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We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who took part in our Ceremonies at the Gibsons Legion.  It is an honour for the Legion to be able to put together an event such as this to pay our respects to our veterans past and present.  It is a day for us to reflect and to cherish our memories.  As you are aware, sadly, our older veterans have either become too infirm to be with us on this day or have passed away.  We are grateful that we still have a contingent of veterans on the Coast that we are able to honour for their service to this country.

Our special thanks go to all the representatives of the various organizations on the Coast for attending and laying your respective wreaths at the Cenotaph.  To our Air Cadets and Navy League Cadets for participating and looking so professional on parade and for the two Air Cadets who were on guard at the Cenotaph.  You are a credit to your leaders.  You make us so proud of you.

This event is very much a team effort and thanks go to our members who helped and also to the ladies of the Christian Life Assembly Church for their assistance with the food and all the donations received.  To our setup team, a very important group who dealt with chairs, wreaths, music, and tables. To the ladies for wreath distribution.  To the Pipe Band, both for the Parade and entertainment in the lounge afterward, always enjoyed by everyone. To the Colour Party who are always there for us as needed and to Frank Legros for raising and lowering the flag and to Ron Joyce for taking on the role of Parade Commander and keeping us all on our toes.  To the school band for the rousing performance in the Hall and to Isa Spiegelman for the Last Post and Reveille superbly performed and Matthew Douglas for the rendition of “In Flanders Fields”.  We are ever grateful to these young people from Elphinstone School and Mrs. Sara Douglas as their leader.  To Darrin Cassidy for the performance of his own composition “Camouflage Cowboy”, which touches the heart of all who hear it.  And, finally, to RCMP Staff Sgt. Polly Hallam, recently assigned to the Coast, for her interesting presentation and Pastor Jaz Ghag, our Chaplain for being part of the Ceremonies.

It would be amiss to not mention those who go out at various times of the day selling poppies.  We seem to have a struggle finding people from the membership to assist but this year we were so lucky to have several groups of young people from the community very anxious to help.  Thank you to Rob Ironmonger for distribution and collection of the boxes to the community and to Rhiannon, Carol, and Leona for counting and rolling all the coin.  To date, we have had almost $12,000 donated, which is a record, these funds go to helping our veterans in need and bursaries for the Elphinstone Grade 12s.

We had an enjoyable afternoon of socializing and entertainment by Bernie and Red, an excellent day all around.

I am forever grateful to all of you for your support.  My heartfelt thanks to all.

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MaXrd: Mathematica X-ray diffraction package

A comprehensive Mathematica package for crystallographic computations, MaXrd, has been developed. It comprises space group representations based on International Tables for Crystallography, volume A together with scattering factors from XOP and cross sections from xraylib. Featured functionalities include calculation of structure factors, linear absorption coefficients and crystallographic transformations. The crystal data used by MaXrd is normally generated from external cif files.

The package comes with a dynamic documentation seamlessly integrated with the Mathematica system, including code, examples, details and options. From the onset, minimal Mathematica experience is required to make use of the package. It may be a helpful supplement in research and teaching where crystallography and X-ray diffraction are essential. Although Mathematica is a proprietary software, all the code of this package is open source. It may easily be extended to cover user-specific applications.

The article Using Mathematica as a platform for crystallographic computing was published in the Journal of Applied Crystallography in February 2019 (Ramsnes, S., Larsen, H. B. & Thorkildsen, G. (2019). J. Appl. Cryst. 52, 214–218).

Getting started

Clone or download the repository if you want to develop on the package.

If you want to use the package, download the latest (or desired) release (MaXrd_<version>.zip).

In the file menu in Mathematica, select File -> Install.... In the pop-up window select Application as the type of item to install and From File ... as the source. Select the downloaded zip file and click on OK. Wait for the extraction of files to be completed and restart Mathematica.

Using MaXrd

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<< MaXrd`

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To access the package documentation, open the Wolfram Documentation in Mathematica after installing it and search for «MaXrd» or any related content.

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Drinks are generally one boring, homogenous color. Usually it doesn't matter because you're in a dark bar and we're drinking for the flavor (or more likely, to forget). But sometimes it's fun to shake things up. Add a little color, add a new dimension to your drink. And wouldn't you know it, the key ingredient is science.

It's Friday afternoon, you've made it through the long week, and it's time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo's weekly booze column. A cocktail shaker full of innovation, science, and alcohol. Who are you calling a pousse, buddy?

Layer Upon Layer

Meet the pousse-café, a.k.a. a layered drink, a.k.a. a stacked drink. It might look like an expertly made latte, or a Rocket Pop, and that's all fine and dandy. What it actually is, though? A drink with several different types of liquid (typically between three and seven) carefully layered on top of each other. It's an eye-catching effect because it looks like it defies the laws of physics.

On the contrary, it's actually the laws of physics that makes it possible. For the lowdown, we once again tapped our friend Timothy Zohn at AQ Restaurant and Bar in San Francisco.

Specific Gravity

The secret sauce that makes these layered drinks work is specific gravity, or what's more commonly known as "relative density." It refers to the mass of a unit of volume (e.g. one fluid ounce) of one substance, compared to the mass of the same unit of volume (again, one fluid ounce) of another substance. So, for example, say you have one fluid ounce of water and one fluid ounce of gold. They both occupy the same amount of space, right, since a fluid ounce is a measurement of volume? But the gold is much heavier, therefore it has a greater relative density (specific gravity). If you put the two substances together in a bottle, the gold would sink and the water would float.

The same principles are at work in our pousse-café. Say water is our reference substance (which it usually is in science). That would give it a specific gravity of 1.0. Pure ethanol alcohol generally has a specific gravity of around 0.8, which means its relative density is less than water, and so it floats on top. Sugar, on the other hand, is heavier than water, and so when it is dissolved in a fluid it increases the relative density of it. Since sugar and alcohol are both common in almost all of the ingredients of a pousse-café this creates an interesting balancing act.

The sweeter something is, the denser it will be and thus more likely to sink. But, the more alcoholic it is, the less dense it will become, and will be more likely to float. Grenadine, which has tons of sugar and no alcohol, sinks like a boxer throwing a fight. Bacardi 151, which is low in sugar but high in alcohol, floats like a 5th grader on Robitussin. It's all the liquids in between, however—those multi-colored liqueurs which are necessary for the drink's distinctive look—that are a little harder to pin down, since they all have different ratios of water, sugar, and alcohol (plus whatever else is in them).

It's worth mentioning that specific gravity is affected by two other factors. There's pressure, which generally speaking is not something you need to worry about in this case (the subtle changes in environmental pressure aren't generally strong enough to affect this drink). But then there's heat, which can play a critical role. Heating a liquid causes it to expand, which decreases its density, making it more likely to float. If you're heating all of the ingredients equally, then it doesn't matter because remember, we're talking about relative density. However, if one ingredient is coming out of the freezer and another is coming out of the kettle, you might accidentally make your sinker float and your floater sink. In other words, this is a lot easier when everything is at room temperature, though if you want to try using heat to your advantage (like how a barista gets hot espresso to sit on top of warm milk, but under the less-dense foam), have at it.

Making the Drink

There are a few simple rules to follow:

  • You want to use a narrow glass to maximize the thickness of each layer without using a ton of booze. There actually is a specific pousse-café glass, but only your crazy aunt has those, and do you really want to go over there and borrow one? No. Just use a champagne flute or a skinny shot glass.
  • The order in which you pour is the most important aspect. You want to start with the liquid that has the greatest specific gravity, and decrease as you ascend. That way they liquids won't try to pass through each other, which will mostly likely just end in blending. Terrible stupid blending! Start with the sweetest, least-alcoholic liquid, and go up from there until you have the least-sweet, most-alcoholic liquid at the top.
  • Pouring technique is critically important. This definitely takes a steady hand. If you pour too fast, the top layer will plunge down into the one under it, which will cause mixing. That ain't pretty, and prettiness is what this drink is all about (prettiness and science). The top of a bar spoon (as Tim demonstrates in the video) is pretty much the ideal tool, but you can pour over the back of a regular spoon, too. Just position the spoon right above the last layer, and pour as slowly as humanly possible. This is why bartenders hate you for ordering these.

For the pousse-café in the video, Tim used Creme de Menthe, Campari, Averna, and Absinthe, in that order. You can see that the difference in gravity between the Creme de Menthe and the Campari is quite large by the way they practically bounce off each other. In contrast, the Campari and Averna are extremely close in gravity, and you have to go very slowly to keep them from blending. Tim added a a few drops of water, to break out an additional layer of color (and flavor) in the absinthe, and finished it off with a pinch of sea salt. That might sound weird, but those bottom layers are so sweet—the salt cut really through that in a pleasing way and made it much tastier.

Remember, not all of the layers have to have alcohol in them. Lime juice is very high in sugar and has no alcohol, which, combined with its sourness, makes it a great bottom layer—think of it as a chaser. There are dozens of other pousse-café recipes out there, and a quick search will find you some tasty ones. Dallas Bartenders, for example, not only gives you a ton of recipes, but they have a chart of the specific gravity of a bunch of different spirits and liqueurs, so you can use that knowledge to do your own experimentation. Very handy.

As a quick shortcut, here's how some popular liquors rate:

Light: Southern Comfort, Sloe Gin, Brandy

Medium: Triple Sec, Amaretto, Blue Curacao

Heavy: Kahlua, Grenadine

Drinking It

There are two schools of thought here. One says you just knock it back like a shot, and let all those flavors hit you in rapid succession. The other says that you should sip a pousse-café through a straw, one layer at a time, so you can enjoy each as you go. Which is best ultimately depends on what recipe you went with and your personal preference.

It should be noted that these are, almost without exception, incredibly sweet. The pinch of salt certainly helps a lot, but this is almost definitely a hangover waiting to happen. If anything, they're dessert shots, and they're certainly fun to look at. Frankly, they're not really our cup of tea, but we just couldn't pass up the chance to demonstrate some fun scientific principles through drinking. And who doesn't have a sweet-tooth every once in a while?

Timothy Zohn is the Bar Manager at AQ Bar and Restaurant in San Francisco, He has spent the last eight years working at some of the best bars in the city with some of the best bartenders in the country. He is proud to call San Francisco home. You can find him on Twitter @TimothyZohn

Thank you to Tim and the AQ Bar and Restaurant for their time, and to Trevor Easter for the love connection.


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Current neutral observers are calling the crypto-coin market “volatile.” It’s not volatile. Since last December it’s been going down like a lead balloon, there’s no way around even for Bitcoin, Ethereum or Ripple (the top threes). But the cryptosphere marches on in the knowledge that bearish runs are not eternal but just a stage in which you wait for the next bullish run to arrive, and take advantage of the opportunity to buy cheap.

In that spirit, several blockchain projects keep moving forward and pursuing their goals as if the market didn’t matter at all. And if they get their way, the market won’t matter at all, indeed. Let’s talk about a few of them.

Last week was “Blockchain Week” in San Francisco, home of Silicon Valley and digital tech capital of the world. Many interesting news came out concerning Ripple, Ethereum and Bitcoin last week. Let’s briefly review some of them.

Ripple’s annual conference was held starting last Monday, with former President William Clinton delivering the keynote speech (which barely mentioned blockchain technology or cryptocurrencies at all) but gathering a lot of attention for the event.

Swell 2018 (that’s the conference’s name) concentrated on Ripple’s platforms’ applications and the launch of xRapid, the company’s new platform which will use XRP (Ripple’s native currency) as a means to consolidate an international remittances network.

Ripple’s technology to settle international payments is ready to go into the production stage. It’s not extensively deployed yet. But big players such as Banco Santander are using it already, and the tech is so good it could end up taking over SWIFT’s business. SWIFT’s conference is getting held at the end of this month too, and they also included Ripple in theirs (a big surprise to many).

The most relevant thing about Swell is that three big financial institutions are using xRapid in the production stage already, not just as a pilot or as a trial. If that works well for those three banks, many more will follow, creating demand for the XRP token and bringing Ripple’s technology into the traditional financial system’s mainstream.

Big and small banks all over the world are starting to realize how Ripple’s platforms and currency can give them a competitive advantage and joining in pilot programs. They can save money, time, provide their customers a better service. They’re paying attention.

The mood at Swell, according to participants, was very optimistic which is good news for everybody in the crypto community, not just for Ripple. It’s all about mainstream adoption, which is the point in which cryptocurrencies stand a serious chance to take over the world. No, we’re not joking about this.

After Ripple, we have Ehtereum to talk about. Things haven’t changed there in a while. The same amazing advantages. The same complaints: the network is slow, and the gas price becomes inconvenient as the token’s value goes up.

That is why the community is working hard to make things faster at Ethereum, but it’s also why many projects are looking to transfer their platforms away from Ethereum to other blockchains which are much faster and also much cheaper (Cardano, EOS, Tron are good examples, some of which, ironically, started over Ethereum).

On Bitcoin’s front, prices are still expected to rise. But nobody knows when. While nobody doubts this will happen, it’s becoming a bit of a tedious wait because it’s been ten months already.

There’s obviously nothing wrong with Bitcoin, but speculative pressure has kept it down for a very long time, and that pressure keeps almost all other coins down because, in exchanges, most cryptocurrencies are pegged to Bitcoin in some way or another.

In short: Despite the not so pleasing present, there seems to be a bright future ahead for Ripple, Ethereum and of course the king, Bitcoin. There’s plenty of good news in the cryptosphere, and we didn’t even mention Tron or other projects that have been leaping forward spectacularly. But don’t worry, we report on all those news too, every day.

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The cryptocurrency market has been doing rather well in 2019 — certainly much better than in 2018. More than a year ago, the market crashed from its all-time high, and in the months that followed, it lost over 80% of its market cap. Bitcoin (BTC), as the leading digital currency, also dropped from $20,000 per coin to barely $3,200 in 2018.

These days, however, the situation seems to be turning, with digital currencies seeing significant growth in prices ever since mid-February. While January stopped the drops, February is the month when the market once again started seeing gains, and this kind of behavior has continued to this day. But, what does this mean for the future? Is this a passing trend, or is the crypto winter truly over?

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Questions such as the short-term future of Bitcoin are on many traders’ and investors’ minds right now and have been ever since the prices started growing again. A well-known Futures Now trader, Jim Iuorio, recently stated that Bitcoin would start seeing massive profits if it surpasses the price of $4,045. That was, of course, before the coin surged by around $1000 in the last week.

However, Iuorio’s prediction was that BTC is unlikely to go below $3,820, while the growth beyond $4,045 would mean massive gains for those involved with the industry. Soon after this prediction…

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It’s been well over a year since the crypto market reached its peak and then crashed, dropping to such lows that most of the coins lost anywhere between 80% and 95% of their value. A few of them lost even more. Of course, this was not enough to eradicate the crypto market, and the bulls are still as optimistic as ever, especially these days, when Bitcoin price surges again, taking the rest of the market with it.

Some predictions claim that Bitcoin will reach its own glory days within a year or two, and there are even speculations that the largest cryptocurrency might spike up to $100,000 per coin. One claim from last week even sees BTC hitting $400,000, as the highest price which someone was brave enough to predict.

While it is certainly possible — at this point, pretty much anything is — not everyone is willing to take such a gamble and invest their hard-earned money into a risky asset such as digital currencies. With that in mind, here are three alternatives that are considerably safer than Bitcoin and the altcoins.

1. Investing and re-investing in stocks

A lot of people — especially younger generations — find stocks to be incredibly boring. Most of the time, all you do is invest, and use the returns for re-investing in high-yielding shares. However, while boring will not…

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Ever since 2019 started, the bear market of 2018 has been losing momentum, with the bulls emerging numerous times in short intervals. This was the beginning of a crypto recovery, which still has quite a long way to go.

However, last week, Bitcoin saw massive growth in transactions, reaching a 14-month high. These were the levels that were previously seen back in 2017, as BTC approached its highest point in terms of price. The growth also reflected strongly on BTC price, which spiked yesterday from around $4.100 to the current $4,672.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin market cap followed as well, currently sitting above $82.3 billion, while the trading volume exceeded $14.5 billion.

What caused the growth?

While this is an exceptional growth, and potentially a start of the bull run that everyone was waiting for, it did not come without a cause. One of the reasons why BTC surged was last week’s Weiss Ratings report of multiple different cryptocurrencies. The report’s authors even stated themselves that the best time to invest might be very near at this point.

Weiss Ratings has done reports about specific coins in the past as well, and this time, they noticed a significant improvement in coins’ performance. The report mentions growth in user transaction volume, network capacity, as well as network security, which the authors took as an improvement coming from the evolution of the…

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Watch Above: The debate into secondary suites in Calgary’s inner city has raged for years, but late Tuesday night there was an important victory. Doug Vaessen reports.

CALGARY – After 10 hours of debate, city councillors have taken one step towards legalizing secondary suites in some Calgary communities.

“Council has been reluctant to go for the touchdown on this and do what every other city in Calgary already has done.  But last night we achieved a very important first down,” said Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

The marathon debate at City Hall on Monday ended with a new bylaw passing first reading. At this point, the bylaw will only apply to inner-city Wards 7, 8, 9 and 11.

The contentious issue will head back to council in June for two more votes.

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The bylaw comes with the following conditions:

• Landlords would have to notify residents that live in the area;
• The city would still have discretionary power to approve or deny applications;
• Landlords would have to apply for a business licence.
The conditions are needed to protect homeowners in R1 zones (single family dwellings) where the secondary suites are currently prohibited, said councillor Shane Keating.

“The number one complaint—we hear often about unruly tenants or landlords that don’t look after the property. If you license it the same as any other business in the city, if they are not following up on what is a good neighbours practice, the licence is taken away and they can’t have their secondary suite.”

The changes are expected back at council in June for final approval once the city has a chance to study the bylaw.

It’s been a long and contentious fight to allow more legal secondary suites in the city, but Nenshi said he hopes it’s just the start of things to come.

“I think it’s a very good compromise. Frankly it’s a compromise I am surprised council has made, but I think it’s a good compromise and hope council will give second and third readings to the bylaw and finalize it in June.”

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Mental Fitness for Seniors

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  We’ve talked a lot about how you can keep yourself feeling physically strong into your golden years, but what about the mind? Keeping the mind active throughout your life is essential for maintaining a quick wit, sharp memory, and… Read More

3 Ways That Seniors Can Avoid Becoming Victims of Fraud

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    Fraud is becoming an increasingly common problem and every year more and more seniors are targeted. In fact, seniors make up 30% of all fraud victims and over 50% of telephone fraud victims, which means it is critically… Read More

The Best Things About Getting Older

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  Getting older can be a difficult concept for many people. You may not look the way you used to. You may feel your mind slowing down. There is so much you may feel you can’t do anymore. The list… Read More

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After Grozny Gun Battle, Human Rights Defenders in Chechnya Under Attack

"Committee Against Torture" activists poses with an Amnesty International banner. June 27, 2014. Bashkortostan, Russia.

“Committee Against Torture” activists poses with an Amnesty International banner. June 27, 2014. Bashkortostan, Russia.

After Grozny’s December 4 gun attack, unidentified men retaliated by burning down the homes of the militants’ families, apparently fulfilling a threat by Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government.

Sergei Babinets is a lawyer and staff member of Joint Mobile Group, the Grozny branch of the Committee Against Torture, a Nizhnii Novgorod-based NGO. After the arsons, Babinets posted online some of the first pictures of the destroyed homes, providing evidence that Kadyrov is actively pursuing his stated policy of punishing the relatives of suspected militants.

Less than 10 days later, Joint Mobile Group’s office, which doubled as living quarters for Babinets and his colleagues, was itself set on fire

Back on December 4, when Chechen security services in Grozny were still fighting the last of the militants, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina surmised on Facebook that the second stage of the counter-terrorist operation—the authorities’ retaliation—would be worse for civilians. Milashina noted that the militants, on the other hand, were careful to avoid civilian casualties:

Это не случайно. Они не добрые люди. Но они – отличные стратеги. Они прекрасно знают, какая обратка последует от Кадырова… Кадыров прикажет мстить родственникам боевиков. И дальним, и ближним. Непропорционально жестоко. Тем самым вызывая в республике уже даже не страх, потому что бояться еще больше невозможно. Предел достигнут. Именно поэтому сегодняшние погибшие боевики будут восприниматься как герои… Потому что простые люди И ТАК под огнем в Чечне.

It wasn't just a coincidence. [The militants] are not nice people. They are, however, excellent strategists. They know well what reaction will come from Kadyrov… Kadyrov will take revenge on the militants’ relatives, distant and close, with disproportionate cruelty. [But] in doing so, he can't even invoke fear, because it's not possible to be more afraid. The limit has been reached. This is why the militants killed in Grozny will be regarded as heroes… because common people are ALREADY under fire in Chechnya.

The counter-terrorist operation's second phase has proceeded according to Milashina's grim expectations. Groups of unidentified men, presumably Chechen special forces, soon descended on the homes of suspected militants’ families in Gudermes, Yandy, and other towns. An informant in Kotar-Yurt in the Achkhoi-Martan District described the campaign to the website Kavkaz Uzel

Они окружили дом, принадлежащий семье Бютукаевых, разбили там окна и двери, а затем подожгли. Несмотря на то, что огонь грозил перекинуться на другие дома, тушить огонь не разрешали. Людей отгоняли криками и угрозами.

They surrounded the Byutukaevs’ home, broke the windows and doors, and then set it ablaze. Despite the fact that the fire threatened to spread to other homes, they did not allow us to put it out. They drove people away with shouting and threats.

So far, ten homes have been set ablaze. Human Rights Watch's Russia director, Tatyana Lokshina, says the practice goes “against the Russian Constitution, Russian law, [and] against Russia's international obligations.”

In rare effort to hold the Chechen authorities accountable for breaking the law, Igor Kalyapin, head of the Committee Against Torture, appealed to Attorney General Yury Chaika and Russia's top federal investigator, Alexander Bastrykin, to explore the legality of Kadyrov's promise to destroy the homes of militants’ relatives. This was the first time a civic activist publicly criticized Kadyrov in five years, since the assassination of human rights worker Natalia Estemirova in 2009.

The aftermath of the fire that consumed Joint Mobile Group's office in Grozny. December 14, 2014. Photograph by Sergei Babinets.

Kadyrov's response to Kalyapin was almost instant. Writing on Instagram on December 10, Kadyrov wondered publicly if Kalyapin was working with the gunmen who attacked Grozny, funneling them money from Western intelligence agencies, whom Kaydrov accuses of supporting North Caucasian terrorists. The next day, while speaking at a press-conference in Moscow, unidentified men pelted Kalyapin with eggs.

Next, on December 13, a large rally, ostensibly “against terrorism,” took place in Grozny. Demonstrators registered their support for Kadyrov, and many in the crowd also carried banners antagonizing local human rights activists. One placard, for instance, read, “Kalyapin Go Home $.” On social media, some people suggested the protesters were there against their will or without really understanding the rally's purpose.

That evening, Joint Mobile Group’s office was burned down. Babinets and his colleague say they saw masked, armed men following them after the fire, as well. When they phoned the police to file an official report, two men in camouflage detained them instead, holding them for several hours and seizing the organization's computers and technical equipment.

So far, no one on Babinets’ team has been charged with any crime, leaving it unknown how far the authorities will go to antagonize the group.

Joint Mobile Group is one of the last remaining independent human rights organizations in the Chechen Republic. The group's lawyers offer Chechens a rare means to address social problems that no one else discusses. If recent incidents ultimately force the organization from Chechnya, the loss to the local population—with its many victims of kidnappings, torture, and murder—would be difficult to exaggerate.

In an interview with BBC, Babinets said:

За свою безопасность мы, естественно, опасаемся, но выезжать за пределы республики мы не планируем. Потому что у нас очень много работы, и завтра будет и судебное заседание по одному из наших дел. Поэтому нам надо продолжать работать.

Of course we are concerned about our safety, but we do not plan to leave the republic. Because we have a lot of work to do, and tomorrow there is a court hearing for one of our cases. That is why we must continue to work.

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God is my Refuge!

Manna For Today: Sunday, September 9, 2018

Psalm 46:1God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.

As my refuge, God is:

• My comfort – I find great solace in Him.

• My relief – He lifts my burdens.

• My help – Nothing is too big or small for Him.

• My hope – My mind is set at peace knowing that God is working on my behalf.

Lord, you are the strength of my life. I can face any trouble with you!

Remember, you are loved!

Peace and blessings!

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  1. Father, thank You for being my refuge in all my situations and circumstances even when I got in the way. Thank you for giving me the right mind and desire to move toward obedience that resulted in my experience of joy and peace at that time. Help me to continuously grow in getting me out of the way so that I may enjoy all the promises that you have promised for my life. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

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God Didn't Say That

Bible Translations and Mistranslations

How Similar Words Lead Bible Translators Astray

“Nuclear families” have nothing to do with “nuclear energy,” in spite of the word “nuclear” in both phrases.

Most people know that two unrelated words can look the same: the “bank” in “river bank” and in “money bank,” for example. Such words usually mean completely different things.

It’s less commonly appreciated that closely related words can also mean completely different things. In this case, the “nuclear” in “nuclear family” and in “nuclear energy” comes directly from the word “nucleus.” But even so, knowing what “nuclear families” are doesn’t help understand the phrase “nuclear energy.” (This kind of mistake is so common that “nuclear magnetic resonance imaging,” which measures the interaction between magnetic fields and atomic nuclei, was renamed just “magnetic resonance imaging” because “nuclear” falsely suggested that the process had something to do with radioactivity.)

This basic fact about languages has important implications for Bible translation.

One example comes from the Hebrew word hikriv, which means both “draw near” and “sacrifice.” It’s possible that these two meanings, as with “nuclear” in English,” have common ancestry. But that doesn’t mean that the two meanings are related. Nonetheless, it’s a common mistake to assume that “sacrifices” in the Bible had more to do with “drawing near” than the English translation suggests. They did not.

A second example is the Greek work sarx, literally “flesh,” but — as is widely known and often discussed — the word meant something different for Paul than it did for the authors of, say, Genesis.

If identical words can mean different things, certainly related words can, too. Yet many Bible translators ignore this fact.

An example comes from the two related words chamad and nechmad in Hebrew. They are both from the root Ch.M.D. The initial “n” in Hebrew essentially marks passive voice. And the vowel differences are a direct result of the lengths of the words. So it looks like chamad and nechmad should be related just like any other active/passive pair.

But they are not. The verb nechmad means “desirable” while the active verb chamad means “take.” This confusion led to a mistranslation of the last commandment, which should read “do not take,” not “do not covet.” (I have lots more here: “The Ten Commandments Don’t Forbid Coveting” and in this video: “Thou shalt not covet?.)

Returning to the English “nuclear,” it would be a mistake to try to use “nuclear energy” to understand what “nuclear family” means, and it would almost always be a mistake for a translator from English to another language to try to use the same foreign word for “nuclear” in both cases.

Similarly, it seems to me, the Bible translation challenge in this regard is twofold: First, to differentiate between similar or even identical words, so that the meaning of one doesn’t wrongly shade the meaning of the other. And secondly, only to try to use identical English words for identical Hebrew or Greek ones when the original words mean the same thing.

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If Jerome Jumped off a Cliff, Would You?

In rejecting word-for-word translations, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace explains that, “Jerome argued against this, noting that his translation of the Vulgate was not word-for-word, but sense-for-sense.” A follow-up comment suggests that Jerome implied that he translated holy scriptures “word for word.”

Here’s my question: Does it matter what Jerome did? More generally, does it matter how anyone in the ancient world approached translation? What if Paul had a clear position on the matter? Should we care what approach the Septuagint reflects?

I have often pointed out that we are better equipped now to retrieve the ancient Hebrew and Greek meanings and render them in a new language than we have been at any time since the words of Scripture were first written down.

My analogy is that we know more now about ancient Egypt than they did in the days of King James or of Jesus. Even though they were closer in time, modern science gives us tools they couldn’t even have imagined: carbon dating, for example, and satellite imaging. Similarly, we have better linguistic tools now than they had 400 or 2,000 years ago, and these tools give us better insight into the original texts.

Though I think most people agree that we’ve made huge progress in the fields of linguistics and translation, that doesn’t mean that the matter is settled. After all, “out with the old, in with the new” is hardly a phrase commonly heard resounding in seminary halls.

As it happens, the traditional Jewish answer is that the modern advances are irrelevant. What’s really important is the tradition as reflected in the Talmud, Rashi, and so forth. In one case, the Dead Sea Scrolls, combined with the LXX, provided convincing evidence that two letters are switched in the traditional first word of Deuteronomy 31:1. This is why the KJV translates that verse as, “And Moses went and spake these words…” while the NRSV and NAB agree on “When Moses finished speaking these words…” But the Jewish Publication Society translation retains the older understanding, based on the older text. It’s not that the evidence isn’t convincing. It’s irrelevant.

(As part of my travels, I commonly present to interfaith audiences, and, by and large, the Christians are bewildered by this Jewish approach, while the Jews often think it’s self evident.)

Another example comes from the Ten Commandments. There’s very good reason to think that the 10th commandment has to do with taking, not wanting, but not everyone agrees that we should update the translations or our understanding of the text.

All of this brings us back to the issue of historical translation approaches. Does it matter how people translated in the past? Or should we just use the best that modern science has to offer? What do you think?

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What’s This Abomination in Leviticus? (And How Context Can Help)

Leviticus 18:22 describes a man having sex with another man as a to’evah, commonly translated as “abomination.” But as we saw a few months ago, the Hebrew to’evah had to do with cultural norms, not absolute right and wrong (“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? [Or: Why Couldn’t the Egyptians Eat with the Hebrews?]“).

Does this mean that Leviticus 18:22 is about preferences and not morality? Not necessarily.

I’ve frequently explained that the best way to figure out what a word means is to look at the different contexts in which it’s used. (This is how we figured out what to’evah means, for example.) There’s another kind of context, too: the particular environment in which a word is used. And it’s just as important.

In the case of Leviticus 18, we find a string of phrases that all have the same form: “Do not do X. It is a Y.”

In Leviticus 18:22, X is “a man having sex with another man” and Y is to’evah.

Five verses earlier, in Leviticus 18:17, X is “marrying a woman and her daughters or granddaughters,” and Y is zimah. While the nuances of zimah are difficult to discern, the word is clearly negative — “depravity,” according to the NSRV, “shame” in the NAB, and “wickedness” in the KJV.

In Leviticus 18:23, X is bestiality and Y is tevel, another negative word whose nuances are elusive. (The NRSV has “perversion,” the NAB “abhorrent,” and the KJV “confusion.”)

Leviticus 20 is similar, both in terms of the context and the pattern, though the details differ. (Tevel is used for a man who has sex with his daughter-in-law, among other differences.)

In fact, we see this kind of thing frequently. It’s common to find nearly synonymous words compared and contrasted in biblical Hebrew, though it occurs more often in poetry than in prose. In these cases of parallelism, what’s usually important is not the nuances of each word, but rather their combined effect.

For instance, Isaiah 1:2 reads, “Hear, O heavens, and listen O earth…” (NRSV). The point there is not the differences between hearing and listening, or why the heavens hear but the earth listens. Instead, the passage uses the two words to emphasize a single concept.

Similarly, Leviticus 18 and 20 seem to be to lists of forbidden activities, and focusing on the nuances of to’evah (or zimah or tevel) seems like the wrong way to understand the passages.

So even though (as we saw) to’evah, by itself, indicates something unacceptable to local custom, I still think the right way to understand the original intention of Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13 is that they were meant to prohibit male homosexual sex. (What we do with this information, as I’ve discussed elsewhere, is of course complicated.)

I also think this is just one example of a more general pattern. We can’t understand the Bible without knowing what the words mean, but, equally, knowing what the words mean is just the first step.

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John Daly Wins Champions Tourney, First Win Since 2004

Only John Daly could ride three straight bogeys to a title.

“It wasn’t pretty at the end,” Daly said, “but I got it done and that’s all that matters.”

It took him 21 tournaments in the Champions format to win a tournament. The Insperity Invitational was the place. It’s his first pro win since 200 when he won the Buick Invitational.

The 51-year-old Daly shot a final-round 69 to finish 14-under and win $322,500. He had an early eagle and led by two strokes after 15, then bogeyed the next three holes but still survived.

The Woodlands, located about 45 miles north of Houston, has long been a good course for Daly. He finished in the Top 10 four times playing the Shell Houston Open.

It was his 21st win as a professional. He has five on the PGA Tour, including the 1991 PGA Championship and the 1995 Open Championship.

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Common mistakes when buying a house

Many of our clients come to us after a string of disastrous attempts to navigate the property market themselves.  Here are some examples of common mistakes when buying a house that we come across.

Giving the selling agent too much information. Putting you at a disadvantage when negotiating.
Not giving the selling agent enough information. How many people have missed out on a property because the agent did not know they were interested? The art is in knowing what to say and when.
Panic in a rising market and buy foolishly. As Louis Christopher said last week, “Remember lemons are very hard to sell in bad markets.” But we see plenty of them selling at the moment.
Panic in a rising market and don’t buy at all. Of course the market will level off at some stage, but how much will prices rise before that happens?
Keep increasing their offer without a counter-offer from the vendor.This is not the way to negotiate with an unrealistic vendor.
Leave too much time between getting an offer accepted and being ready to exchange contracts. And leaving the door open for another buyer to snap it up.
Allow the auctioneer to create a rhythm. Before you know it you have bid over your limit.
Let the fact that other people are bidding confirm what the property is “worth”. Instead of doing your own research.
Believe what the agent is quoting for a property. Buyers largely determine what property sells for in this market and there aren’t many that tell the agent what they are prepared to spend.

There are many pitfalls for the unwary and the weary. And it is so easy to get caught up in the general frenzy and lose sight of what represents value for you. Don’t also get trapped in the common mistakes when buying a house.

Further reading:

How much can you trust a Real Estate Agent?

7 mistakes property buyers make that cost them in a buyers market

Make sure you get what you think you are buying

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Prayer, the Great Essential

By E.M. Bounds

You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it — Sir Thomas Buxton Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother: pray, pray, pray — Edward Payson

PRAYER, in the preacher’s life, in the preacher’s study, in the preacher’s pulpit, must be a conspicuous and an all-impregnating force and an all-coloring ingredient. It must play no secondary part, be no mere coating. To him it is given to be with his Lord “all night in prayer.” The preacher, to train himself in self-denying prayer, is charged to look to his Master, who, “rising up a great while before day, went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.” The preacher’s study ought to be a closet, a Bethel, an altar, a vision, and a ladder, that every thought might ascend heavenward ere it went manward; that every part of the sermon might be scented by the air of heaven and made serious, because God was in the study.

As the engine never moves until the fire is kindled, so preaching, with all its machinery, perfection, and polish, is at a dead standstill, as far as spiritual results are concerned, till prayer has kindled and created the steam. The texture, fineness, and strength of the sermon is as so much rubbish unless the mighty impulse of prayer is in it, through it, and behind it. The preacher must, by prayer, put God in the sermon. The preacher must, by prayer, move God toward the people before he can move the people to God by his words. The preacher must have had audience and ready access to God before he can have access to the people. An open way to God for the preacher is the surest pledge of an open way to the people.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing. Such praying has no connection with the praying for which we plead. We are stressing true praying, which engages and sets on fire every high element of the preacher’s being — prayer which is born of vital oneness with Christ and the fullness of the Holy Ghost, which springs from the deep, overflowing fountains of tender compassion, deathless solicitude for man’s eternal good; a consuming zeal for the glory of God; a thorough conviction of the preacher’s difficult and delicate work and of the imperative need of God’s mightiest help. Praying grounded on these solemn and profound convictions is the only true praying. Preaching backed by such praying is the only preaching which sows the seeds of eternal life in human hearts and builds men up for heaven.

It is true that there may be popular preaching, pleasant preaching, taking preaching, preaching of much intellectual, literary, and brainy force, with its measure and form of good, with little or no praying; but the preaching which secures God’s end in preaching must be born of prayer from text to exordium, delivered with the energy and spirit of prayer, followed and made to germinate, and kept in vital force in the hearts of the hearers by the preacher’s prayers, long after the occasion has past.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God’s presence in the power of the Holy Spirit. There are preachers innumerable who can deliver masterful sermons after their order; but the effects are short-lived and do not enter as a factor at all into the regions of the spirit where the fearful war between God and Satan, heaven and hell, is being waged because they are not made powerfully militant and spiritually victorious by prayer.

The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men. The preachers who are the mightiest in their closets with God are the mightiest in their pulpits with men.

Preachers are human folks, and are exposed to and often caught by the strong driftings of human currents. Praying is spiritual work; and human nature does not like taxing, spiritual work. Human nature wants to sail to heaven under a favoring breeze, a full, smooth sea. Prayer is humbling work. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. It is easier not to pray than to bear them. So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times — little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salvo for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it. The time given to prayer by the average preacher scarcely counts in the sum of the daily aggregate. Not infrequently the preacher’s only praying is by his bedside in his nightdress, ready for bed and soon in it, with, perchance the addition of a few hasty snatches of prayer ere he is dressed in the morning. How feeble, vain, and little is such praying compared with the time and energy devoted to praying by holy men in and out of the Bible! How poor and mean our petty, childish praying is beside the habits of the true men of God in all ages! To men who think praying their main business and devote time to it according to this high estimate of its importance does God commit the keys of his kingdom, and by them does he work his spiritual wonders in this world. Great praying is the sign and seal of God’s great leaders and the earnest of the conquering forces with which God will crown their labors.

The preacher is commissioned to pray as well as to preach. His mission is incomplete if he does not do both well. The preacher may speak with all the eloquence of men and of angels; but unless he can pray with a faith which draws all heaven to his aid, his preaching will be “as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” for permanent God-honoring, soul-saving uses.

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Medicine in Your Yard: Medicinal Winter Weeds

By Grace Bryce, MH, CNHP

In Central Texas, we begin to notice a little green emerging here and there in January.  For some people, it is time to remove the early weeds before they take over.  Many of these little winter weeds are useful  medicinally or as edible plants.  Many of them are rich in nutrients.  Plants have been used for medicine for thousands of years, and can be reliable medicine.  It is interesting that many of the same herbs are found in many parts of the world and will grow in various climates, although happier in some places, than others.  Perhaps you have wondered what these plants are, or if they are good for anything.  Hopefully, this will help you identify the “weeds” in your yard and maybe inspire you to make good use of them.

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale

There are so many plants that could be confused with dandelions, but fortunately, none of the look-a-likes are poisonous.  The only stems are the flower stems, which along with the leaves, grow directly from the root.  Dandelions get their name from the IMG_1341French “dents de lion” or “teeth of the lion”, because the leaves are shaped like lion teeth.  They are smooth and not prickly.  They may also have a little red coloring to them.  The leaves are a little bitter and are tasty in salads. Dandelion has a diuretic effect and helps remove urinary waste, without depleting minerals.  Traditionally, Dandelions have been used for liver, kidney, spleen and skin support.    I think of these yellow flowers as “little drops of sunshine”.

Chickweed Stellaria media

This cute little herb is found worldwide. It contains Vitamin C & flavonoids. Traditionally IMG_2075used internally for rheumatism, gout, stiff joints, tb and diseases of the blood. It is commonly used externally for hemorrhoids, inflammation, poorly healing wounds, eczema, psoriasis, and other skin disease, cuts or wounds, especially when there is irritation or itching. Juice it with pineapple juice for an extra boost or throw it in your soup. The little flowers look like stars.

Shepherd’s Purse Capsella bursa-pastorisIMG_2070IMG_2097

This early spring herb has fruit that looks like little hearts. You have a Valentine in your yard! Shepherd’s Purse has been used traditionally to regulate blood pressure and for excessive and difficult menstruation issues. It works as a diuretic, styptic and vasoconstrictor. This is one of our early spring plants, in bloom now.

Cleavers Galium aparine

This IMG_2076delightful herb has a sticky feel to it. This is an old spring tonic herb. Culpepper said “It is a good remedy in the spring to cleanse the blood and strengthen the liver, thereby to keep the body in health, and fitting for the change of season that is coming.” Add it to your juicing or steam it and eat it as a veggie.  It doesn’t dry well, so use it now, while it is fresh.

Wild Lettuce Lactuca serriola

This one is emerging now as a bunch of upright leaves.  IMG_2506It will eventually form a stalk that can be a couple of feet tall and bloom yellow flowers.   If you pull a leaf near the stem, a white liquid will bleed out.  This bitter substance is a very mild opioid and at best might help a headache, if you are lucky.   Harvesting the resin is a tedious task.  It will grow throughout the summer and too easily will re-seed itself and can take over.

Plantain Plantago lanceolata

IMG_3581Plantains are beginning to emerge now, if you look for them. Traditionally, Plantain has been used for bites and stings to stop pain, itching and inflammation. You can make a spit poultice by chewing the leaves and then applying them to the sting. Plantain is also one of the remedy plants for poison ivy along with jewel weed. Another traditional use of Plantain is for hemorrhoid relief. Do you have any Plantain growing in your yard?

Henbit Lamium amplexicaule

IMG_2098This cheerful weed with purple flowers, is a member of the mint family and has square stems like the other family members.  It is edible and can go into salads or soups.  It is high in vitamins, iron and fiber.  Chickens like it, but livestock should not eat it.  Medicinally, it has been used externally in a poultice for bleeding, burns, bruises, stings, wounds and reduces inflammation.  Internally, as a tea, it has been used for diarrhea, fever, inflammation and rheumatism.  It is also an astringent, which helps to tone and strengthen tissues.

More than likely, you have one or more of these plants growing around you.  Some have a longer growing season than others.  If you plan to eat them, I would suggest putting them in a bowl of water first.  If there are any aphids or other insects or worms on them, they will fall off in the water.  Of course, you want to avoid any that have been sprayed with pesticides or poisons and only harvest, when there is abundance.  Avoid harvesting along roadsides where auto exhaust will contaminate the plants.  Remember to leave enough of the plants after harvest, for them to re-seed themselves for the next season.

Enjoy your winter weeds while you can.
Herbal Blessings,

About Gracies Garden, LLC

Grace Bryce is a Clinical Herbalist and certified Transformational Breath® Facilitator. She is also a Jin Shin Jyutsu® practitioner, QRA Practitioner and Ordained Minister. Grace has been doing natural health consultations since 2008 and enjoys working with people. She formulates custom herbal products as requested and has a line of herbal products for sale. A number of services are offered to benefit the health of her clients through harmonizing energy. All products and services are available as a part of the sacred healing she practices. Grace is an avid gardener and has a passion for herbs. She loves organically growing herbs and formulating salves, lotions and tinctures. Helping people feel better is also something she is passionate about.
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As more and more people are buying multiple devices, it is natural to expect that they should all be able to access the same data.

This post is intended to cover some of the background about where your data is stored, and how syncing between devices might be achieved.

Data and Backups
First of all each device might run the same version of an app, however the data you are seeing only exists on the device itself. If you lose your device, or delete the app, you will of course lose your data too.

Apple provide two backup solutions (iTunes and iCloud), however all they do is allow you to store your apps and data on your computer or in the “cloud” for safety. They are not in themselves a way of sharing data (i.e. syncing) between devices.

Syncing (i.e. data synchronisation)
Syncing is actually VERY complicated. As the devices aren’t all running your app at the same time, you essentially need somewhere else to store your shared data. iCloud itself could be used for this purpose, as could Dropbox or any other cloud-based storage/server.

When do you write changes? You could do this every time you add or edit something, or you could batch up changes and write them when you are done. To me the best time to do this is when you close the app, however since you can’t run in the background for long, that rules out pretty much everything except iCloud. The latter is simply a local copy on your device, and the operating system (iOS) takes care of the rest.

Did I mention it was slow? Not the actual write itself, but copying data between devices. It can easily take 30 seconds or even minutes for your data to appear in the cloud, and then on other devices. And this assumes you have network connectivity (which you might not have).

This delay causes another major issue: handling conflicts. If two people are editing the same data at the same time, you somehow have to figure out what the end result should be. Asking the user what to do for each conflict would be too painful on a device as small as an iPhone.

Use Cases
This brings me on to why syncing is needed, and I think the answer depends on the app.

I can certainly understand that two people with a joint bank account might both want to add and edit transactions in the same database, which is probably the most complicated use case. But iCloud is not a great solution for this, as it is not designed to share data between users at all. It is there to make it easy for one person to see their data on multiple devices.

All of my apps already support data sharing using the backups feature. You basically make a backup on one device, copy the file to another device (iCloud makes this easy) and then restore it. I have therefore just spent most of the weekend heavily optimising this use case as follows …

1. If you have made any changes to your data, when you close the app a new backup is made and copied to iCloud. No user intervention needed.

2. When you are running the app, it will check to see if there are any newer backups available in the background. If so, a popup asks you to install it.

3. Backup management (i.e. automatically deleting older backups).

The single user use case is therefore solved with a SINGLE tap on the receiving device, with two conditions:

1. that you know you are essentially overwriting your data and not to go editing things on multiple devices at the same time (this eliminates the conflict resolution issue).

2. that you are aware of the amount of data you are copying (i.e. the whole database). The latter is fine on WiFi of course, especially for Hill Lists and Meter Readings.

To solve the multi-user use case, I need a better place to store the changes (probably not iCloud), and I need to optimise the amount of data being copied (e.g. only sending the changes themselves). For the record, I have a good handle on the last bit …

Account Tracker (Free) 3.8.3 now available

August 22, 2012 Comments off

This is a minor upgrade to the free version only.

Improved the getting started tour (now just 3 screens), and added a link to my Top 10 Tips from the Help button.

Added support for iCloud in the free version.

Made the upgrade option and data export to the full version more explicit.

Changes to Dropbox support

August 18, 2012 Comments off

I have just been informed that Dropbox will be deprecating the APIs I am using on 1st December. Nothing serious, they just want people to move to their latest code. I guess I should have moved a while back, but why changing something that isn’t broken? 🙂

Fortunately the changes are fairly minor, and the only one you will notice is the way you link my apps to Dropbox itself.

I am now in the process of making these changes, the first of which I have now done and submitted to Apple for approval (my Man 3 app, version 1.2). My other apps will follow soon …

UPDATE 1: it seems their new API has a couple of bugs, and I am working with one of their engineers to get them fixed. Basically using it causes a crash on older devices that they claim to support.

UPDATE 2: iOS version 3.1.3 is no longer supported by Dropbox. Version 4.0 will be the minimum I can support moving forwards. I suspect this won’t really be an issue, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Apple drop support for iOS 3 next month.

Account Tracker user interface tips

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One of the challenges of designing such a powerful mobile app is getting the balance right between helping new users and not cluttering up the limited space with help buttons and text. I have chosen to keep the UI as clean as possible, however there are a few “more subtle” areas that need some explanation, hence these tips.

On the main Accounts screen, tap the total at the top to change the balances shown (between today’s, available, minimum and reconciled). You can also use the right arrow to step through these options.

When you select Edit, you will see three horizontal bars to the right of each row. Touch, hold and drag these to change the order of your accounts. This technique can also be used to move accounts between groups.

While editing, you can enable three transaction views at the bottom. All/recurring transactions shows all transactions up to today, Scheduled shows all transactions from today to the end of next month, and Reminders shows all transactions with the reminder switch set.

Whenever you see the blue arrows/buttons, tapping them does something different than tapping the rows themselves. On the main Accounts screen they let you change an account’s settings, on an individual account screen they let you copy or move transactions quickly, and on the Budgets screen they let you set, change or delete budgets.

On the individual account screen, the left arrow scrolls to the top of the list, the balance itself scrolls to make the most recent transaction visible and the right arrow scrolls to the end of the list. Tapping the right arrow again will add a month at a time, right out to 2 years into the future.

To manually reconcile (i.e. tick off) transactions, turn on Reconcile by Transaction in the settings, then tap the tick button. Your reconciled balance will be shown as you do this.

On the Budgets and Reports screens, you can change the period (e.g. to daily, weekly, biweekly/fortnightly, yearly or even custom dates). Simply tap on the date(s) at the top of the screen. Use the arrows to step through each period (or to set custom dates).

The Reports screen includes 7 separate reports, and to switch between them simply scroll or swipe left and right. The small dots at the bottom tell you where you are.

When viewing the pie charts, only the top categories/details are shown due to space limitations. To view all categories/details, tap on the List button at the top right. To return to the charts, tap on the Charts button (again, top right).

Finally use the Help button on the Settings screen to view the user guide, and also to link to my support pages. If in doubt, please get in touch for help!

Hopefully you will find these useful.


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Practice /try-out times for the week of March 11th are as follows:

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Grand Blanc, MI 48439

Times will be 3pm to 4:30pm

Parent Meeting will be on Thursday March 21st at 6pm in the tennis area at Ascension.


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Jagmeet Singh celebrates after winning Burnaby South by-election
Image by Jonathan Hayward via Canadian Press/CBC News.

Turnout was exceptionally low – even by by-election standards

  • Burnaby South: 29.9%
  • Outremont: 21.4%
  • York-Simcoe: 19.9%

When we look back at the last major wave of by-elections in December of 2017 we see relatively higher levels in turnout – most notably in British Columbia.

  • South Surrey–White Rock: 38.1%
  • Battlefords–Lloydminster: 26.9%
  • Scarborough Agincourt: 26.8%
  • Bonavista–Burin–Trinity: 21.4%

Geography matters and the winning parties won in areas they need in 2019

  • Liberals were able to pick up a fairly strong NDP seat despite pollsters showing the party’s support across Canada decreasing overall.
  • Quebec is home to a great number of NDP seats and if the Liberals wish to remain in power they will have to win over many of the ridings held by NDP incumbents.
  • The NDP under Singh has lost a great deal of support in Quebec and Outremont reflects this as the party’s share of the vote declined by 18%.
  • The NDP will absolutely need to eat away at Liberal held ridings in BC to make up for their loss of support in Quebec.
  • The Tories were able to hang on to a safe seat in a strategically important region of Ontario. The increase in support for right-of-centre candidates in the riding would Liberal strategists something to think about as they will need to win parts of suburban Toronto if they want to stay in power. The Liberals’ share of the vote declined by 8.8% from 2015.

Maxime Bernier is an oddball and is a tad of a thorn in the side of the Tories

  • Bernier’s best performance last night was in Burnaby South where he obtained 10.6% of the vote. The Tory share of the vote dropped by 4.6% which means that many conservatives could have casted their ballots for Bernier but the PPC was still able to drum up its own support organically. His performance in the riding has confused many pols and pundits alike. Expect to see the PPC tout its performance out west as a “sign to come”.
  • Despite being considered the renegade “Albertan from Quebec”, Bernier still draws a fair bit of his power from his home province. However, the riding of Outremont saw Bernier obtain just 2.1% of the vote. It is believed that this largely came at the expense of the Conservatives as the CPC share of the vote in the riding during this by-election declined by 2.2% from their performance in 2015. The same cannot be said for Bernier in Ontario as his share of the vote was 1.9% and the Tories were able to increase their share of the vote by 3.7%.

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