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[Proceedings of the conference 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World organised by FSTC, London, 25-26 May 2010]. The Islamic realms served as a crucible for scientific learning from the ancient Greek world in the West and from China, India and Iran, in the East. Western Europe in turn benefited from the transmission of Arabic science into Latin, just as Chinese culture was indebted to Arabic texts travelling eastwards. There was a vast network of transmission over centuries and over continents. This short article presents three stories telling related to the transfer of science between India, Europe and China via Muslim Heritage.
Figure 1-2: Professor Charles Burnett presenting his lecture in the "1001 Inventions" conference. © FSTC 2010.
The Islamic realms served as a crucible for scientific learning from the ancient Greek world in the West and from China, India and Iran, in the East. Western Europe in turn benefited from the transmission of Arabic science into Latin, just as Chinese culture was indebted to Arabic texts travelling eastwards. There was a vast network of transmission over centuries and over continents. Today I would like to tell three stories.
1. The first story concerns astronomy
In 1160 CE, a Hebrew sage from Tudela in the valley of the Ebro, Abraham ibn Ezra, when introducing a commentary written by a Spanish Muslim, Ibn al-Muthanna', on al-Khwarizmi's procedures for observing and predicting the movement of the stars and the planets, gave the following account:
In ancient days, neither wisdom nor religion was found among the Arabs who dwelt in tents, until Muhammad arose and gave them a new religion from his heart. After him came wise men who composed many books on their religious law, until there arose a great king of the Arabs whose name was al-Safaah. He heard that in India there were many sciences, and so he ordered that a wise man be sought, fluent in both Arabic and the language of Indian, who might translate one of the books of their widsom for him. … (He found a Jew) and gave him money so that he might travel to the city of Arin on the equator under ths signs of Aries and Libra, where day is equal to night throughout the year, neither shorter nor longer, thinking 'perhaps he will succeed in bringing one of their wise men to the king'. So the Jew went, and after many subterfuges, persuaded one of the wise men of Arin to agree to go the king...The scholar, whose name was Kanka, was brought to the king, and he taught the Arabs the basis of numbers, i.e. the nine numerals. Then from this same scholar, an Arabic named Jacob b. Sharah translated a book containing the tables of the seven planets..the rising times of the zodiac signs, ...the arrangement of the astrological houses, knowledge of the higher stars, and the eclipses of the luminaries (and it goes on in this way).
There are several elements in this story which sound like the stuff of legend, and Ibn Ezra clearly wishes to make some claim for Jewish participation in the transmission of knowledge. But in reality, what the text he translates introduces are Indian methods of plotting the movements of the planets and fixed stars scientifically. These had been brought to their most advanced form by Brahmagupta in Sanskrit in the Brahmasphutasiddanta in the late 7th century. These Sanskrit astronomical tables and their canons (descriptions of procedures) had been brought to Baghdad soon after its foundation at the beginning of the Abbasid era, in the time of the caliph al-Mansur (754-75). This was also the time when chess (Arabic shitranj) and a set of moralizing stories (Kalila wa-Dimna) concerning animals based on the Indian Pancatantra entered Islamic culture (also referred to in Ibn Ezra's account).
The astronomical tables, known as Sindhind, formed the basis of al-Khwarizmi's tables and canons in the early 9th century. These were brought to the Islamic Spain, al-Andalus, and adapted to the meridian of Cordoba by Maslama al-Majriti in the late 9th century, and translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath in the early 12th century, as the first complete set of astronomical tables and their canons in Christendom They paved the way for other sets, improvements, developments, and commentaries, including that of Ibn al-Muthanna, which was also translated into Latin by Hugo of Santalla in Tarazona, a couple of decades after Adelard's translation.
But that is not the entire story. In a Latin text on Arabic numerals, we find that they are described as being 'especially useful for astronomy' (Liber ysagogarum in artem astronomiam). It may be no accident that the same al-Khwarizmi wrote the authoritative book on 'calculating with Indian numerals'. For Arabic numerals are, indeed, Indian numerals—originally Sanskrit symbols brought over to the Arabic world, probably with the astronomical texts (as Ibn Ezra implies), and diffused, like the tables and their canons via Muslim Spain to the Latin West. The new way of calculation, with pen and paper (or rather quill and parchment), using symbols with place value, was quite appropriately called the 'algorism'—named after al-Khwarizmi himself, the transmitter both of the numerals and the astronomical tables.
Two hundred and fifty years later, in the early years of the Ming dynasty, two sets of Arabic astronomical tables were translated into Chinese. The following words are found in the preface of one set:
In the autumn of 1382, the emprer T'aitsu … ordered this translation, saying: 'The Western people are very good at observing astronomical phenomena. They have an ingenious method for the computation of the movements of the planets, which we have nothing comparable to'.
In the postscript to the other set of tables we read:
There has been no such book in our country since older times. In the eighteenth year of the Hunwu Era (i.e. 1385), a barbarian came from the Far West and he became naturalized in China. He offered to the emperor a set of astronomical tables written in Arabic numerals. It gave predictions of the occultations of the Moon and five planets. It was turned into Chinese numerals for the first time.
By this time, an Islamic observatory had been active in Beijing for over one hundred years. It had been set up under the Mongols, by Kublai Khan in 1271, who gave the directorship to a certain Jamal al-Din, and it lasted until 1656. To it were brought not only texts on astronomy and astrology, and Euclid's Elements, the basic textbook on geometry that any prospective astronomer had to start by studying, but also astronomical instruments: astrolabes, quadrants, armillary spheres.
2.The second story concerns medicine
There is a Tibetan legend that a doctor called 'Galenos' settled in Lhasa during the reign of Sron-bcan sgam-po (i.e. during the 7th century). The legend tells us that Galenos arrived with the Yellow Emperor of Chinese medicine and the rishi ('sage') Bharadhvaja of India. Although this cannot be substantiated, it does provide an origin-myth for the three major strands that can be recognized in Tibetan medicine: Greco-Arabic, Chinese and Indian, and an indication that these arrived in Tibet in 'imperial times', when the Tibetan empire rivalled in size and importance the Abbasid Empire, founded in 750, on its Western border, and Tang China (618-907), with its capital of Chang-an (Xi'an), on its Eastern border.
The Arabic influence can be seen in certain Tibetan medical doctrines (especially in the humoral system and the importance of diagnosis by pulse and by urine) and in terminology: kur kum for saffron or turmeric from Arabic kurkum, bad kan for 'phlegm' from balgham, and dar yak an from tiryâq (theriake) for a wonder medicine made of multiple ingredients. With the Mongol conquest of the whole of Asia from China to the borders of Hungary, and the consequent revitalizing of the Silk Roads, the spread of medical knowledge became even more remarkable. Rashid al-Din (1247-1318), at the court of the Ilkhanid Mongol Ghazan (who had converted to Islam), translated into Persian a Chinese medical book under the title Tansuqname.
In the contrary direction, Islamic medicine was adopted by the Mongols. As Paul Buell has written, "For the Mongolian world of the 13th and 14th centuries 'Muslim' medicine became the mainstream, both in the Mongol east and in the west, but particularly in China. There it briefly superseded Chinese medicine in importance, at least at the court level." Buell shows that this 'Muslim' medicine was transmitted mainly by Tibetans, who had an important role at the Mongol courts, as spiritual advisers and doctors. One result of this was a book known as the Huihui yaofang, literally 'Muslims' Medicinal Recipes', an encyclopaedia once consisting of some 3200 pages (only a fragment remains). In this text, the Arabic names of the medicines are given both in Chinese script and the original Arabic script. Some recipes purport to go back to Galen himself. I quote:
An ointment of Jâlînuus: It is especially good for paralysis on the left hand side of the body, numbness on the right, weakness of the body, the preponderance of phlegm associated with an evil wind, etc.
The ingredients that follow are all Arabic terms, sometimes with explanations in Persian and/or Chinese: Ghârîquun (agaric), ishqîl ('this is mountain onion; you roast it'), ushaq (gum ammoniac), saqamûniyaa (scamony), harbaq aswad (black hellebore), etc.
3. The third and last example concerns philosophy
In 1642, John Selden, the English Jurist, Legal Historian and Arabist, wrote:
The liberal and correctly taught sciences were formerly for a long time called by the English 'the studies of the Arabs'—the studia Arabum—as if called from the race and the places were they were then alone seriously cultivated. This is clear also from the preface to his Natural Questions of Adelard the monk of Bath, which he wrote when bringing the sciences back to England from the schools of the Arabs.
He is referring to the opening of the popular dialogue on Natural Questions, written by Adelard, a scholar and teacher at Bath (no evidence that he was a monk), the scholar who translated al-Khwarizmi's astronomical tables, in which he says that he has gone abroad to pursue the studies of the Arabs. After seven years, he returned to England and there he meets his nephew and they engage in a kind of intellectual competition in which Adelard espouses Arabic studies, and the nephew draws on his French studies. Adelard characterises Arabic studies as being new and exciting and French studies as being traditional and boring. But the main point of contrast is that the Arabs use their brains (they use 'ratio'--'reason'), whereas the French rely on authority. To quote Adelard's own words:
I have learnt one thing from my Arab masters, with reason as guide, but you another: you follow a halter, being enthralled by the picture of authority. For what else can authority be called other than a halter? As brute animals are led wherever one pleases by a halter, but do not know where or why they are being led, and only follow the rope by which they are pulled along, so the authority of written words leads many people into danger, since they just accept what they are told, without question. So what is the point of having a brain, if one does not think for oneself?… If I am going to talk to you, you must give and provide rational arguments.
One may quote another anecdote, by a scholar of the generation after Adelard, Daniel of Morley, who tells us that, like many young scholars, he left England with the intention of studying at the university of Paris (which was now replacing the cathedral schools as the main centre for advanced study), but found that the professors there were more like donkeys than men; they spent their time engaged in minutiae and had no interest in science. But then he heard that Arabic learning concentrated on the mathematical sciences (using the terminology of the time, he calls these the 'quadrivium', the four-fold path to wisdom, consisting of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), and that it was possible to study this in Toledo. So he hastened there and was not disappointed. He studied both with the greatest of the translators of Arabic science and philosophy, Gerard of Cremona, and with his Arabic colleague, Ghalib, a Christian from al-Andalus. This allowed him to write a book about how the universe functioned ('On the natures of the heavens and the earth'), in which he begs his readers to accept the 'simple and clear opinions of the Arabs' rather than the obscure statements of Latin scientists who 'veil their ignorance under a blanket of unintelligibility'.
The liberal arts that John Selden was referring to were the mathematical sciences of the quadrivium. These, together with the three 'arts of speech' of the trivium (grammar, rhetoric and logic), made up the curriculum of 'philosophy' which Adelard described in another work, called 'On the Same and the Different'. As the 12th century progressed, the mathematical sciences were incorporated into another philosophical scheme, by being added to works by, or deriving from, Aristotle in natural science and metaphysics. Many of the central texts of this new philosophy were translated from Arabic, and to the original works of Aristotle, were added the paraphrases, re-writings and commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, Algazel and Averroes. These Arabic-Latin translations were incorporated into the curricula of the nascent European universities, in Oxford, Bologna, and Paris.
Bearing in mind the emphasis in Arabic learning on reasoned argument, one scholar, Christopher Beckwith, has recently put forward evidence that the scholastic method pursued in the West according to quite strict rules of procedure, owed its structure to that used in Islamic madrasas. These, in turn, may have been modelled on central Asian Buddhist viharas in which the same method was pursued. Whether or not this can be substantiated, the reputation of Arabs for rationality and pre-eminence in the mathematical and natural sciences persisted in the West, and remained strong until at least the 17th century. Fortunately, that reputation is being revived today through the work of the FSTC.
Brief Bibliography:
The stories come respectively from:
For (1), see:
- B.R. Goldstein, Ibn al-Muthanna's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi, New Haven, 1967.
- Charles Burnett, 'Common Sources of Astrology and Astronomy in West and East', in The Mutual Encounter of East and West, 1492–1992, ed. P. Milward, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 81-87.
- W. Hartner, 'The Astronomical Instruments of Cha-ma-lu-ting: their Indentification, their relations to the instruments of the observatory of Maragha', reprinted in Oriens-Occidens, Hildesheim, 1968, pp. 215-226.
- Benno van Dalen, 'Islamic and Chinese Astronomy under the Mongols: a Little-Known Case of Transmission', in From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas, eds Y. Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben etc., Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 327-356.
For (2), see:
- Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, 'Islam and Tibet, Cultural Interactions—an Introduction', and Paul D. Buell, 'Tibetans, Mongols and the Fusion of Eurasian Cultures', in Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes, eds Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Farnham (forthcoming in 2010).
For (3), see:
- Charles Burnett, The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England, London, 1997.
- Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew, ed. Charles Burnett et al., Cambridge, 1998.


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Miami-Dade High Schools
Jordan Cabral dazzles as Calvary Christian rolls at home vs. La Salle
Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian finally had the chance to host football games at night this season.
On Thursday night, the Eagles fed off the playoff atmosphere to move a step forward in their goal of winning their conference championship.
Led by Jordan Cabral's 251 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns, the Eagles defeated Miami Immaculata-La Salle 28-7 in a quarterfinal playoff of the Southeastern Football Conference.
Calvary Christian (7-2), playing in its first season in the 16-team independent league, will host Boca Raton Pope John Paul II next Thursday in the conference semifinals.
Coral Springs Charter will play Fort Pierce John Carroll in the other semifinal.
La Salle (7-2) is eliminated from the playoffs but will play a consolation bracket game at Fort Lauderdale Westminster Academy next week.
"We were thankful we got to play at home, and we certainly love playing in front of our crazies here," Calvary Christian coach Kirk Hoza said. "Playing on the field you practice on is always a blessing. It's a great league and, obviously, it's exciting with the playoffs."
Cabral helped the Eagles take the advantage early when he caught a screen pass and rumbled 78 yards to the La Salle 2-yard line, setting up their first score on a 1-yard quarterback sneak by Greg LaStella two plays later.
A well-executed screen pass to Cabral in the third quarter gave Calvary Christian a 21-0 lead.
Backup quarterback Trystan Lago, who entered the game after LaStella was knocked out on a hard tackle, looped a pass to Cabral behind the Royal Lions' rush, allowing him to rumble 37 yards for the score.
"On a short week, I thought our kids practiced very well," Hoza said. "You never know because it's hard to replicate the offense La Salle runs. Our kids adjusted, and getting a couple of scores early really helped."
•Nova 32, South Broward 0:
Junior quarterback Kevin Dzwonkowski threw three touchdowns, ran for another and the Nova defense claimed a third consecutive shutout as the Titans (4-4, 1-2 District 15-7A) defeated South Broward (0-8, 0-4).
•McArthur 13, Western 7 (2OT):
McArthur (4-4, 2-3 District 12-8A) was able to defeat Western (0-8, 0-5) in overtime thanks to a 3-yard touchdown run by quarterback Janarvis Pough and an interception by Damian Richardson in the second overtime.
•Taravella 26, Douglas 21:
Coach Dan Marguriet reached deep into his bag of tricks, turning a fake punt and halfback pass into 10 points, and senior kicker Alex Pacelko kicked four field goals as Taravella (4-4, 4-2 11-8A) knocked off Douglas (4-4, 2-4)

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southa wrote: I think perspective means that the fading slices would be of constant z/w, i.e. all going through the origin in eye coordinates.
I think I see how the painting idea works. So if there were three small objects at (0,0,-1,-10), (0,0,0,-10) and (0,0,1,-10), would one object overpaint the others?
The Adanaxis renderer would blend the contributions from each object.
I don't think I can do a torus right now. Are we talking about the path swept out by a 3D sphere taken round in a circle, whilst being kept perpendicular to the direction of travel? The scripts can do a cube taken round in a circle.
southa wrote:I think we have a wire crossed here. I forgot to say that the observer is looking in the -w direction, so anything with negative w is in front of the observer. z is the hidden axis which doesn't map to a specific position or shrinking on the screen.
southa wrote:Ah, so you're talking about a double projection - 4D to 3D then 3D to 2D?
Does this hide things from the viewer that the tetronian can see?
In terms of this scheme, the Adanaxis 3D to 2D transformation is a non-perspective blend without depth hiding.
PS: I dont understand how the depth order makes a difference if you use HAC. Isnt then simply the sum/integral taken, which is independent of the order?
southa wrote:There's already a perspecive projection in place
In many ways discard-z is simple - it's like throwing away the z coordinate and viewing the resulting (x, y, w) coordinates as a normal 3D scene.
Depth sorting is done using w - effectively the distance between the viewer and the object. HAC applies to z, the hidden axis.
It is not the same to first parallel project (discarding one axis) and then perspective project, compared to first perspective project and then parallel project.
I thought that the brightness of each point on the screen is computed by the weighted sum of the brightness of the points on the corresponding ray to the eye (or in your case the ray perpendicular to the screen at that point).
southa wrote:Perspective then parallel:
(x,y,z,w) -> (x/w, y/w, z/w) -> (x/w, y/w)
Parallel then perspective:
(x, y, z, w) -> (x, y, w) -> (x/w, y/w)
Along the ray in 4D, normal occlusion operates, and that's what the depth sorting (approximately) does.
The HAC operates on the retina, and combines all of pixels on a line in the retina into one screen pixel.
The 3d world *is* the tetronians retina. The question is then about how to present this a 3d being. To do that there are established techniques available.
*gives up asking for the application of the rendering order, since it was 3 times not answered*
southa wrote:The 3d world *is* the tetronians retina. The question is then about how to present this a 3d being. To do that there are established techniques available.
So this looks like the nub of our disagreement. You appear to treat the retina as a 3D object in a 3D world that's viewed by an external observer. I won't do that in my application because I believe it would create a false impression of depth, i.e. one unrelated to the distance from 4D viewer to 4D object.
quickfur wrote:Projecting from 4D to 3D is the easy step. I think we all agree that we want perspective projection from 4D to 3D with occlusion (e.g., shouldn't see through walls). This projection is done from the 4D viewpoint.
What's really needed is to use transparent surfaces instead of lines, so that you can see the shapes of the projected volumes.
Why? Because if you force the second projection to happen orthogonally to the 4D viewpoint, you get a lot of illusions. For example, if you look down a cubical passage in 4D, the projected image has the 4 side walls as frustums (analogous to the side walls of the cube-within-a-cube projection of the 4-cube). But now you project to 2D parallel to the coordinate axes, and suddenly you can't see 2 of the frustums anymore because their opposite edges coincide. What you really want is to project to 2D using another viewpoint (which resides in 3D), that looks at the retina from an angle, so that you can see the 6 frustum volumes in the 3D retina separately. The cubical wall at the end of the corridor will be much more obviously a cube; if you had projected from an orthogonal viewpoint, it simply becomes a square, and you have absolutely no information about whether it's a square, a cube, or a cuboid in the 4D view.
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I finally found a psychotherapist I like, and now, my employer is changing health carriers. My therapist is not on the new plan. She is willing to apply. That could take months and meanwhile, I might go nuts. Is there anything I can do?
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Dear Talking It Out,
Yes, you can call the new carrier and ask if they will cover "transition" visits. That is, will they cover your visits with your therapist as if she were an approved provider, while she goes through their application process? Many carriers will do this.
Since your therapist is already seeing you – a plan member, the carrier will likely accept her application. Otherwise, the carrier might reject it based upon already having "enough" therapists in the area. It does cost the carrier money to vet, enroll, and pay each service provider.
Good luck!


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This morning we woke to an amazing sight. A hot air balloon that was filling with hot air just across the road from the back of house. We watched it take off, and of course we waved and all the people waved back. Anyway we quickly got dreesed and raced up to Mt Pleasant and to our astonishment their was 16 hot air balloons in the sky. It was so surreal, a truely amazing and memorable sight. The photo over Canberra with all the balloons doesnt do it any justice.
Anyway update on Imogen. Went to the doc again yesterday and once again couldnt find anything wrong with her. If she hasnt come good by Monday she is back to the doc for blood tests. I shall keep you posted.
This afternoon we went down the road to watch Barry play footy. It was a practice match. It was RMC verses ADFA, and RMC won.
Whilst we were there Imogen perked up a bit, so fingers crossed we are seeing the last of whatever it is.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Up up and away......
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Quick Update
Quick Update on Imogen. Still no good, we took her to the ER at Canberra Hospital early yesterday evening, and after a "very" looooong wait they told us she """might""" have constipation. However we disagreed and they sent us on our way. Today a number 2 came out, so no constipation there, however the little one is in so much pain and is very lethargic, not eating and drinking.
So the plain now is, hopefully she gets a good nights sleep, and assess the situation in the morning, but it's likely I will take her back to the doctors and have it out with them. So I shall keep you updated on Imogen, and fingers crossed all is well in the morning..
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Pialligo Apple Orchard
Today Imogen's pre-school went on an excursion to the Pialligo Apple Orchard, which is just down the road. And to much of Imogen's disgust, I went along to assist. Well if you call taking loads of photos assisting, well I did a great job then.
It was a totally organic orchard, and the apples were 'delicous!!' We were able to pick 8 apples, then go back up to the apple juicing shed to watch how juice is made, then able to taste test and buy a bottle. It was 'bonza' I tell you.
Imogen is still a bit off color and seems like the problem is easing, but hasn't totally gone away. Poor little bugger, at least her mind was of her belly for a few hours today, with the apples, and her little mate Georgie who popped over for a play...
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
+++Sunday Update+++
Sunday Update. This morning we went out the back of the acreage and waved to the QUEEN yes the real one... In my PJ's, coffee and fag in the other hand. Thankfully she couldnt see us, but we saw her car and her entourage. Then we went to old parliament lawns to see a whole heap of cars.. It must be a man thing. BORING yawn yawn, but we were not there long, as Imogen has been very sick this weekend with stomach pains.
This afternoon we took her to the doctors and she has "mesenteric adenitis" yep try and say that 10 times over. Bascially it is swollen lymph glands in her belly, and mostly misdiagnosed as appentisitis. She is looking better now, but I will be keeping her home from school tomorrow, just in case.
Anyway here are a couple of shots of today, sorry none of me waving to Her royal highness in my PJ's, but one of Imogen and Georgie who we bumped into at the car thing, and for those who loved the tent city, here is another from a different angle....
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
Front yard BBQ
Hello there, last night we had a BBQ on our front lawn with all Barry's work mates and their families. It was a great night, plenty of food, in fact enough to feed an army.. ha ha
Yes I know you all saying, "the front yard?" well to anwser that is that there is plenty of room for starters, shade, and the carport came in handy after dark, so the fellas could watch the rugby, and listen to to music. Anyway here is a couple of shots from last night.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Another sneak peak
hello all here is another sneak peak of the easter book I am working on. Neally finished. Nothing exciting happening here, Imogen is off to the army band tomorrow with pre school and they all have made shakers out of toilet rolls and rice to play along with them. The kids have been told the army band know wiggles songs, so Imogen is quite excited.
Just for Nic, the markets arent like the vic markets, they are like a craft market, but with a lot of old daggy arts and crafts if you get my drift. No doubt we will chat on the phone about it.
Bye for now
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
Today Imogen and I went to Hall markets and I was quite dissappointed in them. Not much there considering its suppose to be the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Perhaps may years ago it was, but its nothing special. I did get a new dogs mat and Imogen had her first pony ride. And yes I did forget to take my camera with me, which usually never leaves my bag. After lunch Barry came home and shall be spending more time at home for the next few weeks. Hip hip hooray.... This afternoon we went up to the sergents mess for a few drinks, not much to report on there, so the only other exciting thing to report on is my easter pop up book that I working on so here's a sneak peak....
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Saturday, March 04, 2006
****SKY FIRE****It was brillant. We went up to Mount Pleasant this evening to watch all the displays sky fire had to offer. The view was unreal. The Roulettes were there doing their acrobatic displays, and from the Mount we had front row seats as we were the same height as them flying for most of their display. Then came the fire works. A 20minute display of color. Enough said we hope you enjoy looking at these shots as much as we had taking them. Also caught up with friends up there so it was a really enjoyable night.
Nightey night.xoxoxox
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Friday, March 03, 2006
The Vegies have sprouted
Hello all, not much to report on today. Linda went home this morning, so Imogen and I had a lazy day at home. However I thought I would share a couple of photos of our potted vegie patch. Its not much at this stage, with winter not far off, but it is a start, and we are enjoying watching them all grow.
So far we have a capiscum plant, brussel sprouts for Barry, brocoli, Imogen has her carrots just sprouting, hopefully in time for the easter bunny, if not for snow men in the winter, and I have my parsley which has finally just sprouted.
Tomorrow we are going to plant silver beet for the birds and onions.
Barry will be home tomorrow afternoon for the night and hopefully we will go up to the top of Mount Pleasant and watch "Sky Fire" which is a huge fire work display over the lake. I really dont like my chances trying to get a good vantage point on the lake, so we will stay close to home and hopefully get a good spot on Mount Pleasant. Nightey night for now....
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
Parliamentary theatrics
Well today we visited old Parliament House and the new parliament house. The first was interesting as it is so small compared to the new one, and the guide we had let us in on some old stories of past members.
The new one is huge in comparison, and is very different in decor. We even got a chance to go into the house of representatives and watch question time. Needless to say they are brillant actors on the tax payers stage. The theatrics and BS was quite interesting, and one feels like yelling out, "and I am paying tax for all of you to act like kindergarten kids" however one doesnt do such a thing in the public viewing area. Wish I could though. However they dont allow cameras or phones into the house, so obviously no photos of the man himself, Johnny Howard, or any other puppet in the great show of parliamentary theatrics.
I did get a photo of tent city, which at the moment, has few inhabitants, but the fire still burns, and will do for some time as there is massive amounts of fire wood on the lawns in front of old parliament house.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
War Memorial & Royal Australian Mint
Today Linda and I went to the War Memorial while Imogen was at pre-school. It was fascinating seeing and reading all about past wars etc... This is truely a must for anyone coming to ACT and learn a little bit more about our past as a nation.
After lunch Barry came home, and is home for the night, before he ventures back out bush.
So this afternoon, we decided to go to Royal Australian Mint. This was very dissapointing. You can make your own $1 coin. However that isnt quite the truth. You slot $2.50 into a machine and out pops a $1 coin that hasnt been circulated. But it claims "you" make it. I think its a con, $2.50 for a $1 coin. Inflation!!!!!!!!!
Anyway some of the exhibits were interesting, and you can see where they make our money somewhat, and needless to say it really wasnt anything special. In fact it was a huge let down. I dont know if I was expecting something special about making money, but it wasnt what I had pictured.
Anyway off now to sit down and watch Jamie Oliver's cooking trip to Italy, so arriverderci for now.. Chow...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
View from Mount Pleasant
Yes, today we finally got to Woden shopping centre for some retail therapy. We got Imogen some really cool winter clothes and pink cowboy boots, so stay tuned for winter shots in the coming months. If not days. This morning we had our first dew, so its only a matter of time before the BIG freeze kicks in.
Anyway here are couple of shots from Mt Pleasant last night. The first one is of looking over the Russle offices, the hub of the defence force, you can see the big eagle on a concrete pillar that the US government gave to Australia as a present. Wasnt that nice of them. Ahhhh..
Past the concrete eagle you can see Lake Burley Griffin with the large water fountain, and here is a fact for those that are interested. At any given time there is at least 5 tonne, yes 5 tonne of water in the air... Interesting hey!!!
Over to the right is Telstra tower which has the best views ever.
The other photo is looking over Duntroon. Our house is down there somewhere under all those trees. But the building you can see in the foreground is where Barry's office is, and the buiding with all the spikie roofs is Duntroon House. No not our house but the officers mess.
Well thats all for today chat with you tomorrow... Chow...
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Monday, February 27, 2006
Baton Relay
Today was an eventful day. Picked Barry's mum Linda up from the airport early this morning, then took Imogen to pre-school, there we discovered that the Queen's Baton relay for the Commonwealth Games was heading to Duntroon this morning. So off we went just up the road and watched the fan fair pass by.
After Imogen finished school, we went to Tuggernong Hyperdome shopping centre. (We were going to Woden), however I didnt get a chance to take the turn off, bloody Canberra signage, so we kept heading south for the Tuggernong. Not much there to report on.
After dinner, we took Linda for a tour around Duntroon, then up to Mount Pleasant Look out, and watched the sunset over the capital.
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Howdy Y'all
Howdy Y'all, hope you are all great on this wonderful Sunday afternoon. Today Imogen, neighbours and I went for a walk around Duntroon, up to the playground, then the hedge maze, around to the lovely rose garden and around beautiful old Duntroon House, which is the officer's mess. It is a beautiful building and hopefully in the coming weeks I will get up there and take some shots to share with you. If I am lucky I might even get a chance to go inside. I have been told there is a grand stair case and the decor is die for. I shall keep you all posted on that one.
Other than that we pottered once again around the acreage, mowing, cleaning, feeding the vegies, which are now sprouted, and de webbing the outside of the house. There is so many spiders here it's unreal. Tonight on David Attenborough ABC there was a programm on spiders and I was most interested in the red backs, and how they form their webs. They showed how they did it, they have a very distinct way too, and needless to say if I knew, what I know now, I wouldn't have been so carefree today around the garden bed under the bathroom window, where "I know NOW" there was a very large red back spiders web.. Looks like the spray is coming out tomorrow morning..... On that note nightey night....
Posted by Sarah at 9:01 PM 1 comments
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Shabby Chic Altered Book
Hello all, thought I would share my latest project which I completed today. Some would remember I used to make these altered books with greeting cards and antique gold paint. But now I have shabby chic'ed it up with photos, crackle medium and of course scrapbooking stuff. Hopefully now that I have my creative juices flowing again, I can get stuck into some wonderful easter creations...Thats the plan anyway.
Imogen is doing great. At the moment is playing dress up's with her mate Jack. "Getting married" she tells me. Should I be worried????? Hope you enjoy the photos....
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Monday, February 20, 2006
Pic of Imogen on her 1st day of preschool
Here she is on her first day of preschool, which was last week. Imogen is having a wonderful time discovering her new school and friends. I went to an information night last week, and I am amazed at how much they do in one day. Busy little people playing and learning at the same time.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
Our first blog
Here we are, we have jumped on the blog band wagon and finally have our very own spot to share our adventures and journey's.
So here goes.
Today we potted around the acreage and did some much needed gardening and maitenance. Silly us in 34.C heat. However it all got done for another week or 2.
Then we sat down to a lovely lamb roast, and Trudy's famous gravy recipe. Yumm Yumm
And to finish the day off, we finally took Imogen down to Lake Burley Griffin to feed all the black swans at Kingston.
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Eric Teman
posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:51 pm
On p. 7 of the user's manual, it says essentially that if WLS is used, missingness is not allowed to be a function of observed outcomes. Does this mean WLSMV requires MCAR data?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 8:39 pm
Not if you have covariates - they are allowed to influence missingness.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 8:39 pm
And, you can do multiple imputation followed by WLSMV.
Eric Teman
posted on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 4:56 pm
If there are a mix of categorical and continuous variables and WLSMV is used during the imputation phase of multiple imputation,
1. Does the multivariate probit model only apply to the categorical missing values or to continuous as well?
2. Does the multivariate probit model assume normality?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 10:38 am
Multiple imputation is done using the Bayes estimator.
1. Only categorical.
2. Yes.
See the following paper on the website under Papers/Bayesian Analysis:
Asparouhov, T. & Muth�n, B. (2010). Multiple imputation with Mplus. Technical Report. Version 2.
posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 6:48 am
Dear Drs. Muthen
I have a query regarding missing data when using WLSMV estimator. I conducted a CFA to validate a single latent variable construct of father involvement using data from sweep 4 of a longitudinal survey. My sample size was 363.
I then used this latent construct of father involvement at sweep 4 as a predictor of child well-being at sweep 5 (child well-being was a four factor model which I had previously validated by conducting a CFA). I also include a range of control variables for child well-being. The sample size for the full model was 525.
Is the sample size larger because only cases with data missing on X variables are removed? How are estimates calculated based on 525 cases when only 363 cases provided information for the measurement model?
I hope my query is clear.
Many thanks for your help.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 4:46 pm
I assume that you don't use factor score estimates from sweep 4 to compute the father involvement variable but rather use a CFA with all those indicators. The analysis excludes those with missing on X's and missing on all the Y's, so sweep 5 must have added subjects with at least one sweep 5 Y.
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Making cookies is always fun for kids but for us, these are especially exciting to make. The familiar shape of the triangular cookies shows itself every March, it is the official cookie of Purim, a Jewish holiday geared toward the kiddos. (You definantly don't have to be Jewish to make these!) We first tried a recipe that seemed to have good reviews but they came out too cakey, I needed another try and I knew exactly where to look for the perfect recipe.
I went straight to Claire's old Preschool, the ECE Preschool at the Marin Osher JCC A place where baking and kids is perfectly natural! They use tried and true recipes passed down from Bubi to Bubi and they really work. If 100 preschoolers can make Challah or Hamantashen taste good then I know the recipes work! When I visited, the Director handed me an adorable colorful printout of the Hamantashen recipe. Let's back up a minute, I know you are wondering what's up with that weird name and why is the cookie shaped like a triangle?
There are four good deeds that people try to carry out at Purim time.
1) To hear the reading of the Megillot Ester (Book of Esther) at a group gathering. This developed into a custom several hundred years after the real event took place.
2) To enjoy an atmosphere that encourages celebration with food and drink.
3) Helping out at least two people who are less fortunate than we are (charity) by giving them gifts on the 14th of Adar.
It has also become a tradition (Machatzit Hashekel) to give 3 half-dollar coins to charity to commemorate the half-shekel given by each Jew in the time of the Holy Temple. This good deed is usually done in the synagogue.
4) Giving gifts to a friend who is not necessarily poor. These ready-to-eat gifts might take the form of a fruit basket (Shalach Monot), pastry or beverage.
The best part of Purim is the dress up, the kids dress as Esther, Hamen or any royal. Purple is often used in decoration because it is the color connected to royalty. The celebration is kind of like Mardi Gras and Halloween all wrapped up in one, lots of sweets and lots of fun!
Now that the history part is out of the way we can get on to sweeter things..This recipe was great to use, a parent form the school made it, I have no clue who, but thanks because it is so handy!
The traditional filling of the Hamantashen is poppy-seed but we love strawberry or apricot preserves. I also sliced up fresh strawberries and added a slice to each one for a fresh taste. The method is much like making sugar cookies, you roll out the buttery dough and chill. The triangle starts with a circle, imagine that, stay in school kids, the wonders of math never cease! Use a cup or a round cookie cutter to cut circles, drop a bit of filling in and then from your triangle (recipe below)
There is a debate in the land of Hamantashen about the correct way to seal up the Hamantashen, to fold or to pinch. I was always a pincher but I recently tried a recipe from Cupcake Project, while her tashen looked and tasted good, her suggestion of folding was intregiung to me. Folding the dough can produce a beautiful cookie but we had problems. Our dough was cracking with each fold although our cookies came out pretty we were discouraged by the cracking.
When we used the recipe below we pinched, you may have to use some water on the dough to make it stick but the pinched ones came out perfectly! So I say, depending on the recipe, your oven and your skill level pinching may be the way to go. **Note- for gluten free see bottom of post.
Lizet's Hamatashen Recipe
Mix together in a large bowl
Filling: use jam, or mix 1⁄2 lb. Prunes with 1⁄4 c. strawberry jam in a food processor. Or try making your own poppy seed filling…
Mohn (Poppy seed filling)
2 c. poppy seed, finely ground
1 egg
1/3 c. honey or sugar
1 Tbs. lemon juice
1⁄4 c. chopped nuts
Wash the seeds well, them grind them in a food processor or place the seeds in a cloth and pound them with a mallet. Mix with the remaining ingredients. chill.
When we made these goodies with for our third grade class we needed a gluten free recipe. I tried a pie dough mix and it was terribly unsuccessful. As you can see it the photo they were like sand and not folded or pinched, we just dug out a space for the jam..
One of the moms made up a batch of GF cookie dough from Pure Pantry sugar cookie mix and it worked really well for the Hamantashen. I only have a photo of our ugly ones because the better ones got gobbled right up!


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Our 1st "Review" -Adafruit data logger
It's been a while since i built a kit of any kinda, and since i needed some extra memory for some of my recent projects, i figured it was time get one.
I went with the adafruit data logger sd shield, normally i like to build my stuff from scratch, but since i have never used an SD card on any of my builds, i thought it would be wise to have a nice working version on hand so when i do start building them, i'll have a perfectly working model to test against if i run into any problems! I learned long ago that the $20 spent on something is far less aggravating than trouble shooting for hours on end & not knowing if you have a code problem or a hardware problem!
It took over a week from order to delivery (ny to fl) which i found rather odd, but other than that i gotta say im pretty impressed with the kit (as per usual with their stuff)! i found the instructions to be PERFECT for a total novice, but easy enough to scroll thru and skim for those of us with experience.
example code on their site was spot on, nice project walk thru, but i would have liked to see a simple "read & write" tutorial as well, mainly due to the fact that im not using the unit in the same way as it's being used in the tutorial & i would imagine im far from the only one NOT using it as explained.
The site also offered great info on how to format and/or trouble shoot a non working card.
overall, another simple to build, cheaply priced, well documented product from adafruit! --- thanks for making this hobby so accessible!!!
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Posted 13 November 2014 - 08:33 AM
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Posted 13 November 2014 - 08:40 AM
Dude, what are you doing? ?
an American spy. .??
Engine stealth design
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Posted 15 November 2014 - 09:41 PM
Nice pic, thanks
Hope you like
Posted 16 November 2014 - 05:45 AM
Beautiful pictures, and the J-31 ....FC31 P will Pakistan may buy too.
I think engine is the main issue with respect to FC-31 (J-31) of Russia, under powered.
The American spy looks taking pictures isn't he?
Posted 16 November 2014 - 07:27 AM
Beautiful pictures, and the J-31 ....FC31 P will Pakistan may buy too.
I think engine is the main issue with respect to FC-31 (J-31) of Russia, under powered.
The American spy looks taking pictures isn't he?
Posted 18 November 2014 - 03:14 AM
By Reuben F. Johnson
Zhuhai, Guangdong Province (CNN) -- Zhuhai's Air Show has always been a venue for surprises, usually first-time showings of advanced Chinese military hardware.China's pathologically secretive defense industry normally shows nothing official of its weapons programs to anyone, which makes the biennial Zhuhai expo the only chance to see what its weapons makers have been up to. Much has been written in the past few years about China's defense sector developing increasingly more capable weapons systems that approach the capability of their U.S. and European analogues.
Some Chinese weapons, such as a full range of anti-ship and air-to-surface missiles, seem to show that its military -- the People's Liberation Army (PLA) -- is equipped to challenge U.S. Navy carrier battle groups and potentially deny the U.S. the ability to operate in certain areas of the Pacific. But questions remain about how battle-ready the PLA is and whether it can function in a modern, network-centric warfare environment.
Battlefield autonomy
Today's battlefield operates on the premise that autonomy should be pushed down to the lowest level -- even down to the man in the field -- because time is of the essence. Getting inside of the enemy's "decision loop" is the key to victory. But, giving individual units the ability to make their own tactical decisions without their orders being delivered from several layers up the chain of command is an anathema to the "control uber alles" mentality of the Chinese leadership.
In terms of new weapons, the number one attraction at Zhuhai this year was the new Shenyang FC-31 fighter. It has generated a good deal of excitement as it's the first time a new Chinese military aircraft has been unveiled while still in the early stages of development -- we usually have to wait until after they start serving in the PLA's air force.
The FC-31 is designed to look like a stealth fighter aircraft in the class of the American Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It is also the second, but smaller, stealth-type design to be developed by China. The FC-31's "Big Brother," the Chengdu J-20, first flew in January 2011 but has been shrouded in secrecy ever since.
The FC-31 "looks" stealthy and its shape mimics that of the F-35 in some respects. But it is impossible to tell just how successful the Shenyang design team has been in developing an aircraft with a low radar cross section without knowing the materials used, the placement of the engines inside the aircraft, and how well the heat signature from the engines has been suppressed by the design of the exhaust nozzle section.
Flawed design?
Like other PLAAF fighter aircraft, the FC-31 is powered by Russian-made jet engines, in this case two Klimov RD-93 models, which are a specialized variant of the same engine that powers the famous Mikoyan "MiG-29." There have been rumors that a team of renegade designers from the Mikoyan bureau in Moscow assisted Shenyang in the development of the aircraft, but a senior MiG official stated "no, as far as I know they [the Chinese] completed this design themselves, and they seem to have done a good job on their own." The MiG official may be correct. An aircraft of this type designed with Russian assistance would probably perform better. The FC-31's flight routine shows that it "bleeds" too much energy -- so when it enters into a turn it begins to lose altitude. Even during straight and level flight the pilot has to engage the engine's afterburners in order to keep the aircraft from sinking to a lower altitude. These are defects in the aircraft's aerodynamic design that a Russian design team would not have made.
Timing a coincidence?
So, why has the PLAAF chosen to exhibit an aircraft that is either overweight, underpowered or both? It could be an oblique signal to Washington timed to coincide with President Barack Obama's visit to Beijing for the APEC summit. The underlying message: "China is stronger than you think." This would not be the first such example of China trying to use its defense industry to flex its muscles. In January 2011, when the J-20 first flew, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Beijing for an official visit. His read was that the timing of the two events was in no way coincidental.Unfortunately for the PLA, the gesture falls flat. Many would have been more impressed by the FC-31 in photos posted on Chinese websites than after seeing it actually fly at the air show. Looks can be deceiving, as they say.
Posted 18 November 2014 - 03:51 AM
http://edition.cnn.c...ghter-analysis/ Just how good is China's new 'stealth' fighter?
By Reuben F. Johnson
This article is very negative, FC31 not that bad.
CNN does not like Chinese
Posted 19 November 2014 - 12:55 AM
I understand.
I only put the article up there so that some light could be shed on the aircraft's weaknesses' including the notion that its underweight and underpowered.
Posted 19 November 2014 - 02:27 AM
I understand.
I only put the article up there so that some light could be shed on the aircraft's weaknesses' including the notion that its underweight and underpowered.
The future FC31 will use better engine WS - 13
Posted 20 November 2014 - 01:14 AM
Yes but its going to take a wihle before the WS-13 is ready for integration.
Posted 21 November 2014 - 02:01 PM
China's newly unveiled J-31 stealth fighter has received bad reviews at home and abroad after making its first public demonstration flight during the biennial Zhuhai Airshow in the southern province of Guangdong.
The criticism of J-31, China's second fifth-generation fighter jet, mainly stems from the dark exhaust emitting from the jet's engine, which indicates the engine's poor efficiency in burning fuel.
There are two types of engines used on the J-31 jets — the RD-93 used by Russia's MiG-29 fighters will be fitted to those intended for foreign clients, while the ones deployed by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) will have the WS-13 engine developed from the RD-93.
It is unclear which type of engine the J-31 on display in Zhuhai used.
Meanwhile, PLA Navy Rear Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong said in a speech in Xiamen on Nov. 17 that China's reverse engineering still has its limitations, and that it will take the country another few years to achieve a breakthrough in developing its own engines.
Zhang said the development of a jet engine involves mechanics and digital control, and the former is far more easy to master than the latter. "This part is too difficult and not something that can be achieved successly in a short time," he said.
Zhang also believes that the J-31 jet is too heavy.
Meanwhile, Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia said prospects for the J-31 jet's export market are not as positive as many have described.
Aboulafia said countries buying Chinese military hardware are mainly poor, with Pakistan the largest customer, and China may have to find new clients for the higher-end fifth-generation fighters. These new clients are most likely China's neighbors, but these countries will have their about Beijing given the tensions existing between them, Aboulafia added.
Moreover, the fifth-generation jets may have already come too late, since the US Air Force and Navy have both begun plans to develop their next-generation fighters to replace the F-22 and F/A-18E/F, respectively.
Posted 21 November 2014 - 09:00 PM
Moreover, the fifth-generation jets may have already come too late, since the US Air Force and Navy have both begun plans to develop their next-generation fighters to replace the F-22 and F/A-18E/F, respectively.
Posted 21 November 2014 - 10:09 PM
why china would export these jets? These are not migs.............or j10s that sending them out with different configuration will change the nature of the jet. The only important thing about these 5th gen. jets is stealth. They lose that advantage, and they are 4th gen planes with less amo onboard.
If china is exporting them then only thing that can justify that is possibility that they have a much better one to replace it and they dont care if this one reveals its secret.
Posted 22 November 2014 - 04:00 AM
the mock model version of the j-31 looks impressive visually, more so than the most current j-20 prototype in my opinion
i hope they build more j-31 prototypes since only 1 has been built
there's now 5 j-20 prototypes in comparison
Posted 22 November 2014 - 08:57 PM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans to buy the fourth generation stealth fighter aircraft from China to boost its defence capability, according to a media report.
The matter was being discussed with Chinese authorities, minister for defence production Rana Tanveer Hussain was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
"It is for the first time that a senior government functionary has confirmed talks with China over purchase of the longer-range stealth aircraft — an issue that has been a subject of speculation in defence circles since the 10th edition of the Zhuhai Air Show (China) held earlier this month, when the aircraft was unveiled," the paper reported.
The Jane's Defence Weekly also quoted an unnamed Pakistani official as saying that the Pakistan Air Force was in talks with China to buy 30 to 40 of the Shenyang FC-31 fighters.
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I'll skip the really bad entomological puns then, yes?
Ethan Marcotte and I have become the two newest members of the Web Standards Project.
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Many books on web development still teach outdated methods, and many practitioners take pride in delivering sites that look and work exactly the same in compliant and non-compliant browsers alike, at the cost of accessibility, long-term viability, or forward compatibility. Others develop proprietary code that works only in a handful of popular browsers.
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Congrats! 2004 and beyond is more appropriate I think. It's gonna float your boat *grin*
Congratulations, Dave. Certainly a deserved place, considering the evangelism the zen garden has already been doing.
Congratulations Dave! I used to be one of those developers. Unaware of standards and still treating tables like the swiss army knife of web development, until I saw the CSS Zen Garden. It opened up a whole new perspective for me ("mmhh… perhaps this CSS thing is worth looking into after all").
Do you have any plans for starting your new evangelizing efforts?
Congratulations, Dave. You'll be hobnobbing with Zeldman in no time.
cool. that is awesome.
congrats, you are definitely one of the most appropriate people for this position that i can think of.
thank you for your weblog posts, thank you for the zen garden, and thank you for redesigning this site in xhtml/css from tables and making it all the better with it.
Good show Dave! This sounds like a wonderful opportunity!
Sheesh, what took them so long? :) Congratulations, Dave – can't think of a better choice for the job.
Congratulations Dave!
I hope you keep up all the good work you have been doing.
Congrats, nice one Dave :)
good stuff, david :)
Congratulations Dave - very well deserved.
You don't have to wear any kind of special stripey costume do you?
Good to see you joining Wasps.
I'm very much looking forward to your input in the project.
Keep up the good work!
Congrats Dave! Definitely a great addition to the team.
Congrats Dave, you make a fine addition to the WaSP!
Many terrific things have come about because of the Zen Garden, and now that you hold a more "official" position of sorts, I'm sure the industry will benefit even more from your brain :-)
Here is a WaSP suggestion: how about a recommendation to mellow out on the over abuse of the acronym tag?
The only pages that really use them are produced for fellow "web designers". And it's not like we don't know what XHTML, CSS etc stands for. If I really needed to find out, I would 'google'. Plus, it adds to the page file size.
Or am I completely out of line here and is there something I don't know about? Do screen readers use the acronym tags?
Sweet. Now you've got to come to SXSW for sure. CSS Zen Garden Creator, Contributing Author, WaSP Member… You résumé is looking better and better. Congratulations!
mezzoblue: Leading The Web to Its Prettiest Potential. :)
Huphtur, yes. Screen readers can use the acronym tags, but you're right to think they are being abused. The recommednations say to expand abbreviations the first time they occur in a page, not every time they occur. Using each once on a page would count as "mellowing out" to me.
Then again, with a CMS like Movable Type, sometimes the abbreviations could be in multiple posts on the same page (homepage), but necessary because the posts have individual pages where each abbreviation expansion would be unique.
Thanks all for the great encouragement!
Sergio - glad the Zen Garden has had that effect. I have a few ideas in mind I'll have to formulate over the next few days. I'm considering a WaSP asks the W3C on a particularly thorny issue. Nothing like stirring up the pot the first week on the job!
huphtur - Interesting you'd call that abuse; I would deem it exuberance. Using abbr/acronym is a best practice, and actually is required by WCAG: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-WCAG20-20030624/#acronym-abbr-def
It's tempting to think that everyone who reads a geek site like this has the same knowledge level as you; but it's wrong. People of all skill levels and all disciplines on the web have written me. I can't make assumptions about who knows what, because most of the time I'd be wrong.
When I cruise the sites of prominent coders, for example, I frequently get trapped in acronym hell. Luckily some are considerate enough to provide titles. It really helps.
James - the spec does say that, but I'm not entirely convinced it's abuse if you expand every one. Nevertheless, this site only expands the first instance of an initialism/acronym in a piece of text; each comment expands individually, as does each post. But they only expand one definition per. I think this is just a limit of Movable Type, or at the very least, my filters.
Congratulations Dave! I'm really happy for you, and happy for the community as a whole. So many people have benefited from the work you've done, and will continue to do so. Thanks for setting a great example
congratulations. man. i just assumed that you were always down with the WaSP folk. now i will pay more attention. dave is my daddy.
Congratulations Dave!
Congratulations indeed! Failed to find a good synonym…
Anyways, you're the man for the job, that we know for sure. Keep up the great work!
Great news Dave. Congrats!
As far as the acronym thing goes, I think you bring up a great point Dave. There are quite a few newbies, etc. that read your site and others and frankly I think all too often Web standards are perceived as some sort of special club that you have to have reached a certain level of know-how to belong to.
We need to keep in mind that there are lots and lots of folks out there who very little to no experience with Web standards. There needs to be an effort to communicate with those people in such a way that they feel included and get them excited about standards. Things like acronyms can help.
I'm not too sure if it will really help the newbie: Will they understand what CSS is when it says "Cascading Style Sheets"? It still doesnt explain what it really is. Plus a newbie might be confused by a "link that doesnt work".
(Sorry to take your WaSP festivities off topic here Dave, congrats on that!)
One last poke at the topic then, and we'll let it rest - the point of expanding an acronym is to tell people what it stands for, not what it means.
Imagine if you had to wrap a more contextual layer around "Cascading Style Sheets" every time you used it in its entirety that explains what they are with links to the spec and other appropriate documentation. Perhaps software should be built that does this (MS Smart Tags anyone?) but the document author shouldn't be on the hook for every one.
So why are authors on the hook for abbreviations? Shouldn't software just take care of that? Arguably yes, but initialisms/acronyms can be ambiguous. Does CSS mean "Cascading Style Sheets", is it a reference to the DVD encoding scheme that DeCSS obliterated a few years ago, or is it The College of St. Scholastica in Minnesota?
But any further discussion should probably be taken to the appropriate W3 mailing list. I'm just interpreting the spec; we'd get better answers from those who crafted it.
Congrats on joining WaSP. For some odd reason I too had previously believed you were already a part of WaSP - probably mistaken identity. Its good to see a lot of fresh new blood (and talent) joining the coalition.
Nice work. Everyone knows you deserve it.
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