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require('../typedefs');
const moment = require('moment');
const router = require('express').Router();
const mustBeAuthenticated = require('../middleware/must-be-authenticated');
const {
  executeBatch,
  executeCancellableBatch,
} = require('../lib/execute-batch');
const { cancelBatch } = require('../lib/cancel-batch');
const wrap = require('../lib/wrap');
const mustHaveConnectionAccess = require('../middleware/must-have-connection-access');

/**
 * Create batch
 * @param {Req} req
 * @param {Res} res
 */
async function create(req, res) {
  const { config, models, body, user, appLog, webhooks } = req;
  const {
    queryId,
    name,
    connectionId,
    connectionClientId,
    batchText,
    selectedText,
    chart,
  } = body;

  const batch = {
    queryId,
    name,
    connectionId,
    connectionClientId,
    batchText,
    selectedText,
    chart,
    userId: user.id,
  };

  const connection = await models.connections.findOneById(connectionId);
  const newBatch = await models.batches.create(batch);

  webhooks.batchCreated(user, connection, newBatch);
  for (const statement of newBatch.statements) {
    webhooks.statementCreated(user, connection, newBatch, statement);
  }

  // Run batch, but don't wait for it to send response
  // Client will get status via polling or perhaps some future event mechanism
  if (newBatch.status !== 'error') {
    if (connection.isAsynchronous) {
      // Wait for all execution IDs to be available for cancellation
      await executeCancellableBatch(
        config,
        models,
        webhooks,
        newBatch.id
      ).catch((error) => appLog.error(error));
    }
    executeBatch(config, models, webhooks, newBatch.id).catch((error) =>
      appLog.error(error)
    );
  }

  return res.utils.data(newBatch);
}

router.post(
  '/api/batches',
  mustBeAuthenticated,
  mustHaveConnectionAccess,
  wrap(create)
);

/**
 * List batches.
 * Restricted to batches for the currently logged in user
 * @param {Req} req
 * @param {Res} res
 */
async function list(req, res) {
  const { models, user, query } = req;
  const { queryId, includeStatements } = query;

  let batches;
  if (queryId) {
    const cleanedQueryId = queryId === 'null' ? null : queryId;
    let cleanedIncludeStatements = false;
    if (includeStatements) {
      cleanedIncludeStatements =
        includeStatements.toString().toLowerCase().trim() === 'true';
    }

    batches = await models.batches.findAllForUserQuery(
      user,
      cleanedQueryId,
      cleanedIncludeStatements
    );
  } else {
    batches = await models.batches.findAllForUser(user);
  }

  batches.forEach((batch) => {
    batch.startTimeCalendar = moment(batch.startTime).calendar();
    batch.stopTimeCalendar = moment(batch.stopTime).calendar();
    batch.createdAtCalendar = moment(batch.createdAt).calendar();
  });

  return res.utils.data(batches);
}

router.get('/api/batches', mustBeAuthenticated, wrap(list));

async function batchToReq(req, res, next) {
  try {
    const { models, user, params } = req;
    const batch = await models.batches.findOneById(params.batchId);

    if (!batch) {
      return res.utils.notFound();
    }

    if (batch.userId !== user.id.toString()) {
      return res.utils.forbidden();
    }

    req.batch = batch;
    return next();
  } catch (error) {
    return next(error);
  }
}

/**
 * Get batch by id.
 * Only batches created by that user are permitted.
 * Eventually this may need to expand to basing this on whether user has access to that query and/or connection
 * @param {Req} req
 * @param {Res} res
 */
async function getBatch(req, res) {
  return res.utils.data(req.batch);
}

router.get(
  '/api/batches/:batchId',
  mustBeAuthenticated,
  batchToReq,
  wrap(getBatch)
);

/**
 * Get statements for batch.
 * Only statements from batch created by that user are permitted.
 * Eventually this may need to expand to basing this on whether user has access to that query and/or connection
 *
 * @param {Req} req
 * @param {Res} res
 */
async function getBatchStatements(req, res) {
  const { batch } = req;
  return res.utils.data(batch.statements);
}

router.get(
  '/api/batches/:batchId/statements',
  mustBeAuthenticated,
  batchToReq,
  wrap(getBatchStatements)
);

/**
 * Cancel batch
 * @param {Req} req
 * @param {Res} res
 */
async function cancel(req, res) {
  const { models, appLog, webhooks, body } = req;

  const { connectionId } = body;

  const id = req.params.batchId;

  const connection = await models.connections.findOneById(connectionId);
  const batch = await models.batches.findOneById(id);

  if (batch.status !== 'error') {
    if (!connection.isAsynchronous) {
      return res.utils.error(
        'Cancel batch is only available to drivers that support cancellation'
      );
    }

    await cancelBatch(models, webhooks, batch.id).catch((error) =>
      appLog.error(error)
    );
  }
  const updatedBatch = await models.batches.findOneById(id);
  appLog.trace(updatedBatch);
  return res.utils.data(updatedBatch);
}

router.put(
  '/api/batches/:batchId/cancel',
  mustBeAuthenticated,
  mustHaveConnectionAccess,
  batchToReq,
  wrap(cancel)
);

module.exports = router;

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Todd is the story of a man who has always felt like the "odd man out." From a young age, Todd is shunned and ridiculed by his peers. Over time his pain and anger turns into rage and despair. When psychoanalysis and depression drugs don't work, the young eccentric becomes morbid and introverted, withdrawing from society in a downward spiral to insanity. He not only sets his sights on an aspiring young actress, but on his psychiatrist and the doctor's family too. "TODD" takes you on a nail biting, edge of your seat journey into the mind of a budding madman.
Director: Aaron Warren
Actors: Aaron Jackson, Chloë Marie Rhoades, Clare Lopez, Eliana Ghen, Hans Hernke, Kyrillos Saber, Laura Stetman, Mercedes Gutierrez, Michael Winslow, Rhonda Cusumano, Savannah Grace Elmer
Keywords:Todd
Ilona llega con la lluvia
Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they have become separated….
Timetravel_0
TIMETRAVEL_0 is an extraordinary docudrama that follows Cris McCarthy as she explores the urban web legend of John Titor, the man that came from the future. Cris searches for evidence…
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Science Fiction
When his lover becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Guru blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.
Katherine of Alexandria
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war…
Small Apartments
When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of…
Arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman embarks upon a terror filled quest when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of inexplicable 'hauntings'.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Out in Fifty
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
The World We Make
18 year old Lee (a spirited equestrian) and Jordan (an academic and football standout) are at the threshold of building a life together. But their character is tested when racial…
American Madness
American Madness is a film from director Frank Capra from 1932. Set during the depression the film depicts a bank trustee involved in a robbery scandal.
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
Shingekijouban Inisharu D: Legend 3 – Mugen
Mt. Akina's new downhill racing hero Fujiwara Takumi prepares for the final showdown against Red Sun's unbeaten leader and Akagi's fastest driver, Takahashi Ryosuke.
Genre: Action, Animation, Drama, Sport

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Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]... = Introduction = For the [http://www.foss4g2007.org/ FOSS4G2007 conference] in Victoria, BC, Canada (September 24-27, 2007) the OSGeo [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] would like to pull together a catalog of local data from the area around Victoria so that there would be a readily available pool of services and local datasets for attendees and presenters to use during the conference. The hope is that this will bring attention to the efforts being made by the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] committee. Benefits to the conference would be fast access to services (if we were to host them somewhere locally during the conference), an increased local feel, and a resource so that we could see different applications all working with the same data. = Data Custodians = == Government == === Federal === :The Canadian Federal Government, often in partnership with Provincial governments, makes various types of data available for free, from various sources. === Provincial === :The British Columbia Provincial Government makes some of it's data publicly available for free. === Local === :Local governments, such as the City of Victoria, or the Capital Region District may have some data available for free. == Commercial == :Various companies and organizations, whether they are Canadian or not, may have data that they would be willing to provide for free. = DataSets = == Requested Datasets == If there is a particular Canadian dataset that you would like to see be available at FOSS4G2007, add your request to this section. Please include the following information: * Dataset information: ** dataset name ** link to dataset information (e.g. metadata) ** link to dataset location (if publicly available) * Your information: ** your name (and optionally organization), and a way to contact you ** your role in the FOSS4G2007 conference (e.g. attendee, workshop/lab instructor, sponsor, etc.) ** why you are requesting the dataset == Dataset Sources == While the authoritative source for a dataset is the dataset's custodian, for FOSS4G2007 the goal is to have copies of datasets, or partial datasets, on local servers at the conference. To accomplish that, local people will have to do the work of obtaining copies of the datasets and loading them onto the local servers. If you can help with this, by providing the conference organizers with a copy of all or part of one or more of the Requested Datasets, add your information to this section. * [[User:Dpatton|Dave Patton]], Victoria, BC ** I have this data locally (i.e. it has already been downloaded), and will provide it via a USB drive ** The data is available "as is", in the format provided for the downloads. For example, this often means the data is in ZIP files, with one ZIP file per NTS tile. # Toporama, version 1 #* raster dataset, consisting of computer-generated topographic map images (i.e. lacking some cartographic features) #* [http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/ http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/] #* Note that this is the "original Toporama" dataset, not the newer Atlas of Canada Toporama (Toporama version 2). #* the images are collarless GIF images, designed to be able to be easily mosaicked #* the GIF images can be provided with corresponding world files #* any of the 1:250,000 or 1:50,000 scale images for any part of Canada can be provided #* dataset covering all of British Columbia at 1:250,000 (106 images) plus British Columbia south of 56°N and some of northern British Columbia, at 1:50,000 (1,120 images) takes 510MB #* [http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/En/licence_en.html Natural Resources Canada Licence Agreement] # Canadian Digital Elevation Data, Level 1 (CDED1) #* Digital Elevation Model data #* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cded/index.html http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cded/index.html] #* any of the files for the 1:50,000 (0.75 arc second) or 1:250,000 (3 arc second) scale cells for any part of British Columbia can be provided #* dataset covering all of British Columbia (NTS blocks 082, 083, 084, 085, 092, 093, 094, 095, 102, 103, 104, 105, 114, 115) at 1:250,000 and 1:50,000 (2,864 files) takes 6.99GB #* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp Geobase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement] # CanMatrix #* raster dataset, consisting of scans of paper topographic maps, at both 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scales #* [http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/collection/detail.do?id=10119 http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/collection/detail.do?id=10119] #* the images are GeoTIFF, and include the map collars #* any of the files for the 1:50,000 or 1:250,000 scale maps for British Columbia can be provided #* dataset covering all of British Columbia (NTS blocks 082, 083, 084, 085, 092, 093, 094, 095, 102, 103, 104, 105, 114, 115) at 1:250,000 (171 files) and 1:50,000 (2,753 files) takes 55.5GB #* [http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp Geogratis Licence Agreement For Unrestricted Use Of Digital Data] # National Road Network, version 1 #* vector dataset, consisting of centerline road network data #* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/index.html http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/index.html] #* the data is available via GML files and ESRI Shapefiles #* any of the files for British Columbia can be provided #* dataset for British Columbia, version 3.00, with GML and Shape files, in English and French, takes 202MB #* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp Geobase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement] # Geopolitical Boundaries, version 1 #* vector dataset, consisting of provincial and national boundaries #* [http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cgb/index.html http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cgb/index.html] #* the data is available via GML files and ESRI Shapefiles #* GML and Shape files, in English and French, takes 22.8MB #* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp Geobase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement] # Geographical Names, Level 1 #* vector dataset, consisting of Canadian geographical names #* [http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cgn/index.html http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cgn/index.html] #* the data is available via GML files and ESRI Shapefiles #* the download interface is a bit clumsy (limit of 50 files at a time) #* currently I have all the files for the 092 NTS block, 201 GML files and 201 Shape files, which takes 4.7MB #* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp Geobase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement] * [[User:Jasonbirch|Jason Birch]], Nanaimo, BC # [http://www.kamloops.ca/index.shtml City of Kamloops] data #* 20cm Orthos #* DEM #* Cadastral base & zoning #* Possibly more vector data #* [http://webserver.kamloops.ca/imf/sites/DataDownload/disclaimer.html Geographic Data Download Service Disclaimer] * [[User:jdeolive|Justin Deoliveira]], Victoria, BC ** [http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=8147 National Topographic Data Base (NTDB)] ** [http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=10757 CanImage - Landsat 7] ** [http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp Geogratis Licence Agreement For Unrestricted Use Of Digital Data]
Return to Canadian Geodata.
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What a coincidence – I saw both of these species today! Always enjoy this feature and the fact that your choices are interesting but "findable".
I'm glad you like this feature and my choices, David.
Wonderful choices for April birds PrairieBirder!
Lucky to see a Common Goldeneye here in the city.A few pasted through about a month ago!Had one sighting of a Northern Shrike during the winter.Was driving with my employer and I told him to stop so I could have a look at it.He did not like that!
Thanks for the comment Darrell, and I'm glad that you enjoyed my Must-see birds for April.


What does a website do ?
NO DEFINITIVE ANSWERS ANYWHERE !
If we have all the pieces of the jigsaw and they are arranged in the correct order then maybe we can solve this puzzle.
The worldwide web or internet has really moved on since I started building websites in the late nineteen eighties. Google was a relative newcomer. The big two were Yahoo and Alta Vista. Yahoo operated as a search engine but Alta Vista was operating as a web directory.
Google has grown to such an extent that they are now the "look to" search engine for anything to do with the internet. They also now provide many more services than just search, but, and it's a big but ! all their services are related in some way to search. After all, if you couldn't search the internet you would never be able to find what you were looking for. Just a quick note to tell you that Yahoo search is still alive but it is now powered by Microsoft, whose big challenger to Google is Bing.
For the purpose of this blog though everything will relate to the Google search engine unless stated otherwise.
What is a website ? Don't think of a website as like a newspaper but more like a magazine. If you go out and buy a newspaper, it is full of news and adverts but the news and the adverts are diverse and bear no relevance to each other, whereas a magazine tends to follow a theme throughout its pages. A photography magazine, a gardening magazine, a beauty magazine etc. This is what a website or blog should be like. A set of pages with a common theme. There are exceptions to this rule however, but when building for the first time it is important that your pages have a common theme.
The easiest way to differentiate between a website and a blog, which is short for weblog, is to think that a blog is a set of pages for comment and a website is a set of pages for content. Obviously they do overlap in many cases, like this one, but starting out this is the best way.
In case the internet is new to you, it is easiest to imagine it as the telephone exchanges around the world that all interconnect to ensure you can phone anybody in any country. Most people understand the principle of telephony if not the internet. The websites and blogs are like the telephones on the end of the telephone wires.
Your internet service provider ( ISP ) issues an internet protocol ( IP ) address, sets of numbers separated by dots, somewhat like a telephone number, everytime you connect to the internet. This is your identity on the internet. The internet is still mostly connected by wires and several thousand miles of these are under the sea. According to Wikipedia the latest figures show that only 1% of international activity is by satellite.
The cables are now fibre optical and mainly managed by the large national telecom companies. When you start up your laptop or smartphone to connect to the internet you make a " telephone call " to that website you want or you put a name into a search engine that will look into thousands of phone books, which are the domain name servers, to find the " site " you are looking for.
In my opinion this is a reasonable and the simplest analogy.
What does a website do ? Put simply, as a business, it saves you time and money and reaches more people than any paper or magazine ad will ever do. You can perfectly describe your business and have this advertisement where everyone can see it. It's your best and cheapest marketing tool. If it's personal and a blog just won't do then put simply, what better way to get your stuff noticed by millions of people and its a great hobby when you reach retirement or even before. If you just want a blog then it's a great way to get your voice heard, your opinions noticed.
71% of small businesses have a website.
92% of the remainder plan to have a website by the end of next year.
25% of what's left won't have a website due to lack of knowledge.
So, now you know what a website is and what it is used for we can now get you started. Everything below will be written as to a small, medium or even large business but as an individual much of this blog will be pertinent, so keep reading.
Whatever else you have read or heard, the very first thing you should do is contact a web developer, unless, of course, you feel you can go it alone.
It is worth stating here that if you engage a web developer for your site and someone to manage it, this will be cheaper for you than starting an IT section in your company.
If you have an IT section already then just get them to manage it as designing and developing websites is a specialist profession.
The internet is full of web developers advertising their skills and prices but first port of call maybe a friendly business who has a website who can tell you if their experience was good or bad and some idea of price. This bit ( the price ) may startle you, but it will be worth finding out the breakdown of these costs.
When armed with this breakdown, you can then search the web. It is often concluded that web design and development companies are cheapest further down the ranking of Googles pages. This is definitely not so. Reputable companies that have done their homework and designed their website with awesome content will be high in the ranking and these are the ones to look at.
Most companies will give a breakdown of their cost. This sort of breakdown can be viewed at our pricing page here.
You will now need to decide with the help of the developer which type of website, platform in the jargon, you want or need. Basically there are two two types. A content management system CMS or one built from the ground up.
There are pros and cons for each type and it is your decision which type is the correct fit for your company.
At present CMS may be your first choice but issues like security and loading speed may deter you from this and with code writers continually looking at static websites and tinkering with the new static website generators that can make static pages dynamic, ie change in size, then this could influence your decision.
Do not let the web developer push you into a decision that is not right for you. Let him advise you but it is your decision.
Click the blue button to see the pros and cons of each system.
Permission can be granted to anybody to enable editing the site.
Fast to be up and running as framework is usually pre built.
Site can be edited without disrupting initial design.
The software is usually free.
SEO is usually built in the framework and only needs editing.
Many themes and plug ins available on the internet.
Security can be an issue. Hackers could find a way into your site to edit it. Additional security may be required.
The site is slower in use as a CMS files everything separately and has to find and place on the page when its called by a user.
There are limitations on functionality and some things you may want may not be available to you.
Themes and plug ins are commonly used. These are not free and can disrupt SEO.
SEO can be difficult as a CMS duplicates so many items which slow pages down.
Displays the same information to every visitor.
If WYSIWYG ( what you see is what you get ) editor is used, no HTML knowledge is required. HTML is the building blocks of web pages.
Information is consistent through a period of time determined by you.
If edited correctly site response can be immediate. Good for SEO.
If built from ground up using coding ( not WYSIWYG ) virtually any functionality can be included.
A developer has to update the content.
Cannot display dynamic content ie a forum or login form.
Content can appear differently on different browsers.
When you've made your decision which system is preferred the developer will probably advise you which software he will use as the editor. With regard to static websites there are generally two types of software, WYSIWYG editors and HTML editors. HTML stands for hypertext mark up language which is the building blocks of web pages.
Code in PHP, hypertext preprocessor, the usual code for websites especially CMS, is written onto HTML which displays it onto your screen.
CMS software is usually drag and drop content onto a design framework, very often a theme. The software relies heavily on themes and plug ins ( content resources like a calendar or a form ) and can get quite expensive although most software is free to start.
To see what themes and plug ins are it would be good to visit Envato's marketplace.
To see the top five CMS and STATIC software click the blue button.
Wordpress - mainly a blogging platform but often used for CMS and has a WYSIWYG editor if needed. The most popular due to its extensive theme and plug in library and very active community forum.
Joomla - Just a CMS but very capable with a huge plug in list. Not as easy to use as Wordpress and the plug in extensions can be very expensive.
Drupal - Similar to Joomla but probably better support from Drupal. All this comes with a cost though.
Expression Engine - A useful feature of this software is that you can have multiple sites from one installation of software unlike the others. It also has global editing ie editing several pages at once. Biggest drawback is price, last known was €100 for a personal site and €250 for a commercial one.
Concrete 5 - Pure CMS with the features as EE above and added caching of pages feature to speed up user loading. Lots of themes and plug ins which don't break the bank and initial installation is free. This site is built on Concrete 5.7.
The five most popular STATIC website builders.
Wordpress - Worldwide the most popular but there are security issues with every plug in which is what Wordpress is based on. Installation is free but everything from then has to be paid for.
Xara Webdesign - Fairly easy to use but no access to HTML. Lots of dedicated themes and there is now a plug in to make the pages dynamic. Has 3D editor. However many themes and plug ins, many of which are responsive, ie can convert for mobile viewing, have to be paid for on top of the installation charge. Excellent support.
Wix - The best thing about Wix is that everything is totally free. The templates ( themes ) are all free and easy to set up. Drawback is that there are not very many of them.
GoDaddy - Many hosting companies are now offering free website builders. GoDaddy is one of them. I didn't have a very good experience with GoDaddy so no more comment.
Site.Pro - Free, easy to use website builder. No coding skills required. Responsive and multilingual.
You will probably have seen the acronym SEO if you clicked the blue buttons. SEO stands for search engine optimization.
For a company website, providing a service or selling something the most important part of owning a website is to get a top page ranking ( more about this later ) with Google and Bing.
Without your site being seen, you cannot provide that service or supply those goods. As there is very little left in the world that is unique you will be in competition for these top pages ranking.
Your website has to be structured in such a way that Google, Bing and Yahoo will place it as high in the page structure for that particular search ( more about that later ) as is possible. As you can see, this process is extremely important and is one of the first things to discuss with the web developer.
There are several grades of SEO but if you want to get onto page 1 of the search engines and your business is quite competitive then you WILL need to hire an SEO specialist. Unfortunately this service does not come cheap and it can cost several thousand euros to reach page 1 of Google.
If your business is quite unique then you only need to ensure that the search engines can " see " you. This is very often the case with a personal website or blog.
Another important part of SEO is ensuring the the website will be " responsive " ie easily read on tablets and smart phones. In this day and age this is a must and Google will mark you down for not ensuring the website looks great on a mobile and anyway potential customers may only search on their mobiles.
If you want to know more about SEO the best specialists would be Matt Diggity of Diggity Marketing. You can find him here if he's not in Thailand. Or head on over to Joshua Hardwick at ahrefs.
OK, you probably have a company name and logo etc. What you will need next is a domain name and a website hosting company.
The domain name is the bit between the www and dot com. It is extremely important that you include the developer and your SEO company in deciding the domain name for reasons I will explain later.
The domain name is usually provided by the same company that will " host " your website but it doesn't have to be.
It would be nice to be able to host your own website on your own computer. You could do this, but when people, " traffic " start using the site, your computer would probably catch fire.
There are specialist hosting companies on the web ( internet ) and it is usually best to get one that is located near to where you live. You don't have to do this but if you get telephoned support you need to keep the charges down.
These companies will charge for hosting your website but it is quite a small monthly charge. They will also charge you per year for a domain name. Some companies offer this free but there is usually a catch somewhere.
Most host companies will have several packages priced differently and once again include your developer in your choice.
So now we have a web developer, possibly an SEO manager, a platform, a website host and a domain name. At this point you will probably start worrying. However be you a small or large business or a personal blogger there is no need to worry. Remember, you did your homework at the beginning so everything is as it should be. No need for worry.
The next thing on the agenda is design. There has been a lot written about design, most of which is pure gobbledegook. The most common thing I read about design is that black writing on a white page with the odd relevant image is the correct way to go. WRONG !
The statistics say that more than half of visitors to any web page will leave if it does not have " a great design ". I prefer black text on a white background but not every piece of text and imagery is very important to a visitor. People need variety to hold their attention and we need to hold their attention to be able to convert to customers.
It's all very well scaling the heights to the top of Google ranking only to see your visitors leave on your homepage because they don't like the design of it.
Most companies, like mine, provide designers as well as developers, or you can decide on one of the many themes around the internet. A " theme " is where the design is done for you and all you need provide is the " content " ie text and images. Many web design & development companies have themes and this is usually the best approach as they will have been tested quite extensively on the internet. It also takes the worry of thinking about design when you can just choose a completed one from a set of images or even a fully working website.
However, the designer, if needed, will interview a prospective client, even visit the business or property to get an idea in his head of what the client wants. After consultation with the developer and SEO he will then present his ideas or themes for consideration by the client, you.
Now we are definitely getting somewhere. The only thing left to do is for you with the developer to create some great content about your business, your aims, your staff, your services, your prices, great images of your products and business, your contact details, working hours etc etc.
Whilst this great content is being developed, the architecture or the structure of the website will be being altered and adjusted to suit the content. If you are using an SEO company, the content will be sent to them for their input. They will analyse the content in line with the search engines, Google, Bing etc requirements and add to it to ensure that off site linking can be achieved. I will deal with off site linking later on.
I mentioned the phrase " as high in the page structure for that particular search " earlier and I will return to this very important part of the internet.
Some may say it is the most important and maybe I would agree with them.
The " information highway " is not called that without reason. As we all know, when we are looking for anything, be it on the TV, in a book, encyclopaedia, or on the internet, we have a word or a phrase in our mind that needs finding. We call these key words or key phrases, for the internet everything is called a keyword, phrase has been dropped. If it's a phrase we call them long tail keywords.
These keywords, we know, entered into a search will bring us to our goal. This is why search engines exist.
When starting out with the developer / SEO, one of the first things to decide is what the site's keywords will be. Keywords are placed in the structure and the content of a website. Keywords most importantly must be relevant to the website page and not an exact match of your domain name ( the reason for including the developer and SEO in your domain name choice ). It's no good sprinkling the word " bikes for rent " throughout your website if you are renting villas on a Greek island. Sorry about this simple analogy but it does get the point home.
As I said, when somebody searches the internet, say for a " holiday villa on a Greek island ", they click on their favourite browser, be it Chrome, Firefox or Safari, and put their search keywords either into the address bar at the top of the page or their search engines search bar if that page is open.
If the same keywords are used correctly on your website ie conform to Googles rules and expectations and easily noticed by the search engines, then you are in with a good chance of your page coming up in that persons browser window.
It used to be easy to sprinkle keywords around a website and wait for the hits, but Google got wise to this and will now penalise overuse or abuse of their rules. Careful relevant placement within the content is now order of the day.
I use the word relevant a lot. This is because relevancy is high on Google's list of priorities when examining a website.
Just a quick note here about Google examining a website. Google crawls the internet searching through billions of web pages and storing the information in massive data banks which it then indexes for future use. At this time it ranks how good the web pages are ie conforms to all the rules, how many worthy websites link to it and places them in order of best first, worst last. This is called PageRank, named after one of the founders of Google, Larry Page.
Then when you search, Google uses an algorythm, a set of rules or a list of steps to take to solve something. Similar to how all computers work when you ask them to do something. Google sends out this algorythm to its search index and finds the nearest match to your keyword you put into the search box and produces the pages for that search query, best first, worst last.
Surprisingly this algorythm can even adjust spelling mistakes and adjust syntax for the sake of the search.
Another keypoint that influences where you come on PageRank ( the be all and end all of SEO ) is how many other websites link to your website. This is called off site linking. These other websites have to be relevant ( that word again ) to your website. For instance a travel company having an advert on their site for your villa rental on a Greek island business is ideal, or a bike rental company on the same island linking to you.
There are many other reasons for getting a high position on the ranking, not least the way a visitor can navigate around your website, called onsite linking, but these above are the most important.
This isn't really a blog about SEO and there are a lot more features than have been mentioned but I will leave it there, maybe for another blog in the future.
I apologise for this extended explanation but this is a very important part of owning a website, blog or CMS and is worth reading until you understand it. Don't get mad at Google. Their rules and regulations exist purely for the users of the internet ie you.
The developer after agreeing with you will now publish the website onto the internet public domain where everyone can see it.
This will be done with either FTP, file transfer protocol, a set of rules for publishing ( transferring files ) to the public domain, if a static site or through the dashboard of say Wordpress if a blog or CMS or similar with Concrete5.
You can sit back and wonder at this beautiful piece of technology and play with all the functions of the site. Send emails to all your friends and tell them to look at your new website. It feels like a toy to play with, but in your hands is the best marketing tool you have ever had or will ever have.
It doesn't stop there though !
All the rules and regulations mentioned in step 12 above are constantly being updated to suit an ever changing world wide web. The SEO would keep on top of these as this is his business.
Your business would be constantly changing, environmental changes, staff changes, product changes, growth of the business, changes in marketing strategies, etc.
Google will be regularly crawling through your pages and adjusting your PageRank, going up hopefully if you had a low ranking on launch.
Google does not like a stagnant website and if it sees no change or update of content it will mark you down on PageRank.
All this adds up to one thing - the website needs to be managed. Preferably by a management company who have experience in SEO or are allied to an SEO and a company to help with marketing. Using this new tool of yours.
As this blog is really about owning a website and you now have all the pieces of the puzzle and you may not have a service or product to sell, I won't delve too deeply into marketing strategies but for many this is the whole point of the website.
The website will be considered the central hub that gathers all the marketing experience. The website will be used to link advertisements through GoogleAds, Google and Bing Business, all social media marketing, facebook, twitter, linkedIn etc, email marketing and of course engaging with all the visitors to your site and converting them to customers. You can see this on our page here.
The SEO and this marketing experience can be measured, assessed and improved if necessary by the management team and regular reports sent to you.
It makes you wonder why you never had this before. As I said at the start, I don't think all this information is out there in one piece until now.
The puzzle that we had at the start is now completed. I love jigsaws.
Many thanks to Freepik.com for the use of their jigsaw pieces and heading image.
And many thanks for the help from Ahrefs, who have all the tools you need for SEO, Matt Diggity at Diggity Marketing and not forgetting Brian Dean at Backlinko who are all great bloggers about SEO.
18.10.17. Solved issue with mobile response.


I love early ice out. I love seeing the water in motion after watching it stand idol for 4 months. Also, seeing lakes in their pre busy-summer state is very peaceful. There's no noise or commotion and the shoreline is in pure form–it's not dotted docks and lifts and pontoons and jet skies and gadgets. Also, I think shorter winters are good for me now (I must be getting old). My ice fishing service is cool and good and I'm good at it and my guests have a nice time, but it's not open water guiding. Open water guiding is who I am. After 22 years of it, it's what I am. I'm not really sure who else to be on the water? The 2017 will be my 22nd season–already. It seems like I was just starting, and just learning how to guide. Now I have folks calling me and telling me they can't make it anymore; that we've been fishing together for 20 years and they have finally gotten to old to get here–or are dying or are dead. Those are sad phone conversations, and it's been happening often the past couple of years. They are usually older guys and they cry when they tell me they can't make it anymore–they love it here. These are ends to eras–mine and theirs. Time flies.
Any way, I'm looking forward to getting the 2017 year rolling. I ordered my new Lund Boat and Mercury Motor, and am looking forward to being sponsored by Berkley this season. My favorite fishing rod as a kid was a Berkley Lighting Rod. I still have it–in my fishing archives. Skip forward to present. . . . and my favorite fishing rod is the Berkley Heritage series. I love those rods. The Heritage is priced right and have a great feel and are strong and sensitive. The 6′ Med Light spinning is super versatile. I use them for walleye, small mouth bass, crappie and sunfish. They are great rods. Anyway, I've loved Berkley gear and line and lures and rods forever, and now I get to be a part of it–it's awesome and I'm grateful.
For fishing this spring, it'll be an extended panfishing season. Sunfish and crappie will be entering the shallows soon and good fishing will soon follow. Get your boats ready. Make sure your batteries are good (make sure they hold a charge), and get your rods and reels ready with some new Trilene line—it's fishing time. Fish Good, By Ross Hagemeister, Meister Guide Service.


For management training to be complete, the students should have exposure to and interaction with the industry and a thorough knowledge of what is happening in the business world. For this purpose the School conducts several programmes where corporate leaders and top business managers share their experiences with aspiring managers.
This is a new programme introduced by DCSMAT in which the students get an opportunity to interact with corporate leaders in an informal setting.
This century saw a rapid growth in the retail sector with increased spending power and corresponding increase in consumption. As a result, there has been a huge demand of professionals in this sector. DCSMAT, being a recognized Professional Retailing Skills Training Partner of Retailers Association of India (RAI), trains and educates retailers as well as students to adopt modern retail practices in India. Certificates are awarded by RAI after the completion of the course.
At DCSMAT, the students are given proper guidance to get them the right kind of internships. The one week industry visit before the first semester, one month and two month long internships in the following semesters are intended to help students get a possible placement in the same company.


Commencing in March 2018, the Adur Centre will be offering cycle hire from the Centre and a gateway to the South Downs Link and Way. The centre believe strongly in providing sustainable transport methods in order to reduce carbon emissions and promote health and wellbeing to all age groups and abilities.
Come and explore by bike all that the beautiful South of England coastline has to offer in Sussex, or for something more challenging you could ride the 12 mile link between the Adur Centre and RSPB Pulborough Brooks which takes in the beauty of the South Downs.
Other less challenging routes are on offer as well as the opportunity to be part of one of our guided tours instructed by our team of Mountain Bike Leaders. More information and pricing will be available closer to our launch date so look out for further details in the spring.
We strongly believe in providing sustainable transport methods in order to reduce carbon emissions and promote health and wellbeing to all ages and abilities.


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Q: A certain expectation of a function of independent gammas Suppose that $Y_1...,Y_n$ are independant gamma random variables: $Y_i \sim \Gamma(\alpha_i,\beta_i)$, with density $f_i(t) = \frac{t^{\alpha_i-1} e^{-\frac{x}{\beta}}}{\Gamma(\alpha) \beta^{\alpha}}$.
Suppose that $a_1,...a_m$ and $b_1,...,b_m$ are strictly positives reals.
I want to compute:
$$\mathbb E \left(\prod\limits_{j=1}^m \left(b_j + Y_1 +...+ Y_n\right)^{-a_j}\right)$$
My first attemp was expanding the function inside the expectation into a multivairate taylor serie in $(Y_1,...,Y_n)$ and then use the fact that $\mathbb E(Y_i^k)$ is known. But it is quite inneficient.
Maybe from the structure of the function we could expand in a 'power serie' with non-integer powers (which would probably depend on $a_1,...,a_m$), and the serie would converge more efficiently (since $\mathbb E(Y_i^a)$ is known for any $a$, even $a$ that are not integers).
How can i do that ?

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To give you an idea of the cost, a Nissan Propane Forklift dating from the late 1990s would run you around $11,000 to $14,000. More than likely, you will be able to find a model like this with fewer than 5,000 operating hours, about 15 feet of lifting capacity and cushion tires. However, a second-hand Nissan forklift truck which has less than 5,000 hours could be found for less than $7,000. This alternative may be a little bit of an older model than some others, but bear in mind; everything revolves around the operating hours. A model like this will probably have a fairly good load capacity of roughly 5,000 lbs.
A brand new Nissan forklift, dating from the year 2005 to the current year, can be found for roughly $10,000. Normally, these models will have a standard lift capacity ranging from 4,000 to 5,000 lbs. Usually, a unit like this will run smoothly and have cushion tires. Of course, newer units generally work smoother compared to older ones.
Standard Forklift: The standard forklift comprises the regular warehouse machinery we are all familiar with. These types of forklifts provide a lifting capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 pounds. They have a height capacity of around 20 feet.
Reach Forklift: Usually referred to as a narrow aisle lift truck, the reach lift truck is the type of machine that is found within warehouses and distribution centers where space is at a premium. Narrow construction means that it is not able to lift as much as a standard forklift unit, although, it has an extendable mast which can easily carry loads approximately 40 feet.
Straight Mast Forklift: Straight mast lift trucks are also normally used in rough terrain applications. These kinds of forklifts are only capable of moving loads vertically, unlike a telescopic unit. These units can raise loads up to 12,000 lbs, while reaching a height of 10 to 30 feet.
The PFD110Y in Saskatchewan is built by the company Nissan is a two wheel drive lift truck. This unit has a diesel powered engine and has the ability to lift a maximum of 11000 pounds.


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Q: ASP.NET Nested GridView, DataItem returns null in child GridView's RowDataBound Event In a nested GridView (GridView inside a template column of parent GridView). I am binding child GridView to a DataTable in parent GridView's RowDataBound event. this works as it should. But the problem i am facing is in Child GridView's RowDataBound Event, when i try to access e.Row.DataItem property it returns null. I am expecting it to return DataRowView Type. which i will then use to set values of TextBox's.
Parent GridViewId = gvProductOptionGrps and
Child GridViewId = gvProductOptions
Parent GridViews RowDataBound Event.
    protected void gvProductOptionGrps_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            //ProductOptionGrps
            TextBox txtProductOptionGrpSortOrder = (TextBox)e.Row.FindControl("txtProductOptionGrpSortOrder");
            Label lblProductOptionGrpName = (Label)e.Row.FindControl("lblProductOptionGrpName");
            DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;

            txtProductOptionGrpSortOrder.Text = drv["SortOrder"].ToString();
            lblProductOptionGrpName.Text = drv["Name"].ToString();

            //ProductOptions
            SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand();
            sqlCmd.CommandText = "SELECT a.ProductOptionId,a.SortOrder,b.Name,b.PriceGBP" +
                                 " FROM ProductOptionGrpProductOptions a" +
                                 " INNER JOIN ProductOptions b ON a.ProductOptionId=b.ProductOptionId" +
                                 " WHERE a.ProductOptionGrpId=@ProductOptionGrpId" +
                                 " ORDER BY a.SortOrder";
            sqlCmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
            sqlCmd.Parameters.Add("@ProductOptionGrpId", SqlDbType.UniqueIdentifier).Value = new Guid(drv["ProductOptionGrpId"].ToString());
            _fl.ConnectToSQLServer();
            sqlCmd.Connection = _fl.GetActiveSQLServerConnection();

            DataTable dtProductOptions = new DataTable();
            dtProductOptions.Load(sqlCmd.ExecuteReader());

            GridView gv = (GridView)e.Row.FindControl("gvProductOptions");
            gv.DataSource = dtProductOptions;
            gv.DataBind();
            _fl.DisconnectFromSQLServer();
        }
    }

    protected void gvProductOptions_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        TextBox txtProductOptionSortOrder = (TextBox)e.Row.FindControl("txtProductOptionSortOrder");
        TextBox txtPriceGBP = (TextBox)e.Row.FindControl("txtPriceGBP");
        DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;//returns null

        txtProductOptionSortOrder.Text = drv["SortOrder"].ToString();//Error
        txtPriceGBP.Text = drv["PriceGBP"].ToString();//Error
    }

A: You have forgotten to check if the Row is a DataRow in gvProductOptions_RowDataBound. The Header does not have a DataItem hence it is null.
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)


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Robert Thomas Nye (ur. 15 marca 1939 w Londynie, zm. 2 lipca 2016 w Corku) – angielski powieściopisarz, nowelista, poeta i dramaturg.

Życiorys
Ojciec pisarza był urzędnikiem, matka była córką farmera. Robert Nye uczęszczał do Southend High School for Boys. W tym czasie opublikował pierwszy wiersz w London Magazine (1955; vol. 2, nr 9). W 1955 ukończył szkołę i nie kontynuował zorganizowanej edukacji. Między 1955 a 1961 imał się wielu zajęć, był między innymi dziennikarzem, mleczarzem i listonoszem.

Nagrody i wyróżnienia
 Eric Gregory Award, 1964
 James Kennaway Memorial Award, 1970
 Guardian fiction prize, 1976
 Hawthornden Prize, 1976
 Cholmondeley Award, 2006

Wybrane utwory

Poezja
 Juvenilia 1 (1961)
 Juvenilia 2 (1963)
 Darker Ends (1969)
 Two Prayers (1973)
 Agnus Dei (1973)
 Five Dreams (1973)
 Divisions on a Ground (1976)
 A Collection of Poems 1955 - 1988 (1989)
 14 Poemes (1994)
  Henry James and Other Poems (1995)
 Collected Poems (1996)
 16 Poems (2005)
 The Rain and the Glass: 99 Poems, New and Selected (2005)

Powieści
 1967 - Doubtfire
 1976 - Falstaff
 1978 - Merlin
 1980 - Faust
 1982 - The Voyage of the Destiny
 1989 - The Memoirs of Lord Byron - wyd. polskie: Pamiętniki Lorda Byrona, tłum. Michał Kłobukowski (Gdańsk: Marabut, 1996)
 1990 - The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais
 1993 - Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works
 1998 - The Late Mr Shakespeare

Zbiory opowiadań
 Tales I Told My Mother (1969)
 The Facts of Life and Other Fictions (1983)

Książki dla dzieci
 March Has Horse's Ears (1966)
 Taliesin (1966)
 Bee Hunter: Adventures of Beowulf (1968)
 Wishing Gold (1970)
 Poor Pumpkin (1971)
 Once Upon Three Times (1978)
 The Bird of the Golden Land (1980)
 Harry Pay the Pirate (1981)
 Lord Fox and Other Spine-Chilling Tales (1997)

Dramaty
 Sawney Bean (razem z Williamem Watsonem) (1970)
 The Seven Deadly Sins, A Mask (1974)
 Penthesilea, Fugue, and Sisters (1976)

Recepcja polska
W polskim przekładzie ukazało się kilka utworów Nye'a, Faust (Gdańsk 1992), Merlin (przeł. Piotr Siemion, Gdańsk 1994), Pamiętniki lorda Byrona (przeł. Michał Kłobukowski, Gdańsk 1996) i Falstaff (przeł. Piotr Siemion, Warszawa 2006).

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Leszek Engelking, Igraszki z diabłem [o powieści Faust]. "Ex Libris" 1993, nr 29
 Leszek Engelking, Sztuka doskonałego wydmuchiwania niedoskonałych kółeczek [o powieści Merlin]. "Przegląd Artystyczno-Literacki" 1995, nr 12
 Leszek Engelking, Szukam nie lada rzeczy - bohatera [o powieści Pamiętniki lorda Byrona]. "Tygiel Kultury" 1996, nr 12

Angielscy prozaicy XX wieku
Urodzeni w 1939
Zmarli w 2016
Angielscy poeci XX wieku
Listonosze
Pisarze związani z Londynem
Ludzie urodzeni w Londynie

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Hastings Runners host final event in league season
Shana Burchett (left) and Sarah Marzaioli tackle the final round of the East Sussex Sunday Cross-Country League event at Pett
Hastings Runners played host to the final race of the East Sussex Sunday Cross-Country League season last weekend.
More than 250 runners in total took on the very muddy, undulating off-road course around Pett, not helped by the 20mph winds either.
Despite the tough conditions, there were some excellent performances. Mark Goodman came fifth in a superb time of 32:24 and the in-form Darren Barzee was close behind in seventh in 33:06.
See also: * Hastings Runners tackle testing conditions
* Big field contests Hastings Runners' pier to pier race
* Hastings Runners celebrate successful year
Martin Noakes was the third Hastings Runner to break the top 20 in a time of 34:34, while Claire Thomas was the first female Hastings Runner to finish in 40:25.
It capped off a fine cross-country campaign, with many club members picking up awards in the overall standings.
Barzee took second place in the M50 category, Noakes was third in M55 and Andy Lee was second in M60.
In the women's overall standings, Thomas was third senior lady, Jane Coles third in the F50, while Sarah Marzaioli and Yockie Richardson claimed a 1-2 in the F65.
Results: Mark Goodman 32:24, Darren Barzee 33:06, Martin Noakes 34:34, Graeme Grass 37:27, Todd Fitz-Hugh 37:48, David Devlin 38:54, Michael Grass 39:08, Kevin Blowers 39:56, Claire Thomas 40:25, Jane Coles 41:41, Nina Lambrou 42:03, Anthony Gardner 42:53, Simon Trevana 43:07, David Bratby 43:32, Jo Nevett 44:00, Hannah Hayler 44:03, Rachael White 44:25, Tim Barlow 45:53, Paul Hope 47:43, Piers Brunning 49:09, Shana Burchett 51:14, Sarah Marzaioli 51:15, Simon Linklater 53:18, Jo French 53:21, Annette Fry 53:24, Krista Barzee 53:25, Ruth Spiller 53:29, Christine Sanderson 58:09, Lorraine Ashby 58:44, Helen Munday 59:34, Yockie Richardson 59:42, Jo Edwards 63:30, Susan Mann 63:38.
With the Brighton and London marathons fast approaching, a number of Hastings Runners headed to Lydd to take on the 20-mile race and half marathon.
Colin White put in a superb run to complete the long course in two hours and 24 minutes, finishing just outside the top 50.
Results - 20 miles: Colin White 2:24:48, Paul Burchett 2:34:36, Ben Sallows 2:55:34, Darren Pearson 3:04:01, Johanna Lambourne 3:10:58, Pete Heasman 3:19:23, Jessica Cull 3:21:41, Jenny Hudson 3:21:20, Susan Wilkinson 3:30:11, Eleanor Swaine 3:44:24.
Half marathon: Ashley Ballard 2:05:07, Sarah Holmes 2:05:10, Leigh Yates 2:22:57, Victoria Harding 2:38:15.


Home / Blog / How has telemedicine technology changed in recent years?
How has telemedicine technology changed in recent years?
New advances in technology and an increased adoption of online social interactions are helping create new clinical opportunities through the use of telemedicine. Even in the early 1990's when telemedicine was being used by healthcare practitioners for mostly pilot projects, the vision may have outpaced the technology. Computers were still cumbersome and expensive, and the internet was still finding its footing.
Today, however, the telemedicine industry is thriving as technological advances and the ubiquity of connected devices have made it possible to help physicians and their patients communicate through video conferencing. As a result, getting treatment has become easier and more relaxed, and for millions of individuals and families living in rural or remote communities, there are new opportunities to receive high-quality healthcare. The development of new technologies and simplified IT infrastructures have fueled this trend.
Telemedicine brings a doctor into an examination room miles away.
In the past, hospitals and doctor's offices that employed telemedicine needed to dedicate a good amount of space and bandwidth to get online. This set-up was cumbersome and far from efficient. Today, the technology that powers telemedicine is portable and doctors can use computers and tablets, while patients are also aided by devices that fit in a convenient cart or package that is fully mobile.
These increases in efficiency have been at the forefront of making telemedicine an everyday clinical solution. Now that the technological barriers have been lowered, the applications related to treating patients in rural communities as well as around the world are being full realized.
Another important development in helping telemedicine reach its full potential is the growth in everyday internet use. For patients and doctors, getting online is easier and less expensive now more than ever.
"Getting online is easier and less expensive now more than ever."
When it comes to connecting a hospital in an urban center to a rural clinic, having a reliable web connection is critical. In the past, this may have required expensive installations or proven to be an impediment to full connectivity, but as internet access has spread, so too has the possible reach of telemedicine services.
It isn't just remote areas of the U.S. that are being positively affected by the spread of the internet. Around the world, rural care centers can bypass traditional infrastructure and connect to the web to get high-quality healthcare. The website Internet Live Stats reported that 3.4 billion people now have access to a web connection.
The ability to communicate through video conferencing and send pertinent patient data in real-time is critical for telemedicine, and as the world becomes a more connected place, there are more and more opportunities for medical professionals to reach new patients.
The Pew Research Center found that in the U.S., 64 percent of adults owned a smartphone in 2015, and less than 10 percent of American households had limited access to the internet. Technological familiarity and literacy is helping patients and doctors feel more comfortable or less apprehensive about using telemedicine than they might have been when the industry was just getting started.
Because most people are now prolific in navigating online portals or video chatting with friends and family, the experience of having a remote check-up with a doctor is easy and feels natural. This makes things easier for patients and physicians, as well as nurses, paramedics or clinic staff members who facilitate telemedicine appointments. An easy-to-use interface gives all parties involved the means to navigate the platform in a way that is meaningful and adaptive.


I am a senior premedical checal engineering student at State University. I have tutored ages 12-50 in everything from basic writing to university thermodynacs. I am an excellent tutor comtted to building a solid foundation for my students to build on in their future studies.
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I adore the idea of Christmas.
But the time can go by really fast in the lead up to the Holiday Season. One minute it's the start of October and you're not even thinking past Halloween.. and suddenly it's 2 weeks before Christmas Day and you haven't even started preparing for it yet!
Let's simplify your Christmas planning and get you organised, so you have plenty of time to relax and enjoy the holidays with your loved ones.
1. Keep track of the date: Time really will fly if you let it, so it's a good idea to keep an eye on the Christmas countdown regularly. I love this Christmas Countdown timer app for my iPhone, it's so cute!
2. Have a great resource for gift ideas: I love this one from Stay at home Mum - 100 gifts under $10!
4. Have a simple budget: Don't make it too complicated, just grab a little notebook, write down how much you have to spend for the year, and keep track of what you're spending as you go.
5. Take shortcuts: Honestly, life's too busy to get weighed down with the little things. If you don't have time to make a Christmas cake / cookies / stocking, buy it. If you don't want to spend Christmas Day washing up, use paper plates and recycle them. Use the time you save to enjoy the holiday season!
Planning is the key isn't it! Not too long until I start my annual 10 week countdown.
On Boxing Day, I take the time to write myself a letter recording what worked and what didn't, what we loved and what we wouldn't do again. I pop it in with my Xmas decorations and read next year when we are putting up the tree!


We would just like to say a HUGE thank you for all your hard work and making our day so AMAZING and run so smoothly,it was perfect from start to finish,our guests said it was the best wedding they'd ever been to,the flowers were stunning the way the tables were set out the food was spot on!!
Andrew made us feel really relaxed as we're not used to having our photo's taken,he let us imput our our own ideas to make it more personal which was brill!!
Dawne you got all my ideas spot on it was more than I could of ever dreamed of,the set out of the terrace looked beautiful and the tables flowers jam jars etc wow!!!
Bob your a star you put up with our forgetfulness when picking us up,getting us organised and bringing everything together for us!!
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Read and Woolley on Wray on Kuhn
Thursday, October 17, 2013, 04:13 PM - ideas, teaching
In a recent issue of BJPS, Rupert Read and Jessica Woolley review Brad Wray's book Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology.* I've been thinking about Kuhn recently, too, because I'm teaching Scientific Revolutions this term.
Read and Woolley survey Wray's argument against critics of Kuhn who would say that there is no sharp different between normal science and revolution. Wray appeals to the fact, mentioned in Structure and developed by Kuhn in more detail later, that revolutions involve a substantial change in taxonomy. The world seen after the revolution is divided along different lines than it was before. Shared standards and data can be (perhaps must be) insufficient to determine the choice between rival taxonomies. So these transitions are importantly different than normal science.
This line of reasoning relies on underdetermination at the object-level of scientific theories and taxonomies. Read and Woolley note that it applies just as well at the meta-level, to the theories and taxonomies used in science studies. Yet the difference between normal science and revolution is just part of the taxonomy of Kuhn's account of science. Contra Wray, they conclude that we are not entitled to the conclusion that there really are revolutions.
They put the point this way:
Wray defends Kuhn's account in the way that he does, aiming to show that there 'really are' Kuhnian revolutions in science (p. 34). If overall taxonomies are underdetermined even in disciplines such as physics where there is ordinarily widespread agreement, it seems unclear what standards Wray could appeal to in order to justify the socio-historical claim that there 'really' are Kuhnian revolutions.
That much seems right to me, and it is anticipated in Structure. In Section VIII, Kuhn treats Hypothetico-Deductive philosophy of science as if it were a paradigm. It does not fit the history of science very well, so it faces anomalies. According to the the Kuhnian picture, adherents of a paradigm faced with such phenomena will make ad hoc revisions to accommodate them, but the puzzling phenomena may be tautological for a later paradigm. And (he suggests) this is just what obtains for the HD account and his proposed alternative. This does not prove that Kuhn's approach is true, however, any more than the anomaly proved that HD was false. So Kuhn himself makes the reflexive move. Just as he denies that (e.g.) a paradigm in chemistry gets to what's really real, he'd deny that his own historiographic paradigm does.
The concluding sentences of the review go wrong, however. Read and Woolley write:
'Paradigm' is not a scientific phenomenon but a term of art, a tool for enabling the historian to bring an order to the deeply challenging task of understanding defunct science without 'Whiggish' preconceptions. The idea of being a realist or an anti-realist about paradigms involves a misplaced concreteness. How, after all, could one meaningfully be a 'relativist' (or indeed a 'realist') about something that is only a term of art?
First, this seems confuse the word ('paradigm') with the things (paradigms). It's a word that's a term of art, but the question of realism arises for the things. It is coherent to ask whether there are really paradigms, just as it is coherent to ask whether there are anglerfish or pions.
Second, this seems to infer from the fact that the term is a tool crafted for a specific purpose to the conclusion that the category cannot be part of the world. This is what I call amphibolic pragmatism, and I rail against it at some length in SENK.
Third, this asks too much of underdetermination. There is no sharp boundary in uncertainty between our knowledge of commonplace stuff (which might be hidden or far away), unobservable entities (which we can't see or sense in the way that I can see or sense a burrito), or natural kinds (which are structural features of the world rather than isolated particulars). Natural kinds, which may be picked out by terms of art, have as much claim to being real as commonplace stuff does. This is what I call equity realism.
Equity realism contrasts with deep realism, the project of fundamental metaphysics. (Again, this distinction is in the book.)
If Kuhnian considerations underwrite an argument against realism, it's against deep realism. Grant that ontology should be relativized to a way of seeing the world. Even within a paradigm, we can distinguish between the substantive commitments and the parts which are self-consciously arbitrary. So we can ask whether revolutions are posited to be features of the world or merely used as wrenches to dismantle Whiggish history. We can ask whether they are real, on par with the way trees and the plague are real, even if we can't say whether they are really real in real reality.
* DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axs032 [direct link]
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The train of citations
Monday, October 14, 2013, 02:42 PM - trivia
Some philosophers have a general picture of things which has been developed across a number of separate articles such that, every time they articulate it further, they cite all of the previous places where they've presented earlier or partial versions of it. If the view is never pulled together in a book, the self-citation just gets longer and longer with each presentation or extension of the view.
The observation is prompted by this sentence, which I wrote in a paper that I was working on today: "In earlier work, I've distinguished retail arguments for realism from wholesale arguments. [MC04][Mag10][Mag11][Mag12, pp. 120–3]"
It makes me think that I should write a book that serves as a retail argument manifesto, before it gets any worse.
The open access dragnet
Monday, October 7, 2013, 02:27 PM - open access
In Who's Afraid of Peer Review, recently published in Science, John Bohannon reports on an experiment he did with open access science journals. He sent them a spoof paper that had the form of a serious article but was chock full of horrible errors. Only about 38% of the journals rejected it. Bohannon also talked about the paper in a recent NPR interview.
The blog Games with Words points out that this fails as a test of open access journals, because it is not clear what the acceptance rate would have been at traditional, closed-access journals. Note that it doesn't help to say (as Bohannon does) that acceptance of the spoof paper probably occurred when an open access journal simply didn't bother with peer review, even if we also accept that closed journals all genuinely conduct peer review. The study has no way of distinguishing the absence of peer review from crap peer review, and some closed journals may conduct crap peer review.
This criticism is sharpened because failure to have a control group was one of the howlers in Bohannon's spoof paper. He says in the NPR interview:
It looked like real paper, not a joke. But if you peer-reviewed it, you would within five minutes see that it was so flawed that it could never be published. ... if you're claiming to have evidence that some chemical is a promising new drug, well, you better have tested at least on healthy cells. Because even if you show that it hurts cancer cells, how do you know what you have there isn't just a poison? So that's one thing that's just awful about the paper, is that it doesn't compare cancer cells to healthy cells at all.
So GamesWithWords retorts: "Science -- which is not open access -- published an obviously flawed article about open access journals publishing obviously flawed articles."
Nevertheless, it seems that Bohannon wasn't even trying to test open-access as such. He says, "Open-access is great and everyone believes that."
Instead, he says that his results could be used to separate the sham open-access journals (which print anything so as to scam author fees) from genuine ones (which conduct authentic peer review and try to publish good science). That doesn't require a control group. If the goal is to sort rotten open-access journals from good open-access journals, then we don't need to consider anything but the open-access journals.
Yet if that's the goal, then the percentage of acceptances really doesn't matter. What matters is using a reliable sorting process and publicizing the results. Journals by the Cairo-based publisher Hindawi rejected the paper. Journals by Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, and Sage accepted it.
And the fact that the results are presented as a percentage and series of anecdotes means that numerous readers will read it instead as a poor score for open-access as such. Brian Leiter, for example, links to the NPR interview just by writing "Open access journals in science: This story is a bit worrisome!"
Also note that Bohannon's experiment only tested journals that charge author fees. He explicitly excluded journals that don't. As I've noted before, it's the author-pays model that gives publishers like Elsevier, Kluwer, and Sage the incentive to run bogus, review-free journals.
The Batman paradigm
Saturday, October 5, 2013, 01:12 PM - ideas
I am teaching my Scientific Revolutions course this term, and so I've been rereading Kuhn. I also happened to be reading Roy Cook's recent article on canon in serial fiction.
Cook is especially interested in what he calls MSCFs: massive, serialized, collaborative fictions. Examples include long-running franchise worlds like those in comics (e.g., the DC comics multiverse) and film (e.g., Star Wars).
It occurred to me that the world of Batman, for example, is a paradigm in precisely Kuhn's sense. It begins with specific stories which are taken as canon. The stories are open-ended, in that they leave space for more stories to be told. Yet they also provide a promise of further adventure and a largely implicit constraint on what those further stores can be like.
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Happy eighth blogiversary!
Friday, October 4, 2013, 03:45 PM - about foe
Today marks the end of this blog's year eight.
Last year, I forgot to mark the blog-year until late November. This year, I wrote the blogiversary post ahead of time in June and dated it to appear today.
I did remember it in time, however, and so updated the post to say that the blog stands at 319 entries and 143,210 words just before this entry.
46 of those entries and 16,448 of those words were from the eighth year, which is quite an increase over the previous year. Many of the recent entries have been about the length of my papers and the size of the blog, and I refuse to guess what percentage of the words are on the topic word counts.
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The Rangers used pucks for the first time in camp yesterday, and held two scrimmages during the day's activities.
The first ended 3-2, with camp invitee Matt Maccarone scoring two goals and Matt Gilory having a stand out game, while the second finished in a 1-1 tie. Gilroy has a good shot to lock down one of the two open defensive spots.
Several veterans have caught the eye of coach John Tortorella, but not for the right reasons. Chris Higgins was one of those singled out by the coach for not pushing hard during skating drills. Higgins says that he's not surprised by the criticism and says Tortorella comes as advertised.
Marian Gaborik was held out of both games, but did skate in the drills later in the day. At least one person isn't too concerned about potential injury concerns, the player himself played down reading too much into reports of an early groin injury.
Brandon Dubinsky continues to holdout, and Larry Brooks writes he should simply wait his turn to cash in, pointing out parallels with Derek Jeter and Mariana Rivera of the Yankees.


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It is by no doubt that we treat our bodies like a machine. There is an input such as thoughts, ideas and conversations and there has to be an output such as projects and results but what we often miss out on is the waste material which gets dumped back into ourselves. With years hard work and taking too much stress I ended up with insomnia for three years and also managed to disrupt my menstrual health until sense knocked in. Following are eight ways I have kept my s*** together during my traveling, projects, jobs and all other engagements. Not to mention s*** from family and potential soulmates. So far, I am rocking at keeping it all intact and you can too!
1) Sauna and Steam bath: I never shy away from trying new things even if they pull me out of my comfort zone. This time it is about moving my body from the wheelchair to the sauna and steam rooms of many hotels I have stayed in. I always go for a 5 min session each and results are amazing! One feels more cleansed and fresh after a cold shower and there is certainly a mood lift. Also, I have met some amazing women inside sauna and have also had some deep conversations that I will never forget. If I am traveling, sauna and steam is a must and it is complimentary everywhere!
2) Meditation: is stupid. NOT! We all have been there where we question the actual results or benefits of meditation. I found it a waste of time in my initial days with no feeling ever. The whole idea of sitting idle and just breathing seemed boring. Until you start feeling changes inside you. I experienced creativity, clarity of mind and peace within after every session. It can be as short as 5 minutes to 20 minutes for me. The secret to meditation is that the less you do it, the more blank you feel but the more you do it the more you enjoy. I put an alarm and settle anywhere. I feel it's like a quick sweep of the mind.
3) Hijama (Cupping): This is also the practice of Prophet Muhammad (saw). The internet is all praise for curing many diseases including depression and anxiety. The truth is I am not sure if I have either or if my day is normal, so I had to try it to feel any difference. The therapist was very skilled and pricked with a sharp blade on the points I mentioned on my back and then placed suction cups on it let it bleed a bit. It did not hurt but rather was ticklish. The results right after were amazing. I felt lighter, in control of my problems and knew I will be fine. It was truly magical.
4) Swimming: I am a self-taught swimmer and the water itself has taught me some great lessons. One of them being about fear. The more you fear the water, the more it tries to swallow you. The more you move ahead with your stroke, the more it takes you forward. Its all about not letting fear overpower you. Swimming has known to be a great workout. It also releases endorphins which lifts our mood. I have always felt great during and after swimming and ensure to have positive affirmations while I am at it. It makes me feel good about myself, more active and is a great way to start my day.
5) Massage: I have had some great and some terrible massages. But all in all, they have helped me feel more pampered. Because why not? This is a great way to give your muscles a break and soothe any part that is overworked. I always request a shoulder massage during a facial and always feel rejuvenated later as it also leads to a good sleep and helps me relax my body.
6) Fragrances: I don't wear perfume but always have great air fresheners for my room, car, wardrobe, washroom and handbag. It always lifts my mood and makes me feel happy even if I am having a stressful day.
7) Menstrual Cycle (Read on even if you are a guy): I also understand my menstrual cycle and all the hormonal clash there may be during my dates. It is all very natural and nothing to be ashamed off. It also has no relation to my IQ or my leadership. It is as normal as having cravings during pregnancy. I ensure not to indulge in any serious conversation and eat healthy during that time. I never overpower myself during those days and give myself full allowance to remain isolated if I must. But this also means I meet deadlines earlier and let myself enjoy during those dates. Even having a good cry feels great and I don't deprive myself of feeling human.
8) Banana: Finally, I eat one Banana a day. It has properties to fight depression and uplift your mood. It has really worked so far, and I always feel happy throughout the day. I have one before swimming.
The truth is there will always be s*** to be taken care off. One can never escape their responsibilities or their fantasies. But there are ways to enjoy them as life goes on and reduce any ill effects on the body. I love being active, but nothing comes for free. Let's just make sure the price is our time, money and attention and never our health, relationships and emotions.


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Installations | Shows
← Salon.com – "Better loving through imagery" Dec. 2000
TUESDAY, DEC 5, 2000 09:08 PM CET
Better loving through imagery
A pair of video artists try to turn the TV into a love machine with a nonpornographic video designed to steer your gaze toward your partner.
by VIRGINIA VITZTHUM
Rather than waste millions on Super Bowl Sunday, Willy Mal kicked off the Exoptic Fields ad campaign in the August-September issue of the Utne Reader. "The video to end all videos," blared the tiny ad, will "lure your eyes away from the screen by design." Packaged like a bottle of pills, the tape is indicated "for the relief of TV and Internet addiction. Warning: May intensify off-screen sensations."
Since the ad appeared, Willy Mal (the name he's using for this project) has sold 100 copies of the Exoptic Fields tape. He decided to aim the second "deflective" video at something more compelling than turning off the television: sex. He enlisted video artist Benton-C Bainbridge to produce a video to pull viewers' eyes toward the bodies in the room. The result is the 45-minute "Blind Heat." Bainbridge and Mal chose the length because it was 10 times the national average for coitus, according to a stat they read somewhere.
Mal's exoptic fields concept includes a smidgen of optical science about which colors are perceived better with peripheral vision (blue, green and yellow). The first Exoptic Fields video employs those principles: It's one hour of a brick wall turning slowly blue, then greenish yellow, then blue again from a horizontal line in the middle outwards. It is boring but vaguely pleasant, something that could decorate a nightclub wall. I didn't make it all the way through, but I didn't feel my eyes pushed away either.
"Blind Heat" is much more watchable, even though Mal's ad copy claims that it too works through "benign sensory negation — 'deflection' — in electronic media. Such deflective media strive to subtract all stimulation." Bainbridge liked the idea of "taking over the home entertainment center," but he tweaked the exoptic concept somewhat. He doesn't want people to avert their eyes, but rather to pay the same peripheral attention they pay to music, which he refers to as "decorating the air." His aim is for "people to use video to shape a visual space the way music shapes a sonic space."
He made "Blind Heat" using analog audio/video synthesis, which dates back to Nam June Paik's work in the 1960s, but is rarely employed in these digital times. "The same electrical signals used to make sound can be used to make video, though not that many people know that," he says. "There's only one studio in the world dedicated to this kind of work that the public can use." He spent a week setting up the software, then "painted" the piece live, in real time, with a synthesizer.
"Blind Heat" is visual make-out music for people who prefer DJ Spooky to Sinatra. It sounds like stripped-down ambient, a drum machine subtly distorted and stretched. But "Blind Heat" doesn't look like other high-tech video art, which all too often resembles a software demonstration. It's more like a vaguely biological Abstract Expressionist painting dancing and marching to skittering rhythms.
The packaging plays with the porn association: The videotape is red, with a painted X in the middle. The spine reads "Blind Heat: set your love life on fire," then in tiny print "(no nudity or sex acts depicted)." Both men say they find porno generally crude and stupid; Bainbridge calls it "less sexy than even advertising!"
I ask Mal and Bainbridge if they'd test-driven their video for its marketed purpose. Bainbridge composed "Blind Heat" with the inspiration and help of a girlfriend, but they broke up before he finished, so he's only shared the experience thus far with Mr. Left Hand. He thinks his solo session was enhanced by the video but admits it may have been because it made him think of his ex. Mal, married for 12 years, says he and his wife had unusually hot sex while the tape played beside their bed.
But what else is the exoptic mastermind going to say? I enlisted a horny couple to give it a whirl, and I also watched all 45 minutes myself.
I pop the tape in after discussing it with Mal on the phone. He reemphasizes that it's nothing like porn, though enhanced sex is its goal. "You can't expect the tape to do it for you. You've got to do it. It's like if I'm stroking my dick, that's supposed to be pleasurable, but if other factors aren't lined up, it's not."
After we hang up, I turn my full, non-peripheral gaze to the screen, where vagina-shaped red blobs pulsate bigger and smaller to a vaguely martial snare drum. The red blobs alternate with black blobs, back and forth on a green background that looks sort of like tendons. After a few minutes, I decide the red blobs are penises despite their female shape and the black blobs are the corresponding holes, but I also see tissues or cells under a microscope. Clusters of white dots cast a slimy sheen on everything.
The images and sound vary slightly every time, but follow a basic pattern, a 23-second cycle. (I know I'm not using the video sexily enough when Bainbridge and Mal say later that the cycle's news to them; they haven't even timed the intervals.) Each cycle starts out pounding and fizzles into silence as a white lattice flutters down over the images. This shimmering curtain reminds me variously of lace, calcification, veins and orgasms. It keeps me thinking about bodies.
But the short cycles are the opposite of a build to orgasm, more like small waves that lap onto the shore and recede without ever cresting. Perhaps it's frustration with this aimlessness that's supposed to lead the audience to fool around. Perhaps the narrative arc toward climax is being negated or subtracted by this endless loop, which leads the couple (or self-lover) to fill in that blank.
At this point, lo and behold, I start to feel a little warm down there. Is it video-inspired lust? Boredom? Work ethic? Self-regard over my clever theorizing? I find I'm not sufficiently ashamed by any of those motivations to keep my pants on.
But once the exoptic devil has busied my idle hands, the video doesn't move me along. I try squinting, but then it just looks red and green and makes me think of Christmas — whoa. Christmas not sexy: quick, reprogram! I shut my eyes, but then I'm listening for variations in the cycles, and the sound quickly becomes monotonous. Then I think about what Mal said about the video, specifically the "stroking my dick" part. That's better. Though I like "Blind Heat" as art, I find I actually have to tune it out in order to come. I don't think this is the next Viagra.
My friends Henry and June (not their real names) are even less convinced. Henry says the sound reminds him of "a relaxation record from the '70s" and the video was "kind of offensive. It looked a little bloody, like cells." June, a musician, said she wanted sounds more overtly sexy, like panting and moaning.
Both agreed that the looping hindered sex. "At first, the rhythm of it worked with what we were doing," June reports, "but after a while we wound down like clockwork. Making love didn't have the natural ending it usually does." Their session was shorter than usual and ended before the 45-minute tape was over; June says the sex was actually worse than usual."
She adds that the light flickering on Henry's skin "looked sort of cool, but not nearly as nice as candlelight." Bainbridge also brings up fire in our interview, saying he wanted to "warm up the room visually. Fire was our first television, and I want to take the screen back to its roots. A campfire is not so enveloping you can't talk with the person beside you, and it's great to look at, but eventually you look at the person beside you and notice the light on them."
Bainbridge likes my comparison to waves, even though I (and June) found those rhythms stalling the climb toward orgasm. At least waves are natural and not overmediated like so much modern experience, Bainbridge says. "We're so far past the 'Plato's cave' shadow metaphor. Now it's like the Xeroxed, scanned JPG of the photograph of the shadow of the reflection on the cave wall. I was trying to reflect more the rhythms inside me that I associate with lovemaking or passion."
It is sexy to make love to the sound of ocean waves and in flickering light. And contemplating art can make one, if not specifically horny, at least opened up, receptive, tender. Yet this flickering, whooshing art video isn't sexy to three out of three test subjects, and even its creator may have been fantasizing about his ex. That gap between intent and achievement underscores what huge wind machines the exoptic fields project is tilting at — not just corporate media, but its seedy cousin pornography.
By trying to take sex back from its commodifiers, the project follows rabble-rousing avant-garde movements like dada and situationism. The playful gesture is generally the point in such tiny art "revolutions" and "Blind Heat" doesn't aspire to pornography, but still I wonder why the video didn't incite more lust, if only placebo lust.
Perhaps we should blame the media's genius at creating unquenchable desire — we've been programmed to respond only to pornographic and advertising images. Or maybe, no matter how often we say we prefer the suggestive to the obvious, we're born needing human bodies (present, depicted or imagined) to reliably turn us on. Either way — regardless of why we're so narrow sexually — we're the opposite aesthetically, and especially diverse when it comes to abstract art. One man's electric campfire is another man's bloody cells.
Mal acknowledges the grand absurdity of his mission to cure TV numbness with arty videotapes, but he swears the project is no put-on. He is genuinely alarmed that "the sublime is being flattened by the ever-more-perfect relationship with media. Anyone can find something to entertain them and they could watch it forever. To respond to that, I thought, why not reverse the equation, come up with an aesthetics that would be deflective rather than attractive. And if it works, it would heighten sexual response, because it would create a negative space inside this flattened one-dimensional world."
Even if deflection doesn't globally overthrow attraction — a fairly good possibility — "Blind Heat" and Exoptic Fields' videos could work locally, Mal says. "Our product is made as something you exchange. Somebody hands the tape to someone and says, 'Here's a video that's made to make you look away.' Maybe the person laughs, but they also think about its opposite, about how most media works on you."
Virginia Vitzthum is a writer living in New York.


Most of you already know how this goes. You simply make a statement about the person above you.
No answers. Only questions. You can answer the questions ONLY with questions. How are you today?
I /kinda/ stole this from IMDB.com...just a little :onfire: At a funeral : "Why so serious?"


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Q: how to increase Speed of a component made from Javascript or JQuery? I want to make my component faster, I am using Javascript and JQuery to build that.
I am using JSON object to communicate with component and back-end is python.
Is there any suggestion to make component faster?

A: Setup some analysis to see what takes time to process. Then decide if you want to try to optimize the javascript and client code, the communication up/down with the server or the actual speed of the python execution. When you have decided what you want to make faster, you can post samples of that to this site and people will probably be willing to help you.

A: On the client side, you can benchmark your script(s) using getTime()
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And see what is taking long in a script exactly.
But its hard do tell what could be optimized if you don't post any code.

A: If speed is the issue, and you by profiling discover that js is the culprit, then I would look into replacing the jQuery with vanilla javascript, or a more optimized library.
As jQuery tries to do 'everything' and trains its users into wrapping everything in $(), its bound to introduce unnecessary method calls (I've seen that a single call to $() can result in upto 100+ method calls).


When you go to a yoga class you might hear the teacher mention Mudras. This can seem a strange concept if you are relatively new to yoga and you might feel a little unsure of what to use and when. Understanding more about Mudras and the most commonly used ones can set your mind at rest and help you get the best from the class.
In Sanskrit, the word Mudra means 'closure' or 'seal'. Mudras use the hands to create a flow of energy in the body, especially when meditating or during breathing sequences. There is a connection from areas of the hands to corresponding regions of the body, so using a specific placement of hands creates the Mudra. When we make these gestures, we are stimulating areas of the brain which generates an energy circuit in the body. This, in turn, helps to put the mind into the right state for our yogic work.
These are some of the most commonly used Mudras, so you might come across these in classes and understanding them better will help you feel more relaxed when using them on the mat in front of other students.
When the thumb and index finger touch to form a circle, this is called Gyana Mudra. The alternative name is Chin Mudra. It is essential the three other fingers are touching and extended. The purpose of this Mudra is to aid concentration and enhance creativity. If performed with the hand facing upwards you are in a receptive state of mind, if the palm is placed on the leg you wish to have a more grounded state.
Hands in prayer. When the hands are placed flat and palms together and held in front of the body, this is a gesture of respect, to the universe and yourself. This Mudra also speaks of honour, love and gratitude and will often be used as a greeting and accompanied by the word Namaste.
When the thumb is used to touch the little finger, this is Buddhi Mudra. The purpose is to stimulate initiative communication. This Mudra can help with your own intuitive knowledge and generate feelings of openness and open channels of communication.
Resting your hands in your lap, you allow your upturned right hand to rest in the open upturned palm of your left hand, somewhat like a basket. Bring the thumbs to touch at the tips, and you have Dhyana Mudra. This gentle gesture creates an open and receptive state of meditation and is a calming and soothing energy for the body. It is an excellent place to rest your hands if you are looking to find answers while in quiet contemplation as it signifies and openness to receive.


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