Sonic Vitamins: The most powerful Brain Entrainment ... - Get self-help

Having tried out so many Brain Entrainment products over the years, when I run into something that works well, I like to let others know about it. The reason is that Brain Entrainment is quick and instant, unlike most of the self-help programming, which takes weeks and months to work (or in many cases ? not work!) It?s important that when you read through a self-help review, I feel, that the person who is reviewing the programme, has actually used the programme.

Brainwave Entrainment is a quick win for me, as I get to write about it within hours and days and not months. I think you?ll like Brain Entrainment for very similar reasons. You know it works ? and the proof is in the eating.

I?ve?loaded this one up onto my iPod permanently, and cannot recommend it more.

There are two main providers?I?ve?settled on. The one is EOC Institute, which to my mind (if you excuse the pun) makes the most sophisticated recordings available. Their programme called ?Equisync? is probably the most sophisticated Brainwave Entrainment?mp3?available. Their range is limited, and so I started looking around, testing a few other providers. Sonic Vitamins is really exciting. Their range is as broad as it is deep.

Start out with Siesta Shot.?I?ve?loaded this one up onto my iPod permanently, and cannot recommend it more. I use it on weekends, in between getting more chores done and relaxing or going out.

The programme starts off with what sounds like helicopter blades whirring around you. There?s a lot going on in the background at this stage, working to bring you down. The helicopter effect gets slower and slower, 20mins in as you?ll just lolling off to sleep, they sound like brushes, or feet wiping on an outdoor?fiber?mat. That?s the last thing you notice, until 30mins later when the brushing speeds returning to the helicopter effect (which by now you realise are the same sound just at different speeds).

This programme has three significant benefits over other Brain?Entrainment?programming?I?ve?tested:

• It?s cheaper
• You are guaranteed to fall asleep for a little while
• A short while after awakening, you are filled with new energy and will be surging awake for hours to come ? you will feel brighter and livelier. (Sounds like a clich?, but I?m quite serious.)

Sonic Vitamins? Siesta Shot was the fifth programme?I?ve?tested so far, and it is by the best example of how effective and powerful Brainwave?Entrainment?can be.? While I appreciate other programmes like cool Instant Zen track and the very curious Happiness Lift, it was my Siesta Shot that really sold me on the entire range ? and led me to review Sonic Vitamins so highly.

For about Brainwave Entrainment click here.

Source: http://www.selfhelpable.com/sonic-vitamins-powerful-brain-entrainment-sleep-programme/

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NYSE prepares disaster backup plan - report

REUTERS - The New York Stock Exchange is readying plans to be able to operate without human traders in case another disaster, such as Superstorm Sandy, forces the shutdown of its historic trading floor in downtown Manhattan, The Wall Street Journal reported.

NYSE Euronext is preparing to submit details of the plan to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the report, which cited people involved in the preparations. If activated, the plan would represent the first time the 221-year-old exchange would rely entirely on computer systems, without the oversight of floor-based traders, the paper said.

A NYSE spokesman declined to comment on the report.

The disaster plan would shift trading entirely to Arca, NYSE's all-electronic sister market. It would replace NYSE's current backup plan that calls for the exchange to remain open in a limited capacity while sending orders to Arca to be filled.

Exchanges including Direct Edge Holdings LLC and BATS Global Markets Inc in the past year have moved to develop backup sites in Chicago, the paper said. Nasdaq OMX Group Inc maintains a disaster recovery site in Ashburn, Virginia, and can run its U.S. markets from its European base in Stockholm.

Superstorm Sandy forced the first weather-related multi-day shutdown of the U.S. stock market in more than 120 years when it struck the East Coast in October.

(Reporting By Susan Kelly in Chicago; editing by Gunna Dickson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nyse-prepares-disaster-backup-plan-report-130450952--finance.html

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Scholastic Snake Oil: When They Fall Back On Teaching: The ...

When They Fall Back On Teaching: The Achievement Gap

I am reading Louis E. Lomax's The Negro Revolt. ?The book was published half a century ago, so some of the data--and, as a result, some of his conclusions--are out-of-date. ?However, he provides an excellent capsule history of the events that preceded the Civil Rights movement, which was unfolding as he wrote the book.

He notes, among other things, that there was a black middle class--albeit a very small one--even in the time of slavery. ?He also explained how Booker T. Washington helped, perhaps inadvertently, to create the "achievement gap" between African- and Caucasian-Americans that persists to this day--and, in many areas has grown worse.

When he was sixteen, he arrived at the Hampton Institute, an African-American college founded by the American Missionary Society. ?Its philosophy came from its founding President, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, who wanted black students to be given "moral as well as mental strength". ?He wanted his students to become "first rate mechanical laborers" but, at the same time, believed that the purpose of education was to make them "first class men and women". ?

It seemed that the school was made to order for Booker T. Washington. ?He was not only an excellent student; he also became a fervent adherent to Armstrong's ideas. ?They would become the basis of the "normal" school he would start: ?the Tuskegee Institute. ?

One of the reasons, I believe, Washington has been presented in such a favorable light (and why white philanthropists supported the Tuskegee Institute) is that he essentially taught African-Americans to know their "place". ?He was ostensibly training his students for the sort of work that the Caucasian-dominated economy demanded. ?However, as Lomax wryly notes, Washington "had no concept whatsoever of labor in the proper sense". ?The result, Lomax notes, is that Tuskegee students were not trained for work in the nation's industries.

But there was a problem that would prove even bigger. ?The students who finished Tuskegee and other "industrial" and "normal" schools had no intention of working in factories. ?Instead, they returned to the rural South, from whence they came, to teach school. ?They were even less equipped for that work than they were to work in a plant.

If you haven't seen the results, you probably could guess what Washington wrought: ?One generation of poorly-educated people teaching another, and another. ?

I mention this story because I recently saw some discussion about a recurrent topic: ?the low standards of schools of education. ?

Now, I have know teachers who are very smart and hard-working people who could succeed in other careers. ?However, as we all know, there are others who "fell back" on teaching, or went into it because they wanted to be home for their kids every afternoon and to have summers off. ?And I know of others who, perhaps were bullied or abused as kids and want the opportunity to control other people.

Personality issues aside, there are those who become teachers because they didn't want to get their hands dirty but didn't do particularly well in school--except, perhaps, in their education courses. ?

The situation I've described is often contrasted with what pertains in countries like Finland and Korea, which have standards for teachers that are as high as those for other professions--or, in some cases, even higher. ?In most European countries, prospective secondary-school teachers are expected to be proficient in the academic subject they plan to teach. ?Secondary ?school teachers-in-training train under the aegis of an academic discipline, and the pedagogical instructors work in that department, not a school of education. ?Elementary school teachers usually train in a state-funded institute designed to train them rather than in a cobbled-together curriculum in a university.

Even more to the point, though, teachers need to understand (at least to some degree) the world for which they are educating their students. ?I have said that no one under the age of forty should teach; ?I think prospective teachers should also demonstrate some sort of progression in another career or vocation before becoming teachers. ?That, I think, would eliminate one problem Washington, perhaps unintentionally created: ?Poorly-educated students who, like him, have little or no idea about the work that's done in the world and are not equipped to do it.

What I've suggested will, over time, improve the education all students get. ?That, I think, is the only way to close the "achievement gap" between the races.

Source: http://scholasticsnakeoil.blogspot.com/2013/03/when-they-fall-back-on-teaching.html

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Jared Fliesler, Square?s VP Overseeing Growth, Joins Matrix As General Partner

Jared Fliesler, who oversaw growth and user acquisition at Square, is crossing over to the venture side from the startup world and joining Matrix Partners as a general partner. A firm that has been around for more than 30 years, Matrix does Series A rounds in the enterprise and consumer space. It’s bi-coastal with offices in both Boston and Palo Alto. They are in companies like ZestFinance, Gilt Groupe, Polyvore, Zendesk and Zong. After working at Square, Google and Slide, Fliesler said that venture capital would give him the opportunity to work with many companies at this optimal period in their life when they may have found product-market fit and are looking to scale. He said he likes this six-month to two-year period where companies can afford to grow aggressively in both their customer base and employee headcount. While he was at Square, the company grew from $2 billion processed per year to more than $10 billion and from 800,000 activated accounts to more than 3 million. He had to balance organic growth with other customer acquisition strategies like buying TV advertising, search advertising and cutting deals to put Square readers in 40,000 locations. “Companies outgrow me or I outgrow companies,” he said. He said being a VC will let him be a “part-time employee for many companies and get a neat vantage point” for looking across the industry. Matrix’ general partner Dana Stalder said the firm had a stealth courting period with Fliesler for more than a year. He says he asked friends for a list of the top five operators they knew under the age of 35. Fliesler’s name came up and they had conversations for months where Matrix would ask for his opinion on possible investments. “We were vetting him without telling him,” Stalder said. He added, “Our job is to help founders go from ideas to building category-leading companies. These are seven to nine-year relationships. We needed somebody who had the skill set or background to go through a company’s full life cycle. Jared is passionate about doing exactly that.” Fliesler will be the eighth general partner based out of Palo Alto and he’ll be looking at early-stage investments. He’s the third Square executive of late who has crossed over to the venture side. Square’s Director of Product Megan Quinn went to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner, then former Square COO Keith Rabois

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US, China propose tough UN sanctions for NKorea

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? A U.S.-China draft resolution aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program would impose some of the strongest sanctions ever ordered by the United Nations, in a move certain to infuriate the regime and inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The proposed resolution put forward by the United States and China ? North Korea's closest ally ? followed Pyongyang's third nuclear test on Feb. 12. It reflected the U.N. Security Council's growing anger over the country's defiance of three previous rounds of sanctions aimed at halting all nuclear and missile tests.

Pyongyang threatened to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War in response to the looming fourth round of sanctions. North Korea insists its nuclear program is a response to American hostility that dates back to the Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula still technically in a state of war.

"North Korea will be subject to some of the toughest sanctions imposed by the United Nations," Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said. "The breadth and scope of these sanctions is exceptional and demonstrates the strength of the international community's commitment to denuclearization and the demand that North Korea comply with its international obligations."

Rice and China's U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong, who negotiated the text behind closed doors over the last three weeks, predicted speedy approval of the resolution.

"The vote will be Thursday ? that's the target," Li said. Rice said the council hoped for "unanimous adoption."

The draft resolution would make it significantly harder for North Korea to move around the funds it needs to carry out its illicit programs.

It would also strengthen existing sanctions that bar North Korea from testing or using nuclear or ballistic missile technology and from importing or exporting material for these programs. It would strengthen the inspection of suspect cargo bound to and from the country.

Many analysts believe that the success of this new round of sanctions depends largely on how well China enforces them. Most of the companies and banks that North Korea is believed to work with are based in China.

The Korean People's Army Supreme Command, citing the U.S.-led push for sanctions, threatened Tuesday to cancel the armistice agreement on March 11 because of ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills that began March 1. Without elaborating, the command also warned of "surgical strikes" meant to unify the divided Korean Peninsula and of an indigenous, "precision nuclear striking tool."

Such heated military rhetoric and threats have become increasingly common from North Korea as tensions have escalated following last December's rocket launch and Pyongyang's recent nuclear test.

The United States and other nations worry that North Korea's third nuclear test pushes it closer to its goal of gaining nuclear-armed missiles that can reach the U.S. The international community has condemned the regime's nuclear and missile efforts as threats to regional security and a drain on the resources that could go to North Korea's largely destitute people.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said President Barack Obama and the American people want to see North Korean leader Kim Jung Un engage in peace talks.

"Rather than threaten to abrogate and threaten to move in some new direction, the world would be better served ... if he would engage in a legitimate dialogue, legitimate negotiations, in order to resolve not just American concerns, but the concerns of the Japanese and the South Koreans and the Russians and the Chinese, everybody in the region," Kerry said in Doha, Qatar. "That's our hope."

Kerry also stressed that the United States will continue "to do what is necessary to defend our nation and the region together with our allies."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is South Korean, said the North must abide by the Korean armistice.

"I am deeply concerned about that kind of very provocative rhetoric," Ban said. "I strongly urge the Pyongyang authorities to reverse course to build trust that will lead to durable peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula."

China's Li also called for increased dialogue.

"Military solutions aren't a solution," he told reporters. "We are concerned about the peace viability in the region and ... around the whole world. So that's why we encourage all the parties to sit down and have a serious talk with each other and address their differences through diplomatic means."

Rice said the proposed sanctions break new ground by targeting the illicit activities of North Korean diplomatic personnel, banking relationships and illicit cash transfers.

All countries would now be required to freeze financial transactions or services that could contribute to North Korea's nuclear or missile programs, according to a Security Council diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because the draft has not been circulated publicly.

To get around financial sanctions, North Koreans have been carrying around large suitcases filled with cash to move illicit funds, the diplomat said. The draft resolution clarifies that financial sanctions apply to all cash transfers as well as the cash couriers.

The proposed resolution includes what the diplomat called unprecedented new travel sanctions that would require countries to expel agents working for sanctioned North Korean companies.

The draft also requires states to inspect suspect cargo on their territory and prevent any vessel that refuses an inspection from entering their ports. And a new aviation measure calls on states to deny aircraft permission to take off, land or fly over their territory if illicit cargo is suspected to be aboard, the diplomat said.

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Associated Press writers Matthew Pennington in Washington, Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and Louise C. Watt in Beijing contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-china-propose-tough-un-sanctions-nkorea-001652678.html

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