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An international group of experts on cognitive science has asserted that animals, including many that are much different from humans, experience the same degree of consciousness as humans. Per the article:
An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are ....What's also very interesting about the declaration is the group's acknowledgement that consciousness can emerge in those animals that are very much unlike humans.... "Consequently, say the signatories, the scientific evidence is increasingly indicating that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness....The declaration was signed in the presence of Stephen Hawking .... (bold added).
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They happen a lot because the underlying dynamic is a debate on altruism vs. non-altruism.
Scientists can't even agree on what consciousness is. Claiming animals are conscious is pretty useless at this point. Let's define the human conscious experience before we claim we are not unique.
I am thinking of consciousness as synonymous with a sense of self. Otherwise, computers could be said to be conscious.
It isn't saying that they are intelligent in the same way nor to the same degree that we are but some demonstrate altruism and there are a lot of humans who appreciate it. For example, there would be a serious backlash if it were decided that unwanted dogs should be ruthlessly drowned in the ocean to save on disposition costs.
I suspect that the scientists are only asserting that some animals have a sense of self analogous to that felt by humans and not introducing ethics into the discussion. Notwithstanding, such an assertion invites an ethical discussion on how those animals should be treated less they arbitrarily be treated as no more than computers. The danger in arbitrarily treating them as no more than computers is that it would tend to turn people into sociopaths and no society in recorded history has tolerated sociopaths on a long term basis. Our society certainly does not tolerate sociopaths. This not to mention the wasted minds of the people that would result from them becoming sociopathic.
People in general have supported animal welfare because people in general are humane. However, as undesirable as it is, some people tend to be sociopathic and these are the ones who would be unnecessarily cruel to animals. It is my opinion that some narcissistic people delight in being cruel to even the most adoring animals or at least harbor the desire to be so. I think that the scientists have, no matter how slightly, raised awareness in the general population to the point that arbitrary cruelty to animals is inappropriate. My opinion is that this is a worthwhile contribution.
Yup. Many people are dismissive and say things like, "Now you're arguing over semantics," as if it's pointless. The meaning of words is one of the most important things there is, in a discussion.
For one thing, definitional ambiguity is a theist's stock in trade. You'll find almost no theistic arguments that don't include a grotesque equivocation fallacy. You have to pin people down to what they mean, when they use a word, then enforce that definition throughout their argument. The moment they switch definitions, everything after that point is worthless.
I am as much a plant lover as I am animal lover. Notwithstanding their level of consciousness, both are life forms, both are alive and therefore need equal sympathy. Nature has created an interdependence between life forms and our food habbits are the result of this interdependence. Both life forms deserve protection from unnecessary violence.
I am a gardener! In this sense I can very much identify with loving plants and I certainly don't unnecessarily trod on any beautiful ones that are not in my garden.
IF LOVE IS PRESENT, Case Closed. You do not have to be aware of it but LOVE is everything. Water retains a memory and it , like KARMA makes attempts to spread LOVE.
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Wait, what? Are you pushing homeopathy? You know that's pure bullshit, right?
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Welcome to the future with 50y old technology. There is an obscure emacs extension, swank js, that runs a nodejs daemon that speaks slime to emacs.
It allows you to work with js the same way you'd work with lisp, evaling lines or buffers into a live nodejs instance.
I use it (in combination with org-babel) to talk to live instances of remote services, to inspect data, experiment, but also as kind of an on-the-fly UI
It allows you to inject js into a browser as well, handy for js dev or even on the fly data scraping/web manipulation. Super useful yet not very well known.
you usually make an open fire, but sometimes you need a stove? you don't want to carry something heavy or something that uses weird fuel that you can't get everywhere?
alcohol stoves are great in general, and this one in particular: vargo decagon
It was a bit slow to prime (should get to a certain temperature before it starts shooting flames from the sides) but I deal with this by just covering the whole thing with alcohol setting it on fire, primes it immediately :D
(if you get a vargo triad, you should have an alcohol bottle with about 1mm nozle, it has just a tiny hole to fill it through)
you can also always make a DIY super cat or something on the cheap, and you should use a windscreen, these can be sensitive to wind. yes putting random stuff around is fine-ish, but those aluminum foldable ones are reliable, cheap and light.
Are you having trouble falling asleep during conversations?
Are you in a disco, finding in hard to focus on computer programming?
I have a solution for you, just pop one of these babies in. http://lesh.sysphere.org/dump/weirdforest.mp3
Its a sound that I made that I play when I need to focus and zone out. It has some rain, weird thunder, owls, someone shuffling sticks around and whale noises of course.
I guess it will sound a bit ominous at first but it grows on you
10$ power bank / battery charger combo that you can use for day to day stuff but also outdoors.
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'
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from: 'all'
ip: '10.66.1.51'
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from: 'all'
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{ 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.
people often ask me why I own a drone, what is it for, and then half of the time they say that I could use it to record weddings and get some cash flowin'
If mention of recording weddings doesn't kill all my will for conversation, I'll say drones are so simple to make these days that I find it hard to justify not owning one. also, at the time there is no regulation and no one ever counts on you owning a flying robot, so its a sweet spot to own one. a drone is a flying sidekick, it can, in theory, do whatever a flying sidekick can do. it can enter through windows and steal jewlery with its tiny robot hands. Sounds ridicilous but technically it is not hard to do. In the following years we'll have to rethink space and what can be done, and before that happens, I get to be a kind of a superhero.
today, drones are very primitive. I'll fix some parts that I care about. and if I make anything useful, Im guessing drone related kickstarter projects would be welcome.
a few ideas,
few concrete things to work on, sorted by priority
this is a lot of work, but none of it is far fetched and all of this will be done soon, if not by me, then by someone else
if you care about this project, you can follow it at http://lesh.sysphere.org/tagcloud/personal_drone rss @ http://lesh.sysphere.org/tagcloud/personal_drone/rss.xml
First prototype in python, work in progress, I should think of more interesting project names.
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
uses a few of my libs like nodejs-graph, nodejs-subscriptionman, nodejs-validator2 and others
I've implemented some protocols above this, like
I use it for all kinds of things, like
and I've built a few libs on top of this
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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Few in the corporate world are advocating for a total shift of insurance from the private sector to the government. The Wyden plan proposed a system for employers to cash out health benefits and add them to employees' wages. Then the government would mandate an individual insurance plan for everybody to buy directly from private insurers.
The idea is to reduce premiums by enlarging the insurance pool and to level the playing field for employers.
The Wal-Mart-led coalition still does not have a clear plan for universal health care — a deliberate omission meant to encourage more partners to join.
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. . . . Super Sonic Scream: Burst Area Affliction 9 (Alternate; 1st degree: Impaired, 2nd degree: Disabled, 3rd degree: Unaware, Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 19; Burst Area: 30 feet radius sphere)
. . . . Wind Winkers: Move Object 10 (Alternate; 25 tons; Limited Direction: Away from SheZow)
Beautility Belt (Ballistic Fishnets [Ballistic Fishnets: Snare 10, DC 20], Boomerang Brush [Boomerang Brush: Strength-based Damage 1, DC 25; Increased Range: ranged], Laser Lipstick [Strength Effect, Advantages: Improved Critical; Penetrating 9], Mega Mascara Whiplash [Mega Mascara Whiplash: Movement 1, Swinging], Vanishing Cream [Vanishing Cream: Concealment 2, Sense - Sight]), She-lair, Shehicle
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------She-lair - PL 10
Toughness 10, Size Large
Communications, Computer, Concealed 1, Garage, Living Space, Power System
Power Points
Abilities 2 + Features 6 + Defenses 2 = 10 EP
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Shehicle - PL 10
Strength 5, Defense 9, Toughness 9, Size Large
Navigation System
Flight: Flight 6 (Speed: 120 miles/hour, 1800 feet/round)
. . Speed: Speed 6 (Alternate; Speed: 120 miles/hour, 1800 feet/round)
. . Swimming: Swimming 6 (Alternate; Speed: 30 miles/hour, 500 feet/round)
Power Points
Abilities 2 + Powers 14 + Features 1 + Defenses 13 = 30 EP
Initiative +4
Ballistic Fishnets: Snare 10, +8 (DC Dog 20)
Boomerang Brush: Strength-based Ranged Damage 1, +8 (DC 25)
Grab, +10 (DC Spec 19)
Super Sonic Scream: Burst Area Affliction 9 (DC Fort 19)
Throw, +8 (DC 24)
Unarmed, +10 (DC 24)
Wind Winkers: Move Object 10, +4 (DC 20)
Enemy: Everyone who's had a feud with Aunt Agnes is now gunning for this new SheZow.
Identity: Guy doesn't want anyone to know he's SheZow, especially not his father, who thinks that SheZow keeps taking credit that belongs to the Megadale PD. His sister, Kelly, was there when Guy put the SheZow ring on, so she knows about it, as does Maz, Guy's best friend.
Motivation: Responsibility: Guy reckons he might as well maintain the SheZow legacy.
Power Loss: If Guy can't say "You go, girl!", he can't become SheZow. If he can't say "She-yeah!", he can't return to normal. As SheZow, he also loses his powers if his hair gets messed up or he doesn't wear pink, and has a risk of having his powers malfunction if he falls ill. Guy also needs to be SheZow to access the Beautility Belt.
Prejudice: Guy is still a kid, with the relevant social and legal implications.
Relationship: With his family, and his best friend, Maz.
U.S. English
Dodge 8, Parry 8, Fortitude 10, Toughness 12, Will 10
Power Points
Abilities 44 + Powers 69 + Advantages 18 + Skills 6 (12 ranks) + Defenses 13 = 150
Guy and Kelly Hamton were looking around the basement of the house their family recently inherited from their Aunt Agnes, when they found a hidden hole in the wall with a box inside. When they opened it, Kelly recognised the ring they saw as belonging to SheZow, Megadale's most well-known heroine. The only conclusion they had was that Aunt Agnes was SheZow!
Guy decided to wear the ring for a joke and said "You go, girl!" He found that he had superhuman strength, super-speed... and a superheroine's costume! The scream he made when he found that last one out was literally supersonic! He managed to find a way to return to normal and is now known as Megadale's greatest protector.
Author's Note: I know there are some interesting builds based on various cartoons on the Tank, but I'm certain the one I based this build on is taking the cake by several people's standards. Several Christian groups have already slated its concept, while various LGBT groups have rated it highly for the same reasons. The show currently appears on Network Ten in Australia, and can be seen on The Hub (Same channel that has MLP:FiM) in the States and Sky One (One of Britain's most watched cable/satellite channels) in the U.K.
The SheZow cartoon that inspired this build is distributed by DHX Media, so if you dislike the character concept on moral/religious grounds, please take the matter up with them instead.


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Mental health is part of everyone's day to day life, it affects all of us and we all need to talk about it – starting on World Mental Health Day.
See Me, the national programme to end mental health discrimination, has called on communities, workplaces, schools and care providers to lead the way in showing that we all have mental health and should all talk about it.
It has made the call around this year's World Mental Health Day – which falls on Tuesday, October 10 – when people are being encouraged to speak more openly about mental health.
To make a real change See Me is also calling for people to join them in a movement to end mental health discrimination.
This could involve taking action, ranging from directly challenging someone they see discriminating, to supporting someone who is struggling due to a mental health problem.
Calum Irving, See Me director, said: "We all have mental health and it impacts on every aspect of our lives, including where we live, learn, work and receive care, but when we struggle with our mental health we often face stigma and discrimination.
"However we each have the power to make a positive difference in the lives of our families, friends and colleagues when they are affected by mental health problems.
"This World Mental Health Day we want people to join a social movement to end mental health stigma by taking action and pledging your support."
Maureen Watt, the Scottish Government Minister for Mental Health, echoed the call, saying: "For all of us, positive attitudes to mental health can have a really helpful impact on the people around us.
"See Me has been vital in efforts over the last several years to promote improved attitudes to mental health and mental illness and, as we have said in our Mental Health Strategy, we will ensure its work continues and develops."
You can find out more and join the movement at the See Me website


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In "Servlet 2.3: New Features Exposed," I introduced the changes coming in the Servlet API 2.3 and gave a short tutorial on the new servlet filter model. In this follow-on article, I'll dig deeper into servlet filters and look at several filters you can download for free on the Web. For each filter, I'll examine what it does, how it works, and where you can get it.
You can use this article in two ways: to learn about some filters that are useful out of the box, or as an aid in writing your own filters. I'll start off with some simple examples and then move on to more advanced ones. At the end, I'll show you a file upload filter I wrote to support multipart requests.
Servlet filters
In case you aren't yet familiar, a filter is an object that can transform a request or modify a response. Filters are not servlets; they don't actually create a response. They are preprocessors of the request before it reaches a servlet, and/or postprocessors of the response leaving a servlet. As you'll see later in the examples, a filter can:
- Intercept a servlet's invocation before the servlet is called
- Examine a request before a servlet is called
- Modify the request headers and request data by providing a customized version of the request object that wraps the real request
- Modify the response headers and response data by providing a customized version of the response object that wraps the real response
- Intercept a servlet's invocation after the servlet is called
You can configure a filter to act on a servlet or group of servlets. Zero or more filters can filter one or more servlets. A filter implements
javax.servlet.Filter and defines its three methods:
void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException: Called before the filter goes into service, and sets the filter's configuration object
void destroy(): Called after the filter has been taken out of service
void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException: Performs the actual filtering work
The server calls
init(FilterConfig) once to prepare the filter for service, then calls
doFilter() any number of times for requests specially set up to use the filter. The
FilterConfig interface has methods to retrieve the filter's name, its
init parameters, and the active servlet context. The server calls
destroy() to indicate that the filter is being taken out of service. The filter lifecycle is now very similar to the servlet lifecycle -- a change recently made in the Servlet API 2.3 Public Final Draft #2. Previously the lifecycle involved a
In its
doFilter() method, each filter receives the current request and response, as well as a
FilterChain containing the filters that still must be processed. In the
doFilter()method, a filter may do what it wants with the request and response. (It could gather data by calling their methods, or wrap the objects to give them new behavior, as I'll discuss later.) The filter then calls
chain.doFilter() to transfer control to the next filter. When that call returns, a filter can, at the end of its own
doFilter() method, perform additional work on the response; for instance, it can log information about the response. If the filter wants to halt the request processing and gain full control of the response, it can intentionally not call the next filter.
Spot the slowdown
To really understand filters, you have to see them in action. The first filter we'll look at is simple but powerful; it records the duration of all requests. It's modeled loosely after the nondescriptively named
ExampleFilter from the Tomcat 4.0 distribution. Here is the code:
import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class TimerFilter implements Filter { private FilterConfig config = null; public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException { this.config = config; } public void destroy() { config = null; } public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { long before = System.currentTimeMillis(); chain.doFilter(request, response); long after = System.currentTimeMillis(); String name = ""; if (request instanceof HttpServletRequest) { name = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getRequestURI(); } config.getServletContext().log(name + ": " + (after - before) + "ms"); } }
When the server calls
init(), the filter saves a reference to the config in its
config variable, which is later used in the
doFilter() method to retrieve the
ServletContext. When the server calls
doFilter(), the filter times how long the request handling takes and logs the time once processing has completed. This filter nicely demonstrates before- and after-request processing. Notice that the parameters to the
doFilter()method are not HTTP-aware objects, so to call the HTTP-specific
getRequestURI() method requires a cast of the request to an
HttpServletRequest type.
To use this filter, you must declare it in the
web.xmldeployment descriptor using the
<filter>tag, as shown below:
< filter> <filter-name>timerFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>TimerFilter</filter-class> </filter>
This notifies the server that a filter named
timerFilteris implemented in the
TimerFilterclass. You can apply a registered filter to certain URL patterns or servlet names using the
< filter-mapping> <filter-name>timerFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
This configures the filter to operate on all requests to the server (static or dynamic), just what we want for our timing filter. If you connect to a simple page, the log output might look like this:
2001-05-25 00:14:11 /timer/index.html: 10ms
In Tomcat 4.0 beta 5, you'll find the log file under
Download the WAR file for this filter at http://www.javaworld.com/jw-06-2001/Filters/timer.war.
Who's on your site, and what are they doing?
Our next filter is a clickstream filter written by the folks at OpenSymphony. This filter tracks user requests (a.k.a. clicks) and request sequences (a.k.a. clickstreams) to show a site administrator who's visiting her site and what pages each visitor has accessed so far. It's an open source library, under the LGPL license.
Inside the clickstream library you'll find a
ClickstreamFilterclass that captures request information, a
Clickstream class that operates like a struct to hold data, and a
ClickstreamLogger class that captures session and context events to glue everything together. There's also a
BotChecker class that determines if a client is a robot (using simple logic, like "Did they request robots.txt?"). To view the data, the library provides a
clickstreams.jsp visitor summary page and a supporting
viewstream.jsp visitor detail page.
We'll look first at the
ClickstreamFilter class. All these examples are slightly modified from the original, for formatting and to fix portability issues, which I'll discuss later.
import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class ClickstreamFilter implements Filter { protected FilterConfig filterConfig; private final static String FILTER_APPLIED = "_clickstream_filter_applied"; public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException { this.filterConfig = filterConfig; } public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { // Ensure that filter is only applied once per request. if (request.getAttribute(FILTER_APPLIED) == null) { request.setAttribute(FILTER_APPLIED, Boolean.TRUE); HttpSession session = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession(); Clickstream stream = (Clickstream)session.getAttribute("clickstream"); stream.addRequest(((HttpServletRequest)request)); } // pass the request on chain.doFilter(request, response); } public void destroy() { } }
doFilter() method gets the user session, obtains the
Clickstream from the session, and adds the current request data to the
Clickstream. It uses a special
FILTER_APPLIED marker attribute to note if the filter was already applied for this request (as might happen during request dispatching) and to ignore any follow-on filtering action. You might wonder how the filter knows that the
clickstreamattribute will be present in the session. That's because the
ClickstreamLogger places it there when the session is created. Here is the
import java.util.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class ClickstreamLogger implements ServletContextListener, HttpSessionListener { Map clickstreams = new HashMap(); public ClickstreamLogger() { } public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) { sce.getServletContext().setAttribute("clickstreams", clickstreams); } public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) { sce.getServletContext().setAttribute("clickstreams", null); } public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent hse) { HttpSession session = hse.getSession(); Clickstream clickstream = new Clickstream(); session.setAttribute("clickstream", clickstream); clickstreams.put(session.getId(), clickstream); } public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent hse) { HttpSession session = hse.getSession(); Clickstream stream = (Clickstream)session.getAttribute("clickstream"); clickstreams.remove(session.getId()); } }
The logger receives application events and uses them to bind everything together. On context creation, the logger places a shared map of streams into the context. This allows the
clickstreams.jsppage to know what streams are currently active. On context destruction, the logger removes the map. When a new visitor creates a new session, the logger places a new
Clickstream instance into the session and adds the
Clickstreamto the central map of streams. On session destruction, the logger removes the stream from the central map.
The following
web.xml deployment-descriptor snippet wires everything together:
< filter> <filter-name>clickstreamFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>ClickstreamFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>clickstreamFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>clickstreamFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <listener> <listener-class>ClickstreamLogger</listener-class> </listener>
This registers the
ClickstreamFilter and sets it up to handle
*.jsp and
*.html requests. This also registers the
ClickstreamLogger as a listener to receive application events when they occur.
The two JSP pages pull the
clickstream data from the session and context objects and use an HTML interface to display the current status. The following
clickstreams.jspfile shows the overall summary:
< %@ page import="java.util.*" %> <%@ page import="Clickstream" %> <% Map clickstreams = (Map)application.getAttribute("clickstreams"); String showbots = "false"; if (request.getParameter("showbots") != null) { if (request.getParameter("showbots").equals("true")) showbots = "true"; else if (request.getParameter("showbots").equals("both")) showbots = "both"; } %>
All Clickstreams
 No Bots | All Bots | Both
 <% if (clickstreams.keySet().size() == 0) { %> No clickstreams in progress <% } %> <% Iterator it = clickstreams.keySet().iterator(); int count = 0; while (it.hasNext()) { String key = (String)it.next(); Clickstream stream = (Clickstream)clickstreams.get(key); if (showbots.equals("false") && stream.isBot()) { continue; } else if (showbots.equals("true") && !stream.isBot()) { continue; } count++; try { %> <%= count %>. <a href="viewstream.jsp?sid=<%= key %>"> <%= (stream.getHostname() != null && !stream.getHostname().equals("") ? stream.getHostname() : "Stream") %>  [<%= stream.getStream().size() %> reqs]
 <% } catch (Exception e) { %> An error occurred - <%= e %>
 <% } } %>
The package is fairly easy to download and install from the OpenSymphony Website. Place and compile the Java files in
WEB-INF/classes, put the JSP files in the Web application root, and modify the
web.xml file as instructed. To save you the hassle of even this much work, you can find a prepackaged WAR file available at http://www.javaworld.com/jw-06-2001/Filters/clickstream.war.


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oil industry
oil industry, the business of discovering oil ( petroleum), extracting it from the ground, refining it into a variety of products, and distributing it to the public. The development of the oil industry in the 19th and 20th cent. provided a source of energy that now supplies about two fifths of the world's energy needs as well as a raw material that chemical and petroleum industries refine into a number of essential chemicals and industrial products.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Development of the Modern Industry
- Late-Twentieth-Century and Early-Twenty-First-Century Developments
- Early History
- Bibliography
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|Posted by Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks
Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks. Renowned for its excellence in classroom instruction and teacher training, YogaWorks delivers yoga training and classes in 60 cities around the world. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map.
At YogaWorks, we first and foremost consider ourselves to be educators of yoga. Since opening our first location in 1987, we've expanded our reach across the world, which means we've had to figure out how to effectively scale a growing organization while continuing to deliver the best training instruction possible. When we first took a look at Google Apps, we thought it would be a great cost savings tool but as we've discovered, Google Apps has also allowed us to easily and flexibly connect our business throughout the world.
Prior to Google Apps, we used a hosted Microsoft Exchange server. While on Exchange, we had to set a 2 gigabyte inbox quota and had difficulty achieving a simple, scalable email deployment for our staff's mobile devices. We also had a lot of offline processes that were cluttering the operations of our studio managers and producing a lot of excess paperwork, which ran counter to our goal of running a sustainable and eco-friendly company. At the time, our IT costs were roughly $130 per user per year.
When we were evaluating Google Apps, we realized that the solution would allow us to further our green-friendly mission by reducing our overall environmental footprint and would enable us to create a truly mobile workforce with anytime, anywhere data access. We also saw the potential Google Apps held for collaboration among team members, with its unique communication and sharing capabilities.
We went Google with the help of Google Apps Authorized Reseller Dito, who assisted us in setting up Apps and training our team. With Google Apps, we've been able to reduce our total IT costs by over 60%. The ability to share documents and reach out to teammates quickly has boosted the morale and sense of community across our team. Mobility has also been a key gain for us, as Google Apps allows us to work seamlessly while on the go across our 24 studios and 60 cities where we hold teacher trainings. Through Google Docs, we have been able to save paper and eliminate tedious offline processes, making our day-to-day operation more environmentally-friendly and efficient.
Google Apps has helped us create a more efficient, more excited and more productive workforce, which in turn has helped us focus on what we care most about: bringing safe, compassionate and skillful teaching of yoga to all.


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StarCraft Universe
Kickstarter Starcraft fan MMO releases new gameplay footage to hit $80,000 target with two days to go
With only 46 hours left in its Blizzard endorsed Kickstarter campaign, the team behind Starcraft Universe have released gameplay footage from players fighting one of the game's raid bosses. Check out the video after the jump.
StarCraft Universe headlines
StarCraft Universe MMO Kickstarter launches
The Blizzard-approved StarCraft Universe MMO mod has taken to Kickstarter. Developer Upheaval Arts hopes to raise enough funds to create the game's first act and to get a public beta on the move.
StarCraft Universe MMO mod now available
The notorious StarCraft Universe, an amazing StarCraft 2 mod, has finally been published through Battle.net.
StarCraft Universe MMO mod playable through October 30
The development team behind StarCraft Universe has announced the PvP mode is now available to play through Battle.net until October 30, after which it will be taken down for "further polishing," to be made ready for a future open beta.
Saturday Shorts: StarCraft Universe, Sdatcher, Skulls of the Shogun, sales
Complete your weekend with the shorts posted below. You can ask God to forgive you for it at church tomorrow.
Blizzard ready to shake World of StarCraft maker's hand, apologize for the misunderstanding
StarCraft II design director Dustin Browder has said the team is looking forward to shaking the hand of World of StarCraft mod maker Ryan Winzen and apologize for previous misunderstandings.
World of StarCraft to continue under "StarCraft Universe" moniker
What's in a name? Well, if you're Blizzard, a surefire megahit waiting to happen – which is why the company raised a fuss when a little mod calling itself "World of StarCraft" started traipsing about on its turf. Here's the thing, though: Blizzard just wanted its nametag back. No hard feelings. So, with the PC […]
World of StarCraft week "flipped my life upside down", says modder
Ryan Winzell has described the roller coast week he had after his World of StarCraft mod was pulled from YouTube as one which "pretty much flipped my life upside down."
StarCraft Universe latest
Kickstarter Starcraft fan MMO releases new gameplay footage to hit $80,000 target with two days to go
Saturday Shorts: StarCraft Universe, Sdatcher, Skulls of the Shogun, sales
Blizzard ready to shake World of StarCraft maker's hand, apologize for the misunderstanding
World of StarCraft to continue under "StarCraft Universe" moniker
World of StarCraft week "flipped my life upside down", says modder


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The Giants not only out-pitched the Braves tonight, they out-performed them on the field as well. The Braves could not make the plays in the 9th inning and the Giants tied a ballgame that they should have lost. Aubrey Huff was hit by a pitch to start the inning, and Buster Posey hit a grounder to short that should have been at least a force out at second, but it was mishandled at the bag by Omar Infante after a low throw from Alex Gonzalez. Juan Uribe hit a fly ball for the first out, and Huff took third base. Pablo Sandoval then hit a grounder to Chipper Jones that should have been a play at the plate, and most likely an out, but it short-hopped the Braves third baseman and scooted into left field. The Giants scored without a base hit. That was theme for the night, as it happened again in the 11th with the go-ahead run. Huff and Posey were walked to open the inning, and Juan Uribe hit a ground ball that forced Posey at second base. Sandoval was walked to load the bases, and Pat Burrell hit a sacrifice fly to score Huff. The Giants scored again without a hit. Even the Giants first run of the night was on a ground out. Torres led off the game with a hit and stole both second and third, flashing a weapon the Giants don't use much (but is certainly nice to have).
Great outcome after a long rain delay. It was a tremendous performance by Barry Zito, who had ten strikeouts in his seven innings, and allowed only four hits. Unfortunately two of them were home runs, one by Tim-killer Alex Gonzalez, and one by Chipper Jones. Home runs are nice--home runs with men on base are better. Two solo shots looked to be enough, though, and Zito's great start looked to be wasted. Credit too, goes to Tommy Hanson for pitching well, as it was an old-fashioned gunslinger's duel out there tonight. But the Braves 'pen and their defense let them down. Funny how Alex Gonzalez and Chipper Jones got the big bombs but couldn't make the little plays. Isn't baseball a great fucking game?
The Giants get a big win as the Padres lose in Arizona. They only got three hits! Hah! Superb bullpen work tonight really sealed the deal. Chris Ray, Sergio Romo, Javier Lopez, and Brian Wilson each threw a scoreless inning, giving up only two hits and no walks and getting five strikeouts. This game sums up the 2010 Giants nicely, as it had plenty of torture, not much hitting, and shutdown pitching. "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."
Matt Cain goes tomorrow.
Friday, August 6, 2010
4 hits + 11 innings = Win
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I love games like these after the fact. Andres is magical. Single, steal, steal, score; I love when he does that. He really does everything that we could have ever wanted him to do.
It's true when people say that a good defense is the best offense. I love our fielders, they kept us in this.
I didn't think that we deserved to lose this (that's a lie) but sometimes it all works out. It's not fair that their balls go for dingers while ours just die out. I hate when the other teams give us the shitty balls to play with.
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So last year we blogged about 5353 Fest at TBWA\Chiat\Day. Well, it happened again! 5353\2, with music\art\fest.
A big thank you to the following for making this happen (seriously, like a HUGE, x5353 million, we owe you a bajillion thank you!):
Kevin Laronda
Michael Gross
Carol Madonna
Kacey Harahan
Alisa Schwartz
Noreen Masih
Kelsey Reddick
Katie Kause
Jim Darling
Thomas Dawson
Ricardo Diaz
So in usual la fashion, I busted out my fancy camera and my intimidating lens (that frustratingly is not working on autofocus!) and went shutter-crazy for the event. So instead of write about it, I'll photoblog it. Enjoy! It was a super fun day, and one of those that reminds you that what we do is pretty insanely cool.
Here's a poster from the event (check out that lineup!):
It also ended up as a huge mural painted outside.
Here's Jim Darling painstakingly painting it!
Now to the music.
First up, Dustbowl Revival. A Venice, California-based roots+jazz collective that merges New Orleans second line swing, bluegrass, jug-band and jump blues. Known for their wild, lose-your-troubles live sets, the Dustbowl Revival often features up to ten instruments ranging from fiddle, banjo, gypsy guitar and mandolin to accordion, tuba, trombone and clarinet and plenty of kazoo and washboard for good luck.
And really enjoyed the intermission music by DJ Soft Touch! For the past few years, CLIFTON AKA DJ SOFT TOUCH has made a name for himself as a DJ with a wide range and impeccable taste. His mix of rare soul, funk and R&B is truly unique, with a fresh ear for sounds off the beaten path. A veteran of the Eastside / Hollywood L.A. music community, he's also a bass player for The Mojo Filters, The Belle Isle, Black Sugar, and Love Grenades, as well as a guitarist/singer/songwriter on his own. A dedicated lover, historian/sage of most western popular & underground music forms out there, he always digs deeper in his selections but always moves the crowd.
Next up, WATERS. WATERS was born out last year of the ashes of the San Francisco rock band Port O'Brien and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring.
After making his way out of music and into Oslo, Alaska, California & New York, he made his way make in again with Waters. He returned to Oslo and put together a band of fine Norwegian gentlemen and made a mix of fuzzy, pealing guitars and crashing drums, and easy, alternately soaring and languid, indelible melodies. According to Van, "The record is about waking up. It is about getting out of a situation that seems endless, and realizing you're not too old to make dramatic and sudden changes in your life. It is about starting over."
And then came Dengue Fever. Los Angeles-based Dengue Fever's music is wholly unique — an exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf, and garage psychedelia. Since their inception, the band's unique take on 60s Cambodian pop and American surf rock has garnered praise and attention from fans and critics alike. True Blood named an entire episode after one of their songs and featured the band's music throughout the show, Spin highlighted the band in their 'Breaking Out' section, and profiles on the group have appeared in the New York Times, Magnet, Wired, and NPR's "Fresh Air." Ray Davies from the Kinks called them "a cross between Led Zeppelin and Blondie."
And then possibly my favorite from the day, He's My Brother, She's My Sister – they had such joy and vivacity! Really a pleasure to watch. He's My Brother She's My Sister's unique yet familiar sound exudes the earnestness of folk, the colorfulness of glam rock, the infectiousness of pop, the innovation of indie rock, the rawness of blues, the theatrics of cabaret, and the hip shake of rock-a-billy.
Brother and sister Robert Kolar and Rachel Kolar split vocal duties, with Robert on guitar and kick drum and Rachel on tambourine. Their voices range from boisterous to introspective, from breezy to emotive. Lauren Brown adds full-body percussion with her fluid tap-dancing. Oliver Newell plucks the stand up bass with joyous flair. Aaron Robinson plays lead guitar on a lap slide, veering from nuanced psychedelica to American roots riffs.
The band's infectious rhythms and high energy make the sounds come alive and cause even uninitiated crowds to erupt in dance. Their songs ring like pop classics in a modern framework. It is a recipe that has quickly gained the band a devoted following in their hometown of Echo Park and the surrounding LA area, and that following has spread to every town the band visits.
(last two photos by Josh Withers, my camera's memory card crapped out booooo)
And last up, Class Actress. I didn't get to stay and photograph because I actually thought I had my first travel photography class that night (although I was just wrong and it's actually tonight!) So a couple photos from Josh Withers. (Thanks Josh!)
Class Actress is: Guilty Pleasure. NSA dance music. Casual Encounters. Stalker Pop. Depeche Mode meets early Madonna and Five Star as heard on the radio in the leather backseat of a cab.
Brooklynite Elizabeth Harper's first musical offerings appeared in the form of personal singer/songwriter fare — her airy vocals paired only with quiet strums of acoustic guitar. But having a long-held desire to make electronic music, Harper recruited producers Mark Richardson and Scott Rosenthal to assist in achieving her desired sound, and electro-pop outfit Class Actress was born.
Harper remains the force that binds the songs into a cohesive statement, her winking coo darting about in the deep drums and lofty arpeggios, and her passion – backed mostly with electronics– summons thoughts of Yaz's Alison Moyet. In concurrence with the title ("rapprocher"is French for "bring closer"), the candid, sincere lyrics meld with the atmosphere, enveloping the listener into Class Actress's world of 21st century romanticism.
There was also a trailer set up by CAVIAR CONTENT with an adorable "row row row your boat" video made with Chiat peeps. Record players and polaroid cameras and all things cute and vintage.
And to close it out, here's a couple shots of people enjoying the music!
Thanks to Chiat Day for making our job infinitely cool.
And thanks to Michael Gross for really making the festival infinitely cool!
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PS! I had a photo wall of concert photography at the event, and here's Nick Ciffone and Dave Estrada checking it out!
PPS For all the photos, check out the photo album!


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Posted: August 05 2009 at 16:15
Two years before E.L.P was formed Hendrix was interested in joining up with Arthur Brown to form a supergroup.
This is what Arthur had to say about it:
One day Jimis road manager, Tony Garland, took me over to Jimis hotel apartment and Jimi asked me if I would be interested in joining him.
The idea was to have the three guys from the Experience plus me on vocals and my organist Vincent Crane. He said he felt hed gone as far as he could with a three-piece and wanted to extend the music. He was also planning huge projection screens and backing tapes of music by Wagner, all kinds of things to open up the visual side and the spiritual side. My band was falling apart, but I really didnt want to just be part of someone elses group, so it never happened.
I think that band would have been more interesting than H.E.L.P.
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|Posted: August 05 2009 at 16:17
^I definitely agree, that would have been very awesome.
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|Posted: August 05 2009 at 16:24
That would have had amazing potential. Agreed - far more than HELP, which I think might have been dubbed, eventually, by Hendrix lovers particularly, "HELP! I've fallen and I can't get up".
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|Posted: August 05 2009 at 18:28
The audacity! It was Jimi Freaking Hendrix! Atleast AB'sKC made some good records after that decision.
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Hate to be contrarian, but I don't think this would've been such a great idea. I don't know the time context here, but if it was original Experience + AB + Vincent Crane don't see it working. Now if it was a year or so later, AB + Jimi moving toward his more funky sound + Vincent moving toward his more funky sound, maybe, but then of course don't see AB doing that.
Can you tell me where we're headin'?
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I dissagree I think it would have been awesome.
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Well I like the thought of an Arthur Brown Jimidom Come experience: the Galactic Gypsys Dossier album
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|Posted: August 06 2009 at 14:32
I disagree, AB was very into psychedelic rock as well as the funky thing, so was hendrix. But with that setup and that time period for both bands would end with an awesome psychedelic rock album in my opinion.
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Thinking of this "Super Duper" groups: how about Jimi joining forces with Colosseum
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That's an awesome group.
He also was going to make a band with Miles Davis Sly Stone & Brian Jones.Separate bands of course
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|Posted: August 11 2009 at 12:24
That''s a bit tacky, but then, Jimi was no prude and everyone can see him on display years later anyway ...
Arthur Brown was in his own corner and he probably did not care for fame as much as he was more interested in whatever musical trip he wanted to get into.
Would Jimi have been good with Crane and Brown? Probably better than Miles or some of the stuff he did later that was not really as good as his earlier stuff ... somehow all of a sudden he was into "blues" ... when before there were no "blues" ... it was clean cut, pure rock ... yes, radio minded and such ...
I think, or like to think, that if Jimi had lived and become an old man like you and I, he, more than likely would have branched out and by the time he would have heard a Manuel Gottsching just improvising with Klaus Schulze, I bet you that he would say ... I can do that ... better! ... and he would! And it would be fun for him to do just that ...
But history, at least according to Mitchell, Redding and other musicians that played with him suggest that he would be gone on his own and many of these people did not know where to go ... Miles was easy ... he just kept the beat going ... not music! Just a beat! Sorry ... that is not blues ... that's inadequate musicianship! And I think that it placed too much of a demand on Jimi performing, which so far he had handled.
A suggestion like that by Brown, or Crane, would actually not be a bad thing, but one thing Jimi would have learned quickly ... these are well studied musicians and they know what they are doing ... and I think he would have enjoyed playing with them for a while ... but I doubt that he would have stuck with them for long. Crane was not a good enough improvisationlist at all ... and I doubt that he would have been able to work with Jimi as well as it was hoped.
There is also a story that Bo Hansson and Jimi played together many times, and if that is the case, that was a keyboard player that would have done well with Jimi and been able to add color to the music ... but it was not to happen and it's all conjecture now ... and everyone wants a piece of Jimi ...
Yeah there are so many stories out there ... funny, Arthur has talked about Jimi, but never talked about Klaus ... maybe he should talk about Marianne ... or even ... ohh well, who the fudge cares ... was the sex any good?
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They, because I'm old enough to remember, I was there, like and one of Jimi's straight friends lovers, were going to actually have been called B.E.L.C.H, -------- Brown, Emerson, Lulu, Clapton and Hendrix. A supergroup. At the recitals they sounded a lot like Metallica if the supermetagroup had included Courtney Love. Of course, they were atrocious, typical of the 60s more zany ideas promoted by people like Hendrix when they were whacked up on scooby snacks.
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Senior Scientist, Kurt Wick will receive the American Physical Society 2018 Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction. Wick has guided the Methods of Experimental Physics courses in the School of Physics and Astronomy for thirty years.
The Methods classes, affectionately known as MXP, are co-taught with a faculty member. Through them Wick has made significant contributions to the School's advanced laboratory curriculum while also serving as the main point of contact for students in the laboratory.
The MXP courses teach physics majors modern experimental techniques. The first semester of the class focuses on modern electronics and programming. In the second semester, the students form two-person teams, design and create an experiment, and then run it from start to finish. At the end of the semester, they present their results to their peers through talks and a final paper, while sharing the outcome with the entire School in a poster session.
"The Methods of Experimental Physics courses are a cornerstone of our curriculum, and their development over the last thirty years has been shaped by Kurt," said Professor Paul Crowell. "Based on years of discussions with our former students, there is no doubt that among all courses at Minnesota, MXP has had the biggest impact on their growth as scientists, and they all cite Kurt's role as a mentor in the art of experimental physics."
Former student Jesse Berezovsky, Associate Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University said of Wick, "He had both the detailed technical knowledge needed to keep each experiment running, as well as the broader pedagogical view need to shape the course and guide students through it. It is rare to find both qualities in one person."
Molly Krogstad, who received a PhD at the University of Colorado and is now a research scientist at Honeywell said, "The MXP course gave me valuable experience solving unexpected challenges that arise in research, along with the satisfaction of taking a project from the very start to finish. This experience was crucial in my decision to continue working in experimental physics, and I'm grateful for the time and effort Kurt has spent developing and refining the undergraduate advanced labs at the U of M."
Sam Kean, science writer, author of The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinist's Thumb, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons said, I really learned how to think like an experimenter. But even more than that, I remember just talking with Kurt - about Goethe, about books, about the role of science in our wider lives. He helped me see the connection between the sciences and the humanities, and I'll always be grateful for that."
In addition to his work on MXP itself, Wick has been an active member of the national advanced laboratory community. He has designed and taught workshops for advanced laboratory instructors, focusing on modern tools such as field-programmable gate arrays, which he introduced to MXP along with Professor Jeremy Mans. In this way, educational tools developed at Minnesota are being disseminated to other teaching labs around the country.
The Reichert award recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching, sustaining, and enhancing an advanced undergraduate laboratory course or courses at US institutions. It is sponsored by the American Physical Society. Wick will accept his award at the American Physical Society meeting in Los Angeles in March, 2018.


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The professional best equipped to handle bathroom remodeling is a general contractor. A general contractor is typically licensed by the state or region in which they work to carry out home remodeling projects. To receive licensing, they must generally demonstrate their knowledge of construction and building and safety codes. General contractors act as the organizer for the entire bathroom remodeling project, ensuring that each element (new tile, shower pan replacement, lighting installation, etc.) is completed at the appropriate time by the proper contractor. Before hiring a general contractor, it's wise to do your research. In addition to getting several competitive bids, here are questions to ask:
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I found a great candidate on craigslist for $25.00. Unheard of in our area where craigslist prices tend to be a tad overinflated. Good for when you're selling something but not so good for when you're bargain hunting.
Here was the nightstand before it was a solid piece, very heavy with dovetail drawers along with a few scratches and and spots of chipping veneer. After a very thorough Ray Ban outlet sanding and a few coats of Valspar dark gray spray paint on the frame and sides and Minwax English Chestnut on the drawer fronts and top it's got a new lease on life perfect for a Nik's soon to be made over little boys room.
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One of the highest priorities of the Judicial Council is to maintain a professional judiciary that offers fair and impartial justice to all Californians. Ensuring that judicial officers have access to high-quality continuing education that keeps them current with the law and latest legal procedures is one way to help achieve this goal.
In 2009, the Education Division/Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) of the Administrative Office of the Courts introduced a program to partner with courts to provide high-quality judicial education at the local level. Under this Local Education Initiative, courts can host classes for their judicial officers simply by selecting from among the almost 100 courses described in the Judicial Education Course Catalog and contacting CJER to make a request.
Upon receiving a request for a specific class, CJER recruits the faculty, provides written materials for the class, and coordinates between the instructor and the local court. The local court makes arrangements for a classroom, notifies its judicial officers about the course, and registers participants.
Most of the faculty are judicial officers and are recognized experts in the fields they teach. They have also attended CJER seminars designed to explore the best teaching methods for adult education.
Local courts benefit in several ways from the Local Education Initiative. First, they are able to offer classes by experts on a wide variety of subjects. Courts can even request courses on topics not listed in the catalog. Second, their expenses for the classes are minimal. The AOC pays for the instructors' travel expenses and provides written materials and, if requested, any necessary audiovisual support. In addition, because the classes are held at local courthouses, judicial officers are not required to spend time and money traveling. Finally, the participants benefit from the give and take of a live presentation.
Feedback from faculty for the more than 75 local courses offered so far has been uniformly positive. Judge Lynn Duryee, who has taught several courses, said, "The great benefit of local instruction is that it allows live presentation for minimal expense. The live course is, in my mind, so much better than self-study or distance learning."
The state and taxpayers also benefit from this move toward local judicial education. Trial court judges are expected to complete 30 hours of continuing education on a three-year cycle, but bringing instructors to local courts is more cost-effective than holding centralized, statewide programs of instruction. Statewide events will still be held, but they will be scheduled less frequently; local courses will help bridge any educational gaps caused by the reduced statewide program schedule.
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