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Discussion in 'Politics' started by Buck Rogers420, Oct 14, 2016.
(3 bags in every stash)
Perhaps it's just me, but I'm having a lot of difficulty remembering a time that action spurred by anger, turned out well.
Angry minds do not think clearly. Which is why manipulators take risks to anger voters.
They really, really, want you angry. Think about that
And minds filled with fear do not make rational decisions.
Which is why both parties emit so much FUD.
We are not presented with a rational choice to make.
So they must play on hate, anger, fear, and monumental mendacity, lest calm and rational voters rise up an reject their little "matrix" of bullshit, yah?
I sit here sadly
shaking my head.
I can be persuaded,
but I will not be led.
Aloha, y'all
Da Weeze
everybody lighten up, like my first post in this thread.
WTF,this pot tastes like a palm tree*
"I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." -- William Tecumseh Sherman.
Jimmy is miles ahead of W
the word is Jimmy let Willie get high on the white house roof
We had so many choices...
Anyone other than this.....
what's up with this party, no one is enhailing
Nixon drafted me into the Army, Reagan destroyed unions & small farmers with high interest rates (mortgages 15%) & my employer,
W.Bush wrecked 401k & IRA's....Obama put it back together and helped me more than any other U.S. President.
Born Democrat, Die Democrat.
In other news...
It is, what it is.
Doomed for 2016.
it makes me crazy to live in Mo, where
more than 1/2 the voters seam to be lower than average
watch it bud... last I looked this state was trending Trump. Don't vote dem for Kostner, who stopped the marijuana initiative, or you are also part of the problem. At least our Rep controlled state Senate has voted to put marijuana on the ballot in 2018, without needing signatures.
Trump's been out on the boat.
That's how I feel. Grumpy for president!
If one seeks real truth, neither party has the interest of the Constitution or the American people as their motive and the Worse party is the Demorats followed by the Repubrats. The history of Dems is not good and gets worse over time and now they are sheesh never mind, I'll never vote a Lib/socialist period!
The Reps are controlled by the RINO's who work with the libs and Trump just might get their goat if he wins.
I'll hold my nose and vote Trump and Pray!
Remember this is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. It's time people wake up and learn the REAL history of America and the true Freedoms and not the liberal propaganda taught in schools/colleges and 98% of the media today!
America has deviated from it's founding principles due to both parties and law and order no longer has any meaning as some animals are more equal than others now a days. We are all in for a long strange trip whoever wins.
Seek the truth past all the bullshit and you will find if you are honest with yourself.................
My friends ... is how we end up with a narcissistic, homophobic, nationalistic, demagogue who craves modern-day tyranny, as POTUS – IMO.
Semantic soup: America ... Republic or Democracy?
The death of choice in the 21st century – will voters welcome America's newest dictator? Low IQs and a changing employment landscape are a dangerous mix for a well-armed society.
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Earth Planets Space, Vol. 50 (Nos. 6, 7), pp. 545-550, 1998
Klaus Scherer1 and Hans-Jörg Fahr2
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2Institut für Astrophysik und extraterrestrische Forschung der Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany
(Received October 7, 1997; Revised December 19, 1997; Accepted January 7, 1998)
Like the solar photons the solar wind particles induce a drag force onto the zodiacal dust grains in the heliosphere. For the distant solar wind with high Mach numbers the drag coefficient is a constant, but close to the Sun, where Mach numbers become small, the drag coefficient is a complicated function of the ion sound speed, density and temperature. We discuss the dynamics of dust particles due to this drag force and compare it with that in the distant solar wind. Especially in the near solar wind the eccentricity varies in a complicated way with the inclination of the orbits, also the semimajor axis decreases faster closer to the Sun. These variations are quite different in the distant solar wind.
In addition, we apply an analogous mathematical formalism to the dust dynamics in the outer region of the heliosphere (>20 AU) where the neutral gas density becomes comparable or larger than that of the solar wind plasma. Here the neutral hydrogen gas induces a drag force onto the dust particles similar to the plasma Poynting-Robertson effect. But different to the radial solar wind, the velocity of the interstellar gas is mono-directional, and hence with respect to the inflow direction of the interstellar material this introduces an axial-symmetric force onto the dust particles. This force acts asymmetric in the orbit, and causes the eccentricity to increase fairly fast. The lifetime for dust grains in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt is no longer determined by the electromagnetic Poynting-Robertson lifetime, but by that of the neutral gas and is in the order of half a million years for a 10mm sized particle.


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Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the Lord is finished. - 1 Chronicles 28:20
So you are also complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every rule and authority. - Colossians 2:10
It's no mistake that these two verses appeared one after another in my Bible study this week. The first verse spoke to me about "doing the work" - something I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never noticed in this verse I've heard so many times. It's important to be strong and have courage, but this morning I was pointed to doing the work that has been laid before me. Sometimes those things require courage like putting our house on the market, but other times it's putting down what I'm doing when Tink asks me to read with her, keeping my house in order, or (a big one for me) holding my tongue when something comes to mind that I know isn't encouraging. I know that God lays before me big tasks, but they sometimes seem unimportant according to the world's standards. I loved this reminder about doing the work, because sometimes, it's about doing the things I know I'm supposed do.
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Recently I was asked to shoot a group of 150 people gathered for a family reunion at The Depot in downtown Minneapolis. This was a challenging assignment involving a number of technical and logistical issues.
Pre-planning for the shoot involved working with the reunion organizers to develop forms enabling family members to order photos during the reunion as well as after the reunion was over. I also consulted with a number of people about equipment and lighting considerations.
Initially, we thought we were going to have access to risers which would have made the arrangement of people easy. Risers weren't available and, for awhile, I thought we were going to be left to having everyone on a level floor. This would have added an extra challenge to the shooting. Just before the event we learned The Depot was able to provide a one level riser (essentially a stage) to place one row of people at a higher level. This development helped a lot!
I stopped by The Depot the day before the shoot to review the lay-out. Lucky that I did! Maintenance people had the risers and chairs set up in front of a wall-length set of mirrors. This would have been tragic as I would have had to deal with flash reflecting against the mirrors and back to the camera. I requested that the staff set-up black drapes behind the stage/risers.
On the day of the shoot, I set up four strobe units with soft boxes set at a level about equal to the eye level of the people who would be standing in the back row. I metered the units at ISO 400, 1/60, at f/8, using my Canon 5DMII and a Canon 16-35mm/f2.8 lens. The following images illustrate the set-up:
Fortunately, almost everyone showed up at about the same time. I gathered everyone around and told them we were going to make the shooting "fast and fun" (applause). I explained that I was going to divide people into groups to make it go easier. So, first I said, "All the Jews to one side" which got a lot of laughs because almost the entire family is Jewish (me, too). Actually, first I asked for everyone over 6 feet tall to stand to one side and lowered that amount until I got roughly 40 people. I sent all of them to stand on the floor behind the row of chairs. Next, I asked that anyone who wanted to sit to take a place on one of the 30 chairs. Following, I asked for anyone (adults and children) to sit on the floor in the front and finally sent all of the medium-sized people to the back to stand on the one riser level. I tweaked the arrangement by swapping a few people around and addressing requests for family units to be close or next to each other.
When I was ready to shoot, I told them to get ready and promptly pulled my iPhone out to take a picture. This got big laughs and kept everyone in a light mood. Using the 5DMII, I shot a number of images followed by a sequence I like to do for groups where I asked everyone to "get crazy on the count of 3." These shots were hilarious and was a great way to end the shoot.
Post processing was relatively straightforward. After initially optimization in Adobe Lightroom® 2.0 and Photoshop® CS4 RAW processing, the images were sent to Nik Color Efex® 3.0 Pro Contrast to give them some zip and sharpness. I then processed them through OnOne PhotoTools® to provide some slight skin smoothening and reduce noise. Even with 150 people, only 2 or 3 blinked in either final image. I was able to copy faces and eyes from other photos taken during the session. The 2 final images follow.
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I submitted the final images and this post to one of the professional photographer groups on LinkedIn. Here are some of the comments:
"Nice play by play of the shoot."
"Well done! And thank you for sharing!"
"Nicely done. Bravo!"
"It is always kind of challenge. Especially when children are involved :-). But I love to shoot this kind of photo. I think I would compare it to directing an orchestra :-) Congratulations !!!!"
"Job well done!"
"A lot of photographers don't scout the area first when they have an opportunity (that means they live in the same city or get into town a day early). I especially appreciate the descriptions of your interaction with the group. Most pieces of this nature only cover the technical aspects of the session. Well done."
"Large group shots are always an intimidating task! Nicely done, thanks for sharing!"
"Great job setting this up!"
"Great job! Thank goodness for the stage. I'm vertically challenged so I use a ladder in big group shots too."
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Among the 26 genres of music, K-Pop was featured on the list, highlighting Big Bang and 2NE1.
Written by five of The Guardian's writers, the blurb about K-Pop read:
Korean pop isn′t a new phenomenon, but it′s currently poised to launch a squeaky-clean assault on western tween affections. Frontrunners in this brand of meticulously produced, turbo-charged bubblegum pop include 2NE1 – who′ve been working with Will.i.am – and BigBang, who beat Britney to a European MTV Award last year.
The key track that was suggested for K-Pop was Big Bang's Feeling, which was released on June 3 in Big Bang's special edition album Still Alive.
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Those who subscribe to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi believe there's no such thing as perfect. But this is the kind of breakfast that can be hastily thrown together yet looks so fancy that your 'overnight guest' will fall in love with you instantly. So I'd say it's pretty close.
Below is the recipe for my go-to – it's sweet and tangy and fortifying and fresh. If you can't get ahold of all the ingredients use whatever fruit/yogurt/cereal you have in the fridge or cupboard. Try to have a least one crunchy layer, though, to vary up the textures.
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50g Raspberries
2.5ml Vanilla Extract
40g Coconut Yogurt
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30g Nut Butter
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1. In a small bowl mix the chia seeds, almond milk, vanilla extract.
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Business Innovation: Follow the Jugaad Principle
By: Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja, co-authors of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth (Jossey-Bass, 2012).
Definition of jugaad: [noun] A Hindi word meaning an innovative fix; an improvised solution born from ingenuity and resourcefulness.
In emerging markets, new threats and opportunities can emerge from out of the blue. This forces jugaad innovators to not only think but also act flexibly.
By demonstrating agility, jugaad innovators can deal with unanticipated challenges faster and seize unexpected opportunities — such as changing customer needs — more swiftly than their competitors.
Zhang Ruimin is one such jugaad innovator who thinks and acts quickly.
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Zhang is the CEO of Haier, a Chinese consumer goods company that is making appliance manufacturers like GE and Whirlpool nervous.
Under Zhang's leadership, Haier has, in the space of a decade, made huge inroads into North American and European markets by selling quality appliances at lower prices than those of Western suppliers like Whirlpool and GE.Armed with its ''value for money'' strategy, Haier is disrupting the consumer goods market not only in mainstream segments like air-conditioners and washing machines but also in niche segments like wine coolers.
For instance, Haier launched a $704 wine cooler that is less than half the cost of industry leader La Sommeliere's product. Within two years of this launch, Haier has grown the market by a whopping 10,000 percent and now controls 60 percent of the U.S. market by value.
What makes Haier so innovative is not just its cool products, but also its flexible organizational structure. Zhang believes that in the Internet era, appliance makers like Haier need to shift from mass production to mass customization — and start thinking and acting nimbly, as Facebook and Google do.
As Zhang explains: ''The focus on promoting your cost or price advantage has shifted to a focus on service differentiation, mostly centering on customer experience.''
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To sense and respond to his retail customers' needs faster than rivals can, Zhang came up with a jugaad innovation: he radically redesigned Haier's organization, which currently employs over fifty thousand people worldwide.
Specifically, he replaced Haier's organizational pyramid with a loosely coupled network of more than four thousand self-managed, cross-functional units (including R&D, supply chain, sales, and marketing) that interact directly with customers and autonomously make decisions.
Each unit operates as an independent profit center and is evaluated as such. Zhang refers to this organizational innovation — which empowers autonomous units of frontline workers to sense and respond to consumer demand — as ''making a big company small'' — that is, allowing a big company like Haier to maintain the unique flexibility of a small startup.
To make this bottom-up, customer-centric organizational structure work, Zhang shifted the role of managers from being commanders and supervisors into being supporters and providers who ensure that the independent units have the resources they need to meet customer demand as promptly as possible. He doesn't want managers to be in charge, as they aren't directly in touch with customers.
Haier's organizational agility enables it to react swiftly to rapidly changing — or unexpected — customer needs, and to innovate faster, better, and cheaper than its rivals.
For instance, in China, any call placed to Haier's national customer service center is answered within three rings and a technician is dispatched to your house within three hours — even on Sundays.
Jugaad innovators — such as Haier's employees — are highly adaptable. They are capable of thinking on their feet and acting with great agility. Being nimble-minded and nimble-footed serves them well in the context of emerging markets, which are characterized by extreme unpredictability.
Western leaders confronted with increasing volatility and uncertainty in their own business environment must also learn to think and act flexibly.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Jossey-Bass, from Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja. Copyright (c) 2012 by Jossey-Bass. All rights reserved.
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I decided to join veganmofo as well, though I'm a cheat because I didn't post on the 1st and 2nd.
Though I had a lot to post because we made a lot of cupcakes for a friend's little girl's 7th birthday.
I'm that cool, I get invited to kid's post-halloween-parties :-)
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I think this is a good month for trying to post every day because I've bought far too many cookbooks during the past month and didn't get round to make many of the things.
November will be a busy month work-wise, so my free time will take place in my apartment mainly- reading, writing and cooking!
Today was baking Sunday again... I made an apple cake based loosely on the plum cake recipe I posted some weeks ago, but substituted two apples.
It turned out all apple-y and surprisingly moist and vanilla-tasting. I couldn't bring myself to photograph a piece without having a bite.
And because I decided to continue soup month and bought some lovely cannelini beans from the Italian grocery store yesterday, I made some pasta e fagioli.
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I have to confess to being completely over hearing about the Australian Labor Party's "faceless men". The phrase is trotted out by journalists, egged on by Coalition politicians, every time there is a change of Labor leader - and there have been a few of those recently!
The notion of "Labor's faceless men" originated with Daily Telegraph journalist Alan Reid in 1963. Reid was a disillusioned Labor man, on the DLP side of the 1955 party split. In 1963, during the lead-up to the Federal election which saw a Robert Menzies-led Coalition government returned for yet another term, Reid and photographer Vladimir Paral captured images of Labor parliamentary leader Arthur Calwell and deputy Gough Whitlam cooling their heels outside Canberra's Kingston Hotel. Inside, the 36 members of Labor's National Conference - six representatives from each State - apparently discussed the party's position on the location of a US military base on Australian soil.
Reid's take on this incident - that the elected leaders of the parliamentary party were left waiting outside while party policy was decided by "36 faceless men" - was enthusiastically picked up by the Coalition in the subsequent election campaign. They made the Labor Party look like an undemocratic, secretive organisation which could not be trusted. Their election poster, reproduced here and featuring one of Paral's pictures, says:
...36 unknown men, not elected to Parliament nor responsible to the people, were laying down policy and giving orders on critical questions of defence and foreign relations which could effect every man and woman in the country. Australia's security and your security are involved when national leadership on great affairs is surrendered to unknown outsiders bitterly fighting with each other about action on national survival.
The symbolism of the photos was incredibly powerful, making Calwell and Whitlam look like mere puppets, servants waiting in attendance on their masters' pleasure. Whether this is actually what happened is of course open to question - what were Calwell and Whitlam doing there, if they had no say? And how did Reid know exactly what was being discussed inside given that he too was outside on the street? Still, the story helped Menzies coast back into power and provided a stick to beat Labor for the next 50 years and counting.
So here is my problem. Leaving aside the propagandistic elements of the original story, it has little relevance to recent Labor events. First of all, the National Conference was not discussing who would be leader, they were discussing party policy. Calwell and Whitlam were elected, as leaders have always been, by their parliamentary colleagues. When Whitlam inherited the leadership a few years later, he drove through party reforms which ensured the parliamentary leader and other parliamentarians would be represented on the party's highest decision-making bodies, but policies of all our major political parties are still decided by the party. What is surprising or sinister about that? They tell us their policies (or fail to) and we vote accordingly for the one we like most, or hate least.
Secondly, the telling part of the "faceless men" taunt was that these decision-makers were not elected parliamentarians, they were party officials. When we come to the revolving door leadership of the Labor Party since 2007 the people labelled as "faceless men" are people like Mark Arbib, Bill Shorten, Joe Ludwig, Don Farrell and David Feeney. These men may or may not be paragons of virtue but they are anything but faceless in Reid's terms. You will find their smiling faces on the parliamentary website following their legitimate election, entitling them to vote in leadership ballots as well as canvas their colleagues about leadership issues. They also, incidentally, have a perfectly legitimate say in policy questions.
It is quite possible - indeed it seems certain - that the leadership turmoil of the past 3 or 4 years is a sign of dysfunction and division in the Labor Party. It is not, however, a sign that the Labor Party is controlled by "faceless men". These men all have faces, we know who they are, indeed some of us voted for them!


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William Dalrymple sad over Hyderabad shedding its pastSeptember 11th, 2012 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Sep 11 (IANS) Historian and writer William Dalrymple is sad that Hyderabad has shed much of its past and called for a major effort for conservation and to popularize the history and culture of Deccan, nationally and internationally.
The author of "White Mughals", who lived in the city in 1990s while writing and researching, described Deccan's culture as one of the greatest in Asia and stressed the need for studying and popularizing it.
Dalrymple was talking to media persons after delivering inaugural lecture on "The syncretic civilization of the Deccan" at H.K. Sherwani Centre for Deccan Studies at Moulana Azad National Urdu University (MANU) here Tuesday.
"I am fascinated by the history of this region. I am sad the city has shed so much of its past. Hyderabad's record of conservation is one of the worst in India," he said while pointing out that whole sub-cities have evolved since he last lived in here.
"There are historical reasons for the degree to which Hyderabad washed itself clean of its Nizami past in 1950s but in the process huge amounts of beautiful buildings were destroyed, art collections lost and a great deal of damage done to natural fabric of Hyderabad.
"My pleasure in Hyderabad is people and its food is mitigated by the sadness I feel looking at the state of ruins," he said while adding that destruction is still on.
"This is one of the great cultures of Asia. It is quite distinct from the culture deep south of India and district from culture of north India. There is so much to be studied and so much to be brought out," he observed.
He said it was absurd that there had been no centre for Deccani studies anywhere before and lauded MANU for taking the initiative.
"It may or many not be too late to save much that has been lost of the old, beautiful and rarefied Deccani world but it is certainly not too late to study it," he told a gathering of historians, eminent citizens from various walks of life and students.
The author also lamented the relative absence of high level of scholarship in the studies of Deccani art and culture. "The Deccan remains a major lacuna: for every book on the Deccan sultanates, there is one hundred on the Mughals; for every book on Hyderabad there is a shelf on Lucknow," he noted.
Quoting the historians, William highlighted the strangely mixed heritage of Deccan and pointed out that Nizams (erstwhile rulers of then Hyderabad State) preserved it. "
After the fall of Lucknow in 1856, Hyderabad remained the last great centre of Indo-Islamic culture and the flagship of Deccani civilization with its long heritage of composite Qutub Shahi, Vijayanagaram, Mughal, Kakatiyan, Central Asian and Iranian influences," he said.
He quoted a Hyderabadi scholar to say that not much of the mixed culture survived the collapse of Nizam, the upheavals of 1940s and Operation Polo which followed and the absorption of the Deccan into independent India.
He also disputed V.S. Naipaul's views expressed in "India: A wounded civilisation" that Vijayanagaram was the last bastion of Hindu civilisation brought down by Muslims.
He disagreed with the Nobel Prize winner, who had described Vijayanagaram as an absolute Hindu centre which stood against Islamic civilization.
"The reality was little more muddier than that. In Vijayangaram there was a huge Islamic influence and in the Islamic sultanates there was Hindu influence. The courts which followed the two civilizations fused into one."
"I entirely disagree with Naipaul's view that Vijayanagaram was the last bastion of civlisation brought down by Muslims. The reality is that it was wholly integrated in the region. It was far more complicated and plural picture than simplistic slightly 'Hindutva' view."
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Must Read Monday: How Rocket Learned to Read
How Rocket Learned to Read is a very cute story about a dog who accidentally became a student. With an enthusiastic teacher (a little yellow bird) who makes reading fun, Rocket just couldn't stay away from learning. And since a bird taught a dog to read there should be no excuse as to why my child couldn't learn to read too!
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- 4 heaping TB peanut butter
- 3 TB of chopped raisins
- 1 TB of honey
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- 1. Mix PB, raisins, and honey.
- 2. Spread mixture on 4 slices of bread. And top with other slice.
- 3. Cut into halves.
- *Makes 4 sandwiches.
Cookbook by Pauline C Peck. Weekly Reader Books.
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Must Read Monday: Scatterbrain Sam
Scatterbrain Sam: The obvious reason I love this book is I'm kindred spirits with Sam. We both get a little mixed up at times. Scatterbrain is the motto I go by, whether I like it or not. This is a very cute book and fun for kids to pick out what it not quite right in the pictures.
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That Sam! He's got one heck of a puzzler. Folks are talking about what a scatterbrain he is what with his keeping the cow on the roof, sleeping in his Sunday britches, and eating his soup with a pitchfork. How's he going to get his brains all gathered together?
He seeks the help of the widder woman to see if she ain't got a potion that can whip his brains into shape. Turns out she's brewing a batch of glue stew right then, but Sam's got to help. In lieu of adding his beloved pets to the ingredients, Sam must solve a few riddles. But his brains are so scattered, it takes one Amazin' Maisie Mae to help him out – and she's more than happy to lend Sam her brains.
Read Scatterbrain Sam, adapted from a Welsh folk tale by the clever brain of Ellen Jackson, to find out the exciting, dramatic, and heart-warming culmination of Sam's quest.
Kick the Fish
Kick the Fish is a modified game that originated in Asia. The original game is called Kick the Bird. The bird is made out of a sock or other material and decorated with feathers. The object of the game is to keep the bird in the air. It is similar to American hacky sack. You can only use your feet or head to hit it. I made the fish out of an old slipper sock. I turned it inside out and filled it with rice (or you could use beans). Then, tied a knot. I cut the end to be more decorative. I used felt and tacky glue to attach the eyes and fins. Sharpie markers filled in the detail. I decided to make a fish instead of a bird for two reasons. First, I felt better about kicking a fish than a bird. Secondly, I didn't have any feathers.
Must Read Monday: Pajama Time!
Want to read a nice, calm, relaxing book to get your children to settle down before bed? If your answer is yes, then…Do Not read this book. It is such a fun book. Author Sandra Boynton writes words that make you rap/sing along. Yes, I said rap.
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Boynton is back! Joining Barnyard Dance! and Birthday Monsters!,
here is Pajama Time! a good-night book with the irrepressible language,
the inimitable illustrations, the irresistible cast of characters only Sandra
Boynton could create.
A jump-roping chicken and a pig on a swing. A
Scottie in plaid pajamas and an elephant in a fuzzy one-piece with feet. And in
sing-along nuttiness reminiscent of Barnyard Dance!, it's time to head to
bed-to the beat: Pajammy to the left. Pajammy to the right. Jamma jamma jamma
jamma P!J! Everybody's wearing them for dancing tonight. Jamma jamma jamma jamma
Easiest Homemade Gift Ever.
Chores: Do I Have To?
Chores is a word that generally doesn't leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling. When spoken of we instantly regress to toddlerhood and pout and whine, "Do I have to?" For us, as adults, we have to do certain chores because they are a part of life, but little ones LOVE to help out. Most of the time we don't let them because it is more work for them to "help." I encourage you to let your children join in on the chores. Let them help with the cleaning, baking, taking out the trash, laundry, shopping, paying bills…okay maybe not paying bills. When I've let my son help me bake, yes, most of it ends up on the countertop or floor, but he is learning how to cook. And I have already found great favor with his future wife by teaching him this skill!
Must Read Monday: Stargirl
If you have a daughter she needs to read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. If you have a son he might protest reading it, but he needs to read it too. I read it aloud to my son when he was 9 months old so he didn't fight it too much. This story spans the ages. It makes you soul-search and re-evaluate your life. Who are you trying to please? Whose acceptance are you trying to win? This book is meant for kids, but I loved it.
Amazon Book description: Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and
sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, Stargirl." She captures
Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution
with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first.
Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that
makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to
become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of
nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale
about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.


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Drove to Osprey Bay where we snorkeled with sting rays, and fish of many descriptions, sizes and colours. We also took more photos - again :-) and then headed to Sandy Bay for a picnic lunch. After spending most of the day along the coast we headed back to the caravan park for a nap and then drinks with our neighbour before having fish and chips from the local cafe.


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I am an Associate Professor of Medical Geography at the University of Florida. I am jointly appointed to the Emerging Pathogens Institute and I run BSL-3 Select Agent pathogen lab focused on bacteria. I founded and direct the Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Lab, which combines our BSL-3 work with spatial modeling of pathogen habitats, animal movements, and ecological modeling.
Professor in Microbiology, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Introducción a la Inteligencia Artificial. M.C. Juan Carlos Olivares Rojas. firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com @jcolivares http://antares.itmorelia.edu.mx/~jcolivar Enero, 2010. Competencia Específica.
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M.C. Juan Carlos Olivares Rojas
Enero, 2010
Conoce los fundamentos teóricos que sustentan la Inteligencia Artificial
Nuevas Tendencias en el campo de la Inteligencia Artificial. Jueves 28 de enero.
Ensayo de la película 2001. Odisea Especial. Jueves 4 de Febrero.
Ontología sobre un tema en específico. Lunes 8 de febrero.
1.1 Basic Concepts
1.2 Applications
1.3 Intelligent Systems and Learning
1.4 Semantic Networks
1.5 Description and Match Method
1.6 Analogy Problems
1.7 Abstraction Recognition
1.8 Knowledge Interpretation
If a problem can not be described, then can not be programmed
Use of Metaphores and Analogies.
Concepts Creating and Use.
Make a Java Program which calculate if a number give for the user is a Perfect Number or not.
What are the steps for solving this problem?
Alan M. Turing defined in 1950 one form to check if a machine is intelligent or not.
Turing test consist to set two human and one machine in a dark room. The humans and the machine are not visible between their.
One human must act like an Interviewer asking some questions to the other participants.
Turing Test is passed when the interviewer can not distinguished the answer between the human and the machine.
The new AI systems required the perception sense to pass the test.
Martin Minsky did cotributions to define brain models in computers.
ELIZA of Joseph Weizenbaum and JULIA of Mauldin were the first AI Systems with Intelligent Dialagues.
The first AI Systems were development for solving some problems like chess.
In 1956 John McCarthy and Claude Shanon published "Automata Studies" where defined the Automata Theory.
In 1956 John McCarthy defined the AI concept, reason why he is considered the AI Father.
The AI history is very old. The greeks were the first to use logic to solve a lot of problems.
In 1965 Chomsky defined the Formal Languages Theories.
McCulloh and Pits in 1943 define the relations between neurons and simple computational elements.
In 1962 Rosenblatt defined the Perceptron and the Neuronal Networks Teories.
How a person in a maze can be exit without lost?
Are there an optimal solution for the problem?
They were the first AI comercial product sucessfully.
These Systems let to introduce some information in an specific knowledge area into a computer (knowledge database), they act like a human expert.
These Systems simulate human reasoning by applicating especific knowledge and inferences.
It's a complex problem. For example (in spanish):
"Ideas verdes descoloridas duermen furiosamente",
"Ideas furiosamente verdes descoloridas duermen".
"El banco cierra a las 3:00"
"Las almejas están listas para comer"
"Las almejas están listas para [ser] comidas [por nosotros]"
It's an application of patter recognition, this area have a lot of application such as:
Medical Diagnostic
Automatic Signal Processing
Automatic Industrial Product
Automatic Vigilance Systems
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
This science implies the concepts of perception, motion (spatial reasoning), planning.
The main problem autonomous robots are interacting with the human-world, because exists many obstacles unexpected events and dinamic environments.
This area studies the way in how computers can obtain new knowledge to solve a problem.
In this sense, learning means to make a computer which is able to benefit for the experience obtained.
AI is applied in games to give more realism and complexity. Also AI gives the "Physics".
The n-queens problem consist in putting n chess queens on an n×n chessboard such that none of them is able to capture any other using the standard chess queen's moves.
Activitie: Obtain a Solution in a sheet of paper for a 6x6 chessboard. First 100, Second 80, Third 60 pts.
It's a computational technique inspired in biological models which are used to realize eficient search in spatial solution highly huge and complex.
Genetic Algorithms are adaptative methods which can used to implement searches and optimization problems.
This has given the creation of emergence areas such as evolutionary computation and swarm computing algorithms that rely on events of nature.
It's a discrete model studied in computing, mathematics, biology and microstructure modeling.
It consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states. The grid can be in any finite number of dimensions.
Time is also discrete, and the state of a cell at time t is a function of the states of a finite number of cells (neighborhood) at time t − 1.
These neighbors are a selection of cells relative to the specified cell, and do not change (though the cell itself may be in its neighborhood, it is not usually considered a neighbor).
Every cell has the same rule for updating, based on the values in this neighbourhood. Each time the rules are applied to the whole grid a new generation is created.
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton.
The "game" is actually a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, needing no input from human players. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves.
The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, live or dead.
Every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are the cells that are directly horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by needs caused by underpopulation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.
Play the game at: www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
It's one of the most recent applications of AI. It's consist in the construction of programs which achive to fool the human senses, make it belive that we are floating, running or flying in an airplane.
This application has been used in a fligth simulator for pilots, astronauts and drivers.
Most of the actual system say that they are intelligents ("smart").
If an application can take autonomous decisions in a real time in independet form, it's considered intelligent. The main feature of this systems are the "adaptability" like saving energy.
The most important feature of an Intelligent System are the way to representing the knowledge, the way in which the information is retrived and the way in which adquire new knowledge (learning).
The representation ways ("explicitation") of knowledge are diverse and it influences in the retrival informtion and learning ways.
Always that a model is developed it has two represetation: logical and physical.
This representations need "mapping" to working together.
When we have a real life problem, this have to mapping in a computer schema for working in a computational system.
Tacking back to the Maze Problem ¿How can be represent this model and the knowledge?
It can be represented with a matrix, graph, finite state machine, etc. Also it must rules for play this game.
If we don't have the two representations we can not understand and learn the game.
In general, knowledge s define by laws and particular languages. Languages define rules.
The same knowledge is structured in diferents represtentation such as database, semantic networks, frames, conceptual maps, etc., but after all it must have the same meaning (semantics).
We must try to don´t generate a loop
They are other simple form to explicity knowledge, They are conformed by graphs which coding knowledge in a taxonomic form.
Nodes represent categories and Edges represents the relations between this categories.
There are two types of special relatinoships: Is-A y la Have-A.
We can access throught of each concepts to infer knowledge.
The scripts are other way to represent knowledge. They are composed by components called slots, these are a set of elements concept-values.
Scripts are more easily to ntroduce than mind maps.
Script Example:
Subset_of: Office_Machine
Superset_of: {Laser_Printer, Inject_Printer}
Feed_Source: Door_Socket
Author: Juan_Perez
Date: 07_January_2008
Other way to represent knowledge with a lot of use recently is Onthology, It's consist of relations between distinct concepts like definitions. Onthologies can be represented throught languages such as XML.
Knowledge representation has a great importance this is the reason because actually we talk about Knowledge Engineering.
Onthologies act like a dictionary. Some elements like agents used this information to represent and retrieve knowledge.
Frames are structure used to represent values, restricctions, process, relation, etc. Frames represent with tuples one propertie of an object. Object-Oriented Programming was originated by Frames.
Use a Protege Onthology Editor for Make a Onthology about Mexican Soccer.
It's used for AI problem solving and It's one the most basic method.
The first step consists to identified all features of an object.
Later, It realice a seach in a well-define set of objects.
It needs two very import methods: the extractor and evaluator of knowledge.
Love a person or thing for over all things
Word composeb by 4 characters: 'A', 'M', 'O' and 'R' yuxtapuestos
AMOR = AMOR Exact Macth
AMOR = ROMA 0% similarity but contains for characters
Amor = AMOR 25% similarity, contains all character but in uppercase
Amor = Cariño 0% similarity but the same meaning
Amor = Amar 75% it's a consequence
Figure formed by all the points which distance are equidistant of the center point in an angle of 0 to 360 grades.
Center (point)
Diametrer (twice radio)
100% Similarity
?% Have the same form but diferent size and color
?% Have the same high but diferent width
?% Have the same color
A farmer wants to move himself, a silver fox, a fat goose, and some tasty grain across a river, from the west side to the east side. Unfortunately, his boat is so small he can take at most one of his possessions across on any trip. Worse yet, an unattended fox will eat a goose, and an unattended goose will eat grain, so the farmer must not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the grain. What is he to do?
¿Se puede utilizar el método de descripción y pareamiento?
In a Software Development Company 5 programers implement the same algorithms obtained the follow results:
The enterprise needs to know how are the best pair (pair programing).
For trying to solve this problem We need to define a similarity function such as:
s(v, w)=|p1-q1| + |p2-q2| + |p3-q3|
v and w are programmers represent in the form of (p1, p2, p3)
pi is a propertie
We also need a criteria for similarity in this case consider the lower punctuation as the best solution.
Programming the solution to obtain the best pair.
Programming the solution to obtain the best pair in a specific propertie
If We changed the criteria in where LOC are more important 60% than the other properties, how must be the new similarity function?
If We need one group with the 3 best programmer, how must be the similarity function?
It's other form to problem solving tha it's used in AI.
Analogy is a special type of relation that define how are objects represented los objetos de una categoría y como obtener sus predecesores y antecesores inmediatos.
Generalmente se habla de análogo cuando se tiene el mismo tipo de relación aun cuando sean entidades diferentes.
Alguna vez nos hemos preguntado ¿por qué en la mayoría de los exámenes de admisión generalmente son más importantes que los de conocimientos?
Por que en la mayoría de los casos el conocimiento de cierta forma se puede adquirir pero la forma de aprender y razonar es sumamente complicado. En muchos casos son más importantes las reglas que el conocimiento.
En matemáticas y en el área de programación se utiliza mucho la analogía para resolver problemas.
De acuerdo con Polya, para resolver problemas se necesita de los siguientes pasos:
1) Comprender el problema
2) Concebir un plan
3) Ejecutar el plan y,
4) Examinar la solución.
¿Cómo quedarían D y 5?
¿Qué problemas se presentan con la Abstracción de la Figura D o bien de la Figura 3?
La resolución de problemas por analogía tiene como base cierto conocimiento previo en ocasiones difícil de obtener.
A lo largo de esta presentación se ha podido comprobar que prácticamente el problema está resuelto si el problema está descrito.
El reconocimiento de abstracciones es un concepto muy subjetivo dado que éstas son combinaciones de estados mentales y eventos.
Los SI se basan fundamentalmente en reglas ECA (Evevento-Condición-Acción)
Generalmente respondemos a estímulos (eventos), y en base a ellos vemos cuales son importantes para nosotros y nos comportamos de cierta manera.
Para lo que a una persona le representa algo para otra representa cosas totalmente distintas.
La abstracción permite llegar a cierto tipo de conclusiones y preguntas resueltas.
La interpretación del conocimiento, es decir la utilización de ese conocimiento es un factor muy importante que aun la IA no ha podido definir bien.
El conocimiento se puede interpretar de muchas formas y sus áreas de aplicación son diversas.
Existen muchas corrientes filosóficas que le tratan de dar sentido al conocimiento: empirismo y racionalismo científico.
Se pretende que las reglas y hechos (base de conocimientos) permitan resolver problemas y que a su vez de la resolución de estos problemas se obtenga nuevos conocimientos.
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