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Homecoming Game: Jewell takes a loss, despite breakout plays
Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe
After an unexpected weather delay, the William Jewell College Cardinals took on the Missouri S&T Miners in the 2019 Homecoming game. Alas, despite several standout plays, Jewell left the game with a loss – the final score being 41-24 for the S&T Miners.
While the game was initially scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, lightning strikes in the area caused the game to be postponed until 2 p.m. Sunday with 10 minutes and 21 seconds remaining in the first quarter.
The S&T Miners put the first points on the scoreboard – scoring a touchdown with 8:28 remaining in the first quarter. Three minutes later the Cards followed suite with a touchdown scored by wide receiver TJ Guillory, sophomore economics and business administration major, after a 45 yard pass from quarterback Will Schneider, junior undeclared major.
Guillory celebrates Jewell's first touchdown of the game
The S&T Miners finished the first quarter in the lead – scoring a second touchdown with 2:10 left on the clock.
Jewell's Cards kicked off the second quarter with a field goal from 34 yards by kicker Dalton Dye, junior accounting and business administration major, at 12 minutes and 43 seconds. Alas, the S&T Miners finished the quarter strong by scoring two more touchdowns – the last in the final second of the second quarter.
During halftime, Jewell's Homecoming king and queen were announced during the annual coronation ceremony. The marching band and dance team did not perform, though according to the game's announcer – "They're present, just not playing."
Homecoming candidates and parents stand on the track in Greene stadium
Hannah Keeney, senior psychological science major, was voted the 2019 Homecoming queen and Cameron McKasson, senior political science major, was voted Homecoming king. McKasson plays as a linebacker for the Jewell Cards and was injured during the game's second quarter, hence he was not present to accept his crown.
During halftime Kappa Alpha and Alpha Gamma Delta were awarded the Homecoming spirit stick.
Ryan Hiatt, KA representative, celebrates with the Homecoming spirit stick
Wide receiver Zack Gaudette, junior nursing major, opened the third quarter with a touchdown in the fifth minute. The S&T Miners recovered quickly, scoring two more touchdowns and finishing the quarter with a score of 41-17.
The final touchdown of the game was scored by Guillory in the fourth quarter.
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Sofia is a senior chemistry and communication major at William Jewell College. Currently she serves as the Editor in Chief of the Hilltop Monitor.


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Dubspot has been attending SXSW annually to present our unique brand of education, highlight our talented staff, and to get a taste of what's new in technology, film and sound for the coming year. For SXSW 2014 we have assembled a team of educators, creators, and thinkers for a series of events including workshops, live performances, DJ sets, discussions, and more.
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Join Ableton and Dubspot for a day of workshops, panels, and games at South by Southwest 2015. Free and open to the public. All ages and skill levels welcome.
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Q: Java count troubleshooting/bug I am working on a project for my computer programming class and have come across a weird bug I can't seem to fix. When adding new accounts and then deleting them, it seems to add more to the variable count than needed and seems to loop inside the actionlisteners() method which causes it to "store values" and create more accounts instead of just one. I have done some testing and the bug only happens after you have deleted and added an account once. Counts value will go from 1 to 3 when there is only one area it increments. How can I fix this?
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                    l1.setText("You can create a maximum of 20 accounts.");
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            if(sel2.toString().equals("Delete Account")){
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                System.out.println(count);
                }
                }
                if(count == 0){
                    l1.setText("There are no more accounts to remove!");
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            if(sel2.toString().equals("Add Account")){
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                l1.setText("You are depositing money.");
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            if(sel2.toString().equals("Withdraw Money")){
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Edit: Thanks for the help! Not sure how I missed that extra call of actionlisteners();

A: The call actionlisteners(); inside the if(sel1.toString().equals("-----BankAccounts-----") && ... statement registers another action listener for the component b1. That means if you press the button b1 (I guess it is a button) the action Add or Delete will be performed twice.
Make sure that you create only one action listener.

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Een torpedokruiser is een type kruiser die gespecialiseerd was in het afvuren van torpedo's en andere wapens verving voor torpedo's en torpedobuizen. Hedendaags zijn er geen torpedokruisers meer actief, hoewel kruisers nog altijd bewapend zijn met torpedo's.

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Diverse schepen van de Kuma-klasse hebben een tijdje als torpedokruiser gediend
De Folgoro-klasse van de Italiaanse marine
De Agordatklasse van de Italiaanse marine

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Actor Training, Gender, and Advertising: An Irritated Reader
July 6, 2006 UncategorizedTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Reading a New York Times Sunday Magazine story recently about the "Child Actor Program" at Oakwood Hills in Los Angeles (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, "Hollywood Elementary," 4 June 2006www.nytimes.com), I was struck by how much actor training for young people has changed since I took my first classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in the early 70s. These kids, of course, train to be film and television stars, while my friends and I thought we were learning an art form. I could be romanticizing my experience, but it seems to me that the scenes we did from Shakespeare (which I taught to even younger children when I hit my teens) and from Chekhov (I distinctly remember doing a scene from his comedy A Marriage Proposal with a would-be boyfriend) were as much about appreciating a canon of dramatic literature as they were about learning the beats and objectives of the Stanislavski method, whose lessons we applied slavishly.
I find it dispiriting, then, to read of pre-teen kids today who are taught that acting means learning to cry on cue, to do cold readings for casting directors stocking commercials with nubile young things, and who already know that they'll be cast on the basis of their "type." Is this the world for which those of us who teach theatre in universities and colleges are training our students? One without a literature, without a history, with only an ever more crassly capitalist future in which celebrity, rather than acting, is really what's being taught?
Then I look in Theatre Communications Group's trade magazine American Theatre at all the advertisements for university and college training programs, and I get even more disheartened. Although it's difficult for an ad to represent the full range of what and how we teach in our very diverse departments, the social images that inform these ads appear to me politically retrograde, and send a message to aspiring actors about their future positions in the field. The photographs that provide the cornerstone of these ads overwhelmingly feature young women upstaged by young men. Regardless of the form or genre implied, whether the classical repertoire or contemporary realism, the gender dynamic is disturbingly the same. While the men are visibly active in the foreground of these ads, the young women stand behind or beside them. The young men look straight out at the audience/reader; the women look at the men, so that they're invariably represented in profiles that send the ads' center of gravity elsewhere.
These ads delimit a very small range of theatrical moments. Where is the evidence of formal and social experimentation that surely some of our programs offer? Where is gender and racial and ethnic diversity, and how might we represent it as more central to our educational missions? I'm afraid these ads tell an unfortunate truth in how they attempt to lure prospective students; that is, the power relations they depict faithfully hew to the gender dynamic performed in conventional American theatre and too often unquestioningly replicated in our programs.
How can theatre educators and artists and critics acquiesce to this state of affairs? As citizens of the 21st century, shouldn't we be inspiring our students to think beyond old-fashioned gender and race and ethnic relations that were shopworn, if not already patently offensive, by the final decades of the 20th century? Shouldn't the graphic art with which we represent our programs, and the productions we select for our seasons, reflect a world where women and people of color finally take center stage, speak for themselves, and look out to address the audience as citizens of the world of the play in their own right, instead of pitching their focus to the too often still centered white male?
Although the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin isn't consulted about how our programs are advertised (and would probably never come to a consensus should such an invitation be extended), as a teacher here, in one of the largest undergraduate theatre departments in the country, I, too, am complicit. Our department's ads focus on the success of our graduates and the proximity we offer to professionals. Each ad typically includes a small photo of a celebrity, surrounded by a running list naming visiting artists and lecturers. In the October 2005 American Theatre, for example, alum John Rando was featured and congratulated on his success with the musical Urinetown (one of the most produced plays in the 2005-2006 season, according to TCG). Rando did visit the department and spend time in classes and at brown bag lunches talking with students. He even expressed a willingness to maintain an on-going relationship with the idea of a musical theatre concentration in the department. Other visitors named in our ad have given workshops or lectures and have also made themselves available to students. Jonathan Miller, for example, took on one of our recent MFA students as an apprentice director, and paved her professional path.
At the same time, what we're selling, at least without the explicit gender arrangements of the more visually "staged" ads, is proximity to past success and the carrot of reiteration. If Rando and celebrity alum Marcia Gay Harden can be successful, so can the new student, our ad's reasoning goes, despite the fact that the faculty might have changed or that the department itself has morphed in completely different directions than it took in the 70s or 80s. We're selling a simulacrum, a mirror, a second- or third-order pretense of reality, based on the illusion that a path carved by someone who began in the same place will end in the same place for someone else. This faith in such repeatability founds the success of residential communities for would-be child actors like the Oakwood: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frankie Muniz, and Hilary Duff lived there, the article reports, and look what they've accomplished.
What we don't articulate in our advertisements are the values we teach or the methods through which they're imbued. Even the names of degrees we offer have become opaque, empty placeholders; after all, what is a BA in Acting really about? What do students learn who embark on such programs of study? Will a BA from UT know the same things as a BFA from, say NYU? What's the difference and how is it expressed in the training and in the work? What do students think they're getting from these degrees? What does the faculty think they're teaching?
Shouldn't students expect, regardless of their formal degree program, to learn the history of the traditions into whose stream they're about to step? Shouldn't they engage the ethical questions of what it means to embody someone else's experience? John Istel wrote in his recent American Theatre essay (www.tcg.org/publications/at) of the prevalence of current plays with children in compromising situations, and the complications of young people performing (or watching) these roles. Shouldn't we engage our students in these debates?
Shouldn't we sell prospective students on the value of our programs by touting how we'll make them better people, sharper thinking artists, and imaginative and creative and engaged citizens, who might go on to reshape the gender and racial dynamics in those advertisements and use theatre to help us all experience something new about our world?
When the girls (interesting, too, that most of those interviewed were girls) in the Times article described what they called their "passion" for acting, I had no idea what they meant by passion or what they meant by acting, and neither, it seemed, did they. Those of us teaching in universities and colleges might start exactly there, to tease out the nature of that passion and how it might morph, and the varied, productive ways of defining that craft. I'm not sure how we can represent passion in an advertisement, but there are certainly more creative, progressive, hopeful, inspirational ways both to market and to ply our craft.
Ranting and wondering,
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2. Several months ago I asked about going into my own business with a criminal history. Great news.
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5. We have a group of very dear friends through our church, but they discourage us from following any of our dreams.
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Become a Friend of Victoria, here's how
Fundraise, Donate funds, Give in kind or Volunteer
It's easy to become a Friend of Victoria – simply show your support and care by fundraising, donating funds, giving in kind or volunteering.
Then you are a Friend of Victoria, forever
This special group is made up of anyone who fundraises, donates money, gives in kind or volunteers at Victoria Hospital: a true Friend of Victoria. Victoria was built by the community in 1889 and continues to be supported by people who care for the communities around Victoria Hospital.
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Victoria Hospital is proud to say that it is a well-managed hospital, evidenced by its record of minimum irregular expenditure and by all accounts being paid within 30 days. It also operates within budget, providing further proof of Victoria Hospital's dedication to good management practice. Much of the credit for this goes to CEO Dr Melvin Moodley and the team leaders who are committed to managing their resources at the highest standards.
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We welcome your questions about how you can support the good work happening at Victoria Hospital. Contact our Board Secretary at admin@victoriahospital.gov.za
Who does Victoria Hospital serve?
Victoria Hospital is a district hospital in the middle of a large city. The hospital has Level 2 status, meaning that…
Victoria serves the Southern District which stretches from Wynberg in the north to Hout Bay and Imizamo Yethu in the west, Phillipi and Lavender Hill in the east and Simonstown and Masiphumulele in the south. Areas such as Plumstead, Retreat, Diep River, Constantia, Fish Hoek, Muizenberg are also covered by Victoria. The Forensics Department covers Cape Town central all the way to Simon's Town.
Victoria cares for patients both without medical aid and with medical aid but who are not covered for certain procedures. We admit South African citizens and African Nationals or foreigners with asylum seeker or refugee status to receive care at Victoria Hospital. We take care of a high percentage of elderly people as a result of the demographic of the neighbouring areas.
Doesn't Government fund the hospital?
Yes – in theory, the Department of Health funds the day-to-day running of Victoria Hospital, but providing the care that we believe all members of the community deserve often demands more funds than government has earmarked for our budget.
Services like key-hole surgery, with all its benefits of quick healing and less scarring, should not be considered a luxury for those with medical aid, but something that is in reach of everyone.
The media often focuses on the shortcomings of government hospitals. We aim to be a hospital that is constantly striving to offer top quality care. Put plainly, it comes down to our desire to bridge the gap between rich and poor or patients with medical aid and those without.
What Projects are most important?
2015-2016 Focus Projects are: Lifesavers, Dash for Life, Cutting Edge Care and 6 000 Seconds to Sound.
However, smaller projects like Colour of Hope (ward refurbishment), Healing Hands (support OT and Forensics teams), Abundant Life (sponsor Palliative Care support groups) and Suds for Scrubs (sponsor sterilisation equipment) for have smaller budgets and may capture your heart and support for personal reasons.
What is Victoria Hospital's reputation?
Victoria Hospital is a well-managed hospital that operates within budget and pays its bills within 30 days. All department heads are incredibly disciplined and manage their own departments and resources exceptionally well. As its a small hospital it is also far easier to ensure ethical management of funds, and integrity is highly prized at Victoria. The hospital has a long-standing reputation for excellent care and dedicated staff, despite the challenges of a lack of space and tight government budgets.
Victoria Hospital's goal is to provide quality healthcare and excel as a teaching institution.
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For some of us it's an easy task to get up in the morning and start off the day. But for the majority of us, especially teenagers, it's quite the struggle to wake up at an early hour. Since school most likely won't be starting any later than it does, here are 6 tips to make the mornings easier and more enjoyable.
This tip is a little obvious: go to sleep earlier. Most teens go to sleep around 10:00-11:00 and wake up for school around 6:00-7:00, which is only about 7-8 hours of sleep. Studies show that teenagers are actually supposed to get 9.5 hours of sleep which is a bit hard to fulfill considering any afterschool programs, hours of homework, and the laziness that stereotypically comes with the teenage years. But if you manage your time well, try to decrease any possible procrastination, and go to sleep at a good hour, the mornings will definitely come a lot easier, especially if you have a zero period class.
Some days it feels like the hardest thing in the world to get out from the warmth and coziness of your bed. But it's important to get out, even if it means rolling out of bed, because it's extremely easy to let the comfort take over. So, something to do to help yourself wake up is to put on some energetic music you like to listen to. This will help you come alive, while letting you enjoy some tunes, which will also lift your mood and spirits in the morning.
Another thing you can do is to open your window shades or turn on the light and let some light in, as well as opening your windows to let in the fresh air. Simple acts like these will wake up your senses and put you in a positive mood to take on the day ahead.
Something that can also help is to either shower or wash/splash some water on your face. Plus, an added benefit is that you'll be clean and fresh for the day ahead, which will make you feel very good, resulting in a good mood to start the day with. Showering or washing your face is really refreshing and certainly will wake you up.
Exercising and/or stretching. Moving your muscles in some way in the morning will wake you up a lot. You might think that exercising will make you even more tired, but it does the complete opposite. Since your body has been laying completely still for the past 8 or so hours, moving your body gets you in the groove of the school day and gives you the energy you need for all the work and thinking you'll be doing that day.
The last tip is to find something exciting that the day ahead holds. Whether it's something small like petting your dog in the morning, seeing your friends at school, or a bigger event like a school football game, finding something to motivate you to wake up is very important. Your mindset on not only waking up and going to school, but life in general, is everything. With a positive attitude towards whatever challenges or events, waking up will come much easier.
Waking up in the morning may be difficult, but with these tips and the right outlook, it can be a much simpler task. Starting off the day right can affect the whole day ahead, so it is important to get off to a good start. Have a nice day!


The relayctl program controls the relayd(8) daemon.
Use socket instead of the default /var/run/relayd.sock to communicate with relayd(8).
Disable a host. Treat it as though it were always down.
Enable the host. Start checking its health again.
Reload the configuration from the specified file.
Continuously report any changes in the host checking engine and the pf(4) engine.
Schedule an immediate check of all hosts.
Disable a redirection. If it has pf(4) redirection rules installed, remove them. Mark the redirection's main table and – if applicable – disable the backup table as well.
Enable a redirection. Mark the redirection's main table and – if applicable – enable the backup table as well.
Show detailed status of hosts and tables. It will also print the last error for failed host checks; see the DIAGNOSTICS section below.
Show detailed status of redirections including the current and average access statistics. The statistics will be updated every minute. Redirections using the sticky-address option will count the number of sticky states, not the total number of redirected connections.
Show detailed status of relays including the current and average access statistics. The statistics will be updated every minute.
Show detailed status of routers including the configured network routes.
Dump the complete list of running relay sessions.
Display a list of all relays, redirections, routers, tables, and hosts.
Disable a table. Consider all hosts disabled. If it is a main table of a redirection which has a non-empty backup table, swap the contents of the pf(4) table with those of the backup table.
Enable a table. Start doing checks for all hosts that aren't individually disabled again.
UNIX-domain socket used for communication with relayd(8).
No specific error was reported by the check engine.
All checks were aborted by an external event, like a configuration reload.
The check did not finish in the configured time of an interval. This can happen if there are too many hosts that have to be checked by relayd(8) and can be avoided by increasing the global interval option in relayd.conf(5).
The check failed because the remote host did not send a reply within the configured timeout.
The check failed because relayd(8) was not ready to send the request within the configured timeout.
An I/O error occurred. This indicates that relayd(8) was running low on resources, file descriptors, or was too busy to run the request. It can also indicate that a TLS or TCP protocol error occurred or that the connection was unexpectedly aborted.
The check failed because the protocol handshake did not succeed in opening a stateful connection with the remote host.
The external script executed by the check did not return a valid return code.
The payload data returned by the remote host did not match the expected pattern.
The remote host did not return a valid HTTP header or body.
The remote host did not return a matching HTTP error code. This may indicate a real server problem (a server error, the page was not found, permission was denied) or a configuration error. For example, it is a very common mistake that relayd(8) was configured to expect a HTTP 200 OK status but the host is returning a HTTP 302 Found redirection. See relayd.conf(5) for more information on validating the HTTP return code.
The remote host did not return the expected content and the computed digest was different to the configured value. See relayd.conf(5) for more information on validating the digest.
The relayctl program, formerly known as hoststatectl, first appeared in OpenBSD 4.1. It was renamed to relayctl in OpenBSD 4.3.


NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A New Jersey man convicted of breaking into a Connecticut warehouse and stealing more than 8,000 cartons of cigarettes worth about $500,000 is headed to federal prison.
Federal authorities say 52-year-old Andrew Oreckinto, of Matawan (MA'-tuh-wahn), New Jersey, was sentenced Monday to four years behind bars. He was convicted in February of theft from an interstate shipment.
Prosecutors say surveillance cameras recorded Oreckinto breaking into New Britain Candy in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in March 2011. A glue-like substance was used to disable door locks. Wires to an outside surveillance camera and a phone line were also cut.
Authorities linked Oreckinto to the theft by analyzing his call history.
Oreckinto's public defender didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Oreckinto is serving prison time in New Jersey for an unrelated theft.


Steven Dumas is Vice President of our Rhode Island and South Eastern Massachusetts group. Steven came to New England Mechanical Services as a Service Sales Engineer in 1998, and was responsible for establishing operations in Rhode Island. In August 2001, Mr. Dumas was promoted to Rhode Island Branch Manager. He was promoted to Vice President in March of 2013. His responsibilities include the overall management of Sales, Operations, and Administrative personnel for the group.
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Ten amazing inventions from ancient times
Dating back thousands of years are numerous examples of ancient technology that leave us awe-struck at the knowledge and wisdom held by people of our past. They were the result of incredible advances in engineering and innovation as new, powerful civilizations emerged and came to dominate the ancient world. These advances stimulated societies to adopt new ways of living and governance, as well as new ways of understanding their world. However, many ancient inventions were forgotten, lost to the pages of history, only to be re-invented millennia later. Here we feature ten of the best examples of ancient technology and inventions that demonstrate the ingenuity of our ancient ancestors.
1. The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria
Heron Alexandrinus, otherwise known as the Hero of Alexandria, was a 1 st century Greek mathematician and engineer who is known as the first inventor of the steam engine. His steam powered device was called the aeolipile, named after Aiolos, God of the winds. The aeolipile consisted of a sphere positioned in such a way that it could rotate around its axis. Nozzles opposite each other would expel steam and both of the nozzles would generate a combined thrust resulting in torque, causing the sphere to spin around its axis. The rotation force sped up the sphere up to the point where the resistance from traction and air brought it to a stable rotation speed. The steam was created by boiling water under the sphere – the boiler was connected to the rotating sphere through a pair of pipes that at the same time served as pivots for the sphere. The replica of Heron's machine could rotate at 1,500 rounds per minute with a very low pressure of 1.8 pounds per square inch. The remarkable device was forgotten and never used properly until 1577, when the steam engine was 're-invented' by the philosopher, astronomer and engineer, Taqu al-Din.
2. Is the Assyrian Nimrud lens the oldest telescope in the world?
The Nimrud lens is a 3,000-year-old piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed by Sir John Layard in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq. The Nimrud lens (also called the Layard lens) is made from natural rock crystal and is a slightly oval in shape. It was roughly ground, perhaps on a lapidary wheel. It has a focal point about 11 centimetres from the flat side, and a focal length of about 12 cm. This would make it equivalent to a 3× magnifying glass (combined with another lens, it could achieve much greater magnification). The surface of the lens has twelve cavities that were opened during grinding, which would have contained naptha or some other fluid trapped in the raw crystal. Since its discovery over a century ago, scientists and historians have debated its use, with some suggesting it was used as a magnifying glass, and others maintaining it was a burning-glass used to start fires by concentrating sunlight. However, prominent Italian professor Giovanni Pettinato proposed the lens was used by the ancient Assyrians as part of a telescope, which would explain how the Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. According to conventional perspectives, the telescope was invented by Dutch spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey in 1608 AD, and Galileo was the first to point it to the sky and use it to study the cosmos. But even Galileo himself noted that the 'ancients' were aware of telescopes long before him. While lenses were around before the Nimrud lens, Pettinato believes this was one of the first to be used in a telescope.
3. The Oldest Calendar in Scotland
Research carried out last year on an ancient site excavated by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004 revealed that it contained a sophisticated calendar system that is approximately 10,000 years old, making it the oldest calendar ever discovered in the world. The site – at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire – contains a 50 metre long row of twelve pits which were created by Stone Age Britons and which were in use from around 8000 BC (the early Mesolithic period) to around 4,000 BC (the early Neolithic). The pits represent the months of the year as well as the lunar phases of the moon. They were formed in a complex arc design in which each lunar month was divided into three roughly ten day weeks – representing the waxing moon, the full moon and the waning moon. It also allowed the observation of the mid-winter sunrise so that the lunar calendar could be recalibrated each year to bring it back in line with the solar year. The entire arc represents a whole year and may also reflect the movements of the moon across the sky.
4. Ancient Roman Concrete was Far Superior to Our Own
Scientists studying the composition of Roman concrete, which has been submerged under the Mediterranean Sea for the last 2,000 years, discovered that it was superior to modern-day concrete in terms of durability and being less environmentally damaging. The Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock. For underwater structures, the combination of lime and volcanic ash with seawater instantly triggered a chemical reaction in which the lime incorporated molecules into its structure and reacted with the ash to cement the whole mixture together. Analysis of the concrete found that it produces a significantly different compound to modern day cement, which is an incredibly stable binder. In addition, the ancient concrete contains the ideal crystalline structure of Tobermorite, which has a greater strength and durability than the modern equivalent. Finally, microscopic studies identified other minerals in the ancient concrete which show potential application for high-performance concretes, including the encapsulation of hazardous wastes. "In the middle 20th century, concrete structures were designed to last 50 years," said scientist Paulo Monteiro said. "Yet Roman harbour installations have survived 2,000 years of chemical attack and wave action underwater."
5. 2000-year-old metal coatings superior to today's standards
Research has shown that artisans and craftsmen 2,000 years ago used a form of ancient technology for applying thin films of metal to statues and other items, which was superior to today's standards for producing DVDs, solar cells, electronic devices and other products. Fire gilding and silvering are age-old mercury-based processes used to coat the surface items such as jewels, statues and amulets with thin layers of gold or silver. From a technological point of view, what the ancient gilders achieved 2000 years ago, was to make the metal coatings incredibly thin, adherent and uniform, which saved expensive metals and improved its durability, something which has never been achieved to the same standard today. Apparently without any knowledge about the chemical–physical processes, ancient craftsmen systematically manipulated metals to create spectacular results. They developed a variety of techniques, including using mercury like a glue to apply thin films of metals to objects. The findings demonstrate that there was a far higher level of understanding and knowledge of advanced concepts and techniques in our ancient past than what they are given credit for.
6. The incredible 2000-year-old earthquake detector
Although we still cannot accurately predict earthquakes, we have come a long way in detecting, recording, and measuring seismic shocks. Many don't realise that this process began nearly 2000 years ago, with the invention of the first seismoscope in 132 AD by a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, engineer, and inventor called Zhang ('Chang') Heng. The device was remarkably accurate in detecting earthquakes from afar, and did not rely on shaking or movement in the location where the device was situated. Zhang's seismoscope was a giant bronze vessel, resembling a samovar almost 6 feet in diameter. Eight dragons snaked face-down along the outside of the barrel, marking the primary compass directions. In each dragon's mouth was a small bronze ball. Beneath the dragons sat eight bronze toads, with their broad mouths gaping to receive the balls. The sound of the ball striking one of the eight toads would alert observers to the earthquake and would give a rough indication of the earthquake's direction of origin. In 2005, scientists in Zengzhou, China (which was also Zhang's hometown) managed to replicate Zhang's seismoscope and used it to detect simulated earthquakes based on waves from four different real-life earthquakes in China and Vietnam. The seismoscope detected all of them. As a matter of fact, the data gathered from the tests corresponded accurately with that gathered by modern-day seismometers!
7. Mythical sunstone used as ancient navigational device
An ancient Norse myth described a magical gem used to navigate the seas, which could reveal the position of the sun when hidden behind clouds or even before dawn or after sunset. Now it appears the myth is in fact true. In March 2013, a team of scientists announced that a unique calcite crystal, which was found in the wreck of an Elizabethan ship sunk off the Channel Islands, contains properties consistent with the legendary Viking sunstone and that shards of the crystal can indeed act as a remarkably precise navigational aid. According to the researchers, the principle behind the sunstone relies on its unusual property of creating a double refraction of sunlight, even when it is obscured by cloud or fog. By turning the crystal in front of the human eye until the darkness of the two shadows are equal, the sun's position can be pinpointed with remarkable accuracy.
8. The Baghdad Battery
The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is a clay pot which encapsulates a copper cylinder. Suspended in the centre of this cylinder—but not touching it—is an iron rod. Both the copper cylinder and the iron rod are held in place with an asphalt plug. These artifacts (more than one was found) were discovered during the 1936 excavations of the old village Khujut Rabu, near Baghdad. The village is considered to be about 2000 years old, and was built during the Parthian period (250BC to 224 AD). Although it is not known exactly what the use of such a device would have been, the name 'Baghdad Battery', comes from one of the prevailing theories established in 1938 when Wilhelm Konig, the German archaeologist who performed the excavations, examined the battery and concluded that this device was an ancient electric battery. After the Second World War, Willard Gray, an American working at the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, built replicas and, filling them with an electrolyte, found that the devices could produce 2 volts of electricity. The question remains, if it really was a battery, what was it used to power?
9. 1,600-year-old goblet shows that the Romans used nanotechnology
The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman chalice that changes colour depending on the direction of the light upon it. It baffled scientists ever since the glass chalice was acquired by the British Museum in the 1950s. They could not work out why the cup appeared jade green when lit from the front but blood red when lit from behind. The mystery was solved in 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: they had impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometres in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The work was so precise that there is no way that the resulting effect was an accident. In fact, the exact mixture of the metals suggests that the Romans had perfected the use of nanoparticles. When hit with light, electrons belonging to the metal flecks vibrate in ways that alter the colour depending on the observer's position.
10. The ancient Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 1900 during the recovery of a shipwreck off of the Greek island, Antikythera, in waters 60 meters deep. It is a metallic device which consists of a complex combination of gears, and dates back to the 2nd century BCE. The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most amazing mechanical devices discovered from the ancient world. For decades, scientists have utilized the latest technology in attempts to decipher its functionality; however, due to its complexity, its true purpose and function remained elusive. But in the last few years, a number of scientists appear to have solved the mystery as to precisely how this incredible piece of technology once worked. Peter Lynch, professor of meteorology at University College Dublin, explains: "The mechanism was driven by a handle that turned a linked system of more than 30 gear wheels…The gears were coupled to pointers on the front and back of the mechanism, showing the positions of the sun, moon and planets as they moved through the zodiac. An extendable arm with a pin followed a spiral groove, like a record player stylus. A small sphere, half white and half black, indicated the phase of the moon. Even more impressive was the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses." Amazingly, the device even included a dial to indicate which of the pan-Hellenic games would take place each year, with the Olympics occurring every fourth year. Just one small cog out of 30 remains a mystery and it is hoped that further research can place this last piece in the puzzle.
By April Holloway
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Justbod wrote on 27 July, 2015 - 08:36 Permalink
Fascinating article that i'm sure just hints at what ancient technologies there may once have been.
Thank you – I found the article really interesting and inspiring!
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Rudi Kramp wrote on 2 June, 2015 - 19:58 Permalink
There is a lot that's known about ancient civilisations, and a lot unknown.
Should have the best of the present, with the best of the past, including ancient past.
tmobley1 wrote on 20 February, 2015 - 01:40 Permalink
The baghdad battery is easy to make and it can hold up to 3.5 volts.. It is the same as putting a penny and a nail into a potatoe or fruit and connecting it with wires up to a light bulb.
Troy Mobley
Howard West wrote on 14 December, 2014 - 20:02 Permalink
The nano size gold was not ground by the Roman's. This size gold is very very common in Nature. In fact it was used in the Process gold plating many base metal object. What you do is coat the metal with Mercury: then flush the amalgamated metal with a gold laden slurry. The Mercury captures those "nano" size gold particles, then the gold floats to the top of the mercury, where it can be collected, and the mercury driven off. The gold is then heated and mixed with sulfuric acid turning the gold Red. This is then mixed with the melted green glass. Not a high tech process.
James Hunt wrote on 24 May, 2014 - 21:56 Permalink
Wow what a great resource
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What Gorgias Would Say to Sisyphus
November 3, 2009 November 3, 2009 kevin philosophy
On Sunday the pastor at Christ Church preached on kairos and God's time; specifically, the notion of the kingdom of God as "already and not yet" simultaneously. While I don't disagree, I want to offer another take on kairos and the personal importance of that word to my own philosophy.
For this I draw on Gorgias of Leontini, one of the most underrated ancient philosophers (unfairly maligned for over 2 millenia because of Dumb & Dumber, ie Aristotle & Plato). From Gorgias and the Sophists we get the concept of the "kairotic moment," loosely meaning "seizing the opportune opening." Originally a sports term (archery), the Sophists applied it to rhetoric to mean the key moment in a debate when you trip up your opponent or drive him into a logical corner.
The kairotic moment can be much larger than that however. It was a concept ignored by Plato because, as Bruce McComiskey points out, it "functions best in the context of a contingent worldview." It is the moment of decisive action to create our destiny, to re-shape or re-determine our reality. In this we see the beginnings of proto-existentialism. Camus' daily revolt was against the status quo in an effort to "challenge the world anew every second." His emphasis was on action, on doing: "We get in the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking." Hear also Pierre Thevenaz: "Man acts and speaks before he knows. Or, better, it is by acting and in action that he is enabled to know." Thus the kairotic moment is siezing the chance to act and in doing so, open up avenues to thought.
It also opens up ethical burdens. Kairos, for Gorgias, carried weight because it placed moral responsibility solely on the individual. The kairotic moment is thus the opening in which we do right or wrong, the decisive point in which the responsibility to act is upon our shoulders. It echoes the existentialists — Camus asks us to turn "every idea and every image into a privileged moment." Every act, as well. Sisyphus must face the fact that every step up that mountain is an opening to act, a kairotic step. To privilege every moment forces us into an ethical framework. To misappropriate Walter Benjamin, we ought to see every instance as an opening in which the Divine might enter. To push the boulder uphill is a moral choice: Derrida asks us to see every decision as our own personal Mt. Moriah: this or that, yes or no, sacrifice or wait. This is what leads to unconditionality, that blessedly horrid, unbearable ethical burden that Derrida prescribes.
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I think I should've also pointed out another reason Plato steered clear of kairos: depending on how you read the Sophists, it's possible to see the kairotic moment as entirely irrational. I'm not sure this is required — though it can be, at minimum, sub-rational (perhaps think of Malcom Gladwell's "blink" moments here). Sisyphus, in fact, unaware of either Gorgias or Camus, may be incapable of articulating what nevertheless still drives him: "I am, therefore I push."
Gorgias tells Sisyphus, "It's coming, waiting for the kairotic opening to act!" But Camus turns to Sisyphus: "It's here and now! You're alive, so this step – and every step, up or down – is the decisive point."
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Toronto's haphazard urban design produced some laneway oddities that are a hybrid of alley and proper street. One such place is Jersey Ave., running south from Harbord St. between Grace and Clinton Sts., it's an odd mix of little homes and garages that runs almost as far as College St.
Once on College, walk east to Croft St., two blocks past Bathurst St., for another hybrid with some interesting laneway housing. When there check out the mural depicting the great Toronto fire of 1904 and its only casualty, explosives expert John Croft, who died clearing debris a few days later.
In the Summerhill neighbourhood walk east along Shaftesbury Ave. from the Summerhill subway exit to the first alley called Shaftesbury Pl., and find the wonderful laneway house designed by Toronto architecture firm superkül. Covered in rusting steel, it references the blacksmith shop and horse shed that were once in its place, rough, workaday operations we don't see much of in the city today. However a few doors down find the United Marble Co., an unlikely light-industrial concern, established long before Toronto's residents associations opposed everything and anything. When open, dust-covered workers cutting stone are visible inside, making this lane feel like a portal to an earlier time.
All around the city there are interesting lanes behind retail strips, extending far beyond downtown, alleys like the one parallel to Bloor St. W. near Royal York Rd. in Etobicoke, or along the north side of Dundas St. W. in The Junction, or even behind many of the strip malls in North York or Scarborough. Sometimes, especially on summer evenings, back doors to restaurants will be open, affording sneak peaks of the action in the kitchen. There are also the great ramshackle decks and gardens created by people who live on top of the shops, a do-it-yourself urbanism that is radically different than what's out front.
For a long trek through this kind of landscape follow the laneways along the north side of St. Clair Ave. W., heading west, beginning around Vaughan Rd. They aren't continuous, and some detours are necessary — keep that smartphone handy — but they're busy, as many cyclists use them as an alternative to the narrow lanes of St. Clair. Until Dufferin St. these lanes follow the approximate preamalgamation border of the old City of York and City of Toronto; Toronto got the riches of St. Clair's retail tax base in this deal. At Winona Dr. and Barrie Ave. the slope of buried Garrison Creek is quite visible where the tiny Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Resurrection sits on its former banks.
Beyond Dufferin, the lanes continue to Prospect Cemetery and Masoleum, where an alley runs along its brick wall up to Rogers Rd. There, head west to the lane that begins on the left side of St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic school called Bronoco Ave. This is hill country and Bronoco rises above and past the school with panoramic views of Etobicoke and beyond.
Toronto: a humble kind of city that hides its greatest views in its back alleys.


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The Happy Healing Shop
What is Vedic Astrology? (Vedic Astrology Vs Western Astrology)
TRANG: Hey guys! It's Trang from The Happy Healing Shop today. I have a really special guest with us, SunGoddess Ashley, a professional Vedic astrologer. Today we're going to talk about what is Vedic Astrology and the difference between Western and Vedic Astrology. Ashley, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into astrology?
SUNGODDESS ASHLEY: I'm a professional psychic and Vedic astrologer. I got into astrology because I was interested in learning about personalities and psychology. It really mixes spirituality with the psychological aspect, so that was the original draw. I've been studying it for about 13 years.
TRANG: How would you describe astrology a nutshell to someone who is brand new to it and does not know and has never heard of it before?
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: Yeah that's a great question. So astrology is basically the study of time and the movement of the stars and how the movement of the stars and the planets affect us. It talks a lot about our personality characteristics and the movement forward for our future and past. Basically everything is really written in this blueprint of the Stars. It's a beautiful tapestry of the night sky that we interpret for how it relates to us.
TRANG: So what are exactly the main differences in Vedic Astrology and Western Astrology? Do you have a preference between those?
SUNGODDESS ASHLEY: I do have a preference. The main difference basically between Western astrology and Vedic astrology is tropical (Western) astrology is seasonal based and Vedic astrology is constellation or star-based. The basic terms are the tropical system versus the sidereal system. My preference is Vedic Astrology using the sidereal system of the stars because it is a more accurate calculation of measurements of the sky. Western astrology is solar-based, so where people would ask, "What is my sun sign? If I'm a Gemini or Leo or whatever based upon the Sun and its position in the tropical zodiac." Vedic astrology is lunar-based so it adheres to a lunar calendar, and you do take into account the Sun and the Moon signs as well, but there are both.
TRANG: What examples would Vedic Astrology be better? Like for example, if people want to know more about predictions or their future, does that mean Western astrology can't really do that? Whereas Vedic Astrology is more of the right type for that?
SUNGODDESS ASHLEY: Both systems actually do predictions based upon transits but since Vedic astrology is a little bit more accurate, you will have more accurate results, and there's a different rulership system as well, so we don't use the outer planets. For example, Uranus Neptune and Pluto are not typically planets that we use, but in tropical astrology, we do that.
TRANG: How does astrology work? When a client comes in, how do you go about structuring a reading?
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: The first thing I'll take is their birth information, so birth date, location, city, state, and accurate time of day, and then I'll draw up a chart on my astrology software. The days are long gone where we have to do them by hand, so I'm so thankful for astrology software to be able to calculate that. I think there's just a lot of math involved that you have to have more additional training for, but it's really simple so if you have the appropriate software you can input the client's information and then it yields the chart. I'm trained to learn how to interpret that.
TRANG: Do you have to know the birth time? Because I know a couple of friends are like "Oh I have everything, I know where I'm born. I just don't know what time I was born."
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: Right so that's actually really common—not everybody knows when their exact birth time is. Or they have an approximation or they're not able to ask their mother for whatever reason or it's just not on their birth certificate. Some hospitals don't have it printed, so in that case, you can still do an astrology chart. It's called the Chandra lagna chart, so you put the moon on the ascendant and you read from the moon, so that as if the moon were the rising sign.
TRANG: So what are some misconceptions people have about astrology? For example, someone might say, "Oh I'm a Gemini, but I just don't identify with my other friends that are also Gemini's." Or for example: Mercury retrograde—you hear that about all the time and people are like "Shit is hitting the fan!" and that kind of stuff.
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: So it is a little true and it's a little not true. So that's actually part of the beauty of life is, that going to any extremes where something's completely bad or completely wonderful isn't really the truth, so you always have to take transit, for example, mercury retrograde with a grain of salt. So there are good things that you should do during a Mercury retrograde. You can use that to your benefit. It doesn't mean that everything is falling apart but there are certain things that you don't want to do like sign contracts, or really begin anything new. It's kind of a time for going back to the past and undoing things. So it's good for one thing, and not really good for others. So, I feel like it's not that everything bad happens during this time, and also with the other thing that you mentioned with being your sun sign as a Gemini. For example with people if they're like, "I don't really resonate with that", usually because the difference between these two systems, they are about one full sign-off, so if you're looking at things sideareally, you would be maybe a Taurus instead of a Gemini s you'd be more earthy. That's it's just based on your Sun Sign, and there's so much more to your astrological chart than just your Sun Sign. You actually have to take into account what is your rising sign, what is your moon sign because it'll show you the nature of the person by the ascendant. The personality characteristics are actually really more seen from the ascendant and in the moon. So that might be a reason as to why someone doesn't really vibe with their sign as much or what they think their sign might be. It might yield a completely different chart than what they're used to seeing.
TRANG: So you've probably read hundreds of charts by now. What are the
most common questions people would ask you in a reading?
SUNGODDESS ASHLEY: Yeah, actually the most common questions are something that we all connect to in our life just as being a human. We want to know about our relationships and want to know about our career and then an offshoot of that would be money with the career, and then all different types of relationships. So not just romantic relationships but friendships, family, sometimes health. Actually, people want to know about that, but those are the most common topics that people want to know about and they always want to know when: "When am I gonna get the promotion?", "When should I leave a job?", When am I gonna start a new job?" and "When am I going to be in a relationship?", "When will I get married?". So astrology is a really good tool to look at the forecast of someone's timeline for those when-questions. So those are the most, I think, popular questions that people ask.
TRANG: At the Happy Healing Shop, we have all types of readings, like tarot readings mediumship readings and whatnot, so how can astrology help a person? How have you seen this in your clients?
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: Oh well, astrology is really great for guidance and it shows people's strengths their weaknesses or things that they can improve on. It gives guidance for business, relationships, love, and everything like that, but it's really for people who want to further understand themselves on a deeper level. So when you really understand yourself that's when the healing really begins.
TRANG: Also another thing I just want to mention here, is that people don't realize in astrology you can also find the charts for the life or a progression of even a business product or just launches and stuff like that. So one thing that businesses don't know about is that you can use it to pinpoint what time of the day would be great for a product launch. You told me there was like—was it that iPhone they released it and the time where there was like a lot of malfunctioning and you know where the phone caught and fire or whatever because it was released on an eclipse.
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: I think there was the Samsung phones that caught fire, but yeah but the iPhone was launched on an eclipse and generally that's not really an auspicious time when the luminaries the Sun in the sky goes dark. You don't really want that or the moon. For example, when the moon goes dark, you don't want that either. Natal charts aren't just specific for people—they also can be drawn up for events. Everything has a birth. There's a birth of a product, a birth of an idea, a birth of a certain action that you want to take in life, so everything has a natal chart. It's not just really confined to a person. So if you want to find a good date for the launch of your business or for doing something important, that's when you would draw up a chart to find the best possible time for things.
TRANG: With a lot of these people that come into readings that are new to astrology or never had an astrology reading, I'm sure you get a lot of people who are nervous because they don't know what to expect. How would you tell people how they should be mentally come, or any pieces of advice?
SUNGODDESS ASHLEY: So I think this really falls under like part of the misconceptions that people have about astrology, especially in Vedic Astrology. I think traditionally it does kind of have a bad rap for being really negative, and also a little bit fatalistic. We do have free will, as well as destiny so there are certain times in our life where things are supposed to be lessons or whatever, that our souls signed up for, but how we respond to these lessons really indicates our level of free will so that's that part is really empowering to the person knowing that I have a choice on what I really can do or how I respond to whatever is happening in my life. I think the nervousness really just stems from fear of the unknown or like "What if you're gonna tell me something terrible that I can't handle?". With any good reader, they're going to have a certain level of personal skills or counseling skills basically. You don't want to tell people something that is gonna scare them as it's not kind or helpful. So sharing information that's helpful to the person and done in a way that's very considerate and respectful. There's kind of a bad rap just in general for psychics, not just astrologers, that want to sell you things. So people will tell you that going but a curse and you've got to pay $300 to get rid of it. The same applies for astrologers: if they tell you that you need to buy expensive gemstones or things like that. There are certain remedies that you can do for things in your chart to strengthen the energy that doesn't require a ton of money.
TRANG: So you mentioned free will. I get this asked a lot, but how much does free will play into our lives and how much does destiny and fate play into our lives?
SUNGODDESS ASHLEY: I've heard that there's a thing called Shiva's curse. Basically the curse on astrologers to not know everything and it's not really a curse. It's actually a blessing because who would really want to know everything? It's not our responsibility as humans to know God's job to do God's job right, so the fact if you can predict accurately 75%-80% percent of the time that's like an amazing reader because we do have free will and I feel like within that Shiva's curse that theory or that concept, there's about 70% percent fate and 30% percent free will, so whether that's proveable or not is up for discussion. I feel like at certain times people have a little bit more fated things that happen and sometimes they have a little bit more free will. It just depends on what is going on in their chart. It depends on their chart in general, so you can't really say that thing is just one way for everybody.
TRANG: And what type of people do you recommend to or actually not recommend astrology to?
SUNG GODDESS ASHLEY: Yeah I think exactly the closed-mindedness skeptics people; they just want to challenge you, or the know-it-alls as well. It's like when you're giving a reading you don't want someone to do the reading for themselves basically. So I've had those experiences: it's like well why are you asking me for my opinion, you know? but I think not everyone is like that. The vast majority of people are just really curious and they want to know what you have to say and they're looking for guidance in their lives so I think being open-minded to the information that comes out and usually a reading is not going to be too off of what you feel is really going on in your life. It's not gonna hit you out of left field. So again kind of going along that nervousness that people have with the reading, they're afraid that you're going to tell them the sky is falling when it's clearly not, so it's not going to be too much off from their current circumstances.
TRANG: Yeah, I've seen my friends and I go to readings with Ashley and she says things that definitely are particular with that person and resonates with them, and again it doesn't come out left field. It's just more of like people are usually stunned by what the chart shows and they're like "Yep that's me, that's me."
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: Yeah I think that a picture really speaks a thousand words. When you're looking at a chart, you get an image of where all the planets are located in the sky, but it's really up to the astrologer to explain a picture well. If you just say, "Oh it's red. Well, what shade of red is it? You know, does it have different hues? Does it have different tones?" So the art of interpretation is really just good communication skills. So in addition to being an astrologer, I'm also a psychic so a lot of the messages that I get are downloaded or I just have a very strong intuition about something so it is a blend of logic and intuition.
TRANG: So if our person is looking for an astrologer what advice or tips would you give them? (ie. these are red flags, this is a warning do not go to them as it is a scam)? Sometimes there are stories that are really heartbreaking, where people feel lost in life and they just want to see and get some guidance, and then they get swindled.
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: Yeah I feel like when people are going for a reading, whether it's astrology reading, a tarot card reading, a palm reading, whatever that is they're being vulnerable. They're opening themselves up to somebody and a lot of times there are dishonest people that can prey on people's fears, so I think going back to what we said before: someone's trying to sell you things or it feels like a very salesperson, then that would be a red flag. If someone's just not kind or they don't sound like they know what they're talking about or if there's no proof or evidence if they can't explain basically like justify your reasoning, that's another red flag. I think just go with your gut everybody has intuition, so if someone doesn't feel right it probably isn't it.
TRANG: Okay, so for those who are looking to dive in and who wants to learn more about astrology, are there any like courses online or any books that you recommend?
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: YouTube is a good place for starting out. I think there are a lot of resources. Again I am a Vedic astrologer so I would recommend any professional Vedic astrologer out there basically following them, buying their books. There's just a lot of resources online. I don't know if I would recommend anyone specifically because this is my field and I don't want to play favorites, but it can be a beautiful journey too if people want to discover for themselves what's out there, and you can find who they resonate with and the astrologers' teaching style.
TRANG: Well, thanks so much for sharing all your wisdom today and teaching us all about Vedic astrology! You can find Sun Goddess Ashley through actually one of our services at The Happy Healing Shop. Where can people find you on social media?
SUN GODDESS ASHLEY: Thank you so much for having me. I love doing this for you guys. You can find me on Instagram at Sun Goddess Astrology or Sun Goddess Ashley and YouTube at Sun Goddess Ashley.
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Amateur Winemakers' and Brewers' Club of Adelaide – Monthly meetings for social events, brewing competitions and workshops on the fine art of amateur wine and beer making.
Bacchus Club – Wine and food club that meets on the last Thursday of each month. They are part of the Federation of Wine & Food Societies of Australia.
Guinness Appreciation Society of South Australia – Monthly gatherings at a variety of establishments throughout Adelaide and the suburban areas to enjoy good food and Guinness.


Neil indicates the Dota 2 announcement was a problem. 50 people beat the Dota 2 bot after the announcement.
AlphaGo beat the top world champion at Go.
Libratus beat human pros at Texas holdem poker.
AI optimized hardware exist today.
Neil reviewed the exponential growth in the skills capability for Amazaon Alexa.
Neil is editing ScienceRobotics a new journal.
There was no work to overcome catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
XAI (Darpa project) to provide an explanation model and explanation interface.
Intraspexion is an AI that searches your corporate email to identify future potential litigation.
High-throughput materials discovery involves the rapid synthesis, measurement, and characterization of many different but structurally related materials. A central problem in materials discovery, the phase map identification problem, involves the determination of the crystal structure of materials from materials composition and structural characterization data. We present Phase-Mapper, a novel solution platform that allows humans to interact with both the data and products of AI algorithms, including the incorporation of human feedback to constrain or initialize solutions. Phase-Mapper is compatible with any spectral demixing algorithm, including our novel solver, AgileFD, which is based on convolutive non-negative matrix factorization. AgileFD allows materials scientists to rapidly interpret XRD patterns, and can incorporate constraints to capture the physics of the materials as well as human feedback. We compare three solver variants with previously proposed methods in a large-scale experiment involving 20 synthetic systems, demonstrating the efficacy of imposing physical constraints using AgileFD. Since the deployment of Phase-Mapper at the Department of Energy's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), thousands of X-ray diffraction patterns have been processed and the results are yielding discovery of new materials for energy applications, as exemplified by the discovery of a new family of metal oxide solar light absorbers, among the previously unsolved Nb-Mn-V oxide system, which is provided here as an illustrative example. Phase-Mapper is also being deployed at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to enable phase mapping on datasets in real time.
Neil Jacobstein chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View California. Neil is a former President of Singularity University. Jacobstein is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Stanford University Media X Program, where his research focuses on augmented decision systems. He Chaired AAAI's 17th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, and continues to review technical papers for IAAI. In 2016, he became a founding member of the editorial board of AAAS Science Robotics. Neil has served as a technical consultant on AI research and development projects for: DARPA, NSF, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE, the U.S. Army and Air Force, GM, Ford, Boeing, Applied Materials, NIST, and other agencies. He was CEO of Teknowledge Corporation, a pioneering AI company, where he worked on AI applications systems for industry and government. He worked as a graduate research intern in Alan Kay's Learning Research Group at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and was a consultant in PARC's Software Concepts Group. Jacobstein is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He has moderated Aspen Institute Socrates Programs on the technical and ethical implications of advanced technologies, and he coaches Socrates moderators. Neil is deeply interdisciplinary, and has a keen sense of how the arts and sciences can integrate. Since 1992, he has served as Chairman of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a 501c3 nanotechnology R&D organization. Jacobstein contributed to the 2005 National Academy of Sciences workshop on the feasibility of molecular manufacturing, and the 2007 Foresight Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems. He is the primary author of the Foresight Guidelines for the responsible development of nanotechnology. Neil is in demand as an engaging speaker who can make complex topics clear to diverse audiences. He has given invited talks worldwide on the technical, business, and ethical implications of exponential technologies, such as AI, robotics, and atomically precise manufacturing. He is a member of AAAS, AAAI, IEEE, and ACM. Neil has served in a variety of executive and technical advisory roles for industry, nonprofit, and government organizations.


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