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Q: Test of between groups difference in r-squared value in linear regression Running a linear regression with one continuous IV (sleep) and one categorical IV (gender). Have run a split-file analysis and there appears to be a difference between genders in r-squared. How would one test the significance of this difference (if possible)?
(Edit: Split-file is the process of considering the regression model for each group in the grouping variable separately i.e. in effect, males were first removed from analysis and DV was regressed on IV (sleep) and we get a slope and r-squared for females. The process is repeated with females removed, and we get a slope and r-squared for males. The slope is different between the groups, and we can see whether this difference is significant by the significance of the slope of the gender x sleep interaction. A difference or non-difference in slope doesn't indicate however whether there is a difference between men and women in the amount of variance in DV explained by sleep (r-squared). They could have a different slope but have the same amount of variance explained. The gender difference in r-squared is the one I am wondering how to test.)


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Moorhead hires second contractor for snow removal
MOORHEAD - City leaders have made plans to react more quickly to major snowfall here, and just in time, with the metro area expecting up to 10 inches of the white stuff starting tonight.
By Erik Burgess
When it comes to snow removal, the city is moving to what City Manager Michael Redlinger called a "12/24" model, meaning plows will attempt to make a single pass through residential neighborhoods within 12 hours of a major snowfall.
Plows would return to complete widening of the streets 24 hours after that, or between 13 and 36 hours after the initial storm.
Following the 9.7-inch snowfall on Feb. 10-11, it took Moorhead plows around 34 hours to make a first pass.
The National Weather Service office says 9.3 inches of snow fell in the metro on Feb. 10, and Redlinger said that is the 12th-highest snowfall on record for one-day events in the city's history, which started keeping records in 1948.
The weather service is predicting 6 to 10 inches of snow in Fargo-Moorhead beginning tonight and into Monday morning. The area is in a winter storm watch through Tuesday.
To expedite street clearing after 6 or more inches of snow, Moorhead will be hiring Key Contracting Inc., out of West Fargo, to handle plowing duties in the city's 210 cul-de-sacs, Redlinger said. That should clear up around 48 hours of labor for the city plows, he said.
Moorhead already hires Asplin Excavating Inc., out of Fargo, after any storm to haul snow out of the cul-de-sacs once it's plowed. Key Contracting would only be brought in if more than 6 inches of snow fell.
"It's all in place. Contracts are signed," Mayor Mark Voxland said on Saturday. "We have people on call just in case it's a very large snow event."
The "12/24" model would cost between $23,000 and $26,000 for each major snow event, Redlinger said. The city is already paying $16,000 of that for Asplin's contract.
The city will also be working to more efficiently use city staff to clear streets during major snowfalls. Street personnel already work 24 hours a day during storms, but there are not always enough people to run every piece of machinery.
Redlinger said other staff, like sanitation, forestry and park maintenance, will be prioritized to better use any idle machinery and be more a part of the "initial response" to large snowfalls.
"This is trying to add some additional bodies to the existing resources that are out there," he said.
The tradeoff is that some trails or park facilities might not be cleared out as soon, he said.
City staff also evaluated the GPS software currently being utilized by West Fargo plows, which allows residents to see which streets have been cleared and which haven't.
Redlinger said in lieu of setting up such a system - which cost West Fargo $55,000 to install and $10,000 a year for maintenance - Moorhead could set up a map online, which staff would update as streets were being cleared.
At a City Council retreat Saturday, council members also further discussed hiring a public information officer for the city, who would be in charge of handling news releases and would be a spokesperson for the city.
Some council members were concerned about responding effectively to the city's "negative media perception," most recently concerning snow removal and towing.
On Monday, the council tabled approval of a $66,000 marketing agreement with the Fargo firm Flint Communications to continue a "Make Moorhead Home" campaign that began last year. The funds would be taken from a total $91,000 already budgeted by the Economic Development Authority last year.
Councilman Mark Altenburg said Saturday he'd rather spend that money in-house on salary for a full-time PIO for the city.
"I'd rather put that (money) into a person whose job it is every morning to wake up and say, 'How can I market Moorhead?' " Altenburg said.
Altenburg said he wants there to be one person to speak to media, who can then craft a pro-Moorhead message, especially in times of distress like major snowstorms.
"Our narrative isn't always positive, and we need to figure out how to handle that," he said.
The idea was received moderately well by the rest of the council, but Voxland said funds would need to come from somewhere else if the city were to hire a full-time PIO. City staff is studying the issue.
The council seemed to agree that even without a full-time PIO, each member is the city's "ambassador" to the public and the media.
"We have to realize that the way we're communicating, it can lead to perceptions for our city that could literally take years to erase," Councilwoman Nancy Otto said. "We really have to watch what we're doing publicly."
Readers can reach Forum reporter Erik Burgess at (701) 241-5518

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Mixed media illustration of a little girl riding on a giant hare. This mysterious illustration is supposed to intrigue and provoke storytelling. Who is the little girl? What is her destination and why is she going there? What will she use the key for?
Journey far and travel deep.


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The Puranikoti Diaries (2) – Seasonal Visitors
by Avay Shukla
By the middle of June this year I knew I had to do a Mohammad Bin Tughlaq i.e leave Delhi; not for Daulatabad ( in present-day Maharashtra) where the Emperor went because I'm mortally afraid of bumping into Arnab Goswami or Kangana Ranaut there. I decided instead to head for Puranikoti in the mountains before the Prime Minister came up with another of his surgical strikes which the patient rarely survives. Not only had Mr. Modi got it wrong again, the fourth time in a row, and failed to win his Mahabharat against the corona in the promised 21 days, but the other signs were ominous too.
There were no serviceable pots and pans left in the kitchen because we had beaten them to a pulp at the Prime Minister's frequent calls to do so. The Hon'ble Mr. Athawale had just announced a national audition for the hit song GO CORONA GO!. I was apprehensive that they might pick me for I have a fairly powerful castrato voice with a high range, especially when I receive a notice from the Income Tax chaps. Neerja had taken social distancing to a new level and had moved into the guest bedroom. The WHO, which was worse than the Coronavirus, had just revealed that flatulence could help in spreading the virus, thus cramping the Indian male's style, if you know what I mean. Mr. Kejriwal, who gets a new idea ( usually of the unimplementable variety )every time he goes for Vipassana was rumoured to be planning to impose a " karo na " tax on sex in order to ensure social distancing ( no refunds for failed encounters). The Chinese had moved into Ladakh, promising to introduce a more inclusive CAA there: nobody would be denied any citizenship, in fact, every Ladakhi would automatically become a Chinese citizen from May 2020! My pension had been frozen and the Finance Minister had promised another stimulus package: problem was, the package was likely to provide more stimulation to the Ambanis and Adanis than to us ( the first package had almost doubled their wealth ). You get the picture, I hope; as the Tughlaq might have said if he had thought of it before me: if the mountain cannot come to Mohammad then Mohammad must go to the mountain. ( With his Aadhar card, E pass, covid negative certificate, and Fast-Tag, of course). In other words, I had better hot-foot it to the mountains while I still had the dough to buy fuel for the car and pay Mr. Gadkari's highwaymen at the toll plazas.
As I soon found out, Covid turned out to be a blessing in disguise in this respect at least. Owing to various constraints, in the last ten years we had never been able to spend more than a few weeks a year in Puranikoti; this was the first time we have stayed here for five months and counting! It has also been the first time since 2006 that the whole family has been together, including our adopted Indie dog who is now on first name terms with the village dogs. The latter proves beyond any doubt that English is the preferred first language in schools in my panchayat: all the dogs are named Tommy, Blackie, Johnny, or Tiger. The Hon'ble Union Education Minister may please note while finalising the new education policy.
What has been particularly fascinating to observe here has been the change of seasons. In a metro like Delhi, there is only one season- Simmer. Consisting of the heat, humidity, the abrasive Delhi-walla attitude, dust, and pollution. In Puranikoti we have lived in, and through, summer, monsoons, autumn and are now preparing to welcome winter which, at 7000 feet, has to be given due respect. We have seen the agricultural crops change from maize to cauliflower and cabbage to peas to potatoes. We have seen horse chestnut and chinar bloom and then turn a golden hue and shed their fiery leaves with a promise to return in the spring. The weeping willows, which were a sonata in green earlier, are now living up to their name with their needle-like leaves dropping like copious tears.
With the foliage gone and the cold going up a notch every day, the birdlife in the village is also changing: the sparrows, tits, and bulbuls are leaving for warmer regions, the jungle fowl and the khalij pheasant easily spotted by the early riser as they emerge from the undergrowth to soak in the warmth of the rising sun. If we are lucky we can see the occasional wedge of cormorants high up in the azure sky, flying from the north in a southeasterly direction, perhaps for the wetlands of Bharatpur and NOIDA ( if they can locate them through the smog, that is! ) A troop of rhesus monkeys has taken up residence at the edge of the forest; they have not yet entered the village, perhaps intimidated by the number of bureaucrats here. I have no doubt, however, in a couple of years they shall lose their fear of the babus, as the politicians have done, and democracy shall prevail in Puranikoti as it does in the rest of India. The monkeys will rule.
I'm not much of a birder or ornithologist and my knowledge of birds is very limited. I know, for example, that a hummingbird hums because it doesn't know the words of the song, and that an ailing eagle is illegal, and that owl is well that ends well, but not much more. Much to my egret-sorry, regret- I cannot even identify most birds. But thanks to my son, Sidharth, who stalks the forests with his camera all day, I now know that there is a hidden wealth of birdlife in our area, and they come and go with the changing seasons. And thanks to my old friend and colleagues in the Forest department I have been able to identify them. Given below are images of some of these feathered splendours of nature, captured in Purani Koti itself:
Greater Barbet
Himalayan Magpie
Rusty Cheeked Scimitar Babbler
A wedge of Great Cormorants
Whistling Thrush
Driving back from Mashobra one evening after picking up our monthly ration of Blender's Pride (our substitute for the anti-covid drug Remdesvir, and just as effective) Sidharth was lucky enough to spot a rare mammal, the Yellow-throated Marten, which nobody in our village has seen before, at least not in a sober state of mind:
Yellow-Throated Marten
And so, even as mankind desperately tries to rediscover its old lifestyles in the throes of this pandemic, here in the midst of nature the rhythms of life carry on unconcerned as they have done for eons. And while Mr. Modi in Delhi poses with his (caged) parrots and (primetime) peacocks I am even more privileged to watch their wild siblings come and go with the changing seasons. There surely is a blessing in this somewhere, if only I could count.
Photos by Sidharth Shukla
Avay Shukla
Avay Shukla retired from the Indian Administrative Service in December 2010. He is a keen environmentalist and loves the mountains. He divides his time between Delhi and his cottage in a small village above Shimla. He used to play golf at one time but has now run out of balls. He blogs at http://avayshukla.blogspot.in/
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When you think of an advertising agency, you may think of a gigantic creative machine that churns out TV ads with multi-million Rand budgets. But these days, almost any business can benefit from creative agency services, and there is guaranteed to be an agency out there that suits your company's size and spend.
Sure, creative thinking gets your business noticed, but strategic thinking gets you sales. Some of the top creative agencies focus on creating daring, interesting, even shocking creative work, but fail to deliver a return on investment. You need an agency that balances the two worlds, creating advertising that will get you noticed, and get you sales.
If you've ever wondered "what does an advertising agency do?" you'll find the answer lies in the balance between identifying a good strategic insight about your brand, and then finding a creative way to demonstrate that insight.
Thanks to the internet, anyone can start an advertising agency in a matter of days. Create a cool website and you're in business. But when looking for an advertising agency, ensure that the agency you choose has a few years of experience under their belt. You'll find an agency with years of experience can offer a deeper perspective and will have greater insight into what will work, and what won't.
You don't want an agency that blindly agrees with everything you say. You want a real partner who can offer alternative ideas and advice. Your agency should provide proactive thinking and offer you insight into new trends emerging in the industry. They should be able to execute a brief you give them, but also have the ability to push it further, and give you something you didn't even know you needed.
The future is digital. From websites to social media, to big data and paid search, apps and SEO content, you need an agency that embraces and understands the digital world.
A full service agency should be able to produce everything from a poster to a TV advert to an app. Full service agencies such as Ebony+Ivory offer a media component, offering media planning and buying. When looking for digital media services or web advertising agency services, be sure that the team you choose is proficient in all things digital. Having said that, you ideally want an agency with all-round experience.
If you're wondering what the difference between advertising and digital advertising is, the answer should be: not that much. A strong advertising idea starts with a strategic insight. A creative idea is developed from that insight and then an advertising agency must decide how best to get that idea to your customers. A good creative idea should be able to work in a print advert, or a billboard, or on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Ideally, you don't want a 'digital advertising agency' that only specialises in digital work. You want an agency that can execute a strong idea across various media in clever and attention-grabbing ways.
Size mattersIt's a bit of a Goldilocks dilemma. You don't want an agency that's too big or one that's too small. You're looking for one that's just right. Unless you manage a very large brand, you'll probably get lost at a large agency, where you won't receive the one-on-one attention you need. But very small, boutique agencies may be too specialised and may not have the resources you need to sort out issues quickly and effectively. What you need is an agency that offers personal attention, but still has the resources to meet your deadlines and resolve issues on time.
You want to find an agency that suits your company's culture. Are they mavericks and rebels? Will that suit your conservative style? Are they too young and hip for your stately, refined brand? You want to feel that they truly understand your brand, and have your company's best interests at heart. When providing feedback on ideas presented to you, you want to feel comfortable giving your honest opinion.
Ultimately the relationship between a client and their agency of choice should be one of mutual respect, and a partnership that evolves over time. As each partner holds high the mantle that creativity holds the answer to every challenge.


The aim of this blog is to allow that you have a perfect image, which I'll talk about tips for choosing dress graduation and also this type of model is elegant enough to wear a female figure, in addition I'll give then some tricks so you can select the ideal dress of wise and easy way for you.
Graduation dress should highlight a pretty design, especially that you have left good to change a look so elegant and also if the dress is cute and not going with you, your style or form of body since all you get is a look that is completely out for you and for this reason, the first thing you must do is adjust to an adequate budget.
Black and Red are usually models star evening dresses, since now I'm going to give a little guide to choose the color of your dress that is in accordance with your skin tone.
If you have a white skin, I recommend you to use colors that are opposite to the tone of your skin and you can also resort to ringtones as grey, purple, coffee, silver, black and gold that allows to highlight a picture-perfect. Whereupon some of white skin can use it and is especially recommended yellow tones and bones.
Also if your skin is apinonada is highly recommended to search marked tones that can be highlighted with the color of your skin and similarly you can resort to a pink, blue, red, Orange and beige that help provide a lovely model and especially comes in handy for beautiful beauty bright prints.
And if you're Brown you dare use striking tone as it can be blue, yellow, green and shades cakes for a cute teen figure.
Together if you're dark brunette, you can take advantage of patterns cool and pastel, in the same way the turquoise and pink allows you to highlight great and yet stay away from beige that dull your feminine image.
Also if you are thin, the selection will be much easier to in choosing your design choice for your graduation and also if your legs are very flaquitas I recommend a long dress, and if it is just the opposite, if you own a well turned legs, you can wear a cute dress to the knee or with a little more up for a pretty youthful beauty.
If you are overweight, you should choose a dress that goes with you and usually dresses too many stuck will hurt your weight other. Also avoid them at all costs and if you have a very thick arms can avoid to wear sleeveless dresses.
If your dress has a backless, can ensure you have the BRA flag, since there are some that can be adapted according to the neckline of the dress that goes well with your image and support. Similarly, it is not recommended to fit your favorite bra so it is with your kind of graduation dress, since it will be disastrous.
If you have strapless is highly recommended to pay close attention to your BRA, above all use straps and also these models are specially designed to give you a good support to an ideal image. Together you must make sure that the dress is you well, because in common if you're feeling low you can resort to this type of strapless dress that gives a cute beauty to all young.


Limit Switches are electro-mechanical devices that regulate the motion on positioning devices. On Velmex products they are primarily used to stop/turn off the motor when activated preventing over-travel of the carriage/slider. They also can be used to send an event signal. Velmex uses several different types.
• Adjustable (moveable) limits, which are standard on BiSlide Assemblies and optional on XSlide and UniSlide Assemblies.
• Fixed end of travel limits, which are standard on XSlide Assemblies and optional on UniSlide Assemblies. These are not adjustable.
• Internal limits which are only available on the UniSlide MB90 Series.
• Home switches, which actually reference a point rather than limit travel, are used on Rotary Tables and can be used on XSlide Assemblies.
It is possible to purchase motor-driven Velmex stages without limits, however, it is not recommended and it may effect the warranty should you incur any damage.
The following at-a-glance chart outlines the Velmex Stage and what limits can be used.
BiSlide limit switches are referenced by either a "-21" or "-31" at the end of the model number. On Parallel-Coupled BiSlide Assemblies, the limits would be eliminated from one of the two linear stages that comprise the assembly.
Adjustable Limits (Optional) - Mounted on the side rib of Velmex UniSlide Assemblies, these two switches can be used to stop travel. These are ordered as a separate part number (OBLS).
Fixed, End-of-travel Limits (Optional) (MA40, MA60, MB90)- These push button switches are fixed on the side rib of Velmex Unislide Assemblies. They are not adjustable. On all UniSlide Series except the MA15 and MA25 the limits are built into the end plate of the slide. On the MA15 and MA25 Series they are outboard switches affixed to the side rib. These are ordered as a separate part number which begins 3-934.
Also availabe on UniSlide XY Tables.
Fixed, End-of-travel Limits (Optional) (MA15, MA40) - Outboard fixed, end-of-travel limits available on the MA15 and MA25 UniSlide Assemblies.
Internal Limits (MB90 "J" Only - Standard) - The internal limits on the MB90 Series consist of two switches, a control rod mounted along side the lead screw with two moveable brass collars and cover atop an additional 3" of dovetail base as shown. The collars are positioned on the control rod to activate the limits. The internal limits on the MA90 Series UniSlide Assembly are referenced by the letter "J" at the end.
Fixed, End-of-travel Limits (Standard) - XSlide Assemblies have two fixed, end-of-travel limit switches built into the end plates. XSlide fixed limit switches are referenced by either a "-21" or "-71" at the end of the model number.
Adjustable Limits (Optional) - Moveable limit switches can be added as an option to motorized XSlide Assemblies. These switches can be used to stop travel within the overall travel distance of the XSlide. When installed the adjustable limits reduce travel distance by 1.2" (3.05 cm). These are ordered as a separate part number (XSW-X-PR).
Magnetic Reed Home Switch (Optional) - A magnetic reed home switch sets a reference point to return the carriage to home (starting) position. This is moveable. Ordered as a separate part number (XSW-M).
Mechanical home switches can be added to UniSlide and BiSlide linear stages. Switches used in this manner require an additional controller.
Magnetic Home Switch (Optional) - A magnetic reed home switch sets a reference point to return the carriage to home (starting) position. This is moveable. Ordered as a separate part number (XSW-M).
Limit Switches (Optional) - Using two zero-reference (home) switches on a Rotary Table creates limits that restrict travel to a specific degree arc.
Connector on Switch Harness are wired on the normally closed (NC) terminals.
CAUTION: The VXM puts 24VDC on the limit switches. Do not connect limit inputs to any +5V logic devices.
Additional information can be found in the VXM™ Users Manual and in the documentation on Limit Switches.
Current stages, when ordered with limits, include the appropriate cables to connect to a Velmex controller or flying leads for other devices. We also offer cable adapters to connect older Velmex products.


A one-hour documentary highlighting the incredible journey of eleven high school students as they explore the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay by canoe, kayak, and boat.
The 30-day trip, organized and led by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), began at the headwaters of the Susquehanna River in Cooperstown, NY and ended in the Bay in Annapolis, MD.
Along the 444-mile journey the students experienced some amazing scenery, enjoyed fun times on the water, learned about the various forms of water pollution threatening the River and Bay, and also met up with volunteers and organizations working across the watershed to protect habitat and improve water quality.
They also experienced an unexpected storm with significant flooding that took them off the river and into local communities to lend a hand with clean up.


This is the sermon I delivered this morning at Putney Methodist Church (and indeed this afternoon at Minstead Gardens Methodist Church!). The text was John 15:9-17.
What does it mean to be a 'friend'? The immensely popular American television series, Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004, and its very catchy theme tune give us a few ideas. In particular, perhaps, that friendship is about being there for others in good times and bad – when "your love life's DOA" – and that it involves a level of reciprocity – "I'll be there for you ('Cause you're there for me too)". Given that the series finale of Friends was one of the most watched television programmes in global history, perhaps we should treat its views as authoritative!
Friendship may be a subject, though, upon which we simply do not often reflect in our everyday lives. It may be that we consider it something more relevant to the playground. One of the questions we will often ask young children at a new school is, "Have you made any nice friends yet?". However, we are arguably living through a time when the very concept of friendship is changing. The internet and social media have arguably helped transform what it means to be a friend. As many of you know, Facebook has given us a new transitive verb: "to friend" someone. That is, to ask someone via the application to become your 'friend', allowing you to view one another's personal details and exchange information. Importantly, one person makes the request to be a 'friend' and the other person has to accept it. This in turn has led to a complicated new field of ethics and etiquette. When is it acceptable not to accept someone's friend request? Should you accept such requests from colleagues, old classmates, or even ex-boyfriends? This, in turn, has given us another new verb – to 'un-friend' someone; the ultimate mark of social rejection and the end of a relationship.
This development has in turn shaped, and been shaped by, other developments in the phenomenon of friendship, as detailed by a number of social scientists. Some of these have argued that friendships are becoming 'thinner' in the internet era, with less substance to them (Digby Anderson, Losing Friends, 2001). Many people would indeed make a clear distinction between friends in real life and friends on Facebook. Others have argued that friendship, in the West at least, has come to replace more traditional ties of kinship, family, tribe, guild, even nationality (Ray Pahl, On Friendship, 2000), to become the cement that holds society together. One danger of such a change is, of course, the implication that we divide the world effectively into 'friends', whom we are willing to trust, believe and help, and 'non-friends', or even 'enemies', whom we are not.
In the light of all this, what do those intriguing words of Jesus from our lesson mean to us today? "You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends" (John 15:14-15). We get a little clue of the significance of what Jesus is saying a few chapters later in John. Here the authorities in Jerusalem are using every means possible to make Pontius Pilate submit to their will and crucify Jesus, and threaten him with the ominous words: "If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor" (John 19:12). Friendship in the ancient world, in this context, meant someone who held a particular status with a ruler. They were his closest confidants, his most trusted advisers. In the Roman emperors' case, they were described as his amici, and people – including client kings like Herod – would expend a great deal of time and effort to secure that status. It was the ultimate access to wealth and power. No wonder that Pilate was so afraid of the high priest's threat: he was risking being 'un-friended' by the emperor, they were effectively saying, if he refused to execute this trouble-maker, with all sorts of terrible consequences for himself and his career.
In the context of our passage today, there is something of that sense of meaning in Jesus' words. His disciples were indeed his amici – his closest confidants and advisers; the people with whom he spent most time and whom he trusted thoroughly. There is more to it than that, though, and there are things we need to learn about what it means to be a friend of Jesus.
First, true friends know what is really going on in a person's life. Many people nowadays, as I have said, make the distinction between 'Facebook friends' and real friends, and one of the key differences is the information one shares with these two categories. I know myself that there is a temptation to put a positive spin on your life on Facebook, only recording happy incidents, or things that cast you and your life in a positive light. It's often an air-brushed version of reality that in turn can actually make others feel worse about their own life. ("Why's everyone else out partying, and I'm sat at home doing the ironing?", etc., etc.) Of course, you don't need to be on Facebook for this to happen. There have always been people to whom we feel it necessary to put on a front and say "everything's fine", when it is very clearly not.
A true mark of friendship as Christ described it, though, was someone with whom we have no secrets. It is a relationship where we can know someone fully and in turn be fully known. Just as Jesus and the Father knew each intimately. We know what they have been through in life, positive and negative; we know their joys and their sorrows; we have been present at some of the most important events in their life. In the gospels, we are repeatedly told that Jesus made the effort to share everything he could with his disciples. When they failed to understand the parables, he would patiently sit down and try to help them understand (e.g. Mark 4:33-34). When they had questions, he would answer them. In this final discourse in John's gospel, we hear him trying to tell them everything they needed to know about himself, in order to face the future without him. And this offer of friendship is open to us, if we choose to accept it. In prayer, we are given the opportunity to share all that we are with Christ Jesus: not to put on a brave face and deceive ourselves and him, but to come to him, as the hymn says, "Just as I am". In scripture, Christ offers us the same in return. The ability to know him truly, to understand who he is and what his mission on earth was. If we choose to read and study our scriptures, then that knowledge, that privileged relationship, can be ours as well.
The second point is that friendship, in Jesus' terms involves choice, and choice on both sides. Many commentators note the difference between how Jesus' disciples behaved and how those of other contemporary rabbis did. In the latter case, disciples would usually shop around and find the rabbi whom they most liked and admired. Not so with Jesus. Instead, as we read in the opening chapters of the gospels, Jesus actively goes out and chooses his disciples. As he reminds them in today's passage: "You did not choose me but I chose you" (15:16). There is a stunning painting by Caravaggio of The Calling of St Matthew (Matt. 9:9-13), with Jesus, bathed in a shaft of sunlight, standing at the doorway of a tavern pointing directly at the unsuspecting tax collector, and clearly saying "It's you I want.". There is a direct contrast here with that terrible experience in school playgrounds, where teams are picked based on how good you are at football, or how tall and strong you are, or indeed where relationships are formed based solely on looks and appearance. Here the offer of friendship goes to the most unusual people, to the unloved and unlovely as well as to the popular and handsome.
In the scriptures, we read how Christ invites all sorts of people – men and women, Jew and gentile, kind and unkind – into a relationship of friendship with him. And they in turn are invited to respond: to accept the obligations and responsibilities of friendship. Responsibilities that we all understand well, especially if sadly we have ever been let down by someone we thought a friend. The invitation to friendship with Christ, and ultimately with God our creator himself, is one that is offered to us all, just as to Peter and John, and one we are invited to accept. It is not a relationship that we deserve or have earned, it is one that is freely given by a God who seeks out his people in every corner of the world – like a shepherd with a lost sheep. But we cannot say that we are a friend of Christ, if we ignore his teachings, neglect his words and reject those who have been made in his image. True friendship with Christ is both an inestimable blessing and a solemn commitment.
to suffer, endure and die.
Being a true friend to someone will always involve a level of servanthood. It will involve listening to the same stories and jokes again and again. It will involve helping to look after them when they're sick or ill one day. It will involve helping them to put together a garden shed, a wedding or even a broken life. True friendship involves cost and sacrifice, and that is why we value – or should value – real friends so highly.
The friendship that Christ offer us in these verses is not a 'thin' one: a Facebook friend, a nodding acquaintanceship. It is the most perfect and life-giving of relationships; the genuine desire to know another person wholly, and in turn to be fully known by them. It is a relationship that is freely offered by one who has done everything he can to seek us out, wherever we are. It is a friendship built not on the desire for gain or control, but on the loving sacrifice of one who calls us to follow his example of selfless love. It is ultimately the offer to us all that, "my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete" (15:11) Amen.


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Frustrated by a proposal to log in her neighborhood, a Google engineer and her team used emerging mapping technology to design a powerful processing platform, which now aids conservation efforts and strengthens the preservation of indigenous lands around the world.
Cloud-covered Europe and North Africa viewed from Suomi National Polar-orbiting satellite. Image Credit: Norman Kuring NASA GSFC
When viewed from space, clouds largely obscure the Earth. It isn't a matter of time of day, angle or distance. It's just the way it is ‰ÛÒ unless, of course, you are gazing at the planet using Google Earth. The story of how Google Earth offers images of the planet — without letting clouds get in the way — began in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California.
An Accidental Activist
In the summer of 2005, Rebecca Moore came home from her job as an engineering manager at Google and found a legal notice in her mail that notified local residents about the San Jose Water Company's plan to harvest timber in their community, which is part of the Los Gatos Creek Watershed.
The notice included a map that didn't make sense to Moore, who describes herself as a ‰ÛÏmap geek.‰Û After studying the map without much success, Moore decided to plug the information into Google Earth, which had been released two months earlier and was still somewhat of a novelty. Moore punched data from the map into the program, and added information on the location of local schools and landmarks.
What emerged from her efforts was a clearer picture of a logging plan using helicopters to remove timber because the valley walls were so steep. ‰ÛÏThey were going to be helicoptering over the community, in perpetuity,‰Û she recalled.
Map included in the public notice sent to Moore and her neighbors in Santa Cruz Mountains during the summer of 2005. Image Credit: Rebecca Moore
‰ÛÏIt was going to be more than 1,000 acres of redwood trees that they were going to cut, and they thought they could get away with getting very sketchy information to the community and just railroading the approval process.‰Û
At a meeting where Moore showed 300 members of her community what the proposal entailed, people gasped when they realized what was really at stake.
A screenshot of the proposed logging zone (in red); 1,000 acres of forest, including old growth redwoods, would have been logged in perpetuity. Image Credit: Google
‰ÛÏThe plan was 400 pages; no one reads that ‰ÛÒ here you see it in seconds,‰Û Moore said, pointing to the image on her laptop screen.
After a protracted two-year battle, Moore and her compatriots were able to stop the logging by proving that the company's plan posed significant environmental dangers, and was ultimately illegal.
Saving the Amazon Rainforest ( . . . with Google?)
While Moore was using Google Earth in California, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and first responders were using the program to coordinate rescue operations. ‰ÛÏWe got a phone call from the Coast Guard saying that using Google Earth they saved more than 4,000 people,‰Û said Moore. ‰ÛÏI think that surprised the Google execs ‰ÛÒ maybe this is not just a toy, maybe it's not just this recreational tool for exploring where to go on vacation. Maybe it actually has a more powerful social benefit.‰Û
Moore convinced the execs at Google to let her spend one day a week acting as a liaison with environmental groups and teaching them how to use Google's mapping tools. At the time, Google had a program that allowed employees to volunteer for such efforts. Moore's project was called Google Earth Outreach (GEO).
In 2007, Chief Almir of the Paiter Surui tribe in the Rondonia, Brazil, contacted Google through the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) asking for help. Almir wanted to teach his people how to use technology to protect the rainforest from illegal logging, and to map their sacred cultural sites in order to help connect people outside of the Amazon to their work and their plight.
Almir discovered Google Earth while visiting an Internet cafe.
A Google Earth map of the region shows the dramatic depletion of the rainforest surrounding the Pater Surui tribal lands. Image Credit: Google/Surui Tribe
‰ÛÏMy people are not prepared to defend ourselves unless it's with bows and arrows, but those won't work anymore,‰Û Almir said in a video documenting their work. ‰ÛÏWe needed to get prepared and create a dialogue with a society that is not ours. I realized the need to use Internet technology as a tool to make my people's situation known.‰Û
Moore and her team set up a training program in Rondonia. Many of Almir's people had never even used a computer, so they were taught the basics of Google Earth. Tribal youth were trained on how to use digital photos and YouTube to tell stories, which were uploaded to a Google Earth map of the region.
Once the mapping project was complete, the Pater Surui wanted to continue their efforts to fight logging. Moore and her team returned to the region in 2009 and trained the tribe to use smartphones equipped with software that would allow them to collect data from the forest and submit the data to Google Earth.
Vasco Van Roosmalen, director of ACT, explained, ‰ÛÏThe Surui use [the data] to monitor their biodiversity, to monitor their borders, and also to monitor their forest in the context of climate change.‰Û The tribe is able to measure how much carbon they are preventing from going into the atmosphere by maintaining the forest and replanting with new saplings. The Pater Surui have an ambitious plan to plant 100 million saplings by the end of 2019 in an effort to reforest the region.
The Pater Surui are using the data they collect to trade carbon credits in a carbon marketplace. In September 2013, Ecosystems Marketplace reported that a Brazilian cosmetics company, Natura, purchased 120,000 tons of carbon offsets from the tribe, making the Pater Surui the ‰ÛÏfirst indigenous people to generate credits by saving endangered rainforest.‰Û
66,000 Computers and Erasing Clouds
While Moore and her team were there with Almir, she was approached by Carlos Souza Jr., a Brazilian geoscientist from Imazon. Souza was looking for a way to quickly and efficiently process the satellite data used to observe and prevent illegal logging in the forest where they were losing more than 1 million acres of rainforest each year. He asked Moore if Google could create a technology that would allow researchers to analyze the data.
It took Moore and her team three years, but they were able to design the Google Earth Engine, a platform that could process copious amounts of data for Imazon's Deforestation Alert System in a timeframe that would allow Souza and his colleagues to see illegal logging from the satellite data, send people out into the field to confirm, and then notify the authorities. According to Imazon, they were able to reduce illegal logging by 97 percent between 2007 and 2010 in Paragominas, an area where deforestation was happening on a large scale.
‰ÛÏThere are all these NASA satellites up there right now collecting incredibly useful data. The LANDSAT instrument is collecting 600 images a day ‰ÛÒ there's more than 4 million images over 40 years,‰Û said Moore.
NASA's Earth observing satellites. Image Credit: Jenny Mottar/NASA
She and her team realized that if they could figure out how to efficiently process this data, they would be able to open a floodgate of information for important science and Earth observation.åÊUp until this point, these data were expensive, but inåÊ2008åÊthe U.S. government made all of the LANDSAT data free. TheyåÊtook this treasure trove of data that the U.S. Geological Survey was storing on tapes in a secure archive in South Dakota and put it online in Google data centers.
Once the data was free, scientists could access it, but how do you process so much information?
It turns out that you can divvy up the labor. Moore explains, ‰ÛÏYou can divide up the area you're analyzing into chunks, which we do: 256 pixels by 256 pixels. We distribute those to different computers, and they each work on them in parallel and they each do their own calculation and then we stitch it all back together.‰Û
Google Earth Engine divvies up the labor to process large amounts of data in parallel using multiple computers. Image Credit: Rebecca Moore/Google
They had over 30 years of images, totaling 909 terabytes of satellite data. (When Computer Weekly set out to provide a tangible comparison of what a petabyte would look like for the layperson, answers included ‰ÛÏenough to store the DNA of the entire population of the U.S. ‰ÛÒ and then clone them, twice.‰Û)
For each spot on the planet, they used Google Earth Engine to sift through all the images and find the best pixel for each point, and reassemble the pixels to create clear, cloud-free images. ‰ÛÏThis would have taken like 300 years, but we did it in one and a half days,‰Û Moore explained gleefully.
Google Earth Engine, in partnership with Time magazine, used these cloud-free images to create timelapse videos of Brazilian deforestation, glacial retreat, and urban expansion.
Moore is beyond enthusiastic about the potential for Earth observation and science that this platform makes possible. She pulls up image after image on her computer to show what kinds of observations are possible ‰ÛÒ from precision agriculture and drought monitoring to predicting hazards that emerge when conditions are ripe for mosquito hatches, a common disease vector.
‰ÛÏWe have really hit a sweet spot with the geoscience community,‰Û she said at a Google conference in 2014. ‰ÛÏCan we make remote sensing ‰ÛÒ this type of Earth observation data analysis ‰ÛÒ transformative or disruptively easier than it's been before, so you don't have to be a Ph.D. in that field in order to come in with new ideas to contribute something new to this community and to this space and maybe transform the world in a way that nobody has ever anticipated before?‰Û
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Daily Optimiser is the first iOS app I ever wrote, and it's been looking a little tired and out of date recently.
So last week I spent a few hours improving and modernising the UI, and I'm quite pleased with the results (there are some screenshots are at the end of the article).
I've tried to be more consistent and subtle with the use of font size and color to give the information a clear hierarchy.
What was more interesting was how much I've learnt in the last few years of doing iOS development. Looking back at the original code, it's clear I was I had no clear idea how best to structure the code. I was also very inexperienced in autolayout, and used tables EVERYWHERE to build screens!
I've also made the app iOS11 only to take advantage of large titles in the UI, but from my analytics I can see hardly anyone is using the app any more, so it's not going to aggravate a non-existent user base.
I must admit I don't actually use Daily Optimiser, as I prefer Todoist over Reminders as my task organiser. However if you are looking for a simple app based around Calendars and Reminders to help you organise your day, why not give it a go?


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Due to financial constraints, the final event we were scheduled to attend will have to be missed. The Bonneville Vintage GP at the Utah Motor Sports Campus is probably my favorite race of the season. It is well attended, the track is fun and challenging, the paddock is full of cool people and intriguing machines, and I always leave feeling like I could have gone faster. So it is with some frustration that I announce our inability to attend the Labor Day weekend event. It will be the first time I've missed it since first attending in 2010.
Matt and I will get together when he returns from some escapades and maybe we can add another event onto the calendar. There are actually two more races on the calendar that we weren't originally planning on attending. Sadly though, this ruins our chances of a class championship in the AHRMA series, and there is only one class in the SRA-West series, which we can't possibly win given how many events we've missed. We will just have to go after race wins this year and see where we are at when the season is over. Stay tuned.
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True faith is hard. More than mere sentimentalism, faith often calls for a deep and resilient trust in God-especially when the going gets tough and the road is dark. In Things Not Seen, author Jon Bloom encourages readers with 35 imaginative retellings of stories from the Bible that illustrate the importance of living by faith. A follow-up to the author's previous book, Not by Sight: A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Walking by Faith, this inspiring volume explores the lives of Abraham, Moses, Saul, John the Baptist, and more-helping readers remember God's promises, rely on his grace, and follow his leading regardless of the circumstances. The book includes a foreword by popular author and blogger Ann Voskamp.


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Ready, set, enter! ENR's 2011 Best Projects competition has now begun. This will be the first competition since McGraw-Hill Construction's former regional magazines were integrated into the ENR brand.
"With more than 1,000 entries, the annual Best Projects competition has become one of the premier awards programs in the industry, particularly focusing on an entire project's life cycle, not just on the design or the construction phase," says Scott Blair, ENR Southwest editor. Blair has been involved with the Best Projects competition for more than 10 years and led the team that brought the awards program to the national stage three years ago with the first ENR Best of the Best Awards.
"Our program honors all project participants: the owner, architect, engineer, general contractor and subcontractor alike," he says. "The judges—members of the construction communities in the regions where the projects are located—home in on jobs that demonstrate outstanding teamwork, safety, innovation and workmanship."
Projects built anywhere in the U.S. can be entered in one of 18 categories. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony in the region and will be featured in the regional editions of ENR. Projects deemed best in their category automatically will be entered in the Best of the Best Projects 2011, a national juried competition. Regional winners in each category compete against each other, and winners receive national coverage. This year, in another first, one project will be selected by the ENR editorial team as Editors' Choice and given top recognition.
"We put a lot of thought into making this year's program more user-friendly based on input from past submitters and judges about what they liked and didn't like," says Carolina Worrell, assistant editor of ENR New York. As a result, we reduced the number of categories, which had become unwieldy, and focused the safety questions on standard industry metrics.
You can read the rules and enter the competition by downloading the Call for Entries submission form at http://enr.construction.com/toplists/best_of_awards/2011/. The new entry form is an interactive PDF that can be saved and shared by members of the project team before it is uploaded and submitted.
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