Randall Cummings spent more of his weekly paycheck than he should have in Las Vegas. He was by no means a compulsive gambler – he could never have been and would have lost everything within a few weeks since he played only roulette and craps. Although with some understanding of probability, a gambler can limit his losses and play longer at poker and blackjack, other games like roulette and craps rely on pure chance. A player will always have a fifty-fifty chance of landing on the black (minus the house's edge) and 2.6 percent chance of winning on any given number. A craps player has a one-in-six chance of rolling a seven. but a less than three percent chance of rolling a two. Despite the mythology of 'getting hot', the odds are immutable over time. While a player may continue to hit his number, he will always and inevitably be ruled by the mathematical odds.
Randall was not out to hit the jackpot, defy the odds, and beat the house. He simply liked being in a place of chance. There was something elegant about games of pure chance and their fixed laws of probability. No one was above them. No one could beat the odds. No one could win. Yet everyone played. They knew that the odds were stacked against them, yet they persisted. They would 'get lucky', a hot streak would find them, and they would – more than in any other endeavor – beat immutable odds.
These were the same people who believed that everything is subject to effort. A canny employee can game the office by manipulating weakness, exploiting loopholes in procedure and regulation, picking the right moments, and using patience, guile, and a silver tongue. A savvy man can win women through charm, attentiveness, and understanding. Children learn how to play their parents, athletes learn how to deke and deceive. Salesmen can increase their revenues through carefully-worded promises, borderline claims, and persistence. While probability rules them all, the exercise of human will and intelligence can improve the odds. Not so with roulette and craps.
At an even more fundamental level, human choice can influence genetic disposition. Intelligent, well-educated, highly-socialized, and wealthy adult children, sons and daughters of equally intelligent and accomplished parents and descendants of a uniform lineage of achievers are likely to have children like them. The odds of bits and scraps of a rogue third cousin's DNA are highly reduced. While one can never be absolutely sure of birth outcomes, careful mating can improve the odds of success.
From a longer, broader perspective, however, probability is always a factor. Given the impossibly complex combinations and permutations possible within the human genome, itself a combination and permutation of every male and female ancestor who contributed to it, anything can happen. The highest pedigree can never guarantee longevity. The savviest office manipulator will likely get his comeuppance – the arrival of an equally devious competitor, a boss who plays by no rules and defies presumption and categorization. A stupid mistake in calculation. A misstep can itself be calculated.
As a dutiful Catholic, son of devout Catholics, Randall was instructed in the mysteries of the Church – the complex nature of the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Jesus Christ; the Resurrection, the transubstantiation of Holy Communion, salvation, redemption, and forgiveness. What Father Brophy and the Sisters of Charity taught were immutable, God-given principles of faith. There was no question about Christ's ascension into heaven nor his power to forgive. There was no limit to God's power nor his vengeance and retribution. Catholic principles were the only principles and the ones that accurately reflected the world – a sinful, disobedient, and arrogantly ignorant world which needed Christ's ministry. Ever since the First Century, the words of Jesus have had resonance and meaning. For those who believed in him, there was no alternate reality, no odds, and no choice other than him. For Randall's parents, Christ's way was the way, the only way.
Even that doctrinal purity, that spiritual certainty, that belief in the existence of God and his kingdom, could never match the absolute certainty of the odds. Even the most pious are given to to doubts – and who could not? The story of Christ to a non-believer is a fabulist myth and nothing more. The virgin birth, the persecution, and the resurrection are common themes in secular epics. Religious principles and accounts are shared across cultures, and worship, although diverse, is at heart common. Is there a God? Probably, but not certainly.
Unless as Bishop Berkeley suggested, a tree falling in the forest might have no sound unless there is someone there to hear it – and in so stating gave phenomenology a new, surprisingly modern dimension of relativity – then the chances of rolled dice coming up seven are absolute. There can be no perceptual relativity; no Ring and the Book, Kurosawa, or Durrell suggestions that reality is only composite and subjective. Unless God or the alien intelligence which has thought the world into being and dreams its existence change their mind, the chances will always be one in six.
Which is why the Mirage, the Bellagio, and Caesar's Palace were as good as churches for Randall who had given up his religious faith decades ago. 'God doesn't play dice with the universe', said Einstein; but of course he does. Everything is governed by odds, probability, and chance. By the very fact that sevens will only come up only and always 16.666 percent of the time was a doctrine, a principle, a fact more incontrovertible than any other. Of course Einstein meant that God could only create a logical universe, one which behaved according to observable laws. Gravity would always hold things in place. Light would only travel so fast. One and one would always equal two.
Max Planck and Heisenberg changed all that. What could be more un-Godlike than quantum physics according to which one can only gauge the probability of a particle being in a particular place and time? Even laws of relativity suggesting uncertainty were absolute, or so Einstein thought; but the new physics have thrown doubt into every theorem. Their laws might only be probable; and worse, their exact probability cannot be calculated.
The age of 'big data' has suggested that any human enterprise can be subjected to probabilistic analysis. Baseball shifts, for example, are a simple example of such analysis. The more data that are collected about a human activity – any human activity – the more one is able to predict its outcome. Not with certainty, but probability. More and more, activities thought to be purely subjective can now be analyzed objectively. Eventually, taking into consideration DNA, the calculus of environmental factors, and the calculable chances of intervening variables, most actions will be predictable.
The process is asymptotic – the more data that are collected, organized, and applied, the more the probability of any particular outcome will approach the absolute odds of rolling the dice. It is this asymptotic rule – that the odds of any one thing happening will never be as certain as sevens or snake eyes – which keeps hope alive for the most hopeful who feel that absolute odds will deny God's special, unique grace. If his universe – the one he created – is nothing more than a probabilistic one, then one does make of the doctrine of grace?
All of which questions the nature of true, secular belief. Climate change may or may not be happening; and if it is, its effects are only probable. There are too many intervening factors, too little data, too incomplete algorithms to conclude or act with certainty. Wars are likely to continue ad infinitum because they have always existed in the past. The probability of nuclear war rises and falls according to temporal variables, but its overall probability remains high. Those who insist that the world can become a more peaceful place refuse to look at history. The chances that society will become more equal, less stratified, and less unfavorably organized have not studied early human, pre-human, and animal behavior. The chances of a truly homogeneous society increase or decrease at different times, but the overall probability, while not as fixed as the dice, remains stable.
There was always something definably classic and esthetic about the roll of the dice. Not only was the casino the only place to observe pure probability; it was its temple.
Atheism has become a religion. It has a secular theology, a liturgy, prescribed and proscribed beliefs, and an important social context. Atheists don't just ignore the possibility of God, the actively, uniformly and collectively deny it. 'Probabilism' – the 'faith' of Randall Cummings – had nothing to do with either established religion or atheism. It was as logical and imperturbable as the exercises of Aquinas without his belief. As secular and determined as those of Kant, Hume, and Descartes without needing outcomes or meaning.
Las Vegas may seem an odd place to worship; but to assume that would be to misunderstand Randall Cummings. He was in awe of the roll of the dice and of a probabilistic, roll-of-the-dice universe, nothing more. He had had his secular epiphany there and thereafter there was never a question of returning.


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Despite the Challenges, We Reached More Persons with Disabilities in 2022
Looking Back at the Year:
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When CBM's founder, Pastor Ernst J. Christoffel, opened the first home for persons with disabilities in 1908, war, disease and uncertainty were eminent - causing untold suffering, disabling many people, and leaving children orphaned. 114 years later, the script reads the same: war, disease, uncertainty, and crises caused by climate change have descended on the world in 2022.
CBM is aware that persons with disabilities suffer the most in times like these and therefore urgently need help. Like our founder, we are committed to reaching out to those who need inclusive services in these difficult times, against all odds.
In 2022, we have not only responded to the immediate needs of persons with disabilities, but we are also building inclusive health and education systems, advocating for policies, and building partnerships that ensure persons with disabilities continue to enjoy their human rights and realise their full potential.
This year CBM reached a new milestone: we administered the 600 millionth dose of treatment against neglected tropical diseases to eliminate these diseases that blind and disable.
We are strengthening health systems, including in primary health centres in communities, to ensure that people receive services from equipped health centres near them. In this context, CBM has supported the construction of new eye clinics in Uganda and Kenya and supplied medical equipment to local health centres in 15 countries, including Pakistan.
A new CBM project in Sri Lanka targets diabetic retinopathy. We also awarded scholarships to 22 medical students from Africa to train in ophthalmology.
Construction of a New Eye Clinic in Uganda.
Ending Preventable Blindness in Kenya
Sri Lanka Project Targets Diabetic Retinopathy
Community-Based Inclusive Development
Our CBID team ensures that persons with disabilities are respected and equally included in their communities in all aspects of life in the 46 countries where CBM operates. At this year's Global Disability Summit, CBM made 33 commitments to change and do more to include over one billion people with disabilities.
We launched the Inclusive Participation Toolbox to support meaningful inclusion. Rehabilitation projects for people with physical disabilities, including in Cameroon, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Honduras, and Nicaragua, among others, provide treatment, physiotherapy, and medical care. Our CBID project in Cameroon, Sri Lanka, India, and Palestine supports children with disabilities to access inclusive education.
"My students' progress is my motivation and it is priceless."
Sami is no ordinary teacher in Cameroon. She has made it her life's work to teach Braille to children who are blind or have visual impairments, their classmates, and their families.
Reaching Persons with Disabilities in Emergency Situations
We have responded to some of the biggest crises of our time: €4.3 million in humanitarian aid through the European Disability Forum to help people in Ukraine and neighbouring countries. We saved thousands of people and children from starvation in the Turkana region with water and food aid. Our emergency response team responded to flood victims in Pakistan. Around 3,000 households, including families of persons with disabilities, are receiving cash donations to meet their immediate needs.
CBM's Vietnam project was awarded the 2022 Zero Project Award for our work in Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR), which reduces the impact of disasters on affected communities.
Aida an Aid Worker in Niger
"Who will help these women and children if not me? My desire to help them is greater than my fear".
Aida works under difficult conditions in the Tillabéri region of Niger, one of the most dangerous areas in the world. Insecurity and terror are part of everyday life here. The 31-year-old nurse supports a CBM-funded project that helps women with obstetric fistula reach hospitals where they can be operated on and can live a life of dignity.
Advocacy for inclusion
Sustainable change can only happen when policies and plans change and are implemented from the top. That is why we are advocating with governments, policymakers, and international partners for lasting change in the inclusion of persons with disabilities
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December, CBM called on governments to accelerate their commitments to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and ensure that all opportunities available to everybody should be inclusive and available to all persons with disabilities as well .
Our advocacy work in Rwanda culminated in the launch of the Disability Management Information System (DMIS), which will identify and register all persons with disabilities in Rwanda
In Togo, we supported the establishment of the Forum for the Promotion of Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. It brings together stakeholders involved in implementing disability-inclusive development in Togo.
Strong Inclusive Partnerships
CBM staff at a stakeholder engagement meeting with colleagues from Gates Foundation.
Strategic partnerships and alliances help us to increase our impact and reach more persons with disabilities. Where we cannot be on the ground, we work with existing local partners to reach persons with disabilities in 46 countries. Our projects are supported by donor partners, for example the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the German Federal Foreign Office, the European Union (EU), UN Women and the US Agency for International Development.
We worked with WHO to review the Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of global health challenges and actions that need to be taken to ensure the highest possible standard of health for persons with disabilities.
As part of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), CBM, together with the International Disability Alliance (IDA), the Global Action on Disability network (GLAD) and the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), called on policymakers to act now to ensure that 240 million children with disabilities can exercise their right to quality education.
Together with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, CBM supported the Love Your Eyes campaign, which calls on the public to take time to care for their eyes. CBM calls on governments and institutions to take action to ensure that eye care is accessible, inclusive and affordable for everyone everywhere.
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27.01.2023 CBM Celebrates 600 Millionth Treatment Against NTDs.
CBM has been distributing preventive medicines for decades to protect people from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Medicines act like a strong protective shield if they are administered regularly.
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27.01.2023 Blinded by a Preventable Disease, the Story of Mairige
She is 10 years old and should be going to school. But Wajir has never read a book, never done a test in maths or biology. While the other children from the neighbourhood are learning and playing in the classrooms of the village school, Wajir is needed at home: she has to take care of her great-aunt.
27.12.2022 CBM End of Year Message from CEO Dr. Rainer Brockhaus

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Frank Hartmann (* 24. September 1959 in Bregenz; † 27. Juli 2019 in Wien) war ein österreichischer Medienphilosoph. Er lehrte Medien- und Kommunikationstheorie an der Universität Wien und seit 2009 als Professor an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

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Frank Hartmann studierte Kunstgeschichte, Soziologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft und Philosophie an der Universität Wien, promovierte 1987 in Philosophie mit einer Arbeit über Max Horkheimer und war anschließend als Universitätslektor für Medienphilosophie am Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Wien tätig. Daneben war er tätig als PR- und Medienberater, Publizist und Wissenschaftsautor. 1992–1999 war Hartmann geschäftsführender Generalsekretär des Forums Sozialforschung Wien, einem Verband von außeruniversitären Forschungsinstituten.

Im Jahr 2000 habilitierte er sich für Medien- und Kommunikationstheorie an der Universität Wien. Es folgten Lehrtätigkeiten am Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft in Wien, an der Donau-Universität Krems, an der Universität Salzburg, an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien und im Studiengang MultiMediaArt der Fachhochschule Salzburg. 2007 war er Gastprofessor an der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, 2008 an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

2009 wurde Hartmann als Professor für Theorie und Geschichte der visuellen Kommunikation an die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar berufen. 2011 bis 2014 war Hartmann Dekan der Fakultät für Gestaltung, ab 2015 Senator der Universität.

Hartmann starb am im Juli 2019 im Alter von 59 Jahren. Er wurde auf dem Ostfriedhof in Lauterach bestattet.

Schriften
 Max Horkheimers materialistischer Skeptizismus. Frühe Motive der kritischen Theorie (= Campus Forschung. 645). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1990, ISBN 3-593-34274-X.
 Denker Denken Geschichte: Erkundungen zu Philosophie und Nationalsozialismus. Passagen, Wien 1994, ISBN 3-85165-097-2.
 Cyber.Philosophy. Medientheoretische Auslotungen. Passagen, Wien 1996, ISBN 3-85165-228-2.
 Medienphilosophie (= UTB. 2112). WUV, Wien 2000, ISBN 3-85114-468-6.
 mit Erwin K. Bauer: Bildersprache. Otto Neurath. Visualisierungen. WUV, Wien 2002, ISBN 3-85114-704-9 (2., erw. und durchges. Aufl. ebenda 2006, ISBN 3-7089-0000-6).
 Mediologie. Ansätze einer Medientheorie der Kulturwissenschaften. WUV, Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85114-801-0.
 Globale Medienkultur. Technik, Geschichte, Theorien (= UTB. 2723). WUV, Wien 2006, ISBN 3-8252-2723-5.
 Multimedia (= UTB. 3033). Facultas.wuv, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3033-3.
 Medien und Kommunikation (= UTB. 3014). Facultas.wuv, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3014-2.
 als Herausgeber: Michael Buckland: Vom Mikrofilm zur Wissensmaschine – Emanuel Goldberg zwischen Medientechnik und Politik. Biografie (= Forschung visuelle Kultur. 1). Aus dem Englischen von Gernot Rieder. Avinus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86938-015-5.
 als Herausgeber: Vom Buch zur Datenbank. Paul Otlets Utopie der Wissensvisualisierung (= Forschung visuelle Kultur. 2). Avinus, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86938-025-4.
 als Herausgeber mit Lorenz Engell und Christiane Voss: Körper des Denkens. Neue Positionen der Medienphilosophie (= Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie. 17). Wilhelm Fink u. a., München u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5529-1.
 als Herausgeber mit Pierre Stephani (geb. Kramann-Musculus) und Konstantin Wolf: "Please show me how to do Bauhaus!" Fakultät für Kunst & Gestaltung Weimar (= Jahrbuch der Fakultät Gestaltung. 2015). VDG, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-95773-185-2.
 als Herausgeber: Sachbild und Gesellschaftstechnik. Otto Neurath (= Forschung visuelle Kultur. 3). Avinus, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86938-056-8.
 Cultura mediática. En la era de la digitalización. Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag, Kromsdorf u. a. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95773-228-6.
 als Herausgeber: Wilhelm Ostwald. Farbenlehre, Formenlehre. Eine kritische Rekonstruktion (= Forschung visuelle Kultur. 4). Avinus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86938-090-2.
 Medienmoderne. Philosophie und Ästhetik. Springer, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-18847-4.

Weblinks

 Frank Hartmann: Der Blaue Planet - Wie ein Bild im Zusammenspiel von Technik und Kultur das globale Bewusstsein prägte. vom 9. Januar 2010, in Recherche (abgerufen am 16. März 2013)
 Frank Hartmann: Über Graffiti - Urbane Öffentlichkeit zwischen Subversion, Kunst und Kommerz. vom 9. Dezember 2010, in Recherche (abgerufen am 16. März 2013)
 Frank Hartmann: Medien sind keine "Begriffe" - Über den Ausgang des Typografischen als Kulturtechnik, technische Existenz und das schleichende Ende von Philosophie als Textunternehmen. vom 1. April 2014, in Recherche (abgerufen am 1. April 2014)
 Frank Hartmann: Paul Otlets Hypermedium. Dokumentation als Gegenidee zur Bibliothek. vom 14. Januar 2016, in LIBREAS #28 | Die Bibliothek als Idee (abgerufen am 18. März 2016)

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Hochschullehrer (Universität Wien)
Österreicher
Geboren 1959
Gestorben 2019
Mann

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CLAREMORE, OK�SEPTEMBER 10, 2016�DOMINYUN's Jm Texas Dominun got up to win the second of 11 trials contested Saturday for the $303,000 Black Gold 350 Futurity Championship at Will Rogers Downs. His :17.803 clocking was the third fastest of the day.
Making his first start since breaking his maiden at Remington Park in May, Jm Texas Dominyun got up over Widows Devil for the second win this season. The lightly raced colt was making only his third start, first since breaking his maiden at Remington in May.
Agustin Silva had the riding call aboard the Texas homebred for owner/breeder Jimmy Maddux. Mollie Devereaux saddled the son of Dominyun out of the Tres Seis mare Texas Lucky Lady.
For a complete list of Black Gold 350 Championship Futurity finalists, times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.


Cookstown youth lost the final of the Canada cup last Friday night going down 2-0 to Carrick side woodlands.
Cookstown dominated the 1st half with the ball but could not find the break through, with J Glasgow, M Megarry, K Scott all having half chances but not taking them. Woodlands best attack of the half saw their forward hit the crossbar from 18 yards out.
The Carrick side took the lead 5 minutes into the 2nd half when the big centre forward was left free to head home the 1st goal. 5 minutes later they were 2-0 up when a harmless looking shot was misjudged by G McElhatton in the Cookstown goal for 2-0. Now chashing the game Cookstown never really put the Woodlands Defence under much pressure, thou K Scott had the ball in the net but it was disallowed by the linesman. Woodlands should have scored more on the night as they played on the break but finished out the match to lift the trophy.
The final game of the season and a tittle Decider for Armagh and Mountjoy who were playing Windmill at the same time.
Armagh hit on the brake 2-1. With a never say die attitude cyfc hit back 2-2. The Cookstown team for the first time in the half switched of Armagh had found there stride and got the lead before half time 3-2.
Jeffers was moved into defence to tighten it up. Cookstown started the brighter of the two with great strength of Mccallin and Leek in the middle of the park Mccallin slipped a through ball onto the path of Armstrong who took on three players to score this could be goal of the season although Oniells goal the week before would hard to beat 3-3.
Oniell on for Leek who had to come of with an injury and Devlin back on to tighten up defence.
Heagney was brought down Just outside the box Armstrong steped up. Probably the most exciting match so far this season Armstrong hit it into the top corner 4-4.
Cyfc we're creating alot of chances Armstrong agian having the game of his life scored again 5-4. Cyfc seen out the game and what a game to finsh the season.
Jeffers and Armstrong contenders for motm.


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California | Mercy Housing, a national leader in nonprofit affordable housing, was interested in lowering operating costs while also keeping tenants comfortable in a sustainable way. But securing funds to pay for energy and water efficiency upgrades outside of a refinance year was a challenge as Mercy Housing preserves, develops, and manages low-income communities. Even with incentives that are available from utilities and the government, Mercy Housing needed a more creative solution.
Mercy Housing partnered with Bright Power and Affordable Community Energy Services Company (ACE) to help upgrade around 80 properties–which represents the majority of their California portfolio. Through our ongoing collaboration, Mercy Housing is able to utilize ACE's innovative "Pay from Savings" financing model to complete efficiency improvements when they are needed most, rather than waiting for refinancing or taking out a secondary loan. As Mercy Housing's energy and water management partner, Bright Power used the data from EnergyScoreCards, our cloud-based energy analysis platform, to discover areas of underperformance and to determine which properties had high-impact opportunities for improvement. Bright Power then completed energy audits at select properties and turnkey installed efficiency improvements.
Mercy Housing, Bright Power, and ACE prioritized phases of work based on factors like building performance, location, and available government and utility incentive programs (California's Low Income Weatherization Program). ACE's "Pay from Savings" financing approach, with funding through Reinvestment Fund, gave Mercy Housing the ability to complete the needed upgrades and use project savings to pay for the improvements over a 10-year period.
Working with Bright Power and ACE on this project has been a positive experience for Mercy Housing. The team's experience in implementing efficiency in affordable housing was invaluable to the successful implementation of the design and construction phases of this project.


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Sharron E. Waide
She loved music, song and sunshine.
Sharron E. Waide, 75, of Bolivar Road in Wellsville, and formerly of Dansville and Wayland entered peacefully into rest on Monday (March 25, 2019). Her final years were spent embraced by the loving and caring staff of the Manor Hills Special Care Unit who worked tirelessly to make her feel comfortable, loved and at home.
Sharron was born on September 8, 1943 in Baltimore, Md. to Samuel H. and Betty J. (Tabbert) Estel. She attended East Liverpool High School in East Liverpool, Ohio graduating in 1961. She relocated with her family to Monroe County, N.Y. while her father attended seminary. It was during those years that she married her husband Harold Waide, who survives, and began a family.
Sharron attended SUNY Geneseo, graduating in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in accounting. She had worked for the State of New York for a time teaching in the prison system before obtaining additional degrees and certifications in computer science and programming. She worked for Monroe County at Monroe Community College through her retirement in 2012.
Sharron was strong in her faith. She was secure in the knowledge of her salvation in Christ and in her eventual reunion with her family. She loved music, song and sunshine. She marveled at the beauty of the natural world and the harmony of creation. Sharron played the violin and sang in praise and worship bands in church. She could be found singing and playing bluegrass gospel tunes at jam sessions around Western New York. Her infectious smile and gentle nature touched the hearts of many.
In addition to her husband: Harold E Waide, Sr. of Wellsville, she is survived by three children. Loretta Haley, of Rolla, Mo., Harold (Karen) Waide of Genesee, Pa. and John (Arielle) Waide of Wellsville; three siblings, Samuel Estel of Hurricane, W.Va., Forest Estel of West Palm Beach, Fla. and Donna Grove of Canfield, Ohio; 17 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by a beloved grandson , Raymond James Waide.
Arrangements are under the direction of Baker-Swan Funeral Home in Wellsville. A celebration of life service will be announced at a later date.
Memorial contributions in Sharron's name may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or to the charity of the givers choosing.


As parents, it is our responsibility to teach our children to study the scriptures and learn truth from them. In our family, we have come to appreciate the strength of example. We read our scriptures before going to bed, and without being told to do it, Tristram, our two-year-old, started to "read" them himself. "Where's my scriptures?" he says as he climbs into bed. Then he leafs through Scripture Stories, a book of simplified stories put out by the Church, while Giles reads his proper scriptures in the next bed.
But parents' example needs to extend beyond reading. Our children need to know that we love the scriptures and that we are still learning from them to enrich our own lives.
For many years, I thought studying the scriptures and memorizing references was for seminary and institute students only. Simply reading the scriptures seemed enough for ordinary people like me. I was duly sympathetic when my oldest daughter, Sheila, became a seminary student. I encouraged her in scripture study, though she was not particularly enthusiastic. Then I was called to be an institute teacher in our stake in England. I had to change. I couldn't ask my class to learn forty references and diligently study the Old Testament if I was unwilling to do so myself.
So I began to study the scriptures. Soon my family joined in. Sheila and I studied our eighty institute and seminary scriptures together. Six-year-old Giles listened to us so often that he learned them also. One day he said to me, "Ask me where the Ten Commandments are," and he knew. As my family sensed my excitement about what I learned, they too began to learn.
Sharing insights from Church classes or lesson preparations with our children is another way to let them know the joy we feel from the scriptures. Often we may think our children cannot understand ideas from an adult Sunday School lesson or institute class. Like the scripture chase references, however, my family still remembers many of the ideas I shared each week as I prepared my institute lesson.
One of our favorite insights came as we discussed what Elijah said to his people: "How long halt ye between two opinions?" (1 Kgs. 18:21.) This expression meant much more to my children and to my students when I told them that in the language used by the Jews of that time the phrase really reads, "How long hop ye about on two boughs?" (Old Testament Student Manual, 1 Kings–Malachi, 1981, p. 60.) We had a rose tree outside our window and used to watch little bluebirds hop about in them as we ate our meals. All but the youngest of our children could easily understand the association of ideas and see that Heavenly Father does not want us to be wishy-washy about the gospel or its principles.
Too often we limit scripture references and spiritual stories to family home evening or a certain hour of the day. This is a mistake if this is the only use we make of scripture. In Deuteronomy, we are told that we should teach the scriptures "diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deut. 6:7.) We can turn to the scriptures in all aspects of our lives, and as we do so, our children will learn to think of them as a great source of knowledge and inspiration. To help our children see how important we feel the scriptures are, my husband and I try to answer many of their questions from the standard works.
In addition to showing them by our example that we love the scriptures, we need to help children become involved in their own study programs. They need to think about lessons from the scriptures and apply them to their own lives. Nephi involved his people in learning the sacred word when he "did liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning." (1 Ne. 19:23.) In a similar way we can involve our children.
Often in our home, we sit around the dinner table and discuss world events. We compare them to situations in the scriptures. When there has been an interesting political maneuver, we compare it to happenings in King Saul's time, or Isaiah's, or Pahoran's. If there is an earthquake, we talk of the great destruction in the Americas at the time of Christ's crucifixion, when whole cities slid into the sea. The scriptures record events strikingly similar to those of our day. When we see how others handled these past situations, we can learn how to conduct our own lives.
Another way to involve children in the scriptures is to schedule a "favorite stories" hour. (Most children can think of at least one favorite scripture story; many have two or three.) In our home, these generate interest in reading the scriptures. When I told the children my favorite, in Helaman 5 [Hel. 5], they had never heard of it, so they went to look for themselves to see if it was really there.
Sometimes we have used intriguing questions to encourage our children to read stories in the scriptures. "Why did Elisha cause blindness to come upon the Syrians?" for example, sent our kids scurrying to 2 Kings 6 [2 Kgs. 6] for the answer.
One time we asked Sheila and Paula how they would feel if their father sent a friend to choose a husband for them, as Abraham sent his servant to find Rebekah for Isaac. At first they were horrified. But then we discussed why this was necessary and had a nice talk about dating and marrying people with similar religious backgrounds.
As children learn to compare their lives and feelings to those of ancient people in this manner, they begin to think of the scriptures as a source of guidance and inspiration.
Cynthia Johnson serves as first counselor in the Relief Society of her Middlesbrough, England, ward.


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So, I created a Klonoa Twitch Community, and I need your input on it!
As the title said, I created a Klonoa Twitch Community without thinking too much, cause I didn't want any troll to take the name. You can all thanks @Manikku for reminding me that!
So for those who dunno about Twitch Communities, here is the link to the Twitch blog about it.
I want you guys' input on it so that I can improve it based on you guys' suggestions.
Oh and also don't forget to type in Klonoa in the "Community" field in your stream information on your Twitch Dashboard if you are gonna stream any Klonoa game or related content!
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Duplicate inevitable airport delay by wasting four hours at a 7/11.
Sit on curb outside your house for 90 minutes because your room isn't ready yet.
Every two hours, burn 60 dollars.
Eat at a strange restaurant and grunt and point at the menu, unable to speak the native language, even if it's only Floridian.
For full tropical experience, dump sand in your bed.
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Q: When I use float:left in css, the text in the navigation bar menu that is pinned to the top moves a little bit When I used float:left for css, each time I click each menu text in the navigation bar, the position of the menu text is slightly shifted. I don't know how to fix it.
The code below is the navigation bar code that goes into html. I used bootstrap.
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The code I tried to solve was this, but the result was the same.
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A: How about you do this:
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in your css? It should work. If not:
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Water-From-Air Generator Wins 2020 CTA Mark of Excellence Award At CES Las Vegas
By NoCamels Team January 09, 2020
News Brief Technology News
Water from air. Courtesy.
Israel's Watergen, the company that launched the Genny water generator using their GENius patented technology that turns air into drinking water, has been named Energy Efficiency Product of the Year at the 2020 Smart Home Mark of Excellence Awards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.
Presented every year during CES by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the Mark of Excellence Awards recognize the industry's top smart home innovations that mutually benefit homeowners and integrators.
Founded in 2009 by Israeli entrepreneur and former combat reconnaissance commander Arye Kohavi and a team of engineers, Watergen was originally conceived to provide easily accessible water to militaries around the world. Following the company's acquisition by Michael Mirilashvili, a Russian-Israeli billionaire and vice president of the World Jewish Congress, the company shifted its focus tackling water scarcity and answering the needs of civilians following natural disasters.
The Genny, a device rolled out in early 2019, is the company's first appliance for the home and office. Watergen has said that the device will drastically change the water consumption industry.
The water generator, which looks like a water cooler, is capable of producing between 25-30 liters (6.6-7.9 gallons) of water per day using the company's GENius technology.
Watergen has a number of applications and its generators are used in disaster relief and humanitarian aid operations as well as community development across the world. The company develops and manufactures the GEN-350 model, a medium-scale atmospheric water generator that produces up to 600 liters of clean water per day, the large-scale Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG), and the Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV), which transports Watergen units in emergency situations and natural disasters.
Its generators have been used in countries like India, South Africa, Vietnam, Sierra Leone, China, Uzbekistan, and the US.
The Genny has already appeared on TIME magazine's "100 Best Inventions" of 2019. in the "social good category." The list also included eight other Israeli innovations.
"Our company's mission is to eliminate the need to rely on outside sources for life necessities and to help people become more environmentally friendly," says Dan Clifford, president of Watergen North America. "We are especially honored to be named Energy Efficiency Product of the Year at this year's CES show because this award directly supports one of the top values Watergen stands for."
Twenty-two Israeli companies are part of the official Israeli delegation to the conference which runs until January 11, organized by the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry and the Israel Export Institute.
A number of other Israeli startups, specializing in fields such as robotics, autonomous driving, and Big Data, are also taking part in the event.
For half a century, the yearly CES convention has "served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies," a place where "next-generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace," according to CES. This year, over 180,000 people are expected at the conference which will feature more than 4,000 exhibiting companies and 1,000 speakers.


New Negotiations: Will Delta Make Up for Lost Pilot Wages?
Delta declared bankruptcy in 2005, and there's still fallout.
When Delta declared bankruptcy in 2005, their pilots took a pay cut, including reduced pensions. But now that the company is back on its feet, pilots and their union are demanding fair compensation. Negotiations for new contracts began on April 5th.
Delta pilots have received raises since the bankruptcy, including over the past 3 years. The highest wage increase was 18% back in 2016 and the lowest occurred in 2017 at 3%. But after this year's 4% increase, the contract mandating the raises ends.
And that means new negotiations.
Originally, pilots proposed a pay increase of 37.25% spread out across 3 years. Considering the 32.5% wage deduction they suffered in 2005, this seems like a reasonable request. But despite this and an increase in the airliner's revenue, the company only proposed a 27.3% increase over 4 years.
Pilots agreed to the reduced proposal, but union officials have been hard at work to create a new proposal.
Although recouping lost wages is a high priority, Delta pilots have other grievances as well. The benefits they currently have are not the same quality as those given pre-bankruptcy.
According to the chairman of Delta pilots' Master Executive Council, Captain Ryan Schnitzler, "Our pilots sacrificed greatly during the bankruptcy era and are seeking to restore the value lost in key areas such as retirement, insurance, compensation, job security and scope".
Ideally, this year's negotiations will address and improve these topics.
The ALPA, or Air Line Pilots Association International, is representing the Delta pilots. The group, established in 1931, is currently the largest pilot union. To date, they represent over 61,000 pilots, all of whom fly in either the United States or Canada across over 30 different airlines.
The Delta pilots are in good hands, but if things do go awry and an agreement is not met by December 31, 2019, the current contract will remain in place, without added compensation or benefits.
That said, the pilot union appears to be optimistic about this year's negotiations.


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US gov. claiming Osama bin Laden killed.
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Re: US gov. claiming Osama bin Laden killed.
Upthehatters2008
I think it is fair to say we can expect a global reply from OBL's legions...
Many attacks on Political targets (Embassies etc) , maybe a big one...Maybe that sleeping Dirty Nuke will be set off....
So OBL is more dangerous dead than alive? I think not
yep and in a few years time we will watch a fabulous movie about it all, in 3D, and we all will feel like we've been there ourselves.
Not in a few years- it seems like this year- the book is already on shelves.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42907567
I guess it will be a Hollywood version on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PIdkiP_Cs
I reckon it's more like pure genius.
Absolutely, like a criminal who carries the dead body and the murder weapon on him all the time, so he would get the conviction in no time when arrested.
MrVertigo
Location: CH
that's why the US was so scared about the body and dumped it in the sea. That's why also they don't want to show pics of a dead OBL
Ouchboy
Location: Baden
infiltration live footage.
from the creators of South Park...
Here Hoppy, I'll do it for you....
...n00b....
terryhall
Location: Die Südkürve
Osama Bin Laden is an anagram of "Lob Man In Da Sea".
I think that says everything it needs to.
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I do hope you can tell us the correct way to evade capture as a top level terrorist.
Live in Sesame Street (check bottom right)
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Dress up like Mr T and drive a yellow cab in New York?
And when someone remarks "Hey you look like Bin Laden" then chuckle and reply "Ha ha ha, I get that from a local people, to you Americans we all look the same"
Work in the kitchen of some Tandoori restaurant in East London among the illegal immigrant workers?
They are known to escape the authorities for over 10 years easily.
Genius, hide in plain sight and expose yourself to as many people as possible to minimise chances of recognition.
You don't think locking yourself inside a house with high walls and sending others out for groceries cuts it though? It seems to have worked for 5 years.
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What the US did with the body has no relationship to whether OBL is more dangerous dead than alive.
Fact is the terrorists have lost a major fundraiser & planner plus their followers now see their idol had clay feet & was as mortal as the rest of us.
There is a well documented case of an Afghan war lord who was into drug dealing, extortion, rape, murder &&&&. He disappeared around the time of the US invasion & was thought to be dead. He turned up some years later running a pizza restaurant in Sout London.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/3070795.stm
And you people thought I was a looney?
Another option is you switch sides in the right time, like this guy Ayub Afridi
After the September 11 attacks he was seen as an ally to the US attacks against the Taliban. He has also been approached by United States as a part of their efforts to exert control* over Afghanistan.[3]
After the September 11 attacks he was freed from prison in Karachi after serving just a few weeks of a seven-year sentence for the export of 6.5 tons of hashish, seized at Antwerp, Belgium, in the 1980s. He had also been fined 5 million rupees (US$82,000). No reasons were given for Afridi's release, or under which legislation he was allowed to return to his home town in Khyber Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas.[1]
* To be read as help export Heroin to global markets.
Not entirely, just trying to establish why you think it's completely improbable that someone can evade capture in a place one might think was obvious (with hindsight), yet completely probable in another case.
Why for example, have you not stated that the British Government did in fact know where the afghan warlord was, but just kept quiet about it?
Because he made excellent pizza, and delivery was free to Westminster.
& he was heavily armed
Moddy Wellies
In Streatham. it would be suspicious if he wasn't..
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So what are we talking about now?
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Missoula County Sheriff Introduces New School Resource Officers
The Missoula County Commissioners recently funded three new positions within the Sheriff's Office for a combination of school resource officers in the fall and recreation area officers in the summer.
Missoula County Undersheriff Rich Maricelli introduces the new officers who are beginning their duties at county schools this year.
"The first one is Deputy Scott Rasmussen and he'll be working in the Frenchtown area with the three different schools, the Frenchtown elementary, middle and high schools," said Maricelli. "The next officer is Deputy Christine Hettman. Deputy Hettman is going to be working in the Clinton, Bonner and Potomac areas. The third deputy will be Deputy Tyler Tirrell, who will be working at Target Range Elementary, as well as Lolo and Woodman Schools."
Maricelli described the school resource officer's responsibilities while they are embedded in the various county schools.
"The biggest thing they'll be doing is interacting with the student bodies and building and developing relationships, obviously with an emphasis on visibility and security for the schools, the students of course, and the faculty," he said. "They'll be available for students when various situations come up. One of the deputies plans to get involved with the Frenchtown wrestling program."
Maricelli said all three deputies have received school resource officer training during a specialized course in Washington State.
When the school year is over, the three will be assigned to river and public safety at main recreation areas throughout the summer.
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Human Rights Training - An Eye Opener for Communities
Author: JUSTIN KUMADZULO - DISTRICT COORDINATOR, MACHINGA
The issue of human rights is very diverse in its nature. There are several issues that communities find difficult to understand up to this time. In the context of Malawi society, the issue of human rights brought in some conflicts with our culture. For instance, misunderstanding on the place and importance of the wife in the home. The husband was the only one responsible for the financial welfare for the home even if it the woman was the earner of the money. Women have no say over their own money yet they have every right to access the money because they worked for it. Women had no say when it comes to sexual behavior in the family, but with the coming of the open discussions on human rights they were able to open up and say something, this according to most communities was an insult to culture – a woman had no place to say how she feels.
In some communities the issue of human rights was seen as a way of diluting culture in the sense that parents were told that children especially the girl child had every right to attend school and marry at a more older age like 19, but for most parents this was seen as elusive and being striped off their power as a parent.
Apart from family, other issues affecting human and more specifically children's rights were given very little attention. An example of this is well exemplified by a specific story told involving a teacher and a student where the teacher impregnated a girl child and as a result the girl, a minor, was dispelled while the teacher's job remained secure; this was due to limited information that communities had on what are the rights girl child has in such cases.
As such ADRA Malawis Let's fights HIV and AIDS in Malawi (LEFAM) project saw the gaps that were as a result of lack of information and knowledge on basic human rights. With funding from DANIDA, ADRA organized training workshops in five districts of Chiradzulu, Lilongwe, Dowa, Mchinji, Mulanje, Phalombe and Machinga between June and July 2009.
A total of 700 people have been trained in all the five districts. In order to make sure that all level of people in the community has been reached participants to the workshops training comprised of the following: the clergy, people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWAs), youth club members, traditional leaders and men and women group representatives
And to make sure that the trainings carried meaningful content that equal with community needs, facilitators for the training were expatriates in human rights from partner NGOs.
The three day training mainly focused on:
- Background, general facts and overview of human rights
- Local & universal declarations on human-rights-&-HIV-Aids issues with reference to UN UDHR, UN CEDAW, UN Convention of the Rights of Children, Malawi Republican Constitution and HIV-Aids as a human rights issue
- Vulnerability as a Human rights issue
- Role of community in mitigating HIV-Aids & Human-rights issues Human rights vs. responsibility
Through these training participants acknowledged that human rights violations happen but lacked the knowledge on the procedures on how to follow and seek redress of issues concerning human rights.
While closing one of the workshops a group village headman (see the picture below) narrated that it was the first time that his subjects had been exposed to human rights training. He said that the training had been an eye opener and the knowledge gained was priceless.
A village head speaking to the trainees
Participants to these workshops pledged to share with others the knowledge that they have gained so that the whole community benefits.
In the meantime the trained groups are working on outreach strategies to ensure that messages on human rights reach the masses for example through community dialogue sessions, youth days, and kids' days. The youth have pledged to use theatre for development tools to come up with plays, songs and poems that will have a theme on human rights.
The clergy on the other hand, have also promised to include messages on human rights in their sermons.
Labels: Gender, Human Rights
ADRA Malawi - DANIDA funded Projects
Labels: Advocacy, Communication, Food security, HIV/AIDS
Towards Food Security
The partnership between ADRA Malawi and WFP dates back to 2001. It was during the 2001/2002 planting season in which Malawi experienced a major drought which forced the government to declare a state of emergency on the national food security. The U N agency WFP together with other NGOs teamed up in order to curb the situation. A total number of twelve NGOs formed a consortium in the name of Joint Emergency Food Aid Program ( JEFAP ) which ADRA Malawi was amongst the membership. Each NGO was assigned its area of operation/ District. WFPs duty was to source the food items and NGOs did the distributions. Since then any national emergency is coordinated by the lead NGO, which is a member of JEFAP consortium in a particular area.
Currently ADRA Malawi as a member of JEFAP consortium is the lead NGO in Phalombe District which is one of the flood prone areas in the southern part of Malawi. ADRA is implementing a WFP funded program in emergency and relief operation. It is a three year program which started in Jan.08 and will finish in Dec.2010.
This program is targeting 5099 beneficiaries.
Under this program there are three components namely, Food For Work, HIV/AIDS and Sustainable Livelihood Interventions.
Food For Work activities targets able bodied households with food insecurity and beneficiaries are asked to create assets for the benefit of the community like fish ponds and irrigation dams, in return they receive a monthly ration of food items. HIV/AIDS activities target households with food insecurity and are keeping chronically ill patients or orphans. On this program beneficiaries receives a monthly ration of food items with no work for it. Unlike in the food for work.
Sustainable Livelihood Intervention (SLI) program targets HIV beneficiaries. They are supplied with small scale livestock like goats and poultry and bakery ovens for IGA as an exit strategy to the HIV program. The out of school orphans are provided with vocational training skills like carpentry, tinsmith and tailoring with start up kits as a capital for their IGAs.
These programs have had a lot of impact on the beneficiaries and community as a whole. It has improved nutrition status in the communities as verified by the nutrition survey recently conducted by MoH in the district. The food distribution has saved 5099 families from hunger and absolute poverty. This means that 25000 people have been provided with daily food rations and saved from hunger. There has been a great reduction on male migration from Phalombe to Mozambique for search of food. Development at community and house hold levels has been enhanced since people's migration has been reduced and sale of asserts by families has been reduced.
Author: Hastings Lacha - ADRA Malawi Emergency Preparedness and Relief Coordinator
Labels: Disaster Response, Food security, Relief
Towards a Better Future
In as much as many organizations and nations have tried to diminish the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa, it still remains one of the most serious public health and development challenges. Malawi is one of the countries HIV/AIDS has been affected tremendously. The AIDS epidemic is responsible for eight deaths every hour in Malawi[1]. Out of a population of nearly 14 million, almost one million people were living with HIV at the end of 2007, with numbers infected increasing[2]. Not only does HIV/AIDS worsen poverty but it also renders a women and children vulnerable, as there are nearly one million orphans today in Malawi with women relatives being those most likely to become caregivers and providers, stretching already severely limited resources.
Yankho Konyani, ADRA M&E Assistant with the Tiyambe IGA Group
This is where ADRA Malawi, through Lets Fight AIDS in Malawi (LEFAM) project, decided to provide support. The project aims to empower Malawians both living with HIV/AIDS as well as the caretakers, orphans and the elderly to have access to their human rights such as education, food security and non-discrimination. In view of this the project introduced an initiative of Income generating activities (IGAs) early this year to financially empower communities to care for those impacted by HIV. As of now IGA group committees have been elected and trained in the targeted sites with business beginning this month.
Upon visiting one of the sites, Ntaja, we spent time with one IGA group, called Tiyambe IGA committee, who had chosen to do business selling cooking oil and flour for baking cakes and doughnuts. It is quite a vibrant group and optimistic that the business will thrive tremendously as the chairman Mr. Samuel Banda said "anthu kuno amadya kwambiri zithu zokanzinga mafuta" meaning that a lot of people use cooking oil in preparing their food in the area.
The group is very happy with the initiative because they have already planned that 40% of their profit will go to the orphans, the elderly, the chronically ill and the poor. Their vision is to see vulnerable groups benefit through having enough food, medicine, good education, clothes, soap and shelter. They are convinced their community will no longer be the same and this is all thanks to ADRA for providing not just the capital and tools for the business, but hope and empowerment to provide assistance in their own community. This marks the beginning of a vibrant business and a better life for the community with more updates as progress arises from the business.
By Yankho Konyani and Kerryn Lodo
[1] UNAIDS 2008 Report on the Global AIDS epidemic. Retrieved on the 29/7/2009 from http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/GlobalReport/2008/
[2] Ministry of Health and Population, Malawi (2004), 'Treatment of AIDS, the two year plan to scale up antiretroviral therapy in Malawi'. Retrieved on 28/7/2009 from http://www.avert.org/aids-malawi.htm
Posted by ADRA Malawi at 11:46 PM
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Do you support GPUs? Multithreading? Distributed computation?
Yes. The *DiffEq.jl libraries (OrdinaryDiffEq.jl, StochasticDiffEq.jl, and DelayDiffEq.jl) are all written to be generic to the array and number types. This means they will adopt the implementation that is given by the array type. The in-place algorithms internally utilize Julia's broadcast (with some exceptions due to a Julia bug for now, see this issue) and Julia's A_mul_B! in-place matrix multiplication function. The out-of-place algorithms utilize standard arithmetical functions. Both additionally utilize the user's norm specified via the common interface options and, if a stiff solver, ForwardDiff/DiffEqDiffTools for the Jacobian calculation, and Base linear factorizations for the linear solve. For your type, you may likely need to give a better form of the norm, Jacobian, or linear solve calculations to fully utilize parallelism.
GPUArrays.jl, ArrayFire.jl, DistributedArrays.jl have been tested and work in various forms, where the last one is still not recommended for common use yet.
The next question is whether it matters. Generally, your system has to be large for parallelism to matter. Using a multithreaded array for broadcast we find helpful around N>1000, though the Sundials manual says N>100,000. For high order Runge-Kutta methods it's likely lower than the Sundials estimate because of more operations packed into each internal step, but as always that will need more benchmarks to be precise and will depend on the problem being solved. GPUs generally require some intensive parallel operation in the user's f function to be viable, for example a matrix multiplication for a stencil computation in a PDE. If you're simply solving some ODE element-wise on a big array it likely won't do much or it will slow things down just due to how GPUs work. DistributedArrays require parallel linear solves to really matter, and thus are only recommended when you have a problem that cannot fit into memory or are using a stiff solver with a Krylov method for the linear solves.
My ODE is solving really slow... what do I do?
First, check for bugs. These solvers go through a ton of convergence tests and so if there's a solver issue, it's either just something to do with how numerical methods work or it's a user-error (generally the latter, though check the later part of the FAQ on normal numerical errors). User-errors in the f function causing a divergence of the solution is the most common reason for reported slow codes.
If you have no bugs, great! The standard tricks for optimizing Julia code then apply. What you want to do first is make sure your function does not allocate. If your system is small (<=100 ODEs/SDEs/DDEs/DAEs?), then you should set your system up to use StaticArrays.jl. This is demonstrated in the ODE tutorial with static matrices. Static vectors/arrays are stack-allocated, and thus creating new arrays is free and the compiler doesn't have to heap-allocate any of the temporaries (that's the expensive part!). These have specialized super fast dispatches for arithmetic operations and extra things like QR-factorizations, and thus they are preferred when possible. However, they lose efficiency if they grow too large.
Matrix multiplication with *. Instead of A*b, use A_mul_B!(c,A,b) for some pre-allocated cache vector c.
Non-broadcasted expressions. Every expression on arrays should .= into another array, or it should be re-written to loop and do computations with scalar (or static array) values.
For an example of optimizing a function resulting from a PDE discretization, see this blog post.
The stiff solver takes forever to take steps for my PDE discretization! Why?
The solvers for stiff solvers require solving a nonlinear equation each step. In order to do so, they have to do a few Newton steps. By default, these methods assume that the Jacobian is dense, automatically calculate the Jacobian for you, and do a dense factorization. However, in many cases you may want to use alternatives that are more tuned for your problem.
First of all, when available, it's recommended that you pass a function for computing your Jacobian. This is discussed in the performance overloads section. Jacobians are especially helpful for Rosenbrock methods.
Secondly, if your Jacobian isn't dense, you shouldn't use a dense Jacobian! In the Sundials algorithm you can set linear_solver=:Band for banded Jacobians for example. More support is coming for this soon.
But lastly, you shouldn't use a dense factorization for large sparse matrices. Instead, if you're using a *DiffEq library you should specify a linear solver. For Sundials.jl, you should change the linear_solver option. See the ODE solve Sundials portion for details on that. Right now, Sundials.jl is the recommended method for stiff problems with large sparse Jacobians. linear_solver=:Band should be used if your Jacobian is banded and you can specify the band sizes. If you only know the Jacobian is sparse, linear_solver=:GMRES is a good option. Once again, a good reference for how to handle PDE discretizations can be found at this blog post.
Can I switch my ODE function in the middle of integration?
Then it will change betweeen the two ODE choices for du1 at that moment. Another way to do this is to make the ODE functions all be the same type via FunctionWrappers.jl, but that is unnecessary. With the way that modern processors work, there exists branch prediction and thus execution of a conditional is free if it's predictable which branch will be taken. In this case, almost every call to f takes the p==0 route until the callback, at which point it is almost always the else route. Therefore the processor will effectively get rid of the computational cost associated with this, so you're likely over-optimizing if you're going further (unless this change happens every step, but even then this is probably the cheapest part of the computation...).
Of course, there's always a tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency, so play around to find out what's right for your problem.
Another thing you can do is use a callback. There are some premade callbacks in the callback library which handle these sorts of things like projecting to manifolds and preserving positivity.
The symplectic integrator doesn't conserve energy?
Yes, symplectic integrators do not exactly conserve energy. It is a common misconception that they do. What symplectic integrators actually do is solve for a trajectory which rests on a symplectic manifold that is perturbed from the true solution's manifold by the truncation error. This means that symplectic integrators do not experience (very much) long time drift, but their orbit is not exactly the same as the true solution in phase space and thus you will see differences in energy that tend to look periodic. There is a small drift which grows linearly and is related to floating point error, but this drift is much less than standard methods. This is why symplectic methods are recommended for long time integration.
For conserving energy, there are a few things you can do. First of all, the energy error is related to the integration error, so simply solving with higher accuracy will reduce the error. The results in the DiffEqBenchmarks show that using a DPRKN method with low tolerance can be a great choice. Another thing you can do is use the ManifoldProjection callback from the callback library.
How do I get to zero error?
You can't. For floating point numbers, you shouldn't use below abstol=1e-14 and reltol=1e-14. If you need lower than that, use arbitrary precision numbers like BigFloats or ArbFloats.jl.
Are the native Julia solvers compatible with autodifferentiation?
Yes! However, you should first look into sensitivity analysis as a (possibly in the future) more efficient method for calculating derivatives of the solution and functionals of the solution.
But if you still want to do it the naive way, here's how you do it. If the algorithm does not use adaptive time stepping, then you simply need to make the initial condition have elements of Dual numbers. If the algorithm uses Dual numbers, you need to make sure that time is also given by Dual numbers. A quick explanation of this is because changing the value of the initial condition will change the error in the steps, thus causing different steps to be taken changing the time values.
To show this in action, let's say we want to find the Jacobian of solution of the Lotka-Volterra equation at t=10 with respect to the parameters.
I get Dual number errors when I solve my ODE with Rosenbrock or SDIRK methods...?
and it will use a numerical differentiation fallback (DiffEqDiffTools.jl) to calculate Jacobians.
Small explanation is in order. tmp = get_tmp(dual_cache,eltype(u)) makes tmp match u in terms of Dual or not, but it doesn't necessarily match the tag. So now we reinterpret our Dual array to put the right tag on there. Note that this simply changes type information and thus does not create any temporary arrays. Once we do that, our cached array is now typed correctly to hold the result of A_mul_B!.


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Arleen Jacobius
CalSTRS' investment committee on Wednesday voted to study the implications of a transition to a low-carbon economy in the future and its implications for the $227.8 billion pension fund in fiscal year 2020.
The proposal to add the study to the committee's plan of projects for fiscal year 2020 alongside its plan to monitor the implementation of its collaborative investment model across its portfolio was made by Harry M. Keiley, the investment committee chairman, and Joy Higa, investment committee member.
"The two biggest issues to come before us in the years to come are climate change and China," Mr. Keiley said.
The issues of climate change and climate risk, and the opportunities and risks caused by climate change on a long-term basis are important to consider, he said.
"What we are talking about is the risk of the status quo," Mr. Keiley told the committee.
"We need some education," said Christopher J. Ailman, CIO of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, West Sacramento, at the meeting.
CalSTRS officials need to review the pension plan's exposure, Mr. Ailman said. He added that officials at the $197.3 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany, are looking at the pension fund's exposure and officials at the $186.3 billion New York City Retirement Systems are starting to review the issue of climate change's long-term impact on their portfolios.
The staff could conduct an education session on the issue as early as the investment committee's off-site meeting in October.
"We've been a passive shop," Mr. Ailman said. However, he added that he thinks the markets have mispriced climate-change risk.
"We will have to make more active decisions on positioning the portfolio with the risk of being wrong or the risk of being too early … which is as bad as being wrong," Mr. Ailman said.
CalSTRS' investment committee also approved adding a carbon pricing statement to its corporate governance principles to supports its multiple climate change-related initiatives.
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Smith helped Boston College to one of its most successful seasons in program history as an assistant coach for the Eagles last season. Boston College took its first Big East Conference title, received their highest seed (No. 3) heading into the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Mideast Regional Semifinals before falling to Minnesota.
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