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A Brief History of Lice Combs
(Revised: 2-1-08)
9,500-12,500 BC "Hair combs as delousing implements were both effective and ancient. The comb dates as early as the Natufian period (9,500 – 12,500 BC) and its design has changed little over the millennia. In earliest times combs were made of ivory and bone; in the historical period some were made of boxwood, while bone and ivory combs continue in use." [Dayagi-Mendels, 1993] [King & Stager, 2001] [(Natufian Culture) Wikipedia, 2008]
>3,500 BC "Combs were found from tomb goods, even from pre-dynastic times."[Takahashi, 2001] The first Egyptian dynasty was founded in 3,150 BC. [(Egypt) Wikipedia, 2008]
c. 3,000 BC "Combing is the oldest method of lice control; nit combs have been found in Egyptian tombs." [Ogg & Cochran, 2004]
3,000 – 2,000 BC "The hundreds of tombs and their contents found in Iberia, from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, tell us a lot of information about the people, society … Burial customs included burial of personal goods with the deceased. … Iberian tomb contents included … ivory combs …" [Gadalla, 2004]
6th Cent BC A carved ivory fine-tooth comb, dating from the Persian period, was excavated in Ashkelon, Israel. [King & Stager, 2001]
1st Cent BC Head lice were found on hair combs excavated in Israel and dated from the 1st century BC to the 8th century AD.[Mumcuoglu & Zias, 1988]
100BC -200AD A wooden comb (dated: 100BC – 200AD) was found at Ein Rachel in the Negev desert; it contained 10 head lice and 5 nits. [Mumcuoglu, 1996]
73-200 AD "A well preserved comb of boxwood was recovered from a waterlogged deposit (at the Roman Fort ) at Ribchester (Bremetenacum) in Lancashire, UK. "The examination of the soil residues during conservation revealed fragments of head lice." [Allason-Jones, 1999]
c. 100 AD Dutch archaeologists discovered head lice attached to a fine-tooth wooden comb, which was buried in anaerobic mud in Vlaardingen (near Rotterdam). They also found a hobnailed Roman army boot at the same site. [MacKenzie, 1996]
5th – 6th Cent The remains of seven head lice were found on the fine-tooth side of a wooden comb excavated in Antinoe, Egypt and dated between the 5th and 6th centuries AD. "The effectiveness of fine-toothed combs as delousing instruments can hardly be overstated."[Palma, 1991]
687 AD A plain, one-piece, fine/coarse, elephant ivory comb was found in the tomb of St. Cuthbert (c. 634 – 687) at Durham, U.K. [McGregor, 1985]
10th –11th Cent A carved, one-piece, fine/coarse, walrus ivory comb from the late 10th to early 11th century is now in the British Museum. [McGregor, 1985]
11th Cent. Several wooden fine-tooth combs were found aboard a ship wrecked in the 11th century off of the coast of Sere Limani, Turkey. Similar boxwood combs have been found in 11th century Novgorod, Russia. Boxwood, the most common wood for such combs, was traded over long distances. [Bass & Allen, 2004]
13th Cent. A fine-tooth comb was found in the wreck of the coaster, Culip VI, sunk in the late 13th century off Cape de Creus, Catalonia, Spain. The Culip VI was engaged in the North African trade. Its main cargo was nuts and ceramics. [Anon., 1990] [Bass & Allen, 2004]
16th Cent. King Henry VIII's favorite warship, the Mary Rose, was built between 1509 and 1511 and sank in 1545. She was discovered and raised in 1982. Among the artifacts discovered on board were wooden fine-tooth combs. [Anon., 1999] [Bass & Allen, 2004]
17th Cent. A bone fine-tooth comb dating to the 17th century New England Puritans was discovered during the "Big Dig" in Boston, MA in 2000. [Johansen, 2007]
17th Cent. Fine-tooth combs were found in the mid-17th century wreck of the Spanish ship Stone Wall in Bermuda. The ship was recovered in 1995. [Bass & Allen, 2004]
1628 The Swedish warship Vasa sank in Stockholm Harbor in 1628. Her largely intact hull was salvaged in 1961. The upper gun-deck yielded a well-preserved chest containing a fine-tooth comb. [(Vasa) Wikipedia, 2007] [Bass & Allen, 2004]
18th Cent. A bone lice comb and human hair with lice were found during the excavation of a late 18th Century cesspool located at Canterbury, England. [Anon., 2000]
1724 The 1724 cargo manifest for the French Fort Pontchartrain at Detroit (founded in 1701) listed among the trade goods, 12 wooden fine-tooth combs. [Kent, 2001]
<1770 In the U.S. southwest, the Navajo Indians used the ya bega (louse killer). "This was made of a hard wood, tsftiiz (Findlera rupicola), and required five smoothly polished thin sticks, one edge of which was smoothly beveled and slightly sharpened, with their tips tapering to a point. Near the upper end each stick was punctured with two holes though which a cord was laced, and the ends crossed at the rear, so that in operating the sticks overlap and close snugly, as with a fan. A loop at the lower end of the sticks was provided to receive the hand and hold the instrument in position. In operating it the points were pressed under the hair, hard to the skin, and by pressing the lower ends of the sticks and drawing the two strings together, the teeth or beveled edges were brought into contact and crushed any vermin falling between them." [Franciscan, 1910]
1784 The Spanish brig-of-war 'El Cazador' sank during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico in January 1784. Among the artifacts recovered (in 1994) from the wreck were fine-tooth combs used to clear nits or lice from human heads. [Anon., 1994]
1816-29 A bone headlice comb was excavated in 1930 from the site of Fort Crawford (1816 – 1829) in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. [Anon., 2006]
~1870 In Marion County, Arkansas "A strong solution of lye soap was used against head lice, along with combing the hair over a paper or cloth with a fine-toothed comb. Kerosene was used in case the other failed." [Smith & Blakenship, 1976]
1907 Fine-tooth combing has frequently been recommended as an adjunct treatment following the application of pediculosides. [Thomas, 1907] [Porter, 1908] [Auden, 1921]
"Where the hair is matted or the nits abundant … The hair and the scalp is to be thoroughly saturated with petroleum and allowed to remain for ten to twelve hours, when the parasites and ova are entirely destroyed. This will be followed by thoroughly washing the head with warm water and soap; any good toilet soap may be used….The hair should be carefully combed with a fine-tooth comb, in order to remove the ova, shells, and parasites." [Thomas, 1907]
1908 Charles Porter, a British medical officer, wrote: "1.- Get two pennyworth of Carbolic Oil (Phenol) from a chemist and rub it all over the head and hair. Tie a cotton handkerchief over the head and leave it on all night. 2.- Next morning wash head well with soft soap and rinse with water. Then comb the head with a fine tooth-comb. 3.- Repeat this treatment daily until the head is quite well and all signs of lice are all gone." [Porter, 1908]
1921 George A. Auden (1872 – 1957) recommended Derbac soap lather as a pediculoside. However, he noted that the head louse "… can be dislodged by many repellant substances accompanied by mechanical means, such as the Secker comb. … Lice, however are so resistant that only prolonged application of most substances, with the exception of mineral oils, will kill them. Moreover, lice which appear to have been killed are frequently quite active a couple of hours later. Thorough combing out is therefore essential." [Auden, 1921]
1994 Carlos E. Lanne, patented a new design of a fine-tooth comb for lice and nit removal. The comb, now sold as the LiceMeister®, consists of a line of 40 cylindrical metal teeth, each tapered to a point, imbedded inline in a stiff plastic handle. [Lanne, 1994] The comb was later used, in conjunction with pediculosides, to remove nits in two separate clinical trials. [Bell, 1998] [Pearlman, 2004]
2000 North Wales, UK is an area of intermediate louse resistance to Malathion. A comparison trial of the effectiveness of Bug-Busting® (wet-combing: saturating the hair with a conditioner, and then combing with a plastic fine-tooth comb) with 0.5% Malathion lotion as treatments to eliminate head lice showed that the cure rate was 38% (12 of 32) for Bug-Busting and 78% (31 of 40) for Malathion. [Roberts et al., 2000]
2005 The effectiveness of the 'Bug Buster" kit for eliminating head lice (by combing with conditioner four times over two weeks) was compared with a single treatment of over-the-counter pediculicides. The cure rate for the Bug Buster® was 57% compared to 13% for the pediculosides. [Hill et al., 2005] [Dawes, 2005]
2007 The comparative efficiency of two fine-tooth combs was tested in removing lice and eggs from the hair of 27 children, all aged between 3 and 12 years. The LiceMeister® metal tooth comb was shown to be significantly more effective in removing lice eggs than Lady Jayne®, a much cheaper all plastic fine-tooth comb, but both combs had the same efficiency for removing lice. [Speare et al., 2007]
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Anonymous, "Sunken Spanish Brig Yields Mementos of the Past," The New York Times, November 21, 1994
Anonymous, "Personal Hygiene," (1999) http://www.maryrose.org/lcity/barber/health2.htm
Anonymous, " Blue Boy Yard diary," (2000) http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/archive/timeteamlive/blueboy_sunday.html
Anonymous, "Lice Comb from Fort Crawford," Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Images (2006) http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/002505.asp
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BBC, "Romans Faced head-to-head battle," BBC News March 30, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/england/cumbria/3582603.stm
Bell T.A., "Treatment of Pediculus Humanus var. Capitis Infestation in Cowlitz County, Washington, with Ivermectin and the LiceMeister® comb," Pediactric Infectious Disease Journal, 17(10):923-924 (1998)
Dawes, M., "Combing and Cobatting Head Lice," BMJ, 331: 362-63 (2005)
Dayagi-Mendels M., "Perfumes and Cosmetics in the Ancient World," Israel Museum Catalogue 395, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (1993)
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Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Developed by: Michael White, David Epston
Narrative therapy is a respectful and collaborative approach to counselling and community work. It focuses on the stories of people's lives and is based on the idea that problems are manufactured in social, cultural, and political contexts. Each person produces the meaning of their life from the stories that are available in these contexts.
~Excerpt from Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto
Narrative therapy is an approach to counselling and community work. It centres people as the experts in their own lives and views problems as separate from people. Narrative therapy assumes that people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments, and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives.
~Excerpt from The Dulwich Centre
The central idea of Narrative Therapy is: The person never is the problem. The person has a problem. A problem is something you have, not something you are. You don't have to change your nature. You have to fight the influence of the problem on your life.
~Excerpt from Narrative Therapy with Dr. Bob Rich.

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From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon's hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Hendry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it's about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
- Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
- Other patients don't like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
- But Perowne himself is not concerned.
- But others will take their place, he thought.
- These hands are steady enough, but they are large.
I feel the answer should be 3 as it is a continuation of the context related to Perowne. But the answer book reasons it out to be 2. Can someone help me understand the issue? The explanation in the answer book is as follows.
The paragraph is about what indications patients look for in a doctor, with particular reference to his hands. Hence, the last sentence must be about this. The theme is about what the patients do when they notice a doctor's hand. So 1 & 4 are ruled out. What Perowne thinks is sequential, but will belong early in the next para, not here. Hence, 3 & 4 are eliminated. On testing through reading, 2 uses the same kind of language as the para, continues the idea of the previous sentence and is in keeping with the theme sentence.


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Amino acid alphabet soup
All life on Earth relies on a standard set of 20 amino acids to build the proteins that carry out life's essential actions. But did it have to be this way?
All living creatures on this planet use the same 20 amino acids, even though there are hundreds available in nature. Scientists therefore have wondered if life could have arisen based on a different set of amino acids. And what's more, could life exist elsewhere that utilizes an alternate collection of building blocks?
"Life has been using a standard set of 20 amino acids to build proteins for more than 3 billion years," said Stephen J. Freeland of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii. "It's becoming increasingly clear that many other amino acids were plausible candidates, and although there's been speculation and even assumptions about what life was doing, there's been very little in the way of testable hypotheses."
So Freeland and his University of Hawaii colleague Gayle K. Philip devised a test to try to learn if the 20 amino acids Earth's life uses were randomly chosen, or if they were the only possible ones that could have done the job. Amino acids are molecules built primarily from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. They assemble in particular shapes and patterns to form larger molecules called proteins that carry out biological functions.
"Technically there is an infinite variety of amino acids," Freeland told Astrobiology Magazine. "Within that infinity there are lots more than the 20 that were available [when life originated on Earth] as far as we can tell."
Testing the possibilities
The researchers defined a likely pool of candidate amino acids from which life drew its 20. They started with the amino acids that have been discovered within the so-called Murchison meteorite, a space rock that fell in Murchison, Victoria in Australia in September 1969. The rock is thought to date from the early solar system, and to represent a sample of which compounds existed in the solar system and on Earth before life began.
The scientists then used computers to estimate the fundamental properties of the 20 amino acids life uses, such as size, charge and hydrophilicity, or the extent to which the molecules are attracted to water.
"We know that these three are important to the ways they build proteins," Freeland said.
Freeland and Philip analyzed whether these properties could have been achieved with as much coverage and efficiency with other combinations of 20 amino acids.
The researchers discovered that life seemingly did not choose its 20 building blocks randomly. "We found that chance alone would be extremely unlikely to pick a set of amino acids that outperforms life's choice," Freeland said.
Natural selection
In fact, the researchers think early life on Earth probably used a version of natural selection to choose these amino acids. Some combinations of other amino acids were likely tried, but none proved quite as fit, so no other combinations ended up producing the numbers of successful offspring that the existing set achieved.
"Here we found a very simple test that begins to show us that life knew exactly what it was doing," Freeland said. "This is consistent with the idea that there was natural selection going on."
Getting at the question of why nature chose the 20 amino acids it did is experimentally difficult, said Aaron Burton, a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow who works as an astrochemist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
"Although a number of experiments have shown that unnatural amino acids can be incorporated into the genetic alphabet of organisms, it may never be possible to experimentally simulate sufficient evolutionary time periods to truly compare alternate amino acid alphabets," said Burton, who was not involved in the new study. "As a result, studies such as those presented by Philip and Freeland offer interesting insights and provide a framework for formulating hypotheses that can actually be tested in the lab."
Amino acids in meteorites
Right now the race is on to directly find amino acids elsewhere in the solar system. Some hints that they abound have been found on meteorites that have landed on Earth from outer space, as well as from missions such as NASA's Stardust probe, which sampled the coma of comet Wild 2 in 2004.
"All signs are that amino acids are going to be found throughout the galaxy," Freeland said. "They are apparently obvious building blocks with which to construct life. What we're finding hints at a certain level of predictability in the way things turned out."
The question of life's amino acid toolbox is interesting not just in trying to trace the origin of the life on Earth, but in wondering whether life exists on other planets, and if so, what form it takes. Scientists are particularly curious about how a different set of amino acid building blocks would result in different characteristics in the life it creates.
"That is the biggest question of all," Freeland said. "We're trying to find a way to ask, if you change the set of amino acids with which we're building, what effect does that have on the proteins you can build. The most interesting thing is, nobody knows."
Philip and Freeland reported their findings in a paper published in the April 19 issue of the journal Astrobiology.
Source: Astrobio.net


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In many developing countries, forest restoration at home has led to deforestation abroad, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The authors say their findings could have significant implications for ongoing efforts to protect the world's remaining forests, which are disappearing at an annual rate of more than 32 million acres — an area roughly the size of England.
"Reducing deforestation is an international priority, given its impacts on carbon emissions and biodiversity," said study co-author Eric Lambin of Stanford University in California and the University of Louvain in Belgium. "However, our study found that strengthened forest-conservation policies and economic expansion often increased the demand for imported timber and agricultural products, which contributed to deforestation abroad."
In the study, Lambin and co-authors Patrick Meyfroidt (University of Louvain) and Thomas Rudel (Rutgers University) analyzed the relationship between reforestation at the national scale and the international trade in forest and agricultural products between 1961 and 2007. The researchers focused on six developing countries — China, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, India and Vietnam — that underwent a shift from net deforestation to net reforestation during that period.
Exporting deforestation
In five of the six countries (with the exception of India), the return of native forests was accompanied by a reduction in timber harvests and new farmland, thus creating a demand for imported wood and agricultural products.
"For every 100 acres of reforestation in these five countries, they imported the equivalent of 74 acres of forest products," said Meyfroidt, a postdoctoral researcher at Louvain and lead author of the study. "Taking into account their exports of agricultural products, the net balance amounted to 22 acres of land used in other countries."
During the past five years, the net land-use displacement increased to 52 acres of imported agricultural or forestry products for every 100 acres reforested, he added. That is, for every acre of reforested land, a half-acre was used elsewhere, including countries like Brazil and Indonesia, which together accounted for 61 percent of the all deforestation in the humid tropics between 2000 and 2005.
Glass half full
"If local forest protection merely shifts forest-conversion pressure to natural forests elsewhere in the world, we will not achieve a net gain for nature at a global scale," Lambin said. "However, this study does not imply that the efforts of these countries to protect their forests was useless, but that international trade in wood and agricultural products can decrease the global environmental benefits of national forest-protection policies. The glass is half full, not just half empty."
Meyfroidt pointed to several ways that countries could work together to reduce deforestation abroad, including:
- Strengthening international cooperation on issues related to deforestation and land use.
- Integrating trade data in international negotiations on environmental issues.
- Integrating environmental degradation data in international trade rules.
- Promoting certification systems that better link consumption decisions with environmental impacts at production sites.
According to the authors, the study has important implications for the Dec. 5 meeting of the United Nations Collaborative Initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) in Cancun, Mexico.
"The REDD mechanism that is under negotiation should include guardrails to assure that countries that commit to decrease their rate of deforestation do not export their deforestation," Meyfroidt said.
Eric Lambin is professor of environmental Earth system science and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; and professor of geography at UCLouvain.
Thomas Rudel is professor of human ecology and of sociology at Rutgers.
The research was funded in part by a European Union Seventh Framework Programme Grant.
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In June 1991, treasure hunters discovered some iron helmets, guns, jars and cannons about 15 feet underwater in the Bahamas.
Archaeologist Corey Malcom realized within moments of seeing the area that the marine salvagers had come upon an important shipwreck from the European colonization of America.
The salvage group from St. Johns Expeditions, usually looking to make a profit, willingly gave up the discovery (a rare move among treasure hunters) to allow Malcom's team to examine the wreck.
After more than a decade of research (still ongoing), Malcom's team of divers and conservationists believe the ship is the Santa Clara, a Spanish sailing ship from around 1564.
Thanks to Malcom and the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum, we have an amazing look at the discovery and restoration of this invaluable treasure.


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Bowser ousts Gray in D.C. primary
D.C. Councilwoman Muriel Bowser has defeated scandal-scarred incumbent Vincent Gray in the Democratic primary for mayor of the nation's capital, a race that grew increasingly bitter in the final weeks.
Gray's standing suffered from allegations by federal prosecutors last month that he knew about an illegal fundraising scheme that helped him win in 2010. The mayor has denied wrongdoing, but his numbers took a hit.
Voter turnout appeared low in this liberal stronghold Tuesday, and results were slow to trickle in after polls closed at 8 p.m. But around midnight, with nearly 90 percent of precincts reporting, Bowser led Gray 44 to 33 percent, according to the D.C. Board of Elections.
( Also on POLITICO: In D.C. race, challenger stresses ethics)
Gray, 71, conceded soon after those results came in. He congratulated Bowser, 41, early on in his address and ran through a list of the city's accomplishments under his tenure.
"I guess there will be a campaign, there will be an upcoming election…in November," he said toward the end of his speech. "We want to work hard to be able to make sure we have the best candidate who will emerge as the next mayor of D.C."
He stopped short, however, of naming Bowser again.
( Launching April 9 – Campaign Pro: Your guide to the permanent campaign)
Bowser has relentlessly sought to make the campaign a referendum on Gray's ethics.
"We believe corruption at City Hall is unacceptable," she said in her victory speech. "We believe the mayor must break new ground and command the moral authority to lead."
As she accepted her nomination, Bowser — who would be the city's second female mayor if she wins — also stressed that now is the time for party unity.
"A lot of our friends were with other candidates," she said. "It's our job to let them know I'll be their mayor, too. Today and tomorrow and the next day, we're going to go talk to them about our vision for the District of Columbia, we're going to earn their support…so they'll be with us in November, too."
( From POLITICO Magazine: Can Marion Barry save Vincent Gray?)
Bowser now faces David Catania, an experienced Republican turned independent council member. Some polls had indicated that while Catania could run a close race against Gray, he looked less viable in a match-up with Bowser.
Still, the general election has some potential to be competitive, a rarity in a city where the Democratic primary winner is usually also the de facto winner of the mayor's seat.
Race also is an important part of local politics in D.C., which has a large African-American population. Bowser, like Gray, is African American. Catania is white.
Gray had argued that he has kept Washington on a path of economic growth, while also giving a boost to poorer residents who rely on services such as affordable housing. He stressed strides the city has made in education and employment, while his team aimed to paint Bowser as a political neophyte.
"We've come too far to turn back now," one Gray slogan read. "Experience matters."
( WATCH: Open Mike with political 'data scientist' Alex Lundry)
Bowser, who was first elected to D.C. Council in 2007, was one of seven Democrats vying to unseat Gray.
She has close ties to former Mayor Adrian Fenty, who lost to Gray in 2010.
Fenty was beloved in some parts of town, as some neighborhoods underwent dramatic revitalization and economic development boomed. But in poorer areas, the former mayor was viewed as uncaring and out of touch.
Bowser tried to stake out a middle ground, aiming to appeal to the Fenty constituency while making overtures to those who viewed him skeptically.
She represents Ward 4, an economically diverse part of the capital that stretches north from Petworth, but ran on the slogan "All Eight Wards."
Gray, who was elected to the city council in 2004, racked up a slew of endorsements from labor groups, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce and ethnic groups including the D.C. Latino Caucus and the Asian American & Pacific Islanders Democratic Caucus.
Bowser earned nods from big names including The Washington Post and EMILY's List, which backs pro-choice Democratic women.


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Stylish Christmas Stockings
Stylish Christmas Stockings
"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there …" Impress St. Nick with these elegant personalized stockings that will withstand the wear and tear of Christmas morning. You can make one for each member of your family or use one as a unique wrapping for a special gift.
Level: Moderately difficult
Time involved: One to two hours
- Two pieces of 24 x 20 inch Christmas quilted material
- Ruler
- Scissors
- 24 inches of 5-inch-wide lace
- Straight pins
- Sewing machine
- Thread
- Iron and ironing board
- 30 inches of matching trim
- Glue gun
- Green fabric paint in a squeeze bottle
- Gold bell (optional)
- Needle and thread
Festive Facts
Do you know where the tradition for hanging stockings on the mantle originated? Some say that St. Nicholas started the custom when he tried to help the daughters of an impoverished man attract husbands by providing them with dowries. According to the legend, St. Nicholas dropped bags of gold in the windows of the girls' rooms. One night one of the bags landed in a stocking that had been hung up to dry. Thus, the tradition of putting gifts in stockings was born.
Holiday Hassles
Here are some basic tips and techniques that can help take the hassle out of sewing fabric. First of all, be sure you have a flat working area to lay out your material. You should have special sharp scissors that you only use to cut fabric. Press your material before using it, and pin the area to be sewn together with straight pins to keep it from slipping apart when sewing it. Always leave at least a 1/2-inch margin around the edge of the seam and cut slits in this margin around the curves to keep the stitches from puckering. (Be careful not to cut the thread when doing this.)
Place the two pieces of quilted material right sides together on a flat surface with the 20-inch length horizontal. Starting at the upper-left corner of the material, use a ruler to mark off 12 inches. At this mark, cut a straight, vertical line 15 inches long. Then make a horizontal cut to the right that is 8 inches long to form the foot area of the stocking. Make a second vertical cut 9 inches long to complete the foot area. Round off the corners of the foot area and heel area as shown (see illustration).
Cut two pieces of the lace 12 inches in length. Pin a piece of lace to the top of each stocking with the "right side" of the lace against the "wrong" side of the stocking material. Sew the lace along the tops of the stockings using a 1/2-inch seam. Flip the lace over to the right side of the stocking and press it down with an iron. You should have two stocking forms with the lace trim on the "right side" of the material.
Pin the two stocking forms with the right sides together. Sew around the sides and bottom of the stockings using a 1/2-inch seam. Cut slits into the bias of the seam around the corners to prevent the material from puckering. Turn the stocking right-side-out and iron it flat.
Glue a piece of trim across the top of the stocking. Glue another piece of trim along the heel and toe area of the stocking. Form a loop and stitch a piece of the trim onto the upper-left corner for hanging purposes.
Write a name on the lace trim with the squeezable fabric paint. If desired, sew a gold bell onto the side of the stocking.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Wil Myers must be thinking this is easy — or least fun.
The Tampa Bay Rays improved to 28-9 since the rookie outfielder was called up on June 18 with a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.
"It's been a lot of fun," said Myers, who contributed a fine running catch, two walks and a single that extended his hitting streak to 11 games. "We're doing everything we need to do. We're pitching well, we're hitting well, we're getting timely hits, and our bullpen's coming in and shutting the door."
The bullpen wasn't needed Tuesday night. Roberto Hernandez came within one out of a shutout, and Yunel Escobar and Ben Zobrist drove in two runs each for the Rays, who have won 21 of 25 games this month.
Hernandez (6-11) opened the game by hitting Gerardo Parra with a pitch and giving up a single to Aaron Hill. He then retired 22 of the next 25 batters he faced before Parra singled leading off the ninth. Eric Chavez ended Hernandez's shutout bid with a two-out home run off the right-field foul pole.
Chavez's ninth home run was one of only five hits off Hernandez, who struck out six and walked one in his first complete game of the season. It was the seventh complete game thrown by the Rays this month, the most by any team in a calendar month since the Philadelphia Phillies had seven in 1999.
"The only trouble he had was the two-out homer in the ninth inning," said Rays manager Joe Maddon. "Otherwise he was pretty clean."
The veteran right-hander is the closest the Rays have had to a hard-luck pitcher during their charge to the top of the AL East. He is 2-5 in his last eight starts.
"Today I controlled, threw strikes, kept the ball down, made a lot of ground balls," Hernandez said. "Whenever I go to the mound, I never think about what happened (previously). I think about today."
And that's the way it's been almost every day since Myers arrived.
"They've thrown the ball well for a month now," said Myers, who is hitting .331. "We feel like we're going to be in every single game, which gives us a lot of confidence to play."
Zobrist and James Loney drove in runs in the first inning off Arizona starter Ian Kennedy, and Escobar made it 3-0 with his eighth home run in the fourth inning.
Making his 10th straight unsuccessful attempt for his 50th career wins, Kennedy gave up six hits and three runs while striking out seven in five innings. He has not won since June 1.
"A lot of balls were elevated. ... These guys are very aggressive when you get behind them, and they stung us on them," said Arizona manager Kirk Gibson. "He's got to pitch better."
Hill had two of Arizona's four hits, but was doubled up after each of them.
With one game left in July, the Rays' current 21-4 record ranks as the best July since the 1941 New York Yankees went 25-4 in the month Joe Dimaggio's 56-game hitting streak ended.
NOTES: The game was delayed 20 minutes in the second inning when some lights went out as a result of a lightning strike at a nearby power substation. ... Rays RHP Alex Cobb threw 50 pitches in a simulated game Tuesday and is scheduled to pitch three innings Saturday for Port Charlotte of the Class-A Florida State League in a rehab start. Cobb has not pitched for the Rays since sustaining a concussion when he was hit by a line drive on June 15. ... Hill is 19-for-44 (.442) in his last 12 interleague games.


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The Shambhala Mountain Center sits nestled among the remote lakes and pastures of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, where for four decades it has offered instruction and retreat to serious students of meditation and yoga. Starting in February 2007, it became a scientific laboratory as well. The center began hosting the Shamatha Project, one of the most rigorous scientific examinations of meditation's effects ever undertaken. The Project is now beginning to yield its insights, and from early reports it appears that this ancient practice delivers benefits that go all the way down to the chromosomal level.
Many claims have been made over many years about the effects of meditation on health and well-being, but rarely have these claims been put to the test. Under the direction of Clifford Saron, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Davis, the Shamatha Project enrolled 60 experienced meditators in a three-month study. Half were randomly selected to receive intensive training and practice in meditation over the spring months of 2007, including two group training sessions and five or more hours of individual practice every day. Those who were wait-listed for the actual retreat served as controls -- an essential part of the rigorous experimental design that distinguishes the Project from previous meditation studies.
At three points in the three-month study -- before, halfway through, and at the end -- Saron and his many colleagues took a battery of behavioral and physiological measurements of both the meditators and the controls, who ranged from 21 to 70 years old. They have been crunching the data and analyzing the results, which are now emerging in peer-reviewed journals.
For example: Those who intensely practiced meditation got better at visual perception, and as a result their attention improved. UC Davis psychological scientist Katherine Maclean (now at Johns Hopkins) had all the volunteers perform a difficult visual discrimination task on a computer screen -- watching a parade of identical lines go by and spotting the slightly shorter lines that appeared occasionally. This 30-minute task is not only visually demanding; it's incredibly boring as well. But as reported recently in the journal Psychological Science, the meditators' increased visual acuity also freed up their limited cognitive firepower for vigilance; and their sharpened attention led to improved performance on the task. This improvement lasted for five months after the retreat was over.
That may not be all that surprising, since focus and attention are what meditation is all about. Less expected is the recent finding that intense meditation may also have anti-aging effects. Tonya Jacobs, a scientist at UC Davis's Center for Mind and Brain, has just reported (on-line in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology) that meditators show improved psychological well-being, and that these improvements lead to biochemical changes associated with resistance to aging at the cellular level. Specifically, an analysis of meditators' white blood cells showed a 30 percent increase in an enzyme called telomerase, a chemical essential to the long-term health of the body's chromosomes and cells.
The scientists emphasize that meditation does not lead directly to cellular health and longevity. Instead, the practice appears to give people an increased sense of meaning and purpose in life, which in turn leads to an increased sense of control over their lives and to less negative emotion. This cascade of emotional and psychological changes is what regulates the levels of telomerase, the anti-aging enzyme.
Positivity appears to be the link between meditative practice and a variety of health benefits. In a study scheduled for publication in the journal Emotion, UC Davis psychological scientist Baljinder Sahdra is reporting that meditation leads to a decrease in impulsive reactions -- another health improvement linked to psychological positivity. Impulsivity has been tied to an array of health problems, including addictions and other risky behavior.
It's well known that stress -- and distress -- lead to poor health, including a decline of telomerase and its healing properties. What hasn't been known -- and what these studies are beginning to document -- is the exact order of psychological and physiological events in this chain and, what's more, that this chain of events can be reversed.


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Talk:1251: Anti-Glass
Could someone explain the title text, please? I'm afraid I don't understand the irony mentioned. 126.96.36.199 11:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Yes. And also why 2007? Not like him to pick a random year. Was it something to do with the new laser classification and warning/labeling regulations that went into place that year? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_safety) -- Drjoe047 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- It should be the iPhone, the first generation was released on June 29, 2007. It was a similar technical revolution as Google Glass will be.--Dgbrt (talk) 13:12, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I don't think that the explanation needs to include the description of Black Hat. He has his own page. Regarding his desire not to blind people, he's about to shine a laser in the police officers' eyes. He has no problem blinding people. In addition, I don't think the title text is ironic. Black Hat is a hacker. He's always embraced technology. He just embraces it his way. -- Theo (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Wouldn't Google Glass be a nuisance for Black Hat? If everyone goes around always recording everything, it gets much harder to pull off nefarious plans in secret... 188.8.131.52 17:11, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
"The best defense is an discriminate offense." Might this be a play on the idiom "The best defense is a good offense"? The "indiscriminate" part strongly reminds me of NSA's justification that their massive surveillance program was not warrantless search & seizure because it's indiscriminate, i.e. no one person is targeted. Kind of like in this comic, where the device automatically targets any nearby Glass user but no one user(s) in particular. 188.8.131.52 08:46, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
- Dunno about the NSA reference, but it is an obvious play on that adage. I've added a one-sentence explanation of the reference and a link to the Wikipedia page. --V2Blast (talk) 06:08, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Could Black Hat's attachment be for Google Glasses? Somehow the attachment has to see the targets and process this information ... The Kids will be running around and shooting each other. Sebastian --184.108.40.206 10:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
The explanation should be changed in order to remove a number of errors, inaccuracies and grammatical faults.
1. The laser is aimed at the eyepiece of the device, not at the eye of the wearer
2. Therefore it could not blind the wearer
3. No explanation of why mailing them to the children of google executives would disrupt the project.
5. Clumsy double use of the nothing phrase "plays off".
6. Unsubstantiated and extremely unlikely link to a real news event.
7. Starting the final paragraph with the word 'However'.
8. No explanation of the reference to the year 2007.
9. Use of the word "hate" seems misplaced. Black Hat is unemotionally evil.
Go for it. 18.104.22.168 02:39, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
The reason I left that incomplete template there, with only "Incomplete?", is because it was there earlier, and I didn't know what was incomplete about it. 0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101 (talk page) 23:24, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Regarding #3 above: Children likes toys. Glasses with a laser pointer attached looks like a toy. Children would run around using and playing with these glasses/toys. They would eventually meet their parents. Their parents being Google executives, there's a high probability they would be wearing Google Glasses. They would be aware of the annoyance created by Black Hat. Without being able to fight back this annoyance, they would feel best to shut down the Google Glass project. 18.104.22.168 04:25, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
The last-panel peephole request can be intended to blind cops' filming gear rather the cops' eyes? And the phrasing could be an hint to the MIB movie/cartoon/comics franchise said pre-neuralyzering / pre-neurolysering someone?


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MGTOWers, mostly straight and mostly narrow, don't really spend a lot of time discussing lesbians. Lesbians, after all, are not only women, but women who like other women — you know, like like. But recently one of the regulars on MGTOWforums.com discovered the concept of "lesbian bed death" – the mythological notion that lesbians in long term relationships barely ever have sex – and, well, a very strange conversation ensued. Shade47 started off the discussion with these, er, observations:
Looks like the super hip lesbos forgot the small fact that in lesbian relations no one ends up paying for sex so it doesn't happen…
The, "we don't need men not even for sex." club isn't a banging scene these days.
I guess this outcome should have been obvious since you can't put a hole inside of a hole. I keep trying to picture that and it sends me in a logic loop like a computer tasked with calculating infinity. I just can't grasp how nothing going into nothing can create the best thing since sliced bread. …
Shade47 is so baffled by lesbians that he refuses to believe that they actually exist:
Do you guys think women are really lesbians or is it just another form of "look at me" attention whoring? I mean they don't have sex, they don't reproduce, they don't achieve financial success like the gay male community does. In fact I'm not sure exactly what lesbians are doing in their relationships. I still don't believe they are real. In order for two people to come together there must be a very specific purpose and attention whoring is shallow even for women. They usually only shack up for babies and money.
Drauger seconded the notion that lesbians are imaginary:
What do you think would happy [if] you put [two] hateful women in a home together? Bliss? Bitches go fucking shit nuts if some man isn't giving them attention.
Repeat after me: there is no such thing as a Lesbian, only really confused women. Women are by nature whores that will change their whims depending on the whim, depending on what they perceive society rewarding them for, i.e. whores.
However there are such things as gay men, they are men who have made a defining choice.
Goldenfetus added some conspiracy theory to the mix:
Honestly, I think the entire homosexual scene is about attention – for both men and women. I'm not denying that there are men who are attracted to men and women who are attracted to women, but I do believe the entire 'gay culture' was intentionally manufactured to further destroy the birthrate, with the reward for participation being attention and the approval of their elite masters.
Avoidwomen, for his part, not only accepted the existence of lesbianism; he also predicted a big lesbian upswing in the future after more and more men Go Their Own Way:
I expect to see a big increase in lesbianism as more and more men avoid women. We know that women are far more social than men and they really hate being alone, even having cats is considered companionship. As for sex, it's possible one lesbian couple is a dyke with high T(for a woman) so she pressures the more feminine lesbian for sex and the dyke may actually be paying for sex.
Then he returned to his favorite hobbyhorses: sexbots and "virtual reality" girls:
It will be very interesting to see how much sex men have vs. how much sex women have with their virtual reality computer generated men and women in the year 2020. I bet most men get laid everyday while women try it a few times and not bother with sex anymore when she realizes there's no money in it. Women will use VR men for his virtual money while men will be with virtual women for virtual sex.
The Great One imagined a slightly different result:
I think that instead of a rise in lesbianism we will see a rise in bisexuality among females.
When females can't find a man, they will settle for another female (or several pets). .. These female on female relationships will fall to the side when an available man offers a long term relationship.
Several pets? Hmm. If this guy is right, the future may bring severe cat shortages, sending the price of cats through the roof!
I'm putting all my money in cat futures right now.
Stay tuned for more on MGTOWers and lesbians. It gets even weirder.


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It's been just a week since Clearleft unveiled the Map Tales project that we built at Hackfarm and there have already been some great stories told with the site.
Paul documented his 2009 road trip to South by Southwest.
Alessio put together a photographic guide to his adopted home, showing the secrets of Barcelona.
Andy told two tales of two different trips: wine-tasting in California's Dry Creek Valley and hanging with the hipsters in East London.
Fellow Brightonian Tom Prior has recreated the story of the famous Stirling Moss victory at the 1955 Mille Miglia, the legendary open-road endurance race in Northern Italy.
I love the simplicity of Oliver and Peter Walk to School that Peter Ruk has embedded on his site—beautifully simple psychogeography.
I've made a map tale of the voyage of The Beagle with material fromAboutDarwin.com.
Meanwhile Anna is putting together the tale of the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole because—get this—a relative of hers was part of Scott's team!
There's plenty of room for improvement with Map Tales. It would be nice to have customisation options at some point—colours, fonts, maybe even map tiles. Some narratives would probably work better with aerial imagery, for example. In fact, that's something that Andy has been tirelessly tinkering with. To get a taste of how that looks, check out Britain From Above, the epic map tale of the 2008 BBC documentary series.


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The Protector
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A standalone novel from Jodi Ellen Malpas, the bestselling author of the THIS MAN and ONE NIGHT trilogies, comes a passionate and unforgettable romance.
People think they have Camille Logan nailed: daddy's girl, beautiful, spoiled young woman with her father's bank balance to fund her lifestyle. But Camille is determined to have a life free from his strings. Now, after fighting so hard to be independent and happy, she finds her life threatened as a result of her father's ruthless business dealings. Caught between resentment and fear, Camille prepares herself for the measures her father will take to protect her. But nothing could prepare her for the ex-SAS sniper who crashes into her life.
Jake Sharp resides in his own personal hell. He was distracted from duty once before, and the consequences were devastating - both personally and professionally. Accepting the job of bodyguard to Camille Logan isn't the kind of distraction from his demons he should take. Women and Jake don't mix well, yet protecting the heiress seems the lesser of two evils. But Jake soon discovers that she isn't the woman she's perceived to be. She's warm, compassionate, her presence settling, and his duty to protect her soon goes deeper than a well-paid job, no matter how hard he fights it. He needs absolution. He comes to need Camille. But he knows he can't have both.
Don't miss LEAVE ME BREATHLESS the new linked novel to THE PROTECTOR - the perfect summer romance!


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Circular IF-2022-93730546
Institutional regulatory body that defines the structures, functions, and responsibilities of the different entities that are related to the SNIP. It has laws, decrees, regulations, instructions, which are mandatory for each entity. In the case of SNIPs, these are the rules that support the scaffolding of the investment system and the place that each of the entities involved occupies in it.


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This game follows Asterix, Obelix and the faithful Dogmatix as they travel to Greece in aid of their lovesick friend Alafolix. Their journey takes them to the Olympic Games where they find themselves pitted against the athletic might of the Roman Empire. Adventure and hilarity ensue as Asterix and friends compete to get the better of Brutus, his muscle-bound champion, and their long-time nemesis, Julius Caesar himself.
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Publisher: Atari
Also available on: PlayStation 2, Wii, Nintendo DS, Wireless, Xbox 360
Asterix at the Olympic... at IGN
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How Facebook, Twitter Decide Your Interview Call
NEW YORK: Employers turn to social media sites like Facebook when deciding whether to even call a job candidate for an interview, according to a new study.
Research from a global security software company discovered that more than 90 per cent of human resources professionals search for unprotected social media profiles in order to assess a candidate's suitability.
What employers find online has huge implications on a job seeker's chance of even getting an interview.
The study was based on surveys of 230 human resources professionals in the US and UK, and 4,400 job seekers between the ages of 18 and 25.
Researchers found that job candidates who display inebriated photos on their social media profiles reduce their chances of securing an interview by 84 per cent, while 90 per cent of human resources managers considered nude photos a reason to not set up an interview.
Other actions seen on social media that can cost job candidate an employment opportunity include evidence of obnoxious behaviour, negative or derogatory comments about a previous employer or extremist views about topics such as race.
Overall, nearly 50 per cent of the hiring managers surveyed have turned down a job applicant because of their online profile.
Tony Anscombe, the ambassador of free products for AVG Technologies, said the internet, and social networks in particular, have changed the way that human resources professionals approach the recruitment process.
"Nowadays, online content posted about, or by a candidate, has become the modern-day equivalent of a first interview," Anscombe said.
It's not just Facebook that hiring managers are searching to find out about prospective candidates. The research shows other sites they turn to include Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr.


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Microsoft Photography & Video Blog:
I'm thrilled to announce that we've added the option to publish your photos on Flickr in the latest beta refresh version available today via Microsoft Update! In fact, Windows Live Photo Gallery has received the stamp of approval from the super cool people at Flickr as a first-class application for uploading your photos to your Flickr account! You can find the new option on the Publish menu. I'll be blogging more about the feature details very soon so check back here for lots more information. Check out the press release here.
Neat. Based on the way this is implemented--via a right-click sub-menu under "Under Services"--I assume other services will also be added in the future. In particular, I'd like to see support for Google's PicasaWeb, selfishly because that's what I use. :)


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Can you compile one??
Can you compile one??
And the images just thumbnails ?
Wish you luck.
Wish you luck.
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~~ Is there a ZIM file for the entire English Wikipedia? I have the WP1 +30000, yet would prefer the entire version, even if the file is large and the articles haven't been vetted. AnAnthro 06:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, due to a lack of Hardware ressource we are not able to prepare such a ZIM file currently. Maybe in the future... Kelson 07:46, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- How about a version without images?
I would like to see a Dutch version, covering all the NL entries of Wikipedia. Any chance this might happen?
- Please open a feature request. This can be done. http://requestafeature.kiwix.org Kelson 15:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I see you are not able to create a ZIM file from the entire english wikipedia. Can you provide a tutorial on dumping wikipedia content to ZIM files? This would open the path for enthusiasts to create and share their own dumps and we would see the english dump soon. --Klaufir 06:07, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Where is the newer arabic wikipedia?
I want newer wikipedia than this in your site now it is old, can you creat newer one soon please>
and I hope your program to be good in search not like okawix which is very very very bad searchin just about 40% of results at least in arabic wikipedia .zeno
is you program better than okawix in searching tell me please,
You may check the search engine online here. http://library.kiwix.org:4205 Your feedback is really welcome.
This is the last ZIM file, do you mean this file is too old? http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_ar_all_07_2009_alpha2.zim
Kelson 07:21, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I have checked the searching although the library is Persian not Arabic ( but both in the sam alphabe)
The Arabic one is [1]
It seems very good searching like clucene > isnot it?
And yes I means that version is old one year ago 72009 update 32010
When the ar wikipedia is less articles
I want one newer now the articles are 138 000 and much more words pre article>
Can you compile one?? And are the images just thumbnails ?
Regards, Wish you luck.


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I enjoyed this Google Tech Talk by MSR post-doc Nicole Immorlica, "Challenges in the Design of Sponsored Search Auctions".
The talk starts with a short history of Web advertising and a description of the second price auction mechanism commonly used for pay-per-click advertising. I suspect many readers of this weblog would be interested in the discussion of click fraud starting at 12:34 that includes a discussion of common methods for detecting click fraud.
My favorite part started at 28:09 when Nicole brought up how advertisers with budget constraints wreak havoc on the efficiency of the generalized second price auction. She gave several examples where advertisers would not be truthful in their bids when they had limited budgets for their ads, yielding suboptimal outcomes for the auction.
Nicole ended with some thoughts on situations that can cause regular fluctuations in advertising auction bidding and how that kind of instability can be avoided.
Much of this talk appears to be covered in more detail in some of the papers Nicole co-authored, including an upcoming WWW 2007 paper, "Dynamics of bid optimization in online advertisement auctions" (PDF), and an older EC 2005 paper, "Multi-Unit Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders" (PDF).
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Talk on challenges in Web ad auctions
Posted by Greg Linden at 6:04 PM
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- Bud Gibson said...
Looks like a great tech talk. I've found a few through this blog. I wonder why they don't have a tech talk blog. You seem to have to just find them by accident.
- April 26, 2007 at 5:35 AM
- Unknown said...
This RSS feed will give you the latest tech talks:
- April 26, 2007 at 1:52 PM
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VantagePoint Artificial Intelligence Trading Software 'Highly Recommended' After Four-Year Test Demonstrates Forecasting Accuracy, Consistency and Superior Capabilities
YourTradingEdge Review reveals 'distinctive edge' over other trading software 'not seen elsewhere'
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla., February 12, 2018 (Newswire.com) - VantagePoint, the artificial intelligence trading software capable of predicting stock market trends up to three days in advance with up to 86 percent forecasting accuracy, is rated "highly recommended" after multi-year tests performed by Terry Wooten, former editor for Dow Jones.
Wooten's review, published in YourTradingEdge (YTE), highlights VantagePoint's unique artificial intelligence forecasting capabilities that give traders significant advantages over others who still rely on single-market, trend-following indicators that lag behind the markets. These outdated approaches look only at each individual market by itself but fail to address the intermarket effects that related global markets have on the market.
VantagePoint will provide a definite statistical advantage that I have not seen elsewhere. An intelligent trader or investor should have no problem recouping the cost of the software quickly. Highly recommended.
Terry Wooten, Editor YTE
VantagePoint harnesses the pattern recognition and forecasting capabilities of 'deep learning' Neural Networks, the most advanced form of AI, to make forecasts of each target market such as the Dow, based on its relationship to more than 30 other global markets found to have the greatest influence on each target market.
"VantagePoint is a first-class tool to use to build profitable trading strategies," Wooten said in the review. "VantagePoint will provide a definite statistical advantage that I have not seen elsewhere. An intelligent trader or investor should have no problem recouping the cost of the software quickly. Highly recommended."
VantagePoint's version 10 — just released last week with the most significant updates to date — predicted the Dow's largest single-day point drop which occurred Feb. 5, 2018 five days in advance. Traders using the software leveraged this valuable insight to make more informed trading decisions in advance of the historically volatile trading day. In addition, the short-term rally that faked out many traders on Feb. 6, 2018 didn't trick the powerful artificial intelligence in VantagePoint which continued to forecast the market down preparing its users for another 1,000 point drop on Feb. 8.
The review, available now in the bi-monthly magazine for traders and active investors, also details VantagePoint's ability to forecast Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum with the same high level of predictive accuracy achieved with all other markets it covers.
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No. The listings on our marketplace are for the PSLs only. Season tickets will be available for purchase, if applicable, at their invoice cost.
Our website does not currently allow you to place an offer for fewer than the full number of seats for a particular listing. The success rate of 'split' offers is extremely low. Most sellers wish to sell all of their seats, unless otherwise noted. As an alternative, we recommend you limit your offers to listings with the desired quantity of seats. Please use the available filters to refine your search to applicable listings.
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The buyer is responsible for paying the one-time transfer fee charged by the team, either per seat or per transfer as dictated by each team.
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I've played some 80 hours worth of Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3, but I still haven't come to the end of this wonderfully bleak, beautiful and brutal game. There is much for me to uncover before I'm done—and when I play Dark Souls through for a second time.
And while I've received an immersive education in the ways of Dark Souls over those 80 hours, there were moments during the first 10 and 20 in which I wish I'd been more learned about its rules. I didn't have a strategy guide or advanced wiki to aid me, as I did during my first playthroughs of Demon's Souls. So, Dark Souls players, if you're looking for a little advice, I have some to dispense.
Before we get into it, it's worth noting that one of the facets of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls that makes these games so fascinating is not knowing its obtuse and opaque rules so familiarly. Experimentation, research and patience result in great pay-offs in Dark Souls. To even explain some of the game's deeper mechanics may be considered spoilers by some.
But for the new player, the person taking their first steps into the world of Dark Souls, take heed of the following.
There's no need to stress about your character class
Demon's Souls players know this, but for the most part, the character class players choose at the beginning of their game—from Dark Souls' selection of ten—will have little impact on how they play after the first few hours. Class choice in Dark Souls is largely just a matter of starting equipment (weapons, armor, rings, disposable items) and the distribution of character stats. Over time, you'll tailor your character to your style of play. Are you a long-range magic user? Do you prefer to fight hand-to-hand? Is speed more important to you than strength and poise?
Do sweat a bit more over your gift choice. Most of the items you'll have the option to start with—firebombs, a pair of binoculars—you'll have the ability to find early on in the game anyway. The Master Key will grant access to some locked doors earlier, some of which you may not want to open just yet. Two choices, the Pendant and Ring of the Witch, have unclear uses. Another, the Ring of Tiny Being, does not work as advertised, so skip it.
Go up, not down
When you reach your first bonfire, the closest thing Dark Souls has to a hub, consider going up one of the set of stairs you see, not down two other sets. There's a character nearby who might say the same thing, but I'll underscore his advice. While it's worth exploring the opening area fully, because it's good to know just how mismatched you are against a quartet of scimitar-wielding skeletons, you'll find the Undead Burg above your camp a good starting point for your adventure.
Don't throw anything away
Even that pile of warm rubbish you'll pick up at some point will be worth something. Unlike Demon's Souls, there's no real limit to the number of weapons, helms, rings, arrows and shields your character can carry. You'll even find a Bottomless Box at some point that will store all that excess stuff. And unlike Demon's Souls, the junk swords, spears and armor you don't want might just make you richer at some point...
The meaning of Humanity
Humanity in Dark Souls is not an obvious thing. It's a consumable item, for one. It can be found on corpses, purchased from a vendor and acquired somewhat randomly. You can also steal it from the people you kill playing Dark Souls' online mode. You'll consume Humanity to revive your character from Hollow form—your undead state—to human form. It's only in human form that players can invite other online players into their world, invade other player's worlds as an evil phantom and perform actions like kindling.
You'll need Humanity to kindle bonfires, the act of strengthening those life-giving checkpoints that benefits you and the players you interact with online. Humanity is also an attribute that boosts your character's stats and, later, has an impact on the power of certain weapons. Conserve it and use your Humanity wisely, for it has great value.
Hold onto your Fire Keeper Souls for the right moment
Don't make the same mistake I did. If you find a Fire Keeper Soul, take it to the woman who knows how to use it properly. Your Estus Flask, the life-restoring potion bottle you'll earn early on, will be richer for not wasting it.
Bonfires are checkpoints, but they can be dangerous
Visiting a bonfire will restore your life, replenish your magic and cure you of afflictions like poisoning. But it will also reset the game world in a sense, respawning most of the enemies you might have killed getting there (with the exception of major demons and some larger enemies). Know that the only place to respawn is at your previously rested at bonfire. That can put the player in an unpleasant spot at times. Take, for example, the time I found myself respawning again and again at a bonfire near a poisonous swamp, my weapons broken, low on poison curing items and with a very difficult walk back to a much safer camp. Players may feel trapped at certain bonfires, so choose your respawn point wisely.
Buy a repairbox
Save up. Buy a repairbox for those moments when visiting the blacksmith is out of the question. And it will be out of the question at times. Your broken weapons will thank you.
Don't play angry
Stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of dying, dying and dying again? Some battles will rightly test your patience and willpower. Don't continue to bash your head against a wall. Take a break, walk away and come back to the fight refreshed and relaxed. The poisonous residents of Blighttown will still be there when you come back.
Nothing is off the table
From invisible enemies to pitch black caves in which giant skeletons can only be seen until they're within inches of the player, nothing is considered too cruel to throw at the player. Your weapons will simply pass through some otherworldly enemies. Others will easily take your life with a single attack, no matter how strong you are. You will be asked to walk on lava, see your life bar halved by curses and have your poor warrior surrounded by giant beasts who will attack relentlessly. But you can defeat them all, I promise.
Just learn from your mistakes. And mine.
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Super-Hot Plasma 'Rain' Falls on Sun in Amazing Video
Loops of superheated plasma far larger than Earth rain down on the solar surface in a dazzling video captured by a NASA sun-watching spacecraft.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as a medium-strength flare erupted from the sun on July 19, 2012. The blast also generated the enormous, shimmering plasma loops, which are an example of a phenomenon known as "coronal rain," agency officials said.
"Hot plasma in the corona [the sun's outer atmosphere] cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region," NASA officials wrote in a description of the four-minute video of solar plasma "rain", which NASA released Wednesday (Feb. 20).
"Magnetic fields are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface," they added.
The $850 million SDO spacecraft recently marked three years in space. It launched on Feb. 11, 2010, kicking off a five-year prime mission to provide incredibly detailed views of the sun, solar flares and other space weather events.
SDO has delivered thus far, capturing more than 100 million images of our star as of late last year. Some of the spacecraft's most memorable shots over the last year are highlighted in another video, which NASA released last week to celebrate the mission's birthday.
But SDO has done more than just shine a light on the sun. The spacecraft has also helped scientists better understand comets, especially "sungrazers" like Comet Lovejoy, which survived a death dive through the sun's corona in December 2011.
And scientists used SDO to learn more about Venus' atmosphere during the planet's "transit" across the sun's face, from Earth's perspective, in June of last year. The Venus transit transfixed skywatchers and researchers around the world, as the next one won't come until 2117.
SDO isn't the only spacecraft keeping tabs on the sun, which is currently in an active phase of its 11-year activity cycle, with a peak expected later this year. NASA's twin Stereo probes also provide daily views of our star, as does the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency.
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