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Hello friends,
I have 1 Rider and 5 Vintage Motorcycles.
I have the Motorcycle universal mounting kit, works very nice. The problem is that the U-bracket with the big ball cannot be purchased as a separate item.
To get the wanted 4 extra U-brackets with ball I'll have to buy 4 complete kits where the most expensive part must be 12-24 V converter that I already have one of.
Any ideas to get cheap away with this?
Cheers // Ingvar
I have 1 Rider and 5 Vintage Motorcycles.
I have the Motorcycle universal mounting kit, works very nice. The problem is that the U-bracket with the big ball cannot be purchased as a separate item.
To get the wanted 4 extra U-brackets with ball I'll have to buy 4 complete kits where the most expensive part must be 12-24 V converter that I already have one of.
Any ideas to get cheap away with this?
Cheers // Ingvar
I thought that that the mounting bracket were a TomTom manufactured part.
Thanks for the link - now I'll have to chose witch type that will fit best.
Although I have mechanical workshop in my garage I can never get the ball rubbercoated.
Cheers // Ingvar0
If you know local welder cut a piece of 25mm dia pipe in half and weld two 8mm nuts on either side to match the existing u clamp or make one from threaded bar. Wrap tape around handlebar before fitting to protect same and take out any slack0
for an extra cradle, is a complete kit needed ??
only need the complete mount with ball, the top part, wiring and mount and ram arm i have. thanks !!0
If you can not get the ball rubberized consider using brass or aluminium for the ball mount assuming you have accesd to a lathe0
OK tugman,
I sure have a lathe... But do you really think the grip will be good enough for holding the quite heavy and clumsy device? Maybe the surface should be knurled.
I will test this before ordering extra balls from RAM in USA. Usually when buying from US or Canada I have to pay customs, handling fees and VAT . This usually costs some 30 GBP and gives a delay of a week or more.
We still have winter and the roads are severely salted - not very healthy for more than 60 years old bikes.
Still at least 6-10 weeks until my bikes can experience "Vernal roads" (meaning "roll-gravel" in all curves)
Cheers // Ingvar0
RAM is everywhere... Check for local dealers: http://www.rammount.com/partners/locations/europe-middle-east0
If you have a 4 jaw chuck you could centre a piece of 25mm thkx50x40mm plate and bore out to the bar dia
-0.003mm that should give you a tight fit and sufficient room to drill the clamping bolt holes. once done cut the plate down the middle and then have two clamps. See attached
If not use a length of 35mm dia bar 25mm long and bore out as above cut in half and weld nuts to the two halves.0
Thanks for your link Ste7ios.
I tried to find this on my own but - as usual - found lots but not what really was looking for.
I have checked the swedish agent, and they are only wholesale company, however a list of their retailers looked fine. However none of them seems to sell the more styrdy types needed for holding a heavy GPSr on a vibrating bike. Best hit was ( of course ) a large Photo equipment company (where I am registered customer since long time ago). A good starting point as this company is not the cheapest but has the profile to giv 100% support to their customers (who mainly are professional photographers and similair).
Thanks for your efforts tugman.
However - my concerns are not at all how to attach something with the 1" ball on the handlebars. My concerns are if a non-rubbercoated homemade ball will manage the forces needed to hold the GPSr in position.
But after a good nights sleep I concluded that I will try a homemade all metal 1" ball and give the surface some knurls. Knurling a spherical surface is however a so far unwritten chapter in my experience. Maybe I will chose a plain steel alloy (I prefer high grade stainless steel for making spare parts, mostly because the junkbox mainly contains just that).
Cheers // Ingvar0
if you were closer, i would split a kit with you, i only need the top mount with ball, heh0
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You do not have to use the ball method. My bike does not have tube handlebars so I made the a different type of bracket for my rider 2 model to fit to the fairing. This allows it to be locked in place against opportunist theft, while say at a filling up but easy to remove if required. I have just made a modified version for the new 400. See attached photos of the R20


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We here at the Court have been anxiously awaiting 'Britannia' from Valiant since its initial press release - you see "Peter Milligan," "Ancient Rome," and "Supernatural" in the same sentence and you get pumped, y'know? And now, after months of waiting, I finally got to crack this big ol' bad boy open (it's a prestige format!) and drink it all in.
It was everything I hoped it would be.
Cary Nord provides a cover that is startlingly great - the gothic bust is terrifying, setting the mood before the reader even takes in a word. The introduction, illustrated by Raul Allen, is as informative on the customs of the Roman Empire as it is beautiful. The reader learns about the Vestal Virgins, their customs, and their influence, and then we're tossed right into an extremely tense scenario where a centurion (hand-picked by Cheif Vestal Rubria) must ride off to rescue a virgin who was kidnapped by cultists. Of course, this upsets the current emperor, Nero.
This kicks off a series of events which are brutal, graphic, and gives the reader a good sense of what civilization was like when superstition was as strong as nationalism, and where civilization walked a razor's edge from chaos. Take the rescue scene, for instance. The centurion and lead protagonist, Antonius Axia, takes his troops and charges directly into the cultists' ceremony with all the grace of a thresher.
This is how the book goes - we are in the middle of a story told with all the grime of its era, and it's wonderful. When Axia suffers a breakdown from the rescue we get a front-row seat of his intense recovery by the hands of the Vestals. We see how visiting his son sends him spiraling out of control at the nearest pub. We see the brutality of combat and the cavalier nature of sex. Juan Jose Ryp is masterful in encapsulating these scenes, using exquisite detail to convey the characters and environments.
His etheric depiction of Britannia is haunting and leaves the reader feeling as terrified as the soldiers treading on its soil. Hell, the last two pages were terrifying as Ryp creates a moment that will sear itself into the reader's mind. And what else can we possibly say about Jordie Bellaire, who just so happens to color not just provide a provocative aesthetic in this book, but in seemingly all of our favorite current comics? She's a peach and she's wonderful, and if you don't like her I will fight you in your dumb face.
And Peter Milligan is operating with all cylinders firing: he provides just enough information with each character to leave you questioning their motives, wondering what agenda every main character has and how it will further impact this venture into an unknown and ancient culture. We even get general overviews of the Vestals' codex, which helps transform Axia into the ancient world's first detective, but not any real example of what it says or where it came from or why it so thoroughly envelops Axia's attention.
Also, Milligan creates Bran, Axia's friend/employed slave, who plays very well off Antonius' cynicism to give a dry, Alfred-esque humor to their interactions. The comedic timing in Bran scenes are razor-sharp and incredibly enjoyable, and now that Bran has followed his master to Britannia I get to harbor an intense anxiety that Milligan will kill him. Wonderful...
This is a terrific issue to capture the attention of unsuspecting readers. This is a beautiful, horrible thriller that takes HBO's 'Rome,' throws in a dash of Clive Owen's 'King Arthur,' adds a pinch of '300,' and mixes it all together with a blood-soaked toga. Milligan, Ryp, and company are weaving something totally unlike anything on the shelves today, and we're lucky the wait is finally over for issue one. Issue two, on the other hand, is too far away...


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How do I get the time right when the vacuum is cleaning?
It is right on the display and it starts at the correct time when I schedule a cleaning. While it runs, its way off.
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Thank you, this is very helpful. It looks like a time zone translation bug, we will look into it.
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This is one of the things the community is supposed to be an unfiltered communication between customers and developers.
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Hi, do you mean that the cleaning times shown in the app are wrong? If so, it sounds like your phone may be set to the wrong time zone.
Which time do you mean - the displayed starting time in the application?
Same here, the time on the robot display is correct because it gets the info from the WiFi. My phone is on the correct time as well but the app displays a time several hours behind (like 5 hours) I think behind? The time I'm speaking of is in the Latest cleaning log stamped on the app on top of the map. The time is way off. I don't know why it would do that though. Hopefully someone gives us a fix.
Does the offset match your GMT time zone offset?
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Does the offset match your GMT time zone offset?
Judging from the screenshots it's -6 hours. Central would be -5 I suppose. But what usefulness is that time?
No, not much use, but it helps in identifying what is happening. Might be that the time sent is GMT, not local.
My time zone is correct and all times are correct. It is the time shown after she is done cleaning. It seems to be a bug maybe in the app? He display time matches my phone. I can try to take a snapshot next time.
The time isn't useful really. She cleans just fine. If I set her to clean she starts at the correct time. Just as she is cleaning the time shown during is wrong.
Yes, please do upload a screenshot. By the way, are you running an Android or iPhone?
I posted three pictures. I'm in PA and I have an iPhone. He cleaning time is five hours off. Her display is correct on the vacuum.
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The same here, I'm in CA and the time is off as well.
For info on this. A new release with this and a few other fixes is under testing now. The preliminary results look good so we should be able to have it released very soon.
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I was about to ask the same question. Hope this gets fixed soon.


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An integral resource for students and working professionals alike, Reference and Information Services: An Introduction has served a generation of reference librarians. But authors Kay Ann Cassell and Uma Hiremath aren't resting on their laurels. We spoke to them about the brand new fourth edition which has just been published, discussing their collaboration and why reference librarianship is more important than ever.
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Harmonic! When we are beginning a new edition, we talk about the whole book and the changes that we want to make and then we each work on specific chapters. With Kay as an academic and Uma as a practitioner, we have mutually exclusive areas of expertise that makes it easy to segment the research.Were there any surprises working together this time around? Nah! After more than a decade of working together, we share an easy rhythm. Our conversations help further ideas, challenge or strengthen assumptions, and clarify doubts.
How has virtual reference made things easier and how has it made things harder?
Entire books have been written on this. Suffice to say, the very factors about virtual reference that make things easier tend to make them harder as well. It is easier since the user and librarian can be anywhere and still able to communicate about both the question and the answer. Anytime/anywhere access to information, at the point of need, is certainly the defining advantage of virtual reference.
Virtual access, however, has an abracadabra quality. The user learns less about the incremental steps to finding an answer provided in face-to-face interactions so that, in effect, for every research question the user starts from scratch. Anytime access also requires the reference librarian's constant attention to connectivity issues so critical to its success.What are some suggestions for keeping up to date on reference sources, both as an individual and an institution?
There are many ways to stay up to date, both formal and interpersonal. Let us count the ways.
Trustworthy, fact-based reference materials are more important than ever. How would you ethically handle a situation if you discovered that a library user was relying on sources that were questionable?
The use of questionable sources by users is something reference librarians face every day. It is, in fact, what makes reference librarianship so integral to good research! Reference librarians have always combated it by providing considered alternatives. Talking to users about the value of vetted resources and helping them understand the difference in authority and accuracy between a vetted resource and unfiltered Google results or social media discussions, is par for the course.
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More people than ever are using the library to obtain legal information and legal research advice, and library staff need to be able to serve these users efficiently and confidently. Veteran law librarians Virginia M. Tucker and Marc Lampson just published an update of Finding the Answers to Legal Questions, their benchmark text. We caught up with them to hear their perspective on what's new in the field and to get some handy reference tips.
About seven years elapsed between the first edition and this new second edition. When it comes to legal information, what do you think have been the biggest changes in the landscape?
It appears to us that all law libraries - academic, government, public - continue to cut back on subscriptions to hard copy resources, so people with limited resources for paid, online research are left more and more out of the information cycle, at least for value-added secondary sources. On the other hand, "free" online sources from the federal and state governments have continued to improve in terms of availability, timeliness, reliability, and to some extent, searchability.
In many ways, a legal reference interview can be one of the trickiest interactions library staff can face. Can you offer some tips that staff can use up front to smooth the way for a successful encounter?
Often people think they have a legal problem, in part resolvable by finding the law, when in fact they don't have a problem for which the law can provide a remedy. Conversely, people often do not recognize that at the root of a life problem is a legal problem. We think this is particularly true in health care sorts of problems. So the first and perhaps trickiest question is to try to verify that the problem the patron is presenting you with is in fact one that can be researched in the law. Once that question is answered, the sailing should be smoother.
In your book, you make it a point to differentiate legal advice from legal information. Why?
The book is directed, at least in part, to librarians or students soon to be librarians. Traditionally, librarians have been prohibited from providing legal advice. A librarian can lead a patron to the source, but not interpret or advise on how to use that source. Therefore, when helping someone with a legal question, a librarian has to keep in mind the distinction between advice and information. Often, the line is clear. Sometimes, it is not.
Marc Lampson: My position as the Public Services Attorney at a public law library was designed to overcome this conundrum because as both lawyer and librarian I could help people not only find the law but work with them, for instance, in finding appropriate documents or forms and filling them out and telling them how to proceed.
Sometimes library staff will realize during an interview that the patron is going to need assistance that's beyond the purview of the library, such as finding a lawyer or free legal help. What advice can you offer about connecting a patron to these resources? And how can libraries familiarize themselves with the organizations that exist in their communities?
The safest, surest path is to find out if your county has a bar association. County bar associations, at least in more populated areas, will frequently provide free legal clinics for people and will also provide lawyer referrals. These referrals are fairly reliable because they are not motivated by the organization's profit motive, of which there usually isn't one, because these organizations are usually nonprofits. If the county does not have a robust bar association, the next possibility is the state bar association. There will be one in every state. These will not always have lawyer referral services, but will often have searchable lists of active attorneys, sometimes searchable by legal specialty or legal focus of the attorney or firm. A library can familiarize themselves with these organizations through good online searching, but also a number of the legal services organizations in the community may list various agencies in the area that can provide legal assistance. These organization often maintain a website with "Law Help" in the name, often preceded by the name of the state, e.g., Washington Law Help, or just to be contrary Law Help California. If you cannot locate one of these sites for your state quickly and easily, you can track one down by going to Pro Bono Net..
What are some ways librarians can keep up to date with changes in legal information and sources?
Other librarians, always. And any law library/librarian organizations, local and national. Join them. For example, in Marc's area there is the Law Librarians of Puget Sound (LLOPS). Nationally, the "big one" is the American Association of Law Libraries. A "standard" in the field is the Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual by Kendall F. Svengalis, available at www.nelawpress.com.
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Diane organizes her lessons around classes of industries. You'll have readings that point to specific Web resources. As assigments, she will present scenarios of job reference questions. Participants will pick one, describe the search strategy, and findings. Diane is ready to give feedback to any participants who want it. Below are scenarios from the "Business, Accounting, Finance, and Managerial Jobs" lesson.
What better way to serve your community than helping jobseekers find work. Diane can teach you how to quickly point your people to the most useful resources.
I would like to welcome you to Editions.org and our open-forum blog. It is my privilege to be the Publisher of both TechSource (subscriptions, e-learning, webinars, and workshops) and Editions (professional and reference books, both print and electronic). My team is part of a larger unit at the American Library Association called Publishing.
The dirty little secret is that I am not a librarian, but I know a great deal about what librarians do, what they think about, and what they are concerned about. But I never know enough; I will never be close enough to the action because I do not work in a library. So my colleagues and I depend on you tell us what is going on and what you need for your professional development. And here is a chance for you to do just that.
Something that we in publishing share with librarians of all kinds is high anxiety about how quickly our work world is changing. I am old enough (the proverbial 39, thank you Mr. Benny) to remember when the art and science of putting a book together meant having a hand-written manuscript typed by two different people (in order to ensure that the material was correct), comparing the documents, creating a master with hand edits, and sending it off to the compositor—who made galleys. (And why did we call them galleys, anyway. A galley is a long metal tray that holds type ready for printing.)
The galleys would be edited, read by the author, edited and corrected again, and sent back to the author. Changes would be made again until we finally had page proofs, which were sent back to the author and then to a proof reader. Cover art had to be hand drawn; even charts, graphs, and other display elements were hand drawn—we had an art department with lighted tables, for goodness sake. And permission letters were a horrible bore—they took forever to do and get back. Did I forget the index……done manually? Once the art was in place and the index readied the second set of page proofs were sent off to the author. Corrections always came back, no matter how often you explained that an author could not rewrite anything! Finally, everything was sent to the printer, who put the book under the camera to make film, to make plates....and on and on.
Well, the back and forth still goes on, and we still go to the printer (for how long, one wonders). But it is all so wonderfully different now; still a lot of work for both author and publisher, but our output is more than just a physical book. It can be a PDF of the book you can print yourself; but it also can be an e-bundle that allows you to read one of our books on your Kindle or iPad or whatever your favorite device happens to be.
And of course, this is part of our shared high anxiety: Will an actual book disappear? Some may remember a quaint little movie "84 Charing Cross Road" with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins from 1986—a movie that glorified and revered not only books, but old books. In it are great scenes from the proverbial musty book shop in the basement of a London building. The staff was totally devoted to and knowledgeable about books, great ones and little volumes of seemingly no consequence other than the fact that someone wanted to own them and read them. To have them. Librarians and publishers alike are anxiously asking if patrons will continue to want and to own books. And no one knows for sure.
Now I have to confess my second dirty little secret: I have owned a Kindle for over two years, and I love it. Not only do I love it, I take it everywhere. My non-publishing friends are scandalized. But you are a book publisher. No, I respond, I am a publisher and my world has changed greatly. I want librarians to own our books, courses, and newsletters, but I don't care if they buy an actual book or something they load on their Sony Reader. Just tell us by your buying decisions that we are publishing correctly for you. What I really want to know is if our content is helping librarians be better librarians, which is what ALA Publishing in general and TechSource and Editions in particular are all about.
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P.S. Many of you may have heard that Barnes & Noble is for sale. Leonard Riggio, the founder, will probably lead a group of investors and take the chain private (again). It was not long ago that the entire industry was in fear and trepidation about the power and control that the super store chains would have on the book world. Everyone fretted that one company, with over 700 stores, would so dominate the market. They indeed did change the landscape. There are very few independent stores around. In 2001, B & N's total market capitalization was $2.2 billion while Amazon's capitalization was $3.6 billion.
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Family courts could be more inquisitorial
FNF Scotland has submitted a response to the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee, commenting on the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill.
It expresses the hope that this implementation of some of the key points of the Civil Justice Review will lead to Family Court hearings in Scottish courts, with the new Summary Sheriffs trained and equipped to provide a faster and more specialised service.
We note in the submission that earlier this month Lord Thomas, Lord Chief Justice in England and Wales, said in a speech to Justice that an inquisitorial approach may be a better way of conducting family cases.
He was speaking with particular reference to the reported increase in the number of Litigants in Person in family cases south of the border but our experience is that as a general approach it has much to recommend it.
Proceedings and procedures in the family courts are in their origin the same as other forms of litigation such as personal injury or debt where the aim of going to court is to produce a clear result, a winner and a loser. This does not seem appropriate for settling most disputes about contact and residence after separation.
Courts cannot order parents to like each other but neither can they be blind to the consequences of the narrative unfolding before them that allows and sometimes encourages parents to attack each other's character and history in order to seek short term advantage over each other at the expense of the long term contribution they (and their extended families) might both make to the benefit of their children.
Lord Thomas went on to acknowledge that some lawyers would see it as a "process alien to our adversarial tradition" and that research would have to consider whether an inquisitorial procedure would require more judges or a "new cadre of junior judges". That sounds remarkably like the proposal for summary sheriffs in the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill.
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The Cam Tam, also known as Doctor Bugs or Doctors of Eluria, are insects about the size of a small honeybee and are used by the Little Sisters of Eluria. Unlike the Grandfather Fleas they are healers that feed off disease and fix broken bones; while they are healing they sing music that is very entrancing. Because of this these little creatures help the Little Sisters blend in as nurses.
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hi, i'm jo.
The wandering really started when I left the US a couple months after graduation. Within the 5 years that followed, I moved to Paris, DC, Tunis and most recently, Abidjan. After a year in Abidjan and all of its adventures, I am now living in beautiful Guinea Bissau.
I'd be lying if I said I thought I'd ever live here. Hell, I'd be lying if I ever said I thought I'd be living in Africa, much less West Africa. You see, as a hardened city girl with a deep love for winter, shopping and urban living, I am still confused by my lack of online shopping options and the appearance of roaches in my life.
What I can't begin to appreciate enough, however, has been the new-found ability to meet people who let their guard down and and engage openly in ways we can't even imagine in the US.
I am Joanna. I move so much my family often wonders if I'll ever move home. This is my blog.


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Get inspired with these beautiful patios that are not afraid to play with texture and color!
You will find the links for each of the 9 beautiful patios, under the images. Enjoy and get inspired!
A sofa, two wire chairs and a fire pit – but look how the use of accessories
makes this patio both cosy and glam:
image via popsugar
Intense red and greens against black and an open patio to the garden,
from Portland Oregon:
image via apartmenttherapy
A hotel's rustic patio in Mykonos island, Greece.
Cool, crisp white, simple abstract decor:
image via Style-Files
Boho chic never looked so rich and ready to party:
via The Jungalow
Heather from Setting for Four created a crisp black & white decor
with strongly defined doses of green:
via Setting for Four
A frugal and adorable hide-away under a deck,
as seen on apartment therapy:
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Courtney from a Thoughtful Place created this refreshing oasis,
mixing aqua with hot pink accents:
Emily Clark combined blue and red,
and made them pop against stark white:
via Emily Clark
Bali inspired patio with healthy doses of Ikea:
image via Style-Files
Bonus: I really enjoyed browsing through CB2's online flyer First Look Summer.
Want more inspiration? Check these Florida inspired styleboards and 8 tips to help you create your own backyard and patio paradise.
Enjoy! 🙂


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It's a pretty little concept design for green boys and girls, demonstrating the energy that's all around us: the Solarlight pinwheel toy.
Of course, this device–which makes of a simple light-up tube, a rotor, see-through plastic blades that spin (apparently without harming youngsters) and a nacelle that translates kinetic energy into electricity–is operated, like a pinwheel, by the wind. Therefore, we're with Yanko Deisgn on this one: why is it called the Solarlight, and not the Windlight? Or even the Kineticlight, considering kids can spin it themselves? We're assuming there's been some sort of translation error.
Green toys like this may seem like nothing more than the work of a few designers amusing themselves, but we think these sorts of gizmos could have a real effect on the next generation. After all, how many nuclear physicists of Richard Feynman's generation played with DIY radio sets as kids? We see toys like this inspiring a generation of green tech innovators.
Like what you are reading? Did you know EarthTechling also does lengthy and original features on green technology? Check it out!


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A response piece to Sen. Marty Williams by Delegate Phil Hamilton of Newport News who is one of the 11 conferees on the budget. It ran in the Newport News Daily Press.
By Phil Hamilton
I read with interest the recent editorial in which state Senator Martin Williams made the case for transportation tax increases. I agree with Senator Williams that transportation is an issue that must be addressed.
It is an issue, however, that does not supersede the need to pass a state budget for the Commonwealth of Virginia. While the Senate holds out for a billion dollar a year tax increase, its extortion tactic is "holding the rest of the budget hostage.â€
Here is a stubborn fact that Senator Williams failed to mention: The Senate's refusal to negotiate a resolution on the next biennial state budget prevents all state agencies, including colleges and universities, prisons, mental health hospitals, local governments, and public schools from knowing what financial support they will receive from the state beginning July 1, 2006.
Because the transportation issue has yet to be resolved, the House budget includes an additional one billion dollars for transportation to be appropriated in the current or future special sessions. The specific budget language, Item 463.10, is as follows:
Included in this item is $806,200,000 in the first year and $224,100,000 in the second year from the general fund to be used to implement the Transportation Initiative of 2006 pursuant to such legislation as may be adopted during the 2006 Special Session I of the General Assembly or subsequent Sessions of the General Assembly.
However, because the Senate refuses to work to pass the budget bill they received from the House on April 12, 2006, even this funding is being jeopardized. This language guarantees that the House will consider the transportation issue once the state budget has been passed and signed into law. There is no reasonable rationale for impacting the rest of state government and its aid to localities because of a difference over one issue.
In recent history, four different governors have wanted to address a major public policy initiative in their first term. In 1966, Governor Godwin wanted to impose a state sales tax to create the community college system. In 1986, Governor Baliles wanted to address transportation. In 1994, Governor Allen wanted to abolish parole. Finally, in 1998, Governor Gilmore wanted car tax relief while several legislators wanted school construction funding. In each instance, the state budget was passed and a Special Session was called to address these initiatives.
These Governors, working with the leaders of the House and the Senate, did not hold the budget hostage until their public policy initiative was resolved. They recognized that their primary responsibility was to pass a state budget and resolve the remaining issue(s) in a special session. In each instance, the governors were successful in addressing their public policy initiative. Governor Kaine should follow this successful model of leadership in his desire to address the transportation issue this year.
As for the concern over using the general fund for transportation, Senator Williams must have forgotten that the sales tax increase for transportation in 1986 is a use of general fund revenues that otherwise would be used for public education, public safety, health care…The same is true for the use of recordation taxes for the funding of Route 58 and transportation in Northern Virginia that was instituted in 1989.
Senator Williams must have also forgotten that the budgets submitted by Governors Warner and Kaine and amended by the Virginia Senate, with his affirmative vote, uses $339 million of general fund surpluses and general fund revenues from the insurance premiums tax for transportation.
Senator Williams declares "What Virginians deserve from them now are constructive contributions.†I agree that constructive contributions are needed, however, the issue that needs to be addressed first is the state budget.
Unless Senator Williams and his Senate colleagues want to continue to jeopardize state funding for Virginia's public schools, colleges and universities, mental health and other health care services, public safety, aid to localities, state employees, the environment, and the other areas that the state budget impacts, he should demand that his Senate budget conferees negotiate an acceptable biennial budget agreement immediately. I'm sure he is aware that the Senate budget conferees have only been willing to meet with the House budget conferees five times since March 10, 2006.
By passing its budget, the House has committed to addressing the transportation issue once the state budget is passed and signed into law. The Senate should seal this commitment by working to finalize a state budget. From my perspective, the real ball, the most recent version of the state budget, has been in the Senate's court since April 12, 2006. The clock is running!


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Sia has joined Dolly Parton for a new duet version of her 1971 song "Here I Am."
The new rendition appears on the soundtrack for the Netflix film "Dumplin'." Rolling Stone reported that it's one of six songs that Parton collaborated on with songwriter and producer Linda Perry.
The 1971 original, which appeared on Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" album, has more of a country-pop sound from the decade. The new version is mostly piano-driven and replaces fiddles and country instrumentation with a more somber gospel sound..
Well I sure am proud to share the first single from the Dumplin' soundtrack with y'all! I re-recorded "Here I Am" with the incredible @Sia and I sure do hope you love it.— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) September 14, 2018
Just click to the link to listen to the whole song.https://t.co/Y405wQEU0n pic.twitter.com/ucf4f2Xuvy
Sia appears on the second verse of the song, also joining Parton on the chorus.
According to Variety, Perry and Parton revealed at the Music Biz conference in Nashville, Tennessee, that Miranda Lambert and Miley Cyrus are also on the soundtrack, as well as actress Jennifer Aniston, who appears in the film.
Netflix announced it acquired "Dumplin'" Wednesday. It tells the story of Dumplin (Danielle Macdonald), the plus-size teenage daughter of a former beauty queen who signs up for her mother's pageant in protest, drawing others to follow and rattling a small Texas town. Aniston plays Dumplin's mother.
The "Dumplin'" soundtrack be released Nov. 30 on Dolly Records/RCA Nashville. Listen to the new rendition of "Here I Am" below..
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Thinking Beach.
Are you daydreaming about warm breezes, salt air and relaxing….for hours….ahh…
I'm considering scheduling BEACH SESSIONS this year if enough of you are interested!
Somewhat flexible right now, but looking at dates around mid-July,
So, if you are going to the beach this summer and would love to get that gorgeous tanned family photo—Send me your dates!
Keaton Storie-Contest Winner
Remember Keaton -the little John Deere guy who won the Funniest Kid Photo Contest earlier this year? Well, we finally have picts to show you. It was such a HOT summer, we waited until just a few weeks ago to do a session with he and his sisters. They are "Storie-book" kids (groan for my pun…) seriously —really, really sweet!!!
You can see the entire gallery on my website at http://www.amyjonesdesign.com/viewing
Contest Winner—Keaton Storie
Thank you so much for participating in the "Funniest Kid Photo Contest"! You guys were wonderful, both entrants and voters!
The winner is KEATON STORIE-little John Deere guy—or as someone commented, "the cutest naked farmer I've ever seen".
His family is winner of the Grand Prize Photo Package.
Running a close neck-n-neck race with KEATON was CANON CURTIS! Their two great mom's really kept the FB pages hot!
For running such a close race, I have decided to offer a consolation prize for Second Place. The Curtis' will receive a Complimentary Photo Session($50value) and a $100 Photography Gift Certificate.
As a heartfelt thank you to all you who contributed your wonderful photos, I hope you will be happy to receive a FREE Photo Session ($50 VALUE). Simply call or email to schedule. Sessions must be scheduled before September 30, 2010
Early Bird Senior Sessions
Just finished Chase's Graduation announcements. Great Conway High Drummer.
It's time to schedule Summer Graduation pictures for 2011 graduates.
I've decided to offer an Early Bird Senior Special.
Anyone who schedules a summer session before May 20 will
Receive $50 in photo bucks.
Voting Begins Today
First, I have to say a big "THANK-YOU" to all you who took the time to share your family photos with us—you guys sent some really great images!
I am so glad it is not up to me to choose a winner, it would be hard.
As I am sure you already know, voting begins today. I will be counting votes until Friday and the winner will be announced on Monday.
How to Vote:
1. Join my Facebook fan page-choose "become a fan" or "like"
NOTE: as things go-right in the middle of this contest FaceBook decided to make a few simplifying changes which complicated things for the contest. Now, instead of becoming a "FAN" of a page, one must "LIKE" a page.
2. Open the "Funniest Kids Photo ALBUM", select your favorite photo and comment with the word "vote".
Voters may vote for as many photos as they like, but may only vote once per photo for the duration of the voting period.
The winner will be chosen based on the total number of votes for each entered image.
Tell your friends, family, co-workers, etc to join my FB page and vote for your image.
I've really enjoyed getting to see all the fun photos, so Thanks again!
It's time for the voting to Begin!!!!
Best to you,
A Special Kind of Mom
While looking for Mom pictures to post — I came across these of my sister-n-law and niece, Aleta and Elizabeth (Lizzy).
Keith (my brother) and Aleta were given a God's hand opportunity to adopt 3 wild and wonderful kiddos a few years ago. They were ages 2,3,&4 at the time-can you say parent shock! The younger picture was taken the summer they got the kids and the later this past fall. It's been so neat to watch them grow.
Comparing the two images really capture the transition: First, the new mom and daughter relationship where Lizzy was still wary of her new doting relatives-esp. Aunt Amy who kept trying to take her picture all the time! And then the recent photo where she is "at home" a bright, confident little lady who is quite happy to be a "model"!


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Welcome to Circles Network
Circles Network is a UK wide voluntary organisation renowned for building inclusive communities on the foundations of justice,
advocacy, empowerment and friendships.
"Working with people of any age who are isolated or at risk of isolation, this organisation has ground breaking expertise in the development of circles of support, independent and collective advocacy, Person Centered Planning and inclusion into the mainstream of life.
Working in highly creative , entrepreneurial styles, they are dynamic and ever more determined to
dream, dare and do."
Mandy Neville
Circles Advocacy
What we do
Circles Advocacy provides professional, independent person centered advocacy for young people and adults from a number of our hubs across the UK, in some areas we provide Advocacy for children under the age of 16 . In many areas this work is commissioned through contracts with the NHS and local councils and is therefore cost free to the individuals who might need it. Our approach to advocacy is carefully constructed to enable the person (or their chosen advocate) to express their views and choices on a wide range of issues relating to their lives and to ensure that their voice is heard by the people they may need to relate to. With over 20 years of providing, growing and developing advocacy our advocacy teams are highly trained and experienced.
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Circles Community
What we do
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Circles Equine
What we do
Circles equine run a range of projects for children, young people and adults who want to work alongside horses and ponies to develop and grow through therapeutic and educational opportunities, using equine facilitated learning, natural horsemanship skills, neurolinguistics programming, pony centred life coaching, mindfulness, tapping and other wonderful approaches that blend in unique and powerful ways to inspire positive change.
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Circles Academy
What we do
Circles Academy is an essential segment of Circles Network and is open to participants of all ages. As a learning organisation we are always looking for information and development opportunities that feed our desire for global knowledge and dissemination of matters relating to inclusion, well-being and community cohesion. The academy operates throughout the UK and beyond as courses are offered in a variety of settings and increasingly online. Click on the image above to learn more.
Justice, advocacy, empowerment and friendships.
Latest news and stories from Circles Network
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Over 60% of people say they avoid disabled people because they don't know how to behave around them (Disability Sport, 2014).
Disabled people are around three times as likely not to hold any qualifications compared to
Traditional ideas about communities reinforce inequalities and discriminate against disabled people as social exclusion is understood around worklessness (Disability Rights, 2014).
Over the last year, Circles Academy has trained over 200 people on various programmes covering areas such as Person-Centred Planning, Understanding Neglect of Children, Hate Crime Awareness and Advocacy Skills. With your help we can continue to share our 25 years of inclusion, well-being and community experience through creative, vibrant, and flexible training programmes.
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Children with special educational needs (SEN) are twice as likely as other children to be bullied regularly (IoE, 2014).
Pupils with SEN also tend to have fewer friends and participate in fewer social and recreational activities than their peers who don't have learning difficulties.
70% of children and adolescents who experience mental health issues have not had appropriate interventions early enough (Children's Society, 2008).
At Circles Equine, children and young people can work alongside horses and gain confidence, communication, and relationship skills. The Taking the Reins course has helped 253 children in total over the 2017-2018 year. Your help allows us to provide a nurturing environment working with horses for children and young people experiencing difficulties at our base in Warwickshire.
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Over a quarter of disabled people say that they do not have choice and control over their daily lives (ONS Opinions Survey, 2011).
Most people develop their disabilities later in life (Papworth Trust, 2016) so as the population ages; the number of adults with limiting health conditions or
One in three households with a disabled person live in inadequate accommodation (English House Conditions Survey, 2008)
According to the charity Scope, 42% of disabled people felt they had been passed up for a job because of the way their impairment was perceived by employers, and 49% of disabled people said they had experienced discrimination in shops. (Scope, 2014)
During 2017, Circles Network helped almost 8,000 new introductions to their advocacy service in areas across Scotland such as Glasgow, Fife, Inverclyde, Ayrshire and recently Moray. With your help we can ensure that the people we represent have their voices heard.
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Your donations allow us to support those most in need and allow people to create their own package of support where they have control in setting goals for their futures. Donations support us to spread the values of inclusion throughout the country.
In Britain over 10 million people have a limiting long term illness, impairment or disability - this is over 18 percent of the population.The most common types of impairment for adults in Britain are those associated with difficulty in mobility, lifting and carrying.
More than 1 in 100 people are affected by Autism.Over 700,000 people in the UK are autistic, which means that 2.8 million people have a relative on the autism spectrum which is a lifelong condition.
17% of older people are in contact with family, friends and neighbours less than once a week and 11% are in contact less than once a month. Over half (51%) of all people aged 75 and over live alone (ONS, 2010) Two fifths of all older people (about 3.9 million) say the television is their main company (Age UK, 2014) loneliness is a bigger problem than simply an emotional experience. Research shows that loneliness and social isolation are harmful to our health; lacking social connections is a comparable risk factor for early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and is worse for us than well-known risk factors such as obesity and physical inactivity. Loneliness increases the likelihood of mortality by 26%.


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In Search of a Quirky Writing Ritual
Truman Capote liked to lay on his back, with a glass of sherry in one hand and a pencil in another. Flannery O'Connor insisted on facing the blank surface of her wood dresser to ensure no distractions.
John Irving begins each project by writing the last sentence.
All writers seem to have their quirky rituals.
I'm currently searching for mine.
As I adapt to life outside the confines of an office cubicle, I am slowly coming to grips with the reality that I can pretty much do as I darn well please. There's no dress code, no prescribed working hours, no bans on loud music or stinky food or sudden strings of profanities.
This means I can finally embrace my natural inclination to lean back in my chair, with my feet proudly propped on my desk. Although my former coworkers will attest to the fact that I occasionally displayed this behavior at previous workplaces, I never felt the position was fully welcomed by my colleagues. Now, my only colleague is a cat whose sole priority is finding the most comfortable spot for napping.
Beyond my most favored sitting position, I'm struggling to figure out what other quirks I might add to my repertoire.
Smoking and drinking seem too cliché (and detrimental).
I've attempted to work at Starbucks and Panera (also cliché), but so far, neither one has inspired much more than some good old-fashioned people-watching.
I've also tried lounging on my back deck, but the sun was too bright (and relaxing) to support any meaningful productivity.
One morning habit I have developed is to light a candle to the left of my computer monitor and balance it with the illumination of my task light on the right side.
Not exactly "edgy" stuff.
Maybe the quirks will come with time.


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You've Been Called to Teach LDS Junior Primary... Now What?/
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Congratulations! You have the opportunity to teach some of the sweetest spirits at church. It's a calling that takes preparation and prayer as you seek to discover what works best for your classroom. It can be extremely intimidating but also very rewarding. If you've never taught young children, you'll want to be sure to not only make The Basics of teaching LDS Junior Primary habits but also keep the ideas featured in the video below in your teaching tool belt. The following ideas are focused on 4-6 year olds, however, they can easily be adapted to the older nursery classes as well as the rest of Junior Primary.
The Basics
- Eye Contact- It makes a big difference! That means you need to work off an outline and memorize the stories you want to tell.
- Drinks and Bathroom Breaks- Get them out of the way as you head to your classroom after sharing time or schedule them into the middle of your class.
- Short Home Visits- A visit makes a big impact at this age. Even better, mail notes throughout the year- especially for their birthday.
- Enthusiasm!
- Dress for the Job- Remember to wear something that allows you to get down on the floor easily. Also keep in mind bending over.
- Break It Up- Every 5 minutes is great for the youngest class. You can stretch it out as they mature.
- Use Your Room- If you have a large enough space split your room up into different areas. One part for sitting still and listening, another for more wiggling movements, etc.
10 Activities You Can Use
See the video for the full ideas and explanations with bonus tips.
- Hide and Peek Pictures (starts at 7:15)
- Matching Games (starts at 8:12)
- Glue! Don't be afraid of it! (starts at 9:09)
- Talk about their favorite subject, themselves! (starts at 10:27)
- Sequencing Activities (starts at 11:16)
- Snack Necklaces with Handouts (starts at 12:56)
- File Folder Games and Interactive Handouts- I love looking around on Etsy for great file folder games from places like Green Jell-O with Carrot and Kimberly Bourne Designs. (starts at 13:57)
- Make Actions for Everything (starts at 17:03)
- Animated Storytelling with Props (starts at 17:41)
- Backup Fillers- Playdoh, bubbles, simple games, Primary Wiggle songs (Children's Songbook pg. 252-285) (starts at 18:41)
- Bonus tip: Go Beyond the Coloring Page- See these 10 Unique Ideas as well as 6 More Ways to Use the Same Coloring Page.
Your Turn- What have you found that works well with teaching LDS Junior Primary? What is something you wish you knew a long time ago?


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For the most part the restaurant industry today is still trying to get a good grasp on how to use social media. Most are more reactive than proactive, meaning they are doing something for the sake of doing it, not having a clear goal or measure of results. Many are confusing measurable results with number of Facebook 'likes' or Twitter followers. They are missing the ultimate goals which are customer loyalty, engagement and making customers so happy that they let their social networks know about it.
Restaurants are creating offers, contests and promotions to drive up their number of Facebook 'likes' but then what do they do with them? Check out this example from Buca di Beppo. A 'like' is meaningless if you don't give your audience a reason to stick around and tell others about you. As a marketer I wouldn't feel it was right to take your money for increasing your 'likes'. I want to increase the number of audience members that click on your links, respond to your posts, share with friends and eat at your restaurant. (Read more on this in this great blog post by my friend Chuck Hemann.)
Restaurants are using coupon programs like Groupon and Living Social which can be written off as a marketing expense because they won't see a profit from them. These platforms will drive new business but do you want the business of the 'couponers' that are going to go where there's a better deal next week? By participating in this they are driving down their value without any increase in loyalty or engagement.
With yet another platform Google+ emerging, restaurants that are still trying to get a handle on social media can feel overwhelmed. I recently had a friend in the industry say to me over lunch, its too early for me to throw out my Beta for VHS. My reply was, jumping on the next new thing isn't what is important, it's knowing where your audience is.
In a recent post on my own blog Jill Might Know Jack, I talked about Applebee's decision to go with Facebook Places over other LBS platforms. This made the most sense for Applebee's whereas Tasti D-Lite has opted for reaching their audience through Foursquare. AJ Bombers created a cult-like following through Twitter. It would be pretty silly for them to abandon the communities they've cultivated to jump over to G+. Of course there comes a time where we evolve and let our Friendster profiles go but what is most important is to find out where your existing and desired audience is and be there. It's not hard to find out. It can be done by asking them in a simple survey. Once you've identified your platforms create programs to engage your audience.
I recently saw a QR code on the pizza box from a smaller local chain and was so excited that they were trying something out of the box (no pun intended). I scanned it and was brought to their homepage. I was disappointed. I'm already a customer. It would be just as easy for me to type their name in Google as it would for me to open the app, scan, and wait to be directed to their homepage which wasn't even optimized for a mobile device. It would have been a whole different experience if they took me to a page that acknowledged that I had already bought a pizza. They could've offered me a free soda with my next purchase or thanked me for being a customer, offered a loyalty program. Instead I wished I could have the few minutes of my life back.
It seems like there isn't a brand these days that can run a commercial or print or digital ad without telling you to follow them on Twitter, like them on Facebook, etc. The bottom line is, if your doing something just because someone in your marketing department said you should, without a goal, measurements and synergy with your business, you're wasting your time and disappointing those that are social media savvy.
There are lots examples out there of restaurants who are heading in the right direction. Here are some examples:
How Domino's Used Social Media and a New Pizza Recipe to Completely Reinvent Itself
Social Media ROI from Tattoos and Tags
Going Beyond the Foursquare Check-in with Tasti D-Lite
Behind the Social Media Curtain at Taco Cabana
Applebee's Using Social Media to Bring Back "Girl's Night Out"
Jill -
Thanks for the insight on how restaurants are doing social and some of the pitfalls that can be avoided with a little forethought and strategy behind them.
I was particularly interested to learn about the pizza restaurant as my "local" is actually a CTCT customer and I'd love for them to get more creative in their social approach - the "new" place (a little closer) has a great cheese lovers and I'm swaying a bit because I can order from them online. With a little time spent on loyalty as you say, the smaller shop that is doing newsletters well could likely keep me hooked!
I check in at restaurants via Foursquare, Yelp or Facebook depending on my mood but have yet to see somewhere that is rewarding me for doing so. I think there is a lot of opportunity here.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Ros for the comment. I agree there is a ton of opportunity here. Restaurants are still pretty behind on their thinking. They are so used to paying for TV, radio, billboards, etc. for advertising. I'm looking forward to more of them being more open to social media and a two-way conversation with their audience instead of pushing their message.
ComScore recently put out some info on use of QR codes: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/8/14_Million_Americans_Scanned_QR_or_Bar_Co...
Bingo. Exactly what I was looking for.
Yeah, the barcode generator is very useful to our daily life and I have just bought one QR Barcode for my phone, and it works well. So, if you are interested in it ,you may have a try.
QR Code is far more widespread than Data Matrix, Aztec Code or Micro QR Code. Actually Micro QR Code is rarely used and is only given here as a technology preview. If you want to create a campaign for your products using a 2D Code, make sure that you are using QR Codes, not the other types.You also can download a free barcode scanner for your phone and have a try. It's really very funny. I have found a free online barcode generator to make my own barcodes for products and it is really convenient and useful. KEEPAUTOMATION Free Online Code Reader I just want to share it with you, everybody, maybe you can try it someday you may have a try someday.
now many mobile phones are installing some QR reader to make things easier. so QR codes making are playing big part . it is necessary for us to know how to make. we can find a lot of similar tool on the web.


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Re: NATURAL-BORN DUALISTS: A Talk with Paul Bloom
Responses by Jesse Bering, Marvin Minsky, Jaron Lanier, Paul Harris, Pascal Boyer, Paul Bloom replies; Mark Mirsky
The implications of common-sense dualism aren't necessarily pleasant ones, but they're critically important. I say they're not pleasant not because the data are beginning to reveal a series of ineluctable disproofs of true souls, the absence of which can never really be established but which most of us simply take as self-evident, but rather it's just sad to know that even infancy isn't completely characterized by a zombie-like insouciance, which would be nice to experience at some point in our lives – at least, while sober. (When Sartre said that Hell was other people, he wasn't referring to their bodies).
Yet I'm suddenly struck, and troubled by, the image of Bloom in his admirable search for the illusion, delicately carving up the intentionality system – where he suspects the image of the soul to be housed – with the steady hands of a surgeon (much unlike Descartes' clumsily scratching at his pineal gland). I'm troubled because upon serving up to us these veridical truths, which I believe them to be, on a cold, sterilized surgical tray, that large contingent of lay theologians and fools (take your pick) who we all know so well as our family and friends, if they really understood what Bloom was getting at, would be quick to knock it away while casting reductionist aspersions on it.
Then again, perhaps this isn't much of a problem at all because, as he well knows based on the pessimistic tone of his interview, Bloom's endeavor to map the cognitive anatomy of dualism is forever doomed to be obscured by the illusion itself, fated to remain in the elitist provenance of cognitive scientists. These people (present company included) are often as prepared to handle the humanistic applications of common-sense dualism as a bunch of blind men on a battlefield are prepared to fight war. I've found myself befuddled by precisely such applications, when, fresh from graduate school and presenting my findings on the cognitive bases of afterlife beliefs to a religious audience (we all make mistakes early in our careers), a doubtful priest asked what he was to tell his parishioners; that their beliefs in literal immortality were fantastical byproducts of their inability to simulate their own nonexistence? My clever response was an involuntary shrugging of my shoulders. (By the way, if you're an extinctivist, or otherwise doubt that cognitive biases are behind 'mature' afterlife beliefs, consider the difficult-to-wrap-your-head-around fact that you will never know that you've died.)
But this put me to thinking that, indeed, there really is something intrinsically unsatisfying about the reality of materialism, and so it is up to us researchers who've started getting our hands dirty with the abstract guts of the soul to know what to do once we've killed it altogether. It's nice to know that someone like Bloom's got his hands in the mechanics of this illusion with me, fishing around, and so now the real question becomes, once the empirical evidence for common-sense dualism (or intuitive, folk, or naïve dualism, if you prefer) stacks up beyond the Brights' mere beautiful soliloquies, and the good skeptics have each been run off by the developmental data, what then?
Regretfully, I'll violate this usually sound principle:
for just this one remark: Almost everything Bloom says seems
sound, except that everyone should be repelled by the ancient
(and probably innate) tendency of both infants and adult psychologists
to see the world in dumbbell terms. I will be more tempted
to read the rest of his stuff when and if he reaches the stage
of tri-viding things into three or more realms.
would all be so much easier if one set of beliefs had clearly
demonstrated itself to lead to better human behavior at large
scales. Religion has brought us the inquisition, the Buddhist
sarin gas cult, al Qaeda, the Peoples' Temple cult, and so on,
but reaction against religion has brought us Stalin and the Cultural
Revolution. In terms of numbers, I think atheists/materialists
probably killed more people than religious fanatics in the last
hundred years, though it seems as though they might have a hard
time keeping up in the coming years.
Bloom argues that: (i) many adults are dualists—they
believe in the separate functioning of the mind/soul and the
body; (ii) such dualism has its roots in infant cognition; and
that given this natural predisposition, we will find it difficult
to abandon
a belief in the soul despite advances in neuroscience.
Paul Bloom's research does not just show that we are dualists, committed to an immaterial mind or soul that has no simple ties to the physical world, but also that we are, in a deep sense, incurable dualists. However scientifically literate we may become, our intuitions are still firmly rooted in commonsense dualism. This may be unfortunate if you think that people's commitment to what is patently untrue is always a Bad Thing. But in this case I think the alternative is equally unpleasant. Our sense of morality is grounded in the notion of uncaused volition—I want what I want because I want it, and that's that—and therefore in our idea of an immaterial soul. Naturally, you could build a morality based on scientific fact rather than dualist fiction, you could be a moral being and literally think of your thoughts as patterns of neural activation, but... that would be so difficult to maintain, so against the grain of our intuitions, that few if any people could sustain this kind of thought for any time at all.
Paul Bloom's arguments also point to the extraordinary mystery of our ordinary thoughts, to the fact that commonsense thinking is anything but banal. Consider this: because we are dualists, we think we have (or rather we are) an immaterial mind that floats about with no physical implementation. We think of our brains as something we use. Now we also think of our bodies as things that are governed by our thoughts: when I want to raise my hand, lo and behold, it does rise. How is that possible? How could our thoughts have an influence on meat and bone stuff? The interesting thing about that is not the question itself (it is entirely created by dualism and once you abandon dualism it vanishes) but the fact that no-one is bothered by the question. That is, there is a wide gap in our commonsense world-view, and unless we are born or made philosophers, we just don't care .
Another fascinating consequence of Bloom's research is that it explains more clearly why we have religion the way we do. There is one (misguided) view of religion that is, unfortunately, widespread among intelligent people and especially scientists. I call it the "sleep of reason" interpretation. According to this view, people have religious beliefs because they fail to reason properly. If only they grounded their reasoning in sound logic or rational order, they would not have supernatural beliefs, including superstitions and religion. I think this view is misguided, for several reasons; because it assumes a dramatic difference between religious and commonsense ordinary thinking, where there isn't one; because it suggests that belief is a matter of deliberate weighing of evidence, which is generally not the case; because it implies that religious concepts could be eliminated by mere argument, which is implausible; most importantly, because it fails to explain why religion is the way it is. Religion is not a smorgasbord of irrefutable beliefs. It generally boils down to two kinds of notions, either of immaterial spirits or gods, or of artifacts with intentional powers. In both cases religion is grounded in the powerful dualism that is part of our commonsense world view, as described by Paul Bloom.
I appreciate
the remarks on my interview by Jesse Bering, Pascal Boyer, Paul
Harris, Jaron Lanier, and Marvin Minsky. The main issue that energized
commentators was the relationship between common-sense dualism,
religion, and science, so I will focus most of my response on this
worries about the proper way to convey the insights of psychology
and neuroscience, and he makes the provocative suggestion that the
recent surge of religious extremism around the world is a response
to the irresponsible presentation of recent developments in biology
and information science, leading to the fear that science is going
to destroy our most cherished values—a form of Science Panic.
(This would be reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's classic portrayal of a colonel being cross-examined in the movie A Few Good Men.
will this news about dualism go over? Not well. For everyone, denying
the existence of the immaterial soul is unnatural and counter-intuitive;
for many, it is personally upsetting and ethically repellent. I
love Jesse Bering's story of when a priest demanded to know how
to tell his parishioners that their belief in immortality is due
to a limitation in their cognitive apparatus: "My clever response
was an involuntary shrugging of my shoulders". I would shrug
* I'm afraid that I will need a bit more detail from Marvin Minsky in order to understand his comment, and respond to it. He seems to have taken offense where none was intended—I was agreeing with the position of his that I quoted, not attacking it. As for his assertion that I think about the world in dumbbell terms, this might well be true, but it would be helpful if he gave an example or two.
Bloom's essay on "Natural-Born Dualists" is one of the
most provocative and disturbing articles that I have read in the
last few years. I have been wrestling with it now for several weeks
and sending it on to others, wondering what its conclusions imply.
Turning over the remarks about men and women as mental constructs,
and the sense of disgust that viewing the human being as a creature
without a soul seems to evoke, one sees a world of mass post-dualism
and wonders what this bodes for human society. It's already gotten
into the marrow of the fiction I am writing, dreaming.
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Indiana kitchen cabinet with built-in flour bin and sifter, zinc top for kneading bread.
Cook stove with warming closet, reservoir, and oven. Note the cook stove lid with three lids in it. Explain its use.
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There is no case to make that President Obama is showing leadership to facilitate an agreement and make sure the fiscal cliff is avoided. I don't think he is shirking a leadership role because he doesn't know how to lead, I think it is because he doesn't want to lead. If The White House wanted to get something done, things would look very different in Washington right now.
Let's review the bidding so far. The president and congressional leaders have had one meeting — where the only result was a staged photo and birthday wishes for Speaker Boehner — and there may have been a stray phone call or two between Obama and Boehner as well. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who will be leaving his job as soon as he can, went to Capitol Hill briefly, and the president has held some campaign-style scripted events outside of Washington. And White House press secretary Jay Carney has said the administration doesn't believe the problem will be solved by actually conducting meetings between congressional leaders and Obama's team. Carney was apparently speaking the truth.
When short-timer Geithner spent 45 minutes meeting with congressional leaders yesterday, he was presenting an "offer" from the president that is surreal and could only be meant to delay any real discussions. The "offer" doesn't address the fiscal cliff problem. It is mostly a rehash of a failed Obama budget that calls for the usual taxing and spending. Like Geithner, the president's allies in Congress are taunting and insulting Republicans and demanding specifics and concessions while they offer none of their own. And the only thing the president has said about entitlement spending is that we have to "take a serious look at how we reform our entitlements." When someone in Washington says they are going to "look at" your problem, that is code for, "I'm not going to do one thing to help you; this meeting is over." At a political level, the president is not in bad shape. If a deal is reached that is to his liking, that would be great. If there is no deal, and we go over the cliff, that would be okay — and even better if he is able to place the blame on Republicans. Most of the activity to date appears to be more focused on placing blame than on reaching an agreement. The Democrats even appear to be celebrating their position; they can't contain their glee that they win if Republicans cave and they win if we go over the cliff. How else do you explain their lack of engagement or serious dialogue?
The bottom line is that there doesn't appear to be a process — or even the necessary dialogue — in place to produce an agreement. The 2012 campaign, which was largely about job creation, seems like a hundred years ago. No one is talking about how to achieve economic growth or doing anything to create a single job. If there is to be a deal on the fiscal cliff, it looks like it will be at the 11th hour, and it will be a band-aid. Call me a pessimistic cynic, but nothing that has happened so far should lead anyone to think that our nation's budget or the overall economy will be made stronger by events in Washington.


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Luminosity function (astronomy)
In astronomy, the luminosity function gives the number of stars or galaxies per luminosity interval.[1] Luminosity functions are used to study the properties of large groups or classes of objects, such as the stars in clusters or the galaxies in the Local Group.
Note that the term "function" is slightly misleading, and the luminosity function might better be described as a luminosity distribution. Given a luminosity as input, the luminosity function essentially returns the abundance of objects with that luminosity (specifically, number density per luminosity interval).
Schechter luminosity function[edit]
The Schechter luminosity function provides a parametric description of the space density of galaxies as a function of their luminosity. The form of the function is
where is galaxy luminosity, and is a characteristic galaxy luminosity where the power-law form of the function cuts off. The parameter has units of number density and provides the normalization. The galaxy luminosity function may have different parameters for different populations and environments; it is not a universal function. One measurement from field galaxies is .[2]
It is often more convenient to rewrite the Schechter function in terms of magnitudes, rather than luminosities. In this case, the Schechter function becomes:
Note that because the magnitude system is logarithmic, the power law has logarithmic slope . This is why a Schechter function with is said to be flat.
Integrals of the Schechter function[edit]
Integrals of the Schechter function can be expressed via the incomplete gamma function
White dwarf luminosity function[edit]
The white dwarf luminosity function (WDLF) gives the number of white dwarf stars with a given luminosity. As this is determined by the rates at which these stars form and cool, it is of interest for the information it gives about the physics of white dwarf cooling and the age and history of the Galaxy.[3][4]
- ^ Stahler, S.; Palla, F. (2004). The Formation of Stars. Wiley VCH. doi:10.1002/9783527618675. ISBN 978-3-527-61867-5.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Longair, Malcolm (1998). Galaxy Formation. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-63785-1.
- ^ The Texas Deep Sky Survey: Spectroscopy of Cool Degenerate Stars, C. F. Claver, D. E. Winget, R. E. Nather, and P. J. MacQueen, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30 (December 1998), p. 1300
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The painters arrived at my house about 7:00AM. Awkward. We sleep in until about 8:00AM. At 7:30 there was all this banging so me and Mom got up to see what they wanted. Nothing, they said. They were just attaching plastic over the windows so they could start spraying. UGH (we both grumbled). Mom let me out to piddle but who can do that with all those men watching? I did a little here and there but raced back inside before I did the main poopie. Poopies are a big deal to us pups, you know, and we don't like getting off schedule. Ohhhh.....ahhhh....well, maybe if I scoot under the piano bench it won't be too noticeable?
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Our house is now completely taped up and we are held prisoner by sheets of vinyl and duct tape. This is not good. I need to go out again. I could use a piddle pad, I guess, but I prefer the tickle of fresh dew covered green grass on my furry little tush. I will hold it and hope no one is offended by any accidental minor gas leaks.
Uh oh.....and I hear Mom sniff and sniff again. Busted. We leave for work in an hour. I'll take care of it then.
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This week's Woman Crush Wednesday is brought to you courtesy of Kara Goucher. I first discovered Kara in 2014 when she left Nike for Oiselle, thus aligning herself with an enormously supportive community of female runners. Then in 2015 she hit the headlines appearing in BBC Panorama's documentary Catch Me If You Can, in which she spoke out about her suspicions of doping within the Nike Oregon Project. Kara struck me as a very genuine person, who had real concerns about both the treatment of athletes and the sport itself, and I've closely followed her journey ever since.
I was so excited when I learned Kara would be going after a place at the Olympics, and kept up to date with her buildup via social media and her blog. Despite narrowly missing out on a spot at Rio 2016, Kara remained driven, upbeat and downright inspirational. She is the runner I channel when a run is going badly, and "What Would Kara Do" is what gets me up horrific long uphills, through mental barriers, and most importantly, out the door for pre-dawn training sessions.
Some facts about Kara:
- She competed at a collegiate level for the University of Colorado, and was three-time NCAA champion.
- Her Marathon PB is 2:24:52.
- Her Half Marathon PB of 1:06:57 was set at the Great North Run, where she won, beating record-holder Paula Radcliffe.
- She is one of only 71 women ever to have run the 10,000m in under 31 minutes
- She only missed out on a spot at Rio 2016 by a minute, on a scorchingly hot day in LA.
- She now hosts Podium Retreats, designed to help female runners unlock their potential.
- After leaving Nike, Kara found sponsorship with Oiselle, Nuun and Sketchers, to name a few.
Kara remains my ultimate running idol- I love her and everything she does!
Any other ladies I should have on my radar?
Lots of love,