accommodate all of these client groups. However, since Brief-TSF relies heavily on client involvement in community-based 12 step fellowship and meetings, it would be less …∞
In general mutual aid group membership was repeatedly associated with positive benefits.
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Results suggest stability in the representation of women and minorities among the AA membership
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Self-reported mental illness in a dental school clinic population The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of mental illness in a university-based dental clinic population. Dentists routinely review the patient’s medical history to identify any physical disease or condition that may impact dental treatment. Mental illness may also affect dental treatment and …∞
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The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as screening instrument for adolescents. BACKGROUND: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is an international screening instrument extensively employed in adult target groups. However, there is scarce information on screening with the AUDIT in adolescent populations. The purpose of this study was to determine the cut-off point …∞
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Many Patients Approve of Nurses Delivering Alcohol Screening in Hospital Many hospital patients are comfortable with having nurses deliver screening and brief intervention for alcohol, a new study suggests. According to the researchers, the findings indicate that nurses can be important partners in helping to screen for hazardous drinking. Medical News Today reports the U.S. …∞
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What Is Orgone?
What Is Orgone and Why Should You Take It? What is orgone? That is the question most people who have never heard of it ask. Orgone is an electronic system of energy exchange, which contains a crystal for storing up the energy used to produce positive energy. The energy that is stored here is in … Read more


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Studies on the attractive and palatable properties of various hydrolysates on fry of a salmonid of aquacultural interest: Oncorhynchus mykiss.
Global warming greatly accelerated by human activities requires measures to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Globalization has enabled entire populations to very significantly raise their standard of living, but the counterpart has been to considerably increase the exploitation of natural resources and the consumption of fossil fuels.
The use of fishmeal and soya as ingredients in animal feed, particularly in aquaculture, is emblematic of this situation.
The production of food in short and sustainable circuits has become an imperative necessity. Recycling organic products not consumed during human activities to feed insect larvae is a promising avenue. Proteins from insect meal will be a local and sustainable contribution to aquaculture pellets. The interest of proteins from insect meal will also be to give coarser vegetable sources attractive and palatable properties.
The purpose of our research is to highlight among several insect meal hydrolysates the one that will be the most effective in facilitating the intake of an eco-responsible food in the breeding of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss ).

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Frank Reynolds explains why a formal coaching philosophy statement is essential for all coaches.
Assuming that you are a coach, you carry out your role based on your experience, knowledge, values, opinions and beliefs. This in itself is a philosophy, and you do this unconsciously. The question is - do you know yourself well enough to understand what your core values and coaching methods are? A coaching philosophy that is well thought through clarifies many aspects of the coach's delivery and presents a consistent and positive message to the athletes being coached. One of the strongest benefits arising from a consistent and sincere approach to coaching is trust. A strong bond between coach and athlete leads to higher levels of commitment and athletic performance. With that in mind, it is the wise coach that takes the time to think through and formalize his or her personal coaching philosophy.
Developing a philosophy
In developing a formal philosophy, the coach can take three key components and, to their best ability, formulate a coaching philosophy document to be a better coach, to improve coach/athlete satisfaction and achieve superior athletic results. These three components are:
It takes an honest assessment to admit to having weaknesses, but we all have them. We do not want them to interfere with good coaching judgement. By focusing on your strengths, you will identify consistent ways to coach that utilize those strengths. Are you a good teacher, motivator, academic communicator, or former athlete? Are you dynamic, easy-going, hard-nosed or open and friendly? Use your strengths to your advantage. By taking the time to make a serious assessment of your strengths and weaknesses and recognizing your morals, values and beliefs, you can better adapt your style to the athletes being coached. Also, you will answer the essential questions on why you are a coach, how you deliver as a coach, and what objectives you are trying to accomplish. Self-knowledge leads to self-confidence, and you want to exude what you believe in. One other point to consider here is - how do others perceive you?
Know what you are up against - your coaching context
As important as it is to understand what makes you tick, it is equally important to understand the confines of your coaching context. By this, I mean: A good understanding of the athletes you coach's age, gender, and training level. How much time do you and your athletes have to train and compete? What is your development program based upon, and how far can you take it by enhancing and incorporating other aspects such as sports psychology, nutrition education or sophisticated technical analysis? What funding, facilities, services and equipment are at your disposal? Also, what are your short-medium and long-term goals for your athletes?
There could be other restrictions that will affect your coaching delivery. These include laws or policies on safe practices, club or school rules of behaviour, competition with other sports, school pressures and outside activities, parental interference, or performance standards to qualify for teams and competitions. Knowing what you are up against enables you to tailor your annual training program to the specific needs of the athletes you have under your charge. By understanding the outside influences that will affect your program, you can incorporate those that are good practices. Such policies on safety and behaviour, adapt to others that restrict your ability to be the 'do it all coach' such as lack of funds, equipment or services, and minimize negative obstacles that will affect you personally or an athlete on your team or your team in general. Dealing with parents can be a stressful situation, and a clear philosophy on how you will deal with an angry parent will minimize or avoid the knee-jerk reaction that often makes matters worse. By adapting your coaching philosophy to reflect the coaching situation you are dealing with, you become more effective and productive and minimize obstacles and other difficulties.
Understand your athletes, their personalities, abilities, goals and why they are in your sport
Communication is a vital aspect of coach/athlete relationships. It is crucial to talk to your athletes individually to determine their values and beliefs, goals, and why they are participating. Without this knowledge, you might be delivering a coaching bag of apples to athletes wanting a bag of oranges. The program will not work correctly. As a coach, you are a powerful role model and can significantly influence your athletes if you and the athletes are on the same page. Take the time to get to know each of your athlete's values, beliefs and habits. Once you know and understand each of your athletes, their strengths, weaknesses, abilities and skills, I suggest you develop an approach to coaching them. Will you focus on the stars? Will you treat everyone equal in terms of your attention and help? The teamwork approach will work for you.
What is your attitude toward teamwork?
By developing a TEAM philosophy (Together Each Achieves More) and your coaching philosophy, you bring together ingredients for superior success. By knowing your athletes, you see how each fits in with the TEAM philosophy. Some may have values or behaviours that undermine the team, and you can work out solutions to change the athlete's response to fit for the good of the team. Knowing your athletes enables you to identify your leaders and role models so that the rest of the team will respond positively. By getting athletes to buy into the 'TEAM' concept, you will aid in streamlining a consistent approach to training and competition by each athlete. This makes coaching much more natural and hopefully more rewarding.
Process versus Outcome
I cannot stress enough the importance of educating athletes that it is more important to focus on their development process and how they performed in a competition rather than the results or outcomes they achieved. Every coaching philosophy should have a significant statement on how the coach views the results of both training and competition. In a race or game, there can be only one winner. Does that mean everyone else is a loser? If you read the newspapers, that is what you would think. Therefore, to build confidence, see measurable progress, and learn positively from mistakes made, I urge all coaches to focus on the process and not the outcomes with their athletes. The athletes need to do the same.
All coaches operate under a coaching philosophy of some kind. It may be by instinct or formally documented and well thought out. The advantages of a well thought out coaching philosophy are threefold:
It is possible to develop a team approach that achieves superior performance with this knowledge. Linking the aspects of the three coaching philosophy segments will create a realistic coaching roadmap for you that is realistic, satisfying to both you and your athletes, and rewarding in improved performance.
Coaching is all about helping athletes achieve their dreams. It should be done positively and smartly, and with passion. The positive coach and role model, following a well-defined coaching philosophy, will be a crucial ingredient in the success of their athletes. For that reason alone, developing a formal coaching philosophy statement is essential for all coaches.
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Next Monday most Americans will be filing their income taxes for tax year 2011. This year, though, Tax Day has special significance. If there’s one clear policy contrast between Democrats and Republicans in the 2012 election, it’s whether America’s richest citizens should be paying more.
Senate Democrats have scheduled a vote Monday on a minimum 30 percent overall federal tax rate for everyone earning more than $1 million a year. It’s nicknamed the “Buffett Rule” in honor of billionaire Warren Buffett who has publicly complained that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
No one in Washington believes the Buffett Rule has any hope of passage this year. It’s largely symbolic. The vote will mark a sharp contrast with Republican Paul Ryan’s plan (enthusiastically endorsed by Mitt Romney) to cut the tax rate on the super rich from 35 percent to 25 percent – rewarding millionaires with a tax cut of at least $150,000 a year. The vote will also serve to highlight that Romney himself paid less than 14 percent on a 2010 income of $21.7 million because so much of his income was in capital gains, taxed at 15 percent.
Hopefully in the weeks and months ahead the White House and the Democrats will emphasize three key realities:
1. The richest 1 percent of Americans are now taking in over 20 percent of total national income, and so far have raked in almost all the gains from this recovery. 30 years ago, the richest 1 percent got 9 percent of total income. Income and wealth are now more concentrated at the top than they’ve been since the 1920s.
2. The richest 1 percent are paying a lower tax rate than they’ve paid since 1980. For three decades after World War II, their tax rate never dropped below 70 percent. Even considering all deductions and tax credits, they paid close to 55 percent. Under Eisenhower, the top rate was 91 percent and the effective rate was 58 percent.
3. Right now the nation faces two yawning deficits – an investment deficit and a federal budget deficit. The investment deficit includes deferred maintenance on America’s infrastructure – roads, bridges, public transit, water and sewer systems that are all crumbling – and an educational system that’s being starved for resources (the federal government pays for 8 percent of K-12 education and about 5 percent of public higher education, but could do much more). The federal budget deficit is projected to mushroom to $6.4 trillion over the next 10 years, mostly because of aging boomers and soaring healthcare costs.
Any serious person looking at these three realities would conclude that the rich should be paying far more. It’s not just a matter of fairness; it’s also a matter of patriotism.
In fact, given these realities, the Buffett Rule sets the bar too low. For most Americans, wages and benefits are declining (adjusted for inflation), net worth has been plummeting (their only asset is their homes), and the public services they rely on have been disappearing. For the top, it’s just the opposite: Their incomes are rising, their stock-market portfolios have been growing, and a growing portion of their earnings has been subject to a capital-gains tax of just 15 percent.
The Buffett Rule would generate only about $47 billion in extra revenues over the next decade, according to congressional estimates. Why not restore top rates to what they were before 1980, and match the capital-gains rate to the income-tax rate?
Robert Reich, one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including his latest best-seller, “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future;” “The Work of Nations,” which has been translated into 22 languages; and his newest, an e-book, “Beyond Outrage.” His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause. His new movie "Inequality for All" is in Theaters. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org.More Robert Reich.
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MedTech Radar Live 2018 Joint start-up pitch day by BVMed, Earlybird, BARMER, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Medtech zwo
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The German Medical Technology Association (BVMed), venture capital firm Earlybird, BARMER, High-Tech Gründerfonds and the medtech magazine “Medtech zwo” are to hold a joint start-up day. At the “MedTech Radar Live 2018” on Mai 16th 2018 in cologne young medtech founders will have the opportunity to be introduced to established medical device companies and investors. Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, North Rhine-Westphalia minister for the economy, innovation, digitalization and energy, is the patron of the initiative. Business ideas can now be submitted via www.medtechradar.live. The panel of judges will then select ten such proposals to be presented at the MedTech Radar Live conference in Cologne on 16 May 2018.
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In recognition of her extraordinary bravery the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon declared November 10 as Malala Day. Malala went to the United Kingdom for medical treatment directly after the shooter’s attack where she and her family settled permanently. Afterward, she established the Malala Fund with her father.
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Ziauddin Yousafzai Als kind stotterde hij en hij wilde aan zijn ouders bewijzen dat hij in staat was om te leren en goed te spreken, dat is hem dubbel en dwars gelukt. 2 dagar sedan · Malala ’s family is very poor. Despite founding the first school for girls in Mingora, Malala’s father and his family live in a shack.
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It seems that mothers are faced with a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario when it comes to juggling career and family. You’re a bad mom if you aren’t 100 percent focused on your kids, but you’re also a bad employee if you’re not 100 percent plugged into work. Typically, what ends up happening is that the pressure coming from both sides causes working mothers to feel inadequate, and they end up burning the candle at both ends as they overextend themselves as mothers and professionals. Eventually, they can burn out.
The good news is, we can all do our part – working mothers or not – to help eradicate common working-mom stereotypes so that our colleagues can have the same opportunities, support, and encouragement that every individual needs in his or her career.
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1. Working moms are bad, neglectful moms because they’d rather be at work than with their kids.
Building a successful career and being a good mother aren’t mutually exclusive, and doing both simultaneously should never be considered neglect. In fact, a 2015 Harvard study found that being a working mother actually encourages your kids to be successful – like mother, like daughter/son, apparently.
Women are actually killing it in the business world. According to American Express OPEN’s The 2014 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, there were some 9.1 million women-owned enterprises in 2014. These companies employed nearly 7.9 workers and generated over $1.4 trillion in revenue. More impressively, the number of women-owned businesses grew 1.5 times the national average from 2007 to 2014, with revenue and employment growth for women-owned businesses topping that of all other types of business (with the exception of the largest, publicly traded corporations). With stats like these, working mothers aren’t being neglectful, they’re being exceptional role models to their children.
2. Working moms who leave work on time are slackers.
The sad reality (read: double standard) is, if a working father leaves the office early to pick up his kids, he is often met with praise by his co-workers because he is perceived as a caring, loving father. However, a working mother in the same situation is usually greeted with much disdain because she’s perceived as a slacker for ditching the office early. At the same time, if she were to stay late, then she’d be perceived as a negligent mother, as discussed above.
Thanks to the realities of the gender pay gap, women tend to earn less than men, so that means that they are usually the ones taking on the responsibility of caregiver, homemaker, concierge, and chef for the family during non-work hours – because someone has to do it, right? Instead of assuming working mothers are ditching their work for the “freedoms” of being a mother (because that couldn’t be farther from the truth), consider the fact that they may be hopping online to work after picking up the kids, fixing dinner, cleaning up, bathing the kids, and tucking them into bed. Just because a working mother leaves the office at 5 p.m. doesn’t mean she’s heading home to sip a margarita by the pool while you slave away at work. Trust me, she’s not!
3. Working moms don’t truly have their heads in the (career) game.
There’s a common misconception that working mothers can’t be fully committed to their careers, because they’re too distracted with family obligations. But, personal responsibilities can intrude on anyone’s career, whether they have children or not. Judgment can be a two-way street, so be careful not to be a hypocrite.
It’s time to erase this “all or nothing” mentality about working moms, because it’s incorrect and ends up hurting everyone in the end. When you become a working mother, it seems like you have fewer hours in the day, so you’re forced to become a productivity, efficiency, and time-management guru – there’s really no room for slacking off. When a working mother needs to leave the office at a certain time every day to tend to her family, it’s usually safe to assume that she’s already crammed in just as much work as her co-workers.
4. Working moms who take a day off to care for a sick child are getting preferential treatment.
First of all, if you’ve never had to stop your life to care for a sick child, then you probably shouldn’t throw in your two cents. I can assure you that the mom who is missing a day or two of work to nurse her sick child back to health has enough worry, guilt, frustration, and stress to go around the office and back again, so try to be compassionate rather than critical next time a working mom has to take a sick day.
Secondly, there is no preferential treatment going on when a working mother needs to miss a day of work for this reason – it’s just life. I guarantee that no one wants the alternative: that same working mother forced to bring her child into the office, exposing everyone else to their illness. Plus, you wouldn’t want others chiming in the next time you need a day off, would you?
The moral of the story is: don’t be so quick to judge. If you constantly find yourself griping about what the working mother in your office is or isn’t doing, then maybe you need to reevaluate whether you’re really just unhappy with your own job or career.
A woman’s decision to become a parent is her own personal choice, not one open for discussion and ridicule by her co-workers and peers. Likewise, a mother’s decision to pursue a successful career isn’t anyone’s business but hers and her family’s, so try to be supportive, rather than butting your nose into places it shouldn’t be and making matters worse.
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