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In PostgreSQL I'm used to compare multiple values applying the so called "row value constructor syntax" in ANSI or "row/tuple comparison". For example:

If I didn't this, I would have to write a long query like this one:

In addition to being less verbose, the first form allows me to use static queries and pass the rows/tuples as parameters. This is really useful.

In JPQL, however, I'm facing serious problems to make it work. Using Hibernate as the JPA provider I've been able to compare one tuple:

But as soon as I use the operator IN, the query fails. Is there any way to achieve this in JPQL? If there isn't, What about Hibernate?

I believe that I tested all this time ago. But if my memory serves me well, the only way to make it work was to group all these fields in an @Embeddable class during the entity design, and use instances of such class as parameters of the query. However this isn't of any help if the fields that are part of the row/tuple to compare come from different entities.

Thank you!

PS: I forgot to mention that the Hibernate documentation explains how to use this comparison when the rows/tuples come from a sub-select: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.2/manual/en-US/html/ch16.html#queryhql-tuple . However it doesn't comment anything about those cases which you write the rows/tuples by hand in.
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Friday, 9 December 2016

Week 28- Anything Goes - All Dressed up - craft colouring with Graph'It Markers

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You can enter ANY kind of make you like, whatever colours you like and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you.

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YvonneToday is my last post as a Guest Design Team member and what a fantastic way to end my time here with All Dressed Up Stamps and this beautiful image called 'Little Angel' which you can find here.  You know when you have a great idea and then on the day of making it everything goes horribly wrong? Yeah well this happened to me today when I was making this,...I've convinced myself that the end result outweighs the errors I made, I hope you agree!
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Helen -  I love All Dressed Up and this Little Bookworm combines some of  my favourite things, Graphit markers, books and All Dressed Up. Just look at the fabby hat to. You can find her here.

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Hair 3130, 2120, 2130
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Dress 7170, 7130, 7125, 7101
Book 5250, 5210

Claire C I've coloured this adorable angel from our lovely sponsor and made a Christmas Card, she's called Little Angel and you can find her here

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Skin: 3105,3230,4150,5115,4105
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Wings: blue greys

Scatty Jan  Loved my image this week Little Bookworm , of course I had to make a book mark -You can find her in the All dressed up store  here.

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hair 4101, 2130, 2105
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Wings: 6110 and the silver glitter shake pen

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Researching, the Future

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Greetings space-labrats,

Let's talk about research!

Older blogs in this series can be found in the archive.

There's two major changes we're making to research: Copying is going to become way shorter, and we're changing how Manufacturing Efficiency (ME) and Production Efficiency (PE) work.

The headline here is that, during EVE’s summer 2014 release, we're going to change base copy-time on all blueprints to be the same as base build-time. With Industry giving a maximum 20% reduction in build times, and Science giving a maximum 25% reduction in copy times, this ends up meaning that (with maxed skills) copying takes 6.25% less time than manufacturing from a given blueprint.

The primary reason for this is to try and unify T1, T2 and T3 manufacturing around being dominated by build-from-copy rather than build-from-original. This gives a more unified experience and allows us to make more liberal assumptions about how much risk people are prepared to make with their build jobs. To give a concrete example, this makes us much more comfortable about removing the ability to build from a starbase using a blueprint in a station - when you're only risking the copy, this is a much smaller concern than when you're risking a BPO.

For comparison, currently the trend is that T1 blueprints take 20x longer to copy than to build, and T2 blueprints (for those lucky few BPO owners) take 100x longer to copy than to build.

Speaking of T2, this change is obviously very relevant to invention. We've had a good look at the numbers here and are currently of the opinion that this ends up being much less significant than it at first looks. The majority of invention work currently seems to be of the invent-to-build variety rather than invent-to-sell-blueprint, and on a character with the same number of possible research and manufacturing jobs, the bottleneck is pretty much always in the build time rather than the copy or invention time -- and frequently there's a further bottleneck in that invention anyway takes longer than copying. Unless this leads to a major expansion of invent-to-sell, the actual throughput of invention should not significantly change as a result of shorter copy times.

ME and PE

First of all, we're changing the name of PE (Production Efficiency) to TE (Time Efficiency), on the grounds that it's then much clearer what it actually does. ME is now called ME (Material Efficiency) everywhere, rather than sometimes being "Material Level" instead.

The major change underpinning most of the work done here is to move blueprint research to a more skill-training-like system, with a fixed number of researchable levels with identical bonuses but increasing research time.

The current system is interesting and flexible but also pretty unintuitive and with some core accessibility issues. Right now every level of ME or TE for a given blueprint takes the same amount of time to research, but gives fairly sharply diminishing returns: The first level is worth 50% of the total available bonus, the second level takes you to 66%, the third 75% and so on, so that by level 9 you already have 90% of the total available bonus. You can then go off and research into infinity to close off as much of that last 10% as you can stomach; in reality you reach "perfect" at the point where the potential savings round to zero, but this is a seven-digit number for battleships.

The major reason for changing this system is that the current relationship between ME/TE level and actual savings is difficult to understand without wrapping your head around some reasonably non-trivial math, which adds fairly substantially to the mental barrier of entry for industry and generally makes the system more opaque than it really needs to be.

No more waste

We are removing the concept of "wastage" from the system. With the reprocessing changes we no longer need to be quite so careful about build requirements dropping below reprocessing returns (which are now 50% rather than 100% of build materials), so we're removing the current system of taking "perfect build" requirements, adding waste on top and then removing it again with ME.

In the summer release, all base build costs will be increased by 11%. ME will then reduce build costs by 10% of that new base value, which brings us back to where we started. The rest of this blog is working from that new, higher base.

Production time already uses this dynamic, so no changes are needed there.

The Material Efficiency skill will be repurposed, stay tuned for more information on that in a future blog.

(The reason we’re going up by 11% is that we’re multiplying the new base by 0.9, so we want to divide the old base by 0.9 so the two cancel out. 1/0.9 = 1.1 recurring, so the actual multiplier we use will be 11.111111…%.)

The new system

Blueprint research will then be moved to a ten-step system. Each step of ME research will reduce material requirements on that blueprint by 1%, and each step of TE research will reduce manufacturing time on that blueprint by 2%. These values will be displayed as their actual percentages, rather than their step numbers, so a blueprint that has been researched six times in each will show as ME 6% and TE 12%.

Research times will follow essentially the same curve as skills, with the additional five steps interpolated between the existing skill steps, and blueprint "ranks" multiplying the research times for more advanced blueprints.

For a "rank 1" blueprint, such as T1 ammo, the unmodified research times will look like this:

Level Seconds Approx Total
1 105 1m 45s
2 250 4m
3 595 10m
4 1414 24m
5 3360 56m
6 8000 2h
7 19000 5h
8 45255 12h
9 107700 1d
10 256000 3d

Skills and other bonuses will then reduce times as they do currently.

Negative ME and TE levels work pretty much as you'd expect in this sort of system, being converted into direct percentage values. TE -4 will thus now be shown as TE -100%, and all the various decryptors (and related code) will be updated to match.

This gives us a pretty clear system that is easy to wrap your head around, works for pretty much everything, and provides a point at which blueprint research is "done" for a given blueprint and needs no further work.

What we're doing with non-standard blueprints

We would like to unify everything around a clear, consistent set of numbers, which means rooting out and eliminating as many of the anomalies as possible. This will for example mean moving Warfare Links to the same ME 10%/TE 20% system as everything else, removing the weird outsized TE bonus on fuel blocks (I'm pretty sure that's my fault and I'm pretty sure I did it by accident), and generally eliminating most of the other quirks, except where the blueprint or product is sufficiently unique anyway that it's justifiable to keep its oddball status.

How we're selecting ranks

T1 ammo will be the Rank 1 baseline. These blueprints all currently have a base research time of 6,000 seconds (i.e., 1h 40m). To determine ranks of other blueprints, the current plan is to simply divide their research times by 6,000, maintaining the research ratios currently present. This means T1 modules are generally rank 2, T1 frigates/cruisers/battleships are 20/40/60, and the highest current rank is Titans at 3414 (good luck maxing that out!). This is pretty easy to further adjust, and we may for example want to pull ships up or down a little.

How we're going to turn old blueprints into new blueprints

Obviously we need some way to remap old blueprint research values into new values, and equally obviously we're not just going to turn an ME 120 blueprint into an ME 120% blueprint.

Our current line of thinking is to do the math such that no currently researched blueprint gets any worse in terms of the bonus it provides (weird anomalies like fuel blocks getting a general TE nerf notwithstanding).

This would mean that ME/TE 1 become ME 5%/TE 10%, ME/TE 5-9 become ME 9%/TE 18%, and anything over ME/TE 10 currently move to ME 10%/TE 20%.

This has the advantage of everyone's blueprints staying the same or getting better, but the drawback that people with blueprints researched to really high levels will find that, while their blueprints are still generally getting better (i.e., will be actually perfect rather than just a reasonable approximation thereof), other blueprints which were less-well researched will have caught up with them.

We're very aware that some of you will feel that you've lost your previous advantages gained by researching blueprints for a really long time, and this is one of the areas we're preparing to focus the most on in terms of receiving feedback and making adjustments or additions to smooth the transition. Everything is on the table in terms of finding a reasonable solution that meets everyone's legitimate concerns, so please approach the feedback in terms of telling us what you'd like to see rather than simply expressing frustration with the changes as described here. We're not done with this yet!

For transitioning negative ME blueprints, we're just multiplying by 10, while for negative TE we're subtracting 1 and multiplying by 20, which keeps both values roughly the same before and after for the reasons outlined above.

That covers pretty much all the changes to research. The functioning of the system is pretty solidified design-wise, but all the numbers are very easy to adjust. We're anticipating making further balance changes in response to feedback, so, please let us know in the comments if there's anything here you see as especially problematic -- and why -- and we'll try and address as many concerns as possible!

-CCP Greyscale, on behalf of Team Super Friends


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Creating a project

  1. Setting up your site
  2. Creating a project
  3. Adding new users
  4. Managing permissions

A JIRA Core project is a container that holds issues. Issues can be viewed as the packets of work required within a project. To create issues, you must have an available project to contain them. JIRA Core comes with several default project types with preconfigured workflows and issue types, so you can quickly get your project up and running. In this step of the tutorial, you will use the project management template to help your team plan, organize, and collaborate on their work.

Note that creating and configuring a project is done by an administrator. A project administrator controls user access to the project, and can only configure certain aspects of the look and feel of the project. You should still be logged in to JIRA Core as an administrator from the previous step. If not, log into your administrator account.

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When creating a project, you will need to give it a name, a key, and a project lead. The title can be as descriptive as you want, and the key should be something meaningful. The project lead is usually the project manager, but can effectively be any user you select when creating the project.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The King of Horror On My Mind

I've been doing more writing and art lately than reading.  But when I look at what's next to my bed, I've found that I'm getting my nose into Stephen King books a lot more than I did two years ago.  When I began this blog a little over 3 years ago, I was a huge Stephen King reader and found myself in a massive rut where I couldn't find much else to read.

However, as the years have passed, I have pushed past those boundaries and read other books.  Some were good, some great and some downright dreadful... but I've always come back to my staple of the King of Horror to get my kicks.  Yeah, if you're reading this post, Stephen, you scare the crap outa me, but your writing is addictive.  I love it.
I love Stephen King's writing for a reason.  I'm a writer as well, and if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have learned the things I have about writing and editing that I have.  This great author writes great, adverbless writing that pulls you long and keeps you turning the pages even though your brain is telling you it's time to turn out the light.  What makes Stephen King the best in story-telling is that you feel as though you're sitting at a campfire in the middle of a forest and he's telling you a good, old-fashioned ghost-story... with his own twist at the end which will keep you from sleeping for months to come.  How he does this is beyond me, and I really admire him for it, but it's something I'd love to learn to do.

I have, over time, collected together books by him and about him.  I'm currently reading 'The Dark Tower' Series (I'm up to 'The Wastelands' book 3) and there's 8 books in the series; and I love it.  The first book I ever read of his was 'Christine'; which scared the crap out of me at the tender age of 16... and I had to con my parents into letting me read it.  I next read 'Salem's Lot' then, 'Carrie'... and I knew I was hooked on his style.

More recently - today in fact - I bought 'The Shining' and 'Doctor Sleep' from K-Mart.  I'm looking forward to reading the old with the new soon; as they ought to be a great comparison of what has taken place in his writing over time and how it's matured like a good wine since he wrote 'The Shining'.  I haven't seen the movie, but then, I'd rather read the book first before a screen-writer and director changes a book and misses points a writer puts into a book on purpose for readers to notice.  I think that's why I much prefer books to movies, don't you?  Until my next post, happy reading.

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'Faylina' by D.L. Redshaw

Lina is a Fay who is the daughter of the King Fay in Fayland, where all the Fairies live and learn to be good fairies.  They all have special skills and travel around on ladybirds to fly to the human world.

On Lina's seventh birthday, her name is changed to Faylina and she travels to the human world to help teach children to read - as that's her special skill.  When she arrives to the human world, she finds herself at the bedside of a very sick child named Belinda.  Sitting by her on her pillow, Faylina begins to read to her.

But she takes longer than she is allowed, and she sends her friend, Bairy, to let her father know where she is.  Will her father let her stay and help Belinda become well?  Will little Belinda overcome her illness?  Will Faylina help Belinda learn to read?  Find out in the lovely first book of the 'Faylina' Series.

'Faylina' by D.L. Redshaw is a new book published by the Butterfly Kiss Books publishing.  This company is a very new company on the market and is a family-run, Brisbane-born company. 'Faylina' was illustrated by R.J. Simon who you can find on Facebook.  'Faylina' also has their own author page on Facebook you can follow as well.

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Pilot Update: IP Protection Status – Insight on Asia

July 17, 2013
Categories: Intellectual Property Protection

Results from CREATe Leading Practices for IP Protection

Over the last several months, as part of the pilot of CREATe Leading Practices for IP Protection, CREATe has evaluated the IP protection programs of companies drawn primarily from the manufacturing/assembly and electronics industries. As part of the pilot, companies complete an on-line self-assessment to evaluate the maturity of their current IP protection processes in eight key categories. CREATe’s trained experts then provide an independent evaluation of those processes. The maturity of a company’s efforts to protect IP are measured on a scale of 1-5 (5=highest).

Here are some overall highlights from the findings to date on some of the participating companies whose headquarters are located in key Asian countries:

  • Participating companies have limited documentation concerning their IP protection processes, with the focus of their documented system being on patent application procedures.
  • Companies usually mention protecting IP in their employee manuals, but only briefly and at a very general level.
  • Very few companies have developed and implemented procedures for routinely protecting IP.
  • Companies are weak in monitoring and taking corrective actions for IP protection, yet they are familiar with the concept from their quality management program.
  • Companies are strongest in security and confidentiality management, in part because companies are aware of the need to protect against theft.
  • Most companies solely rely on contractual terms to protect IP along their supply chains and manage problems reactively rather than proactively.
  • Although they acknowledge the importance of IP protection in their supply chain, most companies do not have a procedure for conducting due diligence on their supply chain members with respect to IP protection.
  • Many companies realize the importance of improving their IP protection program and see it as a potential competitive advantage.

Below is a look at the scores from some of the participating Asian-headquartered companies in each of the CREATe Leading Practices categories.

On average, companies’ IP protection systems received evaluation scores lower than their self-assessment scores. After assessing the gap between the overall self-assessment score (3.6) and the overall independent evaluation score (2.7), companies gain tangible awareness that their IP protection program is not as sophisticated as they had thought. They can also better prioritize specific areas for improvement. Additionally, the difference between the highest and lowest scores given by CREATe’s independent evaluators is wide, demonstrating the disparity in system maturity from company to company; some companies understand the urgency of implementing IP protection processes, while others do not.

However, there is growing awareness among the participating Asian-headquartered companies and the governments in the region of the importance of IP protection. This is exemplified by the government of Chengdu promoting itself as the “model city for IP creation and protection” in its recent investment attraction promotion. With the growing threat of intellectual property infringement and theft across all industries, companies must go beyond putting IP protection policies in their manuals. They must implement concrete procedures, and then train their employees and supply chain partners on how to follow them in order to maintain their intellectual property investments and develop a competitive advantage in attracting customers and business partners.

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Carnival Elation Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

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3 out of 5

mexico/keywest cruise

Sail Date: October 28, 2006

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Traveled As: Couple

Room Type: Oceanview

Although I would recommend this ship, my philosophy is that a bad cruise does not exist, there were many things that could have been improved on this trip. The food compard to other cruise lines wasn't what I had expected. The buffets at lunch time were scarce when it came to choices. The formal sit down dinner menu was great when considering presentation and taste. Breakfast was very monotonous when it came to buffet choices.
The ship was elegant and very clean. We did notice that at many times throughout our experience that the ship was undergoing maintanence during prime time hours and not discretely done off hours, perhaps when guest were sleeping or off the ship at one of the arranged destinations.
The entertainment was enjoyed as we attented most shows.

Pros: relaxation

Cons: not enough activities poolside on the 1st day at sea

Recommends Carnival Elation? Yes!

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Carnival Magic Cabin 2248

Size: 185 sq ft.; Balcony: 45 sq ft.

Location: Main

Cabin Category: 7C

Amenities: Two twin beds that can convert to a king-sized bed a private balcony with large picture window view privacy curtains private bathroom with shower ample drawer and closet space interactive flat-screen TV individual climate control hairdryer mini-bar mini-safe complimentary use of bathrobes bathroom amenities kit and telephone. Some staterooms come with a sofa and coffee table.

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Carnival Valor Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

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4 out of 5

Eastern Caribbean aboard the Carnival Valor

Sail Date: September 07, 2014

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Traveled As: Couple

Room Type: Inside

We thoroughly enjoyed the ports of call of this ship. The ship was decorated according to it's name, but the décor did not really appeal to me. The biggest complaint I have with this ship was the food service on the Lido deck. The pizza was never ready. You ALWAYS had to wait. The buffet bar always seem to close just after we came back on the ship from our excursions making the choice of food slim until the dining areas opened....we had late dining 8:15.....We are not hard to please people. This was our 6th cruise and have been more impressed with other ships.....

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Norwegian Sun Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

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2 out of 5

Less than we expected

Sail Date: February 01, 2015

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Traveled As: Family (older children)

Room Type: Balcony

The ship was fine.  The agenda was fine.  Food, mediocre at best. Staff up and down.  Norwegian is clearly a step below Holland America and Celebrity in the food department:

*  Main dining room had few first class entrées (Prime rib on one evening was the closest)

*  Salmon was the only fish

*  No serious shellfish entrees (e.g. shrimp, lobster, etc)

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“Jews control EDL!” – Nick Griffin of BNP

Jews who have led the ‘immivasion’ into Europe, as part of their divide and conquer strategy, are trying to control the opposition to their genocidal agenda. British people should depose and eliminate the Jew masterminds who are responsible for the British being replaced in their own homeland. The natural racial conflict, which stems from Jews flooding the islands with other races, will be solved by separation. The same Jews who brought about the chaos of multi-racialism are now in the stages of using the tense racial conflict between Whites and non-Whites, to start a race-war, which would spill blood on both sides and create chaos and mayhem, while leaving the Jews as masters of the game. Nick Griffin of the British National Party explains:

EDL Exposed

Since the UK has some of the most repressive Jew-communist censorship laws in the World, exposing and resisting Jew-power openly has become a sensitive walk between freedom and prison. Maybe that explains why Nick Griffin is consciously misleading in some parts of his speech. The neocons are overwhelmingly Jews, not British stock, as Griffin claims.

A bunch of hooknosed bloodthirsty demons, an organized crime network calling themselves ‘neo-cons’. I’ll let you decide if they are Anglo-Saxons or Jews…

Screaming Dick Cheney’s name doesn’t prove that Neo-Conservatism is English, it just proves that Jews use a few ‘good goyyim’ traitors to further their agenda. It always helps having a non-Jew poster-boy who they can point to when the public turn against them, and their tyranny is exposed. As they do so well with Stalin, while the thousands of Jews who controlled him get pushed under the carpet.

“It vazn’t us Jewish people, It vaz Stalin!” No you disgusting ratfaced Kike Jew! It WAS the Jews!

In addition, it is pointless to talk about individual Jews, as you have to look at the Jewish Problem in its entirety. It doesn’t matter if you have a few “good Jews”. That doesn’t change the fact that it is the Jews! It’s not some Jews, it’s ALL Jews. Splitting the Jews up into factions and putting emphasis on “Likud Jews” or “radical Jews” doesn’t change the fact that they are overwhelmingly a unified tribe, working together on everything that destroys their enemies and benefits their own race. They must be judged as a group.

Jews will all HANG together!

Above clockwise: Streicher, Jodl, Sauckel, Frick, Ribbentrop. Jewry murdered the National Socialist heroes who liberated Germany from Zion, and were close to free the entire European continent from Jew-communist hell-on-Earth. Kikes make no excuse or remorse over the use of rope, they are proud of it! Yids would gladly do it to YOU who is reading this right now, if they could. Death by hanging… a punishment that is soon going to solve the Jewish Problem all over the World, once and for all.


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Pulled Pork Tacos

This post is dedicated to my good friend Ivey, who is the first person to request a recipe on the blog. She asked if I knew any good slow cook recipes, and it just so happens that this is the only one I know. Pulled pork tacos are probably one of my favorite meals and I am excited to share it because I haven’t made it in a long time. This recipe was one of my first attempts at cooking while I was in college. It’s easy and gets better every time I eat it.

Slow cook meals are great for people with busy schedules, whether you are in school, working, or have 3 of the cutest kids in the world. Since I only know how to make this dish I thought it would be fun to have people share their favorite recipes. So if you are reading this and know of a fabulous slow cook dinner please post a comment or email it to me. I will pick one entry and blog about it next week. Please submit it by Sunday October 17th, so I can put the ingredients on my grocery list for Monday. Happy cooking!

Pulled Pork Tacos, serves 3                                                                                Adapted from Real Simple

  • 1 1/2 lbs boneless pork shoulder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/4 cup apricot reserves
  • 1 jalapeno, seeded & sliced
  • 1/2 red onion, roughly chopped
  • Flour tortillas
  • 1/4 cup cilantro leaves
  • 1 lime, cut into wedges
  • 1/2 cup queso fresco, crumbled

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Place 3 large sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil on the counter, one top of the other, like a cross. In a small bowl mix together the salt, pepper and cumin. Place the pork in the middle of the foil and season with the mixture. Using a spoon, spread the apricot reserves all over the pork. Wrap the pork with the foil and be sure to crimp together the edges tightly. Otherwise the delicious juice that makes the pork so tender will leak out into the pan. Place the pork into a baking dish and roast for 4 hours. Let it cool before opening the foil. Carefully transfer pork and juices to a bowl and shred with a fork, mixing the meat, veggies, and juice. Serve on top of warm tortillas with cilantro, cheese, and a squeeze of lime.

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  1. Hi Carrie!!

    I have 2 that I like – Pot Roast and Chicken tacos.

    The pot roast is in frequent rotation currently.

    2.5 lb. chuck roast
    packet ranch dressing mix
    packet italian dressing mix
    packet brown gravy mix
    packet french onion soup mix
    1/2 cup water
    carrots, sweet onion, new potatoes – whatever veggies you want to throw in

    Mix the first 3 mixes with the water to combine. Place the roast in the bottom of the crock pot, pour some of the water mixture on top of the roast and flip to cover. Add the veggies, the rest of the water mixture, and veggies on top. Cook for 7 hours on high. (The gravy is great on mashed potatoes if you don’t add the new potatoes to the crock pot!)

    Chicken Tacos:
    4ish frozen chicken breast
    1 can of Ro-Tel
    1 packet chicken taco seasoning

    That’s it on this one! Cook on high until chicken easily shreds with 2 forks, on high for around 4 hours or low for about 7. I like to use this chicken and make a chipotle type meal with corn, cilantro lime basmati rice, sour cream, cheese, and guacamole. Yum!

    I hope you are doing well! Good luck with law school applications – isn’t it fun to be indecisive on career choices! I’m in nursing school right now and love it, but don’t love the drive from Waco to Dallas!

  2. Yum. Quick question–how do you get side-by-side photos? Do you make a collage/storyboard using Photoshop, or is there a way to do it on wordpress?
    Anyway, look fabulous!

    • Hi Jenna, thanks for the comments. I’ve been having fun looking at your blog as well 🙂 I put the pictures side by side in Photoshop. Go to file, new, and enter in the dimensions of your images combined plus a little space in between. I crop all my pictures at 150 DPI, so if I have two 4×5 images I will create a new document with a white background that is 4 inches by 11 inches at 150 DPI. Then just drag your images into the new document. Each image will create a new layer, so when you are done adjusting the pictures just flatten it. Hope that helps, let me know if you have any questions!

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Falafel Sliders

Falafel1When I think of all the places I ate in Italy, I don’t just think about all the great Italian food.  It wasn’t until I lived in Florence that I really started trying Middle Eastern food, including falafel. As anyone who has visited Italy can attest, for every two enotecas in a city, there is a kebab shop, filled with Italians and tourists alike. I even learned how to make falafel and hummus in my cooking class in Florence. After seeing a beautiful post for baked falafel, I decided it was time to revisit my class’s falafel recipe.

Falafel2Some say the Egyptians were the first to make falafel, which was a replacement for meat during Lent.  Traditionally, the recipe calls for fava beans, which I used in my cooking class. However, I decided to use chickpeas, which are commonly used as well. I read many blog posts and reader comments about whether canned chickpeas work as well as dried chickpeas that have been soaked for 24 hours. After trying the recipe both ways I can definitively tell you that canned chickpeas DO NOT WORK. You will end up with fried patties of a hummus-like paste, if you are even lucky enough to get the patties to stay together. Soaking chickpeas for 24 hours may seem like a hassle, but it is worth it to get the fluffy falafel that everyone loves.

Falafel3The process of frying may be intimidating (it was to me!) but it really was simple with the right tools. I used a cast iron dutch oven and a liquid thermometer. The thermometer is crucial, so you can tell when the oil has heated to 350 degrees. If anyone tries this recipe baked, I would love to hear the results. Click on the link to the falafel post I mentioned above for baking instructions. Also, I (perhaps foolishly) decided to remove the skins from the chickpeas after they soaked. I won’t lie this took a long time, but after failing the recipe with canned chickpeas, I was determined to make the perfect falafel. If chickpeas with the skin on work just as well for you, please leave me a comment!

Falafel4As a final thought, I wanted to mention an article I read a while ago about an Italian law banning new ethnic food restaurants in the Tuscan town Lucca. I don’t know what happened to this law and I am not trying to get political. I was just thinking that while Italian food is my favorite cuisine, I can’t imagine a world without a variety of foods reflecting cultures all over the world. So many recipes incorporate and merge ideas from different cuisines. That’s how this recipe can be called falafel and a slider. I don’t think the Egyptians knew what a slider was 1,000 years ago. And they certainly did not know what a McFalafel was.

Falafel Sliders, makes around 20 falafel

The Patties

  • 1 3/4 cups dried chickpeas
  • 1 cup parsley or cilantro (I used both)
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 1 small yellow onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • Pinch cayenne pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • Bottle of canola oil

The Yogurt Sauce

  • 1 cup Greek yogurt
  • 2 tablespoons tahini
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • Salt to taste

  • Mini pita pockets (I got mine from Trader Joe’s)
  • Cucumber slices
  • Roma tomato slices

Put the dried chickpeas in a large bowl and cover with water by 3 or 4 inches. They will triple in volume. Soak for 24 hours, adding water if needed to keep beans submerged. Drain chickpeas and transfer to a food processor. Add remaining ingredients except onion and oil. Pulse until minced, but not pureed, scraping sides of bowl down occasionally. The key is to not over-process the mixture and keep the amount of water to a minimum. Transfer to a bowl and mix in the onion. Taste, adding salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste. Let mixture rest for 30 minutes. Meanwhile combine all yogurt sauce ingredients. Blend well and refrigerate.

Scoop heaping tablespoons of batter and shape into balls. Let patties rest for 15 minutes to preserve their shape. Heat the oil in a deep pan so that the patties can be submerged. Turn heat to medium-high and heat oil to about 350 degrees. Fry in batches, without crowding, until golden brown. Total cooking time will be less than 5 minutes. Place falafel on a plate covered with paper towels to absorb excess oil. Serve with mini pita pockets, a big dollop of yogurt sauce, cucumber and tomato slices.

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  1. Carrie, this recipe is great! I did not remove the skins (no time after work), and it worked out just fine, although the food processing may have been less annoying without the skins. I also baked the falafel – I referred to a baked falafel recipe on Sprouted Kitchen and added 3 tbsp of olive oil to the falafel when I added the onions. Baked at 375 for 15 or 20 minutes, flipped at about the 8 minute mark, but then I decided to put it on broil for a couple minutes at the end to crisp up the outside. Super tasty – thanks for sharing your cooking!

    • Thanks so much for your feedback Merrill! I am glad to know that these work with the skin on the chickpeas and baked. I will have to try it that way soon! On an unrelated note, I will be in Atlanta in October for school. Maybe I will be lucky enough to see you?? 🙂

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Making Popular Culture, 1990

Santa Monica, 1990

Making Popular Culture

May 18-20

The Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology will be held at the Bayview Plaza, Holiday Inn in Santa Monica, California, from the morning of Friday, May 18, until noon on Sunday, May 20, 1990. Making Popular Culture will be the general topic of the meeting. The conference format will be similar to past years: there will be invited speakers and discussants in the morning sessions and three workshops on a variety of subjects open for all participants in the afternoon. However, this year the three morning papers will be 1/2 hour in length (instead of one hour) and there will be time for questions and comments from the audience after each paper has been criticized by an invited discussant.

On Friday, May 18, the subject will be The Ethnographies of Popular Culture. The invited speakers are Catherine Stewart, Steven Feld and Susan Harding. Workshop topics (still tentative): Culturally Constructing Worlds; the Culture of Sumptuary Distinctions; Transparent and Reflective Media.

On Saturday, May 19, the subject will be Constructing Popular Culture in Non-Western Contexts. The invited speakers are Fred Myers, Saridria Freitag and Marilyn Ivy. Workshop topics (still tentative): Pop Culture and Politics; Folk Drama; Ex/appropriatipg Meanings.

On Sunday, May 20 there will be a general discussion and a brief business meeting.

There also will be special evening events and a plenary address, which are still being arranged and will be announced in a special mailing to SCA membership and in the next AN. To make hotel reservations, request housing forms by February 23 from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, AAA, 1703 New Hampshire Av NW, Washington, DC 20009. Advance registration forms are being mailed to all SCA members, but these forms are also available from the Society at the above address. [Note that volunteered papers are not being requested for this meeting. However, a letter confirming your contribution to a workshop can be provided if needed for institutional reimbursement of expenses. Write to cochairs Robert Fernea (U Texas-Austin) or Donald Brenneis (Pitzer College, Claremont).]


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Customers Rock!

A blog about customers, their experiences, and how businesses can make sure their customer experiences rock!

Customer learnings in the hot tub

Posted by Becky Carroll on November 8, 2007

hot-tub.jpg I regularly advocate spending time listening to your customers at the locations where they “hang out”.  In many cases, that would be in online forums or chat rooms, on Facebook or MySpace, or on blogs.  In the case of Disneyworld guests, it could be in the hot tub!

Recently, I stayed 4 nights at a Disney resort in Florida.  At the end of a long day, with feet aching, we headed to the hotel’s jacuzzi by the pool to soothe tired muscles for another day of theme park exploration.  What interesting conversations take place there!

We learned which theme park to visit early in the morning and where the crowds would be.  We learned which hotel restaurants to visit, and which ones not to (and why).  We learned about using the pools at other Disney hotels.  We learned about what other Disney guests liked and didn’t like about each park: rides, restaurants, shops, lines, shows – you name it, they discussed it.  We were definitely influenced by this unexpected word-of-mouth.

What valuable information that would all be for Disney!  Yes, we were surveyed at the park by a very nice lady, and of course, I answered the follow-up survey they sent me via email.  But I believe that Disney’s operations team would find the most open and honest information bubbling out of their guests if they went to any of the Disney resort hotels and listened in at the hot tubs.

Where do your “guests” congregate?  Are you taking advantage of those opportunities to hear candid feedback from them?  Tell me about the most interesting place you listen for customer feedback.  Jacuzzi, anyone?

(Photo credit: DarrenGree)

6 Responses to “Customer learnings in the hot tub”

  1. Jeff said

    Hey Becky!

    This was a great post! Very inspiring and great to think about! To me, this would be a great business in itself – consulting firms on where to find their customers and how to interact with them. Thanks for the great post.

  2. Brandon said

    My family and I are big Disney fans, so this struck home with me and made me think about the surveys that we take in the park (we are annual passholders in California, and have taken a number of their surveys) and rarely do these surveys capture our true likes and dislikes. I really like the interaction that would take place at the places where customers hang out.

    Several examples come to mind. First, as we are a traveling family, we frequent sites that allow us as consumers to post our thoughts and reviews on a specific hotel, restaurant or other venue. If you are not familiar with these, try Trip Advisor and Epinions to start off with. These sites allow customers such as myself to congregate around the “virtual hot tub” and post our good and bad experiences. This type of feedback now allows myself and others to see what kind of experiences people have had – are the rooms clean, were the rides broken down, was the staff friendly. I have noticed that some companies monitor these boards and when there is an issue, they step in and respond, trying to contact the customer directly as well to remedy the issue.

    *Note – they can’t remove the post, but they can respond.

    Recently, I have noted a similar surge in reviews with sites such as Travelocity and other similar booking engines. In fact, Travelocity starts off with this introduction….Travelocity’s Traveler Reviews gives you the space to spread the love, warn fellow travelers, and get the scoop from others.

    Evidently, they are learning from their competition. While my work is providing internal support, my wife’s business is strictly online and as suchm she does frequent the discussion boards that are catering to her industry. This allows her to find out what trends, likes and dislikes are out there.

    For myself, we drop by and visit our customers in their native habitat – their office. While we also hold formal meetings with them, I find that visiting them where they work is as close to the “hot tub” as we can get – and it works! We have been invited to join in potlucks they they are having, been welcomed into meetings and otherwise learned things that don’t come up via just a survey.

    Great post, Becky and tahnks for stimulating the noggin!

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  5. Spas said

    This is a great post. I can’t wait to apply this to our business.

  6. I’m pretty sure that Disney will take your survey into consideration. They needed that.

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Quantum Consciousness

It’s indescribably refreshing to read a book that challenges us to better understand consciousness by asking the deceptively simple question, “What, if any, is the difference between brain and mind?” of scientists well-versed in quantum physics and consciousness.

Making such careful distinction between brain and mind is important, because the wording of this question  influences our understanding of consciousness by highlighting past assumptions. It might be easy to assume that consciousness resides in the brain, since consciousness is all about thought and thinking. But is it really true that all our thought originates in our brains?

Eva Herr describes how unexpectedly she experienced an extraordinary experience at the time of a very dark night of the soul, in her book, Consciousness:

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“In my case, the experience was completely unexpected and brought with it a sudden and powerful mystical experience that occurred literally overnight while I slept. It rapidly and radically changed what I had always known my life to be into something totally different. Prior to this event, I was caught up in the dogma of materialism, vanity, and self-consumed ideations. When I awoke the next morning, I was a different person with a different agenda in life… to fully understand consciousness—the God force—behind everything that exists. Accompanying this was a powerful but simplistic idea of agape—the love for one’s fellow man as one loves oneself, because we are all one. I no longer cared about materialism, vanity, and my “me-me” attitude. From that moment on, my focus was no longer on what others could do for me, but what could I do for others. This was a new approach for me.”

Clearly, there is something going on that is much bigger than any one of us, and sometimes, we are fortunate to catch a glimpse of this larger reality… this sense of Oneness.

The importance of considering quantum physics with regard to consciousness is that in the realm of the very, very small, it becomes clear that many old assumptions of science are out-dated–which implies our understanding of consciousness needs to be brought up to date. Just as we now understand that seeming solid material objects such as tables and chairs actually consist mostly of empty space with the smallest building blocks of matter existing as pure energy, we know that matter is not all there is. Quantum physics shows us that everything can be viewed as consisting of energy; non-local “spooky action at a distance” regularly occurs; observers definitely and consistently effect what they observe; and we can only predict results in terms of probabilities–never in absolutes.

I love the quiet boldness in the way Eva Herr’s new book Consciousness invites readers to explore different viewpoints from luminaries in the field of consciousness. Ms. Herr has experienced exceptional states of consciousness with corresponding sense of agape and knowing that we are all as one. Ms. Herr writes from a place of understanding that when we reach a level of awareness of Oneness, we are at a place where all is pure undifferentiated energy, and our state of consciousness is fundamentally different than when we see ourselves as separate.

The genius of Consciousness is then as much in the selection of interviewees capable of envisioning the topic of consciousness both intuitively and rationally, as it is in pursuing this age-old subject through the fresh new lens of modern-day scientific insights and discoveries. While each interviewee answers the same questions, their responses provide insights regarding how best we might view the relationship between the mind and the physical world… and the mind and All That Is. Eva Herr interviews: Thomas W. Campbell Jr., Brenda Dunn, Amit Goswami, Robert Jahn, Ervin Laszlo, Rollin McCraty, Dean Radin, Elizabeth Rauscher, Henry Stapp, Christian de Quincey, and William Tiller.

I hope you’ll enjoy watching and sharing my YouTube video summary of Quantum Consciousness — and I hope you’ll feel free to leave comments either here on this blog or on my YouTube video page.

Quantum jumping provides another great opportunity to ask my favorite question, “How good can it get?!” and make good use of whatever wonderful things imagination and inspiration reveal to you!

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Best of the Web nomination

These are the moments when I truly begin to wonder about my memory, but actually I think if I did get an email about this, my spam filter ate it. Because I'd remember THIS! My poem "Mesmer" was nominated by that marvelous zine, Pirene's Fountain, for Best of the Web 2010 (Dzanc Books). Thanks, editor Ami Kaye, and others on the Pirene's team. I'm just delighted. And my apologies for not thanking you sooner! Here's the poem:

Rain can be like Chopin, all piano strings
and syncopated pauses, geometry
of blings under wheels and rubber heels.
Sudden baptism from branches.
Drooled harmonies. On your neck, wet
strings slithering like kisses. Rings
around drops that plop into pools: ting,
ting, ting, ting
. Scriabin zithering
loss up your edges, a soul-cling,
foreboding’s cold feathering.

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

This and That

Got the new issue of Off the Coast, with my poem "Anniversary" in it. Nice to see the poetry of some friends in the same issue. Good-looking journal! I'm pleased to have work in it.

In other po-news, Soundzine is now reading for its next issue. It 's a print-and-sound zine, with readings of all the poems by the poets.


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A few notes for your post-holiday Tuesday

There is nothing major to report on this day after Memorial Day, but there are a few nuggets of note. Here they are in no particular order:

  • Tide basketball player Demetrius Jemison was released from his scholarship after missing the entire 2009-10 season with a torn Achilles tendon. He graduated in May and would have been a fifth-year senior if he would have returned next season. Jemison becomes the second player to opt out this off-season after Justin Knox transferred to North Carolina last month.
  • Things didn’t work out in NFL camps for former Alabama linebacker Eryk Anders, so he’s taking his game to Canada. The linebacker who put the blind side hit on Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert in the BCS title game signed on to play for the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL.
  • Star Jackson is heading to Georgia State next season, according to the Mobile Press-Register. The former third-string Tide quarterback will play for the first-year FCS program that visits Bryant-Denny Stadium in November.

Star Jackson transferring, Tiffin cut from Browns

It was a busy news day, and of course I was wrapped up working on other stories and missed some of the bigger headlines of the day.

First, in a hardly surprising move, it appears Star Jackson’s Alabama career is over. Nick Saban confirmed the sophomore quarterback’s plans to transfer at today’s stop on the Crimson Caravan, the Mobile Press-Register reported.

Since the once heralded recruit is third on the quarterback depth chart behind Greg McElroy and AJ McCarron, this hardly came as a surprise.

In NFL news, former Crimson Tide kicker Leigh Tiffin got some bad news a day after getting some good news. The Muscle Shoals product was cut by the Cleveland Browns a day after signing a free agent deal.

Star Jackson returns to practice

After missing three spring football practices, reserve quarterback Star Jackson was back on the practice field Wednesday afternoon. He was absent since last week with what Nick Saban called an academic issue.

See video below of Jackson tossing the ball around this afternoon.

Nothing else major to report from this afternoon’s activities. The team left full pads behind for the first time in three practices and wore just shoulder pads and helmets. It is the last practice before the first scrimmage of the spring scheduled for Friday.

Monday football practice notes

Nothing major from today’s spring football practice on another beautiful day here in Tuscaloosa. After watching the same drills as usual, here is what I can tell you:

  • Star Jackson was not at practice for the third straight day. As Nick Saban said Saturday, it is an academic issue and did not say when he could be expected back on the practice field.
  • Spring weather is amazing.
  • Julio Jones was working with the wide receivers, not the defensive backs, punters or linebackers.
  • It was relatively uneventful.
  • Check back for video later.

VIDEO: Quarterbacks at Monday’s spring practice

Here is footage of the quarterbacks from this afternoon: Greg McElroy (12), Star Jackson (2), AJ McCarron (10) and heralded true freshman Phillip Sims (14).

Now they move on to work with the receivers led by Julio Jones (8).

Flu sidelines backup QB

Nothing major came out of the media viewing period of Monday afternoon’s practice. The only item of note was the absence Star Jackson, the second-string quarterback.

He is the second quarterback to miss practice time since AJ McCarron was out last week dealing with the flu bug that has made the rounds in the program.

Future Alabama QB plays on ESPNU tonight

Tune into ESPNU at 6 p.m. to see the latest highly-recruited Alabama quarterback play some high school football.

Phillip Sims and his Oscar Smith High School teammates from Virginia will take on Venice (Fla.) on one of the several channels that makes up the “worldwide leaders” network. I will be covering a different high school game so you’ll have to fill me in with the details later.

Sims could make things interesting next fall with Greg McElroy, AJ McCarron and Star Jackson all eligible for the 2010 season.


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I, Frankenstein: New Casting Updates

2011/11/18 17:37:11 UTC

Earlier this week, we reported that Bill Nighy was in talks to join I, Frankenstein. With production expected to begin in January, the cast is starting to fill out and we have a few casting updates.

Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck) is reportedly in final negotiations to join the cast. According to THR, she'll play the female lead role of "a scientist working on reanimating the dead and tricked into working for demons seeking to create an army of the undead".

Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings) has also joined the cast as the the queen of the gargoyles. If Bill Nighy officially signs on, he'll be playing the leader of the demons, while Socratis Otto, will be playing one of his henchmen.

Aaron Eckhart has already signed on to play the lead role of Adam Frankenstein in this modern-day spin on the Frankenstein Story:

“I, FRANKENSTEIN is a modern-day epic: Frankenstein’s creature, ADAM, has survived to present day due to a genetic quirk in his creation. Making his way to a dark, gothic metropolis, he finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.”

I, Frankenstein is based on a graphic novel from Kevin Grevioux (Underworld), with Stuart Beattie is directing. Production is expected to begin in Jaunary in Australia and the film is scheduled for release on February 22nd, 2013.

Source: THR
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This Should Go Fine

At, Brad Reed on Microsoft’s plans to let you port iOS and Android apps to Windows:

Microsoft is raising the white flag when it comes to developing its own mobile app ecosystem — instead, it’s going to let developers easily bring their iOS and Android apps over to Windows 10 without having to completely rebuild them from the ground up as they’ve had to do in the past. Essentially, Microsoft is letting developers reuse most of the same code that they used to write their apps for rival platforms and is giving them tools to help them optimize these apps for Windows.

Wow! Sounds tremendous. I’m sure there won’t be any redesigning needed. I mean, it’s not like Apple or Google have their own design guidelines, like this and this.

I’m also sure performance will be lickity-split. No lag or recoding needed.


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The purpose of this meditation is to develop a very stable level of concentration, with the intention to perfect this concentration to the level of tranquil abiding.

I began by re-establishing the mind of Bodhichitta from yesterday using the same line of thought.

I then asked Geshe-la to show me what it meant to be a Buddha. Immediately the thought came to my mind that to be a Buddha means to purify our mind of delusions and distractions, and attain perfect virtuous concentration. The attainment of tranquil abiding is fundamental to this achievement.

I decided to imagine I already have this level of concentration. Immediately I had a very open, clear and concentrated feeling, focused on the wish to become enlightened for the benefit of all.

I felt very clean and serene, and I stayed with this feeling for a while.

I then decided to see that this meant in the context of my precious human life. I found that this possibility to attain tranquil abiding (and then to enter the mahayana paths) depends completely on my precious human life. My human life is precious, rare and meaningful, and therefore so it this potential to attain tranquil abiding. I strengthened my wish to become a Buddha with the wish to attain tranquil abiding, and make my human life meaningful. I stayed with this feeling of determination for the rest of the meditation.

May all living beings gain the union of special insight and quiescence, and thereby become Buddhas for the benefit of all.

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I will try to keep a pure intention all day, and constantly question whether my thoughts and actions are leading me towards that goal.

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Guaranteed Contract Income: A Once-in-a Decade Opportunity

“Dad! You’re such a control freak!!”

No one ever said raising teenage daughters would be easy…

The outburst came after I said no to my 13-year-old daughter’s request to go to a questionable concert. Thankfully, being called a “control freak” didn’t really get under my skin. After all, it’s my job to be in control and make wise decisions for my kids.

Being called a “control freak” may not be your idea of a compliment. But when it comes to managing your investments, it sure pays to be a control freak.

Today, I want to tell you about a special class of investments that lets you take control.

This investment doesn’t subject you to the roller coaster stock market, so you don’t have to worry that a market crash will wipe out your retirement savings. Or whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. Or if some CEO decides to cut your dividend.

And you can take control of your money by investing in what I call contract income opportunities...

Income investing is my specialty. Most people think income investing is boring that it’s safe and reliable but doesn’t offer serious returns.

But that’s not always the case…

This new income opportunity is one of the most lucrative trades I’ve seen in at least a decade. Contract income opportunities have the potential to double or triple investors’ money within five years… with absolutely none of the risk they face with stocks.

And here’s the best part about this investment: If you do a little bit of homework, it’s almost impossible to lose money. That’s how safe it is.

It’s true that no investment can be totally risk-free. But this investment has a 96% payout rate. That makes it as close to a “sure thing” as you can possibly get. And this investment is actually guaranteed by law, which I explain below.

Before I show you how this works, you should know the timing on this opportunity is extremely tight. The most profitable trades only come on the market about once or twice a decade. And the last time they opened up like this was back in 2009. Then, just a few years later, the opportunity was gone.

But now these hugely profitable trades are back. And this is the time to capitalize on them, before the window shuts again.

Today, I show you exactly how these contract income opportunities work, and why they could double or triple your money over the next five years — without owning a single stock.

Most investors buy stocks and hope they move higher. Maybe these stocks pay reliable dividends (and I’m actually a big fan of dividend stocks).

But one thing you need to know about dividends is that management teams can cut the dividend payments. And over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of “reliable” companies do just that.

I don’t know about you, but when I read that the CEO of one of my stocks decided to cut the company’s dividend, I feel like I’m losing control of my investments. I’m basically at the mercy of this CEO to pay me the dividends I deserve for investing in his company.

But there’s a way to invest without relying on a company CEO to maintain a dividend. And a way to invest without worrying about stock prices trading higher or lower.

And this special approach to investing relies on legally guaranteed contracts to pay you.

This special approach is through the bond market. And if you’re about to tune out because you think the bond market is boring — or doesn’t give you enough income — or can’t help you collect huge profits from the market, I’m afraid you’re mistaken.

Corporate bonds can actually be some of the most powerful investment tools you’ve ever seen. And the corporate bonds I’ll be recommending in my new service, Contract Income Alert, will give my readers the opportunity to double their money every five years — and that opportunity is legally guaranteed by the companies I recommend.

As long as the company remains solvent, it affords investors the chance to double their money, or more.

Here’s how it works…

When companies need to borrow money, they issue bonds. So when you invest in a bond, the company literally owes you money. That debt is a legal requirement and it doesn’t matter whether the company is profitable or not. It doesn’t matter whether a CEO wants to pay the debt or not.

The company is required — by law — to pay investors back.

Now, you might think, “Big deal… I can loan a company money by investing in a bond, and then the company pays me back. So what?”

Well, at Contract Income Alert, I’ll only be recommending bonds that are trading at a discount. In other words, my readers will pay a certain price to buy the bonds, and the company will owe them more money than they paid for the bond.

Let’s look at an example…

Consider the retailer Toys R Us. Years ago, Toys R Us sold bonds to the public to raise enough money to expand. The cash could have been used to buy buildings, to grow its inventory, or for marketing.

Today, competition from has made it more difficult for Toys R Us to generate profits. The company has had to close some stores and the company’s bonds have traded lower.

Because of the challenges, you might be able to buy Toys R Us bonds at 50 cents on the dollar.

In other words, you could pay $500 to buy a bond. And when you own that bond, Toys R Us is legally required to pay you $1,000 when the bond matures. So in this example, Toys R Us, as long as the company remains solvent, is literally legally obligated to double your money!

But it gets even better than that…

Because the corporate bonds I’ll be recommending are also legally required to pay investors interest. And often those interest payments can be incredibly lucrative.

Consider a bond that pays investors 10%. A typical bond like this would send you two payments a year for $50 each. So a bond that represents $1,000 in debt would pay you $100 over the course of a year.

But what happens if you buy that bond for a 50% discount? Would the payments change?

The answer is no. Nothing changes about the payments you receive. The company is still obligated to send out two payments of $50 each year.

Now think about the income that you’ll receive when you buy the bond at a 50% discount. You could pay $500 for this bond, and receive $100 each year from the company. That’s a legally obligated 20% in interest — plus, the company is still required to double your money when the bonds mature. That’s a tremendous investment.

I’m sure you can now see why buying bonds can be an extremely powerful way to grow your wealth and boost your income.

One of the most important questions investors have about bonds is: What happens if a company can’t repay its debt? The answer shows you just how safe these investments can be.

Suppose a company manages its debt poorly and doesn’t have enough cash to make an interest payment or pay back its debt on time. That company would ultimately be forced into bankruptcy — which sounds like a scary thing.

Indeed, if you owned shares of that company’s stock, a bankruptcy would probably mean that you get nothing. Your entire investment could easily be wiped out.

But if you own the bonds of this company, even a bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean that you lose money. In this event, all of the company’s assets are typically sold, and the proceeds are given to the company’s creditors.

That’s you!

So even in the case of bankruptcy, a company’s bondholders go to the front of the line to collect whatever assets the company has. In this scenario, it’s unlikely you’d receive the full $1,000 per bond that you are owed, but you’d likely still receive a meaningful amount of cash back. And since I always recommend buying bonds at a discount to the $1,000 debt amount, it’s likely that even if one of these companies goes bankrupt, my readers would still make money on the trade.

Now, I don’t expect the companies my service invests in to go bankrupt. I have a rigorous research process that I use to identify companies that have the means to repay their debt. But it’s helpful to know that even in the worst-case scenario for these contract income opportunities, my readers still walk away with money in their pocket.

My goal for each of our contract income opportunities is to help my readers double their money in five years or less. And in many cases, these investments will double in a much shorter time period.

To successfully double my readers’ money with these bond opportunities, the key is to buy bonds at an attractive price.

This usually means that something is challenging the companies responsible for repaying the bonds. If everything was going well, the bonds would trade close to $1,000 per bond and readers wouldn’t have a chance to double their money.

So the key is to look for bonds from companies that are facing temporary challenges, and then look very carefully at whether the company will ultimately be able to pay the bond back in full. So I’ve developed asystem to determine how likely these companies are to repay their debt and double my readers’ money.

Here’s to growing your income!

Zach Scheidt
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DanceBlue is a year long fundraising effort, culminating in a 24-hour no sitting, no sleeping dance marathon right in the heart of the University of Kentucky campus. All efforts support the DanceBlue Kentucky Children's Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic through the Golden Matrix Fund, as well as the Markey Cancer Center.

This year, Beta Theta Pi has a goal of raising $15,000 for the 2017 DanceBlue Marathon. Please help us reach our fundraising goal by making a gift to our team.

Through 11 years of DanceBlue, more than $9.8 million has been raised to support:

  • The construction of a new hematology/oncology clinic at the Kentucky Children's Hospital that will expand the capacity of the clinic as well as provide a more convenient and comfortable experience for the families.
  • The hiring of vital staff in the clinic such as a Child Life Specialist who provides encouragement and distraction to help the child emotionally handle their diagnosis and the treatments.
  • A school intervention specialist has been brought on as an advocate for the patients within schools to ensure they do not fall behind in classes as a result of their treatments.
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DanceBlue is a year long fundraising effort, culminating in a 24-hour no sitting, no sleeping dance marathon right in the heart of the University of Kentucky campus. All efforts support the DanceBlue Kentucky Children's Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic through the Golden Matrix Fund, as well as the Markey Cancer Center.

This year, the Alpha Omicron Pi Team has a goal of raising $10,000 for the 2017 DanceBlue Marathon. Please help us reach our fundraising goal by making a gift to our team.

Through 11 years of DanceBlue, more than $9.8 million has been raised to support:

•The construction of a new hematology/oncology clinic at the Kentucky Children's Hospital that will expand the capacity of the clinic as well as provide a more convenient and comfortable experience for the families

.•The hiring of vital staff in the clinic such as a Child Life Specialist who provides encouragement and distraction to help the child emotionally handle their diagnosis and the treatments.

•A school intervention specialist has been brought on as an advocate for the patients within schools to ensure they do not fall behind in classes as a result of their treatments.

•Patient support programs such as the "Beads of Courage" program that each child receives after cancer treatments.

Please support the DanceBlue-Golden Matrix Fund by making a gift to the Alpha Omicron Pi Team today!

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Membership does have its privileges!  They include:

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This blog, and my activism, are supported through memberships instead of corporate ads.  The membership is just ten bucks a month and is critical to my activism – it keeps the blog ad free,  gives me the time to answer the 800 or so e-mails and Facebook messages I get everyday from people seeking advice and help, write a daily blog that a lot of readers tell me is a lifeline to them, and coordinate projects like the Georgia Billboard Project, Fit Fatties Forum, and the Skinny Minnie Petition, and allows me to be supported by the people who value my work, rather than being beholden to corporate advertisers.

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  1. I am happy to subscribe. I love the work you do and I also like that you want to be self-funded and not have to count on ads for financial support. Ragen, I think I want to be you when I grow up :~)

    Love, Noelle

    • Thank you so much Noelle! I really appreciate your support 🙂

  2. Agreed! $10 per month is a bargain!

  3. Count me in as a subscriber! I dance with fat! And I guess I promote being allowed to live my life as a healthy fat person….is that promoting obesity. If so I’ll take the heat.

    Also as a fat person I reserve the right not to be perfectly healthy all the time just like those thin folks….

    • Thanks for the support, and for standing up and being yourself. Rock on 🙂

  4. Subscribing is my Channuka present to myself. Thanks, Regan, for all you do.

    — Buffy

  5. Yep, I’m in. Even though I’ve totally ditched the diet, I could use some support. I still have bad days, I still get annoyed, I still want some support.

  6. After all the money I’ve spent dieting over the years, supporting your refreshing, HEALTHY site is an honor. Just reading your well-researched and witty blogs has done wonders for my mental health – which of course makes me feel better about myself and life in general.

    Keep on blogging my friend!

  7. What a wonderful idea Ragen! I am proud to support you and your work. Thank you for your voice and your courage.

    • Thank you Danielle, I truly appreciate it 🙂

  8. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog!

  9. Just discovered your blog, it’s crazy awesome!

    • Thanks! Glad that you like it 🙂

  10. My sister told me about your site and I came to check it out. I am heavier than I want to be but still able to dance for hours! Literally. Dance has been a lift long passion and it’s how I got myself out of a wheelchair. Much love and support being sent your way. Love, in all its many forms, is always beautiful! Dance On! Girl. Ladybug (0=

  11. Reading your book as of now! You are AMAZING, and an INSPIRATION ❤

  12. I’ve been reading your blog, off and on, for a couple of years now. Recently, though, I noticed that I’m really making progress in body acceptance. I took an online psychological test – I believe I got the link either from here or – that tested attitudes toward fat vs. thin bodies. My results were straight down the middle!

    YES! I actually showed a value of fat bodies being the same as thin bodies! The majority showed a definite skew towards thin, but mine was balanced. I think I’m finally learning to really appreciate bodies, including mine!!!, of any and all sizes. And I really think I have you to thank for it.

    I have literally spent 3/4 of my life dieting. I started dieting at the age of 10, and didn’t stop until two years ago, when I was hit by a truck. That completely changed my life. I gained weight over the years, but when I stopped dieting, even though I was severely limited, physically, I didn’t gain any weight. I leveled off, because my body was happy where it was, and was just trying to heal. And my soul is healing, too.

    From now on, anyone who tells me that there is no excuse for me to not be thin, or to not diet, I’ll just tell them that I did that for 30 years, and if it didn’t work in all that time, it’s not going to work in the future, either.

    What’s that definition for insanity again? Oh, yeah. DIETING! It is literally crazy-making. If I believed in some nebulous “they” who are in charge of the patriarchy, I would believe that “they” came up with dieting as a tool to keep women and “beta-males” down, because when you are focusing on food and the limiting thereof, you can’t focus on anything else. You can’t accomplish anything else. You can’t BE anything other than a dieter.

    Now, I can be me. I’m free, and I’m much happier. Thank you so much! I am happy to subscribe.

    • Hi Michelle!

      Thank you so much for sharing your story, I’m so happy to have the chance to support you,  but you definitely did the hard work!  Rock on, and thank you for subscribing, it really means a to me!

  13. I have been reading your hate mail site and am crying with laughter at it, especially your replies! Just so they didn’t waste their time with the hating, as soon as I get paid, I will join up as a member. 🙂

  14. I just found out today that I can make one-time donations here! Wonderful! My income and expenses are sometimes erratic, so I’ve been sad, for too long, that I couldn’t subscribe.

    Good luck with the World Tour, and thank you so much for being a voice of reason in this insane world ((((electron hugs))))

  15. Regan – question. I already subscribe, but my credit card company switched my card – so what do I do? Do I need to resubscribe? Is there a way to edit my payment info? Thanks. Terri Weitze

  16. i have finally returned! 😉 thank you so much, as always, for all yr work!

  17. I just became a member! Thanks so much for this site!

    • Thanks so much for your kind words and for joining!

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A weblog examining sexual politics in higher education and beyond.

Hugh Hefner, William Buckley and Roger Ebert

“Hugh Hefner has been good for us’” is the title of a recent article by Roger Ebert on Hugh Hefner.  Obviously, Ebert likes Hefner; he considers Hefner’s Playboy Philosophy to be a major contributing force to sexual liberation in the 60s.  Anchoring Ebert’s analysis is a series of videos on which Hefner is interviewed.  Unquestionably, the most valuable of these videos is from William Buckley’s FIRING LINE  in which Buckley interrogates Hefner on just about all aspects of Hefner’s philosophy.  The kind of interchanges dealing with sexuality between Buckley and Hefner has been a rarity on American television.  Buckley does his best to defend the traditional view that pre-marital sexuality is immoral and unacceptable and that Hefner is in essence perverting/undermining the dominant and only acceptable sexual ethos in America.

From the dankprofessor’s perspective the series of  the five video segments of the Buckley/Hefner interchange provides the viewer with the anti-sexuality background of  our contemporary ethos.  Of course, in the 60s the acceptability of student prof sexual relationships was nil; they were effectively closeted in the context of their being no discussion of the matter and no bureaucratic apparatus designed to repress such relationships and to persecute those who were party to these relationships.  Now that has all changed.  The very survival of universities has been held to be at risk if such relationships flourish; such was similar to the fear that homosexuality if not criminalized would function to destroy society.  Such was also similar to the dynamic of fear that led to the passage of the Mann Act in the United States and the hysteria to save our young women from pre-marital sex and being seduced into prostitution.

Ebert puts the contribution of  Hefner and Playboy in therse terms:

Hefner and Playboy have been around so long that not everyone remembers what America used to be like. It was sexually repressed and socially restrictive. College students were expelled for having sex out of wedlock. Homosexuality and miscegenation were illegal. Freedom of choice was denied. McCarthyism still cast a pall over the freedom of speech. Many people joined in the fight against that unhealthy society. Hefner was one of them, and a case can can be made that Playboy had a greater influence on our society in its first half-century than any other magazine.

Take the time and view the the Buckley/Hefner interchange.  The dankprofessor guarantees you won’t regret doing so.

November 2, 2010 - Posted by | consensual relationships, Hugh Hefner, Roger Ebert, sex, sexual politics, William Buckley

  1. Great perspective!
    Hugh Hefner certainly was a leading voice in the softening of taboos, concerning human sexuality. As a teenager, I did not support Mr. Heffner, due to my Catholic Grade School background. So what did I do, to satisfy my male curiosity? I went to the library, took Gray’s Anatomy off the shelf, and turned to what was either page 914, or 918. I would study the detailed diagram of a woman’s best part, learning words like “vulva”, “labia”, and “hymen”. A growing boy (or girl) will do what they have to, in order to learn about the opposite sex! I did this on several occasions, beginning at age 14.

    Comment by Donald Visconti | November 2, 2010 | Reply

  2. I just viewed the Firing Line Episode, rather belatedly. I thought that Mr. Hefner gave a good account of his philosophy, though I would have supported Mr. Buckley, at the time. Ironically, EVEN THEN, I frowned on Mr. Hefner’s “prohibiting” the bunnies from seeing the patrons of the Playboy Clubs, after working hours. As I do today, I felt that this was an infringement on the female employees’ Civil Rights. After all, these gals were all of legal age, so Mr. Hefner had no business dictating who they should be “allowed” to see, after working hours! Happily, Mr. Hefner finally saw the light, and removed this restriction, I think, in 1974. To comment on Mr. Hefner’s defense that these girls had to be “protected”, they all, as adults, should have been aware of possible “difficult situations”, which could develop. Yet, if the girls were willing to let it go to the level of intimacy, that would have been their business! If they did not, and the horny men couldn’t take “no” for an answer, then the Civil Authorities might have had to have been called. Overall, it was not something that an employer had, or still has the right to control, aside from warning the bunnies of potential pitfalls.
    Of course, the same attitude should apply today, concerning employers and college administrators, in their dealings with their employees.

    Comment by Donald Visconti | December 6, 2010 | Reply

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Entanglement Entropy in the O(N) Model

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Title: Entanglement Entropy in the O(N) Model
Author: Metlitski, Max; Fuertes, Carlos; Sachdev, Subir

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Citation: Metlitski, Max, Carlos A. Fuertes, and Subir Sachdev. 2009. Entanglement Entropy in the O(N) model. Physical Review B 80(11): 115122.
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Abstract: It is generally believed that in spatial dimension \(d\) > 1 the leading contribution to the entanglement entropy \(S = - tr\rho_A log \rho_A\) scales as the area of the boundary of subsystem \(A\). The coefficient of this "area law" is non-universal. However, in the neighbourhood of a quantum critical point \(S\) is believed to possess subleading universal corrections. In the present work, we study the entanglement entropy in the quantum \(O(N)\) model in 1 < \(d\) < 3. We use an expansion in \(\epsilon = 3-d\) to evaluate i) the universal geometric correction to \(S\) for an infinite cylinder divided along a circular boundary; ii) the universal correction to \(S\) due to a finite correlation length. Both corrections are different at the Wilson-Fisher and Gaussian fixed points, and the \(\epsilon \to 0\) limit of the Wilson-Fisher fixed point is distinct from the Gaussian fixed point. In addition, we compute the correlation length correction to the Renyi entropy \(S_n = 1/1-n log tr {\rho_A}^n\) in \(\epsilon\) and large-\(N\) expansions. For \(N \to \infty\), this correction generally scales as \(N^2\) rather than the naively expected \(N\). Moreover, the Renyi entropy has a phase transition as a function of \(n\) for \(d\) close to 3.
Published Version: doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.115122
Other Sources: http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4477v1
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