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Filmmaker Adam Pinney (The Arbalest, Blood Car, Too Many Cooks) discusses making his film The Arbalest, winning the SXSW Grand Jury prize, future projects, and Molly gushes about Blood Car and its influence on her career!
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Hello, I recently added en event processor to my an all-in-one deployment and configured my wincollect log sources to send events to the new processor. I've been getting this messages in the processor's qradar.error log file for my wincollect agents:
[ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] com.q1labs.sem.semsources.wincollectconfigserver.WinCollectConfigHandler: [ERROR] [NOT:0000003000][10.0.31.59/- -] [-/- -]Agent with ip: 10.0.31.122 hit an SSL Negotiation issue, most likely tried to connect with an invalid PEM [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: unknown_ca [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.j.a(j.java:7) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.j.a(j.java:27) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.b(qc.java:380) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.a(qc.java:271) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.h(qc.java:714) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.a(qc.java:831) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.startHandshake(qc.java:828) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at com.q1labs.sem.semsources.wincollectconfigserver.WinCollectConfigHandler.run(WinCollectConfigHandler.java:89) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1157) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:627) [ecs-ec] [WinCollectConfigHandler_44] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:798)
I guess there's something wrong with a certificate somewhere? Can you tell me what the problem is and how to solve it?
Answer by Jamie W (IBM) (1111) | Mar 13, 2017 at 09:59 AM
This should only occur if a change was made to where the WinCollect agent is talking to. This is set in the /wincollect/config/install_config.txt file. (ConfigurationServer=). If this hasn't changed I'm not sure why this error would be showing up. If you delete the .PEM file in the /config folder it should re-create it and the error should go away.
Answer by vg_ (213) | Mar 17, 2017 at 07:55 AM
Thanks @Jamie W (IBM), that solved the problem!
Answer by Bruno S Silva (461) | Mar 10, 2017 at 11:22 AM
Hi, The best way of tracking this error would be enabling debug on the wincollect client side changing the configuration from INFO to DEBUG to find where the error resides on the client side. It may be an invalid token, which will require you running a command to replace it. In order to enable debug, go to the file \Program Files\WinCollect\config\logconfig.xml and replace the INFO states to "DEBUG" like the one bellow:
<priority value ="DEBUG" />
<appender-ref ref="ApndrCode"/>
<appender-ref ref="ApndrConsole"/>
After doing that, monitor the logs on the wincollect side on \Program Files\ Wincollect\logs to monitor for possible errors. If you find a token error, you will need to replace it or reinstall the client no that machine.
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Telling The Truth To Power
By Bill Henderson
26 December,
"I think we could solve this problem if we would just tell the truth. But politicians aren't willing. How do we make them understand how serious this is?" Jim Hansen
Climate Code Red was the most important single document published on climate change in 2008. Because climate change is now understood to be of humanity threatening seriousness and a crisis that needs emergency action immediately. Climate Code Red has to be considered as the most important document on any subject published this year.
But CCR received less than minimal coverage from all of the TV and newspaper conglomerates that make up the mainstream media (MSM) and the vast majority of the public - except the very few who cover climate change closely - have never even heard of it.
2008 was a watershed year: the global economic meltdown and the end of the sorry Bush years with the election of the hopefully progressive Barrack Obama. But the serious and immediate danger of runaway climate change is still not appreciated, the science and policy literature and the possible planning for massive systemic reconfiguration needed to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are still not even on the menu of mainstream understanding and debate.
It's not just the economy stupid!!!
Climate Code Red was a paper on the emerging science investigating the unprecedented and unpredicted rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap and the policy consequences necessary. It was written by Aussies David Spratt and Philip Sutton as input to Australia's Garnaut Inquiry on climate change. First put up on the net in February and now a book, it is well researched, well written, thought provoking on as important a subject as exists, and yet it was almost completely ignored by the mainstream media.
Sutton and Spratt's first chapter description of the melting Arctic emerging science - especially the work of Dr. James Hansen and his NASA team - remains the single best public presentation of this climate change tipping point danger. Their closing chapters on the need for governments everywhere to initiate emergency-legislated mobilization for immediate action to reduce emissions - because political and economic business as usual is too slow and path dependent to allow for necessary change - has been cited as Churchillian by those who recognize the sinister danger.
But the very idea of government with emergency powers leading a systemic reconfiguration of our socio-economy is heresy and that is why the MSM refused to even mention CCR. You will find nothing on climate change as a possible emergency requiring such action in the MSM. Nor will you see opinion pieces on editorial pages by climate scientists or activists even postulating this possible danger and possible mitigation strategies.
Media owners have earned their right to an editorial voice, but rights carry responsibilities and no media owner should use this voice to misinform and all are accountable to the community. To suppress or withhold knowledge about a danger to the community is wrong. To not lead in informing about the possibility that climate change is an emergency is irresponsible. To not cover at all the emerging science and policy literature trying to educate about this humanity threatening danger could be part of a crime that dwarfs the Holocaust.
2009 has to be the year we turn the corner on climate change. It must be the year where we escape business as usual and the politics of failure to initiate emergency action to not only halt the rise of GHG emissions but agree to a plan for systemic reconfiguration of our socio-economies globally in order to get to a post carbon economy quickly in order to return to below the precautionary 350 ppm ceiling before the Arctic ice cap is irretrievably gone. Relocalization instead of globalization; powering down instead of ever increasing use of energy; the end of the car-sprawl, consumer economy in favor of a way of quality, meaningful living with a future.
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I recently had to organise a new company logo and trademark for a high tech start up and was greatly heartened that I did not have to suffer the anguish, frustration and cost of acquiring this via the old and worn out method. The full details of how to achieve this are below as well as my initial reflections on what is bringing about such a transformation of the creative design fraternity.
Back in the very old days where the advertising executive was king I witnessed the dramatic discrepancy between what was paid to the humble external artist, what was paid by the client and most surprising how much commission was paid to the "creative account manager".
Their job was to convince the client that one of the design options created by the external artist was indeed the only one for them, the either/or sales technique, I was informed.
Here is an early example of a screen saver for advertising giants O&M for their client Guinness, which was a runaway success yet the designers got a meager five thousand pounds for taking the existing material and creating the complete screen saver. Being the internet specialist who conceived of the idea and orchestrated the outcome I watched with great interest how the production was repackaged and sold as a very costly campaign.
Of course it's all too easy to savage the obvious flaw in this cosy coexistence between corporate executives with more money than time, but the root problem appeared to me to be that those with the responsibility for the brand reputation and its core message being delivered did not know how to leverage the value from artists themselves.
However in today's highly scrutinised and budget oriented environment the meek may inherit the world after all, well the interconnected world at least, because the humble individual artist has had its collective capability aggregated on a global scale.
The result of this is a remarkable community of common interest consisting of over 230,000 designers who will, without any commitment or money, create dozens of designs for you to review and comment upon for change. All this before you have to even commit to a small fraction of the cost paid to an advertising agency.
How could this be, we clients of the old system system ask? Well firstly because $500 for a design of say a logo is good money for an artist (especially when the customers come to you) but the value to a client is outstanding especially as it's a zero risk encounter.
However, the real driver was a phrase attributed to Sir Winston Churchill 'Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think'. Both public and private sectors are now driven by their bean counters via a mantra of more for less.
So enter the rather strange and contradictory emerging synergy between the company (or government) accountant and this coherent and extremely talented creative community. Only this time the broker is not a high profit margin oriented advertising executive but an Australian scallywag in the form of an online honest broker 99designs who are obviously intent on changing not only the cost model but almost everything to do with the way creative design is carried out on a day to day basis.
On a final general note if you work in a government Treasury or corporate finance department or one of the emerging Shared Service groups that are being set up to aggregate the demand of service provision then you should look very hard at 99Designs to assess its ability to achieve cost cuts whilst reducing the risk of a bad design. It's easy to see how the robust procedures involved in the procuring of designs could be used by a shared service broker role to leverage the entire capability of the community to deliver more for less.
My experience of working with the 99Designs community
I have been involved in 4 projects with 99designs and have learned how to leverage the most value from the very willing and able designers by filling out a clear and meaningful brief via the template.
We actually needed the impossible: "A brand that generated confidence within the government and corporate sectors that a state of trust could be achieved within an internet cloud solution, for risk based transactions. But at the same time to distance the logo from the normal western institutions that would normally govern compliance who are themselves under a cloud of suspicion today."
I made my offer of how much I might pay should the competition get to the point where I guarantee a payment to the winner and off I set for a week of reviews, feedback and scratching of heads as the 150 entries came flooding in.
One of the entrants was a designer who had previously won the design for the logo of two other competitions so I was expecting something original but a family commitment came up and she had to pull out. I nearly lost my nerve but decided to keep the competition going and one of the designers, deftArt , started to lead the pack by moving away from the corporate looking cloud that Apple has established.
The result was brilliant in its interpretation of the brief and the young artist's ability to sense my shifting perspective and re-submit designs that finally led to me awarding the $500.00 - which, considering he is still studying in Java, would I'm am sure have been a welcome boost to his income.
Here was the winning artwork provided in a range of file formats along with a very tight and professional sign off process that awarded us with all the copyright.
I had to convey to the designers that the start up company has brought a team together to provide cloud based solutions for industry and government leaders who hold the responsibility & the liability when things go wrong or when something is challenged.
So the target clients are the conservative organizations they serve who are starting to undertake many varied types of internet based transactions that carry an inherent risk
In addition to this they are also subject to complex interdependent governance rules between multiple parties in order to deliver services & achieve strategic outcomes, where the applications and services they depend upon requires an electronic compliance environment similar to a stock exchange where a state of non-repudiation exists.
I had to convey to the designers that the start up company has brought a team together to provide cloud based solutions for industry and government leaders who hold the responsibility & the liability when things go wrong or when something is challenged.
So the target clients are the conservative organizations they serve who are starting to undertake many varied types of internet based transactions that carry an inherent risk
In addition to this they are also subject to complex interdependent governance rules between multiple parties in order to deliver services & achieve strategic outcomes, where the applications and services they depend upon requires an electronic compliance environment similar to a stock exchange where a state of non-repudiation exists.
We were then in a position to play with the layout. This one is for business cards.
Some members of our group started working with my company Annexus (connecting connections) in 2006 where we started conceiving, designing and then building a cloud based solution to automate the entire welfare concessions system for the South Australian government. After a very arduous and challenging experience of defining the governance model for every party involved, which included three State & federal government agencies, most leading energy suppliers, water supplier and all the councils in SA, we were well versed in the art of collaboration, discovery and negotiation of the governance rules.
I interviewed Andy Grove, the head of Intel, who at the time was was fending off competition through the use of a slogan. He told me that Intel had decided to bypass their own clients and influence the consumer directly. This was successfully achieved by creating the "Intel Inside" logo that computer manufacturers could use to denote assurity and quality.
In our logo we have used a slogan to offer a cloud owner the same type of assurance.
In our logo we have used a slogan to offer a cloud owner the same type of assurance.
I use this in colour or B&W as a watermark in a Doc or Excel doc.
Working with Kathryn Alexander on her two 99Design competitions.
Creating a brief for a personal logo proved difficult for Kathryn because you have to be totally objective and impartial to convey all the attributes of your very own personality in order for the artist to convey an accurate impression.
Eventually I had to step in and overcome her modesty to bring out her remarkable integrity, diligence, transparency and her generosity in sharing her knowledge of what works.
This enabled the very talented janisart to create an impressive logo that expressed the attributes of the brief in a very original way. Interestingly janisart won two competitions (the other, my own logo) and now Kathryn has established a one to one relationship that 99Designs enabled.
This Logo was created as a trademark
Kathryn's second brief for the Smart Patient was to ensure sufficient originality for the whole design for trademark. It is now very simple and cost effective in Australia for you to register online a logo as a trademark and we needed to be confident that the logo was not a copy in order to comply with the requirements.
Then finally my own personal logo used on this blog was also created by janisart which was a very complex and difficult brief to interpret as it had to be truly international, non-corporate and illustrate the notion of connecting connections.


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I'll be there as well--I'm booking my trip this week. In the even that we get another person to attend, will they refund the amount paid?
I just got an email from Latonia Coleman at Janek - she said she is registered as well, so that looks like 5! I've passed the email along to Sue to coordinate the chapter team.
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- Adventure Sports – Swaziland's leading cycle shop. We source all our bicycles (MTB's) here and servicing account for regular maintenance to keep them on the road… or should we say off-road?
- Alexander Forbes Insurance Brokers and Swaziland Royal Insurance Corporation (SRIC) – insurance is a necessary evil in this crazy litigious society that we live in. These guys make it possible for us to have the courage to take all sorts of crazy people on all sorts of crazy outings.
- Bandag Tyres – as you can well imagine, as transport operators we go through a lot of tyres. Bandag give as a good deal that does not compromise our commitment to passenger safety.
- Computronics Systems and Netcomm– our suppliers of computer hardware and network maintenance. Without them we would struggle to be growing as rapidly online as we are currently. They help us to maintain a very high percentage of online up-time. In December 2014 Netcomm got us up and running for the festive season with a new server after a lightning strike on the 23rd Dec… something for which we will ever sing their praises.
- Embroidery Specialists – almost all our branding, be it on t-shirts, fleeces, life-jackets, caving overalls, stickers or banners gets done in Matsapha with this dynamic business run by Estelle van Zyl.
- Europcar Swaziland – the biggest and best rental car agency in Swaziland. We have been doing business with them since 1987. Despite the world of global acquisitions which has seen Imperial Car becoming Hertz-Imperial, then later Europcar – its still the same business, run by the same people, in the same reliable and efficient manner.
- FNB Swaziland – our bankers. They're totally 1st-world in their service and online functionality. Business would not be possible without them.
- Hyundai Swaziland – we've settled on the Hyundai H1 as the best value people-mover on the market. Our vehicles are bought new and serviced through our local dealership in Mbabane.
- Intamakuphile Coach Hire – this local business has top quality coaches of international standard. New, well-maintained, reliable drivers and great people to work with. Our long-term relationship ensures us preferential rates – let us source a quote for you.
- Litsemba Lemahlanti Transport – is our local supplier of mid-sized vehicles – 15 and 22-seater Sprinter buses.
- Mabel at Mahlanya market – we get most of our fresh fruit and veg from Mabel, a vendor at Mahlanya Market… and have been doing so since 1991. Can you believe that – talk about a relationship that has stood the test of time.
- Mbabane Motors – our local GM dealership. Our fleet is now entirely sourced from this reliable stable and includes our custom-designed rafting truck, our Isuzu's and Chev Trailblazer vehicles. This we were we find them, fix them and finally flog them.
- Netstar Swaziland – keep us safe and closely monitored whilst our vehicles are parked or on the road.
- Pansolutions – Cory's Ltd t/a Pansolutions supply us with a Panasonic PABX system and they are really good at solving the inevitable problems with lightning strike damage… even when it happens on Xmas Eve.
- Phakama Coach Hire – another local coach hire business that we have done many many kilometres with.
- RS Auto Electrical – Robin Sparham is not only our first-stop for auto-electrical issues, but he is our quad bike mechanic, ensuring that despite the beating they take, our quads remain safe and operational.
- Swazi.net – supply our ADSL broadband connections and they do a good job, in fact they do fantastic job (and hopefully this flattery will result in even more internet speed in the future)
- The Clinic Group and Traumalink 911 – our local private hospital and paramedic service. We maintain a close relationship with them, such that our clients are afforded immediate medical attention on the rare occasion that they might need it.
- Times of Swaziland – our gateway to the local market in Swaziland. A great newspaper with the broadest reach in Swaziland.
Regional recommendations
- African River Kraft – we go as far as Cape Town to Billy and Steve to get our white-water rafts… and for a good reason too – they last!
- African Travel Gateway – for upmarket travel in Southern and East Africa – a solid and recommended business.
- http://www.travel-easterncape.com – A recommended local connection for booking Port Elizabeth Hotels, Tours and Activities
- Gravity Adventure Tours – as fellow members of APA ( the African Paddling Association), and white-water rafting operators of note, Gravity also provide river guide training. It's Andrew and his crew who we rely on to keep our guides on their toes through regular training and assessment.
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Rapid heartbeat, hands shaking, very hot (when typically always cold), hair loss, muscle weakness, and pain were my symptoms of hyperthyroidism.
Weight loss was my symptom of hyperthyroidism.
I have had a couple of ultrasounds on my neck to check for hyperthyroidism. I have lived with chronic neck pain for almost 2 years now. They have said that my thyroid is slightly high, but they are just watching it. My neck hurts on the sides and behind my ears and into my shoulders. I don't know what to do. I can't live like this!
I have been taking methimazole for my hyperthyroidism. My body is covered with small freckle like dots and some large sores. Also my hair is falling out. I wish there was something I can take that won't cause these side effects.
My hyperthyroidism symptoms are excessive sweating, weight loss, mood swings, body temperature always warm, craving for sugar, fatigue, diarrhea alternating with constipation, inability to sleep, and loss of sex drive.
Thyroid disorder runs in our family but it's me who has this hyperthyroidism. It was found out last December 2016. The feeling of hot flashes, excessive sweat, depression, mood swings and tremors drive me crazy. My dad scolds me for waking up late everyday but what should I do! This is my health condition and no one in the house understands me. That feeling of loneliness and weakness even if I did nothing. I want to explain this to them, but still they don't understand me anyway. I am a college graduate and a licensed teacher but I cannot pursue what I love doing because of my health condition. My neck hurts when I speak a lot that's why I do not teach. I was a jolly and hardworking person before this happened to me. It has been 1 year plus since I started my medication but some of the symptoms are still there. Because of this, I cannot eat the food I love eating. I just want to be that person I used to be.
My hyperthyroidism symptoms are hair loss (thinning), extreme dry skin, heart palpitations, chest tightness, dizziness, insomnia, lack of concentration, and heat intolerance to name the top annoyances from this disease. Weight loss for me is just maintaining. I wish I did. If anything, it makes me hungry so I have to control with increased protein and less carbs. For my heart palpitations and chest pains, I am currently on a beta blocker and it has helped tremendously. However, I am still not able to do cardio (running, aerobic) activity. The cause of my hyperthyroidism are two hot nodules on left lobe discovered in July 2017. They have swollen or grown (not sure) to the point where it feels like a constant sore throat and hard to swallow food. I have opted for a soft diet for now. I think I have adjusted my life a little too much for this condition. So guess what! I am taking my option to part ways with my thyroid March 7th to be replaced by a little pill every day. It was a hard decision but I do believe it to be the best for myself. Keep positive and smile everyone!
I just found out I'm pregnant and I have a hyperthyroidism. My symptoms might be different. I feel terrible. I can't concentrate, and when I talk to people I speed up my conversation and talk like I have attention deficit disorder. I sweat, I'm hot, my heart feels like it will jump out of my chest, I can't get a restful sleep, I always have a mild headache, my hands shake, and my legs have tremor when I sit a certain way. I am so sad all the time, and I cry way too easily about every little thing. I'm worried and I'm not focused. I feel hyper, but at the same time I feel exhausted.
I've felt lightheaded, dizzy, out of breath and I've had rapid resting heart rate for months. Initially I thought I was hypoglycemic or really out of breath. However, just a few weeks ago my condition worsened and I suddenly became extremely anxious and depressed (so much so that suicide has crossed my mind few times). I also started experiencing panic attacks, couldn't sleep, started having heart palpitations, I have to go to the bathroom all the time, I have no energy, I'm constantly out of breath, my legs and arms feel like Jell-O, my hair is falling out, and I've developed eczema; basically, if there is a hyperthyroid symptom, I have it. It's been such a difficult journey because I'm normally a very happy, outgoing and determined person. I feel like I'm not myself anymore. I'm a graduate student and it's so hard to explain to my professors that what I'm suffering from is not regular anxiety but is actually caused by a physical medical condition. The hardest part however is trying to do things that normally make me very happy like hanging out with friends, teaching or analyzing literature and just feeling nothing. No happiness, just a constant feeling of hopelessness. This condition is ruining my life. I even had to quit my job as a teaching assistant (which I adored) because I would get panic attacks in the middle of class or need to throw up. If it wasn't for my loving boyfriend's support I don't know if I could keep going. I still have more tests to do before I can start my treatment (whether it be taking pills or getting radiation therapy).
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I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism a year ago, it hasn't been an easy year, been really tough. My emotions are all over the place and I can barely keep them under control. I have crazy mood swings. I'm tired all the time, I oversleep a lot, I just can't find the energy to get up in the mornings no matter how hard I try, and it is more difficult being a mother to a 2 year old. My body hurts more than ever. I can barely close my hands in the mornings, they feel so weak I don't have the strength. My heart races so much I can't get my own heart to slow down. I can walk around and do simple things and my heart feels like I just ran a marathon. I hate having the feeling that now my wellbeing and my heart rely on medicine. I feel like I can't live without it. I want to feel normal again. I miss what my life used to be like before all of this started. I get overwhelmed with this situation and I don't know what to do anymore. It feels like no matter who I talk to they just don't understand although they say they do. It feels like I'm about to lose my relationship because he doesn't understand my situation or the way I feel. Everybody tells me to tough it out but it's difficult. Easy for them to say when they don't know what I'm feeling. I'm getting tired of living this way. I'm really thinking about surgery, but I'm not so sure if that will fix anything. I just want to be a healthy mother for my son.
I was diagnosed in 2009 with hyperthyroidism. At the time I was five months pregnant which made the situation even more devastating. My symptoms were rapid heartbeat, nervousness, headache, vomiting, severe depression, hot flashes, sweating, tremors and panic attacks. The worst part of it was when my child moved in my stomach I felt like I wanted to faint. On delivery day I went unconscious for 6 hours but thankfully I gave birth to a beautiful little girl. This is indeed a terrible sickness.
It took 2 years to get the correct diagnosis of hyperthyroidism. I suffered terribly before finding out what was wrong. I couldn't sleep, because I had hot flashes that were so hot, I thought I was in an oven at 750 degrees. I slept 3 or 4 hours a night for 2 years before I got on medicine. In those 2 years I had such extreme foot/ankle/calf pain. I couldn't get out of the bed in the morning without holding onto the dresser for support. Finally, when I just started falling asleep at work I switched doctors and found out I had hyperthyroid, Graves' disease. My first doctor kept telling me it was menopause. She prescribed antidepressants which I refused to take. I knew I was really sick, but I think she just didn't get it. I became very foggy in the brain, had memory loss and confusion. It felt like my brain was swimming along the bottom of a murky lake. At the same time, I became very obsessive. I just kept talking about the same thing over and over, and I ran my charge card up to the moon. I was obsessive in buying things. It took over a year to lose the obsessiveness after getting the correct medicine, methimazole. My feet and ankles would blow up too, they looked like Herman Munster feet. Other times they would just get swollen. I had to stop working, because I couldn't function anymore. Now I am on medicine for 2 years. I've developed double vision. I switched doctors again. I am grateful to the family doctor who figured out what was wrong, but I am now seeing a thyroid specialist. I may be going for surgery. Will see. As of now, I have mood swings, get depressed because I do not feel well. I still hurt all over, but not as bad. I'm tired and have no energy. My hair is falling out. And I have horrible anxiety. And I can't lose the 55 lb. that I gained. I never was sick. So having this is very depressing. I just wish I could be normal again and not feel so terrible all the time.
I am 27 and this all started a couple of years ago. I had a checkup (no tests done, no health insurance and we are poor) and the doctor strongly advised I get help soon because she said hyperthyroidism looked to be the problem. I have always had insomnia and trouble staying asleep. High anxiety, high blood pressure, very irritable, no appetite, nausea, always sweaty hands, itching, using the bathroom a ton, hair falling out, tremors, joint pain, lost 50 lb. very fast, headaches, super bad memory, and very emotional. I hate being alive.
Because of hyperthyroidism, I lost my weight, experienced severe hunger, loss of sleepiness, and severe skin itching.
I've had symptoms of subclinical hypothyroidism for the past 3 years. I was initially placed on Synthroid (with partial benefit) and then Cytomel (T3) about a year ago. I started feeling tired, had headaches, etc., about 6 months ago, but I wrote it off as just being due to stress. Then beginning mid-July of this year I had a spell consisting of sudden onset rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, shortness of breath, and dehydration. Lab work revealed that I am now in hyperthyroidism. I've since had two trips to the emergency room (ER) with very similar symptoms. I'm off the Cytomel and my thyroid levels are improving but I'm still having these episodes. I take propranolol 20 mg twice daily to regulate some of the symptoms and Xanax as needed for the anxiety. This is absolutely insane. I'll see a cardiologist to get evaluated in September but I think that this is primarily endocrine related. I see that we are not alone and my heart goes out to all of you. Thank you for sharing.
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I was just told by my new primary care doctor that I have hyperthyroidism. I went to see him last week with severe neck pain in my lower neck. I have been out of work since last year, trying to find out why I suddenly had severe tremors, numbness, tingling and loss of feeling down my right side. I had Bell's palsy as well as a loss of speech and memory, along with some other issues. This is the first time my TSH came back anything but normal. Thing is I haven't lost any weight, despite eating well. And my hair and skin are fine. Blood pressure was good till about mid-February of this year. Then diastolic went nuts. I'm thinking that the thyroid might be just the end result of something else. No history of thyroid issues in the family either. I have an appointment with the specialist in September.
My doctor diagnosed me with underactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) and prescribed levothyroxine. I weighed 116 and in 6 months (and heartburn) I was down to 111 and she lowered the dose to the lowest one. Three more months and I"m down to 101. I was constantly in the bathroom and then got sick - and had nothing to fight it with; all nutrients were being flushed 6 times a day! I had bronchitis, then had a reaction to the antibiotic and hey, now I"m diagnosed with overactive thyroid! I will never take any more of these medications. I still feel lousy and am down to 90 lb.
I was 16 years old when I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and until now, that is 21 years old, I still have this disease. For 5 years I've always been visiting the doctors and had a lot of tests. I don't know when this will end because sometimes it disappears then sometimes returns. I easily get tired and I my heart beats fast. My hands sweat a lot and it's so embarrassing when I get to shake hands with other people. Then there is this bulgy eyes which is what I hate the most because my eyes were not like this before, so people used to bully me that I have a big eyes so this makes me sad.
I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism one year ago. I have all the signs, rapid heart, pounding heart, shaky, sweats on exertion, anxiety, erratic blood pressure, etc. I lost 22 pounds in one month. I went on methimazole and it has keep my symptoms under control for 8 months now. But what I want people to know (that no doctor ever has talked to me about) is my first major attack came after eating a huge plate of shrimp. I have heard others say that after eating large quantities of shellfish has brought on a major episode. I now avoid any foods that contain large amounts of iodine. Also, a nurse told me a very high percentage of people with this condition are gluten intolerant. Hope this helps someone. This is indeed an awful disease.
With hyperthyroidism I am experiencing excessive itchiness all over. I had my thyroid removed and gained a lot of weight. I was put on Synthroid but didn't lose the weight and had low energy. I switched to Naturethroid and take it for T3 and T4. I am now experiencing (besides the crazy itchiness) gastro-intestinal problems, lack of energy, and anxiety. I am wondering if these, especially the itching, are symptoms. My doctor doesn't seem to think so but this began happening when I switched medications.
I have recently been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. I had severe headaches and tremors. No pain medication could fix the headaches. I also experienced hair loss, some weight loss and a deeper voice. The headaches were my main concern and most publications don't list headaches as a major symptom of hyperthyroidism, so I thought I had a brain tumor. I was relieved when I found out what it was. Now after reading all of these posts I am not sure how lucky I am.
I have been treated for hypothyroidism for about 15 years. I leveled on 150 mcg ten years ago, but in the past two years, the levels went up to top of normal. My doctor left it there because of my terrible issues with pain, fatigue - fibromyalgia syndrome. He was afraid to lower it. Meanwhile, I had to go on several rounds of prednisone because of bad energy crashes that occurred with the least change in activity. I developed heat intolerance and exercise intolerance. A trip to the grocery store for a couple things puts me in bed for three days. I have only been out of bed for 5 days since Thanksgiving Day - 6 weeks! Three weeks ago my TSH dropped below normal while T4 went up. It was worse last week. So the doctor is starting me on lower dose of Armour natural replacement. I believe my pain, fatigue, depression, irritability were all due to high thyroid whipping my body, wiping out cortisone levels. We'll see, with this new dose and type.
I feel weak and confused, I shake and I am depressed. Just recently I started getting a rash all over and I have neck pain and can't sleep... I just had a nuclear medical scan. I am waiting for the results so I can get my surgery done. This is all new to me, a very scary experience. I was on methimazole and got a rash; twice! I hope this surgery relieves these symptoms. I've been like this since May. I want to finally be able to relax and sleep.
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My experience has been firstly embarrassing! Looking at my face one would have thought that I had been someone's punching bag. My top and lower eyelids bulged terribly. My hair fell out till I was bald. I lost 60lbs. My heart raced a mile a minute. My blood pressure was 157bpm. I had shortness of breath. I coughed all night long. I developed asthma and wheeze like crazy.
I lost weight, had flushes and unusual sweating which I never had before. I also had loose bowels. I also had C-diff (Clostridium difficile) which I caught in the hospital, so they related the weight loss and all other symptoms to the C-diff. Finally, blood work showed TSH was low. Next week, I will be going to a thyroid specialist. I Hope I get my weight back. It's frightening when some fatal diseases have the same symptoms.
I'm always tired; I eat everything and anything and keep losing weight. My resting heartbeat is 150 per minute. I have a lot of nausea always vomiting. I have no energy for anything. I got diagnosed with hyperthyroid 3 years ago when I was 17 going on 18 and since then I've been to 7 endocrinologists and no one can seem to slow it down. I go every six weeks and every time it is faster then before. My eyes got bigger. I'm shaky fatigued, moody, and my hair thinned out
I just was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism 2 days ago. What seemed to help me during heat sickness is a 2 oz. sip of baking soda and 308 mg sodium (count it as part of your 2000 calorie diet level) help regulate heat a tiny bit better, plus if you are feeling indigestion or heart burn and don't know it, you will burp feeling relief within minutes. It also helps with spasms or tremors, and along with a cool shower you feel normal. I learned this due to being in hospital for heat exhaustion, turns out I also have hyperthyroidism.
I had often experienced tightness of my throat like the feeling of blocking inside before being diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. I needed to burp through my throat to release the blocking or tightness that I felt.
My hyperthyroidism started overnight four years ago. I woke very sick; felt great the night before. I have been gradually deteriorating, I was muscular now weak. I need to apply for disability if there is no improvement. I feel like I'm slowly dying and people think I'm crazy; I am ready to quit.
I have had hyperthyroidism since 4 years and taking 75 mcg Eltroxin tablet to start with, for 2 years I took 50 mcg, then went down to 25mcg and again came back to 75 mcg. I am worried why my thyroid is not reducing and weight gain is not happening. It is constant since last 4 years i.e., 31 kg weight and I am facing more breast pain and that part will get hard always. I am 24 year old and working.
I am 46 year old and I've been suffering for years, with Graves' disease. I had no clue what was wrong with me. I went to the emergency many times over the years and kept getting misdiagnosed, and sent back home to suffer. Finally I had a thyroid storm, and I almost died. I was in ICU for 3 days, and now I am on PTU (propylthiouracil) 2.50 mg 3 times daily, 40 mg propanol 3 times a day, anxiety medicines and also sleep medicines. My doctor wants me to stay on medications for 18 months but I can't get a straight answer as to why. I feel terrible.
I am a senior citizen who has an overactive thyroid. The problem I am having is I go from overactive to under active. I go back and forth. My weight is pretty stable, but I get itchy all over sometimes. The endocrinologist has a hard time because I keep going back and forth from under active to overactive. I feel I am too old to be overactive. Most women my age are under active. I just cannot figure out why I have this problem at my age. I do have Graves' disease. My eyes are bulging.
I had a heart rate of 196 and was admitted to intensive care unit for heart. After all the testing they found it was hyperthyroidism. I was given a double dose of the radioactive iodine. I weighed 128 pounds at the time and went to 200 pounds in about 1 year. I have never got my weight down or my life back. I am on Synthroid medication for over 9 years and no relief as of yet.
I am a 70 years old male. I am taking .75 Eltocin tablet in the morning. Last week I checked my thyroid and found my TSH high at 53.3.
I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in 2010 and have been taking carbimazole 5 mg to date. I started by taking 12 tablets per day but now am taking 1 tablet on alternate day, sometimes my thyroid level is normal sometimes it is high. But I believe it will stabilize one day.
I came to know about hyperthyroidism when I had a blood test three months ago. My weight has been decreasing day by day, so I consulted a doctor. Now I am totally dependent on thyroid pills which I take every day in the morning two hours before eating. I think my condition is slightly improving.
I have no energy and am cold all the time. I was told I have high thyroid.
I was diagnosed 2 wks go my symptoms are excessive weakness, rapid heartbeat, sweats. I can deal w/everything but weakness my Dr took me off work for a week up methizole to 20mg.
I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in March '08. I lost approximately 80 pounds in three months. I was experiencing hot flashes, tremors, fatigue, protruding eye sockets, and swollen neck glands. My doctor told me that I had Grave's disease, and after I had a thyroid scan, I was told that it was 92.7% overactive and that I had to have radioactive treatment to shrink the thyroid gland. I had to stay away from everyone for three days including my children. I am better now.
I experienced tremors and a pulse of 130. I was jumpy, I felt like my body was electric, and I had aching arms and legs. I was on the Weight Watchers diet, so I assumed the weight loss was due to the diet. Also, I would wake up in the middle of the night, not being able to go back to sleep, and I had night sweats. (I never sweat!)
I have excessive sweating, even after I've showered. I don't like to get out much because as soon as I'm getting ready I start sweating; I'm really self-conscious of this. I have a rapid heart rate and have shortness of breath. I feel very fatigued and can't find the energy to do much of anything.
5 years ago the classic symptoms began. Within months I went from 128 lbs. to 92 lbs. Insomnia, depression, irritability, increased heart rate (130 bpm). My normal was 62 bpm. increased sweating, shaky, clammy hands, leg pain, severe dry eyes, terrible anxiety,1yr. after initial symptoms. I developed acne on every inch of my body. Strange lesions would clear up after 1 wk. every month the lesions returned. It took over 1 yr. of tests, until graves disease was confirmed. After 2 yrs. of methimazole proved ineffective.I-131 ablation (RAI) was administered. My endocrinologist had me wait 1 yr. before any further tests. to allow the RAI to do its work. 1 yr. later my TSH was 5.3? I began Synthroid, months later I began feeling hyperthyroid symptoms. Recently changed Dr., lesions poss. pretibial myxedema? TSH levels drastically change. Losing hope, I feel crazy. These hyper episodes are destructive. I fear losing my fiancee, friends, and job. It affects everything. Currently going through hyper episode, skin lesions, severe insomnia, erratic behavior. Avoiding everything and alone & scared. How does one live this way. I am not the same person. I hope my Dr. or anyone can help.
I was always overly active. I had so much of energy and my palms use to sweat a lot. At first it started with a swelling in one eye. Then after I stated taking the medications I had a rash on my leg which up to today no one is able to figure out why or how. My heart rate was fast and I'm always nervous. Increased bowel movements and I could never rest.
I felt like I was going crazy! Tremors, severe muscle cramps of legs then also arms, fatigue and exhaustion with insomnia, eye pressure (goldfish eyes), body aches, palpitations, loose bowel movements, some weight loss, I was told I was extremely irritable, impatient and rude although I myself did not recognize this as it was happening, periods of fragmented thought with difficulty putting thoughts and words together, difficulty concentrating, cotton mouth-thirst and frequent urination.
My symptoms came on quickly. I felt horrible. It started with really BAD gas, and I had to go to the bathroom all the time. If I would eat 10 minutes later I would be in the john. I lost 50 in two months, but I was eating everything and anything. I also had a very rapid heart rate, and I could not catch my breath. My resting heart rate was 130 beats per minute. I had very bad headaches, I was losing my hair, and I seemed like I always had "extra" saliva in my throat. My voice got rattly. I was really sick.
I wake up nervous in the morning. I feel very nervous at times. I feel my body is vibrating. I take trazodone to help me sleep.
My mom has been complaining of constant fatigue despite the healthy lifestyle she leads with at least 5 times a week of exercise. She has heat intolerance, diarrhea and a drastic weight loss. It worries me to see her condition. Recently she has been diagnosed with a thyroid disorder which I have yet to be informed of. It'd be great if I could get advice on what to eat and avoid.
I noted night sweats for some time, tremors and some anxiety. After finally being diagnosed with a heart attack, I noted palpitations often, increased tremors, general joint discomfort and a tremendous amount of weight loss, sleeplessness, and persistent fatigue. After a year of MD visits, I was finally found to be hyperthyroid - I was beginning to think I was losing my mind. Methimazole treatment was unsuccessful after 18 months resulting in radioactive iodine treatment. I've just started levothyroxine and just trust, this will make me feel human again.
Large lump on left side of neck, palpations and irregular heartbeat, hair falling out in patches, dry skin--cracks on fingertips and toes and heels, can't sing high notes, heat intolerance, poor vision, poor memory and concentration, always tired but have a hard time falling and staying asleep without meds, hands shake something fierce.
Tremors, head pain, achy joints, dizziness, weakness in arms, spasms in my thyroid, eye pain, poor concentration, difficulty speaking, argumentive, difficulty in staying asleep, tired, poor muscle strength.
I just had a hair transplant 9 months ago and my hair should be quite longer but it is not. I went to my doctor and he said I have an over active thyroid. I am going for an x ray tomorrow.
I have had hyperthyroidism for two years I have great days then I can have a really bad week I have gotten used to this my medication causes constipation my neck is in constant pain and sometimes my throat really burns but I do also feel worse when Iam stressed or due for my period which has recently stopped all together. Life can be good if you eat healthy use flouride free toothpaste as flouride can aggravate the thyroid and drink bottled water.
Low TSH in blood test. Excessive sweating, intolerance to heat, some tremors, rapid heart rate.
I was so sleepy I slept some days for 15 to 22 hours. I had no energy I was always angry it seemed and I was very weak in my arms and legs. My vision became very poor and was very blurry. My joints in my shoulders, wrists and knees were painful, but the tiredness was the worst by far.
I had cancer and my thyroid glands were removed when I was thirty. I have been on medication ever since. I am now experiencing depression, cannot sleep, irritability among other symptoms. Is it possible my medication needs changing?
I experience heat intolerance, tremors in my hands, sore throat that I had more than a few months already whenever I ask the doctor he tells me it is nothing and drink some alcohol to calm the tremors it's not good advice.
Rapid heart beat, sweating, heat intolerance, pain down left arm. Throat sore things I eat do not taste.
I experienced extreme intolerance to heat, excessive sweating, increased bowel movements, extreme fatigue and muscle weakness, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, and tremors.
My symptoms included horrible joint pain (hands, wrists, shoulder, knees), and painfull thyroid pain. My Pain was relieved by taking Motrin.
I didn't feel normal at all. I was unable to climb the stairs, very nervous (especially talking to other people), shortness of breath, had little strength, double vision, watery eyes, tiredness, unable to sleep, felt sick and memory loss. I still experience memory loss.
I experienced crankiness, extreme sweating, insomnia, lose of appetite, fatigue, light-headedness, headaches, swelling of the legs, hands, feet and ankles, drowsiness, and sensitivity to light.
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In this competition launched earlier this year, Daimler challenged Kagglers to tackle the curse of dimensionality and reduce the time that cars spend on the test bench. Competitors worked with a dataset representing different permutations of Mercedes-Benz car features to predict the time it takes to pass testing. Winning algorithms would contribute to speedier testing, resulting in lower carbon dioxide emissions without reducing Daimler's standards.
The dataset contained an anonymized set of variables (8 categorical and 368 binary features), labeled X0, X1,X2…, each representing a custom feature in a Mercedes car. For example, a variable could be 4WD, added air suspension, or a head-up display.
The dependent variable was the time (in seconds) that the car took to pass testing for each variable. Train and test sets had 4209 rows each.
In this interview, first place winner, gmobaz, shares how he used an approach that proposed important interactions.
What was your backgrounds prior to entering this challenge?
I studied at UNAM in Mexico to become an Actuary and hold a Master in Statistics and Operations Research from IIMAS-UNAM. I've been involved in statistics for several years; worked some years at IIMAS as a researcher in the Probability and Statistics Department and have worked since then for a long time in applied statistics, mainly as a statistical consultant in health sciences, market research, business processes and many other disciplines.
How did you get started competing on Kaggle?
After some years working in the oil industry, in a non-related field, I decided to go back to statistics but was aware that I had to refresh my mathematical, computational and statistical skills, reinvent myself and learn at least R well enough to get back. That's when I found Kaggle's website. It had the best ingredients for learning by doing: having fun, real problems, real data and a way to compare my progress. Since then, I've participated regularly on Kaggle, mainly to keep in shape and to be aware of recent advances.
What made you decide to enter this competition?
At a first glance, this competition seemed to have elements in common with the Bosch competition. Working with many binary and categorical features is a very interesting problem and good solutions are difficult to find. Before entering the competition, I had time to follow the discussions and read some splendid EDA's, particularly by SRK, Head or Tails and Marcel Spitzer that helped a lot in gaining insight to understand the manufacturing and modelling problems.
Let's Get Technical
What preprocessing and feature engineering did you do?
Before doing any modelling or feature engineering, first thing I usually try to do is to get what I call a basic kit against ignorance: main concepts, bibliography and grab whatever helps to understand the problem from the sector/industry perspective. In this way there will be a guide to propose new features and a clearer understanding of datasets and measurement issues like missing values.
With an anonymized set of features, what kind of new features would be interesting to explore? I imagined passing through the test bench as part of a manufacturing processes where some activities depend on previous ones. I set up some working hypotheses:
- A few 2- or 3-way interactions and a small set of variables could be relevant in the sense that test time changes could be attributable to a small set of variables and/or parts of few subprocesses.
- Lack of synchronization between manufacturing subprocesses could lead to time delays.
The following are the features considered in the modelling process:
- I found that parameters for XGBoost in kernels, for example, by Chippy or anokas and findings in EDA's were consistent with the working hypotheses. So, how to explore interactions? Just two-way interactions of binary variables would lead to explore 67528 new variables, which sounded like a lot of time and effort, so the task was to identify quickly some interesting interactions. Search for them was done looking at patterns in preliminary XGBoost runs. Some pairs of individual variables appeared always "near" in the variable importance reports. With just three pairs of individual features, two-way interactions were included and, additionally, a three-way interaction.
- Thinking on the subprocesses, I imagined that the categorical features, were some sort of summary of parts of the manufacturing testing process. The holes in the sequencing of the binary feature names took me to define nine groups of binary variables, consistent with the eight categorical ones. Within these nine groups, cumulative sums of binary variables were thought as aids to catch some joint information of the process. Despite the burden of introducing quite a few artificial and unwanted dependencies, models based on decision trees can handle this situation.
- After some playing with the data, I decided to recode eleven of the levels of first categorical feature (trigger of the process?)
- One-hot encoding of categorical features was applied, that is, the original and the ones created for interaction variables. One-hot encoding variables were kept if sum of ones exceeded 50. Since this value looks reasonable, but arbitrary, it is subject to tests.
- To include or not ID was a question I tried to answer in preliminary runs. Discussions in the forum suggested that including ID was totally consistent with my thoughts on the Mercedes process. I detected very modest improvements in preliminary runs; it was included.
- It is known that decision tree algorithms can handle categorical features transformed to numerical, something that makes no sense in other models. These features were also included, which completed the initial set of features considered.
So, starting with 377 features (8 categorical, 368 binary and ID), I ended with 900 features; awful! And a relatively small dataset…
Can you introduce your solution briefly?
Two models were trained with XGBoost, named hereafter Model A and Model B. Both were built in a sequence of feature selection steps, like backward elimination. Model B uses a stacked predictor formed in a step of Model A. Any decision point in this sequence is preceded by a 30-fold cross validation (CV) to find the best rounds. The steps are very simple:
- Preliminary model with all features included, Model A, 900 features and Model B, 900+1, the stacked predictor.
- Feature selection. Keep the variables used by XGBoost as seen on variable importance reports (229 in Model A, 208 in Model B).
- Feature selection. Include features with gains above a cut value in the models; 0.1%, in percentage, was the cut value used, 53 in Model A, 47 in Model B.
Both models use XGBoost and a 30-fold CV through all the model building process. The rationale for a 30-fold validation was to use it in a 30-fold stacking as input for Model B. The stacked predictor might damp the influence of important variables and highlight new candidates to look for some more interesting interactions.
The most important features
As can be seen from the graph below, interactions played the most important role in the models proposed (anonymized) features.
- By far, pair (X314, X315), jointly and pair levels
- 3-way interaction (X118, X314, X315)
- (X118, X314, X315), levels (1,1,0)
- Individual features:X279, X232, X261, X29
- Two levels of X0 recoded and X0 recoded
- Sum of X122 to X128
Notably in the discussions, besides one kernel by Head and Tails dealing specifically with interactions, I found no other reference to any 2 or n-way interactions, different from the ones I used.
How long did it take to train your model?
During the contest, work was done in R Version 3.4.0, Windows version. After the contest, Version 3.4.1 was used.
For common data in both models, initial data management took less than 4 seconds. For steps 1-3 in training method, Model A needed approximately 3.4 minutes, Model B took around 4.3 minutes on a desktop I7-3770 @3.40 GHz, 8 cores, 16 MB RAM. Starting from loading packages to submissions delivery for both models, the code took circa 8 minutes.
Loading packages and preparing Model A took 4.5 seconds. To generate predictions for 4209 observations from test set took around 2.3 seconds.
The winning solution was a simple average of both models. Individually each one outperformed the results of the 2nd place winner. The good news is that Model B does not really add value; stacking is therefore not necessary and a simpler model, model A, is advisable.
What was the most important trick you used?
I think the competition was on trapping individual variables and propose important interactions. The way I selected interactions was a shortcut for finding some of them. Trapping individual variables was mainly the goal of the stacking phase, without apparent success. The shortcut for identifying interactions looks attractive and I have used it before with good results.
I was afraid on using cumulative sums of binary variables due the dependencies between them. Given the results, I would try shorter sequences around some promising variables.
Words of wisdom
What have you taken away from this competition?
Any competition allows you to learn new things. After the competition, making tests, cleaning code, documenting and presenting results was an enriching experience.
Do you have any advice for those just getting started in data science?
1. Identify your strengths and weaknesses: mathematics, your own profession, statistics, computer science. With the need to know from all, balance is needed and black holes in knowledge will appear almost surely. I found a quote in Slideshare from a data scientist, Anastasiia Kornilova, who summarizes my view very well (graph adapted with my personal bias):
"It's the mixture that matters".
There is always a chance to fill some black holes and don't worry: it will never end.
2. Learn from others with no distinction of titles, fame, etc. The real richness of Kaggle is the diversity of approaches, cultures, experience, problems, professions, …
3. If you compete in Kaggle, compete against yourself setting personal and realistic goals and, above all, enjoy!
4. PS. Don't forget to cross-validate


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Children outside school. St Peter's and St Paul's Primary School, Pilkington Street.
Have you any memories, new information or corrections relating to this picture?
That's right, I visited that primary school from 1961 till 1965. Most of the teachers were nuns living accross the road. I can remember the headmaster she was called Sister Emelda and when you had to go to her that wasn't very nice. Usually you got the ruler on the back of your hands with the thin side or if she said "turn around and bend forward" it was the long stick on your behind. Next to the school was/is the St Peter and Pauls catholic church and accross the Pilkinton Street was the canteen for dinner. I drove every day there and back from Hulton Lane bus station with the bus 80, 81 or 82. along St. Helens Road. Around half an hour.
My mum went to this school (Doreen Jones) and used to tell similar tales of Sister Emelda shouting out at children saying "I am the bride of Christ!" We were all so sad to hear that the church has been demolished.
Oh that's sad to hear that the church has been demolished. I got baptised, had the first confession and got my first comunion there. I can remember beeing in front of the church a few years ago and it was shut up and in a pretty sorry situation. When was it demolished and what is standing there now?
I know it was very sad and effected my mum as for so much a part of her life. I now live in Lancaster so don't get to Bolton much and I think it would be too upsetting to go and look. I think it was demolished about 2 or 3 years ago? My mum and uncle would have been there in the 40's. Doreen and Roland Jones. Don't know if they were of your era?
Thanks for replying. Bev Hennefer
Hi Bev,
no I'm a later era I was born 1956 and went to St Peter & Pauls from '61 till about '65.
I also moved away the end of the sixties but my journey took me to the South of Germany (Nuremberg). I was last time in Bolton 2012 and I can remember the church was boarded up then, probably waiting for the demolishing truck.
Nice to chat with you, Andrew
My mother in law went to this school her name was Mary honoria swift she still lives in Bolton and is 86.
My Mum's name was Mary Doreen Jones. She would have been around your mums age so maybe they knew each other. Unfortunately my mum has now passed.
I attended classes during my infant and junior years, I had my first holy communion 19th April 1970, in my class there were many wonderful children, there is a special boy I will always remember, Gerard Boyle, I would love to hear from him again. My name then was Linda Misko, there were many good teachers my favourite teacher was Mrs Clarke.
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Sixteen school divisions across Manitoba are not receiving a single penny more in provincial operating grants than they did a year ago.
In fact, it could have been even worse — they collectively would have lost $29 million in funding under the formula had the province not guaranteed that zero is the lowest possible increase. On a house assessed at a value of $200,000, using the average provincewide mill rate last year, that would have been an additional $50.01 in school taxes to make up that lost money.
In a public education system which last year spent $2.026 billion, in which overall costs rose 3.29 per cent a year ago, in which teachers across Manitoba have a two per cent wage increase this year plus increments for teachers with less than 10 years' experience, even with the province's demanding smaller class sizes — even with all that, more than two of every five divisions do not qualify for a single penny more of public support from the province.
How or why a division would qualify for less money, is anyone's guess, since the province isn't elaborating on individual divisions. The official enrolment count taken Sept. 30 still isn't public, but overall enrolment is apparently down a tiny bit, with a majority of divisions losing kids and overall it's not offset this time — enrolment rose the last two years after 16 years of decline — by the handful of divisions enjoying massive immigration-fuelled growth.
When you get zero on the province's share of funding the system, the only other source is education property taxes, unless, of course, you slash jobs, programs, and services.
As if.
Given the roughly 60-40 split, zero means that property taxes on a status quo budget could go up seven or eight per cent.
Now, some of those divisions may qualify for a share of the $33 million in equalization that the province is also ponying up for divisions with declining enrolment and/or low assessment bases.
So, getting zero in new grants may not necessarily mean an eight per cent higher hit in taxes, but it's pretty unlikely a division would get enough in equalization to avoid any tax increase at all. And a division may get zero in both grants and equalization.
Of course, it would be easier to tell what was happening if the province told us how it divvied up that $33 million and among how many divisions.
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All will be revealed, says Education Minister Nancy Allan's office, in the Financial Reporting and Accounting in Manitoba Education (FRAME) report.
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Little 'un
So, after the complete joy of finishing elephant number one (who, weirdly, is much loved but still nameless) I decided I should make another one. You know, just to see if the first one was a fluke, and to indulge my odd habit of making the same thing in different thread for no apparent reason.
I only really have one other thread for this kind of thing, and that's some crochet cotton I bought online. I've got three colours, beige, white and dusty pink – and thus elephant number two had no choice, she was to be made those colours, or nothing.
I've used this thread before – I made a monkey with it, but what I found amazing this time is that if I'd made her any smaller, the backs of the safety eyes wouldn't fit in her head. Poor wee thing. She really is quite small.
As I've mentioned before, the pattern for this is really nice. I made the head in super quick time – you know when you're on a roll and just want to get things made?
I dawdled a bit with the rest, mainly as I'm still having a few neck/shoulder issues and I'm trying not to do stuff for too long. I was going to add two buttons to her dress – hence the slightly odd positioning of the one you can see, but even though that button is weeny, there still wasn't much room for another.
I spent a silly amount of time choosing ribbon for her scarf. She was really rooting for bright red with white dots, but could I find that style ribbon thin enough? No, I could not – thanks for asking. She quite likes this daisy pattern though, and so we're sticking with it for now.
I actually went ribbon shopping in Liberty (as well as John Lewis), and an assistant came over and squealed a bit when she saw her. As she very kindly helped me look, she asked if I would be selling her. I was bowled over with flattery, but I did say that she'd be about £300 at the rate I crochet and I wasn't sure anyone had quite that much money to spend on… Well…
What exactly *is* she? Well. Half way through making her, I'd decided she should be called Atish, which I know is a boys name, but sounded like a good name for a shrew. (Atish Shrew! Bless you, etc). But she's a kind of babyelephantyshrewymousey kind of thing, of course! I'm rather offended you couldn't tell.
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She looks super-adorable being so small! I like her name, and I see what you mean about her looking a bit mouse/shrew-y. I've realised that when I made mine I just bent the trunk a bit to make her look more elephant-y.