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Can you write some setvolume example for %selectedfile%?
Although the MCI protocol supports volume change, most MCI devices do not support the associated MCI "Set Volume" command. If your player only plays media that uses MCI devices that support MCI volume change, the MCI_SetVolume function is a good choice. However, if your player plays a mix of media types (I suspect it does), AutoHotkey's SoundSet command might make more sense.
Thanks for example, but I have problem with this.
Set volume for hMedia to +10.
The player stop, when I call this function.
Just to make sure that there weren't any hidden bugs, I tried calling the function (with your parameters) on my PC and it worked without generating an error.
Here's something to try: Open a debugger and check the output right after the function is called. If there is an MCI error, the function will send a user-friendly message to the debugger that will describe the problem. For example, if you call the function without opening the MCI device first, you'll get the following message: Return code=261 - The driver cannot recognize the specified command.
My friend downloaded the player from the svn and created function for ini read and ini write.
Can you help me with rewrite this to mci?
Mci.ahk is best library for work with auio.
I've had some problems with filenames while fiddling with the example MCI player.
Dunno why it happened, but it wouldn't play certain MP3 files with long names (possibly too long path exceeding Win9x limit). However, same files wouldn't play even when names/paths were shortened below limit. Then, playing other acceptable file and trying the previously shortened one again, it would play fine! :?
I've enhanced a little bit the Music Player that uses Sound; will post the script in its thread (provided I find it ) - it contains a rudimentary playlist feature.
A full answer to this question would require significant detail. The short answer: Load all of the media files from the selected folder into a list, a "playlist" if you will, and then play each media file one at a time. You need to open each file with the MCI_Open function and play each file using the MCI_Play function using the "Callback" option to notify you when a media file has finished playing.
Messages=Notify messages are displayed here.  New items added to the top.
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;   condition (if any) but will create a new Notify condition.
If you need additional help, PM me and I will try to help you the best I can.
Dunno why it happened, but it wouldn't play certain MP3 files with long names (possibly too long path exceeding Win9x limit).
This is the first I've heard of anyone having filename problems with the MCI library/Examples. Unfortunately I don't have access to a Win9x machine anymore (killed my last one about a month ago) so I can't test it in that environment. If you figure out a fix/workaround, let me know and I'll make a fix.
Thanks for your support and endorsement. I think most serious developers will eventually migrate towards the feature-rich BASS library but the MCI library is small and fairly simply so it is still quite useful. Thanks for introducing it to the forum.
Why player write can't open media file, when I use this?
If I ever get around testing under such conditions and manage to find a pattern (I tried at the time but failed), I'll notify you. But as you said, BASS is the new kid on the block so there's no emergency. I jumped into the Trout boat myself, lately.
Again, short answer. In your example, you are opening every single MP3 file in the selected folder and then checking/playing the last one. The code might be more appropriately written like this. Notice the additional set of brackets.
But and however, this method won't work as expected because the MCI_Play function does not, by default, wait until the media file is finished playing before returning. Please read the entire first post in this thread and the documentation in the MCI library for additional information.
If you have any additional questions on this topic, please PM me. I will try to help you the best I can.
You know, I mentioned my enhanced player earlier in this thread - albeit it's using Sound, not MCI - for a reason. I believe the playlist feature may be ported fairly easily, or at least I hope so.
When I set wait parameter, and start play, my computer is suspended and I must wai, when player finish play.
Yes, the "wait" flag is not recommended except for very short clips. I noted this in the documentation for the MCI_Play function.


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Welcome to our first Reader Challenge. For almost a year we've been reading your questions and trying to answer some of them. JustinBigelow suggested we give you that same chance. Read on for the question and a test of your SQL skills! The challenge is closed. Thanks for your entries.
We've already emailed back a partial solution to get him started until we can come up with a better solution. I've provided a script that will create a table and setup sample data.
Your answer should be returned in a result set from a SELECT statement. For bonus points you can also return the values that are above and below the NP limits. For double bonus points work in a Yak reference somewhere, somehow.
Single SELECT statement. I honestly don't know if this can be done in a single SELECT statement. I calculated everything by hand to figure out the correct answer. I'm pretty sure it can be done though. It will probably be a pretty complicated statement.
Cleanest solution. I'm also looking for a solution that is very easy to understand. This will probably not be a single SELECT statement. You can use variables, temp tables, cursors, or what ever you need. The definition of "cleanest" is pretty subjective but I'll try to be fair.
Please email the solutions and any notes or thoughts about them to me (graz@sqlteam.com). I've left the discussion thread on this topic open for now. Please don't post your solution there. Email them to graz. I'll publish each of the four solutions above with some commentary on each. I'll also publish any other interesting solutions or commentary that is submitted. If two people submit the same or similar solutions I'll give credit to the first one to reach me. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, May 22nd 5PM Central Standard Time in the USA.
Unfortunately I don't really have anything to give you if you win except fame and glory. If anyone out there belongs to an organization that would like to provide prizes I'll be happy to give you a mention and my thanks. I'm guessing there will be four winners or so. SQLTeam.com authors aren't eligible to win but I'd love for you to submit solutions. I'll certainly publish anything interesting from them.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


text: Dr. Gelman is not a member of University Physician and Surgeons medical group. Please call his office directly to verify insurance coverage prior to your visit. You may also contact his office directly at 714-456-2951 to obtain answers regarding billing questions or your care.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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One of the most fantastic options that you will ever come across when you are planning on rejuvenating the outlook of your home is to consider tile flooring in Allentown. There are a lot of people who have had incredible results with tiles on their floors. Tiles are amazing. In fact, there is virtually no room that you cannot be able to transform into a glamorous appearance through the use of tiles. However, even if that is the case, you also need to make sure that you get an expert to assist you with the installation of tile flooring in Allentown.
Any expert in the real estate field will certainly advise you to consider Allentown tile flooring, especially because of the impact that the tiles have on the resale value of your home. You need to consider this, especially if you are planning to have the house listed on the market at some point in the future. There are people who have actually lived in their own houses, but at the point when they were ready to list the house for sale, they had the entire floor plan redone with tiles and this saw the value of the house shoot up. This is one of the benefits you get when using tiled floors.
There are, of course, other benefits when getting floor tiles in Allentown, particularly installed by experts, other than the cost element that most people tend to consider and confine their ideas to. The ease of maintenance is one of these. It is really easy to get your tiles cleaned. There is no need for a significant investment in maintenance as long as you have tile floors. Therefore, this will certainly work well in your favor.
Are there flexible designs that I can choose for my tile flooring in Allentown?
There are many unique designs that you can choose to work with, especially when you are planning to get a professional tile flooring in Allentown service. The flexibility in the choices available is one of the reasons why a lot of people prefer to install tile floors in their homes. You can barely go wrong with this choice, especially when you get professional support during the installation. You can discuss the options available with an expert and choose the one which best meets your needs.
How can I implement variety installation with Allentown tile flooring?
When it comes to variety installation with Allentown tile flooring, you have to be very careful about how you go about this. You will, of course, need some expert support in the long run, but it should not be a challenge. One of the ideas that you can think about is getting different tiles for different rooms. You can work with this professionally so that you do not end up having a difficult time in the process or using too many varieties that will make your house ends up looking like a clown house.
How easily can floor tiles in Allentown get repaired?
Working with floor tiles in Allentown is one of the easiest things. When you need a repair done on your floors, the one thing that you will notice is that the contractor will basically remove only the section that needs to be repaired and do the necessary work. This is not like other flooring types where a huge chunk of the floor will have to be removed for repair. In fact, with floor tiles, you might only need to get a replacement for the tiles that have been damaged.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Mexico criss-crosses, from the Caribbean beaches to the refreshing plateaus, passing by the Yucatan Jungle. One finds here the vestiges of the mysterious Mayan civilisation, but also a population which still maintains its heritage.
It's almost an island, lost between the two Americas, An island demarcated to the North by the Rio Bravo, a river that the Yankees continue to call the Rio Grande. An island infiltrated, all over its territories, by rivers with Mayan and Aztec names. An island again, haunted by its seas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, whose banks are home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Acapulco in the south, of course, but also the dozens of others that make a sunny garland around the West of the country. Mexico is a land of water.
A land of stones also, where the smallest pyramid, that of Uxmal or Chichen Itza for example, carries the memory of ancient civilisations. Mexico protects the remains of its combined histories. Those age-old relics, are, for the most part, listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. But also those that are more recent, from Spanish colonisation. You must roam about the colossal city of 20 million inhabitants that is Mexico, in front of the Baroque churches of the conquerors to those tiny villages which still recall the battles of Zapata and Pancho Villa when, at the beginning of the last century, Mexico was revolutionary.
How can you not love this country at first sight? These people who deny nothing of their past, who celebrate the dead each year with disjointed skeletons and fanfare in the streets. This culture of mural frescoes, where the most abiding legend is still that of a love between two painters, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. The traveller who stays there can only render homage to its hot climate, favourable for growing agave, the fruit used for making Tequila. Yes, on these sands of a thousand and one water sports, in these azure creeks and archaeological sites, there is one permanent trait.
There is not a patch of land in the world where they know how to party better than in Mexico. When night falls, in this country where they have never stopped worshipping the sun, you must laugh and dance to forget. Until dawn. From Orizaba Peak, which culminates at 5700m, to the Laguna Salada, embalmed at 10m below sea level, Mexico vibrates from one end to the other.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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This page is a collection of resources that may help you assist your grieving child in the healing process after somebody they love dies.
Compassion Books: A collection of over 400 books, videos, and audios to help grieving children and adults. These resources touch upon a number of topics including but not limited to death, serious illness, divorce, and violence.
The Compassionate Friends, supporting family after a child dies.

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text: The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides supervised apartment living for older youth ages 18 to 21 whose family problems prevent them from living at home. Residents may be self-referred or referred through the DC Department of Human Services. TLP residents may live in SBY-managed apartments for up to12 months, receiving counseling and support services and learning life skills they need to live independently. TLP requires residents to be enrolled in school, work part-time, and save portions of their income. Some program residents also contribute to their rent. The TLPstaff provides counseling, life skills training, career guidance, job referrals and aftercare counseling to assist TLP graduates in living successfully on their own.


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A MAN who killed his best friend in a motorbike accident has had his sentence cut after a plea for mercy from the victim’s mother.
Jonathan Lombard, 28, has had a year cut off a three year prison stretch, after the mother of Nacho Rodriguez, 16, insisted he get a more lenient sentence.
Lombard, 28, who was described by the mother as ‘a soul mate and more than a brother to Nacho’ pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
The Supreme Court heard how he was full of remorse for the death of his friend, who suffered fatal head injuries as a result of the accident in 2008.
In sentencing Chief Justice Anthony Dudley explained: “I certainly do not ignore the wishes expressed by the mother of the deceased”.
And the court heard how he had overtaken vehicles at speed before pulling wheelies which led him to lose control of the bike.
Lombard has also been disqualified from driving for five years.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Random House Trade Paperbacks, 9780812980684, 336pp.
The title of this book is If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This. What are some instances in the stories of people deciding which secrets to tell and which to keep? What goes into these decisions? For example, in “Immortalizing John Parker,” why does Clara finally tell Harold about her affair? In “Tableau Vivant,” why does Jean hide her stroke from her family? What are impacts of these choices?
Several of the stories are about women in their sixties or seventies. Clara in Immortalizing John Parker, Jean in Tableau Vivant, and Kate Rodgers in The History of the World are all dealing with the absence – or impending absence - of a long time partner, but each of their situations is very different. We’re told that Kate would have preferred losing her husband to death than to another woman. What do you think Clara and Jean would say about that? What kind of conversation might these three women have?
The book depicts more than a dozen marriages—some successful, others not. Which of the couples seem happy to you, and which do not? Do the stories share a common message about what makes for a happy marriage, or does it seem to be more unpredictable than that?
Every one of these stories is about a loss of some kind, yet there are almost no scenes in which anyone cries. Why do you suppose that is? With what other actions does Black demonstrate grief? Did you identify with the ways in which one or more of her characters experienced loss? Discuss.
These ten stories were written over an eight year period. Do you have any guesses about which were written earliest and which most recently? What makes you think so?
What do you think happens to the characters in the minutes and days after the stories end? For example, near the end of “The Guide,” Jack learns that Lila knows exactly what’s going on with her parents, but the story is over before they have a chance to talk about it—or not talk about it. What do you imagine their ride home will be like? And in “Pine,” what happens next between Claire and Kevin? If she wants another chance at a romance with him, will he risk it? Should he?
Black pays a lot of attention to the houses in which these stories unfold. Why do you think she describes them in such detail? What do the houses tell you about the different characters who occupy them?
None of the characters in this book are painted as entirely virtuous. It seems like everyone has made their share of mistakes along the way. Are any characters made out to be all bad? Which of them would you want to share a meal with? What would you ask them, if you could? Which would you rather not meet?
There are some pretty upsetting situations in these stories, yet the characters don’t seem to have lost their ability to hope. What kinds of things keep them going? In “Immortalizing John Parker,” why does Clara decide to paint the portrait as Katherine Parker wants her to? In “Tableau Vivant,” why does Jean keep the bare root roses that she forgot to cancel? In “Harriet Elliot” why does the narrator feel “something like belief” on her last day at school? Discuss what you think this collection suggests about the capacity in people to survive loss.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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A: I’m Ella, founder of Leafology and passionate about creativity, natural living and tea. You can read more about my story here, but in a nutshell: I’m a model and writer who started creating beautiful skincare products using powerful natural ingredients (and the tea plant) and accidentally (albeit with a lot of excitement and hard work) found myself creating a business. I’m proud to say that it’s growing and gaining a loyal and passionate customer base!
Q: Do you make the products yourself?
A: I do! Everything is made in small batches by my own hands – I experimented with the compositions and processes multiple times until I was happy with each recipe, and make them myself (you can sometimes see some ‘behind the scenes’ snapshots on my instagram account!). The website and labels and almost everything else is also done by me – perhaps I’m a control freak! That said, sometimes my wonderful Mum helps me with the practical side of concocting products, when I need the extra pair of hands in the studio!
Q: Is your background in chemistry/science?
A: Although the creation of these products involves the donning of pipettes, pH strips, double boilers and hair nets, my background is in modelling and creative arts rather than in chemistry. I came to the creation of natural skincare products in a way that I often liken very much to my experience and enjoyment of cooking good plant-based food; through my love of natural flavours, scents, quality and the joyful combination of individual ingredients to create something that is nourishing and beautiful to experience. The fact that the products actually work is due to mother nature providing all the tools we need, a lot of research and study on my part in learning about the benefits and uses of various plants in different cultures throughout history, plus some courses (not least in how to create and sell natural skincare products in adherence to local regulations and legalities).
Q: Do you have anything for rosacea?
A: Yes! The 2-in-1 Face Buff & Clay Mask (exfoliating grains that can also be left on to use as a mask) was made with rosacea heavily in mind (since a few people I knew are sufferers). I also happen to know that one customer who suffers from rosacea has found that the Good Face Day Serum and Overnight Face Food are a godsend in combination; in her own words, they ‘soothe, moisturise and calm’ her flare ups (which are more and more infrequent). Like others, she’s had compliments on her skin more than ever before.
Q: Do you have anything for eczema?
A: Yes! Please try the Naked Baby Balm, an unscented blend of organic coconut oil, tea seed, calendula, cottonseed and cocoa butter, which apparently works miracles on eczema even for people who’ve tried everything else without success.
Q: I have dry/oily/combination/acne-prone/sensitive skin… What would you recommend?
A: Leafology products benefit a wide spectrum of skin types due to the fact that the ingredients are all gentle, natural and the overall compositions are generally very balancing. Sometimes (always?) what we need to do less of is using harsh, synthetic ingredients that overstrip, flood or otherwise disrupt our skin’s natural balance, and instead focus on being a bit more gentle so that our skin can find its own way. Our skin is a finely-tuned organ and built to heal itself; our job is to not get in its way. This is something that is nurtured and encouraged with good diet and lifestyle practices as well as using products which can give a helping hand in the right direction. I’ve found that people who would describe themselves as having dry, oily, sensitive or acne-prone skin have equally benefitted from switching to Leafology.
Q: How do you use the Yellow Gold Cleansing Balm? Does it wash off just with water or do I need something fancy?
A: Just a pea-sized amount of the Yellow Gold Cleansing Balm with Turmeric (yes, that’s why it’s yellow!), Green Tea, Tea Tree & Meadowfoam melts into the skin with your fingertips. At the end of the day, massage it in and it will join with your make up and natural sebum, picking up impurities and dirt and lifting them to be removed all as one (like attracts like!). There’s no emulsifier in it as it isn’t needed, and it’s specially formulated for skin which is oily or acne-prone, with natural tea tree, non-pore-blocking oils and anti-inflammatory turmeric. Once it is well massaged-in, you can remove it to complete the cleansing process with a damp cotton pad, with a warm, dedicated face cloth (for a steamier, more spa-like affair; I recommend using one which you don’t mind turning yellow from the turmeric, though don’t worry, your skin won’t be stained at all!) or simply with water alone. It’s your choice! I personally recommend following with a toner, for the final finish, but it’s your skin, your rules!
N.B. All the above also applies for the utterly beautiful Precious Petals Flower Serum & Cleansing Balm, though that one isn’t coloured by turmeric, so it’s even easier! …Options, options!
Q: Do you offer refills for returned bottles/jars?
We love the fact that Leafology’s containers are all recyclable and also urge customers to be creative in repurposing their jars or bottles after use. E.g. why not use them for food, oils, homemade candles or even flower displays?
Don’t forget: the serums/oils across the range come in glass bottles and are all available to purchase without a plastic pump lid, if that option in chosen at checkout, and many customers like to buy metal-lidded versions from their second purchase onward (if not from the very first purchase); this way you can see it as your own refill, simply transferring the old lid over to the new bottle (if you like), and repurposing or recycling the old bottle. See this page for more about the ‘One pump for life‘ scheme.
Q: How far up the ‘food chain’ is Leafology plastic-free?
– Don’t you just love companies that are transparent and on the right track?
Q: I’d like to stock your products in my shop / Have you thought about being stocked in this shop I know of? / My local shop would love you!
A: Well then, we’d love to hear from you, especially if you have similar values/aesthetics and feel we’d be a good match, so please email and introduce yourself and I can send you the wholesale catalogue and full info about how to collaborate with Leafology.
If you know of a shop local to you in which you can picture Leafology products thriving and delighting customers, you know what to do! Email: hello@leafology.co.uk or go via the Contact Page.
Q: Are Leafology products organic?
A: Many of the products use organic ingredients, often to a high degree within the overall composition, but you may notice that the finished products don’t have officially accredited ‘organic’ logos on them (this may be considered in the future). Of the long list of potent plant ingredients in Leafology products, many are strictly organic (like all the plant butters and coconut oil, some of the essential oils), while some are not classed as such, simply because they are harder to come by (any non-organic ingredients are beautifully cold-pressed and unrefined, however). Meanwhile, many of the natural ingredients such as salts and clays simply cannot be described as organic as there is no agricultural process involved! One final little secret: often organic ingredients are used in Leafology products even when they are not stated as such on the labels (this is because individual ingredients being upgraded to organic sometimes occurs before the end of a print run of labels is used up)!
Do you have a different question? I’m happy to answer and will be adding to this page so do get in touch with any ponderings/queries.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Compute the Fisher Exact test p-value.
The number of positive successes.
The number of negative successes.
Writes the Fisher Exact test p-value to standard output.

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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Evren Tekinoktay’s collages and paintings are disarming multi-layered images that mix a retro sensibility of female craft traditions with a gritty sophistication and knowing feminist undertone.
Tekinoktay synthesizes a homespun childlike aesthetic with a direct engagement in femininity as a media construct to be bought and sold. Simple cut-out forms and visual icons appropriated from children’s picture books are layered with images of women collected from the media. Other works on paper are just as complex in their iconography, as Tekinoktay deploys paper like paint in a visual dialect derived from the diverse languages of art history and pop culture. Rather than offer a familiar critique of the media’s imaging of woman, Tekinoktay engages in a historical mapping of female identity where overt judgements are not made. Woman becomes a curious creature, at times ambiguous, her image redefined and constructed anew in collage.
Tekinoktay’s latest work explores the area of playful overlap between diametric opposites and the polarity of the sexes, ideas that are collected under the whimsical title ‘A Slightly Pregnant Man’. There is a provoking roughness in the work, using colour and collage to offer only a half-articulated picture of sexuality. The fertile layers of encoded mixed gender imagery include the re-occurring arch of a mouse’s back doubling as a pregnant belly, tempted by a lattice of cheese holes. With her blend of low-gloss magazine images, coy sketches, and paper cut-outs, Tekinoktay creates a newly relevant folk vocabulary with its own set of symbols.
Evren Tekinoktay was born in 1972 and lives and works in Copenhagen. Past exhibitions include Galerist, Istanbul (2006); Frankfurter Kunstverrein, Frankfurt (2003); Galleri Zwinger, Berlin (2003). This is her second solo show at The Approach.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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As Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Throughout childhood, art is a powerful means of expression, a way to expand both imagination and coordination, and a method of learning about the world. A caring, creative art teacher is one of a child’s greatest hopes for keeping this inner artist alive.
What is Art Teacher Certification?
However, not just anyone can simply be an art teacher. In order to ensure that teachers are qualified to reap the rewards of a career as an art teacher, they must complete the appropriate certification process.
An art teacher certification indicates that a teacher has met a set of requirements to show that he or she is qualified to help students express their creativity through art projects appropriate for their age group. Additionally, art teachers must have a certain base knowledge in order to educate their students about self-expression, influential artists, and a variety of mediums and techniques.
Teachers can become certified through a rigorous process where candidates must complete teacher education programs, and sometimes must pass exams. For example, in many (but not all) states, art teacher candidates must pass the Praxis II: Art Content Knowledge exam.
Because certification requirements are different for each state, prospective teachers can learn more about their state's requirements here.
As a certified art teacher, you have the ability to help develop a student’s way of looking at the world. Through art, children learn to measure things against each other visually and perceive relationships. If you have a passion for art and the desire to share this passion, consider becoming certified as an art teacher. This passion, coupled with knowledge of art techniques and terminology, will foster an inspiring, motivating learning environment that encourages students to create, use their imaginations, and stretch the limits of their talent.
To prepare for your art teacher certification, which in turn prepares you for the classroom, you will begin by studying the theories of artistic development. By learning how a student develops throughout school and expresses that development through art, you will have the tools to teach students of varying ages, with different learning abilities, and from a variety of backgrounds.
Art teacher certification will also prepare you for all the practicalities that you will need to know as an art teacher. For example, you will learn the differences between hard and soft sketching pencils, what you should use to clean a brush that has been used in oil painting, how to ventilate a pottery kiln, and the difference between tint and hue. Additionally, you will learn how to evaluate art based on elements like color, space, and proportion.
Describe: Describe the facts of the piece without judgment. What does the art look like? Are the colors bright or muted? Is it realistic or abstract?
Analyze: How are the facts from the ‘describe’ step related? Where does your eye go first? How do the colors work together? Does the piece appear balanced?
Interpret: There are no ‘right’ answers to this step. How does the piece make you feel? Does it remind you of anything?
Judge: Do you think this piece succeeds in its intention, or is there still work to do? Art teachers will need to be careful to judge carefully when dealing with students.
Where Does Art Inspiration Come From?
Art classes are extremely beneficial for very young children. Beyond helping them express themselves and learn about their environments, art can help children with basic skills like following directions and using writing utensils.
Students learn about themselves and their environment through careful observation. At the preschool/kindergarten level, art is very intertwined with all other school subjects, as it is one of the best ways for young kids to learn. Art class will help them practice their shapes, colors, counting and reading. For example, many preschool art teachers utilize the popular book ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See’ from story time in art projects. By having preschoolers choose a color and an animal to draw, they can stretch their imaginations within the confines of a pattern they know and love.
Art for students at this age should be designed to get children learning through experience. Projects should be designed to stimulate their senses, their imaginations, and their sense of accomplishment. Hands-on projects like finger painting, stringing beads to make a necklace, and gluing pieces of colored paper together into a mosaic are designed to stimulate imagination and creativity.
A certified art teacher at an elementary school will focus on teaching students how to separate what they see into lines, shapes and colors, then piece it back together on paper to create an artistic representation. At this age, students can start learning about perspective, color mixing, ratios and depth perception, and putting them into practice. In this way, elementary school art also teaches students a lot about math and geometry. To further increase the incorporation between art and other subjects, the certified art teacher may hand out assignments on written pieces of paper to exercise the students’ reading, comprehension and direction-following abilities.
A certified art teacher can help his or her elementary school students improve on their projects through relaxed, positive conversations about brushstrokes, use of color, texture and emphasis. For example, the teacher may ask “What is happening in this picture?” or “I see that you chose to color this horse red. Why is that?” A teacher should never tell an elementary school student that his or her work of art is “wrong,” but can instead lead a discussion about why the child made certain choices, and what he or she could do next time.
In addition to painting and drawing projects, middle school art students are generally ready to move onto more involved techniques, like sculpture or photography. Because they are old enough to be trusted with the responsibility of long-term projects that may require time out of class (taking pictures outdoors and developing them in a darkroom, for example), art teachers are often rewarded with thoughtful, deliberate student submissions.
At this age, art lessons can be linked to the students’ other subjects by taking the students through the history of each technique – when and where it was first utilized, the artists who made it famous, and other facts that art teachers will know after becoming certified.
A teacher should make middle school art class difficult enough to challenge the limits of students’ abilities, but broad enough to avoid frustration and encourage confidence. Whether they’re sculpting or painting, an art teacher should encourage students to practice their skills while actively using their imaginations.
In many high schools, students have the option of electing to take a specialty class in the visual arts, like photography, ceramics, or graphic design. Teaching one of these classes gives the certified art teacher an opportunity to connect with students through art on a deeper level. Beyond the ability to spend much more time on individual projects and instruction, teachers can use these specialty arts courses to incorporate reading, writing, history and technology.
At this age level, certified art teachers can encourage creativity and critical thinking by resisting the urge to demonstrate a technique for students (barring safety concerns). It is usually more effective to allow the students to try something for themselves first after listening carefully to a step-by-step explanation.
Art teacher certification will explore ways to help high school students discover new ways of looking at their art. Because students have a tendency to keep their eyes glued to their paper while drawing, for example, the teacher may have them draw a bowl of fruit with the paper upside down. This way, the students will concentrate more on their lines, shading and ratios rather than focusing on the way that they think fruit should look.
A certified art teacher may at times feel frustrated by the overwhelming task of critiquing students’ art in order to encourage improvement. While some students have more natural artistic talent, art teachers enjoy the freedom to grade based on enthusiasm and effort rather than “correctness.” When critiquing students’ work, teachers should begin by pointing out the positive, and using questions to encourage students to develop more complexity from there.
For example, comments like: "This part looks really interesting. What do you think you can do to make this other part as interesting?" or "I see that you’ve started shading the side of your vase. Do you think that shading it even deeper would help it to look most three-dimensional?” By asking positive, thought-provoking questions, an art teacher will not only encourage more thoughtful, mature work from students, but will eventually find the students asking themselves these same questions.
Studies have shown that art helps to create well-rounded, intelligent individuals. A 2005 report by the Rand Corporation states that the visual arts "can connect people more deeply to the world and open them to new ways of seeing.” This connection can then lead to an increased interest in and understanding of traditional academic disciplines. By implication, art education can lead to an increase in traditional intelligence and academic success. Art classes can improve students’ critical thinking skills, self-esteem and patience – all qualities that can help them improve in their other classes.
In contrast to students’ other classes, art classes often offer a reprieve from stress and rote memorization. They give students a chance to relax their minds and work with their hands in the middle of a loud, busy school day. Art teachers can help guide students toward their best work by offering gentle suggestions, a non-judgmental, spacious working environment, and creative freedom.
How to Become Certified as an Art Teacher?
Art teachers are creative, nurturing individuals who are passionate about letting their students experiment with ways to express themselves visually. They must demonstrate an understanding of the scope of art over the years, influential artists and their works, and how art affects cultures around the world.
If you're interested in becoming a certified art teacher, find your state's certification requirements here.


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If you are looking for a natural, holistic, integrated approach to wellness and healing, these resources are a great first stop. Note: An “*” means there could be a potential conflict of interest because the site sells products or services.
http://www.anh-usa.org – a nonprofit, advocacy group focused on preserving the public’s access to integrative healing practices.
www.umm.edu/altmed/- a complementary medicine guide from the University of Maryland Medical Center.
http://www.acam.org/acamblog – an integrative medicine blog with articles from some of the top naturopaths and physicians in the industry. The site also features a Integrative Health Practitioner Finder.
ahma.membershipsoftware.org – an excellent place to learn about holistic medicine, find a holistic doctor, & more.
www.ahna.org – a non-profit membership association dedicated to educating nurses and the public on holistic healing practices.
www.bravewell.org – a foundation seeking the advancement of integrative medicine. Their philosophy is “Health is not just the absence of disease; it is a state of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.” Their publications explain the components of integrative medicine.
www.hartfordhealth.org/IntMed/manual/– a manual for starting an Integrative Medicine program from Hartford.
www.incamresearch.ca – a Canadian group focused on researching and educating on CAM modalities. They have an Outcomes Database for professionals www.outcomesdatabase.org.
www.cmbm.org – a nonprofit offering education and advancement of mind-body treatments.
www.chopra.com/library – the “library” section is free after sign up. It provides resources based on the teaching of Deepak Chopra and Ayurveda.
www.healthandhealingny.org – an initiative of Beth Israel Medical Center. The health condition section is very helpful.
http://councilforhealing.org/Welcome.html – A nonprofit group initiated by Dan Benor, MD for education and collaboration. The site has a research on healing section with information on landmark studies in the field.
www.drweil.com – Holistic approach to health and wellness from Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D. *Dr. Weill sells products and the site contains advertisements.
www.edgarcayce.org/are/holistic-health.aspx – includes a database of therapies that healer Edgar Cayce had recommended.
www.faim.org – A nonprofit seeking to “identify breakthrough complementary and alternative therapies and to research and report on their effectiveness.” Their resources section provides additional alternative medicine sites.
www.healthy.net – a broad site with information on many alternative remedies *It also sells products.
holisticprimarycare.net – an educational site focused on “nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, mind-body therapies, Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and other healing and self-care systems from around the world.” Although it does accept advertising the editorial of the site is based on research.
www.fammed.wisc.edu/integrative/modules – patient handouts and educational modules from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
www.lef.org/protocols – Life Extension is a nutritional supplement company. They provide detailed nutrition protocols on numerous health conditions. *This is a retail company, but the information is science-based.
www.mercola.com – site from Dr. Joseph Mercola an outspoken advocate for natural medicine. *The site sells numerous products, and many of the doctor’s philosophies are extreme.
nccih.nih.gov from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
naturalhealthsherpa.com – news, blogs and reviews of natural health treatments from a group of experienced health writers.
www.naturalmedicinejournal.com – an excellent source for the latest research on herbs, nutritional supplements, and natural healing modalities with articles typically written by naturopaths.
www.naturalsolutionsmag.com – consumer publication on natural living.
www.thenewmedicine.org a comprehensive site on integrative medicine based on the two-hour documentary with the same name.
www.pmri.org – a nonprofit research institute investigating the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease directed by Dean Ornish, MD. They have a forum site www.ornishspectrum.com/forum/ offering support for a healthy lifestyle.
takingcharge.csh.umn.edu – A site from the Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota offering many tools and resources for incorporating healthy activities into one’s life.


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The past quarter century has delivered progress for some women and their newborns.
At the same time, some countries and groups of women saw little or no progress despite significant global attention to maternal survival. The burden of poor maternal health—mortality and severe morbidity—is concentrated among poor and vulnerable populations, including refugees and those affected by humanitarian crises.
The new Lancet Maternal Health Series synthesises the last decade of evidence on global maternal health in low, middle and high-income countries, charts the path towards 2030 and champions vital action to ensure that every woman, every newborn, everywhere has the right to good quality care.
Copies of the Series report will be available at the launch.
Please email LancetMaternal@gmmb.com with any questions. You can also download the global launch leaflet here.


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The Lewis and Clark River Bridge was designed by famous engineer Conde B. McCullough and was completed in 1924. Situated on the Warrenton Highway in Astoria, this bridge is the only single-leaf bascule drawspan in Oregon.
There are only four double-leaf bascule bridges left in Oregon’s highway system. Located in Clatsop County, the Lewis and Clark River Bridge stretches 828 feet, with its bascule span totaling 112 feet.


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Dropbox has doubled the size of its Pro plans, thanks to high demand from users for more storage capacity, according to ZDNet. Now Dropbox Pro subscribers can get 100 GB or 200 GB of storage space for the prices of the original 50 and 100 GB plans. The plans start at $9.99 a month, or $99 a year. The company has also added a 500 GB plan for $49.99 or $499 a year for individual Pro account users.
The accounts will update automatically, and Pro users should see their increased storage later this evening. The company is also offering individual Pro users a free Pro 100 trial subscription to share with a family member or friend for three months.
Team accounts, which start at $795 a year for five users, will remain at 1 TB of space, and free accounts will remain at 2 GB.
The move to double the size of Pro plans is a smart one for Dropbox, which faces competition from other cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive.


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Authors J Chambers and Jan Roberts.
Imagine there is a bank, which credits your account each morning with $86,400,it carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? – Draw out every dollar of course!
That’s the reality for every one of us – plain and simple! When it’s stated n this bald-faced way it should give each of us a cause for pause, reflect and ask ourselves the question. How do I best deal with this precious account?
It actually doesn’t mean filling each second with busy-busy activities. Rather each one of those 86,400 seconds that we are gifted every morning, should be expended with care and consideration. Acting with integrity and in a way that is true to ourselves is a great starting place to ensure that time is spent wisely. This may mean re-thinking the job that we do, reviewing what friendships we maintain and whether current relationships might or might not sustain and nurture us.
What happens when the touring Cricket Team Gets Primal!
List your Goals – and make them happen!

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library that makes building applications easy, intuitive and efficient.
There have been a few minor bug fixes.
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When I'm on holiday I like to try and eat in local independent places and sample experiences that are unique to the place you are holidaying. When we were staying at Ready Camp in North Yorkshire recently, I stumbled upon The Fairy Garden and knew we had to visit.
The Fairy Garden is part of the Centenary Way Campsite in Filey and is a little off the beaten track. The Fairy Garden is open to non-residents but I would always message them on facebook before visiting as they only open in the Summer months and when the weather is suited to outdoor dining.
We parked in the designated garden car parking spots and were immediately enchanted with the garden.
Isn't it sweet! We selected a table and browsed the menu as the children looked around in wonder at the beautiful elves and fairies that decorated the space around them.
We loved the special fairy reading corner which is a sheltered area of the garden filled with cushions and a box full of fairy-themed books for children to help themselves.
Drinks and homemade cakes and snacks are available to order from the quirky caravan at the top of the garden. Steve ordered a homemade fruit scone and cup of tea deal (only £3), the children ordered 3 chocolate brownies and Harry also ordered a ham sandwich. I couldn't resist a slice of homemade carrot cake and fresh raspberry milkshake and the children all ordered squash. Our bill was only £12 in total. BARGAIN!!
Our food was absolutely scrummy and you can tell it was made with love. Also how cute are the children's juice cups! Fabulous attention to detail.
There are bird spotting sheets pinned to the garden wall and the garden is a little haven for wildlife. We spotted 4 different species including this rather handsome Robin during our short stay and we were only in the garden for around 40 minutes.
We made a little 13 second video which gives you a little bit more of a feel for the place. I hope you enjoy it!
The Fairy Garden will be sadly closing in the next few days (if it hasn't already) for the season but make sure you give them a 'like' on facebook and pay them a visit next Summer if you are visiting NorthYorkshire. It is such a unique place to stop for tea and cake and your children will love it too.
Aww! What an adorable place....So cute!! The prices are fantastic too!
Such a cute little place, my kids would love that Sam. Top Tip for next time we are over that way.
What a cute spot - perfect with kids too.
Visited today after seeing your review a while back, really enjoyed it. Very pretty little place.

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There are many guidelines outlining the recommended approach to secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD). Numerous studies,1,2 however, show that optimal secondary prevention is still not being attained, despite clear and indisputable evidence that it saves lives. Many CHD deaths must therefore be considered preventable.
Although death rates from CHD in Tayside are near the average for Scotland and declining, they are still among the highest in Western Europe, and not declining as rapidly as in many other countries.
In trying to determine how the problem of under-delivery of secondary prevention was being tackled in Tayside it became apparent that there was no single coordinated approach.
Within the region a multitude of initiatives were underway, or being considered, both in primary and secondary care and at local health care cooperative and trust levels.
Many of these initiatives were occurring in isolation and duplicating the work of others, thus failing to benefit from the wider experience available.
Inevitably, too, resources were being used suboptimally as different projects vied for access to the limited resources available. At all levels of political and clinical thinking, CHD has been prioritised within Tayside.
Over the past few years, an innovative and exciting clinical audit & research tool has been developed within the DARTS (Diabetes Audit & Research in Tayside, Scotland) initiative3 (www.diabeteshealthnet.ac.uk). This is progressing to provide real time electronically linked data from a multitude of sources, available at the point of delivery of care via the NHS-net.
In collaboration with MEMO – the Medicines Event Monitoring Organisation (www.dundee.ac.uk/memo) – high quality information linking clinical data with encashed prescription data has been obtained.4 A similar record linkage system may assist in improving the standard of secondary prevention within Tayside.
A small multidisciplinary group from primary and secondary care came together during the autumn of 1999 to try to optimise, rationalise and move forward the agenda of inadequate secondary prevention provision within Tayside. A conference on a regional aproach to secondary prevention of CHD was held in January 2000.
A Consensus Group attempted to distil and represent the views expressed at the conference. There was a firm feeling that there must be equity of delivery of care using a cooperative, integrated, multidisciplinary approach across primary and secondary care.
An open and inclusive Tayside-wide Steering group will be formed to lead the process and develop the framework (www.hearts.org.uk). A suitable database was identified as a key tool in the implementation of effective CHD secondary prevention.
Using information from GP records, and integrating it with other available sources and SIGN guideline No. 41,5 which summarises a detailed review of the evidence-based approach to secondary prevention, we plan to give participating surgeries detailed feedback on patients within their practice requiring secondary prevention. It is hoped that the initiative will have a significant impact on the delivery of care in the region.
The ASPIRE Steering Group. A British Cardiac Society survey of the potential for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (Action on Secondary Prevention through Intervention to Reduce Events). Heart 1996;75:334.
Brady AJB, Pittard JB. Prevalence of coronary heart disease within a population of 901,829 sampled in the United Kingdom, and level of secondary prevention of coronary heart disease among those identified. Eur Heart J 1999;20:472.
Morris AD, Boyle DI, MacAlpine R et al. The diabetes audit and research in Tayside Scotland (DARTS) study: electronic record linkage to create a diabetes register. DARTS/MEMO Collaboration. Br Med J 1977; 315: 524-88.
Morris AD, Boyle DI, McMahon AD, Greene SA, MacDonald TM, Newton RW. Adherence to insulin treatment, glycaemic control, and ketoacidosis in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The DARTS/MEMO Collaboration. Diabetes Audit and Research in Tayside Scotland. Medicines Monitoring Unit. Lancet 1997; 350: 1505-10.


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In the country side fish are continuously on the search for feed. In a pond feeding too much in one time will result in pollution of your pond. A solution for this problem is an automatic fish feeder. The fish feeder drops on fixed times a small amount food in the pond. Cause pond fish eat just small amounts in one time and the feed they do not eat, may become additional waste material in your pond. Which can lead to being a burden for the biological equilibrium. This will lead to, for example, algal growth and turbid water. A stock of fish, having constant growth is achieved by feeding measured amounts several times a day.
Especially during holiday seasons and in less favourable weather conditions fish will be ‘forgotten’ sometimes. This problem can be solved by using an automatic fish feeder. An automatic fish feeder has been developed especially to distribute certain amounts of feed wanted several times a day. During holiday seasons and also in all weathers your fish will be daily insured of a regular and constant amount of feed. As the feed is consumed, pond environment will not be additionally burdened. Certainly for lovers of koi carps sophisticated feeding of the fish in question is of importance to achieve optimum colouring and constant growth.
As soon as in autumn outside temperature will go down, fish need less feed owing to their low energy consumption. In this period you should reduce the amount of feed. A soon as the temperature of the water reaches 8°C or lower the automatic fish feeder near the pond can be removed. At these low temperatures you only have to distribute a certain amount of winter feed 1 or 2 times a week by hand.

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One of the best markets for landscape photography are annual calendars. Recently two of Jay’s images were chosen by a local company for publication in their large art calendar. This photo, titled Reflections of Beauty, was selected for the cover.
This one – titled Stranded – was selected for the October page.
Images for calendars like these are chosen based upon location, theme, or terrain (seascapes, forests, waterfalls, mountains, etc.) – and shots from National Parks are some of the most popular. Most of the time, the calendar company is looking for landscape images that are appropriate for a particular season – so we try to make sure that we shoot in a variety of seasons. For example, if you have photos of Yosemite in Summer, but not in Winter, the publisher will have to go with someone else for those winter images. We visit locations more than once to fill in gaps in our portfolios.
Several months ago, we got a call from National Geographic asking about images for their 2010 Calendars. In the end, they selected two images from National Parks which were published in their 2010 National Park’s engagement calender.
The market for landscape photography for calender companies is pretty broad. You can maximize your chances of getting published by expanding your portfolio to include a diverse set of images from a variety of locations – during a variety of seasons.
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Julian Scott (born 1991 in Edinburgh) graduated from St. Anne’s College, Oxford with a first class honours degree in Music in 2012. He was taught oboe from a young age by Rosie Staniforth and Steven West in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Formerly principal oboe in the National Children’s Orchestra of Scotland and the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, he joined the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 2008 and was principal oboe during the 2009/10 concert series. In Oxford, he has performed in many ensembles including the Oxford University Sinfonietta and the Oxford University Orchestra, in which he was principal oboe. Throughout his bachelors degree, Julian was taught by Christopher Cowie, principal oboist in the London Philharmonia and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Julian has completed his Masters at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, where he was taught by Jonathan Kelly, principal oboe in the Berlin Philharmonic. In Germany he plays in various ensembles including the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie, the Neues Kammerorchester Potsdam, and Kammersymphonie Berlin. At home in Scotland, Julian has played with the Scottish opera and BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra. This year he won a place in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and will be on tour with the orchestra in summer. Julian fills his free time with sports, in particular triathlon.


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A small group of us-- like three, have been discussing the idea of creating an online book club for ages. We talked about doing it in a wiki, and even started collecting a reading list. We are busy folks, however, and the concept always seemed to slip to the back burner of good ideas that we never acted on.
The goal of Booksprouts is to make Book Clubs a Fun and Easy experience for everyone. We want to do the hard and tedious parts for you so that you can get busy reading and discussing!
What are some of the hard and tedious parts you ask? Good question. Booksprouts introduces Book Choices to help book clubs agree on what to read. We automatically create and organize online discussion spaces for each book. And we help clubs manage their member lists and their club meetings.
Works for me. This is something we've been talking about doing for a long time, and BookSprouts looks to make it easy. So, I'm ready to kick the tires.
I've created the Hightouch book club, the place for us to read and discuss books that touch on the intersection of technology and culture (loosely defined). I've nominated a couple of books for reading, but it's a social site, and y'all can suggest books for the club to read. The site has a database of pretty much every book ever written so adding new suggestions is super easy. I set the initial ramp-up period on the longish side--10 days. Please join, suggest books, and be ready to cast your vote for our first read.
You might find some inspiration from Bookshelved which has been running for several years now. It's basically your idea of a wiki for people who like to read. It gives us a place to track what we're reading, what other people are reading and write reviews.
Glad you found this resource. BookSprouts looks a lot like what we wanted in the Virtual Book Club.


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Today, there appears to be a sudden bevy of headlines that Obama is now lambasting his opposition as being controlled by Wall Street. It buggers the imagination that Mr Obama, who has been celebrated as rather savvy in our press sewers for going hat in hand to the mega speculator George Soros for his blessing and imprimatur before he began to run for President on the tired motto of hope and change, has the smarmy effrontery to now pretend he's for the little man (the same one that the chairman of British Petroleum belittled so notoriously.) How touching...All I have to say to him (in keeping with the sentiments of the majority of my perhaps too lately enlightened fellow citizens) can be confined to two words: Bow Wow!
This morning, in my daily perusals, this headline came across my screen: "Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham palace." Unfortunately, it has been my lot to experience (and hear of) much of this same sort of nefarious activity of the privileged set among us. For instance, it was reliably related to myself that one fine day W. Averell Harriman, erstwhile Secretary of Commerce, while attending some function with Manhattan Borough president Hulan Jack, stole dinner roles from the tables of the hotel where that event was taking place. Why would the wealthy scion of railroad baron, employer of George H.W. Bush's father Prescott (himself a director of the Nazi war machine's Thyssen's Union Bank,) founder of Wall Street investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, and breeder of thoroughbred race horses (much like the Queen) act in such a manner? Perhaps there is something seemingly almost genetically predisposed in such unfortunately commonplace sorts of character flaws in this privileged set. The figurative stepping on the heads of one's underlings is to be seen ever and anon, as it were...The Queen (cousin of aforementioned Prescott Bush) is married to Phillip, who after all, along with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was an avowed admirer of Hitler's Nazi Party. Phillip, who so hates humanity that he wishes to be reincarnated as a deadly virus in order to cull the herd down.
So really, this morning's headline in The Independent is far from surprising to me, but rather in keeping with my experience and all of a piece, so to speak.
"The New England Complex Systems Institute is at the forefront of this field. We develop new mathematical approaches and apply them to systems of scientific and social importance, such as biodiversity, altruism, ethnic violence, the economic crisis, and the healthcare system.
"We use quantitative foundations from physics, mathematics, and computer science, and apply computer simulations and high dimensional data analysis, to characterize the patterns of behaviors in the world around us. Further, we can describe how complex systems arise through evolutionary processes, and how systems become capable of achieving their goals.
"Through its research, NECSI is expanding the boundaries of knowledge and reframing social problems as scientific ones. NECSI is an academic non-profit organization working with government agencies and other organizations to solve problems of science and society."
To see the truth about the functioning of terrorism it is necessary to see that the disruption of peace between nations is part and parcel of the strategic goals of an empire. It is in keeping with what was known as the "great game" of divide and conquer of the British East Indies company in their eastern empire.
Now we shall come directly to the case referenced in the title of this blog. It was deemed in the interests of the British empire to foment civil war in the United States after they failed to defeat us militarily in the War of 1812. Radical movements were ginned up back then called Young Europe leading to orchestrated pan European revolutions of 1848. John Mitchel was one of the journalistic leaders of the Young Ireland branch of terrorists, much admired by Poe's antagonist Thomas Carlyle. After his part in the 1848 failed uprising in Ireland landed him in penal colonies in Bermuda and Australia, he escaped (or was perhaps allowed to escape) and landed on American shores. And what part did this dangerous revolutionist play in pre-civil war America? Why, he supported the confederates plot to dismember the Union! This whole episode can only be understood if we see terrorism as the design of a would be "invisible hand" of Adam Smith repute for what it is, i.e. the working out of an imperial design to disrupt and destroy the anti colonialist mission of the United States. The pseudoscience of emergent chaos theory/systems analysis venerated at Harvard is not only not a means to combat terrorism. It is an instrumentality of its controllers.
Terrorist networks are complex. Now, a mathematical analysis of their properties published this month in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, suggests that the best way to fight them is to isolate the hubs within the network rather than trying to destroy the network as a whole through short-term battles.
According to Philip Vos Fellman a Lecturer at Suffolk University, Boston, and member of the New England Complex Systems Institute, USA, tools used to analyze complex systems can also be used to study terrorist networks with a view to undermining them.
Vos Fellman explains how terrorist networks are "typical of the structures encountered in the study of conflict, in that they possess multiple, irreducible levels of complexity and ambiguity."
"This complexity is compounded by the covert activities of terrorist networks where key elements may remain hidden for extended periods of time and the network itself is dynamic," adds Vos Fellman, an expert in mathematical modeling and strategy. The nature of a dynamic network is akin to the robust Internet but contrasts starkly with the structure of the armed forces or homeland security systems, which tend to be centralized and hierarchical.
Vos Fellman has used network analysis, agent-based simulation, and dynamic NK Boolean fitness landscapes to try and understand the complexities of terrorist networks. In particular, he has focused on how long-term operational and strategic planning might be undertaken so that tactics which appear to offer immediate impact are avoided if they cause little long-term damage to the terrorist network.
Vos Fellman's computer simulations of terrorist networks suggest that isolation rather than removal could be the key to successfully defeating them.
"The results which these simulation and dynamical systems modeling tools present suggest that quite literally sometimes less is more," says Vos Fellman, "and that operational objectives might be better directed at isolation rather than removal." He also points out that the simulations show that soft, or easy, targets of small cells within a network are, for the most part, not worth pursuing. Instead efforts should be focused on the hubs around which the network hinges. "If you are not focused on the top problems, then considerations of opportunity cost suggest that it may be better to do nothing rather than to waste valuable resources on exercises which are doomed to fail," he says.
Riemann wrote a refutation of Helmholtz' reductionist and mechanistic theory of hearing and the functioning of the ear in a short, unfinished paper entitled "The Mechanism of the Ear." What Riemann succinctly points out is that in scientific investigation we must not deviate from focusing on the problem of what hearing actually accomplishes. Thus the wild suppositions of Helmholtz that the mechanisms of the ear somehow break down primary tones into components that are processed by various structures and sent to the brain are rejected. Today we have ascertained that the uncovering the physiology of hearing must resolve the issue of amplification of sound on the order of 4 x 10 ³. Currently there is no known mechanism that can account for this gain. But per Riemann the method of asking the question of how this is accomplished is the right way toward its resolution. Therefore the following investigation and hypothesis is to be commended.
The new study will be published in the 17 September issue of the journalScience. Science is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society.
It remains unclear, however, how this relationship between introspection and the two different types of brain matter really works. These findings do not necessarily mean that individuals with greater volume of gray matter in that region of the brain have experienced—or will experience—more introspective thoughts than other people. But, they do establish a correlation between the structure of gray and white matter in the prefrontal cortex and the various levels of introspection that individuals may experience.
"Take the example of two patients with mental illness—one who is aware of their illness and one who is not," said one of the study's authors, Stephen Fleming from University College London. "The first person is likely to take their medication, but the second is less likely. If we understand self-awareness at the neurological level, then perhaps we can also adapt treatments and develop training strategies for these patients."
Fleming and the researchers designed the task to be difficult, so that participants were never completely sure if their answer was correct. They reasoned that participants who are good at introspection would be confident after making correct decisions about the patch, and less confident when they were incorrect about the patch. By adjusting the task, the researchers ensured all of the participants' decision-making abilities were on par with each others'—only the participants' knowledge of their own decision-making abilities differed.
"It's like that show, 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'" said Weil. "An introspective contestant will go with his or her final answer when they are quite sure of it, and perhaps phone a friend when they are unsure. But, a contestant who is less introspective would not be as effective at judging how likely their answer is to be correct."
These findings, however, could reflect the innate differences in our anatomy, or alternatively, the physical effects of experience and learning on the brain. The latter possibility raises the exciting prospect that there may be a way to "train" meta-cognitive abilities by exploiting the malleable nature of these regions of prefrontal cortex. But, more research is needed to explore the mental computations behind introspection—and then to link these computations to actual biological processes.
"We want to know why we are aware of some mental processes while others proceed in the absence of consciousness," said Fleming. "There may be different levels of consciousness, ranging from simply having an experience, to reflecting upon that experience. Introspection is on the higher end of this spectrum—by measuring this process and relating it to the brain we hope to gain insight into the biology of conscious thought."
There is no debate over solar energy technology that is anything other than blather. The simple fact is that humanity requires technologies that consume ever increasing energy flux densities in order to survive and progress. Solar is good for plants. We could use some more plants in the deserts by building water projects like the North American Water an Power Alliance plan engineered by Parsons way back when. But humanity requires power that will come from energy dense plasmas in the future. Some from power stations that colonists will build on the moon.
The turning point in the last British attempt to militarily defeat the United States was fought on this day in 1814. David Poe Sr. at 71 fought in that battle. He was the grandfather of Edgar Allan Poe. During the Revolutionary War, David Poe Sr. was the Assistant Quartermaster General of Baltimore. He lent $40,000 to the cause. The Continental Congress never repaid him. General LaFayette noted that Poe sent him $500 for the clothing and feeding of his troops. His wife Elizabeth helped sew clothes for the troops. LaFayette visited the grave of his friend Poe in Baltimore on October 23rd, 1824. This visit of LaFayette impelled the Congress to provide an annual pension for his impoverished widow Elizabeth of $240. In that same year, LaFayette visited Richmond, Virginia, where Edgar at age fourteen was a lieutenant in the honor guard of a volunteer company called the Junior Morgan Riflemen which was chosen to guard the general.
Currently, the mass media is deliberately provoking a typical British "intelligence" gang countergang, divide and conquer religious warfare. The watchwords talking heads like Chris Matthews use of toleration versus extremism is a fraudulent misdirection away from the underlying principle that the Abrahamic religions (and others) share. That principle is behind the Pilgrims' mission to build a City on the Hill. It is simply the Mosaic injunction that the oligarchy wants to kill: Be fruitful, multiply and take dominion over nature. This principle put into practice is the only basis upon which future generations can ever secure a lasting peace.
Lately, news has surfaced of a DARPA funded research upon ultrasound neurological modulation effects. The author of this research has a well developed hypothesis of possible wave mechanical effects on extracellular cerebrospinal fluid.
This evokes a further refinement of what I have lately termed the Leonardo project. The field of physical geometry initiated by Gauss known as conformal mapping theory comes into relevancy here. After all, the mind is a type of Riemannian multi-dimensional conformal mapping process that has a physical brain substrate which is provably fluidic both in the sense above as well as electromagnetically. The wonderful studies of solitonic disruptions in the aorta akin to hurricane formation surely correspond to epileptic seizures. The phenomenon of hippocampal neurogenesis was hypothesized by Riemann in what are referred to as his philosophical fragments. Importantly here is that Riemann explicitly states that ideation itself has a directed physical effect. Ideas generate what he termed geistesmassen or thought mass.
I believe that there are some further avenues that need to be explored here. One is the holographic or gestalt nature of the brain mind function. This directly brings into focus the Gauss mapping of extended topological curvature onto a unit sphere. That is a model for this gestalt principle. If that mapping process is then expanded to include a sort of multi-dimensional connectivity into relevant facets (i.e. art, science, metaphysics, et al.) of thought then what emerges is a conceptual model for noetic processes.
The second avenue is that the nature of shockwave-like hypothesis generation alters the medium of thought transmission via successive technological breakthroughs. The importance of Riemann's working through of hypersonic shockwave phenomena in his seminal paper from 1860 is relevant here. The kernel of that paper is that when the speed of sound or pressure goes beyond the bounds of transmissability for a medium the production of shockwave ensues. This continuously alters the curvature of transmission from positive to negative curvature. Likewise, there are classes of hypotheses regarding nature that alter the relations of physical production for humanity. There is a sort of revolution in the underpinning of the physical mode of production. Viewing that mode of production as a medium for transmission of technology, what has occurred is a type of shockwave has swept over societal relationships. Then that shockwave has been annealed by adopting the said technology and society has acquired a new basis for a medium of transmissability of technology. I believe that this foregoing principle must find its parallelism in the functioning brain probably via neurogenesis and plasticity.
Tsk, tsk. The dunce takes the prize once again. This time it is for effort at rewriting history. You see since he is one of the worshipers at the alter of Mammon, otherwise known as monetarists. He so tries to foist the lie that WWII was nothing more than a big instance of monetary stimulus. Anyone who deserves to be denominated as sane should clearly comprehend that the building of weapons is a pure waste, albeit sometimes a necessary evil. It was rather the transformation of the physical economy that was the correlative of that tragic war (also the case in the civil war) that propelled lasting benefit to our economy. The Manhattan project is salient in this regard.
But if you believe in some inherent power in the mere manipulation of money supply like Mr Krugman then you simply cannot understand any of this at all, because you reside in some weird Never Never Land where the gnomes run amok.
Is It Racist To Be Against Obama?
Not to be a contrarian, but when I look at Obama it’s not his race I see that I dislike so much, but rather his peculiar similarity to George W. Bush.
What Exactly Bounds the Universe?
Today a new controversy is swirling among the cosmological theorists. The fine structure constant actually varies continuously getting larger going from the northern to the southern universal hemispheres. Likewise, the polarization of electromagnetic propagation, or birefringence, has an axis in space.
However, looking here and there for anisotropies that characterize our universe brings to mind the principle of Poe's purloined letter. For the evidence that our universe undergoes continuous stages of structured development in ever more perfect states is staring us collectively in the face. The workings of the human mind to transform a given state of nature over time via successive scientific revolutions is proof of this. This is the bounding principle of the universe. This is what Dante Alighieri saw at the pinnacle of creation. It is how Edgar Alan Poe ended his lecture called Eureka. It is the solution to Plato's Parmenides paradox. It is Nicholas of Cusa's principle of the Non Other. It is the Necessary Existent of Ibn Sina. It is Leibniz' Monadology. It is LaRouche's Non Entropic principle.
The verdict is in. The undermining of cherished beliefs of the rulers that be is an offense to themselves. Socrates was guilty of such it is true. But there was no crime. Rather, there was a blessing and a promise to futurity.
The belief in magic--today known as information--is what lead Newton to infamously abjure hypothesis. The refrain from a pied piper of rock: "nothing's gonna change my world" is the low church way to put it. Information is being had as the victims of delusion huddle chained to their chairs in the movie theater... But what kind?
“We think we have finally figured out how cancer really works - and this reverses 85 years of dogma, upon which current cancer research and therapy is based,” says the study’s senior investigator, Michael P. Lisanti, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of Jefferson’s Department of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine.


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the latest word is that positive living translates as better living and extends the longevity of one’s precious life….
in order to achieve this, one is told they must eliminate and purge themselves of all toxicity and negativity be it in food, water, pollution in broadcast news reports or unpleasant things in general ….
but especially, purge the worries and stresses about things purge the mindless acts of some fellow humans the funny “things “that have we and the world spinning out of control right outside our front doors….
CHANGE! YOU MUST CHANGE, THEY SAY. YOU MUST CHANGE HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE AND WHO YOU KEEP IN IT IN ORDER TO LAST LONGER!
CHANGE! YOU MUST CHANGE IN ORDER TO BEAT THE ODDS THAT DEATH HAS ALREADY STACKED AGAINST YOU! PUSH PUSH PUSH ALL THE NEGATIVITY AWAY FROM YOU!
LIVE LIKE THIS AND YOU WILL SURVIVE!
we have giggled wildly while tossing wildflowers from the garden scattered petals from the perfect scarlet rose to create a thing of softness and beauty for love with them have skipped and stumbled, cried hysterical never-ending tears with them and, always, they waited for us too…….waited and worried for our safe passage back when we’ve been lost for awhile, a little too long in a dark wood or two….
the artists, the madmen and women the loyal who know us best our fellow humans, our chosen blood the creators we’ve known, those who have run the entire gamut ………..the brilliant terrified to cease or fail, they all have tasted on their lips the blood and the struggles day to day sometimes trying hard to simply remember to exhale the precious breath they didn’t realize they were holding…listening to doubt’s voice in their head, wondering aloud: is it over yet? is the Muse really gone? is this the day that i will……….stop?
soul-exchanged and heart filled, we have cared and been cared for…changed roles as the drainer and the drain-ee always have managed to survive, bond in tact strong, yet disconcertingly tenuous….
another cruel blow to compassion for others!
to fill the giants’ shoes?
the darkest tune was about ants marching…the tune was gloomy to me and all i heard were the evil monkey guards marching through the castle while the bad witch held dorothy and toto captive in the wizard of oz movie..
such a sensitive little girl!


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The 2019 Spring Storm exercise (Kevadtorm), a large-scale military practice exercise of the Estonian Defence Forces and NATO allied units, will be held in the two counties that together make up Estonia's Virumaa region. Some 10,000 military personnel are expected to participate.
The exercise, set to begin on 29 April, will take place in Lääne-Viru and Ida-Viru County, the Baltic News Service wrote on Monday. When exactly it will end has not yet been announced.
Up to 10,000 uniformed members of the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) as well as NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup deployed in Tapa and a variety of other allied units will participate. The exact number of allied troops and their militaries are still to be decided, military spokespeople told the BNS.
This makes the 2019 issue of the exercise bigger than it was last year. In 2018, some 9,000 troops participated.
Spring Storm typically brings together various units of the EDF as well as the Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit). Last year, beyond Estonian personnel and the battlegroup in Tapa, units of the militaries of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Georgia were involved as well.


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Argentine puppeteer, playwright and poet. Otto Freitas was a founding member of the touring puppet company (teatro itinerante), Trotacaminos, with Cesar López Ocón. He founded his own company in 1945, called La Nube (The Cloud), with which he travelled around Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. He participated in the establishment of a number of municipal puppet theatres.
His plays for the puppet theatre have become classics in theatres in Argentina and Latin America; they include Buenos Vecinos (Good Neighbours), Carlitos Pescador (Charlie the Fisherman), Pombero protector de los Pájaros (Pombero the Guardian of the Birds), El soldadito y el general (The Soldier and the General). They have been published in Siete obritas para títeres (Seven Small Puppet Plays) and Ocho obritas para teatro de títeres (Eight Small Puppet Plays). His essay on the glove puppet is also a classic for many puppeteers.


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Have you experienced a time in your life when you asked yourself what is the purpose and meaning of my life? Most of us have had that kind of time in our life’s journey. We can look at our nation’s day of Thanksgiving and see what caused the people to have such a day in their lives that brought them to risk living in this new land. The trip across the ocean in the type of boats they had was a high risk trip. The harsh New England winters with very poor shelter put their lives at high risk. Sickness and death would take a heavy toll on those that came to this new land. Many of those that came were in search of freedom to live life as they saw fit and to enjoy the freedom to worship God as they desired. They took many risks to be free from the power of evil rulers and kings. They took these risks to be able to worship God without the control of religious structures that cared more about structure than the kind of life God wanted for them. Oh, how we have forgotten the reasons people came to America. It is now being washed out of our nations’ history.
As the people in this new land built villages they built a church house at the heart and center of these villages so they could worship God. In these church houses the people would experience the nature of faith that would fill their lives with thanksgiving for the blessings of God on them in their new land. They would gather together and share the joy of the blessings of freedom to live and worship the God of life. These people discovered the true meaning of thanksgiving.
Life was hard and harsh on the people that came to this land that they called America. How did they overcome such long odds? It was the power found in their heart of faith in a holy God that gave them strength that would build our nation. This is such a contrast to what we see in our nation today. We have watched as people made the choice to empty the church house and push God to the outer edges of their lives. The same thing has happened in Europe where the great church houses are empty. We have become a nation where life has become cheap and we whine about how bad things have become. Now we have people that want government to be god and take care of us and to live again under evil rulers. Each special interest group that is based on race, gender and creed think we should accept whatever they do. When we forget the God we meet in Jesus we no longer know the experience of a heart of faith that produces a people with lives that have the joy of life. The joy that is missing in our lives is a heart filled with thanksgiving toward God.
The only way back for us is through forgiveness that changes our lives from the self-centered people to a people that that live God-centered lives. In the past few months the Biblical messages have been focused on the times of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. We see how God used these imperfect people to bring about a nation of people that worshiped the only true and real God. At some point in their lives each of these people would see the joy of knowing God’s love and forgiveness. When Abram responded to God’s call he left his country and moved to Canaan. He built an altar for a place to worship this living God. Isaac’s blessing of Jacob showed us the faith of Isaac. “May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations! May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.” Thousands of years later Abraham’s descendants still live in this land.
When Jacob had to leave home because he feared that his brother Esau would kill him for stealing his blessing, he began a journey that would bring him to faith in the one true God. He marked the starting point to faith the first night when he was alone and away from home, “Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place and I wasn’t even aware of it!” But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven.” What an awesome place to stand as a person before a living God.
Joseph had to endure many things to come to a person of faith. The spoiled child, sold into slavery by his brothers, was put in prison because of a lie told by Potiphar’s wife. He was made a ruler in Egypt that he might be used by God to save his people from the famine. He was faced with the test of what he would do with the brothers that sold him into slavery. After all of those years what would you have done with the brothers that had sold you into slavery?
Forgiveness changed the life of Joseph; in fact it changed all the lives of people in the family of Jacob. It could bring the joy of thanksgiving in the hearts and lives of a broken divided family. It would bring again a real thanksgiving in America if we would seek God’s forgiveness for our sin and evil living that has brought pain, brokenness and hurt in our nation’s life. Real thanksgiving is about our faith in God’s gift of life. Thanksgiving is more than football, pumpkin pie and turkey. Thanksgiving is about our worshiping the one true God of our salvation through faith in his forgiveness. Let God’s forgiveness turn your heart toward God in Thanksgiving for his gift of life. Then we can experience a true thanksgiving.


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This Sony Vaio all in one pc computer is kinda neat. It reminds me of Imac if anything. It has a core duo processor, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive and is running windows vista operating system.
It was booting up ok, everything seemed to be fine at first, however after starting computer would be very very slow – a very common problem many computers have.
So windows if not taken care of properly, will get clogged up, overloaded, over crowded and work very slowly giving you constant problems along the way. Therefore given the fact that many people dont’ know how or simply don’t keep their windows cleaned up gives me quite an indication of why it could be slow.
If a person says, last time windows was installed fresh is 2 years and its slow. I pretty much know why that is. its simple.
2. is related to number 1. and is the fact that different software programs you install on your pc. They also install what I call “little boogers” – software update programs that start every time your computer boots up, when you turn it on. they are usually visible in the right hand bottom corner of the screen next to the clock. Thus, if you have many of the little icons there everytime your pc is on. It means many of those little programs are running in the background, draining your RAM memory. so next thing is to go and turn them off. you can do it either through regedit, or msconfig commands in windows. how to do that I will explain next time in a separate post.
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2019 rolled in with some exciting news from the 14th Annual Davey Awards. Source received three silver awards at this international creative competition. The Davey focuses exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small agencies worldwide.
Source was honored in the following categories and is pleased to share this recognition with our amazing client partners.
Source is genuinely honored and proud to be recognized for this creative work. We’re happy that our ideas inspire action everyday. And sometimes a little recognition too.