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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Flex Tutorial: Part I - Setup and Organization
What is this tutorial?
"Flex development" refers to the use of the Adobe Flex to develop web applications that are deployed in the Adobe Flash runtime. The term "Enterprise" in the context of software development is usually used to indicate that something is large-scale, supports a large user base, and consists of many different systems or services. So I use the term "Flex Enterprise Development" to refer to large-scale flex web applications with emphasis on taking advantage of Flex features such as Data Binding and Web Services, and the use of architectures such as SOA, Three-Tier, and MVC. In particular Data Binding can be used to easily implement a MVC framework in an application with little to no extra code, and on a larger scale a combination of Three-Tier and SOA can be used to organize components and make a system easily scalable. This tutorial intends to explain how to setup a development environment, show the important features of the Flex language, and show how to organize and implement small to large-scale systems.
Setting up a Flex Development Environment
In terms of treating web systems as three-tier architectures, meaning that on a high level they can be divided into presentation, service, and data tiers, Flex applications reside in the presentation tier. This means that for servicing it is required that server side scripting languages are used. Flex is not dependent on a single server side scripting language though, since Flex provides the ability to work with data formats such as WSDL, SOAP, Remote Objects, and HTTP Services. I tend to prefer using HTTP Services since is is just plain XML that you can define yourself without headers or envelopes, and is not specific to scripting language remote object technologies.
Adobe provides a free SDK for Flex, but the Flex Builder development environment ( is a huge time saver since it allows you to rapidly develop GUIs by dragging and dropping pre-made components and editing them accordingly. The first step for setting up a development environment is therefore to download and install Flex Builder.
The next step is to install and configure some sort of web service so that you can develop web services using a server side scripting language. You should also be aware that this choice will also affect which database you can use if you choose to use one. You should take into account that if you intend to deploy your system on someone else's hardware, meaning a web hosting service, you want to setup a similar environment. You should also be aware that most hosting services such as provide two options: a Windows (IIS) hosting plan that includes ASP/.NET with MS SQL and MS Access, and a Linux (Apache) hosting plan that includes PHP with MySQL. If you want to use something else like J2EE or ColdFusion you will need use a less traditional web hosting service or use your own hardware.
Personally I run IIS on port 80, Apache on port 8000, and JAS (Java Application Server for J2EE) on port 8080 on my Windows XP MCE laptop. I would like to point out though that setting up IIS on Windows XP MCE was difficult because of a lot of missing components and other issues that can be found with a quick web search. Apache is both free and easy to install, and I actually pointed its PHP services to the same one that I use for IIS, but there is really no need to have more than one web service and server side scripting language unless you are using more than one.
If you want to use IIS you have to be running Windows XP Pro or MCE, and can get it by putting in the Windows Installation CD and choosing to add IIS as an additional component. If you want to use Apache you can download it from the Apache website at IIS comes .NET and ASP ready which cannot used at all on Apache, but both Apache and IIS can be configured to use PHP. PHP can be downloaded for both Windows and Linux at, along with instructions for how to configure on both IIS and Apache. If you want to use Java you can ether download JAS from along with the NetBeans IDE, or you can download Tomcat from
For PHP, Java, and JSP though I prefer to use the Eclipse IDE. The Eclipse IDE can be downloaded from, and comes with the ability to do Java. If you want to do PHP you can download a free plug-in from, and if you want to do JSP I recommend paying for the MyEclipse plug-ins at
Once you have decided on web services and language you will end up with with two IDEs: FlexBuilder and one dedicated to your server side scripting language of choice.
Setting up a Project
You want to create a project directory (through FlexBuilder) in your web root directory. Your web root directory is the directory setup to run web services you your computer. If you are running IIS the default web root directory is C:\inetpub\wwwroot, on Apache Windows the default directory is C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs, and on Apache Linux the default directory is /var/www/html/. All of these locations correspond to http://localhost/ using the web service that you are running.
You want to layout your project directory as follows:
- <Project Directory>: HTML page and scripts that execute your Flash SWF.
- src: Flex source code, MXML and AS
- html-template: templates for generating the HTML page used to run the Flash
- service: service side scripting used to represent web services
- data: data structure representations used by the server side scripting
- settings: miscellaneous files for static content, for example CSS, a web services list...
It should also be noted that for larger projects the web servicing (the server side scripting in the service and data directories) may be located on another machine. In order for your Flex application to access content in an external location on the web, the root web directory of the server
This can be initiated in Flex Builder by specifying your root web directory as the workspace and creating a new project there. Then in the "New Flex Project" window specify the main source folder as "src" and the output folder as blank.
Once the project is created you also have to make sure that the runtime settings point to the HTTP location of the SWF file instead of the File location. This is done by changing the "URL or path to launch" in the Run Dialog for the project.
Laying Out the GUI
Once the project is created there is a single MXML file in your "src" directory, which is the root of the application. From this point it is best to divide up your application into packages based on sub-systems, presentation tier components, and classes used to represents data. It should also be noted that for larger applications you may want to separately group classes related to HTTP and other web services. For example if you had an application with several detailed panels, you may want to break each detailed panel into a separate class. The following is an example directory structure a flex application that divides it components by the following groups: Core Components (core), User Management Components (user), and Example (example)
- src: This is the source code directory
- core: custom components used by all packages
* MyFancyButton.mxml
- user: components related for managing user accounts
- data: data structures related to user components
- interfaces: interfaces used for communicating with the user components
* LoginPanel.mxml
* ManageAccountPanel.mxml
- example: general components used for demonstrating Flex abilities
- data: data structures used for the example components
* WelcomePanel.mxml
* MyProject.mxml
For example consider layout our a basic application that will display only the welcome screen as a custom component. First you would layout the entire GUI minus the welcome panel, which may look something like the following:
Next make a simple component named "WelcomePanel.mxml" in the "example" directory that inherits from "Panel."
Using State Transitions
Now that the application is laid out and there is a custom component that can be used, a state transition can be used to add the custom component to the application. In the "MyProject.mxml" component there is a "States" box that has a single state listed, which is the base state.
If you right-click on the base state and select the option to create a "New State," you can create a state called "WelcomeState" which can be used to display the welcome panel.
With the "WelcomeState" selected you can then drag and drop the "WelcomePanel" onto the "MyProject" component:
If you then reselect the base state the welcome panel will disappear, because the application goes back to its original state. If in the base state you select the welcome button from the menu panel and specify the "click" attribute to be "currentState='WelcomeState", when the welcome button is pressed the application will move from the base state to the "WelcomeState." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9136232137680054}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '57751', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UT7LE5LYHYM7TKOL3OIRA4NWCTGQQWHP', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7cbe8df2-87c8-4403-a410-a4d4a65c344d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 23, 1, 26, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '142.250.73.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:DNUS4AENHHNG6BWFKFMNA6OXGTHBGAYA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:83dcc7da-92cd-4b08-b940-5d0c25269ae4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://jvalentino.blogspot.com/2008/01/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f370691d-5a50-4f83-bd15-45af3e5e3f21>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1471', 'url': 'http://jvalentino.blogspot.com/2008/01/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-12.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.055956363677978516', 'original_id': '35db94c521a260ef2829e99583786f1db1572d6c192da1ddab6417e851a2abb9'} |
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Big endian, little endian
The article read:
"Note that unless otherwise noted, all multi-byte fields use the network byte order (big endian)."
To which Qqq responded on November 20, 2007:
Portable players are usually ARM, which is usually little-endian. The Macintosh is now little-endian. Obviously the PC is little-endian. Clearly there is a winner. It's long past time to stop putting the bytes in an order that makes both programmers and computers do extra work for no good reason. Don't try to hold back the tide.
Perhaps so, but factually people do use OggPCM on big-endian machines. Having big-endian as an option makes sense then, and what is suggested above would then become a recommendation on how to use the format, not a necessary limitation on it. Decoy 04:07, 19 December 2007 (PST)
I am convinced by Qqq's arguments. Default should be changed to little endian. Martin Leese 11:42, 19 December 2007 (PST)
If Qqq's argument happens to be true, I'd agree with this change as well. Since I am unsure, I'd like to propose to bring this issue up in the ogg-dev mailing list.--Ivo 11:16, 29 December 2007 (PST)
This issue was discussed on the mailing list and we decided it was best to leave it as it is.--Ivo 09:42, 25 January 2008 (PST)
Fractional sample rate
The article read:
"32 [uint] Sampling rate [Hz]"
To which Qqq responded on November 20, 2007:
-- this should be a rational with at least a 22-bit numerator and 10-bit denominator
An integer sampling rate is trouble. Audio does not always come that way. For example, audio is sometimes tied to the NTSC frame rate of 30000/1001. That 1001 can show up in the sample rate, and thus needs 10 bits. Rates with a 3 in the denominator are common too. Super Audio CD needs 22 bits to represent 2.8224 MHz. So 22 bits and 10 bits will do the job. Better would be 32 bits for both numerator and denominator of course. A float will never be quite right, though it sure beats an integer and will in fact hold exact values into the MHz. One can't express 1/3 or 1/10 as a float, so 12345.6 and 12345.6666... are undoable that way. BTW, allowing for subsonic recording would be nice.
DSD does not have to be supported, because while technically it can be viewed as high rate PCM, in practice OggPCM aims at supporting the most common forms of conventional PCM, not much more. DSD content is rare, there is no obvious reason why it would be generated by any of the free/open source software projects like Xiph, it would also need its own sample format tag, we would need to go into the specifics of bit packing, and so on. It seems like a whole lot of extra work and complexity for very little gain.
The physical header has already been finalized, so touching the sampling rate parameter is not really an option. Fractional sampling rates would again add complexity for little real benefit, and the option would be difficult to ignore if implemented. That's bad for embedded devices. The point about NTSC, drop-frame and the like is valid, granted, but given how imperfect such sources usually are, addressing the mismatch by simple resampling techniques should be sufficient.
Subsonic recording, that's IMO unnecessary generality for something intended for multimedia work.
Decoy 04:07, 19 December 2007 (PST)
Question: will this thing be lossy or lossless or both
This uncompressed codec: will it be lossy or lossless or kinda both?
It is uncompressed. Lossy is compression that removes pieces of data to chunk more the file size. Lossless is compression without loss of quality.--Ivo 09:42, 25 January 2008 (PST)
I'll assume it's thinkable as lossless like OggUVS.
As Ivo said, OggPCM is uncompressed. That means there is no compression, neither lossless nor lossy. OggUVS is also uncompressed. Martin Leese 12:15, 26 January 2008 (PST)
zip archive
Could compressing it in a zip archive, which is playable without unpacking the whole thing, make for relative small but playable files. Unpacking on the fly possible?
ZIP compression (called LZII or flate/deflate) was designed for English language text. It works poorly on audio data. Martin Leese 11:42, 25 January 2008 (PST) | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9509477615356444}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '23025', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:R3FKGQLBDN3GAEC6JXQX6WJKULGOEQD6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ed4369b9-15b8-4b52-a69a-0ba6bfd7243a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2016, 7, 29, 21, 51, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '140.211.166.31', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MW7P23USQNKXYZZZI7FOYTHFRTFOURRF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f83508cd-ed21-4d95-bfac-2a3e919ba3d9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=Talk:OggPCM&direction=prev&oldid=8194', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b9f239c1-081a-4c7b-a398-fe75acfa38b1>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '718', 'url': 'https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=Talk:OggPCM&direction=prev&oldid=8194', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-30\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2016\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08910822868347168', 'original_id': '353d2b95131c6b13c1393717210592e2344ab6344f71ea313697566bba225c57'} |
Broccoli Crunch Snack Bites
Alessandra Seiter
Vegan broccoli bowl
Coating broccoli in a blended mixture of nuts and spices—similar to that used to coat raw kale chips—then either dehydrating or baking in the oven creates crunchy, flavor-rich, super fun nibbles. Use the top recipe as a base, then choose your favorite flavor variation below!
1. ¾ cups raw almonds, soaked 8 hours or overnight
2. 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
3. 2 tsp maple syrup
4. ¼ tsp sea salt
5. ¾ cups water
6. 3 large heads broccoli, separated into florets
The almonds need to be soaked overnight/for 8 hours.
Blend all ingredients apart from the broccoli in a high-speed blender until smooth. Place the broccoli florets in a large bowl, and pour the dressing over the broccoli. Toss well to coat. Spread the coated broccoli on as many dehydrator trays as you need to fit all of the broccoli, and dehydrate at 110°F for 12-24 hours, or until dry and crunchy.
Oven Variation: Preheat the oven to 400° and bake for about 30-40 minutes, or until crunchy.
Chili Cheese Variation: Add 2 tbsp nutritional yeast, 1 clove garlic, and 2 tsp chili powder to the blended ingredients.
Spicy Maple-Chipotle Variation: Increase the amount of maple syrup to 2 tbsp and add 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp chipotle power to the blended ingredients.
Coconut-Peanut Butter Variation: Increase the amount of maple syrup or agave to 2 tbsp and add 1 tbsp peanut butter, 1/4 cup unsweetened dried coconut, and 1 tsp vanilla extract to the blended ingredients.
Bright Miso Variation: Add 1 tbsp light miso, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 1 tsp onion powder, 1 small clove garlic, and 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard to the blended ingredients.
Smoky “Bacon” Variation: Increase the amount of maple syrup or agave to 1 1/2 tbsp and add 1 tbsp tamari, 1 tsp smoked paprika, and 1/2 tsp liquid smoke to the blended ingredients.
Cool Ranch Variation: Add 1 tbsp nutritional yeast, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp onion powder, 1/2 tsp dried dill, 2 tbsp fresh chives, and 1 tbsp fresh parsley to the blended ingredients.
Ready to take the Veganuary pledge?
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What Is It Like to Live Next to a 136-Megawatt Wind Farm? Get It Straight From the Horse's Mouth
Posted: 09/25/2012 11:33 am
Heidi Eijgel (pronounced eye-gel) is an Alberta horse farmer who lives in the last house at the end of a gravel road surrounded by one of the largest wind farms in Alberta - and she's ok with that.
She moved to the windy prairie of Pincher Creek from the intensely developed Fraser Valley in British Columbia, attracted to the beauty of the fescue prairie landscape and to be close to her husband's family.
Their property is called Windy Coulee Canadian Horses and they raise well-trained and tough riding and driving horses. Only an hour away from rugged Waterton National Park they're built to handle the rough backcountry and Eijgel prides herself on the fact that a 20-mile mountain ride is a cakewalk for her stout, muscular horses.
Heidi trains horses, but she is also passionate about the environment. Her and her husband put a conservation easement on their land to protect the natural fescue prairie and riparian habitats and she can wax lyrical about the health benefits that horses get when eating native grasses.
They even approached a wind energy developer to see if they could have project on their land. Unfortunately, its location ruled it out. Being in a coulee, a deep prairie valley, means the wind is too turbulent for wind energy development. That doesn't mean it isn't windy though, it's enough to knock you over on a windy day.
In 2003, the 70 megawatt Summerview wind farm was built adjacent to Eijgel's property. She has been peacefully co-existing with that wind farm since 2003. In 2010 an additional 66 megawatts of wind energy was installed. We went to Eijgel's horse farm northeast of Pincher Creek to find what that it was like to have a wind farm developed next door.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Industrial Wind Turbine
When the Summerview wind farm was proposed Heidi had some concerns.
"I was worried about a lot of things, the fescue grassland, which is the native grassland around here is one of the most invaluable remnants of nature left. It's unbelievably beautiful and it hosts many birds," said Eijgel.
Concerned about the wildlife impacts Eijgel did her homework. When the time came for a meeting with the developer she was ready.
"The nice thing about it is that the questions were answered right away," said Eijgel. "We met with someone who knew everything about wind farms and they brought up some things that we weren't really aware of."
"I did have a concern about noise and they related the noise that we might expect to hear to be comparable to the refrigerator in the house," said Eijgel.
Since then about a dozen wind large Vestas wind turbines were constructed within 1.5 km of her home, the closest being 700 metres.
By sheer chance at the same time an oil and gas company wanted to drill for sour gas on their property. After multiple meetings she still wasn't happy due to an inadequate plan to deal with her horses in case of an emergency.
"I was stressed and in tears many times talking to that company afraid that I might have to leave my farm because I didn't want to live in an emergency evacuation zone. The wind company was almost a relief to talk to. One meeting at our convenience and it was great."
If an oil and gas company has the mineral rights to a piece of land, property owners are obligated to negotiate with and accommodate the development. It's a far cry from wind energy where developers have to be invited onto the land in order to develop the resource.
Lawnmowers, traffic, blenders and wind turbines
It might seem obvious to say but the wind is a rather loud weather phenomenon. It's no rolling thunder, but when the wind is blowing it's easy to underestimate just how loud the wind it can be.
When the wind is really blowing all Eijgel can hear is the wind in her ears or if she's inside, the wind hitting the house. During low winds she can hear the turbines and she likens them to a train off in the distance. Like the wind though, they've become background noise for the area.
At 500 meters a wind turbine puts out roughly 40 decibels, roughly the same as the compressor on your fridge. The closest turbine to Eijgel is 700 meters away from her home.
The design of their house ended up working to their advantage as well.
"Once the wind farm was here we realized that we had built our house very well. Not that we planned it but with our windows facing east and the wind farm upwind of it we really do not ever hear wind turbines in our house."
The Bats and the Birds
One year after the turbines were installed the company reported an unusual number of dead migratory bats under the wind turbines. TransAlta hired scientists to determine the cause of these bat deaths in 2006. Two researchers from from the University of Calgary determined that it was the sudden changes in air pressure behind the spinning blades that killed the bats.
Eijgel says they'd run into the researchers along the road at night and "they invited us in - you could see little blips of the bats flying."
In 2009 TransAlta conducted a large scale experiment to reduce these bat fatalities.
By not allowing the wind turbines to turn in low winds the researchers were able to reduce bat fatalities by 57 to 60 per cent.
So is Eijgel comforted that the birds and bats are ok?
"I think people need to keep watching and people need to keep monitoring," says Eijgel.
Alberta horse farmer tours Ontario
With nearly a decade of experience living next to a wind Eijgel was invited by Tim Weis of the Pembina Institute to head to Ontario on a speaking tour. .
At a series of three presentations in London, Grand Bend and Chatham-Kent a vociferous group of anti-wind protestors traveled from meeting to meeting to protest, heckle and disrupt the presentations.
A reporter at the Lakeshore Advance wrote: "One (audience member) told QMI Agency he has never been so embarrassed by a group of adults who could not control their tempers. At one point the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) was called to control the irate crowd.
The reporter continued: "During the chaos, a former educator from Exeter said he attended so he could hear what was being said and if people wanted to behave in this manner they should leave. He said the average person is 'not radical and wants to hear the information.' The loud objections to the meeting did not stop so the man left."
In this environment Eijgel managed to complete her presentations and was still positive about the whole experience.
"Personally this was a pretty amazing experience to be able to share my personal thoughts on one of the most important topics that I can ever share my thoughts on."
Polling has repeatedly found a significant majority of Ontarians and Canadians support reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and creating more jobs in clean energy.
In a Massachusetts study (page 27) on wind and health effects people who were financially benefiting from wind turbines experienced "virtually no annoyance regardless of whether those people could see or hear a turbine." By democratizing and spreading around the financial benefits of wind energy development you end up with far less community opposition.
This is why he highlighted the work of groups like TREC and the Peace Energy Cooperative and continually talk about the individual and community ownership levels of renewable energy in Germany and Denmark.
Gone with the Wind
After her London talk I asked Eijgel why she did it. She said "There's only a few things that I think you really need to stand your ground on and speak out on and for me ... the most important is protecting the natural environment."
As for her support of renewable energy, the horse farmer from Pincher Creek says it well.
"It makes business sense, it makes environmental sense, but really these are air molecules that are flying by here and they are going to fly by whether we use them or not... With a wind farm or a wind turbine, if anything goes wrong with it, it's not going to be an environmental disaster, we're not going to have radiation here for a hundred thousand years in the future. We're not going to die in our sleep if there's a sour gas problem - wind turbines are very safe for us and for our communities"
For more resources debunking several of the myths propagated by anti-wind forces head to our latest episode and check out the resources and the extras.
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• Out for a trot
Heidi Eijgel lives on a horse farm surrounded on three sides by the Summerview wind farm in southern Alberta. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
• Luna the horse
Heidi Eijgel on her horse Luna, a Canadian horse. Canadian horses are known for their stocky, muscular build and their hardiness on the trails.
• Keep on turning
Here are several of the 61 giant wind turbines in the 136 megawatt Summerview wind farm northeast of Pincher Creek, Alberta. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
• Here are seven of the 61 giant wind turbines in the 136 megawatt Summerview wind farm northeast of Pincher Creek, Alberta. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
• Moo
A seemingly healthy cow grazing amidst the turbines.
• Summerview Wind Farm
Summerview wind farm near Pincher Creek, Alberta.
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Figure 3.
Characterization of RUNX1 mutations in CMML patients. A: Genomic organization of RUNX1 gene at 21q22.12 and RUNX1 protein. Functional (i.e. RUNT and RUNXI [for RUNX Inhibitor domain], as defined by PFAM accession numbers PF00853 and PF08504, respectively) and motifs of the RUNX1 protein were positioned according to the SMART program webcite. Nucleotide (cDNA level) and deduced aminoacid sequences of the RUNX1 protein are positioned above and below the corresponding protein, respectively. The genomic RUNX1 sequence of CMML 5 exhibited a mutation in the consensus splicing sequence of intron 3. B: Mutations of RUNX1. All mutations but one introduced an aberrant stop codon (cases 3, 6, 12, 15 and 87). Two missense mutations (cases 1 and 25) were also observed. The mutations are located with respect to the modified aminoacid of the RUNX1 protein. C: Representation of putative mutated RUNX1 proteins. According to the SMART program, all putative modified proteins have lost their RUNT and RUNXI domains.
Gelsi-Boyer et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:299 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-299
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sem vs seo
SEM vs SEO: Which Is Better For Your Organization?
SEM vs SEO – What are they & what’s the difference?
Digital Marketing is a very broad subject. There are so many different forms of it, but the most popular ones you tend to hear about are SEM & SEO.
You’re probably wondering “of all the marketing strategies, why are these two always compared to one another?”
To give you a clear concise answer, let me start by explaining the difference between each of them.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an inbound digital marketing strategy used to attract visitors to your webpage by implementing organic strategies such as content writing, video creation, link building, etc. SEO doesn’t require the advertiser to spend money in order for their website to be eligible to be seen by a user.
Through consistency and hard work, you will start to gain Google’s trust. This will lead to building Domain Authority, increasing your websites chances of being seen on the SERP (Search Engine Results Page).
SEM (Search Engine Marketing) is a paid marketing strategy. With as low as 5 bucks, you can run a profitable campaign. Search Engine marketing is essentially a faster way to show up on the SERP without having to build authority on Google. By selecting the keywords you would like to bid on & using it on Google Adwords, Bing or whatever your preferred platform is, your Ad will be shown on top of the organic listings.
sem vs seo
What Strategy You Should Use
When asking yourself this question, it is crucial to understand your business’ circumstances.
What are your business goals?
Things that should be taken into account is what your budget is, what pace you want to work at.
• Do you want to get your traffic fast or the time you spend doesn’t matter to you?
• Do you want to save money? Or are you a baller and have money to blow.
Whichever marketing strategy you decide to use is totally up to you. SEM & SEO both can benefit your business. In my experience, I’ve found that I’ve always preferred to use Search Engine Marketing on ecommerce sites with lots of products and SEO on affiliate sites or service based websites.
Combing the two and using both on visce versa is just as effective, if not more…
If you haven’t noticed, it’s because SEO & SEM go hand in hand and can work together to double conversions.
In the end, choosing “the best” strategy depends on what you think is going to provide the most value for your business. If you think a short term strategy is more beneficial, then try SEM… If you’d want to go with a longer term strategy, try SEO.
One thing to always remember, marketing is about testing things.
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Here is your live blog for the day.
It's funny because it's true.
DIABuN: Democrat in all but name.
Not as easy to say as RINO, but in Flake's case it's more on point.
BTW, "Friends" is already problematical for the Left.
Epitaph for a Dying Culture.
Today's Required Reading comes from Victor Davis Hanson:
1. The veracity of accusations will hinge on the particular identity, emotions, and ideology of the accuser;
3. The burden of proof and evidence will rest with the accused to disprove the preordained assumption of guilt;
4. Hearsay will be a valuable narrative and constitute legitimate evidence;
Truth is not universal, but individualized. Ford’s “truth” is as valid as the “Truth,” given that competing narratives are adjudicated only by access to power. 5. Ford is a victim, therefore her truth trumps “their” truth based on evidence and testimony.
10. The accuser establishes the conditions under which charges are investigated; the accused nods assent.
One small quibble. Modern progressivism is more of a high-tech feudalism than a Dark Age. Feudalism was a system of fealty, from serf to lord, from lord to noble, and on up the chain to the King. Everyone was assigned their place, and everyone was taken care of provided they knew and kept their place. Deviation was put down, and as quickly as possible and with whatever violence was needed.
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Obama makes it more difficult for your kids to get a job
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POSTED June 17, 2012 10:47 p.m.
Do you have a child that has been unable to to get a job? Were they having trouble because they had to compete with illegal aliens? Guess what? It will now be even more difficult because Obama has authorized over 800,000 illegal kids to get work permits without fear of any kind of reprisal from the government. That has just slanted the job market even further in favor of the illegals. They will still work for lower wages and longer hours than would be legal for anyone else. It is now they will pass the computer screening (e-verify) required by the government.
I do understand that those kids that have lived their whole life here feel they are Americans but there is one problem. Those kids who parents are either citizens by birth, as are the kids, or by naturalization, have been paying taxes and everything required of citizens was not being do by the illegals, no matter what is said. Something does have to be done but not at the expense of the children of the citizens!
Just give things some serious thought. Why is the job market so poor? Who keeps getting the high paying jobs? Why are several jobs that were supposed to be generated by the Obama Stimulus Bill being filled by Chinese nationals, Oakland Bay Bridge ($7.5billion dollars), $190 million bridge job in Alaska, multi-billion dollar job in New York, to mention a few? Less than 10% of the workers are Americans. The government is sending over $10 billion to China and nothing for our workers.
If you are thinking about your kids’ future, think about the change that has taken place in the country. Can you afford another four years like the last three? I can't, so I will look at everything being done in Washington and vote accordingly.
Dale Burnham
June 16, 2012
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Investors should sell their losers now to reap a tax break
Jim Loukota of Baltimore County is trying to make the best of a soured investment.
The 60-year-old retired electrician owns 100 shares of First Mariner Bancorp that he bought for about $14.50 per share in the late 1990s and closed Monday a little over 5 cents a share.
He wants to sell the stock in the Baltimore-based bank holding company before the end of the year so he can use the loss to offset income on his tax return. But the discount brokerage that originally sold him the stock says it doesn't deal in shares trading below $1. And he's having trouble finding anyone else willing to help him sell his paper stock certificate.
The retiree says if he could deduct his losses on his taxes, at least the stock would be worth something. As it is, he says, "it's worth less than nothing."
Loukota's problem largely stems from the fact that his shares are in paper certificate form, which can be cumbersome to trade. This hurdle can be overcome — more about that later.
But his situation raises issues that many other investors face: What can be done when a once-promising stock is now worth only a fraction of its purchase price or, worse, nothing at all? Investors often hold onto losing stocks, hoping they will recover at some point. But if a stock doesn't revive, at least investors can still make lemonade out of a lemon.
In this case, the lemonade is a tax deduction.
If you have shares that are worthless, you can use the loss to offset any capital gains you might have for the year. Losses that exceed gains can be used to offset up to $3,000 in regular income on your federal tax return.
It's a high hurdle for a stock to be deemed truly "worthless," says Melissa Labant, technical manager with the American Institute of CPAs. To meet that standard, you must have no reasonable hope of getting any money in return for the shares, she says.
Some brokerages help clients stuck with stocks with no value or no market for them by buying the shares for a penny each, or $1 for the lot.
That way, clients can get a tax form showing they sold the shares for a loss and can claim the tax break, says Bill Socha, chief operating officer for Lombard Securities in Baltimore. The brokerage will hold onto the shares for several years until the Depository Trust Co., a clearinghouse for stocks, deems them worthless, he says.
Sometimes, though, what investors consider a useless stock has value in the marketplace — just not the one they're used to.
Troubled companies that no longer meet the requirements to be listed on U.S. stock exchanges can end up being quoted "over the counter" — a platform that allows brokers to trade the shares. This is what happened to First Mariner this year.
OTC Markets operates the largest quotation system for unlisted securities. It divides stocks into three tiers, from highly speculative startups that provide little public information to major foreign companies that choose not to be listed on U.S. exchanges.
Tim Ryan, managing director of OTC Markets, says all companies quoted on the platform have a "market maker," a firm that agrees to buy and sell a company's stock to facilitate trading.
First Mariner, which is quoted on the platform, has 16 market makers, Ryan says. The stock is also traded on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, which lists one market maker.
Given that, it appears Loukota will be able to find a buyer for his stock. He just needs to find someone to help him sell it.
Most people buying stocks these days have them held in "street name," in which the shares are registered under the name of the brokerage that maintains a list of the owners. Stock issuers also allow direct registration, in which investors are listed as owners on the company's books and no certificate is given.
You still can get an old-fashioned paper certificate. To sell it, Socha says, you will have to submit the certificate to a brokerage and have the shares put in street name, a process that can take as long as eight business days.
Besides, brokerages "can decide what certificates they are willing to trade," says Gerri Walsh, FINRA's vice president of investor education.
And in cases where the number of shares is small and the stock not worth much, brokerages might decide it's not worth their time to execute the sale, experts say.
Loukota has some options. Experts say many banks, including First Mariner, have brokerage departments, and investors can open an account there and sell the bank's shares.
And a local broker, hearing of Loukota's predicament, agreed to help him out.
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Axillary Artery
Axillary Artery
Fig. 5-1 Between the deltohumeral prominence laterally and the pectoral muscle mass medially there is a groove that overlies the axillary neurovascular bundle.
Anatomy of the Axillary Artery
When the arm is in its relaxed, adducted position, the axillary artery is enfolded on all sides by muscles of the chest wall, pectoral girdle, and proximal brachium. Surface landmarks help locate the position of the vessel in relation to the underlying musculoskeletal structures when the arm is at rest (Fig. 5-1). The recurved clavicle defines the upper frame of the axilla. The pectoral muscle mass follows the tapering contour of the upper chest wall beneath the clavicle medially. Laterally, the humeral head with its overlying deltoid and subscapular muscles forms a prominent bulge. The most medial component of this bulge is created by the coracoid process of the scapula pushing the medial part of the deltoid anteriorly. It is not generally appreciated that the corticoid is so clearly visible on surface inspection and requires no esoteric palpation to locate. The cephalic vein lies in the deltopectoral groove and may be visible in a thin or muscular individual. A depression is formed beneath the clavicle between the coracoid prominence of the shoulder and the lateral clavicular origin of the pectoralis major muscle. The axillary artery is most superficial within this depression and can be easily palpated. To follow the courses of the remainder of the vessel, it is necessary to unfold the muscular envelope and view the artery in its anatomic context.
The Muscular Boundaries
The axillary artery is anatomically defined by the lateral margin of the first rib proximally and the lateral edge of the teres major muscle distally. Along this span, the artery lies within a cleft formed by muscles originating on the scapula (Fig. 5-2). The broad subscapularis, converging toward the head of the humerus, forms the majority of the posterior bed on which the vessel lies. The lowest segment of the artery crosses the teres major and latissimus dorsi insertions.
The medial wall of the cleft consists of the serratus anterior, wrapping around the upper ribs from its origin on the medial border of the deep scapular surface. The coracoid process arches over the axillary neurovascular bundle and gives origin to muscles that lie anterior to the vessels. One of these, the pectoralis minor muscle, is used as a landmark to divide the axillary artery into three parts which are medial to, behind, and lateral to the muscle. The coracobrachialis, a small muscle analogous to the adductors of the thigh, and the short head of the biceps brachii also originate from the tip of the coracoid process. The neurovascular bundle parallels the course of these muscles. The pectoralis major adds the final anterior blanket of muscle over the axillary space.
Fig. 5-2 The axillary contents are enclosed by pectoral girdle muscles.
Branches of the Axillary Artery
The first segment of the axillary artery has one branch, the second has two, and the third segment has three branches (Fig. 5-3). Immediately after passing over the outer rim of the first rib, the axillary artery gives origin to the small supreme thoracic artery.
Behind the medial margin of the pectoralis minor muscle, the second part of the axillary artery gives rise to the thoracoacromial artery from its anterior surface and the lateral thoracic artery from its inferior surface. After penetrating the clavipectoral fascia, the thoracoacromial artery divides into lateral acromial and deltoid branches, and medial clavicular and pectoral branches. The pectoral branch, with its accompanying vein and lateral pectoral nerve, forms the major neurovascular pedicle to the pectoralis major muscle. The lateral thoracic artery descends from the second part of the axillary artery to the lateral chest wall, pectoralis major muscle, and breast.
Fig. 5-3 The axillary artery branches are shown.
The largest branch of the axillary artery is the subscapular artery, which arises from the third part lateral to the pectoralis minor muscle. It is surrounded by the fat and lymph nodes of the central axilla. It divides into the circumflex scapular artery and thoracodorsal artery. The latter is joined by the thoracodorsal nerve to form the principal neurovascular pedicle of the latissimus dorsi muscle. The remaining two branches of the distal axillary artery are the medial and lateral humeral circumflex arteries. The medial branch runs between the subscapularis tendon and deltoid muscle. The lateral branch, accompanied by the axillary nerve, passes between the teres major, teres minor, long head of the triceps, and the humerus to reach the posterior aspect of the shoulder.
The Nerves of the Axilla
The divisions and cords of the brachial plexus interchange fibers in the proximal axilla and assume the final configuration of nerves to the arm around the third part of the axillary artery (Fig. 5-4). Several important branches arise from the roots, trunks, divisions, and cords of the brachial plexus and traverse the axillary space.
The nerve of the axilla with the most proximal origin is the long thoracic arising from the ventral primary rami of cervical nerves three, four, and five. The long thoracic nerve emerges through the body of the middle scalene muscle dorsal to the brachial plexus and lies on the serratus anterior muscle, which it innervates. It lies relatively far posterior in the serratus/subscapularis cleft described above.
The lateral and medial pectoral nerves are named for the cords of the brachial plexus from which they arise. Anatomically, they occupy relative positions opposite to what their names imply and have been described in clinical literature by positional designations.1,2 The following discussion uses the descriptors based on origin. The pectoral nerves are important because they innervate the large pectoralis muscle. The lateral pectoral nerve usually divides into two to four branches and supplies the cephalad portion of the pectoralis major muscle. The branches that join the pectoral branch of the thoracoacromial artery form a neurovascular pedicle on which the pectoralis muscle can be transplanted. The medial pectoral nerve passes between the axillary artery and vein, penetrates and supplies the pectoralis minor muscle, and continues through that muscle as one or more branches to supply the caudal part of the pectoralis major muscle.
Fig. 5-4 The brachial plexus nerves surround the axillary artery within the axillary sheath.
The musculocutaneous nerve arises from the lateral cord and supplies the coracobrachialis, biceps brachii, and the medial part of the brachialis muscles. The medial antebrachial and brachial cutaneous nerves arise from the medial cord in the midaxilla. The latter is usually joined by the intercostobrachial nerve spanning the distal axillary space from the second intercostal nerve. The thoracodorsal nerve arises from the posterior cord and joins the thoracodorsal artery to the latissimus dorsi muscle. The subscapular nerves to the subscapularis and teres major muscles also arise from the posterior cord. The last branch of the posterior cord is the axillary nerve to the teres minor and deltoid muscles and posterior shoulder.
The three major nerves to the upper extremity, the median, ulnar, and radial, surround the distal
axillary artery. The median and ulnar nerves accompany the brachial artery in the arm. The radial nerve deviates from the neurovascular bundle at the distal border of the latissimus tendon and passes posteriorly around the humerus with the deep brachial artery.
The Fasciae of the Axilla
The central compartment of the axilla is occupied by the neurovascular bundle and loose, fatty, areolar tissue containing lymphatics and lymph nodes (Fig. 5-5). The neurovascular bundle is surrounded by a fascial wrapping called the axillary sheath. Vascular and nerve branches exit the sheath and traverse the fatty axillary contents to reach their destinations. The bulk of the fatty axillary content is anterior, caudal, and posterior to the sheath. There is a clear plane between the sheath and fat along the anterior surface of the axillary vein. This plane is used to identify the neurovascular branches when beginning an axillary dissection. A second clear plane is found between the fat and the deep fascia over the serratus anterior muscle. The intercostobrachial nerve penetrates the axillary fat in the distal axilla and often must be divided to obtain a clean axillary dissection.
Fig. 5-5 The clavipectoral fascia is the outer envelope of the axillary contents.
The next fascial layer anterior to the axillary contents is the clavipectoral fascia, which encloses the subclavius and pectoralis minor muscles. This layer is penetrated by the thoracoacromial vessels, pectoral nerves, and cephalic vein. Lateral to the pectoralis minor muscle, the clavipectoral fascia attaches to the axillary fascia and is thought to tether the latter, giving the axillary skin its concave shape. The outermost layer of fascia is the deep, investing pectoral fascia, which encloses the pectoralis major and deltoid muscles. The continuation of this fascia between the lateral edge of the pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi muscles is called the axillary fascia.
Exposure of the Axillary Artery
The axillary artery is an ideal donor artery in extraanatomic bypasses to the opposite arm or to the lower extremities. It is a direct extension of major aortic arch branches and is usually free of flow-limiting arterial stenoses. Its location outside of the thorax and below the clavicle affords easy accessibility and allows construction of superficial bypasses. The physiologic advantage of these bypasses has been well-documented in elderly, poor-risk patients who would not tolerate more direct intraabdominal or intrathoracic bypasses.3,4,5 Superficial bypasses are also indicated for lower extremity revascularization in cases of aortic sepsis.6
The superficial location of the axillary artery and its proximity to the brachial plexus also carry disadvantages, as the neurovascular bundle is prone to injury. The long-term consequences are determined by the degree of neurologic trauma.7,8,9 Longterm functional deficits are rare after isolated axillary artery injuries, but patients with combined neurovascular trauma may experience severe disability and even require late arm amputation. In addition to injuries resulting from accidents or violence, the axillary artery is subject to iatrogenic trauma from invasive diagnostic tests, such as arteriograms. The tough axillary sheath prevents exsanguination from these injuries but permits rapid compression of its contents as blood accumulates. Symptoms of brachial plexus compression are reversible only with rapid evacuation of blood within the sheath.
Fig. 5-6 The three parts of the axillary artery are marked by the borders of the pectoralis minor muscle.
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Not the worst sports game ever made, and capable of producing some enjoyment in multiplayer mode. But it won't last, will get annoying, and you will get very bored. [Issue#209, p.94]
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just played the demo...Yeah the price is a little bit akward (49.99)... But this game is FUN! Im not an expert about rugby, but all i know is that it did not take long before i was able to understand how to play the game. Everybody can learn in like 5 min! I dont know why critics are comparing it with games like madden or fifa... Its really not the same budget and how many decent games of rugby have you played in your life? Me, thats sure is the first decent one. Im not going to bash it... it's absolutely not the sports game of the year but it deserve to give it a chance and Im sure that like me, you'll have a lot of fin with it
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This is nothing more than the previous version, with updated names and logos, and wa
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Largest U.S. Health Data Breach To Date Results in $16 Million HIPAA Settlement
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On October 15, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Anthem, Inc. will pay $16 million to settle OCR’s investigation of its potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. This HIPAA settlement is the largest to date and is almost triple the previous high of $5.55 million paid to OCR in 2016. The Resolution Agreement also requires Anthem, one of largest health insurers in the nation and a business associate to numerous health plans, to undertake a robust corrective action plan to address the compliance issues identified during OCR’s investigation.
OCR began an investigation of Anthem in February 2015 after media reports and information on Anthem’s website indicated that Anthem had experienced a sophisticated cyberattack. A month later, Anthem notified OCR that hackers had gained access to the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of over 78 million individuals stored on Anthem’s enterprise data warehouse, the largest U.S. health data breach in history.
The hackers initially gained access to Anthem’s network through a phishing attack on one of Anthem’s subsidiaries in which at least one employee responded to a malicious email. Once inside the subsidiary’s information system, the attackers were able to gain access to other parts of Anthem’s network to extract data. For a period of approximately six weeks, the hackers remained in Anthem’s network undetected and continued to steal ePHI, including individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and employment information.
OCR’s investigation found that, besides allowing the impermissible disclosure of ePHI, Anthem failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis, had insufficient procedures to regularly review information system activity, failed to identify and respond to suspected or known security incidents, and failed to implement adequate minimum access controls to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing sensitive ePHI.
OCR’s Director indicated that the record-breaking settlement amount was appropriate for the largest U.S. health data breach in history. Director Roger Severino stressed that large healthcare companies should be aware that they are among the most attractive targets for hackers given their large stores of sensitive health information and have appropriate measures in place given the level of risk. In particular, Director Severino called out the need for strong password policies and timely security incident response. In contrast, Anthem resolved the matter with seven state regulators in 2016 with no fines or penalties warranted, but significant security measures and heightened information security monitoring required. The OCR corrective action plan requires Anthem to conduct an accurate and thorough risk analysis, the specifications of which must be approved by OCR to ensure its adequacy. Anthem is also required to revise its policies and procedures regarding information system activity review and access control.
This settlement should serve as a reminder to large healthcare organizations that, because of the amount and sensitive nature of the information they maintain, they are most likely to be targeted frequently and persistently by cyber criminals. Organizations with numerous employees, subsidiaries, locations, and lines of business likely have complex and interconnected information systems. It is important for such organizations (and any covered entity or business associate that maintains an enterprise data warehouse) to have processes in place to regularly audit and monitor activity in their information systems to detect unauthorized access to information, unusual or suspicious activity, and when information is being sent outside the system.
Organizations should also have access controls in place to ensure that each individual who is granted access to the information system is only authorized to access information needed to do their specific job and does not have the ability to access other areas of the information system that contain sensitive information. A security risk analysis, which is required under the HIPAA Security Rule, can assist an organization in determining how to bolster its auditing, monitoring and access control procedures.
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You are hereBlogs / Ralph Lopez's blog / In the Midst of $2 Billion Per Week Spending on War, Babies Freezing in Kabul for Lack of Food, Fuel, Blankets
By Ralph Lopez - Posted on 14 February 2012
It goes on and on and on, a black Theater of the Absurd. NATO truck convoys laden with every comfort imaginable which US war contractor dollars can buy - bottled water, frozen steaks, space heaters, air conditioners, new SUVs, anything really - roll into Kabul destined for military bases, embassies, and the universe of end-delivery points which comprise a major military occupation. The "burn rate" for the occupation, the military's term for the rate of spending, is over $8 billion a month or $10 million every hour, making it the most expensive war in US history. Along the way, the convoys pass in plain view of the refugee camps where 35,000 people fight day-to-day for barest survival, internally displaced persons or IDPs who have fled the fighting around their homes in other parts of Afghanistan.
There is no way not to see the camps as you enter or leave Kabul. They announce the city limits in every direction. In Kabul there is no Taliban, unless gathering for an occasional strike just to show that it can. But in general security is good. Men gather by the tens of thousands in the city squares each morning hoping to be picked up for a day of work, for $5 a day, much like illegal workers in this country can be seen at 5am in the parking lot of a Home Depot.
And in unheated tents and mud huts, while adults shiver away another night of bad or non-existent sleep merely gathering strength for next days' scavenging and search for work, seeing their condensed breath from beneath inadequate blankets, children freeze or die from immune systems weakened by poor nutrition. In the frigid temperatures, in the teens, the children may roll out from under the blankets, and, in contact with bare dirt or mud floors, quickly have the heat drawn out of them and enter the stages of hypothermia. Since January 15, at least 23 children under 5 have died frozen to death in the camps.
The New York Times reports that:
The deaths occurred at two of the largest camps, Charahi Qambar (8 cold-related deaths), and Nasaji Bagrami (14 such deaths). Both camps are populated largely with refugees who fled the fighting in areas like Helmand Province in the south.
An alarming number of Afghans are now saying, as much as they disliked them, and thought them cruel and crazy, they were better off under the Taliban. When the Taliban was overthrown, the vast majority of Afghans rejoiced. The Taliban were few in numbers but had a simple formula or enforcing its rule: fear. If a ten dollar bill was laying on the sidewalk, you could walk past the next day and it would still be there. Because there was only one penalty if you were accused of theft: getting your hand chopped off.
The severity of this Kabul winter is unusual, the coldest in 20 years. But the utter state of unpreparedness and lack of institutional response after ten years of occupation has appalled aid workers. One German aid worker told the New York Times: “The fact that every year there’s winter shouldn’t come as a surprise.”
Of course any emergency response now will be a short-term solution. What may be even more unforgivable is that a long-term solution to the chronic misery of Afghans, who still suffer horrendous rates of malnutrition among both children and adults, is tested, available, and waiting. The World Bank reports 60% stunting among children for lack of food and one-third of all Afghan children underweight. The clear solution is continually ignored by the Obama administration, congressional committees charged with overseeing development assistance, and the American media.
It is a myth that all parts of the Afghan government are corrupt and incompetent, or that the task of helping Afghans get on their feet in a non-imperialist manner which allows ordinary Afghans to determine their own destiny is too daunting. But beyond this, it is a fact that the reason Afghans are in this predicament goes back long before the US invasion of 2001, to the days when Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski sought to give the Russians "their own Vietnam" through CIA meddling in Afghan affairs. In a nutshell, Brzezinski armed religiously conservative, rural, Islamist warlords who were long-time enemies of the modernizing Kabul government, because they represented the anti-Russian faction in a civil war.
The Russians intervened, brutally devastated the country, and got bogged down, just as Brzezinski had hoped. In a sense, rather than leave the Afghans to fight out their civil war, the US drew it out, tempted a third power into the middle of it, and now continues to inject both arms and money into an inherently unstable situation. The Pakistan-based Taliban now looks more like an interlude in the ongoing efforts of Afghans of all ethnicities and tribes to come together to settle their own affairs.
Critical to this process will be the removal of the dry tinder of civil war. This is nothing more than what has always been well-understood as a preventative for civil war: reparations or other forms of dignified assistance which put tools, materials, and technical assistance where necessary into the hands of men and women eager to rebuild their own country. Instead, the US is now in essence paying fighting-age men to do the opposite. By keeping unemployment at 40% and as high as 80% in war-ravaged regions., and at the same time continuing the flow of Department of Defense funding for the Taliban through transportation contracts, as documented by the House subcommittee report "Warlord Inc.," the Taliban is placed in the enviable position of the employer of last resort, paying the excellent wage for Afghanistan of $10 per day.
General Karl Eikenberry, former Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan, acknowledged in congressional testimony in 2007:
The best way to keep an insurgency going is to pay both sides to fight. Even more remarkably, and completely ignored by the American press, before being appointed to head the CIA by Obama, General David Petraeus quietly fired the 2-star Admiral who was appointed to head the response to the revelation of Taliban funding by the US, Admiral Kathleen Dussault, an expert auditor, and replaced her with a one-star with no experience in accounting.
In contrast, were reparations, distributed through an efficient and honest mechanism, to keep discontented men busy with the proud work of re-building the basic infrastructure of their own villages and communities, the Taliban, lacking broad appeal or ideological loyalty as the result of its past depredations, would gradually recede into irrelevance. Young Afghans want to learn computers and become famous athletes. Already Afghanistan is doing remarkable things in world cricket, basketball, wrestling, and other sports. The achievements are even more remarkable considering they arise from a largely malnourished and utterly poverty-stricken population.
After 30 years of constant fighting, there is no stock lower anywhere than war is in Afghanistan. But fight they will, if forced into it, fueled by hopelessness, idleness, and simmering anger at past injustices.
The best news of all is that such a vehicle for distributing reparations already exists as a major program within one government ministry. The World Bank calls the National Solidarity Program (NSP) "a government within a government." The NSP is a unique hybrid of a national government department with voluntary financial oversight from an external agency, the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF.) The ARTF collects funds from international country donors, such as the US, and passes them down to the NSP on a project by project, milestone by milestone basis. The projects are decided on by elected village councils, which include women.
Projects are small and simple but many: clearing canals or irrigation, basic road improvement, livestock walls, schools, all employing almost all Afghans, and improving infrastructure to enable revitalization of the traditional agrarian economy. Dirt roads improved with gravel and re-grading allow farmers to get to market during rainy season. A shorter walk for clean water (3/4 of the country still lacks it) means children can attend school rather than spend days hauling it.
Alone among major development programs in Afghanistan, the NSP received a glowing report from the US Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction.
Unfortunately, and unforgivably in a country where children are freezing to death, the NSP is chronically short of funds, by an amount which would equal about what the US spends on war costs in one week, about $2 billion. Were this amount to be diverted to the NSP (through the ARTF) for each of three years, Afghan society would soon be on a stable footing, interested in anything but more war.
The negligence of basic needs is not only immoral; it is against international law as it regards "occupying powers," which the US qualifies as after the invasion and overthrow of the Taliban. Article 55 of the 1949 Geneva Convention states:
The NY Times Rod Nordland reports on the dead:
¶ Ismail, the son of Juma Gul. “He was never warm in his entire life,” Mr. Gul said. “Not once.” It was a short life, 30 days long.
Donations: The Lamia Afghan Foundation, an American charity started by Lt. Gen. John A. Bradley, is collecting donations for baby formula, blankets, fuel and other emergency items. After a Paypal donation please type "baby formula" into the notes. The George Washington University Afghan Students Association has started a Facebook to support the drive HERE.
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defeating your worst enemy
Last week, we talked about how your own worst enemy when it comes to investing is yourself. So how does one go about defeating an enemy so subtle, so intelligent, and so very…you? Well, here are a few systems that can help.
Have a written plan, and a regular date in your calendar for reviewing it. Whatever your plan is — whether you’re a businessman or an academic — write that plan down. If you don’t have a written, solid plan, it’s a good bet that you’re going to let your emotions change that plan whenever you feel like it. If the market crashes, it’s too late — if you sell then, you’re just buying high and selling low! So write a plan, review it once every 6-12 months, and only change the plan when it’s up for review. This will keep you from trying to chase performance and falling victim to that dreaded Behavior Gap.
In particular, have a systematic rebalancing plan. If your investing plan is asset allocation based — and I recommend that it should be — make sure you regularly check to see if it needs rebalancing. Notice that I said “check”; don’t just mindlessly rebalance every quarter, or trading costs could eat any gains you may have gotten. No, it’s better to have a concrete plan in place, with rules like “if the absolute percentage of international stocks is more than 5% from the target, rebalance” or “if any individual stock becomes more than 2% of my portfolio, rebalance”.
Stick to the Yahoo principle. William Baldwin at Forbes wrote an article in which (along with recommending fee-only advisors) he outlines the Yahoo principle: buy things that trade in large volumes with prices you can see. Read the article for his reasoning, but I only needed one story to convince me: a friend of mine, incredibly intelligent, who had been investing since before college, had money tied up in some fancy dutch-auction securities which, after 2008, simply would not sell, at any price. Sure, nothing ventured, nothing gained, but there’s such a thing as the reward not being worth the risk.
Once a year, run the Overnight Test. This gem comes from Carl Richards. The idea is simple: once a year, imagine that one night, some crazy guy took all your assets and liquidated them, but left the proceeds in your account, so you wake up and find that everything you have is in cash. What would you buy? If it’s not the securities you currently own, why do you still own them?
These are some of my favorites, but it’s by no means an exhaustive list. How about you? What are some of your favorite systems?
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systematically solve your financial problems, part 4
So: you’ve identified the problem, chosen a system, and established criteria for success. Now all that’s left is to implement the system and wait for success to find you, right? Well…no. As I mentioned last week, every system is an experiment, so as with all experiments, you need to periodically review and tweak your system.
This is what trips most people up. Once a plan is in place, they feel this rush of relief, almost as if they’ve already beaten whatever problem they’ve come to solve. So they go on their merry way…and are completely blindsided when their system blows a gasket or simply fails to start. No, every system needs regular care and feeding, whether it’s weekly, monthly, or even yearly.
Example: a budget. You get tired of not knowing how much money you have to spend, so you sit down one day, go through your receipts, and come up with one. All the numbers add up, everything looks great…until next month rolls around. You find that you overspent on eating out, so you grit your teeth and resolve to underspend by that much the following month. But that month you have friends in town, so of course you eat out even more, and find yourself hundreds of dollars in the hole…and you give up. It just wasn’t working for you.
Well, of course it wasn’t! Remember: every system is a continual experiment. Instead of just throwing up your hands, tweak your system. Maybe you need to allocate more money to eating out. Maybe you need to switch to the envelope method. Whatever it is, it’s almost guaranteed that you won’t get it right the first try…and what works today may not work a year from now. No budget is ever exactly on target, and there is no such thing as a “normal” month; what makes budgets work is when you sit down each month and adapt your budget to Real Life. (By the way, YNAB is excellent at this sort of “rolling with the punches”.)
Or maybe you decided that making a budget was exactly what you and your spouse needed to see eye-to-eye. So you sit down, make a budget, explain it to your spouse, they agree…and then promptly blow it out of the water the next time they see a sale. You could give up…or you could tweak your system. A “monthly money date” is an excellent way to make sure you and your spouse are on the same page re: finances. (Oh, and the system of “just not talking about money at all”? That won’t work. I promise.)
Now, this sort of thing doesn’t come easy to most; we’ve got lots of other things to worry about, and taking time out for our finances doesn’t often make the priority list, even when we know it should. This is where financial coaches really shine. I’m not talking about normal financial advisors, who are mainly interested in selling you insurance and investment products; I’m talking about the ones who work with you to create and maintain your financial systems. Like a personal trainer, they not only give you the information you need, but they also guide your development as you grow, regularly reminding you to tweak your systems — from budgeting to investing — and giving you ideas on how to do so.
Unfortunately, while you can’t throw a rock without hitting a financial advisor, the kind of financial coach I’m talking about (who often does financial advising and then some) is a bit trickier to find. There is my own practice, of course, and I’d be delighted to work with you; also, I highly recommend my friend Jennifer Jaime, a CPA and excellent financial coach.
Whether you get an expert to help you or no, remember this: financial success — or failure! — rarely comes from a single decision. Rather, it comes from your systems, and the day in, day out decisions that come from them. Care for them consistently, and you’ll get where you want to go. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '882', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.954606592655182}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '76053', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YASN55KBAL7CUBASMIS266B6KOXQ2UOE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:72d233d4-93e5-49c7-b565-35894a2eb552>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 2, 25, 2, 27, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KNXREWP4VYPHLCF4VPVVCKPLKUAJDDDV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:78acd996-123d-451c-8718-f3f0f9d90f49>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://financialgeekery.com/2012/09/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bfaf7655-ed4b-4e29-b6e0-1092fe23dcb1>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1940', 'url': 'https://financialgeekery.com/2012/09/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-229.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.056070685386657715', 'original_id': '41a13450fe93c3138a6b2788c89f680f5b37d067637bdc24b7e2af91a12c22b4'} |
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Past memories
So I should have posted this a few weeks ago, but I'm lazy, and then I forgot, but I saw something today that reminded me of how silly/strange people are. So, lets rewind back to January. I heard a song on the radio, and I'm like hrm..thats pretty good. I did a search on Itunes and was able to find it and some other songs. The band's name? 30 Seconds to Mars. Ever heard of them? Yeah most people haven't. Anyways, about a month ago I was browsing upcoming concerts and saw that they were coming to town, and that tickets were only $15. Score! So, I decided to take Luis for his birthday. I decided to read up on this band since I didn't know anything about them and discover that Jared Leto (aka Jordon Catelano from My So Called Life) is the lead singer. I was stunned just because I can't think of any actor who has successfully launched a music career. Now, I feel the need to list out solo acts that never made it; Bruce Willis, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Don Johnson, and Eddie Murphy. Has anyone ever bought a Bacon Brothers (Kevin Bacon) CD, or Dogstarr (Keanu Reeves). Nope. So, anyways, yes, stunned. Now forward to concert night. I have a good buzz going on, I bust through towards the front of the crowd. How did I do it? I was looking for my "friend" Julia. Anyways, it was a great show, so i'm like, ok, I'll go do the meet and greet thing. I'm frantically texting my sister to think of what to say (liquor = mind numbness) and she says to ask if his passion is in music or acting. Simple enough. So I cruise through the band, actually stopping and chatting with Shannon (his bro) for a bit. Nothing significant, but I like him. Plus he's wearing eyeliner and I'm a sucker for guys with eyeliner. Anyways I make it down to and he doesn't really look at me, so I sort of shove my CD in front of him. I say "This is the point where I ask you something profound, right?" And he said "No, please don't". Well I'm drunk, but I'm thinking well my questions really isn't that difficult, so I ask him if he prefers acting or singing. He does give me direct eye contact this time, now lets freeze frame this moment. I've never thought Jared was attractive. Well, I mean, I could tell he is attractive, but he's very pretty, and I don't do the clean look. And for those of you who don't know, here are some definitions from the K.Love dictionary. Clean (as in reference to a person) - Nicely groomed hair, clean-shaven, dresses to impress, lots of times falls into the metro category. Dirty (as in reference to a person) - usually has facial hair, piercings, tattoos, dark hair, and tends to wear all black or dark colors. May wear eyeliner or nail polish. Anyways, now that Jared is a musician he has darkened his hair, wears all black, and yes, lots of eyeliner that makes his baby blues pop. He's more my type of guy now, but judging by all the US I read I know this is just for the stage and he's more clean in his day to day life. Anyways, now that reality is moving again he says "It really doesn't matter does it because I don't have any talent". Then he sort of tosses the CD at me and turns away. I was a bit stunned. Was he looking for sympathy? No, I believe he was intentionall being a jerk. Now the liquor wanted me to say "Well that may be true, but thats not what I asked you", but my mind said "Get your ass out the door before security carries you away". So that was it. Anyways, time has passed and I resumed my listening of their music. I received notice that they apparently put out this new video, so I give it a watch. Now its actually a pretty cool video, sort of The Shining feeling, but there is this one part where Jared runs into himself, and they appear to be singing at each other, and then simultaneously scream at each other. I laughed out loud. It looked quite silly. Its hard to explain. Its just one of those things you need to see. 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50 Educational Video Games That Homeschoolers Love
Video games often get a bad rap. Some of that criticism may be deserved (many don’t exactly encourage kids to get active), but video games aren’t all bad. In fact, there are a number that are pretty darn educational and can help students young and old learn new things, develop problem-solving skills, and get creative, all while having a really great time. Many schools have already gotten on board with educational video games and homeschoolers can do the same. Here are some great games to try out that present quality educational content in a fun format that students from kindergarten to high school will love.
Gaming Platform
These video games for Wii, Xbox, and Playstation will get your kids loving the learning process.
My Word Coach: Available for both Wii and Nintendo DS, this linguist-developed game will help students improve their verbal communication skills through six different fun, word-related games. Even better, the game comes complete with a built-in dictionary loaded with over 17,000 words.
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist: Help your young learner embrace his or her creative size with this game and drawing device. Players can engage with built in games (using custom-designed avatars and settings) or just get busy creating their own masterpieces.
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster: Geared toward younger learners, this video game brings Sesame Street favorites like Elmo and Cookie Monster together to read kids stories and get them engaged and moving through a series of fun and physical games.
Smarty Pants: Even parents will enjoy playing this trivia game from Electronic Arts. Similar to Trivial Pursuit, the game quizzes players on a variety of topics from history, to science, to sports, challenging players to come up with right answers and to show off their skills.
Reader Rabbit: The Reader Rabbit series has reading-related educational games that touch a variety of learning levels and topics. The one we’ve linked to here is for second graders, but there are others for lower and higher grades. All get kids involved in reading through a series of fun mini-games.
National Geographic Challenge: Bolster your kids’ geographic knowledge with the help of this fun Xbox game, which allows players to quiz themselves, complete puzzles, or explore the world.
Escape Adventure Island: This Jump Start title is one of many the company offers on the Wii platform. Through it, young learners engage with a 3D environment that helps them to practice math, reading, and critical thinking skills, earning virtual rewards as they go.
Storybook Workshop: This bargain-priced Wii game is perfect for youngsters who are just learning how to read. It features 16 different fairy tales that kids can listen to or perform, songs you can sing, and even the capability to record your little ones reading the stories.
LittleBIGPlanet 2: LittleBIGPlanet not only boasts some amazing graphics, but it is also a great game for getting kids to develop problem solving skills. Players navigate through a rich landscape, finding objects along the way, many of which can be used to solve puzzles that will challenge young minds.
Portal 2: Instead of having players shoot their way to victory like many games do, in Portal 2 players have to use their wits to escape Aperture Laboratories and challenge the power-mad robot at the heart of the story. Ranked as one of the best games of all time, it’s a memorable and mentally challenging experience that players won’t soon forget.
Brain and Body Connection: Encourage students to push not only their minds but also their bodies in this game that pushes them to excel in both areas. Kids can play individually or you can all play together as a family.
Handheld Devices
Nintendo and Playstation handheld devices get an educational upgrade with these games.
Big Brain Academy: Big Brain Academy, a Nintendo DS game, asks players to take on a number of different kinds of challenges which are timed. Essentially, it’s a workout for the brain, designed to challenge players of all ages.
Magic School Bus Oceans: This is just one of many Magic School Bus games out there, all of which can be amazing ways for young learners to have fun while surreptitiously being educated. In this game, kids will explore the ocean through a series of lessons and seven different educational games.
BrainQuest: Geared towards grades three and four, this game poses more than 6,000 questions to players. There’s action as well as puzzles, and the two are combined in a way that will make kids reluctant to put down the game.
Spelling Challenges: If your students are in need of some help with spelling, this game could be a fun way to get them to practice. It contains more than 25,000 words at 100 different levels and engages players through 11 different games.
Book Worm: Reading, spelling, and other language skills are tested in this fun Nintendo DS game. A wealth of word puzzle games will keep kids smiling as they build their own virtual libraries within the game.
Animal Genius: Animals are fascinating to young learners and this game capitalizes on that. There are five mini-games to play, each focusing on a different habitat, that will quiz kids on their knowledge of all things animal-related.
Learn Science: Filled with fun mini-games, this title for the Nintendo DS is a great way to help kids practice their science knowledge. There are different game modes and difficulty levels that will extend play to a wide range of learners.
Brain Age: Parents and kids alike will love using this application to train their brains and become a mental athlete. From math to logic to word problems, there are numerous challenges that will help learners in every aspect of their education. A series of games and tests will help students build the knowledge they need to ace the test, and it just might even be fun to do.
futureU: Homeschooled kids getting ready to head to college? You may want to invest in this game (it’s relatively cheap, so it’s not really much of an investment), which helps prep students for the SAT.
Drawn to Life: Want to help your budding young artist, animator, or creative type embrace his or her talents? This game can be a great way to do so. It allows players to make a drawing which will be brought to life and used to play a series of fun and entertaining games as they fight to bring back an imperiled village.
Computer
Power up your PC or Mac for some learning fun when you invest in these amazing educational games.
SimCity: This classic game isn’t just fun. It also teaches invaluable lessons about city planning, environmental impact, and even natural disasters.
Spore: Your homeschool students can get excited about evolution by playing this game that takes them through single-celled organisms all the way up to space exploration and colonization. Players slowly design their own creatures, adding traits and behaviors along the way that will help or hinder their survival as they evolve. It’s fun, addictive, and sneakily educational.
Nancy Drew: Encourage your kids to hone their critical thinking and problem-solving skills by playing this fun PC game that challenges them to solve a mystery as girl detective Nancy Drew.
ItzaBitza: In ItzaBitza, drawings come to life. Not only that, but it’s also designed to help early readers boost their skills, offering both amazing creativity, confidence building, and language skills.
Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game: Build creative machines, test your contraptions, and put them to work in this imaginative game that teaches the basics of physics, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.
Brainiversity: This Windows-based game will help you and your kids keep your brains fit and healthy by testing them through mental training sessions. Mini-games cover language, memory, math, and analysis; all valuable skills to have in any academic endeavor.
Civilization: What makes one civilization thrive while another dies? Players will learn just that as they build their own empires in this classic game. The game offers lessons in strategy, ancient and modern cultures, and the fundamentals of human society; a great accompaniment to history lessons.
Hearing Music: Give students ages 5-11 a fun way to boost hearing skills and learn more about music by supplying them with this fun game-based learning method.
Online
These online educational games and resources are making a splash with parents and school districts alike.
Gamestar Mechanic: You can help your video game-loving kid to embrace tech skills through this game, which allows young players to design and build their own video games.
Math Blaster: One of the most widely used math games out there, this free game will make learning math more fun than ever for your young learners.
Quest Atlantis: A popular choice at schools across the country, this educational gaming environment immerses upper elementary and middle school kids in lessons on everything from science to social issues.
Whyville: Through Whyville, kids can create an avatar, play educational games, hang out with friends, and have fun while doing it!
Minecraft: Minecraft isn’t just an educational game, it’s become a nationwide phenomenon. As this Slate piece discusses, the addictive game has captivated students and parents alike. Why? It inspires creativity and problem solving while also being just, well, fun.
Manga High: Math gets a fun makeover on this site, focusing on game-based learning for students at a wide range of levels. Basic games are free, but the full suite will cost you.
20Q: The online version of 20 Questions, this site can be used to help students think and reason.
Ology: Created by the Museum of Natural History, this game-filled site is an excellent resource for lessons in astronomy, biodiversity, genetics, paleontology, and more.
Gamequarium: This site is full of learning-based games that focus on a wide range of skills and topics. From number games for kindergartners to Spanish help for middle schoolers, and even a special section for homeschoolers.
FunBrain: There are dozens of learning games on this site that kids will love to play and you’ll love for them to learn from. Reading Arcade, Math Baseball, and Grammar Gorillas are just a few that will become instant classics in your home.
iPad
If you’re lucky enough to have a tablet, maximize its potential in the classroom by downloading a few (or all) of these great educational games.
Rocket Math: At less than a dollar, this excellent math-learning game is a real value, especially as it has been named one of the best games for kids by a number of sources. It certainly helps make math fun, providing players with a whopping 56 different math missions.
Playtime Theatre: Creative kids will love creating their own characters and putting on virtual puppet shows through this app. You could even tie in literature or other lessons to it, too.
Toontastic: Kids can build their own animations in this great free game from Launchpad Toys.
Stack the States: Learning about the states has never been so fun. This game uses a range of games to help young kids learn the names and locations of states. Geography learners can also play Stack the Countries.
Montessori Crosswords: Filled with hands-on, Montessori tested activities, this game will help improve spelling skills.
Fish School: Geared towards young children, this game uses cute fish graphics to teach the alphabet, numbers, shapes, and colors.
Khan Academy: Khan Academy’s wealth of educational games is even better when accessed through a tablet, challenging kids to learn, grow, and get better in their core subjects.
Super Why: Created by PBS, Super Why is a literacy-focused game that helps build skills in everything from reading to rhyming.
Oregon Trail: Kids have been loving and learning from Oregon trail for decades now. This updated version for the iPad and iPhone is just as fun and boasts better graphics.
Mindsnacks: Language learning in homeschool can be hard if you’re not totally fluent, but games like Mindsnacks can help, quizzing learners on basic vocabulary words in English, Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
PLATO Achieve: While geared towards school districts, this educational system based on Common Core Standards can also be a boon to homeschoolers. You’ll find educational tools galore, including a range of interactive games that touch on topics like math and language learning. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5b6520228f3a468482687120a1e402abb7b255a2801d1c204dcbbc9280de236b'} |
Five pieces of bad mutual fund advice to ignore
August 3, 2015 . Vidya Bala
bad-adviceWhat do you feel when you hear a piece of (good) wealth-building advice like – ‘Start early, invest systematically, and stay invested for the long haul?’ Do you think it sounds too simplistic? Perhaps that’s why most of us are not convinced to follow it.
On the other hand, bad advice can sound complex and therefore, it may appeal to the human mind better. That’s why it is important to reiterate to yourself on what you need to ignore. Here are five often-heard bad pieces of advice in the mutual fund world that are best ignored by you.
1. Buying units in a New Fund Offer (NFO) will give gains sooner
NFOs are not like the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) of stocks. For instance, they may offer you mutual funds units at the Net Asset Value (NAV) of Rs. 10 per unit. This is just a value, and there is nothing cheap about it. The fund then decides where to invest, and does so in a phased manner. In other words, there are no underlying stocks in the fund’s portfolio when you buy an NFO. So, how can one even know whether it is cheap, or if it will provide gains? In fact, if the market tanks soon after your investment, chances are that your Rs. 10 NAV may fall below that price! There are no listing gains or post-offer gains the way it is with stocks.
2. Buy the fund with lower NAV
The above holds good even if you buy a fund after its NFO. I have seen investors who look at the newspapers diligently to see a fund’s 52-week low NAV. Buying at a lower NAV means more gains, they seem to think! Again, the NAVs of funds are not like stock prices. The last thing to do with your fund is trade based on its NAV. There is no such thing as “high NAV” or “low NAV”. NAV is simply a reflection of the value of the underlying stocks in a fund’s portfolio. A fund that has been around for long may have added a lot of gains to its NAV and therefore, it may sport a high NAV. This does not make it an expensive fund as the stocks inside (which are sold periodically and new opportunities are constantly explored) may hold high potential.
3. Sell funds on dividend declaration
While funds are now not allowed to announce dividend declaration way ahead, investors consider themselves lucky if they bought a fund just before its dividend declaration, and got a dividend soon after. They then go on to sell their units in the fund, thinking they pocketed some quick money! Think about it! It is your own money out of which that dividend is declared!
If you cared to see the NAV post the dividend, it would have exactly fallen by the dividend amount. Also, you are not allowing the fund to do any compounding for you because you took the money out very soon. If you had invested Rs. 100 and you got back Rs. 20, you would likely have sold it at Rs. 80, which means you’re just getting your own money back!
Mutual funds, especially equity funds, are for wealth building. You will do no good to yourself by playing with your own money back and forth.
4. Go for only funds with lower expense ratio
Mutual funds charge you an expense on your NAV for running the fund for you, for marketing it, and for distributing it. Yes, a host of people get paid their salaries from your fund. But remember, a lot of people get paid their salaries from what you buy in the market too. Yes, like all other products and services, this too comes at a cost. Some of them charge more, while some charge less.
But the returns that you see is post all the expense (called expense ratio). And when the returns post those expenses are high, it simply means that the fund has delivered, and the saving factor is that the regulator has a cap on how much can be charged on your NAV.
A passively managed index fund or Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) may have a lower expense ratio (since they are not actively managed), but will likely under-perform active funds in the Indian context. Hence, to go merely by expense ratio alone can be misleading when you are looking to build wealth for the long term.
Typically, the larger a fund gets, the lower is its expense ratio. This is because its expense is spread over a larger base of assets. The large size of assets is also, often, a reflection of the good performance of a fund. Besides, actively managed funds have a higher expense ratio than passively managed ones, i.e., index funds and ETFs. That takes us to the next point.
5. ETFs are better than regular funds
If you had a friend return from any of the developed countries, chances are he/she would have told you – buy ETFs; they are low cost and outperform mutual funds. Yes, they are right, but about a different market – not India. ETFs and index funds have low expense ratio, no doubt; but unlike the western markets, they do not beat diversified equity funds.
In the west, the variety of indices, and the index construction is sophisticated and complex, leaving few active fund managers to beat them. However, in India, with few indices and not greatly constructed ones at that, besides plenty of opportunities outside the index, fund managers with an above-average performance can beat indices convincingly. If that be the case, and the return outperformance is indeed after all the expenses have been deducted, why would you want to lock your entire portfolio in passive options that deliver sub-optimal returns?
Let’s just say that the Indian markets are different, and that you need a different approach for different markets. If you take the passive approach here, you will face a big opportunity loss.
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Means for deriving energy from solid fuels
May 30, 1950 R. P; RAMSEY 2,509,246
MEANS FOR DERIVING ENERGY FROM SOLID FUELS Filed Sept. 20, 1946 v 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. HUBERT l RAMSEY Q fQ Gaza May 30, 1950 Filed Sept. 20, 1946 R. P. RAMSE Y MEANS FOR DERIVING ENERGY FROM souo FUELS 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 IN V EN TOR. 12 052. 22" P J-ZAMEEY May 30, 1950 V R. P. RAMSEY I 2,509,246
usms FOR nsaxvmc ENERGY mom soun FUELS Filed Sept. 20, 1946 3 Sheets-Sheet a INVENTOR. HDBBRT P. RAMSEY QQQJM Patented May 30, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LIEANS FOR DERIVIL TG ENERGY FROM SOLID FUELS Application September 20, 1946, Serial No. 698,3 23
1 Claims. 1
This invention relates to plants for the economical extraction of energy from solid fuels and is particularly directed to power derivation cycles utilizing a gas turbine or similar heat engine having a relatively high input pressure.
The primary object of the invention is to provide a thermal cycle for the derivation of energy from solid fuels which is characterized by very high thermal efficiency.
Another object of the invention is to provide a thermal cycle for the derivation of ener y m solid fuels in which the combustible fraction of the fuel is converted to gas which is burned at high pressure and the high pressure and high temperature products of combustion are utilized in part in a gas turbine or similar heat engine while another part of the product of combustion is recycled to a gas extractor.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an apparatus in which gas, extracted from a solid fuel, is burned in a free piston machine operating either as a power gas generator or high output air compressor.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of an apparatus in which a free piston power gas generator is utilized to supply gas to a turbine as well as to a gas extraction unit; Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of a modified form of the invention in which a free piston compressor is utilized to supply high pressure air to a combustor in which combustion takes place at the pressure of the compressor output; and Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of an apparatus in which a separate gas producing unit is provided for a free piston compressor, and a separate unit for a main high pressure combustor.
Referring to the drawings, and particularly to Fig. 1, the invention is shown embodied in a cycle requiring for its execution only elements known in the art. As there shown, a solid fuel bunker in is provided with a mechanical feed H to a crusher H in which the fuel is reduced to a finely divided or powdered state. Such powdered coal is commonly burned under power plant boilers. In the present apparatus, however, the powdered coal itself is not burned, but is forced at high pressure through an orifice l4 and expanded in an inert atmosphere at an elevated temperatre in a cyclonic gas extraction unit IS. The expansion reduces the particle size of the coal still further to an impalpable powder and the elevation of the temperature is such that the combustible constituents of the coal are changed from the solid to a gaseous phase. Heat is supplied to the powdered material as hereinafter described. The incombustible constituents pass off as dust at the bottom of the cyclonic unit [5 where removal may be made periodically in any known manner. The
' cyclonic extraction unit I5 is known in the art as an efficient means to extract gas from coal, and the introduction of coal into such a unit in a manner tending to expand and distintegrate the coal particles by sudden pressure release is likewise known. If desired, however, other forms of gas producers may be utilized in the combination, the devices shown being simply the preferred forms.
Gas from cyclonic extraction unit i5 is taken to a second ash separator IS in which all remaining solid particles are removed so far as possible.
The gas is then lowered in temperature by a cooler ll and raised in pressure by a booster pump l8 driven by a motor is. It is then again cooled and fed as fuel gas to a power gas generator 2!! which is preferably a free piston unit operating on a combined gas-Diesel cycle. Free piston power gas generators are known in the art and are highly efficient devices for supplying power gas to such heat engines as turbines or reciprocating engines operating at high pressure and temperature. Air required for combustion of the fuel in the free piston unit is compressed by the unit itself so that energy losses at this point are very low.
The power gas from free piston generator 20 is led at temperatures in the order of 1200 F. to 1500 F. and pressures ranging from pounds to pounds to heat engine, shown here as gas turbine 22. The energy contained in the power gas is efiiciently converted to mechanical energy in turbine shaft 24 and may thus be used wherever desired, for example, as driving power for ar electric generator (not shown).
The power turbine exhausts near atmospheric pressure through a duct 25. Prior to exhaust the turbine is bled by a line 26 to supply secondary charging gas to the cyclonic extraction unit Hi. The pressure in line 26 may be controlled by a valve 21 since line 26 is expanded in volume between valve 21 and cyclonic unit l5 and the pressure in the expanded portion of the line will depend on the volume of flow past valve 21. Preferably the charging gas to the cyclonic extraction unit is at a pressure of about 5 pounds, sufficient to act as a supporting medium and carrier for the fuel particles during the conversion of the combustible elements to gas.
A portion of the power gas produced by free piston unit 20 is taken through conduit 30 to be used as primary charging gas for the cyclonic unit I! for the purpose of introducing powdered coal at high pressure. The hot compressed gas from conduit 30 blows the owdered coal through orifice Ill at high velocity and at high pressure. The sudden reduction in pressure within the cyclonic unit I expands and disintegrates the particles in the inert atmosphere of burned gas from conduit 26 which gas thus acts as a carrier for the impalpable coal particles during asification.
Since the heat required for gasification an the pressure necessary properly to inject the powdered coal are both derived from the power gas, no appreciable energy is wasted in the operation, such energy being largely recovered by increased yield of the gas extraction unit.
In the form of the invention Just described, combustion of the extracted gas takes place at high pressure in the cylinder of the free piston power gas generator. In the modifications shown in Fig, 2 and 3, the main volume of extracted gas is burned in a stationary combustor at high pressure in the presence of high pressure air supplied by a free piston compressor. In Fig. 2, a portion of the extracted gas, after being cooled and compressed in booster pump i8, is fed to a free piston compressor unit 40 operating preferably on a gas- Diesel cycle. The air output of compressor 40 is heated in a heat exchanger 42 by its 'own exhaust gases and taken to a stationary combustor 44 where it is utilized to burn the remainder of the extracted gas whichenters through a conduit 48 from the booster pump l8. From the combustor the major portion of the power gas enters turbine 22, but a minor part is diverted through conduit 41 for use as charging gas in the gas extraction system. Secondary charging and particle supporting gas at low pressure is again taken from the turbine through a conduit 48.
Instead of diverting a portion of the output of a single gas extraction unit as shown in Fig. 2, a separate, smaller system may be used to furnish gas for the operation of the free piston compressor as shown in Fig. 3. As there indicated, free piston compressor 50 is provided with operating gas from an extractor 52, cleaned and raised in pressure in the same manner as shown in Fig. 1. Fed from the same coal crusher is a second gas extraction unit 54 the gas from which is given its thorough cleaning in a second cyclonic separating unit 56, boosted in pressure by pump 58 and fed to combustor 60. Air for the combustor is taken from the free piston compressor 56 after passing through a heat exchanger 62 where its temperature is raised by heat transfer from the exhaust gases of the free piston compressor. Again the heat and pressure required for the disintegration of the powdered coal is taken from the output of combustor 60 prior to its entrance into the turbine (here designated and the inert gas required to carry and support the coal particles during extraction is taken from the turbine just prior to exhaust.
While the invention has been described in connection with particular embodiments thereof, it should be expressly understood that it is capable of numerous modifications and changes without departing from the scope of the appended claims.
Having thus described my invention, what I 4 claim as, new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:
1. The combination of means for deriving energy from solid fuel which comprises, means for reducing the solid fuel to a finely divided state, means to place the finely divided fuel particles under pressure, means to extract substantially all of the combustible fraction of the fuel as gas in an inert hot atmosphere, means to raise the pressure of the extracted gas, means to burn said gas at its elevated pressure, a heat engine' driven by the major portion of the products of combustion and means to divert a minor fraction of the products of combustion and utilize it in said means to place the finely divided particles under pressure prior to gas extraction.
2. The combination of means for deriving energy from solid fuel which comprises, means for reducing the solid fuel to a finely divided state, means to place the finely divided fuel particles under pressure, means to extract substantially all of the combustible fraction of the fuel as gas in an inert hot atmosphere, means to raise the pressure of the extracted gas, means to burn said gas at its elevated pressure, a heat engine driven by the major portion of the products of combustion and means to divert a minor fraction of the products of combustion prior to entry into the heat engine and utilize it in said means to raise the pressure of the fuel particles prior to gas extraction, and means to recycle 9. portion of the medium from said heat engine to act as said inert atmosphere and as a carrier for the expanded fuel particles during gas extraction.
3. The combination of means for deriving energy from solid fuel which comprises, means to reduce the solid fuel to a finely divided state, means to place the finely divided fuel particles under pressure, means to extract substantially all of the combustible fraction of the fuel as gas in an inert hot atmosphere, means to raise the pressure of the extracted gas, an internal combustion engine driven air compressor utilizing a portion of said gas as fuel, means to burn the balance of said gas at its elevated pressure by combination with the output of said compressor, a multi-stage gas turbine utilizing the major part of the products of combustion, means to divert a minor fraction of the products of combustion to said means to raise the pressure of the fuel particles prior to gas extraction, and means to remove gas from an intermediate stage of the turbine and to recycle said removed gas to act as an inert carrying atmosphere in said gas extractor. l
4. The combination of means defined in claim 2 in which said means to burn said. gas at its elevated pressure includes a free piston power gas generator.
ROBERT P. RAMSEY.
REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:
UNITED STATES PATENTS.
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Tell me about the site?
Calabogie Peaks is 680 acres of beautiful, wild and scenic terrain which includes a ski mountain, extensive shoreline on Calabogie Lake, hiking trails and forested land with views of the lake, mountain and countryside.
What is the development plan?
A vibrant all-season community nestled in the varied landscapes and centered around a small pedestrian village that serves residents’ wellness, social, recreational and economic needs.
What distinguishes Calabogie Peaks?
The combination of the lake, mountain and pristine land is highly unique and naturally defines the distinct neighborhoods. It also offers extensive all-season recreation and wellness activities.
The community will be walkable and affordable. Basement apartments, side yard apartments, coach houses and workshops can generate sustainability through rental income and the work from home economy. The pedestrian village is the hub of the live-work-play-shop-learn-make-exercise-socialize-animated community.
Who is the Developer?
Calabogie Peaks celebrated it’s 50th anniversary in 2019. Calabogie Peaks ULC has owned the site for 38 years and has transformed it from a small 4-month ski business to an emerging community. Calabogie Peaks previously co-developed the nearby Barrett Chute development
What are the Amenities?
The waterfront, beaches, boating, boat docks, golf course, winter downhill and cross-country skiing, hiking -biking-snowmobile and ATV trails and food & beverage outlets. Owners may enjoy these through the optional Club Membership described at
Tell me about Calabogie?
Calabogie is a popular and growing active lifestyle recreation destination centered on the natural beauty of the local land, water and mountain. The mountain is the tallest public ski mountain in Ontario and offers the best skiing in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. There are numerous golf courses in the region. Calabogie Highlands is a very popular and challenging golf course across the lake from Calabogie Peaks. Calabogie Peaks’ Ironwoods is a family friendly nine-hole golf course on Calabogie lake. Ten minutes away, Calabogie Motorsports offers a world class auto racetrack where you can take speed driving instruction or bring your own high-performance car to race or lap at the track. The Township is populated with kilometers of hiking and biking trails, some of which are used by snow machines in the winter and ATVs in the summer. Good opportunities exist for rock and ice climbing on nearby cliff features. The Crown land surrounding Calabogie Peaks and throughout the broader Calabogie area, provides endless areas to explore with lakes and great hunting and fishing habitat. Shopping, liquor store, microbrewery, restaurant services and a medical center are available in the village of Calabogie, only 5 minutes away.
Does Calabogie Peaks own the waterfront and golf course?
Yes. It’s a kilometer of beautiful shoreline and two islands. In the green season, the Boathouse Bar & Grill, beach amenities, boating and golf are a center of activity.
Can I dock my boat at the lake?
Yes. Annual boat dock rentals are available The docks are expanded as membership increases.
What is the average depth of the water at the waterfront?
Four to eight feet out from the shoreline, the average water depth is 4 to 10+ feet, quickly dropping in most cases to 20’ to 65’ deep.
Does Calabogie Peaks own the ski mountain and business?
Yes. Skiing was the original business. The ski mountain is the tallest public ski mountain in Ontario with 29 trails. The ski trails will continue to be extended to provide additional ski-in ski-out residences.
Where can I store my outdoor equipment?
There are several local service companies that provide winter storage and service for boats, ATVs and other recreational equipment. A secured storage compound will be built on site if there is demand.
What are the Costs Associated with Real Estate Ownership?
Property taxes are $925 per $100,000 of assessed value. Electricity is supplied by Hydro One. Water, wastewater and propane services are supplied by Calabogie Utilities at rates comparable to city utilities.
Do I need to drill a well, install a septic system and build a road?
No. All lots and homes are fully accessible and connected to underground services.
Is there cell coverage?
Yes. There is a wireless tower on the mountain.
Can I Rent my Home, Townhouse or Condominium?
Yes. Calabogie Peaks operates a Rental Management Program for owners that would like to rent without having to manage the rental process Alternatively, owners may rent directly.
Who are the Builders?
The initial builders are Bell-Camp Modular and Kelly Homes.
There are several other builders in the community and lot purchasers are welcome to work with the builder of their choice.
Who Is Bell Camp?
Bell-Camp Modular is a division of Bell-Camp Manufacturing Inc. founded in 1962, which specializes in steel frame structures prefabricated in their production facility located in Ingersoll, Ontario. Bell Camp’s concept is simple: custom homes made easy with their experienced team of builders, designers and engineers to help you design and execute your dream space. Compared to traditional building, the modular building process is streamlined and cost-effective
Who are Kelly Homes?
Kelly Homes is one of the preeminent custom home builders in Renfrew County It was founded in the 1980s and has built hundreds of custom homes of all types including log, timber, ICF and framed residences. Kelly Homes is the premier builder in the nearby Barrett Chute development
When can I apply for a Building Permit?
As soon as you have your building plans ready to submit with your application. The application is on the Township’s web site
Are there Covenants?
Yes. Architectural guidelines ensure that no home is overpowering or visually dissonant with the master plan. There are restrictions on signage, specific spaces are reserved for resident parking and some lot maintenance and landscaping practices is mandatory. The covenants protect each owner’s interests and preserve the natural beauty of the site
How long do I have to build my home?
Lot purchasers are required to build within 2 years of purchase.
Are there restrictions on running a business in the residential parts of the development?
Yes. Small professional businesses are allowed. No industrial business is allowed.
Can lots be subdivided?
No. This is designed to protect the integrity of the development.
What is the status of the community’s roads?
All roads on the site are privately owned to ensure continuous high quality year round maintenance and snow ploughing.
Who owns the neighbouring land?
Calabogie Peaks is surrounded by Crown land, which means it is owned by the Province of Ontario. It’s a virtual wilderness playground with miles of ATV, snow machine, hiking and biking trails and contains numerous hike in fishing lakes and rivers.
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Plant clonal morphologies and spatial patterns as self-organized responses to resource-limited environments.
We propose here to interpret and model peculiar plant morphologies (cushions and tussocks) observed in the Andean Altiplano as localized structures. Such structures resulting in a patchy, aperiodic aspect of the vegetation cover are hypothesized to self-organize thanks to the interplay between facilitation and competition processes occurring at the scale of basic plant components biologically referred to as 'ramets'. (Ramets are often of clonal origin.) To verify this interpretation, we applied a simple, fairly generic model (one integro-differential equation) emphasizing via Gaussian kernels non-local facilitative and competitive feedbacks of the vegetation biomass density on its own dynamics. We show that under realistic assumptions and parameter values relating to ramet scale, the model can reproduce some macroscopic features of the observed systems of patches and predict values for the inter-patch distance that match the distances encountered in the reference area (Sajama National Park in Bolivia). Prediction of the model can be confronted in the future with data on vegetation patterns along environmental gradients so as to anticipate the possible effect of global change on those vegetation systems experiencing constraining environmental conditions. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e8918f0c0ce0bb4f6eefca3d98d91d0639c98fb2e66947fcd484b40039d932dd'} |
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So culture resides in all learned behavior and in some shaping template or consciousness prior to behavior as well (that is, a "cultural template" can be in place prior to the birth of an individual person), (p. 1) Finally, Smith (2003) offered the following definition: "Culture is the combination of all the physical and behavioral aspects of a society. l). There are a number of common threads across these definitions. One is that a group's culture is one of the things that make it look and sound different from other groups.
AUTHOR'S REFLECTION I remember in my early childhood looking at pictures of people from other parts of the world in National Geographic and being so fascinated by how others lived. Since that time (which my preteen sons refer to as the Dark Ages) there has been an astounding broadening in the accessibility of images and contact with people from other cultures, partially as a result of the Internet and other forms of technology such as satellite communication. This increased breadth of available information has resulted in more awareness about the importance of valuing other cultures in addition to our own.
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Soul Vibration and Life Path
Determining Your Soul Vibration
The soul vibration is the number that represents the energy that you bring into this embodiment, as well as the area in which your talents and gifts manifest. Your soul vibration tells you the primary energetic focus of your life.
Your soul vibration is found by calculating the sum of the numerical values of the letters in the name that you were born with (full legal name). Each letter in your name has a numerical value. To find out the value of each letter, please refer to the table below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
a b c d e f g h i
j k l m n o p q r
s t u v w x y z
For example, try computing the soul vibration of Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham is 1+2+9+1+8+1+4 = 26 and Lincoln is 3+9+5+3+6+3+5 = 34.
Then add together the values of all of the names you were born with.
For example, Abraham Lincoln is 26+34 = 60. Then reduce it to a number between 1 and 9 by adding the digits of the numbers together. For example 60 is 6+0= 6.
So the name Abraham Lincoln has a six soul vibration.
Look at your birth certificate if you are unsure of your full legal name.
If you change your name later in life, you can also compute the numerological value that corresponds to the name you are now using, especially if you have used it for
many years.
Determining your Life Path
Your life path is the area of life in which you experience your greatest challenges and your greatest growth. Your life path brings the lessons in your life and helps to build your character as a person.
Your life path is calculated by adding together the day, month and the year of your birth. First add the day and month values together. Then add the year values together. Then find the sum of both numbers and add the digits together to get a number between 1 and 9.
For example, Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. So February 12 would be 2+12 =14 and 1809 would be 18+9 = 27. The sum of the two 14+27 = 41. Then, add the digits together to get a number between 1 and 9. So, 41 is 4+1= 5. Lincoln had a five life path.
An Example of Soul Vibration and Life Path
For example, Abraham Lincoln had a soul vibration of six. He brought his six qualities of compassion and the desire to serve others into the area of public service. In that arena, he sought to fulfill his need for acceptance and belonging, and for the public approval that often eluded him.
Lincoln’s life path was a five. That means that most of the challenges and lessons of his life would have had to do with his need to individuate and think outside of the box and his consequent courage to stand up for what he believed in.
When you look at the six and the five together, you can see how his lessons in life forced Lincoln to make unpopular decisions. He chose to stand alone for principles that he believed in. That often prevented him from attaining the approval and acceptance he hungered for.
Determining your Numerological Signature
Your numerological signature indicates the synergy between your soul vibration and your life path. It is what you achieve or resolve in your life.
Your numerological signature is obtained by adding the number that corresponds to your soul vibration to the number that corresponds to your life path and then adding the digits together to obtain a number between 1 and 9.
For example, Abraham Lincoln’s numerological signature is a 2 (6 + 5 =11 and 1+1 = 2).
Lincoln's life exhibited the dualism of the number 2. He was a public figure (6) who had the courage of his convictions (5) and he was both loved and hated by the people he served. .
His decisions pitted brother against brother (2), spilling more blood than had ever been spilled on American soil. Yet the result of his life was the emancipation of slaves and the end of slavery (5) With five being the love of freedom, and six being the desire for acceptance, harmony and community, it is clear that life forced Lincoln to make difficult choices that brought benefit to others, while intensifying his own suffering and transformation. In that sense, he exhibits some of the six qualities of the martyr who gives his life for the sake of others.
In the end, we know Lincoln as a larger than life figure whose service to his country was legendary (6), helping us achieve greater equality (2) and freedom (5) for all our citizens.
Creating a Synthesis
To get a full picture of your personal numerology, you must start by understanding your soul vibration and then get clear on how it is asked to express itself in the world (life path). Understanding the tension between the two numbers will help you fathom some of the challenges you will encounter in your life. Those challenges will ask you to grow and find ways to harmonize the energies of both numbers.
Looking at how these important numbers express in each one of your cycles can help you paint a a more detailed picture of the areas of challenge and growth that are operating in your life. For example, if you are a 6 soul vibration with a 5 life path, like Lincoln, years 5 and 6 of every cycle would be important years. You would want to study how the 5 and 6 years expressed in each cycle you have completed. This kind of study should result in understanding the major themes playing out as your soul attempts to express itself in this world.
If you are a 2 numerological signature , like Lincoln, you will also want to look at all your 2 years to see how the tensions between your soul vibration and life path are resolving. It is not surprising perhaps that Lincoln was assasinated at age 56, a personal two year. The exact date of his death was April 14, 1865. If you do the
life path calculation for this date, you will see that it is also a 2.
While death may not always resolve the tensions between the soul vibration and the life path, in Lincoln's case it was a major epiphany, indicating the fulfillment of his
purpose in this life.
Using Your Intuition
You will need to use your intuition to synthesize the meaning of the numbers and to connect the dots between these concepts and the major events and circumstances of your life. This is not a superficial undertaking.
Moreover, all symbolical systems, including this one, are meant to be tools that can help us better understand ourselves and others. They are not meant to be used in a rigid or narrow fashion. The idea is not to try to fit your life into the meaning of the numbers, but to allow your understanding of the numbers to shed light on the major themes and challenges of your life.
As in all quests for genuine understanding, an open heart and an open mind are essential. Neither analysis nor intuition by itself will help you to see the whole picture. Both are necessary.
I sincerely hope that you find this information helpful and that you will use it wisely to shed light on the cycles that are operating in your life. Moving with the current of the river is always more satisfying than trying to swim upstream against it.
There are times in life (years 3-7) when you need to be moving outward into the world with energy and enthusiasm. Those are not times to procrastinate or hold back. On the other hand, there are other times when you need to turn within to find guidance and welcome new energy into your life (years 1-2), and times when you need to turn inward to find reconciliation and to detach from old energetic patterns (years 8-9). Those are not years when you should expect to be outwardly engaged and productive.
Because we are wounded and confused by life, we often swim against the tide, pushing ourselves to be active when we need to rest and go within, or holding ourselves back when it is time for us to participate fully in the world. This makes it
hard for us to learn our lessons and to express our gifts.
However, even if you just understand the basic concepts of the nine year cycle and the way each cycle unfolds within your overall life, you should be able to better attune to the energies within you that need to be nurtured and expressed. That means less conflict within and fewer struggles without.
Tuning in to your changing needs and cooperating with the universal energy as it is expressed around you leads to a life of grace and abundance. May that life be yours, now and for all your years to come.
Love and Blessings,
Paul Ferrini
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Mr. Humphrey Notes
Title: Mr. Humphrey Notes
Translator: Mohammad Baqir Salam; Mohammad Sadegh Zamani
Publisher: Green Summer
Subject: Memoirs of an English spy – Wahhabism – religion
Age category: All age groups
Cover: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
Language: Farsi
About Mr. Humphrey’s Notebook
Humphrey In Mr. Humphrey’s memoirs, he recounts his story as a British spy in Islamic countries to serve British colonial purposes.
Who is Mr. Humphrey?
Humphrey is a British agent who has been tasked with conducting espionage operations in countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Hejaz and Istanbul, the center of the (Islamic) Caliphate, with the help of the British Ministry of Commonwealth.
This book consists of three parts. The first part, which consists of seven parts, presents the accusations of the British spy. The second part shows you how Britain carried out its insidious plans in Muslim countries.
But the third part of this book tries to awaken the poor Muslims who have been trapped by the Wahhabis by presenting credible documents.
In a part of Mr. Humphrey’s diary we read:
In 1122 AH, 1710 AD, the Minister of Commonwealth sent me to Egypt, Iraq, Hejaz and Istanbul to act as a spy and to obtain the necessary and sufficient information to dismantle and defeat the Muslims. The ministry appointed nine more agile and courageous people for this simultaneous mission.
In addition to the money, information, and maps we needed, we were provided with a list of names of statesmen, scholars, and tribal leaders. I will never forget the moment I said goodbye to the Secretary of State, he said: The future of our country depends on your success. So you have to spend your maximum energy.
I started my trip to Istanbul, the center of the Islamic Caliphate. In addition to my main task, my other task was to learn Turkish very well, which was the mother tongue of Muslims.
I had already learned a considerable amount of Turkish, Arabic (Quran) and Persian in London before, but learning a language is quite different from speaking that language as your mother tongue.
While the first skill can be acquired in a few years, the second requires several times as much time. I had to learn Turkish with all its subtleties so that people would not doubt me.
In Mr. Humphrey’s memoirs, you will read the memoirs of a British spy about his work in Islamic countries in order to serve British colonial goals.
Humphrey was a British agent tasked with spying on Egypt (Iraq, Iran, Hejaz, and Istanbul, the center of the (Islamic) Caliphate, misleading Muslims, and serving Christianity, with the help of the British Commonwealth Office.
Humphrey says:
The government of Great Britain is very large. The sun rises over its seas and sets again under its seas. But our government is relatively weak in relation to its colonies in India, China, and the Middle East. These countries are not completely under our control.
Nevertheless, we have pursued a very active and successful policy in these places, and we will soon have them all under our complete control. So we have to pay attention to two points:
Efforts to maintain dominance in the countries we have already conquered.
Trying to take over and dominate countries that we have not yet dominated.
The Ministry of Colonies appointed a committee from each of these colonies to carry out these two tasks. As soon as I joined the Ministry of Colonies, the Minister trusted me and appointed me as the director of the East India Company.
This company was a commercial company in appearance. But its main task was to find ways to take control of the vast lands of India.
Our government was not worried about India at all. India was a country where people of different nationalities lived with different languages and conflicting interests. We were not worried about China either. Because the dominant religions in China were Buddhism and Confucianism, none of which posed much of a threat to us.
Both were dead religions that paid no attention to life and were nothing more than rhetorical forms. For these reasons, people living in these two countries were rarely likely to feel patriotic.
The two countries did not worry about British rule. But we were not unaware of what might happen next. Therefore, we were drawing up long-term plans to create discord, ignorance, poverty and even infectious diseases in these countries.
We imitated the customs and traditions of these two countries in order to easily hide our intentions.
But what bothered us most was the Islamic countries. We already had agreements, which were all in our favor, with that sick creature [the Ottoman emperor]. Experienced members of the colony predicted that this sick creature would die in less than a century.
In addition, we had secret agreements with the Iranian government, and in these two countries we had appointed politicians who we had made Masonic. Corruptions such as bribery, incompetent management, and inadequate religious education, which in turn led to the employment of beautiful women and the consequent neglect of duty, broke the back of the two countries.
Why was it important for you to read Mr. Humphrey’s Notes?
The issue of the importance and boldness of the book stems from the fact that the issue of Wahhabism is a very dangerous issue for us and the Islamic world, and the danger of Wahhabism has been so serious and powerful that in the last two or three centuries it has caused all the efforts of Muslims who had problems with Wahhabism. To be used to suppress opposition and show the hidden dimensions of the case.
This has led us to do our best to counter the influence of Wahhabism, but unfortunately this path leads to results that, if not to our detriment, are not to our advantage.
Sometimes it even ends in favor of Wahhabism. The problem that exists in international and regional policy-making in the discussion of the confrontation of thought and action facing this current, rather than the historical background of confrontation of Shiite concerned and scholars, suffers from a major and historical problem, and that is that we never have a single policy in dealing with We do not have Wahhabism.
Of course, we have had the brilliant movement of Sheikh Ja’far Kashif al-Ghatta ‘, which led to the writing of the treatise “Manhaj al-Rashad Laman Arad al-Sadd” in response to Amir Abdul Aziz ibn Saud during the Wahhabi attacks on the holy shrines, and a valuable and brilliant document to reject the Shiites fairly and scientifically. It is considered the deviant thoughts of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
Mr. Humphrey’s notes have a charm that attracts even those unfamiliar with history.
Attractive prose is a feature of all the works in the field of conspiracy theory that I will mention. The fact that the book is attractive to a person who opposes Wahhabism and he can not go through it, goes back to the fact that we are sincerely opposed to Wahhabism, which of course is completely accepted and correct.
This book is one of the best resources for those who are already looking for some specific results without any scientific hypotheses. I agree with their goal and result, which is the suppression of Wahhabism, and there is no doubt that Wahhabism is to the detriment of the Islamic world and the region, and so on.
However, using this book will definitely be a violation of the purpose. Because the contents of this book are so fake and obvious that talking about this book in a scientific-research work and mentioning its name makes that research worthless. This goes back to the same issue of knowing that if we had enough information we would not have gone to this book.
Where does this book come from?
There are many questions about the origin of this book. That is, we do not know where the original of this book came from. Different people have made hypotheses.
But before that, we must consider how relevant the information in this book is to scientific and historical evidence. Therefore, the first issue that should be addressed and is an important issue is the visit of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab to Iran.
We know that the date of death of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab is 1206 AH (1791 AD) and his date of birth is 1115 AH. According to the tradition of that time, he, like many students of religious sciences, traveled to the lands adjacent to Najd to seek knowledge.
He traveled to Hejaz and studied in Medina for many years and then went to Basra and intended to visit Baghdad. After that, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was very eager to go to Damascus, which was the base of Hanbali and Salafi jurisprudence at that time. But he did not go to Damascus and returned to Najd, his original homeland.
We have a lot to say about the presence of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Iran, who said that he also came to Kurdistan, Isfahan and Qom. Leaving aside the references to “Mr. Humphrey’s diary” which refers to the presence of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Iran, we have other information about his presence in Iran.
For example, an article written by Dr. Hossein Modarresi Tabatabai entitled “Najd’s Independent Government Relations with Iran” and claimed that based on a letter from Mirza Qomi to Fath Ali Shah Qajar, in which Mirza Qomi recounted his 20-year memories in Iraq, from Sheikh He mentioned a young man named Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab who was in Iraq and intended to travel to Iran.
Other works have spoken of his trip to Iran. But among the Persian sources, Mirza Qomi’s letter seems more convincing.
In 2001, Michael Cook followed in his footsteps in The Origin of Wahhabi Thoughts, proving, based on sources not available or at the time of Mr. Modarressi Tabatabai’s writing, that there was evidence that Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab does not exist in Iran.
Interestingly, in republishing that article, Professor Modarressi recently moderated his views on Ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s visit to Iran. Therefore, an important part of the book “Memoirs of Mr. Humphrey” is questioned.
Also, according to Mr. Humphrey’s memoirs that he mentioned the year of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s arrival in Iran, according to this book, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab must have traveled to Iran at the age of nine, which is incorrect.
What is known is that Mr. Humphrey is an English spy. Have you researched this aspect of his life?
– There is no information or reference in the archival documents published by the British as well as every single travelogue and reports of identified and registered British spies, there is no name of Humphrey. This is an important discussion.
What was the original version of Mr. Humphrey’s notes like?
There is no original version of this book and we do not know in what language the original version of this book is originally. Everyone says that we have translated and the date of the Arabic translation is 1973. In the Persian book, there is no mention of when this book was translated and it is not clear at all whether it had an English version or not.
There is no Arabic version of Mr. Humphrey’s notes?
– Why is there an Arabic version, but I guess the translation is the same Persian version. Interestingly, the names of the translators are not entirely clear. It is not known who the name of the Arabic translator is.
In fact, there is a mysterious and hidden space full of ambiguity. On the other hand, the conversations and correspondences of people like Palgrave, Philby, etc., who are also very famous, have all been published and are said without any concessions, but there is no sign of a person similar to Humphrey.
In the Arabic version of the work, as I said, there is no reference to the author and on the last page of the book, it has the date 2/1/1973, but it is not clear whether this date is a translation of the original book or its authorship.
You said there are content flaws in this book. Can you point them out?
– Yes. For example, Humphrey refers to the fact that he was commissioned by the British “Ministry of Colonies” in 1710 to create divisions among Islamic countries, while in the history of British colonialism, at that time there was no “Ministry of Colonies” but a company. Has been East India.
Another point is that Humphrey mentions his acquaintance with Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in 1713 and points out that he was fluent in three languages, Persian, Turkish and Arabic, while Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, based on evidence and sources, did not know Persian and Turkish and was 10 years old at that time. Is. Humphrey also considers the date of the invitation of Wahhabism to be 1143 lunar, while in the sources the date is mentioned as 1153 lunar.
Another point is that the book refers to the behaviors and morals of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and he is described as a drunkard and lustful person, which seems to be an issue that has strengthened the romantic and narrative aspects of the book, and in my opinion, there is no doubt. There is no way that these words are more mythical than factual.
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Andrew Bennett: How does this proposal differ from the uprating orders that we have each year?
Mr. Webb: The uprating orders have traditionally been debated on the Floor of the House, often taking a whole day of parliamentary time rather than 90 minutes in an upstairs Committee Room. Indeed, on the occasions when we have felt that an uprating order was unacceptable—for example, the one that related to the 75p pension rise that the Government do not mention very often—we have voted it down, in an attempt to make the Government bring in a better one. A far better way of scrutinising these matters would be to present them in an amendable form, and for the Government to be required to come to the House with something that could be scrutinised not only in principle but in detail. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman thinks that a commitment to spend £500 million next time round, given without virtually any examination, is an acceptable example of the way in which the House scrutinises the Government, but I certainly do not.
Mr. Weir: Is not another difference between this proposal and the uprating orders the fact that the orders
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deal with existing benefits? We know what those benefits are, whereas clause 7 of the Bill could conceivably be used to introduce any sort of payment.
Mr. Webb: I was about to make that excellent point. The hon. Gentleman is quite right. Every year, we use the uprating orders to roll on an existing system that we understand well, but the Bill is about something completely new. It will introduce a new set of rules, which is why it requires even more proper scrutiny than the annual uprating process.
If we are concerned—as we are—about the burden of council tax on people on low or modest fixed incomes, we must ask ourselves whether this Bill presents the right strategy to deal with that issue. There are better ways to approach the problem, namely, to provide people with a decent pension. It seems undignified for pensioners to have to hang on every word of the Chancellor's speech, having remembered to switch it on five minutes before the end, which is when they get given the cash—the goodies that the Chancellor had to spare because an election was coming up. Is not that an undignified way to treat pensioners? Should they not know at the start of each financial year what money they will have coming in, and should not that money be adequate to meet bills of this sort so that they do not need such one-off special payments? I have similar feelings about other ad hoc payments that the Government have introduced.
Mr. McLoughlin: The hon. Gentleman has just accused the Government of offering an election bribe, which this proposal clearly is. If my memory is correct, in the last by-election that the Liberal Democrats fought, they put a "cheque" for £100 on the bottom of their leaflets, offering voters that amount off their council tax. They have now abolished that proposal. Was that not an election bribe that they subsequently decided was a bad idea?
Mr. Webb: We are proposing to abolish the council tax. Indeed, my right hon. Friend the leader of the party has over-performed, as he does so often, by proposing not only to cut £100 from people's council tax but to abolish the whole thing. If I am accused of breaking a promise to the electors to cut £100 of their council tax, when we are replacing that with a policy to scrap £1,000 of their council tax, I stand condemned.
Mr. Wilshire: Can we be absolutely clear about this? Is the hon. Gentleman pledging that his party, should we have the misfortune to see it form a Government, would scrap the council tax and replace it with a local income tax? If he will give us that pledge, my constituents would then understand why the average male in my constituency would end up with a bill of £700 a year more than he pays at the moment. They would be delighted to hear confirmation of that.
Mr. Webb: The hon. Gentleman should not believe his central office briefings. He should know that by now. In answer to the first part of his intervention: yes, our pledge is unequivocally and absolutely to replace the unfair council tax with a fair local income tax of the kind used in many European countries, which will not reassure the hon. Gentleman. Such taxes are also used in many American states, however, which perhaps will reassure him.
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In answer to the second part of the hon. Gentleman's question, the local income tax will replace the council tax, but we envisage one tax rise, on those earning more than £100,000 a year. Part of the proceeds of that tax rise—£1.7 billion, to be precise—will be used to ease the burden of the transition from council tax to local income tax. The amount raised under our local income tax will actually be less than that raised under the council tax. Given that it will raise less money, the notion that the average family could be hundreds of pounds worse off does not make sense. The average outcome must be a gain, because we shall be raising less money overall. In fact, because the tax will be charged according to the ability to pay, the vast majority of pensioners, for example, will benefit from our proposal.
That is precisely the focus of the Bill. That is what it is trying to do, in a very inadequate way. We believe, however, that a system in which pensioners who do not pay national income tax would not pay council tax either would be fairer than giving everyone £100 across the board, as that will fail to discriminate between those who pay no council tax and those who are well able to afford to do so.
Mr. Wilshire: I am sure that I heard the hon. Gentleman say that his plans included some extra tax to ease the transition, so he is not actually denying that my constituents will face another £700 a year in tax. What he is saying is that he has a wheeze to put that off for a little while in the hope that people will forget about it, vote for his party, and subsequently pay the extra £700. Is that what the hon. Gentleman is saying?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Order. I appreciate that the hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) is now being seduced off the straight and narrow, but I would be grateful if he would avoid being seduced.
Mr. Webb: I shall not find that too difficult in the present context, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As the hon. Gentleman's question has been placed on record, I shall simply say that a tax that raises less money—namely the replacement local income tax—could not possibly create an average loss, let alone one on the scale that he envisages. In fact, there will be average gains under our proposals.
Andrew Bennett: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mr. Webb: Yes, although I recognise your strictures, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
Andrew Bennett: If the hon. Gentleman's proposals would bring in less money, does that mean that councils would have to cut services, particularly services to the elderly? Or would income tax have to go up to meet the shortfall?
Mr. Webb: For the benefit of the record, if the hon. Gentleman had been listening a few moments ago, he would have heard me point out that, of the £5 billion or so that our proposal for a 50p income tax rate will raise, £1.7 billion will go towards easing the transition between council tax and local income tax. That would mean that councils would get the same amount of money. I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman,
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as a socialist—if I dare use that term—would favour higher taxation for those earning more than £100,000 a year.
Mr. Nigel Jones (Cheltenham) (LD): To keep strictly in order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, may I say that I welcome the £100 proposal? Will my hon. Friend confirm, however, that under the local income tax, 74 per cent. of my constituents in Cheltenham would be better off?
Mr. Webb: I am sure that my hon. Friend has read a more reliable briefing on that subject than the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilshire), and I am sure that he is correct.
The focus of our debate is pensioners. The Bill is about doing something because the council tax hits pensioners, but the proposal to pay everyone a uniform amount, when some pay no council tax at all and others can afford to pay it, is very poorly targeted.
Far better than an unfair tax system and a rebates system designed to try to redress that—and because that does not work, another lump sum payment—would be a fair local tax system in the first place. That must be the key. The problem at the moment is, first, that we have an unfair and rapidly increasing local tax bill, and secondly, a hopelessly ineffective rebates system—if it worked, pensioners would not feel the pain of the council tax. Because 1 million or more pensioners are missing out on the rebates and are paying the full council tax, the Government's policy has had political consequences. A sticking plaster of £100 to remedy the fact that the rebates fail to address an unfair council tax system is a crazy solution. The House should be aware that the bureaucracy to run a rebates system, which is one way of trying to make council tax fairer, and to levy council tax, costs £600 million. That money should be going on pensions and pensioners. That is another reason why there are better strategies to adopt than that in the Bill.
The alternative strategy, as well as making the local tax system fairer, offers a better system of support for pensioners. Clearly, one of the reasons why many pensioners over 70, who are the subject of the Bill, are so poor is that they do not get the means-tested benefits to which they are entitled. The Government's view is that with one more heave, another publicity campaign and another leaflet, all will be well with the world. The Minister knows, however, that for years to come a structural feature of the Government's mass means-testing strategy is that vast numbers of older people will simply not get the money to which they are entitled. The Government will then recognise that as a political problem, and will have to find a system that people do take up. I accept that winter fuel payments are generally taken up, with men aged between 60 and 64 as the main exception. The Government must use a system that they know works to get money to people, because the other systems, such as mass means-testing, do not work. The Government have an unfair local tax system and a rebates system that does not work, so they have had to patch it up. On top of that, they provide an inadequate pension and conduct means-testing to deal with that inadequacy, and because that does not work, they need another sticking plaster.
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\section{Distance Function for Distinct Elements in Metric Space is Strictly Positive}
Tags: Metric Spaces
\begin{theorem}
Let $A$ be a set.
Let $d: A \times A \to \R$ be a real-valued function on $A$ with the following properties:
{{begin-axiom}}
{{axiom | n = \text M 1'
| q = \forall x, y \in A
| m = \map d {x, y} = 0 \iff x = y
}}
{{axiom | n = \text M 2
| q = \forall x, y, z \in A
| m = \map d {x, y} + \map d {y, z} \ge \map d {x, z}
}}
{{axiom | n = \text M 3
| q = \forall x, y \in A
| m = \map d {x, y} = \map d {y, x}
}}
{{end-axiom}}
which can be considered as being an alternative formulation of the metric space axioms.
Then:
:$\forall x, y \in A: x \ne y \implies \map d {x, y} > 0$
which is {{Metric-space-axiom|4}}.
Thus $d$ is a distance function, so making $M := \struct {A, d}$ a metric space.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | q = \forall x, y \in A
| l = \map d {x, y} + \map d {y, x}
| o = \ge
| r = \map d {x, x}
| c = from {{Metric-space-axiom|2}}
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = 2 \map d {x, y}
| o = \ge
| r = 0
| c = from Axiom $(\text M 1')$ above and {{Metric-space-axiom|3}}
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = \map d {x, y}
| o = \ge
| r = 0
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed}}
Category:Metric Spaces
\end{proof}
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Monday, June 26, 2017
What Can You Control?
Control the things you can control and give what you can't control to God.
The issue lies in determining what you can control. It is highly likely that you think you can control much more than you really can. Because you are not a good judge of what you can and cannot control, the safest route is to assume you can't control anything --- which knocks down the ego and huge amount and creates humility --- and to give it all to God.
You can't be partially pregnant, and you really can't be partially in control of certain things and not of others. Of course, at a level of Spirit, you and God work hand in hand to create what you have asked for in this lifetime, so that is the ultimate control. But how many people walk this earth from the same consciousness Jesus did. You are working toward that consciousness, but until you get there, assume that you don't know what is in your best interest and you can't control anything. Give it all to God. With that surrender comes great peace and joy.
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"Holly was single this summer and able to devote all her energy toward herself."
Ah, I see she's a Lizzo fan too.
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Seriously, though, it's so rare to see fatness talked of as a positive thing in any context that lines like ""It's almost like the river got higher when Holly went in the water to catch a fish," or "after she gives birth in the den her pudgy rolls will be converted to nutritious and fatty milk for tiny cubs"...feel profoundly weird, and great, to read.
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My new favorite thing about this is my freidmd who saw me talking about Holly winning the fat bear contest and didn't know I meant an actual brown bear and not the kind of people who are called bears and was like "ah yes, Holly is a gender-neutral name."
Now I want to be the fattest bear called Holly. :)
I've got two of those things easy, but I'm not hairy enough or tall enough to be a bear, sadly. :)
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@error_1202 you don't need to be furry to be a furry. 😘🐻
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There was bickering on the bench, a coach battling nerves and team that just couldn't get on track unless it had a hole to dig itself out of.
All in a day's work for Mayer Lutheran, which overcame all of those potential pitfalls to win its first state title since 1982. The Crusaders defeated Caledonia 20-25, 26-24, 25-23, 25-20 on Saturday in the Class 1A championship game.
The Crusaders pulled off the victory by refusing to wilt whenever the taller Warriors would go on a run. Mayer Lutheran trailed in every set, by as many as three points in three of the four.
"We were pretty crabby on the bench," Mayer Lutheran coach Joelle Grimsley said. "They were yelling at each other, and I had to tell them to stop being so crabby."
But while their bench was a cacophony of emotion, their on-court demeanor at Xcel Energy Center was cool. They rallied from a 14-10 deficit in the fourth and deciding set to win the match going away.
Credit the heady play of junior outside hitter Madison Hucky for pointing the Crusaders in the right direction. Each time they fell behind, Hucky took the lead, reminding them that composure was the key to coming back. Well, that and a dominant service game. Mayer Lutheran had 13 service aces and forced Caledonia into 13 receiving errors.
"The most important thing is to stay calm," Hucky said. "When we started to go on a run, it was easy to keep it going."
Said Grimsley: "She was calm. I was the nervous one. But I've never seen anything like it. They'd get three or four, then we'd get three or four. We never stopped fighting. We never gave up."
Caledonia outside hitter Mariah Schroeder said her team was frustrated by its inability to put away Mayer Lutheran.
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package com.streamsets.datacollector.task;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.streamsets.datacollector.task.AbstractTask;
import com.streamsets.datacollector.task.CompositeTask;
import com.streamsets.datacollector.task.Task;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class TestCompositeTask {
private final List<String> initOrder = new ArrayList<String>();
private final List<String> runOrder = new ArrayList<String>();
private final List<String> stopOrder = new ArrayList<String>();
private final List<String> waitWhileRunningOrder = new ArrayList<String>();
public class SubTask extends AbstractTask {
public SubTask(String name) {
super(name);
}
@Override
public void initTask() {
initOrder.add(getName());
}
@Override
public void runTask() {
runOrder.add(getName());
}
@Override
public void stopTask() {
stopOrder.add(getName());
}
@Override
public void waitWhileRunning() throws InterruptedException {
super.waitWhileRunning();
waitWhileRunningOrder.add(getName());
}
}
@Test
public void testCompositeTask() throws Exception {
Task task1 = new SubTask("t1");
Task task2 = new SubTask("t2");
Task task = new CompositeTask("ct", ImmutableList.of(task1, task2), false);
Assert.assertEquals("ct", task.getName());
Assert.assertTrue(task.toString().contains("ct"));
Assert.assertTrue(task.toString().contains("t1"));
Assert.assertTrue(task.toString().contains("t2"));
Assert.assertTrue(initOrder.isEmpty());
Assert.assertTrue(runOrder.isEmpty());
Assert.assertTrue(stopOrder.isEmpty());
Assert.assertTrue(waitWhileRunningOrder.isEmpty());
task.init();
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), initOrder);
Assert.assertTrue(runOrder.isEmpty());
Assert.assertTrue(stopOrder.isEmpty());
Assert.assertTrue(waitWhileRunningOrder.isEmpty());
task.run();
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), initOrder);
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), runOrder);
Assert.assertTrue(stopOrder.isEmpty());
Assert.assertTrue(waitWhileRunningOrder.isEmpty());
task.stop();
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), initOrder);
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), runOrder);
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t2", "t1"), stopOrder);
Assert.assertTrue(waitWhileRunningOrder.isEmpty());
task.waitWhileRunning();
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), initOrder);
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), runOrder);
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t2", "t1"), stopOrder);
Assert.assertEquals(ImmutableList.of("t1", "t2"), waitWhileRunningOrder);
}
@Test
public void testCompositeTaskWithMonitor() throws Exception {
Task task1 = new SubTask("t1");
Task task2 = new SubTask("t2");
Task task = new CompositeTask("ct", ImmutableList.of(task1, task2), true);
task.init();
task.run();
task1.stop();
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < 500 && task.getStatus() == Task.Status.RUNNING) {
Thread.sleep(50);
}
Assert.assertFalse("Test Waiting for stop detection timed out", task.getStatus() == Task.Status.RUNNING);
Assert.assertEquals(Task.Status.STOPPED, task.getStatus());
Assert.assertEquals(Task.Status.STOPPED, task1.getStatus());
Assert.assertEquals(Task.Status.STOPPED, task2.getStatus());
}
}
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Duran City was now in ruin. A city that was once one of the big cities in the apocalypse was destroyed after its vice president, Bi He, suddenly into a giant behemoth zombie that destroyed the city.
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Duran City would be a ruined city if not because of one figure. This figure was the hero of the city, the one that defeated the giant behemoth and defeated the zombie king, Ling Kai. After Bi He's body exploded, Ling Kai also disappeared from this world, leaving Ru Lan as the only survivor who came out victorious.
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The chant echoed through the ruined city. Ling Kai was now inside Ru Lan's body, there was no more Ling Kai, the zombie king, only the great President Ru.
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The people of Duran City were rebuilding the city slowly, meanwhile, President Ru always left the city alone for all expeditions and returned with many valuable brain beads. He would also defend the city against any raiders or high ranking zombies.
Ru Lan became a famed name across the continent as the strongest ability user in the world, he was also the one that defeated Ling Kai and rebuilt Duran City.
After five years, Duran City had been restored to its original glory. In fact, it was even better. Due to President Ru's ability to gather high quality brain beads, the city developed even further and became the biggest city in the continent in only five years.
To show their gratitude to their hero, the people of Duran City erected a big statue of President Ru Lan, the legendary protector of Duran City. It was the highest honor that a man could get. The now rebuilt Duran Tower was also renamed as Ru Tower.
Ling Kai watched when the statue had been erected, the face of the handsome man that he would never forget. Although he was now using the body of the handsome man, he still missed him badly.
'Ru Lan, at least, you get the honor that you deserve after so long. If only you were here with me, you must be very happy.'
'I can only do this much, because this body of yours starts to rot after five years. And I don't want to stay in this world without you for too long.'
Ling Kai watched the city from the top of Ru Tower.
"President Ru, are you calling me?" a young man came to his office after Ling Kai summoned him.
"Yes, Dong Xu," Ling Kai turned his head towards Dong Xu, the young vice president that he had carefully selected. He read this young man's mind and saw that this was a good man, a potential leader. He was also a powerful earth user.
"Do you have any task for me?" Dong Xu asked.
"This will be the last task for me," Ling Kai said, "I appoint you to be the next president. I will leave the city soon."
The news about President Ru leaving the city shocked everyone, he completed all the paperwork for Dong Xu and then vanished like a thin air. Everybody tried to search for President Ru in other cities, but President Ru didn't leave a trace for them.
With that, President Ru was now only a legend for them. He defeated the zombie king, the giant zombie behemoth, and rebuilt Duran City in five years. He deserved all the glory in life, but he decided to disappear forever.
In fact, Ling Kai only returned to his old house. He was aware that he couldn't use Ru Lan's body for more than five years, just like the rest of his previous bodies. Ru Lan's body started rotting and his skin started falling off.
Ling Kai didn't want to ruin Ru Lan's body even more, but he also didn't want to find another body and live alone in this world.
He had tasted a drop of love from Ru Lan, and he didn't want to let go.
Ling Kai sat on his bed, the one where he woke up as a zombie. He looked around, "As expected, I still don't know anything about my past."
Ling Kai only knew that Bi He was the one who killed him, and he was called Professor Ling in his life before the apocalypse. But that was it.
However, he still wanted to believe in Ru Lan's words, that he was a good, studious man when he was alive.
"Ru Lan, I don't want to live forever in this world without you. It's too lonely…"
"I miss you, I really miss you…"
Ling Kai extracted his brain bead from his skull and stared at its brilliance, "I just wished… that I will die for real this time."
Ling Kai laid on the bed, he closed his eyes and crushed his brain bead.
Ling Kai's soul floated in a sphere, when he opened his eyes, he was in an infinite space with a bunch of floating numbers.
"You are finally here."
Ling Kai heard someone talking to him, a man appeared in front of him. He wore a black-golden robe and his face was exquisitely handsome. In Ling Kai's wildest imagination, he thought that this man's face must have been his face prior to his death.
"Who are you?"
"You are part of my soul, so we're basically the same person," the man said. He flicked his sleeve and a crystal sphere appeared in front of him, Ling Kai saw two handsome men who were fighting against each other.
Although the faces of these two men were foreign for him, he could sense that one of them was Ru Lan, "Who dares hurt my Ru Lan!?"
Ling Kai's energy swirled inside the sphere, he tried to break the sphere that trapped him, but he couldn't. With one flick from the man in front of him, his powerful energy vanished without trace.
"Relax, Ru Lan is in another world, his real name is Bai Yunyu," the man in black robe said, there was a smirk on his face when he said 'Bai Yunyu'.
Ling Kai paused, he stared at the man, "Bai… Yunyu…"
Ling Kai felt familiar with that name, although he didn't remember anything.
"Do you want to meet Ru Lan, or should I say… Bai Yunyu?"
"…Yes, I miss him so much…"
"Then, give your soul to me, we will meet him as one."
Ling Kai didn't understand what this man was saying, but he was always oblivious about anything, as long as he could meet with Ru Lan again, then everything would be fine. He just nodded and closed his eyes.
The sphere minimized into a small bead and the man swallowed Ling Kai's soul. He laughed low when he received Ling Kai's memory.
"You are still oblivious, Bai Yunyu. When you entered this world for the first time, you burned everything to the ground, you fried Ling Kai and his brain bead easily with your lightning. But now, you have to struggle to defeat a weakling like Bi He. How funny."
"You are always like that, right? Destroying everything with your overwhelming lightning, like a kid stomping ants," the man said, his gaze darkened as he watched the crystal sphere.
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\section{Real Function with Negative Derivative is Decreasing}
Tags: Differential Calculus
\begin{theorem}
Let $f$ be a real function which is continuous on the closed interval $\closedint a b$ and differentiable on the open interval $\openint a b$.
If $\forall x \in \openint a b: \map {f'} x \le 0$, then $f$ is decreasing on $\closedint a b$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $c, d \in \closedint a b$ such that $c < d$.
Then $f$ satisfies the conditions of the Mean Value Theorem on $\closedint c d$.
Hence:
:$\exists \xi \in \openint c d: \map {f'} \xi = \dfrac {\map f d - \map f c} {d - c}$
Let $f$ be such that:
:$\forall x \in \openint a b: \map {f'} x \le 0$
Then:
:$\map {f'} \xi \le 0$
and hence:
:$\map f d \le \map f c$
Thus $f$ is decreasing on $\closedint a b$.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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\section{Restriction of Well-Founded Relation is Well-Founded}
Tags: Well-Founded Relations
\begin{theorem}
Let $\struct {S, \RR}$ be a relational structure.
Let $\RR$ be a well-founded relation on $S$.
Let $T$ be a subset or subclass of $S$.
Let $\RR'$ be the restriction of $\RR$ to $T$.
Then $\preceq'$ is a well-founded relation on $T$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $A$ be a non-empty subset of $T$.
By Subset Relation is Transitive, $A$ is a non-empty subset of $S$.
Since $\RR$ is a well-founded relation on $S$, $A$ has a minimal element $m$ under $\RR$.
Let $x \in A$.
Let $x \mathrel {\RR'} m$.
By the definition of restriction:
:$x \mathrel \RR m$
Thus by the definition of minimal element:
:$x = m$
As $x$ is an arbitrary element of $A$, this holds for all $x \in A$.
Hence by definition $m$ is a minimal element of $A$ under $\RR'$.
As $A$ is an arbitrary non-empty subset of $T$, this holds for all non-empty subsets of $T$.
Hence $\RR'$ is a well-founded relation on $T$.
{{qed}}
Category:Well-Founded Relations
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Example 2 - John and Sarah
Published: 1 August 2016
John and Sarah bought a house with KiwiSaver
How John and Sarah bought a house with KiwiSaver.
John and Sarah earned a combined income of $125,000 in the last year and have put in an offer on an existing home in Auckland for $600,000. As they have been paying rent in Auckland, they have only managed to save a $50,000 deposit.
Their bank has advised it will lend them $480,000.
John has been a member of KiwiSaver since July 2007, when it was first launched, and has contributed the minimum percentage of his salary/wages each year. Sarah, has been a KiwiSaver member since August 2009.
Both John and Sarah submitted applications to Housing New Zealand for the HomeStart grant and have both been approved for $5,000. They have also made applications to their KiwiSaver scheme providers to withdraw their contributions to help with their first home. They are able to withdraw a combined total of $60,000 from their KiwiSaver accounts.
House purchase price $600,000
Minimum deposit required by lender $120,000 (20%)
Deposit components Saved deposit $50,000
KiwiSaver HomeStart grants $10,000
KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal $60,000
Deposit provided by client $120,000 (20%)
Bank Loan $480,000 (80% of LVR)
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Mumbai: Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor has said that he will rebuild the RK Studio after it was gutted down in a fire recently.
An aggrieved Rishi, 65, took to Twitter where he posted a photo of the now dilapidated premises of the studio, which was founded in 1948 by celebrated actor-filmmaker Raj Kapoor in Chembur suburbs.
“2017 September 16. Gutted by a devastating inferno.
Scars shall remain but will build a state of the art studio.
(sic),” wrote Rishi.
The actor also shared some old photographs of the studio, reminiscing the golden days of the studio.
A level 2 fire had broken out on the sets of the show “Super Dancer”, which spread from the electrical wing of the RK Studio and gutted the ground floor.
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Are Celebrity "Tweets" Real? It All Depends on the Meaning of "Real"
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It's crazy how much people use Twitter. I had'nt heard of it before about a year ago. I don't currently use it but I have friends that do and they seem to enjpy it.
Keith E. Whisman
Who really cares anyway? I mean they use a toilet like everyone else and their poop stinks like yours. They just got good jobs. They follow direction really well.
Actors are just that. Just actors. Only actors. It's the director and producers and writers that devote their time and energy and creativity to making a movie. If it were all about the actors then there would be no need to film the same scene over and over again until the director is happy with what he gets.
Actors are over rated to the tenth degree. When a movie comes out the actors get all the glory when in reality actors give a minimum to the creative process of making the movie. The people that derserve the glory and notoriaty would be the writers and then the directors/producers and finally the actors.
So I could care less about actors. I don't worship them or go crazy when I meet them in public and I have. I tell them the same thing I told Mike Tyson I just don't care. I have my own life to live.
I owe my view of actors to a book I read by William Shatner.
Pretty funny really, that the Hollywood and Washington elite can't be bothered to grace us all with their own morsels of wisdom. I mean after all--who are WE?
Oh wait, we're the ones that keep em in business....
Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker are on twitter and based on the posts and twit pics... I think they are real and legit.
They also don't write their own press releases, movie scrips, or songs, so I guess it's not terribly surprising.
Most of the porn star tweets seem real. Questlove of the Roots is real too. You can't ghostwrite the stuff he tweets.
"Ass so fat that you can see it from the front" -- Mos Def
I figured that some "famous" twitter users would use a Ghostwriter, however some are just too weird that they almost have to be real. Like Weird Al Yankovic, and Christopher Walken.
But as long as the information is true, I could care less.
Christopher Walken is hysterical, I love that guy. I don't care if he's the 'real' one or not, he's pure comedy gold.
NekoLLX would like to inform NekoLLX's fans that NekoLLX, never uses ghostwriters.
Keith E. Whisman
Who is NekoLLX? And I don't use ghost writers either. If I did I would fire them for crappy grammar an stuff like tat.
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How Quickly Does a Testosterone Injection Work?
How Quickly Does Testosterone Injection Work
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How Big Is a Roofing Square?
In the roofing industry one square is equal to an area of 100 square feet.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Trouble For November
Apparently, Obama had better sew up the wounds he has inflicted on the Democratic party and quickly, if this polling data is accurate:
Friday, June 06, 2008
Friday Kitten Blogging
I iz hepping dadby fex a facs masheen!
Nobody Asked Me, But...
1) With all the rejoicing in Obamawood, I wonder how comfortable Democrats are knowing the Republicans in Florida and Michigan chose the Democratic nominee? Manichaean candidate, anyone?
2) "Is that a penis in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" (WARNING: article is rife with in-you-end-o)
3) You'd think the opposite would happen, but you'd be wrong. Somehow the laws of supply and demand break down in hyperinflative environments.
4) Perhaps the long national nightmare is over. And perhaps not.
5) It's hard to believe I'm saying this, but it's nice to see at least one Bushie with a sense of responsibility. You might recall this stems from the brouhaha over misplaced nuclear material on a flight, and nearly everyone figured the buck with stop with some airmen. Uh uh!
6) 5.5%. That's a half-percent up from last month. That's the highest monthly increase in twenty years and represents more jobs lost in any one month since the recession of the early 80s.
7) Not that you care, but CARE does. (OK, admittedly, it was a cheap way to stretch for a headline)
8) Next week, I will find out what my next phone looks like. As I have rather large and clumsy fingers (despite these daily typing workouts), I'm hoping for a slightly easier to use keypad.
9)'s a shock! And it even has a built-in way for McCain to run against his own party!
10) Ummmmmmmmmmmm, yea, this will work for Barack Obama...still, it's kind of a cute idea in the "soccer mom" mold.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Is Joe Trippi the Obama camp discussing the Obama veep spot with
former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr?
UPDATE by Carl
(h/t to Katrina for her quick posting of a garbled message)
Your humble correspondent lucked into dining at a restaurant near his office when in walked Harold Ford with someone I tentatively identified as Joe Trippi (the tip was real time and the restaurant was dark), but after further inspection later realized it was not Trippi, but another advisor to the Obama campaign, based on some of the things he said to Ford.
The pair sat at the table next to me and after a brief cell phone conversation on the Congressman's part, began what I can only describe as earnest discussions about the potential of Harold Ford assuming the Vice Presidential spot on the Obama ticket.
Not so fast, this might not be as outlandish as you think. Ford is chairman of the Clinton-initiated Democratic Leadership Council and is a popular Congressman from a key swing Southern state. You may recall that he was victimized in 2006 by the Rovian "Call Me, Congressman" smear campaign that blasted across YouTube like a Mentos in a bottle of Diet Coke.
Ford is a centrist Democrat whose inclusion would certainly attract many Clinton supporters, particularly in the South. He has strong credibility with the religious sector, but has repudiated many of the issues that would be raised in the general election regarding the Reverends Wright and Pfleger.
Because of his position as an analyst on MSNBC, Ford has not endorsed Barack Obama, of course, but it wouldn't be a stretch to say he could easily shed the MSNBC job and go to work on the campaign now that things have all but settled out.
I obviously cannot vouch for anything beyond what I overheard, and it's also likely that I caught a continuation of a previous conversation where this was all considered hypothetical.
But someone is talking about it.
Why I Think Hillary Should Fight On
But she's the strongest step in that direction.
As a result of an unhappy circumstance, I was forced to watch "All the President's Men" last night on DVD.
Florida. Remember them?
Let's call him the Manichaean Candidate.
Apparently not.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Backing His Way Into Victory
Remember him? Jimmy Carter?
Trouble with that is, once you've done that, pendulums tend to swing back as violently and extremely. There's a majjority seating on the Supreme Court that is going to vehemently enforce conservative values and ideology and any attempt to alter the political dynamic by uprooting the nation and shoving it leftward is going to run up against that rather large obstacle.
As opposed "to run for."
Perhaps they are right.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
You Were A Prick...
...but it's been a year, dad.
And Now For News That Shouldn't Surprise Us...
Remember those touted "rebate checks" that were going to spur the economy?
Um...not so much....
MIAMI — The federal government is showering households with tax rebates to spur spending and invigorate a troubled economy. But many Americans are so consumed with debt and the soaring price of gasoline that they are opting to save the money or use it to pay bills, according to surveys, sales data and interviews with people from Florida to California.
Between late April and the end of last week, the Treasury handed out more than $50 billion of the $100 billion in tax rebates it plans to distribute to 132 million households. But only once in the last six weeks have chain stores registered an increase in sales, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, whose weekly sales survey is a widely watched barometer.
“The initial sense is that people are not running out to the malls to spend their checks,” said Stuart G. Hoffman, chief economist at the PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh. “It’s not quite proving to be a hot potato that’s burning a hole in people’s pockets.”
You read that right folks: only one week in the past 6 has seen an increase in consumer spending. I'd lay pretty good money that it was the second week in May, after everyone had sorted out their mortgages and rent, and decided, yes, the had a little extra to spend.
Here's where the lunatic logic of the Republican party comes into play: When tax rebates have been handed out to Americans, only 20 to 50 percent actually gets flushed back into the economy as fresh spending. THe rest, the other half to four-fifths, gets stuck paying down debts or otherwise improving the balance sheets of consumers.
In short, rebates don't really work. Well, that's not true, they COULD work, but only when consumers have enough income coming in and their debt levels are in line with those incomes. Like when the economy is humming along, for example. Which is when they wouldn't need them, right?
A rebate has to be very carefully timed to be distributed at the precise moment when the economy is just beginning to go south, but the effects of the souring economy haven't been felt in the pockets of the average taxpayer, in other words. Since no government in their right mind is going to do anything but talk up the economy at that stage, rebates are esentially ineffectual.
Rather than distribute that money, what the government could have done was make it 100% fresh money in the economy, and spent it themselves. In an ideal world, this is how it should go, but in that world, pigs really do fly.
The government would spend this money on new initiatives, carefully targeted by sector and geography, and thus drum up further private investment. Things like economic development, seed money for small businesses, and other investments that would show a long term return of tax revenue would be ideally suited for this money.
Further, if the government really thought the country was going to go to hell in a handbasket, it could invest this money in infrastructure repair which would have a two-fold effect: it would prime the country for the eventually recovery at the same time it would provide jobs for the working class, those who are most affected by the current sordid state.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the general field of support devices, and in particular the field of clamps or supporting brackets for removable objects. In a more particular sense, the invention comprises a clamp or bracket adapted to be swiftly and easily adjusted to a release position, so as to permit extraction of the supported object. The device is of the type, falling within this general category, in which a portion of the clamp is spring biased to close a recess in which the object is engaged, said portion being at all times adapted to be adjusted by a linear movement and a pivoted movement, in sequence, to clear the recess and permit removal of the clamped object.
2. Description of the Prior Art
It has been proposed, heretofore, to provide clamping devices for any of various elongated objects, including folding fire ladders. Some of these devices, however, have been specially designed to receive only one particular make of fire ladder, and hence have been unsuitable by reason of the fact that a fire company, in purchasing ladder clamps, may not desire to be restricted thereby to the purchase of only a single commercial make of ladder.
It is also desirable that a clamp be provided which can be manufactured and sold economically, by reason of its capability of being made in a single form, while at the same time being adapted for supporting any of various makes of fire ladders, merely by insertion or removal of selected spacer blocks.
In the prior art, also, many clamps have been excessively complicated, and cannot be opened swiftly enough to meet the demanding requirements of volunteer fire companies or paid fire departments. Ladder clamps on fire trucks must be conveniently accessible, and it is of the greatest importance that there be no loss of time, in an emergency when even seconds count, in the opening of the clamp and the resultant obtaining of access to the folded ladder.
Folding ladders of the type accommodated by truck-mounted ladder carrier clamps are regarded as highly important pieces of equipment, in that they can be carried through small spaces, are very light and can be swiftly opened and set up for use. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'fa03f7645fd0aee17e6144812be6b77631f6a550d723b8ec6ecd848afdf61e8d'} |
Letter to the Editor
Climate tipping point
San Luis ObispoDecember 6, 2012
The Dec. 3 article on global emissions leaves out two critical facts:
1. China’s emissions are now greater than ours because we have willingly sent them most of our manufacturing jobs. Creating new stuff requires the expenditure of much energy and therefore the creation of much carbon dioxide. Still, on a perperson basis, Canadian and American emissions far exceed those of the Chinese or any other nationality.
2. None of the emissions compares qualitatively or quantitatively to the methane in the Arctic regions now gushing from thawed permafrost. Pound for pound, methane is 25 times as powerful a global warming gas as carbon dioxide. Methane will cause the “tipping point” from which there is no turning back. Unless we act now, humanity is doomed.
Ultimately, to survive, we humans have to connect the dots between cause and effect. I recently saw two bumper stickers on the same car: “ARMY” and “Proud to burn fossil fuels.” The U.S. Army just fought two expensive wars (in men, women and matériel) partly to ensure the right for us Americans to pump out more carbon dioxide. Juxtaposing those two bumper stickers speaks volumes.
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The Three Kings (Traja králi)
The Slovakia festival, Traja králi (the Three Kings) is a holiday of obligation in Slovakia, on the 6th January, in honour of the Three Wise Men, who came to bow before the newly born, baby Jesus. In the past, this day was celebrated with people going round houses in the village, dressed up as the three kings and singing Christmas carols.
The boys of the village would go around the houses with a star, dressed in long white shirts with crowns on their heads and in some areas even a figure of an angel would accompany them. They would sing carols, make wishes and thank the people for any gifts they might receive. One of the wishes they would make was as follows:
“We, the Three Kings, have come to you to wish you health and happiness for many long years. From far away we have come, our journey has been long. We saw the star when Jesus Christ was born, the star shined above Bethlehem. When we came we found the baby Jesus straight away. He was born in poverty, and in his honour, we beg for forgiveness that we have come round to wish you a Happy New Year.”
The carols were supposed to bring happiness, health and prosperity into people’s homes. At first, the Catholic Church forbade these carols because the Church considered it to be a pagan tradition. However, as the people did not want to let go of this tradition, the Church eventually accepted it. Gradually, this tradition became an important part of the holidays and included priests, sextons, singers, altar boys and even the mayor. They would go round the houses and bless the people with holy water and frankincense, and would write above the door, with a blessed chalk, the initials of the three kings: G (Gaspar), M (Melichar) and B (Baltazar).
The Three Kings, the priest and the carol singer were often invited into the people’s homes, where the woman of the house would sit the visitors around the table and bring them some treats. After the guests had gone she would quickly sit on the same place where the priest had sat, which was supposed to help her hens lay more eggs, all the year round. If a naked girl sat on that place she was supposed to get married in one year, and if she wanted to get married even quicker she had to wrap herself in the tablecloth that had laid on the table during the time when the carol singers were there. This tablecloth was also supposed to help a person with back trouble get rid of backaches.
Another tradition typical for this day was the blessing of water, salt, chalks, candles and other objects of everyday use. Running water during the period of the winter solstice was supposed to have a stronger effect than water from any other period in the year. In the Greek Orthodox and Protestant parts of Slovakia, priests even blessed water directly in ponds and rivers and used to call it “Jordan water”.
In the region of Orava, people used to pour this blessed water onto their homes and stables and then keep the rest of it, because it was believed that this water wouldn’t go off the whole year. The blessed salt and chalks were supposed to protect the people and the house. Therefore, the salt was mixed together with the feed, and the chalks were used to put crosses on the entrances into the house and stables, and also people used to make a circle around the shepherd’s hut. Blessed candles would also be lit next to the bed of a dying person or when there was a storm. Generally, all the blessed objects were used to protect people and animals against demons, witches and illnesses, and also against natural disasters.
Many prophecies were also connected with this day, such as:
“If the night before the three kings the stars are shining, then white rams will be born.”
“If there is a clear sky on the day of the three kings then the wheat will grow better.”
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Magical Incantation to become a Werewolf
• The incantation must be done in the woods or forest.
• A copper knife
On the empty pasture gleams the moon, on an ashstock lying
In a green wood, in a gloomy vale.
Toward the stock wandereth a shaggy wolf,
Horned cattle seeking for his sharp white fangs;
But the wolf dives not into the shadowy vale,
Moon, Moon, gold-horned moon,
Check the flight of bullets, blunt the hunters’ knives,
Break the Shepards’ cudgels,
Cast wild fear upon all cattle,
On men, on all creeping things,
That they may not catch the grey wolf,
That they may not rend his warm skin!
My word is binding, more binding than sleep,
More binding than the promise of a hero!
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[Salt resistance and its mechanism of cucumber under effects of exogenous chemical activators].
With root injection and foliar spray, this paper studied the effects of different concentrations salicylic acid, brassinolide, chitosan and spermidine on the growth, morphogenesis, and physiological and biochemical characters of cucumber ( Cucumis sativus L. ) seedlings under 200 mmol x L(-1) NaCl stress. The results showed that at proper concentrations, these four exogenous chemical activators could markedly decrease the salt stress index and mortality of cucumber seedlings, and the decrement induced by 0. 01 mg x L (-1) brassinolide was the largest, being 63. 0% and 75. 0% , respectively. The activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) , peroxidase (POD) and catalase (CAT) increased significantly, resulting in a marked decrease of malondialdehyde (MDA) content and electrolyte leakage. The dry weight water content and morphogenesis of cucumber seedlings improved, and the stem diameter, leaf number, and healthy index increased significantly. All of these suggested that exogenous chemical activators at proper concentrations could induce the salt resistance of cucumber, and mitigate the damage degree of salt stress. The salt resistance effect of test exogenous chemical activators decreased in the sequence of 0.005 -0.05 mg (L-1) brassinolide, 150 -250 mg x L (-1) spermidine, 100 -200 mg x L(-1) chitosan, and 50 -150 mg x L(-1) salicylic acid. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '98e2990116e9643107bc3cd14fe768abb78dbe90b82176019448bcd939838837'} |
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Gluten Intolerant? You May Just Be Intolerant of Monsanto Weed Killer
Source: Ultraculture
Scientists suggest that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is what’s making people have such a nasty reaction to gluten
Gluten has been a major news item for the last few years—not just for sufferers of acute gluten intolerance and celiac disease, but for increasing numbers of people who are seeking to eliminate gluten from their diet for general health issues, weight control, skin health and even mood. As cholesterol and the carbs once were, gluten is the new enemy, to the point that some have claimed it’s a substance that the body isn’t equipped to handle.
I’ve even heard people blame gluten for all of the ails of modern civilization: After all, the cultivation of wheat, some say, is the birth of agriculture, and the ownership of crops goes hand in hand with the ownership of people that characterizes patriarchal, hierarchical civilization. Bread and beer, both products of wheat, people like Terence McKenna have suggested, are responsible for our generally degenerate state.
But all over-the-top speculation aside, a new scientific review has suggested a far more specific problem with gluten: And it has nothing to do with wheat itself.
Rather, the peer-reviewed article “Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance” suggests that the real criminal isn’t gluten but, rather, Glyphosate, AKA Roundup, the Monsanto-manufactured weedkiller used around the world. Glyphosate is sprayed on crops genetically engineered to be “Roundup Ready,” meaning that the crops resist the poison, while any nearby weeds are immediately killed. But that potentially leaves the end-product consumer with two toxic vectors to deal with: not only the Roundup that was sprayed on the crops, but, in some cases, the prior genetic engineering done to the crops themselves.
The review abstract lists the following allegations:
• 5% of the population in North America and Europe suffer from celiac disease and gluten intolerance, leading to nausea, diarrhea, rashes, macrocytic anemia (swollen red blood cells combined with lack of red blood cells overall) and depression. It can also lead to increased risk for thyroid disease, kidney failure, cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, infertility, birth defects and miscarriages.
• Glyphosate is the key culprit for all of this.
• Fish exposed to glyphosate get symptoms similar to celiac disease.
• Glyphosate impairs the enzymes that detox environmental toxins, chelates key minerals (meaning you don’t absorb them), depletes key amino acids
• Glyphosate is often used to artificially “ripen” crops, which the study blames for kidney failures in Central American sugar cane workers.
Bad news for Monsanto, especially after the recent kerfluffle over the prior, extremely controversial Seralini study on glyphosate. Because very little negative research has been done into Glyphosate (because, as activists allege, Monsanto funds nearly all the studies into Glyphosate), it’s been slow going in building a case against Roundup. But this information—which looks much more sound than the Seralini study—may prove yet another arrow in Monsanto’s side.
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A proprietary technology guarantees a reproductible manufacturing process of calibrated magnetic emulsions.
The fragmentation under controlled shearing allows for the preparation of 100nm to 500nm uniform magnetic emulsions.
The nanoparticles are superparamagnetic: they exhibit magnetic properties only when placed within a magnetic field and show no residual magnetism when removed from this field.
Ademtech has developed in-house polymerisation process ensuring an efficient isolation of the magnetic core, a tuneable functionalisation and a high colloidal stability.
The polymer provides the magnetic core with a uniform protective shell in order to isolate iron oxides that can interfere with some enzymatic reactions.
(as shown on Transmission Electron Microscopy photos)
The hydrophilic surface lowers non-specific interactions with proteins. The high magnetic content (more than 70%) ensures a quick and gentle magnetic separation even for the smallest particles with a simple magnet.
Ademtech has developed simple and reproductible protocols for coupling proteins to its nanoparticles yielding to high binding capacities while keeping non-specific binding low and ensuring longterm stability.
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Q:
Displaying two dimensional array in a method
I'm learning how to program, I have used other languages before mainly for web, but c# is a bit hard to understand at least for me, and msdn site is so complex or I don't know to use it properly. Trying to build program that solve sudoku puzzles, I run into problem when I try to display two dimensional array in a method, getting 2 errors:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
int[,] board = new int[9, 9] {{7, 2, 5, 8, 0, 4, 9, 1, 3},
{0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 4},
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 8, 2, 6},
{0, 0, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7},
{0, 1, 0, 6, 2, 8, 0, 4, 0},
{2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0},
{3, 6, 8, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
{0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 8},
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 6, 9, 5}};
DisplayBoard(board);
List<int> missing = new List<int>();
List<int> present = new List<int>();
int temp = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
{
//Console.Write(board[i, j]);
if (board[i, j] == 0)
{
missing.Add(j);
}
else
{
present.Add(board[i, j]);
}
if (present.Count == 8)
{
for (int x = 0; x < present.Count; x++)
{
if (!present.Contains(x))
{
temp = x;
}
}
board[i, missing[0]] = temp;
}
}
//missing.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
}
DisplayBoard(board);
}
static void DisplayBoard(int[,])
{
for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
{
Console.Write(board[i, j]);
}
}
}
}
A:
You didn't give name to the parameter of DisplayBoard method
static void DisplayBoard(int[,] board)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
{
Console.Write(board[i, j]);
}
}
}
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Look at This Adorable Knucklehead
It's Saturday so I'm taking it easy, but don't worry, I've uncovered a goldmine of comedy/magic writing. Back in the waning days of my Magic Circle Jerk blog, somebody got a wild hair that they were going to take me down a peg or two by creating a... well... I don't really know what to call it. Like a satirical version of my site?
But Andy your site was already a comedy site. That doesn't really lend itself to parody.
Yeah, I know that, and you know that, but this guy hadn't quite figured that out. So in the spirit of someone doing a spoof version of The Onion or parodying a Weird Al song, he created a blog called The Magic Circle Jerk and for one morning in November of 2005 he fumbled his way through three posts dedicated to me. His angle was, "This guy jerks off!" A "critique" that would perhaps work better if his target audience weren't magicians, a group whose dicks are rubbed so raw they could lay them across rice and technically consider it sushi by FDA standards. I mean "Best Masturbator" is a FISM award. Producers of The Magic of David Copperfield VI had to inform a shocked Copperfield he couldn't lazily stroke his cock to Turning Japanese by The Vapors as he floated over the Grand Canyon. That's just how accepted self-pleasure is in the magic community.
But still, I give him credit. If I wasn't intelligent or funny and had nothing to say, I would never have the gumption to start up a site -- even if only for five hours. So, to whoever that anonymous goofball is, I salute you. I'm sorry it took me 10 years to even stumble upon your scathing critique, but I'm here now to give it a wider audience. It was a giant swing and a miss, but at least you tried. Here is THE Magic Circle Jerk. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.979345202445984}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '445627', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GQO7MSHCSNHE6QPG4FZWTFK4WKAD2ZRS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6efd2a59-bb66-40d2-8fb5-02f47e2c3e69>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 19, 19, 51, 18), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.185.159.144', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7NMOWZQ762K4I2UFIHLQTA2AMJU3GIKC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0603c0d7-aa1b-4bfd-a973-bbb56a235422>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.thejerx.com/blog/2015/7/17/look-at-this-adorable-knucklehead', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4985e695-d50a-42fd-bece-063ad2c27d60>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '317', 'url': 'http://www.thejerx.com/blog/2015/7/17/look-at-this-adorable-knucklehead', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-23-210.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.026389360427856445', 'original_id': '632d034dac3c765f9eeec8c3853a68126aa979c2e3da9ed03c8b9b2f1224e7fc'} |
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Five Tips for Hackathon Participants
This past weekend I participated in Hack the Midwest, a Kansas City hackathon. The event was a huge success drawing a crowd of around 100 developers. As one of the visiting developer evangelists said, it was a great turnout for a New York hackathon, much less one in the midwest.
At the competition I built, a simple service that will send you email alerts when Netflix adds new titles to its streaming catalog. I was lucky enough to win top honors at the event, but this wasn't my first rodeo. With three Rails Rumbles, two Node Knockouts, and a Startup Weekend under my belt I'm beginning to get a sense of what works and what doesn't. So here's my list of things to keep in mind when competing in a hackathon:
1. Have a Layered Strategy
You will never accomplish everything you set out to complete at a hackathon. Something at some point will take ten times longer than it was supposed to, so you need to plan for having multiple goals any of which could end up being the final product. Your first stage should be something that you expect you can complete in well less than half the time allotted. For example, here was my layered plan for Qup:
1. Users can sign in with their Netflix account and will receive emails of the latest Netflix releases
2. Users can add items to their queue or watch them with one click from the email. For queueing, users should not have to be logged into Qup or Netflix
3. Users can filter based on Netflix rating, Rotten Tomatoes score, and exclude genres they don't want updates about
4. Track usage activity to be able to show which of the titles are most popular
5. Add in support for Amazon Prime Instant Videos and/or Hulu
Even though my app won I only got through about half of what I thought I might be able to accomplish in 24 hours. I also ended up doing a decent amount of work tracking genres and usage activity which didn't show up in the final product at all because I didn't have time to polish and expose it. Which brings me to tip #2.
2. Cut Everything That Doesn't Work Well
It's a hackathon so judges will excuse a bug here and there, but regardless of how cool or important a feature is if it is likely to glitch more than 20% of the time you should cut it out of your final product. A smaller, less featured, but smoothly working project is going to win over a more featured but buggy project.
This applies to any kind of live demo in addition to a "go check it out" URL. Don't demo anything that the judges can't do themselves when they use the app (unless they don't get to use the app, in which case you'd better work hard to make sure your demo runs glitch free).
3. Style First, Substance Later
You can ignore this tip if you're working on a team with a dedicated designer (and how lucky for you if you are), but you should avoid the temptation to dive straight into the depths of coding when you start your project. Instead here are the things that you should do first:
1. Create some kind of logo for your project
2. Create the best looking landing page you can, even if it takes much longer than you'd like to spend on it
3. Create accounts on Twitter, Google Analytics, UserVoice, etc. Anything you'll want to have at the end create at the beginning
4. Buy domains, hosting accounts, etc. and get them all set up how they'll need to be
Why waste your time on all of these technicalities? Because the landing page is the first impression of your app that any judge will get, and if it doesn't impress them then you're already fighting an uphill battle. I spent perhaps the first hour and a half to two hours out of the 24 hour hackathon building the landing page for Qup, but that meant that I wasn't scrambling to make an ugly slapped-together mess pretty at the last second.
Integrate design and style as you go because when there's 45 minutes left you're always going to choose fixing a bug over polishing the interface.
4. Deploy Early, Often, Always
As soon as you have your pretty landing page and logo you should get your production environment up and running. If you can, use a Platform-as-a-Service like Heroku to take the operations burden off of yourself: you'll have enough to worry about on the app side.
Once you have a working production environment, make sure that you're deploying and smoke testing your code on a regular basis. There are almost always small (or large) problems that don't show up locally but do on a production box.
You'll notice that many of these tips have been about avoiding doing things at the end. That's because regardless of how carefully you plan you will be scrambling to fix earth-shattering bugs in the final minutes of the competition. It's tempting to put a tip like "don't deploy anything in the last two hours" because I've been burned multiple times by breaking something big while fixing something little at the last minute, but I won't. Instead you should be deploying SO FREQUENTLY that any fixes in the last minutes can be rolled back if they are deemed to be a bad idea.
5. In Presentations Show, Don't Tell, and Stop When You're Done
Your tech stack and the different ways you tackled the engineering challenges that your project presented are all very interesting. To you. Judges don't care, judges don't give a s**t. Instead keep your presentation focused only on the cool things your project does for the end user.
At Hack the Midwest we only had three minutes for presentations. Nearly everyone was running right up against the buzzer, so I was nervous. When it was my turn I gave maybe 20 seconds of exposition and then jumped right into the demo. I showed off my key features, anxious that any second I'd be cut off. In reality I probably still had a minute or more left. But rather than continuing to vamp about how I piped an RSS feed into an API queue fetch pool, I just stopped. I had already made my pitch, and I wouldn't do anything but hurt my chances from there.
Developers like to believe that code can speak for itself, and that's actually pretty true. However if your hackathon includes a presentation component you must speak for your code, so don't completely ignore a plan for presenting.
Do Something YOU Want
One last bonus tip is this: hackathons are about having fun, not winning. I've done seven of them and last weekend was the first prize of any kind that I've won. The beauty of the hackathon is that it gives you the opportunity to prove your mettle against yourself as much as against anyone else. It lets you say "what can I truly accomplish in X hours?". For me, this is a powerful drive and one that I'll gladly challenge myself with again and again. You can expect to see me in most every hackathon that comes around; I'm hooked.
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Q:
Create background process in windows without visible console window
How do I create a background process with Haskell on windows without a visible command window being created?
I wrote a Haskell program that runs backup processes periodically but every time I run it, a command window opens up to the top of all the windows. I would like to get rid of this window. What is the simplest way to do this?
A:
You should really tell us how you are trying to do this currently, but on my system (using linux) the following snippet will run a command without opening a new terminal window. It should work the same way on windows.
module Main where
import System
import System.Process
import Control.Monad
main :: IO ()
main = do
putStrLn "Running command..."
pid <- runCommand "mplayer song.mp3" -- or whatever you want
replicateM_ 10 $ putStrLn "Doing other stuff"
waitForProcess pid >>= exitWith
A:
Thanks for the responses so far, but I've found my own solution. I did try a lot of different things, from writing a vbs script as suggested to a standalone program called hstart. hstart worked...but it creates a separate process which I didn't like very much because then I can't kill it in the normal way. But I found a simpler solution that required simply Haskell code.
My code from before was a simple call to runCommand, which did popup the window. An alternative function you can use is runProcess which has more options. From peeking at the ghc source code file runProcess.c, I found that the CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag is set when you supply redirects for all of STDIN, STOUT, and STDERR. So that's what you need to do, supply redirects for those. My test program looks like:
import System.Process
import System.IO
main = do
inH <- openFile "in" ReadMode
outH <- openFile "out" WriteMode
runProcess "rsync.bat" [] Nothing Nothing (Just inH) (Just outH) (Just outH)
This worked! No command window again! A caveat is that you need an empty file for inH to read in as the STDIN eventhough in my situation it was not needed.
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Roxie C. Laybourne, 92; Pioneer in Forensic Ornithology Aided Aviation
August 18, 2003|From Staff and Wire Reports
WASHINGTON — Roxie C. Laybourne, who pioneered the science of forensic ornithology to help protect airplanes from collisions with birds, has died. She was 92.
Laybourne died Aug. 7 in suburban Washington, D.C., following a long illness. Semiretired since cataracts dimmed her eyesight a few years ago, she recently did her work from her 26-acre Virginia farm.
Laybourne worked for more than 50 years at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where she developed the specialty of identifying dead birds from their feathers to learn what types of birds struck planes.
Based on her information, aircraft engine manufacturers strengthened their fan blades and the military developed stronger fighter canopies. Airport managers also created plans for shooing flocks of birds off runways, including mowing grass, firing cannons and broadcasting bird distress calls.
The feather detective -- once dubbed the Miss Marple of Eiderdown by the New York Times -- became involved in identifying birds from their remains in 1960.
A Lockheed Electra taking off from Boston had flown into a flock of starlings and crashed, killing 62 of the 72 people aboard -- the deadliest bird-related air crash in history. Laybourne, on assignment to the Federal Aviation Administration, was able to identify the type of birds involved in the crash from charred fragments that clogged the plane's engines.
She went on to develop new methods for identifying birds from fragmentary remains and bits of feathers, using an electron microscope to compare the bits of fluffy evidence sent to her from around the world with the Smithsonian's more than 650,000 bird specimens.
"Feathers," she once stressed to an interviewer: "We specialize in bird strikes. The main thing is to learn the feathers."
Laybourne learned odd factoids -- such as the highest bird strike on record was at 37,000 feet, over the coast of Africa when a Ruppell's Griffin vulture flew into the engine of a 747; the plane flew on.
She was able to solve about 1,000 cases a year -- helpful detective work considering that the FAA estimates birds collide with 8,000 planes annually.
Thanks largely to the work Laybourne began, the agency has calculated that 30% of the accidents involve seagulls; 13% waterfowl; 12% pigeons and doves; 12% blackbirds and starlings; and 10% birds of prey, including hawks and owls; with the remainder caused by various other species.
Knowing which birds cause the most accidents helps in runway management as well as aircraft design.
Laybourne handled feather evidence for the FAA, National Transportation Safety Board, Pratt and Whitney, General Electric, Rolls Royce and the FBI, among others. And she trained experts for various agencies to emulate her efforts. Her work was recognized in 1966 with a lifetime achievement award -- an elegant eagle statue -- from the Air Force Bird Strike Committee.
Laybourne's work was not completely limited to flight paths. In 1986, she helped the FBI nab a husband who had murdered his wife in Alaska and dumped her body in the ocean. Although the body was never recovered, the victim's down coat washed ashore. Laybourne was able to match the coat feathers -- from a Chinese duck -- to those found in the back of the husband's van, contributing to the conviction.
In another murder case, she helped criminal investigators convict a wife who had shot her sleeping husband with a pistol silenced by wrapping it in a feather pillow. Laybourne found microscopic traces of down from the bullet lodged in the victim's skull that matched feathers from the bullet-punctured pillow.
"The feather," she told Associated Press, "puts you at the scene of the crime."
Born in Fayetteville, N.C., Laybourne grew up in rural Farmville, spending hours outdoors fascinated by "anything that creeped and crawled." She graduated from Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., and earned a master's degree at George Washington University. She worked for the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History in Raleigh and the National Fisheries Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C., before joining the Smithsonian in 1944.
As a Smithsonian research associate, Laybourne roamed the country testifying as an expert witness for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in prosecutions of poachers, smugglers of endangered birds, and sellers of contraband Indian headdresses containing eagle feathers.
The diminutive scientist, known for her white lab coat and tennis shoes, married twice and is survived by one son from each marriage, as well as by several siblings and grandchildren.
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The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume and, because of its high oil content, an oil crop.[4] World annual production of shelled peanuts was 42 million tonnes in 2014. Atypically among crop plants, peanut pods develop underground rather than aboveground. It is this characteristic that the botanist Linnaeus used to assign the specific name hypogaea, which means "under the earth."
As a legume, the peanut belongs to the botanical family Fabaceae; this is also known as Leguminosae, and commonly known as the bean, or pea, family. Like most other legumes, peanuts harbor symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules. This capacity to fix nitrogen means peanuts require less nitrogen-containing fertilizer and improve soil fertility, making them valuable in crop rotations.
Peanuts are similar in taste and nutritional profile to tree nuts such as walnuts and almonds, and as a culinary nut are often served in similar ways in Western cuisines. The botanical definition of a "nut" is a fruit whose ovary wall becomes very hard at maturity. Using this criterion, the peanut is not a true nut, but rather a legume. However, for culinary purposes and in common English language usage, peanuts are usually referred to as nuts.
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Now you hear it from VC Fred Wilson himself: personal chemistry is hugely important in the VC pitch process. What does it mean for your presentation? That your body language and interaction in the meeting are as important (maybe even more important) than the actual content of the slides.
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Andy Murray defeated a seemingly poor Xavier Malisse at Wimbledon yesterday despite some confusion over one particular serve.
‘I had no idea what was going on,’ said Murray. He had slammed an ace down the middle of the court, and started to moved towards the net, but Malisse raised his hand. Malisse wanted to challenge the call with the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system, and yet umpire Lars Graff thought that the wild card was indicating that he had not been ready to receive. So Graff did not react, Malisse sat on his racket thinking there was a gremlin in the Hawk-Eye computer.
After the confusion had cleared, Murray went on to score another decisive straight-set victory over his opponent. He will met Tommy Haase, once ranked World No. 2 and a very difficult game lies ahead.
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Characterization of Clayey Soils from Congo and Physical Properties of Their Compressed Earth Blocks Reinforced with Post-Consumer Plastic Wastes
Author(s): R. G. Elenga | B. Mabiala | L. Ahouet | J. Goma-Maniongui | G. F. Dirras
Journal: Geomaterials
ISSN 2161-7538
Volume: 01;
Issue: 03;
Start page: 88;
Date: 2011;
Original page
Keywords: Clayey Soils | Compressed Earth Block | Stabilization | Plastic Waste
Physical properties of compressed earth blocks reinforced with plastic wastes are compared to those of nonreinforced ones. These bricks are made with two clayey soils from two deposits of Congo located in Brazzaville and Yengola. Mineralogical and geotechnical analysis revealed that the soil of Brazzaville is mainly composed of kaolinite whereas that of Yengola is a mixture of kaolinite and illite. The amounts of clay (46 and 48%, respectively) are higher than those usually recommended for bricks’ production without stabilizers. Despite this difference of mineralogical compositions, the physical properties of these soils are quite similar. The compressive strength of the resulted bricks compacted with an energy of 2.8 MPa is about 1.5 MPa, which is the lower limit value allowed for adobes. Reinforcing with polyethylene waste nets increased the strength by about 20 to 30% and slightly enhanced resistance to water, Young’s modulus and strain to failure. However, the reinforcement had no significant effect either on bricks’ curing length or on their shrinkage.
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Kałamita () – średniowieczna twierdza istniejąca od VI w n.e. do schyłku XVIII w., założona przez ludność grecką w zachodniej części Krymu na Ukrainie. Leży w pobliżu współczesnego miasta Inkerman. Od XV w. była także znana jako Inkerman, choć obecnie tę nazwę stosuje się rzadziej, by nie mylić jej z miastem.
Twierdzę wzniesiono w południowo-zachodniej części płaskiej powierzchni szczytowej Monastyrskiej Skały, na obszarze 1,2 ha. Od południa i zachodu dostęp do twierdzy był niemożliwy ze względu na potężne pionowe urwiska wysokości 40–60 m, a od północy i wschodu wzniesiono mury obronne i fosę, oddzielając obszar obronny od reszty płaskowyżu. Pełniła ona początkowo funkcję obronną, strzegąc drogi do bizantyjskiego Chersonezu, później strzegła ważnego portu morskiego położonego u podnóża Skały Monastyrskiej.
Budowę twierdzy datuje się na drugą połowę VI w i na VII w., kiedy to powstał zasadniczy kamienny mur obronny długości 234 m i szerokości u podstawy 2,3–2,4 m, wzmocniony czterema basztami, przed którym wykopano fosę głębokości do 3,7 m oraz szerokości 9 m. W murze była tylko jedna brama. Dodatkowo wykonano wówczas znacznie niższy (do 2,5 m) i cieńszy mur (1 m) biegnący wzdłuż urwisk skalnych, tak że całkowita długość murów wyniosła ponad 500 m. Wykuto także głęboką studnię zaopatrującą oblężoną załogę w wodę.
Fortyfikacje wzmocniono i gruntownie przebudowano w trzeciej dekadzie XV w. na rozkaz księcia Teodoro Aleksego, gdy rozebrano stare mury, a na ich fundamentach postawiono nowe, zmieniono lokalizację bramy, wzmacniając ją dodatkową fortyfikacją od wewnętrznej strony, zbudowano kolejną, piątą basztę, stworzono także niewielkie wyjście służące do szybkich wypadów oraz utworzono fort 200 m na północ od murów. Na przedpolu twierdzy powstało wtedy podgrodzie o powierzchni 3 ha. Na terenie twierdzy istniało wówczas kilka cerkwi, w tym jedna ulokowana w bramie wjazdowej. Ostatnią dużą przebudowę przeprowadziły na przełomie XVI i XVII w. władze tureckie, które dostosowały tutejsze umocnienia do obrony przed ogniem artylerii. W szczególności wybudowano kolejną, szóstą basztę – barbakan, tym razem okrągłą i wysuniętą tylną ścianą 6 m przed linię murów, z którymi łączyła się szyją. Resztę murów ponad dwukrotnie pogrubiono, podobnie jak i starsze baszty, z których część przebudowano z prostokątnych na półokrągłe. Twierdzę opuszczono pod koniec XVIII w.
Współcześnie jest licznie odwiedzaną atrakcją turystyczną, tym bardziej, że znajduje się blisko dużego miasta Sewastopol i sąsiaduje z atrakcyjnymi turystycznie i religijnie, częściowo czynnymi, zabytkowymi klasztorami prawosławnymi wykutymi w skałach, tzw. klasztorami inkermańskimi. Zachowały się w dobrym stanie mury, sześć baszt i częściowo odkopana studnia.
Bibliografia
Historia Krymu
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Review: The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
Genre: Fiction/Horror
Publisher: Orbit
Paperback: 461 pages
Audiobook: 13 hours and 4 minutes
5/5 Stars
*Originally reviewed on*
Beautiful, suspenseful, and emotionally gripping.
Why did I wait so long to read it? Idk, but I regret waiting.
As you can tell from the synopsis, this book is about a young girl named Melanie and her gifts (no pun intended). But to tell you what these gifts are would completely spoil the book and that is not why I am here. I’m just here to tell you that you need to believe the hype and grab a copy. Better yet, get the audiobook, narrated by Finty Williams. I feel she completely and flawlessly captured the essence and vulnerability of each character and you truly will grow attached to each and every one of them.
As far as the writing goes, Carey delivers a crisp, genre-bending novel that contains deep characterization, beautiful yet grim environments, and well-paced scenes that will have you on the edge of your seat. It isn’t your typical Z novel: blood, guts, and brains covering the streets. It is smarter than that, pushing the envelope with new ideas on the post-apocalyptic landscape and the need for survival.
If I had to compare it to anything, I would say the movie “The Happening”, but just the idea of the movie. Not the movie itself because it was freaking horrible. You know what, I can’t believe I just made that comparison. I’m sorry, Carey.
Speaking of movies, The Girl with All the Gifts was also made into a full-length film and is currently available to buy/rent. I haven’t personally seen it, but I have heard good things and it did get an 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. It does include some big names like Glenn Close, Paddy Considine, and Dominique Tipper (The Expanse), so there’s that.
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Waterfront lot, approximately 100 feet, on East Bay to build your dream home in a quiet well maintained neighborhood with covenants and no HOA. Per Wetland Sciences, Inc., approximately 4/10 of an acre of buildable uplands. Simply permitted piers/elevated dock over wetlands can be built to waterfront. Wetland determination available to serious buyers. Close to Hidden Creek Golf Course, the white sand and emerald water of Navarre Beach and a short drive to shopping. Neighboring vacant lots also shown in photos (lots 5 and 6, parcels 02-2S-27-4575-00C00-0060 and 02-2S-27-4575-00C00-0050) available to purchase as well. Buy one or all three! No current improvements or utilities to property.
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Waterfront lot, approximately 100 feet, on East Bay to build your dream home in a quiet well maintained neighborhood with covenants and no HOA. Per Wetland Sciences, Inc., approximately 4/10 of an acre of buildable uplands. Simply permitted piers/elevated dock over wetlands can be built to waterfront. Wetland determination available to serious buyers. Close to Hidden Creek Golf Course, the white sand and emerald water of Navarre Beach and a short drive to shopping. Neighboring vacant lots also shown in photos (lots 5 and 6, parcels 02-2S-27-4575-00C00-0060 and 02-2S-27-4575-00C00-0050) available to purchase as well. Buy one or all three! No current improvements or utilities to property. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'b0f0886734634dae1123d7d6de4b2a10aa03cf0366fd31c6e6b4877b1bd566be'} |
Neopedia : Attack Pea
Attack Pea Category: Battle
Class: Magic
Suggested Value: 1.2 million NP
Rarity: Smuggler's Cove
Size: It's just about the size of a pea.
Weight: 1 lb.
Whoa, a pea, that's something you don't want to see when all you've got in your arsenal is a wand of something or other. I mean, how does one withstand the might of a single pea? It's unthinkable. It's unspeakable. It's... it's... oh, come on, it's a pea! How can this little fellow possibly do any damage in the big, bad Battledome? Well, this is not your average, ordinary garden-variety pea...
The attack pea is a tiny ball of power, the perfect item for any well-rounded arsenal. Throw this little green wonder out there and watch your opponent buckle beneath its awesome might. This lightweight, compact weapon can fit into almost any pocket, hand, hoof, or paw. Maybe your pets can even eat the pea if they come down with a case of the munchies during battle. It could happen, but at the cost of 160 dubloons at the Smuggler's Cove, it probably shouldn't.
The Attack Pea rests on a pillow
Beware the staggering prowess of the pea! Vicious things come in small green packages. You may be tempted to giggle at the thought of being attacked by a pea. Resist that temptation, for this one pea has the strength of many peas all attacking at once, and that hurts. A lot. Are you already dreaming about it? Already counting your precious hoard of Neopoints to see if you have enough? Can you almost imagine your pets holding that little round marvel and tossing it, slow motion, at their opponent? Well, stop dreaming. Go out and get it! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9430457949638368}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41025', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:U7FI3W44XJPQOKGYJ6KEG5MRW5RQ5TRU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a9ced6ab-20ce-420a-ac01-ba060403cae5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 5, 23, 19, 4, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.96.32.148', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:DYZECXLSXDAOMS4SNGKFOH4ZAA34XQEL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c8b8ec9e-8e99-402c-8997-412781643121>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=163&criteria=', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e79bac0e-530c-4299-93b8-f40636adac2d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '315', 'url': 'http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=163&criteria=', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-185-224-210.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-22\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.11973434686660767', 'original_id': 'e4173a1a0ceafa35443c67b274fa4e4e45984a3bf9d98b150bf0a2e1c13ad9e9'} |
Stuttering is another name for disfluent or 'choppy' speech. Speaking patterns may include pauses, repetitions, additions, revisions, stretching of sounds/words/phrases, and silent blocks. Disfluencies often occur sporadically in preschool children during times of rapid language development and will usually fade over time. If disfluencies persist, it is important to have a speech-language pathologist evaluate the quantity and severity of disfluencies to determine if the child has a fluency disorder.
What causes it?
Disfluent speech can be caused by a variety of factors - genetics, develomental features, and/or envrionmental factors. Every child's speaking patterns are unique.
How is it treated?
The method of treatment often depends on the age of the child and his/her specific language development. Disfluent speech can often be shaped into fluent speech with a combination of strategies which includes relaxed breathing, controlled rate, monitored speaking exercises, and practice outside the school setting.
What can I do at home?
Give your child your full attention when he or she is speaking. Listen without interrupting or finishing his/her sentences. Use a slow, relaxed manner yourself. Take a few minutes each day to model relaxed speech during conversations with him/her. Maintain good eye contact during any disfluencies. Foster a supportive speaking environment at home by trying to slow the pace of your home and reduce the level of excitement. Include all family members in an effort to promote fluency.
National Stuttering Foundation - http://nsastutter.org
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What your site does and what its purpose.
My site is a quiz game where you guess the artist associated with a song. There was something similar when I went to a baseball game when I was younger and I remembered it being fun so I decided to make my own spin on the concept.
How can this app be profitable? What profit model (ads, service, microtransactions, etc) are you considering?
The app is designed around having banner ads on each side of the main game window. There are currently placeholders there to give a vague idea about how it would work.
How are you using React? What is it being used to show?
My app has a lot of constantly changing pieces so React ended up being very useful. I used it to render:
-The "About" div on the login page
-The quizzes themselves
-The recovery screen in between each quiz
-The quiz timer
-The pause button, which needed to say whether the button would pause or resume the game
-A log of prior quizzes
-The banner ad placeholder
How you used MVC and which framework you used
My app had a lot of information that frequently needed to be sent back and forth between the server and the client and MVC was extremely useful in facilitating that. I used Express.
What you used Mongo for (what did you store/retrieve)
Alongside the basic account system, I used Mongo to store a log of prior quizzes.
How you used a templating language and which templating language you used
I used DomoMaker E as my base and didn't end up changing Handlebars as my templating language. My main use for it was confinining my entire app to only two pages in order to make everything feel more seamless.
How did you go above and beyond
-I made the game look as visually appealing as I could.
-Nothing just loads onto the page. Everything is animated when starting up, idling, or switching to another page.
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Electrify The Future Of Business Aviation (Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing. Europe 2018)
Dr Seyed M. Mohseni, CEO
Samad Aerospace Limited
United Kingdom
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Presentation Summary
2018 marks 10 years since the financial crisis. Like other areas of the aviation sector, the business aviation community was significantly impacted. As a sector providing thousands of jobs across the Europe and generating near €100bn to Europe alone. Samad Aerospace senior team believes that market stakeholders, industry & public policy makers should be better prepared to understand the benefits of the sector, understand the challenges to growth and hear what intervention could help the sector flourish over the next decade or more by innovations that redefines the flight. Seyed will briefly talk about their revolutionary concept of electric VTOL business jet and possible changes that it will create in transport system.
Company Profile (Samad Aerospace Limited)
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SAMAD Aerospace is a technology start-up based in the United Kingdom. Our dream is to revolutionise the way humans and goods fly around the world. To achieve that, a group of world-renowned experts in their respective fields - be it Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design or and Propulsion systems - worked together and developed a range of products that will redefine the air travelling experience. Imagine a transportation which is safer than a car, completely flexible, as eco-friendly as an electric vehicle, less time consuming than any plane or train and as luxurious as a private jet. This is the unique combination of features that will be offered by e-Starling and StarlingJet in a door-to-door human air transportation, while UAV Starling will transport goods at an unprecedented pace; thus, completely changing perspectives about travels. Our products give back their user's most valuable asset - time - hence allowing them to achieve more than they would have ever dreamt of.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Let's write some deprecation policies
Sebastian writes about version numbers and backwards compatibility and asks:
Should a project have deprecation policies as soon as it hits CPAN with a development release?
I think the answer should be yes - there should always be a deprecation policy. But this deprecation policy does not need to be the full monty of always keeping the backcompat to at least one major version, using strict deprecation cycles etc - it just needs to be stated explicitely and not relying on the version numbering convention as they are not really universal. There is no negative side to putting a few sentences into the docs, only a bit work to formulate them. And here is my idea:
Let's write some deprecation policies
Let's have a list of well formulated policies covering as much as we can of possible circumstances (from experimental to mature, and from one-person projects to team work) that could be copied to the CPAN distribution docs with minimal effort. For the start - here are some ideas:
• Experimental - no policies at all, use at your own risk
• Experimental with mailing list announcements of new versions and promise to take into account problems encountered by people testing the new code
• Backcompat to one version, with a specific minimal time between versions
• Backcompat to one major version, with a specific minimal time between major releases
In related news mst gives an overview of techniques that can be used for maintaining back-compat - sometimes these are really simple things.
Kartik said...
This is a great idea. I am looking to depreciated some older sdl perl functions. But I have no clue how to do this.
AdamKennedy said...
I'd prefer to see version-explicit backcompatibility.
One (hacky) mechanism I've used in the past goes like this.
our $VERSION = '1.23';
our $BACKCOMPATIBLE = '0.47';
zby said...
@Adam - this sounds like a good idea - always more explicite information is good. But I think that the main purpose of policies is not informing (about what is the oldest version compatible with the current one) - but rather promising to follow a specific procedure when makig an icompatible change to give people time to adjust their code bases. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9242252111434937}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '59789', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4V7ZWGFI7A2LAJY6LPBZOF52CWZ6L4OF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d1d8b276-5722-46e5-84cc-7a5183a1c1f5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 24, 21, 53, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.3.33', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KMTLMBSTSAIY6ZGVJHFABWF6DH3HXEA4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:10bcd80a-3d05-4c7c-a574-40ff3e318178>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2009/08/lets-write-some-deprecation-policies.html?showComment=1251098908317', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5cb145dc-ce06-4c9f-965b-40feaf73ac0d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '359', 'url': 'http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2009/08/lets-write-some-deprecation-policies.html?showComment=1251098908317', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-13\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2017\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02776658535003662', 'original_id': '3477d3b89d9fa0514cc56df5494d0b42e24f2cdcdf0834448be081142d63fe2f'} |
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Gaming the System & The Epic Quest for Professional Development
This month, I am re-reading What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, by James Paul Gee and Reality is Broken
Seriously, If you haven't read What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, by James Paul Gee and Reality is Broken
Semiotic Domains & Affinity Groups
Okay, so this is really two concepts from Gee, but they are integral.
The pursuit of common meaning in specific areas of study or professional pursuits has existed at least as long as the concept of career specialization. The Samurai of Feudal Japan understood the human body in ways that most of us cannot comprehend, just as Specialist Surgeons do today. Reading a book on Budo (pick your art) or Heart Surgery would be difficult and meaningless to most of us out of the context of practice. As James Paul Gee explains in What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, Semiotic Domains are social spaces where knowledge is co-constructed and meaning is defined by social agreement. We all belong to our own little semiotic domains. In fact, being a teacher opens up to a world of objectives, pedagogy, and myriad educational psychology terms and concepts that other people aren’t familiar with. You know how you can discuss teaching with another teacher in a way that you couldn’t possibly do so with a pharmacist, farmer, or your dental hygienist. Incidentally, I don’t know why my hygienist always asks me about teaching. She knows I can’t respond with all of that gear in my mouth. Gear I don’t know the name of because I don’t belong to the semiotic domain related to dentistry. This brings us to the next thing I've been thinking about, Affinity Groups.
Those of us with the fortune to have practice in a specific Semiotic Domain are prone to forming affinity groups. Chances are, if you're a teacher and you use games or gamification in the classroom, you're in an affinity group. That's why you're reading my blog. You likely found it by checking the hashtag, #gbl or #gblfriday, on Twitter or it was shared with you by someone who does. As teachers, we have our own vocabulary and practices related to our field. I'm also a web designer and I practice Aikido. All of these domains have their own affinity group with their own specific norms, vocabulary, etc. In these groups, members share similar goals, values and motivations; as a consequence, they become powerful settings for learning. Additionally, because both experts and novices within a semiotic domain usually make up affinity groups, they allow novices to learn the advanced skills from experts.
In my estimation, 98% of what happens in schools consists of teaching domain specific material to students in the complete absence of any real experience in that Semiotic Domain, let alone participation in the related Affinity Group. In What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, Gee shares the story of trying to comprehend the manual to a video game without actually having played the game and compares that to what our students must feel like when trying to comprehend something like a Biology text book. This is probably why Biology is taught in a science lab, rather than a classroom. The actual practice of science leads to a better understanding of the knowledge specific to the domain of science. Of course, for whatever reason, students typically spend more time in the lab reading from a textbook and filling out worksheet packets than they do practicing actual science. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think a big one is resource scarcity. Worksheets are cheap and readily available. Lab materials are expensive, limited, and require a great deal of preparation.
Epic Meaning
Our current students, labeled as the "Net Generation" by some, share some common characteristics, most of which are not surprising. It isn't earth shattering news that these kids prefer texting to phone conversation and aren't averse to publishing personal information on social networking sites etc. etc. What surprises many of my colleagues, most of whom are used to laying out the benefits of our curriculum in terms of how this will benefit you, is that Net Gen students tend to be "strongly motivated by academic projects that have a real-world component, particularly those that address a major issue like the environment, homelessness or poverty" (Characteristics of Net Generation Students). Maybe it's the lifelong exposure to global communication, via the Internet. Maybe it's the ubiquity of massive online games that encourage epic, world-saving feats. One way or another, Net Generation students consider themselves active global citizens. In her book Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal says that, "Compared with games, reality is trivial. Games make us a part of something bigger and give epic meaning to our actions." I would argue that compared to reality, as many of our students now experience it thanks to their transfer of their epically-heroic and globally-minded selves from the game world, schoolwork is trivial. We've been thinking that our students are asking, "what is this State standardized assessment going to do for me?" Maybe they're asking, "what is this State standardized assessment going to do for world hunger / the AIDS epidemic / global warming?"
Gaming the system
In games, providing hands-on experience within a semiotic domain is usually established by the rules the designer puts into the game. As the player interacts with these rules, the local meaning of the elements on screen gets validated or corrected as needed. As James Paul Gee notes, a game manual will make little sense out of the context of actually playing the game. Why then do we give our students mathematics textbooks with formulas and drills and expect them all to comprehend mathematics out of the context in which said formulas were derived? Probably because we lack the resources to provide that context. Also, it's quite difficult to build Epic Meaning into the school day, beyond the occasional service project. This is why so many of my colleagues around the world are turning to game based learning and gamification strategies to make their classroom experience more relevant and engaging. Making the leap from a standard behaviorist classroom model to a game-based-learning or even a gamified model is quite difficult and often ends in frustration or simply the application of gimmicky useless gingerbread, like the ubiquitous "badges".
For me, the key to this whole thing is using game mechanics to make content more authentic and engaging, thus providing context. Gamifying my classroom routines or classroom management is not only hokey, but also follows a trend that may be a bit dangerous and counterproductive to building 21st Century Skills. Unfortunately, I'm still struggling to make this a reality. That doesn't mean I'm not trying.
I've found that a level of comfort with Project Based Learning (or problem-based-learning) tends to go a long way towards truly including the elements that make games successful at teaching into your classroom routines. It also helps to have an assessment system that is additive in nature. Kids are only motivated by failure if it isn't actually fatal. The problem is that true Problem (project) Based Learning is really really hard to accomplish. My whole class is based on this idea, but I'm still struggling with the whole "is organized around an open-ended driving question or challenge" concept (Wikipedia). Unfortunately, that one concept is the essence of project based learning and what makes it most game-like.
The Quest for Professional Development
I need help, mentoring, and guidance. We all do. If we're not growing, we're dying. Professional Development, despite seeming to many teachers to be in never-ending barely manageable supply, is a scarce and closely monitored resource, at least in the public sector. As a Public School teacher, I am provided professional development by my school district at in-service events and course reimbursement for education-related courses at approved universities. This sounds awesome, but despite cries for #edreform, 99.9% of what's offered or approved is pretty much the same five ideas re-packaged with new names and generally focused on making students better prepared to pass standardized assessments. I can take about 500 different courses to expand on the knowledge my district has already given me on "reading in the content areas" or "sequence of instruction" or "writing behavioral objectives" etc. What I can't do, unless I'm independently wealthy and don't need reimbursement, is take a course in Game Design Theory or Gamification, for example. There is one course I've found (by way of disclosure, I occasionally teach it), "Simulations and Gaming Technologies for the Classroom™ by PLS, but beyond that there is nothing.
There are people out there providing this type of training for educators in the private sector, like Studio Q, a "dynamic professional development program for the community of teachers, administrators, designers and curriculum specialists in a game-like learning model, provided by Mission Lab for the Quest to Learn schools. Believe me, I wish I had the motivation, vision, and personal resources to start a Quest to Learn school locally, but that wouldn't necessarily help the bulk of my public school students anyway. Besides, I love my school, and I believe in the people I work for and with. I want to make this place better if I can, rather than abandon it to start something new. I would love to see some Graduate Education programs offer a course or two designed by Mission Lab. I would love to be able to provide workshops in this for my colleagues.
An Invitation
As I said earlier, I need help. Hit me up in comments. Tweet me. Contact me on Edmodo. I'd love to talk about...
• Developing authentic problem based projects.
• Game Design
• Game Based Learning
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How to Raise Multilingual Kids in the Philippines
May 17, 2018
I am a third-generation Chinese Filipino, and I grew up in a multilingual home. Speaking in different languages was something that came naturally because of what my siblings and I have been exposed to. I spoke Amoy (Chinese dialect) to my parents and other relatives, spoke Hiligaynon or Ilonggo (Visayan dialect) to my friends, learned and used Filipino in class, and used English for different occasions. Over the years, I’ve acquired a bit of Mandarin when I was in seminary, and learned to speak in Bisaya or Cebuano while I was working in Cebu.
We’ve used the Amoy dialect to speak to Little Miss for the first three years of her life. But she learned English and Filipino when she started school shortly after that. She now mainly converses in English, although we still try to speak to her in Chinese. She reminds me of my younger self who refused to speak Chinese because none of my peers would ever do so. I guess that is the dilemma most later generation of Chinese immigrants face. Perhaps we fail to see the practical use of speaking Chinese in the Philippines. Little Miss also learned to speak in Filipino by imitating us. Although she has a funny Chinese accent when speaking Filipino, most store clerks are surprised when a Chinese-looking little girl can actually converse in Filipino. She is a local, and she ought to speak the language!
I was asked by a mom in Instagram how to teach a second and third language to children. To be honest, I never really thought about a systematic way of doing so. But here are some practical tips we’ve applied in teaching (whether actively or unconsciously) kids any second or third (even fourth) language.
Define Terms
Once a child learns a certain term in one particular language, try to introduce the very same item using a different language. For example, my two-year old now knows the colors in English. I am now introducing the colors to him in Chinese when he tries to mention the words in English. Classical Education is all about content in the early stages, and it is the same with learning any language. Provide the content by defining animals, colors, places, actions, etc.
Repetition is Key
You may sound like a broken record. But that’s alright. Children learn by constant repetition. For example, if your child says “eat” you can respond by saying “kain” until they repeat it after you. Pretty soon they will realize that the same word means the same thing.
Mixing Languages is Normal
Don’t worry about them mixing up languages because that usually happens. They’ll learn to determine or categorize the words when they grow older.
Determine Fluency
You have to realize that there are different levels of fluency. It moves from Understanding, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and to Composing. Traditional Filipino schools teach English and Filipino proficiency through reading and writing. My aim for my children is to teach Chinese fluency in speaking or communicating. I don’t really mind if they don’t know how to read and write it. I’ve been schooled in Chinese for most of my school years, but I still cannot read a lot of Chinese. I’d be happy if my children learn to converse in Chinese. You have to decide how far you’d want your kids to learn a certain language. Your decision will also determine the lengths you’ll go to actively teach them proper writing or grammar rules.
Practice by Speaking
My husband and I can communicate in three languages fluently: English, Amoy, and Filipino. We usually interchange these languages at home, and the children are exposed to it. Nothing beats constant exposure and regular practice by speaking the language. The language loses its relevance when it is not being used, so keep using it if you want your children to learn the language. Simply put, if you speak it at home, your children will catch it soon enough.
Did you also grow up in a multilingual home? What are some of the ways that helped you learn different languages? Or how did you teach your own children to learn different languages?
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Saving Barnegat Bay may come down to at least one environmental trade-off: new inlets or barrier island breaches might help improve water quality, but also worsen local flooding.
Scientists will explore those and other key issues with a sophisticated new computer model of how water flows throughout the troubled bay.
Reports: Ominous signs for troubled Barnegat Bay
The model is an important piece in a Barnegat Bay puzzle that scientists have attempted to solve for years. The model, which simulates how water moves and how long it stays in the bay, will be linked to a water quality model to help pinpoint ways to reduce pollution, according to experts.
"I think the study's an important milestone in our understanding of how water circulates through the bay, what the most important drivers are," said Robert S. Nicholson, associate director of the U.S. Geological Survey New Jersey Water Science Center in Lawrenceville.
Where Barnegat Bay's pollution really comes from
Using the model, scientists found that the area between Cedar Creek and Kettle Creek in the northern bay has "the most sluggish-moving water," said Neil K. Ganju, study co-author and research oceanographer at the U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center.
And that has implications for efforts to reduce pollution in the bay, where water quality has declined in recent decades. "Anything that's in the water (there) will reside for a longer time than elsewhere," Ganju said.
Fear for Barnegat Bay — can it be saved?
When superstorm Sandy made landfall near Brigantine on Oct. 29, 2012, the storm surge and giant waves formed several new inlets, including a 400-foot-wide one in Mantoloking.
Officials quickly filled in the big Mantoloking breach and rebuilt devastated Route 35.
But scientists are looking at whether breaches would boost flushing and improve Barnegat Bay water quality, according to Ganju.
They are investigating where breaches most likely would form during future storms and adding that information to computer models, he said.
When it comes to breaches, officials must balance the water quality concerns with local needs "because if the breach goes through a road or a house, that's somebody's property," Ganju said.
Zafer Defne, a study co-author and ocean scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, said "we will have scenarios of different cases such as what happens if the (Oyster Creek) power plant is shut down or what happens in say 100 years if there's this much of sea-level rise" and what happens if nutrient pollution and development increase.
DEP spokesman Bob Considine said the DEP is grateful for the U.S. Geological Survey's efforts. The study "will allow us to better understand factors that impact water quality in different portions of the bay. It also will add more scientific precision as we move forward with taking steps to improve ecological conditions in Barnegat Bay," he said in an email.
Ten studies funded by the state Department of Environmental Protection — also aimed at learning more about the bay and how to improve water quality — are scheduled to be completed next year. But environmental activists say there's already more than enough information for the government to declare the bay "impaired," or damaged, requiring officials to take steps to curb pollution.
Estuary woes
The U.S. Geological Survey study, published in the scientific journal Estuaries and Coasts in September, noted that the amount of time water stays in an estuary is "a major driver of eutrophication and water quality."
Estuaries like Barnegat Bay are where fresh water meets salt water. Eutrophication is when large amounts of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus from lawn fertilizers, lead to too much algae and other aquatic plants. Algae can cloud the water, harming vital sea grass beds. Algae also can slash dissolved oxygen in the water and harm shellfish and fish populations, according to government websites.
Barnegat Bay has two inlets linked to the ocean: Little Egg Inlet at the southern end and Barnegat Inlet near the center. The Point Pleasant Canal links the bay's northern end to the Manasquan River and the ocean. Several rivers drain into the estuary, and the Toms River is the largest single source of fresh water and nutrients, according to the U.S. Geological Survey study. In general, the northern part of the bay near the Toms River is considered the most degraded.
Barnegat Bay Under Stress
In the study, modeling showed that the water flows northward from Little Egg Inlet to the Point Pleasant Canal, with better flushing in the southern half of the estuary. The tides were relatively inefficient in flushing the bay's northern end.
Ganju said that "because Little Egg Inlet is a little larger than Barnegat Inlet, water flows more efficiently through that inlet."
Estuaries with poor flushing and sluggish flow tend to retain nutrients, leading to high algae and aquatic plant growth, according to the study. Northern Barnegat Bay and the Toms River have lower water quality and the study's results also suggest that reduced flushing may be worsening deterioration there.
Ganju said "the farther north you are in Barnegat Bay, the longer the water has actually sat there."
And the longer water stays in the bay and the longer nitrogen is in the water, the longer it can be tapped by algae, plants and seaweed, he said.
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Baltic roundup: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
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EUROPE - Lithuania's pension fund association has sued the government in the constitutional court after lawmakers reduced contributions to the private pension systems to offset budget deficits.
Several members in the association have filed individual suits, and the association has filed a class-action suit on behalf of the 1m members in the private pension system.
The suits allege the government failed to fulfil the requirements of the pension reform legislation.
In June this year, the parliament decided the contribution level would remain at 2% beyond the end of 2010, which was the original period, as the country expects to save more than LTL600m (€174m) per year.
This summer, some MPs suggested cutting contributions completely, but this did not carry. At the same time, amendments to the pension system reform law were adopted promising to resume the contributions when the economic situation in the country improved.
Because of the lack of explicit dates or definitions of when the situations would be deemed sufficiently improved, the pension fund association argued that the way the contribution issue was handled was unjust, unconstitutional and possibly illegal.
The association has calculated that, to the beginning of November, the government had failed to transfer LTL850m.
The organisation also argues the government could have borrowed the money from the pension funds, which then would have had the certainty of knowing how and when the money would be paid back.
The suits demand compensation for the seizure of contributions participants paid in the expectation they would be transferred to their private personal pension accounts.
Meanwhile, Latvia's welfare ministry has said contribution levels to the second-pillar private pensions system for 2011-12 will be reduced to 2% from 4%.
The country finds itself in a similar financial situation as its Baltic neighbours following the financial crisis, and like Estonia and Lithuania, Latvia has resorted to cutting its contribution levels to the second pillar.
The government said latest cuts - which will prolong austerity measures in the country for longer than first expected - would help reduce the state social insurance budget deficit and provide full state social insurance services.
The cut will add LVL44.9m (€63.3m) and LVL114.6m for the 2011 and 2012 state social insurance budgets.
For the reductions in pension contributions to become law, the ministry has proposed amendments to the country's state-funded pensions law. The amendments have yet to be approved by the parliament.
By reducing the rate of contributions in the second pillar pensions, the rate of contributions in the first pillar, or state pension, will increase correspondingly and apply to people not yet granted retirement pension. From 2013, a contribution rate of 6% will be introduced.
Lastly, the Estonian second pillar pension system now boasts more than €1bn in assets.
Out of a population of 1.3m, more than 606,000 people participate and have amassed €1.04m in the system, as at 31 October.
The second-pillar funds generally offer four investment strategies: a lower-risk (or conservative) fund that only invests in fixed income, a medium-risk (or balanced) fund that can invest as much as 25% in equities, a higher-risk (or progressive) fund that may invest as much as 50% in equities and, recently, an even more higher-risk (or aggressive) fund that can invest as much as 75% in equities.
Under draft legislation, participants in the second pillar system will be allowed to switch providers as many as three times a year, as opposed to just once under current legislation. If passed, the legislation will come into force in April 2011.
The Estonian government has responded to the budgetary impact of the financial crises by suspending its contributions to the second pillar for two years from 1 June 2009.
It plans to start paying 2% from June 2011, while citizens will pay 1%, and full contributions from both sides will be restored from 2012.
However, if the economy rebounds, the government has promised to pay 6% over 2014-17 for those who continue to contribute to their second pillar pensions.
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Foreigners create jobs for Sinkies
Is this a myth or a truth? Why is it that whenever this is spoken, everyone is giving it a dirty look? The polite ones will give a cynical smile. The not so polite ones will show their middle finger. Sure, if a foreign company operates here with 100 of its own people and employs 10 Sinkies it is still creating jobs for Sinkies. On the other hand how many jobs are Sinkie companies and organizations, including govt and GLCs, creating for the foreigners instead? And is the equation beneficial to the Sinkies overall?
Leong Sze Hian and his expertise could be put to good use to show some real figures on how many jobs that the foreigners have created for us and how many we have created for them and put the numbers on a balancing scale. We need to know whether this is true or false and whether this is good or bad. And are we creating good value jobs for foreigners and foreigners creating low value jobs for Sinkies?
So far we only hear people repeating this myth like a golden truth. Leong Sze Hian, if you are reading, I would suggest a few tables like foreign company hires. Look at the PME levels will do. The lower levels are not too significant as many of the jobs are not lucrative enough for Sinkies. And don’t waste time on construction workers and manual labour. Only people who want to change the subject will be talking about foreign workers when the crux of the matter is the PME category.
A list of companies showing how many foreigners, PRs and citizens will be good. And do not lump PRs and citizens together as locals. I know Leong Sze Hian will not do that. Also a list of the GLCs including the universities and some high profile institutions with many foreign hires to show the pattern of distribution. We need to know the truth and not allow a repeated myth to become a truth.
Heard that the some local universities have more foreigners than locals in their academic staff. Not very sure if this is true. What about the big institutions with the high percentages of foreigners.
We need to see real data to dispel this myth. To allow the myth to continue to spread and shaft down our throats only makes us more daft.
Kopi Level - Green
Anonymous said...
Spot the myth challenge:
1. Foreigners create jobs for Singaporeans.
2. PAP government create jobs for Singaporeans
3. PAP government is on the side of Singaporeans.
4. You can use your CPF money when you retire or when there is a rainy day.
5. The President of Singapore is protecting our Singapore Reserves
lust for love said...
Mostly low-paying jobs such as taxi-drivers, remisiers, nursing assistants, cleaners, food court/hawker center dish collectors and washers, etc!
Good for those property developers and for those who have a place to rent!
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...
Hhahah. Thank you lust for love for including remisiers as low paying jobs. This is not a myth.
This is the new truth.
Michael Heng PBM said...
MYTH: Foreigners Create Jobs for Singaporeans.
No, Jobs are not some Charitable Handouts to Singaporeans by Foreigners.
Actually, we Singaporeans create the conditions for Foreign Investments. Every $dollar investment requires people to translate investments into earnings. And Singaporeans are very good at this. We have been branded the “World’s Best Labour Force”, an attractive, world-class, and productive work-force – a key ingredient for the success of any business. Since the country is primarily a knowledge-based economy, its manpower force is educated and professionally qualified. Singapore’s workforce is cosmopolitan and recognized for its high level of education, high productivity, technical proficiency, work-hard and work-smart culture.
Foreigners can here to make money. WE Singaporeans create money for them by working for them. We create JOBS and Business for Foreign Investors by creating the conditions – good govt, financial incentives, social stability - where Foreigners would choose to come here instead of elsewhere. Read this:
Anonymous said...
"And are we creating good value jobs for foreigners and foreigners creating low value jobs for Sinkies?"
That is beside the point.
The point is that there must be economic growth, and minister and senior civil servant bonuses, being pegged to it, will also grow.
If casinos for growth is also OK, what is creating low value jobs for Sinkies, u tell me lah?
And most crucial for PAP is that despite all these rubbish dished out to daft Sinkies, there are still not enough daft Sinkies angry enough to want to vote PAP out, even in worse times than now. Or made the Sinkie opposition ready to be govt, let alone a better govt than PAP.
So PAP will continue to rule Sinkies for a long time to come, till the extinction of low fertility and daft Sinkies.
Veritas said...
Whenever there is a headcount, I always fight to fill in with Singaporeans, even if I am not the hiring manager. A very sad thing about SG engineering is ALL managers are too selfish and they would hire one at lowest cost, require no training, perfect match and can start work day 1.
No one is thinking of training fresh grad, not like last time. These managers never think how their managers give them a chance.
The managers always give extremely hard interview questions that they themselves must refer to books before they can answer.
They also expect engineers to give them a lot of respect. When managers are in the wrong, they do not expect someone to tell them on their face. Managers have entitlement mentality that they are able to write poison email, and to punish and reward in appraisal like an emperor.
Many managers are there due to political appointment and they have 0 knowledge. However their recruiting criterior is too fucking high that they cannot even conduct a proper interview.
Right now you go to linkedin or jobdb and you can see how many people applied for jobs. For many junior positions, they can receive thousands of applications.
Yet managers keep ranting "they cannot find good people". Meanwhile, being spoiled with choice, all Singapore workplace are full of office politics. The engineers are being poisoned to backstab one another because managers want to poison them.
I have work in oversea labs and R&D. I can honestly say SG is definitely the most fuck up.
One of the reason of high requirement for FT engineers is not because there is no suitable candidate in SG, but because managers are too stupid that they cannot bring up engineers. They need a perfect match,
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...
Sorry Michael, you are behind time. Today, the Sinkie workforce is outdated, irrelevant and our universities, despite their high rankings, are not producing graduates with the skill sets for our first world economy.
Only 3rd world universities and their graduates have the skill sets for the high paying jobs here. Ask the recruitment agencies for confirmation.
Anonymous said...
October 07, 2014 11:02 am
- good govt. ???
- good for who?
- good for everybody but not Singaporeans.
Anonymous said...
When I started my first job in Philips (S) Pte Ltd (Tuner) back in 1988, there was no Dutch. Not even one. This is what I would call and continue to call a world class company. Mind you, Singapore was still reeling from a recession at that time. A foreign MNC creating jobs in Singapore for Singaporeans...especially for PMETs.
Anonymous said...
I thought slaves do not have jobs. They just need masters like papigs to dish out work and to ensure that the slaves continue working till they drop, the papigs withheld their hard earned retirement funds?
Anonymous said...
Sinkies no need to worry when they have a caring govt. When they lose their jobs the govt will take care of them through workcare or jobcare or something like that. Govt very good.
Anonymous said...
Veritas 11:28 am
True lah, but that's only half the story.
The other is that engineering is not the preferred choice of most Sinkie students, especially those with good "O" and "A" level results for tertiary admission.
And so as a result, engineering courses at Poly and U being of large intake and to fill up the places, end up with Sinkie students who did not want it, or many foreign talents, some on scholarships.
So any wonder why Sinkie grads in engineering do not want to work in their field of training, or don't have the aptitude or attitude to be trained? And why foreign talents dominate in this field?
Anonymous said...
You better double-check on what the PAP Ministers have been telling Singaporeans - that we don't need university degrees.
Check out this website study of the earning power of university degrees:
Personally. I make it a rule never to trust a PAPig Minister anymore. They say left. You better think about going right.
Anonymous said...
How about increasing GST to help the poor? Can somebody enlighten me. I am very confuse with what Pinky said.
Virgo 49 said...
Right and why the PAP always in every elections cajoled the voters that these investors will scoot if you vote for tbe Opposition???
Regardless of who is in charge as long sinkie land is a good place to invest with our well educated and hardworking workforce, investors will still stay put right??
Virgo 49 said...
Also included those research assistants washing test tubes in A or whatever Star Labs.
All holding degrees in Sciences and recruited just to wash test tubes for the PRC/ Ah neys scholarships holders with fake degrees
Veritas said...
20 years ago, NUS common engine cut off is ABB. Today, it is worse than Arts faculty. NUS/NTU engine is the only engine fac in the whole world that accept more shit students than arts fac.
True that today engine is a dumping ground but why is it so today? Reason is engineers pay are too low. A graduate engineer can still draw around 2k at the first job while arts fac people can get 4k if they join civil service.
Why pay too low? FT.
I remember the days when I study and study while watch those business/acc students fuck and fuck, party and party. The engine students will stay inside lab, stress like crazy, and next morning, God damn NTU professor will swagger like a mother fucker and tell you you have not complete assignment up to expectation, and threaten to fail you.
In exam time, expecially NTU comp engine and civil engine will see a large number of failures, and NTU lecturers cheers, congratulating themselves they have successfully motivate their own students by failing them.
When come to post grad openings, NTU lecturers will say THEIR OWN STUDENTS not welcome. While all post grad position are given to FT (dono whether degree is faked), like the most shameless prostitute.
If you go for interview like software engineer, MOFOS managers like those in JDSU will test you something like "lockless concurrency paradigm" (their test paper), that I bet not 1% NTU professor are able to answer. (FYI JDSU is one of the biggest T&M in the world and I rejected their offer). I do not think even JDSU engineer know lockless concurrency..
FYI I got interviewed by Google from USA mountain view and the feeling is very good, even though I was not offered. You feel that you are speaking to expert and even I am not offered, I think I deserve that. Fucking SG managers talk cock and no technical
The lao chiau (old bird) learn the lesson and tell the juniors. Who the fuck want to become engineers?
Veritas said...
Also now there is this God damn FT Indians problem in Citibank CBP. All our EECS faculties are more Chinese even including PHD.
But to Citibank CBP, all Chinese not welcome. I used to work at Changi business park.
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...
Hi Anon 11:42, that's true. In those days the Singaporeans were everywhere. Not many foreigners wanted to be here as we were still struggling to build our industries and economy.
Now, after building up everything to what it is now, all the foreigners are here claiming they built this island and we owed it to them for the progress.
And many idiots agree.
Anonymous said...
Lee con you : " you repeat a lie 1000 times, it becomes the truth"
Son : ok, papa. listen everyone, fake foreigners creates job for all of us.... 256th time " ( still have 744 times to LEEpeat before 2016 )
oldhorse42 said...
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oldhorse42 said...
Why ask Uncle Leong to do the job?
Wouldn't it be better for teochew ah hia to raise the questions in the Parliament. In this way we can get the answers from the horse's mouth and no one can dispute or doubt that.
In the old days, to encourage foreign companies to set up business here, the Govt offered all kinds of incentives including freedom to bring in their people to work here.
Anonymous said...
Can someone compile the top 200 jobs created by foreigners for Sinkies and vice versa?
b said...
Politicians are not saints. They will tell you want they want you to hear so that they can continue to enjoy millions of pay and perks on taxpayers expenses.
b said...
Anyone can just drop by the financial district, changi, tampines, jurong, woodlands etc to know who create jobs for who. No need to trouble uncle leong lah.
Anonymous said...
You disagree with the PM?
agongkia said...
Comparing engaging a foreign talent who can keng and make 40 million in a short period of time and a daft Sinkie who can only keng for M C or paternity leave, I would prefer a foreign where l can use his talent and help my towkay to make profit.
Who say they dun create job.At least they create job for our police , investigator , doctors and lawyer etc.
b said...
Just disagree with that statement whether or not made by pm.
agongkia said...
And dun believe in those so call mathematics king.Can draw chart doesn't mean can see far ahead.Have confident in our leader.Its the kahkia that dissapoint him.He has no reason to dissapoint Sinkies .Give him some time.
Anonymous said...
RB, it is true that foreigners create jobs for Singkies. When Queen Elizabeth II gave us self government in 1959, she gave the most important jobs to LKY and his colleagues. Since then the trend has continued relentlessly.
b said...
"At least they create job for our police , investigator , doctors and lawyer etc."
- they definitely created jobs for the immigration department. maybe they created some jobs but not most or all of the jobs. thus, the statement is a half truth aka deceptive, misleading or irresponsible statement.
Virgo 49 said...
Hi oldhorse42, Teochew Ah Hia already many terms as Opposition MP leader. Comfortable to be co driver.
Why rock the sampan sbd sink it, your self also in danger.
Virgo 49 said...
And also the Magistrates and wardens in the Changi Resort.
Lastly, also the whipping man
Anonymous said...
Frankly SINKIELAND is not fantastic but also not that bad. It is strange only opposition stands the chance to raise questions. Can't sinkies form some civil groups or civic minded groups to communicate with garment without having to go into opposition and risk cold storage by garment as highlighted by virgo49 last evening?
///// Virgo49 October 06, 2014 9:31 pm
Hi Anon 5.28 and.5.25
If they can sue Roy, they will have another "Operations Cold Storage" oops sorry "COLD STORE) for the many dissents who harped now at the social media.
They can find any excuse to get you.
That's well now you can see and hear so many of them like the Workers Party NMP and also other party NMP singing in sync with the PAP condemning the HLP fracas.
Teochew Ah Hia will never wants to be the Driver. So comfortable as Co driver why so stupid to talk over the Wheels??
Also, most too old and got not much energy to fight the PAP.
The only hope are the youngsters in Roy and HHH age groups that can throw up some really patriotic and caring Singaporeans to fight the PAP and gung ho enough to take over the rein of the government.
They are young, energetic and full of inspiration to take the challenge.
Others like Hainan Ah Ko and the rest can at best be elected to be Opposition MPs in the Parliament.
As one Anon bro said, must stay back and fight and do not be quitters like Georgie Boy. This is just a saying for those who actually got not much choice to go as they are too deeply stuck here. ////
The form can be sthg in between a feedback channel and opposition. Not just a feeble feedback outreach channel but also not as extreme as being opposition.
Proposition could be the right word to describe it.
Proposition in favour of SINKIELAND.
Opposition not against SINKIELAND or garment per se but opposition against certain policies which can be improved and made to better sinkies life.
Dun say dun have this type of political in between. Last time also no COE, ERP! It was pioneered in SINKIELAND, was it not?
Why not pioneer some civic entity aka NMP pattern but emanating from sinkies and representing sinkies voices?
Not garment appointed voices to represent sinkies!
It makes a lot of difference........
Voices chosen by sinkies to represent sinkies but not being opposition per se.
Just civic groups chosen by sinkies to represent sinkies views and interests amicably but not adverserial or antagonistic.
Doesn't that suggests a win win solution?
Garment keeps to be garment.
Sinkies got their voices heard and interests represented in a non-adverserial manner.
Sounds a bit utopian and idealistic but if it can work, then it could be better to achieve its objectives of championing sinkies' interests and voices than just plain online disjointed kpkb. At the same time, it doesn't threaten the garment' s hold to power if that's what concerns them? Win win solution. Garment pappy, Sinkies happy.
Plse feel free to disagree but no need throw bad eggs or rocks, ok?
Just disagree civilly can liao, tio bor?
But in case of any accusations, those in opposition are still free to oppose the garment and fight like tigers and dragons during hustling for all they like.
Rb, dun say sinkies free load never contribute idea?
What say YEW?
This idea a bit special?
Anyone else ever thought of this "utopian" idea plse KEE CHIU?
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Anonymous said...
In other words, what this idea represents is a bit like Olympic "B" finals.
Win also no medals but legitimacy given in that these groups of people elected by sinkies for sinkies.
Also can have parliament type of regular sitting, constitution, own voting but not binding on garment, ....... etc etc
Main objectives are to throw up views, surface concerns of sinkies but with some legitimacy in that these groups are elected by sinkies, propose alternative governance/ policies beneficial for sinkies etc etc.
Under such framework, good ideas beneficial to sinkies and SINKIELAND would emerge and some ideas might even win glories for SINKIELAND as a nation etc etc
So far so good?
Any seconder plse KEE CHIU?
b said...
PMs these days like to talk about foreigners and locals, inciting xenophobia. Who create jobs for who does not matter so long as everyone happy.
Anonymous said...
Foreigners create jobs for ambulance drivers, paramedics, emergency doctors and nurses who have to patch up all the battered bodies whacked by our beloved, easily offended foreigners, oops solly, foreign talents, who take no nonsense from rude Stinkies.
Anonymous said...
Spain Warns "Something Went Wrong" As Suspected Ebola Cases Rise In Madrid
I sure hope our PAPigs have an Ebola plan in place.
otherwise, it is "Foreigners create Ebola for sinkies"
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...
Anon 5:22, what you have suggested is a variation of the NMP. NMP could be what you are talking about if the intention is like what you want.
Anonymous said...
Rb, the NMP scheme has already been implemented many years. So far probably many sinkies not very impressed with it. So if it is more of the same, then no point cos it will be seen as ineffective, wayanging and wasting precious resources and time. This intention is a proposal for something genuinely from the ground to represent the ground, not same types of feathers appointed from the top to represent the ground. How can YEW appoint some peacocks to represent the swans or the sparrows or other birds? Would the peacocks able to speak for the swans, the sparrows and many other birds? Cannot right? Current NMP scheme may have some usefulness but also come with many limitations in terms of being representative of people from the ground ......
On the other hand, this suggestion may have objectives that are overlapping but it could go much further in winning hearts, minds and souls of sinkies who might otherwise gradually slipped away and away from SINKIELAND under present circumstances ........
A direct confrontation with the garment in the form of being an opposition to bring about some change may not necessarily bring about the best outcome for SINKIELAND. The opposition has tried for many years already. They can keep trying. That's one option but time may be running out for SINKIELAND in terms of brain drain, disunity and many other issues.
However, it must be stated upfront this is just an idea tossed up to be chewed and spat out if unpalatable or chewed and slept over if worth a 2nd look ......
But what is the objective or what are the objectives?
Anonymous said...
This idea is to put together some form of the NMP scheme in terms of its non-threatening stature vis a vis the garment yet a coalescence of the many disjointed kpkb voices into one purposeful, objective and non-partisan voice with the utopian or idealistic aim of furthering the interests of sinkies but just like the Olympics "B" finals, there will be some competition to get in for legitimacy and also ensure certain minimum competence.
A society is too complicated and a one man rambo no matter how strong, capable and talented is unlikely able to deliver any solid and holistic package to be useful for change in society presumably for the better.
Thus, rightfully and highly likely there are some sinkie beans who would like to contribute but not to the extent of joining the opposition or the garment. Meaning there is this need or vacuum in the political spectrum that is not fulfilled.
This entity is to pose a serious challenge to the garment in terms of ideas and policies how to take SINKIELAND forward but not to the extent to challenge the garment' s power. It is like pooling all the disjointed and fragmented kpkb voices into one common platform with some legitimacy in that they are chosen by sinkies but with no voting or binding right. It is more to push the garment on multiple fronts and propagate the alternatives and views of this group via social media etc.
With a critical mass resource, research, think tank, empirical evidence gathering, testing can be carried out under this group.
The views would likely carry more weight, more balanced and objective and more encompassing.
But in the end, this is just a toss up. If the garment does.not see any merit in such an idea, then this idea would likely be "DOA" .
Anonymous said...
To declare the idea "DOA" is non-issue.
The alternative is that the people would then support the emergence of more RN,HHH and also more TJS, TKL over time?
The important thing is to achieve the best outcome, not what method, form or mode in going about it.
That is all for now.
Anonymous said...
This sinkie society should ask themselves why do so many people turned to social media to express themselves or hear alternative views. Why do RN and HHH generate considerable die hard support given that sinkieland already has 7 elected opposition MPs, 3 NCMPs and 9 garment officially sanctioned NMPs?
Why the need is still far from being satisfied with supposedly 19 "representatives" to speak up for all the swans, sparrows, etc of society? Is it because these 19 "voices" are too effective in their roles or the opposite?
There are many ways to skin the cats. PM Lee chatise sinkies recently during a NUS forum not to engage in navel gazing and obsessed with counting of one's arm's hairs and leg's hairs. PM Lee said many sinkies are not reading widely or even minimally. So is PM Lee right to say that many sinkies hardly read beyond whatsapp text messages and snippets sent by friends or postings on facebook or instagram?
Sinkies or rather PM Lee must ask why sinkies aren't reading widely?
Now, perhaps oldies and parents might want to talk to say children studying in JCs. Discuss with them about some world and domestic affairs. Many might be shocked to realise how little even JC students read outside their school notes. Mind YEW, students are not even reading text books on the subjects they are sitting for exams. They are predominantly relying on notes spoon fed by JC teachers.
There are still some aspects working for sinkieland but mostly what had been achieved in the past. Of course it is also not exactly true that sinkies don't read. It is more of the penetration rate. In sinkieland, often libraries are perpetually packed and even at times over filled with students. That sounds encouraging, isn't it? But on closer and frequent observation, YEW will be hard pressed to find among every 100 students even a handful reading any library books there. Easily more than 98% are just mugging their school notes, doing homework or watching movies on their mobile devices. All seemed very hardworking and discipline and well behaved. The library could be a good microcosm of what sinkieland is churning out in the market place. Can a society go very far churning out workers who are more than 98% just fixated on their school notes and tutorial worksheets and assignments?
Youths are the future of sinkieland. The types of youths churned out today determine the makeup and outcome of sinkieland down the road.
Sinkieland should not be allowed to go down without sinkies putting up good efforts to bolster the chances of its future well being and counter balance what are undesirable in society.
If many sinkies need to find expression in two young sinkies in representing what they yearned for or fight for what they deemed are things that have gone to the extremes and too far, what does it speak of sinkieland?
What hope and aspiration do many sinkies have beyond the immediate bricks and mortars and materials surrounding them? Are these what will make sinkies stand out in the global market place?
Discourses and discussions are far from enough and adequate in sinkieland.
Sinkieland, to stand good chances in the global market place, needs more not less discourses and discussions. And they must be genuine discourses and discussions, not staged debates.
There should be more fearless discussions and discourses for sinkieland to be more resilient, stronger and more competitive in the global market place and as a society in the world, not less. But of course it does not imply it is done to undermine the garment or society. It is to ensure sinkieland does not end up more like DPRK than say Germany in its journey to build a better society.
To remake Sinkieland or to foster its well being is a long, arduous process. Likely there will be many ups and downs. Mistakes there will be but Sinkieland will not fail unless sinkies give up at the outset or along the way.
Anonymous said...
@ October 08, 2014 4:23 am
Please don't be daft.
Maybe PAP's Singapore has never been about what is good for Singaporeans or even Singapore.
Maybe PAP's Singapore is all about what is good for PAP?
Maybe that is why PAP Ministers are promoting the idea that Singaporeans do not need a university education?
After all.
In Hong Kong.
Who is leading the protests?
University students that's who.
Maybe this is all about staying in power forever.
Never mind if it is bad for Singaporeans.
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...
Hi Anon 10:41, you have good intention and a good scheme. But like the NMP scheme, it is the power of the day that determines how the scheme should be or make irrelevant by them.
This is the hard truth.
Anonymous said...
Ha ha ha rb, the hard truth is everyone knows roughly what is happening.
Anonymous said...
Sinkies know many things but may not want say it bluntly in some fxxxers faces. This is another way of pushing things forward. Current situations will throw up more RN, HHH. Now is 2010s NOT 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Anonymous said...
Life would be shit if nothing done. Sinkies can choose to uproot for those who can.
Anonymous said...
The above is a suggestion to mitigate the situation in several ways. It also serves to focus what is wrong in SINKIELAND. Who doesn't know at the end it is power that counts. Try reason with the BIG BULLIES in M E?
Anonymous said...
There are not many options left for all the jiak liao bee!
Anonymous said...
The end game can be seen in the mind.........
Anonymous said...
It is only who will end up being the one to suffer Gaddafi fate and lynched by a mob........
Anonymous said...
The HLP fracas was a bad move. The script is typical is of media corpse std. Nobody believes such scripts are of any std or creditable. It has shown the world how stupid jiak liao bee is. This is just one more nail into the coffin.........
Anonymous said...
Retribution comes fast and furious......
Anonymous said...
Karma coming soon ......
2 years immovable in bed is testimony......
More is likely to come for those guilty of farce
Anonymous said...
@ Chua Chin Leng aka redbeanOctober 08, 2014 9:28 am
Rb, pls discard this suggestion. It is just a toss up idea to save some undeserving assholes. YEW are right. MUST GO FOR THE JUGULAR! No POWER NO TALK! This will be a fight till the end! See YEW on 25 Oct HLP! 不见不散, 风雨不改. Later check astrology and update YEW. This time will be telling straight msg, no more hidden riddles! Previously foresaw some "traps laid", so not advisable too many people turn up, could be "explosive situation" leading to unnecessary side tracks. Thus " predicted" " toh peng". Hope YEW understand the " 苦心" and good intentions. With hindsight, under that day's circumstances, dun YEW think a much larger turnout of a few thousand could have led to some unintended situations? Then really "walked into the holes" laid by evil forces of this universe? Tio bor? If YEW check back previous predictions, the last one tone sound vastly different, right? With your smartness, din YEW notice some hidden msg, some hint hint? Sometimes too direct removes the joy of life?
Virgo49 said...
Time to have someone like Mr Chiam See Tong who stands in the Election on his own without any party affiliation.
Sole Independent MP has no one to tell him/her to toe the line by the Party Whip. Thus they can SPEAK FRRELY.
Once in Parliament, outshine those Opposition MPs by asking HARD questions that affect the lives of the average Singaporeans.
They have Parliamentary Immunity and yet they ALL KEPT MUM IN PARLIAMENT.
This is very disappointing indeed.
See How Mr.Jeya raised so much BLOOD PRESSURE IN LKY AND OTHERS when he was in Parliament both as an elected and nominated MP.
Hear how many times the PAPies challenged him to repeat his questions outside Parliament.
They felt STING by HIM.
We need young Blood like RN and HHH etc to throw their lots into the ring and bring HOPE to the Singaporeans.
The rest of the has beens candidates LHL has no fear of them.
Or Alternatively, the present LOT of Opp candidates must be truly UNITED and be ready to be a Coalition Government if they chosen to be.
Anonymous said...
Virgo49 // Sole Independent MP has no one to tell him/her to toe the line by the Party Whip. Thus they can SPEAK FRRELY.//
Good idea!
WP's smc MPs can resign before next election and runs as independent in AwKan and PONGUN. After erected, they can " perform freely" and not kena "whipped"!
Virgo49 said...
Hi Anon @5.08pm
Same goes for the PAP MPs who still got an ounce of conscience.
Can run as Independent candidates and SPEAK FREELY WITHOUT GETTING WHIPPED.
Only if the Electorate willingly to vote for them.
See how Mr Chiam See Tong in his first term as an Independent MP SPOKE SO FREELY.
Even asked Teh Cheang Wan how much is the actual costs of HDB Flats??
Lost for words and have to commit suicide.
Anonymous said...
Foreign companies create jobs. Foreign pmets do not. This is something that I believe LHL knows very well. But he needs to please investors instead of scaring them off.
Till now there is a huge disconnect on foreigners. The reality is you can cut their number in half but there will still be cases like yang yin and the fake degree lecturer. Like it or not there are some singaporeans who will be failures of the system no matter how few foreigners there are.
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Jeanette Strong: The most loyal people
“I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Iowa, Jan. 23, 2016.
President Donald Trump’s people are loyal. They believe everything out of Trump’s mouth, including over 22,000 documented lies since his inauguration. They swallow the conspiracy theories Trump dishes out, no matter how false or dangerous. They refuse to accept any facts if they contradict anything Trump says.
Here are a few facts: Trump lost the 2020 presidential election by over 6 million votes. Joe Biden won 80,085,824 individual votes to Trump’s 73,912,552. Biden won 306 electoral votes, including Nevada’s 6 votes, a result Trump called a “landslide” in 2016. Republicans still insist that the 2020 election was rigged.
Election officials in all 50 states affirmed that their elections were safe. Trump’s own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency stated that the election “was the most secure in American history … There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” In gratitude for keeping our election safe, Trump fired Christopher Krebs, the director of that agency. (New York Times, Nov. 12, 2020)
I’ve read comments by Republicans saying that Democrats refused to accept the results of the 2016 election. That’s not true. We knew Trump was legally elected, but we also knew Hillary Clinton got nearly 3 million more votes than Trump. Despite that, we accepted Trump as president. Now Republicans need to accept Biden. He won.
Biden is a decent, compassionate man of integrity who is a faithful, loving husband and a devoted father. He helped rescue our economy and restore our standing in the world and he will do it again. Republicans hate him.
Trump is a man who cheated on all three of his wives and bragged about it. He has spent his life cheating and defrauding people. He has zero integrity or compassion, putting his desires above everything else, including our national security. He’s crashed our economy, trashed our standing in the world, and is complicit in the deaths of over 266,000 Americans. Republicans love him.
Trump has even been strangely submissive to President Putin of Russia, craving Putin’s approval instead of standing up for America’s interests. Russia interfered in our 2016 election and tried to interfere in 2020. Trump’s loyal followers have condoned this. In an eerily prophetic letter to Joshua Speed in 1855, Abraham Lincoln wrote about people like Trump, even mentioning Russia:
Sadly, Lincoln predicted the depths of hypocrisy and despotism into which his party would sink.
Paul Waldman, a Washington Post columnist, summed it up on Nov. 4, 2020:
“What more could Trump have done to alienate voters? Was being the most corrupt president in American history not enough? …
How about bungling a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and counting, and that threw tens of millions of Americans out of work and destroyed untold numbers of businesses — was that not enough?
Was it not enough to be the most morally repugnant human being in American public life, a bigot and a misogynist and a xenophobe and a tax cheat and a petty, insecure narcissist? Was that not enough to lose an election by a wide margin? No, it was not….
The overwhelming majority of Republicans — 93 percent, according to the data we have so far — decided that there could be no Republican so incompetent and corrupt and immoral that they would vote for a Democrat to replace him….
This is now the distilled essence of the GOP, a party of elementary school bullies for whom nothing is more important than seeing other Americans suffering and unhappy.”
Almost 74 million of Trump’s loyal people felt we needed four more years of this. I hope over the next few months, they’ll reconsider so we can come together as a nation and heal. I pray this is possible.
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Q:
Is it possible to list the files that are cached?
Here the output of free -m:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7188 6894 294 0 249 5945
-/+ buffers/cache: 698 6489
Swap: 0 0 0
I can see almost 6GB(5945MB) memory out of 7GB is used in caching the files. I know how to flush the caches. My question is: Is possible see which files(or inodes) are being cached?
A:
Well, there is an easy way to take a look at the kernel's page cache if you happen to have ftools - "fincore" gives you some summary information on what files' pages are the content of the cache.
You will need to supply a list of file names to check for their presence in the page cache. This is because the information stored in the kernel's page cache tables only will contain data block references and not filenames. fincore would resolve a given file's data blocks through inode data and search for respective entries in the page cache tables.
There is no efficient search mechanism for doing the reverse - getting a file name belonging to a data block would require reading all inodes and indirect blocks on the file system. If you need to know about every single file's blocks stored in the page cache, you would need to supply a list of all files on your file system(s) to fincore. But that again is likely to spoil the measurement as a large amount of data would be read traversing the directories and getting all inodes and indirect blocks - putting them into the page cache and evicting the very page cache data you were trying to examine.
A:
You can use the vmtouch utility to see if a named file or directory is in cache. You can also use the tool to force items into cache or lock them into cache.
[root@xt ~]# vmtouch -v /usr/local/var/orca/procallator.cfg
/usr/local/var/orca/procallator.cfg
[ ] 0/5
Files: 1
Directories: 0
Resident Pages: 0/5 0/20K 0%
Elapsed: 0.000215 seconds
Now I can "touch" it into cache.
[root@xt ~]# vmtouch -vt /usr/local/var/orca/procallator.cfg
/usr/local/var/orca/procallator.cfg
[OOOOO] 5/5
Files: 1
Directories: 0
Touched Pages: 5 (20K)
Elapsed: 0.005313 seconds
Now to see how much is cached...
[root@xt ~]# vmtouch -v /usr/local/var/orca/procallator.cfg
/usr/local/var/orca/procallator.cfg
[OOOOO] 5/5
Files: 1
Directories: 0
Resident Pages: 5/5 20K/20K 100%
Elapsed: 0.000241 seconds
A:
I write a very simple shell script to show the cached files by using of linux-fincore.
Since cache is one part of memory, my code is find the top 10 RSZ usage of process, and the use lsof to find out the files that process opened, finally use linux-fincore to find out whether these files are cached or not.
Please correct me if I am thinkg wrong.
#!/bin/bash
#Author: Shanker
#Time: 2016/06/08
#set -e
#set -u
#you have to install linux-fincore
if [ ! -f /usr/local/bin/linux-fincore ]
then
echo "You haven't installed linux-fincore yet"
exit
fi
#find the top 10 processs' cache file
ps -e -o pid,rss|sort -nk2 -r|head -10 |awk '{print $1}'>/tmp/cache.pids
#find all the processs' cache file
#ps -e -o pid>/tmp/cache.pids
if [ -f /tmp/cache.files ]
then
echo "the cache.files is exist, removing now "
rm -f /tmp/cache.files
fi
while read line
do
lsof -p $line 2>/dev/null|awk '{print $9}' >>/tmp/cache.files
done</tmp/cache.pids
if [ -f /tmp/cache.fincore ]
then
echo "the cache.fincore is exist, removing now"
rm -f /tmp/cache.fincore
fi
for i in `cat /tmp/cache.files`
do
if [ -f $i ]
then
echo $i >>/tmp/cache.fincore
fi
done
linux-fincore -s `cat /tmp/cache.fincore`
rm -f /tmp/cache.{pids,files,fincore}
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Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten
In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology.
Recently, she’s used machine learning to make CRISPR more efficient and sort populations in GWAS studies. We take a question from a listener about the development of computational biology and Ryan gives us some great advice on how to get into grad school (Spoiler alert: apply to the lab, not the program.) | mini_pile | {'original_id': '8acd3800598a3875c5616bc1ab69ff6a820d0e98739cba99f60379092d11b2ee'} |
Greek Oregano
Greek Oregano
Origanum heracleoticum
The true culinary herb for Greek and Italian cooking. Low-growing perennial with fragrant dull green and purple leaves and white flowers. If given a favorable square foot in full sun, it will fully inhabit the area attracting a proliferation of pollinators. Start indoors in spring for best results. Perennial to Zone 4, but survives some winters in Zone 3. ~9,000 seeds/g.
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The oregano genus has more than 50 species. The ancient Greeks gave it its name, meaning ‘joy of the mountains.’ These fragrant plants grow on steep rocky alkaline hills, filling Mediterranean mountainsides with their joyful cheer and intense scent. Not only has oregano flavored foods for thousands of years, but it also has medicinal uses, from relieving rheumatism and asthma to decongesting stuffy head colds.
Culture: Start indoors in spring for best results. Likes sun and light well-drained alkaline soil. Will lose potency if soil is overfed. Harvest when it is beginning to flower.
See Herb Chart in the sidebar for uses and cultural information.
Germination Testing
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Intuitive POS system with synchronized inventory, remote report generation at a competitive price point.
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Israel continued to impose institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians living under its rule in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Israeli forces killed 38 Palestinians, including 11 children, during demonstrations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank; many were unlawfully killed while posing no imminent threat to life. Israel failed to ensure accountability and redress for victims of such grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. Israeli air strikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip killed 28 Palestinian civilians who were not directly participating in hostilities, including 10 children. Israel maintained its illegal blockade on the Gaza Strip, subjecting its residents to collective punishment and deepening the humanitarian crisis there. It continued to restrict freedom of movement of Palestinians in the OPT through checkpoints and roadblocks. Israeli authorities unlawfully detained in Israel thousands of Palestinians from the OPT, holding hundreds in administrative detention without charge or trial. Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, including children, were committed with impunity. Israel displaced over 900 Palestinians in the West Bank as a result of home demolitions. The authorities used a range of measures to target human rights defenders, journalists and others who criticized Israel’s continuing occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Syrian Golan Heights. The authorities denied asylum-seekers access to a fair or prompt refugee status determination process. Conscientious objectors to military service were imprisoned.
Background
Israel held legislative elections on 9 April, but no party leader was able to form a governing coalition. As a result, new elections were triggered and held on 17 September. No government was formed and third elections were scheduled for March 2020. On 21 November Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
Israel continued to expand illegal settlements and related infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, by legalizing outposts built without Israeli state authorization, including on private Palestinian land. On 19 November, the US government announced that it would not consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal under international law. On 25 March, US President Donald Trump had recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, contravening UN Security Council resolutions that declared Israel’s annexation illegal.
On 20 December, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that the preliminary examination into the “Situation in Palestine” had concluded that war crimes had been committed in the OPT and that “all the statutory criteria… for the opening of an investigation have been met.” However, before proceeding with an investigation, the Prosecutor decided to seek confirmation from the ICC’s judges that the territory over which the Court may exercise its jurisdiction comprises the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
In March, Palestinian armed groups fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into central Israel, wounding seven civilians. Israel retaliated by striking Hamas targets in Gaza. Between 3 and 6 May, Israeli forces launched hundreds of air strikes and artillery shells on Gaza, killing 25 people; Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, killing four. Between 12 and 16 November, after Israel killed a leading member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad armed group, in an air strike, hostilities flared up again. Israel launched air strikes killing 33 people, including 15 civilians, while Palestinian armed groups fired rockets into Israel, causing injuries.
Israel also launched air strikes against Iranian and Hizbullah targets in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
Unlawful killings
Israeli military and security forces killed at least 38 Palestinians, including 11 children, during demonstrations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Many were unlawfully killed by live ammunition or other excessive force when posing no imminent threat to life. Many of the unlawful killings appeared to be wilful, which would constitute war crimes.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continued weekly “Great March of Return protests” that began in March 2018. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, by 27 December, 215 Palestinians had been killed, among them 47 children, four paramedics and two journalists. Some Palestinian protesters engaged in violence, including by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails towards Israeli soldiers.
On 28 February, the UN Commission of Inquiry into violations committed in the context of the protests in Gaza between March and December 2018 found that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes, including by deliberately firing at Palestinian civilians.[1] In July, Israeli media reported that the Israeli military had decided to change their open-fire regulations, which had allowed snipers to fire at protesters’ lower limbs above the knee, but only after over a year of it being aware that they were leading needlessly to deaths and devastating injuries; snipers were briefed, in the future, to shoot below the knee.
On 16 May, the Israeli army closed the investigation into the killing of Ibrahim Abu Thuraya, who used a wheelchair, during the Gaza protests in December 2017, without pressing any charges.
On 30 October, the army sentenced an Israeli soldier who shot dead 15-year-old Palestinian Othman Halas during a protest in Gaza in July 2018 to community service and reduced his rank for “endangering a life by deviating from orders”.
Israeli air strikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip killed 28 Palestinian civilians who were not directly participating in hostilities, including 10 children; 13 civilians were killed in the hostilities of 3-6 May and 15 in those of 12-16 November. Some of the attacks in which civilians were killed or injured appeared to have been indiscriminate or disproportionate or to have been carried out without adequate precautions to spare civilians.
Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank resulted in the killing of two Palestinians and the injuring of 112, according to OCHA. There has been a pattern of Israeli forces failing to intervene to stop such attacks and the Israeli judiciary failing to hold perpetrators to account.
Freedom of movement, right to health
Israel’s illegal air, land and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, restricting the movement of people and goods in and out of the area, continued to have a devastating impact on the human rights of Gaza’s 2 million inhabitants for the 12th year in a row. The measures amounted to collective punishment. In January, the World Health Organization warned that the Israeli blockade of fuel into Gaza was severely impacting hospitals and other health services. Between 26 August and 1 September, following rocket attacks into Israel, the Israeli authorities halved the fuel supply to Gaza, resulting in a daily maximum of four hours of electricity.
In June, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported an acute medicine shortage for patients with cancer and chronic diseases in Gaza. Israel continued to arbitrarily deny medical permits to Gaza residents to allow them to enter Israel or the West Bank for treatment. In January, Israel expanded the fishing limits off the Gaza coast to 12 nautical miles, still below the 20 nautical miles agreed in the Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1990s.
In the West Bank, at least 100 Israeli checkpoints and roadblocks continued to heavily restrict the movement of Palestinians, and holders of Palestinian identification cards faced an ongoing bar on using roads built for Israeli settlers.
Detention
Arbitrary arrests and detentions
Israeli authorities conducted hundreds of raids throughout the West Bank to arrest Palestinians, usually at their homes at night. They were detained in prisons in Israel, along with thousands of other Palestinians from the OPT arrested in previous years. This violates international humanitarian law, which prohibits the transfer of detainees into the territory of the Occupying Power.
Israeli forces arrested Khalida Jarrar, a former member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and former board member of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, on 31 October. She was charged with “holding a position in an illegal association” and remained in detention at the end of the year.
Israeli authorities used renewable administrative detention orders to hold Palestinians without charge or trial. Some 4,638 Palestinians from the OPT, including 458 administrative detainees, were held in Israeli prisons as of 30 November, according to the Israel Prison Service. Many families of Palestinian detainees in Israel, particularly those in Gaza, were not permitted entry to Israel to visit their relatives.
Palestinian civilians, including children, from the OPT were prosecuted in military courts that did not meet international fair trial standards.
Children in custody
Israel held 182 Palestinian children in prison, including two in administrative detention, as of 30 November. Defence for Children International-Palestine said that children were interrogated without their parents present and placed with adults in prison. Under international law, detention of children should be a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate time.
On 22 January, Israeli forces arrested 14-year-old Suleiman Abu Ghosh from Qalandia refugee camp and held him in administrative detention for four months.
Discrimination
In September, the Israel Prison Service refused a request to translate prison regulations into Arabic filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. It argued that it was not required to do so by the nation-state law, a law of constitutional nature that makes self-determination a right reserved for Jews and discriminates against Palestinian civilians, including by downgrading the status of the Arabic language.
Torture and other ill-treatment, deaths in custody
Israeli soldiers, police and Israel Security Agency (ISA) officers continued to torture and otherwise ill-treat Palestinian detainees, including children, with impunity. Reported methods included beating, slapping, painful shackling, sleep deprivation, use of stress positions and threats. Prolonged solitary confinement, sometimes for months, was commonly used as a punishment.
On 29 September, the Ministry of Justice launched an investigation after Samir Arbeed was hospitalized with broken ribs and kidney failure following torture by Israeli forces during interrogation.[2]
Four Palestinians died in custody allegedly as a result of torture or other ill-treatment by Israeli forces. One of them, Nassar Taqatqa, who was interrogated by the ISA, died on 16 July in prison within a month of arrest. The Israel Prison Service said it was investigating his death. The authorities refused to release the bodies of three of the prisoners.
Right to housing, forced evictions
Israel demolished 621 Palestinian residential and livelihood structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing 914 people, according to OCHA. Israeli authorities said many of the buildings demolished lacked Israeli-issued permits; these are virtually impossible for Palestinians to obtain. The law of occupation prohibits such destruction unless absolutely necessary for military operations. On 22 July, Israeli forces demolished up to 16 residential buildings in the West Bank village of Sur Baher because of their proximity to the fence/wall, which Israel largely built on Palestinian land.[3]
Israel punitively demolished at least 14 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which left 36 people, including 15 children, homeless, according to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization. Punitive demolitions constitute collective punishment and are prohibited under international law.
Israeli settler organizations initiated, with the support of Israeli authorities, forcible evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem. OCHA estimated in January that around 200 Palestinian households had eviction cases pending against them, placing 877 adults and children at risk of displacement.
On 10 July, Israeli authorities forcibly evicted the Palestinian Ilham Siyam and her family from their home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, after the Jerusalem District Court ruled in favour of the Israeli settlers’ foundation Elad over the ownership of the house, ending a legal battle that had lasted nearly 30 years.
On 28 January, the Israeli authorities announced a plan to forcibly transfer 36,000 Palestinian Bedouin citizens living in “unrecognized” villages in the Negev/Naqab in Israel to government-planned townships; Israel refuses to recognize these villages as legal or provide them with municipal services. In December, Israeli authorities demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 169th time.
Freedom of expression and association
The authorities used a range of measures, including raids, incitement campaigns, movement restrictions and judicial harassment, to target human rights defenders, journalists and others who criticized Israel’s continuing occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Syrian Golan Heights.
In February, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs published a report that listed Palestinian human rights workers and Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists, labelling them as “terrorists in suits”. Among them were Shawan Jabarin, general director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq; Raja Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; and Salah Hamouri, a French-Palestinian researcher with Addameer. On 19 September, Israeli forces raided the office of Addameer in Ramallah and seized equipment.[4]
Israel continued to deny human rights bodies entry to the OPT, including the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the OPT. In October, Israel prevented Amnesty International’s campaigner on Israel and the OPT, Laith Abu Zeyad, from leaving the West Bank for “security reasons”, apparently as a punitive measure against the organization’s human rights work.[5]
During the night of 21/22 July, Israeli authorities attempted to forcibly deport Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa al-Kharouf to Jordan, where he has no citizenship or residency rights, apparently because he had documented human rights violations by the Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem. Jordan blocked the attempt, which would have amounted to a war crime. He was held in arbitrary detention from 22 January until his conditional release on 24 October.
The Anti-Boycott Law was used to target activists and organizations critical of Israel’s policies. In November, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld a deportation order against Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir, which had been initiated under the law. On 25 November, he was deported. In June, the state energy company Energix used the law to sue Al-Marsad - Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights after it published a report on the company’s large wind energy project on private lands owned by Syrians in the occupied Golan.
Gender-based violence
Violence against women persisted in Israel, especially against female Palestinian citizens of Israel. At least 13 women were killed as a result of gender-based violence.
Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrant workers
Israel continued to deny asylum-seekers access to a fair and prompt refugee status determination process, leaving many without access to basic services. About 30,000 asylum-seekers were living in Israel. As of 30 June, no asylum claims had been granted, while about 15,000 claims remained pending.
In September, the Supreme Court rejected a petition to freeze the deportation of Israel-born children of migrant workers residing in Israel without a legal status.
Conscientious objectors
At least three Israeli conscientious objectors to military service were imprisoned. In August, conscientious objector Roman Levin was released after 82 days in solitary confinement.
[1] Amnesty International, Israel/ OPT: Findings of UN inquiry into Gaza killings must pave way for justice over war crimes (Press release, 28 February 2019), https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/02/israel-opt-findings-of-un-inquiry-into-gaza-killings-must-pave-way-for-justice-over-war-crimes/
[2] Amnesty International, Israel/ OPT: Legally-sanctioned torture of Palestinian detainee left him in critical condition (Press release, 30 September 2019, updated 30 October 2019), https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/israel-opt-legally-sanctioned-torture-of-palestinian-detainee-left-him-in-critical-condition/
[3] Amnesty International, Israel continues policy of systematic forced displacement with wave of home demolitions in Sur Baher (Press release, 22 July 2019) https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/07/israel-continues-policy-of-systematic-forced-displacement-with-wave-of-home-demolitions-in-sur-baher/
[4] Amnesty International, Israel ramps up assault on civil society with chilling raid on Palestinian NGO Addameer (Press release, 19 September 2019), https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/israel-ramps-up-assault-on-civil-society-with-chilling-raid-on-palestinian-ngo-addameer/
[5] Amnesty International, Israel/ OPT: Amnesty staff member faces punitive travel ban for human rights work (Press release, 31 October 2019), https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/israel-opt-amnesty-staff-member-faces-punitive-travel-ban-for-human-rights-work | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c11154d2436dff47bdf4184b75b0ad2ed300fbfaab83d72c3cfa192025bf9a60'} |
Story: Adams, Ernest Alfred
Page 1: Biography
Adams, Ernest Alfred
Baker, businessman, philanthropist
This biography, written by Sarah Adams, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2000.
Ernest Alfred Adams was born in Wellington, Somerset, England, on 23 November 1892, the son of a master baker, Herbert John Adams, and his wife, Eliza Ann Bell. He was educated at Devon County School and Taunton School, but left in 1909 to work for his father. Soon after, however, Herbert Adams went bankrupt and decided to emigrate to Australia. This early experience of hardship had a formative effect on Ernest, and in later life he was to dedicate considerable time and money to education and welfare organisations.
From 1910 Adams worked in his brother’s bakery in Plymouth, before emigrating to Melbourne in 1912 to work for his father. During this period Ernest became a skilled baker, and in 1915 he started his first bakery in Ballarat, Victoria. The previous year, on 19 September, he had married Mary Florinda Larson, in Melbourne. They had a son before she died, along with their second child, in childbirth in 1920. Ernest then moved to Tasmania and set up a bakery partnership. In 1921 he came to New Zealand, bringing his mother-in-law and son from Ballarat. He met his second wife, Jean West, an art student, when he returned to Tasmania to wind up his business interests. After a brief courtship they were married at Derby, Tasmania, on 22 February 1922; they were to have a family of three sons and two daughters.
Soon after his arrival in New Zealand Adams had met Hugh Bruce, a Christchurch baker who was intending to sell his business to retire. Instead they established a partnership, Adams Bruce Limited. Theirs was to become a close business and personal relationship. By 1929 the company had bakeries in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and its brand of chocolates, ‘Queen Anne’, had become a household name. That year, following Bruce’s retirement, a new company, Ernest Adams Limited, was formed to take over South Island trading, while Adams Bruce was sold to North Island shareholders. However, such was the strength of their friendship that Bruce soon came out of retirement to work for Ernest as the Christchurch factory manager until his death in 1939.
In 1927 Adams set up an innovative insurance scheme to provide retirement benefits for employees, which later developed into a staff superannuation scheme. During the depression, when many companies were retrenching staff, he proposed a company-wide pay cut, starting with himself, to avoid redundancies. He also provided financial assistance to the families of staff who fought in the Second World War. Although he was known for his fairness and generosity, Adams was a firm taskmaster, who expected his staff to maintain his high personal standards.
Under Adams’s stewardship the company survived the depression years, and developed from a chain of small retail shops, through a transition to supermarket trading, to become the largest bakery in the South Island. He maintained its success through uncompromising commitment to quality at an affordable price, and by investing in modern bakery technology. Marketing of the company’s products was supported by extensive newspaper and radio advertising; for many years the well-known radio broadcaster Aunt Daisy endorsed ‘Fether Flake’ pastry.
Throughout his life Adams was involved in a range of community groups. In the late 1930s he began a long association with Cholmondeley Memorial Children’s Home at Governors Bay, Canterbury, and he served on the regional committees of both the New Zealand Crippled Children Society and the New Zealand Branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. For his community work Adams was made an OBE in 1962. Two years earlier he had set up a trust fund with ten beneficiaries, later reduced to five: the Cholmondeley home, the cancer society (his sister had died of cancer), the Canterbury Aged People’s Welfare Council (for the benefit of Windsor House), the University of Canterbury, and Te Waipounamu Maori Culture Centre. The trust was wound up in 1994 with a substantial return to the beneficiaries.
In his younger days Adams was a keen angler, skier and deer stalker. The family took regular holidays in Arthur’s Pass National Park, where Ernest involved himself fully in the local community. He became an honorary ranger and was a member of the Arthur’s Pass National Park Board from 1948 to 1958; he also became a life member of the Christchurch Ski Club. He served on the Christchurch City Council from 1953 to 1956 and was chairman of the first board of governors of Shirley Boys’ High School. Throughout his life he had a keen and active interest in cameras and cinematography, resulting in a comprehensive photographic record of his company’s history.
Ernest Adams retired as chairman of the company in 1965. He and his wife remained regular visitors to the Christchurch bakery, and Ernest continued to take a keen interest in all facets of the firm’s operation, and the people who worked in it, until his death. He took great pleasure in witnessing the repurchase of Adams Bruce in 1974, making Ernest Adams into a national company. Adams died in Christchurch on 29 August 1976, survived by his wife and children. The success of his bakery business had made him a household name. However, it was his deep commitment to his family, staff, and wider community that had moulded his life.
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Мост был сдан эксплуатацию 26 мая 1906 года, связывая Воксхолл на южном берегу и Пимлико на северном. До современного моста на его месте существовал железный Регентский мост, построенный в 1809—1816 годах, который позже стал именоваться Воксхолльским. Мост имеет 4 опоры и пять пролётов, окрашен в красный и жёлтый цвета.
На опорах с обеих сторон моста расположено 8 скульптур, символизирующие собой гончарное дело, технику, архитектуру, сельское хозяйство, науки, изящные искусства, местные власти и образование.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
The race speech: convenient omissions?
Charles Krauthammer at WaPo says Senator Obama's speech on race was a "brilliant fraud" in that it did not answer the question: why did Senator Obama not leave Trinity United Church given Rev. Wright's "vitriolic divisiveness"? Andres Martinez, also at WaPo, says "the entire exercise still ended up feeling a bit evasive."
However, in my opinion, both Krauthammer and Martinez completely missed the point of the speech. Rev. Wright may have said some inexcusable things; but he also has done a world of good to many on Chicago's south side. As Senator Obama said, if those YouTube snippets were all he knew of the Rev, he would have reacted in much the same way.
Further, the mention of Senator Obama's grandmother was not to "throw her under the bus," as so many anti-Obamans have said, but to point out that near and dear ones, including our elders who have tremendous influence over us - like, presumably, a pastor - also harbor racial sentiments that can make us cringe, or for some folks, shape their opinions accordingly. Nobody is perfect; as the Christian sentiment goes, renounce the sin, but embrace the sinner.
The key is, Rev. Wright, Geraldine Ferraro, Robin Morgan, and our grandparents/parents are all products of their times, and whether they spew invective in public or mutter in private in our presence, the onus is upon us to objectively realize the reasons for their views, and not get influenced by their skewed perspective.
[The above paragraph was also partly influenced by Dahlia Lithwick.]
As for the supposed anti-American sentiments of the Rev. Wright? If you go along that route, even Dr Martin Luther King, Jr would be cast as anti-American. And I might add, Presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul had pretty much the same sentiments as Rev. Wright over 9/11 - "blowback." (link to video)
Jo Diaz said...
Is it entirely possible that Senator Obama is too good of a person to President of the United States? As you wrote, we're all a product of our generational histories. Senator Obama hasn't evolved to a corrupt level of so many before him. It's interesting to watch those who attack him, isn't it? They throw stuff against the wall, and as he defends his principles, he looks better all the time. Attacking him is actually bringing his strong ethics to light. God bless America.. We have one really strongly principled man in the limelight!
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Why Winter is the Best Time to Camp in the South | KOA Camping Blog
Why Winter is the Best Time to Camp in the South
When dark freezing days become the norm, remember not all regions of the U.S. are covered in snow all winter. Sunny Southern California and tropical Florida have their own definition of winter. Stock up on sunscreen, ready the camping gear and travel south for a sun-infused winter adventure.
Perfect Weather
Stepping out of an air-conditioned car in the south during the summer takes courage. Dread of facing the wall of intense heat waiting outside the car disappears in the winter. Temperatures in hotspots like Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tallahassee, Florida respectively average 33 and 20 degrees cooler in November than July. National parks in the south like California’s Death Valley issue heat warnings throughout the summer but are perfectly pleasant and even downright cool in the winter.
Arches National Park
Crowds Are Gone
Campgrounds, attractions, and the great outdoors itself get crowded in the summer. Visitors to Arches National Park in Utah often sit in traffic for 30 minutes or more just to get in the park during peak season (March – Oct.). Once inside, parking is hard to find. When visitors do park, they have lots of company on the trailheads. Offseason visitors (Dec. – Feb.) can claim the park as their own, and peacefully enjoy its quiet natural beauty.
Most Southern KOAs Are Open
Lots of KOAs in the south remain open all year long because well, they can. While many KOAs in northern states close up due to inclement winter weather, camping activities are still going strong in the south. Pick the perfect campsite location and type – tent, RV or camping cabin with less competition for prime spots during winter. Celebrate the holidays and New Year around a warm campfire!
Easy Wildlife Viewing
People aren’t the only ones fleeing the chill of winter, animals flock south too! Florida’s manatee population move to inland waters and huddle in the warmth of the state’s 72-degree natural springs and rivers. Birds flying south (https://www.nps.gov/pais/learn/nature/birds.htm) for the winter make places like Texas’ Padre Island National Seashore their temporary home. Gray whales (https://www.sandiego.org/explore/things-to-do/tours-sightseeing/whale-watching.aspx) swim in San Diego, California’s warm coastal waters from December through April. Bring a camera and binoculars to study these heat-seeking animals up close.
No Mosquitoes…Maybe
Mosquitoes are a huge annoyance for any camping trip. The pesky insects draw blood and leave puffy, irritated bites on camper’s skin. Mosquitoes disappear during the winter months when temperatures fall to 50 degrees and below. Some southern states like Florida might not get cold enough to lose the bugs, but south-central and southwest states do see relief. If camping mosquito free is the goal, winter is the best time to pull it off.
Pick Your Paradise
A variety of camping terrains exist in southern states spanning tropical to arid desert. Along the Gulf of Mexico, the tropical paradise vibe is strong. White sandy beaches, clear blue water, swaying palm trees and poolside bars put campers in instant vacation mode. Traveling to the southwest? Vast deserts, canyons, and monoliths await exploration. Do summer activities like stand-up paddling, hiking and spelunking during the winter without the searing heat.
Eva Barrows
Eva Barrows is a San Francisco Bay Area freelance writer. Eva writes about local places, people and events on her website www.evabarrows.com. She founded the online literary journal Imitation Fruit in 2007 and has enjoyed promoting fellow writers and artists ever since.
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Black Poetry Writing Month: Write a Poem for the Weary Slave
The Slave’s Complaint
Am I sadly cast aside,
On misfortune’s rugged tide?
Will the world my pains deride
Must I dwell in Slavery’s night,
And all pleasure take its flight,
Far beyond my feeble sight,
Worst of all, must hope grow dim,
And withhold her cheering beam?
Rather let me sleep and dream
Something still my heart surveys,
Groping through this dreary maze;
Is it Hope?—they burn and blaze
Leave me not a wretch confined,
Altogether lame and blind—
Unto gross despair consigned,
Heaven! in whom can I confide?
Canst thou not for all provide?
Condescend to be my guide
And when this transient life shall end,
Oh, may some kind, eternal friend
Bid me from servitude ascend,
—George Moses Horton
Slavery was the darkest chapter in our country’s history. Human beings were viewed as property, interchangeable with livestock. They were kidnapped from their homeland, packed in squalor like spoons aboard ships and transported to a foreign land, beaten into obedience, depraved of their language and culture, forced into hard labor, whipped, murdered, raped, and worst of all, the defenders of this deplorable system said these victims were happy.
from Disney’s Song of the South (1946)
The myth of the happy plantation servant was a form of propaganda spread by Southern slave owners to combat abolitionism. They argued that the slaves were content with there status, siting that they often sung while working in the fields. Unbeknownst to the masters, this songs were usually Negro spirituals, Christian-themed songs that described the hardships of slavery, lamenting the slaves’ suffering and crying out for freedom. Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave who because the face of the abolition movement after he escaped from bondage, wrote about the Negro spirituals in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
Contrary to what many works portraying the Old Antebellum South may have you believe, the slaves were not strolling through the woods singing “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” to the animals.
For today’s BlaPoWriMo prompt, channel the spirit of the weary plantation slave. Feel his pain, his sorrow, his desperation to be free from chains. Embrace the Christian-themed Negro spirituals and sing a hymn of hope and sadness that would break the hearts of all who hear.
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Relive the iconic PvP-centric sci-fi MMORPG. Forge new friendships and rekindle old rivalries. War will never end for the Novus Sector, and it’s started to spread across new worlds as well.
Engage in a war for superiority and dwindling resources and rising FORCE with any of the three civilizations:
Summon magical familiars called Animus to aid you in battle as the Cora.
Call down and ride Massive Armored Units for cavalry support as the Bellato.
Brace and unleash artillery with specialized Launchers and Siege Kits as the Accretia.
Fight a massive race vs. race vs. race war 3 times a day, 7 days a week!
Fight for your people in an evolving PvP landscape punctuated by regular race vs. race vs. race Chip Wars and vie for control of the Crag Mines’ precious resources.
Contribute to the growth of your race and affiliation as the economy and politics is constantly affected by the actions of individuals.
Participate, at ANY level, just by heading to the Crag Mines map at the center of all the racial home bases.
Winning the war grants a race exclusive access to the heart of the Crag Mines, where valuable gems and talics await miners to reap their hard-fought-for rewards. But only until the next war begins!
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On the Rocks (film)
On the Rocks is an upcoming American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It stars Rashida Jones, Bill Murray, Marlon Wayans, Jessica Henwick and Jenny Slate.
Premise
On the Rocks follows "a young mother who reconnects with her larger than life playboy father on an adventure through New York."
Cast
Rashida Jones as Laura
Bill Murray as Felix
Marlon Wayans as Dean
Jessica Henwick as Fiona
Jenny Slate as Vanessa
Barbara Bain as Gran
Production
Development
On November 15, 2018, it was announced that Apple had entered into a multi-year agreement with entertainment company A24 to produce a slate of original films in partnership with their worldwide video unit. On January 15, 2019, it was announced that the first film produced under that partnership would be directed by Sofia Coppola and titled On the Rocks.
Casting
Alongside the film's initial announcement, it was confirmed that it would star Bill Murray and Rashida Jones. In April 2019, Marlon Wayans joined the cast of the film. In June 2019, Jessica Henwick joined the cast of the film. By July, Jenny Slate had been announced as joining the cast.
Filming
Principal photography for the film began in June 2019 in New York City.
References
External links
Category:American films
Category:American comedy-drama films
Category:American Zoetrope films
Category:A24 films
Category:Films directed by Sofia Coppola
Category:Films with screenplays by Sofia Coppola | mini_pile | {'original_id': '2b89dbcae18522007bf36cdf0c9ece3bfb22e23f4916b22d04c6403174c896c7'} |
Rock's Backpages Library Rock's Backpages
Rock's Backpages
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Axe of Faith
Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 September 1992
THE DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY don't piss about like most groups who claim to be 'political'. The Disposables just get on down and do something about whatever bugs them. EVERETT TRUE HOOKS UP WITH THEM ON U2'S AMERICAN TOUR
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Bavarian police are trying to establish the motive behind the murder of an Afghan woman who sought refuge in Germany and has reportedly converted to Christianity. The attacker, also an Afghan asylum seeker, stabbed the woman to death in front of her children.
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The 38-year-old woman was attacked by the 29-year-old man not far from a supermarket in the Bavarian town of Prien am Chiemsee on Saturday. The German tabloid Bild has alleged that the woman attended a Christian church service, citing the victim’s sister.
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The attack took place in front of the woman’s two children, aged five and 11. Before the assault, the man reportedly shouted something in his mother tongue to the woman.
The man kept on stabbing his victim until a duty policeman and several passersby dragged him aside. He has been temporarily sent to a closed psychiatric institution.
The woman later died in the hospital from her injuries.
Authorities have ordered an autopsy of the victim. However, it may take up to several weeks to get the results, police spokesman Andreas Guske said, according to local news outlet Chiemgau24.
“The investigators’ office has issued a special order [for that],” Guske said.
The man is an asylum seeker who arrived in Germany a few years ago, a police officer told Focus Online.
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Police are currently trying to establish the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. The case is complicated, since the statements made by the man before the assault need to be translated and according to Focus, qualified translators are hard to get in times of the refugee crisis.
“In the event of a killing offense, each word must be translated by a certified interpreter, so that it can be regarded as a strong proof,” Guske added.
“For us, only facts count. But there is evidence of a religious motive for the deed we are pursuing. But this is only one of the versions we can follow,” the police source told Focus.
“We are now going around the surroundings of the victim and the suspect,” the police also said. “Where did they stop, what did they do, which people did they know?"
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Investigators are sure that the two people knew each other since “Prien is a village, and one can assume that asylum seekers of one nationality must know each other.”
Bild meanwhile reported, citing family members, that the attack might have been triggered by the fact that the woman had converted to Christianity several years ago. According to Focus Online, the attacker had even made death threats in relation to the woman’s religious choice. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '14b9c646d30766fe1266c32047ee019f8a1aded8eadab41fab85efbf610ce2f8'} |
Radon exposure and oropharyngeal cancer risk.
Oropharyngeal cancer is a multifactorial disease. Alcohol and tobacco are the main risk factors. Radon is a human carcinogen linked to lung cancer risk, but its influence in other cancers is not well known. We aim to assess the effect of radon exposure on the risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer through a systematic review of the scientific literature. This review performs a qualitative analysis of the available studies. 13 cohort studies were included, most of them mortality studies, which analysed the relationship between occupational or residential radon exposure with oropharyngeal cancer mortality or incidence. Most of the included studies found no association between radon exposure and oral and pharyngeal cancer. This lack of effect was observed in miners studies and in general population studies. Further research is necessary to quantify if this association really exists and its magnitude, specially performing studies in general population, preferably living in areas with high radon levels. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f4ef84e61819ad19299ceb1b13e6e3fe98a1da80fdff7289aa800e2a650cab7f'} |
What is hydrocyclone?
Hydrocyclones have become one of the most important and widely used classifiers in the mineral processing industry. They are also used for de-sliming, de-watering, de-gritting and thickening processes. They are most commonly employed in closed circuit within grinding circuits and are used to return coarse material back to the ball or rod mill for further grinding. The main advantages of cyclones are that they have large capacities relative to their size and can separate at finer sizes than most other screening and classification equipment.
The separation mechanism in hydrocyclones relies on centrifugal force to accelerate the settling of particles. The slurry enters the cylindrical section tangentially above a conical section. The velocity of the slurry increases as it follows a downward helical path from the inlet area to the smaller diameter underflow end. As the slurry flows along this path, centrifugal forces cause the larger and denser particles to migrate to the fluid layer nearest the wall of the cone. Meanwhile, the finer or lower specific gravity particles remain in, migrate to, or are displaced toward the center axis of the cone. As the swirling slurry approaches the underflow tip, smaller and lighter material closer to the center reverses its axial direction and follows a smaller diameter rotating path back toward the top overflow discharge pipe. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '43', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9065226316452026}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '83065', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AX2NFXCJNT6XLSNAIWME7FW6X7XJSB5X', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e81571c9-80eb-4c54-9d0c-11a71ac63f77>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 16, 20, 59, 14), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.143.121', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:55NCKIOY6Z4XWRL2JEI7BWHE6FXYYN6J', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:91eb6dad-ab30-4461-8ba6-f8529eaa9c25>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.deyamachinery.com/what-is-hydrocyclone/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9279877f-ba5d-48fb-8422-9b87a2edbb05>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '219', 'url': 'https://www.deyamachinery.com/what-is-hydrocyclone/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-184.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.6573089361190796', 'original_id': 'cf66df3dfa72e83f0b0eb87df4e45a768ca815f0e5b11e97799d6bc17ce406f9'} |
NYC Medical Examiner Retires; 9/11 Work Pivotal
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New York City's long-serving medical examiner who helped identify remains from the 9/11 attacks is retiring.
Mayor Bloomberg announced Hirsch's retirement on Wednesday, calling him "a visionary leader whose work earned him world renown and helped make New York City a global leader in the field."
The 75-year-old Hirsch oversaw major advancements in DNA identification and mass-fatality response operations. His quest to identify the nearly 20,000 body parts collected after 9/11 continues.
On the day of the attacks, he was injured in the collapse of the south tower but returned to work despite having suffered broken ribs and cuts.
Hirsch's longtime deputy, Dr. Barbara Sampson, succeeds him as acting chief medical examiner.
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