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In a society where parenting is expected, some of us do not have children because our partners are unable or unwilling to make babies. That's what this blog and my book, Childless by Marriage, are about. The book is available now in paperback and as a Kindle e-book. Here on this blog, let's talk about what it's really like.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Blogger Lesley Pyne offers childless readers "Small Steps to Healing"
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I think this kind of grief will continue until society stops expecting women to have children. There are those who feel infertiles don't have a right to grieve and should just get over it. While a stillbirth or miscarriage must be tough and heartbreaking, infertiles mourn too. Just because you never conceived doesn't make the pain easier. It is still hard to know why people committee suicide. Plenty of parents do too. There is for certain deeper issues
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A few important things to keep in mind:
a. All travelers receive a $200 early enrollment discount by signing up on or before February 28, 2013.
b. William Woods students who will be enrolled as full-time students in the spring semester of 2014 are also eligible to receive a $400 travel stipend. Those funds are subject to availability and will be applied at the end of your payment plan. The money will be paid directly to EF Tours to reduce the cost of your trip.
c. At the beginning of each month, the trip cost will be revaluated by EF Tours to more accurately reflect the costs passed down by the airlines (departure fees, fuel surcharges, etc.). However, once you have enrolled on the trip, your cost is locked in.
The bottom line: the earlier you enroll, the more money you can save on the overall cost of the trip.
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I made those a couple of years ago, not really for children to be honest but rather as birthday presents for friends of mine (in their early twenties back then). I probably should make some more for my nieces, my children and my godchild, I'm sure they would love it!
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Apple scab is one of the most destructive diseases of apple (malus x domestica borkh.) and caused by the hemi-biotrophic fungus venturia inaequalis (Cooke) Winter. Scab is a serious problem in all apple-producing regions of the world and requires a series of 12 to 15 fungicide sprays per year in commercial orchards. Apple scab is one of the most well characterized plant-pathogen interactions in woody plant species. In total, eight races of the pathogen have been defined by incompatibility, determined by avirulence genes (avr genes), on corresponding host cultivars carrying a major resistance gene (R gene).
Using next generation sequencing technologies, we have generated 50x coverage of the apple genome and transcriptome profiling data for apple fungal infection. Data management and downstream analysis protocol requires a computational framework that allows users to engage with the data and promotes hypothesis driven research. We have now established a local instance of ENSEMBL Plant and Fungal databases displayed in a genome browser. Access this FungalBase here. The following bioinformatics projects are underway:
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The summary dashboard for the Provider VDCs node provides the health state overview for provider virtual datacenters under a vCloud Director cell.
Error Objects, Warning Objects, Healthy Objects
The charts group provider vDCs by their health state. Every chart reflects the number of provider vDCs with a specific state — provider vDCs with errors (red), provider vDCs with warnings (yellow) and healthy provider vDCs (green). Click the problematic chart to drill-down to the list of alarms for vDCs with the chosen health state.
Latest Alarms
The list displays the latest 15 alarms that were triggered for provider vDCs and underlying virtual infrastructure objects (datastores and hosts). Click a link in the Source column to drill-down to the list of alarms triggered for a specific object.
Alarms by Object
The list displays 15 objects with the greatest number of alarms. The value in the Alarms column shows the number of errors and warnings for an object. For example, 3/1 means that there are 3 error alarms and 1 warning alarm for the object. Click a link in the Source column to drill-down to the list of alarms triggered for a specific object.
For details on working with alarms, see Veeam ONE Working with Alarms Guide.


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Pages tagged with: pollution
Plan for Plastics
The University is aiming to reduce its reliance on single use plastics and enhance its world-leading reputation for marine litter research.
Imogen Napper: researching plastic pollution within the marine environment
PhD student Imogen Napper is working to #EndPlasticSoup at the University's International Marine Litter Research Unit.
Recycled electrical products lead to hazardous chemicals appearing in everyday items
A study at the University of Plymouth shows chemicals such as bromine, antimony and lead are finding their way into food-contact items and other everyday products because manufacturers are using recycled electrical equipment as a source of black plastic
Plastic Fantastic
Plastic Fantastic: Professor Richard Thompson OBE features in a new three-part BBC Radio 4 series about our love/hate relationship with plastic.
High levels of hazardous chemicals found in plastics collected from Lake Geneva
A survey of Lake Geneva, conducted by scientists at the University of Geneva and the University of Plymouth, finds it contains a wide range of plastic pollution -- some of which could be decades old
University scientists contribute to government's Future of the Sea report
Professor Richard Thompson and Professor Tom Hutchinson, from the University of Plymouth, contributed to the Foresight Future of the Sea report, published by the Government Office for Science
Responses of marine algae to heavy metal pollution
Plymouth University research - responses of marine algae to heavy metal pollution
Marine pollution
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International experts in marine litter or debris, University of Plymouth.
International Marine Litter Research Unit publications
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Plymouth University news: Plymouth and Heriot-Watt launch a £1.1 million, NERC-funded project called RealRiskNano to examine the risks tiny plastic particles pose to the food web including filter-feeding organisms like mussels.
New study reveals the global impact of debris on marine life
The University of Plymouth news: A study by two researchers in the Marine Institute has found that 693 species have been affected by marine debris through entanglement, ingestion and other harmful effects.


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Through all the blogging adventures, I realized recently that I never recounted my favorite thing that happened to me in Malaysia. Knowing that I've only gone through about half of my China trip, and none of my Cambodia trip, I'm going to finish off Malaysia once and for all! Pre-apologies to Marie, whose account of this story I've already read, for any passages that are unintentionally very stylistically similar to yours. I know that subconscious plagiarism is still plagiarism. I'm too lazy to ensure it doesn't happen.
During our day trip to Melaka, after a fair amount of touring, Ryan, Karinne, Marie and I got into lunch mode. Our guidebook recommended a particular satay restaurant as exceptional, and after a whole lot of aimless and not particularly enjoyable wandering, we found it. We also found another pair of western backpackers sitting dejectedly in front of it, frantically reading through their guidebook to find a Plan B, because it was closed. Damn.
So we just kept walking until something looked clean and edible, which took about 30 minutes. We were seated by a jolly-sized Indian woman carrying a baby with all of the grace and care of a lineman carrying a football (note to all sports illiterates: linemen don't normally carry the football). Our first attempts to order off a menu on the wall met with little success. Chicken tandoori? No, don't have that. Naan? No, don't have that either. I started wondering what the hell kind of Indian restaurant we were actually in. Our waitress started wondering when the hell we were going to actually order.
Our increasingly impatient waitress/candidate for mother of the year started throwing out recommendations with increasing urgency. Chicken with rice! Lamb with rice! A brusque statement that was hard to understand, but may or may not have been "Order already!" Frightened by the waitress's suddenly stern stance, Ryan and Karinne opted for one order of chicken with rice and one order of lamb with rice. I noticed that most of the other tables in the restaurant had plates set up at each seat with a stack of samosas, pakora, and other fried treats. I pointed at one and and just said, "That!" Who knows what Marie was about to order, because the waitress had given up on her altogether and just stomped away after I made my request.
About two minutes later, the waitress returned with two banana leaves, which she inexplicably placed in front of Ryan and Marie. Without explanation, she scooped heaping stacks of rice, condiments, salads, and pappadums onto the banana leaves. She deposited metal bowls filled with chicken and lamb in the center of the table, along with a large plastic serving contraption filled with miscellaneous indistinct fried things. And with that, she was off. With no utensils on hand, Ryan and Marie cautiously picked at their stacks with their fingers, while Karinne and I began serving ourselves fried goods (with no apparent controls on what and how many we took) and contemplating why we had been deemed unworthy of banana leaves of our own.
Eventually, we mustered the courage to stand up for our rights and demand banana leaves of our own! We were granted half-sized banana leaves befitting our evidently second-class social status. Ryan got a free refill on his stacks-'o-food, probably because he is much bigger than all of us. But as we started digging in, our confusion and concern gave way to the realization that, whatever the hell we were being given, it was really good.
Then, without warning, at least two tour buses' worth of Indian tourists streamed into the restaurant and filled out every available seat. Karinne and I had our backs to the door, and wee began laughing aloud as a seemingly interminable stream of chatty visitors passed into our field of view, having no idea just how big the group would turn out to be. The function of the plates of fried goods at the other tables became immediately clear, as the whirling dervish-like mass of diners sat down, annihilated the pre-set plates, and vacated the premises within about 15 minutes. Transfixed by the scene, we barely made a dent in our plates...err, leaves...as the carnage unfolded. The restaurant emptied out as quickly as it had filled, and we were left with our suddenly high-spirited waitress, who sat near our table joking as we absolutely ravaged the contents of our leaves, leaving a trail of delicious destruction in our wake.
Fully-stuffed, we sat back and decided that this was the greatest meal we'd had in a long time, even before we received our bill and discovered that the whole feast had come to about US $2.40 per person. Fantastic.
Marie and I take different lessons from this experience. She understands it as a lesson against judging people. She had written off our waitress and the rest of the restaurant staff as rude, she says, when in fact they merely knew something we didn't - that the restaurant was about to be descended upon by hordes of ravenous tourists. "So, the next time you think people are being rude to you, consider," she admonishes in her account, "you may just be ignorant."
I look at things a bit differently. Honestly, the waitress was being rude. The fact that lots of people were coming doesn't change that, it merely explains it. I just took it as a cultural thing and wasn't that put off by it in the first place, though it was a pleasant surprise to see her warm up to us after the tour group had passed. To me, the rudeness - and the presence or absence of rudeness - isn't the issue.
Instead, I take it as another reminder of the awesome foibles of travel, and the malleable attitude one needs to bring on the road. I consider our banana leaf lunch the highlight of our trip to Malaysia, and it seems like it should be nothing. A Plan B! A half-assed reaction to not getting to do what we actually wanted to do! And when the food came out, plunked onto banana leaves sans silverware, I think the main thing that kept us from just getting up and leaving was morbid curiosity, not an expectation that things would work out. But that's where the adventure was: in adapting to a little adversity, doing something random and unexpected, and powering through a situation that wasn't necessarily ideal long enough to discover that it was actually awesome. And I remember that $2.40 lunch far more vividly than any "tourist attraction" Malaysia had to offer.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Blast from the past: Malaysian dining adventures
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If you using a mongo, I'm sure you must have come across a situation where you want to do a iteration for .find() command in mongo. Querying a Mongo collection for few records will give you faster results, but if you data is more than than 20K-30K or millions and you want to do iteration over it its hell lot of time.
Lets take an example say you have 1 Million records in your users collection and about 98% users a active, to get the result you will do active_users = db.users.find({active:True}) Your above query will get the cursor, now here comes the problem. Mongo does not fetches records in above query it just gets the cursor. To get all the records you need iterate over it.
temp = []
for user in active_users:
if user.get('first_name'):
The above query will take about 12+ or around that to create temp list. 12 sec is too huge number for such an small task. (The seconds will differ depending on size of the documents you have in users collection)
Under the hood pymongo in this case is not getting all the records at once in fact it does not gets the results when you do .find() query. Once you start iterating it fetches data from Mongodb in batches.
By default it has 4MB of document size, Maximum of 16MB data mongo can fetch from DB.
to optimize our query we can do
active_users = db.users.find({active:True}).batch_size(2000)
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Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways:
- Scripts and software that secretly mine cryptocurrency using website visitors' CPUs are on the rise, becoming two of the three most widespread infections in December 2017.—Check Point
- IT teams need to ensure their antivirus software is up to date and that users' web browsers are protecting them from malicious scripts and ads.—TechRepublic
Research from Check Point is pointing to a rising trend in malware: cryptocurrency mining. Its Most Wanted Malware report from December 2017 placed two crypto-mining malwares in the top three most prevalent infections, and a total of 10 variants in the top 100.
Of the two in the top three, Coinhive is a legitimate mining app that has been turned to nefarious purposes by several strains of malware for desktop and mobile devices. The other, Crypto- Loot, is designed to be legitimate as well but has also crossed over into the malware realm.
Not all coin mining is illegitimate, Check Point said, adding that "the tools can be hacked to dominate more power and generate more revenue, using as much as 65% of the end-users' CPU power."
Crypto-mining gone wild
As it was originally intended, software like Coinhive and Crypto-Loot is designed to offer websites an alternative to advertising. Instead of requiring users to be bombarded by ads, a site could offer an ad-free experience in exchange for a sliver of CPU power that the company would use to mine cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
The key element is the ability to opt in, especially considering a user's hardware is being hijacked to do the mining. Where Coinhive and Crypto-Loot become malware is when user's aren't asked, code is altered to take more resources, and/or the mining doesn't end when a user leaves the site.
SEE: It leader's guide to the threat of fileless malware (Tech Pro Research)
Check Point reports that crypto-mining software has been injected into "some top websites." Check Point doesn't name names, but it states that culprits include media streaming and file sharing websites.
Prevent and detect crypto-mining malware
With 55% of businesses being impacted by crypto-mining malware in December there's a good chance you've dealt with it. Not all cryptocurrency mining malware comes from websites, either. As Kaspersky Lab points out, many crypto-mining infections are due to droppers as well.
Preventing crypto-mining infections is just like preventing other malware from intruding on your managed machines: Install reliable antivirus software and make sure its definitions are kept up to date.
SEE: Incident Response Policy (Tech Pro Research)
Lastly, be sure whichever antivirus software you are running has its active scanning option enabled. When I attempted to run the demo on Crypto-Loot's website, McAfee immediately popped up to tell me it detected an infection, which it had blocked and cleansed. If protections like that are in place on your systems you won't have to worry about CPU hijacking or hardware damage.
Also see
- 10 ways to minimize fileless malware infections (TechRepublic)
- Almost one billion video stream users exposed to secret cryptocurrency mining (ZDNet)
- Opera now blocks attackers from hijacking your browser for mining Bitcoin (TechRepublic)
- How much does The Pirate Bay's cryptocurrency miner make? (ZDNet)
- Malware-laden apps in Google Play store mine cryptocurrency from mobile victims (TechRepublic)
Brandon Vigliarolo has nothing to disclose. He does not hold investments in the technology companies he covers.
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Brandon writes about apps and software for TechRepublic. He's an award-winning feature writer who previously worked as an IT professional and served as an MP in the US Army.


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NEET examinees to have permanent roll number
New Delhi: In an attempt to make the medical admission process more transparent, the government has decided to issue a permanent admission roll number to National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET), qualified students. The permanent roll number would be generated after registering with the Medical Council of India's (MCI) software, which has been developed to put a check on malpractices in the admission process.
According to a senior Health Ministry official, the software has been developed under the initiative of Digital Mission Mode Project (DMMP), which would be rolled out from the next year.
With the introduction of the software, students can't hold back more than two seats and the issued roll number/ registration number would be permanent. Even if a student wants to change his college, his roll number would be same as no new roll number would be generated by the college.
"The MCI has developed about 28 such modules and this is one among those to make medical admission more transparent. The move to issue a permanent roll number would help in monitoring admission process in different colleges--- both government and private," the official said.
"The launch of software would help in checking frauds such as admitting a low-rank holder, admitting more students than the approved seats, filling the backlog seats, etc. The roll number generated after registering with MCI software would be linked to Aadhaar number, which would help in authenticating the identity of students," the official said.
"Given that some medical colleges don't provide the correct admission figures to the MCI even after several reminders, the government and MCI would be able to monitor the whole admission process on a real-time basis. With the help of the software, MCI would able to know the exact time of admission and the number
of vacant seats soon after the end of the last date of admission," a senior MCI official said.
There are about 65,000 medical seats in the country and out of which about 35,000 seats are in government medical colleges.


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Hertz Corporation, a USA Equestrian sponsor for almost three decades,
offers Federation members special car rental rates at participating
locations in the United States, Canada and internationally. When
making reservations, customers must mention USA Equestrian's Corporate
Discount Plan Number (CDP) listed on their membership card in
order to receive the organization's rental rates. Members may
make reservations online at www.hertz.com, via Hertz' toll-free
number 1-800-654-2200, or through their local travel agent. You'll
enjoy low web rates, members savings offers and USA Equestrian
member discounts.
Stone, Hertz' Account Representative for Membership Programs stated,
"We're pleased to continue our long-term relationship with
USA Equestrian. Working together for almost 30 years, we're able
to offer members the same services at both airport and suburban
locations, including #1 Club Gold service, NeverLost(r) and express
return services."
rental, the largest and best known of Hertz' activities, is conducted
from approximately 7,000 worldwide locations. Hertz offers a wide
variety of current-model cars on a short-term rental basis --
daily, weekly or monthly -- at airports, in downtown and suburban
business centers, and in residential areas and resort locales.
Hertz, the world's leading vehicle renting organization, is represented
in the United States and in more than 150 foreign countries.
Equestrian Inc., as the National Equestrian Federation of the
U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship
sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show
jumping, and vaulting, as well as 19 other breeds and disciplines
of equestrian competition. As
the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation
has over 80,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions
nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including
educating and licensing all judges, stewards, and technical delegates
who officiate at these shows.
The vision of USA Equestrian is to provide leadership for equestrian
sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of
excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on
a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its
horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian
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Once described as the David Lynch of folk music, I find it difficult to put Ed's Redeeming Qualities into any genre. There are bits of country, scoops of folk, dollops of calypso, a pinch of jazz, and a smattering of rock. The music is spare, almost minimalistic, the lyrics are stories spun into songs that are more than the sum of their words, stories that hit home and sneak into your subconscious. The "approximately executed" music and the "shaky" vocal harmonies give the album a very homespun and endearing quality. The eclectic nature of their music is a little like a menu from a Chinese restaurant: at any moment you will hear an instrument from each of column A (guitar, violin, toy xylophone), B (clarinet, accordion, mandolin, tin whistle, guitar), and C (ukulele, one-string cardboard "sweetcheeks" bass, banjo uke). Some very interesting combinations result including the clarinet playing bass runs on "Closed Mondays" and the penny whistle performing duets with the violin.
The songs on At The Fish and Game Club have instant appeal. Sung by a male, "Mom" pines "I wish I had the memory of dropping you off at school/ And then going home to watch Days Of Our Lives ... I wanna know the things that nobody knows about you." "My Friend Bob" tells the tale of Bob who is divesting himself of possessions with lines such as " My friend Bob gave me his western shirt / I said, "Hey Bob, it fits me great!" / He said, "Not me since I lost weight." While not exactly a comedy album, there is plenty of charm and warm humor to make a body chuckle. Other songs tell of car accidents with a kid ("But you cannot blame me / I was drinking a large coffee with no lid") and makeovers to attract old lovers ("And I'd do anything to appease her / Change my skin rearrange my nose / Get a better heart to please her / But I can't so I'll change my clothes".) No, it's not a dazzling display of technical virtuosity but it is a nice excursion from the troubles of life... an instant friend on a convenient plastic disc and definitely worth the effort to seek out.
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Critical Thinking Academy Podcast Directory
This past month I was fortunate to be a guest of Xidian University in China for two weeks. On this episode of the podcast I share stories and reflections from my adventures as a first-time visitor to China, and I give an overview of some of the public talks and lectures I gave.
The episode has four distinct parts. The first 20 minutes is stories from my trip and observations about Chinese culture. Then there are three discussions on philosophy, science and critical thinking topics:
(1) on circular reasoning in the appeal to science and nature to justify social and political views;
(2) on the elements of science literacy and why public science education doesn't teach it; and
(3) on the history of critical thinking in the west, and the challenges of talking about the value of critical thinking to audiences in modern China.
You can find a photo essay with lots of pics below!
In This Episode:
- (00 min -20 min) stories from my trip and observations about Chinese culture
- (20 min – 30 min) on circular reasoning in the appeal to science and nature to justify social and political views
- (30 min – 40 min) on the elements of science literacy and why public science education doesn't teach it
- (40 min – 50 min) on the history of critical thinking in the west, and the challenges of talking about the value of critical thinking to audiences in modern China
- (55 min – 60 min) whether I will accept Xidian University's offer to hire me as a Visiting Professor
"And every morning, before work — between 6 AM and 8:30 AM, or so — hundreds of people, of all ages, would gather in and around this public space, and participate in some kind of physical activity. Many would jog around the track, but others would break off into groups to do tai chi. Older people would gather at a set of upright bars and do calisthenics or stretching in small groups. Off to the side, in these private little park spaces, other tai chi groups would set up. Some of them did tai chi with fans. I saw a small group with swords. Some do group dancing, with scarves and colorful costumes. I would go here in the morning to people-watch, mostly."
"When you're studying the natural world, you need to be on the lookout for biases that can creep in due to one's philosophical or ideological worldview. To some extent this is unavoidable. But it's particularly concerning if you're appealing to science to tell you what's "natural", and then conclude that some particular social order that you prefer is natural and therefore justified.
People have found justifications for almost any social practice this way. Science tells us that slavery is natural, racial discrimination is natural, fixed gender roles are natural, colonialism is natural, hierarchy is natural, free market capitalism is natural, communism is natural.
This is a seductive path. You don't want to find yourself projecting your ideology onto the science, and then using that same science to justify your ideology."
"Critical thinking education, as represented by the curriculum in these commonly used textbooks, by and large ignores the psychological dimension, the actual mechanisms that determine how people form beliefs and make decisions. It ignores the connections between persuasive rhetoric, good argumentation, and psychology. It ignores the social dimensions of cognition, how we rely on groups and culture to carry the burden of much of our thinking. And it fails to recognize how hostile the current media environment is to critical thinking, how people are subject to persuasive messaging around the clock, that is engineered to exploit cognitive biases and bypass our conscious, deliberative reasoning processes."
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Stories and Pictures from China
From June 27 to July 8 I was a guest of Xidian University in Xi'an, China. This was my first trip to China and it was a great experience.
The circumstances of the invitation are worth mentioning, because it really was a surprise.
I was invited by Dr. Zhu Danqiong. She teaches in the Philosophy Department at Xidian, and she is Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies.
Dr. Zhu has a research program on environmental philosophy, and this spring semester she was teaching undergraduate courses in philosophy of science and philosophy of ecology. As Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies she had an opportunity to invite someone who could provide a cross-cultural experience for students, and she was familiar with some of my earlier academic work in the philosophy of science and ecology, so that's how I came to her attention.
I was invited to do some public talks, some workshops with students, and some meetings with faculty.
Here was the itinerary for the two weeks of my visit:
Philosophy of Ecology Workshop
My first scheduled event was a workshop with students in Dr. Zhu's "Philosophy of Ecology" class.
The students had read one of my articles on philosophical issues in the debate over the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. So we talked about that article for the first half of the class.
In the second half of the class the questions were more wide-ranging: the US pullout of the Paris Accord; ethics and vegetarianism; teleology and the cosmos.
Great questions and a great discussion!
Public Talk on Science Literacy
The advertised title was "The Elements of Genuine Science Literacy". I've spoken quite a bit about this topic. You can find several videos on the subject in the Critical Thinker Academy.
Basically I make the case that insofar as science literacy entails that one can think critically about the nature of science and its role in modern life, most people, and indeed, most people with advanced science degrees, remain scientifically illiterate. However, the elements of genuine science literacy could be taught to high school students, if there was a will to do it. I outlined what a curriculum dedicated to science literacy would look like.
Again, Dr. Zhu did translation for me when appropriate.
Great questions again, but we had less time for follow-up.
I love that the student in the foreground has a shirt that says "Surf California City". These students are much more comfortable with western lifestyle and values than even the generation only ten years older.
Philosophy of Science Workshop
This was Friday morning. A workshop with a small group of students studying Philosophy of Science.
You can't drink the tap water in most places in China, so everyone brings water. Especially in 37 degree heat.
There's a lot of interest in the philosophy of science and technology in Chinese universities.
This is partly due to the legacy of Marxist and Maoist education, and the belief that Marx offered a truly scientific theory of economics and social change.
But in this session we mostly talked about ideas I had introduced in my talk the previous evening. One of the distinctions I make is between the "logic" of science and the "methods" of science. We spent some time clarifying the distinction and working through some examples.
Then the conversation veered into a discussion of whether artificial intelligence could ever evolve and be creative. Philosophy is awesome.
Great Food and Great Companions
I was very lucky to have guides and chaperones for my trip who could help navigate the language barrier, show me the sites of a 3000 year old city, and order great food!
Dr. Zhu was my daily guide for much of the time, but she was not alone.
Here are two undergraduate philosophy students who volunteered to spend time with me, lead me on tours of the city, and otherwise help me have the best experience possible. Thank you for all your assistance and company!
Li Hefeng and Xue Bao Kang spent a long, hot day with me on tours. We had a fantastic lunch.
We had four at the table, and believe it or not, we ate almost everything.
Seeing the Sights
We visited the "Huaqing Pool" on Saturday.
The pool is a complex of hot springs located at the northern foot of Mount Li, one of the three major peaks of the Qin Mountains. It's part of the Huaqing Palace, built in 723 by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. The palace was built around the hot springs, taking advantage of the geothermal heating. It's about 25 km east of Xi'an.
It is also the setting that tells the story of the Emperor's romance with his consort Yang Guifei. This is a gorgeous statue of the Emperor and Lady Yang, with the mountains in the backdrop.
Proof that I was there …
You can't visit Xi'an without seeing the famous Terracotta Army.
This is a collection of life-sized terracotta clay sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It's a form of funerary art, buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC. The purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
The figures were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an. They vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses.
Estimates from 2007 were that the three pits containing the Terracotta Army held more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which remained buried in the pits nearby Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.
Other terracotta non-military figures were found in other pits, including officials, acrobats, strongmen and musicians.
The sculptures are all unique, and originally were painted with bright colors. This is what some of they would have looked like.
Upon ascending the throne at the age of 13 years old in 246 BC, Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of this project.
The whole process took around 38 years, and employed the resources of over 700,000 labourers. Many of the labourers were killed and buried after their work, to preserve the emperor's "secrets".
Feeling Like Po
When you have this for lunch …
… it's hard not to think of Po from Kung Fu Panda.
Second Public Talk
My second public talk was titled "Why Critical Thinking is a Martial Art". It was a larger crowd, mostly graduate students.
Unfortunately I have no pictures from the event. But here's the title slide.
The term "critical thinking" is a modern American invention, but the concept has a long history in western philosophical, scientific and political traditions.
In this talk I gave a brief overview of this history, and identified several problems with how critical thinking skills are conceptualized and taught in the North American education system.
I argued that our growing understanding of the nature of human reasoning and the psychology of belief and decision-making demands a fundamentally new approach to critical thinking education.
And I frame this new approach using concepts borrowed from the philosophy and practice of martial arts.
None of this will be new to anyone who follows my podcast.
In the Q&A we talked about whether any public education system actually teaches critical thinking; whether it is reasonable to expect that any more than a small percentage of the population – a cultural elite – will ever develop these skills; and whether it's possible to have a "pure" approach to argumentation that is not affected by rhetoric and the psychology of persuasion.
Physical Culture in Public Spaces
Just down the road from my hotel was a university sports field with a large track around it. Every morning, between 6 AM and 8:30 AM, people come out to this public area to do fitness activities. Jogging. Tai Chi. Calisthenics. Hundreds of people. Of all ages.
This is part of public community culture in China. People use these public spaces for all kinds of activities. It was really something to see. I came out here often just to people-watch.
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On Saturday they added a bunch of organized sporting activities. Soccer on the field. Tai chi. Ping pong. Basketball. Again, all ages, not just young people.
Last Supper
On the last Friday of the visit we had a final dinner with my host, several members of the Philosophy department, and some people from Human Resources and International Programs at Xidian University.
The great joy of eating in China, as a foreigner: you never know what you're eating until you put it in your mouth, and even then you might be wrong … but you can count on it being delicious.


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I Wanna Take You To a Gay Bar
By Erin Griffin
"You are sure it is HERE?! Myka asked, shifting her skirt and looking at the Farnsworth. Claudia's face was priceless as she tried not to laugh, and Myka's eyes flickered to Helena, who seemed intregued by where they were.
"Yup, it says here that there have been a number of strange happenings in the very first known lesbian bar after the disappearance of a double edged axe, which I think may be an artifact. Now that you're all caught up, mingle, get some info on what's been happening. Go. Gay it up." With that, there was a giggle as the screen went black. Myka closed the Farnsworth.
"Right," Myka sighed. She was sure she had been set up by Pete so he could get footage of chicks kissing because he was such a guy. "We don't even know what the axe is supposed to do. I mean... What could it do?"
"So, where should we look?" Helena asked, even as she continued to look around.
"I have no clue..." Myka said. "We should get a drink and try to talk to people, but something tells me that with all the regulars that are here, they won't want to talk to us new comers."
"I wouldn't say that. You look ravishing in that dress."
Myka's cheeks reddened. "This scrap of cloth, you mean. How Claudia was allowed to pick the attire is still a mystery to me. Come on," Myka said, taking Helena's hand. The two of them left their corner and went to the bar, where Myka ordered for them. "Look, there is the current owner, and she doesn't look too happy."
"Yes, well-"
"Excuse me, but would you like to dance?" came a new voice. Both women looked up and saw a woman they were briefed on back at the Warehouse, a woman named Gina who (according to Pete's gleeful report) loved to cause alot of drama in the small circle of women who frequented the bar. It was his suggestion that she had something to do with the axe being missing.
"Um, well..." Myka said slowly as Gina looked on expectantly.
"My girlfriend would, but, you see, she can't dance, can you, Darling?" Helena cut in.
"R-right. I suck. I'm sorry." Myka replied quickly. Gina's mouth opened.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"
"Aw, it's alright. I often worry someone better than me would come along and just... take her away from me."
"Aw- honey, you don't have to worry," Myka replied, playing along.
"Good." HG Wells leaned in and kissed Myka, who stiffened before she allowed herself to be kissed. When they parted, she was surprised to see Gina gone and an odd look on Helena's face.
There was a silcence between them for a second before Myka suddenly said, "Look, the owner, and she has the axe. Let's go!"
Later, Myka (now in her more comfortable clothes) lay on her bed with on hand over the unread book in her hand, and the other on her stomache as she thought about the night she'd had and the small sting she felt in her hand after the many times she hit Pete for all of his ribbing. There was a knock on her door, and after granting entrance, Myka saw Helena enter. "I wanted to make sure you're okay. You haven't said a word to me since..."
"I don't know if it was an act." Was all Myka could say. There was a small look of confusion on HG Wells' face, but the raven haired woman remained silent. "I..."
Helena walked over to Myka's bed as the agent sat up and allowed for her to sit down. "I'm sorry about the kiss. I didn't want for us to be compromised."
"I'm not," Myka found herself saying before she could stop herself. Helena looked over at her.
"You're not?"
"Are you?
"No." As if to prove it, Helena captured Myka's lips, this time feeling her kiss returned. "I did have fun tonight despite everything."
"We should do it again sometime."
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An alternative headline may have been: "Where's the governor's hotel key? The fish ate it."
As part of a creative 90th anniversary celebration for the old landmark Eastland Park hotel, now the Westin Portland Harborview, Gov. Paul LePage came down to the Maine State Pier and chucked a hotel key made out of fish food into Casco Bay.
Why would a politician throw a key made out of fish food into the bay to celebrate a hotel's anniversary, you ask?
When the Eastland was opened in 1927, then-Gov. Richard Brewster threw a key – presumably metal – into Casco Bay to signify that the hotel would always be open and welcoming to guests.
So LePage was just performing a modern recreation of that symbolic act, using a key that was more environmentally friendly.
"We'll hope there's a mermaid down there," he said as he tossed the sticky-looking orange key into the water.
If Westin guests start returning to find their rooms unlocked and bathtubs occupied by fish women, we'll know there was. And Portland will have a whole new tourism industry boom.
This is, assuming, the mermaids didn't just eat the key.
Current hotel General Manager Jeffery Burrell, descendants of Eastland founder Henry P. Rines and a 1933 vintage Packard car were also on hand for the ceremony.
"Our tribute is a nod to the past with contemporary twists that we think today's guests will appreciate," Burrell said.
Hotel workers are also marking the anniversary by performing 90 "good deeds," including recent days volunteering with the Milestone Foundation and a community clean-up effort. Westin officials invited supporters to share their own good deeds on social media using the hashtag #WestinME90.
And now, listen to the Half Moon Jug Band sing about why you may want to swipe left if a mermaid pops up in your Tinder feed.


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The only Anglican church on Alderney, St Anne is built to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott - that inveterate church builder of the Victorian age. Incredibly the construction was solely funded by Revd Canon John Le Mesurier, son of the last Hereditary Governor of Alderney.
The church was consecrated in 1850 and forms part of the Diocese of Winchester. During the German occupation in World War II the church was used as a storehouse, a machine gun was set up in the Belfry and even today the walls have bullet holes here and there.
The interior was gutted and all the wood had to be replaced in 1953. Of the six bells, four were removed by the Germans and taken to Cherbourg. They were supposed to be melted down for munitions but were found after the war and returned to Alderney where they were reinstalled.
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These are new to use...we tried a few hot and they seem like they'll be good. The recipe didn't say to wait a month, but we are going to.
Zucchini Pickles
Modified from Taste of Home
11 cups of sliced zucchini
1 large onion, halve and thinly sliced
1/3 cup canning salt
4 1/2 cups white vinegar
3 cups sugar
1 tbsp. mustard seed
1 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
Place zucchini and onion in a large bowl and mix up. Sprinkle with salt and toss to coat. Add water to cover, let stand at room temperature for 2 hours. Drain, rinse and then drain thoroughly.
In large pot, combine rest of ingredients. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add zucchini mixture and return to a boil and then simmer, uncovered, for 4-5 minutes until heated through.
Ladle hot mixture into sterilized pine jars, making sure to leave headspace. Wipe rims and put on tops. Put into water canner and process for 10 minutes. Wait at least a month before serving.
Makes 6 pints. (which is what I actually got...and I went very generous on my 11 cup measurement, but probably a little shy of onions as last time I did bread and butter type like this we had WAY too many onions in each jar so I was conservative there.)


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Want to help make sure the Park stays its beautiful best for all of us to enjoy? The new Friends leaflet gives some useful advice
A new leaflet – produced jointly by the Friends, Park managment and the police – helps visitors "tread lightly", minimising their impact on the Park's rich flora and fauna.
The advice includes such points as not leaving litter (it is eaten by the deer and kills a number of them each year) and being careful to pick up dog waste (the nutrients in it damage the acid grassland for which the Park is famous).
The leaflet can be downloaded below or obtained from the Visitor Centre in the Park.


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You've got two choices :
Will you spend three months outlining, writing, proofing, rewriting and finally publishing an e-book of your own; and then write the sales letter and set up the payment processor on your webpage… or… will you find an affiliate product you like, use all the pre-written sales material that is already posted on the products website, have somebody else handle the payment processing and pay your commissions to you, while you simply copy and paste your affiliate link into a Pay-per-click ad or into a short one page sales email and send it to your list.
I think Affiliate Marketing comes out ahead.
Affiliate marketing is an easy care business… you can focus all of your time on getting traffic and let someone else handle all of the details.
You can be in business in affiliate marketing within 60 minutes from the time you finish reading this article... and you don't even need a website of your own.
Here's how you can get started fast:
Open an account at Clickbank and get yourself a Clickbank ID (takes about 5 minutes).
Go to "Go Articles" and enroll as an author. They allow you to put affiliate links in your Profile Box.
Let's say your field of interest is "money and employment".
You want to be nmarketing the products that people are already buying and the best measure of this is the Clickbank "High Gravity" index.
Go to Clickbank again and click on the marketplace link at the very top of the page. In the search box select "money and employment" from the drop down menu in the category field. Select "All Sub-categories" and sort by "High Gravity".
Click "Search".
Item 5 when I just searched says "Paid Surveys" (it will probably be different when you search) and I've chosen this because it's easy to understand.
Go to Ezine Articles and search for Articles on Paid Surveys. Read 5 or 10 articles and then cobble together a 300 word article of your own based on the information you have gleaned from those articles. Don't blatantly steal the articles or you're into copyright infringement and it's not very nice anyway… just get some ideas and write your own brief article.
Click on the "Paid Surveys" link on the Clickbank site and make sure this is something you'd want to promote.
Next click on the "create hoplink" link and create your affiliate link. That's how easy it is to become an affiliate at Clickbank… it takes seconds to create the hoplink. Copy and paste the hoplink in a safe place.
Now you go to Go Articles and login and go to "submit articles".
Paste your article into the appropriate box and enter your name, article title and keywords.
Now move to your "profile" box and paste something like this: --------------------------------------------------------
"If you'd like to learn how you can get paid to do surveys at home just click on the link below:
http://(YourClickbankID).(Affiliate ProgramName).hop.clickbank.net/" ----------------------------------------------------------
Preview and publish your article and you're done.
If you've written a reasonable article, chosen your keywords well and have a catchy title then people will search on your keywords, see your title, read your article, click on your link and go to your affiliate page.
It's within the realms of possibility that the first visitor will enroll in your program or buy your product or book… but this is not the usual outcome so don't be disappointed.
It takes a few articles to generate a web presence and get any reasonable traffic and of course there's lots to learn between the lines here to become an accomplished article marketer and affiliate marketer; but the process really is this simple.
The real trick is actually getting started and doing it.
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Dr. Chong Chi Nai, a national of Malaysia, holds a Doctorate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Newcastle, Australia and a Bachelor degree (with 1st Class Honors) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prior to joining Asian Development Bank (ADB), he lectured at Auckland University, New Zealand and also worked as an international consultant on many ADB- and World Bank-financed projects.
He has been with ADB for nearly 23 years. Initially recruited as Project Engineer he progressed to Project Administration Unit Head and Deputy Country Director at ADB Nepal Resident Mission and then as Procurement Unit Head at former Central Operations Services Office. He also served as Country Director at ADB Laos Resident Mission and subsequently as Director of Southeast Asia Energy Division.
Currently, as Advisor based at ADB Myanmar Resident Mission in Nay Pyi Taw, he focuses on strengthening the procurement capacity of central level government agencies, executing/implementing agencies, and those in the private sector who are interested in the procurement activities of ADB-financed projects and technical assistances in Myanmar. He is also assisting Myanmar in its procurement reforms.


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Especially impure, congested, dull and thickened skins.
Introduce gradually to thin or Rosecea type skins.
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Elon University Hillel announces staffing changes
Staff expands to serve growing Jewish student body
Elon University has announced staffing changes at Elon Hillel that will encourage and strengthen the continued growth of Jewish Life at Elon.
Betsy Polk will join the staff as the interim director of Hillel in late July. Polk will supervise the Hillel Staff, lead the professional team to excellence, and work to engage and inspire an exciting vision for engagement of all Jewish students on campus. Polk is a co-founder of The Mulberry Partners, a successful Chapel Hill, N.C., consulting firm focused on leadership development, and brings decades of experience in team building and organizational management to Hillel. She has worked with N.C. Hillel in the past, and has deep ties to the Jewish communities throughout North Carolina. She is also the co-author of the award-winning book, "Power through Partnership: How Women Lead Better Together."
Amy Wolf '17 joined the Hillel Staff in June as engagement associate. Wolf will be responsible for building relationships with Elon's Jewish students, creating and developing innovative engagement programs, and offering support to the student intern program and Hillel's student board. While an Elon student, Wolf majored in human service studies and minored in psychology, and was active in Hillel and Jewish Life, Greek life, Elonthon (a 24-hour dance marathon to support Duke Children's Hospital), and also worked at the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life as a student office assistant.
Hillary Zaken, assistant director for development and strategic communications, joined the Hillel staff this spring. Zaken has developed a new strategic communications plan for Hillel to boost engagement, which will include a new website, newsletters and branding for Elon Hillel that focus on storytelling, and is working on a fundraising plan to strengthen the program. Zaken lived in Israel for 14 years, and has vast experience in public relations, communications and development in both the non-profit and Jewish world. She also brings more than a decade of international journalistic experience to her role at Hillel.
Rabbi Meir Goldstein will continue as associate chaplain for Jewish life, with his role now focused on enriching student experiences through Jewish learning, working closely with Jewish leaders to create new and engaging experiences with a diverse range of religious traditions, and serving as chaplain and spiritual guide for Elon's Jewish population, and implementing experiential Jewish education, leadership development, and religious celebrations for the Elon campus.
Julie Steed, program assistant for the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, will continue in her part-time role, keeping everyone organized and processes running smoothly.
The new staffing arrangement will ensure that Jewish Life at Elon is vibrant and engaging, and that the growing Jewish student population is supported as students explore their connections to their religious heritage.


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Lasting weight loss is about lifestyle changes, but there's no rule that says all those changes need to upend your life. You can make small shifts that will make a big difference in how you look and feel. Use these 10 tiny changes that'll help you drop serious pounds. 1. Switch up your workout. Sweating to the same . . .
15 Simple Ways To Lose Weight Without Dieting
Diets don't always work in your favor. In fact, the very concept of dieting is enough to set you up for failure. The multi-billion dollar dieting industry targets people looking to achieve fast weight loss. Research shows most diets have a long-term failure rate. Many weight loss plans have you shedding pounds quickly, . . .
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Like most women, I've always been determined to get a defined, flat stomach. But after years of doing 500 crunches during every workout, I learned that determination only gets you so far when the approach is wrong. Even an entire hour of crunches won't match the body benefits of a 10-minute plank workout. The plank . . .
Thanks to the amazing power of modern pushup bras, now even small-chested women can fake a figure like Sofia Vergara. And while tricky undergarments are a great quick-fix for enhancing your chest, you can get a similar, longer-lasting effect by strengthening the right muscles—the ones that lie below and behind your . . .


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Wedding Planning 101: Dos and Don'ts of Your Engagement Shoot
Yes! I personally believe everyone should take engagement pictures, and I personally believe they should be taken, at the most, 2 months after the proposal OR during an opposite season from your wedding (to have more picture options, of course!). Why so soon? This is the fun part! The giddiness that resulted from the proposal hasn't worn off yet, and your pictures are going to reflect those feelings and emotions. Engagement shoots are also the best way to get to know your photographer, and vice versa, before the wedding. Not to mention, you're going to want a professional picture with your new show-stopping sparkler for your send-the-dates, am I right?
*Pro tip: when choosing your photographer, make sure you find someone you can completely be yourself around. The more comfortable you are around your photographer, the more relaxed you'll be. The more relaxed you are, the better you look on camera! Corey can be shy and hates having his picture taken, but of course I wanted the dreamy engagement pictures every girl longs for – where the fiancé is grinning from ear-to-ear and just looks "soOoOo in love" – so I definitely felt the pressure of choosing a photographer who could break him out of his shell. I chose someone with a similar personality so that Corey wouldn't be too overwhelmed, and after our engagement shoot (a.k.a. an entire day of having his picture taken – nothing Corey hates more), all he could talk about was how much he loved our photographer. So ladies, find someone who your man will love too! This is another secret to better, "Pinterest worthy" pictures.
1. Do your homework! Knowing your photographer's previous work is an absolute must so that you aren't unpleasantly surprised when the pictures come back. Check out their website portfolio and Instagram. Each photographer has their own style, so it's important to find a style that matches yours.
2. Create a meaningful backdrop. When picking your location, incorporate a place that is significant to both of you. You want your photos to reflect your personalities and represent you as a couple. Corey and I both enjoy traveling, so our photographer came up with the creative idea of doing a road trip engagement shoot. We drove all around Athens, Tennessee, making various stops and taking pictures. Corey is a big hiker and basically lives in the mountains on the weekends, so we ended the day on the top of a mountain for sunset pictures. We also asked our photographer to snap a few shots of us in the third grade classroom where we met. Those ended up being my favorites because of the memories associated with the setting!
3. Complement, don't coordinate. Once you've chosen the location of the shoot, it's time to ask what to wear. You aren't your significant other's twin, so don't dress like it. However, you don't want to completely clash, so if he's dead-set on wearing a bright yellow striped shirt, you probably don't want to wear neon purple polka dots. Try sticking with neutral colors and simple patterns. Avoid super trendy outfits. The last thing you want is to look back 5 years later and say, "What was I thinking?!" about your tie-dye popcorn shirt. Find an outfit you're confident in, even if that means hopping on over to the mall and splurging on a new dress.
4. Avoid the clutter. Props are adorable but can also be distracting. Don't drown yourself in paper photo booth props, picnic props, and picture frames. Keep it simple, and keep most of the props at home. You want to be the focus, not your things.
5. Act natural. Don't overdo it, wondering if you look awkward or forcing your fiancé to kiss you a certain way. Fake laughing can be cute sometimes, but if the perfect laughing pictures you see on Pinterest are all you dream of, choose a photographer who is light-hearted and can make you genuinely laugh – even if you are a bit uncomfortable! Hug, kiss, flirt, and smile – you're getting married after all!!! It's okay to love on each other. The more relaxed you are and the more you interact with each other, the better your pictures are going to turn out.
6. Quality, not quantity. Pinterest has created monsters out of us women. When I was planning, I ended each day by searching Pinterest, re-pinning and saving images for my vendors. Of course I had a board for engagement pictures and expected every picture to turn out exactly like the ones I re-pinned. A photographer described this pressure as being "in a race to give [couples] 40,50,100 engagement photos all with different ideas and concepts at a million locations with 3 or 4 outfits." Sounds AWESOME…if that was realistic. You do not need 200 flawless images. I promise there are not enough walls in your house to hang every single one of those (in addition to your wedding photos), and none of your Facebook friends are going to sift through that entire album. It's okay to think you look silly in a few of the pictures you get back! Laugh about it and be happy with the beautiful images you DID get!
Most of all, enjoy it. How often is someone going to take (professional) pictures to show you how adorable and in love you are?!
| all photos by Ben Finch |
Check out my previous posts from the Wedding Planning 101 series:
How He Asks: All About the Proposal


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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
Windows unable to locate Shared drive
I am trying desperately to set up a shared network drive in my PC 2, (laptop) to reduce the load of addon applications in FSX (in PC 1), the drive has been mapped and can be identified in PC 1, C(\\simmyjiff) (Z) , see enclosed screen print, but nowhere to be seen on PC 2 and therefore unable to open it, or map it? set up as follows:
1.Home Network = Router BTHub 6.
o/s Win 7 Home edition (64 bit) Home built desktop
Computer name: simmyjiff
Full Computer name: simmyjiff
Computer description: simmyjiff
Workgroup: simmyjiff
0/s Win 7 Professional (64 bit) Dell Laptop-Precision M4600
All names as per PC 1, and both PCs set to automatically synchronise with time.windows.com, all permissions provided to everyone
4. Sharing Options for both computers:
Network discovery: On
File and Printer Sharing: On
Public Folder sharing: On
File Sharing connections: On
HomeGroup connections: Allow windows to manage.
5.Windows Network Diagnostics unable to identify any problems.
6. PC 1, Shared drive C: has been shared and the network path is \\simmyjiff\c as identified on the Computer page (see screen print)
7. PC 2,Shared drive not visible under NETWORK in the left-hand column of COMPUTER page on PC 2 pc, but computer name is.
8. PC 2, Unable to map the network drive, Folder entered in the Map Network Drive panel, Message received: Windows cannot access, error message 0x80070035.
I have spent several weeks trolling through the internet looking at, and trying various remedial works from other sites, but none, so far, have worked.(ipconfig file also attached)
Thank you for reading this post.
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Confused you say both PC have same name which will confuse it second mapping to drive c is a big no no create a folder and share that make sure NetBIOS is ruñing on both PC's
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
Thanks for you quick response to my problem.
Is my process totally wrong then? Computers on a network don't need the same name? and drive C is not mapped? How does creating a new folder work? Sorry for sounding dumb on this but my knowledge of computer engineering is a little 'skimp', is there a tutorial you can recommend that explains the process?
In the meantime, I'll install NetBIOS on both machines…
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netBIOS already running on both machines...
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If there are two people in a room called Fred and I shout Fred they won't know which one I want same for PC. As c:\ is main target for malware ms made security very tight any other folder is ok you can set both NTFS and share permission on it
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|03 Jan 2017
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
Thanks, so , probably best then if I just share the folders in c:\ that I will actually need for FSX?
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|04 Jan 2017
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
Thanks, I have been working on the problem and found that the 'Homegroup Listener and Provider' were not enabled in 'Services', neither were 'Network Connections and List service', I now have a Network and sharing facilities. I appreciate your comments regarding security issues in sharing the C: but it seems to be the generally accepted way of working towards using 2 computers in FSX, that said, I hope you can work with me on the problem I now have.( I have also noted the comment of your colleague, ShadowJK, made in his reply on the 5th June 2013)
Although the drive is now shared I get an ERROR message when attempting to open the final FSX folder in the path Z:\Games\steamapps\common\FSX
Location is not Available
Z:\Games\steamapps\common\FSX is not accessible. Access is denied.
'Everyone' has 'permissions' to access?
Can you help please?
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Marcelo Nicolas Rudzinski, Alejandro Meyer, Cristobal A Couto, Liliana Carral, Toxoplasmosis; Low prevalence of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis in Mbya aborigines from Misiones, Argentina. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):5285.
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Previous studies of prevalence of ocular lesions secondary to toxoplasma gondii infection revealed that 20% of patients patients attending ophthalmic offices at the center east region of Misiones have toxoplasmic retinal scars. Most of the patients with toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis (63%) have German or Eastern European ancestry. A small mbya aborigine community of 150 people called Tamandua is located in the above mentioned region. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of toxoplasmic retinochoroidal lesions in Mbya aborigines from the center region of Misiones, Argentina
With the consent of the cacique (community leader) and each patient, a complete eye examination including, visual acuity, autorefractometry, anterior biomicroscopy, and indirect ophthalmoscopy were performed in aborigines with decrease visual acuity. Antibodies against toxoplasma gondii were screen by indirect hemaglutination and results were later confirmed by the Sabin Feldman dye test.
From all aborigines that underwent ophthalmic examination only two presented retinochoroidal scars compatible with toxoplasma gondii retinochoroidal infection (n=52). One of them had active intraocular inflammation at the moment of examination. Sixty seven percent of the examined aborigines tested positive for toxoplasma gondii antibodies when samples were tested by Sabin Feldman .
We detect a difference in the prevalence of toxoplasmic retinochoroidal lesions between the Caucasian versus the Mbya populations on the center-east region of Misiones. There are some possible explanations that can describe the low prevalence of toxoplasmic retinochoroidal lesions in mbya aborigenes: First, Mbya aborigines and their ancestors have been in contact with the local toxoplasma parasite strains for more than 1000 years while European immigrants not. Second, there are no cats in the majority of Mbya communities, hence it is possible that mbyas got in contact with low amounts of tissue cysts, and much less frequently with oocysts.More studies are needed to determine the causes in the difference in toxoplasmic retinochoroidal prevalence between both populations
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