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- Russell Blackford
- Australian philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and professional writer. Based in Newcastle, NSW. Author of FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE (2012), HUMANITY ENHANCED (2014), and THE MYSTERY OF MORAL AUTHORITY (2016).
Saturday, July 02, 2011
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3 comments:
- Robin Hanson said...
What exactly would you like to be more fleshed out?
- 02 July, 2011 10:29
- Brian said...
It's not common to see an argument that X is unlikely by analogy to unlikely Y when Y, if true, would entail X, (among other things Y entails). It's more common to see a straightforward fallacy of division.
An example of the fallacy of division: the fleet can't go faster than 30 knots, therefore no ship in it can go faster than 30 knots.
Hanson does not commit the fallacy outright, but uses an analogy that is weak in the same way firm conclusions would be fallacious.
But what if our meagre success was because we just didn't have the right grand unified theory of betterness? What if someone someday discovered the basics of such a theory? Well then this person might use his basic betterness theory to make himself better in health, wealth, sexiness, organization, work ethic, etc. More important, that might help him make his betterness theory even better....we seem to have little reason to expect there is a useful grand unified theory of betterness to discover...But a bunch of smart well-meaning folks actually do worry about a scenario that seems pretty close to this one. Except they talk about "intelligence" instead of "betterness."...I put the word "intelligence" in quotes to emphasize that the way these folks use this concept, it pretty much just means "betterness." (Well, mental betterness, but most of the betterness we care about is mental.)"
There is no reason to believe there is a theoretical concept of "betterness" one could harness to improve itself, as "betterness" seems too ill-defined and diffuse, as well as dependent on choices that may be arbitrary. However, if there were such a theory, it would entail as a component the sub-theory of "better intelligence", that is "betterness" as applied to intelligence.
If there is no theory of better intelligence, i.e. no general theory of inductive reasoning, then there can be no general theory of betterness. Were there a general theory of betterness, there would certainly be a general theory of better intelligence. We may take the complete implausibility of the notion of theories of general betterness as weak evidence against each specific theory of "better X". However, there may still be a valid theory of "better X" for each X.
There happens to be a theory of best inductive learning, AIXI, that is unimplementable in practice. However, it can be approximated and it can also be estimated how far approximations are from the ideal. There is a "better X" when the X is intelligence, if not when the X is other things.
So it seems that the analogy falls apart once the details of intelligence are examined, just as the conclusion that no ship can exceed the fleet speed falls apart once one examines what it means to be a ship in a fleet.
- 02 July, 2011 10:59
- Russell Blackford said...
It just seems very terse, Robin, and at a very high level of abstraction. Are you working on a longer version where the specific positions you have in mind are identified and analysed, specific premises and alternative interpretations of them are identified, etc.?
I actually have some sympathy for the argument, not least because I think I share you views about "betterness" to an extent. But at this stage I'm not confident that the analogy goes through.
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**IMPORTANT - see comments for my extra details and tips**
We are a husband and wife who got married a little over a year ago. On our wedding day we had a professional photographer taking photos and paid him to create a wedding album for us.
After waiting over a year for our album, we finally received the 'proof' version last week and were not happy. The album lacked style, elegance, quality and did not capture the essence of our special day.
When we told the wedding photographer we were not happy, he decided to give up. He sent us all of the PSD files he had created and told us to do it ourselves.
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PS - we have attached the PDF version of the current album. Each page of the PDF has a corresponding PSD file which you will find in the link in the Requirements section. (note: the photographer spelt my wife's name wrong, it is 'Katy')
The album is mostly for me and my wife to relive our special day. But it is also to show friends and family.
It will also be on display on our coffee table for all visitors to see.
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* The photos on each PSD must stay the same. They have been chosen by us and tell a story. The order must stay the same, that is very important.
* You are free to change the layout, the design elements, the colours, etc are all free for you to redesign.
* The photos have already been 'touched-up' by the photographer, but you are free to do further touch-ups if you think they are required.
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* We do not expect you to redesign ALL pages just to enter this competition, so instead you can just pick 2 to 4 pages to redesign first and submit. This will give us a good idea of each persons style and creativity.
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* Please only submit jpg or similar image files when entering the competition.
* The winner will need to provide the files back to us in same layed PSD format as the originals. But only after all pages have been approved in JPG or other image format.
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Last summer I went to a garage sale, and this guy had a whole duffle bag of Viet Nam era uniforms, equipment, a helmet, odds & ends, etc. I didn't really go through it, but I paid $100. for the whole bag. It had several sets of jungle fatigues, gear, web belt, canteen, helmet, the works. Well worth the $100 bucks I paid. While going through the stuff, I found this card inside a G.I sewing kit. I have no idea what it says on the back, but these cards were popular amog the Troops durring the Vietnam War. I googled searh "Vietnam Death Card" and this is what I got:
The ace of spades, the so-called "death card" is featured in many movies about the Vietnam War. The symbol is also depicted on various unit crests, special operations privately-made patches, collar insignia, and on flags and painted vignettes on military aircraft and gun trucks.
What do we know about the ace of spades in Vietnam? Did it truly terrify the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army regulars and leave them trembling in fear? Did American military units all throughout Vietnam use it? The answers would seem to be a resounding "no." In fact, some intelligence studies indicate that the Vietnamese had no concept that the ace of spades represented death. Many units never used the cards and the majority of troops I met never even saw one used in-country.
I spoke to several combat veterans about the cards. One said:
Sorry I can't help. I've heard of them but never saw one and never heard of them being used in my AO during my time.
Another commented:
The story we heard was that the Vietnamese were inveterate card players--and that was true; I saw mamasans playing cards many, many times in any shade that was available--and that some of the common superstitions about certain cards had penetrated Vietnamese culture, by way of the French. For instance, the Ace of Spades was a death card. The Queen of Hearts was a love card. The Jack of Spades represented an enemy.
So why was the ace of spades so popular that some individuals or units actually ordered them from playing card manufacturers to place on the bodies of dead Viet Cong and NVA? The answer seems to be, because the American troops just loved them. Although the cards were allegedly anti-Communist PSYOP, in fact they were really pro-American PSYOP. U.S. troops got a kick out of them and loved the idea of leaving them on bodies. Like wolves, it was a way to mark their territory. It proclaimed them the biggest and "baddest" varmints in the valley of death. The cards motivated and encouraged American troops far more than they terrified the enemy.


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Don't we all find ourselves in need of help that we don't necessarily deserve? Aren't we all beneficiaries of unearned favors? Certainly, everyone falls short and needs forgiveness.
Editor's note: "The Spoken Word" is shared by Lloyd Newell each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir broadcast.
Too many people feel alone, figuratively wandering in the night. They search for purpose, meaning and connection. They long to love and be loved, to help and be helped. Often their wandering is more desperate because they feel they don't deserve love or help. Perhaps they've made poor choices or haven't lived up to expectations — their own or others'.
In Victor Hugo's beloved classic "Les Mis�rables," Jean Valjean is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread. He is finally released after 19 years, but because of his criminal record, no one is willing to trust Valjean with employment or housing — or even a friendly word. Disheartened, he finally goes to a cathedral where a bishop offers him a meal and a place to sleep.
That night, Valjean sneaks away with the church's silverware but is caught by the police. The officers drag him back to the cathedral, where, to everyone's surprise — especially Valjean's — the bishop reports that he gave Valjean the silverware and wanted him to take the silver candlesticks too. The police leave, and the bishop challenges Valjean to use this gift to become an honest man. The bishop's stunning act of grace — a gift some might say wasn't deserved — forever changes the course of Jean Valjean's life.
Don't we all find ourselves in need of help that we don't necessarily deserve? Aren't we all beneficiaries of unearned favors? Certainly, everyone falls short and needs forgiveness. In those moments when we fear that our mistakes have put peace and joy forever out of reach, we can turn heavenward and find what 18th-century hymnist Charles Wesley called "love divine, all loves excelling." God's love is "pure, unbounded love," and he grants it not because we are strong but because we need strength, not because we are good but because he is good (see "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling," No. 56 in "Hymns of Faith," published in 1980).
Such love seems to enter most readily into the "trembling heart." And once it enters our trembling heart, our undeserving life, we are forever changed. We can no longer see anyone as undeserving of the gifts of grace and love we might be able to offer. In this way, as Charles Wesley affirms in "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling," God sets "our hearts at liberty."


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Canada's conservative government is going all Reagan on your ass with this crime bill.
This bicycle plays records.
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You must watch this nifty/naughty stop-motion Spike Jonze short.
Loretta Lynn is sick.
Was Gaddafi the richest man in the world?
Uber-expensive new metallurgy laboratory (read as "nuclear bomb factory") in Los Alamos continues to freak everyone out.
C&O Canal water-bridge (aqueduct) over water has been restored. Neat.
These occupy wall st. signs are hilarious. So are some of these. "I shaved my balls for this?"
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There are a lot of reasons to want a motion-activated camera in something as inconspicuous as an iPhone dock. It's just that every last one of them ends in a restraining order.
The iCharger does, in fact, charge your iPad, iPod or iPhone. But it's also a motion-activated camera that can store weeks of Mpeg-4 AVI Video on an SD card, upgradable to 32GB.
Ostensibly, the iCharger is to help catch thieves in the act. But there are a lot more effective ways to catch thieves than a $US400 iPod dock, right? You can almost buy a whole new device off contract for that. No, what we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is the new star witness in unlawful sex tape lawsuit courts around the country. [Chip Chick via Geeky Gadgets]


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2. (On the difference between men and women:) "On the one hand, we'll
never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own
jars." - Bruce Willis
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Another week of frantic calls from clients that did not advise me when they were cutting over to a new website provider. Does anyone really pay attention to what I say or write?
So, I thought I would take to the keyboard and send out a reminder to dealers who are not aware of the impact that changing a website provider can have on their marketing analytics.
Changing website vendors is a commonplace event in our industry. Changes in management are often accompanied by throwing out all the previous vendors associated with the past regime. Sound familiar? That could be another blog post on its own!
Other times, website vendor changes are a result of a thorough analysis of the current performance of a dealer's website. A current list of the top performing website vendors can be found by visiting the 2012 Automotive Website Awards website.
Regardless of how many times I speak on this topic, rarely do website changes go smoothly. So I decided to create a checklist when changing a website platform. ADM members can also add their own suggestions in the comments area below.
If you follow this checklist you will avoid unnecessary pain. If ADM members have some additional checklist items, please add them in the comments.
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Joey, great point about setting up page redirects. It is a tedious process but it really helps to leverage existing blog links to service pages, specials pages, etc. The key is to pick your top 20 pages and have those hard coded redirects as part of the cutover.
Good point Tim. If you paid good money for custom pages for SEO goals, they should be part of the cutover deal. I'm going to add that to the list for sure.
Brian, I might add something about internal landing pages. During my experience in retail, I found that many vendors were unwilling to scrape the landing page data from existing sites that SEO vendors or even internal staff had created which were well optimized and converting.
Its important not to lose successful components like landing pages and it is equally important to have 301 redirects implemented should the sites url structure differ from the previous iteration.
Great list Brian. An additional concern I would have in switching providers would be a change in url structure. Page urls on the old site most likely will not be the same on the new site. This can cause any existing pages that currently deliver organic traffic to go to 404 pages and for backlinks to old page urls to also 404. Also, check for incorrect header status codes, some providers don't handle 404 pages or redirects properly by default.
What a useful checklist, floating this one around internally. Only item to add might be to check sites on multiple Browsers and versions (Chrome, IE, Firefox). Step 9, you may want to have inventory feeds run in parallel for a while to make sure listings are correct leading up to switchover. Also, if video provider is separate get them involved early and make sure website can accomodate. Finally, steps 15-17 don't apply if you have Adaptive/Responsive site.
Brian, should the content, keywords and page names stay the same as well so it doesn't have to be reindexed?
nice post Brian
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SET 1: Mr. Completely > Sand, Shine, Last Tube, What's Done, Mozambique, Alumni Blues [1], Mud City
SET 2: Simple Twist Up Dave, Low -> Money, Love and Change -> Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine [2] -> Percussion Parade -> Money, Love and Change > Push On 'Til the Day [3], Bar 17, Cincinnati > Tuesday
ENCORE: Sleep Again > Sweet Dreams Melinda [4] > Come As Melody
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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It might seem intuitive to think that the spawned function is the one that is queued for later execution, and that the worker executing the parent will continue executing. But, in fact, it is the other way around. The worker that hit the
_Cilk_spawn keyword will detach and be queued up to continue executing its work.
Why does this asymmetry matter? The reason is that the order of evaluation corresponds to the order of evaluation of a function call in a serial C/C++ program. The spawning function will continue to execute the child, as is the case in a regular function call, and if the continuation is not stolen by another worker. Then, it will return, pop the continuation as a work item, and continue executing it. The important thing to note is that this order of evaluation is the same as that of a function call in a serial program.
It is also important to note that Cilk Plus keywords can be elided. For example, the programmer can use the C/C++ preprocessor and
#define them away using the syntax in Listing Four.
Listing Four: Cilk Plus keywords can be elided to enable correct serial execution of apps built with compilers that do not support Cilk Plus keywords. This helps keep your source code portable.
#define _Cilk_spawn #define _Cilk_sync
Compiling/building an application that uses the Cilk Plus keywords, which elides them as shown, will produce a valid serial application. As long as the parallel version of the program does not introduce data races, the serialization of the program will be semantically equivalent to the parallel execution of the program and will produce the same results.
_Cilk_sync Keyword
_Cilk_sync keyword in the example of the
fib() function in Listing Two is necessary to guarantee that the values in the variables
x and
y are updated by the asynchronous execution of
fib(n-1) and
fib(n-2) before they are used. In addition to the explicit form of the keyword, there is an implicit
_Cilk_sync at the end of every spawning function. The implicit keyword is, in fact, inserted by the compiler.
The effect of the implicit
_Cilk_sync is that the spawning function executes as long as any of the child tasks it spawned are executing. One benefit of this property is that it allows the programmer to continue viewing functions as units of work, and to see when a function returns all its work and when it is done. A more practical benefit is that if the spawning function is passing an address of any of its stack variables to a child, and the child task may write onto that location, then it is guaranteed that the stack of the parent is in memory during the execution of the child.
_Cilk_for Keyword
The second tasking construct provides the keyword
_Cilk_for. It enables programmers to parallelize C/C++ for loops. Consider the statement in Listing Five.
Listing Five: The
_Cilk_for keyword.
_Cilk_for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) { body; }
When this keyword is used, the compiler enforces a few restrictions on the
for construct. These include:
- The index variable (
iin Listing Five) appearing in all three expressions of the loop is initialized in the first instance.
- It is compared to a value that does not change within the loop.
- It is incremented by a value that does not change inside the loop.
- It cannot be changed within the body of the loop.
The effect of these restrictions is that when the loop is about to execute, its trip count is known to the runtime scheduler.
The execution of the
_Cilk_for loop uses a divide-and-conquer approach. The worker whose execution reached the
_Cilk_for construct computes the trip count. It takes the upper half of the iterations and puts it in its own work queue for later evaluation. It then continues to divide and conquer the lower trip count, until the trip count becomes sufficiently small (determined heuristically at run time). It then executes the iterations sequentially. Upon completion, the worker pops the next work item, which was posted last, from its own work queue. This will be the second set of iteration of the lower half. If another worker has an empty work queue, it might steal work from the core that created the list of work items corresponding to the loop iterations. This is how concurrent work is created.
If this happens, it will steal an item from the top of the queue that corresponds to a maximal number of iterations. This order of stealing work is the least likely to interfere with the cache locality of the worker from which the item was taken. It also provides the most amount of work to the thief using the least number of steals. Using a minimal number of steals provides work for all workers with minimal overhead. As long as work does not get stolen, the order of evaluation of the loop iterations executed by a single worker is exactly the same as the order in serial execution.
Vector-Level Parallelism in Cilk Plus
The Cilk Plus language extension provides several ways to take advantage of the hardware-based parallelism available in Intel multicore processors.
A serial
for loop can be changed into a parallel loop by changing the keyword
for to
_Cilk_for. This change tells the compiler that there is no ordering among the iterations of the loop. As described above, the compiler arranges batches of iterations to execute in parallel. In addition, it will attempt to vectorize the code within batches of consecutive iterations.


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If you consider Drag Racing to be a family sport, and Station Wagons to be family cars, then you'll probably find today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Fairmont dragin' wagon to be all in the family. Will its price however also in the family way?
There are two ways to go through life; you can either be good at a few things, or you can be great at one. There are those who are great at more than one thing but they're just showing off, and mom likes them best. The seller of today's quarter mile-prepped 1981 Ford Fairmont wagon says it's a uni-tasker, good for but one thing, going in a straight line. Upon reflecting on his creation however, I have to disagree, I think this is a longroof with Swiss Army Knife potential.
First off, the car, then we'll get around to its multitude of uses, infomercial style. The Fairmont was Ford's '70s take on the mid-size family hauler, and it couldn't have been more different in execution from the precedent Maverick than if it had been made out of cheese.
First of all, while the Maverick was as coke bottle shaped as a Kardashian, the Fairmont rocked lithe boxy styling that portended a generous interior contained within its modest exterior dimensions.
That styling, while not particularly exciting, did age surprisingly well, especially when applied to the five-seat station wagon form. The only real questionable part being the nose which bears an uncomfortable resemblance to Billy Bob Thornton's Slingblade character, um-hum.
This one, in electric blue and rocking a roof rack, still sports it copious amounts of brushed aluminum trim and looks to be flaw free from the pictures. Its sleeper character is belayed by a massive reverse scoop riveted to the center of the pin-locked hood. That might make seeing the traffic ahead a little difficult, but the heavily massaged '95 Cobra mill beneath that hump should ensure that there's very little traffic ahead of you.
Behind the V8 with its GT40 heads, 650 CFM AED and Flowtech plumbing lies a Pro-Shifted T5 and the ad claims that if you don't know what that is, this ain't the car for you - keep walking, nothing to see here. In case you don't know what that means - and since you're here to judge the car, not buy it - I'll give you the low down. A Pro-Shifted transmission is basically a crash box, having been de-syncro'd in order to speed up the snick-snick between gears. Only in a Pro-Shifted box it's less snick-snick and more WHAM-BAM.
The rest of the car has been set up for the strip - 5-lug conversion, armstrong power steering and footstrong brakes plus chassis upgrades to handle all the angry that 5.0 should manage to provide. The ad offers the full litany of upgrades, and it's a long enough list to require Cliff's Notes. Despite all the work, the seller says the car still needs to be dialed in or something, but it looks like most of the heavy lifting has already been done.
Now, as I noted earlier, I disagree with the seller that this Fairmont is singular in its purpose. I don't think that the rock crusher box, thirst for 100 octane, or even the plastic rear windows negate this from daily driver use. In fact, its six passenger (assuming it has the bench in front) capacity and large load area make this the perfect Soccer Mom conveyance. Just replace Soccer with Dragster and I think you'll see what I mean. That make it both street and strip worthy, and a total shock that Ashley Force Hood (rowel! rowel!) hasn't already snapped this bad boy up.
It can't be the price because Ashley, like all the Forces, likely brings in some pretty sweet bank, and can probably afford this Fairmont's $4,500 asking price. In fact a price like that would likely be within the means of most car shoppers, famous or not. Of course, we're not here to determine could but should, and so it's time to put it to a vote and see if you think this wagon is worth dragging out $4,500 for. What do you think, is this quarter miler worth that kind of cash? Or, is this a dragster dragged down by its price tag?
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For the sake of brief entries, I am not footnoting the facts in this ongoing memorial. Sources have been noted either in other blog posts or in my family history books.
8 December 1871 Jessie Isabella McFadyen was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the daughter of John McFadyen and Isabella Campbell; she was their second child and first daughter. Her parents were Cape Breton natives who sailed to "the Boston states" as an interim step toward their final destination: the Canadian prairies. Her father worked in Provincetown for a few years to finance the remainder of the trip. And indeed young Jessie Isabella (known as Belle) and her brother Hector would find themselves in Oakbank, Manitoba, three years later. Belle later married William Charles Dougall on her father's farm in 1894. She was my grandmother.
24 December 1814 On Christmas Eve, Donald McFadyen, a native of Coll, Scotland, was discharged from the 2nd Battalion, 91st Argyllshire Regiment of Foot, in southern England. Donald would have had a long journey to his island home in the Inner Hebrides where he spent another thirteen years, eking out a scant living for his family from the land. It is still not clear to me whether he chose to leave for Nova Scotia or was forced to go in 1828. His battalion was disbanded the following year as the Peninsular War ended. Not much is known about the old second battalion, even by current regimental historians. The Argyllshire and Sutherland Highlanders Museum is situated in Stirling Castle.
26 December 1914 Catherine Fraser Dougall died on this date in Winnipeg, Manitoba, three days shy of her 81st birthday. She was the mother-in-law of Belle, above. Catherine became the wife of Scottish-born Peter Dougall, outliving her husband only by six months. Both are buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg. Catherine was my great-grandmother.
|Catherine Fraser Dougall, 1833-1914
29 December 1833 Catherine Fraser (as above) was born in St Andrews, Quebec, the daughter of John Fraser from Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, and his wife Nancy Fraser of Inverness-shire, Scotland, lineage. Catherine's marriage to Peter Dougall incurred residential moves to Vankleek Hill and Renfrew, Ontario, then finally Winnipeg. She became the mother of nine children who, as adults, scattered between Renfrew and Winnipeg to California, Minnesota, and New York.


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The holidays are a fun and festive time here in the office and around the entire nationwide team at 3 Day Blinds. Office potluck breakfasts and lunches, pranks like the accounting office and marketing team pulled off include having offices and desks completely wrapped like Christmas gifts (including the ceiling!) and the floors covered in fake snow!
Today marked our annual holiday party, and while it was a fun and festive occasion like always, our Executive Vice President Tikie Holewski led us in a moment of reflection of the events of last week in Newtown, Connecticut:
It was followed by a very poignant rendition of "Silent Night" performed by our own Darrell Wilson from the IT Department.
After taking our time to reflect, the festivities began. We started our "competitions" including Best Ornament, which went to Candace Arellano of the Appointment Sales Team, who fashioned a window with miniature Hobbled Soft Roman Shade underneath a pair of our Custom Drapery Panels in one of our top selling fabrics, Maison/Cafe Au Lait.
There was an ugly sweater parade, here are some of the "fashions" that were on display in the office today:
Here is some of the amazing decor that popped up in the office during the last few weeks:
Here is the winning entry for Best Decorations, Cubicle:
After all of the excitement of the awards, the talent portion of our day got going!
Were there some amazing performances, including a 6-year-old's solo to One Direction's "You Don't Know You're Beautiful" and some fantastic Jazz Christmas music provided by members of our Irvine team!
Some of the performances brought the house down, like 3 Day Blinds' Christmas Parody for Santa. Eyvet Walters, Christa Wadley, Bashar Saman, David Andexler, Jennifer Venezuela, Ramona Seneviratne, Amber Neeley, Yanna Washington and Will Padiernos put on a show unlike anything seen at the Irvine Headquarters:
Another team giving them some competition is several of the ladies from the Accounting and Merchandising Departments, lip syncing "The Chipmunk Song" much to many of the office's delight:
Overall, this year has been a fun and fulfilling one at 3 Day Blinds. We are proud to have such an amazing team here at our Corporate Headquarters, as well as all around the nation in our amazing team of Design Consultants, Installers and Managers.
As 2012 winds to a close, we at 3 Day Blinds would like to wish you and yours a very happy holiday season, and a very Happy New Year!


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The Collaboration Project is an independent forum of forward-thinking leaders and organizations that share a commitment to the adoption and use of collaborative engagement methods and technology to help solve complex problems of public management and government.
Members share best practices, produce research on the opportunities and challenges of collaboration, and assist government agencies in implementing collaborative tools and approaches.
The Collaboration Project is seen as the "go-to" place for government agencies and other organizations that need strategic advice and guidance on how to run successful collaboration exercises. It has been recognized on many occasions as a leader in this field through its work with many government departments and agencies such as the White House, Office of Management and Budget, Recovery Board and Department of Homeland Security.
The project doesn't have a compelling logo, and is in need of one to better establish its brand.
A key goal of the Collaboration Project is for government to view it as an independent and objective forum to share best practices and lessons learned and to serve as a strategic partner in using collaborative technologies within government to improve an existing process or create a dialogue among previously disconnected stakeholders.
Given these stated objectives, the primary audience would be individuals within government agencies (federal, state or local) or other large, process–driven organizations who have taken the initiative to propose (or have been tasked to create) a collaborative engagement environment around a certain topic or policy objective and are actively searching for cases studies, relevant examples, and strategic advise.
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Philip Stephens, the FT's chief political commentator, reveals in his column this morning that a confidential paper is circulating in Downing Street suggesting that the government should consider in advance "if not a fully worked up Plan B then at least a series of possible stimulus measures that could be implemented were the economy to stall". The paper is written by the cabinet secretary.
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Anderson remained a regular visitor to the country Top Ten through the late '70s, and reached the Top Five a total of 19 times through 1978. Among the highlights were the number ones I Get the Fever (1966), For Loving You (a 1967 duet with regular partner Jan Howard), My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) (1969), World of Make Believe (1974), and Sometimes (1976). By that point, Anderson was working often with a new duet partner, Mary Lou Turner. He had also penned numerous hits for other artists, including Connie Smith, Hank Locklin, Porter Wagoner, Jim Reeves, and Faron Young, among many others. His final Top Ten country hit came with 1978's disco-tinged I Can't Wait Any Longer, and by 1982, Anderson's inability to score a follow-up hit led him away from both songwriting and recording. Instead, he became a regular presence on television, hosting game shows (ABC's #The Better Sex, TNN's #Fandango) and spending several years in the cast of the soap opera #One Life to Live; he also hosted the TNN talk show #Opry Backstage.
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A genetic test checks the DNA of your cells. It can find changes in your genes , or it can check the number, order, and structure of your chromosomes . Testing may be done on samples of body tissue, blood, or other body fluids such as urine or saliva.
You inherit half of your genetic information from your mother and the other half from your father. Genes determine things such as your blood type, hair color, and eye color, as well as your risk for certain diseases. Testing can find gene or chromosome changes that may cause medical problems.
Why It Is Done
This test may be done to:
- Find out if you carry a gene for an inherited disease , such as Tay-Sachs disease or cystic fibrosis . This is called carrier identification. In families that have these diseases, some people don't get the disease, but they carry a gene that they could pass on to their children. Finding out if you're a carrier can help you make decisions about having children.
- Find out if your fetus has a genetic disorder or birth defect such as Down syndrome . This is called prenatal testing. It can help you make decisions about your pregnancy.
- Check your baby for certain diseases, such as PKU . This is called newborn screening. This information can help guide treatment if your baby has a disease.
- Find out if you carry a gene that increases your risk for a disease later in life, such as breast cancer or Huntington's disease . This is called late-onset disease testing. This may be important if a close relative has such a disease. The information might help you take steps to prevent the disease. Or it can help you make decisions about having children.
- Find out if you have an inherited heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy . You may want to have this test if a close relative has the disease.
- Check for genetic changes that may affect your treatment. Testing may help your doctor find out if a blood thinner will work for you. Or it can help your doctor suggest the best treatment for a disease such as HIV or some cancers.
How To Prepare
You do not need to do anything special to prepare for this test.
Talk with your doctor if you have any concerns about the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?) .
The information found by a genetic test can have a huge impact on your life. So before you have the test, you may want to talk to a genetic counselor or a doctor who specializes in genetics (geneticist). Genetic counseling can help you understand your genetic risks and decide if you want testing.
How It Is Done
A genetic test can be done using almost any cell or tissue from the body.
Blood sample from a heel stick
For newborn testing, the blood sample is usually taken from the baby's heel instead of a vein. The health professional doing the heel stick will:
- Clean your baby's heel with alcohol. Then he or she will prick the heel with a sharp tool called a lancet.
- Collect several drops of blood inside circles on a special piece of paper.
- Put a small bandage on the site.
Blood sample from a vein
The health professional taking a sample of your blood will:
- Wrap an elastic band around your upper arm to stop the flow of blood. This makes the veins below the band larger so it is easier to put a needle into the vein.
- Clean the needle site with alcohol.
- Put the needle into the vein. More than one needle stick may be needed.
- Attach a tube to the needle to fill it with blood.
- Remove the band from your arm when enough blood is collected.
- Put a gauze pad or cotton ball over the needle site as the needle is removed.
- Put pressure on the site and then put on a bandage.
Cell sample from a fetus
Cells are collected using amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling .
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How It Feels
Blood sample from a heel stick
Your baby may feel a little discomfort when the skin is pricked.
Blood sample from a vein
The blood sample is taken from a vein in your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight. You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or pinch.
Saliva, urine, or semen sample
It is not painful to collect a saliva, urine, or semen sample.
Blood sample from a heel stick
There is very little chance of a problem from a heel stick. A small bruise may form at the site.
Blood sample from a vein
There is very little chance of a problem from having a blood sample taken from a vein.
- You may get a small bruise at the site. You can lower the chance of bruising by keeping pressure on the site for several minutes.
- In rare cases, the vein may become swollen after the blood sample is taken. This problem is called phlebitis. You can use a warm compress several times a day to treat this.
Saliva, urine, or semen sample
Collecting a saliva, urine, or semen sample does not cause problems.
Other risks
The information from a genetic test can affect you and your family in many ways. For example, it may have an impact on:
- Your emotions and relationships. You may feel anxious or depressed if you learn that you are likely to have a serious disease or have a child who has a disease. This news may also affect your relationship with your partner or other family members.
- Your treatment choices. If you test positive for a disease-specific gene change (mutation), you may decide to use preventive or treatment options, if they are available. They can help to reduce the impact or severity of the disease. While many treatment options have been proven to work well, others may be harmful or may not work.
- Your pregnancy decisions. Genetic testing can help you make decisions about your pregnancy or plan for the future. If you find out that your fetus has a genetic disease, you may decide to end the pregnancy. Or you may change your delivery plans. If your baby is likely to need special care after birth, you may need to deliver in a hospital that can provide this care.
- Your privacy. Many people worry that their genetic information might affect their job options or their ability to get insurance. But the United States has a law called the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). GINA prevents employers and health insurance companies from using a person's genetic information in employment or coverage decisions. This law does not cover life insurance, disability insurance, or long-term care insurance.
Genetic counseling is recommended before you have genetic testing. It can help you understand and make decisions about testing.
A genetic test checks the DNA of your cells. It can find changes in your genes , or it can check the number, order, and structure of your chromosomes .
The results of genetic testing depend on the type of test done. Genetic testing may be used to:
- Find out if your fetus has a genetic disease or birth defect.
- Find out if you have an inherited disease.
- Give information about how likely it is that you will have a disease in the future.
- Find out if you are a carrier of a genetic disease.
- Help choose the right treatment for some diseases, such as HIV infection or some types of cancer.
What Affects the Test
You may not be able to have the test, or the results may not be helpful, if you have a blood transfusion within a week before the test.
What To Think About
The information found by a genetic test can have a huge impact on your life. So before you have the test, you may want to talk to a genetic counselor or a doctor who specializes in genetics (geneticist). Genetic counseling can help you understand your genetic risks and decide if you want testing.
- A prenatal test may find a serious inherited disease or disorder (such as Down syndrome ). This would greatly impact both you and your child. You may want to think ahead to what you might do if the test finds a serious problem.
- The results of the test are protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA requires that providers, such as doctors, nurses, and hospitals, keep your health information private. Your privacy should be maintained, and your information should only be released to those who are authorized to have it.
- Finding out that you have a genetic disease should not affect your ability to get a job or get health insurance. In the United States, there is a law called the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). It helps protect people who have DNA differences. But it has some limits. For example, this law doesn't apply to life insurance, disability insurance, or long-term care insurance. And it doesn't protect people who work for companies with fewer than 15 employees.
- A genetic test can sometimes reveal information you didn't expect, such as the identity of a child's father (paternity).
There are other types of genetic tests that you might want to think about. For example:
- A karyotype test can be used to check the size, shape, and number of chromosomes. Extra or missing chromosomes, or abnormal positions of chromosome pieces, can cause problems with a person's growth, development, and body functions. To learn more, see the topic Karyotype Test .
- A breast cancer (BRCA) gene test is done to check your risk of getting breast cancer. To learn more, see the topic Breast Cancer (BRCA) Gene Test .
- A type of genetic test called DNA fingerprinting can be used to find out who a child's father is, to help solve crimes, or to identify a body. This test is more accurate than dental records, blood type, or actual fingerprints. To learn more, see the topic DNA Fingerprinting .
Other Works Consulted
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Skirton H, Patch C (2009). Genetics for the Health Sciences: A Handbook for Clinical Healthcare, 2nd ed. Oxfordshire, UK: Scion Publishing.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical Reviewer Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
Martin J. Gabica, MD - Family Medicine
E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Elizabeth T. Russo, MD - Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical Reviewer Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, MPH - Reproductive Genetics
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There is no sweeter news for Honeycomb tablets these days than that of the newest version of the Mozilla Firefox browser, the tablet-optimized version of which is fast approaching a publicly usable stage.
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The Firefox browser for Android tablets follows the ethos and spirit of minimalistic design, which Honeycomb is quite known for. The browser uses a dark and white theme that would look great for browsing websites, while keeping some of the familiar Firefox elements such as its big Back button and tab shape.
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Archive for February 6, 2013
Healthy Gardens, Healthy Schools
What can one teacher and a lot of elementary school students do with a big idea and a bunch of dirt? A lot, as it turns out. This inspiring story comes from Christine Comas, an elementary school science teacher at Grace Episcopal Day School in Kensington, Maryland.
As part of a summer Mobile Learning Institute, Smithsonian Gardens, the National Arboretum, and the U.S. Botanic Garden collaborated with EdLab at the Postal Museum on a week-long workshop for teachers on how to integrate mission-based learning into their curriculum. The teachers spent the week completing various missions related to the role of gardens in shaping healthy communities and sharing their findings using a variety of technology platforms.
One teacher, Christine Comas, took the assignment a step further. She decided that when she returned to school in the fall, she would challenge her students to design a garden that would improve the health of their school and their community. Last year the entire school studied the Chesapeake Bay. When Comas asked her students how they would like to help save the bay, her students responded that they wanted to create habitats for animals, keep water clean and make the school beautiful. These three powerful ideas became the guiding principles of the school rain garden.
Comas and her classes collaborated with Kara Crissey from Good Earth Gardeners, who provided her expertise with plant selection. All of the plants in the garden are native to the area. Explains Comas, "We chose plants that would provide habitats for birds, butterflies and other insects, that could withstand influxes of water, salt, and pollution, and that could handle pooling of water around the plant's base. These plants along with the rain garden structure are designed to slow down the storm water runoff and assist in the percolation of the water."
Not only does the garden provide a beautiful setting for outdoor learning, it prevents runoff into nearby Rock Creek. Every student, from preschoolers to fifth graders, had a chance to participate in the planting. They were eager to get their hands dirty while learning about the effects of rainwater runoff on the bay. For those less in-the-know than the students, signage educates the community at large about the botanical information and the positive effects of the rain garden.
Comas reflects, "I learned from the workshop that student input and ideas should be the catalyst to environmental education projects at schools. The students become deeply invested in their work. The project then becomes more meaningful, satisfying and successful. Years from now, after they have graduated, we hope that they will return and point to the garden and note that they were a part of the solution. It is my hope that they will educate others in the community on the importance of caring for the local and global environment. Together we can make a huge impact."
Next up? This spring the third graders will be designing and planting a native vegetable garden.
Some of the plants in the garden:
Swamp Weed
Light Blue Aster
Oat Grass
Shenandoah Switch Grass
Blue-Eyed Grass
Purple Coneflower
Cardinal Flower
Purple Woods Aster
Winterthur Viburnum
Eastern Red Cedar
Sweet Bay Magnolia
Pinot Noir Hibiscus
Swamp Sunflower
Swamp Hibiscus
Redosier Dogwood
River Birch
Blue Flag Iris
Northern Bayberry
False Indigo
You can read more about the rain garden and see pictures of the installation process here.
-Kate Fox, Smithsonian Gardens educator
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