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0.230951 | <urn:uuid:626613ab-c94e-4630-9ed4-6e6259f0e2f0> | en | 0.983823 | Thursday, March 10, 2011
Breaking News: I Sext Like A Grandmaw
The other day I got a phone call from my little sister, who for the record would like to be mentioned more on my blog because she's pregnant and I guess in the "needy" trimester where she needs tons of attention and has decided that she will be called Womb Mate despite the fact that she has something growing in her womb but her first few attempts at spelling womb involved several extra letters, about an embarrassing thing she had done.
It would seem that she, while shopping with her fiance The Welder, had decided it was a perfect time to try and sext him or in her own words "sext him as a joke" and wrote something about the size of his special man organ and sent it off. It just so happened that seconds after she sent it off he checked his own phone so she figured nothing was up and he was responding to her text.
The response she got back was something along the lines of "Terrible, and gross, and this is so wrong" and it confused my Womb Mate and she laughed only to ask The Welder why he would send that text in response to her flattering sext. Only when he proclaimed he had no clue what she was talking about she realized what she had done.
She had sent the penis text to my younger brother. After she told me the story I laughed at her for hours because when they showed up to my parents place later that day neither of the three involved could look each other in the eye. I also told her I was never stupid enough to do something like that.
That is, until last night.
I accidentally sexted my Womb Mate. The first text was something about "The Pilot, you need to get home like really really fast and right now" and that alone wasn't really "sext-y" per say until I followed it up with a "because we're doing it tonight!".
I realized my mistake the moment the last text message was still in the middle of sending and I frantically wished for a recall button because two seconds later my dear, pregnant, turd faced Womb Mate called me up and laughed in my ear for five minutes straight.
Then she told my little brother so she wouldn't look like such a perv. And then she told The Welder. And they all agreed that my sexting is like that of a grandmother or an eight year old who has some vague knowledge of sex but not enough to be crude.
Needless to say I'm not living down the words "Do It" anytime soon.
1. hahahah this is so funny,. ur womb mate sister sounds so freaking funny. u so should mention her more often, great family stories.. send more more more . especially about the womb mate.... p.s there is classes online on how to sext a real message grandma!!!!!!
2. Oh my God....hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! That was awesome.
3. This is amazing. Every single time I type a sext out, I check four or five times to make sure it's going to the right person because I'm paranoid that this will happen to me.
One time, my sister was having sex and her cell phone accidentally called my mom. My sister was humping her boyfriend while my mom was on the other end, all, "HELLO? HELLO, IS THAT YOU, KATIE??"
4. @Sara: OK, your sister phone sexing your mom totally beats my whole "We're doing it!" so here's hoping it didn't sound like she was banging a grandpaw.
5. I think one Mr. LL Cool J would side with you on the "do it" phrase not being THAT grandmawish. At the risk of dating myself, he wrote a whole song about doin it. And doin it. And doin it well.
Man I'm old. LL Cool J is TOTALLY old.
Wait, what was I just talking about?
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Scanning the SoCon #1
My buddy John over at MocsMania is again doing his "Scanning the SoCon" series. He has a diverse group of bloggers, message board people and student newspaper writers from each school (except the Wofford writer bailed ... WTF???) to discuss pressing topics and rank the teams.
As I have done in the past, I will link to the whole article while posting the rankings that I sent to John and occasionally a quote or two that I really liked from the article. This first week I was asked not only to rank the teams, but also fill out a All-Conference team. So, I will post my answers to that too. Enjoy !!!
Scanning the SoCon - Preseason Awwards
All-SoCon Team
1. De'Mon Brooks (POY)
2. Trey Sumler
3. Jay Canty
4. Lucas Troutman
5. Tim Williams
Scanning the SoCon - Week #1
Week #1 Rankings
1. Davidson
2. Elon
3. Western Carolina
4. App State
5. Samford
6. Chattanooga
8. Wofford
9. Furman
10. Ga Southern
11. Citadel
JohnMoc said...
I don't know what's wrong with Wofford. Furman guy also didn't get back to me, but he sent me the season preview just a few days ago, so he's probably still in, just got busy and forgot. | http://uncgbasketballfan.blogspot.com/2013/11/scanning-socon-1.html | dclm-gs1-163151087 |
0.025267 | <urn:uuid:6aa6087a-64b0-4bb1-85bb-8e8e7059b46d> | en | 0.957662 | 26 April, 2017
40k retrospective
I was reading through this article about early 40k, it's a really interesting read and intersects a few ideas I've had over the last few months.
A few points...
I generally agree with the idea that GW has never given a good reason why they got rid of Squats as a faction, but I suspect it was easier to rebrand the "Space Elves" as Eldar (and now "Aeldari" to conceal that origin even further), while the "Space Dwarves" would be too hard to dissociate from their Dwarven heritage.
I miss the bad puns in GW character names. I miss a lot of that old 80s attitude, but I've moaned about that here on the blog a few times.
There have been so many missed opportunities by Games Workshop in the desire to simply sell more minis...again something I've moaned about a few times.
I really miss that early idea of a techno-fantasy battleground. I'd totally love to do a mixed 40k/Fantasy battle. It's a shame the games keep diverging further and further apart.
25 April, 2017
An era has passed
One of the most influential people in my life, I will now never get the chance to meet.
The Author of Zen and the Art of MOtorcycle Maintenance has passed away.
One of my favourite RPGs of all time is Mage: the Ascension, and this game is heavily based on the two books written by Pirsig. ZatAoMM and Lila, both define elements of the game, the former providing a context for the magical attribute of Arete (representing both an inherent understanding and one-ness with the universe, akin to a level of divinity...but not quite, I can't make a glib single sentence description...just go and read the book already), the latter providing a deeper context for paradigms and ways of viewing the universe (again...just read the damn book).
I used to read these two books annually, but it's been a while since I did so. I must get around the reading them again. I've also got a book called "Zen and Now" in which another author and motorcyclist traced the journey taken by Pirsig in his seminal work, but doing so decades later.
I'm going to have to read all three books some time soon to mark the passage of one of the 20th centuries great philosophers.
23 April, 2017
20 April, 2017
First thoughts on the "200 words" entries.
Maybe it's easier and quicker to explain something if the existing audience has a common point of reference. I've talked about this a few times over the years. Shorthands and stereotypes instantly convey a wealth of information as a direct data packet between the communicator and the recipient of the message. Once those are out of the way, the real storytelling (or new data flow) can be started.
I base a lot of my games on that strategy. Characters are often made up from template fragments, where choosing the naturally fitting components leaves a player with a stereotype or caricature, while choosing disparate components gives a memorable and different character (but one with internal struggles that cause problems of their own). But that's playing within the rules.
Playing with the rules is something different. I consider hacks to be lazy game design, they basically shorthand something that players and GMs are already familiar with, then apply something quirky or novel and call it an innovation. People who are similarly lazy look at these games (which are awfully similar to what they're already playing...so they don't have to do a lot of reading or thinking for themselves) and see the quirkiness/novelty/innovation as something amazing. They crow about it on social media, and the "designer" is lauded with maximum praise for minimum effort.
200 words isn't a lot of room. To get a complex game happening in that space doesn't require shorthands, references to other games, or simple hacking another game wholesale...but it sure makes things easier.
There seem to be a few ideas that are appearing in a LOT of the games I've been looking at among this year's entries. Whether it's tapping the zeitgeist, using shorthands that have become common in recent years, or laziness on the part of designers... I haven't decided.
Some of the trends I've spotted:
• Divide 7 points between two attributes. Everything in the game is about those two attributes. If you can't fit your action into one of those actions either: a) it doesn't work at all, b) it automatically happens, c) you need to talk it out and work it into tthe narrative, d) there's a 50-50 chance of success.
• Divide more points (maybe 10) between three attributes, the rest pf the first point basically still applies.
• Roll under attribute. Typically combined with one of the two options above.
• Roll a pool of dice. Typically the number of dice rolled is determined as per the first two options above.
• Do "Apocalypse World" stuff. Roll 2 dice. Shoehorn one of the four standard modifiers onto the roll. If you roll below a certain threshold, you fail pretty badly. If you roll above a cetain threshold, you generally succeed. If you fall between these, something interesting happens.
• 200 words set a scene... no rules... just go.
19 April, 2017
Collaborative Worldbuilding
Here on the blog I've generated a couple of worlds in two distinct series of posts about world-building.
But I love the idea of creating something collaboratively, to generate something that no individual mind could have achieved on it's own. I've done collaborative worldbuilding a few times before, and have often found that you need to walk a careful tightrope to avoid generating something that "looks like it was designed by committee".
Lets see where it heads.
18 April, 2017
200 Words (Part 2)
Looks like it's fine to post these 200 word games for feedback while the contest is going...so here's the second iteration of what I've been working on.
Old Scratch
There were thirteen of you at the start; each gaining a supernatural talent from a ritual exactly one decade ago.
Tonight, back at the crossroads, Old Scratch calls his due.
Thirteen “power coins” at centre of table.
Start 13 pages with sentence describing character before the ritual, then number 1-10 down the page (1/year)
Write these questions on index cards, each player also writes their own question on a card…
Who was betrayed?
What was sacrificed?
Who died? (choose NPC; remove question if none left)
All players dealt a five-card hidden hand (standard deck). Each chooses a page (others are NPCs)
Begin Year
Randomly Deal Questions
Everyone cuts deck, highest goes first.
Current player claims coin (from centre or from another player), explains this event by answering their question (avoiding contradictions)
Other players respond by playing a card from hand.
If black cards outnumber red, claimed coin is kept.; otherwise coin returned.
Played cards shuffled into deck, hands refilled.
Next player
If tenth year, end; otherwise, next year.
Total players’ coins and red cards at end (best poker hand breaks ties), highest chooses game’s survivor (not themselves). Old Scratch claims the rest.
Not 100% happy with the end game, But I've still got 7 words to play with.
17 April, 2017
200 Word RPGs
It's that time of year...
I have to write roughly 30,000 words worth of university assignments...and 200 words worth of RPG.
If you're not sure what I'm talking about...visit this link.
I've completely one of the 3 uni assignment and a single 200 word RPG entry. Now it's just another 18,000 words worth of university assignments to go before Thursday.
I can't remember if I'm allowed to post the game design idea somewhere else before I enter it in the contest, otherwise I'd include it below.
14 April, 2017
No humans
After a few recnt projects, I'm falling more in love with the idea of settings where there are no humans. Instead, I'm thinking more of multicultural/multi-racial settings, where the default race isn't specifically defined as human, but is instead defined as a mongrel hybrid of the setting's original races. Then throwing in the twist that there are "mongrel/human" supremacist groups who claim to be the most powerful in the land, only because they are the most numerous...certainly not because they are the most pure.
I come to this again as I consider a fantasy version of The Law. But I need to make sure the base version is complete first...and I need to eliminate some university projects before I can go much further on that.
13 April, 2017
Further Flavours in the Mix
They exist, why not use them.
12 April, 2017
Other Inspirations
When I create projects I can never draw on a single inspiration. It's probably one of those reasons why I can't handle straight up fan fiction... I need to create something new, something interesting and a bit different.
So I'm thinking of adding elements of Max Headroom into the mix for "The Law". Maybe a few other cyberpunk elements... It's just a case of working out what works best for the vibe I'm aiming at. Throwing a few blatant call-outs into the mix, and a few easter eggs for those who know what they're looking for. But with Max Headroom as an 80s British take on a Amercian dystopia, it clearly has to be involved.
02 April, 2017
Cityscape Images
I think we're getting a good feel for the urban blight of The Law with these images, just a few more to go.
01 April, 2017
16-Bit Law
(Click image to zoom in)
Maybe I shouldn't bother with all the post work on these images.
Maybe instead, I should just stop the render 6.25% of the way through (at the end of the second of the four rendering passes). This leaves the images with the kind of blocky pixellated art that we saw in "high-end" computer games of the late 80s and early 90's.
The general imagery I've been aiming for in The Law has been inspired by punk 'zines, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and the comic 2000 AD circa early 80's... but if I shifted that to circa 1990, it could turn into something very different.
(I just looked at my screen at roughly this point in the rendering process, and that's what crossed my mind) | http://vulpinoid.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/ | dclm-gs1-163201087 |
0.237594 | <urn:uuid:3c95725e-5d3d-4f3f-8d5e-5ac3806301a2> | en | 0.960028 | Friday, September 11, 2009
The roofs in the Cantal region are distinctive. I don't know how widespread the roof style is beyond Cantal, but we saw it pretty much everywhere we went in the area. The roofs are tiled with ardoise (slate) lauze (shale/schist).
A typical Cantal building in Salers.
In contrast to most of northern France where the slate tiles are square, these are all rounded on one end which makes for a very rustic looking scalloped roof. Smaller pieces of slate shale are used at the peak, and each successive row of tiles gets larger toward the eave line.
Rounded slate shale roof tiles.
The combination of the slate shale roofs and the dark volcanic building stone gave the buildings, and thus the villages and towns, a somber dark look. But they contrasted very well with the green surroundings and the bright flowers, mostly brilliant red geraniums, that decorated nearly every stoop and window sill.
A decorative weather vane tops this roof.
UPDATE: Thanks to CHM for pointing out that this stone is a shale or other schistic rock rather than slate. Shales and slates are from the same family stones that split or cleave easily in to layers. Slates are much finer than shales.
1. They really do roofs right in the Auvergne, don't they?
2. I was struck by the amount of ardoise in Angers. My family's house has slate stairs even. In fact, they have these blue candies called quernons to represent the bluish tint of ardoise in the region. I'll be back in Angers in November--very excited!
3. Beautiful weather vane!
4. The specific term in French for that kind of stone used for roofing is "lauze". It is much thicker than slate and is used mostly in mountainous regions.
Here is a link in French:
5. Those roofs make me think of the fairytale of 'Hans and Gretl' and the gingerbread house. I'm sure you know it too! Martine
6. I am sure Betty C. can tell you all about the roof tiles made of Lauze because it is what they used to have in Averyon and Ardeche. They are also very expensive. A lot of paysans are selling their Lauze tiles and replacing their roof with generic tiles. Foreigners renovating their house are trying to stay as "typique" as possible.
7. They sort of look like fish scales.
8. evelyn, they're very picturesque!
rachael, I'll have to look for those quernons; what do they taste like?
bettyann, yes!
chm, merci. J'ai changé mon texte.
martine, me too!
nadege, that doesn't surprise me.
starman, exactly! I thought the same.
9. if memory serves, they are blue chocolate coating over a heath bar sort of crunchy center.
Pour your heart out! I'm listening. | http://wcs4.blogspot.com/2009/09/rooftops.html | dclm-gs1-163221087 |
0.02538 | <urn:uuid:d86008fd-3413-4743-9739-c8ae1ca32178> | en | 0.957167 | Saturday, May 25, 2013
Garnier Nutrisse Permanent Hair Colour
1. My hair is 2a-c, porous/ colour treated, medium texture and I have eczematous skin which is sulphate-sensitive. I will be reviewing the 'Radiant Blondes' series, which is ammonia and sulphate surfactant free plus the colour and developer are silicone free. There is a silicone in the conditioner but I don't rate it so use my own, making the product CG friendly.
Garnier Nutrisse is gentler on my skin than the box dye I previously used (Schwarzkopf Live XXL), but the product doesn't 'take' evenly if it doesn't get a little warm - the solution is a shower cap. From research this seems to be because ammonia is more reliable than alternative ingredients. This product is also significantly gentler on the hair than the only other sulphate-free box dye I could find here in the UK (Clairol Perfect 10).
I have added a teaspoon of melted coconut oil to the product in the hope of further protecting the hair by reducing structural protein loss and the product worked just fine. There is also lauric acid - the main fatty acid in coconut oil - in the formula.
Overall the 'Radiant Blondes' series is a good option for those who are 'strict' Curly Girl, who have sensitive skin or who hate the smell of ammonia. But ammonia-based products such as the standard Garnier Nutrisse line might be better for those who are have more flexible requirements or those with more resistant hair.
2. I used to the Garnier Nutrisse Ultra-Color (for dark hair) in R2 - medium intense auburn when I was coloring my hair red. For a red that is more true to color, and that really actually LASTS, this was great. It did fade out a bit, but unlike most boxed dyes, it did not fade all the way back to brown. If (ok, when) I go back to my beloved red, I will go back to this. | http://whcreviews.blogspot.com/2013/05/garnier-nutrisse-permanent-hair-colour.html | dclm-gs1-163251087 |
0.083361 | <urn:uuid:c292e240-5952-4fc9-9114-a41431f60ab5> | en | 0.963817 | Attribution Theory and Voter Choice
Richard F. Yalch, University of Washington
[ to cite ]:
Richard F. Yalch (1975) ,"Attribution Theory and Voter Choice", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 02, eds. Mary Jane Schlinger, Ann Abor, MI : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 783-792.
Advances in Consumer Research Volume 2, 1975 Pages 783-792
Richard F. Yalch, University of Washington
[The author wishes to thank Professor H. Woods Bowman, University of Illinois at Circle Campus and Northwestern University doctoral candidates Alice Tybout and Richard Bagozzi for assistance in the data collection.]
Voters frequently possess little campaign information but still satisfy their citizenship obligation by selecting candidates for various offices. Self-attribution concepts have been suggested as the appropriate internal information processing mechanism in situations in which attitudes have low saliency and are products of behavior rather than its antecedent. The assertion that voter behavior and attitudes reflect self-attributions was tested in a field experiment conducted during a local election. False feedback after a pre-election interview was hypothesized to be internalized as the subject's attitude toward voting and to influence actual turnout. The findings support the predictions and suggest campaign techniques to influence voter choice.
Theorists have tended to adopt one of two approaches when conceptualizing the voter decision process. The "rational" model portrays the voter as a recipient of a stream of communications describing the candidates' positions on the issues. He contrasts this with his own position and on the basis of the matching of desires and expectations decides if and for whom to vote. Perhaps the best known advocate of this approach is Downs (1957) in his influential Economic Theory of Democracy. On the other hand, the "emotional" voter model assumes that the voter is exposed more to nonissue information from which he develops a perception of the candidates' images. His ultimate decision is based on his affection for any of these images. Nimmo (1970) provides a thorough discussion of the art of image politics.
This characterization probably overemphasizes the differences in the approaches. Clearly, image can be defined to include the candidate's position on important issues and the political economist could include the candidate's personality as one of his attributes. Moreover, there is the common assumption that the voter is exposed to a considerable amount of campaign information, pays attention to it, understands it, and remembers enough of it so that it influences his ultimate choice. Although this assumption is reasonable for presidential and major state elections, there are reasons to doubt that it is appropriate for local elections. Anyone who has conducted interviews prior to a minor election or engaged in door-to-door canvassing is quickly impressed by the few voters knowing more than a candidate's name and party identification and the many not able to recall even that much.
Other evidence also suggests that local elections should be considered as different behavioral situations than the more often researched and analyzed national elections. Books on campaigning are quick to cite instances in which a candidate won an election because the voters had mistaken his name for that of a prominent person (see Nimmo, 1970, pp. 11-12). Realizing the limited information guiding the voters, candidates worry about their ballot position much the way brand managers are critically concerned about shelf space. In primary elections, the voters do not have the help of party identification to guide them and poor ballot positions have been known to cause the defeat of competent incumbents. To further support the contention that issues are not the decisive factor in local elections. one can cite Stokes and Miller's (1966) conclusion that only about seven per cent of a national sample had "any discernible issue content" in the reasons they gave for voting Democratic or Republican in the 1958 congressional elections. Therefore, it is likely that issues are even less important in a city council race. A campaign manager trying to elect a candidate by promoting his positions or image would have an extremely difficult time convincing a majority of the voters. Consequently, most local campaigns concentrate on building name identification in the hope that the "mere exposure" hypothesis is valid. [The mere exposure hypothesis states that the repeated presentation of a neutral stimuli is a sufficient condition for increased affection for it. Thus, just seeing a candidate's name frequently should cause one to gradually favor him (Zajonc, 1968).]
In a frequently cited article, Krugman (1965) distinguishes between the possible effects of a mass communication campaign on the basis of the target behavior. If it is a high involvement task, such as the selection of a president, the campaign's effectiveness can be determined by its immediate effect on the audience's attitudes which will determine behavior. This is the appropriate situation for applying a rational, emotional or combined voter decision model as the vehicle to identify the critical determinants of choice. However, for less involving behaviors, which the typical minor election vote decision is, messages may not have a noticeable effect on attitudes until the point of purchase or in usage. Krugman (1965) was not entirely certain how this occurred and, in fact, concluded his article by pointing out the need for a low involvement model to explain the relationship between attitudes and behavior in these situations.
One possible framework for analyzing low involvement behavior is attribution theory since it describes how individuals assign attitudes to behaviors when they are not sure of the exact causes (Kelley, 1967). Bem (1972) has extended this theory to explain the self-assignment of an attitude after a behavior. Specifically, the first proposition of his self-perception theory states that:
This proposition has received a compelling amount of support from research on many diverse behaviors and situations. For example, Lepper (1973) demonstrated that children's perception of their own honesty was a function of their appearing to behave honestly in a prior task; Ross, Insko and Ross (1971) found that subjects used the physical evidence of an initial questionnaire response as a guide in a second response despite the fact that the evidence had been altered so that it reflected an opposite attitude; McArthur, Kiesler and Cook (1969) used a false personality feedback to induce greater volunteering for a post-experimental task; and Schachter and Singer (1962) reported that subjects determined their emotional state after being drug-aroused by observing the state of a confederate in the same situation.
Although this research is impressive in its robustness and consistency, it has been rarely utilized in consumer behavior research. This may only reflect the general time lag in the "borrowing" process that has occurred between the behavioral sciences. However, it also might reflect a justified caution about adopting theories that have been primarily tested in laboratory settings, using student samples, self-report dependent measures, and inconsequential behaviors. One might rightfully question the relevance of the theory. Can it be used to alter "meaningful" behavior in a natural environment with a reasonable expenditure of resources?
This research study had several objectives. First, it attempted to test self-perception theory in a natural setting and to demonstrate that it suggests ways to alter both attitudes and behavior. Inducing a change in both variables is nontrivial task given the evidence that an attitude change does not lead to a behavior change (Festinger, 1964). Second, it explored the perplexing finding that attitudes toward the candidates in an election do not account for much of the variance in the decision to vote or abstain in an election (Yalch, in press). This involved determining whether an individual's perception of himself as a likely or unlikely voter was a major determinant of voting behavior. Lastly, a possible strategy for increasing voter participation in the electoral process was to be evaluated.
The experiment was conducted during two special aldermanic elections in Chicago during the summer of 1973. The preliminary election featured five candidates and was used to pilot test the induction procedure. The main study occurred during the run-off election as part of a pre-election survey. The 190 subjects were selected from official lists of registered voters and contacted door-to-door. After the subjects had completed the survey, the interviewers pretended to score the responses on a bogus voter profile sheet. This was given to the respondents accompanied by a brief verbal explanation of its interpretation. The subjects' voting behavior on election day was assessed from party records and their self-perception as frequent or infrequent voters was determined in a post-election interview.
There were two treatment groups and one control group. The 77 subjects randomly assigned to the above average treatment received the voter profile sheet illustrated in Figure l. Their responses were supposedly represented by the red line drawn in after the interview. The position of the line to the right of the center or normal line was explained as indicating that their responses reflected a greater interest and concern about the election and politics than the average citizen. In addition, it was pointed out that this suggested that they would be more likely to vote in an election. The profile was left with them to further reinforce the information that they were above average citizens.
The average group consisted of 85 subjects receiving the profile sheet illustrated in Figure 2. It was identical to the other profile except that their response line was drawn near the center of the scale. This was interpreted to them as evidence that they were about the same in their political orientation and interest as the average person in the community. They were not told that they would be very likely to vote in the election, but they were also allowed to keep the profile sheet.
The 28 persons in the control group were interviewed door-to-door, answering the same questions as the treatment groups, but were not told anything about their disposition toward politics. This group's behavior enables one to estimate the absolute effect of being given feedback after an interview
Dependent measures
The treatment effects were assessed in two ways. First, the voting behavior of each subject was determined from records maintained by a campaign organization. The ability to have an unobtrusive dependent measure was a major reason why voter turnout rather than candidate choice was selected as the experimental behavior. This is advantageous in minimizing threats to the construct validity of the experiment. The second measure was the subjects' self-perception as a frequent or infrequent voter. This was determined in a telephone survey conducted within weeks after the election. Several general questions were asked in addition to the self-perception question to minimize the possibility that the subjects would think that this was a test of their ability to recall the profile information.
1. Subjects given above average feedback will be more likely to report themselves as above average in the post-election interview than those given average feedback.
2. Subjects given above average feedback will be more likely to vote in the election than those given average feedback.
These two hypotheses were generated from self-perception theory's proposition than an individual's attitudes and behavioral dispositions reflect his past behavior. By altering his interpretation of this experience, it should be possible to alter his beliefs about himself. This in turn should influence his future behavior. No hypotheses were prespecified for the comparisons between the control group and the treatment groups because there was no information available as to how the residents of this community perceived themselves. Since this district usually has one of the highest turnout rates in the city, it was likely that many voters would naturally perceive themselves as above average. A tentative prediction was that the control group's attitudes and behavior would fall somewhere in-between the two treatment groups's.
Before the treatment effects were analyzed, a test of subject randomization was made. This involved comparing the preliminary election voting behavior of the groups (assessed from party records), and their intention to vote prior to receiving the feedback (assessed in the interview). There was a slight but statistically insignificant higher voter turnout in the above average and control groups compared to the average group. However, since there was only a weak association between voting in the preliminary election and voting in the run-off, this was not judged to be problematic. A more critical test was the difference in the voting intentions of the groups since this had a high correlation with subsequent voting. There was virtually no difference between the groups and it was concluded that the randomization had been successful.
Table 1 presents the post-election self-perceptions of the subjects. The difference between the above average and average feedback groups is statistically significant (p=.016), using a test for the difference in proportions (Ferguson, 1973, pp. 160-162). The average group also had a significantly lower probability of saying that they were above average voters than the control group (p=.035). Apparently, the control group did have a high self-perception of themselves as politically active citizens as their responses are equivalent to those from the above average treatment group. [A comparison of the voting behavior of the control group with another sample interviewed by telephone suggests that this group may have contained more politically involved citizens than the other groups. The above average feedback, therefore, probably did increase the group's self-perception more than is indicated by comparisons with the control group.]
The behavioral effects of the treatments are presented in Table 2. The second hypothesis was supported as the above average group had a significantly higher turnout than the average feedback group (p=.041). All comparisons with the control group were insignificant, partially as a consequence of the small size of the group. The finding that the average feedback group had a much lower self-perception and likelihood of voting relative to the control group suggests the possibility that telling persons that they are only average might undermine their intrinsic interest because one is inclined to think of himself as above average. Being told that this view is incorrect may have caused many in the average feedback group to question whether they really cared that much about voting in the election.
[Several subjects could not be recontacted after the election so the numbers in this table are smaller than the number participating in the experiment.]
The experimental findings demonstrate the validity of self-perception theory and its applicability to local election voting behavior. There was clear evidence that voters used their past behavior and the interviewers' interpretation of it to determine their disposition toward voting in the election. A local election is a low involvement activity and persons usually have uncertain and unstable attitudes. Therefore, attitudes anchored to a prior behavior should have a more significant role in determining an individual's course of action. However, the behavior-attitude relationship appears to be more ambiguous to the individual than previously thought. The external information provided by the interviewer caused many persons who thought of themselves as only average to perceive themselves as above average, and conversely, many above average persons began to consider themselves as only average. The previous experiences which lead to this original self-perception were virtually negated by a single experience and the false information about it. The post-behavior attitude reassessment process represents a fruitful area for future consumer behavior research and a potentially very powerful method to influence behavior.
The study also provides further evidence for the belief that the decision to vote in an election is based on factors in addition to one's attitudes toward the candidates in the election. An individual's perception of himself as the type of person who votes frequently seems to be one of these factors. How this self-perception develops is not yet clear, but childhood socialization and initial voting experiences probably play an important role. This finding helps to explain why many citizens continue to vote even though their candidates always lose. The act of voting in the absence of a tangible reward probably causes the individual to assume that he has a very strong citizenship attitude.
Since behavior appears to be a major determinant of one's attitudes and future behavior, political campaigns might benefit from a reallocation of resources from "information" dissemination to techniques designed to induce voters to make an early behavioral commitment to the candidate. The recent congressional elections featured a promotional strategy labelled "Dollars for Democrats". The ostensible purpose of the activity was to raise money for the campaigns, but it probably had an additional benefit in having voters make a small commitment to the Democratic party. On election day, a recall of this commitment could be influential in determining how one votes. Freedman and Fraser (1966) have demonstrated the importance of yielding to a small request on the likelihood of yielding to larger requests at a future date. The methods for inducing a favorable attitude without resorting to a flood of campaign propaganda are many and should be the object of future research and practice.
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Tips and trends that will get you on the right track
Downsizing can mean empty nesters moving into a smaller place that's less work and less money. It can also mean embracing simplicity and the tiny house movement, or giving up a lot of space in the suburbs for the convenience of the city. For some, it’s all about being greener. No matter the reason, downsizing is more than just a fad. If you’re thinking about it, these tips and trends will get you on the right track.
The idea of a smaller space—less to clean, a lower mortgage, etc.—might be appealing, but it takes some getting used to when you’re accustomed to room to spread out. As you imagine your smaller place, start imagining less space to store, display, and just have. Think ahead when purchasing, particularly furniture. If you think you might be moving, don’t buy huge or expensive pieces that might not work in your new home.
Determine what activities take up the bulk of your day, and where you spend time doing them. Make a list of your activities for a week, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what you need in a smaller home, and what would just be infrequently used excess.
Experts in decluttering, organizing, and getting rid of things not only help with preparing for the change in lifestyle, but also assist with making the most of space in the new home. The trend in downsizing has made this a growing career field.
Eschewing resale
In choosing the perfect smaller space, thinking about how you need a big dining room for resale isn’t part of the equation. Families and couples are getting what they need to suit their lives, right now.
Scaling Down Possessions
Once you’ve come to terms with the idea of a smaller space, you’ll realize that not everything you own is going to fit in it. That will make it easier to decide what you need to start getting rid of—now. As your possessions decrease, the idea of downsizing will seem more natural.
There are so many ways to use less. Do you really need a desktop computer, or will a laptop do? Printers that use WiFi instead of cables mean every electronic device in the house can share one printer, sans any messy cables. If you’ve still got a TV on a stand, find out if it can be wall mounted, or sell it and buy another.
Multipurpose pieces
Furniture that is functional in every way is ideal for small spaces. Ottomans should open up to store blankets and pillows, nightstands should always have drawers, and bathroom sinks should have cabinetry. Tables can double as desks. Choose quality pieces that will make a statement in your home, but serve practical purposes.
Compact versions of necessities are hitting the market to accommodate reduced spaces. For example, all-in-one kitchen units have a sink, storage, refrigerator, and two burners that take up fewer than three feet wide. Micro washer/dryer combos are just as plentiful.
One-wall kitchens: This set-up allows all the appliances to be lined up against one wall, while the other side of the kitchen has a table that can be used for dining or working, and that serves to separate the kitchen from a sitting/television area. This can save a lot of floor space.
No hallways: they take up square footage when it’s just as easy to have bedrooms entered from doors right off the main living space.
Window seats make use of awkward space and serve to streamline a sitting area into the least amount of space. Built-in bookshelves, too, hug the walls and take up as little space as possible.
Moving it outside: In the right climate, tankless hot water heaters can make outdoor showers a space-saving reality.
Flexible floor plans: With a downstairs full bath, a dining room might someday become the master bedroom to make a suite. An open area can be big enough to entertain, but be separated by furniture for family coziness.
Walkable areas: For many, smaller homes mean living near villages or urban centers that make activities accessible, and eliminate the need for two cars—or even one.
Smaller new builds: As millennials prove to be more interested in experiences over things, and boomers want quality in their new spaces, the average square footage of new builds is dropping.
Donna Hoke is the editor of Spree Home.
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December 11, 2015 // By Paul Pickering
Paul Pickering considers the unexplained ailments and diseases that have arisen in different eras and speculates that a widely-held distrust of electromagnetic radiation may be about to go into decline.
Does every era have a characteristic disease? After all, demonic possession was all the rage in the Middle Ages: these days, not so much. In Victorian times, female hysteria was a common diagnosis. More recently, we've seen a variety of 20th century candidates – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity , Parental Alienation Syndrome , and the peculiarly French affliction known as jambes lourdes ( heavy legs ), which can be relieved by drinking lots of tea or walking in the ocean.
For the Internet Age, though, we need a disease more appropriate to an environment of cloud storage, ubiquitous connectivity and election cycles driven by Twitter . The truth is, demonic possession, outside of Hollywood and the Catholic Church , is so old school.
Luckily, a new affliction is gaining traction, electromagnetic hypersensitivity ( EHS). This encompasses a variety of ailments supposedly brought on by exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields at levels well below those permitted by international radiation standards. Reported symptoms include headache, fatigue, stress, sleep disturbances, skin symptoms such as prickling or burning sensations and rashes, muscle aches and pains and many other health problems.
EHS is becoming more widespread according to advocacy group ES UK that estimates that 4 percent of the UK population are severely affected by EHS and up to 40 percent are mildly affected. In severe cases, the organization claims, exposure to Wi-Fi or use of a mobile phone up to 40 feet away from a sufferer could a reaction similar to an anaphylactic shock, resulting in a collapse.
Does science allow for the possibility that exposure to low levels of electromagnetic (EM) radiation can cause EHS?
EM radiation can be categorized into two types: high-energy ionizing (e.g., gamma rays, x-rays, and the higher UV parts of the spectrum) and non-ionizing (lower frequencies than UV, including visible light, infrared, microwaves and radio transmissions). The boundary between the types isn't sharply defined, but occurs at | http://www.eenewseurope.com/news/electromagnetic-hypersensitivity-disease-wireless-age | dclm-gs1-163571087 |
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Written by kelli cooper | 13/05/2017
How to transfer a patient from one hospital to another
Transferring to a hospital. (Getty Premium images)
A patient might require a hospital transfer for a number of reasons. The patient or the family might want a second opinion, the current hospital cannot address the needs of the patient, or the new hospital offers more advanced care among other reasons.
You're transfer will depend if the hospital can provide all your needs and your doctor agrees that the hospital does not have the appropriate services to cover your care. If you have private insurance then you should check with your insurance company to make sure it covers the hospital you want to transfer to. Depending on the type of insurance coverage you have, your policy might pay claims only for treatments in certain hospitals, or have stipulations about reduced coverage if you go to hospitals out of the coverage network.
Talk to your physician about your desire to change hospitals and see if he has admitting privileges there. If not, he will work with a physician at the new facility to facilitate your transfer and admittance. In either case, the transferring physician will have to confirm that the other hospital will accept you as a patient.
Discuss and make sure you clearly understand the risks and benefits of the transfer. The physician will most likely document this information and your consent, according to the NHS.
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Written by shelley frost | 13/05/2017
How to Start a Craft & Sewing Business
Use your sewing machine to start a home business. (sewing machine image by Peter Baxter from
Using your sewing and craft skills to start a business can turn into a profitable venture. As a home-based business, you can control how much work you accept while keeping costs low because of low overhead. Many consumers look for a handmade feel when purchasing gifts or home furnishings. Consider all the implications of owning a home craft and sewing business before jumping into the venture.
Contact the business department in your city or state to determine what rules and regulations apply to a craft and sewing business. Determine what licenses you will need to start a business. Researching these requirements before you start the business prevents possible fines and other problems down the road.
Find an accountant that specialises in small businesses. Ask other small business owners in the area for recommendations. Consult the accountant to determine how the business will impact your tax returns. Also determine what types of records you need to keep for the business.
Set up an appointment with an insurance agent to discuss commercial insurance. Your homeowner's insurance likely won't cover your equipment or any materials for the business if you're working from home. You'll need to add a rider to your homeowner's insurance or start a separate policy, depending on the company's restrictions.
Research the local market for craft and sewing businesses if you plan to do most of your business in person. Determine what other businesses provide similar services and if there is enough demand for another local business of that nature.
Narrow down your speciality within the craft and sewing realm. Having a speciality can help you target your marketing and find clients. Make sure you have experience in the speciality to make you more reputable. For example, if you have experience altering gowns, consider a sewing business that specialises in prom and bridesmaid alternations. You can always offer additional products and services as well.
Evaluate your current equipment. Determine if the equipment can handle the extra workload once you start the business. Determine if you will need additional equipment or a more commercial sewing machine to keep up with business.
Set your prices for the services you provide. Keep in mind the prices at other similar businesses. Also consider the amount of time it takes you to complete the projects and the cost of materials to make sure you're making a good profit.
Outline how you plan to sell your craft products. Craft shows offer a venue with lots of potential clients, but you'll also have to pay booth rental fees. is a popular online platform for selling handmade crafts. You can also focus your business in local areas, either selling from your home or getting your products into a local boutique.
• Set goals for your business. Determine how much you want to make and how many projects you want to do to keep a good balance.
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The ICFE's dedication statement is to help people improve their spending Practices,
increase their savings accumulation rate, and use credit more wisely.
Understanding Why We Spend What We Spend
by Syble Solomon
We spend hours shopping every year and hours more paying bills, but we rarely take time to step back and consider what we spend money on. Rarer still are people who take some time to think about why they are spending the way they are. On one hand, it's surprising that people don't make even a minimal effort to understand their spending habits because doing so can pay huge dividends for the short- and long-term. On the other hand, it's not that surprising because money is one of those taboo topics that people would rather not talk about - even with a trusted partner. Such conversations are often tedious, contentious, embarrassing or generally stressful in some way. As a result, the status quo prevails with our spending habits and we don't make the progress we want, whether it's cutting out that $3 daily coffee or setting aside enough money to buy a house.
If paying just a little bit more attention to our habits and attitudes might be the key to spending and saving better, how can we get people to really look at how they relate to money?
Obviously, the approach must be easy to use and understand. And, we'd want something that engages people, inspires conversation and leads to valuable insights - but minimizes the disagreements inherent in discussing money.
Money Habitudes is a fun, non-threatening educational card game that was created to address this dilemma. Money Habitudes is endorsed by the ICFE. It provides people with an easy tool that generates healthy conversations about their habits and attitudes (habitudes) related to money. The cards help people understand their money habitudes and what motivates the way they manage - or mismanage - their money.
Once people understand their own money habits and attitudes, they begin to see why they spend the way they do. Perhaps it is to feel secure, to present a positive image, or to feel good by giving to others. Whatever the challenge, the cards help identify the individual's patterns of spending, saving, giving and investing and what motivates those patterns.
Conversely, using Money Habitudes can help people key in on times when they should actually be spending more money. While this may seem counterintuitive when it comes to better money management, the reality is that sometimes it's better to buy something of quality rather than simply the cheapest thing, which often breaks and must then be replaced with a better, costlier item. The goal isn't necessarily to always spend less, but to spend smarter and with better balance.
Why we spend the way we do should also lead one to consider when we spend on certain things. Are there certain times or situations in which we make spending choices we later regret? If you go shopping with your spouse, do you watch every penny - but then pick up purchases you don't need when shopping with a friend? Do you feel a stressful time calls for a night on the town or a pint of ice cream? Do you love the rush of sales and find yourself wrapped up in the excitement of getting a deal? Is it dangerous for you to leave the house just after you get your paycheck?
Simply having someone figure out what they spend money on typically won't uncover such why and when factors, which are just as important, if not more so. Once you present the whole picture regarding people's spending habits, it's much easier for them to see what's really going on, make meaningful changes and achieve their financial goals. Money Habitudes cards help explain the why and when behind spending. Armed with that knowledge, people will be better able to implement a budget and stick with it.
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Paying for the rent, for your car, for you children’s school supplies and so on with your credit card is dangerous. Overusing it is going to make you sInk in debt and you start worrying for you and your family. Debt collectors have the right to put your house or car into an auction in order to get back their money. Or everything with some value you might own. Therefore, this is when you begin to worry about your debt and how you are going to pay for it. Financial problems are a challenge for all the families around the world. The best way to avoid a debt is not do it. However, there are solutions for the families that find themselves in a situation of this kind.
1. Organize backyard sales
Selling some of your belongings is not ideal, but it is necessary. When you begin to notice that your debt is building up, start selling. Go through your belongings and see what you did not use in the last few months. Sort them and organize a backyard sale. Children’s clothing, toys and old school books are items you can easily sale and make some serious money. Old furniture, decorations, even small collections like miniature cars are objects that find a new owner easily. If you have an extra toolbox, sell it. We know you might think this is a necessary item, but “extra” says it all. All the money you make this way put them back into your account in order to diminish your debt.
2. Do not waste food
One problem of modern families is food waste. They tend to buy more than they really need and it goes bad. You are guilty of it too, and you know it. A good advice in order to start saving money to pay for your debt is to start stocking food in smaller amounts. Observe during an entire week how much each member of your family is eating and what they prefer. Do some math and next time you go shopping for food, only buy the necessary amounts and a smaller variety of goods. If maybe cook too much chicken for a dinner, try leftover recipes. A chicken breast sandwich for your lunch is both healthy and filling. Furthermore, if a product reaches its expiration date, do not throw it away. Many products are still good longer that it says on the package. There are applications that tell you for how long it is safe to consume a product after its expiration date
3. Seek specialized help
The solutions we previously provided might not be enough to get you out of debt. Happily, there are services on the market that specialized in helping people to get rid of debts. They come with the expertize and the necessary skills to defend you against creditors. But there is more. In the end, you will pay a considerably smaller amount of money than you would have in the beginning. | http://www.hubaalnews.net/5-bankruptcy-myths-you-should-definitely-not-believe/ | dclm-gs1-163781087 |
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07/03/2013 02:34 EDT | Updated 07/03/2013 06:11 EDT
The landlord of the apartment where alleged Canada Day terror suspects John Nuttall and Amanda Korody lived allowed reporters into the basement rental suite Wednesday.
The landlord told Global News the couple had been living in the suite for a few years. He said they always paid their rent on time and that he still could not believe the news.
Landlady Shanti Thaman told the Vancouver Sun that Nuttall and Korody received regular deliveries of methadone from the pharmacy and that "someone must be brainwashing them."
The suite was a mess, the paper noted, smelled strongly of cat urine, and two prescription methadone bottles in Korody’s name were visible.
The stench from a litterbox was the first thing that struck CBC reporter Steve Lus, who reported that the apartment was a "total pigsty."
Pictures tweeted by Steve Lus from inside the suite show empty methadone bottles in the kitchen, a Bible and a large-screen TV.
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As soon as HDD Low enters the system it displays a screen of its scanner which imitates checking your system for infections. After a few minutes, the program displays another screen of the scan results which will claim that your system contains a bunch of system errors and it also recommends fixing that by purchasing a license of HDD Low.
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RE: Coaches Need to Stop Pilfering Talent
If they liked you they would stay. They don't so they leave. And so it goes - you suck.
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UFC Vet Dustin Hazelett Places Fighting Career on Hold
UFC veteran Dustin Hazelett, who was released by the UFC in December after three-straight losses, is putting his fighting career on hold for the time being to focus on college.
According to MMAJunkie, Hazelett, who considered a break before his most-recent loss to Mark Bocek at UFC 124, plans to finish EMT courses in June and will still participate in grappling tournaments, but has set no definitive timetable for his return to MMA.
The popular submission artist was 5-5 in his four-year UFC run and had dropped to the 155-pound lightweight division with his loss to Bocek.
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A Tale of Retribution
Once upon a time, a shy young girl was walking through a dark and gloomy forest when she was captured by six evil trolls. The girl begged them to let her go, explaining that she was just a poor librarian on her way to visit her ailing father, but the trolls took her to their cave and did cruel things to her. Later, they locked her in a terrible dungeon so she couldn’t tell anyone what they had done.
Eventually, the poor girl was set free only to find her father had died and her home was gone. She was very sad. She wished she could punish the evil trolls but she was poor and weak, and there was nothing she could do.
Then, by chance, she met a wizard and discovered some magical powers with which to destroy the trolls. First, she found the wicked dwarf who had helped the trolls and hung him in the basement of his castle. Then, one by one, she slew the evil trolls, making sure they all died a horrible death. When the trolls were all dead, the librarian felt whole again. They had broken something inside her, but now it was restored.
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0.044313 | <urn:uuid:5127cd9d-dcce-4980-b1fb-98d85f410896> | en | 0.933428 | TEHRAN, Iran — Iran and North Korea signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement Saturday, bringing the two nations deeply at odds with the U.S. closer together.
Iran’s state TV said the agreement was signed in Tehran in the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea’s No. 2, Kim Yong Nam, by Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology Kamran Daneshjoo and North Korea’s Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Kim, the North Korean chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, that North Korea and Iran have “common enemies.”
“Arrogant powers don’t tolerate independent governments,” Khamenei told Kim. “In the march towards great goals, one should be serious, and pressures, sanctions and threats should not cause any crack in (our) determination.”
In a separate meeting, Ahmadinejad said Kim’s visit would have a “great impact on strengthening bilateral ties, expanding cooperation and boosting the anti-hegemonic front.”
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If your name is on the list but you dont have posting privileges in this forum by tomorrow, just shoot me or kamikaze a PM and we'll have you added.
Please use the following format for your posts:
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Azumarill: Do Not Ban
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Note that Azumarill will be banned only if a 60% majority is reached.
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PSA: We're out to create a balanced format, so if you have valid and informed reasons as to why banning or not banning Azumarill would help towards this goal, then by all means please feel free to vote that way. However, if you are merely voting to rack up numbers towards TC or if you feel that you are not adequately informed about the state of the format, please do consider using the Abstain option - it exists for a reason. There's no need to ruin a perfectly good suspect test for reasons such as 'I enjoy using Azumarill xd' / 'it's not broken if everyone gets to use it' / 'if you have difficulties against x then you're a bad player' etc.
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Azumarill: Do Not Ban
I'm not that much into doubles but I somewhat have an idea after playing a lot of matches on the ladder or in tours so I think i wanna share my thoughts about Azumarill. Imo Azumarill alone def is dangerous but not lethal at all its easy to be taken out once it cut half of his hp and is fairly not hat hard to handle. The main concern is probably Jirachi which makes Azumarill the threat that it is. Jirachi and Azumarill have close to perfect synergy and are almost impossible to take down in 1-3 turns (unless you have a Volcanion). Azumarill takes out the Dark-, Ground and Fire-Types with ease which are dangerous to Jirachi and might be troublesome while redirecting. Jirachi takes care of all the possible 'mons that can stop Azumarill from sweeping such as Thundurus, Amoonguss, Gengar, Zapdos, Breloom etc as it easily resists or is immune to Azumarills common weaknesses. Redirecting is a huge huge factor which makes Azumarill considerably broken but it really isn't on its own that why I think it shouldn't be banned.
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Silent Sentry: Defending the final frontier
by Senior Airman Miles Wilson, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar (AFNS) Mar 07, 2017
Staff Sgt. Chris Hayes, a Bounty Hunter crew chief, and Staff Sgt. Lucas Woods, a defensive space control maintainer, both with the 379th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron, manually redirect an antenna at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Jan. 30, 2017. These antennas are an Operation Silent Sentry asset and help find and locate electromagnetic interference in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. Image courtesy USAF and Senior Airman Miles Wilson. For a larger version of this image please go here.
Air, space and cyberspace - these are the three domains that the United States Air Force strives to defend. Of these domains, space has become one of the most crowded and competitive. At any given time, there are innumerable signals being transmitted to and from satellites, with each signal taking up space in the electromagnetic spectrum.
"Space is now contested and congested," said Deborah Lee James, the former Air Force secretary, during her State of the Air Force address in September 2016. "It is extremely important to everything that we do in the military, including precision guidance, navigation, missile warning, weather, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and communication."
With so much of the Air Force's capabilities relying on space assets, defense of these assets is becoming increasingly important.
So, how does the Air Force defend its resources in space? One answer to this question was a proof of concept system started in 2005. At that time, the 379th Expeditionary Operation Support Squadron was tasked with testing the capabilities of a new defensive space control system, which would protect U.S. Central Command's satellite networks. The proof of concept was so successful that the operation remained active, and is now called Operation Silent Sentry.
"The current focus of Silent Sentry is to detect, characterize and monitor electromagnetic interference on signals of interest across the area of responsibility," said Capt. Marcus Losinski, the Operation Silent Sentry commander.
Since its inception twelve years ago, Operation Silent Sentry has grown and become an important asset to not only the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, but the entire CENTCOM theater.
2nd Lt. Kasey Crowe, a 379th EOSS Bounty Hunter crew commander , explained how the effectiveness of Operation Silent Sentry has increased through improvements made by its personnel.
"Just as the battle tempo and rhythm changes constantly," Crowe said, "so does a tactical operator's perspective on how to be a more effective weapon in a fight. The Silent Sentry team members are just that, 'tactical operators' and we are always trying to incorporate new tactics, techniques and procedures that will get us in the fight quicker and provide faster and more accurate products."
Recently, the Silent Sentry team has been improving on several processes to help gain faster responses to interference, thereby allowing for quicker decisions on how to resolve the issue. One method that the team has implemented is called the overwatch concept. This concept allows for the Silent Sentry team to monitor specific frequencies for known patterns of interference, rather than observing a large group of frequencies, and thereby eliminate excess information to process.
"We have changed how we monitor the spectrum," Losinski said. "We now follow an air tasking order-based signals priority list. This allows our weapon systems to be better tuned to catch and geolocate interference should it come up. That pre-tuning of the system allows us to get our data quicker and be more responsive."
The team has also transitioned from simply responding to interference, to taking proactive measures to find and anticipate certain patterns of interference before they surface. By doing this, response times are decreased dramatically.
"When Silent Sentry planning processes can get ahead of the adversary by properly prioritizing tasking and proactively optimizing our resource allocation, we shift the philosophy towards anticipating what may come next rather than forcing ourselves into a responsive posture," said Master Sgt. Daniel Dempsey, the Silent Sentry superintendent, "Our interference detection and refined geolocations process have been reduced from many hours to just minutes, and we can characterize that interference eight times faster than before."
As the tactics and procedures of the Silent Sentry team are continuously being improved and worked upon, so too is the foundation for future teams to further improve the security of future defensive space control systems.
As Silent Sentry continues its twelfth year of deployed operations, its operators will continue to defend space-based communications, and at the same time refine and shape the future of the defensive space control mission.
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7 volunteer ideas for children
1. Canned goods for a cause
Donate canned goods and other non-perishable items to a local food pantry. Add the items to your grocery list and let your children pick out the donated items when you do the grocery shopping. This will help them feel more involved and teach some life lessons in the process.
2. Papers for puppies (and kittens, too!)
Organize a newspaper drive for a local animal shelter. Instead of throwing old newspapers away or simply dumping them in the recycle bin, collect them to donate to the humane society, APA or other local animal shelter to use as liners for animal cages. Let neighbors know what you’re doing so they can participate as well. Allowing children to coordinate with neighbors can add to the fun and the sense of community joining together.
3. Coupon clipping
Look through newspapers and magazines and collect coupons for groceries, personal care items and household supplies. When you have a bundle of coupons, donate them to a shelter or food pantry to help stretch their budget.
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5. Season’s greetings
Help your child make holiday cards for residents of a local nursing home, senior community center or soldiers serving overseas. A special homemade card can help to make someone else’s holiday season a little brighter. Or if your children like music, plan a time to go caroling with friends at a local nursing home or at the USO.
6. Closet clean-up
The simplest way for children to volunteer may be to sort through their toys and clothes for outgrown items. Then donate their gently used belongings to a local shelter or organization for needy families. But make sure not to force children to give away toys if they are reluctant. Your goal is to make community service a fun and satisfying experience that will build your children's lifelong commitment to civic involvement.
7. Online resources
VolunteerMatch is an online resource designed to match volunteers with opportunities to give back. The database allows you to search by location and keyword to find a volunteer opportunity to match you and your child’s interests.
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James Pond and the Deathly Shallows
There are distinct aromas and sounds that take me back to my past. The smell of spaghetti bolognaise cooking will always remind me of Saturday afternoons as a child, when we’d sit down as a family to eat around the table with the football results being read out in that timeless voice on Final Score. James Pond was one of my most beloved video games of this time. Endless hours were poured into the underwater world, searching all of its secrets but never completing the game. It’s one whose voice can still be heard as the sea waves hit the shore, calling me back to finish what I never did, ending the saga once and for all.
When news broke of an iOS James Pond title this dream seemed a reality, but, alas, it was not meant to be; this is a new title using the classic character. Your job, as Mr. Pond, is to seal several pipes that are pumping oil into the sea and end this wanton pollution. The political message ends there, however, and out comes the bubble gun and breathing apparatus.
Searching the sea for the pipes vomiting oil isn’t as easy as a few swishes of a fin – everything has turned rampant. Walls inflict huge amounts of damage, crabs have become angered by anything that swims, fish-bulldog crossbreeds are up for some Friday night fisticuffs and even jellyfish have become sentient. These choppy waters are no holiday vacation.
James can be controlled by tapping the screen to swim up. Forward movement is automatic, balanced by the speed of your tapping. Break through the surface of the water and you’ll leap into the air, donning a goldfish bowl breathing mask. Waggling James’ fin will keep you flying through the air, though your oxygen quickly depletes when out of your natural habitat.
So most of the time you’ll be moving up and down, dodging oncoming obstacles and auto-firing your gun at underwater critters. Why these creatures of the sea want to stop you and help pollute the sea they live in is uncertain, perhaps their jealous of the female fish that adore him, but hey, it’s a video game, so it can do whatever it pleases.
In many ways this is more spiritually attached to the 1987 game Bubble Ghost, requiring you to navigate a maze without touching the sides. Hitting the side will deplete your health, as will coming into contact with anything else. Air from oysters will fill your lungs as James seems to have forgotten that he’s a fish and can breathe underwater. Health packs and air canisters that fishermen have littered the seabed with can be used to James’ advantage.
The frustration in playing through James Pond and the Deathly Shallows lies in the controls themselves. They feel loose which makes venturing through tunnels more difficult than it should be. There’ll be many times when you’ll become stuck on a piece of rock sticking out from the ceiling or on the edge of an island. Holding down your finger on the screen does make James swim backwards, but this is awkward and uses up a lot of oxygen.
The first tap on the screen makes James do a little wiggle and swim up slightly, with extra taps increasing in height each time. However, while the differences with each shift don’t appear to be massive, it does become an issue when the environments are compact. If it was open seas throughout this would be fine. But it isn’t, and you’ll often have no choice but to collide with other objects. All the levels do run seamlessly into one another, which is a nice touch. There’s no break other than a quick notification that you’ve finished a section. This makes it a coherent playthrough that can start at the beginning or from any level checkpoint.
In fifteen minutes the last level had been unlocked. It’s easy to breeze through the majority of levels. But then the final swim to victory throws every trick at you. Firstly, James turns around, heading to a new route. This presents a problem as he almost always gets caught on walls, losing the majority of his health.
This happens often, which suggests this is done on purpose to punish the player. Then a number of leaps over islands and enemies await, with little to no time for you to fire enough shots or space to awkwardly navigate to safety. It takes all the irritating sections from earlier and runs them in a constant sequence of unrelenting torture.
The most memorable part is the character himself, who no doubt will be the reason many fans check the title out. What would have been nice to see is a new take on The Aquatic Games, a parody on Track & Field that featured James Pond and friends, or even a similar idea integrated into the game. James Pond and the Deathly Shallows is a quick – if not awkward – adventure through the sea.
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Introduction: after my 6-month old WD Elements 1TB HDD died for no apparent reason, I decided to try a different approach, using an USB 3.0 enclosure. But this setup has it's own problems, apparently.
The setup (the relevant stuff):
Lenovo ThinkPad T420 (Lenovo 4180AG8 motherboard, Intel Core i5 2520M CPU, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB Intel 520 series SSD) with Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
Sharkoon QuickStore Portable Pro USB 3.0 external storage enclosure with Western Digital Scorpio Blue 2.5 1TB (SATA II, 5400 RPM, 8MB Buffer memory)
The problem:
The drives works normally when the laptop is turned on - the performance is good, no problems so far. But when putting the laptop to sleep (stand-by / suspend), the drive shuts down, makes a single click sound, then spins up again, and repeats this process continuously.
I have to unplug the drive from the USB port to avoid this, but sometimes I'm in a hurry and forget. I'm afraid that this problem might shorten the life of the drive and/or damage the HDD R/W head assembly.
What I suspect:
My suspicion is that the USB 3.0 port is powered during standby. When the system goes into sleep mode, it sends a certain signal to the peripherals to notify the new state, so the the HDD spins down. The enclosure detects that it's powered, and spins-up the HDD again, and so on.
How can I prevent this from happening? Is there a solution to fix this in Windows or BIOS, or do I need to buy a different enclosure?
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1. ...and my HDD died :( .
I left the office in a hurry last night, forgetting to unplug the external USB enclosure after putting the laptop in standby, and when I returned today morning and switched back on, it didn't detect the HDD.
It tries to spin up 5 times, then nothing. Not detected in partition management, not even as RAW.
I tried plugging the HDD in a different enclosure using eSATA (should see it as local HDD), and the same sequence occurs - 5 attempts to spin & seek, abort.
If no one could answer my first question, at least regard this as a warning to change the enclosure if HDD keeps restarting when in standby. Otherwise you risk burning your drive, just like I did.
My suspicion lies on badly-written firmware for the enclosure.
HDD Model: Western Digital WD10JPVT-00A1YTO (1TB, SATA II, 5400 RPM, 8MB Buffer)
Enclosure Model: Sharkoon QuickStore Portable USB3.0 BLACK
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Tanzania Country Guide
East Africa.
GMT + 3.
945,087 sq km (364,900 sq miles).
41.0 actor (estimate 2009).
Population Density
43.4 per sq km. (estimate 2009).
Dodoma. Population: 2.4 actor (UN appraisal 2003).
The United Republic of Tanzania lies on the east bank of Africa and is belted by Kenya and Uganda to the north; by Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west; by the Indian Ocean to the east; and by Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The Tanzanian acreage is disconnected into several acutely authentic regions: the littoral plains, which alter in amplitude from 16 to 64km (10 to 39 miles) and accept lush, close vegetation; the Masai Steppe in the north, 213 to 1,067m (698 to 3,500ft) aloft sea level, which gives acceleration to two arresting mountains, Kilimanjaro, 5,895m (19,341ft) aloft sea akin and Africa's accomplished peak, and Mount Meru, 4,565m (14,973ft); and there's a aerial plateau in the southern breadth appear Zambia and Basin Nyasa (Lake Malawi).
Savannah and backcountry awning over bisected the country, and semi-desert accounts for the actual acreage area, with the barring of the littoral plains. Over 53,000 sq km (20,463 sq miles) is civil water, mostly lakes formed in the Rift Valley and Tanzania's allotment of Basin Victoria and Basin Tanganyika, both on its western border. Basin Victoria covers 69,490 sq km (26,832 sq miles), which is Africa's better basin and 49% of it lies in Tanzania. With best abject of 1,470m (4,821ft), Basin Tanganyika is estimated to be the centermost basin in Africa and is 673km (420 miles) continued and averages 50km (31 miles) across; 41% of its breadth lies in Tanzania. The United Republic of Tanzania includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, about 45km (28 miles) off the bank to the northeast of the country.
Federal Republic back 1964. Tanganyika acquired ability from the UK in 1961. In 1964, Tanganyika abutting with Zanzibar, which had been a British antecedents until 1963, and became Tanzania.
Head of State
President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete back 2005.
Zanzibar is semi-autonomous and has its own assembly and admiral (President Amani Abeid Karume back 2000).
Head of Government
Prime Abbot Peter Mizengo Pinda (since 2008).
Ever back ability in 1964, the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), aforetime accepted as the Tanzanian African National Union (TANU), has remained accepted as the ascendant force in Tanzanian politics. Admiral Benjamin Mkapa stood bottomward in 2005 and was succeeded by the adept adopted abbot Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, who was adopted admiral in 2005 with 80.3% of the vote. The Civic United Front (CUF), with a able ability abject on Zanzibar (most conspicuously the island of Pemba), managed to defended 19 aldermanic seats out of a absolute of 319. Elections on these islands were carefully contested amid CCM and CUF and bedridden by violence, browbeating and allegations of vote rigging.
While the Zanzibar & Pemba agitator movement has remained about chastened in contempo years, the island's accretion break from the blow of Tanzania cannot be ignored, and a added able drive appear freedom may yet appear during the abutting elections appointed for 2010.
Kiswahili and English are the official languages. The agreement Swahili and Kiswahili are acclimated interchangeably, admitting the appellation Swahili commonly refers to the bodies while Kiswahili refers to the language. Originating alternating the coast, Kiswahili is a Bantu accent with abounding words acquired from Arabic. Other African languages such as Bantu and those of Nilo-Hamitic and Khoisan agent are additionally announced in added alien regions.
Mainland: Christian (30%), Muslim (35%), Indigenous behavior (35%).
Zanzibar: Muslim (99%).
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When affair and parting, easily are consistently shaken; this applies throughout the country in both rural and burghal areas. It is the assemblage to use the appropriate hand, not the left, to agitate easily or canyon or accept anything. The accepted greeting of ‘hello' back acclamation an alone is Hujambo, to which the acknowledgment is Sijambo. The greeting for a accumulation is Hamjambo, to which the acknowledgment is Hatujambo. In about all interactions it is advised affable absorb a few account allurement about one's day, one's health, one's ancestors and so alternating - admitting the acknowledgment should consistently be a absolute one.
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Photography: It is accepted to consistently ask permission for demography photographs of people, abnormally the Masai, who in some places, allegation visitors adulatory to booty photographs. | http://www.worldtourismguides.com/countries-guide/tanzania/ | dclm-gs1-164521087 |
0.020258 | <urn:uuid:21a44c3f-921c-4174-ac6b-1482059ceb71> | en | 0.951768 | HALIFAX -- A business consortium proposing to invest in digital ocean technologies was named Tuesday as the first of nine so-called superclusters vying for a piece of a $950-million federal innovation fund.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced in Halifax that the Ocean Supercluster was the winning applicant for the Atlantic region, describing it as an industry consortium that would expand digital technologies in aquaculture, fisheries, offshore oil and gas, and clean energy.
Up to five will be selected as the tech hubs as part of Ottawa's Innovation Superclusters Initiative, which is aimed at fostering public-private partnerships in industries across the country.
"If selected as one of Canada's five superclusters, the Ocean Supercluster would energize Canada's ocean economy by investing in digital ocean technologies that will increase Canada's competitiveness and create middle-class jobs for this generation and the next," Bains said in a statement.
A spokesman for Bains said the ocean proposal focused on maximizing "the economic potential and sustainable development of Canada's ocean economy," but didn't offer specifics on what that involved. The lead proponents include Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador, along with more than 25 firms, including Emera Inc., Clearwater, Aspin Kemp and Associates, radient360 and Dalhousie University.
The Halifax announcement was the first in a cross-country tour that will reveal the nine shortlisted bids, following the submission of more than 50 proposals involving over 1,000 firms and 350 participants.
Superclusters are defined as areas of business activity often involving collaborations between companies and universities, colleges or not-for-profit organizations to develop ideas that can be taken to market.
"Through the Superclusters Initiative, we've started conversations and created solid partnerships between government, the private sector, academia and communities," Bains said.
The contest, a cornerstone of Ottawa's so-called innovation agenda, aims to lift the economy, promote research and create high-quality jobs. Bains has said he's looking for ambitious bids that also feature intellectual property strategies designed to keep benefits for Canada.
To qualify, supercluster bids must show private-sector investment commitments of at least a dollar for every government dollar requested.
Each submission will be evaluated on criteria such as job creation, how likely the new jobs will avoid becoming automated in the future and the proposal's overall impact on the economy.
The winners will be announced by early 2018. | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-names-atlantic-consortium-as-first-of-nine-shortlisted-superclusters-1.3625853 | dclm-gs1-164561087 |
0.019159 | <urn:uuid:3c68bae6-194b-4f67-b7d0-aa494c9fcc17> | en | 0.95619 | Jerusalem (Reuters) - Israel decided on Tuesday to remove metal detectors it had placed at the entrance to a holy site in Jerusalem 's Old City and replace them with smart , less obtrusive surveillance means, a Cabinet statement said.
The spike in tensions and the deaths of three Israelis and four Palestinians in violence on Friday and Saturday have triggered international alarm and prompted the United Nations Security Council to convene a meeting to seek ways of calming the situation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet voted to remove the metal detector gates after a meeting lasting several hours convening for a second time on Monday after it had broken off discussions a day earlier.
A statement issued after the forum of senior ministers concluded their meeting said they had decided to act on the recommendation of the security bodies and replace the metal detectors with "smart checking" means.
Reuters witnesses in the Old City saw municipal workers installing metal beams above some of the narrow stone paved streets for closed-circuit TV cameras. Israeli media said there were plans to invest in advanced camera systems.
The Cabinet statement added that it had allocated 100 million shekels (about $28 million) for the equipment and for additional police officers.
Jordan is the custodian of Jerusalem 's Muslim holy sites, which Jews revere as the vestige of their two ancient temples and which was among East Jerusalem areas Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed as its capital in a move not recognized internationally. | https://en.neonetwork.pk/25-Jul-2017/israel-to-replace-metal-detectors-in-jerusalem-with-smart-surveillance | dclm-gs1-164711087 |
0.951017 | <urn:uuid:18e6b61e-09ed-48e8-a0fa-033771ac85a0> | en | 0.980673 | 1. Live life to the fullest. I expect there will be a tommorrow for 99% of us, but if you only had about 100 of them left, what would you do-where would you go and who would you spend the time with?
2. Tell the people you love, you love them. Look them right in the eyes and tell them. Walk away knowing that they know. Carry that feeling around a while.
3. Be a little patient with people not as smart as you. I am guessing that is a lot of people for most of you. Ignorance is not bliss. Most people are mad and resentful and don't like being talked down to anymore than you do.
4. Share art, music, literature, nodes, etc. Sharing the world says to people- I like this, I like you and-What have you got? If the other person does not "get it" then you have just learned something important, haven't you?
5. At least once a day, stop and be still. For a least two minutes. Listen to what you don't usually hear. Taste the air. Feel the fabric of your chair or your sweater. Experience life as if you have been in a sick bed for 6 months and are finally out of quarantine-
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0.021866 | <urn:uuid:e0b65ba4-1f38-479c-9935-d819e9af723d> | en | 0.98958 | Motley Crue got it wrong. Dr. Max Jacobson certainly was a glamorous man, or at least his clientele was: Upper East Side women "of a certain age", Aretha Franklin (who wrote a song to honor him), Eddie Fisher (and his daughter), Truman Capote, Richard Rodgers, Edie Sedgwick, and even John and Robert Kennedy.
Data on the man is scant. We know, for example that he was born in 1900, in Germany, and by the 1930's had established a clinic in New York. We also know, through analysis of his formula circa 1964, that he had been influenced by Paul Niehans, who had established the La Prairie spa in Switzerland, in that so-called "live cells" were used in the mix, which also included various steroids, bone marrow, placenta, and its most important ingredient, methedrine.
What is certain is his popularity. On any given day, his waiting room would be full of everything from schoolgirls sent by their mothers to shed puppyfat, to various members of the Yankees, to members of the Warhol Factory, all waiting to receive the magic shot that would shed pounds, alleviate stress, lethargy and boredom, and seemingly bring back lost youth. Charming to a fault, he'd see about thirty patients a day, not counting house calls, which he'd see as late as 11 o'clock at night.
What was also certain was that it would bring you back wanting more. And more, and even, more.
At one point, he stopped taking in patients, instead, instructed them into proper injection techniques, and gave them ampules to take home to inject. (Skincare moguls were quick to take up the idea, suggesting "ampules" of "serum" to snap and apply that were far more powerful than simply washing your face and putting on moisturizer.)
Unfortunately, the FDA caught up with him in the mid-Seventies, after several well-publicized deaths. Stripped of his medical license, he nonetheless maintained an "underground" clientele, until his death in 1985. | https://everything2.com/user/teleny/writeups/Dr.+Feelgood | dclm-gs1-164771087 |
0.023007 | <urn:uuid:f61d5e18-1540-4445-a778-c593733ef5e1> | en | 0.843332 | Photometro Urban Transportation Perspective Project
0155: Waking Wardlow Metro Blue Line down the tracks, from the ocean of Long Beach—into the subterranean gut of the city—waiting room among columns and rings of lights and parking lot palm trees’ shade the decay of sticky bottles in golden grass, feet tapping to metro jazz, “The next train to Los Angeles will be here in six minutes—sorry for the construction—have a nice weekend.”
0158: Go 710, we can race, this mirror and your wastelands—containers containing promises of prosperity for the passing consumers, panting like the plants that line freeways, choke and die to be replanted by prisoners in orange reflective vests and baggy pants.
0161: Artesia prison with spa and casino in a phantom parking lot; now guards look over the empty “spaces”—divided and numbered with punctuation—dissenting ghosts wash over the fence and descend, a carbon sink yearning for validation. Look.
0167: A refuge for tired machines and oxidizing metals; stained wood makes mountains that bathe everyday like clandestine gold while dreams of LA are renewed everynight by the jetsam of time, not but like memory, piling up rather than dissipating until you go crazy from passionate transition.
0168: In the backwashes of approaching LA—without culture and language—Industry is still king.
0170: Jesus visits Korea but stays matte white—you can’t see the smoke through dirty windows.
0172: Into the shadows of bank buildings, homeless roost, graffiti blooms, and an addict sleepwalks away memories of war—explosions underground and dead hands reaching for the cold sky like antennae—the sun fogs the glass of the firmament in the reachless distance before taking the super structure and leaving us in peace.
0175: The sun wanes (still) but the painting stays flood lit from the underground; the brushstrokes betray the carbon soot patina of the buildings’ facades emerging from luminescent steps to a sweltering marble plateau and an infinite of ceilings. Everything glints the sun—an endless field of portals to subsumed lives, relationships, and transactions like cars passing optics in undersea cables the echo of tunnels to disappear, leaving smoke, which signals danger and we dive again.
– Michaël Veremans, Canon point n shoot
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0.058602 | <urn:uuid:3fe3b74a-75eb-4368-8152-cda4e5c44008> | en | 0.739427 | validate a xml file against xsd schema in c#
For various reason we have to use XML file as our data source, To verify the format of data we can use XSD file, by validate against a XSD file we can check that we get proper formatted data as we required.
In c# there is some very good library for that
in coding u have to call
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Xml;
the coding are very simple
first we have to initialize XSD schema
XmlSchemaSet schemas = new XmlSchemaSet(); //intialize schema class
using (FileStream schemastream = File.OpenRead("schemafile.xsd")) //xsd file load
schemas.Add(XmlSchema.Read(schemastream, new ValidationEventHandler(OnValidate)));//create event for schema
schemas.Compile(); //build up the schema
Now we have to take xml file for validating against our initialized schema
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("xmlfile.xml"); //load xml
doc.Schemas = schemas; // take schema
doc.Validate(OnValidate); // validate schema
doc.Validate(OnValidate) it do the main job in validation.
OnValidate is a method whiche get validation errors in its event and take action,
a user can write that function like below, we want to show the error in list box which named as ErrorList1, so customized function will be .
void OnValidate(object sender, ValidationEventArgs e)
if (e.Message.Contains("''") && e.Message.Contains("MinLength"))
string s = "'";
string[] m = e.Message.Split(s.ToCharArray());
ErrorList1.Items.Add(m[1] + " field is required");
else if(e.Message.Contains("cannot contain text")) {
string s = " ";
string[] m = e.Message.Split(s.ToCharArray());
int i = m.Length;
ErrorList1.Items.Add("unwanted text before "+m[i] + " element");
else if (e.Message.Contains("''")) { }
catch (Exception v) { ErrorList1.Items.Add("Error in validation"); }
. In ValidationEventArgs e provide the error message. by using the event value we can get error type and error position, some of the displayed there.
Another tips, if u want to write the xml instead of loading u have to just write
doc.LoadXml(TextBox1.Text); instead of doc.Load("xmlfile.xml")
hope that much will help some
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RIDE THE LEFT’S TRUMP AS THE POLITICAL EQUIVALENT OF 9/11 RECURSION! One of the memes the left seems to have coalesced to explain how they feel (and it’s always about the feelz with the left) about Trump winning the presidential election is that Donald Trump heading the federal government is the political equivalent of September 11th, 2001, which according to lefty blogs back in 2007, 35 percent or more of Democrats believe was caused by the head of the federal government.
And yet, as Kathy Shaidle has memorably pointed out, if you really did believe that the president ordered 3,000 Americans killed by slamming planes into the World Trade Center, and Pentagon, and/or by “controlled demolitions” to gin up war in the Middle East, you’d want to get the hell out of the country at once, and/or you wouldn’t feel comfortable openly discussing your conspiracies at the local Starbucks. (See also: Brutal Nazi and Soviet crackdowns on those who questioned Hitler and Stalin’s actions.) Similarly, Democrats seem to not get the disparity between comparing Trump to Hitler, and yet nothing at all happening to them.
Oh, and speaking of 9/11, As Sean Davis of the Federalist tweets, Democrats are considering a 9/11 Truther to be the chairman of their party:
As he was introduced to the eclectic gathering, which included one man wearing a black T-shirt that read “Investigate 9/11,” Ellison was told that after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Muslims had joined atheists at the bottom of popular opinion polls.
* * * * * * * *
To be fair though, Ellison’s crusade for the DNC chair seems to be enjoying “unexpectedly” wide support on both sides of the aisle. | https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/249247/ | dclm-gs1-165021087 |
0.021661 | <urn:uuid:291bc1ce-046c-43e3-94b3-c31023b6ed17> | en | 0.962304 | Results from my third round of Insanity Max: 30!
Weight: Day 1-132; Day 60-126.2
Insanity Max: 30–Round 3, Month 1 results.
Weight: Day 1-132; Day 30-126.8*
Stomach: Day 1-33.5″; Day 30-33
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Friday Flex Break.
So I wanted to post an updated flex break pic to see if I’ve made any progress. And you know, this is one of those things that drives me nuts because I feel like when I am standing there flexing in front of the mirror (don’t even act like you don’t do this when no one is watching), I can see muscle definition, but then whenever I take the picture, I don’t see anything. So, here it is, so you all can decide if I’ve made any progress:
I feel like my little 2 pack above my mama tummy is a bit more defined now, but my arm still looks the same…at least in the picture. I swear there’s a difference in real life! Anyway, everyone should take a second for a flex break today to check your progress! Happy Friday, y’all!
Baby Steps.
I’ve mentioned on here several times how my upper body is the weakest part of me. And unlike K (who posted a pic of her badass muscles in her vacation post), it takes me forever to get any sort of definition in my arms. Basically my body prefers to stay in its natural blob-like state, so getting any sort of muscle definition is damn near impossible for me. But, since my arms/chest have been so damn sore this week from Max Power and Max Strength, I thought I’d take a little flex break after my workout this morning and see if anything has changed in the 3.5 months that I’ve been doing this. Here’s what I saw:
arms(btw, these pics have not been edited or filtered in any way…I just stuck them into the pic collage app)
Not a drastic change, but I swear I can see a teeny tiny bit of difference, mainly up around the shoulder, but also a bit in the bicep area. And then if you compare the arm holding the phone in the two pics, i feel like you can see a tiny bit of definition in that arm and it’s not even flexing. So even though I’m not getting drastically ripped over here, I’m proud of the little bit of progress that I can see, and it just makes me want to keep going to see if it can keep getting better. I’ll have to take another flex break when I’m done with month 2. 🙂 Happy flexing, y’all! | https://puravidagirls.wordpress.com/tag/flex-break/ | dclm-gs1-165051087 |
0.019229 | <urn:uuid:ab3004f3-d473-402e-ac0f-1fa01f527809> | en | 0.946442 | Ms. Steinem- You Fell Into The Trap
I’m about to argue that women figures like Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and their likes, contrary to popular opinion, were and still are a huge setback for the women’s movement.
No, I’m not the feminist Antichrist, I’m the new generation attempting to point out where I think things went wrong.
Most respectable universities today offer courses in “Women’s Studies“.
What are these mysterious courses? Courses that have become so inherently popular not with society as a whole, but mainly and only with feminists.
Must I hold a degree in women’s studies in order to become a full-fledged feminist? Will this degree help me better explain to women in the work place that they are being mistreated (as if they don’t already notice it these days)? Will it change the image of women in the media?
And anyway, was being born with 2 X chromosomes not enough for my brain to realize it was that of a female? Will “women’s studies” help my ovaries secrete more estrogen? Or perhaps enforce my menstrual cycle? And enforce the women-spirit that’s within me?
See, for me, the idea and ideology of Feminism isn’t theoretical. It’s not something to write a masters about. It’s an act. The act of seeking equality for me and for the women around me.
Being a feminist isn’t knowing Elizabeth Blackwell‘s biography, it’s striving to become the next one. Something I’m obviously not going to be able to do if I’m busy reading how many kids Elizabeth Cady Stanton had and why regardless of that she was still a feminist.
Someone’s going to have to explain to me how spending my life analysing how men treat women, how they put them down, how women put themseleves down, how we’re portrayed in commercials, etc. contributes to my active search for equality in my surroundings.
Now, if those spending their time on this were men and women that didn’t realize the importance of women’s equality, I would say we’re making progress. But when the majority of people investing their time in these courses are feminist-declared women and men that believe in equal rights and understand there’s something wrong with the way society treats its women- I think we’re wasting valuable intelligence.
Breaking News Alert!
B.A’s, M.A’s, PhD’s, books, articles, movies, songs and slogans in women’s studies aren’t going to strengthen women working in male-majority workplaces and they’re not going to change the image of women in commercials.
Writing about integration and equal pay doesn’t add more female doctors to the hospital staff and doesn’t add money to their paychecks.
You! Yes you, young woman in the “women’s studies” dept. of whichever university it is you’re going to- you are setting the worst possible example for my sisters. You are teaching them to spend their life complaining, talking, doing all those passive-yet-still-rather-graceful things that are so stereotypically female- you fell into the male-set trap my darlings.
You think the existence of a women’s studies course means we won? means we got men to see the rightness of our chosen path? Wake up call!
I thought we were fighting for our right to become engineers, not for our right to write PhD’s about it.
If all you “PhD feminists” invested your time in getting a job, forming women’s unions and fighting for your rights and for your co-workers’ rights, you would achieve a whole lot more than if all of us went to count the number of cents that are wrongly missing in other women’s paychecks.
If u don’t set the example for women to become engineers, you’ll soon have no female engineers to be able to complain about being mistreated.
Somewhere in the last 50 years you forgot to go out and fight for equality and instead, sat down to write a book about it.
That’s when you lost the battle, for all of us.
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Love, Music, Spiritual
Pride Weekends
In honor of San Diego Pride Weekend, I’d like to post a quick summary of all the prides I’ve been to:
San Diego Pride (2006-2013)
Long Beach Pride (2 times)
Los Angeles Pride (1 time)
San Francisco Pride (2013)
Out of all the pride weekend events, I enjoyed San Francisco Pride the best. I took the train up the west coast to arrive in time for Friday night Pride kick-off. This was a kick-off unlike any I have ever experienced. Not only was I in an unfamiliar city, but I was still very new at using public transportation. When I didn’t want to walk eight blocks, I took the bart.
As I slowly crept up the stairs from the underground station to the street level, I saw the backs of dozens of people lined up around the street. They were watching what was literally a six-hour parade. There were so many floats and people walking alongside them. After some searching, I finally found a spot to stand with only three heads in front of me. Each hour each person left along with their friend/group. At about 3pm I had a front row standing position to the parade. I saw my brother march with his friend’s float in time. Everything was great.
Then I made my way towards City Hall. There isn’t any way I can describe the noise and the sights in order to prepare you for what you what experience. There were literally four or five dance floors. All of which had bass turned up all the way and then some. Every kind of person from different backgrounds and fashion styles were all dancing like their feet were indestructible and their energy unlimited.
On Saturday, every lgbt person and their friends gravitated toward Dolores Park. There is a paved road on a steep hill that you have to climb if you want to get to the good parts of the grassy park. To the left is a playground for kids. Then two rows of rolling hills where people set-up their blankets and alcohol (allowed for Pride Weekend) begins. At 10am there were a few people here and there (we were one of them). Then slowly, but surely the park was flooded with people. I have never seen that many lgbt people and friends concentrated in one area. It was great.
The thing about Long Beach Pride was that the first time I stayed over at my friend’s two-story house. We played drinking games all night. The next day’s Parade and Festival were fun, but did not go above and beyond any other city’s festivities. The second time, my friends and I rented a boat off the pier. We drank and played games again. On Saturday night, we went to a club with $10, which is pretty cheap considering it was Pride Weekend. This was also fun, but nothing too different other than where we stayed the night all weekend.
Los Angeles Pride was unique in that, I went to the Dyke March for the first time. I didn’t even know such a march even existed. It’s simply a bunch of women who identify as such marching together in solidarity. Sort of like, “Here we are. We are here together.” It was interesting.
All in all, I had a fun time each pride weekend. All the pride festivals charge $20 for regular admission with discounts for military, except San Francisco Pride. SF Pride was completely free to enjoy. They have it in their budget to hire workers to set-up stages and musicians to perform on them.
I look forward to experiencing Pride weekend at different cities. If you have never been to a Pride weekend event, you should check it out. It doesn’t matter what your background or preference is. It’s fun for all. It definitely tests your comfort zone if you have a small/select group of people you hang out with all year round. I highly recommend it.
Human Nature, Love, Social Standards, Spiritual, The Law
You’re Different. I’m Different.
Inspired by my previous blog post “Your Rush. My Rush“, I am continuing the idea that people judge other people’s preference, personality, and importance based on things that don’t matter. What I mean is that one person may say another person’s god is wrong because it’s different than their own. Why can’t we live in a world where we accept that other people view things differently? It doesn’t make them wrong. Religion is a huge hot mess of conflict. Even people who believe in the church branch out from their original church to establish one based on what they believe. Different is not wrong. It’s just different.
Why should your difference override my difference? The USA was founded upon people who wanted a new life and an escape from religious persecution. And you know what ended up happening? In Jamestown, when it was established, people were fined $20 for missing church. That was a lot of money back then. As a country, we have become the judge of what’s right or wrong on things that has nothing to do with the church or state. And I think having a law based on one person/religion/political party’s idea isn’t fair to other people with different ideas.
I’m talking about love. It’s no one’s business who loves who. It’s more important to focus on the people who are hurting other people, not loving another person no matter what their ethnic background, skin color, or spiritual beliefs are. Just because someone else’s love looks different than yours, doesn’t make it wrong. It doesn’t mean you have to love like them either.
Why do some religious and political people reject same-sex marriage? There are many theories: It goes against their special interest groups. It goes against their religion via the Bible, Quran, etc. The psychological theory is that deep down inside, they aren’t sure of themselves whether they are gay or straight. It’s always easier to follow a book or rules. Seeing someone else fully embrace themselves for who they are makes the people trapped in society’s webs jealous. If we could all get past comparing ourselves to each other we can stop competing for the right way and start competing for human equality.
Human Nature, Social Standards
Your rush. My rush.
Last Thursday Geek & Sundry hosted a live Hangout with several vloggers (video bloggers) from the recently launched vlog site. During the Hangout several cute things, obnoxious things, and strange things were said. In the midst all the geek talk, Katie Satow said some words I took immediately to heart. She was talking about how ignorant some people can be in her little desert of a town somewhere in Canada. She said, “How do you know if your rush is more important than my rush?” Which is a completely valid question. One that we should each ask ourselves.
Let’s talk about the rush. The rush of everyone going where they are going. There isn’t enough time in the world to do everything. So why do some people drive fast in their cars? Why are the drivers of those cars completely oblivious to other cars. Are they late? Are they impatient? Are they apathetic to the other cars around them? I don’t know.
All I know is that I don’t like to rush. Even if I’m late, I just like to arrive when I arrive. When cars are behind me driving close to the back of my car, I begin to stress. I don’t know why they don’t just pass me on the right. Someone once told me that there are drivers who like to annoy other drivers like that. Somehow it proves that they are better than you. And that’s what all this is about. Their rush is more important that yours.
The way the question was put into words struck the right cord with me. I never thought about other people getting in my way because they thought the world revolved around them. See my previous blog “The Revolving World“. I thought they were merely impatient or speed freaks. This layer of ignorance has opened up a new perspective for me. Next time I see someone who gets in my way be it on the road or crossing paths, I will chalk it up to their ignorance towards other people. It won’t make it less annoying, but it’ll help me accept it more quickly and move on. So thank you Katie Satow for your words of wisdom. You can follow her on Twitter under her name @BeautyArmory and you can find the other vloggers on Twitter @GeekandSundry and their videos on YouTube with the same name.
Ranting, Raving
The Revolving World
The world does not revolve around you or me. It revolves and we’re in it. While I can control how I react to stimuli it may be the only thing I can control. When it comes to planning, I don’t like to plan. Plans change. I like to play by ear, so when someone asks me what time? what time? It becomes a pain in the butt to plan things depending on the person.
Conflicts of schedule come up: I have to meet a client, my family is having a get together (and mom won’t change it. You’ve been there), etc.
When I say I’ll be somewhere, I’ll be there. I cannot decide three days in advance what time exactly. And trying to get a time out of me doesn’t help at all. It makes me not want to go at all. I have a theory that people want an exact time, so they can get others locked into the plan. Even if some conflict of schedule did occur, they are mad regardless because people have already locked themselves into this plan.
When either of my siblings are three hours late to dinner, it’s okay. My mom is just glad they are there. I get that. So why do I have to pick a time when I know they are going to get there when they are going to get there. Why can’t I just get there when I get there. Am I being treated differently because I don’t have a husband and kids? Well, I certainly didn’t choose that route. I still shouldn’t have to live by someone else’s choices. I understand why they are late. I just want to be able to do the same. My brother has work or is getting a ride from a friend. He has to wait until he gets off work or wait until his friend is ready to drive him. Other good reasons to be late. Whereas I had plans to go hiking. I have my own car. I don’t have anything keeping me from being late except my own plans. So why am I expected to give out all my plans three days in advanced that I don’t even know myself. I’m not going to make a commitment to a certain time. And if I’m late I just want the same forgiveness.
The world doesn’t revolve around you and I. We have to live life moment by moment. We should not have to be locked into a schedule forced upon us by someone else. If you want to make a living doing a 8am-5pm job to pay for that house, that’s your prerogative. Just don’t put all your stress on me because I chose a much simpler life.
Music on the Web
I’m a 1984 baby. I was born two years after music was layered onto compact discs in 1982 (1). Now it’s 2013 with various music websites that give it’s audience unique ways of listening to music. Last.fm was the first music station I signed up with. I liked this website because I could keep up with concert dates and when bands were going to be local. Then I signed up with Pandora to create playlists based on one artist I say I like. The other artists they chose has 50/50 of being one I like and one I don’t feel anything for…because music is something you feel because of the emotion you share or the emotion you see and feel in the lyrics and music. Even though, I don’t like all the songs they suggest based on one artist, I still feel triumphet when I hear one song I must have the mp3 to or buy the whole album it belongs to.
Recently, my brother told me about Spotify. It’s another music website, except that it plays any song whenever you want. This sounds fantastic. Except, I already have one more music website that I want. I just want one that does everything.
If there is a new website that can tell me when bands have their concerts, create playlists based on similar artists to my favorite artists, and play songs at anytime, I would sign up for that one and throw away the rest. I don’t really want to add a third music website.
In the scope of the whole internet, I already signed up for several social websites and media websites. I don’t want anymore than I need. As for now I am waiting to sign up for Spotfiy because I don’t want another account to log into and create an unique and specific password to. It is too much to remember. I have other things I need to concentrate on.
With that all in mind, I think Spotify sounds like the best of the three music websites, but I’d still like to know when my favorite bands will play locally.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_discs
The Law
Stamps & Post Office
I was on my way to do some tasks for my mother. Then some things I had to pick up for myself too too. I never thought I would come close to changing someone’s life as I was today. I was merely making a left turn when all cars in oncoming traffic was stopped at a red light. Then I hit a motorcyclist. His bike was under my car and he was on my hood.
I took a motorcycle class almost a year ago. I knew how dangerous it was to ride a motorcycle. I had lectures, tests, and videos. I saw everything I could see. At least, that is what I thought.
In California and in New Mexico, there is a understood rule that motorcycles can “share the lane” while cars are moving or “filter” while all traffic is stopped. I was in traffic that was at a complete halt. As I was making my left turn, the motorcyclist rode towards me, and that was the end of it.
I could have killed someone today. It breaks my heart. When I saw the guy standing on two feet and help guiding my car away from traffic, I let go of the breath I was holding. We exchanged insurance information. He checked my car. I checked his bike. We let the insurance companies figure out the damages.
Everything is settled at the moment. The only thing I don’t understand about the law of California is that motorcyclists can ride between lane one and two in order to relieve traffic and avoid their bike from being hit by a car from behind. It still doesn’t help the fact that I cannot see him when I am already making my left turn. He is allowed to ride ten miles per hour faster than the current traffic no matter what I am doing because I am supposed to yield to all oncoming traffic.
I agree that I am supposed to yield to all oncoming traffic, but how am I supposed to do that if I can’t see them. The guy was in my blind spot. The DMV handbook of 2010 states that it isn’t safe for motorcyclists to “share the road” or “filter” in traffic, but that it is also legal to do so. How do I contend with that? It also says that if you are in this sort of accident that you will have a difficult time fighting it.
That is why when I hear that the motorcyclist dropped the claim, my heart was relieved. My policy would not go up. I made several checks on the road to make sure everything was clear and still I failed. I thank that motorcyclist for his compassion. I am glad his bike went away without a scratch. My lesson in this is the costs I have to make repairing the front end of my vehicle.
My confidence in my driving has sunk to an all-time low. Even though, I did the necessary checks, I was not ready for what happened. I have learned a great deal from this. One of such that you don’t want to run into a motorcycle in California (or in New Mexico) because the law is on their side.
Now I have hundreds of people who have seen this incident happen. They think I am a horrible driver or that “it just happened”. I can only focus on those people who think I am a horrible driver. The ones who have only seen this once incident out of the 11 years I have been driving. They won’t know how sorry I was. They won’t know all the things I was dealing with at the time. All they will know is what they saw me do. That can lead to so many negative things. I have to take the time I have now to learn not to think of them and just focus on being better. | https://sadbuttrue92029.wordpress.com/page/2/ | dclm-gs1-165091087 |
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Christianity and Islam
One should strongly uphold the values and teachings that Allah has taught them for these will serve as their guide to fulfilling a spiritually-rich life together with Allah. Since monotheism is part of the Islamic faith, Muslims is in continuous contention with the Trinitarian God that Christian faith believes. Islam would not allow anyone or any other being for that matter to be associated with Allah for they trust that Allah is incomparable and solitary.
Angels are considered as the messengers of God. The existence of angels is generally acceptable as true among Muslims. Islam agrees that God has numerous angels who are good in nature. Satan is an exception to this generalization for he is the only angel who dared to refuse the fact that God has the Ultimate Power that Satan disobeyed His commands. An analogy is stated in the article to distinguish men from the angels. Angels are made of light while human beings are made out of clay. Jinns are described in this section as well. They are created by fire which is correlated with the power of speech or gift of tongues.
Prophets and scriptures was the third doctrine on the article. Mohammad is named as the last descendant of the prophets who were assigned to introduce and disseminate the scriptures to the people. ...Show more
Religion is found throughout the world because it offers answers to such ultimate question as why we exist, why we succeed or fail, and why we die. Islam is a religion found worldwide and has influenced millions of people. There are basic beliefs of Islam.
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Setting up Perl on CentOS 6. I'm putting this here so that I can find it easily.
yum install perl perl-CPAN
# make everything automatic
o conf prerequisites_policy follow
o conf build_requires_install_policy yes
o conf commit
cpan local::lib
cpan Bundle::CPAN # keep an eye on this because Realine wants you to hit enter
cpan App::cpanminus
Now we can install Imager (say)
sudo yum install giflib-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel freetype-devel t1lib-devel
cpanm Imager
sqlite3 vs firefox
Firefox keeps lots of useful in sqlite files in the user's profile. Under Linux, you will find these files in ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_DIR/. To find PROFILE_DIR, you pull look in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini. Of interest to me is places.sqlite, which contains info on all sites visited. To pull a list out, simply do
sqlite3 -csv ~/.mozilla/firefox/ucjmuboi.default/places.sqlite \
'SELECT url,title,visit_count,visit_date/1000000 FROM moz_historyvisits JOIN moz_places ON place_id = moz_places.id'
The visit_date is bizarely in microseconds, so divide by 1,000,000 to get epoch seconds.
Of course, the above doesn't work on CentOS 5 nor 6. You wil get a Error: file is encrypted or is not a database error. CentOS 5 ships with sqlite 3.3.6, CentOS 6 ships with 3.6.20. Firefox uses 3.7 and creates a file that isn't backward compatible. Here is how to install a compatible version:
cd ~/work
wget http://www.sqlite.org/2016/sqlite-autoconf-3130000.tar.gz
tar zxvf sqlite-autoconf-3130000.tar.gz
cd sqlite-autoconf-3130000
./configure --prefix=/opt/sqlite-3130000
make all
sudo make install
sudo ln -s sqlite-3130000 /opt/sqlite
sudo bash -c "echo /opt/sqlite/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/sqlite.conf"
sudo ldconfig
This will install 3.13.0. Make sure to check the download page for the latest version.
It should be pointed out that by putting /opt/sqlite/lib into ld.so.conf.d, we are overriding the .so default system .so. I don't know if this will break anything. I do know that it means that DBD::SQLite and /usr/bin/sqlite3 now use the new .so and this is what I want. | https://utlw.blogspot.com/2016/06/ | dclm-gs1-165201087 |
0.035297 | <urn:uuid:4b7a8dda-842a-418c-90bd-0d886c86e5d3> | en | 0.912783 | Tank driver skids on a wet road before flattening a streetlamp while practising for a military procession in Belarus
• Dana Garcia
Nice two-tone camouflage — but I think I saw all the tanks nevertheless.
• WalterBannon
Why are the Russians so fond of driving their tanks around in their cities?
• Watchman
Reminds the population who is in charge, just in case they forget.
The tank driver certainly seemed to be having fun.
• Clink9
Could have been way worse. Trudeau could have been standing beside the post.
• Maggat
That would be way better!
• tom_billesley
During the Hungarian uprising of 1956, liquid soap spread over the cobbles was used to slow tanks enough to be better targets for Molotov cocktails.
• simus1
The position and number of white wheels is some sort of secret code.
• Bernie
First off, they are using the Tanks to Tear Up the road so that they can create work to repair the road. Thank goodness they can’t drive . In case of War they may not be able to shoot either!
• Gary
It’s worse on a motor cycle when the rain starts to pour. Not only does the oils on road make in slippery to use the brakes, but the tire ruts fill up and the steering starts to float .
• Minicapt
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0.100239 | <urn:uuid:59ccc441-cd19-4555-be83-53e0d2ea7b3a> | en | 0.952815 | UPDATE 1-Saudi king issues decree allowing women to drive -state media
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RIYADH, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, state media said, ending the conservative Islamic kingdom's status as the only country where that is forbidden.
The royal decree ordered the formation of a ministerial body to give advice within 30 days and then implement the order by June 2018, according to state news agency SPA.
It stipulated that the move must "apply and adhere to the necessary Sharia standards", without providing details, and said a majority of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars had approved its permissibility.
Saudi Arabia has been widely criticised for being the only country in the world that bans women from driving, despite ambitious government targets to increase their public role, especially in the workforce.
The kingdom has been opening more areas for women through the government's modernizing reforms, which have sparked tensions with influential clerics upon whose support the ruling family relies. (Reporting By Stephen Kalin; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg) | https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/26/reuters-america-update-1-saudi-king-issues-decree-allowing-women-to-drive-state-media.html | dclm-gs1-165261087 |
0.267235 | <urn:uuid:8faa3d4c-ba7f-454a-bf37-fd2cae3ae9f6> | en | 0.977629 | Describe each of the characters in "The Interlopers."
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Ulrich comes from a line of wealthy landowners. As his ancestors did, he guards his land zealously and has a particular animosity towards Georg Znaeym. Georg comes from a line of small landowners. Like his ancestors, he still poaches on Ulrich's land even thought a lawsuit had been settled, giving the land to Ulrich and his family. Ulrich's and Georg's families have been feuding over this land for three generations. So, we can say that both men are stubborn in upholding this tradition of fighting over land.
Note that the land is not valuable in terms of hunting. " . . . the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harbored or the shooting it afforded . . ." This highlights how pointless the feud continues to be. The men are trapped by their stubbornness and perhaps by a twisted sense of loyalty to their predecessors who feuded as well.
As fate has it, the two men are poised to kill each other, but they hesitate:
But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood and without a word spoken, except for an offense against his hearth and honor.
This hesitation suggests a slight remnant of reason in both men. When they become trapped under the tree, they still swear to kill one another. But after assessing the situation and perhaps considering his own mortality, Ulrich offers Georg a drink. This is the first friendly gesture that has occurred between these two men. Georg refuses at first. But when Ulrich promises to set him free if his (Ulrich's) men arrive first, Georg finally returns the gesture and the men become friends.
They begin as sworn enemies, too stubborn to break from the tradition of the feud. But in a situation in which they both contemplate dying (together), they are able to overcome their feud. They needed to be forced into a predicament like this in which they could either bond or continue to be enemies. | https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/describe-each-characters-interlopers-705732 | dclm-gs1-165311087 |
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A paradox is something that seems self-contradictory. In order to strengthen her husband's resolve to embark on the path of murder, Lady Macbeth acts very tough. She wants to be unsexed and divorced from the emotions of compassion, pity and nurturance that are associated with a woman, most particularly a woman's breast, in order to make Macbeth king. She tells Macbeth she would dash her baby's brains out if she had promised to do so when he tries to reconsider whether or not it is a good idea to murder Duncan, and claims a little water will wash away the blood of their crimes.
However, the inner psyche of Lady Macbeth is at odds with the image of the ruthless killer she tries to project. In the end, she pays the price of her immense guilt, which leads her to sleepwalk and to try in vain to wash off the blood she dreams stain her hands. She has a conscience that arises to haunt her, despite her best attempts early in the play to suppress it. Eventually, it destroys her. | https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-strong-paradox-inner-feelings-outer-action-713717 | dclm-gs1-165341087 |
0.021776 | <urn:uuid:496e3973-6ee0-4b5e-912a-699a679ec1ae> | en | 0.958608 | Candy Crush Saga dev says it's trying to fend off copycats, not stop The Banner Saga [UPDATE]
Stoic Studios responds; "We won't make a viking saga without the word Saga, and we don't appreciate anyone telling us we can't."
Candy Crush Saga
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[UPDATE] Following the publication of this story, a representative for The Banner Saga developer Stoic Studios provided the following the statement to Kotaku, which explains why the independent studio plans to fight.
The original story is below.
King, maker of hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga, has released a statement that aims to explain why they have filed a notice of opposition against the trademark application for Stoic Studios' The Banner Saga. The notice of opposition contends that The Banner Saga is "confusingly and deceptively similar" to Candy Crush Saga.
"King has not and is not trying to stop The Banner Saga from using its name. We do not have any concerns that The Banner Saga is trying build on our brand or our content," a representative for the company told Gamasutra.
Then why file the notice of opposition at all? King says the company is simply trying to defend its position under the terms of trademark law.
"However, like any prudent company, we need to take all appropriate steps to protect our IP, both now and in the future. In this case, that means preserving our ability to enforce our rights in cases where other developers may try to use the Saga mark in a way which infringes our IP rights and causes player confusion," the representative said. "If we had not opposed The Banner Saga’s trademark application, it would be much easier for real copy cats to argue that their use of 'Saga' was legitimate."
Earlier this week, King made headlines when it got one step closer to owning the trademark for "Candy" after the United States Patent & Trademark Office approved it for publication. This news drew backlash from those who think a corporation should not be allowed to control a term that is so commonly used. But King says it's out for the trademark only as a means to protect itself from the many clones out there trying to imitate the hit mobile game.
"This is an important issue for King because we already have a series of games where 'Saga' is key to the brand which our players associate with a King game; Candy Crush Saga, Bubble Witch Saga, Pet Rescue Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and so on," the statement goes on. "All of these titles have already faced substantive trademark and copyright issues with clones."
Meanwhile, a group of indie game developers have launched an impromptu game jam that lampoons King over its attempts to trademark the word "Candy." Called Candy Jam, the event asks participants to create games that use the words "Candy," Saga," and "Scroll" liberally. Organizers said they created the campaign "because trademarking common words is ridiculous…"
Trademark-based disputes between publishers and games are of course nothing new. Most recently, Elder Scrolls studio Bethesda Softworks launched a lawsuit against Minecraft creator Mojang over its use of the word "Scrolls" in its new strategy card game. This lawsuit was ultimately settled, with the Minecraft makers allowed to keep the Scrolls title, so long as the game was not designed to compete directly with Elder Scrolls.
While that case involved an actual lawsuit, the current situation between King and Stoic is limited to trademark opposition paperwork alone, at least right now.
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0.107046 | <urn:uuid:dc4ca839-2524-49ad-a801-174ceec3c159> | en | 0.9513 | The world is competitive in every way. If you are a student, you have to compete with your classmates. If you buy a house, you are competing with your neighbors on things like interior decoration and so on. Imagine how competitive the business world is. Competition is the utmost when money is involved. Thus, if you are the owner of a business, you need every trick and technique to optimize your reach to your target customer. It does not matter whether you are an online based company or not; you need to create your own website. To direct your customers to your website, you need search engine optimization.
What is search engine optimization? Whenever people search anything online through search engines such as Google or Bing, they tend to type in keywords. These keywords lead people to you. To build a SEO friendly website, you will have to include a lot relevant links, optimized content, and so on.
Why do you think you need SEO? If you were a consumer and wanted to buy something, you would probably go online and search for the product and collect all information. This is what people do these days. As a result, your business is advertised before a consumer while he or she is making a choice. A SEO friendly website even leads to increased traffic. Moreover, this form of marketing is very cost efficient. You do not need to waste a lot of money on printing leaflets. In a way, you are being environmental friendly by not using paper!
How to make your website SEO friendly
There are different ways of making your website SEO friendly. Firstly, you can make your website SEO friendly from the root by using professional web designing tools. After you have made a SEO friendly website design, you can focus on SEO for other components of the website.
SEO friendly website design
SEO is the marketing tool for this age and it is the best. A lot of people start considering SEO techniques after creating a website. However, it is way better to consider it while designing a website. The way you look at your website is different from the way a search engine looks at it. The search engine will crawl into every website and look for relevant content. Hence, it is crucial to design SEO friendly websites.
• Go for a receptive website design: a lot of surveys have shown that the number of mobile and tablet users using the internet are higher than the number of desktop users. This is why you need to design a responsive website. Search engines give better ranks to websites which are mobile friendly. Thus, you need to come up with a template or theme which will work on any platform.
• Use a keyword based navigation system: When you are planning a navigation system, make sure that you create it keeping SEO in mind. Both users and search engines make use of this. A keyword specific navigation system or URL will work way better. Moreover, you need to design the whole website using technology which search engines can follow. A SEO concerned website design company will make use of technology which is compatible with search engines. You might notice that designers will recommend CSS for a SEO friendly website.
• Make sure that you have redirected properly: while browsing the internet you might have run into a 404 error. This happens when an old page has been deleted but it has not been redirected properly. A lot of websites lose traffic because of this mistake. Use a 301 redirect. The 301 redirect is a permanent redirect and search engines can even follow it.
Making sure that you website is SEO friendly
After you have designed your website in a SEO friendly manner, you have to shift your focus to optimizing your content
• Include keyword in the headers: you already know that it is important to include relevant search engine optimized keywords throughout an article since it falls under the radar of all search engines. However, you might forget to include keywords in the heading. That’s a no no. when it comes to a website; you have to include important keywords in the headers of various pages. If you keep on using irrelevant keywords, you will notice that the traffic will decrease over time. Thus, to maintain a good flow of browsers, use simple keywords, but do not overdo it.
• Make your pictures SEO friendly: pictures are not text. So how do you make pictures SEO friendly? Name the picture using a SEO friendly keyword. When you decide to upload a photo, make sure that you are using an alt description. Page ranking also depends on loading speeds. Hence, to make sure that a search engine recommends your website, use smaller file sizes.
• Avoid copied content: make sure that the content you are providing on your website is not copied from some other website. Search engines do not prefer websites which have duplicate content. Search engines rank duplicate websites lower.
• Meta descriptions: you have made sure that the content is SEO friendly. Your headings are also relevant and your pictures are optimized. However, you did not write a proper Meta description. This might cost you a lot of traffic. This is because you can directly speak to your target audience through these descriptions. These are the descriptions which appear with websites on search engines. While writing a Meta description, try to tempt your audience. Entice them in such a way that they feel compelled to check out your website at least once.
The aforementioned top tips for making a website SEO friendly will change the outlook of your website for search engines. If you follow them properly, you are bound to get good results. Try these tips and you will be amazed when you see the true power of SEO. | https://www.ilmigo.com/online-marketing/top-tips-making-website-seo-friendly/1524/ | dclm-gs1-165421087 |
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When I was a postdoc at Vanderbilt, I knew little about statistics. As John Tukey said, the first time I was in a statistics course I was there to teach it.
I heard that there was a course in linear regression and was dumbfounded. I asked one of the statisticians “There’s an entire course in fitting straight lines? What am I missing?” I’d seen the derivation of a least-squares line as an exercise in a calculus course. It might even have been an exercise in the course I was teaching. Just write down the squared error, take partial derivatives, and set them to zero. How could you stretch that into a semester-long course?
linear regression example
As my very patient colleague explained, linear regression is much more than fitting a line to data. Regression does fit curves to data, but it’s much more than curve-fitting.
Curve-fitting gives you a curve, and that’s all. You specify what kind of curve you want to fit, and a measure of error, and find the parameters that minimize the error. You get the optimal parameters, but you don’t get any measure of the uncertainty associated with those parameters.
The central dogma of statistics is that you use probability distributions to model uncertainty. The starting point for a statistician coming to linear regression is a probability model. You assume that your outputs are linear functions of your inputs, plus some random error. If you’re a frequentist, you say that your regression coefficients are constant but unknown numbers. If you’re a Bayesian, you say that there are random variables that represents your uncertainty regarding the coefficients. We’ll be frequentists for this page to keep things simpler.
Linear regression creates estimators for the unknown coefficients. It gives you point estimates for the coefficients. In fact, it gives you the best estimators in some technical sense. (The estimator is called BLUE: Best Linear Unbiased Estimator, best in the sense of minimum squared error within the class of unbiased estimators.) But more than point estimators, it also gives you the ability to form confidence intervals around these estimates.
The best linear unbiased estimator for the regression coefficients turns out to the the ordinary least squares (OLS) fit. This is the essence of the Gauss-Markov theorem. You do indeed fit the same like you would have if you’d simply looked for the least squares fit, with no mention of probability. But it’s the probability framework that allows you to not just fit a line but also to understand the uncertainty in that fit. You understand that the coefficients you’ve computed aren’t “the” coefficients, only the ones that fit best for the data you happened to use. You understand that different data would have different random errors and would result in a different fit. How different? The probability model gives an idea of that.
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Ability Sequence
Ability Key Q
Ability Key W
Ability Key E
Ability Key R
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Natural Talent
Bounty Hunter
Battering Blows
Piercing Thoughts
Ferocity: 6
Dangerous Game
Cunning: 6
Tough Skin
Runic Armor
Veteran's Scars
Legendary Guardian
Resolve: 18
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Threat Champion Notes
Brand Immobile, dealing magic damage. Very squishy.
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My name is Vector. I aspire to be the best League of Legends player that I can. I hope to become a pro.
This is a basic guide to , a champion that carries Robin Williams' legacy as the largest known mass of Flubber on earth. I main and know many different tips and tricks to that many people don't.
Pros and Cons:
* is rarely picked or banned. You can spam him in SoloQ and always get him.
*High damage tank with huge gap closers and unhealthy amounts of CC.
*His ultimate ability, Let's Bounce! makes him one of the best teamfighters in the game.
*He scales very well.
*Even when you build full tank, he still deals a huge amount of A.O.E damage
*5 points in E means that you are able to Elastic Slingshot from / pit to Krugs.
* Cell Division grants him tons of sustain in the jungle. It makes him a good duelist and revives him.
Cons: *His damage output is good when put into perspective of how long he can duel against champions, and how he can effect a huge number of enemies. 1v1s against tanky/high damage foes aren't good. He doesn't deal enough damage to carry matches. He needs follow-up.
*The first few minutes of a match as are difficult. This is because you should ALWAYS do a full clear at level 1. I've learn't that within that space of time, all of your lanes can give solo kills to their opponents, meaning that your team is 0-4 before you can even enter a lane.
*You have to do a full clear because you need two points in Elastic Slingshot to gank. 1 point Elastic Slingshot's range is embarrassing.
* is extremely gold reliant. If gets behind, he needs a lot of luck or a lot of help from his teammates to come back.
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Ability Skill Order
Ability Sequence
This is 's standard skill order. This refers to a full clear. Unstable Matter's cooldown is by far the lowest of any of 's spells, meaning that at level 1, Unstable Matter is the fastest way to generate blobs. Take Stretching Strike at level 2 because it has a lower cooldown than Elastic Slingshot. Because of this, it is the fastest way to generate blobs at level 2. You have better sustain this way. Then persistently level in the order E, W, Q, taking your R at level 6,11 and 16. There is no excuse to differentiating from this order unless you decide to level 2 gank with red buff (not recommended). If you had to, take W and then E.
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Runes and Masteries
Greater Mark of Armor
Greater Seal of Scaling Health
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction
MR fits well into 's build so 3 glyphs is actually fine. Overload on Armor for a better early game and sustain against camps. Scaling health will stream him into the late game. CDR is very good on , since he relies on mindlessly spamming spells. Keeping his ultimate, Let's Bounce!, up for each fight can periodically break down teams if they have to deal with it in every engage.
I recommend that for masteries, you go 6/6/18, taking Strength of the Ages as your Keystone mastery.
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Strategy. IMPORTANT.
Here are some strategies that are extremely useful at all ELOs, excluding Number 1, which works better in Low ELOs.
Number 1: This mainly applies to Low ELO. If you watch the starting positions of most pro players, you understand that this couldn't work against them. Imagine you are redside and are facing a jungle . You know he's starting krugside as soon as you enter the loading screen. In this circumstance you can solo invade the blueside to cheese his gromp ( Smite) and his blue. That gives you a stupendous advantage. You would then go to your own red and full clear. The results of this differ by game knowledge. If you intend to do this, increase your game knowledge and watch soloQ games. Decisions to do this have affecting factors. 1. It is safer to invade topside than bottom side. If caught bottom side, you are more likely to die because of numbers and CC. HOWEVER - NOTE THIS. A safer topside should not be a factor that sways which side you are going to invade. If you think the enemy jungler is topside, botside 'should' be safe. It just so happens that calling the opponents side wrong is more punishing if you invade bot. 2. If you are unsure which side they are starting on, you should not invade. Note: benefits more when he steals a red buff. It gives him a quick Smite steroid.
Number 2: End your full clear with the rift scuttler. Because of your passive, beating up the rift scuttler generates a huge amount of health. Not many players know this.
Number 3: Remember you cannot use in mid air. Also remember that your E requires time to channel. That means you cannot + E in the same way you could with 's E or 's R. However, you can flash E when you're using Elastic Slingshot at point blanc range. Channelling Elastic Slingshot to further range may give an opponent time to hide under his turret. If you're chasing and he's near his turret, you can instantly E an opponent to catch up with them.
Number 4: Your E is a stun. If your opponent has a CC that will stop your channel or might kill you, it may be better to E onto your opponent to stun them and spring off, rather than attempt to channel your Elastic Slingshot and jump away.
Number 5: Your ultimate ability, Let's Bounce! is a movement speed enhancing ability that knocks opponents back on the first bounce you hit them with. This makes it a brilliant escape tool. If 5 members of the enemy team are right behind you, use your ult, Let's Bounce! to knock them all back and speed away much faster than they can chase you.
Number 6: When using your Elastic Slingshot or Let's Bounce! in a fight, it is most effective when you land knockups/knockbacks on as many champions as possible.
Number 7: You cannot combo + Elastic Slingshot with each other, but you CAN combo + Let's Bounce!. Using to get extra distance will help you land knockbacks on more members of the enemy team in fights. If has Let's Bounce! and , he can always escape from danger.
Number 8: Zac's ultimate provides knockbacks. This means that you could accidentally bounce an opponent out of danger. That is why Zac's ult is not good for chasing enemies over distances. You should only use Let's Bounce! if the first bounce is going to hit someone. + Let's Bounce! work in many interesting ways. A good player can screw up a gank because of his ult, but a good one can guarantee a kill every single time he ganks with and Let's Bounce!.
This is because Flashing over an enemy and hitting Let's Bounce! will knock enemies back into your team. An enemy has to be really tanky to survive this. Tanky like a or a 4 stack . Flash ult is one of the best techniques a main can learn. This can be applied to a group of enemies, as ulting everyone backwards into your team can win teamfights. Similarly, ulting everyone 'outwards' can separate them, weakening them. Use of your ultimate, chilling smite and Elastic Slingshot can herd the enemy team into a small area, but this is more difficult. Perhaps one of the most significant uses of Let's Bounce! is when you use it to peel an entire team of pursuing enemies off your team.
Number 9: This applies to many junglers. Famed 'Fly by Zac' is a phrase used when uses Elastic Slingshot from one side of the Dragon/Baron pit to the other, while stealing the buff. This is cool but pointlessly difficult. has the durability and the CC to jump into the pit, with 1000-2000 health left on D/B, ready to Smite the buff with more focus, literally staring at the health bar. There is so much happening on a screen, and the mechanics are so complex, that Smite stealing should be as simple as possible. After you steal/fail, you are able to hit Let's Bounce! to knockback everyone, giving you freedom to hop on out of there.
10. 's sustain means that often, instead of backing farming your own jungle is a better option. As with most champions, it is important to gank when Let's Bounce! is off cooldown and to farm when it is on cooldown.
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Zac's normal skin is boring. Never use unless it is your only skin.
Zac's bubblegum chroma pack is the only remotely decent chroma for him.
Zac's Special Weapon skin is good. It tells opponents: 'I played Zac before his better skin came out.'
Zac's Pool Party skin isn't as themed as Special Weapon Zac, but it's awesome being an ironic badass using a pool party skin in the middle of winter.
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So there you have it: My guide to the blob.
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Gitmo Prisoners Confess to 9/11 Attacks, Express Pride
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Five detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay prison who refer to themselves as the "Shura Council" have filed a 3,00 word paper with the federal government in which they take responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and consider the killing a brave accomplishment, according to a report by the New York Times.
The detainees filing the document include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the attacks, and explain that the five men were content to be martyrs.
In reference to the terrorism charges against them the detainees wrote, "To us they are not accusations. To us they are badges of honor, which we carry with pride." | https://www.opposingviews.com/i/gitmo-prisoners-confess-to-9-11-attacks-express-pride | dclm-gs1-165531087 |
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Engineering Engineering career with good job prospects
1. Mar 2, 2009 #1
So today, in high school, my Econ teacher told us that a few reputable economists are forecasting 20% unemployment by 2012.
And I was wondering which engineering degree would be the safest or least vulnerable to such a rise in unemployment.
The engineering degrees available at the college (University of Pittsburgh) i'll be attending this Fall are:
Chemical and Petroleum engineering
Civil and environmental engineering
Electrical engineering
Computer eng.
Industrial eng.
Mechanical eng. and Materials science
*the ones that look most interesting to me are highlighted.
2. jcsd
3. Mar 3, 2009 #2
Engineering is one of things that people will always need. The unemployment statistics you are talking about are probably more related to production jobs (in the engineering world). So there may be strain on the market, but a good engineer can work almost anywhere, independant of their field. I know of mechanical engineers working in banks, of aeronautical engineers working in commercial product design (me :wink:) and in the petro chemical industry and chemical engineers working for car companies.
Engineering is a good choice and I think that you should focus rather on a field that you will enjoy than on one that promises the best jobs etc. A lot of my friends in highschool started going into IT because there was so much demand for it in the late nineties, but they became a little unstuck when the market saturated and there were just too many ITers. Then you have a bunch of guys that studied something they didn't really want to, because they wanted the promised job security and then ended up having to study further in other fields to get a job and were ultimately unhappy.
Chemical and petroleum engineering is big at the moment, I'm not sure for how much longer. Bio-engineering I think has a good steady market. Electrical engineering is probably a safe bet with a lot more things going digital these days and electric cars and other vehicles coming more and more to the forefront. Computer engineering... not sure. Mech Eng and material science is pretty stable too and the job opportunities are diverse.
hope that helps :smile:
4. Mar 3, 2009 #3
If those "reputable economists" were so smart then why did they not predict the economic downturn. Economists seem to only know what's happening after it happens.
5. Mar 3, 2009 #4
Really? I just realized it after I heard from you!
6. Mar 4, 2009 #5
Yeah... My econ teacher says that economists are mostly full of wind.
thanks for the response.
Isn't chemical engineering also a safe bet though?
By the way does Materials Science include metallurgy? Do you guys know what kind of jobs metallurgists get?
7. Mar 4, 2009 #6
Engineering as a whole is a safe bet...the primary driver in pretty much all industries in modern times is dependent on the development of technologies and I'm sure you hear it a lot but we're always going to have a need for engineers.
Especially even more so around now, given the lack of graduating engineers in the U.S.
8. Mar 5, 2009 #7
Materials science definitely includes metallurgy. Composite materials is another hot area of materials science, and will remain so for some time to come.
9. Mar 16, 2009 #8
Hi Konto,
The answer depends a lot more on the industry than on what your major is. Some
industries (like the current auto industry) will be transformed in 20 years as the
products evolve. Others like the composites industry will grow but not change
dramatically as the need grows.
If you are concerned about employment you should focus on a more general program
like mechanical or electrical and let specialization come later if you want to pursue
graduate school.
You can't go wrong with a classic engineering education. As someone said above
you can work in almost any industry doing almost anything.
Good luck,
Michael Brit
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0.02178 | <urn:uuid:e48dbba5-1274-4efe-aed5-8c643532e382> | en | 0.964002 | Are you a history buff? Do you enjoy hearing how the past shaped the future? How things came to fruition in order to set the tone for how things are today? Then you will enjoy this little history lesson on the greatest profession in the world!
Now let me set the stage.....
The date is March 28, 1854. War has been declared on Russia by Britain and France in an effort to reduce Russia's expansion into Europe. Death is enormous! Over 900,000 lives lost as soldiers were exposed to horrible situations. The sad part of this history lesson is not the fact of death, rather the reason for death. The conditions the soldiers faced were horrible, causing the majority of these soldiers to die from disease. Records vary, however the war lasted roughly 3 years. Now back up to May 12, 1820. Why is this date important? This is the day that the English statistician, social reformer, and the founder of nursing was born. Enter Florence Nightingale.
Nursing is believed to have existed as early as 300 A.D. Roman hospitals were constructed in every town of the empire. It is during this time that the "nurse" emerged, assisting doctors in various medical treatments. Thru the centuries, nurses were supplied throughout the world, mainly by the Catholic church. With European rulings came the expansion of nursing. Patient care and expectations of the nurse were in place since the 10th century!
Now fast forward to 1850. Florence Nightingale begins her nursing training at St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria Egypt (Wikipedia)
After being declared a nurse in 1851, Nightingale is quickly appointed as nursing superintendent of the English General Hospitals. Nightingale and a team of 38 nurses arrive on the war grounds in Turkey to assist with care of the wounded.
Now back to the beginning of the story. The Crimean war is underway, death falls upon the injured due to disease and horrible conditions of the front line hospitals. Nightingale arrived with her ideas and scientific principles of healthy lifestyles. The British government needed help in reducing their loss. Nightingale and her team immediately entered and improved the conditions of the hospitals. Basic sanitation measures and food preparation brought immediate results for the wounded. Infectious diseases dwindled as nursing care, sanitation, and health were brought to the battlefield.
Today, the basic practices of Florence Nightingale are alive and well. Sanitation measures are prominent. Nurses bathe, clean, maintain sterile fields. Nurses practice hand washing multiple times a day. Nurses use science to continue to look for ways to reduce infection, disease, and the health of the person. These basic foundations are what modern nursing is today.
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In 1860, First Nursing School is opens in London! This paved the way for nursing school across the world. As Florence Nightingale paved the way for modern nursing, others notable people have contributed to the history of nursing. In fact, so many nursing theorists and pioneers have brought different angles, structures, and views of nursing along the way. From Clarissa Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, to Imogene King in the 1970's to Patricia Benner in the 1980's.
Read the Time Line of the Development of Nursing Theory!
Now is your turn to be apart of nursing history. What concepts, theories, and changes will you bring to this great discipline? We continue to learn from our past to improve our future. We look to science to help provide the answers, while using our "gut" and heart to improve humanity. Nursing is a combination of science and caring. Not only are we caregivers at the bedside, we have evolved into the boardroom. We have a voice to shape the direction of healthcare by pointing out efficiency's.
The modern nurse has grown since 1850, however we respect and remember our roots. We allow history to shape us as we strive to tweak the next initiative, even if it means improving 1 life out of a million. We aim to please. We aim to fix!
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In a week of power failures and virulent worms, Simon Bisson looks at how you can ensure your business survives
Pay now, live later
As power failed in the north-eastern US and Canada and the MSBlast worm ran amok across the internet last week, system managers were hoping their business recovery plans were ready. With IT at the heart of business processes, keeping it up and running (or at least ensuring data is safe) has become more and more important.
What started out as just good practice for managing backups has become an industry in its own right. Business continuity grew out of disaster recovery, and it covers the technologies and policies businesses need to use to survive major disruptions - whether they're caused by disasters, power failures or security breaches.
Larger businesses often outsource at least part of their continuity planning, often using managed data centres. International organisations can take advantage of their data centres, and keep copies of databases and applications from each site out of harm's way on another continent: data management platforms such as Persistence Software's simplify managing data across several sites and countries. In the aftermath of the North American blackouts, large businesses - with their protected data centres - stayed online. But do smaller organisations have as good a chance of staying live?
A recent survey by RoperASW showed that 40% of large companies feel their data was vulnerable, and 25% would take longer than three days to recover from a disaster. It is likely to be worse in smaller businesses, which need to be ready for the unforeseen, from opportunistic burglars walking off with the company database server, to failed operating system or application upgrades.
It doesn't even need to be your business that has the problems: other units on the same industrial estate could catch fire, or other local emergencies can force your team away from their desks. Yes, business continuity costs money, but think of it as risk management. Plus, it can also be far easier to implement, and much cheaper than you might think. More importantly, it can also mean the difference between going out of business and being back at work in a temporary office just a few hours after a fire, with complete access to your data.
Teleworking technologies can help make a business more resilient, too. If the server is in the office but the emergency services won't let you in because of a problem elsewhere in the street, you could work over a broadband connection using the virtual private network software built into most broadband routers and PC operating systems. You need to plan ahead; servers are often connected touninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, to help shut them down gracefully after power failures. Critical networking equipment is often forgotten. It's a good idea to make sure you are protecting network switches and internet access as well. UPS equipment should also alert administrators so you are ready to shut down servers cleanly if there is a power failure.
Backing up your data is critically important. Changes in disk technology have made backing up large quantities of data easier. Instead of using tape, which could be unreliable and fiddly, FireWire disks make it easier to back up, and to check that data has been backed up. You can use them with most back-up software - or even with disk imaging applications such as Norton Ghost. And when your backup is the size of a paperback and stores 250GB, it's not a problem to take one out of the office and so keep data safe.
You also need to be sure you can recover your data. Too many companies run backups without ever testing to see if the data can be restored, until the day they need to restore a failed mail server or database and discover that several months' worth of backups are completely useless.
Often, it's not just your internal data that needs protecting. Websites and web applications need to be kept running. Your web host might run into problems of its own, so keep backups of your site's content and applications, and be ready to reload them at any time.
There are other ways of keeping web applications running. Dorian Logan, of the open source consultancy Tuxstar, has just changed his website hosting arrangements to improve availability. Instead of using a single host, he now keeps servers at two locations. By taking advantage of simple, and often ignored, features built into the internet's domain name service, the company can quickly switch between its two sites. If one goes down, DNS requests can be quickly routed to the second.
On a larger scale, technologies such as F5 Labs' 3DNS manage internet connections to several data centres. Monitoring tools and rules make sure packets are routed to the appropriate site, keeping connections to e-business sites running. 3DNS does not just cover entire sites, it can also handle individual applications.
Business continuity is for every business: from home workers to multinationals. Start with a risk assessment, and then work out what you need to do to deal with that risk. That's going to be different for every business, but you don't want to wait for a massive power failure to find out you have no continuity plans at all. | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/aug/21/onlinesupplement.insideit | dclm-gs1-165661087 |
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Our gut hosts a diverse community of trillions of microorganisms, which live in symbiosis with our bodies. Many of them play a critical role to our overall health. And as much as we need these bacteria to stay healthy, we also need to keep this balance intact. By safeguarding our microbial community the symbiotic nature of our relationship is upheld.
Our immune system makes sure that we keep the perfect balance between a tolerated load of microorganisms in our bodies and that we are able to respond actively to invasive pathogens.
The following article appeared in Nature Immunology and discusses the important role of the immune system regarding to the complex interactions between microbes in the gut and their host, the human body.
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First Phase – Mourning
We all need a mourning period. To get over the hard times that just occurred. To calm the heart down. To allow some time to let the pain heal. The duration of this period depends on the severity of the incident. So depends on what you have faced or lost, determine your own duration.
During the mourning period. We can watch a sad show, listen to a sad song, flip through the memory box. During this period, we are allowed to let ourselves go.
Second Phase – Recovery
At certain point of time, we must allow ourselves to move on. Here, we build ourselves up again. Learning to let go. The key is to be willing to try. Memories will come back to put us through those emotional state again and again. Even for months and years. But we should not give up. Fill our lives with positiveness. Songs, content, movies, people, activities, hobbies. Block out any negative things that try to affect our road to recovery.
Third Phase – Moved On
At the third phase, we should already have gotten over (or mostly) the lost or the pain. We should be willing to accept new opportunities. Try new experiences.
There are many people who do not know how to recover. From a heartbreak. From losing a important person. From failing an exam. From not living up to expectations of others. I’ve been through all of them. And many times, I felt like I was at the brink of depression. When I was down, I was like “don’t tell me what is recovery because you don’t know how much that person means to me.” or “how broke I am”. or “how I am going to let my mum down because I scored a C, just a C.”
I ask myself questions. If I never learn to accept failures or manage loss, for the rest of my life, I will be living in fear. Fear of failing and losing. Fear of going through those depressive states. And people who have been through them will know that they will do anything to get out of that state.
I am not a psychiatrist. But I just hope that if my little sharing can touch someone, I have succeeded. Even if I don’t, I will not give up.
No matter how down you are, don’t give up. Just hold on to this tiny, but powerful, belief. That everything will be fine. One day, you will look back, and smile, and think to yourself how small that failure was.
Focus On Ourselves
Why are we always so fascinated by how others live?
Who’s sleeping with who? Who’s she dating? How much that actor makes. Why are the perfect holywood couple divorcing? How cute the royal couple’s newborn baby is. Why is that footballer changing team? He got sacked again. He is upset. She is depressed. That arab prince has 200 cars. New houses.
He should do this. She should do that. He shouldn’t buy this. She shouldn’t buy that.
Is it because we are not doing anything useful with our own lives that’s why we have to spend our precious time caring about how others are living theirs?
Stop wasting your time and energy on how people live. Most of the time, how others live has zero bearing on us. Refocus back on how to improve your own life.
You’ll be surprise how much change will happen (mostly positive) when you start focusing back on yourself.
Respect Everyone (and Everything)
If you are sincerely nice to everyone, if you treat everyone with respect, love and care, how many enemies will you really have?
What does that mean?
You will get to reap all the love in the world. If you can even extend the respect, love and care to animals, plants and even things. You are going to be a very, very blessed person.
Victim of Society
Chaos is money. The more chaotic your life is, the more money you will spend and the more money big corporations will earn.
Stress, illnesses, disabilities, war, divorce, debts, accidents, viruses, etc.
We cannot 100% avoid all of the bad stuff, but we can reduce the probability of them occurring to us.
We must be aware and take the necessary steps. Learn from experienced and wise people, reducing our desires, understanding minimalism, zen, contentment and gratitude.
Manage our time well. Avoid rushing. Take care of our mind and body. Have adequate sleep. Eat right. See right. Think right. Be grateful and appreciate people. Be sincere to our friends.
There are many other ways to ensure that we do not fall into the trap. Be smart. Stop feeding yourself to others.
Why is It So Difficult to Wake Up 5 Minutes Earlier?
Have you ever wondered why it is such an impossible task to wake up, or sleep, just five minutes earlier?
Or why is it so difficult to save an additional $20 every month?
Or why do we keep finding ourselves slightly over-spending every month?
That’s because it is never about that 5 minutes or that $20.
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0.034139 | <urn:uuid:d70cada5-ac4b-407d-b0f7-538aa2d976b3> | en | 0.960505 | 3 Tools to Keep in Your Car
When operating a motor vehicle, you never know when problems will arise. One minute you’re cruising along the roadway with not a care in the world, and the next minute you’re wondering how so much could have gone wrong in such a small amount of time. We’ve all been there, and will likely be there again at some point in our lifetime. However, there are some things that can keep the bad times on the side of the road at a minimum. Be sure to always keep your car stocked with these three essential tools, and you’ll be patting yourself on the back later.
1.) Jumper Cables
Sometimes, car batteries lose their charge. So, keeping jumper cables in your car makes you a handy person, indeed. Dead batteries can present themselves at any given time, and having jumper cables at the ready makes dealing with the process so much smoother. Also, if you’re broken down on the side of the road, it’ll be easier for someone to come to your aid if you have jumper cables. Not only that, but it’ll be easier for you to help someone else too.
2.) Flashlight
A lot of cellphones come with built in flashlights these days. But, there are times when you experience car trouble at night AND your phone is dead. Yes, life can be that cruel. However, if you keep a compact flashlight in your glove compartment, you’ll be able to shine some light on the problem. Whether it be a flat tire or a debit card lost between the seats, a flashlight is essential for nighttime car issues.
3.) Multi-Tool
While it would be amazing to have a tool box handy at all times, the reality of such is not realistic. Therefore, it is much simpler to keep a multi-tool in your car. These tools come fit with pliers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, knives, and scissors. In short, a multi-tool provides you with several options to get the job done, and provides you with plenty of tools to help tackle plenty of car problems!
Not every tool fits every problematic situation you’ll encounter while operating a motor vehicle. However, these three tools are car staples that any responsible driver should have located within their cars. Find a convenient place to store each within your vehicle, and you just might thank yourself for it when trouble presents itself.
How to Avoid a Vehicle Break-In
If your vehicle has ever been broken into, you know the pit falling feeling in your stomach when you notice your car windows have been smashed in. Your belongings are strewn about the car, and most likely something of value has been stolen. While having to replace your windshield is usually an inconvenience but not too much money out of your pocket, having to replace smashed in window glass can be a different story. Take a look at some of these tips to avoid having to ever deal with an automobile break in.
1.) Choose Parking Wisely
Always choose a well-lit, public spot to park your car whenever you can. While it can be tempting to want to park your car away from others, it also means leaving your car in an area that isn’t as traveled or well-lit. This can present potential problems because thieves won’t be dissuaded from breaking in if they can remain relatively hidden while they sneak away with your things. So, whenever possible, choose a spot where people walking by would be able to notice nefarious behavior.
2.) Keep Valuables Out of Sight
This might seem obvious, but you would be surprised how many people leave their GPS’, backpacks, expensive sunglasses, and other valuable items in plain sight within their vehicles. While it is likely you have valuables in your car (who doesn’t?), it is in your best interest to keep them hidden. Have places where you store these items that aren’t your front seat. Keeping items of note out of sight will never 100% prevent a break in, but it will certainly make your car a less likely candidate over someone who leaves their possessions out in the open.
3.) Alarms are Your Friend
There is nothing that draws a person’s attention quite like a car alarm. If your alarm currently doesn’t work, you should certainly get it checked out soon. Not only do alarms deter thieves from sticking around to finish stealing your things, but it also alerts others in the area to the general location of said theft. Every time the alarm sounds is another chance for someone to notice that a robbery is taking place.
If you put these three tips into practice, you’ll stand a good chance of not having to deal with the aftermath of a vehicle break in. The most important tip to remember here is keeping valuables out of sight! However, if the worst should happen, look no further than AllStar Windshield for auto glass replacement and repair. We’ll be here to clean up the pieces. Call us at 800-900-1505, or fill out our online contact form.
Safety Tips on Sharing the Road for Bike Riders and Car Drivers
We have all been in a situation, regardless of being in a car or on a bike, where we felt as though there was not enough room on the road. This can lead to frustration for all parties involved, but, fortunately, there are a few ways we can go about making the road a more hospitable place for all commuters. Particularly now, when bicycling has become a major mode of transportation for urban dwellers. From 2000 to 2009, the number of bike commuters grew 70% across the entire country, and that percentage was even higher in more heavily settled areas. This comes as no surprise, as riding a bike has numerous benefits for both your health and the environment. Take a look at our tips for keeping things copacetic on the road, because you might think you’re a good driver, but you could be wrong.
Safety Tips for Bikers
• Safety gear is a must! Okay this might be an obvious one, but many bike riders seem to forget about utilizing the correct equipment to protect themselves. At the very least, you should be wearing a helmet when you hit the road. Taillights and headlights are also recommended for cycling around sunrise, sunset, and at night. In addition to having lights on your bike, it is recommended one utilize reflective clothing when biking during times of low visibility, especially at night.
• Obey the rules of the road. It might seem effortless to glide along the streets of a sprawling metropolis, but this does not mean the general rules of the road do not apply to bike riders. While on your bike, always stop at both red lights and stop signs, and be sure to adhere to all traffic signs. Also, a bike is considered a road vehicle just like a car is, so it is smartest to travel along the same traffic patterns as the other vehicles on the road.
• Stay to the right! While some roadways can truly make this difficult, it is a best practice to stay on the right side of the street you are traveling on. Some streets have designated bike lanes, which makes this tip much easier to follow. However, if there is no bike lane, it is good to leave enough space for cars to pass you while sticking to the right side of the road. Be sure to leave enough space between you and any parked cars on the road too, just in case someone suddenly exits their vehicle.
Safety Tips for Drivers
• Be Mindful of the road! This is an easy one, and a tip that applies to a variety of scenarios when operating a motor vehicle. Keep your eyes on the road, and away from your cellphone or other distractions.
• Treat bike riders the same as cars. Even though bicyclists are not protected by the metal frame of a vehicle, it does not mean they have less of a stake on the roadway. To repeat an earlier point, bicycles are considered road vehicles just like a car, so give them appropriate space and proper right of way.
• The 3-foot rule. Numerous states have laws in effect stating 3 feet is the minimum distance for passing bicyclists legally and safely. Keep this in mind on tight roadways. If you happen to be on a road free of nearby traffic, you can always give bicyclists more room!
Regardless of if you utilize a car or a bicycle, it is important to respect other drivers on the road. While operating a motor vehicle, it can be easy to disregard the needs of other drivers, especially those on bicycles. Keep these tips in mind the next time you hit the street, and be sure to always consider the safety of others while traveling the road.
Are You a Safe Driver? 5 Driving Misconceptions Busted
1. “Tailgating will make the vehicle in front of you to go faster.”
False. Not only it won’t make most of the cars go faster, many of them in fact would enter rage mode by consistently hitting the brakes to “educate” the tailgating car. It would also distract the tailgated car driver and lose focus on the road. If you are in a hurry, please do not tailgate, switch to another lane to pass the slow vehicle instead.
2. “Educate Others on How to Drive From Your Own Vehicle.”
Bad Idea! Many would be surprised on the amount of people that try to “educate” the offending car that they feel has wronged them. The “education” would be carried out by either slowing down in front of or blocking the way of the offender. This method would never get any results and instead, a foul mouth or road rage mode starts.
3. “Checking Text Without Responding is Okay.”
This act is considered distracted driving, which is one of the most common causes of accidents. In fact, text messaging makes a crash up to 23 times more likely. If you are travelling at a speed of 55 MPH and you take 5 seconds off the road, you’ve traveled the length of a football field. It would be hard to keep track of what’s ahead of you.
4. “Fatigue Would Not Happen If Well-Rested.”
Not true. It is certainly important to get the 8 hours of sleep required for an adult and get on the road after a good night sleep. However, sleep quality and consistency also contributes whether the sleep is a “good” sleep. In addition to that, a driver should get some rest after driving for a couple of hours since driver fatigue is believed to contribute to more than 30% of road crashes.
5. “Driving in High Heels is Safe”
A study conducted by Confused.com has revealed that 40% of women wear high heels and another 39% wear platform heels, wedges for safe driving. This move actually puts other drivers’ lives at risk.Good drivers placed their heel on the car floor and this makes their feet very easy to change direction and apply force between brake and pedal. With high heels, it is almost impossible to react very quickly in case of any life threatening situations occur. So, ladies, if you are in the driver seat next time, get a spare comfortable flat, rubber soled shoe to not only be safe but also be more comfortable on the road.
The Development of Auto Glass
Modern windshields can be traced back to a fortunate accident made by French chemist Edouard Benedictus, in 1903. One day in his lab, the chemist dropped a flask filled with collodion. He observed that while the flask broke, it did not shatter. Benedictus would later realize he had discovered shatter proof glass. This would lay the groundwork for shatter-proof safety auto glass. Laminated glass would be used for windshields in the 1920s.
In the early 1900s, however, windshields weren’t being used in any automobiles. Windshields were luxury accessories that were typically considered an option for your car. Even though windshields at this time cost more for the driver, they were not very safe or helpful for drivers. They kept dirt and dust out of the driver’s eyes, but they would easily shatter if damaged. This would cause more harm than good if driver and passenger were covered in glass after contact with a projectile.
Over time, auto manufacturers began to realize the necessity for stronger windshields and other forms of auto glass, like side windows and back windshields. Henry Ford began producing his own auto glass at his factories, and eventually utilized laminated auto glass for his windshields. While the laminated windshield solved the problem of glass shattering in the driver’s face, it still was not strong enough to protect against heavy projectiles or offer protection in collisions. Manufacturers invested in the development of safety glass and innovations like using a thin layer of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) between sheets of glass helped strengthen windshields.
Around this time, auto manufacturers also began using tempered glass for side windows and back windshields. Tempered glass helped strengthen the overall structural integrity of the automobile.
Eventually, the NHTSA would make windshields and auto glass a legal requirement for all automobiles. They would also define the standards for windshield mounting, transparency, and strength.
How Does your Windshield Help Keep you Safe?
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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Canty, youngest son of a family of beggars living with the dregs of society in Offal Court, has always had aspirations to a better life, encouraged by the local priest who has taught him to read and write. He hangs around the palace gates one day and sees the Prince (the Prince of Wales - Edward the Sixth). Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Royal Guards, but Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There, the two boys get to know one another, somewhat - and each becomes fascinated by the other's lifestyle, and even more fascinated by the fact that they each bear an amazing and uncanny resemblance to each other. They decide to switch clothes (and thereby, lives) "temporarily". Edward leaves in rather a hurry, before the boys are caught at their game, first quickly putting away an article of national importance which we later learn is the Great Seal of England. Soon Prince Edward is attempting to escape from the brutality of Tom's abusive and drunken father, while Tom posing as the prince, is attempting to cope with court customs and manners. His fellow nobles and palace personnel think "the prince" is suffering an illness that has caused memory loss and fear he will go mad. They repeatedly question him about the missing "Great Seal", but he knows nothing about it. However, when Tom is asked to sit in on judgments, his common-sense observations reassure them that he is of sound mind.
Edward soon encounters Miles Hendon, a soldier and nobleman returning from war. While Miles does not believe Edward's claims to royalty, he humors him and becomes his protector. Meanwhile, news reaches them that King Henry VIII has died and Edward is now the rightful king.
As Edward experiences the brutish life of a pauper first hand, he becomes aware of the stark class inequalities in England at that time. In particular, he realizes the harsh and punitive nature of the English judicial system, witnessing women burned at the stake, pilloring, and flogging. He becomes aware that the accused are convicted on the flimsiest of evidence and branded, dismembered, boiled in oil or hung for petty offenses. He vows to reign with mercy when he regains his rightful place. When he unwisely declares before a gang of thieves that he really is the king and will put an end to unjust laws, they assume he is insane, and hold a mock coronation.
After a series of adventures, including a stint in prison, Edward manages to interrupt the coronation (with some much-needed help from Miles), just as Tom is about to celebrate it as the new King Edward the Sixth. Tom is eager to give up the throne, but the nobles refuse to believe that the beggarly child the real Edward appears to be, is the rightful king, until Edward produces the Great Seal that he had hidden before leaving the palace. Tom declares that if anyone had bothered to describe the Seal he could have produced it at once, since he had found it inside a decorative suit of armor where Edward had hidden it, and had been using it to crack nuts.
Edward and Tom finally switch back, and later, Miles is rewarded with a raised noble rank of an Earl and the unique family right to sit in the presence of the king. As for Tom, in gratitude for supporting the new King's claim to the throne, Edward names him "The King's Ward," a privileged position he holds for the rest of his life. In the end, they all live happily for quite some time. The afterword mentions that Edward died at a young age (which is an inescapable historical fact - Edward having been an actual historical personage).
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0.039798 | <urn:uuid:81b01cf8-73f2-43ff-9700-8c915119ea65> | en | 0.920801 | Bat Guano Blended To Ensure Proper Dose For Plants
June 08, 1986|By William Aldrich.
Fertilizers are sold with specific formulas on the container that denote the percentages of the three macronutrients that the fertilizer is guaranteed to contain.
Tropical Bat Guano has an analysis of 3-8-1, meaning there is at least 3 percent available nitrogen by weight, 8 percent phosphorus as phosphorus oxide and 1 percent potassium in the form of potassium oxide. Because the composition of caves varies, the guano is blended to meet what the box guarantees is inside. Some samples of the bat guano contain up to 30 percent phosphorus.
The macronutrients are the three most important elements in plant growth. Many other elements found in most soils are lumped together under the term micronutrients.
Nitrogen is directly responsible for vegetative growth above the soil surface. Phosphorus is the root system`s best friend, but it also is essential for plant growth and health. Potassium, also known as potash, works chiefly with the plant`s sugar manufacture. Too little potassium causes poorly developed root systems and yellow top growth.
The plant doesn`t care if it gets fed from a natural or synthetic source, according to Bob Schmerbauch, University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service horticultural adviser for Lake County. The use of compost and organic fertilizers helps increase the organic matter in the soil, but in the Chicago area, ``we have 5 to 7 percent organic matter which is ideal,``
Schmerbauch says. ``That`s why we have black soil.``
Economics also plays a part in fertilizers. For an average backyard garden, the extension service recommends 1.5 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer per 100 square feet as a yearly maintenance feeding. That would cost about 75 cents per 100 square feet for a generic synthetic fertilizer, or about $3.75 for an average-sized garden of 500 square feet.
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0.021511 | <urn:uuid:67e7d013-f989-45e3-a6fc-febab6c1e2d3> | en | 0.982587 | Report: Danny Said Shooting Was 'Accident'
January 23, 2000|By JOANNE KIMBERLIN and KIMBERLY LENZ Daily Press
HAMPTON — Six days after Danny Caldwell told police Ricky Cullipher deliberately shot him in the head, Caldwell told his physical therapist a different story.
"The patient states he was shot in the head in February by accident ... ," wrote Rick Mocabee, at the time a therapist with Riverside Rehabilitation Institute in Hampton.
Mocabee's remarks are part of a May 21, 1996, outpatient physical therapy evaluation of Caldwell, who was in rehabilitation to re-learn the basic skills of speech, balance, swallowing, walking and more after his injury.
The report doesn't reveal if Caldwell told Mocabee who shot him by accident - whether it was himself, as Cullipher claims, or Cullipher. Still, the "accident" scenario doesn't square with what Caldwell told police - that Cullipher pointed the gun at him and said, "I'm going to (expletive) kill you."
What Caldwell told his physical therapist back then is important today because it's yet another helpful detail no one - not the prosecution, the police, or any of Cullipher's three lawyers - has ever mentioned on the road that led to Cullipher's February 1997 conviction or the unsuccessful appeals that followed.
It's not the first inconsistency from Caldwell, but unlike most of the others, it's one that could have been introduced at Cullipher's trial. It joins important evidence, such as Caldwell's tangled psychiatric and criminal history, that was contained in prosecution exhibits submitted to the court weeks before Cullipher's trial and available for inspection by the defense.
The physical therapist's report is among the thousands of pages that make up Caldwell's post- shooting medical record, introduced to demonstrate the severity of his injury. Reporters discovered Caldwell's statement to Mocabee during a recent review of the case file.
It was a critical piece of evidence that should have been introduced at trial, according to one lawyer.
"Absolutely," said Alexandria attorney John K. Zwerling, a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "It's an important statement that could have been used to question his accusation. It contradicts what he said before. If you can cast doubt on one part of his story, you can shake belief in his whole story."
Zwerling said the fact that the statement was contained in prosecution exhibits raised ethical concerns.
"If the prosecution was aware of it, they had an obligation to not just bury it in the exhibits like a needle in a haystack," he said. "They should have made sure the defense was aware of it. Their obligation is to see that justice is done."
Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney Bob Humphreys said it's very possible the prosecution never saw the statement.
Humphreys explained that documents like Caldwell's medical file are usually requested with a specific report in mind. Once prosecutors find what they're looking for, they usually stop plowing through what can easily be stacks of records.
"A prosecutor has no obligation to go through those records and search for evidence that would help the defense," Humphreys said.
"On the other hand," he said, "if a prosecutor stumbles across something that helps the defense, he or she has an ethical obligation to provide it to the defense."
Dee Vantree-Keller, one of Hampton's deputy commonwealth's attorneys, prosecuted the Cullipher case. Vantree-Keller has said she examined her exhibits thoroughly. She's also said Caldwell's story has been consistent.
Vantree-Keller couldn't be reached for comment Friday to answer the question of whether she'd ever come across Danny's contradictory statement. Either way, both Zwerling and Humphreys emphasized that the defense shouldn't depend on the prosecution to do its research.
Humphreys said defense attorneys have a "moral, ethical and legal obligation" to comb the exhibits themselves for evidence that might help clear a client.
There's no record of whether George L. Smith Jr. did that. He didn't return phone calls for this story.
Vantree-Keller's boss, Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney Linda Curtis, doesn't know if Smith ever examined Caldwell's medical record.
"All I can say," she said, "is that prior to the trial it was in the court file. It was available for the defense to look at."
Contacted by phone last week, physical therapist Mocabee said he remembers Caldwell and his statement. Caldwell stands out in his memory because his injury - a gunshot wound to his brain - is usually fatal.
"He said that was what happened, that he got shot by accident," said Mocabee. "As you deal with a patient for longer periods of time, they become very honest with you." He declined to be more specific, citing patient confidentiality.
Mocabee said no one had ever contacted him to ask about Caldwell's statement.
Joanne Kimberlin can be reached at 247-7820 or by e-mail at Kimberly Lenz can be reached at 247-4744 or by e-mail at
Where the Ricky Cullipher case stands now
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The Bio.Structure module provides functionality to manipulate macromolecular structures, and in particular to read and write Protein Data Bank (PDB) files. It is designed to be used for standard structural analysis tasks, as well as acting as a platform on which others can build to create more specific tools.
Parsing PDB files
To download a PDB file:
To parse a PDB file into a Structure-Model-Chain-Residue-Atom framework:
julia> struc = read(filepath_1EN2, PDB)
Name - 1EN2.pdb
Number of models - 1
Chain(s) - A
Number of residues - 85
Number of point mutations - 5
Number of other molecules - 5
Number of water molecules - 76
Number of atoms - 614
Number of hydrogens - 0
Number of disordered atoms - 27
The elements of struc can be accessed as follows:
Command Returns Return type
struc[1] Model 1 Model
struc[1]['A'] Model 1, chain A Chain
struc['A'] The lowest model (model 1), chain A Chain
struc['A']["50"] Model 1, chain A, residue 50 AbstractResidue
struc['A'][50] Shortcut to above if it is not a hetero residue and the insertion code is blank AbstractResidue
struc['A']["H_90"] Model 1, chain A, hetero residue 90 AbstractResidue
struc['A'][50]["CA"] Model 1, chain A, residue 50, atom name CA AbstractAtom
struc['A'][15]["CG"]['A'] For disordered atoms, access a specific location Atom
Disordered atoms are stored in a DisorderedAtom container but calls fall back to the default atom, so disorder can be ignored if you are not interested in it.
Disordered residues (i.e. point mutations with different residue names) are stored in a DisorderedResidue container.
The idea is that disorder will only bother you if you want it to. See the Biopython discussion for more.
Properties can be retrieved as follows:
Function Returns Return type
serial Serial number of an atom Int
atomname Name of an atom String
altlocid Alternative location ID of an atom Char
x x coordinate of an atom Float64
y y coordinate of an atom Float64
z z coordinate of an atom Float64
coords coordinates of an atom Array{Float64,1}
occupancy Occupancy of an atom (default is 1.0) Float64
tempfactor Temperature factor of an atom (default is 0.0) Float64
element Element of an atom (default is " ") String
charge Charge of an atom (default is " ") String
residue Residue an atom belongs to Residue
ishetero true if the residue or atom is a hetero residue/atom Bool
isdisorderedatom true if the atom is disordered Bool
pdbline PDB ATOM/HETATM record for an atom String
resname Residue name of a residue or atom String
resnumber Residue number of a residue or atom Int
inscode Insertion code of a residue or atom Char
resid Residue ID of an atom or residue (full=true includes chain) String
atomnames Atom names of the atoms in a residue, sorted by serial Array{String,1}
atoms Dictionary of atoms in a residue Dict{String, AbstractAtom}
isdisorderedres true if the residue has multiple residue names Bool
disorderedres Access a particular residue name in a DisorderedResidue Residue
chain Chain a residue or atom belongs to Chain
chainid Chain ID of a chain, residue or atom Char
resids Sorted residue IDs in a chain Array{String,1}
residues Dictionary of residues in a chain Dict{String, AbstractResidue}
model Model a chain, residue or atom belongs to Model
modelnumber Model number of a model, chain, residue or atom Int
chainids Sorted chain IDs in a model or structure Array{Char,1}
chains Dictionary of chains in a model or structure Dict{Char, Chain}
structure Structure a model, chain, residue or atom belongs to ProteinStructure
structurename Name of the structure an element belongs to String
modelnumbers Sorted model numbers in a structure Array{Int,1}
models Dictionary of models in a structure Dict{Int, Model}
The strip keyword argument determines whether surrounding whitespace is stripped for atomname, element, charge, resname and atomnames (default true).
The coordinates of an atom can be set using x!, y!, z! and coords!.
Manipulating structures
Elements can be looped over to reveal the sub-elements in the correct order:
for mod in struc
for ch in mod
for res in ch
for at in res
# Do something
Models are ordered numerically; chains are ordered by character, except the empty chain is last; residues are ordered by residue number and insertion code with hetero residues after standard residues; atoms are ordered by atom serial.
collect can be used to get arrays of sub-elements. collectatoms, collectresidues, collectchains and collectmodels return arrays of a particular type from a structural element or element array.
Selectors are functions passed as additional arguments to these functions. Only elements that return true when passed to the selector are retained.
Command Action Return type
collect(struc['A'][50]) Collect the sub-elements of an element, e.g. atoms from a residue Array{AbstractAtom,1}
collectresidues(struc) Collect the residues of an element Array{AbstractResidue,1}
collectatoms(struc) Collect the atoms of an element Array{AbstractAtom,1}
collectatoms(struc, calphaselector) Collect the C-alpha atoms of an element Array{AbstractAtom,1}
collectatoms(struc, calphaselector, disorderselector) Collect the disordered C-alpha atoms of an element Array{AbstractAtom,1}
It is easy to define your own atom, residue, chain or model selectors. The below will collect all atoms with x coordinate less than 0:
xselector(at::AbstractAtom) = x(at) < 0
collectatoms(struc, xselector)
Alternatively, you can use an anonymous function:
collectatoms(struc, at -> x(at) < 0)
countatoms, countresidues, countchains and countmodels can be used to count elements. For example:
julia> countatoms(struc)
julia> countatoms(struc, calphaselector)
julia> countresidues(struc, standardselector)
The sequence of a protein can be retrieved by passing a Chain or array of residues to AminoAcidSequence:
julia> AminoAcidSequence(struc['A'], standardselector)
85aa Amino Acid Sequence:
Writing PDB files
PDB format files can be written:
writepdb("1EN2_out.pdb", struc)
Any element type can be given as input to writepdb. Atom selectors can also be given as additional arguments:
writepdb("1EN2_out.pdb", struc, backboneselector)
Spatial calculations
Various functions are provided to calculate spatial quantities for proteins:
Command Returns
distance Minimum distance between two elements
sqdistance Minimum square distance between two elements
bondangle Angle between three atoms
dihedralangle Dihedral angle defined by four atoms
omegaangle Omega angle between a residue and the previous residue
phiangle Phi angle between a residue and the previous residue
psiangle Psi angle between a residue and the next residue
ramachandranangles Vectors of phi and psi angles of an element
contactmap Contact map of two element, or one element with itself
rmsd RMSD between two elements of the same size - assumes they are superimposed
displacements Vector of displacements between two elements of the same size - assumes they are superimposed
For example:
julia> distance(struc['A'][10], struc['A'][20])
julia> rad2deg(bondangle(struc['A'][50]["N"], struc['A'][50]["CA"], struc['A'][50]["C"]))
julia> rad2deg(dihedralangle(struc['A'][50]["N"], struc['A'][50]["CA"], struc['A'][50]["C"], struc['A'][51]["N"]))
julia> rad2deg(psiangle(struc['A'][50], struc['A'][51]))
A few further examples of Bio.Structure usage are given below.
A) To plot the temperature factors of a protein, if you have Gadfly installed:
using Gadfly
calphas = collectatoms(struc, calphaselector)
Guide.xlabel("Residue number"),
Guide.ylabel("Temperature factor"),
B) To print the PDB records for all C-alpha atoms within 5 Angstroms of residue 38:
for at in calphas
if distance(struc['A'][38], at) < 5.0 && resnumber(at) != 38
D) To view the contact map of a structure:
cbetas = collectatoms(struc, cbetaselector)
contacts = contactmap(cbetas, 7.0)
for i in 1:length(cbetas)
for j in 1:length(cbetas)
if contacts[i,j]
print(" ")
cbetaselector selects C-beta atoms, or C-alpha atoms for glycine residues. contactmap can also be given two structural elements as arguments, in which case a non-symmetrical 2D array is returned showing contacts between the elements.
E) To show the Ramachandran phi/psi angle plot of a structure, if you have Gadfly installed:
using Gadfly
phi_angles, psi_angles = ramachandranangles(struc, standardselector)
Guide.xlabel("Phi / degrees"),
Guide.ylabel("Psi / degrees"),
F) To calculate the RMSD and displacements between the heavy (non-hydrogen) atoms of two models in an NMR structure:
struc_nmr = read("1SSU.pdb", PDB)
rmsd(struc_nmr[5], struc_nmr[10], heavyatomselector)
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Taking the heat on global warming
Fellow QRP enthusiast Larry W2LJ has been taking some flak for expressing doubt that humans are entirely to blame for global warming. I expressed my own opinion some time ago in an article "The Great Global Warming Hoax". I am in total agreement with former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, who argues that current policies regarding climate change are completely misguided in his book "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming". Lawson shows that there are many reasons to doubt current theories, but that even if they turn out to be true, the cost of the measures that are proposed to prevent climate change would be much greater than the cost of adapting to the consequences of it. Given that we now face a global recession, isn't it time we all took a long hard look at this "inconvenient truth"?
I'm not going to waste time arguing about alleged scientific facts with people who haven't even read Lawson's book - so don't even try. However I believe that the general public of the western world have been taken for mugs, while politicians have jumped on the climate change bandwagon in a quest for greater glory. It's hardly surprising that two of the most prominent political campaigners on this issue have been a failed presidential candidate, Al Gore, and that starry eyed idealist former British PM Tony Blair, the quality of whose judgement can be seen by the fact that he believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
I doubt if so many people would be so keen on "saving the planet" if they realised just what it would cost in terms of their personal lifestyles. Ordinary people in places like India and China are certainly not signing up for this. They don't want to forego their chance to own cars, TVs, fridges and travel the world on their holidays like we've been doing for decades. And how much of those luxuries are we prepared to give up so that they can enjoy a better life without adding to global carbon emissions? I thought not.
People have been hoodwinked into believing that the sacrifices they will have to make will amount to little more than switching off the TV at night instead of leaving it on standby, and changing to energy efficient light bulbs. And they are conned into paying a premium for "green" versions of products. Environmentally friendly has become a great sales gimmick that goes down well with affluent people who can carry on consuming while at the same time thinking that they are helping to save the planet.
In the EU it will apparently be illegal to use filament lamps after 2010. Now I don't like paying more for my electricity than the next man, so I use low energy bulbs where I can already. But there are some applications where filament lamps are the only solution. For example, I like "mood" lighting, and you can't use low energy lamps with dimmer switches. How will this law be enforced. Will "green" police peer through your windows at night and issue you with fines if they see illegal light bulbs glowing?
As radio amateurs, the implications of having the government decide what is a responsible use of energy is worrying. If using a filament lamp is a crime, what about running a 1KW linear amplifier whose sole purpose is in the pursuit of a non-essential hobby? As a QRP enthusiast, it would not be a disaster for me if it was decreed that henceforth, all amateur radio equipment must be powered by renewable energy sources. But really, I think the measures that would be needed to reduce global carbon emissions would have an unacceptable impact on everyone's freedom and standard of living. Given that the justification for this is some suspect predictions based on the theory du jour, which could well be discredited once new evidence comes to light (as so often happens with scientific theories) I think it's time more people stood up and said "Enough of this nonsense."
Friday, March 27, 2009
Taming the Cub
Thursday, March 26, 2009
QRP is amazing
Friday, March 20, 2009
Digital voice: the way forward?
In the April 2009 issue of RadCom, technical editor Giles Read asks if digital ham radio is the way forward. He argues that the emergence of digital voice modes offering better voice quality than FM, better resistance to noise and interference, and the ability to be routed transparently from radio to radio using networks like D-Star, is the future of the hobby. My reaction is to hold up my hands in horror and say: "I hope not!"
My adverse reaction is not luddism. It's just that I believe these increasingly complex technologies, whilst interesting to those few amateurs with the skills to understand them and develop them, reduce most of us to the role of mere end-users. And what is the satisfaction in that? Using a D-Star network to talk to someone half way round the world is no more interesting or challenging than making a mobile phone call.
When I first became interested in radio as a young lad, DX locations really seemed exotic. Most took weeks to reach by ship, communication by letter took months, phone calls if possible at all were prohibitively expensive. To contact such places by radio was a real achievement, something only radio amateurs could do.
Today the world is a much smaller place. There is hardly anywhere on the planet you can't just pick up the phone and talk to. You can have email conversations with people in the remotest locations. There is nothing special any more in simply being able to communicate. Ham radio needs to add something extra to hold people's interest.
There are few activities that give more of a thrill than contacting someone thousands of miles distant using a radio you built yourself. And that is one of the few things that only amateur radio allows you to do. Radios that can receive - and even transmit - traditional modes like SSB, AM, FM and CW can be built by anybody. Digital modes will always require a 'black box'. And I believe the more complex technology you need between the microphone at one end and the loudspeaker at the other, the more the magic of radio communication is lost and the harder it is for ordinary amateurs to make their own equipment.
Reliable, error corrected communication under any conditions is not what ham radio is meant to be about. I predict that amateurs will still be building and communicating with radios using the same modes we have used for years, long after the store-bought digital D-Star radios have lost their novelty and are gathering dust on a shelf.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
K3 updated
My package from Elecraft finally arrived yesterday. As well as the KXV transverter interface I had ordered parts for some of the hardware mods to update my early K3 (serial number 222) to the current spec. I don't like modifying radio gear, especially modern stuff that uses SMT parts, but one of the mods was supposed to reduce distortion on the line output that I use to receive data modes, and I had seen signs of that on the waterfall traces, so I was keen to do that mod if nothing else.
One of the earliest modifications that Elecraft made to the K3 concerned the hardware AGC (HAGC), to improve the receiver dynamic range with close-spaced signals. That mod involved removing an SMT part, although Elecraft provides conventional replacements that can be added in parallel to other SMT parts for those who wish to keep the need to touch SMT parts to a minimum.
I was reluctant to touch SMT parts on my K3 at all, but the instructions for performing the mod suggested using two soldering irons simultaneously, one at each end of the part to be removed. I still have a miniature Antex soldering iron bought over 40 years ago, so I dug it out of a box in the garage. With that and my solder station I applied heat to both sides and the part came away with ease.
Flushed with my success, I was almost tempted to go the whole hog and install the SMT replacement components that Elecraft provided. But in the end I decided not to push my luck and used the leaded components. I can't honestly say I have noticed any difference having done the HAGC mod, so if you are reading this and haven't done it yet, I wouldn't worry.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Parcel Farce lives up to its name
The mystery of the delivery that never happened has finally been resolved, though not without a certain amount of personal embarrassment.
I was concerned that the package hadn't been delivered because Elecraft had incorrectly addressed the parcel, so I sent them an email asking them to confirm the shipping details. I received a reply that contained an address with the house number and street name missing, an incorrect phone number and an obsolete email address that had one letter missing so it wouldn't have worked even had it still been available. Faced with evidence of such apparent incompetence, I replied with a rather blunt email telling them to sort out their mistakes, and followed it up with a rant on the Elecraft reflector.
This morning I received an email from Elecraft saying that the full address had been on the shipping label, but had for some reason failed to copy correctly into the email. Just as I sent my reply, a correctly addressed letter arrived in the post from Parcel Force stating that they were holding a package at their depot pending payment of the customs fees (VAT.) So the address apparently had been correct, and they had not attempted to deliver the package at all.
From one of the more polite replies to my reflector rant I learned that Parcel Force records that it attempted delivery on the USPS tracking site when it sends the letter asking for payment of the tax. I didn't know this, so I believed that they had attempted to deliver it to the wrong address. Elecraft had then confirmed my belief by informing me (incorrectly) that they had addressed the package in such a way that Parcel Force had been unable to deliver it at all, and were probably just about to send it back to the USA marked 'undeliverable.'
It has all been a bit embarrassing in hindsight. At the time, though, being given to believe that Elecraft had made four separate errors in the shipping details for my order seemed to justify a rant about falling standards of service.
I don't know why it takes so long and costs so much to order things from Elecraft. You can buy things from eBay sellers in Hong Kong and your purchase arrives in half the time the postage is half the amount, and very often it even escapes the attention of the tax collectors.
Monday, March 16, 2009
The meaning of 72
Someone on QRZ.com asked today what "72" meant at the end of a CW contact. He thought they had sent "73" and he had simply mis-copied. But after the third time he realised that they were really sending "72" and he wanted to find out what it meant.
As a QRP enthusiast I soon realised that other QRP ops would send "72" instead of "73", so I guessed that it just meant "73 (best wishes) from a QRPer."
The principle of QRP is one of doing more with less. But Nick, KD5RFT spotted that it actually requires slightly more power to send "72" than "72" - one more dash and one less dot - and suggested that perhaps it would be more in the spirit of QRP to send "74" instead!
Transverter interface lost
Friday, March 13, 2009
K3 memory hassles
I'd like to report that following the fixing of the transverter bugs, I am now completely happy with my Elecraft K3. But unfortunately there are still some major annoyances that need attention.
The K3 provides pretty good support for using transverters, including an offset value that can be used to compensate for any inaccuracy in the transverter local oscillator so that the frequency displayed is accurate. Unfortunately, when you set an offset, the frequency displayed when any memory is recalled has this amount added to it. So if I set an offset of 200Hz, my 2m calling channel memory now loads the frequency 145.500.200. Elecraft says that this will be fixed, but in the meantime you should set the offset before storing frequencies in the memories. Now they tell me!
Setting up memories using the front panel controls is a hassle in any radio. But just about every modern radio with a computer interface supports memory management software. Bill Coleman, N2BC, has written a great K3 management tool called K3_EZ, so I downloaded that in order to edit my K3 memories. Unfortunately - and through no fault of Bill's - K3_EZ cannot be used to manage the K3's internal memories. The memory feature of K3_EZ only allows frequencies to be saved and restored from the computer. The only way to read or set the K3 internal memories using software would be to cycle through them, one at a time, by emulating front panel key presses, and that would take an inordinately long time. What's needed is direct access to the memories using software, and there isn't any.
Another example of how the K3 ergonomics haven't been fully thought through also involves memories. When you use the VFO control to cycle through stored memories you can't listen on each memory channel as it is selected. You can't use the VFO as a channel selector on FM. You must select a memory and then press the M>V button to load it into the radio and receive it.
There is a "channel hopping" feature that lets you scan a selection of memories. This at least allows you to scan FM channels and stop on one when a signal is detected. But only the receive frequency is loaded into the radio so if you stop the scan, other stored settings such as repeater shift or DCS tone are not loaded. If you call the station heard when you stopped the scan, the K3 will use whatever settings were last selected. You have to press M>V to fully load the memory contents, and of course it's easy to forget to do this.
It's such a shame that the K3 is operationally so inconvenient to use on FM because the receiver is very sensitive and the sharp crystal filter improves SNR and rejects adjacent channel interference much better than the second IF ceramic filters employed in most amateur multimode transceivers.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wainwrights are on the air
K3 transverter bugs fixed
I am pleased to report that the problems I reported when using the Elecraft K3 with a 2m transverter requiring a high power IF input have been fixed. I received a beta test firmware version 3.00 in my mail this morning from Wayne at Elecraft. The K3 will now remember that my transverter needs 4W of drive out of the antenna socket, instead of a few milliwatts out of the non-existent KXV3 transverter interface. And it does not prevent me from transmitting when I set the receiver to 145.700MHz or above.
Fans of Elecraft will point out that no other radio manufacturers would provide a fix for a reported issue within two weeks, and they may well be right. But I still think it would have been better if the bugs had not existed in the first place.
Radio rage
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Stop the twittering
It seems as if everyone is joining Twitter at the moment. This morning I had an email from a work acquaintance inviting me to join. And now I see that QRZ.com is on Twitter. What's the point of it?
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Junksale.co.uk's ridiculous restriction
I recently bought a 2m transverter that I found advertised on Junksale.co.uk. I'm not a member of the site, but it can be viewed by non-members, and the seller had put his email address so I didn't need to go through the site to contact him.
However, I wanted to join the site, both to give feedback to the seller and also because it seems like a good site for buying and selling ham radio equipment in the UK. But when I tried to register, I received a message that "your email address has been banned. Contact the webmaster"
Puzzled about how I could have been banned from a site I'd never even heard of until now, I contacted the webmaster. He replied that "the server does not accept free email addresses. Use an ISP email address." Well, I have news for him. I don't have an ISP email address. I use Gmail, like millions of other people. It's far more convenient to use an address you don't have to change whenever you change ISP. Plus, many people use an internet connection shared with other people so, even if an email address comes with the account, it isn't theirs to use. What a ridiculous restriction!
I could, of course, have used my work email address. In fact, I tried registering using that, and then changing it to my Gmail address afterwards, but I got the "your email address has been banned" message again. It's not convenient for me to use my work address for hobby matters, so that's no use.
I could, of course, set up an email address under my web hosting account for the g4ilo.com domain. But I don't want one. Gmail provides a far superior webmail client and is better at dealing with spam than anything else I have come across. And I long ago gave up using rubbish like Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird. Why on earth go to all the bother of downloading email to a personal computer so you have to use that PC to access it, when you can access Gmail from literally anywhere? Personal computer email clients are so 1990's.
So that's that. I'm not joing to jump through hoops and set up a special email address just because some webmaster has a thing about free email addresses. I'm afraid Junksale.co.uk has ended up in the trash can.
Monday, March 02, 2009
CQ to accept eQSLs for awards
My copy of the March CQ Magazine has only just arrived, so this will not be news to many people, but I was pleased to read that CQ will now accept eQSLs for its various awards. At last, someone is taking a practical commonsense attitude towards contact confirmation!
It has long been time that the costly, time-consuming and wasteful business of postal QSLing was laid to rest. Most radio amateurs now have internet access. Of those who don't, I expect many are in less affluent parts of the world and find the cost of printing and posting QSLs painfully expensive.
The argument that eQSLs are easier to forge has always been false, and never more so than since the advent of high resolution scanners, colour laser printers and PhotoShop. An eQSL is automatically verified, since only the station making the contact being claimed for can create it on the system. There is no way for someone who needs a particular confirmation for an award to fake an entry.
I'm glad to see that this aspect of the hobby is finally moving into the electronic age of the 21st century.
Banner Exchange Down
I have just noticed that the Amateur Radio Banner Exchange site (www.cq-cq.com) is down. There are no banners on my site and I'm getting a "Suspended" page from Hostgator when I try to access it. The same thing has happened to the Amateur Radio World Ring (g6dpp.com).
I do hope it is only a temporary glitch. G4ILO's Shack has been in the top 10 sites of the banner exchange for a long time, and gets a lot of traffic through it. The World Ring has been a nice way to find other ham radio sites as well.
Does anyone know what's up with these sites?
Keeping the spammers out
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Last Friday we celebrated our traditional Christmas Festival and we had the opportunity to sing some traditional songs in English. Year 3 students sang "Jingle Bells", Year 5 students sang "Santa Claus is coming to town" and Year 6 students sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas". All of them did a great job showing their talent singing and dancing.
And now you can have a look at Year 3 students singing and wishing you all "Merry Christmas!"
El pasado viernes celebramos nuestro tradicional Festival de Navidad y tuvimos la oportunidad de cantar algunas canciones tradicionales en inglés. Los alumnos de Tercero cantaron "Jingle Bells", los alumnos de Quinto cantaron "Santa Claus is coming to town" y los alumnos de Sexto cantaron "We wish you a Merry Christmas". Todos ellos hicieron un gran trabajo mostrando su talento cantando y bailando.
A continuación podéis echar un vistazo a los alumnos de Tercero cantando y deseándoos a todos "¡Feliz Navidad!".
Kids vocabulary - Olympic Sports - Game of Sports - Learn English for ki...
Archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, kayaking, cycling, equestrian, diving, fencing, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rhythmic gymnastics, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, trampoline, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling
Kids vocabulary - School Subjects - favorite subject - English education...
I like, I love, We love...
My favourite subject is...
Art, computer, English, geography, history, math, music, P.E., science
Action Verbs and Pattern Practice 2 for Kids What can s/he do by ELF Lea...
What can he/she do?
He/She can...
Read a book, ride a bicycle, shake her bum, sing loudly, skip slowly, spin quickly, speak English, swim, throw a ball, wash his hands, write a letter, catch a ball
Action Verbs, Pattern Practice 1 and Sentence Formation for Kids (What c...
What can he/she do?
He/She can...
Bounce a ball, brush her hair, clap his hands, climb a tree, dance around, draw a picture, drive a car, hop around, jump up and down, kick a ball, play tag, fly
Clothing Vocabulary - Pattern Practice for Kids by ELF Learning
What is this? It's a...
What are these? They're...
Boots, cap, dress, earmuffs, glasses, gloves, hat, jacket, jeans, leggings, mittens, pajamas, pants, rain boots, scarf, shirt, shoes, shorts, skirt, socks, sweater, swimsuit, T-shirt, underpants
Halloween comes to our school!
Halloween is here!
We have listened to stories in the light of a candle, danced to fun scary songs and even made some minibooks to scare everyone at home.
Once again, we held our traditional Jack-o-lantern exhibition in the corridor. We'd like to thank you all the families for your effort and involvement, we hope you had a great family time decorating your pumpkins.
If you didn't have the chance to have a look at the exhibition, here we have some photos (Click to enlarge).
¡Halloween está aquí!
Hemos escuchado cuentos a la luz de la vela, bailado al son de divertidas canciones de miedo e incluso hecho unos minilibros para asustar a todos en casa.
Un año más, hemos llevado a cabo nuestra tradicional exhibición de calabazas decoradas en el pasillo. Nos gustaría agradeceros a todas las familias por vuestro esfuerzo y participación, esperamos que hayáis pasado un buen rato en familia decorando vuestras calabazas.
Si no tuvisteis la oportunidad de echar un vistazo a la exhibición, aquí tenemos unas fotos (Haz clic para ampliar).
Halloween Monsters Vocabulary
Ghost, werewolf, vampire, zombie, mummy, pirate, witch, skeleton
Trick or Treat Song | Halloween Songs for Kids | The Singing Walrus
On Halloween night We walk, walk, walk
On Halloween night We knock, knock, knock
Chocolate, cookies, candy, jelly beans, lollipops, candy corn
We love to trick or treat
Trick or Treat | Halloween Song for Kids by Little Fox
Ding-dong, ding-dong. Trick or treat!
Who are you? Who are you?
I’m a monster, a little monster.
Happy Halloween!
Little monster, cute fairy, spooky ghost, wicked witch, scary mummy
Witch Song for Kids | Witches on the Brooms Song for Halloween
The witches on their brooms
Fly up and down
Up and down
Up and down
The witches on their brooms
Fly up and down
On Halloween
The witches wear pointy hats and shoes
Hats and shoes
Hats and shoes
The witches wear pointy hats and shoes
On Halloween
Their eyes are yellow and skin is green
Skin is green
Skin is green
Their eyes are yellow and skin is green
On Halloween
The witches are chanting magic spells
Magic spells
Magic spells
The witches are chanting magic spells
On Halloween
The witches are holding big black cats
Big black cats
Big black cats
The witches are holding big black cats
On Halloween
The witches on their brooms fly in the air
Here and there
The witches on their brooms
Fly in the air
On Halloween
On Halloween
On Halloween
Verb Chant and Pattern Practice for Kids - Can You~? by ELF Learning
Can you bounce a ball?
Can you climb a tree?
Can you dance around?
Can you write a letter?
Can you drive a car?
Can you read a book?
Can you ride a bicycle?
Can you shake your bum?
Can you speak English?
Can you throw a ball?
Can you draw a picture?
Yes, I can! / No, I can't.
Verb Chant and Pattern Practice for Kids: Part 2 (Can You ~?) by ELF Lea...
Can you brush your hair?
Can you catch a ball?
Can you clap your hands?
Can you fly?
Can you hop around?
Can you jump up and down?
Can you kick a ball?
Can you sing loudly?
Can you skip slowly?
Can you spin quickly?
Can you swim?
Can you wash your hands? (Can you wash an elephant?!)
Yes, I can! / No, I can't.
Learn Clothes Vocabulary | Talking Flashcards
Belt, boots, dress, gloves, hat, jacket, pajamas, pants, scarf, shirt, shoes, skirt, socks, underwear
More Countries Vocabulary Crossword
Countries Vocabulary Crossword
Adverbs of Frequency - Learn #ESL English with Simple English Videos
Once a day, twice a day, three times a day
Summer Songs for Kids | I Love Summertime | The Singing Walrus
Letters from our English friends
Lip dub - "Summer Time"
Mom, where is my cap?
It's in your bag.
I don't see it. Where is it?
Well.... On the desk?
Here, it's under the desk.
Mom, see you.
Okay, have fun.
No cheese
I like... but I don't like...
How are you?
I'm good. How was your summer vacation?
It was great. I went to Jejudo with my family.
Really? What did you do there?
We looked around Jejudo.
Sounds great.
We rode horses and walked along Jeju olle.
Jeju olle? What’s that?
Wow, I want to go there, too.
How about your vacation? What did you do?
I took taegwondo lessons.
Great. What color belt do you have?
White. I want to get my blue belt soon.
Good luck!
English teachers visit our school
Thank you, teachers! We loved you being with us!
¡Gracias profes! ¡Nos encantó que estuvierais con nosotros!
Where are you going?
[Present progressive] What's he doing? He's dancing. jumping. jogging. -...
Look over there.
What's he doing?
He's dancing.
Oh! Now he's jumping.
Wow. Great.
What's she doing?
She's jogging.
Alex's family comes to visit
Last Monday, Alex was very excited. His grandparents from England were coming to school to give us a lovely surprise. His parents came too. His grandfather was very kind to answer all our questions. Then, he gave us some presents from England and we LOVED them!
Thank you very much, family!
El pasado Lunes, Alex estaba emocionado. Sus abuelos de Inglaterra venían al cole a darnos una estupenda sorpresa. Sus padres vinieron también. Su abuelo fue muy amable contestando todas nuestras preguntas. Después, nos dio unos regalos de Inglaterra y ¡nos ENCANTARON!
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Turbine flow meters have a unique k-factor, or ratio of input pulses per unit of flow. For a Blancett turbine meter, the K-factor Scaler is the number of pulses equivalent to 1 gallon. Because this k-factor applies only to gallons, it is a low-cost and convenient way to convert the turbine output into a different unit of measure.
The K-factor Scaler converts a low level frequency output into a scaled square wave output signal. This adjustable frequency divider converts or scales the turbine meter output into desired units of measurement and is recognized by almost any data collection device. The signal is more immune to electrical noise and capable of transmission over longer distances than a raw turbine meter output.
Blancett offers the switch-selectable and programmable K-factor Scalers. The switch-selectable version has a set of eight rotary switches within the enclosure. The rightmost switch represents the least significant digit of the k-factor number. The programmable version comes precalib
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I just wonder it this will escalate, or downsize the insurgent movement in Iraq? The reason I ask this is because often times when there is a loosely organized movement with a figurehead in charge, as is the case with the Iraq insurgency' it is very difficult to launch a "decapitation strike" with much success. Either, it wiil have no effect because he actually didn't have the command and control he boasted about, or it will escalate because people will start doing dumb shit in the "name of Sheik Al Zarquawi" or something inane like that.
I am happy that Nick Berg has been avenged, but I wanted Zarquawi to be either shot with small arms fire, or captured. The lunatics will try and martyr him and boast about how "Soldiers could not get him, only big bombs." I mean come on, we saw the video, the guy's weapons craft sucked.
[From ABC]
Oil exports from Iraq have failed to return to pre-war level due to frequent sabotage attacks on the country's northern pipeline and deteriorating security that has prevented significant investment in aging southern oil fields.
So this is part of the reason why I am paying $3.00 plus per gallon?
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Maybe They Listed The Wrong Address
Poor, poor American Idol. They decided to hold auditions in Puerto Rico, the 50 states' sexy-but complicated half brother from a previous marriage. As it turns out, about 300 people showed up.
Let's write that again shall we?
This means the same amount of people showed up to fight in a bloody, virtually un-winnable battle in a mountain pass than in sunny, beach-filled Puerto Rico for Idol auditions.
That's a sad state of affairs.
But to Puerto Rico's credit: most of the people auditioning in any given city are not from that city or even the area. It's a lot easier to drive to Los Angeles from your farm in Oregon than to buy airfare to Puerto Rico. And because of the way they shoot the show, you'd have to do it twice. No thanks.
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One tenth of a mailing, habitually divided by percentage of response. When a statistician classes data and then separates them to deciles, it is in an endeavor to determine the biggest and smallest character by a given metric. For instance, by dividing whole S and P 400 Index into deciles ( 50 firms will be in each decile) by the P/E multiple, the statistician will identify companies with the loftiest and smallest P/E estimations in the index.
Deciles are related to quartiles. Although quartiles divide information in four quarters, deciles divide them into ten balanced bits. The loftier your position in the decile asorts, the higher your comprehensive asort. For instance, if you were in the 99th percentage for a specific exam, that would place you in the decile asort of 9 position. An individual who scored quite low, lets say the 5th percentage, would find themselves in a decile assort of 1. Decile assorts are just different ways to classify information. Difference in systems is often very crucial. For instance, if you wish to present class assort on a pie chart, using deciles would create more touch to that percentage. That’s because a pie chart divided into 10 sequels is easier to read than the one with 99 sequels.
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Not a lot, but there are some. The American bison all but disappeared from Colorado in the eighteenth century, but in 2007, sixteen bison were reintroduced to a special wildlife refuge in the state. The refuge, the 1,400-acre former Rocky Mountain Arsenal (a weapons-manufacturing plant), appears to be working out for the bison so far. But their numbers in the state are not expected to rise sharply any time soon.
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Renewables are being sought out as alternatives to coal-based energy, not as additions to the grid. The real impact of adding renewables depends on location. The state of California, for example, has a goal of making 33% of electricity generated in the state to come from renewable sources by 2020. Each state has made their own goals as to how they will decrease dependency on fossil-fuel generated electricity.
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Did you know these unusual facts about heart?
Your heart, the soldier who is always hard at work. The heart beats from the advent of your existence to your ultimate end and; get to know this superhero, a little bit more. Appreciate it and by all means, take good care of it! Did You Know?
1. An adult’s heart beats 100,000 times a day!
That comes down to one beat per second! The heart is literally always at work!
2. The rate at which your heart beats is affected by your age and fitness
The younger and the fitter you are, slower is your heartbeat! In simple terms, in healthy people, the heart doesn’t work overtime.
3.Heart disease is the number one killer of both, men and women.
Yes, contrary to popular belief, women too suffer from heart disease almost as frequently as men and succumb to it.
4.Your heart is exactly the size of your closed fist
An organ that little, facilitating the biggest of mechanisms, surprising is an understatement!
5.Your heart rate slows down while you’re asleep
The heart decides to slow down, not halt! Cut it some slack! The heart beats 20% less due to the slowing down of metabolism while sleeping.
6.Heart Attack manifests in different ways in men and women
Men complain of chest pain, sweating and nausea while experiencing a heart attack. On the other hand, women say they experience backache, shortness of breath and dizziness.
7.Your physical activity decides the condition of you heart
The fitter you are the longer your heart will last. Unhealthy people have twice the risk of developing heart disorders as compared to a healthy person.
8.Depression weakens the heart
Emotions have a direct correlation with the functioning of the heart as they raise or plunge, blood pressure. An emotionally distraught person, especially when its a lady, is at a huge risk for heart related problems.
9.Excessive amount of sitting is bad for the heart
People who are seated for the most part of the day are inviting heart trouble. You better get off your seat, now!
10.The littlest big pump
Your little heart pumps 2000 gallons of blood, every single day! The channel of blood vessels, the blood flows through is 60,000 miles long, when laid out in front of you, side by side!
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Gobble to Goop from my son (five-years-old)- Moose and Little Bear.
One morning a little bear was standing outside a moose's home. He was invited for dinner (that just means lunch). And he was going to have bear supper. Little Bear was going to have lunch out of a cookbook called Moose Blackberry Supper with Moose Supper Pie, so that the bears could have plenty to eat.
That is the end of the story. Now we have to take care of some business. Did the moose rip up the cookbook, no? He did not rip up the cookbook, because you need them to cook with.
Now we can finish the story. And the moose was in his home when the bears came because they were invited for dinner. The end. The end.
1. Very cute. But does the moose's home have home grown veggies?
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0.023954 | <urn:uuid:774851ea-eda2-4005-8a40-ffb0ed3931d1> | en | 0.948905 | The Karate Kid is an action video game for Apple iPhone, inspired by the movie of the same name. The game is published by Sony Pictures Mobile. In the game, Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Even worse, Dre inadvertently makes an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts "the karate kid" on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu.
The Karate Kid allows you to play five martial arts training exercises. As you play, you will earn experience points. The more you train, the faster you progress towards becoming a martial arts master. New levels ranging from white to the highly honored black can be earned as you gain more points. Awards will also be achieved by completing specific tasks throughout the games. Each level or award earned can be shared on your Facebook wall!
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Review: The Idea Factory
Cover of The Idea Factory by Jon GertnerBell Labs was awesome, and Jon Gertner’s new book The Idea Factory sets out to prove this simple fact. The Bell Laboratories (funded by AT&T when they were a government-sanctioned monopoly) was the place where vacuum tubes were improved and ultimately replaced by another Bell Labs invention, the transistor. The labs went from creating ways to treat wood so telephone poles would last a very, very long time without needing to be replaced to figuring out how cellular telephony would work. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Bell Labs created the future. Continue reading | http://kittysneezes.com/tag/att/ | dclm-gs1-166841087 |
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This song is by Moonspell and appears on the album The Antidote (2003).
Here's to the Fear
For keeping us alert
And here's to sleep
For making me understand
Here's to the crowning roots
(Placing us nowhere)
Here's to the laughable wings
(Taking us nowhere)
Here's to the Eve
Of the Day which will never come
And here's to Retreat
To ease the pain
Here's to Resistance
(Laughing at ourselves)
Here's to defeat
How dare you come so late?
The cup is empty
Shall be filled no more
And all the thirsty
Can now approach...
The antidote
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LOST: "Everybody Loves Hugo" Reflections
I'm very aggravated right now, because I got through half of my post and suddenly it disappeared. Now I have to try to write it all over again. There's a half hour down the electromagnetic well.
Like "What Kate Did", this episode title references a previous title, which as it is was a reference to a sitcom title. Everything comes full circle.
It was good to see Michael again. I guess the dead are forever directing Hurley now. I liked that he was remorseful about LIbby. It would be nice if he could see Walt again (they had BETTER pay off the Walt thing).
I was confused by Jack's actions early on. Two weeks ago he told Sun that he was not going to blow up the plane, and he was going to get her and Jin off the island with it. So color me confuddled when he's cheerily marching to the Black Rock to get dynamite to blow up the plane!
When Ilana blew up, it was more sudden than Arzt. I had to reassure myself of what had just happened. On the one hand, it's a bummer that it seems the whole Ilana thing was kind of a waste now. But on the other hand, I was glad to see it. Not because I wanted her dead, but because of the dynamite. When we first got the dynamite, someone exploded almost immediately. But since then, people have been carrying it all over the jungle and not being careful with it at all. It has bothered me that there's been no sense of danger around it anymore, so when someone finally blew up, I have to say it's about time.
And then Hurley went and blew the whole ship up! You know what this means? Hurley is the new John Locke! He's now taking mysterious orders from the island, trying to become a leader, blowing crap up to suit his own agenda. I hope the island isn't playing him, and I hope Hurley isn't in for the same end Locke suffered.
Speaking of which, who is manipulating Hurley? He trusts the ghosts, but who do the ghosts answer to? Because we saw Christian Shepherd take Michael from the freighter. Michael is directing Hurley. But Christian Shepherd was in cahoots with Smokey. So is Michael working with Smokey? Hurley does seem to be leading them directly where Smokey wants them.
On that note, I was glad when Hurley told Jack maybe he's not supposed to just let it go. Back at the lighthouse, Jacob seemed to indicate he had work for Jack to do. What was that? We don't know. But might it be that Jacob's plan for Jack is to NOT follow Hurley down this rabbit hole? Passive Jack may be a breath of fresh air, but I wonder what will come of all this.
I wonder who that boy is. We saw him again this episode, and he seems to be terribly important but we have no idea why. Where did he come from? Is he dead too? Is he an apparition like Walt? Is he the soul of Kate's horse? Who the heck is he??
It was good to see the Whispers recur. Unfortunately, if what we are told here is true, it's resulting in the most terrible retcon since Battlestar Galactica and the Kobol opera house. The Whispers are GHOSTS? Seriously?That is just plain dumb. Where does Walt fit into that, then? Because way back in season 2, the Walt apparition appeared at the presence of the Whispers. Was he being carted about by ghosts? What of the connection to the Others? As late as last season Ben told Rousseau to run if she heard Whispers. Or what about Harper in "The Other Woman", who also appeared out of the Whispers. We were led to believe all this time that the Whispers were the others. Could TPTB just not come up with any way to expain it? Was Harper a ghost? Can only Hurley see the ghosts? Because Juliet could see Harper, but Harper was supposedly at the Temple, and we didn't see her there. To make matters worse, if Michael is to be believed, the ghosts are trapped on the island for things they did. So at least for them, the island really IS hell or purgatory or whatever. Who else is there, and who is not? Does Christian Shepherd count? I don't think so, since he was able to appear on the freighter. Apparently Libby was an innocent so she's not. Are Nikki and Paolo walking around whispering? It makes no seeeeeeense!!!
Apparently there's more than one well. Did Dharma build a hatch at every well? I doubt there was a well at the Arrow. We also gain a bit of a time frame for when they were dug, since we know it was after the invention of magnetic compasses. Though that's not terribly helpful. If the wells were just holes dug for answers, why even bother making them wells? Why not just leave them as holes? Why brick up the sides? Why did the one by the Orchid have a rope? Why did they do the sides up first before digging down (as seen in the time flashes)? That's not at all an efficient way to dig a well! You dig it first, THEN you brick up the sides. ...or had it been filled in at that point? I'm a little confused and will have to check that again.
Did anyone expect Desmond NOT to be thrown into the well? It was obvious Locke was going to do that. I agree with Locke though that this new Desmond is odd; why ISN'T he scared? I guarantee Desmond is not gone. He will survive whatever anomaly is at the bottom of that well.
I didn't much comment on it before, but I have to agree with those who pointed out the difference in Sayid's voice. Naveen definitely seems to be downplaying the Sayid accent, making him sound more English. It's a little strange, and I'm not sure why that is. After 5 years, you'd think he would know his character. It bothers me because the same thing happened to Deanna Troi on Star Trek. She used to sound all exotic and kind of Israeli, but in the later movies and her Voyager appearances, it's just Marina being all british. Marina may be british, but Troi is not. Neither is Sayid.
Dr. Chang opens the episode. Does he work for Hurley now? I was hoping for proof that it's a Dr. Chang post-incident, but I couldn't tell if he had a prostethic arm or not. And he didn't seem to have aged very much, considering thirty years have passed.
I wonder if Rosalita ever showed up at the restaurant. And if not, why not? It's like she only existed as a plot device. But at least her name put one of the greatest Springsteen songs in my head.
Hooray, Libby's back! It was good to see her again. It's clear that they are continuing the love connections/second life stuff. It was also good to see her back at Santa Rosa. It seems in this universe she's been institutionalized for thinking she knew Hurley from somewhere. I guess we will never know why the other Libby was there.
I just knew that Desmond would make an appearance to Hurley somewhere here. Desmond in the flash-sideways is like a kind of Nick Fury, gathering his Avengers. You know, like the little scenes Marvel keeps putting at the end of their movies in preparation for the big Avengers movie. It's like that to me.
I like the scene with Hurley and Libby's beach picnic, though when it started I had a hard time focusing. There was that girl in the black bikini in the left-hand corner and I found her very... distracting.
I like Ben being on pervert alert with Desmond at the school. But I did not anticipate Desmond running over Locke. What is his plan? I have two theories. One, this will get Locke to Jack's hospital, Jack will fix Locke's spine, and then Desmond will gain both Jack and Locke as disciples of his second life/love thing. Or two, somehow this Locke will connect with the dead Locke in the other reality. Though I don't know how. But they are definitely gearing up for something.
Finally, I do not normally comment on promos, but this week they upped the creepiness scale by just flashing images accompanied b
y a seeming non sequitur: the audio from Willy Wonka! We hear the immortal and spooky "there's no earthly way of knowing" stuff. I wonder why they chose that bit. Did they have to pay Warner Bros. just to use it in the promo? Will that feature in next week's episode at all?
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"Manuscripts don't burn"
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The Last War: Chapter 54, Part 2
Frost awoke quite suddenly. He was battered, bleeding, badly hurt. He tested himself to see the limits of his movement, and he found it was unlimited, aside from the sore aching pain.
The colonel looked to his right, where he saw Snaro in a bed, resting uncomfortably. He wondered suddenly about that. The Mexicans had only ever given the prisoners wooden slats with minimal cushioning before. Then his eyes fell to rest on a red cross on a background of white. They were in a hospital.
He was in his underwear, but his uniform was sitting on a chair nearby. He slowly sunk out of the bed and put the uniform on. It had long since grown tattered and threadbare.
No one else was in the room. He and Snaro were completely alone. He looked out the window. His heart began to pound furiously in excitement. There were no fences and only one guard. Only prisoners who were too badly wounded to escape were sent to the hospital - or so the Mexicans thought. Frost could make it. And Snaro could if he was conscious, Frost reluctantly thought.
He ran over and began furiously shaking his comrade.
"Snaro! Snaro, wake up!" he hissed.
The lieutenant woke blearily up and looked at Frost.
"Yes! Come on, this is our only chance to escape!"
"Where will we go?"
"It doesn't matter. We've just got to get out of here. Can you walk?"
"Yeah, I think so."
Larry got out of bed and groaned in pain. He slowly, deliberately began to put on his uniform.
"Come on, hurry!" Frost insisted.
Snaro soon finished and they were headed toward the door, when the younger man stopped himself and his superior.
"What is it?"
Snaro grabbed up a syringe and a bottle of liquid.
"Anesthesia. We may need it to knock out any Mexicans."
"Good thinking. Come on!"
They both snuck carefully out into the corridor, but seeing that no one was there, they made a dash for the nearest door. In the Juala Prison Camp Hospital, there was only one floor, and so no stairs to go down.
Outside, Snaro nearly ran over a Mexican doctor, who nearly let out a scream before Frost put his hand over the man's mouth. Snaro injected him, and then let him slip to the ground.
"Let's go," whispered the lieutenant.
They stealthily walked up behind the guard. Snaro jammed the syringe into the man's neck, and he fell to the ground almost instantly, but his gun went off as he fell. A stream of shotgun shells went off into nowhere.
"They're bound to have heard that. They'll be coming. We've got to head out now, and quickly," said the lieutenant colonel.
They both ran off as fast as they possibly could, into the desert. They got only two or three miles before Snaro collapsed of dehydration and sunstroke again.
Frost got down on his haunches and turned Snaro's head.
"Larry, can you hear me?"
The second lieutenant nodded.
"You're not going to die. Do you hear me? You won't die."
Snaro nodded.
"I know," he coughed out, "I've never been worried about dying from the heat. I know I won't. I've never been worried about being killed by a bullet. That's why I've never been afraid around bullets. Guns are the bane of other men, not me. I know exactly how I will die, I just don't know when it'll happen."
Snaro pointed at his jugular vein on his neck.
"Right there. My neck. When I die, it'll be because my neck is sliced open, right there. I've felt it, all clammy like the pallor of death. That's how I'll die. The only man I fear is one with a knife coming at me."
With that, he fell unconscious again. Frost stood up. He felt about ready to go out cold himself. The sun was making the air seem hazy from the heat. Off in the distance...was it metal, glinting in the sun?
He turned his eyes away. There was something out there. He could almost hear the sound of engines revving and troops marching. The metal of the tanks were burning his eyes. He waved his arms wildly, in a perversion of semaphore, just to get their attention, if they were there. Maybe it was just a mirage. Just a mirage...
He collapsed on top of Snaro's body. Two minutes later the American army came onto their position.
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The following are well-known facts.
When considering applicants, law schools look at precisely two things: your undergraduate grades and your LSAT score. That is it. Don't fool yourself about recommendations or the essay. They just don't care. They also don't care that, oh, you did a thousand times better in your graduate school than your undergraduate college because they simply don't care that you have a graduate degree. Your LSAT score, on the other hand, better be well about 99.9% to get into a top law school.
However, when considering applicants, business schools really don't care much about your GMAT scores or undergraduate grades. The thresholds are pretty low and many, many qualified applicants pass easily. However, Harvard has a total of seven 400 word essays about your goals, leadership skills, personal life, extracurricular activities, work experience and accomplishments. No listing. You'd better tell some interesting stories. In other words, it is extremely hard to get into a top business school straight out of undergrad. They want people with work, extracurricular, and charity organization experience.
Now, what does this mean?
Clearly, the students going to business school are more adult, simply because they're older, have more work and life experience, and need to be able to prove their managerial and leadership abilities outside a school setting. In fact, they must all have some business experience as well as specific goals for their future. These people have the ability to think in complex situations, deal with people, be adults, live in the real world.
The law students, however, are uniformly unformed. Most come straight out of college. They have varied undergraduate experience which may encompass no business, government or law experience--despite the fact that the majority will work in the private sector or the government. They are required to be good at taking tests, specifically the SAT, which the LSAT strongly resembles. They are also required to have been organized and focused enough to have done academically well from the age of 18, even if that means skipping interesting courses or jobs during a time traditionally held for self-exploration. Think--tunnel vision, good at interpreting data, able to take orders and respect larger systems, no experience dealing with people. Surprisingly, however, despite the law schools' emphasis on analysis, (or, because law school does not require business, government or pre-law courses) many of these students are creative or artistic as well. This is what is known as a weakness.
Why is it this way? MBA is for leaders and entrepreneurs. Law is for traditionalists and analysts. An MBA is expansive, ambitious, big picture. Law is restrictive and drowns in minutiae. An MBA seeks to connect with others. The legal profession is essentially isolationist.
And why is this bad? Because law firms are still companies, and lawyers are managing other lawyers. Very, very badly. The ridiculous morale and dissension in law firms is because a) some creative types have been sold a book of goods on a profession that doesn't exist and find their creativity is suddenly a handicap b) lawyers have no training and no required experience managing people in a non-adversarial way, so they end up hazing, manipulating and cannibalizing each other c) the absurd amount of money thrown at 25 year "lawyers" doing intern work is to essentially buy labor rather than create cohesive community d) the lack of business and government requirements to get into law school, and the lack of law school offerings in these courses, means that a lot of untrained associates end up staring blankly at your financial documents.
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Cannery Row
A friend of ours dropped off a large bag of wild plums one morning a couple weeks ago.... and thus it began. Really, is there a more heavenly way to start your day than with wild plum jelly on toast to go with that morning cup of coffee?! I think not!
Luckily I had enough plums left to make a batch of Plum Cordial, a drink our Victorian grandmothers delicately imbibed in fancy, little crystal glasses. (The main ingredient, other than the fruit, is vodka--so just how many little glasses they had was their business!) You can see the cordial behind the jelly in the picture above--see the plums floating in the largest jar? It's now sitting down in the basement, nature doing it's job. On a dark winter day, when I pour some of this into one of those little crystal glasses, I'll swoon with the smell of plum blossoms in springtime!
I also made, for the first time, some sauerkraut. That may be putting it optimistically....I put some green cabbage into some canning jars and, like the cordial, put them down in the cellar and let nature take its course. (Would hardly recommend the two sharing the same meal though! ha!) Supposedly I have to go down and check it periodically to make sure enough liquid remains, etc. Hopefully there's a good Reuben sandwich in our future!
And then I pretty much went on a tear...if you've ever done canning and jelly making before, you know that when you have all your stuff organized, it's really not all that time consuming to whip up yet another batch of something. You just have to pace yourself and be prepared to have a bit of clutter mounting on the kitchen table. In the photo above, besides the plum jelly, there is sweet/hot pepper jelly and one of my own concoctions: "Apple Pie" jelly. This tells only half the story....add to that several other flavors, some of them experiments I made up: Jalapeno/Mint jelly, Prune jam, Spiced Grape jelly, Plum/Apple jelly, and 2 types of Tomato Jam. And speaking of tomatoes--see that voluptuous 'mater sitting in that bowl? It's just one of dozens, literally dozens, of tomatoes from one tomato plant. (More about that later!)
Ah, summertime in jars!
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A Question I'm Struggling With: Refugees
I want my country and community to be safe. I want the elected officials of our land to secure our boarders and do everything that is reasonable and moral to protect the US from attacks by terrorists and jihadists.
If I were a refugee trying to flee ISIS and almost certain death, I'd want to go to the best and safest place possible. In other words, If I were a Syrian refugee trying to rescue my family from doom, I'd want to bring them to America.
I know terrorists will exploit any and every avenue possible to attack their enemies (us). I know that opening our boarders to Syrian refugees exposes us to the potential of danger. But if we ship refugees back, aren't we exposing them to an even greater danger?
Is my life and the lives of my family more valuable than a Syrian child, woman, or man?
As a Christian, I'm called to care for the alien, the oppressed, and the refugee. I'm called to be a neighbor.
And as I think about the fear gripping the US and our leaders I cannot help but think of Exodus 1.
In Exodus 1, a great nation felt threatened by foreigners living within their boarders. Egypt feared the Hebrews would rise up against them and join with Egypt's enemies to destroy the nation from within.
Egypt's solution to this perceived problem was to enslave the Hebrew people and oppress them. They implemented means to control the population (killing babies). They tried to save and protect their nation by any means necessary. Ultimately they failed.
I want my family to be safe. I don't want terrorists infiltrating America. But I don't want to be like an Egyptian either. I want to love my Syrian "neighbors."
In the end, my opinion of this issue won't matter much. I'm not an elected official. I'm not in congress or the president. Even if I called my Senators, Representative, or the President, some intern would likely file away my message and the powers that be would never read it, nor would they care.
But my attitude does matter. And I want to be Christian in the way I think and behave.
So, here is my question: How should I as a Christian, a husband, a father, a citizen of the USA, respond and react to the Syrian refugee crisis?
Whatever the answer is, I know it must include love because Christ calls me to love my neighbor and love my enemies.
Lord, help me to think and respond with Christ-like love to the world around me.
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Procrastination, or How I Waste My Life Away
It's amazing how large of a role procrastination plays in my life.
Right now I should be writing, getting some work done, but instead I'm dicking around on the Internet.
Sure I threw my back out so bad that I couldn't stand or lay down last night, stuck in a perpetual fetal position, needing my wife to help me up when I got stuck and couldn't get myself up and moving, but not today.
I'm by no means 100%. I've been icing my back on and off all day and popping Ibuprofen, but I could be using this time to get something productive done. Sure the simple act of writing this blog is a type of creative work, but it's not the one that I should be doing.
But this is the story of my life. In school I waited until the last minute to write all of my papers. I tricked myself into thinking that I did my best work under intense pressure. Maybe I did, but I'll never know. I've never gotten anything done ahead of schedule, I always finish right at the buzzer.
It's one of the traits that I hate about myself, but for some reason have never been able to conquer. Since graduating, and before, I've mostly worked nights and had my days to myself. I've kept them free to do all of the things that I've wanted to do but never gotten around to.
By now I should have written several novels and numerous screenplays, but I am just finishing up the first draft of my first novel, and I think I've only written six screenplays. Sure I have a drawer (or computer folder) full of aborted attempts, but this isn't how I want to continue to live my life.
It's time for a change, a schedule, something that pushes me to use the time I have to get the most done. To be proud of my accomplishments instead of wondering how another year has drifted by. I need this change before it's too late.
Are you like me? Do you procrastinate far to often? Is it time for you to change your life too? Let's change together.
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C Test
How do we know if something works or not? We need to test it. So what is the criteria? What is truth anyway? Ask any religious person if the is a god, and they will say yes. Ask an atheist and they may say no so what is the truth. The truth is there is no physical evidence of one. The only place a god could hid is in the mind of the believer. So truth is to a large part dependent on the position of the person who is questioning what is truth.
Else where I have stated any group of people who try to subjugate a second group are immoral. This is typical religion subjugating their young. This is government recommending people to should follow the Canada Good Food Guide. This document is wrong for so many people, it is just a crime against humanity to continue to promote it. This week we saw a senator get in shit for stating the truth, that many benefits came from residential schools. How else is the government going to provide advanced education to the north? A town of a few hundred to a few thousand cannot afford to have schools with all subjects after say grade nine. High schools need diversity, and small schools cannot offer the diversity needed in these times. So what is the truth? Children at about age 14 should be ready to leave home and get an education. Oh well, we of European ancestry have been doing this for centuries, or millennium.
So political correctness is subjugated truth. There was some bad, and some good, but with the current state of political correctness, one cannot speak the truth, or some kind of statistical correctness.
Religions are fraudulent. They promise to save your souls. They are unable to deliver, and there are no souls, no self. So what is truth?
Until truth can be defined objectively, we are at a loss to say what is right. The ancients used virtue to escape this, for a virtue is always good. Well, until Aristotle realized that virtues were between two extremes, that even virtues can be abusive in excess. So what is the ultimate test. If it benefits us, as individuals, there is no reason to reject it unless it does harm to others. Buddha said something on this: Do not accept anything by mere tradition ... Do not accept anything just because it accords with your scriptures ... Do not accept anything merely because it agrees with your pre-conceived notions ... But when you know for yourselves—these things are moral, these things are blameless, these things are praised by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to well-being and happiness—then do you live acting accordingly.
So we are left with your own evaluation, and what we think is right. Not a straight forward when everything is in flux and change. All we can do is evaluate everything for ourselves, and if we find it immoral to indoctrinate others with wrong information, well then perhaps Buddha had the right idea how to live well. Right intent and knowledge, right action, speech, and livelihood, right concentration, effort and mindfulness, and we are responsible for all our decisions.
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1. Apparently I've grown into being a Buddhist...
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Hiding in my blanketfort
this is how I'm doing...
I've been working on something for a few days, but it's been really hard to put it all into words. I wonder if I'm still just numb from it, not allowing myself to properly grieve, while I'm seeing other people who knew it lose their shit over this.
My siblings seem to be in a similar space, though, so I guess that's okay. We haven't really talked about it, just the three of us, but they seem to be in the same headspace that I am over dad's death. Maybe it's because we watched it happen. Maybe it's because between the three of us, someone was there everyday he was in the hospital, and one of us was there the entire three days he was in hospice.
Maybe it's because all of the hurt was taken up by watching him die. God that was terrible. He was in bad shape when I left on Wednesday night, but he got much worse, and didn't even live a full 24 hours after I last saw him. I want to say that his being dead is traumatic for me, but the reality is the dying process was the traumatic part.
Months of chemo.
Continuing to lose weight when all he did was eat.
The cancer spreading in spite of all efforts.
It ate him. Cancer swallowed him up and took him away, and I know I'm not totally numb to it because I'm angry. Why didn't his GP go "hey this is weird" when he lost 70 lbs seemingly over night? Why didn't the stupid surgeon just operate when he said "I can take it out right now if you want", instead of going with the plan which only ended up slowly poisoning him to death? Why didn't any of his doctors listen when he started complaining about abdominal swelling? Why couldn't they do more to help him?
Why wasn't I there more? Why didn't I try harder to make sure all the paperwork was taken care of ahead of time? Why didn't we go camping as a family last summer?
None of these questions can be answered now. There is nothing I can do or say to bring him back, and even if we could, he would still be sick. Maybe I'm not grieving as hard as other people because I came to terms with it while it was happening. Yes it was fast, but I did everything I could and everything he could have asked me to do. I was there. And so were my sibs. We watched it happen, and now that he's not dying anymore, maybe there's comfort in that. I don't know.
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Soozeeq42 said...
You were there when he needed you, and the details are irrelevant now. It will get easier, and harder at the same time, but over time it will hurt less.
I had questions about his care as well, but I also know any kind of abdominal ailments are difficult to work with, and cancer is the worst. Any time they operate, they risk spreading the cancer.
It was really hard to be there, and I am glad I was there when I was , as difficult as it was. He was surrounded by those who loved him, and really that is all anyone can ever ask for in life...
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"This is a flawless album which moves effortlessly from track to track with each song containing seamless transitions between light and shade. Karma To Burn remains a laid back journey with an underlying seediness and tension as you take in an array of sights from the criminal underworld and serial killers to wild sex parties, and then onto Ancient Indian Burial Grounds."
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Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional!
Acts 25:19
Leaders of the Sanhedrin had threatened to kill Paul, so he claimed his Roman citizenship and was transferred to Caesarea to appeal his case to King Agrippa. When Felix, the governor, introduced Paul to the King he said that in the initial hearing the normal charges weren’t brought up against Paul by his accusers, only the discussion about “A Dead Man Named Jesus,” who Paul claimed was alive.
As I read this story this AM, I thought to myself that not much has changed for “Jesus Followers.” The world acknowledges that Jesus lived on earth, but the belief that He resurrected from the dead is still a huge debate. It’s not enough that Jesus was a Jew. It’s not enough that His disciples were all Jewish. It’s not enough that the chief propagator of the Gospel immediately after Jesus ascended into heaven was Paul, a Jew. Somehow Jewish people join every other religion on earth to say, “All those Christians ever talk about is ‘A Dead Man Named Jesus.’” But every person on the planet—including the Jewish, Buddhist, or Islamic—who has ever come to faith in Jesus says “HE IS ALIVE.” If the world can keep Jesus dead, they can stay in their own man-made graves of desperation, where they feel comfortable. However, once you admit “He Is Alive,” you yourself can finally, really live!
Dear Jesus,
I’m happy this AM that I know You are ALIVE! Because of that, I too have life. Amen
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Ah, Freelancing
I'm new at this, so you experienced freelancers out there should bear with me if I'm painfully naive, but I was quite tickled by this "offer" I received for a freelancing job (from a list I subscribed to).
I'm seeking a writer for an ebook about an international space expedition that becomes lost in outer space. The series will be a serial (meaning it will take several ebooks to finish) and will follow this expedition as they: become lost in space, struggle to return earth, and then finally reunite with their loved ones on Earth. Typical science fiction elements will be involved with the story as the expedition will come across alien species, habitual planets, etc. The story will predominately be about the adventure, but the companionship between each of the astronauts will be largely incorporated.
Up to this point, I'm mostly just amused, if slightly appalled that someone is so confident that they can commercialize the creative process quite this far. As if good, profitable sci-fi were as simple as plugging specified elements into a basic plot with standard sci-fi tropes. I dunno. Maybe it is that simple, but my experience with talented sci-fi writer friends would suggest otherwise. If you want quality, that is. Maybe my true naivete is that I rather expect ANY producer of ebooks to want to make them GOOD ebooks.
Then the advertisement keeps going, and I realize I'm wrong.
A "simple" understanding of science fiction elements (aliens, space, etc.) is preferred for this story, but not necessary. Newbies are highly welcome (as long as you understand grammar).
Yeah... no. Simple understanding of the complex vacuum of space? Simple understanding of the possibility of alien life and how that alien life could develop in a different environment? Etc? And, the kicker: IT'S NOT EVEN NECESSARY. He'd be just as happy with someone who might have heard of Star Wars once, but never saw it. And the solicitor "highly" welcomes newbies who understand grammar. I... can't... even....
But there's more....
I'm expecting a delivery of 7 days (1 week) for the finished project and if achieved before the deadline, I'll gladly double the pay. In terms of the length, I'm looking for about 6,000-10,000 words.
6,000 - 10,000 words in a week. With a double-pay bonus if that goal is met. (More on that later.) Let's forget about the pre-writing for a moment and pretend that the entire plot of the multi-ebook serial just comes to the chosen writer in a dream. Let's pretend that the dream included specific plot arcs that would span 6-10,000 words so that you're getting a complete mini-story in each book. Let's acknowledge that any writer who has completed NaNo or who is making a living at freelancing is very used to this sort of grueling pace, and can churn it out at that speed.
But let's also acknowledge that 90% of writing is rewriting and that, if these books are to be GOOD, 7 days is utterly insufficient to meet that goal. 7 days is enough time to create a first draft, perhaps, but first drafts Are. Not. Publishable. Or, they wouldn't be, if "Publishable" were universally synonymous with "Quality." Which, apparently, it isn't. And that's a darn shame.
It goes on:
The ideal candidate will be able to/have: -Microsoft Word (any edition) -Understand the Subjects/Genres -Writing Skills and Style (you should be able to write coherent and engaging sentences). What I expect: -The Word Count to be Met -An Engaging e-Book -Coherent, Competent Sentences -A Simple Understanding of the Subjects/Genres If you're interested, please submit an example of your work. It doesn't have to be supernatural or space oriented, but needs to show competent writing and grammatical skills.
Well, I'm an ideal candidate, then. I have MS Word, understand the genre, I'm able to write coherent, engaging, coherent (coherent seems important), and competent sentences... oh, wait. He wants engaging AND the word count met. Yeah, guess that counts me out.
But let's look at all the money I'll be turning down, shall we?
The Pay is $20. I'm looking to commission several more e-Books, so further work will be possible for those interested.
$20. For a week of constant work. Even assuming that the writer can write 1,000 words in an hour (hard to maintain, but I've done it during NaNo), this solicitation is offering to pay $20 for 6-10 hours of work. That's (pulling up my calculator....) $2-3 per hour. With the chance of doubling to $4-6 per hour if I meet the deadline, edit nothing, and turn in the sort of drivel I'd be ashamed to have my name on. Goody!
LEGAL: All rights of purchased work will belong to me.
Which is exactly as it should be. #yougetwhatyoupayfor
Please, fellow writers, don't ever let someone pay you this little for your work. Even ignoring the fact that there are freelance projects with a base pay quite a bit higher than this, don't ever undervalue your work so much that you do it for nothing.
If you're writing your own book, that you will OWN, and that you and your heirs will hold the royalty rights to forever, it doesn't matter if you never make enough on sales on that book to pay more than $2 per hour for all your work. You'll have your sales and you'll also have your book, and that's more valuable in experience and pride than quadruple what this guy is paying.
Freelance writing is honorable work, and you don't need the rights to every word you've ever written--but this guy is trying to capitalize on a writer's hard experience to turn a quick buck for himself while cheating the writer of a fair wage and the reader of the quality of work they should be able to expect. He's a snake-oil salesman looking for children to work in his sweat-shop, and I have no respect for him.
Have any of you seen scams like this?
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1. Amen. There are no words, are there?
Much less 6-10,000 of them for $20.
2. Did you ask him what a "habitual" planet is supposed to be??
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Is there antivirus software that detects malware files via database files?
Is malware that contains database files easier to detect than other types of malware? Threats expert Nick Lewis explains.
I have heard that some viruses have their own database files from which an antivirus program can detect and quarantine it. Is it true? Why would a virus have a database file or dispatch files within it?
Viruses or malware generally contain many different types of files included with them to support their malicious operations. Almost all viruses will have some sort of executable code used for infecting the machine, as well as associated supporting files like libraries. Then, some malware will contain other executable code, like a rootkit, to fully takeover a machine. There is also malware that includes database files of IP addresses, domain names, URLs or other means of connecting to its management infrastructure, though more advanced bots are now auto-generating URLs or domain names to avoid detection. Malware could also use a database of the checksums and files in its operation to ensure only legitimate files are used in the malicious operations to protect from rival malware. The malware may even contain encryption keys used in securing its communications.
Antimalware and antivirus programs can detect a large number of different types of malicious files and activity....
Traditional antimalware software detects malware files based on antimalware definitions -- these are essentially signatures -- to identify malicious or infected files and then quarantine them. And the fact that malware includes database files will make it easily detectable by antimalware software. Many antimalware programs are now also using behavioral mechanisms to augment the signature-based detections.
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0.064417 | <urn:uuid:ca4bc4f8-eaec-4cb7-a72a-a771f0ddca17> | en | 0.937353 | Of late we have seen a growing interest in building “disaster recovery” solutions for both the data and the voice applications so critical for business operation. First, we need to make sure we understand the difference between redundancy, resiliency and other configuration options to assure business continuity. Many more installations now include the use of a remote “collocation” facility as an key component of the installation plan. What is the best way to configure a ShoreTel HQ server, for example to provide for continued operation under a wide variety of options.
The subject of redundancy is almost amusing at times. How much redundancy is reasonable and appropriate? You can have all the redundancy your budget can fund, but at the end of the day are you able to continue the business operation in the event of a catastrophic event. Clearly, two power supplies are better than one. If they are both plugged into the same commercial power outlet however, it really will not matter how many power supplies you have if you lose commercial power! Again, we need to focus on what are we trying to protect?
Redundant servers? Some HQ servers have been configured with “double take” enabling a hot standbye server to take over in the event of a primary server failure. Candidly, we do not see the benefit of hot standby server swaps in the ShoreTel architecture and it is a nightmare to administer, backup and restore. The cost of the solution out weights the benefits and there are other configurations that are more cost effective and work just as well.
For example, there is no law that says you can not install a ShoreTel Distributed Voice Mail server at the same level as the ShoreTel HQ server. Actually this works just fine! Install the servers at the same physical location, or put the HQ server in the remote “collocation” facility. If they are installed at the same “logical” level (i.e. appear on the same level in the Shoreware Director, either server can handle the load. Generally, you would put all of the users and switches for that site under the DVM and use the HQ as your “fail up” and proxy solution. Nothing wrong with this configuration, it is cost effective and easy to administer. From time to time you might hear ShoreTel say “ please wait while I connect you to the correct server” but even that can be managed.
ShoreTel HQ has three services that are not distributed: Route Points; Account Codes and Workgroups. If you lose th HQ server, you will lose these services, but generally that is a small price to pay for this level of resiliency! ShoreTel Version 10 promises to distribute these services, so there is no reason not to configure this way and achieve full surviability given the building is still standing.
You don’t have to think very long about a Katrina or Haiti, especially if you live in California! It is only prudent to not only plan for some level of “redundancy”, but also to plan for how the business would operation if we could not get into our building! If we put the HQ server at the “collocation” facility and we provide for Trunk Lines and “dial tone”, we can balance this possibility. The issue is, that if the building housing the people becomes unavailable, users can still log in and route their phones to cell phones or make use of RDP to access their Call Managers.
The “collocation” option often requires a trade off between band width and trunk lines. You can put all your trunk lines at the colo, in which case every call made from the sites, will traverse a WAN. So moving the trunk lines to the colo increases resiliency but also drives up your WAN cost. At the end of the day it is most likely some combination of bandwidth and trunk lines spread between the facilities. In either case, you will work with your carrier to enable lines to be repointed in the event of an outage. This is a bit more challenging if you are in New York and your collocation facility is in Phoenix, but it can be done.
We are experimenting with the use of SIP trunk facilities at the Collocation site. Generally, this can be more cost effective especially if you can get an agreement for a burstable SIP pipe. You may not want to pay for T1’s at the collocation if you are only planning to use them for a disaster situation! SIP also enables you to be generally independent of your physical location.
It is a sign of the times that we spend so much time planning for “what if” scenarios, but being prepared is not only prudent but appropriate.
Source by Peter Buswell | http://sellarizonaland.com/configure-shoretel-for-redundancy-resiliency-or-business-continuity/ | dclm-gs1-167621087 |
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0.020183 | <urn:uuid:fbc616c0-1c19-4bcd-91e5-de613ea294f9> | en | 0.976108 | Television: Smash, "The Parents"
Tonight on Smash: Karen's Dad and Ivy's Mom!
After having Jimmy stay over, Karen's dad turns up unexpectedly and Jimmy goes out the window. Literally.
And Ivy's mother has been cast in Bombshell. As Marilyn's mother.
Hit List continues down the road of weird performance art piece masquerading as a musical . . . Okay, I'll just admit it isn't my kind of theatre. At least based on what I've seen. It's hard to tell from the bits and pieces.
Except I did like Rent when I saw it. So . . . I don't know. If Hit List is trying to be Rent . . .
Jimmy, meanwhile, also continues down the road of being utterly obnoxious by (a) worrying that Karen will tell other people they slept together (thus setting off Derek), and (b) having a dealer he stole money from turn up at rehearsals.
Ivy and her mom try to play nice but Tom urges them toward their hidden bitterness as he tries to get them to perform a scene in which Marilyn and her mother fight.
And Karen's dad accuses Derek of ruining his daughter's career by yanking her off Broadway and dragging her into a basement version of Cirque du Soleil. (Okay, he didn't say the Cirque du Soleil part, but really, that's what Hit List has become.) Karen's dad makes a pointed observation of Derek's jacket and a comment about going out the window, much to Derek's bewilderment.
Derek finds Jimmy going through people's coats in search of loose change (or full wallets) because there are no couches where they are. Jimmy then spills the story of how he needs $8,000 to pay back his ex-dealer. Derek offers to spot Jimmy the cash. Problem solved. Wow. What a story line that wasn't really a story line. It's like they felt they needed to bring in the drug story some more but didn't want to risk making Jimmy any more unlikeable than he already is.
Oh, and while playing in the coat room, we see that Derek and Jimmy have almost identical jackets. Something Karen's dad notices as well, motivating him to revise his hypothesis.
And Eileen starts dating the Arts editor from the paper.
Then we're forced to listen to Bernadette Peters sing. Which isn't normally a problem, but the song itself is awful and interminable.
Karen's dad spills it to Derek by mentioning that it wasn't Derek he saw with his daughter . . .
. . . And Scott asks Julia to be dramaturg for Hit List because, after such great response, Anna's role needs to be cranked up.
Plus, Jimmy pays off his ex-dealer but doesn't say no to a little something for the road. We also learn that Collins is probably not Jimmy's real surname. If that matters. Or we even care. Which I don't. Because I find all attempts to make Jimmy interesting or sympathetic to be hollow, forced, and trite.
And don't forget, viewers, that the next episode is on Saturday, which will be Smash's new night. Like Karen, it has gone from the bright lights of Broadway to the dim bulbs of what amounts to the basement of weekly television.
Maggid said...
Totally Amazing Blog!
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Ahh I'm so glad they had another song written by Andrew McMahon! I was so bummed when Jack's Mannequin ended, but now that Andrew McMahon is working free of any constraints he's doing some really cool stuff, and "Reach For Me" was another fantastic song that he wrote for Smash...here's hoping he does more. Just like the last time he had a song in this show ("Your Voice in a Dream") this was by far the best tune of the episode. | http://spooklights.blogspot.com/2013/04/television-smash-parents.html | dclm-gs1-167651087 |
0.037055 | <urn:uuid:afed089a-68e2-4bd7-ad16-319c22c58592> | en | 0.900793 | LUN requirements for deduplication
Publication Date: 2016-12-05 Views: 651 Downloads: 0
Issue Description
LUN requirements for deduplication.
When a thick LUN is created, the relationship between its physical and logical addresses has already been fixed. This does not meet deduplication requirements. For deduplication, you must modify the mapping relationship between the physical and logical addresses.
In addition, deduplication requires space reclamation. The pointer of the thick LUN's logical address cannot be changed. Therefore, the space cannot be reclaimed. | http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/knowledge/KB1000401052 | dclm-gs1-167731087 |
0.03384 | <urn:uuid:f5395791-43ed-4233-92ff-ab322625a4d4> | en | 0.986186 | 21 November, 1998
I dragged myself out of bed this morning at 4:30 am. Why did I stay up late last night?????
I dressed in my cold weather gear (the plane can be quite cold), double-checked to make sure I had everything with me, and headed back to the Crary Lab. I left last-minute notes for everyone, including Ed, John, and Nina who are returning to McMurdo today (from Lake Bonney). I left my room key for Nina and returned my card key (for after hours) to Crary Lab. I wrote a quick e-mail to Dan (my husband), telling him that I was on my way and nothing had been cancelled yet. Yes!
I reported to Building 140 at 5:30 am where they were to pick us up to drive us to the air field out on the sea ice. We arrived at the plane around 6:00 am, but since they weren't quite ready for us, we had to wait in the "terminal" (a small, makeshift terminal for passengers waiting to board the planes) for about 1/2 an hour. We boarded the plane about 6:45, were given our sack lunches, and were told to "spread out" a little because there were only 15 of us on this flight. [When there are few passengers like this, they are able to carry more cargo like mail, supplies, and equipment on the plane]. The seating was very much like flying on the C-141, but of course, there were fewer of us, so we had a lot more leg room. We sat on nylon seats facing each other...two rows of these going half the length of the plane. The back end of the plane was full of cargo. As soon as the plane was in the air, we were allowed to readjust and take up a little more space. Needless to say, I needed my rest and I was able to lay down on the bench-like nylon seats and "sack out." That made the flight go by very fast. A lot of the guys went to the back of the plane to lie across the cargo stacks...whatever works!
In case you're wondering, the restroom facilities on a flight like this are very rustic. There is a curtain and a makeshift toilet seat. The guys go through a hole...don't ask me where it goes...
We arrived in Christchurch at around 3:00 pm. They took us to the terminal where we had to pick up our luggage (our orange "hold" bag). They then took us over to the CDC (Clothing Distribution Center) where we were to unpack our gear and turn in all issued clothing. We received an official U.S. Antarctica Program patch (the same one on our red jackets) and received our hotel/airline itinerary for the next couple of days.
I was scheduled to stay in Christchurch one night and catch the flight from Christchurch to LAX the next evening. I took a shuttle to the hotel, and since it was such a nice day (and warm compared to Antarctica), I decided to do some more exploring and find a place to eat dinner. I ate at Le Cafe again (where Nina and I had eaten the night before leaving for Antarctica)...great food and great mochas! I returned to the hotel and went to bed around 8:00 pm (I know it was early, but I was tired...and why was it dark out anyway?)
Tomorrow I would be able to go to the Canterbury Arts Centre market fair that Christchurch has every weekend, and then I'll be heading to the airport for my long journey home.
Me on the airfield, waiting to board the C-130 for Christchurch
The C-130 that we flew from McMurdo to Christchurch...pretty cool, huh?
This is how the cargo hold looked from where I was sitting near the front of the plane. The back loading ramp of the plane is open as we await takeoff. Note the cargo packs that the guys slept on, and note the fold-out bunk beds that the crew slept on.
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0.161387 | <urn:uuid:344d4b2b-cd31-4a8d-9029-85bcf47e94ac> | en | 0.990093 | With the Christmas season almost upon us it is a good time to rethink the Christmas story. In the gospel of Luke, we have the story of the census under Quirinius, governor of Syria, that required every person to return to his own city to be enrolled. For Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary, that meant they would have to leave Nazareth, in Galilee, and travel down to Bethlehem.
There were two routes that they could take, one was through Samaria, but many Jews refused to enter the territory of the Samaritans for social and religious reasons. Also that route was fairly dangerous as robbers were known to ply the roads looking for travellers. The second route was to travel over to the Jordan, and travel down the east side of the valley, along a road called the King’s Highway, then go up out of the valley at Jericho and proceed to Bethlehem.
This arduous trip is not mentioned in Luke, yet it is fascinating when we understand the circumstances and time involved in the journey. Every Christmas Ruth and I receive at least one card that has a picture of Mary riding on a donkey while Joseph walks ahead leading the animal. They are usually surrounded by lush greenery with a few Palm trees thrown in for good measure. The reality of the trip was quite different from the Christmas card. The journey down the Kings Highway then up to Bethlehem probably took somewhere around a week and maybe a little more.
The trip would have been conducted in spring so the weather would have been fairly pleasant as they followed the Jordan Valley road, but there were still forests along the valley, at that time, that contained bears and lions. Also thieves haunted this road as they did the ones in Samaria. The last part of the journey up out of the valley and into the hill country would have been particularly difficult for Mary.
Mary, would have also walked most of the way as it would have been just too difficult for a pregnant woman to ride a donkey with the constant shaking the ninety miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
Now, we read something very interesting in Luke that is a bit different from the story as we usually understand it. “And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered.” Luke, says, “while they were there,” this insinuates that they were in the town for some time before the baby was due. Our usual rendition of the story is that Mary and Joseph arrive towards evening, and go from place to place seeking out a place to stay, but cannot find accommodations so they end up in a stable.
Bethlehem, would have been a very small town, at the time the story took place and most of the people would have known each other or been family. It may well have been the case that they ended up living with close relatives and were in the town for a number of weeks before the baby was due. After all they had just spent, at a minimum, a week on the road and would not have been anxious to turn right around and head back to Nazareth as soon as they registered for the census. The trip, for a very pregnant Mary, would have been too difficult.
The New Testament word translated “inn” is kataluma. It means place of rest and usually refers to the guest room. In Luke 22:11 Jesus sends some of the disciples out to secure the guest room for the Passover. “Then you shall say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, where is the guest room where I may eat of the Passover with my disciples.’” The word used here for guest room (upper room) is kataluma. Further, Luke elsewhere in his gospel uses a different Greek word when speaking of an Inn. In the story of the good Samaritan, who takes the injured man to an Inn, the word is pandokheion. (Luke 10:34)
So, if they didn’t stay at an Inn where did they stay? The answer cannot be known for sure but it would be logical that they stayed with one of Joseph’s relatives. But if that is true why does Luke say they laid the baby, “in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn?” (Luke 2:7)
It is important for us to know that mangers were found in first-century homes. The typical home had a area near the door where the family’s animals were kept at night. This was so they wouldn’t be stolen or preyed upon by other animals and their body heat would help warm the house during cool nights. The family lived and slept in a raised part of the house set well back from the door. The area near the door would contain a manger for food and water for the animals.
Now, if we think a little more about the text, it does not say that Mary gave birth in the room where the manger was. It simply said, that she gave birth and then laid him in the manger because there was no room in the guest room. This would make sense. Mary gives birth, with the help of all the women staying at the house, in a more private area. This could have been on the roof of the house or a small room somewhere in the home. It would not have been appropriate to give birth in the guest room as there were other people staying there as well.
Once born the baby was placed in the manger by the door. The manger was scooped out as this is where the animals were fed. This scooped out section of the manger, when filled with straw, was perfect for a new baby as the child was perfectly safe and couldn’t fall out. The animals, probably donkeys and goats, would have been kept outside during this time. With the new baby it would not have been appropriate to try and find extra room in the guest room for Joseph’s expanded family so they probably moved to the manger area by the door.
The Christmas story as we know it was, written by Luke, to be a story of joy and great happiness for the Jews as it proclaimed the arrival of the Messiah. However, throughout the ages we have taken this event that was meant to celebrate Jesus birth and turned it into a simple story revolving around a lack of hospitality by an unknown Inn Keeper in Bethlehem. We are made to feel sorry for Mary surrounding the circumstances of her giving birth, but that was the furthest thing from Luke’s mind. He wanted us to rejoice with the Jews that a Savior had been born, Emmanuel. Now, that’s Christmas! | http://thebeggardanced.com/now-thats-christmas/ | dclm-gs1-167841087 |
0.530648 | <urn:uuid:1f29a99c-80b3-40d1-93a6-470ecd74bbe5> | en | 0.946127 | Organize a Commune
• Restricted (anyone can join upon approval)
• A commune is an organized living community. The people living in the commune are all friends, family members, people you know and trust. There are rules, bylaws that everyone welcome to the commune agree on. All living expenses and duties are shared enabling everyone to live a simpler life for a fraction of the cost.
The reasons for forming a commune are increasing. More and more people, less and less jobs and resources, rising costs, decreasing wages and benefits, more and more security threats. The world is becoming a more difficult and dangerous place to exist. It's not going to get better, it's going to get worse. There are smarter or harder ways to prepare for the future. A smarter way is cutting expenses, pooling resources, teaming up with people you know and trust. | http://tongueout.net/groups/view/29/organize-a-commune | dclm-gs1-167971087 |
0.018211 | <urn:uuid:c5998a9d-db3e-444f-8689-d54c14e1c61f> | en | 0.957456 | Tuesday, April 8, 2014
How To Vote
Now that the polls are open, here is a guide to voting easily and efficiently. Thanks to some hard work by CCP Dolan and the CCP Web Team, voting is much easier this year. Rumors that bribes of expensive alcohol were offered to them in return for this are, of course, completely and utterly true.
In previous posts, I've explained why voting is important, how the voting system works, and which candidates I think should be on your ballot. You may also want to visit the campaign section of the EVE Online Forums and see what the candidates have to say for themselves, or use Vote Match to find candidates whose opinions are closest to yours.
If you want to follow my advice, or use it as a starting point, all you have to do is click on one of the voting links listed below, which will take you to the eveonline.com voting page. At this point, one of two things will happen.
• If you are already logged into eveonline.com, then the Candidate Search box will be filled in with a list of candidates -- and this year it has been improved; you can enter multiple candidate names, separated by commas, and they will get highlighted, moved to the top of the candidate list, and sorted!
• If you are not logged in, you'll need to click the orange Log in button and log into your main account. When you do, you'll be returned to the voting page. Unfortunately, the list of candidates will not be preserved; to fix that, come back here and either click the voting link again, or cut-and-paste the list of candidates you'll find below each link into the Search box.
Update: there is currently a bug that will erroneously fill in slots in your ballot if you voted last year; if this happens, just drag the candidates out of your ballot before performing the next step!
Then all you have to do is double-click on each of the hilighted candidates in order to move them into your ballot. Just put your mouse pointer on top of the first (top-left) candidate and double-click once of each candidate; each time you double-click, a candidate will move into the ballot. If you make a mistake, you can drag candidates back out of the ballot, or drag them around the ballot to reorder them.
You can just fill in the ballot with my recommendations, or make whatever changes you think best.
Once your ballot is the way you want it, click the big yellow Submit Vote button. If you have more than one account, click the Log out link at the top of the page, then click the Log in button and log in to your next account. Then go back to the voting page and you should find that your ballot has been filled in for you; if you want to vote the same ballot again, just click Submit Vote!
If for some reason the ballot links given below don't fill in the Candidate Search box (some browsers can be a bit cranky), you can simply cut and paste your preferred list of candidates into it.
Happy voting! And tell your friends to vote as well!
My Recommended Ballot Voting Link selects:
DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,Xander Phoena,James Arget,Steve Ronuken,Sugar Kyle,Major JSilva,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Psychotic Monk
My High-Sec Voting Link selects:
Mike Azariah,Steve Ronuken,Xander Phoena,Sugar Kyle,DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,James Arget,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,Major JSilva,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Psychotic Monk
My Low-Sec / Factional Warfare Voting Link selects:
DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,DNSBLACK,Sugar Kyle,Steve Ronuken,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,Xander Phoena,James Arget,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Major JSilva,Psychotic Monk
My Null-Sec Voting Link selects:
DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Xander Phoena,Major JSilva,Mike Azariah,James Arget,Steve Ronuken,Sugar Kyle,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Psychotic Monk
My Wormholes Voting Link selects:
James Arget,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,Xander Phoena,Major JSilva,Steve Ronuken,Sugar Kyle,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,Psychotic Monk
My Industry Voting Link selects:
Steve Ronuken,Xander Phoena,Sugar Kyle,DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,James Arget,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,Major JSilva,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Psychotic Monk
Remember, these ballots are just my recommendations -- you should add or remove candidates and/or change the order based on your own preferences. Just make sure to vote a full ballot of 14 candidates, as this will maximize your voting power. For more background on the candidates and why I recommend them, check out my "Who I Like" post.
PS: If you'd like to construct your own voting link to send to your friends, simply enter a comma separated list of candidates into the Search box on the voting page; as you do, the url will update. You can then copy this link and forward it. I recommend adding a comma at the end of the list of candidates you enter into the search box, just in case parameters get added to the URL (EVE Gate does this) that might result in the ballot url failing to hilight the final candidate on your list.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Who I Like
There are many great candidates for CSM 9, and with 14 possible slots on your ballot, there's a lot to think about.
What I look for in a CSM candidate is knowledge about the game, a passion for its future, and perhaps most important, the stamina needed to endure the grind -- because being on CSM is an exhausting experience.
What follows are my recommendations about the candidates that are not clear "locks" for election because they are the official candidate of a large in-game group. This list is intended to help unaffiliated voters fill out their ballots, and perhaps persuade "bloc" voters to make some modifications to the ballot they've been asked to vote.
The Fantastic Four
Four years on the CSM have shown me what it takes to do the job right. These are the candidates that, from long personal interaction and observation, I know have the “right stuff.” They will make excellent CSM members, I endorse them without reservation, and they should be high up on everyone's ballot.
If you have supported me in past elections, please do me the favor of supporting them in this one. Getting all four of them elected would be the best thank-you you could ever give me.
Brad King is one of my favorite people -- not just in-game but in real-life as well. I first ran into him because of an interview he did on the Lost in EVE podcast, and soon found a home in the corporation he leads, the infamous Dirt Nap Squad. Famous for losing more Arazu's than any other pilot in EVE history, Brad is dedicated to making sure everyone in DNS has the most fun possible, and his passion for the EVE community is obvious and undeniable. Out-of-game, he serves as a coach and a union representative, which gives him a skillset that will come in very handy on CSM. Over the years he's built up a lot of personal relationships with CCP staff, which will mean he will hit the ground running.
Ellen McManis was one of the big -- and welcome -- surprises of CSM 8. A relatively young podpilot, she impressed everyone on CSM with her knowledge, dedication and boundless energy, and zealously represented the interests of both new players and the NRDS community. Bluntly, she worked her ass off (for example, she took the lead in producing the Winter Summit Minutes), and fully deserves a second term.
Michael Dawe was always a bridesmaid, never a bride when it came to CSM -- until the change in election systems that debuted in CSM8. He then demonstrated that the voters had made the right choice by being a steadfast advocate for the High-Sec community, making sure that CCP took better note of their concerns. If you live in High-Sec, you want Mike back on the CSM.
David Whitelaw showed me he had the stamina to be a good CSM when he interviewed just about every CSM8 candidate on his Crossing Zebras podcast. I've been grilled by him more than a few times, and he has impressed me with his knowledge of the game, no-bullshit attitude, and great communication skills.
The Legion of Superior Candidates
No matter what area of the game you like the best, there are good candidates that feel the same way. Make sure the appropriate ones are on your ballot in addition to the Fantastic Four.
James Arget is a CSM incumbent representing wormhole space. He's worked hard on CSM8 and quietly gone about doing what needs to be done. Wormhole residents should send him back for another term.
Steve Ronuken is a level-headed industrialists, and he has also done a lot of work developing 3rd-party applications. CREST development is an increasingly frequent topic of discussion between CSM and CCP, and he'll be invaluable for that.
I like the way Sugar Kyle presents herself (in particular, her concern for new players), and I get the same vibe from her than I did from Ali Aras in last year's election.
Major JSilva is the main Pandemic Legion candidate, but the reason I'm including him is that he has his head screwed on correctly on the big meta-topics of Force Projection, Sov and TiDi. Helping CCP find a good solution to these issues is the biggest challenge CSM9 will face.
DJ FunkyBacon is a well-known and respected host on EVE Radio, so he'll be great at communications. But he will also be a badly-needed voice for Low Sec and Factional Warfare.
Jayne Fillon is a passionate PVP advocate who will do well helping CCP with their ongoing ship balancing efforts.
corbexxProclus Diadochu and Asayanami Dei are the other three wormhole candidates. Wormhole space probably has enough votes to elect two candidates this year; they are on my ballot to help ensure that this happens.
And finally, in the wild-card slot, there is Psychotic Monk. I'm not a huge fan of ganking and scamming, but they are a community that should occasionally get a voice on the CSM.
Recommended Ballots
Now that I've listed the 14 candidates I think should be on your ballot, there is the matter of the order in which they appear. In STV, you want to place your favorite candidates first, so the order will vary depending on your in-game interests.
Here are my recommended orderings:
General Ballot
DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,Xander Phoena,James Arget,Steve Rokunen,Sugar Kyle,Major JSilva,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,corbexx,Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Psychotic Monk
Low-Sec / Factional Warfare
DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,DNSBLACK,Sugar Kyle,Steve Rokunen,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,Xander Phoena,James Arget,corbexx, Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Major JSilva,Psychotic Monk
DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Xander Phoena,Major JSilva,Mike Azariah,James Arget,Steve Rokunen,Sugar Kyle,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,corbexx, Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Psychotic Monk
James Arget,corbexx, Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Mike Azariah,Xander Phoena,Major JSilva,Steve Rokunen,Sugar Kyle,DJ FunkyBacon,Jayne Fillon,Psychotic Monk
Small Gang/Solo PVP
Jayne Fillon,DNSBLACK,Ali Aras,Xander Phoena,James Arget,DJ FunkyBacon,Sugar Kyle,corbexx, Proclus Diadochu,Asayanami Dei,Mike Azariah,Steve Rokunen,Major JSilva,Psychotic Monk
Use these ballots as a starting point; if you have a favorite candidate who is not on my list, by all means add them to the ballot, and if you think my ordering is wrong, change it!
Other posts in this series: Why We VoteHow We Vote and How To Vote (has voting instructions and links).
Saturday, April 5, 2014
How We Vote
One of the interesting things about the CSM election is the use of the Single Transferrable Vote system, which was introduced in the previous election cycle. As some of you may live in areas of the world where it isn't commonly used, here is a quick primer.
In STV, instead of voting for a single candidate, you vote for all the candidates you like -- and rank them in your order of preference. The STV voting algorithm (specifically, the Wright STV variant) then attempts to make the best use of your vote to elect your preferred candidates in your order of preference.
STV thus largely avoids the problem of tactical voting. If you can only vote for a single candidate, then you run the risk that your candidate will not get elected -- in which case, your vote is effectively wasted. Let's say you really like Alice, but you think she's unlikely to get elected, and you sort of like Bob, and think he has a better chance. You might decide "If I vote for Alice, the vote will be wasted -- it won't elect her, and it could have been used to elect Bob, so he might not get elected either. So I have to vote for Bob, even though I like Alice a lot more. Sucks to be you, Alice!"
Under STV, on the other hand, your ballot would list Alice as your first choice, and Bob as your second (and as many other candidates as you like as well). When the votes are counted, if Alice doesn't have enough support to get elected, your vote will help Bob get elected. Even better, if Alice does get elected, your vote will be split, and whatever part of it isn't needed to elect Alice will help elect Bob.
This allocation and splitting process continues until there are no candidates left to help, which is why it's a good idea to list all the candidates you like on your ballot. It take a little longer than voting for a single person, but it maximizes your influence.
In the final days before the election, both the candidates and the pundits will be publishing their recommended ballots -- and I will be no exception (though as a pundit this year!). While the candidates obviously want to get elected, they also want to mutually support other candidates they like.
So if you really like a particular candidate, strongly consider using their recommended ballot -- but as a starting point. Feel free to modify it as you see fit.
But what ever you do, Vote Early and Often -- after all, each of your paying accounts gets a vote!
Other posts in this series: Why We VoteWho I Like and How To Vote (has voting instructions and links).
Friday, April 4, 2014
Why We Vote
Now that the final list of candidates for the CSM9 elections has been posted, I thought I would take a moment to explain why it is important that everyone vote in the CSM elections.
As a veteran of 4 years on the Council, I have had a unique perspective on the evolution of what is, in many ways, the most exclusive in-game profession in all of computer gaming -- after all, it's a part of EVE that only about 70 people have had the opportunity to play.
In my time on the CSM, it has evolved from being an exercise in frustration to an engaging and useful tool for improving the game. In CSM5, apart from the summit meetings, we only had forum communications with the developers, and they were sporadic. CSM8, on the other hand, communicates with CCP devs on a daily basis via multiple Skype chat channels, the forums, and roughly one teleconference a week.
CSM now provides advice on just about every aspect of the game. It's rare that a game-design devblog or ship-balancing post hasn't been reviewed by us before being released to the public.
The people who get elected to CSM9 will have a real opportunity to influence the future direction of the game, both in the short-term and for years to come. That's why it's so important to elect hard-working representatives who deeply understand the areas of the game that matter to you.
No matter what part of the game you love, make sure there's someone on CSM who loves it just as much as you -- and will work to make it better.
Four years ago, I was frustrated with EVE and ready to quit, but I decided to run for CSM as a platform to express my concerns, without any expectation of getting elected. Then that infamous #^&#*& butterfly flapped its wings, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Each ballot you cast is like the flap of a butterfly's wings. You can send someone else on the same incredible journey I got to take.
This year's candidates are the most qualified in CSM history, and they deserve your support. When the polls open, take a few minutes and vote in the CSM elections.
I'll have more to say about the elections and the candidates over the next few days -- stay tuned!
Other posts in this series: How We VoteWho I Like and How To Vote (has voting instructions and links).
Monday, March 3, 2014
Thank You to everyone who has entrusted me with their votes over the years, and given me the opportunity to experience the most exclusive in-game profession in all of computer gaming.
Thank You to my colleagues on the past four CSMs, who have given me the opportunity to be part of the evolution of a unique and effective organization.
Thank You to CCP, for having the courage to try the CSM experiment and give it the time it needed to properly develop.
Thank You, one and all.
But now, it is time for me to step down. I will not be running for re-election to CSM9.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to run again. Being on CSM is a wonderful (albeit exhausting) experience, and I'm going to miss it terribly. But one of my main long-term goals on CSM was to help restructure it so that it could be a more effective voice for the community, and that job is largely completed. My particular (and perhaps, peculiar) skills are less necessary -- so it's time for me to return to being a private capsuleer.
You can depend on me to work hard for the rest of the current term, and to be very vocal about who deserves your vote in the upcoming elections. And I look forward to seeing you all at Fanfest!
But after that? Well, just call me Citizen Trebor.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Only you can prevent Hamster Fires
The technical term for this situation is "Hamster Abuse."
The hamsters will thank you!
Sunday, January 19, 2014
The Cold Equations of Soul-Crushing Lag
Let's examine these possibilities in more detail.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
The Gods Smile Upon the CSM
As I stepped out of the Nora Bar with CCP Dolan, having just said my farewells to my fellow CSMs and various CCP devs, we were treated to a spectacular display of the Northern Lights above Reykjavik. The word quickly spread and the bar emptied.
Truly a fitting end for the most satisfying CSM summit of my career -- and it explained the problems we were having with the teleconferencing equipment all during the summit, which was clicking like a geiger counter. Clearly someone at CCP had modified it to be a coronal mass ejection detector.
I won't spend a lot of time recapping summit sessions -- for that, Ripard Teg's series of blog posts. This is just a quick summary before I head off to the airport.
This summit was the smoothest one ever. The hard work of previous CSMs has resulted in a smooth working relationship between CSM and CCP, and CSM8 is reaping the rewards of that foundational work.
We got completely briefed on the plans for Winter and how they tie into the long-term vision for the game CCP Seagull presented at FanFest. We had productive meetings with all the feature teams working on the next expansion, and look forward to providing them with more feedback in the coming months.We also had a ton of meetings with teams working on projects like language support that were very interesting.
As soon as we get back to the US, we'll start work on the minutes. The plan this time is to stream them out in small chunks as individual sessions are completed, and I personally hope you'll see the first set of them in about 2 weeks.
I'll close this short note with some thank-yous:
• To my fellow CSMs, both those in Iceland and those who Lync'd in (we usually had 10 CSMs in the meetings). You done good.
• To the CPM, several of whom joined us for most sessions as observers, and provided us with a lot of support and insight behind the scenes.
• To CCP Dolan, who clearly did a ton of work preparing for the summit.
• And to CCP, for being gracious and attentive hosts.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
CSM Update
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Every Vote is sacred, Every Vote is Great...
There are Traders in the world, there are Miners.
There are Carebears and Pirates and then,
There are those that follow The Mittani, BUT
I've never been one of them.
Every Vote is Sacred,
Every Vote is Great!
If a Vote gets Wasted,
Seagull gets quite Irate!
Every Vote is Sacred,
Every Vote is Great!
If a Vote gets Wasted,
Soundwave gets quite Irate!
Let the bittervets waste theirs
By staying unsubscribed.
Fozzie will buff a ship for
Each Vote that's well applied!
Every Vote is Wanted,
Every Vote is Good,
Every Vote is Needed,
karkur says vote you should.
Scammers, Gankers, Botters,
Cast theirs just anywhere.
But Punkturis loves those who treat their
Ballots with more care.
Every Vote is Sacred,
Every Vote is Great!
If a Vote gets Wasted,
Masterplan gets quite Irate!
Every Vote is Wanted,
Every Vote is Good,
Every Vote is Needed,
Dolan says vote you should.
Every Vote is Useful!
Every Vote is Fine!
Veritas counts everybody's...
Mine... and mine... and mine!
Let the Spam Alts spill theirs,
O'er Jita, Curse, and Domain,
Stillman shall strike them down for
Each Vote that's cast in vain.
Every Vote is Wanted,
Every Vote is Good,
Every Vote is Needed,
Explorer says vote you should.
Every Vote is Sacred,
Every Vote is Great!
If a Vote gets Wasted,
Unifex gets quite Irate!
Remember folks, No Votes Nerf Boats... so vote in the CSM elections!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Voting is a Drag(fest), man...
The polls are open in New Eden, and I hope you'll click this link and vote for me!
When you do, you'll see something a bit unexpected -- a little voting assistant script I have written. It helps address a big problem with the ballot.
It's a drag.
Or more precisely, it's up to 14 drags. In order to vote a complete 14-candidate ballot (which you should be doing), you have to locate each candidate from a list of 30-odd, and then drag them into your ballot.
This is made worse by the fact that it's hard to find your candidates in the list; I have problems finding my own name! At least I don't have 10 accounts...
Update 2: CCP has added the ability to double-click candidates instead of dragging them, and if you have multiple accounts, after you've voted once your ballot will be stored in a cookie. However, the Bookmarklet trick no longer works, so parts of this post are no longer relevant and have been crossed out.
Some months back, I got interested in the physical process of casting ballots, and did some human-factors experiments, even going so far as to create a ballot UI mockup to test various options. I became convinced that a quick ballot entry system was absolutely essential, even something as simple as a text field you could use to enter a candidate list.
Unfortunately, it appears that CCP doesn't agree. While I can understand that they may not want people to blindly vote slates, I had no doubt that there are some experienced web-programmers out there who will have no problems putting together something that will add this functionality. And guess what...
I have checked with CCP Dolan and for now, using a Javascript Bookmarklet to fill in your ballot is allowed. They may however do something to stop it working in the future.
Which brings us back to my voting link. What I've done is whack together a simple script that makes it easier for you to vote:
If you're just voting one account, it may be simpler to enter your ballot by hand. In this case, the script displays the CCP voting page in a frame, with a checklist of candidates to vote for, and a resizable thumbnail image that shows what the ballot will look like when it is completely filled out.
But it also has a link to a page that will automatically create a Javascript Bookmarklet, and has instructions on how to use it. I would like to publicly thank those great benefactors of New Eden, the Goons, and in particular the estimable Jumanji (who should drink for free at FanFest), for their kind permission to use their code as a template.
This script can be used by anyone who wants to distribute a recommended ballot list or create a Bookmarklet. All you have to do is generate a URL in the following format:
http:///www.animeigo.com/CSM/ballot.php?c={list of candidates, separated by commas}&u={optional url of your completed ballot image, without the http:// part}
If you just want to create a Bookmarklet, you can access that part of the tool via this URL:
http:///www.animeigo.com/CSM/ballot-auto.php?c={list of candidates, separated by commas}
These URLs are very long, of course, so I suggest using a service like bit.ly to whack them down to size.
Update: I tweaked the tool so you can also just paste your picks into a text field and generate the bookmarklet a framed ballot assistant page. Just load the ballot tool page without a list, as follows:
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The Politics of POSsibility
Many pixels have died in vain in recent weeks as various pundits have pronounced with great positivity that CSM7 was pathetically pointless.
But now that CCP Fozzie's devblog about the Improvements to POSes in Odyssey has been released, I'm able to provide a little insight on how it came about, and how CSM was able to work on the community's behalf.
Our tale begins well before the Winter Summit. CSM definitely had POSes on our agenda for what would become the Odyssey expansion, but we weren't overly optimistic. CSM was supposed to be a stakeholder on one of the development teams in the fall, but due to some misunderstandings at CCP, this experiment was not a success. We were seriously considering "going to the matresses" and expressing our concerns publicly, but after much debate, we decided to hold off and see what CCP had to say at the summit.
As it happened, the summit was a great success, and CCP made some unprecedented promises about CSM input in the planning of future expansions, starting with the next one in early January.
Fast forward a few weeks until the start of the planning process, which I've described in a previous post. In their possible features presentation, one of the teams stated that they wanted to work on improvements to the current POS system.
Our initial feedback to CCP was an executive summary rating that various feature ideas, which I've talked about in a recent post. POSes were one of the 4 "big" items we gave a perfect 10.0 score to (3 of the 4 are in Odyssey). We also created a "POS Wish List" report as a guide to what features would be well received by the community; this ended up being used as one of the starting points for the design.
Next, in mid-January, the Winter Summit minutes were released, and lots of people were concerned because there wasn't substantial discussion about POSes. This presented us with a dilemma. Hopefully CCP would be delivering on POSes in Odyssey, but what if things messed up again? We knew that if we started a POS discussion thread on the forums it would get a lot of attention, and while it would be useful to be able to point to as evidence that POSes were deserving of high priority, it might also get out of hand and backfire.
This was a particular concern because during this time, most of us were putting together our own themed expansion packages, just as the CCP teams were doing (you will not be surprised to learn that POSes were key elements in our themes...). So lighting a fire in the forums at exactly the time when CCP might already be doing exactly what we wanted them to be doing could be counterproductive.
This question was the only one in our entire term that CSM7 could not reach consensus about. Finally, Two step broke the deadlock by posting the POS thread on his own initiative, an act that upset several of his colleagues, notably Seleene.
When we learned what was in the final package, we were very happy that POS fixes were a major component. And to add icing to the cake, CSM was assigned to act as a Stakeholder for the team doing the work, so we'll continue to monitor the situation and do our best to help make sure that as much of the plan gets done as POSsible.
So to the Nattering Nabobs of Negativity, I say, Nuts!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Fourteen in a Bed
In compiling these recommendations, I am not giving any weight to how the candidates play EVE, how much they agree or disagree with me, and whether or not they are also supporting me. My major criteria is "do I think this person will do a good job if they are elected?" I expect that all of these candidates will be hard-working team players who will strongly but fairly advocate for the entire community.
None of my recommendations are bloc candidates. This is not because there aren't excellent bloc candidates this year, it's simply that their blocs will ensure they get elected, and supporting them isn't tactically wise under STV. I want a diverse CSM that represents all areas of the game.
My recommended ballot for CSM8 (Version 1.0)
1. Trebor Daehdoow. My polling indicates that 35% of my voters are voting for me because I'm experienced, 31% because I work hard and get results, 18% because they are old and/or bald like me, and 16% because they want to annoy Poetic Stanziel.
2. Tie: Ripard Teg is knowledgeable, hard-working, and a great writer, while Malcanis is probably the all-time champion goodposter on EVE-O -- he's been around forever and nobody has a bad word to say about him.
4. corebloodbrothers impressed me when he ran for the first time last year, but the voting system conspired against him. With any luck, the change to STV will mean the second time will be the charm.
5. Tie: Nathan Jameson and James Arget would be great voices for Wormhole residents. If the stars align, both of them will be.
7. I have served on CSM with both the major Russian candidates, and I like both of them personally, which makes choosing between them painful. However, I think Korvin is the better choice given the challenges and opportunities that CSM 8 will face.
8. Ali Aras is a rare bird, the experienced newbie. I want CCP to put more resources into making EVE more newbie-friendly, and her voice will help convince them to do that.
9. Mangala Solaris brings yet another important perspective to the table, and is well-respected in his community.
10. Given how much crap I've taken from his supporters, you may be surprised to learn that Psychotic Monk is going to be on my ballot. I disagree with some of his positions, but he argues them fairly -- and anything we do agree on is likely to be correct. I am hoping he will be CSM 8's Alekseyev Karrde.
11. Unforgiven Storm is a good industrialist candidate who has the bad luck to be a Goon who is running as an independent. That means he probably won't get much love from bloc voters, and a lot of other people won't vote for him because he's a Goon. If he doesn't make it, I hope he does well enough to try again next year. If so, he could be the corebloodbrothers of CSM 9.
12. Roc Wieler will either be a decent CSM, or he'll be able to role-play a decent CSM. Either works for me.
13. Mike Azariah wants to represent the casual player, and has shown he can work hard on community-related projects.
14. To Be Determined. I am really undecided about who to put in my final slot, and I want to sleep on it. Think you know who it should be? If so, post in my EVE-O thread and tell me why. Or perhaps another candidate will make me an offer I can't refuse.
After all, as we all know, politics makes strange bedfellows.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Lack of Quantity has a Quality all its own
Oh frabjous day, Mittens has launched another salvo in his attempt to depress non-bloc turnout in the CSM election (aka the "War Against Turnout").
This time he's taking the fact that there are only 35 candidates and trying to spin it into an alleged crisis of confidence in the community. Go read it and play "count the logical fallacy".
The most important one is, of course: Quantity does not imply Quality. A much more reasonable explanation for the reduced number of candidates is simply this: CSM7 and CCP have made it abundantly clear that CSM is :srsbsns: that requires a significant time investment, and the rules of the CSM and the election system were updated to encourage serious candidates to run.
If you look at the 35 candidates running for CSM this year, there are significantly more high-quality candidates than in any previous CSM election. Ask yourself, why did guys like Malcanis and Ripard Teg run this year and not last year?
Better yet, go ask them in their campaign threads. Then pop by my thread and give me a bump, and check out the threads of other serious first-time candidates like Nathan Jameson, James Arget, Mangala Solaris, Psychotic Monk, and corebloodbrothers, just to name a few non-bloc guys who are likely to get on my recommended ballot (more on that soon).
PS: I confidently predict that every serious CSM candidate will pass the threshold within the first couple of days. | http://treborofthecsm.blogspot.com/ | dclm-gs1-167981087 |
0.032294 | <urn:uuid:58e77e28-fc17-4c1b-abd1-6e8cfe567a4d> | en | 0.922616 | Sunday, September 30, 2007
cable brim hat
cable brim hat
Yarn: 200-ish yards of worsted weight wool
Needle: 5mm DPNs and circular
Pull out your stitch dictionary of choice (I confess, I am deeply enthralled by Barbara Walker) and pick out a cable pattern that looks like it will knit up to be 2-3 inches wide. Add two stitches to either side of the motif and do the following:
RS: slip 2 stiches, knit cable pattern, slip 1, purl 1
WS: slip 1, purl 1, knit cable pattern, purl 2
The extra stitches and all the slipping give you an even, nice-looking edge while also creating a border for your cable motif.
Knit the cable motif until it is however long you want your hat brim to be, and sew the cast off edge to the cast on edge. I tried to be clever and start with a provisional cast on and then graft the two ends together, but it didn't turn out that well. This is probably because I didn't feel like thinking that hard about it when the time came, and not because it can't be done, or that it would be particularly difficult. Do whatever you want.
Then, with your circular needle, pick up stitches all the way around the brim you just made. If you need more stitches than you picked up, increase in the next round. Knit the rest of the hat like you would any other hat (for advice on this I highly recommend the section on hats in Knitting Rules by that other Stephanie).
Cast off, weave in ends, feel clever. The end!
1 comment:
Carrie K said...
Very cute hat! I love Barbara Walker's stitch books.
You caved to the loveliness that is the Hemlock blanket, I see. So pretty. | http://vampiregrapes.blogspot.com/2007/09/cable-brim-hat.html | dclm-gs1-168071087 |
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Sailboat hull before soda blast
Soon after I purchased Lunacy and brought her north late in the summer of 2006 it became painfully obvious I would have to do something about her anti-fouling paint. On surveying the boat in Florida her bottom seemed reasonably fair with good paint adhesion. But soon after I hauled her out in Maine that fall to store her for the winter, the paint started flaking off in alarmingly huge chunks.
There was much speculation around Portland Yacht Services, where I stored the boat, as to what the cause might be. Some theorized it had to do with the big change in water temperature the boat had experienced, having come from Florida, where it spent many years, to Maine, where the water rarely gets as warm as 60 degrees F. Others believed it was the inevitable result of over 20 years accumulation of non-ablative paint. (On checking with the previous owner, I learned he had in fact never stripped the boat's bottom since first launching it in 1985.) Most likely, I think, it was a combination of the two.
My first full season owning Lunacy I simply ignored the problem. In the spring I scraped off as much loose bottom paint as I could, did a bit of sanding, slapped on a fresh coat of something or other, then went sailing. The following winter, however, I resolved to remove all the old paint and start anew.
Sample section of hull during soda blast
Blast Alternatives: Soda or sponge?
My initial plan was to have the boat soda-blasted down its barrier coat and rebuild from there. For those unwilling to either sand off old bottom paint, which is painfully labor intensive, or strip it off with chemicals, which is toxically offensive and messy, soda blasting is currently the method of choice. Unlike traditional sand blasting, which is overly aggressive and chews up the gelcoat on a fiberglass hull, soda blasting is very effective, but still gentle enough to leave gelcoat intact. The media used, which is simply bicarbonate of soda (i.e., baking soda), is non-toxic and silica-free. Because it is water soluble and non-hazardous, the media itself can be rinsed away from the material blasted off a hull, thus greatly reducing the volume of waste requiring disposal.
Theoretically, it is possible to do a DIY soda-blast with rented equipment. Most boatowners, however, hire professionals, which is wise, unless you already have experience using blasting gear. Though soda is indeed a gentle media, it can still do serious damage to a gelcoat substrate if poorly handled. Besides, hiring a pro in most cases is not prohibitively expensive. For example, Stacey Stone, who runs Chesapeake Soda Clean and blasts between 70 to 80 boats a year, claims he can prep and blast a typical 40-foot glass hull in a single day for about $1,600.
But soda-blasting, I learned, is not the only game in town. Our local blasting expert in southern Maine, Joe Sharpe of JS Boatworks, came to have a look at Lunacy and quickly announced he thought sponge-blasting was the way to go. I was unfamiliar with the concept and wondered: How the heck can you "blast" anything with a sponge?
But the sponge, it turns out, is only a vehicle. The media in fact consists of tiny chunks of synthetic sponge that are impregnated with various abrasive substances and cleaning agents, from aluminum oxide to steel grit to calcium carbonate to glass beads. In all there are nearly 20 different configurations, which affords a great deal of flexibility. Where soda ranks at a lowly and comparitively soft 2.5 on the Mohs hardness scale (originally formulated for use in the diamond industry), sponge media can range anywhere from 2.5 to a nice hard 8, depending on what substance is utilized. Abrasiveness can range anywhere from 16 to 500 grit. This makes sponge-blasting appropriate for anything from delicate historical restoration work to heavy-duty rust and scale removal.
What further enhances the controllability of sponge blasting is the nature of the vehicle itself. Where most blasting media, including soda, typically fracture on striking the target surface, thus creating lots of dust, and also rebound quite a bit, which causes collateral damage to surrounding objects and features, sponge flattens against its target surface on impact, captures a good bit of the material being blasted off the surface, keeps the impregnated media intact, and greatly reduces rebound.
This has several salutary effects. First, there is much less dust. Sponge Jet, currently the only manufacturer of sponge-blasting gear and media, claims there is a 90 percent reduction in dust compared to most other blasting methods. Joe Sharpe says it's more like 80 (including compared to soda blasting), which is still mighty impressive. Second, the media can be recycled. A big part of any sponge-blasting job involves shoveling spent media into a sorting machine that shakes the bejesus out of the little dirty sponges and separates contaminants from reusable media. Depending on the job, the media can be recycled from 3 to 15 times. In that sponge media is expensive, costing between $85 to $100 a bag (compared to about $23 a bag for soda, or even less for a more primitive media), this is very important.
Sorting sponge media during a blast
Clean sponge blast media
Sponge blast waste
Third, because there is much less rebound with sponge, it can be used in jobs where blasting must be performed in close proximity to fragile features. For example, Tony Anni of Sponge Jet, who tells me sponge-blasting is currently making big inroads in the superyacht market, described a recent job in which a large yacht needed its topsides and superstructure stripped and recoated. In a situation like this, Anni explains, where windows, brightwork, and other features cannot easily be removed, sponge-blasting is ideal. Another advantage, points out Sharpe, is that less rebound is much easier on the operator. Where an aggressive blast with a media like sand or steel grit requires a user to wear leather for protection, an aggressive sponge blast can be performed in a light Tyvek jumpsuit.
Sponge blast in progress
But can sponge be used on fiberglass? For most boatowners this is a dispositive question. The answer is yes: sponge can be every bit as gentle as soda, if not more so. But in most cases with a glass boat, Joe Sharpe points out, soda blasting is preferable. Soda blasting, he explains, is normally faster than sponge blasting in this application; soda is also greener, and it is easier (and cheaper) to dispose of the waste.
A Painful Result
One big reason Joe wanted to sponge-blast my boat was that somewhere in there, as often happens, Plan A morphed into Plan B. Eric Thibodeau of PYS, who ultimately would be responsible for recoating Lunacy's bottom once it was stripped, didn't like my idea of leaving the old barrier coat in place. Lunacy's original owner couldn't remember exactly what he put on way back in 1985, but guessed it was some sort of coal-tar epoxy. Eric, understandably, didn't want to build a new surface on top of an unknown quantity, but preferred to go down to bare metal and start again from scratch. This made a lot of sense, so in the end I gave a thumbs-up for a "down-to-the-bone" blast job.
This meant the bare aluminum needed some sort of profile in order to accept a new barrier coat. And Joe's rule of thumb when choosing a blasting media is fairly simple: if no profile is required (as when stripping a glass boat down to gelcoat) he prefers to use soda; when a profile is called for, he likes to use sponge, as it affords more control. In my case, where we wanted to achieve a profile of somewhere between 2 to 4 mil, Joe selected a mix of 60- and 80-grit Silver Sponge media impregnated with aluminum oxide.
A bag of sponge blast media
There was just one problem. Whatever that original barrier coat was, it was extremely tenacious and did not want to come off. Where originally we had hoped to get the job done in two days--one day to prep and one full day to blast--it in fact took a full week of blasting, well over 40 hours, to get all of Lunacy's bottom down to bare aluminum. No one was very happy about this. For Joe it was frustrating and tiring to have to work so slowly. For me it was very expensive. For PYS, which provided the venue for the job, it proved a bit messy.
For even though sponge blasting generates 80 to 90 percent less dust than other methods, there is still an awful lot of dust leftover in that remaining 10 to 20 percent. Don't think for a minute you can sponge blast a boat in the open air in close proximity to dwellings or other vessels. We blasted Lunacy inside a PYS storage shed and had fully tented her nether regions. But toward the end of the job, as Joe and his crew grew weary and got a little sloppy about securing the tent, enough dust escaped and settled on other vessels nearby that the PYS management took notice and complained.
Tented sailboat prepped for sponge blast
Inevitably I found myself pining for the road not taken. Certainly it would have been much cheaper and easier to leave the old (and obviously very effective) barrier coat in place. I consoled myself with research. Coal-tar epoxy, I learned, can be very difficult to recoat in some situations. So ultimately there was no guarantee Plan A would have been any less painful.
Now, at least, Lunacy's bottom was as fresh and unblemished as the day she was born. My next problem was: what paint should I put on over it???
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The Declaration of Arbroath 1320
The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 by John Prebble
The author of this noble Latin address is unknown, though it is assumed to have been composed by Bernard de Linton, Abbot of Arbroath and Chancellor of Scotland.
Above the seals of eight earls and forty-five barons, it asked for the Pope's dispassionate intervention in the bloody quarrel between the Scots and the English, and so that he might understand the difference between the two its preamble gave him a brief history of the former.
The laughable fiction of this is irrelevant. What is important is the passionate sincerity of the men who believed it, who were placing a new and heady nationalism above the feudal obligations that had divided their loyalties less than a quarter of a century before. In its mixture of
defiance and supplication, nonsensical history and noble thought, two things make the Declaration of Arbroath the most important document in Scottish history.
betrayed them he would be removed and replaced. This remarkable obligation placed upon a feudal monarch by his feudal subjects may be explained in part by the fact that Bruce was still a heather king to many of them, still a wild claimant ruling upon sufferance and success.
But the roots of his kingship were Celtic, and a Celtic tradition was here invoked, the memory of the Seven Earls, the Seven Sons of Cruithne the Pict in who, it was believed, had rested the ancient right of tanistry, the elevation of kings by selection. This unique relationship
of king and people would influence their history henceforward, and would reach its climax in the Reformation and the century following, when a people's Church would declare and maintain its superiority over earthly crowns.
to defend it with his life. The natural qualifications put upon this by a medieval baron are irrelevant, as are the reservations which slave-owning Americans placed upon their declaration of independence.
The truth once spoken cannot be checked, the seed once planted controls its own growth, and the liberty which men secure for themselves must be given by them to others, or it will be taken as they took it. Freedom is a hardy plant and must flower in equality and brotherhood.
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