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Ricol DP - 100 - Dietary Fiber is a food grade guar powder.This product is available as fine and coarse mesh, almost sterilized, nearly odorless and is white in color. It is predominantly used for fiber enrichment of food. It also acts as a calorie reduced bulking agent, texturizer, stabiliser and fat extender that hydrates rapidly in cold and hot water systems. It helps to formulate healthy, fiber enriched foods while retaining texture, taste and appearance. The product finds uses in baby food, fruit juices, chocolate drinks and other food products.
Rama Industries is a supplier of guar gum for the food industry. Rama Industries has a wide range of products such as guar korma, guar meal, and barley. Rama Industries have products that give many applications including solubility in cold water, strong bonding properties, thickening, and film forming properties. Rama Industries advanced equipment and technology to manufacture their high quality products.
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that it was seen necessary to include sport as part of the curriculum in schools.
The inclusion is not only to nurture talent, but to ease the mind from the stresses of too much studying within the class.
Sports have become so popular world over becoming the centre of entertainment and source of livelihood to a lot of people.
Unfortunately, "drum majorettes" is one sport in Zimbabwe that has not been given serious attention even though it is admired by many.
To most, this is just an area dominated by girls in primary and high schools and done simply to add colour to national events and the so-called "real competitions" like soccer or rugby and nothing else.
Cool Lifestyle caught up with Queen Elizabeth's drum majorettes group and opened up on this area of sport.
"The history of the drum majorettes is very unclear. Drum majorettes is associated with the ceremonies that used to take place in Europe, particularly England, where young girls and women would get into royal colours and march in the street to the roll of drums, welcoming WW11 soldiers from the battlefields," said Mrs Varaidzo Mujeni the senior teacher.
"However, drum majorettes are not all about demonstrating perfection in marching or exhibiting mastery in twirling batons in the air in a military fashion.
"The spot has a bearing on the behaviours and attitudes of young girls as it cultivates morality and virtue. Most of the well behaved students at this school came from the drum majorettes group."
"As sport involves discipline and perfection, it is in this juncture that it shapes virtue in young girls, grooming them to become responsible adults," she said.
Paidamoyo Muyemeki (17) a Form Three pupil in the drum majorettes group said the sport has shaped her behaviour and gave her confidence.
"Ever since I joined the Drumies, It has boosted my level of confidence and manners which clearly shows that the sport helps a lot in shaping one's behaviour," said Paidamoyo.
Another squad member, Tinashe (17) also shared the same sentiments.
"We have gone places to showcase our talent as we get invited by many institutions and organisations at various functions to do our displays. I believe the more the sport is introduced in many schools the less the chances of mischief among students since drum majorettes groom young people to be well behaved in public." said Tinashe.
Mrs Satande challenged boys to also join drum majorettes.
"Although drum majorettes have been seen as a preserve for women and girls, it was time boys joined in because of the impact the sport has in behaviour molding sighting that in Mashonaland East at Kandava Primary school they were incorporating the idea," she said.
Record books of St Dominican School in Gauteng shows that drum majorettes first entered into the continent through South Africa.
A Drum Majorette squad comprises a squad leader with her sub leader, flag holders and the squad general who at competitions perform a routine march and free style.
A whole squad is expected to display skill in marching in blockbuster perfection to the throbbing of drums or sound of trumpets.
A good squadron leader should demonstrate a good mastery in handling the baton, which should not falter when twirled in air in military style.
A few secondary and primary schools around the country have taken drum majorettes as a sport and is highly regarded in high school girls in many universities and colleges.

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Advanced Woodwork is a custom cabinetry and millwork firm located in Palm Desert. They have beautiful work and continue to excel in their craft. However, they were in need of a refresh for their web presence. The old site felt dated and really didn't reflect the quality, modern, stylish products that the company puts out.
Enter Sketchbox Design. We poured meticulously over the details of the new version to ensure that it really had the right feel. The update includes a complete rebuild from the ground up, featuring logo modifications, new photography, and wordpress in order to manage the content. We love the fact that the design is completely responsive – meaning that the layout of the site will naturally flow into whatever device is being used to view it.
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text: Theatre Please note this event has already taken place and you are viewing an archived page of the Lakeside website.For a list of current events, exhibitions and workshops, please click on 'What's On' in the menu above ERNST KOVACIC & THE LONDON MOZART PLAYERS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406 Dvorak Terzetto for two violins and viola in C major Op.74 Martinu Three Madrigals for violin and viola H313 Beethoven String Quintet in C Op.29 Ernst Kovacic's performances convey an acute musical intelligence, persuasive quality combined with high-octane energy. Ernst has appeared as a soloist with the UK's leading orchestras, is a regular collaborator with the London Mozart Players and has made many appearances at international festivals. Dvorak's Terzetto was written at the height of his career. It is one of only two works he wrote for the combination of 2 violins and viola and displays his masterful scoring for strings, evident in his symphonies. Martinu's love affair with madrigals began with a performance of works by Byrd and Gibbons given in Prague in 1922 by The English Singers. His eclectic response to the form includes the Three Madrigals, premiered in New York in 1948, with shades of Bach and Vivaldi. "He has a unique personal affinity for his instrument and for music…" The Daily Telegraph "Kovacic's playing…was thoroughly persuasive, a fascinating fusion of virtuosity, expressive purpose and bristling musical character..." The Daily Telegraph "Virtuosos like Ernst Kovacic are sadly a rarity" The Independent


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We came out with a few crafts today. A couple of them were our Snow Letter Set and Penguins. They are adorable. The Snow Letter Set comes with a Snowflake as the letter 'o'. You can purchase it here. We have two different sizes of Penguins; Small and Large. You can either purchase them together or separately here. Our wood crafts are great because we sell them unfinished, that way it makes it easy for you to make them to match your home decor.
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This election was certainly the most divisive election I've seen in my 50+ years. I thought nothing would beat the Bush-Gore election, but I was wrong. It wasn't just the election itself that was divisive, it was the way things unfolded. It was more than just liberals and conservatives wanting very different things, it was that the two parties completely missed what voters actually wanted.
Most elections focus on a select number of issues: abortion rights, gun control, race, and many others. There always seems to be one or two, maybe three, things that define what a specific election is about. While this election certainly had a few themes, it seems to have been a bit more nebulous than that. It wasn't so much about better pay, health insurance, or even race relations—It was the status quo. More people were upset about business as usual in this election than in any other. Business as usual was the disease; the symptoms of that disease were the issues. Wages that don't keep up with inflation, health care costs through the roof, minorities being targeted by the system, all these things, and others, were symptoms of the disease. The overlaying feeling was to dump the Washington status quo, which was the disease, and the problems, which were the symptoms, would get fixed.
The public didn't seem to be overly concerned with details, they didn't care so much about the nuts and bolts of how specific problems would be fixed, it was more big picture than that. It was felt that if Washington were swept clean the issues could be fixed, if not, no amount of detail would make a difference. This election was not about details, it was much more high level than that. It was nothing less than a total revamping of government.
This election was the 7-Up election. For those of you old enough to remember, 7-Up was the un-cola. It went head to head with the more established Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola. It was the days of anti establishment, don't trust anyone over 30, and question authority. 7-Up struck a chord with young America wanting to upset the status quo. In this election we had two 7-Up candidates, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. They were both anti establishment, supported by grassroots efforts, and shunned by the two major parties. Neither party wanted to be on the coattails of a loose cannon lest they upset the status quo, the party rules, don't get on its wrong side. What they seem to have missed is that is exactly what the American public wanted.
The Republican Party tried to distance themselves from Trump as best they could, hoping he would eventually implode and one of the more mainstream Republican candidates could then carry the conservative torch. The Democratic Party was much the same, they coddled Hillary Clinton while doing their best to ignore Bernie Sanders, hoping he was just a flash in the pan and eventually the left would come to their senses. The Republicans never really had any standout candidate that the Right could rally around and Trump eventually triumphed in the primaries regardless of what the right did. The Democrats, on the other hand, did have a darling, namely Hillary Clinton. They felt that Trump was such a buffoon they couldn't not beat him regardless of whether it was Bernie or Hillary that faced him in the general election, and, as Hillary was more apt to tout the party line, they did everything they could to make sure she got the nomination—some very unscrupulous things. They completely missed the point of what this election was about.
The Democratic party succeeded in getting Hillary Clinton into the general election. Hillary Clinton was to face Donald Trump, the most anti establishment candidate ever, in a general election that was vehemently against the establishment. It didn't matter that she had great credentials, that she actually had detailed plans to back up her agenda, or that she had the know how to get things done. She was part of the Washington establishment, part of what was considered the disease. Same disease, same symptoms. Many considered her untrustworthy, she came into this fight with lots of baggage. This was not the election for a candidate thought untrustworthy. Was this deserved? It really doesn't matter. It was the public sentiment and it was a sentiment she couldn't overcome. Was Donald Trump considered trustworthy? To the left, no, to the right, yes. Go figure.
The truly passionate voters tended to be behind either Sanders or Trump, for whatever their reasons. They were both anti-establishment, demanded change in Washington, and were not known to blindly follow the party line. This is exactly what people wanted. No one cared about the technicalities, no one cared about minutia, they wanted the system—the system that had ignored their needs for so long—to be dismantled. Clinton was part of that system, Sanders and Trump were not.
Someone once told me that when you put someone's back against the wall they'll come off that wall the best way they know how. Much of America has felt that their back has been against the wall for a long time. Stagnant wages, jobs leaving the country, unaffordable healthcare, you name it. Presidents come in, and presidents go out, yet the American people are still suffering from these problems. New plans, same problems, so why vote for just another set of plans? It seems that America thought it best to vote for an unknown since the known has gotten them nowhere. They came off that wall the best way they knew how.
Had the DNC given the left what they wanted, had they not pushed their will, had they allowed the primaries to reflect the will of the voters we might have had a very different result in the general election. We would have had something we've never had in a presidential election, two candidates facing each other, each determined to change Washington. Yes, every candidate that runs gives lip service to changing Washington but very few actually have the will to do it, they're too dependant on their party for backing. This election would have been different. Would either candidate, Sanders or Trump, have succeeded? If not, it wouldn't be for a lack of trying.
American people are fed up with being marginalized by the Washington elite. It seems that nothing but a total shakeup of our political system will change the state of the American people and the people know that. That is what this election was all about. Would Clinton have been a better President than Sanders? It really doesn't matter, that wasn't point. The point of this election was real and meaningful change. Clinton was not thought of as someone that could deliver that, Sanders was. You know the rest.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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An efficient, cost-effective, permanent and environmentally sound approach to repairing damaged asphalt in parking lots, driveways and walkways.
Duramax has been using technology to more permanently fix potholes and damaged asphalt surfaces. It relies on a high-tech infrared curing system.
Potholes... Everyone hates them!
But what can be done about them? It's the same old problem every year. There are really only two seasons here up north; winter and road repair season. That's funny but the problem is no joke. Other than remove the entire roadway and replace it, what can be done? The patch jobs just don't cut it anymore.
We've even overheard roadway workers joke about how many hours (not months or years) their pothole repairs will last---the old "throw some fill in and tamp it down" simply doesn't work. Even the preferred method of cutting a section out and replacing it isn't much better. It still leaves a vulnerable seam for moisture to enter and break up the patch.
Step by step how the process works...
Heat the asphalt until soft
After removing any water or debris from the area with powerful blowers, the infrared panel is lowered to a position just above the pavement.
The specialized truck unit heats the asphalt in the area to be repaired to over 350°F, very close to the temperature that the asphalt manufacturing plant used when it created the original asphalt material. The heated area (approx. 6x8') is larger than the area to be repaired 5x7'. We do this so there are no cold spots and no seams.
This process takes only a few minutes due to the extremely efficient infrared heating elements contained in this unit.
Picture frame and rake area to be repaired
Once softened (8-12 minutes) we use the back of a rake to "picture frame" the area to be repaired. We do this several inches inside of the cold edge of the repair, this is to allow a seamless edge and a real thermal bond between the repair and the original asphalt surface. Instead of charging you to excavate and haul the old asphalt away, we recycle it right where it is.
Traditional methods of adding hot asphalt to a cold pothole do not create a seamless bond and eventually allow moisture to slip between the old and new asphalt and a failure will occur, sometimes in a matter of days or weeks.
Add rejuvenating oils and bonding agent
Part of the process includes replacing the original oils (maltenes and asphaltenes) that keep the asphalt structure flexible and bonded together. These oils were present when the asphalt was first made and over time has eroded away due to the sun's UV rays and natural effects of weathering.
We add these oils and then rake the area thoroughly before adding new asphalt. This step bonds the repair and helps protect it against the elements. Without this step, the asphalt in the repair will become brittle and likely fail in a much shorter period of time. Rejuvenator is one of the most expensive materials we use, but it is what makes the process last years rather than months.
Hot, fresh new asphalt is added
Unlike dump trucks that carry (cooling) asphalt to the job site, our truck is equipped with a "hot box" designed to keep up to 4 tons of freshly manufactured asphalt at working temperature and ready to use all day long.
Hot asphalt allows for better compaction which is critical to the process being successful. This fresh asphalt (usually only manufactured a few hours ago) is added to the repair area to bolster the quality of the rejuvenated asphalt and to also bring the repair up to proper grade. Without this, there would be a low spot and a puddle will form which is definitely undesirable.
Proper grading by hand and mechanical compaction
The asphalt is carefully raked smooth and leveled to the surrounding area. This process takes a steady and experienced hand. Knowing how much asphalt to add and then raking to get the proper height above the existing grade is something that only a craftsman can accomplish.
Once the new asphalt is raked and level, the repair is ready for compaction. Before rolling the large area, we "pinch" the outer 3-5" of the perimeter with the full weight of a high-quality commercial roller unit. This is the "secret sauce" that gives us a seamless repair. Once the "pinch" is completed, we vibratory roll the entire area in both directions.
A thermal-bonded repair is now finished
In less than 30 minutes your pothole has been replaced with a long-lasting newly paved surface. In most cases this process can be done without closing down your entire parking lot, allowing customers and employees the ability to come and go as needed without an inconvenience. The repair can be opened up to traffic within an hour or so depending on the weather conditions.
A traditional repair that uses a cut-out, remove and replace process is not your friend. Water and ice will find a way to undermine your efforts. Choose Duramax and relax - we got this!
Consider sealcoating to protect and beautify
Sealcoating asphalt is an excellent way to protect and preserve the work that we just did on your property. Not only does it protect, but it will give your property a consistent even appearance like when the surface was first installed. It also will provide better definition and contrast for traffic control markings and paint lines.
Sealcoating acts like paint on a wooden siding - it keeps the damaging effects of the sun's UV rays and the constant assault of weather from drying out the oils that keep an asphalt surface flexible and bonded together. Sealcoating, when applied properly, should provide several years of protection for pennies per square foot and can save you from having to replace the surface entirely, an expensive and time-consuming undertaking.
Ask us for more information, this is what we do best, help you make the best possible decisions for what is likely the second-largest asset on your property.


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ABS Opens Office in Houston's Energy Corridor (USA)
ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, is establishing an office in Houston's Energy Corridor near the intersection of Interstate 10 and Highway 6. The new facility will co-locate members from ABS engineering, project management, technology and business management, allowing ABS to better serve its client base in this significant energy research and development hub.
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Open Studios – Red Dirt, Flux …
Come see cool new art and ideas this Sunday afternoon in Mount Rainier – November 14, 1:00-5:00pm – open studios at Red Dirt, Flux, Sinel/Stewart/Weiss, Blue Fire …. If you've never been to the buildings "by the tracks" (and even if you have) you'll be fascinated and and amazed by this concentration of artistic creativity.
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Margaret Boozer
Kate Hardy
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Ume Hussain
Lindsay Rowinski
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Jessica Beels
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Ellyn Weiss
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Roberto Devers
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Compressed Narratives:
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India's Sania Mirza has entered the semi finals of women's doubles at the 2013 US Open. Tenth seeds Sania and Jie Zheng of China beat the 4th seeded pair of Su-Wei Hsieh and Shuai Peng in straight sets 6-4, 7-6 in a match that lasted 1 hour 50 minutes.
The Indo-Chinese pair will now take on 8th seeded Australian pair of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the semi finals on Thursday.
Sania and Zheng were quick to seize the initiative and a single break was enough to give them the opening set.
The second set went on serve before the Indo-Chinese combination secured a mini-break and held their serve thereafter to pocket the match.
For records, this is Sania's best showing at a Grand Slam in women's doubles in 2013 after having failed to go past the 3rd round in the previous 3 Grand Slams. It will Sania's first semi-final appearance in the US Open and her fourth overall in a major tournament.
The Indian tennis ace has now reached the last four stage in the women's doubles at all the four major tournaments.
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Taking the Leap
Consider how your CU can help members find happy financial landings.
Last Saturday I stood atop a metal platform, harnessed to a zip line high above the treetops. The day was brisk. My hardhat was functional, yet stylish.
I had worked up the courage to confront my fear of heights in a bold and defiant way.
I listened to my guide's final words. "OK, all set. Stand at the edge and get ready to fly. Don't worry, Stephan will catch you on the other side. This is a fast zip and the breeze is going to send you along today. So go ahead, Lora. Step off."
Intellectually I knew there was limited risk for bodily harm, and a thrill waited ahead--provided I did not faint. Still, a primal part of me wanted to unhook myself and turn back. Stephan was invisible.
Librarians don't do this, I thought. Better to be reading a book.
I clutched the tether, took a deep breath, gulped—and leapt off.
Many consumers find themselves in precarious financial situations; thrashing about on a roller coaster of juggling bills, confronting employment fears, and wondering how to conquer fiscal challenges.
Research this week reveals payday lenders often are the "go to" source for help and security.
Of course, credit unions are a better option. But like Stephan, might you be an invisible landing place in their time of fearfulness? Read on to learn about current needs and practices of these consumers. Consider how you can help them find happy landings.
'I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.'—Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
First, let's examine why some are tempted to resort to payday lenders.
Income is an important component in financial security. Currently, the employment gap between rich and poor is the widest on record, National Public Radio (NPR) reports.
In fact, unemployment rates for families earning less than $20,000 per year have topped 21%, "nearly matching the rate for all workers during the 1930s Great Depression," according to NPR.
Interestingly, many "low-wage workers are now older and better educated than ever," and there have been especially large increases in the percentage of low-income workers with at least some college-level training.
The average duration of unemployment is long: 39.5 weeks as of 2012, the highest level since World War II. And, "because many mid-skill jobs are being lost to globalization and automation, recent U.S. growth in low-wage jobs has not come fast enough to absorb displaced workers at the bottom."
How are consumers making ends meet in times of economic and social shift?
The "Make-up of Non-Bank Customers Changes," observes Boston College. "More Americans… say they have used nontraditional financial services, such as check cashing, or are getting loans from places like pawn shops, payday lenders, or firms that offer advances on IRS refunds."
In fact, 41% had done so in 2011, up from 36% in 2009.
Nonbank loans are becoming an increasingly important source of funds for consumers. "Once associated with minorities, immigrants, and low-income workers… they're more prevalent among nonHispanic whites, college graduates, and people who earn more than $50,000."
"Workers Struggle Day to Day," says Boston College. This blog post comments on findings by the FINRA Education Foundation, which reports that a sizable minority of Americans say they spend more than they earn, have overdue medical bills, or make only the minimum payment on their credit cards.
Further, "Pulling together $2,000 may seem like only a modest challenge for someone with good pay and benefits. But 40% percent of the people surveyed also indicated they would be hard-pressed to find that much money if they needed it."
The FINRA study reveals strategies Americans use to handle financial emergencies. They include:
Overall, "the findings suggest that more than 46% of all respondents are living close to the financial edge."
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'—Douglas Adams, English writer
Let's examine "Who Borrows, Where They Borrow, and Why," per Pew Research on payday lending in America.
Key findings reveal:
Examine "Payday Lending Abuses and Predatory Practices" from the Center for Responsible Lending. This compelling study analyzes the impact of such lending on households, revealing that they often create a "debt treadmill" and foster situations in which borrowers are "worse off than they were before they received a payday loan."
Some factors contributing to a "worse off" scenario include high fees, lack of underwriting ensuring affordability, short-term due dates, single balloon payments, and post-dated checks or access to bank accounts as collateral.
Might technology help those who look to alternative loans for help?
Smartphones are important resources for the unbanked, according to Brookings. In the developing world, mobile money services "are used to move billions of dollars every month."
Further, "Mobile money will drive digital inclusion in developing countries in ways that go far beyond the set of currently available transaction-focused services."
An interesting question "may be what the developing world will look like when cost declines bring entry-level smartphones within financial reach of nearly everyone. This paper proposes some answers to that question and identifies some ways to maximize financial and digital inclusion using mobile technologies."
My zip line experience was exhilarating, fun, and a successful step toward conquering my fear of heights. I not only enjoyed the ride, but appreciated the security I knew awaited me on the opposite platform.
Imagine how you can help those tempted to resort to alternative financial services. Perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson's words will prove thought provoking: "The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it—so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it."
How many consumers are riding this fine line? How can you help?


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10 years ago I was very relieved. I had been very worried about the Y2K problem, the year 2000 problem. So many programs were using two digits to store the year and were counting on next year being larger than year. But with the year 2000 - a leap year to boot - suddenly 00 < 99, and thing would be going awry.
For myself and my family, I risk-proofed our cabin in the woods. I had a more effective wood-burning fireplace installed that could be cooked on in an emergency. I stocked up on canned goods, flour, powdered milk, and candles. I made sure we had hand-driven can-openers and egg-beaters and what not. And during a test of effectiveness that was sprung on me in September 1999 when the electricity was out for hours, I had a camping stove and some sterno cans on hand. The first thing you need when the electricity is out is a hot cup of tea. Whiskey or rum is not a bad idea, either.
I was glued to the TV set as the new year began on some Pacific islands. Okay, they made it, but they didn't have many computer-driven systems. But when New Zealand and Australia made it, I began to relax. Puh. I didn't trust computer scientists to think about a special case like this, but the necessary services had finally understood the problem and worked like crazy to make sure that their systems were 2000 compliant.
Just the same, as is the custom in Sweden, I jumped at the twelfth gong, jumping into the new year. If the earth is falling, I want to be planning on being in the air.
We enjoyed our champagne, WiseKid shot off some rockets (causing a neighbor about 500 m away to get all angry because that scared her dogs), and we celebrated. Sure, lots of systems had problems, but we had electricity.
I've been very glad of the preparedness over the past decade. Electricity is carried in overland lines, which have a nasty habit of catching falling trees in storms. I have had numerous occasions to cook tea and soup on the fireplace plate. And it really does a great job getting the most out of every piece of wood we feed it. We spent years eating up the canned goods. Pretty much the only thing I never used was the camping stove.
But whatever - be prepared is the motto.
Have a good New Year's Eve, and all the best for us all in the coming decade!
A Decade Later
10 years ago I was very relieved. I had been very worried about the Y2K problem, the year 2000 problem. So many programs were using two digits to store the year and were counting on next year being larger than year. But with the year 2000 - a leap year to boot - suddenly 00 < 99, and thing would be going awry.
Good ideas from Germany?
(From a German brochure on the electronic identity cards now being introduced)
I don't know. I'll give them Gutenberg. And I guess Nipkow got the first patent on something that looks like a TV, although that was in 1884. Or do they mean the first regular broadcasts? That may have been Germany, the Nazis were keen on broadcasting the Olympics 1936.
The computer - and most certainly the PC - was not invented by Konrad Zuse, no matter what Germans want to believe. The ABC computer was first. They won the patent fight.
Didn't the Japanese do the Fax? Okay, Germans again with a patent for smart cards, but the French were the first to use them widely.
As to whether the adjective "good" can be used in conjunction with the electronic identity card, the votes are still out on that.
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Wikipedia - Deleted because of Irrelevance
The debate within the German Wikipedia on the question of relevance was taken to a new level at a podium discussion at the 26C3 conference, as reported here in German by heise. I listened to most of the discussion via live feed, as I was not in Berlin.
The fight is on between the "exclusionists", who want to make a high-quality, exclusive encyclopedia, and the "inclusionists", who want to include everything, as one does not know in advance what is relevant to someone.
As a member of the exclusionists, Kurt Jansson, former chair of the German group that promotes open information and now at the German newsweekly Spiegel, used an example to demonstrate why he wants high quality. The German president was giving a speech on the occasion of the German woman's soccer team winning another World Cup. His speechwriter apparently was using only the Wikipedia as a source, as the president spoke of the first team winning receiving a set of coffee china and an ironing board each. In reality, they only got the china, the ironing board was a joke put there by some troll. Jansson feels that we have a duty to provide correct information in the WP.
I call this bullshit. Expletive not deleted. Journalists must learn to do research, and not just parrot what they are fed. They need multiple sources for statements of fact. I mean, come on, surely someone out at the German Soccer Association could confirm or refute the ironing boards. People must learn how to use Internet media - and the first rule is to have a second source on everything, then to see what the quality of these sources is.
Sure, it would be sooooo nice to have everything be right at your fingertips and to be correct. But what, indeed, is the meaning of "correct"? That is one of the things we fight about a lot at the Wikipedia. I say that everyone needs to take the WP with a grain of salt. It's a great place to go for a first idea about a topic. But every fact needs collaboration if you are going to use it somewhere else. The links given will be a really, really great first step.
Mathias Schindler spoke for the inclusionists. He gave a really wonderful example: waaaaay back when, he started (he really did, I checked!) an article on a US local politician who was running for the Senate. He wasn't elected yet, but was showing some promice. Schindler did some research and started the article on Barack Obama. Schindler writes on the comment line: "This is a basic stub. Does anyone want to continue?" Indeed.
Using the current "relevance" criteria at the time the article was written, it would have been deleted. Sure, once the guy got to be better known (at the latest when he became president!) someone would have written an article on him. But hey, this was a start and there was some basic information about him in there.
And come on - it's not like as if we are strapped for space.
Martin Haase, the wise forty-something who has his own Wikipedia entry on account of being a professor of linguistics, points out that deleting articles that already have links from elsewhere pointing to them is a deadly sin and takes away information from the knowledge basis. He points to the Open Knowledge Foundation, an organization that is trying to get as much information as possible into the public domain.
He also notes that deleting articles kills the purpose of interwiki links, which are great helps in translations. As an example he uses the cocktail Tschunk, a cocktail popular with hackers that mixes rum, sugar, lime and Club Mate, a high-coffein drink based on mate tea. It is an acquired taste. There is a nice article in the English-language Wikipedia, but the German-language one was deleted and a sentence or so about it worked into the article on Club Mate. The problem is, if you want to know what Tschunk is, you end up on a completely different page and have to read through the entire article to find the bit about Tschunk, instead of quickly finding a short page giving the details.
Really, guys, the German idea of checked changes helps a lot. If people just keep an eye on new articles and quit making heros out of people who propose deletions, we'd be a lot better off. I liked the idea proposed from the floor: have Wikipedia money. Writing articles or editing articles gets you Wiki-Dollars. Proposing a deletion costs 5 Wiki-Dollars. There you go, let the market settle this! And have people buy Wiki-Dollars just like Linden-Dollars, and we even have money flowing in!
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Book Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking & Learning - Refactor Your Wetware. The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Raleigh, NC. 2008
Wow - a funny self-help book for programmers that is properly footnoted and a good read! And it makes a lot of sense, too.
Hunt begins with a discussion of the stages of knowledge in the Dreyfus model: beginner, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert. These different stages are important, because people at different levels learn differently and need different tools to be effective.
In particular, experts are not always good teachers, because they don't always know how or why they make specific decisions - they just do, and they are right. Beginners and advanced beginners have not learned how to see yet - they take in all the possible options and are confused. They long for a rule book: if the situation is thus and such, do this. And they need quick successes.
Experts, however, can react to unforseen situations. This is why the so-called expert systems aren't really experts. They lay down rules for everything, but as soon as the rules are defined for one level, you have to do the next level down, sort of an infinite regression. And the rules do not make good use of context, which is vital for experts.
Hunt goes on to discuss research about the L-mode and the R-mode of your brain, linear and rich mode. Yes, these are approximately the left and the right side of your brain. The L-mode does the logical reasoning and R-mode takes in the whole picture. L-modes focuses on what to do next, R-mode sees relationships, but unfortunately is not really verbal.
The key is getting these two parts of your brain put together. Many agile methods are quite good at appealing to both parts of the brain, that's why they work so well - but not for beginners! I think this is very important for teachers to understand, that we have to teach beginners differently from those who have some competence in programming already.
Hunt has a wealth of suggestions for how to use your "wetware" effectively. Some are kind of bizarre, but maybe worth a try. I went out and got a little moleskin notebook for jotting down random thoughts. It's worth a try, and I've always wanted a reason to have one of those things anyway.
A great book that needs to be read by at least all who teach computing.
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But this is me, really!
I had an errand to do at my Swedish bank today. I always dread these, because there is usually some problem involved with my lack of a proper Swedish personnr, personal identification number. Swedish programmers use it as a primary key for everything, so those who don't have them (like tourists) run into lots of problems.
We have had a bank account here in Sweden for the past 13 years. One has to pay one's bills somehow! This bank was nice enough to open an account for us years ago when we were standing there with our pockets full of cash that we had brought for the down payment on our house and we wanted to put it into a bank account. Without a personnr two banks refused us before we were able to bank it, but that is a long, old, other story.
Our bank uses Internet banking, so I can pay bills online using a PIN generator. The PIN generator is a piece of security theater - it always generates the same number for the challenge number put in. The login numbers are always chosen from a small group of numbers, and once you are in and have set up some bank transfers, the number for the signing the transfers is just the sum of the amounts in SEK. If I pay a bill for 250 SEK I always have to use 0002 5000 as the challenge. Duh. It would be trivial to set up a trojan to always fill up amount to transfer to a specific sum for which I already know the code.
The little box that generates the PIN was getting old - cover cracked, keys don't respond, display fading. I wanted a new one. Should be simple, shouldn't it?
No. We are in Sweden. They have to make sure that it is me. The young man at the desk gets his boss. She knows me. She's had to deal with every bank problem I have had in the past few years. We move off to another counter.
- May I have your ID?
Sure. I hand over my German identity card. She frowns as she scans it. Look, lady, you've done this before. We don't have a personnr in Germany in general use. Yet.
- If you need my personnr, here it is.
I scribble it on a scrap of paper. She lights up, types it in, frowns. Hmm. It is not in the database. Of course not. The Swedish government only has active personnr in their database. I am marked as having moved to a foreign country, so I am inactive.
- I need more identification, she says.
Let's see. I have my credit card, issued from this institution. I have the old PIN generator that has a number on it. I have the bank book that I got when we opened the account. It is in my husband's name, because at that time he was the only German citizen, I was an American.
It dawns on me. I was an American when I got the PIN generator. Now I am German. So I am not longer the me they have in their database. Identity is quite a hard problem, it seems, not just for teenagers!
She gets out paper forms. We make photocopies of my ID card. No fingerprints, though. She frowns at her computer screen again. I make small talk, about me being a professor from Germany and all. She asks in what field. I say computer science. She jokingly offers for me to come around and help her make this thing behave. I would love to!
She finally finds another form, prints it out, I sign that I am me (!), and we carry on. She first "destroys" the old one by pressing in the magic code "88888888". I wonder what would happen if I purchased something for 888 888,88 SEK? That would have invalidated my generator.
The new PIN generator is a one-time pad generator. It has to be initialized with the bank page when I log in. There is a button that has three different functions. There is an instruction booklet to accompany it.
I just tried it - it actually works, although it is not intuitive. It writes "APPLI" at you. That means "application". And you choose 1 to log in with the one-time code, 2 if you need an answer code. I wonder what 3, 4 and 5 do .... The instruction booklet is very good about telling you to choose a good PIN. 1234, 4321, and 7777 are bad. And your last 4 digits to your personnr are also not a good idea. I wonder how many Swedes do that? I would guess more than 10% use these 4 digits as their PINs. But this is just conjecture, no way to know unless one asks them.
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The Girl who Played with Fire: The Movie
I saw "Men who hate Women" on DVD. I have now seen "The Girl who Played with Fire"on DVD (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med eld). If it would have been on TV I would have changed the channel, as I found it quite boring. Okay, so I read the book, which craftily weaves all sorts of subplots into a tapestry of suspense. And you really can't get the 1000 pages of the book into about 2 hours. But I mean, come on, they changed all sorts of things, like Blomkvist taking a car to Gothenburg instead of a train. Characters like Erika are just shadows, Stockholm is just a nice backdrop, and the police are just police. None of the fighting amongst the police that went on in the book.
Maybe reading the book first spoiled it, but the book was sooo great. If you haven't read it: start. I gave book one to two people for Christmas this year ;)
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The Girl who Played with Fire: The Movie
I saw "Men who hate Women" on DVD. I have now seen "The Girl who Played with Fire"on DVD (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med eld). If it would have been on TV I would have changed the channel, as I found it quite boring. Okay, so I read the book, which craftily weaves all sorts of subplots into a tapestry of suspense. And you really can't get the 1000 pages of the book into about 2 hours. But I mean, come on, they changed all sorts of things, like Blomkvist taking a car to Gothenburg instead of a train. Characters like Erika are just shadows, Stockholm is just a nice backdrop, and the police are just police. None of the fighting amongst the police that went on in the book.
Maybe reading the book first spoiled it, but the book was sooo great. If you haven't read it: start. I gave book one to two people for Christmas this year ;)
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In a word - no
Just got a Christmas email (spelling intact) from a prospective student who had wanted to meet me yesterday in my office hours. I had explained that I did not have office hours on Christmas Eve, as the building would be locked.
Dear WiseWomanFirstName,
I can also meet you any where. I can come to your house if you dont mind. Besides my study maybe in your university or not, we can be good friends.In a word: No.
please can you give me your handy number.
God Bless,
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Avatar - 3D edition
The past two weeks have been hellish. I've just barely had time to eat and sleep a few hours, I'm shocked that Christmas is next week and the end of the fiscal year is looming.
I dragged home Friday night to find a note from WiseMan - I'm off to see Avatar (Wikipedia entry) with the UsualSuspects. Just then the doorbell rang, and WiseKid was there with CurrentGirlfriend. I asked if they wanted to go to the movies, they said "Sure!", so we wolfed down a slice of bread and high-tailed it to the theater. They always show half an hour of advertising at the start anyway so that you get all your popcorn eaten before the show starts.
We got tickets (expensive, you have to purchase 3D glasses) and found the UsualSuspects, and settled it.
It is wonderful.
Really. I didn't notice that an hour and a half had passed when they cruelly interrupted us during the wonderful love scene to have a break (meaning we could get more beer and popcorn). It went on for another hour, and I was truly enchanted.
Sure, it's a rip-off of a gazillion other films. There are traces of Lord of the Rings, Terminator, Alien, Mulan, Lion King, and who knows what else in there. Who cares. This strange world with bizarre (but logical) physics, fantastical creatures and pointy-eared humanoids (Star Trek?) was fascinating to get to know. The women were also warriors, and the religious elements were nicely woven into the story, contrapointed by the Marine's disdain for this all. The Marines seemed to have had their biceps Photoshopped, but it was very fitting.
I wasn't sure for a while how it was going to end, as I couldn't find a way to twist out of the avatar world, but something corny was indeed found.
I don't know why Grace had to smoke, but I do want one of those transparent mobile boards that you can just grab data off another screen and put on your mobile one for Christmas. Okay, I'll wait until next year if I have to. And if we can figure out how they produced all the electricity needed for all of their toys, we really, really need to start using it now (unless it is plutonium or some such).
The 3D stuff was interesting, polaroid filters are much superior to red/green. I jumped in shock quite a number of times as stuff flew out of the screen at me. This seems to finally be a new way to get people back into the theater - can't easily recreate this sensation at home (yet). And it really thwarts the secret filmers, as you need two projections for this to work, but they are only filming the composite picture.
The motion capture used to produce the film seems fascinating, according to the description on the Wikipedia. We just opened our own motions capture studio a year or so ago, wonder where we can get funding to have one of these toys.
The Na'vi language was designed by a linguist, Paul Frommer. There is already quite a body of information available on it online - from the hyperlinguistic treatment on the Wikipedia to a guest column by Frommer on a blog. I wonder how long it will be before there is a doctoral thesis comparing Na'vi, Klingon, and Elvish.
Update: Avatar won two Golden Globes!
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Visit to the Job Center
Seeing as how WiseKid turns 18 next month and still is not gainfully employed, and has not made any motions of applying for a job, I marched him down to the "Job Center" today. That is what they now call the unemployment office.
A large building, with crowd-control waiting line ropes - space for a couple of hundred people waiting for a number. We are lucky, only about a dozen people in front of us. The atmosphere is charged - angry people, exasperated clerks. There are 13 clerks handling check in. We approach our clerk, I smile, greet her, and explain that I want him to apply for unemployment.
"Are you yourself a customer of ours?"
Tick.Tick.Tick. Right, they call the supplicants "customers" now. Newspeak right and left! We get a little note saying where we are to go, and are permitted to take a number. When our turn is called, we explain to the woman what we want. "Oh, no," she says, "you are in the Wrong Office."
This is a game that German officials love to play. They publish ornate web pages and print up brochures at taxpayer's expense that you study in order to determine a) where to go and b) what to take with you. Experienced people just take a shopping bag with all the documentation you have ever officially received. Because the first attempt to ward you off will be "You are in the Wrong Office." The second one is: "Do you have documentation on X?" X being something they think you don't have with you, like your vaccination records or your rental agreement.
I ask if the purpose of a job center is not actually to help people find jobs. She looks at me incredulously. People here only want money, I suppose, not jobs. She writes down the address for us and shoos us away. Good job I've got the car, it would be a long walk.
Outside WiseKid breaks out in giggles. "That was soooo funny," he bubbles. "They were so nice and polite to you. When I go with friends, they are really nasty to me."
The next place is actually quite nice-looking. Blue walls, a water fountain bubbling. We get in here quickly, too, this is starting to look too easy. We get a waiting number, and are soon shown into an office where three cases are being discussed at a high volume level at the same time.
I present our case. "Oh no," she says. "He can't apply for unemployment. You have to support him until he is 26." WTF? I paid a lawyer who told me that he could, under special circumstances. I ask her to please quote me chapter and verse on this.
She gets flustered, asks her colleague. He starts rifling through a booklet, desperately looking for the right paragraph. She finally decides to let us have the forms, cautioning that we will just get a "No" if we submit them. Fine. That's all I want. She types some stuff into her computer and it spits out a centimeter's worth of paper. The forms are written in Amtsdeutsch, a special kind of German that is supposed to be precise but is in general just not understandable.
We go outside to wait. And wait. And wait. WiseKid would have left by now. He goes for a smoke, comes back, we wait. I read the booklet. Aha, here it is: special circumstances.
After quite some time we get to speak with a very competent lady who makes very good suggestions. I do hope this works out, as I think she will be good for him.
At home we start to attack the pile of paper. It is worse than a tax form. You need to put in all the numbers you have ever had in your life. And dates. And make photocopys. And put in numbers. And sign all over the place.
It's about a third of the way done, his next appointment is on Thursday. Now I understand why most of the shops on the way to the Job Center were all either lawyer's offices or form-filler-outers. The rest had bread and booze.
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Swiss Minarets
This past issue was brought by an anti-foreigner political party and was geared at forbidding the building of minarets in Switzerland. There was no apparent current issue that provoked it, it was just a fundamental vote to see where people stand.
Well, 60% were for the measure, which caught liberal Swiss by surprise. All of the polls had indicated that the measure would be voted down. But apparently, when asked, the Swiss public was too chicken to tell the truth, but at the polls, alone with the ballot, they voted with their hearts.
Oops. Now what do they do? I spoke with a number of people during my short visit to Switzerland, they were quite ashamed for how their own country was acting. And they are at loss as what to do. They can't really get rid of their plebiscites. They can't easily get this one declared illegal.
Pupils in schools have been building minarets, some of them even lasting a few hours on the roofs of their schools. I think the easiest way would be to just build towers, put a clock in them, and declare them to be clock towers, not minarets. There are clock towers all over Switzerland, and no one would dare try and forbid them.
Security by .... Fruit Box
I went down to the hotel lobby to use the free computer to read the news last night. Underneath the desk was a green fruit box.
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The Bridge May Be Closing
We have a little transponder called the BroBizz, in our car for the bridge between Denmark and Sweden in Copenhagen. It's very nice, you don't have to stop to pay the toll, just slow down, drive through the bizz lane, and the price is added to your credit card bill. Of course, you had to give them your email address, and they send out lots of messages.
Today there is a message about the Copenhagen summit.
"Dearest WiseWoman [I didn't realize we were that chummy]
The climate conference COP 15 will be starting on Monday. There will be over 20.000 delegates from all over the world attending. About 2000 of these will be staying in Malmö and commuting to the conference at the Bella Center every day. [By car? Why? There's a train every 20 minutes from downtown Malmö to Örestad and a short walk from there. I bet they will have a shuttle bus, too.] We suggest you leave home in good time. [That's Sweden for you, just like a good mother.]
One visitor in particular can possibly be posing a traffic problem on the bridge, even if he won't be staying in Malmö. The president of the USA, Barack Obama, has announced that he will come to COP 15 on Wednesday, December 9. [Actually, he has to pick up his Nobel Prize on the 10th and there will be a spot of grub with the king and queen afterwards.] It is not clear at what time Obama will be coming to Copenhagen and what this will mean for traffic.
The cortège can cause temporary closings of the bridge during the conference. [Translation: It will be closed. Period. We are scared some terrorists will blow it up.] We will keep you updated by web page or by SMS service and signs on the bridge, as well as over radio.
We apologize for any inconvenience and hope for your understanding."
Well. At least they are announcing it. Maybe it will do the climate some good if everyone just stays home that week. Save some CO2.
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More on Wikipedia Relevance and Women
The relevancy discussion at the German Wikipedia continues, the fires being fanned this time by Spiegel Online. Many people have written to me, wanting to have a copy of the article "Professorin" that I worked on and got itself deleted, because the "real" "main" category is, of course, the male form "Professor". I had fought to get this made into "Professur" (the office, not the person), but that was about the size of it. My statistics disappeared (only to partially resurface when the Swiss and Austrians wanted some comparative numbers.
So anyway, I went back through my editing history for a look down memory lane. Goodness, one learns a lot about a person reading the editing history! And then I stumbled on Anna Maria Schleiermacher. In 2005 when WiseMan and WiseKid and their pals were biking to Sweden, I had been visiting the little museums along the way and stumbled upon a collection of her paintings. There was a little booklet for purchase which I got (where on earth is that now??), and while waiting for the bikers while enjoying some free WLAN (used to have that in the olden days when people didn't protect their WLAN) I set up a little stub about Anna Maria. It went like this:
'Anna Maria Arndt, geb. Schleiermacher (* 18. Februar 1786, † 16. Oktober 1869 in Bonn), zweite Ehefrau des Rügener Dichters Ernst Moritz Arndt.Before I got all the painting stuff sorted out, I wanted to read the booklet. Well, it was a nice summer and I never actually got around to doing anything with the article. Today I had a look:
Ah yes, the women get subsumed into the articles of the men. Musn't have these uppity women having their own precious pages.
A check of the edit history reveals that there was a deletion discussion three years later in 2008, at the end of which the user Wahrheitsministerium (Ministry of Truth, how fitting) notes "redirect, wie in der LD angeregt, Lebensdaten bei Ernst Moritz Arndt eingearbeitet" (Redirect as suggested in the deletion discussion [which lasted 5 hours], data has been put into Ernst Moritz Arndt.)
The discussion was only about that she was sister-of and wife-of. No one made any attempt to find out more about her, and I did not realize that I had to observe and fight for everything I contributed. At that time I naively believed that we were collecting the knowledge of the entire world.
So go have a look at the entry on Ernst Moritz. Can you find anything on her? After I had edited, others contributed their wedding day and how many children they had.
I think I have to find that book again.
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Has anyone recently been to Failaka Island? Are the archaeological sites accessible or, as I read in an older report, fenced in? At the KPTC ferry terminal they told me the ferry wouldn't go over the weekend, but they couldn't give me a schedule.
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