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What Is A Worldview & Why It Matters?
What is a worldview, what it's made of, and why it matters.
Short Answer
What is a worldview? A worldview is "the sum total of our beliefs about the world." (Chuck Colson). We all have a worldview, it consists of certain parts, and leads to real-life actions.
Long Answer
Have you ever put on colored glasses? Slip on those colored glasses and everything you see takes on a shade of the lens color. If you put on red colored glasses, everything takes on a different hue of red. If you put on green colored glasses, then everything looks green – and so on. That's like a worldview.
Definition: Worldview
A worldview is a way you look at the world. It's the lens through which you interpret all your experience and through which you make decisions. It's your colored glasses you wear, even if you don't know you're wearing them. More technically, according to David Noebel, author of Understanding the Times (Focus on the Family), a worldview is…
"The framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world. "[It's] any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding God, the world and man's relations to God and the world."
That's a great definition. But sometimes it helps to sum up many words with a few. So a more simple understanding comes from Chuck Colson who once said, a worldview is "the sum total of our beliefs about the world." (Focus on the Family)
Everybody has a worldview. That worldview may not be well-developed or the person holding it may not be able to articulate it clearly, but each person has a distinct way they interpret their world. For instance, each of these people have a worldview…
- The crying 2-year old who believes he's the center of the universe.
- The atheist biology professor who just finished a lecture on Neo-Darwinism.
- The Christian pastor who just posted a blog on his church's website.
- The Hindu technical support rep who just answered your computer question.
- The stay-at-home mom who just finished cooking dinner.
You and I have our own worldview too. Whenever we overhear a conversation from someone in a coffee shop, or stumble upon lewd website, or when we read an unbelievable news story, we automatically file that new information into a grid of prior understanding. That understanding is our worldview.
Parts of a Worldview
A worldview, like a philosophy, has different aspects. Depending on the teacher, some divide worldviews by a few parts and others by many parts. Here's a simple, but not too expansive worldview framework. Every worldview includes the following 8 areas:
- God (Theology)
- Knowledge (Epistemology)
- Origin (Cosmology)
- Humanity (Anthropology)
- Morality (Ethics)
- Salvation (Soteriology)
- Meaning (Teleology)
- Destiny (Eschatology)
God (Theology) – Every worldview has a theology – it says something about God or the divine. The view may be very precise or vague, explicit or implicit, negative or positive (i.e. atheistic vs. theistic), but every worldview talks about God.
Knowledge (Epistemology) – Likewise, worldviews usually attempt to explain knowledge: what we can know and how we can know it. It also comments on closely related subjects, like truth, logic, reason, experience, intuition, and revelation.
Origin (Cosmology) – Worldviews always explicitly or implicitly tell us where we came from. For instance, the secular worldviews relies on some form of molecules-to-man evolution. Biblical Christianity teaches special creation in six days a few thousand years ago.
Humanity (Anthropology) – In the same way, every worldview has a take on human beings. It represents a certain perspective on humanity. It articulates our origin, uniqueness (or non-uniqueness), purpose, nature, and destiny. Worldviews always address what we are and our significance.
Morality (Ethics) – Each worldview also has a distinct take on goodness and morality. Ethics covers areas like the highest good, whether morality is objective or subjective, what is right and wrong, and rewards for doing good or judgments for doing evil.
Salvation (Soteriology) – Worldviews also include a "salvation story." When Christians hear the word 'salvation' we tend to think salvation from sin, death, and hell through the atoning work of Jesus. But here 'salvation' is more generic: what is the basic human problem and what is the solution to that problem.
Meaning (Teleology) – What is the meaning of life? Every worldview aims to answers this question. The answer to this question in each worldview tells us why we are even here.
Destiny (Eschatology) – Finally, a worldview tells us something about the destiny of the universe and everyone in it. Though the end has not happened yet, each worldview describes what will happen based on their understanding of reality and revelation.
Worldview Describes Your Beliefs Which Lead To Your Actions
In addition, every component of a worldview is interrelated. Theology relates to anthropology and anthropology relates to knowledge, and so on. What you believe about God has a direct impact on what you believe about humanity and our ultimate destiny.
These worldview components also affect how you will live your life and your ethics. And your ethics lead to real world actions. Then think about it like this…
Thought Experiment: The Atheist & The Mentally Ill Child
Pretend you're an atheist. In your atheist mind, us humans are just a cosmic accident floating on a remote rock in a cold, dying universe. We are stardust, as an old song says. That's a standard understanding in an atheistic worldview. If that's true, what makes killing a mentally ill child wrong?
You may think it's wrong because it feels wrong, and it's not something you really want to do. But if you're a consistent atheist, can you really justify your uncomfortable feelings about murder? Perhaps that's just your unreasonable self who hasn't come to terms with your atheism just yet. In your new reality, that child is just stardust and you're stardust too.
So what's really wrong with some stardust snuffing out another speck of stardust in the mind of an atheist?
See how one aspect of someone's worldview can affect their life. And that's just one example of how someone's atheism (theology) affects their view of a mentally challenged person (humanity) and whether it's okay to kill that person (ethics).
Of Worldviews and Philosophies
Studying worldview is a fascinating area. It's essentially a fresh way to consider yours or others basic philosophy of life. Worldview analysis can uncover what you and your friends believe which can be helpful in important conversations.
Suffice to say: we all have a worldview, it consists of certain parts, and it describes your foundational beliefs which leads to real-life actions.
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7 responses to "What Is A Worldview & Why It Matters?"
Hello, Todd! Thank you for your post about worldviews. I'm a Christian who believes that Science only helps us see God's infiniteness more and more clearly. Our professor back then taught us about paradigm shifts, like the colored lenses but you wear different ones to see things in a different like. I like to think about our different faiths in this world as different colored lenses. No matter how confident one claims his lens to be, it's always colored. It's like the three blind men and an elephant. Everyone's worldviews is influenced by what a person feels the elephant to be (a man who holds on to the snout believes the elephant to be a slithering snake, while the man holding the trunk believes it to be as thick as a tree) and they're not entirely correct, but they're not wrong either. For me, that and a lot of other things make it seem more clearly to me that no one can know the whole Truth because it's impossible. Taken another way, no one can know God's infinity despite how many synaptic connections you make in your brain.
It's great to know that there are people like you who advocate the coexistence of science and faith, standing to be the counterculture in a world that tries to kick God out of the picture. I wish more people would wear the clearest kind of lens I know: the lens of humility. The lens that knows it doesn't know everything.
Just one last comment before I go. I'm pretty concerned with the ethics of killing a baby, an argument which a lot of Christians use against Atheists. I've seen a lot of Apologetics writers write the same thing, but I'm always disturbed by it because it would seem like the whole Atheist groundwork would crumble at this question, when it fact it can easily be explained by evolutionary theories. People who develop the hardware to "see themselves in others" are sure to survive far better than those who sacrifice or kill their own kin. It can definitely explain why it feels wrong to do this.
Though I agree that Atheism always falls apart at some point. For me, what's actually more concerning and more difficult to tackle is Agnosticism. Knowing that there's a God out there, but you don't really care about what He says and does. For me, that's one of the truest manifestations of a heart that has been hardened towards God. Atheists actually look for Christ, but don't know it. Agnostics know the possibility that He is there, but choose to disregard it as a waste of time, maybe even a cultural machine that has produced abominations throughout the centuries.
This is just my two cents on the matter. Thank you for this refreshing post! Hope to hear from you sometime.
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Wednesday, 1 August, 6:30 to 9 PM. Open Bar Night. A great evening to taste some hard to find whiskey and to just have some fun. We will offer 10% off any pour in the bar. Discounts on flights of bourbon. Conundrum Wines by the glass.
Thursday, 2 August, 7 PM. Global Wine Tasting with Jim Clayton of Gonzales Byass. This a great opportunity to travel the globe to taste some great wines at really good prices. From Austria, Spain, Chile & California, you will experience 8 different wines, red, white and bubbles. Reservations, please. $25.
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Tuesday, 7 August, 7 PM. Blind Whiskey Tasting Ours vs. Theirs, with Chris Zaborowski, Executive Bourbon Steward. We are issuing a tasting challenge. Are you able to pick the commercial bottle vs. the WW&W single barrel selection? This will be a fun tasting as we line up 5 different whiskey labels with the selections that we made of those brands. There will be prizes for those who get the most correct answers. Reservations, please. $15.
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Thursday, 9 August, 7 PM. Stolpman Vineyards with Julie Defriend, Advanced Sommelier. Over 20 years ago, Founding Partner, Thomas Stolpman, discovered what he believed to be one of the greatest viticultural sites on earth. Hidden in the hills of California's Central Coast, on a rare Limestone outcropping & unobstructed from the Pacific Ocean wind, this unique land is ideally suited to grow Syrah and Roussanne grapes. they are committed to preserving this natural environment for their vines through natural farming, dry farming, & sustainable employment. In the winery, they prefer native fermentation & minimal manipulation. What does all this truly mean? From our experience with the wines, they are quite yummy! Come taste for yourself. There will be 6 different wines presented. Reservations, please. $25.
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Friday, 17 August, 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Bell's Brewery Tasting. Bell's journey began with a 15-gallon soup kettle, a quest for better beer and countless batches of homebrew. The passion and personality that began Bell's continues today through their breweries and Eccentric Café. They continue to grow and evolve, dedicated to their mission; to be fiercely independent, 100% family owned, deeply rooted to our community, committed to the environment and brewers of inspired beer. No Reservations necessary. $5
Saturday, 18 August, 9 AM to Noon. Certified Bourbon Steward Training through the Stave & Thief Society. This in-depth program is designed so that once you're a Bourbon Steward, you'll be able to discuss America's native spirit both confidently and accurately, as well as be able to make recommendations to friends, family, and others based on their individual taste and preferences. Join Executive Bourbon Steward, Chris Zaborowski in this hands-on 3-hour training that includes the basics of bourbon, including a bit of history, how and where bourbon is made, what makes bourbon unique from other whiskies. Each participant will receive a copy of the Certified Bourbon Steward Handbook that includes an online access code for your final exam. Upon completion you will receive a Stave & Thief Certified Bourbon Steward lapel pin. In addition, all participants will receive 10% off all courses at Moonshine University including the full day Executive Bourbon Steward training program. As a certified bourbon steward you also receive periodic invites and special offers for bourbon related events. Limited to 24 people. No Discounts apply to this class. $55.
Thursday, 23 August, 7 PM. Jim Beam Tasting with Beth Burrows, Kentucky Bourbon Ambassador, Beam Suntory. Beth's tastings have always been great fun and we expect no less with this evening's event. Join Beth for a creative welcoming cocktail and then a taste tour of the Jim Beam Brands: White Label, Black Label Double Aged, Double Oaked, Bonded and Rye. Reservations, please. $20.
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Tuesday, 28 August, 7 PM. Napa vs Sonoma Wine Tasting with Steve Patton of Trinchero Wines. Napa and Sonoma Counties represent some of best wines made in not only the US, but the world. Trinchero has ownership of wineries in both counties and through a blind, varietal comparison tasting the differences in the geography should become apparent. There will be at least 6 wines tasted. Would you be able to pick the right location for each wine? Come find out. Reservations, please, $25.
Wednesday, 29 August, 7 PM. Klinker Brick Winery Tasting with Jordan Painter. Join Jordan as he conducts a tasting of all 8 wines from their award-winning winery. Great wine begins with a suitable climate and soil, both of which are found in Lodi. Sandy Loam soil coupled with the hot, cold exchange that graces Lodi from day to night creates a utopic environment to cultivate warm-weather varietals including Zinfandel, Cabernet and Syrah. Reservations, please. $25.
Thursday, 30 August, 7 PM. Carol Shelton Wine Tasting with Tramonte & Sons' Seth Williams. Carol Shelton has won Winemaker of the Year five times, has countless gold medals for her wines and was named one of eight Pioneer Women Winemakers of Sonoma County in 2005. She continues to win awards and accolades. This will be tasting of 6 wines from across California, including Dry Creek Valley, Rockpile, Russian River Valley, Paso Robles, Lodi & Mendocino County. Reservations, please. $25.

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Donnelley Financial Solutions Announces Grant for WILEF Young Lawyers Commitee
Sep 11, 2018, By WILEF
The Women in Law Empowerment Forum is pleased to announce that its Founding Sponsor, Donnelley Financial Solutions, has created a Grant to be applied to the WILEF Young Lawyers Committee (YLC).
WILEF believes the future of the legal profession rests with young lawyers. The Grant will be used to continue building out various Young Lawyers Committees across the country.
Currently WILEF East (New York) and WILEF Southern California (Los Angeles) have active Young Lawyers Committees. WILEF Chicago is planning to launch its YLC in the fourth quarter. In the future, additional committees will be launched. Each YLC is asked to host two events per year. In addition, the WILEF East Young Lawyers Committee has a series of "Gatherings" which invite young women lawyers to interact with each other over dinner in an informal setting at the home of a Board member who is not associated with a sponsor law firm.
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The global energy management system (EMS) market is expected to reach USD 58.59 billion by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Energy efficiency & optimization are the key essence that drives industries to adopt for energy management solutions. International standardization along with favorable government initiatives to promote energy management in industrial and commercial sectors are expected to remain major driving factors for the global market.
Technological advancements such as development of user-friendly programming platforms have enabled hassle free operation and maintenance of these systems. Additionally, development of innovative technologies to install remote sensors in HVAC and lighting system applications for real-time monitoring and control is expected to create new avenues for market participants. High capital along with long pay back period is are expected pose challenges for profitability.
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IEMS was the largest product segment and accounted for over 60% of total revenue in 2014. High installation and maintenance cost are expected to hinder growth over the forecast period. HEMS are anticipated to witness the highest growth over the forecast period. Increasing construction of smart homes and green buildings especially in developed economies of U.S., UK and Germany may be attributed for high growth in the segment over the forecast period.
Further key findings from the report suggest:
Sensor EMS market components dominated the industry and generated revenue worth USD 7.24 billion in 2014. Software is expected to emerge as the fastest growing components at an estimated CAGR of 16.3% from 2015 to 2022.
Power & energy sector contributed majority of the revenue generated in 2014 and is expected to maintain its dominance over the forecast period to reach a net worth of USD 22.57 million by 2022, at an estimated CAGR of over 13.5% from 2015 to 2022. EMS implementation in healthcare is anticipated to grow at an estimated CAGR of 15.5% over the next seven years.
Commercial sector accounts for over 80% of the total installation and is expected to lose share to residential sector over next seven years. Implementation of various new government legislations to promote energy management and control and green building construction initiatives in the UK, Germany and U.S. are anticipated to create lucrative opportunities for industry participants to invest in the residential sector.
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Bites, hickey, bruises that surface your body after an intercourse session is something that can bring uncalled attention and embarrassment.
Making love is not the problem, but the proofs that narrate the entire story of your love making session are the things to worry about. Yes, bites, hickey, bruises that surface your body after an intercourse session is something that can bring uncalled attention and embarrassment. However, you cannot just stop your lover to show his or her affection because you don't want to get embarrassed the next day with all the marks on your neck.
What if we tell you that now you can make love and don't have to worry about the bite marks on your neck as we teach you the perfect hickey cover up tricks? Read on!
Turtle necks to the rescue
Well, the most easy and simple hickey cover up trick is to wear a turtle neck. We know that it is summer and there is no sensible reason to wear a turtleneck in such a hot weather but there are turtle neck t-shirts available in the market with light fabric. You can choose a very casual style, so that no one sniffs out the reason for you to wear a turtle neck.
Scarves to the rescue
You can just go and grab a scarf and tie it around your neck and tada! No one will ever know what happened last night. Yes, scarves are the best and stylish hickey cover up till date. Whether you are a guy or a girl, you can always hide your love bites with scarves in a better and easier way.
You can use makeup to cover hickey
If you don't feel like wearing a turtle neck or a scarf, you can always put on some make on the hickey mark and hide it. Surely a hickey is embarrassing but makeup does the trick to save you from unwanted controversies.
Concealed may help
Concealer makeup is another simple way of hiding a hickey mark. You don't have to be a master in makeup. All you have to do is apply a little concealer on the hickey and nothing else. Just buy a concealer that will match your skin tone and won't look odd.
Cold compressions
This is a bit tricky method but works most of the time. The hickey will almost vanish if you apply cold compression on the hickey mark and in few hours the hickey mark will start to fade.
Know one thing, you must not press the hickey, it will only worsen the mark.
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(Note: I watched the first 6 episodes Friday, the next 3, last night. It was a total coincidence that I started writing this only to discover one of the actors from the show, Lafayette, died yesterday.)
How do you watch six episodes of "TrueBlood" in one day?
You start early!
A better question, though, is: What "woke me" to the insidious Anti-Life, Anti-White nature of the series? Simply…it was the brutal, bloody killing of main character SOOKIE Stackhouse's "GRAN." It really hurt, because she was, seemingly, the nicest character on the show.
I waited and hoped it was only a vision or a dream…hoping Hollywood would rescue the old gal with what had, before this, seemed the ubiquitous stage direction: "And then INSERT-MAIN-CHARACTER-HERE woke up."
But they didn't so she didn't, and so the sweet southern Gran many viewers wished we could have had, too, remained dead. She didn't die in vain because that plot-point allowed me to wake up and see through the literal "programming." (In my disappointment I vowed to not watch another episode, but, of course, Vampires being what Vampires are, I proceeded the following night to watch three more installments.)
Today, however, (though not wearing silver!) I rescued myself from any further desire-to-view-those-Vampires by: 1) binge-reading all 7 seasons' episode summaries online; 2) searching out a few short videos explaining character-secrets revealed in those descriptions; and 3) watching a couple 7 minute end-of-series video clips, nicely wrapping "TrueBlood" all up with the blood-soaked gory bow I probably would have foreseen, if I'd cared enough about Sookie, et al, to project it forward.
Here are the main Themes the author-plus-studio-plus-co-authors proclaim:
1) Black racial-Resentment…the black chick, TARA, put a pretty face on Black anti-White resentment. But schizophrenically, she goes ahead and jumps in the sack (i.e. race-mixes-it-up) with two different White men within an episode or two of one another!
2) Black + Male + Gay = Irresistible…Named for an old dead White war monger, LAFAYETTE, was the sweet, loveable gay cook in the central bar/restaurant in the series. He gleefully jokes (to rowdy "rednecks," so they are required to listen in humiliated silence) that sure, he serves "AIDS burgers" and AIDS everything else, for that matter. There you go. Whites are racist if they're concerned about food safety, because everybody, don't you know, is just as likely to be HIV-positive as a male homosexual. Um-m-Hm-m…
3) GRAN was probably also in the Klan, don't you know…the old gal seemed nice, but prominently featured, no doubt for progressives' enjoyment, was her "Glorious Dead" NAZI-Confederate worship. She practically bills and coos over Vampire-BILL once she learns he was in the War ("…for Southern Independence"). His old-school southern charm is probably what blinds her to the life and death danger her granddaughter SOOKIE is in, being around him. Doesn't she know that the current culture leaves no one, even a 200-year-old, unsullied? Trigger–Warning: the Confederate Battle Flag has not been digitally erased from at least one episode.
4) Vampire-Johnny Reb, O.K.; Iraq-War vets, scary…it seems odd for Hollywood not to make more of the evils of the Confederacy, but I guess they figured because the whole show was in large part a middle-finger to the South, they'd give ol' Vampire-BILL a break. (Or perhaps there are countless teachable North vs. South moments in gory flashback in the remaining 70+ episodes). The Iraq-War vet is made out to be hair-triggered if not crazy. Oh, he's also self-deprecating. In one episode it was natural to chalk up to his post-war "crazy" his report of seeing a main character running naked through the woods.
5) White Men are mostly stupid and unattractive…except for the glamourous Vampire-BILL and city Vampire-Eric. The bar owner, SAM, is kind of attractive in a lightweight metrosexual way, but that trailer he crashes in? Ew-w-w. It ought to act like normal-girl repellent.
Sookie's brother, typically-shirtless-JASON, could be boyishly cute if he ever had a clean STD report and showered/de-greased every couple of episodes. Within the first six or seven episodes he'd slept with four different women, but, six seasons later, surprise, surprise, he was still alive and in a clip from a wedding. I figured he'd have died of syphilis well before that.
The cajun dude, RENE, builds up to his stupidity slowly. We finally find out he's living with but not married to the red-haired 3-time divorcee waitress, ARLENE. He's also "helping" her raise her two young kids right: by showing them it isn't necessary to put-a-ring-on-it first. Nice! Note: they are the ONLY contemporary kids in all the episodes I watched. What swell family-values, right? Oh, how the 8-9 year old girl squeals joyfully when her mommy declares she can be her "flower girl…again!"
Lastly, there's the doofus White duo (Sheriff and Detective) and the pervy White Medical Examiner. None of the murders in the first few episodes seem to generate urgency or case files or clues from townspeople, thanks to these downright unattractive nitwits. Honestly, have you seen, since "Reno 911," a less competent farce of a police force?
The detective, though, magically (?) has enough free time to track down a nudist-colony in Beaumont, Texas, just to offer HBO or "TrueBlood's" director an opportunity to throw in a few old, White, naked behinds. All to prove bar-owner SAM lied about his parents. Wow! Great "detecting." Meanwhile, the dead bodies remain stacked up in the pervy guy's cooler (I presume/hope).
6) White women are stupid and pretty much hoes, except for SOOKIE, who's virginal…before she becomes Vampire-BILL's meal+sex ticket. Afterwards she's a COOL HOE. She's also under Vampire-pimp-BILL's protection (except during the daylight…). I call him a pimp because ultimately he's forced by protocol to take Sookie to do the bidding of Vampire-ERIC.
Why, in this world, is there no lecturing girls on the dangers of uber-powerful vampires or STDs or powerful vampires with STDs? Oh, right, in "this world" such mundane topics aren't any fun, either.
The only lecturing allowed in TrueBlood is about White-on-Black RACISM:
1) White bankers are RACIST if they don't give money to alcoholics who happened to be Black and unemployable.
2) Rude White "rednecks" (i.e. men deemed unattractive or otherwise unacceptable to main characters) are RACIST if they question the prudence of food preparation by a practicing male homosexual drug-dealer who happens to be Black.
3) A White guy is called RACIST by the Black chick after he mentions she "grunts" during the sex they just had together. She's the one who brought up a grunting Black tennis player, even though White players are currently known for doing it, and have been known for the behavior for decades longer than the Williams sister mentioned.
In the end, if you choose to spend 81 hours of your life on this entire series, immersed with the cast of and in the mindset of "TrueBlood" creators (after reading this), ASK what benefits you'll be left with; anything uplifting about the stories; any positive lessons to be learned? (Especially if you are White and already susceptible to being "guilted" by our progressive culture warriors.)
Because what happens when well-meaning non-progressives partake of progressive politics? It depends. For example, like when thoughtful, rational, (albeit, naive) Lauren Southern goes to do street reporting and learn from the G20 events in Hamburg, Germany, She presumed about it like I did about "TrueBlood:" lots to be learned! (Spoiler-Alert: Not what we thought.)
In my case, I was naively certain such a popular show had information about the contemporary Vampire genre that'd be useful for my own fiction projects. Instead, I learned (again) just what Hollywood thinks of We-The-between-the-coasts-People generally, and southerners more specifically.
They think we're
Beer & drug guzzling lowlifes.
Who'd jump at the chance to be ensnared in a vampiric living-death futureless (i.e. childless, i.e. dead end) existence. Or is it Hollywood's "wishful scriptwriting?"
Unexpected lessons for Lauren Southern on the streets of Germany were Where Not to Create your Hearth & Home (Germany), and just how critical Self-Determination & Self-Defense (and its tools, like guns or even pepper-spray) truly are. Then there was the gut-level lesson of Run & Hide in order to Survive, hopefully for long enough to get out of Dodge. But she "ran" to the "relative safety of London," as she (or Stefan) noted. Seriously. London? The-recent-site-of-several-Islamic-State-terror-attacks is NOT a picture of "safety."
Lauren revealed her darkest G20 discovery in speaking with Stefan Moyneux: that the "Black Block/Antifa" wants only one thing beyond partying, looting, and burning…"Busting the heads of Capitalists & NAZIS," like they literally perceive her to be. All that, yet STILL she refuses to tear up her I'm-A-Strong-21st century-Woman card. She steadfastly proclaims she's not a victim.
Well, I say, "You aren't a 'victim,' yet, Lauren." I pray very soon she'll admit that the front lines are NOT the place for females. I pray that she'll come to understand that there is nothing shameful in admitting that! Frontline COMBAT is no place for 99% of women, they lack the body+bone-mass of men, not to mention the bare-handed combat skills many men more naturally have acquired in life. And no offense, Lauren, that's a 1% you simply don't appear to be in.
Similarly, for me to have expected HBO's "TrueBlood" to be part of the 1%, non-progressive, i.e. Life-Affirming, entertainment? Well, that was just as naive as Lauren expecting black-swaddled thugs to give her man-on-the-street interviews. I hope this "TrueBlood" encounter+analysis will spare others from entering the twisted base-pleasure-seeking, cunning childlessness, and entrenched anti-Life, anti-White "entertainment," blindly.
If you do take a taste of the show and disagree with my take on it, let me know where we differ.


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Science is being seriously threatened. It is certainly amazing to see the scientific community joining efforts and resisting to it. A March for Science is currently being organized, and a newly formed group called 314 Action is encouraging scientists to run for office. Scientists are all fired up to communicate more their science to the general public. But just screaming louder may not bring optimal results. One must understand that science is political, no matter what field it is (@Hood_Biologist).
Studies show both Democrats and Republicans like the same policy better when they're told it's supported by their own party. This is called politically motivated reasoning, and leads people to seek out information that reinforces their ideas (confirmation bias), and counter-argue information that contradicts their ideas (disconfirmation bias). We talked about this topic on our last #DiversityJC, in which we discussed the article The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions.
"In the experiment, participants were randomly assigned to receive a table of outcome data that was labeled as either showing how a skin cream affects a rash or how gun control affects crime. The success of the intervention (i.e., skin cream, gun control) was also randomly varied between respondents.
When the table was presented as data about whether a skin cream helped a rash or not, there were no major differences in how people of different ideological leanings interpreted the data. But when the data were instead presented as evidence about the effectiveness of gun control, people's interpretation of the results became polarized by ideology."
So it doesn't really matter what the facts are actually showing, people's interpretation will vary, depending if the information reinforces or contradicts directional (party) preferences. In this excellent piece GETTING A SCIENTIFIC MESSAGE ACROSS MEANS TAKING HUMAN NATURE INTO ACCOUNT, @NeuWriteSD discusses how in reality, just knowing facts doesn't necessarily guarantee that one's opinions and behaviors will be consistent with them. One must first consider human nature, and overcome cognitive biases.
In fact I believe that most of the people who are anti-vaccines, anti-global warming, anti-GMO are not really anti-science. Those opinions seem to be less related to ideologies but more related to express their emotional beliefs. In other words, they seem to truly BELIEVE that those are actual threats to themselves and their loved ones. In her new book, Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Hochschild says that "while people might vote against their economic needs, they're actually voting to serve their emotional needs." (H/T) this week's episode of the Hidden Brain.
But how can we fight it? A recent study showed that this politically motivated reasoning can be tamped down – with CURIOSITY! You can read The Atlantic's article about it here or dig into the full paper. In that paper, the authors present evidence that, as science curiosity increases, subjects tend not to polarize in their judgements but rather adjust their opinions of them. The authors demonstrate the utility of the new "science of science communication", suggesting that it is possible to construct a valid science curiosity
instrument to reach those people, and scientists need to be sufficiently concrete about its focus, avoids social appeal effects, and not rely exclusively on self-report measures.
One other approach that we can keep in mind is brought by the principle of behavioral economics, that states that when it comes to human beings, there is a conflict between the passions and the impartial spectator. The most famous paper published back in 1979 describes that "the ways in which alternatives are framed—not simply their relative value—heavily influence the decisions people make". So taking those principles into account, we should aim not only to describe Science but frame it in an optimal way for our audience to "buy it".
Easy? Of course not. But we must use all efforts and strategies to fight for Science and make sure that our message is delivered – and understood – properly.


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While eating breakfast this morning, I thought out loud how smart my girls are.
Marley's response? "Yes, but I'm the smartiest."
I'll be calling Mensa in the morning.
Gwen was released from the NICU this morning. Hooray! This video shows her release and Marley's first chance to hold her.
Nicole shows her love with a kiss.
And Marley perfects her holding style with Karyn's assistance.
Dave is behind the camera, in case you're wondering.
One thing that's really struck me lately is how quickly kids learn. As I was having a full-length, adult-like conversation with Marley today, I suddenly realized (with awe) that she's learned how to talk so well just from listening to others. She can write her name. She's phoneticizing words. She's "reading" books. All in just under 4 years. Everyone says that your kids grow up quickly and they're right.
As Nicole's grown, I've learned to not take the speed of growth for granted. At almost two, Nicole is finally crawling on all fours. She is also just pulling herself up to standing. What I've taught myself is to be patient and have faith that she will achieve everything she needs to, eventually.
Then we got her haircut.
In a matter of minutes, her face, and the way I perceive her, transformed. She no longer looks like a baby. And then I realized that while things take a little longer with her, she's growing up at a crazy speed, too. She's mastered many sign language words, she says "I got" when she picks something up, she can point to trees, noses, babies and other things when asked. Tonight, while using her hands to say "all done" at dinner, she actually said it out loud. Several times. Like any two-year-old, we may be the only ones who understand her, but for now, that's all that matters.
We have a comedian on our hands. Marley's Aunt Angela was visiting last weekend and we took her out for a birthday dinner. Marley's gift? A funny face.
Tags: funny face, Marley, silly, Video
Considering what Dave does for a living, we don't update our blog as often as we should. I have to confess that this is mostly my problem. While I'm the one with more spare time, I have a strange neurosis when it comes to sharing my thoughts in written form. I've always loved writing, but even when I did it as a career, I hoarded my pieces until the last possible minute, unable to let them be read by others for fear that they weren't perfect enough, or witty enough, or grammatically correct. Due to this craziness, so many bloggable moments pass us by without being shared with you. So, I thought I'd share a few of our most recent adventures with you today.
Ciao for now.


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It is a fact that most of us ignore, every time we use internet there is a probability that our system affected by ad ware or spyware causing security problems. Most of us take spyware lightly with a feeling that it is not going to affect you. Some may be of the opinion that possession of strong antivirus software which is upgraded at regular intervals keeps your computer safe and secure. But the reality is that though antivirus software protects your system from virus it is not effective in tackling spyware. You will need an anti spyware software. Suppose one doesn?t have an anti spyware software one should have spyware removal tool to prevent your computer from getting infected by spyware or ad ware.


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Minn. Secretary of State responds to online voter registration concerns
Republican Minnesota lawmakers are questioning whether Secretary of State Mark Ritchie had the authority to develop an online voter registration system without legislative approval.
Among them is state Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, who is considering another run for the secretary of state job she once held. Kiffmeyer lost her bid for a third term as secretary of state to Ritchie in 2006.
"Doing anything online has a risk with it, and especially something like this, and I just want to be sure," Kiffmeyer said. "My concerns are it hasn't gone through the legislative process. It has not been vetted by our state IT department, nor the expertise that we have. It's been done on a unilateral basis."
She and other Republicans want the Senate Subcommittee on Elections to hold a hearing to address their concerns.
Ritchie joins The Daily Circuit to discuss the voter registration system and the controversy at the State Capitol.
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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
Toccata in D major, BWV 912 [12.21]
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Fantasia in f sharp minor, Wq 67 [11.47]
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Recorded in 2011, this brief disc of just five pieces is intended to be a tantalizing platter of musical hors d'oeuvres from one of history's most musical families - the family Bach.
Quite naturally, it is a piece from J.S. Bach - the Bach most familiar to us - that opens this disc. In this way we reacquaint ourselves with the musical palette of the father before we move onwards to the works of the sons. The opening Toccata is played very well, with a good sense of nuance, particularly where there were interwoven sequential melodies - just beautiful. That said, some of the exposed single line melodies could have been played a bit more gently. This is something that applies to the disc as a whole, but I believe this to be a matter of the instrument and its modification - which I shall address a little later - and not of the playing. I would have also liked some more legato in places, but I am aware this is just a matter of taste. If we were to get into the matter of historical performance, this would have been performed on a harpsichord, which, as a plucked instrument, didn't have a legato action in its arsenal. However, given that the medium of performance is a piano, why not make tasteful use of its extra abilities?
The works of the sons on this disc are wonderful pieces of music, and while it is very clear that they learnt their trade from their illustrious father, they all have their own musical styles whose genius has been unfairly overshadowed by that of their father. The works of two sons are presented here - Carl Philipp Emmanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann, both of whom were composing in the transition between the Baroque and Classical periods. This being the case, it is clear to see how these composers had their influence upon the development of the classical style.
C.P.E. Bach's Fantasia in F sharp Minor has an opening that is played delicately and with elegance, which I loved. However, the exposed melodies tended to be overly percussive - I heard just as much of the mechanism as I did of the music in places, which was slightly off-putting. That said, the contrasting moods are brought out very well indeed, between the delicate introduction and the louder, more grandiose bursts of music.
Both musically and in terms of the playing, W.F. Bach's Fantasia in E Minor is my favourite piece in this selection. The florid opening feels like an operatic overture, played with authority and clarity, and the faster sections of music are very engaging indeed. There's a great range of moods, all of which are brought out well, especially at the junctions between moods. The intentionally quieter sections were particularly expressive here, and the vocally imitative lines are satisfyingly done - as a professional singer myself I soon found myself singing along to the melodies. They sat very nicely on the voice indeed.
Another highlight was the recapitulation of the thematic material in C.P.E. Bach's Rondo in E Minor, the emotional and tastefully ornamented implementation of which grabbed my attention. The playing is very good throughout.
Unfortunately, despite the expert level of playing and the wonderful music on display, something was not sitting quite right with me. After several listenings and reading the booklet and CD case - both of which are extremely brief - I found that the piano had been modified. I was not too keen on this in the first place, especially because the instrument used was a Bösendorfer Imperial Grand, one of the crowning glories of continental piano manufacturing. Supposedly, the piano has been altered to 'enhance depth of tone, sustain and clarity', but I remain unconvinced. It wasn't broken so why try to fix it? Presumably as a result of the modifications, I found its action somewhat heavy, and the sonority overly rich in places. Such alterations might well be favourable for a lot of Romantic piano music, but it should not have had any place here.
Another thing that irked me was the placement of the recording equipment. I felt it to be far too close to the piano. Rather than feeling as if I was attending a performance it was as if I'd just stuck my head into the body of the piano and asked Mr Dunn to play. This led to a lack of clarity at times, most notably in the louder sections. Given that this recording was made at "state-of-the-art facilities", I would have expected better from the production team.
All that said, these things are by no means fatal to what is a very good disc. The pieces were well chosen and the recital works as a superb introduction to the various sounds of the Bach family.
Jake Barlow


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|Kate Middleton's Royal wedding jewellery | earrings
Well, how beautiful was Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding? and didn't Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge, look just so elegant, regal and stunning in her beautiful ivory and lace wedding dress which was designed by Sarah Burton, creative director at the fashion house Alexander McQueen.
Kate wished for her dress to be both traditional and yet modern, and by choosing the British brand of Alexander McQueen, she knew that with their respect for traditional workmanship, technical expertise of the construction of clothing and artistic vision, that they would create the wedding gown of her dreams - and didn't they just.
The dress epitomises timeless British craftsmanship by drawing together talented and skilled workmanship from across the United Kingdom. The dress design pays tribute to the Arts and Crafts tradition, which advocated truth to materials and traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often Romantic styles of decoration. Ms Burton's design draws on this heritage, additionally giving the cut and the intricate embellishment a distinctive, contemporary and feminine character.
The design
The lace appliqué for the bodice and skirt was hand-made by the Royal School of Needlework, based at Hampton Court Palace. The lace design was hand-engineered (appliquéd) using the Carrickmacross lace-making technique, which originated in Ireland in the 1820s. Individual flowers have been hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered onto ivory silk tulle to create a unique and organic design, which incorporates the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock.
Hand-cut English lace and French Chantilly lace has been used throughout the bodice and skirt, and has been used for the underskirt trim. With laces coming from different sources, much care was taken to ensure that each flower was the same colour. The whole process was overseen and put together by hand by Ms Burton and her team.
The dress is made with ivory and white satin gazar. The skirt echoes an opening flower, with white satin gazar arches and pleats. The train measures two metres 70 centimetres. The ivory satin bodice, which is narrowed at the waist and padded at the hips, draws on the Victorian tradition of corsetry and is a hallmark of Alexander McQueen's designs. The back is finished with 58 gazar and organza covered buttons fastened by Rouleau loops. The underskirt is made of silk tulle trimmed with Cluny lace.
The Fabrics
French Chantilly lace was combined with English Cluny lace to be hand-worked in the Irish Carrickmacross needlework tradition.
All other fabrics used in the creation of the dress were sourced from and supplied by British companies. The choice of fabrics followed extensive research by Sarah Burton and her team.
The Jewellery
The Bride's earrings, by Robinson Pelham, are diamond-set stylised oak leaves with a pear shaped diamond set drop and a pavé set diamond acorn suspended in the centre. Inspiration for the design comes from the Middleton family's new coat of arms, which includes acorns and oak leaves. The earrings were made to echo the tiara. The earrings were a personal gift to the Bride from her parents for her Wedding Day.
These gorgeous classic diamante earrings are made with sparkling cubic zirconias and are in a pear shaped drop design.
Robinson Pelham have also designed and made a pair of diamond earrings for Miss Philippa Middleton. These earrings are more floral in nature to compliment the headpiece worn by Miss Philippa Middleton during the Service.
A tourmaline and diamond pendant and matching earrings have been designed and made for Mrs. Carole Middleton. Two gold stick pins, one with a single gold acorn at the head and the other with an oak leaf, are also worn respectively by the Father of the Bride, Mr. Michael Middleton, and the Bride's brother, Mr. James Middleton.
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We've got an LG Nexus system dump and endless desire to spoil every Googley surprise we can. Today's edition of the Android 4.2 Teardown could be alternatively subtitled "The Super-Serious Security Edition," because we're talking about the sort of stuff that should make your sysadmin jump for joy.
Please keep in mind this is just as forward-facing and time-ambiguous as all my other teardowns. This is a list of new stuff in the 4.2 dump, not a list of "confirmed for 4.2" features. Anything could be cut or not fully implemented by the time 4.2 rolls around; similarly to how bits of Android are currently multi-user aware, yet multi-user functionality isn't accessible. Some of this stuff may make it to 4.2, but probably not all of it. Got it? Good.
Now, get ready for a HUGE security push. I recently revealed the Play Store was getting "App Check," a client-side malware scanner, and Google already has "Bouncer" a server-side malware scanner, but they aren't stopping there.
Security-Enhanced Linux is a set of kernel add-ons and user-space tools first started by the NSA that brings mandatory access control to Linux, which basically means user programs and system servers only run with the minimum amount of privileges they need to function. Unmodified Linux uses discretionary access control. Users can grant high levels of access to files they own, and malicious software can do anything it wants with the files and controls the user has access to. If you run that malicious app with root privileges, it now has access to everything.
In SELinux, there is no concept of a root user. Security policy is defined by an Administrator and applied to every process and object, and nothing can override it. This means the potential damage a malicious program can cause is minimal. Basically, SELinux is serious lockdown-mode for the hyper-secure enterprise crowd.
So, now that we have a rough idea of what SELinux is, maybe this set of strings will mean something to you:
<string name="selinux_status">SELinux status</string>
<string name="selinux_status_disabled">Disabled</string>
<string name="selinux_status_permissive">Permissive</string>
<string name="selinux_status_enforcing">Enforcing</string>
This was buried in the Settings APK. According to the layout xml, SELinux will have a status readout tacked-on to the current About Phone screen. It will now list "SELinux Status" at the very bottom, right under "Kernel version" and "Build Number." If you're wondering why there are 3 options and not just "on" and "off," "Permissive" is a logging mode, which will tell you when it would have blocked something, but won't actually block things.
The other key piece of information to get from the string file is that this is an optional mode, don't go around saying that Google is shutting down root functionality or anything. This is for security conscious enterprise and government-types and probably won't be enabled on consumer phones.
Always-On VPN
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) provides all sorts of benefits, depending on how you set it up. You can use it to beat government or corporate site filtering, access a remote computer, surf anonymously, or just to encrypt all your web traffic.
Right now, you can tell Android to funnel all your data through a VPN, and it will, but if you restart your phone, or if the VPN server ends your session, suddenly all your data will start beaming out over the regular internet. There's no way to say "only send data while connected to a VPN," until now.
<string name="vpn_menu_lockdown">Always-on VPN</string>
<string name="vpn_lockdown_summary">Select a VPN profile to always remain connected to. Network traffic will only be allowed when connected to this VPN.</string>
<string name="vpn_lockdown_none">None</string>
<string name="vpn_lockdown_config_error">Always-on VPN requires an IP address for both server and
The strings are pretty self-explanatory. VPN Lockdown will only allow your data to travel over the VPN. No VPN? No internet. There's a subset of VPN users that probably consider VPN functionality useless without this feature. They'll be happy.
Premium SMS Confirmation
A big incentive for the bad guys to write Android malware is that you can quickly and silently charge money directly to a phone bill with premium SMSs. That's a tempting target, so making it harder for malware writers to get paid would go a long way towards slowing down a virus-filled mobile future.
Google seems to want to do just that, I found these strings in the framework code:
<string name="sms_short_code_confirm_title">Send SMS to short code?</string>
<string name="sms_premium_short_code_confirm_title">Send premium SMS?</string>
<string name="sms_short_code_confirm_message">%1$s would like to send a text message to %2$s, which appears to be an SMS short code.
Sending text messages to some short codes may cause your mobile account to be billed for premium services.
Do you want to allow this app to send the message?</string>
<string name="sms_premium_short_code_confirm_message">%1$s would like to send a text message to %2$s, which is a premium SMS short code.
Sending a message to this destination will cause your mobile account to be billed for premium services.
Do you want to allow this app to send the message?</string>
<string name="sms_short_code_confirm_allow">Send message</string>
<string name="sms_short_code_confirm_deny">"Don't send"</string>
<string name="sms_short_code_confirm_report">Report malicious app</string>
If you're having a hard time reading through the programming junk, the main message says "app name would like to send a text message to number, which is a premium SMS short code. Sending a message to this destination will cause your mobile account to be billed for premium services. Do you want to allow this app to send the message?" It's a nice, clear message that will pop up whenever an app tries to send a text to a short code. You're then allowed three options, "Send message," "Don't send," and "Report malicious app."
Here's the data for it. They basically just have a giant list of premium shortcodes for each country. If you send to a shortcode that isn't in this database, Android will still warn you that this is a shortcode, and that "Sending text messages to some short codes may cause your mobile account to be billed for premium services."
This sounds like it will stop phone billing malware in their tracks, and instant, easy reporting will go a long way too.
We'll be back with more! Next time we've got a sneak peek at the new, work-in-progress Gallery design, and some other stuff. Stay tuned!


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Canyon Speedmax CF Armrests + Padding
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These armrests are designed specifically for you Speedmax CF R24 (models till MY2015) and provide an especially firm hold and the ideal positioning of your lower arms. This is advantageous for TT because the lower arms are prevented from slipping.
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- Prevents lower arms from slipping
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Roasted racks of lamb are the ultimate dinner-party dish, with a wow factor that's easy to achieve since many butchers sell the racks frenched and ready to go. Chef Neal Fraser of Grace and BLD restaurants in Los Angeles (both sadly closed as of December 2017) gave us this simple recipe.... Read More
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The insider-outsider dichotomy is central to artists approaching cultures other than their own, and few have engaged this so perceptively—even prophetically—as the French anthropological filmmaker Jean Rouch. He is best known for Chronicle of a Summer, made in collaboration with sociologist Edgar Morin in Paris in 1960. The work is renowned for its unprecedented level of self-reflexivity and subject participation—a sort of marriage between the early visual anthropologist Robert Flaherty and Dziga Vertov, who invited subjects and audiences to understand the filmmaking process. But it wasn't his hometown of Paris, but rather Africa, where Rouch began his career as a civil engineer and made most of his films.
"One of the things that amazed me always with the films was that on one hand there was something with the community there, but you could also feel him as a stranger," said José Pedro Cortes, the 34-year-old Portuguese photographer and publisher who named his recent solo exhibition Moi, Un Blanc ("I, a White") after Rouch's celebrated film Moi, Un Noir. Last year, influenced by Rouch, Cortes traveled from his native Lisbon to an area of Mali known as the Dogon. "I don't pretend to photograph a particular community," Cortes explains, "but I'm more interested in how we actually perceive the people that live there and how we feel this strangeness." Indeed, the photographs of Moi, Un Blanc hinge upon a fascinating tension between intimacy and inaccessibility. Subjects are photographed from extremely close range, at leisure, or in private areas such as bed and living rooms, and yet the viewers feel a great distance from faces turned from the camera or just out of frame. Landscapes and still lifes alike offer little context; the viewer is perhaps as puzzled as Cortes was during his initial encounter.
In 2008, Cortes and his friend started Pierre von Kleist Editions, an artist-run publisher specializing in photo books. The small company recently printed the photographer's latest book, Things Here and Things Still to Come, exploring the lives of four U.S.-born Jewish women who decided to undergo military service in Israel and decided to stay. Unlike them, Cortes remains on the move—restlessly curious, a professional outsider following a sympathetic lens.
José Pedro Cortes is a photographer based in Portugal. See more of his work here. Other titles published by Pierre von Kleist Editions are available here.
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Evacuation lifted for homes near Langston Hughes school in west Lawrence after large grass fire
UPDATE, 5:45 p.m.:
A squirrel caused the fire, said Lawrence Douglas County Fire-Medical division chief Eve Tolefree. It somehow caused a spark from a power line, which ignited the vegetation the spark fell onto.
Investigators don't yet know cost of the fire.
1:35 p.m. STORY:
A large brush and grass fire west of Langston Hughes Elementary School that threatened homes Thursday morning has been contained and the evacuation order for homes in the area has been lifted, according to Lawrence Police Sgt. Trent McKinley. No injuries or damage to homes was reported.
The fire began about 10:25 a.m. Thursday, east of Kansas Highway 10 near the area where Bob Billings Parkway dead-ends, McKinley said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Around 12:45 p.m., Division Chief Eve Tolefree, a Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical spokeswoman, said the fire had been contained and residents were being allowed back into their homes.
The fire, which rapidly moved north, also had threatened nearby Langston Hughes, McKinley said. The school is closed for the summer, and no programs were underway in that building, according to Julie Boyle, the school district's spokeswoman.
Erik Haden, building operator for Langston Hughes, was in the building when the fire was initially reported. He ran outside of the building and saw the massive flames nearby.
About five or six people were inside the school, and he ran back inside to make sure they left the school grounds.
"I've never seen anything like this before, this close to the building," he said.
Haden gave credit to the emergency responders for their rapid and effective response.
"They contained it pretty quickly," he said. "They did a heck of a job, that's for sure. I'm just glad everybody's safe."
Witnesses reported that the fire initially had flames that shot as high as several nearby tall trees and spread rapidly to the north.
Firefighters positioned themselves around nearby houses and were able to prevent the fire from reaching the properties.
"It kindled pretty well with the wind," Tolefree said, adding that fire crews tried to read the wind and the positions the dry kindling in the area to prevent the fire from spreading.
Residents of homes in the 6200 block of Palisades Drive were evacuated, Tolefree said, though many weren't home at the time of the fire.
Scott Reinardy, who lives on Palisades Drive, saw the fire behind his home and began hosing down his back yard, as several of his neighbors were doing. Reinardy soon was told to evacuate.
"I grabbed a garbage bag and started throwing things in it," he said.
Members of the Kanwaka, Wakarusa, Lecompton and Willow Springs township fire departments responded, and crews received assistance from the Olathe and Lenexa fire departments. Crews were helping to put out hotspots Thursday afternoon in the swath of burned land that stretched from Bob Billings Parkway to just south of Palisades Drive.
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In my previous blog post on hybrid solar systems (aka grid connect with battery backup) I promised to follow up with a post that went into more detail on the costs and give examples of inverter hardware that can be used to make such a beast.
I've realised that if I go into the costs and paybacks then this blog post may be longer than War and Peace. So in this post I'll cover the hardware and I'll save the financials for next time.
As I said in the previous post, your motivation for spending more on a hybrid solar system will likely be either:
1) You want backup power when the grid goes down.
2) You want to minimise your electricity exports due to a painfully low or non-existent Feed In Tariff in your state.
3) You may want to maximise your electricity exports due to a very generous FIT in your state (Hello Queenslanders!)
4) You may want to "shift" the peaks in your grid electricity usage due to a Time-Of-Use electricity tariff. This would involve charging your batteries at a low tariff and using your battery power + solar at peak times to avoid paying the peak electricity rate.
(And even if number 4 is not relevant to you know, I'd bet my mountain-bike that sooner or later everyone will be forced onto a time-of-use tariff.)
Now, I could go through every possible combination of hardware for every possible combination of the 4 requirements above. But the post would be so long and repetitive that even the hardiest solar geek would probably tune out.
So instead I'll present for your delectation a system that can be configured to do all the above. Which I would argue is the most future proof solution anyway. Because recent history in NSW has shown us that we can't trust the State governments to keep their word on Feed In Tariffs and it seems obvious that time-of-use electricity charging (you pay more for your electricity at peak times of the day) will become the norm very soon.
Hardware Required for a future proof, super-duper mega, mega configurable Hybrid Solar System:
First let's look at what goes into a standard grid connect system:
1) Solar Panels
2) Inverter
3) Everything else: Wires, Racking, Disconnect Switches, fuses etc.
A Hybrid Solar System needs all the above and more. The extra hardware needed is:
Power management unit (box of electronics)
Inverter that can talk to the power management unit (or is integrated into it)
Bank of Batteries
An example of a "power management unit" that will do the job and has all the configuration options you'll probably ever need is the 5kW Rich Electric SuperCombi.
This sucker can be configured to:
- Allow you to disconnect fro the grid and still have power.
- Charge the batteries only when electricity is cheap.
- Minimise grid power usage when electricity is expensive.
- Discharge the batteries when electricity is expensive.
And the joy of having such a configurable system is that if, in the future, the government changes the rules you can re-jig your system for maximum profit!
If, for example, the government came to its senses and introduced a "time of use feed in tariff" where you get paid more for exporting energy at peak times, you could configure the SuperCombi to buy the electricity when it is cheap, push it into the batteries and sell the same electricity when it is expensive (ideally along with all your solar power).
To connect the whole caboodle to the grid you would have to combine the SuperCombi with a Grid Tie Inverter from the same manufacturer (e.g. Rich Electric's SolarWorx GTI). The reason you need to use this particular inverter is that it can talk the same language as the Supercombi so that they can work together and do all the smart stuff listed above.
And don't forget that you will need at least 200Ah of 48V batteries which will give you 9.6kWh of electricty storage to play with.
Here is how all the bits connect together (at a very high level):
As you can see, everything goes through the SuperCombi. To cut a long story very short, this box of electronics has the ability to be programmed to follow any kind of logical rules based on the state of the batteries, solar panels, grid connection, or time of day. It uses this logic to route either the:
- Solar Power
- Battery Power
- or Grid Power
or any combination of the three to either charge the batteries, power the home or export to the grid.
It can also be configured to only power the "essential circuits" in the house if the grid goes down – to extend the time you can run on the battery bank.
Essentially your solar system has been transformed from a rather simple electrical system, to a sophisticated computer controlled power management and battery backup system. This means that if you are looking to install Hybrid Solar, it is essential that your installer/designer has both the "Off Grid" Clean Energy Council Accreditation (so he knows how to handle the batteries), and also has good experience of the hardware being used, as it gets pretty technical pretty quickly, even for a Chartered Electrical Engineer like yours truly.
Next: I'll add up the costs of the solar hybrid system compared to Grid Connect and also crunch some numbers to see what the payback is for the extra expense incurred


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Award-winning Canadian artist Chin Yuen will have vibrant paintings from her Organic Evolution and Dim Sum serires on display in our North Gallery until January 28, 2017.
Her paintings use a variety of textures and painting techniques to create visually stimulating effects. Yuen's award-winning work is drawn from her diverse cultural experiences living and working in 6 countries, as well as extensive travel. Her fascination with the small details of life is shown through the depth and texture in her work, inspired from influences as diverse as textile design, nature and travel.


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Bicycle component manufacturing giant Shimano has issued an anti-doping statement saying that any of its sponsored teams found guilty of doping practices will have its sponsorship removed and all Shimano components will have to be returned.
It may seem odd that a component manufacturer should join in the fight against doping in such a firm manner, but the Japanese company invests millions of pounds in providing professional teams and riders with cycle equipment.
As such, Shimano ranks among the largest sponsors of professional cycling and the company evidently does not want to be associated with any drug-related scandal, particularly as it is now joint sponsor of Skil-Shimano, which is currently aiming for a ProTour licence.
"The two positive tests at Euskaltel-Euskadi, particularly when the team stood behind Mikel Astarloza, is the direct reasoning behind this message," explained Shimano's PR and Marketing Officer, Harald Troost.
"We won't accept doping full stop and I think we are the first company in the bike industry to make such a statement.
"We will continue our partnership with Euskaltel, but if there is proof of a team management's involvement with doping we will withdraw our involvement with a team," said Troost.
In future, any team wishing to open sponsorship negotiations with Shimano will have to show its anti-doping statement to the company for scrutiny.
Established in 1921 in Japan, Shimano now manufactures a whole range of bicycle components including gears, brakes, pedals, shoes and clothing. It is one of largest global manufacturers of cycling equipment in addition to being a leading player in the fishing tackle market. The company recently ventured into the rowing market.
The statement, issued on Thursday, read as follows:
With this statement, Shimano would like to make clear to all parties involved that we would like to strive for a fair and drugs free sport to protect the future of cycling for next generations. Besides the bad impact to the reputation of the sport, we all know Doping and Drugs are damaging and destroying the health and image of especially young people in and outside of the sport. Therefore we are taking a firm stand against doping in general and in the cycling sport in particular.
Basic guidelines in Shimano's anti doping policy:
• All our contracts and sponsorship-relations are made under the condition and in the believe that there is no doping involved in the particular team or with the individual athletes
• If the team management of one of our sponsored teams (no matter in which cycling discipline) is involved in any doping affair, we will stop our sponsorship of this team immediately
• If an individual rider is involved in any doping affair without the knowledge of the team management, the team will be given the chance to give a clear explanation and a future improvement & control plan to Shimano, upon that it will be decided to continue the sponsoring or not. If another doping incident occurs within the same team, we will keep the option of terminating our sponsorship contract
• Terminating a sponsorship contract means return of all Shimano materials or other contributions that have been supplied to the concerned team immediately.
This anti doping policy is already stated in our ongoing sponsorship contracts but Shimano feels it is valuable to emphasize this ones more to make it clear for everybody what is our opinion about the use of doping in sport. For all our future sponsorship negotiations it is essential for us that the teams show us their anti doping policy in advance.
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1,"Exporting CSV from MongoDB"Published
A look at MongoDB CSV exporting makes up the first part of our Comma Values series, all about the rarely loved CSV files and the databases that import/export them.
CSV formatted files are like the uncle that that no one really likes to mention in polite company. Yet they turn up all over the place, especially when getting data for spreadsheet analysis or pulling data from legacy systems for import.
So, over the next few weeks we'll be spreading a bit of goodwill to the CSV format and showing you how you can import and export it from the databases of Compose and how you can add some handy tools that make manipulating CSV files easy. In this first article, we're going to look at exporting CSV from MongoDB but first let's quickly refresh on what CSV format is.
CSV: Things to remember
Your CSV file is a tricky chap. Grew up in the field with no standards and goes all the way back to 1967 according to some. The idea is simple enough: a file which has lines which are delimited by a carriage return+line feed. Each line has values and each value is delimited by a comma.
That's about as far as you can go without adding "maybe" or "except for" to every attribute as the authors of 2005's RFC 4180 found. That is the current CSV file "stanadard" though it is more a gathering of "things we know about CSV files". There may be double-quotes around some values such as strings. The first row may be a set of headers describing the fields in subsequent rows. We mention this so you don't assume that a program that takes CSV as an input will accept any and all CSV variants. We'll try and flag where there may be oddities in any exported CSV files.
The most important thing to know about CSV files is that they are no use if you want to represent a hierachy like a JSON document. The data in structures like that will need flattening. Let's see an example of that in our look at exporting data from MongoDB...
MongoDB and CSV
Mongoexport is the go-to tool for exporting data from MongoDB. It can export data in CSV or JSON format, but if you want to export CSV you have to specify all the fields you want to export and the order they come in. So let's say you have a collection with records that look like this:
_id: ObjectId("56685b53414f0983b63a8630"),
title: "The Godfather",
num_votes: 1072605,
rating: 9.2,
year: "1972",
type: "feature",
image: {
url: "http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEyMjcyNDI4MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDA5Mzg3OA@@._V1_.jpg",
width: 333,
height: 500
viewed: [
name: "Brian",
rating: 10
name: "Tim",
rating: 8
Now, the simplest export we might want to do is a CSV export of title, year and rating. Here's a mongoexport command to do just that:
[~] mongoexport --host=host.example.com:port --db=samples --collection=movies -u user -p password --type csv --fields title,year,rating
The Godfather,1972,9.2
The Dark Knight,2008,9
The Shawshank Redemption,1994,9.3
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,2003,8.9
So, running through the parameters, we give the host and port using
--host, database with
--db, which collection to export with
--collection, and the user and password are parameters for
-u and
And in the output we see the wonder of CSV as you wonder why there's no quotes around the titles or headings. Double-quotes are added only when needed here so further down the exported titles we see:
"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels",1998,8.2
That's escaped with double quotes because it contains a comma. Now, fields in CSV don't need to be quoted but then people have implemented importers that expect quotes because the CSV import may actually be tuned for the CSV export of some other application. And if you are wondering, if there's a double quotes in a string delimited by double quotes... then CSV should turn it into double double-quotes. Let's move back to getting some more data out of MongoDB.
You will notice we listed the fields to export as a comma separated list in the command line. You can move them to a new-line delimited file and use that instead. So let's create a
fields.txt file:
And run our
mongoexport command, switching
--fields out for
--fieldFile like so:
$ mongoexport --host=host.example.com:port --db=samples --collection=movies -u user -p password --type csv --fieldFile fields.txt
The Godfather,1972,9.2
The Dark Knight,2008,9
Of course, we really want to save the results in a file. Add a
--out with a destination filename for that. You'll probably notice the log output then when the database connection is opened and when it's complete. Add a
--quiet to silence that.
All easy enough, but there's the JSON elephant in the room. How do you refer to fields which aren't in the top level of the JSON. Here's an example of how:
fields.txt file has added access to the
url field within the JSON object
image and to the
name field of the object at index position 0 in the JSON list viewed. As with all these specifiers of fields, watch out; if it doesn't match a field, it doesn't throw an error, it just puts out an empty value.
There's a couple of other useful options on
mongoexport worth mentioning. The
--query option lets you use a query to select what records are exported. So adding
--query '{rating:{$gt:8.5}}' would, on our movie collection, only give us the movies rated over 8.5. Note the use of the single quotes to supress the expansion of the "$gt" as if it were an environment variable. The more complex your command line, the more likely you are to trip over the shell trying to be helpful by expanding or replacing things like that.
You can also sort the export with
--sort and a JSON sort specification so adding
--sort '{rating:1}' will sort with an ascending rating. There's also a
--skip and
--limit, working the same way as their MongoDB equivalent commands, to reduce the number of items exported.
Finally, if you need to connect to an SSL enabled MongoDB, there's the various SSL options to mongoexport, including – most importantly –
--ssl which will enable SSL on the connection.
So now we are exporting data as CSV from MongoDB. In the next part, we'll be having a look at tools that can manipulate those CSV files and send them on to other databases. Stay tuned.


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