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Lordy! Monckton said to the Winnipeg Sun (in Manitoba, but you knew that) :
He continues: "Remember DDT, the pesticide used to kill mosquitoes that carried malaria. Jackie Kennedy read a book saying it was harmful, got her husband the president to bring pressure to have it banned and in 40 years 40 million people, mainly children, died. Now we've come to our senses and re-introduced it but only after the fashionable left did their damage.
Not so fast. Here are a few of the errors.
1. Key phrase: "the pesticide that used to kill mosquitoes that carried malaria." It's not very good anymore. Mosquitoes acquired alleles that allow them to digest DDT, rather as food, instead of getting poisoned by it. This evolutionary response was speeded when DDT was overused (abused, that is) by big farmers. The World Health Organization had a campaign to use DDT to knock down a mosquito population for about six months, quickly treat all the humans who had the disease, and so when the mosquitoes came roaring back after six months, there would be no malaria for them to get from one person to spread. WHO stopped the program when the quickly-evolving resistance to DDT made it impossible. This was in the years 1964 through about 1966. DDT was not banned, and production and use of the stuff continued around the world.
2. President Kennedy was asked about DDT at a press conference. He said he'd read the book. It wasn't "meddling" by Jackie Kennedy — though she would have been right had she done it. Jackie Kennedy proved her mettle later as an editor of books, a real force to be reckoned with and a woman of great judgment.
(Yeah, I had sound trouble with it, except for the press conference with Kennedy.)
3. Kennedy didn't act against DDT.
President John F. Kennedy at a press conference on August 29, 1962; he announced the retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter and the appointment of Arthur Goldberg to replace him; in questions, he was asked about DDT and Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.
4. Kennedy did ask the experts to check out Carson's book. The President's Science Advisory Commitee (PSAC) (including Nobel winners) spent several months studying the book and its footnotes, and checking with other experts. In May 1963 they issued a verdict: Carson's book, Silent Spring, was accurate and true, but suffered one flaw: Carson's alarm wasn't loud enough nor demanding action quickly enough. PSAC urged Kennedy to act immediately to slow or stop the use of DDT. Alas, he was assassinated six months later. (Full text of the PSAC report is available on this blog, here.)
5. Though the federal government stopped massive use of DDT on its side, large agricultural interests used it extensively. After a decade of devastation across the country, in two separate trials federal judges ruled DDT a dangerous substance — they withheld injunctions when the newly-formed EPA promised to expedite hearings on tighter regulations for the stuff which had been floundering for a few years. So it was that in 1971, more than seven years after John F. Kennedy's death, a full administrative hearing on DDT began at EPA. DDT had been fully available world wide for 9 years after Carson's book.
6. In 1972, still under court order, the EPA administrative law judge Edmund Sweeney ruled that a new label for DDT would be adequate control. Under the new label, use would be severely restricted, and broadcast spraying on crops would be prohibited, but DDT would be freely available. If someone wanted to, they could buy DDT and broadcast it themselves. Under the labeling rules, nothing could be done to such violators. Judge Sweeney carefully documented in his hearings all the benefits and drawbacks of DDT. A more restrictive proposal, such as a ban, would not do much more than the new label (if the label was followed), and Sweeney said that he did not find that EPA had the power to do any more. EPA administrator William Ruckleshaus got a more detailed review of the law from his legal team, and concluded that EPA could indeed ban broadcast use, and so he did. At least two of the DDT manufacturers sued, claiming there was no scientific basis for a ban. Under U.S. law, if the scientific data do not back up such a rule, the courts are obligated to overturn the rule. Both courts granted summary judgment for EPA, meaning that even if all the evidence were interpreted to favor the pesticide manufacturers, they would still lose on the law. There were no further appeals.
7. The EPA ban allowed DDT to be used in emergencies, especially if there were an emergency involving malaria or other insect-borne disease; specifically, EPA's order allowed DDT use against any insect "vector" to fight disease at any time, for indoor residual spraying (IRS) the preferred method of fighting malaria. The EPA ban did not cover manufacturing, and U.S. DDT manufacturers ran a lively export business through 1984. On the day before the Superfund law took effect in 1984, requiring manufacturers to clean up toxic wastes they had dumped in violation of law, several of the DDT manufacturers declared bankruptcy, leaving the Superfund to clean up DDT sites in Texas and California, and other places. Clean up continues today, 25 years later, costing tens of millions of dollars a year.
Manufacture of DDT today is chiefly in India and China. Pollution problems abound near those sites.
8. DDT use was never banned in Africa, especially for use to fight malaria. Considering mosquito resistance and immunity, however, Africans generally chose not to use DDT. DDT's reputation was further tarnished when it was revealed that broadcast outdoor spraying had killed food fishes in several places, leading to near starvation for local populations. South Africa used DDT right up through 1996, then stopped. When mosquitoes with malaria flowed over the border from neighboring nations without adequate disease control programs, malaria rates shot up, and DDT was again used as a last-ditch defense.
9. Generally, malaria infections and malaria deaths continued to decline in Africa and Asia after Silent Spring, and after the U.S. banned DDT use on crops. Malaria in Africa rose after 1985 when malaria parasites developed immunity to the pharmaceuticals used to treat the disease in humans. Without an effective drug regimen, death rates rose, too. DDT could not offer any help in this fight.
10. One of the greatest barriers to fighting malaria in Africa has been unstable governments. For example, it is difficult to believe that Idi Amin, the horrible dictator who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, and claimed to have eaten some of his executed enemies, refused to spray DDT because he wanted to be environmentally friendly. If Monckton wants to make such a claim explicitly, he's nuts (he may be nuts anyway, but this unspoken claim of his is particularly insane). Other nations had less spectacular misrule, but the effect was the same: When governments could not, or did not mount fights against mosquitoes and malaria, malaria spread. This had nothing to do with DDT, nor with a lack of DDT.
11. When WHO suspended their campaign against malaria using large-scale DDT spraying out of doors, malaria killed about two million people annually, down from a peak of nearly four million 15 to 20 years earlier. Today, malaria kills about 900,000 people annually. Monckton says the lack of DDT has been responsible for 40 million deaths in the last 40 years. That's a good trick, really — it's a lower rate than others have claimed, but it assumes that every malaria death could have been prevented with DDT, something we know is not the case. More, it assumes that the U.S. ban on spraying DDT on cotton in Texas in 1972 somehow caused Africans to stop using DDT in 1965, a neat feat of time travel, and an astounding feat of regular travel, Texas being about 10,000 miles from most of Africa, too far for mosquitoes to migrate.
In three sentences, Monckton crammed in 11 grotesque falsehoods. And that paragraph was not even the topic of the article. And what is it about these propaganda attacks dead women? Unholy attacks on Rachel Carson are bad enough — now Monckton goes after Jackie Kennedy, too? Do these guys carefully choose targets who cannot respond, and who, because dead, cannot sue for libel?
Is it true that a Lie can get halfway around the world before Truth gets its boots on? Isn't there some Truth Police who could stop Monckton from spreading that crap?
Oh, and while I'm thinking about it:
Dawg's Blahg has some good notes about Monckton
Lots of good comments at Deltoid on this very topic
Update, October 17, 2009: Good Lord! He's at it again.
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19 Responses to Monckton will lie about anything
The Curse of "Not Evil, Just Wrong" — still evil and wrong « Millard Fillmore's Bathtub says:
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Monckton lies again (and again, and again, and again, and again . . .)! The continuing saga of a practicer of fictional science « Millard Fillmore's Bathtub says:
[…] and again, and again . . .)! The continuing saga of a practicer of fictional science When Monckton claimed that Jackie Kennedy was responsible for malaria in Africa, I thought it a great […]
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Maddy Malone says:
Perhaps DDT manufacturers assasinated JFK?
My Blahg » BLAHG BITS OCT. 13/09 says:
[…] Lying Crapweasel Trifecta Millard Fillmore's Bathtub knocks the stuffing out of lying crapweasel Lord Monckton. Monckton isn't called a lying […]
dz alexander says:
Reading Coren, the first laugh is immediate —
"It's truly extraordinary how every left-of-centre journalist in the country has managed to become an instant expert on the arcane subjects of global warming and the science of climate change."
adoucette says:
Moncton's statement is baseless, but DDT is far more effective than the original post and comments suggest.
One of the main ways its effective is as a repellent.
DDT sprayed around windows and doors significantly cuts down on indoor mosquitos.
DDT used as an Indoor Residual Spray kills most mosquitos that make it indoors.
The WHO, after stopping support in the 80s, again actively supports use of DDT for indoor use.
http://www.goodplanet.info/goodplanet/index.php/eng/Contenu/Points-de-vues/WHO-promotes-DDT-to-fight-malaria/(theme)/2021
Broadcast spraying is and always has been ineffective for mosquito control.
Targeted spraying of high vector areas is quite different, but is not useful in most tropical areas.
As far as use in the world:
After successful efforts to reduce malaria with DDT beginning in 1945, in 1955 the 8th World Health Assembly launched the Global Malaria Eradication campaign for all malarious countries except Madagascar and those of sub-Saharan Africa, In these areas, malaria control was to remain the objective until suitable, economically feasible methods became available for elimination of the disease. using IRS, primarily with DDT, as a vector control tool together with case management. In all, 37 of the 143 countries that were endemic in 1950 were freed from malaria by 1978, of which 27 are in Europe or the Americas.
http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/gmap/1-3.html#
JimV says:
Excellent work. The truth has its boots on, here.
ReasonableCitizen says:
The issue in all of this is 1. who is the target audience for the lie/false information 2. what is the likelihood that the target audience will view the refutation and 3. if the target audience views it a)what is the likelihood they will believe the refutation and b)what is the likelihood they will take measures to inform others of the lie/falsehood?
There is a burden on truth that lies never bear.
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Eli Rabett says:
Eli suggests you shorten this a bit and send it to the Winnipeg Sun and if they don't take it to the Free Press. That's the serious part. The Rabett would be tempted to lead off with the Boojum's classic
"In Dashiell Hammett's story The Golden Horseshoe, much of the action takes place in a bar of that name in Tijuana. At one point the narrator, an operative for the Continental Detective Agency, kills a few strategic seconds by studying the decorations:
I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar:
ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE
I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and had reached four, with promise of more …
Sometimes I come across an article, web posting, advertisement or other statement that makes me feel when I read it just as I imagine the Continental Op did in that Tijuana bar.
How can they possibly pack so much misinformation into such a small space?
To honor exceptional achievement in mendacity, I would like to present the Golden Horseshoe Award to that writer who has out-performed his or her peers in density of false statements per column-inch.
To receive the first Golden Horseshoe Award, I can think of no more worthy recipient than Zbigniew Jaworowski. "
BTW, for those who don't know, the rather meager complaint from JF Beck is a sign that he knows how empty the whole Rachel Carson killed millions agitprop is, and he is one of the agitpropers.
WHO sprayed out of doors until at least the late 1950s; you're right, Mr. Beck — broadcast spraying does not appear to have been among the tools of WHO, and I have made that correction.
CDC's figures are based on the 2004 Rollback Malaria report; I've seen figures showing about 750,000 deaths in Africa, 200,000 elsewhere. I might even be able to find that table again.
Were the death figures significantly higher, Monckton's error would remain. We can't blame every death on a lack of DDT by any stretch. No health service would agree with Monckton on that charge. In fact, that same report you cite, CDC's citation of the RBM report, has extensive discussion about how malaria increases recently have been caused by malaria parasite resistance to pharmaceuticals, an area where DDT is completely useless, but would be damaging.
Neven says:
QrazyQat, you have just greatly depressed me.
J F Beck says:
Where and when did the WHO broadcast spray DDT out of doors as a malaria control measure in Africa?
The CDC says at least 1 million people die of malaria annually.
Perez Christina says:
DDT Resistance in Mosquitoes Renders it Useless for Malaria Prevention | Tangled Up in Blue Guy says:
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QrazyQat says:
This is a good example of how hard it is to combat pseudoscience. Look how long it took, and how few words, to make the wrong statements Monckton did, and how long, and how many words, for you to correct his lies.
That Monckton referred to those with opinions differing to his own as "bedwetters" is indicative of his contempt for them. Someone with such overt contempt for anyone who doesn't think like him just highlights his own real lack of credibility.
Coren's own contempt bleeds through in his column as well. I've never cared much for his opinions or positions. Mind you, I rarely read the Sun rags as they are more like tabloids than real newspapers.
The sad thing is that the loudest lies are the ones believed by the non-thinking and gullible public. And, I might add, the demographic that reads the Sun is not exactly comprised of rocket scientists, if you get my meaning.
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Entrepreneurship includes much more than just the traditional sole proprietor concept. There's also intrapreneurship (corporate entrepreneurship), social entrepreneurship, and global entrepreneurship. No matter what form your new venture might take, to succeed you need to know how to financially analyze the opportunity, how to secure your competitive advantage, how to market your new venture, and ultimately how to manage your new business.
The entrepreneurship certificate will provide you with those skills and also teach you how to leverage your current technical, creative, and industry knowledge in an entrepreneurial context.
The certificate is made up of 12 semester credits, consisting of three core courses (eight semester credits) and one to two elective courses (four semester credits).
In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, leaders know that people are an organization's most critical resource. Bottom-line business success depends on the quality of its employees and the effectiveness of employee relations. The human resources certificate encompasses a solid management curriculum. Courses in Compensation, Benefits, Negotiation, Employment Law, HR Analytics, and more are taught by a mix of full-time faculty from the Lindner College of Business and experienced professionals from organizations in the region.
The human resources certificate is interdisciplinary, and the curriculum includes four core courses (eight semester credits) and two elective courses (four semester credits), depending on program affiliation and prior background.
The electives listed above represent the typical set from which most students will choose. Students may be able to choose other electives to match specific career goals, with the approval of the Program Director.
Innovation is and will always be a major driver of business and societal success, and business schools are doing much to foster innovation worldwide. The opportunities to do more to support innovation are many and the potential to create value is high.
With globalization and technological advances, the pace of change in business has accelerated significantly–many note that we are now in an era of hyper-competition. The successful business must constantly innovate and reinvent itself to stay ahead.
The inter-disciplinary innovation certificate is targeted at anyone engaged in the process of creating and commercializing intellectual property. It includes coursework in marketing, management, design, and entrepreneurship; and gives students a sound understanding of the principles and processes of innovation, and management of the innovation process.
The certificate is made up of 12 semester credits, consisting of four core courses (eight semester credits) and one to two elective courses (four semester credits).
The electives listed above represent the typical set from which most students will choose. Students may also be able to select other electives, with the approval of the Program Director.
The international business certificate exposes students to issues in global business, such as cultural differences in management and business practices, economic, political, and regulatory constraints to business practices, differences in customer and market characteristics, etc. A sound understanding of these principles becomes increasingly important as one moves up the career ladder, into more managerial and administrative roles.
This certificate will help students to leverage their deep technical, clinical, or creative background for success in the world of global business. It will teach them research and analytic techniques for managing individual and organizational performance in global business.
The certificate is made up of 12 semester credits, consisting of one core course (two semester credits) and four to five elective courses (10 semester credits).
The electives listed above represent the typical set from which most students will choose. But they are not meant to be exhaustive. Students may also be permitted, with the approval of the Program Director, to substitute another appropriate course.
Leadership competency is a requirement in today's competitive marketplace. Developing your leadership skills is an investment that can benefit you and your organization.
The graduate certificate in leadership and management offers advanced study of topics that emerging leaders will encounter. Future leaders will acquire a knowledge base and be equipped with skills to manage positive social change.
The certificate requires a core course (two semester credits) and elective courses (10 semester credits).
*Lindner College of Business master's degree students who are required to take MGMT 7014 may not count this towards the certificate. They will be required to take an elective instead. MGMT 7014 is a gateway course and must be taken prior to other courses in the program.


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General Policies and Procedures
Milligan University is eligible to receive veterans and other eligible persons who are entitled to benefits under Chapters 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 1606, and 1607.
First-time and transfer student veterans are required to provide a photocopy of Member Copy 4 of Department of Defense (DD) Form 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, a copy of DD Form 2366 Montgomery GI Bill® Act of 1984 (GI Bill election form), if available, or other veterans educational assistance benefit entitlement/eligibility documents, including but not limited to university fund contracts, if any. Reservists and members of the National Guard need to provide DD Form 2384, Selected Reserve Educational Assistance Program Notice of Basic Eligibility. Dependents of totally and permanently service-connected disabled (or deceased) veterans applying for educational assistance benefits should provide a copy of the disabled veteran Rating Decision or a copy of their USDVA Certificate of Eligibility, if received from a previously submitted application.
Veterans in an undergraduate standing are required to provide any available official uniformed services evaluations of education, training, and experience that have been prepared in accordance with the American Council on Education's Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experiences in the Armed Services and/or National Guide to Educational Credit for Training ("ACE Guides"). Academic credit is generally awarded for formal education and training only.
To receive VA education benefits while attending Milligan University, undergraduate students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA.
Most payments are made each month directly to the veteran. Some benefits available under Chapters 31 and 33 are paid directly to the university. The Veterans Administration provides counseling and vocational planning services for any veteran who needs this assistance. Students who desire additional information may contact their nearest Veterans Administration Office or to the Registrar's Office of Milligan University.
GI Bill ® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Policies and Procedures for Chapter 33 and the Yellow Ribbon Education Benefits Program
Milligan University has been approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs to participate in the Post 9/11 GI Bill ® Education Enhancement Program, also known as the Yellow Ribbon Program. This approval began on August 1, 2009, and extends through July 31, 2021. Application and approval processes are based on an annual calendar running from August 1 through July 31. Milligan University has agreed to provide scholarship contributions for up to 50 undergraduate students and up to 10 graduate students. The maximum yearly contribution amount for undergraduate students for 2020-2021 is $11,100; the maximum yearly contribution amount for graduate students for 2020-2021 is $5,000.
For a veteran to be placed on a first-come-first-serve list for Yellow Ribbon benefits, the School Certifying Official (at Milligan, this is the Registrar) must receive the following documentation for the veteran:
Any pertinent VA Form DD-214 (noting honorable discharge)
Notification from VA of veteran's eligibility for Chapter 33 benefits including the percentage of eligibility (Only veterans who are eligible at the 100% level can receive the Yellow Ribbon scholarship.)
An award letter from the VA for students who are eligible and have been approved for Transfer of Entitlement from a parent or spouse
In addition, the veteran must have been admitted to Milligan University.
Yellow Ribbon monies will be distributed for each fall and spring semester of enrollment in the form of institutional scholarships for each award year that the university is approved by the VA for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
CERTIFICATION TO THE VA
Enrollment at Milligan University will be reported by the SCO using VA-Once for each fall and spring enrollment period, noting credit hours, start/end dates, tuition, fees, and Yellow Ribbon scholarship amount.
CHANGES IN ENROLLMENT
Students receiving VA education benefits must notify the SCO immediately of any changes in hours including adds, drops, and withdrawals from the university.
Students must demonstrate their ability to perform satisfactorily both by grade point average (qualitative) and by hours attempted/completed (quantitative). Milligan University will use the satisfactory academic progress policy as described in the catalog on pages 38 and 216. Students will receive a warning letter at the end of a semester when their cumulative GPA does not meet the qualitative standard but will continue to be eligible to have their enrollment certified to the VA education benefits for the following semester. The warning letter will indicate that the student must be making satisfactory academic progress at the end of the following semester in order to continue to receive VA education benefits. Students who have an unacceptable cumulative GPA, but have shown a substantial improvement during the semester by attaining a 2.0, will continue to be eligible to receive VA education benefits on a semester to semester basis.
Students receiving VA education benefits are responsible for debts incurred through overpayments by the VA that resulted from dropped courses or from completed courses with grades received which do not count toward graduation. The process for withdrawal from class/college and the refund policy are described in the catalog. In VA-Once the SCO notifies the VA of the change in enrollment status, which could result in the student owing money to the VA and/or the university.
An appeal related to decisions made by Milligan University should be initiated with the SCO, who, if necessary, will involve the VP for Business and Finance in the ruling on the appeal.
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Q: Unable to save data in database with AJAX in CodeIgniter I am using CodeIgniter framework and I'm unable to save data in a MySQL database.
I am using AJAX to pass data but form data is not saving and showing error from AJAX error function Some error.
Below is my code:
views/test.php

Ajax Form using CI

            <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name"/>
            <input type="text" class="form-control" id="age" name="age" placeholder="Age"/>
            <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary" id="save" value="SAVE DATA">

controllers/welcome.php
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Welcome extends CI_Controller {

public function loadForm(){

    $this->load->view('test');
}

public function test(){

    $data = array(

       'name'=> $this->input->post('name'),
       'age'=> $this->input->post('age')
    );

    $this->load->model('UserModel');
    $result = $this->UserModel->saveData($data);
  }
}

models/UserModel.php
class UserModel extends CI_Model{

   public function saveData($data){

      if($this->db->insert('users',$data)){
              return 1;
          }
          else{
          return 0;
        }
      }
  }

What's wrong with the code?

A: instead of
error:function(){
    alert('Some error');
  }

use this to get the real ajax error:
error: function(xhr, textStatus, error) {

 console.log("readyState: " + xhr.readyState);
 console.log("responseText: "+ xhr.responseText);
 console.log("status: " + xhr.status);
 console.log("text status: " + textStatus);
 console.log("error: " + error);

}

A: Here is the final solution and is working fine.
views/test.php
<!doctype html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Register using AJAX</title>
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png">

   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">

Ajax Form using CI

            <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name"/>
            <input type="text" class="form-control" id="age" name="age" placeholder="Age"/>
            <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary" id="save" value="SAVE DATA">

controllers/welcome.php
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Welcome extends CI_Controller {

public function loadForm(){

    $this->load->view('test');
}

public function test(){

    $data = array(

       'name'=> $this->input->post('name'),
       'age'=> $this->input->post('age')
    );

    $this->load->model('UserModel');
    $result = $this->UserModel->saveData($data);

    if($result == "added"){
        echo "yeah success";
    }
    else{
        echo "failed";
    }
  }
}

models/UserModel.php
<?php
  defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class UserModel extends CI_Model{

public function saveData($data){

      if($this->db->insert('users',$data)){
              return "added";
          }
          else{
          return "not added";
         }
      }
   }
 ?>

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In all areas of the picture image that has the most immediate impact is often the one who ruthlessly excludes unnecessary details and focus attention on the subject himself. One important thing to remember is that when you take pictures of people it is always the face that expresses more than words, and that is their most interesting that the photos successfully capture an expression or gesture is often reinforced by culture tightly. Close-up images requires a perfect technique to achieve the most effective results.
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This is my first time uploading to sew i knit but definitely not the last. Although I can't participate in the holiday party challenge due to Christmas Crafting, I figured I would show you what I HAVE been up too for the holidays.
This was definitely my piece de resistance in apron making. I have loved this pattern since I saw it made in black and white oil cloth material. I had yet to make it since, although I love aprons, I have very little use for them. So when my friend asked me for aprons I knew this one would be topping the list.
You can check out my blog post for more pictures and details.
Is this group on hiatus? defunct? Are the kind hostesses gone?
I started with Sew? I Knit back when it was a bunch of knitters making a skirt. I hadn't sewn anything (apart from quilting) in a long time, and the support of my fellow adventuresome knitters helped me make a skirt, a handbag, a top... In fact, I realized that since I was sewing something every month I could sew a whole wardrobe, and I moved on from this to Sewing With a Plan. If you'd like to join the SWAPalong 2007, you can go here to do so.
We haven't had a challenge here in a while, but I will always be grateful to the hostesses for getting me on the right track with my sewing. Thanks!
Alright, this was a bag I made a week ago as a surprise for a past swap. I know she's not on this list so I can share the bag pictures. It's been hard to not blog this bag, maybe this will bring relief esspecially since it won't be in the mail until tomorrow!
The dragon bag will be used to cart around small knitting projects like socks. For me a useful knitting bag should be big enough to carry a bottle of water, a knitting pattern, and notions.
The bag handles are celtic knot strips which look remarkably like a cable pattern. Side pockets for cell phone and seperates.
Here's a sock knitting bag I made for my pal in the Hogwarts Sock Swap. There's a wonderful online tutorial for this zippered bag.
This was a very quick and easy sewed knitbag for small knits.
Hi guys! I've been slack lately, but love seeing all your stuff. Summer is a BIG sewing time at my house and I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things.
I'm having a contest over on my blog and he prize is a sewn sock knitting tote. Come check it out and enter to win!
I just cooked up a bunch of totebags out of summery dishtowels and I put up a tutorial on my blog www.whatsthatgonnabe.blogspot.com.
Get ready to carry that knitting to the beach in style! Have fun!
Here is a patchwork pincushion that fits perfect into my toolpurse in my knitbag.
I found the pattern in a danish patchworkbook which i don't remember the name of anymore..
Hi all, I rarely post because it takes me so long to get anything done that I usually don't make the deadlines. But here I am ahead, because I just finished this bag. Its from Amy Butler's new sewing book. The pattern was challenging, but easy to follow with lots of directions. I actually used a quilt top that I bought at a flea market. I love the rectangular shape and it holds knitting projects easily. Its lined, but I won't show a picture of that part - its not great (but it works).
Here's my new knitting bag -- you can never have too many knitting bags, can you?
It is an ordinary toile-print canvas tote made un-ordinary with feather trim and blank wooden tiles decoupaged with images from vintage sheet music. The idea was based on a bag in The Impatient Beader Gets Inspired.
This project will last from April 1 to May 31. If anyone finds any good tutorials or ideas, please post them! If you would like to join in, send in an email by April 8.
Since there has not been a new assignment posted, I am sneaking this kitchen item in. This apron is intended to add to the French air of my kitchen, begun with the hot mitt below. McCall's 3979 is the pattern.
This apron is constructed oddly -- you sew the pieces wrong sides together and then encase them with bias tape. It makes for fiddly construction, but when you're through at the sewing machine, you're finished -- no hems.
This pattern gave me an opportunity to practice princess seams and topstitching in a relatively nonthreatening context. I mean, I'm going to cook in this, wipe my hands on it, lean against counters covered with cleaning supplies... how bad can I feel about poor-quality topstiching?
Next time, I'll do better.
I have put it out in the garden to add to the insouciant charm of the whole thing.
I also intend to make a quilted table runner using these Provencal fabrics, but there is no way I will finish it in time to sneak it in to this month's Sew? I Knit!
I am therefore just offering you a photo of the fabrics. These are from Keepsake Quilting -- the French Garden medley and the Country Hen medley.
My plan is to make a patchwork runner (I realize that this is not very French, but I understand that American-style patchwork has become popular in France lately) and then applique it with flowers. Further insouciance there.
With sufficient wine and garlic, this should transform my kitchen into a South-of-France haven of joie-de-vivre. And, yes, insouciance.
I have a successful oven mitt. This is from an out of print Ondori book.
You can read details at my blog here. I hope to make more kitchen items, as my kitchen is in need of an update, but this is a good start.


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Q: Reading multiple lines from text file The goal for my project is to count all the characters in a text file.  My code seems to work, but seems it will only ready the first line of code from the file and nothing else.  I can easily do it in java, but we are required to use python and I have very little experience working with python
my code is as follows:
import pandas as pd

from collections import Counter

with open ('myFile', "r") as myfile:
   data=myfile.readlines()

counter = Counter(lines)

print (counter['a'])
print (counter['b'])
print (counter['c'])
print (counter['d'])
print (counter['e'])
print (counter['f'])
print (counter['g'])
print (counter['h'])
print (counter['i'])
print (counter['j'])
print (counter['k'])
print (counter['l'])
print (counter['m'])
print (counter['n'])
print (counter['o'])
print (counter['p'])
print (counter['q'])
print (counter['r'])
print (counter['s'])
print (counter['t'])
print (counter['u'])
print (counter['v'])
print (counter['w'])
print (counter['x'])
print (counter['y'])
print (counter['z'])

A: I am not sure what lines is from your code, you are assigning the list containing lines from the text into data variable. If you want to read the whole text as a single string, then just use read() method.
from collections import Counter

with open ('myFile', "r") as myfile:
   data = myfile.read()

counter = Counter(data)

print (counter['a'])
print (counter['b'])
...

A: I realized that the code I posted was from two editors I had open at the same time with the same version number, which caused the errors.  I have fixed that (new complete code is below) and is "working" I need to check it against my java code results.  I have included the results of the code
import pandas as pd

from collections import Counter

data = open('myFile.txt').read()
data.lower()
print (data)

counter = Counter(data)

print (counter['a'])
print (counter['b'])
print (counter['c'])
print (counter['d'])
print (counter['e'])
print (counter['f'])
print (counter['g'])
print (counter['h'])
print (counter['i'])
print (counter['j'])
print (counter['k'])
print (counter['l'])
print (counter['m'])
print (counter['n'])
print (counter['o'])
print (counter['p'])
print (counter['q'])
print (counter['r'])
print (counter['s'])
print (counter['t'])
print (counter['u'])
print (counter['v'])
print (counter['w'])
print (counter['x'])
print (counter['y'])
print (counter['z'])

results from my updated code:
28042
3064
9280
12192
45763
3434
5143
3523
24633
1107
328
16641
8817
23809
18195
9202
3611
23139
25219
25990
19636
5302
465
1396
1257
473

A: Have you tried something like the following?
file = open("myFile.txt", "r")
data = file.read()
number_of_characters = len(data)
print('Number of characters in text file : {}'.format(number_of_characters))
file.close()


Keep your wings level, the dirty part down, watch your airspeed and altitude!
So everthing will be well -at least in flightsim.
Good Flights and happy landings!
Seems to me few of us left flying 154.
Still fly the 154 in FSX quite regularly.
The 154 and the A320 are the aircraft I fly most.
Happy New Year to all from a rather cold and miserable Switzerland.


Neha's Blog: Top Indian blog is mine. Bah!
I got irritated when a couple of bloggers congratulated me on this. What are we happy about?
Who are these people to judge us?
On what basis are our blogs judged?
Who gave them the authority to do so?
DID YOU NOTICE THAT THEY DONT EVEN HAVE A DOMAIN OF THEIR OWN?
Everything there is secretive. No one owning that thing up there.
And top it all, I see few blogs which have crappy content listed under platinum and gold!!!
This sure is a sham. Thanks for putting it up. People are celebrating it by putting FB status and all that; any publicity is good publicity for these people.
They even have a badge ready to pin it on your blog!
And yeah there are really pretty fantastic bloggers whose posts are delight to read who havent been featured in that damn list.
It reminds me of the Euphoria blogger experienced few months back or was it last year when something similar had happened .In addition to the things that you mentioned there is another thing that bothers me and that is-- why other regional language blogs of India are not included in these directories ?
I got this message too, and Scribbly told me, and when I read the list, almost EVERY Indian blog has been listed there. I wonder what is the criteria for being included/excluded?
I cant react. I am not in the list.
Whoaaaa-kudos girl for such a straight forward and brilliant post!
It's become such a 'scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' thingy in blogosphere now, that it is almost annoying!
and this article so hits the bulls eye!
Do you ever, I mean EVER read any post? Or just come and comment to get a comment back?
Everybody who can spell ABC is on the list. I am too and I got the same msg. Am glad you wrote about it.
You have echoed my thoughts.
We have explained our selection procedure on the IndianTopBlog blog many times over.
The fact that only 270 blogs are there in the Directory and only about 90 in the ranks shows that only a minuscule of blogs have been listed. And we have conceded many times that with our limited effort we have so far been scan not more than a few thousand blogs, that too in over 9 months.
Tell me, if any one of you was approached for a quid pro quo for selecting your blog? Has any inappropriate communication gone to you? We have always been transparent about what we are good at and what our weaknesses are [eg we are not in a position to suggest SEO]. Do have a look at our explanations in Feb Survey, June Survey and Directory.
About us. Frankly one of the main reasons why we are not disclosing our identities is that we do not want to be influenced. And we are a big loser on account of this.
As far as anybody feeling that we are too small to judge them, we admit that. We are only PR3 blog yet, our expertise is sum of our individual expertise[we are not a company], we do not finances enough to run a big website. If on account of that, you feel that your blog needs no mention on our listings, do tell us. We'll remove you. Just one liner email would do.
We have not included language blogs because we together know English, Hindi and a bit of Bangla. Just to include these languages and exclude other Indian languages would give a wrong picture of what we call Indian blogosphere. We have explained that in one of our posts too.
As for crap being included in Platinum category, do see our ranking criteria as mentioned above. In one of future posts, we intend to give the filtering algorithm. Right now we are busy clearing a huge backlog of review requests. Do have a closer look at those blogs, and you will find some quality of content and design that has given them a high rank.
We feel sad that our honest intentions are being taken amiss. However, it is good learning for us. Wish us good luck. Believe us, we are not sham, whatever else -- lethargic, small, incompetent, Angrezon -ki-aulaad -- we might be.
We have linked your post to the IndianTopBlog blog. We hope it will make visitors to ITB cautious enough about us and put us through further scrutiny.
Thanks for putting our comments on your blog.
There are over 120 million bloggers in the world excluding the 78 million Chinese bloggers.Isn't it a bit too much..or even three much to think that some have become great bloggers and writers !
And then,blogging is not a competition !
You seem to have picked up on my comment.
Did read your explanations about your survey on your space. Its quite ambiguous.
You mentioned that blogs with quality of content and design has been given higher ranks.
1. Ranking a blog based on its design is sure ridiculous.
2. Quality of content - there are much better bloggers who churn out fantastic pieces whom you have missed out.
Analyzing the ranking further, blogs having more readership and more traffic has been ranked better.
Thats no criteria. Anyone one can amass readership - all one needs to do is hop on to each and every available blog and leave a footprint, take part in every other competition and give virtual interviews.
Anyway, please take this as suggestion/feedback.
Hmmm I take these ratings with a pinch of salt! I might not agree with them but I do not disagree as well because blogging for me is a passion and these ratings do not matter. I mean there are a million blogs and it isn't necessary that my blog will be loved by all. What matters to me is that I love writing & I do just that.
As far as these sites are concerned well it is a project for them and to begin with they need readers. Lets take Blogadda for example. When it started it was just a simple portal but with their networking they have managed to become a l'lle recognised or rather respected name. I won't agree with their Tangy Tuesday's or Sat picks every time but what difference does it make to me? I am here to write and I will keep doing that! If they feel my posts needs to be selected good enough & if they don't well I hadn't written the post for that kind of recognition. I wrote because I wanted to.
Many a bloggers were interviewed & we pasted the links very proudly in our blogs blah blah! But now when u check the site out none of the interviews are avlbl and it has become a site which helps in IT development.
Check this link http://webneetech.com/2009/11/02/interview-with-blogger-smita-saxena/ (Luckily I had bookmarked my interview and this is the same link, see where it lands). These buggers must have wanted some number of hits before launching their site and they used the unsuspecting bloggers for it.
At the end of the day all 3rd party portals (i dunno if the term is correct or not) want content and they do it by taking our interviews, using our posts etc.
As far as ITB is concerned somehow I have not disliked the site because as of now they havn't at least used our content and niether have they gone into interviews and all. What they gain out of ranking us or by giving us gyaan is beyond me. But as I said i take all this with a pinch of salt.
1. "Am amused to find suspicious comments such as."
2."We have explained our selection procedure on....."
3."Tell me, if any one of you was approached for a quid pro quo for selecting your blog?"
4."We feel sad that our honest intentions are being taken amiss"
Am, we, me, we.. The group/representative of the group must first decide who is speaking and/or on behalf of whom! Why the confusion eh?
I still don't understand the whole 'And we are a big loser on account of this(not disclosing identities)' amuses me! Is it that difficult to stop being losers?
Seriously, why would someone want to go about in a clandestine way unless their revealing the identities would have some sort of repercussion?
And which 'responsible' platform would use words like 'Angrezon-ki-aulaad'?? For God's sake!
I initially gave ITB a benefit of doubt. As an afterthought, approached them and tried my best to seek 'satisfactory' answers on their page but all in vain!
Did you seek bloggers' permission before reviewing their blogs?
Do you block anyone from reading your blogs? Isin't that kind of public?
I see no invasion here.
Just because we write on a free space, a public forum doesn't mean anyone can use it the way they want to. We write about various topics. And some of us are damn good at blogging. The numbers speak for themselves.
When a new site, without even reading my blog content, tries to use my blog name to make themselves popular, it is going to hurt me. They don't even bother to check whether I have my mail id mentioned in my profile or not. I write crap, and I'm damn good at writing crap. And I'm popular for that. That's my credit, my own credit. Nobody else can use my name to become popular. Sounds snobbish? It bloody hell is!
My comment was in no way directed towards autheticity of the ranking. But the point is that if you post on public space, anyone can chose to review your website, I do not see that as invasion.
There are 1000s of websites which are currently ranking any blog they can get hold of without informing them.
There are webistes which pass SEO judgements , Keyword suggestions and even Website worth(yes they will tell you that your website is worth nothing even without asking you if you want to be valued).Also 100s of fellow bloggers you do not even know might add you to "blogs I follow" list. Would you want them to seek permission to do so going forward?
If this is violation, even Google, alexa SEOMOZ are also violations.Your name getting featured in any list does not give the list owner publicity but only you. The list owner will get it only if the list has some quality.
I am actually surprised at the amount of negative comments posted here.There are only 541 blogs listed there(not every blog as you mentioned), you dont like it--let it pass.
Everything you said about Not reading your blog etc might be true but "Invasion" , I mean that is stertching it way too far.
Thank Neha for raising this issue. I agree with each word of yours.
You raised an awkward question. Going by your argument, we will need to close down sites like Nap Tol and GSM Arena and TV channels like Home Shop 18. We will also have to put reviewers in jail and garland those who review others' products by taking money.
Spit your vitriol in the wash basin, dear lady, so that it does not harm your heart. People are not always that bad.
can you be bold enough to leave your name?
Absolutely agree with u Neha and Insignia. Thank God, I'm not in the list. Or maybe I deleted the mail without looking at it. Whatever.
I used up 5 hours to go through their so-called 'Top Blogs – Platinum, Gold and Excellent'....I was completely surprised to find that most had news articles or celeb stuff...then why not include the Time of India website in their list too??!! Again many of these 'Top' bloggers had absolutely no idea of what grammar was! Written in pathetic English, and a whole Ramayan dedicated to their own 'mahaanta', I mean, what can be a bigger turn off than someone writing on and on about how he won this contest and why he is the best and blah blah blah...?
Also Shobha de features only in the 'excellent' category?? !! So everyone who is in the Platinum n Gold list must represent India in all Global Literary Events..! I'm assuming Excellent is the Bronze-equivalent or is it the gold-equivalent? Even if it is, who cares, Shobha-De space sharers Rejoice!
And then when a reader asked why a particular blog was chosen to be Platinum, this person or persons (he starts off with I liked and then goes on to We, Us; like Insignia remarked) replies/reply "We may not be able to explain the logic behind inclusion of each blog"….!!!!!! Hahahahaha…..! So why has this entity explained in this comment section that they rate blogs based on Design and Content?
But then maybe, I can do that too, shoot off an e-mail to everyone in my network and say they are the best blogs in Antarctica…!!! Till that happens, I'm in hiding from all anonymous Judges…who knows they might be aliens down here on a secret mission!!
I agree with you. I navigated to their space from the comment here but could not make any sense. I write what I wish to and with a feeling to share my thought or experiences if that may help someone. So I am happy as it is.


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Otis Gatewood (1911–1999) was a well-known preacher and missionary in Churches of Christ.  Gatewood's work helped spur on the surge of domestic and foreign missions efforts of Churches of Christ that followed World War II.  He was perhaps best known for his efforts in Europe; seeing thousands of Mormon missionaries return to America from Germany during World War II made him distressed that there were apparently no preachers of the Churches of Christ working there, so after the war ended he went to West Germany and preached there for ten years.

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