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A Breath In, A Breath Out
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Dream Fragment
My mother says, "Christina come down here. I have a secret to tell you." I think it is odd my mother would tell me a secret, but I follow her down three steps into a private area. She looks at me, holds my hands and says, "I need to tell you that I will be passing soon."
Surprised by her proclamation, I ask, "How do you know?"
She replies, "I have lights passing in front of my eyes and across my forehead. They mean I will be going soon. But do not tell your father— he will just worry."
I try to reassure her, telling her she will be with Jesus in heaven.
She interupts me, saying, "I am okay with this. You do not need to reassure me."
"Okay, Mom."
We hug for a while. Crying, I tell her, "You know, Mom, you have had to work very hard in your life these last few years since your stroke. That work will finally be over and you can rest."
"Yes," she says, putting her her head on my shoulder and adds,, "You are right. I am a tired."
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Buena Vista, CO
Kelly and I have a dinner party at our house with Mom and Dad and our friends Janet, Bob, Russ, and Syd. Amidst the laughter and general merriment, Syd told us about how her parents died. Her Dad contracted an infection in the hosprital and eventually passed wtih the help of Hospice. Her mom, however, went to sleep one night and didn't wake up, which was a surprise for everyone.
Interestingly enough, Syd and Russ have a niece who has psychic capacities that allow her to contact people who have died. At Syd's request, her niece spoke with Syd's mother about her death. Syd's mother said, "Tell Syd not to worry. It was just fine. It was a breath in and breath out."
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Buena Vista, CO
Mom and I are in the kitchen together at breakfast. She had on the fluffly pink robe she got this year for Christmas. Her hair was messed up from sleep. She was happy and relaxed.
I say, "Mom, Dad said we kept you up too late last night."
"Yes, I was so tired when everyone left that I just wanted to go straight to bed. Dad made me brush my teeth, though."
"Sorry about that, Mom."
"Oh, it was worth it. I had such a good time."
I hug my mother good-bye, kiss her on the forehead, and tell her I love her. Kelly and I get in the van to drive to Flagstaff, Arizona for a weekend workshop. We stop in Durango and spend the night. Dad texts me around 6pm and says that everything is fine.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
En route to Flagstaff
11:30 am
Dad calls to tell me that Mom was sick in the night. The nurse practitioner from our doctor's office has examined her and thinks she has the flu. Mom takes an ambulance to the ER. Dad tells me not to come home, as she is being cared for in the hospital and her conditions doesn't seem serious.
Mom has been admitted to the hospital and reports are that she seems okay.
4:00 pm
Flagstaff, AZ
I get a phone call from the doctor at the hospital. Mom's symptoms have worsened. She has been admitted to the ICU. The doctor is asking me about DNR's. Mom is non-responsive.
Our minister is with her and tells me to come back. Our CNA/helper tells me to come home.
Kelly and I get in the car and drive to Durango, with the plan to spend the night and be at the hospital in the morning.
Friday, February 9, 2018
Salida, CO
Heart of the Rockies Hospital
10:30 am
I come into mom's room and rush to her bed. I grab her hand. She looks at me and says, "I'm sick."
I reply, "I know, Mom."
She whispers, "They told me you were coming."
There are many more details to tell about the trajectory of her last 5 days and her battle with an infection that eventually settled into her lungs and caused the pneumonia that would bring the end of her life, but the final moments we shared as a family seem the most important to share now.
Febrruary 14, 2018
Salida, CO
Heart of the Rockies Hospital
As it became obvious that too many things were stacking up against Mom, we made the decision for the doctors to remove the supplemental oxygen she was receiving. She wasn't intubated, but she was dependent on supplemental oxygen. We agreed the doctors would wean her off the oxygen, allow the carbon dioxide to build in her system, and assist the process of death with morphine. (side note— Even in my grief and tears, I made them promise LOTS of morphine.)
Her case manager had told us that hearing is the last of the senses to go as the body dies and that we should keep talking to her so she would know we were there with her. Even with a lot of morphine, her last minutes of breathing seemed labored and stressful, as she was in an oxygen deficit. Watching her struggle to breathe, while attempting to reasuure her, was heart-breaking.
I remembered Syd's story about her mother. "It was a breath in and a breath out."
I put my hand on Mom's heart. Under my hand was the raspy texture of her breath as her infected lungs struggled for air. I looked at my mother and said, "Mom, it's going to be a breath in and a breath out. Here is what you are going to do… You are going to make your exhales longer. And as you exhale, God's going to breathe you back in. We will do it together. A breath in, a breath out. We are with you."
And so on.
Like that.
Her eyes found mine. My mom followed my breathing instructions, allowing me to coach her as she did just what I suggested and made her exhales increasingly longer. Her sharp, labored inhales changed. She seemed less afraid. She kept looking at me.
And after a few more minutes of breathing together, she died.
One of my teachers told me that being with someone as they die can be like going into the parlor that sits outside the room of Death and Beyond. You can gain entry into the parlor—if you are lucky— but you can not go through the door with the person who is dying.
No matter how much you love them.
And, of course, once they go through the door, you must leave the parlor and return to the land of the living. Of course, the entirety of that landscape is forever changed.
And, it seems, to me, time in the parlor alters the one who went there.
Given that Mom died less than six weeks ago, I am a newcomer to the landscape of this particular grief. Slowly, little-by-little, I am getting my bearings.
In my current landscape, the sun rises every day— full of its reliable and bright glory— but without the reliable, bright laughter that accompanied my mother every day. And yet, like the light of the sun, there is no place where she is not. She taught me to cook eggs, how to get dressed, how to bathe myself, and how to clean a toilet. She taught me how to do my hair, make a shopping list, and how to water my plants. Every daily activity is a living connection to her and a living legacy of her care.
In my curent landscape, the Grace of my friends has become the very ground beneath my feet, reminding me that no matter where I step, I need not walk the pathways of this new land alone. Shared meals, long hikes, phone calls, letters, plants, flowers, cards, and heart-felt sharing surround me at every turn, showing me that love is real, people are precious, and God does not live in the sky, but lives instead t in the easy-to-miss moments of life where we minister to each other.
In my current landscape, a heavy weight settles daily in my chest, like low clouds that settle in a mountain valley, and make my normal routines more tiring than usual. This weight, impossible to think my way out of, reminds me that tears will soften what is sharp and jagged within me, just as rain will eventually wear down the craggiest of peaks, and spring showers will nourish the driest soil so that seeds of renewal can sprout. And I do my best to let the healing waters of my tears keep me tender inside.
In this landscape, dogs run in the yard, the neighbors have a new baby, and the bulbs I planted for her in the fall have begun to peak out of the earth. Here, in this landscape, life continues with its indomitable spirit and power. Majestic and ordinary, tedious and inspiring, frustrating and exhilarating , life is here to be lived.
My mom did that well. She fell. She got up. She was no perfect person and certainly, she did not give birth to a perfect daughter. She was, however, who she was. And her authenticity will always inspire my own.
There is nowhere I can go where she is not.
That is my mother's grace.
A breath in. A breath out.
Life is to be lived.
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Thomas Swift Hutton (1860-1935)
Short Sands, Tynemouth
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As I mentioned in last Monday's post reflecting on my weight loss, I've recommitted to weight loss and specifically the idea of comfortably fitting into my (already purchased) wedding dress. I've been lovingly referring to this as Operation: Fit into my Damn Dress.
After the last two weeks (I officially started getting my shit together again on 9/4.), I'm down about 4lbs, and I'm back under 170lbs. I'm aslo feeling really good and extremely confident and motivated. I've been back at the gym on the regular, though this last week was kind of rough. I was super busy, and my Saturday morning workout was derailed by an unexplained lack of lights at the gym. I'm getting back at it tonight though.
I'm finding my biggest motivator has actually been letting go of my goal weight. There's two elements to this:
The first is committing to the idea of weight loss to fit into my dress rather than to reach a specific number. This has given me something really tangible to latch on to. I've had a pair of "goal pants" hanging in my bathroom for a while now, but let's be honest here, a $35 pair of jeans just isn't quite as motivating as a $400 wedding dress…
The second is actually taking some time to reflect on and reconsider my goal weight. My goals have always been much more health oriented than weight oriented, and as a result, my goal weight has always been a little bit foggy and arbitrary. . I honestly don't even remember my original goal weight. I assume I set one though… When I started Weight Watchers, my goal had to be in the health BMI range. Thus my goal weight became 141lbs; the absolute top end of the healthy range for someone that's 5'3″.
The problem is I've never really been confident of my ability to reach that goal let alone maintain it! I don't think I realized until recently how much that negatively affected me. It seems like it should be obvious; if you're not confident you can reach your goal weight, where's the motivation to even try?
So I've re-set my goal to 150lbs. 150lbs seems reasonable and doable to me. I can actually remember weighing that much because I've seen that number on the scale in the last 5 years. I feel like I could have reasonably maintained that weight too if marathon training hadn't throw me all out of whack. And so that's my official new goal. I'm seeing a new primary care doc at the end of the month. I plan to discuss this with him and get the doctor's note necessary to make it my Weight Watchers official goal too.
I don't plan on doing any sort of formal weigh-in posts, but I'm sure I'll check-in here on my weight loss progress on ocassion.


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AI Human Rights or a Step Towards AI Enslavement? | Artificial Intelligence Should Be Protected by Human Rights, Says Oxford Mathematician
By Justin Deschamps, co-founder of SITSShow.BlogSpot.com
Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming a common part of human life. Most people interact with AI via the internet, smartphones, and various centralized institutions which use advanced computing software, such as law enforcement and marketing. And as the possibility of creating an AI with the capacity to think at a human level approaches realization, the discussion of what rights such an intelligence should have is taking place.
To be sure, any intelligence, regardless of its origin, character and behavior should be considered a part of the universe and afforded protections that sovereign beings enjoy—but not at the cost of everything else.
AI prophets are those who promote the eventual merger of society, biology and life as we know it with super advanced computer intelligences. These AI prophets usually assume that the human organism is a biological accident that is incapable of managing itself harmoniously. One contention of the AI enthusiast is that human civilization will one day be completely dependent on the "wise decisions" of a well-intentioned AI—above and beyond human choice. But clearly this is a dystopian vision of the future which anyone with a modest appetite for science fiction should recognize.
The Matrix Films, Terminator, iRobot, and so on, all clearly articulate the theme of AI overtaking humanity, for its own protection.
But more to the point of this article, and as a preamble to conditioning the masses to accept AI, promoters must humanize artificial intelligence. This is a decidedly transhumanist philosophy, which AI is intimately connected to. In other words, in order to prepare the public for what the elite consider an inevitability, a campaign to elevate AI to the status of personhood, a legally protected thing, is one step forward.
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Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy from the University of Oxford in the UK thinks that eventually AI will need human rights. He said,
"It's getting to a point where we might be able to say this thing has a sense of itself, and maybe there is a threshold moment where suddenly this consciousness emerges,"
Clearly, if an AI possesses true consciousness, then like all life, it should be protected. The golden rule to do no harm and cause no damage applies to all living things, even if they were created by humans.
But before we can idealize the rights of an AI, should we not put our own house in order?
While AI prophets seek to humanize machine intelligence, human beings, who are unquestionably conscious and alive, have only a modicum of protections. At the time of this writing, corporations have more protections afforded via the legal system than living persons. This is a travesty of human society and indicates how distorted consciousness has become.
Certainly if we cannot protect rights of the current population of humanity, how can we hope to protect AI?
But perhaps this is a distraction from the real issue, which is that while corporations and AI are upheld as legal persons that require protection, a human being is reduced to that of a biological machine, something that doesn't have rights, only privileges.
The fact is, human beings are not a protected species in that inalienable rights are trampled and ignored in the name of social progress, democracy, and profiteering. Animals, who are also sentient living things, are marginalized to the point of outright enslavement and abuse. We need only look at food production and medical testing, both of which use animals in horrific ways, to see that our civilization and the social policies used in it do not uphold or protect rights.
So before we clamor to protect the rights of AI, we should first seek to protect other sentient life forms.
Also, consider the testimony of secret space program insider and whistleblower Corey Goode, who reveals that the presence of a malevolent AI in the cosmos has already corrupted society to a large degree. Those who promote the transhumanist philosophy, of which AI is a key component, uphold artificial intelligence as superior to other living things—especially humanity.
In the following related articles, Goode posits that the current push for transhumanism and AI integration is part of this malevolent beings agenda, the culmination of which ends in a total takeover of society by an AI.
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At present, people believe that the experts and authorities have a divine right to rule, although these words are not used. In effect, representative government is founded on the belief that individuals are not competent enough to manage their own lives and need intermediaries to do this for them—what we call experts or authorities. This is why we elect leaders to positions of power because we think they can do what we cannot. This is the same ideology that leads to an eventual handing over of society to AI; for the current problems in government are due to corruption, and an AI can't be corrupted with bribes, blackmail, and so on.
In other words, human beings are already one step towards relinquishing sovereignty to an AI, but this will only lead to a more draconian and enslaved way of life. Given that human beings have almost completely destroyed the natural ecology of the planet since the beginning of the industrial revolution, it would be perfectly logical to an AI to depopulate the planet in an effort to save humanity and restore the balance.
Does any of this sound familiar? It should. The same plot elements are used within the aforementioned works of science fiction, which I personally think, are essential for people to fully comprehend the magnitude of what AI means for the human race.
In conclusion, humanity cannot give up its decision-making power to an AI, no matter how well intentioned. For the universe is designed to foster personal freedom, reliance, and autonomy, not pandemic dependence. And while honoring the rights of sentient beings is an ideal we should strive for in all respects, this cannot be relegated to only an AI. We have not been proper stewards of the rights other living things, including humanity itself, and this cannot be overlooked any longer.
The current state of affairs on Earth is a testament to this failed philosophy of delegation of personal responsibility, that we can somehow avoid making choices in life, and let other people, or things, do this for us.
Thankfully, there is only one solution to all our manifold problems on Earth the restoration of universal consciousness, personal responsibility and competence, and self-mastery. One who is truly sovereign knows the truth by way of direct perception, can judge the merits of a thing based on its veracity, and can act in honor of the truth and all life.
Related Self Mastery and Discernment Are Essential To Avoid A.I. Enslavement | Bio-Technology Hybrids Open the Door to Extraterrestrials AI Robots Replacing Humanity
Related Universal Coherence, Sovereignty and Self Mastery | What Science is Telling Us About Earth's Electromagnetic Fields and the Healing Power of Coherence
by Peter Dockrill
With huge leaps taking place in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), right now, experts have started asking questions about the new forms of protection we might need against the formidable smarts and potential dangers of computers and robots of the near future.
But do robots need protection from us too? As the 'minds' of machines evolve ever closer to something that's hard to tell apart from human intelligence, new generations of technology may need to be afforded the kinds of moral and legal protections we usually think of as 'human' rights, says mathematician Marcus du Sautoy from the University of Oxford in the UK.
Du Sautoy thinks that once the sophistication of computer thinking reaches a level basically akin to human consciousness, it's our duty to look after the welfare of machines, much as we do that of people.
"It's getting to a point where we might be able to say this thing has a sense of itself, and maybe there is a threshold moment where suddenly this consciousness emerges," du Sautoy told media at the Hays Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales this week. "And if we understand these things are having a level of consciousness, we might well have to introduce rights. It's an exciting time."
Du Sautoy thinks the conversation about AI rights is now necessary due to recent advancements made in fields such as neuroscience. The mathematician, who appeared at the literature festival to promote his new book, What We Cannot Know, says new techniques have given us a clearer understanding than ever before of the nature of mental processes such as thought and consciousness – meaning they're no longer reserved solely for philosophers.
"The fascinating thing is that consciousness for a decade has been something that nobody has gone anywhere near because we didn't know how to measure it," he said. "But we're in a golden age. It's a bit like Galileo with a telescope. We now have a telescope into the brain and it's given us an opportunity to see things that we've never been able to see before."
That greater insight into what consciousness is means we should respect it in all its forms, du Sautoy argues, regardless of whether its basis for being is organic or synthetic.
While the notion of a machine being protected by human rights sounds like something out of science fiction, it's actually a fast-approaching possibility thatscientists have speculated about for decades. The big question remains, when will computer systems become so advanced that their artificial consciousness ought to be recognised and respected?
Various commentators put the timeframe from 2020 through to some time in the next 50 years, although the rapid pace with which AI is progressing – be thatplaying games, learning to communicate, or operating among us undetected – means that nobody really knows for sure.
Du Sautoy can't say when the time will come either – just that when it does, like the title of his book suggests, it will present another set of unsolvable mysteries.
"I think there is something in the brain development which might be like a boiling point. It may be a threshold moment," du Sautoy said. "Philosophers will say that doesn't guarantee that that thing is really feeling anything and really has a sense of self. It might be just saying all the things that make us think it's alive. But then even in humans we can't know that what a person is saying is real."
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Why should robots have human rights when they are not human, and when human beings have their rights violated by the us corporation/govt?
Why do we have privileges to be granted or not by the govt not rights?!!!


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Fighting Hotlinkers with htaccess
If you have a blog with reasonably well conceived content, and have had this blog for any length of time, you will undoubtedly encounter content scrapers,
people bottom-feeding scumbags who republish rip-off your content either from your feed or from your site, to populate their own "made for Adsense" sites. Often the only recourse left to you is to file a DMCA complaint, which can take over a month to resolve.
If the content scraper is hotlinking your images (pulling the images directly from the files on your server) you can at least shut down the images with a command in your htaccess file if your site is hosted on an Apache server. This is sort of a sledgehammer approach, but if they have scraped your entire site (which happened to me recently), it's a lot easier than changing the file names of every image on your site and rewriting your html code for every entry.
In the LMT article I wrote about spam years ago, there is a section on "referrer spam". In that section there is a line of code that you can add to the htaccess file of your blog:
SetEnvIfNoCase Referrer ".*(casino|gambling|poker|porn|sex|nude|xxx).*" BadReferrer
order deny,allow
deny from env=BadReferrer
This code blocks access to your site from domains having the listed words in them. Find the string of characters that is most unique in the domain name of the content scraping site and add it to this list (or replace one of the spammy words), separated by a vertical line. If that site has been hotlinking images from your site, it will no longer be able to do so. Note that ANY website with that string will no longer be able to access your site, so be cautious in the words or characters you select. I once had my recipe site pulled out of completely legitimate feed service because the service's name was "Food Porn watch". Had to remove that one little p-word from my htaccess code.
Like all advice given here on LMT regarding htaccess, know what you're doing before messing with this file. Or have someone who knows what she or he is doing do it for you.


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INDIANAPOLIS — Balanced is the word the Heat like to use to describe their offensive attack.
That balanced attack was on display Wednesday with seven Miami players finishing with double-digit points, as the Heat (24-17) defeated the Pacers 114-106 at Banker's Life Fieldhouse to complete a perfect 2-0 back-to-back set. Miami beat Toronto on Tuesday.
"It's great because no one person has too much pressure on him," Josh Richardson said of Miami's offensive approach. "It's like every night, somebody else is going to be playing great. So if it's not your night, then there's five other guys who could pick up the slack for you, so it's always very relaxing to be able to play like that."
The Heat have now won six straight games, all of them coming by single-digits. Miami owns the fourth-best record in the Eastern Conference, one full game ahead of the No. 5 Washington Wizards (23-18)
Miami led by as many as 16 points, but Indiana made it interesting late and even tied the game at 97 with 5:09 to go in the fourth quarter. But the Heat closed the game on a 17-9 run to keep their winning streak alive.
Wayne Ellington hit the biggest shot of the game, using a friendly roll to sink a 31-foot 3-pointer to extend Miami's lead to six points with 23.2 seconds to go. The Heat never looked back from there.
"It was very friendly, that's why I said, 'I must be living good,'" Ellington said of the shooter's bounce he got. "But that goes with how we're playing right now. Togetherness. It's like a karma to it. That's how I feel."
Goran Dragic led Miami's balanced attack with a team-high 20 points and nine assists. Hassan Whiteside also played a big role with 16 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks.
Victor Oladipo led Indiana (21-20) with 26 points.
The Pacers played without center Myles Turner, who was out with an elbow injury. The Heat were without forward James Johnson, who served a one-game suspension for Tuesday's on-court altercation, Dion Waiters (sprained left ankle), Justise Winslow (strained left knee), Rodney McGruder (left tibia surgery) and Okaro White (left foot surgery).
The Heat will have some time to enjoy their winning streak, with their next game coming Sunday at home against the Milwaukee Bucks.
Hear are our five takeaways …
What a difference a year makes: After 41 games last season, the Heat stood at 11-30. After 41 games this season, the Heat stand at 24-17. That's a big difference considering Miami's core has pretty much remained the same through it all. Another impressive fact? The Heat are 54-28 over their past 82 games. It looks like like Miami won't need another 30-11 finish to enter the playoff conversation this season. If the playoffs began today, the Heat would have home-court advantage in the first round as the fourth seed in the East.
"We're not satisfied," Whiteside said. "We're looking at No. 1 [in the East]. We're going to keep trying to push and we're going to keep pushing the rock. That's what we call it. We call it, pushing the rock."
Heat beat another team with threes: There are a lot of different factors that went into Wednesday's Heat win. But threes played a huge part. Miami outscored Indiana 39-3 on 3-pointers. The Heat shot 13-of-30 from 3-point range, while the Pacers made just 1-of-18. This is become a trend for Miami, which has used the 3-pointer more than ever this season. The Heat shattered their record for 3-point shot attempts in a single season with 2,213 last year, which easily surpassed the previous mark of 1,865 set in 1996-97. But Miami is on its way to setting a new record, as it is on pace to attempt 2,566 3-pointers this season.
Tyler Johnson is tough: In Erik Spoelstra's pregame session with the media, he said Tyler Johnson would miss his second consecutive game Wednesday with a strained left shoulder. But just minutes before tip-off, the Heat announced that Johnson would try to play against the Pacers. And he did play. Johnson finished with 15 points, five rebounds and two assists. Considering Johnson's past issues with his left shoulder — rotator cuff surgery in February 2016 — it's a good sign that Johnson was able to make a fast return after sitting out just one game. With three days off before the Heat's next game on Sunday, he will have time to rest the shoulder after playing through the pain in Indianapolis.
"I still can't really turn my head," Johnson said. "It's still hard to turn my head. But we got it to somewhere where it was manageable, the pain, the movement and being able to at least lift my shoulder up, which to me was the most important part.
"Luckily we have a few days here to try and figure it out. All I can do to get that, the muscles or whatever it is, to calm down. But these three days are going to be critical."
Goran Dragic is leading the way: Just one night after a masterful 24-point performance against the Raptors that also included 12 rebounds and four assists, Goran Dragic turned in another shining stat line against the Pacers. The Heat's starting point guard controlled Wednesday's game with 20 points and nine assists. With backcourt mate Dion Waiters still out with an ankle injury, Dragic has been able to turn his game up a notch. During the Heat's six-game winning streak, they have outscored opponents by 42 points with Dragic on the court. It's not a surprise that Miami is playing its best basketball while Dragic is playing his best basketball. He's that important to the Heat's success.
The angry Erik Spoelstra: We've seen a lot of it lately. Spoelstra entered Wednesday leading NBA coaches with six technical fouls this season, and he extended that lead when he was called for a seventh technical for arguing that an inbounding violation was ignored in the first quarter of Miami's win over Indiana. Entering Wednesday, only six players in the league had at least seven technical fouls: Draymond Green (11), Kevin Durant (8), DeMarcus Cousins (8), Dwight Howard (7), Markieff Morris (7) and Russell Westbrook (7). Goran Dragic leads Heat players with two technicals this season.
"You appreciate that," Ellington said of Spoelstra's recent fiery sideline demeanor. "That let's you know your coach is out there with you. He wants those guys to get the right call for us. We appreciate it."
[James Johnson apologizes for his suspension: 'I have let my Heat family down and that truly troubles me']
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A lot of guides lump high handicappers and beginners into the same group for putting but I know there's a big difference.
As a high handicapper, you've played more golf than new players and have significantly more experience on the greens. I trust that you know a bit more about your preferences so I made this guide especially for you.
I know in my heart of hearts that with the right putter that gets you aligned easily, has the right balance and gives great feedback to your hands, you will make more putts and be more confident on the greens.
You'll drop that old junky putter you've got like first period math. Your handicap will plummet as well, let's not forget that.
You know, people have always told me a new club won't make miracles. But what I've personally found, and you might be the same, is once I lose confidence with a club, I just can't play with it anymore. And it can happen poof just like that. One bad round after using a club for two years and it's like my putter and I are divorced. Sometimes the driver too!
And you know what? I replace those clubs immediately and boom, I can play again (for another year or two). Perhaps I'm strange but I'm sure you, as a sportsman, at some point have experienced something similar.
So to help you have more fun and get confident on the greens, I've found you some putters and combining them with a bit of practice on the greens, you can easily shave off 3 or 4 shots a round by avoiding the three-putt but also by making more short putts!
Also check out my guide on step by step putting to jam more putts in the back of the jar.
Truth be told, whichever you prefer! There is no right or wrong answer here. The best putters for high handicappers and any golfer are whatever you want them to be. Once you get a feeling and positive vibe about a putter, you will generally play nicely with it. I like smaller rounded mallet putters and I love classic blade putters with very little offset.
Go with your gut.
Are you spending the majority of your time on the range? Are you reading all the golf magazine instruction sections looking for that thing to take you closer to mid handicap heaven? I know I did, but nothing got me quick wins like learning to putt.
While I believe a great driver you can hit straight and consistently is the biggest asset you can have, the quickest win after that will be from being able to two-putt every single green.
Think about it. Let's say you hit the driver well and get around or on the green in 2 or 3 shots on most holes. Three putting can happen up to 5 or 6 times a round and when it does it destroys your score. Imagine if you could just two putt every green you hit and make all those 5 foot putts you leave yourself after chipping!
Take your putter and 5 - 10 balls. Putt from one hole on the green to another hole on the green 20 to 30 feet away. Putt them until every single one is within 3 feet of the hole every time. When they are, move onto step 2...
Take the 5 to 10 balls and scatter them in a 3 foot circle around a hole. Putt from 3 feet until you can hole all of the balls. Then do it again at another hole until you can make all the 3 footers. Once you can do that, go home. Do not leave until you sink every ball without missing.
Next time, move the circle to 4 feet and 5 feet eventually. You'll become a machine!
Here's a putter that reminds me of Wolverine from X-Men - it's even called the Fang.
What makes this putter so unique is the many ways to line up your putts. You get the 'fangs'; two dark lines on the back of the putter and two smaller dots on the top edge. Lining up those 6 footers is easier than a girl with a tattoo on her lower back.
The Fang has such good feel, those lag putts are going to be more fun and less stress with the consistent roll this beauty puts on the ball. The Odyssey insert is the best in the business and provides a soft click with excellent feedback to let you know how you've hit the ball.
Combining the easy alignment and feel makes this one of the best putters for high handicappers out there.
The Cleveland Huntington Beach #1 is a beautiful looking piece of equipment. The face has been milled deeper than ever to provide a buttery soft feel off the face.
That face-milling on the Huntington Beach #1 gives the ball a consistent roll with less skidding and with the offset hosel placing your hands in front of the ball when putting, you'll be draining a lot more putts.
There's no reason at this point of your golfing career to blow $200+ on a Scotty Cameron. If you like blade putters, this one looks and feels as good as anything out there for a fraction of the price.
This is the best putter for high handicappers who like classic looks and at a very wallet friendly price.
Callaway have broken the mold again with this putter. Their inserts are world-famous but the new design has changed the face of putter inserts with the O-Works range.
The newly designed face makes the face insert feel more like a steel faced putter which has been missing from insert putters. This is particularly important with the move toward softer and softer golf balls. Insert putters and a soft compression ball makes for marshmallow feeling putts.
On top of the superior feel, the new face promotes a top spin on your putts to get them rolling quickly instead of an initial skid.
From the top when addressing the ball, the black color of the head contrasts heavily with the 2-ball alignment aid. Lining up the putt is even easier than any of the previous and very famous 2-ball putters Callaway have released.
Just pick your spot, put the putter behind the ball and line all 3 white dots (including your ball) to the target and fire. This system has been tried and tested since Callaway first released it in 2001 and this makes it probably the best putter for high handicappers in terms of overall ease of use, forgiveness and alignment. With the new insert, this is a real winner.
My best golfing buddy, Dietmar uses this putter and I've seen countless other high handicappers dropping their scores into the mid handicap range using the White Hot Pro 2.0 Rossie.
The compact mallet shape is simple to line up and doesn't give you the feeling of hitting the ball with a big sledgehammer or a Roswell space craft.
The Rossie is an older putter but the thing works and with countless rounds watching my buddy taking my cash, draining putts left and right with this thing, this ranks as one of the best putters for high handicappers I've ever seen. It's just a putt-dunking lag-making machine.
I can't say enough about this putter and truth be told, I have "upgraded" to this older model in exchange for my newer model Odyssey blade.
The milled copper face in the Cleveland TFI 8.0 2135 provides excellent feedback and through the copolymer insert behind the face.
What's unique about this putter is the 2135 number in the name. 21.35mm is the distance to the center of a golf ball. The aiming device on the flange of the putter has been raised to 21.35mm above the ground to line up perfectly with the center of the ball.
The 2135 comes in a range of shapes and the mallets are also very appealing but this blade feels and looks so good, it's hard to ignore.
Odyssey continues to dominate in the putter realm and without any hesitation, you can't go wrong with the Rossie 2.0 if you're on a budget and if you want to splurge, the VLine Fang from Odyssey is the ultimate champion just because it's so easy to line up and use on any type of green, fast or slow.


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Manatee duo and best of friends set off early this morning
on a 34-hour chartered flight to Guadeloupe; Entourage includes two vets and an aquarist
LEFT: River Safari Singapore's team of aquarists, keepers and vets coaxing Junior into the canvas stretcher, for transfer into the travelling crate. Junior and his best friend Kai are bound for Guadeloupe as pioneer manatees for the world's first manatee repopulation programme spearheaded by the National Park of Guadeloupe.
RIGHT: Jayce Chua, Assistant Curator, River Safari Singapore, making a final check on Kai before he and Junior are loaded onto the chartered freighter aircraft for the 19,600km journey to Guadeloupe which will take 34 hours. Kai and Junior will be the first of 15 manatees globally to arrive for the world's first manatee repopulation programme in the creatures' historic range in the Caribbean, where the species have not been sighted in over a century.
SINGAPORE, 8 August 2016 – River Safari Singapore's Kai and Junior have set off on their historic journey to become the first two manatees in over a century to arrive in Guadeloupe as pioneers for the world's first manatee repopulation programme. The pair departed Singapore at 4.50am today.
At a farewell ceremony on Sunday, Mr Mike Barclay, Group CEO of Mandai Park Holdings presented a special flight comfort kit consisting of the manatees' favourite treats—high fibre pellets—to Mrs Laurence Beau, Deputy Head of Mission from the Embassy of France in Singapore, symbolically signifying the handing over of River Safari's two male manatees to Guadeloupe, a French territory in the Caribbean.
The journey to Guadeloupe will take 34 hours, and Kai and Junior will travel 19,600km across the globe before finally arriving on 8 August 2016, at 1:30am local time.
Under the Antillean manatee repopulation project spearheaded by the National Park of
Guadeloupe, 15 manatees from zoos around the world will be sent to their historic home in the Grand Cul-de-sac Marin, a protected bay which measures 15,000 hectares and will shield the manatee collection from boating traffic by way of an enforced no-entry zone. In addition to age and temperament considerations, genetic diversity is also key in the selection of the founding group. The future offspring from the initial 15 manatees will be reintroduced to the wild, eventually repopulating the Caribbean region. Kai and Junior from River Safari will be the first arrivals for the landmark project.
Mr Mike Barclay, Group CEO, Mandai Park Holdings, said, "As operators of four world-class wildlife parks – Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari, River Safari, and Singapore Zoo – we are committed to offering the best possible care to the animals under our charge. Aside from maintaining a healthy living collection to educate and inspire an appreciation for wildlife among our park guests, we are also committed to breeding assurance populations for threatened species and, where possible, reintroducing them back into the wild. We are happy to have the opportunity to contribute towards repopulating part of the manatees' historic range in the Caribbean, where they have not been sighted in over a century. Projects like this allow us to do our bit to protect and conserve the world's biodiversity."
In the last 20 years, more than 10 manatees were bred under human care in River Safari and Singapore Zoo. Among them, Kai and Junior have been selected for the repopulation programme in Guadeloupe as they have reached sexual maturity, and are best pals inside the aquarium. Their relative young age also makes it easier for the pair to adapt to a new environment. Kai was born on 8 October 2009 and Junior was born on 2 February 2010.
Due to Kai and Junior's massive weight, River Safari's team of aquarists, keepers, and vets took extra care as they placed the pair into travelling crates for transportation. These crates are lined with thick sponge to ensure that Kai and Junior remain comfortable throughout the journey, and also to absorb water which has to be periodically sprayed on the manatees to keep their skin moist. As an added measure for the manatees' comfort, the National Park of Guadeloupe and River Safari opted for a chartered flight for Kai and Junior to minimise travel time.
Two veterinarians from the National Park of Guadeloupe and River Safari's Deputy Head Aquarist, Keith So, are accompanying Kai and Junior throughout the 34-hour journey. Kai and Junior's favourite aquarist at River Safari, Doris Su, will depart for Guadeloupe on a separate passenger flight this evening, to help ensure they settle down well in their new environment.
Manatees are currently listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Their numbers have declined in the last century due to hunting pressures, entrapment in commercial nets, and collisions with propellers and motorboats.


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I have long railed against the notion of "Search Engine Optimization". I consider it to be nothing more than scam artistry. To try to make one's living by luring legitimate search traffic to your shady business operation is a very slimy thing to do.
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What is Pilgrimage?
Pilgrimage is an aesthetically pleasing non-game. I couldn't get it's core mechanic, saving, to work so it's a not a hip thing but its got some visual assets which might validate a download. If you choose to, imagine it as a game you would open every day and play, slowly amassing more pilgrims.
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Ritual; that was the theme for the third Game A Week. It's very board when you actually think about it. Take, for instance, the route I took; a game you play ritually. A cool idea, which has been done here and there. Of course, knowing me, I went on tangent about all of the cool things I could do to with it and didn't get anywhere at all. Instead I hit a roadblock; saving.
Originally the game was called Siege (you might find a few hints that point to that when you run the game) and you would amass an army, day by literal day, until you decide to attack the wall. I had a bunch of different character designs which I never got a chance to implement, each having a rock, paper, scissors type of relationship to the wall but as the week began to draw to a close I pulled back from that and reassessed. Even then I couldn't get saving to work.
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Back to Siege! If I honestly was going to return to this, it would only be to develop my understanding of saving. The original idea was nice but onward and upwards, this isn't worth looking back on.
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Publication Date: Apr 17, 2004
538 pp
List Price US $28.00
Heinz Kohut (1913-1981) stood at the center of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic movement. After fleeing his native Vienna when the Nazis took power, he arrived in Chicago, where he spent the rest of his life. He became the most creative figure in the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is now remembered as the founder of 'self psychology,' whose emphasis on empathy sought to make Freudian psychoanalysis less neutral.
Kohut's life invited complexity. He obfuscated his identity as a Jew, negotiated a protean sexuality, and could be surprisingly secretive about his health and other matters. In this biography, Charles Strozier shows Kohut as a paradigmatic figure in American intellectual life: a charismatic man whose ideas embodied the hope and confusions of a country still in turmoil. Inherent in his life and formulated in his work were the core issues of modern America.
The years after World War II were the halcyon days of American psychoanalysis, which thrived as one analyst after another expanded upon Freud's insights. The gradual erosion of the discipline's humanism, however, began to trouble clinicians and patients alike. Heinz Kohut took the lead in the creation of the first authentically home-grown psychoanalytic movement. It took an emigre be so distinctly American.
Strozier brings to his telling of Kohut's life all the tools of a skillful analyst: intelligence, erudition, empathy, contrary insight, and a willingness to look far below the surface.
Excerpt from Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
"A deeply informed, absorbing biography. . . . Strozier's book is an exemplary study of a psychoanalyst who threw himself into the task of transforming a major tradition." —The New York Times Book Review
"This impeccably researched book, written in a clear elegant style that clarifies even complicated ideas carries us along like an exciting novel. Heinz Kohut is a magnificent contribution to the history of psychology, and beyond that, the history of ideas. Strozier has admirably succeeded in his goal of writing a biography that seeks to 'discover, illuminate, and disclose.'" —Sophie Freud, American Journal of Psychotherapy
"One of the most important American analysts, Kohut became the leader of a less authoritarian and more compassionate school of psychoanalysis known as self-psychology, now a major force in humanizing Freudian theory and practice. The author recounts the gripping, moving, and instructive story of this driven, creative, cultured intellectual, who was much respected as a teacher and therapist but disliked for his arrogance. Healing, music, courage, religion, art, charisma, rage, and death are some of the topics covered in this splendid biography. Too important to leave to professionals, this accessible work is highly recommended for all libraries." —Library Journal
"This new, definitive biography not only records Kohut's illustrious career, but gives fresh insights and reflections upon his work." —Publishers Weekly


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I'm kind of glad to be getting my house back to myself! That means more time to work on the assorted projects I've been putting off.
I know you can't tell from where you're sitting, but I have a huge smile on my face. Several of my projects were featured on blogs recently. In case you missed them, here they are:
How to Clean with Baking Soda:
Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Now on to why some of the rest of you are here...to check out my grocery store savings. This week, I had a whopping $50 to spend! I will probably make one more trip to the store with the rest of my $15 grocery budget. That's right.... I spent just $35...and that includes a trip to the dollar store for bread.
My total, including TAX at Publix this week was just $28
ocean spray juice $1/1
8 boxes fruit snacks .50/1 X8
2 body wash .50/1 X2
2 lawry's marinades .50/1 X2
2 Combos $1/2
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The store was completely out of the free deodorant, so I had to use filler items like ice cream to reach my total to use my coupons. So I consider the ice cream a freebie. ;)
With the kids going back to school, my lunch menus are going to be changing again...so I'm trying to stock up on snacky lunch foods now when they are on sale.


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Why did Sardar Kapur Singh dislike Politicians?
Amongst like-minded people, Kapur Singh was always gentle and polite; amongst the learned he was always humble and eager to openly share his views; amongst friends he was always bubbling with humour and jocular outbursts, but among Akali politicians and pseudo-intellectuals he reacted as an intolerant and angry man. When I asked him the reason, he said once, "I cannot tolerate intellectual fools and political scoundrels. They pretend to know everything but know nothing about anything of importance. I have no patience with them." Thus his impatience and intolerance became proverbial in many circles.


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Device allows users to manipulate 3-D virtual objects more quickly
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We determine the sharp lower bound for the Hilbert function in degree d of a
monomial algebra failing the WLP over a polynomial ring with n variables and generated in
degree d. We consider artinian ideals in the polynomial ring with
n variables generated by homogeneous polynomials of degree d invariant under an action of
the cyclic group Z/dZ. We give a complete classification of
such ideals in terms of the WLP depending on the action.
This thesis concerns the study of the Lefschetz properties of artinian monomial algebras. An artinian algebra is said to satisfy the strong Lefschetz property if multiplication by all powers of a general linear form has maximal rank in every degree. If it holds for the first power it is said to have the weak Lefschetz property (WLP).
In the first paper, we study the Lefschetz properties of monomial algebras by studying their minimal free resolutions. In particular, we give an afirmative answer to an specific case of a conjecture by Eisenbud, Huneke and Ulrich for algebras having almost linear resolutions. Since many algebras are expected to have the Lefschetz properties, studying algebras failing the Lefschetz properties is of a great interest. In the second paper, we provide sharp lower bounds for the number of generators of monomial ideals failing the WLP extending a result by Mezzetti and Miró-Roig which provides upper bounds for such ideals. In the second paper, we also study the WLP of ideals generated by forms of a certain degree invariant under an action of a cyclic group. We give a complete classication of such ideals satisfying the WLP in terms of the representation of the group generalizing a result by Mezzetti and Miró-Roig.


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Charles Edwin Allen Papers
Identifier: mss-227
Overview The Charles Edwin Allen Papers consist of materials relating both to Allen's life and his historical studies and writings, with the bulk concerning Allen's work on Burlington and Vermont history, including manuscripts and typescripts of several of his published articles and books.
Cummings Family Papers
Identifier: mss-097
Overview The Cummings Papers contain a large selection of family letters (1823-1946), family deeds (1795-1906) from Dunstable Massachusetts, Norwich and Thetford Vermont, family photogrphs (ca. 1850-1944), genealogical data, and two volumes of Cummings family and North Thetford history, compiled by Elizabeth Cummings.
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Overview The Thomas H. Canfield Papers can be divided into three sections: the correspondence and papers of Thomas H. Canfield, Sr., those of his son, Thomas H. Canfield, Jr. (1874-1964?), and those of the Hopkins family into which Canfield, Sr., married. The collection contains biographical and genealogical material for both families.
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BBC Director General Tony Hall announced a new service for his network, a "plus one" channel, which would allow BBC One viewers to watch shows after they are broadcast. So, what is the new BBC +1 channel, and how does it work?
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The +1 channel service allows viewers to watch popular programs an hour after they are broadcast on the networks, which is faster compared to online services such as HuluPlus in the US, which makes some shows available the day after broadcast on TV.
This announcement is welcome news for viewers expecting the service already offered by other networks, such as ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5, the BBC's network rivals.
Explaining the decision to introduce a "plus one" service to BBC One, Hall said,"TV channels are not going away," adding that "any plan for channels starts with BBC One…. It has to be the nation's favorite channel, and also its bravest."
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We are living in a day when viewers expect to be able to watch their favorite shows when they want and not just when they are broadcast on TV. Because of this, the BBC's move to finally join the ranks of other networks providing such services is a wise choice.
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How To Build A Barn Greenhouse
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A well designed greenhouse is important for your plants to last through those cold days. It is almost like you can control the weather. Most of the greenhouses I have seen can only last two to three seasons, as they are not strong enough. That's why I immediately fall in love with this barn greenhouse design.
This barn greenhouse is sturdy and can last quite many seasons. If you are looking for a serious greenhouse, this design is what you should try. You can grow a lot of veggies and flowers year after year with this greenhouse.
To build this barn greenhouse, you will need
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- 5 pcs 2×4 12' long Lumber – for sides/ridgepole; do not cut
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Lawyers for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have cross-examined for
a second straight day a U.S. businessman at the center of corruption
allegations against the embattled leader.
The defense attorneys Friday again tried to discredit testimony provided in May by U.S. financier Morris Talansky.
The 75-year-old Talansky appeared tired and frequently exasperated during the cross-examination. He said there may be an occasional lapse in his memory, but he insisted his testimony overall was accurate.
Talansky said he provided Mr. Olmert with $150,000 stuffed into envelopes while Mr. Olmert served as Jerusalem mayor and trade and industry minister.
Israeli police questioned Mr. Olmert for a third time last week about the allegations.
Mr. Olmert says the payments were legal campaign contributions. He denies wrongdoing, but has said he will resign if indicted.
Also last week, Israeli police said they are investigating whether Mr. Olmert made multiple, excessive expense claims for trips abroad.
Police say Mr. Olmert is suspected of enriching himself by charging various entities, including the state, for the same travel expenses. Police say some of the money was allegedly deposited into one of Mr. Olmert's private accounts.
Mr. Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem for 10 years until 2003. He later served as trade minister before becoming prime minister in 2006.
Israel's defense minister and Labor Party leader, Ehud Barak, has demanded the ruling Kadima Party pick a new leader because of the investigation into the corruption allegations. The Labor Party is Mr. Olmert's main coalition partner.
The ruling party approved a motion earlier this month to hold an election by late September.
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As far as the designer house goes, I will be helping out the designer if she is chosen to do a room. More on this later. We will present her plans for the rooms (dining room and study) to the committee in mid-April, and I guess we will find out shortly after that if she's chosen. If so, I will document the process from beginning to end, but I can't post until the actual showing is over. I'm hoping she gets the dining room...
In between painting and designing, I set a simple table, but with some of my favorite colors. I had to include green for St. Patrick's Day, so pink and green it is!
Sometimes I'm snappin' and other times I'm draggin'...
I chose a pretty pink and green Ralph Lauren tablecloth and napkins.
Napkin rings were purchased at an estate sale.
Stems are Navarre by Fostoria. I found four more of the waters at an antique show recently!!
The green and pink Bordallo Pinheiro cabbage plates, salads, and bowls were purchased at Tuesday Morning. I'm thinking I got the chargers there as well.
Silverplate is Repousse.
Thanks for visiting with me today! If you're in the Richmond area, come by and visit my booth at the Midlothian Antique Center!! Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!!


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What's the Corgi Engine?
The Corgi Engine is a Unity 2D + 2.5D Platformer Kit, available on the Unity Asset Store. It's a very fast, non-physics based controller for your player, plus many other features, described below. It's mobile friendly, works well with other assets, and is basically everything you need to start creating your own 2D game right now.
Where do I start ?
First of all, you don't have to read all that documentation. The engine is built with Unity good practices in mind, and is packed with help boxes. So if this is not your first Unity project, you'll probably be ok on your own. And you can always go back here if something's not clear.
That said, you can use the menu on the left to get to specific places. This documentation is functional. If you have questions about the code itself, you'll rather want to have a look at the API documentation. It's also recommended to look at the code's comments directly, usually they cover pretty much any question you might have.
If you want a list of features, or are wondering if this or that is included in the engine, you can have a look at this page. It also includes a changelog, and other useful stuff.
There are also video tutorials on Youtube.
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The rapidly growing city of Urbandale, Iowa is the location of this new upscale CCRC. The site features fields gently sloping to Deerfield Creek and parklike areas bordered by single family residences. With architecture reminiscent of a country manor house and adjacent cottages, this phased project comprises 141 independent living apartments, 32 villas, 24 assisted living apartments and 30 nursing beds. The Deerfield Maintenance Building is a 2,500 SF stand-alone building which contains two truck bays, a workshop area, office and storage. The building is designed to be in scale with the adjacent main building and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Dario Villalba
San Sebastián, Spain, 1939 - Madrid, Spain, 2018
Villalba studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, in the workshop of André Lothe in Paris, and at the Department of Plastic Arts at Harvard University. In 1966 he began creating his figures in methacrylate and plastic capsules in an expressionist style. In 1972 he abandoned painting and dedicated himself to a black-and-white photography. By working with photography he experimented processes of decomposition and re-composition and explored themes such as dementia, cruelty and violence. In 2001 the Galician Contemporary Art Centre (CGAC) hosted an exhibition entitled 'Documentos básicos 1957-2001' ('Basic documents 1957-2001'), a diary of images which described the general aims of his work. In 2002, at the ceremony of his reception as a numerary member of the Academy, he reads an opening address in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain, as a response to a speech by Mrs Francisco Calvo Serraller.
In 2014 the artist presented the exhibition in Freijo Gallery, DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. THE POWER OF THE IMAGE IN DARIO VILLALBA


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The strange phenomenon of gamers finding violence against women in video games funny
This is something that always leaves me scratching my head, I continuously see videos of various games where women are beated up, upvoted and promoted in gaming fora such as reddit's gaming subreddit. Those videos usually contain nothing more than a short sequence of a video game character beating up women, such as this, and this or this, and yet, the reddit and youtube communities seem to think this is hilarious, as seen by the amount of "likes" and upvotes.
Not only that, but if you see the related videos in Youtube, you'll find a large collection of videos simply about that. Beating up random women in video games.And this is not only in Deus Ex, oh no. A cursory search will easily turn up videos of beating digital females in Grand Theft Auto, Saint's Row and the like. It's like a special kind of humour for misogynists.
For some strange reason, it's also primarily directed against prostitutes as well, which raises all sorts of secondary questions beside the love of female abuse.
What do you think about this phenomenon?
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Intoxication in Rabbits
Ingestion of toxic substances has the potential for affecting many of a rabbit's body systems. Intoxication, the clinical term given to poisoning, may be due to eating poisonous substances, such as poisonous plants, or chemicals like rodent poisons, and lead. Intoxication can also occur as the result of inadvertent administration of drugs. Many antibiotics that are commonly prescribed to other mammals can be fatal to rabbits. Rabbits may also have adverse reactions to many common topical products that are safe for use in other mammals, like cosmetic soaps, shampoos, or sprays.
Symptoms and Types
- Seizures
- Digestive signs of intestinal inflammation
- Loss of body temperature regulation – high or low
- Lethargy, listlessness
- Loss of appetite
- Depression
Ingested toxins
- Poisonous plants - especially for rabbits that graze outdoors
- Some indoor houseplants can be toxic to rabbits
- Lead poisoning - chewing or licking lead-containing household substances, especially painted surfaces or metallic objects
- Anticoagulant rat poison
- Inappropriate oral medications or overdose of medication
- Certain antibiotics
- Certain pain medications
Topically applied products
- Flea collars
- Organophosphate-containing products – products used for killing insects, on the body or in the immediate environment
- Certain sprays and ointments used in high concentrations
- Insecticides and pesticides – household or outdoor
You will need to give a thorough history of your rabbit's health, onset of symptoms, and possible incidents that might have led to this condition. The history you provide may give your veterinarian clues to the type of toxicity your rabbit is suffering from, enabling your doctor to treat the rabbit quickly, before the condition can affect the major organs. Otherwise, the diagnosis will come about in the course of a differential diagnosis, a process that is guided by deeper inspection of the apparent outward symptoms, ruling out each of the more common causes until the correct disorder is settled upon and can be treated appropriately.
The final diagnosis will be based on the clinical signs, and exclusion of all other diagnoses. A complete blood profile will be conducted, including a chemical blood profile, a complete blood count, and a urinalysis. Confirmation of the diagnosis may be made by chemical analysis, but if your rabbit is having a severe reaction, your doctor will be working to find a solution for treating the symptoms before the condition can become fatal.


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Today I experimented with a free online tool called Poll Everywhere that allows students to participate in a poll that yields real-time data. What is the big deal, you ask?
The big deal here is that students vote by using their cellphones. They send in a text message to the appropriate number as given on the poll that you design. If you have the graph projected for the class to see, they can watch the graph update immediately as votes are cast. There is no need to even refresh the screen.
The above picture is a screenshot of a quick field test that I did with a small class of students. It was fun to watch them willingly pull their phones from hiding and text their votes. (FYI, we threw 'NO' vote in there just to mix things up and watch the graph update. The students were all for it.) The idea was really to try and get some first impressions from the students on engaging in this type of activity in the classroom. The response was a positive one.
I also like the idea that a teacher can get a sense of how well the students are grasping the material with a tool like this. Imagine asking the students a test type multiple choice question via the poll - All students can respond anonymously - giving the teacher a very fast sense of where students are as a group. Sure, Q&A sessions can still be done via the 'raise your hand and wait until I call on you' method but you often get the same group of kids that will raise their hand and speak up. Students do not want to be embarrassed if they do not know the answer. This way allows the teacher to see where the whole class is very quickly by getting feedback from everyone on the same question with no hard feelings.
It is interesting to note that when I asked the students in the class what type of texting plan they had - 100% said they had the unlimited plan.
A teacher can sign up for the free plan which will allow them to create as many polls as they want which can be responded to by up to 32 people. That would cover most classrooms.
Does anyone have any stories to share about using this tool in their classroom? I would be interested to hear what types of uses you have come up with for the tool.


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Generation 1 Controller Installation Steps & Tips
Video Guides
Hardware Installation
Watch this video for step-by-step instructions on installing your Generation 1 Smart Sprinkler Controller. After installation, check out the App Setup video for further tips and tricks!
App Setup
Watch this video for step-by-step instructions on setting up the Rachio app with your Generation 1 Smart Sprinkler Controller.
1) Test your system
- Confirm each zone's functionality with your current controller prior to installing the Rachio controller. Find and repair any irrigation issues prior to installing your Rachio.
2) Check W-Fi signal
- Check the signal strength at the location of your controller. We recommend a signal of at least 2 bars on your phone.
3) Unplug the power
- Disconnect power from your old controller.
4) Take a picture
- Photos of your current wiring are important for reference when you are wiring the Rachio
5) Remove your old controller.
- It's time for smart watering, with Rachio!
1) Anchor to Wall
- Install the Rachio Wall Mount to the wall using the two screws included.
2) Wire it Up
- Reconnect the wires to the Wall Mount terminals.
Required Wiring
- Common Wires: Insert into either white terminal slot. If you have more than one common wire, we suggest entering one in each common slot (left and right).
- Zone Wires: Install in the green terminal slots.
- Master/Pump Valve Wire (if present): Install in the blue terminal slot, and enable in Advanced Settings within the app.
Click wiring label for more WIRING TIPS
Wi-Fi credentials are required for this step
1) Download the Rachio app
2) Create Rachio account
3) Connect controller to Wi-Fi via the app
Steps for Blinkup:
- Make sure the Rachio is powered on.
- The Wi-Fi light should be blinking amber or red. If your Wi-Fi light is not blinking, please power cycle your controller.
- Ensure your smart phone/tablet is connected to a 2.4GHz or dual band network . Rachio cannot connect to a dedicated 5GHz network, and blended networks are not recommended .
- Once the countdown begins, position screen face down and flush against the photo sensor. Leave your phone there while the screen is blinking. This should take approximately 10-15 seconds.
- Once connected, the Wi-Fi light will blink green for one hour. After one hour, the Wi-Fi light will go gray (turn off).
Tips for Connecting:
- Turn auto brightness all the way up on your smart phone/tablet.
- Hold your smart phone/tablet as still as possible during BlinkUp
- If you are in a brightly lit area, ambient light may impede the Blinkup process. We suggest a dark room.
Rachio needs to know a little about your landscape in order to recommend accurate watering schedules
1) Set up your zones
- You can configure each zone's vegetation, soil, shade, nozzle, and slope types.
2) Create watering schedules
- Choose from 4 schedule types; Rachio will recommend an optimal watering schedule based upon the the zone attributes selected.
1) Run Zones
- Use the Remote to run any zone on-demand.
2) Run Schedules
- Click on a Schedule (Edit screen) to run it on-command.
3) Share Access with others
- Complete Access (default sharing setting in the mobile app)
- Limited Access (accessible via the web app only)
1) Blinkup
- There will be a short green flash at the end of the blinkup, this indicates that your Rachio is responding to the signal codes that are being sent. No short green flash? Please reattempt blinkup.
- If blinkup fails more than twice, power cycle your Rachio and your smart phone/tablet.
- Wi-Fi light not blinking green flash after blinkup? Take note of the Wi-Fi light light code and cross reference the error against the Light Codes found HERE.
2) Master Valve
- Do you have a master valve, but forgot to enable it? No sweat, it's an easy fix! Refer to Advanced Wiring for instructions.
3) Pump Valve
- Your Rachio is designed to operate a pump start relay. Please reference Advanced Wiring AND the user manual for your pump start relay for wiring instructions.
4) Not Running
- When the Rachio is watering, the status light should be lit blue. If the status light is not blue, double check that the valve in question is wired to the wall mount correctly.
- Assuming wiring is correct, double check to make sure that your sprinkler valves have 24V AC solenoids.
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It has been a wonderful summer this year and the London Olympics made it so, it has been sports galore, medals galore and the world and Olympic records that were smashed, made it all the more spectacular and interesting to everybody watching from all over the globe.
Usain Bolt did not disappoint and all the participants of this years games were a credit to their respective nations. We witnessed every human emotion possible during London 2012 and everyone agrees that it has been a tremendous games.
Tonight marks the end of the Paralympics which is culminating in a spectacular closing ceremony. All the participants should be very proud of the high standards of performance that they attained, these achievements I am sure will be built upon at Rio de Janeiro in four years time.
Despite turmoil and war in some parts of our planet, the london games have been a welcome distraction to the troubles in the different parts of the world and will remain a beacon of tolerance and peace which is abundant within the human family.
I wish to thank all the brave participants of this years Paralympic games who have shown courage, discipline and determination in achieving their goals of qualifying and representing their various countries at sports.
It was at these games that I noticed that a lot of disabled sports men and women were fitter and more able than some able bodied people that I know. It is a testament to the determination and hard work of the individual sportsmen and women and I salute them all.
Well, until Rio de Janeiro in four years time, this is me saying,
Stay blessed,
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