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很多人说,"现在都是些不懂事的人在生孩子。"这种话你听过多少遍了?当那些人这么说的时候,他们肯定不是在说自己:是 那些 不懂事的人。是"那些愚蠢,粗心大意的白痴不该生孩子。还有那些穷得养不起孩子的人,以及那些人格扭曲以至于竟然不喜欢小孩的人。"按照他们的逻辑再进一步,就是"劣等基因不应该传承下去"。
优生学: Future Generations
种族主义: American Renaissance
宗教: Efrat, Quiver Full, Quiver Full on NPR, Escape from Quiver Full Movement, inherent natalism.
意识形态: The liberal baby bust.
Humans, like all creatures, have urges which lead to reproduction. Our biological urge is to have sex, not to make babies. Our "instinct to breed" is the same as a squirrel's instinct to plant trees: the urge is to store food, trees are a natural result. If sex is an urge to procreate, then hunger's an urge to defecate.
Culturally-induced desires can be so strong that they seem to be biological, but no evolutionary mechanism for an instinct to breed exists. Why do we stop breeding after we've had as many as we want? If the instinct is to reproduce, how are so many of us able to over ride it? There are too many who have never felt that urge: mutations don't occur in this high a percentage of a population.
Looking to our evolutionary roots, imagine Homo erectus feeling the urge to create a new human. He then has to understand that a cavewoman is needed, sexual intercourse must be engaged in, and they will have to wait nine months.
Considering how often our species has the urge for sex, it's likely human sexuality serves primarily a pair-bonding function rather than procreative. Human infants are vulnerable for so long that their survival, in prehistoric times, may have depended on a strong pair bond between parents. Bonobos, perhaps our closest biological relative, are reported to engage in sex for social reasons more than for reproductive reasons.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation, as to spare it the burden of existence? Or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood.
~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Sufferings of the World 1851
Like the Greek philosopher Diogenes, searching all day with a lighted lantern for an honest person, the search for a rational, ethical reason for creating one more human today goes on without success. Ask someone why they plan to create another of themselves, and they'll most likely offer one of the reasons listed in the chart below. Their real reasons are given in the middle, and alternatives to breeding for those reasons are given to the right.
Reasons given
Real reasons
Suggested alternatives
I can't help it, it's a biological urge.
Unexamined motivations.
Institutions await those who can't control their biological urges.
Want to give our parents grandchildren.
Still seeking parental approval.
Live your own life and encourage your parents to do the same.
I just love children.
Out of touch with inner child, and with existing children.
Adopt, step, and foster parenting.
I have superior human genes.
Doesn't recognize an oxymoron.
Do great things with your genes, rather than expecting the next cultured batch to do it.
Need help on farm or in family business.
Too cheap to hire help.
Mechanization gives faster return on investment.
Want someone to care for me in my old age.
Fear of aging.
Save money and prepare for retirement. Be nice to people so they will visit you in the home. Build social support network.
Pregnancy and childbirth are life experiences.
Life choices limited by social indoctrination.
Rent pregnancy simulator. Choose different life experiences.
A good family is essential to career advancement and strong standing in the community.
Social insecurity. Wants trophy children to improve social status.
Rent children from talent agency on special occasions. Have white picket fence installed.
We want to create a life which embodies our love for each other.
Ego, times two, minus imagination, equals three plus.
Garden. Adopt a stream, trail, or hiway. Rescue animals. Protect & restore ecosystems to embody love.
I want my kids (who don't exist yet) to have all the things I didn't have.
Unfulfilled childhood desires and fantasies.
Deal with regrets & make best of life. Provide for existing children.
To carry on family name.
Trying to please Dad.
Create something enduring & give it family name. Donate blood to pass on bloodline.
Want to see a little me.
Self-absorption. Lack of ego gratification.
Order custom-made, life-like doll.
God wants us to.
Mindless obedience to dogma peddlers who want larger flocks.
Seek true nature of God, whatever you perceive God to be.
My wife/husband wants a baby.
Giving in out of fear of losing partner.
Communicate true desires. Spouse may feel you're the one who wants to breed. Rent baby simulator doll.
Want a child with our bloodline.
Ego extension. Racial identity.
Recognize value of people with different genetic makeups.
It's a spiritual thing for me.
Other reasons too easily refuted.
Find truly spiritual experiences.
I've always wanted to have children, it's what people do.
Unquestioned cultural conditioning.
Consider alternatives. Question expectations. Adopt.
To cement our relationship.
Fear of failed marriage.
Communicate to strengthen relationship. Attend retreats for bonding couples.
I love babies.
Short-sighted view of reality.
Babies soon turn into children, then adults. Infant care work is available. Life-like infant doll may help.
Being a mother is a woman's highest calling.
Beguiled into believing compliance is noble free choice.
Motherhood, and fatherhood, may be achieved without breeding. Many children wait for good homes.
My child could find a way to save the world.
"Mother of God" complex. (Also applies to men).
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
We'd like to try for a boy/girl this time.
Ego extension. Gender identity insecurity. Dissatisfaction with existing offspring.
Appreciate who you have, they might resent their sibling whose gender is preferred.
I just want to.
Just wants to.
Choosing to breed precludes most other things you'll just want to do.
I want someone who will love me and not leave me.
Fear of rejection. Unresolved relationship issues.
Give love to get love. Accept change and deal with loss.
Our economy needs young workers to replace retired workers.
Willing to sacrifice offspring to gods of National Economy.
Automation reduces need for wage slaves. Consider rights of unconceived to stay that way.
The world needs more of us or we'll be outnumbered.
Elitism. Xenophobia. Eugenics easier to conceal than genocide.
Convert others to your views so there'll be one more of your kind and one less of Them.
We may as well, the planet is doomed anyway.
Nihilistic natalism.
Consider ethics of sentencing an innocent person to life, and death, in ecological collapse.
I'd like to achieve a sense of immortality.
Fear of death and non-existence.
Accept mortality. Spread memes not genes. Socrates' heirs are not apparent, but his ideas linger strong.
My biological clock has gone off.
Women's normal heightened sexual desire in 30s & 40s difficult to accept in puritanical societies.
Disarm that culturally-implanted mental time bomb. It's okay to make love and not babies.
I don't know.
Never thought about it. Unthinking conformity.
Think before you breed, and you might not.
I might regret not having had the experience later, when it's too late.
Fear of future worries and life passing too fast.
We can't experience everything. Far better to regret not breeding than to regret breeding
I do not want to deny my kids (who do not exist yet) the joy of existence.
Ignoring lack of joy in existing children.
Promote existence of joy rather than imagining joy in mere existence.
Procreation has traditionally been a source of personal empowerment for women.
Feels powerless. Desires power and respect society appears to give to mothers and withholds from others.
Mothers get more lip service than respect. Picking up family's slack is not empowering. Seek self-defined sources of power.
Admittedly, having VHEMT Volunteers judge reasons for people breeding is like holding a contest for the most intelligent species, and appointing the "most intelligent species" to set the standards for winning. So, you be the judge: are any of these reasons compelling enough to justify creating a whole new human being today?
You may read selected reasons from others if you like, or you may go to Why breed? to offer your own reasons.
Top Ten Reasons to not create another of us today.
Although nearly half of conceptions are unintended, a desire to conform to what society considers normal is probably the number one cause of wanted pregnancies. Many who continue to breed have never considered doing otherwise. Natalist propaganda remains insidiously rampant and rampantly insidious.
Like a copy of the above chart? It's yours for free: Why breed? chart (pdf)
Q: I've always wanted to have a baby of my own. What else is there to life?
For many of us, it isn't enough to say, "just don't do it." Most people who aren't already parents need alternatives to fill the needs which procreation seems to fill.
Both men and women can feel a need to nurture, and nurturing Earth's other "children" can be a viable alternative. Wildlife rehabilitation and protection, habitat preservation, reforestation, Adopt-A-Stream, and gardening offer possibilities.
For those who prefer not to substitute Nature for humans, there are plenty of children in need of parenting. Adoption, step and foster parenting, borrowing relatives' children, and Big Brother - Big Sister Programs might fill the need. Also, occupations in child care and education can provide ample opportunity for sharing and caring.
Young people aren't the only ones in need of care. We humans, like other domesticated animals, need to be cared for at some time in our lives. Helping the elderly, handicapped, sick, or other disadvantaged folks could also satisfy altruistic needs.
Companion animals have less of an impact on the environment than humans, and many childfree people find adopting a dog or cat to be emotionally fulfilling.
The first step to finding an alternative to procreating is to rethink the pronatalist mindset of the past. From an early age, we are told we'll have children of our own some day. We are asked, "How many and when?" When our answer is "Nevermore," alternatives begin to have meaning.
Non-Parenthood groups and information
Macleans magazine, The case against having kids.
Q: Do we have to stop having sex?
Sex is the way most babies are started, but is sexual intercourse really the primary cause of human reproduction? Let's consider the statistics:
The World Health Organization estimates that 100 million couples engage in sexual intercourse on an average day, which is only 3.3% of the world's six billion humans. This pitifully low amount of love-making results in around 910,000 pregnancies, thanks in part to contraceptives and sterility. For a variety of reasons, 55% of these zygotes don't make it through fetushood to live birth. According to a current U.S. Census Bureau estimate, 359,000 do make it daily.
So, less than 0.4% of each day's heterosexual trysts result in the creation of new humans—a statistically insignificant correlation for proving causation. In fact, it rounds to zero.
Try it for yourself. Estimate how many times you've engaged in sexual activity in your lifetime. Now estimate how many times you were trying to make a baby. Divide the little number by the big number to give you the percent of times sex and procreation have simultaneously motivated you.
Perhaps if there were more opportunities for sexual gratification, so many people wouldn't feel the need to fill a nagging emptiness with a needy dependent.
[Please note: the above shows how statistics may be manipulated. If we approach the equation from the other end, more than 99% of us were started by sexual intercourse.]
Q: Does VHEMT favor abortion?
Only when someone is pregnant.
Seriously though, pregnancy should be prevented whenever possible. Unwanted pregnancy is the cause of almost all abortions, and VHEMT certainly doesn't favor unwanted pregnancy.
The Movement doesn't even favor wanted pregnancies. Unfortunately, accidental conceptions still happen, so an available and safe safety net is essential for the well-being of girls and women. Criminalizing abortions has never prevented them from being performed, it just makes them unsafe: illegal abortions cause an estimated 68,000 to 74,000 deaths, with five million suffering from complications each year.
Abortion is inconceivable without conception, so contraception prevents abortions.
The issue of a woman's right to a legal and safe abortion is somewhat beyond the scope of VHEMT. However, the first word is "Voluntary" and coerced births are not. A wide range of opinions on this subject exists within The Movement.
United Nations chart on availability of abortion and contraception by country 2007
The Silver Snip Award
Anyone, including biological parents, who has chosen permanent, surgical contraception (vasectomy, tubal ligation, hysterectomy, etc.), may download this animated gif. Please include a link to this page when proudly displaying the Silver Snip Award on your website.
The Golden Snip Award
This award is reserved exclusively for those brave pioneers who have never never reproduced, and never will. The Golden Snip Award honors childfree individuals who have chosen permanent, surgical contraception (vasectomy, tubal ligation, hysterectomy, etc.), in order to not create more Homo sapiens. Adoptive parents who have never conceived, and who do not support the fertility industry (surrogate mothers, egg donors, IVF, sperm banks) may also download this animated gif. Please include a link to this page when proudly displaying the Golden Snip Award on your website.
Couples are under
varying amounts of pressure to breed, depending on their society and
Gauge the pressure you're forced to endure.
1. Personal pressure. Cultural conditioning to procreate begins early and continues insidiously into adulthood. It's so strong that most of us have never considered not breeding. It's so pervasive that we don't realize we've been indoctrinated by society to act against our own best interests. An instilled desire to create children feels natural, almost biological. A choice isn't much good if we don't know we have it.
2. Positive social pressure. There's only one socially acceptable response to news of pregnancy or birth: "Congratulations". Despite a lack of social benefit, society gushes mindlessly about joys of adding more people. For most of us, resistance to fertile is futile.
3. Positive economic pressure. Economic incentives to breed come from those who control enough money to provide them. Corporate-controlled governments all over the world are paying baby bounties with the hope of future economic benefit. People higher up in the pyramid scheme know they need a large base to support their privileged position.
4. Negative social pressure. Childfree couples endure society's disapproval for shirking their duty to provide fodder for factory and cannon. Accusations of decadence, immaturity, and selfishness pressure couples to conform and procreate. In extreme cases, shunning and even death await women who fail to produce an heir—preferably male.
5. Negative economic pressure. Those who choose to eschew breeding aren't directly fined, but they subsidize others' choice to breed. It takes a village to raise a child, so pay up.
6. Pure pressure. Mandatory breeding rarely reaches the horrific level of Romania's under Ceausesu, but wherever contraceptive services and reproductive freedoms are restricted, pure pressure to breed is automatically exerted. Hundreds of millions of couples are denied their basic human right to stop creating more children than they want or can care for.
The most important decision a couple will face is whether or not to bring another of us into the world. Pressure to make either choice disrespects autonomy. Any level of pressure to take on the life-altering, all-consuming task of child-rearing is unconscionable. Reproductive freedom and responsibility are based on respecting personal choices of those considering co-creating a new human being.
Denial of reproductive freedom has dire consequences:
Vatican's role in restricting reproductive freedomIn 2009, Pope Benedict XVI oppossed condom use, even for HIV prevention, but mercifully gave his blessing to condoms in 2010—as long as they're not used to prevent pregnancy.
Women's lack of reproductive choice
Total Fertility Rates ranked by country. Generally, the greater the gender inequality, the higher the birth rate.
Unmet need for contraceptives in Uganda, and in other countries.International recognition of our basic human right to not breed in the POLITICS section of this site.
Neutral pressure. Equalitarian. Birth rate reduced to one half.
Child mortality drops dramatically. No enforcement required.
Deprives misogynists of enforcing mandatory motherhood.
Would not be enough to lower birth rates to equal death rate.
|Positive. Optimistic. Minimal cost.
|Condescending. Judgemental.
|Saves money in long run. Provides alternative to being paid to breed
|Males' eligibility hard to determine,
making it gender biased.
Economically disadvantaged unequally influenced.
|Lets people know that what they're doing is not good for Nature and humanity
|Negative. Pessimistic. Fault-finding.
|Costs of increasing population are more justly charged.
|Collection problems, especially from
single men.
Rich have more freedom to breed than poor.
|Deprivation of right to breed better than sentencing a child to a life of exploitation, suffering, and early death. Birth rate reduced to below death rate.
|Fascistic. Politically unworkable in most regions. Creates other problems, such as infanticide, black-market babies, genocide.
Polls at information tables in western North America, using the above gauge, have consistently produced an average preference of slightly more than 3. Tragically, many regions have not reached level one. Regardless of how much pressure we feel is needed to improve population density, surely we can agree that social justice demands reproductive freedom as a minimum level, as Melinda Gates advocates:


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I'm sticking with taking the Psalms in order again this week, and the next one is Psalms 10. I found it interesting that the first verse seemed to fit so well with my Saturday post on waiting "When the Dice Are in the Air." If I had worked on scheduling my Sunday Psalms first I might have quoted that verse.
I think that this Psalms is a wonderful one for the state of our world right now. When you watch the news and the economy, it seems that the wicked and greedy are getting away with a lot. The rich keep getting richer, the poor keep getting poorer, and the middle class are moving in with the poor. The other day I read an article about food stamps, and how so many people who are on food stamps also have jobs but their jobs don't pay enough to keep food on the table for their families. One woman worked for Walmart 25 hours a week at $8.08 an hour trying to support herself and her daughter. I did the math; that's only $808 per month before taxes are taken out. But I'll bet the CEOs and stockholders of Walmart wouldn't blink an eye at dropping that kind of money for fun on a weekend. It's easy to become cynical and think perhaps God has forgotten or doesn't see.
But this Psalms, and scripture as a whole, reminds us that this perception is an illusion. In the end, the wicked and the greedy, those who care not for the fatherless and the oppressed, will see justice. God will restore those who trust in Him.
Psalm 10
1 Why, O LORD, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts of the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4 In his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
he is haughty and your laws are far from him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will shake me;
I'll always be happy and never have trouble."
7 His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
8 He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent,
watching in secret for his victims.
9 He lies in wait like a lion in cover;
he lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10 His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, "God has forgotten;
he covers his face and never sees."
12 Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why does he say to himself,
"He won't call me to account"?
14 But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you consider it to take it in hand.
The victim commits himself to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil man;
call him to account for his wickedness
that would not be found out.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.

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|Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
|Romans 8:34
When you are facing fierce opposition and impossible needs or troubles whom or what are you looking to or trusting for help? If you are looking to yourself or man's wisdom or power then you are limited by the natural powers of this world. The Lord Jesus Christ in His Word has given you the power to call upon Him in each and desire and every need. you will face on this earth! Romans 8:32 declares, "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
The Lord Jesus Christ is always standing at the right hand of God Almighty, watching over you with constant prayers on your behalf! For His power to be released on your behalf you must acknowledge Him by calling out to Him. When you acknowledge Him through prayer or calling out to Him you give Him the legal right to intervene in your life. When you acknowledge Him you are also declaring to all of creation whom your Lord is and where you have put your trust.
God Almighty will not share His Glory with the power's of this world or man's pride or self seeking. When you acknowledge Him you are giving Him all the glory for what He has promised to do.
|Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
|(Hebrews 4:16)
|God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
|(Psalm 46:1)
|The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.
|(Psalm 34:17)
|Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
|(Proverbs 3:5-6)
|"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
|(John 16:33)


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AJGpr client, Dr. Norman Marcus, author of End Back Pain Forever: A Groundbreaking Approach to Eliminate Your Suffering and founder of The Norman Marcus Pain Institute, recently posted a blog about the growing problem of prescription drug addiction and misuse and what government is doing about it. Here it is.
49 States Adopt Prescription Drug Database to Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse by Dr. Norman Marcus
Because of the growing problem of addiction, misuse, and diversion, 49 states have now adopted a state prescription drug database. You may have read an article recently in The New York Times about Missouri being the only state that has not adopted such a database. In New York, as a prescriber of controlled substances, each time a patient is prescribed any type of controlled substance, I must log into the NYS website to confirm that a patient is not receiving other medications from other doctors.
I found a few patients who had not been honest with me and had received medications from other doctors. Unfortunately, the small occurrence of dishonest behavior has obliged all doctors to be alert for the possible misuse of medication. At the Norman Marcus Pain Institute, I implement several rules for patients receiving any type of controlled substance from me. Here are a few of them:
• Only one physician can prescribe all pain medications.
• Only one pharmacy should be used to obtain all pain related medications.
• All medications, including herbal remedies and over the counter medications, need to be reported since all medications can interact with one another.
• Medications must be kept in a safe and secure place, such as a locked cabinet or safe.
Following these simple rules will help protect my patients and their families from improper use of pain medication.
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We lost a lot of things in Christchurch, courtesy of never ending earthquakes. 180 lives, countless buildings, livelihoods of many citizens were destroyed, landmarks and social histories obliterated. One thing I didn't mourn was the loss of the hipster population.
Without their regular venues in which to flaunt poorly cultivated facial hair, display skinny jean clad snake hips (no hipster would be guilty of having a healthy B.M.I) or never ending collection of ironic t-shirts, the hipster as a clique ceased to exist in most parts of Chch.
There would always be a small enclave, occasionally found at the organic food co-op on Stanmore Rd or sinking an expensive brew at the newly opened ale house, tavern or bars that have popped up in the 'burbs surrounding the town proper.
I hadn't missed them and had barely noticed their demise until my recent forays into the bustling and ever hustling social nexus that ol' Melbourne town has to offer. You can't swing a hand crafted, vintage Italian moustache comb without hitting hipsters in Melbs. It's one of the modern day Mecca for the terminally hip. This fact was bought screaming to my attention when I passed a board adorning a coffee shop on Exhibition St in the cbd. The black board sought to inform all of the impending release of a new, magical bean blend. Only 40 cups would be available of this modern ambrosia. Pre – order to avoid missing out.
Wtf? I'll admit that this first world dilemma is completely lost on me, I've never drunk coffee. I love the smell of it, it makes me think of Italy, flirtations with sexy smart strangers, and other grown up and unmentionable passions. I know the taste of it could never live up to the hype of my fevered imaginings and thus is best avoided to deter another life episode of bitter disappointment.
I am as ever, an outsider, even in the city of my birth. Twenty years of being invited to participate in the various social distractions has yet to garner me with a sense of belonging that I may not actually want. These musings have been percolating (pun intended) for the last few weeks. I have deliberately avoided many events upon returning to the Garden State, too many emotions to vex and torment me, too few dollars to spend after relocation and jobless situation still to be rectified. The most pertinent factors in my dodging social obligations would be my lack of patience with petty self involvement of other people, hipster or not. Earthquakes are good like that, they help you see what's truly important and swallow up all of the unnecessary detritus that accessorises modern life in the big city.
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Solutran Successfully Completes FNS Assessment of SNAP System
/EINPresswire.com/ -- MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwired - August 26, 2016) - Solutran is pleased to announce it has successfully passed the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Assessment of its Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) issuance system. The assessment took place in June with the purpose of testing Solutran's S3™ system's readiness in its core electronic benefit issuance system functionality. The scope of the test included Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) capabilities.
"Our successful FNS assessment is a significant and timely milestone for Solutran," stated Barry Nordstrand, Solutran CEO. "This assessment demonstrates that Solutran is ready to support the EBT industry with our new and innovative technologies."
The FNS assessment evaluated Solutran's S3™ EBT processing system through live testing. Over 2,600 test scripts were completed to validate the systems functionality under all possible user scenarios. A team of FNS professionals performed all testing with the assistance of a third party evaluation firm, DRT Strategies, Inc.
Online WIC, SNAP, and TANF programs are already implementing Solutran technology to support their electronic delivery of benefits to eligible participants. Solutran's proprietary S3™ technology utilizes 'active/active' processing in dual data centers to achieve 99.999% uptime and layered security defenses to keep cardholder and program data protected.
"We have worked hard to create a highly functional system with a user-friendly interface and we look forward to refining our State end user application experience for our upcoming SNAP User Acceptance Testing," stated Lorna Ballard, Solutran manager of EBT operations and client implementation.
In 2016, Solutran has processed over 17 million EBT transactions representative of nearly $500 million in food purchased at more than 2,500 retailers. Solutran has provided processing support for WIC programs since 1989 across 61 state and Inter-Tribal Organizations WIC programs across the country. For more information, visit www.Solutran.com.
About Solutran
Solutran is a leading national payments processor with state-of-the-art Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) technology and a long-standing reputation for excellence in customer service in high-volume payment transactions. Since 1982, Solutran has provided corporations and financial institutions with customized solutions including private sector EBT programs called Healthy Savings®, depository processing, check conversion services, controlled disbursement services, returned check management, and WIC payment processing. Solutran is committed to developing and providing solutions for the ever-changing needs of various EBT industries.
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Sivan Park is a nice little park in KK Nagar, Chennai that has a surprisingly strong green cover. Google Maps (Location). Nizhal is an organization that works for increasing awareness about the need to preserve and grow trees/plants (especially in urban areas). With support from active volunteers, they execute direct planting initiatives and do much more to promote tree culture and regenerate bio-diversity in our urban centers.
Ever since I went to the tree walk organized by Nizhal at Kalakshetra, last year, I have been wanting to go to another one. This year's Madras Day celebrations provided that opportunity. I have not been to the Sivan Park earlier, so I registered to go to this particular walk. The first photo shows a large statue of God Shiva, which maybe the reason for the name of this park. I should say that this park is better than what I expected to find – there were so many families walking and a large kid's play area, too.
There are so many species of trees (in parks around us) but we are not be able to identify them. The objectives of a tree walk is to (also) help us identify some of them. The above photo shows the leaves of a tree called Tabebuia. It's an exotic tree (native to Central America, but brought and planted here) and we can identify it by the pattern of its shiny leaves – see the hand shaped pattern with different leaf sizes, above?
These are the leaves of a tree called Illuppai (Madhuca). It's seeds are similar to suppotta's and they were extensively used to make oil (to light lamps) before about 700-800 years. Its flowers are used as a sweetener and its fruits are very tasty and induce drowsiness to animals that eat it. It seems monkeys and other animals like it very much.
These are the leaves of a tree called Indian Peach (Deech?) or Pungam. It's leaves have spots due to fungal growth, but it's just cohabitation and the fungus doesn't affect the leaves. It seems these leaves have medicinal properties and can refresh our body – it's good to sleep under their shade. These leaves are also used as green manure. We also saw two more trees – Mavilingam/Garlic pear tree, which flowers from May to July and Badminton ball tree (native to West Africa) which grows tall and has numerous short and well arranged leaves.
The above photo shows the Nagalingam/Cannon-ball Tree. It's named so because of the large (miniature) cannon-ball type fruits. It seems, traditionally, our ancestors grew certain types of sacred trees at Shiva Temples, and this was one of them. Basically, this was done to maintain the biodiversity (a word that mostly exists in text books these days {ironically made from wood got by cutting trees}).
The above two pictures show the trunks of a Rain tree & a Banyan Tree, respectively. See what people have done to them – They have peeled off the outer protective layer of wood, in the first case and they have scribbled nonsense on the trunk of the second! These irresponsible practices affect trees very much. People are also advised not to nail advertisements on trees or wrap them with lights.
The rain tree (thungu moonji maram) is a large tree that is happily grown in the road-sides because of the amount of shade a single tree can give. There is an interesting story behind its name – It seems, a certain species of insects called 'Cicadas' live in them (in their native – Central America) and they pee a lot, ejecting huge volumes of sugary-water that falls like rain on anything sitting under its shade – Animals even drink this water. But when we brought the tree, we forgot to bring the insects, here!
The banyan tree (Aala maram), of course, is the queen of all trees because of the number of species a single tree can support and the extent over which it can grow. Did you know that the banyan tree is our national tree? The state tree of Tamil Nadu is Palm tree. This tree belongs to the ficus family (whose flowers turn into fruits) and each fig variety has a specific variety of wasps (vandu) and only that insect can pollinate its flowers.
The next tree we saw was the white silk cotton (elavam panju) tree. A fallen fruit from this tree is shown in the above photo. Our pillows are made using the silk cotton obtained from these trees. We also saw the Indian Tulip (Poovarasu) tree which of course has flowers and gives hard, termite-proof wood. It seems – Indian Tulip, Neem and Pungam are our native trees and can easily be grown in our road-sides/gardens.
The oldest (surviving) flowering tree is a Pipal tree (Arasa maram) that was planted in Sri Lanka by Ashoka's daughter Sangamitra, more than 2300 years ago. So, there are trees that can live that long!
The first photo shows the Copper Pod tree, which is a large tree and is used to make shields. The second photo shows the Indian Ashoka Tree that grows narrowly vertical – It can reach good heights and also looks like an ornamental plant. It prevents noise pollution and dust, hence people love to plant it all along the perimeter of their property.
Trees can live without us – but we cannot live without them. Let's save whatever trees remaining in our urban spaces and lets plant new ones 🙂
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Transistor arrays go low-power too
ULN2003-type of transistor arrays that provide seven or eight power transistors in a DIP to control relays, motors and lamps have been popular for ages. Built around bipolar transistors they usually can switch up to around 500 mA per output. Now there is a new low-power family that uses MOSFETs instead.


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Job Title: Medical Technologist (Laboratory)
Location: Dublin 18
At ICON, it's our people that set us apart.
As a global provider of drug development solutions, our work is serious business. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun while you do it. With our vision to be the partner of choice in drug development, we hire only the best and brightest in the industry! Are you one of them?
At ICON, we have an incredible opportunity for an expert Medical Technologist to join the team in our Leopardstown location.
The Role:
Recognize, exemplify and adhere to ICON's values which center around our commitment to People, Clients and Performance.As a member of staff, the employee is expected to embrace and contribute to our culture of process improvement with a focus on streamlining our processes adding value to our business and meeting client needs.Accepts direction and instruction from the Laboratory Management team.Responsible for the quality and timelines of technical procedures, as well as their compliance with the applicable company, CAP, and local regulatory agency testing requirements.Performs technical assignments and testing and issue reports in accordance with written procedures, these should be processed within agreed turnaround times.Enters and releases required information in the LIS, such as test results, comments and quality of the results and maintain correction active logs as appropriate.Consults with Laboratory Management staff prior to reporting grossly abnormal results and when OUT OF CONTROL test runs are encountered.Responsible for the preparation quality control documentation, instrument and equipment maintenance documentation performance or proficiency testing and compliance with all appropriate regulatory procedures and quality requirements in a testing area.Responsible for ensuring reagents are maintained, prepared, stored and used in a manner suitable for testing and documentation is kept to ensure adequate records are available in test area.Performs the maintenance, calibration and validation of the instruments/assays assigned to the section according to written laboratory procedures.Responsible for maintaining all paperwork and ensuring all records are kept up to date and storedAssists with responding to queries and quality issues and quality issues, and participates in root cause analysis investigations as directed by laboratory management teamAssists in maintaining temperature monitoring system as requiredReports to, and is responsible to Supervisor/Manager for daily operation and evaluation of work performanceParticipates in required Continuous Professional Education Programme, including conferences, internal journal club and lectures, as required.
What you will need:A minimum of one year's laboratory experienceFluency in English, both written and oralBasic working knowledge of and compliance with all CAP and local agency requirementsDegree qualified (Science or related)
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State makes recommendations on federal carbon regulations
BISMARCK—The public has until April 26 to comment on the proposed repeal of Obama-era regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. For North Dakota's part, state environmental health regulators are calling for repeal and a new rule that would be driven at the state level.
While the Trump administration has been friendly to coal, North Dakota Department of Health Environmental Section Chief Dave Glatt told attendees of the Lignite Energy Council's annual meeting in Bismarck on Wednesday a new rule is needed to prevent a "vacuum" when a new administration takes over.
"We need something there," he said, as a sort of placeholder to prevent another set of rules like the Clean Power Plan, which he felt steps on states' rights.
Glatt said that ideally a new rule would focus on emissions on a plant-by-plant basis rather than statewide. He also said rules should consider the remaining life of coal plants when developing emissions limits and compliance timelines.
Glatt's remarks echoed those made by Lignite Energy Council CEO Jason Bohrer during an EPA listening session in Gillette, Wyo., March 27.
"The Lignite Energy Council has filed comments with the EPA already stating our opposition to the existing rule, which reaches far beyond the fence line of the power plants," Bohrer said in a statement. "Our view is the rule should look at each plant individually and should not lead to generation sources or utilities switching away from coal, but should consider the technologies that are available today."
The Lignite Energy Council is a regional trade association for coal mines, electric utilities and about 300 businesses providing goods and services to the mines and plants.
Minnesota meeting
As part of the process to address coal carbon emissions, Glatt said he also is meeting with his counterparts in Minnesota in May or June.
North Dakota sends a large portion of the coal-fired power it produces to Minnesota, but that state is more aggressive about wanting to reduce its carbon footprint. Glatt said the purpose of the meeting is to find common ground between the two states that would keep coal a part of the energy mix.
Regulation shift
Glatt also updated the Lignite Energy Council members about the shifting of environmental regulation from the state Health Department to the Department of Environmental Quality.
The Environmental Health Section is modifying its rules to fit the new organizational structure in 2020. Glatt said those rule changes will go out for public comment in the near future.
Glatt said the department is making some modifications to update primacy agreements it has with the federal government, which give the state authority to implement federal regulations. The department also is considering increases in permit fees.
Currently, the Environmental Health Section relies on federal funding for 50 to 70 percent of its budget. Glatt said increasing permitting fees would make his new department less dependant on ever-shrinking federal funding.
Glatt indicated he is hopeful everything for the new department will be in place by the end of the year.


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Ideal for: KRAS mutation studies, EGFR – KRAS – BRAF – MEK – ERK signaling
H358 is a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell line that harbors a KRAS mutation. KRAS mutations are found in >25% of lung adenocarcinomas leading to constitutive activation of the growth-promoting RAS signaling pathway. H358 cells were established from a chemotherapy-naïve NSCLC tumor.
Many of the targeted therapies that have been studied and approved for the treatment of NSCLC specifically target the EGFR – KRAS – BRAF – MEK – ERK signaling kinase cascade as oncogenic addiction to these growth factor signals are commonly observed in NSCLC1. Many attempts to target KRAS directly to this point have been unsuccessful. KRAS also influences the AKT/PI3K and other growth and proliferation pathways, and mechanisms to target mutant KRAS through other pathways are also underway2,3. For this reason, the NCI/NIH has begun the RAS initiative to promote research aimed at targeting oncogenic RAS in cancers4.
Interestingly, H358 cells are highly sensitive to anti-EGFR therapies, despite having an oncogenic KRAS activation mutation. Additionally, H358 has no other major tumor suppressor or oncogenic mutations. This makes H358 an imperative NSCLC cell line model for trying to understand the complex role of KRAS mutations in NSCLC.
Enabling Case Study: H358 Tumor Kinetics in OncoRat
The OncoRat demonstrated a 100% engraftment rate for the H358 xenograft model, providing an ideal host for H358 tumor biology. H358 xenografts in Hera's engineered rat models achieve tumor volumes up to 15 times greater than those in the NSG mouse in the same time frame. Additionally, successful take rates are far superior to those in NSG mice.
H358 products & services
- Xenograft efficacy studies, including collection of blood, tissues and tumor for ADME, PK/PD and analysis.
- Weekly or bi-weekly tumor sampling via fine need aspiration (FNA). For longitudinal evaluation of drug exposure, histology and gene expression.
- OncoRats off-the-shelf for engraftment at the customers facility.
- Hirsch FR, Scagliotti GV, Mulshine JL, et al. Lung cancer: current therapies and new targeted treatments. The Lancet. 2017;389(10066):299-311.
- Sangodkar J, Perl A, Tohme R, et al. Activation of tumor suppressor protein PP2A inhibits KRAS-driven tumor growth. The Journal of clinical investigation. 2017;127(6):2081-2090.
- Kauko O, O'Connor CM, Kulesskiy E, et al. PP2A inhibition is a druggable MEK inhibitor resistance mechanism in KRAS-mutant lung cancer cells. 2018;10(450):eaaq1093.
- National Cancer Institute. The RAS Initiative.


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Much like Warren Buffett, when this Brazilian billionaire goes into a stock investors take notice!
We're talking about Eike Batista, a Brazilian industrial magnate. Ranked #61 on the Forbes List he's perhaps best know as the college drop out who vowed to become Brazil's richest man – and with a net worth of at least $7.5 billion -- he is.
As Tim Seymour explains, Batista made headlines this week. Find out what happened and how you can profit from it. Watch the video now!
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This is how to do tech support is a pointer on one of my own sites to an amusing article by Chris Blasko on how to disrupt a telemarketer. HT to Kurt Wismer.
David Harley
Small Blue-Green World
ESET Senior Research Fellow
This is how to do tech support is a pointer on one of my own sites to an amusing article by Chris Blasko on how to disrupt a telemarketer. HT to Kurt Wismer.
David Harley
Small Blue-Green World
ESET Senior Research Fellow
Ok. That wasn't the last update.
And very possibly the last update here (the target blog suggests why…): Epsilon Overkill and the Security Ecology
Update 3: Rebecca Herson evaluates some of the advice given by Epsilon customers for coping with the phlurry of phish anticipated post-Epsilon: http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe/email-security-news/advice-after-the-epsilon-breach/
Links and a little extra irony from me: http://chainmailcheck.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/epsilon-epidemic/
Update 2: a discomfiting suggestion that there was a longstanding problem that Epsilon were actually aware of: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/253712,epsilon-breach-used-four-month-old-attack.aspx (hat tip to Kurt Wismer, again)
Update: a few more articles you might find worth reading.
It's reasonable to assume that the Epsilon fiasco will lead to an epidemic: at any rate, luminaries such as Brian Krebs and Randy Abrams are making that assumption, and publishing some excellent proactive advice accordingly. So rather than go over the same ground, I'll just cite some of the more useful blog posts around that.
Two highly relevant posts by Brian Krebs:
And two relevant posts by Randy:
A list of companies known to have been affected from ThreatPost: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/list-companies-hit-epsilon-breach-040511
And a characteristically to-the-point rant by Kurt Wismer on why it wouldn't be an issue in a sane world: http://anti-virus-rants.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-epsilon-breach-shouldnt-be-issue.html
*Yes, a rather forced pun, I know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_epilepticus
David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
AVIEN Dogsbody
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- Nicotiana - Mixed Seaham Sea Glass Sterling Wire Deluxe Bezel© Pendant Necklace
Product Description
A BEAUTIFUL mixed amber or nicotiana sea glass piece is set in our Original Sea Glass Bezel© solid sterling pendant setting.
Originating as a end of day art glass tossed into the sea and rolled around for over 100 years.
Glass from this region tends to be top quality.
Flashed art glass is a technique where one color is applied on top of another then carved or blasted away to reveal a pattern. Many glass artists in the North East region of England where this sea glass piece was found, practiced this skilled art form. Scraps of failed attempts were discarded into local waters.
The Solid Sterling bail on the pendant will accommodate a chain of 6MM wide.
Comes with our free plated chain (not shown) but other options are available. Shown here with our sterling 2MM snake chain (Not included but available as an upgrade).


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++ CLOSURE ++ etcetera
In accordance with the instructions of the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (TMBJS),
the childcare facilities in Jena will remain closed from 17 March 2020
until the end of the Easter holidays. The flexible childcare facilitie will also remain closed. Emergency childcare will be provided in
accordance with the instructions of the TMBJS.
Registration process
If you would like to apply please visit the Kita-Online Portal Jena and fill in the registration form providing the information requested as well as your status (student or employee of Uni/FH).
Visit our facilities 2020
Due to current events, the visits in March have been cancelled. Further dates are planned for May and will be announced here in time!
Many thanks for your understanding!
Kita Langrafenstieg:
23.09.2020 15:30 Uhr
Kita Fuchsturmweg:
30.09.2020 9:30 Uhr & 16:00 Uhr
Kita Beutenberg:
08.09.2020 16.30 Uhr
Kita Seidelhaus:
19.03.2020 16:00 Uhr
17.09.2020 16:00 Uhr
Prior registration by mail is requested.
In accordance with the instructions of the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (TMBJS),
the childcare facilities in Jena will remain closed from 17 March 2020
until the end of the Easter holidays. The flexible childcare facilitie will also remain closed. Emergency childcare will be provided in
accordance with the instructions of the TMBJS. Please be sure to follow these instructions (see keyword "Emergency care in schools, kindergartens and day care").
Our child day care center can be found in Jena Ost, in a wonderful, beautiful and completely sanitized villa. The villa is located in a tranquil area only a few steps away from the forest. Despite this, we are only 15 minutes walking distance away from the city center and there is a convenient connection to the city's public transportation.
Core Concepts
Our pedagogical concept is oriented around the prejudice-aware education and upbringing and different progressive educational approaches, such as the situational approach and regional-education, amongst others.
We see the child as an active participant in their own development and support and look after them carefully during their acquisition of knowledge and understanding. On our ground floor, the kindergarten aged children work with us in home groups with a bit of age group mixing and fulfill partially shared jobs and activities. Thematically decorated rooms, such as a child restaurant, role playing- and theater playroom with a plateau, that we call the covered box, a building and construction room with another plateau, a mini-experiment room as well as a hobby and exercise room.
The upper floor has four large rooms and a roof covered balcony and is reserved for our younger children.
There are two groups on the upper floor. While the youngest ones live, learn, laugh and play in an age-homogenous nest, the 2-3 year old children conquer the world in the world explorers group.
Fuchsturmweg 14
07749 Jena
Doris Tischendorf, Claudia Abert
from the first year of age
Mo-Fr: 07.00 bis 17.00 Uhr
71 children
big garden situated on the hillside with a little amphitheater and a 8 m long slope slide, amongst other things
Not far from the university grounds and close to the city center, you can find the child day care center Landgrafensteig.
The former bar-villa was completely renovated from the ground up in 2001 and was brought up to meet the modern needs of a children's facility. In a spaciously laid out garden, the children can let off steam and run wild.
Core Concepts
Our work with the children is strongly centered around prejudice-aware education and upbringing. We see children as active participants in their own development and make it our duty to offer the children the time and space they need in order to support their desire to acquire new knowledge.
Furthermore, the children have the right of making decisions with us in all
of the procedures that make up their daily life, so that they feel as if they
are understood and are being taken seriously. Altogether
we have six home groups on three different floors. For
play time, we work partially share the individual floors, for which we have a
functional area in specific group rooms.
Landgrafenstieg 2
07743 Jena
Claudia Markert, Miriam Nowotny
from the first year of age
Mo-Fr: 06.30 Uhr bis 17.30 Uhr
105 children
big garden with a crawl tunnel, outdoor shower and running stream
Our children's facility Seidelhaus can be found within close proximity of the Institute of Sport Sciences. You can reach us conveniently with the bus and tram. The house built in 1928 has been used as a children's facility for the university since 1974. In 1991, the sponsorship went over to the Studentenwerk. At the beginning of 2006, the complete reconstruction of the house was set in motion and was successfully completed in April of 2007.
Core Concepts
We see ourselves as a kindergarten of exercise. In 2009, we were certified as an "exercise-friendly kindergarten" by the State Sport Association. The layout of the interior space and the garden is in some way connected to the free development of personality, exercise and especially playing games. For children starting with the age of 3, functional rooms for a studio, construction room, role-play room and child restaurant are available. We work by the situational approach and by the philosophy of the regional-education system. We trust the children with the responsibility of completing the necessary steps for their own development through their own actions.
The primary focus of our pedagogical behaviour is based on the needs, abilities and interests of each individual child through active observances and supporting the learning process.
Unsere Kindertageseinrichtung Seidelhaus finden Sie in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zum Institut für Sportwissenschaften. Sie erreichen uns günstig mit Bus und Bahn. Das 1928 erbaute Haus wurde seit 1974 als Kindertagesstätte der Universität genutzt. 1991 ging es in die Trägerschaft des Studentenwerks über. Zu Beginn des Jahres 2006 begann die völlige Rekonstruktion des Hauses, die im April 2007 erfolgreich abgeschlossen wurde.
Seidelstraße 3
07749 Jena
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Jana Schröder, Sylke Knoll
from the age of 6 months
Mo-Fr: 07.00 bis 17.00 Uhr
75 children
little garden beside the house, spacious playfield reached in 5 minutes walking distance
Our child day care center can be found at the southern part of Jena at the outskirts of the Beutenberg Campus.
Core Concepts
Our day care center is conceptually based on the situational approach, while impulses of the reform pedagogical approach, as well as trainings and advanced trainings have influenced our work and will be developed further.
The children are cared for in four groups. In two groups on the lower lever, we work in partially mixed age groups. With the youngest of our world explorers, we work in two age-homogenous home groups on the upper floor.
Albert-Einstein-Straße 1
07745 Jena
from the age of 6 months
Juliane Schöler and Verena Ronneberger
Mo-Fr: 07.00 bis 18.00 Uhr
65 children
big garden with an old oleaster tree and a scooter path
The Studierendenwerk Thüringen offers, in cooperation with the university and the University of Applied Science Jena, the flexible day care center JUniKinder on the university campus at Ernst-Abbe-Platz 5.
Student Parents as well as employees of the Studentenwerk and the universities in Jena can leave their children (between the ages of 12 weeks – 10 years old) in the hands of student assistants who have experience in child care for 2-4 hours a day, and a maximum of 10 hours a week respectively, so that they can attend seminars or visit lectures, take advantage of open office hours or simply attend to daily errands. Our open hours on Monday – Thursday from 8 am to 8 pm and on Friday from 8 am to 2 pm also serve to help make studying and working with children stress-free. Two big bright rooms, divided into play and nap areas, as well as a children's bathroom are available for the children to use. The employees of JUnikinder also organize child day care for special events, conferences, congresses and weekend seminars.
Booking a place can be done in blocks (1 block equals 2 hrs). Blocks can also be booked over a longer period of time. The payment is given in advance, with a contribution of 4 €/ or 6.50 € per 2 hrs. Booking is possible online over the FSU Homepage "Family in the University".
General Terms and Conditions of Use
Contract of childcare (Registration)
You can receive detailed information in the INFOtake center on Ernst-Abbe-Platz 5, or per telephone by calling 03641-9400506 or 03641-9400597.
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Feb gardening tips
No idea whether to mulch, prune or - goddamnit - both?! Here are the top things to do in your garden in February to get it in shape for spring.
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Rails, IE, and Parallels
Comments Off on Rails, IE, and Parallels
More and more web developers are using OS X as their development tool of choice these days. It's hard not to with excellent tools like TextMate, and the ability to run in a Unix style environment. As much as we'd like to give IE the boot, we know that the browser market share is still dominated by this browser. Web development professionals these days need to make sure their code at least works in Firefox, Safari, IE6, and IE7. This leaves us with two very important browsers which don't natively run on the Mac. Parallels Desktop for Mac comes to the rescue here to make it just as easy to test the two versions of IE on a Mac as it is on a PC.
We'll go over the basics needed to test your Rails applications in IE6/IE7 on Parallels in the most convenient way possible.
Getting Started
I'll start out by saying that the first prerequisite for this setup is having an Intel powered Mac. This article is useless without one unless you're just here to drool over neat tools.
Being able to use Parallels comes at a cost. You'll need to shell out $79.99 for a copy of Parallels for Mac, and a couple hundred more for a copy of Windows. I believe this is a nominal business cost for what the software offers, and is much cheaper than having to buy and maintain a separate PC to run Windows. Both Parallels and Windows have a trial versions you can use to verify that this setup is worth your money.
Once you download Parallels for Mac, you can unpack and install the software as usual. Parallels has a great guide for getting started with the software. It will take you through Installing Parallels Desktop, Creating new Virtual Machines, and Installing Windows on the machine. I started out by installing a single Windows XP virtual machine and set it up with IE6 and all other default settings I use. I then just copied that setup to create a new VM on which I upgraded to IE7.
Open Ports on the Network
When developing Rails applications on the Mac, the typical setup is to develop everything on localhost, and serve the applications using mongrel.
$ cd maintainable $ mongrel_rails start -d -p 3000
We can of course access this directly in our native Mac browsers by navigating to
http://localhost:3000. To make this application accessible from IE on our Windows VM, we'll have to accept network traffic through our firewall on port 3000. Open up your Apple System Preferences and go to the sharing window.
Navigate to the Firewall Tab in the Sharing pane, and click on the New button so that we can add an additional port(s).
Here is where we make our Rails ports available on the network. We're going to open up ports 3000-3099 for any additional Rails applications we choose to bind to a port in that range. Enter
- Port Name: Other
- TCP Port Number(s): 3000-3099
- Description: Rails Applications (30xx)
Browsing in IE
Now we should be able to browse to this from IE in our Parallels machine by pointing to our internal IP Address. We can find out this internal address by taking a look at the Services tab on our Sharing pane. Near the bottom it will say something like "Other Macintosh Users can access your computer at afp://192.168.1.100".
This is the number we're looking for, and we can alternately find it using this command from the terminal.
$ ifconfig | grep 192 | awk '{print $2}'
Once we have our internal IP, let's fire up our IE browser and check out our site. In IE, navigate to http://192.168.1.100:3000.
Browse By Name with Bonjour
The problem with browsing by internal IP address is that it's likely to change from day to day. A better approach is to install Bonjour for Windows so that we can simply refer to our computer by name instead of number.
We'll first go back into our Services tab on the Sharing pane in Apple System Preferences. Here we're going to shorten our name to be something easy to remember and type into the browser. Click on the Edit Button near the top.
I'm going to simply rename this to derek.local. Feel free to be more creative with your own.
To seamlessly network with our Windows VM without the hassle of dealing with network settings manually, we're going to install Bonjour for Windows. Download BonjourSetup.exe, and choose the default settings for the installation. With Bonjour installed, we can now browse to our application at http://derek.local:3000.
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Individuals facing persecution may sometimes find safety by seeking asylum within the United States. With our current state of affairs being as tumultuous as they are, there are countless individuals throughout the United States interested in finding safety and security ...Read More
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Team HQ
Boston Pizza has always had a close relationship with local sports teams, but they wanted to connect with them on a deeper level. Our solution? Team HQ.
Team HQ is a national program that rewards local sports teams for eating at Boston Pizza. The concept is simple: the more you eat at Boston Pizza with your team, the more rewards you get. It includes a website—as well as apps for iOS and Android devices—that allows team members to submit their restaurant receipts, earn rewards, and work together to reach their goals.
It also includes incentives for participation. The top performers on each team receive special badges, like "MVP" and "Online Hero". Even the "bench warmers" get recognition (there's a special badge for them too). Teams also have a chance to compete for top spot on their local restaurant's leaderboard.
From initial concepts to finishing touches, I had the opportunity to play an integral role in every step of this project's process. As the lead copywriter, I developed the voice for the entire program – as well as copy for the site, the apps, the email communications and the promotional videos.
Gold at the 2018 Canadian Marketing Awards
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Bronze at the 2018 Canadian Marketing Awards
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Bronze at the 2018 Shopper Innovation Awards
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I was lying in bed, still half-asleep, my brain jumbled with random images from the dream I'd had.
I remembered seeing a window decorated with paper snowflakes. I thought about how badly mine used to come out when I was a child, because the scissors were never sharp enough.
Okay, so use an X-acto knife.
I've done plenty of work with a blade like that before, but I remembered even with the sharpest blade, my hand would shake or slip, and the paper would tear.
(Here's where it gets weird.)
How does a cutting edge actually work?
In the obvious physical sense, it's a fine (ie, sharp) object that a force acts upon to insert itself between two parts of another object, separating them. Like putting my hand into water, but in a more permanent form–the blade pushes the two parts to either side of it, but unlike water, solid objects can't rush back together like it never happened.
But even the finest knife edge still has thickness, so my brain spiraled down to thinking about it on the atomic level.
Atoms are mostly empty space. Matter is mostly empty space–we perceive it as solid because those mostly-empty spaces have rules and properties about how they arrange themselves, and our senses are orders of magnitude too dull to notice the atomic trickery going on.
So on the one hand, it makes perfect sense that a sharp blade could slice through something easily, pushing all those tiny parcels of empty to one side or the other.
Then I realized the blade is mostly empty space too.
That's when I got out of bed and made myself a cup of tea, because visualizing an X-acto knife made of hardly anything at all was too taxing for my sleep-muddled brain.
As a writer, I believe it's important to give your mind time to wander down these odd little paths. Is this pseudo-revelation I had about atoms immediately useful to a story I'm writing? No.
But could I use it to inform the personality of a future character? Absolutely. I can already picture one–a young man with perpetually disheveled hair and an air of constant distraction, because he's busy thinking Deep Thoughts and when he comes up with one, he realizes someone's already had it, someone's already figured that out, and he needs to read more widely and study more things so he can finally have New Deep Thoughts.
And I could play it straight and let him be serious, or he could be the weird one everyone makes fun of. Depends on the story.
So make a habit of daydreaming. Let yourself travel along unknown ideas to their inevitable conclusions, be they weird or obvious or downright foolish. Write those ideas down, if they amuse you, like my atomic X-acto knife did.
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BICESTER 9TH MARCH 2020 @ Torino Lounge
A fun, unique night out drinking creatively! Grab a drink and a brush and follow our artist to create a beautiful painting of your own - NO previous painting experience required, all materials are supplied, drinks not included.
Please let us know the names of people you would like to be seated with before the event, so that we can update our seating plan. You will be greeted and seated at 7.20pm ready for a 7.30pm start. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable, however, if you give us 48 hours notice we will be able to move you to another Paint Night event.
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Pleased to see that LSP world domination is on-going. Having implemented an LSP server myself I could rant at length about its flaws but none of them really matter because the fact that you can fire up almost any editor and get something close to full IDE support for a whole range of languages is fantastic.
(Which reminds me, I must try Emacs' C++ LSP support again - last time round it had some rough edges & I went back to the dedicated clang based setup built around irony-mod.)
I've personally never had good experiences with LSPs; they feel tacked on, and that's if they even feel like working properly.
IMHO, the only way to do editor intelligence is in the editor.
Sure, in a perfect world we would all use editors with an infinite supply of programmer time to provide deep integration with every programming language we wanted to use.
Back in the real world, the LSP means that a new language can get "good enough" support (good enough is: has "go to definition", "provide completions at point", "outline view", "show documentation") on every editor that supports the protocol, by simply implementing a single LSP daemon.
Does it match the deep integration + support that comes from using (e.g.) NetBrains Java editors? No. Is it /hugely/ better than the pre-LSP status quo? Definitely.


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321 – Why you need a mentor (and how to find one)
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It's no secret that a mentor can help you accelerate your progress both professionally and personally. In this episode I share how I came to know my mentor, Glen Ferracone, and ways you can find one too.
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IGN has an exclusive video up showing the transformation from man to Werewolf in Eli Roth's upcoming show Hemlock Grove.
Looks pretty gruesome, and maybe this could do for Werewolves what Walking Dead has done for Zombies, i.e, make them scary and stop Twilight ruining them too much. Exactly what you'd expect from a gore-hound like Roth, well done Sir.


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Garmn Vector 2, 2S make cycling power metrics easier to do
You might know Garmin to be more of a navigation technology company, but two years ago it debuted a Vector line of products that focused not on getting where you're going but on how you are getting there. The first Vector in 2013, followed by the Vector S a year later, are bike pedals that helped cyclists get a hold of their performance stats. Today, Garmin is stepping up, no pun intended, with the launch of the 2nd generation Vector 2 and Vector 2S pedals, now made even easier to install and remove.


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Do you want to enjoy a view of the whole of Taipei, but are reluctant to go up to the Taipei 101 Observation deck for fear of it being a tourist trap? Good news! You can experience the same amazing views (without the crowds) for a fraction of the cost, all while enjoying a coffee and some cake.
Located on 35/F of the Taipei 101, there is a Starbucks that has fantastic views of the city and Elephant Mountain. Now while we would never usually promote a Starbucks as must see or secret location, we recommend it because:
- the views in this one are expansive
- it is a reservations only Starbucks (not many people know about it)
- it is also the highest Starbucks in the world – which we think is kind of cool.
How do I make a reservation?
You will need to make a reservation at least 1 day before, by calling this number +886 2 8101 0701. If you don't speak Mandarin, we suggest that you ask your hotel staff to call and make the reservation. Make sure you have a reservation before you turn up, as you will not be allowed up if you don't have one.
There is a minimum spend of 250TWD per person (~$8USD) which all goes towards your choice of food and/or drink. You can find many of the usual Starbucks menu items, with a few additional items such as squid ink roll.
Where the Starbucks with the best view of Taipei?
The Starbucks is located in the Taipei 101 office buildings at 7 Xin Yi Road Sec 5.
Finding the location is a little tricky, so make sure you leave plenty of time before your reservation. You need to be in the line at least 5 mins before your reservation time, or they will cancel your booking. Also note, they have a dress code, so don't wear any thongs (flip/flops) or shorts.
To make it easier for you, we have added some pictures below:
What happens next?
A Starbucks representative will come down to meet you, mark your name off, give you a number and escort you up the lift to the Starbucks 35/F. We are unsure if the number you are given refers to the order in which bookings were made, or when you arrived at the Taipei 101. So we suggest you are early in both instances so you can get the best seat in the house. Numbers are called chronologically for you to pick your seat.
The best seats are obviously near the windows. But don't stress if you don't get these seats straight away. Each session in Starbucks is 90 mins and we think it is rare people stay the full 90 mins. So just wait until someone leaves and then you can sit back, and take in the best view of Taipei!
Opening times: 7:30am – 8pm (weekdays), 9am-7:30pm (Sat, Sun). Note the last available session is 90 mins before closing time.
Want some more inspiration on what to do in Taipei? Read about our recommended biking trip in Taipei.


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Absolutely love this post! It's a great list and a few of the books I hadn't heard of before are now added to my TBR.
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I just wanted to shout out a bunch of upcoming books written by Asian authors. I was going to do a post along with a rec post I also have in the works, but um, wow! That's a lot of books by Asians coming out in the next few months! I am literally so excited for all of these? Like, I thought of trying to write my own little blurb but it's just going to be "I can't wait to read this!!!" or "I'm sooo excited for this!!!" and variations repeated ad infinitum. So yeah.
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Food : Appetisers
IngredientsBlueberry Lemon Cake
- 200g butter
- 200g castor sugar
- 4 eggs lightly beaten
- Zest and juice of 2 lemons
- 280g self-raising flour
- 100g blueberries
- 250ml sour cream
- 25g icing sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 vanilla bean
MethodBlueberry Lemon Cake
- Lightly grease a 12-hole deep muffin tin.
- Cut out 12 strips of baking parchment, each about 1.5cm wide.
- Cut each strip in half, and then lay inside each muffin hole to make a cross.
- Trim the ends so they rise about 1cm above the rim of the holes. You'll use these as handles to remove the cakes when they are cooked.
- Heat oven to 160C.
- Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy.
- Beat in the eggs, a little at a time, and then add the lemon zest and half the juice. Mix together well, and then stir in half the flour.
- Stir in the remaining lemon juice, then the remaining flour.
- Spoon the cake mixture into the tins, about 1 heaped tablespoon per case, then smooth over with the back of a spoon.
- Sprinkle a couple of blueberries over each cake, and then bake for 10 minutes.
- To make the topping, whisk together the sour cream, icing sugar, egg and vanilla bean until smooth.
To Serve
- Take the cakes out of the oven – they should be pale and just firm.
- Gently press down to make a flat top, then spoon some cheesecake topping over each cake – the holes should be filled almost to the top.
- Scatter over some more blueberries. Return to the oven and bake for 5-7 minutes more until the topping is just set and gives only a little wobble when tapped.
- Leave the cakes to cool in the tin, then gently ease away from the sides of the tin and lift out using the paper handles
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Megan Warren begins her first year as Head Coach with the Yellow Jackets softball team in 2019-20 after serving as the Acting Head Coach for one season.
During the 2018-19 campaign, she led the program to its third straight Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament appearance posting an overall record of 21-18, 9-7 HCAC.
Warren returns to Defiance College from Purdue University where she served as an Athletic Training Graduate Assistant. While at Purdue, Megan also served as Volunteer Assistant Softball Coach for West Lafayette High School.
While at Defiance, Megan was a four-year softball player for the Yellow Jackets. She earned Second Team All-HCAC honors once and Academic All-HCAC honors twice during her career. Warren was also named First Team All-HCAC and NFCA Third-Team All-Central Region for her senior season efforts. Warren played 145 games in a Yellow Jacket uniform. Megan's 149 career hits place her third all-time at Defiance, while her 100 RBI's place her second on the career leaderboard. Warren's 36 career doubles land her first on the Defiance charts. Warren helped lead the Yellow Jackets to the HCAC Tournament during her senior season.
Warren, a Mason, Ohio native, is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree.


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Commercial Drive in New Hartford is about as commercial as you can get. Sangertown Square Mall, Wally-World, Panera Bread, Barnes & Noble, Kohl's. On and on with mostly big box stores and car dealerships.
But not far from the Red Lobster (the evil twin of Olive Garden) and in front of the Old Navy store is the tiny Cafe Del Buono. A not-so-commercial place that I have never been before.
Wife L, Daughter B, and I stopped in last Saturday and had a terrific lunch. The restaurant is known for its Utica greens, and we sampled some as an appetizer. They were terrific. We wimped out and got mild, but in no way were the greens lacking in flavor. The cafe's version of the CNY staple was right up there with those served by Michael's restaurant in Waterville. I'm thinking it's a toss-up.
I had a caesar chicken wrap with bacon that I really liked, and the sweet potato fries were dynamite. My familial companions both had the fish sandwiches, and the haddock was light and tender and delicious.
Our waitress was unbelievably efficient and welcoming. Fresh drinks were right there for us without having to ask, as was the warm bread that complimented our greens. I can see where the cafe might get pretty loud when all the booths and tables are full, but I would not let that deter me from a future visit.


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Jack Skellington could be a character and also the main protagonist of the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas.Jack Skellington fear the Chiefs shirt Jack is that the "Pumpkin King" of Allhallows Eve city, a phantasy based mostly entirely on the Allhallows Eve vacation.[2] Jack is voiced by Chris Sarandon.[1][3] Danny Elfman provided Jack's vox within the film, though Sarandon has sung as Jack in consequent productions.His overall look could be a skeleton wearing a black pin-striped suit and a tie that powerfully resembles a black bat. Originally, his suit was meant to be fully black, however it mingling with the background too well, thus it had been modified. At the start of the film, Jack makes his grand entrance by rising out of a fire-breathing dragon-themed fountain. His cognomen relies on the word "skeleton".
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He contains a ghost dog named Zero for a pet, WHO contains a little glowing nose that appears sort of a jack-o'-lantern. he's idolised by Sally, a dolly created by Dr. Finklestein. The character could be a widespread style on luggage, hats, clothing, umbrellas, belt buckles, pet collars and different things.


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F1 to organise live 2018 event in Marseille
F1 looks set to organise another major street event in 2018.
This year, every team and driver except Lewis Hamilton descended on London for a spectacular demonstration of F1 cars.
La Provence reports that a similar live event will happen next year in Marseille, to promote France's return to the F1 calendar.
"The mayor has agreed," deputy mayor Jean Roatta said.
"We have not yet met with representatives of FOM, but we are currently working on security issues and the location, which should be around the Mucem (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations).
"It must happen as it will be very attractive for the city," the deputy mayor added.
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Join us at the museum for a fun evening of history and learning. The free monthly lecture series explores different topics related to the history of Lyons and the museum's collection of artifacts. Look forward to interesting discussions and guest speakers throughout the summer.
All talks are given inside the museum and light refreshments are often provided.
Lyons History Day Camp
Aug 5-9, from 9:30am-12:30pm
340 High Street, Lyons Redstone Museum
Grades 1 to 5 (6 to 10 yrs old)
Cost: $50
Contact: Kathleen Spring, Director, email@example.com or (303)823-5271
Includes history lesson, crafts, personalized scrap book, a skit, and light lunch.
Themes include lessons used in an 1880 one-room school house, pioneer clothing, converting old-time Sears catalogs into your own modern day catalog, and discovering 40 years of artifacts since the museum opened. Camp sponsored by a donation from Lyons Automotive.