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Baseball Slang
Baseball Slang
The following is a list of baseball phrases which have become idioms in American English. For phrases relating to the game of baseball.
ballpark: in the ballpark, ballpark figure,
out of the ballpark
- "Ballpark" has been used to mean a broad area of approximation or similarity, or a range within which comparison is possible; this usage OED dates to 1960. Another meaning, "sphere of activity or influence", is cited in 1963. "In the (right) ballpark", meaning "within reasonable bounds" dates to 1968. A "ballpark figure" or "ballpark estimate", one that is reasonably accurate, dates to 1967. Out of the ballpark can also mean to do well; see home run. This is a slang term more commonly used outside of baseball culture.
batting 1000 or batting a thousand
- Getting everything in a series of items right. In baseball, someone with a batting average of one thousand (written as 1.000) has had a hit for every at bat in the relevant time period (e.g. in a game). Also used ironically when someone is getting everything wrong.
big league(s)
- used as a noun ("You're in the big leagues now") or an adjective ("big-league lawyer"). OED cites "big league" as specifically American major-league baseball, and cites its first use in 1899; the non-baseball use appears in 1947.
- To subvert or threaten verbally. In baseball, a nickname for any pitch intended to establish a pitcher's command of the inside portion of the strike zone, usually involving throwing a pitch at or near a hitter who may be covering that portion of the strike zone.
(n. or adj.) - amateur, unsophisticated, unprofessional. From the baseball term for a second-rate baseball league (n.) and therefore its players (adj., as in bush-league pitcher etc). OED cites its first baseball use as 1906, non-baseball in 1914.
Charley horse
- sudden stiffness or cramp in the leg. Of unknown etymology; CDS cites its first use c. 1887 as baseball slang; OED states such cramps occur "especially in baseball players" and cites this usage to 1888.
cover one's bases; cover all the bases
- Ensure safety. In baseball, a player covers a base by standing close to it, ensuring a runner can not reach it safely. Also, a G-rated way of saying "CYA".
curve, curveball
- as in "she really threw me a curveball" -- A surprise, often completely and totally unexpected. The curveball is a pitch in baseball designed to fool the batter by dropping unexpectedly. AHDI dates this usage to the mid-1900s.
drop the ball
- To fail in one's responsibilities, make an error, or miss an opportunity. A reference to fielding, when catching a fly ball is expected to be easy, often resulting in changing of the game's momentum. ADHI dates the general usage to around 1950.
foot in the bucket
- To act timidly or cowardly. A batter who steps away from home plate with his leading foot (usu. in fear of being struck by a pitched ball) instead of a straight-ahead stride is said to "step in the bucket."
get to first base
- To succeed in the initial step of something, such as getting a job interview or asking someone out on a date. Among American youth, it refers to kissing someone on a date. OED cites the first usage in 1938, the latter in 1962. Similarily, to get to second base and to get to third base vaguely refer to more sexual acts, though some people may have very specific definitions of what each term means. Finally, to reach home means to have sex.
go for extra bases
- to strive for greater results, most commonly with sexual acts.
"Going, going, gone!"
- Dramatic description of anything departed. This phrase is used when a home run is hit by baseball announcers such as Mel Allen.
go to bat for (someone)
- To give assistance to; defend. AHDI dates this usage to the early 1900s, the original meaning to bat as a substitute (see Pinch-hit, below), but transferred to a more general use of helping out one's team.
hardball, play hardball
- Tough, aggressive. Refers to the comparison between balls in baseball and softball. Baseball is generally considered the more difficult game. As a synonym for baseball, OED dates this use to 1883; its non-baseball use appears in 1973
home run,
as in
hit a home run, hit it out of the park or knock it out of the park
- To succeed completely at something (opposite of strike out); OED cites this usage to 1965. In a sexual context, it means complete success at having sex, especially with someone desirable.
"It ain't over 'till it's over!"
- A famous quotation from baseball player Yogi Berra; one of many yogiisms. In sports, it means that a game isn't over until time expires, the final out is registered, etc., and that the players need to stay mentally focused until the game is officially over. The term comes into play when a team has a large lead but then starts to let their guard down, especially when there is time left for the losing team to rally (and possibly win the game). The original and self-evident adage, misstated famously by Yogi, is "The game is not over until the last man is out." Another variant was Earl Weaver's "The opera's not over until the fat lady sings!"
"It's deja vu all over again!"
- Another famous yogiism. It's a redundant way of saying "Here we go again!" It has come into general circulation in the language to describe any situation which seems to be observably repeating itself.
knock the cover off the ball
- to succeed beyond expectation. Derived from the act of hitting the ball exceptionally hard, so as to make the leather covering come off.
left field
- as in "that insult really came out of left field" -- Unusual, unexpected, or irrational. AHDI dates this idiom back to the mid-1900s; it also states that the precise allusion is disputed, but a number of theories exist. Rumored to originally describe fans who came to Yankee Stadium to see Babe Ruth (a right fielder) but who bought tickets for the wrong side of the field. Less commonly, someone "plays out in left field" if they do not contribute to a team. This usage stems from the common perception (probably partially derived in children's sandlot and Little League games) that a left fielder usually is among the worst on his team in fielding skills, and may be considered a liability on defense. Another legend is that the phrase originates from Chicago's old West Side Park which had a mental hospital located behind left field. Visiting players came to refer to something as odd to be 'out in left field.' The flaw in that story is that Cook County Hospital was behind third base, not left field.
Lou Gehrig's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), named after the famed New York Yankee whose affliction with the fatal disease brought it to national attention.
"Nice guys finish last"
- Attributed to baseball manager Leo Durocher in 1946; according to Durocher's 1975 autobiography, he was misquoted: "Take a look at them. All nice guys. Theyll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last." Sometimes taken to mean that people sometimes fail at something, even when someone is working hard, playing by the rules and success seems well-deserved; or even that such fair play will actually result in the loss. The latter sense is often used as a justification or rationalization for immoral or unfair behavior.
off base
- Unawares or by surprise, usually in the phrase "caught off base"; OED dates to 1935. Meaning misguided, mistaken, or working on faulty assumptions, this usage dates to 1940. Both these uses derive from the situation of a runner being away from a base and thus in a position to being put out (1872).
out of left field
- See left field.
- to act as a substitute or stand-in for someone, especially in an emergency. In baseball, sometimes a substitute batter would be brought in, especially at a crucial point in the game. OED gives the first possible non-baseball use in 1931, and the first definitive non-sport use in 1957
Play ball
- To cooperate. Before every baseball game, the umpire shouts "play ball" in order to start the game.
rain check
- a ticket given to a spectator at an outdoor event providing for a refund of his entrance money or admission at a later date, should the event be interrupted by rain; an assurance of a deferred extension of an offer, especially an assurance that a customer can take advantage of a sale later if the item or service offered is not available (as by being sold out); or a (sometimes vague) promise to accept a social offer at an unnamed later date. The latter two meanings derive from the first, which OED states was first used in 1884; its first written entry into non-baseball usage is cited as 1930
- A heated argument or noisy dispute; especially, between players on a playing field. Originally the word traditionally muttered by actors in a play to provide background noise; OED and CDS both credit sportscaster Red Barber with first using the term to describe a disturbance, at a baseball game in 1943; OED's first non-baseball cite is 1949.
right off the bat
- immediately; without any delay. OED dates this term to 1914 in Maclean's, a Canadian magazine. An older term, "hot from the bat" dates to the 1888 play Meisterschaft by Mark Twain.
"Say it ain't so, Joe!"
- An expression of disbelief. A reference to the Black Sox scandal of 1919, when the Chicago White Sox lost the World Series on purpose. When Shoeless Joe Jackson was implicated in the scandal, an apocryphal story says that a young fan approached him and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe!".
- Eccentric, zany, or crazy; OED dates this usage to 1933. The screwball is a rarely used pitch (because of its effect on the arm) that is intended to behave erratically -- it "breaks" in the opposite direction a curveball would break. Its most famous users were New York Giants — Carl Hubbell and Christy Mathewson (who called it the "fadeaway" pitch).
seasoned pro
- one who maintains and progresses skills acquired through experience, a veteran.
second base/get to second base
- General reference to advancing physical intimacy with a member of the opposite sex. Commonly used in question form ("Did you get to second base?"). A positive reply typically implies that more than kissing has occurred. Outside of a sexual context, this can mean advancing beyond the first step in a given process, such as landing a job interview when one merely expected to schedule one.
- to anticipate the actions of another through guesswork, or outguess; cionversely, to criticize or question actions or decisions of (someone), usually after the results of those actions or decisions are known. Verb back-formed from second-guesser, a spectator who criticizes the actions of a team or the decisions of the umpire; guesser was baseball slang for an umpire, thus such a spectator considered himself a "second umpire". OED dates second-guesser to 1937, second-guess in its predictive sense to 1941, and its critical sense to 1946.
- A left-handed person. Originally, according to OED, it meant the left hand itself (1828), then by extension to a left-handed pitcher (1891), then in non-baseball usage (referring to a cat, 1955); the final transition to a non-athletic left-handed person in general makes its print appearance in 1970. Traditional (though unprovable) explanation of origin: to avoid the sun shining into the eyes of a batter during the afternoon, every ballfield was built with center field aligned east or northeast of home plate. Thus, a right-handed pitcher's throwing hand would throw from the north side of the pitcher's mound, and a left-handed pitcher from the south; accordingly, a left-hander was called a "southpaw".
step up to the plate
- or shortened to step up -- To rise to an occasion in life. Refers to when a player must approach home plate to take a turn at batting. OED cites baseball usage in 1875, general usage in 1919.
- as in "strike out", "three strikes, you're out", "a strike against you", "he was born with two strikes against him", etc. -- In baseball, a strike is when the batter fails to hit a good pitch. A batter with three strikes is out and stops batting. The word strike has crept into common English usage to mean a failure or shortcoming. When a person has "gotten three strikes" and "struck out", they have failed completely. See also A swing and a miss.
a swing and a miss
- An attempt and subsequent failure. One way to get a strike. See also strike.
swing for the fences
- to attempt to achieve beyond most reasonable expectations.
- Slang for bisexual (OED, 1960). Refers to players who are capable of hitting as a left-handed or right-handed batter (OED, 1948).
three strikes law
- from the phrase "Three strikes and you're out"; pertaining to laws passed in the United States that mandates minimum penalties for three convictions for serious criminal offenses ("strikes"). In baseball, a player is retired ("out") from his turn at bat if he gets three strikes.
touch base,
as in "we'll touch base at the meeting" - To ensure everyone has the same information. In baseball, a player who is touching a base is not in danger of being put out. May also be a military term.
whole new ball game / brand new ball game ; whole 'nother ball game
- In baseball, an announcer says "it's a whole new ball game" when the trailing team ties the score (usually after the trailing team has been behind by several runs), referring to the fact that both teams are right back to where they started at the beginning of the game. In common usage, a "whole new ball game" or "brand new ball game" signifies a drastic turn of events. A "whole 'nother ball game" signifies something completely unrelated, different, or irrelevant.
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The Manitowoc Co. last week reported sales of $860.1 million for the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 17.5 percent compared to sales of $732.2 million in the first quarter of 2011. The sales increase was driven by a 29.3-percent increase in Crane segment sales, coupled with a 3.8-percent increase in Foodservice segment sales.
On a GAAP basis, the company reported net earnings of $0.1 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, in the first quarter versus a net loss of $52.4 million, or a loss of $0.40 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2011. Both periods included special items
"Our first-quarter results create a strong foundation for Manitowoc given robust top-line growth of 18 percent and a 150-basis point improvement in operating margins in this seasonally soft quarter," said Glen Tellock, Manitowoc's chairman and CEO. "The core tenets of our strategy — superior products, unrivaled aftermarket support, capitalizing on global growth opportunities, and driving operational efficiencies — continue to differentiate us in the marketplace and solidify our position as a leading manufacturer of cranes and foodservice equipment."
First-quarter 2012 net sales in the Crane segment were $507.9 million, up 29.3 percent from $392.8 million in the first quarter of 2011, driven primarily by continued growth in the Americas region, as well as sustained demand in most emerging markets mitigated by weakness in European markets.
Crane segment operating earnings for the first quarter of 2012 increased to $22.5 million compared to $12.4 million in the same period last year. This resulted in an operating margin of 4.4 percent for the first quarter of 2012, up from 3.2 percent in the same period in 2011. The year-over-year increase in margin was due to absorption benefits of higher sales volume, partially offset by commodity costs and product sales mix. Crane segment backlog totaled $931 million as of March 31, 2012, a 16-percent increase from $800 million in the prior-year quarter. First-quarter 2012 orders of $675 million were 10-percent higher than the first quarter of 2011. This is particularly noteworthy because orders in the first-quarter of 2011 benefited from ConExpo, while no similar trade show was held in the first quarter of 2012.
"The first-quarter Crane segment results reflect another quarter of strong order intake driven by robust demand in the Americas region, as well as growing interest in the new products we introduced in 2011," Tellock said. "In addition, our backlog reached the highest levels since before the recession and represented a book-to-bill ratio of 1.3 times."
Headquartered in Manitowoc, Wis., The Manitowoc Co. has more than 115 manufacturing, distribution, and service facilities in 25 countries. It is a provider of crawler cranes, tower cranes, and mobile cranes for the heavy construction industry. In addition, Manitowoc is a leading innovators and manufacturers of commercial foodservice equipment.

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Advanced Practice Registered Nurses seek to practice independently from physicians
"We're ready for this baby to get here," said a very pregnant Caitlin Coe.
Coe, whose second child is due June 10, plans to have Sharon Foster deliver the baby. That's after being pleased with Foster's care during the delivery of Coe's daughter Mackenzie nearly two years ago.
"We built a great relationship with her, and I felt like she had a great understanding of what we wanted, and so it helped her guide us through the birth process," said Coe during an appointment with Foster earlier this week. As she talked, 21-month-old Mackenzie held a device to her mother's stomach to hear the heartbeat of her little sister.
Foster, who works at Associates in Women's Health, is the only Advanced Practice Registered Nurse midwife who delivers babies at Wichita hospitals.
She is one of more than 4,000 Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, or APRNs, in Kansas pushing for independent practice from physicians.
For the last six years, APRNs have been trying to get legislation passed at the state level that would eliminate what is known as a "collaborative practice agreement," which requires APRNs to sign an agreement with a physician so that they can see patients.
Nurses say they would continue treating patients the way they do currently without having to find – and often pay – a collaborating physician.
"I don't want to be a doctor. We're not. We're just an adjunct to health care. People need to have options and access to providers that they choose," Foster said.
But some doctors say that eliminating the agreement could put patients at risk.
"We find APRNs very valuable and an important piece of how we take good care of patients, but we're concerned about the lack of any sort of collaborative agreement or oversight," said Donna Sweet, a Wichita physician who specializes in the care of HIV-positive and AIDS patients and is president of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County.
She noted that APRNs have significantly less training than physicians and said that eliminating the oversight "would be leaving the health of Kansans in the hands of people perhaps not as able as physicians."
A bill was introduced in the Legislature earlier this year to eliminate the agreements, but it was not given a hearing. So it essentially died in committee.
In addition to eliminating the collaborative practice agreements, the bill would have lengthened the time after becoming a nurse practitioner that individuals would have to train before gaining prescribing privileges.
Nurse practitioners are allowed access to patients without a collaborating physician in 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Many of those are largely rural and in the western half of the U.S.
APRNs require additional training beyond a four-year bachelor's degree. After getting their bachelor's, they have to take graduate-level classes and pick an area in which to practice: midwifery, pediatrics, acute care, anesthesiology or psychiatric care. Some APRNs go on to get a doctorate.
They can prescribe medication, diagnose patients, prescribe other treatments and make referrals to physicians, and those things wouldn't change by eliminating collaborative agreements, said Michelle Knowles, an APRN in Hays who has been practicing in rural areas for nearly 20 years.
"It is drilled into us in school where our boundaries are, so if it's anything past that, we refer and consult and collaborate," said Knowles, who is also the Kansas representative for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and helped draft the language of the most recent APRN bill.
Rural challenges
Access to medical care can be a challenge for rural Kansans, and APRNs argue that if they can practice independently they can help improve access to care.
APRNs practice in 98 of the 105 counties in Kansas, according to the Kansas Board of Nursing.
Knowles says there is already a shortage of physicians in rural areas and APRNs can help fill that need.
"This gives us the ability to work in areas where maybe no physicians practice," Knowles said. "Some people have to get physicians to sign an agreement that may be 200 miles away."
But Sweet disagrees.
"They often say they go to rural areas, but facts have not borne that out in Kansas or states that have made independent practice legal," said Sweet, who employs two nurse practitioners at her office in Wichita.
She says patient access is important, but so is having the most qualified provider give care.
Growing field
From 2012 to 2013, the number of APRNs in Kansas grew from 3,865 to 4,116, according to the Kansas Board of Nursing. About 450 of those APRNs are in Sedgwick County.
"The workforce is there; we just need to ensure that we are using them to the full extent of their education and training and not putting up unnecessary roadblocks," Knowles said.
Other states with fewer restrictions are recruiting APRNs from states like Kansas, she said.
Rae Lyn Mefford is an APRN and owner of Advanced Mobile Healthcare, which visits patients who can't leave their homes. She started the business a couple of years ago after winning $10,000 from Wichita State's Center for Entrepreneurship. The business has grown to 11 total employees – a physician partner, nurse practitioners and support staff who do about 2,000 patient visits a year.
But as part of the agreement with the physician, the physician has part ownership and gets 5 percent of the business' profits, Mefford said.
"First, finding someone who would even (collaborate) in the first place is difficult. Second, it just increases the cost of running the business because you're having to pay this additional expense," Mefford said.
Mefford says she knows other APRNs who pay between $500 and $1,900 a month to a physician so they can practice.
"That's what creates the barrier for APRNs to open their own practices and be business owners," she said. "I know other nurse practitioners that say if this law is passed, they would like to open their own clinic."
Discussion continues
The Kansas Medical Society, a statewide physician group, has created a committee to work with APRNs to discuss the issue of independent practice, Sweet said. The group had its first meeting about a month ago.
"We started a discussion, and it's certainly not over," Sweet said. "The Kansas Legislature didn't really want to be in the middle of this and told us to get together and discuss it. … What we would hope to achieve is a middle ground discussion or arrangement that would not require changes to the law at this point."
But Knowles says she doesn't think APRNs will give up that easily on the idea of changing the law.
"If there was some way we could fix it without changing the law, we would have done that years ago," Knowles said. "The problem can't be fixed without changing the law."


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1982! A friend of mine invited me for the Amway business meeting but I came halfway because the meeting was conducted in English, a language that I barely understood. But I was eager to know more about Amway so I asked my friend to explain me the marketing plan in Tamil. I never studied well in school though I love playing football and hence I was getting zero marks in all subjects. I started working at the age of 18. I worked as Bus Conductor for 5 years and then as a Bus Driver for 4 years. Many people give excuses that they don't have any transport and money to do the business. I started this business only with a bicycle. I used to travel in autos to conduct Home Meetings but now I have three cars in India and a Mercedes Benz model S350 in Malaysia. Success Path I came to India with only four telephone numbers. In such conditions Ihave qualified a lot of PV worth of products for Founders Executive Diamond because I worked so hard that I used to sell so many products every day and was showing so many plans every day religiously. It was then that I met my wife Kaviya. She was an actress but now she is a full time housewife and mother to our two beautiful & wonderfulkids Sesodia&Moonisa. My success in this business would never have materialized without Kaviya's help. Today we have business in India, Singapore and Malaysia. Chronology of success:
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Song Notes: Six Live Music Shows You Can't Miss
Well, we've made it to the home stretch. The New York, London, and Milan collections are behind us, and with only Paris to go, we can start thinking about shows of the non-fashion variety. From the Swedish beats of Icona Pop in New York to the all-American lyricism of the National in Austin, Texas, to the over-the-top intensity of **Kanye West'**s Yeezus Tour in L.A., here are the gigs you should hit over the next few weeks, along with a crib sheet of what you should wear that will make you feel like part of the show.
Icona Pop
September 25, Brooklyn
Music Hall of Williamsburg
The vibe: High-octane electro pop
The look: These two Swedish gals can work an onstage fashion persona, so go all out. Fur and/or feathers will not be out of place.
The hit single: "I Love It"
Other tour dates: songkick.com
September 27, San Francisco
The Fillmore
The vibe: Zeitgeisty R&B–inflected pop only a precocious teen could make
The look: High collars, black lace, chokers. If you've got a Stevie Nicks getup in the back of the closet, now's the time to break it out.
The hit single: "Royals"
Other tour dates: songkick.com
September 30, Chicago
Lincoln Hall
The vibe: Chilled out and shimmery, with a glossing over of pop drama
The look: Denim, neon, and '80s-inspired
The hit single: "Hurricane"
Other tour dates: songkick.com
The National and Widowspeak
October 5, Austin
Stubb's Bar-B-Q
The vibe: Heartfelt and lyrical with a down-home penchant for tales of love and loss
The look: Muted colors and organic fibers. Maybe trot out a little something vintage.
The hit single: "I Should Live in Salt" by the National and "Ballad of the Golden Hour" by Widowspeak
Other tour dates for the National: americanmary.com
Other tour dates for Widowspeak: songkick.com
October 8, Portland, Oregon
The vibe: In-your-face, sexed-up rap. Lots of twerking.
The look: Anything from the Hood By Air collection
The hit single: "Wut"
Other tour dates: songkick.com
The Yeezus Tour
Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar
October 26 and 28, L.A.
Staples Center
The vibe: An all-out visual and sonic extravaganza
The look: Serious swag—Alexander Wang, Givenchy, Margiela
The hit single: "Black Skinhead" by Kanye West and "Swimming Pools (Drank)" by Kendrick Lamar
Other tour dates: kanyewest.com


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Roll call and selection of secretary, Chair a) Scribe List: Dale Moberg (scribe Wed Apr 25) Paul Knight (scribe Wed May 2) ---------------------- Dimitar Angelov Sanjiva Weerawarana Ruchith Fernando Tom Jordahl Vladislav Bezrukov Symon Chang Doug Davis Jacques Durand Steve Jones Mohammad Makarechian Jonathan Marsh Arnaud Meyniel Sanjay Patil Skip Snow Jeff Mischkinsky Sanka Samaranayake Yakov Sverdlov Chris Ferris Mark Little Glen Daniels William Henry Toufic Boubez Frederick Hirsch Prasad Yendluri Anthony Nadalin Daniel Roth Fabian Ritzmann Sergey Beryozkin Charlton Barreto David Orchard Ashok Malhotra Abbie Barbir Maryann Hondo Dale Moberg Monica Martin Felix Sasaki Asir Vedamuthu Frederick Hirsch Mark Temple-Raston b) Scribe FAQ (Updated) Member only: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-ws-policy/2006Oct/0001.html 2. Review and approval of WG minutes, Chair a) Review and approval of draft Apr 11 minutes http://www.w3.org/2007/04/18-ws-policy-minutes.html Status: Fabian has requested that his regrets for this meeting be recorded. 3. Future WG meetings, Chair a) Future meetings http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/admin#meetings b) Wed-Fri May 23-25 F2F meeting in Ottawa hosted by Nortel http://www.w3.org/2007/05/ws-policy-f2f-logistics.html Note: WG will meet Wed-Thu and CR interop testing will be done Wed-Fri. ACTION-275 Abbie to check on fixed IP range visible for external use DONE. Status: Abbie has confirmed that there will NOT b e available. See Paul's note to the -interop email list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy-interop/2007Apr/0020.html c) Tue-Thu Jul 17-19 F2F meeting in Dublin hosted by Iona http://www.w3.org/2007/07/ws-policy-f2f-logistics.html 4. Editorial team report Current Editors drafts: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/#drafts a) Editorial plan for Issue 3989 b) Editorial plan for revised Interop Scenarios ACTION-277 Editors to provide plan for producing 1 May interop document. ACTION-278 Editors to update test suite with changes proposed in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0030.html 5. Review action items, Chair Open action items: Member only: http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicy/actions/open ACTION-243 Asir to produce a list of change areas in the framework and attachments primer and guidelines specs related to a change in the reference to the oasis ws-sec policy spec to reference the latest available published committee draft ACTION-275 Abbie to check on fixed IP range visible for external use DONE. ACTION-277 Editors to plan for producing 1 May interop document. ACTION-279 Chris And Paul to engage Bob Freund on Tom\\\\'s points Status: In progress. ACTION-281 Prasad and Asir to scrutinize the HP results for UDDI Round 4 and resolve the discrepancies in results count DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0076.html Status: Offline discussions on this matter continue. ACTION-282 Asir to open and close new issue on test scenarios related to negative testing and the proposal here http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0060.html ACTION-283 Chris to send email with the example he gave discussing the role of policy vocabulary after intersection ACTION-284 Asir to start email thread to develop proposal for def\\\\'ns of policy vocabulary and policy alternative vocabulary and nested policy vocabulary and also provide example ACTION-285 Monica to initiate thread related to the role of context for nested policy ACTION-286 Maryann to work with Tom and Monica and anyone else interested in developing assertion author guidelines related to nested policy vis a vis this new understanding of nested policy vocabulary 6. WS-Policy Call for Implementations, Chair a) Interop scenarios, Release-1-20070322 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0114.html b) CR dashboard summary http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/ws/policy/interop/results/dashboard-summary.html?only_with_tag=Release-1-20070322 c) Remote testing for Ottawa ACTION-275 Abbie to check on fixed IP range visible for external use DONE. Status: Abbie has confirmed that there will NOT b e available. See Paul's note to the -interop email list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy-interop/2007Apr/0020.html d) Other interop related items 7. Primer issues a) Issue 4393: Add text to strict and lax policy intersection discussion describing how a policy consumer can determine issues due to intersection mode conflicts http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4393 ACTION-255 Charlton Barreto to open new primer issue to relate to the discussion of 4292 ACTION-256 Monica to create new primer issue related to 4262 Monica Martin 2007-03-21 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0124.html Status: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0004.html Monica's ack that Charlton's proposal covered her AI: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0014.html ACTION-272 Charlton to work with Asir and prepare a revised proposal for 4393 DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0024.html Revision to part of this proposal is in: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0036.html ACTION-280 Glen to propose text amending charlton's proposal to address ignorable DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0040.html Amendment from Monica: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0041.html Confirmation of acceptance of amendment from Glen: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0059.html b) Versioning and extensibility in primer needs cleanup, Maryann Hondo http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4414 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0111.html Status: Maryann and David have submitted the following proposal: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0052.html Frederick's response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0080.html 8. CR issues a) Issue 4318: [All docs] Which WS-SecurityPolicy version should be used as a reference http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4318 Status: Currently on hold until later in CR. b) Issue 4477: Editorial, example line number incorrect http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0077.html c) Issue 4478: Editorial: line numbers in last example in section 4.1 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0078.html d) Issue 4479: Editorial, note is obscure or unclear http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0081.html 9. Liaison items a) Feedback to WS-Addressing WG on Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata specification Email to WS-A WG: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Feb/0153.html Status: WS-Addressing WG response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0007.html See thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0012.html b) Previous WG discussion Tactical: ACTION-271 Asir to pick up the text pointed out by Chris in Section 3.2 and answer Ashok\\'s question (by reading the letter of the law) DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0017.html Strategic: ACTION-270 Maryann to work with monica, asir, ashok and others to prepare proposal for some text in the guidelines doc that addresses the semantics of a constraint as it applies to nested policy DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0022.html Status: Apr 11: The WG agreed to have email discussion of this message. b) Action items from Apr 11 discussion ACTION-283 Chris to send email with the example he gave discussing the role of policy vocabulary after intersection ACTION-284 Asir to start email thread to develop proposal for def\\\\'ns of policy vocabulary and policy alternative vocabulary and nested policy vocabulary and also provide example ACTION-285 Monica to initiate thread related to the role of context for nested policy ACTION-286 Maryann to work with Tom and Monica and anyone else interested in developing assertion author guidelines related to nested policy vis a vis this new understanding of nested policy vocabulary c) New WG discussion threads i) What is the Vocabulary of an Intersected Policy, Ashok http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0065.html ii) Policy Framework and Policy Domain division of labor, and the 'absent policies are present as negations' principle, Dale Moberg http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0075.html d) WS-Addressing Metadata issues: 4374, 4375, and 4376 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0044.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0045.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0046.html Status: This issues are on hold until the WS-A WG makes more progress. ACTION-279 Chris and Paul to engage Bob Freund on Tom's points about WS-Addressing Metatdata work Status: In progress. 10. Guidelines issues, Part 1 a) ISSUE 3978: Clarify if Section 7 on defining new policy attachment mechanisms is necessary, Dan Roth http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3978 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2006Nov/0102.html ACTION-259 Maryann Hondo to provide a revised proposal for Issue 3978. DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Mar/0112.html ACTION-273 Maryann to send a diff version of the proposed changes to the Guidelines document re issue 3978 DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0016.html b) ISSUE 4074: [Guidelines] Collection of unclear Guidance or text issues, Dan http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4074 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2006Dec/0053.html ACTION-260 Maryann Hondo to provide revised proposal for 4074 DONE. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2007Apr/0020.html 11. Guideline issues, Part 2 a) ISSUE 3988: Section 8 doesn't illustrate how to design an assertion., Asir http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3988 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2006Nov/0112.html Email discussion thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-policy/2006Dec/0000.html Status: Awaiting progress on new EDs with best practices reflected 12. Any other business 13. AdjournmentReceived on Monday, 23 April 2007 19:14:18 UTC
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All businesses need every piece of document, software and hardware that it takes to be successful. The business world is more competitive than ever before. Customers have more options than they ever envisaged before. In the freelancing world, you rarely have a chance to do impress your client twice. The competition is too intense. According to Fast Company, freelancing will change the economy in more ways than people realize. The changes will take place partly because of tools such as the freelance work invoice template.
A training tool
The template is a wonderful tool. The template shows what a freelancer's invoice ought to look like. It shows the most important details that a freelancer must include when preparing an invoice. The 9am-5pm traditional form of working as is known around the world is undergoing massive changes and on the verge of dying, according to Business Insider. With such massive, earth-shattering changes taking place, it's only normal for the freelancer to find ways of staying ahead of the competition and being more professional than ever before.
Eliminates dependency
Under the old format, workers relied on their bosses to prepare documents needed to follow up on payments owed. As a freelancer, you only have yourself to blame if things fail to happen. Failure to follow up on monies your clients owe you haunts you as a freelancer. This explains why learning to use the freelance work invoice template should be on top of your list of priorities. Learning how to prepare an invoice is something that all freelancers must embark on with immediate effect.
Enhances professionalism
In the US workforce alone, freelancers make up around 34 percent, which represents 53 million people, of that market. The projections are that a major acceleration towards peer-to-peer work, independent contracting and entrepreneurship will take place in the next 25 years. Consequently, freelancers have to be more professional in how they run their businesses. Sending invoices after preparing and filling them accurately will be the first step of this process. Sending invoices on time guarantees timely payments, which all freelancers need to thrive amid intense competition.
Therefore, the freelance work invoice template helps your business. It helps you run your business successfully. It helps you to prepare invoices and send reminders to clients about unpaid work. It helps you to ensure that the business has enough cash flow. It helps you to be a professional in a field that needs more of such. The freelancing world is changing, and your objective should be to stay ahead, if not at pace, with these changes. Start by embracing and using the template.


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I've been talking about a website that I want to create and dedicate to dad for some time now, and now that the Crowdfunder is finally live you can take a look at our plans and help us to make it a reality. Every little helps, and even if you can't pledge yourself, sharing the link with anyone you think might be interested is so helpful, and very much appreciated! Here's our campaign video so you can get a quick idea of what we're all about, but there's a lot more information on the Crowdfunder project page, here. We also have various beautiful rewards organised to thank people who make pledges, created by the talented illustrator Frances Ives, who will also be involved helping us to design the website and make it truly a thing of beauty when we reach our target.
A Better Place – Crowdfunder from A Better Place on Vimeo.
A Better Place will be a free resource for anyone and everyone to use, a cross between an online lifestyle magazine and a listings and product reviewing website. Our team is based in the UK and the USA, so we will do our best to cover services and products based globally, wherever possible suggesting similar products that are closer to home for people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Several websites and blogs already exist in this field, but nothing that we've come across so far covers all areas of life as comprehensively as we would like to, with in-depth articles and discussions of issues as well as extensive product listings and recommendations organised in a logical and aesthically-pleasing manner. The website will be quality-led; what I mean by that is that we will only feature products and services that we think can stand on their own merits as well-designed, useful, and desirable, and that also have a positive impact as a matter of course. We believe that this is the only way that ethical consumerism will ever become truly mainstream. If it's all 'fair trade-y' funny smelling big jumpers and bobble hats, and 'tribal' jewellery, it will just remain an elaborate way of donating to charity. I guess you could say that we're trying to take 'trade not aid' to the next level, searching out all the best innovative and positive impact brands and organisations around for you.
A Better Place will be a website where you can go to inspire a positive lifestyle, whatever your budget. Whatever you need, we will try and present you with attractive ethical versions that compete with the best on the market, so that spending your money well becomes a real pleasure, not a chore.
An English professor of mine once said that sometimes a phrase or an idea strikes you particularly hard and sticks with you for years, niggling away at you. He said that it is like the grit that gets into an oyster, eventually resulting in a pearl. It is an irritant that pushes you to think about a topic particularly deeply, research it, and eventually do something about it. As my oldest friends will tell you, this idea is something that I've been a bit obsessed with for over a decade since I was at school and I wrote to Ali Hewson (Bono's wife and founder of the ethical fashion label, Edun) asking if I could do work experience with her. (She sent me back a very sweet and gracious letter saying that she thought I was a bit young, but thanking me for my interest and encouraging me to stay passionate about ethical trade.)
The name, 'A Better Place', was inspired by a conversation with my dad that I had when I was younger; we were on holiday and he was picking up pieces of litter from the sand as we walked along the beach, and I asked him why he was picking up things that he hadn't dropped. He answered that we had to try and leave the world a better place than we found it. A simple lesson, perhaps, but one that had a big impact on me. The blackberries in the logo were his favourite fruit, and my sisters and I have many happy memories of foraging for the berries together every year. He used to get so gleeful and boyish whenever he saw them, and suddenly dart off into the bushes with a sparkle in his eye, returning with juicy handfuls of the berries.
I'd love to know what you think, and to answer any questions that you have about our project. If you are an ethical brand yourself, bear in mind that some of the rewards we're offering for pledges involve various different advertising packages, so do check them out and get in touch at firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to discuss these any further.
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Tim Parks
English writer/translator Tim Parks, who has lived in Milan for
over thirty years, has just released a new book on Italian Literature,
"A Literary Tour of Italy". He devotes a chapter each to a series
of famous Italian writers or characters beginning with Dante. Quite a span and includes a few notorious figures including Mussolini and heroes Garabaldi but mostly writers. It was written as a series of essays but with the book in mind.
I have only known him as an entertaining commentator/observer of Italy but he's much more than a travel writer or an observer
of Italian culture. Here's a link to a lovely piece he wrote for The
New Yorker where he imagines meeting a series of famous authors
including James Joyce, Charles Dickens, DH Lawrence and Thomas Hardy.
It's a beauty.
I sent him
the link to my piece on Italian Literature on the Avid Reader blog. He
might even read it!


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The Buccaneers lost a fourth straight game on Sunday and frustration boiled over during the game when linebacker Adam Hayward and assistant coach Bryan Cox had an altercation on the sideline.
It also boiled over after the game with a Buc player wondering whether they could send their coaches back to college. Taken together, they paint the picture of a team struggling to get on the same page. Quarterback Josh Freeman tried to shoot down that notion during a conference call on Monday.
"We are unified. I think that we still have a lot of young components, we still have a first-year system. We had some success. But at the same time, we've got to find a way to take it to the next level. You hate to see it come down to a game like that, but I think this is going to be a great time for our team to come together. We had a rough one. We dropped the ball yesterday. But it's how we respond to adversity," Freeman said, via the Tampa Bay Times. "When everything is going great, anyone can stand up and go to practice and have a high energy level and be up tempo, go home and want to study film, because you're doing great. But it's times like these where you really (find out where you are). Judging by the number of guys that are in the building on this off day, I think that mentally guys are not only unified but heading in the right direction."
The grumbling is something you expect during a losing streak, although it's hard to see signs that things are heading in the right direction right now. They were worse against the Saints than they were in the previous week's loss to the Eagles and worse in that one than they were against the Broncos. Coach Greg Schiano almost certainly isn't going anywhere after one season, but it still wouldn't hurt to show some more readily apparent signs of progress in the final weeks.


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Over the last five years, Loïc has worked as a paid indexing and Google Analytics specialist for various marketing agencies throughout Canada.
He has successfully carried out large-budget campaigns for top Canadian names including Sears Canada, Intact Insurance, TELUS Québec and GM Canada. He is also specialized in e-commerce, ergonomics, conversion optimization and start-ups. In his free time, Loïc enjoys working on a variety of Web projects such as Pathizer.com.
Loïc Karinda began his career in the digital world as a seller on eBay in 2004. This quickly developed into a true passion for online marketing, specifically for paid indexing and Web analytics.


text: The Performing Data Project presents a series of artworks, informal presentations and a makers session exploring the concept of performing data at FACT Liverpool. FACT is UK's leading media arts centre & charity bringing people, art & tech together. Join us for the free Performing Data maker's workshop on 16th&17th July and Exhibition of work by Rachel Jacobs, Caroline Locke, Richard Ramchurn, Brendan Walker and Diane Wiltshire.


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'poor sound levels'
'The battery life was quite disappointing, with just two hours of talk time and up to 20 hours of standby time.'
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'affordable new Netgear SPH200W WiFi Phone'
'Unfortunately, the F1000G's feature set still supports only 64 and 128 bit WEP wireless encryption, instead of the more secure WPA and WPA2.'
'Very poor quality'
'The F1000's ring tones are particularly horrendous; you only have six to choose from, and they're all set to pitches that frighten both humans and dogs.'
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Teen Dating Tips
No doubt that at some part of your life so far you have had a crush on someone, maybe that is why you are here now. You might also be here to find out how to tell what true love is or how to tell if he/she is the "perfect" match for you, well to be totally honest, noone can tell you who mr/mrs perfect is, and noone can tell you what true love is, because "true love" and "perfect" both mean different things for different people. There is also two different types of love, i got taught these by an ex-girlfriend and didn't really understand them at the time. Type one is "loving" someone, anyone can love someone, but love is just a word, and i love my mates/mum/sister/etc but it dosn't mean they are my perfect partner. Type two is "being in love" with someone, the main difference with this one is that its not just a word, its a feeling, a feeling that you feel for a certain person. Being in love is the one that makes your heart jump into your mouth, the one that gets you excited everytime you see them, and being in love is the most important thing in a relationship, if you have two people that are totally "in love" with each other then the chances are they will have a long, strong and happy relationship.
Teen Dating PT2 - Whats What
As if life is not already confusing enough, and now we are gonna chuck in some love. Once you reach your teenage years you will no doubt start experimenting with the opposite sex, one of the things you might experiment with is dating. Dating is a great experience, it can teach you many things, some are useless, but some things can change you for the rest of your life, because that person that has asked you on the date could be the person you spend the rest of you life with, it is a scary thought but there really aint much that you should be scared of, because its all part of the fun. If you are ever asked out on a date here are a few bits of advice; * Do you like the person that has asked you? Dating is meant to be a fun experience, if your not interested in the person that has asked you, do the smart thing and say no, if you are interested in the person then great what you waiting for. * Does this person pressure you? If the person that has asked you tries to put pressure on you to do things that you do not want to do say no, you could still date but do not let them pressure you into things you do not want to do. * Does this person make you feel safe? The best thing about love is knowing that the other person makes you feel safe, if you are afraid of the person, or scared he might do something you dont want to do, its probally a good idea to skip the date. * Do you share interest/hobbies? If you both share similar interest/hobbies it makes dates a whole lot easier since it means that you will have something to talk about that the other person will be interested in listening to.
Teen Dating PT 3 - Further Down the Line
Once you start dating the same person for a while and the dating turns more into a relationship, you might start to feel pressurised to do more intimate things such as sex, your friends will also start asking questions such as "How far have you gone", or "have you shagged him/her yet", but you should not give into this pressure unless you really feel that you are ready. If you do feel that you are ready to start having a sexual relationship, remember to take pre-cautions and have safe sex by using a condom and other forms of contraception, and girls don't think that its a boys job to remember a condom, it dosn't hurt you to have a couple spare. If you fail to have safe sex then you are exposing yourself to STIs and un-planned pregnancies.


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Personal Training Client Story: Vickie F.
Vickie's Client Story
"I joined acac last year and received 3 free personal training sessions. Luckily, I got assigned to Pamela Finney. I have since had multiple programs with her, working on my desire to be able to walk up steps again and get off the floor without assistance. I finally reached those goals thanks to Pam! I thought she was very caring and understanding of my limits.
At the present time I am undergoing Physical Therapy on my arthritic knee. As soon as I am able to resume sessions with her, I will be able to work with Pam again and I am looking forward to that very much.
Thank you Pam!"
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"Top Gun 2" is still happening according to Jerry Bruckheimer, and its plot is as modern as ever. The super producer stopped by
Appearing on HuffPost Live on Friday to discuss his new book, producer Jerry Bruckheimer says that plans for a "Top Gun" sequel are still happening. Bruckheimer tells Ricky Camilleri that it has been a long road, but they keep trying:
"We've been trying to get that movie made for 30 years, and I think we're getting closer and closer. Don [Simpson] and I tried to develop something, we didn't succeed. [Tom] Cruise took over, and he tried to develop something, and he didn't succeed. Now we're back at it."
It was the late Tony Scott, the first film's original director, who finally cracked the story in 2012 before his death. So what is that story?
"The concept is, basically, are the pilots obsolete because of drones. Cruise is going to show them that they're not obsolete. They're here to stay. It's just getting to the starting place. Fortunately for Tom, he's very busy, so you have to find a slot he can fit into and get a budget that Paramount feels they can make the picture."
No director is yet set to take over for Scott, though timing will undoubtedly be a key element here.


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There is a curious discord at the heart of the way "news" media operate. They all tend to exaggerate the trivial and grossly underestimate the longer-term trends. They lack perspective.
News media are obsessed with the "now". A good example of what I mean is the flashing of the current value of the Nasdeq index on financial channels. Second by second, the ever-changing index is tracked and displayed. As if whether it is 2384.52 or, the very next instant, 2384.42, matters. Even to people saving for retirement, they should be investing over a 20-30 year timescale, not worrying whether MSFT is down 2 points on disappointing sales figures in Asia in the fourth quarter….or whatever. This compulsive reporting of quite inane and trivial figures is just plain daft.
On the other side, there are some longer term trends that the news media seem to studiously downplay. We are currently undergoing what some scientists are terming "The Sixth Great Extinction" – an event that represents the extinction of most of the earth's living species. Oil and other carbon fuels are almost exhausted – funny, seeing as we only started actively extracting them around 100 years ago. Global warming will radically alter our climate, this century. Yet these events seem distinctly abstract to most of us. We go on with our lives and our humdrum plans as if nothing was happening. If they are reported – and they sometimes are – they are usually reported as being arcane arguments between competing scientific opinion rather than the actually quite dramatic and epoch-changing events that they really are.
It isn't that most of us (I presume) don't see the bigger picture. But I am puzzled by the human capacity to recognise and understand the big picture at one level (intellectually) and yet to continue on regardless at every other level. After all, I doubt very much that scientists predicting the end of the climate system as we know it are not busy contemplating their holidays next summer in their spare time. And I myself am happy to plot and plan my own movements over the next month without regard to the melting ice caps.
So I am presented with a puzzle: why do we grossly exaggerate the trivial and vastly underestimate the longer-term trends? Why do we lack perspective?
Partly, it must be because we have human needs for food, water, and shelter that are pressing on a very short time scale. If I don't eat breakfast, I get cranky – that sort of thing. Secondly, even over a longer time scale of a human life, we rarely directly experience the bigger changes that are afoot. Knowing that the planet is 0.5 degrees C warmer than it was in 1990 is not something likely to strike home, especially if you've only been born in 1992, or whatever. And it is even less likely to strike home when you are asked, just what does 0.5 degrees feel like?
Here's another take on perspective:
If all of time since the origin of the planet Earth to now (about 4.5 billion years) is represented as one year on a calendar, life began around noon on February 9th (about 4 billion years ago). About March 21st, that life formed into the first primitive cells. Mammals made their first appearance about 200 million years ago – stunningly long ago on our normal timescales, but on the calendar scale just December 14th. That's eerily close to Christmas and deep into the heart of winter. Those early mammals missed their Thanksgiving dinners. The first hominids emerged on December 31st, around 6.09pm. Astonishing really, to think that all of human history – recorded and unrecorded – occurred on the final day, after teatime. No time to be invited to any New Years Eve parties even. Christopher Columbus's discovery of America happened, on that calendar, at 11.59pm and 56 seconds. Or just 4 seconds separates his landing on a beach in Haiti to an American landing on the moon. Pushing it out a bit into the future, the complete melting of the Antartic ice shelf might happen within the next 100 years – or less than 1 second into January 1st of next year.
My purpose in drawing out this well-known analogy like this is to remind ourselves just how miniscule is our human timescales to the really important events of the earth. Events are occurring now – such as that climate change and the extinction event – that on a geographic scale are almost instantaneous. Looked at – perhaps by some visiting alien life forms – in 100 million years from now, this whole century will look like a black stain in some rocks. All of human history will have occurred over a timespan of perhaps 3 million years (another few thousand years, if we're lucky) over an entire earth history of billions of years – or around one day on our illustrative calendar.
Nothing prevents human life as we know it from coming to a shuddering halt right next year, or next month for that matter. Nothing says that we won't all be destroyed by a collision with an asteroid, or subjected to a virulent strain of bird flu that wipes out 50% of the population. Events like these have happened before and they'll surely happen again. But even if we are spared these major one-off events, the slowly-building ones will probably get us pretty soon too.
But even knowing that these things could occur, we continue on as before. We are being propelled down a track to destruction that seems irreversible and irresistable. Our human capacity for exaggerating the trivial and underestimating the longer term will as assuredly ensure our eclipse as any other human trait, like greed or ignorance. Let's get some perspective on it.


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So called "Intelligente behaviour" can be defined in a pure thermodinamic languaje, using just "entropy". Formulaes look pretty intimidating, but once you get the idea, coding it into a working AI is quite simple. Fractalizing the same idea takes away entropy calc form the AI and makes it work much better.
Friday, 29 April 2016
Paretto frontiers
There was some debate after the talks about the classification itself and the Pareto frontier way of working on multi objective optimisation problems.
Basically, actual approaches try to maximise all the functions at the same time, if possible, and if not, then obtain the optimum solution for any weighted combination of those functions, so for any possible combination you get a point, and all those points form the "Pareto Frontier" of the problem.
It is true that, if you know the Pareto frontier, it is then easy to find the solution for your function combination of choice, but, in my opinion, trying to find this frontier prior to setting those weigths is making the problem quite more complex than it was initially.
Why? Having a frontier is far more powerful that finding a single point in it! Yep, but frontiers are dangerous geometric objects as Mandelbrot showed us: if you try to get the frontier of the Mandelbrot set using Pareto based approaches, you will probably fail, or you will need thousand of CPU working together, just to find out the frontier can be too fuzzy to decide on it.
Non fractal problems also can (and use to) have complex Pareto frontiers, just consider hundreds of mundane functions to be maximised, and you will be into some serious troubles: how to mix them, how to find the frontier... all this get really hard.
Consider instead using directly the formula that generates this frontier to sheek for the point on it that maximises your combination of functions: quite simpler and faster. In the case of Mandelbrot, this is just a line of code. The difference in complexity from the formula itself to the frontier it generates, is just immense, but more important, the difficulty of solving the same problem one way or the other can also be immense.
The actual problem with that is we don't have a model that, using the "generating formula" of the frontier, can properly scan the state space seeking for the optimum directly, and finding it (this point is important!). Then we break the problem into parts we can deal with and combine them somehow to find the general solution, the Pareto frontier of the problem.
The lack of such a method is actually forcing us to try to solve a quite more complex problem, a problem I think is only academic, in with several functions needs to be maximised at he same time.
Thinking on real problems, you always can pinpoint a single functions that really extract the thing to be maximised, at least I can always imagine one.
For instance, imagine a company hires you to optimise it robotic factory.You can break the problem into a set of different problems, where all of them needs to be maximised: keep energy cost low, keep robot repairs low, keep production high... if you stop here your analysis, you can think you have a multi-objective problem that needs a Pareto frontier to be calculated before going any further.
But none of those are the company goal, the company what to have profits, so the profit is the only goal in the real world, and all the other sub-goals are only academic.
A method that used only the long term profit after taking a given decision to ponder witch option to take at every moment, a continuous decision maker, is needed but nonexistent to the date.
Can all problems been considered as single-function optimisation? I think so. Consider your brain: for every problem it faces, it always uses a single function to maximise while deciding: how good I would feel in the future. The feeling is make makes us want to go up and work, as having money and being useful make us feel better in the long term as compared to staying at bed. As simplistic as it may sound, we only have one goal in life!
I think my fractal (well, it is really a vitamined evolutionary algorithm, but "fractal" or "entropic" are far better namings!) can fill that hole and be used as a tool to directly seek for the solution without any a priori study of the problem (such as finding an aproximate Paretto frontier).
The small problem here is my method doesn't fit professor Talbi classification exactly (I think it amazed him a little), it is a little "out of the box", but not for that much, so I plan to integrate the fractal algorithm (the most simple one, no multi-agent for instance) on his ParadisEO framework for metaheuristic, so we can really find out if it will fill any hole.
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I think you are not right that you can always transform you multi-objective optimization problem into a classical optimization problem. Form example, when you study the sustainability of a process you should understand the cost, the environmental impact and the social effects. The three items are completely unrelated and in some cases you have huge problems just to reduce the problem to a 3 objectives optimization problem.
In this case, you can try to summary the 3 objectives in one (for example, in economic terms) but as there isn't a "unambiguously" way of doing that you are just setting a weight to every category and this is a completely different problem.Replies
Nice example cruzki, sustainability is one of the usually considered "another different goal" while it is not.Delete
In one sense you are right: if your time horizon is short, the outcomes of the decision are too uncertain to you and you basically can not foresight them, so the only thing you can do is keep the option you take in the Pareto frontier, seeking for some balance between the three goals.
But it is just because of your time scale being too short for the problem.
Imagine your problem is about a forest used to obtain wood. You need to keep money flowing for the company, you also need to keep the process sustainability on the long term, and you need the process to be "human friendly", all at the same time.
But sustainability is only a word for "we need the business to be profitable also in 50 years, not only 1 year", so, if you think with a time horizon of 50 years, both goals melt into only one: keep profit in the long term, not only in the short term.
Social benefits, in this case, could mean people want to walk on the forest and have clean air on the zone, so if the business is optimized for 50 years, it is mandatory that the forest is still there after this time, so again, just trying to maximie profit in the long term can balance the three goals aoutatically.
So, if you can change the scale of time at with you are casting the outcome of your decision, the three objetives will become one.
If you think only on profit in the short term, you will chop all the trees in the forest and convert into oney you can enjoy.
If now you think in a longer term, in one week there will be no more trees and you will be broken, so, it is smarter (better for your mind term profits) to keep the a portion of the trees untouched so they can produce more trees for the mid term profit not to fall down, so you decide to keep 50% of the trees and chop them in the next year.
But if you do so, in 2 years there will be no more trees again, and you will be broken one more time.
If you think 10 years in advance, you will find that choping only 1/3 of the trees each years is better, because your profits will be similar during those 10 years.
So, thinking at 20 years time horizon, melted profit and sustainability in one single goal.
This is why I think optimising on several objetives is just a sign telling us he time horizon used was not long enougt for the problem being solved.
All decisions humanity could take should be pondered for 1000 years time horizon, and with only one goal: keep humanity healthy, with lots of people living nice lifes.
Sumatory of hapinnes of all the peopley in the world IS the only real goal we are always, as society, trying to maximise, but it wont work unless you are capable of proyecting your forecasts above the century scale.
Did you read the Assimov "Foundation" books? This foundation was able to cast predictions up to thousand of years to come, and the foundation was trying to influence in the world history so those outcomes were as "good for humanity as a whole".
As they could foresight the outcomes of decisions for so long, they didn't need to balance objetives or find Pareto frontier: just take the decison tha maximise the "humanity health" in a 1000 years time horizon.


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Junkjet is the closest physical simulation yet of my browsing of the internet. It is as though someone took a snapshot of my newsreader on a given morning and turned it into a print journal — here are the excellent and pithy articles by Sam Jacob, some data visualisation projects, a project by Maynard this time the suburb regurgitating robot dogs, something written in German with pleasant diagrams, building typologies as D&D character sheets, and some project where google map markers are built at 1:1. Temporary tattoos of a cement mixer with wings are inserted into the front cover and folded into the back is a mock broadsheet, the 'junkancial times'.
Junkjet — the "Fanzine for Electronics and Aesthetics" edited by Asli Serbest, Mona Mahall and Gerd be Bruyn at the University of Stuttgart — is an exuberant publication, full of intriguing projects and essays. But what sets it apart, for me, is this uncanny sensation that reading through it feels like wandering the internet.
Much like a jaunt across multiple websites, there is no visual cohesion linking one item to the next; projects appear without context or explanation, are absorbed by the retina, and moved on from. Yes, this may be a common trait of zines in general, but in this case, the Technicolor approach and subject matter seem intricately tied to global online chatter than the cut and paste street press.
Considered as my personal real world rss reader, Junkjet then stands in contrast to other efforts of collating material found online like prss release and Things our Friends Have Written on the Internet where online content from disparate sources is similarly repurposed as a cohesive document. These efforts have always been attractive with their exotic non-webstandard typefaces and layouts freed of the constraints of blogging engines and yet I have found them to be a sticky format. Prss release (which is also great) for example is something that I continue to read on a screen in a web browser rather than printing out and reading on a metro, the lack of hyperlinks occasionally reminding me that I am not operating this machinery as one should.
Curiously, Junkjet's masterful reformation of the online experience offline is not so successful when put in reverse. Its website is determinedly 'anti'; all animated gifs, scrolling text and flashing lights. I get it, it is subversive. But it is not pushing the medium as hard as its print counterpart. I am not sure what would be more suitable (a del.icio.us bookmark page? An rss aggregator? no website, just a paypal portal?) but this is a minor point as the actual journal itself is so refreshing.
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Cause that's what I'm looking forward to. Loving summer. Going out in shorts and not hating myself. Not feeling embarrassed about the way my stomach and backfat look in tank tops. Refusing to go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather because being overweight makes me sweat so bad and it's just too damn hot to move a body with this much extra fat on it. I'm tired of that. I want this summer to be different.
Also, I'm looking forward to a SUPER HOT SWIMSUIT.
Granted, it may take me until next summer to get into that thing. But I do not care. It will happen.
Also, I'm moving to Texas in a couple of months, so maybe by Christmas! Ooh, what an awesome gift to myself that would be, huh?
Well I'm sure you're all dyyyying to know how I've been doing with the challenge. And I'm happy to report that I've been doing not so badly!
Yesterday, day 1, was a total bust on the nutrition front. I ate my breakfast smoothie (had to use sugary fruit juice in it...grrr) and was satisfied. But in my photo class we had decided to do a picnic-themed group photo for a poster contest. As with any picnic, there was food everywhere. EVERYWHERE. We were literally throwing it at each other. And I was doing okay resisting until I was offered a cookie. It was a chocolate chip cookie made with whole wheat flour, nutella, and the minimum butter and sugar needed to have it come out as a cookie. And it was amazingly good (I gotta get the recipe) but I ate it because I thought to myself "Huh. Whole wheat flour? Minimum sugar? Sounds fairly healthy!" And then I proceeded to eat three more, a few bites of cake, a brownie, and about five handfuls of those gross cheesy puffs with the neon orange cheese powder that looks like clown cocaine.
But, I did not give up! If it hadn't been for the fat-fest I just described, I would have had a perfect day. I snacked on fruit, meeting my 3 fruit servings. I made burrito bowls with shredded chicken, sauteed peppers and onions, black beans, brown rice, cabbage, and Mexican queso fresco (which I think is similar to string cheese nutrition-wise). It was a veggie fest, at least 3 of my 4 servings. Of course the carbs, fat, and sweets were all out the window. Had too much dairy/protein, too. Lumping them in together, as my Mayo Clinic food pyramid does, is really hard for me to deal with because I'm such a cheese addict. It
However, I am perfectly on track today! Had oatmeal made with milk and topped with honey and blueberries. (1 fruit, sweet allowance, 1 carb, 1 dairy/protein). For lunch, I had a nice big salad with balsamic vinaigrette and eggs, plus two triangles of pita bread with red pepper hummus (2 fats, 2 dairy/protein, 2 veggie). I had an apple for a snack (1 fruit) and a burrito bowl with extra brown rice and sauteed veggies for dinner(2 carb, 1 fat - cooked with olive oil, 2 veggie). So, what do I have left? A fruit and a carb! So I'll be snacking on pita chips and pineapple later tonight. :D
Okay, so when I got my Mayo Clinic food pyramid thingy, it came with this great list of foods that go into each category and what the servings size is for a certain amount of calories (for instance, a list of servings sizes of sweet things that are 75 calories). I just noticed that corn is on the carbohydrates list. Have any of you ever considered corn a carb and not a veggie? In my mind, carbs are just bready things. Hmm.
Anywho, I'm excited to get some exercise tonight because I found my heart rate monitor! A few months ago I bought one of these bad boys on amazon for 80 bucks:
Except mine is silver and not red. Sad day. BUT, I'm excited because I thought I had lost the little bean-shaped computer thing on the bottom that connects to the strap, but this morning I found it hiding under the runner on top of my dresser! Yaaaay! I'm not crazy about counting calories in, but I do like to see what workouts get me the best bang for my buck, so to speak. I'm excited to use this to compare jogging, jogging intervals, and cardio/strength circuits to see what the differences are (and of course to share them with you!)
I think I'll get changed for that exercise right now. I shall report tomorrow with another perfect day (hopefully)!


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Interesting development, I noticed this on Melonfarmers.co.uk but I am not sure what the Home Office means by "state of the art filtering technology" 🙂 Does such a thing exist yet? Well, I have not seen specialized software which filter out "terrorism related content" yet and I wonder what is included within that categorization. However, the categorization is bound to be broad as the Home Office press release refers to "websites that may encourage the endorsement or participation in acts of terrorism". No one seems to know how to obtain the "supposedly free to download" state of the art software. Please do let me know if you find it so that I can do some tests and see what they really are trying to protect us from! [Yaman Akdeniz]
Home Office: Industry and government work together to tackle internet terror
18 November 2008
State-of-the art filtering technology will allow parents, schools, businesses and web users to further restrict access to websites advocating or promoting terrorism.
Following joint work between the internet industry and government, web users now have the opportunity to download software allowing them to restrict access to websites that may encourage the endorsement or participation in acts of terrorism.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced the initiative so parents and guardians of vulnerable young people can further enhance internet safety for their home computers.
The software can be downloaded voluntarily and is available to parents, schools, colleges and businesses.
The Home Secretary's statement
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said, 'Stopping people becoming or supporting terrorists is the major long-term challenge we face. I want to give parents and guardians the power to decide what content is downloaded on their computers at home, which is why we have worked hard to develop these tools with various software companies.
'Building on the work we have done around child protection on the Internet, this software is a significant step in making the Internet a safer place for vulnerable people and these tools will also offer our schools, colleges and businesses further safety nets.
'It is reassuring that filtering software companies are taking the threat of on-line terrorism seriously and have developed the appropriate tools for all internet users. I would like to thank them for their hard work'
Notes to editors
* This software launch follows a speech the Home Secretary made on the 17 January 2008 where she outlined government engagement with the Internet industry around radicalisation and violent extremism on the net. The government has since been working with various companies that provide filtering and parental control software to ensure that their products provide a high level of protection against material that promotes or encourages terrorism.
* Many internet service providers (ISPs)offer filtering products as part of their internet access package, and broadband subscriptions in the UK usually come with free filtering options.
* In order to download the software, check whether a free filtering product is available through your broadband package or from your ISP."


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These have to be one of the best breakfast potatoes dishes I have ever made! On New Years Day, I made a brunch for Daniel and I and this dish was certainly the best! It was so easy to make. The potatoes were so flavorful. They were soft and crispy at the same time. Feel free to add additional seasonings until desired taste.
- 2 pounds new red potatoes, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 Vidalia onion, thinly sliced
- 1 red bell pepper, sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon Neely's BBQ seasoning (1 1/2 cups paprika, 3/4 cup sugar, and 3 3/4 tb. onion powder)
- 2 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh parsley leaves
In a saucepan over low heat, add the potatoes and cover with cold water by 2 inches. Simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 6 minutes. Drain the potatoes in a colander and reserve.
While the potatoes are cooking, heat a large cast iron skillet over medium-high heat and add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Add the onion and peppers and saute until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Remove the vegetables to a bowl and reserve.
Into the same skillet, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil and the potatoes in a single layer. Let cook for 4 to 5 minutes so they form a slight crust. Turn the potatoes and continue to cook for 3 to 4 more minutes. Add the paprika and seasoning and continue to stir until the potatoes are cooked and crisp. Stir in the onion and bell pepper mixture. Season again with salt. Remove to a serving dish and garnish with parsley.
Recipe: Pat's BBQ Home-Fried Potatoes – http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/neelys/pats-bbq-home-fried-potatoes-recipe/index.html


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Blueair Air Purifiers listed as 'One of the 10 Coolest Things in the World' by GQ magazine.
It's always nice when recognition comes from an unexpected source, and this week one of our most popular brands received just such a surprise when GQ Magazine named their classy air purifiers among the 'Ten coolest things in the world this week'. The manufacturer in question was Swedish Maestro Blueair, who in our eyes produce some of the best Hepa air purifiers in the world, so great work guys, you deserve it! Click here to see the article in GQ or Click here to view all Blueair purifiers on our... Read More


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Jacek, You raised issue XMLP LC Issue 305[1]: 'SOAP Response MEP doesn't need sending+receiving states'. The WG agreed with your analysis and has closed this issue by renaming the SOAP Repsonse states as follows: (i) Requesting SOAP node state "Sending+Receiving" becomes "Receiving"[2] (ii) Responding SOAP node state "Receiving+Sending" becomes "Sending"[2] The HTTP binding[3] was also modified to include new sections describing these states. We trust this satisfies your concern, please let us know if not. Regards, Marc (on behalf of the XML Protocol Working Group). [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-lc-issues.html#x305 [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#soapresmep [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#http-msgexop -- Marc Hadley <email@example.com> XML Technology Center, Sun Microsystems.Received on Friday, 18 October 2002 13:33:43 UTC
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Al Jarreau Dead At 76
R&B and jazz legend Al Jarreau has died. He was 76.
The 7-time Grammy Award winner died in Los Angeles according to his website.
This is such tragic news. According to TMZ he had been touring almost non-stop for 50 years. He sang the theme song for the popular TV show "Moonlighting."
Press play to watch the video below.