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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#79 - Full-Featured Test-Scene to check the correctness of povray
Opened by Michael Lindig (lindig) - Thursday, 04 March 2010, 09:02 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Thursday, 19 January 2017, 14:42 GMT
it would be nice if there exists a test scene (not a benchmark) which has a high coverage of povray source and can be used as correctness validation of povray. It schould be produce an image which can be compared to a golden reference image.
It may be also possible to create a regression test suite which does automatic comparision of the render results.
Looks to me the "all image" & "all animation" scripts (as well as the portfolio) might cover the topic.
It's not a single image, and due to png compression (as well as changing features), it's not possible to automat the comparaison. (yet ?)
Using the right combination of imagemagick, it might be possible to check for a global "black" difference.
Moreover, povray never says that anti-aliasing was determinist amongst different computers
(and aliased pictures are just horrible to look, but might be good for non-regression checks)
I'm already doing performance comparisons of the current 3.7 betas or my development versions against earlier betas as well as 3.6 (on a Linux machine), using a suite of ~151 images at present, and also occasionally check the output images; while I initially did that manually using BeyondCompare, I have by now written a small command line program to read in two PNG images, compare them, output two images showing (a) a (contrast-boosted) difference image and (b) a greyscale version with differences highlighted, and ultimately returning an exit code identifying how severe the differences are (according to some rather simple heuristics). If someone is interested, I might publish the code for that tool in one of the newsgroups.
imagemagick suite comes with "compare" tool that does exaclty this. It also generates a lot of different measures of difference between images, which gives you numbers to compare.
- Field changed: Status (New → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #192.


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Nickle-free snap-on buttons. You attach them with 3exters plastic head for pliers. The parts fit perfectly in for example the pliers from Prym.Size: 11mm in diameter.All four parts of the button are included. Four parts become one complete button. One colored capped part (the visible part of the button on the garment), one silvercolored female part and one silvercolored male part plus one silvercolored ringpart (backside of the button). The two ringparts are attaching the male and the female part to the garment.
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BOSTON, Mass.—For the first time in program history, UMass Boston men's hockey can lay claim to back-to-back Codfish Bowl Tournament Titles, after the Beacons (9-1-2) knocked off Southern New Hampshire University (8-5-1) 6-2 Sunday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena.
A year after earning their first title since 2007, the Beacons cruised to the 49th Annual Codfish Bowl Tournament Title with a 10-1 victory over Suffolk University Saturday and a 6-2 win over the Penmen in the title game.
Tournament Most Valuable Player Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.) registered two goals for the second-straight day to lead UMass Boston to their seventh-straight victory. MacIntyre was joined on the All-Tournament Team by fellow first-liner Nathan Milam (Westland, Mich.) and sophomore goalie Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.).
MacIntyre, Milam and captain Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) combined for four of the Beacons' goals and added three assists in the victory. Daniel was named the Lawrence F. Curran Award winner. The award has been given out each year since 1983 in remembrance of Lawrence F. Curran, an former assistant coach and avid supporter of the program. Each year, the award is given to the player who best exemplifies true sportsmanship and competition over the course of the two-day tournament.
Freshman defenseman Sam Boyd (Lake Worth, Fla.) and sophomore forward Derek Colucci (Scituate, R.I.) each added a goal as UMass Boston extended their unbeaten streak to nine in a row.
In net, Andrews made 33 saves on 35 shots to earn All-Tournament honors for the second consecutive Codfish Bowl.
Joe Collins led the Penmen for the second consecutive day with two assists, while Dane Caracino and Steven Berry each added third-period tallies. Senior goalie Tyler Holske stopped 30 of 36 shots to fall to 6-5-1 on the year.
UMass Boston grabbed control of the game in the first period, as they used three goals in the first 13:52 to take the large Penmen contingent out of the contest.
Milam opened the scoring at 4:20 of the period, when he scored the first of two UMass Boston power-play tallies with a snipe through traffic, off of passes from Mike Kuhn (Holbrook, Mass.) and Tyler Bishop (Ramsey, N.J.).
MacIntyre added to the lead at 8:08, when he received passes from Daniel and Dan Cornell (Abington, Mass.) before burying a shot past Holske.
The Beacons pushed the lead to 3-0 at the 13:52 mark, when Boyd picked up his second collegiate goal. Boyd sent a hard shot through traffic right off the face-off, off a Colucci face-off win.
UMass Boston made it 4-0 just 24 seconds into the second, as MacIntyre registered his tournament-high fourth goal of the weekend on passes from Daniel and Frankie DeAugustine (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
After a quiet next 20 minutes, Colucci put the game out of reach. Mike Miller (Wrentham, Mass.) sent a pass forward to Albee Daley (Averill Park, N.Y.) who skated through the slot before sending a perfect pass to Colucc,i who finished with a tip shot past Holske before hitting hard into the boards.
Southern New Hampshire answered back with two goals within a three-minute span, as Caracino scored on the power-play and Berry added an even-strength goal at 12:17.
With their lead cut to 5-2 and the momentum shifting the other way, Daniel stemmed the tide, as Milam won a face-off and sent it right back to Daniel, who rifled a shot past Holske for a 6-2 lead.
The Beacons outshot the Penmen 36-35, while scoring on 2-of-8 power-play opportunities, compared to 1-for-4 for the visitors.
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The amulet on the left hand side is said to represent King Edward's hand. This may refer to one of several kings of England who were skilled soldiers. The amulet is thought to have been carried by a British soldier fighting during the First World War. Amulets of all shapes and forms were and still are considered by some people to provide good luck and protection against illness and danger. The amulet was part of the collection of Edward Lovett (1852-1933), a researcher and collector of folk traditions, and was bought by Henry Wellcome in 1930. It is shown here with two other First World War amulets (A79871 and A79904).
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual, perennial herb, glabrous or hairy
Stem generally branched, generally erect, < 60 cm
Leaves opposite, < 20 cm, entire to pinnately cut
Inflorescence: heads radiate, solitary or in cymes; phyllaries in 1 or 2 series, free or partly fused; receptacle narrowly conic to hemispheric, naked, smooth, pitted, or rough
Ray flowers 421; ligules generally yellow
Disk flowers generally many; corollas generally 5-lobed, generally yellow; anther tips acuminate to triangular; style tips triangular or round, generally hair-tufted
Fruit < 5 mm, cylindric to obovoid, black or gray; pappus of awns, scales, or 0
Species in genus: 17 species: w North America, Chile
Etymology: (Greek: female pupil of Plato)
Reference: [Ornduff 1966 Univ Calif Publ Bot 40:192]
Generally self-incompatible (cross-pollinated).
Annual < 60 cm
Stem erect, simple or branched, glabrous or slightly hairy
Leaves 415 cm, linear or awl-shaped, entire, glabrous
Inflorescence: involucre 510 mm, hemispheric; phyllaries 1014, fused, glabrous; receptacle conic, papillate, glabrous or sparsely hairy
Ray flowers 715; ligules 414 mm
Disk flowers many; anther tips ovate or triangular; style tips triangular, hair-tufted
Fruit < 3.5 mm, club-shaped or ovoid, glabrous or papillate; pappus 0
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Saline places, vernal pools
Elevation: < 1000 m.
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Bertolino family honors soldier's legacy by living his dream
Army Staff Sgt. Stephen Bertolino used to talk about one day moving his family into a nice house with a garage, a chimney and a large backyard for his four children to play in.
The El Cajon native also wanted to see his kids pursue higher education.
Bertolino didn't live to see those dreams play out. He was killed in an ambush in Iraq in 2003 at age 40.
Now, 10 years later, his family has not forgotten him or his sacrifice. And they are living proof that a soldier's hopes can be realized, even after he has given up his life to serve the nation.
Bertolino's widow, Susan Jensen, owns that home he wanted in a quiet and safe middle-class neighborhood in Southwest Riverside County. She said she bought it with the life insurance money she received after he was killed.
There are plenty of framed photos of Bertolino, from a portrait of his time with the Marine Corps reserves to shots of him playing with his then-young children.
Two of his sons, Stephen "Tony" Jr., 23, and Daniel, 21, are in college, aided by scholarships made available to them because of their father's combat-related death.
Bertolino's other two children, Karina, 17, and Jason, 15, are excelling at Vista Murrieta High School. Jason is a star goalkeeper who aspires to play soccer in college and perhaps even as a pro.
"I know it is real ironic that because of my dad passing we got a lot of support, and we have all those things," said Tony, who married his wife, Daniela, in August and has a child on the way. "From that perspective, his sacrifice fulfilled all those things that he wanted for us."
The family's life changed the moment military officials showed up to deliver the bad news, as Tony and Daniel, then 13 and 12, hung Christmas lights in late November 2003. To that point, the family of six had moved frequently in typical military-family fashion.
Susan, who had been married to Bertolino for 17 years, relocated the family from Colorado back to Southern California. She chose to settle in Murrieta, because she had a brother living there and real-estate prices were more favorable.
A San Diego State graduate, Susan went back to school to earn a master's degree in business administration, landed an internship and then a full-time job.
Tony said his mother worked tirelessly outside the home and held everybody together inside it, although her humble nature would prevent her from taking credit.
"She's never given up," Tony said.
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Tony and Daniel said they were forced to grow up quickly and took it upon themselves to fill the void.
Karina, just 7 when her father was killed, struggled when her friends would bring up their fathers in everyday conversation. Memories of her father have melded with the many old home videos the family loves to watch.
"I think the first few years were the hardest," Karina said. "We weren't super used to having a dad around, because he was gone all the time. But I was still sad, because all the kids had dads and I didn't."
For Jason, the youngest, it took a couple years before he could grasp the magnitude of his father's death. He was 5 years old when his father deployed for the last time.
"For me, it's kind of normal now," Jason said. "I was only with him for five years, off and on. I just wasn't used to that. There's been more time for me not being with him than being with him."
Almost subconsciously, the older sons stepped into the father-figure role for their younger siblings. If Karina or Jason needed someone to take them to a father-daughter dance or father-son camp-out, Tony or Daniel picked up the slack, Susan said.
"The older boys have always been there for the younger ones and been there for each other," Susan said. "Even now, they look to each other."
Although the early years after Bertolino's death were difficult, the always-close-knit family came together to form its own self-contained support group. Religion — the Bertolinos are devout Mormons — and the belief they will all see their father again, has helped, they said.
That bond, however, was tested in 2009 when Susan remarried, a decision that didn't initially go over well with her kids.
"At first, they were real against it," Susan said. "Four teenagers, they did not want anyone moving in on their mom. No one would have been good enough to replace their dad."
Four years later, as the children mature, they seem to be getting it.
"I know that my dad would want it this way, that she could have someone to love her that she could love as well," Daniel said.
Life would have turned out differently for the family had their husband and father survived, they all agreed. They probably wouldn't have the settled life they do today. Before Bertolino's death, the family bounced around every couple years, Tony said.
Many of the opportunities for the kids, such as the scholarships that will enable Tony to attend Brigham Young in the fall and Daniel to enter his sophomore year at Brigham Young-Idaho, wouldn't have existed.
Daniel said he would happily give up all the advantages to have had his father attend his swim meets or get an opportunity to have an adult conversation with him.
"But with all the things we've been helped out with, I'm so grateful that there are people out there helping out those who have had tragedy befall them."


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The rockin' 28-year-old teacher from Charleston, S.C., clashed with the panel after performing Alicia Keys' "No One" and Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" during an evening of old and new tunes on the Fox talent competition.
Randy Jackson challenged Testone's song choices, while Jennifer Lopez called her out for not showing enough emotion when she's singing on stage. Testone later relented, admitting she's trying to achieve that during her minute-and-a-half "Idol" performances.
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How to Recognize Damaged Hair
By contrast, our cashier was a middle-aged woman whose hair was cut to shoulder length, had obviously been colored and permed, and was frizzy and dry-looking. I always hate to be truly negative about other people's appearance, but her hair looked like the classic 'bird's nest". This was a woman with damaged hair, and she obviously hadn't a clue about it.
That got me wondering how it was possible for these two people to be so unaware of what it meant to have damaged hair. Had no one ever taught them the signs? Well, here are some of the signs of hair damage and ways to treat them effectively.
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The most readily visible signs of damaged hair - rough texture, over-porosity, dryness, and brittleness - are generally caused by damage to and over extension of the cuticle layer of the hair shaft. This can come from blow-drying, wind, harsh shampoos and chemical treatments, as well as other heat-styling methods and environmental influences. By using conditioners that are pH balanced, protein enriched, and moisture restoring, you can smooth the cuticle layer and protect the hair shaft from further damage. When hair is damaged it's important to use a good, moisture-rich conditioning treatment every week until it shows improvement, and to use a light spray-on, leave-in conditioner daily during styling.
The problem of elasticity loss, susceptibility to breakage, can sometimes be hard to diagnose. Healthy hair can stretch up to 150% of is normal length - without breaking - and return to its original state. Unless your hair shows lots of broken ends and significantly shorter hairs than you noted before, you may not be aware that there is a real problem. The best clue to poor elasticity could be sitting in your hairbrush. Do you have a lot of hair caught in your hairbrush? Do you have to clean your brush often because of built-up hair in the bristles? Unless you can tell that these hairs are all full- length and coming out at the root (in which case there may be other problems to be dealt with) you can be reasonably sure that you have a problem with hair breakage. The best treatment in this case is a protein rich conditioner, and/or weekly protein treatment, which will add strength to the hair shaft.
Issues with color absorption and retention, and sponginess and matting when wet, are also porosity issues, but on a more severe level. These levels of damage require very intensive treatment and constant care in processing and styling. Some people with this level of damage to their hair find it easier to cut off the damaged hair and start fresh. However, this may not be an option, so its best if you take care of your hair before it becomes so damaged.
The most important thing to remember is that your hair is NOT alive once it emerges from the scalp. Like the free edge (white part) of your fingernails, the hair is dead tissue. Because of this, don't be tricked into believing promises made by products to heal or cure your hair damage. The conditioning treatments and products available today can help protect the hair, and can lessen some damage, but the best way to have healthy hair is always prevention.


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Just how much opportunity SaaS will generate is spelled out in the white paper, "Channels for the New SaaS Industry." The 14-page report predicts that SaaS will involve more than 200,000 partner companies over the next five to 10 years. Those partners will serve 10 million companies worldwide, the Washington-based trade association estimates.
The report suggests that partners delivering solutions via SaaS will most likely focus on business-process alignment and integration. As the report puts it, SaaS partners will serve as "catalysts" rather than as resellers. They will need to thoroughly understand their customers' business needs and become specialists in their vertical markets.
While that description may sound a little vague, the SIIA report cites some existing examples. Among them: SS&G Financial Services Inc., an Ohio accounting firm, uses Web-based financial applications from Intacct Corp. of Los Gatos, Calif., to manage the books of major restaurant chains. In addition, San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. works with more than 100 partners to provide customer relationship management (CRM) solutions over the Internet.
One suggested approach is for solution vendors to pay partners a 15 percent referral fee for the first year's recurring revenue to compensate them for promoting solutions. Also, with SaaS, it's more important for partners to identify new customers than to renew existing contracts, according to the report. So compensation to partners for contract renewals might be lower, perhaps about 8 percent.
Finally, the SIIA report also suggests that SaaS vendors could create a marketing fund of about 3 percent to help partners participate in local events that would lead to identifying new customers. That 3 percent would be based on the revenue the partner generated for the vendor.
Under the SaaS model, vendors shouldn't make the old-world mistake of charging partners for training, according to the report. Training should focus on business process and usability issues because that's where SaaS partners will deliver value to their clients.
The degree to which SaaS differs from the traditional enterprise software partnership model is largely a matter of perspective. Microsoft's efforts include incorporating a SaaS delivery option into "Titan," the forthcoming new version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (see "Clash of the Titans," March 2007).
Jeff Kaplan, founder and managing director of the Wellesley, Mass.-based consulting firm THINKstrategies Inc., predicts SaaS will cause plenty of rethinking by ISVs and their partners about ways of bringing value to the customer. "The SaaS business is challenging the established ISVs to change their DNA," Kaplan says. "The same is true with the channel partners. Currently, many software vendors are selling their applications to the customer via channel partners, who often add value via technology integration or customization. With a SaaS model, the software vendors will be delivering their applications directly to the customers and the channel partners will have to determine where they can add value."
An obvious difference for partners implementing SaaS solutions will be an absence of physical infrastructure to maintain. There are no upfront licensing fees or hardware requirements, Kaplan says. Also, the nature of the customer-vendor relationship shifts from a channel-centric one to a more direct relationship with the vendor.
The SIIA white paper is available only to SIIA members, but other information is available at www.siia.net.
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The Berkeley Rent Board is as is as predictable on rent control as the National Rifle Association is on gun control. In both cases, the underlying assumptions are up front and the ultimate proclamation a foregone conclusion. Stephen Barton is long-time advocate of rent control and has worked for or with the Board for years. Each of his many studies for the Board has been structured to support the program. His latest effort, a summarization of his report in the form of an article in these pages written with Rent Board Chair Lisa Stephens, is no exception.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and some of what the Stephens/Barton article reports is factually correct, or at least logically feasible. Phased-in the late 1990s, the state law known as Costa/Hawkins precluded the Rent Board from setting the new rent on a voluntarily vacated apartment. It granted the property owner the right to establish an initial rent for a new tenancy at market level (not without limitation as the Stephens/Barton piece states). The current aggregate increase in all rents in Berkeley after 15 years of Costa/Hawkins is conceivably over $100 million as reported and these higher rents, roughly applying standard real estate appraisal methods, would translate into greater value for the entire Berkeley rental housing stock of over $1B. How this came about and what it means, however, is not quite what rent control enthusiasts Stephens and Barton imply.
The legislature of the State of California has never been enthusiastic about rent control. It passed a law in 1977 which preempted local controls. Then Governor Jerry Brown vetoed this legislation stating that he thought that cities ought to be able to experiment with rent controls. This legislation was not veto- proof and the Governor got his wish. While the legislative sentiment to preclude or limit controls remained, there were two powerful Senators in key positions who were pro-controls and for two decades, they did not allow any such legislation to get to the floor of the Senate. Passage in the Assembly was always assured; passage in the upper body was probable but precluded by the efforts of Senators Dave Roberti (President Pro Tem) and Nick Petris (who chaired the Judiciary Committee and represented Berkeley).
Once avowed Progressives gained control of the elected Rent Board, enforcement of The Berkeley rent law got more and more capricious and draconian. Senator Petris was by comparison a moderate and stories of abuse, particularly from people he know well, finally turned him around. It is the abuses of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board that ultimately led to the demise of vacancy controls which were mainstay of the Berkeley ordinance. Whether Steve Barton, Lisa Stephens and the Rent Board like it or not, vacancy decontrol/re-control is now the limit of acceptable rent control practice in California. Costa/ Hawkins is the result of the experimentation Jerry Brown wanted. It is also a policy that was driven by reasonableness, political compromise and, in the end, mainly by Berkeley's own zealotry toward property owners. If any single entity was responsible for Costa/Hawkins, it was the Berkeley Rent Control Board.
While the magnitude of rent increases reported by Stephens and Barton may be accurate, their claim that only six percent of that money has been reinvested in the rental housing stock is ridiculous. In his study, Barton takes all improvements for which permits were issued and triples the permit estimate, appearing thereby to be generous in what he credits to owners in the way of improvements. What this ignores, of course, is the much, much higher, routine expenditures on improvements which are done without permits. Sometimes owners do in fact do work without permits but much more often, the work done does not require a permit.
To cherry out an apartment vacated by a long-term tenant, which typically could include sanding floors or new carpet, repainting, new fixtures, correcting all defects and putting in a new kitchen with new appliances, can easily run $12-15,000. None of this required a permit. I know of a building upgraded last year with a fresh exterior paint job, a new roof and the replacement of one hundred 80-year old windows. The total expenditure was over $160,000, very little of which would show up in Barton's permit-based estimate of landlord expenditures. Only the roof required a permit. Barton's claim that increased property maintenance since Costa /Hawkins is only $300/unit/year (6% of $100M divided by 20K units) is total unsupported by his assumptions. This claim of minimal reinvestment is the crux of his report and it is just plain wrong.


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Apilco's Zen collection offers a clean, simple backdrop that highlights the colors, shapes and textures of food. Ideal for serving Asian specialties, these platters offer elegant presentation of sushi, dim sum and appetizers. Like all Apilco dinnerware, it is finely crafted of durable porcelain to provide years of service.
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Location of Sensis job cuts revealed
Almost 400 Telstra jobs appear to be heading overseas, as it emerged that Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne will bear the brunt of deep cuts within the telco's Sensis division, publisher of the Yellow and White Pages.
Sensis announced on Thursday that it was cutting almost 700 jobs from its 3500-strong staff and creating 50 new roles as it accelerates the transition from print to digital-focused businesses.
About 390 jobs will be axed from backroom and sales roles, with most expected to be sent overseas to Philippine or Indian call centres.
Senior and middle managers also face the axe.
Confidential documents seen by AAP show that 221 sales staff are expected to be shed from Sensis offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart, Ballina, Wollongong, Newcastle, the Gold Coast, Cairns, Townsville, Geelong and Mornington.
Sensis's Brisbane office is expected to shed 47 jobs under the proposals.
The firm will also cut 47 jobs from its Sydney CBD, Parramatta and Penrith offices.
There will also be 45 jobs cut from Sensis's Melbourne office.
Adelaide will lose 35 jobs, Perth will lose 28 and nine jobs will be lost in Hobart.
A small number of staff will be axed from Sensis's regional NSW, Victoria and Queensland offices, including two in Newcastle, two on the Gold Coast, one in Ballina, one in Wollongong, one in Cairns, one in Townsville, one in Geelong and one in Mornington.
Most of the jobs appear destined to be sent overseas.
Sensis documents outlining the changes said 390 roles would be impacted by the "potential introduction of world-class partners (off-shore)" to carry out editing, production, artwork and contact centre work for Yellow Pages and White Pages.
A Sensis spokesman did not deny the jobs were being moved abroad but said nothing had been finalised.
He added: "What we announced yesterday was a proposal that would see about 391 back-of-house fulfillment and customer care roles outsourced but no decisions have been made or vendors chosen to provide those services."
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Paul Bastian - pointing to Telstra's recent record half-year $1.6 billion profit - said sending Sensis jobs overseas would be a disgraceful act.
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said he was disappointed for the families but the changes were inevitable.
Sensis has said that the job cuts are necessary as it restructures its businesses for the digital age.
The company suffered a 12.5 per cent decline in revenue in the six months to December 2012.
The Yellow Pages print edition suffered a 21.8 per cent reduction in revenue and, at the print edition of the White Pages, revenue decreased 8.2 per cent.
But revenue at the digital editions of both businesses grew nine per cent and 42.1 per cent respectively.
Sensis held meetings with staff on Thursday to outline the changes.
Marty Raspin, 44, a graphic designer for the company's printed directories has been told he's likely to be out of a job from September.
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Cornbread Stuffing with Bacon, Leeks and Pecans
- Yield: 8 servings
- 2cups pecans
- 16cups coarsely crumbled homemade or store-bought cornbreads
- 3tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, plus more for dish
- 8slices smoked bacon, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
- 4stalks celery, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
- 4 leeks (white and pale-green parts only), chopped into 1/2-inch pieces, rinsed well
- 1tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 1/2cups homemade chicken or turkey stock, or store-bought low-sodium chicken stock
- 4large eggs, lightly beaten
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Spread pecans on a rimmed baking sheet. Toast in oven for 7 minutes. Let cool slightly; coarsely chop. Mix together pecans and cornbread in a large bowl.
- Butter a 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Cook bacon in a large high-sided skillet over medium-high heat until almost crisp, about 3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium; add celery and leeks. Cook until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Stir in thyme and 1 1/4 teaspoons salt; season with pepper. Transfer to a large bowl.
- Return skillet to medium-high heat, and add stock; bring to a simmer, scraping up brown bits and stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Add to bowl with bacon-vegetable mixture. Stir in eggs. Gently mix in cornbread mixture. (Do not overmix.) Transfer to baking dish. Dot top with butter. Bake until golden brown, about 35 minutes.


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Everyday stress can throw your entire system off kilter; your muscles tighten, your heart races, and your stomach starts acting up -- again. A simple seated forward bend can activate a reserve of sustaining energy that, according to Chinese medicine, rests between the kidneys. "It calms the nervous system, gets the organs fully functioning, and clears up obstructions in the kidneys and adrenal glands," explains Daniel Max, nutrition counselor, shiatsu practitioner, and yoga instructor with Max Sense of Self in Watertown, Massachusetts. Get your qi back in no time with this quick stretch.
What It Does
Calms the mind; relieves stress; stretches the spine, shoulders, hamstrings, and back; stimulates the kidneys and adrenal glands; improves digestion; and reduces fatigue.
How to Do It
1. Sit with your legs extended straight in front of you, feet parallel with toes pointing up. Press the back of your legs into the floor.
2. Inhale deeply and lift through the upper body. With your spine straight and shoulders back, pull the navel in slightly toward the spine, creating space in the abdomen. Exhale, release, and lean forward, bending from the hip, not the waist.
3. Fold forward only as far as you can (keep your knees bent if that's more comfortable). With each inhalation, lift and lengthen the front torso slightly; if you feel able to go further, release a little more fully into the bend on an exhale. Try not to crunch; maintain length through the spine.
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When Vanessa Minnillo ventured out for that wedding dress shopping trip every girl dreams of, it didn't go as expected. Minnillo, whose birth mother hasn't been in her life for more than 20 years, struggled with not having her mom there with her on that special day. "Normally this is something you do with your mother, and my birth mother hasn't been in my life since I was 9," she explains emotionally. "I have been okay with that up until now but for some unexplained reason, it really overtook me. I felt lost, confused and sad. It was very emotional."With her matron of honor, friend Jennifer Birmingham-Lee, by her side, Minnillo worked with Monique Lhuillier to try and find the perfect dress. "This was the hardest decision in the whole wedding planning … probably because I didn't have the support of Nick [Lachey],"Minnillo says. "We decided everything together, even his [Dolce & Gabbana] tux. For the first time, I felt a little bit alone." To gain some clarity, the bride-to-be decided to ask for her groom's opinion. "I said, 'What do you want to see me in when you marry me and I become Mrs. Lachey?'" she recalls. And much to Minnillo's surprise, Lachey didn't give a generic male response and instead, was eager to say, "Something traditional with a little modern flair." So following their chat, Minnillo headed back to Lhuillier's Los Angeles boutique … and the rest is history. "Literally the next day I went to Monique and tried on my three dresses for the zillionth time. As soon as I put it on, I knew this was it."
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text: Canola Oil Expeller NON-GMO - This inexpensive oil is an affordable option for your recipes and works great in combination with other oils like Coconut and Palm, and makes for a very balanced bar of soap. It's recommended to use at around 15%. It also produces a more of a white soap than Olive Oil which allows for a wider range of colors to be used. Canola Oil produces a creamy lather that can be used as a partial substitute for Olive Oil or up to 40% of your total oils.


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Lucky for me, I found this wonderful, detailed recipe from Z's Cup of Tea. I decided to do my best to actually follow it.
I made a few mistakes, but did turn out some amazing cookies in the end! Kid2 says they are the best treat he's had since we went gluten-free. Yes, that includes pre-GAPS store bought treats!
Here are the basics of Z's Cup of Tea's recipe, with all my mistakes thrown in for good measure.
GAPS Legal Meringue Cookies
Ingredients: what I did instead is italicized
- 1/2 cup honey Since I had so many egg whites, I doubled it to 1 cup
- 1/3 cup water I used 2/3 cup since I doubled the honey
- 2 to 4 or 5 large egg whites, room temperature I had a dozen egg whites, some big some small, all together in the refrigerator. I'd even dropped a whole egg in while separating them for lemon curd, but I'd fished out the yolk. I was a good girl and put them on the counter and waited until they were room temperature.
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 to 1 tsp. ice cold water (use 1 tsp. if using the larger proportion of egg whites) I used about 3 Tbsp ice cold water
- 1/2 to 1 tsp. vanilla extract I used 1/2 Tbsp
First off, make sure it's not too humid. We have had rain on and off here, but I waited for a day when it wasn't pouring and I was not reducing stock. You don't want a lot of humidity while making these!
- Preheat the oven to 250 F and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Put the honey and water in a small pan over medium heat, with a candy thermometer. Heat without stirring until it reaches 235 F – 240 F. It will start to boil eventually, but it takes a long time. I also was all freaked out that my syrup didn't look much like Z's. It all was good in the end, though. If I'd had any more in the pan it would have overflowed. Since I double the recipe, I should have used a medium pan.
- While the syrup is heating, whisk together egg whites, salt, and ice cold water in a stainless steel bowl, until it reaches the soft peak stage. I used my stand mixer for this. The only problem is that I was just under soft peaks when I checked it, and then I whipped a bit more and was really close to stiff peaks! Whoops! It works better to combine the honey with soft peaks, so I was nervous about this mistake.
- When your syrup has reached 235 F, slowly pour it into your egg white mixture while continuing to whisk. If you are whisking by hand, have someone else pour for you. Whisk until it is stiff and glossy. At this point I got pretty excited! My syrup folded in!
- Add your vanilla extract and keep whisking for 2 more minutes. And I was nervous again. I'd doubled the recipe so my bowl was now dangerously full. Lucky for me, it didn't overflow.
- Spoon or pipe the mixture onto your parchment-lined baking sheet. Mine were kind of messy and not all exactly the same size. Since I doubled the recipe, I had more than half of the batter waiting. I was worried it would separate. When it came time for the second batch, though, all I had to do was whisk a bit and it came back together just fine.
- Bake for 75 minutes or until light to deep golden brown and dry to the touch. OK, this is where I had to experiment. More notes below.
- Let them cool on the pan. They may make cracking noises. When you can tap them and get a ping pong ball sound, you've done it! They should pop off the parchment easily.
- If you don't eat them all at once, store them in an air-tight container. You can even add a bit of rice in cheesecloth to help absorb extra moisture.
I tried several batches. My first batch turned golden brown at about 65 minutes but wasn't dry to the touch. I took out one of the pans to cool, and left the other in for 10 minutes. Before my timer went off, I started to smell an almost burnt smell, so I took them out, too even though they were kind of sticky.
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I've already defined the n dependent functions kappa1 and kappa2 but it still doesn't work. I keep getting a 'Tag list in...... is protected'. Is it that this functionality is not supported by the program itself or is my code wrong in how it's written?


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Seminar fee includes arrival coffee, lunch as well as morning & afternoon tea
Day 1: 8:30am-4:30pm Day 2: 9:00am-3:30pm
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I want to make a program that uses some of the Java Media Framework classes. I have the following problem:
In this object declaration:
private MediaLocator mediaLocator = null;
I use eclipse, and on one work space this works fine, does not show any error, but on the workspace on which i need to use this class which is from Java Media Framework, i get the following error:
Why ? what should i do to fix this?Access restriction: The type MediaLocator is not accessible due to restriction on required library C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\ext\jmf.jar


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I have come to the conclusion I suck at updating this dang blog. I love writing, not just for all my viewers, and fellow bloggers, but for me. Blogging allows me to write my feelings, thoughts, and I love looking back at how much we have grown as a family. A lot has happened to our little family of three. So much that it would take lots of time to get into. So to spare you the details and the boring blog posts...LOL, I will just give you bullet points of our little family updates. Seems easier for this lacking blogger. <-------
Since the last time I blogged....
- I became a stay at home mom (SAHM). Long story, but I couldn't imagine anything different. Things happen for a reason, and I'm learning this over and over.
- Harper started cutting her first tooth at 5 months!
- I have learned that life is about living at the moment
- We enrolled Harper in swim classes that start when she is 6 months
- Breastfeeding continues!! We have made it 5 months! This is a huge milestone for us, considering the very, very, rough start we got in the beginning
- Harper has grown so much in the past couple weeks....It is so bittersweet
These are just some of the snippets of what has changed since the last blog post.
On to other things.....our family is having a makeover of our lifestyle. After having Harper eating right and consistently was not on our list as a top priority. We did our best but I knew it wasn't 110% I know us so well for. So after some stubborn baby pounds I want to shed I want to get healthy. I don't want to be a certain number on a scale. I want to be healthy! I want to be able live a long life. So, today starts out new journey to be healthy. Not skinny, not a number on a scale but healthy!
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Stanley Teacher Prep offers lessons from early childhood education
By Sue Sava
Guest Commentary
Just as every child is on a developmental trajectory that is nurtured and guided by the adults around them, so is every educator. This shouldn't come as a surprise to most of us in the field. We understand human development to apply to all beings – from the youngest toddlers in our early childhood centers to the most veteran educators among us.
Despite our knowledge of human development, many current models for teacher licensure offer a "short cut" into the career of teaching that bypasses the established best practice of the gradual release of responsibility. Take a test and become a teacher. Besides undermining the importance of careful training to impact the lives of future generations of Americans, this model also fails to reflect the notion of a developmental trajectory for becoming a teacher.
When applying a developmental lens to this issue, denying preparation to teachers entering the field is akin to withholding early childhood opportunities before kindergarten. In these parallel experiences, we have the powerful option of laying a strong foundation from which a learner may grow, experiment, risk, challenge, and succeed.


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This is part of an on-going series of photographs of weather vanes in New Hampshire. I started by documenting the weather vanes in the Nutfield area (formerly Derry, Londonderry and Windham, New Hampshire) but I've spread out to other areas now. Some of the weather vanes are historical, some are whimsical, and all are interesting. Today's weather vane is located in a "ghost town" or abandoned town in Southern New Hampshire.
Do you know the location of weather vane #78? Scroll down to see the answer!
|The Joseph Gould House
|Interior (photographed through the window!)
Click this link to see a previous blog post about the abandoned town of Monson, New Hampshire with lots of photos of the cellar holes and old roads:
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A milliliter is a tiny amount of fluid, barely a drop. But in 1994, more than 650,000 AIDS viruses swarmed in every milliliter of Dawn Averitt's blood, seeking out and destroying her few surviving immune-system T cells. Desperate, she entered a clinical trial for a protease inhibitor. Within weeks doctors couldn't detect any virus in her blood, and her T cells started to rise.
About a year and a half later, her virus reappeared on lab tests, turning her into what researchers call a "treatment failure." Averitt, a leading AIDS activist, thought she knew what to expect: The virus would re-saturate her blood and continue the destruction of her immune system. That was the dominant theory, and, for a year and a half, she went to every doctor's visit expecting exactly that bad news.
But something curious happened. The level of HIV in her blood remained low, and she didn't lose any T cells. She felt fine, too. Her immune system wasn't getting any better, but it wasn't getting any worse. She was in a kind of limbo.
So is the entire AIDS field, because it turns out that patients like Averitt are common. As many as half of HIV patients "fail" on the drug cocktails that have cut annual AIDS deaths for two years in a row. The drug-failure rate -- inching up over time -- is causing tremendous anxiety, as was apparent at a major AIDS meeting, the Sixth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, which drew almost 3500 doctors, researchers, and advocates to Chicago last week.
"It's disturbing that as time goes on you have fewer people responding to therapy," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Indeed, every treatment failure can make the virus stronger, because HIV can develop drug-resistant mutations that allow it to escape not only the particular medications it has encountered but whole classes of drugs. In short, a patient's first shot is her best, but up to half of patients are failing their first regimen.
That's why Lawrence Deyton keeps thinking about the blip he noticed the other day. As director of AIDS services for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Deyton is responsible for the care of more HIV patients than anyone in the country -- 18,600 -- and ever since the advent of protease inhibitors, all the signs at the VA have been good. But Deyton recently noticed that the length of hospital stays, which had been dropping, bumped up slightly: "I wondered if that would be the turning point." After all, he says, it's only a matter of time until the "virologic failures" turn into clinical failures -- until disease and death go back up. A pessimistic view? "I'd put it this way," he answers. "It's realistic."
"This whole idea that things will come crashing down, it's just not what we're seeing," counters Roy Gulick, a physician and director of the Cornell HIV clinical trials unit at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Several prominent doctors concur. The Wall Street Journal dubbed the results of Gulick's most famous study -- a three-year trial of the drug indinavir, which has failed to contain HIV in one-third of patients -- "disheartening." But, Gulick says, "I take the opposite view. After three years, two-thirds of patients still have undetectable virus. And it's not like the whole field is going to stop. There's a new batch of drugs active against resistant virus."
"You can look at my data," says San Francisco researcher Steven Deeks, "and see a justification for any theory."
This split made the Retrovirus Conference feel like two separate meetings, one warily optimistic, the other ominously pessimistic. And it was Dr. Steven Deeks, a physician and researcher at San Francisco General Hospital, who had the Rorschach test: a cohort of patients like Dawn Averitt, virologic failures who have retained strong immune systems and good health for almost two years. "You can look at my data," he says, "and see a justification for any theory you have."
Here's what Deeks has found: When drugs completely suppress the virus so that it can't be detected in blood, patients show the best immune-system regeneration, with their T-cell counts rising the highest. But when drugs only partially suppress the virus, or when they push it below the level of detection for a while but then let it creep back up, patients still show a sustained improvement. It's not as robust as the group in whom the virus is totally suppressed, but it's much better than untreated patients or those for whom the drugs don't work at all. These "partial responders" to treatment have held onto their gains for almost two years. What's more, preliminary studies show that they don't just have more T cells, but ones that are longer-living and less overtaxed than in untreated controls.
What's happening? The simplest explanation is that in partial responders the virus has mutated into a strain that is moderately resistant to the drugs. If so, classical Darwinian theory predicts bad news: The virus will continue to mutate, growing stronger in the presence of the drugs. Levels of virus will eventually rise, and the immune system will sink.
But there are other possibilities: Perhaps the drugs, through some unknown mechanism, directly fortify the immune system. Or maybe they render the virus less deadly so that it can replicate benignly without killing T cells -- or, at least, without killing them as often. That's what a Canadian study found: In the test tube, protease inhibitors reduced HIV's ability to induce cell death, and this diminished virulence seemed to have nothing to do with the virus's capacity to replicate.
The plain truth is that no one knows exactly what is happening. "We have changed the disease," says Averitt, "so we don't know as much about it. We used to be able to predict, but now nobody knows what to expect."
Of course, patients who are partial responders face the hardest dilemma. If they abandon their drugs altogether, the virus almost always soars to harmful levels. But if they stay on their regimen, the virus has a much better chance to mutate into super-resistant strains that can evade even drugs they've not yet taken, rendering useless the so-called salvage regimens they're holding in reserve. Yet if they switch medications right away, there's no guarantee the new combination will work as well as the one they're on, and they might be using up another one of their limited options before they really need to.
Averitt decided to stay on her regimen -- until her limbo ended.
A year ago, her viral count took a steep turn upward and her T cells started to plummet -- exactly what pessimists predict will happen to Deeks's cohort. Averitt started sounding the alarm: "I said we're living in a dream world with these therapies, and the bottom will drop out."
Meanwhile, she switched to a five-drug regimen that drove her virus back down below the level of detection. She firmly believes this new regimen is just another stepping stone, not a permanent solution. Nevertheless, another year of watching doctors and patients rejigger treatment to stave off disease has ameliorated her sense of doom. "We may have slowed the disease down enough to give science a fighting chance," she says.
At least two drugs in early development appear to work against HIV strains resistant to other medications in their class, and the first of a whole new category of drugs called fusion inhibitors has entered human trials. But even assuming that these products pan out, the first of them is more than a year from the market. More immediately, a newly approved drug called efavirenz is working better than expected and offers the advantage of having to be taken only once a day. And a new protease inhibitor called ABT-378 also looks potent.
Finally, evidence continues to mount that the immune system can, under certain very special circumstances, control HIV on its own, without any drugs. At least three top American research teams, including New York's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, have begun trials that take selected patients off all therapy, in the hopes of learning how to mobilize what Stefano Vella, a prominent Italian researcher, calls "our other drug, the immune system."
Such progress leads David Barr, a veteran activist who now heads an AIDS policy think tank, to believe that "we're not going to wake up to a crash." But he fears something "more insidious: the disease creeping up and picking us off one by one." If that happens, he says, "AIDS will become more isolating, because deaths won't be happening on a community level, just to the individual."
As for Averitt, having been diagnosed with HIV when she was 19, she recently threw a big bash to celebrate turning 30. At her party, she recalls, "Everyone said, 'You have to aim for 40.' But the enormity of that! I mean, can I be so cocky to think I'll make it for another 10 years? I'm making long-range plans, but I certainly don't think any drug will carry me all the way -- I just hope it'll get me to the next breakthrough.
"When I was little, I used to have horrible nightmares of someone breaking in and chasing me from room to room as I tried to keep ahead of him. And in some ways, that's what this is. We're running as fast as we can, and so are the scientists, but the virus is always about to catch us."
This article was originally published in the Village Voice.
More articles by Mark Schoofs.


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What you see is not always what you get. Baseball fans and baseball organizations are often mesmerized by numbers. We should be able to measure production. Of course, isolated statistics (small sample size) may not always reflect perception...or future production.
Here are statistics from two Red Sox players from 2012. Both had similar plate appearances, but one had better on base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS. He also had better isolated power (IsoP) and Secondary Average (SecA). One player is adored throughout much of Red Sox Nation. The other is an afterthought.
Player one (88 games played) is Daniel Nava, he of the better stats. The other is Jacoby Ellsbury. Of course, Ellsbury has a more polished resume' and a fantastic "once in a lifetime" season in 2011. Ellsbury has suffered through two seasons of misery with extended time on the DL. But what is perception and what is reality? Nava will struggle to make the team and Ellsbury anticipate a 12-20 million dollar a year contract. Go figure.
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Carbon Atom Significance
Atomic theory is an ancient science, contrary to what you might think. The earliest record of it can be found in Vedic texts from India which are many thousands of years old. Legend has it that the Vedic civilization was highly advanced. The sages that oversaw its development, through their mystic insight and deep meditation, discovered the ancient symbols of spirituality: Aumkara and Swastika. They also discovered many scientific principles that they applied to develop a highly advanced technology.
They gave the atom its Sanskrit name "Anu." While the technical achievements of this ancient civilization have been forgotten, the archetypal symbols of spirituality have maintained their eminence in our consciousness. Now, thanks to advances in modern atomic theory, the atomic basis of these divine symbols can be appreciated.
Western theories of the atom took shape in the 18th and 19th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, John Dalton theorized that an atom was an indivisible particle of an element. However, after the electron was discovered in 1897, and then the proton several years later, the atom model was revised. In 1909, Ernest Rutherford showed that atoms were mostly empty space, revising the model of an atom to a tight positive nucleus containing the protons and neutrons with electrons around it; by 1913, Danish physicist Neils Bohr envisioned a planetary arrangement in which the electrons orbited the nucleus at different energy levels.
The current way of describing an electron is a model called the charge cloud model/quantum mechanical model/orbital model. This model is based on the idea of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that we do not know the precise location or the velocity of any given electron. The model uses indistinct and overlapping "probability clouds" to approximate the position of an electron. Imagine capturing a particle moving at the speed of light.
Where a cloud is dense, the probability of finding an electron in that vicinity is low. In this model, each electron energy level is denoted by numbers that take concentric shells as suggested by the Bohr model because there are overlaps in the ordering of the energy levels. In the case of the carbon atom the electrons occupy four tear drop shaped clouds in a tetrahedron-like arrangement. These clouds represent the areas in which the electrons spend most of their time. They move so rapidly in this zone that they form a cloud rather than a specific flight path.
Recently a number of researchers have suggested that within these clouds exist specific zones that the electrons favor. These zones form a spiral around the surface of each of the tear drop shaped clouds. This new development came into the attention of a great Indian saint and mystic. Disciples were encouraged to develop the principle as it related to the carbon atom.
In deep meditation one of those disciples, who was a chemist, spontaneously realized the true significance of this theory: The electron's high probability zone formed spiral standing waves around the carbon atom's nucleus. When this configuration was viewed from certain angles the physicist was surprised to find that the spirals formed recognizable symbols.
In the first view a 3–dimensional Aumkara could be seen. From a different angle that Aumkara became a flat, 2-dimensional Swastika. The Swastika, he concluded, was actually 2-D representation of the 3-D Aumkara. Rotating the model to another angle shows those symbols change into the Greek Alpha and Omega.
At a cosmic level the symbols of Eastern spirituality (Aumkara and Swastika) are literally and only different aspects of the same spiritual truth that is also represented by the symbols of Western spirituality (Alpha and Omega). All people, objects and even energy itself are expressions of the same divinity that so many religions, cultures and philosophies have tried to claim exclusively as their own. The Carbon atom, by containing within it these universal symbols, demonstrates that matter is a manifestation of the same Divine consciousness experienced by the saints and sages of all history. Matter is innately spiritual.
The Universe does not exist separately from the Universal Consciousness; it is a direct expression of it. Living matter, which is carbon based, must have a unique role in this expression. A saint is one who lives in eternal experience of this all pervading divine purpose. All people, objects and even energy itself are expressions of the same divinity. The alpha and omega are traditionally ascribed to Christ. In India the Deity called Ganesha presides over the Swastika and Aumkara.
There are some remarkable similarities between the two: Both deities demonstrate the value of childlike innocence; Ganesha is himself an eternal child famous for his simple wisdom; while Christ, son of god, often exhorted his disciples to "be as little children." They both are divine children; both conceived immaculately; both divine sons of a holy trinity (Christ is the son of Yahweh and The Holy Spirit/Mary and Ganesha son of Lord Shiva and Mother Parvati).
Are Ganesha and Christ one and the same deity? Each, like their symbols that exist as different aspects of the carbon atom, represents different aspects of the archetypal cosmic child. Thus the distinction between Eastern and Western spirituality, like any division based on race, culture or belief, is no more than ignorance of the true spiritual nature of the universe and all that exists within it.
Knowledge of Reality Magazine 1996-2006.
Recognizing this sameness allows us to be more tolerant of each other and of our challenges in life as we seek comfort, security and love. Compassionate relationships encourage us to grow in the process of self-development. In these relationships we can make mistakes and know we are still going to be accepted and loved no matter what.
Part of what keeps us afraid, angry, ignorant and immobile are the belief systems we grew up with, their affect on our curiosity and the separation from other belief systems that appeared to be contrary. Religion, in its purest form, is the reunion with God, Creator or Great Spirit. It appears that even at the core of our genes, we have signs that lead us back to the holistic view of oneness – being one people.


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Neil Gaiman, Karen Hesse, Grace Lin, and Jerry Spinelli are honored on Sept 26th at the Boston Public Library.
The Associates of the Boston Public Library will hold the twelfth Literary Lights for Children tea party on Sunday, September 26th in the beautiful Bates Reading Room at the Boston Public Library. Starting at 2:00 in the afternoon, the event will honor these four authors, all of whom will speak to the audience. After the party, there will be book sales and signing in the adjacent Abbey Room.
"Literary Lights for Children" seeks to raise awareness of Children's literature, promote literacy, honor children's authors, and raise money for the Library's children's services and collections. Four students selected from Boston area schools introduce and present the awards to each of the honored authors. The honorees then discuss their writing careers and share their love of books with the audience of over 450 children and adults. Tea refreshments are served. Immediately following the event, there will be book sales and signings with the authors. The book sales & signing portion of the program following the event begins at approximately 3:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Tickets are $60 per adult and $40 per child; children must be accompanied by an adult. Sponsorship opportunities are also available at the Grand Benefactor ($2,000), Special Benefactor ($1000), Benefactor ($500) and Patron ($250) levels. People are encouraged to sponsor children who would otherwise be unable to participate, by purchasing and donating extra tickets to the awards presentation & tea party. Proceeds from this event will fund children's services and special programs for children and young adults.
See the website for more details…
Boston Public Library
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'Rowdy' Roddy Piper Dies at 61 From Cardiac Arrest
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Wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper has died at the age of 61... TMZ Sports has learned.
Piper -- born Roderick George Toombs -- died from cardiac arrest in his sleep at his home in Hollywood at around noon Friday.
Piper was a wrestling icon -- one of the biggest stars in the WWE back in the '80s, and even wrestled in "Wrestlemania I" back in 1985 ... squaring off against Hulk Hogan and Mr. T.
Roddy's rep tells us, "I am devastated at this news. Rod was a good friend as well as a client and one of the most generous, sincere and authentic people I have ever known. This is a true loss to us all."
Piper had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2006, but last November he said he was cancer free. A family source tells us he was "cancer free" at the time of his death.
A family member tells us, "Our family is saddened by the sudden passing of our father and beloved husband, Roderick Toombs aka Rowdy Roddy Piper."
Roddy was admitted into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2005 and was one of the top 50 villains in the history of the WWE .
Piper had a long relationship with WWE -- last wrestling back in 2008 ... but appeared on various WWE shows up until 2014.
Roddy is survived by his wife Kitty and their 4 kids -- including 3 daughters and son Colton who's pursuing a career in professional wrestling.
The death is especially shocking considering we just spoke to him on Friday and asked his opinion about the Hulk Hogan scandal.
PIPER, Roddy (Roderick George Toombs)
Born: 4/17/1954, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died: 7/31/2015, Hollywood, California, U.S.A.
Roddy Piper's westerns – actor:
Zorro (TV) – 1990, 1991 (Bishop, Will Adams)
Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – 1998 (Cody 'The Crusader' Conway)


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Margaret B. "Marge" Gonczy, 83 years of age, became Our Gift to God on Tuesday November 20, 2012 at Aurora Manor in Aurora, Ohio. Marge was God's Gift to Us on January 11, 1929 in Mantua Township, Ohio at the Gonczy family residence, the daughter of the late Gabriel and Elizabeth (Goncy) Gonczy.
A lifetime Mantua resident, she was a 1946 graduate of Mantua Center School. Marge was employed as a bank teller at the Mantua Bank, retiring in 1978 from BankOne after 32 years of dedicated service. As a member of His Ministry, she was church treasurer, music librarian, sang in the choir and played the Vibra Harp. Marge also loved the outdoors and gardening.
Survivors include her brothers, Dan (Judy) Gonczy of Mantua and Jim (Jane) Gonczy of Burton, Ohio, her sisters-in-law, Betty Gonczy and Linda Gonczy both of Mantua, as well as many other loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews and caring church family members.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Betty Almy and brothers, Gabor "Gabe", Paul and Joseph Gonczy.
Calling hours will be Sunday from 4:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. at His Ministry, 3051 State Route 82, Aurora, Ohio where her Celebration of Life Service will be held Sunday November 25, 2012 at 6:00 P.M. Marge will be laid to rest Monday November 26, 2012 at Westlawn Cemetery in Mantua Township at 10:00 A.M. (Procession will form at the church 9:30 A.M.). Her obituary and video tribute may be viewed at www.greenfamilyfuneralhome.com.Arrangements are by the Green Family Funeral Home & Crematory Service in Mantua.
(Green Family Funeral Home & Crematory Service, 330-274-3145, RC 11-23, 24-12)SClB


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Google announced this month that it is ending its ambitious project to digitally archive newspapers. The project to scan the archives of the nation's newspapers and make them available online as a searchable historical record was announced in 2008 with the level of hubris only found in online enterprises.
"Our objective is to bring all the world's historical newspaper information online," said Adam Smith, director of product management at Google, announcing the project. Those lofty aims were echoed by Punit Soni, manager of the newspaper initiative: "As we work with more and more publishers, we'll move closer towards our goal of making those billions of pages of newsprint from around the world searchable, discoverable, and accessible online…."Over time, as we scan more articles and our index grows, we'll also start blending these archives into our main search results so that when you search Google.com, you'll be searching the full text of these newspapers as well."
After scanning about 60 million pages and beginning to make them available as full page shots--because costs of disaggregating and indexing were too high and copyright clearances were difficult to obtain for older material—the company announced that it will quit scanning pages, but continue offering the existing pages available on it Google News Archive site. It said it would not invest any new effort to improve indexing or add tools to better search and manage the archive.
The project may have been well-intentioned, but it was not well thought out. It was a free service designed to use the search traffic at the site to raise revenue through advertising Google would put on the site. The scale of the project was enormous and requiring finding, scanning, and indexing thousands of daily and weekly newspapers--many no longer in existence. It would require a long-term commitment of funds, personnel and server capacity to catalogue and scan the material and provide and maintain search functions. The project ultimately incorporated on a fraction of the papers it had hoped to scan, did so spottily in many cases, and its usability was poor because it never mastered the problems of handling so much content. Worse yet, it discovered that history was not a money making business.
The exit announcement is not a surprise and is another sign that players the virtual world are stopping deluding themselves that they are replacing the entire world and that the laws of economics and finance to not apply to them.
As laudable the preservation of newspaper archives might be, expecting it to be completed and maintained by a commercial firm defied sense and historical experience. For centuries, the most important historical records, books, art have been maintain in governmentally and charitably funded collections because commercial enterprises were either unwilling to bear the costs or to allow the large scale efforts required to preserve, catalogue, index, and make available cultural heritage materials distract them from their business activities.
Why would anyone expect Google to act otherwise?
As Google increasingly acts as a mature business it will increasingly shed activities that were launched as goodwill gestures because the costs of their operations reduces the company's financial performance and will diminish the value of its stock compared to other tech firms. Over time it will be harder for the firm to maintain the stance that it is not self-interested and motivated only by the opportunities to improve the lives of the public by providing access to all the world's information.
The tentacles of its operations that have reached out into to many fields will increasingly be pulled back if they do not yield financial results. And fears that Google will rule the world will diminish. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other big players of the digital world all have limits, just as did the handful of firms that once controlled steel, oil, and shipping through cartels. At some point even mammoth, wealthy companies do not have the resources and capabilities to keep expanding endlessly and their performance declines, leading shareholders to rein them in and competitors to find opportunities.
Google, Newspaper Archives, and the Business of Cultural Heritage
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