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Had to implement some small but serious infrastructure.
Needed some usual things for internet operations these days like system monitoring, smart logging, graphing and alerting, high availiability, cloud, ids/ips, and mucho security.
Did this many times for random projects but this one was more serious and so I decided to rethink everything with focus on the security infrastructure. Manuals were read and quite a few quick projects were made and there is more to come so this post will be updated with time. I'll quickly go through the novel things I implemented and novel thoughs I have on the subject. This post will be a mess and there is a lot to write,
this is boring and already exists but I like the way I do things.
lego is a node app plugin system, works by looking for node_modules modules with certain prefix, supports dependency trees and a central config file.
ribcage implements some common things apps need, works on top of lego, has plugins to do logging, remote logging, db connections, web server and some such.
munin is a collection of perl? scripts from '98 ran by crontab. UGH. nagios is.. yeah, same thing.
went with logstash -> elasticsearch -> kibana for data collection/graphing and riemann for alerting. Didn't figure out active system checks yet (a job for nagios usually. stuff like pinging, checking if websites render correctly, potentially crawling them and such)
all kinds of apps write to logstash. my node apps, log data collectors (lumberjack), local system checks IDS, and such, it works well. Data from everywhere is aggregated and graphed together. I've written something simmilar to this stack as one off apps for debugging complex architecture a bunch of times, was very happy to find out that someone actually already works on such a thing pretty seriously.
didn't like collectd as it seemed like something that hangs out in a munin/nagios oldies crowd. so I wrote:
it supports plugins, they are super easy to write. one of the plugins is a meta plugin that runs munin scripts because I'd rather kill myself then write all these data collectors myself.
csi-internet is there for you if you want to draw some computer stuff on a map. Also good to impress your girlfriend if she got used to cmatrix. As a test of a graphing engine it can ping around, do traceroutes and draw heatmaps. Messy atm as looking at pictures was more fun then looking at good code. work in progress. works on top of d3 and datamaps.
Writing tons of iptables rules is for robots and not humans and so I'd fuck it up eventually. pyromaniac is a thing that renders JSON into iptables commands.
hosts =
ip: '10.66.1.70'
port: 443
ip: '10.66.1.11'
port: 22,
from: 'vpn'
port: 666,
from: 'all'
ip: '10.66.1.51'
port: 22
from: 'all'
ip: "10.66.1.2-254"
exports.settings =
forward: [
{ from: 'vpn', to: 'all', comment: 'vpn to everyone TCP' }
{ from: 'vpn', to: 'all', proto: 'udp', comment: 'vpn to everyone UDP' }
hosts: hosts
this program is highly specific to my scenario (machines behind a NAT hypervisor with strict control of each connection) I'm showing an aproach here more then sharing my code as something that will work for you.
I really like this part, but will write it up later when I have more to show
Initially I will use two different sensors for obstacle avoidance. lidar for closer range 2D image of space (obscale avoidance, scanning ground before landing, maybe SLAM)
and laser rangefinder for long range 1D distance sensing (looking for high buildings, maintaining altitude precisely, maybe high speed obstacle avoidance)
I went with cheapo robopeak hobby lidar, which seems to work well, here is a git repo for the library (node and beaglebone) (I also considered a lightweight hokuyo lidar) and for laser range finder I'll go with something like SF02 from paralax
these might be used in combination with some simple IR or just cameras (need more CPU but could double as optical flow sensors) used to locate becaons for landing or grabbing things
Ideally, both sensors should have an unobstructed front view on pitch dimension, with aditional unobstructed jaw dimension for LIDAR. Both sensors need to be able to independantly rotate on pitch axis for compensation of the angle of the drone when flying, and for scanning up and down (going in through windows, looking down when landing, etc) maybe rangefinder should also rotate on jaw axis on some fast servos for looking around independant of the drone orientation. not sure yet.
IR and ultrasound were also options, they are cheap but tricky and unreliable, (ultrasound behaves extra badly due to propeller noise on drones) These things can be compensated for, but laser rangefinding will always afaik give more accuracy and reliability at a price.
I'm surprised I couldn't find this..
async object or json pattern matching/validation used for validating function/process arguments, api call permissions, messages, etc. supports serialization/deserialization of patterns themselves, which I used to implement a generic db query language on top of this. for now, tests are documentation
extras repository contains cuter things like
a bunch of selfish prisoners having sex and mutating. WHOA. a very basic evolutionary algorithm, a last night's play.
Prisoner's dilemma is a scenario in a game theory (check it out if you don't know about it) its interesting to me in part because it explains human moral intuitions through a selfish evolutionary perspective, in other words, why people are generally nice to each other.
In the iterated prisoners dilemma the game is played repeatedly thus each agent has an opportunity to learn about other agents behaviours and potentially punish noncooperation. Cooperation may then arise as an equilibrium outcome.
I didn't get tit for tat which I originaly expected, nor did I manage to get any other cooperative equilibrium. cooperation does evolve, but it doesn't last, strange, I expected that cooperative species will raise and stay dominant as I enlarge the number of interactions before a step in the evolution. (its rational to be nice if you need to stick around) need to investigate and think about this some more.
I'll post more info and code later or never. screenshot and someone with a different approach and a spacial dimension.
After looking at the rorschach test, I wanted more. supirisingly, I couldn't find any rorschach generators online, so, python, tkinter and randomwalk with random size blobs and simmetrical reflection, I thought that some tweaking or more complicated algorithm would be needed but this works great.
click on a canvas for (re)generation.
I've been hoping to write this for a while, its not a very exciting project so I've been working on this when I'm tired.
its a bit unusual, nodejs-blosxom, ~400 lines of coffescript. this is very much a work in progress, I'd advise you to use it as inspiration more then as a code you run. templates related to my own homepage are included in the repo. might move them laters.


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California Residency Requirement for New Driver License (DL) and Identification Card (ID) Applicants
Immediate Attention:
You will need a federal compliant card such as a passport, military ID, or REAL ID driver license or identification card to board a domestic flight or access some federal facilities beginning October 1, 2020. You can obtain a REAL ID driver license by visiting your local DMV field office.
All original (first-time) driver license (DL) and/or identification (ID) card applicants must visit an office in person and present proof of California residency in addition to meeting all other existing DL/ID card requirements. For more information about obtaining a new DL or ID card, visit the Driver License and Identification Card Information web page.
Proof of California Residency
The list below provides the documents acceptable as proof of California residency. All residency documents must list the applicant's first and last name, and the California residence address must match the residence address listed on the driver license application, with the exceptions noted below.
If the applicant includes a separate California mailing address on their application, the California address on the residency document must match the mailing address on the application.
|Two (2) different acceptable residency documents are required.
|One (1) acceptable residency document is required.
Note: If an applicant is applying for a REAL ID compliant card or a Commercial DL, the applicant's mailing and residence address must be in California.
- Rental or lease agreement with the signature of the owner/landlord and the tenant/resident.
- Deed or title to residential real property.
- Mortgage bill.
- Home utility bills (including cellular phone).
- School documents including any document issued by a U.S. education institution that either includes the applicant's date of birth, or if a foreign school document, is sealed by the school and includes a photograph of the applicant at the age the record was issued.
- Medical documents.
- Employment documents.
- Faith based documents that include the name and address of the issuing organization.
- Insurance documents, including medical, dental, vision, life, home, rental, and vehicle.
- Internal Revenue Service or California Franchise Tax Board tax return.
- California Certificate of Vehicle or Vessel Title or Registration.
- Change of Address Confirmation by the U.S. Postal Service (Form CNL 107).
- Any document issued by an entity, office, or authority governing over a country, state, county, city, municipality, district, agency, department, or any other political subdivision of a country or state that is typed and contains the agency name, department name, state seal, or is on official letterhead.
- Property tax bill or statement.
- Record of any state or national banks, state or federal savings associations, trust companies, industrial loan companies, state or federal credit unions, and any institution or entity that has issued a credit card.
- An acceptable No Fee Identification Card Eligibility Verification (DL 933) form.
- Voter registration confirmation letter or postcard issued by the California Secretary of State or a local California county elections officer.
- Proof of payment of resident tuition at a public institution of higher education located in California.
- An original copy of an approved Claim For Homeowners' Property Tax Exemption (BOE-266) form filed with a local California County Assessor.
- Court documents that list the applicant as a resident of California.
The following two (2) documents do not need to have the applicant's address but must list the applicant's first and last name.
Note: An applicant using one of the two (2) documents listed below can not use a PO BOX as a mailing or residence address.
- Court document that lists the applicant as a resident of California.
- A letter on letterhead from a homeless shelter, shelter for abused women, nonprofit entity, faith based organization, employer, or government agency within the U.S. attesting that the applicant resides in California.
Important: if an applicant is applying for a Federal Non-Compliant DL card applicant pursuant to AB 60, they may use a California DL/ID card as proof of residency.
Tracing Relationships
If residency document(s) addressed to an applicant are not readily available, the applicant may use an acceptable residency document to trace their relationship to the individual to whom the document(s) are addressed. For example, a child may use residency document(s) in their parents' name by presenting a birth certificate showing the relationship. The name on the residency document(s) must match the name on the tracing document.
- If the residency document reflects a name that differs from the tracing document due to name change (for example, marriage, divorce, or court order), additional documentation will be required as evidence of the name change. For example, a child may use a residency document with the mother's name differing from the birth certificate by also presenting a marriage certificate and/or dissolution of marriage document showing the mother's last name as shown listed on the residency document.
Note: DMV will only accept an original document or a certified copy of the original as a tracing document.
- A parent, legal guardian, or child may use a birth certificate.
- A spouse or domestic partner may use a marriage license or domestic partner registration certificate.
- A minor may use an order of adoption certified and filed by the courts.
- A minor may use one (1) of the following forms approved and issued by the California Department of Social Services and executed by an agency administering foster care duties.
- Agency – Group Home agreement (Form SOC 154),
- Placement Agency – Foster Family Agency Agreement – Child placed by Agency in Foster Family Agency (Form SOC 154A), or
- Agency – Foster Parents Agreement – Child placed by Agency in Foster Home (Form SOC 156).
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this requirement apply to me if I am renewing my DL/ID card?
Only original (first-time) DL/ID applicants, applicants who are converting to a REAL ID driver license or identification card, and Commercial DL applicants are required to provide proof of California residency in person. Californians who obtained a federal compliant REAL ID driver license (DL) or identification (ID) card by providing only one proof of California residency when they applied can expect to receive a letter from the DMV explaining how to satisfy the second proof of residency requirement. The DMV began mailing letters in late May 2019.
Does this new requirement apply if I am correcting information on my DL/ID card or if I am changing my name or getting a replacement DL/ID card?
No. Only original (first-time) DL/ID applicants and applicants who are converting to a REAL ID DL/ID are required to provide proof of California residency.
What if my residency document uses a 'nickname'?
The applicant's name on the residency document should be similar to the applicant's name on his/her acceptable Identity document, true full name document, or DMV record (i.e., Bill Smith or B. Smith for William R. Smith).
Can I have a different mailing address?
Yes. When a REAL ID applicant's mailing address is a P.O. Box or general delivery, the applicant must provide a document which shows both the mailing and residency address. The address on the residency document must match the residency address on the DL/ID card application. If the applicant includes a separate California mailing address that is not a P.O. Box on their application, the California address on the residency document must match the mailing address on the application.
I don't want DMV to see personal information like how much I owe to a credit card. Can I black that out?
Yes. Alterations such as blacking out the "amount due" or "balance" of a credit card or home utility bill are acceptable; however, changes cannot be made to the name or address section of the document.
Are photocopies acceptable or are original documents required?
Photocopies of proof of residency documents are acceptable.
Do the residency documents have to be dated within a certain time period, such as the last six months?
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- A vehicle or vessel Certificate of Registration
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Shiing-shen Chern
Born: 26 October 1911 in Chia-hsing (or Jiaxing), Chekiang province (now Zhejiang), China
Died: 3 December 2004 in Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China
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Shiing-shen Chern's father, Baozhen Chern, was a classically trained Confucian scholar who later became a lawyer working for the government. Baozhen Chern had married Mei Han and they had two sons and two daughters. Shiing-shen Chern, whose name can also be written as Chen Xingshen, was educated at home as well as occasionally attending Chia-hsing elementary school from the winter of 1917 until 1920. [Schooling in China at this time was just beginning to get organised following the revolution in the country around the time Chern was born.] He was taught Chinese by his aunt and mathematics by his father. Chern's daughter writes in [32]:-
... he didn't have a very strict father and mother who forced him to study all the time. He did things on his own and spent a lot of time in his younger days with his grandmother who probably spoiled him as much as she could.He entered the Xiushui Middle School in 1920 but, in 1922, his father moved to Tianjin and Chern spent the next four years at the Fulun High School in Tianjin, northern China. There Chern came to love mathematics and avidly solved the problems in Higher Algebra by H S Hall and S R Knight, and in geometry and trigonometry books by George Albert Wentworth and David Eugene Smith. He graduated from the high school in 1926 and then studied at Nankai University in Tianjin, beginning his studies in September 1930. This small university had about 300 students in total and Chern was one of a mathematics class of four students. He was particularly inspired by a geometry course given by Lifu Jiang, the only professor of mathematics at the university, who had studied at Harvard under Julian Coolidge. Lifu Jiang [65]:-
... trained his pupils in a very strict way, which built a solid foundation for their future careers.After four years of study at Nankai University Chern was awarded a diploma and a B.Sc. in mathematics in 1930. There were few opportunities for mathematical research in China at this time but someone who was undertaking research in geometry, the topic that Chern had become interested in, was Dan Sun who worked in Peking. Dan Sun had obtained a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1928, advised by Ernest Preston Lane, with his thesis Projective Differential Geometry of Quadruples of Surfaces with Points in Correspondence. After taking the entrance examination for the Graduate School at Tsing Hua University, Peking, Chern was appointed as an assistant in the Department of Mathematics at that university in August 1930. He held this position for a year and during this time he undertook research. In August 1931 he continued to undertake research in the Graduate School of Tsing Hua University. He was the only graduate student in mathematics to enter the university in 1930 but during his four years there he not only studied widely in projective differential geometry but he also began to publish his own papers on the topic. Chern wrote [25]:-
In the spring of 1932 Blaschke visited Peking and gave a series on topological questions in differential geometry. It was really local differential geometry where he took, instead of a Lie group as in the case of classical differential geometries, the pseudo-group of all diffeomorphisms and studied the local invariants. I was able to follow his lectures and to read many papers under the same general title published in the 'Hamburger Abhandlungen' and other journals. The subject is now known as web geometry.This was not his only introduction to new ideas (quoted in [60]):-
In Peking in 1933 I attended Sperner's lectures on elementary topology. It was my first introduction to modern mathematics and it opened my eyes ...He received a scholarship from Tsing Hua University in 1934 to study in the United States, but he made a special request that he be allowed to go to the University of Hamburg. His reason was that he believed the mathematics he was interested in was being done in Europe and not, at that time, in the United States. His meeting with Wilhelm Blaschke when he visited Peking had convinced him that Hamburg would be better for him than the other big European mathematics centres such as Paris, Göttingen or Berlin. He wrote (quoted in [60]):-
It was professor Blaschke whose influence on me cannot be overstated. In 1932 he visited Peking as part of his world tour. I was a young college student in his audience. I was immediately impressed by his fresh ideas and his insistence on mathematics being a lively and intelligible subject. This contact with him was instrumental in making me to decide to come to Hamburg as a student.When Chern arrived in Hamburg he was told that Erich Kähler, a Privatdozent at Hamburg, had just written a book describing Élie Cartan's mathematics and was about to run a seminar on the topic. Chern described the seminar [47]:-
The classroom was filled, and the book had just come out. Kähler came in with a pile of the books and gave everybody a copy. But the subject was difficult, so after a number of times, people didn't come anymore. I think I was essentially the only one who stayed till the end. I think I stayed till the end because I followed the subject. Not only that, I was writing a thesis applying the methods to another problem, so the seminar was of great importance to me.After working under Blaschke and having many useful discussions with Kähler, Chern received his doctorate from Hamburg in 1936 having studied for less than two years. His scholarship was for three years so he had still another year of financial support. At this stage he was forced to choose between two attractive options, namely to stay in Hamburg and work on algebra under Emil Artin or to go to Paris and study under Élie Cartan. Although Chern knew Artin well and would have liked to have worked with him, the desire to continue working on differential geometry was the deciding factor and he went to Paris in September 1936. Before leaving for Paris he had gone to Berlin to watch the Olympic games there in August. His time in Paris was a very productive one and he learnt to approach mathematics, in the same way that Cartan did, see [28]:-
Cartan's writings were generally regarded as very difficult, but Chern quickly accustomed himself to Cartan's way of thinking. In retrospect, Chern feels that it was like learning a new language. There is a tendency in mathematics to be abstract and have everything defined, whereas Cartan approached mathematics more intuitively. That is, he approached mathematics from evidence and the phenomena which arise from special cases rather than from a general and abstract viewpoint.Speaking of Cartan's ideas, Chern said in the interview [47]:-
Without the notation and terminology of fibre bundles, it was difficult to explain these concepts in a satisfactory way.Working with Élie Cartan was challenging but rewarding for Chern [47]:-
Usually the day after meeting with Cartan I would get a letter from him. He would say, "After you left, I thought more about your questions ..." - he had some results, and some more questions, and so on. He knew all these papers on simple Lie groups, Lie algebras, all by heart. When you saw him on the street, when a certain issue would come up, he would pull out some old envelope and write something and give you the answer. And sometimes it took me hours or even days to get the same answer. I saw him about once every two weeks, and clearly I had to work very hard.He attended Gaston Julia's Seminar which, in that year, was devoted to discussing Cartan's ideas. He met André Weil, Henri Cartan and many other leading mathematicians. In 1937 Chern left Paris to become professor of mathematics at Tsing Hua University. His journey took him across the Atlantic Ocean, across the United States and then across the Pacific Ocean. However the Chinese-Japanese war began in July 1937 while he was on the journey and the university moved twice to avoid the war. He worked at what was then named Southwest Associated University (consisting of the former Tsing Hua University, Peking University and Nankai University) from 1938 until 1943. This university operated from the city of Kunming in south west China. While there he married Shih-ning Cheng in Kunming in 1939. They had two children: a daughter Pu (known as May) who became a physicist and married the physicist Ching-wu Chu, and a son Bolong (known as Paul). He received an invitation to Princeton in 1942 but, he said:-
... the trip from Kunming to Princeton looked formidable. At that time China and the US were allies in the war against Japan and the US was sending support to China with returning planes almost empty. So the Chinese government arranged for me a seat on an US Air Force plane from Calcutta, India to Miami, US. The trip took a week, through Africa and South America.He spent 1943-1945 at Princeton where he impressed both Hermann Weyl and Oswald Veblen, and met Claude Chevalley and Solomon Lefschetz. He became friendly with Lefschetz who persuaded him to become an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He also renewed his contacts with André Weil who he had met in Paris seven years earlier. Weil was working at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, only about 70 km from Princeton. In [67], Weil wrote about talking about Cartan's mathematics to Chern at this time:-
... we seemed to share a common attitude towards such subjects, or towards mathematics in general; we were both striving to strike at the root of each question while freeing our minds from preconceived notions about what others might have regarded as the right or the wrong way of dealing with it.These talks between Weil and Chern were very influential for Chern and led to some of his most important work on characteristic classes. At the end of World War II, Chern returned to China reaching Shanghai in March 1946. He was asked to set up the Institute of Mathematics of the Academia Sinica in Nanking which he did very successfully. However at this time a civil war in China began to make life difficult and he was pleased to accept an invitation in 1948 from Weyl and Veblen to return to Princeton as a visiting professor. André Weil, who by this time was at the University of Chicago, arranged for Chern to be offered a full professorship at University of Chicago. Chern returned to the United States arriving on 1 January 1949, this time bringing his family with him.
From 1949 Chern worked in the United States accepting the chair of geometry at the University of Chicago after first making a short visit to Princeton. He was an invited one-hour plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 30 August to 6 September 1950. He gave the address Differential Geometry of Fibre Bundles. Hans Samelson writes:-
The starting point of this lecture is the definition of a connection in a principal fibre bundle (all spaces are differentiable manifolds, the structure group is a Lie group ...) generalizing the well-known Levi-Civita parallelism. Geometrically the connection is a field of contact elements in the bundle, transversal to the fibres, and invariant under the action of the group.Chern remained at Chicago until 1960 when he went to the University of California, Berkeley. It was at this time that he became an American citizen. He explained the circumstances:-
My election to the US National Academy of Sciences was a prime factor for my US citizenship. In 1960 I was tipped about the possibility of an academy membership. Realizing that a citizenship was necessary, I applied for it. The process was slowed because of my association to Oppenheimer. As a consequence I became a US citizen about a month before my election to academy membership.In 1970 he was an invited one-hour plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Nice, France, from 1 September to 10 September 1970. This was a great honour since very few mathematicians have been asked to be one-hour plenary speaker at two International Congresses of Mathematicians. On this second occasion Chern gave the address Differential Geometry: Its Past and Its Future.
He continued working at Berkeley, retiring officially in 1979 but remaining highly mathematically active there for six of seven more years. He continued to live in Berkeley until 1999 when, at the age of 88, he returned to China where he made his home in Tianjin, where the Chern Institute of Mathematics of Nankai University had been set up in 1985. The initiative for this Institute had been by Chern who proposed that the Institute should he:-
... based at Nankai, facing the whole country, and viewing the world.Chern's wife died in January 2000 in Tianjin. In the paper A summary of my scientific life and works which Chern wrote in 1978 (and is included in the volumes of his selected papers) Chern wrote about the contribution of his wife:-
I would not conclude this account without mentioning my wife's role in my life and work. Through war and peace and through bad and good times we have shared a life for forty years, which is both simple and rich. If there is credit for my mathematical works, it will be hers as well as mine.He died at his home in Tianjin at the age of 93 from heart failure following a heart attack.
As we have already seen, his area of research was differential geometry where he studied the (now named) Chern characteristic classes in fibre spaces. These are important not only in mathematics but also in mathematical physics. He worked on characteristic classes during his 1943-45 visit to Princeton and, also at this time, he gave a now famous proof of the Gauss-Bonnet formula. His work is summed up in [78] as follows:-
When Chern was working on differential geometry in the 1940s, this area of mathematics was at a low point. Global differential geometry was only beginning, even Morse theory was understood and used by a very small number of people. Today, differential geometry is a major subject in mathematics and a large share of the credit for this transformation goes to Professor Chern.Richard Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng give an excellent overview of Chern's mathematics in [56]:-
Chern's mathematical interests have been unusually wide and far-ranging and he has made significant contributions to many areas of geometry, both classical and modern. Principal among these are: Geometric structures and their equivalence problems; Integral geometry; Euclidean differential geometry; Minimal surfaces and minimal submanifolds; Holomorphic maps; Webs; Exterior Differential Systems and Partial Differential Equations; The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem; and Characteristic classes. ... we would like to point out a unifying theme that runs through all of it: his absolute mastery of the techniques of differential forms and his artful application of these techniques in solving geometric problems. This was a magic mantle, handed down to him by his great teacher, Élie Cartan. It permitted him to explore in depth new mathematical territory where others could not enter. What makes differential forms such an ideal tool for studying local and global geometric properties (and for relating them to each other) is their two complementary aspects. They admit, on the one hand, the local operation of exterior differentiation, and on the other the global operation of integration over cochains, and these are related via Stokes's Theorem.He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of American 1970, the National Medal of Science in 1975, the Humboldt Prize in 1982, the Leroy F Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1983, the Wolf Prize in 1984, the Lobachevsky Medal in 2002 and the first Shaw Prize in Mathematics from Hong Kong in 2004:-
... for his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.In 1985 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the following year he was made an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society. He has also been made an honorary member of the Indian Mathematical Society (1950), the New York Academy of Sciences (1987). He was elected to the Academia Sinica (1948), the United States National Academy of Sciences (1961), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1963), the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1971), the Academia Peloritana, Messina, Sicily (1986), the Accademia dei Lincei (1989), the Académie des Sciences, Paris (1989), the American Philosophical Society (1989) the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1994), and the Russian Academy of Sciences (2001). He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Chicago (1969), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1969), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (1982), the State University of New York Stony Brook (1985), University of Hamburg (1971), Nankai University (1985), University of Notre Dame (1994), Technische Universität Berlin (2001), and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2003).
We end this biography with the "Chern song". In 1979 a Chern Symposium held in his honour offered him this tribute in song:-
Hail to Chern! Mathematics Greatest!
He made Gauss-Bonnet a household word,
Intrinsic proofs he found,
Throughout the World his truths abound,
Chern classes he gave us,
and Secondary Invariants,
Fibre Bundles and Sheaves,
Distributions and Foliated Leaves!
All Hail All Hail to CHERN.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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List of References (81 books/articles)
Mathematicians born in the same country
Honours awarded to Shiing-shen Chern
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|Speaker at International Congress
|AMS Colloquium Lecturer
|Speaker at International Congress
|MAA Chauvenet Prize winner
|AMS Steele Prize
|Fellow of the Royal Society
|LMS Honorary Member
|Shaw Prize
|Wolf Prize
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Index of Chinese mathematics
- Academia Sinica
- Chinese Academy
- 1978 ICM - Helsinki
Other Web sites
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
- MathSciNet Author profile
- zbMATH entry
- ERAM Jahrbuch entry


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Homeowners want to redecorate their home and they may fall in love with a particular type of hardwood flooring or tile - which is great. But, that choice might not be ideal for the application, like a bathroom or mudroom where it might get wet a lot of the time.
You need to educate yourself about what's the best flooring choice for your situation. Do you have elderly people or people with limited mobility living in the house? What about young children running around? You need to be aware of their safety, and that of any visitors to your home.
Everyone falls at one time or another. One of the leading causes of hospital emergency room visits is falls in the home - especially among the elderly. But in the case of the elderly, a simple slip and bad fall can lead to sad consequences. A fractured hip can ultimately be fatal, since it's often the beginning of a rapid decline: slip, fall, injury, hospital, pneumonia, death or loss of independence and a forced move into assisted living or a nursing home.
Slips and falls also cost a lot of money, because of medical costs and insurance claims and even lawsuits. It makes a lot of sense to me that we start paying attention to how slippery our new floors are - not just how good they look.
New national standards are being introduced in the U.S. and Canada around slippery flooring. All flooring sold will have to bear the label of the Traction Scale. It doesn't mean you can't have your marble tile - just that you will be made aware of how slippery it is. It's time to create awareness of the issue and consider getting it into building code.
Educate yourself about the various types of flooring you are considering in your renovation. If you are buying a polished marble floor, odds are you know it's going to be slippery wet or dry. And you can take your chances. But what about other products, like wood laminate, or vinyl floor covering or ceramic tile? What about hardwood flooring - how slippery is that?
Laminate and vinyl flooring is very popular - it's inexpensive and low maintenance, easy to install and to clean and is extensively used in kitchens as well as other rooms. But most laminate flooring can also be very slippery. Some manufacturers have been developing slip-resistant laminates - but you need to ask the right questions.
Hardwood can be slippery too, depending on its finish. Is it high-gloss and smooth? Or more textured, like a hand-scraped finish?
Stone, ceramic and porcelain tile can all be very slippery. But again, it depends on the tile size and its finish. Is it polished or textured? You know intuitively which is the better product for a floor-the textured one.
Have you been in a gym shower or around a public pool? The tiles used are small - with lots of gaps between for grout. They are textured and less slippery that way. You aren't going to see large polished slabs of marble - that's like a skating rink without the ice.
Your supplier should recommend the flooring best suited to your needs, in terms of slipperiness. In my experience a good tile store will steer you in the right direction: bathroom or kitchen, shower or floor or backsplash - they all need a different type of tile and finish.
But no matter what store, they won't necessarily tell you if you aren't asking. Ask the questions. See if there are any ratings on the product or information that tells you how slippery it is - wet or dry.
How you clean your floors - and the polishes and waxes or other products you use on them may make them more slippery.
You can apply some products to ceramic, porcelain and marble tile floors that increases the amount of friction created when you walk on them. That will probably lead to fewer falls, but the product will need to be reapplied. And, the products are not designed for wood floors.
Some of these products will actually etch the surface of the tile-not a good idea in my mind. By removing the glazing of a ceramic tile you'll actually expose its inner core, which is not the same colour as the surface. Not only will it look bad, the tile will collect dirt and deteriorate quickly. A porcelain tile has the same colouring throughout so it might not look as bad, but it is still not a good solution.
Anti-skid products are on the market to help prevent slipping. Some are only appropriate for exterior use on concrete. They contain grit and aggregates that would ruin the appearance of your hardwood or fine tiles. Others are a clear liquid topcoat that is not that noticeable.
But really, why not just buy the right flooring in the first place?
It's not about cost. Higher traction floors don't necessarily cost any more than low-traction floors. It's about awareness. It's about education. It's all about why. Think of why you may want a certain flooring to be safer.
We think about the colour, style, aesthetics of most things we buy for our home. But do we think about safety? As long as there is gravity, people will fall.
It's time to think about the most important thing: your family's safety. Choose flooring that works first, and looks good second. There are plenty of options for flooring that is both - you aren't sacrificing anything.
Catch Mike in his new series, Best of Holmes on Homes, Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on HGTV. For more information, visit hgtv.ca. For more information on home renovations, visit makeitright.ca.


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The fourth-generation Legacy enters its fourth model year for 2008. It's built in the Lafayette, Indiana, assembly plant that Subaru shares with Toyota. All Legacy models are now sedans, and Subaru considers the Outback wagon version to be a separate model. Between the two models there are 13 variants.
The Legacy sedan 2.5i, 2.5i Special Edition, and 2.5i Limited come with a naturally aspirated, horizontally opposed four-cylinder. Then there are the Legacy 2.5GT Limited and 2.5GT spec.B, both of which add an intercooled turbocharger to the engine, and the top-of-the-line 3.0R Limited comes with the first six-cylinder engine in a U.S.-market Legacy sedan. The naturally aspirated, 2.5-liter versions of the Outback come in base, 2.5i, 2.5i L.L.Bean Edition, 2.5i Limited, and 2.5i Limited L.L.Bean Edition. The Outback 2.5XT Limited has the turbocharged engine, and the 3.0R L.L.Bean Edition has the six-cylinder. All models come with standard all-wheel drive. The interior is of fairly high quality compared with that of similarly priced cars, especially on the less expensive models, and the Legacy and the Outback offer plenty of driving pleasure in a family-friendly package.
The Legacy is less common than the Toyota Camry built in the same plant, but with far more character, it's the nonconformist's family sedan; similarly, the Outback is the anti-SUV.
What's New for 2008
The Legacy 3.0R Limited debuts as the flagship model of the line, with a 245-hp, horizontally opposed six. The most noticeable changes to the Legacy and Outback this year—if you look really, really closely—are new grilles surrounded by new front headlamps. The rear fascia and the taillamps have been updated, and the two models have greater visual differentiation. The instrument panel and the interior fabrics have been revised as well. Tire-pressure monitoring, keyless entry, and a tilting-and-telescoping steering wheel are all standard.
Trim Levels
All Legacy and Outback 2.5i models (including the base Outback) come with a four-cylinder making 170 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque. The Legacy 2.5i starts at $21,140 and comes with a five-speed manual transmission and 17-inch wheels. Standard equipment includes anti-lock brakes; air conditioning; cruise control; power doors, mirrors, and locks; remote keyless entry, and front-side and curtain airbags. The Legacy 2.5i Special Edition adds a power driver's seat and power sunroof for $21,440. The Outback base price is $22,640, which includes 16-inch wheels, air conditioning, cruise control, power windows and locks, and remote entry. The Outback 2.5i starts at $24,240. That adds 17-inch wheels, a power driver's seat, heated front seats, fog lamps, and a limited-slip rear differential. A four-speed automatic transmission can be added to any of those four models for $1000.
The automatic comes standard on the Legacy 2.5i Limited, which is $24,740 and also comes with heated leather seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, dual-zone automatic climate control, and an in-dash six-CD changer. For $26,940, the Outback 2.5i L.L.Bean Edition includes the automatic transmission plus dual-zone climate control, a navigation system, a six-CD changer, and the option to order stability control. The Outback 2.5i Limited comes without navigation but does have a dual-panel sunroof and leather seating at a base price of $28,040.
The jump up from lower Legacys to the $28,940 2.5GT Limited brings a 243-hp turbocharged engine. A five-speed automatic transmission costs $1500 more and includes stability control. On top of lesser models, the GT Limited adds a power passenger seat, electroluminescent gauges, sportier front seats, larger brakes, and a limited-slip rear differential. Subaru's SI-Drive, a knob that lets the driver switch among three different engine programming modes, is included, but it's sort of gimmicky.
The next step in price is on the Outback side for the 2.5i Limited L.L.Bean Edition, at $29,640. It adds a power passenger's seat, leather seating, and navigation over standards on the Outback 2.5i Limited. The $31,640 Outback 2.5XT has the turbocharged engine also found in the Legacy GT, along with the SI-Drive controller. Stability control is standard, and the five-speed manual can be replaced with a five-speed automatic for $1200.
Despite Subaru's claim that the 3.0R Limited is the flagship Legacy, it's the second-priciest of the sedans at $31,940. It comes with a six-cylinder engine and five-speed automatic, navigation, stability control, Bilstein shocks, and 18-inch wheels. The Outback 3.0R L.L.Bean Edition also comes with the six-cylinder, automatic transmission, and stability control for $32,140.
At the very top of the price sheet is the 2.5GT spec.B at $34,640. This is the sporty model, and it comes with the turbo four and a six-speed manual transmission. Other differences from the 2.5GT Limited are 18-inch wheels with high-performance summer tires, Bilstein shocks and aluminum suspension parts, a Momo steering wheel, stability control, a navigation system, special seat trim, and a memory function for the driver's seat.
If you're looking at the Legacy, the spec.B has an impressive list of performance parts, but you can find more power or luxury elsewhere at its high asking price. We'd stay away from the 3.0R Limited as well, since the 2.5GT Limited has only two fewer horsepower and more torque. The GT is our pick if your budget allows or your inner speed demon demands. Our Outback preferences fall along the same lines: a reasonably equipped 2.5i model is the choice for normal transportation, and the 2.5XT is the pick for enthusiasts.
Optional Equipment
A few options on the Legacy are grouped into packages, but the packages cost as much as buying each item individually. The list of exterior options consists of a rear spoiler for $389, rocker-panel trim for $395, fog lamps for $362, mud flaps for $153, a hood protector for $85, and wheel locks for $42. Inside, you can get an auto-dimming mirror with a compass for $183 or the same mirror with a HomeLink universal garage-door opener for $260. We like the short-throw shifter and Momo shift knob for the manual transmission, but at $374 and $102, respectively, they're not especially cheap. A shock sensor for the security system costs $121. The remaining interior extras are a trunk cargo net for $64, an armrest extension for $163, XM Satellite radio for $456, an audio subwoofer and amplifier for $287, and all-weather floor mats for $55. Remote start is available on automatic-transmission cars for $442.
All trim levels except the base 2.5i can get a sunroof air deflector for $91 and a rear dome/reading light for $85. The 2.5i Limited can be ordered with stability control for an extra $300. A navigation system is optional on the automatic-transmission 2.5GT Limited for $2000.
Like the Legacy's, Outback accessories cost the same whether in a package or à la carte. Although both vehicles do share many available options, the Outback's goodies list includes a few things not found on the Legacy's. These include a jumble of storage-related items such as a luggage-compartment cover for $165, a rear cargo tray for $75, two rear side-compartment cargo nets for $68, a rear-seatback cargo net for $48, a rear luggage-compartment cover for $237, a front-and-rear cross-bar assembly for $190, and a round cross-bar set for $237 that replaces the standard square bars on the roof rack. In keeping with the apparent theme of hauling and storage, the only other option listed is a trailer hitch, priced at $353. Stability control can be ordered on the Outback 2.5i L.L.Bean Edition, Limited, and Limited L.L.Bean Edition for $300. Navigation on the Outback 3.0R L.L Bean Edition and 2.5XT Limited is an extra $2000.
Anti-lock brakes are standard on all Legacy and Outback models, as are front, front-side, and curtain airbags. Stability control (called VDC by Subaru) is $300 on the Legacy 2.5i Limited, Outback 2.5i L.L.Bean Edition, Limited, and Limited L.L.Bean Edition. VDC comes standard on the automatic-transmission versions of the Legacy 2.5GT Limited and 3.0R Limited, as well as the Outback 2.5XT Limited and 3.0R L.L.Bean Edition.
The Legacy 2.5i, 2.5i Special Edition, manual-equipped 2.5GT Limited, Outback, and Outback 2.5i cannot be ordered with stability control. All-wheel drive, as on all Subarus, is standard.


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Just wanted to say Merry Christmas (or which ever holiday you're into).
We'll be in New Orleans for a few days. DH's Aunt usually does a Christmas Eve bash at her house but it is low-key this year b/c she had a tree through her roof. We'll all be gathered beneath the blue tarp. Christmas Day we'll be at my parent's house, which was fine... In any case, we have a LOT to be thankful for this year. And there are many people who are simply thankful to be alive.
Hope you all have a great Christmas.
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Review The Aspire Revo is Acer's take on Nvidia's Ion platform so that's a good place to start with this review.
Acer's Aspire Revo: Atom and Ion on board
Ion started life as the GeForce 9300, which is a chipset that connects Intel's Core 2 processors to decent integrated graphics. In our comparison of desktop chipsets with integrated graphics we were quite clear that the GeForce 9300 was better than Intel's G45, specifically in the area of HD movie decoding. If you're building a Core 2-based PC with integrated graphics, we strongly recommend you choose GeForce 9300.
When Intel launched the desktop Atom processor, it made the questionable decision to ally the 4W TDP CPU with the ancient D945G chipset, which has weak graphics and a TDP of 15W.
The combination of Atom and D945G has been responsible for the creation of the market for 'nettop' desktop PCs that offer basic services such as e-mail and browsing the web at a low price. There's no expectation that Atom and D945G can be used for gaming or to watch HD movies, and the graphics are so weak that it's unable to run Windows Vista properly.
Intel could have chosen to support Atom with the G45 chipset, which is a capable piece of silicon, but it didn't go down that route, undoubtedly to protect its higher-value desktop offerings. So Nvidia has leapt in to fill what it perceives as a gap in the market.
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The Ion chipset is a rebranding exercise for the GeForce 9300, this time offered with support for Atom rather than Core 2. Nvidia is keen to show that you get better value for money by spending your cash on the GPU rather than the CPU, so it's cockahoop that a manufacturer as big as Acer has rolled out the Aspire Revo.
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I dintorni del Bikehotel Prategiano sono una zona ideale per le vostre vacanze in bicicletta e rimarrete stupiti per le innumerevoli strade poco trafficate e panoramiche.
For over 40 years, Hotel Prategiano has been providing horse rides in one of the most beautiful and natural regions of Maremma Tuscany. Prategiano caters to all levels of riders. For our experts we offer all-day rides to six different locations, for beginners there are one-hour trail walks or lessons, and for those in between we have beautiful half-day rides. On horseback you will experience the nature of Tuscany in a special and close-up way. It is a fantastic experience with trustworthy horses, new friends, great trails and spectacular views!
The area surrounding Hotel Prategiano - with its ups, downs, curves, and views - will thrill road cyclists and mountain bikers alike. The Alta Maremma area is famous for its optimal biking terrain and extra sightseeing opportunities. You will find small medieval villages, endless miles of quiet asphalt roads, wide dirt roads and 500 km of well-signed single trails. Assisted by our detailed maps and GPS tracks, our friendly staff will help you choose the right route and point out must-see attractions and special places along the way.
Away from busy towns and surrounded by a beautiful wooded and hilly terrain, Hotel Prategiano sits in the center of a maze of well-signed trails through the special, quiet and beautiful landscape of Maremma Tuscany. This area is especially attractive to hikers because it offers various landscapes within relatively close proximity. These differing terrains include the sand beaches and pine woods of the coast, the wet areas of the flat region, the evergreen plants of the Mediterran Macchia, the wooded hills, and the typical grape and olive orchards for which Tuscany is famous.
The central position of Hotel Prategiano provides the opportunity to explore the special hidden corners of the Maremma as well as the famous towns and villages of Tuscany. Florence, Siena, Grosseto, Volterra, S. Gimignano, Massa Marittima and many other popular destinations are easily reached from our location. Each of these places offers special local products and dishes. After returning from a day of excursions, what could be better than a home-cooked meal in a Tuscan kitchen? In our hotel restaurant, one can dine on traditional Tuscan dishes and sip local wines in the quiet ambiance of Prategiano.
Le nostre camere offrono tutto il comfort di un B&B e di un buon albergo 3 stelle e sono arredate con uno stile semplice e sorbio. Tutte le camere hanno doccia, bagno, telefono, TV SAT, cassaforte, bollitore automatico per caffè e internet WIFI veloce.LEGGI TUTTO
Da molte delle nostre camere si può godere di una splendida vista panoramica sul meraviglioso paesaggio che circonda il nostro hotel e potrete essere totalmente immersi nella natura anche quando siete comodamente rifugiati nella vostra stanza.LEGGI TUTTO
La maggior parte dei bagni nell'edificio principale del hotel sono rivestite con le Ceramiche di Vietri dipinte a mano e con un fascino immutabile nel tempo. I bagni delle camere nella dependance invece sono stati rinnovati completamente durante gli ultimi anni.LEGGI TUTTO
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May 21 draws closer as faithful await
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Richard Peirce won't take credit for the idea to use his 1991 Cadillac DeVille to bring a message from God to people everywhere.
"God put this idea in my mind," he said.
And if you haven't seen the vehicle, you're not looking hard enough.
With yellow lettering emblazoned against the car's maroon body color, the message is clear and startling: Judgment Day is Saturday, May 21, 2011 — eight weeks from today.
"Everyone will know this is God bringing judgment," Richard, alongside his wife, Hilary DeMane, said. "It will be so overwhelming, people will know this is Judgment Day."
The fact that a full-sized billboard stands atop the Indiana Hill outside Punxsutawney declaring "King Jesus Returns" is dramatic proof that this movement, which now circles the globe, is attempting to make people aware that the Day of Judgment may be nearer than the rest of the world wants to believe.
Citing exhaustive studies of the scriptures, proponents of the announcement point out that "the Bible guarantees" that the Rapture (the return of Christ) will occur May 21, 2011, followed by the physical end of the world Oct. 21. Bible scholars from many nations concur with the message of Harold Camping, the founder of Family Stations Inc., home to Family Radio, a Christian broadcasting system based in Oakland, Calif.
Established as a single radio station in 1959, Family Radio has grown to 66 stations across the United States. It now provides ministry in 61 languages via satellites, short-wave radio and most recently, the Internet. The broadcasting network is not affiliated with any church or political organization.
Although Family Radio is most closely identified with the May 21 warning, the network's message is supported and corroborated by numerous other organizations, including eBible Fellowship, Latter Rain, Bible Ministries International and WeCanKnow.com. All of them are quick to declare that the Bible is the only source of their beliefs.
Refuting the idea that they are a cult, advocates of the Judgment Day message point out that no earthly leader is making any demands for his or her allegiance and obedience. They are volunteers whose "sole authority, the Word of God inspires" them to freely contribute time, effort and money to alert others to the coming Rapture.
Among those moved "to sound the alarm" are the Peirces, who say they "feel a great sadness for people who are spiritually blind."
To put their faith into action, the couple distribute tracts, publish advertisements in the newspaper and help to underwrite the costs of such projects as the placement of billboards. They welcome sincere and open discussion with anyone wishing to learn more about the Bible's warnings about the end of time.
The Peirces' vehicle is not the only way they are relaying the message, as similar messages adorn the front of their home and the door of their nearby garage. Even more to the point, Richard and Hilary spend a great deal of time "in prayer and in searching the Scriptures, seeking to give God the glory to the best of (their) ability."
"It is impossible to come to the truth unless God opens one's eyes," Richard said. "He is pleased to open minds and hearts to understanding His message. He calls us to sound the alarm, to warn others about the Day of Judgment. Everyone needs to be warned before God's perfect and final judgment brings about the new heaven and the new earth."
The warnings to which the Peirces refer are derived from a large collection of verses from the Old and New Testaments, in which various numbers are part of the text. Adherents of the imminent Rapture point out that both individual words and individual numbers have spiritual meanings that can be determined by careful and prayerful study of the Bible.
At the center of the mathematical process that pinpoints May 21 as the exact day on which Christ will return is a statement from 2 Peter 3:8. The context of the verse focuses upon Noah and the Great Flood, and also the end of time, noting that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
Using that scale to measure history through a juxtaposition of the ancient Jewish calendar and the modern calendar, scholars have been able to calculate the dates of Biblical events. Although space does not permit a detailed illustration, numbers in verses from Genesis to Exodus to Jeremiah, Jonah, Daniel and Revelation, among others, lead to the date for Judgment Day. (See Dates, Numbers, at the bottom of the story).
To those who readily respond that the Bible declares that no one except the Lord can know the date and time when Christ will return, Richard points out that God has never destroyed people or places without giving advanced spiritual warning. Whether it was the people of Noah's day, or Abraham at Sodom and Gommorah, or Pharaoh in Egypt, or Jonah at Nineveh, there have always been efforts to proclaim the need for preparation and repentance, he said.
From the late 1980s on, Richard said, God has unsealed the books of prophecy so that those who are willing to sound the alarm can do so with assurance that the scriptures are indeed the unalterable word of the Lord.
The message is not contained to one part of the world or another.
There are groups of people — or "caravans," generally traveling in RVs — leaving jobs, family and friends to fan out across the United States to share the message with others. Richard also described a huge banner flying along Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the White House, several weeks ago.
"They saw that," he said. "President Obama saw that. The U.S. government knows."
The message isn't confined to the United States, either. Richard said that 450 billboards sharing the message have also recently been erected in India.
"Don't take my word for it," he said. "Go to the Bible. This message is out there big-time. It's all in God's hands."
The dreadful time is "so close, that when it gets here, salvation is over," Richard said.
Those who come to salvation will gather with God in the clouds, while those who died saved will be raised up by God to the clouds, "when God brings all those people to him," he said.
Those who do not find salvation, Richard said, will enter the final five months of judgment, with death all around them.
If someone dies unsaved, he or she will not suffer in hell, he said, and that through the recently-revealed scriptures, it is known that an unsaved person will experience no pain, no suffering — his or her life will simply stop.
There will be no mistaking May 21 as Judgment Day, Richard said, citing ongoing events in the world today.
"People will not be able to say, 'This is a natural occurrence,'" he said. "This is God Almighty having perfect and final judgment."
Citing the March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, Richard said, "Multiply that by 1,000. And in five months, Oct. 21, 2011, this whole earth, solar system, universe — it will be no more. God will create a new heaven, a new earth, with no pain and suffering."
"There will be nothing but horror and death, but even in God's mercy, it will be over," Hilary said.
A retired ophthalmic technician, Richard had listened "off and on for about 35 years" to Family Radio programming. It was "only about five or six years ago" that God chose him, he said, to follow "the narrow path." At that time, he became more serious about "the Word of God, which is the only authority for the message" that he now shares.
Meanwhile, Hilary, a chef instructor, explained that she had grown up in a church where she learned traditional doctrine, yet she had not paid much attention to thoughts of the end of the world until she and Richard had dated — having met through mutual friends near Richard's former home in Washington. D.C. — and later marrying in 2005. During those years, Hilary began to devote more time to listening to Family Radio, studying the scriptures and discussing the Rapture with her husband.
"I did not start listening to Family Radio until I met Richard," she said. "I didn't believe Richard or Family Radio — God is the one who helped me understand. Only God can open the mind and the heart.
"At the time, neither one of us were saved," Hilary said. "We lived by God's mercy until I searched out this information. We did not strive over this, but spent time together praying about it."
Since then, the two have willingly and humbly assumed the responsibility for making others aware of God's timetable.
Asked how people react to their desire to share the scriptures, Hilary said that most are too polite to be rude.
"My family and friends are too polite to argue, but they don't agree," she said. "I think they say, 'Let's just get back to my world.'"
Listeners may not agree with those espousing the coming of Judgment Day, but the Peirces say nearly all have little desire to explore the Bible to see what God has declared.
"It is sad to say that people generally are attached to this world where God has provided them with so many blessings. We feel a deep spiritual anguish for those who do not take the opportunity that God is now giving to remove their arrogance and pride by creating a new heart and a new spirit within them."
Richard said he was recently approached by a local pastor about the message.
"He agreed that things are bad in the church, but his church is OK," he said. "He was not in opposition. He believes we are getting pretty close, but he doesn't think we can know the exact day."
During visits with people they describe as their "Christian brothers and sisters" who are also spreading the message, the Peirces say they have heard of or met pastors leaving their pastorates to spread the same message.
"They had come to this conclusion," Richard said. "It's not common, but it is happening."
Richard said when delivering his message, he has been met with disbelief and name-calling. He has been called a false prophet, told that it is a sin to set a date for Judgment Day, and that he should be ashamed of himself.
"All I can do is be obedient," he said. "If we don't warn, the blood of the people will be on our hands."
The Peirces say part of the mainstream population's reluctance to ponder the truth of the Word of God comes from mistaken beliefs. Since churches teach that those who confess Christ are safe and that no man can know when Christ will return, members of those congregations are in spiritual blindness, Richard said.
Like the people in Noah's day, who did not respond to the warning of the flood, those who mock, scoff or turn indifferent hearts to present-day alarms will perish. Like their counterparts across the nation and around the world, the Peirces are working to share hope with those who truly want to escape destruction.
They say, unfortunately, organized religion has lost its role in preparing people for Judgment Day. In the last 20 to 30 years, the couple say the age of the church has come to an end.
"Today, even the music has become like the music of the world," Hilary said. "For too long, the modern church has been preaching a gospel based on man, and offering salvation through human effort, instead of grace and faith. People have become spiritually blind to the truth, and man has become the authority for his own salvation. People do not believe, not for a lack of guidance, but because they are not asking for a new heart."
After about 2,000 years, God is no longer using the church as the means to save people, they said. True believers are urged to trust only in the Lord, rather than relying upon pastors or rituals for salvation.
Richard said contrary to Biblical teachings, churches have placed women in places of authority, even in the pulpit. The ordination of homosexuals is also an indictment against the church, he said. The Judgment Day movement avows that it is outside the churches that God is saving a multitude of people before Christ returns.
Richard repeatedly emphasized that "God is still gracious and full of compassion. He is still saving people, even during these last days. Those who are spiritually dead cannot come to God, but there is still time for certain people to be saved. It is contrary to the whole nature of God to say that the end of the world will come without warning."
Between now and May 21, the Peirces said they will continue to study the scriptures and pray. Until that day, they will do as much as they can to call people's attention to prepare for the Rapture.
"You still do everything to the glory of God, to the best of your ability to the glory of God," Hilary said.
"This is the day of salvation. God is still at work, but on May 21, the door will be shut, just as in the days of Noah," Richard said. "There will follow five months of horrible times; death will be everywhere, and the unsaved will be in spiritual anguish. Then God will usher in the new heaven and earth. And those whom He has chosen to save will be safe and secure with Jesus."
The following are important dates in history, according to EBible Fellowship:
• 11,013 B.C. — Creation. God created the world and man (Adam and Eve).
• 4990 B.C. — The flood of Noah's day (6,023 years from creation). All perished in a worldwide flood. Only Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives survived in the ark.
• 7 B.C. — The year Jesus Christ was born (11,006 years from creation).
• 33 A.D. — The year Jesus Christ was crucified, and the church age began (11,045 years from creation).
• 1988 A.D. — The 13,000th year of earth's history. This year ended the church age and began the great tribulation period of 23 years (8,400 days).
• 1994 A.D. — Sept. 7, the first 2,300-day period of the great tribulation came to an end, and the latter rain began (commencing God's plan to save a great multitude of people outside the churches).
• 2011 A.D. — May 21, the rapture will occur at the end of the 8,400-day great tribulation. Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed by fire.


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Dear Representative:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we urge you to VOTE YES on passage of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 976), which would reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Votes associated with this issue may be included in the NEA Legislative Report Card for the 110th Congress.
Quality health care is essential for the well-being of our nation's children and families. NEA members care deeply about children's health issues and believe that all children deserve the chance for a healthy start in life. Children's access to quality health care can impact on their ability to learn and succeed in school. Children without health insurance forgo the regular checkups and doctor visits that every child needs, leading to unnecessary illness and increased school absenteeism. Yet, too many families lack insurance to cover needed health services.
Over the past ten years, SCHIP has helped reduce the number of uninsured children in America by one-third. However, millions of children remain uninsured or underinsured. H.R. 976 would help address this untenable situation by providing $35 billion in new five-year funding and allowing the program to serve some four million additional children.
We are particularly pleased that H.R. 976 includes language (section 616) that would extend until May 28, 2008 the moratorium on changes to school-based Medicaid claiming. This section will ensure that, at least in the short-term, school districts can continue to claim administrative and transportation costs associated with providing health services to Medicaid-eligible students with special needs. Virtually all school-based Medicaid reimbursements are for medically-related services provided to students with disabilities, who are also Medicaid-eligible low-income children. Schools provide medical and other related services beyond the traditional education services as a result of thirty years of congressional policies and federal law under IDEA. Many of these students otherwise would have never attended school and often require continuous care. Providing this broad range of medical and other related services for these students is a major challenge operationally and financially. Section 616 of H.R. 976 will ensure that children with serious and chronic conditions can get the health care they need so that they can go to school.
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