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Sounding the Space II
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Sounding the Space II
The Sideshow
Jen Swearington gave us a "Sideshow" yesterday. Happy Spring! (finally, do you know it SNOWED at JMS World Headquarters Tues??? and we're in the south for the love of god and all things pagan...)
Part 2 makes the scene next Wed. Of course, there is the possibility I may post again before that...we "sound the space" again on Monday.
Busy days=happy days.
Today was spent at home plotting and planning and fencing and planting...the revolution garden is started.
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Spring: new projects sprout
Sliced & Diced
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the Next Big Thing
The Spring
Figuratively, cause it was sunny and warmish today, finally. Rains again tomorrow but I think the worst of the cold is done with.
Literally because this is the runoff from our spring, which is our water source. Always nice to see it overflowing.
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Natural Patina
I work around a lot of talented folks that spend a lot of time and energy on fits and finishes. A lot of people search for the perfect patina for an object, and work for hours to get it just right. I appreciate it, enjoy the result, but am not so interested in doing it myself. I am beginning to understand and make peace with the fact that I'm not so much a craftsperson. But I do mightily enjoy making stuff.
So i was working on the ditches today and I noticed the handle on this potato rake has a perfect patina: rich, warm, deep and smooth. As I was sitting the shade (yes, this implies that we had SUN today) I was admiring it, and it occurred to me that this particular patina was old school applied: untold hours of hand labor in tobacco fields under the hot sun, and later in life, tending the huge garden i grew up with. I can assure you this handle never saw anything but use- not a drop of oil, finish, or varnish. So this is a patina gained from 50+ years of near daily use on the farm. My dad was the primary "artist" that applied it, I remember my turns at it, and I'm pretty sure my mom had a hand (so to speak) in it too.
I got this from them last fall, and apparently I'll maintain the patina for a few more years. Right now I'm thinking this would look mighty fine hanging on the wall. Maybe I'll retire it one day.
It was a dark and snowy night, part 2...
But inside it could hardly be any better...here's more clips of the evening which has lit a creative fire under me...
(please excuse the video quality, it was DARK...)
The first clip is Kelli Rudick checking sound while playing her Nail Violin. I don't have the vocabulary to describe it or her musical ability and presentation. You'll have to check her website and come up with your own adjectives.
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Next is Liz Isenberg, who has a bell clear voice and an excellent guitar style. great tunes.
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Finally, there's two clips featuring Ominvore (Glenna Van Nostrand). I'm still dazzled by the use of the circuit-bent telephones, her voice, and the old radio. It is as if she glimpsed the dark closets inside my head and brought the stuff out to play with. I KNEW it could be done, I had just never seen it. And now that I have, there is nothing to do but hurtle forward and try to do similar things myself.
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These three ladies (and our very own Mark Warren) are seriously legit artists making incredible work. Beyond all that one of the best things is that all of them came to us from far away places (urban, some would say sophisticated places) to share their stuff and are most unassuming and unpretentious folks with that level of talent that I've ever met. (they could give nice lessons to a lot of people we deal with every day!). With no compensation except pass the hat. AND, in the case of Liz and Glenna, traveling 10 hours on a dark and snowy night, only to get rear ended 20 mins away from us, smashing up their car a good bit and giving them a good scare (imagine how the dark and unfamiliar mountain roads seemed to two women used to lights and traffic and all that stuff...). But they showed up, unloaded, and played for us. So on top of everything else, I have enormous respect for them all. Makers and doers- and they share!. Art at it's best and how it should be.
Check their sites out, buy their music. Cheap Art isn't Free. And supporting intelligent, articulate, individualistic and innovative work is a good thing to do.
Yes, I am aware of the irony and apparent contradiction...
of my appreciation for things plugged-y in'd and #2 pencils drawing and writing on torn scraps of found paper and stuff, but that's how it goes...
because everything is more than one thing and it all fits together nicely inside my head...
more on seemingly random and disconnected stuff to come shortly, stayed tuned (if you're inclined...)
It was a dark and snowy night...
Last night, in a small dingy room up in the hills far away from anywhere, video and musical magic happened. Whoulda thunk it? For a brief moment in time we were the center of the alternative multimedia/music universe...it was awesome. Here's a taste, more to come.


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Windows Developments: Product news, July 2006
Our Tech Ed edition of product news includes an Eclipse plug-in that access Team Foundation Server and a customizable data synchronization tool.
SearchVB.com introduces Windows Developments, a monthly sampling of recent products and product news in the ever-active Windows space. These products are aimed at Visual Basic, Visual Studio and .NET developers. This month's seven featured products run the gamut from an Eclipse plug-in that access Team Foundation Server to a customizable data synchronization tool. If you have a product release or upgrade to announce, send us an e-mail.
Category: Application Testing
Compuware has extended its testing tool to work with Visual Studio Team System and has added diagnostics monitoring to its performance management product.
When social networking site Wallop needed to see what its application could handle, it turned to Symphoniq, which attaches HTML to a browser and tracks how the app is performing.
Category: Components
The latest update to r.a.d. controls for ASP.NET includesdrag-and-drop functionality for Ajax-enabling Web applications.
Category: Developer Life Cycle Tool
Teamprise is an IDE plug-in that allows developers to access Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server using Eclipse-based clients.
The refactoring product from Developer Express covers a variety of renaming, replacing, extracting and removing scenarios.
Category: Office and Client Development
Adesso NOW OE|S offers a synchronization service that developers can customize themselves and a variety of free downloads to get them started.
Category: Tools and Platforms
ActiveBPEL Enterprise for .NET brings BPEL services into the .NET Framework. It's the latest in a line of BPEL server products from Active Endpoints.
Aurora XAML Designer for WinFX lets designers create flashy UI elements and save them in a format that developers can use.

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2. Piano Lessons Raise Self Esteem
Learning to play the piano is hard work and takes dedication. Not only does each song mastered increase a child's self-esteem, but showcasing their newly learned talents at piano recitals can boost their confidence as much as winning a game in a sports competition.
3. Piano Lessons Increase Co-ordination
Increased hand-eye coordination is almost a given for children that learn to play the piano, but there is more than that. Kids who play the piano have improved fine motor skills since the piano requires both hands to work independently of each other, one moving fast while the other often moving at a slower rate. All of these things help to increase a child's overall dexterity and complex thought processes.
4. Piano Lessons Help Concentration
Reading a piece of music takes a great deal of focus, causing a student to interpret a note and a rhythm, translate it into hand movements on the piano and then immediately go on to the next one. Reading and playing music allows them to think both critically and creatively, which is a skill that will assist them in anything they choose to undertake in the future.
5. Piano Lessons Help students to be Well-Rounded
Regardless of whether a student plays the piano for a short time or for a lifetime, the long-term effects of their piano pursuance are many. Through playing the piano, people are exposed to classical music that they may otherwise have never heard. Kids may develop an appreciation for composers like Bach or Mozart that stay with them for life. In addition, the skills and knowledge people learn in piano may help them easily pick up another musical instrument later.


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Danny is 26 years old and grew up in Lincoln, England. Whilst he is proud to call that home he has been fortunate enough to travel the world, working with global companies and enterprises. His portfolio is extensive and his name recognised.
His brand has a huge social media presence and he is contacted daily with messages from fans and admirers of his work.
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Apple Dominates Global Mobile App Store Sales in 2010
Apple Computer Inc. warded off competition in the mobile application store market in 2010 to retain its global dominance, according to IHS Inc.'s Screen Digest, a U.K.-based researcher.
Apple's App Store generated some $1.8 billion in revenue in 2010 for nearly 83 percent of the worldwide market, down from about 93 percent share in 2009, the researcher said. The vendor's App Store revenue in 2010 amounts to a 132 percent jump over the $769 billion posted in 2009.
Screen Digest said that Apple's mobile application store sales benefited somewhat from its iPad tablet, whose users, while fewer in number compared to that of the iPhone, snap up applications that typically cost more than those for the iPhone, prompting a skewed impact on the vendor's revenue totals.
IHS said that by 2014, some 50 percent of Apple's App Store sales in the U.S. will be generated from iPad users, up from less than 20 percent in 2010.
The overall worldwide mobile application store market generated some $2.2 billion in 2010 for a 160 percent jump over the $828 million recorded in 2009. The researcher is forecasting that the segment will approach $4 billion worldwide in 2011. Games remain the primary application, accounting for more than half of all mobile application store revenue in 2010.
"In 2010, competitors managed to close the gap with Apple's iPhone in terms of providing smart phone products with compelling user interfaces," said Jack Kent, IHS analyst, mobile media.
"However, in terms of mobile application stores, Apple remains far ahead of the competition, with the other stores so far unable to replicate Apple's success in generating revenue from users," he said.
IHS said that Apple's competitors gained some ground in 2010, a trend line that, while likely to continue, is not expected to pare the vendor's market share below half of the segment's revenue by 2014.
Google Inc.'s Android Market shot up some 860 percent in 2010, climbing from slightly more than 1 percent of the market in 2009 to a 4.7 percent stake, the researcher said.
Nokia Corp.'s Ovi Store recorded revenue growth of nearly 720 percent in 2010 for a 4.9 percent share of the market while Research In Motion Inc.'s Blackberry App World commanded a 7.7 percent share of the segment, posting 360 percent growth over last year's totals.
Screen Digest said that so-called "freemiums," in which basic applications are sold free of charge but fees are charged for additional features, was a notable lever to the market last year.
"As application stores become more and more crowded, with hundreds of thousands of apps available on the leading stores, developers increasingly are opting to release their content for free," said Kent. "They do this in the hope that they can monetize their apps by offering additional content or functionality via in-app purchases and advertising," he said.
The researcher estimates that "freemium" purchases will account for about 50 percent of all mobile application revenue in North America by 2014.
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The Featured Video this week isn't expertly edited and put to cool tunes. It's just raw footage of F-18 ops from an aircraft carrier. Yup, no frills, just awesome aviation footage. I gotta hand it to these guys – after flying a tank-fight-tank-fight-tank-fight BFM mission they still have to go back and aim to land on a piece of concrete that can change elevation by ten feet or more in a matter of seconds.
Pay attention to the footage of the carrier flybys at deck level. Wow, these guys are doing about 500 KCAS as they cruise by, so no, the video is not being sped up. They really are going that fast!
I'm glad to know that we have the capability of putting fighters and ordnance on the doorstep of any country that threatens the lives or freedom of our people. I've had the chance to fight with some of these bros and they are certainly top notch.


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By Maria Novajosky, Italian-American author (and sometimes poet) living in the Deep South.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Dancing through Life
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
ABC's and 123's
A is for age: 41
C is for what kind of car you drive: a minivan
C is also for your favorite past vehicle: I have never owned one, but believe it or not I have a "thang" for motorcycles; I have a couple of good motorcycle stories . . . maybe in a later post
N is for the number of piercings: two, one in each ear
O is for overnight hospital stays: 3, one for each pregnancy
P is for people you are with today: my sons, my husband
Q is for what you do with your quiet time: read, blog, write, hike
R is for biggest regret: not going into the medical field (not really a regret; more of a "what if?")
Thursday, June 19, 2008
La Vita e' Bella ( Life is Beautiful)
Sometimes, something wonderfully unexpected happens. Out of the clear blue. In the middle of an ordinary day. Something wonderfully unexpected . . . such as discovering this sign in a clearance bin at Target. It literally called my name.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
The Un-Vacation
The first thing I drank: cappuccino (what else?!)
The first thing I said: "I wonder who will throw up today?"
The first action I did: felt everyone's forehead to check for fever
The first thing I read: instructions from the ER doctor on Gastroenteritis (yes, our vacation included a visit to the ER)
The first person I spoke to: God ("please, please let this madness stop")
The first chore I did: cloroxed sinks, doorknobs, toilet, and all common areas in the condo
The second chore I did: made a grocery list: saltines, broth, jello


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I think whats happening is people are mixing and matching the Mixed AT Ratings and Weakest Armour rules, instead of treating them totally separate.
Lets assume,
Red Dice - MG AT-2
Green Dice - 76mm AT-9
Blue Dice - 57mm AT-11
From what I've heard these are the situations that are happening
Players are applying ALL lower AT weapons to lower Armour ratings, and all Higher AT ratings to lower AT ratings. Or vice versa depending on their interpretation. Here we have 4 MG hits, and 2 Main Gun hits.
|Correct Way.
YOU STILL HAVE TO APPLY HITS EVENLY. If there are only 2 vehicles and 8 hits, both vehicles will still end up with 4 hits each. If you somehow got 7 main gun hits, and 1 MG hits, you don't apply 7 hits to the highest FA rating. Or worse the other way around.
The other situation is people are just matching High AT ratings to the Highest Armour rating and moving down the line.
Here we have 3 weapons getting 7 hits. One AT-11, Two AT-9, and four AT-2. So, people apply hits like this.
|Hits not applied evenly.
|Apply Hits to lowest armour.
Each unit would have to have 2 hits each and then you would apply a 3rd hit to the lowest armour rating.
These are 2 totally separate rules
Even in my correct pictures above I have the Highest AT rating going to the Highest Armour rating. You don't have to do this to comply with both rules. The Defender can choose.
In the above picture, the truck takes the most hits because it is unarmoured. The 2 armoured vehicles take 3 higher AT hits. But because they each take 2 hits, you can mix and match the AT-ratings as you wish. Maybe you put the MG hit on the Panzer III. it doesn't matter both rules have been met.
In the next pictures both are correct. Both vehciles are armoured, so it makes no differance where the higher AT hits go. But the Wespe takes the extra hit, whether it be MG or a higher AT (defenders choice) because it is the lower armour.
But in this next picture the 2 higher AT hits have to go to the armoured vehicle becasue the truck is unarmoured. And the truck also gets the extra hit because it has a lower armour. NOT because all MG hits go to the unarmoured vehicle. There is a difference.
Mixed Anti-Tank Rating - with this rule, it makes absolutely no difference what the AT rating is or what the Armour of the vehicle is (sort of). It only matters if the targets are armoured or not. The 'not' can mean unarmoured vehicles, gun teams, or infantry teams.
But this doesn't mean that an armoured unit takes all the hits if the targets include other teams.
Lets say you have 5 hits with 3 different AT ratings. And you have 5 targets. All that matters is that 2 targets are unarmoured and 3 targets are not armoured.
Each target still gets 1 hit. Its just that the 2 armoured units take 2 from the higher AT ratings. Other then that, the defender decides where the hits go.
|1 hit still to each target.
You can apply lower AT ratings to higher Armour ratings. As long as the higher AT ratings are going to armoured vehicles. You could apply the 11-At hit to the wespe instead of the Panzer III. You could also apply the 9-At hit to an infantry team instead of the truck.
Hit Weakest Armour First - This does not mean you match High AT Ratings to Lower Armour ratings. That is mixing this rule with the above rule. And they don't mix at all. This is specifically if you are hitting vehicles. The key to this one is 'subject to all previous rules about allocating hits'
You still have to apply hits evenly, and you still apply hits to teams closer then 16" first.
In the example below, we have 2 hits. The mistake being made is you apply 1 hit to the truck, and 1 hit to the wespe because they have the lower Armour Ratings. But because the truck is over 16", you MUST apply 1 hit each to the wespe and Panzer III. All hits have to be applied to targets closer then 16" first.
|Truck over 16"
Here is an example.
Each vehicle must take one hit. The 2 armoured vehicles take the higher AT hits, so the truck takes an MG hit. Doesn't matter which armoured unit takes which hit. The 4th hit DOES NOT go to the truck just because its the lowest armour rating. Its over 16" so must go to one of the armoured vehicles. The wespe is a lower armour then the Panzer III so it takes the MG hit.
Hopefully this makes things a bit more clearer. As I said in the first apply hits post, it makes things a lot clearer if you make things with different colour dice. Remember hits must be distributed evenly. And remember to apply the rule separately.
Mixed Anti-tank - only being armoured or NOT matters
Weakest Armour - weakest armour takes the extra hit when pertaining to vehicles.
One last thing to remember is to do shooting platoon to platoon. Beside the fact that this is the actual rule, it does save a lot of confusion.


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#creatively #helpall with #innovation & @semesteratsea @merchships @peaceboat @tallships #armada @WEBiversity #os #cc #nfp #charity #rsa #gov #tedx #bigsociety #yeswecan
Ed http://www.whymandesign.com Everyone wants progress as it benefits us all so what are the key areas that we should all help each other to progress along so we can all benefit each other most effectively? All the areas below can only be enhanced by open minded creative people with a positive and optimistic yes can do attitude. Everyone can learn to have this creative attitude and we would love to work with you to empower and educate everyone for free so that we all are empowered to selflessly innovate which also makes us all happy. http://www.WEBiversity.org Help all help all
Helping everyone help everyone is the best way to solve every human problem (as we all have supercomputer brains in our heads that could benefit everyone more:) which benefits everyone.
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/RSA-Animate-Changing-Education;search:innovation Creatively Innovate
The best way to help everyone is with Creative Innovation as this can significantly enhance any product or service in new an unexpected way in different dimension AND can be used to reinvent existing things so they become significantly better.
How to encourage and empower everyone to creatively innovate more (as you can only loose 100% but can gain 100%+) http://www.TRAIDmark.org explains more and can be used by anyone for free.
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Where-Do-Good-Ideas-Come-From;search:innovation Enabling change
enabling and empowering people to change the status quo is key as this enables anyone to help as many people as they can.
What are the best ways to enable change?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Jonah-Lehrer-Creative-Insights;search:power Problems to fix
What are the most important problems to fix so that everyone can live long happy fulfilling lives? and what are the problems that stop us all from fixing more problems?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Kevin-Starr-Lasting-Impact;search:problems Structural change
What structural changes will help everyone most effectively? What things have we all taken for granted that need to be changed so they can be done better?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/How-the-West-Was-Lost;search:change Compassion & tolerances
How can we all remind each other continually to have more compassion and tolerance? Everyone is and can be even more amazing and has vices and virtues that we all need help to develop.
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Mindfulness-The-key-to-a-health;search:help%20all Enlightenment
How to help us all continually enjoy learning so we can gain the knowledge to learn to become wise and enlightened?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/RSA-Animate-21st-century-enligh;search:help%20all Last but not least (probably should be first) HAPPINESS
What are the most important parts of life that are often overlooked due to out of date cultural, peer or advertising pressures?
Isn't the only important part of life to be happy? This appears to be easy to do just by selflessly helping others (which makes you happy:)
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Happiness-Secret-Win-Friends–2 Government Charity and We the people empower all… How can Government Charities and everyone encourage, educate and empower more people to selflessly innovate to help everyone (which also makes them happy:)? Private funding is often used to make a land grab of emerging resources be they, Ideas or skills or resources even though those resources are the property of everyone. What simple ways are there to help selfless open source, creative commons or not for profit charity work has a bigger boost so that we are all encouraged AND it is easier to be selfless than selfish?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Elizabeth-Dunn-Happiness-and-Mo;search:self As selfless people are not motivated by superficial rewards such as money or game (egotistical goals of selfish people) other ways have to be found otherwise the rewards mistakenly encourage selfish competition rather than selfless collaboration. One way to encourage selflessness is to provide free compassionate education that entertains, educates and empowers anyone who watches it by giving them the knowledge to become wise and selfless so they can have a happy life and help others. Let us work with you to help yourself and others in this way with http://www.WEBiversity.org & http:/www.TRUSTlibrary.org
One way is to prevent negative meems/habits that hurt everyone (like vice/bullying/competition/anger)
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Happiness-Secret-Win-Friends–2 We are the Social Media & can make it as good as our society AND even better. Social media means that we all now have the power (and moral duty) to use our time constructively so we can HAVE FUN AND HELP EVERYONE. This can be anything from using time when watching television, listening to music or traveling to share the information that we hear about in a selfless way using the free social media that we now can use. This ranges from doing a basic minimum of sharing the websites and information we hear about to everyone with Blogs and tweets to putting on free events that benefit everyone so we all can collaborate. Selfish people and negative people have to be handled just like naughty children are handled. Everyone has to stand up to them and educate them while also not wasting attention on negative behaviour but rather put more attention on those taht are selflessly helping others. A simple way of doing this is to send a link to the relevant Wikipedia page to the negative person so they can learn. http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Harris-The-Good-Evil-and-the-Us;search:evil Feel free to make your own local free Trust Library with a few spare books that you have (it only take a few minutes to set up:) http://www.TRUSTlibrary.org Reinventing business and government structures so it helps everyone more (hire selfless AND creative people). How bet to enable that we all can help all? As government and business structures control how people interact often they can cause many problems by stopping humans from helping humans in ever improving ways. One way to solve this for free and in a way that everyone can use is for any business government or charity to invest as much surplus funds as it can in NEW SELFLESS CREATIVE INNOVATION which benefits everyone and improves your success as you gain free goodwill which itself becomes a self fullfilling prophecy. http://www.TRAIDmark.org explains more. Linking people together in the best ways to help everyone…
The western hiring process has come out of the industrial age so is out of date for the existing and future information age where organisations will only survive if they hire creative and selfless people. What is the best way to help hiring organisations and companies to creatively innovate so that they can provide a new reinvented service. We would liek to help any HR or recruitment teams do this if they are open minded enough to see that the current process if out of date and damaging to both applicants, organisations and the public. New techniques and technology mean that everything that humans: have, are or will do will be reinvented (and you can do it right now with the web to help everyone:). A. How to enable this to happen in the most beneficial way for the most people (EG most innovative and responsibly run)? EG How to sustainably create the most innovation that benefits everyone? (building on innovations such as fire, the wheel and the web) B. How that innovation is run and managed so it is shared and can continually evolve and in used in a responsible manner for the greatest benefit for everyone? C. How to enable any technique or tool to be reused in a different way so that they can benefit everyone even more?
Open Source And Creative Commons help.
Creative, designers and inventors need to be wary of how every tool or technique can be used and miss used for 'good' and 'bad' and often those doing 'bad' think that they are doing 'good' because they can see or dont realize the negative effects. D. Simple techniques and technology can be invented from scratch so that it enables anyone to improve anyones life easily cheaply and quickly. How best to sustainably encourage, empower and enable anyone to do this in as effective and sustainable way on a short and long term basis? Do collaborate on doing this at http://www.WEBiversity.org E. If a person is able to survive then they can spend maximum time learning and innovating for everyones benefit. How to enable everyone can survive and therefore work on impving everyones lives without wasting time on useless things?
Is there a way (or can we invent a way) for everyone to have enough food clothing and housing to live a happy life? Why not enable everyone to have 20% time or 80% time to work on things they love that help all? If you would like to work on this then do tweet to @whymandesign F. Time management is key to making the most from life. Hwo to help everyone take control of their lives so they can live a happy life all the time?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Happiness-Secret-Win-Friends–2 G. Anyone can do anything so what you choose to do may be the most important part of the process.
We may all be victims of our success as we do more and more of what gives us success rather than what we enjoy or what has the most productive output. We may also make others victims of our success as known and unknown negative effects hurt others (when you win a race it also means that othrs loose the race so is a cumulative net losos). H. As we are all connected more than ever with the internet how we work, succeed and interact to affect others in many different positive and negative ways. How to help everyone work in the same direction so we all have a sum gain and dont cancel each other out in zero sum gain competitions. I. As knowledge, techniques and technology capabilities develop faster and faster there is more and more potential to use these new tools for good AND bad (and potentially the largest danger of thinking you are doing good when you are doing bad). Only therefore share ideas that help everyone and always be wary of any person or organization or idea that hurts anyone be it though cheating, trade or accident. (dont let the culture that you are in dictate what you do or who you act as we can all improve what we do so that we help more people:). How to share knowledge so we can all learn wisdom and tolarence to continue the eternal vigilance with wisdom progressing against ignorance. http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Elizabeth-Dunn-Happiness-and-Mo;search:knowledge J. How to help everyone protect themselves from any problems with free knowledge. http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Justice-Whats-The-Right-Thin-13;search:protect K. How to keep open experimentation going while also directing progress so it helps the most people in the most effective way in the short ad long term. L. How to encourage / reward innovation when we dont know what new dimensions it comes from and which are the best directions to innovate in. M. How to make it easier to teach anyone any language? Or how to make any language easier for anyone to learn? Or how to make any language intuitive or automatically known. http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Patricia-Kuhl-The-linguistic-ge;search:education N. How to reduce the burden pain and suffering of reproduction/health with education/health costs (and savings made through prevention)? Education is an almost free and effective way if done correctly.
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/RSA-Animate-Changing-Education;search:education O. What are the best ways to help tribes and cultures share and collaborate success and failure and juxtapositions?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Adrian-Owen-Search-for-Consciou;search:team P. What should we all be wary of in the past present and future knowledge economy? How to make sure that everyone is aware of dangers and how to deal with them? Education of everyone is the key eg http://www.WEBiversity.org Q. What are the present and future problems that WE are causing that we can become aware of, learn about and prevent though education? Eg Sexism, Racism, Ageism, Pessimism… (they are all selfish generalizations so selfishness and generalizations are the problems). How to help all help all? What the best ways you have found to help all help all? Selflessly Creatively Innovating must be the best way which can be achieved by helping everyone learn so we all become wise and help each other to help everyone have happy lives (simple and easy to do just by taking the time to watch video's and observe then control our own ego's and just enjoy being happy experiencing every second of life right now. And also by helping others makes us all happy:) 1. AIM (direction) Happiness for all?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Michael-Neill-The-Myth-of-Happi Sustainable innovation to benefit all
http://www.TRAIDmark.org Responsible compassionate business
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Making-the-Business-Case-for-Co Justice
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Justice-Whats-The-Right-Thin-15 2. SUCCESS (speed) Motivation (so everyone can use the supercomputer in their head to help all:)
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/drive-and-style-flv;recent Technology that enables everyone to maximise their potential.
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Lisa-Gansky-The-Future-is-Shari;search:technology 3. MORE THAN WE KNOW (known/unknown unknowns) What things do we know we dont know that could help all?
What other things do we NOT know that we dont know?
http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Kevin-Starr-Lasting-Impact;search:problem Direction and speed are both very important when solving problems. Traveling backwards may be the best policy as we may be down the wrong track (which could be in the opposite direction) What simple ways are there that enable everyone to help everyone? Tweet them to http://www.twitter.con/whymandesign
1. Smile at EVERYONE you meet (Makes you and them happy:)
2. Share inspiring video with everyone (Makes you and them happy:)
3. Imagine how amazing everyone is and how much more we all can achieve by helping everyone we meet. E.G. http://www.WEBiversity.org has video's to inspire and help. Please share these videos and add your own to the site. How to unlock tweets so they all become open and can be linked together to be usefull in ONLY wise selfless ways? Can tweets be sorted in http://www.DRUMbeat.org
Below are some tweets I would love to work with you to build on… How to #help all #conference eg #mtconf #skollwf #voice11 #oxfordjam #icreate11 with @mozilladrumbeat #os #cc #apps & @WEBiversity #yeswecan Help with @savethegames & @webiversity ?RT @smsradio: http://bit.ly/hbnLcG @Peacebuilding @Radio @Africa @kiwanja @sharath_sri @iginioe How to #help @mozilladrumbeat #os #cc #apps @besteverman @happyseaurchin & turn #com into #charity @TRAIDmark explains eg @WEBiversity
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But as turbines grow larger and blade lengths correspondingly longer, there are signs of greater interest in segmented blades — for transport and manufacturing reasons.
Two pioneering turbine suppliers have already developed a segmented blade, while another is considering using one for its wind turbine.
In the late 1990s, the largest blade transportable by road in one piece was around 34 metres.
Only a few years later this had risen to 40 metres and today, in many industrialised countries, cost-effective road transport is feasible for single blades between 52 and 57 metres.
Developments in transportation equipment has largely kept pace with the lengthening blades, with innovations such as a high-tech trailer that allows a blade to rotate around its longitude axis, and a feature that can vary the distance between truck and trailer wheels to deal with tight and narrow road bends.
But research has continued into segmented blades, in the face of challenges over cost and production time as well as renewed transport issues as blades continue to get longer.
Areas such as the Mediterranean, with its curving roads and dense population, will possibly experience greater problems with longer blades.
Current segmented designs consist of an inner and outer section joined by mechanical fasteners; an alternative to the steel fasteners could be chemical bonding methods.
The design of the joint itself is a major challenge and a major development risk that may have delayed market introduction.
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In 2007 Enercon of Germany introduced the first segmented rotor blade, a 127-metre rotor diameter model with in-house-developed 59-metre segmented blades, for its large 6MW turbine.
These E-126 blades consist of a 24-metre conical, fabricated steel inner section and a 35-metre glass-fibre-reinforced-epoxy composite outer section, with an aluminium blade tip.
Attached to the steel structure is a sub-frame covered by pre-shaped aluminium cladding that gives the inner segment Enercon's familiar airfoil shape.
Both blade sections are jointed by 20 huge M52 bolts, which are fastened from inside the steel blade structure.
Steel blades themselves are considered relatively heavy and susceptible to material fatigue if not properly designed, but strength and fatigue calculations are claimed to be more straightforward than calculations for composites.
In April, 25 E-126 turbines with up to 7.5MW power ratings were turning.
Around a year ago, Gamesa of Spain installed an in-house-developed segmented blade onto its 4.5MW G128 onshore prototype with a 128-metre rotor diameter.
The Innoblades consist of carbon-fibre and glass-fibre reinforced epoxy composite inner and outer sections connected by a single bolted joint.
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This April it introduced a G136-4.5MW sister model with segmented blades and an enlarged 136-metre rotor diameter for low-wind sites.
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Free-falling home prices and thousands of bank repos have pulled investors back into the Sacramento housing market at levels not seen since the headiest days of the housing boom, new statistics show.
Preliminary estimates from researcher MDA DataQuick indicate that 28.4 percent of February buyers in Sacramento County were investors aiming to buy, repair and rent out their new acquisitions.
The numbers confirm a huge shift in the Sacramento housing market in recent months, one that has consumed thousands of foreclosure properties and helped prevent a once-feared pileup of for-sale signs.
Alongside an army of first-time buyers, these investors – many doing cash deals with banks – have fueled growth in home sales for nearly a year. Even as some savvy investors say they're pulling back as prices keep falling, others have moved in to take deals not available in a decade.
"I'm pretty sure in their mind the floor has been set," said Carlos Kozlowski, a Coldwell Banker real estate agent and big player in the region's bank-owned market sector. Fellow repo specialist Ian Maker of ReMax said investor opinion of bottom for the market's low end is, "We're either right before it or right at it."
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The series Nomenklatura of Signs was created at the crossroad of two different epochs, the totalitarian regime and Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. It balances between the tragedy and mockery, and consists of collages produced by the imposition/ overlapping of several negatives, traditional photographs, individual objects, and installations.
For seventy-three years of their existence, the ruling party elite (called by the people "Nomenklatura") enjoyed particular privileges and engendered with the image and likeness of themselves another type of nomenclature – a nomenclature of signs. This means that people and everyday practices were replaced by special visual signs. Consequently, the portrayal of real Soviet life became a criminal offense, punishable by being sentenced to serving a term at the labor camp, GULAG, or even by execution.
In 2000, the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel in Luxemburg, together with the society Friends of The Family of Man, commissioned Titarenko to produce an audiovisual presentation entitled Nomenklatura of Signs. This slide show, accompanied by Dmitri Shostakovich's music, was shown in Clerveaux castle in Luxemburg as a part of the annual performance series in commemoration of Edward Steichen and his exhibition The Family of Man.


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Emily Wilson is professor of Classical Studies and graduate chair of the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. and Corpus Christi College M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship and in 2019 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Philadelphia with her three daughters and three cats.
In November 2017, Wyatt Mason profiled Professor Wilson in The New York Times Magazine. "When I first read these lines early this summer in The Paris Review, which published an excerpt, I was floored. I'd never read an "Odyssey" that sounded like this. It had such directness, the lines feeling not as if they were being fed into iambic pentameter because of some strategic decision but because the meter was a natural mode for its speaker."
Follow Professor Wilson on Twitter @EmilyRCWilson. Professor Wilson frequently tweets about the Odyssey, translation, and her cats.
Additional interviews and profiles of Professor Wilson:
2019 MacArthur Fellow profile (September 25, 2019) by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
MLA Commons, From the Executive Director (June 18, 2019) "Translating Scholarship" by Paula M. Krebs
Los Angeles Review of Books (April 2, 2019) "Emily Wilson on Porous Boundaries and the World of Homer" by Robert Wood
Words Without Borders (August 22, 2018) "Women Translating the Classics: An Interview with Emily Wilson, Sholeh Wolpé, and Arshia Sattar" by Alta L. Price
Ekathimerini.com (May 21, 2018) "Emily Wilson talks about translating 'The Odyssey' by Lina Giannarou
Tor.com (May 3, 2018) "The Voices of The Odyssey: Emily Wilson On Language, Translation, and Culture" by Fran Wilde
Chicago Review of Books (January 16, 2018) "How Emily Wilson Translated 'The Odyssey'" by Amy Brady
National Public Radio (December 24, 2017) "A Complicated Man, Outlined Clearly In Emily Wilson's New 'Odyssey'" heard on Weekend Edition Sunday with Lauren Frayer
Vox (November 20, 2017) "Historically, men translated the Odyssey. Here's what happened when a woman took the job" by Anna North
Recent podcast and radio appearances:
Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast (October 22, 2019) "Chris Ofili and Emily Wilson"
The Spouter Inn (August 26, 2019) "Emily Wilson on the Odyssey"
Conversations with Tyler, Episode #63 (March 27, 2019) "Emily Wilson on Translations and Language"
In All Things Charity Podcast, Episode #57 (April 30, 2018) "The Art & Challenge of Translation with Dr. Emily Wilson"
Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan (February 18, 2018) WMC Live #237
The Slate Culture Gabfest (November 15, 2017) "Tell Me About A Complicated Man Edition"
Recorded talks:
Hammer Museum (UCLA) (October 24, 2018) "Some Favorite Writers: Emily Wilson"
Articles and essays inspired by Wilson:
Eidolon.com (September 7, 2018) "ABD and Pregnant: When Is the Right Time to Mix Classics and Motherhood?" by Sarah Scullin
Eidolon.com (August 31, 2018) "A Mother's Odyssey: The Journey to Integrating the Roles of Scholar and Mother" by Jennifer S. Stager


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Alien Resurrection Update
Fox Interactive producer Gary Sheinwald tells us what he knows about Alien Resurrection.
We recently interviewed Fox Interactive producer Gary Sheinwald to find out more about Alien Resurrection, the upcoming movie-licensed PlayStation shooter. Argonaut (Croc: Legend of Gobbos, Star Fox) Studios is developing the game for Fox. Here's what Sheinwald had to say.
Videogames.com: How much of the gameplay would you say is shooting, and how much is puzzle solving?Gary Sheinwald: The game is a mixture of third-person action/shooting - combating the aliens, "bad" humans, and so on - and puzzle/exploration. Although it is an oversimplification, I would say that the game is approximately 70-75 percent action and 25-30 percent puzzle/problem solving. That doesn't mean that some of the time you're blasting away with a pulse rifle and then you're sitting in a corner with a Rubik's Cube - you're under constant threat from the Aliens, while you are working to complete the necessary tasks on each level.
vg.c: How much of the game is based on the film, and how much is new? Are there any other film tie-ins that might not be apparent at first?GS: The environment of the game is very much based on the look of the film. Fortunately, the film was made right here on the 20th Century Fox lot, so during preproduction and filming we had all-areas access to everything and anything we wanted (well, almost - they wouldn't let me keep any of the weapons). During the design stage, we met regularly with Nigel Phelps, the movie's production designer, and he gave us all the design drawings for the Auriga, the Betty, the weapons, characters, and so on. One useful spin-off of this is that the stuff that was designed but didn't make it to the filming stage, or was left on the cutting-room floor - other parts of the ship, for example - were incorporated into the level maps of the game.
As for the plot, we based it around the movie, but of course making it a good game is more important than being 100 percent true to the movie.... How dull would it be if you knew exactly what was going to happen next?! So for example, in the movie Ripley 8 discovers Dr Wren's Lab, which has the other failed attempts at cloning Ripley... and she torches it to put her other selves out of their misery. In the game, we have seven different labs dispersed throughout the ship (and throughout the levels), and one of the tasks in the game is to find and destroy your clones.
Some other tie-ins include the voice talent - we use quite a lot of the cast of the movie in the game, wherever their busy schedules would allow. The most important one to us is the voice of Father, the ship's computer... played by Steven Gilborn. In the movie he has around a dozen lines... in the game, he has around three hundred - he is essentially the "voice of the game." Another cool advantage of being a film studio is the sound effects... Normally a developer has to create them from scratch or pull them off a videotape or laser disc, DVD these days maybe, of the movie, filter out the ambient sound, and try to isolate the sound samples they need. In the case of Alien Resurrection, we asked the Fox Sound Department if we could possibly have access to the sound effects from the movie... maybe in a format that would be convenient to us. Their reply was, "Is a Jaz disk of 44.1KHz AIFF files OK for you?" - and we got every sound effect from the film in pure digital format. Not only that, but Leslie Shatz, the movie's Sound Designer, even went over to London and visited Argonaut Software.
vg.c: How many different kinds of aliens are in the game?GS: If you mean aesthetically, we are true to the movie here. We follow the alien life cycle, so there are eggs, face huggers, chest bursters, the regular fully grown "drone" aliens, the Newborn, and the Alien Queen. If you mean gameplay behavior-wise, then the aliens have different behavior patterns and tasks depending upon the situation.
vg.c: I understand that you'll be able to play as several different characters. What are the differences between them? Is it up to you when you switch between them? Do you have to switch between them over the course of the game?GS: Since the movie was very much an ensemble cast, we made the decision at the beginning to have different player characters in the game. The characters are linked to the levels, so you switch characters as you play through the game. The main reason for this was that it enabled us to design the levels precisely for the differing attributes and abilities of each of the characters. Having to design the levels suitable for any character would have made them more generic and less intricate. The five characters are Ripley 8, Call, DiStephano, Christie, and Johner. There are many varying attributes between the player characters - here are a few: Ripley 8, being part alien, is stronger, and more agile than a normal human. She can also sense the presence of aliens (kind of like a "spidey sense"). Call is an android. She can jack into the computer workstations on the ship and access its databases. Christie has guns attached to her arms surgically, and so on. Additionally, Vreiss is available at varying stages of the game as a "power-up." He can hook up to the player character, strapped on their back in the Kawlang Maneuver from the movie... giving you simultaneous forwards and backwards shooting ability.
vg.c: Third-person shooting can be tough to pull off. How are you going to solve perspective problems that have plagued similar games? Do you control the camera? Can you switch to a first-person cam?GS: You don't control the camera. We have what we call an "intelligent rail cam" system - basically the camera always knows where to be and what to do within the map. It intelligently cuts to the correct viewpoint so that it should never get stuck behind a wall or other obstacle. This also makes it much more cinematic. We are playing around with a first-person cam option when crawling through the ventilation system, but depending upon how this plays, it may or may not make it into the final game.
vg.c: Has the engine gone through a lot of changes?GS: The engine has gone through one very significant change... the game started out as a top-down viewpoint game... When the movie was in preproduction, the Auriga, the ship on which the movie and game takes place, was like a skyscraper in space - a tall structure with many floors. Argonaut built this great demo on the PC with multilevel parallaxing so you could see down through the ship. Alien acid would be able to drip down from level to level through the metal floor, and you'd be able to fall through the holes. However, as the movie neared the filming stage and while the game was being designed, the Auriga was redesigned as a much more vertical ship, and that, combined with technical advances in what we thought the 3D engine could achieve, were a couple of reasons why we changed to the third-person shooter engine that we have today. Although we liked some of the elements of the original concept, the current direction was definitely the right choice.
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Eighteen Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP attorneys were recently named to the 2013 Indiana Super Lawyers list. In addition, 14 of the firm's attorneys were named to the 2013 Indiana Rising Stars list.
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The literally named Old Brewery, Tadcaster, is the oldest brewery in Yorkshire. Since 1758, ales and stouts have been brewed here using the highly mineralised water drawn from an aquifer, 85 feet below ground. Traditional brewing methods have lived on at the Old Brewery: Samuel Smith have their own cooper, making and repairing all their oak casks; they have been using the same strain of yeast since the nineteenth century; and their brewing water is still drawn from the original well sunk in 1758. They are the last brewery in England to ferment in 'stone Yorkshire squares' – fermenting vessels made of solid slate slabs, which give the brews a fuller-bodied flavour.


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A tree is a beautiful expression of Mother Earth's creativity. As a small girl I remember witnessing a mango tree being planted in our courtyard and see it grow from a small plant to a fruit bearing tree. Down memory lane, I possess some beautiful memories of me as a kid playing as under the shade of that tree - by tieing a rope to make a swing, climbing up the tree to pluck mangoes, falling from the branch and fracturing my arm ouch!!! & watching a lot of parrots visit for the ripe fruits - these are a few memories from the past. It's always a nice feeling to see a mango orchid or a mango tree which is full of mangoes, during the season. More so it is wonderful to see a mango tree close to your balcony, spreading its branches and it's also fun to pluck mangoes right from there, as I did this time, while a koel looked at me from another tree.
The ripe mango fruit is very wholesome and nourishing - the stronger the smell sweeter the fruit. Each Mango like human beings has its own unique character. The flavour of the summer months, the mango tree is native to India & is one of the oldest cultivated fruits in the world. This evergreen tropical tree has a long life & it's pink flowers bloom at night and during the early morning. The Mango's unique shape has lent Indian Art the marvelous Mango Motif. Poet Kalidasa sang its praises and Alexander the great too savored its taste.
Till date it continues its reign as the king of fruits. For culinary use, the mango is edible in all stages of its development. Raw mangoes chopped, cut or grated, are prime ingredients for pickling across the length and breadth of the India. Mouth watering desserts exist too, ranging from Mango Barfees, Kheer, Kulfis, Milk Shakes, Cakes and Ice Creams.
I am happy to present here a post of my favourite fruit.
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|Mango Milk Barfee
|Mango Sorbet with Sauce
Mango Milk Barfi
- Milk : 6 lit.
- Sugar : 400 gm
- Lemon Crystal : 5 gm
- Cardomom powder : 5 gm
- Fresh mango puree : 200 gm
Boil milk on high flame; reduce the milk till one-fourth in quantity. Soak the lemon crystals in warm water for 5 minutes. Add the crystal water into the reduced milk. When the milk granulates, add cardomom powder, cook for few minutes. Add fresh mango pulp, cook on a very slow flame till the mixture is coated with milk granules. Remove the mixture from container and set it on a small flat tray. Set in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Garnish with mango slices. Serve chilled.
Mango Sorbet with Sauce
After a heavy meal, this makes a very refreshing dessert.
Serves 4-6
- 900 gm Mango Pulp
- 1/2 tsp Lemon juice
- grated rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon
- 4 egg whites, whisked until peaks form
- 1/4 cup caster sugar
- 1/2 cup double cream
- 1/2 icing sugar
1.) In a large, chilled bowl, mix 425 gm of the mango pulp with the lemon juice and the rind.
2.) Gently fold in the egg whites and the caster sugar. Cover with clear film and place in the freezer for at least 1 hour until beginning to set.
3.) Remove the bowl from the freezer and beat the contents. Transfer to an ice cream container and freezer until fully set. Scrape the ice crystals from the side of the bowl and whisk the mixture to break down the crystals.
4.) Whip the double cream with the icing sugar and the remaining mango pulp. Chill the sauce for 24 hours. Remove the sorbet freezer 10 minutes before serving.


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I am learning that as my son is getting OLDER …… I have to let him go day by day via treating him like he will NEVER leave the house! Only a few more years left and I will be saying >>> SEE YA LATER BUDDY BOY!! ( hiding my tears )
The toughest thing about being a parent (or a teacher) is learning when NOT to be one. You don't have to take my word for it, just ask Marlon. (The mivie Finding Nemo ) His wife was brutally attacked and killed by a man-eating barracuda, thrusting him into the role of a "single dad." Now we know that in AMERICA there are more single mothers than single fathers. Not discounting single dads at all but ……….. ( LOL )
Although only an animation film, "Finding Nemo" portrays the real life struggles many parents face in "letting go of their children." I have to say that I have been doing great though….. He has been finding new things to do with his life and his SELF lately…just look at this CRAZY hair cut that HE WANTED!! Inside I was screaming like, baby this isn't you, is it?
As in real life, most parents (and children) don't see the potential dangers of a parent being overprotective. And it's easy to understand why many parents would respond the way Marlon did. Growing up in an inner city ghetto myself, there were many barracudas waiting to devour me.
Like most children, Nemo became very upset with his "loving" father's obsession with protecting him from unforeseen danger. During one heated exchanged, Nemo uttered the phrase that strikes fear in the heart of every parent, "I hate you." As a result of his father's controlling behavior, Nemo intentionally rebels against his father and is consequently "fish-napped" by a diver.
I am letting my son go DAILY…… Keep him grounded in Godly principles and heavily involved and push him even at times when I know that pushing him / teaching him to do MORE will allow him to depend on me LESS. That is a good thing but the love of a mother is something ferocious! My son calls me MOMMA BEAR because when someone bothers him – a whole NEW PERSON "comes over me"….. LOL I get into a mode that I will crush anything in my when it comes to protecting my son…. ( in a diplomatic and lady like way of course – lol )
I am proud of myself…for "choosing" to start MY PROCESS of letting go daily while he is young. As a parent, you cannot start trying to cope that your child is going to be moving out of the house when they are GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL! You do know that is WAY too late right? LOL


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Whenever I am studying the Bible, I always ask a simple question – Why did the writer say that now? One of the convictions that I use when I am studying the Bible is that the order is very important in the writer's progression of thought.
One of those times is when Paul comes to Ephesians 4:25. Paul is now starting his ethical teachings based on faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The first area that Paul deals with is "lying". At first thought, that seems like a strange place to start. Why not deal with sins such at sexual immorality, drunkenness, or even stealing. These are areas that we always gravitate towards when we speak of rights and wrongs.
But Paul starts with lying. Why? The reason is that we have a love of lying. It is seen in our children, we did not have to teach them to tell a lie, but to tell the truth. The first area that should change in a person's life when they come to Christ is that they now "speak truth". So Paul simply tells the church at Ephesus, "lay aside falsehood" (stop lying).
In Christ, we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:3). We have been saved by grace and God is beginning his good work in us so that we will walk in good works. We are built on the foundation of the prophets and the apostles with Christ being the cornerstone. We have the privilege of knowing the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge (3:19). We are part of the body of Christ and a part of the unity of faith that comes from Christ.
We have absolutely no need to walk in falsehood anymore. We have nothing to hide because in Christ we have been freely and completely accepted by the Father in heaven. We are forgiven and we have been made new! Therefore we now have the freedom to walk in truth. Truth lays the foundation for every part of my life. If I walk in truth, then I will walk correctly in all areas of my life. That is why Paul starts with lying.
Proverbs – Lying
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, But those who deal faithfully are His delight.
Proverbs 12:19 Truthful lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only for a moment.
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin.


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KIERAN GILBERT: With me this morning, the Manager of Opposition Business and the Shadow Finance Minister, Tony Burke. Tony Burke it looks like Labor's had a win here with the GP co-payment to be shelved.
TONY BURKE, SHADOW FINANCE MINISTER AND MANAGER OF OPPOSITION BUSINESS: This is a complete mess for the Government where this is up to. In one paper they're saying they're getting rid of it, in another they're saying they're going to find a way, without having to report to the Parliament, of being able to keep the payment. The one thing we know for sure is that Tony Abbott believes there should be a tax on people every time they go to the doctor, and whatever political games he might play over the next few weeks won't change the fact that we know from the Budget they believe this charge should be in place. We also know it doesn't matter what they say before an election, after the election this is the sort of thing that they'll introduce. Tony Abbott will not be able to walk away from this policy.
GILBERT: Well he's saying that Labor is sacrificing the national interest for short term politics, that this is something that is much needed economic reform to put it on a sustainable footing. What do you say to that given that there's no alternate savings measures that Labor's putting up?
BURKE: In the first instance though, doesn't that say it all? If even at the point where they're claiming they might walk away from it, they're saying it's in the national interest. That makes clear that this will remain an issue all the way up to the next election, no matter what they do now. If even at the time that they're leaking to some papers they might walk away from it, they're still saying it's in the national interest, that means if they can't introduce this before the next election then they'll introduce it after. This is core central belief of Tony Abbott that he believes people should have to pay a tax when they go to the doctor, effectively a tax on being sick.
The claim that Labor hasn't had serious savings measures is absurd. One of the first things they did was get rid of tax on high income superannuation that we had in place, get rid of tax measures that we had to deal with multinationals shifting money across to tax havens and then they've got the spending measure of all spending measures with what they want to do on Paid Parental Leave, where they throw out all the concept of means testing and introduce the principle that the more you earn, the more extra money the government will give you. In terms of budget responsibility they do not make the cut at all. Budgets are about priorities, they have prioritised hurting middle and low income Australians every chance they can get.
GILBERT: The Government's point is and I guess this is a moot point now given it is going to be shelved; it's going to be scrapped but –
BURKE: Scrapped is brave when he is still saying it's in the national interest.
GILBERT: Well sure –
BURKE: They might press the pause button on it.
GILBERT: They say that Labor introduced a co-payment for the Parliamentary, sorry for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the PBS, if you've got a co-payment for medicine, doesn't the same principle apply for a GP visit?
BURKE: No not at all. When you go to a GP you find out whether or not you're sick. If you delay going to the GP, by the time you finally present to an Emergency ward, you can have all sorts of complications. This idea that people should self-diagnose, that you can pick, before the GP has checked someone out, what the actual level of sickness should be is an approach to google medicine.
GILBERT: So you'd say this is a win though for you, for Labor, because you've been saying you want to protect universal healthcare, so this is a win for Labor isn't it?
BURKE: Every day we can stop the GP Tax is a day that is good for the people who rely on Labor to represent them. But be in no doubt, be in no doubt at all, if Tony Abbott is still referring to it being a national interest, that says if it's not an issue this side of the next election he'd be trying to introduce it straight after the next election if he wins again.
GILBERT: Now on the Australian Submarine Corporation, the Defence Minister has said he regrets it, it was a slip of the tongue. That's happened before with Ministers he says, but in terms of the principle, the basis of his point it's been vindicated again by the front page of The Australian today a report that shows the construction of the warfare destroyers is at risk of even further blowouts, hundreds of millions of dollars. So the underlying point that he's making is right isn't it, that this corporation does have some serious problems?
BURKE: What he's done today is leak certain paragraphs of a report that the Government had since April, since April. I don't think anyone would believe it's just purely a coincidence that they've decided to find the worst paragraphs of that report that they can and put them out the moment the Defence Minister's in a position where Australians are recognising that the man needs to be sacked.
GILBERT: Now, but the point he's making is that the ASC is an organisation that has its problems, now if he's had a slip of the tongue why should he quit - he recognised it straight away?
BURKE: Well even the Prime Minister yesterday was claiming that he'd done the right thing and apologised, there had been no apology, there had been no apology at all. The Prime Minister was wanting to assert 'well that was one of the reasons why he shouldn't be sacked,' well that hadn't even happened, hadn't happened and still hasn't. You've got the Defence Minister of Australia talking down what ends up becoming Australian defence equipment. What becomes essential Australian defence material and equipment and he's talking down the quality of it. That's not just an unwise piece of rhetoric, that's a serious issue to say to the rest of the world that the Defence Minister of Australia doesn't have confidence in our own submarines.
GILBERT: The Parliamentary Budget Office has told the Financial Review that the rapidly declining iron ore prices, the commodity prices and productivity has really a very short term, medium to short term structural problem that needs to be dealt with in terms of savings. Is it time that both sides of politics have to get this right because if we don't we're facing even greater debt and deficit down the track aren't we?
BURKE: Well the report that's come out today goes to three of the key leavers in terms of productivity, participation and then also whats happening with terms of trade, and goes through as the likely trend lines on those as what it means for the Budget. It needs to be understood that that report deals with the Budget as it was brought down in May. So it looks at the outcome of Joe Hockey's prescription and says these are the outcomes, which are negative where we're heading. So this's based on even if Joe Hockey got the whole budget he wanted, and the problem's this: when one of your key drivers, one of your three key drivers is labour productivity, the worst thing you can be doing is cutting your investment in science and cutting your investment in education and cutting your investment in health. These are the drivers of making sure that people get to work each day, of making sure that people work as effectively as they possibly can. For the drivers that that report refers to the Budget is the worst prescription you could have.
GILBERT: Tony Burke thanks for your time.
BURKE: See you again.


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Morning Market Movers
McMoRan Exploration Co (NYSE: MMR) climbed 74.49% to $14.76 at 9:45 am. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) is considering to buy McMoRan Exploration and a large oil and gas company, according to The Financial Times.
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Metabolix (NASDAQ: MBLX) surged 21.92% to $1.3899. Metabolix shares have dropped 75.90% over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index has gained 11.58% in the same period.
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Obama seeks Americans' support amid debt crisis
In a televised national address Barack Obama has blamed Republicans in the House of Representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid a US national default and appealed to the public, urging people to contact lawmakers and demand "a balanced approach" to reducing federal deficits.
"The American people may have voted for divided government, but they didn't vote for a dysfunctional government," the president said in a prime-time speech.
Obama warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause incalculable economic damage and said that the Republican plan unveiled by House Speaker John Boehner would not solve the problem, but would only postpone the default by six months.
In a response to Obama's statement, Boehner said that "the president wanted a blank check six months ago, and he wants a blank check today. That is just not going to happen," as cited by the Associated Press.
John Boehner also said the US cannot default and the crisis would be resolved if the president were to sign a new Republican plan to be voted on in the House this week.
Boehner believes the solution to the debt crisis is not that complicated, you just have to "spend less than you take in."
Congress has just a week until deadline to raise the $14.3 trillion debt limit before it runs out of money, risking a downgrade of the US credit rating and upgrade of interest rates.


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Miseducation Initiative
Harbor Institute
Greek life on a college campus encompasses a variety of complex issues and concerns. Harbor Institute's team represent all nine African-American Collegiate Greek-Lettered Fraternities and Sororities (the "Divine Nine"), and has a multitude of diverse experiences. To address the myriad of challenges facing Black Greek members and their advisors, we have launched the Miseducation of the Black Greek Initiative. Through this initiative we strive to assess and evaluate risk management, academic program completion, improve organizational management skills and cultural competency.
Accordingly, the Harbor Institute has launched separate short-term and long-term strategies to achieve these goals:
|Dynamic and Engaging Campus-Based Program/Training - The Miseducation of the Black Greek
|Creative and Customized Campus-Based Training - The Miseducation of the Black Greek
|Innovative and Full-Immersion 1-2 Day Conferences - The Miseducation of the Black Greek
|Customized Campus Curriculums and Assessment Strategies - The Miseducation of the Black Greek
The Miseducation of the Black Greek XPERIENCE!
- Relevancy of BGLOs in today's society + the relationship between Black Leadership in society
- What value/benefits do BGLOs offer members?
- Evolution of pledge process, stepping and probate shows and the impact they have today
- Balancing these BGLO traditions with the purposes of the organizations
- The relationship and influences between BGLOs and Multicultural Greek Lettered Orgs
- Action steps that non-members can take to join BGLOs
- Action steps that BGLO members can take to improve their organizations
XPERIENCE! can be customized for the following programs:
- Anti-Hazing Week
- Mandatory Anti-Hazing Session
- Mandatory MIP Session
- Freshman Orientation
- Black History Month
- Women's History Month
- Meet the Greeks
A customized, interactive, exciting multimedia educational presentation open to the entire campus that is designed to increase understanding about Black Greeks, raise awareness and empower communities through their positive impact. The session covers:
- Purpose, mission and origins of Black Greek Lettered Organizations (BGLOs)
- Addressing the stereotype that "All Members Do is Step and Stroll"
The Miseducation of the Black Greek BOOTCAMP!
A customized, intense, and engaging training session (open to Black Greek members) that addresses issues such as intake, pledging, hazing, membership recruitment, retention, personal and organizational leadership and African-American history as it relates to Black Greeks.
BOOTCAMP!can be customized for the following programs:
- Anti-Hazing Training
- Mandatory Divine Nine Training
- Prioritizing Academic Success
- D9 New Member Institute
- Leadership Training
- NPHC Retreat
- All Greek Retreat
- Regional "Roundups"
The Miseducation of the Black Greek ROADTRIP!
The Miseducation of the Black Greek ROADTRIP! is an affordable, exciting, innovative full immersion conference experience that is designed to empower undergraduate members of historically African-American Collegiate Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities, undergraduate students with an interest in learning more about these organizations (and how to work more effectively with them) and student service professionals and advisors who work closely with these groups.
ROADTRIP! is recommended for:
- Campuses who seek to increase chapter sizes
- Neophyte Members
- New NPHC advisors
- NPHC Executive Board members
- Divine Nine Chapter officers
For more information and to register for the 4th Annual Miseducation of the Black Greek ROADTRIP! click here.
The Miseducation of the Black Greek IMMERSION!
A comprehensive, semester-long class (at least an hour-long class) that is required for students interested in joining a Black Greek organization. The class is based on a customized curriculum that HI develops. Topics include cultural empowerment, personal and student leadership, risk management, and conflict management and resolution. The class is recommended for campuses that face challenges concerning membership intake and hazing issues, small chapter numbers, or poor/average academic performance by Black Greek members. Institutions that currently license Harbor's curriculum include Howard University and The Ohio State University.
IMMERSION! is recommended for the following institutions that have:
- A need for a sustained infrastructure to face challenges with Divine Nine Organizations
- A need to provide sustained support for Greek Advisors who seek expertise with Divine Nine Organizations
- Conducted an assessment of their Divine Nine community and implemented recommendations
- Resulting from the study
For more information and to order the IMMERSION! curriculum click here.
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