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Over the past year I've been sloooowly making little updates to our bedroom. I was never happy with the arrangement I started with when we moved in, bought furniture too quickly, and could never decide on a color palette. To further complicate the issue, with the arrival of our second little guy, my workspace had to be moved from the living room to our bedroom to accommodate our growing collection of kids items. The things we do for our kids right? :)
After ordering a sample of this Citrus Garden fabric from Schumacher in Pool, my quest for the perfect color palette and vibe was over. The pattern, with its citron, chartreuse, navy, marine blue, leaf green, and aqua colors and cheery floral, lemon, and butterfly pattern, just made me swoon. I ordered a yard of it and it became the new lumbar pillow on my bed and I just want to hug and kiss it every day I love it so much! I think that's how you should feel about every fabric in your home. I made the lumbar on the larger side at 16″x28″ because I wanted to see as much of the pretty pattern as possible.
From there, I was able to pull colors for the rest of the room. Thankfully my Gray Owl walls provided a clean neutral palette, its slightly blue undertone playing really well with everything else. First, I added cordless roman shades to the windows, which are super functional and safe for kids but definitely need a treatment on top of them for the windows to look finished. So I teamed up with MadeBlinds to design modern, clean-lined cornices covered in a beautiful navy blue linen to treat the top of my windows and cover the shades. I am positively in LOVE with them. They are such a simple treatment yet add such beautiful depth and a pop of color to the room. I specified the "Tailored" style with a 4″ return in the Ryan Blue linen. The craftsmanship is extremely high-quality and they were very easy for my husband to install. I am super impressed! It was also so convenient to be able to design something custom from home, order it, and have it shipped directly to my doorstep without having to schlep all over town to various vendors with my fabric bolts.
After that, I added bright white bedding, a marine blue herringbone throw to the end of the bed, navy blue lamps (so gorgeous, love 'em), a kelly green monogrammed tissue box cover, a bistro-style rattan desk chair, books with aqua and green spines, and a beautiful abstract painting from my new favorite artist Laurie Fisher in white, gray, citron, and aqua colors.
I wanted to balance out the bright white and colors in the room with some warmth, and this caned wood headboard did just the trick. I also slapped a few coats of Simply White paint to my old hand-me-down dresser which did wonders to brighten up the room. I wanted to continue that citron color from the pillow elsewhere in the room so I made my own abstract painting while at the lake one weekend.
Lastly, I hung a linen-covered pinboard above my desk where I pin fabric samples, family photos, inspiration images, and projects I'm working on. It's definitely NOT ideal to have my workspace right next to my bed but it's what we had to do in a tiny house, so it's working out for now! I also upgraded from my old PC laptop to a Mac desktop and I'm OBSESSED. Never going back. The one major element that is missing from the room is a mirror, which my husband really needs for getting ready in the morning. So that remains an item on the to-do list. Plus some major carpet cleaning! Ugh. A bit too many times that Oliver got loose running around with his sippy cup of chocolate milk… But I'm so much more pleased with the status of the room now than a year ago. I spend a lot of time in here and am very affected by my surroundings, so to be swathed by these pops of pretty color makes me so happy inside.
Had to throw me newly upholstered dining chairs in for a cameo shot because OMG love.
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A water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator) at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. This name of this beast has always bothered my duck, as there was little to suggest why it is called thus. One G.A.C. Herklots, however, ascribes the term 'monitor' to a 'ridiculous etymological mistake' that arose from a misunderstanding of the Arabian name for lizard, Ouaran or Varan. Scientists who were uncunning linguists mistook the word for the German term 'to warn' and dubbed the creatures Warneidechsen, which was translated into English as 'monitor lizard'. Personally I like best the Indo-Malayan Biawak which has a more earthy ring and should be uttered with a sense of urgency worthy of a 8-foot long reptile.
Numerous mature individuals lounge around the visitor centre at Sungei Buloh, dining on scraps and smaller animals that underestimate the speed and agility of these modern day mosasaurs. At the reserve, they laze near the top of the local food chain, with little to fear other than the threat of large raptors, crocodiles and feral dogs. Happily, the lizards are known to feed on large, invasive suckermouth catfish (Hypostomus plecostomus) whose armoured body plates and spiny fins seem no hurdle to jaws that easily dismantle large carcasses. Other aliens are harder to handle though. A green iguana (Iguana iguana) abandoned by some hopeless herpetophile was once observed to assault a water monitor about twice its length by climbing onto the monitor's back and biting the latter's nape. After about 15 minutes, it was iguana win, monitor fail as the Varanus retreated to let the green monster claim its basking spot.
In parts of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands, Bugis and Makassarese seafarers have a respectful tradition of regarding monitor lizards as human spirits in a reptilian body. The lizards, as well as crocodiles, are thought to be spiritual twins to men which confer protection to their bipedal kin. Such benign views have no place here, however, as swimmers and scare-mongers readily cry wolf at the sight of grand reptiles who have a greater claim to the swamps and waters into which hunters intrude with vain notions and demands for human impunity.
• Eng Kiat, Chua, Ferl Iguana attacks Varanus salvator at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Biawak, 2007 1(1): 35-36, International Varanid Interest Group.
• Herklots, G.A.C., A Monitor Lizard (Varanus sp.) in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1930 May).
• Koch, Andre and Acciaili, Gregory, The Monitor Twins: A Bugis and Makassarese Tradition from SW Sulawesi, Indonesia, Biawak, 2007, 1(2): 77-82, International Varanid Interest Group.
• Suranjan Karunarathna, D.M.S. et al, Observed Predation on a Suckermouth Catfish (Hypostomus plecostomus) by a Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) in Bellanwila-Attidiya Sanctuary, Biawak, 2008 2(1): 37-39, International Varanid Interest Group.

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Knitting Our National Parks!
A Note From Clementine
June 2017: After six years on Etsy, I now find myself doing more in-person events and special collaborative projects with some of the talented Indie dyers I am lucky to count among my friends. Needing a more versatile online presence, I finally took the leap and opened my Indiemade shop! If you aren't already familiar with my work, I invite you to take a peek at my Etsy shop, where you can see photos of more than 600 sold items, review my 100% 5-star rating, or read some of the 300+ reviews from buyers. I am grateful for my customers' great reviews, encouragement, and support of Indie makers.
( Click here to visit That Clever Clementine's Etsy Shop )
It feel like the opening of this new shop should also be the kick in the pants that I apparently need to start blogging again. If you've found me here, I reckon you are interested in some of the same things I love, including yarn, fiber arts, knitting, and sewing. Oh, and perhaps food. So here goes ... let's just jump right in ...
As a solitary craftsperson, it's always especially fun to collaborate with other indies. The indie fiber community is also lucky to be supported by the work of Lisa Chamoff at Indie Untangled, whose blog and weekly newsletters help bring together the offerings of a wide variety of indie dyers and accessory makers. (In addition, Lisa hosts special projects, yarn clubs, and the very popular Indie Untangled Trunk Show. Go get on her mailing list, you won't regret it!)
Lisa's latest project is "Knitting Our National Parks." She is assembling a really interesting series of exclusive yarn colorways, coming together in sort of a "virtual" knitter's road trip around the country, visiting some of the awe-inspiring National Parks. Each exclusive colorways is being created by a different wonderful indie dyer; in each case, they've been inspired by photos from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Instagram feed. And? A portion of proceeds from the yarn sales will be donated to the National Park Foundation!
Our road trip starts with Backyard Fiberworks' beautiful "North Cascades Night," inspired by photographer Andy Porter's photo of North Cascades National Park in Alice's native Washington State. Alice's yarn is available for pre-order until June 30th.
For my part, I released a limited edition project bag, titled: POP Thru the Parks! (Because there's nothing like a nice cold soda pop on a summer day, it's refreshing as the great outdoors.)
I will offer an exclusive yarny accessory to coincide with the release of each yarn installment (June, August, October, December). Each offering in this collection will be available for pre-order for two weeks, or until the limited edition is sold out, whichever comes first.
All items in the collection will feature this wonderful fabric, part of Amy Peppler Adams's Soda Nation collection, on the exterior. The June zipper bags have cheerful Soda Pop Top "Sunshine" lining. Subsequent installments of the project will each feature a different complementary lining, so items will be coordinated but not matchy-matchy.
I'm excited to say that the bags sold out in just about twelve hours ... which means now, the work begins!
I'm already scheming about the next release ... so if you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you'll no doubt start seeing teasers in another several weeks. Stay tuned, and join us as we explore the Parks via this wonderful yarny road trip!


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444. Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps
A short parable about an alien race whose members only want to sort "correct" heaps of pebbles. Whereby "correct" means "prime-number" although the Pebble-sorters don't realize this, just like we don't know the explicit computation that is our morality/utility-function.
Yvain summarizes the moral of this parable:
"Things I get from this:
– Things decided by our moral system are not relative, arbitrary or meaningless, any more than it's relative, arbitrary or meaningless to say "X is a prime number"
– Which moral system the human race uses is relative, arbitrary, and meaningless, just as there's no reason for the pebble sorters to like prime numbers instead of composite numbers, perfect numbers, or even numbers.
– A smart AI could follow our moral system as well or better than we ourselves can, just as the Pebble-Sorters' AI can hopefully discover that they're using prime numbers and thus settle the 1957 question once and for all.
– But it would have to "want" to first. If the Pebble-Sorters just build an AI and say "Do whatever seems right to you", it won't start making prime-numbered heaps, unless an AI made by us humans and set to "Do whatever seems right to you" would also start making prime-numbered pebble-heaps. More likely, a Pebble-Sorter AI set do "Do whatever seems right to you" would sit there inertly, or fail spectacularly.
– So the Pebble-Sorters would be best off using something like CEV."
I also want to add that this story is a great illustration of moral progress. Building heaps of 91 pebbles is simply a moral error. If the Pebblesorters understood their own utility function better, they would recognize such errors and stop arguing about it.
The obvious problem with the whole story is of course that our utility function is much more complex than the utility function of the Pebble-sorters. Therefore it's not very likely that our extrapolated volitions will cohere as nicely.


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Tuesday, 7 December 2010
On Mentors, DH and beyond
The weirdest thing about mentorship is that nobody actually signs up for it. We are all assigned mentors at the beginning of our official academic career but that's an administrative convention: those arrangements may just work out by accident but your real mentors are ones who, like cats and horses, arrive unexpectedly. At the moment I am fortunate enough to have three people I think of as mentors at UCL, all senior people, none fully DH, but all DH sympathisers. I know don't know if they even realise that I think of them as such because, let's face it, they have never volunteered and I've never exactly asked them. But I admire what they do and I aspire to be as good at doing it as they are and I try and learn by watching them. Does that make them mentors? I think so. Would they be pleased if they knew that's how I think of them? I hope so. But it's strange that it's the kind of thing that is never formally spoken of until after death.
Maybe that's just being terribly British, but it occurs to me that inherent in the concept of mentorship is the question of loss. By nature most of our mentors tend to be more senior than we are. This means that we know that at some point we're going to lose them either because they'll leave, retire or at worst die. Once it's happened, you learn greedily, knowing that your mentors won't always be there to teach you.
So what do we owe to our mentors? I think it's the fact that we benefit from their experience. They are the people we can go to when we don't know what to do; when we feel unsure about the way our careers are going; when we want to work out how they did something right and we just can't figure out how to do it ourselves. Sometimes we just like to watch them being really good at something and to be proud of being associated with them. We hope that they take an interest in us, and share in the pleasure of our successes. But in the end a great mentor is the person who you can guarantee will pick you up when something goes badly wrong, put you back together and tell you how you can go forward, however impossible it might seem. Perhaps even more crucially, however trivial our latest crisis might seem to them, they should understand why we feel that the world is about to end, and act accordingly. No wonder we miss them so much when they are no longer there to do all of those things.
But the question of mentorship is no longer simply about the past at least for those of us in my generation of DH scholars. I recall a conversation that I had with Ray Siemens and Steve Ramsey a few years ago about what would happen when some of the great senior scholars of our field retired. We looked at each other rather uneasily and realised that we would be part of the next generation of senior people in the field, thanks to the damage wrought by the cuts of the 80s. It occurred to us that we would have to become the people who might be needed to mentor the next generation. I don't know about Steve and Ray, but I didn't and still don't feel grown up enough, or nearly eminent enough for that kind of role. Personally this makes me feel rather uncomfortable; although it's a pleasant kind of discomfort. I guess it's because, as I said, you don't sign up to be a mentor, but do your best if people choose you.
It makes me wonder, though, what kind of things a mentor should do now in the socially networked age. Is the concept meaningful any more when we can tweet our hearts out about the latest crisis, and ask Facebook friends for advice? Can one mentor by email, Skype or IM, or must it be an F2F activity? Is there any point weeping into a webcam, or celebrating success via a headset? Can we mentor someone thousands of miles away as well as someone we see regularly? I think it's an ongoing experiment, but given what I gained from my mentors it's one I feel bound to take part in.
For JWS, 1936-2002: teacher, inspiration, friend.
"Then others for the breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect."
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Really like what you said about a mentor picking you up when you're down. It makes me think immediately about how grateful I am for my mentors. When you've lost faith in yourself they are there to give you a push to keep trying. I'd be lost without them.ReplyDelete
Being one who hails from the "digital generation" I feel like communicating more through emails and IMs than face-to-face hasn't hurt my relationships at all. Your mentors are always busy, so if every conversation had to be a formal convo face-to-face the quick questions would never find the right moment to be asked or answered. I once had a mentor who lived a couple thousand miles away, I've never met him face-to-face. But, the advice he offered me via phone/Skype was incredibly valuable so I'm grateful to technology for letting that happen.


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A move toward more energy-efficient light bulbs and fixtures has led to an increase in product offerings at Northeast Ohio lighting manufacturers that include Eye Lighting International, TCP Inc., US Lighting Group and industry giant General Electric. "It's a really great time to be in the energy-efficient lighting business," said Valarie Campbell, chief financial officer for TCP in Aurora. A big factor behind this trend is one that manufacturers often don't cite as a positive: government regulations. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 established guidelines to help drive down energy usage, which is leading to the essential phase-out of traditional, incandescent light bulbs. That phase-out began with 100-watt bulbs in 2012 and 75-watt bulbs in 2013. And at the start of 2014, 40- and 60-watt bulbs will be phased out as well. (Click here to take a tour of the GE Lighting & Electrical Institute in East Cleveland.) "Customers will find standard bulbs harder to find," said Terry McGowan, director of engineering for the American Lighting Association. Mr. McGowan said the stock of standard bulbs can be sold after the 2014 deadline, but more can't be manufactured or imported. Solid-state lights, such as LEDs, are poised to enter the market like never before, Mr. McGowan said. The reliability of that technology has gone up as the price has gone down. Light sources convert electrical energy to light energy, and LEDs (light-emitting diodes) help save energy by doing that process more efficiently, Mr. McGowan said. Traditional incandescent bulbs convert about 10% of that electricity to light. LEDs can convert about 35% of the electricity to light energy, Mr. McGowan said. There also are additional cost savings, as less maintenance is involved for the longer-lasting bulbs.The trend is one that spells opportunity for manufacturers who have been expanding or launching their LED options, such as TCP in Aurora. TCP has sold energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs for all of its 20 years, but LED technology has been picking up steam in the last three years, its CFO, Ms. Campbell, said. LEDs are projected to make up nearly 20% of TCP's revenue by the end of 2013, and they are expected to surpass compact fluorescent bulbs in their share of overall company revenue in the next few years, Ms. Campbell said in an email. TCP is a private company, but Ms. Campbell said it had more than $300 million in annual revenue last year. She expects revenue to increase going forward. Most of TCP's products are made by its sister companies in China, but more assembly of LED lamps and fixtures is happening at the company's Aurora plant, Ms. Campbell said. The company expects to increase hiring at its Aurora location as demand grows for LEDs, which require less labor to make than compact fluorescent bulbs, she said. TCP has tripled its employee base in the last 10 years, with an increase in employees of about 30% at the Aurora location since the end of 2011. There are about 250 employees at the Aurora location now.
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General Electric helped to create the modern LED in the 1960s, but Mary Beth Gotti, manager of the GE Lighting & Electrical Institute at Nela Park in East Cleveland, said interest in the technology has increased in the past 10 years. And in just the past three to five years, there has been more widespread usage and adoption of LED technology. Today, there are LED-based lighting options for almost every application, Ms. Gotti said, from parking lot lights to home holiday lighting. At the start of October, GE announced plans to introduce six new LED light bulbs in the next four months, including low-cost 40- and 60-watt replacement bulbs. While GE makes a variety of lighting products and can work with customers to find the best use for each, LED technology eventually could replace everything else, she said. "It really is a game changer," Ms. Gotti said. Mr. McGowan of the American Lighting Association said the lighting industry is "a very different industry now than it was a year or so ago." He cited different types of companies — such as electronics companies Samsung and Toshiba — getting in on new uses for LED lighting. Locally, US Lighting in Mentor is a business created to capture a portion of the growing LED lighting market. US Lighting makes 4- and 8-foot LED lights that could replace traditional lights such as fluorescent bulbs in commercial use. President Paul Spivak said many companies are trying to enter the LED business, and those that offer the best products, prices and warranties will thrive. Mr. Spivak has been in the LED business for decades through his other company, Intellitronix Corp., which makes LED digital gauges for vehicles. When he saw that white LEDs were entering the market, Mr. Spivak said he thought the lighting business was a logical progression. He started US Lighting about two years ago. Mr. Spivak said he is in the process of taking the company public, and he declined to share annual revenue. US Lighting offers 20-year warranties on its lights, and Mr. Spivak said its patent-pending technology recently was approved by the DesignLights Consortium, which he described as similar to the Energy Star program for commercial and industrial markets. The certification allows customers to receive government or utility credits or rebates for the bulbs, Mr. Spivak said, lowering costs. The company, which makes all its lights in Mentor, has about 15 employees now. Mr. Spivak said he expects to need up to 100 employees by spring 2014. He expects demand for the lights to go up now that the DesignLights Consortium certification — and the savings customers can receive because of it — has gone through.
Eye Lighting in Mentor, a division of Iwasaki Electric of Japan, is another local company that has seen a boost from the push for energy efficiency. Rob Freitag, vice president of marketing for Eye Lighting, said LEDs started to become a viable light source four or five years ago and that adoption is moving quickly. Mr. Freitag said manufacturers are learning how to best design their products for LEDs' strengths, rather than just creating lamps to fit into existing fixtures. At the start of the year, Eye Lighting only had one LED product. Today, it has five different LED product families. In October, the company hired three engineers to focus solely on creating LED lamps and luminaires for indoor and outdoor uses. Before, there were just two engineers at the company with that focus. Eye Lighting has about 155 employees at its Mentor plant, where all the company's products are made. Mr. Freitag said the new products are helping Eye Lighting to gain recognition as a full lighting services company that offers products ranging from luminaires to high-intensity discharge (HID) and LED lamps. That recognition may be especially important in the growing LED market. Mr. McGowan of the American Lighting Association said the residential market is a bellwether for the industry. There are 3.2 billion general service lamps in homes across the United States, he said, and about 60% of those are standard incandescent lights. But the increased lifespan of LEDs compared to traditional incandescent bulbs poses a challenge for manufacturers: if a company can't get a customer to buy its bulb first, that socket is lost for about 10 years, Mr. McGowan said. "That's where a big market lies," Mr. McGowan said.


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The Rugby World Cup has officially been opened by New Zealand's prime minister, John Key, BBC News confirmed.
The event, which will be televised by ITV, has seen some 100,000 eager rugby fans travel to the country in a bid to catch their favourite players. However, not everyone will have been able to secure tickets or the funds required to make such a long trip.
As such, it may be that fans rent out function venues to make a party of each match. Even though each match will be broadcast sometime in the morning – not the typical time for a party – fans will probably make an exception; laying on a breakfast or brunch and enjoying the moment together.
Even prime minister Key admitted that the Kiwis are "ready to have a party" after being lucky enough to host the event. Making reference to the recent natural disasters that have afflicted his nation (like the Christchurch earthquake in February), Key stated: "It's been a tough 12 months in New Zealand. The country is ready to have fun."
His positive attitude was shared by the chief executive of the Rugby World Cup, Martin Snedden; who too stated: "It's time to have some fun," according to Telegraph.co.uk.
The party atmosphere was definitely felt during the opening ceremony, wherein the 48-match tournament was welcomed by a "60,000-strong crowd" and "10 silver boats". Dancers, all dressed in white and silver, entertained the crowds before traditional Maori warriors performed a rendition of the traditional haka dance.


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If you missed it on Facebook, the 1st baby of the Radon Lounge has been born! Charles Lloyd Black will preside on future Radon shows (maybe not in person until he's old enough to handle the volume).
We're ready to announce more bands for the Horse Show on June 21st, but first we wanted to mention we're looking for sponsors. The Horse Show is free, but it would be really nice if some businesses or individuals would help subsidize the cost. We see this as an opportunity for more folks to get involved and be a part of the madness. We're creating a nifty brochure to make this easy, but in the meantime hit us up if you would like to know more at email@example.com.
Now on to more band announcements! The following three bands are all Springfield local and will be appearing on the garage stage.
First of is Yogi Beara. These guys are the quintessential power duo with heavy garage rock and blues influences. Fans of the White Stripes and the Black Keys won't want to miss these guys.
Next up is Full Chroma, a keyboard driven alternative rock band. These guys are also playing the April 14th Radon show @ the Black Sheep Cafe!
And lastly for today, we're announcing local pop-punk favorite Negative 17. Fans of Green Day, Blink 182, Sum 41, etc, should definitely be there to hear these guys.
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What is Beauty Sage?
Beauty Sage is an online beauty store that sells bath and body products, skincare products, makeup, perfume, etc. It is like a Sephoras I guess you could say. And little did I know they also have beauty boxes. After doing a little searching around the Beauty Sage website, this is not the only beauty box that they have available. Past boxes have included Younger Skin Deluxe Box, Sleep Box, and other Editor's Pick Boxes to name a few. Where have I been I ask myself? Some of these past boxes are just great. The cost for most boxes are about $12.
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Nuxe Reve De Miel Hand and Nails Cream
This a good size travel size hand and nail cream, and it came at just the right time. With the cold weather setting in my hands need all the moisture they can get. It is nice to get a travel size hand cream to stick in my purse.
First Aid Beauty Dual Repair Eye Cream
I currently am using some First Aid Beauty face wash, and it is excellent. I am excited to try out some other products from First Aid, especially if the eye cream can help with under-eye puffiness and dark circles. Some days these eyes need all the help they can get.
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This is perfect after a long day at work, and it smells great.
I really think that Beauty Sage is a great subscription. I like that you are not obligated to join a subscription where they bill you each month, rather you can pick and choice whether you want to get the monthly Editor's pick box or not. I was a little bummed that the price has increased, but I think it is worth it. The cost is $12, but the tin of candies alone is worth $5, and Beauty Sage does free shipping. Also, Beauty Sage provides a 10% off coupon in each box for a discount on other orders through Beauty Sage. I also am a big fan of face and skin products, so this is a perfect box for me. I look forward to next month's Editor's Pick Box.
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(Produced by: Ari Why)
It goes 1 for the trouble 2 for the time/
3 for the hustle and 4 for the grind/
You know the struggle I go-go for mine/
I'm oh so inclined the G-O-Divine
[Verse 1]
I Rock & Roll for the Soul of my Ancestors
And built my dynasty without the Masonic hand gestures
Yeah, this is church right here
Young Black don't give a fuck Amerikkka's nightmare
Next level I'm a rebel with a cause
And you can say two words without no homo or a pause
Heard your bars and I'm somewhat appalled
So clapping at you got something to do with no applause
Memorize this slogan, whores, jaws and laws was made to be broken
Honestly what the fuck are yall smoking?!
Hip-Hop must be dead with the shit that yall promoting
V-Nasty saying nigger ain't the 1st for a rapper
But it's ill how ignorance make her think that she Blacker
Coming out like race don't matter but its White Girl Mob like the Ku Klux chapter
Bitch I ain't drinking the Kool Aid/ Whoever co-sign her's just a new age slave
Looking in the mirror like look what the coon made
Give a fuck about you or your Youtube plays
I'm a lover not a fighter but if you want me to kill yah
Shit I could fulfill your wish than dance on your grave like Thriller
So pick one finger the middle or the trigger…
I'm much more than married to the weapon I carry
Born to be like soul mates
Brought together by fortune or fate
And ain't no way that you could make us separate
It goes praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord
Praise The Lord
[Verse 2]
My albums are more Autobiography of Malcolm
AK by the window sill
Rock for the memory of young Emmett Till
Riding shotgun with a shotty like the name Bobby Seale
Fuck a record deal or how executives feel
This last supper getcha meal
Revelation 7th seal
Put work in the field like David Walkers Appeal
So the track hit you like Brandy was whipping wheels of steel
That's a cheap shot I guess/ but the games gone soft I am the least not impressed
Leeches in the game trying to feast on the flesh
Tough talk but you run to police under stress
Ain't no swine for mine yah dig
My style Halal, never fuck with the pigs
It is what it is get in the way of my plans
We toss em off stage like one of Akons fans
Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs
Written by: Hasan Salaam & Drue "Baron" Davis
(Produced by: Llama Beats)
[Verse 1]
The melodies and harmonies stick to your ribs
Like hominy grits in the winter you dig
As a kid I was raised on the sounds of Motown
From Planet Rock where galactic B-boys throw down
Breath of fresh air in the depths of despair
No matter how bad it get, the music gets there
Park jams remind us of Congo Square
And that feeling gets your ass up like musical chairs
Sang spirituals on the plantation for salvation
From blues shaman to DJs and beat breaking
It's so sacred, just know the ledge
Said if it wasn't for the music I'd be better off dead
[Hook: Baron]
It lifts me up
And calms me down
When I am lost
It's through the sound
I find my inner light through music
Music is my life
[Verse 2: Hasan Salaam]
The vibe that I'm giving you
Been the same since I was rocking James Brown tunes in Mama's Living room
No silver spoon, hairbrush, microphone and a boom box
Lip-syncing to M.J, moon-walking across the spot in some tube socks
From the bricks to the boondocks
Hip hop got the bass bumping up higher than blue tops
Ghetto griots still spitting they oo-ops
Like Pops on the block harmonizing his Doo-Wops
Air guitars turn us all to rock superstars
Hear your song, sing along, no matter who you are!
[Verse 3: Hasan Salaam]
This is for the Godfather of Soul and Charles Parker
Bird lives in the flatted fifths we play sharper
Bob Marley them no capture fire starter
Big and Pac, still rockin' to the Music of Martyrs
John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, relevant to this day
No bullet could take music away!
Burning Hollywood with P.E leading the way
Yelling fuck the police with N.W.A
Ray Charles sang with 20/20 vision
And Fela's freedom got found in the rhythm
Listened to the pain of Kurt Cobain
And saw God in the notes of Saint John Coltrane
Aaliyah singing proof that angels existed
Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze" made sure we was lifted
Voice for the voiceless, just gotta say Ashe
Let's keep celebrating Billie Holiday!
Miss America
Miss America
Written by: Hasan Salaam
(Produced by: Snowgoons)
[Verse 1]
Shorty's not the wife type
She goes as the wind blows
Fuck the world literal
Political nympho
Sex symbol of hope for the flirtatious offer
But she keeps her legs closed for those south of the border
Sort of a tease never goes the whole way
Accept for her vacay's to Guantanamo Bay
U.K. put her on the scene at 13
Now round the way she's known as the American Dream
Rolled with the Taliban for Afghan poppy
Sold coke with the Contras
Built banks with Nazis
Folks Illuminati so despite the floss
Wasn't none of her shit stitched by no Betsy Ross
Born date on 4th of July
And by the 5th she had the whole world caught up in her lies
Her eyes dollar signs
Money talk keeps her dripping
Mei Guo vixen
Queen of Capitalism…
[Verse 2]
Don't be fooled by the pageantry, it's all cosmetic
Her ethics are deceptive
FSilicone synthetic
Ar from sympathetic lest her interests are invested
And she shops at stock markets in debt with bad credit
Self-centeredness bring out the worst in Mother Earth
Toxic relationship she puts her needs first
Acts all holier than thou but make sure she separates estate from the church
Post racial but I can't tell the word nigger still rolls off her tongue so well
The new Jim Crow from up North to down South
And took 500 years to let Black folk in the house
Miss America…
[Verse 3]
Said there's no just war there's JUST war
Guns bust more for the blood lust whore to get fucked more
Foul to the core
She did the 9th Ward raw
And she loves getting face at the top of Mount Rushmore
Miss America was burning before Libya
Gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, Chlamydia
Signature been on so many broken promises
You'd think her new relationships required doctors documents
Turn politricks straight ripping and robbing
Bad break with her ex, Osama Bin Laden
Been getting it popping since she knew she could bank it
Giving hand jobs naked under small pox blankets
Fake lips and tits, still chasing the dragon
At the next party wasted, openly tea bagging
Bragging like she's the only one under God
But round here, Miss America's the smuttiest broad
Miss America


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The resources below are not directly connected to us, so disclaimer: We don't necessarily approve of everything you might find on them.
Please use the comments box below to help keep this list as useful as possible! Tell us what works well for you.
Lost Sheep – Fantastic resources by our very own Andrew McDonough. There are fun resources on the site, and the stories can be downloaded for on-screen presentation (and printable version for reader) for $10. The books are available through Koorong.
SA Christian Endeavour – A great website and network. In conjunction with Scripture Union they run an annual 4-day camp in January for 9-13 year olds.
Children's Ministry Network (CMN) – A collaboration of people from all denominational backgrounds who are passionate about connecting those who minister with families across Australia, to provide a platform where people can connect, support, equip and contribute to a community of awesome people who believe kids and families take up a huge part of God's heart.
max7.org – An open source ministry resource library "helping leaders disciple children and young people". Their statement of faith is the Lausanne Covenant.
Scripture Union Webshop – Books, curriculum, multimedia – good stuff.
Ministry To Children – "We are not a bookstore. We are not a big publishing company. We are not a paid membership site. We are simply an online resource to help you tell kids about Jesus. If your passion is reaching and teaching kids, then this blog is for you."
GodSpace – "Aussie Bible lessons for 4-12 year olds" This is a curriculum designed especially for missional settings – put out by the NSW Baptists for RI in schools etc.
Christian Playtimes A NSW ministry to equip and resource your Playtime be an effective mission for your local community families. Plenty for playgroups & evangelism!
Godly Play – a Montessori method of telling Bible stories using parables, sacred stories and liturgical lessons about religious traditions using simple materials.
Barnabas in Churches – a UK site that is passionate about bringing the Bible to life for children and families. Lots of ideas and resources.
CEP (Christian Education Publications) – Australian resources produced mainly by evangelical Anglicans – lots to browse through.
UCA SA Children & Families Site – an excellent, up to date site based right here in SA.
MediaCom – These guys are ecumenical though pretty much Uniting Church. They are based in Adelaide.
Anton's Antics – This guy (Stephen Shearsby) does one-man gospel shows for children and families, but also has DVDs and resources.
Playgroup Resources – The Uniting Church has this great page for churches that run playgroups. Scroll down for lots of ideas.


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International Ecological congress is the series meeting of International Association of Ecology INTECOL, the general assembly held every four years, is the world's largest, the highest academic level and most influential international event. INTECOL2017Beijing will be held in China, is a major opportunity for Chinese ecological workers to participate in international exchanges, will help us to carry out international academic exchanges, to understand the international forefront, to promote international cooperation. We warmly welcome the global ecological workers to participate in the event.
The congress is expected to have more than 3000 experts, scholars from the world ecology, academics, research and education institutions, enterprises and representatives of non-governmental organizations to participate.
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text: Hours of fun for sharp-eyed puzzle fans. Painted on oversized cardboard pages trimmed to a peaked top, the arrangements and finely detailed contents of 13 apartments seen in canted cutaway views (purportedly) contain hidden leads to real concealed treasure. In the rudimentary plot, detective Roy Dodge and his bumbling "Watson," Augustus Twintig, are hired by wealthy collector Bevel Ternky to investigate the disappearance of an antique clock's 12 emerald-studded numbers. The detectives pay brief calls on each of the apartment house's residents—who sport monikers like P.K. Quello or Jigsy Squonk and live in wildly differing digs—before gathering everyone for the obligatory denouement. Rex adds spot-art caricature portraits of all but Twintig, and jewelry designer Anna Sheffield created the physical numbers themselves, which are buried in "holes strewn across the country." For those who can't bestir themselves to join the nationwide hunt, bulletins will be posted on an associated website. Good luck. (Novelty. 10-15, adult)


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Chief vows to 'die' if necessary to improve lot of aboriginal people
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:50AM EST
Last Updated Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:16PM EST
OTTAWA -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan is offering to meet this week with a northern Ontario chief who embarked on a hunger strike Tuesday out of frustration with the federal government.
Chief Theresa Spence of the remote Attawapiskat First Nation launched her protest with a vow to "die" unless the Conservative government starts showing more respect to First Nations concerns and aboriginal treaties.
Spence is demanding a meeting between the Crown, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and aboriginal leaders to forge a new relationship.
An offer was extended last week to have Duncan's parliamentary secretary visit Attawapiskat to ensure the reserve has what it needs to get through the winter, said Jan O'Driscoll, a spokesman for the minister.
"We continue to look forward to her response," O'Driscoll said. Duncan would also be prepared to meet with Spence this week in Ottawa to talk about the state of her community, he added.
But the issues go well beyond Attawapiskat, Spence said in a statement.
The Harper government has embarked on an "aggressive, assimilatory legislative agenda" that flies in the face of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, she complained.
And she accused Duncan's office of misleading the public about the social realities facing Canada's First Nations.
Spence, whose northern Ontario community was at the centre of an international media storm last year because of a winter housing crisis, is calling on Ottawa to withdraw recent legislation that she says was imposed on aboriginals, and to reverse its decision to cut funding to First Nation organizations and communities.
Thousands of protesters in cities across the country took to the streets Monday in what has been dubbed the Idle No More movement against what they say are unilateral actions by the Harper government.
They are angry over a number of bills before Parliament, including one that would force First Nations to disclose their financial statements and the salaries of chiefs and councillors.
They are particularly upset with Bill C-45, the government's omnibus budget legislation, which they say weakens environmental laws.
For Spence, the pain of watching her people suffer through a lack of housing and inadequate water supplies proved a tipping point.
"The treaty's been violated (for) so many years and it's time for the prime minister to honour it and respect our leaders," said Spence, who is staying in a cabin on an island in the Ottawa River while she goes without food.
"I am willing to die for my people because the pain is too much and it's time for the government to realize what it's doing to us," she said.
"I am not afraid to die. If that's the journey for me to go, then I will go."
One post on social media websites set up by the Idle No More organizers accuses Prime Minister Stephen Harper of abandoning aboriginal people.
"A few Canadians get E.coli sickness and Harper shuts down XL Foods," reads the post, referring to the recent closure of an Alberta meat processing plant over a contamination scare.
"But Cree are dying in (Fort Chipewyan, Alta.) from toxins in their water, yet Harper keeps the tar sands open."
The government has said it holds thousands of consultations with aboriginal leaders every year and that Duncan has personally visited dozens of reserves over the last two years.
And it says it's still waiting for a strategy from Attawapiskat to deal with the community's housing shortage.
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The Coca-Cola ISC Tour is delighted to announce that Rip Curl will be hosting the historical first-ever ISC Longboard competition as part of their exciting lineup of surfing action at this coming weekend's Rip Curl Surf and Music Festival on legendary Kuta Beach.
"Longboarding is the core of surfing…down at the root level….where surfing started, so as a core surf company Rip Curl is very pleased to be adding a longboarding division to our Surf And Music Festival agenda, in addition to the Men's Open, Women's Open, Masters, and our GromSearch Final. Together with the music, games and all the entertainment, this will be a very full weekend of fun for everyone at Kuta Beach," said Rip Curl's Marketing Manager James Hendy today.
The action will kick off on Friday morning October 23 at 8 am at Halfways on Kuta Beach, as there is a rising tide coupled with a new swell that should make for perfect conditions for the international field of men and women longboard aficionado's. They have been waiting to break out their 9 foot plus boards and show off their old school and new school styles for the fans on the beach, so get out there early and plan to enjoy a great show!
Longboarders from Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, the USA, Italy, and Brazil are expected to be participating in this event, with all but the finals being held on Friday. The final will be held on Sunday together with the finals from all the other divisions. The winner will receive a special hand-carved trophy and a winner's check for 2.5 million rupiah.
The top placing Indonesian longboarder will be crowned the Coca-Cola ISC Longboard Champion for 2009 and receive a trophy and a 5 million rupiah cash prize at the Coca-Cola-ISC Awards Presentation that will be held in mid November.
The entry fee for the event is only 200,000 rupiah, so call Ani at the Coca-Cola ISC office at (0361) 768 293 or send her an email at firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up now.


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Makerbot to start shipping Digitizer 3D desktop scanner
By Emil Protalinski, The Next Web
"The Makerbot Digitizer, a 3D Desktop Scanner prototype that analyzes real-world objects and generates designs compatible with its 3D printer line, is going on sale next week. The company fired off a mass email to its mailing list letting those who signed up know the device was almost ready for their grubby hands. The email included a list of features to refresh your memory:"


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PayPal has launched a new "Pay After Delivery service" last year in UK and tested now in USA. It also has been announced its partnership with Authorize.net & Cyber-source ( both are Visa companies ) and entered agreement to receive payments from Bitcoin payment processors like; Coinbase, BitPay and GoCoin etc., So PayPal is no doubt a best and cheap online Payment Gateway for 203 countries in all over the world, But As you know, PayPal Provides its all services in some developed countries, But in most of developing countries, PayPal did not offer its all services in 203 countries, Like; User cannot send/receive money from personal or business account, In some countries, like; India and Vietnam, User can only withdraw money to a local bank, In 64 countries, User can only withdraw money to a US bank account and in rest 83 countries, User can create PayPal account, But cannot withdraw money to any bank account. For more services and restrictions; You can check, Which PayPal Service is Available in your Own Country.
Beside of, PayPal did not provide any list, Where PayPal is no longer available, So after checking one by one, We've established a complete list of countries, Where PayPal did not provide its any service, Like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Liberia, Syria, Palestine, Belarus, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Kosovo, Ivory Coast, Republic of North Korea, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Macedonia, Monaco, Moldova, Myanmar, Montenegro, Nigeria, Paraguay, Saint Lucia, Sudan, Timor-Leste and Zimbabwe.
Anyway, PayPal has a plan to introduce its services in above 10 countries, like; Belarus, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nigeria, Paraguay, and Zimbabwe , But we have no idea, When they will serve in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Palestine and many other countries like that.
At this condition, If you're a citizen of not-served countries, All you need is to find a Best PayPal alternative to Process Online Payments for Your Business, So after a deep search, We've got a brief list of many Online Payment Processor companies with their details, If using a merchant account, they could be use to accept online payments through PayPal or separately with American, visa, credit/debit/master and many other cards from buyers.
|Online Payment Gateway
|Best Online payment processing service that helps you accept credit cards, PayPal, But they did not approve application easily, As 2checkout team verify your business first. (Most Recommended)
|Skrill (Money Bookers)
|Through Money booker's merchant account, You can get online worldwide payments through all types of cards, but they charge monthly 22USD and customer has to create his account to pay you. (Most Recommended)
|Best payment processor Gateway in all over the world except some countries, As It accepts all types of cards with many options to process online payments and also integrated with PayPal, But you need to approve your business first to get its merchant account. (Most Recommended)
|Its a Good payment processor company, Using their services you can also accept all types of cards for online payment, But you've to show your business first to approve your merchant account. (Most Recommended)
|Using payza merchant account, You can accept credit and debit cards payments, but they have less options to process online payments. They also ask business certificate before providing a merchant account. (Recommended)
|Google Checkout
|Its a good alternative of PayPal, But Recently, Google is not accepting merchant account at many countries, For which you can Check Google Wallet Supported Locations for Merchant Registration. (Recommended)
|Amazon Payments
|As an Online Payment processor, Amazon did not accept merchant account from Pakistan. Amazon accepts credit, debit, gift card and US bank account from buyers, But As you know' PayPal is a competitor of Amazon Marketplace, So officially, Amazon does not accept PayPal, But customer still can use PayPal to pay for amazon products using a plugin "PayPal Everywhere online".
|As a better alternate of PayPal, Adyen is a technology provider powering payments for global commerce. With a solution for mobile, online and in-store transactions, It's technology enables merchants to accept almost any type of payment, anywhere in the world, But they did not approve merchant account easily. For more FAQ; You can Visit here. (Recommended)
|Allied Wallet
|Send and receive global payments through customer or merchant account for your e-commerce site. (Recommended If you can Get)
|Bit-coin Network
|Bitcoin is open source Payment Processor Network with many options available at separately different sites, But yet have no more flexibility to integrate with other payment processor companies fer merchant services. (Yet Not Recommended)
|Liqpay accept online payments, But we cannot understand its Russian language.
|Ogone Ingenico
|Accept all types of payment in all over the world, including PayPal in some regions through its merchant pro account, also have integrated module, But no more options available to process online payments.
|Process all types of payments after integrate with PayPal+Eway merchant account.
|Standard premium payment services at $30 USD per month for merchant account integrated with PayPal.
|You can get cards payment through their merchant account, but they have no more options to send online invoices.
|Support & process all types of online payments after integration the popular payment gateway like; Authorize, Brain-tree, Chase, Cyber-Source, Vantiv, Merchant-Solutions, PayPal, Stripe etc., But only have premium plan for $99USD with availability in all over the world.
|Merchant Solution
|Integrated with PayPal, But don't have more options to process online payments.
|You can accept all major payments with PayPal account integration and popular e commerce modules, But its premium service and you need to submit your id, bank statement, domain registration and many other documents first hand to activate your account.
|Its working well only at some specified countries.
|Dwolla is a good payment gateway, but did not support our region.
|You can accept all types of cards for online payments, but you've to approve your site for no more processing options.
Author's Point of View:
Unfortunately, There is no local payment processor available to process online payments in Pakistan, As you can see in India, like; EBS, Directpay, Airpay, Zaakpay, PayU, CC Avenue, PayMate, Direcpay and Citruspay etc.,
So you need to use foreign services as mentioned above.
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Writing lets me escape the incessant chatter and thinking that goes on inside my head. Once I start writing I usually enter a certain flow, a movement that feels close to the wind, ocean waves, and the roots in the earth. I step out of my own mind and get swept up in a tide.
I love many of the exercises in Karen Benke's marvelous book Leap Write In, a book for "tweens, teens, and other Earthlings," and I have found in working with my students that her exercise on Personae is especially powerful. You recall a journey to a natural place – a park, the ocean, a favorite tree – and imagine the route one takes getting there. At the same time, imagine one person you meet along the way. Here's the simple catch: give yourself a new name.
This last instruction pulls the writer out of her personal mindset and frees her to become a new character. Combining familiar settings with a new mindset frees the critical mind. Through this process, I've seen shy students transformed into rock stars, concrete thinkers morphed into artists, and the most hyperactive minds channeled into concentrated imagination.
Try this: Write an account of a place you've been in nature, all you felt and smelled and heard. But give yourself a new name, a new gender perhaps, maybe even a new species. I bet you'll see that place anew, and escape for a little while from that critical mind that is always aware of who you are, your limitations and fears and distractions of daily life. Let yourself leave that version of you behind as you transform into someone else for a journey into nature.


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Restart of Me-109 G's Found In Barn
Check out the re-start video of the recently sold Me-109's that were used in the 1969 movie "The Battle of Britain" then stored in a barn for 40 years!
History: In 1942 the Spanish government arranged a manufacturing licence with Messerschmitt AG to build the Bf 109G-2, with DB605A engines, propellers, instruments, and weapons to be supplied from Germany. This proved impossible, as Germany was incapable of meeting her own needs, let alone Spain's. Only twenty-five airframes (minus their tails) and not even half the necessary drawings were delivered.
Post World War II, production resumed on the Buchón's and the final variant was the HA-1112-M1L Buchón. It first flew 29 March 1954. The 1112-M1L was equipped with the 1,600 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 engine and Rotol propeller, both purchased as surplus from the UK. This engine had a chin intake, that altered the lines of the Bf 109's airframe visually. Its armament consisted of two 20 mm Hispano-Suiza 404/408 cannons and two Oerlikon or Pilatus eight-packs of 80 mm rockets. It remained in service until 27 December 1965.
The HA-1112-M1L's remained in flying condition until the mid-1960s. This made them available for theatrical use, masquerading as Bf 109's in movies like The Battle of Britain. (from WarHistoryOnline.com)
Watch an interview of the previous owners featuring some great photos of the planes at the Edward's Ranch.


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I expect that my July posting will be spotty but for all the right reasons. I will be too busy painting and sketching outdoors!
I have plans to plein air paint (July 10 - 14) and I have also planned two more urban sketching events: one at Beechwood Cemetery (July 23) and the other in the Byward Market (July 29) as part of the 56th World Wide Sketchcrawl. Please come out and join us if you can. Its free and open to sketchers of all ages and levels.
I will be attending my very first artist residency in Pontiac, Quebec (July 17 - 21 ) and I plan to blog about it briefly before I leave and then in detail when I return.
So for now, I leave you with these photos taken in past years at some of my favourite locations.
|My plein air painting of the Lavender farm, Quebec
|My plein air painting in Kilbear Provincial Park, Ontario


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Reviewed by Desere
I still remember the first Cosmo Red Hot Read I read by Sarah Morgan called Ripped! It was all kinds of hilarious funny and extremely super hot.
So of course I jumped at the chance to read her second CRHR and oh my was it all kinds of awesomeness! The author once again gave that super sexy flair of passion meets reality meets humor all neatly wrapped with a big bow of amazing writing!
The story tells of Rosie and how her perfect zen balance is thrown for a serious loop when her former coach and lover Hunter Black becomes her new boss!
Talk about awkward! I for one would feel so out of place and would lose more than just my zen. But Rosie decides she won't go all nutty with all the sexual energy crackling between them, she'll instead go a little slutty and take what she wants but this time it's play by her rules or no playing at all. Poor Hunter has no idea what he's in for.
I really loved the sexiness of this read, the super hot chemistry between Rosie and Hunter was off the charts, and had this certain sneak around kind of feel about it making it all the more sexier.
The characters were very well written and nicely developed for a short read. None of that "I am missing this part about the personality or What? Why? What did I miss?" I know from previous short reads by other authors that it so very often happens that all you have a super red hot sexy story but no substance into the characters and it all just seems too rushed, not the case in this read, nice work Sarah!
Aside from sexy heat, fantastic chemistry, well developed characters there was also the fact that this is a fantastic well written second chances read.
I totally loved the ending in this read, it was so sweet, so kind so melt my heart inspiring it took my breath away. But am of course not going to tell you, you will need to read it for yourself all I will say is " Happy Birthday Ninja!"
5/5 star review
"She's been burned once before but this time she won't go down in flames"


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The busy beaver function (a.k.a. BB function or Radó's sigma function, denoted \(\Sigma(n)\) or \(\text{BB}(n)\)), is a distinctive fast-growing function from computability theory. It is notable as being the most well-known of the uncomputable functions. It is defined as the maximum number of ones that can be written (in the finished tape) with an n-state, 2-color halting Turing machine starting from a blank tape before halting.[1][2]
Radó showed that this function eventually dominates all computable functions, and thus it is uncomputable. That is, no algorithm that terminates after a finite number of steps can compute \(\Sigma(n)\) for arbitrary \(n\). However, it is computable by an oracle Turing machine with an oracle for the halting problem.
Turing machines that produce these numbers are called busy beavers. It is one of the fastest-growing functions ever arising out of professional mathematics. In googology, only a handful of significant functions surpass it — the xi function, the Rayo function, and the FOOT function.
Informal explanation
The Robot of Eternity Inn
Imagine an endless row of hotel rooms, and each room contains a lightbulb and a switch that controls it. Initially, all the rooms are dark. A robot starts at one of the rooms, and has the ability to operate switches and move to adjacent rooms.
The robot has several states that it can be in, and each state determines what it should do based on whether the current room is light or dark. For example, a robot's rules could include these states:
- The "scared" state:
- If the room is dark, turn on the light and move to the room to the left.
- If the room is light, do nothing and go to the "normal" state.
- The "normal" state:
- If the room is light, turn off the light and move to the room on the right.
- Otherwise, go to the "scared" state.
One special state is the "stop" state. When the robot finds itself in this state, the process is complete.
Suppose a robot has n states (not including the "stop" state), and it stops. What is the maximum number of light rooms at this point?
This system is in direct allegory to Turing machines. The hotel is the tape, the robot is the Turing machine, and dark rooms and light rooms are 0 and 1 cells.
Suppose n = 3. It turns out that the following ruleset wins:
- State "normal" (initial state):
- If the room is dark, turn it on and move to the right. Then go to state "beware".
- If the room is light, move left and go to state "frivolous".
- State "beware":
- If the room is dark, turn it on and move to the left. Then go to state "normal".
- If the room is light, move right. (Stay in state "beware".)
- State "frivolous":
- If the room is dark, turn it on and move to the left. Then go to state "beware".
- If the room is light, stop.
With the right rules, Turing machines (TMs) can perform any computable operation despite their apparent simplicity. If a computer can calculate it with finite time and space (even in theory), a TM can also do it with finite (though probably longer) time and space. From a computability perspective, TMs and Intel processors are one and the same, although the former is much simpler. This important fact is known as the Church–Turing thesis. (Some equivalent simple devices include tag systems, certain cellular automata, SKI combinator calculus, and the Brainfuck programming language.)
It is easy to simulate a TM, but it is much harder to predict the behavior of a TM. This is because some TMs never halt, and the only way to test for that is to A) simulate them infinitely, or B) find and prove a pattern. Option A is physically impossible, and option B is difficult — how does a computer recognize arbitrary patterns? — and also problematic because many TMs exhibit chaotic behavior and do not have simple patterns.
The underlying issue here is that computers are no more powerful than TMs. To oversee arbitrary TMs, we need something more powerful than a TM. But, by the Church–Turing thesis, the computers we have today are computationally equivalent to TMs! Overseeing them, and thus computing BB(n), is impossible.
The Deity of Eternity Inn
The set of all TM rule sets is countably infinite — TMs can be mapped one-to-one onto the natural numbers. In fact, let's label them TM #1, TM #2, TM #3, ... The exact mapping we use is unimportant, as long as it's possible for some TM to recover the ruleset given machine's number.
Note that each of the TMs in this sequence can have any finite number of states. There are \((4n + 4)^{2n}\) Turing machines for \(n\) states, so TM #1-64 might be the one-state machines, TMs #65-20801 all the two-state machines, TMs #20802-16798018 all the three-state machines, etc.
We augment the Robot of Eternity Inn by adding in a god. Three new special states are introduced: "ask", "yes", and "no". If the robot enters the "ask" state, it contacts Triakula, the Goddess of Large Numbers. Triakula then does the following steps:
- She counts all the light rooms, and calls the result x.
- She simulates TM #x (which is impossible for anyone but a deity).
- If TM #x halts, she puts the robot in the "yes" state. Otherwise, she puts it in the "no" state.
We ask the same question as before. Given access to the god, what is the maximum number of light rooms possible the robot halts? This is a function of n, the number of states the robot has (excluding "ask", "yes", "no", and "halt").
This new extended situation is an allegory for oracle Turing machines. There are several equivalent definitions for them; some use an additional tape for the oracle, and some use different states than "ask", "yes", and "no".
Higher Deities of Eternity Inn
In the true spirit of googology, you can always go a step further. We can once again transcend oracle Turing machines by enumerating them TM2, TM2 #1, TM2 #2, TM2 #3, ..., where TM2 stands for "level-2 Turing machine," or an oracle Turing machine. Transcending those we can get higher successive tiers of Turing machines: TM3, then TM4, then TM5, ...
What do we do after all these levels? We can create a new "level-ω Turing machine", or TMω, that has access to all these levels of Turing machines. Take this table:
Although this table extends infinitely in two dimensions instead of just one, complete enumeration using the naturals is entirely possible using this winding pattern (although alternative schemes are okay provided they enumerate all cell entries):
We now have the definition of TMω #n, so we have successfully transcended all order-n Turing machines.
By the way, the maximum output of a TMa with n states is Σa(n).
By adding an oracle for TMω we can continue with what could be called "level-ω+1 Turing machine", or TMω+1, then adding another level of oracle we can get TMω+2, and so on. After we define TMω+a for all positive integers a we can use a trick similar to one used in the previous section to construct "level-ω+ω Turing machine", which would be able to solve halting problem for all TMω+a.
With the help of ordinal numbers we can continue this method further, and we could define TMα for any countable ordinal number α. However, due to the increasing complexity of encodings of high order oracles this becomes very impractical to work with, which is why mathematicians have been considering different ways of extending the notion of computability. One of them worth mentioning is an infinite time Turing machine devised by J. D. Hamkins and A. Lewis.
Computing values
It is very hard to prove whether specific TM is a busy beaver or not. There exist \((4n+4)^{2n}\) TM's with n states to verify. This can be reduced to \((2n-1)(4n)^{2n-2}\)[3], which immediately eliminates the most trivial TMs.
It is exceedingly difficult to compute exact values of \(\Sigma(n)\), but some lower bounds can be found. There are two general approaches to the problem:
- Bottom-up Technique (for small \(n\))
- Run through some set of possible Turing machines with \(n\) states.
- If a machine runs for more than X steps, for some large limit X, it is assumed to be running indefinitely and is ignored.
- Out of the machines we didn't ignore, find the machine that writes the most ones.
- Top-down Technique (for large \(n\))
- Take the some quickly growing function \(f\).
- Simulate the computation of \(f(n)\) using a Turing machine.
For example, if we can compute the Goodstein function on a machine with 100 states, then it is very likely that \(\Sigma(100) > G(n)\) for relatively large n.
First of the methods could be potentially used to evaluate \(\Sigma(n)\) exactly for small \(n\), but the method quickly becomes infeasible. For this reason top-down technique is generally used.
Note that if \(f(n)\) is any computable function, \(\Sigma(n)\) will eventually outgrow it. The tricky question is when does the sigma function outgrow it, and this is difficult to answer without actually evaluating \(\Sigma(n)\).
The function's growth rate is believed to be comparable to \(f_{\omega^\text{CK}_1}(n)\) in the fast-growing hierarchy, where \(\omega^\text{CK}_1\) is the Church-Kleene ordinal, the set of all recursive ordinals. But it is unknown which function is faster.
Small values
Using the bottom-up method, the following values and bounds have been found:[4][5][6]
\begin{eqnarray} \Sigma(1) &=& 1 \\ \Sigma(2) &=& 4 \\ \Sigma(3) &=& 6 \\ \Sigma(4) &=& 13 \\ \Sigma(5) &\geq& 4,098 \\ \Sigma(6) &\geq& 3.514 \cdot 10^{18,267}& \\ \end{eqnarray}
For \(\Sigma(1)\), the proof is trivial. Single-state Turing machines either halt after the first step or continue moving out in one direction infinitely. For 2, 3, and 4, behavior becomes more complicated, but it is possible to prove the values. Beyond \(\Sigma(4)\), no exact values are known. It is suspected that \(\Sigma(5) = 4,098\), but this has not yet been proven.
Using the 6-state record holder, Wythagoras and Cloudy176 proved that \(\Sigma(7) > 10^{10^{10^{10^{18,705,352}}}}\).
Green's machines
Milton Green proved that \(\Sigma(2n) \gg 3 \uparrow^{n-2} 3\), so e.g.:[7]
\begin{eqnarray} \Sigma(6) \gg 3 \uparrow 3 = 27 \\ \Sigma(8) \gg 3 \uparrow\uparrow 3 = 7,625,597,484,987 \\ \Sigma(10) \gg 3 \uparrow\uparrow\uparrow 3 \\ \Sigma(12) \gg 3 \uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow 3 \\ \end{eqnarray}
\(\Sigma(6)\) is already known to be much, much greater than 27, so these lower bounds are very weak.
Turing machines discovered by Milton Green are known as Class M Turing machines, and k-th Class M Turing machine has 2k states.[8] To construct the first Class M Turing machine (that simply increments the original number), we use the following rules:
0 _ 1 r 1 0 1 1 l 0 1 _ _ l halt 1 1 1 r 1
Next, every nth Class M Turing machine has 2n states and are constructed as follows:
0 _ _ l 2 0 1 1 l 0 T 2n-1 _ _ l halt 2n-1 1 _ l 2
Here T indicates the table for the (n-1)th Class M Turing machine, except that every state numbers in rules increased by one, and the halting rule replaced with
2n-2 _ 1 r 2n-1
Graham's number vs. BB(n)
\(\Sigma(64)\) has been proven to be larger than Graham's number.[9] Suppose we define an accelerated version of the fast-growing hierarchy:
\begin{eqnarray*} h_0(n) &=& n+1 \\ h_{\alpha+1}(n) &=& h_{\alpha}^{n+2}(n+4) \\ h_{\alpha}(n) &=& h_{a[n+1]}^{n+5}(n+7) \\ \end{eqnarray*}
Then \(\Sigma(64) > h_{\omega+1}(h_{\omega+1}(4)) > \lbrace 4,3,2,2 \rbrace \gg G\) (where \(\{\}\) represents BEAF). Bird's Proof also tells us that \(\Sigma(64) >\) \(3 \rightarrow 3 \rightarrow 3 \rightarrow 3\) in chained arrow notation.
Googology Wiki user Deedlit11 proved that \(\Sigma(25) > G\). Another user Wythagoras proved using Deedlit11's results that \(\Sigma(24) > G\). This reduces the record for beating Graham's number down from 64 states to 24 states. Over several years, Wythagoras made multiple improvements to the bound, improving it to \(\Sigma(18) > G\).[10]
Larger values
Wythagoras proved \(\Sigma(38) > f_{\omega2}(167)\), \(\Sigma(64) > f_{\omega^2}(4,098)\) and \(\Sigma(85) > f_{\varepsilon_0}(1,907)\).
Wythagoras also showed that \(\Sigma(61, 6) \gg H(3)\) and LittlePeng9 proved \(\Sigma(134, 7) \gg U(3)\) where H and U are Chris Bird's functions. Wythagoras has also shown that \(\Sigma(38,3) \gg f_{\varepsilon_0}(374,676,379)\).
\(\text{BB}(1,919)\) is the smallest known value of the busy beaver sequence that is independent of ZFC.[11] The first such TM constructed had 7,918 states.[12]
Tape changes
Below are pictures illustrating tape changes for two, three and four state busy beavers and the record holder for five.
Related functions
Maximum shifts function
- Main article: Maximum shifts function
Another function that has comparable growth rate is \(S(n)\), the maximum finite number of steps that can be performed using n-state, 2-color Turing machine. Some authors refers to this function as the busy beaver function.[13][14] For all \(n\), \(S(n) \geq \Sigma(n)\) because a machine that prints \(\Sigma(n)\) ones must undergo at least as many state transitions.
Higher order busy beaver functions
It is impossible for a Turing machine (or anything less powerful) to compute \(\Sigma(n)\) for arbitrary \(n\). However, we can create a second order Turing machine, or oracle Turing machine, that has access to a black box ("oracle") that can determine when an ordinary Turing machine halts. The maximum number of ones that can be written with an n-state, two-color oracle Turing machine is denoted \(\Sigma_2(n)\) — the second order busy beaver function. Unlike the simple variations above, this new function has a sizeable advantage over the original function.
Although a second order Turing machine can solve the halting problem for first order Turing machines, it cannot predict when it halts itself. Thus \(\Sigma_2(n)\) is uncomputable even with respect to an oracle Turing machine.
In general, \(\Sigma_x(n)\) can be computed using an order-\((x + 1)\) Turing machine, but not for any lower-order machines.
Unfortunately, there is no single, standard definition for these oracle Turing machines, so the higher-order sigma functions do not have any standard definition.
This is an "escape time algorithm" for finding lower bounds — if a Turing machine does not halt after t steps, it is assumed to go on infinitely. Setting t to infinity yields the correct value for BB(n), but this obviously cannot be done on a computer.
function BB(n, t): max := 0 for each rule set r: simulate a Turing machine with ruleset r for t steps if the machine halts: if number of 1's printed > max: max := number of 1's printed return max
This method was used to compute \(\Sigma(3)\) and \(\Sigma(4)\) as well as the bounds for \(\Sigma(5)\) and \(\Sigma(6)\).
The "bottom-up" method of finding bounds by constructing Turing machines with large outputs is a tricky problem. So far it has been done only by humans, and computer-assisted proofs bounding \(\Sigma(n)\) for large \(n\) are yet to be explored. An example of such program is Skelet's BBprover program.[15]
- ↑ Rado, T. "On Non-Computable Functions." Bell System Technical J. 41, 877-884, May 1962.
- ↑ Busy Beaver -- from Wolfram MathWorld
- ↑ Notes on Busy Beaver Function
- ↑ 3-state Busy Beaver
- ↑ 4-state Busy Beaver
- ↑ Marxen, Heiner. Busy Beaver. Retrieved 2013-03-09.
- ↑ Green, Milton. A lower bound RADO's sigma function for binary turing machines. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
- ↑ Ackermann's Function in the number of 1s generated by Green's machines
- ↑ Proof that BB(64) > Graham's number
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Three announcements - Shtetl-Optimized
- ↑ Adam Yedidia, Scott Aaronson. A Relatively Small Turing Machine Whose Behavior Is Independent of Set Theory (PDF)
- ↑ Aaronson, Scott. Who Can Name the Bigger Number?. Retrieved 2013-03-09.
- ↑ Goucher, Adam. Busy beavers. Retrieved 2013-03-09.
- ↑ Busy Beaver prover
See also
- Busy Beaver on Wikipedia.
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I spent the last two days in New York; today I was in a meeting with a bridge engineer whose office is directly on Times Square. All day, I could look out a third-floor picture window and watch the ABC News offices right across the street. In the morning they were broadcasting Good Morning America live; all day, news headlines went around and around in lights. So I was subjected to the depressing headlines of the day–Rush resigns, Arnold accused, Arnold apologizes, CIA inquiry broadened, soldiers killed, etc.–about ten thousand times apiece. It got so bad that I had to stare at the 100-foot long Jockey For Her billboard just down the street for relief. Actually, I enjoyed Times Square; I hadn't been there for years, and the extent to which it's been cleaned up is remarkable.
The news, on the other hand, was grim. Has the left finally gotten Rush after all these years? Maybe. The one-two punch of race controversy and illegal prescriptions may be what it takes. For a long time, the left tried to treat Rush in a condescending, dismissive manner. It never really worked. Now it may.
Rush's observation that Donovan McNabb has been overrated was, by itself, highly controversial. I have no opinion on whether it is true; my brother who lives in Pennsylvania and is an avid Eagles fan could send us a more informed opinion. But the extension of Rush's idea–that McNabb was overrated because the news media are eager to promote a black quarterback–was frankly stupid. Not because it isn't true; there is obviously a double standard in sports reporting. Any regular reader of Sports Illustrated, for example, will tell you that it isn't necessary to look at the photo to tell whether they are writing about a black or a white athlete. They employ completely different styles in writing about different races. Now, this may be changing; on television, in particular, commentators now feel much freer to criticize black athletes, probably because so many TV personalities, unlike magazine writers, are themselves black. So if Rush had simply said that McNabb was overrated and left it at that, he'd have been fine.
But anyone who follows television sports, as Rush does, knows that any sportscaster who makes an explicitly racial observation–not just critiquing a player's performance but bringing his race into it–no matter how free from malice he might be, is fired. It's another sign of our weird culture; if you're a college student or professor, you can't write a paragraph without dragging race into it somewhere; but for a sportswriter to do the same thing is per se cause for termination. The odd thing is that Rush must have known this.
As for Arnold, I've not yet had time to fully review the allegations (the rotating lights at the ABC studio said he "groped" the women). But I will be very surprised if they make a perceptible difference. After the Oui interview, groping will strike many as a wholesome exercise. And I think most people will view the latest, carefully orchestrated revelations as another example of the Democratic Party slime machine in operation.
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The Value Of Play
Those of us in the parks and recreation and camp businesses know how important it is for kids to get outside and play.
And we're lucky enough to get to see how kids thrive and grow through playful interaction with nature and each other.
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This month, more than 200 experts will gather at Clemson University to explore the value of play. The Conference on the Value of Play will take place Feb. 6-9 at Clemson's Madren Conference Center.
This year's conference follows last year's Summit on the Value of Play, which led to the creation of the US Play Coalition.
"This year we're attracting a broad spectrum of people who share concerns about the play deficit in our children," said Fran Mainella, a visiting scholar at Clemson who co-chairs the US Play Coaltion.
"This conference provides a venue for people and organizations to learn from each other and coordinate efforts to bring back play in the lives of all people," Mainella said. "And not just children."
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We are often asked what are benchmark results for email marketing in terms of open rates, click rates and subsequent buy / register rates.
To keep it easy I've developed the 3-2-1 rule of thumb.
Obviously your results wil depend on the target market, proposition and so on, but as a rough 'rule of thumb' which is easy to remember, I tend to use the following:
(NB these are based on e-mailing an opted-in in-house list)
Open rates – 33% (divide/multiply by 3)
(Unique) Click rates (of those who've opened) – 20% (divide/multiply by 5)
Buy / Convert rates (of those who open) – 10% (divide/multiply by 10)
The 3-2-1 bit equates to the 33%-20%-10%.
If you compound these metrics you can work out:
– Divide total number of people on your list by 150 to get approximate number of conversions you should get.
– Multiply the number of clicks you get by 15 to work out the active list size.
This is a bit crude, I know, but it can help as actual open rates are getting harder to track (because of image blocking and so on) and also to help gauge active list members (rather than total).
What benchmarks do you use?
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