(3) Passed to case records office at 09h45 on 7 May.
To help the investigations being conducted into the disappearance of little Madeleine I humbly suggest that someone read the page of carteblanche.co.za dated 3 December 2006 regarding Danie Krugel of Bloemfontein.
Sincere wishes for success in the investigations.
In the sense of helping the investigation leading to the appearance of little Madeleine, I humbly come to suggest that a search be made of the web page carteblanche.co.za for the day 3rd December 2006 with respect to Danie Krugel of Bloemfontaine.
Sincere wishes for the success of the investigation.
A Mr Krugel, at the McCann's request, attended Praia Da Luz last week from South Africa alleging he could assist in locating Madeleine McCann. I have spoken with the Police officers that accompanied him and viewed the documentation Krugel has supplied to the PJ.
The limiting factor in coming to a view is that Krugel did not allow anyone to view the handheld device he had with him or observe him using it. He was unable to provide any validating scientific data or documents to support the claims he made or the device he alleged to have with him. In short he would appear to claim he has uniquely developed a handheld device that can find a missing person alive or dead in any given terrain over any elapsed time period.
In debriefing the officers who accompanied Krugel it is possible to hypothesise what he may have been doing and using.
One obvious challenge to the claims of the device capability is that if Krugel claims that by taking 3 separate location readings he is able to triangulate to an area then one would assume that as an area was identified further reading and triangulation inside that area could be conducted repeatedly until an "X marked the spot H.
Of most concern is the poor quality of his report which merely shows a google earth image of an area to the east of Praia Da Luz and includes open smb land, beach and sea. As Krugel was not prepared to allow the device to be viewed or provide any specification data of readings or equipment and the fact that no known device currently exists commercially or academically then I can only conclude that the information he has provided is likely to be of low value.


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Home News Crime & Legal Campaigner seeks support for petition
Campaigner seeks support for petition
A Fine Gael campaigner in West Clare has called on the people of the constituency to support a petition put forward by the Party's Youth & LGBT wings calling on the Department of Justice to pardon those historically convicted of homosexuality.
Michael Taylor is a West Clare native and sits on the Steering Committee of Fine Gael LGBT.
"As a young gay man who was born into in an Ireland after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, the thought of being convicted for the offence of daring to act on feelings that you can't help is horrific to me.
I campaigned quite extensively for Marriage Equality in 2016, so I understand and appreciate how far we've come as a nation in a very comparatively short amount of time. This petition is important because it's saying that the Ireland of old that told people that they were shameful purely for being them is dead and gone," Mr Taylor said.
It's about saying sorry to those who were wronged by an Ireland of the past, and further welcoming them into the Ireland of the future. As homosexuality was only decriminalised in 1993 there are still many men alive today who live with a permanent black mark on their record.
It's time now to wipe that slate clean, and that is why I am joining my colleagues in Young Fine Gael, and Fine Gael LGBT in calling on the Minister for Justice & Equality to establish a scheme to allow those who were convicted of the specified abolished offences to apply to the Dept. to have these removed from their record, and receive a pardon from the State," he said.
Taylor also added that he was supporting the call by YFG & FG LGBT for the Minister for Justice & Equality to formally apologise on behalf of the State for the prosecution of these offences since 1922.
The petition can be signed at the following link:
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Carey seeks exemption for shops on alcohol sale
International journalists sample Lisdoonvarna Outing
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Charlene White joins Loose Women as show host after impressing fans
ITV newsreader Charlene White has been confirmed as a new Loose Women anchor.
The 40-year-old television star was unveiled the show's new host on Monday afternoon as she joined Nadia Sawalha, Stacey Solomon and Frankie Bridge on the show.
Charlene already guest anchored in October as part of the chat show's first all-black line up last year.
She received glowing reviews from fans of the ITV daytime show and viewers rushed to their keyboards to discuss the exciting news.
Taking to Twitter, one fan penned: "Loose Women making a good step. Rock on Charlene, the perfect Anchor I must say.. "
Another added: "Lovely to see Charlene again on Loose Women."
A third person posted: "Welcome to the family Charlene."
While a fourth said: "i absolutely love watching Charlene on the news so am over the moon she's a new Loose Woman.
"I'm so glad Charlene White is the new anchor," said a fifth fan.
Charlene will be a permanent anchor, rotating with the likes of Ruth Langsford, Christine Lampard and Kaye Adams.
Former host Andrea McLean announced she was leaving the show in November and her last appearance aired in December.
The presenter got teary as she told the panel, Linda Robson, Saira Khan and Brenda Edwards that she is stepping down to pursue new opportunities.
Announcing she'd already told the others before the show, she said: "I'm going to be leaving Loose Women because I want to be brave.
"All the incredible feedback I had from my book [This Girl Is on Fire: How to Live, Learn and Thrive in a Life You Love] and the support I was able to give them, I want to bring it to life.
"It was a really really big decision to jump and see if I fall or if I fly. And I just thought, 'I will never know unless I try'. So, I'm saying goodbye to Loose Women."
Panelist Saira Khan also confirmed last week that she has quit Loose Women.
The former Apprentice star joined the show in 2005 and decided to leave after spending time with her loved ones in lockdown.
Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12.30pm
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Q: How can I know the parent page ID of the blog page in WordPress? I am building a theme. I know how to retrieve the parent page of a child page. That is very straight forward.
global $post;
$parent_page = $post->post_parent
// do with the post parent id whatever you need

But my main problem is ....
I set a page 'right sidebar' as the blog page in where all the posts are being displayed. As well as I set the right  sidebar page as child page of the 'Blog' page. Then I search on the right sidebar page using var_dump ( $post ) I could't find any property value of [post_parent]=> int(0). But the post parent has 25 ID.
How can I know the parent page id of a page which has been set as the blog page?

A: You can use the page_for_posts option:
$posts_page_id = get_option('page_for_posts');

The ID of the page that displays posts. Useful when show_on_front's value is page.
-- WordPress Codec

A: I got the answer by doing some experiments. Finally the answer is
global $wp_query;
$parent_post_id = $wp_query->queried_object->post_parent;

Thanks

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The focus of this exhibition is a sculpture from 1960, 'Bicho Pássaro do Espaço' ('Creature Passing through Space'), contextualised by a series of collages made in 1957, giving a snapshot of the moment when her practice moved from the wall to the hand.
In 1960 Clark's investigation of the plane developed in the series known as 'Bichos', which translates from Portuguese as 'animal' or creature'. Made from hinged metal plates, some circular, others horizontal, these objects were explicitly intended to be handled by the viewer.
Folded flat, a 'Bicho' is a plane; manipulated it becomes a creature with a mind of its own. Seen beside the modulated planes, shallow reliefs that slip off the wall and drawing in all that surround them, Lygia Clark: Organic Planes presents the artist's innovative call for intuitive interactions with artwork. Over fifty years on, the discourse around the relationship between viewer and object continues. Whilst the viewer is no longer invited to touch these sculptures, they will be repositioned a number of times during the exhibition to acknowledge the spirit of their making.
Clark's process of making the 'Bichos' moved from balsa wood study, where coordinates are annotated and planned, to maquette, and then to final work. Generally these were made by instruction using a particular material to a specific size. The three examples on display reveal her research-led process, and all were all made by Clark herself. Around seventy 'Bichos' were made in total.
In 1963 Clark moved from away from object making. In this year she made one titled 'Arquitectura fantástica' ('Fantastic Architecture'), which was intended to be scaled up to the size of a building. Impossible in her own lifetime, this ambition was realised in 2013, and will be on show at Henry Moore Studios and Gardens during the course of Lygia Clark: Organic Planes. In this sculpture the body literally enters the work, prefiguring Clark's innovative non-object thinking that would follow in the next twenty-five years of her art making, drawing on all of the senses.


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Voluntary Worksite Benefits Seen Resuming Double-Digit Growth
by Trevor Thomas
Despite slower growth last year, worksite sales are expected to resume double-digit percentage growth in the years ahead, analysts agree.
A new study by Eastbridge Consulting Group Inc., Avon, Conn., finds worksite voluntary product sales grew at 7% in 2003, to $4.3 billion, down from historical growth of 12% to 16%.
As a result of the reduced growth rate, executives in voluntary worksite benefits interviewed for the study were slightly more conservative in their sales projections than last year. Still, they predicted sales increases averaging 10% annually for the next 5 years, according to Gil Lowerre, president of Eastbridge.
Most worksite product executives thought their own company sales would grow well above what they projected for the industry as a wholeanywhere from 15% to 20%, according to Eastbridge.
Another study of voluntary worksite benefits by LIMRA International, Windsor, Conn., reports new annualized premiums for voluntary life and health insurance products in the first half of 2004 totaled $744 million. That was up only 4% over the same period a year earlier. In contrast, LIMRAs study in 2003 found a 15% sales rise over the year before.
The reduced pace for worksite products can be attributed to a number of factors, experts from Eastbridge and LIMRA say.
For one thing, many employers are not pushing voluntary benefits because increasing co-pays and deductibles on employer-paid medical plans already have shifted costs to employees. This made many employers reluctant to add benefits that employees would have to pay for out of their own pockets, observes Anita Potter, assistant vice president of group research for LIMRA.
Market saturation for certain product lines also could have slowed down sales, adds Patrick Leary, manager of worksite research for LIMRA.
"A high percentage of employers already offer supplemental life, for example," says Leary.
Part of the slowdown could be attributed to the lackluster sales by the industry leader, AFLAC Inc., Columbus, Ga.
"They sneeze, and we all catch cold," one expert says of AFLAC.
The company posted sales increases of less than 3% in the first 9 months of this year, which company officials acknowledge was disappointing.
"We believe the overall weak sales growth primarily resulted from the sweeping changes we made to our sales management team last year," said Daniel P. Amos, AFLAC chairman and CEO, in a recent statement. "Those changes are continuing to impact recruiting, productivity and, consequently, sales."
Lowerre expects sales growth for all types of voluntary benefits of as much as 10% for this year. Although this would be better than the 7% growth Eastbridge found in 2003, it still would be down from historical growth of 12% to 16%.
There still are some fast-growing segments, including medical supplements such as hospital plans and mini-med plans, Lowerre reports. And life and disability products continue to lead in worksite sales, he points out.
The big news in worksite benefits has been the rise of the role of the employee benefits broker as the major distributor of voluntary products, replacing agents that specialize in these products. This is a sure sign worksite benefits have gone mainstream, Lowerre says.
Hand in hand with that development has been a surge of interest in the market by traditional insurers such as CIGNA, Aetna and Hartford.
"You might say they are following their brokers into the business," Lowerre says.
Worksite executives surveyed by Eastbridge see much of the industrys growth coming from new producers entering the market, including brokers of traditional employer-paid health care insurance.
Executives in the industry also anticipate seeing large group product vendors and medical insurance carriers begin to dominate the middle and large voluntary markets, says Lowerre.
LIMRA executives believe the biggest sales opportunities in the market lie with smaller employers. "Carriers might need to change their target market to smaller firms, where they dont have much penetration," says Leary.
There could be a strong market for supplemental medical, critical illness and accident insurance among smaller employers, particularly those that only can offer a bare-bones employer-paid plan, Leary says.
"Dental also remains very popular, and I dont see that dropping, even if employers are pushing more of the premiums onto employees," he says.
To penetrate the small group market, brokers will need to be prepared to quote more bids to clients, Potter adds. "Money is tight, and they want to make sure they are getting the best deal."
Reproduced from National Underwriter Edition, December 16, 2004. Copyright 2004 by The National Underwriter Company in the serial publication. All rights reserved.Copyright in this article as an independent work may be held by the author.


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ME & OU | Nov/Dec '19
C. Andrés Benatti, MD
https://millennialeye.com/articles/nov-dec-19/big-data-in-ophthalmology/ link
Ophthalmology is currently one of the specialties at the forefront of technology in medicine. Numerous members of our field are pioneers in the areas of big data, AI, machine learning, and deep learning, all of which will enable us to develop more efficient and sustainable medical practices today and in the future.
The term big data refers to large data sets (structured or unstructured) that, due to their volume, variety, and velocity, can be complex to analyze, manage, or process with traditional technologies or tools.1 In order to make big data more reliable, we must also keep in mind the veracity and value of these data, as doing so results in more trustworthy and applicable information.
When it comes to managing such a high volume of data, the key is to determine the rational and intelligent use of the information. This involves analyzing, structuring, and optimizing the data in a way that enables better decision making, reduces costs, and produces more effective results in health systems.
BIG DATA APPLICATIONS
Currently, big data has applications in all health sectors, ranging from administrative management to telemedicine, epidemiology to genomics, and clinical processes to trials. Given these potential uses, it is safe to assume that, in the future, big data will play a role in our ability to prevent ophthalmic disease and to follow patients' clinical conditions remotely and in real time. These types of advances are already starting to occur, thanks to an avalanche of available data.
IRIS registry. Developed by the AAO, the Intelligent Research In Sight (IRIS) registry is the largest registry of specialized clinical data in the world. As of September, the database included information from more than 252.95 million consultations and 60.78 million patients, obtained from more than 15,000 US eye care providers.
The IRIS registry includes data on patient demographics, medical and ocular histories, clinical examination findings, diagnoses, procedures, and medications. Access to this information may allow ophthalmologists to become more aware of less common pathologies, medication and pathology relations, etiological hypotheses, and early disease detection and predispositions.2 With the IRIS registry, for example, users can access information on the rates of endophthalmitis after cataract surgery and anti-VEGF injections, visual outcomes and specific risk factors for endophthalmitis, the prevalence of myopic choroidal neovascularization and practice patterns for treatment, and more.3
Allergic eye disease in India. A recent study used big data analytics to evaluate the demographics, clinical presentation, and risk factors of allergic eye disease (AED) in children and adolescents in India.4 The purpose of the study was to gain further knowledge into this pathology, and it was achieved thanks to the use of electronic medical records and big data, which facilitated the structuring and analysis of 259,969 patients in an ophthalmology hospital network. Relying on organized and analyzed information, the authors were able to conclude that about one-tenth of the children and adolescents seeking eye care in India are affected by AED. They noted that the condition commonly affects boys with atopy from middle-to-high-income families during early to middle childhood and shows a self-limiting trend by late adolescence.
This study provides a clear example of how big data can be used to better understand the demographics, clinical manifestations, and risk factors of a particular condition and thus enable the design of more suitable preventive and therapeutic strategies in response.
Diabetic retinopathy. Another example of how big data and deep learning can be applied in ophthalmology involves the detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR). In one study, a deep convolutional neural network was trained using a retrospective development data set of 128,175 retinal images, which were graded three to seven times for DR, diabetic macular edema, and image gradability by a panel of 54 US licensed ophthalmologists and ophthalmology senior residents.5 The investigators found that the resultant deep learning–trained algorithm had high sensitivity and specificity for detecting DR and macular edema from retinal fundus photographs—97.5% and 96.1% sensitivity and 93.4% and 93.9% specificity in two validation sets.
CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
The linkage challenge. Griffin M. Weber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard University, posed an interesting challenge in a 2014 article about how linking big data will allow physicians and researchers to test new hypotheses and identify possible areas of intervention.6 Dr. Weber posited: If we determined the shopping patterns of patients in grocery stores, could we predict the rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes (and, for our purposes, better prevent DR)? Does patients' distance from hospitals and pharmacies affect their behavioral patterns? The ability to assess individual behaviors and link them to patients' medical histories could open new horizons for effective disease management and prevention.
Explainable AI. Explainable AI (EAI) is an emerging field of machine learning with the purpose of making AI more transparent and understandable for users. Needless to say, EAI will be key to the application of this technology in ophthalmology. EAI will guarantee its users clarity and understanding of how and why decisions are made by the algorithms used in machine learning and deep learning.7
The applications of big data, AI, machine learning, and deep learning are increasingly evident as well as necessary in health care and medicine. Cost reductions, the accessibility of wearable devices, and improved decision making are only a few of the advantages afforded by an almost unimaginable mass of data. But the technological challenges ahead will not be easy to navigate. To provide more personalized, preventive, and predictive ophthalmic care, it will be the duty of all agents involved to seek the correct, ethical, and efficient use of the information available for the benefit of patients.
1. Sosa Escudero W. Big Data. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Siglo XXI Editores; 2019.
2. Parke Ii DW, Lum F, Rich WL. The IRIS Registry: purpose and perspectives. Ophthalmologe. 2017;114(Suppl 1):1-6.
3. Chiang MF, Sommer A, Rich WL, Lum F, Parke DW 2nd. The 2016 American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS Registry (Intelligent Research In Sight) database: characteristics and methods. Ophthalmology. 2018;125(8):1143-1148.
4. Das AV, Donthineni PR, Prashanthi S, Basu S. Allergic eye disease in children and adolescents seeking eye care in India: electronic medical records driven big data analytics report II. Ocul Surf. 2019;17(4):683-689.
5. Gulshan V, Peng L, Coram M, et al. Development and validation of a deep learning algorithm for detection of diabetic retinopathy in retinal fundus photographs. JAMA. 2016;316(22):2402-2410.
6. Weber GM, Mandl KD, Kohane IS. Finding the missing link for big biomedical data. JAMA. 2014;311(24):2479-2480.
7. Gunning D. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). November 2017. www.darpa.mil/attachments/XAIProgramUpdate.pdf. Accessed December 11, 2019.
Cornea and Refractive Surgery Specialist, Clinica de Ojos Cordoba, Argentina, and Hospital de la Ceguera, Mexico
Cofounder, Oftalmo University
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Running back Troy Henderson (10, #29) rushes for a first down against Bowling Green. Photo by Kate Hatter
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Running back Troy Henderson (10, #29) rushes for a first down. Photo by Kate Hatter
The Manual football team struggled to a 27-9 loss in their preseason scrimmage against Bowling Green on Friday night. The Crimson offense had problems scoring in the redzone, scoring only one touchdown on four chances inside the Bowling Green 20-yard line.
"We have to focus on [finishing drives] at practice," offensive coordinator Russell Rigdon said. "We'll have a long week of practice next week and we'll try to punch it in and score more next week."
Manual had a chance to strike first in the first quarter by quickly pushing into the Bowling Green redzone. Then, with the ball inside of the five yard line, quarterback Tim Comstock (12, #3) missed an open receiver in Eric Niemann (12, #84) on a corner route that likely would have resulted in a touchdown if the pass was thrown on time. Instead, Comstock's throw was late, and the pass resulted in his first of two interceptions on the night.
"I threw it late," Comstock said. "I threw the ball at the wrong time. I should have thrown it right when I saw [Niemann] open, but we're going to fix mistakes like that in practice."
Aside from the two interceptions, Comstock had a solid performance, completing seven of 14 pass attempts and throwing for 66 yards before sitting for the majority of the second half. Comstock seemed to be more poised in the pocket, and for the most part made strong, accurate throws.
"I've just been working on my pocket presence with my trainer, Stefan LeFors," Comstock said. "He's been teaching me a lot about pocket presence. I just practice, practice, practice, and I'm getting better and better every day."
Tim Comstock (12, #3) fights off a defender to try to avoid a sack. Photo by Kate Hatter
"He just needs to continue growing; get some confidence," Rigdon said. "He has to work on his timing. He's got some new receivers because we graduated three receivers last year that played a lot. He's doing a great job this year. He has to limit the mistakes and capitalize on our opportunities."
Despite Comstock's first interception, Manual was eventually able to strike when Troy Henderson (10, #29) used a 21-yard rush to set up a five-yard touchdown run.
"Troy did a great job," Rigdon said. "Troy played well, made some good plays, ran hard. He has to make the most of his opportunities going forward."
After a missed PAT, the Crimsons led 6-0 at the end of the first quarter; however, the Purples would go on to score 21 unanswered points by running a combination of counter run plays and screens to the running backs, including a screen pass that resulted in a 49-yard touchdown.
"We definitely need to improve on defending counters and screens," tight end and defensive end Chase Gavin (12, #44) said. "We just have to tighten up some bolts; work on it in practice to fix that up."
Bowling Green would cruise in the fourth quarter to easily beat Manual 27-9.
"Its going to be a big learning process come Monday when we get back to practice," Gavin said. "We definitely need to improve on a lot of things. There are going to be some changes for sure on defense and on offense. We learned a lot."
Even though the Crimsons lost in such a lopsided manner, Rigdon thought that the team didn't play as bad as the score indicated.
"We were average. I'd probably give us a C plus or a B minus," Rigdon said. "They did good in parts, they did really good in stretches, but we didn't finish drives. We just have to work on finishing our drives and work on fixing our mistakes. We should be okay."
Reece West (12, #1) runs for a 49 yard kickoff return to give Manual good starting field position in the third quarter. Photo by Kate Hatter
Rigdon also added that the experience gained from the scrimmage was valuable for younger players.
"We wanted to get our young guys some experience against a good team," Rigdon said. "[Bowling Green] has won four out of the last five state titles in their class. They always give us a good test. It's just a good barometer stick to tell us where we are, and we know that we got work to do."
The Crimsons will now prepare to officially open the season next Friday against Central. Gavin expects his team to give a better showing when Manual takes the field during the regular season.
"We definitely foresee a better future come season time," Gavin said.
The Crimsons and the Yellow Jackets will kickoff at 7:30pm at Manual Stadium on Friday, August 21.
Head Coach Oliver Lucas (Science) declined to be interviewed for this article.


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Archive for the 'Life' Category
Loving Life Is The Way. Leif Ramos (1972-2017).
My brother-in-law Leif suffered a heart attack ten years ago, and was given a bypass. His father had died of a heart attack. He followed a scrupulously correct vegetarian and exercise diet thereafter. However, he also had to be "off the grid" for mitigating interest on non-reimbursed student loans. In the USA, nowadays, student loans are never forgiven: the chains which hold the slaves down, are not made of metal anymore.
Whereas the colossal, multi-billion dollars debts of plutocrats such as Donald Trump, or any of the millions of California homeowners millionaires are readily forgiven, it is not the case for modest students without rich parents. Then interests pile up and states "garnish" whatever income the ex-student, now a victim, may incur. Nice, keeps the low lives in check! This efficient, apparently neutral mechanism drives millions of US citizens into the underclass (precisely those who had the effrontery to want to learn something). If one's parents belong to the .1%, student loans are a rounding error. For others, it's a crushing burden. Indeed, the rest of the US can live in slavery: it fits them just right. For not revolting, and just swallowing all the lies served to them, as if they were delicious junk foods.
Leif paddling in his state of Alaska. Nature is the way, tempered by humanity.
Leif had a second heart attack December 1, 2017. Five stents were installed. His surgeon had to leave for a scheduled trip, but asked the hospital to keep him in hospitalized. However, Leif had no health insurance, thus the hospital, searching, as they all are, for higher profits, kicked him out, after the surgeon left for very far places, overseas (this was all happening in Anchorage, Alaska, travelling from there generally means long flights on the other side of an ocean, or two).
Leif did worse on December 30th. He apparently tried to drive himself to another, more hospitable, hospital, Alaska General. At 5am. He nearly made it.
He leaves behind a loving family, including his ailing mother, herself with her own heart trouble, now doubled.
Leif's life was not easy, and made him suffer, in a number of inordinate ways, but it was worth having, he took it with a smile.
Leif with aurora. His award-winning pictures are there to stay. So are his musical compositions.
Leif loved life. That sounds simple, but it's not. Life is not the grid all too many others are forced to live on (thus perpetuating it in its sorry state). People know this more easily in Alaska and Hawai'i, some of those increasingly rare places on Earth where it is possible to stay in touch with nature. Leif's love of life forced him, greatly from circumstances he didn't control, to live off the grid. Loving life requires to go further than just being told what to do.
Who knows what to do correctly in life, who doesn't love life?
One can't tell all & sundry, life is absurd, or unlovable, then switch around, been good, well-meaning, giving.
One may not get back all the love one gives to life, but one has to: others will, that's how humanity is. How humanity became possible.
Leif's love of life is a mood worth caring forth. What better choice is there? Loving other creatures and the world they share, with us, is not just the best we can do. It's the only thing humanity can do, and the most significant thing humanity, overall, has done and does. As long as we keep on sharing this way of having a world, Leif lives with us. Let's live!
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Why To Climb? Because It's a Life Which Makes Us Gods
Climbing is hard, and it's a life. That's why it's there. But it's a there we climbers chose, not one we just submit to. Normal life, the life common people live through, is something we have to submit to. Climbing life, and the potentiality of the death it is attached to, we chose.
God While You Last. South Face of Annapurna, Ueli Steck, Solo. He has a Rope, and A Friend Taking the Picture. Why so? It is often safer to solo steep slopes where one cannot the slightest mistake in the mountains, to go faster over dangerous terrain. I soloed faces nearly that big, up, and down, in the name of… safety. After nearly dying in two pesky avalanches, I have discouraged the habit by encouraging less adventurous climbing…
Climbing is a chosen life-universe. This is why, deep down inside, more than for simple bragging, people pay $65,000 to drag themselves up Everest. They are helped by countless servants, and various technical devices, from gel insulated boots to carbon fiber axes, bottled oxygen, dehydrated foods, bottled methane, fixed ropes, and looming helicopter service and rescue. Still more than 400 climbers have died in the giant horseshoe formed by Chomolungma (Everest), Lhotse-Nuptse horseshoe. Many of them most famous, and the best. My best friend, also at the time the best mountaineer, died not too far from there, when part of a mountain he was doing the first ascent of, broke. Climate change can strike the heart.
The 2017 climbing season in that highest of all horseshoes, was inaugurated by the death of Ueli Steck, 40 years old. At the time he started to careen down that icy abyss, Mr. Steck, a Swiss, was viewed by many as the greatest living mountaineer. One of the many greatest living mountaineers to die within a few miles of there.
All true and genuine breakthrough philosophers are solo climbers, they risk death. And if not death from their contemporaries, they have to create the threat, because menace is the essence of human existence.
Nietzsche was climber, and a solo climber. He would regularly climb Corvatch, a peak which is still glaciated, from the Upper Engadin valley floor, a mile down. I have skied there in summer: a cable car brings the modern faineant up there. When Nietzsche was climbing alone, it was clearly dangerous: no helicopters at the time.
The extremely gifted Ueli Steck fell a full kilometer on Nuptse, a peak on the Western side of the horseshoe-shaped Everest-Lhotse-Nuptse CWM. Steck was apparently within 200 meters of the summit, and had climbed up there, starting at 4:30 am, with astounding speed. The face is very hard, very steep. During such solo climbs, if one slips on an ice lens, or one is hit by a fist size rock from up high, one will fall, and, most probably die (although some have survived falling all the way down the Matterhorn, this sort of feat is rather rare).
Dangerous physical activities such as climbing require full cerebral engagement. Paradoxically, although such tasks look like the less intellectual, they are exactly the opposite, the ones where the intellect is fully engaged in a massive way, which no sedate activity ever brings.
Climbing often requires full neurological mobilization, especially when soloing is involved. This is an important aspect of its charm. It makes one feel fully alive as nothing else does!
This full neurological mobilization is all too often the only way to avoid death.
Once I complained, while climbing, to two female mountain guides in the Alps that so many of my friends died climbing, and they scoffed that, once one reaches 40, many of one's climbing friends are dead.
Yet, feeling that full neurological power, is feeling divine.
The climber, especially in a desperate situation, especially when falling towards certain death (as happened to me once after being hit by a rock avalanche) has incomprehensible powers. Those powers come from a fully mobilized brain, all neurons firing out commands with superhuman power. It has to be experienced, to be believed.
As part of the Dru spire fell on me, and I therefore thereafter tumbled down an ice chute, I was able to stop myself. However, should anyone else tell me the same story, I would not believe it (being short of believing in God-ordered miracles). Without any question a philosophically stimulating experience.
Climbing is not a game. Or then, it is the game of life. Each Climb is miniature life, but with the climber free to select it, as she, or he, were God. Each climb is an entire life, an entire universe, in miniature. It starts with hope and power. It ends with fatigue, accomplishment. Yet, all along, death can strike said life
Aristotle claimed that man was a political animal. Whatever. In truth, Aristotle was the animal, an animal, a ravenous beast, whose friends, the worst of the worst, fed out of politics, like pigs out of a through. Aristotle didn't know that Polis, the City, Civilization, was less than 10,000 years old, and humanity, millions of years old. All Aristotle wanted is to foster monarchy, especially when, as was the case, those monarchs (Alexander, Antipater, Craterus, etc.) are family.
Humans are creative, labouring, and this thanks to hard and very deep thinking, the essence of humanity.
The point of life is to survive it. Day to day. We, and who, and what, we love. Such is the engine of human motivation. But "life" itself has to be defined. The discovery of those who seriously climb is that they are the ones who define what life is. In climbing, it's the climber herself, or himself, who decides what "life" is going to be: climbing this, or that peak, or this, or that route. Climbing with this, or that, companion(s).
The mountains are there. More exactly, the potential lives they offer are there. They are there for us to pick. If we so decide, as if we were gods. Which we are, in a deep sense, as far as climbing is concerned. We may be the only free agents in the universe, and we are free, because we chose what the universe is. And this is what the climber does. Hence the fascination and importance of climbing, which is found in all civilizations, from South America, to Africa, to China.
We can't yet reach for the stars, but we can reach for the peaks, and this is what humanity has been about, all along. Going where no stupid animal would ever go. Precisely because their brains are too stupid to make the universe what they want it to be. Climbers make universes as others make pizzas, just because they can, and no other agent in the universe is crazy enough to do so.
Tags:Climbing, Solo Climbing, Ueli Steck, Will
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Truth Is Not Politically Correct
Truth is not Politically Correct. Denying this, pretending that truth is Politically Correct, is the mother of all problems with the present management of the entire planet. And that's the first thing which is wrong with today's political practice. And this is what leads to war and terrorism, let alone biosphere devastation, as observed today.
So why do we have this mood hostile to truth? Because it profits the powers that be. Hostility to truth makes people stupid. Stupid animals can be led by the nose more easily that those who are very clever. When a male shark wants to plant his flag deep in Ms. Shark, he grabs her in its powerful jaws, by a fin or another, flip her on her back, until she gets into a trance, and stops moving. This is similar to what the fiercest rulers do to We The People.
So our leaders are playing dumb. Are they as dumb as they look? The four sacred months expired at 12pm, Mecca time, on Friday. Refer to Sura 5, verse 9: …"when the forbidden months are past, then fight and SLAY the Pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every ambush."
9pm in Paris, 12 pm in Mecca, on November 13, 2015, was now time for "every ambush" on the pagans.
Three teams of fanatics attacked in Paris, within 33 minutes. Three individuals tried to get in the Stade de France (with 80,000 inside, plus the French president and the French and German national teams). The first kamikaze was detected at 21:20. He had to explode himself before he could get in, making only one victim (there was only security outside of the stadium, minutes after the match started).
At 21:25 a terrorist team of three attacked the restaurant "Little Cambodia". 21:32 they attacked the Cafe' A La Bonne Biere. At 21:36 "La Belle Equipe". Their weapons and car were found in Montreuil, but they ESCAPED. That team killed at least 39 people.
At 21:40 another fanatic sat at a cafe' on boulevard Voltaire, then exploded himself. Meanwhile, still another team of three kamikazes attacked the Bataclan theater. The raid was organized in Belgium, in the same zone as usual. 12 accomplices have been arrested so far.
"Sacred raid (razzia) against the crusaders in Paris." is the way Islamist State (ISIS) called its mayhem in Paris. Two sisters of the Saadi family, both young mothers, got killed leaving orphans behind. Both were of a French "Muslim" family. Many Muslims were killed in the attacks, but, as ISIS would point out, they were assuredly "depraved".
Friendly Californian Children Left This, Lighting Up the Night, In Front Of My House
"Sacred raid (razzia) against the crusaders in New York and Washington." is the way Al Qaeda called its mayhem in the USA. The same words, the same sentence exactly were used in 2001, with "New York" and "Washington" in place of Paris. So, in that sense, the latest mayhem is exactly a "9/11" in France. Not the first, nor the last. (That there were only 130 killed and 100 extremely gravely injured, with "life prognostic engaged" is not really a miracle: the explosive vests were detected at the Stade de France; thus, instead of killing hundreds, the kamikazes at the stadium killed just one besides themselves; inside the Bataclan, the kamikazes detonated themselves while fighting the police in the dark; strikingly, no police of the SWAT teams in the BRI and RAID was injured).
As Osama Bin Laden said: "You will lose this war, because we love death as much as you love life." This rather deleterious idea of Osama was quoted approvingly by the Islamist State.
ISIS, the Islamist State, said it struck in Paris "The DEPRAVED", those who listen to California music, or watch soccer (because those "Depraved" went to a concert by rock group from California, or to a soccer match France-Germany). It did not matter if they were Pagans, Muslims.
25% to 30% of the French population descends from relatively recent immigration (and nearly 100% of the French population descends for foreign stock, if one goes back 3,000 years, as the Celto-Germans invaded; only the Basques are very ancient stock). Probably a majority of French have partial Jewish and Muslim ancestry (Jews have been in France for more than 2,000 years, Muslims for more than 13 centuries; contrarily to legend, under the Franks, there was total religious tolerance. That means for a duration of seven centuries. Then unfortunately Catholic fascism got increasing respect, and thus powers, resulting in the rise of religious terror and intolerance, which became full bore after a crusade conducted WITHIN France killed around one million (a huge number at the time). After that the religious terror, on and off, lasted until the French Revolution, when the Jews and Protestants were given the rights which they used to have, long ago, were given back to them.
An important difference between what is going on in France with 11 September in the USA was that the USA was attacked by 15 Saudi kamikazes, and five other foreigners. (Only one was "French" and was arrested.) So "9/11″was completely an aggression by foreigners. (The USA, though, had, since, pure Qur'an motivated hate crime attacks, the foremost one by a military surgeon who went Qur'an nuts and killed a dozen other soldiers. So the Quranic cancer in France can, and has metastized in other parts of the West.)
In the attacks in France most of the attackers are French who learned the most striking parts of the Qur'an. The most striking parts being those which ORDER the top followers of Islam, those who want to get directly in paradise to go out and attack, or even kill, non Muslims. No, I am not making it up: "Violence in the Holy Qur'an" can be consulted. And more quotes are coming by tomorrow, making these order explicit.
The Qur'an is viewed by Muslims as a set of explicit orders from God. In particular God gives explicit order to kill, attack, and submit entire categories of people. Not bad, in the way of war, for a book which is only 80,000 words long. Most of humanity falls into those categories to kill, attack, submit, oppress, diminish, tax, subjugate. What are the faithful supposed to say? What are the faithful supposed to do? Go along with the program? The Qur'an is a program. Not just a "religion" (whatever that means).
The first religion of a Republic, is the Republic. Superstitions can be accommodated, as long as they do not disturb the primary religion.
Well, they should do exactly what the Catholics did, in a country such as France: stop believing in all the garbage. And that's the truth. Yes, it's not politically correct. However, the philosophically correct should bulldoze over the politically correct. Always has, in the long run, always will.
Last, but not least: human beings, like baboons, know how to make war. It's in their genes, so to speak. When attacked, baboons make a military formation, and predators flee. more than 70 million of French baboons have been attacked, and they clearly need to adopt a military formation, and get smarter. The Paris are has been under Franco-Celtic control since at least the early Third Century , when Paris got is name (changing back to the "Parisii", the old Gallic name, from the Roman Lutetia). Every since Paris was named, there was not one decade when France was not at war. 17 centuries of war, and counting. This is a stunning fact.
As the concept of "Jihad" has it, war and maximum effort is a generalized attitude necessary for the fulfillment of hope, let alone life. It's the exact attitude, for bad or good, which made, in the end, our species master of the Earth. War should give peace a chance. But war never should keep on giving peace a chance as if there were no tomorrow.
Tags:Intolerance, Islam, Politically Correct, Qur'an, Truth, Violence
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We Are All Martians
The Life Giving Nuclear Reactor within Earth protects us with the magnetic field it energizes. The idea is that, otherwise, the atmosphere would be torn away, as it was in Mars. Or, if not the atmosphere, at least the hydrogen (and thus the water), as happened for Venus.
At least, such was my philosophy of the rocky planets' atmosphere (exposed in prior essays). "Philosophy" can be educated guesses based on lots of physics and mathematics, intuitively understood. Philosophy can stand just at the edge of science. But then it's good to have a scientific confirmation. Here it is. NASA's MAVEN (= Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) in orbit for years, has measured that Mars loses around 100 grams of atmosphere per second, due to impact from the Solar Wind (protons going at 400 kilometers per second).
That's not good. Still, back of the envelope computations show Mars should still have a thick atmosphere. Instead, its density is only 1% of Earth, and few of Earth's most primitive lifeforms are hardy enough to survive in Mars CO2 atmosphere (even neglecting UV and low temperatures).
Once the atmosphere was going, the water followed, and so did the considerable greenhouse water vapor brought. Water vapor (H2O) is more greenhousy than CO2, meaning the relationship CO2-H2O is nonlinear: higher CO2 on Earth means higher H2O, hence even higher greenhouse than the simple rise of CO2 would naively bring).
Earth Has A Powerful Nuclear Powered Magnetic Shield. Mars' Shield Was Too Weak. The Solar Wind Tore the Martian Atmosphere Away MCE By MCE.
So, if 100 grams per second was not enough to strip the atmosphere why did it escape Mars as much as it did?
The Sun is an hectic thermonuclear engine shaken by internal explosions. Occasionally a Mass Coronal Ejection (MCE) occurs. Then an alarming eruption of inordinate magnitude, violently flings material off the sun, in a particular eruption. The last one to hit the Earth was in the Nineteenth Century, and it caused severe disruption to the then nascent electrodynamic industry. More severe ones went here and there in the meantime (sparing Earth for now).
However, one hit Mars, and MAVEN was there to measure what happened. What happened? The MCE driven Solar Wind smacked into Mars with great force, and robbed the planet of five kilograms of atmosphere per second.
So what philosophy to extract from this?
Thank our nuclear reactor at the core, which maintains an iron ocean, hundreds of kilometers deep, below our feet.
Life is fragile: it can get started easily, but can get killed easily.
With at least two planets where life started, in the Solar System, life, basic life, probably started all over the galaxy.
Earth's life has a very high probability to be of Martian origin.
Why the last point? Because Mars cooled down at least four time faster than Earth. The very latest news show that life started on Earth within 500 million years of our planet's formation. At that point, Earth became cool enough to sustain life (in spite of the formation of the Moon, which, whether from an impact or from my own nuclear eruption theory, was characterized by great heat, and worldwide fusion of the crust). By then Mars had been cool enough for four hundred million years, at least, to allow life (I get that working backwards from the geological date of life start on Earth, and the factor 4, from the surface ratios).
How did life bearing material go from Mars to Earth? Martian meteorites are found on Earth: an object crashes on Mars and debris flung into space (Mars has lower gravity than Earth). Some documented trips took no more than 15 million years, and temperatures within would have preserved life. More than four billion years ago, the bombardment was extremely intense, and Martian meteorites may have penetrated the terrestrial atmosphere continually. And it would just take one meteorite.
A baby was dying in London, from leukemia. All usual treatments were tried, and failed. The doctors proposed to try an approach so far only experimented only on mice. Collaborating quickly with the French company, CELLECTIS Paris, designer cells made to attack specifically Layla's cancer were engineered. The treatment was an astounding success, so far. To make war against all diseases is not just fair, it is the war which has to be waged, paying our respects to Mars. In particular, I am certain that, when the choice is between death and trying a treatment which seems to have worked on mice, one should chose the latter. If nothing else, it brings hope, and the certainty one is contributing to:
Fighting back (the most human thing to do, facing evil).
Treatment to all of humanity (other babies, etc.), another most human behavior to engage in: giving one's life for others.
So kudos to the doctors in London (and the British government for allowing experimentation, plus the two parents for having encouraged it).
Our species celebrates Mars as a god, because war is one of our oldest instincts. Anglo-Saxon media generally scrupulously avoided to mention that this was FRENCH technology (from a French start-up, of all things!). Not mentioning France is part of the war of Anglo-Saxon plutocracy against France. We are all Martians, in more ways than one. And yes, we need to cultivate the better angels of that Martian side of us.
Tags:cancer, genetic engineering, Leukemia, Life, Magnetic Shield, Mars, Maven, Solar Wind
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Exogeneity is a standard assumption made in regression analysis, and when used in reference to a regression equation tells us that the independent variables X are not dependent on the dependent variable (Y). This does not mean there is no connection; since Y is dependent, it will still depend on the independent variable(s) X and on the error term.
When used to refer to a variable, it means that that particular variable is independent (not affected by) other variables in the system. An exogenous variable is able to influence the system without being influenced by it.
There are two main forms of exogeneity, depending on the level of independence shown by the variable.
Strictly exogenous means the error term is unrelated to any instance of the variable X; past, present, and future. X is completely unaffected by Y.
Sequentially exogenous means in which the error term is unrelated to past instances of the variable X. A sequentially exogenous variable is also known as a predetermined variable. X is not affected by past instances of Y; but future instances of X may be affected by current or future instances of Y.
If an equation or variable is neither strictly exogenous nor sequentially exogenous, it is called endogenous.
Suppose you were modeling how the weather affected the probability of softball practice in a small town in the Midwest. The weather is your independent variable, and it affects the probability of softball practice, your dependent variable. The causal relationship is strictly one way; the probability of softball practice is unable to affect the weather in any way. So weather is an strictly exogenous variable.
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Now more than ever, hospitals and healthcare facilities need to know how to create rich video content in the same way that Silicon Valley and Hollywood does: with great storytelling. The packaging and execution may be on a different scale than a Hollywood movie, but the principles remain the same.
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Southern California Seahorses are an American soccer team based in La Mirada, California. Founded in 2001, the team plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.

The team plays its home games in the stadium on the campus of Whittier College. The team's colors are navy blue, white and orange.

The Seahorses are a division of Missionary Athletes International (MAI), an organization which undertakes sports ministry to share the message of Christianity through the environment of soccer. They are a sister organization of the Charlotte Eagles in USL League Two.

History
The Seahorses, which had previously been in existence as a youth soccer club since 1983, joined the PDL in 2001, and were successful immediately, finishing second to Orange County Blue Star in their debut season with an impressive 13–6–1 record. 2002 continued the trend, when the Seahorses again finished second in the Southwest Division, this time behind Chico Rooks, with an 11–7–0 record. Their first trip to the playoffs was also a successful one, when they beat Spokane Shadow and Cascade Surge to advanced to the national final four, where they were defeated in the semi-finals by Boulder Rapids Reserve.

The Seahorses missed the playoffs in 2003, finishing third behind divisional champions Fresno Fuego, and just missed out again in 2004, finishing third behind Orange County Blue Star, despite posting some impressive victories in the regular season, including 4–1 defeat of Nevada Wonders and a 5–1 demolition of San Diego Gauchos.

The developing rivalry between the Seahorses and Orange County Blue Star continued in 2005, when yet again the men from La Mirada finished a close second to their all-conquering Southland neighbors in the Southwest Division standings. The Seahorses began the season with a 5-game winning streak that included a 3–0 trouncing of California Gold; however, they did not manage defeat – or even score a goal on – their rivals in their 3 games, losing 4–0, 3–0 and 3–0 to the eventual divisional champs. Nevertheless, the Seahorses were clearly the next best thing in the southwest, and enjoyed several impressive wins (including a trio of 3-0s over San Diego Gauchos, Nevada Wonders and Fresno Fuego) in the second half of the season. Their trip to the playoffs was a short one, however, as the Seahorses lost to Cascade Surge first time out. Striker Anthony Stovall registered an impressive 7 goals on the season, and Dylan Martinez led the team in assists.

2006 saw the Seahorses finally capture their first divisional title, besting Orange County Blue Star by seven points at season's end. The year was one of solid consistency, and included a hugely impressive 9-game winning streak which stretched from early June to the end of July, and included two 4–0 victories (over Los Angeles Storm and California Gold), and a hard-fought finale against the San Fernando Valley Quakes. However, for the second year in a row, the Seahorses' playoff excursion ended quickly with a 2–1 defeat to BYU Cougars. MLS-bound striker Josh Hansen scored an impressive 8 goals and 4 assists on the season, closely followed by Romanian import Cristian Rus with 6. Keeper Eric Reed enjoyed the best goalkeeping statistics in the PDL, with a goals-against average of 0.621 per game, and keeping 10 clean sheets in his 15 games.

However, much like their crosstown rivals Blue Star, everything went wrong for the Seahorses in 2007. With Eric Reed having gone to new USL-1 franchise California Victory, the Seahorses defence became incredibly leaky; the team suffered four defeats in their first five games – including a chaotic 4–3 loss to the San Fernando Valley Quakes – and although things began to sure up towards the second half of the season, they found themselves unable to actually WIN any games. Five ties in their last ten games put an end to their playoff hopes early, although the team did finish with a flourish with a resounding 4–0 thrashing of Bakersfield Brigade on the final day, and eventually finished 7th. Midfielder Conan Hawkins led the scoring stats, tallying 4 goals on the season, while Chris Leiva registered 6 assists.

The downturn in form continued in 2008 for the Seahorses, who began the season with a 3–1 loss to San Fernando Valley Quakes, and then proceeded to win just one of their next eight games, a 1–0 road win over Lancaster Rattlers. To their credit, few of the Seahorses' losses were blowouts: 0–1 here, 1–2 there, but in each game their strikers never quite seemed to breach the opposition defences, or show enough sharpness in front of goal. They enjoyed their revenge over Orange County Blue Star with a 1–0 win in June, making up for a 4–1 thrashing earlier in the season, and put an end to the San Jose Frogs' playoff chances with an impressive 3–1 home victory in mid-July, but finished the year with a 5–2 hammering at the hands of Fresno Fuego, and a disappointing bottom-of-the-table clash with Lancaster Rattlers on the final day of the season which ended in a 1–1 tie and managed to keep them out of the basement spot. The Seahorses ended their season in 9th place; Chris Leiva, Diego Mejía and Cristian Rus were the joint top scorers with three goals each, while Scott Lucky led the assist stats with 2 to his name.

The Seahorses entered their ninth season in the PDL looking to recapture the form of yesteryear, but it was not to be; despite welcoming ex-pros Josiah Snelgrove and Adam Frye back into the fold, and despite posting an impressive 6–2 victory over Bakersfield Brigade in their second game of the season in which new signing Ryan Shaw netted twice, the Seahorses began to find that the story of their season would revolve around ties. The Seahorses drew eight of their sixteen regular season games, and were made to rue their matches with Fresno Fuego and Ventura County Fusion in which they conceded a 90th minute equalizing goals when they looked odds-on to win. Their last win of the season came at the beginning of July, a 2–1 away victory over the Lancaster Rattlers, and thereafter the men from La Mirada staggered to the finishing line, eventually finishing sixth in the division, eight points out of the playoffs, and missing the postseason for the third straight year. Ryan Shaw was the Seahorses' top scorer, with 6 goals.

Colors and badge

On March 1, 2018, the unveiled a new crest, as a part of a partnership with Charlotte Eagles.

Players

Notable former players
This list of notable former players comprises players who went on to play professional soccer after playing for the team in the Premier Development League, or those who previously played professionally before joining the team.

  Mark Bloom
  Tomislav Colić
  Michael Cunningham
  Adam Frye
  Josh Hansen
  Patrick Ianni
  Christopher Klotz
  Steven Lenhart
  Kiel McClung
  Diego Mejía
  Ben Page
  Eric Reed
  Gregg Schroeder
  Josiah Snelgrove
  Anthony Stovall
  Brent Whitfield

Year-by-year

Honors
 USL PDL Southwest Division Champions 2006
 USL PDL Western Conference Champions 2002

Head coaches
  Todd Elkins (2005–2013)
  Johnny Juarez-Jackman (2013–2015)
  Joe Lurker (2015–present)

Stadia
 Stadium at La Habra High School; La Habra, California (2003–2004)
 Al Barbour Field; La Mirada, California (2004–present)

Average attendance
 2005: 300
 2006: 279
 2007: 263
 2008: 328
 2009: 277
 2010: 233
 2011: 150
 2012: 223
 2013: 200
 2014: 198
 2015: 176

References

External links
Official Site
Official PDL site
Missionary Athletes International

Soccer clubs in Greater Los Angeles
Sports in Los Angeles County, California
La Mirada, California
USL League Two teams
Charlotte Eagles
1983 establishments in California
Association football clubs established in 1983
Christian sports organizations

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For many people sustainability starts with food. Everyone eats, and our connection to food is a direct connection to our environment. The slow food movement works to reconnect people to the food they eat. Local food, and local food traditions are central to reclaiming our relationship with nature.
Featured this week on slow food news, Food Down the Road is an excellent example of a group of people reconnecting their community to food. Based in Kingston (Ontario, Canada), a group of farmers and eaters thought people should know more about their local food. Their website provides a wealth of local information for those with a itch to think about local food. My favorite is the seasonal food chart which gives a clear idea what you should really find in your local market at any time of year (if you live around Ontario).
Eating slow and local is likely one of the simplest and most life changing acts that can lead to a sustainable future.


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Apple at fault for live stream problems: analyst
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Apple Inc. is known for only live streaming its big product launch events to Apple devices using the Safari browser, but yesterday's event started off broadcasting to an even more narrow audience than that – and it wasn't by design.
Apple's move to exclude Windows PCs and Android devices from being able to watch its events is often debated. But Apple's desire to offer something exclusive to its own customers is at least an understandable approach, even if it is sacrificing the potential to win over new customers by sharing the stream more widely. Yet even Apple customers were unable to access the live stream yesterday, with the video either not loading in Apple's web page that embedded the video, or an outright error message being displayed.
While many were frustrated by the error, there was no forthcoming explanation from Apple as to what the cause was. The stream continued to cut in and out throughout the iPhone 6 launch portion of the event and at times the video was accompanied by the Japanese translation audio track. But Dan Rayburn, the executive vice-president of StreamingMedia.com and principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan seems to have solved the mystery, and it looks like Apple is to blame.
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While Apple was using Akamai's content delivery network to broadcast the video (the same company that provided streaming video for the Olympics and the World Cup), it was not a capacity load issue on Akamai's end, Rayburn explains. Analyzing the code on Apple's web page that embedded the video show that a decision to embed code pushing live tweets from the event to the website prevented it from being cached by Akamai. Without the ability to cache, the performance of the video stream was either very degraded or caused an error in Safari.
Rayburn writes: "Without Akamai being able to cache Apple's webpage, the performance to the videos took a huge hit. If Akamai can't cache the website at the edge, then all requests have to go back to a central location, which defeats the whole purpose of using Akamai or any other CDNs to begin with. All CDNs architecture is based on being able to cache content, which in this case, Akamai clearly was not able to do."
As for the translation audio that was heard for the first half-hour of the event, that was also an Apple blunder. Since Apple was encoding the stream from the Cupertino, Calif. location of the event, and it appears the primary and backup streams that were sent out were out of sync. The stream that did get sent contained the audio track and that's what was broadcast from Akamai's service.
The errors may be no more than a footnote after an event that saw Apple launch several major new products, including a device in a new category and a mobile payment service. But the irony in a tech manufacturer that's trying to convince the world of the innovative brilliance of its products experiencing technical difficulties while doing so is clear.
It seems like that some Apple employees responsible for the streaming of the video will be soon looking for a new job.
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