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Job 39Job 41
Job 40 New English Translation (NET Bible)
Job's Reply to God's Challenge
40 Then the Lord answered[a] Job:
2 "Will the one who contends[b] with the Almighty correct him?[c]
Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!"
3 Then Job answered the Lord:
4 "Indeed, I am completely unworthy[d]—how could I reply to you?
I put[e] my hand over my mouth to silence myself.[f]
5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer;
twice, but I will say no more."[g]
The Lord's Second Speech[h]
6 Then the Lord answered[i] Job from the whirlwind:
7 "Get ready for a difficult task[j] like a man.
I will question you and you will inform me.
8 Would you indeed annul[k] my justice?
Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God's,[l]
and can you thunder with a voice like his?
10 Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency,
and clothe yourself with glory and honor.
11 Scatter abroad[m] the abundance[n] of your anger.
Look at every proud man[o] and bring him low;
12 Look at every proud man and abase him;
crush the wicked on the spot.[p]
13 Hide them in the dust[q] together,
imprison[r] them[s] in the grave.[t]
14 Then I myself will acknowledge[u] to you
that your own right hand can save you.[v]
The Description of Behemoth[w]
15 "Look now at Behemoth,[x] which I made as[y] I made you;
it eats grass like the ox.
16 Look[z] at its strength in its loins,
and its power in the muscles of its belly.
17 It makes its tail stiff[aa] like a cedar,
the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.
its limbs like bars of iron.
19 It ranks first among the works of God,[ab]
the One who made it
has furnished it with a sword.[ac]
20 For the hills bring it food,[ad]
where all the wild animals play.
21 Under the lotus trees it lies,
in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.
22 The lotus trees conceal it in their[ae] shadow;
the poplars by the stream conceal it.
23 If the river rages,[af] it is not disturbed,
it is secure,[ag] though the Jordan
should surge up to its mouth.
24 Can anyone catch it by its eyes,[ah]
or pierce its nose with a snare?[ai]
Job 40:1 sn See note at Job 38:1.
Job 40:2 tn The form רֹב (rov) is the infinitive absolute from the verb רִיב (riv, "contend"). Dhorme wishes to repoint it to make it the active participle, the "one who argues with the Almighty."
Job 40:2 tn The verb יִסּוֹר (yissor) is found only here, but comes from a common root meaning "to correct; to reprove." Several suggestions have been made to improve on the MT. Dhorme read it יָסוּר (yasur) in the sense of "to turn aside; to yield." Ehrlich read this emendation as "to come to an end." But the MT could be read as "to correct; to instruct."
Job 40:4 tn The word קַלֹּתִי (qalloti) means "to be light; to be of small account; to be unimportant." From this comes the meaning "contemptible," which in the causative stem would mean "to treat with contempt; to curse." Dhorme tries to make the sentence a conditional clause and suggests this meaning: "If I have been thoughtless." There is really no "if" in Job's mind.
Job 40:4 tn The perfect verb here should be classified as an instantaneous perfect; the action is simultaneous with the words.
Job 40:4 tn The words "to silence myself" are supplied in the translation for clarity.
Job 40:5 tn Heb "I will not add."
Job 40:6 sn The speech can be divided into three parts: the invitation to Job to assume the throne and rule the world (40:7-14), the description of Behemoth (40:15-24), and the description of Leviathan (41:1-34).
Job 40:7 tn See note on "task" in 38:3.
Job 40:8 tn The verb פָּרַר (parar) means "to annul; to break; to frustrate." It was one thing for Job to claim his own integrity, but it was another matter altogether to nullify God's righteousness in the process.
Job 40:9 tn Heb "do you have an arm like God?" The words "as powerful as" have been supplied in the translation to clarify the metaphor.
Job 40:11 tn The verb was used for scattering lightning (Job 37:11). God is challenging Job to unleash his power and judge wickedness in the world.
Job 40:11 tn Heb "the overflowings."
Job 40:11 tn The word was just used in the positive sense of excellence or majesty; now the exalted nature of the person refers to self-exaltation, or pride.
Job 40:12 tn The expression translated "on the spot" is the prepositional phrase תַּחְתָּם (takhtam, "under them"). "Under them" means in their place. But it can also mean "where someone stands, on the spot" (see Exod 16:29; Jos 6:5; Judg 7:21, etc.).
Job 40:13 tn The word "dust" can mean "ground" here, or more likely, "grave."
Job 40:13 tn The verb חָבַשׁ (khavash) means "to bind." In Arabic the word means "to bind" in the sense of "to imprison," and that fits here.
Job 40:13 tn Heb "their faces."
Job 40:13 tn The word is "secret place," the place where he is to hide them, i.e., the grave. The text uses the word "secret place" as a metonymy for the grave.
Job 40:14 tn The verb is usually translated "praise," but with the sense of a public declaration or acknowledgment. It is from יָדָה (yadah, in the Hiphil, as here, "give thanks, laud").
Job 40:14 tn The imperfect verb has the nuance of potential imperfect: "can save; is able to save."
Job 40:15 sn The next ten verses are devoted to a portrayal of Behemoth (the name means "beast" in Hebrew). It does not fit any of the present material very well, and so many think the section is a later addition. Its style is more like that of a textbook. Moreover, if the animal is a real animal (the usual suggestion is the hippopotamus), then the location of such an animal is Egypt and not Palestine. Some have identified these creatures Behemoth and Leviathan as mythological creatures (Gunkel, Pope). Others point out that these creatures could have been dinosaurs (P. J. Maarten, NIDOTTE, 2:780; H. M. Morris, The Remarkable Record of Job, 115-22). Most would say they are real animals, but probably mythologized by the pagans. So the pagan reader would receive an additional impact from this point about God's sovereignty over all nature.
Job 40:15 sn By form the word is the feminine plural of the Hebrew word for "beast." Here it is an abstract word—a title.
Job 40:15 tn Heb "with you." The meaning could be temporal ("when I made you")—perhaps a reference to the sixth day of creation (Gen 1:24).
Job 40:16 tn In both of these verses הִנֶּה (hinneh, "behold") has the deictic force (the word is from Greek δείκνυμι, deiknumi, "to show"). It calls attention to something by pointing it out. The expression goes with the sudden look, the raised eye, the pointing hand—"O look!"
Job 40:17 tn The verb חָפַץ (khafats) occurs only here. It may have the meaning "to make stiff; to make taut" (Arabic). The LXX and the Syriac versions support this with "erects." But there is another Arabic word that could be cognate, meaning "arch, bend." This would give the idea of the tail swaying. The other reading seems to make better sense here. However, "stiff" presents a serious problem with the view that the animal is the hippopotamus.
Job 40:19 tn Heb "the ways of God."sn This may be a reference to Gen 1:24, where the first of the animal creation was the cattle—behemah (בְּהֵמָה).
Job 40:19 tc The literal reading of the MT is "let the one who made him draw near [with] his sword." The sword is apparently a reference to the teeth or tusks of the animal, which cut vegetation like a sword. But the idea of a weapon is easier to see, and so the people who favor the mythological background see here a reference to God's slaying the Beast. There are again many suggestions on how to read the line. The RV probably has the safest: "He that made him has furnished him with his sword" (the sword being a reference to the sharp tusks with which he can attack).
Job 40:20 tn The word בּוּל (bul) probably refers to food. Many take it as an abbreviated form of יְבוּל (yevul, "produce of the field"). The vegetation that is produced on the low hills is what is meant.
Job 40:22 tn The suffix is singular, but must refer to the trees' shade.
Job 40:23 tn The word ordinarily means "to oppress." So many commentators have proposed suitable changes: "overflows" (Beer), "gushes" (Duhm), "swells violently" (Dhorme, from a word that means "be strong").
Job 40:23 tn Or "he remains calm."
Job 40:24 tn The idea would be either (1) catch it while it is watching, or (2) in some way disabling its eyes before the attack. But others change the reading; Ball suggested "with hooks" and this has been adopted by some modern English versions (e.g., NRSV).
Job 40:24 tn Ehrlich altered the MT slightly to get "with thorns," a view accepted by Driver, Dhorme and Pope.


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Q: Arduino enc28j60 tcp stack I want a connection between my arduino and my pc. I've a enc28j60 connected to the arduino. I would like to use tcp packages but I can't find any example code or something. Can someone help me with this? I just want to receive and send tcp packages!
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I'm designing a rfid system where a rfid cart unlocks a door. You can authorize cards with a web interface and set things like time settings there.
I have made a website with a sql database. I can read this with a simple piece of python. At the other and I have an arduino which can read rfid tags. The problem here is that i want to connect them. Do you have any sugestions!

A: You just need to wire it up correctly, some libraries already exist to make your life easier. Have a look at:

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*https://github.com/ntruchsess/arduino_uip

*http://nathanhein.com/2013/02/getting-arduino-online-with-an-enc28j60/

*http://arduinodiy.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/connect-an-enc28j60-ethernet-module-to-an-arduino/

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Bob Zeidman
Founder and President
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Bob Zeidman is the creator of the field of software forensics and the founder of several successful high-tech Silicon Valley firms, including Zeidman Consulting and Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering. He is an inventor, with 25 patents, and an expert witness, having consulted on over 250 IP lawsuits. His latest venture is Good Beat Poker, a new way to play and watch poker online. He is the author of textbooks on engineering and intellectual property as well as screenplays and novels. His latest novel is the political satire Animal Lab, a modern sequel to George Orwell's classic Animal Farm.
Recent Articles by Bob Zeidman
Can a Human Patent a Space Alien's Invention?
The 56th anniversary of the first broadcast of Star Trek just passed on September 8. I recently moderated a panel discussion at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, titled "Patents in the Future," where I asked one of my favorite patent questions, one that most patent attorneys get wrong. If I find an alien invention and figure out how it works, can I patent it? I usually get the impatient answer "no" because I didn't invent it—isn't that obvious? But actually that's not correct. I can get a patent.
The Supreme Court is Set to Hear a Copyright Case with Big Implications for U.S. Tech Innovation
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is set to hear Andy Warhol v. Lynn Goldsmith in October. It will be the latest in a series of cases the Court has taken on over the last decade-plus that promise to change U.S. innovation as we know it. The case will be heard on the heels of other controversial SCOTUS decisions that have drastically changed the legal landscape, with rulings that transfer power from the federal government to the individual states (Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization) or that reduce federal oversight altogether (West Virginia v. EPA). It has also put limits on specific executive powers and plans to rule soon on affirmative action. Not getting as much attention, but arguably equally important, are some recent and not-so-recent decisions that have changed the landscape of the rights of authors and inventors, and the upcoming Warhol case, which may effectively remove them altogether. Unfortunately, many people, including politicians and academics, don't understand—or refuse to recognize the importance of—intellectual property rights for the advancement of civilization.
Clarifying the U.S. Approach to Copyright and Plagiarism
Copyright is one of the most important intellectual property rights for any individual in America. The power to grant protection of copyrights "by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" is given to Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. As an author and computer programmer, I find that many of my colleagues misunderstand these rights and the protections that they afford. For this reason, I think it is important to clear up some misunderstandings in the recent IP Watchdog article, "A Question of Morals: The U.S. Approach to Plagiarism, 'Moral Rights', and Copyright Infringement" by Dave Davis.
Oracle v. Google: Protecting Software Development, Not Destroying It
Many articles are coming out about how the recent decision in Oracle America v. Google is going to destroy the ability to create and protect software in the United States. The latest doomsday prophet is Jie Lian in his IPWatchdog article entitled Oracle v. America: Fair or Unfair. As a longtime programmer and an expert in software copyright law, I can tell you that the Federal Circuit got it right, and the decision helps software developers and encourages software development because it leaves in place the copyright protections that have existed at least since the Software Copyright Act of 1980. I am sure that most of us can agree that software development has skyrocketed since 1980.
RPost Does Not Meet Any Definition of 'Patent Troll'
RPost has been unfairly described as a patent troll. In fact, RPost is a privately held cybersecurity technology company that has been in operation since 2000. For at least the past two years, RPost has been listed as representative of vendors in Gartner's Market Guide for Electronic Signature… Microsoft promotes RPost on its partner website for offering "an Outlook add-in that puts advanced email capabilities in the hands of any Microsoft Outlook or Office 365 user." Its RMail product was even favorably reviewed and recommended by the American Bar Association.
Facebook, Oculus, ZeniMax, and Nonliteral Copying of Code
So what about the ZeniMax v. Facebook case? While you read many reports that make fantastical claims, it is important to remember that software copyright has been accepted and understood by the legal community as well as any law can be. Software copyrights have been formally codified since 1980, though copyrights on written works have been accepted since the founding of our nation. Nonliteral infringement is a long-standing and universally accepted result of copyright law and a legitimate reason for finding software copyright infringement. Was the verdict in this case correct? That is a different question entirely separate from whether software can be copyrighted and whether the legal theories were sound, but without facts to the contrary, it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that the jury made a correct decision.
Not Getting the Truth about the FBI, Apple, the San Bernardino Terrorists, and Hacking an iPhone
The FBI is not asking for a backdoor to the Apple iOS. Apple says that the FBI wants Apple to create a new version of the iOS that has a backdoor that allows bypassing security on the devices. If true, this is a preposterous request and it would be illegal, so I don't believe it's the case. A new OS would not allow the terrorist phone to be hacked. In fact, it would have no effect whatsoever on any existing phone that already had an older, secure OS. This is more likely a red herring that Apple is using to garner publicity and show that it is protecting customers from the big, bad government.
Why Libertarians Should Support a Strong Patent System
Libertarians believe in property rights and government protection of those rights as one of the few necessary requirements of government. Ownership of property and free markets leads to competitive production and trade of goods, which in turn leads to prosperity for all of society. Intellectual property is property like other forms of property, and so government must protect IP as it protects other forms of property because it too leads to competition and trade and prosperity. Libertarians should encourage a strong patent system and object to any "reforms" that limit intellectual property ownership or introduce more government regulation than is required.

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Is there a way to limit myFICO alerts and notifica...
Is there a way to limit myFICO alerts and notifications?
dcw94945
I get about 20 myFICO notifications per week. I have tried to pare down the types of alerts and notifications but they are still relentless. Is there a way to get 1 summary per week or something like that?
Cindy_FICO
Re: Is there a way to limit myFICO alerts and notifications?
@dcw94945 wrote:
Hi - we currently don't have a summary option for alerts. We only have alert settings for one bureau - Equifax at the moment.
If you're using the app, your OS has notification settings you can use.
Thank you Cindy. I understand how my os and email preferences work, but thank you for your non-responsive (and patronizing) response.
But I'm paying YOU (a lot every month) and the the alerts are sourced from YOUR servers (not from Equifax, Experian or Transunion). So YOU are a gatekeeper, and YOU are charging me for that service. Let's be clear: That is ALL myFICO does; convey info from someone to someone else. I was already paying $12/month for another version of Experian, and I would assume that the others have similar products. Adding together the 3, that is about the same as what YOU are charging me for...Nothing apparently.
SO myFICO is repackaging someone else's information, providing NO value add, acting as a gatekeeper, charging me for that no value-add, disclaiming all control over the information that you gather and sell back to me, but is unable to control its own servers so that I don't get 20 to 30 emails a week.
Oh, and you provide forums. My business does that too. It costs us about $300/year.
Buh bye.
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Jeeze man, calm down. No one is making you have a paid account.
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Hi - I understand that you're a paying customer. I definitely didn't want to come off as patronizing, so I apologize if it came off that way. We just don't currently have that feature, so I was offering your OS settings as a possible solution. I know it doesn't completely solve the issue of getting multiple emails.
I understand. Thank you. But I will be terminating my account because it just feels like I'm paying for spam. It's a very hefty monthly fee for what is really just a data aggregator. It's not complicated and for that cost, I would expect that your programmers could figure out a simple fix for a simple problem. Just my two cents.


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Hey Lisa, I was up until 2:00am trying to fix the exact same problem you have. I still haven't figured it out either. I have also tried everything you have done. Did you recently have a virus that you got rid of? I did and had to go into safe mode just to get to the control panel and then system restore. I am almost 100 percent sure this is the cause of having no sound. On another note, I do have sound on Mozilla Firefox. As for the responder, Donna, to your post, the sound is video sound or game sounds, anything that is being streamed. All other sounds on the computer work. THIS IS ONLY HAPPENING ON IE8. I don't know if it is related, but when I use Yahoo, Google, or Bing search engines I get rerouted to stupid irrelevant sites. Any help on this would be helpful too.
Lisa's issue may be the same, but we can't be for sure till we get a response back from her. Your input may have helped enormously if her sound issues are similar.
I had your post moved here to our Spyware Help Forum. In your case, I would most definitely follow the instructions below to make sure your are free and clear of infection.
Please click on Before posting read this first! then click on the link to learn How to Start Removing Viruses and Spyware from your Computer that you'll find in that post I linked you to.
Please post the logs requested (do not attach them) here in this thread we created just for you and our expert will be with you momentarily.
We have been quite busy and one of our experts is away at this time so your patience will be appreciated.
No sound when streaming or playing games on IE8. Works fine in Firefox.
Hey Donna and others, Thanks for the tips, unfortunately nothing is working. I've done system restore, deleted IE8 and reinstalled, went to internet options, then to advanced and play sounds for webpages is checked, deleted Adobe flash player and reinstalled. Ran your program for spyware and cleaned it. This alone ran for over 3 hours. Definitely helped the computer work better, but still no sound. Unfortunately, I don't have that particular log, but here are the other two. On a side note that may be connected, in IE8 when I run a search engine, specifically yahoo, google and bing, once the search is done, everything pops up properly, but when I click on the heading of each paragraph to go to that particular site, it reroutes me to some other site that has no correlation. I have recently had several viruses over the last month and I was able to complete a system restore. The last virus, I had to go into safe mode just to get to system restore thru the control panel. In Firefox I can see some videos and all the sounds, but I can't go to full screen, just a blank white page. I have to push Escape to get back. In IE8, I have video and can play games fine, but once again I have no sound. Thanks in advance for all your expertise and help. If you guys can pull this off, I will definitely be sending in a donation. I really love your site and what you are doing. Here is my other logs. GOOD LUCK!! I can't copy Reimage's diagnosis over. I am getting ready to leave right now and will respond later or first thing in the morning.
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = Yahoo!
If you are unable to run a Gmer scan due the fact you are running a64bit machine please run the following tool and post its log.
Please reply back telling us so. If you don't reply within 2-3 days the topic will need to be closed.
Hello Fireman4it, Yes I am still here. I am gone from the computer for up to a week at a time. I still have no sound on IE8. I am running Windows XP with 32 bits. I'm sure I have the same problem as Lisa from the beginning of the post. I have exhausted all my limited capabilities to try and fix this. My sound works fine in Firefox. The one thing I do find in common between the internet servers is when using the search engines, such as Yahoo, Google or Bing, I can type in what I'm looking for and the search works successfully. When I click on the heading to go there, I get redirected to incorrect websites such as Search for Answers and other pages. Please help, I'm sure I'm not the only one with these problems. This all happened after I got rid of a really smart virus.
Here are the programs you told me to run. I hope copying and pasting was ok.
uWindow Title = Windows Internet Explorer provided by Yahoo!
uRun: [CTSyncU.exe] "c:\program files\creative\sync manager unicode\CTSyncU.exe"
uRun: [Creative Live! Cam Manager] "c:\program files\creative\creative live! cam\live! cam manager\CTLCMgr.exe"
C: is FIXED (NTFS) - 37 GiB total, 16.89 GiB free.
7/7/2011 2:17:55 PM, error: Disk  - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D.
7/6/2011 12:01:00 AM, error: System Error  - Error code 10000050, parameter1 ff725000, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 804f3ccb, parameter4 00000000.
7/12/2011 10:24:20 PM, error: System Error  - Error code 10000050, parameter1 ff8bc000, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 804f3ccb, parameter4 00000000.
How is your machine running now? Still having re-directs?
2011/07/13 13:40:11.0765 1016	Backup copy found, using it..
Here is the next log from combo fix. After the scanning it wanted to delete a few things. I deleted a couple, but it wanted to delete this one; c:\documents and settings\Bobby\WINDOWS . . . . Failed to delete, I did not delete it because I am afraid it is the actual windows XP. Should I delete c:\documents and settings\Bobby\WINDOWS ?


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Former Controller of Sport for ITV, Professional Speaker
Gary Newbon is a television sports presenter and executive. He attended Culford School near Bury St Edmunds and upon leaving school he became a junior reporter in Cambridge and then a freelance Fleet Street journalist reporting on tennis and rugby union. He began his television career at Westward TV in the 1960s, and then as an ATV sports reporter for their ATV Today programme in the early 1970s. The continuing illness of his boss, Controller of Sports Billy Wright, the former England football captain meant that he and a small team - including Trevor East - had to carry out Wright's functions whilst covering up the extent of his ill-health. He himself later became Controller of Sports for ATV and, later, Central Television, Newbon reported on football and hosted boxing and darts programmes for the ITV network, whilst hosting sports coverage on ATV and Central, while also presenting sports reports on the regional news programmes and performing his executive role. [More at Wikipedia]
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A New Chronicle of Recent Bike Advocacy Gains in the U.S.
"The Surprising Promise of Bicycling" is a brief history of recent bike advocacy, with a look to the future.
A new report, The Surprising Promise of Bicycling by Jay Walljasper, tells the stories of people who have been pushing for better biking conditions in the U.S. for the last twenty or so years, and hints at why the gains made will not be going away any time soon.
The report's subtitle is "Twelve Reasons Biking Will Grow," and lists among those reasons the rising awareness of health benefits from being active, the introduction of bike-share and electric bikes, which can expand the availability of bikes to riders who otherwise might be unable to ride, the widening influence of local grassroots groups working for their communities, and recognition that bikes are a key weapon in the fight against climate change.
This story focuses on funding. The creation of a pot of money for bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects in the federal transportation bill of 1991 for the first time made building trails and bike lanes a real possibility in communities throughout the country, although not many took advantage of it. That funding was under threat when the bill came up for reauthorization six years later—but in the meantime, the first Thunderhead Retreat had taken place. That seminal event brought together a group of people who wanted to create a better world for people on bikes, and who would go on to expand and grow bike advocacy in the ensuing years.
The first task of this budding advocacy group was to save the federal funding that was under attack, and its grassroots campaign—meeting with congressional representatives and newspaper editorial boards, among others—was so successful that the funding was not only preserved but expanded when the new transportation act, TEA-21, was passed.
The annual Thunderhead event brought together people like Andy Clarke, who at the time was working with Rails-to-Trails and later headed up the League of American Bicyclists, and Charlie Gandy, a former Texas legislator who became an outspoken advocate for better biking everywhere and helped bring protected bike lanes to Long Beach long before other cities had them. Other early advocates included Deb Hubsmith, who went on to found Safe Routes to Schools National Partnership and headed up the Marin Bicycle Coalition, and Dave Snyder, who co-founded both San Francisco's Critical Mass movement and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and who now leads the California Bicycle Coalition.
Also included in the report are brief profiles of other biking advocates, including Monica Garrison, founder of Black Girls Do Bike in Pittsburgh, PA; Maria Contreras Tebutt, who founded the Bike Campaign in Woodland, California, where she teaches people of all ages and backgrounds to ride and fix bikes; and Cynthia Rose, who co-founded Santa Monica Spoke.
The authors are aware of gaps in their story, and hope to expand on some of them in the future. "We didn't go into the professional side of bike advocacy and planning that has mushroomed since that federal funding was passed," said Balmer. There is also a story to be told about the bike industry, which has shifted over the years from catering almost exclusively to men on road bikes and now is creating and selling bikes suited for all kinds of uses, from hauling kids to climbing muddy trails to racing to moseying along with a basketful of groceries and flowers.
"We wanted to look at the future," Balmer said when asked why they left out some of the older, uglier history of bike advocacy—for example, the ongoing legacy of John Forester's vehicular cycling movement that prevented innovative approaches now common in places like the Netherlands, but that the U.S. is only beginning to put in place.
"The Promise of Bicycling" can be downloaded for free as a PDF, but Walljasper and Balmer hope to raise enough money to expand it and publish it as a book in time for Bike Month next May. They will be launching a crowdsourcing campaign next week; details can be found at Pedal Love.
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• December 3, 2004: After a brief demonstration phase in November, the English beta version of Wikinews became operational. Wikinews is meant to be a free content news source which allows anybody to report news on a wide variety of subjects.
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I think we should go further still and shoot for the ultimate goal of creating " Wikimedia". That's media with an "m". It would use Wiki-style rules to enable public participation in the creation and editing of all kinds of media: encyclopedias and other reference works, current news, books, fiction, music, video etc. Like current broadcast media, it would have differentiated "channels" and "programs", each with self-selecting audiences. Unlike current media, however, the audience would also be actively involved in creating its own programming, instead of merely passively watching it.
On June 20, 2003, Jimmy Wales – who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis – announced the creation of the Wikimedia Foundation which was to serve as the parent, non-profit, organization of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and other freely licensed wiki projects subsequently added to the "Wikimedia family". See also the Wikipedia article on Wikimedia: w:Wikimedia Foundation.
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Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) is a chronic debilitating condition characterized by pelvic pain, urinary urgency, and urinary frequency. It affects more than one million women and more than 80,000 men in the United States, although these figures may significantly underestimate the true prevalence of the condition. Patients with IC/PBS suffer from a "silent affliction," often appearing healthy but experiencing unrelenting pain that requires frequent trips to the bathroom, both day and night. The condition exacts a significant toll on patients' quality of life. However, therapy is available that can manage symptoms and improve quality of life. Access to such therapy can have a major impact on the life of a patient with IC/PBS. However, effective therapy relies on an accurate diagnosis, and accurate diagnosis ultimately depends on recognition of the disorder. For this reason, awareness of IC/PBS by both patients and providers is critical.
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The 23 participants of the Washington Consensus Meeting on Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome included researchers, urologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, pain specialists, nurse practitioners, a registered nurse, and a pharmacist. Three individuals with IC/PBS attended the meeting, offering a patient perspective. The group developed statements with which the majority agreed; these statements are included in this monograph. The group also identified areas requiring future research. ARHP and the ICA hope that these statements, along with the background material on IC/PBS and committee recommendations provided in this document, will help clinicians to better recognize, diagnose, and treat IC/PBS, thus limiting the suffering associated with this chronic condition.
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Thanks, Honeyman…
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SOME 45,500 YEARS ago, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient humans ventured into a cave and sketched out the rotund form of a native pig, complete with a bristly back and face warts. Archaeologists now believe this portly swine marks the oldest drawing of a creature yet discovered anywhere in the world
U.S. coppers 3X more likely to use force on leftwing demonstrators
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Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a non-profit that monitors political violence around the world.
In the past 10 months, US law enforcement agencies have used teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and beatings at a much higher percentage at Black Lives Matter demonstrations than at pro-Trump or other rightwing protests.
Law enforcement officers were also more likely to use force against leftwing demonstrators, whether the protests remained peaceful or not.
The statistics, based on law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests across the United States since April 2020, show a clear disparity in how agencies have responded to the historic wave of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence, compared with demonstrations organized by Trump supporters.
Numbers don't lie. The source is the U.S. Crisis Monitor. RTFA. You can do the same thing THE GUARDIAN did. Sort the data. Do the math.
I don't need to duplicate what a lifetime of demonstrating against racism, injustice, bigotry and bombs dropped on civilians has taught me.
What is that smell?
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FBI/NSA say they were surprised by the mob attack. That's a lie.
The Capitol mob began organizing weeks ago for the violence that occurred on January 6, planning inside conspiracy theory and far-right online communities on platforms like Parler and Gab. Groups that typically live in the darker corners of the internet stepped into the spotlight when they took the Capitol and broadcast the breach around the web.
The disarray and violence in Washington on January 6 drew a big audience, too. More than 23 million people watched the event on cable news stations — it was the most-watched day in CNN's 40-year history, averaging 5.22 million viewers — and millions more followed along online via livestreams. There were more than 4.6 million mentions of unrest at the Capitol between 12 am and 6:30 pm ET that day, according to Zignal Labs, a firm that tracks online misinformation. The number of mentions first spiked after Trump spoke at the "Save America" rally in front of the White House and then surged after the mob breached the Capitol…
While the tumult was stunning, it was not surprising. The groups that stormed Capitol Hill this week have long been active on platforms like Gab and 4chan, and more recently, they've adopted newer tools like the lightly moderated social media site Parler and the anonymous messaging service Telegram to organize. Some have continued to use mainstream platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube…
Although there may have been the occasional detail restricted to encrypted email or messaging, everything that used to be discussed at private or public meetings…now lives on the Web. So, even if the FBI/NSA now uses AI searches of the Web to snoop on everyone in this benighted land, whatever is turned up still has to pass verification by the snitches and plants inside all of these groups.
The FBI/NSA may have been modernized since the days when they mostly relied on actual FBI agents to report on the innards of discussion…from every political group ranging from civil rights activism to teachers unions, from the rare nutball anarchist commune to the largest issue-driven activist organizations in the country…they still rely on firsthand snooping. AI and human. A spike mike in the wall of a union hall or a bug at your ISP. You don't need to be paranoid to presume Uncle Sugar is listening in.
None of this has anything to do with ethics, constitutionality or political niceties. It's what they do. Scumbag thoroughness, at most, is only governed by budget line items.
Lumpenproletariat
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as "the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class."In modern usage, it is commonly defined to include the chronically unemployed, the homeless, and career criminals…"
There's much agreement – and disagreement – on appropriate use of a word coined, after all, in the 19th Century. History, from one nation to another, has already treated definition as variable, sometimes dated, even incomplete or inaccurate when addressing nations formerly under the colonial heel.
It's just that this morning…on my first walk of the day…I could hear the voice in my head of an old acquaintance in Warsaw…his soft bark brief and to the point as ever. "Lumpen – they're nothing but Lumpen." Americans have drawn spoiled middle-class brats into the garbage truck parked next door to class conflict. They think it's cool to be part of the lumpenproletariat, and leaders, of course.
There will be more detailed analysis of the events of January 6th in Washington, DC. But, still, déclassé and lumpen ain't a bad start.
Trump continues to attack moderate Republicans
January 2, 2021 January 1, 2021 17 Comments
Same As It Ever Was, SAME AS IT EVER WAS…
President Donald Trump is spending his final days in office attacking leadership within his own party, this time the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, offering a possible preview of his broader post-presidential strategy to use his influence in the 2022 midterm elections and beyond…
The President returned to Washington ahead of the January 6 event, when as many as 140 House Republicans, joined by at least one senator, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley, could vote to throw out electoral votes in key swing states Trump lost…
The [Fake] President has raised hundreds of millions of dollars since the November 3 election, a majority of which goes directly to a new fundraising leadership PAC, Save America, that is expected to aide him in donating to other candidates and political pursuits as he considers a potential presidential bid in 2024.
…Trump is already planting the idea that he would support candidates offering primary challenges to current House and Senate Republicans he sees as disloyal.
Trump and the scumbags aiding his takeover will have few problems setting-up an opposition Fascist Party to split the existing Republican Party…if he can't maintain control of the original. No reason other than convenience in his propaganda wars to keep the old party. They'll come up with some red-white-and-blue theme. God will be on their side.
I imagine serious discussions over armbands have already started.
Our Political Crisis…the task before the rational part of this nation
January 1, 2021 December 31, 2020 1 Comment
Owing to America's disproportionate military, financial, and technological power, the breakdown of rational politics in the United States is the most dangerous fact for the world today. And while President Donald Trump's recent election defeat is a necessary step toward restoring sanity to American politics, it is only the first of many that will be required to stop the downward slide of the US and convince the rest of the world that the country no longer poses a threat to itself or others.
There are two urgent challenges facing America and the world in the wake of the US election. First, President-elect Joe Biden must take on the long uphill struggle to restore some measure of domestic political stability. Second, other regions of the world should forge their own paths of global cooperation, rather than waiting in vain for the US to return to global leadership.
Jeffrey Sachs rocks! He is a high-order player in the world of economics and politics. Which means creeps like Trump hate him. Most Trump followers, of course, have no idea who he is or what he has to say.
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Q: Expression in EF Core where clause takes too much time I would like to apply a filter to my SQL function results:
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Last week the band confirmed a string of Canadian tour dates for later this summer. This run also includes select dates in the US. A full North American headline tour will be announced shortly. The tour is set to kick off August 23 and will run through September.
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Sighthill Stone Circle Campaign Update
I have posted here previously about the wonderful stone circle in Glasgow city that is currently under threat. It was created by Duncan Lunan; he and his partner Linda have been campaigning to save it from redevelopment due to take place because of the city's bid for 2018 Youth Olympics. I have just heard from Duncan and Linda that the city's bid was not successful but that the redevelopment will still go ahead; the hilltop park where the circle is situated will be levelled and remodelled for new housing.
However, there is some possible good news. Here Duncan details the current situation:
Glasgow has not won the bid to host the 2018 Youth Olympics, but it appears that the redevelopment of park Sighthill is going ahead regardless.The planning applications are scheduled to be lodged by the City Council tomorrow and there will be 28 days in which members of the public can record their comments.
However, Linda and I had a meeting this morning with Tom Turley, Assistant Director of Development & Regeneration Services, and Colin Edgar, Head of Communications, also attended by David McGlone who was one of the organisers of the Druid/pagan ritual at the stone circle for the summer solstice. The main points were that funding is now in place for a much bigger redevelopment which will completely change the hill and remove the park, lowering the hilltop so far that the circle can't survive in its present location or be replaced there afterwards.What is on offer is a new astronomy project to make use of the stones in a new location.
My reply was that if so, rather than just building a new circle with the existing stones, we should look at creating a new structure (still historically authentic) which the stones would be incorporated into.
That's what I've been discussing with various people in the last few days, as a possible fallback position if the circle was to be removed, but it seems to be a serious prospect now.
To publicise the consultation, a folk and acoustic concert is going ahead at the Mitchell Library on Saturday 13th July, from 14:00 hrs to 16:30 hrs,in the Blythswood Room of the Mitchell Library, North Street,Glasgow, with members of the Whistlebinkies, Christie Connor-Vernal, Kenchuto, Ajna Starheart, Stewart Horn and others. The event will be free but there will be a collection for the Save Our Stones campaign. If the weather is good, we may go up to the circle to continue the music afterwards.
To follow that Stuart Braithwaite has organised a pop concert at Platform in Easterhouse on Saturday 27th July, still within the 28 days. Artistes giving their time include Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Aidan Moffat, Eugene Kelly, Emma Pollock, Remember Remember, RM Hubbert, Adele Bethel (DJ) and special guests The Twilight Sad.Tickets are on sale now at £6 and Platform have kindly agreed to donate profits from the pop concert to the campaign.
It's a great shame about the park and the circle in its present form, but it's a lot better than I was expecting, and in the circumstances I think we have to accept it and move on. There are some exciting ideas about what we could build to incorporate the stones, and more ideas would be welcome. As always, more news as it happens! Many thanks to everyone for help and support so far.
Linda has informed me that they are hoping to incorporate the moved circle into a labyrinth. She also sent me an account of the recent summer Solstice Ritual that was held at the stones:
Duncan gave a talk about the circle and the campaign at the Ogilvie Centre of St. Aloysius Church on Thursday 20th June, after which we went up to the circle to see the sunset, which is in virtually the same place for three days either side of the summer solstice. At the solstice on Friday 21st there was a second talk at the circle itself, followed by a Druid/pagan ritual with over 70 people. Both evenings were cloudy but nevertheless the events went well. Many of the participants were in costume and the circle was decorated with ribbons, lanterns, flowers and offering of food and drink, especially fruit.
The solstice ritual began with a procession, summoned by a conch shell and led from the east by a drummer, which came into the stone circle and formed a circle of people around the central stone. The major participants representing Earth (north), Sky (east) Water (west), and Fire (south) moved sunwise (deosil) around the group, before placing lit cauldrons and a basket of paper ribbons at the central stone. Earth and Sky took lit cauldrons to stand guard either side of the entrance way on the east, while Water picked up the ribbons and welcomed the people into the circle, handing each a ribbon with the words, "Enter this circle and celebrate the Summer Solstice with us this night". Sky and Earth blessed them as they pass between the cauldron fires and when everyone was within, the circle was cast to cut its interior off from the mundane world.
In the pagan part of the ritual, all were welcomed to the circle to celebrate the Summer solstice, as the longest day of the year and the pinnacle of the Sun God's reign, when the Goddess (mother Earth) is pregnant with agricultural bounty and livestock waiting for their young.
The four Quarters then called upon their respective symbolic creatures: the Eagle, symbol of freedom of thought and expression, to bring inspiration and creativity to all in the sacred circle; the Honey Bee, Symbol of community and hard work, to bring this community together in celebration and in their work to Save our Stones, bringing healing to all present; the Bull, symbol of the wealth of knowledge and potency of spirit that illuminate the city, was asked for advice and aid to save this sacred place for future generations; and the Wolf, symbol of our primal nature, was asked to bring courage and strength to all within the sacred circle. Each speaker asked for peace in his or her quarter of the world, ending with the words "Blessed Be". Ancestors of Blood, Land and Spirit were invoked, then Mother Earth and Father Sun.
In the Druidic part of the ceremony the five main participants formed a pentagram around the centre stone and led a chant known as the AWEN to raise the vibrational energy within the circle. This was followed by Herb planting and Blessing for the stone circle, passing around a bead of Hematite and asking each person to focus on Saving the Stones and seeing them flourish for Glasgow. (Hematite absorbs negativity and is used to procure favourable legal decisions. "Hopefully close enough!" said the organiser.) With bead placed in a pot bottom and covered with soil, a seed was planted and blessed with water. The paper wishes (on environmentally friendly rice paper) were then distributed, each to be imbued with a visualised personal wish and tied when circle was opened to a nearby hawthorn tree, which has grown on the line of midsummer sunset.
The Four Directions and the circle caster were then called to the centre and a simple feast was held, blessing the food and drink and offering some to the Earth as they were passed around. Then after thanks to the Goddess and God, thanks to the Ancestors, thanks to the Directions and to the Land, the circle was uncast, participants tied ribbons to the wish Tree, and there was general socialising, ended only by the growing darkness and ferocity of the midges!
If you are in the area and can make the concerts, go along and add your support. Updates can be found on the campaign website here
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Man claims his iPhone caught fire in his pants
By Luke Dormehl • 3:02 am, December 4, 2015
A look at Rocky's ruined iPhone 6 Plus.
Photo: Channel Two Action News
A man in Atlanta claims he was forced to strip in public after his iPhone 6 Plus caught fire while in the front pocket of his jeans.
"I mean, it was pretty humiliating having to take your pants off in a parking lot," he told the local Channel Two Action News, asking them to withhold his identity, other than his first name of Rocky.
…And his jeans after the fire.
Rocky says he was loading his car at Home Depot when he felt a burning sensation and then saw smoke billowing out of his jeans.
"When I saw the smoke, I undid my belt, I undid my pants," he said. "I pushed it away, turned my head hoping it wouldn't explode. It burned pretty much my whole front pocket, burned my boxers, started to burn my leg, but I had moved it away in time so it wouldn't burn me."
He escaped without suffering any injuries, and says that he is not seeking any compensation.
While this isn't the first time we've heard about an Apple device bursting into flames unexpectedly, in this instance the fault may well be traced to a refurbishing company which re-sold the iPhone after it had had a previous owner. The refurbishing company sent Rocky a replacement, but he says he would still like to receive an apology from them.
Apple has also said it is investigating the strange occurrence.
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Maxine M. Nicely ("Mickey") passed away on September 16, 2013. She was born in Painesville, Ohio, where she enjoyed sailing on Lake Erie with her father in boats that her father manufactured. Graduating from Harvey High School in 1948, she was elected homecoming queen after holding many student council and club offices. She received her B.A. in Education from Baldwin Wallace University and drove across the country to take her first teaching job out west. After marrying and living in California, she developed a love of the ocean and settled in Laguna Beach, where she taught second grade at El Morro Elementary, the school her daughters attended. While at El Morro, she completed her M.A. in Education (Pepperdine University). When she retired and moved to Dana Point, her range of activities and number of friends only grew broader. In addition to taking art and film classes, she traveled through several continents, boating down rivers in China, climbing the steps at Machu Picchu, and riding zip lines in Costa Rica. She continued to enjoy spending time with children, volunteering at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point. Her grandsons were frequent companions, whether visiting state parks, doing homework, or trick-or-treating, and she sponsored sailing classes for them every summer.
Mickey formed lifelong friends at every point and will be missed by many. She is survived by her brother Raymond McLeod, her daughters Pamela Nicely and Bettina Nicely Johnson, her sons-in-law David Rovin and Hans Johnson, and her four grandsons: Ellis and Mason Rovin, and Alex and Blake Johnson.


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Tea party candidate Curt Clawson wins Republican primary to replace former Rep. Trey Radel
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Curt Clawson celebrates along with a cheering crowd at his election party at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs, Fla., after officially winning the special election in the Congressional District 19 Republican primary, on Tuesday, April 22, 2014.Associated press
By Alex Leary
WASHINGTON — Curt Clawson, a businessman who was little known months ago in Southwest Florida, won a contentious GOP primary Tuesday to fill the U.S. House seat left open by the scandalous downfall of Trey Radel.
Clawson, 54, pitched himself as an outsider against more established candidates and was embraced by the tea party. He poured more than $2 million into television ads. In one, the former Purdue basketball player challenged President Barack Obama to a three-point contest.
The Bonita Springs resident took about 38 percent of the vote in the Congressional District 19 race, besting several rivals, including state Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, whose swift rise to prominence in Tallahassee made her an establishment favorite. Benacquisto was fighting for second place with former state Rep. Paige Kreegel.
"I got into this race because I felt like we needed more outsiders in Congress," Clawson said in a tweet. "The career politicians aren't getting the job done."
Clawson has to run in a general special election set for June 24 but enters as the favorite against Democrat April Freeman; the district is solidly Republican.
He would replace Radel, who was elected in 2012 and made a name for himself among Washington reporters for his incessant use of social media. Then Radel was arrested buying cocaine from an undercover police officer in Washington. Radel pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and eventually resigned amid widespread calls to do so.
More than $6 million was spent on the primary, with Clawson leading the way. Several super PACs also got involved, helping add to the negative tone, and raising questions about close ties to candidates.
Clawson outlasted scrutiny of his record as an automotive industry executive and a TV report about a sex offender that lived in one of Clawson's homes, sold just before he entered the race.
As Clawson climbed in the polls, he drew support from former Rep. Connie Mack, who held the seat before Radel, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. The Tea Party Express gave him another boost. The group on Monday was feeling bullish about Clawson's chances, proclaiming the race was the "first tea party vs. establishment showdown" of 2014.
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Times Washington bureau chief
Florida continues fight with environmentalists over conservation spending
The state is seeking to overturn a June 2018 ruling by Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson, who found that lawmakers improperly defied the 2014's Amendment 1, which was approved by 75 percent…


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China's smartphone giants reportedly unite to challenge Google's Play Store
Huawei, Xiaomi, and BBK's Oppo and Vivo are working together on a platform that will allow developers outside of China to upload their apps to all of the respective app stores simultaneously, Reuters reports. The manufacturers have joined together under the Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA) in what appears to be an attempt to challenge the international dominance of Google's Play Store.
Since the Google Play Store is banned in China, Android users have grown accustomed to downloading apps from a variety of different app stores, many of which are maintained by manufacturers like Huawei and Oppo. But outside of China, the Google Play Store reigns supreme, providing a convenient single location where developers can upload their software. This near-monopoly means that third-party app stores have struggled with developer support internationally, and it's this advantage that could be challenged by the GDSA's platform.
GDSA's prototype website notes that its services are planned for nine countries and regions, including India, Indonesia, Russia, and Malaysia. Reuters notes that the companies are strong in different regions, such as Xiaomi in India or Huawei in Europe. But together, they control over 40 percent of worldwide smartphone shipments as of the fourth quarter of last year. The new platform would make it easier for developers to upload their apps to every store at once while ensuring some degree of parity across app stores.
The Play Store's international dominance is a much more acute problem for Huawei, which lost its license to offer Google's apps and services last year, including the Google Play Store. This was such a problem that Huawei decided against officially releasing its last flagship, the Mate 30, internationally. The company has also announced it's working on its own operating system called Harmony OS, and it says it's investing $1 billion to fund the development, user growth, and marketing of Huawei Mobile Services, its alternative to Google's services.
The Play Store provides a significant revenue stream for Google, which takes a 30 percent cut of any sales made through the store. In total, it's thought to have made the company around $8.8 billion worldwide last year, according to one analyst quoted by Reuters. China's phone makers want a slice of that pie as handset sales slow globally.
Reuters reports that a March launch was planned for the new platform, but this may have been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak.


After their previous attempt at a Nightingale rose, here is another ghastly example from today's edition of the Times. Shouldn't someone tell them?
We've previously shown that the number of homicides each day in London followed a Poisson distribution to a remarkable degree - this means that they essentially occur as a random process. Now the same analysis has been repeated by the Home Office in the crime statistics released today - and the Poisson fits very well.
The bunting was out on Tuesday for the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the first statistics department in the world at University College London! UCL was home to the great developments in statistics both before and after the department opened in 1911, with Karl Pearson as Professor of Applied Statistics, endowed by Francis Galton who had just died.
Got a Thunderer column in The Times today - giving local link rather than Times website due to their paywall. Links are provided to to the interesting post-mortems on the 2009 pandemic statistics.
This article found an association between mobile phone use in pregnancy and behavioural problems in childhood, with an additional association with the child using a mobile phone before they were 7. I was not the only one reported as being sceptical, but the study is predictably getting a lot of coverage particularly in pregnancy advisory websites.
Do attractive people tend to have more daughters?
I got a commentary in the Times today (due to the Times paywall, this is a local link to the unedited article, rather than to the published version) about a study that estimated that people rated as 'unattractive' when they were 7 years old only had 44% chance of their first child being a girl. This effect seems utterly implausible.
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This month's Nrich has a fine collection of exercises on uncertainty, chance and coincidences, designed to be useful for primary schools to sixth forms. Have a look at the great lottery simulator, and try your hand at spinning 10 heads in a row like Derren Brown (there's a simulator if you get bored).
Got an article in the Times about the Walkers Crisps forecasting competition. Since then have won another £10. Shame the paywall means there is no point in linking to the online version.
We are sorry to hear that Paul the 'psychic' octopus has died. Who would have predicted it? Most people, in fact, since an octopus is only expected to live 2 years. Fortunately a documentary film team got to Paul before his demise and conducted in-depth interviews. They also filmed me doing an explanation of the maths behind Paul – this will probably be cut but at least we now have an article about him!


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