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The suit of Cups in the tarot represents the feminine element of water. Cups, also called Hearts, Vessels or Chalices, reflect the nurturing, emotional aspects of the human spirit. If Wands is the suit of conception, then Cups is the process of gestation. For example, in terms of a new project, The Ace of Wands is the initial spark of an idea while the Ace of Cups develops and fleshes it out. Wands are passionate; Cups are sensual.
Cups are compassion, thoughtfulness, caring and mothering. Cups are accommodating and flexible. Cups take the life force of Wands and channel it to the human level.
Cups in Mythology
It is tempting to connect the Latin 'cuppa' meaning 'vessel, cask, barrel' with 'cupere', desire (from whence comes Cupid, the Roman god of love and lust, but they have two distinct etymologies.
The most famous chalice myth is, of course, the Holy Grail, the cup that Joseph of Arimathea used to collect the blood of Christ upon his death.
The job of the cup-bearer in ancient times was a very important one. Poisoning was a common method of murder so the cup bearer was a deeply trusted individual who had charge of wine and other beverages which were specifically intended for important personages.
Some cultures believe that the human body is but a vessel that contains the soul. When the vessel is destroyed the soul continues until it is reincarnated into another body. Therefore the suit of Cups can be thought to hold the soul, the source of emotion, feeling and compassion.
Cups Characteristics
This suit encompasses the three water signs of Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio. The meaning of a Cups card can be a little slippery and elusive to get a hold on because of water's ability to fill the shape of the vessel holding it. Therefore a person born under one of the water signs can be as calm as a peaceful lake or as unpredictable as an ocean storm. And those undercurrents can be very well hidden. Remember too, that water takes on several forms: steam, mist, fog, snow and ice.
Cups personalities run the whole gamut of the personality spectrum from cool to warm. They tend towards introversion and introspection. They are sensitive, intuitive and imaginative. They are passive, rather than active; they make decisions based on feeling and instinct rather than logic and reasoning.
Cups and Love
Cups and hearts are the emblems of love, so it's no surprise to find that this suit represents love in all its forms, from romantic first love to established familial love. Cups are about affection, but can cross into the realm of passion also. Cups can represent children and childhood, as so many of our childhood memories are based on, and colored by, our feelings.
Cups at Work
People with Cups characteristics are suited to creative endeavors. Design, art, fashion, theater and music are connected to the water signs. Cups need to express their inner feelings, and dance is a way they can do this. They are excellent listeners so make good counselors, therapists, psychologists and other professions connected to mental health. Cups people are natural nurturers, therefore working with children is an excellent career option.
Cups and Money
Cups people are far more concerned with personal fulfillment than making money. As long as they have enough to get by, they are happy. However, their excellent intuitive senses aid them to make good financial decisions. Additionally, their negotiation skills help them secure the best deals.
Cups and Spirituality
To a Cups person, life is spiritual. They understand that great power lies in emotion and feeling, therefore they learn early on how to use and protect these fragile gifts. Cups need time to connect to their spiritual selves, hence the necessity for them to sometimes be alone in order to recharge their batteries.
Several Cups Cards in a Tarot Reading
If more Cups appear in a reading than any other suit, then the reading takes on an emotional and spiritual dimension. Answers to questions lie in the realm of the soul, and attention should be given to these aspects of the seeker.
Cups and Wands (water and fire): Emotions and passions run deep
Cups and Swords (water and air): Thought and communication is emotionally based.
Cups and Pentacles (water and earth): Feelings are mixed up with practical matters.
Negative (Reversed) Cups
The negative (reversed) side of Cups is difficult. They are so involved in their feelings that, if unable to express them in a healthy way, it's possible for them to become addicts and/or obsessive. They see themselves as being compelled to follow through on their emotions. Inactivity is another negative for 'cupsies': they become stagnant if they cannot see a way forward.
Reversed Cup cards may indicate a tendency to wallow in self-pity, or to withdraw from other people. Heartbreak can expand to fill up years of doleful introspection. Sad anniversaries assume great importance that can affect their ability to function. Depending on the card, problems can be shown to originate years ago, possibly in childhood. Old hurts hang around effectively hampering personal progression.
Suit of Cups Keywords
Ace of Cups – The first stirrings of feelings and emotions
Two of Cups – Initial attraction, romantic love, friendship
Three of Cups – Groups, friends, parties, dance, fun
Four of Cups – Withdrawal, low-level depression, introspection
Five of Cups – Loss, grief, pain, emotional challenges
Six of Cups – Childhood, children, nostalgia for people and places
Seven of Cups – Dreaming, creativity, choices, overwhelm
Eight of Cups – Sacrifice, new direction, emotional detachment
Nine of Cups – Fulfillment, pleasure, satisfaction
Ten of Cups – Familial love, security, emotional support
Page of Cups – Exploring emotions, creative beginnings, young sensitive person
Knight of Cups – Messenger of love, romantic liaison
Queen of Cups – Sympathetic, empathetic, intuitive person
King of Cups – Mastery of emotions, calm exterior, safe harbor.


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In the weeks before a Presidential election, there is no more exciting place to be than Washington, DC.
UC Davis senior Misbah Naseer recently came face-to-face with Democratic Senator and Vice Presidential hopeful Tim Kaine. Naseer, a senior political science major participating in the Washington Program, attended the vice presidential debate with fellow students from the UC Washington Center. The group was credentialed as news media and had a chance to tour the entire debate setup and meet journalists and political figures immediately after the event.
"Having the opportunity to watch the debate in person was incredible," Naseer enthused. "It was such an amazing experience to view firsthand the spin room, media room and debate hall. Definitely, the highlight of the night was being able to meet Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine!"
Election Fever
"Washington D.C. is clearly a town that lives and breathes politics," she says. "Politics, and more specifically the upcoming election, is often the number one choice for small talk-- a striking comparison to California. After each debate so far, I have either overheard or been involved in numerous conversations about the election. Here at UCDC, students can choose to either watch the debate in their room, at a bar or in the first floor conference room. It almost feels essential to watch the debate, in order to prepared for all the inevitable conversations the next day."
Naseer earned the coveted debate ticket by predicting who would be selected as a VP candidate during the summer. Although only two students predicted correctly, she said there wasn't a secret to her prediction: "Honestly, I just read a couple of articles discussing who each candidate might choose, and noticed that there was a consensus about Kaine and Pence from most media outlets."
A Passion for Women's Empowerment
Despite her humble reply, Naseer clearly has the research and analytical chops to succeed in the nation's capital. She puts those skills toward her passion for women's empowerment at her internship with the Development and Engagement team at Vital Voices Global Partnership. In addition to coordinating and planning events for Vital Voices, she assists with the development of the organization's donor database by researching foundations and presenting potential donor information to senior level management.
"Interning in Washington D.C. has definitely impacted my future plans," she says. "It is such a great experience to be able to intern in D.C., as there are so many great opportunities to make connections in your field. Interning at Vital Voices Global Partnership has only strengthened my passion for a career focused on women's empowerment."
As a parting question, I asked for her thoughts on why neither candidate chose a woman as his/her running mate. "I think both candidates made strategic choices when it came to selecting their running mates, each choosing candidates that appealed to parts of the electorate they need help reaching out to."
UC Davis sends 20 students from all majors to Washington, DC each quarter. For more information, or to apply, visit http://washingtonprogram.ucdavis.edu/
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A Squeeze Of Life, A Guide On Juicing
Nutrition experts have long spoken of the benefits that juicing can have on your diet. There are definitely benefits attached to drinking these types of juices. They can lead to a healthier heart, and better energy levels. Take some of these ideas and incorporate them into your own juicing regimen.
When juicing for the health benefits, look to using ingredients from greens such as: broccoli, chard, parsley, kale and spinach for the greatest effectiveness. Use these vegetables often when juicing, with over a 50% concentration. Use other juices for flavoring. Fruit juices may taste sweeter, but compared to green veggies, they come at a steep price in sugar and calories, meaning they're not as healthy.
Savor your juice, and drink slowly. Enjoy the taste of your beverage, and appreciate each of its flavors. As your saliva mixes with the juice, digestive enzymes can also start the work of unlocking the juice's nutrients.
Treat your juice like a meal. Once you are more experienced and know how much produce you'll need for a glass of juice, it will be easier to do. If you use juice as a meal, the nutrients in the juice enter the bloodstream much faster.
When you are done juicing, wash your equipment right away. In addition, some vegetables and fruits will stain the juicer if it sits too long before cleaning.
Juicing vegetables is a great way to get healthy foods into a child who won't eat them whole. Most children do not care much for eating their vegetables. So you can give them the nutrients they are missing from the vegetables they neglect by juicing.
Always keep your juicer in plain view on your counter. This constant visual reminder will help you take advantage of juicing more often. If you make sure you always see it, you are far more likely to use it often.
Before juicing, research the fruits and vegetables that you plan on juicing. Each fruit and vegetable provides different vitamins and nutrients. You should strive to keep your juices balanced by using ingredients that cover your daily nutritional needs. Not only will juicing give your body the nutrients you require, but you may concoct a tasty beverage or two.
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You are going to get pulp in your juice sometimes, however, you can remedy this with a coffee filter. Some juices will create a pulp consistency that you may not prefer. You can get rid of most of the pulp by straining the juice with a coffee filter.
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One of the many astonishing, delightful and almost incredible things about homeopathy, writes John Hughes-Games, is the fact that unlikely and sometimes completely inert substances, when prepared homeopathically, are transformed into powerful and deep acting medicines
I have an historic oak medicine chest, which belonged to relative, a Dr Clover who was a pioneer anaesthetist who devised the apparatus, which was used to give chloroform to Queen Victoria during the birth of some of her children. Inside the cabinet are rows of beautifully made glass bottles with ground glass tops and in one of them are four or five hand-rolled pills with traces of a powder. The powder almost certainly consists of the spores of Lycopodium (club moss) that was used to dust pills to stop them from sticking together.
Lycopodium is an excellent example of an unreactive substance within which are extraordinary healing properties. Although normally inert, if a powder of Lycopodium is thrown into a naked flame it explodes. The Lycopodium patient, although normally retiring and outwardly calm, is capable of sudden bursts of violent temper when things become "just too much" for him.
Reading the homeopathic textbooks, there seems to be an implication that it is almost always possible to "fit" your patient into a "constitutional" type. Unfortunately this is not true and very often one has to give the preparation which most nearly meets the case. Fortunately, this will often help a great deal but it is necessary to reassess the patient after a few weeks when quite a different medicine may now become indicated. I would like to tell you briefly about someone whom I saw at the homeopathic clinic at Sidmouth.
The patient
Mr S, a 60 year-old male (he looks considerably younger), consulted me because of headaches which started three years ago for no particular reason; there was no change in his life and he had no illnesses or stresses. He describes the headache as bursting. They would occur whenever he bent down and might last for a minute or two. They were worse if he coughed or sneezed and straining would increase the pain. Cigarette smoke, which he detested as it made him feel sick, seemed to make the pain worse. The headaches were bilateral and all the investigations were negative (including an MRI scan).
He sleeps poorly and often wakes at about four o'clock in the morning when his brain is very active. Sometimes he will drop into an uneasy sleep just before its time to get up. He is a very self-disciplined person and always makes himself get up at 7.30am. Occasionally in the night he gets very hot and he likes to throw off the bedclothes and uncover himself.
On examination
The patient is well dressed and a very good historian; he communicates well and seems quite at ease during the interview. He is articulate and co-operative.
Past history
He has always been a very healthy person but for the last few years he has suffered from time to time from attacks of labrynthitis, sometimes associated with vomiting, which were diagnosed as being due to inner ear viral infections. He had a slightly raised cholesterol (but normal blood pressure) that has responded successfully to diet. He does not suffer from indigestion.
Family history
His mother is still alive at 78 but little is known of her parents. Nothing is known of his natural father. He has a sister who is alive and well and two children, a son and a daughter, both alive and well plus two healthy grandchildren. There are no severe or recurrent illnesses in the family.
He has a moderately sweet tooth and quite enjoys well-salted dishes. He prefers his food hot rather than cold.
Weather and temperature reactions
Although he quite likes the heat, he is a warm person and is much better for cool weather. He likes being by the sea but hates to be on it as he is always seasick.
Social history
He had a very stressful and unhappy childhood. His natural father and mother were divorced when he was two years old and he had a bad time with his stepfather. He had a younger stepbrother who was always favoured and spoilt, whereas our patient was treated with severity and almost dislike. His stepfather died when Mr S was about 11 years old but our patient has never got on well with his mother even after his stepfather's death. He disliked school intensely and didn't do very well. He left home as soon as he could at 17 or 18 and enlisted with the RAF.
Although he denies being a worrier, in fact I think deep down there is a very real element of worry and insecurity. He is good at planning and he anticipates events. Although much involved in committees etc, he really prefers small numbers of people and is very happy with his own company. He says he is intolerant of stupidity although he very rarely loses his temper, however when he does he may blow up. He is tidy and neat and a very good planner. He quite likes speaking in public so long as he has the subject well prepared – which he always has!
(I am always interested in patients who say that they have no apprehension at all before speaking in public and that they enjoy it; it often transpires on questioning that initially they were terrified but by sheer determination, or demands made on them, overcame their fears and now rather delight in doing what used to frighten them!)
So far as his hobbies are concerned he is good at a number of ball games – all of which he has taught himself by determination rather than by a natural aptitude. He likes travel and is computer literate. He is not an animal lover. Collecting is not among his hobbies.
Although, far from having in any way a "closed personality", I decided to give him Nat mur as I thought that the early traumas in his life might well have had an important part in the aetiology of his headaches. I also gave him Belladonna 6c to take at the first twinge of pain in the hope of aborting the attacks.
A month later
There was no improvement so I reconsidered the history.
Mr S told me that he had had occasional difficulties on the telephone when he would find it very difficult to choose the right words. He said moreover that when he was at school, which he hated, he became very easily confused by numbers and words particularly in stressful conditions; quite often he became inarticulate because of this confusion. His teachers interpreted this as stupidity. After he left home and joined the RAF he found difficulty in finding the right words when he was under pressure or stress; for instance, if addressing a senior officer. This anxiety-motivated confusion suggested Lycopodium to me. I gave him three powders of Lycopodium 30c.
I saw him a month later when there had been a slight improvement in the headaches just after taking the medication, but it only lasted a few days.
On 7 June last year, I gave him three powders of Lycopodium 1M, since when he has had no headaches even though he continues to play a number of different sports involving some bending and stooping. He feels very well.
There is a type of Lycopodium personality who forced by pressures or stresses or even by expectations of other people, learns sometimes at an early age, to surmount and cope with the sensitivities, fears and apprehensions, which are so typical of this remedy. Such people however, although able to overcome them, retain the Lycopodium anxieties and misgivings, particularly about things like public speaking and responsibilities, all their lives. These people, toughened by experiences, show great determination and often achieve eminence in many walks of life, including the arts, medicine and the forces. They are almost always basically gentle, retiring, sensitive patients who are thrust into public life by their considerable achievements and abilities.
I think that Mr S is an example of somebody who, because of the severe stresses put upon him in early childhood, was forced to overcome his natural apprehensions and fears to a very large degree and who has coped with them and almost completely subdued them. In fact he turns them to good account in that he is very sensitive to other people, good at conducting meetings and so on.
Our patient had none of the Lycopodium features, which are usually so evident. His brow was unfurrowed, he is athletic and forthcoming and is involved a number of societies and at meetings he is a good chairman (I think that the overcoming of his natural fears and anxieties makes him more inclined to undertake things than he would otherwise have done). He is not a collector (the Lycopodium personality often finds some degree of reassurance in surrounding himself with attractive, beautiful and valuable objects and Lycopodium patients are often connoisseurs of these things). He certainly isn't in any way miserly. He doesn't have any of the unpleasant attributes that according to some authorities are a tendency to whistle tunelessly between the teeth and to dribble a great deal in their sleep!
Lycopodium suggested itself very strongly in his mental confusion in times of stress, in his four o'clock aggravation, particularly at night when he would wake up and worry, in his becoming over-heated at night and wanting to uncover himself and in his preference for warm food. The headaches were worse for bending or stooping.
Of these things, of course, the mentals are the most important and this rather peculiar mental of confusion over words and figures, which I have found more than once in Lycopodium patients, is particularly significant. It is also most interesting that he hardly responded at all to the 30c of Lycopodium but 1M completely cured him. The Nat mur, often so useful for mitigating, lessening or undoing the ill effects of past mental trauma, may have prepared the way for the Lycopodium.
There are, I think, two interesting observations here; one is that the mentals are, as we all know, by far the most important in selecting a remedy and if one has a strong or peculiar mental, it carries a great deal of weight in deciding the prescription. The second is that potency can be extremely important.
Mr S is now thoroughly well and enjoying life without the headaches. As you might imagine, he is now a keen PR man for the homeopathic method.
A Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy and a past president, John Hughes-Games FFHom MBChB, was taught homeopathy by Margery Blackie and used it in general practice for nearly 30 years. He now lectures and examines for the Faculty as well as working privately in Bristol.


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AZTEC BLOOD, our years-in-the-making stereoscopic-cinema labor of love, seen as it's meant to be seen, in Ultra3D!! Producer and co-writer Greg Salman, who also plays the movie's Russian paleopathologist Dr. Lobachevsky, was in Buffalo to field questions after the show.
Thanks to Sheri Fairchild for taking pictures of the Q & A, and to Jenn Rodman Brown for the positive feedback, and of course Gregory Lamberson and his crew for making this special event happen!
I'm so happy that the camera operator for AZTEC BLOOD, the irascible Steffan Hewitt (who I got to know very well during the grueling desert shoot) was able to see his work on a big screen with an audience! Steffan also designed the stereoscopic PoleCam rig that we shot 90% of the movie on. (www.polecam.com)
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on receiving signal this.game is nullHi, I'm looking for an explanation for the following behaviour: I have a class "Main" extending Phaser.State, a class "Emitter" and a class "Receiver" extending Phaser.Sprite If I dispatch a signal from "Emitter" and listen to it in "Receiver" everything works as expected or to be more precise: "this.game" has the object "App" assigned. If I reload the state and dispatch again the signal two things happen: The listener receives the signal two times. The 1st time "this.game" is null, the 2nd time "this.game" contains again the object "App" (please have a look at the screenshot showing the console output) Does anybody have an explanation for this behaviour? Thanks, Boris The code (TypeScript) export class Game extends Phaser.Game { constructor() { super(480, 640, Phaser.AUTO, 'content', null); this.state.add('Main', Main, true); console.log("Game started"); } } class Main extends Phaser.State { private emitter: Emitter; private receiver: Receiver; preload() { this.load.image('logo', 'assets/logo.png'); } create() { this.emitter = new Emitter(this.game); this.receiver = new Receiver(this.game); const rKey = this.input.keyboard.addKey(Phaser.Keyboard.R); rKey.onDown.add(() => { console.log('reload state Main'); this.game.state.start('Main',true,false); }, this); } } class Emitter { // -- Signals static onEventFromEmitter: Phaser.Signal = new Phaser.Signal(); constructor(private game: Phaser.Game) { const spaceKey = this.game.input.keyboard.addKey(Phaser.Keyboard.SPACEBAR); spaceKey.onDown.add(() => { Emitter.onEventFromEmitter.dispatch(); }, this); } } class Receiver extends Phaser.Sprite { constructor(game: Phaser.Game) { super(game, 0, 0, 'logo'); this.game.add.existing(this); this.subscribe(); } /** * Subscribe to events */ private subscribe(): void { Emitter.onEventFromEmitter.add(() => { console.log('Game object in Receiver, listening to onEventFromEmitter', this.game); }, this); } }
Events / SignalsHey guys, Phaser newbie here, need some help with events. How are people dispatching custom events throughout their games. Let's say for example you have 2 classes. Main and Car. Main adds the Car class. The Main class needs to know when the car is low on petrol to update the UI. So would you use Phaser.Signals to handle this communication, or would you just call a function in the Main class directly from the Car class? Are there plans to improve events in Phaser? I understand events can't be global to the Phaser namespace because we need to support multiple Phaser instances, but couldn't events exist globally inside each World instance? All display objects within the World could dispatch and listen for events. Events could bubble up the display list. Does this sound feasible? Thanks! Matt.
Mat Groves posted a topic in NewsHey All! Thought you guys might like too check out mini-runner a simple alternative to events and signals with an emphasis on performance. It currently forms the backbone of the messaging system in our game engine. Its working out great for things like update events, collision events etc. Great to use if you are say looping through and array and calling the same function on each object. The resulting code is cleaner than a loop whilst still keeping the performance as fast as possible. So yeah, if you are dispatching signals/events to a lot of listeners often (like everyframe often), then I would considor using this alternative. For most cases, this performace boost is not really important enough to switch from your current fave. Think of this as a nice alternative for when speed really counts! https://github.com/GoodBoyDigital/mini-runner/ Cheers!
Phaser Signal usage & examples
pixelhijack posted a topic in Phaser 2Hey guys, can you point me at any example usage of Phaser Signals which is a bit more in-depth than a 2-liner? Surprised me how few descriptions i found compared how powerful / important feature it is in Phaser, and how many question admittedly coming on this topic. I read the other link i found What i would be curious: 1. example how to implement publish-subscribe / observers with Signals from player's hero to enemy types & vice-versa, or 2. examples on a general architecture / best practices for broader usage on custom events in a Phaser game, any case study etc. I'm sure i'll come out my own solutions soon, but would really curious how you are using, as relying fully on events are becoming widespread in the wider webdev world, i.e. Flux, Redux Thanks!
Event/Input Executes when defined
justinboyd5 posted a topic in Phaser 2Hey Everyone, I hope someone could help me with this, or if anyone has run into this issue before. I've noticed when I add a signal to an extended sprite, it will be executed immediately. Has anyone run into this issue before? var Card = function(game, x, y, data){ Phaser.Sprite.call(this, game, x, y, 'cardFront'); this.cardName = data.cardName || null; // String this.scale.setTo(0.15,0.15);};Card.prototype = Object.create(Phaser.Sprite.prototype);Card.prototype.constructor = Card;var card = new Card(this.game, 0, 0, {name:'test'});card.input.useHandCursor = true;card.events.onInputOver.add(highlightCard, this, 0, 'arg1', 'arg2');HighlightCard = function(sprite, pointer, arg1, arg2){ console.log('highlight:', sprite, pointer, arg1, arg2);}; Thank you!
Custom events inside Sprite.events yay or nay?
cloakedninjas posted a topic in Phaser 2Is it good practice to do the following: this.events.onBloomOver = new Phaser.Signal();; Or should the events property be left for Phaser's own events only? And if it's ok - Since I'm using Typescript, how can I get around Webstorm complaining about Unresolved variable onBloomOver - some sort of Interface?
TypeScript Signals released
rich posted a topic in Coding and Game DesignSignals are a light-weight, strongly typed messaging tool and we use them extensively in our game framework. And we've just released our TypeScript implementation for others to benefit from. It's a conversion of js-signals by Miller Medeiros, which is of course in turn a conversion of AS3-Signals by Robert Penner. You can get TypeScript-Signals from github. If you are unfamiliar with Signals, how they work and how they compare to Events then this short summary is well worth a quick read, but to summarise: A Signal is essentially a mini-dispatcher specific to one event, with its own array of listeners.A Signal gives an event a concrete membership in a class.Listeners subscribe to real objects, not to string-based channels.Event string constants are no longer needed.Signals are inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt. I ported over all of the 18 unit tests to TypeScript as well. So you have plenty of examples: from adding a basic listener up to manual binding and dynamic context switching. http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/9826/typescript-signals-released-think-outside-the-event


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One of my favorite game genres has always been simulation, starting the first time I ever played Civilization II. I've always wanted to make my own sim game, and I felt the time was right to start working on one now. I'm using the tool Gamesalad, which is amazing for people like me, who aren't especially code savvy, though having some understanding of basic programming principles, can still be quite helpful.
The game, which is still untitled, lets you found and build a city, starting with a tribe of just a few individuals. You have to balance the local economy, keep your people happy, and develop advances for your settlement. Along the way, events happen and you will be forced to make decisions that will affect your people. There are quite a few factors to track, many of which depend on one another, and so building a balanced game is the greatest challenge here.
It is still very early days, but I wanted to share the news and a couple of screenshots, so you can see what it looks like in this extremely primitive pre-alpha version (as in: without any artwork whatsoever), as well as get a glimpse of how the game is organized into blocks of instructions, within a timer. These screenshots are all from within Gamesalad, which is the only place the game lives for now. I have yet to decide on a platform; for now it's just about piecing the basic elements together.
I will be posting more about the progress of my first sim game. Stay tuned.


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How to Prepare Soil for Pavers
Pavers, whether they're made of brick, natural stone or concrete, provide a durable walkway for any backyard landscape. Over time, such pavers can take on a worn, natural finish that blends well with the textures and colors of your garden's foliage and soil. Before laying pavers, you must first prepare the soil to create a flat, durable foundation. Otherwise, over time the pavers could end up shifting and moving.
Measure the thickness of the pavers in inches, as these come in a variety of sizes.
Add 5 inches to the measurement from Step 1. The result is the depth that you need to dig in inches. For example, if your pavers measure 3 inches thick, you will need to dig 8 inches into the soil to start preparing the ground for laying the pavers.
Mark out where you plan to lay the pavers, using either chalk or string
Excavate the marked site with a garden shovel, digging down to the depth that you calculated in Step 2. The edges of your dig site should be as straight, vertical and uniform as possible.
Spread gravel or road base onto the bottom of the dig site. This provides a sturdy foundation for your pavers and also enhances drainage under and around each paver. For the best results, this gravel layer should measure 3 inches thick.
Rake the gravel to smooth and flatten it out. Compact it with a tamping tool.
Cover the gravel with a sheet of landscaping fabric or weed cloth. This will keep weeds and other vegetation from growing in between your pavers.
Apply builders' or concrete sand over the landscaping fabric. This helps ensure a level surface and also minimizes the risk of impact-related breakage of the pavers, since the sand helps deaden any vibrations made from walking. For the best results, use 2 inches of sand.
Lay your pavers directly over the sand layer.
Things Needed
- Measuring rod or ruler
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How to remove (uninstall) Worldtradereklama.ru
The tool that we're about to tell you is called Worldtradereklama.ru. If you already faced browser hijacker or adware - you can just go to the removal advices and delete Worldtradereklama.ru. If you haven't faced with suchlike programs earlier - trust us, this software really must not be kept in your system. This unwanted program has no useful functions, and it was made only to earn money to Internet-fraudsters, and to annoy its victims. Do you notice the high amount of ads on all websites, or the shifted homepage? Maybe you've faced the massive slowdown of PC's and browser speed, or irrelevant results of search and frequent redirections to the strange web-pages? The symptoms that are described above are saying that the system is affected with some sort of advertising software, and this tool should be uninstalled.
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Each tool has its goal, and this adware isn't an exception. However, if you believe that the description of this program is true is really useful - you've made a mistake. Usually, the depiction of the unwanted software promises that it will be super helpful. 90% of advertising tools promise to support you to search for goods or information in the Internet. Assistance in the download of new games, movies or music, search for discounts, deals and sales online and observing the activity of friends in Facebook - these are the most spread features of adware. The most important thing you should do if you want to install any program - to think, is it really helpful? Haven't you thought about why are all adware descriptions so vague? The "safer", "better" or "faster" search online is a pure sample of suchlike feature, because these parameters are very indistinct and they're very to observe. So, advertising software do not do anything, and is just consuming space in the machine's memory? No, they have one main function and it is to fool you and to make money on ads.
There is an opinion in the Web that the majority of viruses have no specific task. It's really reasonable, yes? Web-scammer knows that out there somewhere is you, trying to uninstall his malware right now, and it feels so good! This was a joke, of course. There are no useless malware. It is weird that advertising program displays so many banners, but when you understand it, it appears pretty simple. All this advertising is shown to make money on referrals. Many people heard that browser advertising is paid on the pay-per-click system, which means that the customer pays for every transition from the banner to the webpage. All adware's actions are targeted at making you pass the link. Yet if you don't take interest in adware's proposals - the click might still be done, in order to close an unwanted irritating ad. The system doesn't care in which way the click was made, and online-criminals will receive their money both for the normal referral and for the incidental one. Although this price isn't large, do not neglect the quantity of infected computers! Trustful user can think that this advertising is trustworthy, and look for something entertaining among these proposals, making hundreds of clicks every day. Based on our information, the quantity of machines, infected by Worldtradereklama.ru is at least 30 000, and if each of them is making one to five referrals each day, the swindler's earnings no longer seems so low.
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Instructions for manual deletion
Windows 7 and Windows XP
1. Uninstall Worldtradereklama.ru from Control Panel
- Start
- Control Panel
- Programs
- Programs and Features
- Uninstall a program
- Select Worldtradereklama.ru and press Uninstall
2. Delete elements that stayed after uninstalling from Control Panel
- C:\Program Files\Worldtradereklama.ru
- C:\ProgramData\Worldtradereklama.ru
- C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Roaming\Worldtradereklama.ru
3. Clean registry:
- Click Start
- Type Regedit.exe
- Search for "Worldtradereklama.ru" and delete these elements
How to remove Worldtradereklama.ru from Windows 10
1. On the field Search Windows type 'Control Panel'
2. Click Uninstall a program
3. Select Worldtradereklama.ru and press Uninstall
How to uninstall from Windows 8
1. Point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and tap Search.
2. Enter control panel in the search box, and then click Control Panel.
3. Under View by:, select Large Icons, and then click Programs and features.
4. Click the program, and then click Uninstall.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen.
6. Delete Worldtradereklama.ru from Control Panel
- Start
- Control Panel
- Programs
- Programs and Features
- Uninstall a program
- Select Worldtradereklama.ru and press Uninstall
7. Remove elements like on Win7.
How to uninstall Worldtradereklama.ru from Mac OS
1. Click Applications in the Finder sidebar
2. Drag unwanted program to the Trash
3. Empty Trash
Step 2. Remove Worldtradereklama.ru from the browser
How to remove Worldtradereklama.ru from Internet Explorer
Step 1. Disable add-on:
- Tools
- Manage add-ons
- Remove Worldtradereklama.ru
Step 2.Change homepage:
- Tools
- Internet Options
- General
- Home page
- Put "about:blank"
Step 3. Change new tab page:
- Tools
- Internet Options
- General
- Tabs
How to delete Worldtradereklama.ru from Google Chrome
Step 1. Remove add-on:
- Customize and Control Google Chrome
- Tools
- Extensions
- Remove Worldtradereklama.ru
Step 2. Change homepage:
- Customize and Control Google Chrome
- Settings
- On startup
- Set pages
- Put "about:blank"
How to uninstall Worldtradereklama.ru from Mozilla Firefox
Step 1. Delete add-on:
- Tools
- Add-ons
- Remove Worldtradereklama.ru
Step 2. Change homepage:
- Tools
- Options
- General
- Put "about:blank" into homepage field
Step 3. Change new tab page:
- Put "about:config" into address bar;
- Confirm the suggestion;
- Search for "browser.newtab.url";
- Reset this field (right-click and choose reset).
How to delete Worldtradereklama.ru from Opera browser
Step 1. Disable add-on:
- Open Opera;
- Customize and Control Opera;
- Extensions;
- Choose Worldtradereklama.ru and press button "Remove from Opera"
Step 2. Change homepage:
- Open Opera browser;
- Customize and Control Opera;
- Settings;
- On Startup;
- Open a specific page or set of pages;
- Press button "Set pages" and change Homepage to your favorite one.
How to delete Worldtradereklama.ru from Safari
Step 1. Start Safari browser
Step 2. Display a menu of General Safari Settings
Step 3. Reset Safari...
Step 4. Press "Reset"
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Can team collaboration help businesses survive – and thrive?
Collaboration & social responsibility are tipped to play an important role among businesses seeking to outperform the competition. Learn about its many benefits.
Collaboration – between different teams within an organisation, or with other enterprises or non-commercial institutions – has far-reaching benefits for businesses.
While an emphasis on competition over cooperation is sometimes seen as "survival of the fittest", it may surprise many business leaders to learn that Charles Darwin's work, The Descent of Man, referred to "the survival of the fittest" only twice. Yet, he wrote of mutuality and mutual aid 24 times.
When it comes to mutuality, savvy organisations are changing how work gets done, and they're reaping the benefits. Innovation, performance, culture and the bottom line are all improved when collaboration is embraced.
Internal team collaboration: mixing it up makes sense
Embracing the collaborative spirit and empowering employees to work in more flexible, collaborative ways businesses are better able to compete with larger or nimbler peers:
- Employees are aligned to a common vision.
- Communication is improved and trust is fostered between teams and groups.
- Talent is used more effectively. Freed from responsibility for entire tasks, employees contribute in line with their strengths.
- Fresh thinking is stimulated as innovation is encouraged.
- Internal barriers are broken down and turf wars are less common.
- Whole team learning is facilitated.
The Working Better Together report on the topic by Google and Raconteur revealed that efficient ongoing collaboration delivers has a fundamental impact on business.
Making a major commitment to collaborative working and effective teamwork is a new challenge for many organisations.
It also states it takes time to hone any new process or mode of working, but by reassessing the way we think about the notion of 'work' itself, the benefits of collaboration can be more easily realised.
Collaboration with other companies: why smart businesses are doing it.
When it comes to cross collaborating with other organisations, the benefits of IOCs ("inter-organisational collaborations") are equally significant:
- Greater referrals are generated through networking.
- Joint innovation with external partners is fostered.
- Economies of scale are realised (e.g. jointly funded, more substantive R&D).
- Increased collaboration internationally brings exposure to new markets.
- A corporate sustainable environment is promoted.2
"Collaboration has far-reaching benefits for companies, producing organisations that are filled with employees who are self-aware, aligned, role focused, able to stimulate fresh thinking and encourage innovation, and are re-energised, lifting the company to new heights," says William Buist CEO of Abelard, a leading UK collaborative consultancy.
"Business leaders who have ever doubted the potential benefits they could receive from encouraging collaboration should put to rest any fears and find ways to implement this strategy now", he said.
In August 2016, AGL was excited to announce to the market a hugely significant business collaboration between the company, ARENA, and Sunverge to launch the world's largest virtual power plant (VPP) in South Australia. These kinds of partnership and collaborations can drive meaningful change in the short term and help to revolutionise industries.
For consumers interested in more information about VPP or to register interest to be one of the first 150 to get a battery, visit agl.com.au/powerinnumbers or call 1300 447 465.


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Last night, Charlie Rangel survived his toughest re-election challenge in his 42-year long Congressional career, beating State Senator Adriano Espaillat by five points in a newly reconfigured district that is a majority Latino and includes a portion of the Bronx.
For generations, politicos uptown have jockeying to be next in line to replace Mr. Rangel. Mr. Espaillat, who was elected to the State Senate in 2010 due in large measure to Mr. Rangel's support, jumped that line. With the votes all tallied, the key question is what happens to that several decade long scramble to be Mr. Rangel's chosen successor, to those state and local lawmakers who have been good soldiers to the Rangel juggernaut all these years.
What is abundantly clear is that it will not be Mr. Espaillat. As one consultant who has worked in those trenches told me, quoting The Wire, "You come at the king, you better not miss." Expect Mr. Rangel's allies to launch a full frontal assault on Mr. Espaillat should he, as expected, renege on his pledge not to seek his State Senate seat. Making sure Mr. Espaillat doesn't win will become the number one priority of those who hope to replace Mr. Rangel. "It will be time to the nail in his coffin," said another ally of Mr. Rangel's.
These pro-Rangel forces already have a candidate: Guillermo Linares, a State Assemblyman who bucked convention to back Mr. Rangel over a fellow Dominican–although the choice was surely made easier by the long-running feud Mr. Linares has with Mr. Espaillat, and the chance to knock off a rival from the Rangel succession sweepstakes.
"We owe Linares," one person close to Mr. Rangel said. "He put his ass on the line."
But it remains a question about how much sway Mr. Rangel has in Washington Heights, where Mr. Espaillat's base is located. Even with a full-frontal assault by the Rangel political team, Mr. Espaillat could still hold on, and if he does so, he would remain the clear front-runner in 2014, assuming that the seemingly indefatigable Mr. Rangel at last decides to retire.
If Mr. Espaillat does win, a lingering question in the minds of Harlem politicos is what Mr. Rangel will decide to do. He has vowed to finish out his term rather than drop out midway and hand the seat to a chosen successor. But that calculus could change if Mr. Espaillat holds on and looks likely to win an open primary in 2014. At this point, could Mr. Rangel indeed discover that his health no longer permits him to continue in the Congress, and look locally to find a more worthy heir?
If Mr. Rangel lasts the full term, the 2014 race could include then either Mr. Linares or Mr. Espaillat (whoever wins the State Senate seat) in addition to those central Harlem pols who have been vying to be Mr. Rangel's replacement for years, names like Assemblyman Keith Wright–whose position as Manhattan Democratic chairman and co-chairman of the New York State Democratic Party likely gives him an advantage–State Senator Bill Perkins and City Councilwoman Inez Dickens, in addition to the East Harlem pols who have emerged in the last few years to be thought of as serious contenders like City Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverito and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, plus former Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell, who backed Mr. Rangel this time after challenging him in 2010.
And adding to the confusion is the fact that the district now covers a small section of the Bronx, but a section that includes the home base of well-regarded State Senator Gustavo Rivera. If the Manhattan portion of the district turns into a traffic jam, there is little to stop the seat of Charlie Rangel and Adam Clayton Powell from going to someone across the river, particularly if Bronxites feel slighted by the Mr. Rangel's focus on the Harlem portion of the district. To wit, it is unclear if Mr. Rangel will even open a satellite office there. In a brief phone interview this afternoon, he said he had not yet begun thinking about next year.
In other words, expect the jockeying that has been going on for years to continue as it had before Mr. Espaillat made his challenge. Those looking to move up with try to raise money and their profiles, and broaden their base of support outside of their district. And it seems awfully unlikely that any of them not named Adriano Espaillat will try to cross Charlie Rangel.


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What is it with young adult novels and the need for a full on revolution?
Aaaaaaages ago I got around to reading the sequel to Red Queen, a novel which I loved, which is called Glass Sword. This book continues to follow the story of Mare, a teenager who doesn't fit into society due to being brought up in a Red family of poverty whilst possessing magical powers that were originally only seen in the other class, the Silvers.
I loved the book, don't get me wrong. I'm all for a cheeky bit of romance and magic and all the wonders that young adult books continue to provide. However, I couldn't help but compare this sequel to the sequel of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. So many young adult books have a revolution against the class system that is causing more issues than the more "perfect" parts of the society don't want to admit. There always seems to be a corrupted government/ruler, and I suppose that could be seen as a good thing because it will make young people more aware of the political world that they can actively participate in once they've hit the age of 18, but the repetitive ideas takes away the poignancy of it.
Another thing that I always see in YA novels is the romance. More specifically: love triangles. Sure, it gives fans the chance to make their own interpretations based on who they prefer the protagonist to be with, but there's always an obvious lover and then a long term best friend who will never fit into the mould (Although I was always team Gale in The Hunger Games to be honest). I believe it was poignant enough that Kilorn in this series was her best friend through everything, and his role was important and it didn't need to be tarnished by feelings for her. On the other hand, THANK GOODNESS, it did not overshadow the overall plot.
It's full of development, it's progressive but leaves room for a climactic final novel, and Victoria Aveyard seems to set out to prove that Mare can't do everything, and the powerful ending emphasises this.
Overall: I still very much enjoy this series, I'm planning on reading the third book soon, and although the repetition of ideas across young adult novels is frustrating, I haven't been put off the genre just yet.


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Thanks to the advances in technology, getting a website up and running is no longer the chore that it used to be. There are dozens of website creator solutions to choose from, catering to everyone from bloggers to companies. While most of them are Web-based apps, some are also available as desktop programs. But the question is, which of them is/are the best suited for your needs?
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Wix features a drag-and-drop module editor that lets you build and customize your website exactly the way you want it, with zero coding knowledge. From video backgrounds to parallax animation, anything can be added to websites. The templates cover a broad range of categories, such as portfolios and online stores.
It's also possible to add blogs and social media buttons to websites directly from Wix. A contact manager lets you organize all your site members and subscribers, while smart actions can be used to send triggered emails easily. There's an SEO wizard to improve your website's rankings, site analytics to keep track of the website's traffic and much more.
The app market has hundreds of Web apps and services, which you can use to further enhance the functionality of your website. Wix's paid plans include site hosting, storage and full support for custom domains.
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Majority of the website design apps today are Web-based. As such, you always need to be online in order to use them. If you'd rather have something that can be used sans Internet connectivity, look no further than Mobirise.
Undoubtedly the best offline website builder software out there, Mobirise lets you create everything from small/medium websites to landing pages. The fact that it's completely free and doesn't require you to know anything about coding, makes things even better.
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Based on bug reports, concerns, and criticisms the following changes have been made since this was posted.
- General -Updated Distracted and Extremely Distracted penalties. Removed Shocked.
- General - Disguise renamed to Transformation to better indicate revised focus
- Appraisal - Detect Fraud removed from Appraisal; ability to tell real merch from fake rolled back into standard Appraise abilities.
- Concentration / Endurance / Escape Artistry - New end conditions for secondary save abilities - +5 total bonus = success; DC-11 = failure. Boosted bonus modifiers to +/-2 and +/-3.
- Concentration - Split up Split Focus and Manage Interruption abilities of Concentration, since they were aimed at different things. New text should be more clear.
- Dowsing - Sense Presence moved to rank 8. Blindsense at level 3 was probably too much anyway.
- Dowsing - Sense Presence now grants passive perception with your blindsense based on your dowsing bonus. Increased action to take a real "notice" check with blindsense from Sense Presence to standard action. Limited to 1 check per round. This is basically a standardization of action costs with Notice ability in perception.
- Dowsing - Sense Presence now disallows standard notice checks other than passive ones. Perception considered distracted (-5 penalty) while it's active. Using both at once was not intentional.
- Endurance - Clarity edit for Not Finished Yet so that targets are only stunned if that is a less bad condition than the alternative, like dead. Also specified that immunity to stun does not apply in that case.
- Legerdemain - Clarified Conceal Action ability. Now only applies to touch and sight events, adds to base perception DC instead of replacing it (for touch applications), and does not grant an immediate notice check in violation of notice limit.
- Legerdemain - Added Faster than the False Eyes ability to Legerdemain, so they can deal with enhanced senses. May still split the ability, to better mirror other enhanced sense countering abilities.
- Perception - Special sensory abilities updated and clarified in Notice ability. They are now included in every passive and active check, since it works out the same way.
- Perception - Notice now only allows one check per round, whether it is passive or active.
- Perception - Discern Fraud lost reroll ability, as it wouldn't work as intended.
- Perception - Discern Transformation renamed, and now used to detect Transfigurations. Rolling well allows ability to dismiss Transfigurations with a touch attack or grants bonus on dispel checks.
- Stealth -Foil Senses was broken up into two groups. Tremor and blindsense are blocked at rank 8, and blindsense is blocked at rank 10.
- Transformation - Costumes limited to disguise level abilities. Still grant minor height and weight changing.
- Transformation - Fire-retardant face paint given a 10 day expiration.
- Transformation - Fantastic Costume et al renamed to Transfiguration abilities. Limited number of abilities on hand at any time, but can be spread across one or many transformations as desired. Duration nerfs as well. Now opposed by Discern Transmutation in perception, and can not be seen by insufficiently trained individuals. Also given 10 day expiration.
- Transformation - Transfiguration abilities moved back 2 ranks, to more directly compete with polymorph and to line up with Discern Transmutation in Perception. Alter self is largely ignored now though.
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Alcohol company Beam Canada has begun a promotion for its new Canadian Club Mixed & Ready line of beverages. The national initiative, called the "C.C. Mixed & Ready Cover Challenge," is the first of a series of summer promotions that will make use of a music theme. During the challenge, Canadian bands are invited to submit cover versions of one of five songs previously made popular by other Canadian bands. The cover versions can be submitted to the brand's Facebook page until Aug. 27, after which a winner will selected through a combination of public voting and a judging panel. The winning band will get three demo songs recorded, mixed and mastered, as well as $3,000 for band equipment and travel expenses. The company will also conduct a sampling program for the product at a number of festivals and concerts in Ontario and Alberta through the summer. "As an iconic Canadian brand, Canadian Club really relates to the notion of reinvention and refreshment," said Cheryl Hudson, brand manager for Canadian Club. "We believe that music is a perfect metaphor for C.C. Mixed & Ready, a product that refreshes the Canadian whisky experience and broadens the category to a new audience. Music is a classic element that brings people together, and that's how we like to think of Canadian Club being shared."


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As federal regulators work out how to implement financial reform, they've been charged with defining which mortgages are "safe" enough to qualify as a government-approved Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM), with favorable rates. This week a coalition of regulators — the Federal Reserve, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the FDIC, among others — released their proposal for the new standards, and, well, it's striking a lot of people as a stunningly bad idea.
The rule would require borrowers to present a 20 percent down payment and limit their housing payments to no more than 28 percent of their monthly gross income. To give you some perspective: It would take the average middle-class family 14 years to save enough money for a 20 percent down payment.
Civil rights groups, including the National Urban League, have seized upon the proposed guidelines as an extreme measure that would effectively shut out the working class — and especially people of color, who generally have less family wealth — from ever becoming homeowners.
In an interview with the American Banker, John Taylor, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, summarized the plan thusly:
"What has been proposed essentially creates a separate and unequal system of finance for people of color and for blue-collar, working-class people where regardless of your creditworthiness, of whether you're someone who has a great credit score and pays your bills on time and plays by all the rules, if you're not well-heeled enough to come up with 20 percent or if your household debt to income ratios are high … you're going to go into a separate and unequal category of financing where you're going to have to pay more."
Federally controlled mortgage entities, which back 90 percent of new mortgages, either would be exempt (in the case of FHA loans) or probably would be exempt (in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans), according to various news reports. However, some fear that such programs would be overwhelmed by mortgage seekers who can't put down 20 percent or meet the other proposed QRM requirements.
Furthermore, the rule punishes potential homeowners, regardless of their credit standing, without addressing the factors that contributed to the financial meltdown in the first place.
"Nobody wants to see a return to reckless and irresponsible lending, so the basic concept of trying to rein in the marketplace and have better oversight is a good one," Debby Goldberg, special project director for the National Fair Housing Alliance, told The Root. But she argues that the oversight should be over banks and predatory lenders who, among other dubious practices, fueled the high default rate by issuing dubious loans.
"We saw things like rapidly increasing interest rates, the whole low- or no-documentation approach and very little attention, by a great many lenders, to the borrowers' actual ability to repay the loans," she said. "There were a whole series of factors, and with that layered risk, we saw default rates that were through the roof."
Conversely, there's little correlation between the size of a down payment and default rates. In an analysis of 1 million loans written to highly creditworthy borrowers in 2006 and 2007, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (pdf) found that the default rate was 0.14 percent for those with a 20 percent down payment, and 0.26 percent for those who put only 3 percent down.
"The whole down payment thing is more about how much wealth you have than anything," said Goldberg. "The impact of this is huge on people of color, where we already have a big disparity in homeownership rates and in wealth, which is very closely tied to homeownership. It would deepen the gap between the haves and have-nots in our country, and we really can't afford that."
But there is some promising news. After all the backlash, the agencies extended the comment period from Friday to Aug. 1, allowing more time for feedback on the issues — and for regulators to review that information before publishing a final rule. On the other hand, the extension is no guarantee that they will ultimately reconsider.
"I think they have heard the message from a lot of people that this is a problematic proposal," said Goldberg. "But I can't predict where the regulators will come out on this. We're hopeful that they'll heed that message … but who can say?"
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Much of the water is in the basins of large rivers such as the Amazon and Parana, distant from the population centers that are in drier areas. The water that is close to the people has generally become polluted by poor farming practices, poor sanitation, industrial proliferation, and trash, worsening the scarcity of clean water. Economically, Latin America has the highest income disparity between rich and poor in the world. As the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank sought to alleviate poverty and financially challenged governments during the last few decades, they have consistently sought opportunities for multi-national corporations to take over operation of publicly owned water systems, and this has happened in at least 14 Latin American countries.
Many of the private water companies are local affiliates of three large multi-national corporations, Veolia (formerly Vivendi) and Suez of France, and RWE-Thames Water of Germany. The familiar pattern of rate hikes, disconnections, service problems, and large corporate profits has sparked a backlash against privatization in several countries. The most notable of these was in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where in 2000 embattled citizens convinced the government to cancel a contract with Aguas del Tunari, a subsidiary of Bechtel. The system reverted to public control, and water service remained less than adequate, demonstrating that both private and public water management schemes are capable of failure. Other examples occurred in Puerto Rico, where the solicitor general complained about the operational shortcomings of a subsidiary of Suez, and Uruguay, where voters approved a referendum protecting water as a human right and a public good.
On the other hand, there have been a few examples of relative success, such as Guayaquil, Ecuador, where a private company, Interagua, a subsidiary of a Spanish company and Veolia, entered into a contract that was specifically aimed at protecting the poor. The contract called for no rate increases for the first 5 years for the poor, and free connections for those who had not previously had them. Over 10 years the contractor improved service from 10 hours per day to 24 hours per day and managed to bring service to 55,000 new customers, increasing the percentage of residents with access to clean water from 64 to 82 percent. The new customers paid much less for their city water than they had formerly paid to vendors who sold water from tanker trucks. The common thread to these stories of globalization and privatization seems to be that success or failure in managing water systems is possible under both public and private control. The real determinant of success is in the competency of the managers and the care exercised in drafting contracts and management plans specifying how the policies and operations will be handled.
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Hi. I am a father infinitely frustrated with algebra, as it is taught in our schools. I just can't believe computers aren't used more, even
at the level of Algebra I.
I channeled my frustration and wrote a (free online) book about learning algebra by writing simple code.
If anyone wants to take a look at it, please try a few lessons and let me know what you think. Here it is:
There seems to be bias in the academic community against the use of computer algebra. I've been criticized for using Mathematica by professors teaching online courses in quantum mechanics, who seem to feel you aren't really solving the problem unless you do it all with paper and pencil.
I actually found that students are the same way. They have such a strong expectation that all math/science learning be done with pencil and paper, that they can be greatly dismayed and outright irritated with computer assignments,
I second this observation. The push back from students when implementing flipped classroom assignments, cooperative learning activities, or even just plain active learning pauses during lecture is sometimes extreme and disruptive. My opinion is that this is a consequence of the entitlement philosophy many students have now internalized as well as the troubling trend of grade inflation (at least here in the US). I explained to all of my students that failure is a critical part of the learning process, and it is better for them to struggle and fail and reassess their progress during lecture and on homework assignments then it is to fail an exam or later at their job ...
More back to this topic, over the past two years, I have given students assignments where they needed to use a variety of engineering software: Wolfram Programming Lab, MATLAB/Simulink, COMSOL, Pro/II, Bluehill, BioPAC, WaveForms, and the Arduino IDE. I have found student acceptance to be mixed but slanted more to positive. I think that once they have reached the 200-300 level engineering courses, they realize that pen and paper is holding them back from a deeper understanding of the topic. Unfortunately, a new negative pops up once the students accept that they need to start using the computer (and associated data collection hardware for labs), they now want a complete template, algorithm, or step-by-step instructions for using the software to solve their problem or they want to be able to find these easily on the first page of a google search. Right back to the entitlement philosophy ...
I like the style of the course. Why did you use python only and post it on the wolfram community or did I miss something?
Hello Tom:
I only read the first 2 chapters. I know well and respect your motivation. But
one cent - Dont we fear that the young kids will only be able to differentiate a polynomial using a machine? I have been known to worry that todays young pilots can only fly the plane in auto-pilot mode (i.e. Buffalo incident some years back). Using a DSL* may not allow landing the plane safely in all conditions.
one cent - You very quickly cover loops and conditionals. Dr. Wolfram specifically asserts that this is not the place to start. In my mind there is some tension between these approaches, because I think of Cases[] as a loop and conditional. But I am still learning what functional is.
Anyways, thanks for trying to be part of the solution.
DSL: domain-specific language
Hi..no you didn't miss anything. I visit here from time to time and noted that it's a good place for a discussion on using computers in math/science education. I used Mathematica almost daily, but still like the idea of using some BASIC-language-style instructional materials.
Thank you for your thoughtful response.
On your first point about using machine derivatives. I get what you're saying and I hear you on the autopilot (I think that one has even crept into the Boeing vs. Airbus debate.) I'm just not sure what's better....rote derivatives by hand as "the lesson" or computer-based derivatives, with some other goal (graphing f vs f' perhaps?) as "the lesson." Long long term, the computer derivatives might be all they need. Again, I just don't know...
I am familiar with Dr. Wolfram's position on this...I read his blog and quite like his book "An elementary intro to wolfram language," but conditionals and loop are MY FAVORITE thing to put in front of beginners. To me they're the first step into programming and getting kids to see what a machine can do: make decisions and do something over and over again.
Yeah, and on your DSL comment: Lua is so vanilla, I think lessons learned in it are easily translated into other languages.
Hello there and thanks for chiming in. I am glad to hear of your observations. Most I speak to about the computer in the classroom experience say "it went great! The student's loved it!"
Most of my work has been done in trying to integrate simple computer animation into basic physics (mechanics)--mostly simple stuff, like animating a single sphere on the screen, a la the vPython approach (although I used physgl.org)....
Here are some things I've noticed about student and computer use (sorry it's so long):
Why: Students appear confused over issues a computer is and is not able
handle "automatically." Their high expectation is perhaps due to their
familiarity with video games where everything automatically "works."
How to rectify: Keep the computer assignment simple and based on only a
single topic at a time, so students expectations can become more
focused, grounded and realistic.
Why: Students are impatient, wanting quick completion of their work.
Rectify: Encourage students to slow down and think through a problem
before approaching the computer. The theme above serves as our guide to
emphasize the meaning of motion, so we methodically engage them in a
careful conversation about this theme and where they have addressed it
in their code.
Why: An over-use of consumer applications, particularly on touch
screen-devices where icons and large buttons are the norm and
organization of text (in emails or texting) is rarely necessary.
Rectify: Persist with the lessons so students gain more and more
practice (as science majors), gaining a deeper understanding of computer
use beyond consumer-level software.
Why: Weak K-12 preparation in the use of spatial coordinates and minimal
experience students with precise visualization needs.
Rectify: Continue to demonstrate ties between geometry and mechanics
(physics), as the location of an object relative to some starting point
is a critical outcome of this course.
Why: Textbook-based curriculums offer no real opportunity for students
to use vectors and immediately see their effects on a problem, and
on-paper assessment is rarely thorough enough to expose incorrect use of
Rectify: Insist that vectors are a continual support structure for the
problems, and refine lessons to constantly reflect the use of vectors
Why: The students lack previous experiences of using math as a useful
problem-solving tool; their education up to this point has focused on
studying math. The regular occurrence of this point demonstrates a lack
of adaptability of our students to different technical environments
(here, the computer).
Rectify: Watch for similar issues when students and their use of
large-screen calculators, with which they have much experience with
formula input. Suggest to students that the use of parenthesis
(including balancing them) on a computer is the same as on their math
assignments or calculators.
Why: Pencil and paper mathematics, where most of their experience lies,
is extremely flexible in terms of the presentation of a problems flow,
in what must explicitly be written and when. Computer programming is
almost a diametric problem-solving medium.
Rectify: Modifications to software, where physics and math pedagogy are
integrated into the programming language itself. In this case, the
software should identify undefined variables or improperly mixed
data-types and point them out, with associated text/tutorials about why
what they are doing is incorrect.
Why: To most, the computer is a digital entertainment hub.
Recitfy: Put level-appropriate "challenging" problems in front of our
students, that will show them that they will not always find efficient
solutions "on the web somewhere" or with point-and-click software. At
some point, software will need to be written to solve a problem.


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The purpose of this study was to determine if four-year-old children are able to conserve and to investigate the influence of social class and sex on the development of this capacity. Collection of data was accomplished by interviewing forty preschool children on three conservation tasks, discontinuous quantity, continuous quantity, and mass. From the findings of this study, it was concluded that the development of the capacity to conserve is so limited among four-year-old preschool children that the influence of social class and sex of the child on conservation ability remains unknown.
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