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Best Ways To Make Your Slow Work Day Go Faster

Sometimes you have such a slow work day and are so bored with the work you’re doing, that the day seems to be passing slower than the pace of a tortoise. Not only does this affect your productivity but also your happiness. You come home feeling dissatisfied and lackadaisical, which in turn affects your personal relationships and life.

Don’t worry! We have a solution here. These few tips will help in making your slow day go quick
1. Work On A Project That You Love
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It doesn’t feel like work when you love what you’re doing. But if you’re stuck in a job that you don’t like a lot, changing career is may not be the best option. Yet, all hope is not lost. There’s a good chance that you can find a project in your current job that you love. Pick up something interesting to do. Take up initiatives. When you start getting bored, you should try working on that project instead.

2. Take Small Breaks
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If you’ve been feeling tired/bored after working for a long time, may be you should try taking a small break. Suppose you’ve been working for last 2 hours, try taking a 10-20 minutes break. Do whatever you like during the break – talk to a friend/colleague, listen to some music, take a nap or do anything that interests you (You could try writing).
3. Stroll A Bit
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Sitting in a chair for long hours can be hard on your back. Get up and take a stroll. A walk can make the difference between being stuck and being productive – even if it is inside a cabin. And as a positive side effect the stress on your backbone will reduce.
4. Try Different Location
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Sometimes changing the place where you’ve been working can also make your day go faster. If you don’t have a desk assigned and your workplace has some flexibility, there’s a good chance that you can find different place to work from. You could try a conference room, cafeteria, shared co-working space etc,. Take advantage of your liberty to power your productivity and step away from boredom.

These small differences in your way of work, can help a lot when you feel that the workday is taking longer than usual. Give them a try and do let us know what you think in the comments.

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It can be harmful to the server to run all checks on each HTTP endpoint call, so the application is running them periodically every X seconds specified by –refresh-time switch or REFRESH_TIME environment variable (in docker)

Refresh time

If you use an official docker image, then you can set an environment variable.

Example: check once a day (good for domains whois check).

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Some checks could call external APIs, those can have limits. A good example is a domain-expiration check which is using whois. Set –wait=60 to for example wait 60 seconds before each check - where check is a single entry on the list of checks.

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Randy Holden

Population II

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Rock and roll always aimed for loud, but it wasn’t until 1969 that any band REALLY cranked the volume. Blue Cheer became the most famous band you never heard of. They boasted over three kilowatts of audio authority, and guitarist Randy Holden may have created the “Doom Rock” movement with its plodding bass, soaring and scattered lead guitar, and he aimed to make your ears bleed. This particular album sold poorly and went out of print for decades. It became so obscure I never found a copy in a used record shop, and I looked hard. But through the magic of the internet, Population II returns in all its full-throated, bleeding eardrum glory.

Holden gives us just six tracks here, but they take us along for over a half hour of material. You got a few ten minutes workouts here, and a few shorter two minute pieces. The track lengths were a precursor of concept rock where an album was an entire opus unto itself, and no one aimed at the 3:05 hit track. Lyrics lie scattered about, Holden dismisses love poetry for downer tortured guitar chords. “Guitar Song” opens with a solid doom and gloom track and spares no quarter. “Fruity Iceberg” feels like the center piece of the project, here Holden is singing something but it’s not registering with me, nor do I want it to. It’s anger, writ in chords.

Track by track I’m impressed with the guitar work and the arrangements. While lyrics die under the wall of sound, and Holden even revert to the old trick of bouncing a guitar line between left and right. We exit on the ten minute workout “Keeper of My Flame.” Here Holden’s voice rings clear but the music overwhelms it, making the lyrics no more important than a comment from a guy in the third row. These songs originated in an ancient world but sound as fresh today as a metalized daisy. You’re not here to read press releases, but this one offers the best lines I’ve ever read in the paperwork: “Leaden sludge, Lumbering doom.” Damn square.

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Photo of the Golden Gate bridge at night, as seen from above. California decor.

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While I was editing this photograph of the Golden Gate bridge at night I thought it looked a harp with dancing fireflies.

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Nothing For Money

My productivity is about to drop off quite a bit for the next month, but for a good reason: the Connecticut Renaissance Faire opens this weekend, and I’ll be with my wife at the Storied Threads tent…when I’m not wandering around playing paparazzo.

This year’s faire is going with an unscripted, interaction-heavy approach this year, so my usual writing duties are very light; all I’ve had to do is work up is Mandrake’s Mystery, an interactive game patrons can play throughout the faire day. The concept is simple: patrons seek out performers and merchants sporting a numbered ribbon and hit them up for a clue (they often have to earn it by doing something for the clue-holder…this is often simultaneously a fun and sadistic exercise).

The game is very like “Clue” in that the players eliminate possible suspects, victims, items, and locations until they figure out who stole what from whom where. They get to go up on the stage during final revels and get knighted by the king for solving the mystery, which is totally new each weekend.

Writing this up took up my Friday afternoon, and as much as I wanted to go back to my YA novel (which is coming along splendidly, FYI), I first have to get some stuff done on the murder mystery project I’ve been hired to do for Stephen of Autumn Tree Productions (who, by the way, will be at the German encampment at CTRF).

Both of these are enjoyable projects in their way, but perhaps more importantly, they pay cash money. It’s nice to know that I’m at a point in my career where people are not just asking me to write stuff for them, they are offering to pay me for it.

When I started out on my writing career path, I did a lot more work for free. Yes, I was spending my valuable time for someone else’s benefit, but I was at a point where I needed experience and exposure as much as I needed money — if not more so. It was mostly small stuff like audition pieces for actor friends, content for faire newsletters, text for friends’ websites — the sort of work that usually took me an hour or so to crank out and was probably not worth that much even if I had been in a position to ask for payment.

I don’t know when I made the transition to writing mercenary, but I know that it was a significant decision to decide that my time was no longer free; that was me sloughing off that last of my amateur/aspiring writer status and moving into the professional category.

I think this is one of those career transition points that does not have a formula attached to it; there’s nothing out there (that I know of) that tells you exactly how many articles or scripts or copy you can write for free before you have to start asking for payment.

But that’s not a concern for me any longer. No, my big unanswerable question is how much can I rightfully charge for my efforts? I’ve read several articles with suggested rates and formulas for determining your own rates, but there does not seem to be any hard-and-fast industry standard for freelancer pay, so I’m left to field offers from potential employers and decide, based on nothing but my own gut, if it’s a good paycheck.

I don’t much care for this system, but the alternative is throwing out requested/suggested pay rates based on nothing that could wind up pricing me out of work. If anyone knows of a really good, solid, tested, reasonable method for determining freelance rates, feel free to pass it along.

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Action Figures – Issue Six: Power Play Sneak Preview!

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, my editor Julie finished her work on Action Figures – Issue Six: Power Play, and I spent Saturday implementing her corrections and suggestions. I have yet to do a final read-through and polish, but it’s ready enough to give you all a taste of what’s coming in a couple of months!

SPOILER ALERT! Don’t read this if you haven’t read Action Figures – Issue Five: Team-Ups!

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One of our super-heroes is missing.

It took a devastating attack on Kingsport to reunite the Hero Squad, but their reunion proves short-lived after Lightstorm vanishes following the battle, leaving the team without its most powerful member at the worst possible time.

Damage Inc. is back and more dangerous than ever, thanks to the mysterious mastermind known only as the Foreman arming them with enough firepower to take on the Hero Squad — but for what sinister purpose? The Squad is determined to find out, but the answers could cost them dearly.

Psyche takes center stage for this game-changing chapter in the Action Figures saga, which includes the bonus short story, Action Figures – Live Free or Die.

This is when everything changes!

I tap my headset. “Lightstorm? You there?” I say. “Lightstorm, respond. Lightstorm? Carrie?”

“Hm? Sara?” Meg mumbles, my rising panic rousing her from her nap. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know. Carrie went off with one of the aliens. I had her on the comm but she dropped off all of a sudden.”

“I’m sure she’s okay, hon. Carrie can take care of herself.”

“No. Something’s wrong.” I stumble to my feet as a painful burning sensation fills my chest. For some reason I look up into the sky, as if I expect to see Carrie hovering above me. I cycle through every channel on my comm system, listening for her voice. There’s nothing on the secure Protectorate channel, nothing on the military or police bands…oh God. Oh God

“Meg, something’s wrong!” I squeal, even as some distant corner of my brain argues that everything’s fine, I’m overreacting, there’s some rational explanation for this.

There isn’t.

Carrie’s gone.

“Sara!” Meg shouts. “Wait!”

Kingsport Heights Beach is still total chaos. The military works to clear the battlefield of debris and bodies both human and alien. Police officers try to clear space for ambulances to get in and pick up those lucky enough to have survived the fight but not so lucky they can reach the edge of the hot zone on their own power. Meg and I dash past Concorde as he confers with a group of men and women, all of them in some kind of uniform. He calls out to me. I don’t stop.

We weave through the maze of wrecked cars and demolished military vehicles, skirt past a cluster of black sedans bearing government plates, past a dump truck transporting alien battlesuits and weaponry to the beach to be secured inside the dreadnought, and jump down onto the beach itself, where the Vanguard stands watch over its prisoners. They’re all aliens — for-real aliens from outer space. They brought this war to Kingsport, and one of them must know where Carrie is.

“Where is she?” I charge at one of the Vanguard aliens, a thing built like a gorilla with leathery skin and a second set of T-Rex arms set into his chest. He’s big and intimidating, but he retreats as I run up to him. “Where’s Carrie? What did you do with her?!”

“Honey, easy,” Meg says, pulling me back.

“They took Carrie!”

Meg spins me around. “Sara, you’re not going to do Carrie any good if you’re freaking out. You need to cool down and think.”

Meg squeezes my arms, and I feel her strength flow into me, quite literally. It’s a smart move; she knows my empathic abilities pick up, sometimes involuntarily, on other people’s emotions, and she uses that to inject some much-needed calm into me. The adrenaline flushes out so fast my head spins. Meg’s grip tightens to keep me from falling over.

“Psyche, what’s wrong?” I look past Meg to see Concorde approaching. He’s hurrying as best as he can, but he took as much of a beating as anyone. He needs to rest but he’s not going to let a little thing like possible internal bleeding slow him down, not when there’s work to be done.

“Carrie’s gone. She went off with one of them,” I say, gesturing toward the Vanguard. “She hasn’t come back.”

“I’m sure she’s —”

“Don’t tell me she’s okay, Concorde, and don’t tell me I’m overreacting,” I snap. “Something’s wrong. Carrie’s gone. I know.” I turn back toward the gorilla alien. “Where’s my friend?”

Gorilla grunts at me. A squishy-looking alien, who reminds me vaguely of Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants, says something incomprehensible to Gorilla, who responds with more grunts.

“This is a problem,” Concorde says.

“No it’s not. They can understand us. Do you have any more of those translator things?” I say to Gorilla.

He furrows his sloping brow at me. He’s considering it — I think. Whatever wavelength these beings’ brains operate on, it’s not compatible with my powers; I can’t read their emotions, much less their thoughts.

With a snort, Gorilla reaches into a belt pouch and hands me a pair of small, pale yellow blobs. I press them into my ears and — “Ohh, gross,” I moan. It feels like I’m shoving wads of cold snot into my ears.

“Not a pleasant sensation, is it?” Patrick says.

“No, it isn’t.” Oh, hey.

“Astounding. Why the matrices don’t fry their primitive little brains,” Gorilla says, his voice not quite matching the movements of his mouth. That’s distracting.

“I can understand you, you know, so start talking. Where’s Carrie?”

“Commander Do has escorted your friend to Kyros Alliance Central, on Kyros Prime.”

“Escorted? Or taken?”

“Your friend went of her own accord.”

“Yeah? Then when is she coming back?”

Gorilla hesitates. “I cannot say,” he says, and oh, I do not like his apologetic tone. “The Alliance is in the midst of a significant crisis, the likes of which we’ve not seen in generations. The Council of Generals has called in Vanguardians from every allied world —”

“Carrie isn’t part of the Vanguard,” I say, but Gorilla shoots that argument down.

“She possesses the astrarma,” he says, referring to the alien tech that gives Carrie her powers. “She is Vanguard.”

“But she is coming back.” I mean it as a question. It comes out as a demand.

“Maybe. If the council decides she’s —” Patrick begins. Gorilla makes a jabbing gesture. Patrick shuts right up. “Sorry,” he mumbles.

“The matter is out of our hands,” Gorilla says.

Gorilla abruptly dismisses us so his people can focus on securing their prisoners and all that tempting alien tech in the dreadnought — the Nightwind. The Kyros Alliance is supposed to dispatch another ship to remove the Nightwind, but Gorilla — Lieutenant Bote Maasuur — has no sense of exactly when that might happen. Optimistically, it could arrive within a few hours, he says, but Kingsport could wind up playing host to a crippled alien warship for a day or two.

“That’s one problem on a very long list of problems,” Concorde says, calling to order an impromptu meeting of the Protectorate, the Hero Squad, and the Quantum Quintet. “Entity. So glad you could finally make it.”

I jump when I realize the big leather-covered weirdo is looming right behind me. He wasn’t there a second ago, and I never felt his presence. How does he do that? Is he an alien too? That would explain a lot.

“I’ve been here the whole time,” the Entity says in his creepy monotone.

“We never saw you,” says Kilowatt Quantum, who may be the unsung hero of the battle. He can generate focused electromagnetic pulses, which generally aren’t very useful, but when your opponents are all wearing fancy powered battlesuits? Extremely useful.

“Exactly,” the Entity says.

“He was here,” Missy says, and that’s good enough for Concorde.

“All right. We have two big issues to address,” he says, “and the first is Lightstorm. She’s apparently gone off with the Vanguard’s commanding officer to Kyros Prime, wherever that is. It seems she went of her own free will but we have no idea if or when she’ll return.”

I expect an outburst, for someone to say, “There has to be a way to get her back!” or for Matt to throw out one of his so-insane-it’s-brilliant ideas, but all I hear is a heavy, resigned silence.

“That means we’re that much more short-handed, and that brings me to problem number two,” Concorde continues. “The Kingsport PD has been decimated. I spoke to the chief and his rough estimate is that two-thirds of the force is dead or injured. The governor plans to declare martial law in Kingsport in the short term, at least until the dreadnought’s been removed. Distasteful, I know, but it’s necessary.”

“And in the long term?” Mindforce says.

“That’s where we come in. The chief plans to call in some favors and see if he can borrow some officers from surrounding communities, but it won’t be enough. Until the department can rebuild, we’re going to be pulling extra duty.”

That’s a noble thought, but we’re in no condition to sub in for a school crossing guard much less the police. Most of us are so exhausted we can’t see straight, and a few of us took some nasty hits from the aliens’ hypervelocity weapons. Nina Nitro is toughing out a gunshot to the abdomen until all the injured civilians have been cared for; Rockjaw Quantum literally had chunks of his rocklike skin shot out; and Stuart is covered in bruises.

I tell myself it could have been worse. I glance over at the olive drab pavilion tent the military set up at the edge of what used to be a public baseball field. That’s where they’re storing all the bodies until they can be removed. It’s a harsh reminder that any one of us could have wound up in there.

“I have too much free time on my hands anyway,” Nina says, trying and failing to hide how much pain she’s in.

“You are going to heal first,” Concorde says. “We all are. As soon as we clear out, anyone with an injury is going to the hospital. Everyone else, go home and get some sleep. The National Guard will keep watch on the dreadnought until the Vanguard sends the recovery ship.”

“Which will be when?” Matt asks.

“Unknown, but from what I gather, the Vanguard isn’t thrilled about leaving advanced tech accessible to what it considers a primitive culture, so I suspect they’ll do their best to clear it out ASAP. I informed Lieutenant — Maasuur, was it?” Concorde says, looking to me for confirmation. “I informed Lieutenant Maasuur we’d guard the ship in the meantime, but he plans to leave a couple of his men — er, people — um…”

“Let’s go with people,” Doc Quantum suggests.

“He plans to leave two of his people behind to keep an eye on the prisoners and, I suspect, to keep us honest until they get back.”

“You mean they’re leaving?” Matt says.

“The Kyros Alliance has its own version of the Prime Directive,” I say. “They’ve already violated it, like, a thousand times over, but Lieutenant Maasuur doesn’t want to stick around and make it any worse.”

“Will he be returning to Alliance Central or whatever they called it?”

“I see where you’re going. Good thinking,” Concorde says. “Anyone want to sacrifice their phone?”

When Matt told me what he had in mind, I offer up my phone without a second thought.

I find a relatively quiet corner of the battlefield to record my message then give the phone to Lt. Maasuur. He promises he’ll deliver it to Carrie, but that’s all he can promise. It’s good enough. It has to be.

Lt. Maasuur orders First Rank At Mo Ke — a particularly bizarre alien with a cylindrical body, three stumpy legs, and a matching set of arms — and Lt. Commander Fast, who looks like a giant snake, to stay behind and keep an eye on things Earth-side. They decide to station themselves inside the Nightwind so they won’t distract the humans. Or maybe so we won’t distract them? I imagine we look as weird to them as they do to us.

I stand there on the beach and watch Lt. Maasuur and his people take off, rising into the sky until they’re tiny pinpoints of light, until those pinpoints wink out of sight. Meg tries to pull me away, but I don’t want to leave. I want to be here when Lt. Maasuur comes back. He could come back at any minute.

I feel so helpless and useless.

“Hey.” Meg wraps her arms around my waist and holds me close. “You’ve done all you can. Nothing left to do now but wait.”

“No. There’s one more thing I have to do,” I say. I’d give anything I had to avoid it, but there’s no way out of this. “I have to tell Christina her daughter’s been abducted by aliens.”

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The Walt Disney Company commits more than $100 Million to children’s hospitals

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The Walt Disney Company announced today a plan to dedicate more than $100 million to reinvent the patient and family experience in children’s hospitals across the globe.

This initiative, which is part of the Company’s “Team of Heroes” community outreach and philanthropy efforts will roll out over a period of five years.

“Disney’s timeless stories have touched hearts and lifted spirits for generations, and we believe they can bring comfort to children and families going through a very difficult time,” said Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. “Using the powerful combination of our beloved characters and legendary creativity, we’re planning to transform the patient experience in children’s hospitals around the world—creating a personalized and engaging atmosphere that will inspire young patients and ease the stress of a hospital stay.”

Imagineers will work with patient care experts and use some of the world’s most iconic characters and stories to create many different experiences that will provide a supportive atmosphere that is personal, warm and entertaining for patients and families during their time at the hospital.

Concepts for these experiences include:

  • A new RFID-based system allowing patients to customize their hospital visit by choosing their favorite Disney stories and characters, which will surround them during their stay. The system will also unlock special elements to further personalize and enhance the experience, such as “enchanted” artwork that comes alive.
  • Themed treatment and patient rooms featuring interactive murals of Disney stories, bed linens and gowns featuring each child’s favorite characters, and personalized in-room entertainment. Additionally, well stocked mobile “play carts” will include Disney-themed games and activities to give families something to do together to help alleviate stress and boredom.
  • Disney first-run movies and television shows, available both in-room and in themed pop up movie theaters in the hospital, along with other Disney entertainment options.
  • Disney customer-experience training for doctors, nurses and staff. The renowned Disney Institute, a part of The Walt Disney Company that provides professional development training focused on leadership, employee engagement and high quality service, will create a customized program for healthcare professionals designed to foster a less stressful, patient and family-centric hospital experience.

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston will be the first hospital to work with Disney in this new initiative. Disney will gain valuable insight in collaborating with Texas Children’s Hospital which is the largest children’s hospital in the United States and is recognized as a national leader in pediatric health.

“We are honored to be the inaugural hospital to collaborate with Disney on this exciting patient-focused initiative,” said Mark A. Wallace, President and CEO of Texas Children’s Hospital. “Patient care is at the center of our mission, and in addition to providing the highest-quality medical care to children, we strive to make the hospital experience as enjoyable and stress-free as possible for every patient and their family. We are looking forward to working with Disney to enhance our efforts in this area.”

The Walt Disney Company is also expanding its work with children’s wish-granting organizations. In 2017, they granted more than 10,000 wishes for children facing critical illnesses around the world. Since Disney granted its first wish request in the early 1980s, it has fulfilled more than 120,000 wishes.

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In today's guest post we're going on a mystical journey to a fascinating Israeli city...Safed, the "City of Kabbalah."

Thirty years ago, when I first came to live in Safed, the mountaintop city was a small backwater town with a tiny tourist infrastructure and even fewer amenities for visitors. All of that changed in the '90s when Madonna "discovered" Jewish mysticism and began to travel to Safed to explore the "City of Kabbalah." Kabbalah developed in Safed in the 1500s when Jewish mystics immigrated to the town after being driven from their homes in Spain by the Spanish Expulsion of 1492. These great Kabbalistic rabbis studied and taught the secrets of the Torah -- some say, through divine inspiration -- and ever since the town has been known as a special place of special spirituality and creativity.

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Most tourists spend a few hours wandering Safed's windy alleys and hidden lanes where the art galleries and the ancient synagogues are located but if you're looking for an opportunity to experience some spirituality, check out five inspiring things to do in Safed.

Take a plunge.

According to Jewish tradition, immersing in a mikve -- a ritual bath -- cleanses you spiritually. Mikves are built to exact specifications including the requirement that some of the water originate from a fresh water source, the size of the mikve and requirements relating to the materials that can be used in the mikve's construction. The Ari Mikve is open for men 24/7. It's a natural spring mikve where, according to legend, Rabbi Yitzhak Luria -- the Ari, the great 16th century kabbalist -- immersed. Hassidic Jews believe that when a man immerses in the Ari mikve, he is automatically cleansed of all of his sins.

The Ari mikve is directly below the Old City of Safed along the southern side of the cemetery. A large archway leads into the mikve area. The Ari mikve is not open to women but nearby, next to the Breslev synagogue, women can enter the Breslev mikve where they'll receive a full explanation of a Jewish woman's obligation to immerse and the spiritual benefits that she brings to her entire family when she follows this important tradition.

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Explore Kabbalah.

There are numerous venues in Safed where you can learn more about Jewish mysticism but for a visual experience, you can spend time in some of the art galleries which are maintained by Safed residents who combine Kabbalah study with their art. Avraham Lowenthal and Dovid Friedman create paintings and mandelas that express their understanding of various Kabbalistic concepts. Sheva Chaya Servetter paints Hassidic-inspired watercolors and offers workshops about the "Kabbalah of Glassblowing." Daniel Flatauer brings the kabbalistic themes of molding and clay into his ceramics work.

Get your name read.

According to Kabbalah every Torah verse, every word and every Hebrew letter has a meaning within Jewish mysticism. A person's name has a great influence in establishing their personality and forming their strengths and weaknesses. Head on over to the Ascent Institute where you can ask the rabbi who sits in the library downstairs to tell you what your name means according to the study of kabbalah. You can also sit in on one of Ascent's classes at your leisure -- the classes are free and cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from Judaism to Hassidic philosophy to Kabbalah.

Participate in an archaeological excavation.

The Livnot U'Lehibanot (To Build and Be Built) Israel Experience Program conducts archaeological excavations that allow participants to dig out some of the ruins of 16th century Safed. Safed was destroyed by two earthquakes, one in 1759 and one in 1837. The original structures, however, were not demolished, though they were buried under landslides. Livnot, together with the Israel Lands Authority and the Israeli government, has been excavating in the Old Jewish Quarter since 1980. Portions of these excavations are now a National Heritage Site. If you don't have time to do the digging, stop in and view the excavations with a walk through the Time Tunnel that takes you into structures that are over 500 years old.

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Talk to people.

As you're walking through the Old City you'll come across many people with fascinating stories. You'll meet shopkeepers, artists and residents who have immigrated from many different countries including Russia, Romania, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, India, Greece, the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, France and other areas. There are also people whose families can be traced back to the original families to Safed from Spain and Portugal in the late 1400s and throughout the 1500s. You'll meet religious Jews who follow Hassidic traditions, non-religious Jews who don't follow any of the traditions and people who observe many different levels of Judaism in-between these two extremes. The one thing that everyone has in common is that they're all happy to talk and share their stories and the stories of their families. Take some time and listen.

Bio: Laurie Rappeport has been living in Safed for 30 years. She worked in the local Tourist Information Center for 13 years and continues to be active in promoting tourism to Safed.

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6 years ago

Interesting place to visit with lots of historical stories,
Thank you for sharing guys!

Sri & Kian

Daniel Moscovitch
7 years ago

This hits the target spot on. Tzfat (Safed) is one of the most special places ever. The only other thing to add is taste the cheese!

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Wow. It’s like I have fallen in love with a city I have set foot in. I also have a natural thirst for history, especially in the Mediterranean. The food and the history is the one that pulls me to travel. I hope I can visit Israel soon.

7 years ago

One of the original holy cities of ancient Israel – this place must feel like stepping back in time..I´d definitely be most interested in artisans´ shops and art galleries — from what I´ve heard it´s a gold mine of arts in so many different media!

7 years ago

Sounds really interesting. I have never been to the Middle East before or Israel for that matter, but it is definitely an area I’d love to explore one day.

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I'm a 22 year old male who had quite a rough past, however I will stick to what I think is important for the question. Currently I'm still a student.

When I was 16 I stopped going to my dad and seeing him altogether (still the case now). This was a huge event, I was mentally abused there. To be more specific: my brothers were physically abused from time to time by my stepmother. She has issues with anger management. While this is very bad, my father never acknowledged it and even denied that it was the case. The anger problems were never physical towards me, however the pressure was always present because of this.

My mother helped me get out of this situation and provided help when necessary. However she now tends to worry a lot for me, which makes sense considering what happened in the past. While she is not opposed to me going to a psychiatrist and my father, it will probably worry her very much.

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A few months ago my sister got engaged. While this is a happy event and I'm very glad that it is going to happen (she found a great man), this also correlates to something else. Going to see my father again after not speaking to him for 6 years. Because of this I think it is smart for me to go to an expert so I'm able to handle it well.

My sister currently has had contact with my father for ~1 year. I think it is safe to assume that my sister wants to get my father involved in the wedding. I did not discuss this with my sister.

It is not possible to not discuss this, because it will get out eventually.

I do not know specifically what would worry my mother (however that is a good point to address while discussing it with her). I do know she tends to get worried quite fast. She will probably worry the most about the impact the events will have on me.

Note that I think it is the best course of action because it will be mentally heavy to see my father again. Not going to see my father is not an option, because I want him to be able to walk my sister to the altar.

I plan to visit the therapist and my father alone, because I think that is important.

  • How to discuss going seeing my father without worrying her?
  • How to discuss going to a therapist with my mom without worrying her?
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    Can you explain about why you think your mother will be worried to hear this? You mention "my mom played a supporting role" - do you mean that she knows what happened and helped you, or that she made your mental state worse? (I hope this isn't intrusive! I'm just a bit confused about her role in the situation.)
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    She helped me overcome the situation and got me out of it. I'll edit it in the question.
    – Peter
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    Can you add some information? Where are you in the world? There may be cultural concerns when it comes to mental health. Also, are you specifically looking at visiting a psychiatrist or possibly a therapist? They're different. Usually if you want to talk through things with someone, you're looking at a psychologist/therapist rather than a psychiatrist (or both in conjunction).
    – Catija
    Jan 31 '18 at 20:29
  • What about you seeing a psychiatrist might worry your mother? For example, when I first saw one, my mother was worried that they would try a bunch of different medications and I would have negative side effects.
    – Rainbacon
    Jan 31 '18 at 20:31
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    Have you talked with your sister about getting your dad involved with her wedding? If her relationship with him is anything like yours it would be a good idea to get her OK before talking to your dad.
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    Jan 31 '18 at 20:52

How to discuss going seeing my father withouth worrying her? How to discuss going to a therapist with my mom without worrying her?

Just don‘t ... (yet?).

I assume from your thoughtfully worded question that you are a loyal person. I also assume that you are overthinking this, well-intentioned, but with the unwanted effect of you feeling stuck.

Seeing a psychotherapist is IMO a great idea, because it is somebody who is not involved in your family.

This will offer you the opportunity to reflect your options without having to worry about (presumably) corrupting your loyalty towards any of the family members involved.

I advise you do this for yourself and postpone all other decisions, like how, if and when to tell your Mum, how, if and when to see your father, etc. These options can be perfectly reflected with the therapist.

Don‘t do the reflecting with a therapist without the therapist in advance ;-)

Technically, chances are that you don‘t need to tell anyone about consulting a psychotherapist, because your health-insurance institution will a) cover all costs for psychotherapy and b) not require anyone knowing about it, even if you are still insured on your mother‘s ticket (you should have your own health card).

Lastly, please be aware of the difference: a psychiatrist is a medical professional and most probably will tend to advise to treat problems presented to him/her with medication. A psychotherapist instead is a psychologist or a specially trained physician and will offer talking and maybe exercises. Seek one that is acknowledged by health-insurance („Kassenzulassung“) to have costs covered by your state-governed insurance plan (gesetzliche Krankenversicherung).

Get in contact sooner rather than later, as often there is a considerable time gap before treatment due to demand surpassing supply.

  • Great answer :) Side note: Do you have an idea what the OP could do in case he is covered by his mother's private health insurance? I found this but don't quite know what to make of it. Feb 1 '18 at 8:52
  • Hmm, yea I think I could be overthinking (This time I actually didn't realize). I'm however not really good at keeping secrets (especially when people are involved that are important to me). Is this something I should reflect with the therapist?
    – Peter
    Feb 1 '18 at 9:03
  • I'm searching for a psychotherapist, thank you for setting the difference more clear. Medication is not a solution that is wanted in this situation.
    – Peter
    Feb 1 '18 at 9:07
  • @Peter yes, you can.
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    Feb 1 '18 at 11:46
  • @AllTheKingsHorses very rare, about less than 3% of population in Germany, applies only to children of parents with a private insurance plan on the same ticket as their parents (who would see their child consulted a health pro when receiving the invoice). OP didn't specify, so I sticked with the 97%
    – michi
    Feb 1 '18 at 11:50

You cannot control how your mom is going to respond. All you can do is frame the conversation.

It seems like the purpose of you wanting to tell your mom is informational, you want to let your mom that this is happening so that she doesn't find out through some other channel. Keep this purpose in mind while having the conversation so you don't find yourself getting sidetracked.

State what you are planning to do in a simple matter-of-fact fashion. If you already have a plan. Tell your mom that you're planning to do a thing. and then explain that plan to her. If you don't have a plan yet tell her that you are thinking about doing the thing.

You could also frame it as you asking for her advice, not about whether to do it but about how to go about it. If you can get her to feel involved in the process she'll be less likely to worry about it.

She'll probably have questions, answer them. Think about what questions she'll probably ask in advance and have answers planned for them. If she starts trying to change your mind, listen to her concerns, thank her for voicing them, and then make it clear that you have made up your mind and aren't looking to discuss the issue further. If she presses the issue, end the conversation.

  • Making a list of possible questions is a good idea, didn't thought about that. Are there some things I need to keep in mind when starting the conversation? Or should I just start with 'I want to discuss something, lets sit down'. I probably want to keep it informational, however asking for advice to making her less worry could work.
    – Peter
    Jan 31 '18 at 21:21
  • By saying "I want to discuss something, let's sit down" you are signaling that this conversation is important enough for you to go out of your way to start a conversation over. You want to frame it in an unremarkable light.
    – sphennings
    Jan 31 '18 at 21:32

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Currently based in Berlin, Kevin Mason made a name for himself running commercial studios, before breaking off to work predominantly on his own ideas. His personal work shows a fascination with both realness and experimental styles, and through rejecting the norms of fashion photography he inadvertently challenges them. His latest work is all shot on instant film, while there’s a physicality to the format, “a dud polaroid isn’t crushing, its so temporary, you just take another one, but unlike digital there is no expectation to take another.”

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Skip a bunch of wasted years and I opened a photo studio in Brighton, UK, with a friend using money I’d saved teaching basic studio lighting at weekends. The studio was a real success creatively, it became a bit of a hub for people to hang out, make work, put on DIY expos and become interns. The studio side of things kept growing until after a few years, and an expansion into a 4 studio complex and gallery, I then found myself moving from a studio owner to taking the role as photography manager of Amazon Fashion EU, overseeing the model photography of one of Europe’s biggest studios. I jumped ship after 2 years, moved to Lisbon, and then Berlin, and started to make personal work again, until after 6 months Topshop asked me to come and manage their studio in North London. It was pretty much my dream job, so I went back to London, trying to apply the values I hold to a commercial fashion retail business, things such as authentic imagery, minimal retouch, minimal make-up, and creating a studio that was a fun, inclusive, and welcoming space and didn’t feel corporate.

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In mid June of 2018 I moved back to Berlin to concentrate on my own work, get back scanning my archive and to provide studio consultancy to brands working in fashion e-commerce. I also provide lighting direction to photographers on editorial and commercial shoots. Berlin so far has been good to me, I have a shared studio space that costs per month what a half day hire in a small London studio would cost. I have two main projects on the go, one around make up masks, inspired by latex/fetish, Leigh Bowery and painting, and the second is focused on millennials, anxiety and the stories we tell ourselves. Over the years my photography has moved from big set builds, and large teams creating covers for magazines to a much more simplified and direct approach, I’ve deliberately tried to strip everything back, so I am really only left with a face and a background.

What draws you to analog photography, and in particular large format?

Right now my work is really focused on Polaroid (which has been a 10-12 year love affair), and other instant film formats, a year ago I was really into albumen prints, a process using paper soaked in albumen (egg white), and silver nitrate which is placed in a glass negative. I think the key element always is that I like to make a real tangible thing, something that can be held, or if you are looking online, something that you know also exists as an object in the present. Through an inability to fund a legal battle I lost the rights to about 6 years of work some time back and although I always loved Polaroid I think it was the added push to make something that wasn’t just a digital asset. Analog for me, and I know its very much back on trend (which is only a good thing), is about real joy, it sounds so cliched but I don’t get the same feeling after a digital shoot. I can’t gaze longingly at an orange LaCie drive on a desk, but a stack of polaroids gives me a real kick. The biggest incentive for Polaroid comes down to two key elements for me, 1- the actual final object was in the room with the person, and 2- Polaroid (and for this I mean all instant film) is a great leveller of people. No one gets worried in front of a polaroid camera, its throwaway, its forgivable for its flaws, people forget to pose, they don’t consciously try and push their best side to the camera. A dud polaroid isn’t crushing, its so temporary, you just take another one, but unlike digital there is no expectation to take another.

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Digital images are likes viruses, they just spawn more and more versions of themselves, tiffs/raws/jpegs/psds, variants in Capture1, versions in PS, its endless, each file getting further away from the original. With instant film, no matter what you do with it, somehow it always references this original object, this item that was with you, it has a reason for being, something that I just don’t see in a digital file. I got into Large format because I was looking for a way to get closer, get more detail, take less pictures and slow down. My first full project on large format was the Raw Faces on 10x8 which I shot at the Polaroid studio in Berlin when they were still Impossible Project, and huge thanks to that team for being so supportive! They loaned me their camera, their studio and expertise, it was a great experience.

What I like about large format now, is its very deliberate, its a lot of staring, and not pushing models to ‘pose’ but creating a small framed space in which a tiny event occurs. Then there of course is the waiting around whilst the picture develops, it teaches the act of being present, which is mostly absent in digital workflows as the file passes from the camera to a cable, to a Mac, to a digitech, gets converted, and interpolated by an algorithm etc etc. How I work now, you shoot one picture, then you all wait, either relaxed or nervously, until you get to peel it apart or it develops. In that time I could have shot 200 digital frames, its about minimalism I guess, paring something down to whatever is absolutely vital. I ended up buying an Intrepid because I didn’t think I had the rail racking on my Speed Graphic that I need for my headshots, if Im honest I just thought it was cheap enough that if it didn’t work then I hadn’t really lost anything. It turned out to be an awesome camera, I like how DIY it looks, how basic. It kinda looks like the pictures would be basic too. Im drawn to that.

Pola 600

It could be said much of your work challenges conventional approaches to fashion photography, is this something you actively try and do and if so how?

Right now I’m concentrating on shooting faces and leaning towards beauty but my work is a rejection of established conventions of artifice and retouching. Its not to say its free from staged elements, but hopefully its apparent in the picture what’s real and what is added. Conventional beauty, or at least on platforms such as Instagram is quite niche now and there is an expectation that all these specific steps will be taken and I don’t want to work like that. All those faces that look the same, flawless, perfect, and I just don’t know what its saying. I like a certain rawness and sincerity. I like Bruce Gilden, I was immediately hooked on Maxine Leonards Beauty Papers, thats the way Beauty is moving to me. Almost everyone I shoot is from an agency, if a model who has been selected, guided, curated and presented to the world is still not flawless enough to be shown as they really are then I don’t know what we are all doing. What makes this difficult is that I am shooting for myself and I think it’s fair to say not many model bookers love my work, or get excited by it, it’s not classic beauty, its sometimes flawed and so it’s hard to find the right girls. My aim also is really to embrace diversity which is easier in London than Berlin at this point. The recent make up series I’ve started with Victoria Reuter is a good example, we both love it and have fun experimenting but convincing agencies to send me girls is tricky.

My frame of reference isn’t changing, about 3 years ago I realised what I wanted to do and I’m not going to suddenly start lighting really sympathetically and handing files out to beauty retouchers, if anything I think I’m just trying to get more honest with my work. I know I do want to work with really confident agency models and I don’t want to waste a models time, because thats their livelihood and I have to be respectful of that too.

Noll, Berlin Millennials Project, FP100C

I think there are really important discussions being had online around what a model really looks like, our perceptions, about what’s being done to our psyche by Instagram and Beauty campaigns created from composite shots, and eyebrows that are entirely reconstructed by a retoucher, where skin is created by adobe textures and nothing is representative of what’s real. Its a mental health issue, its not like mixing an album track, where the listener knows that the process happened, its a human face, and its mostly fake yet presented back to us as honest and its being used to sell us all self doubt and anxiety. Fortunately its changing though and more work is being made all over that plays with these notions. I think that by using Polaroid and prints, its more obvious that this is a representation of an object, of a face, everyone looking at a Polaroid on an iPhone knows they aren’t looking at the real thing itself.

You’ve shot lots of FP100c, are you mourning the loss like many others?

Yes, its a real loss, and I say that not just because its my favourite medium, but because, like others, I have invested time and money into systems that work with it, and now its becoming so scarce and so expensive that its taking the fun and experimentation away from work being made. 60 Euros for a box is ridiculous. I am not sure what to move to next, I will look at 4x5 film, but I am also considering paper negatives and other techniques. A loss of materials can be good, it can force you to adapt and respond I guess. If anything right now Im mourning the fact that I have found a way of working that I love, after years of experimenting and soon its going to end. But ultimately the sad part of the demise of Fp100 is that they had this beautiful ‘thing’, something really crafted and I wonder what will take its place.

FP100C + Pola 600

Much of your work has a sense of experimentation, do you have an idea in your head of the end goal then try and recreate it or is more of a process that develops along the way and ends with something you are happy with?

In the set build days it used to be that I sketched every element of my pictures, nothing was left to chance, I’d spot-sample paint and get it mixed specifically just for a door frame etc. I’d get pretty stressed if a room that six people helped build didn’t look like the sketch. Then I started the Vanity Project with Georgie Hobday and learned to let go and to be led by simplicity. I also did 2 years of therapy to deal with personal issues and during that I began to learn how to apply failure as part of practise. I used to be terrified of looking stupid in front of people and the fear made me seem super arrogant and fear led me to controlling every element. So now when I work I don’t really need to direct, I just keep things slow and point my camera and create a small space for an event and take the picture in front of me. I can still stage something but I don’t want my photo to be a lie. Fundamentally right now I want it to be the same thing you’d see if you stood behind me when I took it. I think I’ve been on this really determined path to simplicity that had lasted about a fair few years until I can strip everything away. I get that to some people it’s boring but personally I find it beautiful. I have a brain that really thrives on routine and repetition. So it makes sense to me that I follow a similar approach to my work, ‘if I could just take a straight headshot’ is what I think when I’m standing opposite a model. It’s closer to just documenting people than making images, but I do get really into a new process, Albumen prints for example. I think if you really focus in on cutting out the extra stuff you don’t need, that you begin to experiment but under narrow parameters and I like that.

A few years back, I had a bit of an internet following, and I started to make work I thought others would want to see, and it was really dangerous for me. I think the concept of the internet can make the mind disassociate fairly easily and having an online brain and a physical brain was pretty impactful for my thought process so I had to learn to make photos that I only I wanted to make and to not consider my audience again. I deleted and destroyed most of the work, and started again. So, yes I have an idea in my head, in as much as I want it to be simple and direct, but the process in which the image comes out does remain fairly open. The two current makeup series included here, are me really ceding control to the MUA and not jumping in with ideas, just giving a little nudge and an open brief and then having fun with it. It’s really loose and freeing, I don’t have this fear of it all falling apart.

RAW FACES, Pola 10x8

How do you edit and scan your photos?

I just use a basic Epson scanner and Vuescan. I made some film holders to avoid Newtonian rings. I do make colour adjustments to the scans and I clean them in terms of dust etc. I don’t hold the view that a Polaroid is untouchable, I’ll tweak it for curves, colour balance etc, and I’ll remove dust spots if they are really distracting but that’s about it. I scan them at a resolution that allows me to make large prints (around 80cm) as I’m slowly aiming towards a Polaroid expo in the future. For Fp100 I just bleach the negatives and scan those, the print is just a reference point. If I am making Albumen prints, then that’s always from a scan originally not from a contact print approach.

What would you say are the biggest challenges to shooting film for this sort of work?

The biggest challenges are the raw material costs - it’s really a huge consideration, but to be honest I’d feel that even if I was a painter, that somehow I’d feel I was using too much paint, or being wasteful. I struggle with the concept of playing with materials, as much as I try and deal with that. The time involved, if I shoot a full beauty story on Polaroid and Fp100c, then the scanning and file prep, bleaching the negs, drying and scanning them, all those things take a real amount of time- longer than shooting digital and doing a full retouch. Also for the HMUA it can be a challenge not being able to see how an eye looks at 100% on a monitor screen on-set, its why I really love working with a small team who know how I shoot. Everyone isn’t crowded around a monitor observing, instead they are all looking at the real live model who is stood on set. Also the whole archiving process, and storage of negs, boxes of fresh film and so on, means you need more space. And as I have mentioned before, with the model agencies, if you’ve only shot say 4-6 pictures and they don’t like them you don’t have a fallback of digital simple shots to send them, all of those things make it harder, but not so much that it turns me away from working like this. The idea that you have actual things, objects, proof that you were there, that is worth more than all the hassle and costs.Pola 600

You can see more of Kevin's work on his website or Instagram

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Cardinal Health Stock Is Ready to Offer Healthy Profits for Investors

CAH stock - Cardinal Health Stock Is Ready to Offer Healthy Profits for Investors

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After a downward trend for the stock price in 2018, investors may consider adding Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) stock to their portfolio for the rest of the year. There are several long strategies in CAH stock that could lead to impressive profits.

The healthcare services and medical supplier Cardinal Health has paid handsome dividends over the past years with a current dividend yield of 3.6%. Stockholders of record on Oct. 1 will be eligible for the dividend to be paid out on Oct. 15, 2018.

The forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, which is typically considered a more powerful tool than a historical P/E ratio for valuation purposes, of Cardinal Health is currently quite low at about 10; in comparison, the S&P 500 currently trades at about 16. To many investors, the stable dividend coupled with this low forward P/E ratio would make CAH stock a value play. CAH has also been increasing its global operations and about 70% of its total sales come from its overseas divisions.

Institutions hold almost 90% of the stock and insider selling has decreased in the last three months.

Some of Cardinal Health’s competitors include AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC), Owens & Minor (NYSE:OMI), McKesson (NYSE:MCK) and Medline, a major privately held company. In the face of increasing competition in different business segments, such as in the exam-gloves unit and generic drugs, CAH finds its margins being squeezed.

Its medical unit, Cordis, which it acquired in 2015 is not yet performing well operationally and prices of generic drugs have fallen more than expected — two major factors behind the decline in the CAH stock price in 2018.

Nonetheless, recent weeks, especially after the quarterly conference call of Aug. 6, have seen a stabilization of the Cardinal Health stock price around the low $50’s level. Those investors who pay attention to moving averages should note that the technical message has improved to a “buy,” while oscillators are giving a wider range of “neutral-to-buy” readings.

Short-term support for CAH is ﬁrst at $50.8 and then at $48.4; meanwhile, short-term resistance in CAH stock is ﬁrst at $54.3 and then at $58.5. CAH’s 52-week price range has been $48.14 (July 7, 2018) — $75.75 (Jan. 8, 2018).

If you are also of the opinion that the executive management is going to further improve its balance sheet and that Cardinal Health stock is ready for a rebound on both technical and fundamental grounds, you may want to add Cardinal Health to your portfolio this September.

Depending on individual portfolio allocations and risk/return profiles, here are the three types of trades set up for CAH Stock (prices are based on CAH stock’s closing price of 52.62 on Sept. 7):

Three Bullish Strategies on CAH Stock

1. Buy 100 shares of Cardinal Health stock at a limit price of $52.62. You should expect to hold this long stock position for up to one to six months for an approximate 8-10% gain. You may consider placing a stop loss at about 3% below your entry point.

2. Use a covered call whereby you would buy 100 shares of Cardinal Health at a limit price of $52.62 and at the same time, sell a CAH Jan 2019 $52.5 call option, which currently trades at $3.10.

This call option would stop trading on Jan. 18, 2019 and expire on Jan. 19.

Assuming you would enter this covered call trade at the closing prices on Friday, Sept. 7, at expiry, this trade would break even at a CAH stock price of $49.53 and the maximum return would be $298 at a price of $52.50 at expiry (excluding trading commissions and costs).

3. Sell a Jan 2019 $52.50 put option with a limit price of $3.35 — its closing price on Sept. 7.

This put option would also stop trading on Jan. 18, 2019 and expire on Jan. 19.

Assuming you would enter this put selling strategy at the closing prices on Friday, the upside is that you keep the premium as long as Cardinal Health stock closes above $52.50 when January options expire (excluding trading commissions and costs).

The downside is that if CAH stock trades below $52.50 ahead of expiration, you could be assigned 100 shares for each sold put at a cost of $52.50-per-share.

At expiry, this trade would breakeven at a CAH stock price of $49.13.

The Bottom Line on Cardinal Health Stock

I believe a rebound in the CAH stock price is coming. However, as prudent investors, it is always crucial to maintain a clear risk/return profile. Thus, if the rebound does not happen, a test of the previous lows and toward the low $40’s level could be the next leg down.

As of this writing, Tezcan Gecgil did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.

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Amla and Haritaki | Prokinetics

Amla and Haritaki are two fruits of the Ayurvedic digestive tonic Triphala.

Amla (Phyllanthus emblica / Emblica officinalis))

Amla (or Indian gooseberry) is a fruit that has traditionally been used in Ayurvedic medicine as a tonic to restore energy and strength.

Amla exhibits a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities through various mode of actions including antioxidant, gastroprotective, anti-diarrhoeal, immunomodulator, anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective (1). The polyphenols found in Emblica officinalis, especially tannins and flavonoids, are the key responsible elements for most of the major bioactivities.

Amla is also used to manage diabetes, dyslipidaemia, obesity, several types of cancer, liver disorders, arthritis, gingivitis, wound healing and digestive disorders (1).

The ethanolic extract of Amla has been shown to have anti-ulcer and pancreatic protective effects in rats (2). Amla is also an anti-diarrhoeal as well as a light laxative and contains relatively high levels of Vitamin C (2).

In rat models of cisplatin-induced delayed gastric emptying, Amla extract was shown to completely reverse delayed gastric emptying, comparable to the ondansetron treatment group (3).

In a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, it was demonstrated that Amla could reduce frequencies and severity of heartburn and regurgitation in patients with non-erosive reflux disorder, at a dose of 500mg given twice a day after meals (4).

Haritaki (Terminalia chebula)

Haritaki is traditionally used as a bowel tonic in Ayurvedic medicine.

Haritaki is used for several conditions, including heart disease, asthma, ulcers and stomach ailments. Haritaki contains phytochemicals such as terpenes, polyphenols, anthocyanins and flavonoids, as well as vitamin C. These compounds have been shown to be anti-inflammatory, suppress oxidative mucosal damage, amplify antioxidant performance, and increase endogenous mucosal defensive agents, among other gastro-protective properties (5).

Haritaki was shown to significantly shorten intestinal transit time in comparison to control (p<0.05) at a dose of 550mg/kg (6). Another study showed significant improvement of gastric emptying (100 mg/kg/day orally for 15 days), compared to control (p<0.01). This result was comparable to the prokinetic drug Metoclopramide (7). The study concluded that Terminalia chebula serves as a useful prokinetic.

  1. Yadav, S., et al. (2017) Traditional knowledge to clinical trials: A review on therapeutic actions of Emblica officinalis, review article. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 93 1292–1302
  2. Mehmood, M., et al. (2011) The antidiarrheal and spasmolytic activities of Phyllanthus emblica are mediated through dual blockade of muscarinic receptors and Ca2+channels. J. Ethnopharmacol. 133(2): 856–865.
  3. Asad, A., (2017). Augmented Reversal of Cisplatin-Induced Delayed Gastric Emptying by Amla (Emblica Officinalis) Fruit Extract in Sprague-Dawley Rats. Journal of Dietary Supplements
  4. Varnosfaderani, S., et al. (2018) Efficacy and safety of Amla (Phyllanthus emblica L.) in non-erosive reflux disease: a double- blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. J Integrative Med. 16 126–131
  5. Farzaei, M., et al. (2015). Role of dietary polyphenols in the management of peptic ulcer. World J Gastroenterol. 21(21): 6499-6517
  6. Jirankalgikar, Y., et al. (2012). A comparative evaluation of intestinal transit time of two dosage forms of Haritaki [Terminalia chebula Retz.] Ayu 33(3):447-449
  7. Tamhane, M., et al. (1997). Effect of oral administration of Terminalia chebula on gastric emptying: an experimental study. J Postgrad Med. 43(1): 12-13

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As jury trials re-start in this District and elsewhere, litigants may wonder whether and how to help the jury understand the impact of the pandemic on the court and, more specifically, the proceedings they are about to witness. In at least one case in this District, competing jury instructions touching on those topics were proposed by the parties just prior to the start of a jury trial last month. In that case—In re Chanbond, LLC Patent Litigation, C.A. 15-842-RGA—the parties took slightly different approaches, although they seemed to agree that the jury should be instructed not to read anything into the precautionary measures taken by the Court and the parties. ...

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Today the Court issued a standing order formally cancelling the remaining jury trials scheduled until April 5, 2021. As we noted in our last update, the District of Delaware had already canceled all jury trials through the end of February.

Today's order leaves open the possibility of a jury trial under some circumstances:

discretion . . . remains with each presiding judge to order a jury trial in the event of an emergency or other truly urgent situation . . . .

It's hard to envision, however, what circumstances might lead to an emergency jury trial.

Of course, as the order notes, all other proceedings, including bench trials, have been proceeding smoothly …

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It has been a while since we posted an update on upcoming jury trials in the District of Delaware.

The most recent news from the Court is that Chief Judge Stark still believes that jury trials are feasible, using the Court's enhanced jury trial procedures, and the Court intends to proceed with trials as they come up.

[UPDATE: If you arrived here via a Google search, make sure to check out our latest posts on this issue here.]

The next jury trial is set for January 25, and then there are multiple trials scheduled for mid- to late-February:

  • January 25, 2021: Judge Noreika has a jury trial scheduled in a breach of contract action, …

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Chief Judge Stark today released his opinion on post-trial motions in Roch Diagnostics Co. v. Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC, C.A. No. 17-189-LPS (D. Del.), following a jury trial last year that resulted in a $137m verdict and a finding of willfulness.

Damages Award on 65% Royalty Theory Confirmed

The Court denied a post-trial motion to undo the jury's damage finding, which equated to an approximately 65% royalty rate (or more, depending on the royalty base).

Interestingly, the jury awarded damages after a one-sided royalty rate presentation by Roche, the accused infringer. The Court had previously excluded the patentee's damages expert's opinion as to the royalty rate, because it used the wrong date …

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On Monday morning, Chief Judge Stark is scheduled to hold the second District of Delaware jury trial since all jury proceedings were put on hold for the pandemic. The case is USA v. Aaron Davis, C.A No. 19-101-LPS, a criminal fraud and money laundering action filed August 2019.

The Court issued an order Friday making clear that the jury trial will go forward as planned:

ORAL ORDER: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties shall be present in Courtroom 6B at 9:00 AM on Monday, November 16, 2020. Ordered by Judge Leonard P. Stark on 11/13/2020. (etg) (Entered: 11/13/2020)

The Court has not yet posted public access information.

UPDATE 11-18-2020: This trial was continued shortly after …

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Here is a list of some of the upcoming jury/bench trials in the District of Delaware.

As you can see, aside from Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years', there is one jury trial per week starting 11/16 and continuing into next year.

  • November 3: Judge Noreika has a remote bench trial scheduled in W. R. Berkley Corporation v. Niemela, C.A. No. 17-32-MN (D. Del.), a non-compete case.
  • November 16: Chief Judge Stark has a criminal jury trial scheduled in U.S. v. Aaron Davis, C.A. No. 19-101-LPS (D. Del.), a fraud case. The Court issued an order last week finding that seven witnesses could testify remotely, and making some statements …

Chief Judge Stark on Friday scheduled the first post-COVID-19 patent jury trial that I've seen, in Guardant Health, Inc. v. Foundation Medicine, Inc., C.A. No. 17-1616-LPS-CJB, D.I. 487 (D. Del. Oct. 16, 2020). (The potential Judge Noreika trial I mentioned recently is not going forward).

The Court had offered the November 30 date late last month. The defendant objected to it due to a conflict. The defendant also argued that the jury pool will not be representative, lacking older jurors, and that holding a trial would go against CDC guidance.

The Court was not persuaded. It did, however, set the following restrictions:

  • No live witnesses: The Court accepted a proposal that since not all witnesses can …

Unsurprisingly, in light of COVID-19, recent signs indicate that the Court is all booked up for this year, and probably for a large part of next year.

Here, for example, is a Judge Stark order from yesterday:

ORAL ORDER: Having discussed with the parties on repeated occasions whether and when to schedule this patent infringement case for a jury trial (see, e.g., D.I. 474, 549, 583, 590, 591, 593, 596, 605, 607, 608, 610-15) and having found (unfortunately) no date that is reasonable and available to all parties and to the Court, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that trial in this matter is CONTINUED to a DATE TO BE DETERMINED, most likely in 2021 (and certainly NOT in 2020). IT …

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Judge Andrews recently postponed another patent jury trial that had been scheduled for September 21, 2020.

The ruling in Baxalta Incorporated v. Bayer Healthcare LLC, C.A. No. 17-1316-RGA, D.I. 529 (D. Del. Aug 12, 2020) followed the submission of a joint status report where the plaintiffs suggested the case should go forward, citing prejudice to them if the case remains unresolved for the foreseeable future.

The defendant responded by pointing to the obvious difficulties of holding a trial when "no witness resides in Delaware" and lead counsel and their "entourages" are from out of state.

Judge Andrews notably stated that he believed it would be possible …

Just before the July 4 holiday, Chief Judge Stark provided some much-anticipated guidance regarding the reinstatement of jury trials in the District of Delaware after the current moratorium expires on July 31, 2020.

In a July 2, 2020 order in Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. v. Powder Springs Logistics, LLC, C.A. No. 17-1390-LPS-CJB, Judge Stark told the parties that he had spent "countless hours" meeting with experts and stakeholders about restarting jury trials in his capacity as Chief Judge, and that the Court was "undertaking extensive efforts to be ready to resume jury trials in August, if it is possible to do so safely." With that background, he outlined the details of how the jury trial in the Sunoco case will proceed on August 3, 2020.