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Films From Australia
A physical cripple, trapped inside a body. Unable to act, his action is through thought. ... Read more
Vibrating and rhythmic as life itself, Astral Plane bridges time, space and love. ... Read more
From the respected RMIT Centre for Animation and Interactive Media comes a tale of the challenges of change on the ordered life of a timekeeper. Screened at Annecy Film Festival.---D/S Kate McCartney P/WS RMIT L English TD video/col/2005/8mins ... Read more
A girl "awakes" into a world of the persecuted and insane. Her nightmare becomes increasingly grotesque. An allegory in the Kafka tradition. ... Read more
The memories and pain the death of child brings, are the sub|ect of this fluid and graceful film. Writer-director Penny Fowler-Smith's mother Bremer, tells the story of the birth of her son Andrew and the infant's death on board a ship bound for Australia. A collection of images from old movies and ... Read more
Slow motion and an extended long take are used to make the ritualised dynamics of a high school formal increasingly sinister and disturbing. ... D/S Andrew Kavanagh P Ramona Telecican WS VCA School of Film & Television L no dialogue TD HD Cam/2010 ... Read more
The weird and beautiful landscape, its wild life and the facilities for holiday-makers at Tidal River. ... Read more
The events of a day in the country lead a young man to follow his own path. ... D/S Nathan Lewis P Colin John Elphick L no dialogue TD digibeta/2010 ... Read more
'A child of 1968 and the Nouvelle Vague, with a particular admiration for Godard, Philippe Garrel's first films are underground works, hermetic visions of artistic alienation... These were Garrel's wild years of drug addiction, permissiveness and extreme alienation, which culminated in a traumatic ... Read more
It is the dream of many to challenge the world, to prove superiority in the areas of sport, science, or artistic endeavour. ... Aurora Australis is the story of such a challenge, documenting the story of four Australians who take on the world. ... Read more
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank have made available to the Australian Government ... a series of dollar loans for the purchase of vital equipment to pierce mountains, build dams, make steel and purchase Diesel motors for locomotives or great airliners ... Read more
Illustrates the part played by Australia in the economic development of the resources of New Guinea. ... Read more
The story of what is happening in the northern and central areas of Australia. It contrasts the stone-age nomad making fire and the blazing furnaces at Mount Isa; an aborigine digging yams and modern rice growing; hunting kangaroos for food and the Air Beef operations at Glenroy. ... Read more
Paul Winkler, one of Australia's foremost stylistic and technical innovators devised 'The Matte-Box Image Shifter' to achieve in-camera effects usually achieved by optical printing. ... Still photos of animals are integrated into 'live' action shots of the Australian bush. ... "The Sentinels Are ... Read more
One of the Cinema Branch's earliest sound films, though some silent footage can be seen. Memorable not only for a glimpse of how real butter was made but also for its commentary -"Kangaroo Butter is an Empire product for an Empire table. Its manufacture employs approximately three quarters of a ... Read more
australian rules premiered at 2002 Sundance Film Festival to audiences entranced by an enormously moving, immensely satisfying drama by first-time director Paul Goldman. The film is a sensitive but often unflinching foray into loyalty in a small South Australian fishing town. It surprises and ... Read more
Outrageous and courageous, this contemporary selection of Australian Indigenous shorts rises above stereotypes with tales of the most entertaining, emotional and humorous variety - from ills caused by witch doctors' curses to entrepreneurial pensioners and the vagaries of being a checkout chick ... Read more
After work on Friday night, the Australian city dweller changes his personality. Here, we view different people at their favourite pastimes dining the freedom of the weekend. ... Read more
A documentary about the many struggles and scant triumphs of Australian ... women composers. The story begins at ... the turn of the century, when women ... wanted equal opportunities and recognition in the field of music, and analyses some of the problems they faced. The film presents portraits of ... Read more
"Rowland was Australia's most unique, gifted and uncompromising guitarist." - Nick Cave ... Guitarist, songwriter and artist Rowland S. Howard was an instrumental figure in the Australian rock scene, particularly renowned for his role in seminal post-punk outfit The Birthday Party. In a career ... Read more
Avoca traces the filmmaker's memories of growing up in a small coastal town, amidst the burgeoning beach culture of the 70s. A poignant and revealing testimony, it blends Australian popular history with an individual sense of belonging. ... Read more
A stop-motion animated sitcom about a slacker named Jesus, his father God and his babysitter Satan, a recovering alcoholic. Special cameo by Richard Dawkins. ... Michael Greaney is a guest of the Festival. ... D/P/S Michael Greaney TD digibeta/2010 ... Read more
A free interpretation of Australian Aborigine's belief about their rock - Ayers ... Rock. ... Read more
Abandoned in a country town by his guardian, a young, solitary albino boy spends his days playing chicken and spying on his neighbours until a bizarre encounter forces him to connect. ... D/S Billie Pleffer P Rita Walsh, Stacey Kwijas WS VCA School of Film & Television L no dialogue TD HD Cam/2011 ... Read more
Rose, a fiesty rebel who thinks she knows it all-and wants it all, and Adrian, an introverted newcomer who has a more temperate but insecure approach to life, meet on the way to a rollerskating rink. The central story is the relationship between Rose and Adrian. Each week, when inter-school ... Read more


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Using HIPERSPACE DATA BUFFERS in CICS
I was sure that I had read that HIPESPACE BUFFERS were not used in ZOS R1.4 and CICS TS R2.3 and the parameters would be ignored if present. I now cannot find the reference.My question is, if the HIPERSPACE parameters are now ignored, do we need to add more buffers to the original DATA and INDEX buffers, so we don't have shortages or WAITS?
The use of HIPERSPACE DATA BUFFERS and HIPERSPACE INDEX BUFFERS when creating an LSRPOOL definition in CICS continues to be valid for all currently supported releases of CICS up through and including, CICS TS Version 2, Release 3. The restrictions on the HIPERSPACE BUFFER sizes that are valid continue to be true. In addition to the requirement that the size must be a multiple of 4096, it must also match the CISIZE of the index or data components for the data sets using a particular LSR pool.
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Donovan posted a link to the latest Channel 9 screencast on AzMan, in which Keith Brown talks about some of the new features coming up in the Longhorn Server version of AzMan. It's a good video, and very encouraging to me, because it looks like the things the AzMan team has added for Longhorn are exactly the things I would have wanted.
The programmatic interface is much simplified (thank you) and there's a new plugin model for the admin tool which allows you to work with custom principles such as ADAM principals from within the AzMan MMC snapin.
Another interesting feature calls BizRule groups allows you to define ad hoc groups defined by script, which can then be associated with roles at runtime. The example in the video created a group consisting of the current user's direct manager, and then assigning that group with an expense approver group. This is a cool idea, but I'm reluctant to go back to defining application logic in VB script. The one thing I really wish the team had done for Longhorn would be to create a managed interface for AzMan, and let us get away from COM (finally). Since I'm writing the rest of my application in C#, I don't really want to have to maintain and deploy a bunch of COM based scripting files. I'm not too concerned about the "COM overhead" involved with calling AzMan interfaces, but the scripting part is lame.
I'm looking forward to testing some of the new features, and trying out the performance improvements.
Scott posted today about "Mindful Coding" or "Coding Mindfully", meaning "paying full attention to what you are doing while coding". It's an easy thing to say, and a very hard thing to do. We are so habitualized, as a society, to not pay full attention to much of anything that it's hard to really focus on what's happening right now. I know that between email, questions, lunch, etc. it's difficult for me to focus on the code I'm writing at any given moment. If nothing else, it's tempting to think about how the code you are writing now will interact with or influence the code you right tomorrow or next week, or the code your neighbor is writing that you have to integrate with. Before you know it, you aren't really paying full attention to what you are writing. Personally, this is where I get a lot of value out of refactoring.
Refactoring allows you to fix the problems caused by wandering attention, if it's done often enough. Several of the commenters on Scott's post also note that pair programming is a good remedy, and I agree. When you are collaborating with someone else, you have to focus on the collaboration, which leads to mindfulness about what you are doing right now.
Go forth and be mindful...
Since there's not way to manage an explicit "Deny" in AzMan like there is with ACL's, that has some influence on the way in which we will have to define roles. Let's say I have a group hierarchy like this...
If we have the ability to deny, we might give rights to all operations to the top level "Ray's Bakery", and then deny rights to "Payroll" for example that we don't want that group to have, but are OK for "Finance". It's relatively easy to understand, and has the advantage of being not very much work.
Because of the way AzMan works, however, we have to work from the top of the hierarchy down, going from most restrictive to least restrictive. In other words, we can only assign rights to the "Ray's Bakery" group that we want ALL users to have, then grant additional rights as we go down the tree. We might want everyone in Finance and Payroll to be able to see balances, so those rights could be assigned at the "Corporate HQ" level, while rights to transfer money from one corporate account to another might be granted only to Finance, and rights to wire transfers only to Payroll. This should also be pretty easy to understand, but it does require a bit more thinking about. I think a good test tool will help make it clear to users who has what rights, so it shouldn't be too hard to follow.
For the sake of clearing up any implementation details, what I'm really describing are hierarchical groups in ADAM, which are associated with AzMan roles, so when I say "assign rights at the Finance level", I mean that the group SID for the Finance group in ADAM will be associated with an AzMan role called something like RaysBakeryFinance, which is in turn associated with the operations or tasks that comprise wire transfers.
A very common banking scenario is one in which Customer Service Reps (CSRs) need to act on behalf of a given user to help them through problems. This usually occurs when a customer calls a bank, and the CSR needs to essentially log into the online banking system "as" that customer, but without knowing that user's password.
Once they are logged in, there are some things you'd like them NOT to be able to do, like create a new bill payment payee and send bill payments to it. 'Cause that's bad.
I'm trying to figure out how that would be modeled in AzMan, since as near as I can figure there's not such thing as an explicit "deny" in AzMan. All rights are essentially additive, and if any of a user's roles includes a grant, access is granted. At least that's the way it seems to behave, I could be wrong.
In a perfect world, we'd like to be able to simply model "the CSR can do everything the user can, except...".
The only way I can figure to make this work in AzMan right now is to create the CSR role with access to all operations except those on the deny list, then when the CSR logs in, do restrict the AccessCheck against AzMan to only the CSR role, by setting the IAzClientContext's RoleForAccessCheck property. That way, only the CSR's rights are evaluated, even if they are assigned to other roles as well.
Not ideal, but at least it's easy to understand...
Donovan Follette, ADAM/AzMan/Identity Evangelist at Microsoft, has posted a set of links to some videos, whitepapers, and case studies on using AzMan. Not only are these great resources, but it's great to see Donovan working to make sure that AzMan doesn't stay the "best kept secret" in Windows 2003 Server.
One of the big questions we've had around using AzMan has been "is anyone actually using this thing?", so it's very cool to get our hands on some real case studies to answer that question in the affirmative.
Thanks Donovan!
I'm just starting to look into the feasibility of implementing complex constraints in the world of AzMan. I've already discovered how easy it is to create simple "accessibility" constraints (i.e. can user x execute operation y), but now we need a solution for what we think of as "parameterized" constraints, like can user x execute the transfer operation if the total amount user x wants to transfer is $y.
AzMan certainly provides the capability, in the for of "BizRules", which are scripts that can be attached to roles and other objects to perform exactly this kind of evaluation. When your application calls CheckAccess, it can pass a set of parameters to evaluate, as well as additional objects, etc. I have two main concerns about this that I'm going to spend the next week or so evaluating...
Both of those concerns stem from the fact that the only interface currently provided to AzMan is COM based, which means that I'm forced to write my scripts in VBScript of JScript, and I have to pass COM objects (or at least COMVisible objects) for all my parameters at evaluation time. That means potentially some extra marshalling overhead, although I think there are ways around that. It also makes the interface to CheckAccess a bit clunky.
I guess I'll find out...
This is mostly an annoyance, but I've noticed that every time I try to attach the VisualStudio 2005 debugger to the w3wp.exe process (to debug a WCF service hosted in IIS, on Windows 2003 Server), the Attach to Process dialog automatically tries to debug Workflow and T-SQL code, not managed code. This then causes VS.NET to crash instead of attaching the debugger.
When I remember to set it manually to Managed instead, everything works just fine. The drag is that there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to turn off the automatic selection. Every time I start this process, I forget, crash the app, then remember to select manually. Costs some extra time I'd rather not spend.
I suppose on the other hand, I could just pay more attention.
It's highly encouraging to me that MS is continuing investment in ADAM. There have been a number of naming changes for "Longhorn" Server, and ADAM hasn't escaped. The new name is ADLDS, for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services. A much more appropriate name, since it says exactly what ADAM does. It's the LDAP part, without the NOS bits of AD.
I've noticed that the name change even shows up in a few places on the Windows 2003 Server site, which is a bit confusing.
Anyway, the take away is that not only is ADAM not going away, but it's a part of the platform that MS is committed to not only supporting but improving. Does my heart good.
It looks like the issue I've been having with calling AzMan via PowerShell via MMC have nothing to do with PowerShell, and is probably an AzMan issue. I tried exactly the same scenario, but accessed a different path with my drive provider that ultimately makes a COM call to ADAM, rather than AzMan, and it worked just fine. That makes me think it's something about the AzMan implementation.
However, I still need to call my PowerShell drive provider from MMC, and that problem has been resolved, (many) thanks to Bruce Payette.
Turns out that there's a way to get PowerShell to run in the caller's thread, rather than creating its own MTA thread. This means that my PowerShell code will get called from MMC's STA thread directly, and the AzMan interfaces get created just fine. Woohoo!
Previously, I was creating the Runspace and calling it thusly...
RunspaceConfiguration config = RunspaceConfiguration.Create();
PSSnapInException warning;
//load my drive provider
PSSnapInInfo info = config.AddPSSnapIn(snapInName, out warning);
Runspace rs = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(config);
create Command object with right parameters
Collection<PSObject> results;
using (Pipeline pipeline = _runspace.CreatePipeline())
results = pipeline.Invoke();
This wasn't working, I believe because MMC is calling this code on an STA thread, and PowerShell is creating its own MTA thread, which doesn't seem to be acceptible to AzMan (not sure why).
However, according to Bruce's suggestion, I changed it to look like this...
Runspace rs = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
rs.RunspaceConfiguration.AddPSSnapIn(snapinName, out warning);
Runspace.DefaultRunspace = rs;
EngineIntrinsics _exec = rs.SessionStateProxy.GetVariable("ExecutionContext") as EngineIntrinsics;
ScriptBlock sb = _exec.InvokeCommand.
NewScriptBlock("my script block");
Collection<PSObject> results = sb.Invoke();
This causes the PowerShell call to happen on the caller's (MMC's) thread, and everyone is happy.
Update: OK this is even wierder. If I call into the PowerShell Runspace from inside a WinForms app marked STAThread, but first I create my own MTA thread and use it to make the call to the Runsapce, everything works. However, from within MMC, even if I create the MTA thread myself to call the Runsapace on, it fails with the same "Interface not registered" error.
Our plan is to build PowerShell Cmdlets and drive providers to expose our management interfaces, then layer an MMC interface on top of them to provide a GUI management tool.
Yesterday, I ran into the first hitch in that plan...
My PowerShell drive provider makes use of the AzMan COM interfaces to deal with Operations, Roles, and Tasks. That works great from within PowerShell, and it does all the stuff it needs to. However, when I started running the PowerShell stuff through a Runspace inside of MMC, the AzMan calls started failing with "Interface not registered". Hmm. So, on a hunch, I tried the same PowerShell calls (again using a Runspace) inside a WinForms app. Same problem. Even though they work fine in PowerShell (which obviously makes me doubt that the interface isn't registered).
On another hunch, I changed the COM threading model attribute on the WinForms app from [STAThread] to [MTAThread]. Everything worked just peachy. Dang.
Turns out that MMC always calls snap-ins on an STA thread, and for the life of my I can't find any way to change that behavior. I still don't know why the problem manifests itself quite this way.
To further qualify the problem, I called the AzMan interfaces directly from within the WinForms app, and it worked in both STA and MTA threads. So apparently it has something to do with launching the Runspace from an STA thread, and then making the COM calls from PowerShell (which uses an MTA thread).
I'm hoping that I won't have to abandon the MMC -> PowerShell concept for this particular part of the product, but right now I'm not sure how to resolve this.
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I am not new to allergies. When I was little I had a few severe reactions to grapes, a few small reactions to popular antibiotics and I am still very allergic to cats. I grew out of my other allergies. It was never a big deal when I was a kid so I was not prepared for how my life was about to change after I became a mother. My journey as an allergy mom did not start with only food allergies. My journey started with my second oldest son, Z.
I have five amazing kiddos, three of which have or have had food allergies of different severities and very different reactions. Z is my sweet, slow and steady boy. He was the easiest of all of my babies and instantly took breastfeeding by storm. My first son had a lot of complications with breastfeeding and wasn't able to. I was thrilled to have Z take to me so easily. Then we noticed instead of having normal movements that he would go 3-4 days without having even one poopy diaper. The first many rounds of doctors appointments didn't help. After four months with no answers and him going up to nine days without having a dirty diaper I was told to stop breastfeeding and to try soy formula. It worked! I was so happy to have a baby that could poop regularly and go an entire day without terrible gas! Then three weeks later he started having the exact same issues as before. After three more months of trying EVERYTHING we finally got our answer!!!
Milk protein allergy.
His body could not digest milk proteins. So he had to be put on a very special formula until he was 18months old and couldn't have any dairy until after he was 3. In the middle of all of that he also had very severe environmental allergies. He would break out in hives and have horrible asthma attacks any time he came into contact with cats, cat hair, horses, certain plants, dust, and so on. The list is very long. So my first four years of motherhood were a whirlwind! It was spent getting answers for Z and keeping him away from things and foods that would harm him, enjoying having two sweet boys who were only 17 months apart and best friends and having my sweet daughter MB come along. After Z turned 3 his milk protein allergy vanished and I no longer had to worry about ingredient lists for him. Little did I know that this part of my life was really easy compared to what was to come.


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We love to talk – as we often do- about our Colliders, our protagonists: you've got to know the scientists, the CEOs, the speakers, the specialists and everyone who has shined on The Collider pitching stages and workshops throughout the previous months. That is because The Collider is a program about people and proud to be so. People are our biggest asset, as much as the brilliant technologies we welcome on every edition; without the right mixture of scientific and human force, there is no real impact on society, which is The Collider's ultimate goal.
However, little is known about the ones standing behind the scenes, oiling the engines and wrapping the stages. They are the working force making things happen, undercover. Today, we would like to recognize their efforts as well, in shaping such a disruptive program from scratch. So here you have a little introduction to the Collider's core team who works hard every day to offer a seamless and rewarding experience that makes a difference.
Oscar Sala / Director
Oscar is the director of the venture branch of Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCB), mVenturesBcn, which is home to The Collider. He landed at the Pier 01 with the ambition to revalidate the success of the program's first edition and plan its expansion thoroughly. On the day to day, Oscar is seen raising awareness about the program on the highest level, from private to public institutions, as well as sketching the big picture in the whiteboards of our beloved meeting room.
Manuel Palacin / Programme Manager
Techie at heart, Manuel is not only the programme's manager but also our in-deep tech-transfer expert. He speaks the TTOs language (Tech-Transfer Offices) and is in charge of the scientific project scouting and care. On the day to day, Manuel is seen joining all the pieces of The Collider puzzle, from the legal layer to the scouting machinery, or offering speeches elsewhere (and probably running overtime).
Javier Avellaneda / Venture Builder
Javier is our latest addition and he's caught up incredibly fast despite his serene look and flair. Having helped to bring 4 companies to the stock floors, he joined The Collider to lead our startups' fundraising journey. With such a challenge in such an early stage in his hands, Javier is usually seen between partner's boards and strategic meetings to define deals and secure a bright future for The Collider's rising stars.
Maria Lizunova / Marketing Executive
Maria is part of the MWCB Marketing team and she landed at The Collider following an intense experience at 4YFN, where she gained an incredible knowledge (and network!) around the entrepreneurial ecosystem. She's the mastermind behind our website, promotional events and materials. On the day to day, you'll find her in-between offices (Pier 01 and MediaTIC) aligning expectations and turning them into a reality.
Pol Hortal / Operations Manager
Pol is a veteran at The Collider and our people's person. Having started his own several businesses (with sounded exits), Pol drives the perfect empathy from participants and staff alike. Hence, he is the bridge between the two worlds, managing operations, providers and setting the tempos. On the day to day, you'll find Pol on top of all matters as relaxed as he may seem and probably also sharing a cigarette or lunch with participants and getting to know their pains and gains, dreams and failures.
Albert Castelltort / Operations & Moderator
Beyond helping in the program's definition, Albert is mostly known for being the program's star speaker. We've seen him at The Collider's Demo Days, at 4YFN big stage and moderating specialised roundtables all around. He is connected to a great network of investors and corporates and not in vain, he has been one of the master coaches in building (targeting and retargeting) our startup pitches.
Ona Estapé / Experience Lead
Also quite a veteran, Ona got onboard to ensure a seamless experience for every single one in the program. With one hand in Marketing and another in Operations, Ona is a natural mix of organizer and PR person set to grow and bond The Collider community. That's why you'll find her on her day to day on weekly (or rather daily) meetings, scheduling tweets, talking to participants, experts and providers. Or writing this blog post.


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1. A thought (citta; pronounced "chiththa") is on a specific thought object, say thinking about buying a car or going for a walk. There is only one citta at a time, but each lasts less than a billionth of a second and what we experience is vinnanakkhadha which encompases multiple cittas. One can NEVER experience a single citta. Therefore, what we call a "thought" is the result of many of cittas or more correctly the result of many citta vithi, bundled up as vinnanakkhadha.
- Each citta has many cetasika (mental factors) in it, including the all important sanna, phassa, manasikara cetasika. Then there are "good" and "bad" cetasika in a citta that describe the "mood" of the citta.
- When someone is angry most cittas at that time will have the hate (patigha and/or dosa cetasika. When the same person is feeding a hungry person his/her cittas at that time will have the benevolence and/or loving kindness cetasikas. The good and bad cetasika do not mix, i.e., one either has a good thought or a bad thought. For discussion on cetasika, see, "Cetasika (Mental Factors)".
2. The manasikara and sanna cetasika is in each and every citta, and they carry all past memories, habits (gathi) and cravings (asavas) in them. The gathi and asavas may not be displayed in each citta; rather, they lie dormant, waiting for a "trigger" to come up. Gathi and asavas are carried from citta to citta (until they are removed), and new habits and cravings can be added at any time.
3. Vinnana is not a thought but it is in thoughts. Vinnana represents the overall experience of cittas, and is largely described by the cetasika in those cittas. Of course no one experience a vinnana due to a single citta; rather what one experiences is the average of millions or billions of cittas. A bunch or a heap is called khandha in Pali or Sinhala. Thus what we experience is a vinnanakkhandha, or the averaged value over a bunch or a heap of cittas.
- Vinnana is complex and multi-faceted. We may have vinnana of different types at the same time. Even though we are directly aware of one type of vinnana at a given time, there may be many types hiding beneath the surface. This is what Sigmund Freud called the "sub-conscious".
4. A thought is what is occupying the mind at a given moment. When I am paying for my groceries, my thoughts are focused on that transaction. But there can be many types of vinnana working "in the background". I may be building a house, studying for an exam, planning a trip, planning a birthday party for my child, etc. and all those "vinnana" are working in the background even though I am not thinking about any of them at the time I am paying for my groceries.
- However, any of those, and even some things that I had not been thinking about for a long time could be there further down in the "subconscious". But there is no separate "subconscious" as such. All these different types of vinnana are there in a single thought (citta), and there is only one citta at a time; see, "What is a Thought?". Then how is it possible for many types of vinnana to be lurking in the background?
5. It is those mental factors (cetasika) that makes it all possible. Several key such mental factors play key roles including memory (manasikara), contact (phassa), and perception(sanna). These key "universal cetasika" are in all the citta and embody all our desires as well as everything that has happened to us in them. Of course things happened recently are "closer to the top" compared to something that had happened a long time ago. And it also depends on how significant a certain event was. Some special events, even if they had happened a long time ago, are easier to remember.
- Memories are fixed even though we may not remember all of them; all our memories are kept intact as our nama gotta, in the mind plane; see, "Recent Evidence for Unbroken Memory Records (HSAM)". Of course what we can recall is limited by many factors including the state of the brain. As we get older the ability to recall gets weaker.
6. Vinnana is a sort of the "end result" of many memories as well as our gathi and asavas.
- The more one does something repeatedly, there starts a vinnana for that particular event or behavior. For example, when one starts smoking, a vinnana starts building, and the more one smokes, the stronger the vinnana gets. This is called "feeding the vinnana" by doing it again and again. In other words, habits are formed via repeatedly feeding the vinnana for that habit.
- When a certain vinnana is pleasing to the mind, that vinnana tries to get fed frequently. When someone has the habit of smoking the vinnana for that tries to deviate his/her attention to smoking at every possible opportunity. For example, if a smoker sees an advertisement for smoking, that "triggers" the liking or the vinnana for smoking that was in the subconscious.
7. But it works the same way for a vinnana that got initiated with a dislike also. For example, if someone did something really awful to you in the past, the hearing of his/her name will bring back that vinnana. This is why we get "attached" to things we like as well for things we dislike, and is the meaning of tanha (get bonded via greed or hate); see, "Tanha – How We Attach Via Greed, Hate, and Ignorance".
8. Not all vinnana keep accumulating in the background. Those weaker ones, especially if don't get fed, diminish and disappear. For example, suppose I had planned an overseas trip, and had been making preparations for it. The more preparations I make and more thoughts I have of the trip, those are "food for that vinnana", and it grows. If I see a new article with that country's name, I would immediately read the article. But suppose, a major war breaks out in that country before my trip; then I would cancel that trip right away. I will no longer be planning for the trip and my mind will "not be interested" in it anymore. Since that vinnana for "visiting that country" is not going to get fed anymore, it will be gone in a short time.
- We don't even need to actually physically do the activity to "feed the vinnana" or make a habit stronger. There are studies that show that one could improve the game of basketball, for example, by just visualize practising, and getting the ball in mentally. These are called "mano sancetana". Focusing the attention on a given task can be very powerful.
9. This is why chanda, citta, viriya, vimansa (satara iddhipada or the four bases of mental power) are critical for achieving goals. When one forms a strong liking (chanda) for a goal, one starts thinking often about it (citta), making effort (viriya), and constantly analyzing and trying to find related facts (vimansa) about how to accomplish that goal; see, " The Four Bases of Mental Power (Satara Iddhipada)".
10. Our minds are very complex and powerful. And there are many different ways to analyze and examine concepts that are closely related. This is why there are so many different ways Buddha Dhamma can analyze a given situation and come to the same conclusion. It is a all self-consistent.
- For example, suppose I thought about buying a silver car of model X several weeks ago; I have been thinking about it reading reviews and so on. I may be driving on the road just focusing on the road and driving with my thoughts and consciousness (vinnana) focused on driving. But now if I see a silver-colored car of model X, then immediately that will trigger my vinnana about "buying the car" and I may compare the silver-colored car with the car that I had in mind. The mind likes to "feed the vinnana" that we have and the more it gets fed, it gets stronger. The more I think about the car, the stronger my intentions get about buying one.
11. There could be several such vinnana "in the background" or "in the subconscious" at any given time. For example, our vinnana keeps shifting as we keep moving from one task to another. But underneath, there may be several vinnana waiting for an opportunity to come up to the conscious level. Thus it can be "triggered" by a related event.
12. A built-up vinnana can form a habit; as the habit gets stronger, it can be carried over to the next life, possibly in two ways: a really strong habit could lead to a "patisandhi vinnana" at the dying moment and can lead to a corresponding "bhava", and thus one could be born in the corresponding "jati". For example, an extremely greedy person, may acquire a "peta bhava" at the dying moment and be born as a "peta" or a hungry ghost.
- On the other hand, if the same person had time left in the "human bhava" then that person will be feeding the "pavutti vinnana" of greed, and will always be looking out to acquire more "stuff" even at the expense of other people. Thus a "greedy vinnana" will grow as one keeps feeding that vinnana. He/she will never be satisfied even if what has been acquired is more than enough.
13. Thus vinnana is very complex; it is not just the "awareness". It also has one's "hopes and dreams" as well as "likes, dislikes, and habits". It is a complex combination of the 52 cetasikas; of course not all cetasikas are involved in a given citta or in our thoughts.


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Do PBN Works or Not in 2019 is the biggest question which comes in everyone's mind to remove that thought from the mind, I came with this article where I outreached SEO Industry leaders and asked their own personal views on PBN.
Here was the Question which I asked all of them
Does PBN Works or Not Today in 2019
If Yes?
If No?
Still needed Reason
Chris M.Walker – Founder at Legiit
"PBNs still work… when used correctly. Unlike 2014 you can't just fire 10 PBN at a site and just rank.
They won't be effective as your first link, or as your only links. In order to effectively use a PBN you first need to establish your website as a brand, properly optimize your on-site SEO, and build a diverse link foundation.
Your PBNs can then be the final thing to help finish getting up page 1.
To use an analogy, when I was a kid there was an arcade called "Punch Out" it was a boxing game where your regular punches were a jab and a right hook, that was where you did most of the damage.
That is your on page and your link foundation. There was also a big red button for an uppercut, that was your knockout punch, that is what a PBN is for… to punch your way to the top of Google."
Rad Paluszak – Director of SEO at The Search Initiative
To PBN or not to PBN, that is the question…
I believe PBNs are one of the most controversial SEO subjects ever.
First of all, I've seen PBNs built for $30 a pop with shocking content quality, terrible onsite and full of footprints. I've also seen great sites, which I'd never assume, were, in fact, just PBNs.
What is a PBN, then?
Well, if we go by the definition that it's any site which purpose is to bring link juice to your money site, we could call almost everything a PBN.
If we go by the definition that a PBN is a site WE have built as a part of a bigger link network, and it's only meant to link to OUR money site, then it narrows down a lot. However, for me, it's still not enough.
Many of us in the industry are in this mindset that a PBN site is always bad, whatsoever. Some PBNs are actually better designed, optimised and drive more traffic than a lot of money sites I've seen. In cases like this, even when a domain is a part of a network, I don't class it as a PBN.
For me, a PBN is a crappy site (or a cluster of tens or hundreds of sites) which sole purpose is to link out and nothing (or not much) else. However, when it adds value and has the potential to gain its own, monetisable traffic, for me, it becomes just another online asset. If it happens 😉 that we also use this asset to link to our other, more important, money site… Well, so be it! Google has hundreds of websites in their the network, and no one claims they're building a PBN 🙂
Do PBNs work?
For those who know me, it will come as no surprise that I'll say: it depends.
PBNs are not dead, though! Deployed on carefully picked domains, creatively built, made free of footprints, where the owner went an extra mile developing – they clearly work now and will probably still work well for years. By the way, again, these are often websites I would personally not even class as PBNs.
On the other hand, if someone would rather cut corners and tries to "get rich quick", they should be ready to (sooner or later) get penalised.
Bearing in mind that the link building is mainly just the numbers game, you could be lucky for quite sometime before the algorithm gets good enough to understand and punish your tricks. Or it might never happen.
Are PBNs a good link building tactic in 2019?
I am personally NOT the greatest fan of PBNs. Although I know that they work, and I've built and tested thousands of them in the past, coldly calculating, they're just too dangerous for scaling and linking as the 1st tier.
I'm going to say that there are much safer and more scalable tactics which site owners, affiliates and agencies can use. Therefore, why not stay on the safe side?
At the end of the day, it all depends on your skills, experience and how much you want to risk.
I'm sure there are niches soaking with PBNs and others where they're just not needed because good content gets natural links… Or does it?
Fernando Raymond – Founder at ClickDo
PBN s works as long as they are built to be genuine blogs to add value to the web reader. It should no more be a P and be a blog with content and looks like a brand.
I believe it's a link from authentic blogs that helps the budge.
Subhash Choudhary – Co-Founder at Rankz
For me, Yes PBN is still working. Almost 80% of our Off-page is PBNs and it takes most of the off-page budget.
Choose between a link from a "High authority" domain which also links to 80000 other domains or a link from a Mid to low authority domain which links exclusively to you (with a very low OBL profile)…
Which one you think will hold more value?
A Private Domain (PBN) is a no-brainer in the above case, however, I must admit that finding a domain with even decent authority is much harder & expensive then it was 2 years back.
The problem with PBN or any much talked about SEO method is, the more people try to use it, the less effective & harder it becomes for the rest.
Today, Anything you can get on public expired domain listing sites is probably junk and a decent auction domain will go above 300-500$. I often see people complaining that they built a PBN, got a link back but the ranks didn't jump overnight as expected. Was it the "PBN" that didn't work? No, it was because they are lazy & broke.
They didn't invest the time it takes to re-build the site. They didn't make sure that original pages with backlinks are restored. They didn't add quality content which compliments the site.
All they did was – Buy an expired (bad) domain, install WordPress, post spin content with a link back to their site and expect it to work. To conclude, PBN still works, but it's not a quick silver bullet anymore.
You have to invest a significant amount of money, time & resources into building a private network of high-quality blogs. And once you do that, it's well worth the investment.
Joe Graisbery – Owner/Managing Director at SEO Content Hero
PBNs still work if you use them properly.
I use PBNs mostly to boost guest posts. I also use them at the beginning of campaigns to get new sites out of the sandbox.
I would ONLY use PBNs from trusted vendors that use rigorous testing processes.
Only an experienced person knows how to properly vet a PBN
Sunny Kumar – Founder at TheGuideX
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Funding rules for qualifications are complex and rapidly changing, making it difficult to stay up-to-date with the latest rules. Luckily for individual learners, much of the burden of verifying eligibility and claiming funding is generally left up to the training providers, who are knowledgeable about the processes involved and can provide you with all the information you need to claim successfully.
Having said this, it is always a good idea to be aware of what's available, especially so that you can seek out providers that offer the qualification you need, but also the funding solution that you are after. In addition, you may be eligible for forms of additional support that help you sustain the additional costs associated with training, such as accommodation, travel or study materials.
So what are the most common forms of funding currently available?
Advanced Learner Loans
Introduced in August 2016, these are the primary form of funding for adults over the age of 19 who are studying qualifications at Level 3, 4, 5 or 6 in England. The purpose of the loan is to help learners pay for their course fees.
Loan Facts
- Vary in size, staring at a minimum of £300 and paid directly to your college or training provider.
- Can pay for all or part of course.
- You can apply for up to 4 loans and you more than one can be awarded at the same time.
- Have to start being paid back when you've finished your course and earn over £21,000 per year.
It is important to bear in mind that these loans are only available for courses with colleges or training providers that have been approved for public funding. For more information on this, visit the SFA website and speak with the college or provider you would like to study with.
Check if you're eligible and find out more.
Professional and Career Development Loans
PCDL loans are commercial bank loans that can help learners pay for training that enhances their skills and/or career prospects. These differ from Advanced Learning Loans in that they do not require your course to result in a qualification – though they must in some way help your career.
Loan Facts
- Can range from £300 to £10,000.
- Must be paid back when you finish a course (at a reduced interest rate). The government pays interest while you're studying.
- Course must be registered on the Professional Career and Development Loan Register.
Check if you're eligible and find out more.
Grants and Bursaries
Grants and bursaries can help adult learners fund a training programme, as well as support you with the associated costs (travel, accommodation, course materials etc.).
These are generally offered by organisations, trusts or charities and are governed by different eligibility criteria. Contact the organisations directly to find out if you're eligible.
You can also visit the Family Action website for information about the different kinds of educational grants currently available.
- Generally in the region of £200-£300.
- For individuals with low incomes.
- For courses taken with affiliated training organisations.
Aspiring learners with financial difficulties may also be eligible for Discretionary Learner Support. This comes in different forms – direct payment, loan – and the amount is determined by the training provider. To get advice about your specific circumstances, it is advisable to contact the National Careers Service (NCS) and speak to an adviser.
Bursaries usually differ from grants in that they are reserved for specific professions or qualifications. City and Guilds, for example, offer a number of bursaries each year for those looking to complete one of their qualifications.
In the UK, all employers with an annual 'pay bill' of £3 million or more need to pay a tax known as the Apprenticeship Levy. Employers in England can then access funding through an Apprenticeship Service Account to fund training for their apprentices, along with a government contribution. Employers who don't pay the levy also receive co-investment from the government to fund apprenticeship training. Read more about apprenticeship funding and stay up to date via Gov.uk.
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How quickly do publications get read? The evolution of Mendeley reader counts for new articles
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AbstractWithin science, citation counts are widely used to estimate research impact but publication delays mean that they are not useful for recent research. This gap can be filled by Mendeley reader counts, which are valuable early impact indicators for academic articles because they appear before citations and correlate strongly with them. Nevertheless, it is not known how Mendeley readership counts accumulate within the year of publication, and so it is unclear how soon they can be used. In response, this paper reports a longitudinal weekly study of the Mendeley readers of articles in six library and information science journals from 2016. The results suggest that Mendeley readers accrue from when articles are first available online and continue to steadily build. For journals with large publication delays, articles can already have substantial numbers of readers by their publication date. Thus, Mendeley reader counts may even be useful as early impact indicators for articles before they have been officially published in a journal issue. If field normalised indicators are needed, then these can be generated when journal issues are published using the online first date.
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A Guest Post for Omnified by Meghan Friedmann
On the corner of Kniprodestraße and Hanns-Eisler Straße, a former supermarket-turned-thrift-store sits just northwest of two of Berlin's refugee camps and just southeast of Mühlenkiez, a community built in the late 1970s. At the end of May, the warehouse—abandoned for over a year—entered a new era with the opening of Prenzlauer Berg's KulturMarktHalle, a neighborhood meeting point which aims to bring together people of different backgrounds.
80-year-old Ursula Sonnert said she moved into Mühlenkiez over 40 years ago. She watched the building turn from grocery store, to thrift shop, to abandoned warehouse. Just two months ago, when volunteers began cleaning it out, Sonnert witnessed the beginnings of its transformation into the KulturMarktHalle.
Sonnert, who bustled about the opening on Wednesday evening, expressed great interest in the project but also wondered how the space would develop going forward. The possibilities seem endless, and other attendees expressed many different hopes—and some uncertainties—about the future of the hall.
Anja Seugling, the project's PR representative, helped shed light on the KulturMarktHalle's goals and conception. Three years ago, while doing volunteer work with newly-arrived refugees, Seugling met Ludger Lemper—another one of the initiative's main organizers—as well as a group of other individuals involved in the project.
Through their volunteering, Seugling said, this group learned two important things: "First of all, if you have contact with people, you get to know them and all of your stereotypes—all of the bad things that you may have had in mind, things that you didn't know about religion or culture—will just go away because you have wonderful moments with those people and you really make new friends. And the second thing that we realized is it's so hard for [refugees] to get in contact with German people, and this is so crucial for them to start their new life in Germany."
It was with these lessons in mind, Seugling said, that Lemper noticed the abandoned building in Prenzlauer Berg. Since the building straddled two very different communities—one with residents that had lived in the area for decades and the other with migrants who had only arrived recently—it would be the perfect spot for old and new Berliners to come together, Seugling said.
Thus the idea for the KulturMarktHalle was born. Five main organizers headed the project, Seugling and Lemper among them, but almost 50 other volunteers helped when they could, Seugling said.
The team had a big task ahead of them, as they began to envision eclectic uses of the hall. They wanted the building to serve as a setting for cultural events like art exhibits and theatrical performances, but they also planned a social side to the Markthalle and collected ideas for social activities from people in the neighborhood. Seugling said the team even began a small consulting program to help refugees start their own businesses, while aiming to offer the hall as a space to host such businesses.
But the organizers ran into one major problem: getting access to the building turned out to be an arduous process, Seugling said. Determined to continue the project despite this challenge, volunteers designed and built a mobile café that doubles as a small stage, she added.
Then, two months ago, the team unexpectedly got the keys to the building. They could finally pursue their original dream.
After unofficially opening the building for one weekend and seeing many curious locals come by, KulturMarktHalle's organizers realized that they should launch the hall as soon as possible so that community members could help create the space, Seugling said.
In preparation for the opening, three project volunteers curated work from 10 different artists for an installation called "Unter Einem Dach" (Under One Roof). Among the contributors were a number of artists from Syria, a woman from Italy, and even a man who lives in the neighborhood, Seugling said.
On opening night, the artwork drew visitors' attention in the building's otherwise-empty main room. Attendees gazed upon a series of haunting black-and-white photographs, a colorful painting exploring the idea of family, and a sculpture that consisted of a pile of fake, white hands laid out on the floor like an island.
In a second, smaller room pasted wall-to-wall with posters about the project, visitors lined up to purchase snacks from volunteers. On the patio outside, locals mingled amid the smoky smell of meat on the grill.
But the question lingered: how would the KulturMarktHalle develop from this point forward? While many of the opening's attendees saw a space full of potential, some emphasized what still needed to be done in order for the project to be a success.
Golshan Fayal, who works as an integration facilitator at a nearby organization, stressed that she wants to see more refugees and migrants using the space.
Mona Kebe, whose husband helped design the mobile café, said she hopes the project becomes integrated into a community which "accepts it and uses it" rather than treats it as something alien. She added that she hopes people of different backgrounds will come forward to help the project reach its full potential.
Other attendees shared diverse and enthusiastic visions about activities the hall could host in the future. Seugling pictures German grandmothers bringing traditional cakes to the building on weekday afternoons to sell to young Berliners.
As for Sonnert, she would love to see a regular workshop where young Berliners help the older generation—herself included—with computer troubles.


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Long Distance Caregiving What You Need to Know
We all want our elderly loved ones to live near us, but that is not always possible due to where our jobs are located or other circumstances. We often find ourselves many hours or days away from where our parents are living. Our loves ones may also be living in a facility. In any case, we want to remain connected and to take charge of, or be well-informed of, the care your loved ones are receiving.
This can be a difficult undertaking if impromptu visits are not possible. But there are several things you can do if long distance caregiving is your reality.
- Be well-informed. Know all you can about your loved one's medical condition and needs. Gain access to your family member's medical records or obtain Power-of-Attorney in situations where it is advised by your elder law lawyer. A Health Care Proxy with Advance Medical Directives, with HIPAA designations, will give you the authority to speak to the medical providers and to make medical decisions if your loved ones cannot make them themselves. If there are other siblings, have one person take the lead and be the one who talks to the medical providers and accumulates the medical records. Be organized and have them readily accessible to other family members for review. This can be valuable for all caregivers such as social or geriatric care workers.
- Plan your visits. Try to make visits on a set schedule such as once or twice per month, if possible. You will want to make the most of your time together by finding out what your family member may need such as new clothes, furniture, new appliances, repairs around the house, or whatever else is a priority. You can plan on seeing certain movies, going to a concert, hairdresser, visiting a favorite restaurant, seeing a play, art gallery, bookstore, or any other event that your family member would like to see or experience. You may also want to plan your visits when your family member has a medical appointment or will be undergoing a medical procedure. Take the opportunity to make other appointments as needed when you are visiting.
- Stay in touch with the care facility. If your loved one is in a nursing home or assisted living facility, schedule periodic teleconferences with the staff to get a progress report on your relative's health, social interactions, and other activities. If there are concerns, make notes so you can discuss it with other family members. If your parent is still at home, stay in touch with a friend who lives nearby who can regularly visit or stay in touch with your parent and who can give you an honest assessment of how they are doing
- Is other assistance needed? There are many services for your elderly parent such as meal services and grocery stores that have online sites where you can shop online and have groceries delivered free of charge. Local Elder Affairs, Social workers who work with the elderly, or geriatric care managers can help facilitate this and other services.
- Be aware of signs of trouble. When visiting or talking on the phone to your loved one, be cognizant of changes in mood or memory. Nursing facilities can make mistakes, such as how medications are given, or not maintaining a clean environment, or ignoring signs of dementia or other illnesses, like UTI's or low grade fevers. Instances of verbal and physical abuse are not uncommon. You know your parent better than anyone and can likely tell if your loved one is beginning to show signs of cognitive decline. If so, immediately contact the primary medical provider. If you notice signs of bruising on your loved one's arms or legs including restraint marks, or that the room is not being cleaned, or your loved one appears withdrawn or fearful of staff, it is time to make serious inquiries and report your concerns to the Ombudsman.
Caring for an elderly loved one, whether they live nearby or not, takes time and dedication. You cannot do everything on your own but if you are organized, well-informed, have other professionals involved, know what services are available, and carefully plan out your visits, then even long-distance caregiving can make it seem that you are much closer and your visits more rewarding.
Consult Elder Law Lawyer Patricia Bloom-McDonald
With more than 28-years of legal experience dealing with issues that primarily are of concern to the elderly, Attorney Patricia Bloom-McDonald can counsel, advise, and represent you in estate planning, probate, real estate, and other elder law issues. Call Attorney Bloom-McDonald for a no cost, one-hour consultation, to discuss any of these matters.


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HE HAS been through detox, psychotherapy and divorce (twice). It is a long time since John Denver was the best-selling singer in the world, known for his unique blend of saccharine and sincerity delivered in a ringing, nasal voice.
Then, last week, he made headlines again when a 24-year-old country-and-western hit topped a poll of favourite sing-along songs for British motorists. The irony was delicious: Country Roads had been voted the driver's best defence against road rage just as Denver was emerging from 10 years in oblivion, learning to deal with his own internal rages.
While British motorists were cooling their frustrations to his soothing ballad, the real John Denver was out crashing his Porsche. Perhaps he should have been playing his own music.
He twice got into serious trouble behind the wheel of his collector's-edition 1963 Porsche. First, he was stopped while weaving home in Aspen, Colorado, after a night in the bar mourning his second divorce. A breath test revealed that he was more Rocky Mountain High - another Denver song once inescapable in pub, elevator or airport lounge - than wise or permissible on country roads.
A year later, in 1994, he slammed the car into a tree while relieving some high-octane feelings just before midnight. He had been back in the bar, "tossing back Scotch like lemonade", as one witness put it, and complaining about alimony. His injuries proved minor, but the alcohol count was major. This time, he could have gone to jail, but the judge let him off with a suspended sentence and community service.
"That was the low point of the curve," he says now. "I checked into a rehab clinic for a month. I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less. And I never drink and drive."
He is as sincere as ever. To appreciate the nature of the curve down which he slid, it is necessary to peer back to the Seventies. He had arrived in a rush when Peter, Paul and Mary, a Sixties folk troupe, had a hit with his song Leaving on a Jet Plane, which still reverberates in baby-boom generation ears. Then he recorded Annie's Song, a tribute to his new wife and a homage to every wholesome American value that had been left in ruins by the turbulent Sixties.
Denver, with his big round face, wire-framed glasses and pudding-basin blond thatch, looked like a hayseed but became an instant star. He moved to Aspen, and sang about the virgin paradise of clean air, soaring mountains and verdant forests, and of the simple joys of being a country boy. He had changed his name from Henry John Deutchendorf to John Denver in honour of the Colorado state capital, and the state governor responded by declaring him his "ambassador to the world".
It was probably just as well that no one knew Denver was on LSD and marijuana when he wrote Rocky Mountain High. By then, he had adopted environmentalism as his message and his mission, and he rode the movement from the fringes into the mainstream. Album after album went platinum and, by the end of the decade, he was a dollar billionaire.
Then he simply crashed. There was no gentle stroll into the mountain sunset, record sales ticking along, or crowds pitching up to stadium concerts for old times' sake. He lost his record contract in the mid-Eighties and, almost incredibly, he still doesn't have one today.
"You can't imagine how frustrating that is to me," he says. "I'm just not in the charts any more." He looks forlorn. But then he brightens. "I was never trying to write a hit," he says. "I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back."
He keeps his bank account topped up with endless small-venue tours and still does big charity shows for pet environmental causes. Tomorrow, he embarks on a new British tour - just him and his guitars - starting in Edinburgh and ending in Belfast on March 24. A tour of the Far East and Australia follows in the autumn. "How else," he asks, "do I get to pay for the Lear jet?"
This remark challenges the long-held truth that Denver has no sense of humour. He does see the irony in the fact that, for all his miseries, he still flies around in his own plane; misery and failure are relative. And he almost sees the irony of meeting me at DisneyWorld, where he is playing in a charity golf tournament. The not-quite-real atmosphere of Disney's cleaned-up version of the world seems tailor-made for his image, and it comforts him to be recognised by a tourist called Denise - "nice to meet you, Denise".
At 53, Denver is better looking than he was in his youth. His face has thinned out, he has shaved off the salesman's moustache he sported a couple of years ago and has finally adopted a modern hairstyle. Only the diamond stud in his ear and a chunky bracelet hint that he is anything but a figure of middle-aged rectitude.
The turning point in his life came some 14 years after he married Annie, with whom he had adopted two children, now aged 20 and 22. After a spate of rows, recriminations and reunions, Denver moved out to a guest cabin in the grounds of their wood-and-glass home in Colorado. One day, coming back from a tour of Britain, he noticed to his horror that Annie had summoned loggers to cut down a stand of his favourite oaks in the garden. The next morning, he marched up to the house with a chainsaw. "You shouldn't have done that," he remembers saying. Then he neatly sawed through the kitchen table and cabinets, and the big wooden bed he had once shared with Annie, before the blades jammed in the sheets. Denver had discovered anger below the surface of Mr Nice Guy.
It wasn't long before he was married again, to a woman called Cassandra, an actress and singer nearly 20 years his junior. He took her back to his Rocky Mountain home, and they had a child, Jesse, now aged seven. Denver thought he had found happiness, despite the deepening twilight of his career. Then the rows started.
"Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world," he says. "I'm not sure I'll ever really get over it. I can't imagine getting married again either, although I really wish I had a woman in my life. After that second divorce, I stayed away from women for a long time. I was afraid I'd put up a wall that could never be broken down."
This is Denver at his most morose. His wounds were salted by a battle over money and access to his daughter Jesse. He couldn't understand how the man who sang Annie's Song could be such a failure at love. "The last five or six years have been the hardest part of my life; even harder than the late Eighties, when my father died and my career . . . seemed over," he says. "It has been the dark night of the soul."
But in the darkness, Denver discovered psychotherapy (and Annie, coincidentally, became a therapist). He has now joined the massed American ranks of true believers, and particularly favours "self-help" group therapy, describing with some wonder how he has learnt to sit down with his family and tell them just what he thinks of them, and to listen to them return the compliment. He has also learnt, inevitably, the language of psychobabble.
"There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them they will kill us," he says. "Most of it goes back to your infancy. Who am I? How the hell did I get this way? How do I become a complete and honest person?"
H IS FIRST big discovery was that he had been using his"breadwinning role as an excuse to avoid mounting discontent at home. "I would think: here I am, enormously successful, I don't have to deal with this stuff. I would come home from a tour, where everybody had been real nice to me, and there would be this person right in my face with all these problems. It's an easy choice to make, just to stay on the road."
He claims finally to be at peace with his two selves: the sentimental, earth-loving John Denver and the "army brat" Henry Deutchendorf, always desperate to impress a remote, formal father who was an ace at flying jets.
Where, I wonder aloud, does the private Lear jet fit into all this? After all, burning jet fuel has never been considered particularly environment-friendly. "Hell, I've discovered I'm not ready to renounce the world just yet," he says. "You don't have to be a martyr to get the message across."
He is ready, he thinks, to relax a little. He has bought a second house in Carmel, California, to be closer to Jesse, and is working on a plan to see her three weekends out of four. Only one week a month will be spent on the road, because he is "sick to death" of touring. But he is composing again, working on 15 new songs, and his concerts are selling out. There is even a crowd for him by the stage door, for the first time in years.
"Maybe," he says, managing a wry smile, "I'm going to be just a little bit hot again."
But his happiest news is that he has a new girlfriend. He won't reveal her name, won't appear with her in public and won't talk about love. "It's a great big step," he says in his solemn way, "for me to open my heart up even a little bit."


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Cannabis: edibles, not the solution, says the opposition
The opposition is based on the national Institute of public health to go down in flames the idea of the government to focus on the cannabis edible cannabis that is smoked on the public highway.
The deputy Health minister, Lionel Carmant, suggested Tuesday night in front of the mayor of Montreal, Valerie Plant, that it would be preferable that Quebecers consume cannabis as an edible in public places to prevent exposure of their fellow citizens — including children — to smoke.
The prime minister François Legault has taken back his comments Wednesday morning, media scrum at the national Assembly, seeing it as an "accommodation".
However, the national Institute of public health of Quebec (INSPQ) has already warned the government against the adverse effects of edible products. In a brief filed last week, he said that these products entail risks such that they cannot be considered as the solution to the problem.
The institute anticipates that the legalization by the federal government and the mass marketing of the edible products and concentrates of cannabis will result in a growth of the use of cannabis within the canadian population, in addition to undermining the substance.
The ingestion of cannabis, contrary to the modes of consumption by combustion or vaporization, has the effect of delay of 60 to 90 minutes, its effects and prolong the duration of approximately six to eight hours.
The effects of delayed, prolonged, and less easily predictable of edible products that pose particular issues of road safety and safety in the workplace, supports the INSPQ.
On Wednesday, the liberal critic for health, André Fortin, has lamented that the government proposes at this stage of the study of the draft law 2 a "solution" which will "exactly contrary to its purpose" to limit the impact of cannabis on public health.
Recall that bill 2, filed December 5, includes two main measures, namely the raising of the legal age to possess cannabis at 21 years of age and the prohibition of smoking the substance in public space.


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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
A disturbance in the force
So, what's new? We still haven't located Lars, but she's been spotted several times, so she is surviving, which makes me feel much better. I would like to get her home, but just knowing she's alive is reassuring.
I feel much better about stuff this week. Having Joe's parents out was great. It was nice to spend time with them and Joe and I even got some alone time. We went out to Vegas and had dinner and went shopping. Joe said it was "All about Meggie Day" so he didn't complain about shopping with me even though I made him go to three different malls (although the fact that you can drink booze while you shop in Vegas does take at least a little bit of the sting out of it for him.) Also, I took him to the Rio's Seafood Buffet for dinner which is pretty much his favorite thing in Vegas.
It was nice to buy stuff for myself, though. I really haven't bought myself clothes or anything in a couple years (other than maternity clothes, and I only got a few of those to wear to work.) So it felt good to buy something for me for once. I did buy some stuff for Ramona as well, but not as much as I usually do. I'm trying to build up my work wardrobe so that I have more professional clothing in case I get a job at a less casual office in the future. I got a new suit a month or so ago but I still need to get it tailored. I'm thinking about going to Vegas Labor Day weekend and getting the tailoring done and my hair cut. I think that will definitely get me set and feel like I'm really taking care of myself.
Of course it was nice to have the alone time with Joe. We had fun together and were wishing that I'd taken Monday off work so we could spend the night out there, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. But, to be honest, I was surprised at how weird it was to be without Ramona for those few hours. I kept having that "I'm forgetting something" feeling. And my arms felt weird, because they weren't sore from carrying her around like they usually are. We also saw a bunch of babies which made me miss her even more. As nice as it was to get the break, I was thrilled when we got home and I got to kiss her good night.
Oh, another cool thing we did when Joe's parents were out was go to the Pahrump Winery. It was surprisingly really nice. I always think of Pahrump as being the white trashiest crap town around, so whenever there is something nice there I'm always surprised. I'm not a big wine drinker but it was fun to go and the restaurant was pretty and the food was good. The wine was good (by my nonexistent standards) and there was a sign advertising a grape stomping festival in October that I think we'll check out.
Sorry this was such a stream of consciousness word vomit mess, but I'm too tired to edit it. I promise to post something more cohesive in the near future.
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- Aunt SaraAugust 19, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Glad to hear you got a chance to get away. It will always be weird without your child(ren). We sent Aaron and Drew to camp at Kelley's Island for 5 days and I didn't know what to do with having my laptop all to myself.ReplyDelete
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Every year, the Extreme Redesign Challenge calls upon tomorrow's engineers, artists and entrepreneurs to design a better future. It is a test to see who can come up with the most creative, mechanically sound, and realistically achievable design using 3D printing. Seven winners were selected and received scholarships for their efforts as well as features on our website and blog.
A trio from Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan are the NCATC scholarship winning team in this year's Extreme Redesign Challenge. Kaylee Spears, Chase Brokaw, and Myles Archambeau are all working toward or recent graduates of the CAD based degree programs at MCC. Their shared interest in design thinking and the iterative process of rapid prototyping helped the team to bring their idea for the multi-purpose cooking utensil to life.
The idea for the tool was borne out of Kaylee's practical desire for a cooking utensil solution that didn't take up so much space in her kitchen and provided ergonomic comfort to even the most mundane of kitchen tasks. The team went to work crafting their design and using their classmates to help them iterate on each version of the utensil. They asked the class to try out the tool and offer feedback on what could improve it before settling on a final version of the design. They realized that designing a tool that was large enough for a male to hold comfortably, yet not too large where it was uncomfortable for females to use was a nuanced process. Additionally, one of their classmates shared that she has an arthritic condition, and so with another round of slight changes, the final prototype seemed to answer the test sampling usage needs.
The team was also keen to give credit for their success to their CAD Design class instructor, Dennis Hughes, for helping them to realize the design, and bring it into its final, winning form. "Dennis encourages us to try things, to do new things, so that our experiences aren't just conceptual. This helps to exercise the analytical and creative sides of our brain." Myles said. This exercise in design thinking and creative agility has definitely paid off for this team of CAD designers to the benefit of home chefs.


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Ceramics are among China's greatest technological achievements. They include a wide range of objects made from baked clay, from simple pots to delicate porcelain vessels. For much of the world, ceramics represented the very idea of China. In imperial China's trade with other cultures, ceramics were the second-most valuable export, after silk.
The mountains and valleys of China were blessed with abundance of raw materials for making ceramics of high quality, including special clays and mineral pigments. For centuries, Chinese kilns perfected the techniques for firing and glazing ceramics, and the organisational skills to mass-produce objects. Chinese porcelain was considered a marvel: a pure white material that was thin enough to transmit light but durable enough to cook in.
The method of making and firing porcelain had been a closely guarded commercial secret which helped the Chinese monopolise the trade of porcelain wares. Japan only cracked the code of firing porcelain around the early 17th century, and then Europe did so in the early 18th century. Chinese potters developed a wide range of decorative techniques to appeal to different markets, from the imperial court to overseas consumers. Kilns in various parts of China specialised in different forms and colours.
This vase is an artistic tour-de-force - the base, in the shape of a chrysanthemum blossom, provides a delightful contrast between the solid form of the vessel and the apparently fragile flower underneath. The illusion of crinkled and broken chrysanthemum petals was created by cutting the wet clay at sharp angles. The only other example known of the type was excavated from a pagoda in Hebei (datable to 1115), then ruled by the Liao dynasty. The elaborate form therefore directly reflects Liao taste.
Inscribed on the back with mark of He Chaozong, perhaps the most renowned of Dehua master potters.
Chrysanthemums symbolise autumn. The painter of this superb dish used soft, delicate brushstrokes inspired by the naturalistic style of Yun Shouping (1633-1690), a specialist in painting birds and flowers. Called fencai (soft colours), this palette became the defining porcelain style of the Yongzheng Emperor.
The variety of materials used for making coloured enamels expanded at this time, with Jingdezhen potters making their own ingredients through experimentation, as well as learning from European glass and metal enamelling techniques. These colours allowed artists to create a variety of designs on fine white porcelain.


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The Global Media Intelligence Report, released this week by eMarketer and Starcom MediaVest, contains a wealth of data on ad spending and media usage worldwide. Here, we present some of the key charts for Asia-Pacific, including forecasts through 2017 for overall adspend, digital adspend, mobile adspend, and smartphone penetration, all broken down on a country by country basis.
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A Retrospective
On Dec. 7, 2012, during the holiday (i.e., Christmas) party for the English Department at Loyola University Chicago, ill-advised and well-intentioned friends, in view of my impending retirement, honored me with a retrospective of my four-and-a-half years as the Martin J. Svaglic Chair of Textual Studies. It was a pleasant, if mildly embarrassing, event that got me thinking about what, if anything, I had done in my professional career that had "made a difference" or "was worth remembering." Here are some candidates.
In textual studies I've published a lot of articles and three books. I've also created and presided over the creation of a 10-volume scholarly edition of W. M. Thackeray's works. And I've written two books on Thackeray and edited a third. There are other things possibly worth revisiting--not sure.
In textual studies, perhaps one or two things in each book were important--judged in part by what people seem to have taken from them.
In Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age, already mentioned in this blog, perhaps the most quoted chapter is the one on "Forms" which presents the "orientations to text." The idea that an editor's principles for choice of text as the basis for a new edition and the principles for emending (or not emending) that text are determined by one of various more or less incompatible views of the nature of literary works and the material evidence of a work's various or unstable existence. And there is one sentence in the book which, although it was essentially written by my neighbor, Price Caldwell, over a beer and barbecue in his back yard one day when I was trying to explain what I was doing, is nevertheless one of the most important sentences in the book: "From the receiver's perspective a work is the imagined whole implied by all differing forms of a text that we conceive as representing a single literary creation---James's Roderick Hudson, for example, in all its variant forms." At the time I did not realize that this view is compatible with all the orientations to text, or that it would be in line with the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). No single item is a full representation of a work; nor is a work the sum of all its expressions and manifestations; but it is the whole that is implied by each item and by all items that belong to the category "work." No wonder there is so much controversy in textual and literary study--the center of our mutual interest is variable and unstable and always will be.
In Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning I believe the most substantial contribution is in the chapter called "Work as Matter, Concept, and Action." I was accused both by a much admired friend and by well-known person whom I do not particularly admire of having tried in that essay to define a work, to nail down exactly what a work is, to lay down a grid that would capture and hold a work in place, strapped, so to speak, to a gurney for dissection and inspection. These thoughts struck me a completely alien to what I was trying to do and from what I thought I had explicitly set out to do. What I saw in the arguments about textual criticism and scholarly editing and the recriminations that flew back and forth in the literature and especially the reviews of new editions was linguistically chaotic. Combatants used the words "work," "text," and "document" in different senses, such that the fencing jousters appeared of occupy different stages, and what seemed to be needed was a survey of all the definitions that were being used. I suppose the result looks like a grid, but if so, it is a grid of usage in the profession. I thought it would help the argument if whatever definition was being used could be agreed upon before an argument proceeded. The observation about a "work" in the previous paragraph, above, perhaps suggested that a survey of definitions would be helpful, not in nailing down an unstable "object" but in clarifying which concepts of "work" or "text" were being argued about.
In From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts the two observations above weighed heavily in the idea that access to a digital representation of a single form of a work was not an adequate representation of a work. It seems to be an almost universal notion that a work has been digitized if one copy has been transcribed or photographed. This notion seems even more pernicious among users of internet "works" than among librarians who think that if they have one copy of Moby-Dick on the shelves they do not need a second or among literary critics who conduct their study of a work with a cheap paperback in their study but then check all their quotations against a scholarly edition which they cite, apparently believing that if the bits they quote are from the scholarly edition, then the fact that the rest of the book might have significant variants in it does not matter.
I think the two most important chapters of From G2G are the third, on script act theory, and the fourth , on aspirations for electronic knowledge sites. Although script act theory was first introduced in Resisting Texts it was much more fully articulated in From G2G; nevertheless, it has not taken off in the sense of being picked up and used by other scholars in understanding the multiple layers of meaning that have been attached to the writers, producers, and readers through time and in various places which nuance the contexts in which meaning is constructed. The chapter on electronic knowledge sites has developed into HRIT (HumanitiesResearch Infrastructure and Tools) as a set of principles for the construction of environments (CMSs), tools (software for manipulating and displaying texts), and content (texts, images, and commentary). The ideas fly in the face of certain practices now current for developing digital archives and editions that settle for solutions requiring compromise of scholarly goals (e.g., nesting requirements in XML) or that prevent open collaboration on digital surrogates for primary materials that should be common property (e.g., the practice of embedding code in texts, thus appropriating primary material at the git-go for one person's notion of its uses).
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Indonesia: National scene: Police ask PPATK to trace TPPI corruption fund
The National Police have urged the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) to probe suspicious accounts related to a graft case centering on PT Trans Pacific Pertrochemical Indotama (TPPI).
The director of National Police's Criminal Investigations Directorate (Bareskrim), Brig. Gen. Victor Simanjuntak, said that his investigators had marked the accounts that had allegedly harbored the corruption money.
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Back to school often means back to a routine, back to a regularly scheduled program and back to basics. With the recent school strike our "back to school" was somewhat delayed this year. The first few weeks of September were spent at "Momma School" where I attempted to use some of my preschool and recreation teaching techniques on our twin six year olds. Some days we were successful and some days were… well… a disaster. What worked on the days that went well was pairing our lesson plans with a fun snack and a bit of educational programming on Netflix.
The boys and I made alphabet trail mix using our favorite alphabet pretzels from Superstore. We included cheerios, raisins and gold fish crackers in the mix for a fun snack that could also be used during our momma school. We sat down to one of my favorite educational shows, Super Why. As we watched I had the boys pick out the letter pretzel that matched the letters on the show and made a fun "learning game" out of eating our simple snack. I am so thankful for our teachers and their ability to make education fun. As I learned during "Momma School" teaching six year olds is much harder than it looks!
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EMEC reflects on 2015
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has summarized ups and downs the Orkney-based centre experienced in 2015.
"We have always known that getting marine renewables to work was going to be something of a roller-coaster. We have known there would be ups and downs, twists and turns, but nonetheless this year appears to have been a particularly turbulent one for the industry, and for EMEC," said Neil Kermode, EMEC's Managing Director.
The downs Kermode speaks about refer to the loss of 7 staff members at EMEC announced in June, due to the restructuring process to deal with the change in the market, as well as the demise of the wave energy company Aquamarine Power, and as Kermode says 'the end of other developers' testing plans as they have left the wave and tidal industry.'
However, new developers have been signed up for testing at EMEC's facilities, including Sustainable Marine Energy which signed a long-term testing contract with EMEC, and is currently gearing up to deploy five PLAT-O systems in an array over the next two years, with the first device expected to be deployed early in 2016.
A Belgian wave energy developer, Laminaria, signed a contract with EMEC to test its wave energy converter at EMEC's grid-connected wave test site at Billia Croo, off the west coast of Orkney, Scotland, planned for 2017.
EMEC also announced that Nautricty will be returning to test its CoRMat tidal turbine, as well as ScotRenewables Tidal Power which is nearing the completion of its SR2000 2 MW floating tidal turbine, expected to be launched next year.
In 2015, EMEC has strengthened ties with other countries which work on advancing the market for marine renewables, including China and Japan. EMEC signed an agreement with Japan to provide advice on development of a marine energy test facility in Nagasaki Prefecture, and has also supported the development of a Chinese marine energy test site based in Qingdao, eastern China.
Some of the other projects EMEC participated in 2015 include the procurement of an integrated hydrogen system from ITM Power which allows the conversion of power generated at the Fall of Warness tidal test site into hydrogen fuel. Also, EMEC is working as part of a trans-Atlantic partnership looking to develop a new sensor system to measure the impact of turbulence on tidal devices.
The Orkney-based centre has also teamed up with ORE Catapult in a joint project that aims to improve wave and tidal components reliability.
"EMEC was set up to help bring a new industry and wealth to the Highlands. We really do see that some of the work we've started has begun to take root. The challenge in 2016 is to continue to nurture and support these innovators as they find their way to success, and we look forward to working with you to tackle these challenges next year," concluded Kermode.