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Soccer coach Nathan Trout recalled, with a tinge of jealousy, the four "unbelievable" sports parks in his Florida hometown, including six soccer fields.
"It's almost embarrassing for the community to not have nice facilities for their kids," said Trout. "I'm just surprised that there's not a piece of land where they can build it all."
Trout said he doesn't understand why the county can't accommodate athletes from multiple sports in one convenient location.
Trout, who coaches a traveling girls' team for Carolina Mountain Soccer Club, says he's had trouble convincing other teams to come to Haywood County.
"Here, we're so limited," said Trout. "Obviously, baseball is facing the same problem."
Currently, the county has no regulation-size soccer fields, and the facilities that are around are either not well-maintained or not publicly available after hours. None of them are striped for soccer, according to soccer coach Geoff Chitea.
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Not infrequently, slack mowing schedules allow grass to grow too high for play, while fields remain wet long after rainfall.
Some field owners bar access after hours due to potential liability issues, and others drag the goals off the field to specifically discourage soccer games after hours.
"They don't want the grass messed up," said Chitea, who likened playing soccer without goals to playing basketball without a backboard.
Both Trout and Chitea argue that developing soccer fields at the Jonathan Creek Park would benefit more people than the community realizes.
Trout estimates that 600 kids play soccer in Haywood County alone, while Chitea emphasized that adults like to play casual games all throughout the year. On most evenings and weekends, about 15 to 20 people regularly show up to play pick-up games of soccer.
"We've had nights during the summer where our numbers swell up to 30 people," said Chitea.
While football and baseball enthusiasts pack up whenever their season ends, Chitea says there's really no such thing as a soccer season.
"You see soccer players out on those fields all year long whenever the weather's nice," said Chitea.
Trout and Chitea said they are disappointed with the three options presented by the recreation board at the last meeting.
"Obviously, soccer really took a backstage to baseball/softball," said Chitea. "They all look like we built a baseball facility, not a community park."
Chitea says the multipurpose field seems more like an afterthought, with restrooms situated much closer to the baseball fields in all three options. Kids who play anything other than baseball or softball will face a much longer trek to the bathrooms.
Chitea says he does appreciate the walking trails at the park, and hopes that the multipurpose field will at least be Astroturf to allow for soccer play year-round.
Meanwhile, Trout would like to see the Haywood County community readjust its focus. Citizens placed too much stress on the park's ability to drive revenue at the first public meeting, Trout said.
Rather than chasing athletes from other towns, the county's primary concern should be taking care of the youth at home.
"I think there's too much focus on worrying about tournaments and driving revenue, rather than taking care of the kids and the community that presently play here," said Trout.


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3235.0 - Population by Age and Sex, Australia, 2006
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TOTAL POPULATION At 30 June 2006, the estimated resident population of NSW was 6.82 million people. This comprised 3.38 million males and 3.44 million females, a ratio of 98.2 males per 100 females. From June 2001 to June 2006, the NSW population grew by 3.7%, with an increase of 113,900 males and 128,100 females. AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION Indicating the continuing ageing of the NSW population, the proportions of males and females in most age groups above 55-59 years increased between June 2001 and June 2006. During this five-year period the proportion of older males (aged 65 years and over) increased from 11.6% to 12.2% while for older females it increased from 14.5% to 14.8%. In contrast, the proportion of children (aged 0-14 years) decreased from 21.1% to 20.2% for males and from 19.8% to 18.9% for females. AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION, NEW SOUTH WALES, 2001 and 2006 The age structure of people resident in the Sydney Statistical Division (SD) was generally younger than for those resident elsewhere in NSW. In 2006, the Sydney SD had higher proportions of people in age groups from 20-24 to 40-44 while the balance of NSW had higher proportions of people in all older age groups. Within the Sydney SD, the largest proportions for both males and females were in the 30-34 year age group (8.1% each). In contrast, males and females in the balance of NSW represented 5.9% and 6.0% of those aged 30-34 years and 5.3% and 5.2% of those aged 25-29 years. AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION, SYDNEY SD AND BALANCE OF NSW, 30 June 2006 MEDIAN AGE At June 2006, the median age of the NSW population was 36.8 years, up from 35.9 years in June 2001. The median age was 36.0 years for males and 37.5 years for females. Overall, the Sydney SD had a median age of 35.5 years. Within the Sydney SD, the lowest median ages were in the west and south-west metropolitan LGAs of Auburn (A) (31.7 years), Campbelltown (C) (31.8 years), Blacktown (C) (32.0 years), Liverpool (C) (32.2 years), and Penrith (C) (32.4 years). Only four of the 43 LGAs in the Sydney SD recorded a median age of over 40 years. These were Ku-ring-gai (A) (41.4 years), Hunter's Hill (A) (41.1 years), Pittwater (A) (40.7 years), and Gosford (C) (40.4 years). For SDs in the balance of NSW, the lowest median age was recorded in the Murrumbidgee SD (36.1 years), while the Mid-North Coast SD (43.4 years) had the highest median age. At the LGA level, the lowest median ages in the balance of NSW were recorded in the regional centres of Bourke (A) (32.7 years), Wagga Wagga (C) (33.2 years) and Armidale Dumaresq (A) (33.6 years). The highest median ages were located in the coastal and Hunter LGAs of Great Lakes (A) (49.5 years), Eurobodalla (A) (47.2 years), Gloucester (A) (46.5 years), and Nambucca (A) (46.3 years). Over half of the LGAs in the balance of NSW (60 of 110) had a median age of 40 years or more. CHILDREN (UNDER 15 YEARS OF AGE) At June 2006, there were 1.33 million children (people aged 0-14 years) in NSW, representing a decrease of 11,400 children (0.9%) since June 2001. Children accounted for 19.6% of the NSW population in 2006. The percentage of the population who were children decreased in all NSW SDs between June 2001 and June 2006, and Sydney SD had the lowest proportion in both years. POPULATION AGED 0-14 YEARS, NSW Statistical Divisions, 2001 and 2006 In the Sydney SD, the highest proportions of children occurred in the west and south-west metropolitan LGAs of Camden (A) (25.2%), Liverpool (C) (24.4%), and Blacktown (C) (24.2%). The inner city LGAs of Sydney (C) (7.0%) and North Sydney (A) (9.4%) had the lowest proportions of children. For the balance of NSW, the highest proportions of children were in the inland LGAs of Bourke (A) (25.9%) and Hay (A) (24.5%). The LGAs with the lowest proportions of children were the Great Lakes (A) (16.1%), Newcastle (C) (17.0%) and Eurobodalla (A) (17.4%), all located on the NSW coast. WORKING AGE POPULATION (AGED 15-64 YEARS) Over two-thirds of the NSW June 2006 population (67.0% or 4.57 million people) were of working age (15-64 years). This represents an increase of 192,500 people (4.4%) since June 2001. The Sydney SD at 68.9% (2.95 million people) was the only SD in NSW with a proportion of people aged 15-64 above that of the state as a whole. The Mid-North Coast SD recorded the lowest proportion of working age population in the state, with 61.3% (182,200 people) in this age group. All but nine of Sydney's 43 LGAs had proportions of working age population above that of the state. Four LGAs in the Sydney SD had over three-quarters of their population in the 15-64 years age group. These were the inner city LGAs of Sydney (C) (85.0%), North Sydney (A) (79.0%), Leichhardt (A) (76.6%), and Marrickville (A) (76.3%). The lowest proportions of working age residents were in the Central Coast LGAs of Wyong (A) (61.0%) and Gosford (C) (62.8%). Only ten of the 110 LGAs in the balance of NSW had proportions of working age population above the state level of 67.0%. The non-metropolitan LGA with the highest proportion of working age people was Snowy River (A) (70.8%), followed by Queanbeyan (C) (69.6%) and Palerang (A) (69.4%), which are both adjacent to the ACT. The lowest proportions were in the LGAs of Great Lakes (A) (56.7%), Wellington (A) (58.4%), Coolamon (A) (59.1%) and Nambucca (A) (59.2%). POPULATION AGED 15-64 YEARS, NSW Statistical Divisions, 2001 and 2006 OLDER PEOPLE (AGED 65 YEARS AND OVER) At June 2006, there were 918,900 older people (those aged 65 years and over) in NSW, an increase of 60,900 people (7.1%) since June 2001. Older people accounted for 13.5% of the NSW population in 2006. Only the Sydney SD (12.0%, 512,500 people) recorded a proportion of older people lower than the state as a whole. The highest proportion was recorded in the Mid-North Coast SD, where nearly one in five residents was aged 65 years and over (19.1% or 56,700 people). The percentage of the population who were aged 65 years and over increased in all NSW SDs between June 2001 and June 2006. For the Sydney SD, the highest proportions of older people were located in the northern metropolitan LGA of Hunter's Hill (A) (18.3%) followed by Wyong (A) (17.8%), and Gosford (C) (17.7%) on the Central Coast. The lowest proportion occurred in Campbelltown (C) (7.3%) in the south-west, followed by Penrith (C) and Blacktown (C) in the west of Sydney and the inner-city LGA of Sydney (C) (all 8.0%). Reflecting the older age structure of the balance of NSW, 72% of the 110 non-metropolitan LGAs had proportions of older people above that of the state as a whole. The highest proportions of older people occurred in the coastal LGAs of the Great Lakes (A) (27.2%), Eurobodalla (A) (22.4%), Hastings (A) (22.3%), and Nambucca (A) (22.1%). The non-metropolitan LGAs with the lowest proportions of older people were adjacent to the ACT and in the Hunter. These were Queanbeyan (C) (8.9%), Singleton (A) (9.3%) and Palerang (A) (9.4%). POPULATION AGED 65 YEARS AND OVER, NSW Statistical Divisions, 2001 and 2006 SEX RATIO In June 2006, NSW had 98.2 males for every 100 females, down from the June 2001 sex ratio of 98.6. The highest age-specific sex ratio was for the 0-4 year age group, with 105.8 males per 100 females, and males continued to outnumber females until the 25-29 year age group. For age groups between 30-34 and 60-64 years, the sex ratio ranged from 98.1 to 100.4 males per 100 females. The sex ratio declined for people in age groups over 65-69 years, reaching its lowest level of 47.3 for people aged 85 years and over. For most five-year age groups the sex ratio was higher in the balance of NSW than in the Sydney SD. MALES PER 100 FEMALES, BY AGE, SYDNEY SD AND BALANCE OF NSW, 30 June 2006 In the Sydney SD, the highest sex ratios were recorded in Sydney (C) (114.3 males per 100 females) and Auburn (A) (109.3). The lowest sex ratios occurred in the harbour-side LGAs of Mosman (A) (85.5) and Woollahra (A) (88.2). For the balance of NSW, Junee (A) (134.4) and Walgett (A) (128.5) had the highest sex ratios, while Armidale Dumaresq (A) (93.8) and Ballina (A) (94.2) had the lowest sex ratios. 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"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nanotechnology is the study of very small things, dealing with materials 100 nanometers or smaller in at least one dimension. One nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter. By comparison, the smallest bacteria are about 200 nm long; a human hair is approximately 80,000 nm wide, far beyond the nano range. However, if nanomaterials were just small versions of big things, they wouldn't be particularly interesting. The exciting applications come because materials sometimes act in a fundamentally different way when their size shrinks to a minimum.
The scientific concept of nanotechnology was born in 1959 in a famous presentation by Richard Feynman, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."1 Feynman talks about putting the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin, or making computers smaller than a building—1959 was a different world! But for all its antique quaintness, in his lecture, Feynman perceptibly realized, "At the atomic level, we have new kinds of forces and new kinds of possibilities, new kinds of effects." He could not have been more prescient.
Practical Use
The prefix "nano" comes from the Latin nanus (dwarf), but the term "nanotechnology" was first used by K. Eric Drexler2 in his seminal 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, available free online at e-drexler.com/p/06/00/EOC_Cover.html. Since its publication, there has been unceasing development of medical and cosmetic applications, and wide-ranging academic research. Cosmetic applications have concentrated on sunscreens, hair treatment and antiaging products.
Nanosized zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) for sunscreens were the first, and still most important, applications of nanotechnology in personal care. The classic visual of macro TiO2 is a lifeguard with a white nose. By reducing the particle size below one fourth the wavelength of light, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide become invisible while completely maintaining their sun protectant properties. If anything, the smaller particle size enhances protection by fitting into small irregularities in the skin.
Nano TiO2 and ZnO are permitted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and, remarkably, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) agrees with the FDA's assesement,2 in part because of nano materials performance compared to alternatives and findings that the physical blocks of the nano materials measurably improved protection. EWG also studied the literature and found no evidence that nano sunblock particles could penetrate the skin. It was clear to EWG that any form of sunscreen was improved measurably by these materials.
Improving Delivery
Nanoemulsions are used to enhance the delivery of actives and have even been claimed to have antimicrobial properties.3 However, unlike the alternative (microemulsions), nanoemulsions do not form spontaneously and are not as thermodynamically stable.
In non-technical terms, a properly formulated microemulsion is easy to make and is extremely stable, while a nanoemulsion needs a lot of energetic mixing and is comparatively less stable. There is a scattering of research that may extend the properties and manufacturing procedures for nanoemulsions, such as the use of solvents that evaporate from the base during production.
In the beauty industry, P&G, L'Oréal and Henkel lead the pack in nano-related patents. Products are on the market from every major brand owner, most often to aid in the delivery of actives, but while the majors seem relatively subdued in publicizing the nano aspects of their products, some smaller players—such as Nano Derm (China) and Derma Nano (Singapore)—put the technology front and center.
In either case and strategic decision, the reason for nano delivery is clear—it can carry actives into the skin for increased efficacy. The Perricone brand, as a specific example, has created products with fullerene, a nano material, as a carrier for the brand's actives. Fullerene, also used in Dr. Brandt Skincare's Lineless Cream, is a molecule composed entirely of carbon, and can be in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid or tube. Spherical fullerenes are commonly known as buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are known as carbon nanotubes.
Fullerenes, however, are a class of nanoparticles that have created safety concerns with some researchers. Carbon nanotubes have shown asbestos-like pathogenicity in mice. On the other hand, nanotubes have successfully been used to aid drug delivery. The safe and effective use of nano delivery systems obviously requires close study.
Addressing Safety
It is well-known that surface chemistry of materials such as these can affect toxicity, and, fortunately, the surface chemistry can be engineered to enhance safety. So far, there is no evidence of nanoparticles in beauty products being a health problem, but on the flip side, there is little conclusive proof that they are safe. There is a movement to consider nanomaterials as new chemicals and to have them tested as such.
Since there is no premarket approval of cosmetics by FDA, its regulatory approach to nanotechnology is cautious. The FDA Task Force, in 2007, basically stated that nanotechnology applications in personal care seemed safe from a toxicology and biological perspective4—but it would be nice to know more. For example, there is a need to develop standard particle characterization methods. The task force found no need to specifically label nanoparticles on products. Of course, brand owners are still responsible for marketing safe products, regardless of specific regulations.
In Conclusion
Nanotechnology is a broad field with many potential applications in beauty. With so much emphasis on efficacy for skin and hair products, there is no doubt that nanoparticles and nanoemulsions will continue to be exploited by formulators for the elevation of brand performance. A public attracted to technology and the effective delivery of actives will be attracted by "nano" on the label, and Feynman's prediction will continue to prove true—there is plenty of room at the bottom.
The NYSCC Spring Seminar on Nanotechnology (April 21, 2010) was very helpful, with special thanks to Amy K. Madl and Jay M. Ansell for kindly providing copies of their presentations.
- www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
- www.ewg.org/cosmetics/report/sunscreen09/investigation/Nanotechnology-Sunscreens
- K Schaefer, Inherent Nano-sized Microbial Warfare, Cosm & Toil 64 (Apr 2010)
- www.fda.gov/downloads/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/Nanotechnology/ucm110856.pdf
(All Web sites accessed Jun 24, 2010)
Steve Herman is president of Diffusion LLC, a consulting company specializing in regulatory issues, intellectual property, and technology development and transfer. He is a principal in PJS Partners, offering formulation, marketing and technology solutions for the personal care and fragrance industry. He is an adjunct professor in the Fairleigh Dickinson University Masters in Cosmetic Science program and is a Fellow in the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.


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AFP: Google and Facebook may face higher tax bills in Europe as the EU rushed this weekend to change rules so that more of Silicon Valley's mega profits fall into public coffers.
Public anger against the billions of euros earned by online behemoths is growing louder in Europe and EU finance ministers meeting in Estonia pledged to make sure the companies pay a fairer tax. But divisions emerged on how to go about taking on the giants, with several member states worried that a tax in Europe could push the companies to set up shop in the US or Asia. In the digital age "the current taxation system no longer applies and that is why we have to find another solution," said Toomas Toniste, Finance Minister of Estonia, which hold the EU's six-month rotating presidency.
Led by France and Germany, big EU powers urged their bloc partners to explore an emergency tax so that the giants pay tax where they earn revenue, instead of on profits booked in a low-tax EU HQ of their choice, often Ireland or Luxembourg.
"We are now about 10 countries to back this idea," said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire as stepped into the talks, adding that he hoped for a firm proposal by December.
"We don't want a Europe at the heel of others," he added.
But the road ahead will be difficult. Europe-wide tax reform is a huge headache in the European Union, requiring unanimity of all 28 states, which has proven nearly impossible on tax issues.
Ministers from smaller member states already hinted at difficulties, warning that they would much prefer the problem be addressed at the international level, such as at the G20 or through the OECD, the club of rich nations.
"I think we should be very careful not to tax on what we are going to live on in the future," said Danish Finance Minister Kristian Jensen.
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The OECD has also poured doubt on the proposal.
Generally speaking, "taxes on revenues, they're daft", said Pascal Saint-Amans, the OECD's tax policy director during a hearing on Wednesday at the French parliament.
But "politically, I understand that it may be necessary, given that reform led by the OECD at the G20 level could take years to achieve.
British Finance Minister Philip Hammond warned against angering Washington, which could abandon OECD tax reform in retaliation, sources familiar with the matter told AFP.
"We should see what the United States thinks because a lot of these companies are US based," said Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos.
The commission, the EU's executive arm, has been tasked to draw up a set of solutions, including the French proposal, in time for an EU leaders summit in Tallinn on September 29.
"We cannot have a whole sector of the economy that pretty much escapes taxation," EU's economy commissioner Pierre Moscovici, who will shepherd the plan, told France Inter radio.
Europeans have become increasingly aggressive against US technology giants seen by officials as gaining too much power, with Amazon and Apple also under scrutiny.
Moreover, several national authorities in the EU have opened up tax fights with Google, Airbnb and other Internet giants.
A French court, citing EU law, ruled in July that Google was not liable for 1.12 billion euros (US$1.27 billion) in taxes claimed by the state. France appealed the decision.
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Every lifetime contains a multiplicity of mysteries. Every being is a universe unto themselves, unique among a multitude of others. Babies are immortal enlightened beings borne into primitive worlds that shape their destinies to particular utilitarian ends.
Yet even while we tread routine routes through various versions of barbaric semi-civilisation, the moment of wonder is never far away. Everything is possible and anything is probable. Your worldview is an acculturated comfort zone in an unchartable sea, a shared dream demarking the boundaries of wider, wilder realms.
To witness highly strange events that conflict with the orderly fabrications of consensus reality can be an utterly transforming experience for some; others will swiftly forget anything that can't easily be assimilated into the worldview they've been trained to see as fixed and controllable from birth. Mysteries and consciousness possess inbuilt filter systems.
When the unexpected arrives an instinct for self preservation kicks in. This emotionally charged reaction may take many forms, but one of the most common is denial; an attempt to mentally camouflage one's self, and return to the accustomed fold of the human pack.
Yet some react differently, forever transformed by the exaltation of challenging sights and bizarre happenings. An illustration:
The old Cold War of the last millennium seemed unbreakably eternal to the brainwashed throngs on both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'. It was inconceivable that the whole enduring fiasco could simply fold up and finish without ending in a flaming Armageddon that would destroy all or most life on planet Earth. And yet, against all odds, the miraculous happened, leaving everyone in situ to clean up the mess we'd made of history.
It didn't seem possible in an age of backyard nuclear bunkers on a polarised schizophrenic planet. Right up until the walls and curtains fell on the final act of absurd lunacy - after the widely forgotten Harmonic Convergence of August 1987 (planted exactly half way betwixt the February 1962 alignment that heralded the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius and its birthing on December 21st 2102) - the world could always end tomorrow in a series of blinding flashes.
Alternative communities sprouted and flourished throughout the lands, far from the toxic sumps and likely targets of urban confabulations. Flower child hippies and redneck survivalists vied for choice spots in farflung valleys and hidden hinterlands. Multitudes marched through city streets in peaceable defiance against The Man behind the curtains and his juggernaut death machines. They protested against megamurders that enriched a small venal coterie of militant industrialists- men with megalomania complexes as drearily dire as Stalin's, or Nixon's, or the Marquis de Sade's. Everything you could buy or sell, save your soul and will, was theirs, ripped from mendacious mines and industrial farms - rents in the flesh of Great Mother Nature, whose immortal soul was trussed up with barbed wire fences and sold for illusory pottage.
An imaginary Sword of Damocles was suspended over everyone's heads, threatening extinction for all - unless the wage serfs knuckled down, put their noses to the grindstone and stopped rocking the titanic boat. The threat of nuclear Armageddon was a death-trip form of hypnotic control for modernised slaves, just as potent as the previous universal religious fantasias of heaven and hell. After a struggle between control freaks and rebellious slaves that had lasted thousands of bloodcurdling years, a climax was surely approaching.
In nineteen hundred and seventy five, at the height of the ultra-profitable threatening nuclear coldness 'twixt East and West, this mellowing her(m)etic hermit was a much younger shaman who lived near the throbbing heart of the Emerald City of Oz, and worked and played in a huge sandstone edifice known as Stanley Palmer's Culture Palace.
The setting for this alternative institution was a deconsecrated Presbyterian church constructed from large amber hued sandstone blocks that had been excavated from a defaced nearby cliff a century before, which had long been abandoned by its congregation. The hallowed and hollowed gutted interior still featured a monstrous functional pipe organ, a rosewood choir loft that served as a coffee shop, and a matching pulpit with carven balustrades and a wooden canopy, all housed beneath lofty wood beams exposed by a dismantled ceiling. A tall row of arched windows cast ample light on the artistry and craftiness that abounded within its eclectic confines during the bygone hippy heyday.
This young shaman taught film and video production, photography, darkroom techniques and other artistic pursuits to anyone interested who passed through the old church's colonnaded entryway, and constructed and operated a cinema in a disused chamber at the building's rear. Other instructors taught printing, silk screening, pottery, drama, tai chi, yoga, music, meditation, painting and a plethora of other subjects to gifted and appreciated youngsters and oldsters alike. All the courses were absolutely free; in those days all tertiary education was free and open to all in the Great Southern Land by decree of its greatest Prime Monster, the White Lamb who would be sacrificed on the altar of foreign dominion before the year was out.
The main building of the Culture Palace was divided into halves by a thirty foot high Masonite wall which helped soundproof the stage that stood before the pulpit, bereft of its altar – an appropriate venue for all manner of performances. Harold Pinter and Shakespeare vied for time and space with rock bands and folk combos, lecturers and yogis. And every Sunday evening for a few brief years, this young shaman hosted the Future Shock Show - operating lights, sound and recording equipment from the pulpit while all manner of performers strutted the stage below.
The entry charge was fixed at a dollar, but anyone without that amount of money (which could still buy a substantial meal of spaghetti Bolognese at a nearby establishment called the Hole in the Wall, a round of cappuccinos in the nearby Little Italy espresso belt, or a huge, real, solid pre-Mac hamburger) could watch the show for the price of a donation, or failing that for nothing at all. Overheads came to just ten dollars a show and all remaining proceeds were split by the performers.
We cadged boxes of outdated paper from nearby printers and published posters and handbills that were stuck and distributed about the nearby inner urban suburbs. The demographic mix was different in those days; most nearby dwellings were occupied by hard-bitten dock workers and the destitute, or those who were definitely down and out. More than five hundred emptied houses in the immediate area were occupied by squatters during the recession that followed the OPEC 'oil crisis'.
A gifted poet and musician known as Li Po helped set up and operate every Future Shock show, and a small band of helpers handed out invitations to all and sundry each morning and noon at populous markets and the nearby Domain. In those days this historic public park opposite the monolithic façade of the city's main public art gallery was a popular local version of London's famous Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. Religious proselytisers rubbed shoulders with anarchists, communists, socialists and fascists, and all competed for the public's attention with varying degrees of oratorical skill. Every weekend the greensward was filled with speakers and listeners, bordered by stalls and stands of all kinds.
We'd distribute hand printed handbills until none were left, then make our way back afoot to Stanley Palmer's Culture Palace to prepare the evening show. One sunny Sunday, while Webster and John Sword and a host of other locally famous orators entertained the throng from stepladders and soapboxes, Li Po chanced to hand an invite to an intense young bearded fellow who introduced himself as John Walsh and asked if he could perform that night.
"I'm a trancemedium musician," the softly spoken, long haired man declared. "I go into trance and play music – but I don't know how to play."
"Sure," I said, bemusedly curious. "There's still a spot available." Early that night he arrived with a plethora of instruments and proceeded to arrange them around the edges of the stage. "I don't know which one the spirits will want to play," he explained. Trumpet and trombone, tabla and djembe, harmonium and flute, guitar and mandolin graced the margins of the performance space along with sundry other instruments while John prepared himself, entering a trance state in his dressing room in the empty cinema.
The mesmerised hippy emerged onstage in a voluminous kaftan, lifted an electric guitar and immediately began to play heavenly arpeggios and enthralling glissandos. For the next hour he moved from instrument to instrument in a spaced state of grace. Unearthly music rang from stone walls and marble memorial stones, reverberating through the dumbfounded audience who sat stunned at this display of unconscious - or possessed - virtuosity.
Whether in trance or truly channelling the music of gifted spirits, there was no denying the extraordinary result. John Walsh returned to the stage the next Sunday, and the one after that, rapidly befriending the Stanley Palmer's crew and the musician Li Po in particular. From close and regular observation it soon became apparent that John couldn't play a note unless he wasn't present in his body.
He worked with a few trance medium colleagues, some of whom also played instruments while others chanted in tongues, and a few weekends later they all assembled onstage at the Culture Palace. I decided it would be a good idea to record the occasion for posterity on a high fidelity four-track reel to reel recorder.
The audience didn't know what to expect. Assembled before their expectant, bored or distracted eyes was a humdrum looking bunch of middle aged people dressed in normal street clothes - except for John Walsh, barefoot at centre stage in a white Indian cotton shirt and loose flared trousers. All stood with unfocused eyes staring above the heads of the audience, whose expectant faces were on a level with the floor of the raised stage.
I watched from the pulpit and started the recorder while John picked up a trumpet. Two men who stood behind him began humming a wordless mantra while another sat and stroked a drumskin with elongated fingernails. John raised the trumpet to his lips and produced a single clear note as the hummers started chanting in a language that closely resembled ancient Hebrew.
The music and chant slowly rose in volume and intensity as I adjusted the gain on the tape deck, and slipped a large pear of headphones over my ears to monitor the recording. At first the music resembled the unpredictable jazz fusion of the semifamous freeform local band 'Free Kata', before it shifted upscale into uncharted realms of discord and resonance.
After a few minutes of weirdly harmonious cacophony John started bellowing through the trumpet like a singing, screaming pachyderm, as if possessed by the great Hindu god Ganesh. He trumpeted a blast that ascended from mellow depths into dizzying heights, slipping back down the scale after an extending pause at the gates of heaven. A crackling sound filled the headphones and the music started cutting out in a repetitive patterns so I glanced down at the equipment to see what was wrong.
The meter was swinging into the red zone at the end of the dial each time John hit his highest note, and stayed there as long as he held it. I fiddled with knobs to no avail – the sound disappeared from the 'phones every time the frequency rose to a frenzied pitch. Then I noticed what was happening to the quarter-inch magnetic tape – it was rising out of the recording heads each time the sound cut out, and hovering there, free of the mechanism for as long as John Walsh held a high note, before dropping back inside the machine as he lowered the pitch and volume.
I frowned at the tape, certain the equipment must be faulty and ruing the fact that tonight's performance would go unrecorded. And then I chanced to glance down at the audience. They were all sitting in their pews with identically stunned expressions; mouths agape, immobile and wide eyed, with heads nodding up and down in time with John Walsh's stentorious pealing. The witnesses all seemed way beyond mere absorption in the performance; they looked like a school of nodding fish in a stark state of shock. So I turned to see what they were staring at and finally saw what was happening onstage.
Each time the tape rose from the recording heads and the sound cut out in the headphones John was raising the trumpet and bellowing his highest, clearest note to the heavens while the chanting swelled to a climax – and as long as he held that single note his feet hovered a few inches above the wooden planks of the sturdy stage floor.
As long as he held that note he levitated in plain view of dozens of people whose eyes were on the same level as his feet. No trick. No hypnosis. No wires or magnets held him aloft – except for the magnetic charge of John's channelled music while his whitened eyeballs rolled back in their sockets.
We all watched the miracle unfold before our rapt gazes – as dumfounded as any who saw a man walk on water or a woman give birth to an elephant. He kept it up, and up, for several minutes and all of that time none of the spellbound witnesses moved, nor uttered a word.
Part of my mind was berating me for not having bothered to pull one of the Culture Palace's video cameras out of the storeroom while I watched in awestruck delight, while another fraction assured me that the tape would have acted just like the sound gear's and failed to record the extraordinary event.
John's trumpeting notes slowly fell in volume and he settled back onto the boards for the last time. No-one applauded as he and his friends all shuffled from the stage, still lost to this world in their trance states. I watched the audience shake themselves from frozen concentration and followed them out as they silently filed through the partition toward the reassuring mundane world of coffee, tea and biscuits. Li Po's eyes were flaming coals when I passed him onstage. He left for the dressing room without a word while I followed the audience into the other half of the deconsecrated kirk.
I hovered about, watching and listening to their varied reactions. A quarter left the building immediately, rapidly making for the safety of the sane dingy streets outside. A thirtyish woman sat at a potter's wheel and echoed my own reaction to a handful of friends, "This changes everything! After this my whole life's different – nothing can ever be the same again!" Others stood about with gleaming eyes shining amidst enraptured expressions, while others grumbled and shook their heads.
"It's just a trick!" one man loudly proclaimed as he strode from the hall. "My god!" another cried, and cried into his teacup. "See what?" a young Christian said to his enraptured girlfriend. "I didn't see anything."
Many who saw it soon forgot as they re-entered the treadmill of getting and losing, buying and selling, grasping and loosing. Within a few months only a handful of people could actually recall the event they had witnessed one bygone Sunday night. And John Walsh? He never knew what he'd achieved until Li Po informed him backstage in the dressing room after the performance. The miracle worker had been lost to the world, off in a trance state all the while and didn't remember a thing.
'Seeing is believing' to many or most – for some the revelation lasts but a while and for others forever, perchance.
The sturdy ramparts of a handful of materialistic worldviews collapsed like houses of cards overnight. Nothing we'd been taught was true, and everything was suddenly permissible. If just one person can fly, then everyone can – and if one can fly, then all the other 'psychic powers' are doubtless equally available to everyone, if we can only find the route within…
Whole populations find it surprisingly easy to ignore the bleeding obvious fact that the emperor wears no clothes. Unimaginable madnesses of the domesticated primate li(f)e are simply ignored, or mistaken for some kind of natural order by those who've known nothing else throughout short meagre lives spent in workaday chasms and blinding chiasms.
The world is truly a magical place, a gorgeous wet jewel miraculously preserved amid the frozen fires of eternity; an unfolding phantasmagoria of wonder and miracles - priceless pearls strewn before competing tribes of domesticated primate boors, who trash living paradise all around in a relentless quest for mere fictitious pie in the sky.
Myriad miracles of daily life are particularly evident way out here in the wild growing forest, where the muddy hands and fixated minds of enumerating people have still barely tainted some special places. When the endlessly chattering monkey mind is finally stilled and all eyes are opened, fabulous strangeness begins to appear and multiply with every new day.
Look up, look in, around and about. Even – especially – in the darkest hour, the moment of wonder is never far away…
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By R. Ayana
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The 'MarkC Windows 10 + 8.1 + 8 + 7 + Vista + XP Mouse Acceleration Fix Builder' is available for download from this link:
MarkC_Windows_10+8.x+7+Vista+XP_MouseFix_Builder_2.6.zip @ onedrive
What is it?
It is a VBS script program that creates a registry .REG file that removes Windows' mouse acceleration, or emulates Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 acceleration.
Fix Builder can build .REG files for Windows 10 or 8.1 or 8 or 7 or Vista or XP.
The registry fix created works like the CPL and Cheese and MarkC fixes, but is customized for your specific desktop display text size (DPI), your specific mouse pointer speed slider setting, your specific refresh rate and has any in-game pointer scaling/sensitivity factor you want (see note).
Fix Builder can create a fix that emulates Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 acceleration.
On Windows 10 x64, when using fixes that emulate Windows 2000 or Windows 9X acceleration, only fixes with a single threshold can be used.
Using a 2 threshold emulation fix will cause BugChecks / Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)!
For older games that turn acceleration on, it gives the same response as position 6/11 does
(Yeah, I know : "Whoop-de-do...")
Exactly 1-to-1 means no discarded or delayed mouse input while game playing.
Other Registry fixes need the pointer speed slider set to 6/11 (middle) to get exactly 1-to-1 in-game mouse to pointer response, but this script can create a registry fix that gives exact 1-to-1 in-game response for non-6/11 settings.
Other registry fixes only provide files for some pre-defined display DPI values: 100%, 125%..., but this script can create a fix for any DPI setting.
The Cheese registry fixes only provides files for some pre-defined monitor refresh rate values: 60Hz, 70Hz, but this script can create a fix for any refresh rate setting.
Fix Builder can create a fix with any in-game mouse-to-pointer scaling factor you want (see note).
NOTE: ALL registry based mouse fixes, INCLUDING this one, ONLY work when the
Control Panel > Mouse > 'Enhance pointer precision' option is ON (OR when an older game forces 'Enhance pointer precision' to ON), AND your game does not use DirectInput and does not use Raw Input for mouse input.
Eh? What is it again?
A mostly pointless sledgehammer solution to the problem of having to change your Control Panel > Mouse > pointer speed slider to 6/11 before you play an older game that needs a registry fix so you can avoid at most a single pixel of discarded or delayed mouse input while game playing...
A way to emulate Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 acceleration.
An interesting programming exercise!
How do you use it?
- In Windows Explorer, double-click MarkC_Windows_10+8+7+Vista+XP_MouseFix_Builder.vbs,
or double-click MarkC_Windows_10+8+7+Vista+XP_MouseFix_Builder.CMD.
- Verify or edit the suggested settings, clicking OK as you go.
- Add/Merge the created fix to the registry.
(See below for non-Administrator account use.)
- Reboot or Log off to apply the fix (you have to reboot or Log off).
- If you don't use the mouse pointer speed slider set to 6/11, and you do want exact 1-to-1 in-game, then configure your game so that it enables control panel 'Enhance pointer precision'.
If you want Windows 2000+98+95 acceleration in-game, then configure your game so that it enables control panel 'Enhance pointer precision'.
(For example, in Counter-Strike: Source and other Source games, do use-useforcedmparms and don't use-noforcemspd . In Half-Life, CounterStrike 1.6, don't use-noforcemspd or-noforcemparms .)
- Enjoy exactly 1-to-1 mouse to pointer response for your custom desktop settings!
(Or enjoy Windows 2000-like or Windows 98/95-like acceleration!)
(If you applied one of the Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 Acceleration fixes, then 'Enhance pointer precision' must be checked ON to enable it.)
Why do you need a fix?
Some older games turn Windows mouse acceleration on when you don't want them to. See here for more details.
You prefer the mouse acceleration that Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 had.
How does the fix work?
The current system is queried, and you can change the values and tune the registry fix file created.
The result is saved to a file and can optionally be imported into the registry.
The script asks for:
- Operating system that the fix will be used for.
- The desktop Control Panel, Display, text size (DPI) that will be used.
- The in-game monitor refresh rate that will be used (XP and Vista only).
- The Control Panel, Mouse, pointer speed slider position that will be used.
- Windows-2000+98+95-style acceleration thresholds (optional).
- The pointer speed scaling (sensitivity) factor for that pointer speed setting.
- Where you want to save the fix to and what name.
It creates a registry .reg file with the settings entered, and optionally lets you merge / apply it into the registry.
How do you know the fix is working?
You can test if it is working by temporarily turning on the 'Enhance pointer precision' feature and see how the mouse responds.
(NOTE: Unless you applied one of the Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 Acceleration fixes, only turn 'Enhance pointer precision' on for testing: it should normally be set OFF.)
If you have 'Enhance pointer precision' OFF, then the fix will not be active (but it will be waiting to be activated when needed).
Just as some games turn it on when you don't want them to, we can turn it on manually to test that the fix is working properly.
- Go to Control Panel, and select Hardware and Sound, then click Mouse. Select 'Pointer options' and check-ON/enable the 'Enhance pointer precision' option.
- See how the mouse responds.
- If you want, you can run the MouseMovementRecorder.exe program that is included in the ZIP file to see that the mouse and pointer movements are 1-to-1 and always the same (or are whatever custom scaling you entered).
(The numbers in the MOUSE MOVEMENT column should be the same as the numbers in the POINTER MOVEMENT column. Any differences will appear in green or red.
If you do see differences, also test with 'Enhance pointer precision' OFF, in case the problem is with Windows or MouseMovementRecorder.exe rather than a problem with the fix:
- Press the A key on the keyboard while MouseMovementRecorder is running until EnPtPr Accel is Off.
- When EnPtPr Accel is OFF, if there is a lot of red and green, press the '+' key on the keyboard and move the mouse.
- Repeat '+' and move the mouse until most of the red and green disappears.
- Press the A key on the keyboard to toggle EnPtPr Accel and move the mouse.
- If the amount of red and green is roughly the same when EnPtPr Accel is ON as when EnPtPr Accel is Off, then the fix is working.)
(NOTE: If you use Windows 10, & scaling of items is not 100%, see below.)
(NOTE: If you use Windows 8.1 and have too much green and red, see below.)
(NOTE: While running a game, you may see many red and green lines.
Games that need a fix usually frequently re-position the pointer and this confuses MouseMovementRecorder.exe but DOES NOT mean acceleration.
See http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1846538#pid1927879 - scroll to 'Comment #271'.)
- If you have built a Windows 2000 or Windows 9X fix, you should see that acceleration varies depending upon how fast the mouse is, compared to the thresholds, but is linear (a constant sensitivity) between thresholds.
(NOTE: See file !Threshold_Acceleration_ReadMe.txt in the ZIP file for more info.)
- Turn the 'Enhance pointer precision' option OFF when you have finished testing.
(If you applied one of the Windows 2000 or Windows 98/95 Acceleration fixes, then leave 'Enhance pointer precision' checked ON to enable it.)
How do you know the fix is giving exact 1-to-1 when playing your game?
If you don't use the mouse pointer speed slider set to 6/11, and you do want exact 1-to-1 in-game, then you must configure your game so that it enables control panel 'Enhance pointer precision'.
You can test your game to see if it turns 'Enhance pointer precision' ON, and gets exact 1-to-1.
- Turn the 'Enhance pointer precision' option OFF,
- Run Mouse Movement Recorder (included in the ZIP file),
- Run your game (aim at something!) and look at the 'EnPtPr' column footer at the bottom of the Mouse Movement Recorder window.
If it is displayed with a red background then the game has turned acceleration ON and will have exact 1-to-1.
How do you remove it?
- Open the ZIP file at the link above.
- If you use Windows 7 or Vista or XP:
Select 'Windows_7+Vista+XP_Default.reg' and Double-click it. - If you use Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 or Windows 10:
Select 'Windows_10+8.x_Default.reg' and Double-click it. - Answer Yes, OK to the prompts that appear.
- Reboot or Log off.
I use Windows 10 and scaling of text, apps and other items is not 100%
In later versions of Windows 10, Microsoft changed how the mouse pointer is moved in response to mouse input, when scaling of text, apps and other items is not 100%, and Enhance pointer precision is OFF.
Mouse pointer movements when Enhance pointer precision is OFF, are now scaled according to the per-monitor scaling of items setting.
When Enhance pointer precision is OFF, and the Control Panel pointer speed slider is set to 6/11, MouseMovementRecorder will not show all-black, exact 1-to-1, but instead Pointer Movement will be multiplied by the same scaling factor applied to text, apps and other items.
Games may also see this difference, or not, depending on their "DPI Awareness".
I use Windows 8.1 and see too much green and/or red in MouseMovementRecorder
Windows 8.1 introduced changes to mouse input processing to reduce power used and improve battery life:
Windows 8.1 delays and coalesces (merges) mouse input for programs, causing the effective mouse polling rate to be as low as 62 Hz in some cases (even for gaming mice with a higher polling rate).
This new processing can affect some games (games that don't use Raw Input and don't use DirectInput). Microsoft have a December 2013 Windows Update Rollup that includes a fix for those games, which will be automatically installed when you have Windows Update set to install updates automatically.
(See here: KB2908279 Mouse pointer stutters or freezes when you play certain games in Windows 8.1.)
The new processing can also affect MouseMovementRecorder and cause it to show red and green (with the mouse delays, MouseMovementRecorder sees a mouse movement from DirectInput, but doesn't see the pointer move until MUCH MUCH later and can't figure out what's going on and displays red and green).
If the KB2908279 update fix is installed, MouseMovementRecorder will activate it
to give more responsive mouse pointer movement and stop the red and green.
Otherwise, while running MouseMovementRecorder, select it and press the '+' key
on the keyboard a until the red and green stops.
If Control Panel, Appearance and Personalization, Display shows a 'Smaller...Larger' slider, high DPI monitors might need a custom size and/or a fix-builder fix to get exact 1-to-1.
See this blog article:
Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements @ Extreme Windows Blog
The new multi-monitor DPI scaling in Windows 8.1 is a good thing if you have multiple monitors with different pixels-per-inch values, BUT it might make it harder to find the correct Item Size percentage when choosing which MarkC fix to use to get exact 1-to-1.
Try clicking the 'Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays' checkbox and then find the percentage needed so that your main (gaming) monitor looks the same as it did when using the 'Smaller...Larger' slider (this may require some reboots).
When you have the right percentage value, click '...one scaling level...' OFF (so that you get the benefit of the new Multi-monitor DPI scaling - if you need it) and use the percentage value to choose which fix you need, or to create a Fix-Builder fix.
Loading the fix with a non-administrator account
When adding the mouse acceleration fix to the registry, you may get one of these error messages:
"Cannot import (filename).reg: Not all data was successfully written to the registry."
"Part of the mouse acceleration fix can't be applied, because you are not logged in as an Administrator."
This error happens because part of the fix turns off acceleration for the Welcome screen (the log on screen).
If you use the Welcome screen (or the Windows Log in dialog) and acceleration is NOT turned off for the Welcome screen, then the MarkC fixes have a 1 pixel /1 mouse count error when the mouse changes direction left/right or up/down.
You can remove this 1 mouse count error by any of these methods:
- Run Disable_WelcomeScreen+Login_Accel.CMD as Administrator (Right-click > Run as administrator).
- Run MarkC_Windows_10+8+7+Vista+XP_MouseFix_Builder.CMD as Administrator.
- Add/Merge Disable_WelcomeScreen+Login_Accel.reg to the registry while logged in as an administrator.
- Run RegEdit.exe and edit 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Mouse\MouseSpeed' to 0 (zero), while logged in as an administrator.
- Not moving or touching the mouse while using the Welcome screen (use arrow keys to select the user and Enter key to log in).
- Ignoring the 1 mouse count error! It's only a single count: You won't notice it.


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On the heels of launching the EY855-II XC Cube, its first Intel Pentium M-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC, AOpen is now preparing for the March launch of its smallest XC Cube SFF PC to date, the MZ 855, according to sources at the company.
The Intel 855GME-based system, which the company has dubbed the Cube Mini, will only be 106mm tall and will support Socket 479 Pentium M processors, a 400MHz FSB and up to 2GB of DDR333 memory. Although running a notebook CPU, the MZ 855 will still support desktop hard drives, and features two front-panel USB ports.
By using a notebook processor in the SFF PC, AOpen has been able to design a highly compact system – even for SFF standards – that also runs quietly, at only 27dB when fully loaded, the sources explained. However, with a 150W power supply and support for graphics cards only up to 185mm in length, the MZ 855 is not targeted for all enthusiasts, but rather to those who value space-saving above all else, the sources pointed out. Although AOpen plans a global release for the MZ855, the first target market will be Japan, the sources added.
The release of the MZ 855 SFF PC demonstrates AOpen's dedication to pushing notebook CPU solutions on the desktop. The company claims that last November it was the first company to release a desktop motherboard based on the Socket 479 Intel Pentium M CPU, and this month stated it was the first company to release an SFF PC based on the i855GME.
By the middle of the second quarter, the company will also release a version of the Cube Mini based on the Intel 915GM chipset, the sources stated.
One reason vendors may begin offering more notebook CPU-based desktop solutions this year is the increased availability of notebook CPUs in the channel, the sources noted. Intel has increased its support for the clone notebook market and is looking drive up the share of clone notebooks in the global notebook market to 30-35% in the next two years, other sources explained. The chip giant has also introduced its Common Building Block (CBB) program to help simplify the integration and distribution of notebook computers, which should mean more notebook CPUs available in the channel.
AOpen Cube Mini
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Excellent Chinese Seafood In Falls church one of the best Hong Kong-style Cantonese restaurant. Vinh Kee which sounds more Vietnamese than Chinese. By whatever name, diners can enjoy first-rate food. Neither small restaurant resembles the large, upscale premises of Golden Palace in District or New Fortune in Gaithersburg.
Vinh Kee is just off Arlington Boulevard a mile north of the Beltway. Vinh kee bright and cheerful, with tanks of fish, lobsters, and Dungeness crabs near the entryway. Hanging next to the pass-through that separates the kitchen from the dining area in each establishment are bronzed roast ducks, soy sauce chickens, sides of whole roast pig, and roast-pork filets (collectively referred to as Chinese barbecue.) These preparation are available both as appetizers and as toppings for the bowls of soup that come with dumplings, wontons, and noodles. Many lunch patrons content themselves with, say, a bowl of soup with shrimp dumplings and noodles, plus a quarter of a chicken or duck or a chunk of pig or roast pork on the side- a satisfying meal that costs around $10 dollar.
Diners who stop there are missing some unusual treats. This place describes themselves as a seafood restaurant. Whole fish, whether a steamed bass or a fried flounder, has a flawless. So was a recent order of steamed Chilean-sea-bass steaks topped with ginger and scallions; the flesh flaked beautifully, the center bearing a hint of translucence. The preparation of shellfish, judging from clams with black-bean sauce and lobster with ginger scallions, is also excellent. Deep-fried shrimp is served with the head and shell on, yielding a crunchy contrast between the edible shell and the tender meat.
Meat and fowl are fine here, and not only in the simple barbecue versions. Deep-fried pork chops, roasted squab, roast chicken with ginger and scallions, and steak with special sauce are good bets. Underappreciated are the bubbling casseroles. Some are simple, like chicken or mixed vegetables served with ginger in soothing sauce. But go a step further, perhaps by ordering the combination of oysters and roast pig or the Chinese squab, shrimp, and vermicelli.
The remaining sections of the menu list the vegetables and noodle dishes. The best is the garlic and water spinach- the flavor of the quickly stir-fried whole garlic cloves permeates the greens. sampled noodles include the thick and wide chow foon served with beef, Chinese broccoli, and black-bean sauce; deep-fried rice vermicelli softened with a topping of meat, seafood, or vegetables, or a topping of meat, seafood, or vegetables, or a combination of all; curry-flavored thin Singapore noodles; and lo mein roast pork.
Diners looking for adventure can try the gelatinous sea cucumber (a huge slug) with vegetables, beef with bitter melon served with a black-bean sauce, duck tongues with pickled cabbage, or stir-fried whole frog with yellow chives.


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Chapter IX.—Valens persecutes the Novatians, because they accepted the Orthodox Faith.
The emperor however did not cease his persecution of those who embraced the doctrine of the homoousion, but drove them away from Constantinople: and as the Novatians acknowledged the same faith, they also were subjected to similar treatment. He commanded that their churches should be shut up, also their bishop they sent into exile. His name was Agelius, a person that had presided over their churches from the time of Constantine, and had led an apostolic life: for he always walked barefoot, and used but one coat, observing the injunction of the gospel.586586 Matt. x. 10. But the emperor's displeasure against this sect was moderated by the efforts of a pious and eloquent man named Marcian, who had formerly been in military service at the imperial palace, but was at that time a presbyter in the Novatian church, and taught Anastasia and Carosa, the emperor's daughters, grammar; from the former of whom the public baths yet standing, which Valens erected at Constantinople, were named.587587 Am. Marcellinus (Rerum Gestarum, XXVI. 4. 14), in speaking of Procopius, the usurper, says: 'Procopius…resorted to the Anastasian baths, named from the sister of Constantine'; from which it appears that either (1) there were two baths of the same name, or (2) the baths here alluded to were named after Constantine's sister and renamed on the occasion of their being repaired or altered, or (3) that Socrates is in error. From the improbabilities connected with (1) and (2) we may infer that (3) is the right view. From respect for this person therefore the Novatian churches which had been 100for some time closed, were again opened. The Arians however would not suffer this people to remain undisturbed, for they disliked them on account of the sympathy and love the Novatians manifested toward the Homoousians, with whom they agreed in sentiment. Such was the state of affairs at that time. We may here remark that the war against the usurper Procopius was terminated about the end of May, in the consulate588588 366 a.d. of Gratian and Dagalaïfus.
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You be the Sommelier
On my 18th birthday my parents gave me a hand hammered wok. All these years later I still use it constantly, and it's turned out to be one of the best gifts I've ever been given.
Fried rice is a quick and easy dish for which the wok is vital. About a year ago I discovered that I can "hide" things like spinach and cabbage in fried rice, and my kids will happily eat it. Fried rice is a great vehicle for leftovers, and seriously, what's not to like? There are authentic versions from all over Asia, and there are the versions that come from places like my house, in which the same basic techniques are used but the ingredients are whatever I have leftover from the day before.
On this day I had some leftover steak. Some chopped onion, carrot, and an egg - that's plenty to make a nice fried rice. It would have been better if I had a scallion or some ginger, but those are the breaks. Here's one thing I can tell you about wok cooking: heat the wok without any oil in it, for longer than seems reasonable. We cannot achieve restaurant heat using our domestic stoves, so highest flame for a few minutes must suffice. Then a bit of oil, a swirl, and more heat. Use canola, safflower, corn, or something that won't smoke under high heat.
The onions first, and then things like ginger, if you're using it. The carrots next, especially if you want them to be cooked enough so that your two-year old can chew them easily. Then the leftover cooked rice, and really toss it well to separate the grains. Then the meat and the egg, tossing constantly. I seasoned here with a bit of Chinkiang vinegar and soy sauce, et voila.
So that's the dish - fried rice with beef and egg. Please, you be the sommelier. What would you serve with this dish? Leave your ideas in the comments and in a few days I'll share what I drank and whether or not it was a good match.


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Properties are pseudo-variables getting/setting which causes side-effects. For example, assignment to a color property of Widget class would cause the change of the color of a widget onscreen:
widget.color = "red";
Libpropc++ is the C++ library that implements properties in Standard C++.
The most interesting feature of libpropc++ is that it supports binding properties—that is, auto-synchronizing values of properties—so that when the value of one property changes, values of the other automatically changes accordingly.
Every time you write a GUI application, you in fact natively use binding properties: You need to synchronize e.g. the checked state of a checkbox and sensitivity or visibility of another conrol. You need to synchronize application preferences with the state of the UI and so forth.
With libpropc++, you can do the same more quickly, with fewer errors, more easily, and more maintainably. The most time spent while developing a GUI application is writing callbacks used to synchronize the values of several objects' properties. The most common cause of errors in GUI applications is incorrect synchronization of properties that should be synchronized. Save your time by using a ready, already debugged solution instead of repeated coding that's the same for every function.
Defining Properties in libpropc++
This example illustrates how to define properties in libpropc++:
#include <propc++/property.h> class Widget { // ... Widget() : color(*this) { } // ... Color get_color() const; void set_color(Color color); // ... prop::Property<Widget, Color, &Widget::set_color, &Widget::get_color> color; // ... };
After this, the property can be used just like a normal variable: assignment to it calls set_color() and reading its value calls get_color().
However, the above approach has the deficiency that a property unnecessarily holds a pointer to the object (to a widget, in our case), and so takes 4 bytes (for every object) on a 32-bit system.
As such, libpropc++ provides an alternative way to define properties that does not use any extra memory, so called simple properties:
#include <propc++/property_simple.h> class Widget { // ... Widget() : color(*this) { } // ... Color get_color() const; void set_color(Color color); // ... prop::simple::Property<Widget, Color> color() { return prop::property(*this, set_color, get_color); } // ... };
Then, widget.color() = "red"; would mean the same as widget.set_color("red");.
Properties are classified to as read-write, read-only, and write-only properties. Read-write properties were demonstrated above; for read-only properties, use ReadProperty (with only a get_*() function) instead of Property and for write-only properties, use WriteProperty (with only a set_*() function).
Note that get_*() functions are called getter or read accessor and set_*() functions are called setter, write accessor, or modifier.
Binding Properties
Binding properties together is the most powerful feature of libpropc++. (Also see this article about binding properties in general and implementation strategies.)
Binding properties means that the user directs the library to automatically keep values of several properties synchronized with each other; that is, when one of the bound properties changes, the other automatically changes accordingly.
A typical example would be:
#include <propc++/bindable.h> // ... checkbox.checked.bind(frame.visible); // ...
The above could be used to make a frame visible only when a checkbox is checked. The above statement is a warranty that the frame will be visible when and only when the checkbox is checked. Only one line of code, instead of about 6–7 or more lines for this as in most GUI toolkits! All automatically and no place for an error!
A common source of errors in GUI applications is that when a programmer tries to bind together two properties, A and B; he forgots the initial assignment B = A;. The above one-line example saves you from this error.
Well, if you want to make this error, you can:
This binds the properties together but does not accomplish the initial assignment of frame.visible = checkbox.checked; before binding. Use bind_unsafe() at your own risk.
Sometimes, you need to bind two checkboxes (or more often a checkbox and a check menu item) to be checked/unchecked simulateously (when one is checked, the other should be checked also and vice versa). For this, use two-way or mutual binding:
prop::mutual::bind(checkbox1.checked, checkbox2.checked);
Want one to be checked when one is unchecked and vice versa? Use binding with the transforming functor:
prop::mutual::bind(checkbox1.checked, checkbox2.checked, std::negate(), std::negate());
std::negate (defined in <functional> header) is an STL functor that negates a boolean value.
This can be simplified to:
prop::mutual::bind_negated(checkbox1.checked, checkbox2.checked);
For a more sophisticated example:
prop::mutual::bind(meters_entry.number, kilometers_entry.number, std::bind2nd(std::multiply(), 1000), std::bind2nd(std::divide (), 1000));
This would bind values of meters and kilometers spin entries with transformation of the value by functors (multiply/divide by 1000). You provide two functors that are the inverse of each other.
By using transforming functors, you also can bind properties of different types. If the types are convertible to each other, you can omit transforming functors and the values will be converted to each other by using C++ type conversions.
Signal programming (otherwise known as an observer pattern) is sending synchronous signals on some events (such as property value changes). So-called listeners register to hear a signal. One signal can be listened to by several listeners.
You can read more about signal programming in the documentation of the libsigc++ library.
Libpropc++ can be used either with or without libsigc++. (It depends simply on the include path settings of your compiler.)
Libpropc++ provides a partial re-implementation of libsigc++. Use this re-implementation if you want to use libpropc++ to write commercial software because the license of libsigc++ requires any software using libsigc++ to be open source.
Notes on Compilation and Bug Reporting
Libpropc++ is written in Standard C++ and should work with any comforming compiler.
Current status of compilers support:
- <3.0 unsupported, >=3.0 supported.
Please test libpropc++ with other compilers and report whether it compiles and any error/warning messages.
Report any bugs to Victor Porton, email@example.com.
Libpropc++ currently consists only of header files and needs no special installation. Just unpack it to the appropriate directory and point your compiler include path to it.
Licensing and Ordering
Libpropc++ has dual licensing:
- You are allowed to use libpropc++ only for open source software (because of LGPL issues related with templates).
- Commercial License
- Can be used to develop commercial applications.
Order/download libpropc++ at http://ex-code.com/propcpp/.
If you want to integrate libpropc++ into your own C++ library, contact Extreme Code.


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Music Review: Matt Maher, "All The People Said Amen"
By Ed Cardinal, Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
"I want to remind you that the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, it can resurrect your heart tonight!" says 38-year-old singer, songwriter, and worship leader Matt Maher at one point during All the People Said Amen. A stirring collection of eight hits performed live and interspersed with five new cuts (four in studio, one in concert), it's a surefire fan pleaser as well as a solid introduction for first-time listeners.
If you were to judge a book by its cover, Maher, with his gray hair, glasses, and practicing Catholic distinctions, could presumably be a low energy, more meditative performer. That isn't the case at all here. The newly recorded opening title track—instantly memorable and radio ready—is rooted in American rock sensibilities and Christian pop emotiveness, sort of like Train colliding with MercyMe.
Proven favorites "Alive Again" and "Hold Us Together" have the crowd's full sing-along attention, as if U2 or Bruce Springsteen were commanding the stage with these anthems from somewhere deep in the heartland.
Studio selections "Burning in My Soul" and "Lord, I Need You," written with members of Chris Tomlin's band, Christy Nockels, and Kristian Stanfill, do indeed earn favorable comparisons to the music coming from the Passion movement. In fact, the latter—a modern day rewrite of the hymn "I Need Thee Every Hour" with a Third Day feel to it—should elevate Maher to similar airplay success.
Speaking of Third Day, Maher seems to share similar influences with the Georgia band. "Great Things, with its slide guitar and hints of California country, favors The Eagles and Jackson Browne. "On My Way" is straight up bar band blues with a growly preacher man message; it flat out rocks.
Maher does dip further into church tradition on "Adoration," putting music to the words of St. Thomas Acquinas, and the closing number, a cover of Paul Wilbur's "It Is Good," is well steeped in joyful Jewish roots.
The word "amen" is defined as hearty approval, and there's no doubt that people will heartily approve of bold message and music within All the People Said Amen.
*This Article First Published 5/29/2013
Page Source (url): http://www.crosswalk.com/culture/music/i-amen-i-meets-with-approval.html


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A Day in the Life of a Boston Doctor
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5:45-6:15 a.m.: It's still pitch dark outside when I awake. On my walk to the hospital, light begins bleeding through the clouds, painting the sky gray.
6:30 a.m.: I hit the ground running. I record vital signs, examine my patients, and apologize for waking them so early. I locate their nurses, which is probably the most important task of my hectic morning, to ask for input or questions. My first patient has blood in her stool, but she is stable and I have seven other patients to see. I will swing by again later.
7 a.m.: The overnight physician and I meet to communicate updates on my existing patients and discuss new patients in more detail. He asks if I stayed late to do paperwork the night before, and I smile and pat him firmly on the back in response.
7:20 a.m.: Several nurses page me asking for medications. I order one quickly but defer the others until I have personally evaluated the patients in question.
7:30 a.m.: I introduce myself to my new patients and review their medical information. "It must be hard remembering all the different doctors you meet," I say as I fish in my pockets for a marker. They laugh affirmatively as I explain that I will be their primary doctor and pen my name onto a whiteboard. "Liao, like a cat's meow but with an 'L'." They laugh again and repeat my name slowly, but accurately. Leeoow. I feel confident the memory aide has helped.
8:15-8:25 a.m.: Four pages arrive in rapid succession. The last is from a nurse who leaves no message. I return her call but I'm placed on hold as the secretary tries to locate her.
8:30 a.m.: I am still holding when my supervising physicians page and ask to "round" (discuss and decide plans for each patient) with me. I reluctantly hang up and jot down a reminder to touch base with the nurse later.
8:45-9:15 a.m.: My supervisors begin by asking about my new patients. I search for answers in the stacks of paper that are jutting out from my coat pockets, and think to myself how I wish I had more time to familiarize myself with their conditions. As we talk, I receive several more pages, which a colleague handles for me so I don't break the flow of rounds.
9:30-10:30 a.m.: We migrate through the hospital so the entire team can greet my new patients together and recap treatment plans. Afterwards, my supervisors leave to round with another physician, and I stuff my papers back into my pockets and head back to the hospital floor.
10:45-12 p.m.: Retracing my steps to my patient's rooms, I add my daily notes to their paper charts. Then I retreat to an alcove to order diagnostic tests, request consultations, and initiate therapies.
12:10 p.m.: I circle back to my patient with blood in her stool, and we agree on additional testing to guide the treatment plan. As we talk, nurses begin paging about discharge paperwork, which I am glad I completed the night before.
12:30 p.m.: I meet to pass-off patients to the responsible day coverage physician while I'm away at my outpatient practice. Afterwards, I stop by the noon conference (a daily academic lecture) to eat quickly and jot down notes on interesting learning points before heading to my practice.
1:30-5 p.m.: I treat a college student with lip blisters, conduct screening exams for several retirees, clear an athlete for physical activity, and counsel a businessman about diabetes control. Between patients, there are letters to mail and outside medical records to reconcile with my chart. A patient's wife calls frantically asking if I can find time in my full clinic schedule to see her son and husband together. They are driving in from out-of-state. I agree, and she offers to bring me fresh northeast scallops as a thank you. I decline profusely, but she insists. They are delicious.
5:05 p.m.: After seeing my last clinic patient out the door, I touch base with my secretary and leave several files with her. She wishes me a good night, and I joke that it won't even begin until I've finished my clinic paperwork. She sympathetically offers me a candy bar.
5:30 p.m.: After arriving back at the hospital, I make my daily trip to my patients' rooms and address their concerns, speak with their families, and order medications required overnight. I explain that I will be back in the morning and bid them goodnight.
6:15 p.m.: The on-call physician and I huddle around my papers to discuss my patients. I highlight details, trying to simplify without omitting crucial facts. After asking some questions, he tells me to enjoy my night. I joke that it won't even begin until I finish several more hours of paperwork. He doesn't laugh because he knows I'm serious. He simply squeezes my shoulder and smiles knowingly.
6:45 p.m.: After finalizing several notes, I update discharge documentation for patients who will likely go home tomorrow. Revising this information daily is tedious but crucial. It requires repeated synthesis of laboratory tests, imaging, and clinical decisions. I will admit up to four new patients tomorrow, and I can't afford to hold up morning workflow with paperwork.
7:30 p.m.: I see my reflection in the work room window and rub my eyes. It has been pitch dark for more than two hours, and I have one more patient to go.
8 p.m.: I finalize my work, grab my coat, and text my significant other on my way out of the hospital.
8:45 p.m.: After a quick bite to eat, I spend the next hour with my significant other. I apologize for getting home later than expected. It's okay, she says, while smiling into the webcam. She's proud of me for working hard to be there for my patients. I smile at the computer screen and feel thankful for her understanding, especially from 3,000 miles away.
10-11 p.m.: I read medical textbooks and journals to better understand my hospital patients' conditions.
11 p.m.: I manage a few minutes of non-medical reading (currently Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano) before calling it a night.
Dr. Joshua Liao is an internist at Brigham & Women's Hospital.


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Chapter 7
When they entered Ecbatana, Tobiah said, "Brother Azariah, lead me straight to our kinsman Raguel." So he brought him to the house of Raguel, whom they found seated by his courtyard gate. They greeted him first. He said to them, "Greetings to you too, brothers! Good health to you, and welcome!" When he brought them into his home,
he said to his wife Edna, "This young man looks just like my kinsman Tobit!"
So Edna asked them, "Who are you, brothers?" They answered, "We are of the exiles from Naphtali at Nineveh."
She said, "Do you know our kinsman Tobit?" They answered, "Indeed we do!" She asked, "Is he well?"
They answered, "Yes, he is alive and well." Then Tobiah exclaimed, "He is my father!"
Raguel sprang up and kissed him, shedding tears of joy.
But when he heard that Tobit had lost his eyesight, he was grieved and wept aloud. He said to Tobiah: "My child, God bless you! You are the son of a noble and good father. But what a terrible misfortune that such a righteous and charitable man should be afflicted with blindness!" He continued to weep in the arms of his kinsman Tobiah.
His wife Edna also wept for Tobit; and even their daughter Sarah began to weep.
Afterward, Raguel slaughtered a ram from the flock and gave them a cordial reception. When they had bathed and reclined to eat, Tobiah said to Raphael, "Brother Azariah, ask Raguel to let me marry my kinswoman Sarah."
Raguel overheard the words; so he said to the boy: "Eat and drink and be merry tonight, for no man is more entitled to marry my daughter Sarah than you, brother. Besides, not even I have the right to give her to anyone but you, because you are my closest relative. But I will explain the situation to you very frankly.
I have given her in marriage to seven men, all of whom were kinsmen of ours, and all died on the very night they approached her. But now, son, eat and drink. I am sure the Lord will look after you both." Tobiah answered, "I will eat or drink nothing until you set aside what belongs to me." Raguel said to him: "I will do it. She is yours according to the decree of the Book of Moses. Your marriage to her has been decided in heaven! Take your kinswoman; from now on you are her love, and she is your beloved. She is yours today and ever after. And tonight, son, may the Lord of heaven prosper you both. May he grant you mercy and peace."
Then Raguel called his daughter Sarah, and she came to him. He took her by the hand and gave her to Tobiah with the words: "Take her according to the law. According to the decree written in the Book of Moses she is your wife. Take her and bring her back safely to your father. And may the God of heaven grant both of you peace and prosperity."
He then called her mother and told her to bring a scroll, so that he might draw up a marriage contract stating that he gave Sarah to Tobiah as his wife according to the decree of the Mosaic law. Her mother brought the scroll, and he drew up the contract, to which they affixed their seals.
Afterward they began to eat and drink.
Later Raguel called his wife Edna and said, "My love, prepare the other bedroom and bring the girl there."
She went and made the bed in the room, as she was told, and brought the girl there. After she had cried over her, she wiped away the tears and said:
"Be brave, my daughter. May the Lord of heaven grant you joy in place of your grief. Courage, my daughter." Then she left.


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Rosa Bonheur, the most famous female painter of the 19th century, was a queer cross-dresser who honored what she called the "androgyne Christ." She had two consecutive long-term relationships with women. She died on this date (May 25) in 1899.
Born in France in 1822, Bonheur received much acclaim in her lifetime for her paintings of animals. In recent years she has been celebrated as a queer pioneer, feminist icon, and role model for the LGBT community. Her achievements grew out of an unusual religious upbringing in the proto-feminist Saint-Simonian sect, and the queer Christian ideals that she expressed in adulthood. Bonheur's gender-bending lifestyle has been covered extensively by scholars, but her spirituality has received much less attention.
Her parents raised her in Saint-Simonianism, a French utopian Christian-socialist movement that advocated equality for women and prophesied the coming of a female messiah. Her father was an artist and an ardent apostle for the Saint-Simonian religion. Bonheur writes a whole chapter about growing up as a Saint-Simonian in the book "Rosa Bonheur: The Artist's (Auto)biography," which she wrote with her companion Anna Klumpke.
The Saint-Simonian concept of gender equality paved the way for Bonheur's father to train her as a painter… and for her own defiance of gender norms. As she put it, "To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day."
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