What Causes Duct Damage?
When you think of things in your home that can become damaged, your air ducts are probably close to last on that list. After all, air ducts have one simple job: carry air around your Greenville home. As long as the air isn’t harsh in some way, it seems logical that ducts should last forever. However, damage can happen to nearly any duct system over time. Whether by natural causes, simple aging, or through outside forces, damage can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and some of it is more difficult to avoid than others.
Some common causes of duct damage include:
- High humidity levels or water vapor levels in air passed through ducts, causing corrosion
- Rodent or pest damage
- Collapsed sections from impact or age
- Holes from too much air pressure
- Mold & mildew rot
Many types of air ducts can be successfully patched in order to seal the problem and keep your ducts working smoothly. Patching can be a somewhat complex process to do right, as you want to make sure your duct is completely sealed and won’t leak any additional air anytime soon. However, some types of damage are so large that it’s more worthwhile to simply replace that part of your duct segment outright. Replacing your ducts can be an expensive endeavor, but it may be the better decision based on the damage done.
Signs You Need Duct Cleaning
1. Poor indoor air quality - If you're noticing an uptick in dust sprinkled around your home's furniture or air, then consult our Greenville duct cleaning specialists. Your HVAC units might be spreading dust into your duct work which in turn will pump it around your home if you don't have your ducts cleaned every once in a while.
2. Dust on your air vents - A good place to observe to see if you need duct cleaning is your air vents. If they look like they could use a cleaning, then it's probable that your ducts are dirty as well. Open up the vents and take a look yourself.
3. Less airflow - If you're not getting the same level of airflow that you're used to, consider your ducts. It could be that you have a leak or perhaps there's some dust and debris in the way that's blocking your airflow that needs to be cleaned out.
4. Strange sounds or smells - You never know what critters might get into your duct work and what noises they may make. Also, as AC units cool air with condensation you might get excess moisture and mold and mildew growth as a result.
5. Decrease in HVAC performance - If you're not getting the same indoor air comfort experience and your units are okay, consider your duct work. Should you have any doubts, consult our Greenville duct cleaning specialists about getting your ducts in working order to properly heat or cool your home.
Greenville Air Filtration, Cleaning & Purification Systems
Although duct cleaning helps to remove pollutants, it cannot remove 100% of them. If you have begun to notice respiratory issues or allergic reactions as a result of spending time indoors, you may need to consider installing an air filtration, cleaning, or purification system. Each of these systems, when properly installed, work to reduce contaminants in the air you breathe. We can help you determine which one is appropriate for your home or business.
A few benefits of installing one of these systems include:
- Reduced energy costs
- Increased HVAC system efficiency
- Improved respiratory conditions/allergies
Benefits of Humidification Control in Greenville
Regardless of the thermostat temperature you set, indoor humidity can often fall above or below the optimal range. If you are constantly uncomfortable or find that your skin or eyes are often dry, you may need to invest in humidity control. There are unfortunately discomforts that come with both ends of the scale or too much and too little humidity level.
The goal is to use whole-home systems to control the level of humidity in your home. This can help to lower your energy costs, reduce physical symptoms of poor humidity levels, and improve your HVAC system's efficiency.
Call today or contact us online to request an estimate for air duct installation in Greenville!
At Dipple Plumbing, Electrical, Heating & Air, we offer a wide range of air duct services in Greenville, including air duct repair and replacement. We want to keep your ducts working well, and we carefully go through and find damaged ducts so your HVAC equipment will work better than ever before!
We are thorough in our services and carefully inspect your duct network for damage that could lead to heat loss and inefficiency that sucks money out of your pocket. When you trust your duct network to us, you can be confident that we’re going to find the damage to your system and then recommend the best possible fix that solves your issue and saves you money!


The position of the Allegheny City Society on the Section 106 Process RE: Western Avenue / West Ohio Street Bridge Rehabilitation
For well over four decades the Allegheny City Society has had as its mission a commitment to preserving and interpreting the history of Allegheny City –the present North Side of Pittsburgh. From the very beginnings of our organization we have taken on a commitment to tell the story of the Allegheny Commons, which was established as common land for the residents in the surrounding communities in 1787. In recent years the Society, adhering to our Mission, has funded rehabilitative work on several of the historic monuments located within this park. In addition, from the outset of the Allegheny Commons Initiative in the late 1990s, we have participated in all efforts to restore this historic treasure.
The Society has frequently told the story of the advent of the rail lines that run through the Commons, and how the city leaders sought to have the track lowered so that the trains traversing through the Commons would have little impact on the surrounding park land. The Allegheny Commons is a city Historic District, as are most of the neighborhoods adjacent to the park. It is for these reasons that we have been participating in the Section 106 discussions related to the demolition, repairing or rebuilding of the bridges that cross the railroad lines at Western Avenue, Ridge Avenue, and the intersection of Brighton Road and North Avenue.
There are several points that we think need to be addressed by all parties to these discussions:
1) The bridge that crosses the RR at Western Ave was at one time a very significant bridge in that Western Avenue was the main East/West route through the lower North Side. It carried the vehicular traffic along what was Route 28, connecting the West End Bridge with the Allegheny River valley. With the opening of Interstate 279 all of that heavy traffic can be diverted away from Western Avenue on to the Interstate system. The bridge on Western Avenue should be used only for lightweight vehicles that serve local needs. If indeed the bridge is in poor condition, it should be repaired and not replaced. Also, such repairs should be in keeping with the present clearances for rail traffic. A repaired bridge with clearly defined weight limits might be the best answer to addressing the needs of this bridge.
2) At several public meetings the issue of raising the height of the Western Avenue bridge by several feet has been proposed. Such transformation of the landscape of the Commons would be working counter to all of the attempts by the City of Pittsburgh, the Allegheny Commons Initiative, organizations such as ours, and the citizens who live nearby. The impact of raising the height of the bridge would not only have a negative impact on the historic park, but it would also raise safety issues related to the movement of pedestrian traffic along the sidewalks surrounding the Commons.
3) What seems so bewildering to us is the fact that there are three bridges that we have been told lack the 22 foot clearances desired by the railroads. However, the city has said that it and the railroads have come to some sort of an agreement to waive this height clearance for the bridge that exists at the intersection of Brighton Road and North Avenues. We can not understand then why a similar agreement can not be arranged for the Western Avenue bridge. It would indeed be foolish to raise the height of only one bridge if indeed no rail traffic will be coming along those lines that requires a clearance greater than what presently exists. We urge you to consider plans for rehabilitating (reparing) the Western Avenue bridge with the present height above the tracks.
4) It is clear to all parties in the discussions that the condition of the bridge at Brighton Road and North Avenue will require considerable attention within the next few years. If that bridge were to be raised to the heights suggested in discussions related to the Western Avenue bridge the impact on the Commons, the communities of the Central North Side and Allegheny West would be catastrophic. Both of the neighborhoods have National and City historic designation. Any and all plans to significantly alter the bridge at that intersection would need to factor in a great number of issues. It is doubtful that what ever is built or refurbished there will have the required clearances. The alternative, of course, would be to lower the tracks.
It is the position of the Allegheny City Society that no bridges should be rehabilitated with higher clearances for rail traffic until plans have been made for both sites: Western Avenue and Brighton Road and North Avenue. In the meantime, we would urge the city to seek plans for repairing the Western Avenue bridge and incorporate into this plan a bridge that would greatly limit the weight of vehicular traffic that would cross it, thereby giving the repaired bridge a greater lifespan.
The Executive Committee, Allegheny City Society


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Chef Farid Zadi checks in with Grub Street to let us know he’s currently selling about 200 pounds of duck confit every week at his Culver City restaurant, Cafe Livre et Le Marche. Still, he stresses that customers are still demanding more duck, lamb, and seafood dishes. To that end, Zadi is launching dinner on Friday and Saturday every week starting February 17th, focusing on the North African cuisine he’d intended to save for a whole other restaurant once he’d zero’d in on a location. He tells Grub Street, "I already have a cafe that’s all staffed and prepped and ready to go for dinner service. So why not start now?"
Dinner will focus on the tagines and cous cous dishes he’s known for, along with a lot of Spanish influenced cuisine, citing the recipes that have been battered back and forth between Iberia and Algeria over the centuries.
Opening from 6:00-9:00 P.M. each weekend, Zadi will organize dinner in the style of a chef’s table, offering limited seating, with reservations recommended. During dinner, Zadi will offer a changing selection that includes at least one tagine based on fowl or game, whether it be duck or rabbit, as well as options each week for lamb, beef, and seafood tagines, plus a different paella, cheese and charcuterie plate, and a rotating menu of Spanish-style tapas and sweets.
See Cafe Livre et Le Marche’s menu for this week, below ,and catch reservations at 310-842-9078:
Chef’s Table Dinner Menu
February 17 and 18
Gambas al Ajillo ~ 12
Patatas Bravas ~ 9
Warm Clams Escabeche~12
Piquillos stuffed with pine nuts, herbs and garlic~10
Selection of Spanish Charcuterie and Cheeses ~ 16
Shrimp brik~ 8
Potato and Pea Cigars~ 10
Duck Confit Pastilla~ 22
Paella (2 person minimum per table), order when you reserve a table
Chicken, preserved lemon and olive Paella~ 22
Paella Valenciana~ 24
Entrees~ served with couscous and semolina bread
Half Roast Duck Tagine, figs, almonds, honey~ 26
Seafood Tagine~ 26
Whole Fish Chermoula~ MP
Mignardise~ Algerian and Spanish pastries and sweets

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Our Newsroom contains Act Belong Commit updates, inspiring stories and the latest evidence-based research on the many ways you can keep mentally healthy.
Michelle Cowan announced as Act-Belong-Commit Ambassador
Posted 1 Feb 2018
We’re happy to announce Michelle Cowan as an official Act-Belong-Commit Ambassador!
Michelle Cowan is the inaugural coach of the Fremantle Dockers AFLW team, an accomplished level three AFL High Performance Coach, mother of two and role model.
Michelle embraces the Act-Belong-Commit ethos, encouraging people to pro-actively look after their mental health, while recognising and championing the value belonging to a sporting club and committing to an active lifestyle brings to a person’s physical and mental health. Her mentally healthy pledge in 2018 is to play 50 rounds of golf!
We’re thrilled to have Michelle on board, and are looking forward to working with her on creating a mentally healthy WA!
If you are interested in engaging Michelle to speak about the Act-Belong-Commit message and staying mentally healthy at your event, please contact us on (08) 9266 4648.
About Michelle Cowan
Michelle Cowan is the inaugural coach of the Fremantle Dockers AFLW team, an accomplished level three AFL High Performance Coach, mother of two, role model and Act-Belong-Commit’s first Ambassador.
Prior to joining the Fremantle Dockers AFLW team, Michelle gained significant experience coaching women’s and men’s football, including roles as the senior coach of Melbourne’s Women’s team, a development coach of Melbourne’s AFL side, a WA-based scout for Geelong, and working as an assistant coach for South Fremantle.
One of Michelle’s most significant achievements came in 2014, coaching the WA Youth Girls U18 side to a national championship. WA became the first state – other than Victoria – to win the championship. They went on to defeat Victoria again in 2015 in the Open Women’s Final

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Heavenly Cream: An Acoustic Tribute to Cream
by Kevin Wierzbicki
Cream --- Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker --- was one of the heaviest bands of its day so it might come as a surprise to some that their music sounds just as awesome, just in a different way, when performed acoustically. This tribute holds 15 tracks performed by a cornucopia of stars who knew the band or were inspired by the band and there's a more direct connection to Cream as well as appearing are Malcolm Bruce, son of Jack Bruce and Pete Brown who co-wrote many Cream songs with Jack. Perhaps most notable is that late Cream drummer Ginger Baker appears on four songs, most of which are among Cream's most popular: "Sunshine of Your Love" where Joe Bonamassa and the late Bernie Marsden team up on vocals and acoustic guitar, "Crossroads," again with Bonamassa and Marsden on guitars but just Marsden on vocals, "Tales of Brave Ulysses" with Nathan James on vocals and inspired sax playing from Pee Wee Ellis and trumpet by Henry Lowther, and the lesser-known "Sweet Wine" featuring James, Ellis, Malcom Bruce, Marsden, Lowther and second guitarist Mo Nazam. Other notable cuts are "I Feel Free" with Deborah Bonham on vocals, "White Room" with Brown on vocals, a string section and Clem Clempson (Humble Pie) and Malcolm Bruce on guitars, a super bluesy take on "Spoonful" with Bobby Rush on vocals and blues harp, "Badge" again with Bonham on vocals and the Albert King-associated "Born Under a Bad Sign" that's powered by the instantly recognizable voice of former Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers. These songs meant and continue to mean so much to so many and these interpretations will surely please the truest of Cream fans.

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You may not know it but one of the worst toxic waste sites in the country is right here in Houston.
The San Jacinto River Waste Pits are actually driven over by thousands of Houston commuters each day as they drive over the San Jacinto River on I-10. The site was created in the 1960s as a dump site for chemicals used to make paper. Those chemicals contained high levels of dioxins, which are considered the most toxic chemicals known to man.
The Superfund site is in bad shape as well. The shallow pits dug to hold the waste have sunk and are now partially submerged in water and are carried away by the San Jacinto River. The site has all ready been found to be the source of dioxins found in Galveston Bay.
Environmental Geologist Jackie Young with Texans Together says the location of this waste pit is just about the worst you could pick, "There isn't a more vulnerable place in the entire United States that these toxic waste pits could possibly be located."
The risk from the sites is mainly to residential areas around the site. Those residential areas are expected to double in the next 25 years. Also at risk is the Lynchburg Reservoir which is only a half mile from the site.
Currently, Harris County is suing the owners of the site, Waste Management and International Paper for hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties.
The other concern is from weather. The caps on the pits, which are essentially tarps and rocks, will not protect the waste from flooding waters, or storm surge from a hurricane. The waste would permeate both upstream and downstream and get into the water table.
Young says the only real solution is to remove the waste altogether. A process that could cost Waste Management and International Paper, billions.

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If you have problems or questions, ideas for improvements, or even found a bug or two, feel free to post at https://github.com/MadsAlbertsen/ampvis2/issues or email one of the developers, anything and everything is welcome.
By default the raw read counts in the abundance matrix are normalised (transformed to percentages) by some plotting functions automatically (for example
amp_timeseries, and more). This means that the relative abundances shown will be calculated based on the remaining taxa after the subset, not including the removed taxa, if any. To circumvent this, set
normalise = TRUE when subsetting with the
amp_subset_samples functions, and then set
raw = TRUE in the plotting function. This will transform the OTU counts to relative abundances BEFORE the subset, and setting
raw = TRUE will skip the transformation in the plotting function, see the example below.
If you wan’t to calculate a distance matrix manually and use it for PCoA or nMDS in
amp_ordinate, it can be done quite easily by just setting
filter_species = 0,
transform = "none", and
distmeasure = "none", like below. The matrix should be a symmetrical matrix containing coefficients for all pairs of samples in the data.
#Override the abundance table in the ampvis2 object with a custom distance matrix ampvis2_object$abund <- custom_dist_matrix #set filter_species = 0, transform = "none", and distmeasure = "none" amp_ordinate(ampvis2_object, type = "pcoa", filter_species = 0, transform = "none", distmeasure = "none")
This is particularly useful if you want to import data in the QIIME, biom, mothur, and pyrotagger formats, see the phyloseq Data Import tutorial. You will first have to extract the OTU-table and the metadata from the phyloseq object, and then import as normal with
library(ampvis2) #Combine OTU abundance table and taxonomy table from the phyloseq object "my_phyloseq_object": obj <- my_phyloseq_object otutable <- data.frame(OTU = rownames(phyloseq::otu_table(obj)@.Data), phyloseq::otu_table(obj)@.Data, phyloseq::tax_table(obj)@.Data, check.names = FALSE ) #Extract metadata from the phyloseq object: metadata <- data.frame(phyloseq::sample_data(obj), check.names = FALSE ) #Load the data with amp_load: my_ampvis2_object <- amp_load(otutable, metadata)

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May is National Foster Care Month, when we celebrate one of America’s most admired institutions aimed at providing support, shelter, and a caring environment for children who do not have a safe, supportive environment within their own families. Unfortunately, foster care also serves as an unintended pipeline for crimes against children. Most people don’t realize that the foster care system is one of the greatest intersections with one of the worst crimes—human trafficking. The COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened the problem of trafficking, while the border crisis has heightened the need for foster families. Now more than ever, child welfare must be reformed. According to the National Foster Youth Institute, 60% of human trafficking victims in the U.S. were involved in the foster care system at one time.
My parents were foster parents and welcomed children into our home, caring for them as though they were my siblings. I remember trips to a “half-way house” to visit the mother of a foster sibling recovering from drug addiction, and I recall stunning conversations with a pregnant teen who had lived in ten foster homes by the time she reached ours. So yes, I’ve seen the bright side of foster care families, and I applaud the thousands of capable and self-sacrificing foster care parents—we need more of them. But as an adult I have come to see a dark side of the foster care system that must be addressed.
The Dangers of Foster Care
Foster care is not always safer than the home from which kids are removed. Children are often trafficked by other foster youth, their own foster parents, or even social service caseworkers. Children placed in large group homes often face inadequate adult supervision and risk being lured by teen trafficking recruiters within the home or by traffickers outside the home promising money and sense of belonging. Sadly, it is also known that child predators desire to live and work around children. This has created the ugly reality of Child Protective Services’ (CPS) involvement with human trafficking.
I have seen this firsthand through my work here with Anti-Trafficking International (ATI). We are currently working on a case with a 29-year-old woman who was placed into foster care at the age of three. At age 10 she was impregnated with triplets (confirmed by medical records) by her foster “father.” She was then adopted by this monster, and as a teen he started trafficking her. Unfortunately, she also has many foster siblings who survived a similar nightmare and the social services system in her state never investigated and law enforcement has been unresponsive. How does this happen?
It starts with a frontline responder such as a social services caseworker or law enforcement officer turning a blind eye to the situation either intentionally, or because of poor policies and naivete. If the frontline responder doesn’t recognize human trafficking, investigate suspicious circumstances, or take action to help the victim, then the victim has almost no way of escape. Additionally, there are often no mandatory accountability measures for frontline responders such as audio or video recordings of interviews with the children and foster families, or two or more caseworkers assigned to the same case, so when a child does report abuse or trafficking their voice can be silenced because it’s dependent on the written testimony of just one person. 37.4% of children in the U.S. will be interviewed by CPS by the time they reach age 18. These interviews are generally conducted spontaneously at the child’s school by a social worker from a child protective agency who often has minimal training in interview techniques. The child’s statements are written down by the caseworker with no witnesses to ensure accuracy of reporting. Recordings ensure the integrity of the interview and encourage the interviewer to be professional and unbiased in their questioning of the child. Additionally, when children are in foster care, they are often visited by one caseworker repeatedly, which helps to build trust with a child but also means there is little opportunity for accountability that could be provided by having an additional caseworker put eyes on each case.
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
While larger reforms of our foster care system may be a long way off, there are short term policy changes that can make a real difference in reducing the amount of human trafficking in the foster care system. First, we need fewer kids in the foster care system. The goal should be for foster care to be rare and short. I have seen first-hand that the trauma of removal is often as devastating as the crisis that led to the removal. The more children in foster care and the longer they are in foster care, the greater the risk they are of being trafficked. The Family First Prevention Act of 2018 made great strides in addressing this by limiting the use of federal funding to provide group care and providing funding for preventative mental health and substance abuse services, but even more can be done at the state level. These homes with large numbers of children are often unsafe simply because there are too many kids to manage, and they become mini-orphanages without proper oversight. There could be limitations on the number of children in foster care homes and greater state funding could be allocated toward keeping families together through enhanced preventative care.
Second, targeted funding for enhanced training is needed for law enforcement, social service agencies, and school districts to recognize the growing epidemic of human trafficking right here in the United States. The single greatest way to stop human trafficking within foster care is through education for youth and frontline responders. These groups lack the training needed not because there is no interest, but because they lack the vital funding. Many people don’t realize that these agencies and departments often have almost no budget for training. What officers, case managers, and teachers don’t know can be harmful for youth, and this is why we need to prioritize budgets for quality training at the state level.
Finally, greater emphasis is needed on reducing the number of kids vulnerable to trafficking in the first place. This is why the core mission of ATI is prevention—that is the only way to change the statistics. We’ve trained over 5,000 law enforcement and 30,000 other professionals to spot the signs and stop human trafficking by assisting in the rescue of kids, and our school-based prevention curriculum equips over 250,000 students each year with information to safeguard themselves and their peers. But more prevention efforts are needed.
Nelson Mandela said, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Foster kids are in all our communities and schools, and together we can protect them by learning the warning signs of human trafficking and providing all-important training for those on the frontlines.

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Recently, Team of Hanuman movie came to Delhi for promotions. Actor Teja Sajja, producer Niranjan Reddy and Director Prashanth Verma were present at the event. The event was held at The Metropolitan Hotel, Delhi. HanuMan’ is presented by RKD Studios, while PrimeShow Entertainment is the producer of the film. Catch film in the theatres on January 12, 2024.
Director Prasanth Varma’s “HanuMan” trailer shines as the country’s first-ever homegrown superhero film. Breaking free from the usual, the much-awaited trailer tells an epic story of heroism and power, proving that creativity and passion can overcome any challenge.
Speaking about the film’s unique journey, Prasanth Varma shares, “HanuMan” isn’t your usual movie; it’s a passion project that came to life with amazing support from my team. Starting with a simple idea, the story of Hanuman unfolded, taking our cinematic dreams to new heights. HanuMan isn’t just a character; it is the beginning of an epic cinematic universe that brings something uniquely Indian and magical to the audience.”
Teja Sajja, the film’s lead, expresses his joy about the project, saying, “Being a part of ‘Hanuman’ is truly special. In the mystical world of Anjanadri, a young and frail lad, once irresponsible, is bestowed with supernatural abilities through the blessings of Lord Hanuman.”


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Northern Iowa may have to try to end a five- game losing streak on Saturday against No. 9 Youngstown State without two injured junior starters, quarterback Sawyer Kollmorgen and running back David Johnson.
Kollmorgen suffered his second concussion of the season and Johnson a left ankle injury during a 13-3 loss at Illinois State last Saturday. Previously, Johnson had dealt with a hip-pointer.
If Kollmorgen and Johnson don't play against Youngstown State, Brion Carnes, a junior transfer from Nebraska, would likely start at quarterback, and redshirt sophomore Evan Williams at running back.
Northern Iowa began the season with four straight wins and was ranked fourth nationally, but has dropped five straight Missouri Valley Conference games - the Panthers' longest losing streak since 1978.

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A new review, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, examines the perspectives of clinicians and service-users on psychiatric diagnosis.
A discussion of the role of epistemic injustice in the experiences of patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.
Researchers found participants were less likely to dehumanize those with whom they disagreed when they heard their voices.
From the Association for Psychological Science: According to a new research study, people attribute more humanlike qualities to those expressing opinions they disagree with when...
From Scientific American: Doctor-patient communication is an incredibly important part of medical treatment. However, doctors often do not have the time or resources to be...
Recommendations on how to provide trauma-informed, short-term counseling to college students who have experienced sexual assault and interpersonal violence.


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There has been much media coverage on the president's plans to control gun violence, but I fear we're missing the bigger picture.
Surely, the emotional frustration the president displayed while unveiling his latest executive order is worth noting and so are his ideas. But, realize, these are the same suggestions he proposed in 2013, after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. Congress ignored them.
By now you've heard about his proposals: More people who sell guns — at gun shows and online — should be licensed and get mandatory background checks on their buyers. The FBI should process the checks 24/7 with a group of new agents and notify states when someone has illegally tried to buy a gun.
Additionally, state law enforcement agencies are urged to share complete criminal histories with the federal database. They are being assured they can also legally share citizen's mental health information. The president proposes $500 million to expand mental health treatment nationwide. And, again, he wants more research into gun safety technology.
None of these ideas can be funded without Congressional approval, so, good luck with that. Capitol Hill apparently believes no new laws are needed to help stem the nation's problem of routine mass murder and gun-infused gang violence.
I used to think that, too, writing here previously that we already have enough gun laws on the books if we'd only just enforce them. But times are different now, and I've changed my mind. We have to do something to try to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill — even if it's just taking baby steps toward this deadly nationwide problem.
The good news is that while the paralytic politicians in Washington continue to do nearly nothing, individual states are on a campaign of change. Once again, states are doing what Washington won't — passing new legislation focused on today's needs, not relying on yesterday's laws.
The Washington-based National Rifle Association used to spend the lion's share of lobbying money to ensure the interests of its membership were protected. But now gun control groups have attracted big-money supporters — like former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has pledged at least $50 million to the anti-gun cause — and they've taken the fight directly to the states. They figure why bother with a deaf, dumb and blind-to-the-problem Congress when progress can be made one state at a time?
Just like the successful push for same-sex marriage laws, these folks are tackling their issue state-by-state.
So far, 18 states have passed tougher gun buyer background check laws. Nine states have adopted new laws to keep guns out of the hands of known domestic abusers.
The Connecticut governor's move to bar anyone whose name appears on the government's terrorist watch list from buying a gun is being considered by several other states.
In Virginia, the attorney general has declared that outsiders from 25 states who have concealed weapons permits will no longer be allowed to carry a weapon there.
Michigan's governor is set to veto (again) a bill that allows legally registered guns to be carried into schools.
Nevada and Maine seem poised to join the march toward adopting more stringent background checks. New Jersey is among the states wondering why ammunition is sold online.
While some will now try to shift the focus to whether the president's executive orders are legal, realize we are just days or weeks away from reading about the next American massacre. I hate to sound maudlin, but what happened most recently in Charleston, South Carolina; Roseburg, Oregon; San Bernardino, California and thousands of other locations is no longer an anomaly; it's a way of life in America now. A shameful, routine truth.
Yes, 99.9 percent of all gun owners are responsible citizens, so it begs the question: Where are they on the issue of keeping firearms out of the hands of those who would use them for ill? To blindly accept the NRA's age-old mantra of, "We already have enough laws!" solves nothing. It leaves us powerless against the next mass shooting, the next gang carnage.
It's easy to pooh-pooh the various suggestions about how to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them. Critics of change seem to think that unless a proposal is 100 percent guaranteed to fix the gun problem in America we should reject it.
I'll take constitutionally sound baby steps over years of Washington's inaction any day.
To find out more about Diane Dimond visit her website at www.dianedimond.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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§ MR. THOMSON HANKEY
asked, When it was proposed that the alteration in the Fire Insurance on Stock-in-Trade should take effect?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
said that, as the 1st of July appeared to be an inconvenient day for the purpose, he should be happy to substitute for it the 24th of June. With the view of obviating another difficulty, he should propose that, in the case of all policies made after the Resolution on the subject should have been recorded, but before the new law took effect, the duty should be chargeable at the existing rate only to the 24th of June, and for the remainder of the period at the new rate. An apprehension, he might add, prevailed, that a new rate of policy on stock-in-trade would require a 1175 separate policy to be made in respect of all stock-in-trade; but the separate policy in the case of farming stock was required simply for statistical purposes, and there would be no need of a separate policy in the instances to which he referred. He also intended to propose a clause in the Bill to the effect, that where a policy did not distinguish the objects falling under the reduced duty, specifications might be made by endorsement upon it, so as to avoid the expense of a new one.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ WAYS AND MEANS considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
That, towards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, there shall be charged and paid for and upon every hundredweight, and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity than an hundredweight, of all Sugar which, on and after the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, shall be used by any Brewer of Beer for sale in the brewing or making of Beer, the Excise Duty of three shillings and four pence.
§ House resumed.
§ Resolutions to be reported on Monday next; Committee to sit again on Monday next.

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The Renaissance saw the rise of grasp artists who created numerous the world’s most famous paintings along with The Final Supper” and “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, and Primavera” by Sandro Botticelli. Other famous artists of the Renaissance embody Raphael, Michelangelo, Van Eyck, and Titian.
Alexander Daniloff is a Russian artist who lives and works in Italy. His focus is painting, although he has labored in numerous media. Currently, he has labored on children’s illustrations. He has participated in different occasions and illustration competitions and hasÂ illustrated three books. He has held quite a number of explicit particular person and group exhibitions in Italy, Russia, Holland, Spain, Finland and the US.
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In 2008, a forgotten corner of Trinity School Dublin was reworked into a dwelling experiment referred to as Science Gallery Dublin. Art is the good and common refreshment. For Art is never dogmatic; holds no transient for itself; you may take it, or you possibly can go away it. It doesn’t pressure itself rudely where it isn’t wanted. It’s reverent to all tempers, to all points of view. But it surely’s wilful — the very wind throughout the comings and goings of its have an effect on, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at vagrant, candy moments; since we repeatedly stand even sooner than the perfect works of Artwork without having the ability fairly to lose ourselves! That restful oblivion comes, we not at all fairly know when — and it is gone! But when it comes, it’s a spirit hovering with cool wings, blessing us from least to greatest, based mostly on our powers; a spirit deathless and various as human life itself.
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Painting at RISD prepares college students to interact in a person seek for meaning and cultural illustration by the use of the development of sturdy visual abilities, eager essential reasoning talents and an understanding of broad historic and social contexts. Not too long ago, we engaged Nippon Service for indoor portray for our new dwelling. The advertising and advertising workers- and the supervisor are very skilled and offered glorious providers and checked their staff every day and guarantee they accomplished the paint works effectively prematurely. Nippon Service offered good quality work at resonable price. Highly actually useful for anybody on the lookout for portray works.
Respiration life into inanimate objects from actuality – nonetheless life paintings are yet one more selection for properties with up to date interiors. These paintings will likely be apt for cafes or small eating places as nicely. Most of the time, the thing of focus on this specific type of painting will in all probability be a day-to-day-life, relatable object. From a burning candle to a ship resting on a relaxed shore, you’re sure to find a big variety of nonetheless life paintings on-line. Among the in type methods adopted for this explicit artwork embrace ink portray and acrylic portray.
Art is the great and universal refreshment. The thought came from two French artists with earlier experience in panoramas, Pierre Provider-Belleuse and Auguste François-Marie Gorguet. Many are undergraduate and postgraduate college college students who work at Science Gallery part time throughout their research.

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We're five months into this BOM. Each month's blocks use 6 different prints and a cream-on-cream background. By the time we're through with the series there will be 72 different prints and 12 backgrounds, so with that many fabrics, it probably doesn't matter which print I chose. I went with the one I liked best, #3 in the post below.
Since this is a BOM project, it will remain a WIP for quite awhile. I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.

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Email isn't on the verge of going the way of the dodo, but it is slowly being replaced by other forms of communications, including social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
According to data by the Online Publishers Association, in 2003 Internet users spent 46 percent of their online time at Communication sites offering email and IM services. By 2009, that number dropped to 27 percent as more users stay in touch via social networking sites.
"In 2008, we introduced the Community category based on the emergence and popularity of sites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn," said Pam Horan, president of the OPA. "These new sites have had significant impact on the Communications category, which saw a 41 percent decline due to the fact consumers are using Community sites where they can conduct these same activities more efficiently.
No doubt text messaging has also played a role, though OPA didn't include any data for this.
Making like a good social network and copying its competitors more successful aspects, Facebook has taken the liberty of using the @ symbol to tag friends in posts and status updates, a method that was popularized by Twitter.
Currently, while on Twitter you can use the @ symbol to refer to, or directly respond to a friend (ex: Hanging out with the coolest guy ever, @asalisbury). And, exactly as it’s done on Twitter, Facebook will reportedly auto-generate names with you enter part of a friend’s name. Don’t worry though, if the status update is too embarrassing you will be able to untag yourself.
The new feature is available now, so feel free to go give it a whirl.
Facebook will soon be at your eardrums as Boston-based tech firm Vivox is busy giving the finishing touches to its voice chat offering for Facebook. Vivox identifies itself as the leading provider of voice chat services for online games and virtual worlds. The service is currently in closed beta and only a few weeks away from launch.
Facebook announced today that they were open-sourcing the real-time technology from the recently acquired FriendFeed. The Python based code is now collectively known as Tornado. "Tornado is... designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services," said David Recordon of Facebook. The hope is that developers will quickly begin work on new services that take advantage of the Tornado real-time technology.
Tornado was originally developed by FriendFeed after finding existing Python frameworks did not perform adequately. Tornado is known as a “nonblocking” framework, as it is capable of many concurrent connections. FriendFeed co-founder, Bret Taylor, said that building their own framework resulted in throughput more than "four times higher than the other frameworks."
What about FriendFeed itself, you ask? Fear not, avid FriendFeed users, the service isn’t going anywhere. Facebook’s press release stated that, "Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain."
“I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook,” Obama told a group of 40 ninth graders. “Because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life. And when you’re young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff. ”
Recent studies have shown that an increasing number of hiring managers closely examine the social networking profiles of job candidates. So, a bit of caution on the part of these kids will at least ensure that they don’t remain unemployed because of social networking gaffes.
AOL has begun integrating its popular instant messaging service with two other social networking moguls: Facebook and Twitter. In July, they released a beta version of the AIM Client that connected the services to the application. With the updated beta version you were able to view friends’ status updates from Facebook and tweets from Twitter.
In a more recent update to the beta client, AIM now also gives you the power to update your Facebook status, as well as tweet from your Twitter account, all from within the AIM client. The updated “Lifestream” section of the application also features integration into other popular networking tools such as Flickr and YouTube.
A seemingly smart move by AOL, they’ve moved past their competitors, Yahoo Messenger and Live Messenger, by providing these additional, and in some cases, exclusive features.
uSocial is currently offering all the friends/fans packages at introductory prices. While 1,000 Facebook friends or fans can be bought for $177.30, the price for 5,000 friends is $654.30. The current cost of adding 10,000 fans is $1167.30. Although many doubt the worth of buying friends, uSocial founder Leon Hill claims his company delivers targeted friends. "We are getting, basically, targeted friends and fans who are saying, 'Yes, I want information on this,” he told the Associated Press in a phone interview.
Thanks to the inherent irresponsibility that comes with singing up for any social network, the IRS has been tracking down tax evaders thanks to people’s Facebook, MySpace and Twitter habits.
Mining through posted information such as relocation announcements, professional profiles and financial gains, agents with the IRS have been able to collect all sorts of bucks from would-be tax dodgers. One Nebraska agent was able to collect $2,000 from a disc jockey after he advertised on MySpace that he’d be working at a big public party. “These new supplements are often far more efficient than the older ones, such as reading the local newspaper or making inquiries at barbershops and church meetings,” said Jim Eads, director of the Federation of Tax Administrators. Another agent was able to collect $30,000 of unpaid taxes after a Google search lead him directly to his target.
So, if you’re the type of person that likes to boast about income that hasn’t been reported on Twitter, think twice. The IRS could be, and probably is, watching.
As it turns out, taking Facebook quizzes and posting for the world (or at least your network of friends) to see exactly "What Sex and the City Character Are You?" or "What is Your Vampire Power" isn't just incredibly lame, it's also pretty risky, suggests the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who warns of privacy concerns.
"Millions of people on Facebook who use third-party applications on the site, including the popular quizzes, do not realize the extent to which developers of quizzes and other applications have access to personal information. Facebook's default privacy settings allow nearly unfettered access to a user's profile information, including religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, photos, events, notes, wall posts, and groups," the ACLU warns.
The ACLU thinks Facebook should be doing more to protect its users and suggests that the social networking site upgrade its privacy controls so that quizzes can only see what people want them to see. One way to do this, the ACLU says, is to make the process for apps to access a user's friends' data opt-in rather than opt-out.
Facebook doesn't deny the ACLU's concerns, and in an email to Cnet, said it generally agrees with the ACLU's recommendations. The Facebook spokesperson also said the site has recently disabled hundreds of apps that were inconsistent with Facebook Platform policies.
Is Facebook doing enough? Hit the jump to weigh in with your opinion.
If you're concerned about privacy, it might not be enough to hide your profile or limit who can view your personal information, a new report suggests. That's because social networking sites are sharing your personal info with tracking sites, according to the report.
"When you sign up with a social networking site, you are assigned a unique identifier," says Craig Wills, professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). "We found that when social networking sites pass information to tracking sites about your activities, they often include this unique identifier. So now a tracking site not only has a profile of your web browsing activities, it can link that profile to the personal information you post on the social networking site."
The study specifically points out Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter -- three of the most popular social networking sites on the planet -- as being guilty of leaking information. Using your unique identifier, a tracking site could then learn all kinds of things about you, including your name, address, email addy, gender, date of birth, what school you attend, where you work, and tons more.
But is it much ado about nothing? Only the tracking sites know for sure, and Wills admits that researchers have no idea what these sites do with the info, if anything at all.

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The title of this article comes from Van’s legendary statement in the trading community. Van has been a renowned trading coach for many years and through my interest in capital markets and psychology, I found his work and met him for the first time about fifteen years ago. I came to know him personally and my experiences with his concepts led me to join the Super Trader program from which I graduated in 2010. From the beginning, I accepted Van’s belief about the importance of psychology, however, only since I have been trading full time and teaching other traders has the crucial impact of psychology on trading become more and more obvious to me.
Why is Psychology Such a Determining Factor in Trading?
There is a huge difference between understanding the idea that “trading is 100% psychology” and actually experiencing many varied nuances and implications of that idea in my own trading. That took some time but I have been able to witness this same progression with other traders who trade my systems after my workshops. Over the years, it has become clear to me that the more experience a trader acquires with a particular strategy or system, the more important effects psychology has on trading outcome.
Psychology indeed impacts many aspects of trading ranging from (1) system development, (2) fundamental trading beliefs to (3) trade execution and (4) reading price chart dynamics. Let’s focus on the first two areas in this article and see how psychology relates to them (discussion about the last two areas will be in the Part II article of this series).
(1) System Development and Psychology
In the Super Trader program, I learned to build systems from scratch based on a set of beliefs. Most systems in the trading world out there do not explicitly state the beliefs behind their operation but actually, inherent beliefs form the basis for every system. Beliefs determine how individual system components will be elaborated including setup rules, entry rules, exit algorithms, position sizing strategies and the rest of the system components. As general advice, you should not trade a system if you do not know or understand the beliefs supporting that system. If you do try, you are likely to find that it won’t “work” very well for you if at all.
Once you determine the primary beliefs for a system, you can then identify individual market edges related to those beliefs. I have a strong opinion that the more edges you can aggregate in a meaningful way into a system (without eliminating too much opportunity), the better the system will perform.
This is a bit comparable to a cooking recipe: once you determine what matches your taste (the beliefs), you can find next the right mix of ingredients (the edges) and combine them in a particular way (e.g. the rules and any indicator details). As with cooking, you might already have a strong sense of what ingredients fit well with each other. Cooking recipes have an exact order and timing that defines the outcome and that applies to the outcome of your trading system rules as well. Coming up with a final recipe is a process of trial & error coupled with experience, intuition, and discovery. For a more detailed description of the process of system development starting with the beliefs, please sign-up to my distribution list to access an article I wrote for Traders’ Magazine (‘How to Develop your Trading System’ / Traders’ Magazine).
(2) Fundamental Trading Beliefs and Psychology
While each system has a specific set of beliefs, some fundamental beliefs define your trading as a whole. These are independent of any one system and they define who you are as a trader. As you add a new system to your trading repertoire, pay attention if it is congruent with your fundamental trading beliefs. This will allow you to flawlessly execute it without trading mistakes (i.e. at a high efficiency level).
Let’s have a look at how a set of Fundamental Trading Beliefs might look like. The list below defines who I am as a trader, what fits me and how I approach the markets:
Source: Overview of my Fundamental Trading Beliefs (from my workshop material)
How do these beliefs affect my trading?
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I am a trader who believes in the power of the human mind so my trading style is rule-based discretionary in nature (combining the conscious and subconscious parts of the brain). I have a strong belief that prices trend which presents me with a strong edge (see Belief 1 above). Thus, I only trade systems that are trend-following in nature. Being a visual person, I found myself flogging towards the trading niche of visual chart pattern recognition (see Belief 6). The interaction and the relative strength of buyers and sellers can actually be determined by the “psychological footprints” that these market actors leave on the chart through imprints of certain price candle pattern formations.
Being a visual person, analyzing charts is my passion and charts are all I need to trade — the less news I see or hear the better (see Belief 1). I believe in the strong edges that Leading Indicators and Higher Timeframes provide (see Beliefs 3 and 4). Most traders focus solely on the chart timeframe they trade while ignoring what is going on in the next higher timeframes. This basically means that they are leaving important edges on the table.
Fundamental Belief on price patterns (6) comes especially from my experience trading the markets. Once in a while, I detect a repetitive price pattern about which I was unaware previously. When I find such a pattern, I try to develop a rule-set providing a clear entry and stop-loss level for low risk trading. I then look for ways to capture profit consistently from that price pattern.
My systems are developed so that they can be traded with the very same rule-set in any timeframe – from very short to very long periods of time (see Belief 7 on the fractal nature of markets).
I am a big proponent of price consolidations on a horizontal line (see Belief 5) that develop after a momentum move in trend direction has occurred. Technically, this appears as a half-mast pennant and provides a great opportunity to enter a trade during a consolidation phase (the so called Trend Refresher). While the decreasing volatility during this period allows for a tight stop, a follow-though with good prospects of momentum enables a break-even trade very soon after entry. The trade target for this kind of strategy is the flag pole top of the pennant, a measured swing move, offering nice profits above 2:1 reward-to-risk – when it works out.
Do any of these beliefs resonate with your beliefs? It may depend on what kind of systems you trade now — which might indicate your Fundamental Trading Beliefs. As an example: a band trader trying to trade a trend-following system like mine may want to take profits too early as he strongly believes that price will come back to the previous price levels (as they tend to do with trading bands). In this way, however, he actually misses the biggest chunk of profits inherent in a complete trend-based swing move.
Your Fundamental Trading Beliefs
Have you thought before about your Fundamental Trading Beliefs? It might be a good opportunity to do so now. What do you believe about the markets and trading them that influences your trading? If you have a passion for system development, why don’t you start developing a system from scratch based on a set of beliefs as the foundation? In this way you can custom-build a system that perfectly fits you. If you prefer, you can research other trader’s systems that might fit you once you understand your Fundamental Trading Beliefs.
In this 2nd part, let’s focus now on the next two trading aspects of psychological importance being Trade Execution and Reading Price Chart Dynamics.
Van has formulated two famous statements of which, I believe, a trader should be well aware of:
a) You can only trade your beliefs and
b) You are the most important factor in your trading.
(3) Trade Execution and Psychology
Once a trader can execute a trading system in a flawless, unconscious and seemingly automatic manner, he will be able to trade consistently profitably. Resistance towards inherent trading beliefs — be it the fundamental beliefs or the system-specific ones— will create inner conflict with the result of unconsciously wanting to deviate from the rule-set (to alleviate the “pain”). Not following the rules is a trading mistake and almost always a mistake translates into negative R outcomes.
Be aware that many great trading systems are counter-intuitive — which is why they work. Initially, when executing a new system, you are likely to experience some struggle, stress and resistance. This is very natural and part of the development process similar to learning any other complex performance activity such as tennis or golf. If the resistance persists, however, then trading mistakes and self-sabotage will find their way into the trading process. Successful trading needs to be learned and it is best done by applying the system rules in practice. While there are several ways to do so, I recommend combining simulation technology with the principles of Deliberate Practice. Both are powerful tools helping you to efficiently ride down your learning curve. Think how the learning stages can be broken down and then go step-by-step while allowing prior learnings to become fully integrated.
I learned how to play tennis in Germany this way, in a highly competitive environment back in the 1980s. I remember well that my learning and growth came from practicing the individual shots while hitting a large number of balls over and over again during focused training drills. And the drills included executing the shots in a flawless manner even without a ball while repeating the motions hundreds times (as if playing on the court). The same method goes for trading: the more practice trades you take in a safe and focused simulation environment, the faster you will achieve flawless execution. How did you start to trade a new system in the past? Did you jump right into live trading trying to squeeze money from the markets? I hope not. One would never think of playing tennis or golf competitively right away without the proper preparation.
What is the best approach to learning-to-trade a new system? There are certain main steps of progression a trader needs to go through and each step will take some time and require effort:
- Unlearn destructive trading behavior.
I’m a big proponent of learning-by-doing and achieving progress through trial and error having gone through many lessons myself. One of the earliest trading lessons to learn is to find the right mental balance. Starting out typical human behavior makes you to revenge trade (anger-based) and to overtrade (euphoria-based). You need to ‘unlearn’ these behaviors but I believe a trader needs to go through these experiences first-hand to some degree. Once fully experienced (including the negative consequences), this destructive behavior typically fades away.
- Apply the rule-set in practice until it becomes second nature.
Trading a counter-intuitive system requires new neural pathways to be established. This is best done in a simulated environment with exposure to a fast succession of practice trades and repetitions of those. Cut out as much detail and complexity as possible to focus on flawless execution of the rule-set only. Trading simulation software allows you to do this and you can build expert experience quickly. This learning step takes about 2-3 weeks and it is complete once you master mistake-free trade execution in simulation mode.
- Build an efficient Live Trading Process that fits you.
Compared to trade-simulating, trading the live markets is much more complex than traders usually estimate. Live trading is a fast moving multi-tasking environment where you will need to master a good number of additional sub-processes, tasks and activities (e.g. efficient scanning & analysis, trade alert setting & news management etc.). In my coaching experience, this phase takes most traders about two months and it can best be achieved in a progressive way following one step after the other (see A Good System Relies On A Robust Trading Process).
- Define the rules of your Personal Trading Game.
In his Peak Performance 202 workshop, Van focuses on the games construct for many areas of life – including the Trading Game. Following the standard trading game, a trader is actually meant to lose together with the crowd. In Peak Performance 202, Van demonstrates how a trader can reinvent their trading game through establishing their own rules and how they define winning the game.
So how can a Winning Trading Game be set-up? One needs to unlearn some of the typical thoughts, beliefs and behavior that might be useful in the real world, but they lead to constant trading losses. As an example, when success lacks in many business ventures, “pushing harder” is often the right strategy, In trading, however, this strategy is more often a recipe for disaster (see The Boom-and-Bust Cycle).
Here’s an early warning sign about which version of the trading game you are playing: should you get confused, stressed or tense during your trading activity, then you are not playing the winning version of the trading game. You will find your profitable niche once you have fully defined your personal trading game.
- Work on your Beliefs and Mental State.
The last step in achieving trader competence is to work on your beliefs and your mental state. While many of your beliefs might certainly be useful in life, some of those will be detrimental in trading. Focus and work especially on those beliefs that hold a negative emotional charge. Van’s Peak Performance Home Study Course provides many tools and exercises to get rid of an emotionally-loaded non-useful belief — once you take off the charge, you can change the belief, and follow it with constructive behavior.
My experience has been that good traders tend to be ‘happy people’ and their mental state rests in a general sense of gratitude. Truly, no system edge can compensate for a lack of a poor mental state for trading. During a private conversation once, Van mentioned that ‘in the end everything boils down to emotional stuff — beliefs & mental states’.
(4) Reading Price Chart Dynamics and Psychology
Market actors leave behind clear “psychological footprints” in the charts Just as with physical footprints left in the ground, these footprints can be seen and analyzed. With a focus on low-risk trading ideas, I am looking for price candle pattern prints that form a specific visual cluster. Some of these patterns repeat over and over again as buyers and sellers are interacting in a dynamic way with one trying to conquer over each other. These psychological traces can be the source of great trading system ideas.
While some traces are more important than others, typically the best and clearest footprints are those that involve some emotional pain from both the buyers and sellers. Thus the best trading ideas come from a situation in which both parties suddenly become trapped (for different reasons) at the same time at the same pricing level. This creates an optimal Market Trap. The emotional intensity of such traps leave psychological traces that are as obvious as ‘blood trails in the snow‘. A market trap price level holds significant importance until the pain (respectively the emotion behind) is gone. Sticking with the snow metaphor, it holds until enough snow over some time has fallen onto it.
In an article I wrote for the Traders’ Magazine, I described in detail how to read those footprints of price chart dynamics. The example used is the Forex System 1 – the “Busted Breakout”. It is a very powerful visual pattern. Please sign-up to my distribution list to access the article (‘Become a Hunter’ / Traders’ Magazine).
Welcome to the Psychological Game of Trading!
Experienced traders certainly already know that Trading is 100% Psychology. If you are more of a novice trader, rest assured that trading will “push your buttons” as you start out trading. This is even more true for those entering the fascinating world of Cryptocurrencies with the huge and rapid price swings. See this as an opportunity and something positive: the spotlight is revealing your strengths, weakness and your areas to work on.
I’d like to finish with a final word of gratitude to Van. I am very grateful you opened my eyes and have shown me the way for more than a decade now. You helped me completely transform as a person and as a trader. Thank you very much!
Note: The articles in the Traders’ Magazine (see above) provide details about how I came to develop the Forex System 1 — the Busted Breakout system. However, the system rules in the article had to be changed and simplified due to that publication’s large subscriber base. In my coming Forex workshop, I teach the original system rules for the system.
Video Analysis of the Forex and Cryptocurrency market
In this April 20, 2019 video, Gabriel’s analysis gives you a view on FX and Cryptocurrencies identifying the best potential moves in each group in the coming weeks. First, he analyses the Forex Market by providing a top-down view based on higher timeframes (valid for the next couple of weeks). The FX market is currently at an important cross-road with EURUSD potentially resuming its previous downtrend — meaning USD strength would resume as well. The EURUSD pair impacts the other Majors and cross-pairs — all of which should follow the lead of EURUSD and soon develop momentum. At the 5:28 mark, Gabriel then analyzes the Cryptocurrency market with a focus on the macro caps. The Crypto charts seem to “respect” the patterns he trades and he has found that his System 1 and System 2 in particular do very well in Cryptocurrencies.

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TinCaps Martorella mashes go-ahead grand slam in 11-10 win over the Dragons
Published: May. 21, 2023 at 6:49 PM EDT
DAYTON, Ohio (WPTA) - Fort Wayne TinCaps slugger Nathan Martorella smashed his most impressive shot of the season when it mattered most, delivering a go-ahead grand slam in an 11-10 win over the Dragons.
Martorella’s seventh home run on the season, certainly, an exclamation point to his recent torrid pace that’s ignited the TinCaps to wins in five of their last seven contests.
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A Russian military invasion of eastern Ukraine changed both the political and military landscape.
For a year after the conflict, the conflict and its aftermath seemed like an endless political battle between Moscow and Kiev.
In 2016, however, the war was a diplomatic stalemate and the two countries were united in their opposition to Moscow.
The war that followed in 2017 was one of the most significant conflicts of the 20th century.
As part of the Cold War, the two sides waged a war of attrition against each other, but the war brought new opportunities for economic and political cooperation and, perhaps most importantly, it gave the former Soviet republics their first democratic president since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The conflict that began in mid-December 2017 in Ukraine’s Donetsk region is also known as the “DPR” (Donetsk People’s Republic) conflict.
It is considered one of Russia’s most important military engagements, as it helped Russia take over the breakaway region of Crimea and eventually annex the peninsula.
But it also marked a major turning point in the long history of Ukraine’s relationship with Russia.
The country’s political crisis had begun to unravel months before, but it was only when the conflict started in late January that the war started to escalate.
The first sign of trouble came on January 10, when pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine began to fire rockets at Ukrainian military targets.
The following day, a convoy of Russian trucks began to appear in the area around the town of Mariupol, about 30 miles southeast of the rebel-held city.
This convoy, dubbed the “Black Sea Fleet,” was quickly followed by a convoy containing about 200 Ukrainian tanks, artillery pieces, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Russian military officials initially believed that the convoy was headed for the border with Ukraine, but when Ukrainian border guards intercepted the convoy and tried to stop it, they were forced to fire back.
After a brief firefight, the Russian tanks and other vehicles fled the area.
By the next day, the Ukrainian military had been able to hold the Ukrainian side of the border, but they did not have enough weapons to stop the Russian attack.
The Ukrainian army was able to retake Mariupovsk, and the situation calmed down somewhat.
The Russian military was still attacking Ukrainian forces on the eastern side of its border, and they had also started to send armored vehicles and other military equipment to the Ukrainian border, although the Ukrainian army had been holding out in the face of Russian advances.
On February 12, the first Russian military convoy, a transport ship called the “Komodo” entered the Crimean peninsula, and two days later, a second transport ship, the “Artyom” entered Ukraine.
The two ships arrived in Crimea on February 14 and transported Russian military equipment, including armored vehicles, and troops.
Russian officials later claimed that the two ships were part of a Russian military buildup.
The next day on February 15, Ukrainian military forces launched a counterattack on the Russian convoy and captured the first Ukrainian-operated ship, which they then transported to a port in the Black Sea.
On the following day the Ukrainian forces also captured another Ukrainian-operated ship, but Russia claimed that this vessel was carrying a humanitarian aid convoy, the ship that was later sunk by a Ukrainian naval blockade.
The ship was also claimed to have been carrying Russian troops.
However, the capture of the Ukrainian-controlled ship did not immediately bring an end to the war.
After the capture, Ukrainian forces launched an attack on the convoy again.
The convoy was able hold for a little over two weeks, but by the end of the month, the situation was back to normal.
Ukrainian troops had regained some control over their border with Russia, and many were able to return to their homes in Crimea.
But, it was not until April 7, the day the Russians started to invade, that the conflict officially ended.
At the same time, the Kremlin announced that the country had signed a peace deal with Ukraine.
In response to the ceasefire, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that Ukraine was withdrawing from the peace deal, but he did not say what that meant in the treaty.
By this time, however (and according to a leaked memo by Ukraine’s intelligence agency) the Kremlin was already prepared to accept Ukraine into the European Union, and it also seemed to be preparing to join NATO.
However the agreement between the two powers had yet to be ratified by all members of the EU.
After Ukrainian forces finally withdrew from the Russian-controlled border on April 11, Russia was ready to start deploying troops on the territory of the new Ukrainian state.
As the Russian military started to push into the Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian officials began to worry that Russia might also try to invade the region.
At this time Russia also began to begin sending humanitarian aid and aid to the people of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Russia’s military presence in eastern and southeastern Ukraine is not new.
After World War II, Russia began its


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Memo to Beyoncé Knowles: You were so good as Etta James in "Cadillac Records," so why'd you go spoil everything with a rank cheeseball thriller that buries you in clichés and won't even help you dig yourself out? show more
Every move is telegraphed well in advance thanks to desultory writing, routine direction and ample musical cues. show more
Larter just doesn't have the same bite as the bunny-killing stalkers of years gone by. show more
OMG It was STUPID! Beyonde can't act, the plot was unbelieveabe, but there were some (unintentional) laughs at the end, 20 minutes of ************* each other with BATS, and yet no injurines-what a waste of money.
Wasn't that great but it wasn't bad. It's worth renting once. Just another psycho movie. It's fun watching them fight in the end and it will make you laugh a couple of times.
i for one dont care what anyone says i absolutly love ali larter i didnt like the fact beyonce was in it i dont care for her at all...ali did a great job she is the reason i stayed entertained...if it wasnt for ali pulling off the roll i would of *********** it... thanks ali i think you save this movie...im rating ali's performance not beyonce...ali larter fan...nich


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image by Jerry Kerns, art direction by Joel S Cohen
It's a little late in the day for me to choose the exact words and to put them in the correct order, and Joel's mail art demands (in a nice way) a full communion to get all its potency. As I see this assemblage of mail art from Joel, I try to coalesce it under a heading. I notice plenty of negatives and an oxymoronic slant to Joel's stickers. After all, when was the last time you thought shovelling sh***t was affirmative? Antifolk, neo dada, anti fictional, one thing's for sure, we are in protest mode. My takeaway feeling is that the only thing that will get us out of this mess is humour and LOVE FOREVER, mail art and putting that add and pass that Joel sent in the post tomorrow!
I love this report on David's brain and its postmodern ambiguity! He and I are really quite alike. Sometimes I come back to a doodle postcard that I made on a train, or somesuch and I wonder where the madness on the card came from. I think David and I let our pens take our brains on mad excursions! Hooray!
Like Sticker Dude, I am a sharer. It's not enough to read the newspaper and think about it. I like to compare my reading, read out a line and share disbelief, you know. Here in England the US president has been the top news story since his swearing in, although this week I've noticed that he has slipped down the page and there may not be more than one story. But I think that's because of the readership not being able to stomach too much more American news. They must be writing letters of complaint. Here in England, I have fewer people to talk with about what the US president is up to, so it's good to get Joel's mailing with a little blatant Trump bashing, a plea for environmental awareness and a reading from his crystal ball about the future. It is probably even better to hear his (Valentines') love story in the pages of the co-op.
By virtue of mailing me his stickers, Sticker Dude is in conversation with me. Thank you!
READ Joel's story! It helps to offset the bad news we are all mired in.
What a beautiful rising winter moon from Katerina! Is that what it looks like in Greece. Here in England it is starting to get light enough to walk the dog without my reflective jacket. We had a beautiful sunrise the other day, but so far no moon to compete with this one. Getting so much celebration in one piece of mail art makes me reconsider my belief that February is the saddest month. this has cheered me up, for sure!
As ever, Amalgamated Confusion says everything in a few strokes, a few stamps and a few words. The ostrich poking its head out of a banana peel says don't put your head in the sand, RESIST, to me. I know one thing. If I ever peeled a banana and found a fowl head in it I would be a bit hysterical. It's a fowl year all around what with the year of the rooster for Chinese New Year and all.
Dave the Rave looks for meaning wherever he travels. While some of us are content to move towards imagery we respond to, DTR interrogates his art. In this pair of postcards he questions the world we inhabit, stating that 'surreal is reality', perhaps pointing to the current state of politics in the Western world. We are certainly living in a surreal time - there is a surreal mix of fact and fantasy" in out lives. I think in the above David is questioning the intuitve in art making.
And I for one recognise the struggle to make meaning in paint. Not sure, but beyond the political world, the desire to represent something that doesn't exist and to make it believable is certainly a fight I relish taking, my reality, my utopia, to get all the colours and lines in 'the right place'. Thanks DTR and hope Spain lived up to your expectations!
Aristide 3108 has been a participant mail artist in the eternal network for thirty years! And not only that, he has been keeping track and photographing his work impeccably so he has a remarkable body of work to commemorate with. It's impressive and beautiful in the way only Aristide 3108 manages. He booklet reminds me of a ubiquitous ticket. I hope I have scanned everything. It is not in order… but undersand that there are two booklets and I suspect they are two of a much larger number! Enjoy looking back through the years. You will find me among the encarted artists. Honoured again! I will certainly send you my best mail art, soon!
I'm an artist-educator who uses imagery in all that I do, from painting, drawing, print-making and mail art to reflective journals around action research in schools. I believe in creating learning environments that are democratic, and collaborative where we are honest, open and caring.