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Q: How to add timer with start/stop GUI in python I've been googeling all day, tried loads of different ways, but I can't get this code to work. I want a simple timer that run a function when you press "Start", and stops when you press "Stop".
Example:
When you press start, the function will print every second "Hello World", until you press stop.
My code with some comments so you can understand faster:
import sys
from Tkinter import *
from threading import Timer
# a boolean for telling the timer to stop
stop_timer = False

mgui = Tk()

def work(var):
    # stop_timers sets to True or False with Start/Stop
    stop_timer = var
    # work_done will evaluate if timer should start or be canceled
    def work_done(var2):
        stop_timer = var2
        # if stop was pressed t.start() will be ignored
        if stop_timer == False:
            t.start()
        # if stop was pressed timer will stop
        if stop_timer == True:
            print "Stopped!"
            t.cancel()
    t = Timer(1, work, [False])
    print "Something"
    work_done(var)

mgui.geometry('450x450')
mgui.title('Test')

cmd1 = lambda: work(False)
btn = Button(mgui, text="Start", command =cmd1).place(x=50, y=50)
cmd2 = lambda: work(True)
btn2 = Button(mgui, text="Stop", command =cmd2).place(x=100, y=50)

mgui.mainloop()

As you can tell, I'm new to this shizzle!
Thanks, mates!

A: This is a generic timer, you can also implement one in tkinter using after:
import time
import Tkinter as tk

import threading

class MyTimer(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self, t):
        super(MyTimer,self).__init__()
        self.txt = t
        self.running = True

    def run(self):
        while self.running:
            self.txt['text'] = time.time()

mgui = tk.Tk()
mgui.title('Test')

txt = tk.Label(mgui, text="time")
txt.grid(row=0,columnspan=2)

timer = None
def cmd1():
    global timer
    timer = MyTimer(txt)
    timer.start()
def cmd2():
    global timer
    if timer:
        timer.running = False
        timer= None

btn = tk.Button(mgui, text="Start", command =cmd1)
btn.grid(row=1,column=1)
btn2 = tk.Button(mgui, text="Stop", command =cmd2)
btn2.grid(row=1,column=2)

mgui.mainloop()

A: By editing some in xndrme's post, I finally got it to work. Thank you!
I'll post the code here for possible future googlers.
import sys
from Tkinter import *
from threading import Timer

mgui = Tk()

def cmd2():
    global t
    if t:
        t.cancel()

def looper():
    global t
    t = Timer(1, looper)
    t.start()
    print "Hello World!"

mgui.geometry('450x450')
mgui.title('Test')

btn = Button(mgui, text="Start", command =looper).place(x=50, y=50)
btn2 = Button(mgui, text="Stop", command =cmd2).place(x=100, y=50)

mgui.mainloop()


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The King's Highway block uses five different fabrics.
1) Take one 2" square of fabric B, a 2" square of fabric C, and a 2" x 5" rectangle of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat with three more 2" fabric B and fabric C squares and three more 2" x 5" background fabric rectangles. Press seam allowances toward the background fabric rectangles. The completed units should measure 2" x 8".
2) Take one 2" square of fabric B, a 2" square of fabric D, and a 2" x 5" rectangle of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat with three more 2" fabric B and fabric D squares and three more 2" x 5" background fabric rectangles. Press seam allowances toward the background fabric rectangles. The completed units should measure 2" x 8".
3) Take one 2" square of fabric A, one 2" square of fabric C, and one 2" square of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat three more times using three more 2" squares of fabric A, fabric C, and background fabric. Press seam allowances toward the background fabric squares.
4) Take one 2" square of fabric C and two 2" squares of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat once more with one more 2" fabric C square and two more 2" background fabric squares. Press the seam allowances toward the background fabric squares.
5) Take two of the units completed in Step 3 and one of the units completed in Step 4 and piece together as shown. Repeat with the two remaining Step 3 units and the one remaining Step 4 unit. Press seam allowances toward the center, Step 4 unit. The completed nine-patch square should be 5" square.
6) Take one of the nine-patch squares completed in Step 5 and two of the 2" x 5" rectangles of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat with two more 2"x 5" background fabric rectangles and the remaining Step 5 nine-patch square. Press the seam allowances toward the background fabric rectangles.
7) Take one of the units completed in Step 6 and two of the units completed in Step 1 and piece together as shown. Repeat with the remaining Step 1 and Step 6 units. Press the seam allowances toward the Step 1 units. The completed squares should measure 8".
8) Take one 2" square of fabric A, one 2" square of fabric D, and one 2" square of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat three more times using three more 2" squares of fabric A, fabric D, and background fabric. Press seam allowances toward the background fabric squares.
9) Take one 2" square of fabric D and two 2" squares of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat once more with one more 2" fabric D square and two more 2" background fabric squares. Press the seam allowances toward the background fabric squares.
10) Take two of the units completed in Step 8 and one of the units completed in Step 9 and piece together as shown. Repeat with the two remaining Step 8 units and the one remaining Step 9 unit. Press seam allowances toward the center, Step 9 unit. The completed nine-patch square should be 5" square.
11) Take one of the nine-patch squares completed in Step 10 and two of the 2" x 5" rectangles of background fabric and piece together as shown. Repeat with two more 2"x 5" background fabric rectangles and the remaining Step 10 nine-patch square. Press the seam allowances toward the background fabric rectangles.
12) Take one of the units completed in Step 11 and two of the units completed in Step 2 and piece together as shown. Repeat with the remaining Step 2 and Step 11 units. Press the seam allowances toward the Step 2 units. The completed squares should measure 8".
13) Take one 2" square of fabric C and one 2" square of fabric D and join together as shown. Repeat with the remaining Fabric C and Fabric D 2" squares. Press the seam allowances toward the fabric C square.
14) Take the two units completed in Step 13 and piece together as shown. Press seam allowance in either directions. The completed square should measure 3-1/2".
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18) Piece together the row completed in Step 16 with the two rows completed in Step 17 to completed the Kings Highway quilt block. Press the seam allowances toward the top and bottom row of the block. The completed Kings Highway quilt block should measure 18-1/2" which includes a 1/4" seam allowance on all sides.


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Tag Archives: IGN
Editorials, Games, PC games
You Can't Spell Ignorant Without IGN
IGN UK's Football Manager 2009 review:
"FM09 is still easily the most in-depth, enjoyable and addictive way to pretend you manage a football team. When you have a formula as compulsively successful as this, one that guarantees you top the PC best-sellers list year on year, it's churlish to suggest reckless tinkering for the sake of it."
9.1 – Outstanding
IGN US's Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 review:
"I couldn't imagine why anybody would prefer Worldwide Soccer Manager to FIFA 09 or Pro Evolution Soccer 2009."
"Yes, the depth of management in this game is impressive. But, it's not impressive enough to make up for the fact that you aren't actually playing soccer."
2.0 – Terrible
[For those who don't know, Worldwide Soccer Manager is the name of the Football Manager series in the US.]
The above almost doesn't require any comment, such is its ridiculousness. I admit to being no particularly big fan of the Football Manager series, even as a football fan, but I can still recognise that it's a great game that fans get a massive amount of enjoyment from. Given my perspective on the series I certainly wouldn't volunteer myself as a reviewer since it would be impossible for me to give a decent appraisal, but if I found myself forced into it my first task would be to understand the massive popularity of the series and try to review it on that basis.
That US review is just unbelievable, though. You'd think the guy would have twigged during one of the numerous references to how it was for hardcore "soccer" fans that it's for hardcore "soccer" fans, and yet he still not only reviewed it but went on to give it an incredibly bad score, usually reserved for games that are downright broken. Why would anyone play it over FIFA or PES? Why would anyone play Command & Conquer over Ghost Recon, then? I'm almost tempted to start a campaign for the same guy to review Halo Wars, just to see if he shits out a page of nonsense asking why you'd play it when Halo 3 was on the market.
Seriously, this is reason #264,996 why games 'journalism' isn't taken seriously by anyone except games 'journalists'. Fuck me…
FootballFootball ManagerIGNJournalismReviewsSegaSports Interactive
Editorials, Games
Games Radar Loses It
I'm almost reluctant to help a blatant cry for hits, but when a major (sort of) gaming site loses it so spectacularly, it has to be seen. I know from experience that plagiarism happens online sometimes having experienced it myself in my GameFAQs days, but to suggest that you're being copied on a feature that requires as little imagination as a "best of" list is ludicrous.
Might I suggest that people email them at their email address set up purely for this little crusade and gently suggest that they stop being so petulant and put the toys back in the pram.
Oh, and guess what? I did a best of the GBA feature in February. Games Radar better not do anything similar or I'll sue.
Games RadarIGNJournalism
I(GN)rony
I've just seen IGN's ten reasons to wait for a Revolution, but has the irony escaped anyone else that the second reason they give is "Same Games, Prettier Graphics" and then goes on to list a new Zelda, a new Metroid, and a new Smash Bros as reasons to get a Revolution? Those won't be the same games with better graphics?
OK, so we'll get them with some quirky new control scheme but will they really be new gaming experiences or will they be the same games shoehorned onto the new controller? To give Nintendo credit they're far better with original concepts than either Sony or Microsoft, but even their new stuff isn't always as new as they'd tell you – The Wind Waker took a shocking new direction but was essentially Ocarina of Time with cartoony graphics and dull sailing sections, and although the DS has some great stuff now what was Nintendo's first big game for it? Super Mario 64 with either less-than-ideal digital controls or unworkable analogue controls. While a Metroid Prime might work with the Revolution controller without any concessions, I really can't see a Zelda or Smash Bros on that controller without some kind of add-on, which essentially makes them the "Same Games, Prettier Graphics".
Maybe Nintendo will prove me wrong, but if they want to gain the popularity that Mario, Zelda, and Metroid can afford they're going to have to stick to the status quo and not make it so that we have to swing a remote as if it was Link's sword. Their original concept really needs original games, as the DS has shown, and when one of the main selling points is that it plays Nintendo's whole back catalogue (same games, same graphics?) is that going to happen?
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From John Murray 1 April 1865
50, Albemarle St. | W.
April 1st. /65
My Dear Sir
I answer without delay your obliging note of yesterday—1
I have no doubt your new work on Domestic Animals & Plants will be one of great value & interest & I shall be very proud to be the publisher—of it as of your "Origin"—2 I do not think you could select a better size than it—& it is of some consequence that your new work shd range with the former—3
I am quite well satisfied that Mr Sowerby Mr Wells & Mr Fitch shd each—in his own department make the Drawings on wood of wch you stand in need—4 I shd be sorry to stint you in number & beg you to put in hand what you think needful, only instructing the several artists to send me beforehand an estimate of their charge I wd urge that all the subjects be so reduced as to come well within the dimensions of the page of your Origin of Species—leaving a fair margin5
I fear I have parted with the cuts of Dixons book6 I was not pleased with him & gladly washed my hands of it—but the Birds can be re-engraved.
I am going over to France for 3 weeks—& in my absence wd ask you to correspond with my Cousin & partner Mr Robert Cooke who will give you the latest intelligence of the state of the Editions of Origin & Orchids—7
Meanwhile if you are anxious to put the cuts in hand—I see no objection— When I return I will look after them & I will also ask you to let me see any portion of your MS wch may be ready.
I was sorry to hear from Sir Ch Lyell a poor account of your health— but hope you are better again
I am | My Dear Sir | Your faithful & obliged servt | John Murray
P S. As I have been prepared from the first for this work & look upon it as the Complement of the "Origin of S."8 I propose—unless you object to announce it in my Quarterly List of New Works—wch will appear next week9 This will give timely notice to those who possess the Origin—but I shd not think of publishing before November. I shall therefore put the Title which you have sent at once in our List, unless Mr Cooke hears to the contrary.
Chas Darwin Esq.
CD annotations
9.5 I shall … contrary. 9.6] double scored red crayon
Letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865].
The firm of John Murray published Variation in 1868; they had first published Origin in 1859.
Though both works were published in octavo, the height of Origin was 198 mm, while Variation was 220 mm (see Freeman 1977, pp. 84, 124). See also letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865].
See letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865]. The references are to George Brettingham Sowerby Jr, Luke Wells, and Walter Hood Fitch.
See n. 3, above.
Dixon 1851. See letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 17.
No correspondence with Robert Francis Cooke on the sales of Origin and Orchids has been found; however, the following is written at the bottom of the letter: 'on hand | 150 Origin of Species | 580 Orchids'. It is probable that these figures were added by Cooke, and are the answers to CD's enquiry (see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865]). The 150 copies of Origin remained from a printing of 2000 copies of the third edition, published in April 1861, and the 580 copies of Orchids, published on 15 May 1862, remained from a printing of 1500 (see Freeman 1977, pp. 78, 112, and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Murray, 9 April [1862]).
CD had announced in the introduction to Origin, p. 2, that he hoped to follow that work by 'publishing in detail all the facts, with references' on which his conclusions had been founded. CD had consulted Murray about his plan to publish a more extensive work on species on several occasions (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 December [1859], and letter to John Murray, 22 December [1859], and Correspondence vol. 9, letters to John Murray, 3 March [1861] and 30 April [1861]). Variation included an expanded study of the subject of the first chapter of Origin.
See letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 2.
Dixon, Edmund Saul. 1851. The dovecote and the aviary: being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state, with hints for their management. London: John Murray.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Will be proud to publish CD's new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD's suggestions for artists.
London, Albemarle St, 50
DAR 171: 332
4pp †
Murray, John (b)


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It's a common tale line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero needs to choose from cash and love, among the rich, materialistic, status-conscious lady who may well increase his social place and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded lady whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this universal marriage plot unearths approximately altering reactions to funds in British tradition.
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The poet is growing and will not be tied to her past or captured by other people's assessment of work she has already done. She is flowing out in many directions. Here's a very different poem, but one that also uses flowing water as an image, by William Stafford. Read it and, in this case, pay attention not merely to the line breaks and sounds, but to the adjectives and adverbs and the way in which they intensify the poem's impression. In Hurricane Canyon After we talked, after the moon rose, before we went to bed, we sat quietly.
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Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics vs. PZT?
Shujun Zhang, Ru Xia, Thomas R. Shrout
Investigations in the development of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics have recently claimed properties comparable to that of PZT-based materials. In this work, the dielectric and piezoelectric properties of the various systems were contrasted in relation to their respective Curie temperatures. Analogous to PZT, enhanced properties are noted for morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) compositions in the Na,BiTiO3-BaTiO3 and the ternary system with K,BiTiO3, but offer properties significantly lower than that of PZTs. The consequence of a ferroelectric to antiferroelectric transition well below T C further limits their usefulness. Though comparable with respect to T C, enhanced properties reported in the K,NaNbO 3 family are the result of increased polarizability associated with the T orthor-tetragonal polymorphic phase transition being compositionally shifted downward and not from a MPB as widely reported. As expected, the properties are strongly temperature dependent unlike that observed for MPB systems.
Journal of Electroceramics
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Zhang, S., Xia, R., & Shrout, T. R. (2007). Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics vs. PZT? Journal of Electroceramics, 19(4), 251-257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-007-9056-z
Zhang, Shujun ; Xia, Ru ; Shrout, Thomas R. / Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics vs. PZT?. In: Journal of Electroceramics. 2007 ; Vol. 19, No. 4. pp. 251-257.
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abstract = "Investigations in the development of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics have recently claimed properties comparable to that of PZT-based materials. In this work, the dielectric and piezoelectric properties of the various systems were contrasted in relation to their respective Curie temperatures. Analogous to PZT, enhanced properties are noted for morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) compositions in the Na,BiTiO3-BaTiO3 and the ternary system with K,BiTiO3, but offer properties significantly lower than that of PZTs. The consequence of a ferroelectric to antiferroelectric transition well below T C further limits their usefulness. Though comparable with respect to T C, enhanced properties reported in the K,NaNbO 3 family are the result of increased polarizability associated with the T orthor-tetragonal polymorphic phase transition being compositionally shifted downward and not from a MPB as widely reported. As expected, the properties are strongly temperature dependent unlike that observed for MPB systems.",
author = "Shujun Zhang and Ru Xia and Shrout, {Thomas R.}",
doi = "10.1007/s10832-007-9056-z",
journal = "Journal of Electroceramics",
Zhang, S, Xia, R & Shrout, TR 2007, 'Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics vs. PZT?', Journal of Electroceramics, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 251-257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-007-9056-z
Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics vs. PZT? / Zhang, Shujun; Xia, Ru; Shrout, Thomas R.
In: Journal of Electroceramics, Vol. 19, No. 4, 01.12.2007, p. 251-257.
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AB - Investigations in the development of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics have recently claimed properties comparable to that of PZT-based materials. In this work, the dielectric and piezoelectric properties of the various systems were contrasted in relation to their respective Curie temperatures. Analogous to PZT, enhanced properties are noted for morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) compositions in the Na,BiTiO3-BaTiO3 and the ternary system with K,BiTiO3, but offer properties significantly lower than that of PZTs. The consequence of a ferroelectric to antiferroelectric transition well below T C further limits their usefulness. Though comparable with respect to T C, enhanced properties reported in the K,NaNbO 3 family are the result of increased polarizability associated with the T orthor-tetragonal polymorphic phase transition being compositionally shifted downward and not from a MPB as widely reported. As expected, the properties are strongly temperature dependent unlike that observed for MPB systems.
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Zhang S, Xia R, Shrout TR. Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics vs. PZT? Journal of Electroceramics. 2007 Dec 1;19(4):251-257. doi: 10.1007/s10832-007-9056-z


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When the Home Guard "Stood Down" in 1945 it found itself in possession of two assets: first, a sum of money which was due for distribution among its members: and second the habit of working together for the benefit of the whole community. With these funds and with this ethos of co-operation, the Gaddesden Society was formed.
From this beginning the many clubs and societies have developed independently but are still supported by the Gaddesden Society should the need arise. In addition the Society publishes the quarterly Gaddesden Diary, puts on half a dozen talks a year which are open to all, organises the annual Sports Day and oversees the Hospital Visiting service offered to those who do not have transport for appointments or visits.
It is for these reasons that the Society has a key role within the village. Like the Home Guard, it has no political or religious associations – it needs everyone within its ranks!
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ON BEING COLUMN – What Does Mindfulness Really Mean Anyway?
Sharon Salzberg April 26, 2015
What Does Mindfulness Really Mean Anyway?
Weekly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being
Originally Published April 5, 2015
There is no doubt that "mindfulness" is having a moment in the spotlight. Back in November 2013, David Hochman wrote a New York Times feature titled "Mindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention," indicating the initial surge in the mindfulness "trend." In his article's first sentence, Hochman invites readers to consider the funny question, "What is the sound of one hand texting?"
I find that funny because the question is both earnest and ironic. Mindfulness — an expansive term that refers most generally to the state of "being present" — includes the practice of tuning into our sensory experience with more presence, too. In other words, it allows us to listen to "the sound of one hand texting" as opposed to just hearing it.
But the question is ironic because of Hochman's focus: how mindfulness is finding its way into our increasingly digital culture. He not only cites the vast array of companies — from Google to Goldman Sachs — whose employees tout the benefits of meditation for their productivity, but also argues that the specific reason mindfulness is having its moment is because technology has made us all so distracted. "The hunger to get centered is especially fervent in the cradle of the digital revolution," Hochman argues. None of us can seem to pay attention anymore, so the so-called mindfulness revolution is gaining momentum as a way to stay connected to the here and now.
Anagarika Shri Munindra (Munindraji) at the Insight Meditation Society in 1978 with Sharon Salzberg.
I went to India in 1970 to learn meditation (it was pre-mindfulness revolution, for sure, so I had to go somewhere.) I came back in 1974 as a teacher, having been told to teach by one of my own teachers. In those days, at a party or some social situation, you never heard a word like mindfulness. If someone asked what I did and I responded, "I teach meditation," they would usually look at me funny.
These days, the single most common response I hear is:
"I'm so stressed out, I could use some of that."
I have a Google alert on the word "mindfulness." Every single day I read about new research and new applications in schools, at work, in hospitals, in the military, in breast cancer support groups, for caregivers — and much more.
I think this is a good thing. But what exactly does mindfulness really mean anyway? With its newfound, relatively mainstream support, mindfulness has become somewhat of a business and pop cultural buzzword. So now strikes me as a particularly good time to think about how we can come to understand mindfulness even more deeply.
Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein in India in the 1970s.
Mindfulness is not simply becoming aware of the temperature of my cup of coffee or hearing my coworker's fingers type on the keyboard. It includes these things.
But most of us simply use the word "mindfulness" to suggest "knowing what's going on." The popularization of mindfulness mostly has to do with the particular benefits of this practice: when you more closely tune into the details of your life, you enjoy things so much more. You are more present with your experience: you smell the cup of tea you're drinking as opposed to drinking tea while on a conference call, simultaneously checking email, and watching the TV on mute.
Mindfulness isn't just about knowing that you're hearing something, seeing something, or even observing that you're having a particular feeling. It's about doing so in a certain way — with balance and equanimity, and without judgment. Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention in a way that creates space for insight.
Let's take an uncomfortable feeling, like anger. What does it take to work with the feeling of anger, rather than against it? Well, it takes mindfulness. If I am mindful of my anger, I can observe it with sensitivity, focus, and greater emotional clarity. I can see the sadness and fear within the anger, and ultimately see anger's changing nature. This kind of realization opens our minds and hearts, and we can see, in fact, everything's changing nature.
Mindfulness serves as the basis for insight — literally meaning it provides us a clearer vision ("sight") or what is within. If we experience a difficult emotion or undergo a negative experience, we tend to want to deny or avoid the pain we feel as soon as it arises. But, when doing this, we don't create adequate space for learning and growth. Reactivity doesn't expand our perspective. Mindfulness transforms our tendency to react by enabling us to be more present and aware. This presence is the platform from which we can access more wisdom and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg in India in 1972 with Jacqueline Mandell and Dipa Barua. (Insight Meditation Society.)
When I began meditation, I was 18 years old. I had gone to India as a junior in college. At the time, I knew I wasn't happy but wasn't particularly aware of my emotions. I didn't really understand what was inside other than the fact that it hurt. Many of my closest friends are people I met at my first retreat in January of 1971. I'm somewhat famous amongst that group of people for once having marched up to my first mediation teacher and saying, "I never used to be an angry person until I started meditating," thereby laying blame on him.
What I now realize is that I had always been hugely angry but hadn't known it. Becoming more mindful of my pain meant seeing things I hadn't noticed before. I began judging everything I saw, and mindfulness allowed me to identify that.
For me to come to a place where I actually could just be aware of suffering in a balanced way inevitably meant lovingkindness and compassion for myself. I think that's true for many of us, if not all of us. That's why I think it's an implicit cultivation. We can't be mindful, really, without compassion.
Mindfulness helps us create a certain kind of relationship with experience in order to make ourselves available for greater wisdom and insight. That way, we can see what we feel, even if its judgment, pay attention to it, and allow it to exist without condemnation, without that constrictive gesture of "pushing away."
A retreat in India taught by SN Goenka, where Insight Meditation Society founders Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein met n 1971.
It may seem bizarre that something as clinical sounding as "paying attention" is essential for creating the space in ourselves for real, sustainable happiness. But actually, the difference between suffering and happiness all depends on what we do with our attention: do we position happiness as something outside of ourselves, or do we allow ourselves to look deeply within and feel whole as we are?
Mindfulness is what can permit us to no longer feel like victims of our negative emotions. Instead, it allows us to understand our intentions and gain awareness of our emotions as they arise. As they arise, we pivot, we continue to pay attention, and our world continues to open up.
Science agrees, which is undoubtedly part of the popularization. A 2011 study conducted at Mass General Hospital, with the headline "Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in eight weeks," examined the brain structure of 16 participants for two weeks before and after they took an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Progress text at the UMass Center for Mindfulness (MBSR). Results showed measurable changes in participants' brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. Meditation actually produced actual changes in the brain's grey matter.
Long story short: by practicing mindfulness, we aren't simply just "more aware." We open ourselves up to greater discernment, compassion, and an intelligent, empowered sense of choice.
This is mindfulness.
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Klijnsma not sensitive to pension pleas
1 April 2017 by bes-reporter
State secretary Jetta Klijnsma seen here with commissioner Nina de Heyer during a meeting in The Netherlands. During the meeting the funding problems for PCN were also brought up by Den Heyer.
Kralendijk/Oranjestad/The Bottom- State Secretary Klijnsa is not sensitive to pleas from the BES-islands, unions and pensioners to avoid a cut in pension benefits. In a letter sent to the Public Entity Bonaire yesterday, Klijnsma says that she is saddened by the measure, but that the cut is necessary to make the fund solid again.
The problem at the PCN pension fund finds its origin in the fact that the fund was capitalized based on old Antillean criteria (most importantly a fixed interest rate of 4% for calculation of future pension obligations) but was later forced to apply a market-based interest rate which currently lies about 50% lower. The PCN board stated that if the rules changed, the funding provided to the fund per 10/10/10 should also be changed.
Based on a motion adopted in the Island Council, the Executive council had sent a letter to Klijnsma pleading for a delay in the cutting of the benefits, so that a more acceptable solution to the problems could be sought. In a letter dated yesterday, Klijnsma said she was unwilling to postpone cuts to the pension benefits. Klijnsma in her letter stated that PCN had already been granted an additional period of 2 years to recover from a financial deficit.
Klijnsma also writes in her letter that the Dutch Government, as one of the biggest employers and contributors to the fund, will stay in contact with PCN to discuss what will be the best way forward when it come to the financial challenges for the fund.
Klijnsma's refusal to provide a stay in the pension cuts has been met with dismay on the islands. Commissioner Den Heyer called a press conference to discuss the letter of Klijnsma. Den Heyer said during the press conference that the Executive Council is not happy with the refusal by Klijnsma and that it would be necessary would to work together with Statia, Saba and social partners to keep fighting to get the problem at PCN solved. Den Heyer said, on a personal note, that he was also quite disappointed in the position taken by SZW and Klijnsma.
Apart from Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba had also made similar appeals to BZK and SZW to avoid the cutting of the pensions. On Saba, member of the advisory council at PCN, Dave Levenstone, organized a petition which got a few hunderd signatures. Levenstone sent the petition with the signatures to Kindom Representative Gilbert Isabella, who promised to forward the petition to The Hague also.
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'Art criticism' is that form of literature which condenses or amplifies, emphasizes or arranges, or attempts to bring into harmony all the ideas that come to the mind when it is confronted by artistic phenomena. Its domain extends from metaphysics to invective.
I love Valéry. He once called fashion "a ridiculous thing in the arts, since it is a sort of collective or contagious originality always to be suspected of money motives." For Valéry, the stakes in art were too high to waste time on whatever happened to be currently fashionable.
Valéry's piece on Corot is part of an ongoing argument that he was having with Degas, who, as Valéry says, "rejects literary judgment, or thinks he has a right to." Valéry says that Degas is himself "fundamentally an 'ideal man of letters,'" but nevertheless would "always profess some unspeakable, sacred horror of our craft whenever it dared to meddle with his." Degas would say "that the Muses do their work on their own, each apart from the others, and that they never talk shop. The day's work over, there are no discussions, no comparisons of their respective labors." But Valéry refused to be cowed by Degas's reluctance to acknowledge the value of criticism. In his writing on art, Valéry possessed that "obstinate rigor of attention" that he once ascribed to Leonardo.
There is a great deal of confusion these days about criticism, but I think the world (not least the art world) needs criticism right now, more than ever.
My relation to the place of criticism has gotten considerably more complicated over the last four and a half years, after I was put in charge of a graduate program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York. It's basically a writing program, but that, to me, means it has to be about constructing an intellectual base on which writers can build for the rest of their lives, and giving them sources that they can draw on forever.
Some people that I run into think the whole idea of a graduate program in art criticism is absurd, since art criticism is not a discipline. I agree that it's not a discipline. It's a form of writing. We're basically a writing program, in an art school. And something else.
My only real model for this has been something called the Poetics Program that happened in San Francisco from 1980 to 1985. It was a visionary pedagogical project built around the teaching of the poet Robert Duncan, and of the poets that he gathered around him: Diane di Prima, David Meltzer, Duncan McNaughton, Michael Palmer, and others. It was taught entirely by poets, but it was pointedly not a creative writing program. Rather, it was a program in poetics, conceived in its largest sense, in its root sense, as the study of how things are made. So what we learned could be applied to anything that is made.
The set-up was based on the model of Black Mountain College (1933–1957), where Duncan had taught. The program in San Francisco was part of the Black Mountain diaspora, as was the Poetics Program in Buffalo that Robert Creeley ran. The San Francisco version was the most rigorous and generative education I ever received, and I have continued to draw on it in everything I have written since.
The program at SVA is not taught entirely by poets, but it is taught by working writers, and there is a lot of concentration on sources. It's old school: we do a lot of reading and writing, and a lot of looking at art.
Before accepting the job at SVA, I taught for five years at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. I had some great students there, and I learned a lot. But I also had a surprising number of students who could not look at a work of art and then account for their experience of it. They kept asking me for a "methodology," and at first I didn't know what they were talking about. "Just look at the work in front of you," I'd say. "It will tell you how to look at it. You don't need a methodology." But for too many of them, this was a frightening proposition. It was as if I was asking them to go into battle unarmed. After awhile I realized that a methodology (usually cadged together from bits and pieces of half-digested quotes and specialized language from other fields) was a form of protection—from the art.
Experiencing art in an unprotected way is dangerous. It can change you into something else. It can upend long-held assumptions and habits of thinking and seeing. It is a threat to established orders, including metaphysical ones.
Which brings me to the so-called "Crisis in Criticism" that some people would have us believe we've been suffering under for the past three decades, or the entire span of my life as a working critic.
In the beginning, the Crisis in Criticism was noted and promoted by art historians and other academics that were trying to figure out how to bring art criticism into the fold—to turn it into an academic discipline. These attempts to discipline criticism became more and more insistent, until the most intellectually honest of the disciplinarians realized that in order to turn art criticism into a proper discipline, they would have to turn it into something it was not, like art history, or curatorial rhetoric. They had already seen what happened when critical theory was turned into an academic discipline.
I came to art criticism, as a poet, 30 years ago, precisely because it was not an academic subject. I had decided by then that academia was not for me, and the academy had conveniently come to the same conclusion. I wanted to write in the world, to engage. Criticism was another way of writing—one that could engage the world through works of art. There was always an object to go back to: a thing in the world. For me, this clarified my writing and paradoxically gave it discipline. I could do anything I wanted to do in this form, as long as I was grounded in the object.
This was a revelation to me. Once grounded in the art object, I could do anything else I wanted to do. In my case, this meant political and social analysis, history, theory, and storytelling. The relation between aesthetics and politics became my principal subject.
The "crisis in criticism" is inherent in the word itself. The Greek word krisis means discrimination and dispute, but also decision, in the sense of judgment or appraisal. If you could solve the crisis in criticism, you wouldn't have criticism anymore, but something else.
Who needs it indeed? There is a parallel investigation of the "end of critique" and an attempt to "criticize the critical" in theory. Derrida was always very clear about the difference between deconstruction and criticism. "Deconstruction is not a critical operation," he said. "The critical is its object; the deconstruction always bears, at one moment or another, on the confidence invested in the critical or critico-theoretical process, that is to say, in the act of decision, in the ultimate possibility of the decidable." Criticism is about making decisions as if they still matter.
One way to avoid the crisis in criticism is by not using that term to describe what you do anymore—it's now "art writing"—which is fine, I don't have any problem with that. It's writing about art. If it's not good writing, no one's going to read it. But I also think the time is rapidly approaching for us to reclaim "criticism" as well.
Rather than a "crisis in criticism," we are currently suffering a crisis of relative values that could be treated with criticism. Without criticism, the only measure of value in art is money, and that measure has proven to be both fickle and stultifying. As a subject of inquiry, it's a bore. I know why investment bankers and hedge fund managers prefer it, but why have artists put up with it for so long?
Up until now, few have suggested that we hold artists responsible for the anti-critical turn, but perhaps we should. Good things have always happened when artists and writers get together. When they are estranged, art suffers.
Why does art need criticism? Because it needs something outside of itself as a place of reflection, discernment, and connection with the larger world. Art for art's sake is fine, if you can get it. But then the connection to the real becomes tenuous, and the connection to the social disappears. If you want to engage, if you want discourse, you need criticism.
I used to think that the plight of criticism was to be always the lover, never the beloved. Criticism needs the art object, but the art object doesn't need criticism. Now I agree with Baudelaire: "It is from the womb of art that criticism was born." Artists who disparage criticism are attacking their own progeny, and future.
*An earlier version of this text was presented as a keynote speech at the Arts Writers Convening held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in August 2011. I would like to thank Pradeep Dalal at the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program for inviting me to speak, and Elizabeth Finch for introducing me.


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[![Banner](http://mgcrea.github.io/angular-strap/images/snippet.png)](http://mgcrea.github.io/angular-strap)

AngularStrap is a set of native directives that enables seamless integration of [Bootstrap 3.0+](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap) into your [AngularJS 1.2+](https://github.com/angular/angular.js) app.

- With no external dependency except the [Bootstrap CSS Styles](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/dist/css/bootstrap.css), AngularStrap is lighter and faster than ever as it does leverage the power of ngAnimate from AngularJS 1.2+!

- If you don't want to use `ngAnimate`, you will have to include a tiny [ngAnimate mock](https://github.com/mgcrea/angular-strap/wiki/ngAnimate-mock).

## Documentation and examples

+ Check the [documentation](http://mgcrea.github.io/angular-strap) and [changelog](https://github.com/mgcrea/angular-strap/releases).

## Communication

- If you **need help**, use [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/angular-strap). (Tag 'angular-strap')
- If you'd like to **ask a general question**, use [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/angular-strap).
- If you **found a bug**, open an issue.
- If you **have a feature request**, open an issue.
- If you **want to contribute**, submit a pull request.

## Quick start

+ Install AngularStrap with [Bower](https://github.com/bower/bower).

>
```bash
$ bower install angular-strap --save
```

+ Include the required libraries is your `index.html`:

>
``` html
<script src="bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-strap/dist/angular-strap.min.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-strap/dist/angular-strap.tpl.min.js"></script>
```

+ Inject the `mgcrea.ngStrap` module into your app:

>
``` js
angular.module('myApp', ['mgcrea.ngStrap']);
```

## Developers

Clone the repo, `git clone git://github.com/mgcrea/angular-strap.git`, [download the latest release](https://github.com/mgcrea/angular-strap/zipball/master) or install with bower `bower install angular-strap --save`.

AngularStrap is tested with `karma` against the latest stable release of AngularJS.

>
	$ npm install
	$ gulp test

You can build the latest version using `gulp`.

>
	$ gulp build

You can quickly hack around (the docs) with:

>
	$ gulp serve

## Contributing

Please submit all pull requests the against master branch. If your unit test contains JavaScript patches or features, you should include relevant unit tests. Thanks!

## Authors

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I sat down with my own maternity doctor and with the AIDS Centre and made a plan with them about the delivery and how it would be managed, because there is a lot of stigma associated with HIV in Kyrgyzstan. So, my doctor understood the issues. But when I started to give birth, my doctor was not available. So that meant I had to go to the maternity hospital and be seen by whoever was there. My medical card has a code on it which shows that I have HIV to anyone who knows the codes. There was no question about whether I disclosed my status – it was already there, on my medical card. And as soon as people in the hospital saw that code, they didn't want to help me. They started to find all kinds of reasons for rejecting me, for not being able to help with the delivery, but it was only because they were afraid of my HIV. Even the management of the hospital didn't want to accept me.
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They left us in isolation the whole time I was there recovering, even when the baby was crying. It was awful
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EATG » Diet and exercise advice lowers diabetes risk in people with HIV
Diet and exercise advice lowers diabetes risk in people with HIV
Rates of diabetes are higher in people living with HIV than in the general population, but individualised lifestyle advice from a dietitian led to clinically and statistically significant reductions in glucose, weight and other risk factors in a small, single-arm study in London, reported in Diabetic Medicine.
"Significant barriers to diet and lifestyle behaviour change exist within HIV, including stigma, isolation and body image challenges, which should be taken into consideration when designing diabetes prevention interventions," comment Alastair Duncan of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and colleagues. Their mixed-methods study provides qualitative data giving insight into factors that motivate individuals to change their lifestyle or that prevent behaviour change.
Previous studies of lifestyle interventions with people with HIV have mostly focused on cardiovascular risk and have not had an impact on diabetes risk.
The intervention evaluated here involved six one-to-one monthly visits, each lasting 30 minutes, in which a dietitian provided individualised advice on making lifestyle changes. The intervention aimed to achieve moderate weight loss through energy restriction and increased physical activity, alongside reductions in saturated fat, sugar and salt, and increases in consumption of wholegrains, fruit and vegetables. These goals were informed by two diabetes prevention trials conducted in the general population.
Monthly targets to achieve goals were agreed jointly by the dietitian and the participant. Motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviour therapy techniques, such as goal-setting and self-monitoring, were used. Targets were individualised: for example, dietary advice was tailored to ethnicity, food habits, socioeconomic status, lifestyle patterns, access to food, cooking ability, and medical issues.
Twenty-eight people living with HIV completed the intervention. As an inclusion criteria, all had levels of fasting glucose (6.0 – 6.9 mmol/l) indicating 'pre-diabetes' – an increased risk of developing diabetes. A level above this would indicate diabetes. Their mean age was 54, three-quarters were men and they were ethnically diverse.
At baseline, mean body mass index was 30.5 (levels above 30 indicate obesity), 57% had hypertension, 79% metabolic syndrome, 61% hepatic steatosis and 4% cardiovascular disease.
Participants had been taking HIV treatment for an average of ten years and just under half had previously taken antiretrovirals that may contribute to diabetes risk (zidovudine, stavudine, didanosine, indinavir, lopinavir).
Of the ten lifestyle goals which were proposed, participants achieved a median of five goals. The most frequently achieved goal, reducing sodium intake to < 2.5 g per day, was attained by 82% of participants, 61% achieved restriction of added sugar to < 25g per day, 57% achieved 10,000 steps per day, and 57% were able to restrict saturated fat to < 10% of total energy intake.
However, only 22% were able to achieve the goal of a 7% weight loss and 14% achieved the goal of increasing monounsaturated fat intake to > 15% of total energy intake. Nonetheless, some of these goals were partially achieved.
Comparing results at baseline and at the end of the six month intervention, the programme significantly reduced:
fasting glucose (down 7.9%, from 6.3 to 5.8 mmol/l)
glucose incremental area under the curve in a meal tolerance test (down 17.6%, from 255 to 210 mmol/l x min)
fasting insulin (down 22.7%, from 100.1 to 77.1 pmol/l)
insulin incremental area under the curve in a meal tolerance test (down 31.4%, from 1870 to 1283 pmol/l x min)
weight (down 4.6%, from 88.8 to 84.7kg)
waist circumference (down 6.2%, from 107.1 to 100.5cm)
systolic blood pressure (down 7.4%, from 135 to 125 mmHg)
triglycerides (down 36.7%, from 2.07 to 1.31 mmol/l).
The researchers note that these reductions are greater than the reductions typically seen in 'real world' studies with largely HIV-negative participants, such as fasting glucose reduced by 0.09 mmol/l and weight reduced by 2.5kg. In general population studies, these changes are associated with a 29% reduced incidence of diabetes.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 of the 28 participants, and also with eight individuals who declined to take part or dropped out. Participants generally found the intervention acceptable, particularly appreciating improved knowledge and skills, motivational interviewing, stepwise goal-setting with tools such as pedometers, and monthly support.
They perceived the intervention to have potential to impact a wide range of health concerns:
"It doesn't just get rid of belly fat, it is good for the heart and for one mentally as well" (60-year-old man).
Those able to make behaviour changes were often motivated by having a sense of control regarding the prevention of diabetes. They had more access to social support than those who did not achieve goals.
Those who declined to take part in the intervention described monthly appointments as burdensome. The interviews also identified some barriers to behaviour change that are specific to HIV. Firstly, body shape changes associated with lipodystrophy affected some participants' body image and comfort with exercise:
"My stomach. Every time I go to the gym people think I'm pregnant because of the lipodystrophy" (55-year-old woman).
Interviewees of all ethnicities worried that weight loss might lead to disclosure of HIV status or be associated with HIV‐related illness:
"If I lose weight… the first thing they will point at, that one has got AIDS. Because of the weight you have lost" (49-year-old woman).
Participants of African origin described being overweight as culturally desirable. A loss of cultural identity could be a significant barrier to weight reduction:
"I said, "Oh look how big I am". They said, "Oh no, you're not big, that is the good right thing"….. They said, "no, no, no, don't lose weight"" (51-year-old woman).
This was echoed among gay men who self‐identified as 'bears' (a sub-section of gay men who reject idealised lean muscularity, and tend to be bearded, hairier and heavier than other gay men).
However, some other gay men felt a cultural pressure to achieve a lean physical aesthetic:
"Well, I looked at myself side on in the mirror and I thought would you sleep with you and I thought no I wouldn't" (60-year-old man).
Some interviewees attributed their increased risk to HIV medications and considered prevention measures futile. These individuals tended to either not achieve intervention goals or to decline participation in the intervention.
"As you get older and you're on these [HIV] drugs, this [diabetes] is just going to happen. There's nothing you can do. You can try to be healthy but you're not going to avoid it" (46-year-old man).
"I have a problem because of the HIV medication I'm taking because I know it makes me put on weight" (40-year-old man).
But for interviewees who achieved more goals, a desire to avoid adding to pill burden or disease burden motivated behaviour change.
"To have to start diabetes medicines as well, on top of the HIV ones, I thought, that is going to be very hard" (48-year-old woman).
Some believed that diabetes prevention was achievable and less burdensome than living with HIV:
"Diabetes is a disease but I know it can be easily tackled with food without taking any medicine. But HIV is not like that" (71-year-old man).
The researchers conclude: "We have demonstrated the beneficial effects of a lifestyle intervention in mitigating the increased risk of Type 2 diabetes associated with HIV. Future interventions should be designed to further reduce the unique barriers that prevent successful outcomes in this cohort."
By Roger Pebody
Duncan AD et al. Reducing risk of Type 2 diabetes in HIV: a mixed‐methods investigation of the STOP‐Diabetes diet and physical activity intervention. Diabetic Medicine, online ahead of print, 7 February 2019. (Full text freely available).
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