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West Columbia, SC (July 2, 2019) – The fire-protection services of the City of West Columbia, as rated by Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), has improved to Class 1 from a Class 3, Fire Chief Chris Smith announced at the July 2019 Regular Council Meeting.
By classifying communities' ability to suppress fires, ISO helps the communities evaluate their public fire-protection services. The program provides an objective, countrywide standard that helps fire departments in planning and budgeting for facilities, equipment, and training. By securing lower fire insurance premiums for communities with better public protection, the PPC program provides incentives and rewards for communities that choose to improve their firefighting services.
Mayor Bobby Horton said, "We are pleased to be able to announce the improvement in our ISO ratings. The improvement in the rating is due to the increase in the quality and efficiency of our fire department which saves residents on their insurance premiums."
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Faith Groups Ask Obama to Ban Use of Torture [incl. Ingrid Mattson]
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Washington - Hundreds of people rallied outside the White House on Wednesday (Nov. 12) as religious leaders from a number of faiths met with members of Congress while also urging President-elect Barack Obama to sign an executive order banning torture.
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)'s "Day of Witness" included a procession of people carrying anti-torture banners, many of which had been hanging in their houses of worship, that ended at the White House.
"At this moment of hope, we call audaciously for moral leadership that will be welcomed throughout the world as the U.S. government and our people resume our aspiration to be guided through the night with a light from above," said Rabbi Gerry Serotta, chair of the group Rabbis for Human Rights.
Religious leaders are also asking members of Congress to form a committee to investigate the use of torture after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"The use of torture by the United States in recent years, and our refusal to renounce its use, has diminished us as a nation not only in the eyes of our own citizens, but in the eyes of the world," said the Rev. John Thomas, president and general minister of the United Church of Christ.
Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., chairman of the Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, issued a statement in support of NRCAT, saying that legislation on the issue would still be needed, but President-elect Obama will have the opportunity to "put an immediate halt to our government's use of torture during interrogations and to put an end to the practice of secret detentions."
"As religious leaders in America, it is our moral obligation to stand up for human rights and call upon our government to ensure that the United States continues to uphold the standards set forth by these international treaties and conventions," said Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America.
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Dr. Hartman identified three dimensions of reality, which he called the Dimensions of Value. We value everything in one of these three ways or in a combination of these dimensions. The Dimensions of Value are systemic, extrinsic, and intrinsic.
The dimension of formal concepts. Ideas of how things should be. This dimension is the one of definitions or ideals, goals, structured thinking, policies, procedures, rules, laws, oughts and shoulds. It is one of perfection. If a person values something or someone systemically, then that person has to fulfill the idea perfectly. In other words you either have obeyed the law (a mental idea of how we should act) or you have broken the law (the non-fulfillment of the idea). A woman is either pregnant (a mental definition of a state of being) or is not pregnant (does not perfectly fulfill all of the aspects of the definition of pregnant). Here the valuation is based on total and complete fulfillment of an idea. There is no middle ground or partial fulfillment in the systemic. You either perfectly fulfill the concept (ideal, definition, law, policy, etc.) or you do not fulfill the concept.
Another example of systemic valuing is displayed by the definition of a geometric circle:"A plane closed curve equidistant from a center point.� If an object fulfills this definition, then it is a geometric circle. If it lacks only one element of the definition, then it is not a geometric circle. Every definition is an "idea." To value something by definition is to give it systemic valuation. It is either total fulfillment or non-fulfillment of the idea. The systemic dimension is the world of Yes/No, black/white, and shoulds. There are no possible shades of maybe or partially. The concept is either fulfilled or not fulfilled.
The mathematical properties of this dimension are finite sets and finite elements (that is, a limited number of choices and a limited number of properties for the particular object in question). This dimension is the major aspect of geometry, physical science, law, dogmatics, long range planning, policies and procedures, doing things right, ideals, principles, personal attainment of one's goals, schematic thinking, order, prejudice, and perfection. When a person pays too much attention to this dimension the resultant behavior is an overemphasis on doing thing by the book, an excessive preoccupation with planning and having things be done perfectly, a strong tendency to measure everything and everyone against a preset idea of how they should be, and an inability to be comfortable with changes and surprises.
When a person does not pay enough attention to this dimension, the resultant behavior is an unwillingness to submit to policies and rules imposed from the outside, a skepticism about the value of spending time and money planning for the future, and an uneasiness when systems are in place and running smoothly.
The dimension of abstracting properties, comparing things to each other. This is the dimension of comparisons, relative and practical thinking. It includes the elements of the real, material world, comparisons of good/better/best, and seeing things as they compare with other things in their class. This is the dimension of seeing things and their properties as they apply in different contexts. To say "Please go get my good shoes" is to ask a person to extrinsically value the different shoes. right now a specific pair of shoes better fulfills the meaning of "good" than any other pair of shoes. At another point in the week, a different pair of shoes can better fulfill the properties of "good". It is possible that no pair of shoes perfectly fulfills the definition of "good shoes", yet one will more closely fulfill the concept than others. To compare is to value extrinsically. So the extrinsic dimension is one of comparisons, of determining how rich in properties a particular object or person is in relation to another object or person. This dimension is not actually addressing the thing itself. It is addressing how the thing or person contains the properties of the group or class to which it belongs.
To value a person extrinsically is to compare that person in relation to other persons. A common example of this is by the setting of wages for a speaker. If the particular speaker is better than the worst speaker, who gets paid $2.00 per hour, and is not as good as the best speaker, who gets paid $50,000 per hour, then the speaker in question should be paid something between two and fifty thousand for a one hour speech. Such valuing is extrinsic.
Mathematically this dimension includes denumerable infinite sets with finite elements or properties (that is: infinite possibilities that can be specifically identified with a finite number of properties regarding the object in question). In other words, "good" shoes on Sunday morning includes three characteristics (expensive, brown, wing-tips), which are chosen from an unlimited set of specific possibilities (new, old, expensive, moderately priced, inexpensive, black, brown, gray, silver, cordovan, tie, slip-on, etc.).
This dimension is one of results and common sense thinking, tactical planning, role satisfaction, and social fulfillment. This is the primary dimension of business. When a person pays too much attention to the extrinsic dimension, the resultant behavior will be an overemphasis on getting things done NOW, a tendency to see other people as functional commodities, and a need for things to constantly be happening.
When a person does not pay enough attention to the extrinsic dimension, the resultant behavior will be a tendency to avoid unpredictable situations, a devaluing of what it takes to get something done, and an avoidance of the fulfilling of social norms and values. "to be better is to be richer in properties"
The dimension of uniqueness and singularity. This is the dimension of uniqueness, of person or things as they exist in themselves. There is no comparing. There is no fulfilling of concepts. The fulfillment of a concept (systemic) or the containing of properties (extrinsic) are ignored because of the `essence' or `being' of the object. This is the valuing of an object or person with an eye toward its singularity, essence, uniqueness, or spiritual being.
When describing or valuing persons or objects in this dimension, one becomes personally involved with the object/person. There is a self-giving to the object/person which is not present in valuing extrinsically or systemically. The object/person is being valued and recognized as irreplaceable because it is seen as unique. Intrinsic valuation is displayed in phrases like, "You're the ONLY girl in the world!," "I LOVE you, just as you are.", "That is an heirloom and is PRICELESS."
From the perspective of systemic and extrinsic valuing, intrinsic statements make no sense (after all everything has a price!). Mathematically this dimension includes non-denumerable infinite sets with infinite elements or properties (unlimited possibilities that cannot be individually identified with an unlimited number of elements concerning the person or object in question). When you begin to describe someone you love (value intrinsically), even after five pages of description, you are no closer to fully describing the person than when you first begun because the individual aspects that make up the unique person are all intertwined and lose their meaning when separated from each other.
This is the usually identified as the dimension of poets, artists, mystics, advertisers, chefs, theologians, and musicians. When a person pays too much attention to the intrinsic dimension the resultant behavior will be an over attention to the good in others, a tendency to avoid putting others in uncomfortable positions, and a need to have one's feelings satisfied in order to make a decision.
When a person pays too little attention to the intrinsic dimension, the resultant behavior will be basic questioning of the intentions of others, a tendency to see others functionally or as part of a system (instead of treating people as unique individuals), and a gruff or cold behavior when relating to others in comparison to those who over value this dimension. To say something is priceless is an assertion of the object's intrinsic value. Such a statement makes absolutely no sense from an extrinsic perspective!
Dr. Hartman identified a "hierarchy of richness" which positioned the intrinsic dimension as the best dimension and the systemic as the lowest. This ranking was based on the richness of qualities, the actual definition of the term "better" being richer in properties than the other.
Because the intrinsic valuation has the highest "richness of qualities" it is better than the extrinsic, which is better than the systemic. This mathematically determined ordering is consistent with philosophy, psychology, and theology (it is better to love than to serve, which is better than obeying the law ).
We see this heirarchy in the marketplace. People will pay signficantly more for a one of a kind item (like $440,000 for President Kennedy's rocking chair) than they are willing to pay for the same item which is not unique (the same chair is available new for $1,200). We pay more for hand made rugs than machine made ones (intrinsic value is richer than extrinsic value). The market will also pay more for a person who gets things accomplished (extrinsic-a successful sales person) than a person who masters ideas (systemic-a professor, teacher, planner, or accountant).
Tensions often exist between and among dimensions. An example of a tension between the intrinsic and extrinsic valuations is when an artist is asked to price her favorite painting. The artist values her painting intrinsically: viewing the painting as unique and irreplaceable, having essence that transcends its functionality, and including part of the artist's soul. For the interior decorator, the painting has extrinsic or functional value. It can serve as a wall covering, which brings a certain ambiance or mood to a room. For the decorator, the painting is one of many possibilities for a particular room and should be compared to other painting extrinsically ( what price the artist demands ). Here the artist lives in a tension, as though the two dimensions were having a tug - of - war, being compelled to place an extrinsic valuation ( price ) on a painting she values intrinsically ( loves ).
Another example of a tension between dimensions is found daily in the workplace. Often an employer will value an employee intrinsically ( genuine care for the individual ) and extrinsically ( concern about productivity ). When the employee is not performing at a level that the employer believes is productive for the company's welfare then " letting the employee go " becomes an important consideration. The tension arises when the employer knows that the employee is in a tough period in her life, recently widowed and responsible for the raising of three children. Tn one hand the employer values and cares for the individual (intrinsic Valuation ) while on the other hand has to run a business that must be more productive and valuable than its competition. ( extrinsic Valuation ). In this case, how the employer thinks ( assigns value ) will determine how he acts in this situation, how long he will wait to take action, and what he will go through in deciding. " Proper valuing includes attentiveness to all three dimensions "
When one values intrinsically, this does not exclude extrinsic and systemic valuation. To have a balanced intrinsic valuing the extrinsic and the systemic valuations must be present. Just because a client likes a particular vendor (intrinsic), a balanced attention also includes the vendor's performing according to the terms of the agreement (extrinsic), and performing in a legal manner (systemic).
Another example of balanced valuing is found on the New Testament. Jesus said the most important thing is to " Love and Know God " (intrinsic). Paul, in his letter to the Romans, points out that when one loves God, s/he serves God (extrinsic). John in his first letter says that true love of God includes obedience to His commands (systemic). Proper valuing includes attentiveness to all three dimensions.
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Jenice Armstrong | Dina like Diana: Duped
Dina and Jim McGreevey
AS I WATCHED the former first lady of New Jersey recount her story on
's show yesterday, I found myself thinking that I'd seen this kind of thing before.
Dina Matos McGreevey's story of being married to the gay ex-governor reminds me of the late Princess Diana. It sounds like a stretch but think about it: Both Dina and Diana were beautiful, naive women courted by powerful, ambitious men in government. Prince Charles had his eye on the throne; Jim McGreevey, on the New Jersey Statehouse and the White House.
Both men wanted a spouse who not only would look good next to them in photo ops, but also bear their children and go along with their programs. And they both needed someone who, initially at least, wouldn't probe too deeply or ask too many questions. Because both kept secrets. The public facade they both engaged in was one thing, but their private lives were something else entirely.
Unfortunately for Diana, her story ended all too soon in a tragic car crash, leaving Charles to eventually marry long-time girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles. Closer to home, Jim McGreevey is now happily ensconced in a relationship with another man. Dina's not even dating yet.
My heart goes out to this poor, duped woman. Listening to her interview on Oprah and having read her new book, "Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage" (Hyperion, $23.95), it's clear that she has been lied to repeatedly. She was a pawn. Jim McGreevey used her for his own political gain. Dina later stumbled across some of his writings in which he'd admitted as much.
And when his political career was over following his 2004 "I am a gay American" announcement, McGreevey dumped her like a used condom. The shell-shocked mother of his daughter was left to restart her life, after dedicating so many years to his career. In the final days before he officially left office, McGreevey still tried to get her to play along as first lady.
"How could Jim not talk to us all week, not worry about whether Jacqueline and I even had a place to live, and then ask me to go to a dinner?" Dina wrote.
It would be easy to dismiss her as having been in denial. She certainly came off that way during the news conference when McGreevey announced his resignation. Throughout it, Dina had the most peculiar grin plastered across her face. With Oprah, she revealed that McGreevey had instructed her to smile and pretend she was Jacqueline Kennedy.
When Winfrey questioned her about it, Dina said, "I have to tell you I was in shock. . . . I had not had time to absorb what had happened. I had three days to prepare for this moment. He had almost an entire lifetime.
"I smiled because I didn't want to break down as his world was falling apart. [Meanwhile] he was still choreographing the entire day," Dina recalled. "I was there for my daughter's father. And also, I had done nothing wrong. I had nothing to hide."
Nothing to feel guilty for, except possibly for missing the signs. Apparently, every single one of them.
"There were no red flags," Dina explained, referring to their sex life. "I had no complaints and he never complained to me. I thought we had a normal relationship."
But what about the young men, including that pushy Golan Cipel, who surrounded her husband?And what about the rumors that had dogged him for so many years?
"No one ever said to me that he was gay," Dina told Winfrey. "The old cliche that the wife is always the last to know is true. . . . I thought it was real. But he was a great actor."
And the person who wound up losing the most was his wife, just like Princess Diana. *
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Ki (Mico – Tamio Shiraishi – Fritz Welch) LP " Tearful face of my cute love [is begging to me] "
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Ki is a trio that pits long-time collaborators Tamio Shiraishi (saxophone, voice) and Takahashi Michiko aka Mico (drums, voice, vocoder, melodica, piano, percussion) against drummer, percussionist and vocalist Fritz Welch. They each bring a wealth of experience, from Shiraishi's early moves in the Japanese underground of the late '70s and early '80s – he was a founding member of Fushitsusha, and played with Taco and Machinegun Tango – to his legendary, late-night solo New York subway performances; he and Mico also spent some time playing with No Neck Blues Band, while Welch, currently based in Glasgow, has a long history taking in stints with Peeesseye, Lambs Gamble and FvRTvR.
Tearful Face Of My Cute Love (Is Begging To Me), named after a yakuza song, is Ki's first LP, after CD-Rs on Chocolate Monk (Ki No Sei, 2009) and Unverified (Stops Dropping, 2010). Documenting two live performances from 2008, it's a startling, wild freedom chase, each piece stretching languorously across one side of the vinyl, giving the trio maximum space to thunder their way through space and time. Their West Nile 2008 show, on side one, opens with a battery of drums, fierce and livid, before Shiraishi's unmistakable and remarkable whinnying, high-zone tone slithers into earshot. The stage is set, the battle moves forward, yet there's remarkable simpatico between the three players, with Mico and Welch volleying guttural vocal exhortations at each other. When it does offer respite – see the sudden swoop into near-silence at around 12:30– everything's still tense; who knows what's around the corner?
For all its fury, though, Tearful Face Of My Cute Love… is full of oddly lyrical moments, too – see the sweet melody that winds out, with gentle melancholy, near the very end of the West Nile performance. This lyricism also haunts the second side of the album, a performance from Glassland, Brooklyn, which seems more focused on the intersection of incidents, from clattering cymbals to ghostly swarms of sax scream, to dive-bombing spirals of vocoder. There's an appealing sense of audio verité here, as though you're in the room with the performers, shaken and stirred by every movement, lost in the interlocking maze they're weaving in real time. It's a bracing, thrilling document of very immediate, human music – of three bodies moving through the world, sounding their environment.
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Never Trump
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One Key Joe Biden Ally Ended Up With Egg On Their Face After What the Camera Caught Them Saying
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Democrats hoped no one was watching.
But they were not that lucky.
And one key Joe Biden ally ended up with egg on their face after what the camera caught them saying.
As Great American Daily reports:
Democrats have constantly investigated former President Donald Trump and several of them are still continuing to do so.
The former president is being investigated by the Democratic Manhattan district attorney and the state of New York for allegations of fraud.
The Department of Justice and prosecutors in Georgia are investigating for his role in the Jan. 6 riots.
That isn't the only investigation the DOJ is running; they are also looking into classified documents that he took with him to his Mar-a-Lago residence.
On Oct. 21, he was subpoenaed by the January 6th committee, a House committee made specifically to investigate Jan 6th.
Democrats have a habit of constantly throwing mud at Trump and hoping something will stick.
According to NBC News in 2019 when Trump was president, 14 Democratic-led House committees were investigating him.
"The investigations include whether Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probes, whether his businesses inflated their assets, how his daughter and son-in-law obtained their security clearances, whether he used his power to interfere with mergers, how his actions might have slowed aid to Puerto Rico, and conflict of interest allegations involving Cabinet members." NBC reported.
Yet now that Congress is back in the hands of Republicans, Democrats are claiming that it isn't the role of Congress to do any investigations.
On Monday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Last Word," Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed that investigations are "part of the administration, and we ought not be interfering with the Justice Department doing its work."
Clyburn stated, "I don't know what it takes for people not to understand that this is a democracy. This is a body of the Congress that we are trying to maintain credibility with, and we're not going to do that by opening up all kinds of suspicions about the institutions in our society. I know a little bit about the institutions not being trusted. We need to build trust in these institutions, and you cannot do that by opening up investigations into the investigations that are, in fact, taking place. That's exactly what they're talking about doing. They want to investigate the investigations that are underway by the Justice Department that ought to be independent of all that we do here. That is part of the administration, and we ought not be interfering with the Justice Department doing its work."
What Democrats really believe is that they should be able to launch whatever baseless and vindictive investigations they want while Republican shouldn't try and investigate the many clearly documented abuses of power by Democrats or the federal government.
Clyburn couldn't make the hypocrisy of Democrats more clear.
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The 1953–54 Montenegrin Republic League was 9th season of Montenegrin Republic League. Season began in September 1953 and ended in April 1954.

Season

For the first time after season 1948–49, Montenegrin Republic League played during the two half-seasons (autumn – spring).
As previous season winner and runner-up (Budućnost and Lovćen) played in Yugoslav Second League, among the eight members of 1953–54 Montenegrin Republic League were Sutjeska, Bokelj, Arsenal, Breznik, Iskra, Mornar, Radnički Ivangrad and Jedinstvo Herceg Novi.
From the very beginning of season, Bokelj and Sutjeska were two best-placed teams. After 14 weeks long championship, Bokelj won the title, with only one point more than second placed team from Nikšić.

Table

Qualifiers for Yugoslav Second League
In the qualifiers for Second League, Bokelj played against the winner of Republic League of SR Slovenia – Ljubljana. Montenegrin representative was better in two games and made comeback to Yugoslav Second League. With that success, season 1954–55 was first in which Montenegro had three clubs in Federal competitions of SFR Yugoslavia.

Higher leagues
On season 1953–54, two Montenegrin teams played in higher leagues of SFR Yugoslavia. Both of them (Budućnost and Lovćen) played in 1953–54 Yugoslav Second League.

See also
 Montenegrin Republic League
 Montenegrin Republic Cup (1947–2006)
 Montenegrin clubs in Yugoslav football competitions (1946–2006)
 Montenegrin Football Championship (1922–1940)

References

Montenegrin Republic League

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Someday soon I'll be ready to do some spring-into-summer wardrobe planning, and am imagining once again including this little plaid top in my closet inventory with the words "never blogged," followed by all the natural questions about it. So instead I thought Gee, Karen, what if you blogged it! And actually there are two of them from the same pattern, neither one ever properly recorded, so I'm here today to correct the record.
Both of these tops were sewn from a now out-of-print Cynthia Rowley for Simplicity pattern #2472. I can be that specific because I have this 6-year-old blog that has a much better memory than I do. Having just tripped back through a search, I can report that when I got the urge to take up sewing again after learning to knit, the first thing I sewed was this crosshatchy quilting cotton version after seeing this one on Make Something. I've made several of them over the years, always tampering with this simplest of patterns, but the two above are the ones that have stuck around and been worn.
The black one (from early 2014, just before I left Berkeley) is in a chambray I had left over from another project, just barely enough to squeak out a cropped version, which I love. With those gathered sleeves, it's probably the girliest thing in my closet! But it looks great with wide-leg pants, and can be worn in just about any setting, so even though I wouldn't want you to see the inside of it, it's a keeper.
The plaid one is sewn from a translucently thin cotton plaid I bought from Drygoods Design in early 2015. All I did with this one is adjust the length, shorten the sleeves and hem them — no gathers. It was the last thing I ever sewed on my old machine, after the *#@!er acted up while I was topstitching the neck on this beloved and delicate fabric. It's also wonky because the fabric has biased considerably over time. So it's another case of something that might not pass muster with any scrutinizing sewers, and the fit is not quite as intended, but it has nonetheless proved to be a useful member of my closet for three years now.
I had some of the plaid fabric left over, and bought a couple more yards from Fancy Tiger not long after, and have been hoarding it. Despite the biasing, I absolutely adore this plaid. It's hard to see in a photo but it's black and grey and golden-tan, and the grey reads almost as lilac or pale blue depending what you put it up against. It's just lovely. But given how thin it is and how it behaves, I have yet to figure out the ideal use for the yardage that remains.
RE the pattern, though, you can easily replicate this with the Fen top or Shirt No. 1. Just tinker with the length as you like, make the sleeve flaps elbow length, then gather them to your liking and finish with bias trim.
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Love the plaid – with those colors it reads as a neutral. I always wash those gauzy fabrics before sewing, then I can see if there are any changes. Most times that takes care of any wonkiness.
I wash all of my fabrics before sewing with them. This is one of those things that happened gradually over a few washes and wears, and fortunately it's not really evident with this particular top. (I don't imagine anyone can tell from the photo, for instance.) I have a friend who made something much more tailored out of it, and it's more evident. But we both love the fabric so much we don't hold it against it!
What about your Linen Quill cardi ? I've just finished a Purl Soho's Lightweight Raglan with Linen Quill, and the sleeves biased with the first wash (I don't mind at all).
Oh, good question. I just recently soaked and reblocked it, and haven't noticed any biasing issues with it whatsoever.
I love that yarn SO MUCH.
I knit a beautiful pullover with linen quill which I wore constantly for about a year and the fabric only seemed to become even with wear and washing (machine washed, cold, line dried)–then I accidentally washed it on warm! Now it lives with a friend's nine year old.
For last year's Summer of Basics, I knit a fisherman's rib tank top out of Q&Co's linen Sparrow, which has also gotten a lot of wear and regular machine washing. I haven't noticed any biasing or wonkiness. Ditto for the lacey garter stitch top I made with linen Kestrel. Maybe it depends on the kind of stitch?
I have made a lot of linen knits, mostly out of Euroflax, and mine don't bias, but lots of people complain that their knits do and there was once a long Ravelry discussion about it. Linen isn't plied; it functions as a single which is only loosely twisted and it seems that a lot of it comes down to whether ones personal knitting style and habits add or subtract twist. I throw my yarn when I knit , but even more importantly, I let my hand wound round ball roll around on the floor. Knitting off of the cake will add twist every time the strand goes round the cake…puting the cake on a yarn buddy will go a long way towards maintaining the twist as it was intended and reduce biasing. IMHO.
Linen Quill is a plied yarn (I happen to have a skein of it right here on the table), and its twist is well balanced, so its behavior would be quite different from something that is 100% linen, The same might be true of the sort of linen yarn that has been manufacturesd into light knitted tube. The same holds true for hemp vs hemp blends.
Interesting — excellent point about the single ply and its twist, thank you.
What if you actually used the plaid fabric on the bias? Maybe that would take care of the problem. Of course, you would have to be satisfied with the plaid on the diagonal. I have found that tops made on the bias actually have a beautiful drape. Just a thought.
I love this idea! It would be best to rotate the side seams and shoulder seams so that they are still following the grain – at diagonals across the body – that way there's no need to actually sew anything on the bias, which is objectively THE WORST. Plus the new seams constitute "style lines" and add interest.
Yeah, I really think it would be best used in a situation where it's either used on the bias or voluminously gathered or something. So I'm always on the lookout for the right idea for it that's also something I would really wear!
There's actually a tutorial on Seamwork, https://www.seamwork.com/issues/2015/01/a-guide-to-working-on-the-bias, that talks about cutting and sewing things on the bias. I found it especially helpful in laying the pattern out correctly.
Fibercraft, those are all great tips, but I was thinking of actually changing the pattern so that the seams lay along the grain — no longer side seam or shoulder seams per se, because they'd be in totally different places. If the garment as a whole is on the bias but the seams lie along the grains, said tips are unnecessary, there is no stretch to deal with while sewing, and the whole process is much easier. It's technique Vionnet employed a lot with her garments, but doesn't seem to be used much these days, a least not with commercial patterns or ready to wear in the States.
Interesting. I've not heard of this. I'll have to see if I can find info on that technique. I must say, though, I haven't had problems sewing on the bias. It probably depends on your fabric.
Thanks! This post reminds me I have a similar pattern (thrifted it, it was from the eighties I believe) that I want to make a top out of for this summer. Love the plaid fabric, by the way!
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Cherries confirmed that the midfielder had joined Danish outfit Randers after having his contract with the Dorset club terminated by mutual consent.
The Dutchman signed a two-and-a-half year deal with Randers, whose interest in the 26-year-old had been exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo.
Davids's deadline-day departure brought to a close a brief and disappointing spell with Cherries.
A cousin of former Ajax, Juventus and Holland star Edgar Davids, he linked up with Cherries in September after penning a two-year contract.
Davids had previously plied his trade in the top flight in both Holland and Germany before joining Cherries on a free transfer.
The former Holland under-21 international saw his career in England delayed for around a month as he recovered from a knee injury.
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Both of those appearances ended in defeat against Walsall and Crawley and despite coming on as a substitute against Leyton Orient on the day Eddie Howe was unveiled in October, Davids has not since featured for the first team.
Earlier in his career, Davids was on the books at Utrecht and Feyenoord before making a name for himself with NEC Nijmegen. He played in the German Bundesliga for FC Augsburg last season prior to his switch to Cherries.
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From 1983-1986, I served in a special operations unit stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington called the 2nd Ranger Battalion. Although it was not much of a stretch from the upbringing I received in my family of origin which, essentially, was preparation to become a soldier, the pace and extreme nature of the Ranger Battalion has me, at times still, catching my breath.
Among other events, what continues to permeate my day to day life from my service, is the loss of many friends, friends who I learned to trust through sheer proximity and intense stress. I am tempted to write their names here but I don't feel the need to. They are with me always and sometimes, they are ghosts, reminding me on not so good days, of the loss of many things. The most significant injury for me is moral injury–that the dehumanized and professional soldier that I volunteered to be was at the behest of a larger ideology based in subjugation and manipulation of sovereign nations. In this case I am speaking about the Contra war from 1980-1990, a war won through sheer atrocity and terror. I was on the border of Nicaragua in 1984 doing combat patrols with contra soldiers attached to my squad as part of a larger and quite unknown operation at the time. The larger context of the operation was to put pressure on the Nicaraguan people during elections, and as a live, real-time "rehearsal" for a land invasion of the country from Honduras.
Over the past 8 years I have gone to New York for a retreat for veterans, their family and friends, titled: "The Costs of War, Violence and Denial." At first I was an attendee benefiting directly from the various forms of meditation introduced by the Zen Buddhist Monk, Claude AnShin Thomas. The last retreat, April 2015, I went as both a participant and a assistant, and since my first veterans retreat in 2007, I have since taken lay ordination into the Soto Zen buddhist tradition.
As a participant, I was asked to write down on a piece of paper, any medication I was taking—a way for Claude AnShin to illustrate and emphasize the importance to continue their course—that the various practices we engaged in where in no way a replacement for prescribed medication. Over the years, my list has gotten smaller, the last several retreats, I have been free of all prescribed and self-prescribed medications. It wasn't until going to the Magnolia Zen Center in Florida, the center where Claude AnShin takes up brief residence as his vows of mendicancy encourage him to travel and move constantly, I spied a rough pile of papers in his office. I asked Claude AnShin what that was about and he said it was the medication lists collected over the years and he did not quite know what to do with them. As an artist, I instantly wanted the papers for yet another collection of material for, possibly, yet another unrealized art project. Claude AnShin gave them to me as well as the next two years of lists, insisting that whatever I create, the information and persons attached to the lists remain anonymous. And, over the next 2 to 3 years, Claude AnShin would ask how the project was coming…often giving voice to my own resistance to working on the collage. I kept away from tackling the project because, perhaps, I was not resolved about the question of medicating my own discomfort. Maybe I was just lazy. Maybe a variety of motivations. Underneath all of them was resistance.
The mandala/collage is a meditation. The work represents a integration of two definitions of mandala: 1) As Oriental Art. A schematized representation of the cosmos, chiefly characterized by a concentric configuration of geometric shapes, each of which contains an image of a deity or an attribute of a deity. And 2) (In Jungian psychology) a symbol representing the effort to reunify the self. Perhaps the work also represents a dialogue between the community of veterans affected by their military service and my own work toward integration and healing.
The Veterans Administration is given the burden of ameliorating the fundamental human atrocity of war, violence and trauma. Faced with an ever urgent problem of escalating veterans suicides, the VA, now more than ever, relies on psycho-pharmacological suppression of symptoms and because of this, many veterans are prescribed medications and, in turn, are then prescribed medications to offset the side effects of the original medication. In other words, the Veterans Administration, administers to management of symptomatology, not healing and transformation. In the first definition of mandala, there is a reference to an "attribute of a deity." In this case, medication acts as such a deity This god functions as a panacea for tamping down the bouquet of suffering from traumatic experiences, from the trauma of dehumanized and industrialized killing: war.
In the end, the definition of war is not the exclusive domain of the battlefield. It exists in our society, in the realm of power dynamics in exaggerated gender roles (the war against women), interpersonal violence (the war against children), unrealized liberation (the war against gender/sexual identity and expression), social conditioning (the war against the unknown, racism and zenophobia), and ultimately, the externalization of human suffering: pointing the finger at the other as the source. I don't want to say that oppression, violence and injustice are not there and I do want to take responsibility for how I perpetuate those systems from my own life and attributes and circumstances. How not to be violent is a far more complex question than merely putting down my weapon.
Expanding outward and inward, as the mandala suggests, medication as diety becomes an interpenetration of the good in the bad and the bad in the good. The mandala represents the collective suffering and healing and transformation from the invisible wounds of war and trauma. Perhaps the mandala represents a transformation of the discriminating mind to that of undifferentiated awareness. Maybe the mandala is just a thing I made and through the process, I was made less fractured and more accepting of my own war and military experiences that continue to play out in my mind, day after day, and sometimes, night after night.
In North American culture, the Buddha is often used in reference to a specific individual, Shakyamuni or Siddhārtha Gautama, the historical figure commonly known as the progenitor of buddhism. In the simplest sense, "buddha" means awake. Maybe the confusion is in the pairing of the both names and definition as one and the same, as in Shakyamuni Buddha. With the medication mandala, the fundamental symbol is that of our inherent awakened nature: our unbiased, undifferentiated awareness. The components that make up the mandala consists of the differentiated mind, the mind averse and conditioned to avoid and escape suffering at every turn. The parts of the mandala, the segregated symbols and signifiers of medications are the confetti of suffering. Escape from reality is much like the purpose psychotropic medications serve with regard to the community of effected veterans.
Only in looking inward as the mandala suggests, does transformation exist. Only in addressing the underlying pain of trauma are we able to integrate the reality of that trauma. Meditation, rooted in breath awareness, is one tool that has benefited me in looking inward. What has also benefited me is turning away from psychotropic medication and receiving help to further develop stability with which to continue to investigate my own suffering. I must say in the end medication did, at some point, help me. I believe it bears some utility as an intervention and only as an intervention. Ultimately, I have to trust my living organism to adjust. And paying attention to my breath is an act which demonstrates that trust.


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Driver sought after Mini Cooper critically injures cyclist in violent head-on Silver Lake crash
By Leanne Suter
SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A bicyclist was severely injured after being hit in a violent head-on crash which was caught on surveillance video in Silver Lake. Now, authorities are hoping it will help them find the driver who fled from the scene.
The crash happened late Friday night on the 3000 block of Berkeley Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The footage shows the 57-year-old victim, who investigators said is a homeless man who lives in the area, stop in the street when he sees oncoming headlights. He survived the crash and is expected to make a full recovery, but the car never slowed down.
"You know, somebody's driving and (they) land on the hood and windshield... obviously he knew he hit something and decided to keep going," said Detective Juan Campos.
Authorities said all the driver had to do was stop and call 911. Instead, the driver is now wanted for felony hit and run. They believe the suspect may also live in the area.
The suspect vehicle is described as a newer model red Mini Cooper with a white roof, which investigators say will likely have extensive damage to the front of the car and possible the windshield.
Residents of the area said drivers have to be extremely cautious when driving on the narrow and steep streets of Silver Lake.
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Q: Determininistic random numbers in parallel code I have a question regarding thread ordering for the TPL.
Indeed, it is very important for me that my Parallel.For loop to be executed in the order of the loop. What I mean is that given 4 threads, i would like the first thread to execute every 4k loop, 2nd thread every 4k+1 etc with (k between 0 and, NbSim/4).

1st thread -> 1st loop,  2nd thread -> 2nd loop , 3rd thread -> 3rd loop
  4th thread -> 4th loop , 1th thread -> 5th loop etc ...

I have seen the OrderedPartition directive but I am not quite sure of the way I should apply it to a FOR loop and not to a Parallel.FOREACH loop.
Many Thanks for your help.
Follwing the previous remkarks, I am completing the description :
Actually, after some consideration, I believe that my problem is not about ordering.
Indeed, I am working on a Monte-Carlo engine, in which for each iteration I am generating a set of random numbers (always the same (seed =0)) and then apply some business logic to them. Thus everything should be deterministic and when running the algorithm twice I should get the exact same results. But unfortunately this is not the case, and I am strugeling to understand why. Any idea, on how to solve that kind of problems (without printing out every variable I have)?
Edit Number 2:
Thank you all for your suggestions
First, here is the way my code is ordered :
ParallelOptions options  = new ParallelOptions();
options.MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 4; //or 1

ParallelLoopResult res = Parallel.For<LocalDataStruct>(1,NbSim, options,
                    () => new LocalDataStruct(//params of the constructor of LocalData),
(iSim, loopState, localDataStruct) => {
    //logic
    return localDataStruct;
}, localDataStruct => {
   lock(syncObject) {
  //critical section for outputting the parameters
});

When setting the degreeofParallelism to 1,everything works fine, however when setting the degree of Parallelism to 4 I am getting  results that are false and non deterministic (when running the code twice I get different results). It is probably due to mutable objects that is what I am checking now, but the source code is quite extensive, so it takes time. Do you think that there is a good strategy to check the code other than review it (priniting out all variables is impossible in this case (> 1000)? Also when setting the Nb of Simulation to 4 for 4 threads everything is working fine as well, mostly due to luck I believe ( that s why I metionned my first idea regarding ordering).

A: You can enforce ordering in PLINQ but it comes at a cost. It gives ordered results but does not enforce ordering of execution.
You really cannot do this with TPL without essentially serializing your algorithm. The TPL works on a Task model. It allows you to schedule tasks which are executed by the scheduler with no guarantee as to the order in which the Tasks are executed. Typically parallel implementations take the PLINQ approach and guarantee ordering of results not ordering of execution.
Why is ordered execution important?
So. For a Monte-Carlo engine you would need to make sure that each index in your array received the same random numbers. This does not mean that you need to order your threads, just make the random numbers are ordered across the work done by each thread. So if each loop of your ParallelForEach was passed not only the array of elements to do work on but also it's own instance of a random number generator (with a different fixed seed per thread) then you will still get deterministic results.
I'm assuming that you are familiar with the challenges related to parallelizing Monte-Carlo and generating good random number sequences. If not here's something to get you started;Pseudo-random Number Generation for
Parallel Monte Carlo—A Splitting Approach, Fast, High-Quality, Parallel Random-Number Generators: Comparing Implementations.
Some suggestions
I would start off by ensuring that you can get deterministic results in the sequential case by replacing the ParallelForEach with a ForEach and see if this runs correctly. You could also try comparing the output of a sequential and a parallel run, add some diagnostic output and pipe it to a text file. Then use a diff tool to compare the results.
If this is OK then it is something to do with your parallel implementation, which as is pointed out below is usually related to mutable state. Some things to consider:

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*Is your random number generator threadsafe? Random is a poor random number generator at best and as far as I know is not designed for parallel execution. It is certainly not suitable for M-C calculations, parallel or otherwise.

*Does your code have other state shared between threads, if so what is it? This state will be mutated in a non-deterministic manner and effect your results.

*Are you merging results from different threads in parallel. The non-associativity of parallel floating point operations will also cause you issues here, see How can floating point calculations be made deterministic?. Even if the thread results are deterministic if you are combining them in a non deterministic way you will still have issues.

A: Assuming all threads share the same random number generator, then although you are generating the same sequence every time, which thread gets which elements of this sequence is non-deterministic. Hence you could arrive at different results.
That's if the random number generator is thread-safe; if it isn't, then it's not even guaranteed to generate the same sequence when called from multiple threads.
Apart from that it is difficult to theorize what could be causing non-determinism to arise; basically any global mutable state is suspicious. Each Task should be working with its own data.

A: If, rather than using a random number generator, you set up an array [0...N-1] of pre-determined values, say [0, 1/N, 2/N, ...], and do a Parallel.ForEach on that, does it still give nondeterministic results?  If so, the RNG isn't the issue.

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Preliminary Investigations Reveal that the Pilot Crashed "deliberately" the Mozambican EMB190
By Capt. Ivan | December 22, 2013 - 9:08 PM | December 22, 2013 Accidents, Aviation News from around the Web
A preliminary investigation has revealed that a Mozambican Airlines captain, whose plane went down in Namibia in November, had a clear intention of crashing the aircraft.
Captain Herminio dos Santos Fernandes manipulated the autopilot in a way which "denotes a clear intention" to bring the plane down, said Mozambican Civil Aviation Institute (IACM) head Joao Abreu on Saturday.
LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 was an Embraer 190 on a scheduled passenger flight from to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Angola. All 33 people, including 6 crew members, who were on board the aircraft were killed.
Dos Santos Fernandes locked himself in the cockpit, ignored alarm signals and refused to allow his co-pilot back into the flight deck until moments before the crash.
"During these actions you can hear low and high-intensity alarm signals and repeated beating against the door with demands to come into the cockpit," Abreu was quoted as saying by state news agency AIM.
Dos Santos Fernandes also manually changed the aircraft's altitude three times from 11,582 metres to 180 metres.
Airbrake parameters showed the spoilers, and aerodynamic resistance plates on the wings, were deployed and held in that position until the end of the recordings, which proved the throttle was manually controlled, according to Abreu.
"The plane fell with the pilot alert and the reasons which may have given rise to this behaviour are unknown," said Abreu.
Dos Santos Fernandes had logged 9,053 flight hours, his licence was renewed in 2012 and he underwent a medical exam last September.
The passengers were from Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Brazil, France and China.
This accident is the deadliest for Mozambique since a plane carrying then-president Samora Machel went down in 1986 in South Africa following an African leaders' summit and killed an estimated 34 people.
The European Union banned Mozambican Airlines (LAM) and all air carriers certified in Mozambique from flying in its airspace in 2011 due to major concerns over safety.
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Net Neutrality Badly Needed in the Philippines
Updated September 5, 2018, 12:58 PM
By Rom Feria
Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu coined the term "network neutrality" in his Journal on Telecom and High Tech Law paper, "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination," written when he was a professor at the University of Virginia Law School. Essentially, it defines the network as non-discriminatory, that network service providers (telecommunications companies and internet service providers) must not favor any application, user, content, website, or platform, over any other. How is this realized in the Philippines?
Simply put, there is no such a thing as net neutrality in the Philippines. This is evident from the two duopolies, Smart and Globe. At the onset, the fact that both telcos provide free access to select platforms, websites, contents, and applications, demonstrate that they discriminate against others.
Smart vs Net Neutrality
Let's take a look at how Smart goes against net neutrality by examining the add-ons it offers.
Smart provides add-on packages for users to access their preferred services, such as YouTube, Facebook, FB Messenger, iFlix, iWantTV, Spinnr, Dubsmash, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Skype, Qik, Viber, Fox+, WhatsApp, and select online games, such as Mobile Legends, Arena of Valor, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Everwing. These are in addition to the free access to Facebook!
Globe vs Net Neutrality
Going by the same observation as Smart's, Globe provides add-on packages for Facebook, Tumblr, Yahoo, Google, Viber, Snapchat, Instagram, Foursquare, WeChat, Kakao, Pinterest, Sulit, Spotify, Disney Life, YouTube, Netflix, Tribe, HOOQ, Cartoon Network, and games, such as Mobile Legends, Pokemon Go, VainGlory, Marvel Future Fight, Legacy of Discord, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Hearthstone, Marvel Contest of Champions, Boom Beach, Hay Day, Candy Crush Saga, Candy Crush Soda, Summoner's War, Soul Seeker, Dungeon Hunter, and Brave Frontier. And of course, free access to Facebook!
Consumer Effects
At first glance, these packages, or add-ons, provide a good deal for consumers. However, when you dig deeper, you will find that telcos are influencing you to use these services, over other service that is not on their roster. The business behind these is that telcos have agreements with these services — and yes, it involves money! (Don't you ever think that telcos are providing these out of the goodness of their hearts!)
Take the case of messaging services. Smart and Globe favors FB Messenger, WeChat, Viber, WhatsApp, Kakao, and Skype, over iMessage, Signal, and other more secure, and more private alternatives. As such, consumers will not be inclined to use services that provide better privacy protection. Whilst there is no reason for telcos not to promote more privacy-oriented messaging services, only one thing is evident — money!
Yes, Smart and Globe need to earn!
Bridging the Digital Divide Myth
Facebook, with the cooperation of Smart and Globe, provide free access to Facebook, under the guise of bridging the digital divide. Sorry to say, but this is not true! Consumers accessing Facebook get their personal information collected. The personal information gets aggregated, used to create you virtual persona, which is then sold by Facebook to advertisers. That 25-year old, female, who lives in Makati City, commutes to work at BGC, uses an Android smartphone, and visits Starbucks regularly, virtual persona is prime target for advertising from Starbucks, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Tim Hortons, Nescafe, you name it! And believe me, these companies pay to get their advertisements viewed by people matching the virtual persona.
Don't get me started with the ill-effects of using Facebook, too! Heck, I hate it when the telcos and ISPs contribute to the dumbing down of Filipinos. Ask an ordinary Filipino what the internet is, chances are they will only know of Facebook! Sad, but Smart and Globe, you are partly to blame here.
Sorry to say but Facebook, Smart and Globe, are earning off of this. They will not simply shoulder the expense of providing these free service for nothing!
Net Neutrality Now
Telcos and ISPs should remain neutral. They should not discriminate based on type of content, website, service, application, or even user, or not discriminate at all! Network providers must concentrate on provide the best services, and let consumers decide how they are going to use these services. Dictating consumers, by bundling preferred services, platforms, websites, and applications, is simply not fair. It is not fair for our growing start-up environment. How can a new blockchain-based messaging application from an IT start-up from Cebu compete against FB Messenger, when consumers won't use the new messaging application because it is not free?
Net neutrality will enable our start-up environment to grow and compete on equal grounds. Net neutrality will restore consumer choice, as there won't be exclusivity. Net neutrality will enable the third and fourth telcos to compete on basic services. Net neutrality is good for consumers.
The government must start investigating net neutrality. The Philippine Competition Commission, along with the Department of Information and Communications Technology, must seriously look at this. Both Senate and Congress must work and ensure that we have a net neutrality law. If India can do it, why can't we?
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The Unequal Unemployed
Discrimination, Unemployment and State Policy in Northern Ireland
ByMaura Sheehan, Mike Tomlinson
eBook Published 21 December 2018
SubjectsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
Sheehan, M., Tomlinson, M. (1999). The Unequal Unemployed. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431371
First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed Catholics and Protestants. The Unequal Unemployed uses the important and revealing context of Northern Ireland to review the international debate on discrimination and the role of unemployment within it. This intellectual and political debate, active throughout the past decade, represents a conflict between: a) The traditional view that unequal unemployment is evidence of labour market discrimination against minorities and other distinct social groupings. b) Recent models which explain unemployment either in terms of individual responsibility or innate inferiority and attack the 'equal opportunities industry for its attempts at social engineering. Maura Sheehan and Mike Tomlinson approach these theories using unique survey evidence, gathered through a comprehensive evaluation of anti-discrimination policy. They contradict the view that differences in unemployment between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland are the result of personal attitudes and 'religious culture'. The book demonstrates that unequal unemployment arises from various discriminatory structures and practices - all of which are amenable to policy intervention. However, while more radical measures may achieve change, these must be developed within a policy framework which stimulates labour demand and economic development. Such a framework is constrained by the continuing political conflict within Northern Ireland.
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WithMaura Sheehan, Mike Tomlinson
Discrimination and the Rise of Individualism
Unemployment Policies in the 1990s
Unemployment and Fair Employment
The Long-term Unemployed in West Belfast
Unemployment, Discrimination and Labour Market Processes
Employers and the Long-term Unemployed
Equality and Full Employment


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Would love to see a case-study on a successful project that has come from this :) What if the app/site is a really difficult concept to understand? I'm assuming this is more leaning towards building MVPs for founders looking to test out their market. Does Tara give any advice when asking to build an app? Like if I was asking Tara to build something and wanted a certain function, but the professionals behind Tara know that actually a different function or the same function packaged differently could work better - would that be said? Guess that may be going a different way haha. Maybe I'll start a on-demand startup feedback chat app :) How do you deal with pricing? What is the typical price? Are emails better suited for projects like websites/apps because there are usually lots of things to discuss and lots of detail?
@bentossell you've got the gist of it down. We not only do MVP's but also fully fledged software's and internal tools for larger companies too. While the chat bot takes on the initial conversation and is quickly able to provide pricing and quotes on blog content, design work and sales leads. For more complicated projects such as apps and websites the chat is transferred to a sales engineer who can help the customer with advice and possibilities of bringing their ideas to life in the most cost effective manner. Pricing really varies for web and mobile apps depending on complexity, how fast the project needs to be delivered. Overtime TARA should be able to provide advice on web and app frameworks as well, we're streaming all the chat data into our ML software so TARA can not only provide a team to get you started but also the best options to get projects up and running.
@syedahmedz Awesome. So for a site/app its likely that the project will move away from the messaging format and onto something like calls/emails for the intricate details? Do you offer some out of the box solutions? So having some templates coded together like a 'Tinder for X'/'Product Hunt for Y' type solutions that people could buy? Same for some back-end solutions too?
@bentossell @syedahmedz Precisely. Although Ben, we have seen detailed technical specs and project scenarios translated directly through the chat interface, without the need of follow-up calls or emails. We are also looking in to out of the box solutions, with a base framework or set of code, that can be used as our very own open-source tool-kit as we build more software (this also helps keep our software projects affordable for founders or small businesses, and allows for lesser coding time for developers on the platform).
Oh My. This is really really good. I was just talking with TARA about a simple ERP System which I need to implement in limited budget. And she actually replied me like a real person. Very intelligent!
Looks good, Iba! A Slack integration might be really nifty for our team. Would save us the hassle of going to oDesk to scale labor up and down.
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A study published on Thursday by the Enough Project examined 20 of the world's largest companies in terms of market capitalization. Mineral supply chains examined include tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold.
Apple emerged as the "clear leader" scoring 114 out of a possible 120 points. Following the top five, including HP, Microsoft, Intel, and Google, the remaining electronic companies take a precipitous drop in rankings, with Panasonic scoring 42.5 —and the anchor of the charts being Toshiba at 9.
Tin is a common semiconductor and structural mineral. Tantalum is used in capacitors and resistors, and used in other alloys to grant strength and corrosion resistance.
Gold is an excellent conductor, and is effectively corrosion-free. Tungsten has a wide array of uses in fabrication materials, can be used for wear-resistant coatings and in emitters.
Also examined with the same scale were jewelry companies like Signet and Tiffany, with Signet holding a lead at 66.5 points. Tiffany scored 60 points. The remaining jewelry companies scored between 0 and 20 on the scale.
The Enough Project defines "conflict-free minerals" as minerals that do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups, including state military units from Congo as well as other predatory regional governments. Because these rankings are focused on activities related to Congo, companies were awarded credit for criteria pertaining to sourcing conflict-free minerals if they were able to demonstrate that the minerals in their products were not financing armed violence in Congo or the African Great Lakes region.
The group recommends that consumers contact companies that use the materials to either laud their efforts —or exclaim dismay at the poor showing.