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By William Markiewicz
Lets imagine a sci-fi scenario in which intelligent microbes take over the world. What's the first thing they'd do? They would eliminate hygiene. It would be a logical step in the microbes' interests, right?
We favor spreading the virus of terror by impeding sanitation in rotten political situations. The Dalai Lama has warned that the only efficient way to struggle against terrorism is to eliminate the frustrations that lead to it. Instead of falling for the PR experts' brainwashing about "unavoidable shock of cultures", why don't we listen to the obvious wisdom emanating from those "exotic" cultures? After all, the Dalai Lama and many others speak of prevention. Why don't we use this familiar notion of hygiene in politics as well?
Throughout history we gave preference to our beliefs over perceived reality. We catch the cat by the tail and we're surprised that it bites. Our culture, science, civilization haven't freed us from the rooted belief that history is a fight between good and evil, and our side is the good of course. We continue to believe in this demagogical notion of " cultures shock." The terrorist attack against America was not an attack against the 'American Satan' (science fiction) but to break American support for Likud's policy.
Lets look more closely at this cliche slogan that hypnotizes public opinion in the West: 'the goal of the Islamic masses, fanaticized by their clergy, is to destroy Western civilization.' To start, Iraq doesn't fit the formula; the fundamentalists-but-good Muslim allies of the USA consider Saddam Hussein an atheist, which he perhaps is. When peace finally came to Iraq after Saddam's disastrous Kuwait campaign, the people celebrated on the streets of Baghdad, drinking alcohol from bottles in front of TV cameras. Not very Islamic, is it? The women have free access to education and to all professions. Illiteracy has been eliminated. Where is "the alien culture?" In Saddam's dictatorship? So were Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar... His problems started when he attacked American interests in Kuwait. He opened a Pandora's Box and the smell of his oil fields now draws the attention of the NWO. "Iraq has to be nuked (and Iran, and Syria...), because they are too powerful..." Would Iraq be safer if armed with bows and arrows? It reminds me of a children's poem about the spider who explains: "Why do I hate the flies? Because they have wings..."
Lets talk now about this dangerous Islamic power represented by various phantom-like organizations and their phantom-like leaders. Phantom-like, because they are established nowhere and can appear everywhere. This lack of specific location gives opportunity to attack them according to the NWO's whim. In the end, the reasons for striking have little to do with fighting terror but more to do with the political "terraforming" of the planet. If the USA seriously considered the fight against terror, it wouldn't openly support Likud's hardline. For the American politicians, terror, no matter how spectacular, will always be a mosquito bite. Israel cannot live under constant terror. If, with Likud, they continue to ignite it, it's because "the Jews have always been bad politicians" as Marshall Pilsudski used to say.
Lets look at another question: how strongly rooted are those fundamentalist organizations in the Islamic world? Much less than the official Western propaganda claims. Culturally we're all Americanized, no matter the geography. The masses just wait for an opportunity to reveal their true face. In Europe the masses were united around the Church, resisting unpopular regimes, especially under Communism. Once Communism fell, the Church lost the masses' support. In the times of idyllic negotiations between Rabin and Arafat, the Islamists had no power whatever. The Israeli Taliban who killed Rabin and the acts of Likud and settler commandos have ignited a spectacular resurrection of Islamism and terror, and not vice versa. Once the settler commandos disappear from where they shouldn't be, the ghosts of terror will disintegrate almost overnight. In my opinion the relief of the Palestinian masses will be stronger than their hatred and desire for vengeance. After all, nobody wants to see their beloved ones become kamikaze. But because of the NWO and their PR experts, everything will remain as it is, and the "forces of good" will continue political terraforming of the planet's face.Back to the index of the Vagabond


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An anonymous donor has donated an undisclosed sum of money to Singapore's first Olympic medallist Tan Howe Liang. In a MediaCorp exclusive last December, it was reported that Mr Tan's wife had undergone surgery for breast cancer and the subsequent treatment had set the family back by almost S$100,000.
Now an anonymous donor has come forward to present the former weightlifter with an undisclosed sum of money. The contribution was facilitated by the Singapore National Olympic Council, which said the amount given was sufficient to meet Mr Tan's needs. Other parties had earlier expressed interest in wanting to help the Olympic hero.
NTUC FairPrice is looking into an ambassador role for the 77-year-old to promote healthy living and active ageing. An announcement on this could be made soon, said the company's chairman Ng Ser Miang.
Mr Tan became Singapore's first Olympic medallist when he won a silver in weightlifting at the 1960 Rome Games. He currently works for the Singapore Sports Council as a gym supervisor. The Olympians Singapore, an exclusive group of former and current athletes, also recently said they are planning to raise funds for the former athlete.

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This article is about declarative programming in python and intended for consumption by humans. If you're wondering what declarative means, then go back and re-read the first sentence until it sinks in. In a world where we can do everything declaratively, the rest of the article would've wrote itself, after finishing the first sentence.
As you might have guessed by now, or known already, declarative programming has something to do with declaring intentions and getting back the expected results. In contrast, imperative programming is about stating how a task should be done, and the results, whether the expected or not, are just a side-effect.
With declarative programming or languages, you don't care about how something is done. You declare what the result should be, and the details of how that happens, would, or rather should, stay for the most part out of your sight.
Let's explore with an example. If you've ever used Django even for a little bit, you must've came across its database models models module. In Django, models are declared in the following manner:
from django.db import models
class Person(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
This is an example of declarative programming that you might have done without noticing. You have a Person, who in turn has two character fields. A
first_name and a
last_name. Now, for a good many reasons you wanted to make sure that each of these fields would not surpass a certain
max_length of characters. Instead of manually doing the validation, you simply tell Django what
max_length should be. In this case 30.
Wikipedia describes declarative programming as "a style of building structure and elements of computer programs, that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow."
Query languages are as a matter of course declarative. They abstract away the details of how an action is taken, and focus solely on what it should entail. That Django models are declarative should come as no surprise.
But where do we draw the lines between imperative and declarative? When is a program/language declarative and when is it not? don't all computer languages require an implementation, that exactly tells the computer how to do things? doesn't that make everything imperative? The short answers to those questions are: hard, hard, yes, no. In no specific order.
Let's put this theoretical-walk on the side for a bit and consider the practicalities instead. We'll do that by walking through the implementation of what inspired this article in the first place. Bluew is a BLE library for python that I work on. It offers the user amongst others what can be considered a declarative API. One which can be used to declare other APIs.
Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE devices share some properties with the common database, and in fact even carry one with them. Each BLE device has a set of attributes that can be discovered, read and written by other devices. The ATT, for attribute, protocol governs the rules of these interactions. And GATT, for Generic Attribute Profile, - a framework on top of ATT - makes services, and characteristics out of these attributes. This makes it easier to reason about what each attribute means.
By using Bluew, a hardware developer can quickly and on the go create an API for their device, without bothering with any of the implementation details. Here's a real example:
from bluew.rapid import RapidAPI, Read, Write
from typing import Tuple
class MyoArmband(RapidAPI):
battery_level = Read(BATTERY_SERVICE_UUID)
vibrate = Write(CONTROL_SERVICE, accept_vals=VALID_VIB_VALUES)
set_mode = Write(CONTROL_SERVICE, accept_vals=VALID_MODES)
set_colors = Write(COLOR_SERVICE, accept_types=Tuple[int, int, int])
emg_subscribe = Notify(CONTROL_SERVICE, EMG_CHRCS)
That was all it took to create a simplified API for the Myo Armband, which doesn't have official support for Linux.
>>> from myo import MyoArmband, STRONG_VIB
>>> myo = MyoArmband('xx:xx:xx:xx:xx')
>>> myo.battery_level
>>> myo.vibrate(STRONG_VIB)
Looks cool, but how does this thing actually work?
This uses a not very well known python feature. Descriptors. The python documentation says that, "In general, a descriptor is an object attribute with "binding behavior", one whose attribute access has been overridden by methods in the descriptor protocol. Those methods are __get(), __set(), and __delete__(). If any of those methods are defined for an object, it is said to be a descriptor."
Let's break down that paragraph into smaller pieces.
Object attribute. An attribute in an object which can be accessed and
modified with
object.attribute and
object.attribute = x. That means that the functionality of
the descriptor can only be used, if the descriptor is an attribute of another object or class.
Binding behavior. This means that our descriptor object has overridden one of the magic methods
that define how an object is accessed or modified. By using a custom
__get__(), we can override
what the expression
object.attribute returns; By overriding
__set__(), we control how an object
is assigned to,
object.attribute = x; and by overriding
__delete__(), we can change the
behavior of
del object.attribute.
Here's the classical OOP example of a Point object:
class Point:
"""A 3D Point object"""
def __init__(self, x: int, y: int, z: int) -> None:
self.x: int = x
self.y: int = y
self.z: int = z
and here's how we can make that Point a descriptor:
class Point:
"""A 3D Point object, that is also a descriptor"""
def __init__(self, x: int, y: int, z: int) -> None:
self.x: int = x
self.y: int = y
self.z: int = z
def __get__(self, obj, type=None) -> Any:
Out Point descriptor doesn't do much, but let's see how we can use it anyway:
>>> class Polygon:
... """Just a Polygon"""
... position = Point(0, 0, 0)
>>> polygon = Polygon()
>>> print(polygon.position)
If you're wondering why
polygon.position is returning
None, then go back to
our second version of
Point and look at the
__get__() method. We've overridden
it and just put
pass there, which is the equivalent of
return None. When we
polygon.position python sees that our attribute is a descriptor, and gives
our custom function control of the action instead.
Descriptors come in two flavors. Those which define both
__get__() and
__set__() are called data descriptors, and those which don't are called
non-data descriptors.
Now that we know how we can override attribute access and modification, let's see how bluew uses those features to offer a declarative API.
The first object we have is a
RapidAPI class which does noting other than keeping
Connection object as an attribute. The reason for going this way instead of
simply using
Connection is because we wanna hide the low-level methods, that our API
should not expose.
class RapidAPI:
All declarative bluew APIs should inherent from this class.
def __init__(self, mac: str) -> None:
self.con = Connection(mac)
Next in line is the
Read descriptor.
class Read(object):
This descriptor should be used to declare a readable attribute.
def __init__(self, uuid: str) -> None:
self.uuid = uuid
def __get__(self, instance: RapidAPI, owner):
return instance.con.read_attribute(self.uuid)
This is simple as well, all it does is take the
uuid of the attribute we want
our user to access, and override
__get__() to call the
read_attribute method from
Connection. If this is too fast, or doesn't make
sense go back to the
MyoArmband class from the top, and you should be able to
see the point clearer.
class Write:
This descriptor should be used to declare a function that takes input
and writes it to an attribute. for example:
class FooAPI(RapidAPI):
do_some_bar = Write('UUID_HERE', accept=['valid1', 'valid2'])
foo_api = FooAPI('xx:xx:xx:xx:xx')
foo_api.do_some_bar('valid1') # works!
foo_api.do_some_bar('notvalid') # Raises ValueError
def __init__(self, uuid: str, accept: Iterable = None) -> None:
self.uuid = uuid
self.accept = accept
def __get__(self, instance: RapidAPI, owner) -> Callable:
return lambda val: self._write(instance, val)
def _write(self, instance: RapidAPI, val) -> None:
if self.accept and val not in self.accept:
raise ValueError('Valued passed is not valid input.')
instance.con.write_attribute(self.uuid, val)
This one looks slightly more complicated, but that's just because it's
more code than what we're used to by now.
Write like
Read takes a
for the attribute, and on top of that an optional iterable
accept. And just like
Read it also overrides the
__get__() method, but instead of returning a value
it returns a function, which validates its input based on the values in
If you've read the code thoroughly you might be wondering why we're passing
instance to
_write and why we don't use
self instead, and the reason for that
is that
self is the descriptor instance, and
instance is the instance of the calling
object. If we'd write data to
self, we might, and would at some point, end up with unexpected problems, since the same descriptor is shared between all instances of the class that has it. So instead of adding that to our debugging bill, we just propagate the
instance argument to the function we wanna return, by using a
I'm craving that declarative text-editor more and more as this article gets longer and longer, but before I set you free running with descriptors, let's quickly go through the descriptor protocol again, but in a more organized manner.
def __get__(self, instance, owner) -> val: receives
self, which is the instance of the descriptor itself;
owner, which is the class where the descriptor was declared; and
instance, which is the instance of the
owner class, that accessed the descriptor.
def __set__(self, instance, value) -> None: receives
self, which is the instance of the descriptor itself;
instance, which is the instance of the
owner class, that accessed the descriptor; and
value, which is the value that was passed in
obj.desc = value.
def __del__(self, instance) -> None: receives
self, which is the instance of the descriptor itself;
instance, which is the instance of the
owner class, that accessed the descriptor.
This is as far as we'll go with this article. If you're interested in writing declarative code, and see the value in using descriptors for that, I encourage you to read the official python documentation. Feel free to contact me directly with questions, comments, and fore and foremost complaints.
UPDATE: Check Declarative Programming with Python II for a comparison between our
Myo class written declaratively vs imperatively.


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For the third consecutive day, incessant rain disrupted trains and traffic in Mumbai prompting the government to declare a Monday holiday for schools and colleges. It is the highest rainfall of the season so far in 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department said. Weathermen are expecting more rain in the next four days. Waterlogging was reported in several low-lying areas and traffic crawled in Kurla, Dadar, Sion and the suburbs. Traffic diversions and updates about trains running late are being continuously posted on social media. As the visibility remains poor, the Mumbai Police have asked people to drive safe.
- After a rain-drenched weekend, the financial capital of India woke up to third straight day of intense downpour. Weather officials have warned of heavy rainfall till Friday.
- "Heavy rains forecast, everyone is advised to stay safe," Vinod Tawde, Education Minister of Maharashtra tweeted. "Precautionary holiday declared for schools and colleges in the Mumbai metropolitan region, for the safety of the students due to the heavy rainfall," he added.
- Flooded railway tracks delayed a dozen long-distance trains, while suburban trains, the city's lifeline, were also hit, railway officials said. The Western Railway's Twitter handle continuously informed passengers about the status of trains. The services of AC local are expected to resume from Churchgate at 2.55 pm.
- "Trains on Central Railway are running on all three lines. However, on main line between kalwa and Thane it moving slowly as a precautionary measure because of very heavy rains and water above 8 inch. Senior officials are stationed at these stations for quick management on spot," a tweet by Central Railways said.
- The Monday traffic had a hard time as heavy rainfall along with poor visibility caused snarls and people were seen wading through knee-deep water. Cab rides became expensive and the wait time also went up.
- Visuals of waterlogging in several low-lying areas such as Dadar, Sion, Parel, Kurla, Vidyavihar, Andheri, Malad and Jogeshwari suburbs were shared on social media.
- The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) buses were seen stuck in long jams. However, no service has been cancelled or suspended, a BEST spokesperson said.
- Even as visibility wasn't "very good" at the Mumbai airport, flights operations weren't disrupted, an official said, adding no warning has been issued for the aviation sector so far.
- In the past 24 hours, Mumbai received an average of 144.3 mm rains, making it one of the wettest spells in the current monsoon. The city received 144.47 mm of rain, the eastern suburbs got 107.21 mm and the western suburbs received 131.32 mm till 8.30 this morning. The entire coastal belt will get heavy rain over the next 48 hours, weathermen said.
- The India Meteorological Department Mumbai's deputy director general KS Hosalikar said the intensity of rains in neighbouring districts of Palghar, Raigad and some parts in the south Konkan region was even more "vigorous" with these areas receiving 200 mm rainfall since yesterday.
Source: NDTV


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You don't have to visit many "how-to" resources on penetration testing before you read something about Kali Linux, often just called Kali. It is one of the most common and accessible suites of pen testing tools available today. In fact, Kali has pretty much become synonymous with pen testing and hacking.
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Most online casinos these days offer free spins on sign up as part of their welcome package. In addition to deposit bonuses, no deposit bonuses and other freebies, free spins are still part of the whole shebang. No-deposit bonuses have a unique look, but there is also much to be said for the free spins. In particular, where free spins are delivered, reduced by the usual OTT wager. Limitations are to be expected, but there are some free-spin offers out there that are more than worth the effort.
The question – where do you find them?
When the Free Spins Are Free
As a seasoned casino gamer knows that the term "free" gets thrown around a little too loosely in this industry. Head to just about any online casino in the now and you will be bombarded with 'free' and 'free'. However, In most cases, free is not quite as free as it seems.
In the case of free spins, you could say that a spin handed out with no payment on your part qualifies as free. In that case, the only real free spins are the ones that are part of a no-deposit bonus offer. That, and a bonus offer available to the customer, without having to first transfer money to their account.
The good news is that no-deposit bonus offers are becoming more common than ever before. Designed to appeal to new customers and attract subscribers, it's simply a case of signing up and claim the bonus of the deposit, respectively. In most cases, you'll likely find to a maximum of £10 in bonus money, and maybe 10 or 20 free spins.
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The Link between Ability and Specialization: An Explanation for Observed Correlations between Wages and Mobility Rates.
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Moon Medallion by Richard Hunt
This artwork has no map information.
|Artwork Description
|One of three decorative manhole covers; casting by Achinback Industries and Foundry.
|Artwork Statement
|I think the Moon design is most suitable to the site because it is a happy design that makes people smile.
About Richard Hunt
|Born 1951, Alert Bay, BC
|Artist Bio
|For most of his life, artist Richard Hunt has lived in Victoria. When he was 13, his father, the late Henry Hunt, began teaching him the skills of carving. After apprenticing under his father at the Royal British Columbia Museum for a year, Richard became chief carver for the Thunderbird Park Carving Program. In 1986 Richard decided to try his hand at being a freelance artist. In 1991, Richard became the first Native artist to receive the Order of British Columbia, "in recognition of serving with the greatest distinction and excellence in a field of endeavor benefiting the people of the Province of British Columbia and elsewhere." Only three years later, in 1994, he was awarded the distinguished Order of Canada. Richard Hunt has had many gallery showings in both Canada and the US, and has completed numerous private commissions. In 2004, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Victoria (the same degree was given to his father, Henry Hunt, in 1983). Richard has also contributed many hours and his artistic talents to various charities, including Big Brothers Big Sisters Victoria, Canadian Diabetes, and Orcas in the City for the Lion's Society of BC.
|Artist Resume
|1991: Order of B.C. 1994: Order of Canada 2001: Honorary Citizen of Victoria Award 2002: Golden Jubilee Medal 2004: Elected to the membership of the Royal Academy of Arts; received Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria
|Artist Website
|Artwork Type
|Site Integrated
|Unveiled date
|April 28, 2002
|596 mm diameter
|Reference #
|In sidewalks, between Hillside and Bay on Quadra Street.
|Art Category
|Civic Public Art
|Selection Process
|Civic: By Jury - Open Competition
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Smoother running. Reduced injury risk. Take in more oxygen. Stimulate mitochondria and red blood cells. You'll race faster for a given effort...with relatively few sessions.
One of the aims of interval training is to get the body used to running fast for a long (overall) period of time. Interval work allows you to do huge amounts of mileage at fast training pace--yet without wearing yourself out. Achieve the target speed, then emphasize improving endurance at that speed. Add about half a mile of reps each time you do a particular session. For instance, a nine session program might look like this. 12 times 300 meters at two mile pace 10 x 400 meters at 5k pace 8 x 600 meters at 5k pace 15 x 300 at two mile pace 10 x 400 ONE second per rep faster than 5k pace 10 x 600 at 5k pace either 18 x 300 at two mile pace; or, 15 but with a shorter recovery 10 x 400 at two mile pace (2 seconds a lap faster than 5k pace) 12 x 600 at 5k pace Note how each distance progresses in a different way. Only you and your body can set the limit on the number of reps. Each time you increase the speed of your reps, a greater proportion of the repetition is anaerobic. As you get stronger; as your muscles get used to the new speed; as your body learns to process more oxygen, (with a nudge from your steady runs), it becomes more aerobic. Over a series of interval sessions, the anaerobic training changes to aerobic training: You will be able to race faster. You can make a conscious effort to run every fourth rep a second or two faster to break up the session. You need to avoid doing 400s or 200s week in, week out. Doing the same session will only make you good at running that session. The 200s and 300s do something for you which the 400s won't. Don't miss out on their benefits. Progress will be phenomenal for several sessions, but be prepared for it to slow as you get close to your potential--the potential at your current level of training. Keep the speed of reps in a proper relationship to your race pace. Running 200s at your best 1500 or mile speed will be useful; do the 300s at 3,000 meters (or two mile) pace; do 400s at 5,000 meters pace. Gradually increase the speed of 400s to run 3000 meter pace. Aim towards 6,000 meters worth in each interval session.
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A.. You reduce overall mileage by 20-50 percent over 5 to 15 days. You do less each day as you get closer to the half marathon race.
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Project results will be widely disseminated according to Communication and Visibility Strategy. We see a crucial role of Ukrainian joint-coordinator as a significant support in its clearly defined (underneath) tasks, especially in comprehensive, sound and feasible visibility strategy as well as in operating this large scale project, which is administratively so challenging activity. Much expectations is laid to support from associates – ministries of (higher) education in all EaP countries declaring their support in areas of academic recognition and TG3 (original letters with clear commitments are attached).
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The designated hitter had three hits and four RBIs.
CINNAMINSON — George DeMirjian serves as Cinnaminson's designated hitter. It's a role he settled into comfortably Tuesday.
"It's all focus and approach at the plate — telling myself that the pitcher's not going to get me out," DeMirjian said. "Think that way and you're just going to rip the cover off the ball. Once you see it, spot it up. That's just how it goes."
DeMirjian made hitting look as simple as he explained with a 3-for-3 afternoon, including a double, and four RBIs.
The junior paced the Pirates' 10-hit attack in a convincing 11-4 victory over visiting Rancocas Valley in a Burlington County Scholastic League contest.
"We needed this one," said Cinnaminson coach Kevin Merrill, whose team evened its record at 2-2. "After the way we started (the season), we needed this one."
The Pirates dropped their first two contests to Shawnee and BCSL Patriot Division rival Bordentown by the mercy rule in five innings. They turned the tables Monday by blanking Pemberton 10-0.
"We had a very good approach at the plate yesterday and the guys carried it into today," Merrill said. "With the guys at the bottom of the order producing, that built up big innings."
After surrendering an unearned in the first, Cinnaminson responded by scoring four times in the bottom of the frame. Nick Sullivan's two-run double started the rally and DeMirjian capped it off with his RBI single.
Starting pitcher Justin Dever appreciated the early cushion.
"Knowing I had the team behind my back and we're hitting the ball well, I could relax a little bit and know I just had to do my job," said Dever, who went the distance in earning the win.
The Pirates added two more in the third on RBI singles by DeMirjian and Drew Colfer, who was filling in for the injured Joe Sireci. Hitting ninth, Colfer added three walks batting out of the nine hole.
The game got out of reach after Cinnaminson batted around in the sixth with DeMirJain plating two of the four runs.
Meanwhile, Dever maintained control on the mound.
"I was definitely feeling it, from warmups to the first inning. I was hitting my spots and that's my style of pitching," said Dever, a senior right-hander. "I mix up speeds and eye levels, outside-inside, and try to keep the hitter off balance."
Dever had high praise for his battery mate.
"Nick (Sullivan) is the man. He calls a great game," said Dever, who scattered nine hits with two walks and a strikeout. "Nick's the mind — I'm the arm."
One player who solved Dever was Red Devils junior Elijah Dickerson, who had three hits and a walk.
"I try to stay ahead in the count, look up the middle or look to go the opposite way," said Dickerson, whose Red Devils fell to 3-2. "We got to go out and work harder, stay on point and we'll come back next game."
The victory could prove to be a turning point for this year's squad.
"I graduated 12 guys — three that were everyday starters, one that was a spot starter and another with substantial innings," Merrill said. "This is a pretty young team. My message to them is we got to work hard and stay within yourselves."
And it came at the right time.
"This win is a huge momentum and confidence boost for us, especially heading into our rival Delran on Friday," said Dever.


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Jonathan Miller's classic production returns to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the director's ENO debut.
When Mimì knocks at the door of four impoverished friends, Rodolfo answers and it's love at first sight. Conducted by Alexander Joel, Puccini's moving score follows Mimì and Rodolfo's love unfolding from it's joyful beginnings to the heartbreak of her death.
Making their ENO debuts are Natalya Romaniw as Mimì and lyric tenor Jonathan Tetelman, singing the role of Rodolfo. With Nadine Benjamin as Musetta, David Soar as Colline and Harewood Artists Bozidar Smiljanic and Matthew Durkan sharing Schaunard, this Bohème promises to be an exceptional musical and theatrical treat.
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Reflections on a 20 year journey as a sessional academic
Last Wednesday was a big day. It was my last day of teaching for the semester but also the end of my 20 year sessional journey. I have decided not to continue this kind of work with universities.
This decision has not come lightly as it is not because I want to disengage from academic life. It is about value – feeling like my contribution is valuable and is of value to the organisation.
What I plan to do now is to continue to work with universities in different ways. I love the freedom of presenting papers, collaborating on research with academics and delivering workshops. In this context, I can see how my passion for making connections between knowledge systems can flourish and grow. That said, I would still accept a full-time role as a research academic. In a heartbeat.
Over the past twenty years I have had some wonderful experiences working as a sessional academic, working at some Australia's top universities including University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of Canberra and the Australian National University. I have worked with some amazing people. And some duds 🙂
It has not been an easy road. Any sessional academic will tell you that.
Break point came for me in late 2003. My teaching contract was downgraded from being paid as a tutor to a demonstrator (for the same work) and I had to continue as I did not have much option at the time. As a single parent heading into the Christmas holidays I was very fearful of not being able to manage financially. Thankfully a good friend made me realise that I have very transferable skills, encouraging me to put my name with recruitment agencies. Within a couple of weeks I had a full-time contract as a web publisher and then that contract rolled into another and another. By late 2004, I had secured a permanent role as a communications officer in a government department and have been in the public sector since.
But my true love was still teaching, so I continued to teach as a sessional academic with the support of my employer. It was a juggling act but one I believed was worth it.
To come to the decision that I will no longer pursue sessional work has been a really tough call. It is the end of a dream.
It was always my desire to work full-time as an academic but for one reason or another that has never manifested for me. In some ways, it is about my character – I could never cope with the jostling for position, the elbowing to get to the ever decreasing opportunities. In other words, I was not prepared to fight for the crumbs.
Now I could say a lot of very disparaging things (which are all true) about how sessional staff are treated – but I won't. I would much prefer to reflect on the time as an enriching experience where I hope I my have inspired one or two students along the way. They have certainly inspired me.
One of my highlights was at the University of the Sunshine Coast working with Margaret Turner delivering courses in web design and interaction design in 2000-01. Under Margaret's leadership, we delivered one of the fist web design courses in Australia which addressed accessibility, drawing from the World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility Guidelines, released in 1999.
When I arrived at the ANU School of Art in late 2001, there was no appreciation or understanding of the importance of designing interactive environments with accessibility in mind. Even though my PhD looked specifically at accessibility in the content of design and social equity, it was suggested that I look at using Macromedia Flash to design for web. Ironically this person now considers themselves an expert on WCAG. I would argue that many universities are still failing to delivers graduates with sufficient knowledge of WCAG and usability, particularly if web design is offered through an Arts faculty, rather than through an IT faculty.
I share this story because it is not an unusual experience for casual academics and postgraduate students. This is one of the reasons why real collaboration is difficult in the academic realm. Your research is your life and to have that appropriated is personally and professionally devastating.
My personal experience is not unique by any means – there are loads of PhDs in the public sector, perhaps not so many still trying to make the academic dream happen 🙂
The last 20 years has taught me a lot about what needs to change.
What needs to happen is a real commitment to better conditions for casual academics. The NTEU and the support of full time academic staff can put real pressure on universities to make improvements for sessional academics. Faculties need to be held to account – if someone has been sessional for a number of years then make a commitment to them. They have shown they are good at what they do and have a real contribution to make. Show appreciation, include sessional staff in faculty activities – treat them like they are part of the community. Don't just use them to solve your short term issues – think of ways that they can actively contribute to a vibrant educational environment.
It is sad to let go of a long held dream but it is time. Time to invest my passion and energy into projects and ways of educating that have real meaning and value in the world – not just within the academy.
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I worked as a sessional from 1995 – 2012. Three things resulted in my departure. 1. Litigious students can involve their parents lawyers if they fail a unit. 2. 3hr workshops were reduced to 1hr repeat workshops (for 3 times as many students). 3. Students were falling asleep in class, sometimes working 3 jobs to pay for their education. They were actually paying $10 each per hour for me to be there, $200 per hour if they took out a HECS loan. In short, I started recommending sitepoint and Udemy.com for a better quality we/ design and development education at only $15 per unit. My soul and love for teaching was thoroughly destroyed by greed.
Got ya Tracey, yes to all of this and i regret your experience and you loss of dream. We all need your dreams. The decline in teaching and education continues – it saddens me to see the education I took for granted being eroded in the interests of time-efficiency and bits of paper – ie money making. Our experts of the future will not be so robust, we are cheating the next generations and ourselves.


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We all know the next economic crash is coming. So before it gets here, just know that if you default on a $1 million house, by definition you are not rich. Rich is when your assets minus liabilities is a large number. I already know the next crisis will be caused by poor people who think they are rich.
This is the definition of living beyond your means. The buyer knows the house is beyond their means. Sure, there's fraud and unfair dealing on the part of banks, lenders and brokers. And while I appreciate people were breaking and bending rules, I am not convinced that the rule-breaking causes economic crises, nor am I convinced that the simultaneity of the rule-breaking and the looking-the-other-way by regulators wasn't itself a product of the market.
It is important for vested interests, like banks, to convince you the cause of a crisis was because some bad actors broke the rules. The message they need to send is that if they followed the rules, no crisis would occur. If they can convince of this, a lot of money remains intact.
But what if the crises happened and the rules by-and-large weren't broken (or the rule breaking was not consequential)? What happens if the structure of the system (maximisation of profit and commoditisation of everything including homes) leads to everyone breaking the rules at the same time, causing everyone to look the other way at another person's wrongdoing?
That would mean an economic disaster is a normal, possible outcome of a free market. It means that the system encouraged speculation and then incentivised everyone to break the rules when their anticipated profit exceeded some threshold. If people realise that, they might want to change the system, not just the rules. And that would be very bad for business.
People need to see that the size of your house does not make you rich – unless you do not pay a mortgage. The model of car you drive does not make you rich. Every single person who drives a car drives a used car. The brand of furniture, the latest phone, your clothes, which trends you maintain, the friends you keep, and the neighbourhood in which you live do not make you rich.
Those things, perversely, conspire to keep you from becoming rich. If your lifestyle depends on a particular net cash flow, it might be a comfortable life, but that doesn't make you rich.
Everyone is conditioned to see the cost of things in terms of the money. $2000 for an iPhone costs $2000. Simple. But it's wrong. It actually costs $2000 and the loss of other things you would have spent the money on. You have to look for the negative space. It's a problem of perception of value and opportunity costs. Did you actually choose the iPhone over dance lessons or courses to help you at your job? No, you thought the trade-off was either the iPhone or keeping $2000.
Now add in all the other crap. $3.00 apps, lattes, gourmet cupcakes, etc. Things that should cost $0.70 but cost $4.00 because the person selling them spent more time choosing which font will be used on the box than in actually making the thing. Now add in the big stuff, like a new state-of-the-art laptop every four years, or a new car every five years.
Money is a unit of exchange. The purpose is to facilitate comparisons of the value of goods. An iPhone costs as much as piano lessons for a year. But no one walks into the store thinking like that. Because if they did, they'd spend money on things that make them better and happier for the rest of their lives – none of which is available at malls or from publicly traded companies.
The iPhone does not cost you $2000. It costs you $4000 per year for the first two years. A home internet connection costs another $1000 per year. Those are things absolutely every single person can easily live without, and they absorb $5000 per year in your after-tax income.
What if I snapped my fingers, and you got a $5000 a year raise? How much would you thank me? $5000 a year is high-quality music lessons every single week for your kid. Or the best math tutor, or a writing tutor, or a football coach. It's a personal trainer and could keep two fairly good cars running smoothly. It's a month's mortgage payment (in Auckland's market, anyway).
And yet, people don't stand in line overnight in front of a pianist's house to get lessons. New Zealanders are still overweight. People are scraping by instead of saving. $5000 per year at 3% interest is $133,000 in 20 years. But the iPhone X will be worth nothing in 18 months when a new model comes out.
It isn't worth $2000. That's just its price, not its value. Its value is different for every consumer, including those who value it at $1700, and therefore don't think it is worth the price and so don't buy it. This isn't semantics. Economics and markets are concerned with price, not value. People aren't assessing the value of things. Instead, they perceive the price as obstacles to their desires. When was the last time you read a critical piece about Apple? It should be treated like Philip Morris.
Think about it in another way. Some people can go out with friends, have a few drinks, and then for the next ten weeks never drink a drop. But that doesn't mean drunks don't exist. Many of those people waiting in line for the iPhone X are consumption "drunks." They are the same kind of people who leverage ten-to-one to buy a house they don't need.
When the iPhone X was announced on 3 November 2017, people couldn't wait to buy it. And yet at the same time, every leader in the developed world is giving speeches about stagnant wages, low productivity and job losses. These are burdens families have been dealing with for decades – the burden of working harder and longer for less; of being unable to save enough to retire or help their kids with university.
The cognitive dissonance is staggering. Many of the people waiting with bated breath for a new smartphone, also voted for Donald Trump or Jacinda Ardern precisely because they thought the former administration broke the economy. And yet they are perpetuating the same consumer psychology responsible for tearing down those economies over the last 40 years.
We are so programmed to receive marketing – so attuned to chase status and hunt cool – that we are no longer able to perceive the actual world as it is. Our cognitive apparatus is short-circuited, and now the visual cortex is directly connected to our wallets. I see something cool, therefore I want it, and therefore I buy it.
If any product you own appears on the cover of a magazine, you got taken. If you ever stood in line to spend your money, you got taken. Look at all the marvellous things you have. Stare at them. Then ask yourself out loud what you don't have. Ask yourself out loud what those things took from you beyond what was indicated on the price tag.