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Irregular Periods Overview
About Irregular Periods
Causes of Irregular Periods
Irregular Periods Treatments
Irregular Periods Articles
How Do Natural Hormones Cause Irregular Periods?
If you're going through menopause, it can be that your period, which may have been running like clockwork for your entire life, is no longer occurring as expected. Most women aren't aware of the reason for irregular periods during menopause. Learning more about why this occurs and what you can do about it is the first step towards finding relief.
Keep reading for information on how natural hormones impact menstrual regularity during menopause.
About Natural Hormones
Do you ever wonder how the parts of your body communicate? Natural hormones are behind many of the processes that keep your body functioning. For women, these functions can become problematic during menopause because the levels of two hormones — estrogen and progesterone — begin to gradually decline. When levels of these hormones are thrown off balance, they can cause a host of symptoms, from hot flashes and mood swings to irregular periods.
Will Controlling My Hormones Help Control My Irregular Periods?
As menopause involves the gradual ending of menstruation, avoiding the experience of irregular periods during this time is virtually impossible. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to make the transition smoother and less bothersome.
First and foremost, exercising more and improving your diet are important ways to improve hormonal imbalance and overall health. A healthy body also has a healthy endocrine system, which helps to raise your production of important hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Incorporating stress-relieving activities into your lifestyle can also help with hormonal imbalance, and by extension, the symptoms of menopause, including irregular periods.
Another effective treatment method is alternative medicine. Many of these medicines, black cohosh, dong quai, and red clover included, have become increasingly popular in the last two decades. They contain phytoestrogens, plant compounds that are believed to help replace declining levels of estrogen during menopause. This comes as good news for women who want relief from menopausal symptoms. Hormone-regulating supplements can also be effective, and help to avoid unpleasant side effects of phytoestrogens like headaches and joint pain.
Should I See a Doctor?
If irregular periods are especially disruptive or include severe symptoms, it is time to talk to a doctor. A medical professional can help guide you to the appropriate treatment options. In some extreme cases, the benefits of medication and surgery can outweigh the risks.
Irregular Periods Overview Irregular Periods Treatments
Vaginal Bleeding during Postmenopause
Should I Seek Medical Advice for My Irregular Periods?
Irregular Periods during Perimenopause: What You Need to Know
Tips for Dealing with Irregular Periods during Perimenopause
Stress and Irregular Periods
Long Menstrual Cycles
Long menstrual cycles can be frustrating, and are commonly experienced by women going through menopause. Click here to learn more.
Constant Irregular Periods
Irregular periods are one of the earliest signs that a woman is approaching menopause. They can be caused by a range of medical conditions.
Irregular Periods and Birth Control Pills
The hormonal changes brought by birth control pills can sometimes cause irregular periods. Click here to learn more about managing irregular periods.
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Love, Susan M.D. Menopause and Hormone Book. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
BMJ Group. "Menopause: What is it?" Patient Leaflet. 2007
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Grace Paley is the author of the short story collections The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Later the Same Day and The Collected Stories, winner of the National Book Award. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. A collection of political essays and family memoirs, Just As I Thought, was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in April 1998. Her awards and honors include the 1997 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, the 1993 Vermont Award for Excellence in the Arts and the 1989 Edith Wharton Award. In 1989, Governor Cuomo declared her the first official New York State Writer. She was the recipient of the 1993 Rea Award for the Short Story.
Tim O'Brien is the author of the novels Northern Lights, Going After Cacciato, winner of the National Book Award, The Nuclear Age, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for best historical novel. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home is a collection of essays about his Vietnam experience. His collection of short stories. The Things They Carried, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won him the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Melcher Book Award, and France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. His short stories have been anthologized in Prize Stories:The O. Henry Awards, Great Esquire Fiction, The Pushcart Prize (vols. 2 and 10) and The Best American Short Stories. In April 1998, he was Rea Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia.
Gina Berriault is the author of four novels, The Descent, A Conference of Victims, The Son, The Lights of Earth and of three collections of stories, The Mistress and Other Stories, The Infinite Passion of Expectation: Twenty-five Stories and Women In Their Beds: New & Selected Stories, for which she received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in 1996. Her story. The Stone Boy, was made into a film for which she wrote the script, starring Glenn Close and Robert Duvall. She received the 1997 Rea Award for the Short Story.

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by Granger & Wendy Meador
Granger's Computers
The TRS-80 Model I
Back in 1978 or so I played with my first computer – a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I at my junior high school. I found it interesting, but it only did monochrome text, had an ugly case, and the software wasn't very sophisticated. Two years later, however, Tandy would release the Color Computer, and my adventures with personal computers began. I've spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' money on computers, working with dozens of different models. And I've spent tens of thousands of my own money on the ones shown here, my truly PERSONAL computers.
1976: Casio Personal Mini
1976: Casio Personal-Mini
Okay, so it isn't what we'd call a computer today, but I do have fond recollections of my first electronic calculator. A true dinosaur by today's standards, this four-function unit had some memorable oddities. First, its vacuum fluorescent display showed half-sized zeroes (so one hundred five displayed as "1o5" instead of "105", etc.). Second, it only showed six digits at a time, but you could press a key to see more. Finally, if you told it to divide by zero it would go crazy. Its display would start displaying an ever-increasing number based on the internal clock. Watching its display flicker as it struggled to calculate and spelling some (short) words upside down were about the only entertainment this unit offered. My unit disappeared long ago, but 30 years after buying my first one I bought another for nostalgia's sake from eBay. Not exactly a collector's item – pretty cheap!
1980: TRS-80 Color Computer
1980: TRS-80 Color Computer [CoCo1]
A nerd never forgets his first computer. I was in the eighth grade when I got my "CoCo". It was manufactured by Radio Shack/Tandy. It was a colorful alternative to their TRaSh-80 Models 1-3. Tandy would serve up three models of CoCo between 1980 and 1990, each based on Motorola's 6809E microprocessor. My CoCo 1 used a regular television as the monitor and had a memorably awful 32×16 all-caps text display. The normal screen background was "radiation green" with black letters – lowercase was shown as green caps on a black background!
The hideous boot screen of my first computer. Although it never looked this clear on a 13″ television set!
The machine was fully outfitted with a whopping 32 KB of RAM, Chiclet keyboard, Microsoft Color Basic in ROM, and program/data storage on a cassette tape recorder, using a 1500 bit/s modem-style signal. The computer had a slot where you could insert cartridges with ROM programs and various expansion devices. My printer was a Tandy DWP-210 daisy wheel, later supplemented by a Star-Gemini SG-10 9-pin dot matrix for graphics printing. I would eventually replace the nasty Chiclet keyboard so that the CPU looked like the one shown in the photo. Another expensive but helpful upgrade was adding two 5.25″ 160 KB floppy drives. Eventually I went online, using a fancy 300 baud modem – "fancy" meant it hooked directly into the phone line and could dial numbers itself, whereas before you had to dial the phone number manually and the put the phone handset into cups on the modem. The computer cost about $650, two floppy drives cost $1,000, the modem was $250, and the printer was $600. And that's in early 1980s dollars, folks. Ouch!
1983: Tandy Color Computer 2
1983: Tandy Color Computer 2 [Coco2]
In 1983, I sold my CoCo 1 and purchased a CoCo 2. At $200 it cost one-third as much as its predecessor, was smaller, and came with a decent keyboard and 64 KB of RAM. I would eventually upgrade it with a "Multi-Pak" interface so I could have my floppy drives and a mouse/paint unit that imitated some of the capabilities of the original Macintosh. At one point I tried to hand-build a video upgrade card for my CoCo 2 to give it lowercase 80×25 text, quickly discovering that I was not a competent hardware hobbyist. I finally gave the machine away to a girlfriend, but I still have a memento: a videotape (you could just hook the computer to a VCR back then) of the various Star Trek and adventure graphics programs my friend Jeff Silver and I wrote for it.
Watch this clip for a taste of what it was like to program the CoCo 1 and 2.
1984/1988: Tandy PC-5 & PC-6
1984/1988: Tandy Pocket Scientific Computer PC-5/PC-6
My next computer was MUCH smaller. My Tandy PC-5 looked like a calculator, but it was actually a computer that could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a wonderful memo editor with formula conversion – you could save your own plain English formulas in memory and have it calculate them. My PC-5 served me faithfully, through several repairs, for a decade. I liked it so much that I bought its successor, a PC-6, in 1988, and it also lasted a decade. I programmed it to work its way through student lab calculations to aid my grading, and did all my grade calculations and associated statistics on it. It didn't do graphs, but I prefer a big screen for that anyway. For years I used old TI-86 calculators (which were themselves quite out of date) for the jobs once handled by the PC-5/6, which originally cost about $120 each. (I stuck with TI-86s far past their obsolescence date, wearing them out and then buying used ones on eBay, rather than upgrading to a more modern TI calculator. This was because the various TI-BASIC programs I coded for them, which helped me calculate lab data for grading student papers back when I was teaching physics, were not compatible with newer models and I didn't want to re-create all of that code.)
1985: Tandy Model 2000
1985: Tandy Model 2000 [Colossus]
When I was a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma I bought what Robert X. Cringely termed "the epitome of weird pseudo-PC-compatibles" for $2,750. My Tandy 2000 (T2K) was one of the very few machines based on Intel's 80186 chip (that chip later became a popular embedded processor in appliances, etc.). The T2K was not a true IBM-compatible because of its then innovative features: the 80186 microprocessor, two high-capacity (720 KB) floppy drives, and advanced video (600×400 with 16 colors). Popular programs such as Lotus 1-2-3 were recompiled for the T2K, or you could use regular IBM software (such as WordPerfect 4.2) if it refrained from directly addressing the video hardware. My primary motivation in buying the machine was to get a decent 80×25 text screen for word processing and to access the engineering computer on my new 1200 baud modem. Thus I could access the early Internet: no world wide web yet, but you could do email, access newsgroups, and transfer files if you understood Unix and its arcane software. I eventually added a 10 MB hard disk and later an external 20 MB hard disk to my T2K. Looking back decades later, it amazes me that the 10 MB internal disk listed for $1,700. I used three different operating systems with this machine: MS-DOS 2.03, the almost useless Windows 1.02, and Digital Research's GEM (which had nifty integrated word processor/paint/drawing software). I also acquired some new printers: a Panasonic KX-P1080i 9-pin dot matrix, and then a Tandy DMP-430 18-pin dot matrix. The T2K died circa 1992, and both printers had failed by 1996.
Here's a television ad for the Model 2K.
1988: CompuAdd 386
1988: Standard Brand (CompuAdd) 386 [Forbin]
Seven years after IBM PC was introduced, I finally succumbed and spent scholarship money on an IBM-compatible. "Forbin" lasted 11 years, spending the last few as a student word processing station in an English class at the high school. It had a 16 MHz 80386DX processor, and NEC Multisync II monitor. It grew from 2 to 6 MB RAM, and eventually had two 70 MB hard disks. I bought a sturdy Hewlett Packard LaserJet Series II printer at the same time as Forbin; it was a reliable workhorse for 12 years until its fuser finally burned out. Over the years Forbin was hooked up to 1200, 2400, and finally 14400 baud modems.
1989: PC Brand V20
1989: PC Brand V20 [Falken]
In 1989 my friend Jeff Silver and I purchased a low-powered machine to run our Bates Motel BBS in Oklahoma City. (The BBS was based on Hitchcock's "Psycho". An example is that to disconnect you "took a shower".) Our BBS was a node in FidoNet, a BBS newsgroup system. The XT-clone had an NEC V20 microprocessor (a clone of an Intel 8088 chip), Hercules monochrome video, Samsung monitor, two 40 MB hard disks with a Perstor controller to boost their capacity, and 2400 baud modem. Later Jeff sold me his share of the machine and Meador Manor began operation as a BBS in Bartlesville. I would later shut it down and a few years later Meador Manor would be reborn on the world wide web.
1993: Gateway 2000 486
1993: Gateway 2000 486 [Daystrom]
Four years after purchasing Forbin, I was ready to upgrade. "Daystrom" was my main machine for seven years. It originally cost me $3,500 with its 66 MHz 80486DX microprocessor, ATI local bus graphics card, 16 MB RAM, 424 MB hard disk, and 17″ monitor. Over the years I upgraded it with an 83 MHz Pentium Overdrive processor, 40 MB RAM, a compressed 1.6 GB hard disk, a Tropez sound card, Mitsumi 8x CD-ROM, ScanTak 2c flatbed scanner, ZIP 100 drive, 33600 baud faxmodem, and external Ditto Easy 3200 tape drive. Late in life, Daystrom was my parents' primary computer for awhile, joined by a HP LaserJet 4L printer I used for several years.
1997: Toshiba Laptop
1997: Toshiba Pentium Laptop [Toshi]
In the late 1990s I finally bought a laptop computer for use at work, on the road, and while I earned my master's degree. My Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT weighed 7.4 pounds and had a 120 MHz Pentium processor, 48 MB RAM, an 11.3″ active matrix LCD, a 5 GB hard disk (upgraded from the original 1.26 GB unit), 10x CD-ROM drive, and docked into a port replicator. It cost about $1,300. After its useful life has ended it gathered dust in a closet for many years until I found out Toshiba would take it in for free recycling.
2000: Dell Pentium III
2000: Dell Dimension XPS B733r Pentium III [Sevrin]
My next machine had a 733 MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB RAM (later upgraded to 256 MB), 27.3 GB hard drive (later I added a 57 GB drive), NVIDIA geFORCE 32 MB 4X AGP graphics card (which blew out and was replaced by an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32 MB), 3COM network card, 8x DVD, CD-RW drive (which I later replaced with a Sony DRU-500A multiformat DVD/CD burner), Zip 250MB drive (which was superseded by a Sony 256MB USB keydrive), and SoundBlaster Live! Value card with Harman Kardon HK-595 Surround Sound Speakers and Subwoofer. The entire system and accessories cost me about $6,875.
My system started with Windows 98, later dual-booted to either Windows 98 or Windows 2000, and eventually booted to either Windows XP or Windows 98. I added some USB 2.0 ports via a PCI card, so I could better utilize my wonderful 40 GB 3rd-generation iPod and other accessories.
I kept using the 17″ monitor I purchased with Daystrom in 1993, amazed that after 11 years the monitor was still going strong.
Internet access was via a Zoom 56K Dualmode modem until I obtained Digital Subscriber Line service in 2001 with a SpeedStream 5260 Ethernet ADSL "modem".
Backups were done with a Maxtor 120 GB OneTouch portable hard drive, and before that 80 GB and 30 GB Backpack portable hard drives and before that tape backup.
Printing also went through various revisions. I donated my HP Color LaserJet 4500 (which my best friend dubbed "Printerus Maximus") to the school where I taught, replacing it with an HP Photosmart 7960 inkjet. I also retired my monochrome HP LaserJet 1100, a refurbished unit which grew recalcitrant; it was replaced by a Brother HL-51 laser printer with duplexing unit.
My HP ScanJet 6200Cxi flatbed scanner burned out in 2002 and was replaced with an HP ScanJet 4570c in 2003, but that scanner burned out in 2007.
2004: Dell Dimension 8400
2004: Dell Dimension 8400 [Duotronic]
My last Windows XP computer cost roughly $3,000 and had a Pentium 4 3.6 GHz processor with 2 GB RAM, two 750 GB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration (upgraded from the original 160 GB RAID 0 and later 233 GB RAID 1 set), 256 MB Nvidia GeForce 6800 GTO graphics card, 48x CD-RW, upgraded 18x DVD+/-RW, and Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card with 5.1 surround sound speakers. It first used a 17″ Dell W1700 LCD TV/Monitor, which was superceded by a 20″ Samsung 205BW LCD monitor. Internet access evolved from DSL to cable modem for a quintupling of download speeds. Program loading and response time on the Windows XP Professional machine improved dramatically over the often-upgraded Sevrin. In 2007 I replaced the latest dead HP scanner with an old Epson Perfection 1660 Photo scanner, but then bought an HP ScanJet G4010. May it be the last scanner I ever buy!
Duotronic was my homebase for oodles of video and audio podcasts, which I transmitted wirelessly to my living room Apple TV with a NetGear WPN824 router and also loaded onto my iPod Nano and later my iPhone. I never upgraded it to Vista, finally replacing Duotronic with Vector, a Windows 7 machine, in November 2009.
2005: Averatec 3270-EE1
2005: Averatec 3270-EE1 [PADD]
For about three years my notebook computer was a lightweight 4.5 pound model with an AMD Sempron XP-M 2800+ processor with 512 MB RAM, 60 GB hard drive, DVD +/- burner, wired and 802.11 g wireless networking, and a 12.1″ XGA screen. It ran Windows XP Home but also ran hot, had abysmal battery life, and wireless reception in hotels was always problematic. It listed for $949.
2008: Apple iPhone 3G
Oh, make no mistake. With its amazing web browser and downloadable applications, this was a computer all right. My white 16 GB iPhone 3G went with me everywhere and became my main music and audiobook player as well as a turn-by-turn GPS.
2008: Asus Eee PC 1000H
2008: Asus Eee PC 1000H [PADDe]
My first netbook, this wonderfully tiny thing had a 10.2″ 1024×600 screen and cost $464. Despite its scaled-down Intel Atom 1.6 GHz N270 processor, it handily outperformed my Averatec laptop for the most part and was wonderfully quiet and cool in comparison, with good battery life. It had 160 GB of hard drive space, 1 GB RAM [later upgraded to 2 GB], a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and 802.11 n wireless networking. It lacked a CD/DVD drive, but I could load CD software onto it by mapping a desktop drive to it via the wireless network. The machine came with Windows XP Home, but I upgraded it, thanks to Asus posting the needed instructions and drivers, to Windows 7, which ran quite well on it. I gave it to my mother to replace her Averatec 3270-EE1, a duplicate of my own 2005 laptop.
2009: Velocity Micro Vector Z35
2009: Velocity Micro Vector Z35 [Vector]
My next desktop machine cost $1,728 and had an Intel i7-920 microprocessor with four 2.66 GHz cores. By using the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium I could use 8 GB of RAM, originally rounding out the system with two 1 TB 7200 rpm hard drives in a Raid 1 configuration, a 512MB AMD ATI Radeon HD 3450 video card, and 20x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner with LightScribe Labeling. I kept my 20″ Samsung 205BW LCD monitor and 5.1 surround speakers I used with my Duotronic desktop computer, along with my existing Brother HL-5150D duplexing laser printer, HP Photosmart 7960 inkjet printer, and HP Scanjet G4010 scanner.
This system was from a company known for gaming, so it had a huge window in the side so you could see the interior lit up by colorful LEDs. The most graphically demanding game I ever played was Riven many years ago, so I certainly didn't take full advantage of its graphics capabilities. But I did like how the system makes editing videos a snap. Once again I had bought a system just a few notches below the bleeding edge since I expected it to last me five years. It wound up lasting eight.
For a year I was still using my Netgear WPN824 802.11b/g router. But it started needing regular reboots, so I replaced it with an Apple Airport Extreme 802.11 b/g/n router which was hardwired to a D-Link switch in my living room servicing my Sony Bravia HDTV, Sony Blu-ray player, and Apple TV while I used WiFi for an Amazon Fire TV Stick, Google Chromecast, and WiFi for my iPad and iPhone.
In 2012 I added a smaller second monitor to assist me in using Adobe DreamWeaver in coding the school district websites, and in late 2013 I bought a larger 24″ widescreen ViewSonic monitor for my main display. The desktop's power supply failed in 2014, and I swapped in a new one since the computer still worked fine, although it took a long time to be ready to use after a reboot due to slow file indexing in Windows 7 and iTunes.
By early 2015 the Raid 1 configuration had allowed me to survive at least four hard drive failures, but I was very glad to give up on spinning metal by replacing the hard drives with a Crucial M550 1 terabyte SATA solid state disk. The super-fast SSD made the system very fast to boot up, and was the best upgrade ever. I hope to never buy another spinning hard drive again! I had a LOT of data I've accumulated over the decades, so in late 2016 I added another 500 GB solid state disk, connected to the computer using USB 3.
In late 2015 I replaced the DVD burner with a new one, since the older one would no longer reliably record except to read/write discs. I didn't need to burn very many discs anymore, but occasionally someone needed a DVD of my Inquiry Physics curriculum, so that upgrade was worthwhile.
Something in this old system was NOT compatible with Windows 10; an upgrade led to frequent seizures which no amount of upgrading could resolve. So I finally replaced it in 2017 with Derek, a Windows 10 system.
2010: The iPad
2010: Apple iPad
I sold off a bunch of books, CDs, and DVDs to purchase this media tablet for $941 including accessories. It had a 9.7 inch 1024×768 touchscreen, 1GHz Apple A4 processor, 64 GB of solid state storage, and both WiFi and 3G service. I loved carrying it with me around the house and on the go, using it to browse the internet, watch video podcasts, read electronic books, and the like. It felt like another Star Trek dream come true, and its long battery life was a boon.
2010: Apple iPhone 4
The faster, thinner, and higher-resolution successor to my iPhone 3G, featuring a far better camera to boot.
2010: MacBook Air
2010: Apple MacBook Air [Droxine]
My Asus netbook sold me on smaller form factors, but I wanted more power for photo and video editing on the road with a better keyboard and screen. So I bought my first Macintosh for $1,419 with accessories. It is a thin wedge of aluminum with an 11.6″ 1366×768 screen, 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo microprocesssor, 4 GB of RAM, a 128 GB flash drive, and WiFi. It started out with OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.5) but was steadily upgraded to Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan. I bought a separate SuperDrive DVD +/- burner and a VGA-to-Display Port adapter.
By 2015 I was barely using this laptop, although it still was fast enough for my needs. The incompatibilities with Windows, which I still must use at school and have invested much time and money in software and years of use, meant I really never took to OS X, and the Air's 128 GB solid state drive was cramped. Now that I travel with Wendy, I don't blog on the road any more, so I just take my iPad and a Chromebook on vacations.
2011: iPad 2
2011: Apple iPad 2
I sold my original iPad to gazelle.com and used the $500 proceeds to buy an iPad 2 with WiFi and 16 GB of solid state storage, not minding shifting to a model without 3G, since I could now use my iPhone 4 as a mobile WiFi hotspot, and to less storage space since I found I did not use most of the 64 GB capacity of the original iPad. After I bought my third iPad, I kept the iPad 2 at school for a few months but never got around to using it there, so I sold it to Gazelle for $240 fifteen months after purchasing it for more than twice that price…iPads depreciate even faster than cars.
2012: Apple iPad (3rd generation)
My next "Post-PC" device cost $700 with WiFi and 64 GB of RAM. It doubled the resolution of the earlier iPads to 2048 x 1536 but frankly I only noticed the difference when reading small text in the Tulsa World app, and the improved camera was wasted on me. Overall, the upgrade wasn't worthwhile, but at least my electronic paper was easier to read each morning.
2012: iPhone 5
I was happy to upgrade from the iPhone 4 to the 5. I used it without a case, carrying it in a holster when wearing long pants or in a pocket when I was in cargo shorts. That means it got some dings and scuffs, but it held up okay. The power button wore out, but that was a known defect. I never got it fixed, since that would have left me without a phone unless I convinced an Apple store to loan me one during the repair. My aging eyesight meant I was hoping for a larger screen on my next smartphone, and when that came about, I kept the iPhone 5 on hand as a spare in case the newer phone eventually needed to go in for repairs, hoping I could swap the SIM cards in the phones to switch between them.
Apple rewarded me with the larger iPhone 6, helping reduce my eyestrain while adding Touch ID and Apple Pay and other nifty features. I was still brave enough to use it without a case, since my iPhone 5 survived fairly well without the added bulk. I liked the new size, but was glad I didn't opt for the even larger iPhone 6 Plus. In 2019 a friend was still using this smartphone by having it plugged into an Apple Smart Battery Case.
2015: Apple iPad Air 2
2015: iPad Air 2
I love reading the Tulsa World each morning on my iPad and use it daily to watch video podcasts and surf the internet. The demands of Apple's iOS 8 meant my 3rd generation iPad was becoming sluggish, so I bought Apple's latest model of the regular-size iPad for $600. I didn't want an iPad mini, since I like watching video on the tablet and my failing eyesight means a larger screen is easier to deal with. I bought a new ZeroChroma case to make it easy to prop up around the house, and gave my older iPad to Wendy, who got a kick out of using it for the Candy Crush game and web surfing. I bought her an iPad Air 2 for her birthday in 2016, so the 3rd generation iPad became a heavier, slower, but still functional spare.
The volume down button broke in 2017, and I finally bought my fourth iPad in January 2018, taking my 2015 one to use at work.
2016: Asus Chromebook Flip C100 [Flip]
2016: Asus Chromebook Flip C100
Knowing that I would be directing a school district Chromebook initiative, I purchased one for personal use. Instead of the sturdy 11″ Dell model the staff and students would be using, I opted for a smaller Asus unit with a 10.1″ 1280×800 pixel screen that folds over to convert the device into a tablet. The unit cost me $272 plus $19 for a 64 GB SD card I probably didn't need. The tablet mode is a fun gimmick, but my iPad is a much better tablet. The device has a 1.8 GHz Rockchip 3288-C Quad-Core processor, 2 GB of PC memory, 16 GB of eMMC storage space, and 802.11ac Bluetooth 4.1 networking. Running Chrome OS, it is very much a cloud-dependent device. But I appreciate its tiny size and weight. Once I had the larger and sturdier Dell Chromebooks we were distributing at school, I switched to it and haven't made much use of the Asus unit since.
2017: Microsoft Surface Book PA9-00001 [Appearances]
2017: Microsoft Surface Book
I faced a career change in July 2017, when I would no longer be a classroom teacher and department chair and instead become the school district's Executive Director of Technology and Communications. That would entail even more work with advanced computer applications than before along with an increase in the number and location of meetings. So I decided the district Chromebook, which had already been very useful at meetings, might frustrate my productivity.
Thinking I needed a more powerful mobile computer for work, at first I bought a high-end Microsoft Surface Pro 4, but it was delivered with big dent and shattered screen. I returned that for a refund and opted to go for their best laptop.
I sprung for a top-of-the-line Microsoft Surface Book. It has a high-end stylus that can be used with its multi-touch 13.5 inch 3200 x 2000 pixel screen. That screen can detach to become a tablet or be flipped and reattached to the base unit, which has the keyboard, bigger battery, three USB 3.0 ports, SD slot, and miniDisplayPort. It has an Intel Core i7-6600U dual-core processor running at 2.6 GHz or 2.81 GHz in turbo mode with an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card with 1 GB of GDDR5 RAM. I opted for 16 GB of system RAM and a 1 TB solid state drive running Windows 10 Professional. Its radios are Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi 802.11ac. It is truly tricked out, and the price of $2,600 reflected that. I also bought a Microsoft Surface Dock with 2 miniDisplayPorts, 1 GB Ethernet port, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and one audio out to connect it to a dual monitors, speakers, and keyboard when needed for another $120.
However, I almost never use this powerful system and have never used the dock to attach it to external monitors. As it turned out, a Chromebook worked fine for my various meetings, and my office has a Windows 10 desktop with dual widescreen monitors that meets my needs. So this powerful convertible laptop was a waste of money.
2017: Dell XPS 8910 [Derek]
Dell XPS 8910 with UltraSharp U3417W monitor
Using Windows 10 at work led me to finally replace my 8-year-old Vector system, which crashed anytime I tried to run Windows 10 on it. After burning through way too much cash on the Surface Book, I got smarter and paid only $600 for a Dell XPS 8910 CPU, plus $76 to increase its RAM from 8 GB to 16 GB. It has an Intel i7-6700 microprocessor with four 3.4 GHz cores and 8 GT/s bus, compared to the older system's i7-920 with four 2.66 GHz cores and 4.8 GT/s bus.
I dumped the one terabyte spinning hard drive that came in the system, cloning it onto a 2 terabyte Crucial MX300 solid state drive that cost $545. I bought a cheap adapter to connect my old Dell multimedia keyboard, which has a PS/2 connector, to a USB port. I like that keyboard so much that I bought two used units for the desktops at my two work offices.
I kept the 8x DVD burner that came bundled in the new system, which is running Windows 10 Pro, has 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wi-fi, and built-in Bluetooth 4.2. Its built-in SD card reader doesn't work for whatever reason, so I just use a dongle. I love how the system is almost always silent, just producing a bit of fan noise when I'm rendering video.
I complimented the new system with an ultrawide 34″ Dell UltraSharp U3417W monitor with 3440×1440 pixels in a 21:9 ratio for $589. So the entire system set me back $1,810.
2017: Dell 3189 [Dellbert] and Lenovo N23 Yoga Chromebooks [Newbie]
2017: Dell 3189 Chromebook
My Asus Chromebook Flip was very compact, but a bit TOO compact. The tiny screen and keyboard got on my nerves, and I found I much preferred the 11.6″ touchscreen on a basic Dell 3120 Chromebook I received for work in May 2016. I wanted to explore 11.6″ touchscreen "flip" Chromebooks that converted into tablet form and would be able to run Android apps once that feature came out of beta in ChromeOS. This sort of device would be too costly for students under our current funding limits, but might be a great choice for teachers.
2017: Lenovo N23 Yoga Chromebook
So I ordered at my own expense a $360 Dell 3189 Chromebook and a $320 Lenovo N23 Yoga. Both units have 11.6″ 1366×768 touchscreens, 4GB RAM, and 32 GB SSD. (16 GB might be plenty for a Chromebook, but for Android apps I thought a bump to 32 GB might be worthwhile.) The Dell has a 1.6 GHz Celeron N3060 processor, while the Lenovo has a MediaTek MT8173c processor. Eventually we did buy a bunch of the Lenovo N23 Yogas for faculty members at our elementary and middle schools.
2017: iPhone X
The battery had worn out on my iPhone 6 by early 2017, but I stretched the phone's life for most of the year by inserting it in an Apple iPhone Smart Battery Case, which gave me plenty of battery life but made the phone a bit bulky. So I was glad when the iPhone X was introduced in late 2017. I like Face ID, but had to get used to new gestures since there was no longer a Home button.
2018: iPad (7th generation)
2018: 7th-generation iPad
My 2015 iPad's volume down button broke in 2017. After months of that, I bought a new 9.7 inch 128 GB iPad in January 2018 for $429 plus tax and took my 2015 iPad to my office.
2019: Google Pixelbook (Pixie)
I found a Chromebook had all the functionality I needed for my many school meetings, but wondered how much a sometimes sluggish experience was due to the inexpensive devices we purchased with taxpayers' funding and how much was due to internet lag. So I decided to spend my own money on what all the online reviews said was the best Chromebook: a 2.5 lb $1,649 Google Pixelbook with an i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD, along with a $99 pen. This sizzling system, like the previous two Chromebooks I had purchased, folds into a tablet. The large high-resolution screen and fast processor make this a delight to use. However, as with the Microsoft Surface Book, I've yet to use the pen for anything.
2019: Google Pixelbook
2020: iPhone 12 Pro
The battery was starting to go on my 2017 iPhone X, so I happily updated. I went with the Pro version to get both telephoto and wide camera lenses. During the pandemic in 2020, I shot plenty of nice photos around town on walks along the Pathfinder Parkway with my iPhone X and find the added wide lens on the 12 Pro a welcome addition.
While I'm not a big fan of the return to the boxy design harkening back to the iPhone 4 of a decade earlier, it's okay. I like being able to wireless charge the phone on my bedside table on my TYLT VU Qi stand, but I won't use Apple's portable wireless charger except on trips. I paid $1,100 for the new phone and sold my iPhone X to iCellglobal for $331.
2021: Mac mini
In early January I will receive my pandemic present to myself: a Mac mini with Apple's new M1 chip with 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, 16 GB memory, and 512 GB SSD for $1,059. I ordered a cheap iClever GK03 wireless keyboard and mouse for it. We'll see how this thing works with my Dell U3417W ultrawide monitor. It will be an experiment to see if its integrations with the Apple ecosystem, and the M1 chip's ability to run iOS apps, are worthwhile advantages over my typical Windows desktop at home. While Windows is a vital productivity advantage at work, my almost-total shift to G Suite apps makes it less important at home.
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A delegation led by Minister of Education Mikayil Jabbarov visited the monument to the national leader in the Heydar Aliyev Park in Ankara on February 22.
The Azerbaijani delegation also put a wreath at the tomb of the founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at Anitkabir.
The minister of education signed the guest book here.
Minister of Education Mikayil Jabbarov then visited Heydar Aliyev School in Ankara, and addressed pupils.
Mikayil Jabbarov then met with Minster of National Education of the Republic of Turkey Ismet Yilmaz. They hailed friendly and brotherly relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey, and discussed prospects for cooperation in the field of education.
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NEW YORK (FOX NEWS) - Michael Bloomberg, the self-made billionaire and former New York City mayor, is reportedly making plans to run for president as a Democrat in 2020.
The Times of London, citing an unnamed source, reported Thursday that Bloomberg has been having the discussion with his inner circle. The former Republican mayor -- whose net worth is reportedly $52.2 billion -- would be able to bankroll his own campaign while "other candidates have to knock themselves out," the source said.
It was previously reported that Bloomberg planned to spend at least $80 million to help the Democratic Party in the upcoming November elections.
Bloomberg told the Washington Post earlier this summer that Republicans have not delivered results while controlling both the House and Senate, and he argued that a change in power was necessary for members of Congress to reach across the aisle to solve the issues plaguing the country.
Bloomberg supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, and reportedly called Trump a "dangerous demagogue."
"Trump says he wants to run the nation like he's run his business," Bloomberg said in 2016. "God help us. I'm a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one."
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Hiva Oa Tour
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Today we hired a local named Pifa to give us an all-day tour of Hiva Oa. Pifa looks Marquesan, except that he has no tattoos. In fact his last name is O'Conner and his great-grandfather created a homestead here. Now he says he is related to about half the island's population of 2500. Pifa studied in Hawaii for two years, so he speaks very good English, which of course helps with the tour. He also speaks Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and perhaps a couple other languages, in addition to the mandatory French and Marquesan (plus the various dialects of French Polynesia — Tahitian and somewhat different from Marquesan).
We drove over the island to the north side. This entailed going up over the steep hills, down into a central valley, up over even steeper hills, and down to the ocean. Many of the roads barely deserve the name — 4 wheel drive is definitely a requirement, even when the weather is dry. Along the way we sampled various fruits direct from the trees (his own, or belonging to someone in his extended family). The views were spectacular. But also the homes that we visited of some of his relatives. The houses were simple, but the gardens were beautiful/bountiful. We stopped at one place that was growing vanilla as a cash crop; I'd never seen it growing before, nor did I even have a sense of what the plant was like. Quite beautiful.
We stopped for a special lunch of wild boar (the hunting of which is a major past time and topic of discussion here), goat in coconut sauce, fish ceviche, breadfruit, plantain, bananas, rice and starfruit juice. Wow. Despite Pifa's help (and he's a big guy, like most Marquesans) we could not finish it all.
Then back in the 4-wheel drive to go to a sacred ritual area of the Marquesans. Along the way we passed a large flat stone at the top of a high cliff over the water. This was where a beautiful young girl would be sacrificed to the gods every new moon! We learned that there used to be a community of 18,000 Marquesans in this area, in addition to another rival community on the other side of the island. We saw where the temple was located, where only the priest and the tribal leader were allowed inside. There were large stone tikis depicting the leader, a warrior in front of him, his younger brother behind him, and nearby the one who did sacrifices. Here men were sometimes sacrificed, supposedly voluntarily, so they could join the gods as servants. There was also a large stone tiki of a woman giving birth. There was a tattoo hut, where the first-born male of a family would be tattooed from head to toe over a period of 3 months, once he reached puberty. The tattoos on the chest depict his family history. Others told stories of strength and courage, etc. These tattoos were the only "written language" of the Marquesans, other than some petroglyphs. Being tattooed by primitive methods was a major trial; not all survived the ordeal.
Pifa told us more than I could retain about the old culture and of the history. The name 'Marquesas' comes from a Spanish explorer in the 1500's. The pre-European name for the islands I did not retain, but it means "Land of MEN," and in this case the "men" does not seem to refer to "our tribe" versus outsides, but instead to fierce male warriors. Cannibalism was practiced — eating slain enemies and also their own newborns if born with deformities/handicaps. In the mid-1800's missionaries came and told the people they had to stop eating other people. Given the power of the European gods (that gave a soldier the power to kill a man as if by magic without even touching him) this had some sway. Plus with the natives dying off in vast numbers from the European diseases, Christianity took hold. This is Easter weekend, and many people are dressed up and in church, and most businesses are closed until Tuesday. But it is apparent that many Marquesans are very proud of their heritage. French is a second language to them, and they prefer speaking their own language. The tradition of tattoos remains even if most of the symbols have lost their meanings. And they love their homeland. The island is spectacularly beautiful, food and water are abundant, and the weather is always good!
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Fascinating! I love to learn about other cultures. It sounds like the Marquesas had an interesting history!


David Disraeli has advised clients who have a legitimate claim to hire an attorney to seek damages who eventually collected, in the majority of cases. In addition, David Disraeli has been hired by numerous attorneys to help in case preparation and testifying at arbitration. The key question is do you have a case?
In a nutshell options trading may be completely fine for a portion of a 30 year old surgeon's account but not for an 80 year old. Of course this is an exaggerated example. However the main point is that failure to conduct enough due diligence to determine that a particular investment is appropriate in a given situation is a non-negotiable on the part of the broker. He/she must explain the risks and tax implications, how it fits into the entire strategy, and most importantly whether the clients specific circumstances warrant the recommendation. Otherwise, the broker is exposed, especially if the investment loses money.
2. Excessive trading or churning. Some accounts are going to see more buying and selling simply due to the nature of the account. In some cases an argument could be made that the broker made trades for his own benefit – commissions. This is always viewed on a case by case basis. An expert like David Disraeli would look at the number of trades, whether the client requested most of them, or the broker suggested them, whether they were profitable and compare that to industry norms for the same type of client. Cases can be brought to recover the commission or losses or both. Here is a case of a 77 year old blind widow.
3. Fraud – Investment fraud has several elements but they all revolve around two elements: 1. Providing false or misleading information to clients and 2. Withholding material information, which, if known would have caused the client to refrain from making the investment. This is not only a case for recovery but could result in severe disciplinary action.
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Volume 7: The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921 Page 205 (253 of 737)
D O C . 2 4 L E O A R O N S A S P H Y S I C I S T 2 0 5
Published in Sozialistische Monatshefte 53 (1919): 1055–1056, on 17 November 1919.
[1]At the turn of the century, Leo Arons (1860–1919) had been stripped of his position as Privat-
dozent in physics at the University of Berlin because of political activity on behalf of the Social Dem-
ocratic Party. The German imperial establishment viewed such activity as undermining the existing
order and, under what came to be known as the lex Arons, explicitly forbade civil servants from active
involvement in political affairs. In his defense, Arons argued that the state had no right to dictate
matters of individual conscience (see Arons 1900, p. 33). For a summary of the Arons case, see Wolff,
S. 1999, pp. 192–199.
Einstein praised Arons as "an intrepid champion of free speech" ("ein mutiger Vorkämpfer des
freien Wortes"; Einstein to Leo Arons, 12 November 1918 [Vol. 8, Doc. 653]) in response to Arons's
appeal in late 1918 for a national congress of academics to support the new republican government.
Following Einstein's obituary, a number of reflections on contributions by Arons to Berlin com-
munal politics, trade unions, teaching, and applied science were published in the same issue of the
Sozialistische Monatshefte, pp. 1056–1074.
[2]Arons 1884.
[4]Cohn and Arons 1886.
[6]Arons 1892a.
[7]Arons 1890, 1892b; Arons and Rubens 1891a, 1891b.
[9]Arons 1892c.
[10]Arons's "chromoscope" was capable of reproducing an infinite number of colors (Arons 1910,
1912), but Arons could not provide a method for producing a desired hue or of establishing a rela-
tionship between a physical color and a physiological response to it (see Ostwald 1919, pp. 172–173).
The chromoscope was made obsolete by Ostwald's much simpler device and above all by his
"Farbenlehre," a systematic classification and identification of colors (Ostwald 1918–1922).
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Retickr: A News Ticker Focused on Delivering News, Not Noise.
The other day, I stumbled across a piece of software called retickr. The idea behind retickr is to help eliminate all the noise that you have to weed your way through every day online. The app is being developed by a little startup in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is available in the Mac App Store for free.
I have to be honest, the current version (1.3.1) is pretty buggy and could definitely use some user interface tweaks and enhancements, but I'm still pretty excited about this app because version 2.0 is rumored to be shipping very soon and is supposed to bring a whole new approach to the application. Now, I haven't seen or tried version 2.0 yet, but I'm hopeful. Here's why:
The developers realized that version 1.3.1 just wasn't cutting it and have openly admitted that on their website. I love their transparency in this matter. Additionally, I like some of the features they have already implemented in 1.3.1 such as playlists. Playlists are a way for you to sort your RSS feeds which essentially allows you to group similar sites together.
Retickr also features social integration in the app, making it easy to share stories on Twitter and Facebook. Additionally, the app also allows users to sync their Google Reader accounts with it making it super convenient to switch.
Once retickr is installed, it sits either on the top, left, right, or bottom of your screen and scrolls through your selected playlist of RSS feeds. It features a built-in quick-look browser window so you can read the article without having to open a real browser window (however, you can opt to open a browser window if you so choose).
Currently my only real complaints about retickr are that it feels kind of clunky when you use it and that it returned a lot of error messages (relating to the the company's servers). I hope version 2.0 fixes many of these issues and also brings new innovations to the application. I'm excited to see what the retickr team has in store for us.
On a side note, I would love to see an iPad/iPhone version of this app.
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July 17, 2014 LionAroundWriting4 Comments on Palestine and Israel – What a sad state of affairs
Palestine and Israel – What a sad state of affairs
WHILE WESTERN MEDIA has been broadcasting biased news coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, they are neglecting (likely on purpose) to ever go into any detail as to why the conflict exists. Indeed this is isn't a new trend, this has been going on for decades. Behind any war there is always history, whether recent or old, and although the full history would be too lengthy to discuss on a nightly news programme with limited broadcast time, there is another option – images! Such as the one below:
Regardless of your sympathies or allegiance, if any, toward Israel or Palestine, sadly the blueprint for today's war is as a result of incredible short shortsightedness and almost incalculable stupidity. To even suggest a land be cut up and designated for another people from existing land owned by the inhabitants in the modern era is a recipe for fighting for generations. The fact that this has involved Israel and Palestine isn't even of relevance. If you chopped Scotland up and divided it in order to provide a group of people with a 'home' because their spiritual home or whatever is within Scottish borders, I'll guarantee this would upset many many people and would continue to do so for decades if not centuries.
The UN was in involved in creating the State of Israel in the 1940's after World War II. You cannot whip up a new country where a country already exists and expect there to be peace and harmony, especially in a region like the Middle East that has always been volatile. A mad idea.
Palestine has every right to be angry at what happened. Their land was annexed and to this day continues to be the target of Israel who continuously bullies and bulldozes its way through Palestine settlements making Palestine even smaller day by day. Palestine is trapped in the equivalent of a trash compactor, the walls squeezing in on them bit by bit.
Religion obviously has a huge part to play in this bloody saga as Jewish Israel fights the values of Islam and radical Hamas. But this is beyond religion. Israel was handed land and continues to land grab sixty years after it was formed. Hamas fires rockets and Israel then bombards them back with heavy duty expensive military hardware, blitzing buildings and families. Death tolls are seldom accurately reported but it should be obvious to anyone with half a cerebellum that rockets don't have anywhere near the destructive power of missiles or fighter jets.
The whole history of the conflict is another sad sad reminder of what human beings are capable of doing over and over and over again. History teaches us nothing, or so it seems. Jews obviously suffered hugely in WWII. Yet, you would think they would be the one people who would be the last to resort to war or fighting of any kind. But here we are seventy years later and Israel is showing all the signs of a brutal, remorseless and unsympathetic state. Thankfully people are beginning to realise that Israel is not the damsel in distress being hit by rockets, but that they themselves are behaving in a brutal fashion and have no regard for civilian lives of Palestinians. Add in all the harassment and feeling of entrapment for many Palestinians as well as fear of having their land taken away, and it's really an amazing PR job by Israel and its associates to have generated Israeli sympathy for such a long time. Only recently does it seems there is any balance to the coverage of the war zone, at least on the internet.
Hopefully there will be a solution sooner rather than later. Knowing people's capacity for violence rather than peace I can't see an end in sight. In light of recent news it is also America's war, as they are providing vast sums to help support Israel's defence systems. Seems about right don't you think? The UK was involved in creating Israel, with disastrous consequences, and the US is helping out in a war on foreign lands. Little changes.
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Eric Alagan July 28, 2014 — 2:08 AM
The English professor took the words right out of my mouth.
http://theenglishprofessoratlarge.com July 27, 2014 — 3:00 AM
What I always find terribly sad is when a group that has been discriminated against for many decades discriminates against another group with the same intensity.
lion around writing July 27, 2014 — 1:20 PM
Yes, that's one of the worst things about the situation.
Unfortunately when considering the overriding psychology of the conflict, those who are pushed will push back with greater force in reaction. Sadly Palestine has been on the end of this for over 60 years now as they became Israels outlet for discrimination, violence and terrorism.
Thank you for swinging by!
earthtracer July 20, 2014 — 6:11 PM
You are right, of course, in all that you say. Except that it is necessary to point out that Hamas is actually a creation of and the logical outcome of, Israel's own obduracy. No people can be pushed indefinitely and that is what the Israelite government did. The response was the creation of and subsequent election of, hard-line Hamas, in Gaza – Election, note! The only time that they had a prime minister about to talk peace – Yitzhak Rabin – they assassinated him themselves. The terrible irony is that both Palestinians and Israelites would be far better off in every way as friends. But as long as the USA totally subsidises (and arms) Israel, the chances of peace remain, sadly, minimal.
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Anyone looking for graduate jobs in London will be glad to hear that the big investment banks are stepping up their recruitment drives for next year's graduate job intake.
The investment banking sector was one of the biggest losers in the graduate recruitment stakes. The number of graduate positions they were offering almost halved between 2007 and 2009.
But now huge investment banking companies like Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse have all said that they will have more graduate vacancies on offer next year. Indeed, Barclays Capital think that they will have room for 30% more graduates in 2010 than they did this year. That is great news for anyone looking for graduate jobs in London or other locations around the UK where there is a strong investment banking presence.
Speaking to The Guardian last week, the head of the London School of Economics' (LSE) careers service, Fiona Sandford said that, "We're not seeing the big black hole that happened when the crash came in the early nineties, when they had to start all over again. They were much wiser this time around. They kept their presence on campus and they kept small internship classes going."
So, it's starting to look quite encouraging for anyone out there who hopes to land a graduate job in London in the finance sector. Take a look at all of the latest London graduate jobs on the e4s regional graduate vacancy search pages.


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Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.
to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.
Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
Laudatio ipsi David. Exaltabo te, Deus meus rex ; et benedicam nomini tuo in sæculum, et in sæculum sæculi.
Magnus Dominus, et laudabilis nimis ; et magnitudinis ejus non est finis.
Miserator et misericors Dominus ; patiens, et multum misericors.
Suavis Dominus universis ; et miserationes ejus super omnia opera ejus.
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Oculi omnium in te sperant, Domine ; et tu das escam illorum in tempore opportuno.
Voluntatem timentium se faciet ; et deprecationem eorum exaudiet, et salvos faciet eos.
Laudationem Domini loquetur os meum ; et benedicat omnis caro nomini sancto ejus in sæculum, et in sæculum sæculi.
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We introduce a new system configuration to reduce the nonlinear phase noise (NLPN) by splitting the digital back propagation (DBP) between transmitter and receiver, asymmetrically, along with using mid-line optical phase conjugation (OPC). Our analytical results show that the variance of NLPN reduces by a factor of 16 compared to the standard configuration which is the dispersion uncompensated fiber optic link with full DBP at the receiver, i.e., the back propagation for the fiber spans is done entirely at the receiver. Numerical simulations show the same trend as predicted by the analytical model, and show about 2.6 dB and 2 dB improvement in Q-factor, for single channel and 5-channel WDM systems, respectively.
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Fig. 1 Close-up representation of a fiber-optic communication link. TF= Transmission fiber.
Fig. 2 Scheme 1: Full DBP at the receiver. The standard configuration. TF stands for transmission fiber, and VF stands for the virtual fiber.
Fig. 3 Scheme 2: DBP split between transmitter and receiver. TF = transmission fiber, VF = virtual fiber.
Fig. 4 Scheme 3: Full DBP at the receiver with OPC set-up. OPC = optical phase conjugation, DPC = digital phase conjugation, TF = transmission fiber.
Fig. 5 Noise source located at mL has an image at point (N − m)L, from which the distance to the end of the line is mL.
Fig. 6 Scheme 4: Fiber optic system with a mid-point OPC and asymmetric DBP. OPC = optical phase conjugation, DPC = digital phase conjugation, TF = transmission fiber.
Fig. 7 Multiplication factor profile. Multiplication factor M(m) is the strength of NLPN originated at the point mL. N = 120.
Fig. 8 Q-factor performance comparison of the four schemes, for single channel systems.
Fig. 9 Maximum achievable reach for single channel systems. The forward error correction (FEC) limit is 4.7 × 10−3, (i.e. Q = 8.29 dB) .
Fig. 10 Q-factor performance comparison of the four schemes, for WDM system with 5 channels.
Fig. 11 Maximum achievable reach for 5 channel WDM systems. The forward error correction (FEC) limit is 4.7 × 10−3, (i.e. Q = 8.29 dB) .


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Pedro II de Saboia, o  Pequeno Carlos Magno, nasceu em 1203 no Piemonte (Itália) e morreu no Castelo de Chillon, na Suíça, a 15 de Maio de 1268. Senhor do Cantão de Vaud (1233-1268), conde de de Richmond (1241-1266) e Conde da Saboia (1263 - 1268), foi comparado a Carlos Magno por ter deitado as bases de um grande estado na Saboia e por ter sido ao mesmo tempo um grande guerreiro,  grande diplomata e grande administrador.

Pedro é um dos filhos da numerosa família de Tomás I

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Sétimo filho de Tomás I de Saboia e de Margarida de Genebra, casou-se em 1234 com a condessa de Faucigny de quem teve dois filhos : Beatriz de Faucigny e Gastão IV, visconde de Béarn.

Reino
Inicialmente destinado à vida eclesiástica, chegou a ser monge na Catedral de Valência, não se sentiu com vocação e pede um apanágio ao irmão Amadeu IV de Saboia que entre outros lhe dá as terras que a Casa de Saboia possuía no Chablais (entre a Saboia e o Cantão de Vaud na Suíça).

Seguiu a sobrinha que se ia casar com Henrique III de Inglaterra e ajudou este rei que o armou cavaleiro na catedral de Westminster e lhe deu inúmeros domínios.  Está registrado como   Par, na  Inglaterra, como  Conde de Richmond.

Grande administrador, obriga o conde de Genebra a dar-lhe todos os seus castelos por 20 000 marcos de prata e o bispo de Lausana a dar-lhe importantes senhorias no País de Vaud (equivalente ao actual cantão de Vaud).

Pelos bens que distribuiu a localidades e abadias, é recompensado pelo abadia de  Saint-Maurice d'Agaune que lhe oferece o anel de  Saint-Maurice. A partir dessa altura, este anel é o símbolo de investidura da Casa de Saboia

 Archives de Savoie
 Genealogia da casa de Saboia - Maio 2012

Ver também
 Condado de Saboia
 Anexo:Lista dos senhores da Casa de Saboia

Condes de Saboia
Condes no Pariato da Inglaterra
Sepultados na Abadia de Hautecombe


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It's a build of NetBSD-current which is the development version. It's using a LOCKDEBUG kernel which is quite a performance hit, but will help us track down any locking issues.
Please leave any feedback in the comments!
I think netbsd is the OS best suited to build single purpose appliances on the RasPi. We may even use up that old 256MB SD-cards for this purpose!
Hello, does this enables ssh by default?
Can I install it headless?
I am happy to see NetBSD on the Pi; frankly, Linux and I don't quite get along. This is doubtless my fault, but my puny brain seems to get less annoyed at NetBSD than at Linux (frankly, I'm a VMS man at heart). I've run NetBSD for many years on PCs, VAXen, and PowerPC Macs.
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meh, ssh was enabled but it takes forever for keys to generate first time, like few good minutes..
also cannot login via ssh as root, you have to create a user and add it to wheel group to be able so su..
i tried it last night but after seeing these "issues" and being unable to use pkg_add i reverted back to my beloved Arch Linux !
@dape: The ssh key generation issue is fixed now in NetBSD -current and will be included in the next image.
This image does not boot with brand new firmware. You'll have to get bootcode.bin and start.elf from the raspbian image.
Any chance that a more current image could be posted with headless operation woking out of the box for non root user (e.g. "pi" as in raspbian)?
The link is broken to download is broken.


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Films to Remember: Fifth annual film fest presents fresh stories on incarceration
March 31, 2016 by TOMO HIRAI, Nichi Bei Weekly 2 Comments
The Nichi Bei Foundation presented its fifth annual Films of Remembrance program Feb. 20 at the New People Cinema in San Francisco's Japantown. The one-day film festival hosted a full day of programming portraying the lives of Japanese Americans across the United States in a period of time spanning some 80 years, from pre-war Japanese American activism to educational programing that's being developed today.
Gena Hamamoto, Stacey Hayashi and Nisei veterans Herbert Yanamura and Frank Higashi
The first screenings of the day featured the stories of Nisei linguists fighting in the Battle of Okinawa as members of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service. The films, "Typhoon of Steel," directed by Gena Hamamoto, and "The Herbert Yanamura Story" by Stacey Hayashi and Alexander Bocchieri, depicted stories of the Battle of Okinawa, where some 150,000 civilians perished, according to Hayashi's film. Members of the MIS, specially-trained Japanese American soldiers embedded in the Army, not only provided language assistance, which contributed to winning the war, but also saved countless civilian lives by convincing them to surrender peacefully rather than to commit suicide. Former MIS members Frank Higashi, a San Jose resident, and Herbert Yanamura, a resident of Hawai'i, attended the screening.
"I think the two filmmakers should be congratulated for capturing stories … in a very timely way before the historical subjects disappear," said Ben Kobashigawa, the discussion's moderator.
Hamamoto said the MIS' story is worth recognizing, because it was relatively unknown until recently, due to the classified nature of their work. Hayashi also noted that MIS veterans often shied away from the spotlight. "These MIS guys, they're so humble and a lot of them will say 'the 442 and the 100th, they did the real fighting,' they'll just kind of brush off what they did," she said.
"Although I didn't think much of it, personally, as to my accomplishment, I'm glad to know the saving of those 1,500 lives meant so much," Yanamura said.
Chris Tashima, Jeffrey Gee Chin and Carole Fujita. photo by Tomo Hirai/Nichi Bei Weekly
The second session of screenings featured a slate of short films that recreate moments in Japanese American history. Renee Tajima-Peña's "Building History 3.0: Learning about Japanese American Incarceration Camps Through Minecraft"; Tina Takemoto's "Warning Shot: The Killing of James Wakasa," an artistic film depicting the conflicting accounts about the death of inmate Wakasa in the Topaz (Central Utah) concentration camp; and Jeffrey Gee Chin's "Lil Tokyo Reporter," a film depicting the life of Sei Fujii, an Issei activist who earned a law degree but could not practice law and was the publisher of the Kashu Mainichi in Los Angeles, were screened.
Former Leupp inmate Taneyuki Dan Harada and Claudia Katayanagi. photo by William Lee
Next, Claudia Katayanagi's "A Bitter Legacy: WWII Secret Citizen Isolation Prisons" was screened, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, painter and former wartime Leupp, Ariz. inmate Taneyuki Dan Harada and Art Hansen, professor emeritus of history from California State University, Fullerton. The film detailed the experience of the wartime incarceration, particularly focusing on Citizen Isolation Centers in Death Valley, Calif.; Moab, Utah and Leupp, Ariz.
Hansen praised the film for covering a facet of history that has largely been hidden away. "The problem over the years was that it was not only called an isolation center, but it was isolated from inquiry, isolated from history," Hansen said.
Katayanagi started researching the incarceration experience after realizing the full extent of what had happened to Japanese Americans. "Our mom would always say, 'I don't want to talk about it,'" she said. "I think when I saw my first barracks at the Japanese American National Museum, I thought 'Oh my God. She's right. What a place to be.'"
Following "A Bitter Legacy," the event screened "The Empty Chair," by Greg Chaney of Juneau, Alaska. The film was made in conjunction with the Empty Chair Project, a bronze memorial erected in the Alaskan city in memory of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from the city. The symbolic chair was set out for John Tanaka, Juneau High School's Japanese American valedictorian who was unable to attend his graduation ceremony after being forcibly removed from his home.
Chaney, who is a lands and resources manager with the city and borough of Juneau, joined the event via Skype alongside Mary (Tanaka) Abo, who was also featured in the film.
Chaney said, while he is not a professional filmmaker, he decided to film the documentary after the Empty Chair Project committee approached him to ask where they could erect a monument. "I wanted to reach out to the non-Japanese Americans that were affected on the community of Juneau. It's not just on the people taken away, but the impact of the whole community," he said. "We don't just harm the people that are sent away, we harm the whole community."
Abo said only about 200 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from Alaska. "Even though it's a small number, we felt we needed to be acknowledged," she said. She went on to say that Chaney wove a cohesive and rich story about the Japanese American experience in Juneau through his interviews.
The event's centerpiece film, "Right of Passage," is a documentary that depicts the political maneuvers undertaken by politicians required to pass the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
Following the film, Janice Tanaka, the filmmaker; John Tateishi, former head of the Japanese American Citizens League's efforts for redress; Hansen; Chizu Omori, former plaintiff of the National Council for Japanese American Redress lawsuit; and John Ota of the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations spoke together in a panel moderated by former broadcaster Wendy Tokuda.
Hansen praised the film, but expressed reservations. The emeritus professor of history and Asian American studies noted that the film lacked focus on the Redress Movement and solely focused on the legislative process.
Ota agreed, saying the movement was the real driving force in getting the bill passed. "In the beginning, Japanese American legislators were telling the community 'Don't get your hopes up, it's never going to happen," Ota said. "I think that later, they realized there was such a strong movement and community, they needed to get in front of it or they would have been left behind."
Tateishi said the politicians, however, made redress possible. "It was (Sen. Daniel K.) Inouye who said, 'every colleague we have, just about, in the Senate and the House, does not know about camp or they think what happened was right. So how are you going to convince them that what you're pushing for is justified?'" he said. "He's the one who came up with the idea of the Commission (on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians). I hated that idea."
Tanaka acknowledged that the film focused on the lawmakers over the activism. "Our intention was to really look at the legislative process, and it happened to be the Civil Liberties Act of 1988," she said. She also acknowledged that the film, to some, seemed to focus on President Ronald Reagan. "When you do a film like this, where you want people to watch, who is the most notable person that you can think of in the story of redress that a regular American maybe in the south or mid-west would recognize? And we thought, Ronald Reagan."
Following the final showing, attendees were treated to a reception with the filmmakers. Attendees enjoyed food prepared by Nakayoshi Young Professionals and entertainment by the University of California Berkeley alumni acapella group MEaN, Okinawan music by Lucy Nagamine and Naoko Nishimata, and a dramatic reading of Sei Fujii's wartime diary by Academy Award winning director Chris Tashima, who portrayed Fujii in "Lil Tokyo Reporter."
The 2016 Films of Remembrance was made possible with major funding by the George and Sakaye Aratani Community Advancement Research Endowment grants of the University of California, Los Angeles' Asian American Studies Center and the Wayne Maeda Educational Fund, gold sponsor Union Bank, and silver sponsors the Florin and San Francisco chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League.
Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Featured, Featured Top Story, Film and Television Tagged With: concentration camps, Films of Remembrance, Military Intelligence Service, MIS, redress, wartime incarceration, World War II, WWII
ronald takahashi says
"A Bitter Legacy" when is it scheduled for viewing in Los Angeles?
Nichi Bei Weekly Staff says
It's probably best to check the film's official site for upcoming screenings in the Los Angeles area and beyond: http://www.abitterlegacy.com/screenings.


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According to Asger Hartvig Aaboe, a historian of the exact mathematician and sciences, the origin of the Western astronomy can be seen in Mesopotamia, and all Western attempts in the exact sciences are originated from the late Babylonian astronomy. Astronomers of Egypt left monuments, showed the knowledge of the constellations and the movements of the space bodies, whereas Homer, the ancient Greek poet wrote about a variety of celestial objects in his books Odyssey and Iliad. Later, astronomers of Greece provided names that are still in use today for nearly all constellations observable from the northern hemisphere.
Physics is used in engineering to a great extent in the field of statics, a subdivision of mechanics. It is also used in the construction of bridges and other stationary structures. The perception and the use of acoustics causes noise control and improved concert halls. In the same way, the application of optics produces better optical appliances. An understanding about physics makes for additional practical flight simulators, movies and video games, and is habitually important in forensic examinations.
Physics can be exercised to learn things, which would be mired ordinarily in uncertainty. This is because the normal agreement is that the laws of physics are common and do not vary with time. Moreover, during the learning of the origin of the earth, one can logically model the temperature, mass, and rate of rotation of the earth, as a job of time, enabling one to extrapolate backward and forward in time and so forecast before and after conditions. It as well, allows for reproductions in engineering that drastically accelerate the growth of an innovative technology.