The History of Penta Prism SLR.
Asahi Pentax, the original from 1957.
-Pentaprism SLR: origin and early history to the beginning of the digital era.
-The Pentax PP SLR history.
Pentaprism SLR (PP SLR) is to be understood as single lens eye level pentaprism mirror reflex camera made for 135-size film. Included are also the penta mirror cameras, a simpler version of the pentaprism.
-In the first part of the chapter of the PP SLR history, I present the very beginning of this history by going through the timeline of the first cameras, thus showing who was first. This chapter is called The Origin. After that I aim at presenting the first model of every brand that produced a PP SLR during the first years, from late 1948 through 1959. Some of the cameras presented are very first models, some are among the first. In that case I try to explain the possible differences from the first edition. I do so to give you a better understanding of the variety of cameras. Presenting only first editions would have left too many holes in the story as they are sometimes almost impossible to get and/or extremely expensive.
From the 60s to the digital takeover, I present models that are of importance to the history, decade by decade. This part is of course very subjective as it is my story.
-The Pentax collection, which is the base of the collection and giving name to the site, consists of all 61 international film PP SLR models plus most local variants and some special models. This is very close to a complete collection. From digital takeover, only main models are presented.
-Takumar lenses are presented in four chapters Takumar, Auto-Takumar, Super-Takumar and SMC (Super-Multi-Coated) Takumar.
The lost brands are presented decade by decade, according to the year they produced their last PP SLR. All brands are also given a page of their own. The time zone given is for years of PP SLR production, from the first to the last. It is not the life span of the producer. The company usually is older and may have lived longer, but producing other cameras or other products. For instance, Minolta was founded in 1928 and is still operating as a company, but the production of penta prism slr cameras started in 1958 and ceased in 2006.
Unless otherwise stated, all cameras and lenses shown are of my collection.
Please note that this collection is not about mint or never used objects. Some are heavily used, but may have contributed to wonderful photos, while others are almost like new. Hopefully, both categories will show the beauty of older craftsmanship.
Pictures are high resolution but come up reduced. To get a sharper version, just click them. Different machines will show different colour tones due to well known screen calibration problems.
Pages are preliminary and are constantly being developed.
The information given here is collected from books, magazines and from the internet, and may be disputable. On the question of which PP SLR was the first, there is obviously a lot of misunderstanding around. The "fact" that Contax S was first and Rectaflex right behind on second place can be read everywhere. You can read a hundred pages or more all repeating this. So, it ends up on Wikipedia and Camerapedia as The Truth. However, when reading first hand information from photo historians in Dresden, Germany, where the Contaxes where produced, and holding it against the Italian sources with very detailed information, it becomes clear that the "Wikipedia Truth" is false! From what I have found after some studies, truth is that those claiming the Italian Rectaflex as being first are right! And by a very clear margin. Read more in chapter PP SLR 1948-1954, in chapter 1949-1962: Contax, in chapter 1948-1955: Rectaflex, and in the very central chapter called The Origin.
But the final word is probably not said yet. Therefore, I am happy to receive information that can clarify or contradict my version of the history of PP SLR cameras. And there may even be cameras that I have overlooked. There is a lot of knowledge out there.
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Note: Text and photos on these pages are protected under Norwegian law against any kind of copying and use without written permission.
The Rectaflex of Italy - 1948.
Marco Antonetto, Rectaflex - The Magic Reflex. To be found on the internet.
I sent a return email to kundeservice , with photos. Did you receive them OK?
I do not know how to send photos to you. Is this your email address: kundeservice@123hjemmeside.no, ? I cannot put the photos in this comment box.
No, I didn't. Please try the given address.
from Pentax.On the top Asahi in black and than Pentax in red.
Collectors model or fake ?
Never seen, never heard of. Most certainly done by some previous owner to personalize it.
Well done! Thank you very much for this work! It helps me about lost Brands.


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Saddest moments for Pakistan in 2016
Posted by: Salma Khalid December 31, 2016	in Pakistan
The year 2016 comes to a close; we remember the defining and sad moments that this year gave us. This year was full of surprises, twists, and amazements that made us proud but on the other hand, we faced lots of challenges, bad memories, and heart-rending incidents, however they didn't result in diminishing our morale.
Here are some defining and sad moments of the year 2016:
Pakistan's Angel and Legendry Humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi died
Pakistan faced biggest loss in 2016 with the sad demise of legendary humanitarian Edhi. Country's most beloved and ascetic personality Abdul Sattar Edhi left the whole nation as he passed away on 9 July 2016 at the age of 88. He was a founder of Edhi Foundation and known as 'Angel of Mercy' for his social work in Pakistan. Many poor, homeless, and orphans have lost a father figure. Edhi Foundation owns and runs Pakistan's largest ambulance service, as well as nursing homes, orphanages, clinics and women's shelters across the country. Before funeral prayers, he was given the guard of honour and the gun salute by Pakistan army.
Assassination of Qawaal Amjad Sabri
22nd June 2016 was a terrible day for the Pakistanis when Amjad Sabri was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Karachi. He was a renowned Qawwal, had a beautiful voice, and good human being. Amjad Sabri was the one of most prominent qawwali singer in South Asia. He was a son of famous Qawwal of the 1960s, Ghulam Fareed Sabri. Whatever Sabri had sung became an instant hit but 'Bhar do jholi', 'Tajdar-e-Haram', and 'Mera koi nahi hai tere siwa' were the famous and most memorable qawwalis.
Dreadful blast at Civil Hospital Quetta killed over 70
On 8 August 2016, Advocate Bilal Anwar Kasi the president of Baluchistan Bar Association was gunned down while leaving his home for the office. A group of lawyers was gathered to accompany the body of Kasi, the suddenly horrible bombing took place inside the hospital where at least 70 people killed and more than 50 were injured. In this sad incident, two journalists from Aaj TV and Dawn news also succumbed to injuries.
Terrible blast at Quetta's Civil Hospital
Terrorist attack at Baluchistan Police Training College killed 60 cadets
In the year 2016, Quetta has faced terrible terrorism. Two months after the Civil Hospital's incident Quetta had met another frightful terrorist attack. On 24 October 2016 around 11:15 pm three heavily armed militants stormed a Quetta police academy while cadets were sleeping and militants opened fire in which 60 cadets were killed and 100 were injured. All three militants were also killed during an attack. It is one of the deadliest extremist attacks in 2016. The training academy is on Saryab road, which is one of the most sensitive areas of Quetta.
Rescuers help an injured person to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, after a hostel for police cadets was attacked by militants. Photo: Arshad Butt/AP
Fatal crash of PIA Flight 661
Pakistan had faced a very heartrending incident when the domestic flight of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) flight PK-661 crashed on the way to Islamabad from Chitral on 7 December 2016 near Havelian. There were 42 passengers and 5 crew members on board died including pop star turned evangelical cleric Junaid Jamshed and Deputy Commissioner of Chitral Osama Warraich. There were 31 men, 9 women and 2 infants on board, including three foreigners. All of the bodies were burned and the debris was scattered and ablaze on the side of the hill.
PIA flight PK-661 crashes enroute to Islamabad
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The annual AIF tourney was played at Kooyonga Golf Club, in Adelaide's west during the 1950s. Players set out fortified by a rum and milk and during the round refreshed themselves from a keg of beer set up in a strategic spot. Pictured here around the keg here are from left Ruby Zernia (who acted as barman), Graham Sinclair, Dennis King, and Len Schwartz (former Davis Cup player).
Photo: News (Adelaide) Saturday 4 October 1952.


In 2011 73% of respondents reported they were near or at the point of saturation in change; in 2009 the figure was 66%. So more organisations are trying to do more change than ever before. What is also clear from the survey is that change is no more effective (nor less effective) than before. Once an organisation reaches saturation (or close to it) the effectiveness of all change drops off significantly and change becomes very inefficient. That is a well known phenomena in a lot of systems. The consequence is that the organisation is unable to carry out the change it needs to survive and slowly, but inevitably, declines into oblivion. Does that sound familiar?
Its the stakeholders that are saturated. How can we save them, and their organisation? The answer is incredibly simple: prioritise and control change so that only the most important (not the most urgent) is carried out. Fully resource the change you do make to ensure the best chance of success. The resourcing of change is one of the key parameters controlling how much change to allow. Impose a change control board across the whole organisation.
In 2011 the most important message to communicate and share with employees was the reason for the change. In other words communicate to motivate. A lot of change communication is about the change and its minutiae. What most employees want to know from the start is why, not how, or what, or when. This is the role of the Vision (captured in a statement if appropriate). A well constructed Vision used effectively by all of the change team, and especially the sponsor, will bring both consistency and motivation to stakeholders.
An effective vision needs to contain emotion and use emotive language. People will not change unless they have energy. Humans get energy from emotions so change involves stirring up emotions. Sometimes the emotions go negative; mostly they are positive; either way emotion is an essential ingredient of a successful change. Learn to love it! See our qualification on Vision and Blueprint for more.
The most important message in 2011 to managers and executives was about their role and expectations of their behaviour during change. In effect their leadership. Most managers don't know how to support change for success; nor do they understand their power to destroy change by their behaviour. The role of managers and executives is spelled out in the programme management method. See our introductory course. One of the strongest arguments for having a parallel change team alongside line management to deliver change is the problem of getting all of the line managers aligned and promoting the change effectively.
A quote from Virginia Satir (a psychotherapist, author on change, and early developer of NLP) says "you change an organisation one person at a time". So it is important to track individual change. Yet in 2011 less than half of the organisations surveyed by Prosci were measuring whether change was occurring at the individual level. The most common methods of tracking individual change was feedback and performance tracking. We have already argued that performance monitoring is an essential part of effective change. It provides the raw data for tracking change and finding the pockets of resistance and lack of progress.
If you can't measure it you can't manage it. So the basis of change management has to be measurement of change.


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Paga, NIPOST take financial services across Nigeria
By Bankole Orija
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The initial set of services to be offered are deposits and withdrawals from bank accounts and mobile money wallets, utility bill payments, and airtime recharge for all telecom networks.
In line with their shared goal to drive deeper financial inclusion in Nigeria, Paga and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) recently announced a partnership aimed at making financial services available to all Nigerians by leveraging on all the NIPOST offices across the country as robust financial services points. This will be done on the back of the Shared Agent Network framework approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Through their partnership with NIPOST, Paga will continue to expand its mobile money agent network to include post offices in all the Local Government Areas of Nigeria while giving priority to areas where banking services are limited or otherwise difficult to access.
The initial set of services to be offered are deposits and withdrawals from bank accounts and mobile money wallets, utility bill payments, and airtime recharge for all telecom networks. Additional services, including savings and loans products, are scheduled for launch in partnership with banking partners.
Speaking on the collaboration with Paga, Mr. B.M Mukhtar, General Manager Financial Service, NIPOST said "There is a post office location within reasonable distance of almost every community in the country today, so we see an opportunity for NIPOST to play a leading role in enhancing financial inclusion for the betterment of Nigeria. For this reason, NIPOST is committed to partnering with Paga and other financial institutions to bring critical financial services such as bill payments, bank account deposits and withdrawals, loans, money transfer and more to be available at NIPOST locations nationwide. We are taking it step-by-step and have already started to see the positive impact."
Also speaking on the collaboration, Paga co-founder and director of business development, Jay Alabraba expatiated, "Our work with NIPOST is simply one of several big steps that we are leading the industry in taking, to bring financial services to all communities in Nigeria. The rollout has been on-going since the beginning of 2016, and we are very encouraged by the outcomes so far.
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In Kansas, KSAL News reports that Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland would like to thank the community for another successful Cookie Sale. Girl Scouts across 80 Kansas counties sold nearly 1.5 million boxes, a 7.6% increase over last year. The 2011 Cookie Sale took place Janury 22 through March 13.
Additionally, 15,328 boxes were collected for the Cookie Share Program, up 48% from last year. These cookies will be distributed to the Kansas Food Bank, Catholic Charities, McConnell Air Force Base, the Kansas National Guard and local food pantries.
Congrats Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland! How have recent cookie sales been in your community?


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… in our thinking. While loath to say that in the current environment, and think we second-guess ourselves in unhealthy ways, am referring to a different type.
Whatever first brings my employers (clients) to my office- relationship problems, depression, anxiety, addiction, low self esteem, "stress", anger etc…, I would argue that it's really four things: they want to be happy, have a sense of self worth, have a relationship with another person, "succeed" in the environment/community around them. For all the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment theory, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt, existentialism, psychoanalysis, client-centered-solution-oriented-short-term-evidence-based-practices employed by the therapist or improvised efforts on the part of the client, critical thinking can go a long way toward the wants/issues above. Critical thinking is an organized set of principles, and tools, that should be used as ways of knowing and problem-solving things.
When confronted with a problem, we tend to throw "will" (some kind of effort that is nothing more than improvisation) and/or thinking at it. That thinking tends to show up without use of actual critical thinking skills. Worse, these efforts are usually based on a tacit approval of both the cause of, and solution to a problem. There is a term for this in both philosophy and psychology: naive realism. More simply, we tend to identify causes and solve problems based on whatever arrives in our consciousness, without examination. As a default we treat our anger as righteous, our hurts as immediate and "true", etc., though experience tells us we are usually "wrong" as often as we are "right". This is a very poor foundation upon which to build problem-solving methods of any kind, let alone imposition of will and intellect. There is a whole discipline of philosophy dedicated to how we actually know things called "epistemology", to which we arguably owe credit for the tools below.
In addition to will and intellect, there's clearly other means to solve problems- asking for help, being honest/taking a risk about something, not intervening at all (something that's really difficult for a lot of us), compassion, waiting/being patient, making amends, setting a boundary, "softening up" (as opposed to resisting, building up defenses, etc), educating ourselves about the problem and more – but these rarely get to see the light of day when it comes to our sorrows because of naive realism. Some problems that arise in therapy stay unresolved too due to critical thinking errors that we call "cognitive distortions". A different way to begin problem solving is to have the tools of critical thinking at our disposal.
Again, there's more of these too. Others might be added, though they're not always thought of as critical thinking errors or cognitive distortions in therapy circles. Beliefs about the ability to change others (sometimes calling it "influence"), awareness of powerlessness over a situation but endeavoring to manage or control it anyway, doing the same thing more than once and expecting different results… all might be additional examples.
Critical thinking though, can often be an antidote for cognitive distortions and a method for solving problems. Without principles or tools for doing so, we're just burning calories (and few, at that). Or, as I often refer to clients "wasting cycles" (like a computer chip). A couple more examples: when feeling "low self esteem" (or as I prefer, "shame") or anger, it might be helpful to "examine the evidence". Are there current facts in hand, that are evidence I should feel "less than"? When ashamed or angry, many of us assume or treat their feelings in and of themselves as truth (like the "naive realism" mentioned above) … often finding out later there was little or no reason to do so. Many conflicts arise because a speaker or receiver make little (or no) effort to define or examine what they (or someone else) is trying to say, or because we have very different ways we're defining a word or situation.
Regardless of what kinds of problems we're assailed with, these critical thinking tools (and others) are very useful. It doesn't seem to matter if these are problems of relationships with ourselves, relationships with others, or "Earthbound" problems (cars, money, weather, gadgets breaking…)- critical thinking tools are always necessary to employ, and are often quicker/more effective than our usual styles of solving problems.
There are quite a few fantastic resources for critical thinking, great people in our time that are doing important work in this way. Some of these people books are linked below.
Peter Boghossian (Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University): part of the "Skepticism 101" resources at the Skeptics Society, Peter's "Knowledge, Value, and Rationality" syllabus.
Advice for New Therapists… and Longtime Ones.
A week ago, my longtime friend Stan Smith MSW asked me to do some talks at USC. The students were fantastic- they were really attentive, experienced, knew a lot of stuff, and so cool for me to see- were really into being of service in a climate that often doesn't support our efforts.
The talks were focused on the idea of "legitimate suffering", mostly. It's an idea stolen from Carl Jung, an idea near and dear to my heart for a bunch of reasons. As I always do, we spent some time addressing questions that came up from students about doing The Work.
In both classes, the question came up, "What advice do you have for someone new in the field?" This question mirrors too what a lot of our clients come in with. I think the underlying theme of this for both mental health professionals and clients is, what do we do to give/get help?
It can be a complicated question, on both sides of the office/clinics etc. As relates to depression, abuse, loss, addiction, anxiety, self esteem, relationships… whatever, if we intend to serve people suffering with it, we have a responsibility to an organized body of material that we think can be helpful. My experience is that if it is used, it's often helpful, when it's not used, it is not. Rarely is it simply not helpful at all. The biggest mistake in my view, is simply not having a philosophy and principles for such things. They should be agreeable both for client and caregiver, and of equal importance- they should be practical, empirical… things we can point at, that someone can do to improve the quality of their life, relationships, and decrease suffering from the things it is in our purview to treat.
We get some practical information as clinicians, some ideas framed by some "theoretical orientation" (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamics, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Jungian Psychoanalysis, etc). Often though, it reaches what some patients need, but usually in the context of that orientation specifically. It's not to say that this information can't be generalized, but it misses some of the fundamental aspects of what I think I'm being asked by a new clinician when they ask me what advice I have for someone new in the field. This is talked about even less with "seasoned" or experienced clinicians.
As these are big questions to be tackled, and there's certainly more, it's better served to answer them in a book (or in school, but that happens little). Sadly, there's really only two practical guides for therapists that specifically address these kinds of considerations. Finally getting to the point, here's a truncated list of ideas that we discussed in these classes that I think might be helpful in some of these areas.
2. Focus on putting yourself out of a job, and the rest is easier- surviving, avoiding problems like job loss or getting referrals or whatever. High quality patient care is the best way to do anything, as far as I'm concerned.
3. Spend time mulling over what a high quality of attention is, and use that everywhere in your life. Kids don't just equate love and attention, they also feel the quality of that attention. Same with our partners, and clients. In our world, it's one of our most-taxed commodities, and one of the greatest sources of creating or perpetuating problems. It might be argued then, that it's one of our most viable means of solutions.
4. Read Sheldon Kopp- particularly "If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!" and "Back To One". The former has the subtitle, "The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients". Would argue as much as it's great for them, it's better for us. The latter is one of the two books I know about that are a practical guide for clinicians. In it, he talks about a lot of the questions above- even how he deals with running into a patient in an elevator.
5. Have principles you live your life by, and share 'em with clients. One of the things I tell my clients the first day is, I have a responsibility to try to be the healthiest person in their life. For me, that comes from principles. On a totally unrelated note, since many ask, this is also part of the source of the pet name "April 30th" for my practice. It helps as an anchor to remind me of what those principles are. It's also a great means of putting me out of a job- if my clients leave with principles, they have methods of problem-solving, so that they don't need to stay with me to solve them as they come up. At least, until they get good at using those methods.
6. Survive school. It's a place to learn, not get straight A's. There's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, except for the fact that many of us with self esteem/perfectionism problems of our own, this can become a terrible handicap. School, in my opinion, is designed to expose us to what legislative and regulatory bodies see as the most fundamental body of material we, and they, have a responsibility to, that insures we provide service safely and ethically. It therefore almost can't be a place where we really learn how to put ourselves out of a job. That, in part, is why I think our ongoing efforts are called a "practice". Doing school in a way that is unhealthy (feeds perfectionism, supports us trying to fix a flagging self esteem, etc) makes us less useful long-term.
7. Remember why you got into the field in the first place. This one elegant idea can get us out of a lot of emotional, ethical, and practical scrapes. On a related note, I've seen some of us get so fearful of our ability to stay busy that we forget and/or compromise this idea, to the detriment of not only our clients, but in maintaining a base of people to care for. If we operate in the spirit of helpfulness, my experience has been that we can more effectively stay in jobs and clients to take care of- more than any "marketing strategy".
8. Have a life outside of The Work. This is also a responsibility to our clients, I'd argue. Nature seems to reward diversity in most every environment. This is true too, in being a mental health provider. It keeps us culturally aware, maintains our own health in different areas of our lives, and asks us to use skills we try to teach clients. Hobbies, activities, intellectual curiosities, responsibilities, and of course relationships- but more on those below.
9. Accept that the licensing exam is unlikely to make sense, in light of what you intended for the field. Referring back to #6, my experience with MSWs, PhDs, PsyDs, MAs/MSs and etc, few of us felt like the licensing exams really asked us to know what we thought we should when we took them. This was true too, of my licensure as a Psychiatric Technician (all the way back in 1988 or so). They help regulatory bodies insure that we are safe to work, and little else.
10. Have relationships, first by working on how to be worthy of them, and make them matter. So often, I have people ask me how I've not just survived, but been passionate about doing The Work since 1984. That is a deep question, and really goes to how I deal with all of my feelings about all my life… hence, too big for a blog. Having relationships though, is a huge part of that. We all want love, fun, humor, depth, responsibility and etc, but my experience is that we often focus on getting these things more than we do being these things. Being these things I think makes us more likely to have them in a way that has quality, and certainly, enables us to live more gracefully with living a life where we often have to wade through human suffering. This does more to prevent "burnout" than any amount of exercise, hobbies, and etc (though I of course think these things are important too.
Why Being a Therapist Is Better than Being a __________, at Least for Me.
When I was a kid and started thinking about what I was going to do as a "career", I always knew I'd be a therapist or musician (as it turned out, was lucky enough to do both). The reason is in part, growing up, I didn't watch the usual TV shows- I was watching "The Twilight Zone", "Kung Fu", "Star Trek" (the original version), "M*A*S*H". What so intrigued me about the likes of Rod Serling, Kwai Chang Caine, James Tiberius Kirk and Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce was that they seemed to think there was "more" to the world, saw things others didn't, and had deep passion.
In their wake, I tried to be "good" at lots of things. Some of this came from feeling a deep sense of "not being enough", and what still feels to me an unavoidable passion to do things That Matter. The former almost killed me (as Sheldon Kopp said, "Why be perfect when you can be good enough?"), but the latter stays with me to this day… thankfully.
My first inpatient job while working on my Psychiatric Technician licensure (completed in 1988), I remember thinking how cool it was that all I needed to do my job was a black Bic medium point ball point pen, and my personhood. In subsequent years, have come to a number of other awarenesses that have meant much to me.
It seems to me that it's become a luxury for many of us to simply do what we would like to do, if we were to have our choice. Many of us fall into what we do and begin to love it, maybe we do what our parents did, or simply honored a family business. Lots of us do what we think we ought, or simply take on what feels best to serve and provide for our families.
All these are of course noble pursuits, but on the coattails of Rod Serling, Kwai Chang and Hawkeye, I have always felt compelled toward human service. Famously, Lloyd Dobler (played by John Cusack in the film "Say Anything") said, "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that." Some of this points to why I've resisted other careers (and, Lloyd and I also turned to martial arts… a totally different story).
Many of us serve ourselves, but are still unsatisfied. We work at jobs we are unhappy about, sometimes with people we are unhappy with, sometimes for things we don't really need. In some cases, these pursuits relieve others of resources that might be used otherwise- resources like money of course, time, and all too infrequently mentioned… our attention. Some of these efforts are unsustainable, and environmentally unsound.
Not as if therapy, counseling, psychiatry and etc don't have their defects that are creating some problems. Overdiagnosis, starting with interventions like medication when arguably not called for and/or lesser interventions haven't been endeavored, pathologizing and symptomatizing everything (often even the most understandable and euthymic kinds of feelings/emotional experience), passivity on the part of the clinician and more create big and often lifelong difficulties as well.
It's hard though for me not to see a poor relationship with ourselves, others, our sense of worth, depression, addictions (and "codependency"), anxieties and fears, and maybe a couple more as being the soul (and result) of much human suffering. That also creates in my view, the suffering of other creatures. In the shadow of this, helping us through these concerns, and providing a framework for others to operate on in a like way are at this point, the most useful thing I can think of doing. At least a thing that I'm good at. ;-p That's a quip about my "musicianship".
It is of great import to me that I have a small footprint on the planet. Deeply concerned about where humans are going mentally, emotionally, physically and "spiritually", I can scarcely think of a way to be more useful. Therapy is a practical way of putting philosophy into use.
Something that matters to me a lot in light of some of the above is that it's a great way to create something that can be easily passed on by others. An organized, simple (but unfortunately not terribly easy…) and principled way of behaving in the world that can be shared can create great change of course. Doing clinical supervision, teaching, giving tools to parents, or simply doing work with people who are in a place to impact others are my favorite areas of focus, and seem to be the most practical way of passing on what we're capable of.
In the digital age, I don't even have to use my pen or paper as often. I get to impact people deeply, and most of what it takes is just me being as healthy a person as possible, and my time/being deeply present. It's also something I should be capable of doing for a long time. I get to share and experience different people, cultures. Many types of work are possible- use of humor, sharing resources, sharing experiences, teaching, problem-solving, processing, consulting and more.
Gratefully, all these years later, I could scarcely think of doing anything else, and still feel deeply committed to The Work. The "how's" and "why's" of avoiding what some call "burnout" are an entirely different thing to write about. Point is though, I'm so, so lucky I get to do something that I still feel so deeply passionate about, and doesn't violate any of Lloyd's principles.
Truth, it comes up a lot.
We're all trying to "give up" some stuff, trying to stop doing some things, but often have difficulty doing it. Aside from a blog I wrote about this a while ago, we might want to think of such things as surrender instead of "quitting", stopping, etc… but I digress. We endeavor to stop drinking, overeating, eating poorly, isolating, perfectionism, controlling things, spending, video games, TV, and a host of other things. Sometimes we're trying to avoid things that are actually good for us- exercise, going to a support group, going on a job interview, self care and the like. Most of the time we point at a lack of insight, "willpower", or related ideas. For dozens of years, people have been going on *wince* Dr. Phil, Oprah, Donahue (I don't watch too much TV- who do we have now?), and others asking why people can't stop __________.
There's an interesting colloquialism in 12-step programs that addresses this. Some say that "what makes people drink is sobriety". Whatever one feels about 12-step programs, this is a pretty elegant, and deep idea when applied to alcohol or drugs or other things we might want to give up. Consider it this way- what if our inability to stop something (or start something) is not the difficulty in stopping or starting, presence or absence of "willpower", but the difficulty of how we will feel if we do?
Try this thought experiment. How would an alcoholic feel if they stopped drinking? Someone that stopped "obsessing" over __________? A person obsessed with control feel if they stopped controlling things? Someone that stopped overeating? It's intuitive to say that these folk might be "relieved", but I'd argue that's a superficial look. I think these persons (and other people with other issues) would feel pain, fear, sadness, even shame and anger.
What I'm getting at (simply) is this: if we have trouble surrendering something, it's more likely that is difficult because of how it would feel to do so. More difficult than the effort or organization or "insight" about what we need to give something up. If that's the case, it points to why much deeper "work" is more often necessary than simply will-ing our way into stopping something.
My last piece of course is begging for a follow up. If there's semi-tangible things that put me in a job, there should be some things that will put me out of a job, so to speak. Ideas, principles, behaviors that clients do that get them and keep them out of our offices, clinics, and hospitals. Again, we as clinicians talk about them fairly often, but I rarely hear/see them showing up in discussions outside of our colleagues. In all fairness, as with all professions, there's arguably some things we don't agree on or see a little differently, but if we're really endeavoring to be socially responsible and progressively-minded about our responsibilities, I think we ought to be transparent about some of these things.
Should mention some of the spirit of where these ideas come from. One day at a hospital I was hired to create dual diagnosis programs at, it dawned on me that there were a lot of suggestions that most clinicians of all types, gave to clients of all diagnoses/problems, in an effort to be helpful. I created a beginning list of these as I saw them, and asked different psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, nurses, and recreational therapists to add/change/delete parts of the list. After compiling 60 or 80 different items or so, we began using this as a resource tool for the clients. The list below is some of those ideas, but am leaving some of them out for brevity's sake.
They're not really new. Most of these appear not just in different forms of therapy, but some religion, philosophy/worldviews and the like as well. It should also be said that they ought to be useful for most any problem- not a panacea, but consistent across categories of problems… depression and sadness, low self esteem and shame, anger, pain, grief and loss, abuse, "thought disorders", affective disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, addictions, etc).
Have a "congruent affect" (affect is "feeling" or "emotion" in this context)… let your outsides match your insides.
Learn how to identify feelings, and share them with supportive/healthy people in ways that are easy to understand. Might want to try using the "six basic feelings" of mad, sad, glad, afraid, ashamed, and/or hurt.
Don't treat all feelings as facts.
Have "boundaries". Know where we each "start and stop" mentally, emotionally, "spiritually", and physically.
Being "right" is not necessarily more important than being loved.
We have to "have" something to "let go" of it. This arguably applies to how we feel.
Is there another choice besides acceptance?
Have a "resource group"… people with whom we exchange ideas, get support, do critical thinking with etc that have experience and/or education with the things we struggle with.
Don't just read literature related to our problems and difficulties- actually try the ideas contained.
Give up comparing our insides with other people's outsides.
Know and work on our "issues".
Consider and act on "love" as a verb.
Get out of abusive relationships, maybe even relationships that are "potential" rather than "actual".
Responding to struggles by simply "staying busy" or just "trying harder". AKA, operating as a "human doing" instead of a human be-ing.
Using ideas and principles that got us suffering in the first place, to resolve that suffering. Drugs, alcohol, isolation, shopping, food, gambling, etc.
Simply not knowing, and/or avoiding feelings.
Thinking and/or behaving as if the only answer to our suffering is for someone else to change or stop their behavior- even if their behavior was the cause.
Carrying the torch (or stick, if you will) of someone else shaming or diminishing/devaluing us.
For those that can and should, not being self supporting through one's own contributions mentally, emotionally, physically (food, clothing, shelter…), and "spiritually".
Perfectionism- both imposed on others, and ourselves. Same is true for managing and controlling everything.
Going where the love "should be" in our lives, instead of going where the love is.
On a related note- staying in abusive or emotionally unavailable relationships.
This one is a little backwards from the context in the opening paragraph: took me a while to realize that I don't have to do everything I think.
Poor boundaries. More specifically, not knowing where one person "stops" mentally, emotionally, physically, and/or "spiritually", and another "starts".
Operating as if our feelings are facts.
Behaving or thinking as if we have to not be, or stop being afraid, before we can accomplish a task.
Same as the above, but instead of stop/not be afraid, that we have to be "motivated".
Being an "island". Meaning, not having closeness with other folk, using ourselves as a sole resource for support or perspective or interpretation or encouragement, etc.
An inability or unwillingness to be "present".
Can't emphasize this one enough: not knowing who we are, and how we are.
Am guessing I'll be adding to this list as time goes on. The ideas above certainly warrant a deeper look/discussion to both understand and make them practical. It appears to me that there's a lot of fairly simple myths that might be dispelled that could help us all reduce chaos, and "increase the signal to noise ratio" in terms of our perspective and thinking. The ideas above, I think, are a pretty great start at doing that.
Talking with a client the other day, the subject of platitudes came up. Many of us use them routinely. Whether opining about inferences made, used polemically, or giving feedback to a friend or loved one, they're used fairly often in all different kinds of discourse. These certainly occur in therapy, twelve step programs (Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Co-Da, ACA, Overeaters Anonymous, etc). We hear them at church/synagogue. They're used copiously in political speeches and discussions.
Many years ago, a friend began saying to me when discussing platitudes, "Cliche alert! Cliche alert!" ala the robot from "Lost in Space". It was his way of indicating that the user was often either not really saying anything, and/or wasn't really aware of the content or context of the cliche being used.
One of my favorite quotes is from Gandhi: "It is because we have at this present moment everybody claiming the right of conscience without going through any discipline whatsoever that there is so much untruth being delivered to a bewildered world." What I think he was getting at was pretty fundamental, and horror-producing… we all claim a right to truths and perceptions without really going through any real self or "concept" examination, and impose a subsequent template on the world in its wake.
That's a fantastic way to create and/or perpetuate problems. Am bringing it up because it seems that platitudes are a common ways this occurs. Not that many platitudes or cliches aren't true, just that we often don't seem to examine if we're using them, truly understand them, use them in context and the like. I often see therapists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals use cliches and platitudes simply because they don't know what else to say.
Going back to twelve step programs, one cliche that is often used is "attitude of gratitude". With equal measure, it seems that an "attitude of platitude" is what is often in use. Ideas like "just do what you're doing", "keep it simple", "I decide for me, you decide for you, we decide for us", and more are arguably great ideas. These ideas even have utility for depression, relationships, self esteem, addiction, grief, loss and more. However, our command of the language doesn't necessarily indicate a real handle on what they mean or how/when/what context to use them and make them practical.
Yes! As of today, I have one less supervisee… Brendan Thyne passed the second section of his licensing exam! He has always been a fantastic therapist, and this is a great thing to happen for everyone, patients and colleagues alike. Brendan Thyne, LMFT. Nicely done Bren… you rock, and can't say enough about who you are and the work you do.


Save koshi from losing his position at channel 7 for standing up to racisim.
Save koshi from losing his job, for standing up to Pauline Hanson. No racisism we are all equal. Vote pauline out of parliment. She condones racisim on all levels. Shes dangerous to society. She encourages hate and instigates hate towards other race and colour.


This article was published a few days ago in the Health Research Policy and Systems Journal and was co-written by esther Mc Sween-Cadieux, Christian Dagenais and Valéry Ridde. It is part of the thesis work of Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux on the evaluation of knowledge transfer strategies implemented as part of the Equité-Santé program in Burkina Faso. This publication follows another, published last year in the same newspaper and entitled "Research dissemination workshops: observations and implications based on an experience in Burkina Faso". The full article is available for download below.
Introduction : Deliberative dialogues are increasingly being used, particularly on the African continent. They are a promising interactive knowledge translation strategy that brings together and leverages the knowledge of diverse stakeholders important to the resolution of a societal issue. Following a research project carried out in Burkina Faso on road traffic injuries, a 1-day workshop in the form of a deliberative dialogue was organised in November 2015. The workshop brought together actors involved in road safety, such as researchers, police and fire brigades, health professionals, non-governmental and civil society organisations, and representatives of government structures. The objective was to present the research results, propose recommendations to improve the situation and develop a collective action plan.
Method : To better understand the workshop's utility and effects, a mixed-method evaluation was conducted. Data were obtained from two questionnaires distributed at the end of the workshop (n = 37) and 14 qualitative interviews with participants 6–10 weeks after the workshop. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data, and a thematic analysis was conducted for the qualitative data.
Results : The data revealed several positive impacts of the workshop, such as the acquisition of new knowledge about road safety, the opportunity for participants to learn from each other, the creation of post-workshop collaborations, and individual behaviour changes. However, several challenges were encountered that constrained the potential effects of the workshop, including the limited presence of political actors, the lack of engagement among participants to develop an action plan, and the difficulty in setting up a monitoring committee following the workshop.
Conclusion : While the deliberative workshop is not the standard format for reporting research results in Burkina Faso, this model should be reproduced in different contexts. This interactive knowledge translation strategy is useful to benefit from the experiential knowledge of the various actors and to encourage their involvement in formulating recommendations.


A new iOS 11 glitch allows users to hide the Dock, albeit temporarily, as well as change launch animation for apps. Here's how it works.
Although iOS has come a long way since its maiden release, it still isn't quite there yet when it comes to customization. Apple's mobile operating system has made way for much flexibility, particularly since iOS 5, though the Home screen remains more or less the same at its core, most likely because the company doesn't want to, as they say, fix what isn't broken.
That still leaves those of us who appreciate the joys of sweet customization without many options beyond changing the wallpaper or having to jailbreak. Even the dark mode built into iOS 11 leaves the Home screen untouched. Every now and then, however, astute users find a way to exploit certain bugs within the OS to fill this void. The latest of these glitches can be used to hide the Dock and change launch animation for apps. Here's how it works.
Step 1: Switch to the widgets area to the left of the primary Home screen.
Step 2: Press the Home button once, then swipe again as soon as it comes to a rest at the primary Home screen, and the Dock should disappear.
It'll likely take you a few tries to get the timing just right, but we can confirm that it does work, at least on the current, public release of iOS 11 (iOS 11.0.3). Note that hiding the Dock won't allow for the empty space left behind to be used as an extra row of icons on each Home screen. You should also, as mentioned earlier, notice a change in app launch animations. The glitch causes Home screen launch animations to be swapped with the slide-in animation used for app switching, though it isn't consistent – you may start seeing the zoom-in animation after consecutive launches.
The Dock remains hidden even after you lock and unlock the screen, or launch apps, though a simple swipe to the widgets area and back will unhide it, as will a respring or reboot.


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State moving to recover money from retiree in pension case
Updated July 16, 2017 6:03 AM
The state comptroller's office is moving to recover $19,840 from Vito Dagnello, the retired head of Suffolk's correction officers union, who was working two local government jobs and exceeded the $30,000 he is allowed to collect under state law while taking a state pension, said Tania Lopez, a department spokeswoman.
Dagnello, 57, of Nesconset made more than $39,500 last year, working as a $24,660-a-year aide to Legis. Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset) and earning $15,000 working as a security guard for the Smithtown School District, according to county Civil Service records.
Under state law, those younger than 65 who are receiving a state pension are limited to earning $30,000 annually from a state or local government agency unless they get a waiver from the state Civil Service Commission.
Dagnello, who retired Jan. 31, 2015, receives a pension of $84,834 a year, and said he was unaware of any problem since he does not pay into the retirement system in the school job.
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Q: Swift PNChart PNCircleChart with Storyboard I'm trying to set up a basic PNChart PNCircleChart on my app. I created a UIView in the storyboard and set the class to PNCircleChart. The restoration ID is piechart. I created an outlet in to my view controller that looks like:
@IBOutlet weak var pie: PNCircleChart!
Now I'm trying to build a basic piechart in my viewdidload and I can't figure out how.
pie.backgroundColor = UIColor.greenColor()
pie.setValue(50, forKey: "A")
pie.setValue(50, forKey: "B")
pie.strokeChart()

It is failing with a NSUnkownKeyException error. Any idea how to do this in swift

A: The NSUnknownKeyException is almost always caused when one of your interface elements was hooked up to a property in your view controller that you then deleted.  The property was deleted from the view controller, but the interface builder was never unhooked from that property.
The actual exception message should tell you what "key" it's having trouble finding, which should give you a hint as to which UI element is hooked up wrong.
Once you figure out which key is hooked up wrong, go through your UI elements and right click on each of them.  One of them will be hooked up to a property of this name (and it won't exist in your class source code file).  You need to either click the X for this connection to delete the connection, or you need to add the property back to your source code file.

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A diode is an electronic component which has two electrodes named as anode and cathode. The diodes are made by semiconductors such as germanium, silicon and selenium.
The diodes found many applications in electrical and electronics field such as rectifier, voltage regulators, switches, signal demodulators, signal modulators, signal mixers, and oscillators.
Why do we need to use the diode in our circuit ?
Since, the main function of the diode is to allow the flow of electric current in one direction (also known as forward bias of the diode) and does not allows the electric current to flow in the opposite direction (also known as reverse bias of the diode).
We can use the diode as an electric valve in the place where we need the flow of electric current in just a single direction or we need to protect our circuit or components from the negative or reverse current.
There are two type of diodes you will find in the DCACLAB.
Simple diode (Schottky Diode)
We will keep introducing the type of diodes to our virtual. Below are the steps you need to follow in order to use the diodes in DCACLAB.
Steps to use Schottky Diode in Lab
Step 1: Browse through the list of devices and components in the above list and locate the icon of a diode as shown in the screenshot below.
Step 2: Click on the icon of the diode as shown in the screenshot above, a diode will appear on the board as shown below.
Step 3: Connect the anode and cathode of the diode in the circuit as per your need.
Steps to use Zener Diode in Lab
Step 1: Browse through the list of devices and components in the above list and locate the icon of a zenner diode as shown in the screenshot below.
Step 2: Click on the icon of the zener diode as shown in the screenshot above, a zener diode will appear on the board as shown below.
Step 3: Connect the zener diode in the circuit as per your need.
Making a rectifier with the help of diodes
Above is the circuit of full wave rectifier which is made up of diodes. The diodes are arranged in an order so that they combines both the negative as well as positive half cycle of the AC voltage in order to form a DC voltage.
The DC voltage generated after the rectification does still has the pulse property which is filtered with the help of capacitor or inductor.


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Q: JQuery - máscara de RG Estou tendo problemas ao criar uma máscara com JQuery, pois existem rg's que se encerram com o digito 'X'.
HTML
<input name="rg" class="form-control" id="rg" pattern="^(d{3}\.d{3}\.d{3}\-d{2}" max='11'>

Script
<script type="text/javascript">$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#rg").mask("999.999.999-99" || "999.999.999-a");});
</script>

Não consigo colocar a condição 'ou', para aceitar mais de uma máscara como alternativa.


Yesterday, a shimmering afternoon, I strolled past the Exbury azaelas. I mentioned them in a post in 2007, and we described them in the English Garden 2. In 1850 William Lobb sent seeds of these deciduous azaelas from the West Coast to England, and various gardeners got to work.
Lionel de Rothschild had Exbury azaleas hybridized at his Exbury Estate. The Exburys can grow eight feet high. Their blooms are 3 to 4 inches across in brilliant shades of yellow, gold, orange, white, red, and peach. They seem happy to be back on America's West Coast, and I'm always glad to see them.
This is the month to see azaelas, wisteria and rhododendrons in bloom at Exbury Gardens. Viewing a garden by steam train is not for those who like to make unscheduled stops, but it can be nice as the tracks are so narrow you feel you are gliding through the woods.


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Alex Lacognata Making Strides at Beech Ridge in 2018
21-year-old Alex Lacognata started his 2018 race season on a high note, capturing a feature win in the Medium Division at the tenth (and final) running of the DT100. The annual go-kart race features drivers from all over the country competing against one another while raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Alex has nothing but wonderful things to say about the event, stating that the event is one of his favorite events of the year. "It's fun to be a part of and we're all there for one purpose, to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation, David Thomas, Jr. and what he does for charity. Winning the last one was just a small part of it," he says. To Alex, racing isn't all about winning; it's about the experience as a whole.
2017 was Alex's breakthrough year in the Sport Series division at Beech Ridge. Alex shared 'Rookie of the Year' honors in the Sport Series division with fellow competitor Kyle Kramlich. He finished 13th in the overall point standings after competing for the better half of the race season racing for Mark and Ali Pennell. "Overall, the season was a blast. But, a low point of the season was probably my first race, the 100-lapper. We'd gone and tested, and the car was fast. I DNF'd in the race after having high expectations for myself," he shares. Although his first finish wasn't the greatest, Alex continued to improve and run at the front of the pack as the season rolled on. The highlight of his 2017 season was scoring a podium finish behind Bubba Pelton and Terry Merrill in the Series Open at the conclusion of the season. Alex is continuing to learn more and gain skills behind the wheel, but his impact in racing doesn't end there.
When he's not behind the wheel, Alex wholeheartedly submerges himself into the world of racing, whether that be acting as a crew member of a race team or providing spotting services for another driver. He's worked with some of the biggest names in short track racing, such as; Mike Rowe, Mike Fowler, Cassius Clark and Garrett Hall. Lacognata has an adventurous spirit, occasionally traveling to different tracks down South as well. "I work with some drivers out West and down South, such as; Travis Braden, Kyle Jones and Kyle Purvis. Being on the other side of things definitely helps me to analyze and try to better identify what the car needs when I'm behind the wheel," he says. Alex's vast knowledge of the racing world stems from both personal experiences and formal education.
Alex attended the University of Northwestern Ohio, where he studied High Performance Motorsports. In 2015, he packed up and moved out to Ohio to focus on his studies. While he was attending school, he became a member of the school's DirtCar motorsports team. "I became a crew chief there and learned a ton about what it takes to run my own team. I made a lot of friends out there and actually found a home working on asphalt super late models for Kyle Jones," he says. Now that he's out of school, Alex has big goals for the future."Eventually, I'd like to move to North Carolina and go on the NASCAR tour," he shares. But, for right now, Alex is content with dedicating his time to his upcoming season at Beech Ridge.
Alex has one simple goal for the 2018 season, which is to remain competitive and continue to race for wins at Beech Ridge. He's looking forward to seeing where 2018 takes him professionally, but he's also looking forward to working with Mike Rowe and Caruso Fowler racing in the coming months. "I plan to make it to Winchester Speedway for the 400, as well as the Snowball Derby once again," he says. How did Alex develop this passion for racing? It all boils down to the infamous Fowler family.
Although he doesn't come from a racing family, Lacognata sparked interest in the sport from a young age. He became involved in racing in 2009 at the age of 13, but his passion for the sport came at age 10 when he started working on the Fowler family's farm. "I'd always beg them to take me to the track and they actually used to sneak me into the pits when I was 13. Since then, I've been hooked," he says. His journey in racing started nearly ten years ago, but Alex never forgets to thank everyone that has supported him over the years.
'Thankful' is the best word to describe Alex when it comes to his feelings about his biggest supporters. "Mark and Ali Pennell have presented me with an amazing opportunity to drive their racecar. Also, Robbie Harrison lets me keep the car at his shop, and bug him when I need help. I wouldn't be able to do any of this without the help from those 3 – I can't thank them enough," he shares. He has a wonderful team of people behind him, but also a handful of sponsors that support him every step of the way. Caruso Fowler Racing, Sun Stoppers Window Tinting, Traffic Jam Mobile Electronics, Nadeau's Variety & Deli, Pierson Heating and Cooling and Cat Haley Cheerleading are among the many sponsors that have helped propel Alex and the #14 team into the 2018 season.
With years of knowledge and experience under his belt, Alex is sure to make a lasting impact both on & off-track in 2018.
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Letter: Living to learn together with wildlife
India with their conservation efforts towards saving the Bengal tiger put our conservations services to shame.
India with their conservation efforts towards saving the Bengal tiger put our conservations services to shame. The Indian conservation service recognizes that human population was one of the main reasons for endangered tiger populations. Human actions lead to deforestation for agriculture, housing or developmental projects leading to a mass exodus and killing of wildlife.
The wholesale slaughter of four cougars in Penticton is unacceptable and a natural outcome from years of inaction by Penticton council scared to deal with this issue due to the massive public outcry over the culling of deer in our community. What did we expect to happen?
We Pentictonites must bear the responsibility for the slaughter of these cougars which appeared healthy and had the right to a long lifespan. If we want to allow the deer to have free reign in our community then we need to understand that we are building a corridor into our community for predators that use deer as their primary source of food. And should expect conservation officers to have sufficient training and programs to safeguard the lives of these animals as well as our own.
India has incorporated many programs to increase the numbers of endangered tigers including natural wildlife corridors and reserves combined with constant interaction between conservation officers and people in communities to enable citizenry and tigers to coexist. People are finding ways to live alongside tigers.
Most recently, a study published in May 2016 surveyed people living near the Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra. The researchers found that local people were very tolerant towards tigers.
Their diet may be a factor. The majority of the people are vegetarian, so they do not hunt wild animals for food. This means there are plenty of prey animals for the tigers to hunt.
What's more, because the villagers mostly grow crops, they reported that they actually liked having tigers around because they keep crop-raiding animals in check. Dairy farmers also thought tigers were beneficial, as they dissuade milk thieves from infiltrating the area.
Our conservation service would do well to explore the methods used in India to enable the people and the tigers to coexist. We cannot continue the wholesale slaughtering of cougars and bears. We must learn to live together and our conservations services are failing in this regard.
Elvena Slump, Penticton
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Kobe Bryant Aiming for Points a Game
So I just finished watching the Spurs/Bucks game, and the only thing on is Mavs/Lakers. Between the two, I hadn't been that entertained watching an NBA double-header like that in awhile, and one of them was a blowout. Occasionally, a player like Tony Delk or Cliff Robinson will score 50.
But it takes supreme all-star status to reach the 60's. Not only did Kobe Bryant score 62 last night versus Dallas, he did it playing only 3 quarters. He could've gotten more and should've gotten more. But lame-ass sportsmanship got in the way of greatness.
First off, it must be noted that Dallas displayed perhaps the worst defense I've ever seen.
How many points does one man have to score before you double-team? Yet the Mavs were just fine with single-coverage on Kobe. At one point, when Kobe was in the low-50's, he was able to get a wide-open 3 during a fast break. I mean Dallas practically ran out of towels to throw with this defense.
The NBA record is 100 points by Wilt Chamberlain, which will forever be out of reach for every basketball player. The main reason is that the games in which these performances occur in are normally blowouts. So when guys get anywhere close to scoring nirvana, they're almost always forced to sit out the 4th.
Sportsmanship. We've all been critical of the high number of shots Kobe takes. But if I'm not mistaken, you play to win the game, and they did win by 22. Who cares if he had 0 assists if his team wins. We watch sports games for entertainment like that, not to be engulfed with mercy. Besides, the Mavs were asking for it.
Dallas got so caught up in watching, that their final shot of the 3rd quarter was like throwing a crumbled piece of paper into a wastebasket- they knew they were wasting their time.
The stop-rubbing-it-in-our-faces complaints began in college, where teams like Duke basketball or USC football will frequently beat teams by 60. But this is the pros, these guys are making millions of dollars! They should be able to put up with 40-pt losses. And when you look at those old games where Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor and David Robinson scored between 70-100, we notice that they all played into the 4th quarter and their games where blowouts. Kobe should've gotten the same privilege.
One player isn't above the team, and that goes for everyone. However, there are games where teams should let the guy with the hot-hand continue. It was a ton of fun watching him steamroll through Dallas. Had Kobe played, he could've honestly scored about 90 points (the D was that weak).
No one has finished the game in the 80 or 90-point total area. Bryant only needed 14 more for 2nd most points scored ever in a game. It's a shame he didn't get the chance.
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In order to give adequate responses, in content, form and time, to the needs that arise from the industry itself, Ciment Català has developed a work structure that continuously attends the main areas of activity of the sector.
There are 5 committees that, periodically, analyze, evaluate and propose solutions to the challenges of each moment, in areas ranging from technical knowledge to training. Its work, always oriented to the founding and statutory commitments of the Association, is in favor of all the associated companies.
Development of topics related to the environment, circular economy, emission reduction, emission control, efficiency, current regulations, safety, occupational risk prevention, among other issues related to efficiency and sustainability.
Technical staff representing associate companies, Ciment Català technician and Secretariat.
Attendance to conferences and seminars, participation in external committees, follow-up of voluntary agreement.
Associated companies, Board of Directors, public administrations, among others.
Development of topics related to the environment, circular economy, emission reduction, emission control, current regulations, alternative fuels, among other topics in line with the circular economy.
Technical staff representing associates, Ciment Català technician and Secretariat.
Development of topics related to production efficiency, current regulations, product quality, quality control, internal and external audits, certifications and quality management systems, customer satisfaction analysis, optimization of the operation of the organization, among other topics related to continuous improvement.
Attendance to informative conferences and seminars, participation in external committees.
Development of topics related to the environment, emission reduction, circular economy, quarry restoration, current regulations, biodiversity, among others.
Development of strategies, and design and execution of actions to inform the different Stakeholders of the activities of the Association.
Ciment Català's management staff and an external consultant.
Organization of seminars and technical conferences, management of the press office, edition of publications, maintenance and updating of corporate communication channels, production of promotional materials.
Associated companies, journalists, Board of Directors, public administrations.


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Q: Spell check tool for layouts in QGIS Is there a built-in spell check tool in QGIS?
I know spell checking attribute data may be a waste of time; but I would expect a tool for layouts, just to ensure labels etc have a basic sort of check would be available.


PODC 2016, along with SIGOPS, SIGACT, ACM, and other PODC sponsors, would like to encourage student participation at the Symposium.
PODC 2016 will partially reimburse the travel costs and/or the registration cost of deserving graduate student registrants who might otherwise be unable to attend the conference.
Undergraduate students that are (co)-authors of a PODC'16 paper.
The number and amount of awards will be determined based on the available budget and the applications received.
Applications should be sent by e-mail with the subject "PODC 2016 Student Travel Grant Application" to PODC 2016 Communications Co-chair Avery Miller <merelyviral@gmail.com>. In addition to a student's application, a short letter of recommendation should be sent by the student's advisor to the above email address with the subject line "PODC 2016 Student Travel Grant – Recommendation" (the advisor should clarify the nature and amount of any other sources of funding that are available or have been applied for). Please note that both these emails must be received by the deadline (see below) in order for an application to be considered.
A short paragraph (maximum 150 words) describing briefly why the student wants to attend PODC 2016 (e.g., to present a paper). Ascii/text attachment is ok for this paragraph.
Availability to serve as a volunteer (registration desk, etc.) for part of the conference.
Application due June 13, 2016.
Award decisions made by June 20, 2016.
ACM requires winners to provide taxpayer information (e.g., SSNs for those in the US).


I am trying to run sqoop2 job importing data from postgres to HDFS.
2019-02-26 12:12:01,357 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.resource.ResourceUtils: Unable to find 'resource-types.xml'.
2019-02-26 12:12:01,376 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster: Using mapred newApiCommitter.
2019-02-26 12:12:01,503 WARN [main] org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration: job.xml:an attempt to override final parameter: dfs.namenode.name.dir;  Ignoring.
2019-02-26 12:12:02,147 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster: Not attempting to recover. Recovery is not supported by class org.apache.sqoop.job.mr.SqoopNullOutputFormat$SqoopDestroyerOutputCommitter. Use an OutputCommitter that supports recovery.
From the shared exception it seems you are hitting bug "SQOOP-2999".
A change to sqoop (SQOOP-2737) introduced a new class OracleUtils which has a dependency on org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils. Unfortunately the jar that fulfills this dependency is not on the classpath that Sqoop passes to the mappers.


Dr. Joel "Gator" Warsh is an Integrative Pediatrician who believes that every person is unique and, accordingly, each patient's care should be individualized. He trained at one of the top 5 pediatric programs in the country and has been published in numerous scientific journals and media.
The Western Medical model frequently does not provide ample time to fully explore issues such as nutrition and requires a more in-depth assessment and plan.
When appropriate, Dr. Joel works with practitioners that he trusts to provide optimal care. This includes nutritionists, naturopaths, health coaches, Ayurvedic practitioners, acupuncture, etc.
The individuals listed below have their own thriving practices outside of Integrative Pediatrics and Medicine. Some provide online consultation while others prefer face-to-face visits.
Dr. Gator has published research in numerous peer-reviewed journals and other publications on topics including childhood injuries, obesity and physical activity. He is also a faculty member of Peds4you.
Dr. Joel "Gator" Warsh and his Studio City, Los Angeles clinic treat a wide array of common pediatric issues using holistic and conventional treatment modalities.
It is important to care for the whole person and to see them as just that; a whole person, not just a patient or diagnosis.Holistic care involves healing the mind, body, and soul of our patients. Holistic care is a philosophy; it's a method to ensure care for all parts of a patient.
Injury, which also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force. This may be caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and many other causes.
Nutrition is the science or practice of consuming foods beneficial to the body. At a cellular level, nutrition enables cell to function and stay alive.
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Eating, sleeping, mating and defending. These are the four basic behaviors of the animals. The animals are advanced from the plants, which are the nonmoving species. The human beings are similar to the animals in that they have these four activities as well. Where there is advancement is in intelligence. The human being has the opportunity to rise above.
Defending is also known as fearing. It is natural to be afraid, as there is always the chance for loss. That which you worked so hard to acquire can vanish in a second. The body itself is subject to destruction. When there is life there must be death. The asura, the person who is against the Divine, typically fears death very much. That is because they discount the idea of the afterlife. If they do believe in it, they are worried what will happen because of their sinful behavior. When they don't believe in a next life, death is their supreme deity, the great devouring enemy.
The suras transcend this fear. Even when death personified arrives before them in a ferocious form, they pay obeisance. They know that the soul will live on. They know that through devotion, bhakti-yoga, the Supreme Lord will provide circumstances ideal for the practice of that devotion. One of the more ferocious forms of death was the avatara known as Narasimha. He was God Himself, in a personal form, coming to protect the devotee Prahlada and kill the evil father Hiranyakashipu. Narasimhadeva had several interesting features, aspects to His transcendental body that would typically instill fear, even in demigods. Prahlada, however, was not scared by them.
In the Bhagavad-gita, the warrior Arjuna is in doubt over how to proceed. He is the leading fighter for a side about to enter a massive conflict. His side defends righteousness, or dharma. The other side is adharma. Still, Arjuna does not want to inflict pain on people he has affection for. He is worried about what will happen if his side wins.
Arjuna's charioteer is the same Narasimhadeva, by the warrior's side in His original form of Krishna. The Supreme Lord decided to show Arjuna a glimpse of the future. In that amazing vision, the leading fighters for the opposing side were rushing into Krishna's mouths; some of the warriors on Arjuna's side as well. This was a depiction of destiny, a reminder that death was slated to occur regardless of Arjuna's willingness to participate.
In a similar manner, Narasimhadeva showed a ferocious mouth and tongue. These were part of the lion-like vision. Hiranyakashipu terrorized the entire world; everyone was afraid of him. Yet all his strength got devoured in an instant by time Himself. Prahlada Maharaja was not afraid since he had no attachments to personal possessions or to his body. He used everything in service to God.
In the material world there is duality. What is good for one person may not be for another. One example is the sun. On a scorching hot summer day, the sun is dreaded. The prayer is for the clouds to arrive and provide some cover. The nighttime is welcome, as the punishment ceases for a period.
But the sun is also the giver of life. Its presence is required for food to grow. Without the sun, the world would freeze over. Narasimhadeva's eyes were bright like the sun. This light always accompanies the Supreme Lord, who is naturally effulgent. In His realm there is no need for external lighting.
The asuras are blinded by this light. They can't wait for it to go away, as they take advantage of darkness. The light of the Divine shines from within for devotees like Prahlada. Therefore he was not afraid at all of the lotus-like eyes of his savior.
Hiranyakashipu became powerful through boons gifted him by Lord Brahma. Though there was worship involved, the interaction was more like a business transaction. There was payment made in the form of rigid austerities. The good or service sold was protection against almost all forms of attack. Hiranyakashipu wanted immortality. The seller didn't have it, so the king asked for everything and anything that would come close to it.
The sharp, pointing teeth of Narasimhadeva easily penetrated that protection. The king thought he could protect everything through his strength, but the Supreme Lord's strength is unmatched. In the vision shown to Arjuna, the rival kings were rushing into Krishna's many mouths. With Narasimhadeva, the offender also entered his mouth, and from there he was devoured by the sharp teeth. Again, Prahlada was not afraid of this aspect, as he knows that even a weapon wielded by God becomes auspicious, something to celebrate.
What an image! Hiranyakashipu persecuted Prahlada for the boy's devotion to Vishnu, which is another name for the Divine. Prahlada had no protection other than his devotional strength. That was enough to survive some of the most deadly attacks. The father ordered some unconscionable acts against his son. Much to the father's surprise, the boy survived each time.
When God had enough, He arrived as Narasimhadeva and immediately started killing. He easily destroyed the palace guards who were foolish enough to get into the lion's den with Him. He saved the best for last. Narasimhadeva bifurcated Hiranyakashipu. Basically, the father was torn in half. From there the intestines became a garland, almost like a sign of victory.
Prahlada was not afraid to see this. He understood that the soul of his father had moved on. He knew that intestines are merely a collection of gross material elements. The garland was an indication of God's glory, after all. What was there to be afraid of?
This is another indication of what had just happened. There was mass carnage. In our day to day affairs, emergency responders and healthcare professionals tolerate gruesome visions. It is part of their job. They can't slink away, otherwise who will provide the much needed help to the injured?
Prahlada has a vision that is something like a spiritual doctor's. He sees the winding of time and the effect it has on material bodies. He sees the soul within, so even the mane soaked with blood did not frighten him. What hadn't Prahlada faced already? Moreover, Narasimhadeva was there to protect him. From that wonderful son's example, we see that there is no reason to fear the Divine. He is as beautiful in the form of Narasimha wearing a garland of intestines as He is in the two-handed form of Krishna wearing a garland of flowers.
Narasimha, He of intestines' garland wearing.
In form of sharp, pointing teeth.
From awesome vision no reason to fear.