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As much as I'd like to think I have it all together as a wife & mother, I just don't. I really really don't. Being a work-at-home Mom really takes a toll on me sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love that I have the privilege to stay at home with my sweet babies during the day, but with that -- comes a pretty heavy burden. Mainly because some of the only times I get to work during the days are in the evenings or weekends, which takes me away from my family. And I don't like that. I like it when all 4 of us are together, but to be honest, that doesn't happen as much as I'd like it to.
I am so blessed to have a Husband that supports me passion for my business, and is supportive when I need to excuse myself from "family time" to take care of e-mails, editing, or phone consultations.
But I'm getting off topic.
Aside from the pressure I feel throughout the days with keeping my business afloat, is that honestly, raising two tiny tornado's is freaking hard. Not that my boys aren't amazing little creatures, but dealing with the ongoing tantrums, meltdowns, and clingy children is both physically exhausting and mentally draining -- to put it lightly.
So now that I'm done complaining, what I'm here to say is that we all need to refill our tanks, so to speak. What's in that tank, you ask? A whole lotta (or a little) "alone time." I know that for some of us, getting time to ourselves can be next to impossible. But it's something that as Mothers, we NEED. It's incredible what just an hour away from the house, alone, can do for us. It helps us to replenish when our mental state is in a craze after a long day alone with the
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We invite you to join the Cognitive Neuroscience Society at our 22nd Annual Meeting. CNS 2015 will be held in San Francisco on March 28-31, 2015 at the San Francisco Hyatt Regency. Explore the vibrant Embarcadero district from this famous San Francisco, California luxury waterfront hotel with dramatic architecture and Panoramic views. Its a perfect location whether your travel is for business or pleasure. We have a full schedule of events slated for this years meeting such as Invited Symposia, Mini Symposia, Poster Sessions and a Keynote speaker, as well as our George A. Miller Award winner, Distinguished Career Contributions Award winner and the Young Investigators Award winners. Speakers Include: Marta Kutas- Cognitive Electrophysiology Patricia Kuhl- Language and Brain Development Anjan Chatterjee- Art and Neuroscienceاطلاعات بیشتر
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Venezuela a Hotbed of Anti-Semitic Rantings by the Governing Elites
He has a quarrel with some guys, specifically with the "elite, made up of a group of Zionists who are determined to tyrannize mankind and whose ultimate goal is to create a 'New World Order' in which they will be the apex of the pyramid." Claiming to "be the chosen people of God" and "using the myth of the Holocaust," they think that they possess a "divine right to rule the earth," according to Pisani. These "Zionists" are behind everything: the government, of course; the IMF; the World Bank; the Bilderberg Club; and even the United Nations (you may wonder why they don't make better use of this potential).
However, the mean Jews gradually destroy the current system in order to erect a new one where they will have even bigger sticks. In order to prove his claims, the author asserts that they are based on the strictly scientific Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The only obstacles the Zionists face on their way to complete world domination are, by the way, some rebellious countries, well-known strongholds of freedom like Venezuela, Cuba, China, Iran, and North Korea. This clash of interests explains why the "Zionists" are at odds with these states. Sounds convincing, right? But how are the Jews going to reach their goal? Enter the super-virus. The diseases named above were artificially created (like AIDS which was spread in Africa through the polio vaccine, according to Pisani), but "everything indicates that these diseases are child's play compared with the final virus" the Zionists will use to "depopulate the earth." The author thinks that it is conceivable that the virus could be inoculated through "the products they monopolize" -- like "packaged food or toothpaste." So don't drink the Kool-Aid and don't brush your teeth.
Of course, there are loonies in every country. But in Chavez' Venezuela the hatred against Jews is endorsed by the government. "For the first time in recent history we see what I would call government sponsored anti-Semitism in a Western country," says Sammy Eppel, a Jewish activist in Venezuela. In his notorious Christmas speech in 2005, Chávez deplored that "the descendants of those who crucified Christ ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world." Last year he called Colombia the "Israel of Latin America." Police raids in Jewish schools foster a climate of fear and stigmatize Jews as the enemy of the "Bolivarian Revolution" -- especially those Jews who dare to oppose the government.
When Capriles Radonski, a popular politician of the opposition party "Primero Justicia" whose family are Holocaust survivors, ran for governor in the state of Miranda in November 2008, he became the target of vicious anti-Semitic attacks. Radonski was tagged as being a "member of the wealthy Jewish-Zionist bourgeoisie," a "villain" and "genetically a fascist."A redshirted Chavista mob led by the mayor of Miranda's capital city Los Teques attacked Radonski's house and painted swastikas on it. Anti-Semitic graffiti has become a common sight in Venezuela. But in spite of their frequently uttered hatred against Jews, Chavistas usually deny that there is any anti-Semitism in Venezuela. When a synagogue in Caracas was attacked and vandalized in January 2009, some journalists claimed that the Mossad was behind that attack.
This month, prior to the parliamentary elections and after Fidel Castro had condemned anti-Semitism, Hugo Chávez met with leaders of Venezuela's Jewish community. Afterwards he said that he "respected and loved" the Jews. However, he refused to restore diplomatic ties with Israel which he had severed in January 2009, and he doesn't plan to stop the anti-Semitic incitement.
If his power is endangered or if the economy continues its downturn (which is all but certain if the government maintains its current economic policies), Chávez may again step up his anti-Zionist rhetoric. The situation can escalate anytime. Under Chávez, violent crime has become endemic; the country has one of the highest homicide rates on the continent, and for a good reason: nobody trusts the police.
In conjunction with a highly polarized political climate -- Chavez regularly blames the opposition for alleged coup attempts and even mobilizes for war with Colombia -- and constant anti-Semitic incitement, this becomes a dangerous mix. Half of Venezuela's Jewish population has already left the country during the last decade. Those who have stayed will remain under siege as long as Chávez is in office.


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Last Saturday I was praying for good weather, but instead of the sun streaming through my shutters I awoke to grey ominous clouds.
I had H coming over for lunch, and had originally thought we could go for a little picnic but as the clouds where grey and full of rain we opted for the more sensible option and knocked up my quinoa salad at home.
This salad is super yummy and something that I cook on quite a regular bases as it is super easy.
Serves 2-3 people.
2 cups of quinoa
6 slices of chorizo
2 poached eggs
1 chunk of goats cheese
1 bunch of asparagus
First you want to cut up your chorizo into little bits, you want it to go really crispy, so when you go to the deli ask for it to be thinly sliced.
You could really swap it for any kind of meat (or omit it if your a veggie) but I love chorizo because the peppery taste adds a little bite and depth of flavour.
This dish is a bit of a juggling game, so at the same time your crisping your chorize you want to be cooking your quinoa.
To cook 2 cups of quinoa you will need 4 cups of water (or if your really fancy chicken stock). First rinse the quinoa with cool water for at least 2 mins, running your hand through it. Then bring your water to a rolling boil, add your quinoa then turn down heat, cover and cook for 15 mins. After 15 mins leave to stand then fluff with a fork.
As your quinoa is standing pop on your eggs. I'm super lucky as I just fry my eggs without any oil on top of the AGA, but if your cooking on/in a conventional oven then the healthiest thing to do is poach them.
As your eggs are cooking you want to steam your asparagus, I normally cut my asparagus but H taught me a nifty trick, take each spear and bend, by doing this the woody end will naturally snap off.


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ZURICH, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Cytos Biotechnology Ltd (SIX:CYTN) today announced the appointment of Matthias Alder as Executive Vice President for Corporate Development and Legal Affairs and Cheryl Lassen as Vice President for Clinical Development. Philipp Mueller, Executive Vice President Clinical Development, will retire at the end of March 2013.
"We welcome Matthias Alder and Cheryl Lassen to our team. They bring significant additional experience and leadership to Cytos, which we believe will be critical to shape and execute our CYT003 program and corporate strategy," commented Christian Itin, PhD, CEO and Chairman of Cytos, and continued: "We thank Philipp Mueller for his many contributions and in particular for his work on the CYT003 program in allergic asthma and rhinitis, which forms the basis and focus of Cytos today. We are very grateful that Philipp will continue to work with Cytos as a consultant and wish him all the best for his future."
Matthias Alder joins Cytos as Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Legal Affairs. He has more than 19 years' of business, transactional and legal experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President Administration, General Counsel and Secretary of Micromet, Inc., a formerly Nasdaq-listed biopharmaceutical company located in Rockville, MD and Munich, Germany that was acquired by Amgen in 2012 for US$1.2 billion in cash. Prior to joining Micromet, he was a partner in the Life Sciences Transactions Practice at Cooley LLP, a renowned technology and life sciences-focused US law firm, where he specialized in representing biotech companies in strategic transactions with pharmaceutical companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Alder was in-house counsel at Ciba-Geigy and Novartis. He holds law degrees from the University of Basel and the University of Miami (Florida), and is qualified to practice law in Switzerland and the United States.
Matthias Alder commented: "This is an exciting time to join Cytos. The company's lead program CYT003 has already achieved clinical proof of concept and the underlying product platform has multiple additional applications. I am looking forward to support building Cytos into one of the premier biotech companies in the vaccines and immunotherapy space."
Cheryl Lassen, MD, joins Cytos as Vice President Clinical Development, bringing a wealth of clinical development experience, with particular expertise in respiratory diseases. Dr. Lassen joins Cytos from Novartis where she was Program Leader for the global clinical development of the indacaterol program, a product since approved by the US FDA, EMA, Japan and many countries worldwide. In her 20 year career, she has worked on a multitude of clinical development programs and in medical affairs in the UK and in South Africa for companies including Bristol Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and Pharmacia. Dr. Lassen received her Medical Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and holds a Science degree in microbiology and physiology from the University of South Africa. She will lead the clinical development activities at Cytos.
Cheryl Lassen, MD, commented: "I am looking forward to leading the clinical development of CYT003, which is a first-in-class, unique immune modulator in development for the asthma indication. The clinical data from the Phase 2a study achieved its primary endpoint for asthma control and all other clinical endpoints were also met. This is an excellent basis to build the development program."
Philipp Mueller, MD, the current Executive Vice President Clinical Development will retire at the end of March 2013 and will continue to support the company as a consultant thereafter. Philipp joined in 2003 from Novartis and was responsible for all clinical development activities of Cytos during his tenure.
Philipp Mueller, MD, commented: "I am delighted to see the CYT003 project move from successful proof of concept to full development and would like to thank investigators and patients who participated in our studies, as well the teams at Cytos and external partner firms for their commitment and support."
About Cytos Biotechnology Ltd
Cytos is a public biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of targeted immuno-therapies. The Company's lead product candidate CYT003 is a first-in-class biologic in Phase 2 clinical development as a potential new treatment for allergic asthma.
CYT003 acts via a novel, allergen-independent mechanism of action to selectively suppress the body's immune response to allergens, a predominant risk factor for asthma. In a successfully completed Phase 2a study, CYT003 was shown to maintain asthma control and lung function and asthma control in patients with persistent allergic asthma, even as standard inhaled corticosteroid treatment was withdrawn. CYT003 has been shown to be safe in over 450 patients to date.
Cytos was founded in 1995 as a spinoff from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. It is located in Schlieren (Zurich), Switzerland. The Company is listed according to the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange Ltd under the symbol CYTN.
This foregoing press release may contain forward-looking statements that include words or phrases such as "are intended for", "are designed to", or other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of significant uncertainties, including scientific, business, economic and financial factors, and therefore actual results may differ significantly from those presented. There can be no assurance that any further therapeutic entities will enter clinical trials, that clinical trial results will be predictive for future results, that therapeutic entities will be the subject of filings for regulatory approval, that any drug candidates will receive marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or equivalent regulatory authorities, or that drugs will be marketed successfully. Against the background of these uncertainties readers should not rely on forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no responsibility to update forward-looking statements or adapt them to future events or developments.


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What to Really Expect When You Have Children
You're starting a family? Congrats are in order! So is this a rude awakening? Parenthood is expensive. From childcare to college savings, the cost of raising kids – especially in this day and age – is huge. But it's worth it! Those hugs, those kisses, those smiles… provide sweet satisfaction that you'll never be able to bank or buy.
Le sigh…Now here are stop tips you can really bank on.
Then Comes Baby In a... How Much is That Baby Carriage?!
Now that a baby is on your horizon, people are coming out of the woodwork to give you their two cents. It's all very well intended, but the truth of the matter is you will never be completely prepared for parenthood—kids are funny that way. All you can do is seize today to get your finances in order before your baby's googoo-ing and gaga-ing turns you into spend-spending mush. You should also bank some extra sleep while you can!
Step 1. Reassess your budget
Your lifestyle will go through more changes than your baby's diapers, both of which will require a total budget overhaul. Allow for extra daily expenses like daycare, diapers and clothing, plus monthly increases in medical coverage, housing costs (if you move) and college savings accounts.
Step 2. Don't let those non-essentials fool you!
New babies come with new things – lots of new things, including a crib, stroller, carrier, car seat, clothes and other essentials. And quite a few non-essentials, too. What they don't tell you when you're expecting is you really don't need half the stuff you think you do, not right now…if ever. Outsource larger one-time purchases to family and friends, take what's handed down to you and heed the advice of fellow parents who probably didn't need that baby wipe warmer either.
Step 3. Find your tribe
In addition to guarding yourself against non-essential purchases, take advantage of this awesome thing we have called 'the Internet'. It's bursting at the webs with discount retailers, coupons, blogs and opportunities to save big on your baby.
Step 4. Evaluate your back to work plan
Depending on your circumstances, one of you might decide to stay home from work to cut down on the cost of childcare. This is a huge decision that might benefit you in the short term but may harm you in the long term. Who knows? We're not talking about a one-size-fits-all onesie here; it's a financial issue that requires in-depth consideration from both partners.
Run the numbers to see what option makes the most sense for you financially
Decide what your work means to you emotionally
See what your employer is willing to do for you realistically, including flex-time, work-share, telecommuting, flexible spending accounts (FSA), and parental leave time
Step 5: Up your insurance
Kids are expensive once they get here; getting them here will cost you a pretty penny, too. That's why good medical coverage for you during pregnancy and delivery and for your baby after he or she gets here is essential. The importance of life insurance takes on new dimensions now, too. If you haven't already, buy a life insurance plan.
Step 6: Update your estate plan
Since we're on the topic of your mortality, you and your spouse would be wise to update your wills. No one likes to think about it, but it's your sacred responsibility to make sure your child is looked after should tragedy strike.
Step 7: Start saving for junior's education
Tuition costs in this country are staggering. Don't count on them toppling anytime soon. Now's a good time to set up a college fund and encourage family members to contribute to it. Here are a few ways to get started.
Step 8: Look on the tax incentive side
Freaked out yet? Here's a break for you. Four, to name a few. Raising children is rife with obvious rewards, and not so obvious ones, too, including:
Extra tax exemptions
The child tax credit
Child and dependent care credit (for qualifying child-care expenses)
The earned income credit (if your annual income is below a certain level)
5 Ways to Raise a Financially Responsible Kid
Kids like money. They like the touch of it, the sound of it…some even like the taste of it. What they love most of all is the stuff it can buy, stuff that doesn't always make sense, sometimes really weird stuff, but stuff they must have or else. Your job as a parent is teaching them that stuff costs money.
Here are five ways to educate them about the value of money and the things it can buy. Each will give your child a solid foundation for a lifetime of financial responsibility, common sense and money-management success. Seriously, mom and dad: this is the kind of stuff that really doesn't grow on trees.
Lesson 1: Teach them how to handle an allowance
An allowance is your kid's first brush with financial independence. Use it to teach them the principles of saving and budgeting for the things they must have (even though you know they may not really need them).
A good rule of thumb to follow is $1 for each year of age, so a five-year old would receive $5 a week.
Lesson 2: Teach them the value of hard work
While certain chores might be a given in your household, let them know that opportunities abound when they take on a little bit more. Teach them the value of those extra efforts with a monetary reward. Honestly, is there a more effective way of getting the weeding done?
Lesson 3: Teach them about "free" money
Saving can be a bit vague for little ones. By taking your child to the bank and opening an account, he or she will learn how savings and money markets actually work. Periodic check-ins with their monthly ledger is a great way to teach them about compounded interest. As in free money…everybody, open up and say "wow!"
Note: Be sure to let them withdraw a little cash now and then to buy toys and other knick-knacks so they'll continue to stay interested.
Lesson 4: Teach them to go for their goals
You're probably still wrapping your own head around the concept of turning 65 one day. Can you imagine what goes on in your kid's head? Try…where his or her next Spiderman action figure is coming from. Let your child set his or her own goals , and guide him or her towards achieving them. That means, helping them learn the difference between short-term goals (bubble-gum) and long-term goals (an iPad of his or her very own!).
Tape a picture of that must have item to a goal chart, bank statement, or jar so they can make that connection between setting a goal and saving for it.
Lesson 5: Teach them to be a smart consumer
Children are bombarded with messaging – both subtle and loud – to consume, consume, consume. They need your help to sort through the noise. You can teach them the difference between being smart consumers and impulsive ones by setting aside one day a month to take their allowances out for a spend. You can also say no.
Madonna nailed it: we're living in a material world. But your kids don't have to be material boys and girls. Not if you start teaching them the value of money, the value of the things they purchase with that money, and the value of setting and reaching goals now.
Preparing for the Eventuality That Is: College
You think tuition is stratospheric now? Imagine how expensive it will be by the time your kids come of age. Do yourself – and your offspring – a favor by putting some thought and savings into their higher education costs…starting now.
Here are some options to consider:
529 Plan
There are two types of 529s: college savings plans and prepaid tuition plans. Both share the same federal tax advantages, and yet they are not the same. With a college savings plan, you can use the funds at any college that's accredited by the U.S. Department of Education. A prepaid tuition plan can only be used for undergraduate tuition at public colleges in your state. But that's not all. Let's take a closer look at the pros and cons of each.
Both types of 529s offer Federal and state tax-deferred growth
If the money is withdrawn to pay for college, earnings are not subject to federal income tax
States can add their own tax advantages to 529 plans; a few of them even provide matching scholarships or matching contributions
529s are open to anyone, regardless of income level and you don't need to be a parent to set one up
With a college savings 529, there is no age or time limit on when the withdrawal must be made
With a college savings plan, you can choose from a variety of investment portfolios, but you can't direct the underlying investments
With a prepaid tuition plan, you don't pick anything…that's only in the hands of the plan's money manager
College savings plans don't guarantee your investment return, plus you can lose some or all of the money you've contributed
Prepaid tuition plans guarantee your investment return, at the very least; it's just that the benefits paid out might change due to projected actuarial deficits
Using money in your 529 plan for something other than college will cost you: a 10 percent federal penalty, plus state penalties
You'll also pay income taxes on the earnings if the plan's funds are not used for college…you might even forfeit your earnings entirely
Prepaid plans have a 'use by' date: your kid must be college-bound by the time he or she reaches age 30
Both types of 529 plans may charge annual maintenance fees, administrative fees and investment fees
Coverdell Education Savings Account
Tax-wise, the Coverdell ESA is treated like a 529…with a few key exceptions.
A Coverdell ESA allows for greater investment flexibility
Education-related withdrawals are exempt from state income tax, depending on the tax laws in your particular state
Education-related withdrawals are not limited to college and can be used for uniforms, books, school-supplies and more, even at the elementary school level
While 529s do not usually limit contributions, Coverdell ESAs do ($500 per child is the maximum annual contribution limit)
Coverdell ESAs must be used by the time the beneficiary turns 30, or turned over to another family member to avoid taxes and penalties
The income level of a donor determines whether or not he or she can make contributions
There may be fees associated with opening and maintaining this kind of account
U.S. Savings Bonds
Easy to purchase, backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government, it's no wonder they're so attractive. Like 529s, there are two types: Patriot bonds and Series I bonds, which are popular college savings vehicles.
Any interest earned is exempt from state and local tax
Federal income tax can also be exempt, provided your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) falls under a certain level
Fee-free, unless you purchase the bond through a broker
Bond proceeds must be used to pay for qualified education expenses to avoid penalties
Return potential is lower than 529s because stocks generally perform better over time, though past performance does not guarantee future results
Mutual Funds
Investing in mutual funds was once the popular way of saving for college. That was before 529s and their tax-sheltered growth and tax-free withdrawals came on the scene. Still, there are pros…and cons.
If assets are withdrawn for non-educational expenses, mutual funds do not impose restrictions or penalties
Mutual funds allow for greater flexibility and control over investment decisions
The tax factor can cut into mutual fund returns: you'll pay income tax every year on income earned by your fund, even if it's reinvested
When you sell shares, you open yourself up to Capital Gains tax
Custodial Accounts and Trusts
With custodial accounts and trusts, assets are held in your child's name. You or another custodian manages the account until your child reaches 18 or 21. After that he or she has complete control over the funds.
While funds can be used for education, withdrawals are not subject to penalties if used for non-educational expenses
There are no funding restrictions
Total flexibility and control over investment choices
In the case of custodial accounts, they are generally fee-free
Subject to so-called "kiddie tax" rules, meaning your kids will be taxed at your rate
Trusts are costly and complicated to set up
There is some hope (as in credits) down the line
When you pay for certain higher education costs, you can claim two types of tax credits: the Hope credit (now called the American Opportunity credit) and the Lifetime Learning credit.
Each depends on the amount of qualified tuition and related expenses you pay, as well as your MAGI (remember: modified adjusted gross income).
There are a lot of expenses to plan for when it comes to college. Inevitability you'll get that call of: "um, can you guys send money for textbooks?" Good thing you prepared them for the real world.


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Fractional topological dimension
We say a topological space has topological dimension if every covering of has a refinement in which every point of occurs in at most sets in , and is the smallest such.
Any point is clearly in at least one set; it's the other sets that might be in that concern us. The dimension turns up in a sum over sets in the refined covering . If we want to move to groupoid cardinality, then the sum should be over equivalence classes of sets in .
Let be the set . Given , we need some way to get a group acting on . If we have such a group, then we can say the topological dimension is the maximum over of the groupoid cardinalities of
Any idea how to get such a group?
The brain is an amazing thing; hypnosis can block pain. There are plenty of hypnosis weight-loss clinics for helping people to lose weight and to quit smoking. As we get more detailed knowledge of the brain, it will become a trivial thing to improve one's willpower. Instead of procrastinating, we'll be able to tell ourselves to do something and become compulsive about doing it. No more late homework!
NPR's science Friday has several programs on memory; in one recent one (that I can't find), they explained that memories are recreated every time we remember them, with an accompanying degradation of the memory. Details we don't think are important are discarded and filled with plausible reconstructions; the sudden recall of something you haven't thought of for twenty years is far closer to the actual event than a memory that you think about all the time. It's also easy to introduce fake memories, because the brain fills in plausible details in exactly the same way.
They know this because of recent experiments using drugs that interfere with the formation of memory: rather than have the patients try to learn something, and watch how they forget it, they had them try to remember something, which they proceeded to forget even after the drug wore off. Humans now have the abillity to selectively erase conscious memories.
There's another form of memory that's subconscious, of habits and feelings acquired through repetition. This seems to be a deeper, more protected form of memory. Clive Wearing, who was once a musicologist, contracted encephalitis, which damaged his hippocampus. He has a seven-second memory. He's constantly feeling as if he's just awoken from a dream, having no idea where he is or what has happened to him for the past twenty years. But he can still direct his choir perfectly and fills with joy every time he sees his wife.
It's probable that we'll be able to erase or modify those memories in the near future, too.
We admire people who do things despite pain. Words like courage, tenacity, and kindness all apply to enduring in the presence of pain. The atonement is the prototype here: love overcoming pain.
The whole concept of mortality in scripture is predicated on the idea that pain is necessary for progression; it separates souls like a chromatograph separates particle sizes. People who are physically strong become so by exercising and enduring pain. Smart people typically work hard to become so. Barbie was right: math is hard–but at the moment there's no other way to become so.
If we can remove the memory of pain and decide to remove the pain that stands between us and some desired end, will there be any virtue in the accomplishment? Skousen's argument for the purpose of the pain in the atonement was to work on the compassion of intelligences. Where does compassion go when we can forget the hurt at will?
Negative dimensional objects and groupoid cardinality
I was thinking about some stuff involving fractals and non-positive-real dimension. It's still a very rough idea, though.
There's the concept of topological dimension, which is necessarily an integer. It looks like it's typically the floor of the Minkowski dimension.
One way of talking about iterated function systems is to consider patterns of digits in -ary strings. For instance, the typical Cantor set consists of those points in the unit interval whose ternary expansion contains only 0's and 2's. It's a single coordinate, but restricted in the values it can take.
We can add the dimension of two vector spaces by taking the categorical product = direct sum . We can multiply the dimension by taking the tensor product . We can add and multiply the dimension of two unit hypercubes with the same construction.
It's clear how to tensor integer-dimension objects; I was looking at how one might tensor fractional-dimension objects. I have an example with the Cantor set that probably generalizes.
Consider the set of points in the unit interval whose 4-ary expansion consists exclusively of the digits 0 and 3:
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- - - -
has dimension is isomorphic to the set of points where pairs of digits in base 4 are either 00 or 33—which is the same as saying that in base 16, each digit is either either 0 or F=15. The dimension of this set is . So as before, tensoring two objects multiplies their dimension.
Now consider
- is the unit interval.
- is a subset of the unit square, a set of parallel stripes. The dimension of is
- is a subset of the unit cube, consisting of parallel copies of the previous set. The dimension of is
and so on until
- is a subset of an infinite-dimensional hypercube with dimension
John Baez introduced something called groupoid cardinality. We can add and multiply finite sets using the disjoint sum and cartesian product. We can "divide" sets by using the weak quotient of a set by a group:
where is an equivalence class and is equivalent to if they're in the same orbit.
So consider the set under the action of via reflection:
That is, 0 in maps each point to itself, while 1 in maps to itself and swaps and . So and are in the same orbit and form one equivalence class. The automorphism group of is only the identity. The orbit of includes only itself, so . This forms a groupoid: a category where all morphisms are isomorphisms.
Summing over equivalence classes, we get
Is there some way to view the dimension of the Cantor set as arising from some kind of weak quotient?
He also talked about something he calls "structure types", which is very much like a generating function, but acts on groupoids (with sets as a special case) instead of on numbers. So in the structure type
the term really means , where is the set of structures you can put on an -element finite set (like, say, the set of binary trees with nodes) and is the group of permutations of n objects. The term is the cartesian product of n copies of the groupoid x.
It apparently makes sense to talk about groupoids with negative cardinality as well as fractional cardinality. For example, taking x to be the groupoid described above, the cardinality of the infinte groupoid
is -2!
This suggested to me that we could do something similar and construct a negative-dimensional object. If we stick in a square, we get a set
line square 4-cube 8-cube 16-cube
This doesn't make much sense as an isolated set: all we can say is that it's an infinite-dimensional hypercube. But if we had some way of knowing that the product we were taking was over -cubes, then we could use the formula above.
Here's the idea: if restricting the values a digit can take in an -ary expansion reduces the dimension, then expanding the values ought to increase it. Since this doesn't make much sense with points in the real number line, let's move to instead: let be the set of Taylor series in with coefficients in . We could say has dimension when . (I still have to work out how the topology changes with )
Then we can define a set of series with, say, dimension 2, and construct an infinite product
This object ought to have dimension -1; at least, it will satisfy the property that multiplying the dimension by 2 (by tensoring with a square) and adding one to the dimension (by multiplying by a line) will give the original object: if is the dimension, then satisfies
The structure type for binary trees evaluated at the trivial one-element groupoid gives an infinite groupoid with cardinality , so complex cardinalities (and therefore complex-dimensional objects) can also arise.
Can we make this rigorous? Is there some obvious connection to the complex dimensions of fractal strings?
The View from the Center of the Universe says we're the first generation that can tell stories about the creation that might actually be true. We should take the mythological imagery we have around us and reinterpret it so that it corresponds to something real instead of something imagined, thus giving people a sence of place in the universe.
Their stories, by most accounts, weren't very good. But I believe they're on the right track: stories are how humans understand the world. It's part of why I like John Baez' teaching style so much: he tells stories. A search on his site for the word "story" turns up hundreds of occurrences!
Gödel, Escher, Bach talks about string rewrite rules and theorem proving, trying to illustrate the difference between syntax (structure) and semantics (meaning). He states some rules like
xpyqz => sxpyqsz
and then suggests that "sx" is the "successor" of "x", and thus one interpretation of "p" and "q" is "plus" and "equals," respectively. But it could just as easily be "equals" and "taken from." How do we know what a structure "really means?" Does that question even make sense?
Universal algebra is a language for describing simple structures like sets, monoids, groups, rings, and modules (but not fields). Lawvere showed that every algebraic theory corresponds to a cartesian category, and that a functor from the cartesian category to Set gives a model of the theory. The Yoneda lemma says that there's a one-to-one correspondence between the set of models of a theory and the set of functors out of the theory. So any model has to arise as a functor out of the theory.
This lets us separate syntax from semantics, structure from meaning. The theory is a Platonic ideal that has models in the "real world" of sets and functions. Of course, now that the "real world" has been revealed to be quantum, we should consider functors into other categories, too: a functor into Hilb assigns quantum meaning to the structure. This is how Feynman diagrams are used for quantum field theory: every line represents a Hilbert space of states instead of a set, and each vertex represents a linear operator instead of a function.
Usually, what a structure "means" can only really be answered by considering all of the possible meanings together and looking at the relationships among them. But that's a very hard task in most cases. It's easier to have a single, typical instance in mind: what do you think of when I say "undirected graph?" It's probably an image of a not-so-special graph, not the mathematical definition.
Choosing some example is essential to the way we learn. Adam and Christ, the "last Adam," are the prototypes used by the Gospel. But there are a lot of details left out.
I'm trying, in these Theocosmology posts, to build up a backstory for my existence, which is the story I'm most interested in; I'm choosing details that may or may not be true, but are as true-to-life, as typical as I know how to make them.
Joy, glory, and knowledge
Here's the passage that refers to element and spirit:
D&C 93:33-34 For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy; and when separated, man cannot receive a fulness of joy.
In the Book of Mormon, joy is used almost interchangeably with glory. Nephi says
2 Ne 33:6 I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell.
C.S. Lewis' sermon The Weight of Glory discussed an apparent paradox:
I turn next to the idea of glory. There is no getting away from the fact that this idea is very prominent in the New Testament and in early Christian writings. Salvation is constantly associated with palms, crowns, white robes, thrones, and splendour like the sun and stars. All this makes no immediate appeal to me at all, and in that respect I fancy I am a typical modern. Glory suggests two ideas to me, of which one seems wicked and the other ridiculous. Either glory means to me fame, or it means luminosity. As for the first, since to be famous means to be better known than other people, the desire for fame appears to me as a competitive passion and therefore of hell rather than heaven. As for the second, who wishes to become a kind of living electric light bulb? (ibid., p. 5)
He concludes that it is the joy of a child in finding favor with his father, being "famous with God." Being known of God as opposed to the opposite:
In some sense, as dark to the intellect as it is unendurable to the feelings, we can be both banished from the presence of Him who is present everywhere and erased from the knowledge of Him who knows all. We can be left utterly and absolutely outside—repelled, exiled, estranged, finally and unspeakably ignored. (ibid., p. 7)
Spencer W. Kimball said, "Real intelligence is the creative use of knowledge" (CR, Oct. 1968, p. 130. Emphasis mine.)
Hofstadter examined creativity in his book Metamagical Themas (http://tinyurl.com/29v7fq). He talks about Knuth's Metafont package: in that program, a font has lots of different properties that can be adjusted. There's an enormous space of letters that can be expressed by these parameters, but they are nowhere close to encapsulating all the forms we recognize as, say, the letter 'A.' Coming up with a new parameter, for Hofstadter, is creativity–and yet, ironically, such creation must arise exclusively as the result of some deterministic process. He implies he could not have written any other book than the one he did–but within the book, a few pages away from this claim, he talks about how we continually conceive of worlds slightly different than our own, such as one where the state line between Illinois and Indiana is a few miles to the west of where it is here.
In the section on parquet deformations, he mentions the "flickering" effect of looking at a Necker cube. My brother Doug suggests that agency and qualia are part of the same mystery. We have no idea how perception of shape or color arises in the mind, nor how independent action arises: but we can choose to see the cube with its top toward us or away from us.
In Moses, God says that
Moses 1:39 …This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
In other words, what God prefers to spend his time on is creating more gods. Even Richard Dawkins couldn't take offense at that doctrine. God is an adult of the species, a father in the literal sense. What can we guess about producing minds that last forever?
Greg Egan has treated artificial minds and immortality in several of his stories. In Orphanogenesis, artificial minds are run on a computer, and when they become self-aware, the computer revokes all authority for the mind to be modified from the outside; the consequence is that some minds descend into eternal madness. A rejection of truth is a rejection of reality. My guess is that a faulty view of the universe leads to eternal madness–outer darkness–if left unchecked, so in mercy, God checks it.
Was there ever a time or a place where an atonement couldn't reach? Where all the minds were destroyed? Nephi writes about how we'd share Satan's fate if not for the atonement in 2 Ne 9. There was clearly fear among the premortal spirits contemplating mortality (Rev. 5:3).


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Poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy affect the fortunes of every person, irrespective of religion. It is for every individual to demand good education, a job, civic amenities and his rights as a citizen of the country.
This is what MY India (Muslim Youth of India) is going to tell youngsters of the community.
The organisation is the brainchild of a former president of the Students Islamic Movement of India, Sayeed Khan, and his friends, Feroze Mithiborwala, Ashraf Mulani and Mauzam.
MY India aims to bring Muslim youth into the mainstream by making them aware of their rights and contribution to nation-building.
The four say MuslimsĀhave begun feeling insecure after the Gujarat riots and the subsequent bomb blasts in Mumbai, which have been described as an after-effect of the riots. This is helping anti-social elements misguide them.
"Muslims are made to feel insecure everywhereĀ-- in jobs, in government facilities. MY India aims to encourage them to demand their rights," says Khan, who left SIMI in 1992 to concentrate on social work and wields considerable influence in the community.
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Khan says there is no difference between Hindus and Muslims in terms of education. "But where are Muslims in terms of jobs? We want to educate members of our community, train them to fight for jobs and justice. This is the only way to bring poor Muslims into the mainstream."
The founders of MY India have no faith in political parties as they "always exploit religion for their gains". The Maharashtra government, for instance,Āhas been lax in punishing those responsible for atrocities during the 1992 communal riots, in which even a former police commissioner was involved, but is demanding Chief Minister Narendra Modi's resignation for the riots in Gujarat, they point out.
Such developments make Muslims feel insecure, and people denied justice can easily be misguided by anti-social elements.
Ashraf Mulani says it is necessary for these peopleĀto realise that they are an important part of the nation.
"MY India is against all types of extremism," says Firoz Mithiborwala. "We consider ourselves a modern and democratic group, which will communicate with people on the basis of facts, not blind faith. We are working among intellectuals as well as the working class.
"MY India will never discard the fundamental values of Islam, but there is scope for modernisation in Islam.
"Sayeed took a risk by talking about how SIMI deviated from its original aims and was being led towards extremism. We don't want the entire community to suffer because of one organisation. Now people have begun supporting MY India.
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While I encourage everyone to practice gratitude every day, Thanksgiving is specially set aside for us to give thanks, appreciate, and fill our hearts with graciousness for what we have. On this Thanksgiving, I would like to share little moments of gratitude that I have for 2017, hoping it will bring you joy and help you to remember the little moments, too.
I am thankful for…
- Lucy, our little, mushy, sweet-as-pie pittie. Something about her caught Frank's eye, and he knew she was meant to be with us. We've had a few rough moments – like when she ripped up our brand new carpet or chewed up $600 worth of sea sponges, but the joy she has brought to our lives will always outweigh those moments. Her happy little tail, how she purrs like a cat and snorts like a piggy, how she is such a good girl and always sits for her treats. She's the little lady of our house and I can't even remember life without her.
- A VERY successful first annual Holiday Shopping at the Hilton event! My team and I spent nearly a year planning this shopping event, trying to make the best show possible for vendors and shoppers alike, and with nearly 700 visitors, it was clearly a huge success. I am so grateful, and looking forward to future Vine events!
- My amazing and loyal customers who shop with our small business, who support our shows, who spent all night voting for us as the best online shop in Staten Island (even though we didn't win). Our customers are the most genuine, sincere, thoughtful people in this whole world. I would be NOTHING without them, especially my VIPs!
- Being invited to speak at Maker Mastermind for the Indie Business Network and the Evolution of Marketing seminar with the Small Business Development Center. It has been just such an honor to help other makers and entrepreneurs grow!
- My friends and family who are just so supportive of any wacky idea I come up with. I may be the luckiest person on the planet because I have just a strong, willing, and loving support network. Especially my parents, Aunt, and grandmother, who make every effort to come to every show.
- My students who bring me joy, laughter, inquiry, and intellect every single day.
- My Principal, Mark, who is always encouraging me to grow and giving me opportunities to become the best self, understanding I will bring that to my classroom.
- Handwritten notes from my friends Pam and John. Always random, these little moments of finding notes in my mailbox bring me joy and fill my heart with love.
- My Vine Vendor Network family who has taught me so much about what a true team looks like. Especially Sandra, RoseMary, and Brooke.
- My friend Jackie who is my biggest cheerleader, one of my closest friends, and always working to help me improve.
- The Thankful Candle! Because it took FOREVER to find the perfect ripe cranberry fragrance that I absolutely love!
- My consultant Barbara, who believed so much in my mission for Bath, Body, Candle Moments that she took the dive to become our Hawaii consultant! (Go shop with her!)
- For everyone who takes the time to read my blog posts!
- For my morning gigantic coffee, which has picked me up, comforted me and been there through all the roughest alarms.
- And my amazing husband, Frank, who is my rock, my soul, the love of my life.
On this Thanksgiving, I wish you all moments of love, happiness, comfort, relaxation, and joy. From our family to yours!


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I've been doing a lot of work with Doctrine 2 and finding some issues when dealing with PostgreSQL and Doctrine which I'll be blogging about. I've ignored this particular issue for some time and finally decided to address it.
The issue is declaring a Doctrine entity property as datetime if the column in the db is storing the timestamp with milliseconds such as '2012-01-01 10:12:35.542'. When you try to load that into your entity, Doctrine will give you an error. An example of how this can happen is declaring a column timestamp without time zone and using now() as the default value.
Here is an example of a Doctrine entity property declared as a datetime
* @Column(type="datetime")
And what the column sql declaration looks like
There are three solutions that work, one is to configure Doctrine to not use the default DateTime classes, or you can declare your datetime properties as strings in your entities and convert them to datetime yourself if needed and finally the other approach is to update your db to not store milliseconds. I considered all approaches are decided that it would be better and more efficient to update the db than to write some custom DateTime classes or treat dates as string. If you would like to tackle this issue by creating your own custom DateTime classes then follow this link for more information.
I used the following query to identity all the timestamp columns in my db table:
Noticed I used like timestampe% instead of = timestamp. This is because you could have timestamptz (timestamp with time zone) columns as well. Once I had the list, I saved the results, did some search/replace magic to come up with alter statements for each table and ran the queries. I spent a little bit of time looking at cursors to see if I could write a cursor to loop through the list and alter each table but it was taking too long research and search/replaced was quick. This is what the alter queries look like for each table:
By altering my timestamp columns to timestamp(0), it lets Postgres know to remove milliseconds from all values as well as to not store milliseconds in the future.
An issue I ran into when running all my alter statements was that some views were referencing some of the columns I was about to alter and Postgres didn't like that. I did some research and it seems my only choice was to drop those particular views, alter the tables, then recreate the views. I created a big script that did all that, ran it, and now all my issues are gone and my unit test passed.
I had the pleasant opportunity to present at Codeworks this year. I've presented at the Atlanta PHP User Group a few times but this was my first time presenting at a conference. Overall I think it went well and I learned a lot from it. I picked Phing as a topic as we have been doing a lot with Phing in the last year at work. The presentation covers some of the improvements we've made to one of our applications by automating a few processes that we used to spend hours on. Here are the slides:
So at work we are finalizing the setup of a new server environment. The site is in PHP and the code is all in SVN. We were trying to decide what process to use to export the SVN contents to the site and that's where I decided to learn how to write a bash script. This is my first and with some help from Jess we created the following script. The script does the following:
- Does an info on the remote repo to get the revision number
- Checks against local revision number which is stored in a file
- If the revision numbers don't match, it does a diff on both revisions and creates an list with the files that were changed
- It then loops through each file and exports it to the site
- Finally it stores the new revision number in the file
REPO="svn://path.to.svn/repo"'.revision'"Getting info from remote repo""Current Revision: $CURRENT_VERSION""Remote Revision: $REMOTE_VERSION""$REMOTE_VERSION" -eq "$CURRENT_VERSION""No export needed""Getting diffs between revisions"'{print $2}'"svn export ${i} ${TARGET_DIR}${FILENAME}""Saving revision number"
So I started playing with Zend_Json_Server and was having a hard time trying to figure out how to call the server from a client. Finally I checked the JSON-RPC 2.0 spec and read a very important detail that I had not realized:
The Request is expressed as a single JSON Object
This was the key to my problem. There are 4 parameters that can be sent with each JSON-RPC 2.0 request but I was sending each as a post var which is not what Zend_Json_Server expects. It simply wants one json encoded object with all the parameters inside. The 4 available parameters are:
- jsonrpc – the version you are using; I'm using 2.0.
- method – the name of the method you want to call in the server.
- params – object of parameters your method needs. If you don't need any, don't send this param.
- id – an identifier (anything you want) that will be sent to and from the server for this request.
I'm using Zend_Http_Client() to make the request and here is an example:
'method' => 'find',
'id' => 'test''http://localhost/path/to/jsonrpc/server.php'
NOTE: This post was written using Facebook's PHP SDK version 2.1.2. Since this post was made, the PHP SDK has changed and some of the process that are explained below may have changed as well. At some point I'll have to revisit this post and update it but at this time just keep in mind of the above.
As promised, here is a post (similar to my Twitter API post) on using the Facebook API. There are many reason why one would want to access the Facebook API – maybe to create a mobile app that lets you post photos to your Facebook albums, or maybe you just want to show your last few Facebook status updates on your blog; what ever the reason may be, Facebooks Graph API mixed in with their PHP SDK makes it really easy to accomplish this.
- Setup our environment
- Register an app on Facebook
- Understand the authentication process and extended parameters
- Understand Graph API
- Retrieve our latest status updates
- Add a new status update
- Retrieve our photos from our albums
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Thanks to Ivan for pointing out that the siteUrl is now 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth'. Make sure to use this new value anywhere where the siteUrl is mentioned below.
I recently had to work on a project that required me to interact with the Twitter API. I had done this before so I wasn't expecting anything different until I remembered that Twitter had changed their API to start using OAuth for authentication. If you are not familiar with OAuth, it's a secure way of authenticating without requiring a user to submit their username and password to third-parties – you can read more about it at OAuth. There are lots of resources online that talk about this in detail but I wasn't able to find one that explained the entire process in a way that made sense. Hopefully this post will give you everything you need to get started with the Twitter API. I'm going to go through the steps required to make this work without using the entire zend framework.
This tutorial will go step-by-step in explaining how to create a small PHP application that can interact with the Twitter API. Our goal is to:
- Authenticate
- Display our latest tweets
- Post new tweets from PHP
- Display the last few times our account was mentioned
The only assumptions at this point (other than knowing PHP) is that you have a twitter account and the zend framework library downloaded. We won't be using the entire framework, just some of the files as standalone modules.
Registering An App
The first step in being able to communicate with the Twitter API is to register an app in their system so you can receive all the necessary keys to authenticate with OAuth. Go to dev.twitter.com and log in with your Twitter account. Now click on 'register an app' (if that link is not visible then click on 'your apps' on the top right and then click on 'register an app' in the next page). These are the values I put in the form on the next page for my app. Feel free to follow along. I'll explain the important inputs.
Application: Joey's Blog Example
Description: Twitter PHP App
Application Website: http://www.joeyrivera.com
Organization: None
Application Type: Browser
Callback URL: http://www.joeyrivera.com/twitter/callback.php
Default Access Type: Read & Write Read the rest of this entry »
Here is the link to autotrader with all the info: My car for sale. It's a great car and I had a blast with it but I have bought a replacement, a Z06. The suby has a lot of mods, you can read about them all in my blog under 'my-car' – pushed 450whp with methanol. Contact me here or at autotrader for more questions. Here are some pictures of both:
NOTE: This article was written with AIR 1.5 in mind. I can't say if the following information will work as intended on AIR 2. If you already know how to build you own Adobe AIR badge, you won't find much new information here. This post is more to inform users that you can in fact create your own AIR badge if you didn't already know. When I first started working with AIR, I learned about the badge but as far as I was concerned, the badge was a black box who's functionality was designed to remain mysterious. The badge I used was the one Grant Skinner created and you can get more information from Adobe on how to use it. For a long time this badge worked well but finally the time has come where I need to make it behave a bit differently so I decided to do a bit of research.
After doing a few Google searches, I found a link to Adobe's site with all the technical information on how to create your own AIR badge! I was completely surprised that I never even thought about the possibility that I could write my own badge… not sure what I was thinking. Nothing is more fun that reinventing the wheel right? After looking at the specifications, I realized it wasn't too bad and started to plan out a logical flow on how my badge was supposed to work.
My current badge has the following issue: a user installs my app through the badge, every time after that point that the user comes back to the badge, they have to 'install' the app again even thought it was already installed. Instead, I want the badge to sense if the application is installed and if so, launch it (I haven't spend much time looking into Grants Badger app but I think it'll let you do this as well if used correctly… I think). The logic for the new badge should be:
- Check if AIR is installed (If not, install)
- Check if my app is installed (If not install)
- Launch my app
I'll be using Flash CS3 since that's what I have available to me for this tutorial and I am making the assumption you already know how to use Flash, understand ActionScript 3, and have an AIR app to test. Open Flash and create a new AS3 file and save it in some folder. Now attach a class called 'Badge' to your file that extends MovieClip. Your class should look like the following:
I added a trace in the constructor so I can make sure my class is working. When you test your badge you should see 'hi' in your output window. Now we are ready to continue. Read the rest of this entry »
Last month was an action packed month for me. I had a few events going on and lots of work to get done.
Atlanta PHP User Group
We had a really cool presentation on load testing using JMeter and Xdebug by Brian DeShong. Load testing and profiling are very important to help identify possible bottlenecks in your application/server before reaching a breaking point. JMeter allows a user to setup different scenarios to run with varying loads (number of users, ramp up time). It's pretty fancy with all the options you can do such as submit variables to pages to simulate login ins to an application and tracking sessions. Xdebug lets us analyze logs to see what was going on in your application to easily spot which part of the execution process took the most amount of time. At that point, you can look at your code to see how to improve that particular process.
At work we have an outside firm doing our testing/load testing so it was nice learning about JMeter so eventually we can start doing some of our own load tests for things we need done asap. I currently use Zend Studio's profiler to profile my applications so I probably won't be using Xdebug any time soon.
I asked around our local user group what conference they would recommend if they could only attend one PHP conference and this was the one I heard the most good things about. This was my first time attending a PHP conference and it was WELL worth it. The sessions were great with three tracks daily to choose from. The conference was small enough where you could spend time with the presenters interacting and asking questions. I met a bunch of new people which made the whole experience that much better. There was always something to do during presentations as well as after hours.
This is the web site for TEX-K if you want more info or want to take a look at the schedule. Some of my favorite were the two Flex sessions by Keith Casey since I want to start doing more Flex and the Lost Art of Simplicty by Josh Holmes was interesting as well. It was really nice having a bunch of Adobe and Microsoft people there. They were all great and helpful. We had been having some server hiccups at work and the guys at Microsoft were extremely helpful in trying to help us figure things out. We also learned from various people (both the MS and PHP crowd) that we (at work) should start using IIS instead of Apache for Windows. Microsoft has been spending resources in working with the PHP team to make sure things run smoother with PHP on IIS for Windows than before.
Two thumbs up for Microsoft and Adobe for being there and supporting the community (and for the drinks and dinners :p) . I'll definitely try to go next year again.
Flash Builder for PHP
I took a one day-8 hour course on using Flash Builder and wow… I'm sold. After working on Flash for so many years, Flex is just too amazing to ignore. The class was taught by Adobe certified Jeanette Stallons and it was a small class which was great for us since we could get a lot more time for questions and one on one time. She did a great job keeping our attention and was very easy to follow. This was a hands on class so we each had our own computer to work the examples with.
The class started with us learning about the different Adobe applications, the difference between Flash/Flex, and reasoning behind changing the name Flex builder to Flash builder. Then we went through the basics of the IDE and how to setup a project and what the different folders and files are for. Next is when things got fun. We started creating an application that communicates with the database through PHP. We did all the code manually to better appreciate the last lesson which was creating the exact same application in an automated fashion with literally only a few lines of code at most. That was the coolest part of this class, how easy it is to use the wizards (that actually spit out good code!) to be able to just click and drag and have everything working correctly in such a short amount of time.
I already downloaded the two month trial from the Adobe's site and have been playing around with Flash Builder at work and at home.
Google AdWords API v13 to v2009
A few years ago I wrote an application that heavily uses the Google Adwords API. It worked without me touching it for years until recently Google changed their Adwords API and my app completely stopped working. This was my fault of course since many months ago Google emailed me letting me know this was going to happen but at the time I figured there wouldn't be much difference between both versions so I didn't pay much attention to it… boy was I wrong.
The new API v2009 is very different since you call things differently now and many of the old services I was using no longer exist in the new version. I spent some time trying to rework my code to use the new calls but that was not working well for me. It just seemed as if I was wasting time instead of just starting over with a clean rewrite. Fortunately for me, after doing some research, I found that Google had already created a client library for PHP that already did all the heavy lifting code to interact with the services. I downloaded the library, ran a couple tests and everything was working perfectly. All I had to do was rewrite the application using the client library and everything is running smoothly again.
Thanks Google! You saved me a lot of time but don't change your API again 😛
My Birthday
Not much to mention here other than it was my birthday last month as well so had dinners with parents and drinks with friends. I have been running a lot lately so I bought myself a nice new watch with my birthday money: Garmin 405. I saw this watch on sale on slickdeals.net for under $200 and I couldn't resist. I've used it a couple times already and it's great. The GPS seems to be working flawlessly for me so far and all the features it brings are neat to play with. My biggest sellers were: GPS to track my distance and pace and the heart rate monitor.
Peachtree Road Race, here I come!
Two thumbs up for the wifey!
Mar 22
So my wife submitted a design for an eco-friendly bag contest for Kroger late last year. There were over 46,000 entries nation wide and she ended up winning second place!!! Great job sweets!
Starting next month (April), if you shop at Kroger, you may be able to purchase her bag from your local Kroger store. Here is an article that just came out today from a local magazine:
Feel free to visit Ashley's blog and let her know she did a great job: Ashley's Blog


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Begleri is a small skill toy consisting of one or more beads at either end of a short string. The toy can be flipped and twirled around the fingers to perform tricks. Machined from .625" solid brass round bar to look like a vintage bomb, these can be fun to keep in your pocket to keep your fingers busy. Each end measures about .625" x 1.070". Comes with paracord and is packaged in a soft muslin drawstring bag
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Intel enters the fray with a smartphone that keeps it simple
It may be a funny-looking Trojan horse, but Intel won't mind if its latest gadget can successfully open the gate to one of the world's biggest and most exciting technology markets.
This week's launch in Britain of the Orange San Diego is more than than merely the unveiling of another lightweight but speedy smartphone. Intel, the company that gave Silicon Valley its name, is hoping to break the stranglehold that Cambridge's ARM Holdings has on chips used to power mobile phones.
It has dominated the market for semiconductors used in personal computers for decades, but the American giant has failed to tap into demand for the low-power chips used in small devices. This, then, according to Mike Bell, the head of Intel's mobile and communications…


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Children learn how to make greetings and self-introductions, express colors, animals, fruits, etc. Teachers use Powerpoint and include fun games in the lessons.
Classes cover basic overview of Pinyin writing, the four Mandarin tones and basic strokes to create Chinese characters. Students learn answers to very simple questions related to daily topics through fun game playing. Children will begin to understand and use some of the most common Chinese phrases and sentences and gain the ability to further their Chinese language studies. After finishing this course, children will have the skills to pass YCT Level 1.
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As students advance, more complex material will be presented. Children will learn how to read and write simple Chinese characters. They will also be taught simple Chinese phrases and sentences to help cope with basic level communications. After finishing this course, children will have the skills to pass YCT Level 2.
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Course covers Chinese pronunciation,the Pinyin system, basic conversations like greetings and self-introductions. Students will also learn the basic structures of Chinese characters and understand short simple texts and phrases .


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Anti-Semitic SJWs Upset That 'Wonder Woman' Role Given to Israeli Gal Gadot
When they first announced that Wonder Woman would get her own movie, I had mixed feelings. I was thrilled to see the character get her own film, but I feared what some might try to do with her. After all, in a world where "girl power" is supposed to be all that matters, a female-lead film seems like the ideal place for social justice screwery.
Well, apparently, I need not worry.
You see, they cast the beautiful Gal Gadot for the role. And while the social justice warriors don't blame her for Batman Versus Superman, they have decided to blame her for other stuff:
gal gadot is a zionist in case you forgot in your haste to stan her https://t.co/90CM03l7nN
— westfall leenah (@lumateres) July 26, 2016
Gal Gadot stans: SHES NOT A ZIONIST SHE JUST SUPPORTS HER COUNTRY AKA THE MURDER OF INNOCENT PALESTIANS pic.twitter.com/DNlvZ7KH86 — jade (@seIinameyer) July 26, 2016
I want Wonder Woman to succeed so bad but I also don't support Gal Gadot and her Zionist opinions Help
— poison ivy (@explicithooker) July 24, 2016
When you were super pumped for the Wonder Woman movie as its female led but realise Gal Gadot is a Zionist — mhysa (@doseofprose) July 23, 2016
Gadot is Israeli, and served in the Israeli Defense Forces per that country's mandatory service. But per her comments alone, Gadot clearly supports her nation's right not only to exist, but to not be murdered by terrorists.
Let's look at the term "Zionist": when did the SJWs start channeling Alex Jones? It's hard to take anyone seriously when they scream "Zionist" for any reason, but especially when someone offers a political opinion about things that impact their own homeland.


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Designed specifically to take on the polar waters, her itinerary is based on the Greenland and Arctic cruises during the European Summer months and then down to the Southern Hemisphere for round trips from Argentina through Antarctica in the European Winter.
Christened by Norway's Crown Princess HRH Mette-Marit in 2007, MS Fram offers guests the chance to explore without sacrificing comfort. Interiors reflect the polar colours and landscapes, with photos from the original Fram and there are a number of cabin options to choose from. The artworks commissioned for the ship are by local Arctic-region artists and there is a heavy emphasis on the beautiful landscapes that dominate these far reaches of the world.
The most appealing thing about MS Fram is it's small size – meaning not only are there less guests and more chance to get involved in shore excursions, but she is ideally sized for manoeuvring around icebergs and getting up close to ice floes. Guests reviews often comment on the approachability and knowledge of expedition staff who make an effort to engage everyone onboard in the discovery experience.
Daily lectures are offered in English and at least one other language (depending on the nationalities onboard but usually French, German or Norwegian) about all manner of topics and most days (depending on the route) different excursions are offered with the shore landings.
On the Iceland and Greenland itinerary, guests can enjoy a natural warm water spa ashore, or for the more adventurous, participate in guided hikes, sea kayaking or glacial boat rides. On the Antarctic itinerary, guests can hike in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton across South Georgia and admire wildlife such as penguins, seals and Orcas.
The activities are always weather dependant but some guests have relished the chance to try their hand at something new even when the weather doesn't allow landings – such as photography or watercolour painting lessons.
Hurtigruten's goal is to offer you a true expedition experience onboard the MS Fram, no matter your age or experience level. With a cruise on the MS Fram, everyone discovers their inner explorer.


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The Glidden Tours, an early reliability, and endurance contest were run between 1905 to '14 by the AAA and named after Charles J. Glidden, a prominent early American motorist who traveled extensively in the dawning days of motoring in his British Napier touring car. The 1911 Glidden Tour route ran between New York City, and Jacksonville, Florida.
Today's feature images are of a 1912 American Underslung manufactured in Indianapolis, Indiana, also between the years of 1905 and '14. The make was known for its attractive coachwork set on a chassis hung below both axles on its springs and rolled on large diameter wheels and tires. This American features impressive Solarclipse headlamps and unusual-looking Fisk rims manufactured by the Fisk Tire Company.
You can read a report of the 1911 Glidden Tour here that was featured in the "Scientific American" magazine. The images are courtesy of the Detroit Public Library.
- A pair of enlargeable photographs of the 1912 American Underslung touring car along the way on the 1911 Glidden Tour that ran from New York City to Jacksonville, FL. Clean and shiny above and covered in mud below.