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Ideas for new guests
John Dehlin January 20, 2010 Mormon 26 Comments
If any of you have ideas for new guests on Mormon Stories, please post them here. If they're aligned with the new direction, great. If not, that's great too.
What's even MORE helpful is if you're able to contact these people in advance and ask them if they're willing to come on the podcast. That could save me a TON of time.
Thanks for everything. More soon.
Aaron Reeves
I know this does not fit necessarily with the new direction, but I would like to here from Newel Bringhurst on the life of Fawn Brodie.
But unfortunately I don't have any contacts.
Debbie Perez
I would love to hear an interview with Carol Lynn Pearson. I don't know her but I'll be happy to give her a nudge on her website.
JackUK
Hi John;
It would be great to hear you interview Michael Quinn, President Steven Veasy, John Hamer, Dan Vogel or even Elder Marlin K. Jensen (we can live in hope on that one). How about talking to LDS members involved in humanitarian efforts around the world? Bob McCue would be a good interviewee too I bet. Natasha Helfer Parker from the Mormon Therapist site might be a great guest too. A follow-up to the Bushman/Palmer podcasts would be good to hear.
Another thought John, how about having Robert Millett and Becky L. Savage or Susan D. Skoor on the programme?
This might be too personal, but it would be really cool to interview your wife and hear her side of the story of you finding out about controversial church history and having a crisis of faith etc. You've mentioned once or twice that she's been supportive, but it would be really interesting to hear how she took things and what in your relationship made it strong enough to get through all that. Again, I'd totally understand if you don't want to be super public about your own family, but just thought I'd throw it out there.
Rich jj
I like what's been recommended so far, including your ideas from a couple weeks back.
I vote for Lavina Fielding Anderson, Claudia Bushman, Terryl Givens, Scott Kenney, Grant McMurray, Van Hale, Armand Mauss, Devery Anderson, Bryan Waterman, Jana Riess, Edward Kimball, Peggy Fletcher Stack, Stanford Cazier, Elna Baker, and Martha Sonntag Bradley. I've tried to list successful people with interesting perspectives, or who have grappled with complex faith issues.
Polly Anna
I'd love a show about the debate on the Origin of Man between B.H. Robers, Joseph Smith and Others.I would find that very interesting. However, I'm not sure who you can interview on that
I would love to hear you interview a biblical expert about all the problems, inconsistencies, lack of evidence, outright fraud, etc. in the Bible. Bart Ehrman (wrote Jesus Interrupted) would be a great candidate, but if he is not available, anyone attending a liberal religious seminary would probably work. I am tired of people holding the Mormon church to such high standards of evidence regarding its foundational claims, yet turn around and give the Bible a "free ride." When I started studying Christian history, it was even more shocking and disturbing than what I learned in my study of Mormonism.
Kurt and Barbara Hanks (Ex-mormons) wrote an E-book titled "Collapse of Belief–Rebuilding Stability When What Defined You Is Gone". The book can be downloaded at http://www.collapseofbelief.com/ From their website: "The Collapse of Belief is a guide to developing discernment. It is most useful when a person's political, economic, social, religious or personal belief system crashes. It takes the reader through a step-by-step process to see beyond the surface events and read between the lines of communication."
Kurt was a Art Professor who co-taught a BYU Amercian history class for foreign students for eight years, using a process he calls "Relational Learning" (everything is related to everything else in some way). "The key to the system is to extract the core principle or idea from a situation and then link it, or relate it, to multiple contexts." An interesting thing happened while he taught this class. Students who took this course left BYU in record numbers. "BYU has a strong undercurrent of control, and as the students began to recognize this hidden agenda, they didn't feel comfortable in this atmosphere anymore." The history professor he co-taught the class with eventually quit teaching the course because he was unwilling to follow "Relational Learning" to its obvious conclusion: that the church-run school as well as the church itself, were not what they claimed to be.
I think an interview with Kurt and Barbara Hanks would be a great addition to Mormon Stories.
I recently read a book on Introverts in the Church dealing with introverts in the Evangelical Community. I would like to see how the LDS community is towards those who on Myers Briggs are introverts, those who tend to think first and then maybe speak. When I was in the LDS church I always found it difficult in Fast Meetings. Sometimes in class whenI made a comment I was greeted with blank stars from many who did not know what I was talking about. I feel it would be an interesting topic
I'd love to hear any stories from people about how to make the ward an interesting and fun place. I've heard stories occasionally from people about really amazing ward activities and service events, but in my experience I've been only in very dull wards where the idea of fun is cleaning the building on Saturday and going to the temple together. Perhaps you could have someone on who was a bishop in a ward that went from dull to super fun. I'll look around for someone and let you know. All I can think of at the moment is the opposite example: my parents always talk about how much fun the ward was until *bishop x* took over and got rid of anything that wasn't directly related to reading scriptures and praying.
Not sure it goes with your new approach, but I really enjoy reading the Keepapitchinin Mormon History blog. The author sounds like an interesting guide—and he might have a unique perspective on how he deals with historical weirdness.
I would love to hear an interview with the very intelligent Ms. Jack Meyers from Clobberblog.
She has a unique interfaith marriage as an EV who attended BYU and snagged a return missionary. (who sacrificed temple marriage for her)
Here's a little info. from her blog:
"I'm 27 and I have a BA in Classical Studies from Brigham Young University with a minor in Hebrew. I'm currently living north of Chicago where I am pursuing my MA in History of Christianity in America at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with a target graduation date of May 2011. I consider myself a practicing evangelical and a political conservative.
I am married and I have one child, a daughter born in June 2006.
This blog was created in July of 2008 to focus on a number of topics of interest to me, with an emphasis on Mormon-evangelical interfaith subjects."
Here are some people I would love to hear from. First would be Terryl Givens because of his conservative religious position while also being open to some of the criticisms of Mormonism. One person mentioned this, and I will second it, is to interview Bart Ehrman who has done work with members of BYU and is an expert on the New Testament and Early Christianity (he has done interviews for several other podcasters and YouTube channels, so you may be able to pull it off). I notice a lot of people are talking about the science vs. religion controversey and a good person on that field would be Rev. Michael Dowd (wrote the book Thank God for Evolution). He may be hard to get for an interview as he is receiving chemo treatment for cancer, but he has done lectures for Christian churches, Universalists, and atheists. I love his book and his philosophy on religion and your listeners may like him as well. I don't see him having any issue with discussing his views on a Mormon podcast because he is very tolerant of all religious traditions (his wife is an atheist, enough said).
My vote would be for someone from CES such as Randal Wright:
"Randal A. Wright received his Ph.D. in family studies from Brigham Young University. He has worked for the Church Educational System for many years and is currently a CES Coordinator in Austin, Texas. He is the author of several previous books including: Families in Danger: Protecting Your Family in an X-rated World and The Case for Chastity: Helping Youth Stay Morally Clean. He has been a frequent speaker for the Campus Education Week and Especially for Youth programs. He and his wife, Wendy, are the parents of five children."
Also I'd love to hear an interview with Jeff Ricks from postmormon.org.
d bodell
While she's not as scholarly as your normal guests, I enjoyed reading Elna Baker's "The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance". She'd be fun to have on.
See http://www.elnabaker.com/book.html
TexasChick
Carolyn Jessop, Author of Escape
Jon Krakauer, Author of Under The Banner of Heaven
Also, how about someone from FMH?
Garrulous Expat
I would kind of like to hear from the Tanners, or from D. Michael Quinn. Anyone who has been excommunicated would be pretty interesting. By the way, as a non-(not ex)-Mormon, I really like your podcasts.
As you may know, Bill Shunn wrote a yet to be published memoir about being arrested for terrorism as a LDS missionary in Canada: http://www.shunn.net/memoir/
I think his would be an interesting story to add to Mormon Stories.
I second d bodell's request. Would love to hear an interview with Elna Baker….. Pretty please with sugar on top……..
This suggestion goes under the mental illness section of the New Direction. I'd like to hear from Jesse Ellis, the co-founder of http://www.clergybridge.com
I'd like to hear about the unique predicament of our Judges in Israel when they are, at times, involuntarily asked to be mental illness/addiction/abuse counselor-du-jour. I'm sure they feel blind-sided and lost with the highly complex situations in which they find themselves.
I would love to hear an interview with a former General Authority, just what is it like, some neat experiences, spiritual or otherwise
Lavina Fielding Anderson and Lyndon Lamborn
Trevor Price
How about a higher up who's responsible for designing/planning the latest mormon.org ad campaign? That has the potential to be interesting.
I would be very interested in hearing from a slightly less known Mormon scholar: Camille Hawkins. She is 90 now and has been on the boards of Dialogue, Sunstone, John Whitmer Historical Association at different times and comes out of southern Alberta where her father was a polygamous expat who served as as Stake President for 30 continuous years and before that as counselor to Hugh B Brown. She's not terribly mobile and lives in Eastern Oregon but does know her way around Skype. I think that you might be surprised by what you find up there.


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Do I need to open up my Firewall so that Google's servers can do the health check? Also, is there any way to include the authorization header so that the request goes through or should I turn off Basic Auth for the health check URL?

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package repository

import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/rsa"
	"log"
	"testing"
)

func TestWriteHeader(t *testing.T) {

	for _, k := range keys {
		func(pk *rsa.PrivateKey) {
			l := Label{AesKey: testAes, iv: testIv}
			buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)

			err := l.writeHeader(buffer, &pk.PublicKey)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Unable to write bytes: %v", err)
			}

			if len(buffer.Bytes()) != pk.N.BitLen()/8 {
				t.Errorf("Expected %d bytes but got %d", pk.N.BitLen()/8, len(buffer.Bytes()))
			}
		}(k)
	}

}

func TestReadHeader(t *testing.T) {

	for _, k := range keys {
		func(pk *rsa.PrivateKey) {
			l := Label{AesKey: testAes, iv: testIv}
			buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)

			err := l.writeHeader(buffer, &pk.PublicKey)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Unable to write bytes: %v", err)
			}

			l2 := Label{}
			l2.readHeader(bytes.NewBuffer(buffer.Bytes()), pk)

			for i := range l2.AesKey {
				if l2.AesKey[i] != l.AesKey[i] {
					log.Fatalf("Mismatched AES keys in TestReadHeader")
				}
			}
		}(k)
	}
}

func TestSignAndVerify(t *testing.T) {
	for _, k := range keys {
		func(pk *rsa.PrivateKey) {
			l := Label{AesKey: testAes, iv: testIv}
			buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)

			err := l.writeSignature(buffer, pk)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Unable to write signature: %v", err)
			}

			err = l.verifySignature(bytes.NewBuffer(buffer.Bytes()), &pk.PublicKey)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Failed to verify signature: %v", err)
			}
		}(k)
	}
}

func TestReadWriteLabel(t *testing.T) {
	for _, k := range keys {
		func(pk *rsa.PrivateKey) {
			l := Label{AesKey: testAes, iv: testIv}
			buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)

			err := l.WriteLabel(buffer, &pk.PublicKey, pk)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Failed to write label: %v", err)
			}

			l2, err := ReadLabel(bytes.NewBuffer(buffer.Bytes()), pk, &pk.PublicKey)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Failed to read label: %v", err)
			}

			if string(l.AesKey) != string(l2.AesKey) {
				t.Errorf("Key mismatch: expected %s but got %s", string(l.AesKey), string(l2.AesKey))
			}
		}(k)
	}
}

func TestOpenWriter(t *testing.T) {
	for _, k := range keys {
		func(pk *rsa.PrivateKey) {
			l := Label{AesKey: testAes, iv: testIv}
			buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
			wr, err := l.OpenWriter(buffer)
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Failed to open writer: %v", err)
			}

			wr.Write([]byte("Hello World"))

			if string(buffer.Bytes()) == "Hello World" {
				t.Fatalf("Didn't encrypt the data")
			}

			rd, err := l.OpenReader(bytes.NewBuffer(buffer.Bytes()))
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("Error opening new reader from label: %v", err)
			}

			temp := make([]byte, len(buffer.Bytes()))
			rd.Read(temp)
			if string(temp) != "Hello World" {
				t.Errorf("Failed to decrypt data: expected 'Hello World' but got %s", string(temp))
			}
		}(k)
	}
}

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By Neha Prakash 2012-10-31 22:52:42 UTC
Fear comes in many forms, and on Halloween things get creepier and crawlier than usual. But for some of us, the scariest thing of all has nothing to do with snakes and spiders — and everything to do with cybersecurity.
Lax attitudes towards online accounts have led to major digital break-ins for years, which is why content security software Trend Micro realized we should all be a little bit more scared of password protection and less scared of heights and elevators.
The company found that one in four of us use the same password, or a variation, for all our accounts. One in four people in the U.S. also don't bother to back up files.
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More alarmingly, 60% of people are sharing personal information such as their birthdays or family members online, and only 32% keep tabs on their children's social media profiles. And 14% of people surveyed have already had a social media account hacked.
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What's your biggest digital security fear? Let us know in the comments below.
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n-Butanol Market
Agreement was the key strategy adopted by the leading players to grow in the n-Butanol market between 2013 and 2017
The n-Butanol market size was estimated to be USD 4.18 Billion in 2017 and is projected to reach USD 5.58 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period. Leading market players, such as Dow Chemical (US), OXEA (US), and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Japan), have adopted several strategies, such as agreements, joint ventures, and expansions, to efficiently serve customers and increase their market shares.
Agreements was the key growth strategy adopted by the major players in the n-Butanol market. It accounted for a share of 50.0% of the total growth strategies adopted by the major market players between 2013 and 2017. These players have also adopted joint ventures and expansions as the second level growth strategies to expand their regional presence. Each strategy accounted for 25% share of the total growth strategies adopted by the players between 2013 and 2017.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Japan), one of the largest manufacturers of n-Butanol, adopted agreements as its primary growth strategy. For instance, in December 2017, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation entered into a collaboration agreement with MET Gas Processing Technologies (Italy) over the licensing of a process for manufacturing oxo alcohols, acrylic acid, and acrylic acid ester from natural gas. Mitsubishi will proactively expand licensing business through the collaboration to meet the growing demand for propylene and its derivatives.
OXEA (US), ranked as the third largest player of n-Butanol, has adopted expansions as its key growth strategy to strengthen its foothold in the global market. For instance, in February 2015, Oxea completed the expansion of its oxo alcohol production capacity in the Texas, US. The company announced 25% production expansion in May 2013. The full realization of this expansion work is completed, and the capacity is gradually being brought online. With the 25% capacity increase, the plant capacity has now reached 287.5 KT/year and 100 KT/year for n-Butanol and butac, respectively. This capacity expansion helped the company increase its business reach in the oxo alcohol market of North America.
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Listening to your favorite album or watching your hero doing those stunts in a movie, it is a different experience if youhave a home theater. Advancement in the field of audio visual equipments has brought the music lover and the movie buff a delightful experience through those home theaters. While the conventional stereo music has a left and right channel, in a home theater the standard is five channels.
The basic thing about the perfection in listening experience from the home theater is the correct placement of the speakers. The length, the height and the placement of your seat are integral part of that positioning. If you observe the packing of the equipment or wherever the name home theater is mentioned there will be a number 5.1 written along with them. This stands for two front speakers (left and right) one central speaker and two surround speakers (left and right) and a subwoofer. The .1 denotes the subwoofer.
Most modern houses will have a concealed wiring arrangement for home theaters. There will be a provision for placing the two front speakers facing you on the opposite walls at a height of 10 feet from the ground. Similarly the surround speakers will be on the opposite walls in line with your seating arrangement facing each other on the opposite walls at the same height of 10 feet. The central speaker will be placed above the player like a television or a DVD. The Home theater system will be placed above the DVD or television on a separate stand with the (sometimes) built in sub woofer.
Connecting them correctly is just as important as the placement. Check the positive by connecting to a positive of a spare battery. If the diaphragm of speaker make a forward motion your positive is right. Then all you have to do is to switch on the home theater, put on your favorite album or DVD and sit there to enjoy a different listening experience.


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Thank you Thailand for having taken so much care for our victims
Our team decided to go to Phuket on "day two" of the disaster (we all live in Lopburi, about a thousand kilometres north of Phuket). We were issued with free plane tickets to get to the scene of devastation. On arrival, like all the westerners, we thought at first that nothing was organized. Initially we gave a helping hand at the airport, as a medical team and translators working until late into the night. It was necessary to help the masses of injured survivors before their transferral to Bangkok. Most of them had already received basic care and had their x-rays or diagnoses with them. Infections too had often already been brought under control by the best antibiotics.
The day following our arrival we decided to go to several local hospitals around Phuket, Taktua and its surroundings to see where we could be most useful. Everything was under control. Efficient doctors gently made us understand that we would probably be better employed elsewhere. So we went back to the airport to discover the army had taken over the entire organization with perfect efficiency and that we had become simply useless.
They even flew us back north in time for New Year's Eve! Our entire team was fascinated by the brilliant organization. None the less we gave our names in case we would be needed again. And, after New Year we were indeed asked to return to Tuktua to help with corpse identification. Again everything was organised impeccably: free plane tickets, free dormitory, free food, protective garments and spare clothes to change into after our filthy work was over at the end of the day. There was even free massage for those who wanted it!
The dry ice blocks spilt their white smoke day and night. At the beginning the blocks had been arranged randomly; some were even laid down right on top of the bodies. But when it was realized that the corpses could be disfigured in this way and that tattoos were fading away , we decided to place them more carefully between the bodies.
Then the organizers of our operation decided to build walls of about 60 centimetres high with the ice blocks, dividing the field of the deaths in zones each of around 50 bodies. This arrangement had a couple of advantages: firstly they kept those areas cold, much like the open fridges of supermarkets, and therefore slowed down the deterioration of the bodies. They also prevented the roaming hens that were audacious and greedy enough, from trying to peck the delicious worms that were emerging like white garlands, from the mouths, the eyes and the wounds of the corpses. The main disadvantage of these walls was simply the unpleasant smoke. But, what it did allow, particularly at night when we volunteers were rarer, was a daunting vision of what could be described as the "beauty of Hell".
Our team had been assigned the task of finding clues on the bodies that arrived by truck which could potentially be used for identification purposes. The smoke constantly disturbed us and diminished our goodwill. We resorted to makeshift cardboard fans which one person would flail about as another would attempt to go about his business. Our work was varied, we would take photographs of victims for reference purposes, cut and analyse clothing, recover garment labels and go through pockets. We would look for tattoos, possible bodypiercing, surgical scars, observe nail length or check for nail varnish. Sometimes we had to poke a finger into a corpse's mouth to analyse 'in situ' the jaw, dental apparatus and stumps of teeth. For this job it was actually a relief not to be able to see clearly.
One member of the team was required to keep his hands clean, for it was his job to fill in a form stating those details that the rest of us had discovered. Another had the mission of washing the bodies and filling small bags with samples of hair, clothing, bracelets or other bits and bobs. When we had to examine small children we chosen to remove their entire outfits, thinking that most mothers, if still alive, would recognize her child's clothing instantaneously and that it would less painful than if confronted with the rest of the corpse or photographs of it.
The task was incredibly arduous, with even the gender of the victims sometimes being far from obvious. Hence the need to work quickly' corpses were continuing to arrive all the time and with every hour that passed the identification became more difficult: garments were getting blacker and hair rarer, both eaten by putrefaction that occurs rapidly in tropical conditions. Accurate assessment of age was more uncertain still.
The most difficult however, tended to be the ascertaining of racial origin. Asian? European? Other? Blond hair if any remained presented no problem of course and comparing it with pubic hair would easily confirm racial origin. As for the others, well the Southeast Asian cheekbones tend to be higher; they might have less pubic hair, which is longer and less frizzy; their bones are thinner and they are less stout; some cultures are less likely than others to have tattoos, or their might be religious indicators or a typical garment for an area. The time pressure was intense and of course we made many mistakes, in both directions.
It seems that the issue of race was one that obsessed many of the teams of white "specialists" freshly arrived from the West who were capable of displaying an appalling arrogance and an awful contempt towards the Asian bodies, to such an extent that we were ashamed to be Westerners too. Those teams of "experts" added to their bad reputation the fact that they barely deigned to engage with the vile work of opening the bodybags for the initial identification. They would taking the already unpacked corpses that we had indicated to them, and were analysing them in their own zones that they had designated for western corpses only, then, after a few tests, they would store them in refrigerated containers. We overheard that those insensible 'experts" were forbidding Thais access to the containers. Thais who were thinking that one of their relatives could have mistakenly been put in one those containers, such an occurrence was highly probable, and a relative's identification may well be more reliable than ours.
The first difficulty of our work was to open the plastic body-bag and extract the complete corpse out of it. The miasmas were simply unspeakable. Sometimes it was necessary to interrupt work for a moment just to try and draw breath. The worms, almost as disgusting as the stench, would at least try to crawl back into the corpses as soon as they were exposed to air and light. Thus, two or three minutes after first opening the bag, the examination was already made less foul by this fact. We of course learnt by experience that it was most sensible to open the bags in sets of ten, so as to allow the worms to burrow before starting a more thorough examination.
We probably didn't have the most disgusting work in the management of the disaster. To recover the remnants of bodies from the mud or stagnant water was certainly a lot more laborious. The only advantage of that work, in comparison with ours, was that maybe they would be confronted with fewer corpses to deal with per one day. But I'm not convinced that is an advantage; the huge number of corpses we processed meant that we soon activated a "switch off" in our brains that allowed us to keep an emotional distance to the humanity of those that we examined. For our parts, we never saw a volunteer in the identification team stop working for reasons of disgust or psychological collapse. We didn't even see anyone vomiting.
Some teams tended to move towards more delicate missions, such as collecting DNA samples. That did not require the same proximity to the corpses: a quick cut into some leg muscle, pop a piece of flesh into a sachet and one can go on to the next corpse. Such work wouldn't require one to actually have to take the corpse out of its juices. Later, if the muscles are too decomposed, DNA teams would extract a bit of bone with a pair of pliers instead).
On one occasion a dead baby had been examined. After the DNA and the dentist-team had completed their examinations the baby was repacked in a new plastic bag, then moved and lined up with about a hundred other corpses. They were soon to be sent off for the normal final procedure for Asian bodies. We had to believe that this baby was Asian since the Western specialists either arrived too late or hadn't wanted to be involved in the disgusting identification tasks; they only analysed the corpses which were handed over to them by us as "probably Western corpse". A block of dry ice was put between the baby's body and another corpse, in the process block squashed it a little and the baby moaned for a few seconds… Panic! Horror! The Thai volunteer who had deposited the dry ice started all sorts of apologies and 'wai-ed' to the baby (to ask for forgiveness for having touched it irreverently) We finally calmed the Thai down and prevented him from opening the bag, explaining that it was not uncommon that gas, looking for exits in such bodies, leaves it through the mouth whilst tickling the vocal cords. It was late in the evening, but the following day we and the same Thai were back at work, and in spite of all, were now able to laugh about the anecdote.
There are plenty of anecdotes which will remain engraved in our memories as long as we live. And it isn't always the horror stories that stay with us. All of us, a little tense from our exertions and the mysterious ambience of the place, were easy victims to nervous laughter: There was a body of a sturdy chap, belong to someone who, to judge by appearances was of little brain and big muscles. The sort we imagined would have strutted down the street trying to seduce pretty girls. Before undressing him, we brushed the dirt off his T-shirt to see if there might be some kind of logo to aid his identification. On uncovering his shirt, our response was in unison, an explosion of laughter. Of course we were ashamed, but we were unable to control ourselves when we saw the words in plain English, 'NIRVANA IS HERE' and in smaller letters beneath, 'Friday the 13th'
In terms of risks to the volunteers' health, there was, in our skilled medical opinion, not much. All this rot was being caused by anaerobic germs which present no problem to a healthy human with sufficiently oxygenated blood circulating. We would have in fact been presented with greater danger had we been working on a hospital ward of a normal Thai hospital, where one patient might pass on a pneumococci whilst another might splutter tuberculosis.
The real danger is a psychological one. I have mentioned the brain's facility to 'switch off' in such difficult circumstances. I'm not referring here to the possibility of volunteers suffering from madness or post-traumatic stress. I'm talking of how one can lose the ability to respect corpses. We became aware of this by observing a western doctor from a DNA team. His behaviour was so extreme that a colleague of mine, as she pointed him out said, "Never in my life would I like to be touched by such a man." The doctor was pulling the thighbone out of a small boy as one might take out a bone from an over-cooked chicken. With the bone in one hand, he began with the help of a machete in his other to chop frantically at the bone, shards flying everywhere, to extract a sample for testing. But his manner had something hysterical in it, there was something of the butcher in him, this man's symptoms were reminiscent of 'war madness' .
Another potential danger are the nightmares that sometimes haunt volunteers even after they have left a place. On this issue however, our team, was rather well protected; we had been working together for several years in a Thai hospice for terminal AIDS patients and were used to dealing with one or two deaths per day. The experiences from that hospice have allowed us to affirm that it is a lot more difficult, although the media wants us to believe the opposite, to take care of dying people than to examine the bodies of those we don't know anything about, not even their past beauty. It is a difficulty that arises with the knowledge of a name, a voice, the witnessing of the pain of someone with whom we have some basis of a relationship
Generally, the atmosphere in the 'camps of death' of Yanyao was good. Humour and smiles were never lacking. We would like to pay tribute to those Thai volunteers who after several days working there were still touching the corpses with a "wai" (hands folded, prayer-like) and which expressed the deepness of their respect for the victims. And all these Thais never made any racial distinctions.
One outstanding member of the camp community was the famous Dr. Porntip, the woman is a miracle. She was able to be everywhere at onece, always smiling, helping patiently those who were lost or confused. Despite the enormity of her task, the scale of the tragedy and the unpredictable nature of events, she managed to organize the heirachy with remarkable aptitude. She made optimal use of a small area in which to order the bodies, had a typically Thai sharp memory which she used systematically, calmly confident of the goodwill of the volunteers she managed the situation beautifully. I can't imagine such a performance in Europe with so little financial support. We were all certain of it, yet Thailand has also never experience a disaster of such magnitude.
Finally our team would like to have the audacity to say thank you to the Thai people.
Beyond this enormous tragedy everyone remained human, very human, very very human.
We thank you, our Thai friends, for your politeness and humanity and for the expertise that you put at the disposal of our victims. (To burn them would have been easier but you accepted our strange requests not to do so…)
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Q: Finding eigenvalues for a vectorspace such that the matrixrepresentation is a diagonal matrix Problem: Let $T$ be a linear operator on the vectorspace $V = M_{2 \times 2}(\mathbb{R})$ and let $T\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} d & b \\ c & a \end{pmatrix}$. Find the eigenvalues of $T$ and an ordered basis $\beta$ such that $[T]_{\beta}$ is a diagonal matrix.
Attempt at a solution: I don't really know how to begin, so I just picked the standard ordered basis for  $M_{2 \times 2}(\mathbb{R})$. Putting each of these basisvectors in the operator got me the same vectors, except in different order (elements on the diagonal get interchanged). But how do I set up $[T]_{\beta}$ now?
There was a similar problem, but with $V = \mathbb{R}^2$ and $T(a,b) = (-2a +3b, -10a +9b)$. Here I found the solution by using the standard ordered basis, putting them in the operator, and then setting up the matrixrepresentation of that output. After that I just found the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and when I used the operator on the eigenvectors, I got the desired diagonal matrix.
But how can I do this in the problem above, where I'm given matrices?

A: It will be easier to work in $\mathbb{R}^4$, so, in this case, we have that:
$$T(a, b, c, d) = (d, b, c, a)$$
Now, in the standard basis,
$$T(e_1) = e_4$$
$$T(e_2) = e_2$$
$$T(e_3) = e_3$$
$$T(e_4) = e_1$$
Hence, we have just discovered that $e_2$ and $e_3$ are eigenvectors of eigenvalue $\lambda = 1$. More importantly, this means that
$$[T]_{E_4} = \begin{pmatrix} 0  & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{pmatrix}$$
Thus, the characteristic polynomial is
$$det(T-\lambda I) = (\lambda - 1)^3 (\lambda + 1)$$
Doing as you did before should yield that $(-1, 0, 0, 1)$ is the only eigenvector of eigenvalue -1, and $(1, 0, 0, 1)$ is the eigenvector of eigenvalue 1 that we were lacking.
Hence, the basis is
$$\beta = \{(-1, 0, 0, 1), (1, 0, 0, 1), (0, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0)\}$$


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She will be remembered well beyond the ranks of the SWP for her hard work, honesty, commitment and compassion. One of our overriding memories of Debbie was of her pushing a pushchair during a demonstration against the Nazis in Wolverhampton, and giving the police grief for protecting the Nazis.
We stopped them marching that day, and Debbie was an inspiration to all of us. Recently, despite ill health, Debbie helped organise opposition to the war. In London last November she carried the Unison banner for the whole of the anti-war demonstration. She will be sadly missed by comrades and many others across the Black Country. We would like to offer our condolences to her partner, Kenny, her three children-Rebecca, Ewan and Caitlin-and all her family.
Funeral details: Friday 10 May, 3.30pm, Bushbury Crematorium, and then afterwards at Goldthorn Hotel, Penn Road.


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'use strict';

/* Assignment #1 End-to-End Testing
 * Prepared By: Len Payne
 * For: CPD-3262
 * 2014/01/07
 */
/* http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.e2e-testing */

describe('Contact List App', function() {

  beforeEach(function() {
    browser().navigateTo('app/index.html');
  });

  it('should have four tr elements with the class "contact"', function() {
	expect(repeater('tr.contact').count()).toBe(4);
  });

  it('should filter on Cooper to only two results', function() {
	input('query').enter('Cooper');
    expect(repeater('tr.contact').count()).toBe(2);
  });

  it('should filter on o to only three results', function() {
	input('query').enter('o');
    expect(repeater('tr.contact').count()).toBe(3);
  });

  it('should order correctly by Extension', function() {
	input('query').enter('33');
	select('orderProp').option('Extension');
	expect(repeater('tr.contact', 'Contact List').column('contact.first')).
          toEqual(["Liane", "Rick"]);
  });

  it('should order correctly by First Name', function() {
	input('query').enter('Cooper');
	select('orderProp').option('First Name');
	expect(repeater('tr.contact', 'Contact List').column('contact.first')).
          toEqual(["Jim", "Liane"]);
  });

  it('should order correctly by Last Name', function() {
	input('query').enter('L');
	select('orderProp').option('Last Name');
	expect(repeater('tr.contact', 'Contact List').column('contact.first')).
          toEqual(["Liane", "Len"]);
  });

  it('should include all the original first names', function() {
	select('orderProp').option('First Name');
	expect(repeater('tr.contact', 'Contact List').column('contact.first')).
          toEqual(["Jim", "Len", "Liane", "Rick"]);
  });

  it('should include all the original last names', function() {
	select('orderProp').option('First Name');
	expect(repeater('tr.contact', 'Contact List').column('contact.last')).
          toEqual(["Cooper", "Payne", "Cooper", "Brown"]);
  });

  it('should correctly construct the E-Mail as "len.payne@lambtoncollege.ca"', function() {
	input('query').enter('Len');
	expect(element('tr.contact td.email').text()).toMatch(/^len\.payne@lambtoncollege\.ca$/i);
  });

  it('should correctly construct the Phone Number as "519-542-7751 ext. 3418"', function() {
	input('query').enter('Len');
	expect(element('tr.contact td.phone').text()).toMatch(/^519-542-7751 ext\. 3418$/i);
  });

});


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HomeJapan's AI Battalion Against COVID-19PostsJapan's AI Battalion Against COVID-19
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Japan's AI Battalion Against COVID-19
The East Japan Railway Company unveiled AI-equipped robots that disinfect frequently contacted surfaces to arrest the spread of COVID-19
Humanity may have gained an unlikely ally in the war against SARS-CoV-2.
On Monday the East Japan Railway Company introduced automated cleaning and disinfecting mobile robots engineered by Nippon Signal Company at Tokyo's Takanawa Gateway Station.
The AI-equipped robots will disinfect and sanitise surfaces that frequently come into contact, such as counters, benches and handrails to neutralise the threat of contracting COVID-19 amid pandemic.
The automated cleaning robot named CLINABO comes with 3D distance image sensors to calculate trajectory, account for obstacles and ensure a safe cleaning path. CLINABO features a manual and an automatic mode —the robot can be taught up to 100 routes for automated cleaning or can be set for cleaning manually. The compact design of the AI-powered robot allows it to reach narrow passages and clean meticulously to a shine.
The Japan Times reported that the JR East is considering the bot alongside other disinfection robots to sterilize the interior of train compartments in the near future.
AI: The Achilles In the Pandemic?
What's better than an ally in a life and livelihood threatening pandemic? Possibly, an invulnerable ally.
The popular phrase "Stay at home for us, because we stay at work for you" is perhaps the most definitive phrase that delineates the predicament of cleaning workers.
Each day thousands of domestic workers, janitors and housekeeping staff venture out of their homes and march on to the front lines to fight the spread of the global pandemic, exposing themselves to grave health risks, as often when it comes to obtaining personal protective equipment kits, they find themselves shorthanded.
In March, Bloomberg reported about 4.4 million janitors and domestic workers in America working on the frontlines to help arrest the pandemic hustled to get their hands on protective equipment, but owing to a large unprecedented demand thereof, were compelled to work without them. As the demand for cleaners skyrocketed within days, the supply for PPE kits remained ever so scarce.
In a paradigm like the current, the development of AI-driven robots that protect the society from the onslaught of the novel coronavirus by providing contact-free decontamination may prove to be the deus ex machina we need.
Out of the many viruses that can affect computers, the coronavirus isn't one of them.


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Der Frühling oder Lenz, auch das Frühjahr genannt, ist eine der vier Jahreszeiten und folgt auf den Winter. In den gemäßigten Zonen ist es die Zeit der erwachenden und sprießenden Natur.

Im Laufe eines Jahres ändern sich Tageslänge (als Dauer des lichten Tages) und Tagbogen der Sonne (mit höchstem mittäglichem Sonnenstand) abhängig von der geographischen Breite eines Ortes. Dies führt auf der Erde in mittleren Breiten zu deutlich ausgeprägten Jahreszeiten, die sich auf beiden Hemisphären in jährlichem Turnus wiederholen. Während auf der einen Hemisphäre Herbst ist, ist auf der anderen Frühling; vom Südfrühling der Südhalbkugel wird der Nordfrühling der Nordhalbkugel unterschieden.

Astronomisch beginnt der Frühling mit einer Tag-und-Nacht-Gleiche (auf der Nordhalbkugel am 20./21. März; auf der Südhalbkugel 22./23. September) und endet astronomisch mit der Sommersonnenwende (20./21. Juni auf der Nordhalbkugel). Meteorologisch wird er meist auf Anfang März angesetzt.

Entstehung

Zeitraum
Der Frühlingsbeginn kann auf unterschiedliche Weise festgelegt werden; astronomisch geschieht dies nach der Stellung der Erde zur Sonne, meteorologisch meist nach Kalendermonaten und phänologisch nach den Stadien sich entwickelnder Pflanzen, etwa ihrer Blüte.

Astronomisch beginnt der Frühling mit dem Äquinoktium, einer "Tag-und-Nacht-Gleiche":
 Auf der Nordhalbkugel am 20. März (vor 2012 auch am 21. März, nach 2047 auch am 19. März),
 auf der Südhalbkugel am 22. oder 23. September.

Mit dem astronomischen Sommerbeginn zur Sommersonnenwende am 21. Juni endet der Frühling gegenwärtig immer am gleichen Tag.

Meteorologisch beginnt der Frühling
 auf der Nordhalbkugel am 1. März,
 auf der Südhalbkugel am 1. September.
Er ist (meteorologisch gesehen) – wie auch die drei anderen Jahreszeiten Sommer, Herbst und Winter – genau drei Monate lang und wurde aus Gründen der Statistik so festgelegt. Aus diesen statistischen Zeiträumen dürfen aber keine Erwartungen an das Wetter abgeleitet werden, sie sind jeweils die drei Kalendermonate, in denen am ehesten ein sommerliches etc. Wetter zu erwarten ist. Durch diese Einteilung können Monate einfacher in "trocken", "heiß", "kalt" usw. eingeteilt werden.

Phänologisch beginnt der Frühling mit dem ersten Blühen regional unterschiedlicher Pflanzenarten.
 Auf der Nordhalbkugel tritt dies für gewöhnlich in den Monaten März, April und Mai ein,
 auf der Südhalbkugel dagegen im September, Oktober und November.
In Mitteleuropa beginnt demnach der Vorfrühling bereits mit den ersten Blüten der Schneeglöckchen, der Vollfrühling ist aber erst mit dem Blühbeginn der Apfelbäume erreicht. Dieser Zeitraum, in dem die Natur erwacht, wird im deutschen Sprachgebrauch auch als Frühjahr bezeichnet.

Wirkung auf den Menschen

Mit der steigenden Lichtintensität werden vermehrt Serotonin, und die Geschlechtshormone Östrogen und Testosteron ausgeschüttet. Serotonin sorgt für ein besseres Allgemeinbefinden und kann eine leicht euphorische Stimmung bewirken. Daher erwachen bei vielen Menschen besonders im Frühling die sogenannten Frühlingsgefühle, – falls noch nicht vorhanden – die Suche nach einem Partner und Verliebtheit. Das gleiche Phänomen gibt es in der Tierwelt (Appetenzverhalten, Balz, Brut- und Setzzeit). Vermutlich spielen beim Menschen auch optische Reize durch leichtere Kleidung eine Rolle. Bei manchen Menschen jedoch stellt sich stattdessen eine Frühjahrsmüdigkeit ein.

Sonstiges
 In vielen Kulturen gibt es Frühlingsfeste und Frühlingsriten. So leiten sich zum Beispiel diverse kirchliche bewegliche Feiertage vom Datum des Frühlingsbeginns ab. Das persische bzw. kurdische Neujahr und das Neujahr der Bahá'í werden zum Beispiel am Nouruz gefeiert.
 Viele Frühlingsblumen – vor allem Zwiebelpflanzen – ziehen sich nach der Blüte wieder unter die Erde zurück und überlassen ihren Platz späteren Blühern. Aus dem Garten bekannt sind Beispiele wie die Veilchen und die Primeln.

Redewendungen
 "Frühlingsgefühle haben" beschreibt ein gehobenes Gefühl im Frühling. Umgangssprachlich und auch scherzhaft meint man damit, dass man sich besonders leicht zu anderen Menschen hingezogen fühlt.
 "Ihren zweiten Frühling" erlebt eine Person, die sich – meist in höherem Alter – noch einmal verliebt.

Literatur und Musik
Zahlreiche Gedichte, Anthologien und Frühlingslieder widmen sich dem Frühling und seinen Eigenheiten.

 Eduard Mörike:Er ist's ("Frühling läßt sein blaues Band / Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte […]")
 Theodor Fontane:"O schüttle ab den schweren Traum / und die lange Winterruh;es wagt es der alte Apfelbaum, Herze, wag's auch du!"
 Comedian Harmonists:"Veronika, der Lenz ist da, die Mädchen singen tralala …"
 Antonio Vivaldi:La Primavera ('Der Frühling') in Le quattro stagioni ('Die vier Jahreszeiten')
 Frühling, Sommer, Herbst, Winter… und Frühling (Film)
 Le sacre du printemps, Ballett von Igor Strawinski
 Primavera (Der Frühling), Gemälde von Botticelli
 Der Frühling in Vier Jahreszeiten, Gemälde von Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Siehe auch
 Frühlingshimmel
 Mr. Collins' zweiter Frühling

Weblinks

 Planet Wissen zum Thema
 Der Frühling in klassischer Musik

Einzelnachweise

Jahreszeit


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Harold Ramirez playing for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
Last season it appeared as if Reese McGuire was the most promising prospect that came to the Blue Jays in that trade for Drew Hutchison back in August 2016. Despite a knee injury that limited him to just 45 games in 2017, McGuire was added to Toronto's 40-man roster. And along with Danny Jansen, had established himself as by far the best catching prospect in the Blue Jays farm system. Harold Ramirez meanwhile, the other prospect Toronto received in the Hutchison trade, struggled last season (.266/.320/.358) and ended up losing his coveted spot on the Blue Jays 40-man.
Prior to being traded to the Blue Jays, Ramirez was renowned for his contact hitting and was ranked as Pittsburgh's 9th best prospect. 2017 may have been an off year for Ramirez, but this season he's regained much of that reputation he developed prior to the trade as being such an excellent hitter for AVG.
Ramirez has an impressive .313 AVG so far this season, including 111 hits in just 94 games with Double A New Hampshire. With his performance at the plate continuing to improve as the season progresses, it's only a matter of time before he makes the jump to Triple A. Especially when so many of the outfielders in Buffalo have been floundering.
With young talents like Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. ensuring the Blue Jays have little to worry about with their future infield, their outfield on the other hand is a completely different story. Not one outfielder in this organization has proven to be deserving of starting for the Blue Jays for years to come. Kevin Pillar, Randal Grichuk, and Teoscar Hernandez are the best of the bunch, but offensively (and in Hernandez' case, defensively as well) they have to be better.
Toronto needs to be getting more production from their outfielders, it's that simple. You can be one of the better defenders in baseball, but when your OBP is .277, you're leaving your place as a starter up for grabs. As it is right now, no outfielder, in either the minors or big leagues, is having more success at the plate for the Blue Jays than Ramirez. Talk about underrated, Ramirez isn't even on the Blue Jays list of their Top 30 prospects. Nor is he, as previously mentioned, on their 40-man roster. Unless the Blue Jays end up adding him to the 40-man this off-season, look for Ramirez to be a prime candidate for the Rule 5 draft.


A woman in Germany is lucky to be unharmed after a bullet from a nearby hunt rebounded and hit her in the chest.
The 41-year-old tourist from North Rhine-Westphalia was on a bike ride with her husband when the incident happened.
The pair were crossing a field near the town of Gadebusch when they unknowingly entered the path of a boar hunt.
Suddenly, the woman felt a pain in her chest.
Looking down, she saw that she had been hit by a rebounded shot – but the underwire of her bra had deflected the blow.
The woman came away with just a bruise.


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First play scheduled at renovated Walker Legacy Center
"The Price of Progress: The Indiana Avenue/IUPUI Story" will be the first play at the historic Madam Walker Legacy Center since the landmark venue underwent major renovations.
Tickets are now available for the performances, which will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 to 6. Sponsors IUPUI and the Africana Repertory Theatre of IUPUI will make all three performances free to the public, while tickets last, to celebrate the reopening. They hope to make the production accessible to the broadest possible audience from central Indiana and beyond.
"The Price of Progress" is a two-act stage play originally produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of IUPUI in 2019. It was conceived by IUPUI Multicultural Center Director Khalilah Shabazz and written by Vernon A. Williams, communication and community engagement strategist for IUPUI. Several participants in the production were born and raised in the Indiana Avenue/Ransom Place neighborhood.
The production showcases the vivid heritage of an Indianapolis community dubbed "the Harlem of the Midwest" for its thriving culture of Black-owned businesses, performing arts, educational influence and a jazz legacy that attracted the most renowned musicians of the 20th century. The play also explores the impact of displacement and gentrification in Indianapolis.
"The Price of Progress" candidly ascribes perceived and actual complicity on the part of IUPUI but also addresses healing measures assumed by campus leadership in more recent years. "The Price of Progress" celebrates the first 50 years of IUPUI — one of the nation's leading urban research campuses — chronicled through entertaining drama, comedy, music, dance and historical video.
For more information, contact Williams at 317-274-8710 or 317-457-8779, or visit OnyxFest.com.
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Asst. Dr. Chutima Maneewattana attended the opening ceremony of the 80th anniversary of Suan Sunandha.
Home > News > PR NEWS > Asst. Dr. Chutima Maneewattana attended the opening ceremony of the 80th anniversary of Suan Sunandha.
On November 8, 2018, Assistant Professor Dr. Chutima Maneewattana, Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts participated in the opening ceremony of the 80th Anniversary of Suan Sunandha at the Sunandhanusorn Hall, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University.