Happy new year! In this first report for 2019, we would like to start by reporting to you that over the last quarter of October 18, 2018 through January 17, 2019, the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund (Equity) (hereinafter, the "Fund") generated a return of -0.13%, outperforming BM by 2.42%. Thanks to the sound dividend income in December and the bullish performance of value stocks included in the Fund, the Fund's return came in higher than BM's.
Dear investors, Remain focused on fundamentals Over July 18, 2018 through October 17, 2018, the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund generated a quarterly return of -6.69%, underperforming BM (which recorded a quarterly return of -5.06%). During the past quarter, the US-China trade war acted as a main culprit behind the fluctuating market. Indeed, the market rebounded on the emerging signs of an amicable conclusion for the G2 trade conflict, but slid again on the failed agreement between the two parties.
Dear investors, From April 18, 2018 to July 17, 2018, the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund (Equity) generated a monthly return of -6.05%, underperforming BM. During the quarter, a series of political events (e.g. inter-Korean summit talks, the US-North Korea summit talks) boosted expectations for denuclearization and peace on the Korean peninsula.
For the past one year, the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund (Equity; Class C) recorded an annual return of +1.39%. Give that the figure was lower than market interest rates, and fell far short of the KOSPI's gains of 14.35% over the same period, the Fund's performance was disappointing.
Dear investors, This year marks the 12th anniversary of the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund (Equity). More than years ago when we launched our long-term value fund, we confidently and ambitiously named the fund as the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund(Equity). To be honest, however, I was not quite sure whether the Fund could survive a decade-long period to befit its name.
Dear investors, Looking back at 2017, the KOSPI gained 21.7% on an annual basis, breaking out of the doldrums that had continued for six years. Having been out of sync with the bullish global stock markets for a long time, the Korean stock market finally soared on the back of corporate Korea (led by the IT industry)'s exponential earnings growth.
Dear investors, The Korean stock market has performed bullishly throughout 2017. After temporarily correcting in summer, the KOSPI quickly rebounded to sustain its strength, and hit KOSPI quickly rebounded to sustain its strength, and hit its all-time high in October. Unfortunately, however, we cannot proudly present our resluts to the investors, because the 10-Year Investment Fund (Equity)(the "Fund") underperformed the KOSPI from July 2017 to October 2017.
Dear investors, For the past eight months since December 2016, the KOSPI has sustained a robust rally, continuing to set a new record high. With the market remaining bullish, concerns are now being raised as to if the KOSPI may soon peak out. In response to such concerns, we note that the level of the stock market index alone is not sufficient to confirm whether the shares have become overvalued or undervalued.
Dear investors, This year marks the 11th anniversary for the Korea Value 10-Year Investment Fund (Equity)(the "Fund"). After reaching its first 10-year milestone in April 2016, the Fund had another one year marking the start of the next decade.
Dear investors, As you are well aware, a number of events took the market by surprise throughout 2016. Among them, we draw particular attention to the following three events that will give you the most intense flashback to last year's market landscape: (1) the UK's vote for Brexit; (2) Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election; and (3) the Korean National Assembly's approval on the impeachment motion against President GH Park.


→ You need business cards, but the design is not quite where you want them.
Instead of printing 500 business cards, just print 50 or 100. Yes, it costs a little bit more per card, but you'll have time to tweak and print more later (and it will save you money in the long run because you won't have 400 business cards laying around that you'll never use).
→ Your website needs to be live, but you're afraid to publish it because all of the pages are not done.
Good news: Your website is never done. So, consider publishing it in phases. Your first phase should have key elements, such as how to contact you and an outline of your services. Then, plan a second and third phase for the less-than-essential items. Never expect to have "everything" on your website. It's always a work in progress.
→ You need to network, but you haven't written – much less memorized – your elevator speech.
Find an index card and write down your name, your website, who your ideal client is and how you help them. Then, go to your networking meeting. Yes, you can read your elevator speech off your index card (just tell your networking peeps that you're trying out a new elevator speech and welcome their feedback). Take any suggestions you receive, write it on the index card and repeat this process at your next networking meeting.
See? Imperfect action. It's not perfect, but you're getting it done.
Embracing Imperfect Action Marketing is critical to your business success. I really want you to embrace this philosophy, so here's a sign you can hang in your workspace to help you remember Imperfect Action Marketing (it's a free download – a little gift from me to you).
All around you are marketing tactics that can be implemented imperfectly. When you are striving for perfection, you are succumbing to your own fears (there, I said it) and not getting your marketing out in the world.
Remember Nike's slogan, "just do it"? That's what you need to do with your marketing – just do it.
I love the idea of imperfect marketing, Jill. I know we all want to show up in the best light possible in front of our prospective leads and clients yet at times its the little human imperfections that appeal the most. Thank God I didn't wait till everything was perfect – the business card, website or even the elevator speech otherwise I'd still be waiting for it to be completed. Being a work in progress and improving on what we have is a better use of our time while we focus on helping our clients get results.
You are always so helpful Jill! I still struggle with getting things accomplished & wanting them to be perfect first. Thanks for giving me permission to take the leap. Now I just need to figure out the technical piece. :-0 Sign downloaded & printed…hanging on my bulletin board!
Good for you, Suzie! I saw that you took imperfect action with your latest video, and it turned out fine! Woo hoo! Proud of you!
Great post Jill and just what I needed to read this morning. My perfectionism pattern shows its ugly head especially when I'm marketing. With your strategies, I feel less stuck already and ready to try anew. Thank you for being you!
Great post, Jill! That has been one of the most important lessons I have learned recently. I also have a tendency to want to be perfect, but I've learned a lot – and achieved a lot – from using 'speed of implementation' and then course-correct along the way. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jill! Marketing scares me because it isn't what I know. I just have to keep going!
A few days ago, I had an idea and implemented a little campaign. Today I was questioning the wisdom of having done that… feeling a little wobbly… but then, this. You're right…. it's sure better than NOT doing it and that's good enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Awesome tips, Jill. Thank you!
Love this article. So helpful. Would love to see you write a networking article for introverts. My imperfect equivalent when I'm attending a networking event feeling shy and withdrawn is to talk with my friends who I feel more secure and open with to work up my enthusiasm to speak with new folks.


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Q: Lifting a bijection into a functor Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I'm trying to clean up some boilerplate in a project that uses Scalaz 7, and I'm not finding one particular puzzle piece that seems pretty simple and possibly useful.
Suppose we have a bijection between two types:
case class Foo(x: Int)
case class Bar(i: Int)

import scalaz._, Scalaz._, BijectionT._

val fb: Foo <@> Bar = bijection[Id, Id, Foo, Bar](
  foo => Bar(foo.x),
  bar => Foo(bar.i)
)

Now suppose we find that we need a bijection between List[Foo] and List[Bar]. We can easily write an implicit class that provides this functionality (in fact we may as well make it work for any functor):
implicit class BijectionLifter[A, B](val bij: A <@> B) extends AnyVal {
  def liftInto[F[_]: Functor]: F[A] <@> F[B] = bijection[Id, Id, F[A], F[B]](
    _ map bij.to,
    _ map bij.from
  )
}

Note that this is a straightforward translation of bimap from Haskell's Data.Bijection. Scalaz's bijection also has a method named bimap, but it has a much busier type and doesn't seem to do what I want in any obvious way.
Now we can just write the following:
fb.liftInto[List]

And we've got the bijection we need.
Am I missing some abstraction that would make it possible for me to write this more cleanly with the functions and instances already provided for bijections in Scalaz 7?

A: To quote Lars Hupel from Twitter in response to this question:

I have no idea what our bimap is or what's it supposed to do.

And:

Related: The T part of BijectionT is probably wrong. It probably needs to be rewritten to look like the Haskell version.

So the answer is apparently no, I wasn't missing anything—this actually is a gap in the current API that will probably be fixed in a future Scalaz version.

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Family Time… With the New York Rangers
By Mark Nagi
I love the New York Rangers and I love Madison Square Garden.
Even if they don't love me back.
I've been a New York Rangers fan since 1979. I was 6 years old when the underdog Rangers went on an unexpected run to the Stanley Cup Final. I was hooked, even though games were hard to find on television. The Rangers lost to Montreal in five games.
In 1994 they snapped a 54-year curse, winning the Stanley Cup.
Twenty years after that, the Rangers went on another unexpected run to the Final, losing in 5 games again, this time to the Los Angeles Kings. It was 2014 and my daughters were still little. They watched a lot of those playoff games with me that season. My oldest daughter Lillian took a big interest in her father's favorite team.
We've seen the Rangers play in Nashville, Raleigh, and Columbus, getting to one game a year since 2015. When Covid hit that slowed our roll but now we are back on schedule.
For years we talked about seeing a game in New York City. With Lillian 16 and still waiting for her first trip on a plane, I thought that this would be a perfect Christmas gift.
So, on December 3, Lillian and I flew into JFK, grabbed a shady Lyft into midtown Manhattan, and got ready to see the Rangers play the Chicago Blackhawks.
As a Dad, I bore my daughters to death about "making memories." Life is made up of memorable moments I tell them, and Lillian's first plane ride and first time in Madison Square Garden certainly fits into that category.
During our 2+ days in Manhattan we did a lot of shopping, saw the Christmas tree, and skated at Rockefeller Center. I saw a guy on the ice in an Alabama hat and yelled "Go Vols!" while skating away Jalin Hyatt-esque. Later on, I fell and twisted my knee.
Kids, it's tough to get old.
We ate a lot of slices of New York pizza (I miss it so), walked all around Times Square, and went to the observation deck at Rockefeller Center. The views at night at remarkable. You could be in NYC for a week and never get to 2% of things you'd like to do.
But I'm a sportswriter and you likely don't expect travel agency articles from me, so let's get back to the hockey.
We arrived at MSG an hour before the puck dropped. I've been there for games maybe a dozen times in my life, and I think I've seen them win once. The Rangers had been slumping but Chicago is terrible so I thought that Lillian would get to see a win in her Garden debut.
The Rangers looked slow, playing their second game in as many nights. They hit the post multiple times. Chicago scored on tipped shots and rebounds. The Rangers lost 5-2 and Lillian had the chance to hear what a New York crowd sounds like when things aren't going well. She laughed, and even though I'm now 50 years old, I laughed too.
We grabbed a Lyft to JFK on Monday, saw our connection flight in Charlotte canceled, and had to stay overnight in the Queen City before finally getting back to Knoxville on December 6.
I'm always aware of how finite our time on this planet is knowing that tomorrow isn't guaranteed. My youngest daughter Emily isn't in high school yet, but Lillian will be in college in the Fall of 2024. I don't know how many more opportunities I'll have to take a trip like this one with her.
After we got back, Lillian asked if we could do it all again next Christmas.
That made all of this worth it.
Even if my Rangers didn't hold up their end of the bargain…
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Thursday is the busiest Ascension Day on the Dutch roads on record, traffic information service VID said.
Around lunchtime there were 125 kilometres of jams on the roads, far above the previous record of 78 kilometres which dates back to 2009.
There were long queues on roads to beaches and to the Wadden Sea islands ahead of the long weekend. Other problems were caused by accidents. The A16 was partly closed after a collision between a lorry and a tow-truck, causing long tailbacks.


An image of a claimed iPad 3 "prototype" has appeared on JailBreakiPhone4u. While rumors of an iPad 3 have circulated for some time, there are several giveaways that we're dealing with a fake.
The device features the standard Apple logo and "iPad" trademarking, but has clearly different dimensions from the existing iPad 2 as well as other unusual design differences.
A bulge in the bottom right of the device, circled red in the image, shows a port with an ethernet symbol – a very unlikely addition to a next-generation tablet. The "iPad 3" also lacks a back-facing camera.
We've posted the image here more for interest, as the device more than likely represents a Chinese knock-off.


Centerbrook, Connecticut - Commercial, packaging, and newspaper printers meeting with EPG at Graph Expo 2010 are finding proven cost-effective printing technology that can be integrated easily into any press and deliver consistent color control to help grow business. Highlighted are KeyColor ink control, color measurement, presetting, and scanner interface systems that help save time and money by minimizing makeready time. Visitors to the EPG booth, #3561, are also learning that KeyColor technology supports a printing company's sustainability program by significantly reducing paper and ink waste. On display are the user-friendly KeyColor C ink desk and the KeyColor S ink desk designed for smaller presses. Welas segmented ink blades are also displayed. In addition, EPG executives are demonstrating the company's AutoSet, AutoKey, and Adelphi Systems used for presetting and closed-loop color control. EPG's KeyColor Systems are integrated into original equipment by leading press manufacturers and installed worldwide as retrofits.
"Printers are focused on gaining efficiencies that enhance their competitiveness," says Peter Griffin, President, EPG. "For the past two years EPG customers have come to us for comprehensive solutions to help them weather the economic crisis and plan for future growth. Graph Expo 2010 presents us with a unique opportunity to talk about that experience, hear about other printers' challenges, and share our expertise."


Following hot on the heels of the launch of the Explorer 485, Cruise Craft has also ripped the covers off its new 530 model, a boat that the company describes as a new design "from the keel all the way to the tip of the rocket launchers".
"We felt there was an opportunity to offer a high quality, medium-sized family boat that comes with a great-value-for-money price ticket," said Cruise Craft sales and marketing manager, Peter Benston.
"This is the ideal boat which can be towed by the average family vehicle that will suit first time fishing families and those moving up from an aluminium boat. Above all, it proudly carries the Cruise Craft name so customers are assured of superior quality and performance."
Measuring 5.30m long (5.76m including bowsprit) the Explorer 530 features a cuddy cab with vee-bunks, storage underneath, and parcel, shelf plus an expansive cockpit. It also has a recessed toerail around the cabin sides like the Explorer 685, providing safe access to the bow.
Inside the boat, there's plush upholstery, including padded coamings, a walkthrough transom door, and a generous deck hatch that provides excellent access to the bowsprit and anchor. At the helm there is a heap of space for instrumentation, marine radios and large electronics units.
"Along with our Explorer 485, we feel that this boat will introduce many families to the Cruise Craft brand," said Benston.
"With the introduction of the 485 and the 530, it now means we have a family fishing boat to suit the needs of all fishing enthusiasts."
"The Explorer 530 rounds out the Explorer range very neatly. We are confident that once boaters experience one of our new Cruise Craft Explorers, they will go on and further their boating with the bigger Cruise Craft models."
The Explorer 530 targets entry level customers, but according to Cruise Craft there are no corners cut when it comes to design or construction. The hull is foam filled for strength, buoyancy and quietness, and like all models in the Cruise Craft range, the Explorer 530 is backed by a seven-year structural hull guarantee.
The boat is rated to carry five adults with the maximum power on the transom limited to 140hp, with either two-stroke or four-stroke configuration. The recommended power is 115hp. The Explorer 530 carries a kerbside weight of (approx.) 1600 kg.
A rigged boat/motor/trailer package begins around the mid $50,000 mark depending on engine and options.


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9 amazing hotels that used to be prisons, banks, theaters, and more
Photo: Malmaison Oxford Castle
Brand-new buildings and modern architectural marvels are necessities of humanity's forward progress, but places are just more interesting when they hide years or even decades of history inside their walls. This is especially true when it comes to accommodations; a newly built hotel may sparkle with fresh, clean vibes, but a hotel that had a former life as some other type of establishment has more to tell. If you're interested in staying in a hotel that had a former life as a bank, jail, firehouse, or theater, the nine spots below have plenty of tales, from creepy to inspiring, for you to dive into during your stay.
1. Marshall House Hotel — Savannah, Georgia
Photo: The Marshall House Hotel/Facebook
Savannah is said to be one of "the most haunted cities in America," and Marshall House Hotel is perhaps the most haunted spot in Savannah. It once served as a Civil War hospital and convalescent home for soldiers who were badly injured in battle. Many unfortunately died during their stints, hence the dramatic and plentiful stories of hauntings, ghouls, and other paranormal activity.
Today, Marshall House Hotel is a beautifully restored boutique hotel located centrally in Savannah's historic district. Its porches — complete with ceiling fans, rocking chairs, and perfect views for people-watching — beckon after a long day of strolling Savannah's cobblestone streets, and few places capture the city's old-style Southern charm quite like this one does.
If you're not brave enough to spend the night, at least book a ghost tour that includes Marshall House Hotel on the itinerary so you can get spooked by this eerie establishment.
2. Ovolo Woolloomooloo — Sydney, Australia
Photo: Ovolo Hotels (Ovolo Woolloomooloo/Facebook
Located on the historic Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf, Ovolo Woolloomooloo is a modern, no-holds-barred boutique hotel. Formerly the site of the first fish market in Sydney in the 1800s, today Ovolo Woolloomooloo is a hotel serving up views of Sydney Harbor to guests.
In its former life, the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf wore many hats: It was a major export point for Australia's wool, it welcomed new arrivals who were emigrating to Australia, and it deployed troops for World Wars I and II.
3. Detroit Foundation Hotel — Detroit, Michigan
Photo: Detroit Foundation Hotel/Facebook
A former firehouse, Detroit Foundation Hotel joins in the big transformation the city of Detroit is currently experiencing. The hotel offers a variety of events, a trendy restaurant, and mod-luxe accommodations, but it wasn't always a cozy place to rest your head: In its first iteration, Detroit Foundation Hotel was the place you called when something was going up in flames.
The hotel was fully converted from a fire station into a hotel, but touches of its past remain visible: In the onsite restaurant, the Apparatus Room, for example, you can spot the original firehouse doors.
4. Ace Hotel LA — Los Angeles, California
Photo: The Theatre at Ace Hotel DTLA/Facebook
The Ace Hotel LA is a former theater, located in the heart of LA's Broadway theater district. The theater used to be known as the United Artists Theater. Today, a working theatre — with the original stage curtain — still exists at the hotel, restored from its former role as a 1920s movie place into a grand performance venue, with entrances next to each other. The hotel also holds performing arts memorabilia in the lobby and has a grand exterior similar to the decor on the outside of the theater.
The three-story theater lobby is ornately decorated and seats 1,600 people for programming such as live music, lectures, and other performances. Step back into the Hollywood glamour and relive the glory days of the big screen before going to sleep next door.
5. Old Bank Hotel — Oxford, England
Photo: Old Bank Hotel/Facebook
Located on Oxford's famous High Street, the Old Bank Hotel is, unsurprisingly, a former bank. Perhaps the new owners found a stash of money hidden in the safe because today the hotel is a luxurious five-star accommodation option with 43 rooms and unparalleled views of the iconic landmarks of the beautiful city, such as the Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera.
The site actually has a long history dating back to the 1200s, when the property was owned by an abbey, and wasn't used as a bank until the 1700s. However, its timeless elegance exudes through the fortified walls to this day, giving guests a unique hotel experience in the heart of England.
6. Hôtel Mercure Poitiers Centre — Poitiers, France
Photo: AccorHotels
You don't have to be religious to stay at Hôtel Mercure Poitiers Centre, a former Jesuit chapel that was built in 1854. Anyone can appreciate the striking, reverent architecture and the view from the nave, today bookable as the ultimate of the 50 rooms in the hotel. No vows of alcohol abstinence required here; there's also a bar and restaurant onsite.
7. Monastero Santa Rosa — Amalfi Coast, Italy
Photo: Monastero Santa Rosa
At Monastero Santa Rosa, a former 17th-century monastery located between Positano and Amalfi, guests will enjoy the refined elegance of the order and solemnity once housed in this seaside spot. The Conca dei Marini monastery was once home to nuns who spent their days baking sfogliatelle, a type of cream-filled pastry. In the mid-1800s, the property ceased to be a religious establishment and fell into disrepair before it was purchased by a Roman hotelier and repurposed into a hotel in 1924.
Set among the Mediterranean splendor of the Amalfi Coast, Monastero Santa Rosa has multi-leveled gardens, a full spa, and a sparkling pool available to guests of the mere 20 rooms and suites available on the property.
8. Hotel Oderberger — Berlin, Germany
Photo: Hotel Oderberger
Berlin's Hotel Oderberger was formerly known as the Oderberger Baths, an establishment designed at the end of the 1800s as a public bathhouse and swimming pool. It was closed from the mid-1980s through 2012, when renovations began, and re-opened in 2016. Today, there's a historic indoor swimming hall for guests to enjoy, plus luxe rooms and a restaurant and bar on site.
For guests and curious travelers, free guided tours of the restored public bath are offered on every first Tuesday of the month.
9. Malmaison Oxford Castle — Oxford, England
Photo: Kit Leong/Shutterstock
Malmaison Oxford Castle gives a nod to its roots when it claims to be "better than your average prison" — and that it is, especially since you're allowed to check in and out as you please and you thankfully get more space than a jail cell allows.
It's also centrally located in Oxford, with nearby ruins of the Oxford Castle and plenty to do in the surrounding city. Major upgrades took place to transform the prison into the roomy, ultra-cool hotel it is today, meaning they can now claim to be on the "most wanted list."
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This Year, Make and Keep Your New Year's Resolution!
Once a year, on New Year's Eve, we, as a society, look back at our successes and failures of the previous year. It is the only time of year that we publicly give ourselves permission to assess our shortcomings, and "resolve" to do things differently in the coming year.
1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
Based on the above definitions of the word "resolution", one would assume that a New Year's Resolution is a pretty serious affair, that we had made a true commitment to ourselves to do something. Yet, sadly, it has become the societal expectation that resolutions are made to be broken, and that your resolute determination for positive changes in your life is little more than wishful thinking. This is because we bravely decide on what our New Year's Resolution should be, often without much thought on how those changes will be accomplished.
While our earnest desire for a more prosperous career, a new relationship, better health or a "better" body is a great place to start, our dreams will never materialize into our reality without a well thought-out PLAN. Yes, a RESOLUTION, "a firm resolution to do something", requires a PLAN.
So, say your New Year's Resolution is to get "in shape" this year. What steps will you need to put in place in order to honor your resolution? While a gym membership or the new pair of running shoes may be necessary tools that can help you accomplish your goal, it is your "firmness of purpose", determination, and commitment to yourself that creates the foundation of your plan. And that commitment is dependent upon understanding what it means to be "in shape". It is dependent upon your understanding of the importance and absolute necessity of physical exercise to every aspect of your health- your heart, your lungs, your immune system, your endocrine system, your bones, and both the quality and quantity of your life. Far from being a frivolous cosmetic attribute reserved for those in their 20's and movie stars, physical fitness and being committed to being "in shape" is one, if not THE, MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do for your physical, mental, and emotional health. Once you have that understanding, and have that desire to feel both energized and de-stressed that comes with physical exercise, the next step is just determining what it is that you like to do. Running, walking, mountain climbing, weightlifting, racquetball, cycling, tennis, yoga, Qigong, tae kwon do, the number of ways to stay physically fit is nearly limitless, but all you need to do is find one activity that you like.
The next part of the "get in shape" Resolution Plan, or any Resolution Plan for that matter, is to Get Support. When our spouse, children, parents, and friends can offer us love and support in starting something new, we can find the courage to overcome our doubts and fears because someone believes in us. The importance of Getting Support, no matter what your New Year's Resolution or goals may be, cannot be overstated. Many of us were raised to be "independent", with the idea that we have to "make it on our own". Yet those that have achieved amazing things, from athletes to actors to world leaders, always give thanks to those that believed in them and supported them through their challenges. So share your resolution with your family and friends and get support for your goals. If your resolution is to find a physical activity that you like and to make a commitment to improve your health, invite your spouse, family or friends to join you on a daily walk, at the gym, at dance or yoga classes. Make your exercise routine be a time to better connect with yourself and those you love, and this year's resolution may just be the one that lasts for years to come.
Today there are fifteen thousand diet books in print, most of them are something you go on for a while knowing at some point you will go off it. Unlike many diet plans that are blindly followed, adopting a healthy lifestyle requires understanding what your body needs to be healthy.
Despite our individual differences, there are ten simple steps to a healthier lifestyle that apply to most people. Before starting any program, however, be sure to speak to your qualified health care professional to see if this program is appropriate for you.
1. Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of clean, filtered water. Coffee, tea and soda all weaken your body by removing water and valuable nutrients.
2. Pay careful attention to keeping your insulin levels down by avoiding sugar, high fructose corn syrup, fruit juices, refined carbohydrates, and processed grains.
3. Be sure to have at least 1 ounce of high quality organic hormone-free protein like egg, poultry, beef, wild game, wild-caught seafood or vegetable protein like beans or nuts at every meal.
4. Consume healthy fats such as organic butter, animal fat from pastured animals, coconut oil, avocados, and raw nuts. Avoid processed hydrogenated fats like nearly all commercial vegetable oils that are high in omega-6 fats, such as canola, soy and corn oils.
5. Include plenty of higher whole carbohydrate foods, like organic leafy greens, broccoli, asparagus, beans, beets, sweet potatoes, squashes, whole grains, etc.. Be sure that your cooked vegetables still maintain most of their nutrients by cooking them using the waterless method (not boiled or microwaved).
6. Eat plenty of raw organic vegetables like salads, and naturally fermented foods like homemade sauerkraut or organic Greek yogurt.
7. Manage your stress through spiritual connection, time to play, hobbies, and positive relationships and be sure to get support when you need it. One of the best ways to reduce stress is through regular and safe exercise. Try alternating short burst high intensity exercise along with moderate aerobic activity, which is how your body was designed to perform.
8. Get sun exposure to optimize your vitamin D levels by spending an appropriate and safe amount of time outdoors without the use of sunscreen.
9. Limit exposure to toxins of all kinds- from pesticides in foods, additives, artificial colors, household cleaners, and body care products- by replacing with natural and non-toxic products.
10. Get plenty of sleep to allow your body to repair, recharge and reset.
This common sense approach to a healthy lifestyle is a good way to produce a healthy body, mind, and increase your longevity.
Best of all, YOU have the power to change your own lifestyle!


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Paromita Sanyal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v8i2.5850
Black women start businesses at a rate above the national average. Yet, a revenue gap persists when compared to businesses owned by Black men and White men and women. Existing explanations for the differences in revenue highlight the lack of experience and limited access to start-up capital that constrain racial and gender minorities and also the type of industries in which they operate. Research specifically examining Black women business owners is very limited. In this article, we explore if Black women business owners' gender and racial identities pose challenges to running their businesses. We find that, because of their race and gender, Black women business owners contend with unique challenges that many entrepreneurs do not face. In-depth interviews reveal that they confront negative stereotypes held about them and, surprisingly, experience difficulties interacting with Black clients. These entrepreneurs cite navigation strategies that include monitoring self-presentation, adopting standards of excellence, and creating clear professional boundaries. This study suggests that Black women business owners might be spending more time than other business owners navigating challenges specifically linked to their identity, which seems to impact their business directly.
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My winter coat is a basic style, dark blue, three-quarter length, with a fake fur-trimmed hood. It's the kind of coat necessary in the depths of a Southeastern Pennsylvania winter, when heavy snows pound and winds howl, and during polar vortexes, when temps fall to single digits. It's a good coat, except for one thing. Whenever I wear it into a retail store, it sets off the shoplifter alarms.
This isn't something I eagerly admit, but I have a coat that has been trying to get me arrested for shoplifting. Maybe car theft, too.
Most of us have had this awkward experience. The check-out clerk either forgets to deactivate or remove a tag from your purchase and, as you walk out, the alarm blares like a submarine dive alarm. The worst is when there's an accompanying recorded voice, "Return to the bagging area. We have failed to deactivate one or more of your items." You stop. Heads turn. People stare. You stand there, not really knowing what to do.
At first I didn't realize the coat was the trigger. I thought it might be my phone, or my work boots, which are steel-toed. (Another anti-fashion item I prefer.) And because I only wear the coat in the worst winter weather, usually to clear snow from the driveway, setting off store alarms was only an occasional embarrassment.
Still, at a Home Depot, a kid came over and asked to see my bag and receipt. He examined the receipt closely.
In the recent polar vortex, I wore the winter coat every day for nearly a week. After setting off alarms from Oxford Valley to Neshaminy, it was clear that the coat was the problem. Mrs. Mullane wouldn't walk with me.
"You're wearing the shoplifter coat," she said.
"I thought you liked bad boys," I said.
At home, I searched the coat for a security tag, but couldn't find one.
I'm a DIY type, and my son and I are in the middle of an interior renovation project, one requiring many materials from home improvement centers. Throughout Vortex Week I probably set off the shoplifter alarms at Lowe's in Langhorne a dozen times, both entering and leaving. It got so bad that I'd tell a friend of mine, Tony Wightman, who works the paint desk, "My coat's gonna set off the alarm again on my way out," in case I needed him to vouch for me.
One of the Lowe's check-out ladies offered to demagnetize the coat. She did, but nothing happened, except that it seemed like the alarm was even louder than before.
Determined to stop feeling like a criminal, I again searched every centimeter of the coat. Finally, I found the security tag. It was small and buried a quarter way up the left sleeve. It wouldn't come off.
I called the clothing outfitter.
"How do I remove it?" I asked.
The lady said to take it to their store in King of Prussia.
"That's probably 30 miles from me. I'd rather just remove it myself," I said.
"You don't want to do that," she said.
"We don't advise it," she said.
Sounded ominous. What? Would an FBI SWAT team in tac gear raid my house at dawn?
I removed the tag with pliers, but it wasn't easy. Later, when I went out to my car, the car alarm went off, horn honking. Weird. That never happens. But it's an old car in 8-degree weather. Old cars have quirks.
At Lowe's I walked in and out. No alarms, no stink eye. Same at Target. It felt like I had been sprung from prison. But in the Target parking lot, when I opened the door of my aging heap, the car alarm went off again. What the?
When I got home, I told my wife the good news about the shoplifter coat tag. She was glad, then said, "We need milk." When I walked to the car, the alarm went off again and I couldn't get the door unlocked.
Maybe I should have left coat de-tagging to professionals.


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Educating the innovation nation
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With EU e-Skills 2010 happening this week, it's time to look at the ICT picture countrywide and address the skills gap. While many of us use technology on a daily basis and are quite proficient as far as web, software and general computer skills go, 30pc of the Irish population has never accessed the internet.
Fastrack to IT
This research was carried out by the EU Commission and questioned people from age 16 to 74 and on the back of these findings Fastrack to IT (FIT) in partnership with ICT Ireland, Engineers Ireland and Discover Science and Engineering announced plans for e-Skills Week here in Ireland with a mission to highlight the importance of a career in ICT.
"For people working and living in the world of technology, it is surprising and sobering to find out that 30pc of the population do not use the internet in any way, be it for work or conducting their personal affairs," says Fiona Mullan, chair of FIT and HR director, Microsoft Ireland.
"While it can be seen as a challenge to address this, it is one that can be overcome pretty quickly when you see how pervasive technology is in society these days."
Tackling the ICT skills gap
Addressing the ICT skills gap is possible with the right level of awareness through events like e-Skills Week and a more inclusive approach, says Mullan.
Considering fewer and fewer students are choosing to study technology at a third level, there is a need to educate young people with a realistic view of IT studies as well as inspire them with role models and exciting technology, as Peter Davitt, CEO of FIT, explains.
However, acquiring ICT skills is not the preserve of those within the formal education system: FIT sees the need to target students, educators, employees and others within the workforce, says Mullan.
"ICT awareness also represents workplace competitiveness, innovation, business value and indeed personal prospects in the current economic climate.
"For students emerging from second- or third-level education, with the appropriate IT skills their future is charted very positively. If they don't, then it is a much bigger challenge. ICT is not just acquiring these skills but the process of learning through technology, using it as an aid."
Singer Paddy Casey at the launch of Digital Creator
Smart learners
Tomorrow, e-Skills Week will come to an end with a seminar entitled 'e-Skills for Lifelong Learning' which will be addressed by the Minister for Lifelong Learning, Seán Haughey TD, followed by two panel discussions: 'Smart Teachers – Smart Learners' and 'Competing with E-Skills'.
Other ICT initiatives in Ireland include Digital Creator, a non-for-profit digital media course from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire (IADT), which was launched on 1 March.
This course, launched by musician Paddy Casey, combines creative skills such as music- and film-making with digital media, films and even animation. Digital Creator is open to second-level students and adult learners.
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Topmost photo: Peter Davitt, CEO of FIT, and Fiona Mullan, chair of FIT and HR director, Microsoft Ireland
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This is a senior role, responsible for overseeing the provision of high-quality, objective advice and support to the CGIAR System through robust evaluation services. The Senior Manager, Evaluation reports to Director of the Shared Secretariat.
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Troy Resources commissions processing plant at Karouni gold mine in Guyana
Australia-based Troy Resources has commissioned the processing plant at Karouni gold project in Guyana.
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According to the company, construction activities at the plant began in February and all parts have been dry and wet commissioned over the past six weeks.
During the process, the mill underwent an extended performance test and is being fed with a limited amount of ore at present in order to enable pressure and flow-rate adjustment to all systems.
Troy Resources managing director Martin Purvis said: "Conclusion of commissioning activities represents a significant milestone in the fast-track development of Karouni and I congratulate all the employees and contractors who have worked together safely and tirelessly to achieve this outcome, within very challenging physical conditions.
"If the ramp-up in production continues as expected, the first gold pour is now expected to occur in the first half of November."
The last part of the elution circuit, which has been programmed, will be ready to operate soon.
Troy Resources stated that ore feed will steadily be increased towards the plant's design capacity of about 80,000t per month once the final adjustments are done to the mill and processing circuits. This is expected to be achieved by next year.
The mining operations are going ahead without incidents and the facility has been commissioned, the firm stated. As a result, the run of mine (ROM) stockpile already comprises 137,000t of ore at an average grade of 2.41g/t.
Previously known as the West Omai, the Karouni Project lies about 180km south-south-west of Georgetown and covers an aggregate area of 113,581ha.
Image: Troy Resources' mine project. Photo: courtesy of Troy Resources Limited.
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Of Orphan Worlds and Interstellar Island Hopping
By dad2059 on October 16, 2013 | Leave a comment
From Centauri Dreams:
Because of my fascination with exotic venues for astrobiology, I've always enjoyed Karl Schroeder's novels. The Canadian writer explored brown dwarf planets as future venues for human settlement in Permanence (2002), and in his new book Lockstep (soon to be published by Tor, currently being serialized in Analog), Schroeder looks at 'rogue' planets, worlds that move through the galaxy without a central star. Imagine crimson worlds baked by cosmic radiation, their surfaces building up, over the aeons, the rust red complex organic molecules called tholins. Or consider gas giants long ago ejected from the system that gave them birth by close encounters with other worlds.
Objects like these and more are surely out there given what we know about gravitational interactions within planetary systems, and they're probably out there in huge numbers. I'm not going to review how Lockstep uses them just yet — in any case, I haven't finished the book — but we'll return to its ingenious solution to time and distance problems in a future post. Right now I just want to mention that one of Schroeder's characters muses upon 'a hundred thousand nomad planets for every star in the galaxy.' Now that's some serious real estate.
If the number sounds like a novelistic exaggeration, it's nonetheless drawn from recent work. Schroeder is invoking the work of Louis Strigari (Stanford University), who has studied the possibilities not only of planets ejected from their own systems but those that may form directly from a molecular cloud. The figure of 105 free-floating planetary objects for every main sequence star is from a 2012 paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (you can read more about Strigari's ideas in 'Island-Hopping' to the Stars).
Rogue planets would be tricky to find but gravitational microlensing should help us set constraints on their actual numbers, and as we'll see below, direct imaging has its uses. If rogue worlds are available in such quantities, we can imagine a starfaring culture capable of exploiting their resources. We can even speculate that a thick atmosphere that can trap infrared heat coupled with tectonic or radioactive heat sources from within could sustain elemental forms of life even in the absence of a star. Tens of thousands of objects in nearby interstellar space would obviously be a spur for exploration.
A Newly Found Orphan World
Eighty light years from Earth floats a solitary planet that has been discovered through its heat signature in data collected by the Pan-STARRS 1 wide-field survey telescope on Maui. In mass, color, and energy output, the world is similar to directly imaged planets. As you might expect, PSO J318.5-22, a gas giant about six times the mass of Jupiter, turned up during a search for brown dwarfs, delving into the datasets of a survey that has already produced about 4000 terabytes of information. The discovery was then followed up through multiple observations by equipment on nearby Mauna Kea, with spectra from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the Gemini North Telescope indicating the young, low-mass object was not a brown dwarf.
Image: Multicolor image from the Pan-STARRS1 telescope of the free-floating planet PSO J318.5-22, in the constellation of Capricornus. The planet is extremely cold and faint, about 100 billion times fainter in optical light than the planet Venus. Most of its energy is emitted at infrared wavelengths. The image is 125 arcseconds on a side. Credit: N. Metcalfe & Pan-STARRS 1 Science Consortium.
"We have never before seen an object free-floating in space that that looks like this. It has all the characteristics of young planets found around other stars, but it is drifting out there all alone," explained team leader Dr. Michael Liu of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "I had often wondered if such solitary objects exist, and now we know they do."
The find is interesting on a number of levels, not least of which is that observations of gas giant planets around young stars have shown that their spectra differ from those of L- and T-class brown dwarfs. Young planets like these, according to the paper on this work, show redder colors in the near-infrared, fainter absolute magnitudes at the same wavelength and other spectral peculiarities that suggest the line of development between brown dwarfs and gas giant planets may not be as clear cut as once assumed. The paper makes clear how complex the issue is:
PSO J318.5−22 shares a strong physical similarity to the young dusty planets HR 8799bcd and 2MASS J1207−39b, as seen in its colors, absolute magnitudes, spectrum, luminosity, and mass. Most notably, it is the first field L dwarf with near-IR absolute magnitudes as faint as the HR 8799 and 2MASS J1207−39 planets, demonstrating that the very red, faint region of the near-IR color-magnitude diagram is not exclusive to young exoplanets. Its probable membership in the β Pic moving group makes it a new substellar benchmark at young ages and planetary masses.
A landmark indeed, and here the Beta Pictoris moving group, a collection of young stars formed about twelve million years ago, is worth noting. Beta Pictoris itself is known to have a young gas giant planet in orbit around it. The newly detected PSO J318.5−22 is lower still in mass than the Beta Pictoris planet and it is thought to have formed in a different way. The paper goes on:
We find very red, low-gravity L dwarfs have ≈400 K cooler temperatures relative to field objects of comparable spectral type, yet have similar luminosities. Comparing very red L dwarf spectra to each other and to directly imaged planets highlights the challenges of diagnosing physical properties from near-IR spectra.
The beauty of objects like these from an astronomical point of view is that we don't have to worry about filtering out the overwhelming light of a parent star as we study them. Co-author Niall Deacon (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) thinks PSO J318.5−22 will "provide a wonderful view into the inner workings of gas-giant planets like Jupiter shortly after their birth." The discovery also gives us much to think about in terms of future explorations as we contemplate a cosmos in which perhaps vast numbers of planets move in solitary trajectories through the galaxy.
I like the idea of targeting "rogue" planets as potential interstellar missions within the next 100 years. The probes can be smaller and the fuel problem won't be as bad.
Karl Schroeder isn't the only author who has used rogue planets as interstellar destinations. The old Space: 1999 television series addressed it as well as Peter Watts Blindsight. Good stuff.
Interstellar Wanderers
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Phoenix Digs Mars and other stuff…
By dad2059 on June 3, 2008 | 8 Comments
NASA's Phoenix lander may have already hit pay dirt with its first scoop of Martian soil – it contains white streaks that could be water ice. Meanwhile, mission engineers have fixed an electrical glitch on an important Phoenix instrument, restoring it to health.
Phoenix touched down in Mars's north polar region on 26 May and quickly started beaming back images of its surroundings.
"It's been a thrill for me this first week after landing on the permafrost region in the Northern Arctic on Mars to find out that we're in a really great place for doing the science we plan to do," said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson, US, Phoenix's chief scientist, at a press conference on Monday.
The $420-million spacecraft has now gouged out its first scoopful of Martian dirt from an area informally known as the Knave of Hearts, using its 2.3-metre robotic arm.
The brain trust isn't exactly sure if this stuff is actually ice or salt, since it's theorized that Mars' water was a seriously salty brine before it finally dried up completely. But I guess the first chemical analysis will find out, won't it?
Phoenix digs up possible ice on Mars
The goal of finding an Earth-like planet around another star has just come closer. Astronomers announced today they have discovered a planet of about three Earth masses orbiting a star smaller than our sun.
The planet has the closest mass to Earth of all the known extrasolar planets, and is the lightest planet ever found orbiting a normal-size star. "Our discovery indicates that even the lowest mass stars can host planets," David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame, who led an international team of astronomers to the discovery, said on Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in St Louis, Missouri, US.
The planet is referred to as MOA-2007-BLG-192L and is around 3000 light years from Earth. Planet formation theory suggests it is likely made mostly of rock and ice.
The planet's orbit around the host star is of a similar radius to the orbit of Venus, although it is likely to be much colder than Pluto. That is because the host star, thought to be a brown dwarf between 6 and 8 percent of the Sun's mass, may not be large enough to sustain nuclear reactions in its core.
Believe it or not, astronomers and other planet hunters are getting rather good at finding extrasolar planets. The method used in this case is gravitational microlensing, which uses an object's gravity that warps the light from another object behind it which magnifies the image of it.
Not my idea, blame Einstein. I just post the stuff. Read the article.
Newfound planet has just three times Earth's mass
Also, read this post at Paul Gilster's Centauri Dreams, they explain it better than I can.
Smallest Known Exoplanet Found
And I can't let this day go by without a little rant against the rampant corporatism that has the nation and the world by our collective throats and our wallets:
On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.
Metered billing is an attempt to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among Time Warner Cable's subscribers, said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of advanced technology.
Just 5 percent of the company's subscribers take up half of the capacity on local cable lines, Leddy said. Other cable Internet service providers report a similar distribution.
"We think it's the fairest way to finance the needed investment in the infrastructure," Leddy said.
Metered usage is common overseas, and other U.S. cable providers are looking at ways to rein in heavy users. Most have download caps, but some keep the caps secret so as not to alarm the majority of users, who come nowhere close to the limits. Time Warner Cable appears to be the first major ISP to charge for going over the limit: Other companies warn, then suspend, those who go over.
Time Warner can bite me. Trouble is, Verizon and all these other criminals do the same, plus report you to the 'Ministry' of 'Homeland' Security!
So much for the sanctity of the InnerTubes. Big Brother is not only watching, but making us pay in order for them to watch!
Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
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Harassment of Kashmir Reader for what reason?
By KR Desk on 2:41 am November 26, 2022 No Comment
Thursday November 24, 2022, marked another grim chapter in the unending saga of harassment of Kashmir Reader newspaper, whose Editor-in-Chief, Haji Hayat Mohammad Bhat, was detained by the police after a raid on his Pampore residence in the early hours of the morning. His personal devices such as mobile phone, laptop, and bank documents were seized by the police. Another raid on the same day took place at the Kashmir Reader office in Srinagar. In the name of "questioning", police kept Haji Hayat at Shergarhi Police Station in Srinagar for the entire day and summoned him again the next morning. It is what the police have been doing with several other journalists in recent days in the name of investigation into an online threat to journalists by a militant group, but Kashmir Reader is a particular target for which the authorities have only found a new excuse.
Ever since the ban imposed on publication of Kashmir Reader in October 2016, a ban that was declared without any specific reason and without giving any opportunity to defend or contest, there seems to be a witch-hunting exercise afoot in which the authorities are employing every means at their disposal to force the newspaper to shut down. What is the reason for this, we fail to understand. The newspaper has always been doing its work fairly, without fear or favour. It has done its basic journalistic duty to report on current events and situations. The newspaper's coverage reflects the ground situation that prevails in the valley, when it was quaking with unrest a few years ago and when it is calm and relatively normal as it is now. The newspaper has been giving due space to the government's work, with a conscious effort to highlight government's public-welfare schemes and programmes. Despite this, the persistent hounding of the newspaper has now come down to raids on the house and office of its Editor-in-Chief and daily summons to the police station.
These attacks, both overt and covert, mounted from the high offices of authority have worn down the resources of this newspaper, so much so that it is now on the verge of closure with staff laid off, revenues negligible, and print-run dwindling. And yet we refuse to just give up and shut operations, for we are committed to a higher mission of duty, of professional calling, a belief in honesty and fair play, which is why we must raise our voice, here and now, against this latest attack and call it out for what it is: harassment, plain and simple. There is nothing that we have to hide, we are open to every investigation but we cannot answer questions that are not asked, defend charges that are not levelled, put up with a so-called investigation that is investigating nothing but only twisting the knife, as it were, already plunged into a journalistic enterprise that is being bled of resources, support and energy.
At the same time, we call out the online threat and labelling of journalists by a militant group, forcing many to quit their organisations in fear of their lives. It is a sad moment for us all that this particular incident has not united the journalist fraternity to forcefully call out the militants for endangering our lives. Already, the media has borne the brunt of armed militancy and lost 19 journalists in the last three decades. The latest threat by the dubious blog operated and run from across the border, according to police, by Lashkar-e-Toiba's offshoot The Resistance Front, is a grim reminder of how people across the border are not comfortable with the work we do in the Valley.
The assurance from Director General of Police Dilbag Singh to not allow militants to scare the journalist community is encouraging for us. But the latest example of raids and questioning of journalists does not augur well with the assurance. Therefore, we request the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and the higher-ups to let the newspaper do its work. The tactics of harassment and intimidation are unwarranted, undeserved. This has gone on for too long, for no reason.
Harassment of Kashmir Reader for what reason? added by KR Desk on 2:41 am November 26, 2022
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Who Is The Patron Saint Of Engineers?
Posted on 15.10.2021 by Edward Hancock
1 Why is Saint Patrick patron saint of engineers?
2 Is there a saint of engineering?
3 What is St Patrick the patron saint of?
4 Who is the patron saint of Mechanical engineers?
5 Why there is no snake in Ireland?
6 What do you pray to St Patrick for?
7 Who is the saint of students?
8 Who is the saint of medicine?
9 Who is the patron saint of teachers?
10 Why we wear green on St Patrick Day?
11 What killed Saint Patrick?
12 Who is the patron saint for families?
13 Who is the patron saint of home repairs?
14 Who is the female patron saint of horses?
Why is Saint Patrick patron saint of engineers?
It's also believed that he introduced the concept of arches to Irish builders, giving them the knowledge they needed to build the traditional stone churches that still dot the Irish countryside today. Because of this, the Catholic church has deemed him the patron saint of engineers.
Is there a saint of engineering?
St Patrick, the patron saint of engineers.
What is St Patrick the patron saint of?
St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity's most widely known figures.
Who is the patron saint of Mechanical engineers?
Eligius is the Patron Saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Why there is no snake in Ireland?
Snakes never came to Ireland The truth is that there were never any snakes in Ireland to begin with. There are no signs of snakes in Ireland's fossil record. During the Ice Age, Ireland and England were too frigid to be suitable habitats for cold-blooded reptiles such as snakes.
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What do you pray to St Patrick for?
Patrick's Prayer. May the Strength of God pilot us. May the Power of God preserve us. May the Wisdom of God instruct us.
Who is the saint of students?
Thomas Aquinas studied and eventually taught theology. He is the patron saint of students.
Who is the saint of medicine?
Along with Cosmas and Damian, St Luke is the saint most associated with medicine. He was doctor to St Paul. Luke was the author of the Third Gospel and there are more than 30 medical references, to do with healing body and spirit, in his Gospel.
Who is the patron saint of teachers?
In 1900, John Baptist de La Salle was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Fifty years later, Pope Pius XII declared John Baptist de La Salle the Patron Saint of Teachers.
Why we wear green on St Patrick Day?
"The Irish Americans would wear the green as a reminder that they were nationalists first and foremost," explains Witt. "The colors of the Irish flag are green, white and orange, the green symbolizing the Irish nationalism, the orange symbolizing the Orangemen of the north and the white symbolizing peace."
What killed Saint Patrick?
invocation of the virtues of the natural world: the sun, fire, lightning, wind, etc. invocation of various aspects of God – his wisdom, his eye, his ear, his hand, etc. lists of the things against which protection is required, including false prophets, heathens, heretics, witches and wizards (druids)
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Who is the patron saint for families?
Saint Joseph is the patron saint of a number of cities, regions and countries, among them the Americas, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Indonesia, Mexico, Korea, Peru, the Philippines, and Vietnam, as well as of families, fathers, expectant mothers (pregnant women), explorers, pilgrims, travelers, immigrants,
Who is the patron saint of home repairs?
Anne, grandmother of Jesus and patron saint of homemakers, would lend a hand.
Who is the female patron saint of horses?
Saint Anne is patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, mothers and educators. She is also a patroness of horseback riders, cabinet-makers and miners.
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Warburg Pincus Acquires Sundyne
By DJ Slater25 March 2020
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has completed its acquisition of Sundyne from BC Partners Advisors L.P. and The Carlyle Group. Sundyne announced the acquisition on Jan. 6 and stated that its management team and CEO Mark Sefcik will remain with the company under Warburg Pincus' ownership.
Following the news, Sundyne and Warburg Pincus launched a 90-day transition period to discover and develop initiatives to enhance and broaden product offerings and services.
"Warburg Pincus' and Sundyne's interests align perfectly and there is no better financial partner for Sundyne than Warburg Pincus," Sefcik said. "All of our channel partner agreements remain in place and all of our product brand names remain. We have already jointly-identified a number of ways in which Warburg Pincus can help Sundyne accelerate growth and enhance opportunities for our customers, channel partners and employees."
Sundyne designs, manufactures and provides aftermarket support for centrifugal compressors and pumps. The global company supplies customers in the oil and gas midstream, LNG, petrochemical, refining, chemicals and industrials sectors.


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Team Trump: Arrogance as a Virtue
Dr. Ronny Jackson with his boss.
The first time I had any doubts about Dr./Admiral (Admiral/Dr.?) Ronny Jackson was also the first time I had any idea who he was — the presidential physician. That was in January when Jackson, after what he said was a thorough examination of Donald Trump proclaimed the clearly overweight, often confused Dotard-in-Chief to be in "excellent" health.
Indeed, everything about Trump's health was seemingly "excellent," or "very, very good." "Excellent," Jackson kept saying over and over.
Trump even did "exceedingly well" on his cognitive test, the doctor said. "I have absolutely no concerns about his cognitive ability," Jackson said at the time, making a point that Trump scored 30 out of 30 on a cognitive assessment test. Funny, I mused at the time, I don't remember ever hearing a presidential physician feel the need to provide such detail on his patient's cognitive abilities. Maybe it's just me, I thought. Maybe I just never paid that much attention before. But Jackson did make sure to note that Trump is "very sharp, and he's very articulate. .?.?. Very, very sharp, very intact," Jackson insisted. The admiral/doctor said he "found no reason whatsoever to think that the President has any issues whatsoever with his thought process."
Really? How could this stirring physical and mental report be true, I wondered, knowing as we do Trump's regular diet of fried chicken, Big Macs, red meat, Diet Coke and ice cream, his lack of any physical activity other than swinging a golf club and tweeting, the fact he is borderline obese and takes medication to lower his cholesterol, his habit of routinely contradicting himself and his resistance to reading or to facts or to anything that conflicts with what he prefers to believe?
"Good genes" was the doctor's diagnosis. In fact, "incredible genes."
Kissing the boss's butt was my conclusion.
It gives me no pleasure to say it appears that I was right. As the admiral prepared to go before Congress this week to answer questions about his qualifications to head the Department of Veterans Affairs it became immediately obvious that he had none, except for saying a lot of nice things in public about Trump, having a cool military title and looking good in uniform. That's a trifecta for promotion to Cabinet status in the Trump White House, a disaster in real life.
Unfortunately for Trump and the doctor, but fortunately for millions of veterans, others took the job of vetting a potential Cabinet member more seriously than did the White House. The main question: Can this guy manage the second largest department in the federal government even though he has no experience in that area? But before he even got to face a congressional committee to answer that question, Jackson withdrew his name from consideration amid stories of him drinking on duty, indiscriminately dispensing pills and overseeing a hostile work environment that curried favor with people in power and had staff members operating in fear of retribution.
Another one of "the best."
I started running through the names of Trump's Cabinet members trying to decide which one troubled/angered/disgusted me the most and was stunned when I realized Rick Perry wasn't anywhere near the top of the list. I mean, the guy wanted to get rid of the Energy Department when he was running for president, then took the Cabinet post from Trump without realizing it regulated nuclear arms and energy.
But the former Texas governor has some stiff competition in what surely is the worst Cabinet and sub-Cabinet in modern U.S. history, perhaps all time. For sheer arrogance — strutting about acting as if they know what they are doing, living large on public tax dollars, ignoring the missions of the agencies they are supposed to lead and destroying the foundations on which this nation was built — the group cannot be beat. It is a perfect reflection of Trump, all con, all greed and incredibly cruel to boot.
I'll spare you the whole, pitiful list. But briefly …
Rex Tillerson, as ill-suited as he was for the post of secretary of state was at least smart enough to note that Trump was "a moron." That got Rex fired and gave us Trump super-fan and former congressman Mike Pompeo, moving from the CIA to State, neither of which he has the background or understanding of world tensions to direct. He prefers weapons to diplomacy. I-know-what-I'm-doing arrogant.
Steve Mnuchin, treasury secretary, was a former Goldman Sachs executive and hedge fund manager — perfect qualifications for "draining the swamp," as Trump promised, right? A Trump loyalist who lobbied for the job and loves to let everyone know he's the money guy. Snobbishly arrogant.
Betsy DeVos, secretary of education, is a very rich woman who hates public schools, indeed doesn't even know how schools run. Phony, arrogant and entitled, like Trump
Jeff Sessions, attorney general, is a racist who also wants to do battle with marijuana and immigrants. A Trump punching bag of late, but still arrogant in denying this country's history.
Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development, is a brain surgeon-savant. The real world is a mystery to Carson. He wants to raise the rents on public housing tenants and spent $30,000 in public funds on a dining room set. Loyal to Trump. Doesn't even know he's arrogant.
Ryan Zinke, interior secretary, rode into office on a horse and should go out the same way. Selling off public lands and spending a fortune on travel are his hallmarks. An ex-military guy. As stated, Trump loves that. Defiantly arrogant.
Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator is being grilled by Congress for his expensive travel and security arrangements. Trump likes that Pruitt denies climate change and favors undoing all environmental protection regulations for air, water, autos, etc. Proudly arrogant.
Mick Mulvaney, the budget director, was so good at being mean — meals on wheels and free lunches for poor kids are not justifiable expenses, he feels — Trump made him interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as well. Mulvaney has systematically dismantled the bureau since getting the assignment. The Tea Party darling told bankers that if they wanted to be heard in this White House, they needed to give money and the more they gave the louder their voice would be. He loves his job. Trump loves him. A truly despicable human being. Beyond arrogant. Guess he's my number one.
That's enough. Just to return to the admiral for a minute. The depths of his self-serving smarminess should have been evident when he "examined" Trump and declared, "I think he will remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even the remainder of another term if he is elected."
Sycophancy, as Team Trump demonstrates, can be contagious. It can also be dangerous to careers. The doctor should have known.
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2 Responses to "Team Trump: Arrogance as a Virtue"
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May 2nd, 2018 at 10:19 pm
Charles Cornell: Does it mean Trump's really not long for this world?
Patricia Hall: Funny, but right on the mark and SAD!!!


The classified advertising section for federal chief information officers seems to be growing. We recently identified four great job openings for CIOs: at the Energy Department, the Transportation Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Why so many? Maybe the jobs are so demanding that people burn out and need to move on.
Not so, says Karen Evans, the Office of Management and Budget's administrator for e-government and information technology. She told Federal Computer Week in a recent interview, "If you like technology and want to see business transformation and you sit there and think, 'Gosh, if I were in charge, this is what I would do,' this is the job for you. You're there at every critical decision because no programs avoid using technology."
Harris Miller has resigned as president of the IT Association of America to run for a Virginia Senate seat against incumbent Republican George Allen. Robert Laurence was named ITAA's interim president.
Miller's plan has already sent shock waves through Virginia's IT and political communities. It prompted Oracle to decide not to renew its yearly membership in the IT organization, said Robert Hoffman, Oracle's vice president of government and public affairs.
He said Oracle belongs to a number of trade organizations and had been reviewing its membership plans for 2006. But he added that Allen is a "very strong supporter of our industry.... Oracle strongly believes that Republicans and Democrats who support our industry should stay in office. It's not a partisan issue at all."
Observers believe Miller, a Democrat, is a viable candidate. So do party members.
"Republicans can't count on Virginia to be a safe Republican state as they used to," said Kate Hanley, a former Democratic chairwoman of the Fairfax County, Va., Board of Supervisors.
Ever wonder why some committees on Capitol Hill use videocasting and some don't? The answer is simple: money.
Congressional sources tell us it can cost $250,000 to put video streaming in place -- a price many committees are unwilling to pay. Some have found audio streaming to be the second best way to keep the public informed. It's much cheaper, but you don't always know who is speaking.
Change is on the way. Denise Mixon, spokeswoman for the House Administration Committee's minority staff, said money has been earmarked to install video and audio services in all of the House's committee rooms this year.
To make that happen, the House released a request for proposals last month seeking a contractor to provide Webcasting for 20 House committees.
"It is the desire of the House to employ best practices by consolidating this demand into a single effort and incorporate the economies of scale to yield an effective, efficient and flexible agreement with a single vendor," the RFP states.
We predict this service will take off just as C-Span did when it began offering cable coverage of congressional hearings 25 years ago.