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Rebuilding yet another "ontology" from scratch is not really an "ontology" because it misses the chance of a shared understanding once again. We do already have thousands of "ontologies" that are rather "schemas", in particular, scheamas nobody knows and uses... Our nepomuk ontology is at least shared by some Nepomukians. That's one step towards really building a semantic web...
So, We plan to use PIMO and User Context ontologies for modeling how the data would be stored in Nepomuk.
We need to discuss further on resources ontology to define how resource are stored...
To Remember : All data in Nepomuk should be modelled along an ontology which should also be installed along with the application (in this case context lib/service )
Discussions for actual modeling
Sebastian Trüg says:
I still think Context is a good name for the generic base class. An Activity is already specialized. A context could also be "night mode" where you get no work files or something. That is not an Activity.
So in Nepomuk (the RDF, ie. data level) you would have something like a Context RDF class and for each context create an instance of it. Then assign all resources created in this context to it. Whenever a context is loaded, only resource related to the context are considered. This could be represented via Nepomuk::Resource subclasses. But can also be handled manually through Soprano. This is a very basic and simple summary
Sebastian Trüg says:
I just took a look at the existing ontologies: NOP and Workcontext. To me it seems that for phase 1 we don't need NOP at all (as it mostly deals with user actions/activities that need to be modelled) and only need a very small portion of Workcontext, if at all.
Like I mentioned in a previous mail IMHO we basically need a Context class and maybe two specializations: ActivityContext and TaskContext. TaskContext would add start and end time to the concept. We could then easily model different contexts. For example a project I am working on would be modelled as a TaskContext which is also a pimo:Project or maybe a subclass the user created himself like pimo:KDEDevelopmentProject. Using this approach we could even stick to one simple Context class and link tasks or projects or whatever to it as something like
"Context definingResource Resource"
this would allow to model stuff like: we have a context "Plasma Context Support" resource which is of type Context. In addition a development project is defined which might have a similar name and a bunch of files and emails and what not related. The project is then related to the context and thus, becomes available for dashboard switches. This would allow to use arbitrary things as contexts without much additional syntax.
I would need input from Sven and Leo here: would the workcontext:UserWorkContext class be a choice here? Or should we create a new, way simpler, ontology.
Sebastian Trüg says:
> i think we will have to
> really think about how we expose this to the user as something like a task
> probably does not in itself provide enough information to *be* a context
> (it makes sense for a task to belong to one, even be the "primary" or
> defining piece of information related to one), and for Plasma we certainly
> do not want contexts being removed while they are being referenced by a
> Containment.
A finished task is not removed. It is just finished. I think it could still be a subclass of Context. I don't see any conceptual problems... but we could also create a TaskContext and link an actual Task as the defining resource. Also a valid concept I think.
Sven Schwarz says:
As Leo already stated the class MediumTermContextThread (subclass of UserWorkContext) would actually be the right class to represent the context we all talk about here. The ShortTermContext can be compared to the short-term memory of a human being and is hence very "fluctuational", and the LongTermContext is more or less what could also be called a "user model" containing all the user's PIMO concepts and their frequency and so on.
So, in our opinion, the context could be represented best using an instance of the class UserWorkContext. Class MediumTermContextThread would be better because it is more precise, but that's really not the most important question here.
More important is the "containsElement" property pointing from a context to a ContextualElement. So, why ContextualElement now? Why don't we reference the resources used in a context directly?
The answer is easy: On the one hand we did not want to use meta-classes, but on the other hand we need more meta-information on the contextual relevance of such resources. So: We want to capture information about - WHY is that resource relevant for the context? Has it been read by the user or proposed by some magic algorithm? - HOW relevant is that resource for the context? Not all resources are equally relevant for some context. In particular, this holds for resources that were estimated to be relevant (context magics).
So, one ContextualElement just wraps one relevant resources for a context leading to this picture
MediumTermContextThread->containsElement->ContextualElement --resource->resource
instead of this one: > "Context definingResource Resource"
As Leo said, this modeling can be taken as a start and, of course, be enhanced. The MediumTermContextThread could sould a bit strange and crazy at a start, but it describes quite well what a context in our (and in your!) sense really is, doesn't it? We talk about medium-term tasks, medium-term activity, ... well... it is a medium-term context, right?
The postfix "Thread" is used to indicate that we talk about multiple threads here between which the user is actually switching - like in multi-threading! So, there is definitely more than one such MediumTermContextThread, namely one for each thread the user is really aware of, so one for each task, or one for each desktop if you wish...


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Very ordinary bread in a paper bag is inauspicious. And this is another just-good-enough Caesar salad, with bits of anchovy embedded in toast and flurries of shredded cheese. I'd like a better ratio of fried calamari to frisée in the miso-touched salad. As for whelks from the raw bar, it's an admirably adventurous trend now. They have them at Prima too. It's just another slimy sea slug to me. The menu offers them disguised as snails, in garlic butter. That might be a better choice.
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1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 oz chocolate, melted and cooled
2 1/4 cups plain flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Sugar Cookies:
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1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened (1 stick)
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
You can follow the same directions for each recipe, just make sure to keep things separate.
In a medium bowl mix dry ingredients (except the sugar). Set aside.
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Sara Roth, Ph.D., IMFT-S, LPC, EMDR Trained
Independent Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
I love working with young children and their parents, as behaviors are not yet ingrained, and parents can learn new skills to help manage their child's symptoms. It also helps to learn what is expected developmentally so that parents don't get overly anxious about children meeting expectations. Today's world can be stressful for young children as well, and children also feel the stress that their parents' experience. We can explore coping skills and self-care for parents and children alike. We can also work through communications skills and help children become more emotionally skilled to manage symptoms.
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Many times, child therapists overdo the family system in their quest to seek effective solutions for emotional, learning or behavioral concerns with young children. And many times doctors overpathologize issues that shouldn't be medicated necessarily. This leaves parents wondering what is the best route for their child? Introducing brainwave optimization technology. A fast, effective, natural, and less expensive way to allow your child's brain to make the optimizing changes it desires to make---on its own! Without any external force, opinion, medication, diagnostic, etc. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 877-606-6161.
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Lamplight Counseling Services, LLC, LISW, LPCC, LICDC, LSW, LPC
Licensed Independent Social Worker, Supervisor
In 44131 - Nearby to Garfield Heights.
Children can be pretty adaptable, however there are times when therapy can be an effective tool in helping children cope with difficult feelings or situations. If your child is having sudden angry outbursts, or if their grades drop in school this could be a sign that they are struggling. Our therapists can help you to identify what is bothering them and help your child to learn coping skills to use when they are feeling angry or afraid. We will also work with you, the paren, to learn techniques to use at home which supports your child while not impairing your ability to be an effective parent.
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Amy Gould, LPCC-S, NCC
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
My approach to working with young children is essentially non-directive play therapy, allowing the child to have freedom of expression, learning to use language to express feelings, and resolving concerns such as separation anxiety, sleepwalking and bad dreams, and other behavioral changes. There are times when it may be indicated to work in family systems model, or to address a problem that may be affecting the whole family system. I do not handle custody cases, and my work is intended to help heal the family system when necessary.
Child Therapist
Kate Bremer, MS, PCC-S
Clinical Counselor, National Certified Counselor
In 44126 - Nearby to Garfield Heights.
As much as we love our children there are days when their behaviors are just out of bounds. At times like those it is difficult for parents to see past the outward behavior and have the calmness and patience to get to understand the underlying problem. Young children have an especially difficult time articulating feelings. They are much better at acting them out. Play Therapy is a wonderful way to help a young child express his or her feelings. My Play Therapy room is equipped with a variety of games and toys children can use as a means of self expression. As a therapist, I guide and support each child on the path toward healing. Parent involvement in the healing process is critical.
Child Therapist
Carol Paull, LISW
Licensed Independent Social Worker
Young children change so quickly. You think you have it figured out and something new appears. Whether you have a small question or a major concern, checking in with a therapist is a great idea. My work with young children usually involves working with the parents, too. For children under 5, as your child's first teacher, you can be the best change agent for him/her. For older children, play therapy and talking therapy, plus periodic consultations with parents and teachers, if necessary, can help to make life at home calmer and happier as your child develops in positive ways.
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Thank you for visiting our Ohio page of licensed child psychologists and child therapists in Garfield Heights, Ohio who are trained and experienced in helping children and youth. Working with children requires a different skillset from other types of therapy and here you will find therapists who are skilled, patient and experienced. Please note that while all therapists here work with children, not all may be a registered psychologist. You can easily verify this on each profile. Reach out to a child therapist or child psychologist in Garfield Heights today, our contact forms are "open" 24/7.
Garfield Heights is located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It has a land area of 7.23 square miles and a water area of 0.06 square miles.  The population of Garfield Heights is 28,097 people with 11,757 households and a median annual income of $39,249. .
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My bike is working again..! =)
I finally got the new Hollowtec II chainset from chain reaction cycles in Ireland, now everything works great… I went out to try it last night and it turned out to be 27.5 km… I didn't really go anywhere but around the town and to check out locations for some geocaches that I'm going for later… I did bring the GPS but I didn't make a track… I just had it for locating the cache clues… I use the bike computer when I'm biking, the GPS is a bit bulky also to bring on the bike…
It almost feels like cheating to bike, it's so easy compared to running or walking longer distances… but then again you can go so much further with the bike… I guess I'll have to alternate a bit… So I don't forget how to walk when we are going to Sarek… (wheee…=))
I'm having a coffee and in an hour I'm going to FSOM to shoot some photos of people running around in the bush with map and a compass… Today it's at Fränsviken in Larsmo (Finland) really close to a wind power plant, which is kind of cool… The place is known for having much ticks, which is not so cool… but I have survived this far so I guess I'll make it today too… =)


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Teen Scientists to Present Research from UT Dallas
Thirty-five high school students have spent their summer in UT Dallas labs, where they have been encouraged to come up with research questions and learn the skills necessary to test their ideas and play with new concepts.
Michael Trinh is part of the NanoExplorers group at UT Dallas this summer.
They'll be sharing what they've learned at "Meet a Teen Scientist," from 2 to 4:45 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 6, at Parr Library in Plano. The Contact Science event is a collaboration between UT Dallas' Science and Engineering Education Center (SEEC) and the Plano Public Library System.
"The Contact Science program aims to foster an understanding and appreciation of science," said Dr. Koshi Dhingra, assistant director of the SEEC. "The 'Meet a Teen Scientist' event gives teen scientists already on the UT Dallas campus a chance to share their research experience in creative and interactive ways."
Eight student participants from the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute's George A. Jeffrey NanoExplorers Program will give interactive presentations on their summer research work with faculty mentors.
This is the second year that Contact Science programs have reached children and families through a partnership between the University and local public libraries.
"Contact Science brings hands-on science to our youth right in their own community, at a place they feel very comfortable—their local library," said Cathy Ziegler, director of libraries for the Plano Public Library System. "Both our future scientists and the just plain curious have had great fun."
Presenting science in the setting of a public library, Dhingra said, is a good way to cut across socio-economic lines, age groups and abilities in order to promote informal science learning and develop communities of science.
"We've spent our summer conducting exciting research, and now we have the opportunity to serve as role models for others and show them how science can be fun and interesting," said Jamie Stone, an entering senior at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson.
The University's Contact Science program is designed to give pre-college students hands-on involvement with science.
The SEEC was formed by Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Russell Hulse, a regental professor and associate vice president for strategic initiatives at UT Dallas, in 2009.
SEEC's Contact Science program creates and supports hands-on science and engineering exhibits and activity programs in public libraries. Contact Science takes advantage of public libraries as a unique venue for bringing ongoing engagement with science to children and their families.
The UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute was launched in September 2001 and is directed by Dr. Ray Baughman, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Baughman founded the George A. Jeffrey NanoExplorers Program in 2002.
The 2011 NanoExplorers include (back row, from left) Jamie Stone, Rusheel Guduru, Michael Trinh and Rebecca Fang; and (front row) Celeste Huang, Natalie Chee, Raahil Sha. Not pictured: Helen Xiong
Helen Xiong conducts research as part of the program.
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Last night, Tony Parker recorded the first triple-double of his career, putting up an impressive stat line of 27-12-12 against the Houston Rockets. Good job, Tony!
After the game, Parker went out for a celebratory meal, and the restaurant was kind enough to make him the dessert plate that you see in the picture here. Look at how happy he is! We could all use more textualized, self-affirming plates of food in our lives. Toddlers and people who are retiring have had that market cornered for way too long.


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Anyone seen the new flag Obama's hocking for $35? It looks like the blood on the wall at Benghazi. Well, we found the real flag of Obama's occupation…and it only costs America's blood.
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For the first time in company history, Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, hit the $1 billion mark in total revenue.
Life Time announced the milestone Thursday when it released its fourth quarter 2011 and year-end financials. The company generated $1.014 billion in 2011 revenue, an 11 percent increase from the $912.8 million Life Time produced in 2010.
Also, Life Time had $250.9 million in revenue in fourth quarter 2011, a 12 percent increase from the $223.7 million in the same period last year.
"2011 marked another strong year of operating results for Life Time," CEO Bahram Akradi said in a statement. "We achieved our stretch revenue goal of $1 billion, marking a key milestone for our company. We also re-established a faster growth rate via increased square footage, membership price and mix optimization, and sustained improvement in our in-center and ancillary business revenue."
Life Time enjoyed double-digit growth in net income, too. In fourth quarter 2011, the company had $19.8 million in net income compared to $17.6 million in fourth quarter 2010. For the year, Life Time increased net income 14.8 percent from $80.7 million in 2010 to $92.6 million in 2011.
On Dec. 31, 2011, Life Time had 676,054 memberships, a 10.4 percent increase from 612,556 memberships at the end of 2010. Excluding memberships that Life Time gained in last year's Lifestyle Family Fitness acquisition, in which Life Time added nine former Lifestyle clubs in Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina, memberships grew 5.5 percent for the year.
Attrition in fourth quarter 2011 was down slightly from the same period last year (9.6 percent compared to 9.9 percent). Overall attrition was 35 percent in 2011 compared to 36.3 percent in 2010, beating Akradi's stated goal of 36 percent attrition.
Total operating expenses for fourth quarter 2011 were $214 million compared to $189.1 million in the same period last year. Operating expenses for 2011 were $840.4 million compared to $752.1 million in 2010.
"There is no free lunch," Akradi told analysts during a conference call Thursday. "If we want to remain the best destination for people, the best programs, we will continually have to invest. So we're targeting that customer base now that appreciates the best product, and they're not going to be mercenaries about the price. They're looking for getting what they want. To get that customer in, we actually do have to deliver the best product, and that's what we're driving here every day."
For 2012, Life Time expects its revenue to increase 10 percent to 12 percent, or $1.110 billion to $1.135 billion, and net income to increase 18 percent to 24 percent, or $110 million to $115 million.
As of Thursday, not counting the nine former Lifestyle clubs, Life Time operated 93 clubs in 21 states and 26 major markets.
In 2011, Life Time opened a large-format club in Syosset, NY, the first Life Time location in the state of New York, and later added clubs in Colorado Springs, CO, and Summerlin, NV, the company's first club in the Las Vegas market.
In late December, Life Time acquired from a landlord six facilities that the company already operated in the Minneapolis and Boca Raton, FL, markets. The company said it assumed a $72 million mortgage and paid the remainder in cash.
At the end of 2011, Life Time operated 9.5 million square feet of fitness facilities, including approximately 300,000 square feet for the nine acquired Lifestyle clubs.
Life Time got a jump on 2012 expansion last month when it acquired Atlanta-based Racquet Club of the South, which will be rebranded as Life Time Tennis Atlanta. Next month, Life Time will open its first Canadian club in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, Ontario. In April, Life Time plans to open its first Oklahoma club in Tulsa, OK, and in May, it will open its fifth club in Atlanta.
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Fifteen minutes of play time with the fifth Elder Scrolls game isn't enough. Skyrim is massive. A quarter of an hour in it illuminates the game's world about as well as stepping just outside of an airport terminal explains a new city.
But, if you've got the man who oversaw construction of the whole megalopolis sitting next to you, you can adopt the open-world, do-anything spirit of Skyrim and ask anything you can think of about the game. You can find stuff out. This is what I did at the Bethesda booth at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, with Skyrim creative director Todd Howard at my side.
What did I hit upon? My notes include words like "difficulty", "encumbrance", and "DLC".
We began covering this stuff while I was playing. I asked Howard questions, but I simultaneously was testing the ability of my random Skyrim lead character to run down a hill, swim a river, club people in a mine, command a deer to fight by my side, and eventually, to fulfill a man's request for lumber by firing an arrow into his chest.
Who You Can Kill and Who You Can't – We may not kill everyone in the massive world of Skyrim, Howard told me, though obviously some have tried such slaughters in previous games made or overseen by his studio. "Central" characters in Skyrim will not die. If defeated in combat, these people will drop to their knees. Rare "Protected" characters can be killed by you, but not by non-player characters who do have the ability to murder their fellow Skyrim dwellers during the kind of unplanned, dynamic chaos Bethesda players enjoy igniting. Those Skyrimians who are neither Central nor Protected may die by your or others' hands—to be clear, those "others' hands" are computer-controlled, as this is as single-player a game as it gets.
The man to whom I aggressively delivered a few arrows, I'm sad to report, had friends who proved to me that my character was neither Central nor Protected. Hey, but at least I'm the hero. I can respawn.
Animal Control – I've played too little of prior Elder Scrolls games to have the opportunity to control animals, but the save point from where I started at PAX put me in the boots of a man who has the power to do such a thing. I learned the limit of this ability, which is not unlike the ability of owning a cat. With great anticipation I used my power on some sort of deer or elk (same family?) only to watch it flee from the bandits I soon harassed. Some animals just might shrink from or stink at combat, Howard pointed out. My real cat isn't much of a fighter either, even against the spiders she significantly outweighs.
Later in the game, I was chased by two wolves. I commanded one to follow me. He turned on his fellow wolf and snapped his jaws. Success. You can command an animal once a day in this game, if you have the power. Magic spells, on the other hand (that's sort of a pun), can be used as long as you've got magic to burn.
Encumberance – Todd Howard knows that encumbrance can be annoying, but he must not believe that being laden with so much discovered gear that you can move only slower than a snail is so annoying that it should be stricken from the Bethesda role-playing-game list of commandments. Thou Shalt Be Encumbered in Skyrim, just not as easily as you would have been in previous Elder Scrollses. Maybe we the players shouldn't pick up so much stuff in the game, not between visits to homes and other places where loot may be stored? Maybe Bethesda shouldn't put so many appealing sets of armor, weaponry and kitchenware in their RPGs.
Howard laughed when I reminded him that players could be encumbered in the previous Elder Scrolls, Oblivion, before they even left the game's introductory area. This new game won't be nearly such a strict caution against covetousness. Howard said that the encumbrance limits have been raised relative to that last game (the statistic I was able to quote is that you can carry "a lot more.") Players who manage upgrades in their stamina will find their ability to carry more and heavier items pleasantly bolstered. This is a game that lets you kill dragons, though, and Howard warned me that dragon bones are heavy.
Difficulty Levels We Won't Hate – Even the biggest proponents of Oblivion sometimes speak unkind things about that game's scaling difficulty, which made enemies in any of its regions tougher as the player became more powerful, sort of the way math tests became harder every time you advanced a year in grade school. The new game, as has been reported before, doesn't work like that. It works like Fallout 3, Howard told me. I, not being the sort who can see under the hood of a game's difficulty engine while driving the action, requested clarification. Each area of Skyrim has its own level of difficulty, which the game might raise or lower a tad depending on how powerful the player's character is, populating the zone with tougher or easier enemies,. These areas will maintain their characteristic level of challenge, but will basically offer a relatively wimpy a player a figurative cheek at which to aim a first punch—and will slug the more powerful player first.
There is much more loot to get in this game, Howard told me, and the brave player who ventures into areas too hard for him or her to have sensibly entered, will at least be rewarded with rare and special loot. If they survive their dangerous excursion, of course. "If you're in over your head, we want to reward you for that," Howard said.
DLC – Yeah, there will be DLC for Skyrim, just as there have been bushels of it for all of the recent grand Bethesda RPGs. It's even coming to the Xbox 360 first. But what will it be? Howard said he honestly doesn't know. It's not been nailed down yet, though he promised it will be big. We played comparison. So, not the size of that Alaska DLC for Fallout 3? Nope. More like that Point Lookout one that was a whole extra island? Yup.
Note: I have more notes. – "Five More Things" was such a good structure for this story, right? But I have more to share. Let's just say you're now in the DLC part of this story then. Expansion pack time. Here we go…. Yeah, you can get married in this game, but it's not a very involved thing. Your spouse will make you some meals, which is nice… Of course there are tons of in-game books , as is series tradition. Hundreds. Might be 300, but who keeps the number of books a game has in it in their head just in case a pesky reporter is nearby?… You can dual-wield some weapons, but you can't hold a shield in your right hand, which I'm sure is not some complicated commentary on the handedness of Zelda's Link (nor is it pre-amble to the worlds worst DLC upgrade, I'm willing to guess)… The game doesn't have an ending, not a final ending ending, if you know what I mean or remember Fallout 3 which had a credit-rolling lock-it-all-off finale. Bethesda undid that ending via DLC when it proved obvious that players would rather be able to keep exploring the game forever. Skyrim will be forever open-ended too, Howard told me. That's the way Bethesda is doing it from now on.
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Place Name: Sefuku-ji 施福寺
Type: Temple 寺
Location: Izumi city, Osaka Prefecture, JAPAN
Latitude: 34.392908
Longitude: 135.511578
Date of Visit: October 1, 2012
Izumi city Orange Bus Makiosan route (槇尾山) from Nankai Izumiotsu station on the Nankai Main Line or Izumichuo station on the Senboku Line.
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The road to Sefuku-ji goes from the crammed residential areas to rural mountainside quite quickly. Soon the road turns into a single track with a stream on one side and a forested slope on the other. It felt like driving through a national park back in the USA. A single free parking lot is at the end with a hand full of buildings.
At the start of the walk I thought it was just going to be a few minutes, but then the concrete slope got steeper. Then it got even steeper. After passing a few impromptu miniature waterfalls thanks to the typhoon that passed over the area the day before and one perennial waterfall made by the stream paralleling the trail we reached a gate and a sign. The sign read it would take 30 minutes to reach the temple from here. I was excited for a good hike through this forest.
Soon after passing through the gate we stumbled upon a snake on the trail. A bit further up we encountered a wooden bridge over the stream. Yuko was nervous that it would support her let alone me with our daughter, Mia, on my back. By then the path turns to dirt and stone broken up with stone stairs. Along the path short stone monoliths are placed in the ground with a number and the kanji 丁 carved into them. There are 6 that I noticed with #6 in front of the temple gate at the bottom of the trail. By the time you get to #2 the route is predominately stairs. We met a woman on the way up. She hikes up to the temple everyday to loose weight. I wish I had her fortitude. Overall, the hike up is not too hard and we completed it well within the 30 minute estimate on the sign below. Going down is a breeze.
|More stairs!
At the top the temple sits on the Osaka bay side of a flat area. A small yard has a collection of random benches and tables, a public restroom, a small udon shop and a few statues. The view looking east towards Nara prefecture is of absolute untouched wilderness. The only man made thing in view is a mine at the bottom of the valley that you have to strain to get a good look at.
Right as we got to the temple an older man in casual clothes asked us if we came to get our scroll signed. We said yes and he told us to wait a second with a great big smile. We sat down and took the now awake Mia out of the backpack. The man, who turned out the be the obosan, quickly came back. Before I noticed he had picked up Mia, started carrying her around the temple and playing with her. Mia typically is good with strangers, but she does not let everyone pick her up like that. She must have sensed that he was a good guy. We have met many interesting and helpful obosan on our route, but none of them have been as cheerful as he was.
|Mia's new friend
Yuko commented that going to temples clears her head, and I totally agree. The nature and the calmness up on the top of that mountain was a great refresher--a detox for the mind.
We did not stay long as it was getting dark and we had to hike back down the hill. Only a few minutes into the walk back we found some blood on the stone and a pair of bent eye glasses. Someone must had tripped. We checked the area to see if someone had slipped down the hill, picked up the glasses and rushed down to the shop. On the way we met a woman hiking up but she did not see anyone injured coming down. Getting down to the small shop we found out that a man from Nagoya had hurt himself. An ambulance had picked him up, but he did not appear very hurt to the people in the shop. After taping the glasses to the only car with Nagoya plates in the parking lot we headed to a super-sento in nearby Tondabayashi to end the day's adventure.
|Some of the benches and the view towards Nara
|The temple bell
|The way back
|Praying at Seifuku-ji covers all the bases: good children, good spousal relationships, good job, good health, good friends, and lots of money.
|One of the stores by the parking lot
#4 Sefuku-ji 施福寺, a set on Flickr.


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Oberlin Workshop
Three members of our team, Rodger, Robert and Rebecca, were able to be a part of the Oberlin Instrument Workshop this last week. It was a very full week in which we were blessed to learn from the finest in the violin world. Below are pictures from the Bow Restoration Workshop with David Orlin instructing on Bow Rehairing techniques. And the Iris Carr lecturing on finish and retouch techniques. It was a very beneficial week for all who were involved.


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Seven Things to Look for Now That the Supercommittee Failed
Seven Things to Look for Now That the Supercommittee Failed
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or "supercommittee," failed to agree on a bill that would reduce future budget deficits by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Members of Congress were hoping that the supercommittee would solve many difficult political issues in its bill. Failure sets in motion seven issues that will set the political debate for the next year.
1. Payroll Tax Cut
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Tax Relief Act, hereafter) included a temporary reduction in the payroll tax for Social Security (or FICA) paid by employees, from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. The tax cut expires at the end of 2011.
The goal of the tax cut was to put more money into the hands of workers, which they would spend and help stimulate the economy.
President Obama has long favored a cut in payroll taxes. It was part of his platform in the 2008 campaign and he tried to get it put into the 2009 stimulus bill. Since the tax cut is favored by Obama and Republicans generally favor tax cuts, extending it should be easy, correct? Actually, it is not that simple.
Due to large budget deficits ($1.3 trillion in 2011), over $15 trillion in national debt and over $116 trillion in unfunded liabilities, Congress is in a period of fiscal restraint. Extending the payroll tax cut will make the nation's fiscal situation worse. Also, the payroll tax is the funding mechanism for Social Security. The amount of money raised by the payroll tax is not currently enough to pay for current beneficiaries. Extending the payroll tax cut serves to worsen Social Security's fiscal viability.
2. Unemployment Benefits
Unemployment benefits are set to expire at the end of this year. Proponents of extending the benefits argue that failure to do so could tip a weak economy into a recession. By putting money into the hands of the unemployed, they argue, beneficiaries will continue to spend money on necessities, such as groceries, which help businesses.
Critics of extending unemployment benefits point to research, such as the research that won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2010, showing that if unemployment benefits are extended for too long, it serves to keep the unemployment rate high. Those receiving unemployment benefits will hold out for a better job, rather than seek immediate employment, the argument goes.
3. Medicare Payments to Doctors
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, sometimes called "Obamacare," reduced the future growth of Medicare by cutting the amount of money doctors receive for providing care for Medicare patients.
When PPACA was passed, Obama touted the fact that the legislation would not add to the national debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Critics charged that Congress would later rescind some of the cost saving measures, such as the doctor payment cuts. Congress had tried to cut doctor payments before, but it always rescinded those cuts before they went into effect. Since Congress had done it before, it would likely do it again, the critics charged.
As those critics suspected, some in Congress are currently trying to stop the Medicare doctor payment cuts from going into effect. They worry that Medicare patients will have less access to health care because doctors would be less likely to take Medicare patients if the cuts go into effect.
4. Alternative Minimum Tax
The Alternative Minimum Tax was intended to make sure that the wealthy were not able to take advantage of so many deductions and credits in the tax code that they end up paying a lower tax rate than the middle class. When the AMT was passed, it was not indexed to inflation. So, over time, more middle-income taxpayers were affected by the AMT.
Since the two parties have not agreed to a permanent "fix" to the AMT, they end up agreeing to a temporary fix each year to prevent middle class taxpayers from paying more in taxes. Lawmakers had hoped the supercommittee would come up with a permanent AMT fix as part of a broader tax reform package.
5. Bush/Obama Tax Cuts
The tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2002 under President George W. Bush were set to expire in 2010. In December 2010, President Obama and a Democratic-controlled Congress passed a two-year extension of those tax cuts, which are now set to expire in 2012.
In his 2008 campaign, Obama wanted to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the top two income brackets, which would be about $175,000 for individuals or about $200,000 for married couples filing jointly. Republicans wanted to preserve the tax cuts for all income brackets. Since Senate Republicans held firm to this demand, and 60 votes are required to overcome a filibuster, Republicans were able to win that debate in 2010.
Obama's willingness to go along with Republicans in order to extend the tax cuts for two more years became a source of deep consternation among Democrats in 2011. Democrats were again unable to extract tax increases on the top two income brackets in the fight to raise the nation's debt limit.
Democrats on the supercommittee, however, held firm. They would not go along with any bill that reformed entitlements but did not include increased taxes on upper-income wage earners.
The Bush-era tax cuts became a major point of disagreement in the supercommittee hearings. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) made an offer that would increase revenue by closing loopholes and lowering rates. Republicans argued this was a "breakthrough" offer because they agreed to increasing taxes. Democrats argued, however, that it was a tax cut because, while some would pay more in taxes than they pay today, they would still pay less than if the Bush/Obama tax cuts expired.
So, will Congress agree to another extension of the Bush/Obama tax cuts? Since Obama is unlikely to agree to another extension that would keep the tax cuts on the top two brackets, which he refers to as "millionaires and billionaires," and Republicans are unlikely to agree to an extension that does not include the top two brackets, gridlock is the most likely scenario.
6. Sequestration or Automatic Cuts
Since the supercommittee failed, $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, is supposed to go into effect beginning in 2013 and spread over nine years. Social Security and Medicare are not included in the cuts.
About half of the cuts would be in defense spending, the rest would be in other domestic spending programs, such as Head Start, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency. In Washington, D.C., lingo, these "cuts" are not actual spending cuts, but reductions in the growth of these programs. The federal government will be spending less than they had planned, but still more than they spend today, on these programs.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has warned that the Defense Department cuts will "hollow out" our military and leave us less safe. There are bills in Congress now that would rescind the Defense Department cuts. President Obama said on Monday that he would veto any bill that attempts to rescind the sequestration.
7. 2012 Election
These issues will likely need an election to be sorted out. With all these issues on the table, voters will have some clear choices going into the 2012 election. They can choose Republicans, who want to not raise taxes and reduce government spending by reforming Medicare and Social Security. They can choose Democrats, who want to keep Social Security and Medicare without any major changes and increase taxes on the wealthy to pay for it.
There is also the possibility that, in a spirit of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats will work together to give Americans both low taxes, with the AMT fix, payroll tax cut and extension of the Bush/Obama tax cuts, and increased benefits, with the Medicare doctor payment fix, extension of unemployment benefits and rescinding the sequestration. But, of course, low taxes and high spending is what caused the current debt crisis in the first place.


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Forget about insider trading. Use Twitter.
German economists who used machine intelligence to analyze tweets about stocks say the advice shared among Twitter members can accurately predicts what the market will do a day ahead of time.
The key is to pick the right group to listen to among all those tossing out comments about stocks via Twitter, says a research headed by Timm Sprenger, an economist at the Technical University of Munich who is founder of tweettrader.net, a website that analyzes and aggregates relevant tweets.
SOCIAL NETWORK DANGER: Attackers favor social-networking sites, shortened URLs
Their contention is that the stock market efficiently aggregates information and opinions in stocks that are reflected in stock prices and trading volumes. They say proper analysis of tweets about stocks can do the same but a day ahead of the market. They found their results so compelling that they've created the website.
Financial professionals could use this type of analysis to figure out what tweeted information reflects actual investor behavior, the researchers say.
Using Web crawlers plugged into Twitter's API to find mention of S&P 100 stocks, the team used open source Weka software to automatically read and analyze the tweets they gathered, classifying them as buy, hold or sell. It turned out about half were hold, about 35% were buy and about 15% were sell.
They took into account how many times comments were retweeted, how many times they were mentioned by other Twitter members and how many followers individual tweeters had -- all as a way to give weight to individual tweets that are in line with their influence in the Twitter community.
Overall, the most respected tweets are those that get the most mention or are retweeted the most, the researchers say. "Users who provide above average investment advice are retweeted (i.e., quoted) more often, have more followers and are thus given a greater share of voice in microblogging forums," they say in their research paper on the subject.
They looked at 249,533 tweets about stocks listed on the S&P 100 and found a strong correlation between trading volume for a particular stock and the number of tweets that mention it.
The researchers found that tweeters offered up opinions contrary to what the market is currently doing and that the number of tweets about a particular stock is a good prediction of how many shares of it will be traded the next day.
The team looked at financial tweets between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2010.
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Are you pregnant and expecting your first born and thinking how to take his or her first baby picture ever? Do you have children and you want to have their picture taken but have no budget for it? Are you a proud parent who just bought his first DSLR camera and are looking for tips on how to take great photos of your babies? Did you ever wonder why your baby's adorableness cannot be captured when you're the one taking pictures using a camera? If you said yes to at least one of the questions above, then this article is for you!
Taking photos of my kids during fun and memorable moments delights me a great deal. The innocence in their eyes and the happiness they exhibit when playing outdoors is a joy to behold. These are the moments that are worth capturing. However, there are times when you just can't seem to take decent photos of your kids. Some are of hideous quality, out of focus, and in some occasions just flat out un-printable. These are the moments when you wish you were a pro or you had funds to take out from you budget to hire a professional photographer to follow you and your kids around, during these fun and joyous events. If you generally feel that taking photos of your child is a chore, try taking picture of a whole lot of children and babies (needless to say, make sure you have the appropriate permission).
One of the most challenging projects an amateur, or even a professional, photographer faces is taking baby pictures. Despite a baby's cuddliness, you seem to lose your patience since babies, unlike grown up kids, are not in any way capable of following directions. You can catch their attention but this does not seem to make them stay still for you to take a decent photograph of them (at least that's my experience on the subject). In times like this, aside from patience, you need to equip yourself with tips and technical guidelines of taking baby photos and some advanced knowledge on different camera settings, which you can use to produce picture perfect baby photos.
Alright, let's get down to brass tacks. Here are some great tips and simple instructions for optimizing your camera to its full potential and have actual pictures taken by you that look like they were taken by a professional photographer (like the ones from Anne Geddes on this site):
I hope these baby photo-shooting guidelines will help you in your challenge of taking photos of children and babies. Just remember - always have fun in doing it. It's a great way to spend quality time with your child and the perfect means of keeping fun and memorable moments alive. Have fun in taking photos of your cuddly, cute, little baby!


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Game development is no easy task. Choreographing a huge production team of programmers, artists, and a variety of other personnel with strict timelines is a grueling task. Given this difficulty—the kind in line with other big media productions such as film and music—the glory associated with a job done well is very different than other industries of the same nature: that is to say, there is very little outside recognition for the talented members in the world of game development.
We see names like Wright, Miyamoto, Kojima, and Jaffe now and again in game-related publications, but how often does their talent allow them the ability to focus on their jobs without the fear and pressure associated with constantly being replaced? Moreover, how many amazing developers have we not even heard about thanks to the lack of publicity the talent receives?
Lorne Lanning, co-founder and mastermind behind the revered Oddworld Studios, asks just these very questions about an industry that he grew apart from. In a very frank interview with Edge, Lanning talks about his fall from the industry and the reality surrounding the dispensability of gaming talent.
The key tenet of Lanning's discussion is the lack of respect for the "creative vision". Like many famous Hollywood directors or acclaimed music producers, a strong and talented game developer is equally capable of applying a vision towards a product that will guide all parts of the development towards success. Miyamoto, as an example, is well-known for his creative vision, and he has helped Nintendo produce quality products for over 20 years. Lanning criticizes the industry, though, for the lack of elbow room given to designers: even the most noteworthy developers can be expended on a whim. It would be huge news if Spielberg was pulled off of a picture, but from Lanning's point of view that kind of occurance is commonplace in the games industry. Lanning paints a vivid picture of this very occurrence:
The other day, I heard my friend who runs a major development studio in the US—he's in his 50s and has been running studios since he was 25—say: 'The new publisher just sent down their new 22-year-old boy to tell me what to do'. And that's just classic games industry, in that it hasn't yet realised what individual vision can truly bring to a project, because we're still in a fully teamsport corporate mode. We became packaged goods before we established ourselves as an artform, or a vehicle for expression.
The entire interview is fairly lengthy, covering a wide variety of topics, but it appears that Lanning has been very affected by the time he spent in the industry. His experiences eventually led him in a different direction where he felt freer in his creative endeavors.
Is Lanning just a jaundiced developer complaining about an industry he abandoned? Or does he have an important point? I think he does. Talent in the game industry is nowhere near as widely regarded as the equivalent players in some other mediums. Outside of game publications, it's very rare to hear any accolades given to noteworthy developers or designers. And with no unified set of legitimate awards, it's hard to recognize and award these people on a largely public platform. Yet, just as much effort—and nowadays, nearly as much money—goes into development of a game as of a blockbuster movie or album, and the creators care about their work just as much.


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- 1 Make audio test files using Sox
- 2 Remove/reduce background noise and hiss from an audio file
- 3 Trim silent gaps from audio
- 4 Create a spectrogram (sonogram, FFT, etc.) of an audio file
- 5 Record audio from the microphone
- 6 Playback audio OX X using Sox
- 7 Play noise
Make audio test files using Sox
The different synth types are sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, trapezium, exp, [white]noise, tpdfnoise, pinknoise, brownnoise, pluck.
Play a 3 second sine wave tone at a given frequency (440 Hz in this example).
play -n synth 3 sine 440
Play each string of a 6-string guitar in standard tuning
for note in E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4; do play -n synth 3 pluck $note done
Constant tone mixed with a swept tone
play --bits=16 -n synth 5 sine 1000 synth 4 sine mix 100-1000 channels 1 gain -3 play --bits=16 -n synth 9 sine 1000 synth 2 sine mix 1-2000 synth 2 sine mix 2000-1 channels 1 gain -3 # Same thing saved to a file: sox --bits=16 -n test-sound.wav synth 9 sine 1000 synth 2 sine mix 1-2000 synth 2 sine mix 2000-1 channels 1 gain -3
Almost play a tune
for note in C3 F4 A4 F4 C3 F4 A4 F4 C3 F4 F4 F4 E4 D4 C3; do play -n synth 0.25 pluck $note done
Remove/reduce background noise and hiss from an audio file
This is a two-step process; although, it can be run as a pipeline. First you need to analyze the audio to build up a profile of the noise. You want to sample a range that features only the background noise you want to remove. Typically you can sample the first 1 second of an audio file. This doesn't always work, but it mostly works.
sox audio_recording.wav -n trim 0 1 noiseprof | play audio_recording.wav noisered - 0.2
Trim silent gaps from audio
This removes silent sections from the beginning, middle, and end. Useful for compressing long audio logs that may contain many long pauses.
sox audio_recording.wav silence_removed.wav silence 1 0.1 1% -1 0.5 1%
Create a spectrogram (sonogram, FFT, etc.) of an audio file
spectrogram spectrograph sonogram sonograph spectral plot spectrum FFT Fourier Transform
The rate 6k option will narrow the frequency range view to the band most sensitive for human hearing. This cuts off frequencies above 3 kHz (half the sample rate of 6k). If you want the full frequency range then leave off the rate 6k option.
The -n is the NULL file option. This simply tells Sox that we don't want to actually create a new sound file. We are just analyzing the input file.
sox audio_recording.wav -n rate 6k spectrogram -t "Spectrogram of audio_recording.wav" -o spectrogram_20150531.png # For a white background use '-l' option: sox audio_recording.wav -n rate 6k spectrogram -l -t "Spectrogram of audio_recording.wav" -o spectrogram_20150531.png
Record audio from the microphone
Sox is probably the most universal tool for recording, manipulating, and playing back sound.
Record audio using Sox
Sox works on Linux and OS X (through Brew).
Simple stereo recording:
rec --channels 2 audio_recording.wav
Using Sox (this also works on OS X). This splits on silent gaps. This records audio. It does not start recording until it detects sound. It splits the audio separated by 2 seconds of silence into separate files. It stops recording after 10 seconds of silence. You may set the 0:10 to 1:00 to choose 1 minute instead of 10 seconds.
rec -V3 -p \ | sox -p -p silence 1 0.50 0.1% 1 0:10 0.1% \ | sox -p audio_recording.wav silence 1 0.50 0.1% 1 2.0 0.1% : newfile : restart
Linux Only
arecord -vv -fdat audio_recording.wav
Playback audio OX X using Sox
Note that where an output filename is require you may substitute -d or -t coreaudio (for Mac OS X). These seem to be equivalent. The -d option seems to be the more general purpose style since it will automatically pick the correct sound output on a Mac and Linux.
Both examples below play audio and both will automatically detect the audio stream type. The play command is the easier to remember version. You may have special reasons for wanting to use the sox command alternative.
play audio_recording.wav cat audio_recording.wav | sox - -t coreaudio
Play noise
These are all equivalent using /dev/urandom.
# From a file or device file. sox -t raw -r 44100 -b 16 -e unsigned-integer /dev/urandom -d sox -t raw -r 44100 -b 16 -e unsigned-integer /dev/urandom -t coreaudio # Using a pipe... cat /dev/urandom | sox -t raw -r 44100 -b 16 -e unsigned-integer - -d cat /dev/urandom | sox -t raw -r 44100 -b 16 -e unsigned-integer - -t coreaudio
This uses Sox's built-in noise generator:
play --null synth whitenoise
This sounds best:
play --channels 2 --null --show-progress synth 01:00 brownnoise band -n 400 499 tremolo 0.1 70 reverb 19 bass -11 treble -1 vol 12dB repeat 19


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Painful memories of the bear market and continued frustration over low interest rates have a lot of investors looking beyond stocks, bonds and mutual funds for their retirement savings. A small but growing number have discovered they can use the money in their IRAs to buy real estate -- from raw land to single-family homes to commercial buildings.
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