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So, the latest from here is that I'm about to get crazy busy and work, and socially. Which, truth be told, is awesome.
I've been trying to connect, at least via text with all the folks I care about and haven't had time to see.
Not a lot on the books for the weekend. I need to do laundry, and I need to get groceries. The usual dynamic duo. I'm bummed to report that the pedicure I got last weekend has already chipped some. That's a shame, because I liked the fun, shiny red color. I'll try and repair it, I think. Or obscure it with glitter, or... we'll see. Maybe I'll blow a few bucks and get it redone. And a manicure along with it. That's how I roll, yo.
I'm two months into the new job, and I really feel like it's the best choice I've made in ages. I love it there. Love the people, love the work, the office, my customers... ain't love grand?
I need to get back on the healthy eating regimen. I've been a little too freewheeling with the sugar as of late. But who doesn't love sugar? Exactly.
I'm getting my hair cut next week, so I've been putting together a stack of pictures. Because obviously, I'm a dead ringer for Meg Ryan and Annette Bening, all rolled into one.
Here's kind of a funny/sad story from my youth. In Middle School, I was trying to come up with a hairstyle and I remember I had a *Good Housekeeping* that I was using for inspiration. And I remember one of my teachers looking at me with what I now realize was pure pity. You see, I grew up in the age Seventeen, Teen, YM, and of course, the ne plus ultra of girly mags, Sassy.
Look, let's be honest - even at the age of 13, I was tragically unhip. It's fine. Really.
But damn. Should a 13 year old really aspire to this?
We'll have to see what our friend at the salon can do with my coif.
I've also been reading up on makeup tips, and trying to make my squinty eyes look larger. So far I've been successful in making them look sooty.
The things I do to be gorgeous for you all. I hope you appreciate it!
I normally take it easy.


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GUWAHATI, Nov 29: In a rare moment of hope for the dormant independent music scenario of Assam and the Northeast, the Rockarolla Music Awards 2017 was held recently in Guwahati. The award ceremony, organized by Rockarolla at Pragjyoti ITA Centre for Performing Arts in Guwahati, felicitated some of the best bands of the region.
Lucid Recess, which has emerged as one of the top bands of the country, walked away with a total of four awards, including Best Band, Best Guitarist, Best Single and Best Album (Alive And Aware).
In a rare occasion, the award ceremony also chose to award the people working behind the scenes. While Lunse Mallick, Anup Kumar Neog & Sanjay Jasrasiya were awarded with the title of ‘Unsung Heroes’, Cafe Hendrix was chosen as the Best Live Venue.
Late Dhruva Sarma, pioneering rock star of Northeast India and frontman of ‘Friends’ was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Following is a line-up of the winners in the awards.
Best Album – Alive And Aware (Lucid Recess).

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NASA has been exploring space for nearly half a century, often with stupendous success. Yet “there’s one thing we really don’t know: what is the best way to explore a planet?” declares Paul D. Spudis, a senior planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
Discovering the most effective techniques for exploring a planet is itself cutting-edge research—just as discovering the most effective mining technologies or the best ways of surviving and making machinery work in Antarctica are pioneering research.
Thus, for the same reasons that nations have founded university-level schools of mines and the U.S. Army founded its own Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, NASA wants to use the Moon as a graduate school for exploration.
On the Moon, astronauts can develop and test techniques for building habitats, harvesting resources and operating machinery in low gravity, high vacuum, harsh radiation, pervasive dust and fantastic extremes of temperature—an environment whose prolonged combination is simply impossible to duplicate on Earth. What they learn will be useful not only on the Moon, but also essential for preparations in going to Mars.
For that reason, NASA wants to explore how best to blend humans and machines. One promising technology is telepresence, similar to what’s now used in hospital operating rooms for certain types of surgery. From the safety of a radiation-shielded underground lunar habitat, a geologist’s movements could be “instantly mirrored by a robot on the surface, complete with instant sensory feedback much as an astronaut has through the gloves of a space suit,” Spudis explains. Is that the best way, though? In some circumstances, a robot on its own making lightning-fast decisions with artificial intelligence might do a better job. Again, it’s a question best answered by on-site research.
The official NASA acronym for living off the land is ISRU, for In-Situ Resource Utilization. ISRU is basically figuring out how to dig into the surface of another planet, how to get the alien dirt to funnel down a hopper in low gravity (a surprisingly tricky problem), and how to crack and heat the soil to extract valuable liquids and gases—all with high reliability and few mechanical problems.
Good news: Oxygen on the Moon is abundant. The lunar crust is 40 percent oxygen by mass, and NASA scientists have lots of ideas for how to extract it. Simply heating lunar soil to very high temperature causes gaseous oxygen to emerge. (For more information on this, see [email protected]’s Breathing Moonrocks.) The most efficient techniques remain to be discovered.
Not-so-good news: Hydrogen on the Moon is relatively rare. That’s one reason NASA is keen to explore the lunar poles where some 10 billion metric tons of frozen water may exist in permanently shaded craters: “ice is a concentrated form of hydrogen,” Spudis notes. Experience gained at the Moon’s poles may apply to Mars, where ice is also thought to be mixed with deep soil and rock.

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HomeNot Much of a Joiner?
Not Much of a Joiner?
I was encouraging an acquaintance with hearing loss to come to one of our HLAA Chapter meetings. I told her about our informative programs and guest speakers. I also said the meetings were a chance to meet other people with hearing loss.
She agreed to give it a try, meanwhile explaining that she wasn’t much of a joiner and not to expect to see her often.
Here are some groups I never joined: the PTA, a church, the co-op board, the block association, political action groups, yoga classes, meditation groups, group therapy, French classes, Al-anon, dog training.
I always thought I just wasn’t much of a joiner. But suddenly (how could I not have seen this before?) I realized that it had everything to do with my hearing. It’s not that I don’t like people. Or committees. Or volunteer work. Or meditation. Or a well-trained dog. I just can’t hear.
It took me a while to join HLAA. I first went to one of the annual conventions in the course of reporting for my first book. The research seminar that year was on advances in finding a cure for hearing loss, primarily through gene therapy and stem cell therapy. It was fascinating but, more important, I could “hear” it. I could hear it by virtue of the live captioning and the hearing loop that had been installed for the event.
Someone I met there invited me to come to a chapter meeting back in New York. I’m not really a joiner, I said, but come September I did show up at a chapter meeting. Captions! A hearing loop! A really interesting program, with a panel of audiologists talking about hearing strategies.
What I could not do then and still cannot do is join in the socializing before and after the formal program. Luckily we have name tags so I know who I’m talking to, which is a tremendous help. But a substantive conversation is out of the question. Just as I always did before I told people I had hearing loss, in the old days of denial, I nod and smile and ask encouraging questions. But if you’re reading this, and you’ve tried talking to me at a meeting, it’s possible I haven’t heard a word. Follow up with an email!
I’m open about my hearing loss. In fact, I joke that hearing loss has become my profession. But there are certain circumstances that just don’t work for me. One is social time at our chapter meetings. Another is exercise class, which I will write about in my next post.
The photo at left was taken at last year’s New York Walk4Hearing, an annual event that will be held this year on September 23. If you’re not sure you want to try a chapter meeting, come to the Walk. No need to register. Details on our website.
Hearing others and carrying on conversations at events is a big challenge, as Katherine points out. But she chooses to avoid the challenges of crowd noise and poor room acoustics. Others of us “deafies” turn to technology to tune in to chat. Almost all hearing aid makers now sell small hand-held or clip-on microphones with built-in transmitters that deliver speech from others within arm’s length wirelessly to our hearing devices. Similar products are sold by third-party manufacturers. So if you want to engage socially you can, albeit at a price for the equipment and with help from your audiologist or guidance from your local Hearing Loss Association chapter.
You are correct and I’m glad you wrote that comment. I have a Roger Pen, however, which I have never found useful in a noisy environment. I do better just picking up what I can of the speaker’s voice and reading lips. Part of the problem is the user speaking into the pen — it’s either too far away, or being waved around, or it’s in front of the mouth so I can’t read lips. I also find it admits so much ambient noise that it’s close to useless in noisy situations, and that’s where I need it most. I know others with that system with similar problems. It works really well if you’re in a business meeting and you’re the boss and you can make everyone speak one at a time and clearly. But I’m not talking about business meetings and I’m not a boss.
The clip on mic might work better but I’m reluctant to sink more money into the Roger system. And I don’t think it would solve the ambient noise problem. People with Made for IPhone hearing aids seem to do better in noise and next time I get a hearing aid I might try that. But since I also have a cochlear implant it’s more complicated. Also, Jerry, what do you do if you’re at dinner with eight or ten people, with two or three conversations going on at the table? I can ask everyone to speak one at a time, and sometimes I do that if I know them well. But I’m reluctant to impose that kind of stricture on others’ behavior, especially when it’s someone who has been nice enough to cook a delicious dinner and invite interesting people. It’s a dilemma.
All points well taken, Katherine. Where we differ is chiefly in the Roger pen’s usefulness for me in social gatherings. I am thankful to be able to hear and converse one-to-one in noise, such as at the receptions preceding our chapter meetings; also when dining with my spouse in noisy restaurants, the pen worn on a necklace or clipped to a lapel enables me to understand her words.
I, too, am unhappy with the amount of background noise the Roger pen transmits, and, like you, unwilling to buy and give mics to others with whom we dine. So, even around the dining table with family, hearing is both challenging and frustrating.
I can even talk to the teacher and my buddies who are there with her.
HI Julie, I’m so sorry about the leukemia. What a rotten blow. I hope the treatments are not too difficult.
I’m curious about Bluetooth and the class. Is the teacher speaking into a phone and is your bluetooth connected to your phone? As readers can probably tell, I’m not great with technology. Would love to know more about how this works.
Is your Pilates studio carpeted? I find the room itself one of the biggest problems. The room where I go is designed for multiple use — dance classes, yoga, etc. So it has bare wood floors and lots of mirrors and windows. The acoustics are terrible!
Julie, Forgot to add that I’m so glad you mentioned the hospital masks with the clear window. It’s a great invention and is so important for people with hearing loss to know about.
business to keep me hearing. I started using one of the very first FM systems with a mike and neck loop and have kept using technology. At one point, I had a mike on a long wire that plugged directly into my aid. I would put the mike in front of the person and say “You’re on CNN!” Everyone was intrigued and happy to talk to me. Now that my hearing has deteriorated and my Oticon mike doesn’t do too well in noise, I use the mike on the iPhone with the Notes app. The phone transcribes what the person is saying so you can read it. I find it helpful.
I don’t have the iPhone mic. Should get one, especially for the social parts of our chapter meetings. But I think some of us just have a harder time than others putting ourselves out there. You were lucky to have CHC behind you. Many people, especially those for whom the loss is unexpected and comes later in adult life, have no choice but to muddle along, trying to figure it out on their own. I think they need reassurance that it’s not their fault if they can’t manage as well as some others. You’re an inspiration, but a tough act to follow.
You noticed the picture I used with this post?
The mike is on your phone. Go to Notes and click on the pencil on the lower right part of the screen.
I do know the mic icon on the phone and the notes app. I thought you were referring to a mic you attached, like Richard Einhorn has.
I prefer iHear to Notes for that kind of communication,I use it all the time in a small group. I put it on the table and it will pick up all the voices at a standard size dining table, and it’s pretty accurate. Not always, like auto-correct it sometimes is sure you’re trying to say something different from what you’re saying.
iHear is a free app on iPhone. I’m not sure about Androids.
Thanks Katharine. I will try the I Hear app.
Are you using iHear U 2 app?
IHearU is Kelly Tremblay’s restaurant noise app, which she will demonstrate at our 4/17 chapter meeting.
There are many things one could say to describe me and “I am not a joiner” would have to be right near the top! I believe we share a similar bi-modal arrangement – Ci in the left and HA in the right – which works extremely well one to one or in small groups with only one person at a time speaking. I usually avoid groups and characteristically noisy situations like brush fires. It would be good to be near an HLAA chapter meeting like your NYC chapter. It sounds interesting and rewarding.
I just spent a day and a night with dear friends and had a great time understanding – except when there were two conversations going a the same time. Even breakfast in a noisy neighborhood diner in Belfast, Maine was successful. We sat close and spoke one at a time. Things work well as long as I forego the persistent expectation of “normal” hearing. Things do seem to be improving bit by bit. After almost two years post activation of my CI subtile changes seem to continue. For me he key is to accept the quality of what I hear as my “normal” and be happy with better understanding, which is, after all, what we’re after.
I would happily join a near by HLAA chapter. Alas, the nearest is about 2 hours away. My hearing loss community is mostly on-line with Hearing journey and blogs like yours. Thank you for your advocacy and your voice.
If you’re ever in New York on the third Tuesday of the month, come join our chapter meeting. The information is on our website, hearinglossnyc.org.
All are welcome, no advance registration required. We have hearing assistance in the form of CART and a hearing loop.
And we have great meetings! This Tuesday (April 17), Kelly Tremblay, auditory neurologist and developer of the restaurant app iHearU, will be our speaker.

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You can download this brochure for Ål-52 "Hikes and walking tours".
The brochure shows a complete listing of all hikes as per. spring 2016 are a part of www.aal52.no. In the brochure you will find a concise description of 10 chosen hikes, see the orange symbol. These hikes are a part of the hiking programme "10 favorite hikes in Ål" for the summer of 2016, you also find a post box with a guest book inside and punch tongs.
It is important to use tour description, detailed map and height profile from www.aal52.no and ordinary maps in addition to this brochure.


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Guardian Council approves laws that will limit the power of the president in upcoming elections.
Iran's powerful Guardian Council has approved new laws that will limit the power of the president in upcoming elections.
Politicians say the new legislation will make the vote more transparent.
Al Jazeera’s Soraya Lennie reports from Tehran.

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Along the fabled eastern shore near the state line between Maryland and Virginia, is one of my most favorite places to take workshop students: The Pocomoke River State Park. Bordering the Pocomoke River and Corker’s Creek, this Maryland state park protects one of the last remaining bald cypress swamps on the eastern shore. In fact, the cypress reaches its northernmost limit of distribution on the eastern shore.
Prior to an early spring workshop, I spent a morning scouting the park. Hiking along a trail in the swamp, I kept noticing the play of light on newly emerged and unfurling ferns. And there was one particular fern ablaze in the backlit illumination of the morning sun that really grabbed my attention. Sure wished I had my camera. You see, this was one of those times I scouted without my gear. Gosh darn it!
After my hike, I drove back to the island of Chincoteague—about 35 miles away—to have lunch with a dear friend. But the fern and that great light stayed with me.
Throughout the afternoon I kept visualizing what the fern might look like in the evening’s fading, low-angled light. My mind was going from asking what I could do to what I should do. And finally my brain cells hit me with another question, “Why not do it?” The deal was sealed. I drove back to the park and hiked into the swamp to meet up with that one very small unfurled fern in the fading light. This time I had my camera, macro lens and tripod with me.
The low-angled light was doing exactly what I had previsualized. Once I found the fern, I set up low to the ground and spent the last remaining moments of ambient light photographing the backlit fern. Nailed it! Or so I thought.
Hiking out of the swamp, I saw another beautiful fern in the fast fading light. This fern, however, was half-backlit on one side, while the other side stayed in deep shadow. As the sun neared its final descent below the horizon, I got down once more and worked the moment until darkness prevailed. This was the image I was hoping to capture.
Success at capturing a moment involves a fabric of previsualization, skills, concepts and imagination. Musician Herb Alpert once said how he could visualize the music he was composing; that he could feel it. The questions to ask as you venture into nature are: Can you visualize what the composition will be? Can you feel the moment? All it takes is to see, feel and trust. And yeah, bring your camera, lens and tripod with you.
A past NANPA president and contributing editor for Outdoor Photographer, Jim is also a nature photography instructor for the Chincoteague Bay Field Station, Wallops Island, Virginia. The author/photographer of six books, Jim is particularly proud of two children’s books he did with his son Carson. Jim was also a major contributor to the book, Coal Country. Jim’s website is www.jimclarkphoto.com; www.jimclarkphoto.wordpress.com is his blog; and you can visit him on Facebook.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: LIST OF VETERINARY FOR SALE OR SPACE TO LEASE Looking to purchase or lease existing veterinary space? We have an updated list of veterinary buildings for sale in the State of Washington. Building sizes range from 2,000 sq. ft. up to 20,000 sq. ft. Contact Steve Kikikis at [email protected].

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I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build up the friend circle I never had in high school.
What I didn’t realize is that a social circle is not something magical that you discover once and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is something that I’ve had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally something I have to rebuild.
I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn’t have many friends, especially senior year. I was really focused, especially on academics and atypical hobbies that didn’t revolve around the high school community. As a result, I didn’t fit in with the other people in my class and I consistently felt like my priorities were at odds with those of the people around me. I’d be lying if I said that none of the situation was my fault–I’m a natural introvert and boredom and frustration made me aloof.
I didn’t want college to be a repeat of high school. I knew that the environment would be really different–I’d be around smart, multifaceted people who were focused and ambitious like me, and I could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same people. That gave me hope. And I also decided that I needed to change my attitude. I was going to be more positive and open and I was going to try hard to build the friend group that I craved.
And for my first year and a half at MIT, that worked spectacularly. For most of freshman year I was on a huge social high. I was let loose in a candy shop of interesting, down-to-Earth, welcoming potential friends. (Fun fact: I still think that MIT students are especially down-to-Earth and non-judgemental.) REX was one of the best weeks of my life. I found an awesome friend group first semester. I was so happy to be around people that I liked and that liked me back that I didn’t mind that MIT was a lot of work and I used the term “pset-party” unironically. I started wondering if I was an introvert at all because I started loving meeting people and making small talk. It’s true that I missed my family sometimes and took some stressful classes and still experienced some social FOMO that was left over from missing out on everything in high school. But overall it was a really great time.
I thought that this was what college was like. I expected it to last forever, and it didn’t.
Second semester of sophomore year I grew apart from most of my freshman year friend group and I went through a breakup that I took pretty hard and I still didn’t feel connected to my living group. I felt like I was back at square one. I was lonely and, in retrospect, probably a little depressed. For a while I felt like I didn’t belong at my own school any more. I was afraid that I was watching high school repeat itself, that I was closing myself off, that people no longer made me happy, that I was doomed to be solitary. I remember being apprehensive to go back for Junior year because I felt like I’d regressed from where I was the year before.
Fortunately, that perspective turned out to be way too fatalistic. What I didn’t fully recognize at the time was that while I was shedding most of my freshman year friendship circle I was also building up the next stage of my life at MIT. That same sophomore spring, by happenstance, I found my lab–the same lab I’m working with now, two years later, that’s been a huge part of my life since. Junior fall, I moved living groups again–it was the third living group I’d been in, I’d already changed once, and I was nervous about it and starting to think I’d never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college–but I ended up making friends with the people on my floor and finding a really solid community. My interest in languages and my humanities concentration in French introduced me to people outside of my year and department. And even through the whole mid-college-crisis, my still-best-friend from freshman year was there for me, so I was never really alone.
I spent Junior year building a new friend circle. I made a bunch of friends in my lab and my supervisor became my mentor and role model and still is to this day. Working in my lab gave me a sense of teamwork and belonging that came not just from social acceptance but also from skills that I could contribute to a group of motivated, driven people. I challenged myself to hang out more with my entry (that’s the MacGregor-specific term for a floor) and got closer to the people I lived with. My interest in languages led me to take classes with people I wouldn’t have met otherwise and eventually led me to the Language Conversation Exchange, where I still volunteer.
Senior fall rocked. First, I had a great summer interning at my goal company in Seattle and hanging out with a bunch of friends from MIT. And then I came back to school and that rocked too. I learned a lesson from the ridiculous course load I inflicted upon myself Junior spring and took a relatively chill schedule, which meant I had more time for socializing and sleep. I spent a lot of time with people from my dorm and learned how fun it was to have friends living down the hall. There were a bunch of Senior events planned which means I even partied a little bit (:O yes three years late). I took on more responsibility in my lab–I even got to train some new UROPs. I finally cross-registered for a really cool Spanish class at Harvard and I volunteered and participated in the language exchanges. Winter break was awesome too. I spent finals week in Washington D.C. with the only person I know who’s a bigger U.S. history nerd than me–my brother–and I spent IAP in Andorra which was AMAZING, experientially and linguistically.
Me and my brother Max visiting Lincoln’s memorial in D.C. This is one of the most respectful pictures we took during our trip. Most of the time, we tried to imitate the statues we were taking pictures with. We thought that maybe that wasn’t appropriate given the gravity of the monument.
I thought I’d finally cracked it. I thought I’d finally found my people! I thought that Freshman and Sophomore years had been a misstep, and that I’d moved on and finally found my place.
And I was…wrong. In the past couple months, things have shifted again. Over winter break I lost two of my good friendships in pretty quick succession. That was a kick in the gut. As a result, some of the social groups I relied on aren’t the same any more. The first couple weeks of the semester were rough. Since then I’ve been throwing myself into my research.
My research situation has changed a lot too, but largely in a positive way. I’m now technically an MEng, or Master’s of Engineering student, which is MIT’s one-year Master’s program. I’m super fortunate that my professor has money to fund me as a Research Assistant, which means I’m only taking two classes this semester and spending the rest of my time researching. It’s really exciting–I’m learning a lot and I *finally* have time to focus on research in a way that was not possible as an undergrad (I submitted my first conference paper last week!!!) It’s also taking some getting used to. An RAship is more like having a job and less like being a student, which means I’m learning to negotiate the challenges of workplace responsibilities and relationships.
So basically this semester, a lot of the pleasure and meaning in my daily life is coming from my work instead of my social life. I love having important work to do and I love that I’m finally a fully-fledged member of my lab. But, as you probably gathered from the fact that I just wrote a whole blog post about it, my social connections are really important to me and I’m bummed and taken aback that I’m losing some of them, again.
And I think I’m taken aback because my assumptions about how social connections work are wrong. I never assumed I would be friends with the exact same group of people throughout college, but I guess I did assume that there was a “place” waiting for me somewhere here that I just had to find and then I’d be welcomed and comfortable and part of that group for basically ever. And that’s not true. Sometimes you leave people’s lives and sometimes they leave yours. Social connections ebb and flow. I knew that I had to work for my relationships, but I didn’t realize that even then, sometimes they don’t work out.
I’m never going to “find my place”. I’m going to find a place. And I’m going to have to work hard to keep it and sometimes, maybe often, lose it and find another one. It sounds exhausting. But at least when this happens I now know that I don’t have to look back at high school and wonder if there’s something wrong about me that’s dooming myself to a life of loneliness. This stuff happens. Things will come back together again.
My parents have always been there for me–no matter what’s going on at school.
Finding my place at MIT is something I’m still working on, and, I now realize, something I’ll never stop having to work on.


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Also known as cornflower, it's common along roadsides and in fields. The naturalized species is blue, but white, pink and red strains exist. Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia spp.) Is an annual, short flowering season and six-day vase life.
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Holiday weight is a real and proven phenomenon. Not only that, but it can take up to five months to lose the weight that you’ve gained.
Okay, breath. We got the hard part out of the way.
Despite how that sounds, it isn’t anything to worry about. Weight fluctuations are natural. In fact, gaining weight temporarily can promote overall weight loss. Besides, even if you do gain weight, that isn’t the principal metric of your health. Let’s further characterize each of these statements.
You probably know that it’s important to weigh yourself at the same time every day for accurate comparisons. This is because your body weight can fluctuate more than five pounds a day.
You gain and lose pounds every day by more than just eating, drinking, and using the restroom. Sweating, metabolizing nutrients, and even breathing all influence your weight over the course of a day.
Weight fluctuation is normal. Stressing out about a little weight gain will only make you more likely to gain more weight. If you want to lose your holiday weight gain, just get back to your old routine and your weight will return to normal.
You might be surprised to hear that some of the most popular and successful diets are designed with binging in mind. The Slow Carb Diet, for example, advises having one “cheat day” per week where you can eat whatever you want.
The point of indulging once per week is to get all of your cravings out in one short burst. Then, the next day, you regain control and can continue dieting with even more urgency.
Binging once per week benefits you more than just by giving you increased vigor. Binging on cheat foods once a week, no matter what those foods are, has been shown to help you lose excess fat.
Part of this could be due to that fact that you’ll probably feel awful and bloated after your cheat day. This helps empower you to be ruthless when it comes to sticking to your diet for the rest of the week.
However, cheat days also help you physically lose fat. Dramatically spiking caloric intake once a week keeps your metabolic rate from slowing due to extended caloric restriction.
Obviously, weight gain on holidays is usually due to binging several days in a row, not only one. Still, you won’t help yourself any by beating yourself up. Know that the damage is done and that it’s not as bad as you think.
Though your weight can be an indicator of your overall health, it’s far from being the only one that matters. Your weight and waist size do not determine your health or your beauty.
Factors like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, sleep quality, and amount of daily exercise are more important to track than your weight. If you focus on making incremental improvements in these, weight loss will follow.
Don’t let the shape of your body control the state of your mental wellbeing.
It’s okay to gain some weight, whether over the holidays or not. Your weight isn’t the measure of your self-worth and it’s not even a crucial signal of your health.
While keeping your weight in check is important, it’s more important to prioritize good habits like sleep, exercise, and, yes, healthy eating. As long as your eating habits during the holidays were the exception and not the rule, your weight will return to where it was before.
Remember that it’s normal for your weight to go up and down and that binging every once in a while can even be good for you, so long as it doesn’t become a habit.
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If you are suffering from multiple oral health issues, Dr. Kyle F. Long can perform a full mouth reconstruction to restore your oral health and the aesthetics of your smile. He believes that every patient deserves attentive, individualized care that serves their best interests. Together, you can create a custom treatment plan combining several procedures to completely repair your smile at our Denver, CO, office.
Dr. Long can combine any number of procedures to fully rehabilitate your smile.
During your consultation, he will perform a comprehensive evaluation to determine the state of your oral health. At this time, you will also have the opportunity to discuss your concerns and treatment goals. Based on this information, he will design a customized plan to restore your smile.
Dr. Long has the tools, training, and experience to help you completely rebuild your smile in a way that benefits your health, appearance, and confidence.
These titanium posts can be placed in your jawbone to replace tooth roots and provide support for dental crowns, bridges, or dentures. Dental implants are highly recommended as they provide excellent stability and prevent jaw recession following tooth loss.
A dental crown can be placed over a broken or extensively decayed tooth to protect the remaining tooth structure. A crown can also replace a single lost tooth in conjunction with an implant.
If you have lost several consecutive teeth, a dental bridge can close the gap in your smile.
A denture can replace a full upper or lower dental arch.
Often, cosmetic treatments such as porcelain veneers can also be included to provide you with the best possible results. Root canal therapy or extraction may be needed if teeth are infected or compromised beyond repair.
Dr. Long is passionate about providing patients with treatment that truly serves their best interests. He devotes time to developing a genuine relationship with each patient. Meanwhile, Dr. Long focuses on providing the most conservative treatment possible using the latest technology. Under his care, you can expect to be treated like an individual with unique needs and goals.
While some of these procedures may be covered by insurance, dental implants and cosmetic treatments are not. To help cover these out-of-pocket expenses, we accept financing through CareCredit®, allowing you to make affordable payments over time.
If your smile seems hopeless, we have good news for you. Dr. Long has the tools, training, and experience to help you completely rebuild your smile in a way that benefits your health, appearance, and confidence. Contact us online or call us at (303) 722-1690 to schedule your consultation. We look forward to giving you something to smile about.


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Tutor A Team was established by Jim Waldman, President and resident of Chesapeake, after 40 years in educational administration and talking to hundreds of school teachers and parents of children/young adults from all grade levels. The common thread in these conversations is that the right tutor can be a life saver for a student with an academic problem, or for those needing relief from school stress. Conversely, the wrong approach can be expensive and may not get the desired results – and there may only be a small window of time for parents to get it right!
Jim often deals with the question of finding the right tutor, both for students who struggle and those who are looking to get ahead. Tutor A Team is not exclusively for the student who is behind in his studies. Many parents request tutoring for their honor roll students who want to exceed expectations, pass their SATs with a high score, and be positioned for a college scholarship at a top-rated college or university -- and also as a stress-reliever for the hard working student.
Tutoring can be expensive, but it is a necessary expense. The concerned parent understands that the student’s future depends on what happens in his/her school years and, when the approach works, then the money is well spent. It is truly an investment in the student's future.
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The vast majority of teachers and parents agree that the best and most accommodating method to provide tutoring to a student is on a one-on-one basis at the kitchen table! There are many alternatives available to the parent/student, but nothing has proven to work better and be more cost effective than the one-on-one approach without distractions. Group sessions, even just two, three, or four students with one tutor, can only be truly effective for one of the students at any given time. "Mind-wandering" or lack of relevant material will be a distraction to the other students. In addition, group tutoring rarely leaves time for the tutor to work with the child in an essential area – the homework.
How does Jim match every child with a tutor suited to his or her individual needs? The decision is based on several factors: the age or grade level of the student, general academic school performance, outside interests, the parents' availability to assist, and many other factors such as ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning difficulties.
These issues are generally addressed with the Tutor A Team specialist at the first in-home meeting with the parent(s). Tutor A Team has many tutors who are certified to work with students with a variety of special needs, including those with identified learning disabilities, medical conditions such as ADD/ADHD, those identified as gifted, and those stuck in a cycle of underachievement. Tutor A Team is committed to recommending the right tutor for your child's learning needs.
A crucial part of our tutor's work with your child is to tackle the current homework assignments. If we do great work in our first session but don’t immediately touch the homework, then the student goes back into the classroom without feeling confident that he/she is making progress. With many tutoring services, the student’s homework is set aside in favor of general lessons and review, especially in group settings where the personal time per student is limited.
At Tutor A Team, we take the opposite approach. We start by helping the student tackle current homework, and then we prepare for the work ahead. In our approach, the student returns to the very next class with the homework completed and an understanding of the material. The result of this plan is a relaxed and confident student who is then motivated to move on to the new material with the class.
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A random clinical study entitled “Buccal Misoprostol Compared With Synthetic Osmotic Cervical Dilator Before Surgical Abortion” was carried out by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2013) among 125 women with a mean gestation age of 13 3/7 weeks – 61 received Dilapan-S and 64 buccal misoprostol.
The study concluded that there was a significant improvement “in circumferential cervical dilation in participants treated with the synthetic osmotic cervical dilator” and “the synthetic osmotic cervical dilator demonstrated statistically improved dilation over misoprostol”.
It also stated that “further mechanical dilation was significantly easier after treatment with the synthetic osmotic cervical dilator, and women treated with the synthetic osmotic cervical dilator had less cramping than those treated with misoprostol”.


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The following were the key points that were discussed and noted. These are based on the inputs of the managers regarding the work positions.
The manager in the unite wants 12 more employees in the period of 6 months.
They should have basic physiological health information and have awareness of the current technology. They should have high school diploma at the least (Ulrich, 2013).
Bounce Fitness is an equal opportunity employer and hence the staff should follow the ethical guidelines mandated by the company. In addition to pay check, there will be health benefits and bonuses that will be provided to the employees as a part of the retention methods.
During the busy times of the year, there will be contractual staff who will be hired on a temporary basis. Based on their performances, they will be hired as a permanent staff (Ulrich, 2013).
The company is an equal opportunity employer, hence there will be equal number of men and women employees. There will be special considerations given to the indigenous people.
The company will strive towards providing a safe working environment for the people. The employees have the right to a safe working environment and will have any avenues to voice their opinion. All the latest regulatory and compliances regarding the safety of the employees will be continually checked and enforced.
The key performance indices will be discussed between the employees and the supervisors. The metrics will be evaluated as a measure of performance management.
Remuneration will be competitive salary package. It will be above minimum wage for all the positions.
The possible constraints in hiring the right candidates are the availability of skilled workers for the job. A number of other competitive gyms and fitness centers are opening, hence, the availability of the personnel will be difficult.
During the quiet times, there can be the issues of over expectation of the consumers and this can also lead to issues for the company.


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Do I need pond technology?
Which purpose have pond filters and pond pumps?
Clear water simply and permanently!
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Planting the pond - it's so easy!
The EHEIM vacuum cleaner is specifically designed to gently clean the bottom of the pond. The performance is regulated to ensure the dirt is removed without stirring up the substrate too much.
Do not carry out major cleaning operations in spring as, after winter, life in the pond has to re-establish itself. Sludge is best removed in late summer or early autumn.
Never remove all of the bottom sludge - leave some in the bottom of the pond to regenerate.
Why do I need a pond aerator?
The EHEIM group of companies, based in Deizisau near Stuttgart, is one of the leading manufacturers in the pet market and is the global leader in aquarium filters. The company also offers shop design and installation for pet shops and technical products for pond construction.


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Riders Motorcycle Training group offer CBT and Direct Access Motorcycle Training across the UK.
Our training sites include: Birmingham, Brierley Hill (Dudley), Bromsgrove, Coventry, Gloucester, Nottingham, Tamworth, Wolverhampton and Worcester.
We are the largest motorcycle training group throughout the West Midlands.
Our motorcycle instructors have over 20 years of instructing experience between them and are highly skilled in their field.
For those wishing to get their full bike licence, we run courses tailored to the individuals riding experience. In other words, those of you who can already ride, wont be required undertake a full bike course as if you'd never before, and those of you who are new to riding can work at your own pace, without feeling pressured to keep up with more experienced riders!
We aim to achieve a much higher than test standard outcome from our training, giving you the essential skills needed to ride safely and enjoyably for life. We believe the best way to learn, is to have fun and really enjoy new skills.
We pride ourselves on the fact that most of our business is through word of mouth and repeat business. We believe this speaks volumes about the first class service that we provide.
All material is owned by Riders, unless otherwise stated.
Riders is a trading name for Birmingham Bike Agency LTD.

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Advances in these fields need to be presented to Weill Cornell Medicine faculty and other physicians on a regular basis as one means of promoting state-of-the-art health care for patients.
Physicians in this specialty and others interested as one means of promoting state-of-the-art health care for patients.
Physicians attending this conference regularly should be apprised of recent advances in medicine that will lead to improved patient care.
Weill Cornell Medical College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. Weill Cornell Medical College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
It is the policy of Weill Cornell Medical College to adhere to ACCME Essential Areas, Policies, and Standards for Commercial Support in order to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored programs. All faculty participating in sponsored programs are expected to disclose to the audience any potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest related to their contribution to the activity, and any discussions of off-label or investigational uses of any commercial products or devices not yet approved in the United States. All disclosures will be made to attendees prior to each presentation. WCMC is accessible for individuals with disabilities or special needs. Participants with special needs are requested to contact the Office of CME: (212) 746-2631.
All disclosures will be made at the time of this CME activity.
These lectures are available online to members of the Weill Cornell community. You will need to provide your CWID and password.


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Former Biggleswade United boss Cristian Colas.
After three years, 163 games, 73 wins and 250 goals Biggleswade United boss Cristian Colas is moving on.
The highly-rated manager at the Second Meadow outfit is looking for a new challenge after leaving with the best wishes of all associated with the club.
The well-respected Colas – who has been labelled the ‘Pep Guardiola of non-league football – said movingly: ”It’s time [to leave] and I need to breathe. To look for a new and exciting challenge – as [United] was.
Colas thanked all his staff including Stuart Bimson and Albert Martinez – who are also leaving.
He also took time to praise everyone behind the scenes at the club, from the secretary to the chairman to the players and fans.
He also thanked director of football Guillem Balague saying: “The man who bet on me to direct a spectacular project. You [Guillem] have been the club. Gratitude has no end with you.
Balague was fulsome in praise of Colas and his coaching staff, thanking them generously.
He said: “Everyone at Biggleswade United Football Club would like to thank Cristian, Stuart and Albert for the heroic efforts they have put into this club over the past few years and we wish them all the very best for the future.
“Fine coaches, but even finer gentlemen and a confirmation that the two qualities are not mutually exclusive, they have between them helped us to gain the identity that we needed and by which we are now identified.
Guillem Balague at the Nou Camp, home of Barcelona FC. Credit: Guillem Balague.
“I felt immediately, even without having met him face to face, that we were on the same wavelength, that he understood what we needed to do which was primarily to raise the level of coaching and to try to improve the club and create a professional setup.


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text: Frazer House offers normal office space as well as serviced offices for rent and is located on the city fringes with good access by both road and public transport. The nearest tube stations are Aldgate, Aldgate East, Tower Gateway and Tower Hill and are all within easy walking distances offering network links to a wide range of destinations in London. Managed offices are available from 100 - 6,370 square foot and are located across 6 floors making this space ideal for start-up and expanding companies. Available on flexible terms of 6 to 12 months, the property features from 24 hour access, Cat 5 cabling, Kitchen and tea points, roof terrace, meeting room facilities, telephony and Internet services. Serviced office rental and office space let terms are available and are at very competitive prices.


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Mitch McGovern is proving to be rather popular after demanding to being traded out of Adelaide.
But the Blues will have some stiff competition for the 23-year old.
It is understood Gold Coast are willing to part with either pick two, or their compensation pick (three) in a deal which could see McGovern head to the Suns, replacing departing captain Tom Lynch.
Fremantle have also been in contact with McGovern’s manager Colin Young, but chief executive Steve Rosich didn’t sound too confident about landing the Albany product.
“I have spoken to Mitch’s manager, we’ll see what unfolds but at this stage it looks like if he's not at Adelaide, it might be at a Melbourne-based team,” Rosich told 6PR’s Sportsday WA last week.
The Dockers currently have pick five in national draft, but could also snare pick four if gun midfielder Lachie Neale accepts a deal to join the Brisbane.
Freo missed out on luring McGovern to the club he supported growing up when he signed a three-year contract extension last August.
Any trade for McGovern will likely give Adelaide two picks inside the top 10, allowing them to be aggressive in their chase of Woodville-West Torrens star Jack Lukosius.


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Annapolis County officials estimate about 300 customers are affected after E. coli was detected in a water sample.
A boil water advisory has been issued for the Cornwallis Park area Tuesday after E. coli was detected in a water sample.
Annapolis County said about 300 water customers are affected.
It means people should not drink, brush teeth or wash fruits and vegetables with tap water unless it has been boiled for 10 minutes.
The county said using the water for baths and showers is fine.
Steve McInnis, director of engineering and public works with Annapolis County, said boil water advisories are rare for the area.
He said it's unclear what caused the contamination.
McInnis said more water samples are being tested. The county will be posting updates to its Facebook page and website.

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If the words, "Adobe Flash," don't give you the heebie-jeebies, they should. The once-beloved media-player software is now synonymous with malware.
Flash has been hugely instrumental in bringing video to the internet. Unfortunately, at nearly a quarter-century old, it was developed at a time when "hacking" meant hitting a piece of wood with an ax, not a criminal remotely accessing your computer.
Flash has such a long, recent history of vulnerabilities and security patches that Adobe is phasing it out by 2020. Until then, hackers are going to exploit it.
Be careful, though. Hackers are exploiting you, too. If "Adobe Flash" gets your attention, hackers are trying to take advantage of you with a new malware called Invisible Man (or Andr/Banker-GUA).
It's likely from Russia and is related to another malware know as Svpeng. It's a clever hack that's designed to trick you into giving hackers remote access to your Android smartphone and, ultimately, your bank account.
Bonus: Keep reading for two simple tips to protect your money!
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text: These parks were combined to protect and interpret the natural features and native culture of the area. It also affords visitors the unique opportunity to explore a volcanic landscape. They offer guided tours, special events, and various trails and recreation. Dogs of all sizes are allowed at no additional fee. Dogs may not be left unattended, and they must be leashed and cleaned up after. Dogs are not allowed on the quided tour trail to the volcano, however, they are allowed on the other trails on leash. This campground is closed during the off-season. The camping and tent areas also allow dogs. There is a dog walk area at the campground. There are no electric or water hookups at the campground.


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Coinbase is the one exchange that every crypto community wishes could list their coin. That’s because the excitement it creates has often led to price pumps that have given major short-term gains to investors. For instance, the listing of Litecoin (LTC) led to a major pump that gave a boost to LTC in the 2017 Bull Run. The same was the case for Ethereum Classic (ETC). Crypto communities also look up to Coinbase because it gives access to the American market, whichis an important one for crypto’s long-term growth.
However, both of these reasons are now greatly diluted. The massive pumps in prices that usually came with Coinbase listings are gone. That’s because bear power is so strong, that exchange listing just don’t cut it anymore when it comes to boosting prices. Besides, Coinbase is now opening up its doors to lots of cryptos,which takes away the excitement. For instance, yesterday, the company announced that they would be listing Cardano (ADA) alongside 30 other cryptos. This takes away the wow effect that came with Coinbase in the past.
Then there is the fact that there are lots of other exchanges that are now offering Cardano (ADA) and other cryptos to the American market. No one looking to buy Cardano (ADA) can claim that they have failed to buy, because they lack access. On this basis, Coinbase may no longer be something to look forward to as a price booster.
In spite of Cardano (ADA) coming a little in a little too late to enjoy the Coinbase effect, the fundamentals are right for its long-term growth. First, Cardano (ADA) is one of the projects that are assured of continued development, no matter how long the bear market runs.
Charles Hoskinson has already made it clear that they divested their bitcoins at the right time, to allow them comfortably fund Cardano development all the way to 2020. This is important because, some projects are already running out of money, due to the bear market. This means that Cardano is assured of surviving the bear market, and thrive when it is fully developed.
Beyond this, the IOHK team has made tremendous progress on the Cardano (ADA) roadmap. Recently, the team announced the release of the Cardano testnet. According to Laurie, a member of the IOHK team, the testnet allows developers and Cardano users can check out new features of the Daedalus wallet before they are deployed on the mainnet.
The Cardano team has also achieved a number of other development milestones including Ouroboros, a POS stake algorithm that makes Cardano as secure as Bitcoin, but more efficient. With so much progress on their roadmap, there is no doubt that Cardano (ADA) will emerge as one of the most useful blockchain platforms in the future.
Besides, the IOHK team is an asset in itself for Cardano. They are not only good at the tech side of things but are also going all out to ensure that Cardano gains acceptance in the market. For instance,Charles Hoskinson has made progress in establishing relationships with thegovernment of Mongolia, as well as a number of African countries.
Coinbase’s magic may be over, but Cardano (ADA)’s growth is to a large extent assured.

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Veiko Raime and Mikk Tamme from Mobi Lab will join us at TechHub for office hours and are happy to discuss any of the questions you might have. Mobi Lab is a an agency focusing on design and development of digital products for mobility – mobile applications, mobile web, and service design offerings. Veiko is the CEO and founder and Mikk is leading of their work in UK.
Mobi Lab is a Product Design agency focused on mobile only and mobile first digital services and products.
You can get in touch with Mikk at mikk.tamme@lab.mobi.


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The UnMasking is a series of mini workshops designed to UnMask the Sim -- to give you a full frontal confrontation with the nature of life in the Sim.
But, The UnMasking is more than just that. It also contains hefty portions of work designed to prepare you for that day. A kind of essential self gymnasium mixed in with higher being body job retraining programs and copious hints on how to tickle the dragons tail.
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Early January 9, 2018, a rainstorm occurred over the areas impacted by the Thomas Fire, as well as other areas, causing massive and unusual amounts of runoff and erosion in the Los Padres National Forest, steep mountains and slopes adjacent to and north of Montecito all due to the fact that the Thomas Fire had rendered the areas devoid of vegetation and organic surface litter, reducing the amount of water taken up by plants or absorbed into the soils, removed the forest canopy exposing the areas to the erosive power of high-intensity rainfall, and rendered the soils hydrophobic.
Defendant Montecito Water District (“MWD”) provides the drinking water and water to fire hydrants in, among other places, Montecito, California and it owns and operates a municipal water supply and storage system in the hills above Montecito, California. MWD serves approximately 4,500 customers in Montecito and Summerland, California.
Its primary distribution water main runs from reservoirs which are located along East Mountain Drive, a high elevation point in the area served by MWD. The reservoirs are large storage tanks that hold a total of 12 million gallons.
Below are some recent articles featuring the Montecito Mudslides. The first AP piece listed here appeared in more than 50 publications today. The second AP piece listed ran in more than a dozen publications today, including the Washington Post.
This case arises from the Thomas Fire, which is the largest wildfire in California’s history and the deadly mudflows that followed on or about January 8, 2018. According to Cal Fire, the Thomas Fire broke out in the hills above Steckel Park in Santa Paula at approximately 6:26 p.m. on December 4, 2017. The initial ignition of the Thomas fire was caused when a pole-mounted transformer owned and operated by SCE exploded and caught fire on Anlauf Canyon Road above Steckel Park in Santa Paula.
At approximately 7:00 p.m. on December 4, 2017, another transformer located on a utility pole owned and operated by SCE on Koenigstein Drive, Santa Paula (Upper Ojai) exploded and caught fire, sending a shower of sparks and flames down into the surrounding vegetation. This transformer explosion was witnessed by several area residents. This transformer fire was a second ignition point of the Thomas Fire and was located approximately 5.8 miles from the initial ignition point on Anlauf Canyon Road, Santa Paula.
The Thomas Fire spread quickly, pushed by strong Santa Ana winds and dry vegetation created by years of drought conditions in Southern California and spread from Ventura County into Santa Barbara County and grew to approximately 281,893 acres and ravaged the Los Padres National Forest, mountains and slopes located adjacent to and north of Montecito, burning almost all vegetation from those areas.
Our team was the first to take legal action to hold Southern California Edison accountable for its negligence and seek the cost to rebuild our clients' homes and businesses lost in the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslide. This is not just another case to our lawyers. It's personal.


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Our main goal for 2016 was increasing our level of grantmaking, and we focused on this rather than hiring. The team expanded little, but we recommended over $100 million worth of grants in 2016, compared to under $20 million in 2015. We briefly summarize our activity in each of the major causes we worked on below. In most cases, it is too early to see impact from our work, but in a couple of cases there appears to be some early impact.
We had three Scientific Advisors - Chris Somerville, Heather Youngs and Daniel Martin-Alarcon - start in mid-2016. (Chris was previously consulting on a part-time basis.) We still have a good deal of work to do before setting focus areas within scientific research.
We did not complete the spinoff of the Open Philanthropy Project into a separate organization; this turned out to be more time-consuming than anticipated. We anticipate completing it by mid-2017.
We expect to be able to continue recommending grants at a pace of $100+ million per year (though with considerable year-to-year variation) and maintaining current quality (i.e. grants that we consider reasonably well-investigated and good expected value for money). We now have a much more tangible sense of what the day-to-day key questions and operational challenges are for giving in this range. Many new questions and challenges have come up.
At this stage, we now see greater importance for a number of issues including the question of how much grantmaking to aim for in each of our focus areas and how to decide when a grant is worth making, our approach to public communications, and how to make our grantmaking process more streamlined and systematic. In particular, we believe that we will gain a lot from sharpening our thinking on several points related to worldview diversification - and the relative appeal of different worldviews - before increasing our annual giving level much more.
For 2017, we don't plan to focus on scaling up our program staff or grantmaking. Instead, we expect to maintain them at roughly the same level while making significant progress on the items listed in the previous point.
Last year's post laid out plans for 2016. This section follows the order of that section, and quotes from it to allow comparisons between our plans and our progress.
Potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence will be a major priority for 2016 ... Daniel Dewey will work on it full-time, and Nick Beckstead and I [Holden] will both put significant time into it as well. Some other staff will be contributing smaller amounts of time as appropriate ... We won’t necessarily recommend a large amount of grantmaking in this cause, though it’s possible that we will. Our main goal is to lay the groundwork for more grantmaking in the future.
We recommended approximately $11 million in grants, including $5.56 million to start UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI, $2.4 million to Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (writeup forthcoming), approximately $2 million to the Future of Humanity Institute, and $500,000 to Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Our grantmaking has focused on (a) creating more spaces for work on technical safety research in academia; (b) "shovel-ready" grants to existing organizations. We also put substantial effort into writing up our views on the topic, making connections with people in relevant fields, and developing a general grant process that we'll be using for more grants on technical safety work. We feel much better informed about this area, with a clearer sense of our future potential activities, than we did a year ago. We still consider it a highly promising philanthropic area, and we plan to continue allocating partial time from several staff (especially Nick Beckstead, Helen Toner and myself) as well as all of Daniel Dewey's time. Working this way in 2016 did not require cutting or suspending any other top-priority work, and we don't expect it to in 2017 either. We see this as a very long-time-horizon cause, and we don't think we can point to tangible impact of our work yet.
We hope to recommend at least $10 million worth of grants in the area of biosecurity in the next year. A full-time Program Officer will be starting work in this area soon.
With Jaime Yassif as our new Program Officer who started in mid-2016, we've recommended a bit over $21 million in grants in this area. $16 million of that was for the Center for Health Security; other major grants included $1.8 million for the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense and $2.7 million for the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative. We focused initially on "shovel-ready" grants to organizations that relevant staff had pre-existing knowledge of. We then spent some time setting priorities more systematically. In the near term our top three priorities will be: (1) risk assessment; (2) managing the risks posed by advances in biotechnology, its global spread and decreasing barriers to access; and (3) building capacity for independent policy research and advocacy. In the coming year we plan to refine our strategic priorities and set longer term goals for the program. Most of our grantmaking in this cause was done after mid-year and has aimed to build capacity for key institutions; we don't think we can point to tangible impact of this work yet.
We hope to recommend at least $10 million worth of grants in each of criminal justice reform and farm animal welfare. We have cause-specific staffers leading our work in both areas.
We recommended about $20 million worth of Criminal Justice Reform grants in 2016. Priorities include sentencing reform (including $3 million for the Alliance for Safety and Justice), organizing (including Faith in Texas, Mijente and The Ordinary People Society), prosecutorial accountability and reform (such as The Accountable Justice Project), and piloting and promoting alternatives to incarceration (such as restorative justice). We expect to publish significantly more content on this topic in the coming months. We've seen several cases where our grants may have had an impact, and will likely write more about some of these in the future (while some are best not to share publicly). So far, we believe the most significant case is that of a recent bill signed in Illinois that our grantee, the Alliance for Safety and Justice, estimates will result in approximately a 3000-person reduction in the prison population (we plan to discuss this in more detail in a future post). It is our understanding that ASJ developed the strategy for the bill, and worked very closely with the bill's champion Jehan Gordon-Booth, to cover all bases necessary in the state to get it passed. It passed with strong bipartisan majority and support from key law enforcement associations. Our grant to ASJ constituted 54% of its income in 2016; we believe this grant substantially increased the scope of ASJ's work, and that the work ASJ did in Illinois is among the work that would have been unlikely to occur without our support.
As quoted above, last year we wrote that we hoped to recommend at least $10 million worth of grants in this area. We recommended about $15 million worth of grants in 2016 (not including an additional $2.5 million we recommended in 2015). This included about $3 million each to Mercy for Animals (grants here, here and here) and The Humane League (here, here, and here). Our main focus was on corporate campaigns for better treatment of both layer and broiler chickens, both in the U.S. and abroad. Our grantees have now secured cage-free pledges from all of the top 25 US grocers, foodservice companies, and food manufacturers, and 16 of the top 20 fast food chains, which will benefit >250M hens annually once implemented. They have also secured global cage-free pledges from the world’s two largest foodservice companies, the world’s largest discount grocery chain, and several of the world’s largest hotel chains, and regional cage-free pledges from Latin America’s largest fast food operators and France and Britain’s largest grocers. And they have secured commitments from the largest US foodservice operators and several fast food chains to reduce the suffering of >200M broiler chickens annually. We also supported work on fish welfare, work on promoting animal product alternatives, and nascent work to build stronger farm animal welfare organizations in China and India. We view these as long-term efforts and don’t expect to see tangible progress from these grants soon.
exploring funding opportunities around a cluster of science and technology policy issues, such as policy around emerging technologies (potentially including advanced artificial intelligence) and other topics related to science policy and infrastructure.
investigating a set of funding opportunities in macroeconomic stabilization policy.
maintaining or expanding upon our grants in immigration policy and land use reform.
I’d guess that his work (aside from supporting Chloe and Lewis) will result in about $10 million worth of grant recommendations in 2016, but with high uncertainty.
Alexander spent less time on the above priorities than anticipated, instead focusing on supporting Chloe and Lewis, helping Open Philanthropy move toward spinning out as an independent organization, and working with the science team on grants around the use of gene drives in malaria control (discussed more below). We recommended about $2 million in grants to think tanks to work on macroeconomic stabilization policy (grant writeups here, here, here, here and here), as well as a renewal for Fed Up (writeup forthcoming). We also recommended $1-2 million for immigration policy and land use reform. We mostly think it is too early to see especially clear impact from these grants. We plan to lower the priority of new grantmaking (as opposed to renewals for existing grantees) in macroeconomic stabilization policy, immigration policy and land use reform this year. We've made a relatively small number of grants in these causes, and this is related to the fact that Alexander's attention has been divided between multiple priorities. (We've also updated in favor of the "expert" model of philanthropy described in this blog post.) For now, we anticipate mostly keeping our work in these areas in “maintenance mode,” while Alexander works on some other priorities (more below).
We still have a substantial amount of work to do before we’ll be ready to set focus areas within scientific research. We don’t plan to set a particular goal for 2016, because (a) we are allocating senior generalist time to potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence; and (b) we think time spent on scientific research will be much more productive after our scientific advisors come on board.
Recommended a large grant for work on gene drives that might reduce malarial burdens (main writeup forthcoming; one grant is written up here).
Reviewed over 100 grant proposals that were submitted to the NIH's Transformative Research Award Program and not funded, and we plan to recommending funding for some. We see this as a way of getting a very broad view of what sort of ambitious and unfunded ideas are out there in the life sciences.
There is a strong possibility that we will make grants aimed at helping grow the effective altruist community in 2016. Nick Beckstead, who has strong connections and context in this community, would lead this work.
We recommended about $1 million to Founders' Pledge, and $1.4 million for SPARC and Center for Applied Rationality. We also made recommendations for Machine Intelligence Research Institute and Future of Humanity Institute (writeup forthcoming), though we've classified these as falling under potential risks from advanced AI rather than under effective altruism. We are hoping to recommend grants for 80,000 Hours and Centre for Effective Altruism soon. At that point we believe we will have covered most of the major opportunities in this area, but we will continue to keep an eye out. We expect to have substantive updates on these organizations' progress and the impact of our funds within about a year, but we don't at the moment.
As discussed above, we have significantly better capacity - and context - for evaluating potential grants than we’ve had in the past. As such, we are making a moderate effort to identify potential grants that don’t fit neatly into an existing focus area but are highly “shovel-ready” (in the sense that we can identify a specific potential grantee) and appear strong overall based on the knowledge we’ve picked up in the course of our many cause investigations and discussions. We don’t expect to make a large number of these grants, but we expect to make some.
We recommended about $5.5 million in grants on outstanding opportunities to mitigate risks from climate change: $2.5 million for research on solar geoengineering (writeup forthcoming) and $3 million to encourage reduction in hydrofluorocarbon emissions. We also made about $1 million worth of other "one-off grants" (see here, here and here). We wrote about our recommendation to Good Ventures to grant $50 million to GiveWell's top charities. We aren't including this figure when we say (above) that "We recommended over $100 million worth of grants" in 2016.
We hope that by the end of 2016, the Open Philanthropy Project will operate as an independent organization from GiveWell, with its own employees and financials, though some individuals will continue to do work for both organizations.
We continue to commission case studies on philanthropy’s past successes as part of our history of philanthropy work. We also continue to collect relevant cases informally. By the end of 2016, we hope to publish a summary of what we’ve learned about the history of philanthropy, which will be a significant update from our 2012 post on the subject.
We hope to continue improving cross-cutting aspects of how we work. Our interests include improving our process for producing public writeups, refining our approach to cost-effectiveness estimates and comparing the good accomplished by different grants, refining our thinking about how much giving we should recommend to GiveWell's top charities, and finding ways to improve our general forecasting abilities (since our grantmaking decisions rely on views about what developments are likely in the future). We expect to do some work on all of these fronts, but it will not be a major priority with a concrete goal this year.
We still don't have the capacity we'd need to identify focus areas within the category of global health and development - beyond our existing connection to GiveWell's work and our support of the Center for Global Development. We don’t plan to build this capacity in 2016 and expect to revisit this in a future year.
The first of these - spinning off into an independent organization - turned out to be more complex and involved than we had anticipated. We put significant time into it in 2016 and are planning to complete the spinoff by mid-2017. We put less time than anticipated into the other points listed above. We did not publish an updated writeup on the history of philanthropy, and may or may not do so in 2017. We made some progress on the third point, including a revised approach to information sharing, starting to explore best practices for forecasting, improvements to our grantmaking process and new hires who focus on it, and an internal "Program Officer guide" that we expect to eventually create a public version of.
Speaking broadly, the main significance of 2016 for us is that we greatly increased our grantmaking, to the point where it is now comparable to that of major foundations. We expect to be able to maintain this pace and quality of giving recommendations (i.e. $100+ million per year, though with substantial year-to-year variation, from grants that we consider reasonably well-investigated and good expected value for money). If we had a goal of increasing the annual level of grantmaking further, we think we could fairly easily do so, and this has affected how we think about giving now vs. later. We now have a much more tangible sense of what the day-to-day key questions and operational challenges are for giving in this range. Many new questions and challenges have come up. At this level of giving, we now see more importance for careful public communications, the need for a more streamlined and systematic grantmaking process, and the need for more thinking about the question of how much grantmaking to aim for in each of our focus areas and how to decide when a grant is worth making. In particular, we believe that we will gain a lot from sharpening our thinking on several points related to worldview diversification - and the relative appeal of different worldviews - before increasing our annual giving level much more.
For reasons outlined above, we aren't planning much staff expansion in 2017. We plan to continue grantmaking roughly as we have been, while trying to improve the underlying processes and intellectual framework.
Major focus areas with full-time staff: we expect to continue our work on potential risks of advanced AI, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, criminal justice reform and farm animal welfare much as we did in 2016. I would guess that the total amounts given in these causes will be broadly similar to what they were in 2016, and it's hard to say whether they'll be higher or lower for a given cause, because we don't know what sorts of opportunities we will find. My best guess is that the four causes combined will account for around $70-90 million in recommendations.
Other US policy grantmaking. We believe that the results of the 2016 elections have changed the overall landscape for U.S. policy (though not in a way that substantially alters the promise of criminal justice reform or farm animal welfare). Alexander Berger plans to put less emphasis on finding new grantees in immigration reform, macroeconomic stabilization policy and land use reform, while focusing on maintaining existing grants in those areas. He plans to spend more of his time exploring new potential Open Phil policy priorities in light of the 2016 elections. It's hard to say what level of grantmaking this will lead to.
Effective altruism. We now consider this to be among our focus areas. We've recommended (or will soon recommend) multi-year grants to the organizations we're most interested in supporting in this area. Nick Beckstead will maintain relationships and continue keeping an eye out for new opportunities, including opportunities to provide further funding to existing grantees, though we won't necessarily make new grant recommendations in 2017 beyond the couple we're working on now.
Scientific research. We've been working with our new full-time staff in this area for a few months, and feel that we still have a lot to learn about how best to investigate causes in this area. We hope to set focus areas by the end of 2017 or early 2018, though we still consider that a "soft" goal such that we will feel unsurprised if we don't achieve it. I expect that some grantmaking opportunities will come up in the meantime; we would like to recommend at least $10-20 million worth of grants while still choosing focus areas this year, including some of the "transformative research award" candidates mentioned above, and we plan to make larger grants if we can find outstanding opportunities (such as gene drives).
Other. Claire Zabel has been investigating potential "one-off grants" for global catastrophic risks other than the two mentioned above, particularly climate change and nuclear weapons policy. We don’t yet know how much grantmaking this will result in.
Overall, I will not be surprised if 2017 grantmaking is lower than 2016 grantmaking, as there were some significant one-off grants in 2016 (particularly in the area of gene drives). But I'd guess that we will recommend at least $100 million worth of grants, and I'll consider it quite surprising if we don't recommend at least $80 million worth.
How we determine whether it's better to make a given grant or save the money for a later date.
This work is likely to include addressing several of the fundamental questions we listed recently: how to compare cost-effectiveness across very different causes, how to make decisions under different kinds of uncertainty, how best to realize the benefits of worldview diversification, and which types of beings warrant our moral concern. It may also include some degree of further investigation on the moral value of the far future, and the question of how likely it is that we can have non-negligible impact on humanity's long-term prospects. We hope this work will put us in better position to make systematic day-to-day decisions about our grantmaking, and to choose the best possible cause prioritization and funding allocation as we scale up our giving further.
We're hoping to improve our grantmaking process, particularly the process of completing a writeup, grant agreement, and grant payment. (Currently, it often takes months from when we recommend a grant to when we finalize and announce the grant.) We recently hired Morgan Davis to help with this work, and may hire more people in line with this goal.
We're hoping to hire a Director of Operations so that we can be in good position to build an operations team as we grow further in the future. Currently, we largely share operations capacity with GiveWell.
We're hoping to improve our communications capacity. Currently, we make many grants with relatively little sense for what communications challenges they might raise, and what we can do to minimize or mitigate such challenges. We are exploring the idea of more intensive engagements with communications firms, and/or hiring, in order to get better at this. Doing so might also improve our ability to create public communications about our work that are more digestible than the content we currently put out.
We expect to complete the process of becoming a separate organization from GiveWell this year.
We are becoming more interested in the idea of finding additional donors to partner on our work, whether it takes the form of funding good giving opportunities that aren't a fit for us, pooling resources, or simply sharing a lot of information. Part of our increased interest comes from our increased sense that we can spend a lot of money in a high-impact way. We don't have any particular goals on this front for 2017, but we expect to spend more time talking with major philanthropists and future major philanthropists than we did in 2016.
We expect to very preliminarily start looking back at previous grants and doing self-assessment. However, we think it will be more productive to focus on this work a year or two from now. We expect most of our grants to take several years to have noticeable impact (if any), and the bulk of our grantmaking to date is now less than a year old.
Throughout this post, "recommended" means that a recommendation was made by an Open Phil grant investigator and approved by Cari and Holden. However, the recommendation is generally conditional on finalizing a grant agreement and completing due diligence, and in many cases the next step after this is a recommendation to a donor-advised fund that has final say in what grant (if any) is made. Grants are not posted to our database until completed, so in many cases the date of a grant's being "recommended" in the sense used here is different from the date that a grant appears in the database.
Last year's review stated, "We hope to recommend at least $10 million worth of grants in each of criminal justice reform and farm animal welfare. We have cause-specific staffers leading our work in both areas. (In each case, we’d include grants already made in these areas - since late 2015, when both staffers joined - as part of the $10 million.)" However, we decided that this accounting method is needlessly confusing, and we're now just listing numbers for calendar-year 2016.


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Gervonta Davis’ tenuous relationship with his mentor and promoter Floyd Mayweather appears to be at boiling point after ‘Tank’ fired shots at Mayweather in public today.
Murmurings of problems between the two have been frequent this year.
Subtle hints from Davis and not so subtle comments about his promoter appear to have escalated to the point where things are now very heated indeed.
‘Al’ above refers to Mayweather’s adviser Al Haymon.
A constant friend of Mayweather both during his boxing career and in business since he retired from the sport.
23 year old Davis (20-0-19KO) lost his world title on the scales last year but this year appeared to be gaining momentum early on with an impressive showing back in April against Jesus Marcelo Andres Cuellar.
Things are not looking good now however, which will be music to the ears of his upcoming opponent Abner Mares, although a date and venue is yet to be confirmed.
Mares is not the type of guy to go into a fight unprepared for, at all.