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Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales in which schools in Wales there is a process of selection; and if he will make a statement. [33240]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

I am not aware of any maintained schools in Wales which operate a process of selection in admission arrangements. A number of independent institutions do, but comprehensive information on admission arrangements is not held centrally.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Tarsus to Redemption ... I Can Not Wait to Get My Hands on These

St. Paul's story ... manga-style.

What could be more perfect? I mean.  Just look at that cover!

Well, ok. There could be one thing more perfect. If St. Paul cried, so we could have those fantastic manga-tears shooting out of his eyes.

But we all know St. Paul never cried. NEVER. (sigh)

I'll be getting at least one of these (c'mon, send me more ...) to review and will tell y'all all about it.

  1. And they will also have a two-volume Judith comic!!!!

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    My name is Rev Robert Wright, Editor for, a social network made specifically for Christians, by Christians. We embarked on this endeavor to offer the entire Christian community an outlet to join together and better spread the good word of Christianity. has many great features like Christian TV, prayer requests, finding a church, receiving church updates and advice. We have emailed you to collaborate with you and your blog to help spread the good word of Christianity. I look forward to your response regarding this matter. Thanks!

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  3. That is pretty cool. I will definately be getting one for my 14 YO son.

    You know tho, I must be getting old as I tend to picture St Paul more as Rod Steiger from his "On the Waterfront" days... :)


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short report in Hawaii for wedding

It's already fortnight ago that my son's wedding ceremony was held at Aloha Ke Akua (Love of God) Chapel in Hawaii,and it gradually became my brilliant memory.

I have found that some memory sometimes turns out in my mind with aroma and fragrance of the moments and scenes, and the case of this event is not unexceptional about that for me.

In addition to them sound of waves became special back ground music this time.

My youngest son's lonely journey after his divorce was fairy long. His unwilling experience did not let him allow to decide to go forward easily.

New bride is his collage and almost ten years younger than he.
He made up his mind about remarriage after long time as
companionship with her.

These lines are the last two in the song,"Hawaiian Wedding Song",
which was sung by an elegant woman at the church.

blue skies of Hawaii smile on this our wedding day

I do love you with all my heart."

The participants for the ceremony were just their parents and four invited friends. On the next day of it we drove around Oafu by a rental car. Before we went Kailua beach we enjoyed quite delicious pan cakes at Boots & Kimo's nearby the beach.

 I thought of my grand daughter when I happened to see some little girls. I bought a small Hawaiian dress, Muu'muu, for her.

I also thought about my dog, Daisy, seeing some charming ones liking to do swimming or taking a walk along the sea shore.

ようやっと再婚決めし末の子は遅れて港を出でゆく船か　　haricot

He might be a vessel
being delayed in departure,

He restarted his voyage
with his new wife
at long last

for the first flying of avian creature

In May shoots on oak trees have enough grown as fresh leaves, and they look like little birds which learn how to flap and flutter.

Sweeping with a broom and weeding in my garden I recently noticed some tiny sound raising in a birdhouse hung on an oak branch more than a decade ago.
It made me surprise because I had thought the house was always vacant.

Later my husband told me that many sparrows and some tits started to chirp heavily around the garden and he saw a cat climbing onto the oak branch.

Soon I came to know that it is a couple of tit that often pay a visit the old house and also observed that they bring some food which may be an insect or a worm.
Usually one of them seems to be a feeder and the other is watching over there.

They seem to have become more prudent and had quicker acts since I took these photos. To add to that they have to pay attention for bigger birds or cats especially at the moment of the first flight by full- fledged ones, so I made up my mind not to try to get the time for the click of the shutter any more.

Cooking some dishes for invited sons I thought of the tits and thought about a tanka poem by Noriko Tanaka, I found in the book "Music of the Heart" which I wrote about in the previous post.

　　　　　　　　　見上げていたのだ　田中　教子

coming one day

to a valley filled

with the sound of falling wings,

I was gazing up

searching for the sky

translated by Amelia Fielden & Saeko Ogi

The seeds of dandelion will fly away sooner

Adieu sakura( cherry blossoms) , Hello sakura

When I visited Nara park last weekend the peak of full blooming of cherry trees were almost over, and the vernal maple leaves were swinging in a breeze which looked like many tiny hands waving for sakura( cherry blossoms) to say " Adieu".

Sakura front is going up to some mountainous regions and to the north area such as Tohoku region where the big earthquake and Tunami  stroke three years ago. I've heard that some sakura in Tohoku are splendid to watch.

It is not clear but many petals are littered on the ground in the next photo.
Saying "Adieu" in my mind I left the park after I stayed there for a while.

Recently I'm awkward at blogging. There are a lot of tanka poems which I'd like to share with blog friends, while I'm afraid of spoiling them by my translation. In addition to that my unskillfulness on photos intimidates me to do.

Today when I found this sakura in my quarter. This dabble petaled species is late-blossoming, so I'll be able to enjoy sakura a little more.
When I came back home this afternoon I found an envelope with an unknown name on it in my letter box. A book with a title " Music of the Heart" came out of the envelope and there was such subtitle as " an anthology of tanka on musical themes written by 55 Australian poets and 77 Japanese poets" and it is also written ," edited and translated by Amelia Fielden & Ogi with the assistant of Noriko Tanaka". It was Ms. Tanaka, the assistant,
who sent me the book.

A little later I remembered that I submitted one of my tanka for the project on line and noticed that mine was selected as one of the 77 tanka.

My pleasure of the book was as much as that of the finding the late-blossoming sakura, and I was encouraged to write this post.

While I'm catching

cherry blossoms as they fall,

the refrain

"I can hardly wait"

recurs in my heart

translated by Amelia Fielden $ Ogi

lighter than a gentle breeze

I thought that some buds start to come up as leaves fall.
However, I found the other day an article that reads intangible buds have enough energy to push  autumnal leaves out from branches, quoting an author's words.
Maybe it is true.

It seems that on branches some buds are already prepared during it is leaved out.

In my yard many buds on a plum tree are observed distinctive growth recently, yet they are tightly closed.

on a snowy day
Here in Wakayama, a southern prefecture facing Pacific ocean, there is one of the broadest plum bush field in the country called Minabe with 7,000~8,000 plum trees planted so far in order to gather plums.

They seem to gather them efficiently with some nets. Can you see the blue ones being ready  to spread on the ground?

Plums in this region are sweet, soft and juicy.
The original tree of the species was found more than three hundred years ago, and then great deal of effort has been contributed to increase in number of the trees and to make plums better quality.

According to mild climate some of the trees reached full bloom in mid-Feb, though the wind was still cold when I visited there this week.

The white flowers looks like snowflakes behind the pinkish ones, but how bright the whitish small pieces are.

On the moments when the wind  turns to breeze and  sunlight becomes brighter I feel spring has already come.
It looks that definitely it does for the young couple.

Such landscape as we can see ocean over the field never be expected in Nara prefecture, my residence, where is surrounded by small mountains.

Seeing the view with plum trees partly covering the earth, I thought of people's effort and labor over many many years.

風よりも静かに過ぎてゆくものを指さすやうに歳月といふ　稲葉　京子（１９３３～）

Just like pointing at

lighter than a gentle breeze

passing by,

they call it "months and years"

Kyoko Inaba

Rokka, an another Japanese name for snowflake

最近、私は、私は現代の短歌詩人によっていくつかの短歌を読んでいた雪を、意味の名前、六花（六花、六= 6花=花）を知ることが起こった。
形の雪の結晶 - このネーミングは六角形から来ているようだ。

我々は上に、これらの言葉で「チラホラ」、「KON KON」、または「シンシン」の機能を表現し、降雪を見て。

some flames outdoors and indoors in the beginning of winter

Blinding sunlight looks darker, and some colored leaves flame up abruptly in it.
Such transient shine of the leaves mingles with the sunshine soon.

Two deciduous trees between two cedars.
Leaves just before being defoliated become golden time to time as sunbeam changes.

Some reddish fallen leaves collected at a foot of a tree show their brightness before returning to the soil.

These white flames are of silver grasses.

When they sway in the breeze it let me imagine some people's hands waving again and again...

In the glare of the morning sun

silver grass waves its hand

for an invisible sweet

who never turns out

even in its sweet dream

On the 5th of December my dead mother used to start preparing for New Year adopting one of olden Japanese behaviors.
Remembering her I started to clean rooms and arranged a small corner of our living room for coming Christmas.

This collage was from Jen ( Country Weekend) around this time last year.

This quilt was made by Annette (here).
These handmade items make our living room quite warm as if they are flames for winter time.

Thank you very much, friends and visitors!

I hope the new year will bring you good luck and happiness.

on an observation deck and high land searching for autumnal colours

From an observation deck on Shin-Hodaka of 2156 meters high, for looking over Japan Alps with 360-degree view, in Gifu prefecture. Thanks to a rapid aerial gondola which goes up along the steep way, climbers can reach here quite efficiency.

In the  different direction different features of mountains can be seen.

An active volcano,Mt. Yake, is observed at the depth of this photo. This mountain is located on the border of Gifu and Nagano prefecture.

 The opposite side of Mt.Yake. This area is called Kamikōchi which is a high land of 1400 meters above sea revel, in Nagano prefecture.
When Mt. Yake exploded its life again in 1915 ( in Taishō period) ,this big eruption made a dammed lake. The lake is called Taishō lake.

A view of Taishō lake.

Azusa river pours into the lake. Ascending stream of Azusa river, various view of river, trees and plants are pleasure for eyes.

Visitors can breath clean air not only having been provided by various plants but also prohibition the use of cars.
There is establishment in this area for those who are affected with asthma.

鳥に影樹樹に眠りのあることを風よ告ぐべし未生の者に　内藤　明（１９５４～）

Wind must go and tell

to the unborn beings

such truth as

birds have their shadows

and trees have their own slumber

Akira Naitō

This is a view from Kappa bridge which is one of the most popular spots in Kamikōchi.

Kamikōchi became to be world widely known due to introduction by Walter Weston (1860~1940), and nowadays is well known and popular hiking area in central Japan.


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Estimated time for brute forcing.

By [Plornt] on Sep 19, 2010

Just a short snippet again, appollogies for the colour in it if you are using a white BG (Switch to black, its better >.>)

What this does is uses the calculation from and tells you how long (in generall) it would take someone to brute force your password. This is just the rough estimate if the brute forcer was using a desktop pc. At the moment it it only uses 15 of the symbols as in all honesty there would be WAY too many to calculate. One last thing is it DOES NOT send the text to the room so you shoud be safe putting in your current password, if you dont trust it use it in the status window :p

Also again thanks to for there formula/calculation.

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what is the comman to use this?

[Plornt]   -  Sep 19, 2010

Thanks :) (Accidentally deleted my last comment)

This is just a rough estimate and should be taken as the "Shortest possible time" since it depends what character set you are using.

Cheiron   -  Sep 19, 2010

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Pakistani Student Sues Cloquet Hospital, Doctor

Updated: 03/28/2014 10:09 PM By: Cassie Hart

Muhammed Shahzaib Bajwa
Muhammed Shahzaib Bajwa
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The family of a Pakistani student who faced possible deportation while receiving medical care after an accident is now suing a northern Minnesota hospital and doctor.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, the brother of Muhammed Shahzaib Bajwa claims a doctor at Cloquet Community Memorial Hospital didn't quickly ensure that Bajwa's airway was unobstructed. As a result, the lawsuit says, Bajwa suffered permanent brain damage.
A message left with the hospital chief executive wasn't immediately returned.
Bajwa was injured Nov. 13 when the car he was in struck a deer. The University of Wisconsin-Superior student is now in long-term medical care.
While hospitalized, Bajwa's student visa was set to expire. Authorities worked to get him a visa that allowed him to stay in Minnesota.
The lawsuit seeks damages for medical care.

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Cause of 13.2% deaths in India remains unknown

An age-wise analysis shows that one of every 10 deaths is an infant aged less than a year, painting a grim picture of infant mortality.
BENGALURU: Of all the registered deaths in India in 2014, the cause for 13.2% remain “unknown” and the symptoms are not diagnosable. This is the second-highest leading cause after diseases of the circulatory system, which indicates that a considerable part of the population has limited or no access to medical care.

An age-wise analysis shows that one of every 10 deaths is an infant aged less than a year, painting a grim picture of infant mortality. The latest report on Medical Certification on the Cause of Death (MCCD) has this and other related data.
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The findings are based on medical records of 10,66,221 deaths registered across the country during 2014, which is 20% of all deaths. Of these, 1.4 lakh (13.2%) are due to unknown causes. The 2015 figures are being compiled. According to MCCD, of the eight leading causes, ‘Symptom Signs & Abnormal Clinical Findings Nowhere Else Classified’ (undiagnosed or death due to unknown reasons) is second only to ‘Diseases of the Circulatory System’ which accounts for 3.37 lakh deaths (31.6%).

The third leading cause, accounting for 1.26 lakh deaths (11.9%), is ‘Infectious and Parasitic Diseases’, while ‘Diseases of the Respiratory System’ has taken 82,754 lives (7.8%).

While it’s no surprise that diseases of the circulatory system, which include coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, and arteriolosclerosis; stroke and heart failure among others top the list, experts say that not knowing the cause of death is a poor indicator.

Hosmat Hospital medical director Dr Ajit Benedict Ryan said: “Generally, doctors can diagnose the cause of death of most patients whose medical history is known. However, if the cause of is unknown, it’s because they have not been treated by a doctor.”

“Even postmortems cannot give the actual cause when results point to multiple symptoms,” he added.

‘Certain Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period’ is the fifth leading cause group taking 77,182 lives. The report says this is the highest cause so far as infant deaths are concerned.

Too many infants

The age-wise classification points to the need for strengthening the network of medical care, with 1.06 lakh or 10% of all deaths registered being that of infants under one year.

In fact, several international agencies and organisations have made similar observations and recommended action on a war footing.

A Lancet report released in May, for example, said India was worse than other Asian countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh and African countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Congo and Niger in the top ten countries, when it comes to neonatal deaths.

Dr Asha Benakappa, director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, had told TOI earlier there is an urgent need to “strengthen the system if we are going to move to institutional deliveries. There needs to be more people who are trained and are available.”

Another senior doctor, on spoke on condition of anonymity, said the number of professionals being trained in performing deliveries at home is reducing and the traditional midwife is vanishing. “While it is okay to want more institutional deliveries, we must also ensure the system is equipped to deal with it,” he said.
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SARS: What Is It? What's Causing It? What Should You Do?

Preventing & Treating SARS

What Do SARS Sufferers Experience?

Within 10 days of exposure, the illness usually begins with a fever of 100.5 F or greater. The victim also may have chills, headache, body aches and some breathing problems.

Between two and seven days after SARS presents, patients experience a dry cough and difficulty breathing. In 10 percent to 20 percent of the cases, patients have needed a ventilator for oxygen.

How Is SARS Treated?

The CDC recommends that health-care professionals treat SARS patients in the same way they would treat someone with an unknown type of pneumonia.

There have been different treatment approaches used throughout the affected countries, and the CDC is in constant communication with officials and health-care workers there.

Current treatment approaches have included antiviral medications as well as antibiotics and steroids to help the respiratory system. Please be assured that the majority of patients who have been suspected of having SARS have done well.

So ... What Should You Do About SARS?

First off, please don't panic if someone coughs or sneezes in the mall, a restaurant or any other public place you may be in.

It's important to realize that our country - especially in an age of bioterrorism preparedness - has a very up-to-date and widespread disease-monitoring system.

My office has had calls asking if it's OK to eat at a Chinese restaurant, or to go to an airport where travelers from the Far East may be present. The answer to both questions is: "Yes, it's OK." SARS isn't spread by food, nor does it seem to affect people who have just casually walked by an infected person.

Be assured: In the event of a local health concern, the CDC will issue a medical alert as well as a health advisory. For the latest and most up-to-date information about SARS, please go to the CDC Web site.

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Robert Danoff, D.O., M.S., is a family physician. He is program director of Family Practice Residency Frankford Hospitals, Jefferson Health System, Philadelphia, Pa. He also is a medical correspondent for The Comcast Network, CN8, contributing writer to the New York Times and writes a weekly medical column for the Bucks Courier Times, Bucks County Pa.

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Why Are Black Bikers More Likely to Die in Crashes than Whites?

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Motorcycle accident–related fatalities account for 1 in every 8 deaths on the road. And a new study suggests that blacks are at higher risk than whites: for every two white motorcyclists who die in accidents, three of their African-American counterparts do not survive.

Johns Hopkins researchers analyzed 68,840 motorcycle accidents recorded by the National Trauma Data Bank between 2002 and 2006. The data show that black riders were 50% more likely to die than white riders, despite the fact that African Americans were more likely to be wearing helmets at the time of the crash. The disparity held up even after controlling for the severity of the accident, the biker’s gender and insurance status. White bikers not wearing helmets were still less likely to die in a crash than black bikers wearing helmets; the highest risk group were blacks riding without protective head gear. (More on Time.com: How Kids Get Clobbered by Racial Discrimination)

The study published in the American Journal of Surgery suggests that safety interventions, like helmet laws, don’t help everyone equally. “Helmet for helmet, African Americans have more lethal injuries,” said Adil Haider, senior author and assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in a statement.

The authors hypothesize that the disparity may be due to differences in levels of health care before and after the accidents: lack of health insurance, less access to or poorer quality of critical care, and a higher rate of pre-existing conditions may make recovery after a crash more complicated for blacks.

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Study: The Heart Benefits of Fish May Outweigh the Mercury Risks

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Eating fish is good for your heart, but there’s a catch: the fish richest in good-for-you omega-3 fats also tend to harbor the most mercury, which can be harmful for brain development, particularly among young children. That’s why pregnant women and women planning on starting a family are advised to limit their consumption of fish. Further, animal studies have linked high doses of mercury to some types of cancer and heart problems.

So does it make sense to eat fish, or would it be better to avoid the seafood counter entirely? A study of more 173,000 men and women may help you decide; the trial shows that mercury exposure from eating fish does not appear to increase heart-related problems.

The study’s scientists focused their attention on mercury in toenail clippings — yes, toenail clippings! — obtained from the participants. Mercury levels in toenails may seem an odd gauge, but it makes sense because they are a reliable source for measuring long-term exposure to the organic compound.

The researchers found that while people who reported eating more fish did indeed show higher levels of mercury in their nails, they did not suffer from any increase in heart disease or stroke. In fact, those with the highest concentrations of mercury enjoyed a 15% lower risk of heart disease over an average of 11 years of follow-up compared with those with the lowest concentrations.

The findings should reassure people who enjoy seafood — particularly deep-sea species such as tuna, swordfish and shark — for its heart-healthy benefits. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines recently released by nutrition experts also recommended for the first time that all Americans include at least two servings of fish each week in their diet, because the omega-3 fatty acids can lower risk of heart disease. But because of the animal studies on mercury’s potential health hazards, as well as conflicting results from smaller human studies, it hasn’t been easy to get comfortable with this advice.

“We were left with this big question mark on whether men and the majority of women in the population who are not pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant, should be concerned about mercury levels in fish,” says the study’s lead author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a heart expert at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “But in fact, in as robust a way possible, at levels of U.S. fish consumption, we saw no evidence of cardiovascular harm from mercury.”

What Mozaffarian’s group did see was that the omega-3 benefits of fish may be outweighing the small risk associated with mercury that might be contaminating the fish. “I think this really shuts the door on the worry about heart risk or toxicity to the heart at these exposure levels,” he says. “And that’s an important message, because there may be a lot of adults who are at risk of heart disease who may be confused or concerned about eating fish, or are shying away from fish because of their concerns about mercury. Our study suggests they don’t need to worry about heart risks.”

People with the highest amount of mercury, he estimates, may be consuming deep-water fish at least once a week, while those with the lowest levels may be eating fish only a few times a month.

But Mozaffarian isn’t suggesting that government health officials should stop monitoring fish for mercury contamination — indeed, even small amounts of mercury ingested from fish can cause temporary symptoms such as numbness and tingling in the limbs — so efforts by environmental authorities to lower mercury levels in deep-water fish should continue, he says.

When it comes to heart effects, however, at current levels of consumption, Americans don’t seem to be at any increased risk. Rather, people should be aware that eating fish can actually protect their heart and lower their risk of heart attack and stroke. “These are big killers in our society, and people should not avoid eating fish because of the concern over mercury,” he says.


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Avatar f tn Idk if i have a yeast infection or std but im getting really uncomfortsble. Its like its taking over my life and im always tired. Tbe worst problem thats occured is my difficulty breathing. Its really bad at night and after i eat. Its like i have to try hard to get deep breaths and i honesly think im going to lose my breathing sometimes. Its like my throat is closing up an swollen and do are my lymph nodes under armpits!
Avatar n tn So about 5 days ago i had protected vaginal sex with a high risk prostitute, two days later i got a really bad sore throat, bad congestion, dry eyes, and possible enlarged lymph nodes and two days later it was completely gone. I went to the doctor and told him the situation and he says not to worry about it and gave me medication to fight off any infectinos such as gonnorhea etc.. He also gave me cream for my anus because i told him it was red, which never happened to me before.
Avatar m tn the excretion disappeared and after several months the yeast infection was also resolved. However the yeast infection hs bee returniong from time to time. I have been back to my doc several times i have been tested for HIV, herpes, syphyllis all clean. However over the last few months my limph nodes in my groin area is very tender been back to the doc yesterday again did full blood count and other blood test agin to look for infection these blood test indicated every thing fine.
Avatar f tn I have questioned him about it being an std, and he seemes sure its not as he has no symptoms at all. So a little over a week ago I began to feel the symptoms of a yeast infection. The symptoms appeared not long after my period. It was itchy, red, and a little sore. I have had a yeast infection previously once, and the symptoms seemed to be the same. A day before I took an over the counter drug to treat this infection, I did have unprotected sex with my boyfriend.
Avatar f tn Had a repeat ultrasound last week that detected a 1cm by 3/4 cm lump and 5 enlarged lymph nodes. Biopsies on both came back benign, thank God! But breast specialist is wanting to leave this in for 3 more months to repeat ultrasound or put me on additional antibiotics.
Avatar n tn Some forums I've read claim that long-term swollen lymph nodes may be caused by some kind of infection, like HIV... and I became worried when recurrent yeast infections was noted as a possible sign of HIV.. yet that seems impossible as I've had the same (and only) faithful partner for over a year/no blood transfusions or anything and the symptoms have only begun to occur, as I said, several months ago. I know I should break down and risk embarrassment at the doctor's office..
Avatar n tn Pls get yourself evaluated by an ENT specialist for that.Swollen lymph nodes indicate an infection and your upper respiaratory tract and tonsils may be causing it. Tingling of tongue can be due to diabetes, hypothyroidism, peripheral vascular disease, vitamin B12 deficiency or malnutrition.It is also common in alcoholics.Pls get yourself evaluated for these. Treatment will depend on the diagnosis. In case you need more information then pls post us.Take care and regards.
Avatar f tn This is exacerbated by the fact that I have a couple of slightly enlarged lymph nodes near my groin - basically one on each side, but my right side also has a second smaller one that I can feel. I have had these for probably two years (I would guess), and recently switched doctors and brought it up. She monitored them for about 4 months and said they didn't change and are nothing to be concerned about. She said they were enlarged due to shaving and folicullitis (?
Avatar n tn Hey there, In the past when I have had swollen glands or lymph nodes, I was put on antibiotics. There is a blood test for Sjogrens. I have had it. I have had dry everything!! I don't have sjogrens, but with my thyroid issues, I get a lot of varying symptoms. With thyroid problems you can have dry eyes also.
Avatar f tn In April, I had a kidney stone. About this time I also diagnosed myself with a yeast infection. My lymph nodes down there start swelling again, so (being worried) I go to a doctor. She diagnoses me with a yeast infection, does a chlamydia/gonorrhea test, and it comes back negative for those. She doesn't bother with the HIV/Syphilis test because she doesn't believe I have it. Months go by, again, and it's still not better.
Avatar f tn I also realized that I had swollen lymph nodes in my groin, which I had mistaken for just sore muscles. Also, I have some irritation and slight bumpiness near my anus. Finally, one of my vaginal lips feels tender. I wouldn't describe any of the irritated area as itchy - just tender. 1. How can I tell if this is herpes? The irritated bumps look similar to what I had when I was diagnosed with a regular yeast infection, but how do I know if it's herpes? 2.
Avatar f tn I am not sure as to whether or not I have a yeast infection or HSV1. I had unprotected oral about a week ago, and I think my boyfriend had a healing fever blister, or at least one that had just recently healed. My symptoms are some itching, burning when urinating, and recently a few sores in and around my vulva area (they look just like red, swollen pimples). However, some of them are already starting to go away and have only been there 1 day.
Avatar m tn hello guys i already had a previous post to say that i have a swollen lymph nodes & a chronic sore throat for the last 5 months , + mouth Ulcers all the time i was a fraid that it could be HIV , so my GF take the ( HIV AG \ AB ) like 2 times so far for the last 5 months all her tests were coming negative , everybody here told me that she couldn't have it (HIV) i went to a doctor yesterday , he told me that it could be a chronic tonsils , Or a chronic sore throat . what do u think ?
17395667 tn?1456406053 oral thrush 2 weeks ago and I now have tonsil stones IT WAS IN THE NECK FIRST, THEN THE ARMPIT, THEN THE GROIN, NOW ABOVE AND BELOW THE COLLARBONE which is super scary im only 16 and my parents are delaying my appointment bc they dont think it's serious they get mad at me for thinking it might be lymphoma its ruining my life i want to cry all the time I had a normal cbc except for 18% lymphocytes wherein normal 20% but I had yeast infection that time I still hope it's not cancer.
Avatar m tn In fact, many people have lymph nodes that can be felt in the absence of infection or inflammation. In answer to your specific questions: 1. Could this bump be herpes? No, this is not HSV acquired through the exposure you describe. HSV symptoms do not occur so quickly and are self-limited. Even the symptoms of first episode HSV infections resolve within about three weeks of the onset of lesions. 2.
Avatar n tn Are swollen glands and lymph nodes often associated with Hep. I have sore throat swollen glands, very itchy non stop and headaches. The itchiness ties in with Hep but do the gland swellings?
Avatar n tn It disappeared after a day. I still felt tingling, and I applied cream for a yeast infection for about a week. The feelings became more noticeable with burning on the tip of the penis, pain when I ejaculated, and some back pain. I already had some urination problems as I mentioned and this was different, and felt worse. A week or so later I experienced a prodromal feeling. I went to a Doctor and she did blood test for Herpes, Chlamydia. She also ordered a PSA.
Avatar m tn Can stress cause a weak immune system and then into a yeast infection affecting my lymph nodes, vaginal area? Or is it herpes?
Avatar m tn Also about three weeks ago I had a yeast infection due to acne medication and i never treated it. The yeast infection was itchy and it only got worse. But a couple days ago i noticed that the area between my vaginal opening and anus was very swollen, red and itchy. As of today I noticed my uretha and outer labia were also very painful and red and the spot between my vagina opening and anus has little blister like bump but they are not circular they are kinda like lines.
Avatar n tn Sometimes nodes will swell due to infection and then never ever return to their previous undetectable size. As long as they do not grow, are not rock hard and you do not have any of the following symptoms: fatigue, night sweats, fever, weight loss, itching (terrible itching) then you really should be okay. Also, nodes over 1 cm should be investigated further. It seems that so many people experience nodal enlargement. I myself have one on each side of my neck and have had them for 1 1/2 years.
Avatar f tn I have had unprotected sex with this same girl a dozen times and nothing like this has happened until she gets this yeast infection. So my question is what are the odds of this only being a yeast infection and not herpes?
Avatar n tn 1st of this month I got a yeast infection...itching, smelled like yeast. I treated with Monistat 3day but it got worse. I saw urgent care doc (I was going on vacation & couldn't get an appointment w/pcp). He did a urine test & said I had UTI. Since I have had UTIs before I told him I didn't think that was it. He prescribed cipro &, b/c I pushed him about the yeast, diflucan. He did not do an exam. I didn't take the cipro b/c I feared yeast would get worse.
Avatar n tn No STD can cause symptoms in less than 24 hours after exposure, so you can be sure your sore throat and possible swollen lymph nodes the next day were not acquired during the sexual exposure you describe. The other details--shaving, bubble bath, specific sexual practices, etc--don't seem pertinent. So bottom line: see a health care provider knowledgeable about STDs, such as your local health department STD clinic.
Avatar m tn My girl friend at the time of possible infection was having yeast infections/bactiera infections/uti. She told me she had done research and found out that since she had a yeast infection she could have passed it to me. We were fighting already and I had broken up with her the week I noticed a sore(did not break up with her for infection). I went to my doctor and he said it looked like herpes based off the grouping of blister/sore. he recommended I go to the free clinic.
Avatar n tn Certainly the itching and thick discharge 'sounds' like a yeast infection but if you haven't been diagnosed with one before, it is always recommended that your first diagnoses of yeast infections come from a doctor. Second, the swollen lymph nodes to me is cause for a doctors visit.
Avatar m tn Hello, I recently went through I viral infection that caused my lymph nodes in my neck to swell up to about the size of large marbles. I allowed my body a few days to fight the infection naturally and the swelling eventually went down. as I started to feel better (still having swollen lymph nodes) and the size began to reduce I started to get insane dry mouth all day.
Avatar m tn would a yeast infection cause swollen lymph nodes? 3. If my wife starts to see the same signs is it safe to say she has an STD?


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In the inchoate years of the 21st century, the nominal ideas behind Frederick Herzberg’s “Two-Factor Theory” have been largely cast aside in their want of experimental validation1, but the late psychologist’s ultimate conclusion—that “job enrichment” is a good and necessary function of management—is certainly alive and well, albeit superseded by more complete theories about the idea (Miner, 2005, pp. 61, 73-74). In a period of a global “flattening” of cultures and economies (to borrow Thomas Friedman’s nomenclature), when fears about job security are on the rise, long-term career goals are sinking into the dusk latitudes, and cynicism about outsource-happy management and inequality is worse in the United States than it has been since the Gilded Age, how can organizations elicit more than a minimum of effort from their employees, short of threatening or scaring them into hyperkinesis?

Recognition as Extrinsic Motivator

Former General Electric C.E.O. Jack Welch is no stranger to dismissal as a motivator; his “20-70-10” rule functions as a proverbial Sword of Damocles for the business world, wherein during each evaluation cycle, the top 20%, middle 70%, and bottom 10% of the workforce are determined and dealt with accordingly. The top 20% is rewarded, and repeat offenders for the bottom 10% are let go (2006, p. 108). The fate of low performers in the workplace is an important topic, but outside the scope of motivational trends in general. The areas of concern for the author are the proper emolument (not necessarily monetary in nature) of top performers and also the cultivation and motivation of the middle 70% to improve; this latter group, after all, represents the largest likely ROI, given an inexpensive and efficient method of motivation.

Welch, though he seems to have little patience for the dregs of the organizational barrel, is adamant about what is required to motivate: “No company, large or small, can succeed over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it” (quoted in Gallo, 2008). Gallo, in keeping with Welch, insists that public recognition is the zenith of non-monetary motivators, citing several anecdotal examples (2008). This is not a recent addition to the nomological network; Herzberg included such recognition as a Motivation factor in most instances (Herzberg, Mauzer, and Snyderman 1959/2004, pp. 44-46, 49). This phenomenon is well-known to the technology industry, which sees much of this experience in the phenomenon of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS, by its common acronym); the Apache web server (which powers well over half the sites on the Internet2) is a free product, programmed mostly by volunteers and hobbyists who receive no monetary compensation. Intrinsic motivators such as technical challenges, as well as the recognition within the programmer subculture, are enough to keep development of the program very active3.

In currently high-performing employees, recognition of this sort tends to reinforce the employee’s endogenous motivations and moves his or her perceived locus of control further inward, according to Malhotra, Galletta, and Kirsch (2008, pp. 290-91, 294); this virtual collapse of the intrinsic and the extrinsic is a sort of psychological short-circuit to the employee’s sense of self-actualization. In normal employees (what Welch may categorize as the middle 70%) who may or may not experience as high a degree of intrinsic motivation as the most creative or most energetic employees, recognition may activate more basic motivators such as vanity. In both groups, there is likely to be a combination of the two.

Job Enrichment and Non-monetary Incentives

As organizations grow in complexity—the large and monolithic bureaucracies of wartime IBM, for instance, give way to equally large but decentralized technology firms like Microsoft or Google—it becomes all too easy for the artifices of corporate oversight or regulation to rob competent employees of their autonomy. Though few studies have shown experimentally or observationally a direct causal link between control systems and employee motivation, Drake, Wong, and Salter note that volumes of research have shown such relationships between empowerment (an internal “perceived locus of control,” to retain the parlance of the endogenous/exogenous motivator studies) and task motivation—ultimately, to overall institutional effectiveness (2007, p. 71).

The dispensation of empowerment and autonomy is one of the central tenets of job enrichment—distinct from job enlargement, which seeks merely to add responsibilities—a long-known but too-little-appreciated tactic of organizational behavior that, in essence, seeks to grow the job with the employee (Miner, 2005, pp. 76-77). Spreitzer identified two particular antecedents to feelings of empowerment, namely a connection to the organizational mission, and a context in which to view personal performance (1995, as cited in Drake et al., 2007, p. 75). The experimental context of Drake et al., however invalid it may seem due to its unbelievable mission statement (consisting, to all appearances, of “to make as high a profit as possible”), underscores the correlative relationship between task motivation and overall performance, and also between task motivation and perceived impact of work (2007, pp. 83-84). The population of this experiment consisted only of entry-level workers (p. 72), not any managerial or supervisory positions, which likely slanted its results against significant causal or correlative relationships; blue-collar or entry-level workers are statistically the most likely to resist forms of job enrichment and internalized extrinsic motivators (Miner, 2005, p. 73).

According to the Hacker-Lawler theory of job enrichment, employees will work effectively toward an institutional goal only insofar as it aligns with their personal goals; since contemporary literature downplays the importance of “hygiene” factors in supplying the needed motivational incentives (Miner, 2005, pp. 76-77), this usually comes in the form of “Engagement with the Mission.”

It is farcical to think either that all employees will buy into the organization’s mission statement (even presuming it is meaningful and relevant), or that encouraging such buy-in will necessarily evince an increase in efficiency or raw productivity. Writing for BusinessWeek, Liz Ryan emphasizes the power of hygiene factors (such as the 2008 Q3-Q4 economy) to overwhelm the capacity of feedback, praise, or engagement as a motivator (2008, p. 13). Satisfying hygiene factors, such as competitive pay and benefits, a socially-engaging work environment, and job security is increasingly difficult, due to both economic fluctuations and the cutthroat nature of the recent trend of global markets and outsourced jobs (especially entry-level jobs). Failing the ability to offer all of these things (or even assuming them), she writes, “lose the corporate happy talk and be honest with employees” (p. 13).

Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristics Model, the spiritual successor to Herzberg’s notions of job enrichment, identifies five motivating traits inherent to a job: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback (Miner, 2005, p. 78). Herzberg’s original writing on the subject included such examples as empowering the employee to schedule his or her own work (within constraints), giving the employees small budgets and direct responsibility for costs within the the context of their work, and making sure that the ultimate recognition for results is kept as part of the job, instead of shifting to a supervisor or a departmental level (1976, as cited in Miner, 2005, p. 66). These satisfy the latter two parts of the Hackman-Oldham model (responsibility for outcome and recognition for outcome, respectively), but not necessarily the first three, which deal much more with perceived meaningfulness of the task; in this case, the connection to organization which Spreitzer belabored, as well as the complexity and variety of the task, must satisfy the the remaining traits. The distinction as made by Pugh and Hickson (2007, pp. 236-37) is important; adding more iterations of the same task or introducing similarly “undemanding” work will not suffice. These kinds of new tasks require some measure of autonomy or self-governance, and must have the necessary recognition and requisite learning built in.

Job Satisfaction as Mediator

Economic trends are only one proximate cause of job satisfaction, which Crede, Chernyshenko, Stark, Dalal, and Bashshur define as the amalgam of everything from such distal factors as economy to extremely localized factors such as “disposition”—that is, intrinsic motivators (2007, p. 517). Importantly, they argue that any framework which seeks to measure, predict, or explain employee motivation and satisfaction must necessarily extend to factors which “influence the perception of organizational actions,” and not simply quantifiable or objective measurements (p. 516). Since job satisfaction in some way mediates the difference between objective job characteristics and employee response, this is an important piece to consider (pp. 516-517). Crede et al’s conclusion is that antecedents of job satisfaction experience too much unique variability unless multiple antecedents are addressed simultaneously—that is, unaddressed approaches to job satisfaction, and ultimately employee performance and behavior, tend to act as limiting agents. Even the if the extrinsic factors most proximal to an employee are addressed, endogenous motivators (“dispositions,” in Crede et al’s parlance) may yet affect the end result (pp. 532). In any case, it would be difficult to isolate purely extrinsic and purely intrinsic motivators, since they rarely exist in isolation (Malhotra et al., 2008, p. 291)

Practical Applications and Implications

Outside of the vacuum of theories, what does any of this tell managers about how to motivate employees and cultivate the workforce to its maximum potential? Given the aforementioned environment of slimmer margins, corporate cynicism, and concerns about long-term sustainability, what is the best way to apply the theory of job enrichment?

As is so often the case, the Google corporation provides an obvious example. At once a financial powerhouse, a technological titan, and a media darling, Google has become synonymous with the “right” way to run a company. Their policies have historically been rich grist for the mill of both technology pundits and business reporters alike: at little or no cost to them, employees are given benefits such as free (excellent) food, health care, ski trips, car repair, recreation rooms, and unlimited sick days (Lashinsky, 2007, pp. 72-73). These are extrinsic factors which, on the face of it, satisfy only hygiene factors, and will therefore increase motivation and performance only asymptotically. As one piece of Google’s broader approach toward attracting and keeping the best minds in the industry, however, it builds a sense of community and a mutual relationship of value and respect between the organization and its employees. Take, as a notable example, Google’s “20%” policy, which demands that employees spend a fifth of their time on a separate pet project of interest (p. 77). Gmail, Google’s web-based email offering, was just such a project. This kind of job enrichment satisfies task variety, fosters the perception of autonomy insofar as an employee is free to choose the direction of the project, and of course results in both internal and public recognition if the project is promoted to Google’s canonical offerings.

Similarly, Google’s famously simple mission statement—”Don’t Be Evil”—is precisely the sort of organizational goal that encourages employee buy-in (though Google’s sex appeal as a business and a think tank doesn’t hurt).

Yet even Google, which is to the 2000s what Microsoft was to the 1990s, faces and occasionally fails at these same organizational problems. The loss of top executives and engineers to new, perhaps more exciting startups is problematic (Montalbo, 2008, p. 29); though hardly hemorrhaging talent yet, Google is taking steps to prevent just such fate by looking at sabbaticals and lateral movement, among others (Lashinsky, 2007, p. 78). Yet it becomes inevitable, now that Google employs well over 15,000 people, that less individual recognition is forthcoming, more work focuses on the maintenance of established products rather than the development of new ones, and the economics of providing its legendary benefits to a much larger workforce becomes problematic.
At Google, autonomy is still the most widely-followed tenet of job enrichment. According to Mantalbo, Craig Neville-Manning, Google’s engineering director, stresses the importance of autonomy for employees even as Google as an organization takes on more of the structure (and strictures) of a much larger company (2008, p. 33).

The continued trend toward a global economy increases the supply of cheap labor across all industries. As such, more emphasis is placed on the most creative, highest-performing, and most dynamic employees, who, though likely self-directed by endogenous motivators, still require continuous job enrichment in order to stay engaged. While pay and benefits are both important and necessary, they are—in terms of job satisfaction and performance—secondary to true job enrichment. This is good news for cost-conscious organizations, but the corollary is that effective management may be even more difficult to accomplish, especially in an organization which subscribes to the more traditional view that employees are inherently lazy and wasteful unless coerced otherwise.

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  1. Ironically, the timeline of Two-Factor theory’s gradual disappearance from the study of organizational behavior has been marked by a concomitant enshrinement of the theory into the canonical face of the field (Judge & Church, 2000, as cited in Miner, 2005, p. 72).[]
  2. c.f. Netcraft’s monthly report, which as of November 2008 calculates Apache’s market share at 50.34%[]
  3. Occasionally, given a high-profile program, recognition extends beyond mere programmers and into the mainstream. A good example of this is Ben Goodger, a developer involved with the initial release of the Firefox web browser, who received interviews, magazine covers, and speaking offers in 2004 and 2005 as a result. See also Bitzer, Schrettl and Schröder’s “Intrinsic Motivation in Open Source Software Development” (2004).[]
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The INSAT - 3D will monitor atmospheric characteristics such as cloud motion winds, vertical profiles of humidity and temperature apart from informing total precipitable water, sea surface temperature
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The Minister has observed that the data obtained from INSAT - 3D satellite along with other ground based observations will derive information about climatic conditions in various places and regions. This mainly includes details of rain and weather forecasting.

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"gem build" eval's gemspec without passing filename.

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17 Feb, 2010 06:24 PM

It's minor, but when "gem build" eval's a gemspec, it really ought to pass the filename as a parameter. This allows constants like FILE to be accessed inside the gemspec.

A common use-case for this functionality is having a version number in an external file, with "spec.version = File.read('VERSION')". This is completely impossible given the current implementation, because if the gemspec is executed with the pwd outside of the gem's root directory, there's no way to establish what the root directory is.

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Eric Hodel on 17 Feb, 2010 10:07 PM

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    The gemspec is meant to be a data file. You should use a tool like hoe to manage this for you.

  2. Eric Hodel closed this discussion on 17 Feb, 2010 10:07 PM.

  3. Stephen Touset re-opened this discussion on 17 Feb, 2010 10:21 PM

  4. 2 Posted by Stephen Touset on 17 Feb, 2010 10:21 PM

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    Another issue behind this is that exceptions raised in the gemspec have useless debugging output that appears to come from (eval). raggi in #rubygems posted http://pastie.textmate.org/private/omtbdlsceegmwvja5qt5dq as an example.

    There was a discussion on this in #rubygems, and the use-case behind this scenario is that I am trying to use a tool to manage this, namely the version gem (http://github.com/stouset/version). It's extracted logic from the Jeweler gem that handles version-numbering, but it doesn't generate the whole gemspec for you. Thus, you would read in the version number from a VERSION file in the project's directory.

    It should be a simple matter of changing an eval(spec) to eval(spec, binding, filename), and I'm planning on submitting a patch later this evening which does exactly that. I don't think Rubygems should inherently restrict you to specific workflows or toolchains on this kind of matter, so I'd appreciate you reconsidering the decision to close the issue.

  5. 3 Posted by John Barnette on 17 Feb, 2010 10:30 PM

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    It's best not to think of .gemspecs as code. They look like code, they're even evaled to load 'em, but you should really think of them as opaque data files. They're Ruby because depending on Ruby's parser to load the data is better than depending on Marshal or YAML (both options have serious cross-implementation and bootstrapping problems). The fact that the file happens to be executable Ruby is an implementation detail.

    The overall bropinion is this: Your build framework (be it Hoe, Jeweler, or a homebrew Rakefile) is responsible for writing out a fully resolved gemspec -- a spec that's purely data, and could just as easily be expressed as, say, YAML.

    Your gemspec should be rewritten if, say, you have a "version:bump" task that updates an external VERSION file.

  6. 4 Posted by Stephen Touset on 17 Feb, 2010 10:33 PM

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    I didn't think about the direction of generating a gemspec from the rake task, but that does sort of invert the dependency logic (version:bump should post-depend on the gemspec regeneration task).

    I can go that route. But at the end of the day it still might be a good idea to pass the filename as an argument, if only for better error reporting.

  7. 5 Posted by John Barnette on 17 Feb, 2010 10:50 PM

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    I don't see anything wrong with, say, eval(spec, nil, file) for better exceptions, but I'd definitely like to avoid passing a binding: A gemspec that depends on a binding is no longer just data.

  8. 6 Posted by Stephen Touset on 17 Feb, 2010 10:54 PM

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    I can agree with that. Is it currently passing nil? If it's passing nothing, I believe it defaults to the current binding.

  9. 7 Posted by James Tucker on 08 Mar, 2010 07:38 PM

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    I've passed the filename through in r2461, not passing a binding.

  10. 8 Posted by Stephen Touset on 08 Mar, 2010 07:39 PM

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    That works. Thanks!

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Description:A three-volume book written by Bilbo Baggins while he lived in Rivendell that was incorporated into the original Red Book:

In the evening they went to say good-bye to Bilbo. ... Then he gave Frodo his mithril-coat and Sting, forgetting that he had already done so; and he gave him also three books of lore that he had made at various times, written in his spidery hand, and labelled on their red backs: Translations from the Elvish, by B.B.

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This account of the end of the Third Age [The Lord of the Rings] is drawn mainly from the Red Book of Westmarch. ... It was in origin Bilbo's private diary, which he took with him to Rivendell. ... But annexed to it and preserved with it, probably in a single red case, were the three large volumes, bound in red leather, that Bilbo gave to him [Frodo] as a parting gift. ...

But the chief importance of Findegil's copy [of the Red Book] is that it alone contains the whole of Bilbo's 'Translations from the Elvish'. These three volumes were found to be a work of great skill and learning in which, between 1403 and 1418, he had used all the sources available to him in Rivendell, both living and written. But since they were little used by Frodo, being almost entirely concerned with the Elder Days, no more is said of them here.

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Acne Studios, COS, and Burberry shine in videos that underscore their brand’s DNA

1. Wes Anderson for H&M

The most enchanting Christmas clip of the year comes from H&M. In fact, none other than independent film icon Wes Anderson was involved in the making of Come Together to get us in the mood for the holidays – and H&M’s Christmas Collection 2016. Here’s the scene: we’re travelling on Christmas Eve, the train is running late, and it seems like the guests will have to spend their holiday on board. Luckily train attendant Adrien Brody has a surprise up his sleeve and takes on the role of the Christmas elf, providing the guests with hot chocolate and decorating the dining car with a marvelous Christmas tree. As the ultimate master of aesthetic cinematography, Wes Anderson once again spins a winter’s tale that’s curious and charming all at once.

2. Acne Studios

The current Resort Collection by Acne Studios is a wild mix of aesthetics drawn from the 70s and the style of the early 2000s: batik, asymmetry, buckles, and pleats as far as the eye can see. And now a short film, a sort of psychedelic fashion collage filmed with a hand-held camera, has been released to accompany the collection. The clip presents models from the runway show and gives a glimpse of their favorite pieces while a dreamy French pop song plays in the background. A new take on holiday reflection.

3. Gucci Gift Garden

If there’s any earthly place that could resemble the biblical Garden of Eden, then it would have to be the Garden of Ninfa, located to the south of Rome in the town of Cisterna di Latina. So it comes as no surprise that director Floria Sigismondi choose this medieval paradise as the backdrop for her cinematic interpretation of Alessandro Michele’s designs from the Gucci Cruise Collection 2017. Amidst exotic animals – including the symbolic snake – and with the emotional aria Il Dolce Suono by Gaetano Donizetti as its soundtrack, the story of original sin turns into a feast for the eyes.

4. COS Musical Chairs

Back when we were kids, every successful birthday party included a game of musical chairs. In a clever move that plays on Millennial nostalgia, COS has now reinterpreted the game in a new clip by Lernert & Sander. All six of the game’s players are furniture designers – Mette Hay, Marjan van Aubel, and Philippe Malouin among them – and they are wearing beautiful pieces from the COS AW Party Collection, which was launched right in time for the holidays. A live band plays in the background while the group slowly narrows itself down to the last one sitting.

5. The Tale of Thomas Burberry

Burberry’s latest short fashion film generated a lot of buzz when it was released at the end of last month. The trailer tells the tale of Thomas Burberry, who founded the traditional house in 1856. His story takes us from the invention of the trench coat all the way to a love triangle between himself, his fictional first love (Sienna Miller), and a mysterious female pilot (Lily James). Asif Kapadia, the director of the film, won an Oscar in the category of Best Documentary this year – actually an ideal prerequisite for turning the short film into a full-length motion picture, isn’t it?

5.+1. Veronika for Vogue Paris

After following a day in the life of Ines de la Fressange, Karlie Kloss, and Jonathan Anderson, French Vogue has now devoted an episode of #VogueFollows to our very own Veronika Heilbrunner. Her mission? Finding the perfect outfit for a post-Fashion Week lunch! From a fairy-like Chloé dress paired with sneakers to a classic t-shirt and denim combo, each and every one of Veronika’s staple looks is to be seen. And while she jumps from one outfit into the next, her personal stylist du jour has made himself comfortable on the hotel bed. Keyword: #heywomanlovespugs.

After spending a gap year in Paris, Jessica Aimufua set her heart on Berlin, starting her art history and cultural studies undergrad in 2012. As a keen observer and critical thinker she developed an urge to express herself inventively at an early age. In both English and German she writes about contemporary culture and modern aesthetics, with a focus on film, fashion and art . At hey woman! she writes, edits and translates.


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This post is screaming for Ebert to be traded,...and possible Bateman because i think they want to keep Bowen as a 7th Defenceman for his toughness.
There shouldn't be room for Bowen either. Even with an understaffed team he barely gets any shifts as it is. He will be 19 next year and hasn't provided a lot of value to the team as of this point. I can't say how they would keep him around when they have a 2 years of game tape, practice film to make evaluations.

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Avangard lost to Sibir 3-0, Ramo with 25 saves and the last goal was an empty netter. The series is tied 3-3 so there's a chance his KHL season ends on Tuesday...

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Yeah, pretty much. I have no doubt Feaster would push for Morrow or Pouliot, why wouldn't he? But Shero's history is that of a shrewd trader who doesn't overpay and isn't afraid to walk away when he feels like an asking price is too high. With as high as the Pens organization seems to be on Morrow, I just don't see him being dealt for a rental. Any rental. We'll see.
Yep, just like he would have pushed for Bennett. I personally feel Dumolin will be the dman, Flames have probably had a decent chance to check him out at BC between keeping tabs on Gaudreau and Arnold aswell.

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Does Boston have injuries on D? I'm trying to figure out why Redden is in the line-up.... And yes, I saw the boxscore from tonight's game and I still have to ask....
Hamilton is a healthy scratch.

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Quotes, man. I freaking love quotes.

Proverbs, quips, riddles, excerpts, aphorisms, koans, snippets, lyrics, and limericks — I don’t discriminate. I adore them all.

Quotes often catch a bad rep on the Internet, due to the tendency of certain popular quotes to be shared ad infinitum.

But this is a shame. Because if you really scour the caverns of the Internet, you find a nearly infinite wellspring of mind-liberating, soul-vitalizing gems of language.

Don’t get me wrong. Quotes are not a replacement for reading entire books, elaborate novels, and longform essays. No way.

But methinks they can nonetheless deliver potent, pithy shots of insight, clarity, and/or invigoration.

So, as a gift to you, awesome Internet-person, I assembled this list of 150 jewels of thought, on everything from love and suffering, to mystery and happiness, to death and morality.

Marinate, contemplate, salivate, and above all, savor these, as if they were intimate notes left to you by some of the greatest minds in history.

Because in fact, that’s precisely what they are.

On Happiness

“What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”
― Carl Jung

Carl Jung

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea”
― Andrew Weil

On Love

Anaïs Nin

“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”

― Anaïs Nin

“Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
— Leo Tolstoy

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

“Love is friendship set to music.”
― Jackson Pollock

“intelligence is intuitive
you needn’t learn to love
unless you’ve been taught
to fear and hate”
― Saul Williams

On Identity & Self-Actualization

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― C.G. Jung

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Become what you are.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

On Art

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
― Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
— James Joyce

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is anything you can get away with.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
― Marcel Duchamp

On Writing & Language

“I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.”
― David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
― Jim Morrison

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly ― they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.”
― Susan Sontag

“Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
― Slavoj Žižek

On Reading & Education

Susan_Sontag“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading.”
― Susan Sontag

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“… we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
— Ezra Pound

On Truth & Wisdom

“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”
― Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

“I must find a truth that is true for me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Hermann Hesse

“The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
― Philip K. Dick

“I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

“The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease.”
— Sent ts’an, c. 700 C. E.

“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.”
― Yasutani Roshi

On Music & Silence

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
― Victor Hugo

“The only truth is music.”
— Jack Kerouac

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs

“When you are Angry, Be Silent.”
— Bukhari

On Suffering

Alan_Watts“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan W. Watts

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

On Dreams & Possibility

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

On Change

“You could not step twice into the same river.”
― Heraclitus

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
― Lao Tzu

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
― Alan W. Watts

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

On Zen & Taoism

“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
― Chuang Tzu

“You can feel an emotion; just don’t think that it’s so important.”
— John Cage

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”
― Zen Proverb

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and grass grows by itself.”
― Zenrin Kushû

“The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.”
― Zen Proverb

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”
― Michael Ende

“Worry is preposterous; we don’t know enough to worry.”
— Wei Boyang

“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.”
― Zen Proverb

On Mystery

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

“Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.”
― Ray Bradbury

“He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.”
— Franz Kafka

“Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
― Henry David Thoreau

“The frog in the pond knows little of the great ocean.”
― Zen Proverb

“Astonishment is the proper response to reality.”
— Terence McKenna

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

On Death

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”
― Federico García Lorca

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

On Freedom

Kierkegaard“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
— Jack Kerouac

On Nature

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

John Muir, 1907

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
― Zhuangzi

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
― Aldous Huxley

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
― Walt Whitman

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“The earth has music for those who listen.”
― George Santayana

On Genius & Insanity

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
― Aldous Huxley

On Meditation

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan W. Watts

On Religion & Morality

“In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
― Sigmund Freud

On Relationship & Friendship

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
― Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
― Herman Hesse

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― C.G. Jung

On Justice & Politics

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

Cornel West

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.”
— Lao Tzu

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

On Modern Life

“We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption — anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.”
― Charles Eisenstein

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky

“If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy. ”
― Alvin Toffler

“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overlarge houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous realm of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal, and unique.”
― Charles Eisenstein

On Compassion & Generosity

“That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

On Everything & Nothing

“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”
― Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren’t even mammals.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

“I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
― The Bhagavad Gita

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

“I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
― Federico García Lorca

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan W. Watts

“you are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
it’s own secret”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Go west, young man

Take my advice, "go west, young man".

That famous quote is attributed to Horace Greeley, the influential 19th century author. Greeley, who was also the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, saw westward expansion as the ideal place for hard working people to find opportunities to succeed.

Today, the west symbolizes the place for adventurers and enthusiasts to enjoy and play in the great outdoors. One of the most iconic destinations in the west is Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Coincidentally, less than 50 miles away from the park is the small town of Greeley, which happens to be named after ole Horace.

So what does all this have to do with anything? Actually, it brings me to our newest hiking website, which we just launched this past November. Just like, offers details on many of the trails throughout the park. In fact, you'll find quite a lot of information to help plan much of your trip.

First of all, trying to figure out where to hike can be challenging, especially if you're unfamiliar with the area. The park offers more than 350 miles of trails that lead to some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. As a starting point you can check out our list of the Top 10 Hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park, as well as our list of the Best Easy Hikes in the park.

Our website also offers many lodging options on our Accommodations page. Here you'll find a wide variety of overnight accommodations that offer a wide variety of amenities in the Rocky Mountain National Park area.

If you're looking for additional activities during your stay, besides hiking, take a moment to check out our Things To Do page. Then, take a day to go horseback riding, rafting, birding, photography touring, or maybe even take a hot air balloon tour of the Rockies!

If you're currently planning, or just considering a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park this summer, now's the time to begin making reservations before accommodations begin filling-up during the peak travel season.

Please know that by supporting one of our advertisers you help to support

Finally, if you know anyone else that's planning a trip to RMNP this year, we would really appreciate if you could forward this link onto them as well.

Thank you very much!

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Sharon said...

How ironic that you posted this today, but I'm one step ahead of you...was actually on your Rocky Mountain site yesterday. My husband and I have just finalized two weeks in RMNP in late July/early August and I was already reminding myself which hikes were your favorites. We've been twice before, but both times were in late May/early June which meant many trails were not yet available to hike because of deep snow. We are so excited about being there at a different time of year and getting lots of mileage in different sections of the park. No, the waterfalls won't be as spectacular as they are in early spring, but we can't WAIT to see the wildflowers. May be asking you some specific questions as the time gets closer. For readers who haven't checked out Jeff's RMNP website, give it a look. It's fun to just read about the different trails even if you have no plans to go there any time soon.

The Smoky Mountain Hiker said...

Sharon - thank you very much for the kudos.

Absolutely, feel free to ask me any questions. Hopefully I can help you find a great trail that you've never hiked before!