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17th Mar 1794 - 14th Jan 1878
Although not listed as an awardee in the Parliamentary Papers list, Edward Cust, together with the heirs of the late Mrs L. W. Boode (his mother-in-law), made a claim on Greenwich Park in British Guiana and was awarded £5029 7s 8d as 716A (pace Parliamentary Papers): the remainder of the compensation for the enslaved on the estate went to Cust's brother John, Earl Brownlow and Wilbraham Egerton, appointed trustees and executors of Mrs L.W. Boode in place of James Dannett. In pursuit of the compensation, Edward Cust wrote to Henry Frederick Stephenson, one of the Commissioners of Compensation in 1835: 'Dear Stevenson [sic]: how much might I hope to receive? I trust I am not intruding an impertinent request... I see your Brother in Law at Holkham received one royal duchess with very great splendour' [Stephenson had married the sister of the wife of Thomas William Coke, later Earl of Leicester, reportedly to the great displeasure of Coke].
As an MP voted in planter interests throughout 1820s-1832. [And see note 2 below].
Son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow and brother of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, and Frances, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Bankes of Wimbledon, Surrey. Educ. Eton and Sandhurst.
Married 11 January 1821, Mary Anne, only child of Lewis William Boode, 'of Amsterdam and Peover Hall Cheshire', and heir of her mother, Margaret Dannett, of Leasowe Castle, Birkenhead, daughter of the Revd Thomas Dannett, rector of Liverpool. Lewis William Boode, who had died c. 1800, was a member of a major family of British Guiana slave-owners and the brother of Andreas Christian Boode (q.v.).
Army officer who served in the Peninsula War, eventually rising to General (1866). Knighted 1831.
Mary Cust was lady of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria's mother, duchess of Kent.
Equerry to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, from 1816. Master of the ceremonies to Queen Victoria 1847-76. One of the commissioners for the new Houses of Parliament.
Cust the author of works on West Indian affairs and the colonies and also wrote military histories and other works; included Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century (5 vols., 1857) and Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years' War (2 vols., 1865). Received the gold medal of the Austrian empire from the emperor for these in in 1869. Also wrote Noctes dominicae, or, Sunday Night Readings (1848) and Family Readings: the New Testament Harmonised and Explained (1850). Hon. DCL from the University of Oxford, 1853.
Senior magistrate for the hundred of Wirral. It is not clear where his main residence was: Boyle's Directory 1835 lists him as living at he died in Jermyn Street, St James's, London, but had properties elsewhere - including Leasowe Castle, in the Wirral. [See physical legacies].
Active in the West India Committee (e.g. in April 1823) pressing for ameliorative measures to prevent full emancipation.
T71/885 British Guiana no. 716A & B; T71/1610: letter, dated 30/09/1835, from Leasowe Castle; http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/stephenson-henry-1790-1858 [accessed 12/09/2017]; R. G. Thorne (ed.), The House of Commons, 1790-1820 (5 vols., London, Secker & Warburg for the History of Parliament Trust, 1986), vol. 3, pp. 554-5; Oxford DNB, (article by [Anon.], rev. James Lunt.); D. R. Fisher (ed.), The House of Commons 1820-1832 (7 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for the History of Parliament Trust, 2009), vol. 4.
Alexandra Franklin, Enterprise and advantage: The West India interest in Britain, 1774-1840 (University of Pennsylvania, Unpub. PhD, 1992), p. 214.
Name in compensation records
Sir Edward Cust
Mary Anne Boode
Wealth at death: under £18,000: probate, 2 July 1878, CGPLA Eng. & Wales.
Wealth at death
Eton [1805-1808 ]
Military Education
Oxford DNB Entry
£10,058 15s 4d
Historical (8)
A Letter ... on the expedience of a better system of control over buildings erected at the public expense; and on the subject of rebuilding the Houses of... 1835
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Another edition: Thoughts on the expedience of a better system of control and supervision over buildings erected at the public expense, etc.,...
Reflections on West India Affairs, after a recent visit to the Colonies. Addressed to the consideration of the Colonial... 1839
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British Library catalogue:...
The Colonies and Colonial... 1845
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Noctes Dominicae; or Sunday-night reading, made applicable to the Proper Lessons for Sundays throughout the year. Compiled from various... 1848
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pp. Xxviii +...
Family Reading. The New Testament narrative harmonized, and explained by the bishops and doctors of the Anglican Church: compiled by the Hon. Sir E.... 1850
Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century, compiled from the most authentic histories of the... 1857-1860
Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century, compiled from the most authentic histories of the... 1862
Lives of the Warriors of the Seventeenth... 1865-1869
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Cust is an example of one whose outlook is deeply enmeshed in the British imperial world of the C19th, because of his slave-owning, his military career, and because of his preoccupations, in the...
Physical (1)
Leasowe Castle [Purchased]
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Leasowe Castle built in 1593 by Ferdinando, the 5th Earl of Derby. 1802 bought by Mrs Boode, whose daughter, Mary Anne, married Edward Cust who took possession in 1821. The castle...
Political (1)
Tory / West India interest
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Grantham Lincolnshire
1818 - 1826
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Lostwithiel Cornwall
1826 - 1832
Son-in-law → Mother-in-law
Husband → Wife
1 New St Spring Gardens [also given as 1 New Gardens, Middlesex], London, Middlesex, London, England
Leasowe Castle, Cheshire, North-west England, England


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MANISSA (the ancient Magnesia ad Sipylum):
Town in the Turkish vilayet of Aidin, twenty-eight miles northeast of Smyrna. It has a population of 40,000, of whom 1,800 are Jews (against 1,200 in 1838). The community there is said to be older than that of Smyrna. Richard Pococke, who visited the city about 1733-34, says ("Description of the East," ii. 56): "Several Jews [of Manissa] exported goods to Smyrna and Europe. They also manufactured calicoes, and usually were rich. To-day they are the commercial leaders. As artisans, they are chiefly shoemakers, tinsmiths, etc. The young women have recently begun to learn the manufacture of Turkish rugs, and this industry is in quite a flourishing condition." When Tournefort visited the district in 1702 ("Voyage au Levant," ii. 490) he found three synagogues there; now there are five—named Shalom, Mayorca, Toledo, 'Eẓ Ḥayyim, and Talmud Torah. The oldest of these, Shalom, was destroyed by fire, but has been rebuilt.
Among its benevolent societies are the ḥebra ḳaddisha; the Hospital Society; the Mohar u-Mattan, which assists and dowers girls who wish to marry; the Ḥesed shel Emet, which provides for poor families in time of mourning; the Shilluḥim, to assist strangers and the poor to emigrate; and the 'Ozer Dallim, which provides the poor with shoes. The different societies have their own revenues.
There are two cemeteries, one old and the otherdating back about a century. In the former, tombstones dated 5406 (= 1646) have been found. A portion of the old cemetery was occupied for some years by Mohammedan refugees, who mistook it for vacant ground, and built houses there. To save the new cemetery from a similar fate, it was enclosed with walls in 1900 by the ḥebra ḳaddisha, which spent for this purpose 400 Turkish livres. The community has a small but well-organized hospital, which was founded in 1869 on the initiative of Rabbi Ḥayyim Maẓliaḥ and Rabeno Algranati. Before the establishment of schools by the Alliance Israélite Universelle (one for boys in 1892 and another for girls in 1896) the Talmud Torah was the only educational center. The school buildings stand on a fine estate belonging to the community. After the foundation of these schools the Talmud Torah ceased to exist, and modern ideas of progress have been adopted. Hebrew, French, and Turkish are taught in the schools, and a reading-room was established in 1895. Greek, Turkish, and Judæo-Spanish are the vernaculars. The community is governed by a chief rabbi, who is also the government representative. Since the abolition of the communal tax called "'arikah," the tax upon salt has met the communal needs and the salaries of the rabbis and shoḥeṭim.
The oldest of the chief rabbis of whom any mention is made was Aaron Lapapa, the author of the "Bene Aharon" (Smyrna, 1674), who was succeeded by Benjamin Melammed. After Melammed, the next rabbis known were Zerahiah Azulai, author of "Sukkat Dawid"; Raphael Abraham Maẓliaḥ, author of "Ma'amar ha-Melek" (Salonica, 1806); Joseph Maẓliaḥ, Abraham Maẓliaḥ, Joseph Ḥakim, Moses Maẓliaḥ, and David Gomel, the present (1904) rabbi. Two blood accusations have been brought against the Jews of Manissa, one in 1883 and the other in 1893. In 1837 two hundred Jews died of the Plague.
In a chest in the synagogue Shalom is preserved a parchment manuscript of eight books of the Bible, in three volumes. The first volume contains the books of Genesis and Exodus; the second those of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; and the third Joshua, Judges, and Isaiah. At the end of the last volume is the name of the copyist, Reuben bar Todros, and the date of the book, 5049 (1289). These books are greatly venerated. Some years ago the second volume was sent to Paris to be sold in order to obtain money for the needs of the community. As soon as the book had left Manissa there occurred a succession of sudden and premature deaths. Attributing these misfortunes to the removal of the volume, the community telegraphed for its immediate return.
Among the famous Jews born in Manissa was Samtob (Shem-Ṭob) Shikar, a composer of Oriental music.
About eighty years ago, in the time of Kara Oglu Osman, Chelebi Aaron Franco was the government treasurer; on the downfall of the former, Franco shared his disgrace; Franco's enemies went so far as to pass sentence of death on him, but he was saved through the efforts of Ḥayyim Palaggi, chief rabbi of Smyrna. One of the contemporaries of Franco was a certain Chelebi Abrahamaji Mayo, proprietor of a large estate. Samtob (Shem-Ṭob) Joseph is at present the veterinary surgeon of Manissa and its dependencies; several Jews are members of local tribunals, and David Franco is the present dragoman of the Italian vice-consulate.


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We all look back to our teenage years with nostalgia for the highs: a triumphant sports event, red carnations as the curtain closed on a musical, friendships that meant the world, graduation, a teacher who made an extra effort to care.
And yet we can't help but remember the low points, so much so that most of us would never want to go back to being a teenager again. There may have been feelings of inadequacy in the classroom, on the field, among peers. Or there were unmet academic expectations, a tightly knotted stomach on test days, first dates, pimples, car accidents and questions about sexuality.
Today, as a parent armed with memory, you strive to make adolescence as painless as possible – and hopefully pleasant – for your son or daughter. Following are tips to consider when relating to your children on their rollercoaster ride through the teens.
You can't fix everything.
Teenagers must solve many problems for themselves. You should, however, make yourself available to your son or daughter, ask questions and talk about your feelings. If you are open with them, they are more likely to speak freely with you.
Communication is key
Learn new ways to talk and listen with each other and practice them regularly. You'll not only gain a better sense of whether to step in or back off with your teen, you will also help your teen become a better communicator outside the home. Just being able to talk constructively about emotional lows will make them more manageable for your son or daughter.
Be aware of more drastic changes.
Falling grades, a new group of friends, isolation and changes in eating or sleeping habits are just a few of the warning signs for eating disorders, drug addiction and depression. While these are serious problems, they are all treatable. Talk with school counselors and other health care professionals. Ignoring problems will never make them go away.
Be there whenever possible.
For parents who work long hours, it's sometimes difficult to cheer on your teen from the sidelines, to get to parent-teacher conferences or just to be home for dinner. Set aside time whenever possible for your teen's high moments, and make enough time to become aware of the lows. When you can't be there, let your son or daughter know why and make a date to talk – even if it's while you're grocery shopping.
Good grades don't always mean everything is OK.
It's just as important to stay tuned in to your teen with the top grades as it is to the one struggling academically. Straight "As" don't mean an easy adolescence. When we think back on our own childhood, we don't remember an "A" fondly. We remember experiences. What kind of experiences is your son or daughter having?
Effective Talk
Good communication is the aim with our children, but just how do we accomplish that? Following are two strategies – active listening and the use of "I-messages" – that open the door for better relations.
Active listening is a way of drawing people out. It entails feeding people's messages back to them to better understand their feelings and help them come to their own conclusions. Active listening takes patience, so if you don't have time, say so and make a point to talk later. Below is a conversation between a father and son, as cited in an educational textbook* that demonstrates the skill:
Allen: Do I have to get up?
Father: You don't feel like playing baseball today?
Allen: I'll miss messing around with my friends.
Father: You'd rather mess around with your friends than play baseball?
Allen: Yes. We have fun together.
Father: It's not fun to play baseball?
Allen: No. Sometimes other guys razz me when I don't get a hit.
Father: You don't like being teased.
Allen: It makes me feel like I'm not a very good player.
Father: You'd like to be good at baseball?
Allen: Yes. I felt terrific that day I got that base hit.
Father: Would you like to practice before the game?
Allen: Hey, Dad, that'd be great. I'll get dressed.
Good communication also entails letting your teen know how you feel. But even the best-intentioned parents more often give orders. In the situation above, the father could have barked, "Get up now." He could have warned, "If I have to tell you one more time, you're not going to play baseball again." Or he may have moralized, "You have a responsibility to your team. Let's get moving."
All these statements place the boy on the defensive. Nobody likes being told what to do, warned or made to feel wrong. The alternative is to use an I-message: "I wish our Saturday mornings were easier. This is frustrating to me. Is there something you would like to tell me about baseball practice?" This gives the teen an opportunity to understand how his actions affect others, and it opens the door for him to express his emotions.
*Adolescence: Continuity, Change and Diversity, Fourth Edition, by Nancy J. Cobb. Published by Mayfield Publishing Company.


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OIP 113. The Oriental Institute Hawara Papyri: Demotic and Greek Texts from an Egyptian Family Archive in the Fayum (Fourth to Third Century B.C.) G. R. Hughes and R. Jasnow
The papyri published here, chiefly in the collection of the Oriental Institute Museum, comprise part of a large family archive from the town of Hawara in the Egyptian Fayum. Written in Demotic and Greek, the documents (annuity contracts, donations, sales, mortgage agreements, loan repayments) are an excellent source of information about the Egypt of the fourth to third century b.c. Professor George R. Hughes had worked on the ten Oriental Institute Hawara papyri for a number of years, but sadly, it was not possible for him to finish the manuscript before his death in December 1992; he did, however, prepare preliminary transliterations and translations of the papyri, including the Rendell Papyrus published in the Appendix. Discussions, commentaries, and glossaries are included. Richard Jasnow completed the manuscript with the assistance of James Keenan, who prepared the Greek texts. The book is of interest to Egyptologists, Hellenists, and all of those concerned with the economic and social history of the Late period in Egypt.
- Oriental Institute Publications 113
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Nick Kyrgios knocks Rafael Nadal out of Wimbledon in four sets
- Kyrgios beats Nadal: as it happened
- FitzSimons: Kyrgios the real deal
- Nadal plays down Kyrgios plaudits
Astonishing. Remarkable. Extraordinary. Insert your own superlative. Nick Kyrgios, aged 19, and ranked 144th, has reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals by stunning world No.1 Rafael Nadal in four sets on centre court in one of the great grand slam upsets.
The first man in a decade to reach the last eight here on debut served out the match to love, 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 with a 37th ace in two minutes short of two hours.
Historic win: Nick Kyrgios. Photo: Reuters
He dropped his racquet, acknowledged the players' box and even danced a little jig. But it was not an hysterical celebration; more, from the Kyrgios perspective, almost an inevitable one.
The Australian is the first player ranked outside the top 100 to beat a world No.1 since 1992, and the first teenager to achieve the feat at a grand slam since Nadal himself beat Roger Federer at Roland Garros in 2005. He is the lowest-ranked player ever to beat Nadal at a major, and the most junior to beat the great Spaniard anywhere since No.690 Joachim Johansson in Stockholm in 2006.
Kyrgios dropped his magnificent serve just once, when he allowed Nadal to level at one-set all, but although he only broke once, too, in the fourth set, it was enough. Two tiebreaks took care of the rest, less than a week after he was spared a second round exit with a successful Hawk-eye challenge of a double-fault called on the fifth of the nine match points he saved against Richard Gasquet.
Knocked out: Rafael Nadal. Photo: Reuters
"I think I was in the zone out there,'' said Kyrgios, who must somehow back-up on Wednesday against Canadian eighth seed - and another monster server - Milos Raonic. 'I played some incredible tennis. I was struggling a little bit on return, but I worked my way into it and got that break in the fourth set.''
The constants were his serving, and incredible self-belief. "You have to believe that you can win the match from the start, and I definitely thought that.'' Afterwards, he said he was unsure what to do. "Just so many emotions.''
Having quipped pre-match that he and Nadal shared 14 grand slams between them, if there is to be a 15th this week then it can now only be won by the fearless young man from Canberra. Few who witnessed what Kyrgios brought to his debut match on centre court would have doubted they were watching a potential future champion, but the speed of his arrival has just accelerated, wildly.
Wimbledon upset: Nick Kyrgios walks off with Rafael Nadal. Photo: AP
Game and confidence-wise, Kyrgios has it all. He played a remarkable first set and some extraordinary tennis for much of the next three against one of the sport's most relentless competitors. The future is so bright as to be almost blinding.
Beforehand, Kyrgios said he would play his game, have fun, go for his shots. All of it eventuated, and then some, as a style of tennis described by former top-tenner Peter McNamara as "Bang, boom-boom-boom,'' followed exactly that template in the opening few games, starting with a 204kmh ace. Nerves? What nerves?
The former basketballer was belting his serve and crushing his forehand with his trademark easy power, appearing not to have a worry in the world. Incredibly, Nadal almost seemed to have nothing to trouble the teenager, unable to make an impact on the return, winning just three points on the Kyrgios serve for the set, and nor could he wear down his free-hitting opponent from the baseline.
Nick Kyrgios is appearing in his first Wimbledon. Photo: Reuters
Indeed, Kyrgios was the better player early, holding a set point just before a tiebreak he led 4-0 and closed 7-5 with an ace, claiming 43 points to 36, and all 19 points on his untouchable first serve. Could he sustain it? Superman would have struggled. But call this rising superstar what you will.
Somewhat incredulously, John McEnroe declared in the commentary box after Kyrgios had earned a break point for a second consecutive Nadal service game that "he looks like he expects to win this!''. A game or two later, this: "It's nice to see a young guy that they talk about being the real deal. You're asking who are the next guys? You're looking at one.'' later: "This crowd is witnessing the birth of a new star.''
After those first 48 minutes, Nadal immediately scuttled off for a long bathroom break, but his most urgent need was to regroup. It had been an astonishing start from the player still ranked 144th, for Kyrgios might have been playing against a world-beater, but it was the Australian who was playing like one.
Shock exit: Rafael Nadal. Photo: AP
Kyrgios was enjoying himself, skipping along the baseline after one audacious return winner, smiling at his box as he pranced to his chair after consecutive aces, 10 and 11, late in the first set. At 3-4, 0-40 in the second, he played a between-the-legs winner that Tim Henman described as the shot of the year - then raised his arms and grinned, loving it. How hard did you say this centre court grand slam caper was?
The party didn't end immediately, but, gradually, the other, more celebrated guest, started to make his presence felt. Nadal's service games were getting quicker, and easier, and Kyrgios' slightly less emphatic.
The Spaniard finally broke through in the 12th game, as Kyrgios served to try to force a tiebreak. Two unforced backhand errors set the tone, and although the first set point was saved with an audacious ace that kissed the sideline, the second was lost with a netted forehand, and Nadal let rip with a heartfelt ''Vamos''.
He knew how important that set was, because it was hard not to think that, from there, he would probably win it in four sets. Not easily, but, well, probably. Except that Kyrgios defied the logical script yet again, as he had when over-running Gasquet from 0-2 down, and from all those match points down.
The Australian had come too far not to push as far as he could possibly take it, and if he was going down, it would have to be in five. Slightly against the run of play, he saved a set point at 5-6 in the third set with a forehand winner, and then extended a fine tiebreak record that is already 11-6 at this infant stage of his senior career.
His only break of the three hours came for 3-1 in the fourth set, but he did not blink as he coolly served his way into the quarter-finals. Now it is about recovery, although Kyrgios vowed just to enjoy the moment, and the night, before worrying about Raonic on Wednesday.
This was too special, too incredible. Really, any superlative will do.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/nick-kyrgios-knocks-rafael-nadal-out-of-wimbledon-in-four-sets-20140702-zssra.html#ixzz36GnUZmQj


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Fighting Hype with HypeSunday, June 6th, 2010
I've been depressed all month about the oil spill. So what better to cheer me up than a flurry of comments and emails asking me to comment on an Ars Technica story by Chris Lee, reporting that it's now been proven once and for all that quantum computers don't help with NP-complete problems?
Now, just to really put the screws on any optimists out there, a new paper has shown that adiabatic computers are actually quite bad at hard math problems …
What [the researchers] have shown is that, when adiabatic quantum computers are used to solve NP-complete problems, the energy gap between the lowest energy state and the next state up is not well behaved. Instead, it narrows faster than exponentially, meaning the adiabatic quantum computing cannot, even in principle, solve NP-complete problems faster than a classical computer …
In the end, they conclude that NP-complete problems are just as hard on an adiabatic quantum computer as on a classical computer. And, since earlier work showed the equivalence between different variants of quantum computers, that pretty much shuts down the possibility of any quantum computer helping with NP-complete problems.
I don't think anyone in the field will be particularly surprised by this. The failure of earlier work to show that quantum computers offered a speed-up on any NP-complete problem indicated that it was likely that it simply was not possible.
I'm heartened by the progress we've made these last ten years: from overhyped and misleading claims that quantum computers can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, to overhyped and misleading claims that they can't.
The link to the paper from the article is broken, and the article doesn't give the names of the researchers involved, but from the context, I'm pretty sure the article's attempting to talk about this paper by Boris Altshuler, Hari Krovi, and Jeremie Roland, amusingly entitled "Anderson localization casts clouds over adiabatic quantum optimization." This paper really is an interesting and important one—but alas, the Ars Technica story grossly misstates and exaggerates what it does.
For what I hope will be the last time, but I'm sure won't: yes, almost everyone in the field believes it's true that quantum computers can't solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. But we have no idea at present how to prove anything of the kind. In fact, we don't even know how to prove classical computers can't solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time (that's called the P vs. NP question; maybe you've heard of it!). Nor do we even know how to prove a conditional statement, like "quantum computers can't solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time unless classical computers can also." Any such result would be the biggest advance in theoretical computer science at least since I was born.
So then what do Altshuler, Krovi, and Roland do? They consider a specific quantum algorithm—namely, the quantum adiabatic algorithm with linear interpolation—applied to random instances of an NP-complete problem, namely Exact Cover. They then argue, based on a combination of numerical simulations and perturbation theory approximation, that the spectral gap decreases exponentially (actually, like 1/n!), which would imply that the adiabatic algorithm generally requires exponential time to reach the ground state.
If that sounds pretty interesting, you're right! But what's the fine print? Well, let's accept, for the sake of argument, Altshuler et al.'s claim that their conclusions about Exact Cover would likely generalize to 3SAT and other standard NP-complete problems. Even then, there are three crucial caveats, all of which the Ars Technica story ignores:
- Most importantly, the limitation (if it is one) applies only to one specific algorithm: namely the adiabatic optimization algorithm (with a specific interpolation schedule, but let's ignore that for now). Now, some people seem to think a limitation on the adiabatic algorithm implies a limitation of quantum computers in general, since "adiabatic is universal"—a buzzphrase that's caused a lot of confusion. In reality, what Aharonov et al. proved, in a beautiful paper six years ago, is that the adiabatic model of computation is universal. But they were talking about something much more general than the adiabatic optimization algorithm. For example, the ground state of Aharonov et al.'s adiabatic process is not the solution to a combinatorial optimization problem, but rather a "history state" that encodes an entire computation itself.
- The Altshuler et al. paper talks about random instances of the Exact Cover problem—but the uniform distribution over instances is just one particular distribution. Even if the adiabatic algorithm doesn't help there, it's possible that there are other natural distributions over instances for which it exponentially outperforms (say) classical simulated annealing.
- Finally, even given the above two caveats, Altshuler et al. only show that the adiabatic algorithm fails on random Exact Cover instances at a "physics level of rigor." In other words, their argument relies on a "perturbative approximation" that seems plausible but isn't proved. A cynic might retort that, at a "physics level of rigor," we also know that P≠NP! But such a cynic would be unfair. I don't want to knock Altshuler et al.'s contribution. For almost two decades, there's been a spectacularly fruitful interaction between the physicists and the math/CS folks in the study of random constraint satisfaction problems. Indeed, many of the conjectures (or, in physics lingo, "results") in this area that the physicists derived using their hocus-pocus methods, were later rigorously confirmed by the mathematicians, and I don't know of any that were disconfirmed. Even so, the distinction between a proof and a "physics proof" is one that seems worth insisting on—especially in theoretical computer science, an area that's often far removed from conventional "physical intuition."
In summary, while it feels like swimming through a burning oil slick to say so, I have to side with D-Wave about the Ars Technica piece (though my reasons are mostly different).
So congratulations, Ars Technica! Like The Economist before you, you've successfully cast clouds over yourself when reporting about stuff I don't understand.
PS. I'm at STOC'2010 right now, in exotic Cambridge, MA. If you're interested, here's the talk I gave this morning, on "BQP and the Polynomial Hierarchy," and here's the talk my PhD student Andy Drucker gave, on "A Full Characterization of Quantum Advice." And Lance, please stop looking over my shoulder!


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Super Talent Pico-C 8Gb Micro USB Stick Review
Storage/Other by jmke @ 2008-07-04
A 6 gram USB drive not much larger than a fingernail, with room for up to 8Gb of data. Super*Talent has designed a stylish device which claims up to 30Mb/s read speed. Let see what it is made of.


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Thursday, December 2, 2010
38 New Happy Place
First, I will start out by saying that I made yet another work space in the Jones casa. Hence, the new obsession. Some people are obsessed with purses, shoes, food, hording, or that hot guy in cubical 10-A. I have decided I am obsessed with creating desks. Not sure where it stems from or why, but it seems to be a trend I am finding within myself.
It all started when we decided to move our custom built desk into an unused nook off of our previous master bedroom. LOVED that new space. It was oodles of fun to create!
Then, as many of you know, we had a flood. We lost a lot of the furniture and finishings in the lower level, including our desk {which swelled up worse than my ankles when I was preggers} and ultimately the whole new office.
So, we made ourselves a new one inside our guest room closet!
It's amazing the storage we were able to create in such a teeny tiny workspace. And for a heavy duty super crafter, this closet desk is the ideal working place for me!
But we weren't done there. We had actually gotten the idea to put our new office in a closet, because we were already in the process of doing the same for our oldest in his new bedroom.
So, one office area gone, two remaining. Two incredibly perfect, tucked away work zones, for both studying and crafting and everything in-between. These two closet offices have been working like well oiled machines. Preston has been a study crazed superstar and I have been making labels and cards and all sorts of goodies in my work zone. So why couldn't I just leave well enough alone? Because apparently I am obsessed with desk spaces....
This is also where the "Why didn't I think of that sooner?" comes in. Although my closet desk is great for all things crafty, when I am trying to have some nice and quiet mommy time, it's very removed from the heart of our home. And when it would come time to use my precious space for my daily blogging and photo editing, it was just too easy for me to snag the laptop and head out to the kitchen or living room, where I had some background noise and company.
One day, I removed our charging station from a console table we had in our living room, to setup the laptop instead. I plugged it in, and plopped a seat on the woven cubes tucked below.
The new quick makeshift desk worked incredibly well. And so I did it again the next day. And the next. Until one day I realized that I was blogging in the living room all the time, while still using my tucked away closet desk for all things craft related. It was quite honestly the best of every world!
So, I decided since I was going to be spending so much time at my new space, I was going to glam it up a bit. But I had to do it for free. Because it's Christmas time, and we have a basement to finish. So no unnecessary spending allowed.
So I did it for free. I snagged a can of primer and some white paint we had on hand from the trim we have been updating. I gave the console table a quick coat of paint, tucked in a chair I snagged out of storage that we salvaged from the basement flood and borrowed some pretty knobs from our old guest room dresser drawers. The end result was a perfect "Why didn't I think of that sooner" work station!
I just adore how it's the perfect size to keep just what I need to blog. My laptop. A notebook/planner. A pen and some small desk accessories.
And really, I probably didn't need to paint it, but I just love how paint can freshen up any piece of furniture in a jif, and I have really become obsessed with not only desk spaces, but also white furniture. So this was a match made in heaven for me!
One of the woven cubes was stashed with oodles of miscellaneous kid's toys, and the other is full of arts and craft supplies. The toy bin was removed and the toys were placed in a donate bin {since they were used next to never} and the craft cube was just placed beside the desk, with a basket full of fantastic reading material on top!
The whole end result is quite fantastic I think. Here is a quick before and after view:
The best part is it can be temporary or forever and is flexible for any future changes. Plus, you always gotta heart when no investment in moola meets reinventing what you already have!
Who out there has some other quirky obsession? Anyone slapping a quick coat of paint onto something to take it from drab to fab? Am I the only one with twenty something workstations in one home? {OK, three really... but still!}
38 comments:
Looks awesome!! Such a great idea. I love all of your office nooks. Do I spy a personalized notebook/planner on the table? Have you wrote about this before? if so, link please? if not, please do!!ReplyDelete
Hi Colleen!ReplyDelete
Here is the link: http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/2010/01/iheart-my-life-planner.html
Love it!
I have been thinking of using my console as a desk as well, but I have 2 problems. one, the console has a shelf along the bottom so I couldn't tuck a chair in there. And two, I don't really have the space for a chair.ReplyDelete
Your posts are inspiring me. I have been wanting to move my "office" out of the guest room so that it can be just a guest room, and moving it into my bedroom. There are 2 closets in my bedroom, and I have bought a closet organizer for one, but have to install a new rod before I can put in the organizer, as it is one of those that hang on existing rods. The one that exists already is too big around! Go figure. Then all the clothes can fit in one closet and I can make he other a desk. I'm really excited about that idea, since I don't use my PC often now that I have a laptop, but also because then my guest room will be better for my guests! :)
Well, thanks to you I've been inspired to start decluttering. It's hard because I love stuff, and it breaks my heart to get rid of any of it, but I want to have neat little things like this and right now I couldn't add an extra tiny little basket to my house without it imploding in wicker and wood. Ugh. Maybe one day I'll get there and show you some pretty "de-cluttered" photographs!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the constant inspiration!
<3 Donna
I love it. Where did you get the lamp and shade. I heart it!ReplyDelete
Love it! I like it when console tables have more purpose than just sitting around holding decorative items. :)ReplyDelete
I think it's a perfect space for blogging! I loved your closet space, but I personally couldn't ever type facing a wall like that. I need to be free!! :)
PS: have you seen my boyfriend's take on painting things white? http://theborrowedabode.com/2010/09/what-the-hell-blogging-lexicon/
I will absolutely will refer to these when I make a little desk area in our kitchen and in our daughter's room. I think everyone should have a little place. I love what you did with your new space...it is so cheery. Oh and LOVE that planner...I have the same one.ReplyDelete
Yayyy the paint makes such a giant difference! =) So crisp and pretty! You go girl! you are an office GODDESS =)ReplyDelete
I may have to enlist your help with some of my upcoming projects =) I got a huge set of IKEA asker globes and fixtures as a wedding gift and the second we get our very own house (within the year possibly! wooot! paul and will FINALLY get to put things on and in the walls! too excited for words!
anywho - love the entryway workstation idea! I need to stop blogging from my couch =)
Jenn L @ Peas & Crayons
I decided to rework my sons room while he's away this coming summer. He'll be starting college in the fall and living at home so this closet office idea is perfect. Can't wait to get started now!ReplyDelete
LOL...not sure why, but the desk looks taller white! :)ReplyDelete
I LOVE desks tucked inside closets! I've contemplated doing that in my office. Then I could make room for guests in that space again.
Hi Palmers! The lamp/shade was a Pier 1 find eons ago. I love that they remain classic as years come and go.ReplyDelete
- maybutterflyDecember 2, 2010 at 1:42 PM
That looks fantastic, I adore that basket you have the books in, where is that from? I love the green paint you have on the walls too!ReplyDelete
I have desk envy! That's exactly what I'd like to do in my kitchen/family room. I tend to either work on my blog at the kitchen breakfast bar (with my back to everyone) or while sitting in bed. I'd love to have a spot set up as a home for my laptop and to pretty up a long, empty wall in my kitchen. You have inspired me. Now to find a console table!ReplyDelete
Laurie - I would recommend scouring Craigslist for a console table to pretty up. It could be done on the super cheap. Best wishes!ReplyDelete
Love it! Did you have to sand the console table first?ReplyDelete
The basket is an oldie from the Container Store. I don't see it online any longer, however, I have heard they still may carry it in the stores.
I actually didn't sand it first, I just did a coat of primer and two coats of paint/primer combo paint. So far so good!
I love your new space and after the holidays I plan to try to DO SOMETHING with this MESS I call a desk:):) I do have one question???? When you turn a bedroom closet into an office space, what do you do with your CLOTHES????????????? I am wondering and I know you have a GENIUS solution too!!!!!!!!!!!! XO, PinkyReplyDelete
Lovely@ Such an inspiration - and I love that everything always looks so neat and styled for a photoshoot. PERFECTION!ReplyDelete
I'm just curious - how does it affect the flow of foot traffic from what I think is your front door behind? Does the chair stick out? I'm always curious as to how others meet these kinds of chllenges!
I LOVE it! I really love the white paint, too. My name is Amanda and I'm a white furniture addict. Now, it's your turn... HA!ReplyDelete
This is exactly what I need to see! Since I've been able to work at home lately, I need an area to hide my laptop when my toddler comes around. Thanks, keep up the awesomeness!ReplyDelete
- ElizabethDecember 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Cute! Are you going to paint your trim white as well? Oh goodness! How cute would white trim be in that area!? Please?ReplyDelete
Wow I cant believe you have not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 sensational work stations. Just goes to show you can use what you have with a bit of imagination and creativity :) My obsession atm is finding creative bloggers like yourself to get ideas and inspiration from that I can put into my own home as I plan and carry out these never ending renovationsReplyDelete
i was thinking the same thing about facing a wall working, i love the tucked away-ness of closet desks, had one in college, but my loft doesnt have closets, any closets, at all, i know, weird huh?ReplyDelete
anyway the console is great, and i love how you show that spaces as with life should be flexible.
Pinky: We paired down to one closet in the bedroom for clothes, you can read about it here: http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-featured-space-bedroom_30.html. As far as our sons room, he is a dresser boy, we don't really hang any of his clothes, so it worked out wonderfully for us. Desks don't always have to be placed in bedroom closets, think about hallways, kitchens, entries, etc... many people closets that aren't really functioning to their fullest in some part of the home.ReplyDelete
Belle, traffic for us is ok with the chair. It tucks up pretty tight to the desk, and our living room is fairly long so there is still a great pathway between the spaces.
Elizabeth, I absolutely have intentions of getting all of our trim painted out. I have all the supplies, now I just need the time! :)
Love it! The console looks great in white :) So wish we had the Container Store in Australia, it would be my second home...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 12:20 PM
I am doing this! I am so doing this! I teach online graduate courses and doing so at my kitchen counter is bad for clutter and my back. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Also- Have you ever considered posting about your exercise / workout schedule. I know you have that treadmill downstairs....
I love your little table...where did that come from?ReplyDelete
Hi Kristin,ReplyDelete
I think you are wondering about this one?
Hope that helps!
Just chanced upon your site! loving it so far! you have amazing ideas. please allow me to borrow some of them in creating my own spaces in my teeny tiny condo i call home. =)ReplyDelete
It definitely needed painting white ;) I love itReplyDelete
I love what you're using for your pens and pencils! Where did you find that? The metal bar with the three white containers? Cute!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Karin!Delete
It's the BYGEL rail from IKEA: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30072646/
Paired with hooks and the ASKER CUPS:http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70105659/
Hi Jen! Hey I just wanted to let you know that I featured your console table in this post on my blog today. You can find it here: http://cathhasablog.blogspot.com/2012/03/transforming-your-furniture-with-paint.htmlReplyDelete
I really enjoy following your blog! ☺Cath @ Home is Where my Heart is: http://cathhasablog.blogspot.com/
Very cool. I recently created an office in a closet for my daughter since her room has 2 closets and one was filled with foolishness. It was the best thing ever.ReplyDelete
Hi Jen, sorry to be a stalker and keep leaving comments on your blog, but this time I actually have a question. I know you said you like to use Glidden paint on your furniture re-dos because it doesn't show a lot of brushstrokes; do you have a color of "white" Glidden to recommend if I want to paint something white, or do I just get pure white? I'm so bad with color so I'd really appreciate knowing what you used! Thanks, BethanyReplyDelete
I love those asker cups, but I can't find it in IKEA. I used your link too. Is there another name for it or do you know what section it came from! Help! I have everything else but that for my organizational wall.ReplyDelete
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Hi jen!! where did you get the console table/desk from?ReplyDeleteReplies
I found it at Target a few years back and then painted it white. :)Delete
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Kathy Griffin has gotten some serious mileage out of claiming to be on the D list. But the comedian's fame may really be due to her almost permanent residence on the shit list.
Once again Griffin is in hot water, after testing broadcast standards with a lewd bit during her New Year's Eve co-hosting stint with Anderson Cooper on CNN. First she fired off a series of innuendos about Cooper's "sack." Then she got on her knees and attempted to kiss his crotch. Cue a bevy of family watchdog groups ringing in 2013 with horror and outrage.
The kerfuffle leaves Griffin once again sitting gleefully atop a heap of controversy (and publicity) as she gears up for the debut of the second season of her Bravo talk show, Kathy. With the premiere set for Thursday at 10 p.m., here's a greatest hits of Griffin's most outrageous moments.
NYE Crotch Shot
"Each year I keep thinking she's not going to get rehired, and then there she is back again," Anderson Cooper said of Griffin before this year's New Year's Eve broadcast on CNN. "She's a handful because we never know what she's going to say or do. It makes me nervous every time—I sweat tremendously during the broadcast." Considering that Griffin monologued holiday-themed nicknames for his penis before simulating fellatio on him, that trepidation was pretty on point.
NYE F Bomb
Griffin welcomed 2010 the way only she could—by dropping the F bomb. During the New Year's Eve telecast on CNN, she and Cooper were bantering about the year's biggest stories, which included the infamous "balloon boy," Falcon Heene. "Fal—Fuckin? Falcon? How do you say it?" Griffin said. Shaking his head in dismay, Cooper replied, "You're terrible. Really terrible."
NYE Heckling
As we've learned, some things are certain on New Year's Eve. The ball will drop. People will kiss at midnight. And Griffin's foul mouth will make headlines. During the 2009 telecast, a few misguided drunks decided to heckle Griffin and Cooper, and while throwing to commercial break, Griffin let loose: "You know what, screw you! I'm working!" she shouted. "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth," she added—creating quite the visual for the new year.
Suck It, Jesus
When celebrities win their first major Hollywood award, they typically thank the big three: their parents, their agents, and, above all, Jesus. Not Kathy Griffin. "I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus," Griffin said as she accepted her Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program in 2007. "So, all I can say is, 'Suck it, Jesus.' This award is my god now." Unsurprisingly, the speech was censored during the ceremony's telecast.
Public Pap Smear
From "Suck it, Jesus" to "Suck it, cancer." A year after her Emmy speech, Griffin staged a typically blushworthy stunt—this time for the common good. She filmed a public poolside Pap smear for an episode of My Life on the D-List and even sent out a press release touting the uncomfortable procedure, with the goal of raising awareness for cervical cancer.
Booed Over Palin Fat Joke
Know your audience, Kathy. Performing for a VH1 special called "Divas Salute the Troops," Griffin took potshots at Bristol Palin, who at that time was competing on Dancing With the Stars. Griffin called Palin "the only contestant in the history of the show to actually gain weight ... She gained, like, 30 pounds a week. I swear to God, it was fantastic. She's like the white Precious." The joke got her booed—loudly—by the troops in attendance, and Sarah Palin responded by calling her a bully.
Dakota Fanning Is in Rehab
Hired by the E! channel to cover the red carpet at the 2005 Golden Globes, Griffin treated the gig, as expected, like an extended stand-up routine. Rather than conduct serious interviews with stars, she teased them with joke questions—which were more obvious as jokes to some than others—like, "Kabbalah or Scientology?" "Got any weed?" and, most controversially, "Did you hear that little Dakota Fanning entered rehab today?" (Fanning was 10 at the time.) As Griffin recounts in this bit, E! was not amused, quickly issuing an apology—and blacklisting Griffin.
Throwdown With Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Griffin has a storied history with The View. She's been banned, unbanned, rebanned, and invited back too many times to keep track after including embarrassing anecdotes about Barbara Walters and the other hosts in her act. Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck confronted Griffin about those comments during a 2010 appearance, making things painfully awkward. "This moment is what I live for," Griffin replied as Hasselbeck got fired up. "Bring it!"


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Want to Start a Business? Why You Should Keep Your Job
Gone are the days when employees and entrepreneurs inhabited two different worlds. In these financially uncertain times, more and more 9-to-5 workers are rounding out their paychecks with cash from entrepreneurial ventures.
Employees are finding that drumming up business outside of the office not only puts more money in their pockets, but also provides a safeguard against the sudden layoff or cut in pay that haunts their daydreams. These enterprising workers are building their safety nets one Etsy shop and freelance gig at a time.
As the senior money editor and blogger at U.S. News and World Report and owner of her own small business, Kimberly Palmer is one of those leading the double life of an employee and entrepreneur. In addition to her two jobs, Palmer is the author of a new book, "The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life" (AMACOM, January 2014). [Why Creativity Matters Most for Entrepreneurs]
Palmer's book lays out the groundwork for balancing your full-time career with your entrepreneurial spirit, and argues that side-gigs — which she calls the "shining white knights" of 9-to-5 workers — are a saving grace in an age of economic instability.
In an email interview with BusinessNewsDaily, Palmer explains how aspiring entrepreneurs can strengthen their careers and their earning power without quitting their day jobs.
BusinessNewsDaily: Your book promotes an intriguing idea: that entrepreneurism is the solution for a major problem afflicting our society. What is this problem? Why do you believe entrepreneurism is such a promising solution?
Kimberly Palmer: The problem is that job security doesn't exist anymore, and a lot of people, myself included, feel an incredible sense of uncertainty, frustration and even fear about that. At the same time, many people stay longer in jobs they don't love because it's not that easy to get a new one. In both cases, launching a side business based on your own creativity, passions and experience can help you move from a place of frustration to one of satisfaction.
Being entrepreneurial in your pursuit of a new venture on top of your full-time job gives you a new income stream, which can supplement your income and also serve as a backup plan in the event you do lose your main job, but even more importantly, it shows that you have something of value to offer the world.
BND: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that most Americans who hold more than one job are motivated by money, but the stories you tell in your book paint a broader picture. What are some other reasons that people have for branching out from the traditional 9-to-5 routine?
K.P.: My interviews showed that while many people are initially motivated to launch their side business because of financial concerns and the desire to earn more money, as they became more successful, their side businesses met a much deeper need — the need to feel validated. Whether they were creating custom cakes for festive birthday parties or [doing] career coaching at night, their side businesses showed them that through their own creative entrepreneurism, they were making something that other people found really useful and valuable. This validation is especially important when you feel stuck in your day job.
BND: When it comes to starting a business, why is it important to focus on the "bigger picture?"
K.P.: All entrepreneurial efforts come with some rejection and bumps along the way, from a negative customer review to a slow sales week. The side-business owners I interviewed who were most successful found a way to keep going and experimenting with their business by focusing on that big-picture goal that was motivating them – usually the desire for more financial security and to have more career fulfillment. Some days are inevitably hard, and that's when you have to step back and remember those bigger goals.
BND: In your opinion, where do the best ideas for new businesses come from?
K.P.: The best ideas are often related to your full-time job, or some other pre-existing passion or significant experience that you've had. Some people, like the cartoon voice impersonator I profile, return to childhood creativity. He had always loved making his family members laugh with his silly voices, and now he earns around $10,000 on Fiverr [a website where people sell services] doing that. Other people pursue an offshoot of their day job, like the social media consultant who works for a university by day and picks up extra clients by night. [See also: 14 Best New Business Ideas for 2014]
BND: You argue that entrepreneurs make great employees. How does entrepreneurial spirit pay off for traditional employers?
K.P.: Traditional employers get the benefit of having their enterprising employees pick up extra skills and experiences on their own time that they can then bring back to their day jobs. Employers often want employees who have entrepreneurial, e-commerce, social media and marketing experience. Running a side business gives an employer all of those skills. That's what makes it a win-win scenario. Many traditional employers are also recognizing that their top-performing employees want the freedom to be creative and entrepreneurial on their own time. So they encourage them to embrace those ambitions, allowing them to retain those employees for longer.
BND: You write that "thinking too big, too quickly is a common mistake that can actually end up thwarting success." What's the alternative?
K.P.: The alternative is to take small steps toward your bigger goal. Instead of creating a new baby product and licensing it to one of the big toy manufacturers, consider selling it yourself online. Spread word about it through blogs. You'll likely get valuable feedback that you can then use to tweak the product. Then, if it still makes sense, you can consider working with a bigger company, and you'll be doing it from a more informed place.
BND: What are some suggestions for keeping startup costs down, and what investments are absolutely worth it when staring a new business?
K.P.: In many cases, your costs can be close to zero, especially if you take advantage of one of the existing e-commerce websites, such as Elance, Freelancer, Etsy or Fiverr. You certainly don't need to pay to build a website or for marketing help before you've even made a sale. If you're offering a service like coaching or consulting of some kind, you just need to start spreading word among potential clients.
The exceptions are if you are in a field where you need licenses or legal protections. For example, if you are selling cupcakes, then you need to get the proper licenses as well as protect yourself legally in case you accidentally give someone food poisoning. You always want to make sure you're protecting yourself legally and financially.
BND: You don't use the term networking in your book, but you do devote an entire chapter to "finding friends." How does the "finding friends" approach to making business connections differ from networking in the traditional sense?
K.P.: I use the term "finding friends" because I mean it more casually than the more official sounding "networking." When I visit a fellow creative entrepreneur's blog and leave comments, I don't think of that as networking – that makes it sound like I have ulterior motives. Finding friends is about genuinely connecting with people online who share common interests and entrepreneurial ambitions. Those friendships might blossom into mutually beneficial business relationships, but they start out on a more relaxed level.
BND: What are some key points to keep in mind when building a social media presence for a new business?
K.P.: You want to tell your story. Many people fall into the trap of writing their "about me" page in third person, which can feel overly formal to potential customers. Writing instead in first person, and sharing your own motivations and the back-story to your business, can help break down that Internet wall so people feel like they are truly connecting with you, and vice versa.
BND: What's your best piece of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs?
K.P.: Get started – don't wait until you have the perfect idea or the perfect website. Instead, start small by offering a product or service through one of the existing e-commerce channels, and see what clicks with customers. You can build from there.
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REVERE, N.M. – A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview of things to come as states across the West contend with a dangerous recipe of wind, low humidity and tinder-dry fuels.
The erratic Gila National Forest blaze grew overnight to more than 190,000 acres, or nearly 300 square miles, as it raced across the area's steep, ponderosa pine-covered hills and through its rugged canyons.
More than 1,200 firefighters are at the massive blaze near the Arizona border, which has destroyed 12 cabins and a few small outbuildings, fire information officer Iris Estes said.
Experts say persistent drought, climate change and shifts in land use and firefighting strategies mean other western states likely will see similar giant fires this season.
"We've been in a long drought cycle for the last 20 years, and conditions now are great for these type of fires," said Steve Pyne, author of "Tending Fire. Coping with America's Wildland Fires" and a life science professor at Arizona State University. "Everything is in line."
Agencies in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and other western states are bracing for the worst. Many counties have established emergency telephone and email notification systems to warn of wildfires, and most states have enlisted crews from nearby states to be ready when the big ones come.
"It's highly likely that these fires are going to get so big that states are going to need outside resources to fight them," said Jeremy Sullens, a wildland fire analyst at the National Interagency Fire Center.
According to the National Weather Service, a dry climate is expected to prolong drought conditions across the Great Basin and central Rockies during the fire season. Large portions of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico will remain under severe drought conditions.
And it's unclear what type of relief will come from monsoon season, which starts in mid-July, since experts say it's difficult to predict what areas in the West will benefit, Sullens said.
A lack of moisture means fewer fuels to burn in some areas, but unburned vegetation elsewhere could pose a problem since states received no sustained snow or rain this winter and spring.
That's what happened in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, where a lack of snow failed to push down grass, which worsened the fire danger, Sullens said.
The two-week-old Gila forest fire is the largest wildfire burning in the country. Its size this week surpassed New Mexico's last record fire, a blaze last year that charred 156,593 acres and threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's premier nuclear facility.
Officials on Thursday closed the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument due to smoke generated from the fire. The National Park Service said the closure would remain in effect until conditions improve.
Estes said the fire is 5 percent contained.
"We're continuing with burnout operations and we've been helped with a slight rise in humidity and decreased winds," she said.
Other reasons states in the West will see more massive fires this season is because, coupled with drought and dry climate, crews have experienced changes in firefighting strategies and agencies have changed some policies in fighting wildfires in isolated areas, Pyne said.
"In the last 20 years or so, agencies have generally been reluctant to put firefighters at risk in remote areas," Pyne said. "It wasn't like that decades ago."
Instead, he said agencies have focused attention on burnout operations until conditions are safe to begin containment.
Not that those practices and the larges fires are bad things, Pyne said. For example, he said the Gila Wilderness has been a target for controlled burns.
"So maybe," Pyne said, "this is how it's supposed to happen."
Contreras reported from Albuquerque.
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I thought about breaking down this article for you but…why?
You're not paying attention. You're looking at these photos. You're watching the video below. And you can't process anything. I understand. It took me a while too. Because this man, Idris Elba, this man is universal. Straight woman, gay woman, straight guy, gay guy… ALL. For this man. Right?
The writer quotes one of his friends in the piece, a straight dude, as follows:
"He's the only actor where I kind of want him to pick me up and hold me."
EVERYONE is attracted to Idris Elba. Yes, he's hot as f-ck. But also because he's cool as f-ck.
Can you imagine showing up for an interview with Idris Elba and he's cooking for you? (I just…I wish he'd stop reminding me of his music video. I worked so hard to un-see it.)
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I'm in Belfast right now for this year's Build conference, so I am. I spent yesterday leading a workshop on responsive enhancement—the marriage of responsive design with progressive enhancement; a content-first approach to web design.
I spent a chunk of time in the afternoon going over the thorny challenges of responsive images. Jason has been doing a great job of rounding up all the options available to you when it comes to implementing responsive images:
- Responsive IMGs, Part 1,
- Responsive IMGs, Part 2—an in-depth look at techniques,
- Responsive IMGs, Part 3—the future of the
Personally, I have two golden rules in mind when it comes to choosing a responsive image technique for a particular project:
- The small image should be default.
- Don't load images twice (in other words, don't load the small images and the larger images).
That first guideline simply stems from the mobile-first approach: instead of thinking of the desktop experience as the default, I'm assuming that people are using small screen, narrow bandwidth devices until proven otherwise.
Assuming a small-screen device by default, the problem is now how to swap out the small images for larger images on wider viewports …without downloading both images.
head of the document has a chance to set the cookie. This means that in some cases, on first visiting a page, desktop browsers like IE9 might begin get the small images instead of the larger images, thereby violating the second rule (though, again, mobile browsers will always get the smaller images, never the larger images).
Yoav concludes:
Different browsers act differently with regard to which resources they download before/after the
headscripts are done loading and running. Furthermore, that behavior is not defined in any spec, and may change with every new release. We cannot and should not count on it.
The solution seems clear: we need to standardise on browser download behaviour …which is exactly what the HTML standard is doing (along with standardising error handling).
That's why I was surprised by Jason's conclusion that device detection is the future-friendly
img option.
Don't get me wrong: using a service like Sencha.io SRC (formerly TinySRC)—which relies on user-agent sniffing and a device library lookup—is a perfectly reasonable solution for responsive images …for now. But I wouldn't call it future friendly; quite the opposite. If anything, it might be the most present-friendly technique.
One issue with relying on user-agent sniffing is the danger of false positives: a tablet may get incorrectly identified as a mobile phone, a mobile browser may get incorrectly identified as a desktop browser and so on. But those are edge cases and they're actually few and far between …for now.
The bigger issue with relying on user-agent sniffing is that you are then entering into an arms race. You can't just plug in a device library and forget about it. The library must be constantly maintained and kept up to date. Given the almost-exponential expansion of the device and browser landscape, that's going to get harder and harder.
Disruption will only accelerate. The quantity and diversity of connected devices—many of which we haven't imagined yet—will explode, as will the quantity and diversity of the people around the world who use them. Our existing standards, workflows, and infrastructure won't hold up. Today's onslaught of devices is already pushing them to the breaking point. They can't withstand what's ahead.
So while I consider user-agent sniffing to be an acceptable short-term solution, I don't think it can scale to the future onslaught—not to mention the tricky issue of the licensing landscape around device libraries.
There's another reason why I tend to steer clear of device libraries like WURFL and Device Atlas. When you consider the way that I'm approaching responsive images, those libraries are over-engineered. They contain a massive list of mobile user-agent strings that I'll never need. Remember, I'm taking a mobile-first approach and assuming a mobile browser by default. So if I'm going to overturn that assumption, all I need is a list of desktop user-agent strings. That's a much less ambitious undertaking. Such a library wouldn't need to kept updated quite as often as a mobile device listing.
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Japan and Turkey agree a $22 billion contract for a nuclear reactor
The reactor will be built in Turkey's northern Sinop province, on the Black Sea
Turkey's prime minister says technology has advanced since Japan's Fukushima disaster
Turkey, like Japan, is in an active earthquake zone
Turkey and Japan have agreed to a $22 billion deal to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, the semi-official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.
The deal, signed Friday, represents a step toward recovery for Japan's nuclear industry, left reeling by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that triggered a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking at a joint news conference, said the deal would place relations between the two nations on a different level.
Japanese and French companies lead the consortium which will deliver the contract signed by the two governments.
The third-generation ATMEA1 reactor will be built in Turkey's northern Sinop province, which borders the Black Sea, said GDF SUEZ, part of the consortium.
Erdogan said lessons had been learned from the Fukushima disaster, the worst nuclear accident in a generation.
"After the Fukushima incident, people said negative things about Japanese technology," Erdogan said, quoted by Anadolu.
But, he said, in response to that criticism he drew a parallel with what happens after an air crash. "We should consider there is a risk of accident, but we need that technology. With an advanced technology we will take better steps."
Turkey, like Japan, is in an active earthquake zone.
The two prime ministers said they hoped it would take less than a decade to complete the project.
The two countries have also agreed to found a Turkish-Japanese Technical University in Turkey, Anadolu reported, with plans to follow up with a Japan-based counterpart in the future.
"A step like this between Turkey and Japan is really important," said Erdogan.
The tsunami that hit Fukushima Daiichi after Japan's historic earthquake knocked out power and coolant systems at the plant, resulting in meltdowns in three reactors.
The result was the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl, as the crippled reactors spewed enormous amounts of radioactive particles into the environment.
CNN's Bharati Naik and Saad Abedine contributed to this report.


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How to Get Stuff Done: Make Your Lists Short and Strategic
Constructing and editing a list is just as valuable as having one.
Even Andrew Carnegie understood the power of making a list. In an anecdote detailed in the book, Good Strategy Bad Strategy, management guru Richard Rumelt writes:
It was 1890, and there was a cocktail party here in Pittsburgh. All the movers and shakers were there, including Carnegie. He held court in the corner of the room, smoking a cigar. He was introduced to Frederick Taylor, the man who was becoming famous as an expert on organizing work.
'Young man,' said Carnegie, squinting dubiously at the consultant, 'if you can tell me something about management that is worth hearing, I will send you a check for ten thousand dollars.'
Now, ten thousand dollars was a great deal of money in 1890. Conversation stopped as the people nearby turned to hear what Taylor would say.
'Mr. Carnegie,' Taylor said, 'I would advise you to make a list of the ten most important things you can do. And then, start doing number one.'
And, the story goes, a week later Taylor received a check for ten thousand dollars.
The benefit to Carnegie was not from the list itself, but from constructing the list. Writes Rumelt: "Attention, like a flashlight beam, illuminates one subject only to darken another. When we attend to one set of issues, we lose sight of another…Taylor's assignment was to think through the intersection between what was important and what was actionable."
If each of us would think through what is both important and actionable in our lives, and then take strategic action, we would probably be more effective in meeting our realistic personal goals.
In the words of Rumelt: "Simply being ambitious is not a strategy."
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Good morning everyone, I hope you all are doing fine and had a fabulous weekend. I love to make Christmas and winter themed cards the whole year. Today I show you my newest one, made with one of the new Little Darlings All Dressed Up stamps 'Time for a Coffee Break'.
This is how my card looks inside...
I colored the image with Copics and added some post marks from the English Postcard Clear Stamps set...
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The biggest irony in this Saturday Night Live sketch from last night featuring Eli Manning is the idea of him working this closely with Madden NFL on anything. Widely believed to be too expensive even for EA Sports, if the two-time Super Bowl champion, or his brother, had any intention of making a signature appearance in the game or on its cover, both would have done so long ago.
Cavorting in ping-pong ball suits is verging on comedy cliché, but Manning saves it at the end with the bit about the grenade. The funniest parts are the impersonations of other NFL stars by the SNL players, though.
It's not Joe Montana telling Jan Hooks and Phil Hartman he'll be in his room masturbating, but it'll do. The clip is embedded below. Yes, it's Hulu. Yes, that means you can't watch it if you're not in 'Murica. Sorry.


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Scientists at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed an innovative way to combat post-surgical scarring for glaucoma patients.
A clinical trial has shown that the use of a new drug delivery method has resulted in 40 per cent fewer injections needed by glaucoma patients to prevent scarring after surgery. This also means fewer hospital visits for these patients in future.
Glaucoma, a disease characterised by a build-up of pressure in the eye, is a major cause of blindness worldwide. It affects about 3 per cent of the population in Singapore and an estimated 30 per cent of sufferers require surgery to adequately control the disease. However, success rates for glaucoma surgery in Asian patients are considerably lower than those reported in Caucasian patients because Asians have a higher risk of scarring after such surgery. Up to one in three operated patients requires a minor surgical procedure in the first six months in order to maintain the ideal low post-operative eye pressure.
"The post-operative scarring response is the major obstacle for successful glaucoma surgery. We've seen in our clinics that Asian patients scar earlier and more aggressively than their Caucasian counterparts, and a significant number require at least one post-operative intervention to treat this scarring response," said Associate Professor Tina Wong, Senior Consultant with SNEC's Glaucoma Service, and Head of the Ocular Therapeutics and Drug Delivery Research Group at SERI. She is also the senior author of this study.
The breakthrough treatment method is made possible by Professor Subbu Venkatraman, Acting Chair of NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering, who invented a way to make the drug, which prevents post-surgical scarring, last longer at the site of the injection. This considerably increases the interval before the drug has to be administered again.
Using a gel known as hyaluronic acid, Prof Venkatraman discovered a way to contain the drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) inside the gel. "Leveraging NTU's expertise in controlled-release technology, we have found a way to deliver the drug 5-Fluorouracil gradually into the patient. This allows the drug to be time-released over several days, compared to the current effect of the drug which remains at the injected site for only a few hours. The benefit for patients who have undergone glaucoma surgery is clear -- fewer injections of the drug are needed. This results in less post-surgical scarring and fewer visits to the hospital."
The aim of glaucoma surgery is to create a new pathway for the aqueous fluid to flow out, thereby lowering eye pressure. During glaucoma surgery, a flap is created using the patient's own tissue to regulate the outflow of aqueous fluid. A small blister, known as a conjunctival bleb, marks the new surgically created filtration site.
The flap that allows fluid to flow out can be blocked if scar tissue forms, preventing the fluid from draining effectively and causing the eye pressure to rise again. This is a particularly common problem in Asian patients. To restore outflow through the surgical flap, the obstructing scar tissue needs to be removed by injecting 5-FU which prevents further scarring. This procedure is called bleb needling.*
The clinical trial involved 49 patients, who were randomised to receive an injection of either the current 5-FU solution or the new combined formulation following bleb needling. All subjects were followed up for three months. The trial was conducted at the Singapore National Eye Centre.
The team found that the subjects who were randomised to receive the new treatment had an improved post-operative outcome. "With this novel treatment, we observed a dramatically lower rate for repeat needling, with only 12 per cent requiring further intervention, whereas 50 per cent of subjects receiving the standard 5-FU solution treatment required further needling," said Dr Arun Kumar Narayanaswamy, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, SERI, and first author of this study.
"In addition, because these patients require fewer interventions, their risk of ocular infection and side effects are significantly reduced," he added.
Assoc Prof Wong, also an adjunct professor at NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Prof Venkatraman together with his team of scientists, are improving the new treatment method further using nano-encapsulation. The team aims to achieve a precise release of the correct amount of drug at a steady daily dose over a course of several weeks instead of just a few days as shown by the study.
"Because the acute and most active stage of wound healing occurs in the first twelve weeks after surgery, we ideally need a sustained time release of the anti-scarring drug that can be administered as a single injection and provide the right amount of drug to continually suppress the scarring response for that crucial time frame. That way, we won't have to keep injecting patients with top-ups, often on a fortnightly or even weekly basis which is not only inconvenient for the patient but greatly increases the risk of complications with each additional injection," said Assoc Prof Wong.
In the future, this novel treatment could also be applied at the time of the glaucoma surgery to further improve surgical outcomes, as well as reduce the possible need for or frequency of bleb needling interventions after surgery.
The study, published in the journal Ophthalmology early this year, has been shortlisted for a Best Clinical Research Oral Presentation Award at the second SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress, which will take place on 3 and 4 August at Raffles City Convention Centre.
This research was supported in part by an Individual Research Grant awarded to Assoc Prof Wong by the Singapore Ministry of Health's National Medical Research Council.
*About bleb needling
During a bleb needling procedure, the surgeon uses a fine needle to cut and break down the scar tissue to restore drainage. A chemotherapy drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is injected into the surrounding tissues to halt further scarring. However, the drug only acts on cells and surrounding tissues at the time of injection, which means patients often have to go back for repeat injections to provide adequate anti-scarring action against the tissues around the drainage site and improve on the long-term success of the surgery.
In addition to the possible need for repeat injections, there is also the risk that the 5-FU solution may be transferred to other parts of the eye following its injection. Repeat injections can lead to an increased risk of sight-threatening complications. The invasive procedure can also increase the patients' risk of eye infections.
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In an appearance Friday on David Letterman's "Late Show," the former pizza executive again denied any impropriety during his time running the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
Several women have come forward with allegations against Cain. He has repeatedly denied the allegations, which have dogged his campaign.
During the interview Letterman says to Cain: "These statements are all false? All of these women are lying? They're all lying?"
"Yes," replies Cain. "They are."
During the show, Cain jokes that Letterman seems to be trying to talk him out of running for president with tough questions about the challenges facing the presidency.


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LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A fire ravaged a three-story apartment building before dawn Thursday, killing four adults and three children, forcing tenants to jump or hand their children to safety, and leading to dramatic rescues from upper floors.
Authorities are looking into witness reports that the sound of exploding fireworks preceded the blaze, as well as a man's claim that a brother who died in the fire kept fireworks in his apartment.
The victims in this former mill city about 25 miles northwest of Boston were all found in units on the top floor of the building, which was just down the street from a fire station. Nine people were hospitalized with injuries not considered life threatening.
Authorities say 48 people lived in the building, which had a liquor store on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors. The roof entirely burned away, with the outer walls charred and the siding melted. Firefighters had to evacuate at one point as the roof gave way.
Sar Soth, 43, escaped from a third-floor apartment along with her two stepchildren and two adults by climbing through a window and down a firefighters' ladder. She was having trouble sleeping when she heard a boom, saw fire outside and started screaming for the others to wake.
Her stepdaughter, Soriha Proeung, 11, said she yelled for firefighters to bring the ladder to their window.
"We all felt like in five minutes we were going to die," Proeung said. "I couldn't see. My eyes, my chest burned. … I just wanted to get saved."
Authorities have not identified the victims. But Thearan Sak said his brother, Torn Sak, and his brother's longtime girlfriend, Ellen Vuong, died, along with three of their five children: a 7-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy. The couple had two other sons who escaped the fire, he said.
Sak said his mother called him and told him his brother's building was on fire.
"I went to the scene hoping that everybody made it out, but when I pulled up … I only saw two of my nephews," he said.
His brother, he said, enjoyed fireworks and had some stored in his apartment.
Neighbor Sarin Chun said she awoke to screams and saw someone hand a child out a window to another person on the street. Witnesses said tenants jumped out of windows.
A police officer on routine patrol was the first to report the fire, while several tenants ran about 100 yards down the street to a fire station to sound the alarm, Fire Chief Edward Pitta said. But the building was fully involved by the time firefighters arrived.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said she is "deeply concerned" by reports from witnesses that no fire alarms sounded. The building did not have a sprinkler system but was not required to, Pitta said. It did have an alarm system, and whether that was working will be part of the investigation.
State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said authorities are looking into the reports of fireworks but have not determined where or how the blaze started. Massachusetts law bars individuals from possessing fireworks, but they are legal just across the border in New Hampshire.
The Red Cross is assisting displaced tenants, and the city is accepting donations of clothing and other essentials, Elliott said. A relief fund has been set up at the Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union in the city.
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I run a website where about 10 million files (book covers) are stored in 3 levels of subdirectories, ranging [0-f]:
This leads to around 2400 files per directory, which is very fast when we need to retrieve one file. This is moreover a practice suggested by many questions.
However, when I need to backup these files, it takes many days just to browse the 4k directories holding 10m files.
So I'm wondering if I could store these files in a container (or in 4k containers), which would each act exactly like a filesystem (some kind of mounted ext3/4 container?). I guess this would be almost as efficient as accessing directly a file in the filesystem, and this would have the great advantage of being copied to another server very efficiently.
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There are several types of irregular wear. Most typical ones are heel and toe wear, one side wear, center wear, braking flat spots. For all of them, there are different reasons how these kind of wear occurs.
"Saw-tooth" wear is a wear pattern caused under normal usage with normal suspension settings. This is the outwardly visible (and audible) manifestation of various distortional forces at work on the tread. To explain this, it is better to first say something about "tread design".
Tread grooves and sipes – a source of noise – are absolutely essential in ensuring safety on wet and flooded roads. In the case of low-profile tires in particular, a higher percentage of tread void is necessary to take up the water and to improve the protection against aquaplaning. Cross-grooves for water drainage form "freestanding blocks" in the shoulder area. These shoulder blocks can wear to leave the "sawtooth" pattern as a result of rolling mechanisms under certain operating conditions. These operating conditions include: Long, straight journeys at constant speed Moderate driving style Suspension geometry (alignment/camber).
As the tire rolls along the road, the freestanding blocks deform as they near the tire's contact patch. They are compressed as they come into contact with the road. As they lose road contact they "rub" the surface while snapping back into their original shape.
The result is higher wear on the block run-out edge. This wear pattern is more likely to occur on nondriven wheel positions. A minor amount of "saw-tooth" pattern wear is normal and has no discernible effects on comfort. More conspicuous wear of this kind points to specific operating conditions (improper inflation, excessive toe-in, low-wear applications).
Tip: In order to gain even tire wear, the position of the tires on the car should be changed at regular intervals (unless otherwise recommended by the vehicle manufacturer). The position of the tires should be changed in good time, at the latest when changing summer/winter tires.
This wear pattern is found on driven wheels of highly motorised vehicles. Even today's mid-range cars have modern engines generating high levels of torque and capable of producing high degrees of slip. These high torque levels, during strong acceleration or in stop-start urban traffic, or when accelerating away from traffic lights, can quickly increase wear of the tread centre.
Tip: By rotating the wheels from the powered to the nonpowered axle before it is too late, it is possible to obtain a largely uniform pattern of wear. Always observe the vehicle manufacturer's recommendations.
The most frequent cause of one-sided wear is an axle geometry out of specification . These deviations develop over time and can be the consequence of , for example, kerb mounting.
Lowering a vehicle in conjunction with lowprofile tyres can also negatively affect wheel alignment. The modified suspention arms (e.g. less rim offset after retrofitting) encourage a tendency for the alignment of the wheels to deviate during driving from the specified data. This might go unnoticed as all wheel alignment values are still found to be within tolerance limits when measured statically on the axle measurement bench. The result may be an increase in nonuniform wear.
The manufacturer's alignment data applies to vehicles as delivered and may not necessarily apply to customised vehicles.
If a vehicle's wheels are misaligned, the wheels must be aligned and the deviation corrected.