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Designing & setting up various robots, manipulators & cranes.
I really have no idea, I might have gone into Maths/Physics but it's the applied nature of engineering that makes it great.
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What would happen if you would point a laser pointer through lots of lens would it make it more dangerous?


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#1895: Willa Cather to Elsie Cather, [late July 1922]
My Dear Bobbie1;
I could never tell you how deeply happy your letter about Claude3 made me. I think it's awfully hard to ge get a detached attitude toward material ome knows so well as you do much of that, and it's a great comfort to me to km know that it does not jar on you. Sometme I would like to te tell you how that story grew.
I am having a lovely two weeks here4. all the people are so kind and sympathetic. There are a dozen or more young college men who are like a band of pages im waiting,- ready to do anything. They dash down the moumtains twelve miles t to the village to get denatured alcohol for my tea machine, or up the mountains into the wild gorges to get rare orchid for me. One of them has given me his lovely little log cabi cabin to work in, and his Corona5, which as yet I cannot use very successfully.
The lectures do take a good deal out of meKK somehow I can do nothing easily, but the people are so appreciative. At the end of the first evening lecture the Dean of the school6. a young Proferror of Literature7 from Amherst, another fro, Holyoke8 and one from Oberlin9 really were in tears. sure enough tears. They came up to me and said they had never heard anything said on Literature that had so moved and uplifted them. The Amherst man said "it was just music, golden music". Edith10 had an amusing time because some of them came at her with such gems as "She looks so handsome when she speaks, her head is like sculpture. she becomes another being" etc. It is pleasant, and wearing. to give people intense pleasure. One must not do it often.
Dear Mother11, you would be pleased if you knew what a constant comfort the big gray wolly scarf you sent me at Christmas time is to my neuritis back. I carry it with heme everywhere, and if a cold breeze comes up it saves me. I had it dies a lovely orange-henna color before I left New York12, as the gray tint was hard and unbecomming.
With heaps of love to you both Willie
Do let me know what you decide about staying at home13, this winter, or not staying, just as soon as you know yourself, dear sister.
Please return
Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only, with note in an unknown hand on verso.
Elsie Cather1
[late July 1922]
Cather arrived at Bread Loaf on July 12 (#0609) and left on August 6 (#2529), indicating that this letter was written in late July 1922.
Middlebury, Vermont, United States2
The Bread Loaf summer school of English was started in 1920 on the model of Middlebury College's already active summer schools in foreign languages. It offered master's-level graduate courses in English and American literature, pedagogy, public speaking and debate, modern drama, and composition. As a faculty member and writer-in-residence in 1922, Cather agreed to give five lectures: three on writing, one on the writer's relationship to the magazine editor, and the final a question-and-answer session with students.
A Corona typewriter.
Cather, Elsie Margaret (1890-1964) ("Bobbie"). Cather's sister. Born in Red Cloud, NE, shortly before Willa Cather graduated from high school, Elsie attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln from 1908 to 1910, before transferring to Smith College, in Northampton, MA, from which she graduated with an A.B. in English and Latin in 1912. She undertook graduate study at the University of Nebraska in 1914 and in 1916 received her A.M. with a major in philosophy and a minor in English. At both the undergraduate and the graduate level at Nebraska, she studied under Louise Pound. She began a career in high school teaching in 1912, when she took a position in Lander, WY, where her brother Roscoe then lived with his family. She also taught in Albuquerque, NM; Corning, IA; Cleveland, OH; and briefly Red Cloud, when illness in the family brought her home. Her longest tenure as a teacher was at Lincoln (NE) High School, where she began teaching in 1920, with Olivia Pound and Mariel Gere as colleagues. Willa Cather's expectation that Elsie be responsible for aging family and friends and for legal affairs after their parents' deaths sometimes brought the sisters into conflict. Elsie Cather retired from Lincoln High School in 1942. She died in Lincoln.
Davison, Wilfred Edward (1887-1929). American academic. Born in South Walden, VT, Wilfred Davison graduated from Middlebury College in 1913 and pursued graduate work at Harvard and Columbia. He taught in the German department at Middlebury before transferring to the American Literature department in 1921. As the first dean of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer program of Middlebury, Davison recruited nationally-known faculty and invited visiting writers, including Willa Cather, Robert Frost, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher to interact with the school's students.
Whicher, George Frisbie (1889-1954). Amherst College English professor. After receiving a PhD from Columbia University in 1913, Whicher taught at Amherst College, his alma mater, from 1915 to 1954. The most notable of his many books and translations was a critical biography of Emily Dickinson, This Was a Poet (1938). Whicher sometimes taught at the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer program of Middlebury College in Vermont. He and his wife, Harriet Fox Whicher, met Cather there in 1922 when she came to give four lectures about writing. Cather enjoyed the company of their two sons, John Fox Whicher and Stephen Emerson Whicher, and she corresponded with Harriet and George until late in life.
Whicher, Harriet Fox (1890-1966). Mount Holyoke College English Professor. Harriet Fox earned a BA from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City in 1910 and an MA from Columbia in 1911. She was an instructor in the Barnard College and Smith College English Departments before she began a long career teaching English at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, from 1918 to 1944. Her long friendship with Cather began in 1922 when she and her husband, George Frisbie Whicher, met Cather at the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer program of Middlebury College in Vermont. Cather enjoyed the company of their two sons, John Fox Whicher and Stephen Emerson Whicher, and she corresponded with Harriet and George until late in life. After Harriet Whicher's retirement from teaching she worked as a freelance copy editor at McGraw Hill and edited a collection of her deceased husband's essays and speeches.
Lampson, Ruth Murdock (1879-1976). Oberlin College English professor. Born in Akron, OH, Ruth Murdock earned her BA from Middleburry College in 1902 and her MA from Oberlin college in 1920. She married Everett Lampson in 1912; the couple had one son, Edward. As a member of the Bread Loaf School of English in 1922, she met Willa Cather. In 1947, she retired from teaching English at Oberlin, where she had taught for many years. Her memoir In Other Days: A Golden Age Remembered appeared in 1961.
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
One of Ours (1922) by Willa Cather

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A troubled teenage boy, growing up in a dreamless wilderness and isolated from those around him, is stripped of his dignity as his father abandons him for the outside world which he is trying to retreat from.
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A lower-class Chinese family moves to a big city for a living. The father and his son Xiao Lee, an 18-year-old teenager who dreams of becoming a singer, begin working hard labor in a Christmas decoration factory. Reluctant to face reality, Xiao Lee decides to make a change to pursue his dream.
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Three generations follow different paths to the same destiny in this suspenseful drama encompassing deception and time travel, as entire lifetimes play out in the space of minutes.
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First in first out is a shelving technique used in supermarkets. Stephan must place the freshest products behind the oldest ones. Products nearing their sell-by date must be destroyed. When going to the bins in the basement, Stephan will have to face those who could still benefit from them, but who are excluded by the system.
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Округ (, , ) је српски назив за управно подручје у Републици Србији. Речи истог или сличног облика и значења срећу се и у другим словенским језицима. Дата српска реч је одговарајућа енглеској речи дистрикт (-{district}-).

Порекло и развој речи
Реч округ  је словенског порекла. Изведена је од речи круг, у значењу: окружено, обухваћено, опасано подручје. На сличан начин изведене су и речи сличног значења у још неким индоевропским језицима (, ).

Дата реч се среће у већини словенских језика, где је махом очувала првобитно значење (мада је негде застарела, нпр. у чешком језику):
 округ = () = () = () = () = ()

Појам округа у државама

Србија

У данашњој Републици Србији постоји подела на 29 округа + Град Београд. Најновија подела Србије на округе спроведена је 1992. године, уместо дотадашњих заједница општина, а раније срезова.

Бугарска

У Бугарској је подела државе на округе постојала у раздобљу од 1946. до 1987. године, после чега је земља издељена на области.

Русија

У историји Русије од Царске Русије преко СССР-а до данашње Русије окрузи као засебне јединице јављали су се више пута и у различитим облицима и нивоима месне самоуправе.

Током Царске Русије окрузи су били засебне подручне јединице настањене козацима са великим степеном самоуправе. Исти су укинути 1920. године, са пропашћу старог система управе.

У прво време Совјетског Савеза окрузи су били главни облик управне поделе државе. До 1930. године већина датих округа је укинута и уступила место рејонима. Једино је у области Закарпатја појам округа остао устаљен до дан-данас.

Године 1970. правно су створени национални окрузи, који су већ 1977. године преиначени у аутономне округе. Дате самоуправне јединице су образоване за подручја матично насељена од стране малобројних и раштрканих мањина у Сибиру. Аутономни окрузи су се очували и у савременој Русији, иако је последњих година неколико укинуто. (види → Аутономни окрузи Русије).

У савременој Русији су 2000. године правно су створени 7 федералних округа, као највише поделе државе. Године 2010, створен је и осми округ. Дате самоуправне јединице су образоване од више нижих федералних јединица (махом федералних република, крајева и области). Права федералних округа су прилично ограничена. (види → Федерални окрузи Русије).

Поред свега, у савременој Русији правно постоје и градски окрузи, који обухватају подручје града средње величине (најчешће 50-100 хиљ. становника.). Друге јединице сличне величине и броја становника нису окрузи, већ су рејони — сеоски рејони или рејони са обухватом мањег града и његове сеоске околине. На крају, у свакодневном говору реч округ се спомиње и у изразима попут сеоског округа, станичног округа итд., све у поимању средишњег места са околином, без правног или управног значаја.

Види још
 Општина
 Покрајина
 Област
 Срез
 Дистрикт
 Град (словенско значење)

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Ponce de Leon és una població del Comtat de Holmes a l'estat de Florida dels Estats Units d'Amèrica

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000 Ponce de Leon tenia una població de 457 habitants, 200 habitatges, i 131 famílies. La densitat de població era de 35,6 habitants/km².

Dels 200 habitatges en un 30% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 48,5% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 11,5% dones solteres, i en un 34,5% no eren unitats familiars. En el 29,5% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 14,5% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,29 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,82.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 24,9% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 6,3% entre 18 i 24, un 24,9% entre 25 i 44, un 28% de 45 a 60 i un 15,8% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 40 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 92,7 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 25.521 $ i la renda mediana per família de 33.250 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 26.339 $ mentre que les dones 13.750 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 14.673 $. Entorn del 16,9% de les famílies i el 19,3% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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Entitats de població de Florida


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No cars inside the city. Cars are parked in outlying parking lots.
Of the lanes without obstacles, which provide a traffic continues without the need to slow down or to stop.
Cargo bikes are used for delivery, transportation of patients non-urgent, police patrols and transport of less than 500 kg.
Despite the fact that the city can count thousands of inhabitants, there so never more than a few vehicles in the city. These vehicles (emergency, fire,..) have a speed limited to 15 km/h except for emergencies when they use their siren.
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When I headed up into North Carolina, I went toward the mountains and visited an abandoned Mill where wild lavender grew. I went on a few hikes that just became more and more wooded the closer to the Appalachian mountains. For the first time since New Mexico, I was driving over rolling hills. Meeting more folks from small towns and getting away from cities and back to nature.
and buying a homeless man some coffee in exchange for good conversations. I visited different grave yards around the area and drove north north north. I very soon crossed into South Carolina, where I almost got in a huge collision with an oncoming high speed police pursuit.
Ah, one more thing I encountered in South Carolina was the African village of Oyotunji. A strange off the grid African village, with amazing homes, temple and art. I ended up having breakfast with the folks of the village, and then was invited to a down by the river ceremony. I kindly declined because I felt a little out of place and did not want to impose, though I did see everyone down on the river later in the day while I was driving to the ruins of an abandoned church.


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Seems a complete reset of the pairing settings and com settings on both devices did the trick. Can't really tell who's was to blame, and what setting did it, but it now works again.


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99.) No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
100.) Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.


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Q: SceneKit collision detection is not being detected I can't figure out why my collisions aren't being detected. I hope you can figure out why, because it's causing me a lot of issues and I need to learn how to do this properly. Swift, SceneKit.
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I want a collision to occur between a ball and box node. My box node is mainBox, and my ball is... ball.
 ball.position = SCNVector3Make(0, 1.75, 3)
    ball.geometry = ballGeometry
    ballMaterial.diffuse.contents = UIColor.greenColor()
    ballGeometry.materials = [ballMaterial]
    scene.rootNode.addChildNode(ball)
    ball.physicsBody = SCNPhysicsBody(type: .Dynamic, shape: SCNPhysicsShape(geometry: ballGeometry, options: nil))
    ball.physicsBody?.angularVelocityFactor = SCNVector3Make(0, 0, 0)
    ball.physicsBody?.angularVelocity = SCNVector4Make(0, 0, 0, 0)
    ball.name = "sphere"
    ball.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = bodyNames.Person
    ball.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = bodyNames.Floor
    ball.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = bodyNames.Floor
    ball.physicsBody?.affectedByGravity = true
    ball.addChildNode(cameraNode)

    mainBox.position = SCNVector3Make(0, -0.75, 2)
    mainBox.geometry = mainBoxGeometry
    mainBoxMaterial.diffuse.contents = UIColor.whiteColor()
    mainBox.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = bodyNames.Floor
    mainBox.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = bodyNames.Person
    mainBox.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = bodyNames.Person
    mainBox.physicsBody = SCNPhysicsBody.staticBody()
    mainBoxGeometry.materials = [mainBoxMaterial]
    mainBox.name = "floor"
    scene.rootNode.addChildNode(mainBox)

And now where the magic happens, but also where the magic isn't happening...
 func physicsWorld(world: SCNPhysicsWorld, didBeginContact contact: SCNPhysicsContact) {

    let nodeA = contact.nodeA
    let nodeB = contact.nodeB

    if nodeA.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Person && nodeB.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Floor || nodeA.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Floor && nodeB.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Person {

        print("I collided with the damn box.")

    }

}

Oh and this thing is where the bodyNames comes from.
struct bodyNames {

static let Person = 0x1 << 1
static let Floor = 0x1 << 2

}

Let me know if I need to add more code to be answered, I'd be happy to do so.

A: have u checked whether didBeginContact visited or not?
if visited, check the if condition
nodeA.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Person && nodeB.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Floor || nodeA.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Floor && nodeB.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask == bodyNames.Person

if not visited at all, u have to check whether physicsBody of world, box and ball config correctly

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The woman had been carrying a four-month-old dead foetus, in a calcified (stone-like) condition, in her abdomen for the past 15 years. She had conceived the baby in her abdomen instead of the uterus. Dr Nilesh Junankar removed the mass successfully, and the woman has been relieved of the terrible pain and other associated problems she had been suffering due to it all these years.
This was the woman's second baby, which she had aborted as per the obstetrician treating her, since the family had decided against a second child.
The 'stone baby' or Lithopedion, as it is called in medical terms, is a very rare occurrence and so far only about 300 such cases have been reported in past 400 years worldwide. The first such case was reported by an Arab physician Abu-al-Quasim (936-1013) in the 10th century. Since it was not known to Greek and Roman physicians then, it was not mentioned in the writings of Hippocrates. Dr Junankar told TOI that the chances of abdominal pregnancy are one in 11,000 pregnancies, and only 1.5 to 1.8% of the abdominal pregnancies develop into Lithopedion.
Dr Junankar said the patient had her first baby in 2000. But she became pregnant again in 2002. The family didn't want a second baby, so they opted for a medical termination. The baby was then aborted and she resumed her periods. "Since no sonography was done, neither she nor the doctor thought the baby was still there. Since MTP was done in early pregnancy, there was no need for a sonography. She used to have recurrent pain in abdomen and visited several doctors. Everyone treated her for the symptoms," he said.
Over the years, the pain and misery increased. She started vomiting. One of her friends referred her to Dr Junankar, who found in CAT scan investigations an obstruction in the intestine, which was blocking the digestive system.
"I first performed a laparoscopic surgery, but couldn't succeed. Then I went for open surgery and had to remove about four feet of intestine, which was completely damaged. It came as a surprise to all present in the operation theatre as a fully developed baby foetus was stuck to the intestine. But luckily, other parts were not damaged. Had the intestine itself torn, there would have been serious consequences. The patient could have even died. The patient had stopped menstruating five years back and out of child bearing age. She was lucky to have survived like this," said Dr Junankar.


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Royal Mail unveils Rolling Stones stamps
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 11 January 2022
Yet more musical stamps? Yes, more musical stamps. Stamps that are musical! All hail the musical stamps! By which, I mean, Royal Mail are launching another set of stamps celebrating musical greats. The stamps themselves are not musical. Maybe I should have said that from the start. Sorry for the disappointment.
The musical greats being celebrated this time are The Rolling Stones. Marking the 60th anniversary of the band, there are eight stamps featuring photos of them playing gigs around the world, from their Hyde Park show in 1969 to a gig in East Rutherford, New Jersey in 2019. There's then two more stamps featuring photos of the band's post-1993 line up, and two more featuring old gig posters.
Says Royal Mail's David Gold: "Few bands in the history of rock have managed to carve out a career as rich and expansive as that of The Rolling Stones. They have created some of modern music's most iconic and inspirational albums, with ground-breaking live performances to match".
The stamps will be available from 20 Jan. Have a look at them here.
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Zion National Park has its origins in the Progressive Era, when when President Taft declared the area where Zion is now (near Springdale, UT) as Mukuntuweap National Monument to preserve Zion's main canyon. The National Parks Service, which was created by Congress in 1916, changed the name to Zion in 1918 as the original Pauite name, meaning "straight canyon," was unpopular. Zion, the Hebrew word for sanctuary and one that resontated with surrounding Mormon (LDS) communities, was thought a much better name to capture its beauty. Only one year later Congress changed this monument into Utah's first national park: Zion National Park.
The first director of the National Parks Service, Stephen Mather, recognized that Zion's isolated location made it hard for people to visit, so he promoted road construction through the park. One road had already been built in 1917, which went from the present day visitor's center to the Grotto area. This, along with the very first visitor's center, Camp Wylie, offered visitors places to plan their day in the park. One of the first projects after Zion was made a national park was the Mt. Carmel Highway and tunnels. Construction began in 1927 and was completed and open for the public a little under three years later in 1930. The 1.1 mile long Mr. Carmel tunnel stood firm until one of the sandstone pillars collapsed in 1958 and had to be closed a few weeks for construction. The tunnel is now electronically monitored around the clock in order to give warning of any recurrence or weaknesses.
In 2012, Zion National Park was the 6th most visited national park with 2,973,607 visitors. These numbers kept growing, and in 2016 the park had 4,317,028 visitors. These visitors enjoy driving, hiking, and rappelling through Zion's magnificent canyons.
Rachel Nyfeler, Brigham Young University, "Creation and Development of Zion National Park," Intermountain Histories, accessed April 19, 2019, https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/49.
Alexander, Thomas G. Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2003). Errick, Jennifer, from the National Parks Conservation Association website. "Park Service Releases Most-Visited National Park Data for 2012," available at https://www.npca.org/articles/202-park-service-releases-most-visited-national-park-data-for-2012#sm.000011ic7x6e6vdwhsnztkdq370l8. National Parks Service. "Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway and Tunnel," available at https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/historyculture/zmchighway.htm. National Parks Service. "Park Visitation Statistics," available at https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/management/park-visitation-statistics.htm. National Parks Service. "Mukuntuweap National Monument and Zion National Monument," available at https://www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/antiquities/profileMukuntuweap.htm "Zion National Park Officially Set Apart." Times Independent, December, 18, 1919. Available at https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=20247689&q=zion+national+park&rows=50&sort=rel&date_tdt=%5B+1914-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z+TO+1937-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z+%5D#t_20247689.


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Quinces are steeped in a history stretching back nearly 4 000 years in the Caspian Sea area and particularly around ancient Babylon.
This curious shaped 'apple' will perfume the air of any room with their intense aroma, released from where they may rest in a bowl or basket.
It is versatile and can be cooked or roasted and used for jams, marmalade, jellies, pudding or in stews.
Over the weekend, while I acted as tourist-guide for our friend and her two children visiting from Canada, Keith decided to make quince jelly. In this way he could escape the road-works and seemingly endless 'stop-goes' that currently occur between the neighbouring towns of Ashton and Montagu.
Coming home just before lunch, the aroma of quinces cooking met me on the stone kitchen stoep as I came around the corner of the house. The cool fragrant house was in contrast to the 38°C outside.
Quince jelly is quite an intense process of cooking, of straining pulp, and of cooking and straining a second time before the sugar is added to the juice for the final cooking. The pink jelly is worth all the trouble. It can lift a venison dish and transform a cold leg of lamb into something quite exotic.
The ancient Greeks believed that quince trees sprung up from wherever Aphrodite stepped when she was born from the foaming sea, thus linking the fruits with love and fertility. For this reason, the fruit was often offered as a wedding gift by both the Greeks and Romans.
Quinces symbolise love and fertility and consequently, all quince trees were sacred to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Greek brides would bite into a quince to perfume her kiss before entering the bridal chamber.
I think Aphrodite would approve of the quince jelly that was made in the Towerwater kitchen on Saturday.
I love the mythology of the quince, thanks. Now to find someone about to marry!


It is something you hope and pray you will never have to experience. What others do not even wish upon their foes. It is something you cannot even bring yourself to imagine. You read it in history books and saw it in movies – the volcanic ash burying an entire city alive in Pompeii in 79 AD – but you never thought it would happen so close to you, or rather to you.
You looked away when in movies people were burnt alive. Or were screaming because they were drowning. But now. Now it became a reality, developing right in front of your eyes. A raging fire aided by gushing winds and, suddenly, property became ashes and lives disappeared within seconds.
You didn't want to even think about what it was like to lose everything. Now you have to answer for yourself.
You were looking forward to a summer, one that would create new memories, not one where you would consider yourself lucky if you even survived it.
'Painful' cannot even begin to describe it all. Whatever others say, do or act will never appease you. It won't bring anything back. It won't make anything better.
You lie on the ground outdoors on a rugged blanket someone donated. You look at the starry night not because you're out camping or because you want to, but because there is no other option and there is nowhere else to be.
And all you can do is hope.
That it will not rain.
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny". It is one of the inspirational quotes by renowned physicist Stephen Hawking who passed away today.
Having lived to the age of 76, more than 50 years older than the age doctors told him he could expect to reach after being diagnosed in 1963 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease, Hawking was an awe-inspiring human apart from an innovative scientist. He was the person who truly proved that "however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at".
There is a quote that says, "imagine if trees gave free WiFi; we'd all be planting like crazy. Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe".
Trees are more important and vital for our lives than we believe or even give them credit for. They contribute to their environment by providing oxygen, improving air quality, climate amelioration, conserving water, preserving soil, and supporting wildlife. They produce the wood we use to light our fireplaces in the winter, make our furniture, even the paper we write on. Yet, we cut them down without second thoughts.
It is no wonder then, that when we come across a tree that is centuries old we treat it as a wonder of nature. We stand before it dumbfounded, gazing at this stupendous sight. And it makes you truly feel small and insignificant.
There is a place in North Evia, Greece, somewhere along that nature-blazing road that has you driving among trees, on your way towards the Kyreas River, in between the villages of Prokopi and Mantoudi. There is this place where a sign will direct you to the "Great Platanus". A plane tree that residents will tell you has been there for centuries. It is "a tree of huge dimensions", as the sign reads, a "monument of nature". A Platanus Orientalis. It is 22-23 metres tall, with its trunk's circumference reaching 18 metres, its trunk diameter at 5.5 metres, the surface of its stem at 900 square metres, and its shadow said to be once stretching over 2.5 acres. Its age is estimated at 500-600 years, although some say that it exceeds 2,300 years! It is said that this is the most ancient Platanus in the Balkans, perhaps even the whole of Europe.
Its tree trunks are larger than what can fit in your wide-open arms. It stands imposing before you and, even though lacking in foliage and somewhat deserted and with broken branches, the vastness of this tree is not diminished. Rather, it is a refreshing site in a world full of asbestos and tar. There is also a huge hollow in its trunk, big enough for 10 or more people standing. In it, you suddenly forget all the problems that trouble your head daily. You take a deep breath and simply be grateful for being alive. For being there. And for being able to witness this. Just think about all the changes this tree may have witnessed. It was there before you and will probably remain so even after you.
As with all over-aged creatures, there are myths and legends surrounding this tree. For example, it is said that if someone falls asleep in its hollow, they will fall ill or harm will come to them, as goblins will come out and cast a spell on them. In another legend, if you are found at midnight under the tree, you will hear voices, music, violins and clarinets, and see fairies and goblins appear dancing at the shores of the river. In yet another, it is said that at midnight two large rams come out of the platanus and start noisily fighting each other. This tree is often associated with fairies and goblins as it was believed that, being over-aged, it was also haunted.
No matter the stories, however, the reality remains that this, like so many others, is part of our natural heritage and should be protected and preserved. We devote so much of our time, energy and funds to things that matter less, yet we abandon those that benefit us more.
N.B. All photos are mine, taken in North Evia, Greece, on 28 October 2017.
Imagine if one of the most successful people you knew suddenly disappeared. Now imagine that months, maybe even years, later he showed up at your door completely changed. Imagine if he told you that he had sold all of his material possessions and had sought a life of passion, purpose and peace among the most enlightened monks of our time. Wouldn't you be intrigued to listen to what he had to say?
Robin Sharma manages to grasp your attention in "The Monk who sold his Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny". It is a book that makes you think, makes you re-consider certain things in life and above all inspires you to do things differently.
It makes you realise that the time to live is now, that we need to simplify our lives, to clear our minds of negative thoughts, to focus on the positive, and take risks in order to be able to truly fulfil the potential that is dormant inside of us.
A person's life can be summarised in certain key moments, which for everyone are the most important and crucial, the ones that mark their very existence.
Everyone has inside them reserves of life, more than we ever dreamt of.
Everything is created twice; first in the mind and then in reality.
We are the creators of our thoughts.
During a normal day, around 60,000 thoughts pass through the mind of an average person; 95% of these are the same ones that troubled his/her mind the previous day. Most of them are negative. Instead of focusing on all the good we enjoy in life and all the positive we can aspire to do, we cling on to things that happened in the past, trying to find justifications and reasons to explain our actions. We wither in our thoughts and hinder our mind from fulfilling its true potential of creating magic and realising all the things we dream of. Being able to properly manage your thoughts is key in managing your entire life.
You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought – not even one.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
You need to empty your mind of negative thoughts to allow the positive ones to enter. You can't fill a glass if it is already full.
The images you create in your fantasy affect the very image you have of yourself.
You need not change your world in a day. Start off small. The thousand-mile journey begins by taking that first step. We grow great by degrees. Small daily steps lead to stunning results over time.
Develop a lust for learning. Read regularly. Reading for 30 minutes a day will do wonders for you. Do not read just anything. Be very selective about what you put into the garden of your mind. It must be immensely nourishing. Make it something that will improve both you and the quality of your life. Something that will inspire and elevate you.
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching – it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life…Books will allow you to see what is already inside of you.
Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.
The only limits on your life are the ones you set yourself.
All progress comes from unreasonable people, people who follow their hearts and the instructions of their consciences rather than the commands of the crowd. All progress has come from risk-takers and men and women who were willing to visit the places that scared them. Greatness arrives once you refuse to buy into what others see as impossible.
There are no mistakes in life; only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery.
Being able to master your time means that you are able to master your life.
In order to awaken your best life, it's important that you "die while you are alive." Most people live as if they have all the time in the world. They wish they had more time in their days and yet they waste the time they have. They put off living until some event in the future occurs. In order to awaken to your best life, every day should be lived as if it were your last day on the planet.
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?
Never postpone the life you can live today.
We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.
Decide to be brilliant at what you do. And in how you live.
Life has bigger plans for you than you can possibly know.
Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Today, and this very moment, is a gift. Stay focused on your purpose. The Universe will take care of everything else.
Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations". George Orwell's quote, today more than ever, remains relevant, at a time when media and control over them has become a highly controversial issue, mainly due to the ethics involved. Because, while journalism should, ideally, be objective and free of political affiliations, nowadays, the newsroom is dominated by the ominous shadow of advertising revenue. In a period when almost everything has been affected by the financial crisis, media – the people's source of information – are searching for sources of income, while at the same time competing against social media and the plurality of free news.
How then can we distinguish the truth in what we read? And how can we dismiss 'fake news'?
This was the topic of a very interesting discussion held in Athens in the context of the New York Times Athens Democracy Forum, hosted by the journalistic platforms Oikomedia and Hostwriter. The aim was to examine why Media have come under Suspicion and how journalism can regain public faith. Five guest speakers from international media participated: Serge Schmemann (New York Times), Philip Faigle (#D17, Zeit online), Simon Wilson (BBC Brussels), Prune Antoine (freelance journalist) and Tasos Telloglou (Skai TV/ Kathimerini).
The prevailing view, shared by many journalists and citizens alike, is that the observation of how real life unfolds is absent from many media reports today, mainly because of the rising trend of 'opinionated journalism'. This trends sees the inclusion of a commentary, with the reporter him/herself often expressing a view on the story reported. But that is not what the role of the journalist is supposed to be, nor what the point of journalism is. It is supposed to be about the clear, undeterred, fair and objective presentation of facts that have been thoroughly researched and presented as is. Journalism is the means to make heard as many voices involved in a story as possible, and to cause, through that, the audience's critical thought, so that citizens themselves may launch a public debate on the matter. In an era of rapid technological evolution, media outlets are perfectly positioned to become platforms promoting such active public discussion.
Instead, citizens increasingly turn against media, viewing them with suspicion and distrust and accusing them of transmitting 'fake news' and siding with any one political group. As such, it is not strange that, especially in Greece, citizens do not trust the media, and in fact increasingly tend to avoid the news. The 2017 annual Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute for Journalism revealed that Greeks have the lowest rate globally in trusting media with only 23% (compared to, for example, 62% recorded in Finland, the highest rate). Greece is also the only country in the world that believes social media do a better job in separating fact from fiction than traditional news media (28% vs 19%). In addition, over half the respondents (57%) in Greece and Turkey are avoiding the news, compared with fewer than one in ten in Japan (6%). One of the main reasons for this 'media avoidance' may very well be all the 'negative' news constantly broadcast, regarding the economy, politics, corruption, accidents, war, bloody conflicts and terrorism attacks around the world. News that not only contribute to increasing fear and agony for a future that is already blurred, but also result in further dampening an already low morale and bad psychological state. Consequently, people prefer not to know, endorsing that 'ignorance is bliss'.
But in all this, how much are the journalists themselves to blame? Are they not asking the right questions? Are they presenting news out of context, indeed causing misinformation? Is the need for higher revenue placing at risk not only the independence of the organism but also its credibility as a source of objective and truthful facts? Press freedom is not only about the pluralism of views, but also about their presentation as facts, without editorialisation.
Journalism should be about opening questions not answering them. The journalist's view has no place in the story they are reporting.
Today's need to 'sell more copies' and 'record more online views' has irreparably also affected the quality of journalism. We need to go back to basics, to remember that in order for a fact to be reported correctly, you need to experience and (re)search it as best as possible to make it easier for the reader to comprehend. And most of all, to realise that people want to read about things that concern their lives and that affect them.
There will always be a need for stories. This was broadly acknowledged at the discussion. The main issue, however, is that journalists should never stop striving for their fundamental element: objectivity. And to step away from the uniformity and unanimity that so often characterises news stories today. After all, the mind opens up when it tries to do, see and think something differently. Otherwise, it is not even worth it.
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking" (Christopher Morley). Some books excel at it. And it is not just the ones that engage you into travelling away from reality, but rather those that make you think more of it.
In Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell manages to do exactly that. He makes you consider how those first thoughts you have are the ones that matter the most and are often more correct than if you think thoroughly through something.
The book points out that "the key to good decision-making is not knowledge. It is understanding". That is why, for instance, when people talk, we listen to their words and watch their eyes in order to pick up the expressive nuances that reveal if what they're saying is true.
Through a series of stories and case studies, Gladwell attempts to "understand this mysterious thing called judgement – the kind of wisdom someone acquires after a lifetime of learning and watching and doing". "From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment. But it is easy to disrupt this gift", because we live in a world saturated with information and sometimes that works against our judgement. Those subtle influences from our surroundings, our background, our experiences, our network, often very much affect the bias of our unconscious. As such, we are already prejudiced in our decisions, particularly if we dwell hard on them.
These are the "unexpected costs of knowing too much". That you allow your judgement to be clouded by too many things – often stereotypes. "We are inundated with information and we have come to confuse information with understanding." That is why, as the book very eloquently explains, "sometimes we can make better judgement with less information".
The impression you form in a blink – in milliseconds – is in fact more truthful than the one you allow yourself to form after thinking a situation through and permitting the stereotypes in your head to barge through. The point is not to listen with your eyes, but with what your instinct tells you. It is the power of first impressions, of rapid cognition.
It is true of course that "there are some situations where the human mind needs a little help" – where more information is required to form a proper decision. After all, "truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking".
But, in the issues that matter most, perhaps the decisions that stem from the unconscious are the ones that will in the end make us happier.
Think about it. Maybe next time just trust that 'blink' you get as a first thought and see what happens.
Once upon a time, there was a king who had three wonderful daughters. The youngest, Psyche, was much more beautiful than her two sisters and looked like a goddess among mere mortals. People throughout the land worship her beauty so deeply that they forget about the goddess Aphrodite. Aphrodite becomes angry that her temples are falling to ruin, so she plots to ruin Psyche. She instructs her son, Eros, to pierce the girl with an arrow and make her fall in love with the most vile, hideous man alive. But when Eros sees Psyche in her radiant glory, he shoots himself with the arrow instead.
Meanwhile, Psyche and her family become worried that she will never find a husband, for although men admire her beauty, they always seem content to marry someone else. Psyche's father prays to Apollo for help, and Apollo instructs her to go to the top of a hill, where she will marry not a man but a serpent. Psyche bravely follows the instructions and falls asleep on the hill. When she wakes up, she discovers a stunning mansion. Going inside, she relaxes and enjoys fine food and luxurious treatment. At night, in the dark, she meets and falls in love with her husband.
She lives happily with him, never seeing him, until one day he tells her that her sisters have been crying for her. She begs to see them, but her husband replies that it would not be wise to do so. Psyche insists that they visit, and when they do, they become extremely jealous of Psyche's beautiful mansion and lush quarters. They deduce that Psyche has never seen her husband, and they convince her that she must sneak a look. Confused and conflicted, Psyche turns on a lamp one night as her husband lies next to her.
When she sees the beautiful Eros asleep on her bed, she weeps for her lack of faith. Eros awakens and deserts her because Love cannot live where there is no trust. Cupid returns to his mother, Aphrodite, who again decides to enact revenge on the beautiful girl.
Psyche, meanwhile, journeys all over the land to find Eros. She decides to go to Aphrodite herself in a plea for love and forgiveness, and when she finally sees Aphrodite, the great goddess laughs aloud. Aphrodite shows her a heap of seeds and tells her that she must sort them all in one night's time if she wants to see Eros again. This task is impossible for one person alone, but ants pity Psyche and sort the seeds for her. Shocked, Aphrodite then orders Psyche to sleep on the cold ground and eat only a piece of bread for dinner. But Psyche survives the night easily. Finally, Aphrodite commands her to retrieve a golden fleece from the river. She almost drowns herself in the river because of her sorrow, but a reed speaks to her and suggests that she collect the golden pieces of fleece from the thorny briar that catches it. Psyche follows these instructions and returns a sizable quantity to Aphrodite. The amazed goddess, still at it, now orders Psyche to fill a flask from the mouth of the River Styx. When Psyche reaches the head of the river, she realizes that this task seems impossible because the rocks are so dangerous. This time, an eagle helps her and fills the flask. Aphrodite still does not give in. She challenges Psyche to go into the underworld and have Persephone put some of her beauty in a box. Miraculously, Psyche succeeds.
When she gave Aphrodite the box, the goddess got extremely angry. She yelled the poor girl that she would never let her go and she would always be her servant. At this crucial moment, the Gods, who were watching this wrongdoing all this time, decided to take up action. They sent Hermes, the messenger God, to narrate Eros all the misfortunes that his wife was going through. Eros was touched and this healed the wound of betrayal. He left his room and found Psyche exhausted in his mother's garden. From that moment on, Eros and Psyche lived happily together in their lovely palace, which was always full of roses and other flowers. Psyche persuaded Eros to forgive his mother for what she had made her suffer. As a wedding gift, Zeus made Psyche immortal and allowed her to taste ambrosia, the drink of the Gods. Even Aphrodite was happy because, now that Psyche was living in the sky with her husband, men on earth had forgotten all about her and were again worshiping the true goddess of beauty. Eros and Psyche then had a daughter named Hedone (Pleasure).
The story centres on the power of true love and the strength it finds in overcoming all the obstacles thrown before it. But most importantly it reveals that in the union between love and soul, trust is essential. For love is an act of faith for the other and it must remain surrounded by a small veil of mystery. It is what keeps the feeling alive. Living each moment with deep emotion, without trying to understand the magic that lies behind it. If we cling too much, we will end up strangling love itself.
Love is something we often don't fully understand. It comes abruptly and touches our heart and soul. If it persists, if it prevails despite the challenges it may face, that is when you know it is true and worth having.
It is not often that I write a personal account of something. I prefer to see things from the perspective of a journalist or writer – as an outsider, viewing the world from all possible angles. But there are some things that strike you hard, right in the centre. Because you can relate to them more than anything. And sometimes you have to speak up in the hope that someone will listen and things will change.
My attention yesterday was directed at an article that said pretty much everything I have in my mind. Martin Conterez at The Hungry Dog's Lair wrote an open letter to Huffington Post stating in essence that it is high time that writers are paid for the work they do.
Martin says it very well. Because although it may take you a few minutes to read something we've written, for us "it takes hours, days, sometimes weeks to create a great piece. To make content the world is willing to consume ends up consuming those who create it. And that's just one piece, that doesn't take into consideration the years we pour into our craft to become good enough to be featured on a site" with global reach and money. The truth is, such publications do have money, often unduly collected through exploitation and unpaid labour.
The paradox of it all is that, as writers and journalists, we are still eager to write for anyone willing to publish our pieces, usually dubbing this "voluntary contribution" because it is better to be exposed either way in the hope that someone will finally discover you and offer you a worthwhile compensation. Hiding away without any demonstration of what you can do will lead to nowhere.
That, however, does not negate the fact that people need to get financial compensation for whatever they offer. They spend time, energy and focus on something that others will profit from. Isn't it fair that they too earn their rightful share from that?


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Our online mass communications degree covers the basics of radio and television broadcasting, digital media, reporting and news writing. You will learn about the various types of mass media and how they have evolved throughout the years, along with how they affect individuals and influence society. The program further uncovers the regulations related to this field. You'll discover how to appropriately utilize social media, as well as how to produce photographs that tell stories. The program covers public relations, including communication strategies, crisis communication and international public relations. Additionally, you will discover how to write and edit stories for print and broadcast while adhering to the Associated Press Stylebook.
The degree requires a one-hour practicum course, in which you will complete 45 hours of work. Campbellsville has its own school newspaper, radio and television stations through which you can complete the practicum. You can also take the practicum through the university's public relations office or other media outlet.
Campbellsville University offers one of the best private school mass communications programs in the nation. Our online communications programs are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
The two-year online mass communications degree consists of 60 credit hours. You can choose two out of five elective choices in order to complete the degree. The program also requires a practicum course.
The General Education component of undergraduate degrees provides the student with a basic understanding of a broad range of subjects. This supports the liberal arts emphasis of the University's academic mission.
MAC 140: Introduction to Communication must be included in your 29 credits of general education courses.
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In the first case of its kind involving the upcoming election, the Justice Department Friday announced that a Russian national has been charged with conspiracy to interfere in the U.S. political system, including the 2018 midterm election.
In a criminal complaint, authorities alleged that Khusyaynova, 44, of St. Petersburg, Russia, served as the chief accountant of "Project Lakhta," a Russian umbrella effort funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and two companies he controls, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, and Concord Catering.
Authorities alleged that Khusyaynova managed the financing of Project Lakhta operations, including foreign influence activities directed at the United States.
The financial documents she controlled include detailed expenses for activities in the United States, such as expenditures for activists, advertisements on social media platforms, registration of domain names, the purchase of proxy servers and "promoting news postings on social networks," the Justice Department alleged in a press release.
Between January 2016 and June 2018, Project Lakhta's proposed operating budget totaled more than $35 million, although only a portion of these funds were directed at the United States, the Justice Department said. Between January and June 2018 alone, Project Lakhta's proposed operating budget totaled more than $10 million.
Those involved, the Justice Department alleged, "took extraordinary" steps to make it appear as if they were ordinary American political activists. This included the use of virtual private networks and other means to disguise their activities and to obfuscate their Russian origin.
Posted: 10/19/18 at 3:40 PM under News Story.


The MAF team is busy conducting survey flights for the many NGOs and agencies that are now arriving in Beira to provide aid, such as UNHAS, World Vision, International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP), Samaritan's Purse, World Food Program, and Red Cross.
MAF continues to work closely with Mercy Air to reach as many people as possible by air using both MAF's Cessna 208 and Mercy Air's helicopter. This morning they were able to fly some of the team with Samaritan's Purse to Guara Guara for a survey to set up a medial base. Another 27 food airdrops have been flown with the helicopter to reach pockets of people in the Tica area, delivering 400kg of high energy biscuits to those in desperate need.
To date, MAF has flown 31 flights in the C208, carrying 107 passengers. In conjunction with Mercy Air, we have helped with 22 helicopter flights, carrying 67 passengers. As of today, 13,198 kilograms of cargo has been transported to deliver emergency items like food, tents and family shelter kits.
• Cholera and other diseases are starting to be a concern. Please pray that the people in the area will be protected.
• Pray that people will be able to plant soon to prevent long-term food insecurity.
• Pray that people won't have to be long in the IDP camps but will be able to return to their homes soon.
• Pray for the fortitude of our team, and that those they meet will see Jesus in them.
Story and photos by MAF and Mercy Air.
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Understanding big data vs. theory
We don't need to understand what we know in order for that knowledge to be useful. For example, knowing that aspirin is good for headaches helps when you have a headache, even though for a long time we didn't understand why. Once you understand that "Aspirin inhibits prostaglandin production by inhibiting the COX-2 enzyme," (as eHow.com tells me at http://goo.gl/dJipf)), that particular itch is scratched ... assuming you understand the explanation, which I do not. But understanding doesn't just make us feel better. Armed with this understanding of aspirin, you now know to look for other compounds that inhibit that ol' COX-2 more effectively or with fewer side effects. Understanding is a good thing all around.
The problem is that knowledge often outpaces understanding. In the Age of the Net, if we want our knowledge to get very very big, knowledge is going to blow far past our understanding, and we aren't going to be able to afford to wait around for understanding to catch up.
Brave words. But there are real risks. For example, Alex "Sandy" Pentland is a computational social scientist who has been writing and thinking about the effect of big data, especially on understanding human behavior. In an interview at The Edge (http://goo.gl/lqXIK) recently, he said:
"The other problem with big data is human understanding. When you find a connection that works, you'd like to be able to use it to build new systems, and that requires having human understanding of the connection. The managers and the owners have to understand what this new connection means. There needs to be a dialogue between our human intuition and the big data statistics, and that's not something that's built into most of our management systems today. Our managers have little concept of how to use big data analytics, what they mean, and what to believe."
Having a "dialogue" between humans and big data so that we can understand the significance of the patterns we've observed sounds like a useful process. As Charles Gross, chair of the Lovell Group, suggested at an Aspen Institute event in 2010, "The use of data for correlations allows one to test theories and refine them." Certainly sometimes that will happen. And when it does, it's good.
But there need not always be human-comprehensible theories behind correlations of big data. We should get used to the idea that we're going to know some things without understanding them. We will be able to reliably predict outcomes, but not understand exactly what drove those outcomes. We can predict because we can build intricate computer models using metric tons of data. But, as an issue of Wired a few years ago pointed out, we can do this without having a theory that explains why the model works the way it does.
There is a metaphysical question here: Are there theories for everything? Perhaps some events are the product of chaotic combinations for which there is no real explanation other than describing how each dust mote banged into another—a task for big data.
If you were to ask me, I'd go with the complexity-without-theory idea at least for much of what we care about. And to support this, I will give you a single example, but it's a particularly important one: the life of anyone you know. Try to make sense of it as if you were writing a biography. You'll find some patterns ("He tried to live up to his parents' impossible expectations," "She saw adversity as a challenge"), but no theory for that individual with much predictive power, and you're unlikely to find a theory for human lives overall. If you want to tell the story of someone, you'll be talking about a whole lot of data—circumstances, events—and not a lot of theory. We can know a lot about a person, but not have a theory that enables us to understand her fully.
And on the scale of what we humans want to know, a single life is nothing. It is a dust mote's worth of order in a universe of ever-expanding disorder. Our understanding will never keep up with our knowledge.