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Pak ready to take on struggling WI in day-night Test
Dubai : In-form Pakistan are ready to launch a pink-ball spin assault on struggling West Indies when they do battle in Asia's first day-night Test from Thursday here.
Pakistan have been on a roll since their 2-2 series draw in England in August, which briefly lifted them to number one position in world cricket's Test rankings for the first time.
Arch-rivals India relegated Pakistan to number two with recent victory over New Zealand but Misbah-ul-Haq's men have a prime opportunity to close the gap in the three-match series against the West Indies and are strong favourites.
Pakistan captain Misbah said he was relishing the prospect of a day-night Test, where play will be from 3:30 pm to 10:30 pm (1130 GMT to 1830 GMT) with two breaks of 30 minutes, in what is nominally a "home" series for Pakistan.
"It's exciting because I think the future belongs to day-night Tests," said Misbah, whose team will be missing senior batsman Younis Khan, recovering from dengue fever.
Pakistan have included in-form batsman Babar Azam, 21, for his first Test after he racked up 360 runs during the one-day series against the West Indies.
But misfiring openers Mohammad Hafeez and Shan Masood have been axed from the squad which levelled the four-match Test series against England.
The West Indies, routed by Pakistan 3-0 in both Twenty20 and one-day series preceeding the Tests, come in as clear underdogs. Coach Phil Simmon was sacked prior to this tour after the team lost 2-0 to India.
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You might find that the 8GB SD card you're using with your Raspberry Pi just isn't large enough for your needs. There are several options for increasing the storage capacity of your Raspberry Pi.(Keep in mind all sizes mentioned below might not be up to date due the fast pace of improvement on technology)
A bigger SD card
Micro SD cards come in a variety of sizes. The largest (reasonably priced) micro SD cards are 128GB, which should provide you with ample storage. As always, check the manufacturer's documentation to ensure that the card is compatible with a Raspberry Pi.
USB flash drives
There are lots of different types of storage device which you can plug directly into your Raspberry Pi's USB ports to act as secondary storage. USB flash drives come in a variety of styles and sizes, and can offer up to about 1TB of space if you need that much.
External hard drives
You can also purchase external hard drives which can be connected via USB cable to transfer data. You have to be a little careful here. Some external hard drives are independently powered, and will work without problems. Some draw their power via the USB port, and might need more current that the Raspberry Pi can supply (in this case use an externally powered USB hub). Read the manufacturer's documentation to ensure any hard drive you're using will work with the Raspberry Pi. Some external hard drives have been designed specifically to work with the Raspberry Pi, such as the WD PiDrive 314GB.


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There are two things Claire Phinney is drawn to professionally: education and advocacy. So, when the family education director position at Families First Children's Museum opened late this summer, it intrigued her. "It's the kind of work I feel really passionate about," she says. After applying and getting the job, it's proving to be a great fit. Helping people doing one of the toughest jobs there is—parenting—is especially rewarding for Claire because she loves making life easier for others. "It's something that makes me happy," she says.
Claire, a Seattle-area native with deep roots in Montana comes from "a family of helpers." With an undergraduate degree in early childhood education and development (and later a master's degree in human development with an emphasis on conflict transformation and nonprofit leadership), she started her career as a preschool teacher. Although she loved the job, she realized she could have even greater reach outside of a school. "I wanted to have an impact on more than just a classroom of kids," she says.
That led her to nonprofit work, where she was first employed as the program development coordinator/tribal liaison for Washington Association of CASA/GAL Programs and then as the educational advocacy regional coordinator/curriculum development specialist by Treehouse for Kids, which is an organization dedicated to helping foster children. After moving to Missoula, where she's lived for more than 9 years, she also served as executive director of WORD (Women's Opportunity & Resource Development). These positions have prepared her well to take our parenting programs to the next level.
Many people are surprised to learn that assisting parents is at the core of Families First's mission. Our children's museum first opened in 2002, eight years after our parenting programs started. Claire will be spearheading efforts to enliven these programs, which to this point, have included group classes, individual consultations and parenting plan mediations. She hopes to grow these services, make them as relevant as possible to today's families and work to better get the word about them out to the community.
That will start by looking for ways to reach families visiting the museum—and making services available in ways that are comfortable for them, even before they have to ask for help. But it will also include evaluating our overall services to make sure we're offering parents the help they need in the manner they'd like to receive it. The goal is to make parents feel supported and empowered—whether they're looking for ways to strengthen their relationship and give their kids the best possible start in life, or unsure of how to deal with a specific problem they're having with a child at home. "Parents want to make things as wonderful as possible for their kids, but it's hard to ask for help when a problem feels very personal," states Claire. "I would love to have parents walk in here and feel as comfortable as if they had just walked into their own backyard."
As the mother of two young boys who are "her world," and who help drive her passion for ensuring children receive the best possible care from those who provide for and teach them, she knows that empowering parents is critical. "I understand the challenges that come with raising kids," she says. "Everything you do matters. I, like any other parent, have challenges that feel insurmountable." But, she adds, empowerment changes everything—how you feel, how you absorb information and how you interact with others. And that makes all the difference.
Currently, mediations and consultations are temporarily on hold as we restructure these programs and determine how to make sure they best meet community needs. We hope to announce plans for their future very soon.
In the meantime, if you're interested in learning more about how our parenting services may be able to help you, call Claire at (406) 721-7690.


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Indeed, I have a quote that I remind people in our think tank quite often and it goes something like this; "we don't ever want to create the perfect society and civilization because the humans will come around and mess it up the next day. Rather what we should do is make everything 95% perfect and give all the little humans something to work on, after they've seen the progress created thus far."
Now then, why do you suppose I say that? Well, there is another quote that I use often; "the great thing about running a think tank is that you have job security, because there is an unending number of problems in the world, and the humans continually run around and create more." Thus, when I talk to people about some futuristic utopia, I also warn them about how "the road to hell is often paved with the greatest intentions," and to "be careful what you wish for."
Next, I'd like to point out that we cannot fix our civilization or society until we fix ourselves. It really is humans that cause all the commotion, challenges, and problems. Evolution didn't cause the problems, as it's been solving problems for millions of years. Each time society advances, or our technology gets better, there are always unintended consequences. It's much like making a new rule, after you make one rule there's just too much incentive to keep making rules to shore up all the loopholes, or challenges that you create along the way.
From a philosophical standpoint you could say that all complex systems are like this, and it is a constant struggle between chaos and large organizations regardless of the domain. Okay so, what do we need to fix amongst humans you ask? Well, that's a very good question, and one that deserves an answer. Perhaps the first and foremost thing that I see wrong is how often we sweep the dirt under the carpet, and hide the reality behind political correctness. You can't solve real problems using false scenarios, or with fake input.
You see, it wouldn't matter if you had the world's best supercomputer which was fully self-actualized, and running the best artificial intelligent software ever created in the present period or in the future. Bad data in, means you get bad information out. Some say that humans need to all get on the same page to accomplish something great to make the world perfect. And yet, as I've said above, even if the world was perfect, who is to say that the angry masses in the middle of the night wouldn't come and destroy it? After all, hasn't history shown that to be? Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.


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Environmental leaders gathered at the Capitol Skyline Hotel last night to discuss tackling a global problem with grassroots solutions.
"We can be a part of the answer right here in our own back yard," Green DMV co-founder Rhon Hayes said. "We've made excellent strides in the past five years when it comes to educating the public about green jobs and sustainability, but we still have a long way to go."
Hayes co-founded Green DMV in 2007 with his friend, Phillip O'Neal. The business partners created a non-profit organization in an effort to generate clean energy and green jobs in low-income communities across the country.
"We founded our organization during a time when people were just really finding out who President Obama was and since then green jobs and environmental issues have become even more vital to our nation, especially here in DC," Hayes stated. "President Obama has put forth a lot of really progressive legislation for green jobs and sustainability, but lets be honest with the change in the house, it's going to be a bit tougher to get through."
Although there will be a change in the congressional house come the new year, Hayes says not all hope is lost for environmental leaders and supporters. "DC residents can help by just being educated so they can make informed decisions on how to adopt sustainability and make it work for them."


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Opposite of a Haul + Review (Nars primer / Chanel foundation etc) + Goodies from B.liv
There was this tag going around months ago, showing on items that you have finished. For me, finishing products is a great deal for me especially when I have so many things to alternate around.
Anyway, here are the items that I have recently finished:
Simple cleansing wipes
These are my makeup remover wipes which I soon realise that they finish within weeks. As much as I love them for being gentle to my sensitive skin, it is not ideal to be buying new packs of wipes every few weeks. Right now, I am using baby wipes which are so darn cheap! Yes, baby wipes! They work, but not as great as Simple cleansing wipes. Nevertheless, I'm saving bucks and besides, I always double cleanse.
Nars makeup primer
At last, I finished the primer! I had been using it since June '09! I think this is just a normal primer that acts as a barrier between your skin and foundation. I don't find is extraordinary good. However, it is silicon, fragrance and alcohol free, which is a plus for sensitive skin like mine. I have an extra of this which I am letting go since I am using Laura Mercier face primer now. I still have a MUFE HD primer to use!
Neutrogena triple moisture hair mask
This is my 2nd tube. It is an excellent hair mask which makes your hair silky soft! A good alternative is Essentials hair mask which is more accessible as it can be bought locally unlike Neutrogena triple moisture hair mask.
Jack Black Intense Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25
I bought this ages ago from drugstore.com but only started using it this year. This has to be one of the best lip balm I have tried. It's minty cooling effect makes applying lip balm refreshing. I love that it has a spf too which is important for me as a have a stupid sun spot on my lower lips (Arghh)! You can find Temptalia's review on it too! She loves it! I will definitely re-purchase it again, after i finish 5 of my other lip balms 😛
Sephora atomic volume mascara
Finally! I finished this mascara. It is now dried up beyond usage. Time to throw it away and open new mascaras (: Review of it can be found HERE.
Hada Labo exfoliating face wash
This feels exactly the same as Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Face Wash and the only difference is that the blue tube one has exfoliating properties. It does not contain any scrubs or beads which prevents your skin from drying out. Here is my review on the regular version and I think they are almost identical (:
Chanel Mat Lumiere Extreme powder foundation
This foundation was initially supposed to be reviewed side by side with Nars powder foundation. I shall just do a short review on both here. Chanel foundation and Nars foundation are equally finely milled which gives a smooth application. However, Chanel mat lumiere is not as matte as Nars foundation as it has a slight glow to it. Oil control wise, I would prefer Chanel Mat Lumiere as this foundation will give a dewy look when trying to absorb the sebum that your face is producing. Both the Nars foundation lasts the same as Chanel Mat Lumiere, which is roughly 4 hours, with occasional blotting. Chanel Mat Lumier has a slightly better coverage than Nars. If I were to rate, it would be 7/10 for Chanel and 6/10 for Nars. I like that Chanel foundation is a 2-way cake and thus can be used wet. For colour range, I used deauville for Nars which is too pink for me. Chanel would be the lightest shade which has enough yellow in the foundation thus correcting the redness in my skin. Both are refillable. Which one would i repurchase? Chanel Mat Lumiere (:
Oh yes, I recently received some goodies from B.liv skincare line (: I was so eager to try them as I often see their advertisements in magazines. Would be doing the review soon!
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on 13-01-2019 07:29 AM
I would like run CCTV cameras from behind a 3 broadband router.
Would it be possible for you to assign a public IP address to my sim so I can properly manage the cameras?
A dynamic address is fine, i don't need static.
Many Thanks
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on 13-01-2019 07:41 PM
I'm not sure if I'm using this forum correctly but I have a similar problem.
I had CCTV cameras set-up and running on my old Eircom router which I could access externally. As the broadband speed was very poor I switched to three 4G.
I have tried numerous configuration but cannot access the CCTV cameras externally. Reading through various post on this forum it appears that I may need a dynamic public IP address.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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MIAMI – Every time Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside touches the ball in the paint he's surrounded.
Forget double teamed. .. Whiteside often sees three or four opponents collapsing on his 7-foot body.
Still, Whiteside has managed to put up impressive numbers, averaging 18.2 points and a league-high 15.9 rebounds. And Whiteside is No. 1 in the NBA with 14.0 points in the paint.
"I've always been a guy that got a lot of defensive attention," Whiteside said. "If not there's going to be a lot of lobs and a lot of cheering, a lot of scoring."
Teams can afford to pack the paint against the Heat because of their poor perimeter shooting. Miami is the third worst shooting team in the NBA at 42.2 percent. And Miami is not getting the calls so the danger of sending them to the line is mitigated. The Heat lead the NBA in drives, averaging 38.7 per game, but they are getting a foul called an NBA low 8.5 percent of those drives.
The only relief Whiteside will get, and it still will be minimal, is if teammates like Justise Winslow (33.1 percent), Dion Waiters (34.8) and Luke Babbitt (31.4) start knocking down jumpers.
"I believe in those guys," Whiteside said. "Guys are going to make those shots."
Josh Richardson, who is shooting better than 46 percent since he started playing consistent minutes, believes the shooters will come around.
"Teams are shrinking the court on us so much," Richardson said. "I think we have good shooters so I'm not worried about (it). When you got guys like Luke Babbitt, Goran Dragic, Dion Waiters, Wayne Ellington when he gets back, you got guys that can shoot it. It's just a matter of starting to knock it down. It's just a matter of time."
[Miami Heat hopeful Goran Dragic can return tonight; Justise Winslow still out]
[As losses mount, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra attempts to keep team's spirits buoyed]
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Two places left for Royal Parks Half, Sunday 8th October
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MOGI DAS CRUZES, Brazil — Belgium coach Marc Wilmots says defensive mainstay Vincent Kompany is uncertain for Tuesday's World Cup game against the United States because of a recurring groin injury.
The injury to his captain compounded the defensive worries for Wilmots, who also has defenders Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Ciman and Anthony Vanden Borre on the injury list.
NOW WHAT: What does US need to do to get past Belgium
ALTIDORE: Could US striker return in time for Tuesday's game?
Tuesday's match against the United States is widely expected to be a fierce physical battle, where all players will have to be in top shape to last the full game.
Wilmots said Friday it was "impossible to say now" whether Kompany would be ready to play. His omission would be a huge setback for the team, since Wilmots considers the Manchester City captain his "right-hand man" on the pitch.


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Another data point for global warming?
When the winter is over, we'll count up all the deaths due to cold....but, how about this...snow in Kathmandu.
Snow fell on Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, for the first time in 63 years on Wednesday, stirring excitement and curiosity among residents and their children.
"I have never seen it snow in Kathmandu in all my life," said 45-year-old housewife Manju Shrestha, playing in the snow with her young children.
Weather officials said the brief snowfall, which lasted only a few minutes, was the result of a "westerly disturbance" over Nepal that earlier in the week caused heavy rains.
Though the Himalayan country is home to
Mount Everest, Kathmandu, with a population of 1.5 million people, is situated in a valley and has not had snow since January 1944, according to Independent Kantipur television.
It said one young man was killed in the icy weather in the western Palpa district.


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We've frequently heard, and will hear much more I am sure if Hillary is the Democratic nominee, that women make 76 cents for every dollar a man makes. Can you give us a basic rundown of why that discrepancy exists?Read the rest. I think a lot of politicians would benefit from getting a tutorial from Thomas Sowell.
There are lots of reasons. Men and women do not work the same number of hours. They do not work in the same occupations. They do not work continuously the same, and so on.
You know, if it was really true that you could hire a woman for three quarters of what you could hire a man with exactly the same qualifications, then employers would be crazy not to hire all women. It would be insane to hire men. Not only would it be insane, it would probably put them out of the business because the ones that were smart enough to hire women would have such a cost advantage that it would be really hard for the others to compete.
There are lots of gross differences between men and women and other groups and some of them shocked me when I first started doing the research. For example, I found that young, male doctors make considerably more than young, female doctors. But, when I dug into it a little deeper, I discovered that young, male doctors work an average of 500 hours a year more than young, female doctors. Obviously, a doctor that works 500 extra hours is going to make more money than the other doctor.
....Another point you made in the book was that slavery doesn't adequately account for the break up for the black family and black-on-black crime. Can you tell us why that's the case?
Oh yes, because the studies have been done showing that in fact, most black children were raised in two parent families even under slavery itself. In fact, all the way through, until the middle of the twentieth century.
So, I think there's no greater indictment of the welfare state than the fact that the black family held together through centuries of slavery and discrimination, but fell apart in the liberal welfare state.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
An interview with Thomas Sowell
John Hawkins has a great interview up with economist Thomas Sowell about Sowell's new book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. Here are a couple of examples:
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Scheduled backups are key for true information security; they ensure that information can be recovered if corrupted, lost or stolen. Data protection experts recommend daily, weekly and monthly backups. Always backup to an alternate storage device, such as a tape or hard drive, so if data on your computer or server is compromised, it can be restored.
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When it comes to protecting your information, where you store your backups matters. Always store backup tapes and hard drives in a secure, offsite location with a dedicated media vault. These vaults are ideal for data protection because they protect your backup media from theft, loss and damage. Temperature and humidity levels within the vault are kept at optimal levels to preserve your backup tapes, hard drives and other media over the long term.
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Buddhist Sites India - 06 Nights and 07 Days
Day 1: ARRIVAL DELHI
Upon landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, our delegate welcome you and assist you to transfer at the hotel after description of the entire tour in short. Check-in at the hotel upon reaching and proceed to take your leisurely refreshment. And then rest a while before heading onto visit Delhi Qutub Minar, Jama Masjid, India Gate, Parliament House, Raj Ghat and Lotus Temple.
In the evening, you are free to stroll at Chandni Chowk. Also drive to visit light & sound show at Red Fort.
Supper and Night stay at the hotel.
Day 2: DELHI – SANGHOL – PATHANKOT
After morning breakfast at the hotel, check-out and proceed to Pathankot. On the route, make a visit to Sanghol village of Fatehgarh sahib district to witness the enthralling Buddhist Stupa and monastery complex. Couple of votive stupas are additionally put around this primary stupa to secure the relics. Later, resume the drive to Pathankot. Check-in at the hotel upon reaching and relax.
Supper and Night remain at the hotel.
Day 3: PATHANKOT
In the morning after wholesome breakfast at the hotel, we ride you to visit Nurpur Fort, Kathgarh Temple, Mukteshwar Temple, Shahpurkandi Fort and Ranjit Sagar Dam.
Evening is free to spend leisurely.
Supper and Night remain at the Hotel.
Day 4: PATHANKOT – DHARAMSHALA
After wholesome breakfast in the morning, check-out from the hotel and drive further to Dharamshala. Check-in at the hotel after reaching and relax. After refreshments, we ride you to Namgyal Monastery, Baijnath and Sherabling monastery, Dhauladhar Range, Mcleodganj, Monolothic Rock Cut Temples, Kangra Fort and Kangra Museum.
In the evening, drive to take the pleasure of boat ride at Dal Lake.
Supper and Night stay at the hotel.
Day 5: EXPLORE DHARAMSHALA AND BACK TO PATHANKOT
After breakfast at the hotel, commence on your sight-seeing tour of Dharamshala. Begin today's voyage with TIPA (Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts) and attend the cultural programme organised there. From TIPA you will be taken at Norbulingka.
After sightseeing, head back in the direction of Pathankot. Upon arrival, check into the hotel and relax.
Supper and Night remain at the hotel.
Day 6: DRIVE TO DELHI
In the morning after wholesome breakfast, check-out from the hotel and drive back to Delhi. Upon reaching, check into the hotel and spend the day leisurely.
In the evening, you may opt to visit Dilli Haat.
Dinner and Night stay at the hotel.
Day 7: DEPARTURE
The day you will be transferred at Delhi Airport after a short farewell meeting to commence on your journey towards your onward destination.
Destination covered in this Tour:
Delhi: Capital of India
Pathankot: Ninth most populous city in the state of Punjab.
Dharamshala: A Hill station full of natural charm and Beauty


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This past Friday was Jerameel's 12th birthday!
After church a small group of us went over to her house to celebrate. Maribel, Anahi, and I left together, walking to the house. The whole way all I could do was complain about how I should have changed shoes!! I could not wait to get to the house and sit down! But what was the first the the kids wanted to do when we got there?? Tag!
Which of course involves running. Ouch.
As I'm sure you all know and have experienced, kids can be relentless when they want something! And who can resist a gaggle of cute little kiddos begging to play tag?
It amazes me how the kids here are so satisfied with such simple games and relaxed fun. They can laugh and have fun just tossing a ball back and forth for hours, or run around playing tag.
It started raining so we came inside and ate tamales and cake!
This was the funnest group of kids! Especially the boy to the left. He is such an outgoing, outspoken little guy! --He was also my sidekick during tag.-- He loved running after his friends, so every time I got tagged, he would run over to me, hold his hand out expectantly, we'd slap hands and he would go running off happily chasing the other kids. Worked out great for me!!
|Ulysses, Jerameel, Jael, and Jera's dad.
|Maribel, Anahi, and Ulysses
Bethany and I with Jerameel and Ana Belen
The girls and I
As we were headed out the door, I stopped to talk to Ulysses. I asked him, "When are you going to visit us in Sunday school??" He replied very intelligently, "At Tabernaculo de Victoria?" This made me think, wow! he already knows where the church is so maybe he'll come!! ....
I tell him yes and he exclaims dramatically "Ach! Yo soy catolico!" (I'm catholic!!)
HAHA. Man... they train 'em young here! Somehow this little 7 year old is already blindly entrenched in the traditions of his family. Not many kids of this age are so vocal about their religion... Imagine if he would have been raised in an Apostolic church, with this attitude!
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Rice Bowls can be picked up in the vestibules after Mass on February 13 - 14 and February 20 - 21. Bowls will be collected after each Mass on April 2 - 3. More information at www.crsricebowl.org. Social Justice Committee (SJC)
Livermore Homeless Refuge Gift Card Collection
Weekend of March 19 - 20 following all Masses. For a few ideas: gift cards in small $10 amounts preferred from places like McDonalds, Safeway, Lucky's, Dollar Tree, Trader Joe's, Taco Bell, and gas cards. Cash will also be accepted for purchase of gift cards. (SJC)
Get On the Bus
This a program of the Center for Restorative Justice Works which brings children and their caregivers from throughout California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison. This year CCOP will sponsor a bus trip and collect items to provide each child with a travel bag, including snacks, games, and other comfort items. They will also receive a photo with his or her parent, stationery items to keep in touch with their parent, and meals for the day. On the trip home, they will receive a teddy bear with a letter from their parent. Items will be collected through the CCOP Faith Formation Office from February 7 – March 7. To sign up to donate items, go to the Get On the Bus page.
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Join a group of volunteers from CCOP to sort medical supplies at MedShare in San Leandro on Saturday morning, March 26, from 9:00 AM until Noon. We have room for 20 volunteers. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com. More information atwww.medshare.org.
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Have you ever wondered how P2P software like Skype directly exchanges data when both client desktop sitting behind a firewall that only permits outgoing traffic.
This article explains how Skype & Co. get round firewalls using the hole trick. From the article:
Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator's nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in firewalls, which shouldn't actually be letting in packets from the outside world.
This is a good article and a good idea carried out by Skype. This is not exactly a new concept (just search for NAT2NAT using google and you will get more information about this hack). Author has doen good job explaining the whole concept in clear language.
How do I bypass Linux firewall restriction?
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Firstly start a UDP listener on UDP port 14141 on the local/1 console behind the firewall:
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An external computer "remote" then attempts to contact it.
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local/2# hping2 -c 1 -2 -s 14141 -p 53 remote
As long as remote is behaving itself, it will send back a "port unreachable" response via ICMP – however this is of no consequence. On the second attempt
remote# echo "hello" | nc -p 53 -u local-fw 14141
The netcat listener on console local/1 then coughs up a "hello" – the UDP packet from outside has passed through the firewall and arrived at the computer behind it.
Right now there is no perfect solution exists, if you are using Linux based firewall to avoid abuse.
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Ex-HN-5 Supreme Yang TAIYANG - Acupuncture Points
( Ex-HN-5 Supreme Yang TAIYANG - Acupuncture Points ) On the temple, in a depression approximately 1 cun lateral to the midpoint of a line connecting the lateral extremity of the eyebrow and the outer canthus of the eye.
How to find
On the temple, first, draw a line between the lateral extremity of the eyebrow and the outer canthus of the eye. Next, palpate from the midpoint of this line in a lateral direction, until you can feel a distinct depression in the temporal bone. Ex-HN-5 (taiyang) is located in the centre of this depression. This point tends to be pressure-sensitive, especially with temporal headaches. Patients often get relief by using acupressure on this point.
0.5–0.6 cun vertical insertion into the temporal muscle or obliquely in a lateral direction or transversely (subcutaneously) towards ➞ G.B.-8. This point often bleeds when needled. Prick to bleed to drain Heat.
● Eliminates Wind, clears Heat, reduces swellings, opens the channel, alleviates pain
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One of the most important and most commonly used extra points, especially with headaches
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9 Tips for Writing Nonfiction that Sings
Pick a topic that interests you. Whether you want to write essays, articles or how-tos, don't write to a trend that doesn't intrigue you. Instead, chose topics that interest you. You're going to need the enthusiasm to see you through research, writing, and multiple rewrites.
Do your research. The book I turned in today had 191 items in the bibliography. Some projects have required even more. To write nonfiction rich in detail, you are going to have to be willing to take the time to do the research.
Avoid the info dump. Once you've done your research, you're going to want to include it all. Even essential details can weigh a piece down if you dump in too much info at once. Instead, feed the facts to your reader a little at a time.
Play. One way to make your work sing is to make it fun to read. This can mean making it poetic or funny. Sometimes it means including charming or amazing detail. Titles that rat-a-tat-tat. Dialogue that dances. This isn't appropriate in all writing but when you can? Have fun.
Tension. Want to keep your reader on the edge of her seat? Use word choice, foreshadowing, cliffhangers, and carefully chosen details to create tension. But you have to keep it honest. Don't create false tension by making things out to be dire when they aren't.
Satisfying Ending. A song that just ends makes you wonder what happened. The same is true of nonfiction. How-to create a satisfying ending depends on what you are writing. You might want to make readers want to take action. Or you might want them to be glad they took the time to read your work.
Cut the excess. When you are done, cut every unneeded word. One friend cuts 30% of everything she writes. In a piece of this length, I'll cut at least a word per line. In the book I just finished, I cut 1600 out of 16,800 words. Cutting is easier on a print copy.
Read it aloud. When you are done, read your work aloud. This is a great way to spot repetition and phrases that bring you to a stop or trip you up. Cut and smooth until it melts in your mouth like butter.
Know when to quit. Sometimes you try all of these things and the piece falls flat. It doesn't sing. It's just there. Maybe you just need to think it through, or you need time to process the experience the writing is based on. Or the idea may simply not be a good one.
Even when you choose your topic carefully, some things just won't come together. And that's okay. Part of making your work sing is knowing when to put something aside.
To find out more about Sue Bradford Edwards' writing, visit her blog, One Writer's Journey. Sue is also the instructor for Writing Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults. The next session begins May 7th, 2018.
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I shared my thoughts about that camera a couple of years back. The main issue that I had with it was its extremely slow write speeds. Once I started shooting in the "raw" format, the camera became very slow. I read recently that if one took two images in rapid succession that the buffer would be full, and the camera unusable for about nine seconds. So if I were shooting a landscape in HDR and needing three shots in rapid succession, this camera could not deliver. I tried over and over. What would happen is that the clouds would move so much between the three shots that it became a problem later when I was working to assemble them as an HDR image. Nowadays, there are software solutions to at least part of the problem.
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So, you think you've honed the Netflix recommendation engine by rating a thousand movies? That's nothing, according to the company's internal statistics.
Several hundred Netflix members have rated more than 50,000 filmed entertainment programs. 50,000! To watch all those at a pace of one movie or TV show per day, it would take 136 years.
But those users are just the extreme end of a broader behavioral pattern. About a tenth of one percent (0.07%) of Netflix users -- more than 10,000 people -- have rated more than 20,000 items. And a full one percent, or nearly 150,000 Netflixers, have rated more than 5,000 movies. By contrast, only 60 percent of Netflix users rate any movies at all, and the typical person only gives out 200 starred grades.
Who are the subset of users who choose to make evaluating movies into an obsession instead of a casual exercise? They are nurturing the Netflix algorithm, training it. But why?
The two biggest raters I was able to track down had each reviewed in the neighborhood of 6,500 programs. Both are long-time users and neither intended to end up putting so much data into the system. But they were aware that there was an algorithm out there awaiting their input to reshape itself to their desires.
Mike Reilly, a producer, has rated more than 6,500 movies. At first, he just rated movies as they showed up, but then he heard about the Netflix Prize, a high-profile competition to improve the accuracy of the service's predictions.
"I became fascinated with the concept, the different approaches people were taking, and the practicality of these applied theories," Reilly told me.
He didn't employ a consistent methodology, rating in spurts and usually while searching for something to watch. What's fascinating is that Reilly noticed changes in the quality of the Netflix predictions as he rated more and more movies.
"The recommendations are better by far [than at the beginning]. I would say that from 0 to about 500 was pretty useless, at 1,000 to 2,000 it got a lot better -- then tailed off to about 5,000. From then on it's been pretty fantastic," he said. "It's really difficult to find something you simply don't know about -- this new system not only finds it, but can really pinpoint why it thinks you'd like it -- there's not just content, but the context as well, and that's really helpful."
That said, even after 6,500 ratings, the system still recommends bad choices occasionally.
"At this point it's just throwing, like, every Star Trek episode at me -- I've never really seen [that program] and am not interested, but it's like 'this is all that's left so we're going to keep asking, oh, and are you sure you still don't want to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000?'" Reilly said. "It's the same with kids movies."
Lorraine Hopping Egan, a book author, has rated 6,471 movies, but feels that the recommendations she gets aren't commensurate with the time she's invested.
"When I first joined, I went into a ratings frenzy because it was fun to say 'I saw that! I loved that! Overrated!' But mostly, I've rated movies as they popped up, in part so that they would stop coming up and I'd see more missed gems," she wrote to me. "But after 10 years, the recommendations are pretty thin and off-track."
Egan has found herself relying on regular old word-of-mouth and professional movie critics more than the algorithmic recommendations.
Some less intense users seem to get better results. Josh West, a developer here at The Atlantic, had a particularly elegant way of training his algorithm. He got to 416 ratings and consciously stopped starring movies.
"I felt like it knew my taste perfectly. It would predict I'd give a movie 3.6 stars -- and that is exactly how I would feel about it," West told me. "It predicted my rating more precisely than I could because you can only give something 3 or 4 stars, so I just stopped doing it."
Other people have adopted more complicated training techniques. Culture writer and co-founder of HiLoBrow.com, Josh Glenn, rated 2,638 movies in a single morning.
"I decided to rate as many as I could, really quickly, because I was sick of having movies suggested to me that I've either seen already or would never want to watch," Glenn wrote to me in an e-mail. "So I rated every movie I don't like or don't want to see with one star -- for some reason, I don't like clicking the NOT INTERESTED button. I try to save four stars for my all-time favorites. I don't have a system for two vs. three stars, and I don't use half stars."
His system may have worked too well. Now, Glenn, who only watches the movies available online from Netflix, gets very few recommendations. But that doesn't bother him too much.
"Maybe I'm an enabler, but I make excuses for Netflix," he said. "I watch a lot more movies than most people (I think) so I understand why they can't keep me satisfied."
The practice of rating Netflix movies can be hypnotic. If you go into the official page for rating movie, it displays your number of reviews in the upper right. As you rate movie after movie, your score goes up and up. When you really think about it, the Netflix rating system works on the world's simplest game mechanic: do something, get a point, move to a slightly more complex situation.
It's not unlike a casual game, perhaps like Zynga's smash hit, Farmville, a Facebook game in which you raise virtual crops. Except in this case, what you're growing isn't a virtual representation of wheat or tomatoes, but your own personal movie-picking servant, a savant twin of yourself that knows nothing but you and movies.
We'd love to hear your algorithmic training methodologies, or about any extreme feats of Netflixing. Get in touch in the comments or send an e-mail to me at amadrigal[at]theatlantic.com.
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Research Councils Investing £2 Million Into Global Public Health Research
AHRC and MRC are pleased to announce that they are investing over £2 million into 12 Partnership Awards that will bring together Arts and Humanities and Medical research to address issues of public health in developing countries,. The awards, listed below, address a variety of problems including: antimicrobial resistance, air pollution, reproductive health, palliative care, and mental health and resilience. All 12 awards combine the strengths of the two research communities and will build a legacy of internationally networked and connected researchers who will be better able to understand and offer successful solutions to some of the major, modern, global public health challenges.
A second funding call for partnership awards has recently been announced and is now open to applications. The call remains open to applications that seek to address any global public health issue primarily affecting developing countries. A webinar is being held at 10:00am on Wednesday 6th September, after which the slides will be made available on the websites. Full details can be found on the AHRC and MRC websites.
Both funding calls are being supported from the allocations for the AHRC and MRC under the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
Funded Partnership Awards:
- Professor Paul Cooke (University of Leeds): Sourcing Community Solutions to Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal
- Dr Rachel Harrison (School of Oriental & African Studies): The Cultural Contexts of Disease Prevention: The Case of Cholangiocarcinoma in Mainland Southeast Asia
- Professor Carol Brayne (University of Cambridge): Pictures of ageing in Uganda; A partnership to explore demographics, phenotype and self perception in a community of older people
- Dr Lisa Dikomitis (Keele University): Stories Of public health through Local Art-based Community Engagement (SOLACE)
- Dr Patrick Bueker (University of York): The AIR Network - Action for Interdisciplinary air pollution Research
- Professor Jane Plastow (University of Leeds): Promoting sexual and reproductive health education among adolescents through creative and youth-led practice in India, Malawi and Uganda
- Professor Anthony Redmond (The University of Manchester): Mitigating the cultural, social and organisational barriers for meeting the needs of patients with major limb loss (MLL) in Northern Uganda
- Dr Ciara Kierans (University of Liverpool): Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origin: interdisciplinary approaches to understanding a complex medical phenomenon
- Professor Andrew Irving (The University of Manchester): Enhancing resilient deaf youth in South Africa
- Dr Christopher Smith (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine): Development of an intervention to support reproductive health of women after seeking medical abortion in Cambodia
- Dr Shahaduz Zaman (University of Glasgow): Partnership to ensure the sustainability of a public health palliative care project in Bangladesh through community theatre
- Professor Raghu Raghavan (De Montfort University): An exploration of mental health and resilience narratives of migrant workers in India using community theatre methodology
More details on all of these awards will appear on the Gateway to Research website (http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/) soon.Return to news list


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The ABI library hosts one of the largest and best-sorted collections in Germany – with a particular focus on social, cultural and political developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Since the late 1950s, the collection has accumulated approximately 80.000 monographs and 400 periodicals. It accommodates a wide range of analyses in European languages (English, Spanish, French, and German) and numerous monographs/reports in original languages. The writings of researchers from the Global South are well-represented in a wide assortment of publications from the corresponding countries. The library's periodical and newspaper section contains a well-balanced selection of readings on social development and current affairs.
The library maintains an up-to-date database – with approximately 2800 thematic keywords based on a thesaurus, revised and updated regularly by a commission – that provides visitors with a time-efficient access to relevant titles (published after 1972). Moreover, additional filter functions allow researchers to find specific titles within ABI's core research areas. Since 1994, the institute has also complied a systematic catalogue of journal article abstracts that cover relevant fields of study.
The ABI collection is accessible online through the electronic catalogues of the University of Freiburg, the Southwest German Library Consortium (SWB), and the Electronic Journal Library (EZB).
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Swift Networking Tutorial Index: Building a Swift App to Query a Custom API
Introduction and Overview: From the Back End API to the End User Application
The Web API
Building a RESTful API in PHP, Part 1
Building a RESTful API in PHP, Part 2
The Swift Client App
Networking in Swift: Building the Swift Client, Part 1
Networking in Swift: Building the Swift Client, Part 2
Networking in Swift: Building the Swift Client, Part 3
Networking in Swift: Building the Swift Client, Part 4
Networking in Swift: Building the Swift Client, Part 5
This tutorial was authored by Stefan Agapie, a Senior iOS Software Engineer, and adapted for the present piece.
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Discovering Personal Advocacy
Hope is the corner stone of personal advocacy. To find her we must fantasize about the world, embrace the thought of adventure and share our dreams with others. From this spark we will explore our creativity through artistic expression, connecting our soul parts with our body and mind. Creativity gives way to imagination, the ability to see something that does not exist and manifest it within reality. Once we can imagine ourselves as the person we want to be, all we have to do is make it a reality. Hope is the faith we can achieve this reality.
Critical thought entails the usage of empathy, insight and research. We will learn to explore the perceptions and realities of others, avoid pseudoscience and become effective researchers. This is an important component in personal advocacy because it gives us the knowledge to have power over our lives.
Force of will is the quality of pushing forward despite our obstacles and hardships. It is our willpower, forward momentum and determination. It is living with significance, purpose and drive. Force of will sprouts from Hope, it grows with critical thought and blossoms when we give purpose to the pain.
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The last time I remember experiencing symptoms of insomnia was in the week or so leading up to a move. It was a move I was excited about (to a first house with my husband) but I was also really stressed—my head full of details and loose ends to be dealt with, of anticipation for moving day and all the work to be done in the new place. I'm a pretty good sleeper generally, but I had a number of restless nights leading up to our big move. I was so wound up at night I had trouble falling asleep, and my eyes would shoot open hours before I'd typically be awake.
Insomnia is like that. It can pop into your life out of the blue, often in response to changes or upheaval. Like with my move, the changes don't have to be unwelcome ones to bring about sleeplessness. Insomnia can also happen because you've made some change to your routine or your sleep schedule. Traveling through time zones, even switching the clocks for daylight savings time can be enough to throw your sleep schedule off course, and leave you staring at your ceiling late into the night.
This is what sleep experts call acute insomnia. It starts suddenly, and the reasons behind it are often pretty clear. This kind of insomnia typically resolves itself, usually within a few days or at most, a few weeks. Most of us are likely to have some experience with this kind of insomnia in our lifetimes.
But what is insomnia, exactly? It's an inability to sleep when you've got the opportunity do so, and it has a few hallmark symptoms:
- Difficulty falling asleep
- Difficulty staying asleep throughout the night
- Waking very early in the morning
Insomnia doesn't always crop up in response to a life event. And it doesn't always recede after a few days or a couple of weeks. Insomnia that lasts for a month or more is considered to be chronic. It's not always clear what's behind a person's chronic insomnia. Sometimes it may be a side effect of another illness, or of medication. Stress can be a factor. So can keeping odd or irregular hours—staying up very late or getting up very early, or changing around your sleep schedule frequently.
There are also possible causes of insomnia in our daily habits and in our environment—especially our sleep environment. Too much caffeine throughout the day can trigger symptoms of insomnia; so can drinking alcohol too close to bedtime. Eating heavily in the evenings can disrupt sound sleep as well. Exposure to artificial light at night—your phone, your computer or tablet—can throw off your body's natural sleep routine, and lead to difficulty sleeping. A dark bedroom is a great boon to good sleep—that means blocking light from outdoors as well as light inside the room itself. TV in the bedroom? As relaxing as it may feel to drift off to those always-running episodes of Law & Order, it's probably not doing good things for your sleep.
If you're troubled by any of the symptoms of insomnia, a check-in with some of those lifestyle habits, and a look at your sleep environment, is a good place to begin looking for solutions. I settled into a sleep routine in my new house and my new bedroom—but I'm glad I know what to look for the next time I'm wrestling with those symptoms.


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The Ozark Christian College women's basketball team welcomes five new players to the team this fall. Coming to OCC from Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, our new Lady Ambassadors Taylor Albertson, Shelby Jack, Peyton Miller, Marcelene Taborosi and Delaeny Shelton will add depth to the shooting guard, small forward and power forward positions.
In addition to their athletic contribution, the ladies plan to study youth ministry, counseling and a variety of degrees through OCC's co-op program with Missouri Southern State University.
"There are many reasons why I chose OCC," Shelby Jack says, "but the main reason is the college's genuineness. Ozark's motto, 'not to be served, but to serve' is so evident in the hearts of everyone on campus."
The Lady Ambassadors tip-off their season this November. Interested in playing for OCC? Fill out the athletics questionnaire at occ.edu/athquest. Find out more about Ozark at occ.edu/requestinfo.