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I've got a bad left knee. I've got problems with both my ankles and my left foot. For style purposes it's capped off with shoulders that have been known to pop out of their sockets at their own convenience.
All of these things made me fairly happy about 4 weeks ago.
Weird? Yeah, sure. The reason is though that yesterday (Sat 14th May) Dave Coles walked from London to Brighton in a day to raise funds for Dave Squared. He suggested I join him, which was greeted with the response: "Ah, Dave, I'd love to, really I would. But my foots not going to hold up walking just under 50 miles in one day, you'll have to find someone else I'm afraid."
50 miles in one day. Somehow, I didn't feel I was missing out. Dave managed to find a companion (Matt Ridley) to complete the walk with him, and their challenge is an example of the kind of fundraising we've been looking into since we gained our registered charity status. We have several people who have volunteered to raise money for us which will provide a valuable source of income to help support our projects going forward. We've had somebody do a bungee jump, somebody will be completing the Great South Run and even a brave Triathlon entrant.
The bungee jump I could handle, probably even enjoy. But a long distance run, triathlon or any other kind of long distance/endurance event will lead to me playing my injury based 'Get out of Jail Free' card.
The funds from the bungee jump (undertaken by former volunteer Leila Malone) will be used to buy and install a water tank for a local children's home in Ho. Water supply is intermittent and can be cut off at any time leaving the children and staff with a real need for clean water for drinking and washing. Without fundraising this kind of item would be much more difficult for us to finance.
Like Leila our fundraisers so far have mostly been former volunteers. This offers a nice way for people to continue to make a contribution even though they cannot spend more time in Ghana due to commitments back home like jobs and family. However, we do also have people get involved who have not worked with us before.
For our fundraising we work with Charity Giving, a website run by registered charity the Dove Trust. Charity Giving is in the mould of the well used/publicised Just Giving Website. However, the website takes just 3-4% of any money claimed on the Gift Aid Scheme, a much reduced payment than is required by other similar systems. If it is not a gift aid donation then no percentage is taken at all. This kind of setup is perfect for a small charity like us who need to make the absolute most of the donations we receive.
If you've read this and want to get involved with helping to fundraise for us then send us an email (info-AT-davesquared-DOT-org) and we can have a chat about how we can work together.
Next Monday I leave for Ghana and will be sending my next post in the next few weeks as we start to set out our plans for the summer. In the meantime though, if anyone has any ideas on activities with high fundraising potential/low physical impact, feel free to let me know…
Dave Thorp
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Here's some of our local Israeli NAR Leaders Avi Mizrachi and Apostle Asher Intrater at the recent MEHR 2020 "Colours of Hope" Conference which took place in Germany 03-06 January.
But what of the other participants at this conference? Who else was there?
Here's some of them making their entrance.
A conference highlight. "Adoration of the Host": Catholics believe that the bread and wine literally become the actual physical body and blood of Christ, and therefore they worship and adore them. The Catholic Mass is also a ritual re-sacrificing of Christ. I hardly need to say that the whole thing is not merely unbiblical, but idolatrous and blasphemous, undercutting the whole basis of the Christ's one and for all time completed work on the Cross (Heb. 9:25-28; 10:10-12; 1Pet. 3:`8); and yet Asher Intrater and Avi Mizrahi were participants in this conference.
This looks a bit like a Bethel-style "fire tunnel".
Israeli NARpostle Asher Intrater, advertised here as a "mastermind".
Sometimes a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. What is not so well known, both here in Israel and abroad, is how deeply the Israeli NAR is involved in the push towards ecumenical union, particularly through an organisation called Towards Jerusalem Council Two (TJCII or TJC2).
Dan Juster senior apostle over Asher Intrater in the Tikkun network has been dialoguing with the senior Vatican figures and even the Pope himself for years. Consequently, we should not be surprised to find apostle Asher Intrater and Avi Mizrahi (who is on the leadership board of TJC2) at this blasphemous ecumenical freak show.
However, there's more.
This is Johannes Hartl, the main speaker at the event. He's the founder of the IHOP-Augsburg. Here's some pertinent facts from his bio:
"A doctor of catholic theology and has earned his degrees in german language and literature studies, as well as philosophy. In 2005 together with his wife he founded the House of Prayer Augsburg. Since 2011 the House of Prayer has not ceased praying and worshipping God by day and night, 24/7. The events of the House of Prayer Augsburg are visited by the thousands. He is also the author of numerous books and an internationally beloved speaker at conferences."
You can find the Augsburg House of Prayer listed here at IHOP-KC's international listing in Kansas City. Tikkun and its false apostles have been linked with Mike Bickle and IHOP for decades now. They are covenantally related and part of Bickle's IHOP Israel Mandate. You will also find Avi Mizrahi and Dugit listed there as well.
Mike Bickle himself of course, representing IHOP, has visited and paid homage to the Pope:
Apostle Asher's other long-time friend Lou Engle has done much the same. He hasn't had a personal audience with the Pope himself yet, but he has prostrated himself at the feet of the Pope's representative and slobbered all over his shoes.
Seeing the ecumenical and inter-faith direction that Tikkun and its false apostles and their followers are going; -should bible-faithful believers then, have anything to do with Tikkun, its apostles, adherents and associates? The biblical answer is a clear and resounding NO! Associating with them, offering them Christian fellowship, helping acknowledging or endorsing them, their ministries or followers or associates, makes us partakers with them in their evil deeds (2Jn. 7-11). In short it is grievous sin and should be avoided.
Julia Pomeroy
7/1/2020 00:54:46
Roman Catholics believe that when they 'eat' the body of Christ they are not doing it in remembrance of Him and His return, they truly believe they are eating the body oc Christ hence you are not permitted to bite the wafer just let it melt in your mouth. You are not allowed the wine because you might spill it and in doing so you are spilling the actual body of Jesus, this is why we Protestants have an empty cross whereas they have the crucifix because He is still on the cross dying. I find that horrifying!
NARWatch Israel
15/1/2020 04:33:08
Indeed. The Mass the cannibalistic, anti-scriptural, blasphemous and idolatrous, there is no getting around it.
Daniel Federle
8/1/2020 12:12:09
NARWatch Israel
15/1/2020 04:31:38
Thank you Daniel for this information. It thoroughly confirms our findings.
Heather E.Lennox
9/1/2020 13:20:47
Most disturbing! I have a deep sense of sadness I do not believe they are worshipping our one and only true and living G- Ddeception in the extreme.
NARWatch Israel
15/1/2020 04:30:05
On the whole we would agree with this assessment. NAR "theology" (for want of a better word) presents a portrait of God that is so at odds with that of the Bible that we would say with Paul that it is "another jesus, another spirit and another gospel" (see 2Cor. 11:4) they are proclaiming, and if they are not worshipping the Christ of Scripture then they are essentially worshippping an idol.
NARWatch Israel
21/1/2020 16:46:06
Funny you should say that. A friend of ours recently said the same thing, only in rather starker terms.
'grandma' Jeanne
14/1/2020 22:48:47
Whew!! I only thought the NAR was in the USA...this was eye opening for me.
NarWatch Israel
15/1/2020 04:25:06
Shalom Jean, Yes, the NAR is everywhere I am afraid. They have a very significant presence indeed here in Israel and have done tremendous damage to the cause of Christ with their alternative gospel. The Israeli NAR senior figures are very well connected worldwide and they have bases in many nations now too.
18/1/2020 08:02:41
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20/1/2020 15:15:29
This makes me physically ill. How the pope, definitely an antichrist, can fool the hundreds of millions of Catholics the world over is beyond me. They worship a different Jesus. May God open the eyes of everyday Catholics and bring them to the real Jesus Christ!
Sandra Griffiths
20/1/2020 16:08:10
The apostate church is truly worldwide now, they have been growing their false teachings for several years, so many people I know have had to come out of the denominatonal churches. I rely on teachings such as Moriel, because I can trust Jacob to speak the truth.
20/1/2020 16:15:07
Can any of you in Germany give me any information on Hrvoje Sirovina? Have concerns about him but you would know better,
20/1/2020 21:05:44
Hi, we asked a contact of ours who used to be in NAR and this is the reply:
2/2/2020 17:55:26
Is David Lazarus from Immanuel House congregation in Tel Aviv involved? He was into the so called Toronto Blessing in the 1990's. I think he's another wolf in sheeps clothing
NARWatch Israel
5/2/2020 10:38:55
Let us put it this way, we can't say that he is NOT involved or connected in some way. We are rather concerned about a recent article written by David in Israel Today, which seems to be not only ill-informed and lacking in substance, but does not at all represent the seriousness of the matter at all. David's article appears to present the NAR as a harmless church-planting movement, and the whole national controversy (which is burning at the most senior level) as effectively something instigated by fundamentalist cranks. He appears to have no idea at all of the way the NAR and its teachings affect foundational Christian doctrine. Deeply disturbing.
6/2/2020 04:26:06
The German website of the prayer house in Augsburg states in Hartl's bio that he was/is part of the "charismatic renewal in catholicism". It also states that he is into contemplative prayer, visited monasteries in Uganda and South Korea (Christian or not, doesn't say) and is into "Carmel mysticism", whatever that means.
Hannah Weiss
16/2/2020 20:34:44
Mike Bickle looks thrilled to stand with Pope Francis -- clearly doesn't know what the Rome papa thinks of his "Israel Mandate".
NARWatch Israel
20/2/2020 08:54:02
We would view the Ecumenical Movement as rather like the Borg from Star Trek TNG. It is heavily invested in by Rome who is the driving force behind it. Ultimately it will assimilate all those who remain in it and they will end up back in Rome. You only have to look at who is making all the concessions and who is changing their position on the essential doctrines which divide between biblical Christianity and Rome's heresies to see where things are going.
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text: Saturday was a really gorgeous winter's day in New York (it felt like a South African winter day) and since I have a friend staying with me, we headed out for an afternoon of shooting…starting out at Union Sq, making our way down through then East Village, then down to Chinatown, over the Brooklyn Bridge and then to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole Chinatown/Little Italy area downtown sometimes seems surreal – you walk down one street (Mott) and you feel like you're in Asia; then step one street over to Mulberry and you're surrounded by Italian restaurants. Anyway while we were there was a parade going on – with drummers, Santas, snowmen – and Chinese dragons. It was a lot of fun to watch especially since we had no idea it was going to be happening.


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Advanced Analysis, Notes 13: Banach spaces (convex hulls and the Krein–Milman theorem)
by Orr Shalit
It would be strange to disappear for a week without explanations. This blog was not working for the past week because of the situation in Israel. The dedication in the beginning of the previous post had something to do with this, too. We are now back to work, with the modest hope that things will remain quiet until the end of the semester. We begin our last chapter in basic functional analysis, convexity and the Krein–Milman theorem.
1. Closed convex sets and convex hulls
Let be a Banach space. Throughout this post we will consider either with its norm topology or with a weak topology where separates the points of .
Definition 1: Let be a set. The convex hull of , denoted , is the smallest convex set containing . The closed convex hull of , denoted , is the smallest closed convex set containing .
Since arbitrary intersections of convex sets are convex, one sees that the convex hull of a set exists simply by taking the intersection of all convex sets containing . Similar remarks hold for the closed convex hull.
Exercise A: Let . Then
Lemma 2: Let be convex and let be a subspace that separates points. Then and are convex.
Proof: One can give a proof with nets that works in both strong and weak topologies. I prefer to give a proof using neighborhoods just to get a chance to use this language a bit.
Let and . Put . Let be a basic neighborhood of . We must show that . Now because are in the closure of , then there are points and which are in . Put . Then , and also for all , so . Thus for any such , so .
Corollary 3: .
Proof: Lemma 2 tells us that the right hand side is convex and closed, so it must contain the left hand side. On the other hand is contained in the closed , so the closure must also be contained.
Definition 4: Let be convex. A non-empty set is said to be a face of if is convex and if
If , and if is a face of , then is said to be an extreme point of . The set of extreme points of is denoted .
- Consider the extreme points and faces of the closed and open unit balls in w.r.t the norms, . We see here that , and this is what happens in general.
- Let . Then . If , let be such that . Then one easily constructs supported on and supported on such that .
Exercise B: The intersection of faces is again a face (so long as it is non–empty). If we have convex sets , then if is a face of and is a face of , then is a face of . In particular, .
Lemma 5: Let be convex and a face. Suppose that , where and are non-negative and sum to . Then .
Proof: Suppose . If then all other s are zero, so . Otherwise put . is in . Define . Then and . Thus , from the definition of face.
Lemma 6: Let be a non-empty, compact convex subset of . Let be a continuous (w.r.t the topology at hand) functional and define . Then the set is a compact face in .
Proof: is continuous on a compact set, so attains it maximum, so . is a closed subset of a compact Hausdorff space, so is compact. To see that is a face, first note that is convex. If , and , then
while and . It follows that , and .
2. The Krein–Milman theorem
Theorem 7 (Krein–Milman theorem): Let be a Banach space with either the normed topology or the –topology, where is a subspace of that separates points. Let be compact and convex (and assume it is non-empty, to avoid worrying about the silly situation that it is). Then .
Remark: In particular, the result implies that is not empty. Reconsidering Example 2 above, we see that the unit ball of is not compact with respect to any weak topology, and in particular it is not closed with respect to the weak topology. This also implies that is not the dual of any Banach space, since otherwise the closed unit ball would be weak* compact by Alaoglu's theorem.
Proof: The first step is to show that is not empty. Let be the family consisting of all compact faces of . is not empty because . Order by inclusion. An application of Zorn's lemma (the intersection of a totally ordered chain in is a non–empty face) shows that has a minimal element, which we shall denote as . We shall show that is a singleton, and hence that .
Assume for contradiction that there are two distinct elements in . Then there is a functional , continuous w.r.t. the relevant topology, such that
Now let , and define as in Lemma 6. The lemma then implies that is a compact face of , therefore it is a compact face of . But (*) implies that , which contradicts the minimality of . Therefore, , and .
We shall now prove that . Assume (again, for the sake of obtaining a contradiction) that there is some which is not in . By the Hahn–Banach Theorem (more precisely, Theorem 8 in Notes 11) there is a continuous functional and some such that
for all . Denote and . By Lemma 6, is a compact face of . By the first half of the proof, has an extreme point . But then is an extreme point of , so by (*) we have that . On the other hand, , so this is a contradiction. It follows that , as required.
3. Minimality of Ext(C)
Theorem 8 (Milman's Theorem): Let be a non–empty, compact and convex subset of . If is a closed set such that , then .
Proof: Let . Let be a basic open neighborhood of . We will be done once we show that . Indeed, if for any basic neighborhood of , then .
For all , denote . Then the open sets cover , and since is compact there are such that . Denote and .
We claim that is compact. We leave this as an exercise.
We have that . Whence . In particular, , so , where and for all , and . Since is an extreme point there is some such that . Thus
for . It follows that , so , and the proof is complete.


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Crocs clogs have become well-nigh ubiquitous as a sort of un-fashion statement: lightweight, comfortable, slip-on, colorful fun. But of course every brand has to expand these days, and Crocs is no different. They're trying out a new line of retro-styled sneakers with their "7-Ounce Bounce" technology, and sent me a pair to review.
I like the look of the Bowen. Feels like a cross between an All-Star and a Hush-Puppy (both reasonably geeky footwear of yore). But what's most startling about these shoes is how light they are. Most of the week, I wear either casual dress shoes, or boots, that weigh in the 1-2 pound range. These Crocs weigh more like half a pound. The sole material is pretty much the same as goes into the clogs, so the springy, squishy feel you may already be familiar with is there. When you walk in them, it can be hard to remember you have shoes on. It feels more like walking on one of those pads they sell for people who need to stand all day.
My biggest caveat with these shoes is that they feel so lightweight that there's a sense they may not be durable. Obviously time will tell, but I'd say buy these for casual comfort, not running (or even walking) a half-marathon. On the other hand, go take a look at the Crocs Facebook page, and you'll see a nifty video they shot of a famous parkour running doing his stuff in some of the sneakers. So, they work for that!
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The owner of a posh Manhattan restaurant yesterday was busted for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend, police said.
Giuseppe Tuosto, 46, who co-owns trendy Via Dei Mille on West Broadway, turned himself in to face charges after the alleged attack in the woman's Horatio Street apartment July 14, sources said.
The woman, 32, said that she had run into her restaurateur ex while out the night before and that the pair exchanged hellos.
She said she eventually went back to her pad with a male friend of Tuosto's, and the pair fell asleep on the couch. The next thing she knew, Tuosto had gotten into her apartment and "started pounding on me and kicking me," the woman said.


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Jack Kerouac's rambling, poetic, salacious and spiritual semi-autobiographic opus has always been on the short list of great American novels that have been generally considered to be "unfilmable." It took a half-century, but someone has finally attempted to capture all the passion, soul and madness that has made On the Road essential reading for generations of budding young rebels. And it is a noble try; one that is sprinkled with gorgeous imagery, engaging performances and a decent helping of the sort of soul-deadening boredom that can only be understood while driving through the flat, expansive nothingness of Nebraska.
It would take a scholar to unwind the jumbled strands of the presumed "plot," which is essentially just a series of aimless wanderings and misadventures across the breadth and depth of America, all bound together by the gradual erosion of one intense friendship.
Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a stand-in for Kerouac, is a talented, restless young writer, inexorably drawn to the reckless, unaccountable and deeply charismatic hustler Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) who is modeled after the self destructive poet Neal Cassady. Together, and sometimes separately, they set out to explore both the inner and outer worlds; both eager to push the edges of all the social, racial and sexual boundaries of the time. Dean want to learn to be a better writer, and Sal wants to learn how to live totally free and unencumbered like his roguish pal. The duo wanders the nation, looking for love, sex and cheap thrills of a jittery post-war world. These guys are hungry for words, drinks and most of all experience on the other side of the fence, as they groove to the jazzy Ella Fitzgerald and dig the absurdist "vout" rhyming of frenetic blues man Slim Gillard. Ultimately Sal and Dean's relationship is toxic, but it takes mountains of pills, oceans of booze and untold thousands of highway miles traveled to discover the rot at the center of their partnership.
Along the way they encounter a variety of friends, rivals and lovers, most of them thinly disguised analogues of Kerouac's real life Beat Generation contemporaries, like Joan Vollmer (Amy Adams), Helen Hinkle (Elizabeth Moss) and, of course, the junkie icon, William S. Burroughs (Viggo Moretnsen). The Allen Ginsberg clone Carlo Marx (Tom Sturridge) has a brief, doomed romantic fling with Moriarty, and prophetically claims that he probably only has one great poem inside himself. While Sal keeps seeking his place in the cosmos and history, back down on Earth, Dean can't decide on a muse, repeatedly bouncing between towns and his two wives Camille (Kirsten Dunst) and Marylou (Kristen Stewart). As the insatiable, thrill-addicted Marylou, Stewart finally finds an outlet for her brand of distracted, curious sensuality. For the sleepy eyed actress often accused of daydreaming her way through Hollywood, she is fiercely alive as the sexy, conflicted and manipulative teen bride.
Whatever fire the leads stoke is needed to light the way through the story's many cold, wistful dead ends, which are the inevitable byproducts of adapting such inward-looking fiction. Brazilian director Walter Salles excels at romanticizing the lure of travel, and he captures the faded, slightly rusted, lost mid-century world with much of the same vividness he displayed in 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries. He is less successful in wrangling a coherent narrative out of all this soulful searching, but that is likely as much a lost cause as the tragically hedonistic "Holy Goof" that is Dean. The movie, like its untamable, energetic anti-hero, would rather just burn out than ever settle down.


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First they give the Looney Tunes an extreme makeover as Loonatics, now they are preparing a sex change for Tweety!The latest issue of LICENSE magazine has this article touting Warner Bros. current merchandising push toward women – children and adults.
I tawt I taw…a new Tweety. Warner Bros. Consumer Products has given Tweety a new twang–lengthened eyelashes, a brightened beak, and a floral hair accessory.According to Jordan Sollitto, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Warner Bros. Consumer Products, "Tweety is not a media-dependent property. Tweety has equity among girls ages 4 to 8 and women in their 20s and 30s. Tweety has had continuous performance at the cash register, transcending media exposure. When we spoke with girls and women about Tweety, they weren't as interested in talking about media or a movie around Tweety. They relate to the character as it relates to merchandise. Tweety's cuteness, according to our research, was the driving characteristic," he explains.
Nowhere in the carefully worded article is Tweety refered to as a "he" or a "she" (for the record, Tweety is a male character). A selection of the new female Tweety fashions can be found here. I'm particularly fond of the itty-bitty Tweety String Bikini myself. But how far are they going to go with this?


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text: 'The Curse of Frankenstein' was Hammer film productions' first foray into Gothic horror in 1957. With its huge success came a revival of this brand of horror that was first made commercially successful from the 1930s to the 1950s, by Hollywood studio Universal. British production company Hammer based much of their output on the iconic screen monsters made famous by the American studio, but they would make gorier affairs for shock value. They resurrected Dracula a year later in 1958's 'The Horror of Dracula', continued with 1959's 'The Mummy', and 1962's 'The Phantom of the Opera'. The Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Mummy franchises would spawn many sequels.


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Making a Service Catalog Work: 3 Do's and Don'ts
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A couple of years ago many organizations were taking their first steps into the world of SOA. Their main concern was which ESB to choose. After deciding whether to use the ESB from Tibco, Cordys, IBM, Oracle, or Microsoft, they thought the hard part was over. They started building web service like crazy and ended up with JABOWS (Just A Bunch Of Web Services) instead of a decent SOA. At the moment, I'm getting a lot of questions from clients regarding service identification and service specification (and SOA governance, but this will be topic of another blog post). Service identification is the process of determining which services the organizations actually needs. A while ago two colleagues and I wrote an article about ten frequently used approaches (http://www.soamag.com/I13/1207-1.asp). You're welcome to comment if you see any approaches we did not describe. Of course, an organization cannot implement all the candidate services at the same time, nor does it need to. It starts out with the services having the highest priority and gradually builds its service portfolio. Now, as the portfolio grows, it is hard to keep track of the functionality of all these services. The service catalog becomes an important artifact for the service consumers to discover services and determine whether or not they fit their requirements. Even if you don't 'believe' in the concept of reuse: consumers need a precise and unambiguous service specification to be able to use the service. If provider and consumer have different expectations of the behavior of a service, you're bound to get problems. Let's have a look at three do's and don'ts for the service catalog.
1) Appoint a service catalog manager
Though the service provider is responsible for specifying his service, we also need a service catalog manager. This person checks whether the quality of the service specifications meets the standards. He keeps the catalog up and running. And, most importantly, he leads the processes of accepting a new service, changing the life cycle status of a service, versioning services, and killing services. No chance for JABOWS with a service catalog manager around!
2) Make a canonical data model
It is important for services to speak the same language. Usually the ESB is used for mapping data from a native application format to the canonical data model. The canonical data model differs from the so-called corporate data model. The corporate data model describes all data within the enterprise. The canonical data model only describes data to be exchanged by services. Do not only pay attention to specifying the syntax of the data, but also to the semantics. We would not want another space shuttle to crash because of a simple inch/centimeters mix-up.
3) Specify who, what, and how
Essentially thee aspects are important in a service specification: the who, what, and how. We want to know who offers the service; do we trust this person and how can we contact him if needed? We want to know what the service does, e.g. input, output, preconditions, postconditions, description of behavior. Also, the non-functional behavior (e.g. availability, security etc) belongs to this `what' part. Finally, we are interested in how we can access the service. We need to know the location of a service (usually a logical location) and what protocols to use. Sometimes we are also interested in `how much', i.e. what do we need to pay to use the service.
1) Assume WSDL is enough
Don't think the WSDL is enough for the consumer of the service to know what the service does. It just isn't. Additionally, the WSDL is only suitable for one type of stakeholder: the software engineer.
2) Assume the UDDI standard is enough
The UDDI standard work fine for dealing with a number of technical aspects and it gives information about who offers the service and how to access the service. However, it lacks proper means to describe the `what' part. Most organizations use commercial service registries with add-ons on the UDDI standards, or additional Word or Excel templates.
3) Assume providers will fill the catalog if they are not rewarded
Building as well as specifying services takes time, money, and effort. It is important to realize that service providers will only make services for service consumers if they are somehow rewarded. Both parties should have costs and benefits. A provider will not cooperate if there are only costs involved for him.
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Bayer Announces Winner of "Breathless Moments" Photo Contest to Raise CTEPH Awareness
Patricia Middings of Chester, N.J., is the winner of "Breathless Moments," a photo contest launched by Bayer in order to raise awareness for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). The idea of the challenge was to portray inspirational moments, events or sights that leave someone breathless.
Contest judges Trace Cluck, a CTEPH patient, and his wife Stephanie Cluck selected the photo taken by Patricia Middings depicting a beach sunset. "I was honored to win Bayer's Breathless Moments contest," stated Ms. Middings in a press release. "I am a nurse, and knowing that my photo is helping to raise awareness about CTEPH is very gratifying."
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The Breathless Moments contest was launched by Bayer to call attention to CTEPH, a rare type of pulmonary hypertension (PH) that is caused by the development of pulmonary embolism, also known as blood clots in the lungs. The competition, which was launched last November, was promoted through public relations and social media, and the photos were evaluated according to both their visual appeal and the capacity to depict an actual breathtaking moment.
In order to participate, the photographers had to visit the website www.cteph.com, which is an educational site to raise awareness about the disease, as well as complete a quiz on the diagnosis, symptoms and therapies associated with CTEPH. The disease is a life-threatening cardiopulmonary condition for which there is currently no cure, while treatment options include pulmonary thromboendartorectomy, a potentially curative surgery.
"It is estimated that 500 to 2,500 patients develop CTEPH every year in the U.S., many of whom go undiagnosed, which is particularly troubling as a surgical option has the potential to cure some CTEPH cases," explained the vice president and head of U.S. Medical Affairs at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Dario Mirski, MD. "Bayer is proud to be working to raise awareness about CTEPH, in the hope that increased education will lead to better outcomes for patients."
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"We are very pleased to see Bayer's commitment to CTEPH patients and their work to raise awareness about the disease," added the president and CEO of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, Silver Spring, Md, Rino Aldrighetti. "Increased awareness is important because CTEPH is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, causing patients to lose valuable treatment time, which can lead to a poor prognosis."


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A quick comparison between Design Thinking Principles and Apple reveals…
|Design Thinking
|Fail early and often
|…but just internally.
|Leave titles at the door
|Do not come in if you do not contribute to the meeting.
|There are no good ideas
|Either it sucks or it is insanely great.
|Do! Don't talk.
|Build on ideas of others
|Yes, but turn them into something insanely great.
|The quantity is it.
|The quality is it.
|Avoid criticism.
|"This is shit"
|Stay focussed.
|Stay hungry.
|Dare to be wild!
|Stay foolish.
|Think human centered.
|Think details oriented.
|Be visual.
|Let's have Fun.
|Never take the same elevator with Steve. You do not have a job anymore.
q.e.d. Apple does not do Design Thinking. Nonetheless, Apple products are still best of breed.
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This is how it was. Eda and El coupled in the darkness, but he did not find favor with her. Then she gave birth to the land, and the outrush of her waters which accompanied that birth was the sea. The land was shapeless, clay and still, until Eda took it in her hands. One at a time, she molded the runes of her secret name, and El's too did she fashion. She spelled out the god name with the God's Runes, setting them in careful order in the ocean. And all this El watched.
But when he would have taken up clay of his own to fashion his own runes, Eda would not give any over to him. "You gave me but a rush of fluid from your body as seed to make all this. The flesh of it came from me. So take back only what was yours to start with, and be content with it."
El was little content with that. So he made for himself men, and gave them ships and put them on the sea's face. Laughing to himself, he said, "There are too many for her to watch them all. Soon they will walk on her land and shape it to my liking, so it spells my name instead of hers."
But Eda had already thought before him. And when El's men came to land, they found Eda's women, already walking on it and ordering the growing of fruit and grain and the proliferation of the cattle. And the women would not suffer the men to shape the lands, nor even to abide on them for long.
Instead, the women said to the men, "We will let you give us the brine of your loins, with which we will shape flesh to follow ours. But never will the land that Eda bore belong to your sons, but only to our daughters."
Fool's Fate – The Tawny Man trilogy, Robin Hobbs
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Ok. I've been MIA for how long – two years? I can't even stand to go back and see when my last post was written. Such a shame.
I don't recognize this WordPress anymore haha! So much cooler than the one I started with that I realized that this blog is not connected to its FB page anymore (why did I created a dedicated FB page is still a mystery to me).
Is this a bad thing? I erased my FB account (personal) and my twitter account. I plunged in an underworld of darkness (for some people). Disconnected. Fallen out of radar. Forgotten. (?)
Who cares.
Honestly, is always the same old broken record: if you care about me, you'll find the way to reach me out, if not means I am not important to you.
Everyone gets this but no one has the guts to try it for real.
Well peeps let me tell that it's true. People forget about you if you are not on their homepage: the don't "like" you anymore (and perhaps they don't actually like you anymore!), the don't envy your holiday pics/eschatological quotes/pinterest-recycled witty vision of the world anymore.
You are free.
For some it might be scary, for me was consequential.
All at once I decided to quit my job, quit my adopted Country, home and go.
My boyfriend was sucked in this frenzy and he still doesn't regret it and still is at my side – which is prodigious and rare and precious.
It was the right thing to do anyway and I soon realized how unique this experience was; I didn't want to flatten and cheapen it by spattering it online, retouching pictures, cool ashtags, or simply tell people what I was doing and how I was feeling. It was mine, it was ours and the fellow travelers we met will remember us and the time we shared together.
Because of this, as of now only few are privy to that time and have listened to our stories, not sure why, I never asked and is better off this way.
So a new era is started and a lot has changed, but this blog has always followed me in one way or another, hence I picked it up again.
This time in English as my written Italian has become rusty to the point of genuine shame!
I wanted to restart with a quote from a series of books I am reading since a while (see the above italic passage).
I feel we are on the same page on this matter, the author and I.
You might infer I am a harsh feminist, which I am not, but you can get a glimpse of what I think of patriarchy (a hint: absolute bullshit is the answer).
Contact me if you want to discuss the wonderful Robin Hobb's books as I have just approached the Fool's Fate after having read the first trilogy (The Farseer's Trilogy).
Ad maiora!
(Some things never change, aye!)


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ROSIE, OH was the winner of BEST FILM at the May 2018 FEEDBACK Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?
Andy Koeger: My co-creator Apple Xenos originally had the idea for the film. I was so drawn to her idea that I was inspired to create it with her as my Senior Thesis Film at SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design. We became obsessed with creating a story that took place all in one singular moment in a person's life.
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Today, November 15 has been chosen as the National Philanthropy Day to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy has made to our lives and our communities. Because of the work of caring individuals, nonprofits and philanthropic organizations, we are able to make a difference. Whether we choose to help those who are less fortunate by providing food, shelter and clothing; or we fight to protect endangered species; or choose to become more aware of our impact on the environment and work to lighten our footprint on the planet….these and various other charitable initiatives work together to make the world a better place.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an experienced, flexible, and user-oriented individual for the position of Music Cataloging Librarian. This position directly supervises 1.0 FTE Music Cataloging Assistant and graduate assistants, and reports to the head of the Special Formats & Metadata Section of the Resource Description & Management Department (RDM).
RDM actively supports the teaching and research mission of the UNC-Chapel Hill University Libraries through metadata creation, analysis, and enrichment. The Music Cataloging Librarian manages the music cataloging unit within the Special Formats & Metadata Section, working closely with the Music Library and other technical services departments, providing original and complex copy cataloging of scores and sound recordings in multiple formats, managing other technical service processes for Music Library materials, participating in the NACO Music Project and BIBCO Music Funnel, and participating in special cataloging and catalog management projects as needed. This position's supervisory responsibilities include hiring, training, and evaluating staff and possibly graduate students. The Music Cataloging Librarian will be expected to remain current with constantly evolving music cataloging rules, interpretations, and practices, and to participate in appropriate professional development, continuing education, and professional service.
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· ALA-accredited master's degree in library or information science or related advanced degree.
· Undergraduate degree in music or related degree.
· Music cataloging experience.
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Though the Chefman Dynamic Blending System struggled to blend ice cubes and kale, and curdled ice cream for milkshakes, it earned top ease-of-use scores—it comes with a thorough manual and is easy to assemble, clean, and operate. Plus, it comes stacked with a plastic 32-ounce blending pitcher, a 12-ounce tumbler, two 24-ounce tumblers, an emulsifying blade, a grinding blend and a variety of travel lids for taking drinks on the go. The intuitive push-button controls include settings for low, medium, high and pulse. This product is recommended if you'd like a blender with lots of flexibility that's easy to use, and you don't necessarily mind if your smoothie has a few strawberry seeds left unprocessed.
How We Tested: We tested how well 16 blenders could grind coffee beans and blend a kale smoothie, milkshake and frozen margarita. We also reviewed the helpfulness of each blender's manual and how easy they were to use, assemble and clean as well as how noisy they were while operating. Finally, we checked how well blenders resisted staining from tomato sauce and if there was any damage after 14 cycles in the dishwasher.
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OUR VIEW: Rushing to judgment can cause stumbles
Partly through experience, and partly through repetitive messaging from the media and our popular culture, we seem accustomed to suspecting that big business is perpetually up to no good. Similarly, when bad things happen, we think the government regulators such firms are incompetent, somehow in cahoots with companies.
But we recently got a lesson in how wrong such assumptions can be.
Last week a pair of retired scientists publicly and boldly accused the Mosaic Co. and state environmental regulators of ignoring warnings that could have prevented the sinkhole that opened last summer at the company's New Wales facility in Mulberry. The incident flushed 215 million gallons of contaminated water into the region's primary drinking-water supply.
The retired scientists asserted that Mosaic, by paying closer attention to data from on-site monitoring wells, could have prevented the sinkhole by pumping off excess radiated water atop a stack of waste gypsum.
Both Mosaic and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection adamantly protested in response, saying the accusers had misread the data. The wells in question, the accused replied, measured readings from a massive sinkhole that had opened in 1994 on the opposite end of the property, and that any recent changes in the aquifer's water table that they recorded reflected remediation efforts.
The accusers didn't back down and their accusations brought an anti-mining group into the fray.
Turns out the company and DEP were right; the accusers retracted their accusations and apologized.
But let the episode offer a warning.
It's certainly true some companies have, or may, cut corners or hide information to protect their profits, their shareholders' interests and their public reputations. And yes, our government officials are not omnipotent and omniscient.
But most of them do the right thing day in and day out in trying to provide services, make a living and comply with or enforce our regulations.
When misguided, self-interested decisions by either side occur, people can suffer, including, possibly, with the loss of their lives. In those instances, we must hold executives or regulators accountable. But the overriding concern should be that our indictment of them must be fair and based on provable, readily understood facts — which wasn't the case here.
The view many of us hold of big companies or the government has become so toxic, so filled with suspicion, that we refuse to believe them when they are being truthful. Many people judged Mosaic and DEP with little thought given to their defense. That includes the media as well. For example, Mosaic and the DEP encouraged the media to give them more time to vet the couple's claims, but the media didn't, believing it had offered both an adequate response period.
As with other facets of our culture, it is always the best approach to reserve judgment until all the facts are available for a solid foundation.


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"Sign Makers on the Streets of Los Angeles, CA" is an internet-based business dedicated to promoting custom signs throughout the city and across the country. "Sign Services" includes many different signs including signs for parties, events, outdoor advertising, home and garden, and so much more.
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Los Angeles Outdoor Signs has a vast selection of outdoor signs that can be customized to meet any need. If your business needs a custom outdoor sign for an event, or a sign for a group of people, "Signs Makers on the Streets of Los Angeles" can create your custom sign. for a variety of uses, ranging from outdoor advertising to an attractive message that will keep your customers coming back.
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Orris Market City is considered not only to please obsessive shopaholics but also as a destination that amuse the visitors with long chain of features. It presents the ease of a one-stop solution that will have provisions for all possibly starting from fresh fruits & vegetables, and home appliances to branded apparel, jewelry shops, ice cream & juice parlors, multi cuisine family restaurants and studio apartments in this commercial development which gives living spaces to single people.
The easiness and the surrounding of this commercial development will undeniably make it a regular visiting point for many inhabitants residing in Sector 89 Gurgaon and the neighborhood sectors. It is a G + 11 storey building spread over an extensive space assures to be an alluring center for the individual and a money-making investments for those who will buy a part of it.
This venture is being designed by worldwide reputed designers & engineers and that's why will be the top opportune retail destination for all the people who are passionate about shopping and amusement. A one-stop-shop for all famous & globally reputed retail brands and households. This commercial development promises to be the essence of comfort, luxury, style, mouth-watering foods and a shoppers' delight.
Outstanding design with structural ambiance, Orris Market City Gurgaon is a modern innovator. In the vicinity of up market areas of Gurgaon such has Sector 81, 82, 84 and 88 and many upcoming well connected sectors of Gurgaon, this development offers convenient access to proposed Metro Corridor, Dwarka Expressway, National Highway - 8 and Pataudi Road.
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Formerly known as the Amwaj Business Park, Meritas House is set on Lulu Island close to the main entrance of Amwaj.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Waltzingmouse Stamps September Release Previews - Day 2
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oh, what gorgeous card! something incredible! I'm ecstatic!ReplyDelete
Get out of here!!!!! Love both but that second one is amazing with the fence...love it!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous cards! The second is perfectly elegant and chic. I love these images together...without the fence, it wouldn't even be spooky ;)ReplyDelete
Love this Jean...what a creative way to use these images...especially your Count card! LOVE!!!ReplyDelete
These are really cool, I'm especially loving that scene on the second one!ReplyDelete
Oh love everything but especially love the second card. It really is a showstopper.ReplyDelete
These are super cards. I love the splat background and bulbs of garlic on your first card. However, it's the spooky scene with the Count that I just love!ReplyDelete
Oops, I was thinking the halloween cards were in the same post as the art deco ones! Sorry!ReplyDelete
These cards look wonderful, Jean! I especially love the scene you created with the second one, and the strip of kraft along the top!
Love your WMS Release cards!!! It is a delight to savour them each night!!!ReplyDelete
Great Halloween cards - beautiful, but nevertheless rather spooky!ReplyDelete


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Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Tuesday February 4, remanded a 30-year-old bus conductor in prison for allegedly raping a 59-year-old woman during a robbery operation in which he stole her jewelries and other properties.
The suspect accused of committing the said offence at Iyabo Olanipekun Street in Ijede community of Ikorodu, Lagos at about 10pm on May 30, 2017, reportedly stormed his victim's residence with a double barrel gun and cutlass. He reportedly robbed chief Mrs Tijani Febishola of her jewellery, a Samsung galaxy note and N10,000.
Parts of the charges read;
"That Wale Hassan, on the 30th day May 2017 at about 2200hrs at No.3 Iyabo Olanipekan street, Ijede, Ikorodu Lagos within the Ikeja judicial division whilst armed with a dangerous weapon to wit: locally made double-barrel shotgun had unlawful carnal knowledge of one Moriamo Oladimeji aged fifty-nine years old".
The father of two who however pleaded not guilty to the charges was remanded in a correctional facility by Justice Soladoye who adjourned the matter to March 23, 2020, for trial.


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60 Cutsdean by Paintings by Norman Neasom (1915 - 2010)
Cutsdean Village
Watercolour Signed and dated '60
Image 350mm x 530mm - Framed 590mm x 775mm
Cutsdean is a small village in the Cotswolds with the river Windrush running through it.
The church of St. James is situated in the farmyard of Cutsdean Farm was rebuilt in 1863-64 by Henry Day of Worcester, except for the West tower. This tower probably dates to the 14th Century and has battlements and gargoyles.
The church has a simple 19th Century interior. The font is 17th Century, made of stone and is of the chalice type. There are excellent examples of stained glass windows in the church attributed to Heaton, Butler & Bayne
The Cotswold and area of the river Windrush were amongst Norman's favourite places as he could drive from his home in Redditch with his sketchbook and visit the local hostelry for lunch and a pint


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Hello Everyone,
I have a question.
When I publish after I select file(ex:BeSafeOutThereOnStarCanada_p240.mp4) on asset page like the below picture,
(This url is http://localhost-aem-dispatcher:4502/assets.html/content/dam/rcc-solution-poc/rcc-video)
the file(ex:BeSafeOutThereOnStarCanada_p240.mp4) for dispatcher cache has been created successfully like the below picture.
But when I publish after I select folder(ex:rcc-video) on asset page like the below picture,
(This url is http://localhost-aem-dispatcher:4502/assets.html/content/dam/rcc-solution-poc)
the folder(ex:rcc-video) for dispatcher cache does not create like the below picture.
I have implemented to create file and folder with HttpClient package when I publish on asset page.
The file caching works well.
But the folder caching does not work.
Also I tried it with curl command when I publish on asset page.
But file caching and folder caching did not work.
I have to implement to create folder only when I publish after I select the folder only on asset page.
Can you recommend me how to create folder(ex:rcc-video) from url(http://localhost-aem-dispatcher:4502/assets.html/content/dam/rcc-solution-poc/rcc-video) regardless of operating system (ex:windows, unix, max os) ?
Chung Yong.
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I am not clear at all on your use case - looks like you want to publish an asset from one AEM instance to another.
Also - if you need to perform some additional tasks when publishing an Asset/Page in AEM - i recommend that you look at using a workflow and purhaps the use of custom workflow step.
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a file is created in dispatcher cache because dispatcher is trying to cache the file, when you try to publish it or go to details page. Browser must be sending a get request for the file and dispatcher must be caching it.
In case of folder, there is no such file requested. dispatcher will not cache any thing.
Why do you want to rely on folder or file being created in dispatcher cache
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This page is Asset Page.
This tree is /content/dam for Asset in CRXDE Lite.
When I unpublished parent folder(ex:parent) in Asset Page, all children folders(ex:child1, child2,) and all children files(ex:file01.doc, file02.txt, file03.pptx,file04.xlsx) unpublished automatically.
But when I published parent folder(ex:parent) in Asset Page, all children folders(ex:child1, child2,) and all children files(ex:file01.doc, file02.txt, file03.pptx,file04.xlsx) did not publish automatically.
Parent folder(ex:parent) published only.
I can not understand why.
So, Because of that, child has activated child only In line 187 of my source code like below that.
In addition, In my source code, I want to implement the method that activate all child folders and files when parent folder activates in asset page.
How can I implement it ?
Chung Yong.
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To Activate child page automatically on activation of parents, you can write sling event listener which listen this nodes replication event and as soon as parent publish, children pages will also be published.


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Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross welcomes Michigan LB Mike McCray
DAVIE — The Dolphins have an expansive and thorough team of scouts, and owner Stephen Ross might have been part of that operation this year.
He didn't use a clipboard and a stopwatch, but Ross thought highly of Michigan linebacker Mike McCray and that couldn't have hurt when McCray was looking for a team after going undrafted. It's always nice for a job applicant when the owner of the company went to the same school, and Ross is one of Michigan's most notable alums.
"It's that Michigan connection," McCray said this afternoon. "We've all got that certain connection."
McCray is one of 21 players in town this weekend for rookie minicamp, but it's likely few — if any — of his peers got a phone call from Ross after they landed with the Dolphins. McCray said he told him congratulations and advised him to be ready for a challenge.
"He told me when I come here, just come to work," McCray said. "That's what I'm gonna do."
Ross graduated from Michigan in 1962 before going into law and becoming a real estate developer. He is the biggest donor in the history of the university, with a $50 million gift last year pushing his total contribution to $378 million, according to the Detroit Free-Press.
Ross remains highly attached to the football program, and McCray said they'd met multiple times while he was in college.
"We didn't really talk a lot because he'd come to visit and be in and out, but just kinda being able to talk to him and learning what he knows," he said. "He's a really smart guy and he's one of the richest people in the world. Just coming in and building that connection, maybe in the long term it'll help me out."
That's not the only reason Miami snatched up McCray. Not even close. He's a 6-foot-4, 242-pounder who made the all-Big Ten team honorable mention list after piling up 79 tackles, 4.5 sacks and a forced fumble last season. He also had 73 tackles, 4.5 sacks, two interceptions and six pass breakups as a junior.
That was a strong comeback by McCray, who missed all of the 2015 season after having shoulder surgery and battling other injuries. The Dolphins saw potential there, and he'll get a real chance to make the roster.
The top two linebackers are Raekwon McMillan and Kiko Alonso, and third-round pick Jerome Baker figures to be one of the top candidates for the third starting job. Beyond that, McCray is one of 10 players vying for what will probably be three or four additional spots.
"I really don't know anything like that," he said. "But I'm gonna come in and try to earn my keep."
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What is autism?
Autism is a childhood disease that is characterized by mental inability to communicate, express and form relationships normally. Such children tend to remain aloof from the social surroundings, as they find it really hard to comprehend what others are trying to do or say to them.
What is special about children of ASD?
Every autistic child have their own special means of communicating and understanding. It is not an easy task to appreciate what the child has to say, or how and what he perceives through your actions. Hence it is highly necessary to study and observe each child individually, so that they can be aided with the development of a separate method devised specifically for their ways of communication. In this pursuit, several activities and exercises have been established to make such children capable of fitting into their surroundings like normal kids.
Autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), both are general terms used to denote the underdevelopment of brain in terms of certain motor functions and verbal and non-verbal communication. A child with autism, apart from lacking in social interaction, displays other variety of symptoms such as intellectual disability, sleep issues and gastrointestinal diseases. However, ASD is also accompanied with some anticipating symptoms as well. Autistic children are observed to excel in arts, music, maths and visual skills, indicating that their brain is capable of handling complex tasks despite of the abnormality, but in a way that is different from the normal.
A innovation in the path of autism treatment………
In this blog post, we bring to you an innovative study that was performed by the University of Vermont to spot the informative signs that are displayed by an autistic child. A report from the UPI states that the study authors from the University of Vermont have tracked the eye movement's made by autistic children during communication, so that the signs of the disease and their effective management can be enlightened.
In this study, about 18 autistic children subjects were included. A control group was also added to the study comprising of 19 normal children. The age of all the children subjects ranged between 6 to 12 years. Advanced eye tracking technology was applied to study the eye movement of both the groups. Normally, we tend to make an eye contact with the person we are talking to. However, this study revealed that autistic personalities when sad or frightened, focus more upon the mouth movements of the person speaking to them.
Tiffany Hutchins, who is the study's lead author and an assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders from the University of Vermont, says that "What you talk about really matters for children with ASD. You just change a few words by talking about what people do versus how they feel and you can have a profound impact on where eyes go for information."
This behavior of observing one's mouth while speaking was more common among the group of autistic children facing poor verbal and intellectual capabilities. The reason behind this behavior is not clear. Hutchins suggest that it might be because the communications might be straining their decision-making functions.
Learning about this unique behavior displayed by autistic personalities can help in future studies regarding the kind of speech therapies such children might require in order to communicate well and interact socially.
It is said that the most effective treatment for an autistic child is the one that is devised by their own parents. Parents bearing a child with ASD must constantly do their own research on the behavior and expressions of their child, and the ways they adapt to communicate.
In the present times, Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most effective means of managing patients with ASD. No matter what methods we devise for the child to learn, think and communicate, most of them just filter out through the 'different ways of meaning perception' mechanism. Hence, it is always useful to first target the patient's disrupted thoughts, and then proceed them with normal methods of thinking and acting. The main purpose of CBT is to target the person's distorted perception about themselves and their lives. For example, a depressed entity will convince themselves that they are worthless. The aim of cognitive behavioral therapy is to focus on this wrong perception and change it to normal, before proceeding towards implication of thoughts-forming exercises.
Reference: Breakthrough study solves key autism puzzle


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Shirley West
WOODRUFF, SC-- Shirley Ann Sellars West, 78, a former resident of Valley Falls Terrace, passed away Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at the Regional Hospice Home. She was the daughter of the late BG and Leona Moss Sellars and the widow of the late Ruban W. West and former wife of Daniel W. Easler of Moore. Ms. West was a member of Switzer First Baptist Church and retired from Community Cash in Woodruff and was previously employed by Community Cash in Lyman.
Survivors also include two sons, Duane D. Easler and Donald W. Easler, both of Moore; two brothers, Gerald Sellars of Tallahassee, FL, and Earl Sellars of Spartanburg; and two sisters, Marie Owens of Lawrence and Norma Fowler of Spartanburg; two grandsons, Chris and Brian Easler; and two great-grandchildren, Harrison and Carter Easler. She was predeceased by a sister, Carolyn Scruggs.
Funeral services will be held 3:00 PM Friday at the Switzer Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 1:45 to 2:45 PM prior to the service. The interment will be in the church cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Regional Hospice Home, 686 Jeff Davis Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29303.
The family is at the home of a son, Duane and Alma Easler, 125 Easler Circle, Moore.
Condolences may be made on line at www.striblingfuneral home.net.
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We chose not to pipe these into little rounds, but for a truly fantastic presentation you can go ahead and do that. In the meantime, we're going to go ahead and dig in.
Duchess Potatoes
- 2 lbs russet potatoes, peeled, eyes removed
- 3 egg yolks
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1/3 cup milk
- salt/pepper to taste
- pinch nutmeg
Cook potatoes in boiling water until fork tender. Drain and place in a large bowl. Mash with butter and milk. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir in egg yolks until incorporated. Pipe onto a greased baking sheet into roughly two-inch rounds or spoon into a greased pie pan. If using a pie pan, use a fork to score the entire top of the dish. Bake at 375 until golden, about 20 minutes for a pie pan.


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After DIYing my own wedding bouquet, I've dabbled in a bit of floral arranging for clients here and there. This bouquet has a few extra florals added in for a modern twist to the classic rose bouquet, perfect for a vintage wedding! Learn how to create this burgundy and blush bridal bouquet below.
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P.S. Need bridesmaids' bouquets as well? Use the leftover florals to create matching bouquets.
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Greg https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregdillon1/ will select the topic and format for this segment. Please interact with those who are also interested in this segment - before -during and after Georgia LEARNS 2019 via this online discussion.
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Hello everyone, on November 7th I want to explore what "proof" means. Who... needs what... to have something proven to them?
It's easy to think it's just about the statistics: x number of people have shown x amount of measurable improvement as a result of a learning program. That proves it works... right?
But is that enough? Is it enough for all of the people you need buy-in from?
Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks Greg - I think Mark Twain had some memorable insights regarding statistics.
I read an interesting article titled "Why Facts Don't Matter." I will be interested to hear what others think - before - during and after you segment of Georgia LEARNS.
Paul - yes indeed Mark Twain had some pretty strong words on this topic.
Thank you so much for the reference to the article!
Greg - I look forward to your segment. The word "proof" has such power from the pudding to a bottle of rum. It will be good to hear your thoughts on its meaning in the learning space.
Thank you, Donna - I look forward to interacting with you on Thursday, and exploring this topic further together!


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Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: December 26, 1914
In this issue of Scientific American from 1914, we published the first installment of a three-part first-hand account: "War Experiences of an Air Scout: The Diary of an American Volunteer With the Aviation Corps of the French Army," by Frederick C. Hild. On the outbreak of war, and two years before the famous "Lafayette Escadrille" took to the air in defense of France, Hild, an active aviator in the United States, enlisted in the French air force.
What high ideals drove this young American man (age 24 at the time) to rush to the defense of France? None, really—he was just in it for the adventure:
"It mattered little to me which of the warring nations I would join, and finally I chose to throw in my lot with the army possessing the largest number of aeroplanes. Having been a close observer of aviation, both here and abroad, for the past four years, I came to the conclusion that France possesses the greatest number of aircraft,"
He may have cared nothing for France, but he was not without sympathy for the human condition:
"When the French steamer 'Espagne' left New York, on September 5th, I was on board, together with several Americans and about 700 reservists, who were going to France to fight their country's battles. There was much fun and excitement during the voyage, pleasant weather favoring us during the entire journey. The cabin passengers were shown every consideration, but the 500 reservists traveling third-class were treated no better than cattle, which was rather uncalled for, when it is taken into consideration that they were leaving their families and friends to defend their country's honor."
Hild could not speak French, but at Le Havre he applied to the recruiting office. After four days, despite the fact that he was an American citizen, and apparently the first one attempting to join the aviation corps, the French Minister of War allowed him to take the pilot's test:
"I was ordered to report to the second aviation reservation at Tours, where I would have to pass the French examination for pilot. This was a simple test, as the requirement was that I take an aeroplane up 7,000 feet and remain at or above that altitude for an hour at least."
At this point, unfortunately, he signed up with the French army for the duration of the war. He had an interesting perspective on a country that was plunged deeply into war:
"Nearly all factories were closed, and the sight of women, both young and old, sweeping the streets clean and collecting the fares on the tramways was rather peculiar."
On arrival at Tours, he met a small group of German prisoners (it must be remembered that for years a popular assumption was that France and Russia would be the ones to fight against Germany):
"A few moments later I had the pleasure of viewing about two dozen German soldiers and half a dozen officers, prisoners of war, who were now on their way to the south of France. They were rather sick looking, but seemed to feel rather happy at being in French hands. None of them wore a hat, for these had been taken as souvenirs. I speak a little German, and when I asked one of the officers with the captives if he had been in battle with the English soldiers he appeared surprised to learn that the British were also in battle against the Germans. He said he understood that the English were fighting on the German side. He really doubted my word when I told him the British were his foes, and the others shook their heads unbelievingly when he told them the news I had communicated to him."
Now on active duty, he was issued with the leather coat he wears in the photograph of him, and joined his fellow pilots at dinner:
"I was introduced to the pilots present (about sixty), and they greeted me with cheers when they learned that I had come from America to fight with them. Some who knew the American national anthem sang it. and I was made to feel at home at once. I felt that I was where I belonged at last, and room was made for me at the rough table by several of the pilots squeezing together on a bench and telling me to sit down."
This touching scene of grand camaraderie has a spoiler, and here it is: Hild deserted. Probably after only a couple of months. This according to the late Philip M. Flammer, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, professor of history at the University of Utah, and author of The Vivid Air: The Lafayette Escadrille. Flammer notes that the French were not keen to publicly disclose this fact and kept the news to themselves.
Nevertheless, for at least a few weeks, Hild was a pilot at war.
You can read part II of this trilogy from January 2, 1915, here:
An American Pilot at War, Part II: January 2, 1915
Part III of this trilogy, from January 9, 1915 is at:
An American Pilot at War, Part III: January 9, 1915
Our full archive of the war, called Scientific American Chronicles: World War I, has many articles from 1914–1918, including personal reminiscences and articles on the technology of aviation. It is available for purchase at www.ScientificAmerican.com/wwi