I headed north from Mono Lake over a pass at 8,100 feet. I use both the Allstays and the Ultimate Campgrounds Apps on my IPhone to determine where I can stay overnight. They are both very handy and you can use filters to determine what type of campground you prefer. I decided on the Ramhorn Springs BLM campground about 45 miles north of Susanville, CA. It was a bit further then I like to drive at 271 miles. I normally like to travel only 200 miles per day.
When I arrived there were 2 truck campers pulling ATV's. Chica and I got settled in and prepared dinner and then went over to talk with my fellow campers at their campfire. They had been coming here for several years and told me about the area. It is always neat when you can find others who will share their knowledge of the area with you. One of them suggested that I unhook the car and check out a few of the spots they mentioned. I was thinking of doing that, but the Internet was so poor and I was out of phone range. So I decided to move on.
Here are a couple of pics of the campgrounds. It was very cool and well maintained. The first pic shows the road leading into the park. It is right off 395 about 3 miles on this road to the park entrance.
The next few pics show are campsite within the park.
Since I had driven 666 miles (that should have been a hint that something was going to go bad) in the last 3 days I decided that a short drive further north would be a great idea. I looked up a NFS campground 22 miles north-west of Altura, CA. It would be a short relaxing drive of about 80 miles. Great! We were headed to Howard's Gulch CG. Just prior to turning into the campground road the 2 lane road started a passing lane. NICE!!! I had to turn left so was in the passing lane. My trusty GPS told me where to turn and left I went only to find the RV'er with a toad's worse nightmare – ROAD CLOSED. I was already committed and had no choice but to turn left.
I got out and surveyed the situation and determined that I had to unhook my car, turn the rig around and then rehook up my car all within about 50 feet. The problem was that I was on an incline and when I tried to unhook the car I couldn't get it off the ball hitch because of the incline. After starting my car and putting it into gear and using my handbrake to stop I was able to get it to a point where It would come off the ball hitch. Then I had to maneuver both rig and car in a small space facing the opposite direction, hookup the car and then I would be on my way.
By the way, when I checked the campground it said it opened in May. Today was May 1. DUH!!! I guess it was too early to open. Oh well!
By this time I determined that any campground that said it opened in May probably meant May 15 or later. My friend John had mentioned a casino in Klamath Falls, OR that allowed RV'ers to spend the night. So that was my goal. I put it into my GPS and off we went. On the way a large truck came flying by going the opposite direction and my wheel well cover came detached and was flapping in the breeze. I pulled over and tightened it the best I could but it was not good enough as it happened again once another truck went by. I did this about four times and then decided I was going to get it fixed temporarily until I got to my campground in Washington where that would be added to my list of things to do. So I got out the one thing I knew could do the job properly – good ole DUCK TAPE. I taped it up and the flapping came to a halt and I drove to Klamath Falls.
Once I got in Klamath Falls I thought it would be only a short drive to the casino. OH NO!! It was 24 miles north of town. YIKES! I usually check my GPS to see the total miles I have to travel to my destination, but this time I didn't. DUH!!
It is now 5:30 and Chica is getting antsy (although she cooperated) as well as myself. We finally arrived at the Kla Mo Ya Casino about 6:00 and I immediately pulled into a nice shady spot.
The Internet here is great and the weather very nice, so I don't plan on leaving here for 2 days. Unless they kick me out. HA!
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Some days are diamonds . . . and some days . . . not so much. But any day in a Lazy Daze is a good one, yah?
Oh no. We had that happen to us when we were towing the boat behind the fifth wheel. The GPS took us someplace no RV should go. Jim had to unhook the boat, muscle it out of the way, jockey the fifth wheel around and then rehook the boat. I cried. (I'm such a big help) I think your nerves and Chica's deserve a two day break.
The princess Chica needs a time out to relax and chill out !! lando still looked for her each morning and when I mentioned her name.
UH – my sympathies. Its happened to me too. Dead end road – had to unhook car to be able to turn around. Fortunately, I didn't have to deal with the incline you had to. Another time, it looked like I could swing into a gas station easily only to find an illegegally parked and disabled car in the way. Again – unhook the car and so on. Still – its the best life ever for me!
Whew! I hope we never get stuck like that but I think it's probably optimistic. I like your attitude–roll with it & get back on the road!
Nice to see the camps along 395. I've heard the Walmart in Klamath allows overnights.


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By Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
SDG 16 on peaceful and inclusive societies calls for building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions, in the belief that the impact of good governance on development outcomes can be a positive one. This is of special relevance for the no longer postponable fight against illicit financial flows (IFFs). As a joint FES/DAWN study on IFFs and gender 1 points out, this challenge is also a focus for feminist resistance. Tax abuse, the shifting of corporate profits to low and zero tax jurisdictions, and the current weakness of the international tax architecture that facilitates financial flows resulting from laundering money from criminal activities, all have a negative impact on human rights and gender equality.
Links between IFF and gender equality
Illicit financial flows are those forbidden by law, rules or custom. They encompass not only the illegal but also the unethical or socially unpalatable, such as multinational corporations' tax avoidance. There are at least two links between IFFs and gender equality. On the one hand, tax evasion, elusion and dodging restrict the State´s ability to allocate resources to policies that may help narrow gender gaps. On the other hand, trafficking in women workers (e.g., for domestic or industrial informal work, work in the entertainment industry, or sex work) is a major illegal activity that heavily feeds IFFs, while violating women´s most basic human rights.
States, acting individually and collectively, have a duty to mobilize the maximum available resources for the progressive realization of women's and girl's human rights. Weak global governance on tax matters and corporate tax dodging threaten this duty. When a State cannot mobilize sufficient resources and /or has budget shortfalls it can only provide insufficient and low-quality services (i.e., education, health, sanitation, public transport, social infrastructure, care services), thereby perpetuating or exacerbating gender inequalities. This is due to the fact that unequal gender power relations in society result in women being overrepresented among the poor and among those that hold low-paid and poor-quality jobs. Women are also more dependent on State service provision and tend to carry the brunt of increased unpaid care work when States cut social services.
Moreover, when a State ́s ability to collect revenues and control IFFs is restricted, revenue loss tends to be compensated through higher taxes on compliant taxpayers, such as small and medium-sized companies and individuals, or by relying more heavily on indirect taxation. This again affects women more heavily because women are both overrepresented in small and medium enterprises (that benefit less from avoidance opportunities), and are at the bottom of the income ladder, with the result that the consumption tax burden falls more heavily on them.
Lack of resources to properly implement public policies which would guarantee access to basic living standards is also one of the roots of women ́s vulnerability to human trafficking networks, as well as to labour and sexual exploitation. Trafficking in women workers is both a consequence and a cause of women ́s rights violations. Trafficking in women workers and the associated exploitative activities represent extreme manifestations of women ́s rights violation. Profit-making from trafficking women workers benefits from the diverse mechanisms that allow for illicit financial flows, and the difficulties that are still encountered when attempting to link human trafficking with its money trail. The proceeds from such exploitation appear to be laundered by using the same structures, mechanisms, jurisdictions and enablers as those of tax evasion and avoidance. The professional assistance of lawyers, accountants and banks that make possible the reintroduction of the profits of previous crimes into the legal financial market, is widespread in cases of trafficking in persons. These enablers are the same used by corporations to avoid tax compliance.
Four areas of political action
Therefore, facing this severe injustice requires political will and practical action. Actions in at least four dimensions are needed:
First, on norm setting, which should include: 1) development of an international financial architecture that guarantees compliance with human rights, gender equality, labour and anti-money-laundering standards; 2) agreement on an international standard to sanction global enablers/facilitators of tax abuse and human trafficking, with a special focus on banks, secrecy jurisdictions, shell companies, legal advisors, law firms, accounting firms and corrupt government authorities; 3) establishment of international standards to protect witnesses, whistle-blowers, tax and human right defenders who expose tax abuse and report corruption; 4) enlargement of the political space to implement progressive taxation on income and wealth, while avoiding explicit and implicit gender bias in taxation, and reviewing harmful tax incentives, exemptions and subsidies, especially those provided to corporations.
Second, on institutional frameworks, which should include: 1) at the global level, establishing a UN intergovernmental tax body with universal membership and equal voting rights, which is adequately resourced, provided with gender and human rights expertise and mandated to advise on reviewing national, regional and global tax policy for compliance with international gender equality and human rights obligations (see the Spotlight on SDG 17 in this report); 2) at the local level, strengthening the mandate and resources of tax authorities, identifying and closing tax loopholes, and prevent revolving doors between private and public sectors which lead to corruption and an internal lobby of the very wealthy and corporations.
Third, on capacity building, by designing and implementing capacity building programmes as part of the principle of international cooperation and assistance in tax matters, including by untied, additional and predictable official development assistance as well as by South-South cooperation.
Fourth, on data, evaluation and accountability, which should include at the global level the design and harmonization of comprehensive cross-border methodologies to collect and analyse comparable data on tax evasion, avoidance, gender biases of tax structures and links between human trafficking and IFFs. At local level, it is necessary to design comprehensive methodologies to collect and analyze data on tax evasion, tax avoidance, gender biases of tax structures, links between trafficking in women workers and IFFs and cross border spillover effects of national tax policies.
1. Grondona et al. (2016).
Grondona, Veronica/Bidegain Ponte, Nicole/Rodríguez Enriquez, Corina (2016): Illicit Financial Flows Undermining Gender Justice. Berlin: FES – DAWN.
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/12984.pdf
Book traversal links for SDG 16: Policies to address the gender dimension of Illicit Financial Flows
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FanX International is empowering fan communities by rewarding social media users and content providers based on their contributions
August 21, 2018 By Crypto Reporter PR
Blockchain-based FanX International launches platform-agnostic social media ecosystem that quantifies and captures social media contribution, and rewards users and content providers (CP) with FanX tokens. FanX is operated by FanX International Pte Ltd a big data analytics and AI technology platform specializing in the gathering, analyzing, and quantifying social media operational trends, community engagement and content provider earning power on social media and live streaming platforms in particular. FanX International recognizes that the total market value of content providers equals the total contribution of applicable fan communities. Live streaming platforms in particular allow CP's to receive a small share, but platform users receive nothing, which is why these types of platforms will be the initial focus of FanX. With FanX International, users are properly rewarded for their time and money spent engaging, contributing and driving traffic to a any platform.
An average user logs 1.72 hours per day on social platforms, representing about 28% of all online activity. Users are constantly scrolling, liking, commenting, engaging, and generating traffic and transactions, while receiving no value in return. This problem originates with social media's fundamental business model, which treats user and CP engagement as inventory for sale. Additionally, platforms depend on advertising revenue, and share little profit with the CPs and users, who are actually generating the value. With increasing number of social media platforms available, many of them are becoming commoditized mediums, where CPs become the center of value creation through creating and associating community engagement. FanX International is leading the social media industry by quantifying the value of user and CP engagement, and reciprocating such value back to the respective communities.
By using big data analytics, FanX is able to apply a "market worthiness model" to CPs. FanX collects and filters social media engagement data, analyzing it with dynamic algorithms and determining real-time market value of CPs through their fan engagement. With this data, FanX produces "report cards" of the CPs operational and financial performance, quantifying how much value a CP generates at any given time.
FanX's rewarding system distributes FanX tokens to users and CPs based on KPIs and tasks that represent social transactions. This is done by using the FanX wallet APP, which when activated by the user, tracks their activity and calculates their rewards automatically across multiple social media platforms. The cryptocurrency is also a means of storing and transferring value that is captured through time spent, resources invested, communal activities and computational power consumed by CPs and users.
"We believe that the social media user is not just a consumer but a supplier who is not fairly compensated for their engagement on typical social media platforms today," said Feng Shen of FanX. "We have established a system to quantify and thereby reward users and CPs for the efforts spent on social media; improving content quality, increasing fan engagement, and creating a more equitable and democratized social community."
FanX International, through blockchain technology, empowers fan communities around the world by equitably distributing "values" created by the communal interaction between social media users ("Contributors") and Content Providers ("CPs") such as KOLs and Celebrities. FanX provides a means of storing and transferring value that is captured through time spent, resources invested, computational power consumed and IP constructed amongst other values created by CPs and Contributors. FanX redistributes these values back to CPs and Contributors with the goal of shaping the long-term healthy development of social media industry.


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Question: What Is The Role Of Decomposers In Biogeochemical Cycles
In Biogeochemical cycles, decomposers play a major role. hey decompose the dead bodies (of plant and animals) and excreta of both plants and animals. These bacteria convert the complex sunstances into the simpler forms.
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Why are decomposers an important part of ecosystems? They break down dead organisms to return nutrients to the soil. They produce their own food for survival. They play a role in preventing weathering and erosion.
Decomposers have the job of 'recycling' dead organisms and waste into non-living elements. Examples of decomposers include bacteria, fungi, some insects, and snails, which means they are not always microscopic. Fungi, such as the Winter Fungus, eat dead tree trunks.
What is the role of decomposers in the nitrogen cycle? They release nitrogen from waste and dead organisms. They take nitrogen from soil by absorption through their roots.
Decomposers also break down the bodies of dead organisms resulting in nitrogen being returned to the soil as ammonia. In some conditions denitrifying bacteria in the soil break down nitrates and return nitrogen to the air.
Answer: Decomposers and scavengers break down dead plants and animals. They also break down the waste (poop) of other organisms. Decomposers are very important for any ecosystem.
get nutrients and energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal wastes. Through this process, decomposers release nutrients, such as carbon and nitrogen, back into the environment. These nutrients are recycled back into the ecosystem so that the producers can use them.
Decomposers are like the housekeepers of an ecosystem. Without them, dead plants and animals would keep accumulating the nutrients the soil needs inside them. Decomposers clean up the dead material by processing it and returning the nutrients to the soil for the producers.
First, they act as a cleansing agent of the environment by decomposing dead plants and animals. They help in recycling the nutrients. They provide space for new being in the biosphere by decomposing the dead. They help put back the various elements into water, soil and air for the reuse of producers like crop plants.
Decomposer in biologeochemical cycle is vital. they are called scavengers of nature environment because they help in decomposing waste and organs of dead organism thus cleaning the environment.
Fungi are important decomposers in ecosystems, ensuring that dead plants and animals are broken down into smaller molecules that can be used by other members of the ecosystem. This process releases carbon dioxide back into the air for plants to use during the carbon-fixation steps of photosynthesis.
The final link in all food chains is made up of decomposers, those heterotrophs (such as scavenging birds and mammals, insects, fungi, and bacteria) that break down dead organisms and organic wastes into smaller and smaller components, which can later be used by producers as nutrients.
Prokaryotes play essential roles in the nitrogen cycle (Figure 2), transforming nitrogen between various forms for their own needs, benefiting other organisms indirectly. Free-living bacteria, such as members of the genus Azotobacter, are also able to fix nitrogen.
Primary producers – produce energy from sunlight and carbon in the environment. Pass carbon onto secondary consumers. Secondary Consumers – Release Carbon Dioxide into the air through respiration. Decomposers – Release stored Carbon Dioxide into the air by decomposing dead organisms.
Decomposers play a critical role in the flow of energy through an ecosystem. They break apart dead organisms into simpler inorganic materials, making nutrients available to primary producers.
Decomposers break down dead plants and animals into component parts, including nutrients. Producers create food energy. They are the base of all life on Earth.
Nitrogen is returned to the atmosphere by the activity of organisms known as decomposers. Some bacteria are decomposers and break down the complex nitrogen compounds in dead organisms and animal wastes. This returns simple nitrogen compounds to the soil where they can be used by plants to produce more nitrates.
A Carbohydrates are passed from decomposers to producers. B Energy is passed from carnivores to herbivores. D Water is passed from respiring decomposers to producers. 29 The diagram shows a pyramid of biomass.
The organisms which decompose the dead organisms and break down the complex compounds of dead organisms into simple nutrients are called decomposers. Decomposer play very important role e.g. bacteria fungi etc. They decompose the complex compounds (dead organisms) into simple components.
In the carbon cycle, decomposers break down dead material from plants and other organisms and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where it's available to plants for photosynthesis.
– A decomposer is an associate degree organism that breaks down organic materials from dead organisms to get energy. – These organisms are unit primarily living utilisation plants. Fungi, worms, and microorganisms are all examples. The dead stuff they eat is named detritus, which implies "garbage".
Microorganisms help return minerals and nutrients back to the environment so that the materials can then be used by other organisms. As the bacteria and fungi decompose dead matter, they also respire and so release carbon dioxide to the environment, contributing to the carbon cycle .
producers are autotrophic organisms which prepare their own food. ex, plants consumers are the organisms that feed on plants and decomposers which feed on dead organic matter including animals and plants . their role is to balance the food chain.
In environmental science or ecology, decomposers are the organisms that are involved in the process of decomposition of the dead, both animal as well as plant matter, in the ecosystem.
Biogeochemical cycles help explain how the planet conserves matter and uses energy. The cycles move elements through ecosystems, so the transformation of things can happen. They are also important because they store elements and recycle them.


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Very ambivalent hostess to the pike. It seems to be a fish "comfortable" - fairly easy to clean, meaty, not too skinny. However, not always prepared, even according to the rules, a pike turns out delicious. That smells like mud, the meat is dry and hard, and that is falling apart most treacherous manner. Therefore, in order not to bother with this whimsical fish, many prefer to stick her oven, and then ... let it be like to be. However, if you know how to cook a pike in the oven, you can not only save time, but also get the output is quite edible and very tasty fish. Here are some interesting recipes.
Adapted modern housewives recipe pike in the Russian stove. When the hostess not lazy, not only to cut the pike, but also to cook the dough to seal the dishes. That's what sealed container pike was obtained juicy and tasty.
Pike mine, to gut and clean. Cut into medium size pieces. Take ovenproof pan, grease it with oil and laid on the bottom of finely chopped root. Put the slices on top of fish, spices and chopped pieces of butter. Prepare the dough. Pour flour into a bowl and gradually adding water, knead the dough leaven viscous. The pot cover with a lid and coated with batter. Put in hot oven for half an hour.
Similarly, you can cook a pike in portion pots. In this case, the dough is steeper: for the kind of cover. This lid of dough tightly covered pots. And instead of the test, you can use baking foil (but with the test turns out delicious!).
The peculiar taste and aroma gives pike combination of mushrooms and onions. In any case, even a hint of the smell of slime disappears without a trace.
Burke fish: my, clean, disemboweled, cut into chunks (across the carcass). Pieces of fish were dried and rub with salt and pepper. Washed and coarsely chopped mushrooms fried in butter with onion rings. On baking sheet, oiled, spread pike, sprinkle it with lemon juice and spread on top of mushrooms and onions. Seasoned with salt, pepper and any other seasonings to taste. Above all generously pour sour cream. Cook the pike in the oven for thirty minutes.
Vegetables are known to be rich product. So it is with them pike will also juicy and particularly fragrant. A butter give this fish because of the missing fat.
My, clean, disemboweled and sliced pike. Vegetables My, clean and cut into slices. On a baking sheet spread out foil liberally grease it with butter and spread pieces of fish (in the center of the pan). The fish on the edges obkladyvayut vegetables and chunks of butter. All the salt and sprinkle with chopped basil. Top pan sealed another (or one) sheet of foil and put in the preheated oven. Cooking pike half an hour.
Generally for pike cooked in the oven, not dry, it should be: prepared with vegetables and mushrooms, seasoned sauce or sour cream, add the butter and cook in a sealed container or tightly packed. Then it will turn out juicy, moderately oily, fragrant and soft. Cook!
Oh, long ago had passed the days when a light feeding Nikita (who promised Americans gruel show) corn was queen of the fields. And then the bread sold in stores maize and maize flour was - the dam! But no, it does not take root dish of corn flour in our East Slavic kitchen. Meanwhile, corn flour (and barley) has been and still remains a very popular ingredient in the cuisines of different nations.
Many have heard about the famous Italian polenta or cornmeal mush Moldovan, Mexican tortillas or Georgian mchadi. The Americans (southern and northern) still honor the corn, and in Southern Europe, it is still held in high esteem. And we ... We in this regard particularly boast nothing (except sweet corn sticks Soviet times). Therefore, we can only learn the art of cooking cornmeal recipes have got modern humans inherited from the ancient Aztecs.
Oh if we're talking about the Aztecs founded Mexico City, and then start to learn recipes from the Mexican corn flour tortillas. These tasty corn tortillas themselves and for themselves, and as the basis of many dishes of Mexican cuisine. For real tortillas needs an open fire and a special clay pan. But we will cope with them on a regular skillet.
Based tortilla can be prepared tostados - the same flour tortillas, but fried in oil. If two tortillas put the filling, sprinkle with cheese and fry them in oil, the result is a quesadilla. And if Burrito topple into a tube, the dish has to be called a burrito. That's funny. Is not it? But amuse only Mexicans. And, for example, in Georgia, preparing a "laconic" corn tortillas.
Recipes mchadi and tortillas are very similar, but it is different dishes. If interested "feel the difference", cook both and compare.
By the sifted flour add a pat of butter, a pinch of salt and adding water, knead a soft and slightly sticky dough. Wet hands form the oblong dough patty that are laid on the heated pan and bake in the oven. This method of cooking mchadi closest to baking them in a traditional stone pans "ketsi." But many housewives mchadi fried in a frying pan in vegetable oil (as usual burgers). Serve the cake with cheese (ideally - with or suluguni Imereti).
By and large polenta - it's hearty and tasty porridge, which initially was considered food for the poor. But over time it "saw through" and more affluent Italians, and besides, even "ennobled". Recipes polenta differ mainly additives. It is prepared with cheese, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, minced meat. For starters try the polenta with cheese.
Prepare in advance for cheese polenta (rubbed on a grater) and garlic oil. For the latter, melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the crushed garlic clove. To take only tolstodonnuyu polenta pot. Water and pour the milk into a saucepan and boil. Then add to the crumbled bread and, stirring constantly, pour all the flour. Cook it over low heat, without ceasing to interfere with (easier to do it with wooden spatula). Cook the polenta for about fifteen minutes, add to it grated cheese. Adding small amounts, waiting until all the cheese is dissolved in a mess. At the end pour garlic oil and remove the pan from the heat. Serve with greens.
Are you surprised? No, of course, the master of literary horror did not invent this recipe, and even he was not published anywhere. But in his works corn bread is very often mentioned. Remember the "Green Mile"? And the corn bread, which the hero of Tom Hanks regaled black giant? And, certainly, this bread was prepared according to the traditional recipe, which is at a premium at all housewives southern US states.
In advance turn the oven and place it in an empty tolstodonnuyu pan (even heated). Meanwhile, pour into a bowl a tablespoon of flour and fill it with boiling water (half cup). Whisking whisk brewed flour, add to it sour milk (yogurt, yogurt) and egg. In another bowl, mix the remaining flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and baking powder and pour it all into a liquid mixture. Knead the dough (a whisk or fork, but not with a mixer) to dissolve all lumps.
We get out of the oven pan and melt the butter in it. Oil poured into the dough, and it remains lubricates the whole pan. Once again mix the batter and pour it into the mold. Bake for about twenty minutes or thirty. Ready corn is determined from the golden brown and the time it will start to move away from the sides of the pan.
Spicy additives and filling (paprika, saffron, garlic, fried meats, cheese and so forth.) Was added to the batter just before it is poured into the mold.
Generally corn flour is considered a dietary and healthy products. Knowingly recipes from her such a "multinational". So do not pass by, he saw on the counter of a supermarket bag with cornmeal. Try yourself as a researcher of ancient Aztec culture, which not only liked corn, but also worshiped her, calling her his golden sun.


Perhaps the greatest single problem that people have today is "time poverty." Working people have too much to do and too little time. Most people feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and activities, and the harder they work, the further behind they fall. This sense of being on a never-ending treadmill can cause you to fall into the "reactive/responsive" mode of living. That is, instead of clearly deciding what you want to do, you continually react to what is happening around you. Pretty soon, you lose all sense of control. You feel that your life is running you, rather than that you are running your life.
Banfield's goal was to find out how and why some people became financially independent during the course of their working lifetime and others did not. He started off convinced that the answer to the question would be influential contacts or some other concrete factor. What he finally discovered was that the major reason for success in life was a particular attitude of mind.
Banfield called this attitude "long time perspective." He said that men and women who were the most successful in life and the most likely to move up economically were those who took the future into consideration with every decision they made in the present. He found that the longer the period of time a person took into consideration while planning and acting, the more likely it was that he or she would achieve greatness during his or her career.
Economists say the inability to delay gratification – that is, the natural tendency of individuals to spend everything they earn plus a little bit more, and the mindset of doing what is fun, easy, or enjoyable right now – is the primary cause of economic and personal failure in life. On the other hand, disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, selfesteem, and personal satisfaction.
Peter Drucker once said, "Efficiency is doing things right, but effectiveness is doing the right things." And this requires thought.
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Remember, what counts is not the amount of time that you put in overall; rather it's the amount of time that you spend working on high-priority tasks. You will always be paid for the results that you obtain, not merely the hours that you spend on the job.
In order to get your personal time under control, you must decide very clearly on your priorities, but at the same time you must also establish "posteriorities" as well. Just as priorities are things that you do more of sooner, "posteriorities" are the things that you do less of. It is just as important to know what to focus on as it is to know what not to focus on.
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Q: Is it possible to change the user/password inside the connectionString inside App.config programmatically? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="connect_cbu" connectionString="Data Source=192.168.66.67; Initial Catalog=CBU; Persist Security Info=True; User ID=Admin;Password=1234"/>
  </connectionStrings>
    <startup>
        <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1" />
    </startup>
</configuration>

Let's say that I define the following two strings: public static string user; and public static string pass; inside Global.cs. Is it possible to somehow include them in the connectionString?
Example:
connectionString="Data Source=192.168.66.67; Initial Catalog=CBU; Persist Security Info=True; User ID='Global.user';Password='Global.pass'"/>

Solution, based on TheGeneral's answer:
app.config
<connectionStrings>
<clear/>
<add name="connect_cbu" connectionString="Data Source=192.168.66.67; Initial Catalog=CBU; Persist Security Info=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

MainWindow.xaml.cs
using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Windows;

namespace Test
{
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            OpenConnection();
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection();

        public void OpenConnection()
        {
            try
            {
                con.ConnectionString = BuildConnectionString("Admin", "1234");
                con.Open();
            }
            catch (SqlException ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Warning", MessageBoxButton.OK, MessageBoxImage.Error);
            }
        }

        protected override void OnClosing(System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBoxResult result = MessageBox.Show(this, "Do you want to exit?", "Warning", MessageBoxButton.YesNo, MessageBoxImage.Exclamation);
            if (result != MessageBoxResult.Yes)
            {
                e.Cancel = true;
                con.Close();
            }
        }

        public static string BuildConnectionString(string userName, string userPassword)
        {
            ConnectionStringSettings settings = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["connect_cbu"];

            if (null != settings)
            {
                string connectString = settings.ConnectionString;
                Console.WriteLine("Original: {0}", connectString);
                SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(connectString)
                {
                    UserID = userName,
                    Password = userPassword
                };
                Console.WriteLine("Modified: {0}", builder.ConnectionString);
                return builder.ToString();
            }
            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show("App.config is missing!", "Warning", MessageBoxButton.OK, MessageBoxImage.Error);
                return "fail";
            }
        }
    }
}

A: There are certain Connection String Builders that would probably be helpful for you

If certain elements of a connection string are known beforehand, they
  can be stored in a configuration file and retrieved at run time to
  construct a complete connection string. For example, the name of the
  database might be known in advance, but not the name of the server. Or
  you might want a user to supply a name and password at run time
  without being able to inject other values into the connection string.

Eg
<connectionStrings>
  <clear/>
  <add name="partialConnectString"
    connectionString="Initial Catalog=Northwind;"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

Example
private static void BuildConnectionString(string dataSource,
    string userName, string userPassword)
{
    // Retrieve the partial connection string named databaseConnection
    // from the application's app.config or web.config file.
    ConnectionStringSettings settings =
        ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["partialConnectString"];

    if (null != settings)
    {
        // Retrieve the partial connection string.
        string connectString = settings.ConnectionString;
        Console.WriteLine("Original: {0}", connectString);

        // Create a new SqlConnectionStringBuilder based on the
        // partial connection string retrieved from the config file.
        SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder =
            new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(connectString);

        // Supply the additional values.
        builder.DataSource = dataSource;
        builder.UserID = userName;
        builder.Password = userPassword;
        Console.WriteLine("Modified: {0}", builder.ConnectionString);
    }
}

but how do I initialize the BuildConnectionString?

SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(youCurrrentConnectionString);

builder.UserID = userName;
builder.Password = userPassword;

//usage
ConnectionString = builder.ConnectionString;

A: App.Config is part of the software within the Program Files Folder it is not meant to be altered after Setup.
You also should not write username/passwords in there. It would be accessible for anyone to read.
Use ConnectionStringBuilder and store username/password in a secure place.
Or maybe if it is a MSSQL DB you can use Integrated Security. So DB access security could maybe be handled outside of your software.

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Great weather, great friends of La Maison, great day!
The weather was stunning, the opera fabulous, the picnic dinner oh la la and the company great...enjoy the pics.
Lake Moodemere Vineyard opened their new cellar door to Rutherglen tourism businesses yesterday. What a job I have at La Maison St Arnaud B&B in Rutherglen! Spent a delightful couple of hours checking out the new digs, enjoying a Riesling (or two) and speaking with winemaker Michael Chambers and his lovely wife, Belinda. Hope you enjoy the photos and I hope they will inspire you to visit Rutherglen and all our wonderful wineries. The weather is hot, the drinks cool and the swimming spots shady on the Murray and at Lake Moodemere.
Try one the lovely lunch items at Lake Moodemere Vineyard...duck and pistachio terrine does it for me everytime!
With blueberry season in full flight guests are enjoying blueberry and banana pancakes at La Maison St Arnaud B&B in Rutherglen. Topped with fresh ricotta and dusted with icing sugar and drizzled with maple syrup, they are delicious!
Poor Barney...he just didn't want to leave La Maison. Choosing to hide under the dining room table the only way out was bribery - dog treats! Works everytime!


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Ribera del Duero Wine Region Notes
Spain's Ribera del Duero Region
By Kerry Winslow, grapelive
Once the mighty and high rent district of Spain with the legendary Vega Sicilia and more, the Ribera del Duero seems like a region ready to embrace a new world, at least a new generation, while still being an area that likes to think of itself as Spain's answer to France's "Left Bank" of Bordeaux, and while comparison does flatter the Ribera del Duero in some ways, the region offers much more and should aim for more. With Pingus and Vega making wines that surpass the First Growths in quality and price in most vintages, things will not change too quickly at these addresses, but even Peter Sissack of Dominio de Pingus is making subtle changes at his famed estate where he plans to pursue the use of less new French oak. I read an interesting critical overview of Ribera del Duero by Neal Martin of the Wine Journal and the Wine Advocate in which he puts forth the idea to challenge the old ways and go for a unique identity allowing the terroir to show more than the winemaking, and while I agree it surly is going to be a painful exercise and will be difficult to say the least. But there is a new young generation there that is ready to make this happen, as there is in most of Spain's regions, and this is a good thing.
That said, there are some great wines, traditional to Ribera del Duero, that stand out and still offer great value. When you think of Ribera del Duero you think of red wines, and of course you think of Tempramillo, or Tinto Fino as it is known in the Ribera del Duero and unlike Rioja there is not interest in whites or roses, or is there much Garnacha or Graciano if any grown here, it really is about Tempranillo, though they have always had and still do have Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot as well with both being part of many high profile wines. In most cases you'd think that the Cabernet added power and color, but I've been told repeatedly that the Cabernet Sauvignon adds vibrancy and lift to the intensely ripe and forceful Tempranillo, which is ironic, but I've heard it enough to think there must be some truth to it, plus I have never had a Cabernet based wine from Ribera, so it must perform best as an addition to the primary Tempranillo, which I must admit makes the most logical sense otherwise I'm sure someone would have done a straight Cabernet Sauvignon like Sassicaia did so successfully in Italy, creating the whole Super Tuscan category.
For the new generation of Ribera, it is still very much a work in progress and still a ways of in the future, but there is a few new wines to search out, like the artisan wines of Alfredo Maestro Tejero, who in protest of the establishment doesn't even label his wines Ribera del Duero! I first tried his wine a year or so back and they are fantastic examples of what the futures could and should hold for this wonderful region, though I still enjoy Pesquera and some other classics of the region as well. Here are a few I recently tried and enjoyed very much, they offer a good range of style and price points.
2009 Bodegas Valduero, Crianza Ribera del Duero DO, Spain.
This is quite ripe, lush and even lavish for a standard Crianza, and while not well known this was a wonderful surprise and makes for a complete and pleasing wine, I have tasted this twice recently with the same results, this is the real deal. Blackberry, raspberry jam and candied cherry fruits, vanillin cream and anise all fill the palate and coat the mouth and linger on the lengthy finish. Drink now and often, as this is a fun and easy wine with soft tannins and low acidity that highlights the vintage.
($29.95 Est.) 92+ Points, grapelive
2009 Emilio Moro, Moro Tinto Ribera del Duero DO, Spain.
Even though this 2009 Moro comes from a ripe and open vintage this wine is tight and has hard angles that need some time to smooth out, and while Emilio Moro remains a favorite of mine I was hoping for more, so I will give it more time to develop before passing final judgement, not a complete disappointment, but I was not at all thrilled by this year and it's harsh edge is a bit tough as of yet. That said it does have a bit of promise with smoky red fruits emerging from this tight beast of a wine and given air it does provide a lengthy finish. The blackberry and dried flowers still seem shy and the earthy notes and graphite mineral touches overshadow the fruit. I might be too hard on this Ribera del Duero, but it is because I am usually such a fan and love the people behind this great estate very much, and I have fond memories of 2001 and 2004…
($26.95 Est.) 87-90? Points, grapelive
2010 Bodegas Y Vinedos Aalto, Aalto Ribera del Duero DO, Spain.
Aato is modern and industrial chic, a winery that is a cool as it gets and it is a cult sensation, much like maybe you'd think of Screaming Eagle or Harlan in Napa Valley, and the Aalto wines reflect this to perfection. The 2010 Aalto is wonderfully clean and full bodied with amazing texture and density showcasing ripe fruit and loads of small French barriques which frame this rich wine and gives a sweet smoky character without being too much of a good thing. This vintage is my favorite yet for this winery and it does very much remind me of Harlan in style, but with Tempranillo flavor profile, I not afraid to admit it, I really liked this very "Parker" style wine. The nose has sweet cassis, acacia flowers, lead pencil and smoky vanilla that leads to a very lavish and thick palate of blackberry, plum and cherry liqueur with hints of licorice, mineral and espresso. The depth and length are world class and the is a dark complexity that is utterly seducing in this Ribera del Duero. Maybe none to subtle, but hedonistic and sexy in the extreme, this wine is like seeing Kate Upton in a bikini.
($54.95 Est.) 94 Points, grapelive
2006 Finca Villacreces, Ribera del Duero DO, Spain.
Even with a little Cabernet and Merlot this 86% Tempranillo Ribera feel purely of it's place and unfolds in classic style with candied cherries, raspberry and sweet plum pudding. A nice level of maturity has set in and this wonderfully balanced wine just flows seamlessly across the palate with lush texture and grace. Warm oak notes, mineral and anise add complexity and frame the fruit well while cassis and vanilla linger on the finish. From a vineyard site not far from the fabled Vega Sicilia the terroir does show here and I just love the polished sense of this lovely wine and hope to try it again in the distant future. This Villacreces is a Ribera del Duero gem that should drink nicely for many years to come.
2009 Alfredo Maestro Tejero, Vino de la Tierra de Castillo y León (Ribera del Duero) Spain.
The Rebel of Ribera, Alfredo Maestro makes all natural, low sulfur and biodynamic wines of sublime quality and unique terroir style, even if he refuses to classify them as Ribera del Duero after going in his own way. This wine is glorious and lovely textured and considering the artisan touch and detail it is a steal and a half. I could not find many if any faults in this full and vibrant Tempranillo. I must say, I want to try all of his wines and soon, as I hear his Vina Almate is also to die for, and I think the word is getting out, better to get them while you can. Jose Pastor, his importer is making these wines available in the US, and we wholeheartedly thank him for bringing this treasure to us! The 2009 is darkly colored, opaque and mouth filling with lavender and toffee notes that stay from nose to finish while only tiny bit of reduction, maybe because of the low sulphur, shows on the nose, but quickly disappears to allow a sweet nose of roses, mineral and red berry fruits which lead to a dense palate of plum, cherry and berry compote. Having tasted this wine from 4 different bottles, I can honestly say it is totally honest and pure it showing terroir and quality, it was the biggest surprise of this recent tasting (May 2012), and while I really always have had a soft spot for Pesquera, this Alfredo Maestro Tejero was my secret favorite, though less of a secret now.
($30 Est.) 94 Points, grapelive (re-print from May 2012)
2010 PSI (by Dominio de Pingus) Ribera del Duero DO, Spain.
The PSI is an old vine cuvee from Pingus and local growers made to preserve old vine plots in the region, it is crafted by Peter Sisseck (Pingus) and Pablo Rubio. This organic and biodynamic wine is fermented in concrete vats and partially aged in concrete, wood and stainless to showcase the nature and sense of place, this red is a wonderful expression of terroir and old vine heritage and is a rare artisan wine that is highly prized. Peter Sisseck's Pingus is a more Bordeaux like wine that requires long cellar times to be at it's very best, so it is great that his talents are on display in this PSI, a wine that can be drunk young and that is remarkable affordable, especially when when you see Pingus at $450-600 a bottle and compared to Chateau Lafite or Latour, the PSI at $45 is a steal really when you consider the quality on offer. The nose has a touch of smoke, but shows a mineral streak, black fruits and acacia flower leading to a refined and round palate of blackberry, blueberry, cherry and poached plum fruits with chalky mineral essence, truffle and ripe tannins. The PSI comes across less like Bordeaux, and more like a Rhone or Burgundy wine with more lift and elegance in it's youth. This wine looks set to be a star in it's own right and should drink great for many years to come. It was a great treat to be able to sample this beautiful and richly textured wine from the heart of Spain's famed Ribera del Duero.
($45 Est.) 93-94 Points, grapelive


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Family: Pinaceae
Dubas
Pinus pinea, the Stone Pine grows to 12-20 metres (39-66 ft) in height, and can exceed 25 metres (82 ft) height. In youth, it is a bushy globe, in mid-age an umbrella canopy on a thick trunk, and, in maturity, a broad and flat crown 40-60 metres (130-200 ft) in width. The bark is thick, red-brown and deeply fissured into broad vertical plates. Foliage: The flexible mid-green leaves are needle-like, in bundles of two, and are 10-20 centimetres (3.9-7.9 in) long (exceptionally up to 30 centimetres (12 in)). Young trees up to 5-10 years old bear juvenile leaves, which are very different, single (not paired), 2-4 centimetres (0.79-1.6 in) long, glaucous blue-green; the adult leaves appear mixed with juvenile leaves from the fourth or fifth year on, replacing it fully by around the tenth year. Juvenile leaves are also produced in re-growth following injury, such as a broken shoot, on older trees. Cones: The cones are broad ovoid, 8-15 centimetres (3.1-5.9 in) long, and take 36 months to mature, longer than any other pine. The seeds (pine nuts, piñones, pinhões, pinoli, or pignons) are large, 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long, pale brown with a powdery black coating that rubs off easily, and have a rudimentary 4-8 millimetres (0.16-0.31 in) wing that falls off very easily. The wing is ineffective for wind dispersal, and the seeds are animal-dispersed, originally mainly by the Azure-winged Magpie, but in recent history, very largely by humans.
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Dont forget that we work to locate people at risk after 8 days without any relief. People have lost everything under the houses ruins including food. It is important to report all the residential areas to assure to provide them relief.
I wanted to ad that it can be useful to look at the history of changes in a case like this. Sometime I do this to make sure if the other person possibly had more recent information (or local knowledge, as there was a lot of mapping activity in Nepal in the last years - in some areas I have seen many edits by users with Nepalese sounding names).
You can find the history if you change to the map view and click on the "History" tab on the top. In this case there were several very new users contributing.
As to the residential areas, I would draw the line around the larger clusters of buildings and leave the others outside. The instructions in this project specify that it should be around "20 or so" buildings. Mappers' styles vary, personally I don't like the tiny "residential areas".
The important thing is that the buildings are there, so that rescuers can see were people are living.
> I questioned the large areas, yet villages in Nepal are really spread out over big areas. I'm not sure what to do but to leave them for not and wait.
> zooming out you can see that this is at the bottom of a quite large valley, so it is very likely that there is a stream, even if it isn't clearly visible. Maybe the person who drew it was using different imagery. I think it's not in the right place in the middle section (near the mapped path), but I would prolong it to the river in the east. it's not the most important feature at the moment, though.
> What disturbs me more in the tile are the huge residential areas - those boundaries should be close to the buildings. They are also overlapping in one place, and there is an area within an area in the western part. Both shouldn't happen.
> I'm just a semi-noob myself, but I am quite sure about these questions.
> > Someone with advanced mapping experience, please review.
> > There isn't a stream at the locations listed below. Seem to be lots of mistakes on this task. Might be new information, or?
> > PLEASE ADVISE ME ON WHAT TO DO WITH THIS TASK.


Service NSW adopts Google's Android Pay service.
Customers in NSW will be the first in the nation to be able to pay for government services using Android Pay, the new mobile wallet that can store credit cards, debit cards and loyalty cards on compatible Android smartphones.
The new contactless payment service is now available to Android users in all Service NSW centres across the state.The popularity of Android phones made the decision a sensible one, says Minister for Finance, Services and Property Dominic Perrottet.
"Around 90 per cent of people now have a mobile phone, and with the popularity of Android phones it makes sense for us to provide this quick, efficient option for our customers," Mr Perrottet said.
"Governments have traditionally been very slow on the uptake when it comes to new technology, whereas customers latch on much more quickly."
For more information or a guide on how to pay with Service NSW using Android Pay, visit the Service NSW website, or the Service NSW Facebook or YouTube pages.


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import org.eclipse.bpmn2.BaseElement;
import org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.bpmn.backend.converters.Result;

public interface NodeConverter<T extends BaseElement> {

    Result<BpmnNode> convert(T element);
}

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A TERF's fist gave rise to trans-inclusive women's music festivals
August 17, 2014 · Cristan Williams
By Cristan Williams
@cristanwilliams
What follows is a continuation of my interview with Radical Feminist lesbian icon, Robin Tyler. In the previous piece, Tyler talked about being beaten by TERFs for trying to protect a trans woman from their assault. In this portion of the interview, Tyler describes how a TERF's fist at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MWMF) led her to conclude that it was time for her to start her own women's music festival. Along the way, Tyler connected me with others who were part of Tyler's trans-inclusive women's festivals.
Robin Tyler: I performed at Michigan, I think, two times. The first time they told me that I was too butch. The next year I was the line producer and, I'm from Canada, and some women had been held at the border and some Canadian women at the festival asked me if I could get NGLTF to help us. When I took it up with Lisa Vogel, she said "Absolutely not!" because NGLTF is an organization with men in it! Talk about fundamentalism!
So, I went on stage to raise the call for help anyway. I made the announcement on stage and we were able to get NGLTF involved and their lawyers were able to get the women released. But, the next day Lisa Vogel said that she wanted to talk to me in the woods. She was really angry with me. Some Canadian women followed behind us because she was so mad. When Lisa raised her fist to hit me I told her to turn around, because the Canadian women were behind us and was watching what was going on.
So, instead of struggling with Michigan [MWMF], I decided that I would start my own festival. I wanted to do something that wasn't such a fundamentalist festival.
Cristan Williams: So, can you tell me about how trans women became part of the West Coast Women's Music Festival?
Tyler: We were told that if we were going to have the festival, we had to have a fire captain there in order to have the festival. So, I got in touch with Michele [Kammerer, an out trans woman fire captain] and asked if she would like to come to the women's music festival, and that's when she started coming, but there were other trans people there and nobody had an issue with it.
Williams: MWMF spends a lot of time talking about how trans women can make women feel unsafe. Was that an issue for your festival?
Tyler: A lot of our women had similar issues. I mean, I sponsored workshops on incest, on rape, on child abuse, on sexual abuse, and a lot of these women went to these workshops because a lot of these women were abused. And yet, I there was never any complaints about trans women.
I understand people being victimized and sexually abused. But if you remain a victim and you don't work on these issues, what tends to happen is that the victims become the persecutors. For all people – trans or not – the idea is that we're working on getting better. These places are about getting better. We have to work on getting better so that we don't oppress other people.
When I introduced Michele in front of all the coordinators, I said, "This is Captain Michele, she's trans, and, does anyone have a problem with that?" and nobody said anything and so I said, "Then let's welcome her!" and she got a standing ovation. I want you to understand that a lot of my workers came from the MWMF. A lot of women who attended the West Coast Women's Festival – at one point we had 3,000 people there – has attended Michigan too.
I mean, if a lot of the attendees came from Michigan and a lot of our workers were workers at Michigan, and nobody had a problem with trans women at the West Coast Festival, why was there a problem in Michigan?
I think that it has a lot to do with the way leadership presents the issue. I mean, if someone had had an issue with trans women at my festivals, I would have spoken with them, but I wouldn't have thrown out trans women. I think it just comes down to how leadership chooses to present the issue.
So, when I read about these [Michigan] folks not feeling safe, you get people together and you dialogue so that those who don't feel safe can get better and feel safe around trans women. But, like I said, we never had to something like that at our festivals because it wasn't a problem.
At this point, Robin Tyler put me in touch with Jan Osborn, build coordinator* of Tyler's festival. Osborn is a Radical Feminist Dyke who began organizing on the west coast in 1978, starting a feminist consciousness-raising and a domestic violence group. She later moved to Florida to fight against Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" group and work on the Equal Rights Amendment.
Cristan Williams: How did you become involved with the Music Festivals?
Jan Osborn: We had a little group – it was sort of an outgrowth of that feminist consciousness-raising lesbian group – we had heard about this festival down at Camp Mather and we went down to that. It was actually the second one that Robin had done at Camp Mather. We were volunteer workers, so we were there the week before the festival. I went to Florida, and then I heard about a festival up in Georgia, and I went to that one, and from then on, I worked pretty much every festival Robin did.
Williams: So, one of the things I was talking with Robin about is the way she worked with the transgender community in her festivals.
Osborn: Right. It was never an issue. Michele Kammerer was a Fire Captain out in the LA area and she transitioned while she was at the fire department. When Michele came out, it was a real coup for Robin because the county we were in had decided that it wanted to get rid of all these lesbians who were invading their peaceful town and so they passed a rule that large gatherings had to have a captain or better of a fire department in the group.
Williams: Oh wow, so she helped save the festival from being shut down?
Osborn: Yes, but it was also great to have a firefighter on the crew!
Williams: Robin was telling me about how Michele was introduced to everyone and it went really well.
Osborn: You've got like 150 workers and we become really tight while you're there. I mean, we're still friends. I mean, I remember having a discussion about this with Molly Yard, the President of NOW at the time, and she was like, "Why would we want to discriminate against a group a group of women who happen to have not been born with two X chromosomes or lesbians, for that matter?"
Williams: What are your thoughts about the MWMF "womyn-born-womyn" policy?
Osborn: It's crap.
Williams: [Laughter]
Osborn: I mean, we ALL have privilege in some areas and are oppressed in others. Okay, so some trans women spent time trying to live as men before they transitioned and maybe they benefited from male privilege, but that isn't any reason to discriminate against trans women. It's just another way that we have to be conscious about the privilege we might have. I mean, I'm white and that means that I need to conscious of that privilege. I have to be conscious of privilege of growing up in a family where my dad owned his own company. It's just one type of privilege, like any other type of privilege, that we have to be conscious of.
Again, I just don't recall any hubbub over the trans issue. I mean, because we cared about each other we cared about the process Michele would have to go through, but it wasn't about judgment. We just cared about each other. I just remember being concerned about the enormity of what trans people were having to go through and being respectful of the fact that these women were willing to face it. That these women are having to still deal with discrimination from places like Michigan, it's just awful.
I was then put in touch with Michele Kammerer, the trans woman who served as the Fire Captain for Robin's festival.
Cristan Williams: Can you tell me about how you came to be part of Robin's festival?
Michele Kammerer: There was a permit requirement because this was in the woods. She found me through an acquaintance of mine who had helped Robin in the past.
Williams: Robin had talked about introducing you at the festival and that you were cheered. Can you tell me about that?
Kammerer: Robin would get on stage and make announcements and she did. What was interesting was that she made a point of talking about MichFest's trans exclusionary policy and that our fire coordinator, Captain Michele, a trans women is here with us and we're glad that she's here because we couldn't have had the festival without her. Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool that she would do that on the main stage.
I mean, I was really honored and humbled to be there. And excited, I was really excited to be there and when she asked me to help out, I answered in the affirmative right away! Of course, I had some trepidation about going out there, but I really loved being a part of that whole experience. It was really fun, because we were all there working together to make it all happen.
I was at this point that Michele mentioned that her spouse had started what became Camp Trans after her friend, Nancy Burkholder, had been thrown out of the MWMF in 1991. I then interviewed Michele's spouse, Janis Walworth about how she, a pissed off cisgender radical lesbian feminist, with bodyguard protection from the Lesbian Avengers, formed what became Camp Trans to protest the exclusion of trans women at the MWMF.
Next in this series: How TERF violence inspired Camp Trans
*Correction: A previous version of this misidentified Jan's festival title. Jan was a Build Coordinator, not co-producer.
This article is part of an ongoing series exploring trans issues with feminist opinion leaders:
Catharine A. MacKinnon: Iconic radical feminist/legal theorist.
Judith Butler: Iconic queer feminist/gender theorist.
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt: Early trans-inclusive leader in the Southern feminist movement, president of Texas NOW.
Janis Walworth: Radical Lesbian who organized the movement that became Camp Trans.
Sandy Stone: After surviving an attempted murder by TERFs, wrote a foundational document for trans feminism: The Empire Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manefesto.
Robin Tyler: Iconic radical feminist activist, pioneered trans-inclusive Women's Fests, was beaten by TERFs for protecting a trans woman from thier bashing.
Radical Women: Conversation with an early trans-inclusive 2nd wave feminist group formed in 1967.
Libertarian Feminism: Interview with a trans-inclusive libertarian feminist organization formed in 1973.
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What has the past 20 years of neuroimaging taught us about human vision and where do we go from here?
Organizers: Susan Wardle1, Chris Baker1; 1National Institutes of Health
Presenters: Aina Puce, Frank Tong, Janneke Jehee, Justin Gardner, Marieke Mur
Over the past 20 years, neuroimaging methods have become increasingly popular for studying the neural mechanisms of vision in the human brain. To celebrate 20 years of VSS this symposium will focus on the contribution that brain imaging techniques have made to our field of vision science. In the year 2000, we knew about retinotopy and category-selectivity, but neuroimaging was still evolving. Now in 2020, the field is taking an increasingly computational approach to applying neuroimaging data to understanding questions about vision. The aim of this symposium is to provide both a historical context and a forward-focus for the role of neuroimaging in vision science. Our speakers are a diverse mix of pioneering researchers in the field who applied neuroimaging in the early days of the technique, and those who have more recently continued to push the field forward by creative application of imaging techniques. We have also selected speakers who use a range of different methodological approaches to investigate both low-level and high-level vision, including computational and modeling techniques, multivariate pattern analysis and representational similarity analysis, and methods that aim to link brain to behavior. The session will begin with a short 5-10 min Introductory talk by Susan Wardle to provide context for the symposium. Talks by the five selected speakers will be 20 minutes each; with 1-2 mins available for clarification questions after each talk. The session will end with a longer 10-15 min general discussion period. In the first talk, Aina Puce will consider the contribution made by multiple neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and M/EEG towards understanding the social neuroscience of face perception, and how technological advances are continuing to shape the field. In the second talk, Frank Tong will discuss progress made in understanding top-down feedback in the visual system using neuroimaging, predictive coding models, and deep learning networks. In the third talk, Janneke Jehee will argue that a crucial next step in visual neuroimaging is to connect cortical activity to behavior, using perceptual decision-making as an illustrative example. In the fourth talk, Justin Gardner will discuss progress made in using neuroimaging to link cortical activity to human visual perception, with a focus on quantitative linking models. In the final talk, Marieke Mur will reflect on what fMRI has taught us about high-level visual processes, and outline how understanding the temporal dynamics of object recognition will play an important role in the development of the next generation of computational models of human vision. Overall, the combination of a historical perspective and an overview of current trends in neuroimaging presented in this symposium will lead to informed discussion about what future directions will prove most fruitful for answering fundamental questions in vision science.
Technological advances are the scaffold for propelling science forward in social neuroscience
Aina Puce1; 1Indiana University
Over the last 20 years, neuroimaging techniques [e.g. EEG/MEG, fMRI] were used to map neural activity within a core and extended brain network to study how we use social information from faces. By the 20th century's end, neuroimaging methods had identified the building blocks of this network, but how these parts came together to make a whole was unknown. In 20 years, technological advances in data acquisition and analysis have occurred in a number of spheres. First, network neuroscience has progressed our understanding of which brain regions functionally connect with one another on a regular basis. Second, improvements in white matter tract tracing have allowed putative underlying white matter pathways to be identified for some functional networks. Third, [non-]invasive brain stimulation has allowed the identification of some causal relationships between brain activity and behavior. Fourth, technological developments in portable EEG and MEG systems propelled social neuroscience out of the laboratory and into the [ecologically valid] wide world. This is changing activation task design as well as data analysis. Potential advantages of these 'wild type' approaches include the increased signal-to-noise provided by a live interactive 3D visual stimulus e.g. another human being, instead of an isolated static face on a computer monitor. Fifth, work with machine learning algorithms has begun to differentiate brain/non-brain activity in these datasets. Finally, we are finally 'putting the brain back into the body' – whereby recordings of brain activity are made in conjunction with physiological signals including EKG, EMG, pupil dilation, and eye position.
Understanding the functional roles of top-down feedback in the visual system
Frank Tong1; 1Vanderbilt University
Over the last 20 years, neuroimaging techniques have shed light on the modulatory nature of top-down feedback signals in the visual system. What is the functional role of top-down feedback and might there be multiple types of feedback that can be implemented through automatic and controlled processes? Studies of voluntary covert attention have demonstrated the flexible nature of attentional templates, which can be tuned to particular spatial locations, visual features or to the structure of more complex objects. Although top-down feedback is typically attributed to visual attention, there is growing evidence that multiple forms of feedback exist. Studies of visual imagery and working memory indicate the flexible nature of top-down feedback from frontal-parietal areas to early visual areas for maintaining and manipulating visual information about stimuli that are no longer in view. Theories of predictive coding propose that higher visual areas encode feedforward signals according to learned higher order patterns, and that any unexplained components are fed back as residual error signals to lower visual areas for further processing. These feedback error signals may serve to define an image region as more salient, figural, or stronger in apparent contrast. Here, I will discuss both theory and supporting evidence of multiple forms of top-down feedback, and consider how deep learning networks can be used to evaluate the utility of predictive coding models for understanding vision. I will go on to discuss what important questions remain to be addressed regarding the nature of feedback in the visual system.
Using neuroimaging to better understand behavior
Janneke Jehee1,2; 1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, 2Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Over the past 20 years, functional MRI has become an important tool in the methodological arsenal of the vision scientist. The technique has led to many amazing discoveries, ranging from human brain areas involved in face perception to information about stimulus orientation in early visual activity. While providing invaluable insights, most of the work to date has sought to link visual stimuli to a cortical response, with far less attention paid to how such cortical stimulus representations might give rise to behavior. I will argue that a crucial next step in visual neuroimaging is to connect cortical activity to behavior, and will illustrate this using our recent work on perceptual decision-making.
Using neuroimaging to link cortical activity to human visual perception
Justin Gardner1; 1Stanford University
Over the last 20 years, human neuroimaging, in particular BOLD imaging, has become the dominant technique for determining visual field representations and measuring selectivity to various visual stimuli in the human cortex. Indeed, BOLD imaging has proven decisive in settling long standing disputes that other techniques such as electrophysiological recordings of single neurons provided only equivocal evidence for. For example, by showing that cognitive influences due to attention or perceptual state could be readily measured in so-called early sensory areas. Part of this success is due to the ability to make precise behavioral measurements through psychophysics in humans which can quantitatively measure such cognitive effects. Leveraging this ability to make quantitive behavioral measurements with concurrent measurement of cortical activity with BOLD imaging, we can provide answers to a central question of visual neuroscience: What is the link between cortical activity and perceptual behavior? To make continued progress in the next 20 years towards answering this question, we must turn to quantitative linking models that formalize hypothesized relationships between cortical activity and perceptual behavior. Such quantitative linking models are falsifiable hypotheses whose success or failure can be determined by their ability or inability to quantitatively account for behavioral and neuroimaging measurements. These linking models will allow us to determine the cortical mechanisms that underly visual perception and account for cognitive influences such as attention on perceptual behavior.
High-level vision: from category selectivity to representational geometry
Marieke Mur1; 1Western University, London ON, Canada
Over the last two decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided important insights into the organization and function of the human visual system. In this talk, I will reflect on what fMRI has taught us about high-level visual processes, with an emphasis on object recognition. The discovery of object-selective and category-selective regions in high-level visual cortex suggested that the visual system contains functional modules specialized for processing behaviourally relevant object categories. Subsequent studies, however, showed that distributed patterns of activity across high-level visual cortex also contain category information. These findings challenged the idea of category-selective modules, suggesting that these regions may instead be clusters in a continuous feature map. Consistent with this organizational framework, object representations in high-level visual cortex are at once categorical and continuous: the representational code emphasizes category divisions of longstanding evolutionary relevance while still distinguishing individual images. This body of work provides important insights on the nature of high-level visual representations, but it leaves open how these representations are dynamically computed from images. In recent years, deep neural networks have begun to provide a computationally explicit account of how the ventral visual stream may transform images into meaningful representations. I will close off with a discussion on how neuroimaging data can benefit the development of the next generation of computational models of human vision and how understanding the temporal dynamics of object recognition will play an important role in this endeavor.


[[Category:IBM (English)]] This Guide will explain how to install/setup Arch Linux on the Thinkpad R60e. == Installing The Base System == The best way to install any arch system in my opinion is to install the "base" meta package from the installer cd, as of 0.8 the default net install CD will have drivers for the ethernet card, so you can move your laptop next to your router, plug it in and install the base system via the net. Once you have the packages and kernel installed, we move onto the bootloader. Install the boot loader into /dev/sda and then when editing menu.lst you can find the kernel line then at the end at "vga=773" to give support for a 1024x768 framebuffer. Now the bootloader is installed, we can move onto editing the configuration files, first of edit the /etc/rc.conf. # Set the keymap # Go down to the networking section and change eth0="127.0........." to eth0="dhcp", so you can automatically get a network IP at boot. Now you can go ahead, restart and boot into your new arch system. Once at the command prompt, run a "pacman -Syu" to update your system, now run "pacman -S ipw3945" and then add "ipw3945d" to the daemons line of rc.conf to add support for your wifi drivers at boot. Now go through all of the other guides to setup your xorg etc. == Device Drivers == The main driver you need to install was the wireless driver, do this by: # pacman -S ipw3945 # vi /etc/rc.conf Now look for your daemons line.. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond ) And change it too.. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond ipw3945d) That will load the graphics driver at boot. == Xorg Drivers == These can easily be installed by ... # pacman -S xf86-video-i810 Then if you want a xorg.conf tweaked for arch and beryl... Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Alps Touchpad" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "AIGLX" "true" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "extmod" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "synaptics" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Alps Touchpad" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "LeftEdge" "120" Option "RightEdge" "830" Option "TopEdge" "120" Option "BottomEdge" "650" Option "FingerLow" "14" Option "FingerHigh" "15" Option "MaxTapTime" "0" # Option "MaxTapTime" "180" # Option "FastTaps" "True" Option "MaxTapMove" "110" Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75" Option "VertScrollDelta" "20" #Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" Option "MinSpeed" "0.5" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75" Option "AccelFactor" "0.015" Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200" Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200" Option "UpDownScrolling" "1" Option "CircularScrolling" "0" Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2" Option "SHMConfig" "on" # Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 300 190 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "SEC" ModelName "5643" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "ColorKey" # <i> #Option "CacheLines" # <i> #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "DRI" # [<bool>] #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i> #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "i810" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "VBERestore" "true" Option "DRI" "true" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" EndSection Each section has been split up for easy viewing/reading/editing.
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