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This article will show you how to create a steady recurring revenue instead of a feast-or-famine income so that you can count on & plan on income coming in!Read More
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The idea that passive income means no work is demoralizing. Instead think about passive income as "work done on your own time."Read More
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You left that corporate job to set up your own consulting gig so you could spend more time with your family. But now you see even less of them than when you worked for the man. And, when you are home – you're not really present. You're worrying about where to find that next client, that next paycheck.Read More


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Family Ministry with Ascension Lutheran Church
Families are an essential part of our ministry at Risen Savior. We have partnered with Ascension Lutheran in Sarasota to provide events for fun and fellowship for families with children of all ages. Dates for future events and recaps of past events can be found on our Facebook page.
Middle and High School Youth Ministry
Our Middle and High School youth ministry seeks to equip and empower the next generation of Christians in our community and world. Proclaiming Christ as the center of our lives, our Middle and High School students meet twice monthly on Wednesday for Bible study, games, and fellowship. Some of our activities include attending the Rock the Universe in Orlando, the county fair, and service projects in our community. Our youth group has paused meeting due to Covid-19 restrictions, but plans are underway to resume activities soon!
Youth Confirmation
Confirmation is the instruction that provides the scriptural information people need to be able to examine themselves (1 Corinthians 11:28) and then the opportunity to make a public profession of faith and unity with other believers (1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 11:26).
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Join yoga instructor Beatrice Halstead for Yoga in the Sculpture Garden this Saturday, September 25 at 8:30 am.
Class is one hour and includes light breakfast bites. Purchase tickets here. All proceeds benefit The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Beatrice received her 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training Certification from Yoga With Wendy B., at Ridgefield Hot Yoga in Ridgefield, Conn. in 2019. She studied under the direction of Wendy Boscia, who's training methodology emphasized the alignment of Eastern and Western Yoga philosophy. In addition to advanced Asana training, this Baron Baptiste Power based yoga training offered a depth of anatomy and philosophical education.
With a degree in civil engineering, Beatrice has a family-owned real estate development company, is a mother of three girls and local resident of North Salem. In addition to yoga, Beatrice loves to read, hike, travel and spend time with her family and friends. She looks forward to helping others find balance in their lives through the practice of yoga and strongly believes that Yoga is more than just a series of poses but a connection of the mind, body and spirit. She has designed her classes to build strength physically, mentally and spiritually while increasing flexibility.
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John Brannen – Too cool for preschool
Music features don't usually germinate like this: My initial contact with John Brannen comes not in a club or via a publicist, but at a local preschool where, it turns out, both his daughter and my son are enrolled. Despite my critic's radar pegging him as different from the other parents — with his rakish good looks, black jeans and boots, Brannen exudes "rock 'n' roller" — our first few casual conversations consist wholly of dad talk.
Even when we finally do get around to some serious music discussion one day, we still can't resist comparing notes on our kids. What, I wonder, does young Claire Marie think of Brannen's new CD?
"Oh, she calls it 'Daddy music,'" he says. "Next to Veggie Tales, my records are her favorite music to listen to. I'm number two on her charts!"
The tunes on Twilight Tattoo (released June 27 on Sly Dog Records) boast the kind of depth and nuance that only comes with experience. From rockers such as the Steve Earle-meets-Georgia Satellites opener "Just Restless" and the randy, swaggering "Black Mountain Dandy" through introspective fare such as "A Cut So Deep" (a slice of roots-soul, featuring Lucinda Williams) and the title track (a meditation on Iraq's human toll as seen through the eyes of a soldier), Twilight Tattoo surpasses the high standard Brannen set with his 2004 release The Good Thief.
Cut in Nashville with David Z (Prince, Etta James, Kenny Wayne Shepherd), Twilight Tattoo came together quickly thanks to the producer's "catch it fast, early and live" approach. As Brannen puts it, "I think the bloom is off the rose when you have to go back and chop a song up too much and interfere with the way it was performed."
Co-writing several songs with guitarists Kevin Bowe and Duane Jarvis also accelerated the process for Brannen. (On The Good Thief, he collaborated with Eagles associate Jack Tempchin.) "I'm more productive if I'm co-writing," he explains, "and as my friend Willis Alan Ramsey says, he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in a room by himself being clever!"
The duet with Williams was done later in Los Angeles; Brannen's immensely proud of how the song turned out. "There really was a vocal compatibility," he says. "There are even some places where we kind of flipped the harmonies around and you have to listen closely to tell which one of us is high or low. She's such a magic presence."
Raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Brannen inked a deal in 1988 with Capitol Records imprint Apache, which released his Springsteen-esque debut Mystery Street; its single "Desolation Angel" landed Brannen on MTV. By his self-titled 1993 disc, he was being groomed for country stardom by Mercury Nashville and touring with Toby Keith and Shania Twain. A video for "Moonlight And Magnolias" found a slicked-up Brannen resplendent in outrageously ornate duds — "a cross between Gram Parsons and Liberace," he laughs.
"I'd happened to be in Manuel's store," he says, referring to Manuel Martinez, Nashville's "couture cowboy" tailor. "I didn't even have the record deal yet. Manuel looked at me and said, 'I have something for you. Wait right here.' He comes back in and he's got this coat that looks like something the archangel Michael wore! I put it on and everybody just sort of stepped back in awe. I looked at the price tag, then said, 'Listen, I don't even have a deal!' He said, 'Oh no, you will — take it! I believe in you!' And in about two weeks I did!"
Unlike the coat, however, the homogenized demands of Music Row proved an ill fit for Brannen. Feeling the tug of coastal roots, he returned home to Charleston in 1996 and released an album titled Scarecrow in Europe in 2000. The Good Thief followed in 2004 on Detroit label Sly Dog.
Not long after that, Brannen moved to the North Carolina mountains. A touch of awe comes into his voice as he talks about his adopted home. "I love walking up through the Blue Ridge," he says. "There's this feeling of being here that you can rise up above the mist and take a look at where you've been."
Brannen instinctively draws upon his surroundings for inspiration (check the Twilight Tattoo track "The Mountain"), although much of his material is draped in the primary emotions: love, lust, sin, regret, redemption. "Hopefully, when you're going through these emotional releases of writing a song, you're describing something that's traveled through you, and you've also come upon something that's universal," he says.
Brannen leans forward to emphasize the point he's making. "A song has to reverberate with authentic experience for me. When that happens, you can hear it, feel it. It's that unspoken language that we're all trying to achieve, in any walk of life, I think."


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Ajetunmobi, O. M., Whyte, B., Chalmers, J., Tappin, D. M. , Wolfson, L., Fleming, M. , MacDonald, A., Wood, R. and Stockton, D. L. (2015) Breastfeeding is associated with reduced childhood hospitalization: evidence from a Scottish birth cohort (1997-2009). Journal of Pediatrics, 166(3), 620-625.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.11.013) (PMID:25556021) (PMCID:PMC4344374)
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Objective: To evaluate the risk of childhood hospitalization associated with infant feeding patterns at 6-8 weeks of age in Scotland. Study design: A retrospective population level study based on the linkage of birth, death, maternity, infant health, child health surveillance, and admission records for children born as single births in Scotland between 1997 and 2009 (n = 502 948) followed up to March 2012. Descriptive analyses, Kaplan Meier tests, and Cox regression were used to quantify the association between the mode of infant feeding and risk of childhood hospitalization for respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary tract infections, and other common childhood ailments during the study period. Results: Within the first 6 months of life, there was a greater hazard ratio (HR) of hospitalization for common childhood illnesses among formula-fed infants (HR 1.40; 95% CI 1.35-1.45) and mixed-fed infants (HR 1.18; 95% CI 1.11-1.25) compared with infants exclusively breastfed after adjustment for parental, maternal, and infant health characteristics. Within the first year of life and beyond, a greater relative risk of hospitalization was observed among formula-fed infants for a range of individual illnesses reported in childhood including gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urinary tract infections, otitis media, fever, asthma, diabetes, and dental caries. Conclusions: Using linked administrative data, we found greater risks of hospitalization in early childhood for a range of common childhood illnesses among Scottish infants who were not exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks of age.
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- You should first consider your shirt when determining the color and pattern of your tie — and then your suit. A crisp, white shirt and a dark navy or charcoal suit will always accentuate a brightly colored tie.
- Pattern layering can work when the patterns on the shirt and the tie complement one another, and a patterned tie with a white or light-colored pastel, like blue or pink, works well also.
- Choose your knot type according to your shirt. A widespread collar will look better with a large and triangular-shaped knot. This type of knot also looks better with an Italian silk tie.
- A straight-point collar shirt will look better paired with a narrower knot and a longer extension. A tall and lean gentleman looks better with a small, longish knot. Men that are stockier and have a thicker neck should opt for the wider knot and more proportionate tie width.
- A tie should end near the middle of the belt buckle. If you are a taller man, purchase a longer length tie to accommodate your height so that you appear proportioned.
- This should be self-explanatory, but wearing a tie that is wrinkled or stained will make you appear unkempt, no matter how good the rest of the outfit looks.
- Wash your ties by hand and dry them by hanging them over a chair or clothesline. You can iron a tie lightly with a cool iron or a steamer if it is wrinkled. Also, store your neckties properly on a tie rack to avoid unnecessary wrinkling.
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Community News [2021-11-07]
· Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all group meetings are currently on hold. For specific meetings and events, please contact the corresponding leaders for more details. Thanks for your patience!
· Offering via E-Transfer is now available! <email@example.com> Provide your Name and Offering number. Thank you to those who have expressed concern about the church's financial situation amidst this pandemic. The church is now accepting e-Transfer and online credit card donations. Please pray that these along with your offerings and the church financial reserves will help the church through the pandemic.
· If you need to enter the church, please contact the Church Admin 48 hours in advance (email@example.com, 416.499.0111 ext.101). For pastoral needs, please contact your pastors. Please visit the church's website for more details and prayer hotline.
· To attend physical worship, please register on the church website. The registration time is from Monday to Saturday at 10:30 in the morning, first come first serve until full capacity. Please pay attention to the requirements. Those who are fully-vaccinated will receive a vaccination verification card issued by the church after attending the physical worship for the first time. Please show this card when attending in the future to avoid the need to verify the vaccination certificate and identity documents, and to speed up the admission procedures. Thank you for your cooperation.
· After the stream has gone live, it takes 1-2 days to appear on our YouTube sermon playlist. Thanks for your patience.
· Before reopening worship for children, we hope to better understand the needs, expectations and problems of our families. Therefore, we invite and encourage all parents (with children aged 11 and under) to fill out the "Church Reopening Child Entity Worship Questionnaire" on or before November 8. After that, we plan to hold a KLS online consultation meeting to share the survey results with you and prepare for the reopening of KLS together. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
· Today is the International Day of Prayer (IDOP). Please pray for the persecuted churches around the globe.
· The membership meeting will be held on Zoom on Nov 28 Sunday 2pm. Agenda includes 2022 Budget approval and Constitution Revision. All members, please reserve your time to attend. Meeting ID 894 6499 8237 Passcode 332099


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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Craik Club > The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light
The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light
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From the zenith of the clear blue sky at sunset, to the ubiquitous liquid crystal display (LCD), sources of polarised light are everywhere. Yet our ability to observe the polarisation state of light with the naked eye alone is not widely known. When exposed to a source of linearly polarised light the observer sees a faint visual phenomenon consisting of a yellow hourglass flanked by blue-purple regions. This image extends for a few degrees around the fixation point and fades in a couple of seconds if the angle of polarisation is not altered. The phenomenon is referred to as 'Haidinger's brush' after the mineralogist who first reported it.
Whilst considerable effort has been directed toward testing polarization vision in other animals, the limits of human polarisation sensitivity remain largely uncharacterized and the origin of the effect is subject to dispute. In this talk I will describe the physical mechanisms that have been proposed to explain Haidinger's brush, consider their plausibility and present our initial attempts at characterising the human polarisation sensitivity threshold.
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A recommendation system is one of the applications of data science that is used by almost any application or website today. Many websites today use a recommendation system to recommend articles to their readers. For example, Medium.com and even the website you're currently reading this article on is also using a recommendation system to recommend articles to its readers. So, if you want to learn how to create an article recommendation system with machine learning, this article is for you. In this article, I will walk you through how to build an Article Recommendation System with Machine Learning using Python.
Article Recommendation System
There are many ways to create recommendation systems. To create an articles recommendation system, we need to focus on content rather than user interest. For example, if a user reads an article based on clustering, all recommended articles should also be based on clustering. So to recommend articles based on the content:
- we need to understand the content of the article
- match the content with all the other articles
- and recommend the most suitable articles for the article that the reader is already reading
For this task, we can use the concept of cosine similarity in machine learning. Cosine similarity is a method of building recommendation systems based on the content. It is used to find similarities between two different pieces of text documents. So we can use cosine similarity to build an article recommendation system. In the section below, I will take you through how to build an article recommendation system with machine learning using Python.
Article Recommendation System using Python
To create an article recommendation system, I collected data about some of the articles on this website itself. So let's import the necessary Python libraries and the dataset we need to create an articles recommendation system:
import pandas as pd import numpy as np from sklearn.feature_extraction import text from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity data = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amankharwal/Website-data/master/articles.csv", encoding='latin1') data.head()
This dataset is completely ready to use to create a recommender system, so let's use the cosine similarity algorithm and write a Python function to recommend articles:
As you can see from the output above, a new column has been added to the dataset that contains the titles of all the recommended articles. Now let's see all the recommendations for an article:
print(data["Recommended Articles"][22])
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Index 22 contains an article on "agglomerated clustering", and all the recommended articles are also based on the concepts of clustering, so we can say that this recommender system can also give great results in real-time.
So this is how you can build an articles recommendation system. A lot of websites today uses a recommendation system to recommend articles to their readers. I hope you liked this article on how to build an articles recommendation system with machine learning using Python. Feel free to ask your valuable questions in the comments section below.


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Through the LEARN programme, we are contributing to the advancement of scientific knowledge regarding water plastic pollution, the consequences of which are still largely ignored.
Meet the expert
As part of the production of its upcoming documentary, the Race for Water Foundation went to meet with experts on the many issues surrounding the plastic crisis.
We know today that plastic is not only a pollution problem but that it touches on much more complex issues that deserve to be known by the general public and seriously considered by our political and industrial leaders.
In order to share this valuable knowledge, we have decided to produce a series of short episodes that address issues such as the health risks of plastic packaging, the chemicals in plastic, the current dangers of recycling and alternatives to plastics, and social and environmental justice.
Each series concludes with an episode on possible solutions to these many challenges.
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Our goal with these webinars is to continue to build bridges between scientists, opinion leaders, policy makers and citizens to accelerate some of the urgent changes our society needs to make to preserve the ocean and ensure a healthy environment for us all.
Investigating in the field and with scientific experts
Odyssey 2015: a first odyssey dedicated to research
In 2015, the first Odyssey enabled a global situational analysis of this pollution to be made together with the initiation of scientific studies, the first results of which have been published in a scientific report entitled "Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the plastic marine debris collected along the coast"
The research topics are based on the study of macro-debris and microplastics collected on 30 beaches located within the zone of 'gyres' in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Thanks to this expedition, we have been able to show that the majority of plastic waste washed up on the beaches in the heart of the oceans is very small in size. Referred to as "microplastics" by scientists, they concentrate the pollutants that end up in the water and have numerous toxic effects on marine organisms. A team of researchers from the University of Bordeaux in France has been working for several years on these samples collected to understand the eco-toxicological effects of microplastics on cells, embryos, larvae and juveniles of fish. Read the full results in the article we dedicated to this incredible scientific mission:
The alarming impacts of micro-plastics on fish larvae and embryos.
After 4 years of scientific studies and experiments conducted with our partners from the University of Bordeaux, ONIRIS in Nantes and EPFL in Lausanne, new edifying results from the Odyssey Race for Water 2015…
Odyssey 2017 – 2020: new missions on an exceptional vessel
Adapted for scientific expeditions, the Race for Water vessel was completely redesigned in 2016 to provide optimal working conditions on-board. Thanks to her 90m2 dedicated to research, her stability and her self-sufficiency in terms of energy, this vessel enabled to host teams of five to seven researchers specialised in researching the impacts of plastic pollution in the oceans. During the 2017-2020 odyssey, no less than 7 missions were carried out in order to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge on plastic pollution in the oceans.
Following its first Odyssey, the foundation has also initiated an international communication platform to enable exchanging and sharing of its expertise with a view to turning the tide on plastic pollution of the oceans.
Today, this platform gathers together a whole community of experts, the majority of whom have been encountered during the stopovers for these two Odysseys: researchers, organisations, associations, institutions, governments, entrepreneurs and manufacturers.It is now open to the public.


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Grow Fat and Suffer the Consequences
Excess visceral fat tissue and other side-effects of the sort of high-calorie, low-exercise lifestyle required to pack on the fat will do you great harm in the long term. Getting fat is a choice is for the vast majority of people, a choice made again and again day after day by deciding to eat more calories and skip exercise in favor of other activities. For 99.9% of the audience here: you're not special, and there's nothing in your genes that's making it noticeably easier to gain weight or harder to lose it. But if you let yourself become fat, just as so many other people are doing in this age of comparative wealth and low-cost calories, then it will come back to bite you.
See this paper, for example:
In the second half of the 20th century it became obvious that a relentless increase in diabetes type 2 (DM) affecting the economically affluent countries, is gradually afflicting also the developing world. This review juxtaposes the threat that the DM epidemic represents to mankind, with the astonishing recent discoveries on the role of obesity and of the body fat in this metabolic disorder.
Presently, the highest prevalence of DM is in Saudi Arabia, a country deep in riches generated by its oil wells. DM is very high, in over 10% of adults in the USA, Switzerland and Austria. Prevalence is low in Norway, China and in Iceland. Predictions of epidemiologists for the first third of the 21st century claim up to 2.5 times increase in DM in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, rest of Asia and in the Latin America. In China the number of patients with DM will double but in the economically advanced countries that experienced rise in DM in the 20th century, the increase will be only about 50%. Remarkably, a lowest increase in DM is expected in the countries that formerly belonged to the Soviet political space.
Increasing urbanization, aging populations, obesity, and falling levels of physical activity are all contributing to the rise of DM worldwide. The main cause of DM pandemic is growing prevalence of obesity, in Europe and in the Latin America. In the North America obesity is considered to be responsible for 90% of DM in females. Male obesity is associated with DM slightly less, at 70-80% in the European Union and in the US.
Thin, healthy people aren't thin and healthy because they have magic genes. They're thin and healthy because they are eating less and exercising more than the fat folk. This isn't rocket science, and it does have an impact on the bottom line of your life expectancy.
Ginter E, & Simko V (2010). Diabetes type 2 pandemic in 21st century. Bratislavske lekarske listy, 111 (3), 134-7 PMID: 20437822


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Somehow I missed this when it came out. Stanley Sakai is working on a free app called Aloft. Basically it assists with streaming services. A quick summary from their page is that it offers more options, and especially makes the already-available options for text and font easier to use so that people of varying sensory needs can be met.
You can read all about it here, or skip down to the bottom to just try it out. Honestly, spread the word. Apparently Aloft is open source, which means the more people know about it, the more people can work on it, and the more it'll take off and improve.
Big props to Stanley Sakai and everyone working on the code of this project. It is a huge addition to the field.
Full disclosure, I haven't utilized it yet, but I just might give it a try in the next week or so.
I did try the software after posting, but in my ineptness I could not get it to work. As of October 2020, the aloft.nu website appears down. This post remains up to memorialize the program / monitor updates.


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If You're Going To Buy One Wine Glass, Here's What To Go For
Wine devotees know the glass dilemma. There are all kinds of different style glasses out there, each one with a specific function. If you're not a huge wine drinker, but you like to have a glass every now and then, you should still have the best wine glass for the job.
If you're drinking cheap wine or wine from a bag, by all means, use a solo cup. But, if you invest more than $15 on a bottle of wine and you want to maximize all of the flavors, you'll want at least one nice glass on hand. A Bordeaux glass can take on almost any type of wine.
Enjoying your wine is all about the aromas. A glass with an increased surface area is the best for releasing all of the natural aromas. The Sweethome, a product review site that's owned by The New York Times Company, tested 50 different wine glasses and came up with a recommendation for reasonably priced Kentfield Estate glasses. The New York Times reports that when you're looking for the right glass, a solid all-purpose stemmed glass should be vertically shaped, with a tall bowl area that opens wide toward the bottom and gets narrow towards the top.
Swirling the glass exposes the wine to air, which enhances its flavor. For the purpose of swirling freely, a narrow glass prevents the wine from spilling over the sides and it collects all of the aromas so you can easily smell them. If the glass had a wider opening and a shallow bowl, it would spill pretty easily when you go to swirl the glass. The Bordeaux has the ideal vertical shape.
The Wine Journal reports that the Bordeaux glass is perfect for at-home wine consumption. In the article, Nick Morisi, the sommelier at Yvonne's in Boston, suggests the Spiegelau Bordeaux glass. You can get a set of four for $30. Morisi says they're "affordable, practical and durable, yet the glass still feels elegant in your hand."
Unless you're a sommelier or a wine collector, you really don't need dozens of glasses filling up your cabinet. If you're looking for one wine glass to check most of your boxes (or you don't really care about specifics and just want a suggestion) go for the Bordeaux.


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A few months ago, I watched a TED video featuring Brene Brown (http://www.brenebrown.com/) speaking on her years of research on vulnerability, courage, worthiness and shame. I am now reading her book "Daring Greatly". She starts the book with the following quote from Theodore Roosevelt that is my daily reminder to dare greatly in all that I do – work, play, relationships.
The Man in the Arena, Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." – Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
On Saturday, I ran the "Run & Dye" 5k to support a friend who was running her first 5k – daring something new and different. 8000 people gathering to throw powdered dye at each other – crazy, fun and memorable. What an honor to be invited to be a part of someone's first event, to share the victory, to be in the arena – dye and all.
Today, I ran a half marathon with my "Sole Sisters" Jeanne and Linda – a beautiful morning, celebrating the joy of movement, distance and good friends cheering each other to the finish line and to share more time in the "arena".
As I get older, I choose to surround myself with people who dare me, feed my spirit and who want to be in the arena with me to enjoy life, to try harder despite the odds and to never, never, never give up.
Thanks Suz, Jeanne and Linda for being with me in the arena this weekend daring greatly, enjoying each moment.
Awesome and amazing! Thank you so much for sharing – watched Brene Brown on Super Soul Sunday today & heard that quote again. Excellent post!!May 5, 2013
Thanks – really enjoying her book and looking forward to more. It's wonderful to discover new insights. I also enjoy Super Soul Sunday too.May 5, 2013
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Good for you! I saw this TED talk and was just as inspired and encouraged. In my case, it was to begin to sew once again. To dare myself to treat this 'hobby' as the art form that it is. m.May 5, 2013
Outstanding! Thanks for sharing and showing the way.May 5, 2013
You look fabulous with a purple face. Today I painted my porch furniture purple because life is better lived in color.May 5, 2013
Best make up day yet – looking for that same shade for everyday use. 🙂May 6, 2013
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I was just writing in my journal about how I'm going to need a lot of courage to get thru an upcoming event. I put my pen down, turned on the computer to check email and there was your blog. Amazing!May 6, 2013
Very cool. Enjoy it before, during and after. I was pining whether it would rain so I didn't enjoy the before as much as I could have.May 6, 2013
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I was lucky to have you by my side. While it was probably the slowest run EVER for you, it was a good warm up to your REAL run on Sunday. Thanks for your support, dear friend! We look HOT in that picture!!May 6, 2013
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Thank you, Kathie for sharing your time with me! I love Teddy Roosevelt's speech. It is one of I think of often when trying something out of my comfort zone.May 6, 2013
I'm guessing it's still "no" to another duathalon? There's plenty more outside our comfort zone.May 6, 2013
I love Brene'. I got to meet her in December at a conference and she is so real.
I enjoy the idea of surrounding ourselves with people who challenge us to make our lives richer. Thanks for the reminder.May 6, 2013
Thanks for commenting. We have a lot to celebrate as we unfold into our true self.May 6, 2013
You might be interested in this blogger. He is studying the Daring series
http://www.stevewiens.com/May 7, 2013
Thanks for sharing.May 7, 2013
Thanks for the great post. That's the first time I've read the whole "Man in the Arena" quote. It seems like our culture celebrates the critic, the armchair quarterback, more than the person who tries and errs, who strives to do the deeds. Too bad.May 11, 2013
Keep doing the deeds and stay in the arena. Thanks for sharing!May 11, 2013


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Everyone knows actress Kristen Bell as the bubbly blonde with a golden voice and bright eyes. Though the Hollywood star may seem like the last person you'd expect to be struggling with her mental health, Bell has actually been dealing with anxiety and depression since she was in college. At that time, Bell didn't understand why she felt so hopeless. She was doing well in school, was financially secure, and had friends and ambition.
Even now, as a wildly successful performer with a husband and children, Bell's mental health struggles persist. Only recently has she felt comfortable opening up more about them, despite the support and acceptance she received as a young adult. It just goes to show how powerful the stigma surrounding mental health can be and how it can prevent people from seeking out the help they need.
Struggling with mental illness can make you feel incredibly vulnerable; admitting that you're struggling with mental illness and reaching out for help can feel even more so. At Thriveworks Counseling in Scottsdale, AZ, we're here to help break the stigma and provide top-notch mental health support in a confidential and comfortable environment. Our psychologists are available, both in-person and online, to support you and help you as you learn to take care of your mental wellbeing.
Would Psychology Appointments Be Right for Me?
It may seem obvious that if you're dealing with a mental illness like anxiety or depression, you should seek the help of a psychologist. But recognizing the symptoms of mental illness isn't always easy.
Some signs that you might be dealing with mental illness include:
- Persistent feelings of isolation
- Excessive worrying or fear
- Strong feelings of irritation, especially when the situation doesn't seem to warrant them
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Psychology appointments can also be useful to those who are not experiencing a specific mental health issue. For example, you might also be interested in attending sessions if you're experiencing the following:
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How Can a Licensed Psychologist Help Me?
Dealing with mental illness or changes that affect your daily life can make it feel like stability and happiness remain beyond reach. A clinical psychologist can help you regain a sense of control over your life by helping you work through the circumstances impacting your mental health.
To become a licensed psychologist, one must earn an advanced degree and go through clinical training. This means that a psychologist is equipped to deal with a wide variety of issues.
In your early sessions, they'll take the time to get to know you and any challenges you may be facing. They'll examine what role physical, biological, and environmental factors might be playing in the difficulties you're experiencing. Talking through these elements, as well as your thoughts and behaviors, can help your provider create a treatment plan that is tailored to your specific situation.
If you have a clear idea of what issues you're facing, you can also seek out a licensed psychologist who specializes in a particular area. For instance, if you've decided to attend therapy following the death of a loved one, you'll likely benefit from talking to a psychologist with a specialty area in loss and grief. On the other hand, someone facing panic attacks would benefit more from a psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders.
No matter what you may be facing, help is available. Our mental health professionals in Scottsdale, AZ are committed to helping you improve your mental wellbeing, find greater fulfillment in your relationships, and empower you to lead a happy and healthy life.
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We offer affordable rates and accept insurance to make appointments as accessible as possible. We also have availability in the evenings and weekends so you can get started quickly. New clients are often able to meet with a provider in as little as 24-48 hours. We also offer exclusive online perks, like text message support via our Success Navigator and an online forum.
Schedule an appointment at Thriveworks in Scottsdale, AZ to get started. We hope to meet you soon.


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Overview: Chapter 7 Sensor node platforms must contend with many issues Energy consumption Sensing environment Networking Real-time constraints Not typical distributed system application Programming Models Programs by end users Encode application logic Abstract details from users Programs by application developers Expose data acquisition and hardware interface to developers Sensor Node Hardware Categories Augmented general purpose PC104, Sensoria WINS NG, PDAs Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) OS & components: Wndows CE, Linux, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 Dedicated embedded sensor nodes Berkeley motes, UCLA Medusa, Ember nodes, MIT AMP COTS chip sets (small form factors), programming languages(e.g., C) System-on-chip (SoC) Smart dust, BWRC picoradio nodes, PASTA nodes Berkeley Motes Limited memory Program memory: 8 - 128 KB RAM: 0.5 - 4 KB External storage (Flash): 32 - 512 KB Limited Communication Max 50 kbps (with hardware acccel.) Energy savings is important 12 mA to transmit data Programming Challenges Traditional programming models not suitable Programmer must handle with messaging, networking, event synch., interrupts etc. Embedded OS (if any) expose hardware details to programmer Distributed algorithms/data structures difficult to implement Respond to multiple stimuli quickly Software Platforms: TinyOS Targeted for resource constrained platforms (motes) Small memory footprint No filesystem Only static memory allocation Software made up of components Components create tasks and added to task scheduler Tasks run to completion: no preempting by other tasks Events: interrupts from hardware Run to completion, can preempt tasks Software Platforms: nesC Extension of C for TinyOS Components Interface Defines what functionality component uses and provides Implementations Modules: written in C-like syntax Configurations: connect interfaces of existing components Cuncurrency Asynchronous code (AC) vs. Synchronous code (SC) SC atomic w.r.t. other SC Programmers must understand concurrency issues in code Software Platforms: TinyGALS Dataflow language Programming model Supports all TinyOS components Construct asynch. actors from synch. components Construct application by connecting asynch. components through FIFO queues Code Generation Map high-level constructs to low-level code for motes Automatically generate code for scheduling, event handling, FIFO queues Node-Level Simulators Sensor node model Mobility of nodes Energy consumption Communication model Capture details of communication (RF propagation delay, MAC layer etc.) Physical environmental model Model physical phenomena in operating environment Statistics and visualization Collect results for analysis Node-Level Simulator: ns-2 & TOSSIM ns-2 Originally developed for wired networks Extensions for sensor nodes Node locations vs. logical addresses Energy models Physical phenomena TOSSIM Simulator for TinyOS apps on Berkeley motes Compiles nesC source into simulator components State-Centric Programming Applications more than simple distributed programs Applications depend on state of physical environment Collaboration Groups Set of entities that contribute to state updates Abstracts network topology and communication protocols Multi-target tracking problem Global state decoupled into separate pieces Each piece managed by different principal State updated by looking at inputs from other principals Collaboration groups define communication and roles of each principal


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It's Wednesday again and for me that means getting up that little bit earlier before I go to the gym to post this. A post that shows the world my desk. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, this is a blog hop peeping over people's shoulders to see what they are making/crafting/creating/messing about with. Julia at Stamping Ground has all the details).
There is nothing on my desk though. All my craft stuff is downstairs and I haven't done much crafting lately.
You can see we have lit the stove. It is pretty lousy weather here today, excuse my French. It's cold and raining. The rain is a blessing, mind, as it rains so seldom, the farmers are dancing a jig around their plots!
I have been going to art classes so I can show you what I have done there:
(if you take offence at seeing a naked man, then stop right here because there is one coming up in a moment)
I copied this from a statue. She has her arm over her head, which looks a bit weird I guess.
And here is the above mentioned young man:
No, we did not have live models, lol.(Oh what a shame!) Again it was a picture of a statue (Greek?). My teacher liked it very much and wrote "Muy Bien" by the side of it, which means "well done".
I will leave you with a photo taken a few days ago near where we live:
It is the Sierra Nevada with almond trees in the foreground. The Sierra Nevada has a ski resort (just outside Granada). The mountains don't look so high but we live on a high plain (altoplano) at 1200 m altitude (3600 ft), so that is deceiving really.
Have a great week all of you. When I come back from the gym I will start doing a few visits.


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Firebase vs tenefit.cloud
This Firebase vs tenefit.cloud comparison was created based on reviews from developers and our best attempts to perform analysis by looking at documentation and other publicly available resources.
Easily build complete, trusted realtime functionality.Take our APIs for a spin
|Getting started and developer experience
Time to "hello world"
Reviewed by 3+ independent developers
Ratings were given based on the average amount of time it takes to sign up to a new account and publish the first message.
3 / 5
5 = <30 min
3 / 5
5 = <30 min
Demos / Tutorials
A selection of online demos and tutorials so you can test and see the code in action.Explore Ably's tutorials for our pub/sub messaging platform
Reviewed by 3+ independent developersExplore Ably's documentation for our pub/sub messaging platform
4 / 5
Getting started guides5 / 5
Information architecture and developer journey4 / 5
API reference documentation4 / 5
Readability, design and navigation4 / 5
Quality of code4 / 5
Breadth and quality of tutorials3 / 5
"Good getting started guides, across various languages. The API reference documentation is very detailed, but it lacks any interactivity, which is not great, considering that there's a lot of content. There are a few Codelabs and several multi-feature samples of apps built with Firebase, to showcase functionality, but nothing else that can be regarded as a tutorial. Documentation could be enhanced by including some extra code samples throughout. You can find a lot of samples on GitHub, but you have to do some digging. Including more end-to-end use cases directly in the docs would improve the overall developer experience."
2.33 / 5
Getting started guides2 / 5
Information architecture and developer journey2 / 5
API reference documentation1 / 5
Readability, design and navigation4 / 5
Quality of code3 / 5
Breadth and quality of tutorials2 / 5
"tenefit.cloud documentation is schematic and not informative. It gives you a very quick overview of the solution and some other lightweight details on usage. There are no technical details about how tenefit.cloud works, nothing about the quality of service, reconnections, conflation, deltas, or any of the features mentioned on the product page. There's no API reference to consume because tenefit.cloud uses SSE APIs in the browser rather than provide proprietary APIs. At least the docs are designed in a readable way, and the nav is intuitive. However, with almost no getting started guides, seldom code snippets, only a couple of simplistic tutorials, and no depth in general, tenefit.cloud documentation is opaque and insufficient for developers."
Dashboard or dev console
Reviewed by 3+ independent developersSign up for free and explore Ably's pub/sub messaging platform
4.67 / 5
Ease of use4 / 5
Stats and reports5 / 5
Functionality5 / 5
"The dev console has a wide range of features available, grouped into five main categories: Project Overview (basically your dashboard), Develop - where you handle everything from auth to storage and serverless functions invocation, Quality - where you can view crash reports and latency stats, Analytics - which includes various stats, including GA, and, finally, Grow - where you can do stuff like A/B testing. Navigation is intuitive, but all the functionality available can be a bit too much if you're new to Firebase, and it takes some time to be able to master it all."
2.67 / 5
Ease of use5 / 5
Stats and reports1 / 5
Functionality2 / 5
"tenefit.cloud has a simplistic console, which allows you to connect to Kafka topics and map them to front end URLs that clients can subscribe to. It is easy to use since there are only a few actions you can perform. The UI is simple and unpolished. The functionality is limited, and there is practically no reporting available, no way to do debugging, and not even an advanced setting."
Note: Only official SDKs were taken into account.Explore Ably's 25+ SDKs for our pub/sub messaging platform
9 SDKs
0 SDKs
tenefit.cloud has no proprietary client SDKs or APIs
API structure
Reviewed by 3+ independent developers
4.50 / 5
API consistency across SDKs4 / 5
Well structured5 / 5
Intuitive5 / 5
Simple4 / 5
"APIs are well documented (even if it's in a boring way), and the methods are generally easy to read through and can be understood fairly quickly. APIs are straightforward and easy enough to use; there are however slight inconsistencies across SDKs".
1 / 5
API consistency across SDKs1 / 5
Well structured1 / 5
Intuitive1 / 5
Simple1 / 5
"tenefit.cloud does not provide any proprietary APIs. It uses the W3C standard SSE APIs available in the browser, so there is nothing to rate."
|"Hello world" code example
|Realtime features
Pub/Sub messaging
Pub/Sub is a design pattern that lets any number of publishers (producers) push messages to channels (also known as topics). Multiple subscribers (consumers) can subscribe to a channel to consume published messages.Explore Ably's pub/sub messaging implementation
tenefit.cloud allows clients to subscribe to Kafka topics to consume messages via a pub/sub paradigm. However, client apps cannot publish messages to Kafka.
Message queues
A message queue is a form of asynchronous service-to-service communication. Messages are stored on a queue until they are processed. Note that each message is only consumed by one subscriber (consumer).Explore Ably's message queues implementation
Presence enables you to track the online and offline status of devices and end-users in real time and to store their state. Essential for chat apps and multiplayer games.Explore Ably's presence implementation
Message history
Message history provides a means to retrieve previously published messages. For this to be possible, message data must be stored (persisted) somewhere.Explore Ably's message history implementation
Connection state recovery (stream resume)
In the case of unreliable network conditions, clients may suddenly disconnect.Connection state recovery ensures that when they reconnect, the data stream resumes exactly where it left off.Explore Ably' s connection state recovery implementation
Guaranteed message ordering
Ordering ensures that messages are delivered to consumers in the same order that producers publish them.Explore Ably' s guaranteed message ordering implementation
Exactly-once semantics
Exactly-once is a system-wide data integrity guarantee that ensures each message is delivered to consumers exactly-once.Explore Ably' s idempotent publishing implementation
Message delta compression
Message delta compression enables you to only send the changes from the previous message to subscribers each time there's an update, instead of the entire message. Useful for use cases where there is a significant degree of similarity between successive messages.Explore Ably' s message delta compression implementation
Native push notifications
Native push notifications can be used to deliver messages even when clients are offline. Useful for geolocation updates or news alerts.Explore Ably's push notifications implementation
Webhooks provide a mechanism to get messages and other types of events (such as clients entering or leaving channels) pushed to your servers over HTTP.Explore Ably's webhooks implementation
Serverless functions
A serverless function is essentially an isolated, single-purpose piece of code that is only executed when it' triggered by an event. For example, you can use serverless functions to send a welcome message to clients when they become present on chat channels.
Note that serverless functions are usually fully managed by cloud vendors.Explore Ably's serverless functions implementation
Can only trigger Cloud Functions for Firebase. Does not support other serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda or Azure Functions.
Built-in integrations
Which popular services & systems are Firebase and tenefit.cloud integrated with?Explore Ably's library of integrations
Serverless functions
Serverless functions
Known limits and constraints
Find out practical limits, such as the maximum message size, or the maximum number of concurrent connections.Explore the practical limits of the Ably pub/sub messaging platform
The information below applies to Firebase Cloud Messaging:
240 messages/minute and 5.000 messages/hour to a single device
Maximum message size
Maximum number of topics
No limit on the total number of topics, but an app instance can be subscribed to no more than 2000 topics.
Maximum number of concurrent connections
2.500 connections per project
|Supported development platforms, languages, open protocols and cloud models
Development platforms & operating systems
Which popular development platforms and operating systems do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support via official SDKs?Explore the development platforms supported by Ably
Which popular programming languages do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support via offical SDKs?Explore the programming languages supported by Ably
Open protocols
Which popular open protocols do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support?Explore the open protocols supported by Ably
Cloud models
Which popular cloud models do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support?
|Global and reliable edge service
Edge messaging network with latency-based routing
Latency-based routing ensures that clients are always routed to the nearest datacenter and point of presence.Explore Ably's routing mechanism that mitigates network and DNS issues
Edge-optimized, dynamic datacenter selection is available only for the Cloud Firestore component.
Multi-region data replication (message durability)
Multi-region data replication (storage) protects against single points of failure and ensures message data durability.Learn how Ably ensures message durability
Uptime SLAs
Here's what the most common SLAs amount to in terms of downtime over a calendar year:
99.999% SLA = 5m 15s downtime per year
99.99% SLA = 52m 35s downtime per year
99.95% SLA = 4h 22m 58s downtime per year
99.9% SLA = 8h 45m 56s downtime per year
99% SLA = 3d 15h 39m 29s downtime per year
Source: https://uptime.is/
99.95% for Firebase Hosting and the Realtime Database.
99.99 % if you are using Cloud Firestore in a single-region configuration.
99.999% if you are using Cloud Firestore in a multi-region configuration.
Unclear what SLAs (if any) are provided for the rest of the Firebase services.
Quality of Service
What QoS guarantees do Firebase and tenefit.cloud provide natively?Explore Ably's availability and uptime guarantees for our pub/sub messaging platform
API key authentication
The simplest way to authenticate. Involves using private API keys that you can usually create and edit via a dashboard. Recommended to be used server-side, as private API keys shouldn't be shared with untrusted parties.Explore Ably's implementation of API key authentication
Token-based authentication
Which popular token-based authentication mechanisms do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support?
Note that token-based authentication is usually the recommended strategy on the client-side as it provides more fine-grained access control and limits the risk of credentials being compromised.Explore Ably's implementation of token-based authentication
Configurable rules and permissions
Which types of configurable rules and permissions do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support?Explore Ably's configurable rules and permissions
Message encryption
Which types of message encryption do Firebase and tenefit.cloud support?Explore Ably's message encryption mechanisms
Formal certifications
Which formal certifications are Firebase and tenefit.cloud compliant with?Explore Ably's security and compliance for our pub/sub messaging platform
|Pricing & Support
Free package
What do the free packages offered by Firebase and tenefit.cloud consist of?Explore Ably's free package for our pub/sub messaging platform
The Spark plan includes several products from the Firebase suite that are entirely free to use, such as cloud messaging (FCM) or in-app messaging. The Spark plan also allows for free usage of most of the other products, up to certain limits. Some examples: first 125k/month Cloud Functions invocations free, 10 GB of free storage (hosting), and 1 GiB of free storage in Cloud Firestore.
There doesn't seem to be a free package.
Pricing model
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Firebase offers two pricing plans: the Spark plan (free) and the Blaze plan (pay as you go), which is recommended for building apps at scale.
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The world we know today has largely been shaped by geography, populations and agriculture. Peter Zeihan has some useful analysis of how geography has shaped geopolitics.
He correctly notes the large advantages the US has had with the best farmland and the best connected river system. Rivers can transport goods at 15 times greater energy efficiency than trucks and two to three times better than trains. Pipelines can be as energy efficient as rivers but have a far higher capital cost.
However, Zeihan does not update to see how megaprojects and technology are overcoming the power of geography to dictate world power.
The US has had the advantage of geography that is resistant to invasion and wars. This is less relevant because nuclear weapons and modern militaries have eliminated most of the perceived gains countries could get from conquering other countries. Wars between developed countries with modern militaries have been very rare since WW2 and especially since the end of the cold war.
The main war that has been deterred by the US has been China's desire to regain Taiwan. Many geopolitical analysts like to talk about what if the US abandons its role as global peacekeeper. The US did not stop the war between Iran and Iraq. There have been border wars between China and India and India and Pakistan. The US chosen to be not involved or minimally involved in certain situations for decades. The situation then is shaped by the dominant regional players.
* Megaconstruction has reshaped river systems and China has reshaped its inland waterways. * China has upgraded its agricultural land and is fixing pollution.
* Self-driving trucks will revolutionize logistics. It can bring down the cost by about 4 times and can increase the distance driven in a day by 2.5 times. This will give every highway the speed and capacity of a highspeed rail line. Rail will be crushed for cargo and this will further reduce the importance of river shipping.
Geography is already being overcome as countries that make investments eliminate the advantages of other countries or remove their own disadvantages.
Overcoming Dependence on US Consumers
Zeihan also talks about global dependence on the USA for security and markets.
Now the total world consumer spending is over $40 trillion. The US has $13.6 trillion and China is number two with $6 trillion. The European Union collectively has $9.7 trillion and Japan is next with $2.8 trillion. Germany has $2 trillion.
The World and US consumer spending is growing at about 3% per year. China is growing at 9% per year. China's consumer spending growth is faster than its GDP growth. China's share of GDP for consumer spending is about 44% when many countries have 54% to 68%. South Korea is the developed country with the next lowest share of consumer spending at 48%. China could grow consumer spending at a 9% pace for several years until it gets into the 55-65% range of share of GDP for spending. This is even if the GDP growth rate drops to 4-5% per year.
China is on track to get to about $8 trillion in consumer spending in 2021. In 2025, China should be at $11.2 trillion. They should reach $16 trillion in 2029. The US market should have still grown to around $17-18 trillion in 2029. The passing of the US consumer market should happen around 2030-2035. This should happen even if China drops from 6-7% down to 4-5% in the early 2020s. The US and China will be within 15% of each other from 2029-2037 in terms of overall consumer spending.
China Reshaped Its Rivers With Dams, Dredging and Megascale Construction
China is widening and deepening all of its major rivers. China has more than 75,000 miles (some 125,000 km) of navigable inland waterways, the most extensive system of any country in the world.
When the Yangtze is high in summer, it is navigable from its mouth to as far as Chongqing for ships of up to 5,000 tons.
Guoyuan, a 16-berth port connected to the railway in Chongqing, shipped 12 million tonnes of freight last year, but can handle up to 30 million tonnes. Every day, cargo shipped from Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan arrives for transfer to railroad cars, often bound for northern Europe, 16 days away.
By 2020, four new rail-water-road ports and nine specialized ports will have been built in Chongqing, and the aggregate cargo handling capacity of the municipality is expected to hit 220 million tons. The Mississippi waterway handles about 560 million tons each year.
The Yangtze is the world's busiest river. More than 2.3 billion tons of cargo went through ports in 2016 and is growing at about 6 percent. This includes 330 million tonnes of exports and around 15 million containers.
The 40-year-old Nanjing Port had its channel deepened to 12.5 meters. The port's capacity has exceeded 100 million tons. Nanjing can now handle ships of up to 80,000 tons.
The waterway from the estuary of the Yangtze to Nanjing was only 7 meters deep in 1998. The channel depth in Jiangsu has been gradually increased, first to 8.5 meters and then 10.5 meters, making it navigable by bulk carriers and oil tankers.
The Xi River is second in importance only to the Yangtze, being the major water transport artery of South China. Ships of 1,000 tons can sail up the Xi to Wuzhou, while smaller craft can sail up its middle and upper courses as well as up the Bei and Dong rivers and the tributaries of all these streams.
In 2008, heavy investments began in the Wu navigation channel. 430 km of the waterway were dredged and there was construction of berths, navigation facilities and huge ship elevators to raise boats up to 200 meters. Navigation was suspended in 2003 when Goupitan hydropower station opened and the water level differential arose. Now water transit has resumed, annual freight volume is expected to hit 15 million tonnes in three years and 100 million tonnes by 2030.
Agriculture Despite Inferior Land
China has agriculture production that has five times the value of US production. China has seven times less land per person and over 4 times the population of the USA.
China's land now averages production that is only 20% less than the US per hectare.
China is spending hundreds of billions each year to fix polluted farmland and to upgrade irrigation and other aspects of farmland.
Self-driving Trucks
Self-driving trucks will revolutionize logistics. It can bring down the cost by about 4 times and can increase the distance driven in a day by 2.5 times.
A self-driving truck would be able to deliver across the USA in about 1 day instead of 5 days.
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Match protocol
UEFA Conference League group stage, round 5 game
Tallinn, November 25
Venue: A. Le Coq Arena
Kick-off time: 4.30pm CET
Referee: Robert Harvey (Rep. of Ireland)
Yellow cards: Zenjov, Sappinen (FLR) – Jovic (PAR)
GOALS: 1-0 `44 Miler
Igonen, Lilander, Purg, Kuusk, Lukka (`79 Kallaste), Zenjov, Poom, Soomets (`79 Shein), Kuraksin (`58 Ojama), Miler (`72 Vassiljev), Aliku (`58 Sappinen)
Popovic, Miljkovic, Miletic, Sanicanin, Urosevic, Zdjelar, Scekic (`57 Jojic), Pantic (`57 Pavlovic), Jovic (`57 Lutovac), Menig (`57 Markovic), Ricardo (`74 Milovanovic)
`1: First Partizan attack, unsuccessful pass for Ricardo. Scekic makes a midfield foul in the follow-up
`3: Low cross from Miljkovic for Ricardo, Flora defence clears the danger
`8: Sharp and inviting cross from Menig, Jovic late to get on the end of it
`9: Shot from Aliku blocked, Flora wins corner-kick
`10: Partizan counter-attack, fine pass from Miljkovic over to Pantic, followed by a pass to Ricardo and finally, pass to Jovic whose shot got blocked
`15: Long ball forward from Miletic over for Ricardo, Keeper Igonen comes out and claims the ball
`17: Sharp Flora cross, Zenjov shots over the bar from close range, Urosevic did enough to distract Flora player`s attempt
`19: Menig breaks and crosses, Partizan wins corner-kick
`20: Zdjelar shoots on the rebound, Flora player blocks his attempt
`24: Rebound in the crowded box falls to Miler whose shot got saved by Popovic
`26: Partizan corner-kick, Jovic`s shot blocked on the rebound
`28: Great right flank break and cross from Menig, Ricardo unable to get to the end of it
`31: Zenjov (tripping) booked
`34: Shot well wide from Miler
`40: Big opportunity for Miler, another shot wide from Flora player
`44: 1-0, FLORA! Long ball forward, ghosting Miler heads the ball into the bottom right corner of the net
`45: One minute added time
`45+1: Half-time whistle
`47: Cross from Ricardo, ball cleared out of the box
`50: Fine 20m shot from Pantic and equally good save from Igonen
`51: Jovic (diving in the box) booked
`56: Four Partizan changes – Pantic, Menig, Scekic and Jovic out for Jojic, Markovic, Pavlovic and Lutovac
`58: Ojama and Sappinen in for Kuraksin and Aliku
`61: Shot from Jojic blocked for another Partizan corner-kick
`65: Partizan players miss two fine opportunities in a space of few seconds
`69: Sappinen (roughing) booked
`70: Opportunity for Flora, alerted Popovic comes out and clears the danger
`72: Vassiljev on for Miler
`73: Shot from Vassiljev wide
`74: Fine right side run from Miljkovic but keeper claims the ball after his cross
`75: Milovanovic in for Ricardo
`77: Fine shot from Jojic and diving save from Igonen
`80: Kallaste in for Lukka
`85: Markovic suffers a serious arm injury, leaves the field on a stretcher
`90: Six mins added time
`90+7: Final whistle


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Campus Curiosities
A tour of the subtle, strange and sometimes unnoticed elements of campus.
Nestled deep within the Botanical Garden near a bend in the stream … a serpentine palm bridge leads to a jungle peninsula where, among the fronds and foliage, the patient observer will find a wooden birdhouse.
Just up the path, under a small gazebo stands a wise, whittled tiki head. With his origins unknown, students and staff try to make him feel comfortable on campus by styling his locks of Spanish moss.
Leave the pavement and follow the mulch path to the east to discover an abandoned tree fort. All that remains are a few planks and a tattered rope swing. While this type of "free range construction" is discouraged today, Panthers of the '70s and '80s often collaborated on "jungle" hangouts.
These are campus curiosities—from little-noticed nuances to long-fabled lore, relics of bygone days and tokens of quirk and character. Take a trip down memory lane or discover something new and unexpected about campus:
Botanical Garden
Hidden off the beaten path, deep within the garden, this birdhouse hangs among the fronds and foliage. Inside is a treasure, or more precisely, a geocache, one of 10 on campus.
Tiki Head
Botanical Garden
This wise old tiki head lives in the Botanical Garden. He's big and bald and appreciates when students sprinkle Spanish moss on his dome.
Eye of the Dragon
Keuper Building
During the 1970s and 1980s, Florida Tech was a leader in granting graduate fellowships to Chinese students. Taiwanese officials presented the Chao Tsu-Yu Chinese clock, which is covered in intricate embellishments, to the university as a gift in 1981.
Hobbit Door
Near Tennis Courts
Bilbo Baggins might not have had a problem accessing the racquetball court through this door, but it was taken out of service in 2000 to accommodate non-Shire ballplayers.
Atomic Toilet
East of Crawford Building
Florida Tech's first research director David Woodbridge won national attention in 1970 when Time Magazine published an article describing his efforts to use radioactive cobalt-60 to purify water. The underground facility he used to conduct experiments lies beneath a small structure near the Crawford Building that resembles an outdoor restroom. We call it the Atomic Toilet.
Two-Headed Palm
Botanical Garden
No, this tree wasn't struck by lightning or the subject of a covert biology experiment. It's just the natural growth pattern of the gingerbread palm. This specimen can be found near the parking lot behind the Denius Student Center.
Melbourne Mammoth
Evans Library
The remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered on campus in the 1920s. Part of the gigantic creature's 10,000-year-old molar is on display in Evans Library.
Bas Relief
Work Building
This artwork is one of two ornamental decorations that adorned the old University of Melbourne building. This relief depicts three individuals, representing different races, rising above the world. One holds a dove of peace, the second carries a pair of scales and a scroll, and the third bears a book.
Stairway to Nowhere
Residence Quad
The quad dorms were originally constructed in the late '60s with open-air patios. Eventually the patios were enclosed, so now only deadend stairways remain.
Watcher in the Wood
Evans Library
This happy little face just showed up one day and is now one more part of what makes Florida Tech a fun place to live and learn. Find him outside the library facing the covered bridge.
Door Without a Landing
Residence Quad
This door provides access to mechanical space under the stairs at Grissom. It is rarely used and is for service personnel only. Hence, no landing.
Old School House
Botanical Garden
Melbourne's oldest surviving schoolhouse was built in 1883 by John Goode at his house on the river and was moved to Florida Tech in 1970. Today, it rests in the Botanical Garden as a reminder of days past when students sat on benches, wrote on slates and drank from the well nearby.
Hedgecock Gym Floor
Clemente Center
The old gym floor was headed to the trash when athletics director Bill Jurgens said, "Hey, wait a minute!" Now the panther-faced floorboards adorn a prominent wall in the athletics office on the second floor of the Clemente Center.
Schulmerich Carillon
Evans Library
On floor 3.5 (or the landing between floors 3 and 4 of the Evans Library) sits an unusual instrument, a Schulmerich Coronation Carillon "Auto Bell" Roll player. In the early '00s, the device was programmed to play the alma mater at Panther Plaza.
50th Anniversary Palm
Botanical Garden
Jerome P. Keuper's vision for campus included palm trees … lots of them. He planted a row of royal palms all along Country Club Road but a hard freeze in the early '60s wiped them out … except for one. The stoic specimen was transplanted and today can be found just east of the Old School House at the Dent Smith trailhead.


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Actress/activist Alyssa Milano is partnering with a group that helps grow progressive power in all levels of government. She made the announcement Friday. It is a "brilliant" new strategy to stop President Trump's re-election if she does say so herself – and she does. Her initiative is called #2020Fund.
This is how we win in 2020! From the grassroots up!
More info here: https://t.co/DcClnc3qrj #2020Fund pic.twitter.com/O6VFexl4sZ
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) January 24, 2020
Milano is partnering with Movement Voter Project (MVP). The group, according to its website, "helps thousands of donors support hundreds of local groups in more than 40 states get out the vote, win on issues, and organize in their communities." Milano is focusing on raising money to get out the vote in three swing states for the 2020 election – Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. MVP pledges to match donations, up to $1M, to hire staff, support volunteers, and canvass neighborhoods.
I've found a brilliant new strategy to stop Trump in three of the most critical 2020 swing states," the actress wrote on the fund's website. "These organizations empower youth, immigrants, women, people of color and communities facing the worst of Republicans' horrible policies. They fight tirelessly on the issues and increase voter turnout."
Donations to grassroots organizations can be made through the fund's website. "This is the most compelling strategy I've heard to stop the orange-haired guy AND support local community heroes at the same time," Milano wrote on the donations page of the website. "Please join me in supporting these awesome, underfunded local groups to save our country — from the grassroots up!"
The organizations in Michigan for which Milano will be raising money include Detroit Action, Michigan Liberation and Mothering Justice Action Fund. The Pennsylvania organizations for which she's fundraising are 215 People's Alliance, Pennsylvania Stands Up and Pennsylvania Student Power Network. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin-based organizations are Black Leaders Organizing Communities, Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund and Voces de la Frontera Action, Inc.
The push is to motivate young people and people of color to get out and vote against the bad Orange Man. Instead of endorsing a candidate in the Democrat primary, she is promoting a message of unity among Democrat voters so that the goal of preventing Trump's re-election is met. As she bemoans the fact that Trump won in 2020 thanks to "just" 77,000 votes total in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, she is honest enough to admit, "and he could easily do it again." Even Alyssa Milano knows that President Trump is very likely to win re-election, despite The Resistance's best efforts over the last three years.
Milano has been busy this week attending the impeachment trial. The Washington Post interviewed her and just as other Hollywood celebrities and the media are swooning over Adam Schiff's performances, so is Alyssa Milano. He is so compelling. She slammed Trump's defense team but gosh, Schiff is so theatrical compared to the other House impeachment managers. It's like watching a one-man show on Broadway.
It was intense. It was definitely intense. It felt historic — just being in that room alone, it was overwhelming. But also I think to be able to watch Congressman [and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam] Schiff speak, he was so compelling, and I think you could feel, especially yesterday [Wednesday] when he really laid out the constitutional crisis, you could see the Republican senators become a lot more engaged — sort of taking notes feverishly and really listening and hanging on every word, which was refreshing to me because I just expected everyone to be sort of disengaged.
The other thing was that I had a perfect vantage point of [Trump's] defense team, and I was slightly appalled by the reactions that they were having, which no one is really talking about. They're giggling at some points and scoffing when Congressman Schiff says certain things, and I thought it was disgraceful and such an outward symbol of how they just don't take this process seriously. I think that showed a lot on that first day — the sort of arrogance to be unprepared. When Schiff was laying out his case for taking on Senator [Charles E.] Schumer's amendments, you know, the defense would get up there and just say, "This is a scam!" And they had nothing. All they could do was attack weird parts of protocol. Not once did anyone say, "We will prove that Donald Trump did not commit impeachable offenses." To me, it almost sounded like when a defense team has no real argument, so they go to a botched scene or something like that.
But I thought Schiff was really interesting, especially from a performer's perspective. And you can see the difference between him and the other impeachment managers, how he is in his element when he gets into that zone of really conveying that narrative and a timeline. It felt like you were watching a one-man show on Broadway.
It will be a bitter pill to swallow for Ms. Milano and Schiff's other Hollywood fans when they realize how turned off voters are in the three swing states she is targeting for 2020 with the impeachment circus. It's not like a Broadway performance to them – it's more like a Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus performance.


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Today is my turn to share with you two cards created
using the newly released stamp called Horses & Sleigh by
Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
The white card is stamped on white cardstock using Versafine ink. The
Pine trees are from the Chickadee in the Woods set. The sentiment is from
the Once in a Lifetime set and is embossed with white embossing
powder then adhered to the card front using dimensional adhesive.
The second card is colored with PanPastels/Day & Night Pallet .
The Horse & Sleigh/Silhouette stamp was added to the
card front using Versafine ink/Onyx Black. Both cards are
speckled with acrylic white paint, for a snowy effect.
The adhesive used is by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.
The adhesive used is by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.
Would love to see you join us over on the
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Zoë graduated from Moorpark College's Exotic Animal Training and Management Program in 1991 and has a certificate in Animal Training and Behavior. She then went to work as the falconer in the Medieval Times show for 1 year, and assisted in the horse training for another year, after which she began training animals for cinema and television for several years.
Some of her credits include "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" where she was the assistant trainer for the entire 5 year run, "Frasier," Steven Seagal's film on location in Alaska "On Deadly Ground," "Sisters," Virginia Edison and "Alpo" to name just a few. She has always been involved in wildlife rehabilitation and education and especially loves working with birds of prey.
She began Clever Canines in 1995 to teach people how to train their dogs to be a great companion. As a small animal and equine veterinary technician of 6 years, She is experienced in advising health tips for your pet as well.
Zoë has always had a special love for horses. Growing up, her favorite place to be was at the stables riding horses or just helping out. As an adult coming back into riding while being a full time mom, she competed in a show as a hunter jumper bringing home a second place ribbon! Recently, she has turned her interest into Dressage style riding locally in San Juan Capistrano.
She currently is homeschooling two children and the older two are in college. Go Bruins! As a member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, Zoë makes an effort to always learn more herself as well by attending continuing education classes and seminars. Zoë's philosophy is using the positive reinforcement method. This means that devices such as choke chains and pinch collars are unnecessary. Instead we train the dogs to look and focus on the owner by using treats and praise and reward desired behaviors instead of punishing for undesired behaviors. This builds a relationship of mutual trust and respect. Zoë offers Dog training, puppy training and behavior modification in the Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest and Trabuco Canyon, Ladera Ranch and San Juan Capistrano areas.


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I have a Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT. I want to find out my AMD Radeon Software's version and/or the graphics driver version. I have followed the guide that I found over here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh2-002
However, my Radeon Software's Settings > System doesn't look like that at all! Here's how mine looks:
My Software Version and Driver Version look very off, too, compared to the Radeon Software provided by AMD over here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-series/amd-radeon-...
The versions I have (as can be seen on the screenshot above) are plain "strange". All the current and previous Radeon Software versions start with a 20, but mine starts with 10. All driver versions start with 19, but mine starts with a whopping 20! Do I somehow have a pre-release version?
I don't perfectly remember how I got the AMD Radeon Software in the first place.
I would like to know my software and driver versions!
You should just simply reinstall "Radeon Software" / driver nah?
I would, but I'm afraid that my system may start suffering from driver issues that many others have. I want to know my current drivers (which do not give me a lot of headache, only 25% chance of BSoD on cold boot which clears up after restart), so that in the case of an issue, I could revert back to this version. If I reinstall "Radeon Software" now, I will have no chance to learn my current driver version, right? That's risky...
Even after learning my driver version, if it is recent enough, I may prefer keeping it for the time being, at least until the Windows 10 version 2004, which will probably arrive in a month or so.
I'm having problems when booting my pc with an rx 5600 xt I'm seeing multiple logos and a long line bellow them is this a driver problem?