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Surveillance for sexually transmissible diseases in Victoria, 1983 to 1992
N Crofts, D M Gertig, E Stevenson, S C Thompson, T Stewart, R Lester, J Forsyth
Western Australian Centre for Rural Health (WACRH)
Surveillance systems have been developed in Victoria to determine trends in sexually transmissible diseases (STDs). Notifications to the Health Department (including laboratory notification since May 1990) have been supplemented by data about strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and cultures for Chlamydia trachomatis processed by the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, enhanced laboratory surveillance of syphilis, and data on genital herpes and genital warts from the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. During the period under review the incidence of gonorrhoea declined, rapidly at first, and then more slowly. For women, this trend has continued, while gonorrhoea acquired abroad by men has become relatively more important. Since 1988, gonorrhoea in homosexual men has increased, and rectal isolates have increased concurrently, raising concerns about HIV risk behaviour. Cases of syphilis are likely to be ascertained through STD, antenatal and refugee screening, rather than because of symptoms or contact tracing. Chlamydia is a the most common notifiable STD, despite underreporting and underdiagnosis. In 1991, 832 cases were notified, increasing to 1377 in 1992. In 1992, of the 73 cases (65 per cent of notifications) where the doctor identified a risk, 15 per cent was attributed to homosexual contact, and 27.4 per cent to heterosexual exposure. Limitations in the data include inadequate standard case definitions for many STDs, changes in the statutory requirement for notifications in 1990, underreporting, changes in diagnostic and screening patterns, and lack of detailed demographic data. Education of general practitioners is needed to improve diagnosis and notification of chlamydia.
Australian Journal of Public Health
Dive into the research topics of 'Surveillance for sexually transmissible diseases in Victoria, 1983 to 1992'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Victoria Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
notifications Social Sciences 90%
Gonorrhea Medicine & Life Sciences 73%
surveillance Social Sciences 70%
Chlamydia Medicine & Life Sciences 47%
Syphilis Medicine & Life Sciences 45%
Sexual and Gender Minorities Medicine & Life Sciences 41%
homosexuality Social Sciences 32%
Crofts, N., Gertig, D. M., Stevenson, E., Thompson, S. C., Stewart, T., Lester, R., & Forsyth, J. (1994). Surveillance for sexually transmissible diseases in Victoria, 1983 to 1992. Australian Journal of Public Health, 18(4), 433-9.
Crofts, N ; Gertig, D M ; Stevenson, E ; Thompson, S C ; Stewart, T ; Lester, R ; Forsyth, J. / Surveillance for sexually transmissible diseases in Victoria, 1983 to 1992. In: Australian Journal of Public Health. 1994 ; Vol. 18, No. 4. pp. 433-9.
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Little Boy's Lesson in Why You Can't Just Go Punching People for Pancakes 2:52
Three-year-old Connor punched his six-year-old brother Aiden. Why you ask? Connor needed and wanted some pancakes. We don't know why he thought punching his brother would get him pancakes, but it's hilarious. The little guy learned quickly from his dad, Jonathon, "You can't punch people because you want pancakes." We're glad dad captured this moment on camera and the trio joined RTM via Skype to spill the beans batter on the pancake punch seen around the web!
Video Courtesy: JukinVideo
Hosted By: Beth
Written By: Hayden
Found By: Brittany
Little Boy Doesn't Want to Dance and You Can't Make Him Either
You know when everyone in the car is feeling the music except for you? Yea, this video is kind of like that. We feel you, buddy. You can't always be in the mood to say "Geronimo." View Now
Little Boy Can't Seem to Find the Hat That's on His Head
Before we go and judge this adorable little boy, we need to remember we've probably all been there, can't find the cell phone that's in our hand, keys that are in our pocket, things like that. We "lose" things in the most obvious places. Well this little boy can't find his hat and when he discoveres it's been on his head his smile is the cutest thing ever! View Now
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At some point in your life, you learn bad words. This little guy has learned a lot... but most of them aren't what you'd think. View Now
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E.J. "Bug Boy" Soto is a young aspiring entomologist. He loves bugs and everything bug related, his favorite being the Black Widow spider. With the help of his dad, E.J. decided to relay his vast bug knowledge to the world by making videos, on different bugs, for YouTube. The "Bug Boy" joined RTM via Skype to talk all about his new Internet show. View Now


Antibodies are released to protect the body against a perceived threat.
2. An allergen is anything that triggers an allergic or hypersensitive response. Which of these could be an allergen?
3. What does the body release to combat allergens?
This causes the redness, itching and swelling associated with inflammation.
4. The most severe form of allergic reaction is called anaphylaxis. What happens?
The throat or tongue also swells, cutting off access to air. Call 911 if someone you're with has this reaction.
5. Which of these symptoms is most common with a food allergy?
With food allergies, respiratory symptoms may happen along with other symptoms, but not usually by themselves.
6. Which of these foods are most likely to trigger an allergy?
7. More Americans are developing a sensitivity to the plant proteins in latex materials or the chemical additives used in manufacturing the materials. Who's most at risk of developing a latex allergy?
Latex is used in surgical gloves, and people who come in close contact with the gloves inhale latex proteins.
8. Pediatricians who treat children with egg allergies are cautious about using certain vaccines because they may be grown in an egg medium. Which of these vaccines warrant caution?
9. Dust mites trigger indoor respiratory allergies. Where are you most likely to find them in the home?
The mites live where people spend a long period of time. Washing sheets and blankets in hot water and using mattress and pillow covers will reduce triggers.


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Similar to the MultiPlus, the Victron Quattro 24/5000-120-100/100 24V 5kW Off-Grid Solar is also a combined inverter and charger. Additionally it can accept two AC inputs and automatically connect to the active source. Its many features include a true sine wave inverter, adaptive charging, hybrid PowerAssist technology plus multiple system integration features such as three or split phase operation and parallel operation.
Monitor and control your Quattro and system or systems' locally (LAN) or remotely via the internet from anywhere in the world, using the free VRM app and free VRM portal website. Access can be from a phone, tablet, laptop or PC for multiple operating systems. There is no end to the level of control, via the required Color Control GX or Venus GX, from adjusting your Quattro to setting a Geofence for hire vehicles and more.


Being involved in soccer in Rwanda at both national and international level exposes soccer players to the risk of injury. The aim of this study was to identify common soccer injuries among the 1st and 2nd division soccer teams in Rwanda and to establish the need for physiotherapy intervention. This deals with the first two stages of injury prevention, which included identification and description of the extent of the problem and the identification of factors and mechanisms that play a part in the occurrence of injuries.


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Everyday Play:
samuel tobin
I am thrilled to have been asked to organize this cluster, Everyday Play for The New Everyday. In this post I wish to make two contributions. The first is to show how a classic theorist can be seen to address the overlaps of play and the everyday. The second is to show how the writers who have graciously contributed to this cluster, or in two cases, been press-ganged into it, have done the same.
I am trying my absolute hardest not to write a literature review as an introduction to this cluster. Like really, really hard. Still I think it kind of has to be done. Let me limit myself to one classic scholar of the everyday and (perhaps less obviously) of play, Walter Benjamin.
Throughout his work Benjamin addresses the materiality of the everyday and the details of urban life with his focus on the arcades; the threshold; the bourgeois apartment; and the metro and the cheap novels passengers read on the metro. For Benjamin, this stuff of the everyday is both the content and context of modern urban experience. This is an orientation that has informed my thoughts on the overlap of the everyday and play as I prepared this cluster and read my comrades' contributions.
While Benjamin may have been chiefly concerned with the "shock" experienced by a reeling, blown-backward subject, he was also concerned with humbler registers of experience: with the new leisure of the urban reader in the metro or at the café; the thresholds of urban spaces; the rituals of the gambler; the life of the rag picker or prostitute; and the play of children. Benjamin's analyses focus (literally as well as figuratively) on pedestrian figures and on small details of their everyday lives, but he connects these figures and details to grand themes of history. He sees in these quotidian urban activities the potential for a waking from the dream of modernity even perhaps an awakening, built out of a series of micro-engagements with the material realities of the new urban experience, of film, architecture, bodily movements, and innervations as played out in the pages of the feuilleton and life on the street. We can find this also in the essays, anecdotes and probes attached to this cluster.
In his article" The Completion of Old Work: Walter Benjamin and the Everyday," (2002) Scott McCracken reads Benjamin as a scholar of the quotidian: "The reader's response might be compared with Benjamin's short Denkbild (thought-image) on crime fiction, "Kriminalromane, auf Reisen," which pays as much attention to the situation in which the detective novel is purchased and read as to the genre itself" (2002:145). It is in just this way that the study of the everyday shifts the focus of a study of reading, spectatorship, film-going, game playing or any other media usage from texts to contexts, exigencies, and situations of use. We see this implicitly, if not explicitly in nearly all the contributions for this cluster. If we look at how we play, the everyday is invoked even if only in the negative; the reverse is of course also true.
When we look at play and the everyday, that is when we look at the every day with or through play what we also do is think about a material world. Thus to examine the everyday and play is to also pay attention to infrastructure, architecture, systems, spaces and technology. I don't mean to shift the focus squarely on to a constellation of things but rather to say that to meaningfully integrate what play can say to the everyday and vice versa we need to look at real practices of people engaged in everyday play. This is exactly what this cluster, what these authors do so well. For some it is a phenomenological account of a concrete play practice, what it is, what it feels like to bid on a 7", to fall in love over a redemption game, to play a game in the dark or with a spouse or child. But these works also take seriously the form and shape of the everyday and of play, a shape informed if not determined by socially built structures, happenstance and design. Here we might look to the algorithms and habits bundled into the "buy-it now" button or the alliances and compromises of a successful long-term partnership, be it in game research or game playing.
By approaching the practices of players, (even when those players are us) from the perspective of the everyday I hope we can bring down to earth the scholarship on play and especially on video games, which can sometimes be bloated with utopian, revolutionary, pedagogical and salutatory effects, possibilities and ideals. We should not just be concerned with serious games but also with games that even their own players don't take seriously. We should care not just about what games can teach us, but about understanding how these everyday games fit into everyday lives. We should shift (if only for a moment) our concern from the utopian ideals of radically free play to the play of actual people, playing in such plain old 'topias as suburban bedrooms, subway platforms, and office break rooms.
My colleagues in this cluster might resist having their work positioned in such a way: if so I apologize for the imposition. Nevertheless I insist that, at least in this cluster, we see how when play is examined in context with the everyday it is context again and again which we seem to deal with and which deals with us.
Sam Tobin
Work cited:
McCracken, Scott. 2002. "The Completion of Old Work, Walter Benjamin and the Everyday." Cultural Critique 52:145-166.
Benjamin, Walter. Most of his work...
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By samuel tobin
Love and Skee-Ball
By Carly Kocurek
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The Everyday Play of Collaboration
By Judd Ruggill
Married, with children and an XBox: Compromise in Video Game Play
By Marc A. Ouellette
The Personal Politics of Everyday Play
By Jennifer deWinter
In The Game?: An Everyday Analysis
By Steven Conway
How to See a World in a Grain of Sand
By Marc Ruppel
Forbidden Areas: The Hidden Archive of a Virtual World
By Henry Lowood
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All work at The New Everyday is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.


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EVENT DATE: Aug 19, 2018
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This Crowdrise Project seeks to raise $5,000 to fully fund these college scholarships for the 2018 HSCC team. Our hope is that we can find 10 people to join our fundraising team.
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Providing students with education, experience and fun is what the national HSCC championship is all about. The competition has three parts: Team oral exam, Individual written test, and Team website development. The highlight of the event is the 7 hour requirements-based web development and database design competition.
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Q: How to resolve eth-utils and eth-tester installation issues? While installing the web3.py I am getting the following error message.
I am new to blockchain development. Can Someone help me to resolve this Error?
Error:

A: The below set of commands resolved all the ERRORs.
pip3 install eth-hash
pip3 install eth-abi
pip3 install eth-account
pip3 install eth-keys
pip3 install eth-utils
pip3 install rlp

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1Adam was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have had a male child with the LORD's help." 2Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground. 3In the course of time Cain presented some of the land's produce as an offering to the LORD. 4And Abel also presented an offering--some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, 5but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent. 6Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent? 7If you do what is right, won't you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."
8Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"" I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's guardian?" 10Then He said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground! 11So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood you have shed. 12If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." 13But Cain answered the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear! 14Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me." 15Then the LORD replied to him, "In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over." And He placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.
16Then Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
17Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son. 18Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. 19Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah. 20Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen. 21His brother was named Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the flute. 22Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah.
23Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words. For I killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
24If Cain is to be avenged seven times over, then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!
25Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." 26A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of Yahweh.


FLASH:Dy CM D Sharma on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra: Had it been old times,they would've been called a 'Rajgharana'. They come during elections, have picnic, go back&return after 5 yrs. 'Boat yatra' is only for votes. Inki boat yatra mein khot pehle hi inke sehyogiyon ne darsha diya.


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Q: Implement Login Function on Android using Google App Engine I am trying to implement a login UI, where the user information (email and password) is saved Google App Engine's server. I am using Android Studio. I don't know what I should put to implement this function:
@ApiMethod(name = "insertLogin")
public Login insertLogin(Login login) {

    login.getEmail();
    login.getPassword();

    // TODO: Implement this function
    logger.info("Calling insertLogin method");
    return login;
}

}
I am new with both tools and I don't know how to proceed. Tutorials usually end at this point. Thanks.


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Q: NSPopUpButton Enable vs Disable I am building an app that has two NSPopUpButtons as part if the view. The 1st one is titled userChoice1 and the 2nd is userChoice2. I want userChoice2 to be disabled until the user makes a choice from userChoice1. How do I program the 2nd button to be disabled and then enable it. Is there a state property for the NSPopUpButton? I have searched the Apple documentation and API reference in Xcode and can't seem to find the property I need.
Thanks
Keith

A: NSPopUPButton inherits from NSControl which has a property

setEnabled:

this is what you are looking for.


I knew things were not going to go right tonight, especially after I saw I was out of liners and had to use these fancy ones that were a tad too big for my pan. Oh, and then I thought I ran out of sugar so I had to start preparing a Swiss Meringue Buttercream instead of regular, Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream.
Strike 1 - The one bowl dark chocolate cake mixed well but did not bake evenly. After after a few additional minutes they just looked blah, not to mention the liners puckered.
Strike 2 - Swiss Meringue Buttercream never peaks, I tried chilling it but it never thickened up. Never even got to the step of adding strawberry. That was the last of the bulk of my butter so I had to put on my thinking cap. A ganache would not have been the correct resolution because some family members hate it and well, I'm not eating 2 dozen cupcakes.
Strike 3 - Decided on a Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting using the strawberry puree I made earlier. Things looked pretty good until I started to pipe and the hell pit that is my kitchen starting melting everything. I was so aggravated at this point, I just slopped it on, adding some sugar and called it a night.
These were last minute so I didn't bother taking action shots. I used the 'one bowl' chocolate cake recipe with the addition of espresso for depth. A classic almond buttercream topped with cocoa dusted almonds.
My initial plan was to make a coffee flavored cake and top with a glazed donut, thought it would make a nice birthday cake for a cop :) Anyway, I decided most people (i mean kids) are not fans of coffee and since I would be surrounded with children this week, may as well make something kid friendly.
Start with baking a rich, chocolate cake. I used a one bowl recipe and added some espresso to enhance the cocoa.
I actually ran out of trays to decorate them on..
Well, the Banana Split Cupcakes made it as a finalist in a contest on instructables.com.


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Brunswick Review The WFH Issue
Kevin Helliker
Editor, Brunswick Review, New York
Coronavirus: Covid-19
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For years, my KC cap was a symbol of resistance. Then the pandemic struck.
On my last walk home from the office last March before locking down, I came across a reporter in Herald's Square. She was seeking to interview people about the closing that day of the famous Macy's store there. But passersby that evening were few and six feet between, none of them apparently eager to land a TV appearance that might risk their health. Knowing from my own journalistic experience how difficult person-on-the-street interviews can be, I volunteered.
Keeping her distance, she pointed a microphone in my direction. "As a New Yorker, how do you feel about the closing of this iconic store?"
I knew exactly what she wanted me to say. Were I in her shoes, I knew what I would want me to say. But she had triggered something. "She shouldn't have called me a New Yorker," I thought.
The author, Kevin Helliker, photographed in a mostly empty Times Square during the pandemic.
Trying again, she said, "As a New Yorker, how does it make you feel to see Herald Square this empty."
That did it. "Actually, I'm from Kansas City," I said.
"KC," I said, tipping my Chiefs cap for emphasis.
Her eyes, drifting beyond my shoulder, implored some other stranger to come rescue her.
I walked away scolding myself. "What the heck was that about? Your wife is a New Yorker. Your daughter was born at NYU. You've lived here for eight years."
But I was unrepentant. "She shouldn't have called me a New Yorker."
This beef of mine was particular to New York. While living in Chicago, I'd called myself a Chicagoan. During two stints in Dallas, I'd worn cowboy boots. Like Kansas City, however, Chicago and Dallas belonged to what New Yorkers called flyover country.
Thirty years ago, when I joined the Wall Street Journal in Dallas, I discovered that my counterparts in New York felt a bit sorry for me. They just assumed I wanted to live and work in The Only City that Matters. In every New York apartment I visited, there hung that Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover, belittling everything west of the Hudson River. I met New Yorkers ashamed of their Midwestern roots, New Yorkers who couldn't fathom anyone choosing any place else, New Yorkers who'd attained one of their highest goals in life once they'd moved into a dingy studio costing thousands of dollars a month.
I went the other way. For 20 years I worked in the WSJ's Dallas and Chicago offices, declining promotions that would have brought me to New York, accentuating my Kansas twang whenever I spoke with particularly proud New Yorkers, sometimes acting dimwitted in honor of the smartest business executive I'd ever covered, the late Sam Walton. As a journalist, meanwhile, I wrote stories about important and interesting people in places New Yorkers generally considered unimportant and dull. Out of Kansas City alone I logged more than 200 bylines.
"In every New York apartment I visited, there hung a poster of that Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover, belittling everything west of the Hudson River."
If my reaction to geographical snobbery seems extreme, that's because I grew up in the Kansas City other Kansas Citians love to ridicule. Fifth-grade geography teachers and the board game Trivial Pursuit have propagated the belief that there are two Kansas Citys. But everybody within a hundred miles of them knows there is only one: KCMO. That's where you'll find skyscrapers, museums, sports stadiums and college degrees. Over in KCK, we had slaughterhouses, steel plants and car factories. Whenever the Kansas City Star (located in KCMO, of course), wrote about KCK, the subject matter was either corruption or crime.
The Star famously is where Hemingway started his career, and less famously where I started mine. After a decade of delivering the Star, I entered its newsroom as a reporter just out of college, and blushed when a veteran reporter deigned to ask where I was from. Back then the Star was nationally respected—only that spring it had won two Pulitzers—and its cub reporters came from exotic places like Boston.
But I wasn't going to lie. "KCK," I said.
His laughter caught the attention of the whole newsroom. "I was over there once—by accident," he said. "How'd you get out?"
Oh well. It is said that the best qualification for journalism is a chip on your shoulder.
That chip came along with me when at long last I moved to New York eight years ago. To make sure nobody mistook me for a New Yorker, I walked the streets of Manhattan wearing Chiefs, Royals and Jayhawks apparel. Even after marrying a New Yorker, even after fathering one, I needed to make clear that I was double-parked here.
But within days of that ridiculous stand of mine at Herald Square, I received calls from the Midwest, as well as from people who had fled New York. They'd heard about refrigerated morgues outside hospitals, about the National Guard digging mass graves, about the daily deaths of hundreds of New Yorkers. They'd seen images of dark stores, empty sidewalks and a desolate Times Square. "What's it like there?" they asked, these rubberneckers.
A city in lockdown, taken by the author on an April run through Greenwich Village.
And then it occurred to me: New York was the place nobody wanted to be. New York was KCK.
You might think the city, stripped of its bragging points, would turn sullen. The prospect of that even intrigued me a little. But I was astonished. It's as if I were the Grinch, hearing the Whos sing Christmas carols even after their presents had been stolen: New Yorkers were friendlier, funnier and more cheerful than ever. Or maybe they always had been, and that chip had blinded me to it. Out running, I found passersby eager to wave at me. On my daily trip to the grocery, I heard somebody satirize that White House recommendation to limit food shopping to once a week: "Yeah, I'll just load up my nonexistent SUV in the nonexistent parking lot outside." I even heard a new twist in that never-ending debate about who is and who isn't a real New Yorker: Those who fled should get an asterisk beside their name.
By the time my wife and daughter and I got away for a break in Vermont in July, New Yorkers had flattened the world's steepest coronavirus curve. Eight million people had done it, and I was one of them. Hearing the Kansas twang in my voice, a cashier in Brattleboro, Vermont, asked where I was from, and I hesitated only a second.
"I'm a New Yorker," I said.
Kevin Helliker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Editor of the Brunswick Review.
Photographs: Frank Tagariello, Kevin Helliker
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Alauddin Ali Shah
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Alauddin Ali Shah (1339-1342) ruled lakhnauti as an independent Sultan. His previous name was Ali Mubarak. In his early life he was one of the trusted servants of Malik Firuz (later Sultan firuz shah tughlaq). He was, perhaps, the foster brother of Shamsuddin iliyas shah. Having been ousted from Delhi, he came to Bengal and took service under Qadar Khan, the governor of Lakhnauti, and gradually rose to the position of Ariz-i-Mumalik.
After the death of Qadar Khan, Ali Mubarak killed the deputy governor, captured power, paid allegiance to the Delhi Sultan muhammad bin tughlaq, and made repeated representations so that he could be appointed as the governor of Lakhnauti. Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, however, appointed Malik Yusuf as the governor of Lakhnauti who died on his way to Lakhnauti. As the sultan was involved in other issues, he could not pay attention to Lakhnauti. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ali Mubarak declared independence in 1339 and issued coins under the title of Alauddin Ali Shah. He also described himself as the helper of the Commander of the Faithful.
After the death of Bahram Khan, fakhruddin mubarak shah became independent at sonargaon and Haji Iliyas became the sole master of satgaon, both in 1338. Thus Bengal was divided into three parts with Fakhruddin, Iliyas and Ali Shah ruling respectively at Sonargaon, Satgaon and Lakhnauti. As Lakhnauti enjoyed a special position in terms of political importance, there arose a tripartite struggle among these three.
According to ibn battuta, the contest for supremacy was very bitter between Ali Shah and Fakhruddin. For his naval superiority, Fakhruddin would lead attacks against Lakhnauti during the monsoons, while Ali Shah, having strong land forces, retaliated in the dry season. In these intermittent battles none could overcome the other.
Ali Shah was involved in a long drawn hostility with Iliyas Shah too. Hostilities between them began from 740 AH / 1339 AD. In the first encounter Haji Iliyas got the upper hand. But Iliyas' victory was not conclusive, for, Ali Shah is found to have issued coins from 741 to 743 AH. Haji Iliyas, however, finally defeated Ali Shah in 1342.
Alauddin Ali Shah died or was slain in 1342. During his rule of nearly three years, he transferred his capital from Lakhnauti to Firuzabad (pandua), perhaps to get rid of repeated attacks from the Sonargaon side. He built a Mausoleum for jalaluddin tabrizi on his tomb at Pandua. Ghulam Hussain Salim mentions in his riyaz-us-salatin that he noticed the spot of the shrine in 1788 AD. [ABM Shamsuddin Ahmed]
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, właśc.  – japoński pisarz i poeta.

Życiorys
Jego ojciec Sannosuke Sakamoto był gubernatorem Fukui, merem Nagoi, pisał wiersze po chińsku. Takami zaczął pisać opowiadania już w szkole średniej, chcąc rozliczyć się z bolesnymi doświadczeniami z dzieciństwa – nigdy nie spotkał się z ojcem.

Takami studiował anglistykę na Uniwersytecie Tokijskim. Na początku lat dwudziestych uległ wpływom pisarzy awangardowych i lewicowych. Po skończeniu studiów w 1930 zainteresował się dadaizmem, marksizmem i anarchizmem. Uczestniczył w lewicowym ruchu społeczno-kulturowym i tworzył głównie literaturę proletariacką. Po aresztowaniu za działalność związkową wyrzekł się swoich poglądów i został zwolniony. Te doświadczenia i związane z nimi rozterki i cierpienia moralne opisał w powieści Kokyū wasureubeki (Można zapomnieć starego przyjaciela, 1935–1936), zaliczanej do gatunku tenkō-bungaku (literatura o nawróceniu). W swojej twórczości umiejętnie łączył elementy autobiograficzne z obserwacjami wewnętrznych przeżyć japońskiego intelektualisty i opisami życia tokijczyków np. w Ikanaru hoshi-no-shita-ni (Pod jaką gwiazdą, 1939–1940) oraz analizą wydarzeń historycznych Iyana kanji (Nieprzyjemne uczucia, 1960–1963). Opublikował także zbiory poezji Jumoku-ha (Szkoła drzew, 1947) i Shi-no fuchi yori (Na krawędzi śmierci, 1964).

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Wielka Encyklopedia PWN, Warszawa 2005.

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Japońscy komuniści
Japońscy pisarze
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Goodbye inverted yield curve? Fed looks for alternative signals to guide policy
Reuters | July 13, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials are scouring new niches of the financial markets to find signals accurate enough to warn the central bank when it is time to stop hiking interest rates before they risk tipping the economy into a recession.
In the run up to previous downturns, the Fed has jacked interest rates to restrictive levels as it sought to temper inflation. This time, the central bank hopes for a softer landing with rates moving just high enough to avoid overheating without ending a nearly decade long expansion.
It is a tricky exercise that pits standard views about the importance of longer term yield curves as signs of recession risk against new variations that look at shorter term interest rates. But it could influence just how far the Fed goes in its current rate hiking cycle.
New research from staff economists Eric Engstrom and Steven Sharpe, presented at the Fed's June meeting, suggests that some of the traditional warning signs of recession, such as the gap in interest rates between 10-year and 2-year Treasuries, may not be as powerful as analysis that focuses on shorter term rates.
In particular, they found that the difference in current interest rates on 3-month Treasury bills and those expected in 18 months served as a stronger predictor of recession in the coming year by capturing the market's conviction that the Fed would need to cut rates soon in response to a slowdown.
Their measure showed little recession risk on the horizon - a green light for continued gradual increases in interest rates at a time when some Fed officials have taken the narrowing spread of long-term yields as a sign the Fed should halt its rate hikes now.
According to the new research, the "near-term" yield curve captures well formed market expectations about coming economic conditions, but without some of the longer-term concerns that drive other bond yields. (Graphic : tmsnrt.rs/2IPQUjQ)
If short-term rates are expected to be lower in the future, it "indicates the market expects monetary policy to ease, reflecting market expectations that policy will respond to the likelihood or onset of a recession."
It is not the only new indicator probed by policymakers as a better real-time warning of coming trouble.
The Atlanta Fed has been looking at the future Fed policy rate implied by eurodollar contracts, a financial security involving dollar deposits in overseas banks that reflects the interest rates investors anticipate in coming months.
"We are doing a lot of work to see what metrics are there to give us signals about weakness in the marketplace...I want to make sure we do all that we can not to miss something," Atlanta Federal Reserve bank president Raphael Bostic told reporters recently.
Recent research showed that a decline in the expected future federal funds rate implied by eurodollar contracts foreshadowed the start of the last two recessions about a year in advance, while an increase preceded a return to growth. That analysis currently shows rising interest rates in coming years, and thus little near-term recession risk.
As with the research presented at the Fed board, the eurodollar analysis looks at financial market pricing for clues that investors expect the economy to weaken.
The same principle guides the analysis of longer-term securities: when investors demand more to hold a 2-year note than a 10-year bond, that means they are not confident about upcoming economic conditions.
The advantage of shorter-term yield curves, researchers argue, is that they seem to provide a sharper and more timely signal that is less influenced by larger forces, such as demographics or changes in people's time preferences, that can impact longer-term yields.
DESPERATELY SEEKING "NEUTRAL"
The hunt for new signals has gained urgency with the flattening of the long-term yield curve since the Fed began raising interest rates in late 2015.
The difference in yields between 10 and 2-year Treasuries was at less than 0.3 percentage points this week, the lowest since just before the onset of recession in 2007.
That has prompted some Fed officials to call for a halt to rate hikes. In the past, a rise in the 2-year rate above the 10-year one has dependably preceded recession.
The Fed expects to continue raising rates gradually through 2019 to guard against inflation as an expected rush of economic growth follows the recent fiscal stimulus and tax cuts.
But the impact of that stimulus may fade, and the Fed is trying to balance its desire to insure against inflation with its concern about raising rates so high that it begins to stifle household or business spending. Its aim is to edge the target interest rate to a "neutral" level where the economy is growing in line with its long-run potential and inflation is stable.
The problem with the neutral rate is that it is a hypothetical construct - an "unobservable variable" in central bank speak. No one knows exactly what it is and policymakers' vary widely in their estimates of it.
A more timely take on recession risk could arguably provide a sort of proxy for neutral. If the short term curve flattens, it means investors, at least, think the Fed is approaching its stopping point.
Engstrom and Sharpe noted that their take on recession indicators may be less affected by "many of the factors" that could cause longer term yield curves to flatten, such as a decline in the reward demanded to invest money over longer periods.
It is those other variables that have led some Fed officials to discount the importance of longer-term bonds as a predictor of a recession this time around.
Other Fed policymakers, though, still see the flattening of the long-term yield curve as significant, even as real economy indicators like home and auto sales, whose slowing might indicate Fed policy is starting to bite, remain healthy.
From: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-neutral-analysis/goodbye-inverted-yield-curve-fed-looks-for-alternative-signals-to-guide-policy-idUSKBN1K20DD


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Farewell 3
This time to the office, who threw a party. I was a bit nervous, given the recent HR issues, but it was very nice and I felt a lot of warmth from colleagues. So goodbye - or hopefully hasta luego - lovely colleagues!
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Brexit Thoughts
Pondering on the referendum as it begins to sink in. Without fear of blowing things out of proportion, to me it's... well, it's a catastrophe.
I grew up loving the idea of 'Europe'. Grimms, Tintin and Asterix; Belle and Sebastian, Jeux Sans Frontieres and European footie on the telly; camping holidays; the first album I ever bought being Dutch (Focus 3), followed by Krautrock, Heldon, Magma and a fixation with all things Eurorock; Bowie's 'Berlin' period; getting into films by Herzog, Fassbender, Truffaut, Goddard etc; living in Strasbourg for a year; an Italian girlfriend; the food; the edginess & mystery of the Iron Curtain...
When we joined the EU in 1973, it somehow brought all the above closer to home. Sure, the institutions of Brussels and Strasbourg were (still are) kind of impenetrable and aloof, and some of the directives, the Common Agricultural Policy etc aren't perfect. But anything that brings countries together is a good thing in my book. And of course there's never been a war between EU countries (the Balkans was pre those countries joining, right?).
But the thing that really depresses me is what the vote signifies. Basically, it says We don't like you. We don't want to be part of Europe, we're proud Little Englanders, we don;t want you coming into our country and taking our jobs, we can't be bothered to speak other languages and who won the war anyway?
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Unbelievable. The people have voted and... we're out of the EU. We were saying goodbye to some friends over dinner in a restaurant in Roma, confident that by the end of it (we're 7hrs behind UK time), we'd still be in the EU. Our friends were Mexican, Japanese, Dutch, and American. Furtive glances at smartphones as the meal progressed. "Don't worry, it'll be like the Scottish referendum". But by the time we'd said our goodbyes it didn't look promising. "Well, good luck" said our Dutch friends. By the time we got home we were out. I can't quite believe it. Is it a bad dream?
This morning I took part in a small but moving ceremony to commemorate Jo Cox, the MP who was senselessly murdered last week and whose 42nd birthday it would have been today. There were about 40 of us gathered in the garden of the British Embassy. There were similar events in Trafalgar Square, Batley and Spen (her constituency), New York, Nairobi, Beirut and many other cities around the world. I read a poem. It was good to do.
Puebla may have a population of over 3 million but it feels a lot smaller. Nice cathedral, lovely squares, but the two most striking things about the city are the colour of its houses and the gorgeous tiles everywhere. We bought a boxful, though it was tempting to get crates of the stuff. And why not paint our house in Chichester pink while we're about it? Works here, but in overcast England, perhaps not.
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Round the Volcanos
This morning we drove south-east from Mexico City, taking a circuitous route around the two volcanoes, Iztaccihuatl and Popcatapetl, both over 5,000m, and descending to Puebla via Cholula. Cholula is the site of an enormous Mesoamerican pryamid which gives Giza a run for its money. Much of it now looks like a hill, but bits have been restored and there's a tunnel which goes deep inside. When the Spanish came in the 16th Century they massacred a lot of people and plonked a church on top of it.
Our hotel in the centre of Puebla is one of the nicest we've stayed in in Mexico.
Alfa 91.3
It would be fair to say that the in-car soundtrack of our time here has been Toño Esquinca's show on Alfa 91.3. Donde Todo Nace! So here are 15 songs that Alyssa has picked out which will always remind me of Mexico, even if none of them are Mexican.
1. Stitches by Shawn Mendes
2. Hello, by Adele
3. Shit Up & Dance With Me, by Walk The Moon
4. Hotline Bling, by Drake
5. Stressed Out, by Twenty One Pilots
6. Cake by the Ocean, by ONCE
7. Can't Stop the Feeling, by Justin Timberlake
8. 7 Years, by Lukus Graham
9. Photograph, by Ed Sheeran
10. Fast Car, by James Blue
11. Adventures of a Lifetime, by Coldplay
12. Love Me Like You Do, by Ellie Golding
13. Geronimo, by Sheppard
14. Don't Let Me Down, by Chainsmokers
15. Sorry, by Justin Timberlake
Sizzling Hermosillo
Today I find myself in Hermosillo, state capital of Sonora in the north-west of Mexico, 200 miles from the US border. It's in the middle of nowhere, arid and incredibly hot. Yesterday was a jaw-dropping 46C. Today, a mere 42C but still, I think, the highest temperature I've experienced anywhere in the world. I'm here to sign an MoU with their Minister of Culture, as part of a broader series of events which include trade and education. The formality of the occasion means I have to wear a suit and tie but thankfully it's very dry heat and amazingly I hardly break sweat.
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A day walking the steep streets of Santa Teresa including the beautifully tiled Escadario Selaron; a cable car ride to the top of Sugar Loaf mountain; a make-believe game of footie on the beach.
Yet somehow we're a bit disappointed. It's overcast, the streets are fairly quiet, and there's a cordoned off area of the beach where a body had been found.
I mean, we weren't expecting Carnival and we didn't do the nightlife, but somehow, especially with the OIympics just round the corner, we were thinking it was going to be full of joie-de-vivre. Maybe our expectations were just way too high - I mean Rio! - or maybe the financial stresses of preparing for the Olympics is stressing everyone out.
The Boys From Brazil
View from Christ the Redeemer
To be in Sao Paulo on a Weds & Thurs, well, who wouldn't grab the opportunity to hop over to Rio de Janeiro for the weekend? So I did, joined by my good friend Bats.
What a fabulous setting: the bay, the hills, the beach. We stayed at the southern end of the Copacabana, near Ipanema, and ate in the cafe where the 'The Girl From...' was written. Then took a taxi to the statue of Christ the Redeemer which was shrouded in cloud for most of the time, but at a viewing point a bit lower down had fantastic views. Can't believe I'm here.


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"1 Train" is a song by American hip hop recording artist ASAP Rocky from his debut studio album, Long. Live. ASAP (2013). The song was produced by Hit-Boy, and features additional verses from fellow American rappers Kendrick Lamar, Joey Badass, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson and Big K.R.I.T. The song is a posse cut created to feel like an "original '90s underground track." Upon the release of the album, high downloads resulted in the song peaking at number three on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

Background
The song features an ensemble of young rappers Kendrick Lamar, Joey Badass, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson and Big K.R.I.T. Rocky described the meaning behind the song saying, "I wanted to make a posse cut that felt like an original '90s underground track, and I didn't have to tell anyone what to do." He also said he "took it upon myself to feature all the people who I respect as artists of my generation." Rocky wanted to make sure that the track turned out perfectly, so he pieced it together himself, determining the order of every feature. He also said his favorite verse in the song is K.R.I.T.'s.

The song's title is a reference to New York City's No. 1 subway line. Rocky elaborated saying, "When you think about New York, you think about things like the subway, and I needed to bring it back to that essence," he said. "[But] when I'm rapping and mentioning 'anything is better than that 1 train,' it's the truth." He also said, "I was just thinking of each artist as a different train stop, and when you hear that beat, it just brings me back to like - well, for me, it brings me back to being at the bus stop or being on the train early in the morning, cold, mad at life on the way to school late. I'm showing up third period - that's the 1 train. Anything is better than the 1 train."

On December 18, 2012, the song leaked along with the rest of the album, a month before its retail release. Following the song's leak, it was rumored that Joey Badass would be signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label, due to his comments in the song. However, in January 2013, Joey dispelled the rumors saying he would rather stay independent than sign to a major label for the time being.

Music and lyrics
"1 Train" features a looped instrumental sampled from the 2003 song "Senen" by Syrian artist, Assala Nasri.  The song also features no refrain and continuous verses from the featured artists. Due to this it has received  many comparisons to classic Wu-Tang Clan cypher style songs.

Critical reception
The song was met with generally positive reviews, and sparked much debate on which rapper had the strongest verse on the song. Luke Fox of Exclaim! named the song an "indisputable mega-posse cut, "1 Train" is an event song, the kind of 1990s throwback album cut that, in a bygone era, would cause a segment of heads to buy the CD just for that one tune." Roman Cooper also gave the song a positive review saying, ""1 Train" is truly a must-listen as Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, and Big K.R.I.T. perfectly execute the cypher-style posse cut that's largely been missing since the 1990s. Each emcee comes correct, so don't be surprised if you and your friends will all have different favorite verses. The cut is also a perfect example of Rocky's refusal to be regional, as K.R.I.T.'s Southern drawl hits home just as well as Bronson's gritty NYC flavor." Expert Witness of MSN Music called the song a "terrific virtual-posse cut." Chris DeVillie of The A.V. Club credited Rocky for assembling an "eye-popping tag team of recent next big things to set the bar for 2013 posse cuts." Idolator praised all the rappers verses and called the song an "utterly ferocious, old school posse cut. Andrew Nosnitsky of Spin called the song, "a flatlined true-school posse cut that features every rapper you've ever read about on a blog", also saying Danny Brown had the best verse.

David Amidon of PopMatters said the instrumental "seems to go on forever despite a lot of solid verses, Hit-Boy's beat just fails to bring any energy to the situation. You can feel him going for a classic 1993, gritty NYC type cypher beat but it's just not there, a simple loud drum loop and a quickly grating violin swirl. It changes up a little but overall doesn't really get the Aftermath meets DITC vibe it's going for. It's especially a shame considering the talents of the rappers on hand, and the risks that are taken elsewhere." Michael Walsh of The Boston Phoenix called Rocky's verse his toughest on the album, however said that it was overshadowed by the guest appearances. Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine said the guests, "sound hungrier and more lyrically inventive than A$AP, who hangs back and contributes little." Chris Kelly of Fact also gave it a more mixed review saying, it is "an interesting experiment, but one so obviously engineered for blog interest that it's tough to enjoy on its merits. It would have been better off as a segment at the BET Awards, rather than a six minute series of verses in the middle of the album." Lucy Jones of NME also gave the song a mixed review, saying ASAP Rocky sounded weak compared to the guest rappers on the song. Dan Jackson of CMJ gave it a more negative review, calling it a "meandering, directionless mess."

Complex not only named Brown's verse the best of the song, they named his the sixth best verse of 2013. They said, "It's not just the sounds of Danny's voice that make this a memorable affair; the verse itself is the eccentric at his finest, from his tightly-packed wordplay ("That molly got me nauseous, aw shit, no off switch") to drug references to comedic lines, it's some of the most remarkable chaos around." HipHopDX called it one of the most memorable tracks of 2013.

Chart performance

References

2013 songs
Kendrick Lamar songs
Yelawolf songs
Big K.R.I.T. songs
ASAP Rocky songs
Songs written by Kendrick Lamar
Songs written by Big K.R.I.T.
Song recordings produced by Hit-Boy
Songs written by ASAP Rocky
Songs written by Hit-Boy
Songs written by Yelawolf
Posse cuts
Songs written by Joey Badass


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Another question for Robert O'Brien and those who would deny systemic racism in policing: Do you at least admit that there was a time in this country when such a thing was real? Was systemic racism within law enforcement a thing in say, the 1960s? The '30s? Before that?
White Denial — Bad Apple Edition
I would say this is the crux of the problem. Most police, Black nor White, understand America's first police were slavepatrollers and slave catchers. It's not taught in police academies for obvious reasons, so not to shame a White policing system which continually stays in business to employ White men to police Black bodies.
They allowed Blacks to join in on the action too. Pretty amazing to think about from a historical perspective. It's the equivalent of a descendant of former slaves signing up to catch their own people for descendants of former slaver owners and an institution that condoned slave catching and owning slaves. Mindboggling, but I digress.
Modern policing stems from policing Black bodies for slaveowners. Today, policing creates jobs for mediocre White men and provides city, county, and state governments with free labor (via jails and prisons) to do all sorts of things from making license plates, landscaping, making hand sanitzer during pandemics, and training police dogs.
American policing is inherently racist.
It's the reason White communities aren't policed the same way Blacks ones are despite White people being the majority of people in the nation possessing the majority of communities/land in this country. How is it that 13% percent of a national population can fill up all the jails and prisons if there wasn't a intentional effort to put them there? No one ever gives this any thought.
It's like having a five-pound bag of white sugar and you remove one-pound of that sugar, replacing it with brown sugar in the same bag. If you shake all the sugar up and pour it in a bowl, you're still going to see more white sugar than brown. The contents of that bow of sugar would be overwhelmingly White. That's what the criminal justice system should look like. It's what jail and prison populations would look like if policing wasn't racist and if the justice systems were fair.
But there not, and we know they are not.
America is racist, policing is racist, policing data is skewed and racist, and every system we have operated by any White government is inherently racist.
We want systemic change, not policy reform, because you cannot police individual racists. As long as racism is beneficial to perpatrators, nothing will change.


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The first edition of the Paris Talks conference has just ended.
We had more than 15 influential speakers from Paris and all around the world, more than 400 attendees and a team of volunteers from diverse background.
Before the video footage of the talks come out, we wanted to take this moment to relive the experience through short quotes shared by our speakers on the Paris Talks stage together with interesting insights coming from the community.
For a better recap of this masterclass, please check out this article published on Méta-media (France Televisions' Innovation Department) by Alexandra Yeh.
1. It can recognize a cat, but does not know what a cat is.
A few more quotes and shares from the community at the conference.
@michaelbahati and the whole @ParisTalks team and speakers!
Paris Talks video footage of all the talks from our speakers will be released in a few days but before that, you can check out our Google Photo page where you'll find other images and short interviews from Facebook Live sessions from all of our speakers.
Also, if you browse through social media with the #ParisTalks hashtag, you'll find a lot more.
Thank you again for having made the first edition of the Paris Talks conference a success.
Just like the past of Paris Talks, now its Future, together with that of Humanity, is in your hands.
In the meantime, don't forget to sign up for our newsletter for more on videos, the call for speakers, sponsors, partners, volunteers and mentors for the year 2019.
Let's fix the future together.
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Thank you all for you wonderful comments about the Swedish Cardi, and your answers… we knitters are a predictable bunch – more yarn, more projects, more happy!
I realized today (after casting on another scarf) that I never got around to taking pictures of the last scarf!
Alpaca lace scarf, knit for my mom for Mother's Day.
Pattern is Tiennie's Old Shale Scarf, one repeat narrower.
And the deliciously soft, but comparatively sandpaper-y, SuperKid/Silk Springscape. It's coming along nicely, as long as there is enough quiet to concentrate on the charts. If the kids are around (always) and distracting me (always, they're kids!) I can be distinctly short-tempered with both my knitting and them.
So I cast on something else, of course!
The Swiss Cheese Scarf, unstretched.
Honestly, this will probably never get finished. And if it does get finished, would anyone actually use it?
But it makes me laugh, it makes other people laugh, it's brainless, and completely charming. Winner!
What do you do when your WIPs don't suit your lifestyle? Do you steer around unsuitable projects?
After only 6 months on the needles the Swedish Cardi is finally finally done. Another sweater knit entirely from stash, WOO HOO!
Ok, it's being held closed with a safety pin. I haven't had a chance to so shopping for some nice clasps, soon.
I blogged about this thing so much at the beginning I feel like there's nothing left to say except: It's done, and I love it!
There are lots and lots more pictures on Flickr, and you can read more about it in earlier posts here, here, and here, or check it out on Ravelry.
I've already cast on a little "reward" project. Ironically, though it's beautiful, this might be another 6 month project. Seascape from the new Knitty, in a springscape yarn. This is yarn I won last summer in a blog contest over at Knititch, thank you so much Merete!
How do you celebrate FO happy endings?


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Q: Retrieving user sim number in Phonegap 3 / Cordova 3 I am working on an SMS app with Cordova/Phonegap and I want to retrieve the user's SIM number on Android and iOS device for authentication and verification purpose.
Can someone please point me to a plugin or a blog on how to go about that, since i have spent almost a week searching and even trying to manipulate the device API, but still to no avail.
Thank you.

A: Impossible to do this in IOS:
Refer : Get the device's phone number programmatically
for android it should be easy to write such plugin yourself. you can get the number trough the telephony manager:
TelephonyManager tmanager;
tmanager= (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String number = tmanager.getLine1Number();
return fillPhoneNumber(number);

Howto make a plugin you can find here:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.0.0/guide_plugin-development_android_index.md.html