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The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
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PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
Walking sticks are hard to find for a number of reasons.
They look like branches or twigs and the move extremely slowly.
I don't know much about them other than they are interesting.
Diapheromera fermorata
The Northern Walkingstick is our most common "stick insect," which camouflages itself to look like a stick.
Northern Walkingsticks grow over 3 1/2 inches long, with males being smaller than females. Walkingsticks have long, skinny bodies which closely resembles twigs or stems of plants. Males are brown, females are greenish-brown. These insects have very long antennae, about 2/3 the length of their bodies.
Northern Walkingsticks feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees, including: oaks, Sassafras, Black Cherry, and Black Locust. They also eat clovers.
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24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Internet Marketing from the Real Experts is rising on the sales rank on Amazon as we approach the sale date of January 31, 2010.
Just a couple of days ago, the book was at 300,000 or so, and now it's around 35,000.
How high on the sales rank will it go?
Get more details on Internet Marketing from the Real Experts.
“So, there’s this SEO expert right,” said Snake.
“Right,” replied Spectre.
“And he walks into a bar,” said Snake.
“OK,” said Sprite.
“Bars,” said Snake.
“Mmhmm,” said Spectre.
“Pub. Public house,” said Snake.
“Oh God,” sighed Sprite.
“Irish bar, beer, drink, alcohol, wine, liquor, spirits,” continued Snake.
“It’s like being on LinkedIn,” whined Sprite.
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An oldie from the beginning of the Little Fears. I had to deal with marketing teams for years in my old company. I think the familiarity with SEO expert types drove me so mad, this gag became my one of my fave ever modern jokes. This tale was featured in January, the Little Fears first book.
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Introductory comments by Mr Mohammad Anwar Habib, from the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Agency and elected Chairperson of the International Experts' Meeting on Severe Accident Management in the Light of the Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. IAEA Vienna, Austria, 17-20 March 2014
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In the era of Too Much TV, Hollywood's Biggest Night has shifted from The Academy Awards to The Emmy Awards. With over 1500 television shows submitting themselves for awards recognition, the Emmys spread over 3 days to accommodate the multitude of awards, the week between the Creative Arts and Primetime Emmys is one of the most celebratory in Hollywood, with primping and pampering and gifting suites! This was also a big season for gifting for a few reasons, Celebrity Connected, the reigning Best Gifting Suite not participating left the title up for grabs, and Red Carpet Report's first time back to the Old top suite, GBK Productions in years, but have they lost their luster? With a Strong showing from Secret Room Events and Debbie Durkin's Eco Luxe garden party there's some competition for who had the Best Gifting Suite of the TV Awards Season.
Starting with GBK Productions, previously a two day affair, GBK would operate the Friday and Saturday before a major Awards show, down to just Friday now. The email stating press was to park offsite, versus their standard of comping valet, as well as the same email directing attendees to the wrong room at the iconic Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Two Strikes off the bat, with 25 Vendors spread into two rooms on the Mezzanine level with WEN Haircare as the title sponsor and the largest booth, in the center back of the main room, GBK attendees were welcomed by a DJ, and front loading the big ticket vendors like Biotoc Skincare from Korea, Paccioni watches and a week at FitFarm (Only for Nominees). Austere wood frame Sunglasses and Bowties. Several Skincare and Make Up lines as well, drink ware from Simple Modern, premixed cocktails from Vitani, Candles designed to help pets with anxiety from Athenaroma, a new kind of resistance workout from Booty Sprout, placed next to a bamboo toilet paper vendor, Khi. One of the friendliest booths was Just Food For Dogs, human grade dog food, was one of the only LA Local booths. To utilize the gift from FitFam, GBK attendees would need to travel an hour outside Nashville, take a trip to Turks and Ciacos for the Sailrock vacation, Orange County for the menswear vendor or a trip to San Jose to make use of the $250 store credit from Harborside Dispensary. There wasn't much, from GBK's 25 Vendors someone could actually use. Lots of Niche vendors. We left pretty empty handed, and disheartened at how far GBK, once the gold standard of Gifting Suites has fallen so far.
Debbie Durkin's Eco Lux Lounge, at the Garden lawn at the Beverly Hilton felt like stepping into Midsommar with white frocked, flower children with floral laurels in their hair guiding guests around, the restrained 10 vendors. The only suite with a lunch buffet and seating, Debbie's working with tastemaker, Shae Savin added some InstaGlam to the lounge, with a set of feather and flower wings for guests to snap a soulful pic with, while enjoying the September sun. With JillJoanne.com's bags, learning Meal Prep with Flawless Cuisine from Chef Lauren Lawless, some cold therapy from Upgrade Labs, The Elephant Cooperation's #TrunksUp campaign, The Spa Dr, Etana Beauty (who also had a table at GBK), CBD Drink Mixers from Everyday Natural Products, supplements from SoCal Hemp Company, bamboo bedding from Ettitude, and unfortunately due to a shipping mishap, Hope CBD's products weren't delivered until midway through the festivities, but well worth investigating if you're exploring CBD. They're an independent grower, Veteran and Family owned. Hope-CBD.com
Here are links to the products listed above
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Hope-CBD.com
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That leaves us with The Secret Room, curated by Amy Boatwright, at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City. With 15+ Vendors featuring Neva Nude body art, one of a kind pieces from Desert Daisy Jewelry, Inika Organic Makeup, luxurious lace from Dentelle de Calais-Caudry, and The Original fashion compression sleeves from Sleevey Wonders. Ooh La Lemon handed out dog collars with matching leashes and bowties in very cute themed boxes with a sample of Gangsta Dog gourmet dog biscuits (my puppies couldn't get enough of them). Secret Room also teamed with NoKillLA's Best Friends shelter, and ChildLife Liquid Vitamins and 1More headphones. The HIGH-light of the suite was From The Earth Dispensary setting up a counter sampling and explaining products from Kushy Punch (edibles), Papa and Barkley (topicals) & Kurvana (smokable) as recreational cannabis has become less stigmatized, they were the belle of the ball, and helped crown Secret Room, the Best Gift Suite this Emmys Season.
Check out these amazing products from the Secret Room event below
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PrimoWater.com
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Evangelos Petratos, ECHO expert for Shelter and WASH based in Bangkok, and an architect by training, proudly stands on one of the 16 new foot bridges funded by ECHO which span some of the rivers and canals in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
Photo Credit: Evangelos Petratos, Mekong delta, Vietnam, EU/ECHO March 2014
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
One of ECHO's experts based in Brussels, Jenny Correia-Nunes, meets some of the thousands of Vietnamese schoolchildren who benefitted from a hygiene promotion project funded ECHO and implemented by the Red Cross in the Mekond Delta in Vietnam.
Photo Credit: Evangelos Petratos, Mekong delta, Vietnam, EU/ECHO March 2014
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A T T E N T I O N:P S Y C H O A C T I V E______________________
INSTRUCTION IN THE SOMATIC ABILITY
TO DISSOLVE THE HIDDEN GRIP OF AFFLICTION
OR THE COMPULSION TO BE ANYTHING, IN PARTICULAR
— horse training —
— You’re the horse. | You’re the trainer. — Finding Ourselves Out
First thing: I should know about what I’m talking about. I’m an expert on identity formation, as I’ve been running and reforming this identity for years. One of these days, somebody’s going to find me out and we’ll all end up in show-biz.
In show-biz, to the degree that an actor/ess is free within his/her identity set and free to change, to that degree he or she can play different roles well.
(This could be a clue.)
No one of us has a single identity — and that doesn’t necessarily mean we all have Multiple Personality Disorder. It means that our identity changes (more or less), from moment to moment, and in the circumstances of the moment, as we resonate with our circumstances.
The one thing that persists in some way is the vague idea of “self” — the one to whom this identity purportedly belongs. People rarely talk about that one! (It’s our ‘sacred cow’ self — the one “outside it all” and viewing it all, the one who ostensibly never becomes hamburger, supra-Kosmic or otherwise.)
The expression of self changes, but the owner of it seems somehow the same: the secret identity. The Continuity of Memory.
But behaviors, and the provisional identity of the moment, fluctuate. Which one is the “real” identity? Ha-HAH!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~and now, a very important disclaimer:
That doesn’t mean that we’re the political flip-flopper
who flips and who flops with every passing wind
whose words are as passing wind
and whose meaning has no reliable connection to a functional outcome
whose integrity has big gaps, or lots of little gaps
whose principles are weak
whose equilibrium is easily upset
who takes an unstable stand
the dependent
who has too little active capacity to bring order,
who is not yet educated enough
to create forms with integrity,
who has too little capacity to reverse the course of entropy
in his environment and himself
who uses the word, “fight”, instead of “create”
the secret nature of a mediocre nincompoop
in a position of responsibility beyond him
whose primary interest is
to get rich and avoid getting into trouble
to avoid any kind of crisis, lest he flub his response
he, in a position of visibility,
who fears to look like an incompetent
— or worse — have to face consequences.
Maybe it’s what makes him a schlimazl
for whom nothing good ever seems to happen
since he can’t marshal all the forces needed
to make it happen.
or makes him a shlemiele
(closely related to a no-account fool)
not good at much of anything,
fallen back into being a good-for-nothing freeloader,
an imbiber by days
and something of a hapless dimwit at twilight
walking into lampposts
or, alas, maybe he’s just a poor putz —
a person who’s a total loss
uneducated
unperceptive
incomprehending
wrong and insistent.
Maybe he’s a shmoygeh,
or its sillier version, shmegeggie
whatever that is
a slob
a nudnick (dumb-kopf!)
or a no-goodnick in our eyes
but look!
He has a nice suit!
NO! This is a smart person!
a wonderful person!
He cleans up after himself.
He picks up his clothes.
He can read.
He’s nice.
He’s also a clever person, having learned a thing or two.
He knows the difference between
“flip” and “flop”
knows when it’s OK to be flip
and knows when his flippancy has flopped.
Oh, most unflappable one,
I see you keep your equilibrium pretty well —
— most of the time.
You are intelligently mindful of how we are unavoidable affected by each other
and inextricably interconnected,
with everything unified in the present moment,
not as an idea or ideal, but as a perception
of how things actually are,
feeling and observing how we are affected by this moment
in a resonant and moving equilibrium
continuous in moment to moment experience
participating and yet mystified,
faithful in nothing in this life made of change,
in which the currents of our own existence
carry murky, turbulent memories
that shape and color our times.
You sound like a wise man (or woman).
How did that happen?
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So, when I speak of identity, I’m not speaking of socialization or role. I’m speaking of something much more fundamental, something that explains human behavior, how we get stuck in behavior, and how we may deliberately grow or evolve through an “unhooking” or “unlocking” process.
To the point:Four steps are involved in identity formation:
experience: the emergence of the “present” from the unknown: self, others and things, the momentary and total condition of “now” | Without the gathering and coalescing of attention and aggregations of memory, experience is void, without meaning, without significance, without object, just movements of the unknown
memory : persistence of experience, the experience of “now” (immediate memory), meaning, recognizable events, holding on to experience and experiences, having experience “be in your face”
identification: choosing to stick with a certain experience at any moment : assigning importance, assuming memory (persistence) is reality : taking remembered experiences of self as self and our perception of other things as “the way they really are.” (The Myth of Actuality = “The Myth of the Given”)
perpetuation: intending, inviting, seeking to make more, or refusing, seeking to make less, all motivation, all “go”, all “stop”, all spin, all involvement with, all imagining
The four Stages of Things Becoming a Priority. Obviously, I have to define my terms, so here goes.
EMERGING EXPERIENCE: ” BEING”, BECOMING
(“the One” multiplied by becoming “the Many”)
At every moment, we have a sense of “how things are”. It’s our most obvious sense of the plain-old present.
It consists of our experience of our situation and our sense of ourselves. Most of this sense of experience is submerged in subconsciousness. But we experience it every time we meet a new person and visit a new place. It’s our first impression — which fades with familiarity, into the background.
This first impression, or sense of the moment, is, at first, of “unknown" (yes, I wrote that rightly). Our first impression is of "unknown". Gradually, with enough time and enough exposure, "unknown" fades-in into "something known" — a memory is formed. Until a sufficiently vivid memory is formed, no experience is being had.
The motions of experience inscribe upon memory an ongoing trail, movements of attention from one thing to another.
MEMORY : THE BASIS OF THE MOVEMENT BETWEEN HARMONY AND DIS-HARMONY
We resort to memory as a proxy for (approximation of) actual experience, so we can more easily focus on experiences that have that pattern, and look for what’s changing, moving, happening. It’s beginning from a presumed base of knowledge.
As we get familiar with anything, we form a memory of it. That memory constitutes our knowing of “how things are”.
Then, the experience of the moment is seen always in terms of existing memories, which grow in a moving, changing pattern. The growing edge of memory is experiencing what is emerging out of the unknown, clothing it in imagination so it may seem known, then forming memories and bridging them with other memories. Impressions form over time about the “realities” of life, colored by memories brought to life by imagination, imagination informed by memory and going beyond.
We form our memories from our experiences of the moving moment of life, the changing harmonics of life. All sensory impressions that go into memory refer to movements and harmonics of life, memories of persons, places and things. Our memories of “the movements and harmonics of life” flavor or dress up all of our sense-impressions of the moment.
A memory of “a movement and a felt harmonic” gets called up every time we recall something and every time we put ourselves in a situation to experience anything familiar. Memory creates expectation.
A way of finding the force of a memory is to notice how much it matters to you.
ASSUMING MEMORIES are REALITY, TRUTH or SELF
We give our memories the status of “truth”, and memories of our own state the status of “self”.
To the degree that something feels, “in your face”, that’s the degree that you take it for truth, for reality, or as self. That’s how solidly set your / my attention is in memory, how solidly fixated, how ingrained, how entranced. That’s how much experience has “got us” by the ….. (ooch!) .
PERPETUATING and/or REFUSING THE EXPERIENCES WE REMEMBER
Persistence and resistance (or intending and refusing) are two forms of the same thing: one is “wanting to make it more” and the other is “wanting to make it less”; the difference, only one of direction; both are “wanting”.
When someone “knows” something, they want (to some degree — strongly or mildly) either to reinforce/assert their knowledge or to minimize/deny it. They want to rely upon it or they want to forbid it. Either way, they want to do that for themselves, for their own sake.
By those acts, they form an attitude, a key part of the ability of identity to express itself, a felt memory.
Once a person has an attitude, they want to impose it upon the world. (Even the idea of “not wanting to impose it on the world” is an attitude.)
That’s the activity of identity, of self-propagation, the genetic imperative that distinguishes itself from others on the basis of memories.
A case in point: Take, for an example, ten year old Jimmy.
experience
Jimmy has never been to a baseball game.
His father comes home with tickets to see the Cardinals.
They go on a Saturday.
At the ballpark, Jimmy takes it all in, eyes open wide.
Dizzy Dean is pitching.
He winds up. There’s the pitch.
Foul ball. Into the stands.
Jimmy catches the ball.
memories
Now, Jimmy has a story to tell the guys in the neighborhood.
What does that do for his social status?
Jimmy likes the attention. He brings the ball to school, he tells the story at Sunday School, around …
The more Jimmy tells the story,
the more he reinforces the memory of it
and his place in it.assuming memories are truth, reality, or self
Jimmy takes credit for catching the foul ball,
lays claim to special status, reason for pride.
casts himself into a self-image that he takes for himself
and shows around.perpetuating what we remember as extended forms of “self”
Soon, Jimmy is a fan.
He’s read up on Dizzy Dean, knows his statistics,
roots for the Cardinals,
feels the glory when they win
feels the humiliation when they lose.
He’s even gotten into a couple of fights over it.
He can’t help himself.
But then, he’s only ten.
That was a long, long time ago.
Now, Jimmy’s a Republican.
another case-in-point:
George enlists in the army.
Goes to war. It’s his patriotic duty.
He’s sent to the front. Wounded.
Now he has a limp. And a medal.
He’s honorably discharged and sent home. He gets special recognition, special privileges. (This was an earlier time.)
He’s sent to an innovative form of therapy that promises he can walk, again. In fact, he’ll lose the limp.
But now, George doesn’t know “who he’d be” without his war wound. He’d seem ordinary. He also can’t imagine walking normally, again. He’s forgotton his “pre-army” state. His wound and his status as a wounded war vet, based in memory and the seeming permanence of his wound, have made him into something else.
The therapy doesn’t work.
He gets into politics. Eventually, he runs for political office.
Now, he gets some mileage out of being a wounded war vet. His wound is his badge of courage. He cherishes the identity of “War Vet”, keeps it low-key on the campaign trail. He imagines that it is some of the basis of the respect with which people treat him, that it’s a “trump card”: On certain topics, no one dares challenge his position.
And, of course, years later, he’s a Republican.
An identity is a standpoint and general ways of operating based on memories of experience, a standpoint that wants to reinforce (or perpetuate) its way of operating in the world.
Everything we know, we want to continue to be “right knowledge”. That’s why people dislike “being wrong” and why “being made wrong” is such a politically incorrect social impropriety. It’s about what “wanting to be right” means — not having to change.
So, first we experience something. And then, as we experience it, we remember it. Then, we assume that memory represents and actually says something reliable about either oneself or something or someone other. We carry all the accumulated memory patterns that form out of the interaction of the world with our memoried self. We act as if life exists in terms of those memory patterns — and so act accordingly — either to perpetuate and reinforce or to refuse or counteract.
That explains how we form behavior patterns, how we get stuck in behavior patterns (egotism, arrogance, “anything goes” or cold-fish authoritarianism), and also how we learn to grow and evolve. It’s a spooky business.
Just as we form innumerable memories from moment to moment, we form innumerable identities for each moment — and hopefully they’re all well interconnected, so we don’t get trapped in one.
The tricky thing about all this is how to avoid getting stuck in the sheer mass and momentum of accumulated memories.
One answer is, to reverse the process. What would happen for Jimmy if he imagined himself going back up the chain of identity formation?
I present The Gold Key Release ( which a New Age Flower Child might call, “The Somatic Crystal Decrystallization Process”, a soul brother: “Da Big, Divine Kosmic Kiss” (mmmWAH!) or, an academic professor, rather stuffily, “A Somatic Faculty”) —- viz:
(NOTE: vizier = one who writes, “viz”.
“Vizier” is Arabic for “wise guy”.)
"Somatic Awakening" is not an "awakening to" or "awakening into"; it’s an awakening as and then an awakening from.
It’s “awakening as” what most ordinarily IS,
scanning it with attentiveness,
feeling it, inhabiting it,
enfolding it,
assessing its “charge”: how one feels implicated (i.e., compelled to act),
the force of memory,
detecting imagination in memory,
then awakening from imagining,
releasing the sense of “something there”, feeling it dissolve into the formless root of attention, feeling attention as no-self.
There. Which is Here.
It’s going backward through
the stages of priority
"upstream" of the creative process,
to awaken, undefined, as self-source — the Natural State, the experience of which feels like A Big, Divine Kosmic Kiss, which we may symbolize by the word,
"mmmmWAH!!!"
which is also what it feels like, as we dissolve into the undefined Condition.
See? No? You will.
He feels his position, attitude, standpoint, or whatever he is stuck with or is perpetuating — his knowledge, his chosen identity, his refuge to the immunity of rightness. Whatever it is, it’s a sensation, felt bodily, with a location, size, shape, and intensity in the overall body-sense (kinesthetic body, subtle body, etheric body, dream body). Feel each term. Pretty similar, huh?
It may occur to him that he may have “bought in to something” — assigning the status of “reality” to his memory-shaped-colored perspective in the world: “the truth” or “The Truth”, “oneself” or “the Self”. It may occur to him that, that he does not “have” it, but that it “has” him. That he lives “inside” it and is subject to its limitations, which he takes as a product of Reality and not a product of his way of remembering and seeing things, his perspective. To him, it’s solid, real, and consequential. The mood is, “This is real." or "This matters" (to a greater or lesser degree— but note: If something makes a difference to you, you’ve bought into it and it has you.)
He feels how much of this sense of “solid truth” or “things mattering with consequences” feels like memory and how much of memory feels like imagination. It’s a “feel” thing, not an “answer” that he comes up with. He traces the feeling from the sense of solid truth to memory to imagination.
He imagines the appearance of a scenario that’s developing and has expectations that are informed, in part, by memory, and so his perception is shaped by memory.
Remembering is re-imagining something into our experience. The seeming persistence, the solidity or reality of anything you can put your attention upon is memory. Memory fades unless refreshed by imagining. The denser the memory, the more persistent it is.The way we do it:
We put attention on the feeling of having some experience.
We sense the feeling of experience without words,
as a sensation someplace within us
We feel its size, shape, intensity.
We pump up our ability to sense our somatic state
with “attention maneuvers”.
We sense how much (not “what”) intention we have toward it
We notice how steadying attention solidifies intention.
We feel the whole package as a single, contained force:
the thing we are experiencing
and our intention toward it made solid by attention.
How intention + attention = memory.
Now, we feel how much it matters
in order to bring ourselves into the relationship
and acknowledge how much we are involved.
How much it matters has to do with our relation to the world.
Try it.
We may then own the intensity of the memory
even if we don’t know what the memory is
and we may sift that intensity
for the movements of imagining.
We feel how much it feels like “solid reality”, how much feels like memory, and how much of the memory feels a bit like imagining (or as we like to say, “daydreaming” or “being entranced”).
We feel “remembering” and “imagining” and alternate between them until we can zero in on each equally steadily and equally easily, and so can balance them. What makes it easier to alternate more to one side than the other is that we are more entranced by it. These words make sense with experience, but perhaps not before. Save yourself the brain-fog; instead of “trying to figure it out”, just do it. (Once.)
If you have trouble with this step, deliberately remember something. Feel what remembering feels like. Then imagine something. Feel what imagining feels like.
Now apply those distinctions to your sense of “solid truth”.
Feel the dissolution of his “fix” (or fixation) — the thing he has been perpetuating — as his discovery or sense of “how much of it is imagination” is “the little valve” through which the “air” that has inflated his sense of “solid truth” (and ego) escapes. Simpler if he just does Step 3. (Imagination is easier to let go than “solid truth”.)
He takes a breath, lets go and falls into his identity-less, natural state, at least for the moment. (Don’t do this while driving or try to understand this by reading it. Do the procedure. Do it well at least once.)
He checks the remaining intensity of the feeling. If anything is left, he starts at Step 1.
QUESTION: Would he quit being a Republican?
I ask you.
From here, we go to the first magical process for decrystallizing crystallized identity patterns:
The Gold Key Release
MORE:Other Magic Following Upon the Gold Key ReleaseThe Wish-Fulfilling Gem
Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan BuddhismSEARCH KEYWORDS:(to return to this entry again, later.
caring | | 42
harmony | 85 | 94
memory | | 89
identification | 7 | 148
perpetuation | 78 | 162
copyright 2014 Lawrence Gold
This writing may be reproduced only in its entirety
with accurate attribution of authorship.
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Pour répondre au manque de visibilité des femmes dans les médias au Sénégal, Social Change Factory,
l’Ambassade de France au Sénégal et le groupe Egaé, avec le soutien de ONU Femmes WCARO ont lancé la plateforme en ligne « Les Expertes Sénégal », accessible sur : expertessenegal.com. Elle recensera les profils de centaines de femmes chercheuses,
femmes d’affaires, professionnelles, journalistes et responsables d'associations au Sénégal, prêtes à intervenir
dans les médias.
Crédit Photo : Yulia Panevina/ONU Femmes
To address the lack of visibility of women in the media in Senegal, Social Change Factory,
the French Embassy in Senegal and the Egaé Group, with the support of UN Women WCARO, have launched the online platform "Les Expertes Sénégal", accessible at: expertessenegal.com. It will list the profiles of hundreds of women researchers,
businesswomen, professionals, journalists and leaders of associations in Senegal, ready to intervene in the media.
Photo credit: Yulia Panevina/UN Women
Expert Sleepers has just sent us a shipment containing both versions of the ES-1. Shown here are the db25 version but we also have the jack inputs version in-stock. They can now be ordered from our website. LINK for more info: www.analoguehaven.com/expertsleepers/es-1/ .
CERVICAL SPINE MOVEMENT INTER-VERTEBRAL DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE expert witness testimony information
Shows degenerative disc disease at C5-6 in the lateral view and the limitations in flexion-extension, lateral flexion and rotation due to the disease.
INTERVERTEBRAL DISC HEALTH
When you sit, stand up, bend or twist, large compressive forces are applied to your spine. There are several factors that determine the ability of your inter-vertebral discs to handle these forces:
your inherited make-up
disc health – worsened by smoking, poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, weak muscles, and obesity
ageing
poor posture – while sitting, standing and lifting
heavy loads during home, work or sporting activities.
DISC INJURY
Cervical Spine Movement Intervertebral Degenerative Disc Disease expert witness testimony information
When the forces applied to your neck exceed the strength of your discs, minor injuries to the disc can occur. It is important to note these injuries may or may not hurt at the time they occur.
DISC DEGENERATION
Cervical Spine Movement Intervertebral Degenerative Disc Disease expert witness testimony information
As the continuous stresses and repeated injuries accumulate, they cause wear and tear on the spine’s discs and joints. Some people are more susceptible to this degeneration, for reasons that are unclear. this disease process is called osteo-arthritis or spondylosis.
Often the annulus of the inter-vertebral disc is the first area injured. Small tears occur that heal with weaker scar tissue. As more scar tissue accumulates, the annulus becomes weaker overall.
This damages the inner nucleus, which loses it cushioning water content, and begins to dry up and stiffen. It changes from a jelly-like consistency, to more like crab meat. As it dries up, the height of the disc collapses. The decreased cushioning ability of the drier, weaker nucleus leads to even more stress on the annulus, and further annulus damage and nucleus collapse.
The attachment of the disc to the vertebra is placed under a lot of stress by this disc collapse, and the vertebra reacts by growing more bone in an attempt to get stronger. This can be seen as vertebral lipping (osteophytes, spurs) at the edges of the vertebral body and the unco-vertebral joints. This lipping can encroach on the spinal canal and adjacent nerves.
The alignment of the facet joints at the back of the spine alters to accommodate the disc collapse. This changes the way in which the facets slide over each other, causing increased wear of the cartilage on the joint surface. The cartilage frays, and is ground down to the underlying bone. When this facet joint osteo-arthritis or spondylosis occurs, the bone around the facet joint is irritated, and grows in an attempt to stop the excess motion.
These facet joint bone spurs, or osteophytes enlarge, and can grow into the intervertebral foramen or spinal canal, where they can compress the spinal nerve and the adjacent spinal cord.
The ligamentum flavum runs along the back of the spinal canal from one vertebra to the next. As the disc height collapses, and the adjacent vertebra move closer together, the ligamentum flavum thickens and buckles into the spinal canal, placing additional pressure on the spinal cord. Cervical Spine Movement Intervertebral Degenerative Disc Disease expert witness testimony information.
SUMMARY
So osteo-arthritis or spondylosis is a degenerative process that involves disc collapse and bulging, vertebral body and unco-vertebral joint lipping, facet joint osteophytes, thickening of the ligamentum flavum, and the slipping of the adjacent vertebra. This disease can put pressure on the spinal cord and adjacent nerves, and can cause pain.
TREATMENT
Cervical Spine Movement Intervertebral Degenerative Disc Disease expert witness testimony information.
Although osteo-arthritis or spondylosis can not be reversed, there are things that you can do to slow it down and control any pain.
The safest and most effective treatments for osteo-arthritis or spondylosis include :
Stop smoking
Physical therapies - correct posture, activity modification (avoiding excess neck movements, physical activities above shoulder level), low impact and flexibility, strength and endurance exercises, hydrotherapy, physical therapy modalities such as heat, ice, massage, and manipulation or mobilization
Medications - early aggressive use of medication to reduce pain, inflammation, muscle spasm and sleep disturbance
Other treatments – ie acupuncture, ultrasound, laser, short-wave diathermy.
The use of neck bracing and acupuncture is controversial.
The amount of pain experienced from degenerative disc disease (osteo-arthritis, spondylosis) varies widely. This may be due to differing degrees of instability, scarring of the disc and facet joint osteo-arthritis. Once the degeneration is advanced, and the instability produces uncontrollable pain, or the pressure on the nerves affects their functioning, then your clinician will consider fusing the two vertebrae together, or inserting an artificial intervertebral disc.
CERVICAL SPINE MOVEMENT INTER-VERTEBRAL DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE expert witness testimony information
U.S. Army Africa maintenance experts mentor Liberian mechanics
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa
MONROVIA, Liberia – When army mechanics from the Armed Forces of Liberia turn wrenches in the motor pool at Edward Binyah Kesselly barracks, they can rely upon lessons learned from U.S. Army Africa maintenance experts.
Master Sgt. Gary Donald and Chief Warrant Officer 4 Randy Austin recently spent a week with AFL troops discussing vehicle maintenance and motor pool operations.
“The event’s purpose was to familiarize the Armed Forces of Liberia with U.S. Army maintenance and motor pool operations and to lay the groundwork for future partnership events,” Donald said. “We covered U.S. Army basics – preventive maintenance, procedures for dispatching vehicles, how to order parts, accountability of supplies and motor pool safety measures
Like most learning scenarios, the work began with lengthy discussions. But it was the hands-on application that resonated among the AFL mechanics, Donald said.
Altogether, more than 50 AFL maintenance and transportation troops took part in the familiarization event. They gained an understanding about the U.S. Army’s maintenance and motor pool operations, Austin said.
“All the AFL soldiers were highly motivated with meaningful questions and comments,” Austin said. “They are interested in learning more about how the U.S. Army trains, to include how our Soldiers repair broken generators and vehicles, plus how we use wreckers to recover disabled vehicles.”
Liberia’s military uses a mix of Ford Rangers and German-built trucks. They have new tools on hand. But they face challenges, though, such as obtaining supplies and repair parts and availability of manuals for their gear, said Austin, who’s served for more than 34 years in uniform.
A veteran of Iraq, Austin’s been to Africa several times during the past year, to include assignments in Burkina Faso and Tanzania. He was fascinated by how eager AFL mechanics are to learn more about their profession, he said.
“By sharing the U.S. Army maintenance system– a proven way to do this type of business – the Liberians are able to adopt what works for them and apply it to their own maintenance program in the future,” Austin said.
Since early 2009, U.S. Army Africa has regularly sent U.S. Army noncommissioned officers to Liberia to work with the AFL. The initial success of USARAF's support to Liberia is one of several examples of the command's role in partnering on the continent - engaging in sustained ways to create effective African forces that support elected officials and foster peaceful environments.
U.S. Army Africa continues to support U.S. Africa Command with security sector reform in Liberia through ongoing familiarization events.
Donald has served for more than two decades in uniform, including tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and Kosovo. But, it was his first time visiting Africa. Donald was glad to see the AFL mechanics were eager to gain knowledge, he said.
“It was a good learning experience for me too,” Donald said. “There are so many U.S. personnel who have been helping in Liberia and left their mark by offering good ideas that the AFL has adopted. I’m glad to be a part of that.”
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Experts in Argentina are successfully controlling a devastating fruit fly with nuclear technology: the Mediterranean fruit fly.
They use the sterile insect technique (SIT), an insect birth control method that uses irradiation to sterilize and release insects to suppress pest populations. The IAEA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have supported Argentina in applying SIT against fruit flies since the mid-1990s.
Rearing and sterilizing male Mediterranean fruit flies is an elaborate process. For example, insect specialists first have to separate the male flies from the female ones.
They do this by keeping all eggs in water and increasing the temperature of the water to 34 degrees Celsius, which kills the female eggs and spares the male ones.
Insect-producing factory in Mendoza, western Argentina, 10 October 2017.
Photo: Laura Gil Martínez / IAEA
1972 Columbia Tourist Expert III.
Columbia used the Sports and Tourist names on their three and five speed bikes. The Expert name was used on bikes with 27" wheels. At the time 27" wheels were still mainly used on expensive light weight bicycles. Most Columbias and other cheaper bikes stuck with the old 26 by 1 3/8" size wheels.
Columbia was one of the oldest bicycle manufacturers in the world. The company dates back to 1877. Over the years the company has been through many owners. But the decline started when Columbia was bought out by MTD in 1967. In the 1950s Columbia was roughly equal to or superior to Schwinn in the U.S. - MTD drove the quality of Columbia products down until the company was barely competitive with Huffy. Columbia was bankrupt by the end of the 1980s. It was a perfect lesson in how to destroy a 100 year old company in short order.
365 Project: Day 9
- I've realised I've got about 5 or 6 unbuilt Lego sets hanging around that I really should get round to. So I decided to call in some help.
24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
© ITU/I.Wood
The top of Whistler Mountain was fogged in (as it was most of the week), so they warn novices against going up. Me, I don't feel like an expert, but for the purposes of the sign, I suppose I'm expert enough.
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre