After that chatroom windowing feature I built a few weeks ago, I've been thinking a lot about how fast native DOM manipulation has gotten.
I've been listening to the "DOM is slow" mantra my whole life. But with that feature, I discovered that the DOM is pretty fast, actually.


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Gone are the days where all a kid needed in their bedroom was furniture and some Lego: according to the latest research from VoucherCodes.co.uk1 the average cost of a child's room in Britain is now a staggering £2,869.
In a survey of 1,001 parents VoucherCodes.co.uk looked at the total cost of the possessions in the bedroom of the family's eldest child. For the majority of age groups, tech now tops the list of largest expenses - surpassing even furniture - with smartphones, laptops and tablets setting parents back a massive £484. Aside from technology the top five most costly items in a child's bedroom include furniture (£457), clothes and shoes (£451), gaming consoles and games (£347) and toys (£357).
Interestingly, it's not teenagers whose bedrooms cost the most to stock - seven year-olds have the most expensive rooms around, with streaming services, sporting equipment and school equipment posing the biggest drain on parents' finances at this age.
In 2016, the cost of a child's bedroom equates to more than just the material items; now encompassing streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify and phone contracts*. These services are burning holes in parents' pockets, with London families spending an average of £407 a year on services solely for their child, and nearly 1 in 10 London families spend between £1,001 - £2,000 = every year.
The rest of the country spends significantly less on these services, with almost 50% of parents across most UK regions spending less than £50, averaging out at £151 nationally. Whilst the London average salary of £34, 3152 is higher than the national average wage of £27,531, streaming service expenditure in the capital is still comparatively very high.
London children aren't just at home watching TV however, as London parents spend more on sporting equipment for their child than any other region (an average of £439), and far above the national average of £201.
The research also revealed that the typical price of a boy's bedroom is markedly different to that of a girl's, with sons costing parents nearly £1,000 more than daughters on average (£3,279.45 vs £2,315.60). This can in part be attributed to games consoles and games, which are revealed to be staples of a boy's bedroom in 2016. It's also worth noting that boys are also having 62% per cent more spent on school equipment and books compared to girls.
Unsurprisingly, children's bedrooms in London are the priciest, while bedrooms in the South East cost their parents the least.
1 Research conducted by Opinium on behalf of VoucherCodes.co.uk. Total sample size was 1,001 UK adults. Survey conducted between 22nd and 28th January 2016.
3 This particular statistic excludes Wales and Northern Ireland.


On today's episode we cover a lot of ground. If you've ever struggled to get the perfect stain match for a project, or have been disappointed in the past when you just grabbed a color off the shelf, we'll tell you what you can do to make sure that you get a perfect match everytime! We'll also introduce you to a brand new paint from Benjamin Moore that actually has to be seen to be believed! That and more on today's episode!
We match a lot of stains at RepcoLite and we're very good at it. Still, there are a number of things you can do that will help us make sure you're next stain match is absolutely perfect!
In these segments, we talk with George Clark from WMBG Home Improvements (formerly West Michigan Glass Block) about insulation. At least that was the intent!
It didn't take long before George challenged our thinking that insulation is always the answer!
Benjamin Moore's Century is truly a "Paint Like No Other".
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Its funny but I really loved this room while I was in it. Sure, it was freezingly cold (3 comforters cold at times) but I had a wall of pictures and pretty things to look at.
Looking at these pictures I am feeling decidedly "Meh" about it.
I was trying to photograph my bamboo window cling. I got it at Home Depot and haven't found a place for it here yet.
Nightstand with Dash and that lamp I won ages ago from Houzz.
Bench for pillows at night and the an awfully eclectic wall of pictures. I will not be repeating this here. Note the indoor boots for especially chilly times.
Collage of pictures from places I visited while living there. Theoretically I would wake every morning and reflect on fun times in the past. In actuality I would wake up and admire the layout but grimace at how at odds all the frames were.
I like this corner. That is my indoor alien hoody.


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Pic has its moments of delight and bedazzlement, but it also becomes more ordinary as it goes along.
By Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Remember Me 11 years ago
Shutter Island 11 years ago
Green Zone 11 years ago
"You've lost your muchness," Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter remarks to his newly shrunken teenage friend, and much the same could be said of Tim Burton in the wake of his encounter with a Victorian-era heroine of imaginative powers even wilder than his own. Quite like what one would expect from such a match of filmmaker and material and also something less, this "Alice in Wonderland" has its moments of delight, humor and bedazzlement. But it also becomes more ordinary as it goes along, building to a generic battle climax similar to any number of others in CGI-heavy movies of the past few years. A humongous Disney promo effort and inevitable curiosity about the first post-"Avatar" 3D extravaganza will pull wondrous early B.O. numbers, although long-term forecast could become clouded by the imminent arrival of further high-profile kid-friendly features.
It all seemed like such a natural fit — Burton and Lewis Carroll, Depp as the key component in fiction's most eccentric tea party, and 3D put at the service of a story offering unlimited visual possibilities. Not that it's gone all wrong; not entirely. But for all its clever design, beguiling creatures and witty actors, the picture feels far more conventional than it should; it's a Disney film illustrated by Burton, rather than a Burton film that happens to be released by Disney.
Although it draws heavily upon both Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (published in 1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1871), the script by Linda Woolverton (a Disney standard-bearer with a major hand in "Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King" and "Mulan") crucially skews the material by advancing the leading lady's age from pre-pubescence to 19. The main upshot of the change is that this trip to Underland, as it's referred to here, becomes Alice's second, not first. The not-inconsiderable benefit is that enables Alice to be played by Mia Wasikowska, an actress of willowy, Gwyneth Paltrowesque beauty but, more important here, of a pale but powerful resolve that confers upon the picture any gravity it may possess.
After an over-the-rooftops cinematic entry into London that could as easily have alighted at the residence of Sweeney Todd (or, for that matter, Ebenezer Scrooge), a delirious little Alice awakens from yet another nightmare to ask her father, "Do you think I've gone 'round the bend?" To which he offers the encouraging, tone-setting reply, "All the best people are."
Thirteen years later, in an amusing framing story invented by Woolverton, a pale, sulky Alice is put up for an arranged marriage by her widowed mother (the enchantingly mordant Lindsay Duncan) with the twitty son of an aristocratic family. The lavish would-be engagement party quickly and appealingly establishes Alice as an impudent contrarian with a mind of her own; when, in front of hundreds of elegant guests, she is meant to accept the fatuous lad's proposal, she cries out, "I think I need a moment!" and promptly follows a white rabbit down a hole.
Just as, at such a transformative interlude, "The Wizard of Oz" switched from black-and-white to color, this should have marked the point when "Please Put on 3D Glasses!" flashed onscreen and everything took on an all-consuming, eye-popping look (the 3D in the garden party sequence is actually banal, even poorly judged). In fact, Alice enters a verdant, overgrown world that undeniably resembles "Avatar's" Pandora and encounters at least one creature, a skeptical caterpillar, that actually is blue.
As things get "curiouser and curiouser," she also meets the round, argumentative twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum; the vaporous and grinning Cheshire Cat; the manic March Hare; Depp's Mad Hatter, with saucer eyes, Bozo-like red hair and gap teeth that bring Madonna to mind; and, inevitably, the fearsome Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who spares Alice from her favorite edict — "Off with their heads!" — because she, like all the others, needs to know if this is "the" Alice who visited so many years before.
Script arguably needed a narrative backbone of a sort not to be found in the episodic books, and Woolverton has obliged. Unfortunately, it's one that turns "Alice" into a formulaic piece of work, which Carroll's creation was anything but. Climactic action setpiece, with an unlikely young warrior taking on a fearsome beast while gobs of CGI soldiers clash, smacks of "The Lord of the Rings," "Harry Potter," "The Golden Compass," "The Chronicles of Narnia" and any number of other such recent ventures. Thus does "Alice" become normalized, a tilt Burton is surprisingly incapable of opposing.
A jaw-dropping coda pivots on a "visionary" character's forthcoming voyage to open up trade with China, provoking musings about Disney's rationale for this sort of corporate encomium to a vast young market, as well as thoughts of a never-to-be-made sequel set among 19th-century Chinese as inscrutable and combative as the population of Underland.
To be sure, the design, effects, makeup and technical work is of a high order. Other than Alice, the most memorable characters are the wonderful hunting dog Bayard and the elusive Cheshire Cat, superbly voiced by Timothy Spall and Stephen Fry, respectively.
Among thesps whose faces can be discerned, Bonham Carter authoritatively takes dudgeon to a new high as the Red Queen. Unfortunately, Anne Hathaway is miscast as her sister, the White Queen, as her white hair and black eyebrows look weird and she's not temperamentally suited to the role's benign superciliousness. And Depp is Depp, slip-siding among moods, accents, looks, rhythms and keys like a jazz player on his own wavelength, to disarming, if transient, effect.
Production: A Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release of a Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Roth Films/Zanuck Co. production. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd, Joe Roth. Executive producers, Peter Tobyansen, Chris Lebenzon. Co-producers, Katterli Frauenfelder, Tom Peitzman. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay, Linda Woolverton, based on the books "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll.
Crew: Camera (Technicolor; Deluxe domestic prints, Technicolor international prints, 3D), Dariusz Wolski; editor, Chris Lebenzon; music, Danny Elfman; production designer, Robert Stromberg; supervising art directors, Stefan Dechant, Andrew Nicholson (U.K.); art directors, Todd Cherniawsky, Andrew L. Jones, Mike Stassi, Christina Wilson, Timothy Browning (U.K.); set designers, C. Scott Baker, Jackson Bishop, Tammy Lee, Jeff Markwith, Richard Mays, David Moreau, Anne Porter; set decorators, Karen O'Hara, Peter Young (U.K.); costume designer, Colleen Atwood; sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS), William B. Kaplan; sound designer, Steve Boeddeker; supervising sound editors, Boeddeker, David Evans; re-recording mixers, Michael Semanick, Tom Johnson; senior visual effects supervisor, Ken Ralston; visual effects supervisors, Sean Phillips, Carey Villegas; visual effects, Sony Pictures Imageworks; additional visual effects, Sassoon Film Design, CafeFX, Matte World Digital, In-Three; animation supervisor, David Schaub; conceptual designer, Dermot Powell; makeup designer, Valli O'Reilly; stunt coordinator, Garrett Warren; line producer (U.K.), Mary Richards; associate producer, Derek Frey; assistant director, Katterli Frauenfelder; casting, Susie Figgis. Reviewed at Disney Studios, Burbank, Feb. 23, 2010. MPAA Rating: PG. Running time: 108 MIN.
With: Mad Hatter - Johnny Depp Alice - Mia Wasikowska Red Queen - Helena Bonham Carter White Queen - Anne Hathaway Stayne -- Knave of Hearts - Crispin Glover Tweedledee/Tweedledum - Matt Lucas Helen Kingsleigh - Lindsay Duncan Lady Ascot - Geraldine James Lord Ascot - Tim Pigott-Smith Charles Kingsleigh - Martin Csokas Hamish - Leo Bill Aunt Imogene - Frances de la Tour Margaret Kingsleigh - Jemma Powell Lowell - John Hopkins Voices:
Absolem, the Blue Caterpillar - Alan Rickman Cheshire Cat - Stephen Fry White Rabbit - Michael Sheen Bayard - Timothy Spall Dormouse - Barbara Windsor Jabberwocky - Christopher Lee Dodo Bird - Michael Gough Executioner - Jim Carter Tall Tower Faces - Imelda Staunton March Hare - Paul Whitehouse Related links: • Odeon backs down, will carry 'Alice' • Italian exhibitors agree 'Alice' deal • Belgian theaters stage 'Alice' boycott • U.K. exhib Vue to play Disney's 'Alice' • Odeon threatens 'Alice' boycott • Cineworld to carry Disney's 'Alice' • 'Alice' stirs more exhib ire • Disney: Early 'Alice' release an 'exception' • U.K. malice over 'Alice'

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2009 Mid-Atlantic Coast Survey
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Life on the Mid-Atlantic Coast
A 5-state survey of coastal community residents (New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia)
This project was partially funded through a federal grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In March 2009, the governors of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia initiated an effort to develop an interstate agreement on ocean and coastal management for the Mid-Atlantic region. The governors acknowledged that this regional approach "must address the important role of humans within those systems."
Monmouth University, through the initiative and interdisciplinary resources of its Urban Coast Institute and Polling Institute, conducted a public opinion survey of coastal residents in the Mid-Atlantic region in April 2009. This current effort is a follow-up to a benchmark Mid-Atlantic coastal community survey conducted in 2007. Monmouth University is pleased to be able to contribute to this important dialogue by providing data on the human role in coastal and ocean management – data that is available from no other source.
The sample for this study was divided into eight coastal regions: New York East (Suffolk county), New York West (Nassau county), New Jersey North (Monmouth and Ocean counties), New Jersey South (Atlantic and Cape May counties), Delaware (Sussex county), Maryland (Worcester county), Virginia North (Accomack and Northampton counties) and Virginia South (Virginia Beach). A total of 1,006 permanent residents of coastal towns were interviewed by telephone in April 2009. The survey results have a ±3.1% margin of error.
– Coastal Community Life –
The coast and ocean are an integral part of Mid-Atlantic coastal community residents' lives.
Nearly all residents spend time on the beach or swimming in their local waters (90%), and about half regularly go fishing, crabbing, and clamming (51%) or boating (50%).
Most residents recognize the impact their daily activities can have on the coast and ocean environment.
About half (49%) of Mid-Atlantic residents say that emptying motorboat toilet waste directly into the ocean poses a serious risk to water quality.
Two-thirds of residents understand that storm run-off flows directly into water sources rather than being filtered at a treatment plant.
In general, 7-in-10 residents say that the daily activities of people like them affect the quality of their coastal environment, including 28% who say these individual actions can have a great deal of impact.
– Community Issues and Coastal Awareness –
The vast majority of Mid-Atlantic coastal residents say that protecting the coast should be a high priority for their town, although this competes with other priorities in some states. Among specific environmental issues in their communities, pollution and beach erosion top the list.
Fully 3-in-4 residents say that protecting the coastal environment (76%) should be a high priority for their town. This is somewhat larger than the number who would give a high priority to improving the economy (69%), lowering taxes (65%), improving education (64%), or controlling growth (56%).
Nearly 9-in-10 Mid-Atlantic coastal residents say that the condition of the ocean and beaches is very important to their area's economy.
A majority of Mid-Atlantic coastal residents are very concerned about water pollution (57%), beach erosion (56%), and shoreline pollution (53%) in their towns. Just under half are seriously concerned about coastal development (47%) and habitat loss (47%), and 4-in-10 are very concerned about storm risk from sea level rise (41%).
Most residents have some, although not a great deal of knowledge about coastal and ocean issues in their local community and the impact that local environmental issues can have along the entire length of the Mid-Atlantic coast.
One-in-four Mid-Atlantic coastal residents (27%) say they know a great deal about coastal environmental issues in their local area. Another 48% have some knowledge.
Two-thirds acknowledge that coastal issues in their own area can have an impact on the entire Mid-Atlantic region, including 32% who say this can have a great deal of impact and 37% who say local coastal issues can have some impact across the region.
– Coastal Policy –
Mid-Atlantic coastal residents tend to give the government poor marks on protecting the environment. But they say they are willing to pay more in taxes in order to protect coastal waters, shorelines and beaches.
About half (49%) of Mid-Atlantic residents say the current level of effort put into protecting both local coastal waters and beaches is about right, while another 39% say there is not enough effort.
Six-in-ten residents (61%) say they would support greater efforts to protect their local coasts even if it required tax increases. Only 28% oppose this.
Less than half of Mid-Atlantic coastal residents say government has done a good job protecting coastal habitats (46%) and maintaining clean water (45%). About 3-in-10 say it has done a good job managing marine life (35%), protecting coastal property from storm damage (33%), and managing coastal development (29%).
Most Mid-Atlantic coastal community residents are convinced that coastal areas will be at a greater risk for flooding and damage from sea level rise in the next 25 years, although they are split on whether the primary cause of sea level rise has been human activity or natural changes in the environment. In general, residents support the use of a number of measures to reduce the risk from sea level rise, but they draw the line at measures which may interfere with the rights of current property owners. There are some differences of opinion over who should pay most of the cost for reducing coastal hazards.
Half (51%) of coastal residents say that reports of the risks of future sea level rise are generally accurate while another 10% say they have been underestimated. On the other hand, one-third (34%) feel that such risks have been exaggerated, which is up slightly from the 1-in-4 who said the same in 2007.
More residents feel that sea level rise has been caused largely by natural changes (47%) in the environment rather than by the effects of human activities (38%), while 10% say that both have contributed equally.
Large majorities support a variety of measures for reducing storm damage risk, including public purchase of existing open space (80%), building hard retaining structures (65%), and preventing new construction in high risk areas (65%). They also feel that beaches that are washed away by storms should be replenished (65%). However, residents are much less supportive of government purchasing private homes in high risk areas (28%).
Just under half (45%) of Mid-Atlantic coastal residents say that government should pay most of the costs for projects to reduce coastal hazards, 33% say the burden should mainly be carried by coastal property owners, and 16% say that both government and property owners should share the costs equally.
In terms of using the oceans for energy production, a majority support placing wind farms off their local coast, even if the windmills are visible from the shoreline. On the other hand, opinion is divided over drilling for oil or gas in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. However, resident support for each of these ocean energy resource options has increased in the past two years.
Specifically, 82% of residents say that they would support placing energy-generating windmills beyond the horizon and 67% would support wind farms that can be seen from the shore.
On the question of drilling for oil or gas, 46% of coastal residents now support this – up from 33% in 2007 – compared to 37% who are opposed and 12% who have no opinion.
– State-Level Findings –
Competing public priorities in each of the Mid-Atlantic states can have a decided impact on the ability to implement a regional approach to coastal and ocean management. The survey identified some differences in how protecting the coast and ocean ranks among common community issues, as well as which environmental issues are of greater concern:
New York : Protecting the coast and ocean is a high priority for 82% of coastal residents in this state, outpacing taxes (70%), the economy and jobs (69%), education (65%), and controlling development (59%). All are high priorities for most coastal New York residents, but not as widespread a concern as coastal and ocean management.
In eastern New York, beach erosion (65%) is the most serious concern among the six coastal and ocean environmental issues asked about in the survey. About half name the other issues – water pollution (53%), shore pollution (50%), habitat loss (49%), coastal development (48%), and sea level rise (48%) – as very serious concerns in their area. In western New York, water pollution (64%), shore pollution (58%), and beach erosion (61%) are about equally as likely to be identified as the top concern, while half are very concerned about sea level rise (50%) and 4-in-10 say the same about habitat loss (40%) and coastal development (40%).
New Jersey : While coastal and ocean protection is nominally the top priority for residents statewide, there are some variations within New Jersey. For residents of the northern coast, taxes (71%), the economy and jobs (70%), and coastal and ocean protection (69%) are equally as likely to be named as a top priority, with education (65%) and controlling development (60%) close behind. Along the southern coast of New Jersey, though, protecting the coast and ocean (78%) is the most widespread concern, followed by taxes (68%) and the economy and jobs (66%), with education (59%) and controlling development (53%) rounding out the list of high priorities.
Water pollution (64%) and shore pollution (63%) are the top environmental concerns in northern New Jersey, while half are very concerned about beach erosion (53%), coastal development (52%), and habitat loss (50%), but only one-third feel the same about sea level rise (32%). In southern New Jersey, beach erosion (62%) and water pollution (57%) are top concerns, while about half are very concerned about shore pollution (50%), coastal development (47%), habitat loss (47%), and sea level rise (45%).
Delaware : Protecting the coast and ocean is a high priority for 82% of coastal Delaware residents. In the next tier of concern are controlling development (68%), the economy and jobs (66%), and education (62%). Only 4-in-10 (42%) Delaware residents say lowering taxes is a high priority.
Beach erosion (65%) leads the list of environmental concerns among coastal Delaware residents, with more than half saying they are very concerned about habitat loss (59%), coastal development (56%), and water pollution (52%). Fewer than 4-in-10 are very concerned about sea level rise (39%) and shore pollution (37%).
Maryland : Protecting the coast and ocean (75%) is basically tied with improving the economy and creating jobs (73%) as the highest priority for coastal Maryland residents. These priorities are followed by taxes (65%), controlling development (56%) and education (51%).
For coastal Maryland residents, shore pollution (60%) is the top concern, with about half saying they are very concerned about water pollution (50%), coastal development (49%), beach erosion (48%), and habitat loss (48%). Fewer than 4-in-10 feel the same amount of concern over sea level rise (37%).
Virginia : Protecting the coast and ocean competes with other concerns as a top priority, with differences seen between the northern peninsula and Virginia Beach. Along the Delmarva part of the Virginia coast, most residents name improving the economy and creating jobs (81%) as a high priority, closely followed by education (75%). Protecting the coast and ocean follows these at 69%. About half of northern coastal Virginia residents say controlling development (52%) and lowering taxes (48%) are high priorities. In southern coastal Virginia, protecting the coast and ocean (76%) ties with education (76%) as the top priority, followed by the economy and jobs (66%). Fewer than half say the same about taxes (47%) and controlling development (45%).
Residents of the northern Virginia coast tend to be less concerned about any of these environmental issues than any other Mid-Atlantic coast residents, with about 4-in-10 or fewer expressing very serious concerns about habitat loss (42%), water pollution (39%), shore pollution (39%), beach erosion (37%), coastal development (36%), and sea level rise (36%). Southern coastal Virginia residents are most concerned with water pollution (52%) and habitat loss (50%), while 4-in-10 are very concerned with coastal development (44%), shore pollution (41%), and beach erosion (40%), while only 3-in-10 say the same about sea level rise (32%).
Other regional differences found in the survey include:
Residents of coastal Maryland (42%) and Delaware (39%) are more likely to say they have a great deal of knowledge about local coastal issues when compared to residents of coastal New York (25%), New Jersey (26%), and Virginia (25%).
Those who say local coastal issues have a great deal of impact on other states in the Mid-Atlantic region ranges from 41% in Maryland and 38% in Delaware to 34% in Virginia, 33% in New Jersey, and 29% in New York.
In general, residents of coastal Maryland, southern New Jersey, and southern Virginia tend to be more positive about government efforts to protect coastal and ocean environments, while those in northern New Jersey, northern Virginia, and Delaware hold a relatively less positive opinion. Residents of coastal New York tend to mirror the average Mid-Atlantic opinion.
Residents of eastern New York (45%) are less supportive of efforts to build seawalls, jetties and other hard structures, whereas Maryland (52%) and northern Virginia (50%) coastal residents are somewhat less supportive of restrictions on new development in high risk areas.
Western New Yorkers (57%) are the most likely to say that government should pay most of the costs for projects to reduce coastal hazards, whereas residents of southern Virginia (51%) are the most likely to say that coastal property owners should shoulder the primary responsibility. Residents of coastal Delaware are the most divided on who should pay the costs of these projects.
A majority in each of the survey regions favor placing wind farms within sight of the shoreline, although the level of support varies from 82% in Delaware and 76% in northern Virginia to 53% in southern Virginia. Support stands at about 2-in-3 residents in Maryland (70%), New Jersey (69%), and New York (63%).
A majority of residents in coastal Maryland (65%), Delaware (52%), and New Jersey (51%) support drilling for oil in the Atlantic Ocean, while fewer Virginia (42%) and New York (37%) coastal residents share that view.
The questions referred to in this report are as follows:
A. LIVING ON THE COAST
A1. Do you own or rent this apartment or house?
A2. Is this home a waterfront property right on the beach or bay, within a few blocks of the beach or bay, within one mile, within five miles, or farther away?
A3. How much of the year do you live in this home – 10 to 12 months, 6 to 9 months, or less than 6 months?
A4. How many years have you lived in this town, or have you lived here all your life?
B. COASTAL COMMUNITY ISSUES
B1. Here are some issues that your town may have to deal with. After I read each one, please tell me whether it should be a high, medium, or low priority.
A. Improving public education
B. Controlling growth and development
C. Lowering taxes
D. Protecting the coastal and ocean environment
E. Improving the local economy and creating jobs
B2. How much do you feel you know about coastal environment issues in your local area – a great deal, some, just a little, or nothing at all?
B3. Do you think current efforts to protect coastal waters and beaches in your local area are too much, too little, or about right?
B4. How important is the condition of the ocean and beaches to the economy in your area — very, somewhat, not too, or not at all important?
B5. In general, how much of an impact do the daily activities of people like you have on the coastal environment in your area – a great deal, some, just a little, or nothing at all?
B6. Please tell me if you think each of the following is a very serious, somewhat serious, not too serious, or not at all serious concern in your area?
A. Coastal and ocean water pollution
B. The loss of wetlands and coastal habitats
C. Sea level rise and increasing risk from storms
D. The amount of development along the coast
E. Beach erosion
F. Pollution along the beaches and shoreline
B7. How much do you think what happens along your local coast affects what happens along the coast of [READ IN NAME OF ADJACENT STATE(S)] – a great deal, some, just a little, or nothing at all?
C. COASTAL POLICY
C1. How good a job is government doing at each of the following. Please respond with excellent, good, only fair, poor, or tell me if you don't have an opinion on this.
A. Keeping coastal and ocean waters clean
B. Managing fish and other marine life
C. Protecting coastal wetlands and wildlife habitats
D. Protecting coastal property from storm damage
E. Managing growth and development in coastal communities
C2. Would you support or oppose efforts to protect the coastal waters, shoreline, and beaches in your town if it meant you would have to pay more in local taxes?
C3. In general, when beaches are washed away from a storm, should they be replenished with new sand or should they be left as is?
C4. I'm going to read you some possible ways to preserve coastal habitats and reduce storm damage. Please tell me whether you would support or oppose these efforts in your local area.
A. Building bulkheads, jetties, seawalls and other hard structures
B. Public purchase of existing natural coastal areas for preservation
C. Public purchase of private homes located in high risk areas
D. Prevent any new construction or development in high flood risk areas
C5. Who should pay for most of the cost for projects designed to reduce damage from storms and other coastal hazards – government OR coastal property owners?
C6. Some reports predict that sea levels will rise substantially in the next 25 years and that many coastal areas will be in much greater risk from storm damage and flooding. Based on what you have heard, do you think that this risk is generally accurate, generally exaggerated, or generally underestimated?
C7 And from what you have read or heard, do you believe changes in sea levels over the past 25 years are due more to the effects of human activities or more to natural changes in the environment?
Some people have proposed using coastal resources to help meet our energy needs.
C8. Would you support or oppose placing electricity-generating windmills off your coast as long as they are NOT visible from the shoreline, or do you have no opinion either way?
C9. And would you support or oppose placing these windmills off your coast if you could see them in the distance, or do you have no opinion either way?
C10. Would you support or oppose drilling for oil or gas in the ocean off the Atlantic coast, or do you have no opinion either way?
D. PERSONAL BEHAVIORS
D1. Have you done any of the following activities within five miles of your home in the past
A. Gone fishing, crabbing or clamming
B. Taken a boat, canoe, kayak or jet-ski out for pleasure
C. Gone swimming or sunbathing, or walked along the shoreyear, or not?
D2. Do you have any type of yard, lawn or garden at this home? If YES: Have you used any fertilizers, pesticides or other chemicals on your lawn, yard or garden in the past year?
D3. What do you think happens to the rainwater run-off that goes down storm drains in your neighborhood – Does it get cleaned or filtered in a treatment plant or does it flow directly into lakes, streams or the ocean?
D4. Do you own a boat with a motor? IF YES: Does the boat have a toilet facility?
D5. Do you think emptying toilet waste from boats directly into the ocean poses a serious risk, a moderate risk, or very little risk to overall water quality or not?
E. DEMOGRAPHICS
Now just a few final questions so we can classify your answers —
E1. What was the last grade in school you completed?
E2. What was your age on your last birthday?
E3. How many people live in your household, including yourself?
E3A. How many are children under the age of 18?
E4. Are you of Latino or Hispanic origin?
E5. Are you white, black or of Asian origin?
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The Small Pop Up Gallery Presents Jesse Whittle.
The Small Pop Up Gallery is proud to present the work of Tulsa Oklahoma artist Jesse Whittle. The Small Pop Up Gallery featuring Jesse Whittle's work can be viewed at the offices of the PEI Council of the Arts at 115 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
JESSE WHITTLE is a Tulsa resident. He received his B.A. from St. Gregory's University in Studio Art. He has won several awards, including a purchase award at the Young New Collectable Artist show at the JRB art at the Elms gallery. Previously Jesse has taught art at Gilcrease Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art as well as 6 th , 7 th and 8 th grade at Mannford Middle School. Jesse has exhibited at a number of group and individual shows around the state, particularly in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
ARTIST STATEMENT My art practice is drawing and painting. In my work I create compositions that emphasize interrupted and implied forms. These forms are the result of editing. With each layer of paint I overlap or conceal, the painted surface is built up into uneven fragments. What's left behind constitutes anxiety, apprehension and shame. I utilize multiple mediums including acrylic, watercolor, Chinese ink and spray paint. Recently, I have become interested in creating tension between approach and meaning. I aim to scrutinize my own sincerity, happiness and self-esteem in order to establish and distort my system of creation. The contradictions in my work reinforce issues of trust and self-loathing.
The Small Pop Up Gallery Presents David T Miller!
"The grid display is another accidental, but characteristic I've observed. That is how I arrange things that I am working on and that is how things are displayed on the gallery page of my website. In 2012 I participated in the All Together Now collaboration exhibit in Bushwick organized and curated by Julie Torres. I spread my work out on the floor of the gallery in the same grid relationship I had originally organized at home. Julie didn't edit or change a thing. She wanted the same grid on the wall. At the time I wasn't cognizant of what was going on in my own practice. Julie inadvertently helped me learn something about myself.
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The Small Pop Up Gallery is proud to present the work of New York artist Diane Englander! The Small Pop Up Gallery featuring Diane's work can be found at Beanz Espresso Bar at 38 University Ave, Charlottetown, P.E.I .
Diane Englander. Red on Buff. Mixed media on paper. 6×6 inches.
Diane Englander. Lines in Red. Mixed media on paper 6×6 inches.
A native New Yorker who works in NYC and Southampton, NY, Diane Englander had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm.
In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time. She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York, and has had solo exhibits including those at the Hampden Gallery Incubator Project Space at U Mass Amherst in 2015, Cambridge Health Associates in Cambridge, MA in 2012, and at the Living Room Gallery at Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan in 2010, as well as pieces in group exhibits in New York City and elsewhere in the United States. One of her drawings is included in The Visual Language of Drawing (McElhinney, J. ed., Sterling Publishing 2012). In 2013 she won the Allied Artists of America award at the Butler Institute of American Art.
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using Adxstudio.Xrm.Web.Mvc.Html;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Portal.Web;
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Alphas & Betas
Crucible explains its playtest and tournament plans moving through beta
Eliot Lefebvre
It wasn't so long ago that Crucible opted to take itself out of launch and move back into beta. (It was a couple of days ago, to be more specific.) That means the developers are now moving forward with changes with the new pool of now-beta-testers, starting with weekly playtest sessions in which the developers are playing and looking for active feedback. The first of those is occurring today, with playtest sessions split into two; one between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. EDT, the other between 9:00 p.m. and midnight EDT.
Players can also look forward to tournaments continuing into the beta environment with cash prizes, with a larger bounty being paid out for the larger number of participants in said tournament. At fewer than 15 teams, the top 4 teams get paid from a prize pool of $1,000; meanwhile, with more than 32 teams, the top 16 teams get paid and the prize pool is $5,000. That's certainly one way to motivate people into the competitive end of the game, at least.
We've just released a new update (which includes voice chat!). You can read the release notes here: https://t.co/hAyy0yHw2c
Remember that there's a playtest happening NOW through 2pm PT, and again from 6-9pm PT tonight!
— Crucible (@PlayCrucible) July 2, 2020
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It is time to take down the Orange County Vector Control District
Posted on September 11, 2015 by Editor Posted in Disease, Health and Medical, Orange County, Orange County Vector Control District, Politics, Santa Ana	8 Comments
Just some of the hacks who serve on the Orange County Vector Control District's Board of Trustees
From the OC Politics Blog
Is it time to fold the Orange County Vector Control District (OCVCD) into the Orange County Health Care Agency? The OCVCD got caught this week trying to spray insecticides in several inner city neighborhoods of Santa Ana, after sending out a last minute press release last Friday about spraying that was at the time to take place on Monday.
I wrote a series of posts over at my New Santa Ana blog that exploded on Facebook, generating over 60,000 views and thousands of calls and emails to the many local politicians whose contact information appeared in my posts. By Monday the OCVCD was waving the white flag. They "suspended" the spraying due to the weather but the reality is that the backlash I generated, which I ended up calling "Mosquito Gate" made the spraying a total no-go.
Residents said they were unaware of the spraying and reacted online, with some calling the procedure a "toxic spray down." Some residents questioned why only specific neighborhoods were targeted. Others who work in the early hours expressed concern of health effects associated with the scheduled early-morning spraying, according to the OC Register.
Laura Perez, who lives along Harbor Boulevard and Fifth Street, said she heard about the spray on Sunday from her sister, who learned about the campaign from the NewSantaAna.com blog, according to the OC Register.
Why were they going to spray? Well apparently 80% of adult mosquitoes in Orange County are now infected with the West Nile Virus. But according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), only 1% of us need worry about this virus. Most Americans who get sick with West Nile Virus barely express any symptoms at all!
And if 80% of the mosquitoes are already infected, guess what? The war is over. We lost. Kill the mosquitoes all you want but West Nile Virus is now endemic to Orange County. What that means is you should not let water collect in your backyard, as mosquitoes can lay eggs in barely any standing water. And you should avoid going out very late at night or early in the morning without covering up or using mosquito repellent.
So why was the OCVCD so gung ho to spray the poorest parts of Santa Ana? I believe they were trying to justify their huge budget.
The OCVCD is a freestanding organization. It does not currently fall under the County of Orange. The district taxes us and they have no less than 35 Trustees! Most of these are City Council hacks but 15 Trustees are appointed by City Councils. And OC Supervisor John Moorlach, who is termed out this year, is also on their Board of Trustees. Imagine how much money we are wasting paying monthly stipends, benefits and pensions to these Trustees?
This is not the first time the OCVCD has been accused of overreacting. Way back in 2003 the OCVCD went nuts over the fire ants invasion of Orange County. But once that threat disappeared they sacked the lead official in their effort to eliminate the pesky fire ant — a gung-ho former Marine named Richard Bowen. Bowen said he was terminated because he wanted to downsize the county's fire ant program, a move made possible because of the advances he made in eliminating the fire ants. He said that suggestion rubbed his bosses the wrong way, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In 1995, when the County of Orange went bankrupt and everyone was being asked to cut back, Gilbert L. Challet, who was the manager of the Orange County Vector Control District at the time, said a proposal to seize less than $1 million annually from his agency would undercut its ability to control pests. "It's not much money for what you're looking for, but it's a heck of a lot of money for us," he said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In 2004, the OCVCD successfully advocated a property-tax hike, convincing Orange County property owners to nearly quadruple the amount of tax paid to the district by pointing to threats from West Nile virus and red imported fire ants, according to the O.C. Register.
But instead of getting fired up to battle pests, the district immediately focused on a different aim. It raised salaries significantly for many of its roughly 50 employees. Less than a year after the tax hike, the board started pressing for a 62 percent increase in the pensions it pays its workforce – a large part of which isn't even necessary, given that bug spraying can be outsourced to private pest-control companies, according to noted Libertarian columnist Steven Greenhut, who was writing for the OC Register at the time.
By the way, the PR flack at the OCVCD who was working with their former manager, Challet, to promote a pension spike was a fellow named Michael Hearst. Guess who is now the top dog at the OCVCD? Hearst. He has clearly learned his lessons well over the years. For the OCVCD to keep ripping us off they have to keep panicking the public. Right now they are using the threat of the West Nile Virus to scare OC residents. When that tails off they will come up with some other critter to freak us out. This is how they are able to keep taking our money and racking up huge paychecks and generous public employee pensions.
Well I think the OCVCD's free ride needs to end now. Their agency should be put under the auspices of the Orange County Health Care Agency. Or directly under the supervision of the OC Board of Supervisors. And as much as possible they should be outsourcing any application of chemicals or any other field work. Why are we paying huge salaries to these guys?
The Santa Ana spraying operation was cancelled because the people of my city rose up and complained. Now it is time for all of us to do the same. Tell the OC Board of Supervisors that it is time to take away the OCVCD's power!
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8 thoughts on "It is time to take down the Orange County Vector Control District"
Gil Sanchez says:
Sounds like a bloated government agency
Yes indeed. They use fear tactics to keep the money flowing.
They should be spraying for cucarachas in Santa Ana instead!!! Lots of them!!!
Oh I see why….there are too many white people in the OC vector control. We need more hispanicos
Why would they sprey residential neighborhoods? If there going after Mosquitos wouldn't a creek or riverbed be a better area?
I am experiencing the exact same issue here in El Monte, Ca with the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. I have an email from them in which they explicitly told me that I don't have privacy rights since they found mosquitoes on our property in the past. They told me that their services are not optional and I need to arrange for spraying or they will fine me ($1000/day). I always suspected that their coercive tactics were hiding an ulterior motive, which is to say, they need to show the state that their services are needed and wanted. But I don't want them on my property. I would absolutely love to help you or some journalist expose this type of nanny state politics here in the san gabriel valley. Please contact me.
The photo at the top is not the current board of trustees. Cities send representatives to monthly meetings, so these people are not elected to the board. West Nile virus is not trivial. If you don't want aerial spraying, dump standing water from containers around your house. Did you check after the rain on Wednesday?
Most of them ARE elected officials. Just look at their website. Over 95% are elected officials.
It is very trivial. No deaths this year and only 1% of residents get very ill.


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The Roadrunners beat the Stockton Heat 5-4 on Sunday evening. Kyle Woods scored a pair of power play goals and Chris Meuller tallied four assists in the win.
The two teams traded goals, going back and forth 3 times, and the Roadrunners answered back each time. Brendan Perlini scored another goal, giving him 11 and the AHL lead, while Chris Meuller's four assists.establish a new team high in that category.
The Roadrunners head out on a 3 game road trip and will face San Diego on Wednesday night at 8pm, Tucson time.


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Q: Pandas - How to create a new column depending on logic between columns I have a pandas DataFrame with the price of energy in a country by days, the price at which the energy is buyed depends in the offer of energy, i.e if there is a low offer price will increase and viceversa. To avoid the collapse of the energy stock market the government defined some values called activation prices that are calculated with the average of energy that the country has produced in the last days, if the energy stock market price go over this activation prices the price at which the energy is buyed is defined by a price called shortage price which mean that the offer is really low. I need to create a pandas columns that has the real price at which the energy is being sold, that means check if the energy stock market price of the energy is above the activation price to set the price to shortage price or if the price is bellow the activation price, the real price will be the energy stock market.
the pandas dataframe looks like this:
Fecha    Precio máximo de Bolsa ($/kWh)     Precio de escasez ($/kWh)   Precio marginal de escasez ($/kWh)  Precio de escasez de activación ($/kWh)

2020-01-01  406.73  551.24  627.21  627.21
2020-01-02  397.90  551.24  627.21  627.21
2020-01-03  285.31  551.24  627.21  627.21
2020-01-04  255.36  551.24  627.21  627.21
2020-01-05  305.12  551.24  627.21  627.21

A: Check out Pandas' Series.Where:
df['real_price'] = df['stock_price'].where(df['stock_price'] <= activation_price, shortage_price)

This keeps the original value where the condition is True, and when it is False then it sets the value to the last argument.

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Doug Ford is Ontario's self-proclaimed (and now democratically elected) Premier of the People.
History seems to have swung back from a period of lofty ideals to drama and insults. Covfefe and Kardashians dominate the airwaves, as we try to parse meaning from the meaningless. We increasingly look to entrepreneurs over politicians for a view of the future, but are somehow surprised when their technologies & business models (think: Facebook, Uber) are exposed for what they are: contestable and morally consequential.
Where do we find vision? Not bravado or bombast, hollow optimism or unfounded fear, but honest ambition appealing to our higher human selves?
We're unlikely to find vision in the innovation discourse – even the social innovation varietal.
We met Diego as part of a research project with a social innovation lab. Too often, innovation is held up as the vision. We talk of innovative government, innovative services, innovative programs, and innovative apps as if that is the dream. Innovation has become a substance-light language of progress. An inauthentic optimism in something better without reference to what that something better is.
Better should not be good enough.
We don't just need better homeless shelters. Better aged care facilities. Better mental health facilities. Better social housing. Better health care.
Thirty years from now, let's hope we're not corralling the weary, the lost, the evicted, the hurt, and the poor into monochrome buildings for other people 'like them' where their needs are assessed, prioritized, and case managed.
We need a fundamentally different social contract that re-conceptualizes human need. That starts with the premise that people are resilient and vulnerability isn't shameful. That compels each of us to re-examine our relationships with one another, and to interact authentically with the homeless man at the corner or the senior sitting alone on the bench, without the labels that separate us and the boundaries that emotionally displace us.
Before we talk about better customer experience, smarter metrics, optimized processes, coordinated systems, and integrated management, let's talk about people and place. Let's stitch together a narrative of the human moments we want to be part of.
It's easy to say this. And hard to do this.
For the past year, we've fallen into the innovation trap. For all of InWithForward's values and ideals, we've allowed the language of experimentation to overtake the language of meaning, purpose, beauty, and love. Process trumped content. Our logic seemed sound, at the time. So many of our interventions weren't sticking – whether it was a new kind of conversation between frontline workers and folks on the streets, or pop-up classical concertos to cut through drop-in centre chaos. So we switched to building organizational capacity to experiment. My how quickly experimentation became the focus. Not the lives and livelihoods we seek to enable.
We're re-calibrating. We see our most important role as a purveyor of big visions and every day curiosities. Thankfully, we're not doing this alone. Our organizational partners have stuck with us through the up-and-down journey, as we learn of the need to both hold space for bottom-up experimentation and hold a strong vision for the brave new world we're after.
Time for that magic carpet ride.


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Miracles vs. Science
Author Topic: Miracles vs. Science (Read 29055 times)
I want to view your scientific explanations for the so-called miracles of curing and visions as the local TVs here propagate this matter every now and then. One of the many of what are described as miracles of Saint Charbel Makhlouf was a woman saying that the physician told her she should have a cancer surgery, but she went to shrine of the Saint and prayed. At midnight she saw a man dressing in black who told her he is the saint, burnt her hand , and told her she is healed. When she went to the physician he told her she is healed miraculously, according to her.
There are many similar stories, and although I know that many investigations should be done before one claims a miracle cure took place (right diagnosis, psychological issues, taking medicine while praying, spontaneous healing, etc) I still don't understand the visionary issue .. any thoughts?
"When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!"
Re: Miracles vs. Science
Do they have medical records to prove they had the condition in the first place and to prove that they no longer have it? Because if they don't, they can claim anything.
Cat Not Included
Quote from: LionKing on January 12, 2017, 08:11:23 AM
There are many stories in which costumed do-gooders shooting laser beams out of their eyes or imbued with adamantium bones or wielding magic lassos defeat evil-doers. How does science explain them?
People can say anything they want; without fact-checking it, what they say could be fictional, imagined, a lie, an exaggeration; heck, it could be literally anything.
Millions of people will suffer from various illnesses and injuries every day. Many of them will recover, many without any notable treatment. Many of them will pray in between getting sick and recovering.
Meanwhile, more than a thousand people die of cancer every day in the US alone. An enormous number of them either pray or have people praying for them. But thousands of them still die.
The quote "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" very clearly predates personal computers.
Yes Cat I said there is spontaneous remission, what I am discussing is the vision and operation reported by not only her but many other people. But I think it is not our, or my capability now to investigate it .. it will need close investigation..
and this is very conencted with stigmata..they all say to have wounds after the surgery or those like Jesus..
The woo is strong in this thread.....
Quote from: Zakalwe on January 13, 2017, 08:26:17 AM
On the contrary, the thread is to find a perfect scientific explanation not a pseudoscientific one
theteacher
It's a miracle that men went to the Moon in the sixties and came back alive, don't you think?
Quote from: theteacher on January 14, 2017, 07:01:07 PM
No miracle just understanding the science and technology of the journey. Receive the necessary funding for the project, a very important step and one which has prevented a return to deep space. Then build and perfect the hardware to accomplish the task.
Then we wouldn't be using anecdotal accounts. It would be very difficult to build a compelling convincing case when all there appears to be is media reports and anecdotal records.
It's worth remembering that there is not one single event in all of human history that has been proven to have a supernatural cause.
The definition of a miracle is something that is inexplicable by reason and can only be attributed to a supernatural being or deity. I cannot think of a single occurrence in the Apollo program that can only be explained by invoking a supernatural being. Not a single one. So, by that definition, I do not think that it's a miracle. It's a testimony to hard work, inventiveness, science, mathematics, engineering, bravery, individual sacrifice and determination.
No room here for invisible father-figures that live in the clouds.
zakalwe we are searching if science studied similar anecdotes and could understand the reason behind them
Yes. Every time science has looked into them, the reason that comes back is "fraud."
Quote from: Zakalwe on January 15, 2017, 01:35:16 PM
The definition of a miracle is something that is inexplicable by reason and can only be attributed to a supernatural being or deity.
I think it is more productive to look at the origin of the word miracle: Middle English: via Old French from Latin miraculum object of wonder, from mirari to wonder, from mirus wonderful. From https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/miracle.
I cannot think of a single occurrence in the Apollo program that can only be explained by invoking a supernatural being. Not a single one. So, by that definition, I do not think that it's a miracle. It's a testimony to hard work, inventiveness, science, mathematics, engineering, bravery, individual sacrifice and determination.
Yet I was trying to bring a point across to Lionking. Hence the question.
My point is: The concept of miracles is incommensurable with the concept of science. The two concepts belong to different realms of our way to deal with reality.
Science is an instrumental way to deal with reality, that makes us able to explain and make predictions about said reality. Miracles is a way to describe personal experiences with occurences, that make us wonder and fill us with awe. Thus a miracle is a way to describe a personal experience.
If we look at miracles from that point of view it becomes clear, that what is a miracle to some people, is not necessarily a miracle to others.
In accordance with Michael Shermer in his book "The Believing Brain" I think, that the propensity to adopt concepts such as miracles is hardwired into our brains, and that it takes a lot of hard disciplined work to put those ways of thinking aside, when dealing with reality in a scientific way.
My idea too is that there are natural laws going on. Even Saint Augustine says: "Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature". So whatever is going on deserves a look fro science. This seems to be an interesting book https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Miracle-Weeping-Stigmata-Visions/dp/1573926809
We are hardwired to look for connections where there are none. It's better (from a natural selection point of view) to default to false positives. That rustle in he savannah grass is a tiger...RUN!!! That response means you live another day compares to "That rustle is nothing" and you becoming dinner.
Similarly, there's almost certainly a strong social and Darwinian selective pressure for belief in the supernatural and woo. That doesn't mean that there actually is supernatural and woo though.


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Life as one of China's industrial worker ants did not suit Liu Xu: waking up early in factory accommodation, working for 11 hours operating a machine in the tool-making factory, eating all his meals in the factory canteen and going to bed, only to wake up and do it again.
His parents spent most of their lives in deadening jobs — his father on construction sites and his mother in factories — but 23-year-old Liu Xu lasted just a year in a factory in the southern China city of Dongguan. Half of that was the time his company invested in training him to work the machine before he up and quit.
Like Liu, a generation of young Chinese is turning its back on the factory jobs that once fueled China's growth — and they are helping to transform the economy by doing it.
"Life in the factory was really boring and repetitive," Liu said. "Every day I walked into the factory, I felt like this was all there was to my life. I was going to end up in that factory forever.
"You felt trapped, just walking between three places your whole life: work, the accommodation and the canteen. I couldn't get used to the working conditions. I had to wear a uniform every day."
Factory bosses, for their part, disparage Chinese millennials as a lazy, coddled generation, more interested in leisure and material goods than their factory fodder forefathers. The bosses complain it is difficult to find enough new young workers to replace the old — even as China moves from being the world's cheap low-wage factory capital to a post-industrial economy based on high-tech industries and consumer-driven services.
With an aging population, the workforce is predicted to shrink rapidly — by 100 million every 15 years from 2020 — according to National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In the meantime, factory bosses are caught short in finding adequate employees, as some factories automate more quickly than others.
In an automotive components factory in Taishan city, southern China, the hot, muggy air smells of paint. Vice President Li Na walks briskly, her heels tapping on the factory floor like an efficient machine, passing a small glass-walled room where a worker sits on an upturned bucket, spray-painting metal car components on a trundling conveyor belt.
He is an older man, staring out over his breathing mask with dull, bored eyes before turning back to the line.
"Loyal" older workers are becoming harder to find, Li says, as the "spoiled" children of the past one-child policy generation turn their backs on factory jobs.
"If they complain to their parents that they don't like working in a factory, their parents just tell them to leave the job," says Li, a perky woman in her 30s whose fingers dance incessantly on her smartphone between answering questions. She says that young workers rarely remain long.
Bosses complain that "spoiled" young Chinese are turning their backs on jobs in factories like this, in Hangzhou eastern China photographed last June.
Bosses complain that "spoiled" young Chinese are turning their backs on jobs in factories like this, in Hangzhou eastern China photographed last June. (AFP/Getty Images)
For generations, low-skilled factory jobs were the lifeblood of China's incredible growth. That improved living standards — but also saw changing job expectations. As the government fosters high-tech industries to tackle U.S. global dominance, cheap, high-volume manufacturers are caught facing higher wages and labor shortages, struggling to compete with nations like Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
"It's almost impossible to find someone born after the 1990s to come and learn how to do the work," said Dai Wei Yan, recruiting for a garment manufacturer at a job fair in Dalang, a city 14 miles southwest of Dongguan. Two decades ago, nearly all its staffers were in their 20s. Now almost none are.
"Younger people are getting better jobs through higher education, or they are learning specific skills like cooking, or starting up their own businesses," he said. His company now sends products to factories in Vietnam and Cambodia for finishing, to cut labor costs.
Dongguan is a sprawling manufacturing hub in the heart of the Pearl River Delta that churns out electronics, computer parts, shoes and furniture, exporting $104 billion in products a year. Red LED signs outside box-like factories beam out siren calls to try to attract workers: "We are actively hiring" and "Join us."
Older male job-seekers from out of town squat on the sidewalk outside factories with their bags and suitcases. Some ply the streets dragging their wheeled suitcases, looking for the best wages and conditions. At noon, they throng to cheap cafes with low plastic stools for hot soupy noodles.
But while most older workers are looking for permanent work, millennial job-seekers acknowledge they are looking for only a few months of work as a stepping stone to something better — such as a start-up small business of their own.
Some of the factories are like small towns, with workers' accommodations strung with row after row of drying laundry. Others are just small family-run affairs — but all are struggling to find enough willing laborers.
Chinese workers scan listings at a job fair in Tengzhou, eastern China, as factories struggle to find young workers.
On a street corner in Dongguan's industrial zone, a young couple peppers recruiting agent Huang Wen Cheng with questions about conditions in the factories he represents.
"You have to stand for 12 hours. You can't sit down. You get used to it after the first week, and then you will be fine," he urges them, but they drift away.
"Workers are getting really picky. They are asking if they have to stand or if they can sit," Huang says. "As far as I know, almost all the factories around here you have to stand at the production line, and it's really long hours, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. or 10 p.m."
The term millennials often conjures up the privileged, upwardly mobile university-educated youth of China's big cities. But lower-skilled, less-educated young workers are equally important to China's shift to an economy geared to domestic consumption and services.
Chinese millennials are often surveyed by business consultants and marketers eager to figure out the secrets of the generation driving Chinese consumption: They tend to be entrepreneurial; "happiness seekers"; and want fulfillment, not just financial stability, in their work.
According to business consultancy Brunswick, 97% of Chinese millennials would prefer to work for a company whose values were similar to their own. They live on their smartphones, online shopping, playing video games, browsing social media, ordering e-restaurant deliveries and livestreaming videos.
Liu graduated after three years of technical college, and is happy to do low-skilled work — as long as he does not have to work in a factory — hence his decision to give up his factory job despite six months' training to operate precision metal production equipment.
He grew up the son of impoverished, rural farmers who left their home village to find work. His father was a construction site laborer, and his mother was a factory worker. The pay was low, but they worked hard and sacrificed everything for him.
When he told them he hated his Dongguan factory job, they supported his decision to quit, "because no parents want their kids to work in a factory for someone else their whole lives.
"I felt I was capable of doing something better," he said.
Liu sits behind a counter in a courier company, surrounded by stacks of boxes and parcels. The business is piggybacking on China's gargantuan, fast-growing online shopping industry. His job, packing and sending parcels, is easy compared with operating a precision metal machine. It pays him $820 a month — $74 more than the factory paid.
"Here, I don't feel so much pressure. The job is really simple," he says.
The hours are still long, but he can relax and spend time surfing the internet on his smartphone when it's quiet. He sleeps in a room above the shop.
"If you work in a factory, there are so many tiny rules and regulations you have to obey," he says. "This is freedom."
Liu's shift reflects the growing role that the service sector is playing. The government says that growth in services like e-commerce and finance will flip the nation's primary reliance on labor-intensive heavy industry, a tectonic shift already seen in the numbers: Manufacturing accounted for 47% of GDP in 2010 but only 40% in 2017 — when services accounted for more than 50%. In the first half of 2018, services contributed 60.5% of China's economic growth and accounted for 45% of employment, according to state-owned news agency Xinhua.
Liu aims to start his own small business. "I want to learn how to do barbecue or how to cook because I'm a foodie. I'd love to have my own little restaurant."
Workers assemble LED lights at a Yushan county factory in central China, the kind of job younger Chinese are increasingly shunning.
Ma Jinhang, 45, resigned his job at a provincial electricity company in Xining city in Qinghai province, central China, drawn by a shoe factory in distant Dongguan advertising jobs at $615 a month. He traveled 36 hours on the slow train, only to find the salary was actually $450.
He quit after two months and now hangs disconsolately around outside a low-cost, multistory migrant hostel where small children totter, kittens gambol and a handful of migrant workers chatter.
"They're all liars," Ma says angrily, railing at the shoe factory bosses. "I left because the salary was so low — too low. It was unbearable. And it was 13 hours a day.
"The supervisors were always bothering you, 'Work faster, work faster.' The meals were terrible. I felt as if they were raising livestock.
"I'm going back to Xining," he says. "I'd rather be a street cleaner in my hometown than work in this inhuman environment."
China's service sector is growing fast, offering new jobs in e-commerce, e-restaurants and the nation's gargantuan delivery industry.
Yang Qiang, 24, zips along on a motor scooter, wearing a yellow helmet, one of an army of deliverymen in a $35-billion e-commerce and food delivery business. He grew up as a farmer's son in rural Hunan and arrived in Dongguan after graduating high school, at first working in a shoe factory, pairing and packing shoes for $447 a month.
"The pay was terrible," he says. "It was so repetitive and soul-destroying and boring. If you stayed for a long time in the factory, you might as well be dead. You'd have given up your life for the company."
Around him were older workers who "did not have the guts to leave, despite the bad working conditions.
"There was no freedom."
As a motorcycle deliveryman, he more than doubled his factory pay, earning $1,194 a month. He is saving to start a business.
A job in China's $35-billion delivery industry is more attractive to many young unskilled Chinese than the factory jobs their parents did.
Manufacturing wages in China have increased five-fold since 2005 according to the Deloitte 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, while wages remain much lower in nations like Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia. Li's factory cut staff from 400 workers to 300 through automation last year.
"Labor costs are high in China these days," Li says. "In the future, greater automation is a must if our company is to continue to grow. We'll spend more on new machinery. Our workforce will shrink further. Many other companies in the region are also doing the same."
Zhou Qiyin, 33, worked his way up to manager in a large precision tools factory, and started his own small factory two years ago. He cannot interest young people in learning how to operate his precision metal machines.
"There are many families who are not willing to let their kids work in a factory," he said. "Kids these days don't want to work too hard because they can have an easy life and go out for meals."
But for China, it's all part of the plan. Let someone else be the world's cheap factory. Its 400-million-strong millennial generation, with better pay and more free time to spend money, is driving the transformation of the economy.
"Because of the economy going up in recent decades, every family is rich enough to give their one child a good life. Now, young kids want to play," Hayes Lou, head of the Taiwan Business Assn. of Dongguan, says of millennials. "They want an easy life, easy money. They don't want to work in a factory."
Gaochao Zhang from the Times Beijing Bureau contributed to this story.
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Newstead is an inner northern riverside suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At the , it had a population of 7,496.

Geography
Newstead is  north-east of Brisbane central business district, bounded by Breakfast Creek to the north and the Brisbane River to the east.

The northern and western parts of the suburb, centred on Breakfast Creek Road, is predominantly commercial, with the remainder, particularly near the river, becoming increasingly residential.

History

The suburb takes its name from Newstead House, built and named in 1846 by pioneer grazier Patrick Leslie, which in turn takes its name from Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, England.

The suburb's present role as an up-market residential suburb belies its industrial past. Timber yards, asbestos works, wharves and woolstores once dominated the eastern side of the suburb. The tall iron structure of the No. 2 gasholder on Skyring Terrace is a remnant of the Newstead Gasworks (), which was established in 1887 as Brisbane's second gas works. The structure, however, was originally located at the Petrie Bight gasworks, where it was erected in 1873.

The suburb was served by first horse drawn trams from 1885.  From 1897 electric trams ran along Commercial Road (until December 1962) and along Ann and Wickham Streets until April 1969.  Light Street tram and bus depot was located in the suburb.  It opened as a tram depot in 1885, saw its last trams in December 1968 and finally closed as a bus depot in the mid 1990s, making it one of Queensland's longest continually operating industrial sites.  All traces of the depot and its heritage have been obliterated and the site redeveloped, although a remnant of its trackwork – a unique three way set of points – has been preserved at the Brisbane Tramway Museum.

In 1888 the Booroodabin Bowls Club was established, making it the oldest bowls club still operating in Queensland. At that time, the club was within the local government area of Booroodabin Division, which was established in 1879 and amalgamated into the Town of Brisbane in 1903. The club's name presumably reflects the local government area. The name Booroodabin is an Aboriginal word meaning place of the she-oaks.

Breakfast Creek State School opened on 7 July 1890 and closed on 11 August 1961.  It was on the western side of Agnes Street (, now in Albion). Following the closure of the school, the Fortitude Valley Opportunity School relocated into the buildings, becoming Newstead Opportunity School. Later it was renamed Newstead Special School (). It closed in 1996.

The suburb was served by the Bulimba Branch railway line, which branched off the main north coast line at Bowen Hills and descended towards the river and Breakfast Creek Road, crossing it to reach the industry, wool stores and wharves along the river. The line opened on 16 December 1897 and closed on 31 March 1990. Some remnants of the rail line have been preserved in the wool stores precinct. The name Bulimba reflects historic use of this name for both sides of the Bulimba Reach of the Brisbane River, but today it refers only to the suburb on the south side of the reach.

Newstead Park contains the Australian American Memorial () which commemorates the United States of America's contribution to defending Australia during World War II, when General Douglas MacArthur based his headquarters in Brisbane. The foundation stone of the memorial was laid on 3 May 1951 during Coral Sea week (the Battle of the Coral Sea was fought from 4 to 8 May 1942). The completed memorial was unveiled on 3 May 1952 by Sir John Lavarack, then the Governor of Queensland.

Demographics

In the , Newstead had a population of 836 people, 49.8% female and 50.2% male. The median age of the Newstead population was 36 years of age, 1 year below the Australian median. Children aged under 15 years made up 4.2% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.5% of the population. 67.8% of people living in Newstead were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%. The other top responses for country of birth were England 4.4%, New Zealand 3.8%, United States of America 1.9%, South Africa 1.3%, Saudi Arabia 1.1%. 81.6% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were 1.4% Cantonese, 1.4% Arabic, 0.8% Persian (excluding Dari), 0.8% Italian, 0.8% Spanish. The most common responses for religion in Newstead were No Religion 27.9%, Catholic 25.4%, Anglican 18.4%, Uniting Church 6.6%, and Presbyterian and Reformed 3.1%.

In the , Newstead had a population of 2,193 people, 49.4% identifying as male and 50.6% identifying as female. The  median age of was 35 years of age, two years below the Queensland median and three years below the Australian median. 55.4% of residents were born in Australia, around 15% less than Queensland and around 11% less than all Australia. 26.4% of residents had tertiary or university institution education, versus 14.8% for Queensland and 16.1% for all Australia. ~56% of residents indicated "No Religion" or "not stated" versus ~39% for both Queensland and Australia populations. ~76% of residents (over 15 years old and in work force) were working full-time, compared with ~58% for both Queensland and Australia populations.

At the , Newstead had a population of 7,496 people.

Heritage listings
Newstead has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

 96 Breakfast Creek Road: former Police Station
 108 Breakfast Creek Road: former Brasch's Service Station (also known as Pirie Grey Fegan's service station, U.S. Navy Service Station)
 126 Breakfast Creek Road: Booroodabin Bowls Club
 161 Breakfast Creek Road: Primary Industries Dept Office (also known as Hornibrook House, M.R. Hornibrook (Pty) Limited building)
 Adjacent 194 Breakfast Creek Road (): Remnants of the second Breakfast Creek Bridge (South)
 199 Breakfast Creek Road () : Newstead House
 4 Commercial Road: Waterloo Hotel
 22 Kyabra Street: Victorian-era Queenslander houset
 33 Longland Street: former Wilcox Mofflin Ltd
 14 Maud Street: former Australian Boot Factory (also known as Federal Boot Company)
 40 Newstead Terrace: Victorian-era Queenslander house
 Road Reserve Commercial Road (), now in Teneriffe: Newstead Air Raid Shelter
 35 Ross Street: Substation No.47
 82 Skyring Terrace, now in Teneriffe: Newstead Gasworks

Education
There are no schools in Newstead. The nearest primary schools are New Farm State School in New Farm and Ascot State School in Ascot. The nearest secondary school is Fortitude Valley State Secondary College in Fortitude Valley, but, having opened in 2020 with Year 7 only, will not offer all years of secondary schooling until 2025. Other years of secondary schooling are available at Kelvin Grove State College in Kelvin Grove and Kedron State High School in Kedron.

Amenities

Booroodabin Bowls Club (nicknamed "The Boo") is on the corner of Breakfast Creek Road and Edmonstone Street ().
The Gasworks Newstead retail precinct includes restaurants, cafes, shops, a supermarket, and a public plaza inside the old gas holder of the heritage-listed Newstead Gasworks.

Pride of the suburb is Newstead House, Brisbane's oldest existing home, built for pioneer Darling Downs squatter Patrick Leslie in 1846. It is set in superb grounds overlooking the mouth of the creek and is within easy walking distance of the famed Breakfast Creek Hotel – a flamboyant Victorian structure which has been described as 'the very soul of Brisbane'. Newstead House's glory days came during the time of the residence of Captain John Clements Wickham, the official resident and magistrate of the Moreton Bay settlement and a noted and gracious host.  Wickham had previously been Commander of  and sailed with Charles Darwin. While an admission fee must be paid to visit the house, the gardens (now Newstead Park) are a public park.

Transport
Brisbane Transport continues to serve the suburb by bus. A cross river ferry, also operated by Brisbane Transport, links the suburb to Bulimba from the nearby Teneriffe ferry wharf. The suburb is also linked to the city by "CityCat" catamaran ferry service.

References

External links

Suburbs of the City of Brisbane

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Born: April 3, 1962 in Tottenham, England.
Simon, along with Robin, is a principal songwriter and musician in Cocteau Twins. Having joined Liz and Robin in 1984, Simon has helped shape the signature "Cocteau sound" since then – primarily with bass, guitar, and piano.
Following the break-up of Cocteau Twins in 1997, Simon was the first to release a solo work, entitled Blame Someone Else, in 1998, which was widely praised by critics and fans alike.
While Simon continues to focus a great deal of energy on Bella Union Records and its burgeoning stable of new artists, he has collaborated with other groups, including the Autumns and the Czars, while continuing to pursue his own musical interests.
Simon lives in England with his wife, Karen, and their two sons, Stanley and William. His online home is www.simonraymonde.com.
Simon Raymonde Photo Gallery
This short bio was written by Simon for cocteautwins.com in March 1999. There is also an interview available, courtesy of Leesa Beales.
Born in 1962 in Tottenham, North London. Father, Ivor Raymonde musician was a big influence writing hits for Dusty Springfield, such as "I Only Want To Be With You and Stay Awhile," and then onto string arranging for all the Walker Brothers hits. Played piano and violin at school, but got my first bass aged 15 and learnt the whole of Never Mind the Bollocks, the Sex Pistols first album, in one afternoon! Naturally felt that this was the instrument for me.
First band (that I'm willing to confess to!) was called the Drowning Craze. We signed to a cool label called Situation 2, housed in the same building as 4AD, and released three singles between 1981 and 1983, played some great gigs, supporting the Birthday Party and Bauhaus and Modern English. Notably when we supported the Birthday Party a favourite band of mine, the following week's music papers reviewed US but not them! (I've still got that press clip somewhere.) Artistic differences and the guitarist qualifying as an accountant led to the band's demise, probably a blessing in disguise.
Whilst all this is going on, I was working in the record shop underneath 4AD called Beggars Banquet, it was along with Rough Trade the best record shop in London for punk, dub etc. etc. until one day the boss of Beggars Banquet walked in casually one morning and announced that we were not to bother to come in tomorrow as the shop was shutting! Moved on to manage a large record store in the West End, until one day the Area Manager came in on a spot check and discovered two boxes of 250 Phil Collins albums that had been lying in some forgotten corner! Needless to say, I was on my way. Had known Robin and Liz for a while through Ivo, and travelled around with all 4AD people to see shows all over Britain. Then while working in a 8 Track studio in Camden, invited Robin and Liz over to make use of the studio while the boss was off on holiday. One thing very naturally led to another and Robin and I wrote a song together, which was released as "Millimillenary" on the Pink Opaque. After, I went back to writing music at home, until I got a call from Robin & Liz asking if I fancied going to Scotland for a week to write some songs. The rest as they say is history, although as you will soon discover some of that 'written' history is pretty inaccurate.
The best part of my adult life has been spent as a member of an incredible group. It's all been quite a blur, certainly the first five years 1983-1988, which are hard to recall in great detail, due partly to a heavy schedule and a chemical overload. The second phase from Blue Bell Knoll onwards is more memorable, though not all of it very pretty. We were at times very close and then almost like strangers — the inevitable outcome of the pressures of living in such close proximity within a fairly surreal world. I began to eventually embrace the touring schedule, enjoying its' rigorous disciplines as a way of combating the internal strife's. Cities became my playground and solitary escape from the confines of living on a bus for months on end. Ultimately this lifestyle took its toll, Elizabeth found the excesses too difficult to cope with, and the final Milk and Kisses tour ended abruptly. I felt that we were performing to a high standard at this point, but I guess it ain't easy to drive the car very far with no gas! Our experiences with labels and managers were also seriously troublesome, and certainly did not help in our relationships. In general the machinations of music business dealings are rarely exposed in the public arena and the level of exploitation of artists is often played down by the industry, but believe me the corruption is rife. The only losers are the artists and the audience, though by the time we all realise it, it's too late. Funnily enough, it will always be written that 'personal differences' split the group up, but we were no farther apart individually than any group that has been together 15 or so years. The cracks began to show after we left 4AD, but instead of retracting ourselves from the 'business' of being in a band, and resurfacing refreshed and intact with new music, we got sucked into the black corporate hole and eventually got spat out, sullied and spoilt. We made some wrong turns in our business, and paid a price.
Bella Union was to be our renaissance, though perhaps for Elizabeth, it just came a little too late. Now, I can look back with great pride at my own contribution to this period of music, and with some regret that my own personal relationships suffered as a result of being in this band. Musically, only time will tell what effect Cocteau Twins have had on people, but each day I am reminded as emails continue to flood our computers, from teenage fans across the globe acclaiming this 'amazing new group,' and also from long-time devotees desperate for news.
I have no news, but I have an exciting future ahead of me. I released a record of my own music, an album called Blame Someone Else (BELLACD1 & 2), and I have been producing some fine artists, such as Billy Mackenzie, Nanaco, Tim Keegan, and The Czars. Much of the last year I have been working hard, with Fiona, our highly able label manager, and Robin, to develop the label internationally, and very soon I am going to have to take a break. I am a musician, and I mustn't forget who I am.
Blame Someone Else (Bella Union)
It's A Family Thing (Bella Union)
Like Robin and Liz, Simon has, from the beginning, accomplished a great deal outside of his work with Cocteau Twins.
This Mortal Coil, Sixteen Days: "Sixteen Days" (Bass)
This Mortal Coil, It'll End In Tears: "Kangaroo," "The Last Ray," "Barramundi," "Not Me," and "A Single Wish" (Various instrumentation)
This Mortal Coil, Filigree and Shadow: "The Jeweller," "Ivy and Neet," "Tears," "My Father," "Come Here, My Love," "Alone," and "Red Rain" (Various Instrumentation and Production)
A complete listing of Simon's collaborations and side projects can be found on his Web site, www.simonraymonde.com.