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We do not have any pets, at this time, but in October, every year, a black cat hangs around our yard, and likes to groom itself on our car, obviously.
This was my view out the kitchen window this morning.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Posted in animals, Halloween, Holidays for Sanity, tagged black, cat, halloween, pets on October 20, 2012| 1 Comment »
We do not have any pets, at this time, but in October, every year, a black cat hangs around our yard, and likes to groom itself on our car, obviously.
This was my view out the kitchen window this morning.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Posted in Garden, tagged Brown County Garden Club, cage, deer, gardening, pond, rabbits, raised bed garden, screen house on July 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
We live on close to four wooded acres and our large pond is a very popular spot in this drought, for all manner of wildlife. To keep our garden from becoming the local salad bar for four-legged critters, husband has fashioned a very cheap cage to cover it. It seems to scare most of the wildlife and, when she was alive, Irritating little chihuahua would not go near it.
He found the pattern online but husband is not real knowledgeable about the internet and probably could not find it again. It's made of chicken wire over a frame of flexible electrical conduit and it has its own screen door and a seat on the outside. We had it near the house but the Brown County Garden Club came out and built us a raised bed garden to fit in it. It weighs next to nothing for about seven of us to lift and put over the new garden.
Frankly, I see two more of these in our future. And, thank you so much to the kind people and companies who donated their time and supplies to make our garden successful.
Posted in Blogging, Garden, Nowhere Like Home, tagged daughter, Delhi, Jaisalmer Fort, MAngo tree, relatives, Sanchari, travel, weeping willow on October 31, 2011| 2 Comments »
It is always nice to have a new subscriber, but it is especially cool to find one from a far away land. I believe it helps to remind us just how similar we are. There are jobs we hate to do and then find out how worthwhile they were. There are times we do not realize how much we miss our relatives until we see them again.
If i cannot travel, at least I can read about other places and people. Sanchari is in Delhi, and blogging at, http://sancharib.wordpress.com/. If you scroll down her posts, you will see some great photos of the Jaisalmer Fort.
But, what really brought me home was her November post on cutting down the Mango tree which was just one year older than she is.
When I was growing up, my side yard had a large weeping willow tree. I could crawl under the branches and have an instant play house/fort/whatever I wanted. Many a day was spent eating lunch and playing under that tree. So, when mom and dad moved to a subdivision, they took a start with them and grew a new weeping willow in the backyard.
When I divorced, I moved back home again with my daughters. Super teacher daughter was in kindergarten and was delighted to live with a weeping willow in her very own backyard. It was she now who spent hours eating cookies or sandwiches and playing dolls under her grandparents tree. That is, until one day years later when lightning split the tree and it was taken down.
We had moved out a couple of years before this, but daughter always ran to visit her tree. We did not think to warn her as we got settled in for our visit, until she came back in the house in tears. Her beloved tree was gone.
She never ate mangoes from it but that tree was a wonderful memory for my daughter, as well as Sanchari's Mango tree was for her.
Posted in animals, tagged barking, chihuahua, mother, vet on June 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »
After my father died, my mother was lost. As much as she loved her freedom, she was lonely without someone there to talk to. She had always wanted a Chihuahua and so another relative gave her half the money to purchase a Chihuahua puppy.
The puppy was adorable, and quiet. Very quiet. She did not bark for months until it got to the point that my mother encouraged her to bark. I do not know what the problem was that mom worried the dog could not bark. Granted, barking is the only way she is going to scare anything away (although I did read about three Chihuahua puppies cornering a coyote in a garage once), this dog is not going to do it alone. She has yet to catch a bird or a rabbit, both of which she used to chase. Never brought a deer home either, but mostly they turn and walk away from her.
Skeeter attacking her favorite toy; a Taco Belle Dog.
Mother is in a senior's apartment building now and, while she could have the dog with her, the dog has learned to bark. All company must sit before the dog will stop barking. (I guess a bid to bring them more to her eye level, although they would have to lay on the floor, on their stomach for that.) Mom let her dog stay with us, so she did not have complaints about the barking. Now, it is also because mom can no longer move quick enough to let the dog out (out the door, down the hall, down the elevator, through the lobby, and then out.)
Chihuahua puppy is now thirteen years old. She has always had a collapsing larynx, which requires her to stretch out and cough to open it; two slipped discs in her back; and an enlarged heart. It is the enlarged heart that is doing her in. Some nights she has me awake for a half hour as she coughs and coughs in an effort to get that larynx fully open. She is not gasping for air though.
When I took her to the vet a couple of weeks ago, he looked very grave and shook his head and told the nurse to put away the rabies shot. He gave her a steroid shot and new heart medicine and said her heart was failing. She threw up for two days and every day, I debated if today was the day to take her back in. I finally quit giving her the new heart medication and went back to the old (which he told me to do if she didn't tolerate it.) and she was back to herself.
Some days she doesn't eat, she laps up more water than she ever has, the stairs are tough on her old bones, some days she loves her chicken plate, some days it sits and drys up. Like most of us, who are getting up there, she has her good days and bad days. And, every day, we wonder if today is that day.
Then, she will ask to go out and she will sit in the sun and survey her domain and I'm thinking that as long as she can get joy in the world, and is not in pain, today is NOT the day. Let her enjoy another day in the sun.
Yesterday, I was petting her and noticed a lump. I'm not sure but her kidneys may be shutting down and one is enlarged. She is not in pain though, but I know that the day is closer, but not today.
Posted in animals, Anybody Out There?, Home Again in Indiana, Nature, tagged coyote, fawns, fox, Geminids meteor shower, haley's comet, Irritating Chihuahua, lunar eclipse, rainbows, Wyoming on December 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »
After informing everyone on Facebook and Twitter that the Geminids meteor shower was at its peak yesterday, I went to bed and forgot all about it. Senior moment or Alzheimer's? Of course we had not seen anything in the sky, but grey and snow for days, so I did not hold out a lot of hope to see them.
When we lived in Wyoming, we had seen everything in the sky. I remember getting out of the car every night and watching Haley's comet. Every rainy season there were double and even triple rainbows in the sky. Yes, I know, Wyoming does not have rainy seasons. But, it does have triple rainbows. One night, I sat curled in a blanket on the front porch, and watched a lunar eclipse. Another night, all of us went in the back yard, with lawnchairs and sleeping bags, and watched a fantastic comet show. They sky's in Wyoming always seemed to have a show. It was just when that show became fire and smoke that it was not fun. Three years of having our area burn around us and it just seemed like we were playing Russian Roulette
Last night, at 2:30 am, the dog decided she had to go out. I slipped on my boots and grabbed a sweater and stood waiting for her. She has had a problem with her back leg recently and it seems to be cramped up and frozen when she comes in. She is twelve years old this month and has had bone problems for years. I keep an eye on her for that and the fact that we have had a coyote walk down our driveway and a fox den in our meadow. She would make a tasty morsel for a coyote. Then, I remembered the Geminid meteor showers.
I began looking for them and soon short streaks were random in the sky. It was two hours after they were to be at their peak, darn! I think I made it all of fifteen minutes outside and then came in and watched from the window. I saw a streak every five minutes probably but it was enough to wake me up to all the things that we can still enjoy, sans money.
Sometimes, with all the neat technology upgrading almost daily, I can feel left behind. We have very basic cell phones and a cheap computer, but the really important things in life are still here for all of us. Where I live it includes seeing triplet fawns in our yard all summer, and coyotes and fox and blue herron in the pond.
And, to the readership of this blog, who has still checked in, even when I seemed to abandon you and even though I still do not use punctuation properly. Thanks to all.
Check out the stars tonight and smile.
Posted in Abuse of Fellow Humans, Anybody Out There?, Nature, News that's probably not Fit to Print, Politics, What Was She Thinking, tagged B.P., birds, coastal, endangered, federal agencies, guey, oil spill, pelicans, Sci Fi, state, turtles, wildlife on June 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
To all Sci Fi fans out there. You better hope there is NO other intelligent life in space. If there is. If they find us. If they come down and begin coating our world with some guey substance so that our wildlife and our ecological system is all mucked up. Then they sit back on their backsides and wait until we are drowning in this gue.
Well, if that happens, do not expect a speedy response.
You will have to wait for a counter-attack on approval with the state agency, the coastal agency, the federal agency, and those same aliens, before our government does anything to protect us.
Something is so wrong with this picture?
Posted in Blogging, Nature, Twitter, tagged cataract, eyes, moon, surgery, vision on February 9, 2010| 1 Comment »
January was the month of cataract surgery. Now, if you want a rocking good time just try cataract surgery. Nothing to dull the edge. Hold your body stiff as a board because, as the doc talks about his latest trip or race or why there is the smell of burning electrical wire in the room, should you move your head a milimeter, just what could the consequences be??
I had no desire to find out. So, I found that every muscle in my body was rigid as I lay there watching water swirl in my right eye. Which was the eye that had some pain with the surgery. After having one eye done, the second eye was well, easier. No pain. But, I counted and confirmed that it did take more than 2 minutes to do the surgery.
That being dwelt on enough in this blog, I am counting off the days till my vision is totally clear. I am sure the steroid drops, still in one eye, are not helping my vision; which is said to be 20/20 now.
I did see the moon the other night. For the first time in my life, I looked up and saw the moon clearly without any glasses.
Now, that was cool!!!
I will be back to posting regularly in about two weeks, when I am done with eye drops and get a pair of reading glasses. Right now I am using this credit card sized plastic magnifier to read. Not cool!


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Christine Ferraro is an Assistant District Attorney who has worked for the office since April of 2012.
Christine received her BS in Criminal Justice from Elmira College in 2007, graduating summa cum laude. In 2010, Christine earned her JD from Albany Law School graduating cum laude. While at Albany Law School, Christine was selected to participate in the domestic violence clinic where she interned at the Rensselaer County District Attorney's Office.
Prior to joining the Cortland County DA's office, Christine worked as an attorney for the Wayne County Department of Social Services. She primarily worked on cases involving child abuse and child neglect.
Christine has prosecuted general crime throughout Cortland County including narcotics and sexual assaults. Christine's current focus is prosecuting cases involving sexual assault which involves working closely with the Cortland County Child Advocacy Center.
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So what wine pairs best with horror movies? Sparkling, of course! Nothing goes better with salty popcorn than a crisp, dry sparkling wine. But Halloween offers lots of great wine options – you can add some real flair to your vampire costume by pairing it with a blood red wine in a suitably spooky goblet.
Want something a little sweeter for your Halloween treat? Consider this delicious Scotch-based cocktail Shawn and I recently tested. Wait, did I just suggest Scotch in a sweet cocktail? You bet I did – and your party guests will definitely be impressed by this pumpkin-pie-in-a-glass goodness.
Since I'm still off sugar, I had to skip this one, but I did have fun watching Shawn shake it up and I confess to stealing a sip for taste-testing purposes. What a surprise – this is not-too-sweet and perfect for fall sipping.
Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky, we subbed the pumpkin pie filling (not something we keep on hand) for pure pumpkin and half tsp of organic brown sugar. We also used 2% organic milk instead of half & half to make a slightly healthier version. Either way, it was well-worth the effort.
Famous Pumpkin Pie Martini
1oz Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky
4 tsp pumpkin pie filling
1oz apple juice
0.5oz half & half cream
0.25oz maple syrup
2 dashes cinnamon
Combine ingredients in a shaker tin with ice, shake vigorously and strain into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish with fresh grated nutmeg.
Looking for other options? Canadian Club and Jim Beam sent me some spooky cocktail recipes you can shake up to impress your guests.
Ogre's Brew
1oz Canadian Club 100% Rye
0.5oz Bols Blue Curacao
4oz orange juice
Shake with ice (turns bright green!)
Strain into a tall glass filled with fresh ice
Garnish with gummy worms
Dancing with the Devil
60 mL Jim Beam® Devil's Cut® Bourbon
30 mL Triple Sec Liqueur
30 mL fresh lemon sour
30 mL passion fruit juice
2 dashes Tabasco® Sauce
Shake with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry
What will you be serving this Halloween? Do you plan to go with wine or cocktails? And have you ever had a Scotch cocktail? What did you think? Share your thoughts in the comments and on social.
While I received a sample of Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky to try in this cocktail, all opinions are my own.


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Blinky - Weather Communication System
Goals. Blinky is a remote communication system based on weather api feeds, which allows two people who are distant to keep in touch in a different, unusual and involving way. The system is composed of two devices, one per user, each of which is activated by blowing and produces a visual output that represents the weather conditions of the place where its partner is. This project aims to be an alternative to the "traditional" communication devices to trasmit and receive
just the kind of information that gets otherwise lost in the excessive flow of information that we experience everyday. Blinky delivers his "ping" in response to a human gentle breath, a simple and physical way of interaction, while the visual output is produced from the local weather conditions where the other Blinky is located. Blinky is built with Arduino, Processing and an some RGB LEDs.
My Role. I was responsible for the concept, physical and arduino prototype, scenario drawings, visual design and presentations. I worked in collaboration with other two designers, Alessandro Filippi and Alberto Moro who both worked on the Arduino and Processing code and on the physical protoype. Blinky was realized during the Interaction Design Lab at University of Venice (2009). End to end the project last 3 months.
How it works. On the front of each device there's a ring of LEDs light sourrounding a little hole that is used for both the input and output of the system. The ring resembles the shape of a dandelion. In a normal state the dandelion is barely visible, lit at 20% of its maximum brightness to give the idea of something alive and to be seen also when the ambient is dark. When one of the users blows into her device she gets a visual feedback of the weather of the city where the other user is located.
Outcome. The weather feedback is projected on a semi-transparent surface located in the device, and can be seen by looking into the hole. Once a city is selected, the program retrieves the relative weather feed from Yahoo and shows it to the user. The central core of Blinky is an Arduino board to which the BlinkM rgb LED array is connected. The microphone amplification system detects the breath. Once the data is sent to Arduino, the software selects a light pattern preset from the library (sunny, rainy, stormy, cloudy), changing the base color according to the local temperature and humidity. Finally the software sends the preset loop via serial protocol to the rgb LED array starting the light representation.
Challenges. We spent a lot of time considering how modern technology can trasform the most complex tasks into something easy and pleasant to do for everyone. Our main challenge was to get the right visual quality for the light: not too strong and not too subtle. The rgb LED array was the core of the system and it was finished in less than a week but it delivered a very concentrated light so we placed a layer of brushed semitransparent paper on top of it to get a more diffused light effect. Connecting the Arduino, the Processing code and the weather widget was also very challenging. In order to make all the elements working together the system required both electronics and computer programming.


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|Originally Published: Tuesday, 5 October 1999
|Author: Mike Chan
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All the Linux FAQs you would ever want.
So you've heard of linux... You have questions. Here's a site that links to a few Linux FAQs that answers questions like, "Is Linux a type of Unix or something?" or "What kind of license or copyright does Linux have?"


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Re: Extracting some elements, members of another list
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg112444] Re: Extracting some elements, members of another list
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:03:08 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <email@example.com>
Hi, This is a follow-up to my previous post. Since you mentioned that the order of elements is not an issue, there is another general solution, both simpler and faster than the one based on memberPositions function, but slower than that based on memberPositionsInteger function from my previous post: The lists: In[1]:= list1 = Transpose[{RandomSample[Range[1000000,9999999],1000000],Table[ToExpression["data"<>ToString[i]],{i,1,1000000}]}]; In[2]:= list2 = RandomSample[list1[[All,1]],500000]; The solution: In[3]:= list2/.Dispatch[Thread[#[[All,1]]->#]&[list1]]//Short//Timing Out[3]= {3.234,{{6059339,data697996},{6645675,data173455},<<499996>>,{5345183,data604454},{8230717,data405701}}} The price to pay is that here the original ordering of the phone data is lost. The other difference w.r.t the solution based on memberPositions is that if some phones are repeated with different data attached, this one will repeat the first entry rather than list all different entries correctly, which is what the memberPositions-based solution does. The more specialized solution from my previous reply is still about 1.5x faster than this one and does preserve the original ordering. Regards, Leonid On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Nacho <ncc1701zzz at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I would like your advice about this problem: > > I have a list of elements, consisting in phone numbers with some data: > > list1= { { phone1, data1}, {phone2, data2}, {phone3, data3} .... } > > And a list of phones, a subset of the phone numbers in list1 > > list2= {phone2, phone3, phone7... } > > I'd like to extract the elements from list1 whose phone numbers are > present in list 2, that is: > > result= { { phone2, data2}, {phone3, data3, {phone7, data7} .... } > > I've used this with small lists and it works fine: > > result = Select[list1, MemberQ[list2, #[[1]]] &]; > > The problem is that now I would like to use it with big lists. list1 > is over 1.000.000 elements long and list2 is about 500.000 elements > long. Ordering is not a problem, I could resort the lists. > > Any hint to extract this list faster? It seems to take a lot of time > (estimation is about 5 hours and I have to do it repeatedly) > > > Thanks! > >
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- Extracting some elements, members of another list
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- Extracting some elements, members of another list


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"I know we have Erica Garner issues but we don't want to mention Eric at all? I can see her coming after us for leaving him out of the piece," wrote Nick Merrill, a spokesman for the campaign.After the leak Erica wrote:
"I'm troubled by the revelation that you and this campaign actually discussed 'using' Eric Garner ... Why would you want to 'use' my dad," tweeted Erica Garner.
After her tweets, she started responding to tweets of her supporters and people against her stance.


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Causal Loop Diagram (CLD)
A causal loop diagram (CLD) explains the behavior of a system by showing a collection of connected nodes and the feedback loops created by the connections. One or more of the nodes represent the symptoms of the problem. The rest of the nodes are the causal chains causing the problem.
The simplest possible CLD contains two nodes. Below is an example from video 3 in The Dueling Loops Video Series. The R signifies this is a reinforcing loop. The graph shows the loop's general behavior by showing the symptom of interest, population growth.
The insight is that problem symptoms are caused by certain key feedback loops. It follows that to solve a problem you must first model its key feedback loops.
Now take a look at the same causal loop diagram transferred to a system dynamics simulation model.
Introduction to causal loop diagramming
All you need to draw CLDs is pencil and paper or a whiteboard. Below is an actual sketch of a CLD from my notebook on October 20, 2004. On the next notebook page this became The Race to the Bottom loop in the first version of the Dueling Loops model. (A solid arrow is a direct relationship. A dashed arrow is an inverse relationship.)
Let's walk the reinforcing loop, denoted by an "R." As fallaciousness of arguments goes up, so does false attacks and false promises. As these increase, so does supporters due to falsehood. That in turn causes an increase in political power due to falsehood. Since the strategy of mass deception worked so well, that in turn increases the next round of fallaciousness of arguments and the loop starts all over again. Loop growth creates a social force. This loop increases the force of mass deception in the political powerplace. Note this force does not arise from individual nodes. It comes from the feedback loop. That is the key insight offered by causal loop diagramming. The tool allows you to find where the fundamental forces causing a problem are coming from.
Here's how causal loop diagramming works. A CLD consists of nodes, arrows, and feedback loops. The nodes on this one are truth ratings, detected deception, false attacks, false promises, and so on. A node has a name and a value and represents something in the real world. What matters is not the exact value, but the value relative to what it was earlier or in relation to other nodes.
There are two types of arrows for showing how one node influences another. A solid arrow is a direct relationship, where the value of node A varies directly with the value of node B. A dashed arrow indicates an inverse relationship, where as the value of A goes up the value of B goes down.
There are two types of feedback loops: reinforcing and balancing. In a reinforcing feedback loop a change in a node goes around the loop to cause a change in that same node in the same direction, which causes the loop to grow or decline. In a balancing feedback loop the change is in the opposite direction, which causes the loop to balance its behavior as it seeks a goal of some kind.
Below is probably the most famous CLD in existence. It's the high level diagram of how the World3 model of The Limits to Growth works. Figure 1-3 is from Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World, by Meadows at al, 1974, page 14. This larger book (637 pages) fully describes the World3 model in lots of technical detail.
In this diagram style a "+" indicates a direct relationship and a "-" is an indirect relationship.
There are no Rs or Bs denoting the many reinforcing and balancing feedback loops, except for one. The lower left loop has a "(+)" in it. That's a positive or reinforcing loop. The book emphasized this was the key loop pushing the human system beyond the limits of growth, and thus toward eventual collapse unless the sustainability problem was proactively solved.
That loop is the Industrial Growth loop. An increase in industrial investment causes growth in industrial capital. Growth in that causes growth in industrial output. Most of that goes towards industrial output per capita. But some is reinvested, which causes further growth in industrial investment, and the loop goes through another cycle of growth.
The environmental sustainability problem arises from the way growth in industrial output causes more pollution and decreases nonrenewable resources (as well as decreasing renewable resources, not shown). These effects have long delays so there is no reason to solve the problem now, in the minds of most people. It is only advanced minds, those educated by models like this, that can see the future before it happens and decide to commit to solving the problem proactively.
Wouldn't it be nice if a majority of the world's population could grasp the truth of this model and decide to aggressively solve the sustainability problem?
That is currently impossible due to high systemic change resistance.


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The cold had lasted now for ten months, and the reign of the terrible Carnivalers had long since ended. Here in the middle of nowhere, in the area which would one day be known as the Lower Field, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, although not even the midterms were yet in sight. In this barren and frozen land, only the most cunning, clever, and fit could flourish, or even hope to make it from Meacock to Old MacDonald Harrington.
The students of McGall were none of these things, and they were not flourishing. About fifty of them occupied a group of underground tunnels, connecting barely any of the university's myriad different buildings.
The group was always hungry, but now it was starving. When the first faint glow of dawn crept into one of the tunnels, beside the Three Bares park, Note-Taker saw that his roommate had died in the night. He did not know that the You-Four was his roommate, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body, he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of that feeling you get when you have to pay the month's rent all by yourself, because you still haven't managed to find someone to sublet that goddamn room.
Now it was light enough to leave. Note-Taker picked up the You-Four's poor body and dragged it after him as he bent under the frozen gates of the tunnel. Once outside, he threw the body over his shoulder and stood upright – the only student in all this world able to do so at 6 a.m..
First he must get rid of the You-Four, but this was a problem that demanded little thought. There had been many deaths this season, one of them in his own tunnel. He only had to put the corpse where he had left the other one, and the medicine students would do the rest.
He never thought of his roommate again.
Later during the night of that day, Note-Taker suddenly awoke. Tired out by the day's lectures and tutorials, he had been sleeping more soundly than usual, yet he was instantly alert at the first faint scrabbling down in the Lower Field.
Note-Taker came face-to-face with the Ice Balloons when he led his flock of students down in front of the Old MacDonald Harrington building in the first light of the next morning.
The Ice Balloons were many and colourful spherical objects, shiny and improbably round. If he collected all of them together, they would probably be three times the height of Note-Taker, but narrow enough to span with his arms – then again, why would he do that?
After several minutes of intense thought, he arrived at a brilliant explanation. These were rocks, of course, and they must have grown during the night – like a plant. This really superb piece of abstract thinking led Note-Taker, after only three or four minutes, to a deduction, which he immediately put to the test. Plants were very tasty, after all.
A few licks and nibbles quickly disillusioned him, as he found that his tongue had stuck to the red surface of one of the Ice Balloons. Screaming vehemently at his flock of students, he asked for help. Once they unstuck his tongue, he continued on his way to Meacock, and forgot all about the crystalline balls during the daily routine of screaming for extended periods of time.
Some of the students the Ice Balloons ignored completely, as if they were concentrating on the most promising subjects only. One of them was Note-Taker; once again he felt the inquisitive tendrils creeping down the sadly overused byways of his brain. And presently, he began to see visions.
He was looking at a peaceful auditorium, differing in only one respect from the scenes he knew. The professor and students that had mysteriously appeared before him were getting along rather nicely. The professor was telling the students that they could use laptops to take notes, that the lecture slides would be available on MyCourses, that the final would not be cumulative, and that there would be very few readings – and this was a condition of life that Note-Taker had never imagined.
There was no other activity, and after five minutes the scene suddenly faded out. Later that night, Note-Taker sat brooding at the entrance of his lair, and felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy – of dissatisfaction with his life. Discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
A million years later in the same spot, one of those tiny snowploughs made its path through the glaciers of the Lower Field, and stopped right in front of the Old MacDonald Harrington building. Out of it came a woman, wearing a space admiral suit. This woman, who had a PhD in crystallography, was no other than McGall's Principal and Vice-Baroness Suzie Forte.
So this is it, thought Forte, as the wee snowplough rolled past the snow dunes, and came to the lip of the field. Her pulse quickened as she craned forward for a better view. The vehicle began to creep cautiously into the field. And there, exactly as she had seen it in the photographs, were the frozen water balloons.
Forte was in awe, and there was also incredulity – sheer disbelief that the dead Lower Field, of all the places on campus, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.
The minuscule snowplough came to a halt within twenty feet of the frozen water balloons and broadside on, so that Forte could examine it. Yet, beyond the geometrically perfect shapes of the little colourful things, there was little to see.
Coming out of the teensy snowplough, Deputy Provost (Algorithmic Life and Re-programming) Hallivier 9000 greeted Forte, "There are so many more of these around the orbit of Jupiter. Wanna go check?"
"Fuck yeah," said Forte, and they rode the pocket-size snowplough onward into outer space.
Once in the orbit of Jupiter, right past Io, Forte and Hallivier 9000 both saw the frozen water balloons. They approached one of the balloons and reached out with their hands, breaking the barrier of reality that was so well hidden from the eyes of academics for so long.
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Mexico Supreme Court will uphold one-year-old Mexico City abortion law; Confusion still remains about John McCain's anti-choice positions; Pennsylvania asks for federal abstinence-only funds for after school programs.
Mexico Supreme Court Will Uphold Legal Abortion Law in Mexico City … A few days ago we reported in the daily Roundup that the conservative federal government in Mexico was filing a challenge to the one-year-old Mexico City law that legalizes the choice to have an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Word came yesterday that the Mexico Supreme Court will uphold the Mexico City law:
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No Confusing McCain's Record on Abortion … Chicago Tribune reporter Eric Zorn revisits a story reported here by Scott Swenson this past Monday that perhaps did not receive the attention it deserves. John McCain launched a new ad featuring former Hillary Clinton supporter Debra Batoshevich. Bartoshevich, a pro-choice voter, was asked in a press conference how she could support anti-choice McCain to which answered, "Going back to 1999, John McCain did an interview with the San Francisco
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"A lot of women, because they see him as a maverick, assume [McCain] is
a moderate" on abortion, Emily's List President Ellen Malcolm told me
during a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning. They see him
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Zorn has compiled an index of articles that lay out John McCain's unequivocal anti-choice stance. NARAL began addressing this problem as soon as McCain became the presumptive nominee a few months ago with their Meet the Real McCain campaign. National Public Radio ran a story on the widespread misperceptions way back in February:
The misperception is interesting, considering that McCain has not
attempted to keep his pro-life views a secret. Here's how he put it on
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"I have stated time after time after time that Roe v Wade
was a bad decision, that I support a woman — the rights of the unborn —
that I have fought for human rights and human dignity throughout my
entire political career," McCain said. "To me, it's an issue of human
rights and human dignity."
Planned Parenthood made a video in which they asked people on the street about John McCain's record as compared to George Bush's that is quite revealing:
Pennsylvania Using Ab-only Funds For After-School Classes in Addition to Comprehensive Sex Ed … Pennsylvania has found a way around the federal restrictions on abstinence-only funds, they are teaching abstinence-only classes only after school. During the day students receive comprehensive sex ed schooling.
But a department spokesperson emphasizes abstinence is only one part of a comprehensive sex education.
education is just that," Claudine Battisti said Wednesday. "[We]
educate youth obviously on STDs, pregnancy, contraception… you know,
anything related to what you would think of in terms of sex education –
including abstaining from sex."
Pennsylvania has not distributed any federal abstinence-only money since Governor Ed Rendell took office.
Battisti tells CBS 21 the department would make the federal money
available to agencies and schools who seek it out, but that those
agencies will be responsible for matching every federal dollar they
"And I want to be very clear," Battisti said. "These
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The state will not make that match."
Joe Fay is the executive
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include information about birth control and other safe-sex practices.
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The teaser for the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" won't just be in 30 select theaters on Black Friday — it will hit the Web, too.
Disney announced on Wednesday that the teaser for J.J. Abrams' upcoming "Star Wars" movie will debut on iTunes on Friday.
The studio had previously announced that the highly anticipated 88-second tease would roll out at 30 theaters on Friday, in Regal, Cinemark and AMC venues. The movie will play in front of every movie playing at the venues over the holiday weekend.
It makes sense for Disney to release the teaser online the same day as it hits theaters, avoiding a leak. Just last month, the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" trailer leaked on the web ahead of its originally planned premiere during an episode of "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD."
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In which it turns out that if it was done already, it was hiding somewhere. Also, I share a script that retrieves the corresponding nucleotide coding sequences from NCBI, given only a set of protein sequences.
Friday, 1 February 2013
KEGGWatch, part III
In which I finally get around to sharing some code, and give some examples of downloading and modifying KEGG pathway maps.
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Anthrax's Scott Ian: "If you're stealing music, you're an asshole"
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian was recently interviewed by Brazilian's Wikimetal, you can read some excerpts below.
About if he thinks the surging popularity of music streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube is ultimately good for the music industry, Ian said: "I really don't know. I think however you get your music… Here's my answer to that question: as long as you're not stealing music, then I don't care how you get it, whether you're buying vinyl or you're streaming it on Spotify. I think any way you can get your music… And I think if you're stealing it, then you're an asshole. That's all. [Laughs]"
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In addition to the MIT OpenCourseWare materials I wrote about the other day, there are many other explicitly educational web sites and web-based programs out there. A few recent finds in space technology, astronomy, and physics:
The Past and Future of Rocket Engine Propulsion - This is labeled as an "online seminar" with six sections, each of which is basically an illustrated web page. It's a pretty good semi-technical overview of the history of rocketry (Robert Goddard shown here) and of the technology of conventional and electric propulsion (electrothermal, electromagnetic, electrostatic). It is part of the Fathom Archive, a collection of free content developed by member universities.
The Search for Life: an Introduction to Astrobiology - Another good fathom.com seminar-type offering, with six brief sections.
The Mechanical Universe and Beyond - This video-based course is a bit older (circa 1985), but classical physics hasn't changed much in 22 years, and based on watching one 30 minute segment, this is quite good stuff with really clever demonstrations in the lab and in the real world. There are 52 lectures at the level of an undergrad college physics course for non-majors.
For astronomy in general, there are many on-line tutorials and even degree programs, some listed here. One of the best is Astronomy Notes by Nick Strobel, which I have written about before. And finally for space flight, JPL's Basics of Space Flight is great, especially if you do it on line and take the chapter quizzes to make sure you are paying attention!
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October has been a difficult month. I haven't been able to keep a regular schedule and accomplishing anything beyond the immediate emergency has proved very difficult. My own schedule has not coincided with any one else's so I've had a rough time getting out to see Will for about the last 6 months. Blessing has all his driving stuff too so I can't drive him at this moment. Lily needs work, Blessing needs work, Will needs work. The house needs work and yet everything seems to disrupt what I want to do and my motivation disappears into vapor. I admit to being stuck in the depressive mire of "this will never work!!"
As much as I have worked with Lily, she needs more work and I fret about how I will manage to create the dog I imagine she can be. She is currently having a few issues with "frustration management", particularly when she can tell I am leaving to do something and that makes me a little frustrated, especially when she yanks up the new iris bulbs I planted and races around the yard playing keep-away. I have now built a heavy wire cage to surround the irises and am working on keeping her focused on other yard play. My own frustration management needs work too.
Of course, she's just 6 months old and she is actually doing really well, as I can see when we go to dog class and compare her to other dogs. She's quite sound sensitive but she's not aggressive or barky and she does calm down when we do calming exercises–down, etc. So the problem really lies with me.
Dang it.
So this week, I have tried to do a few things differently. I've tried to give her new exciting things to try–thus keeping her mentally active as well as physically active. We've gone to the neighborhood park, where she has greeted children and parents very well and learned that playground equipment is fun and enjoyable, not frightening.
She barked at the swinging babies the first time, but overcame her uncertainty with the second visit. She's learned to love the slide–as her video attests–and this morning even actually *slid* down it on her belly, rather than run down it. She's done a good job of "down/stay" for a few minutes on the basketball court too.
Though we are having issues with breaking the stay after about 3 seconds.
But these are all pretty simple training sessions. I have been fretting and fretting about how to manage Lily at Taipan Station. How to manage her and the TS Pack? How to manage to get Will in the pasture and how to manage to deal with dog and horse at the same time. Fret, fret, fret….. (sounds like "can't can't can't)…..
But the weather was nice yesterday and I decided there wasn't any other way to get her trained to do what I wanted than to train her myself and it wasn't going to happen unless I actually got started. Will is my best bet, of course, because he's such a good horse, quiet and tolerant and already trained–unlike Blessing, he likes dogs and has always liked dogs– so, time for Uncle Will to train his canine niece how to act around horses.
We headed out to TS and started our work. Thankfully, Will came up when I whistled and so we were able to go into the pasture close to the barn. Lily did well with "with me" and both Will and Windy just looked curiously at Lily, who was pretty excited on her end of the leash. We got back to the Standing Tree with little issue, though Lily was a little unnerved by the clomping noise Will made behind her as we walked over the concrete pad by the stable.
Then came the hard part for Lily: tethering. I used the lead rope around the tree and her leash attached to the harness by the handy ring at the end of the lease.
Now, this was by no means cruel. I was about 2 or 3 feet from her but she needed to be stationary and controlled. She also has to work in "frustration management" but I think you can see her concern from this photo.
Now this is not concern that there's a very large animal near her. It's concern that I am very near the large animal and not near her!! But eventually, after not getting what she wanted through a series of antics–whining, standing on her hind legs, whining, standing on her hind legs—she eventually decided that she could lie down while I brushed Will.
and since it wasn't really that exciting, she might could even sniff around a bit while I brushed him.
She was rewarded with the discovery of horse hoof trimmings, a canine delicacy!!
Will was a very good boy and just watched her sleepily mostly of the time, and curiously some of the time.
He even let her get really close and didn't offer to move or anything, not a flinch, not a step, nothing. He's going to be quite the helper in my training of Lily and it's going to be him who I use on her first carriage ride in the driver's seat.
It looks like we're on our way. Whew.
And Congratulations go out to Lily's Aunt Alice (Avedonn's Ruby Slippers) who finished her Championship this Saturday in Ohio!!


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Across the United States, stores are closing their doors due to the online shopping industry's growth. Places like Amazon, Ebay, and other online shopping avenues have caused chain stores like Sears, JCPenney, Wet Seal, Bebe, Macy's, The Limited, and others to close stores in the past year. RadioShack has also claimed bankruptcy twice in two years, and is closing more than 1,000 stores nationwide. This trend is expected to rise as online shopping takes over the nation.
Sears Holdings CEO, Eddie Lampert, has not been taking this step lightly. Closing 265 Kmart stores and over 40 Sears locations has been a huge deal for the company. They've been debating this step and considering how this is going to affect thousands of workers across the nation. However, closing stores and cutting costs is only part of the problem. Lampert feels that there may be no return for Sears locations, and in the future, they may all be closed down. Here are how many locations are owned by Sears Holdings Corporation.
As reflected by Wall Street, the revenue that Sears annually generates has been declining since their highest peak around 2006. Now, as Sears struggles to hang on to what revenue it still generates, they're trying to sell more of their Craftsmen brand in order to stay afloat. While it has generated some revenue, it does not seem to be filling the financial gap of losing stores.
Surveys of online shopping show that 51 percent of Americans prefer online stores to in-person retail. This drastically grows annually, yet many small businesses do not have a website. Surveys also show that it does not matter what age group or generation you are from, more than 30 percent of each recent generation has shopped online or mostly shop online.
It is unlikely that this trend will cease as the modern era calls for "on-demand" items. What does this mean for the future? We will likely see less shopping malls, less of the big chain stores, and a dramatic in-person retail shopping decline. E-commerce is here to stay, and it is taking over the shopping industry.
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yes you read it right. nothing is new here. except that i got my hair cut yesterday. My hair was really long. I mean down below my waist. now it hits just under my shoulders. It is a real change for me. i loved my long hair, but it was too much to manage. I think i look older now.
Desi also got his hair cut. he looks like a boy again. his hair grows so fast. it's like harry potter or something. we leave for the US in 5 weeks and i know he will be needing another cut before then, but i figure i will just get it cut in the US because it so hard to explain to the people here how i want his hair too look.
Since i am new i will tell you all about the a little thing i like to call "The potty training challenge" in other words "why is my almost 4 year old still using diapers when he is not asleep!?!?!?" yes i am going nuts over this, but we are making progress and on desi's behalf i want to share with the whole blogging world: Desi wore big boy pants to playgroup yesterday (3 hours) and was still dry when i picked him up! now lets see if he can do it again today. that would be so nice!
I also saw a sign today when i was leaving the kindergarten that the end of year party is now moved from the 5th of July to the 4th of July. well that just sucks because i had plans to celebrate the 4th with desi (he is american and doesn't even know it). Oh well in the spirt of the 4th i finished some digi scrap pages from the last time we actually celebrated the 4th which was in 2005. Enjoy!


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Oh how I loved this novel. It had me hooked in the very first chapter and that very rarely happens anymore. I liked it so much that I stayed up most of the night reading it. That's just how good of an author that Sarah J. Mass is, in my opinion. She deserves all of… Continue reading A Cout Of Thorns And Roses By Sarah J. Maas
Month: August 2016
Vanilla By Megan Hart
Well this novel was something else to say the least. It's not really my kind of novel to begin with, but I decided to give it a go anyways. This novel seem to be more about a woman finding herself than anything else. Which isn't a bad thing, but to me it was pretty boring… Continue reading Vanilla By Megan Hart
The Glass Arrow By Kristen Simmons
This novel really upset me. Mostly because I forgot that it was a stand-alone novel. Which is completely my fault, but I refuse to let that deter me. This was one of the best novels that I've read in a very long time and I didn't want to give it up. That's how hooked I… Continue reading The Glass Arrow By Kristen Simmons
Autumn Moon By Jan Delima
This was a very excellent novel to read. It had drama in all the right places and left me wanting more. Which brings me back to something that I dislike. I'm not a big fan of how this series has abruptly ended. I want more from this series and it doesn't look like there's going… Continue reading Autumn Moon By Jan Delima
Summer Moon By Jan DeLima
This is quite an entertaining novel to read. I still love the fact that everyone is Celtic, because it adds a certain flare to the mixture. I don't read a lot of novels based on Celtic ancestors, so when I do I tend to pay close attention to them. This novel has a wonderful historical… Continue reading Summer Moon By Jan DeLima
Celtic Moon By Jan DeLima
For the start of a werewolf series I was actually rather impressed with this novel. It wasn't your average run-of-the-mill werewolf novel. They had a history behind it. A history that was brought to light many different times, and it was enjoyed very much. It's one of those novels that's not like the rest. It… Continue reading Celtic Moon By Jan DeLima
Wickedly Powerful By Deborah Blake
This was a rather excellent installment on the rest of this series. It told a wonderful tale of two characters that both have wounds in their past. Perhaps this is why I felt so strongly for this novel. It was written to be relatable to certain people and that aspect is written throughout the whole… Continue reading Wickedly Powerful By Deborah Blake


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#1 Overall Recruit Trey Smith picks Tennessee
Butch Jones and the Tennessee Volunteers have landed the biggest fish in this year's recruiting class, offensive tackle Trey Smith.
Malik Zaire can transfer without any restrictions
Notre Dame's athletic department has announced that the school has accepted Malik Zaire's request to be let out of his scholarship and pursue a transfer.
Sorry LSU: Dylan Moses Commits To Alabama
Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide have landed a commitment from one of the top players in the 2017 class, linebacker Dylan Moses.
Quentin Lake commits to the UCLA Bruins
Following in the footsteps of his father, versatile 2017 recruit Quentin Lake has committed to play his college football with the UCLA Bruins.


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Ok, thought I'd missed it somehow, was 99.9% sure I loaded quad :)) Thanks for your help and ideas anyway.
Thanks Marco I will try this...
Quiet around these parts!
Time for some appetite whetting.
Here's a quick video testing the next code with inertial nav working, there are a couple of little niggles for you to look at (all stuff that's being worked on pre-release), but also some very exciting performance.
If you get bored, or sick of the shoddy camera work, skip to 5:12 for a full throttle blast on a monster, but put it in HD as the gopro and weather are awful
Looks like this next release is a winner. You guys are awesome. Anxiously awaiting the next release!
Just updated to MP 1.2.47 and i suddenly I got problems wit calibrating my accelerometer. When i hit the button "Calibrate Accel" I don't get the prompt to put machine on left side, right side, nose etc. but in stead I get a line with this text:
A-off:-0.35, 0.00, 0.00A_scale: 1.00, 1.99, 0.91
and the button says "Click when done". When I hit the button nothing happens.
I tried with another board and same thing.
Consider going back to earlier MP version.
Running 2.9.1b hexa firmware. Tried erase and reset as well.
I'm still having my issue of the quad dropping in altitude when pitching forward and climbing when pitching back when in ALT_HOLD. (post) I've noticed that banking right also causes a climb and banking left a drop. But with the new version imminent it may not be worth pursuing this?
Is that with your folding quad? It sounds like the center of gravity might be forward of the center of lift.
It is my folder, I've double-checked the CG - it's at 50% relative to the motors longitudinally and laterally. The log shows a noticeable throttle reduction when pitching forward, I thought I'd left a mixer on my Tx at first. Is it possible I did the accel calibration in the wrong order?
That might be worth checking. See my note above about re-doing the cal.
I did it twice just in case, I do recall reading that Chris said it didn't matter in which order the calibration was done as all that was needed was 6 reference points? I can do it again if that's the problem but wanted to check with someone who has a better idea than I do.


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PlayMaker Help / Re: Aircraft/Flight AI and pathfinding« on: August 22, 2018, 02:45:56 PM »
Is there any way to access this project or the videos mentioned explaining the setup, as there seems to be a severe lack of steering AI setups not only for Playmaker but even for Unity itself, which is strange as you would expect it to be something quite common.
No plans to reup the project files, sorry.
There is indeed a lack of information and/or open sourced projects for steering behaviors, but the principles of steering systems can be analyzed and applied to an fsm system inside playmaker, as the video and my project demonstrates.


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Official launch of website of Horizon 2020 project 'SMILE'
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731249.


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- It's the birth date of Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002) Caps for Sale.
- Happy birthday to fictional character Bilbo Baggins from J. R. R. Tolkein's The Hobbit. Hence, it is Hobbit Day.
- It's also Dear Diary Day. Read any of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney.
- Hope you enjoy celebrating National White Chocolate Day!
Elephant Appreciation Day, which took place yesterday, has been set aside to celebrate the "earth's largest, most interesting, and most noble endangered land animal." Certainly elephants have always had enormous appeal to children. In fact, circus founder P. T. Barnum once said, "When entertaining the public, it is best to have an elephant."
In 2006 Ralph Helfer, wild-animal trainer, and Ted Lewin, known for his realistic artwork for children, teamed up to tell a fascinating story about an elephant. Their book, The World'Äôs Greatest Elephant, features an elephant named Modoc. ¬ÝAlmanac readers have already encountered another Modoc in Leda Schubert'Äôs Ballet of the Elephants. In this forty-eight-page picture book with an extensive text Helfer relates a three-hankerchief story about an incredible animal. When she is born in Zezeldorf, Germany, on the same day and almost same hour as the elephant trainer'Äôs son, Bram, the man hopes that the two will always be together. In fact, they become best friends. By the age of five, Modoc weighed two thousand pounds; at ten, she weighed four thousand, making her the world'Äôs biggest elephant. She and Bram perform in the circus together, he a diminutive figure who stands on her head.
Tragedy strikes when a new owner named Jay North buys the circus and decides to ship it to New York—but refuses to take Modoc's trainer. Bram decides to stow away on the boat with his beloved friend. When the boat gets swamped by water, the boy and elephant get separated but find each other in the waves. Rescued by a maharajah, the two friends recover in India. Unfortunately, Jay North has not forgotten about his property, and he gathers up both Modoc and Bram, who come to New York.
At this point in the story, readers long for a quiet life for the elephant—because of the trials Modoc has already undergone. But her problems continue. A circus fire scars the giant performer, and North sells her off in the middle of the night. So Bram begins to search for his friend.
Narrated by Ralph Helfer, who owned Modoc for the last twenty years of her life, the book celebrates the tenacity of this incredible animal and attests to the wonderful relationship that can exist between a human being and an elephant. And Helfer witnessed this relationship firsthand—he was there when Modoc and Bram were finally reunited. Through Ted Lewin's dramatic and moving paintings readers also feel as if they witness this remarkable friendship. Modoc comes to life on the page. She dances and performs and trumpets her way through the book.
I can think of no better way to celebrate Elephant Appreciation Day than to read this book and discuss with children Modoc's incredible life story.
Here's a page from The World's Greatest Elephant:
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Further memories of the New Zealand area and its long-gone corner shops have been sent to Bygones. Jane Goddard reports.
WHEN Phil Garner read Jill Brownsword's recent reminiscences about the New Zealand area of Derby, he was transported back to his teenage years.
Many memories of those early years in the late 1950s and early 1960s came flooding back as he read about the shops and businesses frequented by Mrs Brownsword.
Mr Garner, who now lives in Littleover, said: "I spent most of my teens in Surrey Street as my mum kept a sweets and tobacco shop there. It must have been the one described in Mrs Brownsword's article as being kept by the Misses Kaye, as it was next door to Mrs Jennings' wool shop at the top of the street.
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Nokia has announced a final release of Microsoft Office Mobile for the Nokia OS Symbian. The package includes applications such as Word Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile (other components such as PowerPoint Broadcast, OneNote, Lync 2010 were released earlier in 2012 February). Microsoft Office Mobile is available for download on Nokia 603, Nokia 701, Nokia E7, Nokia 700, Nokia X7, Nokia C7 and the Nokia C6-01 as a free update via Nokia Software Update (NSU) on the mobile phone or via the Nokia Suite with device connected to a PC.
In the coming weeks Microsoft Office Mobile for Nokia Belle appears in the online shop Nokia Store. Nokia also announced that smartphones such as Nokia N8, Nokia E6 and the Nokia 500 will also receive Microsoft's mobile office. Release dates will be announced later. The new model Nokia 808 PureView will be shipped with preinstalled Microsoft Office Mobile.


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I am Year 5 student at Panmure Bridge School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Learning Space 1. My teachers are Miss Paton and Mr Wong.
Friday, 15 April 2016
Elephant toothpaste
this is my presentation on how to make elephant toothpaste
Making butter experiment
This is my presentation on how to make butter.
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Mentos and soda experiment
This is my Mentos and soda experiment presentation.
Friday, 8 April 2016
Food scraps
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
How to make sugar crystals
This is our presentation on how to make sugar crystals.
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
New flag Vs Current flag
Today the Milky bar group have been asking everyone in Learning Space 1 if they want the Current flag or the New flag. The New flag only got 5 and the Current flag got 55. The New flag got the least and the Current flag got the most. Mostly everyone wants the Current flag. I chosed the Current flag
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MBC Ventures, Inc. (formerly "Maryland Brush Company")
A 100% employee owned old industrial company develops new green tech product with money saved as an S corporation ESOP.
Maryland Brush Company, Inc. (MBC) located in inner city Baltimore, is now a one-vote-per-person, unionized, 100% employee-owned company.
After Pittsburgh Plate & Glass divested Maryland Brush Company, Inc. (MBC) in 1990, management and the United Steelworkers members bought the company through an ESOP.
Through the continuing assistance of Attorney Deborah Groban Olson, corporate, and ESOP counsel since 1998, MBC has been able to establish and maintain its place as a worldwide manufacturing leader as well as a desirable, democratic, workplace. MBC is a full-service manufacturer of industrial brushes and paint brushes. The employees have one vote per person on shareholder issues, as in a co-op, and regularly participate in making company decisions.
As an ESOP, MBC is uniquely positioned to compete in the global economy, establishing the company as one of the most progressive employers in the industry, the majority of whom do not offer similar programs.
In 2000, the tenth year of the ESOP, MBC had experienced increased sales for the five preceding years and its stock value had increased by 133% since becoming an ESOP. From inception of the ESOP in 1990 through 2008, the company's stock has consistently met or exceeded the earnings charted by the S&P, completely turning around MBC's financial picture and its prospects going forward.
In 2007, after paying off its stock acquisition debt, MBC elected Subchapter S status. As a 100% ESOP owned company, it was thereafter exempt from paying federal corporate income tax. These savings have enabled it to invest over $1,000,000 in the purchase and product development of its new Skylouver™ product.
Since 2008, the maturing market for industrial brushes caused MBC to seek new product lines.
In 2010, MBC invested in a start-up company making the SkyLouver™ technology (a combination skylight and solar thermal power collector) in exchange for manufacturing rights.
MBC later decided to buy all the intellectual property rights to SkyLouver ™ to ensure successful management of the commercialization process.
The new SkyLouver™ product line, launched in 2013, is expected to increase employment, employee ownership and profits. MBC will have shifted its product focus from a mature shrinking market to a dynamic growing one.
In September 2010, the US Department of Energy in conjunction with the State of Maryland's Clean Energy Economic Development Initiative (CEEDI) grant program, provided $770,000 to MBC to retool a production line at its Baltimore facility to manufacture SkyLouver™ products.
MBC estimates that this project will result in 10 jobs in Baltimore during the first year. MBC has gone first to the Steelworkers to make the initial manufacturing worker hires for SkyLouver™. To accommodate its new product and market expansion, the company's name is now MBC Ventures, Inc.


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QC Calculation Problem Set - Answers
Answers for the QC Calculations Problem Set.
Answers for the QC Calculations Problem Set.
A problem set of sample data for users to calculate mean, SD, etc.
Answers to the Levey-Jennings Control Chart lesson exercise.
Those "Westgard rules" can be confusing. How do you use them? This lesson combines basic QC theory and practice to show you how. Dr. Westgard walks you through a Levey-Jennings chart day by day, plotting the control data and pointing out which run violates which rule. See how the multirule QC should be done (and find out if you've been doing it right yourself).
This lesson discusses one of the cornerstones of QC practice. We can no longer take for granted that everyone knows how to build a control chart, plot the control values, and interpret those results correctly. Patricia L. Barry, co-author of Cost-Effective Quality Control: Managing the Quality and Productivity of Analytical Processes, provides a primer on how to construct, use, and interpret the Levey-Jennings chart.


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Principle 8 (Yield myself to God to bring Good News to others….)
So what exactly is a testimony? It is your story.
Every testimony is valid. And here is the bottom line: every Christian's story is essentially the same. Whether you have served prison time or have lived a relatively moral life, your story as a follower of Christ is simply this: You were separated from God. You came to faith in Jesus Christ.
Matthew 10:32-33 32 "Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.
"I am a Grateful Believer in Jesus Christ with Free Will and I CHOSE Surrender (Intelligent Delegation) in my victory over, "Recreational Chemical Abuse, my weekend, "False Idols."
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La Pantera by the Date Farmers
• Hyperallergic surveys New York's sculptural street art.
• Today's the first day you can buy CSA shares. That's Community Supported Art, an mnartists.org/Springboard for the Arts project. Each three-month "season" costs $300 and you get three farm boxes of artworks, tickets and doodads by nine artists. The first installment's lineup is fantastic.
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts curator Liz Armstrong on how to make some museumgoers not cringe at contemporary art: "I think the answer is putting contemporary art in a historical context, which I hope will present it in a way that makes people comfortable" -- i.e. presenting Yinka Shonibare's textile-clad Victorian mannequins in an 18th-century period room -- "When you isolate contemporary art, without all the richness and history of a larger collection, it does feel more remote."
• Minneapolis poster show/sale: Artcrank 2010, 30 bike-themed prints by 30 artists, opens April 10 at Shelter Studios. Sales benefit Full Cycle, "a Minneapolis nonprofit that gives free bikes to homeless youth and teaches them bike maintenance." (Here's a peek at Jennifer Davis' contribution.)
• New York exhibition: The Private Collection of Henry Darger, April 6 through Sept. 19 at the American Folk Art Museum.
• Alec Soth is blogging for the New York Times' Opinionator blog. His first post, last week, is a slideshow of photos of the "cycles of sin and redemption in the aftermath of Mardi Gras."
• Langston Hughes rolls in his grave: A Wall Street Journal reporter says popped manure bubbles on a midwestern dairy farm "wrinkled like raisins in the sun."
• Your moment of Zinn: The late great one on "being hopeful in bad times."
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I wrote recently about watering during an extended hot spell, and while working today I was…
They will thrive in fertile, well-drained soil with full sun. Cut back hard after flowering.
You can propagate by seed in autumn or spring or by softwood or semi-ripe cuttings of non-flowering shoots in mid-summer. Propagate cultivars by cuttings.
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Hilary Duff Shows Peek-a-Boo Underboob at 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival [PHOTOS]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
Hilary Duff has the Internet buzzing with news of her upcoming comeback album, but on the 2014 iHeart Radio Music Festival red carpet, she gave people a whole other reason to talk!
The former Disney star showed up in a skintight black leather dress with silver detailing. While Hilary wowed us with her glowing complexion and loose, perfectly curled waves, we admit we were a bit surprised by the peek-a-boo underboob she flaunted.
The look keeps in line with the current cutout trend and harkens a likeness to the phenomena New York Magazine fondly refers to as the "cleavage rhombus." (Underboob rhombus? Peek-a-boob? We're still workshopping titles.) Nevertheless, it was one of our favorite Hilary looks as of late.
Check out Hilary's complete outfit in the photos below!
She's working it! This dress is perfection and Hilary's keeping with the edgy vibe by rocking black heels and dark nails.
And a closer look at her flawless locks, gorgeous makeup and THAT cutout.
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