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Oversharing online is something some of us are guilty of.
It's tempting to share a big part of our lives online these days without much thought. Social media is such an easy way to engage and keep in touch with each other. Think platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, blogs and more.
For those of us who are regular bloggers, at times we might wonder if what we publish – or are thinking of publishing – is 'too much' and relevant to our audiences.
As a multicultural blogger, often I find myself being careful of what I say on this blog as the topics I write about are quite sensitive. In fact, I self-censor myself when I craft each post – some things I just will not publish online.
According to the Macmillian Dictionary, oversharing refers to 'giving out an excessive amount of personal information' and it's generally considered negative and inappropriate. That is, if we share what isn't normally talked about or share non-stop about a certain subject, it can rub others the wrong way.
All of us use social media differently for different reasons. For instance, bloggers might selectively publish their works on public blogs for a specific audience and reserve sharing personal occasions on private Facebook pages. However anything published on public or private social media platforms has the potential to make the rounds anywhere online – screenshotting and sharing is so easy and it doesn't hurt to think twice about sharing our lives online.
What I Won't Post On Social Media And Why
1. My job and where I work
Share online where exactly you work and for which company, anyone can look this up and come pay you a visit at work. For bloggers (who have a day job outside of blogging), that someone could be an eager fan. Or it could be someone who might have a vendetta against you, your published works or your beliefs shared through these works.
Some employers will insist on sharing your name and position on their website, believing it's a good means to network. For some lifestyle and travel bloggers, their regular jobs might be an integral part of their blog's brand and material.
On this multicultural blog and my personal social media accounts, I've never mentioned where I work or given a hint of the field I have/am working in. Though I don't think people who persistently send me emails accusing me of being 'a white worshipper' will actually hunt me down in real life, you just never know. Aside from security, what I do for a living has got nothing to do with my writing interests. This blog isn't a space for inciting judgement, hate and pigeonholing just because of someone's choice of job which not everyone might agree with. One job worked doesn't wholly define you.
2. My location in real time
Like the above, when you share real time whereabouts through Facebook check-ins, on-location photo tagging or live Instagram streams, there's every chance someone can track you down step-for-step. Geotagging or attaching location identification metadata to social media posts is a subtle way of shouting 'I am here now'. While location tagging has helped nabbed criminals in India, it can make it easy for others to follow your every move for the wrong reasons. I like my privacy and for the same reasons I don't publicly talk about my day job, have never posted an online real time status update.
3. Very personal details
It's common sense to keep personal information such as credit card details, passwords, residential addresses and phone numbers private to avoid identity theft. Cyber-criminals commonly use these details to impersonate you or get closer to your family and friends. Sometimes social media sites might also slip up keeping your information safe, case point the Facebook data breach incident that seems to have affected up to 87 million users.
Sometimes there's a professional need to share these details online. A journalist might put up a work-related phone number on their online profiles so anyone with a story can reach them easily. A blogger might put up an email address on their blog so they can receive feedback from readers – and they might put up an email address along the lines of monkeyhello(at)mrwobbles.com so as to defeat web-crawling-spam-sending robots.
4. An entire portfolio of works
The bigger your online portfolio, the more confusing it might be for others to get a feel of your craft. While a sizable portfolio can showcase a variety of strengths, you can come across as 'trying too hard'. A selective portfolio often helps bloggers, writers and freelancers create a niche and find their audience. If someone is really interested in your work, they'll make genuine contact to find out more about what you do.
The more you share your art and work online, the more likely someone might blatantly copy it without permission or attributed credit. It's no surprise some bloggers install disabling right-click-copy-paste plugins in a bid to minimise content theft.
Over the years, what I've written on this blog has been copy-pasted on other blogs without permission. It really is too bad, too sad as not everyone understands copyright and copyright disclaimers. Over the years, I no longer put up original-sized, full-resolution photos and include watermarks over resized versions – and one time a government department contacted me through my blog to purchase an original photo and published it in a report =D
5. Disagreements
Getting involved in gossip and slandering others online potentially leads to defamation, reputation damage and maybe even legal proceedings. To simply put it, drama makes everyone look bad. For instance, in 2017 a beauty blogger was ordered to pay her wedding photographer over a million dollars in damages after the former shamed the photographer online for charging additional fees – and this emotional rollercoaster played out in the media.
Sharing one's opinion is one thing but attacking others is another. Badmouthing others doesn't sit well with me. It speaks of taking sides as opposed to working together, and understanding each other's differences is one of the aims of this blog.
6. Friends and family
Not everyone likes to have an online presence. As a blogger, your family and friends might not get why you blog and just don't want to be a part of it. That should be respected if you want their respect and trust. Maybe they are shy or are extremely cautious about their privacy. This may come across as ironic on my blog since in many posts I make references to my family. These moments happened a very long time ago, and some have moved on or do not have a clue what the internet is and don't want to learn.
7. Somebody's secrets
Sharing someone's secrets might make for an enticing blog but you might lose that person forever. When you share someone's deepest confessions online, others might judge them negatively based on what you put up and like spreading gossip, you put their reputation at risk. After all, words and imagery are often open to interpretation and can be so easily twisted into a different perception than intended.
8. Romantic relationships
There are arguments for and against sharing romantic relationships online. Research has found couples share their relationships online as a way to express their love for each other, and they tend to be content together in the long run. However other research suggests couples who post more about their love life might be more insecure and unhappy about their relationship. Notably each relationship is different.
Naturally your romantic relationship shapes who you are, shapes your perception and so shapes what you do – to a degree shapes your blogging content. So it's natural for some bloggers to mention or share their romantic lives on their blogs in some way.
This is not me at all. I've never fully understood how some can share photos and videos of their partners and children so freely, such as documenting engagements, weddings, births and family vacations on their blogs. Perhaps they want to share their happiness with the world.
To me, having a partner and people whom you trust is just too precious to share on a public blog read all over the world, even on my private social media accounts. They are beyond incredibly special to me; what we have is special and I like to keep them close. Because of that, no comment about my relationship status or anyone I've been involved with as a partner anywhere online.
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As bloggers and online publishers, sometimes it's tricky to draw the line between public and private, open and personal on our social media platforms. There are different degrees of what oversharing is, and what is oversharing to someone may not be oversharing to someone else. Sometimes our craft calls for us to share intimate moments online. For instance if we have a lifestyle or sex education blog, chances are we are more inclined to share personal details in order to blog what we want to blog.
Arguably certain generations share more of their lives online, especially millennials. According to the 2016 Census, there are around 1.7 million Facebook users between 16-39 years old in Australia and a study found young Australians discover their identities through online interactions. Consequently many millennials are finding new online career ventures appealing: those with a few thousand followers on their social media accounts are branding themselves as social influencers, constantly promoting products and sharing their whereabouts in exchange for a few thousand dollars – a source of income so why not share on social media.
Some of us share our personal lives online to seek validation. According to a study exploring human behaviour and the use of computers, people use Facebook to comfortably express their true selves and to feel a sense of belonging. In other words, some of us share our lives online in hope of finding an honest connection and being a part of something or someone. The more a blogger shares about their personal lives, the more it can bring out their human side and make them more relatable – and hence find an audience.
What we share online is a choice and defines us. However what others post about us on the internet is pretty much impossible to control, and so sometimes it's hard to control our online image. Our friends, colleagues, family and acquaintances could share a photo or video and tag us in it – which might show up anywhere online regardless of our online privacy settings. This isn't all that bad: people think of you, you are relatively important to them and they want you to be part of their social media presence. Also, sharing and tagging online is a great way for social influencers to get to know each other and join each other's networking circles.
For many of us who blog regularly, we blog with a sense of purpose and direction, sharing selectively. For me, what I will post online on this blog are my thoughts on cultural nuances and different perspectives, and we can all learn from each other. I will share, Tweet and link to other blogs and bloggers if there's a mutual respect for each other and our craft. As bloggers, writers and freelance creatives, sharing our craft online is so easy. But sharing selectively with intent is powerful in a saturated online world. On projecting one's voice, writer Soumya John writes:
'A writer's biggest forte is their truth. We could speak about a lot of things, but nothing would ring better than an honest voice that speaks with courage.'
These days some will say we are anti-social if we don't use or share on social media. But we really shouldn't have to feel pressured into being active online as our own life is our own life, and talking to each other face-to-face or over text is still a way to keep in touch. Honestly I don't like using social media very much and have gone days without going on Facebook and Twitter. There are also days where I just do not want to blog and instead sit on the sofa and focus on eating all the snacks that I want.
One's private life is not everyone's business. At the end of the day, I love my own space and like my privacy and anonymity, as well as like blending into the background and being a mystery =D Drawing a line between my online persona and personal life and keeping each separate is what I want to do. So be it.
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"That was tough but i was in the best shape of my life," said Chao, who grew up in Flushing, "and it taught me that you can do so much more than you think."
Even though it wasn't easy to wake up while everyone else was still fast asleep, it instilled in her a deep appreciation for nature. She was there when the starry sky was enveloped by the vibrant sunrise; she saw lush green trees and mountains transformed into lifeless winter figures.
With her crew team she rowed through all seasons; even when it rained and snowed, her teammates and coach pushed her to keep rowing.
"The same people who pushed us through it were there to celebrate with us when we made it through to the end," she said.
When Chao graduated, she joined the Metro Athletic Dragons (MAD), a dragon boat team that practices in the World's Fair Marina in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
"Jogging alongside the waterfront, certain parts of the water would sometimes smell like rotten eggs," she said of her jogging sessions for dragon boat practices.
Chao learned that the actual on-the-water workout was different, with dragon boat isolating your abdominal muscles, whereas crew involves using 80 percent legs, 20 percent upper body. She referred to the two as complementary sports because they focus on different areas of the body.
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Learning is the eighth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program discusses the basic principles of how we learn; classical, instrumental, and operant conditioning; and the role that stimuli and consequences play in learned behavior and habits. You'll explore how renowned researchers Ivan Pavlov, B. F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, and John B. Watson contributed to what we know about human and animal learning.
In the study of behavior, operant behavior is affected by the environment, and operative conditioning is used to reinforce behavioral change. Behavioral psychologist Dr. Howard Rachlin used operant conditioning to study ways of developing self-control in pigeons.
Dr. Rachlin chose to use pigeons because they can be a particularly impulsive subject. The experiment prompted the pigeons to peck one button once for a small bit of food, and another button 15 times for a larger amount. When presented with a choice between a small but immediate portion of food or a large but delayed portion of food, pigeons chose the small, short-term reward. But when Dr. Rachlin's team put a pigeon in a box with two buttons that both required 15 pecks for any amount of food at all, the pigeon ultimately chose the button that offered the larger amount.
Eventually, the pigeons learned to choose a larger amount of food by pecking a button 15 times and then waiting four seconds for the food, as opposed to choosing a more immediate but smaller reward. Dr. Rachlin's experiment illustrated that a pattern of behavior can reinforce the choices that lead to self-control. Parallel human experiences include healthy behavioral changes such as cultivating good exercise habits, quitting smoking, or finding alternative outlets for anger and stress.
Mary Ann Chapman expands on Dr. Rachlin's findings, and how the principles of operant conditioning can be used to overcome bad habits or addictions. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1175/5_32/55625498/p1/article.jhtml?term=bad+choices (Scroll down past the header for the article.)


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Patrick Vecchio may face primary in Smithtown supervisor race
Republican Patrick Vecchio, Long Island's longest-serving town supervisor, is being challenged in his bid for re-election by a member of his own party.
Smithtown Councilman Robert Creighton, saying the town needs a change in leadership, said Wednesday he will attempt to unseat Vecchio, who has announced he will seek a 13th term as the town's supervisor.
Creighton, 75, a former Suffolk County police commissioner, said he intends to seek the party's nomination for the seat Vecchio, 82, has held since 1978. Creighton plans to make a formal announcement Monday night at a Republican Party fundraiser for town Receiver of Taxes Deanna Varricchio.
"We have got to do more in the Town of Smithtown to bring businesses to the town, to improve infrastructure, to improve parks in the town," Creighton said in an interview. "We are not doing that to my satisfaction. We are kicking the can down the road."
Reached at his Town Hall office, Vecchio's response was, "Et tu, Brute?" The reference was to a scene in the Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar," when the Roman emperor is betrayed by his former ally Brutus.
Vecchio and Creighton, members of the all-Republican town board, have battled over spending, appointments and Creighton's proposal to build a town park on state land in Kings Park.
Creighton, a former Conservative, said Wednesday that he changed parties in October to run against Vecchio. He said he could not win by running on the Conservative line alone.
"It's a different twist on a family feud," said Assemb. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-St. James), a Vecchio backer.
Republican leaders will endorse a supervisor candidate at a party convention in May, town Republican chairman William Ellis said. Vecchio and Creighton could face off in a September primary if each garners at least 500 signatures on nominating petitions, he said.
Councilman Thomas McCarthy, who backs Vecchio, said a primary could hurt the party in November's general election. "People say things about each other that they come to regret after the fact," he said.
Councilman Edward Wehrheim said Vecchio is "an excellent fiscal manager" but added he supports Creighton because he would usher in more economic development to increase tax revenue.
"I think if we want to move Smithtown forward in a different direction where we can attract development and increase the commercial tax base, it's going to require a new administration," he said.
Smithtown Democratic leader Ed Maher said he hopes to have a nominee for supervisor by the end of March. Maher said a Republican primary would help his party "because now the Republicans are starting to say what we've been saying . . . that town government is not doing a good job."
A GOP primary also might open the door for Vecchio, a former Democrat, to reunite with his old party, said county Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer. Party sources say talks could center around Vecchio getting Democratic backing in return for his support for a Democratic town board candidate, who would give Vecchio and McCarthy a majority on the board. With Rick Brand


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Credit card numbers are flying across the Internet this season as e-commerce likely reaches new heights. Likewise, online retargeting is as explicit and unmistakable to consumers as it can be. Ad units with items scraped from your own abandoned shopping carts and browsing histories are now de rigeur and a standard part of Web surfing. But according to one survey, most American consumers are considerably more anxious about the security of their IDs from thieves than they are with merchants' ability to track them with ads.
Polling over 1,000 voters in mid-November, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) found that 80% of respondents claimed to be more worried that the information they share online will be hacked than they are about ad targeting. "We were interested in finding out both how they rate security and privacy in comparison and how that manifests in their behaviors," states Ross Schulman, CCIA Policy and Regulatory Counsel.
The disparity between security and privacy is comparative and occurs when the consumers are asked which worries them most. In fact, the actual level of concern between the two is not as pronounced. The survey found 75% worried about personal information being stolen while 54% were worried about advertisers tracking browser history.
This survey shows that users are (or at least claim to be) active participants in limiting tracking. Two-thirds of people (68%) claim they have adjusted their privacy settings on an online service, but only 2% say they did so to avoid targeted ads. Almost three-quarters (73%) have opted out of letting a Web site remember credit card information, and 53% have blocked apps from using location information.
Many (65%) users claim to have set their browser to disable cookies. I'm not sure we are really looking at an Internet where that high a percentage of people is invisible to advertisers, exchanges and site using cookie-based tracking. But that many people may think they are invisible. But despite stated concerns, the overwhelming majority of users (61%) say they prefer getting free content in exchange for targeted ads than paying for services with no ads or targeting (33%).
Curiously, people seem to think they have a good handle on the technology for both security and privacy. Only 7% of people admit to not having adjusted their privacy settings because they don't know how to do so. Most (76%) use different passwords at each service. And almost all (83%) have used passwords to protect access to a device.
One of the things that seems to be propelling concern over security is the visibility of the breaches. In this survey, 62% say they have received a suspicious email
from a contact that leads them to believe the contact's email has been breached. I think a lot of us have gotten promotional emails from what looks like our own email account. And half say their
friends' financial accounts have been hijacked.
It's not surprising, then, that almost three-quarters of survey respondents think the federal government should be acting more aggressively against identity theft. And more than half (56%) feels strongly that the government should do more.
Whether the CCIA survey is accurate in any one of its measures, the general takeaway here is
that awareness of both privacy and security among consumers is now high and that they consider themselves involved in the process of managing both.
Arguably, social platforms and mobile technology have helped normalize the ritual of personal data management. The relentless resets of Facebook's privacy policies notwithstanding, users have to manage who sees what on most social nets. Smartphone apps routinely ask users for permission to push messages, track location, share data, etc.
In other words, privacy and security are not abstracts anymore. They are not "policies" people simply read, agree to, and presume a third party is handling, but a part of the ritual of digital commerce. For marketers and publishers, I think this means that both privacy and security now become features that can be part of the conversation between seller and buyer.


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The Final Cut: War Of The Worlds Lives Up To The Hype
I've never read H.G. Wells 1898 novel "War Of The Worlds", or have even seen anything having to do with the it in any other medium. When I was younger, my dad told me that during a radio presentation of the story many listeners(who I would presume tuned in after the start of the show) thought that they were listening to an actual live newscast, which in turn caused mass hysteria and widespread panic throughout the listening area. This amused me. The thought of a bunch of people getting scared while hearing a work of fiction on the radio was quite funny. Not scary at all. But I had no idea what they were hearing…
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The Apple news just keeps on comin'. When Apple released their newest version of iTunes two days ago, it was mere minutes before people discovered a hidden ability to sync to what was being called an "iTunes Phone". Rumors of Motorola launching an iTunes phone, likely to be called ROKR, have swirled around the Internet for months, and the sync ability signaled that the launch of the new phone could be any minute now.
Or has it happened already?
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Adam Curry's Gnomedex Keynote
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Adam Curry gave the closing Keynote, recording Daily Source Code Episode #200 live. He began with talking about Woodstock, now we are almost 25 years later. We have several hundred of the most talented, creative minds in content creation. Flickr and Technorati are overtaken. There are still cameras, video cameras, voice recorders, etc. all throughout the audience. What message should we be sending to the world from Gnomedex? That we want to take back our media.
The interenet is very powerful as both a communications medium as well as a marketing medium. The internet will always be both, not one or the other. We need to bring in our audience. We are not early adopters, we are lunatic fringe. We need fuel from Microsoft, Audible, Apple, and Real. We are telling them what we want. How do we get them to work with us?
Dave Winer and Adam spent 4 years sending large media files to each other after the rss:enclosure tag. In 2004 the magic happened when they switched places - when Adam as a user became a developer, and Dave became the user not the developer. The result was that these programs/shows/audio posts would come down automatically, and they would be so enjoyable because they were amateur.
More after the jump.
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2 GB, 4 GB iPod shuffle, 8 GB iPod mini, and iPod Color A Success
Posted by Sparky Categories: Smartphones, Podcasts, Portable Audio / Video, Software,
The last few days have certainly been big news for the iPod and iTunes. Apple dropped the new iPod color to its stores, and released iTunes 4.9 to the public. This has sent a surprising number of ripples through the music and Apple communities. iPodLounge has surprised us and given a coveted "A" review rating to the new line of iPods and has a very exhaustive review of the new color players. With the new iTunes comes easy iPod support of podcasts, and the world agrees that aside from a few minor glitches its the one of the coolest things to happen to iTunes since, well, iTunes. Apple has also extended the RSS/XML format a little bit to enable chapters and other metadata to be included in the XML file to describe the podcast. Apple has of course also announced plans to give iPods away to qualifying students - what a great way to help grow their brand in what will become the influential market of tomorrow. Finally there are rumors floating around that the iPod shuffle is about to get a bump to 2GB and 4GB sizes, and the mini is going to get one of Hitachi's new 8GB drives. All of this kind of ticks off this one Gear Live writer who just bought a (now suddenly out of date) 4th generation iPod not two weeks ago.
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Sony to Lose $100 Per PS3 Sold
Posted by Rob Stevens Categories: PlayStation 3,
GameSpot is reporting that analysts at Merril Lynch Japan are estimating that it will cost Sony $494 (54,000 Yen) for every PlayStation 3 console built for launch. If Sony launches the console at the same price that they have launched their previous consoles at ($399 in the US, 44,800 Yen in Japan), Sony will lose roughly $1.2 Billion at launch.
Losing money on game console hardware is nothing new, and has been considered to be status quo for many years. Typically, the console manufacturer will take a loss on the hardware in order to get a compelling feature set into homes, and then make up the difference on the royalties from the manufacture of the game software, which can be significant.
The only significant spoiler in this business is Nintendo, who rarely loses much (if any) money on their console hardware. It is estimated that Nintendo only lost $3 per unit sold at the launch of GameCube, and through manufacturing modifications and optimizations, had eliminated that loss in under six months. Sony was still losing significant money on the PlayStation 2 hardware (as was Microsoft on its Xbox console) up until last year.
If you're looking for a hot deal on a game console and want to really get more than your money's worth, you can't do better than buying a console at launch, when the cost is being largely subsidized by the manufacturer.
Read More | GameSpot
Next-Gen Console CPUs? Not So Fast
Posted by Rob Stevens Categories: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360,
AnandTech has a thorough analysis of the CPU performance of both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, including some choice information from confidential developer sources. The verdict? Looks like the CPUs in these two upcoming game consoles are severely hamstringed by a deeply pipelined CPU architecture and poor branch prediction.
Xbox 360's CPU uses three custom-designed IBM PowerPC cores. While the PlayStation 3's "Cell" processor only uses one of these same cores, the rest of the chip is dedicated to an array of SPE units that end up being fairly useless in practice. Of the two, apparently the developers are finding the Xbox 360's Xenon CPU the more useful of the two. The real killer comes on page four of the analysis, when the revelation comes that if either console maker had used an Athlon X2 or Pentium D CPU, they'd have far better performance.
The saving grace in both cases are the rocket-fast GPUs, which will allow the games to look fantastic, and that's all most gamers will end up caring about once the console is hooked up to their computer monitor or high-def TV. But it appears that any advances in physics or AI will be delayed for another console generation.
Read More | AnandTech*
*AnandTech has pulled the article sourced here from their website due to concerns that it may have compromised one of their confidential sources.
Free iPod mini With New Mac Purchase
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Hot Deals, PC / Laptop, Portable Audio / Video,
Being a student gets some awesome perks, and one of them is getting a nice discount at the Apple store. Now if saving a few bucks when buying new hardware from Apple wasn't enough, students will get a free iPod mini when purchasing a new Mac now through September 24, 2005. Of course, if an iPod mini isn't quite what you want, you can also opt in for a larger capacity model and receive a check for $179 in the mail. All this so you can relax with some tunes while being studious.
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Apple Patents Notebook With Integrated iPod mini
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, PC / Laptop, Portable Audio / Video,
According to Patent Application 20040224638, Apple may be on the path to bringing out its most unique portable computer to date. The notebook would allow for an iPod mini to double as the touch pad. The patent also talks about integrating higher RF signals into the notebook from within the cell phone range. I must say, while it looks interesting - it seems a bit "toy-ish" to me to have a pink iPod mini sitting in my silver PowerBook. Then again, who are we to judge? Nowadays everything that Apple touches turns to gold.
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Connect your USB On-The-Go capable tablet computer or Smartphone to USB 2.0 devices (thumb drives, USB mouse or keyboard, etc.)
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The UUSBOTGW White Micro USB On-The-Go (OTG) Adapter Cable lets you convert the Micro USB port on your smartphone or tablet into a USB host port that you can use to connect a USB peripheral device such as a thumb drive, mouse or keyboard.
The adapter cable features one Micro USB (B-type) male connector and one full-size USB (A-type) port, and is compatible with OTG-capable devices.
To ensure dependable, long-lasting connections, the 5-inch Micro USB OTG adapter is durably constructed and backed by lifetime warranty.
Please Note: This adapter will only work with devices that support USB OTG. Please consult your documentation and/or your service provider to ensure that your device does support USB OTG functionality.
- Add a standard USB port to your Micro USB OTG capable tablet computer or Smartphone
- Connect a USB keyboard or mouse to your tablet
- Connect a thumb drive to your tablet, cell phone or eReader, for removable data storage
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- Converts your Micro USB OTG capable tablet computer or Smartphone into a USB host, for connecting USB accessories, enabling you to download pictures, transfer data and work more efficiently
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USB On-The-GO (OTG) allows mobile devices to act as a host for USB peripherals. To use OTG with a mobile device using a micro-USB connector, you need to use an OTG adapter to convert from the mobile device to USB.
Although many mobile devices use the micro-USB connector and the OTG adapters plug into your mobile device, the mobile device must have OTG support. OTG support is a hardware specification on your mobile device and cannot be resolved using updates of any kind.
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DHS to States: Pleeease Spend This Money!
Here's a window onto the upside‐down way government spending works. The Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to states begging them to spend federally provided money on implementing REAL ID, the national ID law.
"DHS is regularly asked by members of Congress, as well as the Office of Management and Budget, if these funds are needed by the states, and whether these funds should be reallocated to other efforts," writes Juliette Kayyam of DHS' Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. "As both the states and the Federal government face increasingly tough budgeting decisions, it is more important than ever that these available funds be utilized."
That's right: Tough budget times make it imperative to spend more money.
States don't want to implement REAL ID, and the American people don't want a national ID, but the DHS bureaucracy is rattling cages to try to get money spent purely for the sake of spending. It's flabbergasting.


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MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2017--
International Inc. (NYSE: RPM) today announced that its USL Group
has acquired Ekspan
Holdings Limited, a provider of movement control products and services
for bridges and major structures. Headquartered in Sheffield, United
Kingdom, Ekspan has annual net sales in excess of $10 million. Terms of
the transaction, which is expected to be accretive to earnings within
one year, were not disclosed.
Established in 1990, Ekspan designs, manufactures and installs a range
of specialty bridge bearings and expansion joints, as well as custom
engineered solutions for bridges, high-rise buildings, wind turbines and
other structures. Its products are used for new construction projects,
as well as the refurbishment and replacement of existing installations.
Among its high-profile projects is the iconic London Tower Bridge.
The acquiring entity, UK-based Universal
Sealants (UK) Limited, is a specialist civil engineering and
construction company focusing on bridges, tunnels, car parks, rail,
airports and utility projects globally. It manufactures, supplies
and installs construction products including bridge expansion joints,
waterproofing membranes, protective coatings, structural drainage
solutions, as well as a range of grouts, mortars, sealants and adhesives.
Ekspan is the third bolt-on acquisition for USL over the past 15 months.
The others were U.S.-based businesses Prime
Resins, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and equipment for
infrastructure construction and repair, and Applied
Polymerics, Inc., a specialist civil engineering and construction
organization focused on bridges, roads and major structures.
"Ekspan provides an opportunity to broaden USL's product offerings to
include bearings for large structural movement control. By leveraging
USL's wide geographic footprint, there are substantial opportunities to
increase Ekspan's sales beyond its established customer base, especially
in international markets," stated Frank C. Sullivan, RPM chairman and
chief executive officer. "Ekspan's energetic management team will
continue to run the business and drive its growth."
About RPM
RPM International Inc. owns subsidiaries that are world leaders in
specialty coatings, sealants, building materials and related services
across three segments. RPM's industrial products include roofing
systems, sealants, corrosion control coatings, flooring coatings and
other construction chemicals. Industrial companies include Stonhard,
Chemical and RPM
Belgium Vandex. RPM's consumer products are used by professionals
and do-it-yourselfers for home maintenance and improvement and by
hobbyists. Consumer brands include Rust-Oleum,
and Testors.
RPM's specialty products include industrial cleaners, colorants,
exterior finishes, specialty OEM coatings, edible coatings, restoration
services equipment and specialty glazes for the pharmaceutical and food
industries. Specialty segment companies include Day-Glo,
Wood Finishes, Mantrose-Haeuser,
Brands, Kop-Coat
and TCI.
Additional details can be found at www.rpminc.com
and by following RPM on Twitter at www.twitter.com/RPMintl.
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global markets and general economic conditions, including uncertainties
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Lesson 13
* December 20 - 26
A Picture of God
THIS WEEK BEGINS THE END of our study on Jonah. Hard to believe the book itself is only 48 verses. But brevity shouldn't be mistaken for shallowness. On the contrary, some of the most profound concepts in Scripture can be expressed quite succinctly ("God is love," for instance). The book of Jonah might be short, but its message touches themes we'll spend eternity trying to fathom.
Of those themes, however, the most amazing is God's grace. We really can't appreciate it fully, because we really can't see just how fallen we are. The very thing we use to understand the world and our place in it is our mindsand our minds, more than anything else, have been tainted by sin. It's like asking someone in the midst of a drunken stupor to explain the evil of alcohol use. Nevertheless, God has revealed enough to us so we can learn to love Him and to express that love in faith and obedience, which is all He asks.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE: What does the book of Jonah teach about God's forgiveness? About His power over the world? How does it reveal God's desire to have a personal relationship with us? What role does morality play in Jonah or in the Bible, as a whole?
MEMORY TEXT: " 'Comfort, O comfort My people' says your God. 'Speak kindly to Jerusalem; and call out to her, that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins' " (Isaiah 40:1, 2, NASB).
*Please study this weeks lesson to prepare for Sabbath, December 27.
Sunday December 21
The book of Jonah has something in common with all the biblical books: None of them ever tries to prove the existence of God. Not one of them ever expresses any doubt that God exists. Nor do they merely speak of Him out of their imaginations. Instead, without hesitancy, they fill the pages of Scripture with detailed pictures of God in action within human history. The book of Jonah is part of this vast panorama.
And one picture, drawn very clearly from this book, is seen all through the Bible (however uniquely presented in Jonah): our God's willingness to forgive. God is always surprising human beings in His capacity and inclination to forgive. Jonah, as with so many people, has a hard time grasping this profound aspect of God's character. It must be a difficult thing for sinful human beings to appreciate God's radical grace. In the New Testament, the four Gospels frequently recount that God is far more generous with His forgiveness than most of us think.
How do the following words of Jesus illustrate this aspect of God's character; that is, His willingness to forgive?
Matt. 7:7-11 ________________________________________________________________________
Matt. 20:1-16 _______________________________________________________________________
Luke 15:11-32 ______________________________________________________________________
The book of Jonah presents a profound picture of God's forgiveness. Perhaps this is the reason it is read by Jewish people at Minchah, the afternoon service of the Day of Atonement, near the holiest hour when Yom Kippur is nearing its peak. In the final hours, when judgment is about to close, the book of Jonah is opened, with its powerful emphasis on God's mercy.
|Do you harbor anger? Does it seethe within you (and maybe with good reason too)? How can dwelling on Jesus and His attitude of forgiveness help? Also, how can concentrating on what God has forgiven you for help you to learn to forgive others?
I n the book of Jonah, we are dramatically reminded that the extent of God's sovereignty is far more vast than merely a narrow focus on only believers. Even the pagan mariners of chapter 1 recognize the power of the "great storm" involves more than just natural causes, and it draws their attention to the great God of heaven and earth.
Without exception, all the Bible writers allow no serious point of comparison between the true God and any false gods. The decisive and powerful actions of Yahweh are seen throughout Scripture in stark contrast to all other gods, which are no gods at all.
Review, again, the attributes of God's power over nature that are portrayed in the book of Jonah. Then read Isaiah 40. In what ways do we see the Lord do some things in the book of Jonah that are expressed about Him in Isaiah 40?
Notice especially verses 26 and 28 in Isaiah 40, because they both make references to the Lord's creative power. It is because He is the Creator and the Sustainer that He has such control over the world. Hard as it might be for us to see at times, particularly in times of pain, turmoil, and suffering, we, nevertheless, have the assurance that our God is ultimately in control. We also have the promise that, in the end, He will make all things right, if not now and not in this life then in the life to comethe one life, that really matters, because it's eternal, while our existence here is only a vapor.
There's so much we just don't, and can't, understand. That's how it always has been. But what the Lord teaches us through His Word and also in the story of Jonah is that however much we don't understand, we can know enough about God, about His character, about His power, and, most important, about His love that we can trust Him enough to love Him and stay faithful to our divine calling, which will allow Him to work in us so others can learn about Him and His love, as well. Only to the degree that we love and trust Him can He do this through us.
|Wherever you live, as far as possible, step outside, read Isaiah 40 out loud, and look at the marvels of creation. What do you see, and what does it tell you about the power of God?
However different the book of Jonah is from other books of the Bible, its message is consistent with them. And like the others, Jonah is very clear that God is a moral God, that the Lord has a standard of morality that applies to all the world. However differently the Lord might judge people, depending upon how much light they've had, the world will, nevertheless, be judged by God's standard of righteousness.
Look up these texts. What is the essential message in them? How do these texts relate to the story of Jonah? Pss. 9:8; 96:10, 13; 98:9; Acts 17:31; Rom. 3:6.
In all of Scripture, religion and morality are related in the closest possible way. The Bible knows nothing of morality apart from religion (the idea that you can have morality apart from religion is a modern one). In Scripture, we find God consistently evaluating human history on a moral basis, no matter which person and no matter which people group. This makes perfect sense, because just as He created all human beings, He has placed them all under His moral order, as well.
Note how God speaks of Egypt and of the Amorites in Genesis 15:13-16. What is implied in these words regarding not only the moral state of these pagan nations but their own personal responsibility for their moral actions?
In the book of Jonah, we observe further that even the wicked Ninevites, when falling under the judgment of God, were convicted of the correctness of God's sentence. Even more, a relationship with God in the book of Jonah, as in all Scripture, is expressed in a moral life. "Walking uprightly" before the Lord is a common expression in Scripture for moral living. The importance of doing righteousness is constantly stressed throughout the entire canon.
|As Seventh-day Adventists, we've often heard the statement made to us by other Christians, "Well, the law was done away with at the Cross," meaning, of course, that we no longer need to keep the Sabbath commandment. In light of today's study, in particular (not to mention the Bible, as a whole), why is that statement so erroneous? What would it mean if the law were done away with?
God is pictured involved in personal relationships in the book of Jonah. He is not just an abstract idea or some vague impersonal power. Neither is He a distant Being, barely involved with the people on this earth. Nor is He a cosmic dictator who seeks uncomprehending, speechless submission on the part of His subjects. All through Scripture, we find Him pleading and reasoning with human beings. One whole chapter in the book of Jonah is a conversation between God and Jonah. In many ways, the whole life of Jesus was a manifestation of God coming down and talking face-to-face with us.
Look up each of the following texts, in which God is speaking to people. What, if anything, do they have in common?
Gen. 4:1-7 ______________________________________________________________________
Exod. 3:1-8 _____________________________________________________________________
Job 38-41 _______________________________________________________________________
Jonah 4 ________________________________________________________________________
Acts 9:3-8 ______________________________________________________________________
Notice, in every one of these examples, God is seeking either to warn, to inform, to teach, or to reveal Himself and His love to sinful human beings. What these accounts show us is that God deals with us as we are, beings with free wills who need to be wooed away from evil choices or, in the cases of Cain and Jonah, of wrong attitudes, which can be an evil choice, just as well. In all these examples, we see a Lord who is working only for the benefit of humanity, the same Lord who is working in our behalf today, as well. Again, what's amazing is to think of the size of the universe, at least the known universe (there's so much out there we don't even know about), and then to realize that the God who created all this wants to enter into a personal relationship with us! It is a thought that defies the imagination.
If someone were to ask you, How can I have a personal relationship with the Lord? how would you answer? What are a few of the crucial steps we must take in order to have that relationship?
The God of the Old Testament, who sought a personal relationship with human beings, is the same God of the New Testament. This is clearly seen through the life and ministry of Jesus.
A preacher once described it like this: Imagine you are watching a group of ants cross a street. Knowing that they are going to be squished by the first vehicle that comes down the road, you stand above them and shout, "Hey, ants, get out of the road!" More than likely, it wouldn't work. So, instead, you become an ant, get down on their level, and, speaking their language, lead them from the path of destruction. A bit fanciful, yes, but it does make the point: Jesus became one of us in order to best communicate with us and, of course, in order to redeem us from the path of destruction.
What are some of the conversations of Jesus recorded in the Gospels? What do they all have in common? In other words, what was Jesus seeking to do in each of these conversations?
Matt. 19:16-22 ___________________________________________________________________
Mark 7:24-37 ___________________________________________________________________
John 3:1-21 _____________________________________________________________________
John 4:1-27 _____________________________________________________________________
Christ gives human beings time and room to listen thoughtfully and answer honestly. He allows people to dispute His Word or simply not to listen. He never communicates in a way that forces anyone to assent. That's simply not God's way. He wants us to obey Him because we love Him, and love cannot be forced.
In the book of Jonah, the Old Testament reaches one of its loftiest points of revealing God in His relationship to creation and history and His tender concern for all His creatures.
With God's final question to Jonah-Should I not pity Nineveh, and what about the animals?-we find one of the most amazing biblical glimpses of the Personhood of God and His entanglement in our human situation. What Jonah tells us is what all the Bible tells us:
We are not alone. Our God cares, however difficult it might seem to appear to us on the surface. But that's part of the problem. We see only on the surface. The Bible has been given to help us see, in a sense, the formula behind the ferment.
Divine love has been stirred to its unfathomable depths for the sake of men, and angels marvel to behold in the recipients of so great love a mere surface gratitude. Angels marvel at man's shallow appreciation of the love of God. Heaven stands indignant at the neglect shown to the souls of men. Would we know how Christ regards it? How would a father and mother feel, did they know that their child, lost in the cold and the snow, had been passed by, and left to perish, by those who might have saved it? Would they not be terribly grieved, wildly indignant? Would they not denounce those murderers with wrath hot as their tears, intense as their love? The sufferings of every man are the sufferings of God's child, and those who reach out no helping hand to their perishing fellow beings provoke His righteous anger. This is the wrath of the Lamb."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 825.
"The Lord is in active communication with every part of His vast dominions. He is represented as bending toward the earth and its inhabitants. He is listening to every word that is uttered. He hears every groan; He listens to every prayer; He observes the movements of every one."Ellen G. White, My Life Today, p. 292.
"In Christ is the tenderness of the shepherd, the affection of the parent, and the matchless grace of the compassionate Saviour. His blessings He presents in the most alluring terms. He is not content merely to announce these blessings; He presents them in the most attractive way, to excite a desire to possess them. So His servants are to present the riches of the glory of the unspeakable Gift."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 826.
SUMMARY: Let us praise God that He's more kind, loving, and forgiving than we as human beings are.
J. H. Zachary
Valli faced a huge problem. For years her husband had been falling ever deeper into alcoholism. Often she suffered great pain from his drunken blows. Valli and her children often tried to escape his drunken wrath. When an evangelistic meeting was advertised in her village she decided to attend.
This was a difficult decision because the political party that administered her village was determined that everyone should support the national religion. Her attendance brought extra burdens to her personal life. Those who attended were forbidden to draw water from the village well. Valli had to walk more than a mile (two kilometers) to fetch water. However, as she began to experience a new outlook on life, the long hike for water became bearable.
As Valli surrendered her life to Jesus, her life took on new directions. Old ways of thinking and acting disappeared. The Holy Spirit was performing a spiritual miracle in her life. Her drunkard husband began to see these changes in his wife and was impressed by the power of the God that Valli so often referred to.
Out of the depths of discouragement Valli's husband accompanied his wife to the evangelistic service. His life began to change. When the couple's six adult children saw what was happening to their parents, they, too, began to attend. The entire family has been baptized.
Villagers were deeply impressed by the power of Jesus to change lives. The prejudice against Christians began to wane.
Then a 6-year-old boy fell ill. The family could not afford medical care, so they turned to the visiting teachers for help. The team gathered around the child in earnest prayer, and he was healed. The boy's miraculous recovery changed the attitude of the people in the village. Attendance at the meetings grew, and as the meetings progressed, a baptismal class was organized.
Today there is a new church with 70 believers in this village.
Valli (left). J. H. Zachary is coordinator of international evangelism for The Quiet Hour.
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Two new tractors join the compact and utility tractor lines from TYM, which stands for the South Korean manufacturer Tong Yang Moolsan.
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The whole McGruff incident still makes us both laugh and cry. You couldn't make such a preposterous story up. It's even more unimaginable that Shawn Brim could get his job back!
We wanted to follow up with Metro about just exactly what it takes to become a WMATA man and how many people apply for open positions as bus drivers.
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To describe him as a visceral painter is to suggest that Walker is involved in the landscape in a physical way. His paintings involve us, the viewers, in a very physical way. His paintings are about seeing - they embody an ever-present sense of curiosity and responsiveness. Yet they are also about feeling, what it is like to be there. Like all truly authentic landscape art we feel that the artist has experienced things, and he points them out, yet it is nature itself that speaks to us, both of its presence and its strangeness.
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For some time now, Nikon has been one of the only major manufacturers to not carry an ultrazoom in their lineup. That all changed today with the announcement of the new 18x zoom Nikon Coolpix P80.
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Sporting a look familiar to Nikon's other P-series advanced amateur offerings and using much of the technology already seen in other P models, the 10.1 megapixel P80's impressive Nikkor zoom covers an equivalent range of 27-486mm. For a lens of this focal length, Nikon's Vibration Reduction optical image stabilization system isn't just a nicety, but indeed a necessity.
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In addition to an electronic viewfinder, the P80 comes equipped with a 2.7-inch, 230K-dot wide-view LCD. D-Lighting dynamic range correction, Face Priority AF that can detect up to 12 faces, and in-camera red-eye correction have all come to be expected for cameras in this class.
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On Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, Hong Kong Day was celebrated at the American Film Market (AFM). A series of events was put on by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) to put a spotlight on the benefit of co-productions in Hong Kong.
Day began with a ceremonial ribbon cutting at the entrance of the Loews Hotel, followed by a seminar about co-producing in Hong Kong and the China market, and a cocktail reception for invited guests.
"Given the success of our first Hong Kong Day at AFM last year, we are once again thrilled to highlight the vibrant film industry in Hong Kong and its role as an important route into both the Chinese mainland and Asian markets," HKTDC Regional Director of Americas, Louis Ho, said. "The influx of American companies at this year's FILMART, led by the efforts of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, and from first-time exhibitors representing Cambodia, Iceland, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, provided a nearly 9% increase in exhibitors. We look forward to expanding our relationships with the global film community even further in the coming year and exploring new co-production opportunities."