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Petition launched to change Yiannopoulos' speech to group panel
When the news broke that “alt-right” activist Milo Yiannopoulos would be speaking at Cal Poly in January, Poly grad Heidi Petersen didn’t think that asking the university to ban Yiannopoulos from campus for his extreme views was realistic or constructive.
Instead, Petersen wants Cal Poly to do something that she says it has done before: modify Yiannopoulos’ speaking platform from an “uncontested speech” to a “panel discussion” with multiple perspectives.
Petersen started an online petition on change.org—which has garnered more than 900 signatures as of press time—that asks Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong to consider altering the format of the Cal Poly College Republican Club-sponsored event on Jan. 31 at the Spanos Theater.
“The hate he speaks with just doesn’t deserve to be on a stage by itself without being challenged,” Petersen told New Times in a phone interview.
In the petition, Petersen recalls how in 2009, the Cal Poly Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium invited controversial author and sustainable food expert Michael Pollan to campus for a lecture. The choice of speaker irked David E. Wood, chairman of the Harris Ranch Beef Company and a major Cal Poly donor. Wood threatened to revoke his financial support for the university if Pollan was given the floor.
“We are diligently working to create a more balanced forum,” Cal Poly President Warren Baker responded to Wood in an email at the time.
“They wanted students to have this breadth of opinions about this controversial person,” Petersen said. “If they could do it for Michael Pollan, then they could do it for [Yiannopoulos].”
Cal Poly College Republicans President Katherine Rueckert indicated that the club is not interested in a panel discussion.
“There will be a question-and-answer period in the format we have planned,” Rueckert said in an email.
Cal Poly Public Relations Director Matt Lazier said the administration will not ask the College Republicans club to consider changing the event format.
“His appearance and how he expresses himself is not something the university can dictate,” Lazier said. “As a public campus, Cal Poly has a responsibility to uphold free speech and provide an open forum for a variety of opinions, thoughts, and ideas.”
Regarding the comparison to Pollan, Lazier said, “While the current administration was not in place in 2009, it is our understanding that Michael Pollan made the decision to join in a panel discussion rather than speak beforehand.”
An editor at Breitbart News and neo-conservative activist, Yiannopoulos expresses extreme views about Muslims, immigrants, and refugees. In an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in July, Yiannopoulos said he believes the entire religion of Islam must be “eradicated.”
Along a university speaking tour this year, some of Yiannopoulos’ events were canceled due to steep security costs. He’s spoken at UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara, and he’s scheduled to visit UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UCLA this winter.
Petersen’s online petition appeared in an article on Breitbart News. In the article—headlined: “Cal Poly progressives attempt to sabotage Milo event with format change”—Breitbart misspelled Petersen’s name, falsely labeled her as a Cal Poly student, and inaccurately said she was a member of SLO Solidarity, a student activist group. | {
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#24: Tren Kart 64
Join us for another hilarious yet informative look at BIONICLE, featuring new audio transitions between segments! We discuss the comic Shadow Play, death in BIONICLE, Tren Krom, The Dweller Report (with an appearance by SPIRIT), Mario Kart, the Dark Hunters, and…wait a minute? How did Mario Kart get in there? | {
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TV adventurer drops by in search of Maritime Mystery
Volunteer Ted Goddard took Mr. Palin for a guided tour of Wales’ only Royal Dockyard.
Worldwide adventurer Michael Palin has returned to Pembrokeshire for the first time in over 40 years – in search of maritime history and the remarkable and tragic story of a Pembroke Dock-built warship.
On Wednesday April 26th Michael visited the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre and met up with naval historian and Centre Volunteer Ted Goddard to recall the story of HMS Erebus which was launched at Pembroke Dockyard in 1826.
Michael is writing a book on HMS Erebus which, along with HMS Terror, took part in the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of the 1840s in the Canadian Arctic. Tragically, both vessels and their crews were lost and in recent years headlines have been made with the discovery of the very well preserved vessels in Arctic waters.
Erebus is the last remaining of the 260 warships built at Pembroke Dockyard between 1814 and 1922.
With Ted Goddard as guide Michael was shown displays at the Heritage Centre relating to HMS Erebus and also walked around areas of the Royal Dockyard which still remain nearly 200 years on. The Irish Ferries terminal, now part of the Port of Pembroke, covers the area where Erebus was constructed. | {
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Here Is How To Get Funniest Infant Onesies
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Entertainment things apart, right before purchasing funny baby onesies there really are various other factors to think about. Funny or otherwise, your newborn will use such clothes, due to this fact they have to be breathable, hypoallergenic, and also ideally colored using newborn risk-free color tones. Wherever possible, select 100% pure cotton onesies, bright white or else of a light color or texture. Colored and dark onesies are undoubtedly charming, however our staff advise utilizing these above garments that do not come with any type of dyes. This is for the reason that most vendors work with artificial dyes that could raise allergic reactions, rashes, and also additional skin conditions. Preferably, decide on 100% natural cotton onesies, white colored or maybe of a light-toned color tone. | {
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Alter Ego Body Care Products - Interviews with Indie Nail Creators #3
Interviews with Indie Nail Polish Creators - #3
Hey guys! I hope you're doing well! I really am exciting to be interviewing indie polish creators. We've seen so many new nail trends because of them & I can't wait too see what they have in store for us next! Since indie polishes are very popular right now I figured there's probably a lot of customers/fans who would love to get to know the person behind all their favourite creations. So that's what I'm going to be trying to help you do!
Questions are BOLD & the creators response will be in the regular font.
My name is Cynthia Decker, I am way old, I will be 62 next year! I have been "doing mah nails" as the family has called it since I started high school. I do love animals but my heart cannot take the pain of them going over the Rainbow Bridge any more, so I love all the bebbehs from afar. If it is your love, I enjoy hearing about the lil' ones ♥ Besides the usual cats and dogs I have friends that have lizards, fish, hamsters and birds, I am just as concerned for them as I am about the human children!
Alter Ego - Beach Comber
What is your nail polish brand & how did you come up with the name?
My brand is Alter Ego Body Care Products, started as Alter Ego Nail Enamels but when I got my state vendor license I changed it Body Care Products to give room for growth. I went with Alter Ego at the time thinking it would be unique name and give me more freedom, a lot of polishes were being named for songs, movies and TV shows. Little did I know at the time that having to come up with colors to match functions people do, want to do, have done, have a secret desire to do, can create a serious creative block!
What year did you start your brand & what motivated you?
I started in April 2012. As I said, I have been painting my nails for a VERY long time. I have always liked to do various crafts and I love color. Even the basic white, black, navy and brown have their place 😊 Nail Polish gives me that creative outlet but it is something I can physically handle alone, I have a life long back problem and am now aging with this issue. I am very weak physically, some days I cannot even lift my own purse!
Do you remember the name of the first polish you made &/or sold?
Armed Forces Vet which I still have in the shop 😊 It is a red, white, blue and silver glitter polish.
When creating a new polish, what's your inspiration process?
Sometimes it is the name and sometimes it is the color. I have woken up in the middle of the night and put a note on my phone's calendar of whatever it was that popped into my head so I won't forget it 😊
What is your all time favourite polish that you created?
I do not have any particular favorites. I have always strive to release all colors and finishes because I believe there is a color for everyone 😊 If I do not like what I have created it does not get released. There have been times when I have amazed myself at what I made, then there are those that I look at and tell myself, "Well, that certainly didn't turn out like I thought it would!"
What are your 3 top sellers of all times?
On line Desert Storm Trigger Puller and Beachcomber have always been liked, the other Egos all seem to depend on the buyers personal preference. I also do local craft shows, Jewellery Box Ballerina, Strawberry Shaker and Sugars Plums have proven to be popular to date.
Alter Ego - Desert Storm Trigger Puller
From your personal experience what are some pros & cons to being a indie polish creator?
Pros are definitely the creative process, seeing the vision completed and that it turns out to be everything I hoped for! Cons are that we indies have only so many suppliers that will work with us-we cannot usually afford or want pounds and/or gallons of colorants-so we are all getting the same colorants at the same time. People have finally begun to realize this and the accusations of intentional duping have gone way down, the understanding of our limitations have begun to be understood more.
Where is your brand based? Do you ship internationally?
I am in Madison, WI, the state capitol. It is in Southern WI, about 2 hours from both Chicago and Milwaukee depending on which way you want to go 😊
What's your favourite mainstream brand?
I never have had a favorite, for me it was about a particular polish than the brand itself.
What's your favourite indie brand?
I have the same answer about polish for indies as I do for mainstream. I will add here that having the phenomenal opportunity to become friends with other indies and spend time with them at the various functions I can afford to attend has been the biggest thrill! They are all such wonderful people, I am always thrilled and honored to be included in this world ♥
Is there anything else you'd like my readers to know?
Woooo, there is so much! Amongst the most important is to make it clear that duplication are never intentional and bloggers/reviewers have my utmost respect for their hard work, honesty and integrity! I, along with most other indies, do this in our free time. Along with these other indies my full time job pays the bills, provides the health insurance and gives me a little extra cash to pay for supplies to support this endeavor. We do always ask that people understand we are doing the best we under the conditions we have to work with, in this business many times it is "one step forward, two steps back." Just when we think everything is going great a major supplier shuts down, colors that tested for several months before release start morphing after release, we get a load of bottles that most are chipped or break in transit, a base shortage all a sudden appears-any number of not seen and not planned issues can come up. Please have faith, please understand, we are trying and do our best. Any decent maker would rather ask a buyer to wait to get the best quality product we can create rather than send something that is below our usual quality. Finally ,do understand we truly honor, respect and are eternally grateful and appreciative of our fans, we would be lost without each and every one ♥ | {
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This past summer Nevada joined with other states in challenging a California federal judge’s decision to block President Trump’s executive order that would deny some federal funding for sanctuary cities, saying that such cities near Nevada pose a threat to public safety. The judge sided with Santa Clara County, the cityof San Francisco and other jurisdictions who argued that taking away federal funds from cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement could be unconstitutional. With the case now going to[…]
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Face the Tribune radio show makes a comeback beginning with three popular and well liked figures on the political scene of Las Vegas. Beginning Wednesday, January 31, with the appearance of former Nevada Assemblyman, Nevada Senator, and most recently Las Vegas City Councilman, Bob Beers, now the best candidate for State Treasurer, the show is preparing to air a list of who’s who in Las Vegas, Clark County and Nevada with the intention of informing the public and[…]
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Very few people were taken by surprise when a press conference was scheduled for City Councilman Ricki Barlow to speak to the media about a federal fraud investigation that has had taken most of Barlow’s time. Without taking questions from the media the problematic politician told reporters that he is planning to plead guilty on those charges. Barlow replaced his former boss, now County Commissioner Larry Weekly, and has been in office for eleven years, since 2007, when he was elected[…]
What makes this newspaper different from other publications? Answer: A few very simple but important points. 1) We believe that we are here to serve the community, not to please a few alleged important people or to be welcomed into some power meeting or invited to some fancy lunch with influential guests. 2) We do not need to bow to anyone just so we can be patted on the back and told what a good job we are doing.[…] | {
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An extremely dope rapper best known for his debut album, "Below the Heavens," which produced by DJ Exile. Based out of L.A., he has also collaborated with Mainframe to produce "Johnson&Johnson" and with Ta'Raach to produce "The Piece Talk (C.R.A.C. Knuckles)." | {
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Plump, juicy, and bursting with healthy antioxidants, tomatoes are at their peak during the summer. Learn what to look for when choosing a tomato.
Taste is what makes a vine-ripened summer tomato worth the wait. Available for only a few short months at limited locales — heaped in baskets at farm stands, pyramided beneath "locally grown" signs at the supermarket, plucked from backyard staked plants — their once-a-year flavor deserves a frequent rotation in your August dinner lineup.
Unlike imported pretenders, which are harvested early to withstand the rigors of long-distance transport, in-season tomatoes stay in the sun until they achieve an ideal balance of sugars and acids — and nutrients. A single tomato, with just 36 calories and as much fiber as a slice of whole wheat bread, delivers half the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C and a quarter of vitamin A. But the nearly 500 varieties cultivated by farmers and suburban gardeners today can be more than just a divine slice-and-eat side dish.
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Combined with a few simple ingredients, tomatoes can be transformed into no-fuss, filling suppers. Choose your favorites — from classic cherries and beefsteaks to hybrids and heirlooms — and in minutes you'll be serving up family-friendly dishes as luscious as they are colorful.
Top Tomato Tips
1. Select firm tomatoes with unblemished skin, a red wine–like aroma, and vibrant color that's lighter at the stem end than at the bottom. The color gradation is a sign that the tomato has ripened naturally, rather than artificially with ethylene gas — which usually results in a telltale uniform color. Keep in mind that with heirlooms, which can be pink, yellow, black, purplish, or even green when they hit their flavor peak, redness doesn't necessarily equal ripeness.
2. Store tomatoes stem-side up, away from heat or sunlight, and use them within four days. Don't refrigerate: At temperatures below 55 degrees, the water in the tomato expands and the sugars convert to starch, creating an unpleasant mealy texture — and most fridges are set at a brisk 40 degrees or below.
3. Peel off the tomato's skin before canning or making a sauce, since it can toughen during long cook times. The best removal method: Submerge the tomato in boiling water for 15 seconds, then pop it in a bowl of ice water to cool — the skin should slip right off when you cut away the core. | {
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Soccer: Galaxy stunned by two late goals from Earthquakes
STANFORD - Shea Salinas and Alan Gordon scored in second-half stoppage time to give the short-handed San Jose Earthquakes a 3-2 victory against the Galaxy on Saturday night.
Salinas knocked in a loose rebound in the 92nd minute and Gordon scored on a header a minute later to give San Jose (5-7-6) a second comeback victory in two seasons against the Galaxy at Stanford.
The Earthquakes came from two goals down to beat LA 4-3 last June 30.
Marcelo Sarvas scored in the 20th minute and Hector Jimenez in the 65 th for Los Angeles (7-7-3).
Gordon scored his first goal of the season in the 68th minute to pull San Jose to 2-1. The Earthquakes' chances looked dire after defender Victor Bernardez saw two yellow cards in the space of eight
minutes and was sent off in the 77th minute, leaving San Jose down to 10 players.
On the tying goal, Salinas pounced on a free ball after Galaxy goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini was unable to corral a deflected flick header from San Jose rookie Adam Jahn.
Gordon got the game-winner moments later off a chipped cross from just inside Los Angeles' penalty area by San Jose midfielder Sam Cronin.
Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane assisted on both goals for the Galaxy, but L.A. was left to deal with failed opportunities after Bernardez's ejection, especially an 88th-minute save by Busch on Jimenez.
A prone Cudicini blocked a 50th-minute rebound shot from 8 yards by San Jose midfielder Marvin Chavez. The veteran keeper, who joined LA this year, was unable to come up with the critical saves in the dying minutes, however. | {
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Hearings on the Boston Marathon bombing opened on Capitol Hill. Boston's police commissioner says federal investigators failed to pass along key information about one of the suspects. Information that may have prevented the attack . Sally Kidd reports from Washington. | {
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in March 2003, two F-16 pilots were called to assist 52 British special operators surrounded by 500 Iraqi troops — meaning the friendlies were outnumbered almost 10 to 1.
The Iraqi troops were pressing the attack, pinning the Brits down and preparing to overrun them.
Thinking fast, one of the pilots climbed to high altitude and then went into a dive, quickly building up sonic energy around his plane as he neared the ground with the massive amount of sound energy surrounding his cockpit, he broke the sound barrier and pointed the bulk of the energy at the ground where he believed the Iraqi troops to be.
Lynch pulled up a mere 3,000 feet from the ground, sending the massive sonic boom against the troops below.
this is Rich Grushinski from Scott Township, PA and Chrysler Power Magazine says it's an original, but the local newspaper says it is a tribute
The second generation Charger was all-new for 1968 and so were the Cincinnati Bengals. Dodge dealer Tom Kneer decided to create his own special edition Dodge Charger in the team’s colors and learned from the team HQ that the team’s uniforms would be black with orange and white stripes and helmets would be bright orange with black “Bengal” lettering.
So he placed the order with Dodge for 50 1968 Chargers. Tom scanned through the paint samples in Dodge’s color guide and discovered an orange used for Michigan state fleet vehicles that he dubbed Tiger Orange.
Black vinyl tops and dual black stripes around the trunk rounded out Tom’s specifications for his Bengal Charger. Most cars were ordered with the 318 or 383, none were ordered with the 426 Hemi.
He had a few 6 cylinder cars built for marketing purposes and an estimated 10 - 12 R/Ts.
Because Tom was purchasing so many cars, Chrysler agreed to throw in the black Sport Stripes for free. In 1968, Chrysler put Sport Stripes on the Charger R/T only. Since most of the Bengals were not R/Ts, obviously, an exception was made. For this reason and because they were free, the stripe does not appear on the broadcast sheet but instead was part of the special order processing along with the orange paint.
Tom ordered 100 chromed “Bengal Charger” fender badges, but no other body modifications were made to the car. The fender badges were made in Cincinnati and were mounted on the cars when they arrived at the dealership.
The ad mentions that 30 cars are available out of the 50 that were built, as some were already chosen for specific customers, like the Bengals team owner Barry Buse and the quarterback received one to drive for a year.
An article in the January 2002 edition of Muscle Car Review states that only three of the unique Chargers have been accounted for in recent years. The simple way to see if a 68 Charger MIGHT be a Bengal, is to look at the paint code. It must be a 999.
Jeff Warner, a Central Ohio native, discovered the first
one in 1992, his
particular BENGAL is also uncommonly loaded with options. Galen stated; "This is one of, if not the
highest optioned '68 Charger I have ever seen! Whoever ordered this car
must have said, order everything on the list!"
Special Order "999" paint codes were codes assigned for a vehicle for paint colors that were not officially available for that model vehicle for a given year. When a car line was planned and introduced, a number of colors were designated as being available for that car. Dealer information and paint chips were distributed, assembly lines were readied with paint mixes and instructions for the paint departments for the identified set of paint codes.
The way a 999 car was order was that any one with a fleet account (dealerships, or large purchasing agents) could order any Ditzler color for any vehicle for some additional small fee ($75-100). When the 999 order was placed, some notation as to which actual color was written on the order. The factory would have sent the car down the assembly line with papers that also reflected that special paint color.
While the parameters of the 999 special order paint mean that there were probalby some unique orders that mades a "one off", for some years, there were common 999 orders. 1968-1969 999 Orange cars would be one of these commonly order special colors. There were probably a few hundred 999 Orange cars built in 1968 and 1969. For 1968 and the beginning of 1969, these were Omaha Orange which is the same orange used to paint early 1964 race hemi's (Ditzler code DRA60436). At some point in the 1969 model year, the special order 999 Omaha Orange became the EK2 Vitamin C Orange which would be standard color for 1970. The is per a 4/7/69 TSB stating that begining approx. Feb 1, 1969, EK2 "Vitamin C" Orange would be available for Belvedere models.
http://www.autohobbydigest.com/999.html
4 of the known 999 cars that were not Bengals were painted silver, a Petty Blue, a Rallye Green and Bahama Yellow.
Clair says:
I own the 1968 Bengal R/T. I found it just outside of Hazard Kentucky in 1993. It was made to look like a Dukes car; when I went to look at it, it had little football helmet stickers in the back window and had the Bengal Charger emblems on the fenders. When I popped the hood and seen the 999 code, I knew there was something special about the car, I just found the only R/T that was known to exist. It had the build sheet behind the back seat. It coded out as 440 with AC, automatic with white interior, and the sheet said SPECIAL HANDLING JOB at the bottom of it.
The other 3 Bengals all have black interior. I took it to the Nats right after I bought it (1993) and then tucked it away for thirteen years while raising kids and building a house. Then had the car disassembled and bead blasted but ran out of motivation and it's just sitting waiting for NOS parts since 2006. As for the other 3, the 383 car was recently restored and is in Texas, the 318 car with the low miles was sold to a guy in Missouri, and the 318 car in Saskatchewan Canada was nicely redone into a R/T clone. That's the one next to the jet.
Veterans to Technicians aims to connect highly skilled former military personnel with challenging and rewarding new careers as Audi certified service technicians, service consultants, shop foremen and parts specialists in dealerships across the country.
Veterans with proven automotive skills are prioritized, though the program also provides opportunities for veterans with experience in power generation, aviation, welding, electronics, hydraulic systems and maritime systems.
Unlike the other car makers, the Jim Hall racing operation wasn't based in the middle of a race car building center. (think Los Angeles, Indianapolis). It was a small outfit in Texas, where there was no racing infrastructure, or resources.
It was competing with Ferrari, Lola, etc... and here is the part to be impressed by... the 2F Chaparral was the fastest lap at Sebring, Nurburgring, Spa, and Daytona. Plus it took the pole position at Monza and Nurbrgring
But though it was the fastest, it was doomed by a lousy Chevrolet bearing in the tourque converter transaxles.
Roger Penske was smart, and experienced, and put a buy out clause in the contract he signed drivers up with... and when Chris Amon bailed before the 1966 season started, as he was a driver for Scuderia Ferrrari in F1as a second stringer, when Bandini was killed in Monaco, and Enzo called him up to primary. Amon had to bail on Penske, but not without paying for the inconvenience.
a trainer and driver’s education instructor at the university that was employed by the school from the 1950’s well into the 1980’s claimed that he was very familiar with the chassis and that he had, in fact, used the chassis as a teaching tool starting in around 1957. They used the chassis for decades until sometime in the 1980’s.
Builder of the Zonda and Huayra, he had a humble and obscure beginning in Argentina in 1955.
He studied Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering at different universities, then worked on various projects, including furniture design, motor-home and camper design and construction from the mid 70s to the early 80s.
He moved to Italy in 1983, and by '84 he was working with Lamborghini on the various versions of the Countach and Diablo.
Lamborghini wasn't smart enough to get the machinery needed to build some parts themselves, so he split, and went into business making parts that Lamborghini, and other companies, needed at that level of supercar engineering. (Ferrari, Nissan, Renault, Aprilia) | {
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Shelsley 19 September 2015
Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb! So steeped in history and still going strong.
When I arrived it was foggy and the start of practice was delayed. After about an hour of waiting for it to clear it was decided we would form some cavalcades (this was the term used) and proceed up the hill in groups of six cars in the hope of dispersing the fog. It seemed a daft idea to me but I was one of the those chosen to participate and it did give me an extra drive up and down the hill. Now, whether we dispersed the fog or whether it just naturally dissipated I don’t know, but after we came down it was decided that visibility had improved and we could start. However, the delay meant that we only had time for one practice run. At Loton it wouldn’t have mattered to me at all since I know it so well, but the last time I competed at Shelsley was this day five years ago, 19 September 2010, and I could have done with a second practice run to familiarise myself with the pace. Nevertheless, in the afternoon I managed second in class to Paul Jones in his Elise 135R so was fairly satisfied. My Elise ran well and its 200BHP made up for my lack of experience here. My start was excellent – 2.36 at 64ft and my finish speed over the line was best in class – 92, but speed into the Esses (77) was slower than others were doing so tomorrow I’ll try and be braver there and also try to get to Kennel quicker.
This was round 31 of the HSA Championship and my time was a new HSA class record, which will have earned me 16 points ( I couldn’t score maximum points as there were not enough HSA people in the class). My lowest score at the moment is a 14 so I can drop that and add 16 to my total giving me 140 points. Whether this is enough to keep me in the top five only time will tell as I don’t know what other people scored.
Anyway, here are some photos.
Great photo by Sam Walker on Facebook of the fog at the top of the hill.Another photo by Sam of the commentary box at the top of the Esses this morning.It was good to see Fyrth Crosse again. This was the first time I’ve seen him since his big accident at Werrington last year. As you can see the Ensign has been rebuilt and now sports the livery from its Formula 2 Monaco race in 1973.The Ensign from the rear.Ifan Davies and Mandy Bartlett from Raglan with their Davrian Mk 6. There’s an HSA championship sticker on this car and I think it’s Ifan’s first HSA round! Hope we see more of him next year. And Mandy of course.Two of my favourite cars and lucky enough to be married to someone who has one of them. Just need a mistress with an Alfa now 😉At Shelsley you do not practice in the same classes that you complete in, so it’s sometimes possible to photograph competitors, which is unusual. Here’s Ted Elwes in Ken Williamson’s Elise.Simon Hamilton, who we last met at Pembrey in the summer, in his Lotus 2-Eleven.The variety of cars in the paddock was amazing. Here we have Mark Brett in his 1937 Ballamy Ford V8 Special. | {
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The Science of the Perfect Tweet
If you’ve ever tried to promote something or someone on Twitter, you may have pondered the art of the perfect tweet (i.e. one that will garner the most attention and retweets). Turns out, it may actually be more of a science. And surprisingly, you don’t necessarily need to feature the words “Justin” and “Bieber.”
According to TheAtlantic, a paper (PDF) published by UCLA and Hewlett-Packard’s HP Labs features an algorithm that can predict the popularity or “spreadability” of news-related tweets with an incredible 84 percent accuracy, even before they are actually sent out into the Twitterverse. This means that with the tools created by the researchers, news organizations (and individuals), can actually tailor and structure those 140 characters for maximum attention.
The short of it: technology is the most popular type of news story, followed by health-related stories and “fun stuff.”
Name recognition was also fairly important (okay, so the words “Justin” and “Bieber” might have some clout). But what most greatly affected the shareability of a news tweet was the organization or person doing the tweeting. People are more likely to share a story with their followers that they know comes from a reputable source, like The New York Times.
And interestingly, the objectivity of the language used in the tweet made very little difference. In other words, you don’t get more readers or retweets by saying something like, “OMG I’M CRYING! BEIBER’S ALBUM IS OUT!” rather than simply saying, “Justin Beiber’s new album released today.” So please, stop the hyperbolic screaming.
You can read the whole article in The Atlantichere, and the research paper here. | {
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DON’T MISS: Fighting for Forgiveness
A Rwandan priest’s journey from refugee to healer
Father Ubald Rugirangoga is in the business of healing. Parishioners allege he has cured leukemia, helped a paralyzed person walk out of a wheelchair, and saved a leg from amputation.
But more important are the wounds we cannot see, according to Fr. Ubald.
Wounds, he said, are more than just physical. They are spiritual, and that is where Fr. Ubald said he has the deepest understanding.
Fr. Ubald survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that killed upwards of 800,000 people. He offered refuge on his church property to 45,000 people. Every one of them was killed was killed on the church property within days.
“It was a surprise to me,” he said. “To decide to kill people, children… because of who you are. Not because you’ve done wrong.”
He tenses up recalling memories of the genocide that killed the refugees his church housed, along with much of his family.
But anger and hatred are heavy burdens to bear, Fr. Ubald said. To demonstrate, he lifts people [this reporter included] onto his back.
“To stay with such hatred, it is a weight to carry,” he said. “When you are carrying a big weight, you are crying. You are suffering.”
So he teaches people to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. Only then, he said, is anyone truly free.
Fr. Ubald’s journey from Rwandan refugee to a missionary who claims to have healing powers is the subject of an upcoming documentary, Forgiveness: The Secret of Peace.
The film premieres September 27 at the Center for the Arts in Jackson.
“What you experience is not only yours,” Fr. Ubald said of his decision to participate in the film. “You have to share with society.”
The best ways to share, he said, are by writing a book or making a film. He doesn’t have time for a book yet—he evangelizes and heals around the world, and is constantly on the road—so he let someone follow him around with a camera instead.
“He can’t be everywhere, but a film can be,” said co-producer Katsey Long. “We knew his story was big enough and broad enough.
Fr. Ubald was a Catholic priest before the genocide, and has had a life that’s consistently been dotted by violence.
The priest’s father was killed in 1967 in Rwanda, and Fr. Ubald fled to Burundi in high school to escape “division and ethnic hatred,” Long said.
Tragedy struck again on April 6, 1994, when Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was shot out of the air. The act was the catalyst for violence that had long been brewing between the Hutu and the Tutsis.
Violence broke out in Rwanda, and eighty members of Fr. Ubald’s family were killed. Members of his parish turned on him, and Fr. Ubald, whose mission has always been to preach kindness, was arrested.
“Because I was a Tutsi,” he said. “Coming back I said—cried—it is injustice. I have been arrested because of belonging to Tutsi ethnic.”
But ethnicities, Fr. Ubald said, are a human creation.
“God created people, not ethnicities,” he said. And to kill someone for the way they were born is to fight God, according to Fr. Ubald.
After the violence in Rwanda had finally calmed, Fr. Ubald made it his mission to preach peace through forgiveness.
He began the Mushaka Unity and Reconciliation Program in 2006 for victims and perpetrators of violence to learn about, and exercise, forgiveness.
It’s a practice he has had to complete himself. After the genocide, Fr. Ubald found the man who killed his mother—and paid tuition for the man’s two children.
His mother’s killer now works alongside Fr. Ubald.
“Forgiveness, it is a way to survive,” Fr. Ubald said. “When you realize that, you are a free man.” But it’s not always easy. First, he says, the victim must make an active decision to forgive. “Then you fight.”
“Forgiveness always incorporates grief,” Long said. “Because you’ve lost something. You go through the stages of grief, and work through that emotional component.”
Fr. Ubald is currently working to build a Center for the Secret of Peace in Rwanda, and takes his message and his mission around the world.
There will always be violence, he says, but there is also always hope.
“We are all people, we are all humans. We have to preach about forgiveness. There is injustice of course, but we are fighting to have justice all the time.” PJH
Fr. Ubald’s film debuts September 27 at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $15 and are available at JHCenterForTheArts.org. | {
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SAFA delivers Banyana Banyana cheque
04 Dec 2018
Upon their arrival on Sunday from Ghana where they finished runners up and qualified for the FIFA Women’s World Cup, SAFA handed over Banyana Banyana their promised cheque incentives amounting to over R2,4 million which they will share among themselves.
SAFA met with the players before they departed for the 2018 Women’s AFCON and confirmed a bonus structure for the players. SAFA was supported in this commitment by sponsors SASOL.
The bonus structure was drawn up with the players long before they left for Ghana and with the help of the sponsors and the government through Lotto, the bonus incentives were agreed by all parties.
The bonuses paid, amounting to R2 415 000,00 will be shared exclusively by the 21 players who participated at the Women’s AFCON 2018. | {
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Public’s assistance requested in solving Stafford County homicide
The Stafford County Sheriff\'s Office is requesting the public\'s assistance in solving the death of Katherine Bryant. (Image courtesy of the Stafford County Sheriff\'s Office)
WASHINGTON – The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in solving the death of Katherine Bryant.
Bryant was last seen in the D.C. area in the summer of 2006, and her skeletal remains were found on August 16 of last year in a wooded area near the northbound 140 ramp exit of I-95.
According to the sheriff’s office, the death of Bryant, who was 33 years old at the time, is being investigated as a homicide.
Bryant was a known associate of Murder Incorporated, a drug organization in the Washington area. According to the sheriff’s office, Murder Inc. was responsible for numerous murders as well as the sale of heroin, cocaine and marijuana.
“This young lady is a daughter and a sister and her family deserves to know who is responsible for her death,” says Sheriff Charles Jett in a press release. “The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is committed to finding the person or persons responsible for this terrible crime.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Todd Nosal at 540-658-4492, Detective Barry Surles at 540-658-4927 or Crime Solvers at 540-659-2020. Persons with information can also text STAFFORD and the tip to CRIMES (274637). | {
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Editorial | Ryan Leslie for Bleu Magazine
Here is an exclusive first look at the Winter 2010 issue of BLEU Magazine featuring Singer/Songwriter/Producer Ryan Leslie. “We have watched Ryan Leslie over the past couple of years “transition” into this mature, successful, and fashion forward confident man, so it was not only a perfect fit as his sophomore album is titled “Transition”, but it was a must for Ryan to cover the new issue of Bleu, says De’Von Christopher, Publisher of Bleu Magazine.” You can pick up this issue when it hits newsstand January 20, 2010 and the album “Transition” is in stores now.
In case you missed it, check out our footage from his album listening event.
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The Iraqi refugee crisis was a focus of attention again on Capitol Hill and Washington this week. Two key Senate Democrats urged President Bush to do more, while a bipartisan group of House lawmakers urged Iraq's government to sharply increase spending to assist Iraqi refugees who fled sectarian fighting, and those displaced from their homes inside the country. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill.
In a letter to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, five Democrats and four Republicans urge Iraq to use a greater portion of its budget, assisted by rising revenues from oil exports, to help refugees and internally-displaced persons.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 4.5 million Iraqis have been displaced since the U.S. and coalition invasion in 2003, including 2.5 million inside Iraq and two million who fled to neighboring countries such as Jordan and Syria.
The lawmakers say money allocated in Iraq's budget for internally-displaced persons rose from six-million dollars to 13 million in 2008, with Baghdad contributing $25 million to neighboring countries dealing with refugees.
With sharply increased oil prices over the past year, they say Iraq could end up with $60 billion in revenues in 2008 and a $25-billion surplus.
Democrat William Delahunt says while the United States bears significant responsibility to help the situation, Iraq's government needs to sharply increase its contributions.
"We want to call upon the Maliki government to provide $1 billion to assist internally-displaced persons and refugees whose conditions are becoming more desperate on a daily basis," said William Delahunt.
Signatories of the letter say $1 billion would amount to only four percent of estimates of Iraq's projected surplus.
Rosa DeLauro is a Connecticut Democrat:
"Such a commitment would demonstrate Iraq's commitment to bringing home those who fled the violence, and promoting a much-needed reconciliation that is going to be critical in that nation and would be a clear sign that Iraq is serious about standing on its own and lessening its reliance on the U.S. so that it can truly realize its future as a sovereign nation," said Rosa DeLauro.
In appearances on Capitol Hill, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and U.S. military commander in Iraq General David Petraeus said Iraq's government is now increasing its spending for reconstruction.
But if Iraqi leaders do significantly step up spending for refugees, how would the efforts be managed, and would funds be lost to corruption or mismanagement?
For a start, Congressman Delahunt suggests that Iraq make a substantial contribution to the United Nations to help host nations deal with refugee populations.
"If there is finally some reasonable reconstruction, or I would argue construction, or modernization of the country, there could be jobs to lure Iraqis back to their own country especially if security is achieved on the ground," said Jane Harman.
Although the number of Iraqis admitted to the United States has increased in recent months, the Bush administration has faced criticism on the issue.
U.S. officials have struggled toward a goal of 12,000 admissions by the end of the current fiscal year in September, involving a process of reviewing referrals from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and an inter-agency government screening process.
While the U.S. has provided $208 million this year for refugees, State Department senior coordinator for Iraqi refugee issues, James Foley, says there has been a shortfall of $375 to $400 million in fulfilled pledges by various country donors.
But Foley too underscores the importance of the Iraqi government's role, noting that Arab governments in particular are waiting for Baghdad to make a greater financial contribution.
"Everywhere I went there was a unanimous view that the government of Iraq needed to step forward first and itself contribute substantially to meeting the needs of its citizens who have had to flee to neighboring countries," said James Foley.
In remarks to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (an independent body comprising members of Congress) Foley predicted that tremendous numbers of Iraqi refugees will arrive in the U.S. in coming months.
However, he said European donor nations expressed similar views on the need for Iraqi government commitment.
The Washington representative of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Michael Gabaudan, said that in Iraq, improvements in security in Iraq are not yet broad enough or sufficiently sustainable for the agency to recommend large-scale returns, adding that attempts at political reconciliation are still in beginning stages. | {
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13 Bombardier for sale
A legacy of exceptional achievement. A team of innovative people. A continuous dedication to excellence. Large words for a company that started out making snowmobiles. Nowadays, the scope of Bombardier is somewhat more extensive, lending credence to the aforementioned superlatives. The Canadian company is on the forefront of the production and development of business jet technology - Their Challenger, Learjet and Global lines cover 95 percent of the business aircraft market. Sometimes, you can just let the numbers do the talking. | {
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In case you haven’t heard, Beams men’s creative director Hiroshi Kubo and NIGO have collaborated together for a collection of Coca-Cola-inspired clothing. Check out the video where the two discuss their inspiration for the project and their mutual love for Coke. | {
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Those are his amazing, sweet lady-killing pecs. I've more partial to the way Amano draws monsters, armor and clothing, but I think his ability to draw humans is mostly miss.
Also, yeah, those sprites look awful. It's probably the stiff arms. Making them somewhat proportional is cool, but those arms make them look very lifeless.
EDIT: The more I look at that pic, the more awful it looks. LOOK AT HIS FUCKING NECK JESUS CHRIST WHY IS IT AN HOURGLASS SHAPE AND TEN INCHES LONG and then his head is put on lopsided so he can awkwardly look at the person viewing the picture because Amano is horrible at drawing profiles. Then apparently Bartz has a tentacle for a left hand that extends off the drawing.
The Japanese one is worse because Tidus is "laughing" like a crow there.
Maybe the idea behind the scene was decent but they recorded the damn thing and now we have generations of fans still talking about it after all these years. It was good publicity for the game in the end, so that's something I guess.
I am the only person that the laughing scene didn't bother a single bit? It made perfect sense given its context. In fact, it making you uncomfortable because it sounds so forced and awkward also makes perfect sense given its context. Without the internet telling me the scene is an abomination, I don't think I would have ever given it a second thought.
I am the only person that the laughing scene didn't bother a single bit? It made perfect sense given its context. In fact, it making you uncomfortable because it sounds so forced and awkward also makes perfect sense given its context. Without the internet telling me the scene is an abomination, I don't think I would have ever given it a second thought.
I actually agree. I didn't think twice about the scene back when I actually played the game. I mean, it's supposed to be awkward. Of course when you take it out of context it looks pretty awful... | {
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Bomberman is on his way home when the engines on his ship are stolen. As a result, he must make an emergency landing on a strange planet. However, Bomberman is not traveling alone he's got all of the monsters he has captured on his adventures with him. After a rough crash landing, the monsters escaped. You must help Bomberman recapture the monsters and find his engines in order to return home. You'll travel to four different regions of the planet collecting bombs, finding items, and getting hints for how to proceed on your adventure. Along with the main quest a Two-Player mode is also included, in which you try to trap your opponent by setting bombs; the first person to be victimized by a bomb loses. | {
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I called Tim at 8am (Dennis said this was the best time to catch him)
and woke him up!! I was so embarrassed and felt horrible and said I would hang up and call
him back later and Tim insisted that I stay on the line. Not wanting to argue with
him, I did.
Tim was born September 3, 1944 in Los Angeles, California. He attended
Van Nuys Jr. High with Tom Selleck and Jon Peters. Then went on to attend Van Nuys High
School and Norte Dame High School.
For those of you who watch Dragnet you can see him in two
episodes from 1969 and 1970. In the 1970 one, "D.H.Q.-Night School" he guest
stars along with Marco Lopez.
Tim's favorite Emergency! episode to do was "Firehouse
Quintet" [the basketball one]. When asked about Henry, he replied that Henry was a
very slobbery, smelly and shedding dog and was going to be fired from the show until he
offered to do scenes with him. Awwww, what a hero in my opinion....he saved Henry!
After Emergency! he did a couple of movies. The Toolbox
Murders (1978) and The Clonus Horror (1979). He produced three plays
along with John Cassavetes in the Hollywood area and did a couple of Vega$
episodes in the early 1980's. He then left for northern California to get involved in the
pearl business. Tim is now living in the Los Angeles area and has a daughter who
just started college.
Good luck Tim on the movie you and Dennis are now working
on!! And thanks for talking to me even though I woke you up!!
On January 16, 1998, Jane and I flew to Los Angeles for the Hollywood
Collector's show. The show was on the 17th and 18th at the Beverly Garland Hotel.
On Saturday, the 17th, we went down and got in line for the Hollywood Collector's Show,
not knowing that since we were with the hotel we could have just walked right up front and
got our passes and gotten in that way. Oh well, was fun to stand in line and watch the
cars and stars go by. When we finally got in we went looking for Tim and found him with
his back turned setting up some things at his table. Jane said "There he is" and
he turned around and said "THERE YOU TWO ARE!! You know, I saw you two in line out
there and just somehow knew it was you guys!" What a great welcome and made us both
feel so special. We stayed and talked with him for awhile and then moved on so others
could go up and see him. Tim told us too that Dennis was in there looking for us. A little
while later I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned and heard this guy say "Rozane?
It's me...Dennis!" It was so wonderful to finally meet him too. We walked back over
to where Tim was and there was Jim Page standing there talking to him. What a sight to see
the three of them together. We knew there was no way Tim was going to be able to leave for
lunch, so we made plans to have dinner with him later, and left with Jim and Dennis for
lunch. Jim took us to Universal City. He and Dennis had not seen each other for 20 years
so they had some catching up to do and it was great to be a part of them seeing each other
again.
At 5pm when the show ended for that day we left with Tim for dinner. Went to
Mel's (just like in "American Graffiti") and then over to Burger King for the
chocolate pies they have. We highly recommend them! Tim has a great sense of humor and
being with him was so much fun. We met him again for breakfast the next morning before he
had to go back into the show area. Tim got his buddy, Biff Manard, to take some pictures
of us outside and then we went in and said our goodbyes. | {
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To profit with purpose
The overarching mission is to profit with purpose by providing a specialised and experienced financing platform that will structure select investments to accelerate clean and sustainable energy infrastructure, energy and resource efficiency solutions (and related business models and services), and the supply chains that support them, which provide measured positive development outcomes for sub-Saharan Africa’s future.
AFPOC
AFPOC Limited brings significant development expertise in the wind and solar industry. Management of AFPOC comprises leading figures in the renewable energy sector both from South Africa and Australia. AFPOC Management have developed and operated a total installed wind energy capacity of 508MW.
AFPOC Limited co-owns African Clean Energy Developments (ACED) – a leading renewable energy developer in South Africa. The projects fall under the Department of Energy’s IPP Procurement Programme in South Africa. ACED is currently developing a portfolio of wind and solar photovoltaic projects across South Africa. The Cookhouse Wind Farm (138MW) has been permitted and has reached financial close with construction now having commenced, and is scheduled to reach commercial operations date in mid 2014.
Suzlon (one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers based in India) will provide the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project, as well as provide the ongoing operations and maintenance.
Evolution One Fund’s investment into AFPOC Limited offers financing options over the medium term of 1.8GW of advanced renewable energy pipeline. | {
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About Pauline
What is behind the name Pauline? Why Paul? Of all the saints in the Church under whose patronage Blessed James Alberione could have placed our Congregation, why did he choose Paul, whose life and letters form such a large part of the New Testament?
It’s time for an updated, compelling, teen-friendly explanation of God’s plan for life, love, marriage, and sex, in light of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, and that’s exactly what this book provides. | {
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Incurable and almost always fatal, feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is, thankfully, a relatively rare disease, affecting less than one percent of all cats presented to veterinarians for treatment. Although the condition is most prevalent by far in multicat households, animal shelters, and crowded breeding catteries, every cat owner should be aware of its viral origins, its clinical signs, and the ways in which the risk of its occurrence can be minimized.
This affliction, which primarily affects young cats (less than two years of age) and those that are 10 years of age and older, is caused by infection with the feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), a mutated form of the feline coronavirus (FCoV), so named due to the microscopic appearance of its outer surface, which resembles the sun’s corona.
Coronaviruses are shed in an infected animal’s saliva and feces, and an uninfected cat can become infected by ingesting or inhaling it when coming in close contact with an infected cat or with virus-contaminated objects in the environment, such as a poorly maintained litter box. However, according to Fred W. Scott, DVM, PhD, professor emeritus of virology at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, the most common form of transmission occurs when a persistently infected queen passes the FCoV to her offspring, usually when the kittens are five to eight weeks of age, after they have lost the temporary immunity provided to them by the queen.
Most kittens infected with FCoV do not show signs of illness following initial infection. (At most, they will experience very mild intestinal disease.) Five to 10 percent of FCoV-infected kittens may develop clinical FIP weeks, months, or even years later. Clinical FIP generally has a gradual onset over several days or weeks, with persistent fever, decreased appetite, weight loss, and an unkempt appearance.
Eventually, the disease will almost always manifest itself in either of two forms—“wet” or “dry”—which are distinguished primarily by the extent to which fluid accumulates in one or more of a cat’s body cavities. According to Dr. Scott, the wet (or “effusive”) form occurs when fluid collects within an infected cat’s body—usually in its abdomen or, in rare instances, around its heart. Fluid in the chest cavity puts pressure on the lungs, and an infected cat will have difficulty breathing. Occasionally, cats affected with effusive FIP will survive for months, but they typically will survive for only a few days to a week.
In the dry (“noneffusive”) form, there is little if any fluid accumulation. Instead, cats with this form of the disease may have clinical signs typically associated with impairment affecting an internal organ or system, such as kidney or liver failure, neurologic dysfunction, and ocular disease. Cats with noneffusive FIP may survive longer than those with the effusive form—but virtually all cats afflicted with clinical FIP will eventually die from it.
Aside from post-mortem examination or examination of biopsy tissue, says Dr. Scott, a definitive diagnosis of FIP is elusive if not impossible. A test for FCoV antibodies in an ailing cat’s blood, for example, can show only that the animal has been exposed at some point to a coronavirus, but it cannot prove beyond a doubt that the animal has FIP. Therefore, he explains, diagnosis of FIP in a living cat is most often based on tests excluding all other conditions that might be causing the clinical signs plus a series of tests that, if positive, are consistent with FIP. And treatment, at least for now, consists only of supportive care and, perhaps, efforts to alleviate an afflicted animal’s self-destructive inflammatory response to viral infection.
Although a vaccine aimed at protecting against FIP exists, Dr. Scott notes that its efficacy has proved to be of dubious value. Therefore, he advises, the most effective way in which an owner can safeguard a domestic cat—especially in a multicat household—is to prevent direct contact with an FCoV-positive cat. Meticulous hygiene, especially in the care of food dishes, litter boxes, and surrounding areas will certainly help. “You can use bleach, quartenary ammonium compounds, or any of the household disinfectants on the market,” he notes, “and you should use them daily. And try not to let your cat or cats outdoors where they might encounter an FCoV-infected cat.”
Fortunately, he notes, infections are rare among household cats. The major prevalence, by far, occurs in breeding catteries and other multicat facilities. For additional information on FIP, see Feline Infectious Peritonitis. | {
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NEA president’s statement on President Obama’s victory
“President’s reelection a win for students and educators,” says Dennis Van Roekel
WASHINGTON - November 06, 2012 -
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel responded to the reelection of President Barack Obama with the following statement:
“Americans have spoken, and they’ve chosen to move forward. From day one, NEA members have supported President Obama and his vision for America and public education. And over the past two years, they worked tirelessly on behalf of America’s public school students, who have a great team in President Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden. First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden are also passionate advocates for public schools, students, and educators.
“Throughout the campaign, the president pledged to invest in education, especially in early childhood education, and to make higher education more affordable. He also promised to protect women’s rights and rebuild the middle class from the inside out.
“NEA’s 3 million members will continue to make sure the president and other elected officials put America’s children and hardworking families first. We will work together to continue to rebuild the nation’s economy while protecting core American values like quality public education and access to health care, and critical programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
Van Roekel concluded, “That work begins tomorrow. But tonight, we will celebrate.”
The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators, and students preparing to become teachers.
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More college football spring games airing on TV
The trees are budding and the birds are nesting — must be time to sit down and watch some of the least compelling matchups in college football: green vs. white, crimson against cream, blue takes on gold.
Spring games are blossoming on television as sports networks discover the value of airing the glorified scrimmages, tapping into fervent college fan bases — people who might otherwise be joining the tens of thousands at the stadium. It’s free advertising in the middle of the offseason for programs competing for the country’s top recruits.
The Big Ten Network is scheduled to broadcast live all but one of its schools’ spring football games this year on TV or the Internet, including Iowa’s open practice (the Hawkeyes don’t play a spring game). ESPN’s networks are televising five games this year, up from two in 2008. That doesn’t include additional teams available online at ESPN3.com, some as replays or simulcasts of regional broadcasts.
The only ones who don’t seem to be on the bandwagon are some college coaches, a bunch conditioned to fret over the tiniest of details.
New Big Ten member Nebraska is the TV holdout in that conference, for instance. The Huskers don’t want to show their retooled offense to their new rivals.
“I just prefer not to have it on,” said Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops, whose team’s spring game was aired by ESPN in 2006 and ‘07. “Why would I let everybody see, who we’re going to play early, what we like to do?”
Of the 25 schools in the AP’s final poll last season, 12 are planning to have their games broadcast in some form this spring.
Notre Dame’s spring game will be televised nationally for the first time. Saturday’s scrimmage is on cable channel Versus, which is now a sister network to NBC, the Irish’s TV partner, after the Comcast merger.
“We are going to try to get as much gamelike scenarios as we can,” coach Brian Kelly said.
“I think we will get some excitement,” he added, “more so than the typical spring game.”
ESPN’s foray into spring football started mostly as an attempt to find programming to fill the schedule at new network ESPNU.
The number that later caught executives’ eyes wasn’t a rating but an attendance figure. In 2007, an overflow crowd of more than 92,000 attended Nick Saban’s first spring game at Alabama.
ESPN’s telecast of Texas’ spring game April 3 drew an audience of 226,000 households. The same time slot last year — which included a replay of the college basketball 3-point and slam dunk competitions — attracted 337,000 households.
Even if viewership isn’t great, the games are valuable in other ways to ESPN, which is so heavily invested in college football.
“We’ve been trying to make a concerted effort in making it a year-round proposition,” said Burke Magnus, the network’s senior vice president of college sports programming.
Magnus said schools had been receptive to having their games televised. LSU coach Les Miles would rather not have a spring game at all — he believes it’s an inefficient use of limited practice time. But these scrimmages bring in big bucks for the top programs. So if he has to have one, Miles doesn’t mind it being on TV.
“Your guys love to play on television,” Miles said before Saturday’s game, which was shown on ESPN. “It gives you the air of a big game. Your guys want to play better.”
Still, coaches whose games are televised may be more likely to hold back certain plays they don’t want their opponents to see. Asked if he recorded Texas’ spring game, Oklahoma defensive coordinator Brent Venables deadpanned, “I don’t know if I did or not.”
“Were they on?” he asked to the laughter of reporters.
From the Sooners’ standpoint, Venables said, “I think we’re on TV as much if not more than anybody and we get plenty of exposure.”
Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne, the Cornhuskers’ former coach, was concerned televising the spring game would hurt attendance — which has been more than 77,000 in recent years. Osborne said the school makes $700,000 to $800,000 in revenue from the game.
Coach Bo Pelini will be able to tune into his new conference’s network to watch the scrimmages of all his Big Ten counterparts. Plenty of passionate, midwestern football fans are sure to do so.
They might even see something eyebrow-raising, like last Saturday when Purdue’s Carson Wiggs connected on a 67-yard field goal — yes, 67.
“Even though it’s not the most exciting broadcast or the most exciting brand of football,” said ESPN analyst Todd Blackledge, who called Saturday’s LSU game, “it kind of feeds that animal of college football.” | {
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Data
Agile Keychain design
In the very beginning, 1Password proudly used the macOS Keychain to store all of its information. Written by Apple, this is a fantastic component of macOS and a shining example of why developing for the Mac is a joy. After years of use, we learned a lot about the nuances of the macOS Keychain and how people benefited from it, as well as where things could be improved.
Why did 1Password originally use the macOS Keychain?
The macOS Keychain had many benefits that made it a natural choice:
It is shipped on every Mac and used by millions of people, making it robust and well tested.
It is open source, helping to ensure its encryption algorithms are well designed and free of errors.
By using the macOS Keychain, 1Password didn’t need a single line of encryption code.
The macOS Keychain is supported by Apple, helping to ensure it will be around for many years to come.
Additional security measures like automatic locking are built in.
Locking is handled by a central process, meaning unlocking the keychain in one application will automatically unlock it for all other applications.
MobileMe syncing was built into the macOS Keychain.
How can the Agile Keychain be even better?
As 1Password matured and became more mainstream, many people started requesting features that were not possible with the macOS Keychain. Although the benefits of the macOS Keychain were many, they were outweighed by the following drawbacks:
Syncing data without using MobileMe was not realistic because of the single-file format used by the macOS Keychain.
Syncing with the iPhone or iPod touch was not supported.
The macOS Keychain is Apple exclusive, making cross-platform support difficult. We looked at migrating the macOS Keychain code to other environments, but it was not a simple task and the reward was questionable.
Many people, especially those new to the platform, have never heard of the macOS Keychain. They were often confused by the prompts the macOS Keychain presents. Even worse, having never used the Keychain Access application, they had difficulty performing common tasks like changing their password, automatic lock settings, and sync options.
The macOS Keychain used Triple DES as its encryption algorithm at the time which was quite secure but was superseded by newer encryption algorithms with longer key lengths. The US government deprecated the use of Triple DES and set AES as its new standard.
The macOS Keychain’s automatic lock function is based on usage of the keychain itself, not your activity, such as typing and mouse usage. Many people wanted the automatic lock feature to be based on their use of the computer, not the length of time between keychain uses.
As the macOS Keychain size grows, its performance deteriorates significantly. The main cause of this is how updates are handled. When updating any data, a separate temporary file is created with a full copy of the original keychain, and then copied over. As the file size increases, copying the original file contents becomes very slow.
MobileMe syncing of keychains was often unreliable, causing item duplication, deletion, and creation of corrupt entries that could not be accessed. Because 1Password was accessing the macOS Keychain, it was impossible to fix these issues ourselves.
Decision to develop the Agile Keychain
The macOS Keychain served 1Password very well. With the introduction of the iPhone SDK and the many great ideas for improvement from our customers, the drawbacks associated with the macOS Keychain started to outweigh the benefits. In fact, while investigating alternatives we realized that the main benefits of the macOS Keychain could all be achieved in other ways while learning from its existing limitations and avoiding them.
In the end, the greatest motivation to make a change was syncing. When Leopard and MobileMe were released, the reliability of the macOS Keychain syncing became spotty at best. Given that syncing is one of the most important things for a password manager, it is unacceptable to have any unreliability in this area.
The Agile Keychain format was created to address these issues while building on the tenets of the macOS Keychain. It was introduced in 2008, replacing our use of the macOS Keychain at that time.
The goal of the Agile Keychain was to build on the successes of the macOS Keychain while increasing flexibility and portability. Additional flexibility was needed to enable new features and stronger security beyond the scope of the macOS Keychain, as well as to make it easier to integrate with other platforms.
Requirements
Our customers demand a lot from 1Password, so we set some high goals when designing the Agile Keychain format:
It must not require a single line of encryption code to be written. Encryption code is tricky and is best left to experts.
All encryption and key generation code must be well reviewed by the professional community. Having a large userbase is critical to ensure the code is robust, well tested, and well supported by the community.
Automatic locking, including on sleep, screen saver activation, and a configurable period of inactivity.
It must be accessible on many platforms, such as iOS and Windows.
Fast performance that does not degrade as the keychain size increases.
It must be accessible by multiple applications but not require every application to unlock the keychain individually.
The design should minimize the root causes of common sync problems such as conflicts, duplicate items being created, items deleted for no apparent reason, and the creation of corrupt entries that cannot be accessed.
Design Decisions
The following design decisions were made with the goal of fulfilling the above requirements.
Encryption algorithms and protocols should be Open Source wherever possible.
As always, we did not want to write a single line of encryption code. We work hard to understand the details and the principles of cryptology behind the systems that we use, but we know enough to understand that we should rely on the professional community for all encryption code.
When creating, reading, or manipulating the Agile Keychain, 1Password uses a combination of the OpenSSL library, CommonCrypto, or Windows cryptography libraries depending on platform and version for all of its encryption and key generation needs.
The core of the encryption is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) using 128-bit encryption keys and performed in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode along with a randomized Initialization Vector.
128 bit keys versus 256-bit keys
AES supports the use of 128-, 192-, and 256-bit keys. We opted for 128-bit keys at the time the Agile Keychain was created because the performance and portability advantages outweighed the negligible security gain of using 256-bit keys. 128-bit keys are extremely secure.
We use 256-bit keys in the OPVault format but not for reasons one might expect. There is a technical sense in which AES 256 is enormously stronger than AES 128, but in every sense that actually matters for security there is no difference. At 128 bits, this is already the strongest part of the system. No attacker would attempt a brute force attack against a 128-bit key.
Encryption Key Generation
The most important component of encryption, which is often overlooked, is how the encryption keys are generated. This needs to be done in a way that ensures the mathematics of the AES algorithm cannot be avoided while also stymying brute force attacks.
The first thing to look at is the randomness of the keys themselves. In all versions of 1Password, we use cryptographically appropriate random number generation processes to create the keys. The details differ across platforms and versions, but in each case we follow best practices in creating the 128-bit keys.
The second thing to look at is how your Master Password is processed to decrypt your key. The Agile Keychain uses PBKDF2 to generate encryption keys from your password. PBKDF2 is also published by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2898. You can find out more about PBKDF2 in our blog post on the topic.
Hierarchy of Encryption Keys
To allow you to change your password without needing to decrypt and re-encrypt the entire Agile Keychain, an encryption key hierarchy was created. Instead of encrypting data with the password directly, a random key of 1024 bytes is used. This password is generated by cryptographically appropriate random number generators, relying in part on true random numbers where the operating system supports that. This key is stored in the encryptionKeys.js file, encrypted using PBKDF2 from the Master Password.
By using such a huge random key, your password can be changed by decrypting and re-encrypting the keys stored in encryptionKeys.js.
When the Agile Keychain format was first designed, we wanted to leave open the possibility of enabling multiple security levels. Thus, you will see that some keys are labeled with SL5 and some SL3. SL5 is the only level that is relevant in today’s usage.
File System Storage
Every item in the Agile Keychain is stored as a separate file. By using individual files, syncing of the Agile Keychain can be performed using off-the-shelf sync solutions. This allows for greater flexibility because people can choose their own sync solution.
Individual Entry Contents
The above file format is based on JSON. It is a lightweight notation for structuring data without the overhead associated with formats like XML. The name of the file is based on the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) of the item. This guarantees the filename is unique and will stay the same even when items are renamed.
As you can see, not all the information is encrypted. For example, the title of each entry (“Example Login”) and the location (https://example.com/account/login) are open. Having these open allows 1Password to organize your data and display it without suffering the performance hit of needing to decrypt every single item. All the sensitive information is stored in the encrypted section of the file.
Unlocked vaults or unlocked boxes
To better understand what information is and isn’t encrypted in the Agile Keychain some background is required. This will involve a change of metaphor for how to think about what it means when your data are locked or unlocked.
For your security, the Agile Keychain decrypts as little information as possible at any given moment. 1Password presents this as either “locked” or “unlocked”. The impression someone might get from this is that when 1Password is unlocked, all of the information in an Agile Keychain is suddenly decrypted. This, however, is not how 1Password really works. Imagine, instead of a vault that is locked or unlocked, a room full of locked boxes. Each box requires a key to open it, the same key. When you have entered your Master Password, that key is available although all of the boxes still remain locked. At various times 1Password will select a box and unlock that particular one. When it is done with the contents of that box, it will lock it again.
When you go to a login page, 1Password needs to find all of the boxes that could potentially be a Login for that location. It also needs to present you with a list of those potential Logins so that you can choose among them. Conceivably (but incorrectly), 1Password could go and unlock each box in the room looking through their contents to determine which ones are potential matches. But that would take a very long time. Opening a single box doesn’t take any noticeable time, but opening all of them would be prohibitively slow.
What we did in the Agile Keychain is put labels on the outside of each box. The labels contain, most importantly, the web location associated with that Login and the title that you gave to that Login. This way 1Password can scan the locations quickly without having to unlock any boxes. It can then present you with the titles of the ones that are potential matches. After you select a particular Login to fill, 1Password will unlock the particular box.
The downside of this is that the Agile Keychain had to keep the titles and the web locations unencrypted. In the OPVault format, we found a way to work with all data encrypted.
Do security improvements in OPVault mean that Agile Keychain is unsafe?
Agile Keychain remains safe in the same way that an iPhone 5 remains a great device even after Apple released a newer model. We have always worked to design systems that defend against future threats, and so the security enhancements in OPVault are looking toward the future.
It’s not that Agile Keychain is no longer secure, it’s just that OPVault is secure-er. | {
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Friday, March 25, 2016
That the Republican Party must reform or become irrelevant
is increasingly obvious to most people. The hardest fact to deal with is that
the voter base has shifted leftward over the last thirty-six years; the
attitudes, values, and beliefs that appealed to many boomers doesn’t appeal as
much to Gen-Xers and even less to millennials. If the GOP is to remain the
American analogue to Britain’s Conservative Party, it follows that conservatives
themselves must define what it means to be conservative in the 21st century.
Conservativism vs. Utopianism
The question would have seemed strange to
mid-century American conservative thinkers like Peter Viereck, Russell Kirk and
Robert Nisbet. In their view, conservatism was anti-utopian by definition. In
different ways, they identified “conservatism” with a suspicion of radical
schemes to revolutionize America and the world.
But today’s orthodox conservatism consists almost
entirely of radical utopian schemes to revolutionize America and the world.
So-called “movement conservatism” or “fusionism” in its present form is, in
fact, an alliance of three distinct utopian movements in economics, domestic
policy and foreign policy. All three crusades are doomed to fail in the real
world.
A modern realist, I find, is very often one who, having
despaired of the real world ever meeting the standards of his ideals, goes on
to conclude that we should have no ideals. Lind, a modern realist, therefore
plunks for a bare-bones conservativism, one that seeks merely to preserve the
status quo rather than strive for a better nation.
Unfortunately, Lind doesn’t tell us why the status quo is to
be preserved, or why change is unnecessary. He merely defines three particular
efforts as “utopian” and derides any attempt to achieve them through politics
as “madness”.
Here Comes Galileo (Again!?)
I have a lot of respect for Selmys. C. S. Lewis said once
that he didn’t talk about homosexuality as a rule because it wasn’t a problem
in his life; he wouldn’t tell someone how to fight a battle he’d never fought.
Likewise, never having thought of myself as anything but a male, I’m in no
position to tell people with gender-identity disorder how to overcome it, nor
can I fault them if they fail. In fact, as I understand it, GID is an almost
intractable problem; even sexual-reassignment surgery is unreliable as a
palliative. (See my
post in The Impractical Catholic on sex changes.)
As I say, I respect Selmys, and don’t wish to impugn her
fidelity to the Church. However, in defending her second postulate, instead of
stepping through the common arguments in support of Church teaching and calling
them into question, she drags Galileo into the argument to serve once more as
the sine qua non of magisterial
error. Poor, abused Galileo! Never simply allowed to rest vindicated, his shade
must be constantly conjured up to bolster weak arguments: “Well, the Church has
been wrong before. Just look at Galileo!”
Why, O why does Selmys, who is capable of so much better,
reach for such a hackneyed and intellectually lazy comparison? Well, because
apparently the Church hasn’t formally instituted the “binary model” as dogma:
How does this relate to the transgender question?
Well, today we know that various bodies with lower levels of authority (lower,
in many cases than the Inquisition of 1616) have condemned transgender
identities. We know that Popes have offered indirect criticism (though
Christmas greetings and Papal homilies are not official dogmatic pronouncements
any more than airplane interviews are.) We know that the weight of theological
tradition falls on the side of a strict male-female binary, and we know that
Genesis 1:27 and Matthew 19:4 are traditionally interpreted as excluding
legitimate variation from this scheme.
We also know that nothing about transgender or intersex
conditions has been promulgated at a level of authority that meets Vatican I’s
criteria for infallibility. This means that there remains open the possibility of developments in doctrine that
will reveal a space within the order of creation for those who do not fit
neatly into binary categories [bold type mine.—ASL].
The basic teaching — that we are created male and female in the image and
likeness of God — could be compatible with the idea that there is some
admixture of both the male and the female in certain individuals (an idea
which, in fact, has roots in some ancient Jewish interpretive traditions.)
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Next Opponent: Chiefs Start Over
The Sports Xchange
12/12/2011
Kansas City fired Todd Haley, with his Chiefs 5-8 this season and 19-27 during his three-year tenure. Defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel, the former Cleveland coach, will be the interim coach for the final three games.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Throughout their 20-minute meeting with the Kansas City media, Chiefs team chairman Clark Hunt and general manager Scott Pioli said there wasn't one particular thing that led to the firing of coach Todd Haley.
But the more they talked about the situation, the more apparent it became that there was a straw that broke the camel's back as far as Haley's future was concerned. It was losing 37-10 to the New York Jets in what was an embarrassing performance that saw the Chiefs offense gain just 4 yards in the first half. Then in the second half, a frustrated Haley lost his cool and got slapped with a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
"Clark and I talked last night and then we officially decided this morning," said Pioli. "Clark and I visited with Todd this (Monday) morning and let him know what our decision was.
"I don't think there's a final straw in every decision. It's never one thing; it's an accumulation of information and thoughts and we finally got down to where things were and this was the best way to create more consistency for us."
Said Hunt: "We felt the inconsistent play that the team had experienced through the season including during yesterday's game made today the right day to do it. We want to give the guys a chance to finish the season on a high note. Mathematically we are still alive in the playoffs and we wanted the guys to go out and face the Green Bay Packers and play to the best of their ability and felt that change was important at this time."
After Hunt and Pioli told Haley he was fired, they met with his coaching staff and then asked Romeo Crennel to take over as coach. When announcing that move, Pioli did not use the term "interim" and said that Crennel would be one of the candidates considered for the job in 2012.
"Romeo has been a head coach in the National Football League," Pioli said. "He is very similar to Todd. He is extremely passionate about football, passionate about this football team, passionate about these players and he was very focused on winning. Romeo has a lot of those qualities.
"I think it's safe to say that he's one of the people we will be looking at going forward."
Crennel's first test will be a big one against the Packers, who are 13-0 and have won 19 in a row.
"It's something that you never want to see happen," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "It's part of our business. Todd's a good man, got to know him a little bit here over the last couple years. So, there's always a personal side to it. You feel for his family, but it changes their environment there in Kansas City. It'll be something we talk about in our preparation because the worst thing you can do is think you're going in for a different type of football game when, to me, I think it'll be a game where they play with a lot of energy. Romeo's a good man and I know they'll want to play for him. We feel this will be a highly contested football game."
While Haley is now gone, the man that hired him remains on the scene and will select the new head coach.
"I don't perceive Todd Haley as a mistake," Pioli said. "He's a good football coach. There is accountability on my part as well. I made the decision on hiring the head coach. It didn't work out. I will be held accountable for it."
Pioli also admitted that he needs to do a better job of acquiring talent for the head coach to work with. When injuries took four key starters away from the team for most of the year, there were not talented backup players available to fill the void.
"I think we have a locker room that has talent, I think we also have a good makeup in character in that locker room," Pioli said. "That being said, it's abundantly clear that ultimately that's my job and we clearly are not at a spot where we need to be with our record the way it is. Clearly I need to do my job better as well. We need to continue to improve this roster and improve the depth on this football team.
The Chiefs were 19-27 during Haley's tenure, but won the AFC West last season in what appeared to be a turning-point season. Injuries to key young players, including safety Eric Berry and tight end Tony Moeaki, put the team in a bit of a hole early in the year. The list grew quickly, claiming running back Jamaal Charles, who went down with a torn ACL against the Vikings, and quarterback Matt Cassel.
Haley is considered highly competitive to the point of being abrasive — which was evident in the Chiefs' lackluster performance at Lambeau Field in the preseason finale, when he kept his key players in the game into the fourth quarter. Haley is an offensive coordinator by trade but he wasn't able to bring the same sizzle to the Chiefs offense that he had to the Arizona Cardinals or Dallas Cowboys.
Including Sunday's 37-10 loss to the Jets, the Chiefs have 10 points or fewer in six straight games. | {
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Mumbai, Oct 3: Recalling the infamous 'Monkeygate' incident during India's tour of Australia in 2008 which involved Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds, then Indian captain Anil Kumble on Saturday said a lot of problems could have been solved with just Australia captain Ricky Ponting and him sitting and talking about the matter.
During the second Test of the four-match Test series in Sydney, Symonds' said he was racially abused by Harbhajan as the Indian off-spinner allegedly called the Australian all-rounder 'monkey'.
File photo: Kumble (left) and Ponting during Indian Premier League
But the Indian camp denied it and claimed that Harbhajan had used the Hindi abuse 'maa ki'. But referee Mike Procter handed Harbhajan a three-match suspension for racial abuse. This left the Indians fuming and the team soon threatened to go home with two Tests remaining.
Later, India decided to play the complete series. After the conclusion of the series, Harbhajan's suspension was dropped, though.
"We wanted to play and win the series. I was fortunate to have such a lot of players beside me like Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag who supported me and Harbhajan during the incident. But I think a lot could have been solved with just me and the Australia skipper," Kumble said.
The legendary leg-spinner said a captain should always have a say in the selection of a team, adding that it is the skipper who will be responsible to bring out the best from the players.
"A captain should have a say in the selection of a team. He should voice his opinion on the selection on the team. Because a captain is the one who will be responsible to bring out the best from the players on the field," Kumble said during the annual Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture here.
"A captain should look to share knowledge and experience among his players and not look who is senior and junior. Captains nowadays have a lot of opportunity," he said.
The only leg-spinner who became the captain of India, replacing batting great Rahul Dravid in September 2007, said a captain should be attacking and not aggressive.
"A captain needs to be attacking. Aggression is not the right word in this context. One has to have the intent to win games for your country and personality will come along. A captain should be prepared for the unexpected. Best captains should always be a step ahead of the game," he said.
After the retirement of Mahendra Singh Dhoni from Test cricket, Virat Kohli took over the responsibility of leading the Indian side. Dhoni is still the skipper in the limited formats of the game, the One-Day Internationals and Twenty20.
The Indian cricket team is now being led by two captains in the three formats of the game and the 44-year-old Kumble believes having different captains for different formats will not be a problem for the country.
"India has two captains now and that is logical. I don't think two captains will be difficult. I don't think it will be difficult for the players to adjust with the two captains in different formats of the game. Players are now playing and switching from one format to the other and that will help them to shift from one captain to the other," Kumble, who took 619 wickets in Tests and 337 in ODIs," said.
"Dhoni as we know is a calm and quiet captain and Kohli is a different captain. So players will not have difficulty to switch from one captain to another as players are now used to shifting formats and game," he added.
Speaking on the period when Tendulkar took over the Indian captaincy and why the batting legend was not successful, the former India spinner said, "It was a huge challenge for Sachin when he took over the captaincy. He was captain when West Indies, Australia, South Africa were in full flow with top players in their squads. It was really a tough job for a new captain to play against such tough sides. Expectations went too high on him and when he failed people targeted him." | {
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Ludlow mayor Tim Gill said: "It is excellent news for the town. The Feathers is important to the economy and it is important that it survives in excellent condition as it is an icon for the town.
"People recognise Ludlow for three things – the church, Ludlow Castle and the Feathers.
"The closure of it has had a considerable impact on businesses in town. I was talking to a restaurant owner today and he was saying they have seen a drop in visitors, and the market traders are saying the same thing.
"A hotel that size, with 40 bedrooms and a high turnover of guests, brings so many people into the town to spend money.
"It is the best possible news we could have for Christmas that it will be put back into action."
The planned opening in spring 2019 means the Feathers will be back up and running for the busiest time of the year.
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"I am pleased someone has bought it and it sounds like they are going to invest in it," said Tish Dockerty from the Chamber of Trade and Commerce.
"It is comforting to think that someone is willing to put the effort into opening it back up and renovating it.
"It will be great to have it reopened so soon, just in time for the summer season."
Councillor Andy Boddington, who represents Ludlow North, said: "This is good news for Ludlow. The Feathers needs a major investment.
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"It is one of the most photographed buildings in our historic town centre.
"There is no doubt that the hotel's closure has chipped a bit of the edge off Ludlow's visitor economy. But we are a resilient town.
"We so look forward to the Feathers reopening. It will be a great boost to Ludlow and Corve Street."
Crest plans to refurbish all guest rooms as well as the reception area, four function rooms, restaurant and bar. A new tea room will be added with the aim of achieving two AA Rosettes within six months of opening.
A new plumbing system will also be installed, after guest Elaine Brown, 69, died in August 2017 from a stroke as a result of contracting Legionnaires' disease which was linked to bacteria in the hotel plumbing.
The sale price has not been revealed, but the hotel was put on the market in January for £2.6 million by the previous owners before it went into administration. | {
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You need to be highly qualified and have the skills to find security weaknesses, including but not limited to:
- Both "black hat" and "white hat" experience is valued. We prefer someone with at least 3 years experience in the field. Discretion and confidentiality is guaranteed. All applications are deleted after selection process.
- Attention to detail and methodology, and more than anything, passion for IT security. Your personal interest is more important than formal degrees and courses.
- Knowledge and experienc of programming, servers, Unix & Windows environments, etc. | {
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Is science phasing out sleep?
If one can make broad generalizations about humanity based on a single life's view -- and of course one can't -- there appear to be two kinds of people in the world: Those who damn the world for interfering with their nine hours a night, and those who damn the body for being unsatisfied with four. (And then there are those who claim they function perfectly well on two, but according to sleep experts, they're just wrong.) Those who damn the body are in luck: Science is working hard to phase out the need for natural sleep.
Human beings have always found ways to ward off the effects of sleep deprivation. When you're getting about half of the sleep your body needs on a regular basis (and most of us need seven to eight hours a night), you need to find ways to function -- to wake yourself up, clear your mind, stop your head from falling into your salad during a business lunch. Caffeine and amphetamines (i.e. speed) are two of the most popular methods, but they're far from ideal. Both will keep you awake, but the side effects can be awful. Caffeine can make you jittery and give you diarrhea, and you can end up with a nasty headache when it leaves your system. Amphetamines can effect your behavior (make you "high"), and you crash hard when they wear off, leaving you depressed or irritable. And both caffeine and amphetamines are addictive.
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The newest wake-up pill has all of the benefits of caffeine and amphetamines with none of the down sides. It has elicited so few complaints of side effects from users -- they claim it has no side effects at all except for the occasional slight headache -- it's the closest thing to a miracle the pharmaceutical world has seen since Viagra, if Viagra didn't sometimes cause blindness, heart attacks and five-hour erections. It's called modafinil, and it's FDA-approved to treat narcolepsy. But the drug has gained a dedicated off-label following as a "lifestyle drug." Doctors all over the country are reporting record numbers of sudden narcoleptics showing up in their waiting rooms. (As it turns out, you can get diagnosed as a narcoleptic online.)
Modafinil is in a class of drugs called eugeroics. It's a different kind of stimulant. No one knows exactly how modafinil works, but we do that modafinil works on different processes than stimulants like caffeine and amphetamine, and we know how caffeine and amphetamines work. Caffeine's main action is to block the receptors in the brain that bind to the neurotransmitter adenosine. Adenosine slows down cell activity and triggers drowsiness when it binds to those receptors. With adenosine receptors blocked by caffeine, the brain can't slow down, and you stay awake and alert. Caffeine also blocks the re-uptake of dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter that causes happy feelings. It's the dopamine response that can be addictive. Amphetamines target dopamine receptors in a big way. When you take an amphetamine, the brain gets flooded with dopamine that has nowhere to go because its receptors are turned off -- that's its primary action. All of that dopamine makes you feel excited, energetic and just plain good.
It also makes you feel incredibly depressed when the dose wears off and the dopamine finally goes away. Find out how modafinil is different on the next page.
Modafinil and Sleep Response
Modafinil doesn't have that problem, and the difference seems to be in its ability to target the brain's sleep response specifically, instead of just flooding the brain with dopamine and adenosine willy-nilly. It does limit dopamine re-uptake to some extent, but it doesn't produce the highs and lows that other stimulants do. The reason could be that it simply produces a lighter dopamine response -- there's less of it flooding the brain. It could also be that modafinil prevents the re-uptake of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline by neurons that specifically trigger sleep, and that this is a stronger effect than the dopamine response. The dopamine could just be a low-grade, ancillary effect.
Aside from the dopamine and noradrenaline, experts believe that modafinil targets the neurotransmitter GABA -- the brain's primary sleep regulator. It seems to slow GABA's release, interfering with the brain's awareness of when it's time to get some sleep. It probably interferes with the behavior of histamine as well, a chemical that causes drowsiness. And according to some scientists, the big modafinil punch comes in its effect on glutamate, the brain's energy chemical. If modafinil does indeed stimulate the action of glutamate, it would not only cause an overall excited neural response, but it would also effectively block GABA sleepiness signals by creating so much noise.
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One of the most mysterious things about modafinil, even in view of its multi-pronged, targeted approach to sleep avoidance, is that it appears to trigger no "sleep debt." People who stay awake for a day or two on modafinil report no need to catch up on sleep when the dose wears off. They can just sleep the usual seven or eight hours and get back in the game. People who take amphetamines typically need to sleep for half a day when the high wears off.
Sleep-avoidance is a huge area of study right now, partly because the market is substantial. Cephalon, the company behind modafinil, sold almost $600 million worth of the stuff in 2005 (all to narcoleptics, of course). With that much money at stake, modafinil isn't the only player in the wake-up game. Researchers are developing and testing all sorts of new ways to keep people alert on limited sleep and even eliminate the need for natural sleep altogether. The idea is to bend sleep to the needs of our lifestyle instead of the other way around.
Cephalon is currently in the final stages of getting a newer version of modafinil to market. This pill offers more hours of wakefulness per dose. The pharmaceutical company Cortex is working with DARPA on a drug code-named CX717, which keeps people awake and alert by triggering increased glutamate activity. Other drugs in the works specifically target histamine. But that's only the beginning. Some researchers are trying to find a way to mimic the rejuvenating effects of eight hours of sleep in just three or four hours. The end result would probably be a pill that will put you to sleep for specific amount of time and then wake you up. You'd be able to pop a three-hour sleep pill or a five-hour sleep pill, depending on what your schedule allows, and wake up feeling like you'd gotten eight hours of the best sleep of your life. In other labs, there are sleep-avoidance machines that deliver a small electric current to a targeted area of the brain to keep it awake and functioning without sleep. The end result of this research could be a piece of head-gear that provides a wake-up jolt at the push of a button.
But this is all child's play compared to the search for the sleep gene. Learn more on the next page.
Sleep Gene
According to sleep experts, about one in 1,000 people actually is a "short sleeper" -- he or she can function at an optimum level on a few hours a night. And this ability seems to be genetically linked. So scientists are trying to find the genes that regulate the need for sleep, specifically looking for a "short-sleeper gene" that they can use as a guide to genetically tweak the rest of us into short sleepers. There's also sleep-gene research that focuses on a genetic mutation found in a particular type of fruit fly. This fruit fly needs about one-third the amount of sleep that every other type of fruit fly needs. The mutation causes interruptions in the transportation of potassium through cell membranes. Scientists note that in humans suffering from Morvan's syndrome, defects in the brain's potassium system leads to an inability to sleep. So it appears that messing with the brain's potassium channels by way of a pharmaceutical or gene therapy could be a very effective way of promoting wakefulness.
Of course, wakefulness has its downsides. Before we can be happily, eternally awake, science will have to address the fact that prolonged sleep deprivation causes sickness, delirium and death.
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Sleep is not something human beings can just give up without consequences. Much of the sleep-elimination research is funded by the military, which has good reason to find a way to neutralize the effects of sleep deprivation: battle conditions. Soldiers, especially those in special ops units like the SEALs or the Green Berets, may have to go three or four days with almost no sleep and still function as if their lives depended on it, which they pretty much do. The military has tested modafinil extensively on pilots, basically keeping them awake for about two days on repeated doses modafinil and intermittently sending them up to fly a fighter jet. The results have been pretty good, although the researchers doubt modafinil can ward off drowsiness, disorientation, slowed judgement and poor reflexes once you pass the 48-hour mark. For the time being, people can only stay awake so long without falling apart, even on the current miracle drug.
Most of us don't have jobs that require us to save the world without a good night's rest, but the culture of productivity has too much momentum to stop its march toward a 48-hour day. As workplaces become increasingly international, work weeks regularly pass the 80-hour mark and more and more drive-thrus stay open for the 3 a.m. crowd, we can all look forward to a future that frees us from our biological urge to rest on a 24-hour cycle. Even sleep advocates see the shift as inevitable. In 10 or 20 years, sleep will be dispensable, artificial and controllable. Much in the way hormone-based birth control pills can now make a woman's period last exactly three days, occur on a quarterly basis or disappear altogether until she wants it back, science is separating sleep from the inconvenience of nature.
For more information on sleep, the lack thereof and related topics, see the links on the next page. | {
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Richard Sherman Tells Breitbart Sports Why Players Love Pete Carroll
29 Jan 2014
ESPN asked NFL players which coach they would most want to play for. Nearly one in four players chose Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks. The former USC head honcho ran away with the balloting, besting the support of the runner-up (Mike Tomlin) and third-place finisher (John Fox) combined. Other coaches winning a significant percentage of the vote include Rex Ryan, Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, and Sean Payton.
More Phil Jackson than Vince Lombardi, Carroll blasted music and dispensed with pads for practice on Wednesday. He parried a media query on running back Marshawn Lynch’s failure to fulfill press availability requirements by saying that the phenomenon known as Richard Sherman more than makes up for it. Carroll remarked, “We celebrate the uniqueness and individuality of our guys.”
That’s not very Woody Hayes of him, is it?
Breitbart Sports caught up with Carroll’s best player on Wednesday, and asked Richard Sherman why his peers in the league might want to play for his coach. The cornerback characterized Carroll as a “players’ coach” who treats the athletes under his charge as men. | {
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Ellis Island
Sleepshirt
Ellis Island
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The small button tab makes it easier to slip the garment on and off, length 95 cm
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Premium cotton in top CALIDA quality. This fabric is characterised by a refined, smooth appearance and a supple feel. Its premium fibres also make it especially easy to care for, durable and long-wearing. Naturally beautiful. | {
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Lino Matthew Gallo is the son of Kelly and Lino Gallo... Lived
for nine years in Spain... Has traveled in Europe and South America
extensively... Enjoys skiing, scuba diving, camping and tennis...
Undecided on a major. | {
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Job Description
A postdoctoral fellow/Senior Scientist position is available in the Perinatal Research Program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, to study placental development, immunology of the maternal-fetal interface, and the vascular complications associated with various pregnancy disorders. Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent degree. Research experience in areas of tissue-specific gene targeting, transgenic design, immunology, developmental biology, and placental development is desired. Applicants for the Senior Scientist position should have at least five years of postdoctoral training experience and excellent manuscript/grant/scientific writing skills. Competitive salary and benefits will be provided and the positions are available immediately. Interested applicants should send a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and names of three references by email to: Nihar R. Nayak, DVM, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; email: [email protected].
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Welcome to 2013!
Happy New Year to all of you all over the world! People from 79 countries read this blog in 2012!
Our company, Saiff Solutions, is doing a creation exercise for the new year. In order to be able to powerfully create something new, you first need to get complete with the past. We’re answering the questions below to complete 2012 and powerfully create 2013. You are welcome to use them. I recommend two ways:
– Answer the questions for yourself. Record your answers. Whether you use an iPad or a legal pad or some other technology, when you record your answers, magic can happen. Feel free to write anything you want – you don’t have to share all of your notes with anyone.
– Discuss the questions in a group. The process of completion and creation can be very powerful in a group setting. There is power in numbers.
I’ll be sharing some of my answers in a future post. So far I’ve got 4 pages listed just for question 1!
1. What did you accomplish in 2012 that you want to be acknowledged for?
2. What did you learn in 2012?
3. What did you fail to accomplish in 2012?
4. What is still incomplete for you? Consider your answers above, as well as people, events, or situations that you may be incomplete with.
5. Are you willing to let it go? If not, what do you need to do in order to get complete? By when will you do that? | {
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JB Direct has prided itself on being a family owned and operated direct mail company since 1999.
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At JB Direct, we believe all businesses deserve to be able to leverage the power of direct mail advertising. For a business, advertising is a MUST, to reach out to new clients and to keep your loyal customers returning. Direct mail is still the leader when it comes to print advertising. Direct mail is more than simply sending your special deals to a large mailing list. Direct mail is about sending targeted messages to targeted mailing lists. Let the direct mail experts at JB Direct Inc. assist you with all your direct mail needs.
Direct Mail is a valuable, cost-effective way to tell your customers who you are, and what your business offers. Get to know Direct Mail, and let your customers get to know you. A Direct Mail campaign offers customers a chance to learn about your business.
It can also:
Promote interest in a new product or service
Generate sales and orders
Drive traffic to your store, website, etc.
Cultivate long-term relationships
Build and increase brand recognition
Promote a Sale or Special
Announce a Grand Opening
Customers respond to mail that addresses their interests and needs. All it takes is a simple, effective Direct Mail campaign to get people to your door or website.
Benefits of Direct Mail:
Direct Mail offers a targeted way to reach your current and potential customers. It drives customers to your business or your website, and it has advantages over other advertising mediums. We offer a variety of Mailing list selects that we can tailor to your business needs. We offer Selects such as income, homeowners, age, home value, new movers, business lists, hobbies and interests, mortage information, date of birth and many more.
Recent studies by the U.S. Postal Service and a number of independent research groups found that consumers--even heavy Internet users--continue to view mail as a highly relevant and significant part of their lives. It provides a physical and tangible quality consumers find lacking in their electronic communications. But that's not all. The studies also showed that mail, working side by side with digital media, can have a substantial impact on the use of commercial websites. One of the most efficent ways to connect the physical piece with your web page is with a QR code, QR codes are easily genterated and added directly to your mail piece for easy scanning.
GET THE FACTS
According to the survey, the newest tool to enter the marketing mix is Quick Response (QR) codes. Among those using QR codes, 44% are integrating them into direct mail.
(SURVEY CONDUCTED BY USPS)
More than 64 percent of consumers told us they “value the mail” they receive in their mailbox.
Research shows 79 percent of all households read or scan the direct mail they receive.
Recent studies by the U.S. Postal Service and a number of independent research groups found that consumers--even heavy Internet users--continue to view mail as a highly relevant and significant part of their lives. It provides a physical and tangible quality consumers find lacking in their electronic communications. But that's not all. The studies also showed that mail, working side by side with digital media, can have a substantial impact on the use of commercial websites. One of the most efficent ways to connect the physical piece with your web page is with a QR code, QR codes are easily genterated and added directly to your mail piece for easy scanning.
GET THE FACTS
According to the survey, the newest tool to enter the marketing mix is Quick Response (QR) codes. Among those using QR codes, 44% are integrating them into direct mail.
(SURVEY CONDUCTED BY USPS)
More than 64 percent of consumers told us they “value the mail” they receive in their mailbox.
Research shows 79 percent of all households read or scan the direct mail they receive. | {
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Ebola Virus Hemorrhagic Fever
What is Ebola?
Ebola is a severe, often deadly disease that is caused by the Ebola virus. Symptoms of Ebola most commonly begin 8-10 days after coming into contact with the Ebola virus, but symptoms can occur anywhere between 2-21 days after exposure.
Symptoms of Ebola include: fever, headache, joint and muscle pain, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, lack of appetite and abnormal bleeding. These symptoms are not specific to Ebola and are often seen with other illnesses.
How does a person get Ebola?
Ebola is spread through direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with blood or body fluids (including but not limited to urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola, or a person who has recently died from Ebola. It also may be spread on objects or surfaces contaminated with blood or body fluids of an infection person. A person who is not experiencing symptoms, such as fever, vomiting or diarrhea, cannot transmit the virus.
Ebola is NOT spread through the air, water or food.
What are body fluids?
Ebola has been detected in blood and many body fluids. Body fluids also include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine and semen.
What does “direct contact” mean?
Direct contact means that body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine or feces) from an infected person (alive or dead) have touched someone’s eyes, nose, mouth or an open cut, wound or abrasion.
How long does Ebola live outside the body?
Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola on dried surfaces, such as doorknobs and countertops, can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature.
Are there cases of Ebola in Illinois?
At this time, there are no cases of Ebola in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is diligently monitoring for possible cases.
How concerned should people in Illinois be?
At this time, Ebola does not pose a great health risk to the people of Illinois.
Who is at risk of getting Ebola?
Family, friends and health care workers caring for people sick with Ebola are at higher risk of getting Ebola.
People who touch the bodies of Ebola patients who have died also are at risk.
When is a person suspected of having Ebola?
Early recognition is critical for infection control. Health care providers should be alert for and evaluate patients suspected of having Ebola who have:
a fever of greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or additional symptoms, such as severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain or unexplained hemorrhage;
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risk factors within the past three weeks before the onset of symptoms, such as contact with blood or other body fluids of a patient known to have or suspected to have Ebola; and residence in—or travel to—an area where Ebola transmission is active.
Only patients experiencing symptoms can transmit the virus. Ebola cannot be spread to other people before symptoms begin.
Are people screened at airports for Ebola?
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Customs and Boarder Protection (CBP) have begun enhanced entry screening and health assessments of travelers who have been in countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak.
These travelers are now arriving to the U.S. at one of five airports (JFK International, Washington-Dulles, Newark, Chicago-O’Hare and Atlanta- Hartsfield-Jackson International) where entry screening is being conducted.
CDC has sent additional staff to each of the five airports where CBP officers are reviewing travelers’ passports. After passport review:
Travelers from countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak will be escorted by CBP to an area of the airport set aside for screening.
Trained CBP staff will observe them for signs of illness, ask them a series of health and exposure questions and provide health information for Ebola and reminders to monitor themselves for symptoms. Trained medical staff will take their temperature with a non-contact thermometer.
If the travelers have fever, symptoms or the health questionnaire reveals possible Ebola exposure, they will be evaluated by a CDC quarantine station public health officer. The public health officer will again take a temperature reading and make a public health assessment. Travelers, who after this assessment, are determined to require further evaluation or monitoring will be referred to the appropriate public health authority.
Travelers from these countries who have neither symptoms/fever nor a known history of exposure will receive health information for self-monitoring, be asked to complete a daily temperature log, and be asked to provide their contact information.
Are Illinois hospitals ready to care for patients with Ebola?
Illinois hospitals following the CDC’s infection control recommendations and hospitals that are able to properly isolate a patient in a private room are capable of safely managing a patient with Ebola. IDPH and the CDC recommend hospitals isolate the patient in a private room and implement standard, contact and droplet precautions.
What is the treatment for Ebola?
The standard treatment for Ebola remains supportive therapy. This includes the following measures:
balancing the patients' fluids and electrolytes;
maintaining their oxygen status and blood pressure; and
treating them for any complicating infections.
Some patients infected with Ebola virus do get better spontaneously or with supportive care.
An experimental treatment, ZMapp, is being developed. It has not yet been tested in humans for safety or effectiveness.
Are patients who recover from Ebola immune for life? Can they get it again - the same or a different strain?
Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and a patient’s immune response. Available evidence shows that people who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years, possibly longer. It is not known if people who recover are immune for life or if they can become infected with a different species of Ebola.
If someone survives Ebola, can he or she still spread the virus?
Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to three months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for three months.
Can Ebola be spread through mosquitoes?
At present, there is no evidence that mosquitoes or other insects can transmit Ebola virus. Only mammals (e.g., humans, bats, monkeys and apes) have shown the ability to spread and become infected with Ebola virus.
What is the state doing to prepare for Ebola in Illinois?
Handling disease outbreaks is a core public health function and IDPH is prepared to conduct surveillance for possible cases, implement infection control measures, support medical facilities, perform contact tracing and assist with laboratory testing.
IDPH will continue to work with the CDC, local health departments, and hospitals and medical facilities.
IDPH has provided guidance on laboratory specimen submission and case management for suspected or confirmed cases.
IDPH is testing established public health systems to ensure contact tracing is readily available.
IDPH has completed a CDC online assessment of its emergency preparedness and response activities related to Ebola, and have participated in national Ebola-related teleconferences.
Is it safe to travel overseas?
CDC has recommended people not travel to countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak, unless travel is essential, such as providing humanitarian aid.
If travel is essential, avoid direct contact with people sick with Ebola.
What should I do if I recently returned from one of the affected countries?
Call your doctor or clinic right away if you have a fever, headache, or joint and muscle aches within three weeks of returning home.
Tell your doctor where you traveled, what you did and if you had contact with anyone who was sick with Ebola.
It is important to call your doctor in advance of seeking health care so that you are directed to the appropriate facility for medical care, and to be sure that facility is prepared for your arrival.
Should I avoid contact with a person who recently traveled to West Africa?
No, you do not need to avoid contact with someone who recently returned from one of the affected countries unless they have symptoms compatible with Ebola.
If a person who recently returned from West Africa has symptoms of Ebola, such as fever, the individual should contact a health care provider and tell them about their recent travel and any exposure(s) to ill individuals. The health care provider will evaluate the person’s risk of Ebola as well as other more common infections in West Africa such as malaria and typhoid. | {
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Game of Stones
Game of Stones explores the world of curling. In each episode we'll dive into the major issues in the sport, from previewing and recapping major events to discussing team lineups. If you're a longtime fan or just getting into curling, we'll break down the biggest news in the greatest sport on earth. | {
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Over the past 20 years, Steve Palmquist has backtested countless market adaptive trading techniques. In this six-hour DVD course, Steve reveals the results of his tests on Bollinger bands, declining volume pullbacks and retracements, as well as volume accumulation and distribution to bring you six proven trading strategies.Each system was developed, tested, and analyzed for maximum profits. Steve provides you with complete rules and exit strategies that have been backtested in various market conditions and time frames. Steve also shows you how to analyze the current market conditions and select the trading strategy that will make you the most money in a bear, bull, or trading range market. As Steve guides you through his six proven strategies, you will learn:
- How to use time stops, price targets, and money management techniques to improve results,- Specific techniques for selecting among multiple trading candidates based on extensive testing and analysis, and - To understand market behavior and to position yourself to profit from different market characteristics.
Don't make costly mistakes by following the latest trading system blindly. Let Steve's experience and expertise work for you. | {
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Hey guys, I've been posting on the forums for a while, decided I should just start my own section for my project. My carputer isn't exactly complete, I am still working on some problems like where to place the computer, I am forced to put it into the trunk, then the problem of running cables is there... I should figure it out very soon. Anyways I have it fully working, checkout some of the pictures and movies.
Sorry about the crappy quality and sound in the movie, I used my digital Camera... i was trying to demonstrat my fm transmitter, the angle of the lilliput touch screen to show it has good visible quality all around, And the use of the media engine program. Any questions feel free to ask of course.
Cya!
06-13-2005, 10:38 PM
Stealth97
Looks good. I really dig the PC case location, and hiding the wires.
06-14-2005, 01:54 PM
Fraychild
Ha ha ha ha! Nice one Stealth...
On the real though, so far so good man.. If my opinion means anaything, I think u should try to make the Lilliput trim black, instead of the silver... and uh... yea... be sure to hide the case and the wires... :D
09-08-2005, 11:27 PM
Digital318is
Hey guys its been a very long time since i posted this... anyways, i finished hiding all the wires.. ive decided to install the pc in the trunk of the car. i wired up the monitor to the lighter and a toggle which also turns on my neons. I am going to put more pictures up soon.
I still want to do more mods to it... i want to make it almost totally intergrated into my car. meaning when i start my car up it should power on and what not. im still researching but if u guys have any tips be sure to letme know! im looking for a good gps so far ive seen many people use the earthmate. im still trying to find good gps software, the relay to power the pc on when the car is starting and what not.
09-09-2005, 12:27 AM
DeadlyBacon
hey there. i'm kinda new around here so i dont know much, but i have searched around a bit so i guess i know more than you.. :-D
anyway, in response to your last post, in terms of making it more integrated into your car, you should look at power supplies and shutdown/startup controllers. that way, your CarPC will turn on when u turn your car on and go into hibernate, standby or off when you turn your car off. there are a bunch of different options available and they are all customizable, so look into it.
also, if the "lighter" you are talking about is the cigarette lighter.. well.. that doesnt look very integrated im sure, so you should look into an adapter for your lilliput to plug into the PSU for the computer.. i think the adapter is called moltex or something.. look around the forums, you should find it somewhere.
09-09-2005, 12:30 AM
DeadlyBacon
oh yeah, and im not gonna lie- that sound quality in the video sounds like pure static ... :lol: :p
09-11-2005, 12:38 AM
Digital318is
thats my camera's fault. the sound in the car is perfect.
03-09-2007, 07:42 PM
nasastation
hi mate
ca pc looks good, i;m trying to put my screen in my e36 too, how did u get yours in tightly, mine seems to stick out a bit | {
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Obama budget would’ve left FAA with less money, not more
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In case there’s any doubt about the President’s ability to prioritize, at least two GOP Senators, Jerry Moran and Roy Blunt, have written bills to clarify Mr. Obama’s authority to make sensible spending decisions. He’s not interested, and Senate Democrats have blocked such reforms. Making smart choices about federal sending would spoil the fun of creating flight delays and then blaming Republicans. So this week the FAA has managed to turn the first stages of a 5% budget cut into hours of delays at the nation’s airports. The furloughs are landing on air-traffic controllers as much as they are on less vital FAA jobs. Officials at the Department of Transportation, the FAA’s parent bureaucracy, say it would be bad for morale to impose heavier furloughs on the employees who don’t direct airplanes.
So this week the FAA has managed to turn the first stages of a 5% budget cut into hours of delays at the nation’s airports. The furloughs are landing on air-traffic controllers as much as they are on less vital FAA jobs. Officials at the Department of Transportation, the FAA’s parent bureaucracy, say it would be bad for morale to impose heavier furloughs on the employees who don’t direct airplanes. DOT has also ruled out any reductions in the FAA workforce to achieve the needed savings, along with most other obvious options that a private business would explore.
The point is that Democrats are desperate to extricate themselves from this mess, which they orchestrated in a bone-headed attempt to rile public anger against any spending cuts. Good luck with this, guys. Instead of hurting Republicans — which was the entire point — this entirely manufactured crisis has infuriated travelers, who inconveniently (a) seem to recall that the sequester was proposed and signed by Obama, and (b) aren’t buying the idea that atiny reduction in the rate of spending increase is enough to justify disruptive furloughs. They’re right on both counts, and even some mainstream media outlets have taken the administration to the woodshed. | {
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With the proliferation of online resources these days, you probably have usernames and passwords for banks, investment accounts, bill pay systems, credit card sites, email accounts, instant messenger accounts, photo sites, blogging tools, and countless others. Most people have only a few - sometimes just one or two - simple passwords they use for all of these accounts, because it's easier to remember just one or two than it is dozens. The problem is, this is <b><i>incredibly risky</i></b>.
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If you're like most people, you have a few passwords that you use over and over again on many different websites. You know this isn't secure, yet you do it anyway. Why? Because it's difficult to remember a unique password for each and every web site that requires one.
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Ideally, at a minimum, you should use a unique, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength#Strong_passwords <i>strong password</i>] for each of your accounts that contain sensitive information - like your bank or your invesntment brokerage account - but what about all of your other accounts? They may not contain information that is quite as sensitive as your bank, but it is still your private information, and none of anyone else's business.
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==Existing Solutions==
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But only a genius could memorize so many unique passwords. Don't write them down on sticky notes for others to find; no, PasswordMaker calculates them for you over and over again -- as needed -- without storing them so they can't be stolen. And if you use more than one computer (for example, one at work and one at home), it's child's play to synchronize them. There's even an [http://www.passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html on-line version] for times when you are at a public computer and can't install any software.
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Maybe you do use unique passwords, and get around the problem of remembering them by storing them in a spreadsheet or other file. Maybe you even use [http://www.symantec.com/passwordmanager/ one] of the many [http://www.edash.com/gotpassword/gotpassword.shtml password managers] that are available. But now you've centralized your passwords and access to them becomes difficult while at work, a friend's computer, or a public internet terminal. You can't get to your passwords without carrying them around or [http://www.passwordsafe.com/ publishing them on the internet]. Some people even carry a USB keychain with their passwords wherever they go. How inconvenient. And [http://www.passwordsafe.com/ publishing them on the internet]? Yikes! We need not even mention the security risks inherent with that solution. Even if you trust the company storing the passwords, you can be sure every hacker in the world is drooling over the prospect of accessing their database (Like the LastPass break in of May, 2011 [http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notification.html LastPass Announcement]).
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== Existing Solutions ==
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==Our Solution==
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Maybe you do use unique passwords, and get around the problem of remembering them by storing them in a spreadsheet or other file. Maybe you even use [http://www.symantec.com/passwordmanager/ one] of the many [http://www.edash.com/gotpassword/gotpassword.shtml password managers] that are available. But now you've centralized your passwords and access to them becomes difficult while at work, a friend's, or a public internet terminal. You can't get to your passwords without carrying them around or [http://www.passwordsafe.com/ publishing them on the internet]. Some people even carry a USB keychain with their passwords wherever they go. How inconvenient. And [http://www.passwordsafe.com/ publishing them on the internet?] Yikes! We need not even mention the security risks inherent with that solution. Even if you trust the company storing the passwords, you can be sure every hacker in the world is drooling over the prospect of accessing their database.
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PasswordMaker solves all of these issues. It is a small, lightweight, free, open-source tool for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, iPhone, Opera, PHP, Windows, OS/X, Linux, Flock, Yahoo! Widgets, Android, Python, and many other platforms & systems. It creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else. Nothing is stored anywhere, anytime, so there's nothing to be hacked, lost, or stolen. PasswordMaker has been around since about 2003 and so is a mature, stable, popular solution.
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== The Solution ==
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==How It Works==
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PASSWORD'''MAKER''' solves all of these issues. It is a small, lightweight, free, extension for [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox], [http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ Mozilla], [http://www.netscape.com/ Netscape], [http://www.flock.com/ Flock], and [http://widgets.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Widgets] which creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else. Nothing is stored anywhere, anytime, so there's nothing to be hacked, lost, or stolen.
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Warning - technical jargon in this section!
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What if you could use passwords that are as unique as fingerprints for each and every one of your accounts, yet not have to remember them? PasswordMaker allows you to do just that. By using complex mathematical formulae, called <i>hashing algorithms</i>, PasswordMaker outputs the same unique passwords for you each and every time you provide it with the same input. And these passwords ''are unique'' across the globe (providing they are of sufficient length).
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You provide PasswordMaker two pieces of information: a "master password" -- that one, single password you like -- and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL URL] of the website requiring a password. Through the magic of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function one-way hash algorithms], PasswordMaker calculates a [http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2176 message digest], also known as a [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/distrib/dsch_key_vzqm.asp digital fingerprint], which can be used as your password for the website. Although one-way hash algorithms have a number of interesting characteristics, the one capitalized by PasswordMaker is that the resulting fingerprint (password) does "not reveal anything about the input that was used to generate it." <sup>[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html#MessageDigest 1]</sup>. In other words, if someone has one or more of your generated passwords, it is ''computationally infeasible'' for him to derive your master password or to calculate your other passwords. Computationally infeasible means even computers [[Media:ZBoxOpenJuly03.jpg|like this]] won't help!
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== How It Works ==
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==What About Portability?==
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You provide PasswordMaker two pieces of information: a <i>master password</i> -- that one, favorite password you like -- and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL URL] of the website requiring a password (for internet applications without URLs, such as instant messaging, you can make up any URL you like; e.g., aolinstantmessenger.com). Through the magic of [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/one-way_hash_function.html one-way hash algorithms], PasswordMaker calculates what is known as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function digital fingerprint] - or hash - which can then be used as your password for the website. Although one-way hash algorithms have a number of interesting characteristics, the one capitalized on by PasswordMaker is that the resulting hash (password) does "not reveal anything about the input (your <i>master password</i>) that was used to generate it." [http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html#MessageDigest] In other words, if someone has one or more of your generated passwords, it is ''<i>computationally infeasible</i>'' for him to derive your master password or to calculate your other passwords. [http://www.certifyit.com/_Definitions.htm Computationally infeasible] means even computers [http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zBox/ like this] won't help! Other security features, such as PasswordMaker's ability to automatically insert generated passwords into web sites' password boxes, helps protect you from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging key-loggers] and/or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing) trojan horses] that some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat <i>Black Hats</i>] use to try to steal passwords. For more details, visit the [http://passwordmaker.org/faq.html FAQ].
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For times when you must use one of the rare platforms to which PasswordMaker hasn't been ported, or are using a system where you can't install any software, there's an [http://passwordmaker.sourceforge.net/passwordmaker.html online version] which mimics the extension and works in all web browsers new and old. No downloads or installations are required.
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==Old Site==
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The old PasswordMaker website can be found [http://passwordmaker.sourceforge.net/ here]. Please note it is no longer maintained but is present for archival purposes.
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For times when you must use non-Firefox browsers or can't install Firefox extensions, there's an [http://passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html online version] which mimicks the extension and works in all browsers new and old. No downloads or installations are required. Additionally, stand-alone versions for desktops, mobile phones, and PDAs are coming shortly.
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Contents
The Problem
If you're like most people, you have a few passwords that you use over and over again on many different websites. You know this isn't secure, yet you do it anyway. Why? Because it's difficult to remember a unique password for each and every web site that requires one.
Existing Solutions
Maybe you do use unique passwords, and get around the problem of remembering them by storing them in a spreadsheet or other file. Maybe you even use one of the many password managers that are available. But now you've centralized your passwords and access to them becomes difficult while at work, a friend's computer, or a public internet terminal. You can't get to your passwords without carrying them around or publishing them on the internet. Some people even carry a USB keychain with their passwords wherever they go. How inconvenient. And publishing them on the internet? Yikes! We need not even mention the security risks inherent with that solution. Even if you trust the company storing the passwords, you can be sure every hacker in the world is drooling over the prospect of accessing their database (Like the LastPass break in of May, 2011 LastPass Announcement).
Our Solution
PasswordMaker solves all of these issues. It is a small, lightweight, free, open-source tool for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, iPhone, Opera, PHP, Windows, OS/X, Linux, Flock, Yahoo! Widgets, Android, Python, and many other platforms & systems. It creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else. Nothing is stored anywhere, anytime, so there's nothing to be hacked, lost, or stolen. PasswordMaker has been around since about 2003 and so is a mature, stable, popular solution.
How It Works
Warning - technical jargon in this section!
You provide PasswordMaker two pieces of information: a "master password" -- that one, single password you like -- and the URL of the website requiring a password. Through the magic of one-way hash algorithms, PasswordMaker calculates a message digest, also known as a digital fingerprint, which can be used as your password for the website. Although one-way hash algorithms have a number of interesting characteristics, the one capitalized by PasswordMaker is that the resulting fingerprint (password) does "not reveal anything about the input that was used to generate it." 1. In other words, if someone has one or more of your generated passwords, it is computationally infeasible for him to derive your master password or to calculate your other passwords. Computationally infeasible means even computers like this won't help!
What About Portability?
For times when you must use one of the rare platforms to which PasswordMaker hasn't been ported, or are using a system where you can't install any software, there's an online version which mimics the extension and works in all web browsers new and old. No downloads or installations are required.
Old Site
The old PasswordMaker website can be found here. Please note it is no longer maintained but is present for archival purposes. | {
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Well built and ingenous design ensures that you can't take this puzzle to pieces and put it back together all solved (we all used to do it with the Rubik Cube!)
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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."
At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”
UM's Path of Destruction to the 'Shoe: Game Six
Five games down and the Rockets are coming to Ann Arbor. The Toledo Rockets.
Toledo -- Oct. 11, TBA
There won't be too much excitement in this game against what is rightfully our's. Toledo will make the quick trip up to Ann Arbor with dreams of the Horror Part II. I'm sure Brady Hoke thinks Toledo has a great shot...and that Ron Paul is a lock for the White House, but there is very very little chance of an upset here.
Sure, it has been Michigan policy in recent years to allow some of these MAC teams to hang around (Miami, Ball State, Eastern), but something tells me this season's policy will be something more along the lines of merciless pillaging and demoralizing pummelization (may be made up).
Toledo brings a lot of starters back on defense this season. This is great news...for the Wolverines. The Rockets were worse than bad on defense last season, ranking 117th in scoring defense. They did shut out Notre Dame though, which may not be true...but they may have. Seriously though, if the offense doesn't have it together by now, it will get a major ego boost on October 11th.
Uh oh, Toledo has a quarterback that will be in his third straight year as the starting signal caller, and their wide receivers are pretty good. Ah, well that kind of plays to UM's strength on defense.
There just isn't a whole lot to say about this match-up. Barring an extremely humiliating lack of respect, much like this post, Toledo doesn't stand a chance. Hopefully UM can take care of business early and get the young guys some playing time. Also, it should be a good tune-up before the next two games - at Penn State and vs. MSU. | {
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Living Outside The Box
The reason to do all this is about working to pioneer new methods to save the world - one ocean plankton bloom, one forest, not one discovery at a time. All at once.
This blog and my lifes work is dedicated to my 3 children and 2 grandchildren and yours too...and to mysteries of nature some discovered most not.
Egyptian fish farmers 4,000 years ago raised tilapia in ponds along the Nile.
Two thousand years ago Jesus Christ gave sermons about tilapia to people who cast their nets for tilapia to feed their families and sell in markets. The fish played a lead role in the New Testament story of the “Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes.” While the miracle of feeding multitudes with five loaves and just two fish is the popular account, more likely Jesus was teaching about raising Tilapia through aquaculture.
Tilapia Farm
Today Tilapia and Carp are said to be the world’s most farmed fish. While practically unknown in North America a decade ago, Americans now consume 475 million pounds of tilapia annually. Most of it comes from farms in China and Latin America, though more and more it is domestically farmed.
Tilapia provides valuable protein and contains heart-healthy Omega 3 fatty acids, though not quite as much as one finds in salmon or mackerel.
Read this captivating story of ocean fisheries collapse and the inspiring news that we are coming to their rescue. click to read more
Farmers typically buy tilapia once a year as ‘fry’, barely an inch long. They are easy to raise: they thrive in crowded conditions, can tolerate water with low oxygen, and, unlike many other farmed fish, they are cheap to feed because they are mostly vegetarians.
Over the course of a year the fish grow to two or three pounds. Here in North America they sell whole for about $5 a pound.
Farmed Tilapia are about to see a enormous boost in production thanks to a project in a new Brazilian reservoir.
Tilapia farming in the Itaipu hydroelectric reservoir could help more than double fish production across the country.
“The farming of tilapia behind the Itaipu dam seeks to obtain a production of 400,000 tonnes just in that one hydroelectric reservoir. Today, the entire country produces ~500,000 tonnes,” said the Minister Marcelo Crivella during the opening of the 1st Regional Meeting of the Federal Fisheries and Aquaculture Superintendents in the South and Southeast areas.
About 4,000 tonnes of fish are produced in Itaipu at present, “but this number should reach 400,000 tonnes,” the minister stated.
Itaipu Reservoir
For his part, Itaipu director general, Jorge Samek, highlighted it is proven that tilapia does not cause any environmental impacts. “It is found in large numbers in the river Paranapanema, and it is not predatory or carnivorous.”
“We have 135,000 hectares of water and a scientific basis that can contribute to aquaculture development,” he stressed.
In March, Samek received a petition with 1,800 signatures to launch tilapia farming in the reservoir. This request was transferred to Crivelli, who received other requests directly from the fishermen.
Meanwhile, Ivo dos Santos, of the Association of Artisanal Fishermen of Guaira and Region, explained that the artisanal fishing of declining stocks of wild fish in the river no longer offers a livelihood.
“If tilapia is released, our income will improve. We hope there is also an improvement in the release of resources for them to reach the fisherman’s hands,” he added.
Today there are 800 registered fishermen associated with the Itaipu dam, but it is estimated that the actual number is much higher.
“A farmer produces a tonne of meat per year per hectare. In Itaipu we can produce 200 tonnes of fish per hectare per year. Itaipu is exemplary as to fish production with sustainability and environmental safety,” stressed MPA head.
Every time you choose tilapia to eat you are saving wild fish from being driven to extinction.
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Interesting Snippets
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
"It's like religion. Heresy in science is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite." - Thomas Gold
Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.
" If you steal from one person, well they call that plagarism. I steal from everyone, they call that research. - Woody Guthrie
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke's First Law
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - H. Poincare
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature." - Michael Faraday
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck
Corollary: Science advances funeral by funeral.
A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. - Mark Twain
Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - R. George
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901)
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it! The Roman Rule
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One of the very first places that we can inspire and bless people is in our homes, and to recognize the spiritual light that is in one other in our own families. As an example: In my house I am the dad, however my two children also know me as their brother, because God is our Father. This understanding alone has opened wonderful moments in our family’s relationship. Sometimes our conversation becomes so open and exciting that it causes me to be thrilled with complete thankfulness that we have allowed God into our lives.
My wife, my helper and companion is also my sister in God’s household, and this understanding has made it possible for us to become and stay the best of friends. Still, I would also like to point out that not every moment is like living in paradise, we are only human and we certainly have our share of ups and downs. We do not float around on clouds reading and thinking about the Scriptures at every moment because there is this thing that keeps popping up called life. Nevertheless, I still would not change anything, because overall we as a family have worked very hard to build our relationship with God and with each other.
One of the greatest gifts that God has ever given to men and women who believe is spiritual light. With this light, the eyes of our spiritual understanding begin opening to the life that Jesus called the more abundant life, for it is eternal life (I John 5:10-12). Jesus Christ made this life available to us by sacrificing his own life. As we personally come to know and experience Jesus Christ who dwells in our hearts (Colossians 1:27), and who resides within every fiber of our beings (Colossians 3:4), the greater the experience of “the more abundant life” becomes. John 10:10 says “I am come that they {believers} might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” The word “might” in the Greek Text is the word for “may” and the meaning is that we have Jesus’ permission to enjoy the more abundant life. This is the very reason and purpose why Jesus Christ came in the first place, so that we may experience the abundant life, which is not just an abundant life, but – life – MORE ABUNDANTLY!
John 8:12 – Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
“The light of life” is the necessary spiritual light needed to enjoy life more abundantly. How do we get the words of Jesus off the pages of the Bible, and begin applying them in practical living? In Ephesians 2:10 we read, “For we are his {God’s} workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” The word “should” is an interesting word because God is not demanding that we practice works of any kind, rather this is a loving request from our heavenly Father. God designed the “good works” from the beginning. He, being the Creator of life, has given to us the blueprint for living life in the way He designed it, and the blueprint is His Word. His Word contains all things that pertain to life and godliness (II Peter 1:3-4). When and where we try to apply Scripture we will experience the true goodness that God placed in His healing Word. Following Jesus for instance is one of those good works; in fact, it is a wonderful work because in doing so we will recognize that we have access into “the light of life.” The guidance of Scripture is always requesting that we follow Jesus Christ, for he is the way, the truth, and the life to the Father (John 14:6, Hebrews 12:1-2).
When we became saved, we are spiritually awakened to a new life with Christ: this is the meaning of “arise from the dead.” In Matthew 5:16 Jesus said: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Jesus did not say to pray for more light, or to struggle through life trying to keep it burning. Rather he said “let” and the reason for this is that we already have light and we are encouraged to allow this light to shine by enjoying the “good works” which shows us that we have the “light of life.” (The Amplified Bible translates “good works” to say: [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].)
Once God’s healing Word begins to permeate our hearts, and our thoughts begin to reflect that which is written in the Scriptures, then we will begin realizing that we have indeed received the actual Word of life from the heart of God. Paul said in Philippians:
Philippians 2:12 – Wherefore, my brethren, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
The believers were obedient to the Word of life, irrespective of whether Paul was there personally watching over them, because the Word itself began to uplift them. The Word of God was changing them from the inside, out, for God’s Word is pure (Psalm 12:6). The word “salvation” does not relate to our already God-given salvation, but rather salvation means to be made spiritually whole and entire. The Word of life freely gives to us inner spiritual completeness as we continue to accept it with a believing heart that they are God’s words. The words “fear and trembling” literally means to have reverent respect for the Word of life, and to become obedient to the words that will bring our hearts closer and closer to God’s heart. We become ever more connected to our heavenly Father and His Word of life proportionally to our inner respect and obedience from belief of the Scriptures. Verse twelve shows us what we can do for ourselves, while verse thirteen (below), shows us what God can and has done for us, giving to us not fear and trembling, but good pleasure to walk hand in hand with our Savior and with our heavenly Father.
Philippians 2:13 – For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
One way that God works within us is through His words that we have placed within our minds. God works via two specific avenues. The first way is to help us have the “will” to do His good pleasure and since God designed life and gave us freedom of will – His words in our mind can be the inspiration and energy of our wills. The second way is that God also gives us the spiritual ability “to do” that which will give both God and us glory and “good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:14-16a:
-14: Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
-15: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke {from God}, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
-16a: Holding forth the word of life;
To do “all things without murmurings and disputings” is a great way to live, for we need not have any fear as we daily walk before our heavenly Father. We are totally “blameless and harmless” before His loving eyes. Indeed, we are the “sons of God” and although we live in a spiritually perverse society, we today do “shine as lights in the world.” In the Scriptures the word “sons” is an all-inclusive noun for male and female. Then, God’s Word shows us a wonderful privilege, and that is: that we may enjoy a completeness within our own hearts, and walk within the good pleasure of the words of God that are both light and life, and they are freely given to us to share one with another.
There are many treasures that become the believers’ simply because they belong to God, such as eternal life (I John 5:10-13), and being heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). There are also treasured crowns that we can receive in heaven for our believing actions that we take on God’s healing Word today. The Bible explicitly states that there are at least five spiritual crowns which each believer may receive by following the instructions and guidelines written in the literature of eternity!
These are the crown incorruptible, the crown of glory, the crown of life, the crown of righteousness, and the crown of rejoicing*.
Revelation 19:12a – . . . His {Christ Jesus} eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; . . .
“His eyes were as a flame of fire” does not mean that Jesus’ eyes were burning, rather the word “fire” represents a spiritual cleansing because Christ in the Book of Revelation returns to cleanse all that he sees. “And on his head were many crowns,” this represents authority, power, and majesty that he has in many areas or categories.
For instance, some of the Kings of Egypt had several crowns, one for upper Egypt, another for lower Egypt, and others for other regions that Egypt conquered. Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords, he has conquered the realms of darkness, and in the Book of Revelation he is the King reigning upon the entire earth, and it is he who cleanses his kingdom.
Hebrews 12:2 – Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith {believing faith}; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is {now} set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus Christ endured great suffering on his cross, yet he looked beyond the moment, beyond the suffering, and beyond the shame and looked to the end result that all his work would accomplish. Jesus also had so much joy in his life to be walking with God, sharing His Word, and blessing His children, and he finished the work God gave him to do. Remember Jesus said, “it is finished” when he was dying on the cross in John 19:30? What was finished? The redemption for all humanity!
In Luke 2:49 Jesus, as a boy, said, “I must be about my Father’s business,” and when all of his Father’s business was completed Jesus said, “It is finished.” God, his Father, rewarded him richly, giving him the privilege to be the King of kings and bestowed upon him many crowns.
In Hebrews 12:2 (above), we are instructed to look to Jesus as he is our perfect example of how to walk with God. God’s Word shows us how to receive many treasures ─ and at the end of this life we, too, can receive many crowns like our example, the author and finisher of our believing faith, Jesus.
Revelation 3:11 – Behold I come quickly; hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
“Hold that fast” means to watch over, to take care of what we have worked for. This warning comes with an exhortation “that no man take thy crown.” The question arises: How can someone take away one’s crown? Colossians 2:18 reveals, “Let no man beguile you of your reward.” The Amplified Bible quotes this as “Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize.”
Unlike eternal rewards and spiritual blessings that have been given to us because of the work of Christ, the spiritual crowns that we can receive are earned by our steadfast believing in and doing what God’s Word instructs. However, if someone tries to teach us that we are totally unworthy to receive God’s blessings and future crowns, then they obviously know more than God Himself Who has made us worthy and equal to the task of receiving these blessed crowns. God’s will is for each believer to receive the crowns, which He desires for us to have for eternity.
Romans 14:13 – Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
We certainly can help one another receive the crowns, however, each believer is responsible with their own actions to put in the actual effort and believing that will afford us the joys of receiving them. The crowns are eternal and will grant us great riches, responsibilities, and privileges in the next life.
Our heavenly Father designed an easy way to receive these crowns, which can help us to daily walk with great power and understanding as we look to Jesus.
*See our Bible Bytes, titled: The Crown Incorruptible, The Crown of Glory, The Crown of Life, The Crown of Righteousness, The Crown of Rejoicing, and The Vine and the Branches. | {
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In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey's (1969) 'bottleneck model'. To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called 'step tolls', in which the toll takes on different values over discrete time intervals, but is constant within each interval. Given the prevalence of step tolling schemes they have received surprisingly little attention in the literature. This paper compares two step-toll schemes that have been studied using the bottleneck model by Arnott, de Palma and Lindsey (1990) and Laih (1994). It also proposes a third scheme in which late in the rush hour drivers slow down or stop just before reaching a tolling point, and wait until the toll is lowered from one step to the next step. Such behaviour has indeed been observed in reality. Analytical derivations and numerical modelling show that the three tolling schemes have different optimal toll schedules and reduce total social costs by different percentages. These differences persist even in the limit as the number of steps approaches infinity. Braking lowers the welfare gain from tolling by 14% to 21% in the numerical example. Therefore, preventing or limiting braking seems important in designing step-toll systems. | {
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Monday, November 14, 2016
KNOW THY ENEMY
by Chris Goff
I think the hardest thing to do when writing a spy novel is finding
your antagonists backstory, knowing how they think, how they feel, what kind of
mindset they have. It's fairly easy to understand what your protagonist thinks
because often they think a lot like you. They love their families, their homes,
their freedom, and their countries. But what do the bad guys their up against think
and feel?
Truthfully, most villains are more like us than unlike us—they
just see things differently. They have different customs, different belief
systems, different ideas of duty and valor. The writer who takes the time and
does the research to get into their antagonists' heads is the one who creates
the villains that really stick with us. Evil for the sake of evil isn't that
interesting. Evil driven by something the villain believes is much more interesting.
We may not think it justifies his behavior, or agree with his ideals, but we're
engaged with a complex character and interested in what our hero learns about
their adversary. It's what the hero learns about the antagonist that provides
the key to defeating him.
So where do you start?
Real
Life.
Read the paper, watch the news, and look around. Every day
we're bombarded with people doing things we don't understand. Instead of just
shaking her head, a writer will try and figure out what drives people to do the
things they do. Look back at history.
Take
Edward Snowden.
Born in North Carolina, his
entire family was in some fashion employed by the US Government. It's said he
was expected to pursue the same path, something he did, but did he want to?
Snowden
was a really smart guy. Quiet and thoughtful, he was deeply interested in
eastern culture and became a Buddhist at age 20. By 2008, he said he planned to
comment on the NSA surveillance programs, but then decided to wait until he saw
what actions Obama took. An active participant in the news provider Ars Technica under a pseudonym, he
expressed strong support for the US security state apparatus and said he believed
leakers of classified information "should be shot in the balls."
Then, in 2013, disappointed by Obama's continuation of the
NSA surveillance programs, he went to the media and disclosed 9,000 to 10,000
classified documents revealing global surveillance by the NSA that he viewed as
unconstitutional. To simplify the discussion, suffice it to say, he claims he
tried voicing his concerns internally before going public with the classified
information. The US cries foul and sees the revelations as him compromising
their ability to gather intelligence and protect its self and its allies from
possible future terrorist attacks.
Whistleblower or
traitor? What were his motives? He claims he didn't want to live in a world
that surveilles their citizens. He also claims that he hopes his actions will
embolden others to become whistleblowers and says he'd do it again. But is that
he truth? Does he really think what he did was worth the consequences? Does he
really like living in Russia? Or maybe he hadn't thought it out that far, but
is putting on one face for the world while feeling very differently on the
inside. What could that drive him to do? Or maybe he thrives on the attention
and that will drive his future actions. Was it his families' service legacy that
makes him see himself as a US patriot or is he simply an arrogant narcissist
who sees himself as superior because of his intellect?
Take
Stella Kübler-Isaacksohn.
Born Goldschlag, she was a German Jewish woman who collaborated
with the Gestapo during World War II. Raised in a middle-class Jewish family,
she attended a Jewish school following the seizure of power by the Nazis, married
a Jew, graduated with a degree in fashion design, and then was forced to work
in a war plant in Berlin. Because she had an Aryan look, when the deportation
of the Jews began, she was able to go underground as a non-Jew. Then in the spring
of 1943, her parents were arrested by the Nazis. Stella was tortured by the
Nazis and in order to save her family agreed to become what the Gestapo called
a "catcher," someone who hunted down Jews hiding as non-Jews. The
data varies, but it's estimated that she helped round up between 600 and 3,000
of her fellow Jews. Eventually the Nazis broke their promise and deported her
parents to Theresienstadt where they were killed, and her husband and his
family were deported to Auschwitz.
You'd think that would be enough to stop her. But no, she
married her second husband, also Jewish and a Nazi collaborator, and continued
working for the Gestapo until March 1945. After the war, she served time for her
crimes, converted to Christianity and became an "open anti-Semite." And she suffered a terrible end, one many would say she deserved. She married five times, and
had one daughter who was taken from her who later immigrated to Israel. Then,
in 1994, Stella committed suicide by throwing herself out of a window.
Still, did she become an anti-Semite in order to justify what she
had done to so many of her fellow Jews? Did she kill herself because she could
no longer live with the consequences of her actions? Did she have some unknown problem with her parents, or suffer from a form of
Stockholm Syndrome?
In
conclusion
While we can only surmise what motivates others, each
variation on the theme makes for a different novel. Regardless of what you think
about Snowden or Kübler-Isaacksohn, knowing more about them makes them more
interesting and adds to the layers your protagonist must peel back in order to defeat them. The best piece of writing advice I was every given was to remember: the villain is the hero of his own story.
Understanding one's opponent is the key to finding their Achilles heel.
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Christine, as always, thank you for the thoroughly researched post! It's often difficult to see an adversary's point of view, but you're right: when it comes to writing a proper villain, it's absolutely critical.
Oh Chris, that was a great blog! You are SO right about authors needing to do careful research on their villains, their backgrounds and motivations. Your stories about Snowden and Stella are fascinating and your examples really make us think about how in the world we can create believable characters for our thrillers. You obviously have figured it out! Thanks for this. | {
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Michelin-starred chef Shin Thompson has thrown in the towel on Kabocha, the Japanese brasserie he opened in last year with Ryan O'Donnell. The restaurant on Lake Street closed Feb. 15, reports the Chicago Tribune.
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Mayor's Bicentennial Bikeway Plan
Last Thursday, Mayor Coleman and City Council member Mary Ellen O'Shaughnessy hosted a public meeting of interested parties and stakeholders in support of the city's Bicentennial Bikeway plan. Here's the official press release:
City’s Bicentennial Bikeway Planning Clicking Into High Gear
(Columbus) Flanked by dozens of bike riders, Mayor Michael B. Coleman and Councilmember Maryellen O’Shaughnessy biked from City Hall to North Bank Park today to announce the launch of the City’s Bicentennial Bikeways Plan to add off-street trails and on-street bike lanes, and to make biking safer for residents.
“This is a great season for biking - for fun, fitness or even to save gas, but we need to make it safer and more convenient for riders and teach drivers to respect bikes,” Mayor Coleman said. “Too many people in Columbus have been hurt or killed walking and biking, and the City is refocusing our neighborhood and traffic planning to be bike and pedestrian-friendly.”
The Bicentennial Bikeways Plan is a continuation of Mayor Coleman and Councilmember O’Shaughnessy’s long-standing commitment to pedestrian safety. Not only is the City stepping up programs to slow traffic in neighborhoods and build sidewalks, but it also is including bike lanes and sidewalks on major road projects, such as Hard Road and Morse Road.
“This is an exciting project,” said Councilmember O’Shaughnessy, an avid bicyclist. “It’s a good time to be a bicyclist in Columbus, and it’s going to get even better.”
Columbus maintains 87 miles of bike trails, bike lanes and posted bike routes, and plans to add some 60 miles of trails in the next four years. The Mayor and Councilmember O’Shaughnessy are investing $255,000 to hire a nationally known consultant to plan for more – and safer – commuter and recreational bicycling.
“Our bikeways and green paths are what connect us – they tie and bind the region together. The Columbus Bicentennial Bikeway Plan is also good for our air quality, helps relieves congestion and enhances our quality of life,” said Chester R. Jourdan, Jr., Executive Director of the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC).
Work on the plan started this week, as the City of Columbus, MORPC, Burgess & Niple, and Alta Planning + Design began conducting an inventory of existing bike trails, lanes and posted routes, as well as an assessment of support facilities like bike racks, drinking fountains and benches. The next step is to study vehicle traffic, lane width and crossing protection on bike lanes to make them safer.
“The Transportation and Pedestrian Commission is excited that the city has engaged the help of ALTA, the nation’s best bicycle planning organization, and we look forward to working with the City to implement the recommendations and adding a critical asset to the viability of Columbus,” said Michael Wilkos, a local planning expert and Commission member.
The Bicentennial Bikeways Plan will include:
New trails, lanes and posted routes for both recreational and commuter bicyclists;
Improved street-crossing protection, with signals and signage;
Bike racks, lockers and shower facilities;
A public awareness campaign for bicyclists and motorists;
A long-term plan for improvements, staring with the capital investment in the Bicentennial Bond Package, which will go to the voters next year.
Much of the legwork and many suggestions are coming from residents and bicycle advocates, who are members of a stakeholders’ group that met today to map out the next phases of the Bicentennial Bikeways Plan.
Photos of today's ride and a digital map of existing trails and routes are available upon request.
Well, he's saying all the right things. And it's true that there have been bike lanes put in on Morse Road. But as I've said in my Wish List posts and a few other places, there are some things that I think the city doesn't necessarily see that we regular cyclists do see. Let's look at the bullet points above, one by one:
New trails, lanes and posted routes for both recreational and commuter bicyclists;
Absolutely needed. I will freely admit that I keep waffling back and forth about the value of bike lanes... I do think they will get more people out on the road and more out of their cars, but at the same time I think they send the wrong message to motorists. I've talked enough about that issue, though... and I think any plan that takes cyclists in mind more than they are now is a positive.
Improved street-crossing protection, with signals and signage;
Also needed. I'd like to add in, though, that the sensors that detect vehicles for traffic lights need work as well. I wrote a message to the city engineers about a faulty detector at Arcadia and High, I'll post more on that later.
Bike racks, lockers and shower facilities;
No doubt these are needed. I'd like to see public input as to the types and locations of the racks.
A public awareness campaign for bicyclists and motorists;
I tend to cringe when I hear things like this... I don't think that public awareness campaigns do as much as action followed by critical media coverage. For instance, if the police were to actually start ticketing for any vehicle doing rolling stops, failure to use turn signals, speeding, cycling on sidewalks, etc. and the Dispatch was to cover it, that would mean so much than feel-good "look out for bikes" campaign.
A long-term plan for improvements, staring with the capital investment in the Bicentennial Bond Package, which will go to the voters next year.
This scares me. Ohio voters are notoriously anti-change, and this has the potential to upset the applecart. Change NEEDS to happen. It's not just about global warming, but about general wellness of our community. All the things that make biking great are not only good for stopping global warming, but also reducing pollution, obesity, traffic congestion, and road rage issues. But Ohio voters at large aren't that progressive, IMHO.
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I tried to put some context around this on my post: http://www.considerbiking.org/site/viewtopic.php?t=185. Everyone, be sure to come to the public meeting Sept 26, 5-8pm at North Bank Park Pavilion. The first draft of their recommendations will be available at that time, and comments will be accepted!!
Don't panic on the 2008, Bicentennial Bond Package... this isn't for Ohio voters, it is for Columbus voters... a different group. The City does a "Voted Bond Package" every 4-5 years, and the last round passed by an average of nearly 65% of the vote. This is how sidewalks, sewers, parks, fire stations, etc. are paid for, and the Mayor is just articulating that he wants to add some Bike-friendly elements to the package. As long as it is supported by bike community it should be a strong package.
That's comforting, Mike. Thanks for that news. You're right, the mayor seems to have put this into a good package that will include a lot of stuff, and as much as I'd like to have overwhelming support for any bike-related bond issue, I'm happy to have it put in with an "all-or-nothing" issue just to have it actually pass.
The key thing is getting things started properly - if the trends around the nation will apply here, just creating the infrastructure will bring a lot of cyclists out of the woodwork to start using the amenities available.
The Dispatch report that Columbus Rides Bikes shared on Facebook today is entitled "More crashes come with more bicycle traffic on dedicated lanes," and discusses the new lanes and the number of accidents that have happened there. None of these accidents/crashes has been fatal.
So... you can read the article and get the statistics. Here's a summary of them, though, with a quote from the article:
...the number of crashes has jumped. Between 2012 and 2015, there were five crashes involving bicycles on Summit between Hudson and East 5th Avenue.…
In a move that has left quite a few people stranded in Columbus, the ride-sharing company Car2Go has announced today that they're pulling out of the local market as of May 31.
car2go is saddened to announce that we have made the difficult decision to suspend our operations in Columbus as of May 31. Read why here: https://t.co/gRSibUhotB
— car2go Columbus (@car2goColumbus) May 24, 2018
This has got me more than a little pissed off and very inconvenienced.
There's no doubt - Car2Go improved the quality of my family's life for the past few years while they were active in town. As a one-car family where I rode my bike and took the bus most days, Car2Go filled in the gap nicely when we needed that extra set of wheels to get ourselves places.
Here's the news they sent out via their website today:
HELLO,
We’re writing to let you know that after careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue car2go service in Columbus, effective May 31, 2018.
In 201…
I've been out with the flu for a few days (no, I'm not oinking), and I missed this surprising post from Jeff Stephens of Consider Biking back on October 9th. Suffice to say that Jeff took some time to sit back and watch the behavior of our city's cyclists, and was dismayed at what he saw. I'm in complete agreement with Jeff on this issue. Simply too many Columbus cyclists do not obey the law. But let's look at the reasons that Jeff proposed in his commentary: Why are you riding this way? Are you so self-absorbed, that the world revolves around you? Are you just opportunistic since the bicycle gives you the opportunity to cheat traffic? Are you “expressing yourself” with your nonchalant coolness, hipness, whatever? Or, do you just not know any better? Do you just follow the example of the guy/gal in front of you because you’re new to urban bicycling? (I think it’s the latter.)Jeff's statement breaks the possible reasons for this behavior down into two extrem… | {
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Steam: Steaming once a week is a great way to open up your pores naturally and releasing the dirt and bacteria that would be otherwise clogging your pores. An easy and inexpensive way to steam is to boil a pot of water and put it on a heatproof surface. Then, hold your face over the open pot with a towel covering your head so you create a closed space for your face. Keep in that position for 5 minutes. When you are finished rinse your face with lukewarm water and gently pat dry with a clean towel.
Mask: After you are finished steaming it is best to apply a mask afterwards since your pores will be opened up and they can better absorb the nutrients from the mask. There are many different kinds of masks that you can use such as an egg mask, honey mask, and clay mask. Clay masks are useful for breakouts and help with oil control as well as pore size. Apply your mask to your face while avoiding the under eye area as that part of your skin is sensitive. Allow to sit for 15-20 minutes, and then rinse off with warm water.
Cleanse:Cleansing your face every morning with a natural wash helps maintain your skin health and also helps with keeping your pores clean. Try not to use any harsh washes as you are cleansing your face every morning and a gentle foam wash will usually do the work.
Natural astringent:Also try using a cotton pad with a natural astringent on it to cleanup any impurities off your face. Witch hazel is a good natural astringent and it helps shrink your pores while also helping in oil control.
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Cathy Gedvilas
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Cathy Gedvilas currently holds the position of Director of Corporate Communications for Sequa Corporation and its largest business unit, Chromalloy, the global leader in non-OEM replacement parts for aircraft and other large engines. She belongs to the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), a global organization of business communication professionals, which educates its members about the strategic role communication plays between a corporation and its stakeholders. Cathy Gedvilas earned the professional designation of Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) from the IABC by demonstrating a thorough knowledge and understanding of the planning, implementation, and management of strategic communication as well as the ethics of business communication. Cathy Gedvilas’ ABC designation resulted from years of hard work in a series of positions of increasing responsibility and visibility. Educated in Phoenix, Arizona, at Arizona State University, Cathy Gedvilas earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. Her first significant experience in corporate communications came in the late 1990s, when she joined Honeywell International and Phelps Dodge Corporation, a major mining and manufacturing power. After two years as a communications representative with Phelps, Cathy Gedvilas accepted an offer from Honeywell International, Inc., and worked for the company in several roles, including Manager of Internal Communications and Manager of External Communications. Cathy Gedvilas left Honeywell in mid-2005 to manage the internal and external communications of Landmark Aviation/StandardAero, a full-service aviation services company with operations in Europe, Canada, and the United States. She returned to Honeywell in 2008 as Media Relations Manager. Cathy Gedvilas assumed her current position with Sequa Corp. in 2009, bringing strong experience not only in her chosen profession, but also in the operations of several major industries, including aerospace, aviation, and energy. | {
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Just like in a cafe, we talk about everything. Nothing heavy. Just talk over a cup of coffee.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
NUDE, GREEN LEAVES AND BUST BY PABLO PICASSO
The most expensive painting ever sold at auction, "Nude, green leaves and bust" by Pablo Picasso, goes for the first time on public display starting today at Tate Modern in London.
Picasso's work of 1932, which sold for $ 106.5 million at Christie's in New York last year, has been provided on loan to the Tate gallery by its owner, an anonymous private collector, and will be displayed in a new room dedicated to Picasso in the Poetry and Dream section. The painting is oil on canvas and measures 162 cm × 130 cm.
"Nude, green leaves and bust" is part of a series of paintings that Picasso made of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The paintings were done by the artist at Boisgeloup, Normandy, in the beginning of 1932. According to Nicholas Serta, director the Tate Modern "these paintings are considered his greatest achievements of the interwar period," reports The Guardian.
Picasso met Marie-Thérèse in 1927 at the Paris Metro and they became lovers, but kept their relationship secret because the artist was married to Olga Khokhlova. Other paintings of Marie-Thérèse Walter done by Picasso in 1932 are La Lecture (Reading), Le Rêve (The Dream) and Nu au Fauteuil Noir (Nude in a Black Armchair).
Pablo Picasso
Before being sold in May 2010, the work had been held for nearly six decades by Sidney and Frances Brody of Los Angeles. The collectors had purchased the work in 1951 at Paul Rosenberg & Co., who had bought it directly from Picasso in 1936. Since then the painting has only presented in public once, in 1961, to commemorate the 80 th birthday of Picasso. Fifty years later, the second public showing starting today at Tate Modern is certain to arise high interest among Picasso admirers and art lovers in general.
THE AUCTION
Frances Brody died in November 2009. On May 4, 2010, the painting was sold at Christies in New York City. Christie's won the rights to auction the collection against London-based Sotheby's. The collection as a whole was valued at over US$150 million, while the work was originally expected to earn $80 million at auction.
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There were eight bidders at the auction house, while the winning bid was taken via telephone for $95 million. Including the buyer's premium, the price reached US$106.5 million. When inflation is ignored, the painting broke the record price for an art work sold at auction. The previous auction record was set in February 2010 by Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme qui marche I, which sold for $104.3 million.
The most expensive work of art sold at a public auction remains Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which was bought in May 1990 for $82.5 million (approx. $138.4 million in CPI-adjusted 2010 US dollars), while Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948, which was privately sold for $140 million in 2006 (approx. $151 million in 2010 dollars), remains the most expensive work of art sold overall.
THE HIDDEN MESSAGE
1. Peeping Pablo
Look carefully, and here you can just see the black outline of Picasso's own nose and lips, partly hiding behind a blue veil. This signifies the secrecy of his illicit relationship with his muse.
2. Double or bust
Above the reclining figure of Marie-Therese is a depiction of her own bust on a classical pedestal, a sign of Picasso's high esteem for her.
He had made a sculpture bust of her the previous year, and according to Conor Jordan, the head of Modern Art in Christie's, New York, there is an element of self-congratulation in its inclusion in the painting - as if Picasso were pointing out his own virtuosity.
The paint on the bust in the picture is ladled on with a palette knife, making it seem like a three-dimensional statue, in contrast to the smoothness of Marie-Therese's body.
3. Lover's leaves
These large green leaves depict a philodendron, a common creeping houseplant whose name means 'love tree'.
Picasso owned his own philodendron which he kept in the bathroom and grew so astonishingly quickly that he once said that it almost took over his life.
By including it here, he is perhaps making a reference to his all-consuming obsession with Marie-Therese.
4. A dark obsession
The two shadows cast over Marie-Therese's naked body are a mystery even to art experts. Some believe they may indicate the erotic submission of Picasso's mistress - but others believe that the one around her throat could be a reference to a celebrated Matisse picture, which Picasso owned and depicted a young girl wearing a black choker.
5. Forbidden fruit
By his mistress's elbow, Picasso has painted a plate of apples, a symbol since Biblical times of sexual temptation.
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As
in most remote areas, life begins with the first birdsong
in my neighbourhood. At six o’clock, the day is clear
and some bicycles as well as a few cars drive up and down
Raj Basanta Roy road. But the first visible economic activity
starts at seven when the newspaper is being delivered. ‘Life
begins with the reading of the news from the previous day
in Bengal,’ says my friend Dipankar, ‘nothing
can be done before that.’ ’ more>>>
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and a half miles from the heart of São Paulo there
is a gated community which houses 30,000 of the city’s
richest and most security conscious residents, many of whom
travel by helicopter to work among the 17 million other inhabitants
of the world’s third largest city. According to the
Washington Post, ‘at night, on “TV Alphaville,” residents
can view their maids going home for the evening, when all
exiting employees are patted down and searched in front of
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London.
Charing Cross Road. I must have walked up and down that
road two or three thousand times. Perhaps ten thousand.
Who knows? How to calculate a figure with any form of accuracy
when it traces back forty years to my early teens? Can’t
I make a stab in the dark, perhaps like Simenon when he
purported to have had sex with ten thousand women since
the age of
thirteen and a half in his “need to communicate”?
A figure later reduced to around one thousand two hundred
by his second wife. more>>>
The
old man with mutton-chop whiskers whose job it was to
meticulously
log the hourly readings
in a stiff-backed
journal
marked "Greenwich Meteorological Bureau" almost had
a heart attack. Rubbing his eyes in disbelief, he stared at
the precision built Negretti & Rossi thermometer as if
it had gone truly mad. Suddenly, in the past hour, the mercury
had risen to a remarkable 139 degrees. Of course the thermometer
had been basking outside in the ferocious sun - but 139? This
was England, after all. Not India.more>>>
They
would not let me march. Black people were being lynched,
tarred, feathered, and maimed throughout the south. Duped
out of jobs and left for economic dead. Insulted and
degraded. While I did visit my ancestral home every summer
vacation
of my life, my parents would not allow me to return to
march with the DownSouth, Greensboro, North Carolina
college students during Freedom Summers or even to participate
in civil rights rallies in the new UpSouth homeland of
Newark, New Jersey. Their restrictions were the bane
of
my adolescent existence. more>>>
Lost,
confused, bewildered, I walk around in a daze, overcome by
the colours, the people, the smells, the heat. Will I ever
find my way out of here, I wonder? I walk on trying to make
markers so I can find my way out, but after a while everything
seems the same. Images begin to repeat, as the stalls begin
to merge. more>>>
Midway
between the Gare du Nord and the Porte Saint Denis, built
by Louis XIV, is a charming square called Place Alban
Satragne. A sign informs the visitor that this tiny patch
of greenery has been carved from the fields of the Saint
Lazare farm which was once part of a huge convent of
the same name - le Couvent Saint Lazare - in the 17th
century. During the day, swings, seesaws and sandbackets
attract kids and their moms for a bit of recreation.
But why don’t you come at night? No kids, no young
ladies, only men - plenty of them. Young men with dark
complexion and dirty clothes. Why don’t you ask
them what they are doing here at dusk? The answer is
that they live here, that this is their home and their
own private Paris.more>>> | {
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Here’s my theory: a woman who wears a (what-can-barely-be-classified-as-a) bikini, secretly hates herself and is thus trying to attract all of our attention to give herself value – even if it’s just for her T&A.
Discuss.
Side note: Are asses like this even possible in nature?
The only question that comes to mind is: Whatchu gonna do with all that junk inside your trunk?
Say what? An actual nipple located on the bottom of someone’s foot? This is like the unicorn equivalent in the foot fetish world – you know it exists but nobody has ever seen it. (I totally pulled that out of my ass. I have no idea if foot fetishists want or wish for nipples on their feet.)
What made the most impression on me is that girl’s big toe. It’s so round and stubby. It kinda looks like a marshmallow, doesn’t it?
It seems lately that every website I visit is inundated with this morose, idiotic, talking banner urging me to answer some questions for a chance to win an iPhone! OH MY GOD! An iPhone! For Free! This is obviously the greatest offer in the history of the world……….
The most annoying part of the banner is the talking lady that will go through the full sales pitch. Sometimes she repeats the sales pitch over and over again, so long as you stay on the page. And, of course, the banner does not have a “sound-off” button…so you’re stuck with her until you leave the page. I’m convinced they are the devil’s work.
“Welcome! Answer the question for a chance to win a new iPhone! Click on the link and win an iPhone now!”
It has seriously become the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. Can anyone relate to how annoying it is to listen to a grating voice while trying to read/watch/listen to something that actually interests you? Every time I hear her I’m tempted to punch my laptop screen…so far I’ve succeeded in maintaining a functioning laptop, but I can’t be really sure of how things will turn out. I’ll keep y’all posted though.
I was really excited recently to finally watch the movie Bridesmaids, starring SNL alum Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, among others. Since the movie didn’t get a theater release here in Greece, I had to wait and wait and wait until I could find a torrentz download. I’m kinda glad I didn’t have to go to the theater to watch it because I would have requested a refund.
(Side note: am I doing to get in trouble for admitting that I illegally download movies from the Internet? I sure hope not.)
The movie was really disappointing, and not nearly as funny as all the reviews implied it would be. I thought I was going to watch a movie about women going wild in the ultimate night of bachelorette debauchery – I wanted to see antics that would rival the male counterparts of Hangover (and since Bridesmaids was promoted as the female Hangover I think my expectations were not far out of line.)
Instead, Bridesmaids is bogged down by the far-too-exploited storyline that seems to infiltrate every female movie these days: women competing with one another. In this case, women competing for the love of the bride.
(SPOILER ALERT)
This is the basic storyline: Bride ignores BFF for glitzy new friend. New Friend sticks her foot in everything. BFF is butt-hurt. BFF fights with Bride. BFF fights with New Friend. BFF and Bride eventually make up. Wedding goes off without a hitch. It was exhausting to watch grown women act like teenagers. Considering that this movie was written by women I wanted to see the adventures of empowered chicks grab life by the balls and go all out. It seems that in Hollywood all women ever want to do is compete with one another over every little thing, and when they can’t get their way they’ll sit and pout and lament the sad state of their life. WAH-WAH.
Melissa McCarthy should have been the star of the Bridesmaids.
The biggest mistake the writers made was not utilizing the excellent comedic talent that was available to them – Wendi McLendon-Covey and Melissa McCarthy (left) were both very underutilized, shining in only a few scenes but offering the biggest laughs in the movie (especially McCarthy, who I’m predicting will have a fruitful career in comedy.) Jon Hamm was also excellent in his role as an a-hole friend with benefits…if Bridesmaids had taken the story to the actual bachelorette party, Hamm would have made a great male stripper. The man knows how to express his body and his face.
In the end, Bridesmaids is strictly a DVD rental or illegal download movie. Which, I think, are the only ways to watch it at this point as it is already out of the theaters (I think?) Timing is not really my thing. | {
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Walk Holidays Sweden
The Scandinavian country of Sweden is made up of thousands of attractive coastal islands and lakes, and is known for its picturesque forests and snowy mountains. Many of its cities are coastal, from the vibrant capital of Stockholm to the laid-back towns of Gothenburg and Malmö. Throughout the country, you can find many cultural attractions, medieval towns and museums, alongside stunning scenery and a host of activities to keep everyone entertained. | {
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With government help, Rhode Island company plans to buy, refurbish Baltimore County low-income apartment complex
WOODS WORK:
December 17, 1990|By Larry Carson | Larry Carson,Evening Sun Staff
The mice have taken over the Lake in the Woods apartment complex in Lansdowne, some residents say. The creatures come and go at will, as does the cold air under ill-fitting steel doors and sewage that backs up into basement units, the residents say.
It's an old story, one that has put the 18-year-old, run-down complex on local television newscasts and in newspaper stories before.
Now, however, the situation may be changing.
With federal approval imminent, and lots of help from Baltimore County and state governments, a complicated series of loans is expected to enable a Rhode Island company to buy and refurbish the 303 units and build a new 4,000-square-foot community building, while keeping the low-income tenants for which the complex was built in 1972.
The $17.8 million deal includes $2.1 million in state money and $550,000 in county block grant funds provided by the federal government. Local and federal officials said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will approve the deal soon.
The arrangement would guarantee the units for low-income people for the next 30 years. It also would allow the Landex Corp. to buy and rebuild the 23-building garden apartment complex from the rutted, pot-holed parking lots to the broken windows, doors and rotting stairwells.
Another $4 million loan was made possible by guarantees from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and $6.8 million is to come from private investment. Landex also is to assume the $4 million still outstanding in debt. Interest and rents are to provide another $300,000.
A special feature in the agreement is the creation of a non-profit tenants' association, which would own 5 percent of the project. The arrangement is to allow the tenants to buy the complex and convert it to a co-op after 15 years. The new Circle Terrace Tenant Association also is to be active participants in managing the complex, according to the agreements, which call for security guards and social workers to keep the place from deteriorating again.
The prospect is exciting for Lynn Silver, a 36-year-old mother of three who is leading tenants in working on the conversion.
Complex roadways are so bad she has had extensive front-end damage to her car just from riding in and out, she said. She pays $465 a month for her two-bedroom unit and sleeps on the living room couch to give her kids the two bedrooms.
"We've been fighting . . . for 16 years, said Theresa Lowery, president of the Greater Bloomfield, Riverview, Lansdowne Improvement Association and an activist in the area. "They were allowed to build that [Lake in the Woods] at the very minimum standards."
Built around the watery remnants of one of the old quarries in southwestern Baltimore County, Lake in the Woods is located between the city line and the Harbor Tunnel Thruway intersection with the Beltway, just north of Hollins Ferry Road.
Leslie M. Pittler, director of Baltimore County's Department of Community Development, said the renovation deal is important because the complex otherwise likely would have been condemned, putting out hundreds of low income families.
"This [development] was in the most deplorable condition of any I've seen in four years, and it's getting worse every day," he said.
He credited the county's pressure through its new rental housing code, and efforts by the state and federal governments, Rep. Helen D. Bentley, R-2nd, and the private purchaser with bringing the renovation plans to fruition.
"It's gone down a lot," said Kim Satchell, 23, who has lived in the complex since she was 9. Now she has a 21-month-old daughter and an apartment of her own.
The steady decline in maintenance and the resulting physical deterioration has brought in a rougher element of people and only worsened conditions, she said.
Mice scamper in and out of her third-floor apartment through holes behind the gas stove and cracks in the door, she said. A gusty December wind blew in around the ill-fitting door as she talked. The open stairwells are adorned with graffiti. Trash is sometimes heaved over the fence around the nearby lake instead of being thrown into big green receptacles on the parking lots.
About 80 of the units, mostly basement ones, are empty, their windows boarded. The county has cited the complex for about 400 fire-code violations and more than 2,000 housing code violations since 1989, county officials said. In March, the county put up seven families in local motels after sewage backed up into their units.
County police COPE (Citizen Oriented Police Enforcement) officers have spent hundreds of hours trying to help tenants root out drug dealers and other undesirables.
Community Development officials began talking about some long-range solution to the problems in early 1989 and have been working for about a year to get federal approval for the complex financing arrangement.
Landex Corp., the buyer, has experience in the field, having refurbished the Kingsley Park Apartments in Essex. A delegation of Lansdowne residents inspected that job and came away pleased, Theresa Lowery said.
"If they do one-quarter of the job they did at Kingsley Park," she said, "it will be great." | {
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Video premiere: Shaggy & Sahara – Champagne
You’ve seen photos of the video shoot, you’ve seen a short teaser, but you didn’t get to hear the song or watch the video… until now. Here it finally is: the long awaited for video for Shaggy & Sahara (Costi Ionita and Andrea) – Champagne! It’s time to pop bottles & enjoy the brand new video!
Video info
The video premiered this morning on Libertatea. It was filmed last year in Bulgaria, and actual work on the set lasted about 48 hours (view photos of the video shoot here). The editing was done by the Doctor’s team at Costi Ionita’s studio. The Champagne single will be launched for a first phase in 20 countries, including Romania, France, Germany, USA, Japan and Italy. | {
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Issues Concerning Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual and other Sexual Minorities Africa
We started off as GayUganda...., but time changes all....
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Post Election Day
I am bored. By all this election furore.
Was it the last election when the Monitor radio signal was blocked, and the website taken off air, for announcing results which were significantly different from the 'official' ones? Well, this election, Kampala feels like a city under siege, with combat troops on every street corner, guns ready. Actually, I was through the city. It was closed. Literally. People expected violence, which did not materialise. Praise the deities.
The media houses are disciplined. Of course, we are fearing to text things like Mubarak, Egypt, and people power. We are all glued to the TVs and radio stations, which are confidently declaring the same narative. The return of the incumbent. Sweeping wins by the ruling party. The President is winning with more than 70% of the vote. The city is in virtual lockdown with troops on every street corner. The ruling party is on course to take a 3/4 constitution changing majority in parliament.
Now, I am a rebel. I do rebel at such control. And, I am taking this one shot at daring to do what is 'forbidden'. Of course, the short text below is not going to come from my phone, since it would be interecepted. And, I might spend the night in prison. FYI, my neighbour, the one who went to the police to testify to an incident of ballot box stuffing (well, he saw the incident, someone stuffing the box for the candidate for the ruling party), the dude ended up staying the night as a guest of the state. And, he is still there. Poor dude. The police do have their orders!
So, my short text. Of innocent words.
Remember Egypt. Remember Mubarak. At the last election in Egypt, then President Mubarak swept the polls with 83% of the vote. What a fantastic achievement.
With that, I end my political commentary. ---------
I love real experimentation at democracy. That system of governance which tries to take into account the will of the people. Of course, democracy, like any ideal, can be corrupted. Remember the referendums in Saddam's Iraq, when he used to win more than 99.9% of the votes? Wonderful, wasnt it?
What I was actually talking about is that the will of the people, and the wishes of the individual, especially the minority, may contrast and clash. Here is a compromise that happened in the US.
The issue was what the 'conscience' of a person may allow them to do, and not to do. The Bush administration thought that conscience is so important that people should be allowed their right to conscience. To discriminate.
I know. I am wary of such reasoning. Because, even my own sister will not come to my celebration of 10 years in love with my man. Her conscience does not allow her.
Put such a thing into the law- as the Bush administration did, and funny things can happen.
After two years of struggling to balance the rights of patients against the beliefs of health-care workers, the Obama administration on Friday finally rescinded most of a federal regulation designed to protect those who refuse to provide care they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds.
The decision guts one of President George W. Bush's most controversial legacies: a rule that was widely interpreted as shielding workers who refuse to participate in a range of medical services, such as providing birth control pills, caring for gay men with AIDS and performing in-vitro fertilization for lesbians or single women.
Friday's move was seen as an important step in countering that trend, which in recent years had led pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for the emergency contraceptive Plan B, doctors in California to reject a lesbian's request for infertility treatment, and an ambulance driver in Chicago to turn away a woman who needed transportation for an abortion.
"Without the rescission of this regulation, we would see tremendous discrimination against patients based on their behavior and based just on who they are," said Susan Berke Fogel of the National Health Law Program, an advocacy group based in the District. "We would see real people suffer, and more women could die."
The new rule leaves intact only long-standing "conscience" protections for doctors and nurses who do not want to perform abortions or sterilizations. It also retains the process for allowing health workers whose rights are violated to file complaints.
Gosh. That thing makes me cringe. I mean, I am a member of a minority that is despised. In Uganda, you just have to look at images of Pastor Dr. Martin Ssempa spitting in disgust at the mention of us poo poo eaters, for you to understand what that is about. People hate us, just because we are so.
Someone, anonymous, but most likely Ugandan, commented on this blog that they would dare to 'hurt a gay' person because they hate us. That is what the conscience of a mainstream Christian in Uganda tells them. What of denying me a life saving service, because in their conscience, I am a sinner not worth saving? I cringe.
Yes, democracy is good. But, take the huge pinch of salt. Democracy has to be balanced by a robust bill of individual rights. Else us minorities have no place in the world of the majority.
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There are some small things which we can consider as huge things. In the personal sphere. You know that Uganda, way back in 1995 enacted a constitutional ammendment banning gay marriage? Well, we were the very first country in the world to do so, using the ruling party's then overwhelming majority in the parliament.
Well. I have been with my partner for ten years.... Yes, I have! And, we are gay. In Uganda. LOL.
Anyway, our relationship cannot be nothing but private. Too dangerous to publish it- but, kuchus know us. And, sometimes, I am embarassed when a friend of ours who is not kuchu finally finds out and they are like, What?! Hey, we cannot go around saying that we are gay, and partners, okay?
Now, we are on facebook. LOL....! And, apparently, I can now say that I am a 'Civil union'. You see, according to the laws of Uganda, we can have a 'common law marriage' after six months, I believe..... Oh, no... it is forbidden by the constitution because we are of the same sex..... LOL.
But, facebook, king of the online world, has gracefully extended acknowledgement of my marital status. So, I am going ahead to update it... Just now!
Now, when you log on to Facebook and edit your profile, you will see "In a civil union" and "In a domestic partnership" on the list of relationship statuses. The president of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Jarrett Barrios, wrote in a statement, which was noted in a CNN editorial, "By acknowledging the relationships of countless loving and committed same-sex couples in the U.S. and abroad, Facebook has set a new standard of inclusion for social media."
I have been there. And, apparently the change has not been effected as yet. Dont worry, Mr Facebook. I am willing to wait a little bit more....! As long as you do it, thanks!
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Sigh.... Seems I cannot dodge news and speculation of David Kato on the net. OK. I do have to walk through it. But, you know, like an ache that you sometimes wish you could maybe let go, for some little time? Sorry brother, it still hurts. But, maybe it should. Reminds me that I am human. When I am cut, I hurt.
But, when I think of you forced to shake Martin 'eat da poo poo' Ssempa's hand for the media, I swear I remind myself of my resolve never, ever to do such a thing. For Ssempa. Buturo. Bahati. Male. Never.
But, wise men say never say never. But, NEVER. No. the dudes hate me. For Bahati, I would just have to say that I am a gay person. He would loathe that. For Ssempa, maybe I would spit in my hand first, before giving it to him....
OK. I do get that, maybe our campaign was maybe too pushy? Hell, it was my life on line. Thanks dudes, from outside the country, for pushing that hard for me. I did ask you to push your governments. You did push, and we were lucky, it was stalled. you answered our desperation. Thanks for that.
I will end my surf here. Have been warned of being over garrulous, even when necessary.
Have a lovely weekend.
I dont know whether people here will dare go out in Kampala. Yesterday, they were too scared. I feel like partying, but that needs people to accompany it!
It is beyond imagination what is happening in Uganda.I am amazed how this country is run by incapable ignorant politicians full of bigotry and hatred.I saw the documentary about gay in Uganda and i was shocked.I am shocked that this guy Martin Ssemba has the nerve to call himself a "pastor" and show some sick videos about what is supposed to be "gay sex".I can show him thousands of videos like this of heterosexual people doing EXACTLY the same thing.I don't know any homosexual who does the things he portrayed in his videos.It was just part of his propaganda.His mission of hate.The fact that they are using religion to justify their hatred is even more disturbing.As if homosexuality is the ONLY sin in the bible.What about premarital sex?which is in fact one the biggest sins in the bible.Nobody talks about it.When it comes to heterosexual sin...all i can hear is SILENCE.Apparently it is OK to have a girlfriend which will of course result in premarital sex.Why don't they sign a law to forbid it also and sent to life in prison all those heterosexuals who have premarital sex?Also those who are using condoms and any kind of protection in order to have sex but NOT reproduce any children.They should also put to death,right?But somehow they always make it appear OK to justify their own sins and this is truly SICK.This hypocrisy has to stop right now.Besides,not everyone must believe in the bible.People have the choice not to believe those fairy tales of the bible and just choose to be atheists or Buddhists. What is also disturbing is the fact that they can not distinguish between homosexuality and pederasty.They say that a gay agenda exists and that homosexuals recruit young boys.How sick and wrong is that?There is not such thing.Apparently there was an Ugandan king named Mwanga who would kill every boy that wouldn't have sex with him and he is their projection of homosexuality.What about heterosexual rapists and pederasts?Does it mean that all heterosexual people are like this?Why would all homosexuals be like this anyway?What is the problem of 2 men loving each other?Love is a wonderful thing and they just want to destroy it.I think Martin Sseba,David Bahati and the owner of rolling stones newspaper put themselves into great danger for acting like this.I am very sure that these 3 people will be sooner or later assassinated.Why would gay people spent their lives in prison or get the death penalty while being innocent?Assassinating them will at least put them in prison as criminals while having achieved something good.I think those people have made their bed and now they will have to sleep in it.I'm sure soon or later they will fear for their lives.All the humiliation and hatred they caused to innocent homosexuals will come back to them for sure and i hope God will show no mercy on them. | {
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The big news for me is that I became a Grandma. Welcome to Aleta Marie.
I wanted to pass on this Holiday greeting from our friend and fellow woodcarver, Anom and his family.
Grapes and Leaves Graduate Martha did a stunning job. She has already started her second project, an ash mallet. The difference between the woods is like night and day. Basswood is soft and almost creamy in texture when cut with sharp tools. The ash is a ring porous wood that is tough and stringy.
Every year Doug has been carving his wife a three dimensional wood Christmas card. This year it was influenced by their vacation to Japan.
Robyn is finally happy with her Bear carving. It took a couple of tries and she was not smiling when she first started carving the bear in what turned out to be a rather punky piece of sugar pine. After ditching the pine she got some Redwood which, although hard to carve, turned out really great. The Redwood had pretty open growth rings and was dry so she is on coat # 12 of Watco and he is still sucking it up.
Good Job Amelia! The raised letters on this complicated character were extremely difficult to carve.
Amelia's little sister Katherina joined us and carved a fish and then added the most glorious colors.
Sarah came to get some help with her woodcarving. She is an artist and taught herself to carve. She has a great eye and is totally fearless but was frustrated with some of her results. We worked together and she got through most of the steps of the Grapes and Leaves project. I was so pleased that she felt like she learned a lot from the project. Hopefully she will get to join us again but it is a long trip from Alaska.
Maize is starting her third project. This one is a Book Box. The cover and spine are out of Butternut and the "pages" are out of Basswood. The pieces are all cut and there is a rather complicated series of steps to glue all the pieces together. Some pieces have glue and some don't in order for the box to work. Thank goodness Maize is a bright and attentive woodcarver because she caught me right before I was going to glue the wrong piece.
Randall finished his dog portrait out of Cypress. The grain does a nice thing over the back and haunches.
This was a repair job I did last month. The carving was from Brazil and a piece broke off and they didn't have the piece. The top left shows where the damage was and the piece missing. The top right shows the edge and the reason that it broke. The carving was from one piece of wood and the light area was the sap wood. The sapwood had beetle damage. From the surface there was only a couple of tiny holes but the edge shows the channels that the bugs chewed. That was probably the reason the piece broke there. The bottom two pictures show the repair. I used butternut to try and match the color and texture of the wood, although it is softer than the original wood. The patch and seam show on the back but I was able to match the design and wood burning pretty closely on the front. I am hoping that with aging the color will get more yellow and darker and will be even closer than it is now. Conor finished another tiny critter. Carved, painted and wood burned basswood. | {
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In this subtle and beautiful documentary portrait, first time feature film director Aboozar Amini captures the everyday lives of 12-year old Afshin and his younger brother Benjamin alongside bus driver Abas. The three subjects of this subtle portrait of Kabul take us on a journey of their daily lives where war is omnipresent. Amini’s gentle camerawork gives us time to witness the intricacies of life in Kabul where dust appears as a main “character” in the film. Kabul, City in the Wind unfolds via intimate direct interviews with the subjects and observations of daily routines: in between the markets and helicopters buzzing, Abas’s bus keeps breaking down and Afshin becomes head of the household when their father, a former soldier, unexpectedly has to go to Iran. Kabul, a city that is mostly known for war and death, is presented lovingly as home for those who strive for a better tomorrow.
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Trauma & Addiction in Kabul
Kabul, City in the Wind is an intimate and heartbreaking look at families affected by war and trauma in Kabul. We will take time after the film to process and discuss our impressions and responses with a series of guests and experts who have lived experience within a trauma informed lens.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Workman Arts would like to acknowledge the Indigenous land on which we are presently
located; Toronto comes from the Kanien’kéha word Tkaronto, which can be translated as “where the trees meet
the water.” It is part of traditional territories of many nations: the Huron Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and
the Anishinaabe and the Mississaugas of the New Credit.
Workman Arts recognizes this is an ongoing dialogue; we attempt to honour the histories
of this land by sharing our space with all people—those Indigenous to Turtle Island and those from all over
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About Me
Author and speaker Sheryle Cruse’s passion has been toward encouraging and empowering both young girls and women to come to a personal relationship with Christ and live their lives free from the damage of their life experiences. This is most recently displayed in her Christian self-help book on eating disorders, Thin Enough: My Spiritual Journey Through the Living Death of an Eating Disorder. Released by New Hope Publishers, it is a personal journey from “glory to glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18) for Sheryle, as well as a spiritual war cry to girls and women everywhere to rise in Christ, no matter what disorder, obstacle or argument tries to come against them. Sheryle Cruse currently lives in Minnesota with her husband, Russell, writing and speaking on the recovery process. | {
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Organiser Trish Burchall said: “The money is to go towards the care he needs to get him on the road to recovery, whatever it may be. It could be used to help the family or Sean. It is just there so they don’t have to worry as it could be a long road ahead.
“We were pleased with the amount of people there. Sean’s mum and sister came too. It was a very emotional night, even the singer broke down at one point.It was a really good night and we were really grateful for the money raised.”
The cause of the former Dorcan Technology College student’s injuries remains a mystery as he has not regained consciousness, although it is not thought he was attacked. He had no travel insurance and it was costing up to £1,000 a day to keep him in intensive care in a Mumbai hospital. His family and friends launched a fundraising campaign to bring him home and Sean flew back on a private charter earlier this month. | {
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Election at public employees union centered on debate over Dem primaries
The official running for the second-ranking position of the national public employees union wants to increase the number of primary challengers for Democrats moving against labor’s agenda.
“I hope it would happen more, because unfortunately over the last year we have seen a darker side of our friends who have not stood up for principles that labor has espoused for years,” Danny Donohue told The Hill in an interview.
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Donohue is running for secretary-treasurer at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. AFSCME members next week will elect a new secretary-treasurer at their national convention in Boston.
Donohue now serves as president of AFSCME’s largest affiliate union, the 265,000 member-strong New York State Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA).
“To see Democrats acting more like conservative Republicans, it is not even laughable, it’s sad,” Donohue said.
Donohue’s candidacy is backed by the current AFSCME No. 2, Bill Lucy. His competition is Lee Saunders, the executive assistant to AFSCME President Gerry McEntee. Saunders has his boss’s full support.
The election has huge implications for the future of the union and labor’s ongoing political strategy.
The winner could be the next president of the powerful union, as McEntee’s term expires in 2012.
AFSCME has said it plans to spend about $50 million on political operations for the 2010 midterm elections, making it one of labor’s biggest players during this campaign. The effort is being spurred by McEntee, who heads the AFL-CIO’s political committee, where he helps direct the labor federation’s political endorsements and campaign money across the country.
Donohue wants to focus the labor group more on what is going on outside of the nation’s capital. He’d make all resources available to state councils and local unions, which could reduce the role of AFSCME, a traditional and strong ally of Democrats, in federal politics.
“My perspective is as a rank-and-file leader. While Washington politics is important, it can’t supersede support for those who are fighting against layoffs, privatization and trying to protect their communities from anti-government forces regardless of the political party they represent,” Donohue said.
Donohue, a self-declared Democrat, has spent decades in the union. The Brooklyn-born labor leader was working as an attendant at a psychiatric center when he became the facility’s local union president in 1975. He climbed the union hierarchy and was first elected CSEA’s president in 1994.
He said he wants to reach out to Republicans, now among unions’ biggest detractors. To find labor’s friends in the GOP, Donohue said, union officials should build relationships with Republican politicians while they are serving in the state legislature before they jump up to House member or senator.
“We have to work from the grassroots level to begin with. When you get those Republicans early on and work with them right from the beginning, that helps,” Donohue said. “They might not always agree with you, but at least they will understand you.”
Donohue noted CSEA has endorsed Republican lawmakers in the past, including ex-Gov. George Pataki (R).
In a statement, Saunders said AFSCME shouldn’t support incumbents who don’t support labor, but that unions must keep their focus on helping Democrats control the House and Senate.
Donohue said it was right for labor to support a primary challenge to Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), who ended up winning a tight runoff race last month. It was vital for unions to send a message to Democrats backing away from labor’s agenda that union support cannot be taken for granted, he said.
Other legislative priorities for labor have fallen by the wayside as well, despite Democrats controlling both houses of Congress and the White House. A government-run insurance program, known as “the public option,” was not included in the final healthcare reform bill, while legislation that would make union organizing much easier has stalled in the Senate.
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In this Oracle tutorial , we can create an auto increment field using ‘sequence’
object that can be assigned as primary keys.
Using Oracle ‘sequence’ object, you can generate new values for a column.
An Oracle sequence is an object like a table or a stored procedure.
Examples
CREATE SEQUENCE SYSTEM.MYSEQ
START WITH 1
MAXVALUE 999999999999999999999999999
MINVALUE 1
NOCYCLE
CACHE 20
NOORDER;
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TR_CITY BEFORE INSERT ON CITY FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN SELECT LPAD(LTRIM(RTRIM(TO_CHAR(myseq.NEXTVAL))),10,'0') INTO :NEW.id FROM DUAL;
END;
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This is a very common SQL Server Interview Question. There are several ways of finding the nth highest salary.
By the end of this video, we will be able to answer all the following questions as well.
How to find nth highest salary in SQL Server using a Sub-Query
How to find nth highest salary in SQL Server using a CTE
How to find the 2nd, 3rd or 15th highest salary
Let's use the following Employees table for this demo
Use the following script to create Employees table
Create table Employees
(
ID int primary key identity,
FirstName nvarchar(50),
LastName nvarchar(50),
Gender nvarchar(50),
Salary int
)
GO
Insert into Employees values ('Ben', 'Hoskins', 'Male', 70000)
Insert into Employees values ('Mark', 'Hastings', 'Male', 60000)
Insert into Employees values ('Steve', 'Pound', 'Male', 45000)
Insert into Employees values ('Ben', 'Hoskins', 'Male', 70000)
Insert into Employees values ('Philip', 'Hastings', 'Male', 45000)
Insert into Employees values ('Mary', 'Lambeth', 'Female', 30000)
Insert into Employees values ('Valarie', 'Vikings', 'Female', 35000)
Insert into Employees values ('John', 'Stanmore', 'Male', 80000)
GO
To find the highest salary it is straight forward. We can simply use the Max() function as shown below.
Select Max(Salary) from Employees
To get the second highest salary use a sub query along with Max() function as shown below.
Select Max(Salary) from Employees where Salary [ (Select Max(Salary) from Employees)
To find nth highest salary using Sub-Query
SELECT TOP 1 SALARY
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP N SALARY
FROM EMPLOYEES
ORDER BY SALARY DESC
) RESULT
ORDER BY SALARY
To find nth highest salary using CTE
WITH RESULT AS
(
SELECT SALARY,
DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY SALARY DESC) AS DENSERANK
FROM EMPLOYEES
)
SELECT TOP 1 SALARY
FROM RESULT
WHERE DENSERANK = N
To find 2nd highest salary we can use any of the above queries. Simple replace N with 2.
Similarly, to find 3rd highest salary, simple replace N with 3.
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WITH RESULT AS
(
SELECT SALARY,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY SALARY DESC) AS ROWNUMBER
FROM EMPLOYEES
)
SELECT SALARY
FROM RESULT
WHERE ROWNUMBER = 3
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In this video we will discuss sequence object in SQL Server.
Sequence object
Introduced in SQL Server 2012
Generates sequence of numeric values in an ascending or descending order
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Creating the Incrementing Sequence : The following code create a Sequence object that starts with 1 and increments by 1
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
AS INT
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
Generating the Next Sequence Value : Now we have a sequence object created. To generate the sequence value use NEXT VALUE FOR clause
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR [dbo].[SequenceObject]
Output : 1
Every time you execute the above query the sequence value will be incremented by 1. I executed the above query 5 times, so the current sequence value is 5.
Retrieving the current sequence value : If you want to see what the current Sequence value before generating the next, use sys.sequences
SELECT *
FROM sys.sequences
WHERE name = 'SequenceObject'
Alter the Sequence object to reset the sequence value :
ALTER SEQUENCE [SequenceObject]
RESTART WITH 1
Select the next sequence value to make sure the value starts from 1
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR [dbo].[SequenceObject]
Using sequence value in an INSERT query :
CREATE TABLE Employees
(
Id INT PRIMARY KEY,
Name NVARCHAR(50),
Gender NVARCHAR(10)
)
-- Generate and insert Sequence values
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'Ben', 'Male')
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'Sara', 'Female')
-- Select the data from the table
SELECT * FROM Employees
Creating the decrementing Sequence : The following code create a Sequence object that starts with 100 and decrements by 1
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
AS INT
START WITH 100
INCREMENT BY -1
Specifying MIN and MAX values for the sequence : Use the MINVALUE and MAXVALUE arguments to specify the MIN and MAX values respectively.
Step 1 : Create the Sequence object
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
START WITH 100
INCREMENT BY 10
MINVALUE 100
MAXVALUE 150
Step 2 : Retrieve the next sequence value. The sequence value starts at 100. Every time we call NEXT VALUE, the value will be incremented by 10.
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR [dbo].[SequenceObject]
If you call NEXT VALUE, when the value reaches 150 (MAXVALUE), you will get the following error
The sequence object 'SequenceObject' has reached its minimum or maximum value. Restart the sequence object to allow new values to be generated.
Recycling Sequence values : When the sequence object has reached it's maximum value, and if you want to restart from the minimum value, set CYCLE option
ALTER SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
INCREMENT BY 10
MINVALUE 100
MAXVALUE 150
CYCLE
At this point, whe the sequence object has reached it's maximum value, and if you ask for the NEXT VALUE, sequence object starts from the minimum value again which in this case is 100.
To improve performance, the Sequence object values can be cached using the CACHE option. When the values are cached they are read from the memory instead of from the disk, which improves the performance. When the cache option is specified you can also specify the size of th cache , that is the number of values to cache.
The following example, creates the sequence object with 10 values cached. When the 11th value is requested, the next 10 values will be cached again.
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
CACHE 10
Using SQL Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) to create the sequence object :
1. Expand the database folder
2. Expand Programmability folder
3. Right click on Sequences folder
4. Select New Sequence
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In this video we will discuss the difference between SEQUENCE and IDENTITY in SQL Server
This is continuation to Part 134. Please watch Part 134 from SQL Server tutorial before proceeding.
Sequence object is similar to the Identity property, in the sense that it generates sequence of numeric values in an ascending order just like the identity property. However there are several differences between the 2 which we will discuss in this video.
Identity property is a table column property meaning it is tied to the table, where as the sequence is a user-defined database object and is not tied to any specific table meaning it's value can be shared by multiple tables.
Example : Identity property tied to the Id column of the Employees table.
CREATE TABLE Employees
(
Id INT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1),
Name NVARCHAR(50),
Gender NVARCHAR(10)
)
Example : Sequence object not tied to any specific table
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
AS INT
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
This means the above sequence object can be used with any table.
Example : Sharing sequence object value with multiple tables.
Step 1 : Create Customers and Users tables
CREATE TABLE Customers
(
Id INT PRIMARY KEY,
Name NVARCHAR(50),
Gender NVARCHAR(10)
)
GO
CREATE TABLE Users
(
Id INT PRIMARY KEY,
Name NVARCHAR(50),
Gender NVARCHAR(10)
)
GO
Step 2 : Insert 2 rows into Customers table and 3 rows into Users table. Notice the same sequence object is generating the ID values for both the tables.
INSERT INTO Customers VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'Ben', 'Male')
INSERT INTO Customers VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'Sara', 'Female')
INSERT INTO Users VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'Tom', 'Male')
INSERT INTO Users VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'Pam', 'Female')
INSERT INTO Users VALUES (NEXT VALUE for [dbo].[SequenceObject], 'David', 'Male')
GO
Step 3 : Query the tables
SELECT * FROM Customers
SELECT * FROM Users
GO
Output : Notice the same sequence object has generated the values for ID columns in both the tables
To generate the next identity value, a row has to be inserted into the table, where as with sequence object there is no need to insert a row into the table to generate the next sequence value. You can use NEXT VALUE FOR clause to generate the next sequence value.
Example : Generating Identity value by inserting a row into the table
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES ('Todd', 'Male')
Example : Generating the next sequence value using NEXT VALUE FOR clause.
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR [dbo].[SequenceObject]
Maximum value for the identity property cannot be specified. The maximum value will be the maximum value of the correspoding column data type. With the sequence object you can use the MAXVALUE option to specify the maximum value. If the MAXVALUE option is not specified for the sequence object, then the maximum value will be the maximum value of it's data type.
Example : Specifying maximum value for the sequence object using the MAXVALUE option
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
MAXVALUE 5
CYCLE option of the Sequence object can be used to specify whether the sequence should restart automatically when the max value (for incrementing sequence object) or min value (for decrementing sequence object) is reached, where as with the Identity property we don't have any such option to automatically restart the identity values.
Example : Specifying the CYCLE option of the Sequence object, so the sequence will restart automatically when the max value is exceeded
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[SequenceObject]
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
MINVALUE 1
MAXVALUE 5
CYCLE
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In this video we will discuss the difference between rows and range in SQL Server. This is continuation to Part 116. Please watch Part 116 from SQL Server tutorial before proceeding.
Let us understand the difference with an example. We will use the following Employees table in this demo.
SQL Script to create the Employees table
Create Table Employees
(
Id int primary key,
Name nvarchar(50),
Salary int
)
Go
Insert Into Employees Values (1, 'Mark', 1000)
Insert Into Employees Values (2, 'John', 2000)
Insert Into Employees Values (3, 'Pam', 3000)
Insert Into Employees Values (4, 'Sara', 4000)
Insert Into Employees Values (5, 'Todd', 5000)
Go
Calculate the running total of Salary and display it against every employee row
The following query calculates the running total. We have not specified an explicit value for ROWS or RANGE clause.
SELECT Name, Salary,
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary) AS RunningTotal
FROM Employees
So the above query is using the default value which is
RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW
This means the above query can be re-written using an explicit value for ROWS or RANGE clause as shown below.
SELECT Name, Salary,
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary
RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS RunningTotal
FROM Employees
We can also achieve the same result, by replacing RANGE with ROWS
SELECT Name, Salary,
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary
ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS RunningTotal
FROM Employees
What is the difference between ROWS and RANGE
To understand the difference we need some duplicate values for the Salary column in the Employees table.
Execute the following UPDATE script to introduce duplicate values in the Salary column
Update Employees set Salary = 1000 where Id = 2
Update Employees set Salary = 3000 where Id = 4
Go
Now execute the following query. Notice that we get the running total as expected.
SELECT Name, Salary,
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary
ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS RunningTotal
FROM Employees
The following query uses RANGE instead of ROWS
SELECT Name, Salary,
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary
RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS RunningTotal
FROM Employees
Notice we don't get the running total as expected.
So, the main difference between ROWS and RANGE is in the way duplicate rows are treated. ROWS treat duplicates as distinct values, where as RANGE treats them as a single entity.
All together side by side. The following query shows how running total changes
1. When no value is specified for ROWS or RANGE clause
2. When RANGE clause is used explicitly with it's default value
3. When ROWS clause is used instead of RANGE clause
SELECT Name, Salary,
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary) AS [Default],
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS [Range],
SUM(Salary) OVER(ORDER BY Salary ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS [Rows]
FROM Employees
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In this tutorial I will explain how to fetch auto increment value to textbox from database in c#.
I have created form Registration where User will enter his details like name,address etc.the userid will be generated automatically. i have created table with Userid column made it as identity
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The Remove Duplicates stage is a processing stage. It can have a single input link and a single output link.
The Remove Duplicates stage takes a single sorted data set as input, removes all duplicate rows, and writes the results to an output data set.
Removing duplicate records is a common way of cleansing a data set before you perform further processing. Two rows are considered duplicates if they are adjacent in the input data set and have identical values for the key column(s). A key column is any column you designate to be used in determining whether two rows are identical.
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Sunday, 15 December 2013
chicken patties
always remind me of the monsoon in pakistan. it is a memory of grey skies that
burst into heaving showers. the earth would release trapped heat, allowing it
to waft up in warm steam laced with the smell of earth. in one of the houses where
we lived, i had a monsteria plant outside my window. during the monsoon it
would grow threefold, its large waxy green leaves balancing fat raindrops. i
have a memory of a weekend, in which i am curled up on my beanbag, reading
fiction. as the breeze cooled, baba opened the doors and windows, and the house
came alive with the sound of rain. you could feel the warm air moving out on a
cooler current. reshma’s husky voice serenaded the breeze.
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
do you have days when your efforts in the kitchen go awry? when recipes that should work fail? well, that is what i experienced in the fortnight of baking for the great food blogger cookie swap. i was keen on sub-continental khatai, a wonderful snow white biscuit that dissolves in the mouth like fine sand under the feet on a beach. i have memories of eating these with late afternoon tea at my phoopi’s house in lahore. the batch that i made was a variation on the traditional khatai as they had a fair bit of gram flour. they tasted lovely and were much appreciated by colleagues at work, friends and family but the recipe proved to be tricky. the second try involved ghraybeh, a shortbread like lebanese biscuit that echoed the feel of khatai, gently scented with orange blossom. once again the recipe i used failed me because the consistency of the dough did not match the description.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
the last of autumn is fast receding. the trees are nearly bare, an erect frame of bark and branch. on sunny days, the light has been silver bright and the air so cold that it almost hurts to breathe. this is the season for soups and i am partial to those that clarify the senses, expanding the ability to breathe deeply and fully. such soups are aromatic and bright with ingredients like chillies, ginger and coriander.
the easiest way to make such soups is to start with a spice paste. the one i am sharing with you today has become a staple at thirty-two. i always have a jar of it in the fridge (and a little in reserve in the freezer). it is an amalgam of my favourite aromatics and spices.
Monday, 21 October 2013
at the tail end of the summer vacation mama would take my sibling and i shopping for the new school year. there were books to be bought and uniforms too. the most exciting element was buying a lunch box. the one that stands out in my memory was baby pink with a large picture of minnie mouse on the front. m had a turtle green one with a scene from ninja turtles. inside the lunchbox was a rectangular lidded box to hold lunch and a thermos for water or juice.
my fascination for school lunches was limited to the lunch box.
m and i always had a packed school lunch. very often it would a jam sandwich made with buttered slices of soft white bread. sometimes there would be aloo tikki (potato cutlet) or shami kebab (beef kebab) sandwiches with a smidgen of ketchup. mama was careful about the architecture of the sandwich, balancing the moisture content to keep the bread from disintegrating. she spared us fried egg sandwiches or ‘unda paratha’ (fried egg rolled in a flaky griddle fried flatbread) that were curiously popular with children whose parents were in the army. i had zero tolerance for the smell of eggs and grease and spent the better half of secondary school trying to distance myself from two classmates who perpetually smelled of the combination.
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
o has taken to teasing me about my jam making. he says given a chance, i will make jam out of everything. i am a small batch preserver and ironically he is the one who eats it in copious amounts, stirred through yoghurt or spread on buttered toast.
it was not always like this.
mama has been making jam since i was a little girl. every time someone travels back and forth between islamabad and london, i receive a jar or two of jam carefully swathed with duct tape and wrapped in plastic to prevent accidents in transit. over the last two years (and depending on seasons) i have received bottles of strawberry jam laced with gulkand (rose petal preserve) or boiled with red wine, mulberry with orange zest and in winter, my favourite; a thick cut kinoo marmalade with an easy consistency. when i would run out bonne maman would reappear on the kitchen counter.
Friday, 4 October 2013
i missed this. a pool of bronzed oil, chicken with slightly crisp, caramelised edges and a lacquer of tomato along with the bright heat of fresh green chilli. a really good chicken karahi must be all these elements and must be accompanied by fluffy and soft white naans. the naans should be thick enough to allow their edges to be prised open to a thinner layer. this exposes the dough like centre that becomes a sponge for the spiced oil and masala.
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
london has its public houses, italy its trattorias, paris its bistrots and greece its tavernas. the tavernas are where you should go for mezedes (small plates), grilled meats, seafood and ouzo. whatever you do, never forgo the greek salad. you should ask for it for the tomatoes alone. they are intensely sweet and juicy, tasting of sunshine and freshness.
our first meal in athens was rather mediocre given o’s insistence on eating a gyro in the heart of the plaka. i used it strategically to allow me to take charge of choosing where to eat, leaving him to navigate for the rest of the trip. that division of labour (along with some excellent recommendations from m and culinary backstreets) meant that we ate very well. in fact, it allowed athens to join the league of paris and turin, the two other cities where we had outstanding food.
Friday, 27 September 2013
i have always wanted the recipe for these delicately spiced little koftas. they are a departure from the traditional pakistani ones that are usually simmered in gravy. they are very much my mama’s recipe, partly drawn from a norwegian cookbook as well as being inspired by auntie y’s teatime entertaining who made something similar. i do not remember auntie y’s koftas but have a vivid memory of her person. she had a petite frame and was the essence of femininity and grace. her signature fragrance was motia especially in the long months of summer when she would weave a gajra into her long hair or wear individual jasmine flowers in her ears. perhaps that is unsurprising given that her name is the persian variant from which ‘jasmine’ is derived.
Thursday, 26 September 2013
this brown sugar labne with roasted peaches recipe has been a steadfast favourite this summer. it is infinitely adaptable because you can pair it with pretty much any fruit that takes well to roasting. incidentally, the first time i made it was when aunty m and her brother came to thirty-two for dinner. she is the editor-in-chief of hello! pakistan and had been asking and encouraging me to write a recipe for the magazine. the original recipe featured muscovado sugar which was adapted to brown sugar or shakkar. i believe that the charm of a recipe lies in using local ingredients. shakkar is an unrefined sugar made from sugarcane and has a caramel depth like that of muscovado. i grew up eating it rubbed into roti hot from the griddle with plenty of butter. it is also used to make ‘gurr wallay chawal’, a light treacle coloured sweet rice fragranced with cardamom.
i would like to thank the very talented shu han lee author of the beautiful mummy, i can cook food blog for her food-styling and photography and to hello! pakistan for printing the recipe. the recipe is reproduced here with permission from the magazine and appears in the september twenty-fourteen print version.
Saturday, 14 September 2013
sometimes on weekends baba would make tamatar ki chutney (tomato chutney). he would fry roughly chopped tomatoes in a karahi in a free pour of oil till they reduced to the consistency of a jam. we would eat it straight from the frying pan with its rim of saffron coloured oil, scooping it with tandoori roti that either mama or m would have bought from rana market. baba always garnished it with fine rounds of fresh green chilli. in june last year he made it for us on a hot, sticky sunday. he decorated it with hard boiled eggs, the yolks of which were rimmed light blue as he likes very hard boiled ones, along with the fresh green chillies.
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
when it comes to cake making, some
vegetables are self-conscious. the courgette for instance has a proclivity to
immerse itself leaving only softness and moisture as its imprints. but then
there are root vegetables like beetroot and carrots that are not cowed. they
give cakes an earthiness and are not shy of spices like ginger, cinnamon and
nutmeg.
i have always loved carrots. the pakistani
carrot is terracotta orange. i would often eat them raw when mama or my dadi
would slice rounds to add to a mixed vegetable bhujia. when i was six i
discovered gajar ka murabba, a candy sweet condiment of thin carrot batons
gently simmered in a simple syrup infused with whole green cardamoms. the sugar would permeate the membranes and
make the carrots limp. this condiment is preserved in a memory as the flavour
of a carrot caramel. i helped myself to one too many and felt quite poorly
afterward. perhaps this is what explains their absence in my life after that
brief encounter in my phoopi’s kitchen.
Thursday, 1 August 2013
i am delighted to have written a guest post for dishoom, a bombay café in london. it would be fair to say that it is a steadfast favourite for o and i. i am particularly partial to their egg naan rolls. they are a genius combination of perfectly fried eggs anointed with chilli jam and cream cheese encased in a soft pillowy naan and a little spring onion for freshness. today's post is not about breakfast or brunch though. it is about their special eid feast. i write from the memory of many eid's celebrated with family. now having settled in london i am still struck by the unity of eid customs across continents and cultures. and so i wrote, "i am always struck by the comforting unity of eid customs – the gathering of family, the new clothes, the giving of gifts, the generosity of spirit and of course, the plentiful food. the devotion with which families prepare each iftar feast, the care taken on each sumptuous dish for the tid table, the extra jalebi sneaked onto the plate however much you protest that you’re full – these are all tangible expressions of love."
Sunday, 21 July 2013
when i was in secondary school i had a classmate whose mother made exceptional brownies. they were gooey and fudgy with a thin, flaky epidermis several shades lighter than the deep brownness of what lay beneath. in fact they were my first real brownies and became the benchmark for all others in islamabad. no other brownies ever measured up to them and even my own attempts to recreate them at home failed miserably. in those years the closest i ever got to approximating auntie r’s brownies were through betty crocker’s brownie mix.
Saturday, 20 July 2013
in roman mythology vulcan is the god of fire. at number five in bani gala he has been reincarnated as a barbecue grill/smoker. his body is fashioned from a large steel barrel supported by a rectangular frame. his fire is contained in a little hatch fed by coal or wood. his name brandished in metal is proudly displayed on the lip of the curve of his upper body. in a jar beside him are tools that are capable of withstanding his wrath. they are used to retrieve large hunks of meat and poultry after they have been smoked or grilled.
vulcan was inspired by a combination of arizona living and the pakistani love for grilling. the yusuf family’s adventurous appetites led us to try mexican and american meats and we fell in love with long slow smoked brisket and ribs. barbecue in the land of red, white and blue is an extended affair. the southern states are famous for cooking tough cuts of meat over indirect heat usually a wood fire for a long while. in pakistan meat is generally grilled after being marinated which essentially helps tenderise the meat. it absorbs some of the smokiness of the grill but it is nowhere near the deep almost tobacco like smokiness of american barbecue. i have fond memories of baba’s barbecues on trips to murree. back then he used a rectangular grill with a mesh of diamond shapes as a platform for grilling chicken tikka and bite-sized pieces of beef.
Monday, 24 June 2013
i know. you are wondering why i am giving you a basic recipe for a cheese béchamel. the truth is, sometimes the simplest of things are the most memorable. there is childhood pleasure in this pale ivory sauce whose colour attains a little depth from flour toasted in butter. it recalls a particular tv dinner on a weeknight when mama would allow us to eat in front of the television. the programme that warranted this special treatment was top of the pops (totp), which was broadcast on a local private pakistani channel called ntm. before that the public broadcaster ptv maintained a monopoly that equalled to boredom.
Monday, 17 June 2013
when i was little toast was limited in my imagination to slices of either dawn or continental white bread. the toaster would bronze their whiteness. it would crisp the epidermis while allowing the centre to remain a little soft. one had to be careful to not exert pressure on the slice given its unsubstantial thickness because unlike in england one could not get thick sliced bread in pakistan. brown bread made an appearance in the late 90s and was largely ersatz, merely coloured wheaten.
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
there are some things in life that one is not prepared to feel emotional about like elections for instance. nonetheless this saturday both o and i woke up with a lump in our throats and a feeling of pride. eleventh may was the day that pakistan went to the polls in what was the first real election in my lifetime. pakistan has had elections before but never one in which one democratically elected government has been succeeded by another. up until now pakistan’s system of governance was a pendulum that swayed between the military and the political offspring of dictatorships. the terms of the latter were aborted by the military before they were able to complete them.
Sunday, 12 May 2013
winter has over extended its stay and in doing so has snatched spring of its element. a british winter is much like its summer. it has a variable temperament. its inconsistency is its chief characteristic. although not my favourite season, i have come to appreciate its turn. there is something charming in the bareness of the trees, mere sharp silhouettes of branch and trunk. a crisp cold morning with silvery sunlight marries well with a breakfast of warm cardamom buns and a milky latte.
but what i love most about winter are oranges. to me they are the fruit that promises change. their vibrant colour and freshness resists the often dull and grey tones of winter. their sharp, sweet and sometimes astringent nature is everything that winter is not.
Sunday, 31 March 2013
my dadi (paternal grandmother) is a formidable woman. as a child, her appetite for grisly stories intended to inculcate fearlessness in her grandchildren gave me nightmares. they were peppered with kidnappings and robberies by wadera’s and daku’s (vernacular for tribal chieftains and robbers). it did not help that my vivid imagination was easily supplemented by figures in dramas like kashkol and dasht. the latter was about the story of two lovers caught between personal enmities of warring tribes in balochistan. it was replete with burly men with butterfly moustaches bearing arms. the former was about a beggar cartel whose network was made up of kidnapped children. she was keen on us watching these with her. in addition she had grown up in an age when religion was synonymous with fearing god. and so i grew up hearing much about sinning, the afterlife and hell.
Friday, 29 March 2013
it’s wednesday. winter is dragging its feet. i have just finished evening classes on refugee law. tomorrow i have plans for a grand breakfast with my cake making and food loving friend t. i am thinking bloody marys and a stack of scotch pancakes at hawksmoor guildhall. but the winter season has other plans for me. the cold and cough that i have been pre-empting since last year has decided to make an appearance. i wake in the middle of the night to a familiar soreness that marks the onset of a cold.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
wednesday was in two minds, vacillating between bright sunshine and flurries of snow. from a window it looked like confetti. it reminded me of my aunt’s snow globe, a static scene of london encased in an arch of glass. shake the globe and it would snow. the little me thought snow was wondrous. even now snow retains some of that sense of wonder but only when i am warm and watching it through a window. o and i took the canonbury river walk one weekend when london was blanketed with white. on our way there we stopped in highbury fields and attempted to make a snowman. that was in january and now it is march. it should be spring.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
marmalade is a curiously british obsession. it is a preserve of much beauty with lengths of citrus peel suspended in amber tones of orange or jewel tones of green when using limes. at verde and co a line up of marmalade jars lit from behind summons a warm luminosity that is substantial enough to brighten a cold and dull winter day. at the close of the year the tidal wave of christmas and new year recipes are replaced by marmalade. they coincide with the appearance of blood and seville oranges at farmers markets and in shops. despite its inherent britishness marmalade draws its origins from the portuguese preserve ‘marmelada’ which was made with quince. the tradition goes back some two thousand years. it is to the scots that we owe marmalade as we know it now as they pioneered the switch from quince to seville oranges. by the nineteenth century british companies like robertson’s and frank cooper’s were producing marmalade commercially. frank cooper’s marmalade has a rather distinguished pedigree. it was favoured by sir edmund hilary who carried it when he scaled mount everest. the fictional james bond has it for breakfast with jersey butter.
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
hummus appeared in my family’s kitchen in the early 90’s. baba brought the taste back from his travels around the middle east. i should ask mama where she got the recipe, for this is before the time that the world wide web became part and parcel of our daily existence. in london baba would take us to beirut express. their hummus has an assertive tahini character and is finished with a pool of olive oil , chopped flat leaf parsley and some whole chickpeas. hummus has become ubiquitous. it has global allure and everyone seems to be eating it. the brit’s will even eat it in sandwiches or wraps for office lunches. it crops up with crudities at parties and cocktail receptions. the real problem though is that most of this hummus comes from little plastic tubs from supermarkets and tastes awful. my home-made version is rich in tahini and will find itself adorned with herbs and spices like cumin, sumac or zaatar.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
brown butter. i call it crack for bakers. every so often the baking blogosphere explodes into a new craze. brown butter is from sometime ago. right now it’s caramelised white chocolate. yes. i’ve got it on my list too. but in the meantime these brown butter blondies will do. i’ve had blondies on my list of things to bake but personally i’ve never seen the appeal in them. i mean when one can eat a brownie then why settle for something sans the chocolate. a blondie is just a brownie bereft of the chocolate. but brown butter is a whole other ball game.
Sunday, 24 February 2013
i have had pomegranate molasses on my mind. it is essentially pomegranate juice reduced to viscous syrup and is the beloved of middle eastern and mediterranean cuisine. it is sharp, sweet and sour at once and its assertive character makes it a wonderful partner for meats, root vegetables and squash. i love making butternut puree with tahini and garlic adding a swirl of pomegranate molasses and olive oil to finish it. it calms the sweetness of the butternut. when i make a batch of these sweet potato falafel i smear a pomegranate molasses whipped greek yoghurt on the insides of the pita pocket before tucking in the falafel. it is good for breakfast too – think a sliced banana and a drizzle of pomegranate molasses on greek yoghurt.
i did not know what to expect of marrakech but my first and lasting memory of it will be as the city of contrasts. it is a city that necessitates new understandings of how to move and how to deal with people. the centre of the medina (old town) is djemma al-fna. the square is the hub from which the city extends outwards into a maze of alleys. some of these end abruptly whilst others twist into a labyrinthine like maze leading to the souks. one competes with the tide of humanity, motorcycles, horse carriages, donkey carts and the monkey and snake charmers. the women here ride as precariously as the men. i am amazed at the ease with which the people especially women and children navigate. there is no concern even when a motorcycle is within a hairs breath. there is only a dogged determination to get to where they are going. walking is precarious, an activity that engages alertness and the faculties of sound, sight and reflex. and here is the contrast for in all this noise and chaos one can step into a sanctuary like the ben youssef madrassa or jardin majorelle or even in the privacy of a riad and have no sense of the chaos outside.
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
in my mind making fudge has always been synonymous with the soft ball test. this mama said was the way to check the fudge for readiness. she would keep a glass of cold water next to the stove. on the stove the mixture of sugar and cream would make its displeasure at being heated and reduced felt. angry boils marked the surface bursting to a residue of steam. the hiss and sputter was audible. there is a curious comfort to the sound of sugar fury.
Saturday, 9 February 2013
i am in my kindergarten years. on our way home from school we stop at the tandoor in the local bazaar to get roti for lunch. it is searing hot and i am seated on a ledge peering into the tandoor. the heat rises in a constant wave. it distorts the image of what is seen through it. our local tandoor is an assembly of a few men – one who kneads the dough, another who shapes the peras (rounds of dough) and rolls them. the last in line is the tandoor-wallah who stretches it and slaps it onto what resembles a small rectangular but hard pillow. in swift motion he lowers his hand into the tandoor and transfers the dough to the wall. the hollow furnace cooks the dough in under a minute. it gives the roti or naan angry blisters in some places. every order is wrapped in newspaper and the very tall stacks are topped with another piece for easier carriage. i could never resist the temptation of stealing a thick crust of hot roti on our way home. even now when i visit pakistan mama and i will get roghni naan from the tandoor and eat some on the way home.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
have you ever looked up vanilla in the dictionary? its adjective element is described as ‘having no special or extra features; ordinary’. now consider this – a slim crème anglaise that softens a bittersweet terrine, crème patissière piped into profiteroles, a soft set custard gently flecked with an abundance of black vanilla seeds and classic desserts like crème brûlée and caramel custard. they would be bereft sans vanilla.
Friday, 18 January 2013
the trouble with christmas is that it leaves an abundance of sweet things in its wake. there are boxes of chocolates tucked into drawers, biscuits languishing in the biscuit tin and homemade christmas cake. there was also leftover marzipan that needed to be dealt with. a little short of new years eve i had some friends coming over for tea so i decided to turn the left over marzipan into ottolenghi’s krantz cake. the recipe that appears in jerusalem is beautifully illustrated – a plait of dough that reveals an interior of chocolate and pecans. i reworked the recipe by replacing the chocolate and nut mixture with my homemade marzipan and plenty of orange peel. the sugar syrup was replaced with honey and orange blossom to give it a glossy finish.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
there are some vegetables whose ‘keeping’ qualities make them residents of my vegetable drawer for longer than necessary. red cabbage is one of them. its outer coat may begin to loose its glossiness after a couple of days but one can always peel back the layers to a skin of firm shininess. i always have one of these ‘keepers’ in my drawer for mid-week suppers. most often they are the ones that inspire creativity.
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
late last year in writing about malala yousafzai, kamila shamsie used the words of pakistani writer nadeem aslam "pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. but no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave." those words resounded in my head through out january tenth and after when a series of bombs in quetta targeting the shia community left ninety-three dead and many others injured.
it appears that mine is a nation where resilience is punished with brutality.
i wonder whether humanity has extinguished itself in pakistan. at the end of twenty-twelve i had only one wish that pakistan may begin to turn a chapter (for the better). but barely two weeks into the year and the killing continues unabated with a brazenness that defies humanity and imagination.
Friday, 11 January 2013
perfect exists in plural. it can be yours, mine or ours. my husband would describe it as a gemini whose singular element is composed of many selves. it could be a perfect day, a moment, a taste or even a memory. the twenty twelve winter solstice was perfect. it was a warmer than usual day with sunshine so crisp and light so sharp the world appeared as a precise cut-out. the blue of the sky in transition from the longest night to day graduated from ink to cobalt to pale-silver blue. it was a friday and i started the day with bridget’s asana practice. breakfast was a fitzroy bun from honey and co. a clever combination of middle eastern flavours – mahleb (marzipan of cherry kernels), pistachios and sour cherries rolled into a brioche like dough that had been generously brushed with syrup. it was baklava-esque. i finished with a milky latte.
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
this past christmas was all
about edible gifts. they were inspired by m and m’s gifts to us two years
running. in twenty-eleven m gave us a bottle of rosemary infused olive oil from
her grand father’s olive groves. it was grassy in colour with a strong aroma
and sharp taste. along with it came a jar of homemade muffin mix. m had layered
the ingredients and then added a christmas tag with handwritten instructions.
on christmas twenty-twelve we got bee wilson’s consider the fork along with a
bottle of homemade mulled wine syrup. these were such perfect ideas for food
lovers that it got me inspired to make some of my own. some of these were for
londoners and others were bubble wrapped for international carriage.
it is christmas eve and we are gathered around babcia and daddy’s dining table in lahore. there is crisp linen on the table and the pretty china that is usually resident in the glass fronted cabinets has been laid out for dinner. our first course is always barszcz. this eastern european staple is a traditional polish first course for christmas eve dinner. babcia ladles the soup and passes it around the table. sometimes she will finish it with a squiggle of cream that is edged a vivid crimson where it meets the soup. warm dinner rolls in the shape of a knot are served on the side.
this last year i rediscovered my love for baking. it is something i grew up doing in mama’s kitchen. i have many happy childhood memories of measuring ingredients in cups, cracking eggs into mixing bowls and holding the beater to cream butter and sugar, whip cream and transform egg whites into stiff peaks for meringues. it was mama who taught me how to make my own buttermilk to add to scones and how to sift flour without making a mess. the action of tapping the sifter against the base of the palm never ceases to make me feel like i am seven and standing over a mixing bowl in mama’s kitchen.
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
the
season of indulgence has come to an end. both o and i are suffering from the
ill effects of excess. thirty-two is still heaving with chocolates, cake,
marzipan and cheese but all i have been craving is a soup of simple constitution
with some cleansing elements like astringent ginger and fresh chilli that
flushes the skin and breathes openness into the nostrils. this recipe is culled
from a combination of nigel slater’s but is deeply rooted in what i think is
the most comforting pakistani food – dhal. it is a gentle yellow bolstered by
turmeric and finished with a spoonful of crème fraiche with roughly chopped
chilli and chive. i also included some olive oil croutons made from two
languishing and very stale slices of poilâne country loaf. the oven crisped
them to sharp crunch. large bowls of soup with a couple of episodes of modern
family were the perfect way to end the festive season. and in o’s case it
helped tide over a rather unforgiving hangover.
alan
yau’s newest addition to london’s casual dining scene is a bangkok style café
in islington. his signature style is evident in the modern and sleek dining
space accentuated by terraced golden bodhisattva’s. the menu here is based on
bangkok style street food and that element of the street is fashioned through
an open plan kitchen and bar. the air is heady with spice and the cacophony of
human conversation as it rises above the theatre of cooking sounds - hissing
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Since the dawn of civilisation, mankind has been obsessed by the possibility that it will one day be extinguished. The impact of an asteroid on earth and the spectre of nuclear holocaust are the most prevalent millenarian fears of our age. But some scientists are increasingly of the view that a new nightmare must be added to the list. Their concern is that intelligent computers will eventually develop minds of their own and destroy the human race.
The latest warning comes from Professor Stephen Hawking, the renowned astrophysicist. He told an interviewer this week that artificial intelligence could “outsmart us all” and that there is a “near certainty” of technological catastrophe. Most non-experts will dismiss his claims as a fantasy rooted in science fiction. But the pace of progress in artificial intelligence, or AI, means policy makers should already be considering the social consequences.
The idea that machines might one day be capable of thinking like people has been loosely discussed since the dawn of computing in the 1950s. The huge amount of cash being poured into AI research by US technology companies, together with the exponential growth in computer power, means startling predictions are now being made.
According to a recent survey, half the world’s AI experts believe human-level machine intelligence will be achieved by 2040 and 90 per cent say it will arrive by 2075. Several AI experts talk about the possibility that the human brain will eventually be “reverse engineered.” Some prominent tech leaders, meanwhile, warn that the consequences are unpredictable. Elon Musk, the pioneer of electric cars and private space flight at Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has argued that advanced computer technology is “potentially more dangerous than nukes”.
Western governments should be taking the ethical implications of the development of AI seriously. One concern is that nearly all the research being conducted in this field is privately undertaken by US-based technology companies. Google has made some of the most ambitious investments, ranging from its work on quantum computing through to its purchase this year of British AI start-up Deep Mind. But although Google set up an ethics panel following the Deep Mind acquisition, outsiders have no idea what the company is doing – nor how much resource goes into controlling the technology rather than developing it as fast as possible. As these technologies develop, lack of public oversight may become a concern.
That said, the risk that computers might one day pose a challenge to humanity should be put in perspective. Scientists may not be able to say with certainty when, or if, machines will match or outperform mankind.
But before the world gets to that point, the drawing together of both human and computer intelligence will almost certainly help to tackle pressing problems that cannot otherwise be solved. The growing ability of computers to crunch enormous quantities of data, for example, will play a huge role in helping humanity tackle climate change and disease over the next few decades. It would be folly to arrest the development of computer technology now – and forgo those benefits – because of risks that lie much further in the future.
There is every reason to be optimistic about AI research. There is no evidence that scientists will struggle to control computers, even at their most advanced stage. But this is a sector in which pioneers must tread carefully – and with their eyes open to the enduring ability of science to surprise us. | {
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Wow – Alex has a very dark role! It must have been hard to play this part.
It’s 1926 when we first meet Cecil, age 8, one afternoon in the cotton fields of Macon, Georgia. Within minutes, his mother (Mariah Carey) is raped by a white plantation owner (Alex Pettyfer), who then shoots the boy’s father (David Banner) in the middle of the forehead. Upset by her son’s murdering ways, which the law will overlook, Annabeth Westfall (Vanessa Redgrave) decides to make it up to Cecil: “I’m gonna teach you how to be a house nigger.”
The fact that those other characters are played by a constellation of big stars keeps The Butler entertaining, at least, as it cruises through history like a visit to Disney’s Hall of Presidents. We start with Cecil on the sharecropper farm where he worked as a child, and where the petulant young owner (Alex Pettyfer, perfectly cast) rapes Cecil’s mother (Mariah Carey) and murders his father without a second look. The owner’s kindly mother (Vanessa Redgrave) trains Cecil to work inside the house and soon he’s packed his bags off to the city, where a bartender (Clarence Williams III) trains him, a fancy D.C. hotel hires him, and soon Cecil’s been scouted to join the kitchen staff at the White House. | {
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Ministerial Policy Statements set out the performance and plans of Spending Agencies, linking them with their policy objectives. Ministers present these statements to Parliament following the presentation of the Budget by the Minister of Finance. These statements are used by Parliament to assess sector (Spending Agency) performance. This role of Parliament is provided for under Section 6 (1) of the Budget Act (2001).
They summarise the past performance of the sector and the plans for future expenditure and activities. They outline anticipated sectoral challenges and strategies to overcome them. They also present: planned outputs and the costing; final work plans; cash plans; and staffing structure and procurement plans of the sector. | {
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Playing "Moneyball" on EA FIFA 16
by Ary Bressane
Playing "Moneyball" on EA FIFA 16
I'm an EA FIFA enthusiast. More than that, I’ve played since 1994. Last year, I was talking with a friend about the game and he asked me if I was playing Career Mode. My first answer was: "That is boring ... I want to play the real game and not play as a manager". From that day, he decided to convince me to play Career Mode, and started asking me almost everyday. After few weeks I decided to give it a try. I selected Barcelona, played few seasons (simulating all the games), did some trades and I won La Liga and the Champions League.
Next day, I explain to him about my experience and he said that La Liga is actually too easy and I should try the English Premier League (EPL). That night I used the same approach, but now with Chelsea. Again, after some trades, I won the EPL and the Champions League. In the next day I told him, proudly, that the EPL was also too easy and he said that if I wanted a challenge I should play with a team from the second division. I answer saying I would select a team from the third division. Then he said, "You should play with a team from the fourth division ... actually you should play with Portsmouth."
I had a Barney Stinson moment and said ... "win the EPL with Portsmouth" ... challenge accepted.
Update: the result of the challenge I presented last year at the MTL Data meetup. In this blog post, I described my new challenge with FIFA 16: "Win the Champions League with Accrington Stanley".
Initial Strategy
Winning the Champions League is not hard, you just need the right team. I was pretty confident that with the following team I could win any championship.
However, when I selected the Accrington Stanley, right away I understood the challenge: the budget. In my two recent experiences I played with Barcelona (initial budget 100,000,000 euros) and Chelsea (initial budget 85,000,000 euros). But, Accrington Stanley's initial budget is 500,000 euros (which means, 200 times less than Barcelona's budget). For clarity, here is the distribution of initial budgets for all the 583 teams in the game.
At that time I realized I was facing the "Moneyball problem". In the "Moneyball" movie there is a scene where the Billy Beane says to the scouters: "The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's fifty feet of cr*p, and then there's us. It's an unfair game".
I knew that in order to build a team I would need to scout "cheap" players. I had to scout young players with big potential (thinking on the long term) and unknown players from smaller leagues (for the short term).
I can say that I know football a bit. I follow the main leagues, competitions and players. However, how could I get familiar with smaller leagues and unknown players? I needed a data driven approach.
Dataset
Searching the web I was able to find some interesting website with stats on EA FIFA. However, the numbers are usually slightly different from one site to another. My first task was to collect, normalize and aggregate all these datasets.
As a result of the data aggregation, I ended up with a dataset with almost 12,000 players. The final dataset has more than 50 columns including:
Potential: a number from 0-100 as the overall rating that player can achieve in his career
Exploratory Data Analysis
My objective was to find players with a good overall rating and specially good potential. I started my analysis by performing some exploratory data analysis to understand what are the factors that influence a player’s overall rating and potential.
Skill information
Initially I was looking in the 28 skill metrics, however, quickly I notice that the 6 general skill metrics are an aggregation on the 28. For example, in the following image, we can see Neymar's skill information. The numbers in green/yellow/red are actual numbers that quantifies his skill in each criteria. The advantage of the aggregation is the fact that simplifies the analysis and the usage in the game because instead of tracking many numbers, I just needed to track six.
To validate the aggregation, I used a regression to understand the weight of each metric. The result is the number in black next to each skill. For example, the “Dribbling” score is a combination of Agility (10%), Balance (5%), Reactions (5%), Ball Control (30%) and Dribbling (50%). Interesting to notice that I didn't round the number, the weights are actually pretty round numbers.
The results from the regression analysis gave me a useful insight. Just by looking the weights, if I was interested in a player with good Dribbling skill, the metrics “Balance” and “Reactions” are not as relevant as “Ball Control” and “Dribbling”. This helped me to find players based on abilities and to train specific skills.
Relevant skill by position
Another interesting exploration was the relevance of the aggregation metrics per position. In the game, each position requires specific skills. The following table presents the importance distribution. For example, good CAM (Centre Attack Midfielder) needs excellent passing skills, good dribbling and shooting, however, pace, defense and physicality are not in fact relevant.
This analysis also helped me to focus in the relevant numbers and quickly spot the skills I should look for in a player per position.
Prediction
After the exploratory analysis, my next question was to discover how the video game calculates the overall score and potential.
Overall Score
Based on the previous results, it was clear that the predictions would depend on the position. I applied three different algorithms to predict the overall rating. Here the MAE (mean absolute error) and the RMSE (root mean square error) for the combination of position (CB, LB, RB, CDM, CM, LM, RM, CAM, LW, RW, ST), algorithm (Gradient Boosting, Linear Regression, Random Forest) and metrics used (age + 6 aggregated skills, age + 28 skills). The following charts show the errors (in unities of overall score) based on a cross validation for each combination.
From the results, I could observe that Linear Regression works better than the other two algorithms. I think this could make sense because probably EA decided for a simpler approach that gave an interesting result. Also, the calculation using the 28 skill metrics results in a smaller error than the 6 aggregated. In terms of positions, the bigger errors are for CM (Centre Midfielder), LW (Left Wing) and RW (Right Wing). This is consistent because the players in these three positions have a more diverse skill sets. For example, a CM need to help at the defense and to attack and the LW/RW are a mix of midfielders, wingers, and forwards. To analyze the error we have to keep in mind the variation on the overall score because of the aggregation on datasets.
Potential
The prediction of the potential is the most important question in the context of the game. I used the same approach, using cross validation with the same set algorithms and features. The results (presented below) show that the average error for all the positions is between 1.0 and 1.5 units of score. That was exactly what I needed. This error is low enough to give me a very good idea about player's potential.
Because the potential is not a descriptive metric as the overall score, the Gradient Boosting and the Random Forest presented better results than the Linear Regression in most of the cases. Anyhow, for the final implementation I used Ensemble methods to combine the three algorithms.
Back to the game
With the insights from the exploratory data analysis and the machine learning models for predictions, I went back to the game to test them. Here three scenarios where I used the data driven approach.
Scenario 1: Buy the "right" player
During my manager career with Accrington Stanley I was able to find good players that fitted the budget. The values on EA FIFA are hard to analyze because they vary a lot based on the player's position, team, league, age, overall rating and amount of time on the field. Just as an illustration, here some numbers. On the left the super team that I mentioned earlier and on the right my team formation that played the Champions League Final.
These numbers are from when you start a new career.
The formation on the right illustrates the "Moneyball" concept. The players start with a medium score (mean 73.6), a low price (mean 10.5 M) and a average delta of 13.4 (the delta is the difference between the potential and the current overall score). However, the players have a very good predict potential (mean 87.0) which is really close the to mean potential of the team on the left (89.5).
Also, with the capacity to predict the potential and identify promising players, I was able to trade players with great delta but not a good final predict score. Here the top 3 players I traded during the seasons in terms of profit. Trading players was the best strategy to increase the amount of money available.
Scenario 2: Scout young players
After few seasons, the older players start to retire and the video game starts to generate new random players. I know Suarez is a very effective striker and Thiago Silva is a great centre back. However, how do we evaluate a random player? Here an example of two random players and their predicted potential based on the machine learning model.
The player on the left (Kyle Tissot) is a 17 years old RW (Right Wing). His current overall score is 62 and he has a potential of 71.88. On the right (Emery Gagnon-Lapare) a 18 years old CM (Centre Midfielder). He has a potential of 72.19.
Scenario 3: Players in the wrong position
Another interesting use case is the players in the wrong position. Based on the player's skills, I was able to evaluate if the position suggest by the video game was the most effective one. Let's consider the case of the player Kyle Tissot. As a RW his potential is 71.88, but, as we may recall from the table in the section "Relevant skill by position", a RW needs good dribbling skills. However, he has better passing skills than dribbling. In this case, his predict potential, for example, as CAM (Centre Attack Midfielder) is 75.52.
Final Result
The video game was a great experiment environment. Because it is a controlled universe, I was able to quickly test and refine my ideas. At the end of 5 seasons I won the Champions League with Accrington Stanley. Challenge completed! During all the seasons, I simulated all the games in the "World Class" level. | {
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Rebecca Kamm: Why are women bored of monogamy?
New studies show that women lose interest faster than men. Photo / Thinkstock
Question: How do you know if he'll cheat?
Answer: He's a man.
Oh, ha ha hzzzzzz. So much zzzzz.
Not only are the sweeping gender-alisations around monogamy and fidelity just too tired, they're also exaggerated. Men might be more likely to cheat, for example, but only at a pinch.
Studies show the (perceivably) wide margin is not only getting thinner by the day, but is actually nearing on nonexistent. Another "shocking" poll even found it was women who were more likely to be unfaithful.
Studies should be taken with a grain of salt, possibly. But at the very least, as psychologist Christopher Ryan said in a TED talk on human sexuality recently:
"We need to move beyond 'men are from Mars and women are from Venus'. The truth is that men are from Africa and women are from Africa."
Which flies in the face of everything women have had to gradually and miserably accept as "fact": that all men are "hard-wired" to sleep with as many women as possible, and die of sexual boredom with just one.
And that women, inversely, are hard-wired to cling to their mate forever.
Basically everything depressing and unfair you were ever told that ended up with "biological drive" as its explanation.
...women are far more likely to lose interest in sex with their partners. This doesn't necessarily translate into infidelity-a choice many reject because it's so hurtful-but, Bergner reports, spouse-weary women often just avoid sex altogether.
Bergner also cites a study that found women are more turned on by fantasies about sex with strangers than they are by fantasies about sex with friends. In another, he notes, it was found that women responded positively to novelty in porn.
The inference seems to be that wives are losing their desire for their husbands because they need the 'new'. Historically, this is a desire that's almost exclusively been associated with men.
Yet female loss of interest in sex within marriage is a well-documented phenomenon, as Bergner notes. "There's something that's stopping me from wanting it," one woman tells the New York Times writer. "I don't know what it is. I can't tell you what it is."
Hence the huge amount of money being spent on the development of a drug called "Lybrido" - which could be on the market as soon as 2016. A combination of testosterone as well as viagra, which targets the pleasure centres of the brain, it's this dual focus on the psychological and the physiological that's got the drug closer to success than any other female libido enhancer.
The Dutch firm behind the drug, Emotional Brain, hope it will restore women's lust when it wanes.
It's worth mentioning at this point that male boredom with monogamy has never been held up as a dilemma requiring specific repair. It's always just been "one of those things". Yet as soon it comes to the fore as a problem for women - or "as a female trait for men to endure" as Marcotte so succinctly puts it - there's a push for resolution. In this case, medical.
But that has a positive side. The likes of Lybrido could be hugely liberating for women, giving them the choice to simply "switch on" desire. Just as they were able to "switch off" their fertility when the pill arrived - prompting an iconic shift in female sexual freedom. As Bergner writes:
It played a part, as the '60s got under way, in propelling a host of profound changes, cultural as well as reproductive, societal as well as intimate - in how women saw themselves and lived their lives, starting with the notion of women being above all baby makers and mothers. | {
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They came for a season, they left and went where? Why did they go and who
went with them? So many questions about the migration of our ancestor's.
This page is home to Migration Projects across the state of Oregon. If your
ancestor either moved into or out of Oregon, and you know the county,
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Zora Neale Horston's short story teaches people that you dont always get what you see. People may look all dignified but really deep on the inside they may as wild and rugged as a bucking bronco. You have to accept them for the way they are even if they dont do everything you approve of. People are going to follow their hearts regardless of what the town is going to say. Like Janice and Tea Cake, even though people talked about them like they were crazy, they still went off and enjoyed their new life together. Janice was always known as Mrs. Mayor Starks but really she was a free spirit that needed to be let go. Noisy people of the town were not going to hold her back from her real love that she had found with tea Cake.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
im not really big on techie tools. i never had to use them until my 10th grade year, the class was pre-ap english 10 and there was so much to do in the class that work piled up. i had to find a way to get all the papers and such done. My teacher told the class we had to make gmail accounts and i had no idea what she was talking about. so after a few classes i got an account, then i learned that gmail is really cool and dependable. i can get my work done online and e-mail the assignment to my teacher. Check turned in on time..... saves me work to repeat if lost and saves lots of money on paper. Gmail is okay in my book thats why i choose gmail as my favorite techie tool. gmail has allowed me to access so much imformation on the web and at school. the work i do at school and do not complete, gmail allows me to finish at home. I had no idea gmail even was availible til this year and now i get on the gmail every week. Gmail allows me to: have web pages, have blogs, send messages, hold messages, and even save files. gmail is my most used techie tool because the gmail server is user friendly. i suggest that if you are having problems and searching for a way out like i was get a gmail account.
That's just school uses you can also chat on up with your friends and family too. Not like facebook and myspace but any connection with the world is better than none.
Lois lowry's The Giver is novel of many lesson the most important being : Never Take Memory for granted! the main character Jonas is a overacheiver/ normal boy. He live in a land were Sameness is the name of the game. Climate is controlled, genes are controlled, peoople are controlled, including the choices that are allowed to be made are all controlled by councilmen.
Memory is forgotten and no one knows of life from the past. The Giver is the holder of memory and wisdom, he is responsible for the fate of the community, and he helps Jonas learn that life can be so much more meaningful than he knows. Can you imagine holding so much knowledge and not being able to share the gift with anyone not even your closet friends and family? Holding pain in and not being able to medicate yourself? Jonas did everyday. He felt the community's pain because the people were to selfish to deal with the truth of life.
After many memories were transfered to Jonas the Giver helps Jonas to escape and free the memories to the world. People would be forced to deal with the truth and deal with choices thay gave up long ago. Hopefully the people would the powerful lesson: NEVER TAKE MEMORY FOR GRANTED!!! A long journey lays ahead for dear Jonas but the gift he has given the community will forever be remembered.
With only a bicycle and his little buddy, Jonas must treck to new lands. The ending of the novel is not clear, but if you choose to believe, Jonas has made his way to better times and new memmories of his own. | {
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Paper Flower Obsession - How to make paper Orchids - Tutorial and free printable from ellinée. (The white orchid would look especially lovely with some shimmer spray or perfect pearls to make it sparkle). | {
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Other College: Lau played her first two seasons at St. Francis University in New York. She was the team's leading scorer and rebounder both seasons, averaging more than 12 points and 6 rebounds per game. A Northeast Conference All-Conference selection in 2010, she was also named to the Northeast Conference All-Rookie Team and was named the Choice Hotels northeast Rookie of the Week twice.
High School: A four-time YAIAA First Team All-Star, Autumn is the all-time leader in points at Northeastern with 2,300 points. She was named YAIAA Player of the Year in 2008 and she was a four-time District 3 All-Star.
Personal: Daughter of Brian And Shelby Lau ... has one brother, Shawn, and a twin sister, Amber, who also plays basketball for Coker. | {
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High Energy Particle Physics
Superluminal Effect with Oscillating Neutrinos
A simple quantum relativistic model of muon-tau neutrino oscillations in the OPERA experiment is presented. This model suggests that the two components in the neutrino beam are separated in space. Being created in a meson decay, the muon neutrino emerges 18 meters ahead of the beam's center of energy, while the tau neutrino is behind. Both neutrinos have subluminal speeds, however the advanced start of the muon neutrino explains why it arrives in the detector 60 ns earlier than expected. Our model does violate the special-relativistic ban on superluminal signals. However, usual arguments about violation of causality in moving reference frames are not applicable here. The invalidity of standard special-relativistic arguments is related to the inevitable interaction-dependence of the boost operator, which implies that boost-transformed space-time coordinates of events with interacting particles do not obey linear and universal Lorentz formulas.
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There is a $500 flat rate travel fee for weddings more than 100 miles from San Diego, California.
ARE YOU WILLING TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE?
Yes. Except for the moon. Unless, of course, you've gotten in touch with NASA - then we're all game. We both have our passports and are ready to travel anywhere in the world to be there on your special day. We offer custom pricing for domestic & international elopements & destination weddings. | {
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6" Cast-Iron Insert Boot Adaptor
This adaptor adapts HomeSaver Pro and UltraPro liner to a RoundFlex cast-iron boot. Just the ticket for attaching Pro liner to inserts. Now comes with Band-Connect to attach to liner (not shown). Pictured inserted into Cast-Iron Boot. Does not include Cast Iron Insert Boot. | {
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