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The tallest building in the world with a height of 828 meters, Burj Khalifa in Dubai used to be known as Burj Dubai. 162 rooms and an antenna in the top of the building have given the whole tower world's attraction from the moment it came into existence in 2008.
The construction of the tower was started in 2004 and it was opened to the public in 2010 as a part of the new development of the Government called Downtown Dubai. Burj Khalifa was considered to be the masterpiece of the popular large scale, mixed-use development.
It was built and named in honour of the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The design of the building came into the artistic mind and famous designer Adrian Smith, then working for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
Highlights: This tallest skyscraper has 162 rooms and has the world's tallest elevator spans up to 140 levels. The highest occupied floor in the building is 153rd floor where parties and events are occurred frequently and it has a private terrace as well. Experts believe that Burj Khalifa is the perfect blend of different aesthetic senses from different cultures around the globe.
The spider lily, a widely cultivated flower in Dubai is said to be the influence for the architectural design of the building. At 555 meters, the SKY or the highest outdoor observatory space exists spreads across the levels of 148 and 125 of the building. The recent attraction is the spiral flight which has 36 steps in white oak and has a length of 100 meters. It is made beautiful with the crystal LED Chandelier.
Location: It is located at 1 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, Dubai, UAE. From Dubai main city, it is just 1.7 km away.
Timings: Opens daily from 9 AM to 11 PM.
Price: Prices vary according to timings and age but approximate pricing ranges from 125 AED to 500 AED.
A lot of you might be searching for that perfect lucury while you are travelling to Dubai. Well then you have the famous Dubai Creek which is the perfect place for you. Dubai Creek is a saltwater creek which is a part of the new Dubai canal it extends through to the Persian Gulf.
Dubai Creek is one the emirate's most beautiful areas that especially stand out for its conventional atmosphere and appeal. Regardless of the record-breaking points of interest involving tall structures and excitement settings that dab over the city, this normal seawater brook remains as the genuine personality of Dubai and is a living representation of the nation's long-standing convention.
Going through the heart of the city, the river isolates Dubai into two noteworthy regions: Bur Dubai and Deira. A retro vibe is obvious in each alcove and corner of the rivulet and its encompassing territories.
Highlights: Old-style structures that reflect rich Arabian accommodation, conventional style wooden dhows, and clamoring souks – all make Dubai Creek very extraordinary. With the warm and shallow water one can find a variety of rich marine life here. Take a stroll through the amazing beauty of the region and enjoy the mixture of old and modernity while you visit this place.
Location: The Dubai creek is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
There may not be any other zoo or aquarium where people are freely interacting with dolphins and seals than at Dubai Dolphinarium. An exclusive living space for the gentle, human friendly animals of the sea, dolphins and seals are protected and preserved properly at Dubai Dolphinarium and now it has received wide accolades and recognition.
Located in the creek side park at Bur Dubai, the dolphinarium is a very special spot for children as well since they find these species of water very adorable and cute. The aquarium is supported by Dubai Municipality since it came into existence in 2008. There entertainment programs and shows at regular times here so that people would love to spend much time with their families and kids. The dolphinarium was built with an aim to motivate the young generation to protect marine life and its habitat intact.
Highlights: The activities of bottlenose dolphins and seals leave everyone at pure laughter and joy and there are separate fun activities like acrobatics, singing, dancing, playing balls etc done by these charming animals. There are different pools for the dolphins and also a private habitat with sea water connected to these pools.
A medical pool and seal pool constructed in addition to the existing pools make their lives better and safe. Here, one can spot Senya, Ksyusha, Tetka, Jerry and Fekla which are the bottlenose dolphins and four seals named Ghosha, Fila, Lusha and Max. Kids' Summer Camp, Dubai Summer Surprises are some of the major events arranged here to grab the public attention on a large scale.
Location: Riyadh Street, Inside the Creek Park Gate No.1, Umm Hurair 2, Dubai. It is about 11 kms from Dubai main city via Abu Dhabi- Ghweifat International Highway or Sheikh Zayed Road.
Timings: The dolphinarium is open on all days from 10:00 to 07:30 pm except on Sundays.
Price: Different types of entry fees are there depending on your selection. To swim with dolphins costs one price while for watching the show costs different price.
Shallow water- Swimming with Dolphins: 450 AED
Deep Water- Swimming with Dolphins- 600 AED
This time remain awestruck while you visit one of the most wonderful Ferrari world in Dubai and be ready to try the ultimate loop. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is the ultimate mecca situated on Yas Island. It is the primary Ferrari-marked amusement park and has the record for the biggest space outline structure at any point assembled.
The recreation center additionally holds the Formula Rossa, the world's speediest crazy ride. The recreation center and it formally opened to general society on 4 November 2010. It covers a range of 86,000 square meters and was granted as the "Center East's Leading Tourist Attraction" in the year 2015.
There are distinctive rides in the recreation center and every one of the rides is intended to excite. Regardless of whether you long for the extraordinary G-compel of world-class rollercoaster's, need to run kart race with your family or test the best lap times in a best in class test system – we have a great time for everybody.
Highlights: Different rides like Formula Rossa, Fiorano GT Challenge, Scuderia Challenge, Carousel, G-Force
Location: Ferrari World is located at Yas Island - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates.
Timings: The Ferrari World remain open from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo
A vivid part of Dubai Aquarium, the Underwater Zoo is a stunning picturisation of the sturdy underwater world, but more creative and unbelievable than the original. Kids as well as adults come in large numbers to visit the zoo which has unusual reptiles and sea animals floating freely in the clean, clear water and they are the amusing creatures to be found alive only in the secret chambers of the sea.
Since the zoo is existing inside the popular Dubai Mall, the tourists who come to visit Dubai would never miss to watch the impeccable zoo. There are surplus of things to make your kids entertained but this atypical underwater zoo would definitely leave them speechless.
Highlights: The latest charm or highlight of the zoo is the giant crocodile which is fondly called as the King Croc, weighing a whopping 750 kilograms and with a length of 5 meters, the giant creature is the eye catcher at Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. But without giving the ears to puffery, this mammoth creature surprises the visitors every day with its adorable features.
It is one of the biggest animal in the world currently and expected to grow more in next 50 years. Sounds like a fantasy? No, it is absolutely a fact that, this animal is a wonder for many and you will believe it does exist only after you see it.
Location: Dubai Mall, Doha off 1st Interchange, Sheikh Zayed Street Road, Dubai, UAE. From Dubai city, you have to walk for 6 minutes to reach the Mall.
Timing: The zoo will be open from 10:00 to 11:00 pm on all days from Sunday to Wednesday and from 10:00 am to 12:00 midnight on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the timings are subject to change.
Price: For researcher experience: AED 100 is the ticket charge in which you get new meet and greet area, aquarium tunnel, underwater zoo, behind the scenes tour and underwater observatory. For explorer experience, you have to pay AED 120 as the ticket charge in which you will get new meet and greet area, aquarium tunnel, underwater zoo, submersible simulator, big screen theatre and aquarium glass bottom boat ride. There are other different types of tickets available like Otter Encounter, Ray Encounter, King Croc Encounter, VIP Line Buster Experiences, and Membership Program etc at different ticket charges.
Dubai Marina is an artificial canal city, a district as well in Dubai situated along the two mile stretch of Persian Gulf shoreline that glitters all the time. Experts insist that once the complete construction of the district is over, it will be able to accommodate an en masse, around 1, 20000 people in residential towers and villas.
The area is quite important in Dubai that accommodates Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and the American University in Dubai. The blind folded inspiration to Dubai Marina is the Concord Pacific Place along the False Creek in Vancouver, Canada. The close proximity with the sea opens up a lot of chances to the marine species to enter the district.
Highlights: To create the extensive man made marina beautiful, the developers had to bring water from the Persian Gulf to the site and created an unbelievable waterfront and the large central waterway that is excavated from the desert and extended up to 3 km. 12% of the total land area is dedicated to the central public space. 8 km of wide landscaped public walkways tranquilizes the beauty of the place to a large extent.
Location: It is located in Dubai, around 21 kms from Dubai city.
Located in the district of Dubai Land, Dubai Miracle Garden or the flower garden is a rare sight of millions of flowers of different colours bloom together and the structures made of these flowers are really surprising and marvelously created. It came into establishment in the year of 2013, on the Valentine's Day. It spreads over 72000 sq.meters featuring over 109 million flowers. In 2015, this garden was awarded the Moselle Award for New Garden Experiences.
The flowers used here are maintained by the re-use of waste water irrigated through drip irrigation method and these flowers take 757,082 litres of water every day. The recent development in the garden is the mesmerizing butterfly garden opened under the name Dubai Butterfly Garden which is the world's largest and Dubai's first indoor butterfly garden. The garden is a haven for overly 15000 butterflies that belong to 26 different species.
Highlights: There are multiple formations on flowers which have gained international recognition within a short span of time. The attractions include a floral clock, an aromatic garden, peacocks, birds, castles etc. One can spend up to 2.5 hours in the par enjoying the ravishing beauty of thousand flowers arranged so beautiful.
Location: The garden is located in Dubailand district, 22 kms away from the main city centre.
Timings: During weekdays, the garden will be open from 09:00 am to 09:00 pm and on weekends that is on Friday and Saturday, it will be open from 09:00 am to 11:00 am.
Price: Adults: AED 40, children: 30 AED
Best time to visit: The usual time of operation of the garden is from October to April and in the months of June, July, August, September, the garden will be closed due to the high temperature level which is not suitable to spend time in the garden.
Non-operational Months: The garden remains closed from late-May to September.
Nobody can escape the compelling beauty and charisma of Dubai Fountain, an embellishing array of light, water and music. The tallest performing fountain located in Downtown Dubai, Dubai Fountain has thousands of visitors every day. This is the second biggest choreographed music fountain established on the huge manmade lake at Burj Khalifa equipped with 6600 lights and 25 coloured projectors.
The water comes up to 500 feet in the air with the soothing music of traditional Arabic or contemporary style. WET Design is the master brain worked behind the design of the Dubai Fountain. They are a California based company which constructed Bellagio Hotel Lake in Las Vegas.
Highlights: The unique design of the fountain amuses everyone as it comprises of five circles of different sizes and two arcs. The powerful water nozzles give the potential to reach the magnificent heights. The Dubai Fountain Lake boat ride is a celebrated fun activity available here which would give the visitors an amazing chance to watch the beauty of a rare combination of music, light and water together very closely. But the boat ride will be operational from 05:45 pm to 11:30 pm.
Location: The Dubai Mall, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard, Downtown Dubai, Dubai. It is located about 2.7 kms away from the main city of Dubai.
Timings: Afternoon shows are on all days except Friday from 01:00 pm t0 01:30 pm. On Friday, the afternoon show will be at 01:30 pm extending up to 02:00 pm. Evening shows are starting at 06:00 pm and ending at 11:00 pm, every 30 minutes.
Price: The entry is completely free.
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What's cooking? : Part 1When I wasn't working back in March(been back to work now),I cook a lot more for my husband.Previously because my work sometimes last up until 8-9pm(depending how urgent an ad campaign is),I rarely have the time to cook for him during weekdays. Nowadays since I'm back to work, it's the same thing as well. I tend to cook 2-3 days out of the 5 working days.
The problem is that..sometimes there will be days when you tend to be blur on what to cook because you don't want to cook the same thing all the time(mine tends to be cereal/butter milk/salted egg prawn or squid).So i'm always trying out new recipes from the internet and alhamdulillah,they always turn out well.
It helps that I actually love cooking and baking.When I cook,I have to cut up all of my ingredients and put them in separate bowls/containers.I love to organize the ingredients that I'm cooking with because it's easier that way.
Also,whenever I cook dishes to go with rice,I just can't cook one dish..it just seems incomplete.I have to cook 2-3 dishes and one must have vegetables in it..or a vegetable dish.
I thought that I'd share pictures of the dishes that I've cooked recently and the names of it.Let me know which ones you're keen to know the recipe to.There'll be another post as well because I cook a lot! haha
|Left:Udang masak kunyit. Right:Daging masak merah
So I thought,why not try and replicate the recipe.It's super easy and tastes so good.I used beef sirloin (daging batang pinang)for the dish so the beef just melts in your mouth.But I didn't use any food colouring for this dish though.When you buy it outside,they usually marinate the beef in red coloring because the name of the dish is daging masak merah(cooked red beef).
|Stir fried beef with broccoli and bok choy
|Fried tofu salad,stir fried broccoli & fried ikan keli with sambal
Fried tofu salad
Firm tofu --cut in thin strips & then deep fried until golden brown.
Cucumber,bunga kantan & red onion --slice them thinly/julienned
Thai cili sauce--I used Kimball's and squeezed 1 to 2 limes and mix it together for the dressing.
Layer the fried tofu on a plate.Put the sliced vegetables on top and drizzle the dressing on top.Super easy and yummy!
|Pulut durian
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I managed to find a recipe that allows you to make onsen egg easily!Refer to the video below:
|Fried onion rings
|Salted egg butter prawns,ikan siakap tiga rasa and stir fried green beans
|Mee rebus!!A recipe that was passed down to me by my late grandmother
|Cereal prawns,omelette,stir fried broccoli and fried fish!
I loveeee cereal prawns. They're so simple to make and is very tasty! Broccoli is one of my favourite vegetable and it's so good for you.
That's the end of part 1 for you my dear readers! I'll blog about part 2 soon :)


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Currently I have a 24″ monitor, with full HD resolution (1920×1080) – most CAD type setups are significantly higher than this.
That's .0099826 of a percentage point of the total screen real estate
This includes the most common tools (copy move delete), yet there are tools that get over 11 times the screen real estate that I've never used.
There must be a way to improve productivity.
The ability to group tools into ribbons like CAD/Revit and Office toolbars would make the software more familiar.
Also customising your own tools (like Office / CAD) to suit your own workflow would make using this software a lot easier for all of your users.
Holy hand-grenade of Antioch!!
For the love of Pete, don't add in a Ribbon interface!!! If we're going to get some cosmetic surgery on the user interface, please do something that makes it easier, not just regurgitate bad ideas.
The ribbon interface takes up way too much screen real-estate, and virtually ensures that the user ends up having to click more times than they used to, especially if the location of the icon/command is on a Tab that the user isn't expecting (intuitive issues) so they have to keep clicking Tabs and scanning the Ribbon trying to find what they're looking for.
Want to make things easier? Introduce selection of items in the Model window without having to first invoke a command, and then allow right-clicking for a context-sensitive menu. Imagine being able to select a room with a single click or click-drag 'window' selection, then with a right-click be able to edit surfaces, dynamically edit, add calc-points, add/delete openings, etc. Same thing for a luminaire or a calc point. Any Room/Object/Luminaire/Calc/DrawingEntity could be selected and interacted with in a minimal-fuss way.
I agree the user interface needs a facelift. I agree with Jayna Williams in regards to including the ability to create our own custom toolbar with a most used tool set. And have it dock/undock where I choose. That being said, it would be nice if all of the dock/undock screens were movable outside of the main program. Just like you can do with AutoCAD. I have a triple monitor setup (Two 19" Widescreens, and One 55" Widescreen) When working in AutoCAD I have the main screen on the 55" and all my toolbars relocated to one or both of the smaller screens depending on what I am using. It gives me a large work area.
Also, it would be a huge time saver if it were possible to create our own custom shortcut commands to the commands we use the most. Just like you can do in AutoCAD.
I would be happy with improved and more extensive keyboard shortcut commands....
And perhaps if Lighting Analysts came into the 20th century (yes, I meant 20th) and aligned with keyboard shortcut conventions that match most of the known software world (copy, paste, save as, file open, file close, etc.).
Photometric Toolbox hardly has any keyboard shortcuts at all (File Open, File Close, File Save, File Save As - none of these exist). It's archaic.
Hi, everyone.
Just chiming in to keep the conversation alive and hopefully get some results next version over.
I personally prefer the ribbon idea (once one gets past the learning curve they can be quite helpful), but anything with updated graphics (for one, larger buttons) and that would also allow users to customize the tools would be fantastic.
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A study of the role of foreign powers in fuelling the Nigerian civil war 1967-70. Based on collected information from some ten radios in English and French 1968-70, including the BBC World service, Voice of America and France-Inter.
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This study is one of a growing body of neuroimaging studies to illustrate the neurological and biological impact of meditation, highlighting brain regions that regulate attention control, emotional states, and memory.
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I have often wondered if Transcendental Meditation (TM) would help ward off, prevent, or delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. I also wondered if TM would have a positive on patients with Alzheimer's that evidence challenging or difficult behaviors.
My thoughts on this are purely based on the idea that meditation increases blow flow to the brain, and tends to relax and refresh people that practice this art.
Just so you know, I practice transcendental meditation and I have been, off and on, since I was 20 years old. I can tell you that when you do it twice a day, every day, you do have more energy, feel less stressed, and generally feel happier. You definitely become more alert to your surroundings.
The study described below caught my attention because researchers were trying to determine if mantra-based meditation would have a positive impact on stress, fatigue, and anxiety in adults with memory impairment and memory loss.
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Jefferson Researchers Discover Meditation Has Positive Effects On Mood And Anxiety In Patients With Memory Loss
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital determined that mantra-based meditation can have a positive impact on emotional responses to stress, fatigue and anxiety in adults with memory impairment and memory loss. Their findings are published in the recent issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
Their study placed 15 older adults with memory problems ranging from mild age-associated memory impairment to mild impairment with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease on a regimen of Kirtan Kriya (KK), a mantra-based meditation for 12 minutes a day for eight weeks. A control group was assigned to listen to classical music for 12 minutes a day for eight weeks.
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Earlier results from the study showed significant increases in cerebral blood flow in the prefrontal, superior frontal, and superior parietal cortices as well as improvements in cognitive function.
"We sought to build on this research to determine if changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) had any correlation with changes in patients' emotional state, feelings of spirituality and improvements in memory," said Andrew Newberg, M.D., director of Research at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine.
"Age-associated cognitive impairment can be accompanied by depression and changes in mood. There is data suggesting that mood disorders can aggravate the processes of cognitive decline," adds Newberg.
Study participants who performed the mantra-based meditation reported some improvement in tension, fatigue, depression, anger and confusion, with observed significance in tension and fatigue over the control group. There was no significant change observed in spirituality scores.
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans examined areas of participants' brains — or regions of interest (ROI) — based on areas previously found to be affected during meditation tasks, and that serve a number of cognitive and affective responses, at baseline and eight weeks.
Significant correlations were observed between the change in CBF and the change in patient-reported mood states. Areas including the amygdala, which has a role in the formation and storage of memories associated with emotional events; and the caudate, thought to be highly involved in learning and memory, correlated with depression scores while the prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal lobe, parietal region, and cingulate cortex correlated with feelings of tension. Significant correlations between the improvement in scores for confusion and depression and change in verbal memory suggest that the improvement in feelings of confusion and depression was related to the cognitive improvement.
This study is one of a growing body of neuroimaging studies to illustrate the neurological and biological impact of meditation, highlighting brain regions that regulate attention control, emotional states, and memory. "It is a first step in understanding the neurophysiologic impact of this and similar meditative practices," says Dr. Newberg.
Research was funded by the Alzheimer Research and Prevention Foundation, Tucson, AZ.
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Profile with Ayelet Kuper
Dr Ayelet Kuper (Quebec and Magdalen 1994) is an Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Medicine. Her current research program addresses how "legitimate" knowledge is defined and transmitted in medical education. Dr Kuper received a Masters degree in Research Methods in 1995 and a DPhil in 1997, both from the Department of Medieval and Modern Languages of the University of Oxford, before undertaking medical training (MD 2001, FRCPC 2005).
Rhodes Project: Where do you call home?
Ayelet Kuper: Toronto, Ontario. I was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Montreal, studied in Boston and Oxford, and I've been in Toronto since I left Oxford.
Rhodes Project: What is the last book you read for pleasure?
Ayelet Kuper: I'm in the middle of two, which are a little bit different from each other. Firstly I'm reading Ian Rankin's The Impossible Dead – I think I developed a love of British murder mystery novels whilst I was in Oxford. I'm also listening to Robert Fagles' translation of The Odyssey, read by Ian McKellan, which I've read before but never listened to.
Rhodes Kuper: Can you tell me about a favourite memory from Oxford?
Ayelet Kuper: There are so many! I've been back in Canada for over 15 years now, so most of my favourite memories now revolve around people I met (many of whom I'm still friends with). I have fond memories of trouping out of the Taylorian Library after the seminars that all of the first year graduate students in my Department had, over to the Eagle and Child to hang out and really get to know each other, having a beer and talking about life, the world, books, literature. I was on the Magdalen Ball committee, so I have amazing memories of organising and then going to the Magdalen Commemoration Ball. I have some great memories of doing things like going to boat races, having guest dinners, and hanging out with the girls – just having a wonderful time, interspersed with phenomenal conversation about almost anything in the world.
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Ayelet Kuper: I became interested in medical education when I started medical school. I had just finished my DPhil in Modern Languages and defended my thesis over the summer, and I started medical school at the end of August – I went from one end of the world to the other academically. I was very taken aback by what we were learning and how we were learning it – not so taken aback that I changed my mind about becoming a physician, but taken aback enough that I felt the need to question it. Unlike many of my peers I had gone through such different forms of education, between a Liberal Arts university degree and a DPhil, that the M.D. program didn't just seem like the inevitable continuation of a science degree as it was for many of my colleagues, and so I questioned why we were learning what we were learning and the way we were learning it, and got quite involved in the practise of medical education, and medical education administration committees, even as a junior medical student. I put away those interests for a little while, whilst I was actually learning medicine, and then came back to it when I was done.
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Many people attribute that disconnect to saying that they don't know what they could teach because the medical educators have themselves only been trained in the sciences, so they don't know what they'd teach to underpin all of these other things that doctors need to be good at. I actually set out to find a cohort of social scientists and humanities scholars, to teach them about medicine's current conception of what doctors should be, and to learn from them what other knowledge needs to be in our curriculum to underpin that - what kind of knowledge from sociology, or anthropology, or literature, or religion, or architecture, or English. We interviewed people from about 20 different disciplines, and tried to figure out what knowledge would contribute to making a well rounded doctor who meets all the socially accountable requirements for being a contemporary physician. We've just finished putting all that together and analysing the data and are writing up the paper. It has been a fascinating journey speaking to all of these people and learning from them in a really interdisciplinary way.
Rhodes Project: Can you tell me what you're currently working on?
Ayelet Kuper: The next thing I'm actually working on is developing ways to try to implement these ideas into actual curricula. It's all well and good for me to write a paper saying these experts from outside of medicine say that just as we teach people about chemistry and physics in medical school we should be teaching them bits of these other disciplines as well, but publishing an article in journal doesn't actually do anything. So now I'm going to collaborate with people who create curriculum and try to work this material into curricula here in our medical school, and in other medical schools and other health professions schools. I'm also starting the process of gaining legitimacy for these kinds of ideas because they are a little bit different. But at the same time our medical school, like everyone else, is trying to figure out how to teach these non-science based roles and so hopefully there'll be an appetite for it.
Rhodes Project: If you weren't working in medicine, what would you be doing instead?
Ayelet Kuper: Well, it's funny because I already feel like I do about three different things "instead" - I work as a physician for about two to three months a year, spread out, then I do this research for part of the year and teach for part of the year. When I was being interviewed for the Rhodes twenty years ago I was asked what I would do if I couldn't do my PhD or go to medical school, because I'd already said I was going to do both of those, and during the interview I said I would write crossword puzzles. I don't think I'd do that anymore, but I think I would do something that involved spending a little more time thinking and writing. I already spend a lot of time thinking and writing, but I think if I didn't have administrative, teaching and clinical responsibilities I would spend more time focused on thinking and writing, maybe going back to some of the work I did that's more closely linked to my PhD.
Rhodes Project: Can you describe a memorable teaching moment?
Ayelet Kuper: I've learnt something about my teaching recently, which goes back to the research I was talking about. My DPhil is in Modern Languages, but essentially I'm a social scientist now – I did another Masters degree in Theory and Policy Studies in Education, and most of the work I do now is within the social sciences. Yet, I do a lot of my teaching as a clinician on the ward, so I'm on a general medical unit and I have residents and medical students, and I'm responsible for teaching them every day for the weeks at a time when I'm on service. For years I've been teaching them standard medical stuff – what to do when someone has low sodium, or has chest pain, or shortness of breath. This is all very important and very valuable, but it's the same material they learn from everybody else.
Over the last couple of years I have started talking to them more about social scientific ideas about how they practise, how they acculturate into the medical system, and the interactions they have with other people on the healthcare team – quietly educating them in that way. It's now come to the point that when I start a rotation I say to them "Would you like me to teach you about hyponatremia (low sodium) and heart failure – to give you the same lectures that everybody else has given you – or would you like me to teach you this other material that you're not going to get in other places, but is not currently part of the core of our medical curriculum?" They absolutely lap up the social science material. They are so fascinated by how physicians professionalize, how physicians relate with other professions, their experience of the hidden curriculum of medicine – how, for example, their work in the hospital teaches them very subtly what is and what isn't important and how to behave in their professional lives.
So I've learned that if I think something is really important and I'm passionate about teaching it, even those people who I wouldn't have thought would be interested, because they're so focussed on becoming doctors and learning their "medicine", can actually see how important and relevant this material is, and to find this less traditional material really interesting. The feedback I've gotten from them has been really phenomenal. They've been really excited by these kinds of ideas, much more than I would have thought.
Rhodes Project: What is the most challenging part of your job?
Ayelet Kuper: I'd say the most challenging part of my job, or jobs, is trying to be done every day at five so I can go home and see my two year old son. I know a lot of my colleagues work from 6am to 10pm, and I'm not at a stage in my life where I'm willing to do that, so I have to squeeze all of those jobs into a normal work day, with some work from home after my son's bedtime, trying not to sacrifice family life. If there's a sick patient, that's the one thing that I will of course stay late for, but if there's a grant application due, or a paper to write, or someone wants to have a meeting about a project, it's just not worth it. The hardest part of my job is balancing the amount of things I'd like to do in my work life, and the importance of my family life.
Rhodes Project: What brings you the most joy in life?
Ayelet Kuper: The thing that brings me the most joy in my life is absolutely, positively my two year old son. Just listening to him chatter on about how Fireman Sam is coming with him to go rescue someone, or singing songs to me and pretending to play his little guitar, or talking to his stuffed animals and telling them stories. Taking him places and showing him the world – that's what brings me the most joy.
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Over the last few years the decor pendulum has swung from cool toned palettes back to warm. With this brings the return of brass and gold accessories, fabrics, and housewares. The great thing about metallics is they are neutrals, matching just about anything. Of course, some things look better with them than others but you can still put cooler colors with a warmer metallic and get a sophisticated outcome (ie. teal and brass). I've been positively mad for metallics for years but there have been a lot of really great things to come along recently that I want to share with you. I'm not talking 70's brass or 80's gold. I'm talking about the new luxe toned down finishes that will make you swoon!
First on my list is the hardware from Nest Studio. I know these are pricier then what I might normally recommend but I've seen these in person and they really are to die for. They make a whole lot of impact and not only class up cabinetry but furnishings too. If you are planning a remodel or an overhaul of a piece of furniture that needs hardware, please take a look!
I also do love a good shiny accessory as you can see in my Threshold and Nate Berkus Spring 2014 posts. Now lets get the dining room involved in our metallic home decor mischief.
Threshold Izon $19.99 per setting
Threshold Arkita $19.99 per setting
Threshold is at again, bringing you fabulosity for less. Both of these sets are dishwasher safe and made out of stainless steel. Izon is modern and sleek while the Arkita has heft and texture. I really love the hammered look of the Arkita and I think the finish might wear better because it isn't a high mirror shine finish.
West Elm Gold Flatware $29 per setting
West Elm Rose Gold $140 for 4 full settings
West Elm is puttin' on the Ritz with these classy offerings. They are stainless steel with gold plating. Both of these beauties are also dishwasher safe. I love the rose gold so much, I've had to stop myself from whipping out my credit card twice!
Moving on to other rooms, I've found a couple of versatile pieces that could really go just about anywhere in your home that I'm really keen to share. I'm currently looking for the perfect spot in my house to add these two little gems.
Threshold Square Accent Table $59.99 on sale
Shut the front door! $60?!?!? It's currently 25% off online! I adore this table and it's the prefect size for a small seating group or a bedside table!
This would look great in my entryway but I could use it anywhere in the house. I love the color palette in this photo. Celadon, white, brass, and woods. Rich, but light and fresh too. This palette with just a tiny pop of orange was what I was going for in my last home and this photo just makes me remember how much I love it.
Now for the mother of all brass items and my personal favorite!
Threshold Bar Cart $119.99 on sale online
When I was a kid my grandmother used to have this ornate bar cart where she kept the Steubens and the top shelf booze. I was always interested in it because it served one purpose for her: entertaining the good guests. I think this could be used in an office, kitchen, or even a bedroom as a dressing table or valet. If I had room for this in my apartment, I'd have bought it already!
How do you feel about the brass and gold metallic home decor trend? Flash in the pan or here to stay? Let us know how you feel in the comments below!


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3 by Ted Greenwald
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Ted Greenwald's 3 takes the mind in at least three different directions simultaneously, in hardboiled, richly detailed, well-made poems whose giddy wordplay, pantoum-like interweavings, and nimble jumpcuts create a sort of 21st-century Poet in New York. An inspired challenge and a delight.
— Ron Padgett
Though his poetry always bares the honest song of a fragmented accumulation, the float of our existence, here Ted reveals an exposition of tender, romantic suchness amidst rhythmic refrains classically structured and filled with sunlight and place, the vulnerable underbelly of his Arcadian being is unveiled.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
List: Proof that I'm trapped in the '90s
-Achtung Baby remains my all time favourite album. Since 1991, nothing else has come close.
-In a world where skinny jeans are a fashion must-have, I'm still wearing boot-cut dark indigo denim.
-I am constantly saying '95 when I mean 2005, '97 when I mean 2007, et cetera. Sorry, everyone.
-I'm still disappointed that Adorable and Jesus Jones never made it big. Glasvegas sounds like a Scottish Adorable, though, so I like them.
-Perhaps I'm slow to grasp trends, but I still watch The Simpsons every week in the hope that it will be funny again.
-I maintain a preference for very round-toed footwear.
-I still have a crush on the young Ewan McGregor.
-There are French francs and Italian lira in my collection of travel money. I should get rid of them, yes?
-Great big boots paired with a delicate, flowery vintage dress is a reasonable outfit, in my opinion.
-When I think of Radiohead, acoustic "Thinking About You" comes to mind rather than the later experimental stuff.
-Although I've removed the other extra piercings, I have yet to take out the pointless ring at the top of my left ear that I got in 1997.
-ZooTV can never be beaten as the most amazing concert experience ever.
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Producers to Feds: Beware of games.
Something as simple as the exact rules for when consumers can and cannot sign up for health coverage could have a big effect on the flow of health claims risk and on what commercial health insurance costs.
Representatives from the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) and the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) make that argument in separate comment letters submitted in response to draft Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) implementation regulations that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published in November 2012.
If PPACA takes effect on schedule and works as drafters expect, it will give individuals and small groups the ability to buy coverage through new exchanges, or Web-based insurance supermarkets, by Oct. 1. Exchange plans are supposed to offer four "metal levels" of coverage: Platinum, gold, silver and bronze.
PPACA also will prohibit health insurers from considering personal health information when deciding whether to issue coverage to an applicant, and it will put tight limits on use of personal health information when insurers are setting health rates.
Health insurers can charge the oldest insureds 3 times as much as they charge the youngest, and they also can use some premium-based penalties and rewards in connection with wellness and condition management programs, including tobacco cessation programs.
PPACA will require many individuals who fail to have coverage to pay a tax, but health policy specialists say the tax will be so low that it will be much cheaper for many individuals who do not have group coverage to pay the tax rather than buying their own coverage.
Jessica Waltman of NAHU -- a group that represents agents and brokers in both the individual and the group markets -- covered a wide range of topics, including coverage for consumers with serious health problems, small group rating considerations and the new age rating limits in the NAHU letter.
Ken Crerar of CIAB -- a group that focuses on representing producers in the group market -- focused mainly on the PPACA guaranteed-issue provisions, or provisions that restrict insurers' and plans' efforts to control risk by limiting access to coverage.
Waltman suggested in the NAHU letter that regulators should recognize that they have "inherent discretion" in using PPACA enforcement powers in ways that will help hold down the cost of coverage and keep PPACA from disrupting the individual and small group health insurance markets.
The administration should phase in enforcement of requirements, such as the premium rating rules, over at least three years, especially in states like Delaware and Pennsylvania that now have much different rating rules, Waltman said.
Similarly, states should be able to keep the high-risk pools that now serve consumers with health problems that make buying conventional health coverage difficult open for at least three years, to minimize the possibility that PPACA will disrupt those consumers' coverage and lead to big fluctuations in claims at commercial health insurers, Waltman said.
In a discussion of the PPACA coverage availability provisions, Waltman talked about the importance of thinking carefully about "open enrollment" period timing, to avoid encouraging consumers to game the system.
Many health policy specialists have argued that letting consumers buy health coverage on a pure "guaranteed issue" basis can drive up the cost of coverage, by giving relatively healthy consumers a financial incentive to wait until they are very sick to buy and pay for health coverage, then drop the coverage if and when they recover.
Some policy specialists have discussed the possibility that insurers could prevent that kind of "free rider" problem by establishing "open enrollment" periods when any customer could buy health coverage.
At other times, an uninsured customer could not buy coverage, or could buy coverage only if the customer had some obvious reason for deciding to buy coverage, such as getting married, getting divorced or having a child.
HHS has talked about setting an Oct. 1-Jan. 1 "open enrollment" period for individuals but letting small groups sign up for coverage year round. Individuals would get "special enrollment period" opportunities when they went through events such as the loss of employer-sponsored benefits, or when an individual encountered "exceptional circumstances."
One concern is that HHS should make sure the shift to any new open enrollment period rules includes transitions for individual consumers in states with different open enrollment period rules, Waltman said.
Another concern is that some individuals will still try to be free riders, even if HHS establishes Oct. 1-Jan. 1 open enrollment periods for individuals, Waltman said.
"If individuals do not maintain continuous coverage and instead waive coverage and pay the individual mandate penalty only to seek insurance when they are ill or injured, the adverse selection and cost impact on the marketplace will be enormous," Waltman said. "We would recommend the imposition of late enrollment penalties in the individual market similar to those used currently for Medicare beneficiaries."
The CIAB is concerned that, within a group health plan, or within the health insurance exchange system, a worker could game the system by shifting from one metal level of coverage to another rather than by doing without coverage altogether.
A worker with cancer could switch to Platinum coverage in January, recover in July, then drop down to Bronze coverage in October, Crerar said.
"The CIAB has significant concerns that this could destabilize the employer-sponsored coverage market, especially if the employer opts to offer coverage to its employees through a [small business] exchange," Crerar said. "If the employer offers coverage to its employees at a certain level, but employees can switch to a higher tier of coverage when they get sick, which appears to be the case as the proposed rule is currently written, the employer faces increased uncertainty with respect to not only premium contributions but also plan costs and actuarial risks associated with its pool of employees. We ask that HHS explain how it will implement these provisions."
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Auletris: Long Lost Anaïs Nin Erotica
This is the story of how I discovered that not all of Anaïs Nin's erotica has been published, despite Delta of Venus and Little Birds editor John Ferrone's insistence to the contrary.
When Ferrone approached Nin in the 1970s about publishing the erotica she had written in the 1940s for a collector at a dollar a page, she initially bristled at the idea, fearing it may taint her reputation as a serious writer. However, Ferrone made a convincing argument after reassuring Nin that not only would it not harm her reputation, but it would bolster it since the writing was, as we now know, brilliant and ground-breaking. The rest is history—Delta of Venus and Little Birds became New York Times bestsellers shortly after Nin's death in 1977 and have been translated into dozens of languages across the world.
Ferrone said that of the 850 pages of raw material he was given, only scraps remained, nothing worth publishing. But I, by a minor miracle, was to find out that this is not so.
Gunther Stuhlmann was Nin's longtime literary agent and, I'm proud to say, a friend of mine. After he passed, his wife Barbara gave me much of his archive because she felt I might be able to do something with it. One day, not long ago, I was going through a folder that held a collection of correspondence from the 1980s, and among it was a letter from Ferrone to Stuhlmann saying that an auction house was selling a copy of a book illicitly printed in 1950 called Auletris, which supposedly contained original Nin erotica. The book was one of five copies in existence and contained two stories—"Marcel," which is about 50 pages long, and "Life in Provincetown," which is a similar length. A severely edited version of the former story appears in Delta (17 pages long), while the latter is nowhere to be found in any Nin book or archive.
What intrigued me were the half dozen opening pages of "Life in Provincetown" (page 1 is below) that the auctioneer had Xeroxed for Stuhlmann—they most definitely contained Nin's writing, and they seemed to indicate she was at the top of her game when they were written. I had to find the rest of this book!
After a lot of research, I found out that a copy was hiding in plain sight in the special collections of a university library, and I was able to obtain a copy of the text. When I read the entire manuscript, I knew it had to be published, because it is valuable for three reasons—first, not a word of the Provincetown story has ever seen the light of day; second, "Marcel" appears in its original form, unedited, with several lengthy passages that landed on the cutting room floor, never to be seen again; and third, because the quality of the writing is superb and not tinkered with for commercial reasons.
Auletris breaks many taboos—there are tales of incest, sex with children, rape, voyeurism, cutting, sadomasochism, homoeroticism (both male and female), autoerotic asphyxiation, to name a few, all set in old Provincetown, Paris, and other exotic locales; the characters are deliciously decadent, and the themes are largely based on Nin's own experiences recorded in her unexpurgated diaries. This book comes along just as interest in both Nin and the genre of erotica is booming.
Auletris will be published by Sky Blue Press this autumn.
Another book inspired by the Stuhlmann archive: The Portable Anais Nin.
Anaïs Nin Myth of the Day #10
Myth #10: Anaïs Nin's sex life was ideal.
Fact: When Anaïs Nin married Hugh (Hugo) Guiler at the age of twenty, she was a virgin. Her sexual relationship with her new husband was very unsatisfactory, according to Nin in a diary passage written some twenty years later:
[We] were never made for each other. He was too big for me. And then he would always come too quickly, almost immediately, and I was slow. In fact, for months I did not know the deeper orgasm. I only felt the superficial orgasm of the clitoris, which he excited with his hands, but nothing deep down. The amazing thing was that it was only a year later in Paris that I felt the deep orgasm. (unpublished diary, 1943)
The lack of sexual fulfillment with her husband prompted her to seek comfort elsewhere. She had a botched affair with writer John Erskine in 1928, which left her feeling depressed to the point of contemplating suicide (Early Diary 4). It was not until 1932, at age twenty-nine, that she had a bona fide affair with another man—Henry Miller. Miller was the one who taught Nin about sex, but a month into the affair, she said:
I am thinking that with all the tremendous joys Henry has given me I have not yet felt a real orgasm. My response does not seem to lead to a true climax but is disseminated in a spasm that is less centered, more diffuse. I have felt an orgasm occasionally with Hugo, and when I have masturbated, but perhaps that is because Hugo likes me to close my legs and Henry makes me open them so much. (Henry and June 130)
Eventually, Nin would achieve the "deeper orgasm" she sought with Miller, and he would prove to be one of the very few lovers who could consistently satisfy her, but only while she was not sharing herself with other significant men. In 1936, Nin began an affair with the Peruvian bohemian Gonzalo Moré, whose style was radically different than Miller's: while Miller let Nin dominate their sexual relationship, Moré demanded complete submission from her. (The diversity of these two relationships is represented in her erotic story "Hilda and Rango," from Little Birds, the topic of which is discussed in Anaïs Nin Myth 5.) It took Nin a long time before relinquishing Miller as her primary lover and adopting Moré, but her relationship with the latter was tumultuous, to say the least. As Miller's, and then Moré's, sexual prowess declined, Nin's frustration grew.
So, while it is true that Nin had sex with more than one man at a time, she rarely enjoyed it freely and completely. She was "faithful" to one lover emotionally, which affected her sexual response, and this was something that troubled her, something she tried for years to conquer. When she began an incestuous affair with her father, Joaquín Nin, it did not result in her unrestrained sexual pleasure. Instead, the gravity of the affair denied her of the "supreme spasm" that she desired, despite the fact her "yielding was immense, with [her] whole being" (Incest 211).
Nin's often awkward forays into casual sex could be summarized by a bungled ménage à trois she had with a couple in early 1936. When she felt arousal but no orgasm, she lamented:
It is the abandon I like…freedom from care and jealousy. The smoothness. There is a world where people play joyously and naturally the tricks I play for alibis, without being blamed. (Fire 230)
When she met a dashing opera singer, who called himself "Chinchilito," in Provincetown in 1941, they had an encounter in the sand dunes. Her description:
Slowly I got undressed as his hands searched for buttons and bows. Afterwards, his nakedness as he stood in the wind, laughing. Truly godlike in his physical magnificence. The waist and hips slender, not thick, the torso marvelously ample, shoulders wide. A golden blondness. If only I didn't have the usual stage-struck feeling, it would have been magnificent. (unpublished diary, 1941)
It wasn't until two years later when Nin finally declared:
Let me celebrate my freedom. I am as free as man has been—I am free to enjoy—today with Chinchilito…, I experienced for the first time an orgasm within adventure. For the first time I did not feel the orgasm linked to emotional fidelity, as an emotional surrender, as necessarily and fatally bound to love. So that love, being a slavery to a master who could not fulfill me, became an anguish. (unpublished diary, 1943)
Nin's "freedom," as she put it, would be short-lived, however, as the problems achieving sexual fulfillment continued, especially when she began to experiment with young gay men.
Her decades-long search for an "ideal lover" who could truly satisfy her didn't end until she met her future "California husband," Rupert Pole, in 1947. While vacationing in Mexico in 1973, at the age of seventy, she wrote in a notebook: "Rupert is passionate several times a week. Once our lovemaking was so pleasurable I cried! He is too much!"
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When to Shoot Single Exposures for HDR Photography
You need to know when and why to shoot single exposures for high dynamic range photography. This assures that you choose the right tool for the job, given the gear you have and the circumstance you're in.
When to shoot single exposures for HDR basically boils down to movement:
You're moving. If you're moving around, you can't always take bracketed photos. If you have a fast-enough camera and AEB, you might be able to get off three shots without blurring or alignment problems. For the most part, though, you won't be able to.
This isn't the same as standing still and taking hand-held, bracketed HDR. You can get off good brackets in that case — if you have a high frame rate (3 frames per second [fps] is adequate but 5 fps is very nice to have) and use AEB.
You might think the solution to this is to always use a tripod or monopod (easier to manage but not as stable). That might be true. Sometimes, however, that's impossible. This situation is illustrated in the figure, where the photo was taken from inside a train ride.
Although you're reasonably stable and holding the camera steady, sometimes there is enough motion in the scene to make bracketing pointless. No camera can take bracketed photos of the scenery rushing past.
The subject is moving (or can't be still). The other circumstance that will push you out of your bracket-shooting comfort zone is when your subject is moving: say, when you're photographing people or animals. You might be standing still and have your camera mounted on a sturdy tripod, but if the subject is moving, you won't be able to get off brackets without enormous alignment problems.
This photo shows this situation in action. This beautiful horse was galloping too fast to make brackets possible in this photo.
You might want to shoot single exposures for HDR, though, in these circumstances:
Casual shooting: Maybe you're out for a walk with your camera, exploring your neighborhood. You didn't take your tripod with you, and you don't have a camera with AEB and a fast frame rate (which makes hand-held HDR effectively impossible). Solution? Take photos in Raw and process them as single-exposure HDR.
This photo was taken at a Johnny Appleseed Festival while the photographer was sight-seeing. This is a perfect situation for casual photography and single-exposure HDR.
Bracketing problems: Say you did set your camera to photograph brackets and successfully completed the shoot, only to find out in software that you have problems, such as ghosting or something movement related, as shown in the figure. This close crop of a car moving away from the camera during the shot created ghosting, so the car appears in each bracket in a different position.
You can ignore these problems if you want and press ahead, or use single-exposure HDR to process one bracket to use as an overlay and freeze the situation.


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BSP Is Back!
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Wow it has been far too long since I last blogged. Life has been a whirlwind since moving back to Maine. To all you homeowners out there, I tip my hat to you. Having a house has been even more work than I imagined, trying to set it up and acquire all of the necessary things you need to have a house. Granted, I don't actually own this house, so I can only imagine the actual purchasing experience, as well as paying the taxes!
Now that we are settled in and have almost all of our projects completed (are they ever all really done?) things are calming down and we can actually get into something resembling a routine. Not only has my blogging been off, my eating and training have been off as well. I am very glad to be getting things back to normal starting today.
I will say that one very nice perk of the move is that we bought a sweet new tv, which was pretty much necessary considering I am such a huge fan of movies, rivaling even the great Tony Gentilcore. We also got a Blu Ray player with it, I couldn't resist and we needed a new DVD player anyway since ours broke. We bought Avatar last night and watched it again, just as incredible as the first time.
OK enough about me. What I really wanted to enlighten you all with today is that Mike Robertson is holding an awesome seminar on August 28th at the Indianapolis Hotel. The 2010 Midwest Performance Enhancement Seminar is an all-day affair and includes the likes of: Brian Grasso, Lee Taft, MR himself, Pat Rigsby, Bill Hartman, and Brett Jones. That is one star-studded line up that anyone would be privileged to listen to.
The best part is that if you sign up before June 24th you get an incredible early bird special of only $149! Anytime after and the rate goes up to $199. So if you want to save $50 and see an amazing lineup sure to blow your mind, check out the 2010 Midwest Performance Enhancement Seminar.
It is good to be back and I have not forgotten that I said I would blog about the "green" Hannaford grocery store across the street from my house. That will be coming soon.
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Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Brian St. Pierre
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Danny Says:
June 7th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Welcome back, BSP.
Coming from someone else who has been "off" with eating and training — I am excited to get back into it this week.
Looking forward to the return of your blogging… and send me your address etc, when you get a chance.


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I was reading Eventhorizon's blog post (here), which inspired me to run some Monte Carlo simulations and observe their convergence.
I used the same example he did: estimating the value of "PI" ( ~ 3.14159...) by Monte Carlo simulation. MC generates random points in the (x,y) plane; those points which fall within a circle of radius r are called "hits" and those that fall outside the circle are called "misses". The ratio of (#hits / #misses), plus a little bit of trigonometry, give you a value of PI. And the more random points you generate, the more accurate your approximation becomes. (As the approximation gets better and better, the MC simulation is said to "converge" to the correct value of PI).
I ran a bunch of MC simulations for 4 different values of the radius "r": 1.0, 0.5, 0.2, and 0.1. These were chosen because they span a reasonably large range of hit-to-miss ratios. My data is shown below in Figure 1, and the equation I fitted from this data is shown in Figure 2.
The Y-axis on these plots is Error; it is the difference between the true value of PI and the calculated value from MC simulation. In all cases, the error falls to zero as you run more and more Monte Carlo iterations. Some people may be surprised at how many iterations are required to get 10% accuracy, or 5% accuracy, or 1% accuracy. (These can be read from the plots).
These experiments performed each simulation 1000 times (with different random numbers each time); a simulation is a run of ten million iterations. This gives 1000 different MC approximations of PI. The different approximations of PI form an error distribution; percentiles of the distribution were used to estimate confidence of error bounds. So for example, a "90% confidence" error (blue triangles in Figure 1) means that 900 of the 1000 MC approximations had an error less than or equal to the "90% confidence Error" plotted in the figure.
I fitted an equation to the 90% confidence data (blue triangles in these figures); it is shown in Figure 2. I'm amused that the equation says you get errors of about 0.01 percent (one one-hundredth of one percent) if you simulate N=400 million iterations. This is apparently the number of MC iterations that blackjack card counters use when they compare and evaluate different strategies for counting cards (ref)
You might enjoy fooling around with these sorts of computations yourself. I happened to use PERL, but you may enjoy applying a different software toolkit (R? MATLAB? Maple? NumPy? awk?) instead. Who knows, you may even discover a subtle blunder (or a big screaming obvious one) in my figures. Try it out, have some fun, and possibly learn something along the way.
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