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The Same 24 Hours
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We all have The Same 24 Hours in our day. What we DO in those 24 hours, is what makes our greatest health, happiness and success. A show with Meredith Atwood, author of "The Year of No Nonsense"
Latoya Shauntay Snell: Running, Racism, and the Call to LISTEN
I asked Latoya to come on the podcast to talk about running and body image, sure. BUT I really wanted to talk about racism. As a woman who has enjoyed not only privilege in traditional sense, but white privilege, I want to listen. I want to understand. I really wanted to talk about Ahmaud Arbery and the things that have been happening in our country that white people don't understand, can't understand. That I contend that we SHOULD try to LISTEN, LEARN and really HEAR.
I knew that she was not a voice for "all black people," but I do know that I wanted to hear her perspective, as a black woman. I wanted to LISTEN.
This is one of the most powerful conversations ever on the podcast. We got honest, real and I am grateful she was so open with me and my audience. Onward to more LISTENING.
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Daily Community Meetup for 3/28 with Nir Eyal
The Special Guest today, Nir Eyal, author of Indestractable.
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Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Sarah Ban Breathnach: Simple Abundance, Shoes & Gratitude
A writer of remarkable wisdom, warmth and compassion, Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced "Bon Brannock") has become a trusted voice to women around the world. Sarah is the author of thirteen books including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy and Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self and she is the creator of The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude. Sarah's work celebrates quiet joys, simple pleasures, and well-spent moments. By reminding us to search for the small and the sweet in our daily round with appreciation and awe, we find the beauty in the everyday.
Sarah's ground-breaking book, Simple Abundance, has sold over five-million copies in the US, topped the New York Times Bestsellers list for two years and has been translated into 28 languages. Simple Abundance is also responsible for introducing two concepts—the "Gratitude Journal" and the term "authentic self" into the American conversation. Sarah's follow up to Simple Abundance, Something More, debuted at number one on the bestseller lists of the NY Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly and has sold over 1.2 million copies to date. Sarah also became the first author in the history of the Wall Street Journal's weekly compilation of best-selling books to appear in both the Number One (Simple Abundance) and Number Two slots (The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude).
Sarah's other titles include: The Best Part of the Day (her first foray into children's books), Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity, The Peace and Plenty Journal of Well Spent Moments, Romancing the Ordinary, The Simple Abundance Companion, The Illustrated Discovery Journal, A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance, Moving On, The Victorian Nursery Companion and Mrs. Sharp's Traditions.
Oprah Winfrey has called Sarah's work "life-changing" and Sarah has been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and OWN's Super Soul Sunday. Additionally, Sarah has been a contributing editor of Good Housekeeping and a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Writer's Group, and was named as one of the 50 women redefining what it means to be fifty today by MORE Magazine.
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Nir Eyal: Indestractable
Nir Eyal is an author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. His new book is a life-changer: Indestractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
Nir writes:
"I'm the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. I have taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. I've sold two technology companies since 2003 and now help teams design more engaging products.
He writes: "For most of my career I've worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where I learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. I write to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.
As an active angel investor, I put my money where my mouth is by backing habit-forming products I believe improve lives. Some of my past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Worklife (acquired by Cisco), Product Hunt (acquired by Angelist), Marco Polo, Presence Learning, 7 Cups, Pana, Kahoot!, Byte Foods, FocusMate, and Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify).
Although I received most of my education earning an advanced degree from The School of Hard Knocks, I also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business."
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Notes on Nonsense: Destinations are Bullshit
A new type of weekly episode with Meredith Atwood: part life-hacks, part truth-telling, and a celebration of the countdown to the new book, Year of No Nonsense.
Brooke Warner: She Writes University
Brooke Warner is the publisher of She Writes Press, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters! (brand-new this August), Green-Light Your Book, What's Your Book?, and How to Sell Your Memoir. She is committed to helping writers become creative entrepreneurs and thought leaders, a message conveyed in her 2017 TEDx talk, "Green-Light Revolution."
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NorthWestDance: The Lowry Youth Dance Partnership works closely with many different agencies and organisations around the North West and nationally to provide and champion high quality dance in all its forms, for all children, young people, and youth dance leaders across the region; promoting increased access to opportunities, raising standards and improving progression routes.
We work in partnership with national organisations such as Youth Dance England, the Department for Education Music and Dance Scheme's National Dance CATS & Re:Bourne/New Adventures to deliver regional youth dance initiatives including The Lowry's Centre for Advanced Training in Dance, U.Dance NW, the regions youth dance festival & Re:Bourne's Lord of the Flies production.
NorthWestDance also manages The Lowry's Youth Dance Ambassador Scheme alongside The Lowry Marketing Team & the regional dance website www.northwestdance.org.uk, both which gives the regions dance artists and young people the opportunity to share with each other the fantastic dance activites and opportunities that are available in their area and beyond.
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Q: Why my active admin shows errors which perfetly worked locally? I am trying to add admin interface with activeadmin in my rails app. I have successfully completed locally but it gives error after deploying to heroku.
I have done all the things which is necessary for database migrations like:
heroku run rake db:create
heroku run rake db:migrate

I have changed the production to see the error:
config.consider_all_requests_local = true

When I navigate to [mysitename].herokuapp.com/admin it gives the error like below:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in
  ActiveAdmin::Devise::SessionsController#new
PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "admin_users" does not exist LINE
  8: WHERE a.attrelid = '"admin_users"'::regclass ^ : SELECT a.attname,
  format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod), pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid),
  a.attnotnull, a.atttypid, a.atttypmod, (SELECT c.collname FROM
  pg_collation c, pg_type t WHERE c.oid = a.attcollation AND t.oid =
  a.atttypid AND a.attcollation <> t.typcollation),
  col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum) AS comment FROM pg_attribute a
  LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum =
  d.adnum WHERE a.attrelid = '"admin_users"'::regclass AND a.attnum > 0
  AND NOT a.attisdropped ORDER BY a.attnum

And I clone my heroku and see if admin_users in schema.rb exists or not. I found there is admin_users table in schema.rb.
My routes.rb is:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
  devise_for :admin_users, ActiveAdmin::Devise.config
  ActiveAdmin.routes(self)
  devise_for :users
  resources :users, only: :show
  resources :posts do
    resources :comments
    resources :upvotes, only: :create
    resources :downvotes, only: :create
  end
  root 'posts#index'
end

My active_admin.rb is:
ActiveAdmin.setup do |config|

  config.site_title = "Instapost"

  config.authentication_method = :authenticate_admin_user!

  config.current_user_method = :current_admin_user

  config.logout_link_path = :destroy_admin_user_session_path

  config.comments = false

  config.comments_menu = false

  config.batch_actions = true

  config.localize_format = :long

  config.favicon = 'favicon.ico'

end

I have searched a lot. But any solutions could not solve this problem. If anybody know about this please help me to solve the problem.

A: As I see the error, I tried a lot and finally succeed. The main error is

PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "admin_users" does not exist

This says that relation admin_users does not exist. It means the migration is trying to change the admin_users which already existed in the table. But actually it does not exist in the table we have to create it.
Hence, in the migration file created by active admin /db/migrate/xxxxxxxxxxxxx_add_devise_to_admin_users.rb, replace change with create as change_table :admin_users do |t| with create_table :admin_users do |t|
Finally, push to the heroku and run heroku run rake db:migrate

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Home › Devotion › Clean Heart? Oh God.
Big questions you may not think much about. For some it might be easy to say "I'm okay. I've been to confession." Or "Everybody sins, God forgives me." Others may say "It doesn't matter. I'm still a good person." Still others may be crushed by guilt and feel abandoned by God.
Where do you stand on the matter?
Are you carrying a burden to some degree or another? Does the burden weigh you down or are you so calloused that there is no remorse or heart of sorrow?
No Big Deal. Yes It is.
There's a common temptation these days to minimize ours sins or wrong-doings. "So judgmental!" people say. Actually, sin is a pretty big deal. You may hear that the English word sin is derived from the New Testament Greek word hamartia which actually means failure, being in error, or missing the mark, like a marksman misses a target.
This actually understates the significance of the word, Biblical speaking. Sin is not a mistake. It's an obvious move of our own volition to place ourselves above God.
Sin is what separates us from God who is holy and without sin. God, as Creator, is so beyond natural categorization (Alpha, Omega, Ancient of Days, Mighty God, Consuming Fire, Most High, Everlasting, Father, I AM, Jehovah, King of Kings, Lord, Majesty, Redeemer, Trinity, Yahweh, to name a few descriptors), that any attempt to normalize, trivialize or take Him lightly is treading on very dangerous ground.
And we all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God (Romans 3:23).
Don't care – these are those that think they're above God or don't acknowledge God or are so Biblically disconnected they don't even register an opinion.
Gloss Over – these are those that have watered down their own elementary theology into a self-justifying viewpoint that sin is glossed over by God if covered over by good-person deeds.
Can't Forgive – these are believers who can't let go of their past sin(s) and believe that God can't either. They live in guilt-ridden depression and have difficulty in moving forward in forgiveness and restoration. Sadly this is where many Christians find themselves.
Godly Sorrow – these are healthy believers who understand the love, gift, promises, and nature of God and His accounting for our damning sin problem. They bring deep repentance and confession to God with sincere sorrow and regret in humble acceptance of God's grace and forgiveness. They know there is no further condemnation in Christ.
The Bible records even God-fearing people reacting to sin in confounded ways. As 19th century English theologian, J. C. Philpot, points out, Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, and Judas all repented. But their repentance was the remorse of natural conscience, not the godly sorrow of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. They trembled before God as an angry Judge, but were not melted into contrition before Him as a forgiving Father.
Cain went out from the presence of the Lord.
Saul consulted the witch of Endor.
Ahab put honest Micaiah into prison.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise….
In spite of David's dark and dire sins (adultery and murder), he knew the nature, love, compassion and forgiveness of God his Savior.
And no matter the depths of our own sin, that's the way we should be coming to God ourselves. Yes, Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me!
Are you coming to God with a godly sorrow?


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Subject: The Internet of the 80s
Written By: winteriscoming on 10/03/14 at 12:52 am
Did anyone here actually use the Internet in the 80s? The Web of course didn't exist yet, but the Internet itself in terms of the TCP/IP protocol did and email was already in existence though not common place. Usenet was also around.
What was using the Net like in those days?
Subject: Re: The Internet of the 80s
Written By: amjikloviet on 10/03/14 at 2:22 pm
The internet did exist in the '80s, but I think it was used mostly in offices and some other public places.
But there was no websites to log onto at that time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vCEg5k_d4
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/14 at 5:47 pm
In 1963 during the early days of computers and six years before ARPANET, students at MIT developed the first computer game called Space War. It would be twenty years before the TCP/IP protocol stimulated the growth of various networks and nearly thirty years (1991) before the United States government opened the Internet to private enterprise ( PBS Timeline ), but this game foreshadowed the commercialization of the Internet. In the 1970's and 80's people who were online put out information about furniture and cars they wanted to sell. Debates raged about whether this was an appropriate use of the new research tool, the Internet, but when the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) was formed in 1991 the genie would not go back in the bottle.
Commercial contractors have been involved in the development of ARPANET from its inception. As Tang and Teflon began as curiosities of the space program and later became common consumer products, so too have email, web research, and home shopping on the Web. It has only been ten years since the first relay between a commercial entity (MCI Mail) and the Internet was made. Since that time technologies have emerged that have fueled the growth of private enterprise on the Web. In 1992 Paul Linder and Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota released Gopher, a tool that allowed researchers to retrieve specific data from myriad locations. The next year Mosaic, a web browser, was developed at the University of Illinois by Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, the World Wide Web became a public domain, and the Pentium processor was introduced by Intel to speed up the whole process.
http://education.illinois.edu/wp/commercialism/history-of-the-internet.htm
Written By: Howard on 10/04/14 at 6:47 am
I wonder what life would be like if Facebook and Twitter existed in the 80's?
Written By: AmericanGirl on 10/05/14 at 10:30 pm
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=47296.0
Written By: winteriscoming on 10/06/14 at 4:20 am
Interesting, thanks! :)
How widely used were LANs and stuff by businesses would you say? Hardly used at all or semi-common?
Written By: Inlandsvägen1986 on 10/06/14 at 6:24 am
We would be ca. 20 years ahead of the time, so we will see this in the early/mid 2030s ;)
I remember offices without computers at all in the early-mid 90s :o
Oh yeah for sure. I bet in most countries this was case even into the 2000s when you consider that Western countries are obviously the first benefactors of any new technology.
I think some people used them and some people used modems which were slow at times.
That's 20 years from now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvidD5JKBg
Written By: Inlandsvägen1986 on 10/07/14 at 1:24 pm
Written By: AmericanGirl on 10/12/14 at 6:12 pm
In the 80's and early 90's, the model for business computing tended to be one or more central computers with numerous "dumb terminals" - often with multiple central computers networked together. This model worked well for a couple decades. For large companies, if they could afford it, each employee who needed one would have their own dumb terminal, maybe on their desk. Users would send all their computing requests to the central computer, and that was normal. At the same time there were personal computers around - a fairly new but growing concept. In the 80's, they were pretty awful in terms of capability - little to no hard drive storage, use of 5" floppy discs, primitive DOS operating systems - but they were good for word processing, making them popular with secretaries. (The exception being Apple MacIntosh - even the early ones were pretty remarkable.) In the early 90's, Windows 3.1 revolutionized (can you imagine) personal computers, making them more plausible to use for "serious" computing. Once this happened, sometimes PCs got networked into the central computer networks.
Written By: fadetoblack73 on 10/20/14 at 9:39 pm
My parents purchased me a modem for my Apple IIc for Christmas one year. The salesman talked them into it by telling them how I could talk to other people all around the world. What he didn't tell them was that everyone else would also have to have the modem, the service consumed the use of the phone line, you had to pay an incredibly high usage fee for the service plus long distance phone fees. I only ever used it to get the exact time and local weather from our local airport.
Written By: Dude111 on 02/26/18 at 6:36 pm
No buddy...We had our own sites (BBS) and people called our numbers :)
Written By: robby76 on 02/27/18 at 6:55 am
I created a thread about an episode of Silver Spoons in 1985, where Rick was using instant messaging with a modem.
Here's a spoof vid of the episode...
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Wow, very interesting.
Written By: oingo_fan on 03/01/18 at 11:18 pm
It was all dial-up BBS sites using acoustic coupled modems. Apple ][ and Commodore pirated games were huge back then, the "crackers" often calling out the phone number of their BBS to call into. I remember chatting on a BBS back in 1988 or so. Computers back then were so simple... <sigh>

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How to have a successful semester, from the start.
In earlier posts I've covered time management tips, and ways to make your work load (and, therefore, your life) easier.
So, now that the semester is in full swing, here's a few tips on how to manage your time correctly, from the start.
Map out your work load.
The first step to optimal time management is to know exactly what will be due this semester, and when. Collect all your syllabi given at the start of classes and jot down in your calendar when every single assignment is due. Whether it's a paper, presentation, or simply a set of readings, write them down. It doesn't matter if you compile this into a weekly planner, iCal, or Hello Kitty wall calendar– what's important is to create some sort of temporal guide of when everything are due, so that you can plan your time accordingly, leaving no room for error. Also, be sure to be as specific as possible so that you can immediately identify what each assignment is and what exactly the assignment entails.
Map out your weekly schedule.
Next, you should have at least a general idea of what your weekly schedule would be like. Ideally, you will know your course schedule before class begins; if you are working, you should also know of where these classes will fit into your schedule. Even for those who work in shifts, you should have at least a general idea of what your schedule will look like, at least roughly. Whatever that case is, you should plan our when during the week you will be class, at work, or at any other obligation that you may have and for how long.
The purpose of this is to figure out, at least generally, how much free time you will have during the week. Aside from knowing when things are due, a crucial part of effective time management is knowing how much time you have to work with. When creating your schedule, it's helpful for you to see all the items on your schedule– including free time– in blocks of time. Breaks between classes, free evenings or mornings (!!) should be blocked out in your weekly schedule, just as like your classes or work shifts. These time blocks need to be delineated just like real "things to do" because these chunks of free time are what you are actually going to manage. To manage them –or anything else– properly, you need to be fully conscious of their limitations: how long and how often these blocks are are, and what you can possibly do with them. Like money, you can't properly manage the time you have if you don't know exactly how much you have to spend.
Plan out a flexible study schedule.
Now is when you put all of it together. If you have been following along, you will now have a solid grasp of when all your assignments are due and of how much free time you will have every week. Using your weekly schedule against your assignment calendar, you should be devise a tentative study schedule.This schedule should map out roughly when you should complete your assignments or study for exams, throughout the coming weeks. Taking each schedule into account, you should start figuring out when you should be working on particular readings or assignments and how you can manage your time to do so.
3- how much time it actually takes you complete certain tasks.
I've written earlier posts that discuss why knowing how much time you have is important, and why being honest with yourself is even more so.
All this being said, the point of this whole exercise is to organize your time and, at the same time, spend them as productively as possible. Success throughout the semester, application cycle, and life in general rest on this almost completely. But, don't be (too) overwhelmed by it. Be flexible with your time– unexpected things happen so wiggle room should always be made to accommodate such things and, of course, to enjoy them.
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After seeing news stories about hazing deaths of fraternity pledges, Colette Grob knew what she wanted to do for her Girl Scout Gold Award project.
In collaboration with Cal State Fullerton's Title IX office, the Canyon High School student created a live walk-through depicting reenactments of scenarios that often take place at college parties, such as hazing, drug and alcohol abuse, binge drinking and sexual assault.
More than 100 high school juniors and their parents walked through the free event staged in an Anaheim Hills home in April.
At the end of the walk-through, students met with a panel of experts that shared advice and personal stories to help students learn how to stay safe in such situations and, better yet, avoid them. Panelists included representatives from San Diego State University Delta Upsilon fraternity and Kim Girard, a college transition coach from Redondo Beach.
Grob, a member of Anaheim's Troop 1171, called her project "Four out of Five" after a 2015 National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence statistic that four out of five college students drink and that half of those are binge drinking.
"She wanted to create a program that would be impactful for her friends, and she definitely accomplished that," said Mary Becerra, Title IX coordinator in CSUF's Title IX and Gender Equity office.
Grob asked Becerra about sexual misconduct among college students, and Becerra provided her with statistics, bystander intervention techniques and prevention strategies. Grob developed a program that was accurate, realistic and addressed the major issues, Becerra said.
Grob has been a Girl Scout for 12 years. She is an aspiring film student hoping to become a Foley artist, who creates sound effects for film.
The Gold Award is the highest achievement in Girl Scouts, recognizing girls who demonstrate extraordinary leadership through Take Action projects that have sustainable impact in their communities and beyond.
About 6 percent of Girl Scouts earn Gold Awards after a project that takes one to two years.
In Orange County, about 100 achieve the honor each year, said Elizabeth Fairchild, communications director for Girl Scouts of Orange County. Gold Award Girl Scouts stand out in the college admissions process, earn college scholarships and enter the military one rank higher than their peers, she said.
"Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award means a girl has single-handedly changed the world — forever and for better," Fairchild said.


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Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain
07 Aug 2013 | 16:09 GMT | Posted by Daniel Cressey | Category: Biology & Biotechnology
Lobsters and other crustaceans may feel pain.
Matthew Roy; Wikipedia
Every year thousands of them are boiled or torn apart while they are still alive, and now there is strong evidence to suggest that crustaceans experience pain.
That was the stark message delivered by Robert Elwood, an animal behaviour researcher at Queen's University Belfast, to the Behaviour 2013 meeting in Newcastle, UK, today.
Crustaceans — crabs, prawns, lobsters and other creatures — are generally not protected by animal-welfare laws, despite huge numbers of them being caught or farmed for human consumption. The exclusion has been based on the belief that these animals cannot experience pain — generally regarded as an 'unpleasant feeling' — and instead only have nociception, a reflex response to move away from a noxious stimulus.
This is a useful belief, as crustaceans are subjected to what Elwood calls "extreme procedures" — lobsters in factories having their legs removed while they are still alive, crabs being kept alive but tightly bound for days in fish markets, and live prawns being impaled on sticks for eating. Such procedures, he notes, "would never be allowed with vertebrates".
One way Elwood attempted to determine whether crustaceans can experience pain was to look at avoidance learning: can the animals actually learn from pain, or do they just continue to respond to a stimulus? To answer this, Elwood and his colleague Barry Magee presented shore crabs with a choice of two different shelters. Entering one shelter resulted in an electric shock for the animal, which was repeated if the animal remained there. The other shelter was a safe haven.
Crabs shocked the second time the experiment was run were far more likely to choose the other shelter in the next trial, while crabs never left a non-shocking shelter. This, says Elwood, shows that the shock is aversive.
In another experiment Elwood investigated whether hermit crabs could make motivational trade-offs as a result of pain. They presented Pagurus bernhardus crabs with two types of shell, one of which the animals are known to prefer, and gave some of the animals small electric shocks when they were inside these new homes.
When these crabs were later presented with a new shell they could move into, the shocked crabs were more likely to take up this offer, and they did so more quickly.
"Assessing pain is difficult, even within humans," Elwood told the Newcastle meeting. But there is a "clear, long-term motivational change [in these experiments] that is entirely consistent with the idea of pain".
Such evidence would be enough to prevent mice being subjected to the deaths that crustaceans experience, he says.
Robert Hubrecht, deputy director of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) and the organizer of the session at which Elwood gave his talk, says that the data for crustaceans appear equivalent to the kind of data that are used to give mice the benefit of the doubt, and thus award them protection from possible pain under the law.
"We're behaving in an illogical way at the moment" by protecting mice but not crustaceans, he notes.
Whether wider society is ready to consider crabs as things that can feel pain and should be protected is not clear. "This is somewhere science has to lead," says Hubrecht.
Mary Katharine OBrien said:
DISCLAIMER: I don't think I really understand sensory things or crustacean biology enough to really have a valid opinion on this, I'm just a 3rd year undergraduate in marine biology.
While this is to be compelling evidence suggesting we treat crustaceans inhumanely, I'm skeptical of the analysis of these findings and have some questions about directly correlating the evidence of this experiment to pain from heat or physical injury. The experiment used electrical stimuli and not heat or physical injury, and so, while boiling them alive sounds very painful to humans, the argument seems to still be out on crustaceans response to temperature. I guess I am wondering if temperature and electrical stimuli lead to different responses in crustaceans or even in other beings. Also do crustaceans even have neurons/sensory organs in their carapaces or any part of their exoskeleton?
Charec Tiger said:
So basically you're saying that they are torturing those little helpless creatures to see their suffering? Nothing changed since 40's.
Zen Faulkes said:
The headline suggests more certainty about the conclusions than is warranted. There are problems of interpretation for some results. I have detailed some of these here: http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about.html.
Jean SmilingCoyote said:
Just the calling of crabs "things" shows society has a very long way to go. In English, only inanimate entities should be called "things." Crabs are living beings, and apparently sentient enough to be considered to feel pain. I suggest a simple rule: kill animals quickly after any live capture. Store them correctly as long as you like, as long as they're dead, before cooking and eating.
Mary Finelli said:
You are right, Jean, that animals should not be referred to as "things" (or "it," or anything of the like).
Since it has been shown that these animals are sentient, we should not cause them unnecessary harm. Since it is unnecessary to eat lobsters, or any other animals (see: http://tinyurl.com/csussh8 ), they should not be captured for food in the first place.
Dave Bialac said:
The conclusions of this study are wrong for a couple of reasons:
1) All that has been established is that these animals can perceive the sensation they've been introduced to. It doesn't imply pain. If I was given a choice between two chairs: one where somebody constantly taped me on the shoulder and one where this didn't occur, I'd pick the one where I wasn't tapped. The study authors assume annoyance is perceived as pain.
2) The Chirstmas Island Crab migration. As part of their migration, the Christmas Island Red Crab crosses over railroad tracks on the island. Many of the crabs will then park themselves under the tracks to "warm up". Unfortunately, the tracks are very hot and end up cooking the crabs to death. If these crabs could perceive pain, they would flee. They don't. They just sit under the tracks and cook.
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Hindi Sahitya said:
Any living organism may feel pain as I think. The same is being proved for crabs and lobsters also. This tell us to live in harmony with everyone living in the planet.
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My great great grandfather, George Comley, lived in Lower Cravells Road in Harpenden in 1881 and his occupation was 'Inspector of Nuisances'. I believe the modern day equivalent of this would be Environmental Health Officer, but I suspect it had a lot more to do with sewage that it would have nowadays!
In earlier censuses, living in Luton, he is listed as a 'contractor' which I take to be a kind of civil engineer.
Looking at Google street view, Cravells Road looks as if it might be much the same as it was is the late 1800s. I would love to see any photos that exist of the area at that time.
This page was added by Stella Scott on 30/11/2010.
The Post Office is shown on the 1924 OS 1/2,500 map, and moved to Southdown Road in c.1930.
Thank you for the photograph! Amazing to see fields at the bottom of the road!
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Cigarette price hike welcome but more is needed-Budget 2021
By June Shannon Policy News | 13th Oct 2020
The Irish Heart Foundation has welcomed the increase in the cost of 20 cigarettes announced in today's budget but said the failure to introduce a new tax on e-cigarettes was disappointing
The Irish Heart Foundation has welcomed the 50c increase on the price of a packet of cigarettes announced today (Tuesday 13 October 2020) as part of Budget 2021, but it also warned that more must be done to put tobacco and e-cigarettes out of the price range of young people.
In its pre-budget submission, the Irish Heart Foundation had called for the phased introduction of a €20 charge for a packet of cigarettes by 2025 and a new excise tax of 6c per millilitre of e-cigarette liquid to prevent young people from becoming addicted to nicotine.
"The 50c increase on tobacco is welcome but much more needs to be done. We are disappointed that there is no taxation on e-cigarette liquid," said Head of Advocacy with the Irish Heart Foundation, Chris Macey.
"Tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland with almost 6,000 smokers dying each year from tobacco-related diseases. A healthier future is contingent on discouraging smoking and taking bold action.
"The Programme for Government was explicit in the role of a targeted taxation regime to specifically discourage vaping and e-cigarettes, and there is clear evidence that tax increases on e-cigarettes are effective in reducing youth use.
" We are disappointed that there is no taxation on e-cigarette liquid,"
Chris Macey, Head of Advocacy, The Irish Heart Foundation
"The Health Research Board found a three to five times increased likelihood between e-cigarette use and initiating smoking cigarettes in adolescents.
"The smoking rate among 15-16-year-olds has been cut from 41% to 12% over a 20-year period.
"We cannot give up these hard-won health gains by allowing a new generation of children to become addicted to nicotine through an e-cigarette industry that is largely controlled by big tobacco.
"During the Covid pandemic, when our respiratory and cardiovascular health is paramount, it is disappointing that the Government failed to do more in the drive to achieve a Tobacco-Free Ireland."
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No, not a new pope, but what I wish to announce here is indeed a great joy and a profound privilege.
Harvesting the Fruit is adding a new contributing author, Fr. José Miguel Marqués Campo, a man for whom I have the greatest admiration and who I am blessed to call friend.
Some of you may already be familiar with Fr. Marqués Campo. Those of you who will only come to know him in time, however, will find that his keen awareness of the nature of the crisis under which the children of the Church currently suffer, and his commitment to tradition, is truly a reason for hope.
Father José Miguel Marqués Campo was born 1962 in Spain, and raised in the Chicagoland area. He holds a B.A. in International Business Administration from Rosary College in Illinois (now Dominican University). Having undertaken seminary studies in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, Fr. Marqués Campo was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Oviedo on Pentecost, 26 May 1996.
A former parish priest and former chaplain of a residence for the elderly, Fr. Marqués Campo is currently assigned to the Basilica-Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the city of Gijón, Spain, where he has been appointed Diocesan Chaplain of the Traditional Latin Mass.
Fr. Marqués Campo is a former radio host of the program, "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church" on Radio María Spain, and is radio host of a special miniseries on Literature and Faith centering on the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien called, "De los Anillos al Señor" (Of the Rings to the Lord).
Look for Fr. Marqués Campo to post in the next few days or so. In the mean time, enjoy the following magnificent recording of our new contributor chanting the Salve Regina in solemn monastic tone, and please join me in welcoming Father aboard.
How blessed we are to have him here! Deo Gratias!
Welcome Fr. Campo. You're a good, solid, trustworthy priest, and it's a great privilege to have you here. I look forward to your contributions because I know that the salvation of souls is your goal. God bless you!
Our Dearest Father in Heaven is so good to us.
I've read an interview (about the 'bipolarism' of Spanish Catholicism) given by him – certainly his historical take on tradition and attacks on it genreally, and the application of traditional values are Catholic, but does anyone know his ordination credentials? Was his 'bishop' 'ordained' through the very doubtful N.O. rite? And the show he formerly hosted – what 'catechism' was it? The Novus Ordo catechism? If he belongs to the Novus Ordo, unfortunately he belongs to the 'bipolarism' and not the Catholic Church.
Explain – why 'churlish'? You must know something of the why there are priests and laity who say they we must not be in commuion with heretics by now. Why is it churlish to want a fuller introduction to Louie's new contributor, especially since the promotion of the Novus Ordo is more easily done if one given a great deal of respect.
Little heresies dont count. Promoting the heresy that Jews can get to Heaven without ever acknowledging Christ as God (among so many others in vat 2), for instance, is a "little heresy" in many people's minds…its wrong but its not that big of a deal for a "pope" to maintain it as valid Catholic teaching….even though a valid pope could never teach it in reality. They actually need something meaty…like "Christ is not God" or "Mary did not remain a virgin" before they get it. How people grade heresies on some sort of scale, as if one is worse than another, is beyond me…but that seems to be what they do.
Oi. I do wonder if there really could ever be a heresy meaty enough, Rich – ever. Public world-wide worship with pagans, communion with every antipapalist Protestantism that exists, the denial of the need for Apostolicity, promotion of the Old Convenant as good enough for eternal life, pacts not to proselytise heretics and schismatics, rites that are not Roman and not even Catholic, the 'abdication' of Christ the King, teaching that the object of worshippers who deny the Holy Trinity is 'God', promotion of UN agendas from out of the Vatican… and on and on. I guess if one has as a determined aim that God was just kidding when he created a Holy Catholic Church that cannot universally give error, then any truths that confirm this are apt to be treated as dismissable; I guess in order that the institution universally giving error can still be considered 'Catholic' (in which case the Catholic Church loses any reason to be). Being able to 'have your pope and beat him too' is a completely anti-Catholic idea. I guess its more comfy than having to make a sacrifice because Truth demands it. I guess. At any rate, if we keep asking the hard questions and testing the answers, the Truth is never hidden.
PS. Would be interested, generally, if people agree that if we accept deceit, by necessity, we become deceivers?
I always wished to have a priest contribute regularly on the comboxes to illuminate us poor laymen with their thoughts and corrections but I guess this is even better!
I am someone well trained in music, and I can tell you – not sure if you've been made aware of this too much – that your singing tones are absolutely "in tune", not many people can do that other than those who've had their voices trained for a very long time.
I dare ask – maybe you could provide us with an excerpt of your heavenly voice singing other Gregorian chants for the edification and education of the faithful every now and then?
Looking forward to your contributions on this site Padre!
Viva Cristo Rey y la Virgen del Pilar!
Just a kind correction: "De los Anillos al Señor" actually means: "FROM the rings to the Lord", not as you mentioned "Of the Rings to the Lord".
The story of the little boy of 12 years old, Santiago, being shot in the legs, left in a cemetery overnight and then shot dead the next day, for refusing to denounce the Faith, really got to me. I have no doubt Our Lady spent the night sitting next to him, holding his hand. I am going to do my very best to have my next grandson named Santiago in his honour!
Thank you one and all for the welcome. The Archbishop of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), retired, who ordained me on Pentecost in 1996, was himself consecrated bishop in 1965. True enough, I was ordained in the Novus Ordo Rite, and although we may have theological qualms about it, we cannot dismiss its essential validity, certainly not when celebrated correctly and with intention of doing what the Church intends. Regarding my radio program, yes, it was a theological commentary of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in 2005, though its commentary was "traditional." Among the very numerous listeners, many were traditional Catholics, and they have personally expressed their "placet." Rest assured, I have been blessed with a Catholic heart!
With the greatest respect and no desire at all to be merely contentious, I have never heard a Priest admit that he had theological qualms about his ordination rite before. I would hate to have qualms about my own qualifications. I would never let a man who had qualms about his qualifications, or if I had qualms about his qualifications, deliver my wife. Would you be prepared to elucidate the nature of your theological qualms? Is it not true to say that if a Sacrament should be considered doubtful, it should be avoided? Please do not misconstrue the nature of my questions. I ask them in accordance with my Catholic conscience, with great respect. You will agree that these are serious matters.
Since there seems no way to edit misspellings in these comboxes… Obviously I wanted to equate the Castilian equivolent "El Señor DE los Anillos" and "DE los Anillos al Señor," a perfect transposition of "de," so to do that very same thing in English, it has to be "The Lord OF the Rings" and "OF the Rings to the Lord." Granted it may sound a little more awkward in English, but it does include that transposition of the word "of." Thank you, In Hoc Signo Vinces, very kind words!
Does the fact that there is 'cockle' and 'wheat' proclude asking about how a person came to be a priest? In the scripture passage 'the field' is 'the world', not the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
The SSPX are ordained according to the Roman Rite. The Novus Ordo are not. The Episcopal Rite of Ordination in the Novus Ordo is doubtful, to say the least. More than one bishop concludes, therefore that all Novus Ordo ordinations are very possibly invalid and all Novus Ordo Bishops and priests should have conditional ordinations in the Roman Rite – if we ever get a true Pope again, this will no doubt happen. Why people think this stuff is of no consequence to folks who profess to be Catholics remains a mystery to me.
PS. Fr Gruner, RIP, wisely sought a conditional ordination in the Roman Rite after he had been 'ordained' in the N.O. Therefore, the question I ask above is one that would probably have, at least, been on his mind.
salvemur, it was just incredibly rude when the poor man had not even hung up his hat. What of Cardinal Burke? Bishop Schneider, Father Rodriguez? I suspect none of them would be Catholic enough for you either.
So I'll ask: what are you doing here? There is NOTHING here that is not Catholic. Yet you challenge that with every single comment. I can't see what the attraction is for you.
salvemur, fear not! I am in communion with the Holy Catholic Church. As for offering Mass in communion with heretics, you must consider that many heretics before Vatican II have offered Mass… and yet it did not suppose an essential flaw with the Rite they followed, which wasn't precisely the objectively flawed Novus Ordo. Notwithstanding all qualms, like I said before, I have been blessed with a Catholic heart.
PS. Manifestly Heretical Corporations have never before offered Mass in the name of the Holy Roman Catholic Church from their manifestly heretical Post-Pius 'Pontiff' universally down to the last tittle and jot laity in Backwater-Parish Novus Ordoville. The universality of the heretical 'mass' and its heretical head is what we should all be aware of. And should we not be concerned with whether or not God thinks it is our 'right' to assist at such a mass and to be in communion with such a 'head', or His Right, that we abstain?
PPS. Has anyone reading this ever visited an ancient pagan temple, like the Parthenon, or the Pantheon? these places are beautiful, almost awe-inspiring; and they were places of worship of pagan gods (many of them later taken over by the Turks), built before the Incarnation, (long before in the case of the Parthenon) built before the Truth, the Word made Flesh came to fulfil Revelation. And yet, of their very purpose, Lord God Almighty through His Apostle said: "But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils." Likewise, "For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils…" Where does VII/Novus-Ordo stand on this? It stands with the 'devils' and the 'gentiles' in the very documents of VII and very very very manifest worshipping practices of the Novus Ordo 'popes'.
The unadulterated Catholic sanctuary is the True and Only inheritor of the Mishkan. As for the reprobate 'mosque…synagogue/temple…protestant 'church'…pagan 'temple'…' they are post-Christian impious imitators of the spirit of the Parthenon and Pantheon – and, therefore, all the more 'partakers with devils'. So what is the Novus Ordo 'altar'? Who is it in communion with? The heresiarchs AND God? The heresiarchs OR God?
Well, if the Church of Christ only subsists in the Catholic Church, along with multiple heretical sects, the answer must be "heresiarchs AND god" silly!
Otherwise, like the song says, 'That'll be cash on the barrelhead, son…' To extend a 'line of credit' to belial through his New Order, or not to…that is question.
I look forward very much to talking to you and hearing your guidance. Please God, all of us here have good Catholic hearts. With respect, please may I ask: Was the Archbishop of Oviedo consecrated in the NO, or traditional (Pius XII) rite?
How I would like to go to Oviedo to see the Sudarium!
Appreciate your concerns, salvemur… Peter Lamb: the Archbishop of Oviedo (now retired) who ordained me was consecrated bishop with the traditional Roman Rite as it was in 1965. Yes, in our Cathedral-Basilica, in Oviedo we treasure the Sudarium. Hopefully one day, you may get to see it! And thanks for you welcome and best wishes.
Welcome, Father Campo. You were completely unknown to us before now; but there is a portrayal of a man in love with God and on fire with zeal for preserving what is Sacred and meant to save souls– in this article by a blogger who also guest-writes on "One Peter Five".
Thank you, Indignus famulus. Yes, I had originally written a long post about defending that elderly priest on FB, and the good Blogger at The Liturgy Guy asked to publish it. By the way, I'm also a guest-writer on One Peter Five. And yes, the audio/video series on the Church's sacred liturgy, "Per omnia sæcula sæculorum," uploaded to YouTube, was a kind invitation by Forward Boldly Radio. The idea was to cover many more aspects, obviously, mainly taking into account the long series on the Second Part of the Compendium of the Catechism that I had already done for Radio María here in Spain. The series was short-lived, however, managing only seven episodes, since I was unable to continue. Thanks for your welcome!
May God reward you both!
How does one "adopt a heretic" nowadays?
I cannot figure out how to donate. I apologize for my lack of ingenuity.
Welcome Father. As a heads up, there are a few sedevacantists that use this blog as a platform to show their disdain for anyone associated with the Novus Ordo and VII, and as such, these "NO" people are like the devil incarnate to them. Hence, that is why, on your first interaction you were treated so rudely and had your ordination, Faith and Catholicity called into question.
Thank you, James, for that. I was going to comment also but figured it would just add fuel to the fire.
Father, welcome! You will find your feet held to the fire by some here because you will never be Catholic enough. I am sure you will give us all a lesson in patience and charity. May God bless you every day of your life. Thank you for hearing His voice, and becoming His priest – a shepherd for us.
Right – and this notwithstanding the fact that Louie specifically asked the sedes to stop posting their same sede statements & links to every post some time ago.
It is good to continue to combat the dogmatic sede vacantist error; it certainly has legs, here & everywhere. And, frankly, that really is understandable, given how insidious this crisis is and the length & breadth of the confusion it has sown.
There are no refutations to siscoe? Id recommend a google search.
Siscoe is big on theologians but lacking in actual infallible papal proclamations.
The 'sin' of heresy is what removes jurisdiction. The problem of prosecuting the ecclesiastical crime of heresy in no way gives any Catholic the excuse of keeping the sin of heresy and jurisdiction in the same cassock. Fr Cekada specifically addresses Siscoe's error around 26-27 minutes, but watch the whole thing to get all full 'footnotes', so to speak.
What you are not getting is that we know Father Cekada is a SEDE! Nothing he says or writes has any legs. PERIOD. As I've said many times: there are two 'sides' to this discussion. One must be correct and one in error. End of discussion.
(i) Pope Francis has self-declared that he holds to a heresy.
(2) Does a lay sedevacantist commit the sin of schism by withdrawing his obedience from a manifestly pertinacious heretical Pope before the Pope has been declared a manifestly pertinacious heretic by the Church?
Thank you also for that. I share the same sentiments.
The above should be written in all caps in big bold letters.
Take this sede debate to the Forum or to your own blog. As much as I dislike policing grown ups, I dislike repeating myself even more. This post is about welcoming Father.
If it goes on, there won't be any more requests.
As in to say, I pushed reply probably just when this 'request', was posted.


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Q: How to exclude invalid fields that can't be deployed by the Migration Tool from .object files when automating deployment? I'm trying to add a level of automation to our development processes.  My goal at the moment is to be able to automatically retrieve check-ins to our development feature release branch and then automatically deploy them into the QA Org for further testing.  I've managed to get this all working with svn, the Migration Tool, and cruise control, but my main issue happens when including object definition files (e.g. Account.object) in the package when they have fields that can't be deployed.
I want to get away from new fields having to be setup manually or managed through change sets.  It would be great to be able to include the Account.object file in the deployment package when there's been a new field added or modified so there doesn't have to be manually editing of the object file each time.
The problem with this approach is that there are multiple fields included in the .object definition that the Migration Tool can't/won't deploy.  I get these error trying to deploy just our Account.object file to another Org:
BUILD FAILED
FAILURES:
Error: objects/Account.object(10881,15):Cannot modify managed object: entity=Web
Link, component=00b30000001pBPs, field=Url, state=MANAGED_INSTALLED: newValue='h
ttps://{URL A}
?sessionId={!API.Session_ID}
&serverUrl={!API.Partner_Server_URL_80}
&id={!Account.Id}', oldValue='{URL B}
?sessionId={!API.Session_ID}
&serverUrl={!API.Partner_Server_URL_80}
&id={!Account.Id}'
Error: objects/Account.object(10906,15):encodingKey must be specified
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klist fields are only supported in certain functions. Tell me more

        at com.salesforce.ant.DeployTask.handleResponse(DeployTask.java:116)
        at com.salesforce.ant.SFDCMDAPIAntTaskRunner.runTask(SFDCMDAPIAntTaskRun
ner.java:94)
        at com.salesforce.ant.DeployTask.execute(DeployTask.java:59)
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java:57)
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sorImpl.java:43)
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a:105)
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cutor.java:41)
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Total time: 25 seconds

So the first error appears to be because a managed field is different between the Development and QA Orgs (that's fine but I'd like to exclude it), then there's a shed load of "encoding key must be specified" errors, and finally a complaint about deploying a picklist definition.
So I'm wondering:

*

*How do I exclude invalid fields (e.g. managed / picklist) from the
.object file to make the deployment work?  (Unless there's a way to
deploy picklists?)

*What does the "encoding key must be specified" error mean?

Thanks for your help
Ray

A: Sense Check. If I have understood correctly you have reached a point where all your metadata and code for your solution is in SVN, nice! Then I assume you have developers deploying from that into orgs to perform development. Such as adding custom fields to Account and then downloading the Account.object file to commit back into SVN. Here you are finding additional information and metadata which is causing problems. If so maybe this will help to ensure only custom fields are committed in your Account.object files.
Downloading only Account Custom Fields via Eclipse. When your developing in your DE orgs you can open up the Project settings and under Force.com, use Project Contents to select only the custom fields for the Account object. This will result in a .object file with only custom fields in it. If your developers ensure they follow this practice, your deployment scripts should have less issues around this object.

As you can also see, only your custom WebLinks and ListViews can also be downloaded in the same way.
NOTE: The package.xml generated by Eclipse uses the CustomField metadata type to list the individual fields being added to account. This is not needed and would cause additional overhead for your developers to keep this in sync. Simply ensuring that the package.xml that gets used by your build scripts includes the Account.object file will be enough.
Hope this helps!

A: This error occurs when the encoding has not been specified for an element in the .object file. For example, if the encoding was missing (I'm including it) for the xml like the one below in Opportunity.object:
<webLinks>
    <fullName>DeliveryStatus</fullName>
    <availability>online</availability>
    <displayType>link</displayType>
    <encodingKey>UTF-8</encodingKey>
    <hasMenubar>true</hasMenubar>
    <hasScrollbars>true</hasScrollbars>
    <hasToolbar>true</hasToolbar>
    <height>600</height>
    <isResizable>true</isResizable>
    <linkType>url</linkType>
    <masterLabel>Delivery Status</masterLabel>
    <openType>newWindow</openType>
    <position>none</position>
    <protected>false</protected>
    <showsLocation>true</showsLocation>
    <showsStatus>true</showsStatus>
    <url>http://www.fedex.com/cgi-bin/tracking?tracknumbers={!Opportunity_Tracking_Number}&action=track&language=english&cntry_code=us</url>
</webLinks>

That is, if the line <encodingKey>UTF-8</encodingKey> was missing.
You can manually edit the xml and just add that line for whatever element Salesforce is complaining about.

A: The solution I've used for this in the past is to not include whole object definitions in the package.xml. Instead, the package.xml contains all the piecemeal bits you want to deploy for each object: explicit lists of custom fields, workflows, etc.
It's manual maintenance overhead, and seems like it should be unnecessary, but I couldn't find a simpler solution.
An alternative would be to use the metadata API to dynamically query for fields that meet some "definitely should be and able to be deployed" criteria, then deploy those. That would maybe be worth it on very large / long projects, but seems unlikely to save time otherwise.

A: Answer to question 2:
I've just hit this same "encodingKey must be specified" error when trying to deploy a .object file that includes a webLink. It appears to be a versioning problem where in API 27 this field is mandatory but in earlier API versions it wasn't.
I used the Force IDE to pull the metadata from an org. That code dates from API 25 or earlier, and although the package.xml had version 27 set in it I am guessing that the Force IDE code was effectively using API 25. I used the Ant deploy task to push the metadata to an org, and that seemed to respect the package.xml version number and so result in the error. The fix for me for now was to change the version in package.xml to 26 and that works. We will be upgrading to the recently released Force IDE soon, but that requires the whole team to change at once because of the gruesome "Upgrade Project" process so takes a bit of co-ordination. But I hope that will eliminate this problem.
Answer to question 1:
I've never really experienced "invalid fields" and you certainly can deploy picklist fields including picklist values. (But there are gotchas: you can't remove picklist values once they are there in an org and you need to include any record types in your package.xml if you are using them.) But you often do need to work at the field level and be selective in what you reference (as jkraybill answered). Read http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_meta/api_meta.pdf very carefully and take a look at what the Force IDE "Add/Remove Metadata Components…" wizard produces as you make various selections.
For example, this package.xml fragment result in a Contact.object metadata file that just contains the two local custom fields:
<types>
    <members>Contact.FullTime__c</members>
    <members>Contact.HoursWorkedPerWeek__c</members>
    <name>CustomField</name>
</types>

Manual editing of the metadata files is just not a sustainable way to develop and at present we do not do that at all. (Figuring out what package.xml can and cannot do is an art in itself though.) Personally I would log a bug (AKA case) with salesforce if I ever found I had to.
Perhaps change sets are the way to go if you are not interested in version control and continuous integration. One gotcha with change sets is that they presently don't seem to play well with managed packages.

A: The best I've come up with so far is to perform an XSLT transformation of the .object file to strip the troublesome fields out before deploying.
I can identify the managed package fields because the field name has the package name + double underscore prepending the field name.  Picklists can be identified because of the <picklist> element inside the <fields> element.  This info can be used to match the elements in the XSLT and not copy them into the result file.
(I need the helpdesk to explain the "encodingKey must be specified" error)


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I couldn't figure out how to start out this story without saying holy shit but then I realized this is my newsletter and I can swear if I want to, so holy shit, Uber paid off hackers in secret!
Bloomberg today reported that Uber paid off hackers who stole data on 50 million Uber riders and 7 million US drivers in secret to get them to delete it and cover it up. Uber yesterday fired a number of people, including its Chief Security Officer, who covered it up and kept it from both investors and its new CEO until recently.
If you're a rider, that data is just your name and phone number, but for drivers that includes license numbers as well which is a serious issue for identity fraud.
The most surprising part of the report is that Travis Kalanick asked employees to pay the hackers $100,000 in return for deleting the data, which is exactly what went down. The company supposedly fixed the security flaws and massively increased its protection around data, but the damage is done, right?
Here's how the attack went down:
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