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Magic Lantern is an unofficial firmware update to the Canon 5D Mark II that enables a variety of wanted features for videography.
The firmware enables features such as: Manual audio gain (as opposed to the default auto gain), on-screen level audio meters and lower audio noise. On the picture side, you gain zebra stripes (live clipping warning), and crop screen for various motion picture formats.
This sounds promising. More hacks please!


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With the shiny new Edinburgh skate park finally being opened in sunny Saughton I'm sure it will help to nurture a whole new generation of skaters and bmx riders in our fair city, however in Afghanistan they are only beginning to develop their first generation of skaters with their very own indoor skate park in Kabul. American photographer Noah Abrams went to Afghanistan to document this emerging scene with pro skaters Cairo Foster, Kenny Reed, Louisa Menke and Maysam Faraj to skate with the locals and an Afghan project called Skateistan, the worlds first co-educational skateboarding school.
For more images of this project and other work by Noah Abrams check out his site here and there is an interview with Abrams over at HUH. Also check out the Skateistan project and see photos of their park and more information about what they do.

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Single-payer--a model in which healthcare delivery would remain largely private, but would be paid for by a single federal health insurance fund (much like Medicare provides for seniors, and comparable to Canada's current system)--polls well with the public, who preferred it two-to-one over a privatized system in a recent survey (New York Times/CBS, 1/11-15/09). But a media consumer in the week leading up to the summit was more likely to read about single-payer from the hostile perspective of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer than see an op-ed by a single-payer advocate in a major U.S. newspaper.
Over the past week, hundreds of stories in major newspapers and on NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer mentioned healthcare reform, according to a search of the Nexis database (2/25/09-3/4/09). Yet all but 18 of these stories made no mention of "single-payer" (or synonyms commonly used by its proponents, such as "Medicare for all," or the proposed single-payer bill, H.R. 676), and only five included the views of advocates of single-payer--none of which appeared on television.
Of a total of 10 newspaper columns FAIR found that mentioned single-payer, Krauthammer's syndicated column critical of the concept, published in the Washington Post (2/27/09) and reprinted in four other daily newspapers, accounted for five instances. Only three columns in the study period advocated for a single-payer system (San Diego Union-Tribune, 2/26/09; Boston Globe, 3/1/09; St. Petersburg Times, 3/3/09).
The FAIR study turned up only three mentions of single-payer on the TV outlets surveyed, and two of those references were by TV guests who expressed strong disapproval of it: conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks (NewsHour, 2/27/09) and Republican congressman Darrell Issa (MSNBC's Hardball, 2/26/09).
In many newspapers, the only argument in favor of the policy has been made in letters to the editor (Oregonian, 2/28/09; USA Today, 2/26/09; Washington Post, 3/4/09; Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/27/09; Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2/26/09).
In contrast, the terminology of choice for detractors of any greater public-sector role in healthcare--such as "socialized medicine" and "government-run" healthcare--turned up seven times on TV, including once on ABC News's This Week (3/1/09) and five times on CNN. CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has herself adopted this terminology in discussing healthcare reform, stating (CNN Newsroom, 2/26/09) that "if in time, Americans start to think what President Obama is proposing is some kind of government-run health system--a la Canada, a la England--he will get resistance in the same way that Hillary Clinton got resistance when she tried to do tried to do this in the '90s."
Particularly in the absence of actual coverage of single-payer, such rhetoric confuses rather than informs, blurring the differences between the Canadian model of government-administered national health insurance coupled with private healthcare delivery that single-payer proponents advocate, and healthcare systems such as Britain's, in which healthcare (and not just healthcare insurance) is administered by the government.
The views of CNN's senior medical correspondent notwithstanding, opinion polling (e.g., ABC News/Washington Post, 10/9-19/03) suggests that the public would actually favor single-payer.
Though more than 60 lawmakers have co-sponsored H.R. 676, the single-payer bill in Congress, Obama has not expressed support for single-payer; both the idea and its advocates were marginalized in yesterday's healthcare forum. But given the high level of popular support the policy enjoys, that's all the more reason media should include it in the public debate about the future of healthcare.
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This story was published on March 6, 2009.


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My name is Daniel Ward, and I'm a DevOps engineer with a passion for exploring new ways of interacting any type of software and hardware can come my way.
I'm highly interested in hosting platforms and and tools like AWS, Docker, Python, Flask and Lambda. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR, ESP8266 and what ever else I can convince my wife to let me buy take up a large part of my spare time.
I'm known and respected for my troubleshooting and quick thinking in any emergency situation and take pride in being the "go to" guy for just about anything you tech related you can think of.
I welcome you to take a look through my blog posts for some more insight.


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On May 26th, I got a call from a very nice gal named Stephanie who informed me that Chrysler received my letter and that she was given the responsibility of handling my case.  Once again, I explain what I had been going through to her and she was very understanding and sympathetic about my situation.  In fact, she went so far as to apologize for the trouble I had been going through and informed me that she would try to have the work I had done at Bob Baker refunded to me.  Surprised by what I was hearing, I thanked her for all her help and asked if there was anything she could do to have the mark on my Jeep removed.  Unfortunately, she let me know that was not something she was able to do but, she said that she would look into it and get back to me as soon as possible.
Fast forward to June 4th.¬† Just when I was about to give up hope on Stephanie, I get a call from her to first let me know that the charges for the work I had done at Bob Baker were going to be refunded and that I should be getting a check for it soon.¬† Unfortunately, she also informed me that the only way I could get the mark removed from my Jeep was for me is to contact what she referred to as, a "Business Center".¬† When I asked her how I could contact them, she let me know that I needed to have Tuttle Click contact them for me and work through them to have the mark reversed.¬† When I explained that they were the reason why I had the mark in the first place and that I would prefer not to deal with them, she apologized and let me know that was the most she could do.¬† After thanking Stephanie again, I hung up the phone and decided to try a new approach – go directly to the top…. if I could.
After doing a lot of research online, I managed to find what appeared to be an email contact to Sergio Marchionne, the current CEO of Chrysler Group, LLC as well as a contact for C. Robert Kidder who is the current Chairman of the Board.  Granted, the email addresses weren't theirs specifically but, I figured they were better than nothing.  Anyway, I sent off the following email back on June 4, 2010:
Dear Sergio Marchionne,
I am writing you today in regards to Chrysler Case #19566798 and I'Äôm hoping that you might be able to assist me.¬† In a nutshell, I'Äôm desperately trying to have a mark reversed that was applied against one of my three Jeeps. This mark was unjustly given as a form of retribution and now prevents me from having any warranty work performed on my Jeep at any dealership and all because of an honest formal complaint that I filed against Tuttle Click Jeep in Irvine, CA.¬† Apparently, my complaint resulted in them getting "dinked" as they put it and this caused them to endure financial hardship.
Please note that I have already spoken to several Chrysler Dealer Complaint Center representatives regarding this matter but was ultimately told that I needed to speak with a case manager.¬† After speaking to a case manager, I was told that I needed to write a letter directly to Chrysler Group, LLC.¬† I did just that and eventually got a call from a representative who then told me that I needed to speak to what she referred to as, a 'ÄúBusiness Center'Ä?.¬† Unfortunately, I was told that the only way I could speak to them is to contact the dealership that punished me for apparently hurting them.¬† Needless to say, I hope you can be understanding of my reluctance to speak with them and why I am contacting you directly now.
As mentioned, I am a proud owner of several Jeeps the first of which is a 2009 Jeep JK Wrangler Unlimited X, the second a 2007 JK Rubicon Unlimited and the third a 1997 XJ Cherokee.  In the past, I have owned a 2000 TJ Wrangler Sport of which I just sold a few months ago, a 1994 XJ Cherokee 2-door and a beautiful 1981 CJ7.  I have always been a loyal fan of the Jeep brand, I'm currently in the business of helping to promote it and in all my years of being a Jeep owner, I can tell you that I've never experienced anything quite like this before and to be honest, find it quite troubling.  Believe me, had I known that a complaint made in an customer evaluation could result in the loss of my Jeep's warranty, I would have just kept my mouth shut.  In fact, it is what I currently advise all my readers to do now as well.
In short, all I'm asking is for you to do is review my case and if at all possible, I would be grateful if you could help me to have the mark placed against my Jeep reversed.  If needed, I can provided you with names, dates and any other details you might need concerning this matter.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Today, I received a call from a Chrysler representatives by the name of Mayone who informed me that she received the email I sent.  Being all business, she cut to the chase, promptly informed me that the mark I have against my Jeep was given as a result of the lift that I have on it.  She said that Chrysler would still warranty any work my Jeep may need so long as it had nothing to do with the suspension.  I let her know that the work I was attempting to have fixed under warranty was an exhaust manifold that was apparently leaking.  Much to my surprise, she agreed that this should have been covered being that it was a part of the the emissions system.  I let her know that's how I saw it but was unable to have the work done in spite of the fact and that it was because my Jeep had been "flagged".  She informed me that a dealership needs to go through a process of which included the need to prove that the lift kit on my Jeep caused the damage to the part in question.  I let her know that this was my understanding as well but that Bob Baker told me that the exhaust manifold fell under the "Powertrain" portion of the warranty and, being that the mark my Jeep has is against the powertrain, they would not be able to help me.  Upon hearing this, Mayone asked if she could look into this and call me back.
15 minutes later, Mayone called me back as promised and let me know that she verified that the exhaust manifold was in fact a part of the powertrain.¬† Apparently, everything from the catalytic converter back is considered to be emissions and therefore, my exhaust manifold would not be covered.¬† Upon hearing this, I said fine and reminded her of what she had stated in our previous conversation regarding proof and the need to provide evidence that my lift was directly responsible for my exhaust leak.¬† To this, she said that the lift kit was the evidence.¬† Stupefied by the answer, I paused and then asked… how?¬† Following a condescending chuckle, Mayone informed me that "installing a lift changes the torque on the transmission and that is what caused my exhaust manifold leak."¬† Dumbfounded by this response, I asked Mayone if she could explain what she just said again.¬† Annoyed, she¬†proceeds to tell me with a sharp tone that she's "not making this up" and that this is common knowledge.¬† She goes on to say something to the¬†effect that "if people want to lift their Jeeps, hey, Chrysler can't stop them but they need to know that their warranty will be voided if they do".¬† I tried to respond by telling her about the Jeeps I own, about how built up they are and how I've been able to get warranty work done on them and without any troubles in the past.¬† I start to explain how it was because of Tuttle Click flagging my Jeep¬†that I was in this mess now¬†and if it weren't for the formal complaint I made against them, we wouldn't be having this conversation.¬† I explain how if I had known that I would be going through all this¬†trouble over a stupid complaint that I was encouraged to make by a service advisor, I would have just kept my mouth shut.¬† Frustrated with me, Mayone began to interupt me and so I let her know that I thought she was¬†being rude.¬† To this, she snapped at me and¬†that's when¬†I decided to ask for her representative number.¬† I let her know that I knew she's not allowed to give me her last name but that I would appreciate it if she could¬†give me her representative number and this is when she¬†said "have a good day" and hung the phone up on me.¬† Yes, you heard right, a direct representative of Sergio Marchionne, the current CEO of Chrysler Group, LLC or C. Robert Kidder, the current Chairman of the Board just hung up the phone on me just and because I asked for her representative number.¬†
I've got to be honest and tell you that deciding to write these articles was one of the hardest things I've ever done.  I absolutely love all my Jeeps, the Jeep culture and the Jeep lifestyle.  I have always been a loyal fan and huge supporter of the brand but I have to say that this recent experience has left a really bad taste in my mouth.  Certainly, in all these years, I never thought there would be a day where the company who makes the vehicle I love so much would snub me in the way that they have, without merit and right from the top.  The crazy thing is, I don't have a problem with not being able to get my Jeep fixed under warranty.  Heck, Jeeps are so modified that there wouldn't be much to get fixed under warranty.  If proof can be shown that a modification I made caused a part to fail, I am fully willing to accept that it cannot be fixed under warranty.  I just don't think it's right for Chrysler to be able to make the broad strokes that they have with their definition of "powertrain", effectively making it so that nothing can get fixed under warranty if they want.  Likewise, I am trouble by the fact that Chrysler allows dealerships to flag customer Jeep's preventing them from getting any warranty work done anywhere.  Last but not least, I am deeply trouble by the fact that customer evaluations are not kept confidential but can and will be used against you if you file a formal complaint against a dealership.  Suffice it to say, I felt that the readers of Project-JK.com and the members of JK-Forum.com needed to hear about my experiences and see the truth about Chrysler, the way they handle their customer evaluations, the warrantees they pretend they have, the unwillingness they have to stand behind them and the eagerness they have to permanently void them the first chance they get.
As I've mentioned several times before, be careful what you say and when in doubt, just keep your mouth shut.  Chrysler may make one the best off road vehicle on the face of the planet but unfortuantely, they are no friend of yours.
Please note that this is a follow up article to one that was published earlier and can be read here:
Dealership Retribution: The Gift that Keeps on Giving


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Why I Bought $20 Of Tickets To $560 Million Lotto Drawing
Mega Millions blah blah blah from the lottery is up to $560,000,000. I bought $20 worth of tickets. Why?
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So I can do this gesture to everybody I don't want in my life.
Don't judge me


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My friendship with Howard started at ConFusion in about 1990 when we noticed that we were wearing the same t-shirt, which said "Detroit: Where the weak are Killed and Eaten". I think this was the first sign that we shared the same twisted sense of humor, and started a history of being a bad influence on each other and terrorizing everyone else.
<--Howard being a bad influence on his grandsons, Jesse and Ian.
I've always been impressed with Howard's cool and calm attitude in the face of my rather dangerous driving. One time, on the way back from somewhere on an icy curve, my car ended up sliding sideways while I wrestled for control and got it back onto the dry concrete… Howard sat there calmly, and didn't say a word until we'd pulled off and were driving at a sedate pace through the suburbs, when he simply said. "You might want to drive a little slower." Our driving exploits were memorialized by Tom Sadler in a story in The Reluctant Famulus, illustrated by a drawing of us riding in my car, up on two wheels… in the story, we fought a killer robot, which was eventually conquered by showing it a picture of Howard in his underwear; this caused the poor robot's head to fly off!
In 2001, Howard and I shared a great experience, going on the EAA B-17 "Aluminum Overcast". His daughters and I were a little bit nervous, but again, he was an island of calm, commenting on how new the plane looked without any bullet holes or patches in it. He told me about crawling down into the ball turret, and said about the fantastic view from the bombardier's seat, up in the nose surrounded by plexiglass, with your feet dangling over thin air, surrounded by sky, "imagine that when flak's coming at you!" After the flight, his daughter went to the crew chief to get his WW2 logbook signed – he said he wanted to collect his flight pay!
Front page, Dearborn Hts Press & Guide, Sep 6, 2001, misinformation by Richard Marsh:
Howard DeVore, 76, had not been in a plane since he was discharged from the Army Air Corps at the end of World War II. The 46-year resident of Dearborn Heights, a bombardier in Europe during the war, took his first plane ride in 55 years Monday, ironically in a B-17, the same kind of aircraft he flew in World War II. The special Labor Day excursion was a private flight sponsored by Ford Motor Co. The short flight took six people from Willow Run Airport to the Pontiac area and back to Willow Run. DeVore's friend, Chad Childers, also a WWII Army Air Corps vet, made the opportunity possible.Actually, Howard was a ball turret gunner, not a bombardier, and I cannot for the life of me imagine how he ever fit in that ball. I fit in his bomber jacket a lot better than he did, and we both got a great kick out of the fact that the newspaper somehow decided that I was an Army Air Corps vet too. Of course, I was the bombardier. Help the bombardier!
'Ever since he got out of the air corps, he's refused to go up in a plane, even when a relative of ours worked for an airline and could get us free tickets,' said Karol Sissom of Livonia, one of DeVore's three daughters. 'When he told us he decided to go on this flight, we said, 'Dad, you haven't been in a plane in 55 years, and now you're going up in a plane that's 65 to 70 years old?'. His answer to his daughters was that he was ready for one last great adventure. Sissom and her sisters, Cheryl Walker and Suzanne Reynolds, went out to Willow Run to see their dad off on his first plane ride in more than a half-century.
DeVore said he would have like to have sat one more time in the bombardier's space, but he had gained too much weight since his military days.
Big Hearted Howard never stopped giving help to everybody whose life he touched. Only a week or two before he died, we were talking about some problems with a house I wanted to buy, and he offered to come out with me and look at it that weekend. We'd been talking about going to Sharon's Stilyagi party, and I told him that if he wasn't feeling well enough to go to the party, I wasn't going to make him go out and do that for me… but I think he actually got the strength to go on from the many people he was always helping. He made friends with the owners of two local independent bookstores, and always kept an eye out for them. One time it was a set of shelves, he found, boxes of books from his endeavors as a bookscout, anything he could do to help Kathy or Al. I have a few friends that I think of that much… but Howard's heart was big enough that he had at least five or ten people that he loved that much, plus his daughters and grandkids, who he loved even more.
Howard's 80th birthday party last year was a beautiful thing. His daughters & grandkids made several nice collages & displays of old pictures & SF stuff, seven of his friends & all the family except the grandson who is in Turkmenistan with the Peace Corps showed up, even one great-grandson. My girlfriend pointed out that it was great evidence that Howard had a successful life... his kids turned out well, the grandkids were actually helping out quite a lot and being the hosts for the party… what are the percentage chances of having three teenagers nowadays that all turned out to be nice kids? There was quite a lot passing around of photo albums and "who is in that picture?" including E.E. "Doc" Smith, Gene Rodennberry, Bob Tucker, Ben Bova, and Isaac Asimov.
Four of the birthday party crowd were guys he'd known over 50 years, Elliott Broderick, Dean McLaughlin, George Young, and Fred Prophet. All of them, incidentally, were on the concom for the 1959 Detroit Worldcon - the only one missing was Roger Sims, who lives in Florida now.
It may indicate that I'm old-fashioned, or a dirty old man before my time that I have so much in common with Howard, but there were also a small younger crowd of Howard's friends in attendance: me, Kathy from the bookstore, and Sharon Myers Shaw. Hmm, I just realized that I was the only one of Howard's younger friends who happens to be male… do you think that might be significant?
It is hard for me to say goodbye to Howard. I felt like I couldn't get my words to come out right at his wake last week at ConFusion, but I kept getting choked up. Mike Glickson and Larry Tucker did a much better job of saying the right thing, they started telling jokes, like when Larry said he wished he could call Howard up and tell him, "Hey, did you hear, Howard DeVore died!". I think many of us probably got those calls from Howard, when we lost Busby, Hedwig Biggle, and any number of other people who I *didn't* know, Larry was absolutely right. He got us laughing, not just feeling sad, and that's exactly what Howard would have wanted.
I try to find deep and meaningful morals in things. At the wake, I was trying to say that Howard was a walking embodiment of Jophan, from the way he looked out for Lynn Hickman's son Mark, to how Ted McAdam's son Pete showed up at his wake to pay his respects. My moral was that he was a great example in the way he took care of us, and we in Fandom should take care of each other in his memory. Larry caught me out when I misremembered something from his movie Faans, though, and I don't think anybody could make heads or tails of my lofty sentiments.
There's a better moral, though, one that Howard would have loved. One time, when my heart was breaking over some femmefan who had just dumped me, I remember Howard and I went and sat on his front porch to talk about it. He thought about it, and he realized just how important she was to me, and how important she was in the great scheme of things, and he said, "Remember, women are like streetcars. There'll be another one along any minute." Howard never passed up an opportunity to make a pass at a pretty girl. He was terribly disappointed when he couldn't get the mundane bridesmaids at a wedding at the con hotel drunk enough to take wheelchair rides in his lap last year, like he did the year before. Howard was a great example… whenever we would talk about my friend Marie Miesel, whom I adore, he would reminisce over what a fine looking woman her mother, Sandra, was. So all of you in fandom, raise a glass of whiskey and drink it, in memory of him… and when you make a pass at a pretty girl, do that in memory of him too… Amen and God Bless you all!
All photos and text Copyleft under the Creative Commons License by Chad Childers, all fannish use permitted.


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History of Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Devotion to the Sacred Heart can be seen as early as the second century with St. Justin Martyr and in the 7th century with Pope Gregory the Great. Writers throughout these centuries emphasized the pierced side of Christ as the inexhaustible source from which all graces flow upon mankind and the blood and water as symbols of the sacraments of the Church.
With the coming of St. Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Anselm in the 12th century, there was a sudden increase in direct reference to the love of the Sacred Heart for every person redeemed by His Passion and Death. The widespread influence of Franciscan and Dominican Friars enkindled this devotion in the hearts of the faithful who heard their preaching. The focus on the Sacred Heart moved from being a symbol of the sacraments, to the symbol of Divine Love.
One cannot pass over the Middle Ages without mentioning Saints Gertrude and Mechtild. The editor of St. Gertrude's writings, Revelations, (Dom Boutrais of Soesmes) stated: "Never before…has anything been written on the effect of the divine Heart and its relation to men, to saints, to the souls in Purgatory, such as we find in the writings of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtild.
The contemplation of the Humanity of Christ in His Passion, devotion to the Blessed Eucharist (in particular the feast of Corpus Christi), and the surge of mysticism gave the devotion to the Sacred Heart a new vitality in the Middle Ages. Prior to the revelations to St. Margaret Mary religious communities, particularly in France, continued to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout the world. The French spiritual leaders paved the way for the message given to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.
St. Margaret Mary entered the Daughters of the Visitation, founded by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantal, in 1671. Although devotion to the Heart of Jesus was already important to the order prior to St. Margaret Mary's entrance, it would be through her that public devotion to the Sacred Heart (reparation, consecration and a liturgical feast) would be practiced universally in the Catholic Church. St. Francis de Sales wrote, "Our little congregation is the work of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Our dying Savior gave birth to us by the wound in His Sacred Heart." St. Jane told her daughters, "Pray that your heart may be made like to the Heart of Jesus." It was to this Order that Jesus gave the deepest knowledge of His Sacred Heart and the express command to spread devotion to It.
During this time, the heresy of Jansenism was spreading like wild fire throughout Europe. The Jansenists instilled fear into the hearts of the faithful, turning the religion of faith and love into one of pessimism and scrupulosity, teaching that man is completely incapable of disposing himself to the grace offered by God. Frequent Communion was also frowned upon.
In contrast to this, between the years of 1673 and 1675 Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary revealing His Divine Heart to her. In one apparition He told her, "My Divine Heart is so passionately in love with humanity, and with you in particular, that it cannot keep back the pent-up flames of its burning charity any longer. They must burst out through you." Our Lord mourned the indifference and ingratitude of the greater part of humanity. Christ asked for the communion of reparation on 9 First Fridays. He also requested that there be a special liturgical feast for His Sacred Heart in the Universal Church to be celebrated eight days after the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. On that day He asked for a solemn act of reparation for all the offenses heaped upon Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
St. Margaret Mary was a cloistered nun and so to help her carry out the mission entrusted to her, Our Lord brought St. Claude la Columbiere, a Jesuit priest, to her to be her Spiritual Director. He was the first to believe in the revelations of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary. Thanks to his support, her superior also believed, and wide spread propagation of the devotion to the Sacred Heart in the Universal Church began. From then on, the Jesuits became the chief propagators of the devotion to the Sacred Heart which flourished throughout the subsequent centuries.
The Holy See has given this devotion a high place of importance in the Church due not only to the requests of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary but also to the soundness of the doctrine and its timeliness in rekindling love and trust in the Merciful Heart of Our Savior. Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical MISERENTISSIMUS REDEMPTOR, writes about the meaning of the vision of the Sacred Heart. "He showed His Heart to us bearing about it the symbols of the passion and displaying the flames of love, that from the one we might know the infinite malice of sin, and in the other we might admire the infinite charity of Our Redeemer, and so might have a more vehement hatred of sin, and make a more ardent return of love for His love." In this encyclical, Pope Pius stressed that reparation to the Sacred Heart is obligatory for all Christians. He ends his encyclical stating that the devotion of reparation to the Sacred Heart has the highest approval of Apostolic Authority and must be practiced universally by all Christians.
Following the visions and writings of St. Margaret Mary and St. Claude la Columbiere, many Popes have written on the immense importance of devotion to the Sacred Heart including: Leo XIII, Benedict XV, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI. On the 50th anniversary of Pope Pius XII's encyclical Haurietis Aquas on devotion to the Sacred Heart, Pope Benedict wrote, "This devotion (to the Sacred Heart) is "the contemplation of the 'side pierced by the spear,' in which shines the limitless will of salvation on the part of God." For this reason, "it cannot be considered as a passing form of worship or devotion. Adoration of the love of God, which has found in the symbol of the 'pierced heart' its historical-devotional expression, continues to be vital for a living relationship with God."
The Devotion to the Divine Mercy, given to St. Faustina Kowalska in 1931, is a broadened devotion to the Sacred Heart. From this devotion our trust in God's limitless love and mercy is rekindled. The incomprehensible treasures which we have in the sacraments are symbolized in the blood and water gushing forth from the Heart of Christ. The devotion to the Sacred Heart has flowered and has seemed to come full circle in the devotion to the Divine Mercy, particularly in its emphasis on the graces flowing from the Heart of Jesus, healing and forgiving souls, through the Sacraments of Mercy.
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Trouble on the horizon
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- JessiferSeabs said...
So.... what's wrong?! Talk about it! It will help, I promise.
OR -- go for a walk.
Or go take a bubble bath.
Call a friend
Paint your toenails!
Buy some fresh flowers.
DON'T binge.
It might make you feel better temporarily, but regardless of weigh-in, you'll hate yourself for it later. And then the cycle continues...
- September 15, 2006 at 4:58 PM
- 3treasures said...
We all have one of those days. I had one on Wednesday, but managed not to binge, a miracle, afterall, i got a hold of a packet of digestive biscuits...BUT i just had 2. Hope you're feeling better ((HUGS))
- September 15, 2006 at 6:06 PM
- snackiepoo said...
Read my blog from today, sistah. Whatever it is that is eating at you, feel it....get mad, cry, run, walk, spend a day watching sappy movies...let yourself get through it and then you will be find. Don't find your way through food but through whatever else you can.....I agree with Jess....sometimes simple things like going to a farmers market and buying fresh flowers and stuff like that can be inspiring....talking to random people, sitting in a coffee shop reading the paper...it is the little things.
- September 15, 2006 at 11:14 PM
- Jules said...
All I can say is keep on keeping on. Check out my blog for today has a link to a very inspiration video clip of a young man who is disabled and his dad. It reminded me that no matter how bad my day is, I have been blessed with the ability to CAN! I can move, I can make healthy choices, I just need to keep the big picture in mind and keep on keeping on. You CAN!!!
- September 16, 2006 at 2:10 AM
- digitalGoobie said...
Yeah, I'm with Jess - try to talk to us or your Hubby and say what's actually wrong Hun. If that doesn't work, maybe you should try some high intensity exercising, a shower... you can do this! Mind over matter Hun, if you eat that food - it'll only add to your stress and anger. Cause you're just self-distructing then, punishing yourself for your bad mood and making it worse...
I'm sendin some love and encouragement your way.. times like that are more than tough!
- September 16, 2006 at 9:34 AM
- April said...
Oh Cindy, I am so sorry I am just seeing your post. I hope you made it and got through it. If not and you gained today, that is OK. We have all been there, just get back on that horse. :-) And yes, please we are here for you anytime you need to talk.. {hugs}
- September 16, 2006 at 11:44 AM
Come on in for a nice cup of coffee and a chat about my weight loss journey as well as all the healthy recipes I have found, including WW points and/or nutritional information if available. I am eating a vegetarian diet and concentrating on getting healthy and hopefully weight loss will follow. Thank to all my readers for their ongoing support.


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It is Week 1 of our Greater Golden Passport Competition where you have the chance to win a $2,000 Greater Building Society Cash Passport to take on your next holiday
Our Product Manager, David Bryde, has had a big year of travel. His first trip to Asia in May was followed up by a recent holiday in France. He shares his experience of using a Multi-Currency Cash Passport for travel money.
As much as The Greater takes as many security measures as it can to keep our money safe here and overseas, the main reason we used a Cash Passport was to keep our everyday account safe and separate from our travel money.
We could have used the debit card linked to our everyday savings account but any chance of a fraudster getting access to it while we were away was eliminated. We spent enough of our own money overseas without giving anyone else a remote chance of getting their hands on funds in our accounts down the track.
For our trip to Thailand we loaded the card with Aussie dollars. It meant that the exchange rate varied from purchase to purchase but it was easy to keep an eye on the balance we had left on the card via the Cash Passport website.
We were able to use the card everywhere we tried, though we did learn pretty quickly not to make small ATM withdrawals in Thailand as the local ATM owners charge about $5 AUD per withdrawal, regardless of the type of card you have.
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It was good that the couple of hundred dollars we had left on the card when we came home could be spent here at merchants via EFTPOS at no cost to us.
When the Paris trip came up it was easy to load the same card with Euro and we liked that there wasn't a new PIN number to remember. This time the exchange rate was locked in at the time we transferred money onto it.
No ATM fees in France made it easy to get cash whenever we needed it and there were no problems using it with merchants.
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When we had a short stopover at the Bangkok Airport Hotel on the way home, it was quite clever how our bill was paid first from the remaining Australian dollars on the card and then from the Euro. It tidied the card up to only have one currency left on it.
With no travel plans (or budget!) on the horizon, it will cost us $10 to close the card and convert the Euro back to Aussie dollars. That is a small price to pay for the peace of mind the card gave us in knowing we didn't have to risk the security of our everyday account in even the tiniest way.
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Shades of Fritz Leiber's "The Wanderer":
A team of astronomers, led by Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester have determined that a recently discovered dim star passed through our solar system's distant cloud of comets, called the Oort Cloud, around 70,000 years ago.
The Oort Cloud is the origin of most of the comets in our Solar System.
The star, nicknamed "Sholz's star," is believed to have passed roughly 0.8 light years away, which is equivalent 8 trillion kilometres or 5 trillion miles from our sun. This is the nearest any star other than our sun has been to our solar system, and is five times closer than the current closest star Proxima Centuari, which lies 4.2 light years away.
Currently, Scholz's star is a small, dim red dwarf in the constellation of Monoceros, about 20 light years away.


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The Near Miss Project
The Near Miss Project studied cycling incidents that don't result in injuries, but may profoundly influence people's experiences and behaviours.
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Cycling is currently a hotly debated political and policy issue, especially in relation to safety. While research has studied serious injuries and deaths, this project targets a more common, yet under-researched phenomenon: the 'ordinary' experience of near misses and other non-injury incidents (from incivilities and low-level harassment to SMIDSY: 'sorry mate, I didn't see you').
This project researched, analysed and documented cycling near misses, to contribute to training drivers and transport professionals. It further enabled the cycling public to discuss experiences of near misses and related incidents, the effect that these have had, and their views about preventing such incidents.


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Who is Bill Taylor, really?
I could say I grew up in Paris and studied post-renaissance French literature at La Sorbonne before earning a PhD in economics from Harvard; that I am fluent in 7 languages and served as honorary chairman at the ninety-third annual Global Convention of Important People in Prague; and, that I beat Ken Jennings in a head-to-head Jeopardy challenge. But, that wouldn't be true.
I could say I was a fighter pilot with 25 kills over the skies of Viet Nam before being shot down in a hail of gunfire during a dogfight-me in my F4 Phantom, alone against 7 Russian Mig fighters- after which I endured 6 years of torture in a Vietnamese prison camp before leading every POW to freedom during a daring early morning escape. That would also be a lie.
Okay, so I could say I'm a member of Mensa and that I got my MD from Duke University Medical School at age 16, and, also, hold doctorates in biomechanical engineering and microbiological research, and I spent the past 5 years volunteering in the jungles of Suriname, providing health care to indigenous population while, simultaneously, conducting research on the effects of the saliva of the deadly and extremely rare South American spitting viper on cancer cells.
Or, I could show you my dark side and tell you how I ran a highly successful school teaching seamanship to Somali pirates.
Truth of the matter is I'm just an average guy. As a kid, I had summer jobs as a plumber, carpenter, tree trimmer, and heating and air-conditioning technician. I was 14 years old when I worked in the hot and humid tobacco fields of eastern North Carolina, harvesting tobacco leaves (Colloquially speaking it's called "cropping." No one calls it harvesting.) for a dollar and twenty-five cents per hour. I earned a degree in engineering, working my way through college as a maintenance mechanic at a tobacco leaf processing factory, followed by nearly five years in the U.S. Coast Guard, after which I returned to the tobacco processing industry where I began a career as a safety professional.
Since 1977, I have worked to help employees be safe on the job and teach managers how to manage safety programs. My safety career took me from the tobacco industry to the City of Durham, North Carolina, where I was safety coördinator for the city for nearly nine years. I then had an opportunity to become a consultant with one of the world's premier safety and health consulting firms in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Joining with a group of fellow employees, we bought the company and later sold it. Eventually, I left the company and, with my two partners, formed the consulting firm of Coble, Taylor and Jones Safety Associates, LLC. My career has taken me, thus far, to every state except North Dakota and Alaska and 22 countries on six continents.
In addition to consulting from here to Timbuktu, I also managed to overcome my shyness and am a frequent speaker at local, national, and international events. Topics range from humor and motivation to all things safety.
It has been an exciting journey and along the way my wife and I birthed, well, actually, she birthed, 3 sons, of whom we have always been extremely proud. They have grown up to become fine Christian young men, successful in their own rights, and, as of this writing, we have three granddaughters and one grandson.
Aside from my work and family I have served as an ordained deacon in two different churches, taught Sunday school for adults and sixth graders for twenty years, and along the way, while writing my lessons, I discovered how much I enjoy writing. In addition to scripts, speeches and manuals, I have written award-winning magazines articles and have published a text-book on safety management. I have also written comedy for broadcast and stand-up. In fact I performed stand-up comedy just enough to know I did not want to be a stand-up comic.
Conducting research in the jungles of Suriname might have been very fulfilling; but, I wouldn't change my life and my experiences for all the degrees at Harvard. I married the woman God intended me to marry and He blessed us with a great family and a fairytale life. By keeping our eyes on the prize, and realizing what was important in this world, we have been happy in all circumstances-good and not so good. Not even George Bailey had a more wonderful life.


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The great English bluesman John Mayall used that phrase in a song about Jimi Hendrix's death. It comes to mind with the news that the actor Philip Seymour Hoffmann has been found dead with a syringe in his arm, a heroin overdose victim. He was 46.
The first film I saw Hoffmann in was The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which he played a murderous creep. He also struck me as particularly good in Capote, but he kept popping up in many other movies I rented. I always thought the films were better for his presence.
Naturally, the internet is full of judgmental vindictive holier-than-thou blather in response to his death—the sort of stuff that cowards say only from behind user names. However, it all was offset by this wise observation from an anonymous commenter:
"Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them." Ecclesiastes 9:12
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China to set up maritime 'judicial centre'
China's Supreme Court is setting up its own international maritime "judicial centre" to handle territorial disputes.
The top court gave few details in its announcement, but said the centre would help China become a "maritime power".
Beijing is locked in disputes with its neighbours over claims in the resource-rich South China Sea, with tensions raised in recent months over China's aggressive land reclamation.
It has also squared off with Japan over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands.
What is the South China Sea dispute?
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The announcement of the new centre came from Chief Justice Zhou Qiang on Sunday during the ongoing annual meeting of China's parliament.
"(We) must resolutely safeguard China's national sovereignty, maritime rights and other core interests," he said, without giving further details on the centre and how it would work.
However the authority of any such centre is unlikely to be recognised by the many neighbours with whom China has territorial disputes.
China claims a large swathe of the South and East China Sea, creating multiple overlaps with areas claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan.
The Philippines currently has a case lodged against China at the UN's Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
It says the "nine-dash line", which China uses to demarcate its claims, is unlawful under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which both countries have signed.
Beijing has refused to participate in the tribunal, saying the court has no power to rule on the matter.
Tensions have increased as China continues to build artificial islands, airport runways and facilities on disputed reefs, prompting calls from the US for a halt in such activities.
Opponents have accused Beijing of militarisation but China says such construction is within its rights and any building is for civilian purposes.


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The best method we have found up until now to build historically profitable machine learning based systems is to construct strategies that attempt to predict the specific outcome of a given trading setup. This means that using some set of inputs – such as bar returns or indicators – you attempt to predict how a trade would exactly end up if you managed it in a given manner (using a take profit or a trailing stop for example). Today I am going to talk about an expansion of this way of thinking that seeks to eliminate several of the limitations inherent to this methodology, which we will also discuss during the beginning of this post. This idea has come mainly from an Asirikuy member – James – who I would like to take the opportunity to thank for his valuable contributions in our search for machine learning strategies.
When you build a machine learning system that attempts to predict trade outcomes you face the limitation of having to tell your machine learning algorithm how exactly it should handle trades. It is not the same to predict the outcome of a trade that is entered with a stoploss of 10% of the daily ATR 20 period indicator or a trade that is to be entered with a stoploss of 100% of the ATR, it is also different if the trade will remain untouched until it reaches a take profit target or if the stoploss will be modified through the trade according to some criterion. In practice some trading setups end up being more predictable than others and by optimizing which trade management technique to use we arrive at the historically most favorable results.
Those of you who are well versed in the statistics of trading system design may already spot a problem in the above proposition. The fact that you must carry a search process over the possible trade outcomes to predict introduces a data-mining bias issue that needs to be accounted for (which we presently do at Asirikuy) and most importantly, it introduces a fundamental limitation in how a given machine learning system can adapt to the market. If a system is created that does a good job at predicting the outcome of a trade entered with an initial stop loss of 50% of the daily ATR 20 that is managed via a function based trailing stop that seeks to move the trade to break even after 5 bars then if the ability to predict this scenario deteriorates the system will fail rather quickly. Another problem is that the above focus on a single trade outcome exposes the system to significant feed dependency, especially if the machine learning algorithm used is not very flexible (lacks the ability to form non-linear representations).
To combat the above problems we can expand on the notion of predicting trade outcomes and take it from a single outcome to multiple trade outcomes. This means that instead of predicting how a single trade based on a single set of trade conditions would workout we attempt to predict the results for an array of possible trades and we then take a trade with the conditions that are predicted to yield the biggest profit. The simplest representation of the above idea is to get rid of the notion of the fixed SL. In this scenario instead of attempting to predict the long and short trade outcomes of a trade using a given initial SL we instead predict an array of long/short trade outcomes for different SL values. In my first tests I used SL values from 0.5 to 1.4 of the daily ATR 20 in 0.1 steps, such that I end up predicting 10 different trade outcomes. This means that I have 10 different long/short trade predictions using 10 different SL values and I can then compare the expected profits from all of them and decide to take a trade with the SL that gives the best potential result.
We can attempt to perform the above process using a simple linear regression algorithm (as implemented on the Shark open source library), retraining the algorithm on each bar using a rolling window of examples. As we would expect the above algorithm is significantly slower to back-test compared with an algorithm that attempts to predict just a single trade outcome but in the end a back-test can be obtained in less than 10x the time so it ends up being more efficient than having to test 10 different SL possibilities. The increase in adaptability coupled with the decrease in mining bias and therefore the decrease in mining bias evaluation complexity makes this an excellent advancement in our creation of machine learning strategies.
In the end what we have is something fairly complex that starts to resemble what a trader would actually do. We have a machine learning algorithm that retrains on each bar using a past given number of examples and attempts to draw a relationship between market information and the outcome of several different possible trade setups. In the case I have exposed today this is simply 10 different stoploss values but this can be expanded to mean different things. For example I envision an algorithm where you can simultaneously evaluate the potential of 1000 different potential trade outcomes including many different initial stop loss values and trailing stop functions. Whether this will work as expected or not is still unknown but it definitely feels like a great step in the right direction.
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For several years Teale was a member of the Advisory Council of the Overseas Geological Surveys. He died in England on 17 July 1971.
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Although research shows that head lice are becoming increasingly resistant to established treatments, there are still ways to conquer these critters. Better yet, learn to take actions that can help your kids avoid catching lice in the first place.
Drug-Resistant Head Lice
Recent research shows that head lice in 25 states have developed resistance to pyrethroids, the most commonly used class of over-the-counter insecticide treatments, according to Healthline. Head lice have evolved quickly with new gene mutations that make it easier for them to survive a chemical onslaught. This means that infestations often last longer, enabling them to spread further. As a result, there has been an increase in head lice cases throughout the United States since the late 1990s.
A 2015 study of head lice in 30 states shows that lice in 25 states have developed three gene mutations that greatly decrease their susceptibility to pyrethroid treatments. Lice in four other states had developed between one and three of the mutations, while lice in only one state, Michigan, did not have the mutations.
Research is ongoing to develop new treatments, with three new treatments available by prescription. In the meantime, there are still ways to effectively eliminate head lice with home treatments.


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question: I have started creating a personal site and I was wondering how you create a page so it is sectioned in two (just like this site) I know you can use frames, but I have heard that frames are bad due to browser compatibility and the fact that most people simply don't like them. (Any comments on this would be appreciated). Currently I am using tables so I can use the left for navigation and the right for content, but the problem is every time I make a change to the navigation, I have to go into each page individually to update them. I know there has to be a better way to do this. Kathleen.
Answer: My site used to use a table and background image to give the two section effect.
The way to avoid coding the navigation into every page is to use an external javascript to create the part of the page that contains the navigation. What you do is to place the html that handles the navigation into javascript document.write statements which you place in the external javascript. Then all you need to do is to call that javascript from the appropriate spot on each page.
I am not opposed to the use of frames but I have noticed that many people do not code their frames site properly and quite often when you move on to the next site that they link to you find that the new site displays in just one frame from the previous site. The main disadvantage of frames is that search engines will not find any of your pages except the frame definition by following links from other sites as the frame definition does not contain links for the engine to follow. The only way other pages would be found by the search engine is if they are linked to outside of frames (which defeats the purpose of the frames navigation).
Using a Javascript for navigation will also not provide links for the search engines to follow but you can get around this by creating a site map page with links to all of the pages on your site and placing a link to this page on your home page. Then when you add a new page you only have to update the navigation javascript and the site map page not every page on the site.
To implement a javascript navigation menu, each page contains the following Javascript call


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Brittany Bosco – Spectrum EP (Zip File)
I know I deserve a mad late pass for this, but I'm just getting around to the amazing Spectrum EP from Savannah's Brittany Bosco. Like fellow Georgian Janelle Monae, Ms Bosco does have that futuristic element to her sound (like everybody out of that state these days), but the comparisons end there. Bosco brings a more soulful, jazzy element to her tracks. Songs like 8 Track sound retro without hyping the current Motown trend. With production by Alex Goose (who was responsible for Danny Swain's fantastic album And I Love Her), the Spectrum EP foreshadows good things for Bosco's debut album.
Also, this EP qualifies for the best packaging of 2008. Hands down.


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I know I don't start my course until September but there have been a few niggling doubts going through my poor addled brain of late, the biggest being uncertain of how well I'd be able to learn computer programs in a short space of time (I've always relied more on paint and pencils) the other being actually thinking in three dimensions, rather than trying to make something 2D look like it could exist in a 3D world. so on my day off this week I thought, right I'm going to get to grips with this, so I downloaded a free trial of one of the programs that I would be learning, mostly to see how complicated it is...yes it's very complicated but after a few false starts and a couple of very helpful youtube videos I finally got my head around the basics of meshes and the like and even managed to construct my own mesh ready to sculpt onto:
I decided to work on my zombie character as it seemed like a simple albeit stylised design that I'm very familiar with, now I know that the mesh I built has a few errors, I know the arms are too long, I simply wanted to take a figure through the process, to see how it works, so once I was reasonably satisfied with the mesh I began to sculpt:
I tried to keep it in the style of the original drawing and I think it worked to an extent, I enjoyed the sculpting immensely, I must admit feeling advantaged when sculpting the clothes, having spent practically all of last year painting creases into shirts on 2d paintings, I lean't quickly that regarding the sculpt and particularly the face, that less is definitely more. Once I was done with the sculpt I decided to have a go at adding some colour:
I purposely kept this very basic as not to confuse myself, given how complicated every other process was on this program, i was surprised out how straightforward this was. The exercise did exactly what I hoped it would do, it has alleviated some of my worries about the programs and I'm very much looking forward to September. for a first go I don't think it's too bad :)