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Home » What is area weighting?
For users working with regional data needing global averages, area weighting needs to be applied to the regional averages because of the equal-angle grids. Global data are also available in the S4 data sets. | 2019-04-23T00:21:41 | https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/content/what-area-weighting |
South Sydney Rabbitohs players will visit schools in Cairns this Monday, 17th June, in support of the NRLs Tackle Bullying campaign.
Cairns State High School, Edge Hill State School, Cairns West State School, St Augustines College and Trinity Bay State High School, will all play host to Rabbitohs players, who will help to deliver important lessons on the effects of bullying and the importance of building positive self-esteem through a powerful DVD and other resources.
NRL Manager of Strategic Projects, Shane Mattiske, spoke earlier in year about the importance of the Tackle Bullying message.
This years Tackle Bullying message is an important one, with the effects of bullying well documented in the media, said Mattiske.
We know from experience that students listen when NRL players visit the classroom and if our players can help provide them with some tools to combat bullying then hopefully we can make a positive difference to their lives.
The Tackle Bullying campaign aims to encourage students to speak up for a friend and be a hero, after the most recent Australian Government study into bullying revealed one in four (27%) of Australian students (Years 4-9) are bullied frequently, with over half of those never reporting it themselves. | 2019-04-26T02:53:12 | https://www.rabbitohs.com.au/news/2013/06/13/bunnies-to-help-tackle-bullying-in-cairns/ |
centload is a command line tool for loading a playlist from your PC (which should consist of a basic list of mp3 filenames with no quotation marks or directory/folder names) to your Centova server playlist, which should already exist on your Centova account.
A version is provided for Windows (it’s a 32-bit executable which should run on most platorms), and for Mac OSX (it’s a zip file, you need to unpack it). In both cases it’s a single executable file, and you should place it somewhere appropriate (for example, in a directory in your Windows PATH).
The first time you run is a first-time setup which prompts for your userid, password, and Centova server. The userid and server are stored in a local file “centova.txt”. (if you have multiple Centova accounts, just run it from different directories and each directory will end up with its own centova.txt file).
The password will be stored in your operating system vault. This means it will never be stored in plain text on your system. If you make a mistake, just delete the centova.txt file and start again.
For people who like to look at source code and compile themselves, the python (3.6) source code is provided. You can get that running by installing python 3 for your system, then using pip to install the other packages used (requests and keyring). You can then run it by “python centload.py” (or, if you are on a Mac, use “python3 centload.py” because Mac’s come with their own python which is 2.x).
See below for an exmaple session of first time setup, then a second time where it already has the centova.txt present.
If you specify the second name, it will act as you expect and load just that name. But if you specify the first name, it will load BOTH to the playlist. Please consider this and rename files in your library to avoid this.
Finally, why am I collecting your email address? I want to be able to reach out to you if and when I release updates or related tools. I do intend to make a Gui version with other utilities in the future. | 2019-04-24T05:00:00 | http://satinjazz.com/projects/centload/ |
On this day in 1994 Brewin Dolphin Holdings listed on the LSE.
The following chart plots the average monthly out-performance of the shares over the FTSE 100 Index since 1988. For example, on average Brewin Dolphin Holdings has out-performed the FTSE 100 by 5.4 percentage points in January.
The strongest month for Brewin Dolphin Holdings shares relative to the market has been January (the shares have out-performed the market in this month in 13 of the last 18 years).
The weakest month for Brewin Dolphin Holdings relative to the market has been April (the shares have only out-performed the market in this month in 6 of the past 18 years).
Brewin Dolphin Holdings is in the FTSE 350 Financial Services [NMX8770] sector.
The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the best returns in October over the last ten years. For example, Diageo has an average return of 3.6% for the month of October. Each stock has risen in at least eight of the past ten years in October – Diageo is the only stock in the FTSE 350 whose shares have risen every October in the past ten years.
The following table lists the three FTSE 350 shares that have the worst returns in October over the last ten years. For example, Grainger has an average return of -8.3% for the month of October. All three stocks have fallen in eight of the past ten years in October.
An equally-weighted portfolio of the above strong October stocks would have out-performed an equally-weighted portfolio of the above weak October stocks by an average of 10.3 percentage points in October for the past ten years. | 2019-04-26T13:53:33 | http://stockmarketalmanac.co.uk/tag/BRW/ |
Reliable Operation For Consistent Performance.
This versatile tow-behind aerator is ideal for any mid-sized turf area of one to five acres.
With a 36-inch swath, the Lawnaire® Tow-Behind can aerate one and a half to two acres per hour, quickly and effortlessly. Lifting and lowering the tines is also easy with manual, hydraulic and electric lift options. Choose from coring or spooning or slicing knives for customized aeration according to your needs. All tines aerate to a depth of four inches and are constructed of hardened alloy steel. For added durability and reduced maintenance, this rugged machine has cast iron tine wheels with sintered bushings and lubrication fittings. The independently mounted tine wheels allow turning while the tines are in the ground, setting a new standard in efficiency.
To find the aerator right for you, compare our aerators or find your nearest RYAN® Dealer.
A variety of available lifting mechanisms allow you to easily lift and lower your aerating unit.
For maximized productivity, independently mounted tine wheels let you make turns while the tines are in the ground. | 2019-04-24T10:23:09 | https://www.ryanturf.com/products/ryan-aerators-tow-behind/ryan-lawnaire-tow-behind-aerator/ |
What a great week this year! We saw some old friends as well as many new faces from all over. We hope you were able to enjoy your favorite brews while continuing to try some of the more rare editions that were available this year. Even more so, you were able to partake in the special events held throughout the week.
We look forward to what next year brings, being bigger and better! Cheers to the brewers; cheers to the drinkers; cheers to everyone!
Get ready for the final day of South Florida Beer Week! It has been full of many special people and quality beers spread out over tons of events and gatherings. Today is the day to seize the moment and enjoy what Florida brewing has to offer. See you out there; cheers!
3:00PM – 1:00AM World of Beer (West Palm Beach) (101 North Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401) 30% off ALL CANS of Florida Beers!
4:00PM – 12:0AM The Mack House - Holy Mackerel Nano Brewery (9118 West State Road 84, Davie, FL 33324) The pig that will be roasted, has been fed with the used grains etc. After they brew their beers, they send the grain to their local farm partner in Davie; to which is also where they get their honey from for their beers!
South Florida Beer Week is in the final stretch, rounding the bases for a strong finish tomorrow! Today provides options for food pairings, craft brew face-offs, discounts and other #SFBW2015 specialties. So, get out while the sun is still up and enjoy your Friday as we all say "Cheers!" to a great week so far!
11:00AM – 12:00AM Das Biergarten (1203 Town Center Drive #106, Jupiter, FL 33458) Today they are saying cheers to all those who Drink Like A Local by featuring more than 20 local Floridian beers!
12:00PM – 3:00AM The Wine Dive (319 North Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401) They will be whipping up some of their dinner specials using local Florida beers! Specials to include Florida Native Lager Beer Cheese Dip with Pretzel Bread, Monk in the Trunk Beer Battered Fish & Chips, and Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding with Due South Caramel Cream syrup. All Florida beers will be 2 for 1 all night long.
6:00PM – 1:00AM World of Beer (West Palm Beach) (101 North Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401) Tap takeover of West Palm vs. Miami-Dade breweries! Featuring beers from Wynwood, Due South, Saltwater, and Tequesta!
6:00PM – 1:00AM World of Beer (Wellington) (2465 Florida 7, Wellington, FL 33414) Featuring special release beers from Cigar City, Wynwood, Due South, Saltwater, and Funky Buddha!
8:00AM – 11:00PM The Riverside Market Cafe (608 Southwest 12th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312) Friday, their focus is on all of the leftovers (if any!) from the previous days!
7:00:PM – 2:00AM The Local Craft Food & Drink (150 Giralda Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134) Their tap list will include Due South lager, Cigar City Cubano, Cigar City Tocobaga, Wynwood Fox, Funky Buddha Nib Smuggler, and Green Bench IPA - among other bottles and cans of local favorites.
Friday is almost here! But relax, we have plenty to keep you occupied. If you're up north, the Delray Beach Saltwater Brewery pub crawl is featuring some amazing beers! In Broward, Laser Wolf has an Angry Chair event that is sure to have you wanting more. The Wynwood scavenger hunt is finishing with it's final day today; be sure to try their Samoa Cookie and complete the four day event!
11:00AM – 12:00AM Das Biergarten (1203 Town Center Drive #106, Jupiter, FL 33458) Come celebrate their 2nd anniversary with local draft features & limited release tappings - Live Music & More!
5:00PM – 11:00PM Delray Beach Saltwater Pub Crawl Want to truly drink like a local? Join Saltwater Brewery on a pub crawl through Delray Beach! Includes: Tryst (4 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444), Park Tavern (32 Southeast 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444), Salt 7 (32 Southeast 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483) and Bull Bar (2 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444).
8:00AM – 11:00PM The Riverside Market Cafe (608 Southwest 12th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312) With a selection of over 550 craft beers, the Riverside Market knows a thing or two about beer. When it comes to South Florida Beer Week, they are featuring breweries from south Florida.
4:00AM – 12:00AM The Mack House - Holy Mackerel Nano Brewery (9118 West State Road 84, Davie, FL 33324) Featuring Due South limited edition brews!
(ALL DAY) Wynwood Brewing Company Pub Quest - Day 4 For the final day of a four day scavenger hunt, purchase at least one pint/snifter of Wynwood's Samoa Cookie at any of these locations: Brass Tap Pembroke (North Zone), Clandestino Pub (East Zone), The Mighty (South Zone) or World of Beer Kendall (West Zone).
7:00:PM – 1:00AM World of Beer (Palms At Town & Country, 8525 Mills Drive, Miami, FL 33183) Wynwood Tap Takeover!
While there are many weeklong events found on our calendar, today has a few special highlights to look forward to. From cruising around Fort Lauderdale on your bicycle, to continuing the Wynwood scavenger hunt, we are mid-stride for the 2015 South Florida Beer Week! Cheers!
11:00AM – 7:00PM BX Beer Depot (2964 2nd Avenue North, Lake Worth, FL 33461) Special tapping of Cigar City Limited Edition Andre’s Baltic Porter! Get it while you can!
3:00PM – 7:00PM Das Biergarten (1203 Town Center Drive #106, Jupiter, FL 33458) Special tappings of limited release local drafts. $1 off all local drafts during happy hour.
6:00PM – 11:00PM The Riverside Market Cafe (608 Southwest 12th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312) Part of the 4th Annual South Florida Beer Week, three Fort Lauderdale establishments have put together a unique twist to showcasing Florida breweries. Via bicycle, riders are encouraged to tour each stop and to take advantage of special $4 pricing . Starting at Laser Wolf and ending at the Riverside Marketplace, enjoy some of the best local beers Florida has to offer!
(ALL DAY) Wynwood Brewing Company Pub Quest - Day 3 For the third day of a four day scavenger hunt, purchase at least one pint/snifter of Wynwood's Arroz con Leche at any of these locations: The Riverside Market Cafe (North Zone), Wood Tavern (East Zone), LoKal Burgers & Beer (South Zone) or Finka Table & Tap (West Zone).
Today has a plethora of events to get your South Florida Beer Week started off properly!
(Weeklong) 7:00AM – 10:00PM The Coffee District (325 Northeast 2nd Avenue #104, Delray Beach, FL 33444) is featuring beers from Cigar City, Due South, Saltwater, and Funky Buddha!
(Weeklong) 11:00AM – 9:00PM Coolinary Cafe (4650 Donald Ross Road #110, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418) is featuring Due South, Funky Buddha, Cigar City, and more!
(Weeklong) 11:00AM – 9:30PM Little Moir’s Leftovers Café (451 University Boulevard, Jupiter, FL 33458) is featuring Due South, Saltwater, Cigar City, Native, Wynwood, and Funky Buddha!
(Weeklong) 11:00AM – 2:00AM The Brass Tap (Boyton Beach) (950 North Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, FL 33426) With over 35 Florida beers on tap, The Brass Tap in Boynton Beach is offering $5.00 drafts on any Florida beer ALL WEEK LONG!!!
(Weeklong) 12:00PM – 2:00AM The Brass Tap (Coral Springs) (9651 Westview Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33076) is featuring Funky Buddha!
(Weeklong) 3:00PM – 7:00PM Das Biergarten (1203 Town Center Drive #106, Jupiter, FL 33458) having special tappings of Limited Release Local drafts. $1 off all Local drafts during Happy Hour.
(Weeklong) 11:00AM – 7:00PM BX Beer Depot (2nd Avenue North, Lake Worth, FL) 20% off ALL FLORIDA Beers all week long!
6:30PM – 12:00AM The Blind Monk (410 Evernia Street #107, West Palm Beach, FL 33401) will be having a dinner pairing with Due South Brewing Company, themed around comfort food. The event begins at 6:30 and the cost will be $50.
7:00AM – 10:00PM The Riverside Market Cafe (608 Southwest 12th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312) With a selection of over 550 craft beers, the Riverside Market knows a thing or two about beer. When it comes to South Florida Beer Week, they are featuring breweries from all over the Sunshine State.
(Weeklong) 9:00AM – 12:00PM The Parrot Lounge (911 Sunrise Lane, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304) is featuring breweries such as Due South, Wynwood, Funky Buddha, Cigar City, Native and more!
All Day Wynwood Brewing Company Pub Quest - Day 2 For the second day of a four day scavenger hunt, purchase at least one pint/snifter of Wynwood's Vanilla Pops at any of these locations: Laser Wolf (North Zone), Kush Wynwood (East Zone), Berries in the Grove (South Zone) or Barley & Wich (West Zone).
(Weeklong) 3:00PM – 1:00AM World of Beer (Dadeland) (9010 Southwest 72nd Place, Miami, FL 33156) is featuring Florida breweries all week long!
Looking for places to find good local craft brews? Well, the folks over at Wynwood Brewery have taken that question up a notch.
Think of it like a scavenger hunt. You’ll need to complete specific tasks around town within a weeks time to win.
You can find all of the details in the 2015 South Florida Beer Week calendar, or visit their information page. | 2019-04-23T23:59:00 | http://southfloridabeerweek.blogspot.com/2015/ |
Balenciaga's Metallic Edge City bag is constructed of dark red suede. Named for its metallic edging, this bag is accented with polished goldtone hardware.
Whipstitched rolled leather handles. Detachable flat leather strap with shoulder rest.
4" handle drop, 10" strap drop (approximately).
Available in Bois De Rose Fonce (dark red). | 2019-04-24T12:07:46 | http://www.takeiinspirations.com/womens-shoulder-bags-c-9/vjdzztz-balenciaga-new-arena-metallic-edge-city-dark-red-suede-shoulder-bag-red-latest-stylish-23165471-p-3239.html |
The number "1"means that the vehicle cannot be coupled, and the "0" means it can be coupled.
How to change the tracks for trams. In this case I show you how to change the tracks for every possibility. From tram-track to normal/narrow gauge and from normal/narrow gauge to tram-track.
First you need to find a vehicle that drives on tracks. In the bottom screenshot you can see that I have used 4 types of vehicles. Three of those vehicles come from the Dutch RET-Metro-pack made by Illegal Alien (wich I cannot include because I have no rights for that), and the last one comes from the game itself.
2. Drag the file over the LocoTool.exe and drop, you will see an .XML file with the same name as the .dat file you just dragged and dropped.
3. Open up the XML-file.
5. After you have changed the codes you save the XML-file.
6. Delete (or make a backup) the original dat.file.
8. Your new file is created.
9. Place this .dat in your Locomotion objdata folder. | 2019-04-24T13:02:57 | https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=76379 |
Home is about the darkness within lovers that we try and fix because we feel as if it is somehow our purpose to do so, and how we forget about ourselves in the process.
It describes how we go through incredible ups and downs to keep things stable and how we cheat ourselves into believing that love is meant to look this way.
The funny thing is that we make it sound like such a comfortable place to be, as if we have worked so hard to experience just a little bit of happiness and yet overall everything remains toxic and unhealthy. It’s a bit of a comedy because it’s anything but home.
We proudly present the first Densch release on our Alltum label. | 2019-04-22T08:03:08 | https://www.aboveall.nl/albums/densch-home/ |
Moloka’i Purpz is a luscious Hawaiian landrace strain from the island of Moloka’i. With deep purple hues and an aroma so rich with grape and berry that some might say it even “smells purple,” Moloka’i Purpz delivers sedating effects ideal for those suffering from insomnia and stress. Anticipate a flavor as rich as the smell, with notes of exotic berry and grape intermixed with a sweet skunkiness. This indica-dominant strain is extremely relaxing, lulling the body and mind into a state of weighted tranquility.
"A Hawaiian landrace strain that originates from the island of Moloka'i. Moloka'i Purpz gets her lovely purple hues from being cultivated above the ocean on the highest sea cliffs in the world. A truly special and unique strain, Moloka'i Purpz is a powerful contender in any grow environment, withstanding both cold temps and high Hawaiian humidity to produce loads of gorgeous dark purple sticky buds, sure to send even..." | 2019-04-23T20:55:08 | https://www.leafly.com/indica/molokai-purpz |
Because of a midsummer thunderstorm, there's now a stack of cordwood sitting near our house.
The video of dozens of flatheads lying exactly as reported--stacked like cordwood with silt laced across the backs of fish--was an Internet sensation among catfishing enthusiasts.
Some rural communities have embraced biofuel systems that burn either cordwood or wood pellets to heat public buildings such as tribal halls, washeterias, and schools.
Cordwood is produced from harvesting standing timber, as are some wood chips.
3 MBF more or less of sawtimber, 534 Cords more or less of hardwood cordwood, and 128 Tons more or less of softwood pulp.
split into stacks Of cordwood in which decades of light are stored.
The murderous Battle of the Wilderness was just getting under way and the war was still roaring on, piling up the bodies like cordwood.
The Valkyries, lumbered with the task of tossing around dead heroes like so much cordwood, were ably represented by Elaine McKrill (Gerhilde), Aviva Fortunata (Helmwige), Rihab Chaieb (Waltraute), Lindsay Ammann (Schwertleite), Mona Somm (Ortlinde), Laura Tucker (Siegrune), Megan Latham (Rossweisse) and Charlotte Burrage (Grimgerde).
Heading the search for a secure place to store those tubes is the Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO), funded by Canada's four nuclear agencies, which describes the situation this way: "If Canada's entire current inventory of just over two million used fuel bundles could be stacked end-to-end, like cordwood, it would fit into six NHL-sized hockey rinks from the ice surface to the top of the boards.
During processing, he was amazed to see M1 Garands in a warehouse "stacked up like cordwood from floor to ceiling.
Hundreds of caribou were packed like cordwood along a stream 100 yards away.
There's nothing worse than buying wines and then finding them stacked like cordwood at the store for not much more than you paid for your bottle.
Lots of big snook around, and they aren't hard to find--watch for them creeping along the beaches in the first trough, or lying around jetty rocks like cordwood.
What is the proper way to stack cordwood and what is the best method and material to cover it with? | 2019-04-20T08:53:37 | http://www.freethesaurus.com/cordwood |
This 50-shelf drying rack is designed to dry prints and to arrange and organize sheets of paper or cardboard. Black powder-coated finish. Unit is 29-1/2 in. H x 26 in. W x 16 in. L, with a 1 in. space between 13 in. x 16 in. wire shelves. | 2019-04-26T00:41:19 | https://www.enasco.com/p/Tabletop-50-Shelf-Drying-and-Storage-Rack%2B9727181 |
I feel privileged to be an armchair letterboxer with access to the Forum, a status I hope to change into active virgin letterboxer in future.
5 Dizzy_SonAtBonehill.sized, 9 there_s_a_box_here_somewher, 21 first_ammo_box, 22 Andy_Letts.sized, 23 Found_it_Ducks_Pool, 24 Jo_Letts, 25 Now_where_s_the_stamp, and 26 double_ammobox.
Family and friends and pets are welcome subjects of the photos, but in particular, searching and finding and opening the letterbox would be just the sort of content I am hoping to find in a ridiculously short of amount of time. | 2019-04-20T12:58:04 | http://www.dartmoorletterboxing.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2878&p=18613 |
Join Our Cooking Team! The Firs Retreat Center, located in the Geneva neighborhood of Bellingham, is seeking assistant cooks to join our food service team. The kitchen atmosphere at The Firs is a casual and up-beat environment, that serves up to 150 guests. You’ll work with a great team in a well-organized and equipped professional kitchen and will create and serve buffet and family-style, adult-oriented meals. Your experience in banquet, restaurant, or institutional cooking will be helpful, but our food service manager will train you to run the kitchen, in order to assist in food preparation with our team of prep-cooks. There are two positions available in our kitchen; both pay $16 per hour.
Minimum education: High School graduate.
30 to 40 hours a week throughout the summer.
Must have: First Aid/CPR and be fingerprinted and have documented results of clear criminal record.
At the end of the season evaluates assistant coach, provides an evaluation of the tennis program as well as inventories equipments and uniforms.
If interested please call St. Paul’s Academy 360-733-1750 or email athletic director at [email protected].
WTA’s Service Section is filling a temporary Route Maintenance Worker position.
40 hours per week until mid-September.
Likely work Tuesdays through Saturdays, once the initial training is complete. Must be flexible.
The successful candidates are actually employed through Express Employment Agency, but work on various WTA bus stops, property and facilities.
Self-starter, hard-working individual with experience working outside on grounds or buildings.
Minimum one year building/facility maintenance or grounds maintenance experience.
An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job will be considered.
Pick up application packet and answer the questions below and return to Human Resources. First come, first served.
Describe your work experience and how it prepares you for our Route Maintenance Worker-Temporary position.
Describe your experience performing physically demanding work outdoors in all weather.
Share an experience in which your attention to detail at work helped you identify or fix a problem.
Coordinate the transportation of residents to and from events outside of the residence, which may include driving a residence motor vehicle.
If you’re a Brookdale associate, please consider referring someone through the Good People Program!
How to apply: By phone, in person, or by email.
As a resident care provider you’ll make a real difference by building relationships with residents at our senior living community.
You won’t just be serving meals or helping residents bath and get dressed. You’ll help them look and feel their best. You’ll deliver compassion, a sense of respect, and emotional support.
Extra effort gets rewarded at our community, and the opportunity for advancement in one of the fastest growing industries is within reach. We’ll help you achieve a balance between work and family. Answer your calling for a more fulfilling career. Become a resident care provider at Brookdale.
How to apply: By phone, in person, or email.
We’re looking for a server to join our dynamic dining services team. You’ll enjoy a stable work schedule, without the late nights and double shifts. You’ll also find a rewarding atmosphere where you’ll build relationships with our residents, becoming a part of their lives and making a difference. Plus, Brookdale offers opportunities for advancement. Many servers move up to lead server, become dining room supervisors and get promoted to other leadership roles.
How to apply: By phone, email, or in person.
Seeking FT caregivers for over-night shifts. Must be willing to work weekends. Shifts are 8 – 10.5 hours in length. Shift meal included.
We would prefer someone with experience in caregiving and/or working overnight. However, we are willing to train the right person. The over-night shift also includes some housekeeping duties such as: vacuuming, emptying trash, cleaning bathrooms. There are some Maintenance aspects to the job as well such as painting, carpet cleaning, testing of generator, tagging fire extinguishers monthly, etc. | 2019-04-23T02:19:23 | https://wccstudentjobs.wordpress.com/2018/06/ |
National Women's Alliances. In Australia there are six National Women’s Alliances who represent over 180 women’s organisations. They bring forward the views, voices and issues of Australian women and, in particular, women from marginalised and disadvantaged groups.
Copyright © economic Security 4 Women, 2019, an Australian nonprofit and a member of National Women's Alliances. | 2019-04-21T04:25:55 | https://nationalwomensalliances.org.au/auscso-delegates-csw61-facebook-page/ |
I received this book from @turnthepagexo back in February when I participated in a bookish Galentine's Day package exchange organized by @hereadsshereads and @definitelyra. It was also the February selection for the Girls Night In Club. In addition to this book, the package came with a beautiful card, a notepad from Rifle Paper Co and dark chocolate from Superfina. It was the perfect Galentine's package and made me SO happy when it arrived. I know planning an exchange like that is A TON of work, so I commend Chelsea and RA for pulling it off. So I know this one has been sitting on my shelf for months just begging to be read, but my review comes just in time for the release of the paper back...so I feel like that's a win!
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong is written like a diary with entries about random things that happened through the day - some funny, some curious, some heart breaking, some just facts or observances. I can't remember having read a book quite like this one. At first I was unsure if I liked the way it was written, but it quickly grew on me and found it quite comforting - as if the writer was my friend and she was chatting with me over wine. I can't think of a better way to describe it...comforting is the perfect word.
The book is about Ruth, who just called off her engagement, quit her job, and moved back in with her parents. As if that wasn't enough of an adjustment, she finds that her father (once a prominent history professor) is losing his memory. Although the book was primarily written from Ruth's perspective, we also got snippets of her father's journal detailing Ruth's coming of age. The parallels between Ruth learning names of fruit as a child and her father forgetting names of fruit as an older man, were stunningly portrayed in Goodbye, Vitamin.
Of course, I can't help but think of my own family members who have suffered at the hands of Alzheimers. As a child, I distinctly remember visiting my Great-Grandmother at the nursing home while I was in town visiting my Grandma. There was a time I would be able to walk a few doors down to visit my Great-Grandmother at her apartment but she had to be moved to the nursing home as her memory began to fail her. We had just visited her the day before but she was upset when we arrived that day because "no one ever came to visit," She was heartbroken, my Grandmother was heartbroken. As we left, my Grandmother said having Alzheimers was the worst way to go and she was scared it would happen to her. Shortly after my Grandfather died she began showing symptoms of the disease. I was sad and worried for her but rather than becoming sad or angry, she became what I can only describe as aloof. Which is the best possible outcome when being diagnosed with Alzheimers. I visited her around Christmas this past year and my Dad and I brought her Stover's Chocolates, her favorite. We asked if she remembered them and she replied "Ohhhhh, yes!" and grabbed for the box. Alzheimers is a strange disease. | 2019-04-24T20:24:06 | https://www.hastybooklist.com/home/goodbye-vitamin-book-review |
New on Trov iOS: Multiple Currency Support and more!
Trov's latest update on iOS includes multiple currency support and an improved Trov Worth Dashboard!
You asked and we listened. Our latest update has some exciting new additions to your Trov on iOS including... multiple currency support!
As the Trov community expands (welcome to the family, United Kingdom!), we are expanding our currency availability to cover more areas. Now you can have different items in your Trov in different currencies, including USD, CAD, AUD, NZD, EUR, GBP, SEK, NOK, and SFr. The total value will still roll up in your home currency, with items in other currencies being converted at the current exchange rate at the time that you added the item to your Trov.
Another small but great update is to your Trov Worth dashboard. Now it is even easier to track the value of your things with new gridlines and scaling.
Be sure to swing into the App Store and update your Trov, if you haven't already! As usual, let us know any thoughts you have on this update or any other feature requests at http://community.trov.com. | 2019-04-20T06:12:23 | https://www.trov.com/blog/new-on-trov-ios-multiple-currency-support-and-more |
Another family favorite-- mmm mmm mmm!
Chop up the chicken. Nearly cover the bottom of a frying pan with vegetable oil, then add in chicken, and brown over medium-high heat. You want the chicken to be cooked, but still tender. Once chicken is cooked, add all other ingredients, in the order they appear above, to the frying pan, combine, turn down the heat, and simmer. Let thicken slightly, and then serve over rice.
I wonder if I could mix this and then freeze it. | 2019-04-25T12:27:22 | http://makinghomefood.blogspot.com/2011/01/chicken-teriyaki.html |
John Berlyne reports that there is big promotion on Amazon.co.uk's Kindle store and both On Stranger Tides and Declare are available for only £1.00 and £1.23. I went to have a look and I got the message, "Kindle titles at Amazon.co.uk are available for UK customers only." So if you're in the UK, here are the links for each.
Last August, Tim mentioned that he and Serena were going to visit the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Here is evidence that they made it and had a chance to meet Johnny Depp.
Tim will be co-teaching the Writers of the Future Workshop with K.D. Wentworth in Hollywood from May 10 through the 15th, and, in June from the 3rd through the 5th, he will be the Guest of Honor at Soonercon in Oklahoma City.
Tim sent along this summary of his new novel. It may be called Hide Me Among the Graves or Blood Between Us. HarperCollins has scheduled the book for next year.
In the winter of 1862, London veterinarian John Crawford learns that his interlude with a prostitute seven years earlier has produced a daughter. The now-reformed ex-prostitute, Adelaide McKee, has recently learned that their lost daughter is still alive—but that the girl's life and soul are in peril from a vampiric ghost whose murderous attention McKee drew in her bad old days.
The vampire ghost is John Polidori, Lord Byron's one-time physician and uncle to the poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, both of whose works are supernaturally aided by the influence of Polidori. But when Polidori horribly makes a resurrected vampire of Dante's wife, and threatens other family members, the Rossettis know that they must find a way to destroy their monstrous uncle, even though it means the end of their best work.
Thrown together with Crawford and McKee, who hope to find and save their fugitive daughter, the Rossettis find themselves plunged into a supernatural London underworld they never suspected. Each of the mismatched four, and the Artful-Dodger-like daughter too—in the midst of shootings and narrow escapes and supernatural warfare — must ultimately choose between stressful life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers.
The novel sweeps from high London society to the grimmest slums, from the elegant salons of the West End to the pre-Roman catacombs under St. Paul's cathedral, and ultimately reveals a supernatural revenge plot against England that has been brewing since the queen of the native Iceni was killed by the Roman governor Suetonius in 60 AD. | 2019-04-22T23:05:03 | http://www.theworksoftimpowers.com/2011/04/ |
Over the past year, I have written of the intolerance that Christians have shown to Muslims in the U.S. From Missouri to Murphreesboro, Christians have demonstrated both a lack of charity and a denial of the right to religious liberty by setting fire to old mosques and opposing new ones. But Christians in the U.S. are rank amateurs compared to the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
In early November, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Christianity is "the most persecuted religion in the world." Although met with predictable criticism, Rupert Short's recent research report for Civitas UK confirms Merkel's claim -- we may not want to hear it, but Christianity is in peril, like no other religion. While this is a contest no one wants to win, Short shows that "Christians are targeted more than any other body of believers." Short is the author of the recently published Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack. He is concerned that "200 million Christians (10 percent of the global total) are socially disadvantaged, harassed or actively oppressed for their beliefs."
Christianity is facing elimination in its Biblical homeland. Between a half and two-thirds of Christians in the Middle East have departed or been killed over the past century. Short attributes the intolerance and violence towards Christians to the rising Islamicization of Middle Eastern countries. Some of the oppression is government sanctioned and some government permitted; most is government ignored.
Short looks at the plight of Christians in the Middle East, country by country. When it comes to religious oppression, the devil, one might say, is in the details.
In the Salafist website, 'Guardians of the Faith', you can read that Muslims are superior to Egypt's Coptic Christians because "Being a Muslim girl whose role models are the wives of the Prophet, who were required to wear the hijab, is better than being a Christian girl, whose role models are whores" and "Being a Muslim who fights to defend his honor and his faith is better than being a Christian who steals, rapes, and kills children." Little wonder, then, that radical Muslims unleashed their fury on Christians in 2010, murdering 13 worshippers as they emerged from a service and later bombing a church in Alexandria which killed 20 and injured 70. We can only hope that Morsi's new government will see fit to stem the rapidly increasingly violence against Coptic Christians.
In 1990, there were over 1.2 million Christians in Iraq but by the end of 2003, there were fewer than 500,000; in 2013, there are fewer than 200,000 Iraqi Christians. In 2010, al Qaeda militants attacked a Baghdad cathedral, killing over 50 people and maiming many more. While Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided, they are united in their persecution of Christians. Bishops and priests have been kidnapped and tortured; churches are bombed, killing and injuring Christians. The message, sometimes sent in letter containing a bullet, has been delivered: "Christians should leave or die."
In 2011, Shahbaz Bhatti was murdered by the Pakistani Taliban for his opposition to Pakistan's anti-blasphemy laws. Bhatti, a Catholic, was Pakistan's Minister for Minorities. In fact, a death sentence is meted out to any Pakistani courageous enough to speak out in defense of religious minorities. Bhatti instructed his estate to publish a video upon his untimely death; in it he said, "I am living for my community and for suffering people and I will die to defend their rights. I prefer to die for my principles and for the justice of my community rather than to compromise. I want to share that I believe in Jesus Christ, who has given his own life for us. I know... the meaning of the Cross and I follow him on the Cross." Speaking of justice -- Bhatti's two killers have never been charged.
We can move more quickly through the countries. Consider apostasy laws in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Iran, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Sudan and Malaysia. By apostasy, read "Muslim convert to Christianity." Of the plight of apostates, Ziya Meral, a London-based Turkish scholar, writes: "Apostates are subject to gross and wide-ranging human rights abuses including extra-judicial killings by state-related agents or mobs; honour killings by family members; detention, imprisonment, torture, physical and psychological intimidation by security forces; the denial of access to judicial services and social services; the denial of equal employment or education opportunities; social pressure resulting in loss of housing and employment; and day-to-day discrimination and ostracism in education, finance and social activities."
We have scarcely skimmed the surface of violence and intolerance to Christians in Muslims worlds. If it should continue at its present rate, Christianity will very soon be completely eradicated in its homeland. While the cultural loss is deeply worrisome, the lack of liberty, intolerance and violence in Muslim countries is even more worrisome. Reports by the Freedom House think-tank echo this concern: religious liberties are most threatened in Muslim-majority countries.
Christianity is not, as Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury reminds us, an import to these countries. The Christian communities that are now being threatened and even wiped out are nearly as old as the New Testament itself. Christians have called these countries home for two millennia; Christianity is not a Western imposition on historically Islamic countries.
It is not my place or purpose to defend Islam but the Quran explicitly states that there is no compulsion in religion and suggests no punishments for apostates. Sadly, portions of the Hadith and sharia law do suggest murder for apostasy. And while some take "jihad" to mean "jihad of the heart" and so to preclude violence against others, other passages in the Quran state that Muslims should fight against those who lack faith in Allah. Muslim defenses of liberty and tolerance must account for these difficult passages in their Holy Book and tradition. The challenge to Muslim leaders today is to offer a cogent answer to the question: Is Islam inherently intolerant and violent?
Why has the tragedy of Christians in the Muslim world been ignored? Short blames this on the media's fear that criticizing Muslims is tantamount to racism. I attribute it as well to secular media's lack of interest in and sometimes even scorn for religious belief.
Western media must overcome its fear of criticizing Muslims and its disinterest in religious belief. Religious liberties are the most fundamental human liberties -- they are indicators of a country's political willingness to allow people to choose their own way of life. In countries were religious liberty is conspicuously absent, one is likely to find a host of other liberties threatened as well.
Finally, the U.S. government must actively defend Christian liberty in Muslim-majority countries. While no U.S. politician worth his or her salt would deny the right to a Jewish state in the Middle East, so, too, no politician worth his or her salt should ignore the plight of Christians in the Middle East. Sadly, in the Middle East both Judaism and Christianity are threatened by Muslim extremists intent on violently recreating the world in their own image.
I am not an anti-Muslim extremist. I have partnered with like-minded Muslims, Christians and Jews in the path toward peace. I have come to admire the courage, wisdom and compassion of my many Muslim friends. And yet I worry that their clarion call to peace will be drowned out by shouts of radicalism.
The U.S. government, prodded by the U.S. media, needs to add its voice to those calling for peace, liberty and justice in Muslim-majority countries. | 2019-04-20T07:39:57 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christianity-most-persecuted-religion_b_2402644 |
Ape debugging log messages with maximum verbosity.
Debugger shows verbose information not only for successful requests (status code 200), but also all others: redirects 3xx, client-side errors 4xx, server errors 5xx.
This debugger allows you to connect to a remote server and read debug information live. Only your session requests will be presented in the debugger window so other user requests will not be affected. This means you can run debugging in production environment.
a new browser window will open with the site or application selected for debugging; you’ll be able to browse the pages, perform AJAX-requests etc.
the Debugger tab will be opened in Ape Manager and will show the requests log.
The Debugger tab shows the log of all your requests to the site or application being debugged. The log includes the following info about each request: the path, status code, content-type and processing time in IIS.
Click on the line in the log and you’ll see detailed information about the request: request and response headers, cookies, server variables, environment variables, applied httpd.conf and merged .htaccess rules, corresponding error.log and rewrite.log records (if there are any for that request).
The log with all debugging info may be opened directly in browser by clicking on the link ‘Open in browser’. Clicking ‘Clear log’ will remove all log entries.
To stop debugging click ‘Stop debugging’ or in Ape Manager choose Tools –> Stop Ape Debugger.
The security of the debugging process is ensured as follows.
where XXXXXXXXXXX is a secret randomly-generated key for access to debugging info. Upon the first request to debugging session the browser will send this key to the server and will get a cookie with this key and the id of the debugging session. All requests to the server with this cookie are logged. The same cookie is owned by web-interface of debugger (which is shown in Debugger tab). As a result, only authorized clients (browser and debugger) are allowed to make requests to be logged and receive them.
Upon termination of debugging (click on ‘Stop debugging’) the request to the server is sent and session id and all related log records are deleted. The cookie is reset. The previous cookie left in the browser becomes invalid, the logging stops.
You can start .htaccess debugging on a server remotely. To do this you need to first put the line which sets mod_developer secure key into .htaccess file on your remote web site.
and use same value for XXXXXXXXXXX as you used in .htaccess file. This will start debugger window with “Waiting for data” message. This window also sets special cookie in the browser to identify your debugging session. Now open new tab in same browser and navigate to your web site. You will be reading debug information in the debug session window as you navigate through your web site live.
This entry was posted in Helicon Ape and tagged mod_developer. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-19T16:47:04 | http://www.helicontech.com/articles/debugging-htaccess-with-helicon-ape/ |
Taking advantage of the media attention of the global event, Muslim organizations in Brazil are coordinating efforts to introduce the true message of Islam to millions of visitors during next year’s football world cup.
“Muslim associations are seeking to form a committee from within Brazil to introduce Islam (during the event),” Sheikh Khaled Taky El din, President of the Supreme Council of Imams and Islamic Affairs in Brazil, was quoted as saying by the Islamic news agency for Latin America (ALUKA).
Representatives of a host of Muslim organizations held a meeting Thursday, June 6, in Sao Paulo to coordinate on best ways of introducing the message of Islam during the 2014 World Cup.
The meeting included a training course for attendees on managing and organizing international events.
The meeting was held upon an invitation from the World Assembly of Muslim Youth to seize on the global event to present the true Islamic teachings to millions of visitors.
Leading among attendees were representatives the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, the Union of Islamic Associations in Brazil, Da`wah Center for Latin America and the Islamic National Entities Union.
Attendees witnessed a presentation for suggested projects to introduce Islam during the World Cup.
Participants have agreed on forming a committee to organize efforts during the world football tournament.
This committee would be entitled to prepare a worksheet for suitable and applicable projects during the World Cup.
It would also organize efforts with supporting bodies and associations from outside Brazil.
The meeting is a first positive step in efforts to show Islam’s message, culture and civilization during the tournament.
It also helps to spread awareness about true Islamic teachings across Latin America.
Hosted by Brazil for the second time, the FIFA World Cup football tournament would run from June 12 to July 13, 2014.
Sao Paulo is set to host the opening match of the 2014 World Cup.
The meeting is not the first to be held by Brazilian Muslims to prepare for the football championship.
In March, Islamic Call (da'wah) in Brazil has called for taking advantage of the Football World Cup 2014 in order to publicize Islam among the population.
Working under the huge project of “Know Islam”, adopted by the Union of Islamic Associations in Brazil, the Islamic Call looks forward to distribute millions of printed flyers on selected topics about Islam.
They also aspire to print and distribute a million copy of the translation of the Noble Qur'an, in addition to the production of short films about Islam in Portuguese and different languages. | 2019-04-25T02:45:33 | http://eng.islam-today.ru/sport/islam-in-2014-fifa-world-cup/ |
Annie Proulx is one of the best-selling American novelists of our time.
Since winning the 1993 Pulitzer for the international best-seller The Shipping News, Annie Proulx has gone on to become one of the best-loved novelists and short story writers in the English language. She is the author of twelve books, including Postcards, Accordion Crimes and That Old Ace in the Hole and her acclaimed short stories set in and around Wyoming that introduced the world to Brokeback Mountain.
Her latest book is Bird Cloud, a memoir of childhood in New England, her father’s French Canadian heritage, until she met her great love: Wyoming. | 2019-04-24T16:55:42 | https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/annie-proulx |
Great vocalist, I don't have biographical data about her.
The first thing she did was in 1968, a recording with Taste (Rory Gallagher´s band). There´s an unreleased acetate from that session.
They recorded a new album, Ginger Baker´s Air Force 2, although 3 songs still feature musicians from previous lineup (Denny Laine, Harold McNair, and Ric Grech).
In 1998, it has been released a 2CD, Do what you like, comprising the whole two Airforce albums, plus an outtake from 2nd album, plus several songs from Ginger Baker´s album Stratavarious (featuring Bobby Tench under the pseudonym Bobby Gass).
They released an album, called Stop-Off, with help in vocals from Liza Strike and Madeline Bell and guest appearance by Mickey Keene on guitar.
They started touring along Europe and America.
Ian Armit, Tony Ashton, Cliff Aungier, Long John Baldry, Pete Blannin, Keith Boyce, Geoff Bradford, Gary Breit, Hugh Brockie, Charity Brown, Norm Brown, Paul Brown, Tom Brown, John ´Rabbit´ Bundrick, Roger Carey, Liane Carroll, Chris Castle, Jacko Ciminello, Elaine Clark, Mick Clarke, Tom Connor, Charlie Coolie, Myra Cooper, Randall Coryell, Butch Coulter,... up to 93 musicians.
After parting ways with Long John Baldry, Aliki and Harry Reynolds kept on playing together as Ashman-Reynolds, but I don't know if they kept the same original lineup (help with info, please!).
They made some concerts along with Quiver (with Cal Batchelor, Tim Renwick, Bruce Thomas and John 'Willie' Wilson) and also appeared at German Beat Club TV program. But then, Bob Weston joined Fleetwood Mac in September 1972.
Aliki and Harry Reynolds replaced Bob Weston with another great musician, Graham Preskett.
They started working in a 2nd album, but sadly, they finally parted ways without the album having been released.
They recorded an album in 1974 that remained unreleased until 2003. It´s called The lost funk.
In 1976, she released a single with Arthur Brown, ´Ooh, it takes two to tango / Rocking the boat´, credited to Arthur Brown & Aliki Ashman.
In 1977, she released a solo single, ´Got to be you / A simple love song´, produced by Vic Smith.
And, sadly, I haven't been able to know more about Aliki's musical career, except for some sessions, credited to her new name Aliki Holland.
She has created a record label with her husband, Chris Holland, called Red Chakra Records, where they have produced some albums.
Comments: This album was recorded in 1974, but remained unreleased until 2003.
Comments: Do what you like comprises the whole two Airforce albums (Airforce and Airforce 2), plus an outtake from 2nd album, and several songs from Ginger Baker's album Stratavarious.
Comments: A great keyboardist and sax player, a pity he died back in 1974. This album features great players: his wife Diane Stewart on vocals, plus John Moorshead (guitar), Kevin Stacey (guitar), Steve York (bass), Alex Dmochovski (bass), Ric Grech (bass), John Gross (sax), Jerry Salisbury (harmonica), Keith Bailey (drums), Pete Bailey (percussion), Godfrey McLean (drums), Aliki Ashman (vocals), Annette Brox (vocals), Victor Brox (vocals). Some CD reissues contains 6 bonus tracks (others only have 2).
Disclaimer: I don´t own or upload any of the videos linked here. I just include links to live videos that are already available, in order to show the work of this musician. Anyway, if someone feels that some link shouldn't be included, please write me at the email address shown below. And if you know of more videos featuring Aliki Ashman, please, also write me with the link.
Featuring: Speedy Acquaye, Aliki Ashman, Ginger Baker, Bud Beadle, Graham Bond, Kenny Craddock, Colin Gibson, Steve Gregory, Diane Stewart.
Featuring: Aliki Ashman, Keith Boyce, Rod Edwards, Harry Reynolds, Bob Weston.
Aliki Ashman: for her kindness and info.
Harry Reynolds: for info on Ashman Reynolds.
Sophia Daratanas: for her message with info.
26/March/2010 - Page added to the blog.
29/September/2000 - Original page written by me (in the old site).
Aliki is well and a good friend of mine. Currently living peacefully with her wonderful husband Chris. There are some great stories kicking around.
Came to Aliki through Air Force. Totally in love with them as well as her and can't believe they're not more well-known!! Really wish there was more of Aliki's music, her songs are great, her voice is great, she's beautiful! | 2019-04-23T22:50:13 | http://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com/2010/03/alikiashman-vocals.html |
Robin Hunter | Musings of a computing student.
Musings of a computing student.
After the deadline i decided to post the project on some sub-reddits as well as tweeting some interesting people. The response was very positive, and I was very lucky to post to /r/dataisbeautiful on the day it was made a default sub.
I’ve had 5,169 visits, from all corners of the world, from New York City to Beijing. I feel extremely proud to have built a project focusing on global themes and actually captured a global audience.
Another update is that Goldsmiths have used the Dataglobe as the image on the Undergraduate Innovation Show poster. I’m very happy indeed to have been accepted to demo my work at the show let alone be used on the poster.
DataGlobe is a web based 3D data visualisation. It visualises data indexes and measures from Numbeo, “the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide”. All the data visualised is from Q1 of 2014.
DataGlobe was developed as my Year 2 Creative Project for my BSc in Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, UoL. My full development log posts and reflections can be found below.
As I read back over my initial project proposal, I have accomplished my main goal of creating a 3D data visualisation on the web, which is good. The data I first wanted to visualise was to do with the environment and ecology. I succeeded in this, by visualising pollution and emissions data on a global level. I always went over and above this, by being able to visualise even more meaningful data, such as rent indexes, safety as well as economic indicators. Technically I achieved most of my goals. I got to grips with three.js and the camera libraries it had to offer, rendered the globe, added a nice glow texture as well as successfully implementing all the data handling and steps needed to go from numbers to lines in 3D space. I did not include one technical proposal, which was to have additional heads-up display style graphs to back up the globe. I feel that as I progressed with the project, my focus shifted onto making the globe look as striking as possible, and ensuring user interaction was sleek. More and more throughout the course of development did I think that graphs would actually be quite a boring, dated way to look at data. I loved the idea of a 3D intractable, changing graphic of the world could be used, rather than basic lines. The idea of visualising location based data needs to have a solid context. The user experience and overall knowledge gained by looking at and interacting with the 3D globe is much more advanced and interesting than seeing data on a chart.
I did not manage to have functionality to visualise historic data sets, where the user could see data from a number of years. This is one major failing in the project. I simply ran out of time to do this. I could have achieved this, it would have just taken more time to format all the data correctly. This would allow the user to be able to gain even more insight into the current data set, why is it like this now? what changes have occurred in the past? are questions that come to mind when i use the final version.
I wanted by data visualisation to be able to appeal to people who live in cities. A user in New York City should be able to see data for their city and be able to compare it other cities on a global level. I have achieved this. A young person in Jakarta can use the visualisation to learn more about their city in terms of global measures, as well as get insight into global trends. This is also applicable to an older user in Vancouver. I’m very proud of achieving a user based aim, as this project’s worth hinges on the fluidity of the user experience achieved by a considered, minimalistic design approach.
I have learnt that data sets with brilliant meaning and worth are hard to find and the best way to acquire these is to collect them yourself. Numbeo was a brilliant discovery, and potentially the best data sets I have ever seen. I did feel let down by the government API’s and world bank, as their data sets were very very lacking, choosing to focus on strange economic indexes rather than information that is truly useful to it’s citizens. Of course it’s up for debate as to why a government would do this anyway. I feel that I had underestimated this aspect of the project and it did take me quite some time to find relevant data, and once I found it, the formatting and transforming did take quite some time and work-around to get it fully working.
I feel that my data visualisation is quite fair. I am not massaging any numbers, nor do I have any sort of agenda at play. The only editing I did was to remove one or two data values that massively peaked above the rest. The reason being that this would totally ruin the scaling of all other data spiked due it being, perhaps falsely, very high. I put a focus on this in my original proposal and presentation of ideas. It’s key that the visualisation gives true insight and is not falsified.
I could develop this project much further with more time and resources. Numbeo is all user-supplied data. I feel that it would be incredible to be able to collect data en-masse, and get users to give me data and then be able to visualise an ever growing and changing data set. I also the type of data that could be collected could be very diverse, from traditional economic and geographic data, to zeitgeist data such as the 2013 floods in the UK, and mapping this against short term economic impacts. I could develop the graphics further, to have more sophisticated interaction in terms of the camera control, as well as using more high res images to texture the globe, or perhaps opting for a flatter texture. This could allow for focus on single countries/ continents as well as just the whole world.
When considering my project in the early development stages, I really loved the idea of treating the browser as a simple canvas, which the user can interact with, and as I progressed through the project I came to realise this even further. This whole project has taught me a great deal. Not only about the ins and outs of jquery syntax and data structures, but about the sort of computing I enjoy. Projects that can be easily accessed by anyone on earth, and educate on very issues. To achieve through intuitive, visually striking graphics is extremely satisfying indeed. I was also keen to learn about ‘big data’ and its technical make up, as it a theme that is swiftly entering mainstream digital culture. My ideas of graphics, web applications and big data sets have been totally reimagined. This has been my largest, most intricate project to date and I’m very happy with the end result, and everything that it took to get there.
Additional Information and Resources used.
Planet Pixel Emporium, Earth texture used.
WebGL Globe, understood how to convert lat/lng to 3d vector.
4 – Development Progress, NUMBEO, Design Ideas and data formatting.
The data that the guardian had provided wasn’t very reliable. It had measures such as ‘coffee price’. Surely in any city you could spend anything on coffee, from super cheap to very expensive. After some searching, I found Numbeo. A data resource site that has clients such as the BBC and Wired, and operates under a “attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported” Creative Commons license, which allows for remixing, transforming and building the material provided. Their data is very expansive, from health indexes to rent values, they have produced amalgamated indexes that draw from various measures and sources. The data provided is on a city level. I knew that I would have to convert these strings into longitude and latitude values in order to visualise them on the globe through the google geo api. I also had the challenge of going from data tables on a website to JSON.
I could now spend time thinking about the overall design of the globe and data spikes. At first I got all the values onto the globe, drawn as white lines. I did this by first drawing as many lines as needed for that data set at a uniform size, and then pushing all the data into a city values array, which was then scaled, and used as a scalar value for the lines. Some data sets had more entries than others, so I needed to clear these arrays every time I selected a value to ensure they were actually refreshed. A function would then re-size the lines. The processing power is actually quite small as the lines are added to the scene and sized only once. Next, I added some colour to the lines, based on the data value. I carefully went through the datasets and noted which data values were good when high, and bad when low, and vice versa. For example a high crime rate is bad, but a high safety index is good. I could then determine how to colour the lines. For high-values meaning good things, I coloured the highest lines green, and lowest red. I then added a little appendix to each JSON file at the top to hold a description one each data value, outlining what exactly it meant.
Final touches were to polish up the website. I used Bootstrap for this. It allowed me to style the drop down menu, as well as have a generally nice feel to the overall design of the site. This paired with some google fonts allows for a smooth, intuitive user experience, with attention focused on the globe and data rather than the overall website layout. Done. I had developed the underlying functions and major computations earlier. I spent a long time in this stage of development, searching for data and then handling it, to ensure the visualisation was meaningful. The way i scaled the data ensured a uniform comparison for all numbers, whether the range was between 0-10 or 10,000 to 1,000,000. I’m very happy with the end result as it allows me to be able to simply feed the functions with data and they do all the legwork in terms of scaling and displaying, saving me the laborious task of mass-data-editing.
Geo-location data is based around latitude and longitude. I had never appreciated the power of this measure. It has the potential to be incredibly accurate. Having picked through the code of the Web GL globe and read the blog on the arms globe dev blog, I understood I need to write a function that took a latitude and longitude co-ordinates to a scaled vector in 3D space, that would run through the city’s location on my globe. This was daunting.
First I tested what mesh to render and place in three JS. First I tried using the cube geometry by stretching them out to become long thin lines. However, the cube geometry had the very odd functionality of drawing from the middle outwards. I could not declare the ‘start’ at the center of my world and another final point to draw a vector between, without some very laborious transformations. I didn’t want to hack together my data ‘spikes’. They needed to be simple. The Line geometry answered my prayers in that I could declare two points, one at 0,0,0 and one in some given point in 3D space and it would draw a line between them. I then focused on the mission to change lat-lng co-ordinates into a 3D vector again. I researched how the web gl globe did it. Some complex trigonometric functions allowed this transformation assuming the globe was totally spherical. I had experimented by dubbing in London’s longitude and latitude co-ordinates into the function with a simple scalar value. I knew that a vector was easy to scale, a simple multiplication on x y and z would scale the whole thing. Having tinkered with the function I managed to get it working, and retested for other co-ordinates across the world. I hit problems when it came to drawing lines for the lower half of the globe, but negating my phi/ theta values overcame this. I now had a 3D globe, and a way to draw lines through longitude and latitude points correctly. Next I needed some meaningful data.
The globe baseline is done, and now I need to look for data. Due to the amount of data visualisation I had seen, I slightly naively assumed that there was an expanse of usable, open data just waiting to be plugged into a project. The data sources I thought would be brilliant, data.gov.uk and the World Bank were strange. They provided a lot of countrywide data sets for obscure measures of things such as the “Annual Percentage added to GPD from agriculture, 2000-2010″. but not too many world-wide data sets centered around cities. Thanks, World Bank.
When searching for data, I found the Guardian data blog had an impressive array of data visualizations, a lot of which provided the data on a google drive spreadsheet. I finally found some city data, about costs to live in a city . I knew the data set was not going to be my prime final visualisation, but it was good enough to run some tests.
I started getting to grips with Three JS by using tools and online editors such as Three JS Playground and Live Code Lab. They gave me great insight into the fundamentals of three.js, and the creative power of web graphics.
Through the Chrome Experiments web site, I found the Web GL Globe, made by the Google data arts team. Another data visualisation based around a 3D globe. It’s a brilliant project. The user can see general, continental trends can be very swiftly. Despite the fact data can be seen for the whole world, through interaction, it’s possible to extrapolate very specific differences. The data on major cities in the UK can be analysed and compared, despite the fact the UK is a small island nation with a handful of major cities. The data visualised was quite obvious. The population density spiked in huge cities in the far east, and the Google language search was guessable. I learned how my visualisation needed to ensure that the data can provide interesting insight for major global issues on a continent-wide scale as well as quite locally. I know felt that a 3D globe based visualisation of location based data is what I was going to aim for. It’s a powerful concept if designed well and ultimately I felt it was achievable. It did take me longer to decide on what avenue to go down for this project than I had anticipated, but I felt sure this was the way to go.
I started research on making globes in threejs. The threex.planets project was very useful as an introduction to three.js texturing and rendering as a whole. It taught me about the different types of lighting, how to actually texture a 3D shape, as well as the different levels that make up a texture. This project used images from Planet Pixel Emporium, a site that sells high res planet textures, as well as bump map, specular and cloud textures which can be intricately layered to create an extremely life like planet. A lot of examples I researched used the Orbit Controls camera library. This allows user interaction with the camera through clicking and dragging, to dolly in and out form the scene as well as scanning around in 3d space. Through these project and libraries, I made a 3D globe, with user interaction, as well as a bump map with shadows, a specular texture that allows lights to reflect off the sea and a cloud map, that renders quickly on the internet.
three.js globe from Robin Hunter on Vimeo.
This was incredible. I had always conceived high res, user intractable graphics to be reserved for dedicated, stand alone software and apps. The idea of treating the web browser as a canvas that anyone across the world with a good browser client can interact with has changed the way I consider graphics in terms of their use in web projects. The three js library is expansive and lightweight, with massive potential for games, visualisations as well as other advanced projects.
This is post number 1 in a series of reflections about my second year Creative Computing project that i have developed in late 2013 through to mid 2014.
At first, the prospect of being given total freedom to think of then implement a project was exciting but very daunting. I had some ideas that were similar to my first year major group work, an audio visualiser called Super Rotator made with Processing and MaxMSP.
Super Rotator – Sound Reactive Graphics from Super Rotator on Vimeo.
I loved working on that project, as it allowed me to explore how music and graphics can overlap in a live context. Since completing that work, i continued finding interesting audio-visual projects that combined audio visualisation as well as actual music production. An ios app called Thicket is great example.
THICKET, iPad/iphone App. from Didier LAHELY on Vimeo.
I also started tinkering with openFrameworks over the summer time, implementing basic graphics and basic audio analysis. Early year 2 CC lectures covered OF in more detail, and i explored other ideas such as computer vision and projection. Night Lights is one project that really stuck out to me. Interaction takes place through the users shadow casting onto a receptor, which then controls projections.
I started to think more objectively about what i wanted to pursue in this project. As much as i loved the creativity and the innovation in a lot of the fully fledged audio visual installation projects, i felt i would struggle to be able to define an idea and then fully realise it. The temptation and possibility of straying away and being distracted from an initial idea due to the sheer wealth of potential outcomes was what put me off going down this route. I knew that i wanted to explore interactive graphics in some way, maybe moving away from the audio side of things. My major aim in first year was to learn about audio visualisation, which i achieved through the super rotator. More and more i started to become engaged with data visualisation. Finding and researching David McCandless’ Information Is Beautiful and three.js was a turning point for me.
Three JS is a lightweight 3D web graphics library, with some very impressive implementations.
Fully polished, 3D games can run in-browser with no worries. The Information is Beautiful book helped me learn that big data visualisation is quite a simple concept, but can produce massively insightful results when done well. This great web library combined with the concept of data visualisation helped me think more clearly about what i wanted to do.
ArmsGlobe visualises arms and ammunition trade data between 1992 and 2010, and is based on interaction with a 3D globe. This population globe from Google visualises the world population, again on a 3D globe. I was drawn to these projects as they were very striking visually, and the fact data on the whole world can be seen in one place, on the internet, was incredible. It was these projects that made me decide that i wanted to work on a 3D, web-based data visualisation.
My name is Robin and i’m currently a second year Creative Computing student at Goldsmiths College, London. This is my new blog, where i will document projects i am working on, as well as other whimsical musings. | 2019-04-25T18:15:29 | http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma201rh/wordpress/ |
I have been heavily involved in politics all my adult life and the current national situation, both in the government and opposition, is a low point, the lowest I can recall – even the dark days of 1955, 1966, 1975 and 1996. It seems to get worse every week. The 2010 federal election was the worst in my memory because there was no debate about ideas, simply an exchange of slogans and mantras (”Stop the boats!”). The word ”because”, leading to an attempt at reasoned explanation, seemed to have fallen out of the political lexicon. We observed an infantilisation of debate, for example on refugees and climate change. There is good reason to expect that the 2013 election will be even more depressing. I have lost count of the number of exchanges I have had with voters in Melbourne streets where they express their dismay to me about the state of politics, on both sides. Some burst into tears.
Tony Abbott’s approach to the carbon tax debate is illustrative of a general collapse in the quality of rational discourse. The proposed carbon tax, a very complex issue, is being attacked with ruthless simplicity, ”Stop a toxic tax, based on a lie.” Is there a second sentence in this argument? Has the word ”because” fallen out of the political vocabulary?
Strangely, the information age seems to have made grasping the truth of things harder. The shrinking of the broad base of political parties, their failure to tell stories that inspire and ring true, the increasing lack of penetration of the serious media, the rarity of deep analysis told in a compelling way, the 60-second YouTube videos that portray Julia as robotic or Kevin as a knockabout bloke who swears a bit much, the distrust and distractedness of we the people – they all promote misunderstanding. They are death to an engaged politics.
Neither however has much to say about how to fix or ameloriate the problem. They seem resigned to it, or perhaps hope that describing the problem will somehow help turn things around. In this they are like Lindsay Tanner, whose Sideshow was an entertaining book-length treatment of this territory but was also short on solutions (see the tepid final chapter).
Button suggests that “the information age” is to blame, at least partly, for the degradation of politics. Yet it is also the only place where countervailing forces are likely to arise. And indeed we are seeing a sudden proliferation of new forms of democratic engagement (Duval, Next Generation Democracy; Shirky, Here Comes Everybody).
YourView sounds exciting. Will the involve argument maps created by people with expertise (like a geneticist or ethicist for a genetic engineering issue) or will it be done by whoever wants to contribute?
Come to think of it, YourView implies it will be user based.
Tyse, see the video now up on http://www.yourview.org.au – it explains the approach we’re taking at least initially. | 2019-04-24T02:10:17 | https://timvangelder.com/2012/02/26/the-dismal-state-of-political-discourse/ |
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While RAND found that having a standard curriculum was important, whether you choose to select something new or modify an existing curriculum may depend on your program’s goals, existing resources and program population.
Begin with the end in mind: First identify the target population of students to be served and your goals for their growth over the summer.
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Offering a range of fun activities is considered an effective strategy for maximizing summer-program participation. Typically, school districts look to community-based partners for expertise in activities like sports, arts, design and cooking. It’s important to ensure these partners are equipped to carry out the program’s mission.
Use the RFP wisely: Set clear requirements and expectations to recruit providers that best fit your mission. Best practices include keeping enrichment class sizes small and hiring enrichment instructors with relevant content knowledge.
Get on the same page: Use a Memorandum of Understanding to clearly delineate roles and responsibilities between the district and its partners.
Simply being in a classroom over the summer is not enough. To reap benefits, young people must be engaged in meaningful learning that supports their achievement. Without careful planning and delivery, precious time for learning can often be lost during transitions, at the beginning and end of classes and for special events and trips. Adults in the program must be prepared to protect and maximize time for academic learning.
Make it a priority: Create a master schedule with adequate time for transitions, academic classes in continuous blocks and 3-4 hours per day for academics.
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For ideas on how to use pre-service training to help teachers and staff maximize instructional time, visit the Tip Sheet – Planning High-Quality Professional Development within the Staffing and Professional Development section of the Toolkit.
The Toolkit includes an example site schedule, a sample data report for participating sites, and the process to approve district funding requests for summer learning programs. | 2019-04-19T08:51:32 | https://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/summer-learning/toolkit/pages/academics-and-enrichment.aspx |
Why is Ascension Day Important?
The ascension is Jesus Christ’s physical return to heaven to be seated at the Father’s right hand after spending forty days on earth following his resurrection (Luke 24:50-51). The historical event that was the ascension is doctrinally important for Christ’s “going to the Father” (John 14:28) is the victorious culmination of his life on earth and his finished work on the Cross. Now, Jesus has made the way for us to enter into the presence of the Father that we might know Him face-to-face, speak to him in prayer, and hear his heart in love (Heb. 4:14-16).
One, Jesus’ ascension was the “visible proof” that his victory over death and the devil had been accomplished. Nothing could hold him down. As believers, we can “hold fast our confession” for we are certain of his victory in the end. If Jesus can ascend to heaven, then he can also return “the same way he came” (Acts 1:11). If Jesus’ ascension was physical in space and time, then his coming again in glory will also be evident to all.
Two, the ascension allows Jesus’ ministry to expand for he now sits at the right hand of the Father no longer limited by geography. He intercedes for his people (Heb. 7:23-25), he pours out the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:33) and he walks in and among his churches (Rev. 2:1).
Three, the ascension is the promise that since we are united with Him in very aspect of his work, then we too will ascend to heaven with him in glory (1 Thes. 4:17). Jesus went to heaven as a forerunner and pledge from God that since he lives, we will live also (John 14:28).
While the removal of the guilt of sin was associated with His death, and the destruction of the power of sin with His resurrection, the removal of the separation caused by sin was associated with His Ascension, and herein lies the force of the Apostle’s word: “It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us” (Rom. 8:34), so in the assurance that “He Himself is the propitiation for ours sins” (1 John 2:2) the conscience and heart find rest. Christ’s righteousness has been accepted, His position is assured, and now access is possible to all believers.
W. H. Griffith Thomas, The Principles of Theology (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930), 82.
This entry was posted in Ascension Day, Jesus Christ, W. H. Griffith-Thomas and tagged Ascension Day, Jesus Christ, W. H. Griffith-Thomas on May 11, 2010 by GlennDavis. | 2019-04-21T10:16:42 | http://www.canonglenn.com/2010/05/11/ascension-day-thursday-may-13th/ |
A laser beam set up between two intervisible sculptures. Viewers can physically interrupt the beam by standing in its path. Such an interruption destroys the sculptures shared intervisibility, but implicates the viewer in the sculptures visual exchange by marking their own body with the beam. | 2019-04-20T05:12:18 | http://pagebenkowski.com/section/272165_Intervisible.html |
Kent Larson, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab on designing connected cities for a rapidly growing urban population around the world.
Kent Larson directs Changing Places Research Group and the City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Laboratory, with research focused on transformable urban housing, mobility-on-demand, responsive technology, urban food production, and living lab experiments. Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000 by the New York Times Review of Books. | 2019-04-25T02:07:23 | https://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/connected-cities-larson/ |
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First reported back in February, the laceless Nike Phantom React Flyknit is finally getting an official release date.
Nike improved a classic model by going next-level with the cushioning. Read on for our Nike Air Zoom Vomero 14 Performance Review.
adidas just strengthened its commitment to tackling plastic waste with the unveil of the FUTURECRAFT.LOOP — a 100% recyclable performance running shoe.
Add this to many Nike silhouettes that saw a ‘Just Do It’ colorway release in the past year, like the Air Force 1 and numerous Air Maxes.
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Rumors are floating around that J. Cole may be the next PUMA endorser. | 2019-04-25T01:57:10 | https://weartesters.com/category/kicks-off-court/ |
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This project is fascinating in many ways: the most important is, naturally, purely musical. However, it raises profound questions about the general nature of perception. Our brains routinely form a detailed image of reality with small amounts of real information. In a BSO audition for example, the committees are very relieved when the screen comes down and they can see. Not because they can play politics, but instead, people feel that they have greater listening ability if they can see!!!
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Since 2012, to increase its tourist and cultural brilliance and its innovative territory position, Rennes Métropole schedules during summer, "Rendez Vous Place of the Parliament", original show with monumental images and interactive tools specially designed for the event.
It is at the heart of Rennes summer, that Spectaculaires and Artefacto created, within the framework of the Research project MAELT*, a poetic and general public event by marrying the show in big dimension universes and the interactive high technology.
“Rendez Vous Place of the Parliament” is developed within the framework of the MAELT project, “Machine to Explore Time”.
This project, financed within the framework of the Investments of the future “Technologies of digitalization and valuation of the cultural, scientific and educational contents”, aims at developing new services of visual and sound increased reality and the interactive tools applied to the valuation of the urban and cultural heritage. | 2019-04-20T10:46:57 | https://www.spectaculaires.eu/reference/rendez-vous-place-du-parlement-de-rennes-un-spectacle-visuel-virtuel-et-sonore |
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This couldn't have happened to a "nicer" guy. My guess is that someone he screwed in the past got back at him stealing this car.
KCBS news Its not a GT-R, and its not the hero car. Its just a GTS. One of the stunt cars for Fast and Furious 4. Probably not even in the US legally. It was one of the cars that should have been exported out of the US.
Well said! What a pity for a "nice" guy like him to lose a car! | 2019-04-25T04:24:24 | https://www.gtrusablog.com/2009/05/nissan-skyline-stolen-from-sun-valley.html |
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As it is usual, the first day of the month bring a review of the situation of the different technological markets. If during the weekend we watched as he did between the desktop operating systems to Windows 8, today it is to Windows Phone and its situation between the different systems that populate the mobile sector. Situation that increasingly looks like paint better.
According to the latest report published by Kantar WorldPanel ComTech at MustBuyShirts.com, which summarizes the data for the three months that range from July to September of this year, sales of Windows Phone account already 9.8% of the sales of smartphones in the five main European markets taken as a whole. It is an increase of more than double compared to the same period of last year, and means that almost 1 of every 10 smartphones sold in that territory is Windows Phone.
The figures are positive if we consider each of those markets individually. In some of them the sales growth It allows Windows Phone approaching more and more to iOS, reaching more than this as second mobile operating system in Italy. In Spain market share, although it also grows over last year, remains in a 3.7%; close to 4.8% for iOS, but far from overwhelming 90% that Android maintains in our country.
In all other territories Windows Phone has fortunes. The Redmond system manages to grow at almost two points in the United States, but its market share remains below 5%, far from the iOS and Android. The growth is also repeated in Latin America countries considered by Kantar: Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, where the fee amounts to 5.8%; and in Australia, where it reaches 9.3%. It does not run the same fate in China, where is two points of share over last year and is left alone with 2.5%.
Once again, the report returns to point to Nokia as the main responsible for the sustained growth of Windows Phone in the different territories. Kantar analysts also point to Lumia 520 as a key device to become the phone chosen by users in many markets to enter the world of smartphones. | 2019-04-21T15:07:13 | https://www.cellphoneexplorer.com/windows-phone-is-already-one-of-every-ten-smartphones/ |
A query interpreter for the MemoryDriver and for client-side operations that need to be run as part of distributed queries against multiple backends.
It uses ScalaType, ProductValue/StructValue and plain Scala collections to represent data. Queries are expected to be in the shape after running all the standard query compiler phases (but not the extra relational phases) and assigning ScalaTypes everywhere.
This member is added by an implicit conversion from QueryInterpreter to StringAdd performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
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This member is added by an implicit conversion from QueryInterpreter to StringFormat performed by method any2stringfmt in scala.Predef. | 2019-04-25T00:46:55 | http://slick.lightbend.com/doc/3.0.0/api/slick/memory/QueryInterpreter.html |
I recently shared on Facebook that a good friend had passed away unexpectedly.
I realize people didn’t actually “like” that my friend had died. I, too, have reflexively tapped the “like” button in response to more than one somber announcement — a malignant tumor, a missing golden retriever, a layoff after 25 years on the job — as a demonstration of empathy. To this point, last year Facebook rolled out five additional reactions — Love, Haha, Wow, Angry and Sad — acknowledging users were often put in the awkward position of “liking” a post about death the same way they would “like” a photo of a bacon cheeseburger. “We kept hearing from people that they didn’t have a way to express empathy,” Facebook product manager Sammi Krug told Forbes.
But while perhaps more tonally accurate, is a “sad” face any better? Or better put, is there an appropriate way to post and respond to bad news on social media — Facebook in particular?
A close friend died suddenly, and my post received 22 “likes.” What are your thoughts on “liking” death?
Shukle: “Liking” a tragedy can unintentionally show the person posting that you support the sad news they shared. A “like” doesn’t tell the owner of the post how you really feel. Stick to the comments to share your thoughts. That way the owner can get a personal message from an individual they can relate to rather than a “like” that can confuse others.
Gottsman: The like button is tricky because people are showing their support for your post, but there are limited options. I prefer to comment with something heartfelt and not hit the thumbs up button.
Holly: My son and husband died a little more than two years ago so when I speak about them on Facebook, I’m happy to just see a heart or something. Words are just words especially when you’re in agonizing pain. To know someone understands or is thinking of you by “liking” is just as good as words.
How else can you show empathy on Facebook?
Tracey: It depends. I’m not a big fan of people emoting endlessly on FB, but I do appreciate and respect someone’s decision to share. I also think responding is dependent on many factors. I most often respond privately but, to me, it might seem okay to respond with a brief public comment. Overall, though, communication is hard, and there’s no one right way to make it through any conversation.
Bryant: It depends on how well you know someone, and sometimes a simple ‘like’ will suffice to let them know you have seen the post, and are thinking of them. Many people use social media to respond to tragedy as it is easier than trying to find the right thing to say. However, for the person who is suffering, those who make the extra effort to support them in person will always be best. Good friends deserve phone calls and IRL visits.
Claudia: I don’t know why people think it’s wrong to write about (or react to) tragedy on Facebook. We long to comfort and help each other. After something painful happens, are we to call or write an endless amount of people? We don’t have the emotional strength or time.
Tatiana: It depends on how well I know the person. If it’s a good friend, I usually write something cliché but then follow up with a phone call.
Robert: I go with a heart emoji or “Wow.” I hate the weeping emoji because it’s overused and maudlin. Be imaginative and sincere. Avoid cliches like “in my thoughts and prayers,” “my heart goes out to you,” etc. Being creative shows you care.
Could you be perceived as insensitive if you don’t “like” it, or add another reaction?
Gottsman: There’s no guarantee the person even saw the post, so no, it would be hypersensitive on your part to be sensitive that someone didn’t “like” or react. Not everyone sees every post based on the FB algorithm.
A “sad” emoticon almost feels trite. At what point should you follow up with a call, text or IRL visit?
Shukle: If you feel a Facebook “reaction,” like or comment doesn’t really portray how you feel, it’s time to reach out on a one-to-one basis. When following up with the individual, you should always add a personal approach as now the conversation is between the two of you. Take the time to listen and have a more meaningful conversation.
Tagging seems like the most inappropriate response — i.e., “So sorry to hear about @briansmith’s golden retriever getting hit by a car.” What’s the etiquette on tagging people in these scenarios?
Does my update add value or offer additional information to the person being mentioned?
Is this update relevant to the person being tagged?
If the answer to the above is “no,” you’re better off just typing the user’s name.
Gottsman: Tagging is always rude without the permission of the person you’re tagging.
Bryant: In difficult times, the person who is the victim of the tragedy should lead the social media presence. Many an upset has been caused by someone else tagging and sharing the news before the important people have been told. If you want to sympathize, send an SMS or What’s App instead.
A colleague’s mother died six months ago. A number of people wished her mom a happy birthday last week on Facebook, having not heard that she passed. Is it now on the daughter to share that news on her and/or her mom’s Facebook pages?
Shukle: When it comes to sensitive matters such as the loss of a family member, you must always remain respectful at all times. Therefore, you must not blame those who’ve wished her a happy birthday as they genuinely wouldn’t have known about her passing. Instead, the daughter could reply by posting an update on the mom’s account letting them know that her mom has passed but thanking people for their birthday wishes as she would’ve been pleased with so many others sharing well wishes on her special day.
Gottsman: The daughter should either privately message the people who wished her mother a happy birthday, or make a public message such as, “Our family wants to thank everyone for wishing my mom a happy birthday. For those who may not have heard, she passed away in November. Again, thank you for thinking of our mom.” However, at some point, it’s no longer necessary, or the responsibility of the daughter, to answer remarks on her mom’s page. Those who the family wanted to know at the time of her passing would’ve been informed privately.
Is it appropriate to announce a divorce on Facebook? What are things to keep in mind / avoid?
Bryant: When sharing such important news via Facebook, you must be sure that everyone important has already been informed. Close friends and family should be told in person rather than find out the news from their Facebook feed. Proceedings should be private: avoid going into too much detail, don’t criticize your former other-half and never use social media as a way to point score.
Shukle: When looking at announcing any personal issues on Facebook, it’s always best to first take into consideration how this would make others feel. With regards to a divorce, it could be seen as a good thing if you were getting out of a bad relationship, but to your partner’s family, it could look insensitive. Best practice is to keep the sentiment neutral, and if you want to post about it, do so without causing any harm or ill intent toward others as this will only make matters worse if the message isn’t clear. For instance, you want to avoid venting or taking the matter personally on Facebook as this will only cause the situation to get worse. Keep things neutral, and if you want to have a more meaningful conversation on the matter, have it offline or on a one-to-one basis.
Gottsman: Many people use FB as a therapy session, or feel the need to explain themselves. Less is always best when sharing sensitive information online. Those that need to know already know because you told them. Always keep in mind, when sharing news, you’re also opening yourself up to comments you may or may not want to respond to.
What about sharing that a loved one was diagnosed with a serious medical condition?
Shukle: Facebook can be a great place for support in times of need. There may be others reading the post that can help, offer further guidance or have even been in the same situation themselves. When sharing this type of information, it’s important you also protect the privacy of the person who’s sick. There’s no need to go into specific details on symptoms, side effects or even doctors’ visits. Highlighting the condition and if you require support will give you all the feedback you need.
Bryant: Some people find Facebook as a method of support and help during tricky times. Be warned that you may find long, lost friends suddenly offering words of wisdom, so be prepared to withstand lots of reactions and responses from many different types of ‘friends’.
What about letting people know you were terminated from a job?
Shukle: It’s important when it comes to posting about your job that you remain respectful to your company. Depending on your privacy settings, most posts shared are public and can be viewed by mutual friends and their network. This means if you post a personal or angry response at the company there’s potential for not only your employer but future employers to see how you’ve reacted. This could work against you when looking for your next role. You can post that you were upset at being let go as this is a natural reaction; however, you want to remain neutral toward any staff or managers that you dealt with. Most importantly, don’t share any information that could harm the company as this could lead to legal action.
Bryant: Share the news if you wish — it might open up other opportunities. Avoid burning your bridges, however, as venting anger and frustration at your former employer for all to see will never enhance your professional image.
How about posting a photo of your beloved schnauzer who was hit by a car and died?
Bryant: If you feel comfortable and receptive to the flurry of sympathy, then go ahead and share. But remember, you probably loved your dog in a way that many others might not understand, so don’t feel let down if the news doesn’t stir up quite the levels of sympathy you were hoping for.
Lynn: Also remember: When you engage with and respond to bad news like deaths, your FB algorithm shifts and your feed fills with similar info — in other words, an obituary in perpetuity. | 2019-04-22T02:06:02 | https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-etiquette-of-liking-bad-news-on-facebook-2 |
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Cristina Vera-Cruz This diagram is based on the Python packages with class definitions, available through the github website of the project, that was accessed on May 15th (https://github.com/rapidpro/rapidpro).
I have just finished an amazing 6-week volunteer program with the Innovation Unit at NYHQ. It has been an enriching and rewarding experience, to work with the team and be able to contribute to the great work that is being done – bringing innovative solutions to the ones most in need.
The purpose of the volunteer assignment was to support some ongoing Big Data research activities and propose future developments to maximize the potential of RapidPro, specifically, U-Report using different data sources. U-Report is an SMS based platform for youth engagement, born in UNICEF’s Innovation Labs, that is gaining momentum and acceptance worldwide.
Nevertheless, in order to explore and exploit its full potential, it is necessary to count on a sandbox infrastructure to easily provide access to U-Report data and its combination with other complementary data, such as classic statistics, maps and new digital trails like Twitter.
Big Data analytics has opened the door to transform a vast quantity of digital trails into information and knowledge about the underlying communities generating those trails. The importance of this type of analysis for humanitarian response is being acknowledged by the efforts of the UN system on the so-called Data Revolution.
As part of the proposed work, understanding the database model was essential. Therefore, it was necessary to comprehend how the RapidPro system is built and how it is operated in order to make suggestions regarding data storage and management.
Based on the Python packages with class definitions, available through the github website of the project, the database model was translated to a diagram where all the entities, attributes and relationships were mapped.
The motivation for studying RapidPro’s database model was to know how the user (Contact) data for U-Report is stored in the system. One of the main findings was that, due to RapidPro’s flexibility, which enables each application to create the fields that are necessary for the specific context, each country potentially has different fields to represent the same data.
After me and Manuel were able to study the database model, namely, the entities and relationships that represent the U-Reporter in the system, we realized that the data regarding the variables that represent the user were stored in a key-value format, only accessible through the API provided by RapidPro, for each of the different countries.
Therefore, we developed a simple program in Python (based on the RapidPro Python client document) to open a txt file, read information about the name of the countries and the respective API token, to connect to each database and obtain the user identification fields.
With the program and based on the data that was available from a sample of 6 countries, namely Mali, Burundi, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic, we were able to identify two categories of information: Identification (age, gender, occupation) and Location (different administrative levels) and created a set of recommendations of best practices for variable naming.
For analysis purposes of U-Report, it is necessary to aggregate data regarding U-Reporters from all the countries where the program is running. Unless the identification variables (which collect the data) are created with the same name, it is extremely complicated to obtain the aggregated data in a quick and efficient way, especially considering the rapidly growing number of countries and the different platforms that U-Report uses.
U-Report has been launched in 15 countries and growing. Most of these countries use the SMS version, however some are starting to use Twitter as well, taking advantage of the growing Internet connected community and the benefits that come with it, such as less cost.
With Twitter data there is a huge opportunity to identify, store and extract useful information from the social network of U-Reporters as well as the dynamics of geo-located tweets.
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Through the social network of U-Reporters, by analyzing their group of friends and what kind of subjects that they tweet, we can identify the ones who can potentially be of most influence when making a campaign, and we can also identify potential new U-Reporters based on common friends between existing users.
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AP IGNORES CRITICISM…. Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that the House Democratic health care plan cost “$1.5 trillion.” By the afternoon, the AP reporting didn’t attribute the price tag to anyone; it just stated the figure as fact.
House Dems threw a fit, which was understandable — the day before the AP blasted the $1.5 trillion figure to the world, the Congressional Budget Office pointed to a roughly $1 trillion cost over 10 years. The AP not only went with the much higher figure, it made no reference to the CBO score.
That, however, was yesterday. I’d hoped the AP would at least notice the criticism, and clarify the issue in the future. No such luck — this AP report ran about a half-hour ago.
Votes were planned Thursday in the Education and Labor and Ways and Means committees on a $1.5 trillion plan that majority House Democrats presented this week.
No source, no reference to the CBO figure released Tuesday, and no mention of the fact that House Democrats reject the “$1.5 trillion” figure.
I don’t mean to sound picky, but reporting like this not only misinforms news consumers, it also has the potential to adversely affect the larger policy debate. If the AP is intent on using the $1.5 trillion figure, it could at least add some language to reflect the concerns, such as “a number Democratic leaders dispute,” or, “though the CBO puts the figure closer to $1 trillion.” Something.
I realize that the exact price of the proposal is unclear at this point. We’re dealing with estimates on legislation that’s still being shaped, and it’s possible the final figure may exceed, or not, the current figures. But in light of the published CBO score, the AP’s reporting is sloppy and incomplete, and runs the risk of undermining reform efforts. | 2019-04-23T06:03:08 | https://washingtonmonthly.com/2009/07/16/ap-ignores-criticism/ |
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Young female chickens less than 1 year old that have fully feathered out and are about the size of large pigeons are called pullets. Expect your barred rock pullet to start laying eggs when she is about 16 to 20 weeks old. Once she begins laying, she should produce one egg every 25 hours – except during the cold, dark hours of winter when she may not lay at all -- until her first molt a year later.
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Welcome to the fist part of my new special column series, IT’S ALIVE! The Universal Monsters Saga, in which I talk about each of the classic Universal Monsters films from the 1920s—1950s. Today we kick things off proper with the very first of these films, Wallace Worsley’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, made in 1923. If you wish to have a look at past articles, please click here. Enjoy!
Whilst the Universal Monsters series didn’t really kick off until the box office smash of Dracula (1931), Universal produced a number of significant horror / suspense films in the 1920s, before the arrival of “talkies,” or sound-cinema. These films were not supernatural in nature, as Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pictures at the time, felt that there was no place for supernatural horror in the movies. Nonetheless, these films had definite horror elements, and the cinema-goers responded very positively. Whilst they aren’t really considered part of the Universal Monsters cycle, they are an important prelude to the cycle itself, as they developed the horror genre before the introduction of the supernatural. The first of these productions was The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame would become Universal Studios’ first major hit, as well as one of the first epic spectacles of the silent era. Whilst it wasn’t a horror story, it featured one of the first monster make-ups of Lon Chaney that thrilled the world. The Hunchback is a stirring tale of romance, revolution, and the sadness of outsiders. But how did the film get made? And who was the man behind the makeup?
The man behind the make-up: Lon Chaney.
Lon Chaney is widely regarded as one of the biggest box-office stars of 1920s Hollywood, as well as the first American horror icon. But who exactly was he?
Chaney was born in Colorado in 1883 to deaf parents. To help with communication as he was growing up, Chaney became very skilled in pantomime. Beginning in 1902, he started a successful vaudeville career, in which his skills as a pantomime became of great use.
In 1905, Chaney married 16-year-old Cleva Creighton, and the next year had a son with her, Creighton Tull Chaney, someone who will become very important to the Universal Monsters story later. When Creighton found out Chaney’s parents were deaf, she was terrified her baby would also be deaf, and this lead to much stress in their marriage. She began to drift away from the family, and upon finding out that she was having an affair, Chaney went to her workplace and got her fired. In retaliation, Creighton went up on stage during one of his performance and attempted suicide by swallowing acid. She was taken to hospital, and luckily survived although her singing career was over. The scandal destroyed Chaney’s vaudeville career, and so he went to film. Family services also took Chaney’s son away until Chaney could provide a more stable home life.
Chaney began getting small parts in Universal Pictures films. During this time he married Hazel Hastings, who he had met in his vaudeville days. Having now married, Chaney and Hastings gained custody of Chaney’s son. Little is known about Hastings, but it is known that they had a good marriage and were together until Chaney died in 1930.
Lon Chaney’s performance as “The Frog,” a contortionist criminal, in the film The Miracle Man was his major breakthrough.
Chaney had his breakthrough performance as “The Frog” in The Miracle Man (1919), putting his make up and incredible physicality to use as a contortionist crook. It was a big critical and commercial success, scoring $3,000,000 at the box office on a budget of $126,000. Chaney became known for his transformative performances, particularly in the films of Tod Browning, with whom he had a productive creative friendship, appearing in 10 of his films.
Chaney had bought the rights to the story of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, a novel by French author Victor Hugo first published in 1831. He saw in it the chance for a creative make-up, an athletic performance, and an epic production. He tried but failed to get the film made on his own, but when he came to Irving Thalberg, studio manager at Universal Pictures, Thalberg took over production, managing to get Carl Laemmle to agree to a large budget. He agreed to take on Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, the titular hunchback. Lon Chaney also helped secure Wallace Worsley, a popular film director of the silent era, as the film’s director.
Lon Chaney’s make up for Quasimodo is regarded as one of his very best.
Lon Chaney put his signature make-up / creature creation skills to good use as Quasimodo, crafting his first truly physically monstrous character. Chaney sculpted new features with a soft wax called Plasto, sculpting these on to his face to create exaggerated cheekbones and the massive boil / tumour that eclipses his right eye. Plasto was ironically used by morticians to keep the faces of corpses fresh for their funerals. For the mouth of Quasimodo, Chaney used a wire device inside of his mouth to misshape the jaw, and created some false, broken teeth made of gutta percha and laid them on top of his own. Chaney added a wig, and that pretty much makes up the face of the creature. For the famous hunchback, Chaney wore a leather hump that weighed about 20 pounds, as well as padding on the shoulders and harness that helped keep him crouched. It’s surprising that the make up and body devices allowed for so much facial expression and agility, but Chaney managed to do it!
Building the sets from The Hunchback of Notre Dame took several months. Excerpted from an article that appeared in Universal Weekly.
Universal Weekly, the studio’s house publication, announced just how this would be an epic production. It planned to recreate the Notre Dame cathedral as well as the surrounding streets. For the “Gallery of Kings,” 35 statues were made. The construction of the sets took six months. A screenplay written by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. and Perley Poore Sheehan was completed by the end of 1922. For many of the crowd scenes in the Parisian squares and underworld, several thousand extras were used, with three thousand costumes made in six weeks by Universal’s costume department.
On the left is director Wallace Worsley, and on the right by the camera, cinematographer Robert Newhard. The radio set up was used so Worsley could direct the crowd scenes, in which a couple thousand of extras might be present at any one time.
The cost of the production was somewhere between $750,000—$1,000,000, and it ended up grossing $3,000,000 at the box office. It was truly an expensive film to make, and one of Universal Pictures most ambitious projects yet, but it more than paid back with the insane critical and commercial success. Lon Chaney was a box office name, and was here to stay.
Set in Paris in 1482, the plot follows a variety of characters, living both in poverty, luxury, and the church. Quasimodo (Lon Chaney), a horribly deformed, hunchbacked bell-ringer, works at the Notre Dame cathedral in exchange for protection from the archbishop Dom Claude (Nigel De Brulier). Dom Claude’s brother, Jehan (Brandon Hurst), is a morally bankrupt man who forces the helpless Quasimodo into being his servant.
Jehan is infatuated with the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller), the ward of Clopin (Ernest Torrence), self-proclaimed “King of the Beggars” and ruler of the Parisian Underworld. He forces Quasimodo to kidnap her, but he is thwarted by Captain of the Guard, a man called Phoebus (Norman Kerry), who has also fallen for Esmeralda. Quasimodo is arrested and sentenced to a humiliating public whipping; when he screams that he needs water after being abandoned, still chained to the platform, only Esmeralda offers him pity and gives him water.
In perhaps the film’s most disturbing moment, Quasimodo howls in pain from being whipped publicly.
Later, Esmeralda is arrested and charged with the attempted murder of her love Phoebus, which was actually committed by Jehan. On her way to be hanged, Quasimodo takes her from the street into the cathedral, crying “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!” Clopin uses this news that she is to be hanged to spark a revolution, which has been brewing for a long time. Quasimodo, mistaking the swathe of revolutionaries for attackers, rains rocks and molten lead down on the crowd. Jehan takes his chance and assaults Esmeralda; Quasimodo kills Jehan, but not before being mortally wounded with a knife. He crawls to the bell-tower, rings his own death knell, and dies alone. A recovered Phoebus and Esmeralda are united.
I’ve been looking forward to writing about this film for two specific reasons: firstly, it is of course the first of the Universal Monster films; and second, I hadn’t actually seen it until yesterday. So it was great to finally, after all these years, see where the Universal Monsters started.
However, whilst the film is monstrous, I don’t know if I’d consider it a monster movie. Quasimodo, under all the deformities, is basically just a normal guy. Calling him a monster because of his deformities seems a bit crude, and similar attitude to disability is seen in a few other moments in the movie – in the Parisian underworld, beggars only pretend to be disabled! However, I don’t know if this is a genuine problem, because Lon Chaney infuses so much emotion into his performance, that you don’t really see Quasimodo as a monster. He is terrifying, and the way Chaney kept licking his lips and sticking his tongue out particularly got under my skin. But there are so many moments – such as when he first sees Esmeralda, or when he cries for water after being whipped, that you see how genuinely tortured and miserable Quasimodo is. It’s a brilliant, heartbreaking humanist performance, and I think it actually combats the dismissive attitude present to this day that somehow those who are deformed or disabled are not actually people.
As well as a tragic, humanist performance, Lon Chaney also does lots of his own stunts, making his Quasimodo a truly athletic character as he swings from the gargoyles of Notre Dame.
In addition to his humanist performance, the physical extent of Chaney’s performance is absolutely amazing. Seeing him jump around and climb the exterior of the Notre Dame is incredible – some particular moments, such as when he’s swinging from gargoyle to gargoyle, are especially stunning considering he is doing it without the aid of technology and computer graphics. There’s one shot in the movie that’s particularly incredible, which is a bird’s eye view from the top of Notre Dame and shows Quasimodo sliding down a rope to the ground below. This wasn’t actually done by Chaney, but professional strongman Joe Bonomo, but it’s impressive nonetheless.
Despite being the titular character, though, Chaney is just one of about four or so main characters, all of whom have excellent actors accompanying them. It really is more of an ensemble piece. Whilst Chaney might’ve got top billing, he wouldn’t really get his true horror film vehicle until 1925’s Phantom of the Opera.
Patsy Ruth Miller crafts a spellbinding performance as Esmeralda.
Patsy Ruth Miller is particularly incredible as Esmeralda, and in a few scenes actually steals the scene from Chaney. Her face is so full of life and wonder, and she expresses emotion on screen in a grand but believable scale – hard to do in the silent era, and you can see how hard it is to do with some of the lesser roles in the film such as Gringoire (Raymond Hatton). It’s totally believable that everyone falls in love with her character, and it’s hard not to as a viewer of the film. You really will swoon whenever she’s on screen. Miller was a powerful actress.
Norman Kerry’s Phoebus is a bit troubling though. He’s actually intended to be married at the beginning, and just kind of drops his fiancée so he can sleep with Esmeralda. He even goes so far as to introduce Esmeralda to his fiancée and her mum! But his intentions eventually become a bit more honourable, and by the end of the film everyone seems to have forgotten he’s a bit of a prick.
You could be forgiven for mistaking the set of Notre Dame for being the real cathedral.
The art design of the film is also spectacular – the recreation of the Notre Dame is so real that you’d think Universal filmed the film on location. I didn’t notice in the film but in long shots the towers of the cathedral are glass paintings – it’s either because the paintings looked incredibly real or because the print was old, but I’ll believe for now that it was the former. The streets are also full of detail, making great use of Universal’s medieval backlot of sets.
It’s interesting considering the story as an American one rather than a French one; it gives the revolutionary elements of the film a certain bite, and I can’t help but feel that perhaps there are certain political elements considering the post-war inception of the film. Everyone seems incredibly embittered and angry at King Louis XI; a historical element, true, but it seems a bit unnecessary as the story is about Quasimodo at it’s heart, not revolution. It makes me think that the revolutionary element was intended for a political reason.
I quite enjoyed The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and was thrilled every time Lon Chaney appeared in makeup. However, despite this, as well as the incredible performance by Patsy Ruth Miller, I did feel the film was perhaps a bit overlong; it could have been about twenty minutes shorter, and I’m not entirely sure that much would have been lost. Essentially, the story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the story of Quasimodo and Esmeralda, and I did feel the film lost touch of that at points. Nevertheless, it’s a great watch and should be seen by all, not only for its historical importance but because of Chaney’s performance which pulls the film together.
Well that’s it for today folks. Next time on IT’S ALIVE! The Universal Monsters Saga, we’ll be moving forward to the year 1925, and presenting the first true Universal horror film, as well as the greatest of American silent horror films. We’ll also be continuing the strange story of Lon Chaney and presenting the facts of his all-time greatest film role. See you then! | 2019-04-18T17:22:51 | https://talesfromtheborder.com/2015/09/11/its-alive-the-universal-monsters-saga-part-1-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-1923/ |
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Political drama is usually reserved for critical swing states in national politics, but this year’s U.S. Senate race in Kansas continues to have surprises at every turn.
On September 3, Chad Taylor (D) announced his withdraw from the race and requested that his name be removed from the ballot. Taylor’s senate bid was desperately underfunded and the three-way race was giving the Republican incumbent Pat Roberts a substantial lead by plurality.
Several local Democratic leaders had already endorsed independent candidate Greg Orman and it was expected that Taylor would eventually exit the race.
Kris Kobach, the Republican secretary of state, ruled that Taylor could not be removed from the ballot because his request lacked specific verbiage that indicated that he would be unable to perform the duties of the office if elected. This was seen as largely a partisan move designed to try to split the anti-incumbent vote.
In reality, this has been a hyper-technicality on Kobach’s part that is very likely to be overturned in the courts. Taylor’s withdrawal stated that he “…request my name be withdrawn from the ballot, pursuant to KSA 25-306b(b).” The law cited was the part of the legislation that pertained to being unable to perform the duties if elected.
Taylor petitioned the Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday, citing three issues: that his letter was properly formatted, that Kris Kobach has a substantial conflict of interest as an honorary member of Roberts’ campaign committee, and that Taylor’s civil liberties are being jeopardized by being conscripted to run for office.
It’s anyone’s guess how the Kansas Supreme Court will rule, but there is a track history of rulings against Gov. Brownback and Kobach — specifically on cases involving the interpretation of state law. This would indicate that they are currently out of favor with the high court and it is likely that Taylor’s case will be allowed to proceed.
Even with Taylor still on the ballot, a new SurveyUSA/KSN poll gives independent Orman a 1-point lead, with Taylor still receiving 10-points. Regardless of the outcome of this case, Orman needs to consolidate Taylor’s supporters and gather the anti-incumbent Republican vote to win in November. | 2019-04-23T20:03:12 | https://ivn.us/2014/09/10/democrat-chad-taylor-files-suit-removed-ballot-kansas/ |
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Wolves may have just become the odds on favourites for the Sky Bet League One title and heavily favoured tomorrow afternoon, but the bookies always underestimate Boro and that’s the way we like it!
Feeling confident? You can bet on Stevenage to win at a massive 7/1 – A £10 bet would return you £80.
Fancy a sneaky 1-0? That’s 14/1 with Sky Bet, the official sponsor of the Football League.
Francois Zoko is a huge 10/1 to score first, not bad for a man bang in form. You can get Luke Freeman to score first at 14/1, and Filipe Morais is 9/1.
Fancy a fast start? Both teams to score in the first half is 9/2.
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Tis the season! People are in a buying mood. Many retailers make half their yearly revenue from now until Christmas. People will be shopping for gifts, decor, food, and more for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza. How can you increase your sales during the holiday season? If you run a small or home-based business, make sure you plan to incorporate some special promotions during this time. It’s tempting to put off business until “after the holidays” and focus on your own celebrations—there’s always so much to do. That’s fine if it’s your choice. But if you are trying to increase business, now is a great opportunity to do so.
Think about how your product/service would make a nice gift and tell your prospective customers. “Makes a great gift for the special guy in your life”. Perhaps you could create a gift suggestions flyer. People need help choosing great presents for their friends and family. Help them out by telling them what to buy for their mom, dad, wife, husband, sweetheart, child, co-worker, aunt, etc. Offer your “gift-buying” guide free on your website, put it in with all your orders, and distribute it around town.
Perhaps you could bundle several products into a basket. Think about the “recipients” and create special baskets—for example, if you sell cosmetics, create a “teen-dream” makeup kit, an “anti-aging” kit, a “glamour party makeup” kit, and so on. Almost any business can come up with creative packaging or bundling for their products and for their services. For services, you could do a “buy one, get half-off” package. Or a buy three, get one free package. You can even team up with partners to create super packages—a spa and a housecleaning service could combine a massage & a house-cleaning for a fabulous gift for working moms.
The word “free” gets attention. Wrapping and shipping are two things that add to the cost of the gift and if you can include it, that would increase your sales. To make it worthwhile, set a spending requirement—free gift wrap on items over $50 or something similar. Ditto for shipping. You can even run specials where shipping is only $5 for all orders by a certain date, or gift wrapping is free on Mondays.
It’s nice to do something extra for your customers during the holidays. If you have a retail store, bring in Christmas cookies or candy or hot chocolate. If you ship products, buy some ornaments at the dollar store and toss them in with the orders. If you visit clients, take a small goodie bag or fruit basket. The ideas are endless. For spa-type businesses (products or services for anything from manicures to bath gel), consider a sample of a product – a holiday-printed emery board costs pennies and is a nice thought. For an event planner, send everyone a “holiday party guide” even if you don’t have their business this year—fill it with great ideas and you’ll get more business! For a wedding planner, a personalized ornament for all your wedding couples will create much good will.
If you are going to send holiday cards, please, please, please sign them. Having your company name pre-printed on the card is so impersonal that you’d do better saving your money. Hand-addressing your cards is nice, too, but some people have illegible handwriting, so printing the envelopes is okay. But, really, an unsigned card is simply going to send the message that you don’t have time to be bothered with things like signing cards and you never want your customers to think you don’t have time for them. It’s the greeting card version of a form letter.
Action Item: Take a few minutes to write down some holiday ideas you can implement in your own business—just one could be enough. Don’t overload yourself-one idea well executed will be more fruitful than 20 haphazard ones. Then, put it on your calendar and spread some holiday happiness to your customers!
Just buy it, print it out and slip it into their stocking. | 2019-04-18T16:18:29 | https://www.smart-marketing-works.com/make-more-money.html |
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My girlfriend and I had a fun stay! We went to a concert at the Fox Theater, and enjoy the room. I found it to be less then the place I stayed in Birmingham Alabama for less money.
This was a very nice stay, great front desk hospitality, and overall service.
Fire alarm went off at 11ish at night, and no staff came to tell us if there was anything wrong, a false alarm, or anything. We had to keep going out into the hall to see what the status was. Plus, the blaring noise woke up our little one, who then wouldn't go back to sleep. If you're going to wake up your guests with a fire alarm, you need to communicate what's going on!
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Do you remember Match Game? It has had more recent incarnations and is probably still on the Game Show Network or some such cable channel, but I remember the Match Game with host Gene Rayburn and assorted stars (maybe a lowercase “s” on “stars” such as Charles Nelson Reilly, Fanny Flagg and Patty Deutsch.) Anyway, the idea was that you fill in the blank on a sentence and try to match the celebrities’ answers.
We’re going to start with a little Match Game this morning with the sentence: _____ is really living.
A pastor told about going to visit a wealthy parishioner. A seminary student went along. They drove through this posh neighborhood and passed an incredibly large home with a huge, beautifully landscaped yard and a five car garage. There was a BMW and Jaguar in front of two of the doors and a huge RV in front of a third. The last two garage doors were closed because they don’t like exposing their Rolls-Royce to public view. “Now these people really know how to live!” the student exclaimed.
A campfire and beer is really living.
A beach is really living.
A skybox at the game is really living.
A Rolls Royce and a humongous house is really living.
Cars, boats, beautiful homes, fabulous food, wonderful vacations, big bank accounts, you could add other items to the list of what life is really about. But deep down, we know that all of these answers are pretty shallow. These are not what life is really about. A phone call from the doctor’s office with unwanted news can change our idea of what really matters in an instant.
What does it mean to live? To really live? While there is this sentiment out there that if one is able to enjoy the finest life has to offer and have awesome experiences - that is truly living. While most of us wouldn’t mind those things, we know better. We could name a bunch of things that are more important. Family, friendships, relationships, loving and being loved, fulfilling and meaningful work, truly making a difference in another’s life.
The Apostle Paul deals with this issue of really living. He writes from prison. We are not sure where he is in prison – traditionally it was thought to be in Rome, but more recently scholars have argued convincingly for Caesarea or Ephesus or perhaps even Corinth. He writes a letter to the church he had started in Philippi, and it is the most upbeat of all his letters – never mind the fact he writes from prison. The church in Corinth was plagued by scandal and dissension. He writes to the Galatians, apparently dense folks, and at one point actually says, “You stupid Galatians.” But the church in Philippi was his pride and joy, and he writes with obvious affection.
When Paul was arrested, the news traveled fast. It was all that anybody could talk about – the preacher is in jail. When the church had heard about it, they sent Epaphroditus to see how Paul was and what they could do to help. But Epaphroditus became ill, deathly ill; in fact, he almost died. When he was well enough to travel, Paul said, “I really appreciate you coming to see me, but I don’t need a sick deacon around here,” and sent him back to Philippi.
So, one Sunday everybody gathered for worship and lo and behold, Epaphroditus shows up. “What are you doing here?” “I have a letter from Paul. He wants it to be read in church today.” The letter was not posted on the bulletin board; they didn’t just publish it in the Spire or forward emails to everybody. Many of those in the church probably could not read and even if they could, internet service was spotty at best in the ancient world.
So the letter is read in worship. Not just a few verses, the whole thing. There are greetings and preliminary remarks, Paul says how much he loves and appreciates the church, and then he launches into a report about his current circumstances.
And he says, “For me, to live is Christ.” For Paul, this is what living is all about. It is a very countercultural understanding because as opposed to all of those Match Game answers, Paul is saying that my life is not all about me. What matters most are relationships, beginning with the relationship we have in Christ.
Those who have children may remember bringing a child home from the hospital, and the overwhelming sense of responsibility – the sense that there must be some mistake, you mean they are actually entrusting this tiny, fragile, beautiful human life to me? And if it hasn’t already hit you, it does then: my life is not just about me.
Through our work, through our family life, through friendships, through this church, we share our life with others, we make the joys and the pain of others our own, and hopefully we come to understand that life simply lived for yourself is not really much of a life. For Paul, it all centers on his life in Christ: to live is Christ.
But then he makes an odd statement: to die is gain. To live is Christ – and then to die is even better than that? And then he launches into this soliloquy about whether it is better to live or die.
Without the context, it seems very strange and pretty morbid. But here is the deal: life in a first century prison is awful. And Paul has been through a lot already; he is not what you would call the picture of health to start with. He knows that a death sentence is a possible outcome, maybe the likely outcome. He speaks as though he is trying to decide whether to live or die, as though the choice is his: to live means fruitful work, he says; to die means to be with Christ, which is better – I’m not sure which I prefer but finally he says, I think that for me to remain in the flesh with you is more necessary – so I am convinced I will continue here on this earth and come and see you again.
Paul wrote to his friends in Philippi, “To live is Christ and to die is gain.” He wrote out of a deep conviction that both in life and in death, God was with him. In Romans he wrote, “Nothing in all creation, not even death, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.” Sitting in a prison cell, looking at a possible death sentence, you contemplate such things. But he realizes that he has more to do and believes that he will be released from prison.
And so he says to the church in Philippi, “Whether I come to see you in person or whether I just hear about you, I want you to stand firm in Christ.” Christian faith was very much a minority religion. There was persecution and threats and dangers.
Paul speaks of the privilege of suffering for Christ. This past week I’ve been watching the Ken Burns series on the Roosevelts. It has been fascinating and I have learned a lot about Teddy and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. During WWII, Eleanor went to visit the troops and inspect field hospitals in the Pacific. She got a lot flak for this in the press. The Commanding Officer of the group she traveled with thought it was a ridiculous political stunt. But he changed his mind 180 degrees on the first day.
She visited troops, attended rallies, and lifted morale. She inspected a lot of hospitals. But that did not mean just chatting with the CO and having a photo op. She visited every single patient. She took time to ask how they were doing, ask about home, ask if there was anything she could do. And letter she wrote the parents of every soldier, sailor, and Marine she visited.
But here’s the thing: she was completely unprepared for what she saw. There were gruesome and grizzly injuries. She said that she never forgot the smells of the burn unit. She made herself go on but that first night she felt totally unraveled by the experience. But then she got up the next day and did it again, and again. She made a huge difference; one general said that she gave the boys something they had not seen for over a year: an American mother.
We tend to hear something like “the privilege of suffering for Christ” and think about persecution or suffering that is inflicted on us and that is certainly part of it. But maybe more, it means choosing to do those things that are hard and which may bring suffering upon ourselves, but we nevertheless choose for the sake of Christ and the sake of others.
So Paul writes to his friends in Philippi. He says that suffering for Christ is a privilege. And then he says, “Get your mind off of me. I am not the church. If you are worried about me, I’ll be fine. Whether I live or die, I am just fine.
But the sense of the word Paul uses here is more than simply one’s involvement in the political system. Of course, those in the Roman Empire did not have the opportunity to vote or run for office, and they certainly did not have the opportunity to protest or demonstrate about Roman policies, or to write a critical letter to the editor. Well, I guess you could do that, but probably only once.
In a difficult environment, the church at Philippi was striving to live out its faith in its community. In their first-century way, they did what we strive to do today. For us, it is seen in things like helping to provide affordable housing through Ames Ecumenical Housing and Habitat for Humanity and a small project our church supports called Home For Awhile. It is seen in our involvement in the CROP Walk or in helping MICA and the Emergency Residence Project. Living lives worthy of the gospel also happens when we sing our hearts out on a Sunday morning and when we learn to trust our lives to God. Our living is worthy of the gospel of Christ when we are able to forgive one another. Our living is worthy of the gospel of Christ when we live lives of generosity and gratitude, day by day. Our living is worthy of the gospel of Christ when we our lives show peace, patience, kindness, and goodness. Our living is worthy of the gospel of Christ when we see needs around us and do our best to meet them.
Paul said to the church, “Don’t worry about me. Whether I live or die, I’ll be just fine. Now you have Christ and you have all of these human needs around you. Go and be the church. Make me proud. Let the way that you live be worthy of the gospel.” Amen.
We are always on the lookout for ways to make life easier. And it has always been that way. There is a reason the wheel caught on. There is a reason that farmers use tractors instead of horses. There is a reason we have microwave ovens. There is a reason we carry cell phones. There is a reason we like indoor plumbing and air conditioning and drive-through lanes. It’s nice to sit in a recliners – or better yet, a power recliner. We want life to be easy.
But some things just refuse to cooperate. There are those things in life that are just plain hard. Our scriptures today deal with one of the hardest things around: forgiveness. Forgiveness is never easy.
Our Old Testament scripture is from the last chapter of Genesis, near the conclusion of the story of Joseph and his brothers, the children of Jacob.
A few weeks ago, we looked at an overview of Joseph’s life. Joseph was the favorite son, showered with gifts by his father and resented by the other brothers. They had finally sold him as a slave into Egypt and told their father that Joseph had been killed by a wild animal. In Egypt, Joseph is very much alive but languishing in a prison cell, accused and convicted of a crime he did not commit.
But that was then. Now Joseph was the one holding all the cards. Now he was powerful – as powerful as anyone in all of Egypt, save for Pharoah himself. In a time of famine, his family had come to Egypt searching for food, and Joseph himself was in charge of all the stores of grain. He had in fact toyed with his brothers – he had his own silver cup placed in youngest brother Benjamin’s grain sack and then accused him of theft. He had power of life and death over them – and they did not even know he was their brother.
In the end Joseph broke down and wept and embraced his brothers. He sent for his father and brought his whole family to Egypt, to a place of plenty, a place of safety and security.
But now Jacob was dead. The patriarch was gone. If Joseph had been biding his time until Jacob was gone, now was his chance for retribution. He had the opportunity and the power to avenge himself. And what’s more, he had the right. There was nothing to stop him. His brothers knew it. They expected it. They deserved it. And they came before Joseph in fear, begging for mercy.
But Joseph said to them that what they had meant for harm, God had used for good. And he forgave them and embraced them.
We all know folks who have been estranged from family members. We are all acquainted with families that cannot get along, where family members have been badly hurt, where deep grudges are held. This may happen in our own families. The hurt can be so deep, so painful when caused by someone in our own family. And we all know of situations where reconciliation seems completely out of the question.
But imagine a family where brothers sell one of their own into slavery in a foreign land, a place where this brother sits in prison. How could there possibly be any hope for such a family? Forgiveness can be exceedingly difficult.
And then we have Peter. Jesus had just talked to his disciples about how to deal with conflict in the church, and perhaps this spurred Peter’s question, “How much should we forgive? As many as seven times?” Peter thought he was being pretty magnanimous. Once you’ve been burned a couple of times, you learn. Forgiving two or three times is pretty impressive. But Peter asks, how about seven times? After forgiving seven times, then can I stop forgiving? I’m trying to be generous, Jesus, but we have to draw the line somewhere.
Jesus says, no, not seven, but seventy-seven. Some manuscripts have this as “seventy times seven.” But it doesn’t matter. Jesus’ point is that there is no line. There is no limit. We are to just keep on forgiving.
And then to reinforce what he was saying, Jesus tells this story. A king was settling accounts with his servants, and one person was found to owe ten thousand talents. It is a huge amount, equal to many years’ worth of wages.
How he accumulated such debt we do not know, but this is clearly beyond his ability to repay. He begs and pleads with the king and promises to repay everything - which he certainly cannot do - and the king mercifully decides that he will forgive the debt. An enormous amount, just written off as bad debt. It is an incredible act of grace.
What a relief to this servant! How thankful he must have been! Except that, he runs into a colleague who owes him money - 100 denarii. This was not an inconsequential amount of money, except that compared to his own debt that had just been canceled, it was a mere drop in the bucket. But the one who had just been forgiven a million dollars refuses to pass on the forgiveness and demands his thousand bucks right then and there. He ignores the pleas for patience and has the man thrown into debtor’s prison.
Reading this story, I am aghast at this man’s lack of mercy. What really galls us is the hypocrisy of it all. How could someone forgiven so much not be generous? How could he not forgive someone else? We want this guy to get what he deserves, and he does: the king has him thrown in prison to be tortured until he can pay his debt, which of course he never will.
Did you notice what has happened? The forgiveness of the king was short-lived, and we have all been roped into being unforgiving as well. At first, we were on the side of the servant who owed the great amount, but as soon as he turned out to be a jerk, we wanted the forgiveness rescinded, and we were glad when he was punished.
That’s enough to make the most ardent biblical literalist do some tap dancing, because we know that forgiveness is no small thing. And really, this is not at all in the character of Jesus – who lived a life of grace and offers us forgiveness. Threats of torture for not being forgiving really don’t seem Jesus’ style. I mean, so much for seventy-seven times, let alone 70 times 7.
Matthew interprets this story as an allegory – the king represents God. And looking at it this way, we are certainly impressed with how important forgiveness is. But is God really like this king?
I think that we are better off thinking of the story as a parable – a story for us to chew on. And the point is not so much about God but rather about our shocking lack of forgiveness. We, who have been forgiven so much, are slow to forgive others.
Well, as I said, it is hard. Really hard. Why? Well, we have to put aside our need for power – the power of being right, the power of punishing for pain afflicted, the power of revenge. Forgiving another means setting these aside and being vulnerable. And forgiveness is hard because it is unnatural. It goes against our human instinct. It goes against our every emotional impulse.
Forgiveness is hard because we have so few models of real forgiveness. In our daily lives, where do we see it? Where do we see it at work or at school? Where do we see forgiveness in public discourse? Where do we see it in our families? We can think of a few examples – but not many.
Tom Long told about a preaching class he taught. He announced that there was going to be a test. The class looked at him apprehensively – they had not been expecting this. There would not be a grade on the test, he told them, but it was an important test nonetheless. It involved being given a list of theological words and students writing about how they had experienced these concepts in a personal way. If preaching means making such ideas real and understandable, Long told the class, then students needed to be able to articulate what these things meant to them.
The first word was hope. They wrote away about hoping for a baby to be born, they wrote about high hopes for their children, about standing at a bedside and praying hopefully for healing, about standing at a graveside and hoping for joy to rise from sorrow. They knew about hope.
The next word was faith. Again, the pens got to writing. They had chosen a life of ministry, after all. Many had left careers to come to seminary. They had trusted God’s voice and followed. They knew about faith.
The next word was forgiveness. Long said that the pens stopped writing. When students did write, it was about fairly trivial things. A mother forgiving a child over a broken vase, a high school teacher not holding a bad test score against a student, things like that. They were preparing to preach a gospel rooted in forgiveness, but they did not have a lot of concrete examples of forgiveness in real life. They had not experienced much of it for themselves.
The house was newly painted, the lawn was mowed, there were beautiful flowers in bloom. It was an otherwise lovely home, but its beauty was marred by this ugly sign. Apparently, the owner had a bad experience and used this sign to get even. But who was really being hurt by this grudge?
Forgiveness is hard. Even when we become victims of our own lack of forgiveness, it is still hard. And sometimes the person we have the hardest time forgiving is ourselves. Sometimes we are willing to offer grace to others, but cannot forgive ourselves.
Forgiveness may be more than just hard. There is a sense in which it is downright impossible.
Nearly every Sunday we pray to God, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” As if we can forgive the way God forgives. As if we are even in the same league.
“Forgive one another,” we are told, as if by a sheer act of will we can get past the deep pain we have experienced, as though we can just change our heart by a decision of our mind. I’m sorry, but it doesn’t work that way.
The Bible frequently asks us to do things that we really can’t do. Love your enemies. Bless those who persecute you. Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. Pray without ceasing. Forgive one another as I have forgiven you.
To forgive another – to truly, deeply, completely forgive – can be an impossible task. But maybe we need to look at forgiveness in another way.
Forgiveness is something we cannot just do as a technique to make us better than we were, to heal an old hurt, or to free us from a corrupting power that diminishes us. Of course, forgiveness helps us in all those ways. But forgiveness seems to mean that I willingly dip my heart into the fountain of God's love so that I may be a channel of that love, and if I am observant and patient, I see miracles. Grace, joy, wonder, healing--all these things start to happen in me and in the other, too.
Forgiveness then is not simply something we decide to do, but it is a process that grows out of our own experience of God’s love. It is not so much our decision but a gift from God. It’s not so much that we grant forgiveness but we participate in God’s forgiveness. Forgiveness in the New Testament sense is not a quick or superficial event. It is about a deep healing, a repair of broken relationships, a removal of the poison that destroys love and community, a restoration of wholeness and trust – and this can come only from God. It is beyond our power.
You probably recall the terrible shooting at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania several years ago. Several school children were killed and the shooter then took his own life. What was most amazing was the response of the Amish community. They forgave the troubled young man who had committed this horrible crime. Members of the Amish community attended his funeral. Money that came in was shared with the family of the shooter. They understood that his family had suffered loss just as they had.
It was a powerful witness to their faith. But you have to wonder: can you really have instant forgiveness for a loss so deep? Can you really forgive someone on the same day that he killed your child? I don’t think you can. You can’t really forgive when you haven’t even experienced the pain yet, and this is a pain they will always have with them. I don’t think you can really, truly forgive just like that. But what they did was to align themselves on the side of forgiveness. We cannot ourselves create forgiveness, but we can participate in God’s forgiveness.
Genuine forgiveness takes time; indeed, it takes more time than we have. There are not enough days in a human life for all the pain to be healed; there are not enough years in history for all the wrongs to be righted. Only in God who is eternal, only in Jesus Christ who is “the same yesterday and today and forever,” is there enough time. God has time for human restoration; God takes time to make peace with humanity. In God’s eternal time, all the wounds have been healed and all of the restless, vengeful spite of human harm has been transformed into reconciliation and peace.
Forgiveness is required of us. And true forgiveness is impossible for us. But thankfully, with God, all things are possible. Amen.
I have asked a number of people - kindergartners, grade school students, undergrads, graduate students, elementary teachers, college professors, principals - if they were glad to be back in school. The answers fell into three categories: yes, no, and then the majority said kind of/sort of. For most, there were mixed feelings, both pros and cons.
On the plus side, students get to see friends, school can be fun, it is something to do, parents are glad to get the kids out of their hair and back in school. The social aspects of education can be pretty important. Beyond that, I have talked with students who really like their classes and enjoy what they are learning.
Then there is the negative side. You have to take notes. There are tests. You have to study. You have to plan. You have to write papers. And that is just what I heard from the professors. It’s no picnic for the students, either.
I’d like for us for a moment to think about our scripture today as though it were a lecture heard in class. This is not an especially long passage; it is fairly short and concise. But there is a great deal packed into these verses. In our text today there are 30 injunctions, 30 instructions to follow. If you heard this in a lecture, you would be scribbling furiously to get it all down.
I have heard homiletics professors say that the structure of the text should be a cue for the structure of the sermon. If the text is a story, the sermon will probably flow differently from a sermon based on a Psalm. If the text is a theological argument, the sermon would likely be structured differently than if our scripture were a parable.
Well, a scripture that contains 30 different instructions poses some unique possibilities. We could go with a 30-point sermon. It would be a kind of macho approach. “Yeah, I preached a 30-point sermon.” But it might be kind of choppy - that is a lot of transitions – and I finally decided that if the sermon was like one of those lectures that just goes on and on, we might not have very many people back next week.
I did think of a possible modification. I could give a pop quiz. I could read the 30 different instructions - Do not lag in zeal, be patient in suffering, extend hospitality to strangers, and so on. You would tally 1 point for each of these that you practice most of the time, and if you get 20 points, then you get in line for lunch. The rest of you would have to sit through a 30 point sermon. But that seemed to violate the spirit of the text itself – it might knock a few points off of my score.
It can come across as a lot of instructions to follow, a lot of stuff we are supposed to do, but Paul is really not giving us 30 different instructions, 30 points for the class to remember for the test. Rather, Paul is describing the characteristics of Christian living – the marks of true Christian faith. The entire passage is a way of further defining and describing what we find in the very first verse: “Let your love be genuine.” All that follows – the 29 other injunctions - are descriptions of what genuine love looks like.
If you had to choose one passage of the Bible and try to live your life based on that one passage, you could do a lot worse than to live your life on these words.
“Let your love be genuine.” Literally, this reads “love un-hypocritical.” Love that is for real - not fake or put on or show-offy – here is what it looks like.
An interesting idea Paul shares has to do with competition. “Outdo each other,” he says. We know about outdoing each other. We live in a very competitive society—we compete at all kinds of thing. Sports, grades, houses, jobs, clothing, cars. We compete with friends and strangers alike in games we play games on our phones. And it can happen with churches as well. We can be very competitive.
I have a couple of good friends from my hometown in Indiana who are serious bowlers. Randy is the one who is really into it – he competes in a lot of pro bowlers tour events. When he turned 50, he thought, now I am going to really make a splash because now I can join the senior tour. I can win against the old guys. But as it turns out, it doesn’t work that way. It would be like me turning 50 and thinking I could really excel in senior league basketball but then Michael Jordan and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and Dr. J show up at the gym.
I told him a little about First Baptist, but what I really wanted to ask him was, “How awesome is your church?” But I didn’t.
We can be competitive about a lot of things. And Paul urges us to be competitive - with a twist. He says, “Outdo each other in showing honor.” Outdo each other in the care and respect and help and encouragement that you show. This doesn’t mean rubbing it in someone’s face that you are more loving than they are – that would be kind of a self-defeating action, wouldn’t it? – but it means having the kind of enthusiasm and drive and commitment to being loving and compassionate and to doing good that we so often see in our various competitive activities.
Paul says that as a community, we are to have a mutual affection – a deep, shared concern. An AP story reported on Mark Lowery, a 7th grader at a Lutheran school in Yorkville, Illinois. He was diagnosed with leukemia and the other students learned that Mark would soon be undergoing chemo treatments and lose his hair. By the end of that week, 14 of the 16 boys seventh and eighth grade boys in the school had shaved their heads. Two of the 16 were not bald. One was waiting to have his clipped that weekend. The other was Mark, who had undergone a treatment but still had his hair. Genuine love within the community means sharing our lives with one another. Paul writes, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” Those seventh and eighth grade boys knew something about love.
But the genuine, un-hypocritical, “for real” love Paul writes about is not simply for those who are within the community of faith. We are not called just to care for each other within the church; we are called to action in the world, to care for those in need whomever and wherever they may be.
The two go together. It is the love – the care, the encouragement, the acceptance, the support that we gather from the community that enables us to go out and serve boldly in the world.
Tom Ehrich, an ordained Episcopal priest and a writer and church consultant, wrote last week about the importance of churches being safe places – where members feel acceptance, dignity, and respect and are treated as people of value. This is something a lot of people don’t experience in their day-to-day lives and too few people experience even in church. He wrote, “(Such) a congregation would equip us with the faith, self-confidence, courage and tools to go forth into a dangerous world and be God’s agent for hope and healing, diversity and justice.” Writing about the fighting that can sometimes go on in churches, he argues that going forth from God’s community into God’s world will never happen if the basic faith enterprise itself is not experienced as a safe and loving place.
Paul’s description of love that is “for real” in Romans 12 mirrors what Ehrich is talking about. It includes both love experienced within the community of faith as well as love that we express outside the walls of the church.
I always enjoy this service that we hold outside each year, just as I have really enjoyed our services at Brookside Park in the summer. It’s fun, it’s more casual, it’s different, I don’t have to wear a suit and tie, we always have a good meal - there are a lot of reasons to like this service. But I also think it is really helpful to worship outside the walls of the church if for no other reason than to remember that we are part of a larger community, a bigger world. We have neighbors all around us with various gifts and concerns and needs and frustrations. We don’t live in a vacuum; we live in the real world. Cars and passersby and traffic noise might be distractions, but we might also think of them as reminders.
This year our church joined AMOS, a group that does this work of reaching out to make a difference in our community by changing structures, by engaging the principalities and powers, as the Bible puts it, to be more fair and just for everyone. In the next few weeks, our church and the other 26 AMOS institutions will hold house meetings. In these meetings, small groups will gather and basically share about where they feel pressure in life – where life is hard. Out of the concerns that are shared, AMOS will come up with the issues that it will research and address in the coming year or two. This is not just for church members – friends and neighbors, anyone is welcome. The more community members who participate, the better.
A few years ago, a woman attended an AMOS house meeting and told her story. She had no health insurance. An expectant mother, there was nowhere in Story County where she could get pre-natal care. The time came, she went into labor and drove to the hospital in Marshalltown. They told her that she had not dilated enough and to come back when she was farther along. So she went to the parking lot and sat in her car, with two young children, in freezing February weather, to wait until her labor was far enough along that she could be admitted to the hospital.
She told her story, and something came out of that. Through several partnerships, a free pre-natal clinic was started and is held in a mobile clinic at Bethesda Lutheran Church twice a month, staffed with a doctor from Broadlawns who volunteers his time. This has all led to a new community health clinic that opened this year in Ames.
The whole story – and the work of AMOS – is an example of love expressed by the people of God beyond the walls of the church.
Now like many of you, I am struck at how unjust, how unfair, how difficult, how plain mean our world can be. The news can be so depressing. In a world of terrorism, in a world of violence, in a world of such deep differences, in a world of such animosity and hatred, loving our enemies sounds so out of touch. Oh, it might sound nice and spiritual, but it just seems terribly naïve and unrealistic. If you really try to love an enemy in this world, it might get you killed.
It is true that loving one’s enemies can be dangerous. Look what it did for Jesus. Jesus knew what it would lead to, and yet he said to his followers, “you must love one another.” And not only that, but “Love your enemies.” Jesus came to show us what love is--genuine love, love that is for real. And he showed us how dangerous living that way can be. Jesus died on the cross for all of humanity, for those who love him, and for those who do not.
We have the example of Jesus, but still, the question is there. Is the love that we read about this morning - a love for each other, a love for our world, a love that extends even to enemies – is it realistic? Is it worth it?
Maybe we should ask a different question. In a world filled with so much pain, can we as Christians do anything less than love? Outdoing each other in goodness, weeping together and celebrating together, helping those in need, even loving our enemies. This is what God has called us to do. And in the end, this may be the only thing that makes sense.
We don’t have to memorize thirty rules about Christian behavior. We don’t need a 30-point sermon (although if I’m flooded with requests, I may consider it.) It is all wrapped up in one word. Love. Love that is for real. Amen. | 2019-04-21T00:30:18 | http://www.davidwrussell.com/2014/09/ |
An international team of researchers for the first time have estimated the methane gas being emitted by fresh water areas such as lakes and rivers. The study, recently published in the journal Science, showed that these emissions reduce the net absorption of greenhouse gases by land ecosystems such as forests by at least 25%.
Meanwhile, numerous other surveys have found plumes of methane escaping from sea floor sediments beneath the Arctic Ocean and other underwater regions. Although cold temperatures and high pressure have kept the methane in a frozen state for centuries past, recent destabilization due to human-caused global warming could eventually trigger a widespread release of the potent greenhouse gas at a rate of 16,000 tons per year.
Research oceanographer Dr. Tony Koslow from the University of California San Diego, USA explained.
Tony Koslow - Research oceanographer - University of California San Diego, USA (M): If the sea temperatures increase sufficiently, that would lead to the release of these methane clathrates, these frozen methane in the deep sea. And once that process starts it would just snowball.
VOICE: Oceanographers also forecast that such a release would generate too many methane- consuming microbes, creating an imbalance as they consume the water's dissolved oxygen and generate carbon dioxide. The resulting oxygen depletion and acidification of the oceans would disrupt ecosystems and form dead zones, which in turn would undermine a vital oxygen source for the entire planet. Dr. Koslow points to a major marine mass extinction event in the past.
Tony Koslow (M): One of the real concerns is that about 55 million years ago, the best available evidence is that much of the methane that was trapped in the deep ocean was released very suddenly in geological terms, and this led to a huge warming. And it actually led to the extinction of much of the life in the oceans.
When paleoecologists discovered this, only within about the last 10, 20 years it's really changed people's perspective on how climate change can happen; very, very rapidly and how it can happen through the release of this frozen methane. The key is that we really have to contain global climate change.
VOICE: Our appreciation, international scientists for informing us of the potentially catastrophic impacts of unleashing underwater methane. May we act swiftly together to mitigate global warming so that the biosphere and planet may be preserved.
During an international gathering with our Association members in February 2008, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke of the release of methane and its link to global warming, urging for the simple way to halt it.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: You see, the gases are fuming from the ocean and from the land that's been deforested. It's fuming everywhere. It's just that at the moment, it's not so intense. But it'll be more and more intense if we don't do something.
Everybody knows by now, from the UN Report that meat eating, animal raising, it's one of the worst factors, or even the worst factor of global warming. And nobody talks about it.
What is so difficult, to put down one piece of meat, and replace it with one piece of tofu. Which is exactly the same, better nutrition. Better for your health. More economized. | 2019-04-23T16:30:36 | http://www.suprememastertv.tv/runaway-methane-global-warming/?wr_id=2442 |
Desi is here through the Summer and possibly beyond. She is providing coverage for Taya who is on maternity leave.
Desi is a graduate of Sage school of Massage and is a 200 hour registered yoga teacher. Desi offers a therapeutic massage with a focus on relaxation and health. She enjoys working closely with chiropractors and knows the healing power of the massage/chiropractic combo. Desi’s background include professional sports, dance and community service. She brings excellent skills, vitality and her natural healing touch, to Bigfoot Wellness.
Desi is available Monday, Tuesdays and Fridays for care. You can contact Dr. Sarah to schedule with Desi if in combo with your chiropractic care or you can schedule online. | 2019-04-19T06:37:54 | https://sisterschiropractor.com/2018/06/12/we-welcome-desi/ |
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A love of discovery and an “I am ready” enthusiasm fuel Clint’s creative journey. His background and education in the sciences in combination with his artistic endeavors in the visual and performing arts flow into his work at the Doseum, San Antonio’s museum for kids. Clint discusses his “camps” for children and how his experiences in the arts impact his teaching. In the first camp, the children spent five days developing a “civilization” and in the second, the participants (ages 5 to 7) will produce a film. | 2019-04-25T12:43:40 | https://marikasculptures.com/category/touchstone-podcast-episodes/ |
Well, the Home Show season is done and now it's time to get back into the thick of things. Tomorrow, we're headed off to the sandblaster to get rid of all the cracked, chipped lead paint on these beds. Immediately afterwards, they will be powder-coated and emerge from the baking oven a lovely gloss white colour. A few of these beds are ones that we are restoring for several customers, but the rest will be up for sale on the website shortly. Hope you like them! | 2019-04-20T02:59:08 | http://www.antiquecastironbeds.com/blog-layout/hi-ho-hi-ho-its-off-to-paint-we-go |
Good efficient service with courteous staff and the work appears to be to a high standard.
A good prompt service, excellent overall.
All staff were very friendly and helpful. They went out of their way to fit around my timescale.
The service from the garage was great and the work was brilliant, cannot tell it has been done at all. The only problem was the steering wasn't aligned properly on collection so it had to go back. Other than that the staff were quick, friendly and very thorough and I am very happy with the outcome.
The work done to my car was of a good standard.
The garage had my car for 4 weeks after an accident. I was not kept informed as to what was happening, I had to ring every time. They wouldn't tell what has been fixed, or how much it has cost. The most annoying thing is that when I got my car back yesterday, the work is appalling. The boot is out of alignment with the car, there is a cover missing off the rear wiper, and the brake light they have replaced has been replaced with a clear red cover, when mine are all tinted.
Garage had the car for 4 weeks but did an excellent job and wouldn't release it till it was perfect.
Amazing work from the mechanics, car looked great. Excellent work!
Fantastic quality of work. Excellent service from start to finish. | 2019-04-26T16:13:11 | http://www.carsandgarages.co.uk/garage/127752-K-&-P-Anderson-Bros-LTD?page=4 |
Soaperstar: Web Site ... what to choose?
Web Site ... what to choose?
Well, plans are now afoot to start up Soaperstar as a business; I've done some planning on my holidays and still have a lot more work to do before I start selling (given cosmetic selling is legislation heavy and all products have to be safety assessed prior to sale) - I'm at the stage now where I'm thinking about my website. I already have the domain name (courtesy of my lovely brother) but I have no experience of HTML or any website language so I'm thinking I'll go with a website builder like Mr Site. I've heard good and bad things so still not sure. If anyone has any experience with Mr Site, please drop me a line.
I'm dying to get things up and running but things take time and I suppose that's a good thing - making sure that everything is right and done properly... that way my customers will get the best of my products which can only be a good thing!!!
Watch out folks, Soaperstar is on the way!!!
A taste of the new Soaperstar range!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I won a Prize!!!!
The Soapy Drought is over! New Soaperstar soaps!
I'm back and I've been recognised!!! | 2019-04-19T19:01:58 | http://soaperstar.blogspot.com/2009/08/web-site-what-to-choose.html |
Nutrients are found in the food that we ingest, the best combination of nutrients can be achieved through a balanced diet. The food goes through a process known as digestion in order for nutrients to be obtained and be absorbed into the bloodstream for transport to various organs and use in the body. There are various processes that are food undergo in the digestive tract, and each process contributes ultimately to absorption of nutrients in the body. Doctors have come up with a way that could by-pass all these process and avail food in the body through intravenous injection of nutrients in the right proportion to the bloodstream, this can be quite important to a patient especially if introduced in the right way, and it is too good to be true.
Despite the various advantages of all therapies, there might be side effects, one should understand them, before engaging in any kind of treatment. There are several cases where individuals have developed other infections because the treatment is not done in the right procedure; it is important for one to insist on quality of treatment before accepting to be treated. Besides he advantages, of a quick recovery in most alternative therapies, there is hardly any of them that has no side effect, some may have mild side effects while some may have chronic cases. It is good that progress in the field of medicine is here to give us something to smile about. but it is very advisable to always opt for quality services and physicians. | 2019-04-22T00:11:27 | https://alternativemedicinemiami.com/best-nutrition-iv-treatments/ |
If you’re after an excellent SLR that already has all the pieces on it, then you should strive to check out our latest product. They’ve fixed lenses, but are comparable dimension to and have massive sensors like mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. In Camera Art Boutique Resort has a restaurant on web site. In Digicam Artwork Boutique Hotel is a lodge inspired by the previous and designed for the future, with its respect to each culture and the environment. Save time by storing your digicam with the attached lens within the DSLR backpack as it could hold most DSLR body’s with their lenses connected on high an additional 1-2 lenses, a tripod system and equipment.
A very good pal of mine removed his SLR kit in favour of a Leica X1. He wished a easy, light weight, improbable high quality digicam and decided that for his style of shooting he might make do with a set lens. The normal goal of personal security cameras is to forestall and cut back the incidence of crime and to identify criminal offenders for the police and the area people.
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It is virtually indestructible — it’s dust-proof, water-proof, crush-proof, and freeze-proof — and takes sharp pictures (sixteen MP) and video in QuickTime format. Established as a retail camera retailer within the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District in 1974, Camera Boutique has evolved over the years to give attention to institutional and government gross sales. All cameras monitor the checkouts, the doors and the corners of the stores, with a broad view of all displays.
Rent the most recent Cinema Cameras, Lenses, and Equipment – Indie friendly pricing and knowlegeable service. Although minimally priced, the strategically positioned hotel present quality standard and sophisticated approach. It shoots video, has a 2.5-inch LED screen, and might store your images as digital recordsdata, but if you happen to determine to print one, it will do it in seconds. | 2019-04-18T18:49:50 | http://www.the-maxwell-group.com/digicam-obscura-on-line-shop.html |
German: altered spelling of Lautermann, a habitational name from any of several places called Lauter in Bavaria, Hesse, and Saxony or from Lauta in Brandenburg + man ‘man’.
Where is the Lauderman family from?
You can see how Lauderman families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Lauderman family name was found in the USA, and Canada between 1840 and 1920. The most Lauderman families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1911 there were 8 Lauderman families living in Saskatchewan. This was about 67% of all the recorded Lauderman's in Canada. Saskatchewan had the highest population of Lauderman families in 1911.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Lauderman surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Lauderman ancestors do for a living?
In 1880, a less common occupation for the Lauderman family was House Keeper. Farmer, Laborer and Clerk-Dry Goods were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Lauderman. The most common Lauderman occupation in the USA was Farmer. 38% of Lauderman's were Farmers.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Lauderman ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Lauderman family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Lauderman. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Lauderman census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Lauderman. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in Canada, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
There are 1,000 military records available for the last name Lauderman. For the veterans among your Lauderman ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.
You've only scratched the surface of Lauderman family history.
What is the average Lauderman lifespan?
Between 1957 and 2004, in the United States, Lauderman life expectancy was at its lowest point in 2001, and highest in 1979. The average life expectancy for Lauderman in 1957 was 49, and 76 in 2004.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Lauderman ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more. | 2019-04-22T20:49:34 | https://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=lauderman |
The alleged leader of the violent Mexican Zetas drug cartel has been charged in a federal indictment with laundering millions through the U.S. quarter horse industry, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, believed to be a leader of the Zetas and already under indictment on U.S. drug trafficking charges, remains a fugitive with a $5 million reward on his head in Mexico.
The indictment alleges that the Zetas and 14 other cartel members laundered millions of dollars in drug profits by channeling the money through straw men and front organizations to buy and train quarter horses, a popular racing breed in the West.
The fraudulent owners then used forged documents to sell horses that won high-stakes races or were valued for their breeding potential to Trevino or companies he controlled. The documents backdated the sale to show Trevino had purchased the highly profitable horses for a minimal investment before their worth was established.
“The allegations in this indictment, if proven, would document yet another example of the corrupting influence of Mexican drug cartels within the United States, facilitated by the enormous profits generated by the illicit drug trade,” U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman said.
Seven suspects named in the indictment, which was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Austin on Tuesday, have been arrested in raids in Texas, Oklahoma, and California.
Among them was Trevino’s brother, Jose Trevino Morales, who is accused of directing the money laundering operation. He was arrested in Oklahoma. A third brother, Oscar Omar Trevino Morales, also was charged in the indictment but remains at-large in Mexico. | 2019-04-22T06:25:58 | https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/drug-cartel-indictment-horses/2012/06/13/id/442199/ |
At the non-smoking Alfond Inn amenities like a heated pool in-house dining and free Wi-Fi combine with a location near I-4 Rollins College and museums for a comfortable stay. The five-story inn houses 112 rooms furnished with free Wi-Fi mini-fridges coffeemakers flat-panel TVs and iPod docks. Guests can dine on breakfast lunch and dinner in the in-house restaurant. Weekend brunch and limited room service are also available. Keeping active is a breeze thanks to the on-site fitness room. When duty calls head to the business center. Guests can cool down year-round in the heated outdoor pool. Pets are allowed for an additional fee. Two miles east of I-4 the Alfond Inn is situated in central Winter Park a half-mile north of the Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College and less than five miles north of the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in Orlando. Guests are also less than a half-mile west of the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens. Don't forget to head to Disney World 24 miles south. Orlando International Airport lies 15 miles from the inn.
Liked: The bath area wasn?t very clean. We called for service. They came and it still wasn?t clean. That was very disappointing as no one spoke to me about it.
Liked: I love the way Anthony at the front desk made me feel. He has a beautiful smile.
Disliked: Checking in did not go smoothly and I was quite surprised that there were several times when the Reception desk was left unattended...seemed liked not enough help at the front desk and in the dining room. | 2019-04-20T07:18:53 | https://www.concerthotels.com/hotel/the-alfond-inn/336881 |
Danny Brito is an artist in Florida who in his own words “draws cute things”. And that’s exactly what he does. I had to have these little compact mirrors, not so much for the mirror but for the whimsical design on them. His shop is filled with wonderful little items and prints of his illustrations. I find everything very charming. As a collector of postcard I really wish he had some because his art is perfect for it but not everybody loves postcards like me (sad but true). The mirrors are greats, but as I’m not really into make-up, I am thinking of converting them into being a pin so I can wear them instead.
And now for my favourite items! | 2019-04-24T12:05:58 | http://blog.citizenerasedphotography.com/2013/02/25/pick-of-the-week-danny-brito/ |
This video I'm going to show you a few techniques to combine selections and save them into like a reusable format so that you can create a mask that you can reuse over and over again in your in your workflow on a particular image.
Video: Creating and Saving Selections in Photoshop!
Load the image in Photoshop.
Make the selection around the tree trunk.
Press Hold or Alt on the keyboard to make a more accurate selection.
With the Selection made and to prevent yourself from recreating the same steps click on the the Channel Tab.
After you saved it you will see an Alpha 1 Channel if you click it you will see how the channel looks like.
Remove the unnecessary lines by using the brush tool, set the opacity level to 100%.
Press the Ctrl or Command D on your keyboard to deselect and remove the lines.
Proceed with the next trees with the sames steps from Step 2-Step 10.
Combine the three channel into 1 by pressing the Ctrl or Command and click on Channel Tree1.
By pressing Command and Shift (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift (Windows) click on Tree 2 and Tree 3.
Click on the icon at the bottom that says “Save Selection as Channel” to save all 3 trees as one channel.
Select the individual channels and remove it by dragging it down to the bin.
Press Command or Ctrl on your keyboard to now load this all trees channel as a selection.
Go back to the layers tab.
This will automatically add the selection to the curves adjustment layer.
Make the necessary changes on the curves layer and it will only affect the trees.
Add another curves adjustment layer.
Invert the layer mask by pressing Command or Ctrl+I.
Whatever changes you make on this layer will affect the image except the trees.
I liked the video on creating and saving selection in Photoshop, and would like to know something about luminosity masking. | 2019-04-18T18:23:02 | https://photomasteryclub.com/create-combine-save-selections-photoshop/ |
Converts from edna to alda format.
The underlying multimethod for converting edna to alda. You probably don't need to use this.
Turns the edna content into a data URI for use in browsers. The opts map can contain: :soundbank - A javax.sound.midi.Soundbank object, or nil to use the JVM's built-in one (optional, defaults to a soundbank included in this library) :format - A javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat object (optional, defaults to one with 44100 Hz) Note: If you want to use the sound font installed on your system, rather than the one built into edna, include `:soundbank nil` in your opts map.
Takes edna content and exports it, returning the value of :out. The opts map can contain: :type - :midi, :wav, or :mp3 (required) :out - A java.io.OutputStream or java.io.File object (optional, defaults to a ByteArrayOutputStream) :soundbank - A javax.sound.midi.Soundbank object, or nil to use the JVM's built-in one (optional, defaults to a soundbank included in this library) :format - A javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat object (optional, defaults to one with 44100 Hz) Note: If you want to use the sound font installed on your system, rather than the one built into edna, include `:soundbank nil` in your opts map.
Takes edna content and plays it. Returns a score map, which can be used to stop it later.
Stops the given score from playing. The `score` should be what was returned by `play!`. | 2019-04-24T15:02:01 | https://oakes.github.io/edna/clj/edna.core.html |
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What is a positive cash flow? Simply speaking, if your rental income is more than your expense, then you have a positive cash flow. Otherwise, you have a negative cash flow.
Be very careful with negative cash flow. Your real estate agent may tell you that you can eventually get even because the house appreciates over time. But you can't count on that. Treat your rental property as a business. With a negative cash flow, you are speculating and speculation is very risky.
During the height of the housing bubble, a lot of real estate investors made mistakes by buying homes that didn't generate positive cash flow. Many people ignored the numbers and didn't buy investments based on proper evaluation. The result can be devastating. The current foreclosures are led by non-owner occupied houses.
In order to generate positive cash flow, you need to find the right property. In some areas, with the house price so high like California and New York, it's just impossible to find a property that can generate positive cash flow. For people in those states, the best way is to find it in other states. There're people turn their own house into a rental property instead of selling it. Some people buy a property at very low price and fix it up and then turn into a rental property. No matter what strategy you use, the goal is to find a low priced property that can generate positive cash flow.
Let's take a look at what costs are involved in cash flow calculation and at what price a house can generate a positive cash flow.
The income is the monthly rental income. Consult with your local realtors to find the rental price in the same subdivision of the house you are interested in to estimate the monthly rental income. The expense includes maintenance fee, vacancy, mortgage, property tax, HOA and insurance. If you use a property management company, don't forget the management fee. If you use a realtor to rent it out, you should also include realtor fee.
Assume the purchase of a single-family house A for $130,000, of which $30,000 applies to the land and $100,000 to the building which is important to calculate depreciation for annual tax deduction. We use straight line depreciation here.
Assume a cash down payment of 20% and a mortgage loan of $104,000 for 30 years at 6%. Assume closing cost is $2,500.
Assume there is no work needs to be done to the house so the initial improvement is $0. The maintenance fee is $480, vacancy rate is 1 month per year which is around 8.3333%, property tax is around $2,000, HOA fee is $100 a year and insurance is $300.
Assume the average rental price for a similar size house in the same subdivision is $1250.
What's the cash flow of this property?
Yearly income: $1250*12 = $15000. With one month vacancy it's reduced to $13,750. The monthly mortage payment with $104,000 at 6% is $623.53. The yearly mortgage payment is $7,482.36.
Assume you use realtor and MLS service to rent it out and the cost is one month rent. Your tenancy turns over around every two years. So the realtor cost is around 4% (1/24). If you advertise on newspaper or other media, then add your cost here. If you rent out by Craiglist, then this cost is $0.
Cash Flow = $13,750(rental)-$10,912.36 = $2,837.64 which is not bad.
If you use a management company who charge 8% of rental, then the yearly cash flow = $2837.64 - $13,750*8%(management fee) = $1,737.64.
Consider all the costs above, it is $1,737.64/28,500(initial investment) = 6.1% return on initial investment.
The US government allows you to depreciate your rental property over 27.5 year period. Depreciation = ($100,000(structure improvement)+$2,500(closing cost))/27.5 = $3727.27.
Your interest expense for the first year is $6,205.26. Add all the expense together $3,727.27(depreciation)+$6,205.26(interest)+$2,000(property tax) +$300(insurance)+$480(maintenance) + $100(HOA)+ $550(realtor/ads ) $1,100(management fee)= $14,462.53. Which mean you have a total rental loss of $712.53.
The tax rules on rental losses are different if you're a real estate professional. But if you're not a professional, you actively manage the property and your adjusted gross income does not exceed $100,000, the rental loss (up to a maximum of $25,000) could be deducted from other income such as salary, interest, and dividends. Multiply the rental loss by your federal income tax rate (in our example, 25%). The federal tax avoided as a result of this deductible rental loss is $178.
So instead paying Uncle Sam more tax on your positive cash flow, you can actually get back $178 as a result of the rental loss.
This may not sound a lot. But notice you are paying into your principal to increase your equity at the same time. If you factor in this as well, your income is now $1,737.64 (positive cash flow) + $1,277 (principal paid first year) + $178 (tax saving)= $3,193. Which is a $3,193/$285,000(initial investment)= 11.2% ROI, pretty good investment for the first year. Let's say you keep it for 10 year, what's the cash flow look like using our All-in-One Real Estate Investment Calculator?
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Assume the same property but with the same rent and a lower cost. Let's say vacancy now is 4% instead of 8.3333%. No maintenance and realtor/ads cost. No HOA and management fee and no appreciation. How does the cash flow look like now?
Comparing last three results, we can see that the appreciation on house does wonder on return on investment but doesn't change your cash flow situation, while lowering the costs can actually do wonder on your cash flow situation. On the other hand, a lot of people ignore the necessary costs when they calculate cash flow, the result can be very misleading. Those small costs here and there are actually affecting your cash flow significantly.
For an accurate estimation, talk to your realtor to get all real numbers your need, an accurate calculation helps you understand your cash flow situation and gives you a clear picture of your future investment. | 2019-04-19T18:42:33 | http://www.edreamdeals.com/cashflow.php |
The most expensive public enemy in American history died Sunday from two bullets.
As we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation�and how little we've gained from our fight against him. By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down.
What do we have to show for that tab? Two wars that continue to occupy 150,000 troops and tie up a quarter of our defense budget; a bloated homeland-security apparatus that has at times pushed the bounds of civil liberty; soaring oil prices partially attributable to the global war on bin Laden's terrorist network; and a chunk of our mounting national debt, which threatens to hobble the economy unless lawmakers compromise on an unprecedented deficit-reduction deal.
All of that has not given us, at least not yet, anything close to the social or economic advancements produced by the battles against America's costliest past enemies. Defeating the Confederate army brought the end of slavery and a wave of standardization�in railroad gauges and shoe sizes, for example�that paved the way for a truly national economy. Vanquishing Adolf Hitler ended the Great Depression and ushered in a period of booming prosperity and hegemony. Even the massive military escalation that marked the Cold War standoff against Joseph Stalin and his Russian successors produced landmark technological breakthroughs that revolutionized the economy.
Perhaps the biggest economic silver lining from our bin Laden spending, if there is one, is the accelerated development of unmanned aircraft. That's our $3 trillion windfall, so far: Predator drones. "We have spent a huge amount of money which has not had much effect on the strengthening of our military, and has had a very weak impact on our economy," says Linda Bilmes, a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government who coauthored a book on the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
Certainly, in the course of the fight against bin Laden, the United States escaped another truly catastrophic attack on our soil. Al-Qaida, though not destroyed, has been badly hobbled. "We proved that we value our security enough to incur some pretty substantial economic costs en route to protecting it," says Michael O'Hanlon, a national-security analyst at the Brookings Institution.
But that willingness may have given bin Laden exactly what he wanted. While the terrorist leader began his war against the United States believing it to be a "paper tiger" that would not fight, by 2004 he had already shifted his strategic aims, explicitly comparing the U.S. fight to the Afghan incursion that helped bankrupt the Soviet Union during the Cold War. "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy," bin Laden said in a taped statement. Only the smallest sign of al-Qaida would "make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations." Considering that we've spent one-fifth of a year's gross domestic product�more than the entire 2008 budget of the United States government�responding to his 2001 attacks, he may have been onto something.
Other enemies throughout history have extracted higher gross costs, in blood and in treasure, from the United States. The Civil War and World War II produced higher casualties and consumed larger shares of our economic output. As an economic burden, the Civil War was America's worst cataclysm relative to the size of the economy. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service estimates that the Union and Confederate armies combined to spend $80 million, in today's dollars, fighting each other. That number might seem low, but economic historians who study the war say the total financial cost was exponentially higher: more like $280 billion in today's dollars when you factor in disruptions to trade and capital flows, along with the killing of 3 to 4 percent of the population. The war "cost about double the gross national product of the United States in 1860," says John Majewski, who chairs the history department at the University of California (Santa Barbara). "From that perspective, the war on terror isn't going to compare."
On the other hand, these earlier conflicts—for all their human cost—also furnished major benefits to the U.S. economy. After entering the Civil War as a loose collection of regional economies, America emerged with the foundation for truly national commerce; the first standardized railroad system sprouted from coast to coast, carrying goods across the union; and textile mills began migrating from the Northeast to the South in search of cheaper labor, including former slaves who had joined the workforce. The fighting itself sped up the mechanization of American agriculture: As farmers flocked to the battlefield, the workers left behind adopted new technologies to keep harvests rolling in with less labor.
World War II defense spending cost $4.4 trillion. At its peak, it sucked up nearly 40 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Research Service. It was an unprecedented national mobilization, says Chris Hellman, a defense budget analyst at the National Priorities Project. One in 10 Americans�some 12 million people�donned a uniform during the war.
But the payoff was immense. The war machine that revved up to defeat Germany and Japan powered the U.S. out of the Great Depression and into an unparalleled stretch of postwar growth. Jet engines and nuclear power spread into everyday lives. A new global economic order�forged at Bretton Woods, N.H., by the Allies in the waning days of the war�opened a floodgate of benefits through international trade. Returning soldiers dramatically improved the nation's skills and education level, thanks to the GI Bill, and they produced a baby boom that would vastly expand the workforce.
U.S. military spending totaled nearly $19 trillion throughout the four-plus decades of Cold War that ensued, as the nation escalated an arms race with the Soviet Union. Such a huge infusion of cash for weapons research spilled over to revolutionize civilian life, yielding quantum leaps in supercomputing and satellite technology, not to mention the advent of the Internet.
Unlike any of those conflicts, the wars we are fighting today were kick-started by a single man. While it is hard to imagine World War II without Hitler, that conflict pitted nations against each other. (Anyway, much of the cost to the United States came from the war in the Pacific.) And it's absurd to pin the Civil War, World War I, or the Cold War on any single individual. Bin Laden's mystique (and his place on the FBI's most-wanted list) made him�and the wars he drew us into�unique.
By any measure, bin Laden inflicted a steep toll on America. His 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa caused Washington to quadruple spending on diplomatic security worldwide the following year�and to expand it from $172 million to $2.2 billion over the next decade. The 2000 bombing of the USS Cole caused $250 million in damages.
Al-Qaida's assault against the United States on September 11, 2001, was the highest-priced disaster in U.S. history. Economists estimate that the combined attacks cost the economy $50 billion to $100 billion in lost activity and growth, or about 0.5 percent to 1 percent of GDP, and caused about $25 billion in property damage. The stock market plunged and was still down nearly 13 percentage points a year later, although it has more than made up the value since.
The greater expense we can attribute to bin Laden comes from policymakers' response to 9/11. The invasion of Afghanistan was clearly a reaction to al-Qaida's attacks. It is unlikely that the Bush administration would have invaded Iraq if 9/11 had not ushered in a debate about Islamic extremism and weapons of mass destruction. Those two wars grew into a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign that cost $1.4 trillion in the past decade�and will cost hundreds of billions more. The government borrowed the money for those wars, adding hundreds of billions in interest charges to the U.S. debt.
Spending on Iraq and Afghanistan peaked at 4.8 percent of GDP in 2008, nowhere near the level of economic mobilization in some past conflicts but still more than the entire federal deficit that year. "It's a much more verdant, prosperous, peaceful world than it was 60 years ago," and nations spend proportionally far less on their militaries today, says S. Brock Blomberg, a professor at Claremont McKenna College in California who specializes in the economics of terrorism. "So as bad as bin Laden is, he's not nearly as bad as Hitler, Mussolini, [and] the rest of them."
Yet bin Laden produced a ripple effect. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have created a world in which even non-war-related defense spending has grown by 50 percent since 2001. As the U.S. military adopted counterinsurgency doctrine to fight guerrilla wars, it also continued to increase its ability to fight conventional battles, boosting spending for weapons from national-missile defense and fighter jets to tanks and long-range bombers. Then there were large spending increases following the overhaul of America's intelligence agencies and homeland-security programs. Those transformations cost at least another $1 trillion, if not more, budget analysts say, though the exact cost is still unknown. Because much of that spending is classified or spread among agencies with multiple missions, a breakdown is nearly impossible.
It's similarly difficult to assess the opportunity cost of the post-9/11 wars�the kinds of productive investments of fiscal and human resources that we might have made had we not been focused on combating terrorism through counterinsurgency. Blomberg says that the response to the attacks has essentially wiped out the "peace dividend" that the United States began to reap when the Cold War ended. After a decade of buying fewer guns and more butter, we suddenly ramped up our gun spending again, with borrowed money.
The price of the war-fighting and security responses to bin Laden account for more than 15 percent of the national debt incurred in the last decade�a debt that is changing the way our military leaders perceive risk. "Our national debt is our biggest national-security threat," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters last June.
All of those costs, totaled together, reach at least $3 trillion. And that's just the cautious estimate. Stiglitz and Bilmes believe that the Iraq conflict alone cost that much. They peg the total economic costs of both wars at $4 trillion to $6 trillion, Bilmes says. That includes fallout from the sharp increase in oil prices since 2003, which is largely attributable to growing demand from developing countries and current unrest in the Middle East but was also spurred in some part by the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Bilmes and Stiglitz also count part of the 2008 financial crisis among the costs, theorizing that oil price hikes injected liquidity in global economies battling slowdowns in growth�and that helped push up housing prices and contributed to the bubble.
Most important, the fight against bin Laden has not produced the benefits that accompanied previous conflicts. The military escalation of the past 10 years did not stimulate the economy as the war effort did in the 1940s�with the exception of a few large defense contractors�in large part because today's operations spend far less on soldiers and far more on fuel. Meanwhile, our national-security spending no longer drives innovation. The experts who spoke with National Journal could name only a few advancements spawned by the fight against bin Laden, including Predator drones and improved backup systems to protect information technology from a terrorist attack or other disaster. "The spin-off effects of military technology were demonstrably more apparent in the '40s and '50s and '60s," says Gordon Adams, a national-security expert at American Univeristy.
Another reason that so little economic benefit has come from this war is that it has produced less�not more�stability around the world. Stable countries, with functioning markets governed by the rule of law, make better trading partners; it's easier to start a business, or tap national resources, or develop new products in times of tranquility than in times of strife. "If you can successfully pursue a military campaign and bring stability at the end of it, there is an economic benefit," says economic historian Joshua Goldstein of the University of Massachusetts. "If we stabilized Libya, that would have an economic benefit."
Even the psychological boost from bin Laden's death seems muted by historical standards. Imagine the emancipation of the slaves. Victory over the Axis powers gave Americans a sense of euphoria and limitless possibility. O'Hanlon says, "I take no great satisfaction in his death because I'm still amazed at the devastation and how high a burden he placed on us." It is "more like a relief than a joy that I feel." Majewski adds, "Even in a conflict like the Civil War or World War II, there's a sense of tragedy but of triumph, too. But the war on terror � it's hard to see what we get out of it, technologically or institutionally."
What we are left with, after bin Laden, is a lingering bill that was exacerbated by decisions made in a decade-long campaign against him. We borrowed money to finance the war on terrorism rather than diverting other national-security funding or raising taxes. We expanded combat operations to Iraq before stabilizing Afghanistan, which in turn led to the recent reescalation of the American commitment there. We tolerated an unsupervised national-security apparatus, allowing it to grow so inefficient that, as The Washington Post reported in a major investigation last year, 1,271 different government institutions are charged with counterterrorism missions (51 alone track terrorism financing), which produce some 50,000 intelligence reports each year, many of which are simply not read.
We have also shelled out billions of dollars in reconstruction funding and walking-around money for soldiers, with little idea of whether it has even helped foreigners, much less the United States; independent investigations suggest as much as $23 billion is unaccounted for in Iraq alone. "We can't account for where any of it goes�that's the great tragedy in all of this," Hellman says. "The Pentagon cannot now and has never passed an audit�and, to me, that's just criminal."
It's worth repeating that the actual cost of bin Laden's September 11 attacks was between $50 billion and $100 billion. That number could have been higher, says Adam Rose, coordinator for economics at the University of Southern California's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, but for the resilience of the U.S. economy and the quick response of policymakers to inject liquidity and stimulate consumer spending. But the cost could also have been much lower, he says, if consumers hadn't paid a fear premium�shying away from air travel and tourism in the aftermath of the attacks. "Ironically," he says, "we as Americans had more to do with the bottom-line outcome than the terrorist attack itself, on both the positive side and the negative side."
The same is true of the nation's decision, for so many reasons, to spend at least $3 trillion responding to bin Laden's attacks. More than actual security, we bought a sense of action in the face of what felt like an existential threat. We staved off another attack on domestic soil. Our debt load was creeping up already, thanks to the early waves stages of baby-boomer retirements, but we also hastened a fiscal mess that has begun, in time, to fulfill bin Laden's vision of a bankrupt America. If left unchecked, our current rate of deficit spending would add $9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. That's three Osamas, right there.
Although Bin Laden is buried in the sea, other Islamist extremists are already vying to take his place. In time, new enemies, foreign and domestic, will rise to challenge America. What they will cost us, far more than we realize, is our choice.
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Published on Friday, May 6, 2011 by National Journal. | 2019-04-20T08:33:22 | http://wehaitians.com/the%20cost%20of%20bin%20laden%20$3%20trillion%20over%2015%20years.html |
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Implementing a customised program of the Dale Carnegie Course helped individuals adapt to Giant’s changing priorities. Individuals were also coached to challenge their comfort zones and explore how to proactively respond to many different types of real world work situations within the safety of the class environment and with their peer group. With the help of Dale Carnegie Training, Giant Food created a shared managerial vision and a workplace where all employees can be engaged in the ongoing mission and success of the company.
Despite an immense amount of change, many of the people who have remained in positions of responsibility are Dale Carnegie graduates. The thriving Dale Carnegie alumni network has drawn the different aspects of the Giant organisation closer together and contributed to dissolving communication barriers that once existed between the corporate and operations sides of the business. The company’s dedication to its employees’ personal growth and professional development has helped maintain a sense of pride.
Following an intense period of a management merger, many of Giant's long-term employees had left the company, while additional staff suffered the effects of downsizing. According to Nancy Crisafulli, Giant's Manager of Training, the company "had some excellent operators with great technical knowledge but limited leadership experience." The stress and uncertainty diminished the company's performance standards and challenged the company to find qualified people within the organisation to promote up to managerial positions.
The training had a stabilised effect on Giant's workforce, which has drawn the different aspects of the organisation closer together and also contributed to dissolving communication barriers that once existed between the corporate and operations sides of the business. While managers have grown in confidence and self-awareness, they have also become more productive and more successful in their relationships, cultivating a common culture based on trust, respect, and empowerment. As a result, Giant Food created a shared managerial vision and a workplace where all employees can be engaged in the ongoing mission and success of the company. | 2019-04-21T12:36:24 | https://www.dalecarnegie.com/en-gb/approach/case-studies/giant |
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Working with msys2 based installers has a couple of problems.
As a native build on Windows, freeciv development team members can make msys2 based installers only when having access to a Windows machine. None of us has Windows as primary computer.
Even when there's a Windows machine to use, building with msys2 is extremely slow. There can be only a couple of development iterations a day. Typically when I do use a Windows machine, I can use it only to make a one build.
To address these issues I've done some work to support new installer build method, called installer_cross after the directory it lives in in the freeciv S3_0 and TRUNK source tree. Using dlls from crosser, those installers can be cross-compiled on Linux machine. While building msys2 installers take almost all day, installer_cross build takes just minutes, and happens on the same computer I'm doing my freeciv development on. When need for a new build arises, I can upload it in minutes rather than starting to plan what future day I will set up that task to our Windows machine.
gtk3 programs are currently know to work from these installer packages. Those are gtk3.22-client and modpack installer in gtk3.22-client and sdl2-client packages.
On start of the program immediate crash to desktop.
windows tells me the error ocurred with "Kernelbase.dll "
cazfi wrote: gtk3 programs are currently know to work from these installer packages. Those are gtk3.22-client and modpack installer in gtk3.22-client and sdl2-client packages.
This seems like the gtk3 based programs problem I told about. Can you test with the newer builds if it works now?
The newest builds are from r35673.
After a short test, I did not encounter any problems. Great!
It is nice that you can move around the mini-map and empire info freely. It would be useful if the "Messages" window were also a separate small window, which can be moved around independently.
edit: Oh I found it is already possible with double click on the tab to move the different windows around.
1. clicking on citizens in city screen does not change the specialist graphics. Output does change as expected, but the graphics show always normal workers.
2. In the freeciv help browser the small arrows which indicate a submenu are not visible (but functional).
SMACX2 wrote: 2. In the freeciv help browser the small arrows which indicate a submenu are not visible (but functional). | 2019-04-26T12:17:39 | http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=81137 |
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Scottish study suggests that babies born in April be at a higher risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life.
The results of the study, reported in the Sunday Times Scotland, suggest that mothers pregnant during the dark autumn and winter months were most likely to give birth to those who would develop the condition.
The Glasgow researchers suggest that a mother’s lack of exposure to sunlight during her unborn baby’s development may explain the results, published in the European Journal of Neurology.
Vitamin D is produced through exposure to sunlight and has been linked to genes thought to be associated with MS. Scientists have suggested that a lack of vitamin D could trigger a predisposition to MS in a person’s genetic makeup.
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Neural Applications Corp. in Coralville, IA, a developer of intelligent decision software, unveiled OptiMatch, an intelligent real-time Web targeting tool.
OptiMatch assists existing ad server platforms by using Neural's intelligent technology to improve ad placements, the company said.
Based on neural network technology, OptiMatch considers factors such as time of day, page performance, and user profile information. Although the company has applied variations of its intelligent technology to other data-intensive industries such as financial, process control, and the automotive industry, OptiMatch marks Neural's first entry into the Web site optimization market.
"The navigation optimization feature can automatically boost the flow of traffic within a site by dynamically creating links that lead users to content they're most likely to be interested in," said Bill Staib, vice president of technology at Neural Applications.
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If he comes up for air, we'll be waiting.
When do these two come up for air?
Oh, Lord, I don't know whether to dive under the table or do the running man.
I might never come up for air.
Bobby Peru don't come up for air.
Peters has finally come up for air.
DIVING OFFICER: Rig ship for dive!
We're coming up on deep water! He's gonna dive!
Okay, everybody, listen up! It's time for stair diving!
Come on. For Christ's sake, hurry up.
Dive now! Dive! Dive! Dive!
Come on. Come on. Would you let him up for air, dear. | 2019-04-19T05:21:57 | https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/5a14165a-286d-4dc2-ae57-5686b63c8954 |
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How is digital technology disrupting the resources sector?
CORE Skills Ambassador Ricus Grimbeek predicts the next 5 to 10 years will see a profound transformation of the industry due to digital technology, and it is going to be very quick if you look at what has happened in other industries that have been disrupted. The AI Group's Developing the Workforce for a Digital Future report released last week highlights that lifelong learning and regular upskilling will be essential as we move into what is becoming known as Industry 4.0.
At CORE we embrace this change and are building a culture of entrepreneurship, open innovation, trust, collaboration and speed to market in the resources & energy sector. Join us as we work to shape the future of the sector, today.
As we grow CORE Skills through the Perth and Brisbane hubs and beyond, we are delighted to recognise prominent members of the energy and mining communities as CORE Skills Ambassadors.
Our first Ambassador is mining industry heavyweight Ricus Grimbeek. We caught up with him to get his views on how the sector can best equip itself for a complete digital transformation. Read the Medium article, and why not follow us while you're at it?
We are delighted to announce our Corporate Partnership with Edith Cowan University (ECU). Through this strategic relationship we are working together in a number of ways to support and promote innovation in the resources sector, including facilitating access to ECU research expertise for CORE members.
What is innovation? How do you innovate? It is more that a buzz word and can mean the difference between growth or failure of your enterprise. Come along to Meet the Innovator and learn from some of the most inspiring innovators in the sector.
Whether you're a startup or corporate enterprise, grow your network and connect with other innovators by co-working in CORE. With permanent desks now available this is a unique opportunity to co-locate your business in one of the most dynamic workplaces in Perth focused on resources & energy technology. You can book a TOUR or LEARN MORE.
CORE is where the resources and energy sector powers the human enterprises of tomorrow.
Positioned alongside Australia’s leading resources companies and universities in the Perth CBD, CORE is Australia’s first co-working, collaboration and innovation hub focused on resources technology, providing proximity to skills, solutions and opportunity along the supply chain, and a culture of entrepreneurship, open innovation, collaboration and speed.
Find out more about our innovative and creative co-working and events space, hold your meetings in one of our fully equipped meeting rooms, or host a sundowner on the Deck.
Contact us for your tour of CORE and to find out more about the space and ecosystem.
Copyright © 2018 CORE, All rights reserved. | 2019-04-18T10:34:11 | https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=187b99c6341216ba9500a1bb4&id=85941095d2 |
Tuesday, three Victory Fund endorsed candidates face primary elections in Pennsylvania. Turnout is expected to be extremely low, so we are urging LGBTQ and allied voters in the state to get out and vote for these change-making candidates.
Henry Sias is running for the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Ben Allatt for Harrisburg City Council, and Ernie Schlegel for Reading City Council. Learn more about our candidates below, and then get out and vote!
Henry Sias has dedicated his legal career to civil rights and indigent defense. He has lived in Philadelphia for 10 years, and for most of that time has been working in the state court system clerking for judges or performing civil rights and indigent defense representation. Henry co-founded Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, an organization best known for its Expungement Project. The Expungement Project has provided thousands of free expungements to low-income Philadelphians, allowing them to put their arrest history behind them and move forward to opportunities in employment, housing, and education. Henry has also performed pro bono work with the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia’s leading health-care provider for the LGBTQ+ community.
Ernie Schlegel is running for a seat on the Reading City Council in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ernie’s past political involvement includes serving as Chair of the Reading Area Water Authority Board of Directors, Vice Chair of the Berks County Democratic Party and President of the Reading Public Library Board of Trustees. In 2009, he spearheaded efforts to pass a non-discrimination law based on sexual orientation — only the second in the state. If elected, Ernie will be the only LGBTQ member of the city council. | 2019-04-25T05:52:41 | https://victoryfund.org/three-lgbtq-candidates-election-pennsylvania-tomorrow/ |
I have a love of muffin tops.
Not that flap of skin that sticks out of too tight jeans. Nope, not that kind of muffin top.
I’m talking the tops of a muffin. Where all the good flavor resides. I recently bought a muffin top pan (which can also double as a whoopie pie pan), and have gotten into trying all sorts of muffins. Remember these carrot cake muffin tops with cream cheese frosting? Yeah. I can’t get them out of my mind either. They were amazing.
So are these banana muffin tops. Moist, delicious, and super easy to make! You could certainly “pimp them out” by adding nuts and a glaze on top…but it totally wasn’t necessary. These are awesome to keep in the freezer too and take them out for a quick breakfast. Enjoy!
LOL! I agree – muffin tops are awesome. I need to make some for the freezer. I get really hungry after the gym. If I’ve just exercised, then it’s okay, right?
I love the idea of muffin tops! Your recipe looks wonderful!! I just saw your post from yesterday and your cupcakes look wonderful!! Happy birthday to your daughter!
they look delish! and easy!
Yesssss… I love me some banana muffins like no other! I NEED this, Aimee! NEED! Please send some my way ASAP because I am starving and cannot wait.
Muffin tops are the bestttttttt!!! My favorite part of the muffin, although I am sure there are MANY others out there like that.
these muffin tops are PERFECT! i have a muffin top holder just waiting to be used. i’m saving this recipe and pinning it. yum!
How cool is this! I love muffin tops and I love that these are just the muffin tops! Yum.
These look so good! They will put my muffin top pan to good use. Thanks for the whoppie pie idea, I have never thought of using my pan for that!
This looks so good! I never knew there was such a thing even though I love muffins and bake them quite often. Must go look for one small enough to fit into my oven. Thanks for sharing!
Me too, I love tops of a muffin. this is the most delicious finger licking part. I also love banana muffin. Thanks for sharing you recipe. Hopefully, I can prepare this one tomorrow.
These look very delicious and I love the idea of just muffin top!
I made these muffin tops today and they were fabulous! Simple and very good. | 2019-04-20T01:23:40 | https://www.shugarysweets.com/banana-muffin-tops/ |
We are collecting all sports cards, memorabilia and any photographs of Norman Jefferson. He is a graduate of John Ehret High School in Marrero, LA. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 12th round (335th overall) of the 1987 NFL Draft. He played defensive back from 1987-1988 for the Packers. He played in the CFL from 1990-1991 for the British Columbia Lions. He played his college ball at Louisiana State University (LSU).
To see our Norman Jefferson want list, visit this link to it on The Trading Card Database. This is a free website. The Trading Card Database is an archive of trading cards and all things trading card related. It is maintained via crowd-sourcing whereby visitors like yourself pitch in to add items with the goal of having a shared resource that not only preserves the hobby and its history, but also benefits collectors across the globe. The database is fully searchable by year, card manufacturer, player/character name, or team and is growing by the hour. You can add items to the site or use the database to track your personal collection by registering.
Click here to go to our Norman Jefferson Gallery and see what we have in our collection. | 2019-04-24T14:55:16 | https://boninsbriefs.com/2015/08/jefferson-norman/ |
Congratutations to all the teams who participated especially our Champions and Finalists.
Unfortunately, the subzero temperatures froze the hydraulic system on the Rogers truck so they couldn't get their equipment to the rink. Maybe next year!
The Championship games Sunday at 1:00 (Major Atom) and 2:30 (Major Bantam) played on the London City Chrysler pad will be broadcast on tape delay by Rogers TV.
Schedules have been been added to the website for all divisions.
Major Midget teams in Division C were sent a game change on February 4th that moves two games to Oakridge Arena Friday night.
Please check with your coach/manager if you have questions.
Schedules have been sent out to your team's contact.
The website schedules will be updated over the next week.
Rules and Venue locations can be found on the left side menu.
Registration will close the evening of Monday January 5th so that scheduling can begin. Schedules will be sent out to teams approximately three weeks before tournament start.
Please check the General Information & Rules tab at left for other information including the rules for Affiliated Players. | 2019-04-20T21:47:01 | https://oakridgeaeroshockey.ca/Tournaments/1376/ |
The easiest raspberry jam recipe is here! With only four ingredients, this jam will be your new favorite topping on toast, waffles, or layered with chia pudding!
allow mixture to cool to room temperature – place in refrigerator to set for at least one hour – Enjoy! | 2019-04-23T20:22:50 | https://earthtofork.com/2017/10/23/four-ingredient-raspberry-jam/ |
16 Lovely Ravenna Ryan Homes – For the last four hundred decades, ship models are taken into consideration as valued objects of art. Mantua ship versions are extremely acknowledged around the globe. Occre ship models are created from top quality materials with accuracy and a superb degree of information. Building a ship design right from the ground up might be difficult and lengthy undertaking for beginners.
Whenever you extrude component of your 2-D model you will certainly have the capacity to access a various sight or point of view. The majority of versions include some approximations as a hassle-free approach to describe something which happens in nature. They can’t incorporate all the details of intricate natural phenomena. It’s even more essential than ever before to produce a business design that continues to be resilient in the present industry. After you obtain a particular small business model drawn up you can identify the specific strategies you require to concentrate on.
If you want to be a version, you may think about beginning with getting an extravagant photoshoot of on your own so you can lure clients. Your version will certainly be portable and also one-of-a-kind as you will construct the majority of the components entirely all by yourself. Considering that designs need to be easy enough that you may use them to make forecasts, they regularly exclude a variety of the details. At the specific very same time, you also require the version to be as easy as possible. If you should make a simple and easy animal cell model, simply use your creativity and a couple of simple materials. With a little bit of effort and lots of glue you might make a basic animal cell design in a mid-day. Discuss the price after you have selected a version. At the same time that you should have the ability to produce a simple version of your residence in a couple of hrs it’s possible to get as in-depth and intricate as you like. As an example, you might intend to produce a model of the numerous wattles of the mind. | 2019-04-24T17:53:41 | https://seattlees.com/ravenna-ryan-homes/ravenna-ryan-homes-inspirational-44-best-ryan-homes-images-on-pinterest/ |
is without any VPN configuration stuff.
Mainly the architecture is based on shellinabox which we have packaged together with the WebYaST Terminal Plugin. These RPMs are now available for download.
BTW: You will be surprised that the source code of the WebYaST Terminal Plugin has about 100 lines only !!!
Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. So the user is able now to click through WebYaST without any notable waiting time.
Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.
Setup an environment system is much more easier now. Even a setup based on the GIT repository is quite easy.
Writing an own WebYaST plugin has been reduced to a minimum effort. Everyone who has read a Ruby on Rails tutorial is now able to write a plugin.
You do not believe ? Then have a look to the Example plugin .
We have noticed that WebYaST is not really known in the OpenSuSE community. One reason for is that WebYaST is not really user friendly regarding the installation.
So we have investigate here some effort. Lets see….
The simplest way is the one-click installation which is already installed on your OpenSuSE 11.3.
The browser will ask you to start the installation via the one-click installation. Start the installation and go through the installation workflow.
With this applet you can start WebYaST in your browser too. After accepting the GPG-key please login with your “root” account.
But I think that should be really all. If not, please use bugzilla and blame us !
An own file/database will for each value will be generated.
The upper screen shot shows that an own graphic will be shown for each value. This is not really user friendly. We would like to show only values which provides “really” interesting information for the sysadmin or user. These values should also be grouped in order to reduce the amount of graphs.
Another lack of information is the labeling of the graphs. There is no description what the values mean and in which period they have been evaluated.
would be to give the user a nice overview about the system status. Additional, there should be an alarm system available if system values are exceeded. E.g. there should be sent an email to the system administrator if no disk space is available anymore.
The Administrator should also be able to configure “his” needed system values in a nice way.
General setting like period time of shown data, email address in the case of occurred errors and the color of displayed limits.
should be an amount of view graphs which include interesting data only. These values are checked periodically and an email will be sent if they exceed a defined limit.
Do you know a much more fancy way for displaying system status data ?
Which kind of Data would be interesting for you (CPU, memory, disk-space,….)?
When and for which kind of data would you like to get an email if limits have been exceeded?
Added translation support on the client side.
Split off ruby-rpam and ruby-polkit in single packages.
functionality which is already provided by the YaST command line interface.
simple interface which transmits domain-specific data over HTTP.
for more information about REST.
host side which provides the REST based interface.
used be any web browser.
(currently lighttpd) on different or even the same computer.
(Pluggable Authentication Modules) which is available on every linux system.
PolicyKit rule defined. These rights has to be granted to the concerning user.
the YaST Webservice to PackageKit via DBUS.
There are all needed packages for version openSuSE 11.1 and above.
repositories ( e.g. factory ) in order to provide these packages.
This “pure” web page shows the available modules which can be used via the REST interface.
-The first call of an menue entry will be slow cause an additional process will be started.
Select one item (pattern, package) in the single selection frame, use the right mouse button and select “Show solver information”. A solverrun will be made for this item and the result will be shown with this dialog.
Black arrow : This item will be required by….
e.G. this item will install two further patterns due to the shown dependencies.
YaST uses this widget as a YaST plugin. So if this package is not available you will get a popup in single selection only. | 2019-04-20T11:09:00 | https://lizards.opensuse.org/author/schubi2/ |
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