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The following requirements must be met in order to set up this lab:
Virtual Machine from previous labs (Ubuntu Linux 14.04 VM)
ssh if using Linux, or Putty if you are using Windows as the host operating system. Putty is available from http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
Internet access for adding packages to the install of Ubuntu
Logging In to VM
1. When Ubuntu starts, LightDM will show normal-user selected. Type in the password you used during the installation and press
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3. This will load up a terminal to run commands with. With the terminal open, the operating system will need to be updated before continuing (even since you completed Lab 2). Type in the following to update and install security patches for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
(You will be prompted to type in your password)
4. Once the update is complete, click the gear in the top right corner and select "Shut down" and then select "Restart" to reboot the system.
Configuring the Firewall on Ubuntu
1. To make configuring of the firewall easier on Ubuntu, run the following commands to install gufw and openssh-server:
sudo apt-get install -y gufw openssh-server
2. With the host operating system (Linux or Windows), verify you can connect with SSH or Putty.
3. In the terminal, type ifconfig to find the IP address of your virtual machine.
4. In your host operating system, verify with a web browser that you can still reach your virtual machine by typing in the IP address of the virtual machine (that you discovered in the previous step) in the address box and that the "It works!" text appears in the webpage. If the page does not appear, run the following to start Apache and enable it to start by default:
sudo service apache2 start
sudo update-rc.d apache2 defaults
5. Return to the Linux terminal and type sudo gufw which will start the Firewall GUI. Click "Unlock," if necessary, to allow for changes. Once this is running, you can proceed to the Lab 4 Assignment.
Lab 4 Assignment
You should now have an OpenSSH server and an HTTP server running on the Ubuntu host.
· For Status, change it to "on" and click the "+" on the bottom left of the GUI. Click "Application" under "Preconfigured" to select "SSH" which will change the last value to "SSH." Click "Add" and click "Close." Try to connect with a web browser.
· Select all of the rules in the Firewall GUI and select "-" to remove them. Click the "+" and change the service to "HTTP". Click "Add" and click "Close." Try to connect with a web browser.
· Click the "+" on the bottom left of the GUI and change the service to "SSH." Click "Add" and click "Close." Try to connect with a web browser.
· With these rules in place, open a terminal and run the following commands:
sudo iptables -vnL | grep dpt:22
sudo iptables -vnL | grep dpt:80
· In the Firewall GUI, edit the "80/tcp" rules to "deny" by clicking on the rule and clicking on the edit icon below it (the sun icon next to the plus and minus icons), changing the "Policy" to "Deny" and clicking "Apply." Then run the same commands.
For the lab report, you should have some form of output from these four procedures.
Lab 4 Questions
Lab Question 1
What are the drawbacks of using a GUI to configure a firewall such as iptables (Hint: the output from iptables -vnL)?
Lab Question 2
What are some issues that may occur with using the "gufw" GUI to configure iptables using the "Preconfigured Services" in this lab?
Lab Question 3
What could be done differently to make these firewall rules even more secure?
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New York: Talk therapy is gaining in importance as an alternative to medication with regard to averting repeated suicide attempts, a study shows.
Just six-to-10 talk therapy sessions led to 26 percent fewer suicides in five years in the group that received treatment as compared to a group that did not, the researchers found.
"Now we have evidence that psycho-social treatment – which provides support, not medication – is able to prevent suicide in a group at high risk of dying by suicide," said Annette Erlangsen, the study's leader and adjunct associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University in the US.
The researchers say their findings suggest that it might be valuable to broadly implement therapy programmes for people who have attempted suicide in the past.
For the study, the researchers analysed health data from more than 65,000 people in Denmark who attempted suicide between Jan 1, 1992, and Dec 31, 2010.
Of that group, they looked at 5,678 people who received psycho-social therapy at one of eight suicide prevention clinics.
The researchers then compared their outcomes over time with 17,304 people who had attempted suicide and looked similar on 31 factors but had not gone for treatment afterward.
After five years, there were 26 percent fewer suicides in the group that had been treated with psycho-social therapy following their attempt.
The therapy itself varied depending on the individual needs of the patient so the researchers cannot say exactly what the "active ingredient" was that inoculated many against future suicide attempts.
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Sometimes A Story Is About Making the World Better
I'm a freelancer and have been reading and watching fantasy for more than forty years, so when I read that the protagonist of Rachel Aaron's Minimum Wage Magic was a freelance mage, I was tickled.
I had previously read Aaron's Eli Monpress stories and her Heartstriker Series so I was confident I'd love Minimum Wage Magic and I bought it on the spot.
I was not disappointed.
Opal and the DFZ
Opal Yong-ae is a freelance mage of Korean descent who works in what used to be Detroit. The book takes place in the same universe as Aaron's Heartstrike series, so the city that used to be Detroit is now known as the Detroit Free Zone or the DFZ.
In the DFZ there are few, if any, rules and both the geography of the city and the lives of its citizens are subject to the whims of the spirit of the city—sort of a city-wide god.
The spirit of the DFZ isn't a big fan of rules so both magic and capitalism are ratcheted up to 11.
When people skip town without paying their rent, "cleaners" like Opal Yong-ae go in to clean everything out and make the place habitable again. The cleaners pay for the privilege and recoup their money by selling whatever they find.
Every day is a gamble, and you need to put in some hard work even if you lose. It's a hard way to make a living.
The Pressure She's Under
I won't get into the spoilery details, but Opal's life is further complicated by the fact that she owes a rather nasty person a great deal of money. The fact that the money in question was used to pay for her education makes the analogy to today's millennials more than a little bit obvious.
As a freelancer, though, I get it. The bills always come regularly while the paychecks don't, and taking crappy, underpaying jobs because they're the only ones available is far too familiar.
There's a tendency among some freelancers to equate their existence with that of gunslingers in the old west. They're hired guns who go wherever the money is, do the job, and move on. They never hang their hat up at Kitty's place.
That's the daydream, though. The reality is that you're always grinding for clients and often fighting clients for the money they owe. It's neither glamorous nor reliable, and Minimum Wage Magic captures that desperation very well.
With a payment due soon, Opal lacks the funds to pay it. She finds a clue that may—emphasis on the may—pay off big, but she finds it next to a dead body that causes all sorts of problems.
The Resolution
I will again skip past the spoilerish stuff, saying in passing that if you liked Heartstriker, you'd love this, to come to the point of this review. Opal fights through a lot of suspense, intrigue, danger, and adorkable obliviousness to get her hands on the big payday.
And of course, that payday forces her to make a moral decision.
That's the thing with a lot of Rachel Aaron books. The protagonist doesn't merely try to survive or even win at all costs. The protagonist attempts to survive and win the right way—the moral way.
Humanist Fiction
There has been a tendency in fantasy in recent decades for heroes and heroines to be some truly awful people. It has made for some great characters and great stories, but it's tiring.
I mean, I get it. We live in times that are interesting enough to prove the accuracy of the curse. Escapism isn't just a silly diversion, it's self-care, and when faced with the frustrations of an inept economy and an entrenched oligarchy that quite literally would rather kill the planet than give up a sliver of their filthy lucre, it's more than understandable.
But there's another reaction to the times we're in. Instead of assuming that we can't win, we assume that we can. Instead of writing revenge fantasies where the heroes act just like the people we despise, we write stories with heroes that act like people we admire.
Some people call this hopepunk, and I can grok that, but I think of it as Humanist Fiction. It's fiction that doesn't merely revel in hope but actively tries to make the world better by providing examples of heroes doing the right thing.
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Millennials and Gen Z are entering the workforce at an accelerating rate. These incoming generations' expectations from their training media are very different from those of previous generations. Virtual reality training offers a potent tool to address the media and learning needs of these younger generations. However, since VR is still an emerging technology, there is a lack of data and case studies and many misconceptions surrounding cost and best operating practices.
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Banking institutions recognize as a monetary value the support that fiat money grants to this type of digital assets
The latest memorandum from the Texas Department of Banking qualifies the stablecoins as money. For this reason, its issuers will need a license to operate in that US state.
Charles Cooper, the Commissioner of the Texas Banking, published a document on Wednesday which details this information. Cooper points out that the Texas Law does not see cryptocurrencies as money and therefore it does not consider the exchange of cryptoactives for fiat money as a "currency exchange", so new companies do not need currency exchange licenses to operate in this status.
However, the case of the stablecoins is different. According to the document, these can be considered as "money" or "monetary value" and any person who acquires the cryptoactive is entitled to the assets in sovereign currency that support the amount of tokens he or she has.
Is Cryptocurrency Money?
The reason why this happens and why the stablecoins are considered as money is due, according to Cooper, to the issuer "assumes the obligation to provide a sovereign currency in exchange for stablecoins at a later time", whilst with cryptocurrencies it not always happen.
Only cryptocurrency to cryptocurrency transactions are not considered by Texas banking policies as money, whilst cryptocurrency-fiat transactions do represent a money transfer.
The memorandum define stablecoins as "a form of centralized virtual currencies that are backed by the issuer with sovereign currency, precious metals or cryptocurrencies and, therefore, it possesses intrinsic value".
Because of this, the Monetary Services Law considers stablecoins as money or monetary value. "Receiving it in exchange for a promise to make it available at a later time or at a different location can be a money transfer", Cooper said.
Stablecoins are also cryptoactive with stable prices, as the name implies. These do not suffer from characteristic volatility, so far, as it happened with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies during 2018.
Stablecoins seek to merge the best features of fiat (or traditional) currencies and cryptographic currencies: globalization, decentralization and, additionally and particularly, low volatility. They are digital assets designed to maintain a constant price, linked to a stable fiduciary currency.
Currently, there are three types of stable tokens: those guaranteed with fiduciary currency or products maintained by a custodian and with parity 1:1, those that other cryptocurrencies back and those that do not have backup guarantees.
Among some famous examples is Tether (USDT), which is a stablecoin that in the cryptocurrency exchange houses has become a substitute for the dollar; TrueUSD (TUSD), a token linked to the dollar and its reserves are held in the accounts of several trust companies, and USD Coin (USDC), a digital asset also backed by the dollar.
With these considerations, banking representatives in Texas inform to new companies, and to those who make exchanges, that they must comply with the relevant laws as appropriate when making money transfers. Other US states are studying concepts about this topic. Las week, New York announced it would have a group of experts that will give information to the governor, in order to be prepared and take the needed decisions.
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Get to know the artists exhibiting at Opem 3 this summer, The Collection's third biennial open exhibition for artists living or working in the East Midlands and Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, North & North East Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire & East Riding. For the first time, all selected artists received funding to create a new work for the exhibition. The selectors this year were Jess Flood-Paddock – Artist and Mark Leckey – Artist, Curator and Turner Prize winner 2008, and the selected artists are; Michael Shaw, Michelle Arieu, John Wiltshire, James E Smith, Laura McCafferty, Neville Palmer, Georgie Grace and Lynn Fulton.
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Stormy weather may have ruined Wednesday night's Manhattanhenge — the twice-a-year phenomenon when the sun sets in perfect alignment with Manhattan's street grid — but New Yorkers were still treated to a special viewing of the glowing orange orb the day after.
Last night, the full sun (although not perfectly aligned with the grid) illuminated city blocks before disappearing into the horizon. You'll have to wait until July 11 to see the spectacular show again.
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It was a relief to read Clark Cundy's guest column in last week's Sounder (Aug. 15, 2018, Vol. 51, No. 33, Page 12). As an Orcas resident, small business owner, and active community member I have struggled a bit trying to make sense of the proposed changes to the Airport Master Plan, as have other locals that I have spoken with. Mr. Cundy has done us all a great service, I believe, by outlining in succinct and unemotional terms a practical path through the decision-making that we are facing as a community.
I would encourage my friends and neighbors to read or re-read his letter and consider the wisdom of a measured approach to slowing down and solving this problem with an eye to common sense. What we need first and foremost is a realistic plan that addresses our needs for a rural community airport, and I applaud Mr. Cundy's straightforward and unambiguous proposal toward getting to this point.
I would encourage our port commissioners to respond in kind either individually or as a group with their own views and ideas and to address the legitimate concerns of the community. The only way to resolve this contentious Port Master Plan issue is with an open, realistic and productive civic dialogue.
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A plasticised 'third-body' is formed that surrounds the probe and the contacting region of the rotating tool (Fig. 1). The local temperature rises and the yield strength of the material at the interface between the rotating tool and the workpiece falls to below the applied shear stress. In so doing, it generates suitable 'third-body' conditions to allow passage of the FSW tool through materials such as steel.
Hydrostatic pressure is maintained enabling plastic flow of material from the leading side to the trailing side of the tool and the formation of a solid-phase joint.
A specially shaped rotating tool is used which travels at speeds between 1.7 and 4mm/sec (100-240mm/min), comparable with arc welding. Figs. 2 and 3 show typical welds.
Mechanical properties of the welds look promising (Fig. 4) encouraging further development by way of a Group Sponsored Project.
To find out more, call Wayne Thomas, Keith Johnson, Dave Nicholas or Phil Threadgill. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
A Group Sponsored Project has recently been launched to provide the expertise for industry to exploit the new breakthrough in friction welding of steels. The programme will optimise tool design, process parameters and establish the service performance of welds and tools.
If you are interested in becoming a project sponsor or would like further information on the project, contact Stuart MacLachlan. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
A special event in TWI's calendar took place on 30 June 1998 - the first Ceramics Open Day.
The event comprised a seminar and tour and an opportunity for visitors to get advice on their ceramic problems.
Morning presentations were given by Professor John Wood (Nottingham University) on Foresight and its impact on the ceramics industry, Professor Tony Kelly (University of Cambridge) on high temperature ceramics, Dr Tony Razzell (Rolls Royce plc) on ceramics for aeroengines and Dr Wendy Hanson of TWI who gave an overview of ceramic technologies at TWI.
After lunch, Professor Wood cut the ribbon (with a pair of zirconia ceramic scissors) to open the new Ceramics Centre. Attendees were given a tour of the facility and could attend a clinic with TWI staff providing help and advice on a wide range of joining and ceramics issues.
If you would like to visit the new Centre, or if you wish to discuss a specific ceramic-related issue, please contact Wendy Hanson at TWI. E-mail: email@example.com
Fuel cells are high-efficiency devices that convert chemical energy stored in hydrocarbon and hydrogen fuels directly into electricity without going through a combustion cycle.
There are four main fuel cell types, each suited to different applications, but they all have one thing in common. They are invariably based on a stack of individual cells that need physical and electrical joining. For high temperature ceramic fuel cells, which need to operate continuously for tens of thousands of hours, joining the ceramic and metal components presents a considerable challenge.
This is exactly the type of challenge in which TWI has developed expertise through the Core Research Programmes on high temperature ceramic joining. Research includes work on ceramic reinforced braze systems for ceramic-ceramic and ceramic-metal joints and glass-ceramic systems for improved thermal expansion matching. In addition TWI combines practical engineering experience of these systems with finite element modelling to improve joint design and minimise residual stresses.
The increasing importance of fuel cells in the future was the subject of an international symposium held in London at the end of 1997.
For more information on TWI's expertise in this area contact Wendy Hanson. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Three GSPs have recently been launched in TWI's Materials Department:
For details on any of these projects, e-mail: email@example.com
This summer, staff at Abington have been awarded a trio of prizes for work on electron beam welding, corrosion control and multimedia production.
Allan Sanderson receives the 1998 IIV Yoshiaki Arata Award given annually to an individual who has realised outstanding achievements in fundamental research in welding science and technology leading to significant progress in welding engineering and related fields.
Mike Gittos and Trevor Gooch have been awarded the Guy Bengough prize of the Institute of Materials for a paper published in the preceding two years making an outstanding contribution to the subject of corrosion and corrosion control. Their joint paper was entitled Effect of iron dilution on corrosion resistance of Ni-Cr-Mo cladding.
The recently published CD-ROM Welding Fume Tutor won first prize for the best multimedia product at the 3rd European Film and Multimedia Festival. There were 47 entries in the competition.
Martin Bourton, Graham Carter, John Dadson and Brian Smith formed the team.
The long history of TWI interaction with industry in Australia has taken a further step forward. Building on the success of the previous tripartite arrangement, TWI and WTIA (Welding Technology Institute of Australia) have entered into a new Joint Industrial Membership (JIM) arrangement for Australian industry.
The aim of the scheme is to meet the needs of existing and future Industrial Members in Australia by providing a local support framework plus supply of internationally renowned expertise and leading edge technology. The synergy of the arrangement will benefit Australian industry, and both TWI and WTIA, with the objective of enhancing further growth in Industrial Membership.
Industrial Members are still able to contact TWI staff direct, but can also call upon the WTIA Federal Office in Lidcombe, NSW. In addition, with support from the Federal Government, WTIA has six State Technology Managers who will provide technology transfer and support to industry in their territory. These STMs will also be responsible for developing growth in the Joint Industrial Membership scheme.
Enquiries may be directed in the first instance to WTIA Federal Office (tel 02 9748 4443 fax 02 9748 2858).
Industrial Members can now take advantage of the fully equipped adhesives laboratory at Abington which is available to carry out small contract production runs.
Experienced staff can carry out pretreatment and bonding of a wide range of materials using all major types of adhesive. Laser cutting of film adhesive for complex shapes, humidity and salt spray testing services can also be undertaken.
For more information, contact Naomi Linklater with your requirements. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
A cool idea for heat insulation - when you're hot, you're not.
A new substance has been developed at TWI which overcomes many of the heat transfer problems associated with traditional construction materials.
This cost effective barrier material, consisting of an inorganic material and binder, can be used as a coating to protect structures that may be affected by high temperatures. It can be produced in a number of thicknesses, adheres to most surfaces including metal, wood and composites and can be moulded round complicated shapes and machined using simple hand tools.
Being lightweight, this non-toxic product is ideally suited as a core material for sandwich structures. Initial trials have shown that it can withstand 1000°C on one face while the other face does not exceed 170°C after 70 minutes.
Applications for the material (patent applied for) are firewalls in building and ships and heat shields to protect from solar or other radiating heating.
Members interested in evaluating this technology for use in their present or future products or in using this idea to meet their needs, contact Paul Burling. E-mail: email@example.com
Every effort should be made to avoid distortion at the design stage and by using suitable fabrication procedures. As it is not always possible to avoid distortion during fabrication, several well-established corrective techniques can be employed. However, reworking to correct distortion should not be undertaken lightly as it is costly and needs considerable skill to avoid damaging the component.
In this issue, general guidelines are provided on 'best practice' for correcting distortion using mechanical or thermal techniques.
The principal mechanical techniques are hammering and pressing. Hammering may cause surface damage and work hardening.
In cases of bowing or angular distortion, the complete component can often be straightened on a press without the disadvantages of hammering. Packing pieces are inserted between the component and the platens of the press. It is important to impose sufficient deformation to give over-correction so that the normal elastic spring-back will allow the component to assume its correct shape.
The following should be adopted when using pressing techniques to remove distortion:
The basic principle behind thermal techniques is to create sufficiently high local stresses so that, on cooling, the component is pulled back into shape.
This is achieved by locally heating the material to a temperature where plastic deformation will occur as the hot, low yield strength material tries to expand against the surrounding cold, higher yield strength metal. On cooling to room temperature the heated area will attempt to shrink to a smaller size than before heating. The stresses generated thereby will pull the component into the required shape. (See Fig. 2)
Local heating is, therefore, a relatively simple but effective means of correcting welding distortion. Shrinkage level is determined by size, number, location and temperature of the heated zones. Thickness and plate size determines the area of the heated zone. Number and placement of heating zones are largely a question of experience. For new jobs, tests will often be needed to quantify the level of shrinkage.
Spot, line, or wedge-shaped heating techniques can all be used in thermal correction of distortion.
Heating in straight lines is often used to correct angular distortion, for example, in fillet welds (Fig. 4). The component is heated along the line of the welded joint but on the opposite side to the weld so the induced stresses will pull the flange flat.
To correct distortion in larger complex fabrications it may be necessary to heat whole areas in addition to employing line heating. The pattern aims at shrinking one part of the fabrication to pull the material back into shape.
Apart from spot heating of thin panels, a wedge-shaped heating zone should be used, (Fig. 5) from base to apex and the temperature profile should be uniform through the plate thickness. For thicker section material, it may be necessary to use two torches, one on each side of the plate.
As a general guideline, to straighten a curved plate (Fig. 5) wedge dimensions should be:
Wedge-shaped heating can be used to correct distortion in a variety of situations, (Fig. 6):
The dangers of using thermal straightening techniques are the risk of over-shrinking too large an area or causing metallurgical changes by heating to too high a temperature. As a general rule, when correcting distortion in steels the temperature of the area should be restricted to approximately to 60° - 650°C - dull red heat.
If the heating is interrupted, or the heat lost, the operator must allow the metal to cool and then begin again.
The following should be adopted when using thermal techniques to remove distortion:
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DATA centre WORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO
Can it be true? Am I really invited to the Data Centre World 2010 conference?
... and there was me, flicking through my 2010 diary, wondering what the New Year might have in store for me. Hoping and dreaming that just maybe something would come along to mark the year as the best yet! All my friends will be totally spell-bound when I tell the about "The Road to an Annualised PUE of 1.2 and the Business Implications"!


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Teaching Fellow of Portuguese Language
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The Department of Portuguese of University of Macau is seeking qualified individuals for anticipated positions as 'Teaching Fellow'. The purpose of the teaching fellow program is to provide Master's degree graduates in Translation Studies, Second Language Acquisition in Portuguese or Applied Linguistics in Portuguese (or closely related field) with: a) teaching experience; b) the opportunity to work with faculty and the Department of Portuguese on special projects in an area of professional interest or expertise engagement in language and cultural exchange.
Applicants should have a recent Master's degree in a related field (e.g. Translation Studies, Second Language Acquisition in Portuguese, or Applied Linguistics in Portuguese) from an accredited program. Bilingual applicants in Portuguese and Chinese with experience in teaching Portuguese is highly preferred. A good command of English language is desirable.
The selected candidate is expected to assume duty in mid-August 2019.
Position and Remuneration
The position offered and taxable salary ranged from MOP20,480 to MOP28,670 (USD1 approx. = MOP8) shall be determined according to the appointee's academic qualifications, current position, and professional experience.
Teaching duty is required.
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Applicants should visit https://career.admo.um.edu.mo/ for more details, and apply ONLINE. The application should include 1) a cover letter and an updated English curriculum vitae; 2) at least 3 recommendation letters; 3) teaching evaluations of recent two years (if any); 4) academic certificates and 5) graduate transcripts. Review of applications will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applicants may consider their applications not successful if they were not invited for an interview within 3 months of application.
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Young People Complete Tourism and Hospitality Workshop
On Friday May 10th, Tourism and Hospitality students received certificates for their participation in a two day workshop.
The program inclusive of enterprises dealing with agriculture, agro tourism and building sustainable establishments in tourism was sponsored by The Ministry of Tourism and Legal Affairs and the Waitukubuli National Trail.
Mr. Henderson said despite the criticism of youth today, many of the persons recognized were young people.
President of the Dominica State College, Dr. Donald Peters says the objective is to make Tourism one of the primary majors of the DSC. He encourages students to stick to Tourism as a major so as to reap the many benefits it produces.
He added that tourism is not just about painting the streets and keeping it tidy but more about how you treat your visitors in order to attract repeat visits.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Legal Affairs, Mrs. Claudia Bellot, hopes that the Dominica State College is exposing them to the range of operations that take place in the Tourism Industry.
Mrs. Bellot noted, although financial crisis affected all sectors of the economy both internationally and regionally, tourism is the leading contributor to our economy.
With previous inputs of $2085.000000 e.c in 2011 and a slight drop of $2012.000000 e.c in 2012 there continues to be new investments as it refers to tourism in Dominica.
She says that by 2014 Dominica is expected to have 100 new hotel rooms.
The Permanent Secretary says she wants to see a stronger link between tourism and agriculture including a more integrated approach.
She believes that in the promoting the country's eco-tourism we should implement elements of agriculture for a more enjoyable visit to the Island.
Mrs. Bellot concluded by saying, she hopes the students participate in Tourism Awareness Month activities, which highlights the importance of tourism to Dominica.
Receipients of certificates were: Kiana Alfred, Alera Christopher, Quamy David, Noressa Fontaine, Jael Mason, Janelle Menz, Josian Mingo, and Chidera Ukobi among others


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Cala Pi Club Apartments
EPS Location 1 and 2With a stay at Ona Cala Pi Club in Llucmajor, you'll be on the beach, just a 1-minute walk from Playa de Cala Pi and 13 minutes by foot from Cal Beltran. This beach aparthotel is 15.6 mi (25.1 km) from Es Trenc Beach and 16.3 mi (26.2 km) from El Arenal Beach.EPS RoomsMake yourself at home in one of the 119 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available to keep you connected. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and microwaves.EPS Rec, Spa, Premium AmenitiesTake advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and a fitness center. This aparthotel also features wireless Internet access (surcharge), concierge services, and an arcade/game room.EPS DiningYou can enjoy a meal at El Mirador de Cala Pi serving the guests of Ona Cala Pi Club, or stop in at the grocery/convenience store. Need to unwind? Take a break with a tasty beverage at one of the 3 bars/lounges. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 8 AM to 10 AM for a fee.EPS Business, Other AmenitiesFeatured amenities include a computer station, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. A roundtrip airport shuttle is available for a surcharge.
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Don't miss your opportunity to enter for a chance to win a new Ford! The EcoBoost Challenge Giveaway culminates at the end of June, which is coming up fast. All you have to do is watch a few videos, then register and share the contest with your friends if you'd like. The more videos you watch, the more chances you have to win!
There are seven videos total, which include info on the new 2015 Focus, Fusion, Mustang, Escape, Edge, Explorer and F-150. Watch one or watch all seven if you want your name to be entered in the drawing multiple times. In each video, you'll get to see drivers talk about their real-life experiences participating in the EcoBoost Challenge Tour.
In addition, once you watch a video and register for the giveaway, there's a chance to win $500! Visit Mall of Georgia Ford's Facebook to get started and make sure you sign up before June 30 at 5 p.m. EDT if you want to take part in the promo. The grand prize winner will receive a $30,000 voucher to put toward any one of the seven models featured in the videos.
If you sign up via your mobile device, you must enter by answering trivia questions and will also have up to seven opportunities to enter your name in the drawing. To qualify for the prize, whether you register by computer or phone, you must be a legal resident of the U.S. and at least 18 years old with a valid driver's license.


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Get the best night's rest when you receive multiple comfort options with the SensorPEDIC® Dual Comfort Supreme Gusseted Pillow. With it's innovative hybrid combination of memory foam on one side and fiber fill on the other, this pillow will provide comfort for any sleep type. The odor-free memory foam features super-open cell technology that is designed to help you sleep cool and enhance breathability while providing support throughout the night. The hypoallergenic SofLOFT® polyester fiber fill on the other side offers plush comfort. The 300 thread count, 100% cotton cover has stain protection to keep you clean while adding softness to this luxurious pillow. The gusseted edge and decorative trim set this pillow apart from other pillows and make it the perfect addition to any room.
- Odor-free memory foam on one side offers cooling support
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Maintain and care for your sink by using this wax like you would wax a car: apply the wax on a clean, dry sink, then wipe off with a soft cloth. Easy to apply and economical - only a thin layer is necessary. Reapply on your sink when you start to notice the water is not beading as quickly anymore (depending on use, about every 3 to 6 weeks).
The Triangle liner tile is one of our featured hand-hammered artisan crafted copper tiles. Our tiles are made by the same artisans that craft our SoLuna copper sinks, and are available in the same finishes as our sinks and other copper products.
This Triangle design shown here is the Cafe Natural finish. If you have some old pennies in your pocket, that is what this looks like, and will lighten and darken over time, depending on what comes in contact with it. Copper finishes available: Cafe Natural, Matte Copper, Dark Smoke, Rio Grande (see chart).Our Renaissance wax will protect the patina and lessen the color changes, when used about every four to six weeks.
Our tiles can be used as accent tiles, borders, backsplashes, even wall and floor tiling. Larger and custom sizes also available, please call for more information.
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Parker Duofold Senior Brown Limited Edition
January 5, 2012 § Leave a comment
When Parker put their minds to a limited edition it is often worth watching for. The Duofold Senior Brown is a case in point. From the images available from their launch event, the pen's colouring looks a little dowdy but on opening our stock the pictures didn't do the pen justice. This is not an 'in yer face' styling but a sophisticated understatement in terms of presentation and colour and, by Parker's own statements, an homage to the Duofolds of the 1940s. Anyone owning this pen is making a statement: 'I've got style and it's in spades'!
The Senior Brown is essentially Duofold Centennial in size. The grip, barrel and cap are finished in fine rectangles of dark browns and blacks with just enough variegated pale greys to lift the colouring. The darkness is contrasted by trim in broad bands of polished palladium plated metal and a bold, polished Parker arrowed clip. With the patterning continuing along from the grip through to the cap gives this pen a continuity rarely seen in modern fountain pens. It is quite a sizeable pen at 172mm posted and 50 grams in weight.
The nib is an 18ct gold unit over-plated with palladium in a standard medium format only. It is unlikely that other sizes will be available given the exclusive nib decoration. However, taking a pragmatic view, there is a significant range of alternative nib sizes and styles in the standard Duofold Centennial range which are dimensionally compatible. However, keeping the original nib would be essential to maintain the pen's exclusivity and value!
In keeping with the Duofold Senior Brown's £900 price tag, the presentation case is a stylish affair with a piano varnished wood veneer finish and chrome fittings. Each pen is numbered with a global production run of just 900 units, 1 of which goes to the Parker heritage collection. The certificate of authenticity is kept in the accessory tray beneath the presentation insert in the case.
Would I want one? I think space in the collection cabinet may be tight but I could certainly squeeze this handsome devil in!
The Parker Duofold Senior Brown is available from PenFountain either on-line or from our concession store in Beales, Worthing, West Sussex.
PenFountain enjoys retailing at a new level
December 1, 2011 § Leave a comment
Having opened our new concession shop in Beales department store, Worthing, we continue to learn how different the environment is from our previous individual shop. The concession offers limited space but encourages creative thinking when it comes to finding room for new products.
We have also had the the privilege of being asked to provide a window display in the main shop frontage on South Street.
Discount Gambling for Christmas
November 28, 2011 § Leave a comment
The retail sector is very tight with high street retailers offering significant discounts to entice customers to spend. Very often the offers are on either stock items or special purchases and if you are prepared to compromise on model or brand you can grab a real bargain.
The pen market is even tighter both online and in the retail sector. There are bargains available at present but if you fancy a flutter on whether prices will take a further plunge in the final run-up to the big Day, be careful! Speciality lines such as pens, are being short stocked by both retailers and their suppliers. At PenFountain.com we have already experienced some surprising lines being placed onto back-order with our wholesalers because of stock optimisation and, as Christmas draws closer, the chances of replenishing supplies will become more precarious.
At PenFountain.com we will be removing our usual alternative nib options on our fountain pen ordering in the run-up to Christmas purely on the basis of it being difficult to maintain stock levels in the high volumes of pre-Christams sales. Therefore, if you want a specific pen with a specific nib, we would recommend buying sooner not later and it is highly unlikely there will be a sudden unloading of stock just before Christmas!
Fountain Pen nib choice is on the wane.
October 28, 2011 § Leave a comment
There is an increasing trend among fountain pen manufacturers to reduce nib options, even on their core pen products. This year has seen Cross discontinuing production of the broad nib option from their range, although stock remains available at the time of writing.
Lamy then followed suit announcing the demise of the extra fine nib across their range. They treated their customers rather differently, announcing the discontinuation after stocks had been exhausted preventing retailers from stock piling these niche nibs to prolong the availability a little longer.
At PenFountain.com, we pride ourselves in our nib range and believe that one of the great things about fountain pens is the joy of different writing experiences afforded by a change of nib or pen. It is a great disappointment when, presumably for production-cost reduction reasons, these nibs are discontinued. However, pens retailers in general are becoming more focused on the supply of medium, one-size-fits-all, nibs and are therefore contributing to the demise of the great variety fountain pen choices.
Diamine has 100 colours planned
September 22, 2011 § Leave a comment
The art of fountain pen ink manufacture probably hasn't really changed in the last 100 years or so. It was already a 'green' product before the term (and even possibly the colour) was widely used. If proof were needed of the retrospective aspect of ink production, on the Diamine inks website they acknowledge 1864 as their date of establishment and a subsequent move to a 'state of the art' manufacturing facility in Liverpool in 1925 but there is no suggestion of a later move from this site although they have moved production since.
On the positive side, Diamine produce a fabulous range of high quality inks which, with planned additions in the next 12 months, will extend to more than 100 different colours. As part of this expansion, 5 new colours have been added this summer which are: Wild Strawberry, Macassar (dark brown/black), Denim (dark blue), Meadow (rich pale green) and Eclipse (black/brown). In keeping with our track record, we have now added these to our offering at PenFountain.com and can be viewed on our Diamine colour chart or in our Cranleigh shop
CSI Waterman
September 19, 2011 § Leave a comment
The victims were delivered, not in the usual body bags, but in a Jiffy bag. They were pulled onto the bench for examination. It was not a pretty sight. Not 1 but 2 victims, Hemisphere front-end assemblies dismembered in places that there should not even be any joints. The witness claimed that he had not seen any violence towards these sad examples of fountain pen-dom. But close examination suggested otherwise. The SOCO identified similar patterns of damage but, using conventional wisdom, the only explanation could be demise by aggression.
The team looked for further evidence and fortunately, the witness could produce the complete pen from where the cadaverous nibs had come with a pristine nib still in situ. Further perplexed, as a precaution before elevating the evidence to the specialist forensic laboratory, the SOCO checked for evidence of fluids in the pen. Yes, there was fluid in the converter – ink, but not as we know it. The converter was removed and flushed but, he noticed a gnarling on its normally clean, round mouth.
Forensic experience was required here and the evidence was bagged and despatched to the secretive clean rooms found only in the Waterman complex located just to the west of Nantes, in the West of France. Time passed and a brief phone call requested further information about any inks and cleaning materials used. The witness was questioned further and, under interrogation, he revealed that he had used an unnamed registrars' ink and proudly announced that the pen had not seen any solvents, in fact it had never been cleaned-out!
The final piece of the jigsaw was in place. The acidity of the registrars' ink having lain in place for some 18 months without disturbance had attacked the nib assembly and converter mouth from within. The structure of the resins used in the components had failed resulting in fracturing during assembly and use.
This is not a victimless crime but a lesson in the importance of taking precautions when using iron gall registrars' ink, one of the oldest inks known to man. Wash it or lose it.
The Diamine Registrars' ink that we offer, whilst formulated for fountain pens, needs to be treated with respect in terms of its use in pens. Damage on the scale reviewed here is very unusual and the result of unfamiliarity with the product. At PenFountain.com we advise customers of the requirement for cleanliness, both on the web page and on the ink's outer packaging. However, whilst acidic, Registrars' Ink does not represent a threat to health and is of a strength similar to that of vinegar or a cola drink.
Lamy Extra Fine Nibs discontinued
September 1, 2011 § Leave a comment
We have been advised today that Lamy are discontinuing their Extra Fine nibs in all but their high-end pens. In effect, the superb stainless steel nib range is being reduced to fine, medium, broad, and left-handed, in the core products with 1.1, 1.5, and 1.9mm in the calligraphy type nibs. The steel nibs are renowned for their ease of changing.
The 14ct gold inlaid nib in extra fine will continue to be available for the foreseeable future.
At PenFountain.com we are disappointed to learn of this change because it was a popular nib for the finer characters used in many Asian scripts. We will maintain stocks of the steel nibs for as long as possible.


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Forums>StrategyQuant>General Discussion>[How To] Tune SQ for max performance and reduce memory usage by 4 to 5 times
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Updated 10. April 2016 to reflect the default garbage collector change in Java 9:
Hi Guys,
throughout the last year I have been fine-tuning SQ by the various Java (which SQ runs on) options that you can pass on to it during start-up. I am now satisfied with the performance and on the same side heavy reduction in memory usage that I´ve achieved through fine-tuning the Java options.
Just use this line to launch SQ with max performance and as low as possible memory usage:
StrategyQuant64.exe -J-server -J-Xmx13g -J-XX:+DisableExplicitGC -J-XX:+AggressiveOpts -J-XX:+UseSerialGC
^^ please adjust the "-J-Xmx13g" to the memory you want to assign to SQ (and which you really have free!) as max allowed amount. E.g. if you want to allow it 6GB max, use "-J-Xmx6g" instead.
Additionally to this launch-line, I´d also recommend to replace the JVM from Oracle to the one from Zulu, you will get even more speed and less RAM usage with this one as it is a straight build of the OpenJDK sources (the original Java) without Oracles branding and other things added to it. You can get it here: http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu/downloads . There also currently is a dedicated page for the new Java 9 beta which also works fine and is even faster than Java 8, but only up to version 22.214.171.124 since changes in Java 9 that have been adapted in later builds won´t work anymore with SQ 3.8.1, you can download it here: http://cdn.azul.com/zulu-pre/bin/zulu22.214.171.124-ea-jdk9.0.0-win_x64.zip .
Just install it and afterwards rename the directory "j64" in your StrategyQuant directory to "j64.old". Create a new "j64" directory and copy the complete Zulu installation (usually from C:\Program Files\Java…..) into the newly created "j64" directory.
Please compare on your own how SQ runs without any parameters and with my command line and the JVM replaced. You´ll see that when starting to build strategies that alone in the first 2 minutes of building RAM usage will be half with my command line than SQ without my command line. Then have fun building strategies even faster and with less RAM than before now and make some money hopefully:)22. 3. 2015 8:52pm #12933622. 3. 2015 9:19pm #129337
No, this doesn´t and can´t at all change any of the results for the operations SQ performs. This is purely related to performance tuning / memory tuning, the results which SQ generates in any of it´s operations, regardless whichever command line arguments you pass to SQ / Java, will never change. It´s just the speed and memory usage that can change with these options.23. 3. 2015 8:31pm #129378
Hi Mark,
you are welcome and have a test on your own of course please. Just trying to get SQ to work as fast as possible with as low as possible memory usage.
Honestly though, there still seems to be some memory leaking somewhere in SQ. Running the same task (strategy building) for half a day now in a loop and RAM usage is increasing steadily while the database of strategies it should store is still just 200 (which was filled up about 20 minutes after the start of building strategies). So in theory the RAM usage should not steadily increase, but it does, hour by hour and keeps on growing, until a point where RAM is simply full and SQ needs a restart and then this starts over again…. It´s strange too that SQ does not release the memory at all even after stopping the generating, it just sticks with that high usage and neither the "Perform Memory Cleanup" helps nor a Windows-based RAM optimizer which forces the process to releae unused memory. So that really must be a leak instead in SQ.
But I know you said SQ4 got a complete redesign also in terms of memory handling, so it might be worthless right now to look into that for 3.8 if 4.0 will be changed in that aspect anyway.
Hi guys!
Where to put the code? I have no idea how to start the SQ with this code. Please help me. Thank you!
StrategyQuant64.exe -J-server -J-xmx13g -J-XX:+AggressiveOpts -J-XX:+UseParallelGC -J-XX:+OptimizeStringConcat
Automated Trading, PA & Renko systems, PC - i7-5820k, 480 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM02. 4. 2015 11:11am #129522
Thank you!
But, I'm doing something wrong. I have 16GB RAM, but I still see only 6GB of nemory in my SQ. I don't know why?
Automated Trading, PA & Renko systems, PC - i7-5820k, 480 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM
you have to start SQ with parameters if you want it to use more memory, check this:
StrategyQuant architect06. 4. 2015 5:58pm #129605
StrategyQuant64.exe -J-server -J-xmx13g -J-XX:+AggressiveOpts -J-XX:+UseParallelGC -J-XX:+OptimizeStringConcat
Strange, when I input those part what Mark posted in his article then memory limit goes up. But when I pase above formula then nothing is changing. Still around 5.5GB limit for memory. That makes me wondering does other parameters are working or not.10. 4. 2015 12:35am #12967010. 4. 2015 1:16am #129671
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Minimum wage has been showed to simply not be enough to support one person, let alone a family. People shouldn't have to work multiple jobs in order to get by.
I know people think it will end up costing companies huge amounts if they increase minimum wage across the board, but it's already costing tax payers huge amounts, because they are having to subsidize the health care and school lunches of the people who make their fast food.
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There�s a lot to like about Christopher Durang�s satire �Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike,� now playing at Trinity Repertory Company�s Dowling Theater. As discombobulated as the storyline is, the piece still manages to have a heart and soul. And when compared to the Chekhov classics the play lampoons, it really is a comedy with laughs for everyone � save one deceased Russian M.D. turned playwright.
Move Chekhov�s �The Seagull,� �Uncle Vanya,� �The Three Sisters� and �The Cherry Orchard� to 21st century Bucks County, Pa., and throw in all the mind-numbing digital technology the late Steve Jobs jammed in the iPhone and you have all the ingredients necessary for making a contemporary comedy; however, as is the case with any recipe, the mixture has to be just right. In theater, this is where the director comes in; for Durang, Trinity Rep Artistic Director Curt Columbus is the master chef.
As director, Columbus adds his personal touch to Durang�s �recipe� through the decisions he makes about casting the play, set design, costumes, lighting, sound and all the rest. In this instance, his selection of actors is exquisite.
Janice Duclos and Brian McEleney as Sonia and Vanya are perfectly paired as the contemptuous siblings left down on the family homestead to care for their dying parents while sister Masha (Phyllis Kay) escapes to Hollywood to become a film star.
Duclos and McEleney set the comic tone for the entire play when their bickering over a cup of coffee leads not only to two smashed cups but a look into the not so quiet desperation of their lives. To their rescue comes housekeeper Cassandra played beautifully by Tangela Large. She is a soothsayer and a practitioner of voodoo, characteristics that could only come into play in Christopher Durang�s deranged world. And they do, but I dare not tell you how.
Sonia and Vanya�s already crumbling world is about get worse with the arrival of Masha and Spike (Mark Larson) on the scene. For years, Masha has been financing the homestead; now that the parents are long gone and her acting career is taking a downturn, she wants to sell the homestead and leave her dependent siblings to fend for themselves.
Phyllis Kay�s Masha is the epitome of the over-the-hill Hollywood actress; she has seen five husbands come and go and is a perfect example of the post-modern Norma Desmond destined for a scrap heap in the Hollywood Hills. Her boy-toy, Spike, a robust young stud with a marked tendency to strip down to his underwear, is smart enough to make her feel wanted instead of used. Larson captures the essence of the American dream gone terribly wrong in 21st century pop-culture. He delivers a monologue about his audition for �Entourage 2� that is laugh-out-loud funny and a testament to �lowest common denominator� audience appeal.
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The shuto uke, or knife-hand block, is a classic karate technique and position. This video examines how to apply shuto uke in four ways:
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- A defense and counter against a high wrist grab
- A way to prevent someone from grabbing your lapel or reaching in to grab you
Toward the end of the video students practice the techniques with impact training, hitting kicking shields and target pads. As Iain Abernethy explains, it is important to engage the full training matrix in which you work drills that help address flaws in other related drills. (Here is the direct Youtube link if the other link doesn't work.) In this case, we work the solo kata, practice the application moves in the air kihon style (not shown in video), work the applications with a partner with control, and then use more power with impact training. Later, we engage live training.


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In 2015 the youngest Musi daughter will field the car previously driven by Lizzy, a 2010 Dodge Stratus, in PDRA Top Sportsman. Under the hood will be a 903 ci Musi powerplant. The operation is owned by Mike Bankston, who Tricia totes as being a major force behind making her dreams come true.
"He's been the support for everything," Tricia said of Bankston. "I am extremely thankful for Mike Bankston. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be where I am now, and I am more than excited to be a part of the Bankston Boyz Team. I truly have got a blessing from the Lord above that I would not change for the world.
"I've been wanting to do this my whole life. I've worked and worked and worked. My dream was to one day get in a race car. I told my dad that I need to get in a race car. I grew up around it. I've pulled motors apart. I worked on Rickie Smith's car. We won Bristol together in 2013. It's been awesome, and I'm so excited for next year.
Twenty-two year old Tricia has had seat time in Dan Green's '69 Camaro powered by a Musi-built, naturally aspirated 565 ci. She's been as fast as 5.50s in the eighth and has also had some experience in a Nova streetcar. However, the majority of her time has been working in her dad's shop where she's quick to get her hands dirty when not handling accounting duties.
"I've had a little bit of experience in the door cars, but nothing as fast as Top Sportsman or Pro Nitrous.This is my dream so I'm going to put my all into it. I'm never going to stop going. I'm just going to keep on improving."
The "King Kong" theme Lizzy Musi championed on the Stratus will move to her new Pro Nitrous machine, while Tricia will be working on her own branding and sponsors. Bankston and his team will haul the car and act as crew, although Tricia plans to be heavily involved in all aspects of the operation.
Tricia already is already very capable of handling many of the mechanical duties on the car from the engine to the four link, but is looking forward to learning even more. "Even though I'm going to be a driver next year, I still want to work on the car. I wouldn't be able to drive the car well without knowing what's going on mechanically. I don't want to be just the driver and nothing else. I'm a hands-on type person."
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The idea of cell memory, that memories are stored outside of the brain in individual cells and organs, is an old one.
In the 1924 film "The Hands of Orlac" Conrad Veidt plays Paul Orlac, a famous concert pianist who loses both of his hands in a terrible railway accident. Orlac's doctor then agrees to graft a new pair of hands onto his arms, only to choose the executed murderer Vasseur as the best donor. Following the operation Orlac comes to believe that his hands are out of his control, as he is no longer able to play the piano. His life spirals out of his control, and eventually he finds his father murdered, with Vasseur's knife plunged into his chest, and Vasseur's fingerprints on the weapon.
Belief in cell memory continues to this day and Gary Schwartz, a professor who heads the Veritas programme researching cell memory at the University of Arizona, believes that it affects at least 10% of all organ donor recipients. He has amassed a group of 70 cases of this apparently happening in heart, lung, liver and kidney transplants – none of which, it must be said, have the drama of Paul Orlac's.
These cases include that of a woman, a self-described militant lesbian and fast food fan, who received the heart of a vegetarian health-food shop owner. Not only did the recipient develop an aversion to fast food following the transplant, but she became engaged to a man, and no longer found women attractive.
In another case a five year old boy, who received the heart of a three year old called Tim, who had died after falling from a window reaching for a Power Rangers figure. After the transplant the boy developed an imaginary friend called Timmy, a boy about half his age who liked Power Rangers.
Other cases include a middle aged man who received the heart of a teenage girl and appeared to inherit her eating disorder; a lawyer who hated chocolate who developed a craving for Snickers; a vertigo sufferer who took up climbing; and a boy who developed a fear of water after being given the heart of a child who drowned.
Whilst individual cases may appear striking they are a long way from being evidence that cell memory exists. The Veritas programme that Professor Schwartz oversees, is a longitudinal study of organ transplant recipients using structured interviews to measure how often these "inherited" characteristics occur. The nature of the study though shows how difficult it is to measure any such effect – there is no exact science to measuring aspects of personality.
It isn't just the essentially subjective nature that makes studying cell memory problematic. There's also a problem with confirmation bias – in researchers who want to find proof for what they already believe, and in donors' families who want to believe that their child or relative continues to live on.
Where there doesn't appear to be any bias toward believing in cell memory is amongst those who received the transplants. A study conducted amongst them, with no prompting about their donors' habits and personalities, showed that only 6% felt that their personality had changed because of their new heart. Low as this figure is it's still higher than the percentage of total heart transplants that the 74 cases in Dr Schwartz's study represented.
The compelling finding from this other study was that 79% felt that their personality hadn't changed at all, and of those that did over 70% felt it was due to the life threatening nature of their surgery. If anything is to account for the change in those who experienced one it would seem that this is the most likely contender, rather than "cell memory".
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My DT entry for The Outlawz Challenge - Paper Ala Mode. The theme is leaves. I used a digi from A Day For Daisies called Fancy Corn. The die cut is a die from Anna Griffith, sentiment is from Poster Board Sentiments, Gina K. Designs.
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I like to consider myself the Carrie Bradshaw of the wine world. Not because I am a particularly talented writer, but because I love LA as much as she loves NY AND my expenditures on wine equal hers on Manolo Blahniks. In the 2006 calendar year I spent $13,846.37 on wine. Retail. For some big collectors that's nothing, I know. But for me, with my modest income, that's more than I pay annually in rent. And that's why I'm like Carrie Bradshaw, she couldn't afford her apartment either.
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Drink Up Yours might be a more suitable title.
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Wow - you were really mad at me this morning, huh?
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