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Once again, a new book is being released by that proves that Jesus Christ didn't exist! Yes, once again we are being treated to the idea that the historical Jesus is nothing but a fraud perpetrated upon society for the past 2,000 years. According to the news release from PR Web, a new book entitled Dead Little Fish: The Accidental History of Jesus Christ, by author Derek Murphy, "proves that Jesus Christ was a mythological figure that accidentally became mistaken for a real man."
Articles and TV programs about the historical Jesus are finding their way into every sphere of consumer culture, and public opinion is quickly embracing new ideas about Jesus. Scholars like Baigent, Pagels, (The Gnostic Gospels), and Timothy Freke (The Jesus Mysteries), while popular, are ignoring crucial evidence that radically re-defines the origins of Christianity: Jesus, and his consort Mary Magdalene, stem from an ancient mythological tradition and were originally never considered as real people.
When we stop looking for the historical Jesus, it becomes blazingly obvious that Jesus Christ is a spiritual metaphor, which developed out of a long history of religious mythology. "Dead Little Fish" exposes the accidental roots of Christianity, by tracing its development from Greek mystery cults, pagan sun myths, and ancient philosophy. "Dead Little Fish" proves that the first Christians believed in Jesus only as a spiritual entity, and he was later, mistakenly viewed as a real man.
While most books on Christian history are making guesses about the real Jesus, the mystery behind the lack of evidence, "Jesus Didn't Exist!" shows conclusively how to interpret the symbols in the story of Jesus Christ. It provides many new insights, a comprehensive overview of Christian beginnings, and a well-documented yet easy to digest manuscript. It is also the first book to clearly detail the constellation mythology which developed directly into biblical stories.
Scholars like Baigent, whose book The Jesus Papers has been appropriately ridiculed on this blog? Like Pagels, who has pretty much admitted that she attends a church even though she never had any belief that it was true? Like Freke, whose book The Jesus Mysteries has been rated "abject nonsense" by Tekton Apologetics? While Pagels has at least authored some books of substance relating to the time period in which Jesus lived, authors like these have largely proven time and again that they have nothing of substance to add to this discussion.
So, obviously, being released by a major publisher, this book must have some substance behind it, right? Let's see, it's published by . . . uh, the author. Yep, another self-published book proving that the consensus view held by virtually all historians that Jesus was a real person is wrong. Give me a break. I guess all of you people who yelp loudly that Intelligent Design hasn't published peer reviewed papers in legitimate journals of science will immediately disavow this book as trash on that basis alone, right?
Anyway, with so many good books to read about legitimate subjects, I know I'm not going to waste my time with this, and I hope none of the rest of you do, either.
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Humanity has a long, sordid history with alcohol, extending as far back as several thousand years and remaining the most-abused substance today. Until relatively recently, indulging in alcohol with reckless abandon was commonplace and accepted without question, but the people who habitually—and compulsively—drank alcohol exhibited deteriorating health as well as various other observable symptoms. The initial consensus was that chronic drinkers were simply refusing to control themselves, indicating weakness of character or their being disconnected from God. It wasn't until the eve of the nineteenth century that society would begin seeing alcoholism as a neurological illness rather than a defect in morality.
While alcoholism would appear to be a behavioral problem due to all the outward manifestations that indicate its presence, after years of research we've concluded that alcoholism is actually a chronic brain disease that occurs due to alcohol's profound effect on the brain. And although this knowledge has helped us to develop a greater variety of effective treatments for alcoholism and make them more accessible to those in need, there are 17.6 million Americans—or approximately one in twelve people living in the U.S.—who are still suffering from alcoholism today. In fact, it's estimated there are 88,000 annual deaths due to alcohol-related incidents nationwide, making it the third-leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. The effects of alcoholism stretch from individual- and family-level and up to the entire globe. Approximately ten percent of all American children live with at least one alcoholic parent and studies indicate that the children of alcoholics are very likely to become alcoholics themselves. In terms of the disease's economic effects, problems that result from alcohol misuse collectively cost the U.S. $230 billion dollars or more each year. Some have identified certain attributes of recovery that have proven prohibitive or obstructive to those in need of treatment for alcoholism, but the most unfortunate—and easily mitigated—is being unable to find the resources needed to overcome alcoholism. In other words, there are many people who want to recover from alcoholism, but they aren't sure which services, treatments, or programs they need in order to address each of their specific, individual recovery needs. Therefore, we at Detox Local have created this comprehensive guide to inform you about alcoholism and detoxification. More specifically, this guide will help you to determine whether you or a loved one has a drinking problem, learn about detox programs and how it fits into the alcoholism recovery process, get an idea of the detox process, and learn how to find the right detox programs for your needs or for the needs of your loved one.
There are many people who enjoy a cocktail or two on occasion. For most, the occasional consumption of alcohol never becomes a problem. Their drinking behavior doesn't harm their health, their career, their relationships, or their well-being. However, with alcohol being legal rather than illegal, many people assume that it's safe to drink, even in large volumes. And there's also the issue of alcohol being so accessible, even to those who are underage. In fact, youths aged 12 to 20 are estimated to consume 11 percent of all the alcohol in the U.S. When you underestimate alcohol's addictive potential, it can be quite easy to develop alcoholism, or alcohol dependence, but sometimes it's hard to be certain whether you're a binge drinker or actually dependent on alcohol. Although the line between being a binge drinker and an alcoholic can be blurry, there are a number of characteristics and effects that characterize most alcoholics.A person with a drinking problem becomes increasingly avoidant.
Even though many people who develop alcohol dependence are unaware of the severity of their addictions, they still recognize that they drink more alcohol than many others. Not wanting others to become suspicious or question their drinking, people with drinking problems will avoid their spouses, children, parents, and other loved ones, especially when they're actively under the influence or intoxicated. And unless one's friends abuse alcohol, it's likely for an alcohol to avoid close friends, too.
In other words, a person who has a drinking problem won't allow other obligations or plans to get in the way of the time the individual has allotted to drinking. In the minds of alcoholics, most "free time" or "alone time" will knowingly be spent drinking. They will often refuse to commit to making plans that would interfere with the times they plan to drink. It's not uncommon for alcoholics to go to great lengths or make elaborate excuses that will keep them from having to lose any of their drinking time. If others try to prod at the person and decipher the reason for resistance, an alcoholic will quickly become defensive and may even cite a job or other obligations that are exhausting or warrant some personal time alone.
One of the first physical effects that occurs due to a drinking problem is a major weakening of the immune system, which makes alcoholics much more susceptible to bacteria and germs that can cause a number of illnesses. Additionally, people who are alcohol dependent will often lose weight or muscle definition as their frequent alcohol abuse makes them less likely to maintain a healthy diet or fitness regimen. Meanwhile, there are a number of longer-term effects such as the potential for heart problems, including high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, and stroke. It's a well-known fact that alcohol abuse causes profound damage to the liver, but alcohol also has a major effect on the pancreas; triggered by alcohol consumption, the pancreas produces toxins that have proven to cause pancreatitis. And finally, frequent alcohol abuse is known to make people significantly more susceptible to cancer in several areas of the body such as in the mouth and esophagus.
The cause for this emotional volatility is believed to be the result of alcohol's effects on the brain. Chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters are responsible for, among other functions, a person's emotional state, thoughts, and behavior. When a person drinks alcohol, it throws off the brain's neurochemical balance, and while alcohol is most often associated with effects similar to depressants, the continuous abuse of alcohol damages neural pathways, inhibiting the brain's natural functioning and even affecting the brain's physical structure and appearance. The overall effect is emotional unpredictability with unprovoked and intense mood swings.
Alcohol can be quite expensive, especially when you're drinking it in large amounts on most days. This puts a huge strain on a person's financial resources, especially with an alcoholic requiring more and more alcohol as the disease worsens. The financial trouble that alcoholism causes will typically begin with a person having no extra money beyond what's needed to pay for living expenses and alcohol; from this point, maintaining a drinking problem begins to siphon funds away from living expenses, causing bills and eventually even rent to go unpaid. Alcoholism's potential to cause financial trouble is quite great, and when a drinking habit is causing financial trouble there's a substantial indication of an alcohol problem.
As a drinking problem becomes worse, its effects begin to bleed into more and more of a person's life, including affecting a career. Whether it's due to being intoxicated or feeling ill due to the previous night's binge drinking—called a "hangover"—becoming dependent on alcohol will invariably cause people to start missing work. And on days when they make it to work, their performance is inferior compared to how they performed before the onset of alcoholism. For most people with drinking problems, the reduction in work performance is negligible at first, but it becomes increasingly more noticeable and frequently results in termination.
There quickly comes a point in every alcoholic's deterioration when alcohol has become a central part of their lives, but their lives have begun to fall apart. In particular, a drinking problem and the possible loss of a job puts an alcoholic in a very poor financial state. This leads to increasing desperation, very poor decisions, and a willingness to resort to risky behavior as a means of sustaining a drinking problem.
It's one thing to be avoidant and emotionally distant, but it's another matter when an alcoholic is actually hurting loved ones. Over the course of alcoholism, a person will inevitably become dishonest with loved ones and might even resort to taking advantage of them to sustain a drinking problem. To an alcoholic, the means justifies the end, but this often leaves a trail of broken hearts in the person's wake. Reaching the end of their ropes, an alcoholic's loved ones are likely to reach the point where they feel they must protect themselves and distance themselves from the alcoholic. In short, this means that a person who has a drinking problem is likely to lose important relationships with family members, close friends, and other loved ones.
Withdrawal is the most telling sign of alcoholism as it shows that the body has developed a physical need for alcohol. Although there are a number of withdrawal symptoms, they mostly equate to physical discomfort and feelings of depression or anxiety.
People who don't abuse alcohol or drink frequently don't experience withdrawal symptoms when they go without drinking alcohol because their bodies haven't become physically dependent on the substance. However, individuals who have habitually misused alcohol, which is a central nervous system depressant, by drinking frequently and in excessive quantities will experience the discomfort of withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal—also known as alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS)—is a condition that affects on those individuals who have developed severe drinking problems and, in short, occurs when the body has adapted to frequent alcohol consumption.
When a person drinks alcohol, the alcohol enters the bloodstream and makes its way to the brain. Each mind-altering substance affects the brain different, but alcohol amplifies the effects of inhibitory neurotransmitters. The main neurotransmitter targeted by alcohol is called gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, which causes a person to feel calm, slow, and somewhat lethargic when activated; this effect is particularly useful in situations when an individual is feeling anxious, scared, angry, or stressed since the body can naturally alleviate some of those feelings on its own. However, alcohol—and particularly ethanol—causes decreased sensitivity to GABA, which means that more GABA must be produced in order to compensate. This means that the brain becomes flooded with GABA when an individual consumes large amounts of alcohol, and when a person drinks large quantities of alcohol consistently, the brain is frequently being triggered to produce more GABA. In order to adapt, the brain starts making less and less GABA on its own, relying on ever-present alcohol to achieve this function.
With the brain now relying on alcohol intake to function effectively, as long as the person continues to drink alcohol regularly there will be no unpleasant symptoms or physical discomfort; however, when there is no longer alcohol in the person's system, the brain's neurochemical level is no longer balanced. Having become accustomed to the continuous presence of alcohol, the sudden absence of alcohol is jarring and extremely uncomfortable. In an instant, the brain is expected to revert to its natural state of functioning, but it's unable to do so instantaneously. Without a high alcohol content in the blood, an alcoholic will soon begin to feel the unpleasant symptoms of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
The symptoms of alcohol withdrawal syndrome can manifest in as little as a few hours after a person's last drink or as long as a few days, depending on the severity of the person's alcoholism and the amount they had last consumed. The most common symptoms that characterize mild to moderate alcohol withdrawal include a sense of fatigue, intermittent feelings of anxiety and depression, difficulty sleeping, and nausea; however, when a person's alcoholism is more severe, the withdrawal symptoms will be more severe as well. Severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms often include physical twitching, tremors, more pronounced nausea, vomiting, confusion, irritability, an increase in heart rate, insomnia, and headache. But there are even more severe forms of alcohol withdrawal that will put your very life at risk.
People who have developed serious drinking problems could experience a condition called delirium tremens as an acute or more severe form of withdrawal. Due to alcohol's powerful effects on the brain and, by extension, the entire nervous system, delirium tremens occurs when a person who has suffered from severe or long-term alcoholism suddenly ceases alcohol consumption. Having long since adjusted to the continual presence of large quantities of alcohol in the system, the sudden absence of alcohol from the system is too abrupt for the body to adapt and has the potential to cause delirium tremens. Symptoms of delirium tremens will often appear between two and three days after the alcoholic's last drink and include profound confusion and generally diminished cognitive functioning, severe body tremors, rapid cycling between states of excitement and periods of deep sleep, tightness in the chest and the sensation of being unable to breathe, sudden and unpredictable mood changes, fear, extreme sensory sensitivity, auditory and/or visual hallucinations, tactile hallucinations, the potential for severe seizures, and even coma or death. It's mostly the potential for delirium tremens that makes alcohol withdrawal so potentially dangerous.
Recovery from alcoholism tends to provoke thoughts of the counseling a person receives while in an alcohol rehab facility, but there's actually an important step of the recovery process that often occurs even before someone receives any counseling. Alcoholism is a brain disease that causes both physical and psychological symptoms, which means that the recovery process has to address both sides of alcohol addiction: the physical and the psychological. When you consider the fact that most people would likely experience some level of physical discomfort were they to abruptly stop drinking, it becomes quite clear that participating in the counseling, therapies, and other treatments that comprise an alcoholism recovery program would be quite difficult for anyone who was in a similar state of withdrawal.
Therefore, before a person can begin treatment, it's essential to address the physical components of alcoholism. When done in the right way, detoxification is the first important—and arguably the most important—part of recovering from alcoholism.
At an alcohol detox facility, a person is afforded whatever amount of time is needed to restore the body to a state of balance and health. In effect, alcohol detoxification is both a way to disrupt physical dependence on alcohol while also being a way to cleanse the body of any chemical substances and toxins, restoring a person to an optimal state of physical health. However, the benefits of alcohol going to an alcohol detox center are psychological as well as physical, affording those who are just beginning the alcoholism recovery process with a period of time to adjust to being without mental and emotional fog that comes from spending the majority of a person's time under the influence of alcohol. During the detox period, a person isn't expected to participate in counseling or group sessions, but rather is allowed to simply adjust to the newness of sobriety. In fact, it's during detoxification that most people transition from a state of apprehension and hesitance to a place of confidence and empowerment.
After the intake process, the first step of an alcohol detox program is to settle into the residential accommodations of your inpatient detoxification facility. While certain details may change from one facility to the next—the location and scenery, the amenities that are offered, the forms of care that are used, and so on—every detox center wants you to be as comfortable as possible so that you can relax and focus on this stage of recovery.
Having spent a period of time in a state of alcoholism, a person's body will naturally need a reprieve or a period to decompress before beginning treatment. But this doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience. The goal of a detoxification is to essential clear the body of any harmful presences while attending to the patient's needs, eliminating or minimizing many of the unpleasant symptoms that are often associated with alcohol withdrawal. This may seem unlikely, but making the detoxification process as comfortable and smooth as possible is the reason that alcohol detox programs include round-the-clock supervision and professional care. For the duration of your stay at an alcohol detox facility, patients are observed and monitored for signs of pain, discomfort, or risks so that the necessary measures can be taken if and when necessary.
Some of the things that physicians and detox specialists will observe during alcohol detoxification include a patient's blood pressure, body temperature, and pupil dilation. Additionally, patients will be asked to quantify their current physical and psychological conditions so that staff can become immediately aware of any distress they might be experiencing. As for the specific treatment techniques are utilized during alcohol detoxification, there's a major emphasis on diet, nutrition, and keeping the body hydrated since many alcoholics will exhibit nutrient deficiencies upon beginning detox treatment. In fact, proper nutrition and hydration tend to alleviate much of the discomfort a person could experience in withdrawal. However, in instances when nutrition alone doesn't stabilize a patient's symptoms, the patient will likely be provided with medications that will alleviate additional discomfort.
The medicinal solutions—often referred to as "comfort medications"—that are commonly offered during alcohol detoxification also protect patients from the escalation of withdrawal that could lead to delirium tremens or seizures. In fact, mild benzodiazepines such as Librium, Ativan, and Oxazepam can just as readily alleviate the discomfort of withdrawal as they can mitigate delirium tremens while anticonvulsants like Carbamazepine can be used to prevent withdrawal-induced seizures in those who with a history of epilepsy or related conditions. Even if a patient isn't experiencing the more severe withdrawal symptoms, the use of these mild medications can oftentimes provide that extra level of comfort and relaxation and can even help patients to sleep better. Moreover, most detox facilities will offer the standard medicinal fare, including Clonidine and beta-blockers to alleviate elevated heart rate and high blood pressure.
There's no set amount of time allotted to the completion of alcohol detoxification. Each patient's needs are different; some might complete the process relatively quickly while others need a little more time. On average, it takes between a week and 10 days for a patient to complete their stay at an alcohol detox center. At this point, the body has been stabilized and cleansed, and the patient can begin the treatment phase of recovery, which will address the mental and emotional components of alcoholism.
What comes to mind when you think of alcohol withdrawal? Like most other people, you probably thought of words like "pain", "discomfort", "anxiety", and "difficult", but an alcohol detoxification doesn't actually have to be that way. The primary reason that alcohol withdrawal is so frequently associated with pain and discomfort is because most people experience withdrawal while they're in active alcoholism, during the times when they must go a longer period of time without alcohol than they're used to. For these people, alcohol withdrawal is most likely an unpleasant experience that could be described by the words mentioned above because in these instances, the symptoms of withdrawal aren't being managed or mitigated like they would be in an alcohol detox program. Therefore, the experience of withdrawal involves a lot of discomfort that causes them to be fearful of recovery.
By detoxing in an alcohol detox program, you can skip much of the unpleasance of alcohol withdrawal. The continuous care and use of comfort medications alleviate the symptoms most often associated with alcohol withdrawal, making people much more comfortable and relaxed as they progress through the detoxification process. The lack of pain and discomfort also gives patients a much higher chance of completing detoxification as well as alcoholism treatment since they aren't experiencing the unpleasant symptoms that make reverting to alcohol abuse seem like the better choice.
Another significant benefit to inpatient an alcohol detox program is the safety and reassurance that it provides. As we mentioned previously, alcohol withdrawal has the potential to become so severe as to actually put a person's life in danger. When an alcoholic attempts to detox at home, there's no medical supervision of the individual's symptoms. This means that if the person's symptoms reach such a level of severity that seizures or even death become possible, there are no physicians or staff members present to treat such a dire condition. Due to the potential for severe and life-threatening symptoms, people with drinking problems are discouraged from detoxing unless it's in an inpatient detox program at a facility that can offer the continuous care and medical supervision necessary to ensure a person's comfort and safety.
Choosing an alcohol detox program might appear to be a relatively straightforward process. However, you probably don't want to simply book yourself a bed in the first detox facility that you find. A successful alcohol detox is about much more than merely finding a facility that offers alcohol detox services. An essential prerequisite for alcoholism treatment is to complete a quality alcohol detox program that addresses each of your specific, individual needs. To start, it's important to determine what your specific needs might be.
One factor to consider when looking for an alcohol detox program is location, especially if your detox program and inpatient treatment program are offered by two separate facilities. It might seem trivial, but location should be a key consideration when choosing a detox facility because you'll likely want to complete an alcohol detox program offered by a facility near where you'll go for inpatient treatment afterward. If your detox facility and treatment facility are far apart, there's going to be a time gap between detox treatment and inpatient rehab in which you could find yourself confronted with the temptation to drink alcohol while you're in transit. This puts you at major risk of returning to active alcoholism since you've not yet learned how to deal with temptation.
There's also a financial consideration to be made. Fortunately, people in need of alcoholism treatment have more options today than they would have had even a few short years ago. Anyone with the means to do so can still pay out-of-pocket if they so choose, but most private and government health insurance plans cover substance abuse treatment as an essential health benefit; in short, this means that there's a good chance your health insurance provider will cover all or most of your alcohol detox treatment. If health insurance coverage is somehow not an option, there are scholarships and grants available for people who aren't financially able to pay for substance abuse treatment. Funds obtained via scholarships and grants don't have to be paid back and are offered at by many state governments and even privately by many addiction treatment centers. The intake coordinators at your alcohol detox and treatment centers will likely know of any scholarships and grants for which you qualify. And lastly, while it may not be the optimal solution, there's the possibility of getting a loan to pay for treatment. In fact, there are even a number of lenders who offer loans specifically for the purpose of paying for rehabilitative treatments, and they typically offer extremely low interest rates, an extended period of time before you start making payments, and other such perks.
When you consider the sheer number of addiction treatment facilities that are located nationwide, the task of narrowing them all down to the one that best fits your needs seems daunting to say the very least. Instead of leaving the quality and success of your treatment to chance, Detox Local can provide you with all the information you could possibly need about alcohol detoxification to make the right choice for you. We have compiled only the best, most high-quality detox facilities in the U.S. into our comprehensive database, which has afforded us the opportunity to match people suffering from alcoholism with the detox treatments and services that they need.
If you're trying to find an alcohol detox center for yourself or for someone you love, we can guide you through this journey. Why sift through convoluted, confusing search results and try to decipher all that jargon when you can leave all the heavy lifting to us. Based on your needs or the needs of your loved one, we can determine which alcohol detox program or programs would be the right fit and guide you through the next steps of the recovery process. For more information or to find your ideal alcohol detox program today, call us toll-free at 1-866-315-7061.
After completing an alcohol detox program, most patients transition into inpatient treatment at a residential rehabilitation center. Much like detox treatment, the features and length of an inpatient program is dependent on each patient's background and considers the length of time spent in active alcoholism, whether alcoholism runs in a person's family, and other factors. Having broken the physical hold that alcoholism had of you in alcohol detox treatment, inpatient rehabilitation is when you'll turn inward, working with counselors as well as with your peers and perhaps even your loved ones to identify past experiences or cognitions that might be at the root of your alcoholism.
The goal of alcoholism treatment are to learn how to safeguard yourself from slipping back into alcoholism, maintain physical and psychological wellness, develop strategies for coping with stress and emotion that don't involve drinking alcohol, and to learn how to avoid and resist the temptation to drink again. However, your success in recovery hinges on your success in alcohol detox treatment, making it essential that you find the detox program that best suits your specific needs and prepares you to progress to later stages of alcoholism recovery.


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Lovely front porch w/swing welcomes you to fab home on cul-de-sac! Gracious 2 story foyer, formal dining! Living room flows to comfortable family room boasting large windows/gas fireplace. The well appointed kitchen includes granite, stainless appliances, and butler pantry. Large screened porch to 2 patios and backyard. Also an office & laundry on main. 4 BR's up, finished LL w/5th BR (needs window), full BA, 2nd FR & great workshop! 1 year home warranty incl. New carpet, roof, windows.
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This is a transcript of my Rendering the World session for anyone who was not able to attend the FOSS4G conference. This transcript is based on my memory and is not a recording so there may be differences from the actual presentation.
My name is Young Hahn. You can follow me on twitter or on GitHub. Today I'm going to be presenting not just my work but the work of my colleagues: AJ Ashton, Dave Cole, Konstantin Kaefer, Artem Pavlenko, Dane Springmeyer, Tom MacWright, and Will White. If you're going to follow anyone, please follow these people.
We work at MapBox here in Washington, DC. MapBox is a mapping company that focuses on open source and open data solutions for web and mobile mapping. Our best known product is probably the open source map design studio TileMill.
MapBox Streets
We recently launched a new product called MapBox Streets. MapBox Streets is a base map with global coverage - we're in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and everywhere in between. It includes deep zoom levels so you can see individual city blocks, tunnels and subway stations.
Great, we've got a cool map. So let's render the world! Not so fast. It turns out the world is a really big place. Big can mean a lot of different things, even in the context of rendering the world. For the purposes of this talk, big is going to mean two things. One, taking a long time to render. And two, taking a lot of space to store.
Suppose you were to start up TileMill and ask it to render the world down to zoom level 15, 16, maybe 17. And say you put aside all kinds of other performance factors – not worry about PostGIS tuning, or optimizing styles, or even Mapnik performance. Say we wanted to render a very simple or blank map down to zoom level 17. TileMill would show you a screen that looks something like this: 443 days remaining.
And if you were to do a little googling around the web for how much space it would take to store all these tiles you would probably run across this OpenStreetMap wiki page. It would take some 54 terabytes of space to store OpenStreetMap tiles up to z17 or 18 and OpenStreetMap's tile images are really small.
If you're new to tile-based mapping or even if you're familiar you might think: WTF. It's pretty hard to wrap your head around how or why these numbers are so big.
Tile-based mapping
Let's do a quick review of tile-based mapping. By tile based mapping I mean maps that load progressively through 256x256px image tiles. Usually these images are square, but they can really be any size and dimension. These tiles are rendered at multiple zoom levels. So using the ubiquitous web mercator projection, zoom level 0 has 1 tile and contains the entire world. At the next zoom level, we double the amount of detail so our 1x1 grid becomes a 2x2 grid and contains 4 tiles total. The next zoom level is a 4x4 grid and contains 16 tiles. The next 8x8 and 64 tiles. We can calculate the number of tiles at a given zoom level using this equation: 4^z is the number of tiles at a given zoom level z.
Then suppose we have a super fast map renderer and really tiny tiles. Say we can render 1000 tiles/sec and each of our tiles is about 400 bytes. These numbers are pretty arbitrary but you'll see in a second that tweaking these numbers is not going to make much of a difference.
At zoom level 15 there are 4 to 15 tiles, or 1.1 billion tiles. That would be 12 days of rendering time and take 644 GB of storage. z16 will be four times that amount, so about 4.3 billion tiles, 50 days and 2.6 terabytes of storage. And z17 will be 17.2 billion tiles, 200 days, 10.3 terabytes of storage.
With these numbers you can see that even if we worked really hard to optimize PostGIS or tune our renderer – say we could double our speed and get to 2000 tiles/sec – we'd be looking at a render time around 100 days. If I kicked this off now it would probably finish in time for the next FOSS4G.
Live rendering
Common sense says: don't even try this. It's not reasonable. Instead there's some accepted wisdom to how you serve a global baselayer. Users are only going to request a small fraction of these tiles at any given time. So you could render each tile only when it's requested by a user.
This scenario looks like this: on the right is a big beefy render server and on the left a computer or mobile device that wants your map. When the device requests the map the server renders it and sends it over.
Of course in reality there may be dozens or hundreds of devices that are viewing your map at any given time and your beefy render server is going to start looking a lot less beefy. So the solution is quite straightforward - you just add a lot more render servers, right?
Not so fast. It turns out the internet is actually a really big place. You're going to need to scale to not hundreds but thousands of requests per second. Your maps are going to start to get slow and your render servers may actually go down.
Render servers are slow, costly and stressful. We have a small team at MapBox and any time we're spending babysitting servers is time we could be spending on our open source projects or improving the experience for our users.
On the other hand, serving pre-rendered tiles is fast, cheap and reliable. We don't have to worry about spikes in traffic or whether our servers can keep up – we know all of the tiles are there and are cheap and fast to serve.
Rendering the world
These are the reasons why we set out to try to solve this very hard problem. So how do you render the world?
We had two tools in our belt when we started work on this problem that I didn't know would play an important role, but they did. Just keep these in the back of your mind as we go through the problem.
Tool #1: MBTiles is a tile storage format we've been using for a while. It's an sqlite-based format that can store an image once and reference it multiple times for different tile coordinates.
Tool #2: One of the features of MapBox Hosting is fast image compositing. We take multiple pre-rendered tiles and blend them together into a single image and we've found that this can be quite fast and efficient.
Tile redundancy
So back to our problem. What's actually on these 17.2 billion tiles at z17? If you were to pluck a tile out of the pile at random you would sometimes get this - some roads, buildings, parks, lakes. But mostly you'll get this: a patch of blue somewhere in the middle of the Pacific. In fact, mostly is about 60% of the time. You may remember from gradeschool that the world's surface is some 70-80% ocean but in the web mercator projection that percentage is more like 60. Antarctica and Greenland are really huge.
This solid blue tile is an example of redundancy. Once I've seen this blue tile once, I actually know what 60% of the map looks like - it's exactly the same. It's a lot like this example from information theory: "if u cn rd ths msg u cn gt a gd jb w hi pa" or "If you can read this message you can get a good job with high pay." It turns out some 50% of the letters in English are redundant. You can get your message across without these letters.
How much of the world is actually redundant? This next slide has a clue where we've split the world up into 4 different layers. For now let's focus on the bottom two, the land and water layers. If we take just these two layers our map looks like this. Now we know that of all these tiles, about 60% of them are solid blue areas of water. Pretty good.
But wait, there's another type of redundant tile on this map. If you were to pan to the middle of Kansas you're going to see a lot of this tile here: the solid land tile. This tile is also redundant. Once you've seen this sandy color you know what all the other solid areas of land look like.
The only type of tile on this map that contains information is a tile containing coastline. Tiles that show where water and land meet, that show a distinction. Under this analysis then, some 38% of the world is solid land leaving just 2% of the tiles containing coastline information.
That's great but a map with just water and land is pretty boring. What about roads, parks, buildings… human stuff? It turns out that humans really haven't touched much of the earth at all in this respect – about 1%.
Thinking of tiles in terms of information and redundancy changes our equation from the beginning: 4^z. Consider a map with just a single point. At z0 it would take 1 tile to capture this point. But at z1, if we throw out the redundant tiles, it still takes just 1 tile to represent this point. And at z2, z3, z4 it still takes just 1 tile to represent the point. Instead of quadrupling at each next zoom level, the number of tiles it takes to represent a point stays constant.
If you play this thought experiment out you can see that for points the equation is going to be a lot more like 1^z, and for lines somewhere between 2 to 3^z. For polygons interestingly you only need to represent the perimeter in tiles like in our analysis of the land and water layer where only the coastline contained actual information.
Getting to 2%
Theoretically then we only need to store some 2% of those 17.2 billion tiles. But to do this we'll need a storage format that actually represents redundancy. MBTiles does this very well. It can store an image once and then reference it many times for different zxy coordinates using an id. So we only need to store the blue ocean tile once for billions of different coordinates.
So 10 terabytes times 2% is 200GB. Pretty good.
What about render time though? Remember those 400 days it would take to render the world? We still have to render a tile before we know that it's a solid blue ocean tile and can be thrown out or one that contains actual information. Can you know a tile is redundant without rendering, querying or even iterating? If we take Mapnik and PostGIS out of the equation, even just iterating over 17.2 billion zxy coordinates in node.js, python, whatever language you choose, takes a long time.
First, let's look at how our latest release TileMill 0.9.0 renders an export. It does a scanline. If you've ever pre-seeded or rendered tiles you'll be familiar with this scheme: you start at the first zoom level and do one row, one tile at a time. Once you've finished all the tiles at that zoom level you move on to the next, and so on.
In TileMill master we've been working on a new rendering scheme. The pyramid scheme takes a tile and looks at its child tiles on the next zoom level. And then it takes each of those and looks at their children. And so on, recursively. If it finds a tile that is redundant at z5 it assumes that all of its child tiles are redundant as well at z6, z7, z8 all the way down to z17. With this method we can skip millions of tiles per second.
It works. Mostly. There are some cases where this scheme will skip tiles too aggressively and I worked hard with our cartographer AJ so that there's usually an indication at lower zoom levels of features coming up on higher zoom levels.
So 2% of 200 days and we're down to 4 days of rendering. Not bad. With tiles pre-rendered all our servers need to do is composite them together and serve them. We've found that it's fast, affordable and reliable.
Of course, the truth is a bit more complicated. We also had to tune PostGIS, optimize our OpenStreetMap import, materialize imposm tables, find a high i/o cloud service, parallelize our renders - we do 32 of them at a time - and optimize our sqlite storage. If you're curious about these things, please ask us. Thank you.


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'What was that?'
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'Strangely I wanted to be a doctor, despite my bad people skills.'
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'Firstly, who says 'rocking out' any more, and secondly, next time we have a gig you'll have to come to see for yourself what I look like in a band. If we ever have a next gig.'
'Why won't there be a next gig?'
'I haven't spoken to any of the others since I started work at the office and they only ever call me if we have a gig or on the off-chance we need a practise.'
'That's a bit weird,' Andrew confessed. 'I thought bands who wanted to make it big had to practise all the time.'
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'Are they any good?'
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'Can I hear one now?'
'You want me to sing,' I exclaimed, fear gripping me for the first time since we'd sat down.
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'We're in a restaurant, I don't want to disturb the other people,' I said pathetically.
'It's alright, Marco won't mind and it's not like there are loads of people here.'
'But I've never sung on a date before,' I protested, running out of excuses. 'I usually try to avoid it.'
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'OK I'll sing if it will stop you nagging,' I said, laughing nervously. I mentally went through our best songs. Should I sing 'The Boxers' or 'We Are The Tyrannical Crew'? I finally settled for something mellower and lyrical, choosing my favourite song, 'Hundred Flowers'.
I couldn't look at Andrew as I sang. Without the security of the band behind me and in the quiet of the restaurant I felt scarily exposed. But the notes came out clearly from my mouth and my fingers silently mimed the chord patterns I would be strumming on my guitar as I sang.
When I finished the restaurant was as silent as it had been when I began. I didn't dare look up at Andrew, thinking that he now thought I was mad.
After what felt like an age of silence Andrew finally said, 'that was beautiful.'
'Yes, it was wonderful. And that's one of your band's songs?'
'It's my favourite,' I said shyly.
'I can see why. You sing it so beautifully.'
I was blushing like an idiot now. For some reason Andrew's compliments made me feel warm and fuzzy in a way I hadn't felt in ages.
'Was it something I said?' He asked, his hand reaching out to touch mine.
'The reason you're not looking at me.'
'No not at all,' I said, still not looking up. 'I just get nervous sharing things like that with people I barely know.' I felt a hand gently cup my chin, making me look up and Andy's face was directly in front of me.
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"If you pick the passionfruit, I'm leaving you," I muttered and he laughed loudly.
"That one was very... different."
I laughed, too, and we shared our thoughts on all the different cakes. The baker came back in five minutes later, an excited look on his face.
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"Yes. We'll go with the red velvet," Artemis answered.
The baker's face fell. "But what of the passionfruit?" he said, rushing to the cake. "It is perfect for weddings! Passion is in its name!"
"Ah," I said. "Yes but... some of our guests will be more interested in inhaling the cake in one gulp. The... exotic flavor will be lost on them."
"Yes, yes," he sighed. "I see what you mean. Some people cannot appreciate a good flavor. They are more interested in eating it without even savoring the taste." He shook his head tragically and took us to a table where a thick book awaited us. "In here you will find all of the different designs I can make."
"How many are in there?" Artemis asked as I opened the book.
"Only 200," he said and we looked at him.
By the time we left the bakery, it was dark out. We had picked a traditional three layer cake. I yawned on the way home.
"You know, that wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't been so damn pushy," Artemis said.
"Tell me about it. 'But what of the passionfruit'?" I mimicked. "In other words, 'I made this up. Take it so I can get some recognition.'"
Artemis laughed. "But passion is in its name, Deidre!"
We walked into the house, still laughing. When we got into the kitchen, though, I groaned loudly. Every inch of the counters was covered in invitation samples. Evelyn was straightening a few of them and she frowned at us.
"What took you so long? I didn't expect you to be gone for five hours!"
While Artemis told her of our experience, I wandered among the different samples. There were traditional ones that I really liked but also some more modern, intricate ones. Artemis was looking at one in particular with an impressed look on his face.
"Whatcha got there?" I asked, leaning on his arm.
"Watch," he said.
At first glance, it just looked like a greeting card. As he opened it, though, a popup of our fountain opened at the top. Inside it had the information about our wedding. I looked at the other invitations. None of them had the fountain on them.
"Hey, Evelyn?" I asked and she came over. "Who made this?"
She picked up a piece of paper. "Someone named 'Ethan Monos'. Why?"
I looked at Artemis.
"This is the one," we said in unison.
She stared at it. "Are you sure? It's a little.... Forgive me, but it looks very poorly made. In fact, it looks like a child made it."
"We're sure," Artemis said firmly. He glanced at the clock. "I'm too tired to cook. Let's order Chinese."
I agreed and we sat in the living room while my mom got the phonebook out. Immediately, I got my phone out and Artemis looked over my shoulder. I went to Facebook first but Ethan Monos wasn't on there. Frowning, I went to Google.
"Oh, my God," we groaned.
"Cancel the dinner," I breathed, "and take us to the hospital."
I held Deidre's hand tightly as we waited in the lobby with our mothers. The woman was on the phone but she indicated she'd just be a moment. Deidre was trying not to cry and I squeezed her hand. I was about to cry, too, but I didn't want to. Especially not in front of Ethan.
"Sorry about that," the woman said. "How can I help you?"
"We'd like to visit Ethan Monos please," I whispered.
"Visiting hours are over sir," she began but I got the invitation out of my coat pocket.
She stared at it.
"Please let us see him," Deidre whispered.
The woman sighed and nodded. "He's in room 405."
"Thank you," I breathed.
We walked slowly. We hadn't explained it to our mothers and, now that we were walking to his room, I probably should have. I knocked lightly on the door and a nurse opened it with a frown.
"Visiting hours are over," she said.
"We've been given special permission," I said. "Please let us in."
She looked ready to argue until she saw the wedding invitation in my hand. She opened the door and ducked out, covering her mouth with her hand.
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Real Estate Auction When: Tues., July 26 6:00 p.m. Where: 719 W Ash St. Salina, KS Open Today 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Features of Property • 4 bedrooms • 1 1/2 Bathrooms 1,757 sq. ft. living area • Detached double garage TAXES: 2015 Property Tax $921.14. TERMS ON PROPERTY: $500.00 down day of auction and sign sales agreement. Balance due in certified funds at closing on or before August 26, 2016 upon merchantable title. House sold in as is condition. No warranties expressed or implied by Auction Company or Seller. All inspections including lead based paint inspection are to be completed prior to auction at Buyer's expense if requested. Title Insurance shared equally between Buyer and Seller. Taxes pro-rated to closing. POSSESSION: Upon closing. AGENCY: John Omli, Auctioneer/Broker is representing the Seller in this transaction. For more details & color photos visit www.omli.com. Announcements day of auction take precedence over printed material. Auction conducted by Omli and Associates, Inc. 604 Barney at Broadway • Salina, KS 67401 785-825-1316 or 1-800-499-6182 • www.omli.com


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Junior guard Chris Flemmings exploded for a career-high 28 points as UNCW used a big run in the second half to grab a 91-82 win over Elon in Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball on Thursday at Alumni Gym.
The Seahawks, one game out of first place in the CAA, won their second straight conference road game and raised their record to 11-5 overall and 3-2 in the CAA.
Flemmings led all scorers with his second 20-point game of the season. The Cary, N.C. product connected on 11 of 16 shots and 5 of 9 from long range to spark the Seahawks. Craig Ponder made 8 of 13 field goals attempts en route to his 21-point effort, while junior guard Denzel Ingram and junior center C.J. Gettys chipped in 14 and 10, respectively.
"This was a great CAA basketball game," said UNCW second-year Head Coach Kevin Keatts. "Elon has a very good basketball team and shoots the ball very well. After they cut the lead to two points at halftime, we knew we would have to battle in the second half.
"Chris (Flemmings) shot well in practice and in our shoot around and had a tremendous first half. Craig (Ponder) had a great second half. We knew they were going to shoot a lot of three's and we held them to eight tonight. I'm very proud of our guys."
UNCW enjoyed one of its best shooting nights of the season and registered season highs in conference play for points (91), three-point field goals (12) and field goal percentage (.557). It marked the fourth time this season the Seahawks eclipsed the 50 percent plateau from the field.
The Seahawks jumped out to a comfortable lead in the opening minutes before carrying a two-point edge into the break.
With a two-point advantage at the break, the Seahawks spent most of the second half trying to keep the Phoenix at bay before finally gaining some much-needed separation late in the final period.
Leading 68-66 with 5:39 remaining, Flemmings and Ponder helped the Seahawks reel off 10 unanswered points to stun the Phoenix. Flemmings opened the decisive spurt and closed the key run with a three-pointer on the right wing that put the Seahawks ahead by 12.
Flemmings knocked down 4 of 5 three-pointers in the first eight minutes to get the Seahawks out of the gate quickly. The Barton transfer's fourth triple early in the contest gave the Seahawks a 15-7 advantage with 12:40 left in the first half. Elon closed the first half with a flurry, outscoring the UNCW 17-2 over the final 5:09 to close the gap to 38-36 at intermission.
The Seahawks return home to entertain William & Mary in another CAA test on Saturday in a 2 p.m. tip-off at Trask Coliseum.


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Closing tax loopholes could help end global hunger
Oxfam today revealed that just over a quarter of the taxes that could be raised each year from money currently hidden away in tax havens would be enough to lay the foundation for ending global hunger.
Governments risk leaving Syrians out in the cold
Governments meeting at tomorrow's humanitarian pledging conference in Kuwait need to generously give substantial funds or risk leaving Syrians out in the cold without the help they need.
Millions left at the mercy of militias and armed forces across eastern Congo
More than one million people are at risk of militia, rebel and army attacks, with little or no protection from the government or UN peacekeepers.
UN's global agriculture report on track: small farmers need investment and support
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Oxfam urges governments to take action to end Violence against Women
In solidarity with the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, Oxfam is urging governments to speed up the implementation of agreed standards to end violence against women in all its forms.
Oxfam reaction to the High-Level meeting on Africa's Great Lakes: Military solutions have consistently failed
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Announcement of improved harvest forecast for Sahel region: Good news but governments and UN should not take the foot off the gas
International aid agency Oxfam and leading West African farmers network ROPPA today welcomed an initial forecast of an improved harvest in the Sahel region but warned governments and the UN that the food crisis is far from over.
Climate change "to cripple" ASEAN 2015 economic integration
Climate change will cripple the ASEAN goal of economic integration by 2015. The warning was issued today by ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Climate Deal (A-FAB), a regional coalition led by Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Oxfam, during a press conference at the UN climate change talks in Bangkok
Battle for an Arms Trade Treaty continues as Governments opt to delay final deal
The fight to end the illegal and irresponsible arms trade goes on after delegates at the United Nations failed to reach consensus and agree an Arms Trade Treaty. Final text disappointing but not the end of the story.


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Access to HE
Active ageing and universities (Feb 2010), Education can improve quality of later life, Open University and Birkbeck College, around 20 per cent of their graduating students are aged 51 or above.
Universities to\rprovide intellectual\rleadership, RDAs to have role in coordinating
Internationalism, Align with Government's diplomatic and cultural agenda, International Education Reasearch Advisory Forum, Student recruitment, Global challenges, Encourage study abroad, Overseas collaboration
Skilled people are the country's biggest asset [Mandelson, 3 Nov 2009]
Business and community engagement, Building new partnerships, Businesses must do more to reinforce the HE system [Mandelson, 3 Nov 2009], Universities to become more flexible to business demand, Communicating knowledge: How & why UK researchers publish & disseminate their findings, Business people to play bigger role as members on academic boards, Businesses tapping into HE resources, How employers and trainers cooperate to build successful companies (Guardian supplement, Feb 2010)
Universities must illustrate how they enhance students' employability, Emphasis on employability and higher skills [Mandelson, 3 Nov 2009], Delivery through flexible study and workbased learning [Mandelson, 3 Nov 2009], Develop skills for new methods of delivering services (New Industry, New Jobs, Apr 2009), Ensuring that our economy is driven by high levels of skills and creativity (New Industry, New Jobs, Apr 2009), Such information should be publicised for potential students, Worries about mis-selling courses (Streeting, NUS Nov 2009), The consuming student (focussed on the material aspects of learning experience), Value for money, Wants high quality materials, To download and manipulate in her own format, Wants access to resources 24 hours a day, Wants access to Tutors more than a couple of times a term for 20 minutes, The non-consuming student (Study is an exercise of style and not substance), Would never sacrifice his own beliefs to get a better grade, Knows that lecturers think he is way off the point, Thinks he should get higher marks for creativity and persistence, Rarely visits the library, Just uses resources in his possession (like core textbooks), Often misses classes and isn't too bothered, Is frustrated with lecturers that don't help when bumping into them in a social environment, Students more interested in what course qualifies you to do rather than quality of learning (University Lifestyle Survey, 2010), UKCES to coordinate and advise on skills shortages
Postgraduate provision, Funding and meeting the sectors' needs is being reviewed by Prof Adrian Smith
HEFCE to devise new funding incentives to promote new vision, Build on the Higher Education innovation Fund, Linked with New Industries, New Jobs strategy (April, 2009), STEM subjects
Concentrate and reward research excellence in key areas, New forms of collaboration inter-university and with industry, Mobile researchers working between academia and business, Greater use of shared services to manage and commercialise intellectual property, Support new models of collaboration between universities [Lammy, 3 Nov 2009], Measure the impact on economy and society[Lammy, 3 Nov 2009], should be pursued with extreme caution (Peter Williams, QAA, Nov 2009), "It is a highly doubtful proposition that a student that goes to a university or attends a course that is rated 'poor', or not as good as others, should actually have less money devoted to them, fewer books in the library and worse student-staff ratios,", it would be "very difficult" to link institutional funding to measures of teaching and learning performance (Paul Ramsden, HEA, Nov 2009), Australia's national Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, which distributes money on the basis of teaching information, had proved to be controversialAustralia's national Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, which distributes money on the basis of teaching information, had proved to be controversial, The NSS may be used to determine the quality, No direct correlation between volume and excellence (University Alliance, Dec 2009), THE comment
"What we are saying is that nobody should be disadvantaged or penalised on the basis of the families they come from, of school they attended and the way in which simple assessment based on A-level results might exclude them," (Mandelson, Nov 2009)
The plan will be published early 2010
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity recruitment is improving, but not for Oxbridge (Universities and race, Mar 2010)
It's not about expansion, but the right kind of expansion (Mandelson, Feb 2010)
"Different course models can lower the cost of student support" (Mandelson, Feb 2010)
Part time
Mature students in the workplace, Student age will increase
Universities must publicise the nature and quality of courses, HEFCE, QAA and UKCES to advise
Position of External Examiners strengthened
Critically important to maintain the quality of learning - particularly the use of new technology [Lammy, 3 Nov 2009], Extend the interaction, not just with the students, but with the whole community, Students are not consumers (McCulloch, 2009 p177), An overemphasis of one aspect of the students' role and of the academic institution's mission, Suggests undue distance between student and educational process, Encourages the passive student, Fails to encourage deep learning, Implies in the student a level of knowledge and information and the possession of tools to use them that are unlikely to be present, Serves to deprofessionalise the academic role (encourages the entertainment model of teaching), Make the educational experience a product rather than an experience, Reinforces individualism and competition at the expense of community, Community of practice in learning (Prof Frank Coffield), Learning process is not a delivery of production, but rather as induction, Helping the induction process, Supporting self-organising study, University of Manchester, Bournemouth University, How does the HE workforce need to change? (HEFCE Feb 2010), Flexibility whilst maximising talent and commitment, Rewarding pay and conditions without financial risk, Sustainable pensions forum, How much do contracts need to change?
Lynne Brindley (CEO of British Library) to lead task force, Identify opportunities for investment and innovation in universities, colleges and private sector, Seedcorn funding for university-private sector partnerships, Develop pedagogy and not just information management [Lammy, 3 Nov 2009], Taskforce includes Microsoft, Apple, British Council, HEFCE, JISC and BBC later on
JISc Strategy 2010-2012, Developing flexible MIS, Improving shared services amongst institutions, Cloud computing to improve efficiency and flexibility, Lead innovation, JISC Advance to help with feedback mechanisms, Market intelliigence, Communication, New node, Impact
State of play in Universities (Social Media in HE by Jadu, Feb 2010), Limited restrictions to social media, Benefits and future use
International revenue, The ability to develop international learning resources, America, Asia
Industrial collaboration
Learning exports
Student fees
The more funds drawn from these revenues, the stronger the institution will be (Mandelson, Feb 2010)


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Genre: Comedy
Ice Cube
Anthony Anderson
Malcolm D. Lee
Duration: 112 min
Quality: HD []
Release: Apr 15, 2016
IMDb: 6.0
Twelve years have elapsed since we last saw Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, their colleagues and their customers cutting up in the ensemble "Barbershop" film franchise.
If you remember all those years ago, Calvin Palmer, Jr., (Ice Cube of "Friday") committed a terrible mistake when he sold his late father's venerable barber shop in the original "Barbershop" (2002) to scheming loan shark Lester Wallace. After he realized the barbershop's legacy as a landmark in the south side Chicago community, Calvin changed his mind about his harebrained, get-rich-quick schemes and struggled desperately to get the barbershop back from Lester. Lester (Keith David) wanted to turn the place into a strip club. Happily, Calvin thwarted Lester. In "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" (2004), Calvin and his crew cautioned their elected Chicago municipal leaders about the dire effects that gentrification would cause if outside interests were allowed to renovate the south side neighborhood. Now, the long, overdue, second "Barbershop" sequel in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer franchise focuses on issues more relevant than those dealt with in its predecessors. This time, however, Calvin and his crew aren't tangling with either a gluttonous loan shark or a greedy politician. Instead, they have to confront trigger-happy gangs and the tragic violence that these pistol-packing hooligans perpetrate. Ultimately, "Best Man" director Malcolm D. Lee's "Barbershop: The Next Cut" surpasses its entertaining predecessors and displays greater concern for real-life issues rather than merely 'good times' comedy for the sake of 'good times' comedy.
Naturally, the passage of twelve years has wrought changes not only in the cast, but also in the basic premise of the "Barbershop" franchise. Of course, Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve Jeffers, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jazsmin Lewis, and Troy Garity are back. Unfortunately, Troy appears briefly as his Jewish character Isaac Rosenberg, who clipped hair in the first two "Barbershop" epics after Calvin's African-American colleagues and customers accepted him. Basically, Calvin cuts Isaac's hair and then Isaac exits the action. Meantime, Sean Patrick Thomas as Jimmy Jones spends more time off screen than on screen since he has taken a position at City Hall. Comedian Anthony Anderson, who stole an ATM machine in the original "Barbershop," has reformed and runs a catering company. Michael Ealy as Ricky Nash, Leonard Earl Howze as Dinka, and DeRay Davis as the Hustle Guy have departed and been replaced. Calvin's son Jalen (Michael Rainey Jr.) has grown up and attends high school. Meanwhile, Eve has married Rashad (Common of "Run All Night"), and they have had a son who attends school with Jalen. Calvin and Rashad are tight friends.
Although the first two "Barbershop" movies were testosterone laden tales, with female barber Terri (Eve Jeffers of "Blade II") injecting estrogen into the mix, "Barbershop 3" has altered its formula. Instead, director Malcolm D. Lee shows the male barbers sharing half of the building with female hair stylists. In the Kenya Burris & Traci Oliver screenplay, Angie (Regina Hall of "Scary Movie") is now Calvin's business partner, and she has her own employees. One of them is none other than Draya (music sensation Nicki Minaj of "The Other Woman") who wants to seduce Rashad. The rivalry between Eve and Draya over Rashad provides some of the film's funnier moments, and the steam culminates in screams as Eve catches them in the barber shop back room. A lesser subplot finds Jerrod (Lamorne Morris of "Black Rapunzel"), one of Calvin's new barbers unjustly accused of being gay, setting out to seduce Bree (Margot Bingham of "Burning Blue"), a frustrated hair stylist who cannot find a faithful man.
The conflict erupts when Calvin catches Rashad's son Kenny (newcomer Diallo Thompson) swiping candy bars, and Rashad backs up Calvin. Earlier, the two kids had pled with their fathers to ante up twenty dollars each for them. Calvin turned Jalen down. Afterward, as Jalen and Kenny were walking to school, a rival, outside-of-the-neighborhood gang confronts them on the sidewalk. Before any bloodshed can occur, the local gang scares off the other gang, and then they slip both guys a twenty dollar bill. In school, Jalen gets into a fight. The school counselor advises Calvin and his wife Jennifer (Jazsmin Lewis of "Grandma's House") about the incident. Jennifer discovers a gang bandana in Jalen's dresser. This sparks a generational gap clash between Calvin and Jalin. Calvin objects to Jalen's thuggish dreadlocks. Worse, Calvin believes Rashad's son Kenny has led Jalen astray with the gang bangers. Ironically, Jalen led Kenny astray. The night the two guys are to be initiated into the gang, Kenny refuses to accompany Jalen. Similarly, Draya schedules a hair appointment with one gang banger while another gang banger is in the shop getting his hair cut. Everybody scrambles to keep these two thugs from swapping lead with each other on the premises. Draya admits that she made a thoughtless mistake when she rescheduled the rival gang banger. This incident propels the grand finale, and Calvin and his crew decide to defuse the tension. The solution to gang violence that Calvin and company offers isn't 100 percent successful.
When he isn't staging high school scuffles and back room shuffles, Lee uses the energetic camaraderie of his ensemble cast and their spicy chatter to amuse us. Still looking like Civil Rights activist Frederick Douglas, scene-stealer Cedric the Entertainer spouts some of the best, sidesplitting lines in this clever PG-13 rated comedy. He doesn't deliver lines as controversial as his Rosa Parks rant in the original "Barbershop," but he keeps things lively. One of the more amusing scenes has President Obama (Reggie Brown of "The Obama Effect") visiting the barber shop and sitting in Cedric's barber chair for a trim. This humorous scene won't make sense unless you've seen the original "Barbershop" where Cedric has a photo of Walter Payton getting a haircut from him. Like Obama, we cannot see each man's face to verify their identity. Altogether, "Barbershop: The Next Cut" provides the right blend of comedy and drama.


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Two weeks ago I was examined under the bowel cancer screening programme. I have nothing but praise for the attention that I received from everyone, both before the procedure, during the visit to the hospital for the procedure and after the procedure whilst at home. The staff were welcoming and friendly and explained everything that I was to experience. The examination itself was conducted very professionally and the skill of the surgeon meant that I did not experience any pain whatsoever. After the examination I was taken back to a general recovery area and was treated to a cup of tea and some biscuits. Most importantly the surgeon who had examined me came and told me the result of the examination and gave me advice on what I should do for the future. Again all done with patient condsideration in mind. I couldn't have been treated better had I been the king of England. My sincere thanks goes to all who looked after me. My only wish is that if my experience was repeated in every NHS facility, the crisis that one constantly hears about wouldn't exist. With all good wishes David Newman
Response from Janice Bradfield, Senior Communications and Membership Manager, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3 years ago
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