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I tend to agree with this as I prefer to divine, or fortune tell. I use the opening statements of the sitter vague or otherwise( it's their reading I let them say what they will) I use the vague question/ my initial card interpretation response as a criterion for the rest of the reading, sort of GD'ish... if it a mile off, we are done. __________________ Full cup, steady hand. Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Ah! But you are using your brain to dispute my new-age wisdom.. Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know... vituperabilis innocens temerarus balatro. |
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Sorry, Gregory - I have to laugh! I mean - you (royal you) are consciously going to a reader to have a reading ... don't you have a reason to pay for getting that reading...? I think there is a 'group mind' aspect to going to a reader - a group of friends says "Let's get our cards done!" so you all pile in a car and go see the local reader. I can see possibly you get caught up in the moment and don't have a concrete question to ask. But to say 'I WANT a tarot reading on Tuesday' and walk in with the old 'deer in the headlights look' just doesn't make complete sense. __________________ I don't lead the parade - I AM THE PARADE! This is not rocket surgery, ya know! Bury the past - and move on to a new tomorrow. |
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Are people in science-related fields appreciating clean and simple slides? You have only mentioned feedback (or lack thereof) with respect to the "design". What sort of feedback have you received with respect to the presentation overall. Ultimately, I'm not sure that this question is answerable in its current form. It currently seems like the question is only concerned with the aesthetic view of "design", but even if something is pretty, it doesn't mean it is "well-designed". |
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Identify strange font / symbols in a riddle; maybe GIMP-made It looks to me like a foreign alphabet. I would suggest that you try starting with Thai and other Indic scripts. |
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How can I save an Inkscape drawing so it can be opened in CorelDRAW without losing layer information? A quick Google search turned up this script that lets you export individual SVG layers as PDF files. Sort of a hassle, but might be a temporary workaround if you need something urgently. Other recommendations (not tested) include grouping the objects in each layer, moving them all the one layer (but still grouped), and exporting as a plain SVG. Haven't had a chance to test either of these, hence I'm adding this as a comment instead of an answer. Will try to find some time later to test them out. |
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Grocon right to reject Fair Work Australia recommendation
"The recommendation of Fair Work Australia to end the Grocon dispute is an indictment of the 'above the law' culture of Australian workplace relations.
The recommendation merely confirms how disconnected from the rule of law workplace relations has become," said John Lloyd, Director, Work Reform and Productivity at the Institute of Public Affairs.
It is unlawful to coerce an employer to employ a particular person.
Orders of a Supreme Court are seen by most Australians as encompassing serious legal obligations.
It seems these important considerations are being disregarded in the Grocon dispute.
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Siemens, a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors, said it had discovered evidence of corruption at its business in Kuwait and had involved authorities.
'We uncovered the case ourselves, involved the authorities and took disciplinary measures,' a spokesman for the company said on Friday.
German daily newspaper Financial Times Deutschland earlier cited a senior prosecutor in Munich as saying arrests had been made in connection with a fresh investigation at Siemens.
The paper cited judicial sources as saying at least two managers had been arrested, and an arrest warrant has been issued for a third manager who had worked in Kuwait. The prosecution in Munich was not immediately available for comment.
Siemens was embroiled in Germany's biggest post-war corporate corruption scandal that started in 2006, culminating in about 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion) in fines and penalties and the departure of its chairman and chief executive.
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RR: Well, the Avatar happened for me right away. As soon as I got it I used in on Mistral and I was really hooked. I'd heard that Tailspinnin' record by Weather Report, with Alyrio Lima by the way, which is the first one where Zawinul used the 2600 a lot. As soon as I heard that, I realized synthesis was it for me. I was fascinated. I loved the sounds. I loved the possibilities. I have sort of a techie head and it meshed with that nicely. This came with a pickup that was made by Arp and you put the pickup on your guitar.
AAJ: Was that the red guitar? The ES 335 type thing?
RR: The Guitorgan , yes. I had already gotten the Guitorgan before that. My real first foray into alternative sounds out of the guitar
AAJ: Who made that?
RR: It was some company in Texas.
AAJ: Was that a thing you put into a guitar?
RR: Yes. They put it in an Ibanez guitar, a 335 copy- a very nice guitar. I was lucky. They put it in a bad instrument before, but I ordered it anyway. It turned out the instrument they put mine in was a great guitar. I had the Guitorgan in the old band - '77 or sometime in there. I added the Avatar later. Then I got a 2600 head I used with the Avatar. The Avatar would put control voltages out so I could use it with the 2600. The 2600 was the electronics and the keyboard controller was a separate thing. After Mistral was released I started doing keyboards instead of the two guitar thing. First Frank Wilkins on keys, then when Louis went away to Japan, Tommy Campbell replaced him on drums.
I had various bass players. I had Wayne Pedzwater first, then Tim Landers . Then Tim went to California and I grabbed Victor Bailey. Victor had just started Berklee. Mine was the first gig he did in Boston. He'd come to hear the band a few times at Pooh's Pub, and loved it. He was like a little kid fresh out of high school, just about. His first gig he was okay, right? His second gig he was really okay? They third gig he sounded good. The fourth gig he sounded great. Fifth gig..he was killing it! It was amazing. He was just beautiful, and what a great guy to work with.
AAJ: He's still a nice guy. I saw him a couple years ago and I mentioned your name. He lit right up!
RR: Total sweetheart. I have to get back in touch with him. Frank and Tommy and Victor. Great band.
AAJ: Didn't Hunt play in that band too?
RR: Well, what happened next was Tommy got the call to play with Dizzy, so Jun Saito replaced him. That was tough, because I was used to Tommy and Jun just wasn't doing it for me at first. I was on his case all the time. He was so dedicated and worked so hard on the music, y'know. We had our first good gig and after that point, it was fine. Then Steve Hunt replaced Frank.
AAJ: When did Jeff Berlin come? I saw a couple of those gigs.
RR: That was summer of 1980 and 1981. That was a good band, with Jun and Steve. It was an exciting band- we had some good gigs. Audiences liked that lot.
AAJ: Didn't you and Jeff also work with Bill Bruford around that time? Yes- 1980. Bill had finished his solo records with Holdsworth and Jeff and decided he would like to explore even more of a jazz direction. So Jeff recommended he play with us-me and Mick (Goodrick). We did some gigs at Michael's and Pooh's. [Note: an interview with Bruford and Randy during this time period is archived here ].
AAJ: What happened with the bass chair after Jeff?
RR: Then we had Jimmy Earl and then Baron Browne , on bass. That's when we started playing at Ryles , after Pooh's closed.
AAJ: I saw you play with Kai Eckhardt, too.
RR: Yeah, just a couple of gigs, though.
AAJ: Well, I guess the point is that everyone who came through your band was an incredible player.
RR: In those days, all I wanted to do was gig. There was no recording unless it was to record what your gigging band did. I had no deal. What was I going to do? It was hip to have jazz then, and I had a good gig playing somewhat challenging music. So of course the good players who happened to be in town were going to play with me at some point. Quite a few good players were coming through Boston!
AAJ: Back to the fretless guitar.
RR: That was mostly the winter of '78. My friend Steve Holland, who originally studied with me, was a very good guitarist and became a very good friend- was going to MIT at the time and was a brilliant guy and brilliant at building things. He could work with any material and make anything out of it. He could look art any machine and immediately understand how it worked and how to make it better. He had this idea for a sustaining device that was the opposite of a pickup. It would put out instead of pick up. It would therefore set up a feedback loop through the string and make a note last forever.


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Yes, they still sell the phones that come with One Year of service. I just bought 1 GSM phone and 2 CDMA phones there about two weeks ago for $9.99 each, I was stocking up. My VA only stocks the lower end phones LG100C and LG101G.
Was wondering if anyone has purchased one lately? It's been years since I have.
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Yes, they still sell the phones that come with One Year of service. I just bought 1 GSM phone and 2 CDMA phones there about two weeks ago for $9.99 each, I was stocking up. My VA only stocks the lower end phones LG100C and LG101G.
And they are happy to sell you more than two, which is the limit at other stores.
What carrier do the 100C's use?
Verizon, it's a CDMA phone and Verizon is the only CDMA carrier in our area.
Cool deal. I figured it could be Sprint since StraightTalk started using Sprint for the Android devices and noticed the ESN started in 268435 like they always do on Virgin Mobile.
I am in a US Cellular and Verizon area so I wonder where it would go...
I got some phones at the VA canteen about a month ago. They had the Net10 LG 900 and LG 800. The LG 800 was $49.99 and the LG 900 was either $49.99 or $39.99.
The Tracfone phones were the LG 100c and Sam T105g for $9.99, the Sam T301g for maybe $19.99.
Last year at this time they also had the Trac LG 220c but I don't remember seeing it this time. On the other hand, I wasn't looking for it. I was just there to get some cheap phones and get out. I got 2 Trac $9.99 phones and 1 Net10 LG800.
At the VA canteen, CDMA phones activate with 12 months but GSM phones activate with 14 months.
If you are getting a phone specifically to transfer the service days onto an existing phone and then you are going to dump it on CL or whatever, you would do better to get a GSM phone.
annepani, I bought a Samsung T105g last year which activated with only 12 months. Also, can you verify that the Net10 phones activate with at least a year like the Tracfones? In my store, the Tracfones had a label that they came with a year of service, but the Net10's did not have a label.
Last year and this year I got CDMA Trac phones so I cannot verify specifically that GSM phones still activate with 14 months but I know that they used to. The Trac packages have the 1-year label.
The Net10 LG 800 definitely activated with at least a year. The package does not have the 'Activates with 1 year' label like the Tracfone packaging. It is Net10 Unlimited packaging. But there was a big banner across the pegs holding the Net10 phones warning that adding an unlimited card will wipe out the 1 year. So you can be confident that they activate with a year.
Thanks for the info and the quick response!


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Welch, Lisa C., Karen E. Lutfey, Eric Gerstenberger, Matthew Grace, and John B. McKinlay. In press. "A Pathway to Variation in Physicians' Decisions for Men and Women with Coronary Heart Disease: The Double-edged Sword of 'Atypical Symptoms'" Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Lutfey, Karen E., Eric Gerstenberger, and John B. McKinlay. In press. "Physician Styles of Patient Management as a Source of Disparities: Cluster Analyses from a Factorial Experiment." Health Services Research.
Lutfey, Karen E., Stephen C. Campbell, Lisa D. Marceau, Martin Roland, and John B. McKinlay. 2012. "Influences of organizational features of healthcare settings on clinical decision making: Qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine 16(1):40-56.
Freese, Jeremy and Karen E. Lutfey. 2011. "Fundamental Causality: Challenges of an Animating Concept for Medical Sociology." Pp.67-81 in B. Pescosolido, J. Martin, J. McLeod, and A. Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology. New York: Springer.
Boyer, Carol A. and Karen E. Lutfey. 2010. "Examining Critical Health Policy Issues Within and Beyond the Clinical Encounter: Patient/Provider Relationships and Help-Seeking Behaviors." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51: Suppl S80-93.
Lutfey, Karen E., Kevin W. Eva, Eric Gerstenberger, Carol L. Link, and John B. McKinlay. 2010. "Physician Cognitive Processing as a Source of Diagnostic and Treatment Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease: Results of a Factorial Priming Experiment." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(1):16-29.
Lutfey, Karen E. and John B. McKinlay. 2009. "What Happens Along the Diagnostic Pathway to CHD Treatment? Qualitative Results Concerning Cognitive Processes." Sociology of Health and Illness 31(7): 1077-92.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- Catawba topped host Johnson C. Smith 8-1 in women's tennis action on Thursday afternoon at the Coleman/Cuthbertson Courts. Freshman Liz Renteria (Mirmar, FL/Archbishop McCarthy HS) and sophomore Sloan Kessler (Onalaska, WI/La Crosse Aquinas) each won in singles and teamed for a doubles win for the Catawba Indians.
Catawba won two of three doubles matches then swept the single, dropping only one set. Renteria rallied from a set down to win at #1. Olivia Myers (Lexington, NC/W. Davidson HS) won at #6 without losing a game for the second straight match.
WOMEN'S MATCH RESULTSCATAWBA 8, JC SMITH 1Singles #1 Liz Renteria (C) d. Rankin Anderson 1-6, 6-0, 6-3#2 Sloan Kessler (C) d. Keiana Love 6-2, 6-4#2 Maggie McKee (C) d. Felicia Akande 6-2, 6-3#4 Ally Prior (C) d. Khadijha Battle 6-0, 6-3#5 Lauren Sledd (C) d. Nichelle Heard 6-1, 6-0#6 Olivia Myers (C) d. Jasmine Reddick 6-0, 6-0
Doubles#1 Renteria/Kessler (C) d. Anderson/Battle 8-0#2 Andrea Bell/Rachel Rudisill (C) d. Love/Margaret Jones 8-3#3 Akande/Heard (JC) d. Hannah Kovach/Caroline Cozart 8-5RECORDS: Catawba 2-0; JC Smith 0-1


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* myBlee now integrates sounds for better user experience* a new navigation bar let's you navigate more easily threw the different levels of an exercise
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Children can figure out negative numbers at their own pace and while having fun, using a thermometer that allows them to change the temperature with the flick of a finger. From 3rd to 6th grade, "Discovering negative numbers – myBlee" adapts itself to the student's own level and allows the student to understand what a negative number is and how to distinguish one.Our teachers have broken down each idea into easy-to-understand and remember parts, and myBlee guides the student step-by-step with engaging animations. While teaching through play, myBlee talks to the child to offer guidance, corrections, and encouragement. Since myBlee can read children's handwriting, the student can answer just as if he or she were using a slate.
LGM Learning creates educational applications for students in primary and middle school. Designed by professors and tested by students, they are recognized for their high level of interactivity. Thanks to myBlee, students can learn, review, and understand essential concepts in mathematics all by themselves.
myBlee is designed to match the pace and level of each child, making a more enjoyable, interactive, and rewarding learning experience, in line with the student's expectations of what learning should be—fun!
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By Dave Meltzer
A lot of people here are down due to the death of Arturo Gatti. Gatti used to train at the UFC Gym so many in the company knew him. The listed pay for the main events has Frank Mir at $45,000+$45,000, Brock Lesnar at $400,000+0, Georges St. Pierre at $200,000+$200,000 and Thiago Alves at $60,000+60,000. Those likely aren't even a percentage of what the real numbers are going to wind up.
Matt Grice vs. Shannon Gugerty
Gugerty with a takedown. He's got a guillotine, but more like a front facelock. Grice is back to his feet. Gugerty is going for a guillotine again and Grice is out cold and ref Herb Dean stopped it. Surprised to see Grice go down that easily.
C.B. Dollaway vs. Tom Lawlor Lawlor is facing C.B. "The Doberman "Dollaway and Lawlor looks to be the favorite for best ring entrance to "Who Let The Dogs Out" Lawlor did his 80s Hogan most muscular pose as well. Lawlor was in Deep South Wrestling but WWE passed on him a few years back, so he went into MMA.
Dollaway with a takedown and Lawlor grabbed a guillotine, and it was tight. Big upset here. Lawlor is going crazy. Dollaway tapped right as he went out. Two matches both similar. Dollaway is fjrious at himself. He can't believe it happened. This went :55
Lawlor said he's moving to heavyweight challenged Lesnar and Mir and then moving to 170 and challenging St. Pierre. Joe Rogan asked him if he practices that move a lot and he said "No." Lawlor will come off as a star if this gets on TV, which is probably will.
Dong Hyun Kim vs. T.J. Grant
Grant got a big pop since he's from Canada. Both had advantage time during the round. Very close round. Grant's face doesn't look so hot after round one. Kim won a close round 10-9.
High kick and punch by Kim and Grant right back. Grant bulled Kim into the cage and trying for a single leg takedown. Kim blocked it and grabbed a guillotine. This doesn't look good because our guillotine prevention hasnt been much. Grant got a huge pop for escaping the guillotine. Somewhere Ole Anderson is smiling at how simple psychology works, except Ole isn't watching and can't understand why nobody is going for a hammerlock slam. Kim now on top. He had a hard elbow but Grant is mostly doing a good job defending. Kim mostly keeping top position. Grant nailed Kim with an up kick while Kim had his knees down and they deducted a point from Grant for the illegal kick. With the point deduction it's a 10-8 round and 20-17 right now most likely.
Holly Madison isn't here in the ring girl position at this point. Nor is Edith for those keeping ring girl score. There are two empty chairs
A new rule is in effect. If the fighter in the dominant position gets fouled, he can pick the position to restart. So in the second round foul, Kim asked to start on their feet so they didn't start back on the ground where they left off.
Trading punches. Grant did well until Kim delivered the judo hip toss. Kim is doing some punching, mostly from a standing position and punching down and then going back into Grant's guard. I've got it 30-26 for Kim.
All three judges have it 30-26 for Kim.
Gate will be the second biggest of all-time, in excess of $5 million and that's not including the closed circuit locations all over town.
Jonny "Bones" Jones vs. "Irish" Jake O'Brien
O'Brien tried a takedown and Jones stepped over and out. Jones escaped another takedown attempt. Jones throwing annoying kicks, now a good low kick. Jones jabbing and conneced a few times with O'Brien's nose. Good high kick by Jones. Another good high kick by Jones. Jones isn't doing any crazy moves this time. Good body kick by Jones. He did try a jumping kick late but it didn't come close. Jones 10-9 in an uneventful round.
Jumping kick landed this time by Jones. He consideredd a flying spin kick and then changed his mind. High kick and a front kick by Jones. High kick miseed. All stand-up and Jones is the quicker of the two. Crowd not too interested in the match. Jones landed a high kick. Jones landed a spinning back fist that popped the crowd. Now using front kicks. O'Brien trying a takedown but easy sprawl by and Jones used a no arm D'arce choke, called a guillotine, and O'Brien tapped.
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Teachers Embrace Environmental Education
October 5, 2011In honor of World Teachers' Day, Maria Ghiso — the Rainforest Alliance's education program outreach coordinator — blogs about her recent trip to meet with a group of eco-conscious teachers in Colombia…
Teachers are a special group of people. I have met teachers from all over the world and no matter where I find myself, I am always awed by their passion and commitment. Not only do they work to shape the minds of future generations, they also play a leadership role within their communities.
Earlier this month, Julianne Schrader – manager of our education program – and I had the pleasure of working with a truly wonderful group of teachers in Colombia. Together with Project Learning Tree, we were there to help support the work of our colleagues and friends at Fundación Natura, a locally based nonprofit and a member of the Sustainable Agriculture Network. During the week, we led two workshops — one in San José de la Montaña (part of the Department of Boyacá) and one in Encino (part of the Department of Santander), a community outside of the beautiful Cachalú Biological Reserve. [Editor's note: Maria will be sharing a blog about her trip to Cachalú later this week.]
In Encino, we were joined by 30 teachers from nearby schools. We spent the day sharing experiences and resources for teaching environmental education. We discussed activities for working with young students, looked for shapes in the environment, and incorporated music and movement as we danced with leaves. We learned about the parts of a tree and how they function to help the tree live and grow. We looked at the distribution of the forests of the world in comparison to the population of the world, and we talked about climate change and discussed the role forests play in the global climate.
We also addressed the fundamentals of environmental education – beginning with awareness, sharing knowledge and skills, and inspiring action. Teachers worked in groups and created a map of changes they would like to see in their schools. Many dreamed of greening their classrooms and schools, and adding more plants and trees in and around their school sites.
As a group, we planted trees to be left and cared for at the school. It was a symbolic gesture that represented the group's commitment to the environment. The teachers were very motivated by the activities and the resources we shared during the workshop. We encouraged them to work to make some elements of their plans for greening their school a reality.
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The PhD Programme at The Faculty of Science and Technology
The research education at the faculty is organised in one Phd programme including the following diciplines:
- Physics
- Geology
- Computer science
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Molecular structural biology
The Phd programme includes the following research schools:
- The Phd trainee School in Artci Geology ang Geophysics, associated with the National Research School in Climate Dynamics (ResClim)
- The PhD-school in Molecular and Structural Biology associated with BioStruct (The National Graduate School in Structural Biology
- Barents Remote Sensing School (BARESS)
Admission requirements
In order to be admitted to a PhD-program at the University of Tromsø, the applicant must have completed higher education which is approved in Norway either as an (i) integrated Master's degree (5 years/ 300 credits), (ii) a Master's degree (2 years/ 120 credits) and a Bachelor's degree (3 years/ 180 credits) or (iii) the equivalent education as approved by the faculty responsible for the specific program.
Please note that for students from several countries one to two years of higher education is subtracted when comparing to Norwegian degrees (this is due to differences in the school systems). This means that the applicant will need a minimum of six to seven years of higher education including a two year Master's degree from his/her home country to be qualified for PhD-studies in Norway.
One of the admission requirements is adequate financing, which as a general rule is income at the level of a Research Fellow position. Available positions are announced regularly at Jobbnorge. For information about planned announcements, please contact the relevant department (see links to the left).
Applicants must document proficiency in English that satisfies the Norwegian Higher Education Entrance Qualification: Proficiency in English - PhD-level studies.
Additional information in Norwegian (See flag in upper right corner).
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May 8 2013
Night Vision
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Academics & Research
This semester I'm taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of the semester, we were thrown into the darkroom. It might as well be a time-machine (film? what's that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is time-consuming. I spent countless hours over the last many weeks pouring, shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how long I've been doing each aforementioned action. It's brainpower-consuming -- I can't actually think about nothing when i'm trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It's emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only there was a preview button.
For all the inconveniences of the analog process, practicing making non-digital prints has actually done something extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to shake your head too hard.) For the past two years that I've owned a DSLR, I've never used it on manual. But... read the post »
Mar 6 2013
We Eat At Food Trucks
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Life & Culture
Last Thursday, I went to "Food Truck 101: The Conference", a 4-hour event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was planning to go to the Nate Silver event the same evening -- but that's okay, because Michael covered it fantastically.
That's the outside of Clover Food Lab.
And this is the inside.
Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a single food truck serving the MIT campus, now represents an entire fast food chain with eleven trucks and two restaurants (with two more opening this spring). Clover food is: local, fresh, and organic whenever possible. To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty of people rave about exactly that.
Ayr Muir, Clover's founder/CEO and host at this conference, is actually a graduate of MIT's material science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a Truck", "How to Build a Food Truck", "Food... read the post »
Feb 20 2013
This is it.
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Academics & Research
Hi friends,
My final semester at MIT is well underway and spring break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a student in graduate school, but more on that in another post). In any case, I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to graduate with a major in Architecture and minor in management.
Well, good luck to all of us this spring semester! Feel free to ask about classes or anything else at MIT. :)
Feb 10 2013
One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life
Posted in: Miscellaneous
Hi guys,
Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight-less life. :P
Nemo just getting started in Boston -- dedicated joggers forge on...
3:57 pm -- you got 3 minutes to get off the road cars!!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8)
There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower.
Nothin' to do but line up for blizzard sundaes at my dorm, Burton Conner.
And then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened.
And maybe I can get the bread I want next week.
Jan 10 2013
Falling in Love with a Language at MIT
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Life & Culture
I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got his name, but in my mind, he was already The Hispanic Guy Who Speaks Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip to Korea - during which he still brought out his workbooks to study Chinese...
Kristina and I were teammates on the MIT Sport Taekwondo team. While we all waited to fight at tournaments, Kristina would do her Chinese homework, sometimes asking me for help. When I see Chinese-language updates on Facebook, Gchat, or Tumblr, there's a good chance it's from her.
I came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade. The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up taking three more to fulfill the concentration requirement. While my speaking, writing, and reading abilities have all improved... read the post »


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COLUMBIA, SC — For the second time in two weeks, a Midlands area teenager walking home from her school bus stop has been approached by a stranger trying to pick her up.
The latest incident occurred in Richland County around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Broad Rover Road and Hufstetler Drive, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
The 14-year-old told investigators the man drove up to her in a burgundy two-door truck, rolled his window down and asked if she wanted a ride. When she said no and turned to run, she said the man got out of his truck and chased her. She was able to get home, lock the doors and call her family.
Authorities are looking for a man that the teenager described as "heavy-set, dark-skinned, bald and between 50 and 55 years old," Lott said.
Two weeks ago, Lexington County authorities launched a search for a man who approached a female student walking home from her bus stop on the Edmund Highway around 12:20 p.m. This suspect was driving a four-door, red car. He was described as an older, heavy-set white man with a shoulder-length mullet cut and a gray goatee. Police still are looking for that suspect.


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Top 5 Hidden Treasures in Macomb Township
From an expansive ice arena to indoor water fun, Macomb Township boasts recreation options for families and individuals.
This state-of-the-art, 57,000-square-foot center has an indoor water park complete with two pools, water slide, lazy river and other features. There's a child watch room, teen game room, workout facilities, figure-eight running track and more. Figure skaters, hockey players and folks who just enjoy open ice time congregate at this sprawling arena next to the township rec center. It has two NHL-sized ice surfaces, a pro shop, skate rentals, a food stand and more. This 94-acre park is generally open from April 15 to the first snowfall. It has a one-mile asphalt walking path, two football fields, two soccer fields, three lighted baseball diamonds, an inline skating rink, a playscape, a picnic pavilion, a concession stand and restrooms. The …
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WB Journal Day 3: Meet Alan I understand now why people either go places to write about them, or, inevitably write about the places they already live (the John Grisham syndrome). You can see at what point in an artists career he moves because the environments and or the subjects change abruptly. Theres something about being in a place when you write about it that seems necessary now. A resource book wont tell you what a garden smells like in spring, or what a warm, southern, ocean breeze feels like on your face. I visited Alan Warrens house today. At the Yorktown Victory Center sits a recreated tidewater plantation. The woman
Williamsburg Journal Day 2 Miraculously I slept through the night entirely. If trains drove through the parking lot again, my body mustve been too tired to care. My shower head, however, has yet to be tamed. For the first few minutes its quiet, then suddenly, without warning, it bursts out into a horrible sound I can only describe as one part electric saw, one part E.T. the extraterrestrial screaming. If youre having problems conjuring up what that sound must be like, I can only recommend you come to the Travelodge in Williamsburg, VA and request room 163. The neighbors, at least, dont seem
Williamsburg Journal Day 1 I woke this morning to the loud hissing and grinding of a train, which sounded close enough that, had I not known that trains run on tracks, I would have worried for my car in the parking lot. This train was, of course, unknown to me until 3:40 AM (with a reminder at 6:55), but goes a long way to explaining why this hotel, of all hotels on this selfsame street, offered the same amenities for significantly less. And why 6:30 is a good time to trim and mow outside of guests rooms, Ill never know. However, I got here yesterday without event. The nine hour drive did not feel like nine hours.


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If you use dap generated buttons for paypal standard, then DAP requires that auto-return be globally enabled in "Website Payment Preferences" because without it, dap cannot auto-login users upon purchase.
Turning on auto-return would NOT impact any existing payment buttons that set it's own button-level return level.
If you use dap buttons, then dap automatically sets button level return. So it's never a problem if you use 1 paypal account for multiple dap accounts. You can set autoreturn to point to one of the dap sites but use that same paypal account to sell products from multiple dap powered membership sites. Does not matter what the auto-return is set to.. it just needs to be set.
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Deleuze as Networkologist
The world is, for Deleuze, an intertwined series of layer of networks within networks. Which is not to say that Deleuze says all of this in anything like a systematic fashion. But all of this is present, if in the margins, of Deleuze's texts. All of which produces the basis upon which it becomes possible to put Deleuze's work into discourse with the contemporary manifestations of the science of networks. For in fact, Deleuze was not here to see the internet, nor the more developed forms of globalized capital, nor networked approaches to the mind and artificial intelligence. And while his networkology of events is in fact central to his metaphysics, it fascinates me that few beyond DeLanda have truly pursued this approach to Deleuze before.
Deleuze, Guattari and Emergence
The concept of emergence – which I define as the (diachronic) construction of functional structures in complex systems that achieve a (synchronic) focus of systematic behaviour as they constrain the behaviour of individual components – plays a crucial role in debates in philosophical reflection on science as a whole (the question of reductionism) as well as in the fields of biology (the status of the organism), social science (the practical subject), and cognitive science (the cognitive subject). In this essay I examine how the philosophy of Deleuze and that of Deleuze and Guattari can help us see some of the most important implications of the debate on the status of the organism, as well as prepare the ground for a discussion of the practical and cognitive subject.
All of what follows depends on accepting the strong case put forth in DeLanda that Deleuze's project in Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense – continued in the collaborative works of DG – establishes the ontology of a world able to yield the results forthcoming in complexity theory. In terms I will explain further below, complexity theory models material systems using the techniques of nonlinear dynamics, which, by means of showing the topological features of manifolds (the distribution of 'singularities') affecting a series of trajectories in a phase space, reveals the patterns (shown by 'attractors' in the models), thresholds ('bifurcators' in the models), and the necessary intensity of triggers (events that move systems to a threshold activating a pattern) of these systems. By showing the spontaneous appearance of indicators of patterns and thresholds in the models of the behaviour of complex systems, complexity theory enables us to think material systems in terms of their powers of immanent self-organization.
Philosophy and Simulation – The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
In this groundbreaking new book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causal (and other) capacities. Simulations allow us to stage actual interactions among a population of agents and to observe the emergent wholes that result from those interactions. Simulations have become as important as mathematical models in theoretical science. As computer power and memory have become cheaper they have migrated to the desktop, where they now play the role that small-scale experiments used to play. A philosophical examination of the epistemology of simulations is needed to cement this new role, underlining the consequences that simulations may have for materialist philosophy itself. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of science and the humanities, is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of technology and the philosophy of science at all levels.
Manuel De Landa – Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy
One of the most significant epistemological events in recent years is the growing importance of historical questions in the ongoing reconceptualization of the hard sciences. I believe it is not an exaggeration to say that in the last two or three decades, history has almost completely infiltrated physics, chemistry and biology. It is true that nineteenth century thermodynamics had already introduced an arrow of time into physics, and hence the idea of irreversible historical processes. It is also true that the theory of evolution had already shown that animals and plants were not embodiments of eternal essences but piecemeal historical constructions, slow accumulations of adaptive traits cemented together via reproductive isolation. However, the classical versions of these two theories incorporated a rather weak notion of history into their conceptual machinery: both thermodynamics and Darwinism admitted only one possible historical outcome, the reaching of thermal equilibrium or of the fittest design. In both cases, once this point was reached, historical processes ceased to count. For these theories, optimal design or optimal distribution of energy represented, in a sense, an end of history.
Deleuze and DeLanda: A new ontology, a new political economy?
This paper will explore how the social ontology of Gilles Deleuze, as recently summed up by Manuel DeLanda, can be used in the context of economic sociology. In particular, the text will study the divergences (as well as similarities) between Deleuzians such as DeLanda and ActorNetwork theorists such as Michel Callon and Bruno Latour.
The text starts off from the concept of 'assemblage' (agencement), using it as a point of departure for sketching the differences between the two strains of thought. Whereas the concept of assemblage is often used by ANTinspired writers to loosely denote 'hybrid collectives' under constant reconfiguration, in particular in the context of economic agency, Deleuze's original use of the term is more specific (featuring a number of special properties), and at the same time more generic (used to describe wide variety of entities).
Manuel DeLanda's Art of Assembly
Theorists have devoted more interest to questions of "the virtual" recently. This is due, in part, to growing familiarity with the scientific concepts necessary to its interrogation, as well as the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and those of philosophers he has resurrected, such as Spinoza and Bergson. But this interest is also the result of growing dissatisfaction with current theoretical approaches that rely on "top-down" methods unable to effectively account for the emergence or mutation of systems. Manuel DeLanda, for instance, has referred in his writing to oversimplifications that attribute causes to posited systems such as "late capitalism" without describing the causal interaction of their parts, which would change in different contexts. In his introduction to Parables for the Virtual, Brian Massumi argues that cultural theory's over-reliance on ideological accounts of subject-formation and coding has resulted in "gridlock," as the processes that produce subjects disappear in critiques that position bodies on a grid of oppositions (male-female, gay-straight, etc.). In one of his more exceptional examples, Massumi argues that Ronald Reagan's success as the "Great Communicator" was not due to his mastery of image-based politics to hypnotize an unwitting public. The opposite was the case. Reagan's halting speech and jerky movements were the source of his power, the infinite interruptions in his delivery so many moments of indeterminacy or virtual potential that were later made determinate by specific receiving apparatuses, such as families and churches. In short, interactions among non-ideological parts produced ideological power. Critiques that consider only the ends of ideology are unable to examine the very processes that create constraining subject-formations in the first place.
Philosophy and Simulation – The Emergence of Synthetic Reason by Manuel DeLanda
In this groundbreaking new book, Manuel Delanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causal (and other) capacities. Simulations allow us to stage actual interactions among a population of agents and to observe the emergent wholes that result from those interactions.
Simulations have become as important as mathematical models in theoretical science. As computer power and memory have become cheaper they have migrated to the desktop, where they now play the role that small-scale experiments used to play. A philosophical examination of the epistemology of simulations is needed to cement this new role, underlining the consequences that simulations may have for materialist philosophy itself.
DeLanda on idealism and realism
Idealists have it easy. Their reality is uniformly populated by appearances or phenomena, structured by linguistic representations or social conventions, so they can feel safe to engage in metaphysical speculation knowing that the contents of their world have been settled in advance. Realists, on the other hand, are committed to assert the autonomy of reality from the human mind, but then must struggle to define what inhabits that reality.


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Often referred to as a gift from the sea, pearl's origin has been an object of folklore throughout history. Early Chinese myths told of pearls falling from the sky when dragons fought. Ancient Persian legend said that pearls were tears of the gods. In classical times, it was believed that pearls were formed when moonbeams lit upon shellfish, while Indian mythology suggested pearls were formed when dewdrops fell from the heavens into the sea.
In truth, pearls are lustrous gems with an organic origin. They are formed inside mollusks such as oysters, clams and mussels when an irritant such as a tiny stone, grain of sand or small parasite enters the mollusk's shell. To protect its soft inner body, the mollusk secretes a smooth, lustrous substance called nacre around the foreign object. Layer upon layer of nacre coats the irritant and hardens, ultimately forming a pearl.
This process of building a solid pearl can take up to seven or eight years. Generally, the thicker the nacre becomes, the richer the "glow" of the pearl and greater its value. While pearls that have formed on the inside of the shell (called blister pearls) are usually irregular in shape and have little commercial value, those that are formed within the tissue of the mollusk are either spherical or pear-shaped and are highly sought-after for jewelry. Most pearls on the market measure 7.0-7.5mm in diameter, but can be found as small as 1mm or as large as 20mm.
Although some pearls are found naturally in mollusks (considered the most valuable), the vast majority of pearls are grown, or cultured, on pearl farms. To instigate this culturing process, a small shell bead, or nucleus, is surgically inserted into the mantle of an oyster. Despite the fact that pearls are harvested in great quantities on pearl farms, producing a quality pearl is an extremely rare event. It is estimated that half of all nucleated oysters do not survive and, from those that do, only 20 percent create marketable pearls.
Cultured and natural pearls can be distinguished from imitation pearls by rubbing them gently against the edge of a tooth. Cultured and natural pearls will feel slightly rough, like fine sandpaper, because of the texture of natural nacre. Imitations will feel quite smooth because their surfaces are merely molded or painted on smooth beads. Since nacre is organic, pearls are quite "soft" and rank only a 2.5-4.5 on the Mohs Scale. The gems are very sensitive and special care should be taken when wearing and storing them.
The value of a pearl is judged by several factors, and high-quality pearl strands should feature pearls well-matched in these factors: "orient," the lustrous iridescence that's produced when light is reflected from the nacre, should glow with a soft brilliance; the nacre's texture should be clean and smooth, absent of spots, bumps or cracks; the shape of a pearl should be symmetrical and generally the rounder a pearl is, the higher its value; and although pearls come in many different colors (depending on the environment and species of mollusk), the most favored are those that have a rose-tinted hue.
Pearls are cultured in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Akoya pearls are the classic round pearls found in most pearl jewelry. They are mainly grown in the waters off Japan and are found in a range of hues, including white, cream, pink and peach. Mabe pearls are grown in Japan, Indonesia, French Polynesia and Australia. They are usually flat-backed and often called blister pearls because they form against the inside shells of oysters rather than within oysters' bodies. Tahitian pearls are grown in French Polynesia and come in a range of colors, including gray and black with green, purple or rose overtones. Because of their large size and unique dark colors, they command very high prices. Also prized for their large size, white South Sea pearls are grown in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and other areas of the South Pacific.
Freshwater pearls come in various colors and are grown in bays, lakes and rivers primarily in Japan, China, Europe and the United States (Mississippi River). They are often irregularly shaped and less lustrous than saltwater cultured pearls, making them substantially less expensive.
Pearls have been treasured throughout ancient folklore and history. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, considered pearls to be sacred. The Greeks prized the gems for their beauty and believed that wearing pearls would promote marital bliss and prevent newlywed women from crying. In ancient Rome, pearls were considered the ultimate symbol of wealth and status. The ancient Egyptians were buried with them and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra favored pearls immensely. It is said that while dining with Mark Anthony, she purposely dropped a pearl into her drink to demonstrate the wealth of her rule.
As early as 2000 B.C., pearls have been used as medicine in China, where it was believed to represent wealth, power and longevity. Even today, low-grade pearls are ground for use as medicine in the Orient. Arabs and Persians also believed it was a cure for various kinds of diseases, as well as insanity.
Long ago, when pearls were not cultured and thousands of oysters had to be searched for only one pearl, the gems were important financial assets, comparable in price to real estate. Some European countries even banned all but nobility from the right to wear them. Medieval knights wore them in battle as a talisman against injury, while warriors in India encrusted pearls into their sword handles to symbolize the tears that swords can bring.
Today, the pearl is a universal symbol of innocence and purity. It is the birthstone for June and is considered the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 3rd and 30th wedding anniversaries. Many believe the gem gives wisdom through experience, quickens the laws of karma and cements engagements and love relationships. It is also considered to offer the powers of wealth, protection and luck.
The largest pearl in the world is approximately 3" long and 2" wide, weighing one-third of a pound. Called the Pearl of Asia, it was a gift from India's Shah Jahan to his favorite wife, for whom he also built the Taj Mahal. Another famous pearl is called "La Peregrina," or "the Wanderer," and is considered by experts to be the most beautiful pearl in the world. Pear-shaped and measuring 1-1/2" in length, it is said that 400 years ago the pearl was found by a slave in Panama, who gave it up in return for his freedom. In 1570, the conquistadors sent the pearl to King Philip II of Spain. The pearl was passed to Mary I of England, who gave it to Prince Louis Napoleon of France, who sold it to the British Marquis of Abercon. After disappearing for a century, the pearl turned up once again in 1969 at a New York auction house. It was purchased by actor Richard Burton for his wife, Elizabeth Taylor.
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