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Landmark Links February 7th – Garbage In, Garbage Out
Lead Story… Like most Americans, I spent my Sunday afternoon and evening transfixed to a television as the Patriots completed the most epic single game comeback of all time. I'm still in a bit of disbelief about what actually transpired but the shocking overtime ending certainly added to the bonafides of both Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as respectively the greatest QB and coach in the history of the game. For a bit of personal background, I grew up in northern New Jersey and have been a die hard NY sports fan since I was about 5 (Giants and Yankees). I later attended college in suburban Boston where nearly all of my friends were as passionate about Boston sports teams as I was about NY teams. Needless to say I'm a Patriots hater and spent most of my afternoon doing three of my favorite things: drinking beer, eating too much unhealthy food and talking trash about the Patriots on social media. As you can imagine, the last of these did not end well.
ESPN has a feature on their website and app called "Win Probability." I'm not entirely sure when they added it but I became aware of it at some point during this football season. Essentially, it's a chart of computer generated odds that updates in real-time during a game. Over the course of the season, it became something that I check in on with curiosity during a close game. After the Super Bowl, as I was absorbing various much-deserved barbs from Pats fans that I had been mocking just a bit earlier, a friend sent me this incredible screen shot chart from ESPN's app:
If you go to ESPN's website, you can scroll over the chart but I'll save you the time: with 9 minutes to go in the 4th quarter, ESPN's Win Probability tool gave the Falcons a 99.6% chance to win the game. Fivethirtyeight.com had very similar odds as well. They still had a 75.4% chance as the Pats were in the Red Zone about to score the tying touchdown and 2-point conversion and I was searching for something to convince myself that I wasn't going to have to eat a whole bunch of crow. We all know how this ended.
So how was this advanced analytical tool so wildly wrong? It's actually quite easy. All forecasting models, no matter how sophisticated are essentially the same: they are only as good as the data that's put into them. If you put garbage assumptions in the model, you will always, without exception get garbage out.
If Super Bowl LI had been played 100 times, the Falcons may very well have won 99 of them. However that's irrelevant since the game is only played once so only one result counts even if it's a statistical outlier. The model can't take into account shitty coaching decisions (why the hell did Atlanta not run the ball on 2nd and 11 from the NE 23 yard line with a chance to put the game away by kicking a field goal) or human nature (key members of the Pats have been in this situation so many times that the moment never gets too big and they never panic – which the Falcons appeared to do). The model didn't account for human decision making because, despite advances in AI, there are still far too many unknowable variables to quantify. It couldn't account for the vast difference in experience nor the fatigue that had clearly set in with the Falcon's defense from the middle of the 4th quarter on. It couldn't predict the human component of how the Patriots didn't get rattled when they were down big but the Falcons became the proverbial deer in headlights once adversity hit. Most of all, it couldn't predict the psychology behind the game when the tide started to turn that ultimately turned all of the great statistical analysis into a steaming pile of trash. This model deficiency is not unique to sports. As we know all too well, the betting odds charts of the US Presidential Election and the Brexit vote tell much the same story – there were surprise elements out there that the sophisticated models were not able to account for which rendered them virtually useless. The 2008 financial crisis was largely a crisis borne of faulty modelling assumptions that gave cover to banks to take on ever-escalating risks.
Over reliance on predictive models is an issue in real estate development and finance as well. Talk to any developer, builder or investor who has had a major cost or timing overrun due to faulty assumptions and they'll tell you just how useful modelling with incomplete or incorrect information is. This is why investors typically focus on the depth and experience of a Sponsor's company and development team when evaluating a prospective project. It's not just the assumptions being made but who is making them and why. How experienced are they and how will they react when the inevitable bump in the road comes along? Do they have enough real-world experience to detect potential problems before they happen? If not, the sophisticated financial model that showed a 25% IRR is completely worthless. Now, don't get me wrong, we use proprietary models and find extremely helpful as a tool in evaluating real estate development projects. However, they are just that: a tool. A tool that is far less important than the actual assumptions about revenues, costs, etc that are going in to them.
So congratulations to the Patriots and their fans for crushing the predictive models and pulling off the greatest single game comeback in NFL (if not sports) history. I'm sure that I'll be hearing much more from my Boston friends who I foolishly taunted for most of the game. I guess I'll just have to take solace in the fact that there is only one team that the Patriots, with the greatest QB and coach of all time haven't been able to overcome in the Super Bowl: Eli Manning and my beloved NY Giants.
Tick Tock: The prospects for meaningful tax reform in 2017 are dimming by the day.
Mixed Bag: Payrolls in the US increased 227k in January, well above consensus estimates driven mostly by construction and retail. However, wage growth slowed. But See: Fret not, wage growth is coming – it is just taking a while to show up in the data.
Proceed with Caution: Goldman Sachs is sounding the alarm bell on the economy as the Trump administration focuses on populist measures like immigration and trade restrictions first rather than pro-growth ones like tax breaks and infrastructure spending.
Backlog: Governor Jerry Brown dissolved the state 400 redevelopment agencies in 2011 so why are hundreds of millions worth of property still on the books 6 years later?
Economics 101 – The city of San Francisco doubled their rate of housing production in 2016. You'll never believe what happened next! It's almost as if there's something to this whole supply and demand thing.
Imagine That: Vancouver home sales plunged 40% in January as the market continues to free-fall after city council approved a 15% tax on foreign buyers last year. As with the previous story, the laws of supply and demand are alive and well.
How to Make a Miracle: The backstory of how the US Olympic Hockey Team shocked the world in 1980 by beating the seemingly invincible Soviets at Lake Placid.
On to the Scam: The Transportation Department is attempting to crack down on people flying with fake service animals.
This Ends in Tears: Hapless bettors can now outsource their wagers to something called "entity wagering funds."
Chart of the Day
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge." – Lao Tzu
Look familiar?
Hell No: A Texas family discovered 24 rattlesnakes living in their basement after one slithered it's way into their toilet.
Haterade: There is a new dating app to help people find love based on their mutual hatred of things.
You Can't Make This Up: A Florida man (of course) arrested for a massive $7 billion bank fraud is using the defense that Jesus wanted him to do it.
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D.C. United rewind
New coach, better effort, improved synchronization, a catastrophic defensive misstep, same awful finishing, and of course, another defeat.
Are we nearing the bottom of this freefall yet? Maybe not.
With the 1-0 defeat at New England, United set the club record for scoreless performances in a season with its 13th empty display. And D.C. accomplished it in just 19 matches. The last time someone other than 17-year-old Andy Najar scored in MLS play? Adam Cristman against Seattle two months ago.
Poor Ben Olsen. The club icon shouldn't have to oversee this disaster created by others.
Club owner Will Chang, who authorized the dismissal of coach Curt Onalfo while leaving the rest of the rotting operation in place, watched from the elite field-level seats at Gillette Stadium. In the locker room afterward, I approached him for a quick interview. He didn't want to talk.
What did designated player Branko Boskovic, the culprit on the goal, think of the match? "I don't know, I don't know what to say. ... I don't really have anything to say. I don't know what to say."
First-time scorer Pat Phelan, marked (sort of) by Boskovic, described the goal this way: "I started in an offside position and came back onside. When my man didn't follow me, I was in the middle of the [penalty area] and just had to deflect it one way or the other. I just had to not mess it up, really."
A United-related note: Luciano Emilio, who had been seeking a new MLS destination after being cut by DCU in July, told me that he plans to sign a short-term contract with Uruguayan club Danubio on Tuesday.
My match report is available here.
Video highlights, if you dare:
Steve Goff
August 8, 2010; 12:26 AM ET
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My heart almost stopped when I saw the word "Emilio." I thought you were going to tell us he was coming back again.
Luci's a class act and a half and I love him to death for that 2007 season, but his time is passed and it's time to move on.
Unrelated, but interesting, note: the last time we didn't suck was 2007, when we won the SS and lost to the Fire because some hack ref called Christian Gomez offside on what would have been the series-tying goal (with no away goal decider). I'm sorry, but I still refuse to believe it was offsides, and refuse to look at any replay that suggests otherwise. ;)
Anyway, the following season, we signed a sponsorship deal with Volkswagon, and every since we removed the three stripes for that VW logo, we've been downright terrible. Anyone else we should go back to the classic United, Adidas Three Stripes across the chest, look? Not only is it more appeasing to the eye, but we also didn't suck while wearing it!
Posted by: kdiff813 | August 8, 2010 12:42 AM | Report abuse
Posted by: PEddy | August 8, 2010 12:42 AM | Report abuse
there was a lot of nice build-up tonight. thats all i got.
Posted by: crocken | August 8, 2010 12:49 AM | Report abuse
Sorry guys, but I'm kind of checked out at the moment. It's a boring team with fewer and fewer likable players. Even the Beat lost tonight.
Only good news I got tonight is that USA-China (women's) is coming to Kennesaw later this year. And that one more DCU loss means one step closer to a front office overhaul.
Posted by: JacobfromAtlanta-ish | August 8, 2010 12:56 AM | Report abuse
I got ONE word: US OPEN CUP and VAMOS freeking UNITED!!! OK Two words!
Posted by: 9Nine9 | August 8, 2010 1:53 AM | Report abuse
Someone should do a DP ranking. Despite Beckham never playing for the Galaxy I still think he is worth more to the organization than Branko is to DCU.
Why can't we ever sign a decent DP? I'm guessing no decent player would ever commit to playing in a decrepit stadium with a trainer who sends you to Germany for a hernia surgery if you stub your big toe.
For the first time in my life I can easily say I like more of the players on the Red Bulls than DC United. Our owner is a joke, our stadium is a joke, our GM is a joke, our training staff is a joke, our DPs are always jokes, our coach is inexperienced and I wouldn't be half surprised if they were traveling to away games in a 30 year old DC city bus.
This is the real life version of the Cleveland Indians in Major League only our team doesn't have a picture of Chang in a bikini with cloth sections covering him.
Move the team to Florida so we can start over again from scratch with an expansion team…there is nothing salvageable about this organization except for the name, which I'm sure we can preserve for a new team in 2015 or beyond.
Posted by: Southeasterner | August 8, 2010 2:34 AM | Report abuse
There is no way Baltimore can win the Open Cup if they continue playing like they did today. We're at the stage where teams start taking the tournament seriously.
I wonder if Chang ducked comment because he plans on changing things in the front office soon and didn't want to have to lie to the press. Baltimore deserves better than Kasper and Payne.
Posted by: chemweapon | August 8, 2010 3:18 AM | Report abuse
You know it's really really bad when even Goff, who has to get interviews with these guys, calls it a "rotting operation".
I think a great part of the reason United sucks is because of the ownership situation. When you have an absentee owner, this is what you are liable to get: people like Payne and Kasper running the franchise into the ground and blaming in on middle management like Onalfo. All Curt did was take the money. He didn't create this crappy roster full of rejects (Cristman), no-name Australians (Alslop) and no name DPs like Boskovic.
And shame on Payne and Kasper for dumping this mess on Ben Olsen. A guy that loved DC United less would have immediately rejected being put in such a no-win position. I doubt they even increased his pay!
Posted by: tundey | August 8, 2010 6:48 AM | Report abuse
The United need to get some sort of goal celebration set up like the Revolution. That six gun salute thing is pretty cool.
Posted by: PowerBoater69 | August 8, 2010 7:11 AM | Report abuse
The United need to get some sort of goal celebration set up like the Revolution. That six gun salute thing is pretty cool.
Posted by: PowerBoater69 | August 8, 2010 7:11 AM | Report abuse
At least there was a good Ligue 1 game on yesterday. Great to see Bocanegra. I think that's the only positive I got out of yesterday's day of soccer.
Posted by: nairbsod | August 8, 2010 7:46 AM | Report abuse
I saw a lot of good things last night. Except for the one mistake we had the better opportunities and could have won.
Hernandez is making opportunities, he will score.
Boskovic is creating opportunities. He is doing well. He gets better each game. Givve the guy a break and see what he does after he has settled in a bit.
We all need a bit of patience. This year is done. We're playing for next year at this point. We should be starting the rookies and recent signings and such and see what they can bring.
Hamid did well
Julius Jamesdid well
McTavish did well.
Burch was poor, as usual.
Q did well
Najar did well
Bosko did well offensively, was at fault for the goal (that's fixable)
Hernandez could have done better on his shots but he was there and helped create them (he is fixable), nice corner for Cristman.
King did OK, almost scored.
Cristman: I don't see what he brings, should have scored on an open header.
If it were me, I'd tel Perkins his time is over, look elsewhere.
Posted by: RRP1 | August 8, 2010 8:14 AM | Report abuse
The location of ownership, whether or not it is "absentee," has nothing to do with anything, at least based on the club's history.
The ownership history (actually in MLS more properly called the "investor-operator" since the people or groups don't actually own the teams as they do in other leagues, they invest in the league as a whole and acquire the rights to operate a team in a particular market) of DCU proves that absenteeism is irrelevant.
The first investor group, Washington Soccer LP, that KP put together, consisted of several individuals (George Soros, Paul Tierney, Marc Cowan, Neil Tyra, and others) who were never around the organization. KP ran things as he does now, and thanks to Bruce's genius, the team went to three cups finals in each of his years at DC.
When the team's investment share was acquired by AEG, you didn't see Uncle Phil around the new offices in Chantilly or at RFK, or anyone from AEG for that matter, and another MLS Cup was won (2004).
In truth, Will has had a larger presence in the company of the team than any other investors before him, regularly showing up at RFK on both on game and non-game days, and making appearances on the road.
What we should be hoping for is that the GM of the team become the individual who is absent. Permanently.
Posted by: mightymax | August 8, 2010 8:48 AM | Report abuse
I already have tickets for the rest of the season, so I will probably hit a few more games. As for next season, there will have to be massive changes for me to have any interest in buying a single ticket to this garbage. In fact, they should pay me to show up.
You are a joke, DC United. You have been for years now.
-Section 231
Posted by: Hoost | August 8, 2010 9:03 AM | Report abuse
Is Christman on the take? How do you miss from there?
Up next for DC United: ruin Ben Olsen's coaching career.
Posted by: alan19 | August 8, 2010 9:23 AM | Report abuse
Alright, I'm hiring myself as Bosko's PR guy. You say "I lost my man on a play, and it will not happen again." Then say something about how you are acclimating to the league and the style of play, and are looking forward to next match.
Incidentally, you don't say "Whatever, I was once a respected player, give me my pay check and let me leave this raccoon infested place."
Posted by: UnitedDemon | August 8, 2010 9:32 AM | Report abuse
Well..... just read your article in this morning's paper. You left out (a) the huge disparity in shots and possession with DCU leading both. (b) the 2nd yellow card that was NOT issued to Gibbs after a borderline red card quality tackle on Pontius at the top of the box. Somehow the ref got distracted by an "injury" of another Rev 20 yards away and literally forgot to give the 2nd yellow. (c) the wide open Cristman header from 10 yards that he bounced into Reiss' arms. Finally, Hernandez (who had a good night overall) missed that gift opportunity because, (here it comes) this professional soccer player apparently can't shoot with his left foot. Really??? He shanked the shot because he had to hurredly try to contort his hips and legs to strick it with the outside of his right foot, when the pass is scooting directly from his left side. Amazing. These were 2 gimme goals.
Posted by: dbcoyle6 | August 8, 2010 10:50 AM | Report abuse
Ben Olsen was more entertaining to watch than the game at points (I was behind the DCU bench at Gillette).
As much as I dislike him, man, you can't say he doesn't love the team. Every club needs a guy like him.
Posted by: revsfanindc | August 8, 2010 10:51 AM | Report abuse
There are some postives to take away from this. Intensity was much better. Cristman did well to head down. He just headed too far down. 9 out of 10 times an MLS player heads a liner stright to the keeper, and no one gives those a second thought. His ahem, head was in the right place. It just didn't go in.
Also, the team did not fold its tent as it did against Salt Lake. Score one for Benny. This team of course lacks talent, but hustle and fight require no talent, and they had it last night for 90 minutes.
Negatives. Well I am not going to dwell on them other than to say I hope Boscovic proves to at least be a decent MLS player. DP material he ain't.
A reasonable objective for this group is to start scoring some goals, and win a few at home the rest of the way. I think under Benny there is some hope for achieving that.
Posted by: Ron16 | August 8, 2010 10:52 AM | Report abuse
The United need to get some sort of goal celebration set up like the Revolution. That six gun salute thing is pretty cool.
Posted by: PowerBoater69
How bout 2 raccoons, 2 rats and two bastard alley-cats. We could call it the...ummm...well, it doesn't matter what we call it because we never score! :(
Posted by: 9Nine9 | August 8, 2010 10:57 AM | Report abuse
The United need to get some sort of goal celebration set up like the Revolution.
Posted by: PowerBoater69
How do you know we haven't?
Posted by: troy6 | August 8, 2010 11:18 AM | Report abuse
Gibbs definitely should have been sent off in the second half with the reckless challenge in Najar that was definitely at least a Yellow which would have been his second. Could have changed the whole complexion of the match. Or maybe we just wold have had more shots on goal to screw up.
Posted by: DCU_VW | August 8, 2010 11:28 AM | Report abuse
BERBATOV SCORES! Chips the on-rushing keeper from 20 yards. This must be his first goal since moving to England.
ManU 3 - Chelsea 1. Red Devils win first silverware or the 2010-11 season.
Giggs sets career records of 13 appearances and 8 wins
Posted by: I-270Exit1 | August 8, 2010 11:55 AM | Report abuse
2 raccoons, 2 rats and two bastard alley-cats.
Posted by: 9Nine9
Raccoons, rats, cats, bee hives
How many were going to St. Ives?
Posted by: I-270Exit1 | August 8, 2010 12:00 PM | Report abuse
I blame the fans that wear Quaranta, Burch, and Perkin jerseys to the stadium.
Posted by: Ivanovich84 | August 8, 2010 12:12 PM | Report abuse
Unrelated, but interesting, note: the last time we didn't suck was 2007, when we won the SS and lost to the Fire because some hack ref called Christian Gomez offside on what would have been the series-tying goal (with no away goal decider). I'm sorry, but I still refuse to believe it was offsides, and refuse to look at any replay that suggests otherwise. ;)
Anyway, the following season, we signed a sponsorship deal with Volkswagon, and every since we removed the three stripes for that VW logo, we've been downright terrible. Anyone else we should go back to the classic United, Adidas Three Stripes across the chest, look? Not only is it more appeasing to the eye, but we also didn't suck while wearing it!
Posted by: kdiff813 | August 8, 2010 12:42 AM
I believe, if you replay that moment, you'll discover that the "hack ref" did not call Gomez offside. The goal was disallowed because Gomez brought the ball down to his foot using his arm -- a handball foul. While we did some bellyaching here, it was probably the right call. Gomito didn't do it deliberately, but still the right call.
On the VW sponsorship -- I did say this would be some really bad karma/ju ju.
As long as I'm correcting stuff -- Berbatov has scored 49 goals since moving to England. 27 with Spurs, and 22 now with Man Utd. Not his first goal, for sure. On the other hand, it was arguably Hernandez' first goal for Man Utd., if you don't count the North American tour.
Posted by: fischy | August 8, 2010 12:16 PM | Report abuse
As for United's play -- there have been a lot of games in recent years where United seems to control play, but loses due to defensive lapses and inability to score. It's a recurring pattern that has played out in numerous games this year, too. I see little improvement. If anything, United looked even less dangerous last night than usual.
Posted by: fischy | August 8, 2010 12:21 PM | Report abuse
I'm burning my white, playoff giveaway T-shirt emblazoned with "Will you be there for the Fifth?" and four gold stars.
It's got to be done. Probably should have been done long ago anyhow, with it's big mustard stain . . .
Burn, baby, burn.
Posted by: delantero | August 8, 2010 1:00 PM | Report abuse
Either way fischy, it made me want to jump through my TV and tear the ref's head off. Right call or not.
Posted by: kdiff813 | August 8, 2010 1:06 PM | Report abuse
I guess we know who's calling the shots: RM wears home white at the Rose Bowl, while LA wears road navy.
RE:Berbatov. I was sarcastically commenting on his lower-than-expectations productivity since moving to Old Trafford.
We stank pretty badly after Rongen's first season through Hudson's tenure, with die drei Streifen on the jersey front.
Posted by: I-270Exit1 | August 8, 2010 1:50 PM | Report abuse
I think the entire roster has taken turns missing wide open, empty net headers from
Posted by: Godfather_of_Goals | August 8, 2010 2:07 PM | Report abuse
less than 10 yards. The plays the "cost DCU points" rarely make the highlight reels.
Posted by: Godfather_of_Goals | August 8, 2010 2:09 PM | Report abuse
Of course Real Madrid was the home team- they're a measly 6,000 miles from Pasadena, while Carson is a tedious 21! It's not about calling the shots, it's about proximity to the venue! ;)
Posted by: kdiff813 | August 8, 2010 4:18 PM | Report abuse
# of games w/o a goal: 13
# of goals scored in MLS: 12
Is this right?
Posted by: prokaryote | August 8, 2010 4:22 PM | Report abuse
The only thing that would make that six gun salute cool would be if it was a firing line set up for "The" Execution of "The" lamest DCU fan on the planet: "The PB".
Posted by: DadRyan | August 8, 2010 5:22 PM | Report abuse
DCU has always had a traditional goal celebration, even if it has been heard a bit too infrequently this season and perhaps not as voluminous as in years past. It is the full-throated, electrifying roar of the barra, screaming eagles, la norte, and the rest of the rfk crowd. We don't need gun salutes, fireworks, cheesy organ music, or anything else.
We will probably not make the playoffs, but Benny will get a few goals and hopefully a few home wins out of this group. Hustle and fight is all we got, but that is enough to get some results here and there in this league.
Posted by: Ron16 | August 8, 2010 7:09 PM | Report abuse
I predicted before the season started that we will finish 5-15-10. hmmm...5-20-5 looks more reasonable at this point.
Posted by: FAkeemail9875 | August 8, 2010 7:24 PM | Report abuse
I'm burning my white, playoff giveaway T-shirt...Burn, baby, burn.
Posted by: delantero
I have suspected that one of me two United coffee mugs is cursed. After reading your post I decided take a hammer and mash it to bits...not out of hate but to break the bad joss!
Posted by: 9Nine9 | August 8, 2010 11:04 PM | Report abuse
I think this might be rock bottom. When PowerBoater's comments make sense and fit in with the general direction of the comments you know we're in real bad trouble
Posted by: rightback | August 9, 2010 2:00 PM | Report abuse
Ben Olsen was more entertaining to watch than the game at points (I was behind the DCU bench at Gillette).
As much as I dislike him, man, you can't say he doesn't love the team. Every club needs a guy like him.
Posted by: revsfanindc | August 8, 2010 10:51 AM | Report abuse
We had just yelled at the TV, "Just shoot the ball!" when they showed Benny saying "Shoot the &$!&*@$ ball!" Gotta love that about him. I don't think he'll be one to mince words and will definitely push these guys.
It was, however, as frustrating as ever to see them take it to the 18 so many times, just to back it back out and reset. If you don't shoot, you can't score.
Posted by: HarkesyRules | August 9, 2010 2:28 PM | Report abuse
Goal celebration?? What we need is a Scapegoat of the Match hazing ritual, where the designated scapegoat has something humiliating done to him. You could borrow plenty of ideas from Silent Library. Or maybe the Tim Tebow haircut
Posted by: Wiggan | August 10, 2010 3:03 PM | Report abuse
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Obviously, any attorney would tell you that all contracts should be in writing. However, it is possible in Texas, even though it is more difficult, to enforce a lien based on an oral agreement. However, if the property involves a homestead, a lien is not enforceable unless a written agreement is signed by both the husband and wife and filed in the appropriate property records department where the property is located.
So, if you happen to have not been paid on a project which involved an oral contract or agreement, don't give up all hope of being paid. The best bet is to contact your attorney to see whether or not this property is considered a "homestead" in accordance with the Texas Property Code and whether you meet the other requirements for a valid lien.


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PICAXE is a neat entry-level microcontroller system that is relatively cheap to get started with. The chip is programmed with a simple serial connection and the BASIC development environment is free! PICAXE has some excellent educational applications and support, and is a great entryway into more complicated embedded systems. If you're look for a place to start with microcontrollers, PICAXE is a great way to go!
A PICAXE microcontroller is a standard Microchip PICmicro™ microcontroller that has been pre-programmed with the PICAXE bootstrap code. The bootstrap code enables the PICAXE microcontroller to be re-programmed directly via a simple serial connection. This eliminates the need for an (expensive) conventional programmer, making the whole download system a very low-cost simple serial cable!
The pre-programmed bootstrap code also contains common routines (such as how to generate a pause delay or a sound output), so that each download does not have to waste time downloading this commonly required data. This makes the download time much quicker.
- Datasheet
- What is PICAXE?
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The PICAXE-08M offers:
- Up to 1800 program lines
- Works on supplies as low as 1.8v, ideal for 2-cell, 3v battery packs and applications
- 28 general purpose byte registers
- 6 I/O pins
- 4-way multi-tasking
- 255 gosub routines stack
- 3 ADC's
- New time variable that counts elapsed time
- 256 bytes of EEPROM
- 32MHZ hax speed
- Supports ring tones, servos, digital temperatue sensors, infra-red I/O on any pin
- Supports DAC, SR latch, hardware serial commands, I2C and motor pwm control
PICAXE-08M2 Microcontroller
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Passion for Promarkers - Old and new. Old paper and a new digistamp.
Craft your days away - Texture.
Daring Cardmakers - Turquoise.
Delicious Doodles - Use a digi.
Scrap-Creations - Anything goes.
Ønsker du å kjøpe eller spesialbestille noen kort av meg kan du nå meg på e-post firstname.lastname@example.com
Stilig kort Merethe :)
Flink å lage gutte/herrekort du :)
Ann Elin
Great card! Lovely to see your work at Daring Cardmakers! Thanks for joining us and good luck!
Greetings, Saskia
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Great card for a boy,
thanks for joinig in with us at DCM.
Lovely boy card hun!
Thank you for playing along in the Delicious Doodles Challenge this week, and good luck!
Teri xx
Stilig fotball kort, Merethe!!
Kjempefine farger og mønster ark sammen:-)
Ha en fin advents søndag!
Klem Laila.
Fabulous Boy card! Thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.
Lynda xxx
Great card! I love the KK sports images. Thanks for playing with us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations.SvarSlett
Awww...This is super cute. Thanks for playing with us Going grey with scrap-creations. Hope you join us again!SvarSlett
This is a fab boy's card.
Thanks for joining in with The Daring Cardmakers' challenge this week - if you'd like to be eligible for our prize draw, you need to add our sponsor's link - please check out blog for details
GREAT JOB! Love the soccer ball charm ... perfect embellishment! Thanks for joining us at Delicious Doodles! Hope to see you again next week!!SvarSlett
Hi Merethe, what a gorgeous card. The image is adorable and your colouring is fab. Thanks for joining in with our special challenge and blog hop over at PFP. Hugs, Denise x
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fantastic male card merethe.i love the image and great colours and papers.
thanks for joining us at PFP and good luck :D
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Great project, thanks for joining in at Delicious Doodles Challenge!
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March Madness officially begins tomorrow (March 13), and before all is said and done on April 2, a whopping 67 games will have been played. It's tough to keep up with the sheer number of games going on, but it just got a whole lot easier thanks to the fresh-on-the-market official app, NCAA March Madness Live.
The app is free, and offers an impressive list of features:
- Live game radio of all 67 games
- Live social chatter for teams in every game
- Fill out your official NCAA Bracket Challenge bracket right from your Android
- Track the entire bracket live throughout the tournament
- Get alerts for upsets, overtimes, crunch time (close games), and your favorite teams
- Post directly to Facebook and Twitter
- Use My Channels to see where each game is on all four networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV
You can also upgrade the package in-app for $3.99, which allows you to:
- Watch the NCAA Basketball Selection Show live on Sunday, March 11
- Watch LIVE streaming of all 67 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament games
- Watch a live stream of team practices for the Final Four®
- Watch highlights of all 67 games; highlights available right after each game
- Take it with you: Buy it once and use the March Madness Live account you create to login and watch on your computer.
Yup, you can even watch the games from your computer or phone over 3G, 4G, or WiFi once you fork over the $4. Impressive, but there's a caveat here worth noting: while most of the features work for every device running Froyo and up, streaming only works on Froyo (Android 2.2) and Gingerbread (up to 2.3.7) at the moment. Also, the app itself doesn't seem to be compatible with all phones - of the phones on my list, it's not compatible with the Amaze 4G and Photon 4G, though it is compatible with the other 4 phones I have showing. One final note: it's not available on any tablets, so you'll be confined to watching it from the clutches of your small screen or computer.


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Friday, May 10, 2013
Guest author Poppy Dennison
1 comment:
- AnonymousMay 10, 2013, 4:39:00 PM
Immortality is definitely a curse if you look at it from a psychological stand point, even immortality would have its draw backs on the mind. I guess it would depend on the person that is sired, if the mortal state of mind was weak or depressed, that would carry over to the immortal rebirth (depending from which supernatural universe that immortal would be part of), stronger minded people might make better immortals, then there's the fact of your humanity.ReplyDelete
I think vampires are sadly miss understood creatures as to other immortal being that is born with immortality meaning they "grew up" understanding the fact they would live several life times, where as the fact with vampires it's sort of forced on them. You have to come to terms quickly with the fact your immortal, but I don't think it gets expressed enough what immortality truly means, watching those you love grow old and die, you make new friends lovers and/or family only to see them age and pass again a endless cycle of madness (don't you think) of course it's different to those who has loss there humanity they couldn't care less.
I think most vampires would end their own suffering if there life mate would die and chose not to walk in to path of immortality. Yes, I think stripping away the fantasy of immortality and bringing it to reality it's alone, miserable and cold life one leads, sure the first couple of hundred years might be a part but then things catches up with. And then you're left with to face the true meaning of immortality.


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Coloured Tilda image is recycled, also embossed teal (turquoise) square behind her. Thanks to my friend! :)
All the rest if new.
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The DragonSubmitted by reverendbayn on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 14:57.
I did not kill that man. How could I kill someone who doesn't exist?
I knocked on the dragon's door. "Damnit! Don't you know what time it is?" I didn't. I'd stopped sleeping. How could I, with questions of such profoundity gnawing on my brain? I wanted to know about the Gnostics, about the divine spark trapped in flesh. I wanted to know about the archons and the demiurge.
He wasn't a dragon, not anymore. He had chosen to become human, to live among us. Crazy. But he knew many secrets and he shared them all with me. Eventually.
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One of the most important tasks of a GIS application is the "Spatial Join" or "das Verschneiden" (in German):
Oracle Maps may fully take advantage of the inbuilt Oracle Spatial Technology as part of the database. The functions ANYINTERACT and/or SDO_RELATE are used to calculate above e.g. which FOI (customer) is located in the Polygon (REGIERUNGSBEZIRK = County).
When you click ('mouse_click') on the polygon the Spatial Function is invoked and no timeconsuming calculations are carried out - and you have the result within a second.
"How To?" --> in my "Oracle-Maps-Tipps" BLOG


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Discover places to see and things to do whilst in and around Trerice, Cornwall to truly enhance your stay come rain or shine!
National Trust Trerice is a historic Elizabethan manor house just a short walk away and a 'must visit' to learn about the history and heritage of The Bulrushes. The silence is occasionally pierced by curious lilts of Tudor music or shouts of excitement from the Bowling Green (surely you will want to try a game of Kayling or Slapcock?), bringing back some of the bustle and noise that must have typified its time as a busy manor house.
Hit the Surf Hire a board and head to any number of the nearby surf beaches... Crantock, Polly Joke, Penhale are all a short drive away, as is the busier surf town of Newquay.
Fishy Business Early September sees the Newquay Fish Festival, a weekend that showcases one of Newquay's hidden gems, the fishing harbour. Now in its 11th year the Newquay Fish Festival is one of Cornwall's most established food and crafts shows and is definitely worth a visit!
For Little Ones Newquay Zoo is a great day out for both the young and the young at heart alike and just a short drive away.
Culture Vultures Take a drive 'down west' as the locals say, and catch a show at the Minack open air theatre; a remarkable and historic amphitheatre which is carved into the rock face.
Nearest Beach 3.0 miles to Great Western beach, 3.6 miles to Fistral, 4.5 miles to Watergate Bay.
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Limited edition Kitty hand puppet, full color soft-nap fabric printed in the USA and sewn by hand in our Hoboken studios. Quantities are extremely limited. NOTE: Not safety tested for children.
Look at those eyes staring out from the shadows. Don't make any sudden movements. That's Kitty, a very volatile and dangerous creature. She plays trumpet in Frank Purrlitzer's All Cat Combo. An explosives expert, she has long exceeded her quota of lives. She's the extremely high strung and reactionary member of the band, cracking under pressure and more than once nearly blowing Val's nefarious schemes. At the same time, she seems to have a habitual propensity toward courting death, preferring to hide in chimneys or nap in warm engine blocks. She lurks around town like a ghost, silently sneaking up on people startling both them and herself. Creeps me out.
Blow your horn at Spudbottom.com...
This puppet was made in limited quantity by the artists in our studio in Hoboken, NJ.
The materials & construction of this product have not been safety tested for young children.
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Smart Marketing Tips When Using SMS Campaigns
A good way to bond with and create a relationship is through communication. Customers are more responsive to companies they trust and have already established a relationship with them. If the customers are happy with the services, they will even be more responsive.
Get started by finding the perfect SMS solutions that will work for you and your business. There are several websites where you can research the topic of SMS software that are available and affordable. No matter the size of your business, an SMS software is a definite advantage to your business.
Keep it Short and Simple
No one likes to read a long text message, especially if it contains general information. It is best that you get straight to the point and minimize everything to around 160 characters. This is more cost effective, and you will be assured that the receiver will read the text.
Long texts can be very annoying. If you're announcing a promotion or offer, there is no need to go into the details. You just need to state the obvious and leave the rest for emails and your website. You want the customer to be interested and to go looking for more information so that they can get the entire scoop.
Keep Your Customers Updated
Most customers want to catch sales when they are on offers and discounts. Considering the overwhelming number of things that are available online, they could miss out on posts and ads that you posted on your online pages such as Facebook or Instagram. An SMS message will reach the customer instantaneously, and they can be updated right away. Otherwise, they could bump into the posts and ads after the promotional offer is over, which is definitely a bummer.
Integrate with Other Platforms
You can't relay all the necessary information in an SMS. Sometimes, you want to add a more definitive message along with other important details. An SMS provides a quick marketing incentive and a whole lot more information can be delivered by email. You can add a link to the text to redirect them to a newsletter page among other ways. Treat the SMS as a key and the email as a box with all the detailed information.
Conducting Surveys
You can run short surveys with an SMS by asking a single question that can be answered with either a Yes or a No response. Most people don't enjoy participating in long surveys that are bombarding them with all sorts of questions. You could also ask them to voluntarily participate in a short survey with easy multiple choices.
To motivate them, you could let them earn coupons if they participated in the surveys. You can easily categorize the coupons depending on the number of levels they engage in. It will motivate them to fully participate even for a small price because people do love free stuff.
Segment the Audience
You need to understand your audience. They are all different but you can categorize them in terms of similar interests, offers, and even demographics. This way, you can tailor the SMS texts accordingly and them relevant to your target customers.
Consider all the benefits you will get using an excellent SMS marketing solution. Deliver all the relevant and important information to your clients and don't miss an opportunity to keep your clientele loyal to your business.
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Wehner Weddings offers a variety of DUO ensembles to fit your needs. The Violin/Cello duo is classically based and provides a similar style to Solo Violin with added depth and harmony from the Cello. Other DUOS such as Violin/Guitar or Violin/Keys can provide a wide range of styles from Classical to Pop/Jazz, which is a popular choice for those who choose to extend our services through the cocktail hour following the ceremony.
Mix your favorite traditional classics with your favorite modern artists and songs to create a ceremony that fits your day!


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439 Children Achieve Guinness World Record at Happy Gelato Party in Austria
Happy Gelato Parties are the latest craze sweeping gelaterias around the world – and this summer they're coming to America straight from Italy where they began.
Presented in the U.S. by PreGel AMERICA and its gelato-inspired resource WhyGelato.com, the parties feature a trained performance artist who excels at the art of entertainment and gelato – combining both to offer spectators a show full of Happy Cones, gelato tricks, exciting giveaways and lots of fun. Happy Cones are gelato cones specially decorated with candies and cookies to create fanciful animals, clowns, flowers and much more to delight children, teens and adults alike.
A big hit in Europe and around the world, a recent Happy Gelato Party set out to achieve a Guinness World Record by having 439 children in Marchtrenk, Austria, link arms and form the world's longest chain of children licking gelato – or Happy Gelato flavors to be exact. The gelateria hosting the party also created the "Iciest Fireman's Ladder in the World" by lining up gelato trays the length of a fireman's ladder and filling them with 58 flavors of enough gelato to make 3,000 – 3,500 scoops of gelato. Both feats will appear in the 2010 edition of the famous worldwide reference book of record-breaking achievements.
Beginning on the East Coast in June and July, heading to the Midwest in August, and winding up on the West Coast in the fall, Happy Gelato Parties will showcase two delicious signature gelato flavors for Happy Gelato party-goers to enjoy, including Happy Gelato Classic Swirl, a banana-split inspired flavor and Happy Gelato Cookie Crunch, a flavor reminiscent of grandma's peanut butter cookies.
"We have had great success with the Happy Gelato brand and parties in Europe. We are thrilled to bring Happy Gelato to America so that everyone can enjoy hours of Happy Gelato moments at our parties and more for many years to come," said Dario Rabboni, general director of PreGel and son of its founder and president, Dr. Luciano Rabboni. "We hope Happy Gelato will change the way gelato is consumed all around the world."
"My family has been in the gelato business for generations so I know the happiness and opportunities to socialize with friends and family that gelato can bring," said Marco Casol, president and CEO of PreGel AMERICA. "I came to this country to help introduce Americans to gelato and the joy that comes with it, and these Happy Gelato Parties are one more way to spread our passion for gelato to people everywhere."
To find a Happy Gelato Party near you, go to www.WhyGelato.com today or visit www.HappyGelatoUS.com later in June when the site will launch.


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Monroe is a town in Fairfield County, in the Bridgeport-Stamford metro area.
The community was named after President James Monroe.
The latitude of Monroe is 41.336N. The longitude is -73.226W.It is in the Eastern Standard time zone. Elevation is 522 feet.
The population, at the time of the 2000 census, was 19,247.
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Median rent in Monroe, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $828. Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $1,841.
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I got up early yesterday morning to make a long drive into Houston.
Driving in Big City rush hour traffic is NOT how I like to start my morning.
The morning started out in the Blue, "Green Room"
Why do they call it a green room anyway?
It was not green, It was a room.
Why not call it "the room"?
Some questions will never be answered.
Then I had a date with this delightful man who fixed my hair and make-up.
The poor guy had no idea how much work it was gonna take to make me look decent, but he sure tried!
I was shown around the studio, where I would spend 10 minutes under harsh lights being interviewed.
They neglected to tell me that they would be filming me from the side, thus showing each and every one of my fat rolls and all three of my chins!
I considered locking myself in the green room and refusing to come out until they found the "Pretty skinny girl" camera lens, but I didn't want to be a DIVA.
All in all I had fun.
Being on TV isn't nearly as scary as you would think.
Now the Houston traffic that I drove through while rushing back to the serenity of the farm?
THAT was scary!
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I. R. Bartky (Bethesda, MD)
The so-called International Date Line represents no international agreement at all. Depicting its sweep across the Pacific Ocean from pole to pole is merely a convenient way to identify and separate the countries that use Eastern (Asiatic) dating from those governments that have adopted Western (American) dates.
There are actually two Date Lines, the other one coincident with the 180th meridian from Greenwich. On crossing that meridian, a navigator adds (or subtracts) a day to his vessel's reckoning, creating an unambiguous link to the Greenwich date. Somewhat surprisingly, this particular practice was not inaugurated by the world's navies until about 1840. Before then a navigator did not change the day and date in the ship's log until he had circumnavigated the globe--thereby making the en route reconciliation of the nautical day, the civil day, and the astronomical day subject to an additional error.
In this talk the history of the "place where the day begins" is traced. Noted are the speculations of 12th- and 14th-century scholars, as well as the bewilderment of the world's first circumnavigators on finding they had lost a day. Nineteenth-century datings in various parts of the Pacific Ocean are described, and the talk concludes with the recent extention of the Date Line by the island nation of Kiribati.
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World Bulletin/News Desk
Chinese officials have warned the residents of Chinese capital of Beijing to stay indoors and avoid heavy physical works. Dangerous particulate levels of air-quality of the city have been made public on Monday.
Officials said, the air-quality index indicated that the density of PM2.5 had reached 400 micrograms per cubic metre in some areas of Beijing.
Moreover, it was added that the level of air pollution was above the national and international standards and that the polluted air was expected to linger for two days.
People in the streets were seen wearing masks while officials warned public saying, "Elderly, young and sufferers of respiratory diseases need to remain indoors if possible".
Air pollution is a major problem in China. Previously, public in China had reacted to increasing air pollution during winter season which brought the topic to the agenda of China's historical congress.
In the scope of anti air pollution programs, the Chinese government suspended production facilities of many factories and warned for meeting the required conditions.Last Mod: 06 Mayıs 2013, 16:27


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Phonon Interactions in Single-Dopant-Based Transistors: Temperature and Size Dependence
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IWCE 2015 presentation. in this work we investigate the dependence of electron-phonon scattering in single dopant-based nanowire transistor with respect to temperature and dimensions. we use a 3d real-space non-equilibrium green': ; s function (negf) approach where electron-phonon scattering is treated within the selfconsistent born approximation (scba) through self-energies. we also use an analytic model to extend the validity of the acoustic phonon self-energy at low temperatures. based on this model our simulations show the presence of a current hysteresis when reducing the temperature down to 150 k. the influence of channel length and nanowire cross-section on the dopant level contribution to the current is also discussed.
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Bescond, M. "Phonon interactions in single-dopant-based transistors: temperature and size dependence," in Computational Electronics (IWCE) 2015 International Workshop on, DOI: 10.1109/IWCE.2015.7301939
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Colo. Family Still in Awe of Mom, Baby's 'Miracle' Recovery
Strangers sometimes ask if they can touch 1-year-old Coltyn Hermanstorfer on the head or take his photo after he and his mother, Tracy, recovered from a near-death experience during childbirth last Christmas Eve.
"People feel that he is, like, somehow connected right directly with God," said Coltyn's father, Mike Hermanstorfer.
Mike Hermanstorfer isn't convinced of that — "We'll find that out later in life," he said — but he has no doubt it was a miracle, and he understands if others want to get as close to it as they can.
"I'm not going to deny anybody," he said.
Tracy Hermanstorfer, now 34, went into cardiac arrest while preparing to give birth at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs on Dec. 24. Doctors quickly delivered Coltyn by emergency Cesarean section, but he appeared lifeless, Mike Hermanstorfer said.
Hermanstorfer was at his wife's side when her heart stopped beating. He thought he had lost both her and their newborn son. But doctors revived Coltyn in his father's arms. And then a nurse told Hermanstorfer his wife's pulse had inexplicably returned and that she would probably survive.
She was without a pulse for about four minutes, her doctor said.
Mother and child are healthy, with no apparent after effects and no medical explanation for what happened.
"That's why I mark this up as a miracle," said Hermanstorfer, 38. "There's no other explanation anywhere from anybody that can explain anything different to me."
Coltyn squirmed, pushed and babbled happily as his parents and two brothers watched during a recent interview.
"He's developing and at the right level he's supposed to," Tracy Hermanstorfer said in a quiet, happy voice. "I've done a couple tests and I come out just perfectly healthy. We still haven't figured it out, how it happened and why it happened."
Stephanie Martin, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Memorial Hospital, said she referred Tracy Hermanstorfer to specialists who explored various theories but came up empty.
"We don't have a medical explanation for what happened," she said. "We have theories but nothing we can prove."
Those theories included an overactive component of the nervous system and a reaction to an anesthetic, but neither held up.
Mike Hermanstorfer still seems rattled by the experience.
"I witnessed my wife die in front of my face. I witnessed my child — I don't really want to say dead, because you've got to live first. But he wasn't breathing," Hermanstorfer said.
Hermanstorfer said he suffers nightmares and frequently awakens at night to make sure his wife and baby are still there.
"With Tracy already going into cardiac arrest ... you never know if it's going to happen again," he said.
The Hermanstorfers have hit hard times since Coltyn was born. Mike Hermanstorfer said he lost his job with a towing company because he missed so much work looking after his wife and baby. The family was evicted from their home when they fell behind on the rent and had to move in with Tracy's mother.
Hermanstorfer said he also fell behind on alimony payments to an ex-wife and spent time in jail because of it.
The couple said they have no health insurance.
"We're having trouble finding the tunnel, let alone the light at the end of it," Mike Hermanstorfer said.
The couple said they have found comfort in family, which they say has drawn closer since Coltyn's birth.
Their 4-year-old son, Kanyen, has become Coltyn's "big brother-protector." Twelve-year-old Austin, Tracy Hermanstorfer's son from a previous marriage, has buckled down at school.
The only sign that either older brother felt left out amid the fuss about Coltyn was when producers for "Oprah" didn't invite them to accompany their parents and baby brother to Chicago in February to tape a segment for the show.
A spokeswoman for the show said she did not know when it might be broadcast.
Austin was upset by that, Tracy Hermanstorfer said.
"He was like, 'OK, we're part of this family.' And I think we're learning that with a lot of people now. We point out to them that we're a family of five, not three."


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"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name? ' Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers. ' (Matthew 7:21-23, NRSV)
I read on Facebook that there is a movement called the RAOK Nation. RAOK stands for Random Acts of Kindness. Likewise there are churches who have started this 'fad' entitled 'Radical Hospitality'. In the former example, the Facebook based movement appears to be designed to promote good deeds (are you ready) without the desire for recognition. Go figure. In the latter example, the practice of Radical Hospitality is the attempt of some churches to 'aggressively' reach out to visitors, guests and random persons to make them feel a part of the community. Another way to attract people to their worshipping community.
In both of the above examples, you get the emphasis on good practice, with horrible motives. They show Christian behavior without a Christian motive. The basic conundrum is that these movements take what is principally Christian normative behavior, something we are to be, and make it to a goal or motive toward an end. Hospitality is a fundamental sign of Christian belief, Christians are to be hospitable to all they come across. To turn that state of being into mere behavior for the purposes of growing your church is to violate the message that hospitality is communicating. To take a random act of kindness and make it a movement of recognition is just…….stupid. It ceases to be both random and a genuine act of kindness when you target someone for an act in order to receive credit.
These movement, (and others like them) exemplify the failure of effective teaching and shepherding of the 21st century church. Misunderstandings abound about everything from Halloween to "turn-the-other-cheek." Church ministries, pastors and Christian communities have failed to do their part in educating and challenging societal and theological misconceptions about the work, word and worth of Christian living. What results are disciples who spend more time focusing on the minutia of litmus tests around doctrine, behavior and political ideology instead of reading the Bible, questioning our traditions, and challenging the status quo.
Apparently this is not the first time that disciples have focused on the wrong thing. Nor is this the first time the teacher has been concerned about the student going astray. The above passage from Matthew 7 comes from a long passage of instruction by Jesus after the initial statement of the Beatitudes. In this corpus of instruction to the disciples and the gathered throng, Jesus spends time teaching on prayer, forgiveness, the Law and a whole host of other topics. Towards the end of this teaching, Jesus makes a qualifying statement about all who has already stated. In verse 21 he makes a dire warning to those with false motives saying, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven." Essentially, there has to be some purity of motives and unity of behavior for the one who seeks entry into heaven.
Of greater significance to me in the passage is Jesus' statement of the self-deception that many persons (including the disciples) will engage in, "On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?'" This is a profound statement about our motives and the intention of our actions. We spend so much time looking for a particular behavior and/or response from believers and Christ is saying behavior is not enough. Likewise, confession is not enough (Lord, Lord). Jesus statement should force us all to constantly check our motives and actions.
Jesus is asking each one of us to examine why we do a thing. We are not called to be duplicitous or manipulative in our behavior. This includes performing a RAoK just to be seen doing good, or performing hospitable acts in order to be remembered for them. Jesus calls ones that perform such behavior "evildoers". Our churches should be about more than merely good behavior. Our church members should be known for more than trying to grow the church. Our faith is about being Christ in the world today. Christians should be known for being what they want in the world, instead manipulating the world for their own ends. Manipulation, even for the kingdom, is still manipulation and the motives are not genuine.
We follow Christ because of who Christ is and not just because of what he does. Every miracle, every teaching, every pronouncement of Jesus was predicated or precipitated by a belief in his work as the Christ, the son of God. If we in the 21st century have become so focused on feigning acts and measuring belief, then we have ceased to believe in the work and being of the Christ. Remembering that Christ was/is in order that he be all God intended is fundamental to being a Christian, period. Being the Christ as he was in the world is the only way this world can get a vision of truth in a crazy, mixed up world.


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it's what I see that matters", she thought.
"Join me on my hunt for new ways to see beauty and to express feeling ... to keep life simple, to notice the little things and to love it all. "
Annie Edelman
4. It's what i see that matters
"What I am looking at is not important,
it's what I see that matters", she thought.
it's what I see that matters", she thought.
It was then she realized
that she saw all kinds of things
that most people missed.
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I also want to see all kinds of things that most people miss.
I guess I'll just keep looking. Thank for these beautiful images.
- Sunday, 08 July, 2007
- Anna said...
This is the one I received when my teacher came back from Australia. Thank you.
- Sunday, 10 January, 2010
- Dirty Dolly Design said...
Hi Anna,
Thankyou for your comment, I was very excited to received it.
This photo was taken at my back yard pond. It is a tiny toy chair which I balanced on a lily leaf. It kept sinking so eventually I put a cork under the leaf to keep it afloat. The water appear orange due to a reflection of the colour painted around the pond walls.
So glad you enjoyed it! Take care, Annie.
- Tuesday, 12 January, 2010
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Hoh Xil Heroes
On July 7, 2017, the 41st session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved the addition of China's Hoh Xil to the World Natural Heritage List. Hoh Xil, literally "blue ridge" or "beautiful girl" in Mongolian, is located in the northwest of Qinghai Province and the center of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and covers an area of 6 million hectares. It is popularly known as one of three "no-man's lands" in the world. The region boasts the densest distribution of lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and tens of thousands of square kilometers of wilderness, wild animals, mountains and glaciers. With the inscription, Hoh Xil became Asia's largest world natural heritage site.
"I heard the good news late because I had been busy patrolling the fields," says Sonam Geleg, "We drank some liquor to celebrate." The 39-year-old is head of the Wudaoliang Protection Station of Hoh Xil and one of more than 40 members of the Hoh Xil Patrol Team. Sonam and his colleagues remained excited for days after hearing the news. For decades, they have endured various hardships at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters while combatting poaching and illegal mining as well as saving wild animals. They feel the hard-won victory made all their painstaking effort worthwhile now that Hoh Xil is officially recognized as a World Natural Heritage site.
Ending Poaching
Sonam directly participated in Hoh Xil's application for the status of World Natural Heritage. On October 15, 2014, Qinghai Province formally started preparations by gathering a group of specialists in fields of biological diversity, geology, water engineering, hydrology, meteorology and aesthetics. After more than a year of work, Hoh Xil finally qualified to represent China to bid for World Heritage listing in January 2016.
During this period, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) sent inspectors to Hoh Xil for field trips. Sonam Geleg personally accompanied them. "They were astonished by the biodiversity of the place," says Sonam. "Before coming here, all they knew was that the climate is dry and cold and lacks oxygen and water, making the land unsuitable for human habitation. After the investigation, they agreed that Hoh Xil conformed to standards for natural heritage with high integrity and good protection and management conditions.
According to IUCN's evaluation report, more than a third of the higher plants found in Hoh Xil are unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and all the herbivores that live on these plants are also found nowhere else. "The nomination has extraordinary natural beauty," the report declared. "Its beauty is beyond human imagination and amazing in all respects."
Sonam is usually a quiet man, but when speaking of Hoh Xil, he starts talking a mile a minute. "For 12 years, we haven't heard the gunshots of poachers," he says. "We risked our lives to achieve this. Today, Hoh Xil is home to 60,000 antelope, a big increase from 20,000 in 1997, its lowest on record. More than 20,000 Tibetan wild donkeys and tens of thousands of wild yaks also live here. The effective protection of local animals greatly helped Hoh Xil's approval."
Guardians of the Plateau
In 1997, 19-year-old Sonam retired from the military. His passion was so ignited by watching a documentary about Hoh Xil protector Sonam Dargye that he decided to go there to be a patrolman. At that time, he and his teammates worked and lived in tents, which were frequently blown away by powerful winds. On trips into the wild, they couldn't even light a fire to boil water, so they often gnawed on dry instant noodles washed down with a handful of snow. Without bedding, they huddled together to keep warm at night.
In addition to patrols, the team was also tasked with collecting garbage, which is not an easy job at 5,000 meters above sea level. As few as several steps can make one out of breath, and they had to bend over repeatedly, which caused headaches and loss of appetite at night. "In the late 1990s, Tibetan antelope poaching was rampant, and we encountered heavily armed poachers almost every time when we patrolled. Several times, I narrowly escaped getting shot myself.
His leathery tanned skin makes Sonam look older than his age. "I never knew cold and oxygen deficiencies could cause physical damage or I would have taken some countermeasures," Sonam smiles. The patrol team usually drives down bumpy roads through no man's land a dozen hours a day. One patrol trip in the region often takes as long as a dozen days. If the truck gets stuck in mud, they dig it out. In rainy season, they do this as often as 30 times a day.
Since 2010, the team's working conditions have improved. They attached a trailer to the truck to carry gasoline, tents and luggage. Now they can boil water when away from the station. While patrolling, at least they can have instant noodles hot and add packets of pickles. Driving 10 hours across bad road conditions leaves the team time for only one meal a day. For 20 years, Sonam has lived rough and now suffers from serious lumbar disc herniation and arthritis, "occupational diseases" shared by almost all of his colleagues.
"Every time we went into the wilds of Hoh Xil, we felt like we were saying our last goodbyes to our families," says Sonam. In 1999, they were trapped in the mountains for 40 days with a truck that ran out of gas. To save food, they ate just one piece of steamed bread a day. When they were found by the rescue team, they hadn't eaten for three days. "With Hoh Xil approved as a world natural heritage, it was all worth it," Sonam exclaims.
More than Glory
After risking their lives to protect Hoh Xil for 20 years, Sonam and his teammates are finally seeing the fruits of their efforts. In 1997 when he began patrolling, he rarely saw a Tibetan antelope. Finding traces of Tibetan antelopes three times a week was considered a big success. "They were very sensitive to human voices and the sound of engines," Sonam reveals. "If we got a few hundred meters from them, they would scatter."
Now, wild animals can be seen everywhere in the core area of Hoh Xil and along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, including the Tibetan antelope, Tibetan wild donkey and argali. Train passengers often capture photos of Tibetan antelopes, and they're no longer afraid of humans. When someone raises a camera, they often look up at the lens. Sonam is most proud of his work in this regard.
Recent news, however, has made Sonam feel the inscription is just the beginning. High-resolution satellite monitoring by the Meteorological Administration of Qinghai Province has shown that some salt lakes have expanded 4.5 square kilometers since last year. The spread of salt lakes will kill grass and erode the soil. And if they continued expanding, the Qinghai-Tibet railway and highway, as well as the Lanzhou-Tibet cable and pipelines, would all be threatened.
"So, becoming world natural heritage is more than about glory—it means greater responsibility," says Sonam. "It's both a pressure and a motivation for us. We will devote our lives to better protecting this pure land."


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60 Years of ICLQ
On the eve of the Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law is an opportunity to reflect upon another bastion of international legal scholarship: the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, which has been published for 60 years. The ICLQ is rare in being a 'quasi-generalist' journal in an increasingly specialised and fragmented publishing world, crossing disciplinary boundaries and embracing new areas, in the fields of public international law, private international law, comparative law, human rights and European law.
Looking back over 60 years, it is evident that the ICLQ is a living record of the evolution of these areas, examining cases and legislation as they arise, debating key issues and providing testament to the impact of developments. Issues which were prevalent in the early days of the journal, such as post-war tensions arising from the Cold War and the progress of the Economic Coal and Steel Community, have given way to questions about the expansion of the EU, the end of the Soviet Union, and economic reforms in China, thus documenting the ebb and flow of international legal concerns. The ICLQ has not only adapted to new subjects but there is also an enduring significance of certain issues which are returned to time and again, such as the law of treaties.
From its inception in 1952, the ICLQ has been privileged to count among its contributors leading scholars, judicial figures, legal advisers and practitioners, both national and international, as well as younger scholars. It continues to provide a forum for international and comparative law scholarship in all its forms.
Since the ICLQ began to appear in digitized form, records show that some articles are read as many as 3,000 times online, and that articles written as long ago as the 1970s are still being consulted. This is testament to the enduring importance of the ICLQ. It is also uniformly recognized that the ICLQ is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in this field in the world.
For more information, visit: http://www.biicl.org/publications/iclq/


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012 Dr. Strange
Doctor strange is one of the most accomplished masters of the mystic arts in existence and an inspiration to armchair sorcerers across muliple worlds. His ability to execute seemingly impossible spells and teleportations is legendary. Mystical artifacts like the red cloak of levitation and the eye of Agamotto only enhance the mystical ability and legend of Doctor Strange.


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I love the photo above, not b/c it is C & I's first kiss, but becuase our officiant is looking on with such
a look of awe, and blessing and C's brother Mike has such a genuine smile on his face..
Now, Britain and Chris you've gathered your friends and family together to celebrate this special day with you. There's no doubt that you will be receiving some advice today. Please allow me to share some of mine.So what do you get such an amazing friend, and officiant as a gift. Well a basket of his fafavorite IPAs of course. Chris is quite the beer officiant, so we worked with Louis at Market Square Liqours to create a basket just for him. We utilized a wicker basket, 1 inch gross grain ribbon, and the stickers we had created (more on those to come) and created a basket that he will be enjoying for weeks to come!
Marriage is love in motion. Do not be just married or just in love. Marriage is an act of creation. Both of you are creating a life as individuals and a life together. Create a marriage that continuously works on balancing the needs of the individual and the needs of the marriage. Nurture each other. Set goals to work on together and nurture in each other the goals each one of you has as a person. Finding this balance requires not only love but a deep friendship. Be good friends to each other. Enjoy each other. And perhaps most importantly, have fun with each other! You are creating something that is good, wholesome, and very worthwhile. Do these things and I tell you, you have built something that can weather life's storms. And when you head into your twilight years, you'll be able to hold hands and say "We did it right".
Britain and Chris this celebration is the outward token of your sacred union of hearts, which I bless, and the state makes legal. It is a union created by your loving purpose and kept by your abiding will. It is in this spirit and for this reason that you have come here to be joined together,


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Seyi shares… Dear Stakeholder The London Borough of Newham has developed proposals that will transform Stratford town centre. This will include removing the gyratory around the Stratford Centre and introducing two-way traffic movement on Great Eastern Road, The Grove, Romford … Continue reading
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First, an Edwardian forecast. It's from 1906 and the artist is Lewis Baumer (1870-1963). I'd say he got a lot better later on. My thanks to the British Cartoon Archive for this bio, Lambiek.net for this one (with good illos). Wiki doesn't really have much.
The caption, big letters and small. First, "Development of Wireless Telegraphy. Scene in Hyde Park." Then the hushed explanation: "These two figures are not communicating with each other. The lady is receiving an amatory message, the gentleman some racing results."
I like the stipulation that the man and woman are not in contact. We've all heard that modern means of communication separate us from the people who are actually near us. Punch hit on the idea way back then — not necessarily to condemn it, but recognizing it as a fact of the life-yet-to-come.
Next, from 1878 we have teleconferencing. The cartoon is by George du Maurier and the caption follows below.
(Every evening, before going to bed, Pater- and Materfamilias set up an electric camera-obscura over their bedroom mantel-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their Children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire.)
Paterfamilias (in Wilton Place). "Beatrice, come closer. I want to whisper."
Beatrice (from Ceylon). "Yes, Papa dear."
Paterfamilias. "Who is that charming young Lady playing on Charlie's side?"
Beatrice. "She's just come over from England, Papa. I'll introduce you to her as soon as the Game's over!"
Yeah, "Beatrice (from Ceylon)." And there's her dad, asking about the young stuff.
I'd better note that I found the introductory paragraph ("Every evening") at Terra Media, which has a bigger reproduction of the cartoon.
Daily proverb. Look ahead, see your back!
Stan says. Iron Man faces the menace of the Modok Machine in ish #75!


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Archive for 2003
RBO icons and desktopDecember 5, 2003
Well, I've been working on this new set for about 6 months now, and its finally done! This set is an (almost) full system replacement comprising of 90 icons with a futuristic robot-like theme going on. I hope you enjoy them as much as I am!
Head over to the goodies section to grab them
Also added is a new work called 'Oscar the Fisherman'. Probably one of my favorite pieces so far, so take a look!
Tea for ThreeSeptember 13, 2003
New image in the Art section, I really like this one, hope you enjoy it as well… I also made it a wallpaper with 2 variations.
New work and a (virtual) exhibitionAugust 4, 2003
I've got a lot of new works in the various sections of the site, and also some new goodies to go with them, so take a look around!
Also, I'm currently featured for the monthly exhibit over at new chemical history! Make sure to check that out also, there's some really good stuff going on over there.
New illustration and drawingsJune 20, 2003
My summer drawing class is now over! I added two of the drawings from that in the art section.
I have also been working on a skin for the Digikitten.com forums, it's all done now and you can go try it out at the great digitkitten forums.
Biography addedJune 4, 2003
I added a bio in case you are interested in knowing more about me.
Site of the weekMay 22, 2003
I'm featured as site of the week at The Apple Collection!
Pixelpalooza prizesMay 19, 2003
My prizes from Pixelpalooza came in… Good stuff (The new ipods are freakin awesome btw).
New illustrationsMay 19, 2003
I made a funky illustration of an alley man.
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The Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Stellar Astrophysics Centre (SAC) at Aarhus University invite applications for a three-year position as Assistant Professor in the fields of exoplanets, stellar astrophysics, and/or galactic archaeology.
SAC is a world leader in the fields of asteroseismology, stellar structure and evolution, planetary systems, and galactic archaeology. The centre plays a prominent role in the use of data from the NASA Kepler/K2 and TESS missions, the ground-based SONG network for asteroseismic investigations, and large-scale stellar surveys such as APOGEE and Gaia. The goal of the centre is to ensure that full use is made of these possibilities to perform coherent studies of exoplanetary systems, their host stars, structure and evolution of stars, and composite stellar populations in the context of Galaxy formation and evolution.
Areas of work for the successful applicant may include:
Detection of planetary systems as well as detailed studies of exoplanet system architecture, and exoplanet atmospheres.
Detailed studies of stellar structure and evolution, including convection, mixing processes, and rotation using asteroseismic data.
Characterization of stellar populations for studies of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way
Instrumentation and data analysis, e.g. the SONG network for determining high-precision radial-velocities of stars and the Sun and space missions (e.g. TESS, Delphini-1).
The Assistant Professor is expected to pursue an independent research programme in connection with the research carried out by other members of SAC. SAC has established direct collaborations with research groups from the University of Birmingham, Leiden Observatory, MIT, MPA, MPIA, NASA Ames Space Center, and the University of Sydney, among others. There is an extensive exchange with our collaborators, with shorter and longer visits to, and by, them. The many visitors and the postdoc and PhD programme at SAC provide a vibrant working environment and we invite the successful applicant to be a part of this environment. SAC also has access to telescopes through the Danish membership of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), as well as to space instruments though the Danish membership of ESA, and SAC plays an important role in the NASA Kepler and TESS missions
The successful candidate will be involved in teaching activities at both BSc and MSc level, including supervision of students in relation to project and thesis work. All teaching can be done in English.
Candidates for the position must have a PhD in astronomy or physics, or equivalent. The starting date is expected to be 1 April 2019, but the exact date is negotiable. The duration of the position is three years.
The place of work is Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus and the area of employment is Aarhus University with related departments
Applicants must submit a cover letter, a CV, a list of publications, and a statement explaining their past and current research (maximum 3 pages) as well as a research proposal (maximum 3 pages), teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience.
Furthermore, applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be send before the deadline to email@example.com or uploaded as part of the application.
Questions regarding this job offer are encouraged and should be directed to the centre leader of SAC, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard firstname.lastname@example.com
Application procedure
Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the assessment committee if necessary, the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. The selection is made on the basis of an assessment of who of the candidates are most relevant considering the requirements of the advertisement. All applicants will be notified within 6 weeks whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee and will receive his/her assessment. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants, including the main considerations emphasized during the selection process.
Formalities and salary range
Science and Technology refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.
Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities. (in Danish).
Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Confederation of Professional Associations.
All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal background. Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.
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The combination of beans and brown rice offers complete protein and is loaded with fiber. The original recipe called for sticky rice but we opted for a healthier brown rice. We also added Field Roast which is not necessary, but we wanted to add a bit more texture and create a heartier dish.
Red Beans and Rice
(Adapted from A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen CB)
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 Tofurky kielbasa or Field Roast (big dices)
1 medium onion (diced)
1 medium carrot (diced)
1 medium celery stalk, (diced)
4 medium garlic cloves
½ teaspoon oregano
Hot Chili Sauce to taste
1/2-1 cup vegetable broth
2 15-oz. cans red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 15-oz. can diced tomatoes
Dice Tofurky/Field Roast sausages and fry in olive oil. When crisp, remove and set aside.
Add a bit more olive oil to pan and add onion, carrot and celery stalk. Cook approximately 8-10 minutes. Add the garlic, oregano and hot sauce, cook about 1-2 minutes.
Add the broth ,tomatoes and beans, bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 15 minutes. Serve over rice.