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SE Custom Menus : Size Limitation : SE Menu Module will not load
November 03, 2014, 01:52:16 pm »
I am testing the current SE V19 Release Candidate 02 - (SE V19 RC2) -
using four SE Menu Module testcases (as attached).
I have attached 4 testcases (V_04, V_05_A, V_05_B, V_06) - that show a
size limitation on menus. All four are pretty much identical - except
around line 785.
My test results - to load the SE module are;
V_04 - Pass (see Line 785) - No submenu
V_05_A - Fail (see Line 787) - submenu "PoiNT"
V_05_B - Fail (see Line 787) - submenu "SCoPe"
V_06 - Pass (see Line 785) - submenu "PoiNT" (Note submenu "PoiNT" loads OK)
The last testcase (V_06) shows that the two failing testcases have no bugs
in syntax (V_05_A, B). In V_06 - I commented out a previous submenu
section (submenu "Base Action High Level") - to make room for the submenu
items in V_05_A, B - to prove the syntax is OK.
Thus : The two failing testcases - appear to fail - due to a size
limitation of custom menus in SE (and not a SE code syntax problem).
In summary:
The SE custom menu in testcase V_04 loads OK - and actually works (when
the macros are loaded).
NOTE : I did not attach the SE Macro module - that has the commands used
by the menus. The macros work just fine. Its the menu size problem that
is the issue (herein).
Near as I can tell....
The SE custom menu in testcase V_05_A - Fails the load process - due to a
menu size limitation.
The SE custom menu in testcase V_05_B - Fails the load process - due to a
menu size limitation.
I have found some other issues with custom menus - but this post is
focused on what appears to be a size limitation. The failing testcases
(attached) - appear to be one submenu item too many (right on the cusp of
the failure point).
Is there a size limitation? - and can this be fixed - so that SE can
perform like any other Windows application (ie; Large scale menus are no
When any SE custom menus get around this size - a massive failure can
occur in the SE GUI - which I will post in another topic (under SE V19
RC2 beta testing).
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Re: SE Custom Menus : Size Limitation : SE Menu Module will not load
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November 03, 2014, 06:35:49 pm »
I have attached a nominal size SE menu module - ..V_07.. - for testing
the SE menu size limitation.
I have 'hidden' some menu subitem sets (within the attached module) - by
just commenting them out of the code set (see attached).
This way the attached module can be loaded as is - without crashing the SE
Removing the comment syntax - will 'unhide' those code sections (see section
maps attached - in screenshot format) - currently hidden to pass underneath
the SE menu size limitation (and thus allow the module to be loaded and used
without crashing SE).
These hidden subitem sets - can be uncommented - to further test the SE
menu size limitation issue herein.
The total number of SE submenu items (as attached) - is 175 - via Level 2,
Level 3 items.
The total number of low level SE menu items - at the bottom - level 4 - is
This would be a nominal cardinality - between 100->1000 menu items.
Note : A full menu for the complete tag lexicon I am using - is around 530 items (at present).
Note : The SE menu modules (such as that attached) - allow less SE toolbar
modules to be needed (for various code domains) - as well as provide a
handy reference - to the software artifact tag lexicon (ie; the dictionary
of tags I am using for some corporate/government enterprize level
We use different tools than Slickedit - to maintain tags and generate code
- using automated code generators - for different environments.
... in this context ....
The attached SE menu size testcase module (..V_07..) - and some screen
shots - can help replicate some of the SE module load/unload issues we are
seeing with the SE V19 application.
Some of the harder to replicate errors I am seeing - in the SE V19 beta -
seem to be related to nominal cardinality issues - rather than specific
SE menu load issues (ie; They occur in other SE code domains - such as
macros or toolbars - not just menu items).
Trivial cardinality being 1->10, 10->100 : and nominal being 100->100
code artifacts - in various code domains.
BTW : My (1) Options and (2) Color code domain SE modules - are all
trivial in cardinality - ranging around 1->10 code artifacts (in my SE
Module set - to set up my SE edit console environment).
I hope the attached - can frame the use case - for nominal menu sizes -
for the SE dev team.
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Re: SE Custom Menus : Size Limitation : SE Menu Module will not load
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November 07, 2014, 05:19:57 am »
I tested SE V19 RC4 - with the attached SE Module - in my SE Module
library (for my SE edit console configuration).
The good news is that RC4 does not crash : It loads the (attached) module
- with no stack errors (as in RC2).
The bad news is the RC4 SE Menu size restriction is still too small for my
current needs for SE V19 (use case attached - discussion below).
The attached SE custom menu cardinality metrics are;
[1] Total menu items : 384 (3x numeric expansion of grep tags - due to search scope specifications)
[2] Total grep items : 128 (unique grep tags)
Note again : The 3x scope multiplication of grep tag cardinality - due to
searching in workspace, project and file scope.
A 4x grep operation scope multiplier - would result in a refactored menu
that includes open buffers (ie; workspace, project, file, open buffers).
A 4x multiplier would produce 512 menu items (for the attached tag lexicon).
If the fixed SE menu limit could be increased - in the final V19 release :
The attached SE Module (in my SE Module library set) - is an example use
case of why.
NOTE : What ever the fixed SE menu limit is : When hit - the SE macro
loading process - could post a message box - indicating that the module
loaded OK - but the menu was truncated due to SE menu cardinality limits.
I have attached a screen shot of the truncated module - to show the
difference between - the (a) attached SE menu module - and (b) what
actually gets created in the SE environment (for SE V19 RC4).
As can be seen in the screen shot - the following menu sections are
not created - even though the SE module defines them.
If the SE menu item limit - could be increased to 512 items (100->1000
range of cardinality) - that would go a long way in having formal grep
tags in a working lexicon (available) - without taking up the screen real
estate in Toolbars.
A final SE V19 Release of 1000 items - would go a long way in helping SE
users (such as myself) - in pushing the limits of - code tag lexicon based
- code visibility tool features (such as herein - for the SE application).
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Re: SE Custom Menus : Size Limitation : SE Menu Module will not load
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November 17, 2014, 03:01:40 pm »
I have been testing SE RC5 - relative to large user defined menus.
SE RC5 still has issues with large size menus - but it does not crash and
seems more stable - when large menu sizes are loaded.
Attached are;
[1] Screenshot : Module loaded OK - with no error messages, etc.
[2] Screenshot : With new MDI item - Menu display fails - with error message "Can't find form".
[3] Screenshot : Example SE custom menu - for code domain pattern evolution - grep menu items
[4] SE Module : That has a large menu size - and shows the error in screenshots [1,2]
------------ Discussion -----------------------------------
Screenshot [3] - shows a use case example - of why a Slickedit customer -
would want to use large custom menu sizes in Slickedit. Basically the
menu items provide grep operations - to find code artifacts tagged via a
"_xxx" lexicon approach - for software language independent code
visibility issues (ie; the ability to find code artifacts quickly - using
the code artifact lexicon dictionary (which is over 500 tags long).
Attachment [4] - is an example of a large SE custom menu - with 189 submenu
items - and 384 menu items (at the bottom level - where grep macros are called).
So Attachment [4] contains 384 grep operations - most of which use the lexicon
mentioned above.
Screenshot [1,2] - show the SE RC5 error - whereby : SE loads the attached
module with no error message - but exhibits an error when the MDI Menu item -
tries to display the menu.
------------ Test replication -----------------------------
Load the attached SE module (attached item [4]) - and use;
SE MDI Menu -> Macro -> Menus : _mdi_menu (Open)
To create a "Code Map" SE MDI Menu item - and execute the;
.. macro - defined in the attached SE Module (item [4] above).
When you execute the MDI Menu item "Code Map" - you should get the
same error message as the screenshot [2] (attached).
------------ Bad Behavior ---------------------------------
After the error message comes up - you can look for the large
menu item via;
SE MDI Menu -> Macro -> Menus : [look for _ccv_SEM_01_Base_srh_mnu]
As it turns out, the large SE custom menu was never really loaded -
during the SE module load process - of the attached SE module (item [4]).
------------ Desired Behavior -----------------------------
(1) Slickedit is loading a module - AND
(2) that module defines a SE custom menu - AND
(3) the menu exceeds the maximum allowable size
(4) SE should display a 'Menu Exceeds Maximum Size' error message - AND
(5) The module should be rejected for loading - AND
(6) The module should have no residue in the SE State space - AND
(7) The module should NOT show up in the module list
Note that (7) above - is a problem with the attached screenshot [1] - where
the module DOES show up
------------ Alternate Desired Behavior -------------------
[1] The module shows up in the SE user module list - but its colored red.
[2] The SE module is presented in a buffer
[3] The cursor is at the line - where the last VALID menu item is.
[4] The first menu item (text line) to exceed the size limit - is colored in red.
------------ Summary --------------------------------------
Slickedit is the world's greatest programming tool - because software
engineers can use it to push the envelope of programming productivity
(excuse the soap box approach). In screenshot [3] (attached) - an example
of some pragmatic experimentation - with Slickedit and language independent
code visibility of software patterns (from low, high to holistic system
designs) - is attached to show why someone would want to use large custom
menus in Slickedit.
.... in this experimental - pushing the envelope context ....
The Alternate Desired Behavior would be the best solution.
The key point - is that any menu size limit - should be detected by
Slickedit - and flagged right away.
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Drummer Stephen Perkins and the rest of Jane's Addiction "find the noise" on The Great Escape Artist. © Jared Milgrim/Corbis
"You have to be able to disagree about art," says Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins. "If I say the sky is blue but Dave Navarro says it's gray, then we have to be able to work something out. Not everybody in a band is always going to feel the same. But those differences of opinion can result in the best music. It's not always easy, but that's just the way it goes."
For Perkins, guitarist Navarro and singer Perry Farrell, "not always easy" has been the order of the day for most of Jane's Addiction's on-and-off, 26-year history. After releasing two hands-down classics, 1988's Nothing's Shocking and 1990's Ritual De Lo Habitual, the band sputtered to a messy, drug-fueled breakup in 1991.
Since then, Jane's Addiction have seen more than their share of drama, much of it centering on the revolving door of bass players who have played with the group since they started reuniting, breaking up and reuniting again in the late '90s. Despite the fluctuations in personnel (founding member Eric Avery quit in early 2010, Duff McKagan joined for half a year, TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek climbed on board for studio work, and now Chris Chaney is a touring bassist), the band has just issued The Great Escape Artist, an explosive return to form.
Stephen Perkins sat down with MusicRadar yesterday to discuss recording the new album, his thoughts on working with Duff McKagan, what Dave Sitek brought to the picture and how Chris Chaney is working out. In addition, we discussed jazz versus rock drumming, improvisation, hand percussion and...two-by-fours (as in lumber).
When we last spoke, you were just starting to work with Duff McKagan. A lot has changed since then.
[laughs] "That's true! Yeah, well, the interesting thing is, when I sit down with Perry and Navarro without a bass player - any bass player - it still sounds like Jane's Addiction. The nucleus that is the three of us, that's Jane's Addiction. We're like a little power trio.
"The Duff days were really cool because it was just about writing at first. Then he joined up to do some shows in Europe and in LA, which were a lot of fun. Going through the catalogue with him really helped us all understand how the rhythm section should work for the new record. Duff and I were definitely bonding at this point, no doubt.
"What ended up happening, though, was the music started getting tamed a little. We were sitting on a couch working on songs on bongos and a bass instead of being in a band setting. Sometimes I should be at my drum set. There's no substitute for turning up and making a nice noise, you know? It really affects the vitality of the music."
Perkins lays down the groove while improvising merrily. © Erik Ward/Retna Ltd./Corbis
What changed when Dave Sitek came into the picture?
"Actually, that was a great day for me. Dave was exactly what I needed to find that noise. The two of us got together for a few days without Navarro and Perry, and we got down to it. He brought basses, guitars, amps, turntables, drum machines - all kinds of stuff. I had my big Neil Peart drumset with me. It was cool. The two of us just made some noise! [laughs]
"Gradually, when it was Dave and the other Dave - Dave Navarro - I started to find something of a new sound. We did this without Perry, and I think that was the defining point of what the new record was going to be. It was time to experiment. It was time to get to know each other without worrying about the songs. We were just concentrating on playing."
Still, how did you feel about the work you had done with Duff?
"Well, it wasn't like we just wanted to throw it all away. We did pick and choose some of the tastier fruits from those sessions. Perry, Navarro and I were there during those times, so it wasn't like it was just Duff's music. We had to find what was applicable to the new record, which we did.
"The big thing was finding the noise and how far we could push it. Then, of course, once you add melody, lyrics and the topic, it all becomes a song. After that, we take it into the studio and have fun with all the audio toys. But before we got to that point with [producer] Rich Costey and Dave Sitek, it was about finding that sound, that noise, and in certain places Duff was very important."
After Duff left, was it weird to record the songs that he had written with you?
"No, not at all. Our recording sessions stretch on for months, so it's very different from other bands. We don't lay down a song and go, 'OK, cool. Now we'll start overdubbing.' Our songs take a long time to form. We cut things and talk about them, things change, and then we experiment a little - or a lot. [laughs]
"There's no set way. We find the tasty bits and keep them and figure things out. On this record, we have Dave Sitek on bass, Dave Navarro on bass, Chris Chaney is on bass - whatever makes the best song. So, no, it wasn't weird without Duff.
"For us, when we get in the studio, we need to find that focus or zone, which a band has to have. I mean, we can't ignore the sound of the old days, because it just comes out of us naturally. And our old sound is part of our identity, so why would we want to turn out backs on it?
"But it's about building something new. Dave Sitek and I… I mean, if you looked at our record collections, they'd be completely different. We both agree that the Bad Brains are the best punk band ever, but beyond that we're on completely different planets. He's got stuff I never even heard of! [laughs] On the other hand, Navarro and I will reference a Deep Purple song that Dave Sitek has never heard of."
OK, but talking about the focus, knowing that you've had a few different bassists lately, how do you as a drummer find that spot? It must be frustrating at times.
"Well, part of it is because, like I said, Perry and Navarro and I really do sound like Jane's. That's us and you can't remove it. But I know what you mean. You know, I'm very lucky to have played with some amazing bassists. Eric Avery, Flea, Mike Watt, Martyn [LeNoble], Duff, Chris Chaney - all incredible.
"I'm not a meat-and-potatoes kind of drummer. I don't have one trick up my sleeve. Basically, I'm a jazz drummer who plays rock. I might imply my part here or there, but at no time will a bass player have to say to me, 'What are you playing in this song?' Because what I'm playing is always different. I like to get that tribal pulse, you know? And once Navarro gets his guitar thing going, it sounds like Jane's Addiction."
You're really into hand drums and other forms of percussion. What kinds of flavors did you put on the new record?
"All kinds. You know, I try to imagine the whole thing while I'm recording my main drum parts. I'll be thinking, Less hi-hat, I'll put on some shaker. Or I'll think, Less cymbals, I'm going to add some marching cymbals. On any recording, there's only so many frequencies you can fill, so I try to put together a real interesting drum ensemble.
"I brought in all sorts of percussion: gongs, timpanis, Hapi drums, steel drums, shakers, marimbas, African drums… I even banged on some trash cans and hit some two-by-fours together. Whatever works."
Two-by-fours? That's pretty creative.
"You'd be surprised. The guys are really great about letting me run wild with all my ideas. I want to set the pulse, but I want to be a songwriter, as well. And the pulse I set is way different from other drummers; it's definitely something I think is my own. But I do want people to hear my drum parts and be able to know the songs. There's something amazing about coming up with a great pocket but having it be something that people can go, 'Dude, I know that tune. It's…so-and-so.'"
It's interesting that you mention that you don't play the same part twice. Dave Navarro stated in an interview recently that you never play a straight four-bar beat.
[laughs] "I don't! I don't really play straight beats, that's true. Like I said, I'm a jazz drummer. When I hear Elvin Jones and Art Blakey, I don't hear them playing repetitive parts. They're reacting to the other musicians or even their environment. When I was growing up, I couldn't play with jazz musicians - everybody was picking up guitars and forming rock bands. So that's where I had to go.
"In my heart, though, I love playing with a jazz mentality - something that's very lyrical and expressive. Even somebody like Mitch Mitchell -"
Perkins says Jane's Addiction, performing live in Los Angeles, October 2011, are "in a great place." © Paul R. Giunta/Corbis
Who was very free-form, a lead player in many ways.
"Yeah! See, you take Mitch or Charlie Watts or Keith Moon, and the great thing is, they took those Motown beats and brought more personality and lyricism to them. The pulse was there, but there was room for a jam, improvising."
How do you find go about drawing that line between laying down the groove and improvising?
[laughs] "Well, I am pretty lucky to be playing with a lot of the same guys for a number of years, so there is a secure feeling between us. We can reach one another's minds. With other musicians I've played with, they get lost sometimes. Sure, I improvise, but I'm not changing the actual time signature; I'm just changing where certain beats fall.
"Navarro and Perry know what I do, so they're grooving with me. This goes for Chris Chaney, too, who's been with the band for almost as long as Eric Avery was. So yeah, I have room to improvise and be creative, which is awesome."
Sounds like the general state of Jane's is good.
"Absolutely. Perry, Navarro and I are feeling it. Chris Chaney, too. He's amazing. He's played with us through the years, and when things went down and we needed somebody, I knew Chris was the guy. He's like John Entwistle. He's a very emotional player, but he also knows music theory.
"Musically, we're in a great place. In a way, that's why we keep breaking up when the friendships aren't there. If things aren't good between us, we're not going to get on a bus and tour just because there's 100 grand per week. It's not worth it.
"What we need is to play with people who are inspiring, and we have that in Jane's. We're all feeling it, and it's good. If it starts to get weird again, then we won't do it. We're not in it for the money, we're in it for the music and the friendships."

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The title of this blog post is the gut wrenching, eye-opening question that every business must consider if they are to make a difference.
I've found over the years that most business owners are motivated by the fact that they can make a difference with their business. It may not always start that way, but over time, and through conscious consideration, a higher purpose often evolves.
But how do you bring that higher purpose to the entire organization? How do you make it the focus of why you do what you do?
My guest for this week's episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market and author of Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
In our interview Mackey shares his most important idea about purpose. "First off, business is not zero sum game – it creates values when everyone wins – all stakeholders – customers, employees, suppliers, investors, and the community at large."
So, how do you find purpose in your business?
Do a purpose search.
Bring some small group of all of your stakeholders together and let them tell you – Why the world needs your business or the difference you are currently making. This could be an incredibly powerful set of meetings and it just might inspire a totally new and motivating direction for your entire organization.
In his book Mackey's cites dozens of examples of companies that are doing well by doing good and outlines a plan for finding purpose, developing conscious leadership, creating systems intelligence and building community based on mutual benefit.
Purpose is, in my opinion, the most potent value proposition you can create. It's how you make a difference and differentiate in the same breath.


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Questions that should be asked of those opposing national action on climate change on the basis of cost to the national economy:
1. When you claim that a government emitting high levels of ghgs need not reduce its ghg emissions because the costs to it of so doing are too high, do you deny that high-emitting governments not only have economic interests in climate change policies but also duties and obligations to tens of millions of people around the world who are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest impacts?
2. If you argue that high costs to a nation of reducing its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global ghg emissions justify non-action, how have you considered the increased harms and risks to poor vulnerable people and nations that will continue to grow as atmospheric ghg concentrations continue to rise? In other words how have you considered the harms to others that will be caused by government inaction on climate change?
3. If the justification for a nation to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions is that costs to it are too high, yet inaction causes loss of life and great harm to people outside the nation's borders, is the use of a cost justification by a nation for non-action morally supportable?
4. Do you agree that those nations and people around the world who will most be harmed by climate change have a right to participate in a decision by a nation that chooses to not adopt climate change policies because costs to it are deemed unacceptable?
5. Do you agree that nations that emit ghgs at levels beyond their fair share of safe global emissions have a duty to help pay for reasonable adaptation needs and unavoidable damages of low-emitting countries and individuals that have done little to cause climate change?
6. If you disagree that all nations have a duty to reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions without regard to cost to it, do you also deny the applicability of the well-established international legal norm that almost all nations have agreed to in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development called the "polluter pays" principle which holds that polluters should pay for consequences of their pollution?
7. Do you agree that nations that have very high per capita and historical ghg emissions compared to other nations and so have contributed more than other nations to the rise of atmospheric concentrations of ghgs to dangerous levels have a greater duty to reduce their ghg emissions than nations that have done comparatively little to create the current threat of human-induced warming?
8. If you argue that the United States should not adopt climate change policies on the basis that economic competitors such as China have not adopted climate change policies, are you claiming that no nation has a duty to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions until all other nations reduce their ghg emissions accordingly?
9. In arguing that the United States or other high-emitting nations need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions based on cost, how have you considered, if at all, that all nations have agreed in international climate negotiations to take steps to limit warming to 2 degree C because warming greater than this amount will not only create harsh impacts for tens of millions of people but runs the risk of creating rapid non-linear warming that will outstrip the ability of people and nations to adapt?
Questions that should be asked of those opposing national action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty:
1. When you argue that a nation emitting high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because there is scientific uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts, are you arguing that a nation need not take action on climate change until scientific uncertainties are resolved given that waiting to resolve all scientific uncertainties before action is taken may very likely make it too late to prevent catastrophic climate change harms to millions of people around the world?
2. Do you deny that those who are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest potential impacts have a right to participate in a decision about whether to wait to act to reduce the threat of climate change to them because of scientific uncertainty?
3. Given that mainstream climate change scientific view holds that the Earth could experience rapid non-linear climate change impacts which outstrip the ability of some people and nations to adapt, should this fact affect whether nations which emit high levels of ghgs should be able to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for non-action on climate change?
4. What specific scientific references and sources do you rely upon to conclude that there is a reasonable scientific dispute about whether human actions are causing observable climate change and are you aware of the multiple "fingerprint" studies and "attribution" studies that very strongly point to human causation?
(Fingerprint studies draw conclusions about human causation that can be deduced from: (a) how the Earth warms in the upper and lower atmosphere, (b) warming in the oceans,(c) night-time vs day-time temperature increases,(d) energy escaping from the upper atmosphere versus energy trapped, (e) isotopes of CO2 in the atmosphere and coral that distinguish fossil CO2 from non-fossil CO2, (f) the height of the boundary between the lower and upper atmosphere, and (g) atmospheric oxygen levels decrease as CO2 levels increase. "Attribution" studies test whether the energy differences from those natural forces which have changed the Earth's climate in the past such as changing radiation from the sun are capable of explaining observed temperature change.)
5. On what specific basis do you disregard the mainstream scientific view that holds that the Earth is warming, that the warming is mostly human caused, and that harsh impacts from warming are very likely under business-as-usual, conclusions supported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United States Academy of Sciences and over a hundred of the most prestigious scientific organizations in the world whose membership includes scientists with expertise relevant to the science of climate change including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, and the Royal Society of the UK and according to the American Academy of Sciences 97 percent of scientists who actually do peer-reviewed research on climate change?
6. When you claim that a nation such as the United States which emits high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because adverse human-induced climate change impacts have not yet been proven, are you claiming that climate change skeptics have proven that human-induced climate change will not create harsh adverse impacts to the human health and the ecological systems of others on which their lives often depend and if so what is that proof?
7. Given that in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the United States and almost every country in the world in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty?
(Article 3 states:)
The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost
8. If a nation emitting high levels of ghgs refuses to reduce its emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human-induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends for tens of millions of others, should that nation be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?
Donald A. Brown
Widener University School Of Law


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"This was something that's been hanging over my head for a long time," Kevin continued. "At Christmas I was snowed in, couldn't get out of the house for a week, and it forced me to go through my entire collection and cut all the deadwood that's been in there for a long time."
Kevin had been steadily scanning his work to digital files for several years. The scans were done based on priority—the best ones, the ones that were requested, the ones he needed to send out for a specific use. "But there were tens of thousands of pictures that never went out and many that were never going to go out." Some were alternates, some near-duplicates, all were "just sitting there."
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TALLINN, Estonia — President Barack Obama (pictured) said Wednesday that the United States will not be intimidated by Islamic State militants, after the beheading of a second American journalist and will build a coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
Obama still did not give a timeline for deciding on a strategy to go after the extremist group's operations in Syria. "It's going to take time for us to be able to roll them back," the president said at a news conference during a visit to Europe.
The president's comments came after he said the United States had verified the authenticity of a video released Tuesday showing the beheading of freelance reporter Steven Sotloff, two weeks after journalist James Foley was similarly killed.
Obama vowed the U.S. would not forget the "terrible crime against these two fine young men."
"We will not be intimidated. Their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists," Obama said. "And those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget, and that our reach is long and that justice will be served."
Separately, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement: "Barbarity, sadly, isn't new to our world. Neither is evil."
"We've taken the fight to it before, and we're taking the fight to it today," Kerry said. "When terrorists anywhere around the world have murdered our citizens, the United States held them accountable, no matter how long it took. And those who have murdered James Foley and Steven Sotloff in Syria should know that the United States will hold them accountable too, no matter how long it takes."
Obama also sought to clean up the damage from his statement last week that "we don't have a strategy yet" for dealing with the Islamic State group in Syria. Republicans quickly seized on the remark to argue the president lacks a coherent approach to fighting the extremist group.
"It is very important from my perspective that when we send our pilots in to do a job, that we know that this is a mission that's going to work, that we're very clear on what our objectives are, what our targets are," Obama said. "We've made the case to Congress and we've made the case to the American people, and we've got allies behind us so that it's not just a one-off, but it's something that over time is going to be effective."
In the Sotloff video, a masked militant warns Obama that as long as U.S. airstrikes against the militant group continue, "our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people."
Obama responded that the airstrikes have been effective in blunting the militant threat and he will continue to battle the "barbaric and ultimately empty vision" that the Islamic State represents. He said he will be consulting with NATO allies at a summit in Wales Thursday and Friday on a strategy to combat the Islamic State and other militant networks that arise.
"Our objective is clear, and that is to degrade and destroy ISIL so that it's no longer a threat – not just to Iraq, but also the region and to the United States," he said, using an acronym for the militant group.
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, appearing alongside Obama, expressed solidarity in the fight. "We see ISIS as a serious threat to all of us, and stand together with the United States and our allies on this issue," Ilves said, using an alternative name for the group.
Sotloff, a 31-year-old Miami-area native who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished a year ago in Syria and was not seen again until he appeared in the video that showed Foley's beheading. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the Islamic State.
In the video distributed Tuesday and titled "A Second Message to America," Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is apparently beheaded by a fighter with the Islamic State, the extremist group that has conquered wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC Wednesday that the masked, British-accented jihadist appears to be the same person shown in the Foley footage. In the video, the organization threatens to kill another hostage, this one identified as a British citizen.
Last week, Sotloff's mother, Shirley Sotloff, pleaded with his captors for mercy, saying in a video that her son was "an innocent journalist" and "an honorable man" who "has always tried to help the weak."
Obama said the prayers of the American people are with the family of the "devoted and courageous journalist" who deeply loved the Islamic world and whose "life stood in stark contrast to those who have murdered him so brutally."
"His killers try to claim that they defend the oppressed, but it was Steven who traveled across the Middle East, risking his life to tell the story of Muslim men and women demanding justice and dignity," Obama said. "Whatever these murderers think they'll achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed. They have failed because, like people around the world, Americans are repulsed by their barbarism."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday that it is believed that "a few" Americans are still being held by the Islamic State. Psaki would not give any specifics, but one is a 26-year-old woman who was kidnapped while doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, according to a family representative who asked that the hostage not be identified out of fear for her safety.
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Jacob Zuma: What happened to the ANC's vision?
[South Africa: Analyses]
WHAT was the fundamental objective of the ANC when it was formed in 1912?
Are the current ANC leaders pursuing that primary goal? Is the present ANC 100 years old or 57 years old?
On January 8, 1912, when opening the inaugural conference of the ANC (then called the South African Native National Congress) Pixley ka Seme, said: "Kings of the royal blood and gentlemen of our race, we have gathered here to consider and discuss a scheme my colleagues have decided to place before you … In the land of our birth, Africans are treated as hewers of wood and drawers of water. The whites have formed what is known as the Union of South Africa in which we have no voice."
African kings had fought many wars of national resistance against colonialism for over 2OO years until their spears succumbed to the guns of the colonial aggressors. All had their lands forcefully taken from them.
Two pieces of colonial legislation, the Union of South Africa Act 1909 and the Native Land Act 1913, precipitated the formation of the ANC in 1912.
In 1909, there were five million Africans in Azania (South Africa) and, according to the 1904 census, 349 ,537 colonial settlers.
The five million indigenous Africans remained helpless spectators as the tragedy of their land dispossession unfolded before them. The Native Land Act 1913 allocated 93% of the African country to the 349, 537 European settlers and seven percent to five million Africans.
On July 20, 1914, the leaders of the newly formed ANC, armed with a mandate from the kings and African people of this country, went to England to present a petition to King George V, protesting the land dispossession of the African people. They were President John L. Dube, Secretary Sol Plaatje, Reverend Walter Rubusana, Thomas Mapikela and Saul Msane. They achieved nothing except for a favorable report published in a London newspaper.
The issue of land dispossession is at the core of why the present ANC is not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the 1912 ANC in 1955; 57 years ago.
In 1955, a section of the 1912 ANC leadership was captured by a section of the white ruling class. Despite the Union of South Africa Act 1909 and the Native Land Act 1913, in 1955 the authors of the Freedom Charter preamble falsely proclaimed: "We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white … and therefore, we the people of South Africa black and white together, equals, countrymen and brothers adopt the Charter."
This was a colossal colonial fraud. Today, 57 years after this deception, there are two "nations" in South Africa. One is an extremely rich white minority and the other is an extremely poor 80% African majority.
In 1943, 1944, 1948 and 1949, the Congress Youth League had formulated four freedom documents and the 1912 ANC had adopted these documents as its policy implementing them under presidents Alfred Bitini Xuma, James Moroka and Albert Luthuli. The Freedom Charter defectors threw them into the political dustbin and replaced them with the 1955 so-called Freedom Charter.
On the economy, the 1944 document had proclaimed: "The Congress Youth League holds that political democracy remains an empty form without substance unless it is properly grounded on a base of economic democracy … Land: The re-division of land among farmers and peasants of all nationalities in proportion to their numbers … The improvement of land, the reclamation of denuded areas and conservation of water supplies …"
ANC President Albert Luthuli admitted he did not know who drafted the Freedom Charter. "I can only speak vaguely about its preparations that went before," he wrote in Let My People Go. "The main disadvantage from which it suffered was that the branches submitted materials for the Charter at a very late hour — too late in fact, for the statement to be boiled down into a comprehensive statement. It was not possible for the National Action Committee to circulate the draft carefully …The result is that the declaration in the Charter is uneven."
Luthuli, who was elected according to the fundamental objectives and policy of the ANC as founded in 1912, said the Freedom Charter was open to criticism and vague. The year 1955 marks the moment when there was a fundamental change in the policy of the ANC as founded in 1912.
A section of ANC leaders and members who stood by the fundamental objectives of the ANC as constituted in 1912 declared: "In 1949, we got the African people to accept the nation-building program of that year. We have consistently and honestly stuck to that program which according to us is in irreconcilable conflict with the 1949 program of action seeing that land no longer belongs to the African people …
"In numerous ANC conferences, we have made it clear that we are committed to the overthrow of white colonial domination and restoration of land to its rightful owners. We are now launching openly on our own, as custodians of the ANC policy as it was formulated in 1912 and pursued up to the time of 'Congress Alliance'."
In 1955, the ANC became a civil rights movement and in 1994 it negotiated "democracy" and not equitable redistribution of land and resources according to population numbers. The Native Land Act 1913, through which Africans were dispossessed, is entrenched in Section 25(7) of the "new South Africa" Constitution ["A person or community dispossessed of property after 19 June 1913 as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices is entitled, to the extent provided by an Act of Parliament, either to restitution of that property or to equitable redress."]
This civil rights movement and "Freedom Charter" ANC government has laws for issues the dispossessed people of this country never asked for. Some of them are on homosexuals, same-sex marriages, abortion on demand, prostitutes, who are now called sex workers, and so on. Their government is infested with endemic corruption that is destroying the country because the Charterists have lost the 1912 ANC vision for this country.
The negotiations the ANC pursued at Codesa with the apartheid Nationalist Party in 1994 were not in accord with the fundamental objectives of the 1912 ANC. In September 1985, the Freedom Charter ANC leaders met a group of whites in Lusaka, led by the chairperson of the Anglo-American Corporation, Gavin Reilly. The Johannesburg stock market had crashed and the apartheid regime defaulted on its debt and the chieftains of South African capital took fright. Their message to the ANC leaders in exile was that transition to a black-governed liberal democracy was possible, only if order and stability were guaranteed. This was in reference to a free market state where social justice would not be a priority.
What followed later were secret meetings that took place in England. The very place where King George V had ignored the land dispossession of Africans brought to his attention by the founders of the ANC. This time the meeting was with the Afrikaner elite.
As journalist John Pilger put it: "The prime movers who had underpinned and profited from apartheid, such as the British mining giant Consolidated Fields, picked up the bill for the classical wines and malt whisky scoffed around the fireplace at Mells Park House. The aim was that of the Pretoria regime to split the ANC between the exile moderates with whom they could do business and the majority who made up those resisting in the townships."
In his book A History Of Inequality in South Africa 1652- 2OO2, Sampie Terreblanche observes: "The ANC's core leaders effectively sold its sovereign freedom to implement an independent and appropriate socioeconomic policy for a mess of pottage when it entered into several compromises with the corporate sector and its global partners. These unfortunate transactions must be retracted or renegotiated."
If the leaders who founded the ANC in 1912 and who presented a petition on land dispossession to King George V were alive this year, what would they say? How would African kings and those warriors who died in those many battlefields to defend this country against colonialism feel when they see that for 57 years the land question in South Africa has not been a fundamental issue with this ANC since 1955? It is now buried in the miracle Rainbow Nation.
If "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white … equals, countrymen and brothers …" why is the ANC spending billions of rand it has not got, buying land for blacks from whites on a "willing seller, willing buyer" basis. This is getting the ANC government deeper into debt without resolving the land question in South Africa.
The demand that was made by the 1912 ANC leaders "that the Africans must be put into possession of land according to their numbers" has not been met.
This primary demand of the African national liberation struggle was betrayed in 1955. Section 25 of the new South Africa Constitution is the same thing as the Native Land Act 1913. No sane nation has ever commemorated its genocide or spat on the graves of its ancestors.
Motsoko Pheko has been a member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), since 1960 and has held several offices including president. He is the author of several books including Apartheid: The Story of the Dispossessed People, Betrayal of a Colonized People and the Hidden Side of South African Politics.
This article was written in Janaury 2012


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NH Town To Pay $57,000 To Woman Charged For Videotaping Police
WEARE, N.H. (AP) — The town of Weare will pay $57,500 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a woman who said police were wrong to charge her for videotaping a traffic stop.
In the settlement, the town and its police force don't admit wrongdoing. Charles Bauer, the lawyer representing the town and some of the officers involved, said they agreed to settle after a recent federal appeals court ruling in the case of Carla Gericke found such recording is legal unless an officer orders the person to stop for safety reasons.
Gericke, of Lebanon, was driving behind a friend on March 24, 2010, when the lead car was pulled over. Gericke began to record the stop and was asked by Sgt. Joseph Kelley to return to her car. He did not ask her to stop recording.
She was charged with illegal wiretapping later that day and filed suit in 2011. Charges were later dropped.
Last month, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals said citizens may videotape police officers performing their duties unless an officer orders them to disperse or stop recording for legitimate safety reasons. In its unanimous ruling, the court rejected arguments by Weare officers that they should be immune from liability, under a theory that allows government officials to make reasonable mistakes that do not violate clearly established constitutional rights or state laws.
Gericke's lawyer said that ruling was groundbreaking, adding to a 2011 ruling in Massachusetts by specifically protecting the right to videotape traffic stops.
"Unfortunately, sometimes, the only thing that changes entrenched behaviors is if it becomes too costly to continue those behaviors," Hipple said. "This settlement helps to make it clear that government agencies that choose to retaliate against videographers will pay for their retaliation in dollars and cents. We are confident that this settlement will help to make arrests of videographers a thing of the past."
The settlement award will be paid by the town's risk management company.
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When organizations or businesses stumble and fall, the search for an explanation often leads back to the quality of the evidence-gathering process. It is that process, known as Evidence-based Management (EBM), that fascinates Anthony R. Kovner, who has spent more than a decade trying to get managers to employ it when they seek ways to improve their organization's performance and results.
Kovner teaches EBM to students at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he is a professor of public and health management and the director of the Executive MPA Program for Nurse Leaders. He is also the author of several books on health care management.
Shortly before the publication of a chapter he recently wrote, entitled "Adventures in the Evidence-based Management Trade," for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Management (Oxford University Press), he sat down with NYU Research Digest to discuss Evidenced-based Management.
What's the theory behind EBM?
Evidenced-based Management comes out of medicine—the idea that if you make a medical intervention, it should have a predictable and positive outcome. We said, "Why can't we apply this in management?" Well, the truth is, it's not a simple matter. We know a lot less about management than medicine, for which there's a huge medical research establishment, the randomized clinical trial, and an established process for scientific review.
What professional sector does EBM most lend itself to?
To every sector. So for example, when two large health organizations decide to merge, we say, "Wouldn't it make sense to look at the best available evidence before making a decision to merge?" Instead, a very common managerial response is: "We want to merge—let's find the evidence that justifies it."
So these managers need to do more than just type "hospital merger" in Google?
Keep in mind that all managers make decisions based on evidence. The point is, what is the quality of the evidence? It can be pretty shabby.
What's wrong with the process as it works now?
When, for instance, two large institutions decide to merge, to what extent do they ask in advance, "What do we know about successful and unsuccessful mergers?" Generally speaking, what they do is ask the consultants, and the consultants say, "This would work in Akron." But of course that doesn't mean that it would work in Brooklyn. Are the merging institutions' two geographies compatible? What about their respective cultures? It's not that you get to a solution—these kinds of problems are too messy, too wicked, and the causation is not as clear as in randomized clinical trials. But it informs your thinking so you can see and avoid the worst consequences of what might happen.
How should the evidence gathering begin?
Three basic steps: search and locate the best available evidence, learn from best practices, and try doing your own management research. If you are studying why nurses turn over so much in your hospital, it's important for you to understand the differences between the 12-hour day shift and the 12-hour night shift. The most important step, though, is to ask the right question, and translate your management challenge into an answerable one.
If EBM is so effective, why don't more organizations engage in it?
That's the $64,000 question, and it's not an easy question to deal with. What it really is about is power and hierarchy and organizations. Let's say an employee comes up with a better way of doing something and tells the boss about it. You'd expect the boss to say it's a great idea, let's do it. But in practice the boss says, "You're insulting the way I'm managing this place," or "If you thought of it, then how good can it be, if I didn't think of it," or "Go ahead and present your ideas to the higher-ups, and if they like it I'll take credit for it, and, if they don't we'll blame you. "
That sounds almost insurmountable.
The trick of it is to make the politics work for you. To get it implemented, you have to get the managers to see that it's in their political interest to practice evidence-based management. And I believe it is."


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Recently, VKernel announced expanded support for Microsoft Hyper-V, adding updates to its VKernel Capacity Analyzer and VKernel Chargeback products. Beyond that, VKernel said its latest announcement marks the company's accelerating support for all things Microsoft. In addition to VKernel support for Hyper-V, the company's products are also integrating with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) through Microsoft certified management packs, and the company stated it will continue to work with Microsoft to further extend SCOM capabilities to both Hyper-V and VMware environments.
VKernel told InfoWorld that Microsoft has been a great partner in regard to this latest round of joint development. VKernel worked closely with the Windows Server and Hyper-V groups, as well as the System Center group, all the while finding Microsoft development teams to be very open and available. The company also found Microsoft extremely helpful with coordinating marketing and release announcements to the larger user community and said it looked forward to seeing more virtualization-focused marketing activities and events from Microsoft in the future.
[ Also on InfoWorld.com: Find out why Veeam has added backup and replication support for Microsoft Hyper-V. | Read about how Microsoft Hyper-V now supports Linux-based CentOS. | Keep up-to-date on virtualization by signing up for InfoWorld's Virtualization newsletter. ]
While VMware still owns the vast majority of the server virtualization market, VKernel believes that picture is starting to change. The company claims it's seeing Hyper-V implementations beginning to grow quickly. Therefore, VKernel is working to release features to help make this infrastructure growth quick and easy.
"Hyper-V momentum in the virtualization market is increasing for a number of reasons," said Alex Rosemblat, product marketing manager at VKernel. "One reason may stem from the fact that we have heard from customers for some time that they are wary of single sourcing their hypervisor, a mission-critical component for their infrastructure, from VMware. And VKernel released our first Hyper-V compatible product in 2009 to address this customer concern."
Rosemblat continued, "A second reason may be due to the latest releases of Windows Server and System Center that clearly show Microsoft's progress in developing enterprise virtualization solutions. And finally, VKernel's decision to increase development for Hyper-V comes as a result of the growing interest we are witnessing for Hyper-V. This increasing awareness has manifested itself in a number of areas, from analyst reports that note the growing adoption of Hyper-V, to increasing downloads of Hyper-V compatible VKernel products, and also from meeting Hyper-V only virtualization administrators at VMware user group meetings."
In terms of building the Hyper-V market, Rosemblat said he believes that VKernel can help accelerate Hyper-V adoption within a data center and across the industry through the confidence that his software provides scaling virtualization initiatives.
Dave Bartoletti, a senior analyst with the Taneja Group, seems to concur with VKernel's assessment of Microsoft Hyper-V's market movement. Bartoletti notes that virtualization ecosystem partners like VKernel are beefing up support for Hyper-V because of two main drivers: Customers are beginning to see Hyper-V as a mature (production-ready) hypervisor platform and are asking for multiplatform support, and the management ecosystem players need to differentiate their offerings from SCOM/SCVMM and the vCenter suite.
Bartoletti added, "Two years ago, it was Xen support everyone touted -- I think the recent move to add value to Hyper-V signals that Microsoft is clearly making inroads as a production-ready and feature-rich platform."


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Medicaid-insured children with eczema do not have access to dermatologists, shows study.
"This is a complex problem and a major health disparity in our country," said Elaine Siegfried, M.D., professor of pediatrics at SLU and the principal investigator of the study. "Thirty percent of all children seen in primary care offices have a skin problem. It's an everyday issue."
SLU researchers found that only 19 percent of all dermatologists in 13 metropolitan areas across the United States accept Medicaid-insured children. Of the 471 dermatologists who were listed as Medicaid-participating providers by Medicaid insurance plans, 44 percent declined to schedule a new Medicaid-insured child.
In this secret-shopper survey, researchers posed as parents and called dermatology offices across the country to request an appointment for their child with eczema. Even when a dermatologist was accepting new Medicaid-insured children, these children were more often required to provide a written referral and/or identification numbers before an appointment date could be offered, in comparison to privately-insured children.
Eczema mainly affects children and is often a chronic condition in which the skin becomes itchy, reddened, cracked and dry. In addition to the physical effects, eczema also impacts the quality of life, causing emotional, behavioral and sleep disturbances.
"Since it can be a chronic debilitating disease, it's important for these children to be able to see a dermatologist," said Chaudhry, who is also a SLUCare dermatologist. "Improved access to dermatologists is important for treating eczema in order to enhance the well-being of affected children and to minimize the expensive cost of emergency care," Chaudhry added.About 32 million children are insured with Medicaid health insurance plans, and that number is likely to expand by 16 to 18 million with the new health care reform.
Chaudhry and other researchers identified several possible factors that may discourage dermatologists from seeing a Medicaid-insured patient. These include a physician's concern of additional administrative paperwork, convoluted or delayed payments, a high no-show rate of patients, extra time required to address patients with complex social issues and possible medical-legal liabilities associated with them.
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When locating and utilizing thermals for soaring flight, called thermalling, glider pilots must constantly be aware of any nearby lift indicators. Successful thermalling requires several steps: locating the thermal, entering the thermal, centering the thermal, and finally leaving the thermal. Keep in mind that every thermal is unique in terms of size, shape, and strength.
Mike Opitz: "Look where your high wing points towards (off in the distance) when you are in the best average lift of the circle. The next time around, that is the direction to correct towards. Conversely, when you are in the worst part, the low wing will point towards the direction to correct in. The shallowing /steepening only works if you are pretty close to centered anyway. If you are half in /half out, with the best part of your circle still short of being in the core, the shallowing out principle will never get you there if you wait for the vario to show lift".
Often stronger lift exists on one side of the thermal than on the other, or perhaps the thermal is small enough that lift exists on one side and sink on the other, thereby preventing a climb. There are several techniques and variations to centering.
One method involves paying close attention to where the thermal is strongest, for instance, toward the northeast or toward some feature on the ground. To help judge this, note what is under the high wing when in the best lift. On the next turn, adjust the circle by either straightening or shallowing the turn toward the stronger lift. Anticipate things a bit and begin rolling out about 30?before actually heading towards the strongest part. This allows rolling back toward the strongest part of the thermal rather than fly-ing through the strongest lift and again turning away from the thermal center. Gusts within the thermal can cause airspeed indicator variations; therefore, avoid "chasing the ASI." Paying attention to the nose attitude helps pilots keep their focus outside the cockpit. How long a glider remains shallow or straight depends on the size of the thermal.
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