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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Distinguishing Characteristics
I often wonder what distinguishes me from everyone else. I was talking to a friend the other night and he mentioned a particular physical feature of mine that is different from the vast majority of people he knows. (No, I will not disclose what feature I am referring to.) I responded by saying that I don't really feel like I am distinguished from others based on such a feature, that I feel my differences are much more internally based than external. It got me to thinking. The argument that I wanted to make was that if someone had only one arm, no one would define them based on that physical characteristic, but unfortunately, that just isn't true. Unfortunately, everyone defines them based on such a physical characteristic. People do it with features that are less distinctive also. How often do you hear things like, "the red-head," or "that tall guy?" I recall my boss one time sending me upstairs to get something and telling the people I was heading towards that I was a "cute, little, short girl." I guess it makes sense. The physical is the easiest thing to see. But it is funny to me also, because I know that there are times when I try to recall the face of someone I know well, and I couldn't tell you whether they wear glasses or not, or what color their eyes are, or whether they have a large nose. I sometimes have to force myself to pay attention to details like this, or I just don't notice them. But the truth is, it is usually the people I know the best whose physical characteristics I notice the least. I think this is because the people that I have gotten to know well, I do think of them as whole people, with personality, and passions, and eccentricities. I have taken the time to know them inside and out, and it is the inside that I have really connected with, and that stands out to me. After a while, I don't need to know what they look like, it is what is inside them that bonds me to them. Because without what is inside, I wouldn't have the relationship, I wouldn't really know them. So then I wonder what distinguishes me to those who know me best. I hope it is for my compassion and caring. For the fact that my friends know I will take care of them and do whatever I can, whenever I can. That I always offer a listening, non-judgmental ear when they need it. I think I distinguish myself because I don't care what other people think, that I don't care whether I am doing what everyone else is doing; I do what I care about and feel is right. That I hold myself to a very high standard in terms of interacting with others and treating other people, no matter who they are, with respect. That I truly do try to give the benefit of the doubt. I wish I could wear these latter features externally. That everyone could see my virtues, rather than my hair style or eye color (or other features that seem to stand out to some). And I wish I could see everyone else's from the beginning, that it didn't take time to figure people out. Because I don't want to define them based on outward appearance, I want to see the inside. Because that's what really distinguishes a person.
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[sword-devel] question
Chris Little sword-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:25:59 -0700
I doubt Logos or BibleWorks would ever do such a thing since they each
have higher-quality databases of most of our modules that they would
want. But let's suppose they wanted to use some relatively unknown
translation like the AKJV...
Since we don't own copyright on any of the texts, we would have no claim
against them. (Yes, some other Bible software packages/text preparers
claim copyright because they put some tags in or do a little processing,
but US copyright law disagrees with them here.) GPL protects our code,
since that is ours, and the content is a whole other matter. They would
basically have to take up the issue with the actual copyright holders,
just as we do.
And more importantly, if a company like Logos or Hermeneutika wanted to
use material from our text library, I would invite them to do so. What
do we stand to gain from preventing them from doing so? Probably less
than the users of Logos or BibleWorks would stand to gain from having
the AKJV or OrthJBC available in their chosen package.
If you check the source tree, you'll find the start of a filter to
convert ThML from Sword to OLB's standard markup. (They were using our
modules anyway, but assuming they were in sequential vpl format, which
they certainly no longer are, due to out-of-order books and/or
compression.) I'd happily write the same for any other software that
gave me their markup spec.
> From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org] On Behalf Of mg.pub@gmx.net
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:11 AM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: [sword-devel] question
> Just a question: What if a commercial tool
> like Logos or BibleWorks decides to include
> the wonderful sword modules (not the lib)?
> Is that possible or will the GPL prohibit that?
> Are the modules GPL?
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The Best Virtual Worlds for "Hanging Out"
by Raemon9 min read27th Apr 202023 comments
Online SocializationCommunity
UPDATES Sept 5 2020
• Online Town is now Gather Town. They have continued to ship new features and improve their service in the past few months.
• There are several apps similar to Gather Town now. My favorite is Topia. It is less stable / performant than Gather Town, but also much prettier and easier to build maps on. Other options include and, and Each have different strengths and weaknesses. I hope to do another article comparing them someday.
• I've found Minecraft worked fine as a social activity, but surprisingly didn't hold my interest as a world – ironically every time I went to a shared Minecraft world I just... sortof "played Minecraft" rather than actually hanging out the way I'd envisioned. I have done a few specific "Minecraft hikes" which went well as a one-off thing though.
The Problem With Zoom™
In the wake of coronavirus, many people have turned to Zoom, Skype, or Jitsi to maintain social ties. But I personally find it a bit awkward to do a video call when I don't have anything in particular to talk about. In real life, lulls in conversation could be filled with eating, or talking a walk and appreciating the scenery. In a videocall, there's either awkward silence, or I start using facebook or something and then get distracted.
Zoom calls also work less well for large parties. If you want the feeling of wandering through a house, listening in on various conversations and joining in, or spontaneously playing a simple game, I've found video calls a poor substitute. Zoom works best for smaller conversations with clear goals, or very structured conversations. (Seder worked well because it was "turn based")
What works much better IMO is some kind of low-key game going on in the background – something just complicated enough to let me fidget with it, without becoming the Main Activity which distracts from actually talking to friends.
There are various low-key games that may work for people. But there's a particular quality of Minecraft, and similar world-sims, that feel less like we're playing a game, and more like we're just hanging out in a world.
What are the best tools for that?
This post began as a response to "What are the Best Online Tools For Meetups and Meetings". It turned out to be pretty extensive, and I thought I'd make it a full post. It currently compares four apps. I may update it as I try more.
This post currently compares four apps: Minecraft, Mozilla Hubs, AltspaceVR, and Online Town. I may update it as I try more.
Each app has some different strengths, and costs. In a nutshell:
• Online Town is my favorite for casual online "parties", where you want to feel like you're in a house wandering into different rooms, chatting spontaneously with people and forming impromptu conversations. It's a 2d pixel world you can walk around in, videochatting with people nearby. It lives in a browser that doesn't require a download or login.
• Mozilla Hubs is similar to Online Town, but in 3d. It has many more features, but it's also a bit more complex, and people who aren't familiar with 3D video games may find it harder to use. It can be used via desktop browser, or via VR headset.
• AltspaceVR is similar to Mozilla Hubs, but a) requires an app download, and b) basically requires a VR headset (it also has a Windows app, but I would only recommend it for people who have VR headsets and want an immersive VR experience).
• Minecraft is a fully featured virtual world. It costs $30 (the other three apps are free). It doesn't come with its own audio chat (but can easily be combined with other voice chat services). You get a fully featured world where you can build a house together, explore cool environments, interact with plants and animals, etc. Unlike the previous options it doesn't have "proximity chat". It works better if you're interacting with a smallish group of people, who can all hear each other and participate in a single conversation.
I think there are many other video games that work similarly to Minecraft (for instance, Animal Crossing has been getting some press as a "coronavirus virtual refuge"), but I'm not as familiar with them. This post is essentially comparing the first three options vs "Minecraft and other similar video games."
Key Considerations
Accessibility, vs features
Some apps just require a url, and immediately drop you into a party. Others make you create an account, or sign in, which creates awkward friction. If you want to host a large online party, it matters a lot that you can invite friends and that they can invite friends organically. If those friends have to stop to download a new app... they probably won't. A url they can just click on is much better.
On the flipside, downloadable apps offer more power and flexibility. It may be worth getting all your friends to invest in an app, if the result is better than free, accessible websites. But, you can only get all your friends to download apps so many times.
Online Town is extremely accessible. Mozilla Hubs is a close second – the only problem is that it runs sluggishly on some computers.
AltSpaceVR is free but requires a VR headset which most people don't have.
Minecraft is $30 and requires creating an account, which I think is generally worth it but only if it's actually the most appropriate tool for the job.
Proximity Chat
Some apps make people louder if they are closer to you. This gives you sort of the organic conversation feeling that parties have – you can wander around a virtual room, briefly listening in and chatting with people until you find a conversation you're excited by.
Proximity chat is most important if you're aiming for a largish party.
Hubs, Altspace and Online Town all feature this out-of-the-box.
Minecraft does not have proximity chat. There is a mod you can download that provides it, but the Minecraft Mod Scene is a wild west of hacky downloads that I think only make sense to inflict on your friends if they're a particular kind of nerd who's excited by that. (Normal minecraft is "pretty accessible, apart from costing money", but I think modded Minecraft is basically a dealbreaker for inviting newcomers)
I found some videogames that had proximity chat built in, but they were more expensive (more like $60). That's a bigger ask than I'd make of people I invited to a party. Since the whole point of proximity chat is to enable large freeform parties here, I didn't investigate them further.
Altspace and Mozilla Hubs both allow you to go for "full immersion" if you own a VR headset. The Oculus Quest is around $400 and in my opinion quite worth the price... but unfortunately seems to be sold out and I'm not sure when you can next get one. If coronavirus had struck 1-2 years later I think it might have been a valid option for tons of remote people to hang out in VR. Alas, the timing is slightly off.
I personally find VR gives me a bit of a headache and sometimes nausea, which limits my time to around an hour. I also expect this to improve a bit in another couple years. My current sense is that it's more like a fun novel experience to try than a serious contender for frequent-virtual-hangout space.
Intuitiveness / Smoothness
Creating good controls for a virtual world is tricky. I found Online Town by far the most intuitive. Altspace, Hubs and Minecraft are each differently unintuitive.
The Apps in Detail
This was my first experience with a virtual, telepresent world. Seven years ago, when my girlfriend and I were long-distance, we would stay connected via Minecraft dates.
The distinguishing feature of Minecraft is that it is not a game, and it is not a videochatting app. It is a world. You can plant trees, grow crops, invent tools, build a house, found a civilization.
It drops you off in the world with no context and few instructions. Some people find that confusing and bounce off of it. The trick is that Minecraft is like real life – it has meaning insofar as you invest meaning into it, and in my experience it's easier to create meaning together than by yourself. My girlfriend and I built a house together, which we decorated and treated as a shared home.
Minecraft is an infinite canvas, but like the real world, you have to work to accomplish things. There is risk and danger and cost. You can build a statue of gold, but only if you go dig up that gold. This gives things a sense of "weight" that they don't have in worlds where you can place any object you want immediately.
For Valentines Day, I built my girlfriend a treehouse on a hill. There was a place nearby where the sun set each day, but there was a large mountain partially blocking the view. I spent a week digging up the mountain and replacing it with a giant glass heart.
My interest in Minecraft has waxed and waned over the years. I generally find that I care about Minecraft in proportion to how much other people I'm close with are invested in the same world. It's a valid avenue for social reality, which has strength depending on how many people believe in it.
So, before coronavirus came, I already had a clear sense of what a virtual world that felt "lived in" could look like, and how to use that to connect with people who were far away. I find Minecraft a good place to "hang out" with friends, and go on little virtual hikes.
A big question (which I'm not yet certain of) is is how Minecraft compares more directly to other apps that aren't trying to be a living, breathing world. If you want a world, Minecraft provides, but what if you want a temporary, ephemeral party?
I've had some good experience with Minecraft Hikes. Last weekend, I invited friends to download WesterosCraft, a modded version of Minecraft (easier to install than most mods), which features the entire western continent from Game of Thrones. We hiked from Winterfell Castle to the large wall in the north. It made for a nice hour-long activity, during which we chatted and organically started playing the sorts of games we might play on a hike (things like "20 questions").
Online Town
Online Town is a video chat, where you get a little pixel avatar who can walk around a 2D virtual world. You can videochat with other people who are nearby, and can't see or hear people who are further away. It looks like this:
The app is only a month old, and has very few features, and lags when large numbers of people are in a room. But, it's a very elegant concept that I think is simple for people to understand. It runs in a browser, and doesn't require a download or account.
I think Online Town is the best option for most casual "parties" – creating an online gathering with around 15-30 people who can wander around into different conversations in a fairly organic way. It is both helpful for spontaneous conversation forming, and for giving a little feeling of "physical interaction."
The developers are still adding new features, and I'm hoping that over time this gets fleshed out. I think the biggest obstacle right now is that it lags when too many people join, which directly undermines the core use-case. Optimization is hard and I'm not expecting that to change very soon. But in general, they've continued adding features since I first checked it out a couple weeks ago.
Longterm I think it'd be delightful if it gave people more opportunity to create their own pixel art to populate the world with, to capture some of the "actual virtual world" that Minecraft offers while maintaining Online Town's simplicity and elegance.
Another friend of mine would like a version of Online Town where instead of a teeny pixel avatar, your avatar is your videochat stream, so that you can immediately recognize people, and not have to shift attention back and forth between the pixel world and video streams below. I think this is also a pretty valid choice that I'd be excited to see the Online Town folk (or someone else) try.
Mozilla Hubs
Hubs is a virtual space where you can walk around in 3D, speaking and hearing the people near you. You can create "windows" that have youtube videos playing, or place 3D objects around that other people can wiggle around or resize. You can include a video stream of yourself, so people can see both your "virtual self" (which appears as a robot) while also looking at your face.
Hubs gets a lot of basic things right – it's web based, so it works across many platforms, including VR. It has all the features I expect/hope for Online Town to have eventually.
But the result is... just a bit too janky, occasionally laggy, and confusing in order for me to be deeply excited about it. I think this is an Uncanny Valley thing: Online Town is a teeny pixelated world that I find janky-but-cute. My personal experience of Mozilla Hubs was that it was trying to create an immersive 3D world, but the seams were too visible and it was harder to get into.
It does basically works just fine, and has more features than Town, so may be a better fit for some people's needs.
Mozilla Hubs takes place in "rooms", pre-built 3D environments you get to choose. Different rooms range widely in how graphics-intensive they are, so if you are finding the experience sluggish, you can switch to a different, simpler room.
One great thing for Mozilla hubs is that it comes with a level-editor called Spoke, which you can use to create whatever type of room you want, or edit existing rooms if they're Not Quite Right. The LessWrong team used it to create Our April Fools Prank Room (optimized for being computationally simply), and more recently I used it to create an alternate version of the existing Foggy Lake room, removing some restrictions on player movement that the original version had come with.
Rooms can hold up to 25 people, but I found them to get laggy once they got more than 15 or so.
AltspaceVR is an obvious evolution of Mozilla Hubs (I've actually heard that Mozilla Hubs was founded by former Altspace employees). It takes place in VR, although there's a Windows app you can download.
It generally works more smoothly than Hubs. The world is slightly prettier and more cohesive. You can see people's mouth move when they talk. It prominently features Events where people meet to talk about particular things, or watch videos together, or play games.
One of my favorite bits about Altspace is that you can create your own world. And whereas Mozilla Hub's Spoke editor feels like a complicated, professional editing software, Altspace's world editor feels fun and (mostly) intuitive. Selecting objects and moving them around made feel like Tony Stark in Iron Man.
It felt like this.
The most interesting experience I had was "making a friend."
I traveled to a world with a cabin by a lake, where a few other players were hanging out. I listened in on their conversation a bit. At the time, I felt a bit nervous and didn't want to speak up.
I explored the nearby woods a bit, eventually finding a large animated stag. While I was staring at it, another player appeared. He said "man, that's a cool stag", and I said "yeah", and then we chatted a bit. Eventually he said "Hey man, wanna come to the game room?" and opened up a portal.
I followed him through the portal to a gaming lounge, which featured a large chess board. There were no special rules governing the board – I could just pick up pieces, and put them down, basically like real life. He and I started a game. We were both pretty bad at chess, and I focused more on taking pieces than winning. But we had a fun time, and afterwards he said "Hey man, wanna friend each other and hang out again sometime? I'd love a rematch." I said "sure!"
And... well, okay and then I ended up deciding I didn't want to spend much more time in Altspace because Minecraft was overall better. But, there was something good and pure about that interaction. It gave me a sense that I could actually just make friends in an organic fashion.
The Pro, and Con: VR
I think, 2 years from now, enough people with have VR headsets, and VR will have improved enough, that something like Altspace would be a great tool for quarantine socialization. As is, I think it doesn't quite feel good enough to really be better than simpler options like Online Town or richer options like Minecraft.
But Altspace did very much feel like The Future. If you read Snow Crash and thought "man, I want that", well, you can have it now.
Go Forth and Hang Out
This is all I got for now. Hopefully you have some new interesting ideas for ways to host online gatherings, or maintain relationships in a Socially Distant world.
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Celebrate construction kick off for Newberry Hall's 28-unit rental rehab on May 6
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It's taken 4 1/2 years to get off the ground, but renovation is now underway at Newberry Hall, the former nurses' housing located on John R at Willis in Midtown. Built in 1898, funded by the Newberry family -- major investors in the Packard Motor Co. -- and designed by Elijah Meijer, the architect who designed the Michigan State Capital among several others, the building has "social importance to Detroit and architectural importance to Detroit," says Ernie Zachary of development and finance consultant firm Zachary and Associates. "It's a really important building and to lose this building would be criminal."
Over the past few years, the developer has changed, but the goal has remained consistent: to renovate the structure into housing. There will be 28 rental units ranging in size from 700 to 900 square feet available for $1.30/square foot. Zachary expects construction to take a year.
Federal and state historic and brownfield tax credits -- which are being purchased by Comerica Bank -- are being employed, as is gap financing from the Detroit Investment Fund. "A simple loan with some equity wasn't going to cut it for this project," says Zachary, who credits staffer Amy Anderson with plugging away at the endless forms and legal documents the financing layers required.
A ground-breaking celebration of the renovation is being held on May 6 at 11 a.m. at Newberry Hall, 100 E. Willis. RSVP today, May 4, to University Cultural Center Assoc. at 313-577-5088. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '7ab9c483d541965a9b3187312c3aedaf7d5006ccb33e0f0b763ac5a546a8749b'} |
Breaking Bad Recap: Walter White, the Human Cancer
A recap of "Buried," the latest episode of AMC's Breaking Bad.
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Skyler White (Anna Gunn) and Hank Schrader (Dean Norris).Photo: Ursula Coyote/AMC
The premise of Breaking Bad has always been built around bombshells: the many terrible things Walter White has secretly done right beneath the noses of his loved ones, and the devastation we knew would ensue when they finally stumbled across them. That's the dread enjoyment of these final episodes: sitting back in your easy chair and watching them explode.
And perhaps the genius of the show is how much it feels like both a controlled demolition and walking through a minefield: the growing tension that you're surrounded by explosives and have absolutely no idea how or when they're going to go off, coupled with the the certainty that each one is going to go off at exactly the right time. The most recent episode, appropriately titled "Buried," is not only about hiding explosive secrets, it's also about acknowledging how painful they can be to unearth--the cost of taking things out of the ground and holding them up to the light.
Now that Walt has finally revealed himself to Hank and the garage door opens up again, the big question is what other detonations it's going to trigger. There's a moment where Walt and Hank stand across from each other on the driveway, staring each other down like it's high noon. The moment the garage door closes over Hank again, they make a frantic grab for the metaphorical remote control--which is to say they both race to call Skyler, who has had so little power over her own life for the past several seasons that she might as well be the yellow remote control car zipping around in the background.
Hank proves faster on the draw, and when he meets Skyler at a local restaurant, he immediately envelops her in a hug. The look on her face is a combination of relief and guilt—relief, because after the gaslighting to end all gaslightings, someone finally understands why she seemingly acted like such a jerk to her terminally ill husband. And guilt, because she no longer feels like she fully deserves his sympathy. "I don't even know if you know the full extent of what he's done," Hank says, unaware that he doesn't know the full extent of what Skyler has done. When she hears Hank call Walt an “animal” and a “monster,” you can see the subtle reaction in her eyes: What does that make her, as the woman who not only failed to turn him in but helped launder his blood money?
Skyler White, you see, is suffering from Stage IV Walt. He's not a man so much as he is a human cancer, one whose corruption spreads inside you so slowly that by the time you're able to diagnose the problem, there's no neat or simple way to cut it out. That's the evil genius of it all: Slowly, insidiously, he makes you so complicit in his crimes that reporting them would hurt you almost as much as it hurts him. “You're done being his victim,” says Hank, as he quickly turns on a recorder and asks Skyler to give up everything she knows, not realizing that she isn't just a damsel in distress waiting for a white knight to come along and save her--she's a co-conspirator. Simple surgery isn't a treatment option anymore, just a naive oversimplification of a problem that is far more complex and invasive.
It's possible that even Skyler doesn't realize exactly how compromised she is until she sees her sister's reaction, and it's not a sympathetic one. The instant where Marie slaps Skyler is a thunderclap, the detonation of another bomb, a schism that separates everything about Skyler's character into what happened before and what happened after.
The children have become a sort of barometer of moral decline on the show, the canaries that everyone is forever trying to rescue from the coal mine of Walter White. When Skyler first learned the truth, that was her immediate reaction: to take the children out of the house. It's Hank's first reaction too, though he wants to "protect" Skyler as well. It's only once Marie learns about the length and depth of Skyler's involvement that things change, and she starts to treat her sister the same way that Skyler once treated Walt: as someone too corrupted to be trusted with their own children. Now Skyler is the danger. But by grabbing baby Holly and trying to make a run for it--literally threatening to take away her family--Marie actually makes the decision a great deal simpler for Skyler. Suddenly that "family before morality" rationale, the same one that helped create Heisenberg, is making a lot more sense to her.
Consider what is arguably the most defining thematic moment in the series, Walter White's soliloquy on fear: "I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that's the worst of it."
Skyler has lived in this exact hellish limbo of fear for almost as long as we've known her: first, afraid to know the truth, then afraid to speak it, then--as she became more and more complicit--afraid of what would happen if people found out. Perhaps this is Skyler White's diagnosis moment. Perhaps this is the moment when she stops feeling afraid, as Walt did during his transformation, and becomes something else.
It's also no coincidence that we've seen both Skyler and Hank dressing in beige for the last two episodes, the same color that Walt famously wore throughout the entire series premiere. Is she really so different now from who Walt used to be--and what he was willing to do--back in Season 1? As per the color theory of the show, this signals that they have come into sync, and that perhaps the first time in the series, she is fully committed to the same goals. And really, what Skyler wants to do now is the most conservative, beige thing of all: to act as though nothing is wrong, and preserve the illusion that everything is just fine--which you may recognize as Walt's precise modus operandi, the notion she once found so intolerable that she tried to divorce him.
There's something different in Walt's eyes when he finally offers to give himself up and Skyler demurs, saying, "Maybe our best move here is to stay quiet." Is it a look of relief? Pride? Maybe, but something else too: satisfaction. He always wanted Skyler back, and now he has her--not just as an unwilling captive, but truly remade in his image. You can almost hear him to saying it in his head to Hank: "I win."
But for all his self-righteousness, Hank very quickly realizes that he's compromised too. When Marie she insists that he turn Walt in, he lays it out for her: the day he admits the truth to the DEA is the last day of his career. “I'm going to have to walk in there, look those people in the eye and admit the person I've been chasing the last year is my own brother-in-law. It's over for me.” Not to mention the fact that his entire recovery after the shooting was directly funded by drug money. In the end, he decides to keep the secret for a just a little while longer--because he needs more evidence, of course. (Call it Stage I Walt.)
Elsewhere, Lydia arrives at the secret desert meth lab of Walt's successors to address their unacceptable drop in quality, post-Heisenberg. The sub-par meth-cooking tough guys are pretty dismissive of the single mom as she struggles to walk through the sand in her Louboutins. At least, until the Aryan enforcers she hired to clean house come and blow them away. Todd is with them, naturally, and like Lydia he's another example of the sort of villainy that Breaking Bad does so well: the kind that doesn't look like a villain. The kind that covers their ears and closes their eyes while their hired killers commit mass murder. The kind that calls you "ma'am" and holds your hand while they're walking you through the carnage of their murder victims. On this show, evil wears khaki.
And then there's Jesse. Poor Jesse, who is still so consumed with guilt over the death of a little boy unlucky enough to witness their drug shenanigans that he actually crashes his car into a playground (symbolism!). And that's where we find him, spinning himself slowly in circles on a merry-go-round painted green--Walt's color, and the color of greed. How many times has Walt done horrifying things to him and convinced him to do horrifying things out of greed and self-interest, only to rationalize it away and talk him into yet another atrocity? How many times does Jesse really want to go around and around on Walt's ride?
From what we've seen so far this season, the answer may finally be zero. Then again, the man heading into the interrogation room to try and talk him into flipping is Hank, the man Jesse hates with a fury worthy of Hector Salamanca. But whether they want to acknowledge it or not, they now have an awful lot in common, and might be each other's best and final hope at whatever passes for salvation on this show.
Meanwhile, Walt buries his money in the desert, and buys a lottery ticket with the numbers from the GPS coordinates of the location, an act that feels appropriate since "winning" the meth game has made him and his family about as happy as most lottery winners: not at all.
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Have you ever heard the claim that fish is “brain food?” This common knowledge is reinforced in multiple cultures and traditions all over the world, from Mira’s college roommate who ate sushi every day on finals week to the cook at a local Mexican restaurant who swears by her caldo de mares as “memory food.”
All this fuss about fish is for fantastic reasons. Simply put, fish do a lot of work to keep their cell membranes fluid and inflammation at bay in the challenging environments they inhabit. Sitting comfortably at the top of the food chain, we can use their chemical strength to our advantage. Nutrition scientists have shown since the 1990s that fish consumption might reduce serotonin-related depression because low concentrations of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA can predict low levels of HIAA, an organic acid used to measure serotonin turnover.
What else can fishy fats do for you? And what if you dislike seafood? Are you concerned about metal toxicity with seafood or supplementation? With all of the buzz about omega-3 fatty acids in fish like salmon and sardines reducing inflammation, could they play a role in the support of depression and other mental health challenges? Most importantly, how can you use this information to your benefit?
Building a Better Brain
Technically speaking, omega-3s comprise a fatty acid family in which you can find the first carbon-carbon double-bond (an omega bond) between the third and fourth carbon. In this post, we will focus on two brain-boosting long-chain omega-3 fatty acids found in most seafood: DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid). EPA and DHA both support blood flow to your brain and the blood brain barrier. They help regulate brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), which are important for strengthening synapses (spaces between brain cells) and sending messages across them. They have even been shown to help regrow blood vessels in the brain after stroke!
DHA has several brain-building and synapse-supporting effects. Highly concentrated in your brain and retinas, DHA helps brain cells grow, connect with other cells, serve specialized functions, and repair their membranes. Animal research suggests that a fetus gets DHA for brain development from its mother, which can protect against brain damage from too much oxygen, too little oxygen, and oxidative stress. A developing infant brain takes up DHA from its mother through the placenta between the last trimester and the first 6-10 months after birth, so DHA in a mother-to-be’s diet- and then in breast milk or formula- is very important. Breast milk with lower DHA levels has been correlated with eating less seafood and a higher risk of post-partum depression across multiple countries.
As we age, DHA is still important: in a study of 208 healthy 30 to 54 year-olds, serum DHA correlated with improved performance on memory, vocabulary, and reasoning tests. In a study on mice, adolescents raised with omega-3 deficiency from infancy had weaker memory and explored their surroundings less. Neuroprotectin D1, a chemical made from DHA, may improve brain survival and repair as you age by reducing inflammation and increasing brain cell growth. In addition to brain maintenance, DHA appears to reduce the likelihood of macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, and other age-related brain disorders.
EPA appears to support brain health by reducing inflammation. A 2:1 ratio of EPA to DHA has been shown to reduce chronic inflammation. Chronic Inflammation is a process often correlated with depression, and recent research hints that a chronic inflammatory state may drive depression to redirect a body’s resources toward healing. Because normal aging reduces our capacity to reduce inflammation, omega-3s should help reduce the damage caused by age-related brain degeneration.
Omega-3s in general have been shown to give humans a learning and memory boost. In a study of young adults, 6 months of omega-3 supplementation (750 mg DHA with 930 mg EPA) improved working memory. A study of 86 older adults with an average age of 71 associated omega-3 supplementation with improved perceptual speed and spatial imagery processing; men also experienced improved working memory and general cognition.
Stressing the Connections
Although today we are focused on mind and mood, consider the superhero-like effects of omega-3 fatty acids on health concerns linked to chronic stress. While omega-3s seem to help regulate our stress response in our brain and adrenal glands, these phenomenal fats have many ways to support your support systems, including boosting immunity, reducing blood pressure and triglycerides, quelling inflammation in several animals and tissue types like the large intestine, and smoothing out a rough menstrual cycle.
If you reduce inflammation and build better cell membranes, you support all tissues- brain included- because cells can import, export, and communicate better. In fact, many psychiatric disorders have neuroinflammation (brainflammation) in common, which may explain why omega-3s reduce both neuroinflammation and disease symptoms in many animal models including spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, depression, ALS, and more. Free radical damage to cell membranes depletes omega-3 levels, reducing membrane integrity, so replacing those fatty acids is a rational approach to reduce disease risk. Research shows that when DHA is lacking, omega-6 fatty acids replace missing DHA, and function suffers. In cells whose main job is to communicate, membranes are critical.
Mind, Mood, and Making Mental Machinery: Depression and Beyond
Some forms of depression are linked to low serotonin and low dopamine levels, both of which are associated with omega-3 fatty acid deficiency: Low serotonin is associated with anti-social behavior, uncontrolled aggressive behavior, and self-injury. According to brain development expert Dr. Bruce Ames, EPA and DHA team up with Vitamin D to maintain healthy serotonin levels in your brain. Vitamin D controls how much serotonin you make, then EPA affects releasing serotonin into synapses, and DHA improves membrane fluidity, helping serotonin receptors get the message. (Learn more about Vitamin D here.)
Living an Omega-3 Rich Lifestyle
FOOD : If you enjoy eating seafood, choose clean sources high in Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA.
• Fatty Fish. Salmon, mackerel, cod liver oil, herring, sardines, anchovies, caviar, bluefish, capelin, sablefish, and tuna are great sources.
• Because fish and other sea creatures produce omega-3s to keep their membranes fluid in cold waters, fish like salmon that survive more frigid temperatures tend to have higher levels.
• When you choose fish, choose smaller fish (e.g. Spanish mackerel instead of king mackerel) to reduce your likelihood of metal toxicity and increase the concentration of the fats you want. For example, choose chunk light tuna instead of albacore or Spanish mackerel instead of king.
• Crustaceans and Bivalves. Oysters, clams, conchs, lobster, shrimp, and crab have the same omega-3 content as lower omega-3 content fish. While the amount is noteworthy compared to other foods, choose fatty fish listed above for the highest density of omega-3 per serving. Filter-feeders like oysters tend to concentrate minerals, so they can both be high in zinc and iron but also high in heavy metals.
• Plant Sources? Alpha linolenic acid (ALA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in flax seeds, chia seeds, and walnuts, is touted by many vegans as a replacement for the omega-3 fatty acids found in seafood. While DHA supplements sourced from algae are a great source of one critical omega-3, ALA is not a great source of omega-3 fats. The average person converts a small amount of ALA- about 3%- to usable omega-3s. Supplementation is warranted for those who do not consume fish.
LIFESTYLE – Improve your ability to digest and assimilate fats while supporting mental health by reducing stress.
• Calm yourself to boost protein digestion. The more you rest, the better you digest. One important reason for this is that you produce more robust stomach acid when you are focused on your food. Eating proteins like fish require acid to break them down. Chew slowly and thoroughly, eyes on the prize, while you eat.
• Exercise to boost dopamine and serotonin levels, reducing risk of depression. Beyond food and supplements, movement mends the mind and reduces risk of dementia.
• Actively soothe stress with meditation, yoga, qi gong, tai chi, and other practices. See this post for ideas and follow your creative bliss to regularly give yourself the support you deserve.
SUPPLEMENTATION – If you cannot stomach the thought of seafood, we have a solution for you!
Did you notice how the research studies referenced above found the most benefits when a higher ratio of EPA to DHA or of DHA to EPA was administered; or when they were administered alone? That is because research has shown that EPA and DHA compete for active transport pathways. When the EPA and DHA were administered separately this competition was avoided. In the same way, when either EPA or DHA was administered together, but in a higher ratio to the other, the one that was in the higher quantity was able to win out and convey its benefits. Origin Omega is formulated using patented Anti-competition Technology to separate EPA and DHA and eliminate their natural competition, so that you can experience all their amazing health benefits.
• Our carefully crafted Origin Omega supplement splits up EPA and DHA so you fully absorb both.
• After reviewing the research and careful consideration, we decided to give you EPA in the morning and DHA at night, so you can absorb the maximum of both omega-3 fatty acids and reap the benefits at the right times! Get what you pay for!
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• We harvest our fish oil from tiny anchovies making it as low on the food chain and sustainable as possible.
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Q:
Array Comprehension with a random output in Julia
This question is an extension if one I asked earlier today. Basically, I am trying to write an array comprehension in Julia that calls a function f(x) whose output is a random number. When a random number less than 0.5 is reached, I want it to kill the function. I was able to write the following code:
X=[f(i) for i in 1:1:100 if (j=f(i) ;j < 0.5 ? false: j>0.5)]
The problem with this is that this calls two separate instances of f(x), and because f(x) is random every time, the above won't kill the for loop at the correct instance. I tried
X=[J=f(i) for i in 1:1:100 if (J < 0.5 ? false: J>0.5)]
As an attempt to save that particular random number, but then it tells me J is not defined. Is there any way to save this particular random number to perform my array comprehension?
A:
Insisting on a one-line solution and inspired by @TasosPapastylianou, a fast solution would be :
X = ( r=Vector{Float64}() ;
any(i->(v=f(i) ; v>0.5 ? ( push!(r,v) ; false) : true), 1:100)
; r )
[ the one-line is split to three because it is a little long ;) ]
Since, f is missing, to test this copy-paste this version with rand:
(r=ones(0); any(i->(v=rand(); v>0.5 ? (push!(r,v); false) : true), 1:10); r)
It benchmarks about 10% slower than Fengyang's function. The clever bit is leveraging any's short-circuit implementation.
ADDENDUM: To generalize here is a version of Fengyang's takewhile to abstract the answer to this question:
collectwhilecond(f,cond,itr) = begin
r=Vector{typeof(f(first(itr)))}()
all(x->(y=f(x); cond(y) ? (push!(r,y);true):false),itr)
return r
end
Now, we can implement the answer above as (with joker as f):
julia> joker(i) = 1.0 + 4*rand() - log(i)
julia> collectwhilecond(joker, x->x>=0.5, 1:100)
3-element Array{Float64,1}:
4.14222
3.42955
2.76387
collectwhilecond is also type stable if Julia infers f's return type.
EDIT: Using @tim's suggested method of inferring return type of f without pulling an element of itr and without risking an unstable f generating an error, the new collectwhilecond is:
collectwhilecond(f,cond,itr) = begin
t = Base.promote_op(f,eltype(itr)) # unofficial and subject to change
r = Vector{t}()
all( x -> ( y=f(x) ; cond(y) ? (push!(r,y) ; true) : false), itr )
return r
end
A:
What you're trying to do is essentially a simple filter operation:
filter(x -> x >= 0.5, [f(i) for i in 1:10])
This is basically what we used to rely on in the first place before the if part was implemented in list comprehensions in julia before v0.5
EDIT: As Dan pointed out, you may be after keeping all elements until the first element that is <0.5 instead, e.g.:
L = [f(i) for i in 1:10]; L[1 : findfirst(L.<0.5) - 1]
However, in this case, as others have pointed out, you might as well go for a normal for loop. A list comprehension will always process the whole list first, so it will not be faster. You could use a generator, but then you'd have to create your own special mechanism to make it stop at the right state (as Fengyang has suggested with takewhile).
So to answer the question in the comment, the fastest thing you could do in this case is a normal for loop that breaks appropriately. Furthermore, it is best wrapped in a function rather than evaluated globally, and it will speed up even further if you specify the type of your variables.
A:
You can do this with what's usually called takewhile on a generator
X = collect(takewhile(x -> x ≥ 0.5, Generator(f, 1:100)))
which requires an implementation of takewhile, such as the one in this blog post, or your own (it's not too hard to do). takewhile has a reasonably easy name to read and is as concise as you might like.
However I think often it's both more readable and more convenient to write a loop:
X = Float64[]
for i = 1:100
j = f(i)
if j < 0.5
break
else
push!(X, j)
end
end
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Interesting Facts about the Golem
Golem is a large Pokemon and the final evolution of Geodude. It looks unlike its previous evolutions, as it has a large rock formation that makes up its entire body except for its limbs and head. Each hand has three fingers, all of which possess claws, and each foot has four toes, which again all have the same kind of claws. It has the face of a turtle, with two fangs protruding from its lower jaw. They are capable of retracting their arms, legs and head so that they can roll at high speeds inside their hollow shell. The Alolan variant of this Pokemon has deposits of iron sand on its face that give the impression of hair, eyebrows and a beard. The Alola Golem also has two large, black rocks that protrude from its back. There is a small rock between them that it can fire at foes. But if it cannot for any reason, they can also fire any Geodude that is around.
Did you know?
?
This Pokemon is sometimes called The Megaton Pokemon.
They shed their exterior shell every year so that they can grow bigger, much like snakes do. The shed shell hardens and becomes part of the Earth almost immediately.
Because of how hard its outer body is, Golem can withstand dynamite blasts without so much as a scratch.
Golem weigh over 660 pounds!
They are capable of blowing themselves up, using this explosive reaction to vault from place to place.
Additional Facts about Golem : Like other evolutions of this Pokemon, Golem live high up in the mountains. In the event of an earthquake, they will roll down these mountains to reside in the foothills where it is safer. Because this can cause damage to the homes of people living there, these communities have dug depressions into the ground that help to guide the Pokemon’s course when it rolls down from the mountains. They have also been seen living inside volcanic craters. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ef57e29a6d867f9f02cbd8a37560d87374b024c5a463ec99a7ae19b8673326d7'} |
(kill(all), 'done);
'done$
(load("sqdnst"), 'done);
'done$
sqrtdenest(sqrt(3+2*sqrt(2)));
sqrt(2)+1$
sqrtdenest(sqrt(5+2*sqrt(6)));
sqrt(3)+sqrt(2)$
sqrtdenest(sqrt(sqrt(3)/2+1)/sqrt(11*sqrt(2)-12));
(sqrt(3)/2+1/2)/(3*2^(1/4)-2^(3/4))$
/* apply more than once */
sqrtdenest((19601-13860*sqrt(2))^(7/4));
(99-35*2^(3/2))^(7/2)$
sqrtdenest(sqrtdenest((19601-13860*sqrt(2))^(7/4)));
(5*sqrt(2)-7)^7$
sqrtdenest(sqrt(3+2*sqrt(3)));
3^(3/4)/sqrt(2)+3^(1/4)/sqrt(2);
sqrtdenest(sqrt(4+3*sqrt(2)));
2^(3/4)+2^(1/4);
sqrtdenest(sqrt(199999-600*sqrt(111110)));
10^(5/2)-3*sqrt(11111);
sqrtdenest((sqrt(2*sqrt(6)+5)+1)^(1/3));
(sqrt(3)+sqrt(2)+1)^(1/3);
/* Some tests from sympy testsuite
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/
sympy/simplify/tests/test_sqrtdenest.py [59403d3] of 8 Mar 2014
*/
sqrtdenest(sqrt(5+4*sqrt(5+2*sqrt(6))));
sqrt(4*(sqrt(3)+sqrt(2))+5);
sqrtdenest(sqrt(2*sqrt(3)+3));
3^(3/4)/sqrt(2)+3^(1/4)/sqrt(2);
sqrtdenest(sqrt(5*sqrt(3)+6*sqrt(2)));
3^(3/4)+sqrt(2)*3^(1/4);
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Violent Disorder and Authoritarian Rhetoric
Economic woes, a Government which a large number of people regard as illegitimate and certainly not carrying a sufficient mandate for the scale of cuts and reform policies they are pursuing, and a strong lack of any clear, upright model upon which to base identity and opportunity, have brought about a situation that has been a tinderbox for some time.
Rabel is an organisation that seeks to highlight the moves towards authoritarian rule and campaigns on civil freedoms, and part of this is to bridge the gap between the authorities and those for whom the authorities tend to ignore and oppress. The police are in a very difficult position, as is the Government, but there is a point-blank refusal on the part of those in power to acknowledge that what has been called "broken Britain" is in part their responsibility. The sudden disappearance of the idea that it is the "system" that is broken, replaced by the idea that "certain sections" are broken, is a grave and in its own way violent swing back to the authoritarian rhetoric of the previous Conservative government, a time when many draconian legal measures were brought in under the auspices of the rumoured "get the miners desk" and the desire to stamp out alternative lifestyles. Any suggestions that there may be a deeper-seated cause are dismissed with force. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was firm: he didn't want to hear of any socio-economic reasons. He wanted blood.
And so we come to a situation where a government that has dubious political legitimacy has inherited a situation where there are more draconian measures on the statute book than ever before; the police are distrusted by large swathes of people due to cases such as Ian Tomlinson, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar protesters, the hounding of photographers and the collection of vast amounts of information on political activists and ordinary people and the racially-biased use of stop-and-search without suspicion.
Now, with real disorder having been on the streets, any talk of rolling back these oppressive measures has disappeared. According to a YouGov poll, 33% of respondents support live ammunition being used against the rioters. The use of water cannon has 90% approval according to the poll, and despite the Home Secretary Theresa May initially ruling it out the Prime Minister has now confirmed that the water cannon is to be prepared for deployment within 24 hours if deemed necessary.
Just a few weeks ago the government indicated it would listen to concerns by many organisations that the word "insulting" in the Public Order Act 1986 should be removed. The law means that in certain circumstances insulting someone is a criminal offence, such as if the language is racist or relating to someone's sexuality. The police have been arguing that such a law is necessary in order that they may be able to arrest people in disturbances who they would not otherwise be able to arrest. Such a law is an affront to the idea of civil freedom, yet that law is now likely to stay unchanged.
Likewise, Caroline Lucas MP's amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill that would have repealed the offence of aggravated trespass is now even more likely to be rejected.
There are also areas that have wider concerns, such as the new legal territory of arresting and charging persons for "tweets". Can 140 characters, the limit for a tweet, leave you being hunted down by the police? According to the BBC, four people have so far been arrested for using social media to incite violence. As Matthew Ashton, a politics lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, says:
"In terms of civil liberties we really are in uncharted waters. People should not be imprisoned for tweets made as jokes. However concerted attempts to bully people into suicide should not go unpunished either. I suspect that the lawyers and philosophers will be kept busy for several years trying to untangle these issues."
Yet the police are intent on pursuing those who have made certain remarks.
Another concern is the rhetoric of the police. Police forces have been using Twitter themselves to threaten people with arrest. Posted as generalised threats, it is unclear whether the intention was to warn, terrorise or smother dissent. It is, however, concerning. The police have also issued statements making quite clear that CCTV is watching you: "Hundreds and hundreds of people, we have your image, we have your face, we have your acts of wanton criminality on film. We are coming for you, from today and no matter how long it takes, we will arrest those people responsible," said Greater Manchester Police's Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan.
There is no doubt that there is a massive push and call for the police to act ruthlessly, or at least "robustly" as political and police leaders phrase it. And there is no doubt that order needs to be returned to the streets.
Yet it will be very surprising if the great defending of civil liberty which the government trumpeted as it came into power will now happen. The rhetoric is brutal, the options being considered are extreme, the chances of sense prevailing are remote.
A Prime Minister is supposed to lead, the police are supposed to protect, and the people are supposed to contribute. Yet heads have now been lost, and the prime minister follows the baying of the crowd for vengeance, the police are given powers to maim with plastic bullets and water cannons, and the people suggest that dispossessed and hopeless youths should face being shot at with live ammunition. Which, incidentally, was the spark that ignited the fire in the first place.
However, we must be careful to be clear as to where the responsibility lies. It is the rioters that are in the wrong. Although the police and government may be disliked and distrusted in many sections of society, we must acknowledge that they do a very important, and very challenging, job. The role of the police has been vital in restoring peace to the streets of Britain, and we must applaud their role. But the baying for more police powers, a tougher response and the use of dangerous crowd-control methods never before used on the British mainland is not a reasonable response to the riots.
This article was written by Mark Hanson, and is republished with his permission. It was originally published on the Rabel WebPaper, here: | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '210', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9746673703193665}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '22030', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YLMJRUDFTL6RDBBZCZLDRCVUR4HOPXWS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:08f30937-6c5f-406b-b999-413005ae4c03>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 21, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '77.246.164.146', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZMCGINIDH24PCTITCJM4VPZTMKMRVEY6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:cb5df635-4d1f-4cf0-96d3-f4061f5c1a30>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://policestate.co.uk/articles/117', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dce7cccf-3d69-42fc-bf23-aeb0e52f1587>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1230', 'url': 'http://policestate.co.uk/articles/117', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-229-147.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03867077827453613', 'original_id': '4525d0c2a3b4211b510e206f116313f5b28942ec62b38f4b8de1f3da15b1603b'} |
What is the Hottest Temperature Possible?
Chris G. asks: We know there is a coldest temperature at absolute zero. Is there also a hottest temperature possible?
In the Standard Model of the universe, the hottest possible temperature ever reached occurred a fraction of a second (10-43) after the Big Bang. During that minuscule period of time (called one Planck time), the universe is thought to have only been one tiny Planck length (10-35 meters) and have reached absolute hot at 1032 K (called Planck temperature). For comparison, our Sun is a measly 1.571 x 107 K at its center and the highest temperature ever created by man is currently 5.5 X 1012 K.
Beyond Planck temperature being the hottest temperature ever theoretically reached in our universe, physicists hypothesize that at any temperature higher than Planck, the gravitational forces of the affected particles would become equally as strong as the other fundamental forces (electromagnetic and weak and strong nuclear), resulting in all four becoming unified as one force. What happens then? Nobody knows as currently accepted conventional models of physics break down after that point. Of course, all of this is theoretical, since no one has yet to come up with an accepted quantum theory of gravity. As Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg described it, whatever happens at temperatures above 1032 K remains obscured by a “veil.”
It should be noted that not all physicists follow the Standard Model, and some prefer, for instance, String Theory, which attempts to describe all four fundamental forces as different manifestations of a single basic object (a string). For string theorists, the highest possible temperature is far lower than that postulated by the Standard Model; called the Hagedorn temperature, it is the point at which ordinary matter is no longer stable and either “evaporates” or changes into quark matter. Under this theory, the point at which that happens, or absolute hot, is thought to be just 1030 K, or about 1% Planck temperature.
Bonus Facts:
• While heating something to anywhere close to Planck temperature is far beyond our technology at present, cooling something down to close to absolute zero is not. For instance, in 2015 researchers at MIT managed to cool sodium potassium molecules down to just 500 nanokelvins or 500 billionths of 1 K.
• At least one animal can survive cold approaching absolute zero – the tardigrade. Also known as the water bear, this microscopic being has been shown to be able to survive being frozen for several minutes at a mere 1 degree above absolute zero. It can also survive being heated to temperatures well beyond the boiling temperature of water. Not their only astounding survival trick, tardigrades can survive numerous other extremes we humans would die instantly in. You can learn more about these fascinating creatures that may even be currently hanging out in your backyard here: The Amazing Tardigrade
• Just for fun: The energy required to stop the Earth orbiting the Sun is about 2.6478 × 1033 joules or 7.3551 × 1029 watt hours or 6.3285 x 1017 megatons of TNT. For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union) “only” produced 50 megatons of TNT worth of energy. So it would take about 12,657,000,000,000,000 of those nuclear bombs detonated at the correct location to stop the Earth in its tracks in its orbit around the Sun.
• Amazingly, if we were actually able to convert matter perfectly to energy with 1 kg of matter being completely annihilated, the energy produced from just that small amount of matter is about 42.95 mega tons of TNT. So an adult male weighing in at around 200 pounds has somewhere in the vicinity of 4000 megatons of TNT potential in their matter if completely annihilated. This is about 80 times more energy than was produced by the aforementioned Tzar Bomba, which itself produced a blast about 1,400 times more powerful than the combined explosions of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To further illustrate, 1 megaton of TNT, when converted to kilowatt hours, makes enough electricity to power an average American home for about 100,000 years. It is also enough to power the entire United States for a little over 3 days. So 1 kg of some matter being completely annihilated would be able to power the entire United States for about four months. One average adult male then, when completely annihilated, would produce enough energy to power the U.S. for about 30 years if we could harness all that energy. Energy crisis solved. 😉
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• Nice article, thanks!
Im not sure about this but shouldnt it be “someone” in this sentence?
“since no one has yet to come up with an accepted quantum theory of gravity.”
• Ya know, call me crazy, but I think it works either way. Especially if you drop the “to” in the example as presented.
“…no one has yet come up with…”
“…someone has yet to come up with…”
• where is the reference for “the highest temperature ever created by man is currently 5.5 X 1012 K.”
i really want to know what created it or why we created it… was it a nuke or something?
• A Lazer
• The z machine, the world’s largest xray. The z machine works by releasing 20 million amps of electricity into a vertical array of very fine tungsten wires. The wires dissolve into a cloud of charged particles, a superheated gas called plasma.
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A New Look at Old Retirement Savings Guidelines
Saving for retirement is complicated, so it's not surprising that a few fundamental guidelines have become popular over the years to help simplify complex ideas. Here are four that you might have come across in reading, researching, or just talking with friends. Like most guidelines, they offer helpful starting points but need to be examined critically and adjusted for your specific situation.
Save 10% of your pay for retirement. This is a good beginning, but many retirement experts suggest saving 15% of your salary. If you started late, you may need to save more. At the very least, save enough to receive any matching funds offered by your employer. Consider this: If you save just 6% of your salary and your employer offers a full 6% match, you are already saving 12%!
The percentage of stock in your portfolio should equal 100 minus your age. This reflects a fundamental idea that younger people can take on more investment risk for potential gain, while older people approaching retirement should protect their principal by converting some volatile growth-oriented stock investments to more stable fixed-income securities.
Although the strategy is sound, the math may no longer be appropriate considering long life spans and low yields on fixed-income investments. For example, if you followed this rule at age 40, 60% (100 minus 40) of your portfolio would consist of stock, and at age 60, the percentage of stock would be 40%. Depending upon your situation and risk tolerance, you may require a higher percentage of stock at either of these ages to meet your retirement savings goals.
You need 70% of your pre-retirement income during retirement. This is an older guideline — 80% is now more commonly suggested. But, in fact, there is no magic number, and you may be better off focusing on your actual expenses today and thinking about whether they'll stay the same, increase, decrease, or even disappear by the time you retire.
While some expenses might disappear, like a mortgage or costs for transportation to and from work, new expenses may arise, such as travel, help with home maintenance, and increased medical costs. A typical 65-year-old couple who retired in 2017 might spend $275,000 on medical care in retirement, even with Medicare.1 Calculate how much you may need to pay your retirement expenses and add a cushion for unexpected events.
A "safe" withdrawal rate is 4%. The "4% rule" suggests that you make annual withdrawals from your retirement savings equal to 4% of the total when you retire, with annual adjustments for inflation. This model was developed in the 1990s for a 30-year retirement with a portfolio that included 50% large-cap stocks.2 Although this may be a helpful guideline, some experts suggest a lower rate, and there are many other withdrawal models. Factors to consider include the value of your savings, the amount of income you anticipate needing, your life expectancy, the rate of return you expect from your investments, inflation, taxes, and whether you're single or married.
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View Full Version : Using Stored Procedures
03-26-2008, 12:23 PM
I looked in the What's new in V9 and have not found any information on how to execute a stored procedure within a firebird sql database or any other.
Is there any available info on this ?
Steve Workings
03-26-2008, 01:39 PM
I've been running stored procedures against Firebird with version 8. Here's one that I generalized a bit for this example. The fldlist and valuelist variables are, of course, created before this:
dim conn as ole::adodb.connection
dim rs as ole::adodb.recordset
rs.CursorType = 3
sql = "INSERT INTO USERS (" + fldlist + ") VALUES (" + valuelist + ")"
Success_Flag = rs.open(sql, conn)
Raymond Lyons
03-26-2008, 01:43 PM
Also, v8 had (and I am pretty sure v9 does too) a genie that would call a stored procedure. But note that for mysql one had to manually put "call" in front of the name of the stored procedure. The "call" is probably only necessary for mysql.
Raymond Lyons
03-27-2008, 01:28 AM
On second thought, I suppose I should have been a bit more specific. I meant there is in V8 an xabasic script genie (same thing for action scripting) under SQL (using AlphaDAO).
Edit: I was going to put a screen capture in here but I guess I am too ignorant (or lazy) to figure out how to do that. Sorry.
03-27-2008, 10:36 AM
Thanks to you guys, I was able to find the unique code to run a stored procedure in firebird: EXECUTE PROCEDURE and have a local ask variable passed into the procedure to query on the correct information.
However, in using an ask variable, I am having the dialog box pop up twice....The first time it pops up and I enter in data, it seems to rerun its self with the default entry reset to its initialized value.
The section in blue is the troubled section. It can be tested independently of the remained of code. Anyone know why it would do this ?
Source code below:
'Date Created: 26-Mar-2008 04:56:56 PM
'Last Updated: 26-Mar-2008 05:19:42 PM
'Created By : Mark Liermann
'Updated By : Mark Liermann
'Dialog prep: Set prompts and dimension variables
dim prmpt_title as c
dim prmpt_prompt as c
dim prmpt_default as c
prmpt_title = "VendorID"
prmpt_prompt = "Enter the Vendor ID to find:"
prmpt_default = "0"
'DIM a connection variable to a Firebird database
DIM cn as SQL::Connection
dim flagResult as l
flagResult = cn.open("::Name::FIREBIRD")
if flagResult = .f. then
ui_msg_box("Error","Could not connect to database. Error reported was: " + crlf() + cn.CallResult.text)
end if
'Specify if you are using Portable SQL syntax, or not
cn.PortableSQLEnabled = .f.
'Dim a SQL arguments object, create arguments and set their values
DIM args as sql::arguments
'Execute a stored procedure to select a vendor
dim sqlStatement as c
sqlStatement = <<%sql%
'Execute the Query
flagResult = cn.Execute(sqlStatement,args)
if flagResult = .f. then
end if
dim rs as sql::resultset
rs = cn.ResultSet
'The sql_resultset_preview() function opens a window showing a table with the results
'of your query. Show a maximum of 1,000 rows of data
'Note that the connection object is passed into the sql_resultset_preview() function so
'that the function can immediately release the resultset, thereby releasing any locks
'on the database that some databases might have applied.
sql_resultset_preview(rs,1000,"Preview Query Results",cn)
'Now, close the connection
Raymond Lyons
03-27-2008, 12:46 PM
Try setting a variable to = ui_get_number(prmpt_title,prmpt_prompt,prmpt_default)
farther up in your script and then plug the variable into your arg.add() line.
03-27-2008, 01:07 PM
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Filing Back Taxes - How to File With the IRS and What to Know
With the IRS and unfiled back taxes, one good fact is that the IRS has an unwritten policy about not prosecuting people that voluntarily file back taxes. However, things are different if the IRS finds you first; they can punish individuals up to 1 year in prison and $10k for every year unfiled. You probably will not go to prison because the US doesn't have enough prisons for all non-filers, but be assured that they will impose much harsher penalties if they find you before you voluntarily file your taxes. Understand why and how you can file your unpaid IRS taxes below. Taxes can be prepared from decades ago with proper documentation.
Why You Must File Back Taxes, Even If Late
1. If you do not owe taxes then you have the possibility of losing your tax refund. If you do not file within 3 years then the IRS will not pay the refund that is owed.
2. Penalties and Interest will grow significantly and increase the total tax amount you owe the IRS if you didn't file and have taxes owed. (Find more details on the various penalties & interest)
3. If you do not file, the IRS may complete a "Substitute for Return," which is not optimal as it is one tax return for all years. No federal exemptions or expenses will be applied and therefore increase your total tax liability.
4. If the tax is assessed and the IRS completes a substitute return for you, they will begin collecting. This means they can place a tax levy on wages or bank accounts, or a federal tax lien on your personal personal property.
5. The IRS will eventually find you. They have a complex computerized system that works slowly, but efficiently.
6. Even if the IRS has completed a Substitute for Return for you, it is in your best interest to file your back taxes because generally they will adjust your balance. Realize that you cannot receive a car loan or mortgage with unfiled tax returns if there is a balance owed. Social Security and other benefits can be removed as well. The consequences of filing voluntarily and not being able to pay are much less than if the IRS finds you first. Even if you file voluntarily and late and cannot pay, you may be able to negotiate a settlement with the IRS for less than the amount owed. Lastly, piece of mind that you no longer have to hide and will be considered in good standing with the IRS, even if you cannot pay the amount owed, is a reason to file.
How to File Back Taxes
1. Gather Necessary Information : Find old documents needed to file old returns. Particularly old W-2s, and 1099 tax documents. If you cannot find the docs, you can ask your old company for them or contact the IRS at 1-866-681-4271. If they do not have the information, you can call the IRS and request income data for missing years. It is likely that the IRS will have this information because all companies are required to report this information to the IRS. If they do not have it, you can use form 4852, which is a substitute W-2 that estimates what your W-2 would have been for those given years.
2. Prepare the tax forms. You will need to use the specific years tax return form for each year you missed. Generally, the IRS will require you at least file your last six years of tax returns (including the current year), but they may request a tax return that is older than six years. You can find these tax forms on the IRS website or any tax resolution firm likely has them. Be sure to claim deductions, exemptions, and credits to reduce your total tax liabilities. You can also go into an IRS office and get them. Even with sufficient knowledge, due to the complexity of the code, it is best to have a tax pro prepare them if you expect to have a tax amount that you cannot pay when the return is filed.
3. Contact the Right Tax Firm: It is a good idea to use a tax specialist like at Tax Attorney or Tax Certified Public Accountant that can file back taxes AND setup a resolution with the IRS. A total back taxes trusted firm will file your back taxes and help you find any settlement methods that are appropriate. If want to file them on your own, the easiest form of resolution is to send in a request for an Installment Agreement with the tax return. This will allow you to pay back the taxes owed in monthly installments. This type of agreement is the easiest to get accepted but there are many IRS tax settlement method you can pursue as well. For more info, use the third article on the right.
4. File your back taxes and other paperwork. If you received notice from the IRS to file the back taxes, send to the address listed on there, or send to the normal address you send your tax returns (IRS Addresses for Filing). Once you have your returns filed, you can next work with your tax professional to try to settle or reduce the total amount you owe. In most cases, you will need to come to an agreement with the IRS in regards to a tax payment plan or tax repayment methodology.
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Methods to Pay Back Taxes Owed
The IRS offers various options to taxpayers that cannot pay in full. The method that is used is dependent upon your unique financial situation. This guide will help you find the best solution.
Ways to Settle Back Taxes
If you owe taxes that cannot be paid in full after taxes have been filed it is important to come to a settlement with the IRS to prevent additional interest and penalties from accumulating. This guide will help you find the best settlement method.
Consequences of Having Unfiled Back Taxes
Potential Tax Penalties for Filing Late
Q&A about various situations and the tax penalites (if any) that are associated with filing taxes late.
File Back Taxes Abroad or Overseas
Guide on why and when a US citizen who is abroad needs to file a tax return and how to do so and what forms to use.
How to Find Out How Much IRS Taxes You Owe
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The mobile war is alive and well
Here are a couple of responses:
Source: CNET
Comments Threshold
RE: "Public"
By steedsrva87 on 9/11/2013 11:58:17 AM , Rating: 2
There is a small problem. One, the PC (and OS) market years ago was very different than the current Smartphone market. Also, this jab was made by Nokia, comparing their Lumia line with the new iPhone. Knowing how many people have a fetish for Apple and want nothing else, Nokia may have made a good strategic jab. Will those with tunnel vision for apple (and others) be judging Nokia due to what they said? Or will they keep their eyes on the Lumia, which just happens to be in the hands of Microsoft? My bet is on the former… That also kind of makes the strawman point irrelevant, who cares about color (sure, the RGB combination could be slightly different) … all that matters is Nokia’s superfluous jab (which was probably requested by Microsoft), because when it comes down to war, moral is everything.
RE: "Public"
By nikon133 on 9/11/2013 5:14:31 PM , Rating: 2
For as many people having Apple fetish, I think, you will find more people having anti-Apple fetish. Can't see anything wrong with Nokia trying to attract such people.
RE: "Public"
By Adonlude on 9/12/2013 7:14:17 PM , Rating: 2
Why can't people just buy the phones on merit and requirements. They are phones not teams!
I bought my first apple product with the 3G because it was the best when it came out and stuck with them through the 4G becuase they were still good and becuase I was tied iTunes. Now I'm annoyed at their laurel resting and will probably jump to Android entirely becuase I want a big screen.
I feel sad for Nokia. I used to love their little fun sized chocolate bar phones back in the day.
RE: "Public"
By EricMartello on 9/14/2013 4:22:30 AM , Rating: 2
You do realize that 99% of the people that have "smartphones" don't need them, so "buying phones on merit" is implying that people have a reason to own a smartphone other than "just coz" or "got it free from obama".
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How Essential Fatty Acids Play An Important Role In Finding The Right Facial Oil
Hey everyone!
So I've been focusing mostly on my YouTube Channel lately (since it's mostly hands free). I started with the foundation of skincare, cleansing. I've covered The Importance of CleansingHow and Why to Use A Milk Cleanser For Your AM Cleanse and am now talking about Oil Cleansers. My First Oil Cleansing video focuses on the benefits and how to actually do it. My second Oil Cleansing video is a bit more science-y. Because of this, it's quite hard to cover all the information in a video without making it ridiculously long. I'm not gonna do that to you! So i've decided to make an accompanying Blog post, which you're now reading. If you haven't already watched my Oil Cleansing video, I've put it below. It'll catch you up to what I'm going to be talking about today.
Now that you know the concept behind oil cleansing, lets talk about what oils to use!
There are two important things to think about when picking an oil..
Let's break that down.
Essential fatty acids are healthy fats the body requires for biological processes. They are essential because the body can't produce them on its own. There's some chemistry I'm going to skip here. I don't think you'd love for me to wax poetic on the differences between interrupted and conjugated single and double bonds. Just know that we're going to focus on three essential fatty acids: Alpha Linoleic Acid also known as Omega-3, Linoleic Acid also known as Omega-6 and Oleic Acid also known as Omega-9. All plant, nut and seed oils are made up of essential fatty acids. This makes understanding these fatty acids crucial to understanding oils.
Alpha Linoleic Acid is found naturally in leafy vegetables, nuts, grass fed animal fat and fish. It helps skin retain its moisture, regulates oil production and maintain its elasticity. When used topically it lessens photo damage and promotes anti-aging and anti-inflammatory responses in the skin. It is usually a lighter weight oil. Think brightening protection when you see Omega-3.
Linoleic Acid is found naturally found in meat, eggs and poultry, as well as nut and plant oils. It is essential to skin health and plays an important role in the structural integrity and barrier function of the skin. Skin with low levels of linoeic acid have been shown to be more acneic. When applied topically, linoleic acid's declogging properties reduce blackheads and breakouts while increasing the skin's barrier function and soothing scaling skin, such as excema. Pretty cool! Oils high in Linoleic Acid tend to be light weight, making them excellent oils to use on oily skin.
Oleic acid is commonly found in vegetable and animal fats. Despite being an essential fatty acid, oleic acid is produced by the body. I know, I know. There was a rule and now it's broken. Sorry, science is weird. Technically, it's a non essential fatty acid because it's produced by the body, but it can only be produced if there's enough Omega 3 or 6 - otherwise, it needs to be synthesized from food. Even though the body produces it, its beneficial ingested or used topically for its anti-inflammatory and skin softening benefits while also protecting cells from free radicals. So, yeah, I'll take more of that. Oils rich in oleic acid tend to be rich and thicker feeling, making them fantastic for dry skin. But keep in mind, even though oleic acid makes up part of our own skin's sebum (natural oil secretion), it can exacerbate acne in large amounts.
The second thing to look at when picking facial oils, whether for cleansing or moisturizing, is its comedogenic rating. This is a rating system that takes into account how pore clogging an oil is.
• An oil that has a comedogenic rating of 0 is widely believed to be non comedogenic and will not clog your pores.
• A comedogenic rating of 1 signifies a slight chance that the oil will clog your pores.
• A comedogenic rating of 2 tells you that the oil will not clog pores for MOST people, but some will begin to notice clogged pores.
• A comedogenic rating of 3 is where a lot of people will break out using this oil, but a lot of people may not break out depending on their skin type.
• A comedogenic rating of 4 suggests that MOST people will break out using this oil unless they have a good tolerance to it.
• There is a 5 but OMG don't put it on your face!!!
Just because an oil is full of anti-oxidant and anti-aging goodness doesn't mean it won't F up your skin. Oilier skin tends to be more easily clogged and dryer skin types tend to handle thicker oils more easily. But you do you! If your skin gets congested easily despite being dry, opt for a 0-2 oil.
Oils high in linoleic acid are good for oily skin.
Oils high in oleic acid are good for dry skin.
Oils high in alpha linoleic acid are great for protecting against and repairing damage from UV exposure.
Oils balanced in oleic and linoleic acid are more comparable to our own sebum.
Try to stick with oils with a 0-2 comedogenic rating.
So I made some charts because science-y stuff deserves a science-y chart. These charts show which oils are high in each fatty acid. They also give a breakdown of percentages of all three essential fatty acids I mentioned above, as well as a little blurb on each oils benefits. I highlighted the acid percentages we're focusing on in pink. Rows outlined in blue show well balanced fatty acid compositions. These oils are more similar to our own sebum allowing them to absorb more readily into the skin.
Oils High in Oleic Acid
These oils are best for dry skin. If you are dry but have a tendency to breakout, look for an oil thats also high in linoleic acid, like Argan. If you're dry and want an anti-aging oil, look for oils with anti-oxidant or anti-aging listed under its benefits, like Camellia Seed oil.
Oils High in Linoleic Acid
These oils are best for oily skin. If you are oily and acneic, make sure to pick an oil with a comedogenic rating of 0. If you have combination skin, both oily and dry, look for an oil that's also high in oleic acid, like Sunflower Seed Oil. Helpful tip: The oil names shown in pink are cleansing oils. These oils would make amazing oil cleansers for oily skin.
Oils High in Alpha Linoleic Acid
These oils tend to be high in anti-oxidants and are great at protecting and repairing skin from UV damage.
Doesn't it all make so much more sense now?!
You might notice jojoba has been excluded. This obviously is not a complete list of all oils. This was meant to be more of a cheat sheet that includes the usual suspects and a few lesser know fun guys. But really, I'm so over jojoba oil. I think people use it as a security blanket and, while it is very similar to our own sebum, it isn't very moisturizing or very antioxidant. However, it is purging. So if you'd like a light weight oil to pull out congestion in your skin, go for it! Otherwise, try something new!
I wanted to make picking oils easy. Hopefully this helped! Feel free to shoot me a line if you have any questions.
Thanks for reading!
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Create Doodle Art to Express Your Thoughts
Doodle art is not a complicated form of art, and it is just something that you draw in a freestyle motion freely from your thoughts. We are doing or contemplating something unique when we doodle. You can be chatting on the telephone, or even somewhere down in thought; in many occurrences that you doodle, you are not putting a considerable measure of exertion into what you are drawing. Because of the idea of making doodle, they are not constrained in degree, and you will get more info beneath on them.
The ideal way you can discharge your imaginative vitality is through doodles. Nowadays, as youngsters, we are not urged to attract or to be aesthetic unless we are “great at it. ” Just those that are capable are urged to draw. As a rule, the vast majority will begin drawing geometrical shapes when they begin doodling. In spite of the fact that they are doing this honestly without knowing it, they feel exceptionally good producing shapes that they learned at school when studying maths. People are also concerned that other people might observe their doodles and considered as poor art. The immense news is that there is no edge on how a doodle should look like and nobody’s doodle is superior to the other, all have their one of a kind story. When you understand how to take advantage of this art, you can relax and let your brain take you where you are supposed to be as you draw what comes to mind. If you feel that you have not made an incredible piece, you can adjust any part of the doodle as you see fit. There are no limits when doodling.
Doodles are an extraordinary method to give your mind a chance to unwind and to let your inventiveness (which is within each one of us) assume control just like Lynn Saahir Doodles. If you have an issue that requires illuminating, let your brain harp on the issue while you let your hand jot on a bit of clear paper. You might even be shocked to discover that you get your issue resolved as you doodle whatever is in your mind.
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Congenital portosystemic venous connections and other abdominal venous abnormalities in patients with polysplenia and functionally univentricular heart disease: a case series and literature review.
Published case reports suggest that congenital portosystemic venous connections (PSVC) and other abdominal venous anomalies may be relatively frequent and potentially important in patients with polysplenia syndrome. Our objective was to investigate the frequency and range of portal and other abdominal systemic venous anomalies in patients with polysplenia and inferior vena cava (IVC) interruption who underwent a cavopulmonary anastomosis procedure at our center, and to review the published literature on this topic and the potential clinical importance of such anomalies. Retrospective cohort study and literature review were used. Among 77 patients with heterotaxy, univentricular heart disease, and IVC interruption who underwent a bidirectional Glenn and/or modified Fontan procedure, pulmonary arteriovenous malformations were diagnosed in 33 (43%). Bilateral superior vena cavas were present in 42 patients (55%). Despite inadequate imaging in many patients, a partial PSVC, dual IVCs, and/or renal vein anomalies were detected in 15 patients (19%). A PSVC formed by a tortuous vessel running from the systemic venous system to the extrahepatic portal vein was found in six patients (8%). Abdominal venous anomalies other than PSVC were documented in 13 patients (16%), including nine (12%) with some form of duplicated IVC system, with a large azygous vein continuing to the superior vena cava and a parallel, contralateral IVC of similar or smaller size, and seven with renal vein anomalies. In patients with a partial PSVC or a duplicate IVC that connected to the atrium, the abnormal connection allowed right-to-left shunting. PSVC and other abdominal venous anomalies may be clinically important but under-recognized in patients with IVC interruption and univentricular heart disease. In such patients, preoperative evaluation of the abdominal systemic venous system may be valuable. More data are necessary to determine whether there is a pathophysiologic connection between the polysplenia variant of heterotaxy, PSVC, and cavopulmonary anastomosis-associated pulmonary arteriovenous malformations. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '812a4fd5fb265e90a303784fbd2b718e2c5acc66a7bc0f574a320d8fefb5effd'} |
Inadequacy of iridium implant as sole radiation treatment for operable breast cancer.
In order to avoid a prolonged course of external irradiation as part of breast conservation therapy, 27 patients received an iridium implant to the primary tumour bed as sole radiation treatment. Surgery was standardised comprising tumourectomy and axillary clearance. Using a rigid implant afterloading with iridium192 wires, 55 Gy was delivered on a continuous basis over 5 days. After 6 years median follow-up, relapse of cancer within the treated breast has occurred in 10 of the 27 patients (37%). Compared with historical controls treated by similar surgery and iridium192 implant (20 Gy) with external radiotherapy (46 Gy), there was a significantly increased breast relapse rate in those treated by iridium implant alone. However, the incidence of distant metastases and overall survival was similar. Thus, a continuous iridium192 implant delivering 55 Gy in 5 days is not an effective means of achieving local control in patients with operable breast cancer. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '357fc9cfd2d555919b146ef97f6e95f2ef228d8ff66b8ae60112d7cd688582e9'} |
Randy Daniels
But we wish he and his interpreters would get together a coherent narrative of how he came to be who he is, because we don’t quite understand it.
Here’s the Sun’s version:
“He became a reporter for CBS News and worked for Democrats such as Atlanta’s Andrew Young and New York’s Mark Green before moving toward the conservative end of the political spectrum, inspired in part by a stint covering Ronald Reagan and by face-to-face experience, as a reporter, covering the horrors of communism.”
A correspondent is skeptical:
“He was so inspired by Reagan that he worked for Mark Green 6 years after Reagan came into office, then worked for Democrat Andrew Stein and then attempted to join the Dinkins administration 3 years after Reagan left office. He remained a Democrat until becoming a spokesman for well known conservative thinker Abe Hirschfeld.” | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e477605dc16b750318b6d67450aff3a47ffd5a094f3b1d8ce7858ba3633445d2'} |
Midsommar (2019)
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Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
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This invention relates generally to pool or spa covers, and more particularly to covers configured to accommodate to waterfall chutes.
At present, spas or pools are frequently provided with waterfall chutes. Such chutes typically project over the open water containing interior of the pool or spa, from a location spaced above the level of the side wall of the spa or pool, in order to provide for the effect of water falling from a height. This presents the problem of configuring the pool or spa cover so as to easily seat or seal on the top of the side wall, when placed over the spa or pool interior. In an effort to overcome this problem, pads or padding have been attached to the underside of the cover, as near its edge, to provide for seating or sealing; however, such padding is bulky and adds to the difficulty of maneuvering the cover so as to align with, seat on and seal upon pool or spa edges. There is need for improvements to enable ease and assured seating and sealing of pool covers on pool or spa upper edges, particularly where waterfalls are employed. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '6664e8b494141727cc1194da98acebcc281216d868b8fadb2350891b4d3fef09'} |
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A cloud engineer intends to deploy a new action that requires web, application and database tiers.
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Understanding hormones
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Hi wray great website
There is two things I don't understand why is it that when I am feeling estrogen dominant ie
Sore breasts I sleep better. When the breast tenderness goes away I can't sleep at all. I do use natpro 2 years now pg 5 years total but can't sleep when I use it late a night I am so confused
Also if progesterone was the hormone for libido why have men's sex drive always higher than females
As we have higher pg
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Understanding hormones
by: Wray
Hi there It could be the sore breasts are nothing to do with oestrogen or progesterone, but a lack of iodine. But why iodine should fluctuate, and keep you awake is beyond me. Unless it's ramped up the thyroid! We do have two pages on breasts, something might give you a clue, see Breast Tenderness and Breast Cysts. And insomnia, as you probably know, can be helped by progesterone, see here, here and here. A lack of salt can keep us awake, see here. The amino acid tyrosine can help if the brain is in overdrive. Interestingly one study found insomnia is caused by hyperarousal, see here. But why any of these should fluctuate I don't understand. And as for libido, who says women's sex drive is less than men! We don't talk about it as much, or boast about our exploits, but the women I know have as good a libido as men. I have just done a page on libido, it was fascinating doing it, but it's not been put on the site yet. I've found it seems the main drive behind a good libido is the neurotransmitter dopamine. In fact one paper is entitled "Dopamine: helping males copulate for at least 200 million years"! And certainly not testosterone, which appears a minor player. Oestrogen doesn't feature in any of the studies. Incidentally we have many men using progesterone to increase theirs. We do have higher progesterone than men, but only in the luteal phase. During the follicular phase it's the same as men's. Take care Wray
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If you think about a library you might think that Cordoba has just one ordinary library that you often see, but you are wrong. Cordoba has a unique set of libraries that you might want to pay a visit. It is very rich in history as well.
1. There are thirteen public libraries in Cordoba
There are a lot of public libraries in Cordoba and all of them are pretty amazing this includes Biblioteca Alcolea, Biblioteca Levante, Biblioteca Corredera, Bibliotica Norte, Biblioteca Fuensanta, Biblioteca Morenas, Biblioteca Publica Municipal Central de Cordoba, Biblioteca Arrabal del Sur, Biblioteca Publica del Estado-Cordo, Biblioteca Poinente Sur, Biblioteca Vallehermoso, Biblioteca El Hiqueron and Biblioteca Villarrubia.
Name: Biblioteca Alcolea
Adress: Edificio Cisneros, Universidad de Alcalá, Plaza de San Diego, s/n, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Acess: 10 minutes from University of Alcala
Opening hour: Monday- Sunday 24hours
Holiday: +34 918 85 24 50
Website: http://biblioteca.cordoba.es/
2. Cordoba was full of visitors from North
On the 10th century Cordoba was full of scholars and booksellers who flocked the area which made Cordoba a very historical place for learning. Museums around Cordoba still have some of the books and materials used for learning during that time and because of that its streets were well lit and there were amazing series of buildings as well. There is also a great stone bridge made by Muslim engineers with seven arches each with fifty spans of width.
3. Cordoba became seat of Jewish learning, scholarship and culture
Cordoba was very rich in terms of education considering the fact that there are a lot of booksellers and scholars in the area that it became the center of Jewish learning, scholarship and culture. The city became famous for its gardens and amazing promenades. During that time, it has 70 public libraries and mosque libraries as well and they were open for anyone to use.
4. Cordoba Public Library has an eLibrary
All of the public libraries in Cordoba have the eLibrary system to beat up the high-technology today. They electronics books and stuff like that where you can access over the internet and borrow the stuff you need from there electronically which makes things much easier especially for teenagers and kids nowadays.
5. Cordoba libraries has unique structures
Considering the fact that Cordoba is very rich in history and culture, the libraries around Cordoba has evidence of its history and culture as well. The structures, design and materials around the library reflects its history which somewhat similar to the design and structure that you will see in Cordoba Mosque-Catedral or Mezquita.
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Romney Claims Government Support “Kills Solar Energy” — Another Major Flip Flop
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was once a venture capitalist. So when he became governor of Massachusetts, he recognized the need to set up a Green Energy Fund (!) in his state to “to provide equity capital, loans and management assistance to Massachusetts-based renewable energy businesses.”
Today, with continued state-level support, Massachusetts is a leader in cleantech venture capital — competing with Silicon Valley in biotech, renewable energy, and efficiency investments.
But now, in his bid to join the Solyndra scare-mongers in the GOP fringe, Romney is claiming the federal loan guarantee program that helped leverage tens of billions in private capital will cause investments to “disappear.” In an interview with Charlie Rose earlier this week, Romney said the program “kills solar energy.”
When the president says, “I’m going to … put a half-billion dollars into my favorite solar energy company, Solyndra,” let’s pretend for a moment that it didn’t go bankrupt. Let’s just pretend it was successful. Here’s what he doesn’t understand. There are well over 100 different businesses, I’ll bet, in this country that are trying to develop new solar technology. When he picks one that the government gets behind with $500 million, the investments in all the others disappear, because no one wants to compete with the government.
He kills solar energy by having the government play the role of venture capitalist. You either believe in free enterprise and freedom and the American system or you believe in the European government-dominated system, and that system is a failed system.
That must be why, in spite of the loan guarantee program that helped many “first-of-a-kind” solar projects get off the ground, General Electric is building a 400-MW thin film solar manufacturing facility in Colorado on its own. Or why companies like Google are throwing tens of millions of dollars behind solar projects throughout the U.S., helping accelerate the solar market into another record year.
Yep. That loan guarantee program sure did kill solar investments.
There are a number of legitimate criticisms that can be made about the loan guarantee program — particularly regarding transparency of the decision making process. But experience over the last year shows us that the program (which, it should be noted, is over and done with) did not force investments to “disappear.”
In fact, after raising hundreds of millions of dollars from the capital markets in preparation for the largest residential solar project in history, SolarCity lost its bid for a loan guarantee post-Solyndra. But rather than drop the investment, the company was able to secure $1 billion from Bank of America in order to move the project. SolarCity’s Lyndon Rive said the investment wouldn’t have happened without the previous due diligence undertaken under the loan guarantee process.
“We’re extremely grateful to the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, in addition to our partners, U.S. Renewables Group and BofA Merrill Lynch. Without this group, we would not have been able to make the economics of this project work.”
Romney, who has an MBA, constantly reminds us that he comes from the business world. But his BS in politics seems to be trumping that experience.
This is just political spin that anybody with little sense can debunk. Unfortunately the harm is already done, because the public does not understand and does not care to understand what the loan guarantee is trying to achieve.
Loan guarantee is not meant to replace VC funding, it is meant to help cleantech companies bridge the valley of death and build manufacturing capabilities, a space that has been vacated by VCs in cleantech.
I don’t know how they do it exactly, but I feel that the kind of (mis)explanation that Romney offers is another example of certain type of brilliance that he and many Republicans have. It has to do with their uncanny ability to create simple, believable explanations or viewpoints that can be said in a quick sound bite that many will digest instantly and that reinforce to the point of dogma over time.
As I learned through this blog, debunking dogmatically held myths is tricky though.
The recommended approach seems to be to start with a focus on what you consider to be closer to the truth, explain why, and then state the myth and why it makes no sense. This way you don’t reinforce the myth unintentionally by emphasizing it upfront.
It’d be stronger, to me, to have a little blurb upfront on the logic of these loans, the DOE approach and how it’s been successful. As I read this post, I feel like I want a bit more than “experience with loan guarantees shows they don’t inhibit investment” and an example of how the rigor of the program helped an unsuccessful applicant sell its project successfully in the private market. THEN show how the myth perpetuated by this guy is bogus, and even happens to be hypocritical in this instance relative to his previous actions when a governor.
Hope this isn’t too critical. To balance, you should know Steven that I look forward almost every day to seeing your energy stuff, in large part because it’s generally positive and hopeful. Just trying to keep the discipline standard up given posts and learnings already acknowledged on this blog :)
Most national and high profile state conservative candidates can say virtually ANYTHING then go on Fox News and have it either explained away or backed up…. In my opinion, most of the political problems in our country AND the looming collapse of the Republican Party can be traced back to Murdoch’s empire.
Don’t worry. The Tory bovver-boys and their Lib-Dem fags will be back. Like the Right everywhere they view renewables as the enemy, and will continue to act with lethal intent to destroy them, piece by piece, so as not to stir up too much resistance. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'effaa125b78dbe1710f165ad34ff78c736bf0d7645c67327dadc918f8cc76f39'} |
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Australia / USA)
What can I say about the new Mad Max movie? Wasn’t it already being rhapsodized about in reviews even before its release to the general public? Some critics got so het up they snuck through the reviewing embargos because they couldn’t contain their enthusiasm. It’s amazing what effect pumped-up post-apocalyptic motorized mayhem can have on some folks.
(It seems I was the only woman at the screening, though my hopes rose when I saw a sister film-lover a few rows ahead of me, but it turned out to be a long-haired guy with a goatee beard…)
George Miller’s post-apocalyptic landscape was first introduced to audiences in 1979 in the Australian actioner Mad Max, re-established in the 1981’s The Road Warrior and last seen in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. With Fury Road, director Miller returns to the lawless, fuel-deprived future of his seminal series for the first time in three decades. Each movie has been more successful than the last and subsequently has had more money to spend. Granted a generous budget of millions, Miller has finally had the opportunity to put the Mad Max he could only dream about in his fledgling years up on the screen.
Many directors have found this kind of studio funded wealth to be their nemesis, and have often lost their core audience by overreaching themselves and getting lost in the alluring world of digital enhancements and special effects. I’m pleased to report that George Miller cannily sidesteps this pitfall and sticks with what made his Mad Max series so unique in the first place. He pours the money into the lost art of daredevil stunt work and pyrotechnics – the vehicular mayhem, the smashes and crashes are, by and large, the real thing.
Fury Road offers us one arresting image after another: warriors on swinging poles, bikers dropping bombs as they jump over moving cars, spiked dune-buggies like wheeled porcupines on speed, sedan frames set on top of tanks, trucks flipping through the air, rusty steel frames scrunching up or exploding. On the roofs and hoods of these crazy, patched-together, speeding war machines, post-apocalyptic savages battle with blades, pistols, sawn-off shotguns, hooks, chainsaws, or fists. The dizzying desert sky and rolling red sands look stunning on the big screen.
Providing the martial soundtrack to spur the troops onto the onslaught is an expansive percussion section of jungle drummers and a mutant guitarist blasting out metal riffs and supported by a brace of bungee cords. It must surely be the best job of the lot – being the wild axe-wielder in front of a towering bank of amps (axe in this case meaning a flame-throwing guitar pumped up to Nigel’s number eleven) – I’d sneak that job if I could. All this din becomes a veritable symphony of combustion.
Max himself is, as ever, a man of few words, Tom Hardy now taking over from the young Mel Gibson. Hardy’s Max is pretty patently mad, having visions of his slaughtered family and possibly suffering from some form of PTSD. We first see him standing beside his familiar 600HP, V8 Interceptor, staring out across the desert plain, chewing on a mutated two-headed lizard as he contemplates what’s become of the scorched Earth (we learn in news bulletins played over the film’s opening credits, that it’s been laid to waste by wars for oil and water, finishing in a thermonuclear explosion). His world has long regressed into barbarism, as humanity’s impulse to survive has become perverted by rapaciousness and brutality.
Within the first few minutes, Max is captured by Immortan Joe (Keays-Byrne, aka Toecutter from the ’79 film), the bloated and diseased leader of an army of white-painted War Boys who, hyped-up on pseudo-religious fervour and riddled with a wasting sickness, use normal humans as living blood-bags. The boys cling to the herd mentality and are disposed to believe any heroic myth spouted by their alpha-male. In Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, gasoline was the lifeblood of post-apocalyptic society; now water is also a scarce commodity, a supply of which Immortan Joe controls, keeping the starving, rag-tag populace thirsty and in his thrall.
Women have never had it easy in the post-apocalyptic wasteland – that world inevitably tends to revert to an oppressive patriarchal structure, and the threat of male violence and sexual violation constantly hangs over them. Immortan Joe keeps large-breasted women as milking stock and also incarcerates a group of young women for sex and impregnation. However, it seems that even the supermodel-types cushioned within the leader’s harem eventually get fed-up of being treated as sex-objects and breeding stock. In his fourth Mad Max instalment, Miller allows the women to take centre stage and finally fight back – which brings us to Charlize Theron’s remarkable performance as the one-armed warrior-woman Furiosa.
Furiosa is Fury Road’s heart and soul—her escape with the young wives is not just a flight from the unwanted attentions of the domineering and repulsive Immortan Joe, but a search for a refuge from the madness and tyranny of his world. These women are hell-bent for a better place where they can feel safe and free. Miller has never shirked from projecting difficult issues into his violent and dystopian visions of the near-future. The action set pieces may be what grab the attention, but the main themes are not marginalized – indeed, Fury Road maintains the theme of personal freedom at the forefront. “You can’t own people” is a sentence often repeated, and the harsh question “Who killed the world?” is here posed by the women and aimed at the men. Some of the fundamental questions familiar from the previous movies are also reiterated: Where are we going? How do we cope when our resources become scarce? How can we live together in a civilized way?
After getting caught up in the wild vehicular action of Fury Road, I managed to resist the urge to drive back home whooping like a maniac, but I was uncomfortably struck by just how many cars there were around me – streaming along the road, parked on both sides of the street, filling the driveways, squeezed up on pavements – I certainly saw a lot more cars than I saw people. It’s a sobering thought to see just how deeply dependent we already are on oil, and one day, it will inevitably run out, and what will become of us then?
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Carol Hampsey
Carol Hampsey started curling “too many years ago to remember,” she says – but when pressed, suggests it was probably in 1965 or 1966, at the Berwick Curling Club.
She began her competitive curling career throwing first stones for a team skipped by Betty Adams. “In later years,” she says, “I usually played the mate position, as I didn't really like skipping.” This, she points out, “was left to Elaine Prall or whoever else would have me on their team.”
While the Berwick teams Hampsey was a part of did well in Western Counties and provincial playdowns, many of the Berwick senior curlers didn't have the time she had to devote to the sport. When she got a call from Yvonne Martin of Coldbrook asking her to compete in the Nova Scotia senior championships, Hampsey agreed – and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 2002, Martin, Hampsey, Donna MacKinnon and Allison Weagle teamed up to win the Nova Scotia seniors, and competed at the Canadian championships in St. Thomas, ON. Team Martin, she recalls, “made a fair showing” at nationals – “big stuff for a little old curler from Berwick, NS” – but the truth was, she and Martin were just getting started. Hampsey continued to curl with Martin in competition, while also curling recreationally out of Berwick.
In 2003, Martin, Hampsey, Sandy Walker and Allison Weagle teamed up to win another provincial senior title, and again competed at nationals, this time in Lethbridge, AB. That same year, Martin also entered a team in the provincial Masters (60-and-over) competition, and with Carol Romkey, Hampsey and Donna MacKinnon, captured that championship as well - for Martin and Hampsey, two titles in the same year!
Advancing to nationals in Assiniboine, SK, Hampsey unfortunately fell on the ice during a game and broke her wrist, forcing her to miss the remainder of the competition.
In 2004, Martin, Hampsey, Gwen Merriam and Barb Marsland entered the provincial senior playdowns and won again - Hampsey's third straight provincial senior title. The 2004 nationals were in Kelowna, BC, “and though we didn't win, it was a great privilege to meet curlers from across Canada competing at all these championships.” Martin remembers Hampsey as the ultimate teammate. “She mated for me at many provincial tournaments and at four national championships,” she says. “She was always a 'skip's delight' to have on your team.”
Many curlers, she points out, “tend to blame the broom being in the wrong place when they miss, but Carol was the exception. “As soon as she released her rock, she would yell 'inside' or 'outside' to let the sweepers know whether to sweep or not, even if she was only off by an inch. This is a quality very seldom found in most curlers, and I appreciated it very much.
“She also had a deadly takeout, and got us out of plenty of touchy situations.” Hampsey, Martin points out, “was always the same, no matter where we travelled in this wonderful country. Her demeanour never changed, even when she broke her wrist and needed surgery two and a half hours away from where we were curling.”
Today, Hampsey continues to curl recreationally, but not competitively. As she points out, “we all get old far too quickly.”
The Berwick Sports Hall of Fame is pleased to induct, in the Athlete category, Carol Hampsey. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '03183cb16d7f5637d9ab462442ae9d6f9764e9a245ad2347a5fda181b6cd40c5'} |
Introduction {#sec1_1}
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The risk of thromboembolism is affected by numerous factors and shows considerable variability among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) \[[@B1]\]. Coexisting clinical, echocardiographic and biochemical factors, which increase the risk of thromboembolic events in patients with AF, have been identified \[[@B1],[@B2]\].
Serum uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism catalyzed by xanthine oxidoreductase (XO) \[[@B1]\]. Elevated serum uric acid levels have been reported as an independent risk factor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially in patients with heart failure and AF \[[@B2],[@B3]\]. The XO enzyme activity has been reported, and, hence, in the left atrium (LA), elevated uric acid levels may be a sign of oxidative damage and inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of AF \[[@B4],[@B5],[@B6]\].
The left atrial appendage (LAA) is a blind-ended pouch, which is embryologically distinct from the main body of the LA. The contractile function of the LAA has been shown to provide a significant contribution to the overall compliance and reservoir function of the LA \[[@B7]\]. AF can lead to structural remodeling of the LA, causing reduced contractile function of the LA and/or the LAA. Most of the clinical interest in LAA peak flow velocity arises from its relationship with thromboembolism \[[@B5]\]. Both surgical and autopsy studies have shown that thromboembolic complications develop during AF and are mostly due to the emboli or thrombi formed during blood stasis in the LAA \[[@B7]\]. Thus, the contractile function of the LAA and the degree of blood stasis within the LAA have been regarded as substantial determinants of thromboembolic risk in patients with AF. Although much is known about the role of serum uric acid in atrial remodeling, less is known about the potential pathogenetic role of uric acid in maintaining the function of the LAA.
Therefore, in this study, the association between serum uric acid levels and LAA peak flow velocity was assessed using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in patients with AF, which may provide additional information about the pathogenesis of thromboembolic events in this patient group.
Subjects and Methods {#sec1_2}
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Patient Selection {#sec2_1}
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This was a retrospective study, and patients with AF, who were admitted to the Department of Cardiology and in whom TEE was performed before cardioversion, were retrospectively screened via the hospital\'s computerized patient database. Exclusion criteria were: thyroid dysfunction, end-stage heart failure, hepatic failure, recent acute myocardial infarction, malignancies, blood dyscrasias, autoimmune or inflammatory diseases and the use of drugs, which may potentially interfere with the uric acid metabolism, such as allopurinol, diuretics, anti-inflammatories and antioxidants.
A total of 231 patients were evaluated, and 56 patients were excluded from the study. Twenty-two patients who did not have serum uric acid levels on file were also excluded from the study. Hence, 153 patients were included in the study. After the assessment of baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, patients were divided into 2 subgroups according to their LAA peak flow velocity. Patients with a low LAA peak flow velocity (\<35 cm/s) were identified as group 1, and patients with a normal LAA peak flow velocity (≥35 cm/s) were identified as group 2.
Transesophageal Echocardiography {#sec2_2}
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All the patients included in the study had undergone TEE examination for left atrial thrombus investigation. The TEE recordings were re-examined offline irrespective of the previous results by 2 echocardiography specialists (M.C. and Y.G.) who were blinded to the data of the patients. The TEE examinations were performed after an overnight fasting period in the left lateral decubitus position with the application of 10s% lidocaine spray to the hypopharynx (Philips iE 33 6.0 ultrasound system and Live 3D TEE probe X7-2t; Philips Medical Systems, Andover, Mass., USA). LAA blood flow velocity was measured by placing the pulsed-wave Doppler sample volume at the orifice of the LAA, and the peak outflow velocity signals were averaged over a minimum of six cardiac cycles. The presence of a thrombus and spontaneous echocardiographic contrast (SEC) was also evaluated. All TEE findings and the transthoracic echocardiography findings that have been made before the TEE procedure were compared between the 2 groups.
Laboratory Measurements {#sec2_3}
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Blood samples for standard biochemical tests were obtained in the early morning hours 1 or 2 days prior to TEE examination. In all patients, the serum uric acid level, fasting plasma glucose, serum urea, serum creatinine, total serum cholesterol, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol were measured with an Olympus AU2700 autoanalyzer using its own kits (Olympus Diagnostics, Hamburg, Germany) in the central laboratory of our institute. The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was measured using the 4-variable modifications of diet in renal disease equation.
Statistical Analysis {#sec2_4}
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Continuous variables were expressed as the mean ± standard deviation and categorical variables as percentages. Continuous variables were also checked for the normal distribution assumption using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics. The χ^2^ and Student\'s t tests were used to compare categorical and quantitative data between the 2 groups, respectively. Pearson\'s and Spearman\'s coefficients were used to perform an analysis of correlation. A univariate linear regression analysis was performed to demonstrate the independent association between serum uric acid levels and LAA peak flow velocity. To determine the independent influence of serum uric acid levels on LAA blood flow velocity, multivariate linear regression analysis was performed, using the backward method based on various independent variables, which likely affect the LAA peak flow velocity. A p value \<0.05 was considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses and calculations were conducted using the SPSS 20.0 Statistical Package Program for Windows (SPSS, Chicago, Ill., USA).
The Institutional Ethics Committee approved this study protocol, and the study was conducted according to the regulations of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Results {#sec1_3}
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Of the 153 patients, 91 were men (59.5s%) and 62 were women (40.5s%), with a mean age of 65.92 ± 12.92 years. Group 1 consisted of 87 patients \[43 men (49.4s%) and 44 women (50.6s%), with a mean age of 68.3 ± 9.9 years\], and group 2 consisted of 66 patients \[48 men (72.7s%) and 18 women (27.3s%), with a mean age of 62.8 ± 15.5 years\]. The baseline demographic characteristics of the study population are shown in table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"}. We found that AF patients with a low peak flow velocity were older (p = 0.010) and female (p = 0.003). We also found that patients with an LAA peak flow velocity \<35 cm/s have a decreased eGFR compared with those with an LAA peak flow velocity ≥35 cm/s (63.5 ± 16.1 vs. 72.9 ± 18.8 ml/min/1.73 m^2^; p = 0.001). There were no significant differences with regard to other demographic and clinical features or the laboratory findings between the groups.
The LAA peak flow velocity was lower (24.62 ± 5.90 cm/s) in group 1 compared with group 2 (49.28 ± 13.72 cm/s), and the difference was statistically significant (p = 0.001). Additionally, the presence of LAA thrombi and SEC was significantly higher in group 1 than in group 2 (p = 0.027 and p \< 0.001, respectively; table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"}). Serum acid levels were 6.9 ± 1.8 mg/dl for group 1 and 5.9 ± 1.5 mg/dl for group 2, and the difference was statistically significant (p = 0.001). Serum uric acid levels were negatively correlated with the LAA blood flow velocity (r = −0.216, p = 0.007).
Multivariate regression showed that the serum uric acid level (β = −0.196, p = 0.010), age (β = −0.201, p = 0.009) and gender differences (β = −0.289, p \< 0.001) were statistically significant predictors of LAA peak flow velocity (table [3](#T3){ref-type="table"}). Although univariate correlation analysis showed diastolic blood pressure, LAA peak flow velocity, SEC, LAA thrombus, left atrial size, left ventricular ejection fraction and GFR were correlated with serum uric acid, and only diastolic blood pressure (β = −0.305, p = 0.016) and GFR (β = −0.498, p \< 0.001) were independent predictors of serum uric acid in multivariate regression analysis, using the backward method.
Discussion {#sec1_4}
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The major finding of this study was that serum uric acid levels were higher in patients with AF and a lower LAA peak flow velocity than in those with AF and a normal LAA peak flow velocity; and, there was an independent association between increased levels of serum uric acid and decreased LAA function in patients with AF. Hence, elevated serum uric acid levels could be considered as a predictor of decreased contractile function of the LAA contributing to the prothrombotic state of patients with AF.
Serum uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism and is produced by the conversion of hypoxanthine to xanthine and then xanthine to uric acid, and both reactions are catalyzed by the XO enzyme \[[@B1]\]. Serum uric acid is a well-established endothelium-injuring factor. Bo et al. \[[@B8]\] showed that elevated serum uric acid levels cause a detrimental effect on endothelial function. However, Ames et al. \[[@B9]\] suggested that serum uric acid has antioxidant effects and may be a powerful scavenger of oxygen and free radicals at physiological concentration levels. These contradictory findings suggest a concentration-dependent dual effect of serum uric acid that exerts beneficial antioxidant properties while within normal limits, whereas harmful pro-oxidant effects could be seen above normal serum concentrations.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that serum uric acid is clearly associated with oxidative stress and inflammation in several pathological conditions. Elevated serum uric acid levels have been suggested as a simple and independent predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with congestive heart failure \[[@B10]\]. Elevated serum uric acid levels were also found as an independent predictor of cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease, ST-elevation myocardial infarction \[[@B11]\], hypertension \[[@B12]\], stroke \[[@B13]\], diabetes mellitus \[[@B14]\], metabolic syndrome \[[@B15]\], insulin resistance \[[@B14]\], obesity \[[@B16]\] and renal failure \[[@B17]\]. These findings pointed out that serum uric acid is not only an indicator of the catabolic phase of purine nucleotides but also a manifestation of systemic inflammation in many cardiovascular diseases.
Electrical remodeling is known as the main operative mechanism in paroxysmal AF, whereas atrial structural remodeling holds the principal role in permanent AF \[[@B18]\]. The consequences of inflammation and oxidative stress can lead to cardiac remodeling and atrial fibrosis as well as increase the susceptibility of AF. However, it is unclear whether serum uric acid participates actively in atrial remodeling or simply represents a marker of the oxidative and inflammatory processes.
Since there is a relationship between serum uric acid levels and markers of inflammation and oxidative stress, the elevated serum uric acid level appears to be an emerging prognostic risk factor of AF. Suzuki et al. \[[@B19]\] reported that the serum uric acid levels were significantly higher in 1,131 AF patients compared with non-AF patients. In another recently published study, Kuwabara et al. \[[@B20]\] showed that serum uric acid levels ≥8 mg/dl might be accepted as an independent predictor of the future development of AF. The association between serum uric acid and AF is largely explained by oxidative stress, which may be responsible for atrial remodeling in patients with AF \[[@B21]\]. XO-induced increased oxidative stress may cause cellular damage and impair the myofibrillar energetics which causes atrial contractile dysfunction \[[@B22]\]. The LA has been found to be more sensitive to oxidative stress \[[@B23]\], and the XO enzyme found in the LA seems to contribute to the increased atrial oxidative stress in patients with AF \[[@B21]\]. Hoeper et al. \[[@B2]\] demonstrated that elevated serum uric acid levels are related to increased right and left atrial filling pressures, which leads to structural and electrophysiological abnormalities that expedite the initiation and continuation of AF. Additionally, Letsas et al. \[[@B5]\] showed a correlation between elevated serum uric acid levels and increased LA diameter as a result of the effects of serum uric acid on atrial structural remodeling.
The LAA is a blind-ended pouch, which is embryologically distinct from the main body of the LA. The contractile function of the LAA has been shown to provide a significant contribution to the overall compliance and reservoir function of the LA \[[@B7]\]. Most of the clinical interest in LAA peak flow velocity arises from its relationship with thromboembolism. The contractile function of the LAA and the degree of blood stasis within the LAA have been regarded as substantial determinants of thromboembolic risk in patients with AF. Although much is known about the role of serum uric acid in atrial remodeling, less is known about the potential pathogenetic role of uric acid in maintaining the function of the LAA. In an experimental porcine model of rapid atrial pacing, Dudley et al. \[[@B24]\] demonstrated that increased XO activity was more apparent in the LAA. However, it is unclear whether uric acid participates actively in the mechanical dysfunction of the LAA or simply represents a marker of the oxidative and inflammatory processes.
In the present study, we aimed to investigate the association between LAA function and serum uric acid levels in patients with AF and observed that uric acid levels were significantly higher in patients with AF and a lower LAA peak flow velocity than in those with AF and a normal LAA peak flow velocity. Consequently, we suggested that the LAA might be more susceptible to the direct toxic effect of increased serum levels of uric acid, and elevated levels might further impair the myofibrillar energetics of the LAA compared to the other left atrial myocardium.
Additionally, we observed that patients with decreased LAA peak flow velocities were females and older and had a decreased eGFR compared with patients with normal LAA peak flow velocities. It is obvious that atrial fibrosis and susceptibility to AF is increased with aging. It is a matter of controversy in the literature whether there is a gender difference in the incidence of AF. Nevertheless, Michelena et al. \[[@B25]\] stated that morbidity and mortality are greater in women with AF than in men with AF. In accordance, we also found that male AF patients generally have normal LAA peak flow velocities compared with females. In multivariate regression analysis, the eGFR did not remain an independent predictor of LAA peak flow velocity.
This study had several limitations. Firstly, the limited number of patients and the retrospective design of the paper create a difficulty for the definite cause-effect relation between serum uric acid and LAA peak flow velocity. Considering that the study was conducted with a special cohort, further studies with larger cohorts are required to improve the generalizability of the results. Secondly, patients were pooled and analyzed irrespective of the duration and type of AF rhythm or a history of heart failure, which could affect the function of the LAA and the level of serum uric acid. Also, we did not evaluate the use of diuretics and statins, which may have a potential effect on the elevated serum uric acid level. Lastly, we did not examine the relative influence of other conventional inflammatory markers.
Conclusions {#sec1_5}
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In the present study, there was an independent association between high serum uric acid levels and low LAA peak flow velocity. This finding could indicate that a high serum uric acid level seemed to be a predictor of low LAA peak flow velocity in patients with AF. However, further large-scale studies are needed to elucidate the exact pathophysiologic and prognostic role of serum uric acid.
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Demographics, clinical and biochemical data of AF patients categorized according to LAA blood flow velocity
Group 1 (n = 87) Group 2 (n = 66) p
--------------------------------------------- ------------------ ------------------ -------
Age, years 68.3 ± 9.9 62.8 ± 15.5 0.010
Females 44 (50.6) 18 (27.3) 0.003
Coronary artery disease 31 (35.6) 18 (27.3) 0.178
Hypertension 46 (52.9) 31 (47.0) 0.288
Hyperlipidemia 18 (20.7) 10 (15.2) 0.254
Diabetes mellitus 20 (23.0) 14 (21.2) 0.476
Fasting glucose, mg/dl 110.6 ± 35.1 119.5 ± 50.3 0.202
GFR, ml/min/1.73 m^2^ 63.5 ± 16.1 72.9 ± 18.8 0.001
Serum uric acid, mg/dl 6.9 ± 1.8 5.9 ± 1.5 0.001
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol, mg/dl 43 ± 13 46 ± 12 0.307
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, mg/dl 107 ± 33 114 ± 33 0.235
Triglyceride, mg/dl 133 ± 84 143 ± 84 0.450
Total serum cholesterol, mg/dl 176 ± 43 189 ± 44 0.070
White blood cell, 10^3^/µl 7.73 ± 2.73 7.63 ± 2.47 0.554
Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio 3.32 ± 2.54 3.24 ± 2.66 0.861
Hemoglobin, g/dl 13.2 ± 1.6 13.6 ± 1.8 0.088
Hematocrit, s% 40 ± 4 41 ± 7 0.104
Red cell distribution width, s% 15.2 ± 2.3 15.1 ± 3.5 0.786
Platelet count, 10^3^/µl 241 ± 75 244 ± 76 0.818
Mean platelet volume, fl 8.9 ± 1.1 8.7 ± 0.9 0.249
Figures in parentheses are percentages.
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TEE findings of study patients
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Group 1 (n = 87) Group 2 (n = 66) p values
---------------- ------------------ ------------------ ----------
LAA peak flow\ 24.62 ± 5.90 49.28 ± 13.72 \<0.001
velocity, cm/s
LAA thrombus 19 (21.8) 6 (9.1) 0.027
SEC \<0.001
0 28 (32.2) 51 (77.3)
1 s+ 11 (12.6) 6 (9.1)
2 s+ 19 (21.8) 3 (4.5)
3 s+ 29 (33.3) 6 (9.1)
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Figures in parentheses are percentages.
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Multivariate regression analysis based on independent variables likely to affect the LAA peak flow velocity
Independent variables 95s% CI β p[^1^](#T3F1){ref-type="table-fn"}
----------------------- ------------------- -------- ------------------------------------
Serum uric acid −3.082 to −0.425 −0.196 0.010
Age −0.428 to −0.063 −0.201 0.009
Male gender −14.024 to −4.558 −0.289 \<0.001
Hypertension −5.910 to 4.088 −0.029 0.719
eGFR −0.157 to 0.199 0.024 0.815
LDL-C −0.014 to 0.128 0.119 0.115
N/L ratio −0.771 to 1.170 0.033 0.685
RDW −1.207 to 0.453 −0.068 0.371
MPV − 3.154 to 1.300 −0.062 0.412
CI = Confidence interval; LDL-C = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; N/L ratio = neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio; RDW = red cell distribution width; MPV = mean platelet volume.
p value at the last step, adjusted for the independent variables.
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If companies want to attract and retain Gen Ys, they need to re-evaluate their recruiting strategies. Gen Ys are very different from baby boomers and Gen Xers. This means the recruiting strategies used to attract and retain baby boomers and Gen Xers likely won’t appeal to Gen Ys.
For example, a standard, generic, email from an employer about a potential position probably won’t appeal to a Gen Y, who likely prefers a more personal touch.
If you need to re-evaluate recruiting strategies, why not start by getting the perspective of actual Gen Ys. Here is a great blog post called Gen Y Recruiting Tips: The Candidate Perspective that talks about some of the specific strategies and techniques you should do when recruiting Gen Ys.
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I often program with lines no more than 80 characters long. I start with an 80-character-wide terminal, but sometimes due to a plugin runs or after creating a vsplit results in the editing area being less than 80 characters wide.
For example, :set number will take four columns from the editing area and use them for line numbers. After this, using :vertical resize, only changes the size relative to other splits, it doesn't widen the window.
Is there a way to keep the width of the editing area at a fixed width or to quickly resize the editing area or the window to a specified width?
• 1
set columns=90 will resize a gvim, but unfortunately that's the total width, not the width of the displayed text. So you'd have to use 84+ with numbers on. – derobert Feb 18 '15 at 17:03
• 1
Are you talking about (internal) Vim-windows, or the Terminal itself, or both? – Runium Feb 18 '15 at 18:18
• I'm talking about both. If the Vim window needs to be larger than the terminal width, I'd like the terminal to expand. Perhaps this isn't possible within vim... – drs Feb 19 '15 at 11:57
Take a look at the various window functions. For example ctrl-w = will set all splits to equal width. There are also methods to set the window to a certain width, increase/decrease width by N, always maintain equal width, etc... :help window-resize
Ctrl+W+ (n) >/<: For right/left
Ctrl+W+ (n) +/-: For up/down
where n = any number.
:vertical resize 80 will set your current vsplit to 80 characters wide
Your Answer
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Q:
How to know if an instance has been initialized?
How can we do:
instance = Object.allocate ## Doesn't call initialize(). Object is just a sample class.
...
# Somewhere instance would get itself initialized. I do magic.
...
instance.initialized? ## There's no method like that.
?
Of course I ask this not wanting to use flags anywhere. I want to know a general solution for default behaviours like it would work even for a simple instance of Object.
A:
So I actually ended up with this solution. I'm still open for suggestions.
class ::Object
def object(name, klass = Object, &block)
instance = klass.allocate
if instance.method(:initialize).owner == BasicObject
instance.instance_exec(&block) if block_given?
else
raise "No block given." unless block_given?
instance.instance_exec do
def initialize(*args)
@__initialized = true
super
end
end
instance.instance_exec(&block)
instance.instance_exec do
raise "Instance of #{klass} needs to be initialized." unless @__initialized
remove_instance_variable :@__initialized
end
end
(self.is_a?(Module) ? self : self.class).const_set(name, instance)
end
end
I could use it like
object :Hey, SomeClassWithInitialize do
puts "Perhaps sometimes I'd be doing some things first before initializing."
initialize
puts "And other things after initializing."
def hey!
puts "Hey!"
end
end
Hey.hey!
Update: Turns out that there really is no function in Ruby that declares a flag that initialize is called. All calls from rb_obj_call_init to rb_obj_dummy does nothing significant to this.
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Using an alias and an extra method was actually not needed.
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Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Can a garbage strike in nerve cells cause Parkinson's disease?
Image design: Serial/Trash
New research challenges common beliefs about the origin of the disease and draws attention to the nerve cells’ ability to tidy up.
Parkinson’s disease is a devastating neurological disorder where nerve cells in the brain slowly degenerate and die. The disease especially affects a certain type of nerve cell, the dopaminergic nerve cells, which are located in a small area of the brain called the substantia nigra. The dopaminergic nerve cells here are very important for motor function and as the number of nerve cells decrease, the patients are affected by debilitating tremors and mobility problems. Actor and Parkinson’s patient Michael J. Fox describes it “like having a 4-year-old child climbing around on your lap all the time, pulling on your arms and legs.”1
Despite many years of research the exact cause of Parkinson’s disease is still unknown. One thing we know for certain is that the dopaminergic nerve cells build-up clumps of protein and leftover material, called Lewy bodies. The major component of Lewy bodies is a-synuclein, a protein therefore thought to be a primary causative factor for Parkinson’s disease. The fact that mutations in the a-synuclein gene increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease supports this theory.
Garbage disposal and power plants
Another suspect thought to play a role in Parkinson’s disease is the proteasome; a big protein complex, which is part of the cells “garbage disposal” system and can degrade non-functional proteins.
If unusable proteins are not disposed of, they clutter up the nerve cell and can form so-called pale bodies. These are small precursors of Lewy bodies.
Pale bodies and Lewy bodies are actually thought to protect the nerve cell by gathering the non-functional proteins in areas where they cannot disturb important processes in the nerve cell – akin to hiding your mess in the closet to prevent it from cluttering up your room. It is, however, only a temporary solution and eventually the nerve cells die.
A third culprit is the mitochondria; the cell’s power plants, which have numerous functions including production of energy from glucose. Extensive research points to dysfunctional mitochondria as a major contributor to Parkinson’s disease. For one thing, worn-out mitochondria are a large component of pale bodies.
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Modified mice
To investigate the interaction between a-synuclein, proteasomes and mitochondria researchers from the University of Nottingham used genetically modified mice. The DNA of the mice was changed so that certain genes were not expressed. This allowed the researchers to evaluate the exact effect of the proteins that the genes encoded. The research group had previously developed mice, which could not produce the most commonly used form of proteasomes, the 26S proteasomes, in their dopaminergic nerve cells. The garbage disposal system in these mice therefore did not work properly and they quickly developed extensive nerve cell death and pale bodies comparable to the ones seen in Parkinson’s patients.
The research group then set out to explore the importance of a-synuclein in this process. They did this by modifying the mice further, to obtain mice that in addition could not produce a-synuclein. This made it possible for them to compare the mice that lacked both 26S proteasomes and a-synuclein with the mice that only lacked 26S proteasomes. Surprisingly they found no differences: both type of mice showed equal amounts of nerve cell death and pale bodies. Since a-synuclein is thought to be essential to this process, the predicted outcome would be that the mice lacking a-synuclein are less affected and have lower amounts of pale bodies. This however is not the case.
In addition to looking at the amount of pale bodies, they also examined the content of the pale bodies and found it to be the same with or without a-synuclein. As expected they found the main component of the pale bodies to be the third suspected contributor to Parkinson’s disease: mitochondria. This points to a link between inefficient proteasomes and lacking disposal of worn-out mitochondria.
The role of a-synuclein
The surprising conclusion of this study is that a-synuclein is not essential for the development of pale bodies and that lack of functional proteasomes alone can lead to neurodegeneration in mice. More research is needed to tell if the pale bodies seen in the mice will develop into Lewy bodies and especially, if the results can be transferred to human nerve cells. If they can, it means that researchers studying Parkinson’s disease might have to re-evaluate their whole idea of how the disease originates. Instead of seeing a-synuclein as a primary causative factor, it might just be one of the major contributors along with others like proteasome and mitochondria dysfunction. This is of great importance for understanding the cause of Parkinson’s disease and development of new effective treatments in the future.
This summary by Helle Bogetofte was shortlisted for Access to Understanding 2014 and was commended by the competition judges. It describes research published in the following article, selected for inclusion in the competition by Parkinson’s UK:
PMCID: PMC3559752
S. M. L. Paine, G. Anderson, K. Bedford, K. Lawler, R. J. Mayer, J. Lowe and L. Bedford.
PLoS One (2013) 8(1), e54711
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June 28, 2005
--Finding is important step toward efforts to regrow damaged nerves
By studying nerves in "pre-tadpole" frogs, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering have uncovered the first link between two key biological factors that guide growing nerves.
The finding sheds light on how nerves grow in the right direction so they can connect to the right places -- critical information to have if damaged nerves are ever to be repaired in people. In particular, the discovery reveals for the first time how the guidance cues that attract or repel the tip of a growing nerve influence the flow of calcium ions into the nerve cell, solving a decades-old mystery.
"For 20 years researchers have known that calcium flow is critical for proper nerve growth, but no one has known how it gets into the nerve in response to a guidance cue," says Guo-Li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology in the Institute for Cell Engineering's Neuroregeneration and Repair Program. "Now we have some details about how that happens in frogs. The findings are likely to hold for other animals and people, too, because we have similar versions of these proteins."
In the June issue of Nature Neuroscience, the Hopkins team shows that a "dual-action" protein connects guidance cues and the calcium flows that allow the nerve to respond to those cues. This protein, called TRPC1 or transient receptor potential channel 1, lets calcium into the nerve's growing tip once it is "turned on" by certain guidance cues. Furthermore, in pre-tadpole-stage frogs, TRPC1 is required for a specific set of nerves in the spinal cord to grow properly.
The Johns Hopkins scientists' research confirms a recent report that laboratory-grown frog nerves rely on TRPC1 activity to help direct the nerves' axons, and it shows for the first time that the protein is required for normal nerve growth in the actual frog.
"Frogs have only TRPC1, but humans have a whole family of TRPC proteins, including several analogous to the frog's TRPC1," says Ming. "It's likely that the same role is being played by these proteins during human development."
But TRPC1 also may play a role later in life, when guidance cues in the brain and spinal cord tell nerves not to regrow if they are damaged. Understanding exactly how these cues influence nerve cells could help efforts to overcome their signals and get damaged nerves to regrow their axons and reform lost connections.
"We also found that TRPC1 triggers calcium influx in response to myelin-associate glycoprotein, a molecule that helps prevent the regrowth of damaged nerves in adults," says Ming. "If this is also true in people, it could be critical to trying to get around myelin's growth-inhibiting effects."
The researchers' experiments also show that TRPC1 is used for detecting and reacting to attractive guidance cues netrin-1 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor during development. There are likely to be many others, the scientists say.
TRP channels were first identified by Craig Montell, professor of biological chemistry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, and were already known to help cells sense heat and pain.
"Now we've shown that they also are likely to be critical for proper nerve growth during embryonic development and to be part of the machinery that prevents nerve regrowth later in adulthood," says study co-author Hongjun Song, Ph.D., also an assistant professor of neurology in ICE's Neural program.
Situated in the spinal cord of the frog, the nerves affected by TRPC1 use it at least in part to extend their tentacle-like axons along the circumference of the spinal cord toward and then across the cord's midline. Each axon then branches and shoots one branch along the length of the spinal cord toward the brain and the other "down" toward the animal's legs.
To study TRPC1's effects in frogs, the researchers used a number of different methods to interfere with the ability of one side of the animal's spinal cord to react to the protein. In one set of experiments, the researchers injected the equivalent of interfering RNA (DNA's cousin) into one cell when the developing frog was at just a two-cell stage. Because each of the cells develops into half the frog, one side is normal, and one side can't make sufficient amounts of TRPC1.
The researchers discovered that interfering with TRPC1 prevented many of the growing nerves from reaching or crossing the midline of the spinal cord in the developing frogs.
"This is a major breakthrough in understanding how calcium gets into these cells in response to guidance cues during development," says Song.
Authors on the paper are Sangwoo Shim, Eyleen Goh, Shaoyu Ge, Kurt Sailor, Joseph Yuan, Paul Worley, Song and Ming, all of Johns Hopkins; and Llewelyn Roderick and Martin Bootman of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. The Hopkins researchers were funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Charles E. Culpeper Scholarships in Medical Science, the Whitehall Foundation, and the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award Program to Guo-li Ming. Sangwoo Shim is partially supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.
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The Indian rupee recovered by nine paise to 62.14 against the dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on increased selling of the US currency by exporters.
The local currency had lost three paise to close at 62.23 per dollar yesterday due to late demand for the American currency from importers and weakness in local equities.
Forex dealers said besides increased dollar selling by exporters, a higher opening of the domestic equity market helped rupee to trade a shade higher but the US currency's strength against other currencies overseas capped the gains to some extent.
Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex rose by 105.36 points, or 0.51 per cent, to 20,642.00 in early trade today. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '4a5bcd005bce38192238c2a96eb45b13067097422ee9d2991c1bc19989304265'} |
Bitch Media - defining disability en The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Disability Archetypes: The Good Cripple <p>The Good Cripple is a classic disability archetype that shows up again and again when people with disabilities are depicted in books, films, and television. Good Cripples are the flip side of the Bitter Angry Cripple; think Tiny Tim facing off against Dr. House. </p> <p>These tropes are so familiar to many readers and viewers that it's actually kind of astounding when a disabled character doesn't fall into one or the other (or into the realm of the Supercrip or the disabled character who gets superpowers, like Geordi la Forge in <em>Star Trek</em>). The tendency for writers to write disability in highly limited ways is one of the most frustrating things about the depiction of disability, for me, because these tropes are kind of limited. There's only so far you can go with a Good Cripple, and when you reach the end of that road, the character basically has to be discarded. </p> <p>When we talk about not seeing well-rounded characters with disabilities, these are examples of the types of characters we are thinking of, characters who are wholly characterized by their disability. As opposed to, say, characters who happen to be disabled, characters who can be disabled without letting it consume them. </p> <p>The Good Cripple is the safe, comfortable depiction of disability. Good Cripples don't want to rock the boat. They are quiet, and patient. They are stoic. They never complain. Not about pain, not about lack of accessibility, not about the piles of medication they take every day, not about anything. Indeed, the Good Cripple is cheerful. Upbeat. The Good Cripple will do well <em>in spite of disability</em>, the disability is an obstacle to be overcome, but cheerfully overcome. Preferably in an "inspiring" way.</p> <p>Cheerful at all times. Good Cripples tend to show up as one-offs. Medical dramas feature a few every season. The bright, plucky kid with terminal cancer who makes everyone on the ward smile. The girl with scoliosis coming in for surgery who's constantly pranking and making jokes. The adult wheelchair user who comes in with a smile. There's an entire genre of young adult books which basically consists of Good Cripple stories. The Good Cripple storyline is usually called "touching." </p> <p>The problem with this characterization is that people expect it to play out in real life. People with disabilities are expected to be silent and submissive because people are used to the Good Cripple archetype, and it makes them uncomfortable to be confronted with other, real, representations of disability. </p> <p>Needless to say, this is extremely harmful, because it tends to perpetuate ableist attitudes. Since people with disabilities are expected to be quiet, non-complaining, patient, and cheerful, when they speak up, they become objects of distaste. How dare that wheelchair user complain that a restaurant is inaccessible? Why isn't that cancer patient being cheerful about chemotherapy? Why is that disabled child fussing and crying and refusing to take medication? </p> <p>Why can't the people with disabilities just be quiet and sit in the corner, like they do on the television, if they don't have anything nice to say? The expectation that people with disabilities be good cripples is one of the factors which forces them out of society, because society expects them to be one dimensional tropes devoid of character or colour. </p> <p>Writers fall back on the Good/Bad Cripple archetypes because they are familiar; they're depictions which are widely present in the media, and thus writers feel comfortable writing in this zone. So, how can we get pop culture to start depicting disability more honestly? How can we get pop culture to start pushing away from these tropes and exploring fuller disabled characters?</p> <p>There's a pretty easy solution, actually. Get more people with disabilities writing, and short of that, get more people with disabilities consulting. Most television shows which feature disability storylines have able casts, writers, and producers, and many of them apparently never consult people with disabilities when developing these storylines. </p> <p>There's been a great deal of attention in the media lately over the backlash from the disabled community about shows like <em>Glee</em> and their depictions of disability. The media is painting this criticism as new, which it is not. It's been going on for years, and nothing has been done about it. Which tells me that there isn't much interest in depicting disability honestly, just as there's not a lot of interest in depicting race honestly.</p> <p>There's an easy way to integrate better depictions of disability (and race, and gender, and class). The question is: Are the arbiters of popular culture willing to do it?</p> bad cripple defining disability disability good cripple Transcontinental Disability Choir Social Commentary Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:01:41 +0000 s.e. smith 2606 at | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9606847763061525}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '7102', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ECRTBIP2OPV2NMOVXTV4TNOE5NCLFGV5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5a978288-f90c-4aa1-b433-6c102035dc57>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 7, 13, 46, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '141.101.126.183', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RBKEZDHC6TBPLCX3OKD6QNDYK5DKWKRM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:888bb155-4e0c-4fd6-9e2c-84e08a669ddd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://bitchmagazine.org/tag/defining-disability-0/feed', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bd60fefc-76bc-41ab-bdeb-7a908dc52330>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '775', 'url': 'http://bitchmagazine.org/tag/defining-disability-0/feed', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.4018174409866333', 'original_id': 'a5836a4777587a9192e137689ee127cf6140f53206db91739185624e2ddf31cf'} |
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Do The Stock Market Loopholes Are Legal or Illegal?
Many of us may know what is the stock market and its functioning. But do you know that there are some loopholes in the stock market? Shocking right, people know that there are only strategies involve in the stock market but loopholes also take part in it. Now, I guess you are feeling interested to know about the stock market loopholes. You can freely check out the activities and loopholes of the stock market on our page.
Stock Market and its Function
First of all, to know about the loopholes in the stock market, you need to know the proper functioning of the stock market. A stock market is a place where investors buy and sell the shares and claim the ownership of a business. The stock market works on the terms of supply and demand between the investor and the trader. No-Risk No Profit is the slogan of the share market. In history, stock trading happens physically but now it works on the internet.
Stock Market Loopholes
The technique of avoiding the law or tracing the restricted information in the stock market can be called as stock market loopholes. Some companies or an individual will use the stock market loopholes to avoid tax payments. Companies use these loopholes and remove their income or assets to be free from taxes or reduce the high amount of taxes into a low amount. The usage of the stock loopholes is increasing day by day in complex business deals, tax issues, political issues, and many other tax-related issues.
There may be many loopholes in the stock market but most of them are legal. Some of the stock market loopholes are listed in the following.
You can check or keep an eye on the two different companies share market and can take action at an extreme moment when you feel the difference. This is legal to shadow different company stocks.
• The same located servers can do stock price rigging with any company stock. This action of price rigging or stock manipulating of a certain company is totally illegal and a crime that is prohibited by any country's governments.
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October 3, 2009
Rob in GQ Style but is it him on the cover?!
Update: So from what I can decipher from Twitarded, the cover is confirmed not to be Rob - sorry! I wonder if the magazine selected an almost-kinda-lookie-likey on purpose?
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Our bloggy buddies over at the hysterical Twitarded scanned in these babies from GQ Style Magazine.
JennyJerkface and SnarkierThanYou think the cover is Rob, having done extensive lip and brow comparisons.
Although I see their point, I'm not entirely convinced - I need a lil' more jawesomeness! Plus, if GQ had gotten our boy in for another Robtastic shoot, then I'd like to think they'd extend beyond one shot :/
What do you think - Rob or no Rob?
- Lorabell
1. Not Rob - his jaw is more square.
2. noo way
Rob's jaw is much more perfectly square like Stephanie said
and look at the hair...not Robs
im telling you Lorabell..Rob is much more perfect and beautiful =D
3. That most certainly IS Rob. I really wonder about some of you sometimes.
4. ganna say not Rob.
If someone has this mag they can check the back @ their "credits" section and see who it is.
5. nope - the lips and jaw are definitely off!
6. Snowflake, I was just guna say that. Agree not Rob's jaw or lips.
7. Why can't it be him? He can do some edgy shit sometimes. But after looking at it more, I think it pertains to the cover story beneath.
8. I think it kinda looks like him. It looks like his brow, but like the commenters above said, his jawline is more square. Hm...
9. Not Rob...no slight cleft in the chin....and his jaw is more square..
10. Well whoever he is has nice lips. We need to find out who he is!
11. It's not Rob, I was looking at it today while I was on lunch, I don't know why I didn't buy it... it looks better on the actual glossy pages as well, sigh.
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Why Accurate Audience Measurement is Worth the Trouble
Arbitron\'s Portable People Meter
Arbitron’s Portable People Meter
Last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas drove home a point that has been made repeatedly in the pages of Flow — the way we engage media is undergoing radical changes. The prospect of online distribution of programs created for TV has come to pass, with more portable video players and video downloading programs emerging to compete with the Video IPod and ITunes. These developments are likely to make the Nielsens, an already woefully inaccurate audience measurement system as detailed by Jason Mittell in the previous issue of Flow, even less accurate. It may no longer make sense to track an audience without looking across media — from television broadcasts, to video-on-demand, to downloads. But changing the method of audience measurement for TV programs won’t be easy. In fact, depending on whom you ask, it might not be possible at all.
What’s clear is that there is a lot at stake. As John Gertner noted in a New York Times article last April, changing the method of audience measurement could change the entire culture industry, an industry that, for reasons both economic and ideological, doesn’t like to be changed. Indeed, these statistics hold so much sway over those shaping the American collective consciousness that it’s easy to suspect their custodians of having something other than the accurate depiction of audience desire as their MO. However, if we adopt such a distrustful view of audience measurement, if any centralized system for the measurement of audience preference is inherently susceptible to corruption, then what would be the incentive to develop a more accurate system?
There is a certain amount of faith one must have to engage in the campaign for more accurate audience data. One has to acknowledge that what is being measured — the audience for certain programs — has social and political implications that go beyond dollars and cents. While every consumer decision made by citizens impacts these spheres, its easy to see how ratings for a progressive-minded talk show might be more indicative of its consumers’ values than, say, their decision to buy Crest toothpaste instead of Colgate. Creators, distributors, advertisers and audience researchers all have socio-political agendas of one sort or another. Nevertheless, they (particularly the distributors) are motivated foremost by profit, and if people are willing to pay for a certain program, or tolerate ten minutes of advertising to watch a show, then they would like to know about it. If it really is “all about the money,” then the networks would want to know exactly what the audience wants so that they don’t miss the boat on a series that ends up being a hit on DVD or, god forbid, another network.
We have to believe that while a totally accurate picture of audience desire may never be achievable, it is an ideal that can and should be aspired to, as much for the sake of the scholar seeking a greater knowledge of how individuals engage media as for the sake of the fan crusading to keep a soon-to-be-cancelled show from going under.
Assuming that the system is broken, and that it is worth fixing, is there anything outsiders like us can do to affect change? Individual arguments for a show’s potential, no matter how well founded or articulate, can only do so much. A financial catalyst is needed, and we might just have that in the form of a la carte availability of TV episodes courtesy of ITunes. If a show with horrible ratings gets downloaded enough times, the creators, distributors and advertisers will get the message — something is seriously wrong with the way audience desire is measured. The “tipping point” referred to by Derek Kompare in his response to Jason Mittell’s article may take this form.
Just how resistant is the current audience tracking system to change? Is this stubbornness due to an inability to keep up with new distribution technology? Is it part of a concerted attempt to marginalize certain values put forth in certain programs, or is it simply a case of a large system with many players that cannot change quickly? Perhaps we’ll never have totally accurate answers to any of these questions, but that doesn’t make the search for these answers any less worthwhile.
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1. Arbitron’s Portable People Meter
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+ [R-Podcast ep.25: Interview with Ian Lyttle and rstudio::conf 2018 wrap-up](https://r-podcast.org/episode/025-rstudioconf-ian-lyttle/)
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+ [Simulating 2018 NCAA March Madness Tournament Performance in R](https://mattkmiecik.com/post-Simulating-2018-NCAA-March-Madness-Tournament-Performance-in-R.html)
+ [Exploring Neotoma: Part 1](https://cabinetofcuriosity.github.io/cabinetofcuriosity_site/retrieving-summary-neotoma/)
+ [PH Dengvaxia News Coverage: A Tidytext Mining Case Study Part 2](https://brennonborbon.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/ph-dengvaxia-news-coverage-a-tidytext-mining-case-study-in-r-part-2/)
+ [How did we get here? Three different Premier League stories.](https://austinwehrwein.com/post/epltimeline/)
+ [Career Tracks at UC Part I: Cleaning and Tidying](https://daranzolin.github.io//articles/2018-03/careertracksi)
### R Internationally
+ [Une API avec R en deux temps, trois mouvements.](https://thinkr.fr/api-r-deux-temps-trois-mouvements/)
+ [grrR, la communauté francophone autour de R, ouvre ses portes!](http://frama.link/r-grrr)
+ [Requêtes avec jointures sous R](https://tutoriels-data-mining.blogspot.fr/2018/03/requetes-avec-jointures-sous-r.html)
### Tutorials
+ [Scraping Javascript websites in R ](http://blog.brooke.science/posts/scraping-javascript-websites-in-r/)
+ [RStudio in the Cloud I: Amazon Web Services](http://strimas.com/r/rstudio-cloud-1/)
+ [On MIMEs, software versions and web site promiscuity (a.k.a. three new packages to round out the week)](https://rud.is/b/2018/03/23/on-mimes-software-versions-and-web-site-promiscuity-a-k-a-three-new-packages-to-round-out-the-week/)
+ [Recreate - Sankey flow chart](https://www.hvitfeldt.me/2018/03/recreate-sankey-flow-chart/)
+ [Pipe tweenr](http://lenkiefer.com/2018/03/18/pipe-tweenr/) - In this post we make some animated data visualisations using R and tweenr.
+ [Assert a logical statement over a code block](https://coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io/2018/03/22/assert-condition-over-a-code-block/)
+ [Body modification part 2: Automatically creating type checks for a function](https://coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io/2018/03/18/body-modification-part-2-automatically-creating-type-checks-for-a-function/)
+ [Exploring the underlying theory of the chi-square test through simulation - part 1](https://www.rdatagen.net/post/a-little-intuition-and-simulation-behind-the-chi-square-test-of-independence/)
+ [A rentrez paper, and how to use the NCBI's new API keys](https://ropensci.org/blog/2018/03/20/rentrez-paper/)
+ [Truncated Poisson distributions in R and Stan](http://ellisp.github.io/blog/2018/03/20/truncated-poisson)
+ [Introduction to Scraping and Wranging Tables from Research Articles](http://research.libd.org/rstatsclub/2018/03/19/introduction-to-scraping-and-wranging-tables-from-research-articles/)
+ [gganimate vs. plotly... See how the two #rstats animation packages compare](https://www.brucemeng.ca/post/animations-in-r/)
+ [R Tip: Use stringsAsFactors = FALSE](http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2018/03/r-tip-use-stringsasfactors-false/)
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+ [R Tip: Break up Function Nesting for Legibility](http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2018/03/r-tip-break-up-function-nesting-for-legibility/)
+ [AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: March 2018](http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/03/aimlds-roundup-march-2018.html)
+ [Plotting and subsetting stars objects](http://r-spatial.org//r/2018/03/22/stars2.html)
+ [Using stars for remote big Earth Observation data processing](http://r-spatial.org//r/2018/03/23/stars3.html)
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RALEIGH, NC (AP) -- A jury has decided US Senate candidate Greg Brannon gave false or misleading statements to two people while investing in a startup technology company, meaning he is liable for more than $250,000.
Jurors deliberated over two days in the civil case before reaching their decision Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court.
Two investors had accused Brannon and the company's former CEO of giving bad information to them about Verizon's interest in a mobile phone application. The jury absolved ex-CEO Robert Rice of wrongdoing in the civil trial.
Brannon was a company director in Neogence Enterprises. He is one of at least six Republicans seeking the party's nomination in May and the chance to take on Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan.
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Machine Knitting Explained
I have been a machine knitter for 36 years, my Mum worked on a knitting machine back in the ’60’s in England…they were invented in 1589…but it’s either not known about (‘knitting machine???’ blank look…crickets) or thought of as cheating because I’m not using two conventional needles..I’m using 100. I have knit on knitting needles…
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Dyeing Differently – Part 2
My recent trip to San Francisco and stay with Nancy Roberts netted me a lesson in painting knitted pieces and then two pieces for me to knit up into socks. I love the idea of knitting up pieces and dyeing as opposed to dyeing skeins…more controlled and creative I think. Here, Nancy is checking my…
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A Snowy MK Club afternoon.
Well, mild but blustery, I made it over to Karen’s yesterday and we spent nearly three hours together. We had planned to meet at another member’s house out in the country but the snow and wind were so bad no one dared take a car out on that road…so we decided on meeting in town… | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9430890679359436}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '145846', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JKU573O2XORJKYS3GED2TEXPREGCYVXI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1d006baf-6739-4a12-b7da-ae6691728fb4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 29, 1, 3, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.231.240.87', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2HJ52Q7G63XCDFXYJLD6E6Z2VK652LE3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dad52abc-7365-440e-9648-bab029a10a91>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://barnett-knits.com/?cat=12', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5738ff4f-c0a0-4469-bc1e-95f50af81612>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '177', 'url': 'https://barnett-knits.com/?cat=12', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-77\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5897237062454224', 'original_id': 'e557ffb22343112250a08598019635f00c3663adf5c624e44e436dc95e8f519c'} |
import React from "react";
import Main from "../../components/ExamplesMain";
import Example from "../../examples/Password";
export default function InputValidation() {
return (
<Main title="Input validation" pageUrl="/examples/inputvalidation/">
<p>
Try to pick a new password, and see if it is secure enough. <br />
Scroll arround to see the layer move to fit the screen.
</p>
<a href="https://codesandbox.io/s/password-270o7?fontsize=14">
<img
alt="Edit password"
src="https://codesandbox.io/static/img/play-codesandbox.svg"
/>
</a>
<Example />
</Main>
);
}
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The micrometer is a precision measuring instrument,
used by engineers. Each revolution of the rachet moves the spindle face
0.5mm towards the anvil face. The object to be measured is placed
between the anvil face and the spindle face. The rachet is turned
clockwise until the object is ‘trapped’ between these two surfaces and
the rachet makes a ‘clicking’ noise. This means that the rachet cannot
be tightened any more and the measurement can be read.
EXAMPLE MEASURE READINGS
Using the first example seen below:
1.
Read the scale on the sleeve. The example clearly shows12 mm divisions.
2. Still reading
the scale on the sleeve, a further ˝
mm (0.5) measurement can be seen on the bottom half of the scale. The
measurement now reads 12.5mm.
3. Finally, the
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Next: Compensator design methods Up: Design of controllers using Previous: Application of the design Contents
Controller design using the root-locus method
The design using the root-locus method is directly connected to the considerations in section 9. There the specifications of maximum overshoot, rise and settling time for a closed loop having a dominant pair of poles have been converted into the conditions for the damping ratio and for the natural frequency of the related transfer function . With and the poles of the transfer function are directly tightened as shown in Figure 9.2. An open-loop transfer function must now be determined such that the closed loop has a dominant pair of poles at the desired position, which is given by the values of and . Such an approach is also called pole assignment.
The root-locus method is - as generally known - a graphical method, which is used to analyse the position of the closed-loop poles. This method offers the possibility to combine in the complex plane the desired dominant pair of poles with the root locus of the fixed part of the loop and to deform the root locus by adding poles and zeros such that two of the branches traverse through the desired dominant pair of poles at a certain gain . Figure 9.21 shows, how the root locus can be deformed to the right by adding a pole and to the left by adding a zero.
Figure 9.21: Deforming of the root locus (a) to the right by an additional pole, (b) to the left by an additional zero in the open loop
The principal strategy during the controller design by the root-locus method will be shown in the following using two examples.
Example 9.4.1 Given is a plant described by the transfer function
For this plant a controller must be designed, such that the step response of the closed loop shows the following properties:
First, these specifications will be transformed. The conditions for and are from Figures 9.3 and 9.4
In order to have a geometrical interpretation one should consider Figure 9.22, where a pair of complex poles
is shown. The distance of both poles from the origin is
The angle is
where for the current case of the condition is met. The damping ratio describes the angle , the frequency the distance of the dominant pair of poles from the origin.
Figure 9.22: Pair of conjugate complex poles in the plane
During the design one will try to increase the damping ratio not unnecessarily high as this step causes an increase in the rise time for a given natural frequency (Figure 9.4). Increasing the natural frequency implies an increase of the speed of the control loop. But this parameter should not be unnecessarily increased, otherwise the dominance of the pair of poles may be lost.
Figure 9.23 shows the root locus of the closed loop using a
Figure 9.23: Root locus of (plant with P controller) and potential positions of the dominant pairs of poles (blue thick lines)
P controller. Potential positions for the dominant pair of poles are drawn by the two thick blue lines and . It is obvious that the design using a pure P controller (changes in the gain ) does not lead to the goal, as the root locus does not traverse the two lines and . Equally it is clear which steps have to be taken, such that the two branches of the root locus under consideration traverse the two lines and . If the two poles and are shifted further left, the centre of gravity of the poles will move left and with it the total curve without changing the structure of the system. One possibility is to perform this shift by a simple lead element which compensates the pole by a zero and a pole . The resulting controller transfer function is
and the transfer function of the modified open loop
The root locus of the closed loop is shown in Figure 9.24.
Figure 9.24: Root locus of with modified controller according to Eq. (9.56)
It traverses the line at . The associated gain at this point can be determined via the distances to the three poles from Eq. (6.22)
The step response of the closed loop in Figure 9.25 shows that the specifications are achieved.
Figure 9.25: Closed-loop step response with modified controller according to Eq. (9.56)
It must be mentioned that a complete compensation (cancelling) of the pole cannot be realised exactly, as the plant parameters are not exactly known or may change within some bounds. Thus the root locus will differ in the vicinity of the compensated pole from the ideal case of Figure 9.24, but intersection with the two lines and is almost invariant.
One realises by means of this example that the root-locus method is well suited to provide a fast and first overview about the principal possibilities of corrections. Often the knowledge about the asymptotes is already sufficient. The root-locus method is especially suited for stabilising unstable plants. This will be explained by the second example.
Example 9.4.2 Given is an unstable plant with the transfer function
At first, it is close to compensate the pole by a corresponding zero. This would be possible, e.g. using a first-order all-pass element with the transfer function
But because of the reason given above, the compensation of the unstable pole will be practically never complete. So it must be performed without this procedure for stability reasons.
Another possibility is to provide feed back around the unstable plant so that the original unstable pole in the closed loop is shifted into the left-half plane. A simple P controller would yield the root locus shown in Figure 9.26. This configuration is not
Figure 9.26: Root locus of the closed loop consisting of an unstable plant and a P controller
stabilisable, as the two branches on the right-hand side remain in the right-half plane for all gain values. But if a controller is used that has a double zero at and a pole at , the pole at will be substituted by a zero. The root locus will be deformed to the left as shown in Figure 9.27.
Figure 9.27: Root locus of the closed loop consisting of an unstable plant and a PID controller
This distribution of poles and zeros can be simply realised by a PID controller with the transfer function
From Figure 9.27 it can be seen for higher gain values than the critical gain the closed loop is stable, as then all poles remain in the left-half plane.
As the stability of the closed-loop system is not influenced by the left-half-plane poles, a compensation of these poles is possible. Even if this compensation is not completely possible, the system will be stable. A compensation of the right-half-plane poles - as discussed above - should not be done.
Demonstration Example 9.1 A virtual experiment stabilising a pendulum
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Label-free monitoring of T cell activation by the impedance-based xCELLigence system.
T cells play a critical role in maintaining the normal function of the adaptive immune response, with their dysfunction resulting in a variety of autoimmune and immunodeficiency diseases. Efficient and accurate detection of T cell function is therefore crucial to clinical diagnosis and development of immunomodulators. A variety of in vitro cellular systems are currently employed for analyzing T cell activation, yet all suffer from some combination of low throughput, unnatural conditions and long assay times. Label-free technologies are capable of detecting phenotypic responses to treatments under physiological conditions, thereby potentially accelerating drug discovery by facilitating the use of disease-relevant cell models for functional assessment and clinical diagnosis. The xCELLigence system is an impedance based label-free platform that allows for dynamic monitoring of subtle morphological and adhesive changes in cells, such as those induced during T cell activation. Here we describe the development and validation of a T cell activation assay based upon electrical impedance. Co-activation of Jurkat cells with anti-CD28 and anti-CD3 functional antibodies led to impedance changes that were rapidly and sensitively recorded (within 30 minutes). This phenomenon was also observed in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. These changes reflect morphological and adhesive alterations correlated with cytoskeletal reorganization as verified by microscopy. They were functionally dependent on canonical T cell signaling pathways, including calcium-mediated signals and Src family kinases because relevant inhibitors impaired T cell activation. Our results provide a convenient approach to measure T cell activation in real-time and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of action through probing with small molecules. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '7dc52ba9f75d312d1d59cd6aa8a34728de6f6721c35219895d1601d72878a517'} |
Nigel Farage threatened to overshadow the election of new UK Independence Party leader Diane James by saying he is considering a return to a major national political role as an MP in 2020.
The former Ukip leader is also planning a UK-wide tour in the spring when he will talk to audiences about Brexit, after a personal tour of Continental capitals in the next few months to encourage others to quit the European Union.
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R.I.P. Let's Active Drummer Sara Romweber
She was 55
R.I.P. Let's Active Drummer Sara Romweber
Sara Romweber — the original drummer of North Carolina jangle-pop heroes Let's Active — has died. She was 55.
Romweber's passing was confirmed by her manager to Pitchfork, revealing the musician died of a brain tumour.
On Instagram this morning, Superchunk's Mac McCaughan wrote, "Sara Romweber was one of the kindest, most unique & inspiring people I've known.... A fantastically powerful and creative drummer."
Romweber joined Mitch Easter and bassist Faye Hunter to form Let's Active when the drummer was just 17. Romweber played on both the 1983 Afoot EP and Cypress, the 1984 debut full-length by Let's Active. However, she left the band shortly after.
Following her time in Let's Active, Romweber co-founded the group Snatches of Pink and performed with her brother as the Dex Romweber Duo. In 2014, she helped Easter stage a Let's Active reunion during a benefit show.
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02 August 2011
Sparkling Fruit Tea
I drink A LOT of water. I always have my 32 oz water bottle on my desk, and I tote it around with me wherever I go. Who knows where my obsession with hydrating myself started? They say you're supposed to drink half your weight in water everyday, but I'm pretty sure I drink the full weight of linebacker. Is there such a thing as too much water? Probably...supposedly (so says Wikipedia) there's such a thing as water intoxication. I don't think I'm quite ready to go to Waterolics Anonymous or anything, but if I start acting funny (more than normal), you might want to cut me off. Thanks.
I've never been a big soda drinker, and although I love the taste of beer and miss it dearly, I've never been one of those people who can down two pints right after a 6-mile run. All I want is water for at least 45 minutes after I exercise. When it's hot outside and you're hanging out with friends, though, it is nice to have something besides water to drink. With my diet restrictions I'm a bit limited as to what I can have. How many (good tasting) cold beverages can you think of that have no sugar, gluten, dairy or yeast?
Yeah, me either. Until this past weekend.
I was invited to celebrate the birthdays of two sweet friends. Everyone was bringing something to share, so I decided to bring drinks. Not everyone wants to eat and drink according to my diet, so I made a yummy sugary drink called Ginger Almond Tea that has been a staple in my family for the last 10 years. Then, I got creative and made a sparkling tea without sugar. Both were a big hit and I'll definitely be making this Sparkling Fruit Tea for other occasions. I even had a friend request that I make another batch of it when she came over to visit the next day.
This tea not only tastes good, but it's also good for you since it's made with green tea. I got this Orange, Passion Fruit, Jasmine Green Tea from Aldi, but you can really use any fruity hot tea that you like.
First step is to make it strong by steeping 6 tea bags in one cup of boiling water. Steep for as long as the directions say--for green tea it's usually 2-3 minutes. Then, add stevia to taste (I added between 1/8 and 1/4 of a teaspoon). Next, stir in the juice from one lemon, 1/2 Tbsp of pure vanilla extract and 4 cups of cold water. Chill (the tea...you can chill once the tea is ready).
Right before you serve it, add 1 liter of cold sparkling water (I used some generic soda water). Don't serve it over ice or else it will become watered-down and less fizzy. That's it.
You'll find me sipping this on my front porch for the rest of the summer. Come join me!
1. Is this what you made for Julie's birthday? I had some when I was over there on Saturday and it was delicious!
2. Sounds good!! Did you decide not to use the almond extract? You'll have to make it for your family sometime!! Yum! Mom
3. I made two kinds. The kind you had, Amy, was the Ginger Almond Tea (with sugar). :) It is really good! Mom, I made a double batch of the Ginger Almond and used all of the almond extract for it. I only used vanilla extract for mine, but the recipe was based on the Ginger Almond one.
4. OOH! A friend shared your blog post with me tonight...this sounds great! I've not tried the fizzy water with tea (yet!) but love squeezing half a lime over ice, and pouring cold fizzy water over it. VERY refreshing!
Looking forward to going through your blog...I'm also GF and reducing sugar drastically.
5. Made it with STASH blueberry tea, it was a smashing success! :) Thanks Mirnda!
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Blood cholesterol ratio
Common Questions and Answers about Blood cholesterol ratio
Body cells need this cholesterol for their metabolism so it has to be transferred from the liver to the body cells. However, cholesterol particles can not mix with the blood. They are like drops of oil in a glass of water. To get mixed in the blood, they have to be coated by a layer of protein complex named lipoprotein. As you said, there are two types of lipoprotein: the low density lipoprotein (LDL) and the high density lipoprotein (HDL).
What's the difference between LDL and cholesterol? Do I have anything to worry about? My blood test results show this: Test Name Result Reference Range LDL, Calculated 2.36 1.70-3.00 mmol/L Cholesterol 4.70 H 3.20-4.60 mmol/L Triglycerides 1.10 0.60-2.30 mmol/L HDL cholesterol 1.84 >=0.
It is really the ratio of HDL to LDL that matters, not the total cholesterol so much. Your ratio is excellent - statins seem like an extreme step for someone like you (I must take them for genetic reasons). You could eat oatmeal every day - this really does help. I've been following this forum and news articles over there (used to be for years. They always have the latest news relating to heart disease. I'm not plugging them, just think it's good reading for anyone interested in heart disease.
I have to agree with you doctor, you need at least one cholesterol medication, more likely two, and agressive diet and exercise. As a diabetic, you are consider a risk equivalent to a patient who has had a previous heart attack. If you look at the charts for long term outcomes (risk of death or heart attach), the graph a diabetic is superimposable over that of someone who has had a previous heart attack.
i recently had blood work done and this is my report- Triglycerides (110),cholesterol total (183),hdl cholesterol (36),ldl cholesterol (125), chol/hdlc ratio (5.08).I am wondering why i am out of range for two of the five test performed? I am a 39 yr old male and try to eat right constantly!! Anyones help is greatly appreciated.
This is something to discuss with your doctor..
HDL 81, LDL 199, triglycerides 111. Hemoglobin 14.6, platelets 264, white blood count 4.2 Thyroid 2.620 1 year ago cholesterol 234, HDL 61, LDL 155 Thyroid 3.080 What is the ratio of cholesterol supposed to be?
I recently received my blood test results from my cholesterol screening and I'm not sure of the meaning of my ratio. which is 2.8. My HDL is 72, LDL is 114, Triglucerides are 96. I swim daily, but I do have MS and about 28 years ago was told I have Mitral Valve Prolapse, which I don't take anything for and also have no symptoms. Can you tell ,me if my ratio is good or not. Thank you.
I've lost 70 pounds, but do still need to lose about 50. My cardiologist did not have time to explain my blood test results and I'm not familiar with the newer tests (VAP). Is it possible to get clarification on just the out-of-range results here? 1)Will losing the remaining weight improve any of the out of range results? 2)How "bad" is my Lp(a)? 3)What do the other results mean?
What is your diet like? Your Cholesterol and Triglycerides are high for a 17 year old.
2F), swollen eye tissue, mild constipation, elevated cholesterol, and several more. I know this high FT4/FT3 ratio can be seen in early Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis where the T4 is high (because of spillage from a damaged thyroid into the blood stream) and/or peripheral cellular resistance as these levels indicate a decreased conversion of T4 to T3.
Total cholesterol - 258 HDL - 123 LDL - 119 Cholesterol/HDL Ratio - 2.1 HDL/LDL Ratio - .97 I understand that the ratios are good, but I'm concerned about the 258 total. I've read that the ratios are more important than the total, and I understand that my total is high because my HDL is so high, which is good. According to the report I received, all my numbers are in range except for the total cholesterol.
If you have high blood glucose, cholesterol, or have hypertension, or even just high emotional stress that can make things worse. All just food for thought.
The information you need is in this article - and you will learn more about the numbers - http://www.livestrong.
I have some questions about cholesterol readings. 13 years ago (age 40), after getting an initial total cholesterol reading of 305, being quite concerned, I started cutting fats from my diet, which HAD included whole milk, eggs fried in butter, lots of fat in general. Since then I've had 5 full cholesterol screenings. The first one was 3 months after the 305 reading, after a lot of low-fat eating. It was total=162, LDL=102, HDL=44, TG=78, which gives a ratio of 3.
I have a feeling that I have RT3 blocking the T3 uptake into my cells and that is why I feel so bad. Thyroid resistance? I have a quick question, how do I figure the ratio of these two values if they are measured in ng/dl and pg/dl? Please help. I have a follow up endo appt next week and can't wait... REVERSE T3 RANGE 11-32 ng/dL - RESULT: T3, Reverse: 35 (H) FREE T3 WITH TRACER DIALYSIS RANGE 210-440 pg/dL - RESULT: Free T3: 232 By the way, here are my other results: TSH 1.55 - RANGE: 0.
I play in a men's indoor soccer league as well as doing regular excercise. My latest blood tests came back with a Chol level of 219, HDL of 48, Triglycerides of 60, but an LDL (direct) of 159. I weight 170 lbs and am 5' 10". For the life of me I can not get my LDL down, despite trying low fat diets (except for almonds!) Someone mentioned that there are two subtypes of LDL and that one is bad and the other not so bad.
279; HDL: 34; LDL: 203; Chol/HDL ratio: 8.2; LDL/HDL ratio:5.97; Triglycerides: 210. Other abnormal results: ALT (SGPT): 47; GGT(GGTP): 92. He is 49, BMI 26.5; healthy, fit, normal BP. He was quite shocked at the results. He was started on Lipitor 20mg once daily. Due to my family history of heart disease, I cook very low fat, but he " supplements" his diet with steak, etc. Is venison an acceptable alternative meat? Is shellfish OK? What else can we do to lower his cholesterol?
(The LDL is higher than 130.) Cholesterol 285 mg/dl HDL 117 mg/dl Cholesterol Ratio 2.4% LDL 158 mg/dl LDL/HDL Ratio 1.35 mg/dl Triglycerides 50 mg/dl I will try to pay more attention to my fat intake per day. Thanks again.
Arthur Agatston, the author of "The South Beach Diet" is also a renown cardiologist. He also has written a book which I recommend titled "The South Beach Heart Program." In it he writes about "aggressive prevention" of heart disease. He advocates aggresive management of cholesterol, blood pressure, and triglycerides. That means statin drugs. He also says that people with known heart risks that follow his program can have a normal life expectancy.
Total cholesterol: 177 HDL: 33 LDL: 127 Triglycerides: 85 VLDL: 17 Total Cholesterol/HDL ratio: 5.4 Glucose: 108 Here are my numbers from last week: Total cholesterol: 198 HDL: 33 LDL: 138 Triglycerides: 136 VLDL: 27 Total Cholesterol/HDL ratio: 6.
The most important indicator is the ratio between total cholesterol and HDL. If that number is in line, statistically there is a much better chance that there is a healthy balance of fats in the cardio vascular system.
I finally found a doctor to listen to me, and she requested A LOT of bloodwork. I found out that I have a high Chol/ LDL ratio of 4.86 (I know, horrible!!!) and I'm freaking out. My lipid panel is this: Total LDL: 115 LDL: 103 Lp(a): 3 IDL: 9 Total HDL: 35 HDL2: 7 HDL3: 28 Total VLDL: 19 VLDL 1+2: 8.0 VLDL3: 11 Total Cholesterol: 170 Triglycerides: 101 I know that my good cholesterol is low, which stinks, but my question is...
That number is important in interpreting your total reading. Take the ratio of total cholesterol (214) to hdl. If the ratio is less than 5, you are not in much danger (though 3.5 or less is ideal). Check out this website for more info:
Hi jenn, Im Heather. Im 34 and 4'11" and have just got back my blood labs also. My cholesterol is high (dont have my paperwork in front of me) but Dr said I need to switch diet and work out. I have an office job so I need to exercise to make up for an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. Im taking it seriously as heart disease is on both sides of my family and both my grandpas had quadruple bipass surgery. I smiled out of empathy for your fear of having blockage, as I too worry about that.
Dear Lee, Your question raises several important points concerning cholesterol. A high cholesterol level was identified as a major risk factor in the development of heart disease in the 1970s. Lowering cholesterol for secondary prevention, that is preventing second heart attacks in persons who already had had one, was next demonstrated in the eighties and primary prevention of heart attack and stroke (In persons who had never had a prior event) demonstrated in the nineties.
transfats, high polyunsaturated diet), untreated hypothyroidism is the second most common cause of elevated cholesterol. Genetics are a rare cause of elevated cholesterol. Hashimoto's thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroid disease) is the most common cause of hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is commonly misdiagnosed as the standard TSH test can be within "normal" range with thyroid disease.
The reason for this is that a stress test may not show ischemia (lack of normal blood flow) because cholesterol builds *within* the artery wall. Most heart attacks are caused when the plaque accumulates to the point the artery wall becomes weak, and ruptures, releasing plaques into the bloodstream. The blood forms a clot around this plaque, and voila, a heart attack happens. This is why aggressive management of cholesterol is vital. Stress tests are good, but not perfect by ANY means. 2.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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PING 10.1.1.105 (10.1.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
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<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>ANR SE</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9579</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2722</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 182,200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>American Natural Resources Pipeline Co. - SE Transmission Pool</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Columbia Onshore</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9735</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2607</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 163,000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. - Onshore Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Henry Hub</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.0384</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2573</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 1,110,000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Henry Hub tailgate - Louisiana </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>NGPL LA</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9205</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .3090</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 315,600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Louisiana Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Tenn 500L</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0550</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.8998</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2880</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 355,000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.-Zone L, 500 Leg Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Tenn 800L</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9073</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2807</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 425,300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.-Zone L, 800 Leg Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>TETCO ELA</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0900</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8850</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9491</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2877</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 339,700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Texas Eastern - East LA </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>TETCO WLA</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8350</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.8951</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .3286</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 266,200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Texas Eastern - West LA </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Transco 65</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.0146</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2814</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 161,800</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Transco - Station 65 </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Trunkline ELA</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9095</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2841</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 55,700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Trunkline Gas Company - East Louisiana Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>TxGas SL</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1100</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9100</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9960</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2585</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 249,400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Texas Gas Transmission Corp.-Zone SL FT Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1><B><I><BR>MIDCONTINENT<BR></I></B></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>MichCon, citygate</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.2200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.1365</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2587</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 262,000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Michigan Consolidated </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>NGPL Midcont</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.7500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.8154</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 207,400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Mid-Continent Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>NGPL Nicor, citygate</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9790</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2712</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 460,300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Nicor Citygate</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>NGPL NIPSCO, citygate</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0850</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.0063</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2501</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 136,200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Nipsco Citygate</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>NNG Demarcation</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.8437</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2835</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 127,200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Northern Natural Gas, Demarcation Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1><B><I><BR>NORTHEAST<BR></I></B></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Columbia TCO</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.0665</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2826</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 249,400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Columbia Gas Co. - TCO Pool </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Dominion So.Point</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.2600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.0600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.1025</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2548</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 291,200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Dominion - South Point </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>TETCO M3</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.3000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.2109</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .3782</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 122,700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Texas Eastern - M3 Zone </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Transco Z-6 (NY)</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.4800</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.2300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $2.2955</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .3570</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 84,900</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. - Zone 6 (NY)</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1><B><I><BR>WEST<BR></I></B></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>El Paso non-Bondad</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.7200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.5800</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.6356</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .3093</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 234,200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>El Paso - San Juan Basin, Blanco Pool</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> Huntingdon/Sumas</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.6500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.6000</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.6337</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .4183</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 117,300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Westcoast Energy & Northwest Pipeline Corp.</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Opal</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.6700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.4300</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.5352</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .3742</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 134,400</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Opal</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>PG&E Citygate</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $2.1200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9200</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9786</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .1885</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 318,500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>PG&E - Citygate </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> SoCal Border</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.9800</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.9170</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2466</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 205,600</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Southern California Border Points (Ehrenberg,Topock,Needles)</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1><B><I><BR>WEST TEXAS<BR></I></B></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>El Paso - Keystone</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8050</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.6625</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.7578</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2666</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 326,900</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>El Paso - Keystone Pool</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1> <NOBR>Waha</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.8700</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> $1.7500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B> $1.7985</B></FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1><B>-</B> .2711</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT size=-1> 204,500</FONT></TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT size=-1>Waha Hub - West Texas </FONT></TD></TR>
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Home / India / Rahul hits out at Modi govt on Rafale deal at united Opposition meet
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today took on the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at a meet of the united opposition here, hitting out at the dispensation on the contentious Rafale deal and resolved to dislodge it.
He claimed while his party viewed the country as pure as Ganga river, where people amalgamate with each other, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) viewed it from the prism of ‘sone ki chidiya’ (golden bird) to make money out of it and favour their friends and crony capitalists.
“Today while they are busy in making that cage, we will try to stop them from making it,” he said.
He was speaking at the sixth edition of the ‘Sanjhi Virasat Bachao Sammelan’ (Save composite culture convention), a platform of more than 15 opposition parties.
The event today was attended by leaders from the major opposition parties such as the Left, RJD, JD-S, SP, DMK, RLD, NCP among others.
The forum was being piloted by estranged JDU leader Sharad Yadav to put up a united fight against the BJP-ruled government. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh also attended the event.
“For us where rain takes place, it becomes a river and everyone gets associated with it. For them (BJP) it is a sone ki chidiya,” he said.
Gandhi said they did not want a “BJP mukt Bharat” nor did they want to destroy the BJP but they wanted to tell them that “our ideology is stronger and we will defeat their ideology”.
“In the end, we will together remove the BJP from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and then from the rest of the country,” Gandhi said.
The Congress chief, who has been quite vocal about the Rafale deal, targeted the government at the meet, alleging that jets worth Rs 524 crore were purchased at an inflated rate of Rs 1,600 crore.
Gandhi said he met the French president here during his visit, the president said there was no secrecy which binds the government from disclosing the prices of the jets to the people of the country.
He said when he raised this issue in Parliament during the no trust vote, the prime minister remained silent but spoke at length on “useless” issues.
Gandhi alleged during the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort yesterday he observed the PM point out to teachers after completing a sentence who would then ask the children to cheer and clap for the him. “This was a show, a drama,” he alleged.
He said while the government was busy benefiting “friends and industrialists”, it had least regard for the farmers.
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said the aim of the Sanjhi Virasat Bachao Sammelan was to save the democracy. The BJP-led government, he alleged, was misusing governance and had ruined the life of the common man with demonetisation and then with the implementation of the GST.
Referring to the prime minister’s Independence Day speech, he accused Modi of misleading the nation by announcing that the country would send a manned mission to space by 2022. Yechury reminded of Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to go to space in 1984.
He also criticised the Modi for “failing” to speak against incidents of mob lynching and lamented that the accused in rape of minors are still at large. He accused the government of systematically muzzling the freedom of expression and imposing its ideology on educational institutes and other bodies.
JD(S) spokesperson Danish Ali alleged the BJP government was misleading the nation on issues and there was an attempt to disturb the communal harmony in the country.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah attacked at the government saying, they would not tolerate any religious discrimination in the country. “Today the fight is to live in dignity,” he said.
Senior NCP leader Tariq Anwar claimed there was a sense of fear among the citizens in the country today and Modi’s slogan of ‘sab ka saath and sab ka vikas’ was a big “lie”.
Tiruchi Shiva (DMK) described Gandhi as the future of India and the light of secular India. He said certain mischievous elements had become “hyperactive” in the country and slammed attempts to divide it in the name of religion.
TMC leader Chan Mitra, who quit the BJP recently to join the Mamata Banerjee’s party, said he felt “bad” observing certain things in the BJP, claiming there was a sense of “disillusionment” in the society today.
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package core.policies.siblings;
import core.Label;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import static core.InvalidAttribute.invalidAttr;
import static core.policies.siblings.SiblingsAttribute.*;
import static core.policies.siblings.SiblingsLabel.peerLabel;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
public class PeerLabelTest {
protected Label label;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
label = peerLabel();
}
@Test
public void extend_SelfAttribute_ReturnsPeerWith0HopsAttribute() throws Exception {
assertThat(label.extend(null, self()), is(peer(0)));
}
@Test
public void extend_CustomerWith2HopsAttribute_ReturnsPeerWith0HopsAttribute() throws Exception {
assertThat(label.extend(null, customer(2)), is(peer(0)));
}
@Test
public void extend_PeerWith2HopsAttribute_ReturnsInvalidAttribute() throws Exception {
assertThat(label.extend(null, peer(2)), is(invalidAttr()));
}
@Test
public void extend_ProviderWith2HopsAttribute_ReturnsInvalidAttribute() throws Exception {
assertThat(label.extend(null, provider(2)), is(invalidAttr()));
}
@Test
public void extend_InvalidAttribute_ReturnsInvalidAttribute() throws Exception {
assertThat(label.extend(null, invalidAttr()), is(invalidAttr()));
}
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“There’s nothing I can do now, the puppies will be born sick, and die within minutes.”
My dog would give birth to nine puppies, and he couldn’t do anything.
But I could.
I sent her into the future, where her puppies could be saved.
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Multi-channel workbench and analytics for retail
The challenge
Manage customers with insights, not intuition
Customers interact with retailers through an array of channels—including the web, stores or kiosks, or over the phone. Marketers and merchandisers must correlate interactions across multiple channels to gain a better understanding of customer behavior and preferences. Retailers need to target customers with relevant messages delivered through the correct channels—backed by a merchandising strategy that ensures products and services are available to meet resulting customer demand. And as the number of marketing and retail channels proliferate and customer behavior trends rapidly evolve, retailers need to be agile and nimble so they can keep up with all these changes.
The solution
A dashboard to help make retail smarter
The multi-channel workbench and analytics solution for retail from IBM delivers fast insight into cross-channel customer transactions, sales, promotions, channel performance, post-sale support, and order management using multi-channel metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). The solution is instrumented, bringing together transactional metrics such as sales, profit, spend and basket-value, along with channel performance metrics such as web analytics, store and catalog performance for true, intelligent, cross-channel visibility. It combines IBM retail industry consulting, business intelligence and performance management expertise, along with supporting accelerators, templates and infrastructure components to deliver smarter business decisions through deeper analysis of the cross-channel behavior of customers and suppliers, as well as product and channel performance.
The benefits
Target, track, influence and improve
The multi-channel workbench and analytics solution provides insight into customer behaviors across all channels to uncover new ways to target, track, influence, guide and improve your customer interactions. The benefits of the solution include:
The specifics
Components of the solution
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Established July 4, 1892 A second-class matter in the Post Office, Brownsville, Texas. THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rates—Daily and Sunday (7 Issues) One Year $9.00 Six Months $4.50 Three Months $2.25 One Month $0.75 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE National Advertising Representatives Dallas, Texas, 512 Mercantile Bank Building. Kansas City, Mo., 306 Coca-Cola Building. Chicago, Ill., Association Building. New York, 350 Madison Avenue. St. Louis, 502 Star Building. Los Angeles, Cal., Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg., Mo. 8. Broadway. San Francisco, Cal., 318 Kohl Building. HARLINGEN OFFICE: Arcadia Theater Building. Phone 1020. Not Mr. Hays On April 19 an editorial appeared on this page with reference to the post office lease at St. Paul, Minn., and stated that it was signed by Will H. Hays, as post master general. Since then The Herald has received the following correction of that statement: Mr. Fess, Mr. President, some time ago I made a statement with reference to the lease of the post office building at St. Paul. I evidently made an error. I have here a short letter from the Postmaster General, which I desire to have read. The Presiding Officer. Without objection, the letter will be read. The Chief Clerk read as follows: The Postmaster General, Washington, May 6, 1930. Hon. Simeon D. Fess, United States Senate. My Dear Senator Fess: In my statement of April 9, 1930, concerning the two letters on the Commercial Station, St. Paul, Minn., I said: "On completion of the building April 8, 1922, the lease agreed upon was executed by Postmaster General Will H. Hays." This statement was read into the Congressional Record by you. I find that, due to the fact that our files had not been available, this statement was in error. Mr. Hays retired from office March 4, and the first lease actually was signed on April 28, 1922. Consequently, Mr. Hays could not have signed it. Sincerely yours, Walter F. Brown. Morris Sheppard is for the Pledge "A is" Sen. Morris Sheppard was the author of the 18th amendment. He was Joint author of the 19th amendment. He has placed his name on the official ballot of the democratic primary election to be held July 36 as a candidate for United States senate. His age is 65. on May 28; his occupation is that of a lawyer; he is a resident of Texarkana; he has been given three terms and he Is willing to accept the fourth. This is the declaration he filed with the Wilcox committee: "I am a member in good faith of the political party I above mentioned upon whose ballot I wish my name to appear, and I voted at the preceding election for the nominees of said party. I will, during my term of office as a United States senator, if elected, endeavor truly to respect the wish of my constituency and to abide by and support such measures as may be endorsed by the primary voters of my party in this state as declared by their vote at a primary election. I participated in the primary election of the democratic party immediately prior to the last preceding election and took a pledge to support nominees of that party. I did not vote against any nominee or presidential electors of the democratic party in the last preceding general election, and I hereby, in good faith, without any reservation, pledge myself to support all nominees of the democratic party during the year 1980. I do not now advocate a voter's entering a party primary or convention and taking the prescribed pledge with reservation, mental or otherwise." Senator Sheppard has the courage of his convictions. He would make the buyer of illicit whisky equally guilty with the seller. He is as sincere a proponent of the dry, dry type to be found under the folds of Old Glory. Regardless of all this, when he takes the pledge, political or otherwise, he keeps it without reservation, "mental or otherwise." A very fascinating game is the great national sport called politics. The play is on in Texas. Glories of Port Arthur A one-page editorial greeting to the delegates to the East Texas Chamber of Commerce convention was the outstanding feature of the Port Arthur News for May 12. A city of tremendous growth, a Gulf port of tremendous importance, an industrial center that is making its way, is the Gulfside city of the famous coast line. We are told that the largest and second-largest industrial plants in Texas are located in Port Arthur, that the largest is the Gulf company which employs 8500 men and women, and the second largest the Texas company with a roll of 4500 wage workers. We are told that the daily crude capacity of the two refineries is 185,000 barrels. We are told that Port Arthur oil tankers carry products of the two refineries to all civilized countries and many uncivilized. We are told one-third of the oil refined in Texas is handled by Port Arthur refineries and that Texas incidentally refines one-fifth of the nation’s oil. We are told the sun never sets on ships flying Port Arthur house flags which ply the seven oceans and a score of seas of the world "delivering Port Arthur-made products or cargoes assembled here to all maritime nations". We are told that thousands of shares in the two great refineries are owned by employees, "and participating ownership prosperity is evident." We are told the Port Arthur News has a circulation of 10,075, a gain of 14.7 percent over last year’s total. We are told Chinese coolies transport cans of Port Arthur-made gasoline into the Interior of civil war-torn China. We are told Port Arthur refined gasoline keeps 1,820,000 American motor vehicles moving. We are told that Port Arthur’s population since the 1920 census "is expected to approximate 250 per cent where the 1930 figures are tabulated." If the shades of Arthur Stillwell and John W. Cates walk the earth, they are proud of the wonder city on the fringe of the Gulf that their genius and money founded in the not remote past. San Antonio Votes a Big Bond Issue Mayor C. M. Chambers of the Alamo City put over his $4,975,000 bond Issue for public improvements as well as for the purpose of giving employment to more than 3000 idle workers. Mayor Chambers is the head of the city-county democratic organization. His bond proposal precipitated the liveliest row that the Alamo City has known in many years. John Boyle led the opposition to the bond proposal. He made many speeches urging the voters to vote it down. It was a bear fight from start to finish and drew to the polling places on election day the largest number of voters that ever participated in a bond voting election in Bexar County. There were 34,848 ballots placed in the boxes. Those for the bond issue cast 17,625. Those opposed 17,323. An official canvass increased the majority for the bonds to 302, and an ordinance authorizing the mayor and city commissioners to issue the city securities was voted at a special meeting following the official election canvass. Mayor Chambers and his followers won the election but they were skating on thin ice until all the returns were reported and a scant majority given for the big public improvement program. State Pens Branded as Fire Trap! Lest we forget, the state penitentiary at Huntsville is the worst fire hazard that has ever come under the inspection of State Fire Marshal J. W. DeWeese. Among the worst hazards, he classifies it as the worst of all the hazards that called for his inspection. Think of a penitentiary hospital with the interior of the structure constructed entirely of combustible material with open stairways. All the lawmakers are familiar with the conditions; many of the practical politicians who assisted in blocking reforms are familiar with the conditions. Four hundred convicts were scorched to death at the Columbus prison-holocaust of convicts caged in their cells. It was a ten-day sensation and then the world forgot all about it. Man has a papier-mâché memory. Proud Rating of Texas Cities Five American cities jumped into the 100,000 class in 1930 census returns to date, and El Paso is one of the five. Knoxville, Tenn., is another. Summerville, Mass., made the journey while South Bend, Ind., a manufacturing town, hiked its population to 103,000. Farther up the list, Dallas leaped from 42nd place in 1920, past Memphis, Birmingham, Worcester, and Akron which had 32nd place in 1920. Dallas fell short of Atlanta, Ga., which also passed Akron, O., in the rating. Atlanta's new rating is 347,991. That without mentioning Houston. Our Boarding House... By Ahem AS I WAS Once upon a time, in the town of SAVIAH, THAT FATHER DOCTOR - THE STUDENT SCIENTIST was Honored EXPERIMENT I AM TO SPEAK WORKING OVER HERE - BEFORE YOUR AHEM, JUST AN ENGINEER'S apparatus I have, a class system THAT TAKES A FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC OBSERVANCE of the various STAGES OF GROWTH of mushrooms; Ye, It Had a "Men Only" Sign, but It Was Really Very Educational—and, Probably, Disappointing NEW YORK, May 23.—Here's what George Clark might refer to as a "side glance" or two— It is a peep show spot in mid-Broadway. On the window is a sign reading, "For Men Only." The atmosphere reminds you of those whispered come-ons of the side show barker in the days when the "men only" paid an extra two-bit coin to see "Little Egypt" dance in the side tent. The windows are placarded with clippings and signs, all of which indicate that something very, very naughty is to be seen inside. There are, you read, paintings that are very oo-la-la and even more so. And all, if you please, for a dime — ten cents. Well, the other day Mr. John Summer, the censor, swooped down and pinched the place. When the case came to trial, the proprietor admitted that these naughty nudes he was revealing were merely a collection of Rembrandts, Goyas, Picassos, and other famous artists. Anyone could find their like or their parallel in each large art gallery. But the boobs, as usual, were being lured in by the peep-hole system. Which again demonstrates the number of suckers that make up our main steam. And not the least amusing feature of the affair was a lawyer’s statement that he was really trying to educate the Broadway drifters and knew that they’d never come in for a peek if the paintings were ballyhooed as Rembrands and such. Tin pan alley song makers are constantly on the job for numbers which will have a vogue because of some widely talked about personality and event. At the moment, in the safe of one of the leading song producers, is a tune entitled “Lindy's Baby." It was written the moment that the report went about to the effect that a child was anticipated. And if and when the birth is announced—and the date was guessed at around the middle of May—the copies will be ready for national broadcasting. Lindy's flight over the Atlantic gave birth to at least a dozen numbers. Every disaster results in one of those long-winded ballads, such as “The Death of Floyd Collins,” which takes up two or three large disc records. Sales of phonograph records show that this type of song, which never is heard by the Jazz following public heads many lists, with tens of thousands of customers “up in the hills” and “out in the lonely places.” Many of the large cafes and night clubs in Manhattan have bowls where the waiters toss their tips. At the end of a night's work, the coins are taken out and equally distributed. Thus if one section of the place has had a dull night, the waiters equalize their tips by sharing those of the busier men. The supposition is that all the waiters trust each other implicitly. At any rate, the other night one of these bowls happened to be half filled with water. “What’s the big idea?” someone asked. “Oh,” explained the waiter, “that’s so the money will make more noise if anyone tries to remove any of it.” The Government's Conscience Fund continues to grow, so evidently the world is not getting worse. Stamps, pennies, and money orders come from all over, by Rodney Ditcher, NEA Service Writer, Washington, May 23— The good old American conscience, which has caused so much misery, shows no signs of wearing out. For more than a hundred years, an average of about $500 annually has been dribbling into the treasury's conscience fund. Nearly all those who make any comment on their donations explain that religion has come into their lives and caused them to pay back money of which they claim to have defrauded the government. Of course, some of these "conscience fund" contributors don't owe the government anything and are obviously reveling in artificial excesses of atonement. Six Bits for Pebbles Here’s a typical letter recently addressed to President Hoover which found its way to the treasury: "Thanking God for his Saving Grace. I am indebted to the Treasury the sum of 75 cents for pebbles, small stones, acorns, and leaves taken as souvenirs while visiting Gettysburg National Cemetery some years ago. God in his love has shown me it was displeasing to him. Thanking him who died for me for making it possible to make all things right. Yours in Christ." Explanations are most likely to come from the smaller contributors. For instance, in one case, two cent stamps from someone who says: "I used stamps from old letters that were not marked. Heaven forgive me!" But the largest contribution which has come lately—$437 sent to the internal revenue office in New York—was contained in several money orders signed by a name which proved to be fictitious. The "conscience fund" was born in 1811 when an anonymous person sent the treasury $5, of which he said he had defrauded the government. It now totals more than $580,000. The term "fund" is a misnomer, however. No real fund was ever established. The money is turned over to the treasurer of the United States and increases the "available balance." It comes under the general supervision of the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants. In only one year, there were no "conscience" contributions—1848. Once a Civil War veteran in Greencastle, Ind., sent in $200 because he had stolen a mule from the army. Some years ago a clergyman in a foreign capital gave the American consul general $14,325, which had been handed to him by a communicant who confessed that he had defrauded the U.S. government. Another man who had forged a check and thus beat Uncle Sam out of $300, finally sent in $510.50, which included compound interest. Ten or 15 years ago a veteran of the Civil War sent $1 for a saddle blanket which he had appropriated in 1863. A hundred dollars came in to pay for the duty on an undeclared watch brought in from Europe. “Enclosed find check for $1 to cover 15 rounds of ammunition sent home for a souvenir while I was in the service in 1918-19,” an Oregon man wrote a few days ago, signing his name. “I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior. He requires that I straighten out all my wrongs as far as possible. Please forgive me and ensure that the money reaches the right place.” Eighty-five cents in silver came in from Springfield, Mass., the other day, with explanation or indication of origin. A man in Reading, Pa., last April found a nickel on the street and immediately sent it to Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, explaining that he couldn't find the owner and preferred that Mellon take the responsibility. In another envelope, postmarked Reading, came three pennies. Possibly these were from the same man. A Soldier Coughs Up Religion Inspired contribution of $110.76 recently received by the War Department. This ex-soldier had got religion and was not only willing to repay everything with interest but to surrender himself for punishment. He had received extra pay as a marksman to which he wasn’t entitled, pay while sick not in the line of duty but supposed to be, and five days’ pay for time away without leave, but undiscovered; cheated the army out of a little railroad fare, swiped 10 yards of target cloth, used lots of government paper and envelopes for personal correspondence and sold a spark coil received from another soldier which probably was government property. He figured he owed the government $68 plus $42.76 as interest for 10 years at 5 per cent compounded semi-annually. McAllen COMPLIMENTARY AFFAIR HONORS VISITORS Complimenting Mrs. Luther Hill Smith of Quanah, and Mrs. A. S. Gove of New Iberia, Louisiana, Mrs. Barnard Cook entertained with a bridge party Monday, afternoon at her home on North Fifteenth street. Bowls of spring flowers were attractively used in the decorations of the home. The personnel included Mesdames Luther Hill Smith, A. S. Gove, John Braden, Everett Myers, Charles Bartliff, E. R. Russell, D. C. Perkins, May White, Bethel Derrick, A. A. Treece, Conrad Roitch. V. E. Cook, J. J. Oliver, Braden. L. Paul Matthews, N. E. Buescher. Val Folsom, Lloyd Little, Joe LeBow, Loraine Brothers, Tom Beels, Thos. Mitchell Jr., Niles Esrey, Marvin Sneed, Rhea Clark, Paul D. Moore. Miss Marion Ticknor and Miss Hattie Bess Baldwin. Mrs. Dougherty Hostess Mrs. W W. Dougherty was hostess Saturday afternoon to the members of the Little Bridge club. Mrs. H. H. Damme will be the next host to the club. Morning Bridge Club Meets Mrs. E. D. Kennedy was hostess this week to the members of the Tuesday morning Bridge club. Mrs. Horace Richardson high score prize and Mrs. L L O’Neal the prize for high cut. Class to Give Magazines The Dorcas class of Frist Methodist church Sunday school was delightfully entertained Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. L. Hart. After an enjoyable social hour a short business meeting was held at which time the class voted to supply prisoners at the Hidalgo county jail in Edinburg with magazines. The hostess served a chicken salad, Ice cream, cake and tea. Personal Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Baker and Terry Baker of San Antonio were visiting friends here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Baker formerly lived in McAllen. Mrs. Bertha Kleecamp has returned from a trip to Corpus Christi. Mrs. Harriet Whitehead left Wednesday for a visit in Pennsylvania and New York, after having spent the winter with Mrs. K. C. McCandless. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Piloc and little daughter. Bobby Lee of Point Isabel were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. McColl. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Farrell, who spent the winter here, left Wed i nesday for Muskogee. Oklahoma, where they will remain for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Williams Pavne 1 will leave about June 9 for Mew York City to attenc the marriage of Mrs. Payne’s brother. They will stop enroute for a visit with rela ; lives in Waco and Dallas. ; Mr. and Mrs. Ed vh Da scum and ■ two sons will leave the latter part of the week for Jvtroit. Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. H. V Williams have ! gone to Sylvan Out Kansas for a three weeks visit. [ Mrs. Percy Herman and daugh • ter. Adelyn left Thursday for San . Antonio to b* vresent at the com mencement exercises of the In i camate Word academy, from which i Miss Louise Herman will graduate r| on May 28. / Out Our Way.By Williams a offs«r1 wceak-Bor \ WELL.VWHuT OF iT? HOVW WOO GO MM a) In me womV tmusik i eAujre him, t i i / Morn»K4’ about us vw,o both p 2^SCOPCT^ F°Rt FiMGtRC, ft A , tUr HOOK60.N1 \ V\ JU6T PUU. VOO* oe HAnolE / up a HTTuE. of a 3oCr ? J ^mAisi' wau< Right. IkBW Mm IS ALL. -<r^ rS^i n V" --* ..— r^' '■■■= • WAR COU.E&E J.R.W4UW*, nmutHtarr, MOT POGKIE;Tl& '» o>» r> *c* ccnvice me , J ■■ - .J-...—--*"x.-..-.. -. -ft I if ® Valley Society Telephone 7 1 .......J — Los Fresnos PFEIFER-WATKINS RITES SOLEMNIZED A very pretty wedding was so lemnized Tuesday evening at the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. Peter Watkins when their daughter Gladys was united in marriage to Mr. Clinton Pfeifer, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Pfeifer. The home was beautifully decorated in the bridal theme of pink and white. Mrs. E. C. Kupkendahl, sister of the groom, sang "Oh Promise Me." At seven the wedding march was played by Mrs. J. C. Chase, also sister of the groom. The couple took their places before a background of beautiful roses and ferns arranged in baskets. Reverend H. B. Day performed the ring ceremony by the light of tapers. The bride wore a dress of pink dotted net with pumps and hose to harmonize. The groom wore a suit of dark blue. Immediately after the ceremony, at a perfectly appointed table, a three course wedding supper was served to eighteen relatives of the bride and groom and Reverend and Mrs. H. B. Day. The bride has been employed the past two years by the law firm of Davenport, West and Ranson of Brownsville. After an extended trip to New Jersey and other points in the east, the couple will be at home to their many friends at the Watkins farm north of town. The members of the Los Amigos Bridge Club met on Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Q. B Waller, Mr. and Mrs. Harrell Hollion were guests. High honors were won by Mrs. Floyd Carrell and S. Henderson. Dainty refreshments were served at the close of the evening. Mr. and Mrs. O C. Page and daughter left Tuesday for Arkansas. They expect to be away about two weeks. W. H Patterson, S. E. Barr and J. C. Macomb motored to Rio Grande City Sunday. E. R. Barr with Mr. and Mrs. Harrell Hollen motored to La Feria Wednesday. Mrs. Genevia Miller, who has been spending the winter in Los Fresnos, left Wednesday evening for her old home in North Dakota. Miss Zeida Willett accompanied her. Donna -r.. TWO HOSTESSES AT LARGE BRIDGE AFFAIR Mrs. Clarence Elliott and Mrs. Raymond J. Rusk were Joint hostesses Saturday at thirteen tables of bridge at the Casa de Palmas hotel in McAllen honoring Mrs. J. S. Kelly and her daughter Mrs. Catherine Graham of New York City, house guest of Mrs. J. R. Rusk. Mrs. J. P. Webb was holder of high score, Mrs. Glen Lucas second high, Mrs. E. J. Jamerson consolation and Mrs. H. M. Carroll was awarded cut prize. A delicious ice course was served to the following: Mesdames Ben Miller, R. S. Chambers, E. J. Jamerson, Harold Watts, Glen White, Hobart White, M. E White, E. M. Williamson, H. S. Ridgway, Joe Sellers, Milton Fitzgerald, A. F. Taylor, S. H. Crucher, J. B. Webb, J. E. Wier, C. C. Hadsell, D. Wiedemann, A. C. McKinney, T. T. Sanders, W. A. Wright, Harold Vertrees, Bryan Collier, H. J. Backer, Glenn Lucas, W. F. Gilliland, J. E. Sparks, S. D. Turner, Lew Venable, Ed Vertrees, B. J. Matteson, H. M. Carroll, Drennen, Tom Boyce, E. A. Boyce, Champion, J. C. Powell, Gerald, Bernard Hill, Daubins, L. B. Fagan, Alfred Lissner, Henry Koch for Alamo, P. Betts, A. Bishop of La Feria, and J. S. Kelley and Catherine Graham of New York City. Misses Willie May Taylor, Lucille Ray, Catherine Schueller of Weslaco and Thelma Rincon and Mrs. Bowes of San Antonio. O. E. S. CHAPTER MEETS The Donna chapter held election of officers at their regular meeting on Tuesday. Elected were: Miss Lillian Vertrees, Worthy Matron; E. E. Vickers, Worthy Patron; Miss Clara Bell Timm Associate Matron; O. O. Vickers, Associate Patron; Mrs. E. J. Jameson, secretary; Miss Jennie Redfield, treasurer; Mrs. Emma Vickers, conductress and Bessie Rusk, Associate conductress. San Benito Banker Leaves for Colorado Special to The Herald.) SAN BENITO, May 23.—E. C. Breedlove of San Benito, president of the Valley chapter, American Institute of Banking, will leave June 9 for Denver, Colorado where he will attend the national convention of this organization. Following the convention he will take a vacation trip through Yellowstone Park and other places of interest. A COMPLETE COMMERCIAL BANKING SERVICE Business institutions, no less than individuals, use the First National Bank as an appendage of themselves, as their department of finance, ever ready with expert counsel and assistance. First National Bank Established in 1891 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS TITLE INSURANCE When you borrow money on real estate, many loan companies require the title to be insured. The best test of whether a title is insurable is to have it insured. Require a title insurance policy when you buy. VALLEY ABSTRACT COMPANY Prompt Title Service Brownsville Edinburg Opposite Court House E. Hartman Blvd Phone 1184 Phone 93 Jones Transfer & Storage Co., Inc. CLASS "A" MOTOR FREIGHT LINES VAN SERVICE - MACHINERY MOVING Harlingen Edinburg Brownsville McAllen Phone 3 Phone 3 Phone 787 Phone 491 Local Agent In Each Town — Call for Schedule Card CARNEIRO, CHUMNEY & COMPANY Certified Public Accountants Income Tax Service BROWNSVILLE SAN ANTONIO State National Bank Smith-Young Tower Nixoc Building Dependable Phone 353 Prompt BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS Abstracts of Title Title Insurance We cover all lands in Cameron County. | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'sn86063730_1930-05-23_2_6_1', 'collection': 'US-PD-Newspapers', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '1930.0', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '4288', 'token_count': '6054', '__index_level_0__': '15567', 'original_id': '21bcaa1520c80fb02ae0054df5474aa35e28b2dd24337d217c08285c74931289'} |
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I am trying to create a simple GUI with table containing x and y coordinates of samples. I use treeview, and I want the cells of the table to be editable by user. Is it possible to specify if the cells should be editable directly in Glade in cellrenderer properties, or do I have to specify it in my code? I use Glade 3.6.1
I have just found out that unticking box "Editable" in the Tree View Editor when editing my treeview, enables me to specify whether the cells shall be editable or not, because if the box is unticked, the cells editable property is no longer connected with the model. But if I run the program, cells are editable, but the value that I write inside disappears. How can I fix that? Why doesn't the cell store the value I type inside?
Thanks for any hint
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For anyone dealing with a similar problem, I have solved it - whenever a cell is edited, appropriate record in the model needs to be changed, example code in Python:
cell.connect("edited", self.text_edited, model, column)
def text_edited( self, w, row, new_text, model, column)
model[row][column] = new_text
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You are allowed to accept your own answer! ;-) – ptomato Aug 26 '10 at 22:36
I found I had to do something just a little different, but I am also using Ubuntu's Quickly development environment. I did have to go into Glade and uncheck the "Editable" box in my cellrenderer, which then brought up a toggable "Yes/No" button. Then my code looks like:
#psuedo-code function definition
cellcolumn_widget.connect("edited", self.function, list_or_treestore, columnnumber)
#actual code, editing second column so column is passed as 1
self.builder.get_object("cellrenderer_chapter").connect("edited", self.cell_edited, self.builder.get_object("liststore_chapters"),1)
def cell_edited(self, widget, row, new_text, model, column):
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PUGs are good, cross-server is bad
| Saturday, May 22, 2010
Excuse me, I need to put on my nostalgia glasses for a moment.
There was once a time when PUGs were not filled with complete jackasses. I know it's hard to believe. But believe it! At one time a wipe was not the end of a run. Two wipes. Ten! Can you believe a PUG staying together through that?
Once upon a time we endlessly mocked hunters for being idiots. And yet, when the time came, we asked them to kite and they kited. Sometimes not very well and sometimes it took a few tries. But they did it and we were glad for it. Once upon a time Upper Blackrock Spire was serious fucking business. We would PUG it.
How could we do this with just random yahoos from LFD? Oh that's how, we didn't have LFD. We made our own groups, like you would a raid. And no, we didn't have gearscore or achievement links. Nor were we screening heavily with inspections. Instead we used a strange thing called "knowing people." Yes in those days you had a friends list and a guild and had heard of some people for good or bad reasons. If we hadn't heard of someone, that probably meant they had done nothing great or terrible, they were average, and back then that was just fine. We weren't frightened of the average player, since most of us recognized our faces in the mirror.
What changed? The server died. The small town of self-regulation died, and despite my hopes, nothing grew to replace it. Anonymity is no basis for a society. When there are no consequences for poor behavior or performance, everything goes downhill. This doesn't mean we need bossy group leaders kicking anyone with low DPS or a tank in blues, but we need a society, we need people to care what others think. With no society we have lawlessness and anarchy and warlords are no substitute; people need to feel connected and to care.
This wasn't limited to randoms. As we saw more poor behavior and more poor performance we came to expect those as the standard. We ceased to trust anyone. And so even within a server, where you might expect to see self-regulation and social expectations, those were gone. In their place we have gearscore and achievements. But what do those really say? They have no story and inspire no loyalty, duty, or social conscience. Imagine hiring a candidate based only on a resume, no references, no cover letter, no previous interaction; this is worse.
Can the server be saved? Maybe it's too late. Maybe we've fallen over the edge and can no longer imagine a PUG as anything but a collection of drooling idiots.
Maybe cross-realm dungeons were not worth the cost. We can run instances more, but for what gain? Sure, they're great at low levels when it's hard to find people. But at 80? They only accelerate the badge inflation. They make excessive gearscores seem accessible, if you just keep running the same place over and over.
I certainly like the convenience of a tool making the group for me. I don't have to watch channels or talk to anyone. Press button, receive instance.
It helps those with little time. That keeps people subscribing and means more money for Blizzard. It's not so great for people who liked a time before gearscore and jackasses in randoms. But it's not our game, is it? That's obvious, seeing as I'm here writing a whiny nostalgic rant rather than sending out a memo: "Cross-server randoms are bad for the community, remove the tool next patch."
In other words, the nerd with a sense of entitlement is mad at the "I have a life" people with a sense of entitlement.
I miss global looking for group channel.
Matt said...
I don't get why you care for this "society" so much. Every time someone is inculded, someone else is excluded. "Small towns" and friends lists are methods for excluding people and collusion.
Maybe some people want the purity of being judged by their merit, not by their social skills. I play wow to get away from having to work hard to meet people's irrational social expecations. I don't enjoy having to deal with that when I want to relax either.
I like this new system, its less based on who you know and more on what you can do.
Klepsacovic said...
Currently, everyone is excluded. There are no ins. The small towns which I describe are the servers, which used to include the entire server. At the exclusion of other servers, yes, but they have their own servers.
I never said a thing about being judged by social skills over merit or about meeting irrational social expectations. What I did say is that when we knew who people were, we knew who was good and who was not.
The new system is based on what you already did, with not the slightest measure of what you can do.
jeffo said...
In general I agree with you, but here's a couple of things:
1. 'Must have achievement' didn't start with the Cross-realm LFG system, it started roughly around the same time the achievement system was launched. If you didn't kill the latest boss in VoA the first week it came out, forget about getting in a pug the next week.
2. I don't know the full history of Gear Score, the add-on, but it's use was picking up well-before the Cross-realm system went live.
3. From what I can tell it's not unusual for raid leaders to up the requirements on raids the longer they've been out. I went into Karazhan for the first time about a year after it came out, following a guide that said I should have minimum 1100+ healing. I recall someone once commenting on a forum how they went in with 900+ healing when it was released.
That said, things have definitely gotten worse. I think it's more a function of people being extremely lazy -- it's a lot easier to rule someone out because of bad GS or lack of achievement than it is to actually look at an armory page and judge gear choice, gems, enchants, etc. However, there's definitey an upswing on rudeness and impersonal play, and it seems a lot worse when you're in a Cross realm group.
Klepsacovic said...
You're right, my memory gets jumbled. I don't remember it being such a problem early on. But maybe we were running Naxx and couldn't yet demand T8 for it.
I do recall inflation for Karazhan. But it seemed like there were so many runs that you could find one that wasn't ridiculous. The last run I saw without GS checks was one I started and that was months ago. Someone had left during formation because someone else didn't have the achievement.
Stabs said...
Link achievement and gearscore were enablers rather than barriers.
Before they existed people simply didn't pug serious raids until the end of the development cycle.
No one pugged BWL, AQ40 or Naxx in Vanilla and people only pugged MC right near the end.
No one pugged Kara, SSC, TK until well past halfway in the expansion. Would you really want to do Flame Wreath with a bunch of random people from Trade back when Shade of Aran was genuinely challenging?
In WotLK people started pugging Naxx early in the cycle because of gearscore and link achievement. No one would have put a pug raid together without those features.
As for UBRS it was an anomaly, everything except Drakki was tank and spank whereas MC required some pretty precise positioning. It was more like a 5 man than a raid in terms of gameplay. Apart from the kiting (which was actually pretty simple) it was facerollable.
Cathy said...
I have to say, I really like the new system. Yeah there will often be one guy in the group who is doing crap damage but I think thats the point as all groups seems to be balanced enough to complete the instance.
My only and biggest annoyance is someone who runs a particular instance for a certain piece and then leaves group when the item doesn't drop off that particular boss. The group then has to wait for another person to fill the spot. Totally annoying!
I do like meeting the different folks and I usually keep it light and fun.
Ngita said...
I am sorry stabs you completely wrong, at least in terms of the servers I have played on.
"Pugs" where heading into MC and ony from April-August 2005. They were'nt very succesful but they tried. I say pugs in that guilds had not yet settled into raiding guilds, so you tended to have alliance and amalgamations. BWL was pugged successfully(Nef dead) in march/april 2006. Pre AQ.
Alt runs where mostly clearing Kara by 6 months into the expansion, trying to remember when it was pugged but we had 2 alt runs so I did not have to pug.
Gearscore was post lfd on proudmoore and achievements didnt really come in until people started pugging malygos. My warlock was my first alt to reach 80. I got into naxx 25 within one week and was part of one of the first server pugs to kill Patchwerk, only 2 people in the raid had even seen gluth before.
But even now, we still have reset raids. No Gearscore, no achievements just whoever wants to go kill stuff in x, y instance because it resets in a few hours anyway so who cares if you fail. For example my dk(sub 5k gs) tanked 3/12 icc last week. We wiped once on saurfang with 45 minute left to reset and it got called.
I too miss global lfg.
Isa said...
I have always enjoyed PUGing, but I agree that the current system doesn't really provide the same experience the pre-cross server dungeons did. But it does provide more chances at it, so I don't think it's been all bad. You have to make an effort to get it to work that way, and it even then it doesn't work that often. It's very businesslike.
I don't exactly miss global LFG...for me that was when a single chat channel got big enough that a sizable number of people first felt like it was worth it to begin spamming. And once that box got opened it never shut; ever since those people have flocked to whatever is the most global channel and filled it with obnoxiousness. At least on my servers this was the case.
No, what I miss was prior to that, when you could access city chat from anywhere if you knew the trick. It made it easy to watch for potential groups (even from an alt), but most people didn't realize it and the channel didn't get overrun. I suppose it's another form of elitist barrier though.
Klepsacovic said...
City chat from anywhere? That I've never heard of.
Global did have a lot of spam, but there seemed to be mostly people actually looking for groups. It was nice to be able to see groups outside of your level range, so you could play an alt and still find groups for your main. I wish there had been some way to filter it, maybe add level ranges, so you could ignore chat from people outside your bracket or something of that sort.
Corinthe said...
I miss old LFG a lot. I've always been a pugger, every day, several times a day. My friends list was full of people that I met in pugs. The guilds that I joined were invites from pug friends. The people I talked to in game were pug friends. I've got people on my friends list from early TBC.
Pugging was what made the MMO part of the MMORPG for me. I left right before the LFD patch, and came back a couple months later to level a shaman from 12-80. I didn't make a single friend. Most people were from different severs, and when they were from my server, I didn't notice until after the pug. The people that I would consciously think I'd like to play with again were always from another server.
A couple months later, I had full T9 for two specs all from pug badges farmed, and had not met a single person from my server in any of those pugs. I was guildless and bored. Ultimately I shelved that toon, picked up my neglected priest, joined some random pvp guild invite spam, and went pvp. We random bg queue 3-5
guildies. I wasn't getting my socializing fix from PvE any more.
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Dec 17, 2012, 06:00 PM
Hi Guys,
I've been reading about this a lot, but I couldn't find anything really giving good answers. I've been using my MacBook air to watch netflix on occasion, which of course requires Microsoft Silverlight. I've also noticed my CPU temp. getting up into the 90's centegrade, which is pretty hot IMO, and warm enough that it's uncomfortable to use on your lap. Cpu usage is also 80-90% used by silverlight.
My biggest question is will this do any damage in the long-run to my MacBook? Is there anything I can do to help this issue?
I guess I just don't understand why my iPad can run Netflix with little trouble, but my MacBook can't. I assume the video is of a higher quality on the computer, it just doesn't seem like it should be that extreme.
Any help is appreciated!
Dec 17, 2012, 06:07 PM
Those tempatures are normal and within range. They won't damage your machine at all. The iPad can playback Netflix content with ease because iOS Netflix is h264 that uses the builtin hardware decoder. Desktop Netflix uses Silverlight to playback the media, also with h264. But it isn't able to access the built in hardware decoder that some Macs have. Thus the high CPU usage as the CPU decodes it.
Dec 17, 2012, 06:09 PM
As Intell said, your temps are normal. The Intel processors used in Macs are designed to automatically shut down to prevent damage if they truly overheat. CPU Tjmax = 105C (221F), GPU Tjmax = 100C (212F) on i3, i5, i7 processors. (Source: Intel (http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/specupdate/322814.pdf))
If you're not already using it, iStat Pro (http://istat-pro.en.softonic.com/mac/download) (free) or iStat Menus (http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/) ($16) will give you accurate readings of your temps and fan speeds, among other things.
If your fans are spinning up without increased heat, try resetting the SMC (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964).
Learn about the fans in your Mac (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4543)
Apple Portables: Operating temperature (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1778)
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Find your Flash version (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html#main_LatestFlashPlayer) and make sure it's the latest version (http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/) available.
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loop-grid-push
===
Ableton Push (v1) bindings for [loop-grid](https://github.com/mmckegg/loop-grid). The mapping follows how Launchpad works pretty closely. The only difference is the side buttons are mapped to the button group right on top of the pads.
## Controller Mapping
Trigger sounds using the **pads** on the Push hardware that corresponds to the interface grid that you have added chunks to.
### Beat Repeat
The top buttons on Push enable **beat repeat** mode as follows:
- None (free play),
- 1
- 2/3
- 1/2
- 1/3
- 1/4
- 1/6
- 1/8
When beat repeat is enabled, **hold down** a trigger on the main grid, and it will be **continuously triggered** at the selected rate to the project tempo specified. This allows you to play in perfect time with the tempo.
### Store Loop
By default the last 2 bars of everything you play is being recorded. The top buttons control the current loop. Press the **RecLoop** button to start looping the events you just played.
### Clear / Flatten
When no transformations are currently active (no beat repeat held or active suppression), **Clr/Flat** clears the currently playing loop, otherwise it locks in the current transform.
### Undo / Redo
These buttons trigger undo or redo of stored loop on press.
### Beat Hold
Top button **BeatHold** will loop the currently playing beat at the rate specified by the Beat Repeat buttons (A-H) when held down. You can lock in the loop by pressing the Flatten button (2/view) at the same time.
### Suppress
Top button **Suppress** will suppress all current playback when held down. You can lock that in by pressing the **Clr/Flat** button at the same time.
### Select / Move
To select buttons, hold down top button **Select**, and press some buttons on the grid and release. You can now hold **Suppress** to mute the selected slots, or hold another button on the grid to move/offset the loop events.
### Loop Length
Hold **Select** and press the **Undo/Halve** button to halve loop length or **Redo/Double** to double.
## TODO
* Use native Push buttons for some functions (Undo/Redo, Shift...)
* Map Tempo knob to BPM
* Free mapping of knobs and touch strip to synth parameters
* Show active chunks on pads using dimmed colours
## Credits
Written by [Fabio Neves](http://github.com/fzero), with bits and pieces adapted from [Push4Bitwig](https://github.com/git-moss/Push4Bitwig) by [Jürgen Moßgraber](http://mossgrabers.de).
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wouldnt it be fucking scary if you had a clock that counted down until the moment you die. like what if it could be altered too like one day it says 70 years left but then you do something and it says 10 minutes left and youre like what the fuck i fucked up i fucked up i fucked up
what if you got on a plane and then as soon as it took off everybodys clock changed to 20 minutes
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Blockchain 3.0 — Innovations in The Distributed Ledger Technology
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The Bitcoin blockchain is typically regarded as the original blockchain since it was the first implementation of an innovative technology that is usually described today as distributed ledger technology (DLT). The beginnings of the Bitcoin blockchain 1.0 were followed by the programmable Ethereum version as the blockchain 2.0 and then came the third generation, the blockchain 3.0 in the form of IOTA, Nano, or Hashgraph. Blockchain 3.0 in fact no longer can be referred to as the blockchain, since it doesn’t have the same technology basis. Instead, directed acyclic graph (DAG) is the keyword. DAG is a new variant of DLT, characterized as a post-blockchain concept.
The Weaknesses of Current Blockchains
In theory, the first and second generations blockchain technology already revolutionized the way we think about the technology and how we use it. There is a large number of fields that could be fundamentally changed by the blockchain. In practice, however, the situation seems to be somewhat different.
Currently, early blockchains such as those of Bitcoin and Ethereum are still limited: to date, they have not achieved any major scaling success. This means that the number of transactions and speed limits these blockchain protocols. While traditional systems such as PayPal can process about 200 transactions per second (tps) and Visa 56,000 tps, Ethereum currently only can do approximately 25 tps, while Bitcoin only has a capacity for 7 transactions per second. It is clear why this poses a problem when it comes to mass adoption.
But why are these technical limitations there in the first place?
The answer is simple — the blockchains are not slow due to some inherent scalability barrier. The restriction is, instead, the result of a “conscious” decision — to form a decentralized blockchain network. One of the core principles of public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is to give everyone the possibility to run a network node. Each node processes every single transaction and has to store the complete transaction history of the blockchain on the computer. Public blockchains are only as secure as their weakest link, which means that scalability and transaction speed depends on the capacity of the slowest node. Certainly, slow nodes could be discarded, but then the crucial feature of censorship resistance would be damaged, as individual network members would be deliberately excluded. So this is causing a dilemma between security and scalability that prevents the older blockchains from achieving the higher transaction speeds.
In the next part, we will explore the blockchains which are not blockchains per se and see how they could improve the distributed ledger tech. Stay tuned and don’t forget to follow us on social media!
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Episodes (13)
1. 1. "Magic Mirror" / A Rainbow in My Room"
23 minutesDecember 10, 2015AllSubtitles
MAGIC MIRROR In a race against time, Fig and Hedge must learn how to do their floating magic trick before their invited audience arrives. A RAINBOW IN MY ROOM Fig chases a rainbow, hoping to catch it so Stick can keep it in their room.
2. 2. "Snowflake Dance" / "The Tinsel Tree Topper"
24 minutesDecember 10, 2015AllSubtitles
SNOWFLAKE DANCE An injured Rutabaga can’t do the Snowflake Dance so Maple steps in and learns the dance in unexpected ways. THE TINSEL TREE TOPPER When Fig loses, then breaks a special holiday tree topper, he learns that just being together is a reason to celebrate.
3. 3. "Gourd Gets Stuck" / "The Swing of Things"
23 minutesDecember 10, 2015AllSubtitles
GOURD GETS STUCK Fig and Maple set out to rescue Gourd and help him get his beloved teddy bear back. THE SWING OF THINGS Fig's pocket-watch-on-a-chain is too small for all the barnacles to swing on together, so he searches for a swing big enough for all of them.
4. 4. "Okra's Sweater" / "Stick's Meshroom Mansion"
24 minutesDecember 10, 2015AllSubtitles
OKRA'S SWEATER While delivering a sweater to Okra the Octopus, the sweater accidentally unravels and Fig and Hedge learn how to weave a new sweater. STICK'S MESHROOM MANSION To accomodate Stick's ever-growing surfshell collection, Fig adds to Stick’s arm barrel home until Fig can no longer carry it. Will Stick choose his collection or Fig?
5. 5. "Stick is Sick" / "Things That Go Gourd In The Night"
24 minutesDecember 10, 2015AllSubtitles
STICK IS SICK As a noisy beetle concert blares nearby, Fig must figure out how to create quiet so a sick Stick can rest and get better. THINGS THAT GO GOURD IN THE NIGHT A sleep-dancing Gourd causes quite the stir as Fig and his friends use their imaginations to solve the mystery of what is making the strange sounds they’re hearing in the night.
6. 6. "Figamajig" / "Camping It Up"
24 minutesDecember 10, 2015AllSubtitles
FIGAMAJIG Fig finds an unidentifiable object and sets off to ask Maple what it is, discovering along the way that it’s a “Figure It Out” machine. CAMPING IT UP When Fig and Hedge’s supplies disappear, their campout seems doomed. But, Fig’s blanket and their creative ingenuity save the day and their trip.
7. 7. "Mighty Mud Movers" / "Having A Ball"
24 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
MIGHTY MUD MOVERS When a leaky dam endangers the beetles' mud-sculpture, Fig and Buckeye puddle-jump to the rescue. HAVING A BALL When Fig, Hedge and Pine go on a mini-vacation to Tumble World, Fig's scoop comes in handy in overcoming obstacles to getting there.
8. 8. "Yak Wash" / "The Caterpillar Wing Ding"
21 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
YAK WASH Fig turns a garden hose into a sprinkler and solves the mystery of the stinky dust that's covering him and his friends. THE CATERPILLAR WING DING Fig is thrilled when Stick invites him to the Caterpillar Wing Ding to celebrate caterpillar traditions.
9. 9. "The Glow Below" / "Sub In A Bottle"
23 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
THE GLOW BELOW Fig takes his camera on an undersea adventure in Maple’s submarine to find the source of a mysterious glimmering glow. SUB IN A BOTTLE Fig and Maple receive a gift from a lonely, camouflaging cuttlefish - but when they go underwater to look for the gift sender, they have trouble finding him!"
10. 10. "Buckeye's Runaway House" / "Caboose On The Loose"
21 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
BUCKEYE'S RUNAWAY HOUSE Buckeye is having trouble with his house rolling away and Fig discovers his yo-yo holds the solution. CABOOSE ON THE LOOSE Fig and Buckeye come to the rescue as, on their way to the Show & Share Fair, everyone’s craft carts get stuck together and form a runaway train with the Chicks aboard!
11. 11. "Clam-tastic Voyage" / "Double Vision"
24 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
CLAM-TASTIC VOYAGE When Hedge claims to have seen the Abominable Snow Clam, Fig and Maple venture into a crystal-filled cave to help him prove it. DOUBLE VISION Fig gives his binoculars to Hedge to distract him while they prepare "Hedge Day." But, from Hedge’s partial view, it looks like his friends are in trouble.
12. 12. "Thinking Outside The Hoop" / "Fig's Hay-Maze-ing Wander"
23 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
THINKING OUTSIDE THE HOOP While Fig tries to master twirling a hoop with his hips, the runaway hoop serendipitously inspires solutions to his friends’ problems. FIG'S HAY-MAZE-ING WANDER Fig finds his friends, who are lost in a maze, not by figuring things out but by random wandering.
13. 13. "The Windy Hop" / "Captain's Cap"
21 minutesMay 5, 2016AllSubtitles
THE WINDY HOP Fig uses his umbrella to navigate Gourd’s long-lost Granny Coco through strong winds and lead her to Gourd for a family reunion. CAPTAIN'S CAP When Ginkgo the Crab’s hat is unwittingly blown into the Finding Place, Fig finds it and sets out to return it to its rightful owner – whoever that may be.
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CATHOLIC theology says that heaven awaits the pure of heart while hell is reserved for unrepentant sinners. For the sinful but penitent middle, however, there is the option of purgatory—a bit of fiery cleansing before they are admitted to eternal bliss. Nor is inflicting pain to achieve purification restricted to the afterlife. Self-flagellation is reckoned by many here on Earth to be, literally, good for the soul.
Surprisingly, the idea that experiencing pain reduces feelings of guilt has never been put to a proper scientific test. To try to correct that, Brock Bastian of the University of Queensland, in Australia, recruited a group of undergraduates for what he told them was a study of mental acuity.
At the start of the study, 39 of the participants were asked to write, for 15 minutes, about a time when they had behaved unethically. This sort of exercise is an established way of priming people with feelings associated with the subject written about. As a control, the other 23 wrote about an everyday interaction that they had had with someone the day before.
After the writing, all 62 participants completed a questionnaire on how they felt at that specific moment. This measured, among other things, feelings of guilt on a scale from one (very slightly guilty or not at all) to five (extremely guilty).
Participants were then told they were needed to help out with a different experiment, associated with physical acuity. The 23 who had written about everyday interactions and 20 of the 39 who had written about behaving unethically were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand (ie, left, if they were right-handed, and vice versa) into a bucket of ice for as long as they could. The remaining 19 were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand into a bucket of warm water for 90 seconds, while moving paper clips one at a time between two boxes, to keep up the illusion of the task being related to physical capabilities. That done, participants were presented with the same series of questions again, and asked to answer them a second time. Then, before they left, they were asked to rate on a scale of zero (no hurt) to five (hurts worst) how much pain they experienced in the warm water and the ice.
Dr Bastian reports in Psychological Science that those who wrote about immoral behaviour exposed themselves to the ice for an average of 86.7 seconds whereas those who had written about everyday experiences exposed themselves for an average of only 64.4. The guilty, then, either sought pain out or were inured to it. That they sought it out is suggested by the pain ratings people reported. Those who had written about immoral behaviour rated the ice-bucket experience at an average of 2.8 on the pain scale. The others rated it at 1.9. (Warm water was rated 0.1 by those who experienced it.)
Furthermore, the pain was, indeed, cathartic. Those who had been primed to feel guilty and who were subjected to the ice bucket showed initial and follow-up guilt scores averaging 2.5 and 1.1 respectively. By contrast, the “non-guilty” participants who had been subjected to the ice bucket showed scores averaging 1.3 and 1.2—almost no difference, and almost identical to the post-catharsis scores of the “guilty”. The third group, the guilt-primed participants who had been exposed to the warm bucket and paper clips, showed scores averaging 2.2 and 1.5. That was a drop, but not to the guilt-free level enjoyed by those who had undergone trial by ice.
Guilt, then, seems to behave in the laboratory as theologians have long claimed it should. It has a powerful effect on willingness to tolerate pain. And it can be assuaged by such pain. Atonement hurts. But it seems to work—on Earth at least. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9836143255233764}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '124255', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IMLODHICYVHUST4QRXO6IUTR3Z25OINT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ca9a860c-27b7-47e7-b2e0-f3b16b752cd6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 19, 22, 38, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '206.79.194.65', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7F37IIY6AIXUYMX2S4FGJQBZPZMAQP3O', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c486da74-bfa6-4eec-b93d-ab7b50365464>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.economist.com/node/18061114', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:12bdaa1e-d9cd-44e5-9db2-39713c7c9e89>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '622', 'url': 'http://www.economist.com/node/18061114', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1980658769607544', 'original_id': 'ab15c8a90d229b45f2a504d8392bb8729954953680b13948a9336cc1aff9c281'} |
Non-invasive Tearscope Plus routine for contact lens fitting.
The Keeler Tearscope Plus was invented by the author as a multi-use instrument for the non-invasive examination of the tear film, its appearance, volume, stability and, its effect on the ocular and contact lens surface. Its use is maximised by following a step-by-step approach described which is based on simple clinical principles of tear film stability. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '4b75ab9d7c7632336fe871a0b13352901ae1e30fed1675d6f6af8ad53613d909'} |
Session 68
August 28, 1963
Present: Given, Legion, Runa, Gayla, Primo, and a visitor from Mexico: Ybana.
WE: The day of labor approaches. (Referring to Labor Day, September 1). It shall be delivered of you-a new thing. Full grown shall it be. Mid-wifery is unnecessary for the connection shall remain.
We tell a tale of a Feathered One. Bird was he not nor man, yet he walked and flew much. In each hand he held two feathers and, when so moved, he laid them on the brow of those who found him. It came to pass one day, an arrival would not accept the placing of the feathers. Twice the arrival refused and stretched forth both hands. Whereupon the Feathered One bestowed the feathers to the arrival, who immediately departed, wonders to perform. Bring to US a bleeding heart and you bring nothing. Bring to US a crown and you bring a bauble. Bring to us YOU and you bring all. A mystery is to be solved. The puzzlement of control is thusly answered: It is as though you are unable to control that which you control. ‘Tis a deep saying, this: the control is a dual aspect. From one end you control not; yet YOU are at the other end, controlling that which you seem not to control. ‘Tis a deep mystery no more-and it is so. ‘Tis time for questions.
Gayla: Why, in the tale of the Feathered One, did the arrival come in the first place?
WE: He came to go on. He wanted not in part but all. He who wants all takes not less. A zephyr from the West shall pass to the East, caressing all in its flight. Where the cross-current is encountered, there shall a great stirring take place.
Ybana: Why did I come here?
WE: There is but one journey-that of Self fulfilling. ONE would say to this One: the course of your planning has been well done for you stored a survival kit en route.
Gayla: Is there more I should know about the Donner party? (She had recently been reading a book on it).
WE: Some of the Sun’s rays need to be filtered to those sensitive in certain areas. Not all rays received are beneficial.
Legion: From your knowledge, what is the liver? WE: The liver is the heart of man. Man lives in his liver. A malfunctioning liver bespeaks of a man who has died in part. There is that which can quicken the dead-and you know it.
Given: Many of us are very weary. What is this weariness?
WE: The snow lies heavy on the branch. ‘Tis a covering permitting new growth.. . if the branch break not.
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Women In Jazz, Dewey Redman & Sitatunga Dreams
ARTCAST SEASON 2, Episode 7: SITATUNGA. A new work from composer Mark Masters that tributes the wild and innovative spirit of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman. Performed by the Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble featuring Kirsten Edkins, saxophone.
Mark Masters is a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor. He is the artistic director of the American Jazz Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the enrichment and appreciation of jazz music. The organization presents concerts, makes recordings, offers workshops and scholarships to students, and also houses an archive of sheet music and recordings. They have collaborated with musicians such as Dewey Redman, Steve Kuhn, Lee Konitz and Andrew Cyrille.
Sitatunga is a composition by Mark Masters inspired by the innovative and exceptional spirit of saxophonist Dewey Redman. Mark worked with Dewey Redman on a series of concerts that featured Redman’s music arranged by Mark for large ensemble. He also heard him teach many master classes and workshops under the auspices of the American Jazz Institute. I first heard Sitatunga on a Mark Masters Ensemble CD, Farewell Walter Dewey Redman (Carpri 2008), that was recorded just after Dewey Redman passed away. Redman was scheduled to do this project and Oliver Lake stepped in to play saxophone on the recording. It was a recording of the large ensemble arrangements of Redman’s music that they had previously toured, with the addition of this one new composition by Mark Masters that tributed his much admired musical colleague.
When a musician plays, they either communicate through their instrument or they don’t. Age, color, and gender are all factors that have no bearing on the artistic statement. It so happens, however, that women in jazz are still a minority. When one experiences a saxophonist who plays like Kirsten Edkins, it’s exciting. It’s exciting because even though times are changing, a woman playing the saxophone is still not a common image on the bandstand. When a player as accomplished as Kirsten bites into a solo, the energy would be thrilling if she were any gender.
I first heard Dewey Redman, not performing, but speaking in an interview on NPR. He was telling a story about meeting John Coltrane for the first time. He explained that he had been working professionally and had a reputation as a musician. He said he had what he felt was an appropriate amount of ego. I appreciated very much what he meant by this. As an artist, it’s good to have humility, but one also has to guard against too much. You may have to really fight to make your creative statement. When Redman went to meet John Coltrane in his hotel room, he was so amazed by Coltrane’s complete lack of ego. He said that it forever changed him. For me, listening to Dewey Redman speak, I wanted to know his art. It started with the person and getting a feeling for how special, how open, how honest he was in his demeanor. I know that Mark Masters felt the same way about Dewey Redman.
A Sitatunga is a type of animal. It is a marsh buck…strong, elusive, unusual. Mark Masters had a dream after Dewey Redman passed that Dewey had turned into this magnificent animal and was running through the plains. We should all be so lucky to have such dreams. Maybe a few listens to Sitatunga will conjure them next time we sleep.
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Chicago Teachers Union files 10-day strike notice
August 29, 2012|By Joel Hood and Noreen Ahmed-Ullah | Tribune reporter
• Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis speaks to the media after giving a speech about education at Trinity All Nations church in Chicago.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis speaks to the media after giving a speech about education at Trinity All Nations church in Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune)
By filing the required 10-day notice Wednesday with the CPS school board and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, teachers are eligible to strike beginning on Sept. 10, the start of the second week of school for the majority of CPS students.
The union's House of Delegates will meet Thursday where they will review the district's latest contract offer and likely set a strike date.
"I want to make clear that we will remain at the (negotiating) table until a deal gets done," Lewis said. "We will have a contract and it will come the easy way or the hard way."
Responding to the union’s announcement, CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard issued a statement Wednesday evening, saying “everyone knows that a strike would only hurt our kids.”
“(Students) can't afford to be removed from the classroom just as they're making progress with the new full school day,” Brizard said. “That's why we'll continue to meet every day until we reach a fair resolution for our teachers and avoid any disruption to our kids' school year. If CTU leadership decides to strike, we will be prepared to provide our students with the services they need to keep them fed and in a safe environment with positive activities.”
Lewis said the two sides have made strides during contract talks on "small issues," such as winning provisions for teachers who are nursing mothers and ensuring text books for students in schools with limited resources.
But, Lewis said, the biggest issues still remain, such as teacher raises and a re-hiring pool for those who've been laid off. Contract talks will continue all this week, and likely through the weekend, Lewis said.
"CPS seems determined to have a toxic relationship with its employees," Lewis said.
The teachers have remained angry with CPS administration even after a deal on the longer school day in which the district agreed to hire 477 teachers who had been laid off. That allowed teachers to work the same number of hours even though students are in school longer.
CPS has budgeted spending as much as $25 million on a strike contingency plan. District spokeswoman Becky Carroll said CPS is intent on providing a “safe and engaging” environment for as many of the district’s 402,000 students as possible.
The plan would likely include opening some schools and perhaps other city buildings so that students can receive breakfast and lunch and play in organized activities. State law prohibits the district from engaging students in traditional classroom instruction without certified teachers, Carroll said.
“If the Chicago Teachers Union chooses to strike, we'll be prepared to serve our kids,” Carroll said. “Students can't afford to be removed from their classroom at a time when they're starting to make progress with the full school day. They belong in school with their teachers, which is why we need to stay at the table and keep negotiating, every day if needed, until we reach a fair resolution as a strike would only hurt our kids." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '130', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.97407203912735}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '43729', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4PRVADTRADKQ4DUE3DRLTPRV6CB6MZXA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a35f6af3-3878-48f3-b6d2-253de0b42d01>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 19, 33, 39), 'WARC-IP-Address': '174.35.27.75', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WPFXBAU4YQRWOQ7COGB6O7LCABOLHEDN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b02993a8-c04d-43ef-8725-f979129cc8e4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-29/news/chi-chicago-teachers-union-to-file-10day-strike-notice-20120828_1_jean-claude-brizard-chicago-teachers-union-files-karen-lewis', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:65911aa9-d5ea-4eaf-babf-074b71210724>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '626', 'url': 'http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-29/news/chi-chicago-teachers-union-to-file-10day-strike-notice-20120828_1_jean-claude-brizard-chicago-teachers-union-files-karen-lewis', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.044838786125183105', 'original_id': '27ac6ec3364032a2e23760bfa411184b61a0e192abd85b2b957f0b33359bca1b'} |
Homework Is a Waste of Time
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We all hate homework, but is it really important that we do it? Is doing homework good for us or is it simply a waste of time? This debate sets out the arguments on both sides.
Homework is an assignment that students are given to do at home. It might be a continuation of classwork or a new piece of work. It may also be preparation for the next class. The amount of homework school students get varies a lot not only from country to country, or from school to school, but often from day to day. For most the amount of time spent on homework gets longer as we go through our school lives. At the start of primary school we get almost no homework but it is often several hours a day by the time we finish secondary school.
The most important thing in this debate is not so much how much time is spent on homework but whether that time is wasted. If it is time well spent then having a lot of homework to do may not be a bad thing. The debate should therefore consider what else school children would do with that time. Another angle would be to look at whether school could replace homework with something that makes better use of time. For example in Britain the education secretary (the member of the government who controls education across the whole country) wants schools to scrap homework and instead have longer days in school.
Time is valuable. We all need some time to ourselves. School already takes up a lot of time and it is necessary to have time which does not involve concentrating on learning. Education is not the only important activity in everyone’s day; physical activity, play, and time with family are just as important as all teach life skills just in different ways. The internet makes it possible to be learning at home, there are even many computer games that help with learning. Homework clashes with these other activities. It can damage family relationships as it means parents have to try and make their children do their homework.
Homework does not...
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Most likely it does, regardless of the state of your memory.
When I first heard the term “Memory”, relative to stainless steel, I was anxious to find out what it referred to. An associate with one of the stainless mills responded with this little tidbit; “Memory, regarding stainless steel, generally refers to retained stress, specifically in austenitic grades. That relates to “Movement”, or “Walking”. (Bars won’t hold straightness). Those grades of stainless (304L and 316L) have memory. They are difficult to straighten in the first place. Then, after you have manhandled them into the straightness you want, they have a tendency to return to the straightness they “remember”.
If you have a bar that looks like a tapeworm and you cold straighten it to a beautiful pump shaft, then ship it across the country, expect to find a tapeworm when you open the box.
Same with people. Take an annoying coworker. Explain why you are transferring them to your sister company. Instruct them to straighten up. Ship them across the country, and bingo! Your sister company now has an annoying coworker.
If you want to look at this annoying tendency of memory in stainless steel a bit closer, you can start by noticing that we specifically mentioned austenitic grades of stainless. Those tend to be the most commonly used in industrial maintenance. And, of the austenitic grades two are by far the most common to the industry; type 304L and type 316L.
Coincidentally, it is just those two grades that seem to have the most profound memory issues.
They probably occupy over 70% of the grades used on a daily basis. Type 316L (we’ll talk about the “L” later) is a modified grade of 304L. It is an upgrade developed to better resist the damaging effects of corrosion. Both 304L and 316L are products that come under the general category of 18-8 stainless.
In that grouping, the first number represents chrome content, and the second represents nickel content; the two primary alloying elements in the austenitic grades mentioned.
Austenitic Stainless grades 304L and 316L;
Are non-magnetic; under most circumstances they will not attract a magnet.
Are not hardenable by thermal treatment
Can be hardened by cold work, strain hardening
Are generally of moderate strength as purchased
Are resistant to most common forms of general corrosion
Are resistant to the negative effects of service temperature to a little over 1000°F.
They possess some annoying attributes, however. In addition to memory issues, they tend to gall (Get stuck to mating parts, or, “cold weld” to mating parts), are a bit gummy, and tend to be of lower strength.
Since 304L and 316L do not respond to thermal treatment, and since the most commonly employed stress relief for steel bars is thermal conditioning. It is understandable that austenitic stainless bars retain stresses from the manufacturing process.
Since they do retain stress, and stress will not stay in a material (it will come out as movement, warp, or fracture), it is expected that those grades would have Memory; the retained stress being released as bow, twist or warp.
Once you have made pump shaft from austenitic stainless bars, you may anticipate the stress induced in the straightening process to manifest somewhere down the road. The catalyst may be: vibration, heat, torque, whatever.
MEMORY Has trouble with authority
GALLING Doesn’t play well with others
FUTURE TOPICS: “The One Handed Metallurgist”
-Howard Thomas, January 5th 2018
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Hello, It was nice article that you published. I had similar experience in my daily work. Other than two grades were also few grades does memory. It hurts the process. I was wondering to know how to identify the grades which hold the straightness by the metallurgy or heat treatment process. If we does double straightness process, is it with hold straightness. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.944916009902954}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '161912', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:I4M2UQZZPFWSPU4SRLXUZUEEOMU6B3XR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:493a70e7-71ff-40db-bd0c-5a3b75b6b9d6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 8, 21, 3, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '169.47.187.115', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5BZZBNLVMP3YCJ53TGG6ADSBNC7KSD27', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3435b73e-58f9-4b0d-935c-04315d84af6b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.associatedsteel.com/does-your-stainless-remember-things/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:fda073e0-6c80-4524-a381-21e660c75896>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '648', 'url': 'https://www.associatedsteel.com/does-your-stainless-remember-things/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-59.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02699357271194458', 'original_id': '4ec1b8b1e6470bf8d476a5042c0f2b83a1e874f99e4a3ad35914a2b3a0d34ab3'} |
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The Wrap Up
Game: Grand Theft Auto V
For: Dave Norton
Location: Kortz Center, Pacific Bluffs
Conditions of mission failure: Wasted
Dave gets killed
Reward: None.
Protagonist(s): Michael De Santa
Trevor Phillips
Unlocks: Meltdown
Lamar Down
Unlocked by: The Bureau Raid
"We did what you said. Right? Got those people off your back? Now, you're gonna do like you said and cut me loose. Right?"
Michael De Santa.
"Things aren't gonna work out quite that way. There's a bit of a problem..."
Dave Norton.
"That's right, Davey boy! You could say that!"
Steve Haines, interrupting right before his betrayal.
The Wrap Up is a mission in Grand Theft Auto V, given by FIB agent Dave Norton to protagonist Michael De Santa. Trevor Philips is also playable during the mission.
The mission starts with Michael approaching Dave Norton at one of the lookout points in Kortz Center. Michael confirms that the raid at the FIB's headquarters was succesful and insists upon Dave and Haines' promise to let him and his friends go after that final job. Norton begins to explain that there's been a change of plans, but he is promptly interrupted by the arrival of Steve Haines, who proceeds to betray the two by telling Andreas Sanchez to arrest them. A four-way Mexican standoff is initiated by the men, but they are quickly talked down by Norton. Before they can lower their guns, however, a group of IAA agents (led by the U.L. Paper Contact) arrive and attempt to arrest all four of them. They are soon joined by a rival group of corrupt FIB agents (who were contacted by a treacherous Sanchez) and a platoon of mercenaries from Merryweather Security. Haines gets shot in the leg by an FIB agent and then he shoots Sanchez in the head, sparking a massive shootout between all those involved.
At this point, the player regains control and the mission starts proper. Haines escapes and Norton gets separated from the player after a helicopter crashes into a walkway and destroys it. The members of the rival agencies will be shooting at each other and will kill each other gradually, simplifying the task of eliminating them.
Another Merryweather helicopter will arrive and corner Michael. The game then switches the player over to Trevor, who is on a nearby ledge with a sniper rifle. Trevor must then take out the helicopter pilot to let Michael pass through the walkway. After Trevor makes his presence known to Michael and Dave in a brief cutscene, the player must use Trevor and his sniper rifle to clear out the enemy FIB agents from the courtyard to let Norton get across it.
Now the player can choose to continue as either Trevor or Michael. If continued as Trevor, the player has to help Michael get down to the courtyard, clearing out FIB agents and another Merryweather helicopter from a distance. If switched over to Michael, the player must make their way down to the courtyard, shooting their way through the FIB agents (Trevor, controlled by the game's AI, will take care of the Merryweather helicopter).
Once Michael is next to Dave in the courtyard, Merryweather agents will start to arrive and attack all three of them. Using either Trevor or Michael (or alternating between them), the player must take out all the incoming Merryweather agents and another one of their helicopters. Once these agents are taken care of, Trevor will leave and the player must continue the rest of the mission as Michael. The player must make his way to the parking lot with Dave and clear out the Merryweather agents waiting there. Once all the agents are dead, Dave will get into his car and will tell Michael to call him once the heat has died down, before driving away.
The player must get into one of the cars in the lot and drive away. As the player leaves Kortz Center, a final Merryweather helicopter will begin attacking Michael. The player can either try to lose the helicopter or get out of the car and take it down. Once the chopper is dealt with, the player will recieve a call from Trevor, saying to meet him in Morningwood. Once there, a cutscene will play where Michael and Trevor discuss Trevor's return and their planned "last big score" at the Union Depository. Once the cutscene ends, the mission is over.
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Tuxedos are required for all orchestra performances.
Jesuit will issue the following to all orchestra students
1. Tuxedo jacket
2. Bow tie
3. Cummerbund
4. Suit bag
Students are asked to provide their own
1. Black dress pants
2. Black dress shoes
3. Black socks
4. Tuxedo shirt
Specifications for the tuxedo shirt are as follows:
1. White (NOT ivory) with white buttons
2. Buttoned cuffs (cufflinks not required)
3. Wing tipped collar
4. Flat front pleats
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10 Must-Have Free macOS Apps For Web Developers
For web developers, applications are important factors to better productivity; without having the right ones, developing a single website could take up a lot of a developer’s time. There are many applications for web development for every platform.
In this post, we will put together the best OS X Applications that you should include in your web development toolbox. The best part is that all these applications are totally free. So, let’s take a look.
100 Free Useful Mac Apps
100 Free Useful Mac Apps
Macs are already amazing machines that offer many useful features built into the operating system. However, to make... Read more
1. VirtualHostX
VirtualHostX was started as a “Web Sharing” plugin; a utility that Apple removed from the System Preferences since OS X Mountain Lion. This option lets you turn on and off the built-in macOS Apache Server, where you can host localhost environment for your websites.
Now VirtualHostX has evolved into a quite powerful application to manage a localhost environment. Some of its features include improved modern macOS UI, creating and sharing a public URL to access the localhost site, installing free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt, and built-in backups.
2. Keka
Most file packages that we download are compressed either in zip, rar, or tar format, allowing multiple-file delivery. Even though the Mac has a built-in feature to extract these formats, it is rather limited.
Keka is a free open-source OS X application for file compression and extraction. It supports the three formats above and various compression formats including 7z, Gzip, Tar, DMG, and ISO, and it can extract RAR, EXE, CAB, and PAX format as well.
With Keka, you can also apply password restriction to the compressed file, split the compressed file into multiple parts at a specified size threshold, automatically delete the source file after compression or extraction, and choose the compression method for much smaller file output. It also integrates with OS X Notification Center to put failure and success notification.
Compressing files
There are two ways to compress files with Keka. First, you can download and install the Services context menu.
keka menu
Second, you can drag and drop your files onto the Keka application window, as shown below. The files will be compressed as the specified default setting.
keka drag drop
3. Sequel Pro
MySQL could be the most popular open-source database used worldwide. There are many websites including open source projects like WordPress that rely on MySQL for storing its databases. If you are on OS X, and want to manage databases in MySQL, then Sequel Pro is the best option for the job.
Sequel Pro is a native OS X application, built with Cocoa, and it has a nicer GUI compared to similar applications. You can create, remove, export, import, and filter the databases, create MySQL users, as well execute MySQL query through the app.
sequel pro
4. Koala
Koala is a tool to compile LESS, Sass, Compass, and CoffeeScript into browser-compliant format. If you’re using one of these trendy technologies, then Koala is one app to install in your Mac.
koala app
5. iPhone Emulator
If you need to test your websites for the mobile platform, you can either use a physical mobile phone or tablet or simply use a simulator application like iPhone Simulator. However, to get the iPhone Simulator, you first need to install Xcode from the AppStore.
The iPhone Simulator is deeply buried within the Xcode application. So, for easy access, you can run the following command to launch it right from the Application folder.
ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/Simulator.app ~/Applications
iphone simulator
6. Icons8
Need lots and lots of icons? Install Icons8. Icons8 adds a new icon at the menu bar where you can search through its 2800 collections of icons. Then, you can place the selected icon on any application like Photoshop, Xcode, or Finder.
7. Browsers
It’s obvious, we need a Browser to view the websites we’ve developed. However, since you are a developer, you may need to go the extra mile, testing your website for various Browser versions including the Nightly Builds and Beta versions.
So apart from the regular Browsers, you may also need Firefox Nightly, Firefox Aurora, Chrome Canary, Chromium, and Opera Next.
8. Devdocs
Memorizing every code and syntax from all languages sounds quite impossible. This is where the Devdocs need to install Dash. Dash collects Documentation for HTML5, CSS3, jQUery, Sass, LESS, and a bunch of other programming languages.
You can search through their documentation, finding codes, syntax, functions, as well as code snippets, all in one place.
9. Automator
Automator has been pre-installed with OS X. This application allows you to automate tasks, for example, you can create a contextual menu for renaming files in batch, change file extensions, creating thumbnail images, crop multiple images at once, and a lot more. Automator could be a great companion tool for streamlining your web development workflow.
10. Poedit
Poedit is an editor for .po file that is widely used for internationalizing websites; translating the website user interface into multiple languages. If you are developing websites or products like WordPress themes and plugins for international audiences, then Poedit is a must-install app.
Bonus: SourceTree & Github
Whether you build a small or a large-scale website, you should incorporate a control version system to keep track of the changes and revisions of the codes in the projects.
Today, with Git being the most popular system for version control, you can install SourceTree or Github application for macOS to use and operate Git in a more convenient way through GUI. Both applications are free.
version control
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SuperSonic3 Electric Nail File Totally Nails It
Winner of Nails Magazine Readers’ Choice Award, the SuperSonic3 is a professional electric nail file that has high speed and makes filing, shaping and shortening nails, a breeze. Using an electric nail file will totally eliminate the constant and repetitive motions that nail techs have to do if they are using traditional filing techniques.
You will get the hand piece, control box, foot pedal, a set of bits and a stand for the hand piece with your purchase. Treat yourself and your clients to an exceptional piece of equipment! It comes in a 220V machine or a 110V. The SuperSonic3 is one sale for $124.95.
SuperSonic3 Award Winning Features
• A forward/reverse switch.
• Speed can be controlled manually or controlled with the foot pedal.
• A light-weight, vibration-free hand piece.
• Easy-to-use twist/lock chuck that allows nail technicians to change bit heads quickly.
• Powerful, quiet motor.
• Variable speed control up to 30,000 RPMs.
How to Use the SuperSonic3
1. Simply select the bit you are going to be using.
2. Insert it into the chuck at the front of the device.
3. Turn the lock to lock the bit in place. The lock is located in the middle of the hand piece.
4. Turn the device on.
5. Recommended speed is 15,000 RPMs or less.
6. If you prefer to use the foot pedal, change the switch to FOOT mode and you can use the foot pedal to turn the device on and off.
7. There is an optional bit called the Nail Dust Buster. It will completely revolutionize how you remove dust from your client’s nails.
8. Lightly go over the surface of the nail with the bit and you can go under the nail as well. This will remove all the dust that could possibly cause lifting.
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\section{Associativity of Group Direct Product}
Tags: Group Direct Products, Associativity
\begin{theorem}
The group direct product $G \times \paren {H \times K}$ is (group) isomorphic to $\paren {G \times H} \times K$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $G, H, K$ be groups.
The mapping $\theta: G \times \paren {H \times K} \to \paren {G \times H} \times K$ defined as:
:$\forall g \in G, h \in H, k \in K: \map \theta {\tuple {g, \tuple {h, k} } } = \tuple {\tuple {g, h}, k}$
is to be shown to be a group homomorphism, and that $\theta$ is bijective, as follows:
\end{proof}
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[Numpy-discussion] calculating weighted majority using two 3D arrays
Damian Eads eads@soe.ucsc....
Thu Mar 6 00:34:24 CST 2008
Gregory, Matthew wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm a definite newbie to numpy, but finding the library to be incredibly
> useful.
> I'm trying to calculate a weighted majority using numpy functions. I
> have two sets of image stacks (one is values, the other weights) that I
> read into 3D numpy arrays. Assuming I read in a 100 row x 100 col image
> subset consisting of ten images each, I have two arrays called values
> and weights with the following shape:
> values.shape = (10, 100, 100)
> weights.shape = (10, 100, 100)
You may need to be a bit more specific by what you mean by weighted
majority. What are the range of values for values and weights,
specifically? This sounds a lot like pixel classification where each
pixel is classified with a majority vote over its weights and values. Is
that what you're trying to do?
Many numpy functions (e.g. mean, max, min, sum) have an axis parameter,
which specifies the axis along which the statistic is computed. Omitting
the axis parameter causes the statistic to be computed over all values
in the multidimensional array.
Suppose the 'values' array contains floating point numbers in the range
-1 to 1 and a larger absolute value gives a larger confidence. Also
suppose the weights are floating point numbers between 0 and 1. The
weighted majority vote for pixel i,j over 10 real-valued (confidenced)
votes, each vote having a separate weight, is computed by
This can be vectorized to give a weighted majority vote for each pixel
by doing
The values*weights expression gives a weighted prediction. This also
works if the 'values' are just predictions from the set {-1, 1}, i.e.
there are ten classifiers, each one predicts either -1 and 1 on each pixel.
I hope this helps.
> At this point I need to call my user-defined function to calculate the
> weighted majority which should return a value for each 'pixel' in my 100
> x 100 subset. The way I'm doing it now (which I assume is NOT optimal)
> is to pass values[:,i,j] and weights[:,i,j] to my function in a double
> loop for i rows and j columns. I then build up the return values into a
> subsequent 2D array.
> It seems like I should be able to use vectorize() or apply_along_axis()
> to do this, but I'm not clever enough to figure this out.
> Alternatively, should I be structuring my initial data differently so
> that it's easier to use one of these functions. The only way I can
> think about doing that would be to store the two 10-item arrays into a
> tuple and then make an array of these tuples, but that seemed overly
> complicated. Or potentially, is there a way to calculate a weighted
> majority just using standard numpy functions??
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> matt
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In this article we’re going to quickly explore 7 Angular development tools which can make our everyday life easier. The purpose of the list is to not be opinionated architecture wise. This means that we’re not going to discuss tooling which has impact over our choice of application state management, data layer, etc. For instance, although packages like ngrx/store devtools, universal, and others are amazing once we’ve chosen a specific architectural approach, we’re going to keep them out of this article because they assume we’re using a specific way of state management or application rendering.
The software below can improve our productivity as developers by providing scaffolding, static code analysis, code generation, code visualization and debugging support!
Number one tool for Angular which provides well encapsulated build and scaffolding is Angular CLI.
Angular CLI is a tool developed by Google and allows us to quickly bootstrap projects by automatically providing our build configuration, testing configuration (unit with karma & jasmine and e2e with protractor), and more. The CLI is based on webpack which means that it takes advantage of the different webpack loaders available, and performs tree-shaking for producing small bundles.
The Angular CLI is being developed by the Angular team which means that it provides smooth integration with other projects such as, Angular Core, Angular Material, Angular Mobile Toolkit, etc. For instance, soon Angular CLI will run the development build of our applications with ngc which will unify the production and development builds, reducing the learning curve and allowing developers to have predictable compilation behavior across different environments.
In case you’re just getting started with Angular, you should start your project with Angular CLI. This will dramatically improve your productivity and optimize the learning experience of the entire ecosystem. In case you have very deep understanding of the available tooling and you want to squeeze your production bundles to minimum with a custom solution you can always ng eject your application out of the CLI, or use an Angular starter project.
Big thanks to the guys helping to make the CLI awesome, including (but not limited to) Hans, Mike and Filipe. 👏
Very common mistakes that developers using a dynamic language (such as JavaScript) do is to misspell a method or a property name. TypeScript already can warn us about this thanks to tsc and it’s type system, however, this wasn’t possible within the strings representing our components’ templates. The language service of Angular provides the same type checking and auto completion, that we’re used to from TypeScript, in inline and external templates!
The language service is developed by the Angular core team. At the time of writing, it is ready to use in VSCode, Sublime Text and WebStorm.
Behind the scene the language service uses the Angular compiler for parsing our application and producing diagnostics. It decorates the TypeScript language service in order to reuse its logic. The most awesome thing about the language service is that it is not coupled to a specific Angular version and can be used in any text editor and IDE as soon as there’s an available plugin.
More about the language service can be found in the ng-conf talk by Chuck Jazdzewski (the creator of the language service) “Using the Angular Template Language Service”.
The language service can be found here.
Have you ever worked on an application where you had to automatically generate the API documentation? For JavaScript we have tools like ESDoc which take the JSDoc annotations and automatically generate documentation for us. The end result usually looks something like this.
This is enough for most projects but Angular provides some extra semantics on top that can make our documentation even richer! For instance, it allows us to list all the different UI components just by grabbing all classes decorated with @Component . Well, compodoc already does this for us!
Compodoc has support of JSDoc light, generates search, table of content, has variety of good looking themes and is open source, available on GitHub!
Behind the scene compodoc uses ngd for parsing our Angular applications by using the TypeScript parser.
The guys from the Angular community working on this awesome tool are Vincent and Wassim.
More than a year ago I started codelyzer with the motivation to automatically verify that given project follows the official Angular Style Guide. Initially the project started as a couple of rules on top of tslint which based on the Angular Style Guide were validating the selectors of our components, proper implementation of life-cycle hooks, etc.
Since then, the scope of codelyzer has grown! Now it uses the Angular template and CSS parsers in order to provide more sophisticated analysis of our application. On top of verifying that our project follows the style guide, codelyzer can also detect misspelled variables in our templates, find dead styles and even automatically migrate a project between breaking changes & deprecation across Angular versions!
If you’re using Angular CLI, by running ng lint you’re already getting diagnostics from codelyzer which makes sure your code is following best practices!
Behind the scene, codelyzer performs either flat (per file) or deep (per project) static analysis of our project. The diagnostics that codelyzer will produce includes:
Validity of the directive and component selectors according to the style guide.
Best practices related to the declaration of the metadata of our projects.
Proper implementation of life-cycle hooks.
Proper component and directive naming.
Compatibility with ngc.
Detection of dead CSS.
etc.
You can find instructions of how to use codelyzer here.
Are you tired of all the boilerplates when declaring a new Angular component, directive or a service? The process is manual, slow and with the tooling available nowadays, unnecessary!
John Papa created a package of snippets for VSCode which improves our productivity by reducing the amount of boilerplate work that we need to perform when:
Bootstrapping an Angular application.
Declaring a new component.
Declaring guards.
Declaring directive.
Declaring a route.
Declaring a service.
etc.
You can take advantage of the snippets by installing the VSCode extension available here.
Debugging an Angular application may get tricky. How our UI gets rendered often depends on large amount of mutable state across components, directives, services, stateful pipes. Fortunately, inspecting the state does not have to be always related to setting break point or debugger statements within the bodies of the individual building blocks of our app. In order to explore the dependencies of given component or a service, we don’t have to always dig into our codebase!
Augury is a Chrome extension which will plug into our Chrome DevTools. Once loaded, it will help us explore the relations between the individual components in our application which are visible on the page. We can trace the component state and modify it from provided inputs, we can manually trigger events, directly jump to the source code for a specific symbol and much more!
You can install Augury here.
Augury allows us to efficiently debug our application by performing dynamic code analysis which requires us to run the application. This way we can inspect the structure and the behavior of a project.
Sometimes, we are only interested in the structure of given application. This especially true when we are new to a project and we want to explore it’s individual building blocks as quickly as possible. In such case, we don’t even need to struggle with the deployment of the application, which often may not be trivial. In this scenario the dynamic code analysis is not very convenient because all what we want is to explore the different abstractions level by level, without running the application.
For instance, we can start by seeing the top-level modules of our application and their relations, after that exploring the individual modules’ declarations and exports, understanding the relation between the different providers, components, their templates, etc.
On ng-conf 2017 I announced ngrev. This is a tool for reverse engineering of Angular applications which allows us to visually explore the individual building blocks forming our project.
Under the hood, ngrev uses ngast. ngast is a project which provides a simple interface for parsing Angular projects. By playing around with it, you can build custom tools which statically analyze Angular projects for different purposes (performance, security, etc). Internally, ngast uses the Angular compiler, which automatically allows the most efficient and complete possible metadata collection.
You can find ngrev here and its Windows, Linux & Mac binaries here. More about ngrev here.
Conclusion
In this article we explored a couple of tools which can improve our development experience dramatically! Starting from project scaffolding with the Angular CLI, going through efficient development with the Angular Language Service and Angular Snippets, to dynamic and static code analysis for easy debugging and reverse engineering!
Most of the projects we explored are developed by the Angular community which is a great sign for how convenient for tooling the framework is.
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By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said on Wednesday the Supreme Court is launching a new case-filing system that will enable the public for the first time to view all court papers on the court's own website.
The high court has been accused by critics of being behind the times and clinging to internal workings that are too secretive. But Roberts said in his annual report on the U.S. judicial system that America's courts must be cautious when considering technological advances.
New systems can be adopted only when it is certain they do not hinder the ability of courts to adjudicate cases "fairly and efficiently," Roberts said.
Roberts wrote in the report that, perhaps as soon as 2016, "all filings at the court ... will be available to the legal community and the public without cost on the court's website."
Roberts said that although lawyers will then be able to file everything electronically, which is common practice in the federal court system, the court will still accept paper filings from petitioners who do not have legal representation.
Currently, only a small proportion of Supreme Court documents, including its rulings, are available on its public website. Other documents, including all the briefs filed by litigants, are available online only through third-party legal research sites and a news website that covers the court called SCOTUSblog.
The court has faced criticism from some quarters, including from media organizations, about a perceived lack of transparency. The court does not allow TV cameras to record its proceedings, although it does issue audio recordings of oral arguments.
Roberts wrote that the courts "must often introduce new technologies at a more measured pace than other institutions, especially those in private industry."
As a result, court administrators "will sometimes seem more guarded in adopting cutting-edge innovations, and for good reasons, considering some of the concerns that the judiciary must consider in deploying new technologies."
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Zombie Reading List
July 22, 2020
This Reading List features our most Popular Books in the Zombie genre. Add any of these Free-eBooks to your TBR to make sure that your reading list will never be dead.
1 Zombie Nights
Zombie Nights
Tom Lichtenberg | Horror-Gothic
2 Diary of a Zombie Survivor
Diary of a Zombie Survivor
S. Michael Choi | Sci-fi Fantasy
In the aftermath of genetic plague, human beings are transformed into white-eyed 'Happy' zombies, and the remnants of uninfected society live in heavily fortified compounds. One such group leader, 838, records in his diary the travails of day-to-day life over a winter where the water freezes and the infected New Humans stage periodic raids. But is the greater threat other survivors, their clans? To what lengths will 838 go so that his followers will live another day.A slice-of-life diary of the post-apocalyptic world, the hours of boredom and the moments of sheer terror.
3 Vampire Witch Zombie
Vampire Witch Zombie
Marty Wagner | Erotica
Vampires have become an endangered species protected by law who now live amid humans but are hated and despised for the protections they receive. Due to an accident, a race of mutant zombie vampires have now populated a city and are threatening to take over the human race as well as the few remaining vampires. A new Vampire Protection Agency has been created to protect the endangered vampires and wipe out the zombie vampires in a conflict that threatens to tear the newly formed agency apart. An innocent victim, Jaycee Henry has been illegally turned into a vampire and now struggles to survive among the zombie vampires and there would be keepers, vampire brothers, Doran and Cyprian Dalca. Follow the adventure of Jaycee as she tries to live among the vampires and the zombie vampire hoard.
4 Darlings of Decay
Darlings of Decay
Chrissy Peebles | Horror-Gothic
With over 325,000 words and featuring some of Amazon's Best Selling Female Authors of Horror, this is certainly not your typical anthology book! Sit back as your favorite authors of zombie lit take you on a wild, horrifying ride that will leave you breathless. Come and meet the women who love to entertain you with their own unique versions of the zombie apocalypse. Zombie stories from thirty-two of your favorite female authors! Featuring- Tamara Rose Blodgett Vanessa Booke Chantal Boudreau Laura Bretz Tonia Brown Catt Dahman Mia Darien CM Doporto Jacqueline Druga Dana Fredsti Belinda Frisch April Grey Michelle Kilmer Rebecca Hansen Lori R. Lopez Suzi M. Tara Maya Shannon Mayer Lyra McKen Cynthia Melton Kristen Middleton Chrissy Peebles Jeannie Rae Suza...
5 Death
Kim Hyun Choul | Fiction
A man who is expanding his life by 160 assisted by the shield is a human being, hero, prey, zombie and Grand Alpha. Do you still want to live longer than you have given? Think about it. A death of the future. Now the news on grand alpha seemed to be normal. They were causing accidents, getting cancer from increasing the shield doe, and the cancer is fatal since it doesn't occur in one or two places but the entire body. 100% of grand alphas are reported to die if they get cancer. Finally, I became a zombie.
6 Alice's Zombie Adventures in under City: Downward Spiral
Alice's Zombie Adventures in under City: Downward Spiral
Richard Schwarz | Sci-fi Fantasy
This isn't a joy ride down the rabbit hole. It may be written in nonsense, but it’s all business. Forget chasing the white rabbit, Alice is trying to survive and not just against zombies. While she’s running for her life, the last thing she’s worried about is how she gets home as long as she can get home in one piece... The odds are stacked against her. Are her friends, enemies and who can she trust?
7 The Zombie Chronicles
The Zombie Chronicles
Chrissy Peebles | Horror-Gothic
8 Guardian Core Chronicles: The Reckoning
Guardian Core Chronicles: The Reckoning
Michael Youngblood | Sci-fi Fantasy
This is the fourth story in the series. This an all out fight between the Guardians and a powerful new enemy. This story combines space battles, much worries and zombies. It is appropriate for young teen and up, but is deep enough for the more experienced reader.
9 12 Days in Hell
12 Days in Hell
Patrick A. Walston | Horror-Gothic
10 Trust Me
Trust Me
Noa Leibson | Fiction
Kori is a blogger. The kind that would rather be inside blogging pictures than going out with friends. Despite being the wealthiest girl in Winslow Woods, she never takes anything more than she needs and is perfectly satisfied with a book and wifi. But something happens, she only ever blogged about. Sickened, mutilated people walking through town trying to attack the normal. Zombies. Without an explanation, she's brought on a ride with a mysterious boy named Artie who is desperate to bring them both to safety. But a journey like that is not so easy.
11 Hauss Vegas
Hauss Vegas
Christian B. Guyant | Erotica
The Walking Dead meets Christopher Moore in this dark zombie thriller. Ricky Houghton is a young father whose life falls apart after an outbreak of the UND-34D virus. After losing his family, job, and everything he worked hard to earn, he must find his way to Las Vegas and discover a new life in the zombie infested world.
12 Keeper from the Koffins
Keeper from the Koffins
Maremerchant | Horror-Gothic
A Team of Marines Ordered to search a long lost time forgotten village deep in Mexico. They will come face to face with a monster that resembled a gargoyle. A large zombie army that will eat the rodents and animals that they catch. This team of soldiers will encounter more than they bargained for. But before it ends. This small army of marines will find ghosts demons zombies and that creature that lives on revenge.
13 The Biter Awakening Part 1
The Biter Awakening Part 1
Bart Gnarly | Horror-Gothic
A family of redneck preppers are holed up together inside their carefully stocked fallout shelter for 2 weeks so far. The plan is to survive the zombie apocalypse providing that they don't kill each other first. Some of these family members may be just as dangerous to each other as are the zombies roaming the streets above. Michael, his crazy wife Lorna, their son Kellan, and a bossy young woman named Betricia must decide their next moves!
14 Joe's Choice
Joe's Choice
Myra Nour | Horror-Gothic
15 Light Life Red
Light Life Red
Yoo | Fiction
The Urge made people act emotionless and detached from society. When thousands of infected left behind everything they owned and congregated in the wild, you could imagine many believed it to be a real-life zombie apocalypse. The infected naturally became the new age zombies. Dance with holograms of the Zodiac, and re-connect with your body and the Earth. Follow Jet on his spiritual journey to align the biomes and re-balance the Earth's energies, so he can free humanity from slavery.
16 I Wasn't Smiling!
I Wasn't Smiling!
Bassam Imam | Youth
This book begins with the re-introduction of Mandy Wilson (Jody's mother). Her final day at Camp Puppy Mill, her painful goodbye to her daughter, and then proceeds with Mandy meeting another of Jeff's victims, Rebecca Hall. Other characters, including Bassam, Corey, Dr. Russell Van Chimp, Lisa, Louis, Cameron, other animals, and creatures such as Zombies and Zomboids. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '413', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9315710067749025}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '63551', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NXYHONXCM5XSU3GW4HOZ42V5YRTRNSBH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1e4e263b-130f-4c65-9d10-8f844dfe714d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 21, 1, 59, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '149.56.120.51', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XCXMGAXNFC4HLYLBV76PSAI2FUGHYS2F', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:78bc7e0b-7238-48c5-9b62-73006e0b822d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.free-ebooks.net/book-list/zombie-reading-list', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8034dd60-07fd-41a1-8cbb-9a111790fd5e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1529', 'url': 'https://www.free-ebooks.net/book-list/zombie-reading-list', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-45\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-32.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.029939353466033936', 'original_id': '178f576c848bba045f0a7428c3b3a4dd9d237262c2052b2ef012bbf1540a7ac4'} |
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Many people underestimate the importance of filing taxes before Tax Day or later with a valid extension from the IRS. In fact, most taxpayers are unaware of the risks and penalties that are associated with a failure to uphold the tax return deadline, such as being charged with fines or, in extreme cases, criminal charges.
If you are struggling to file your taxes before the deadline, work with an experienced tax attorney to ensure you don’t incur any expensive fines or serious penalties. Here are some of the issues that those who fail to file their taxes can expect to encounter.
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Of all the consequences associated with failing to file on time, losing your eligibility for a refund is one of the worst. Federal and state tax refunds have a statute of limitations, meaning you have a set amount of time—which is usually three to four years—to receive a refund after you file your taxes. If a taxpayer fails to file their taxes within this time frame, the IRS will prevent the taxpayer from participating in and benefiting from certain advantageous tax programs, including:
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There are certain unique scenarios that allow a taxpayer to delay the statute of limitations for their tax returns. However, you should never assume that you have the option to delay your filing deadline.
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Another issue people will face who don’t file their taxes is the potential to lose their Social Security benefits. Specifically, taxpayers who are self-employed who fail to file their tax returns are unlikely to receive credits for Social Security retirement or disability benefits, as their income was not reported to the Social Security Administration.
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If you plan on taking out a loan but haven’t paid your taxes, it could complicate the approval process. To receive a loan, you usually have to provide copies of your recent tax returns to the financial institutions and lenders from whom you wish to obtain the loan. If you haven’t filed your taxes, you won’t have the necessary documents needed for loan approval.
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In addition to the general issues outlined above, a failure to file your taxes could result in penalties. In fact, the IRS has various avenues—such as filing a substitute return or issuing a tax lien—they can take to penalize individuals who fail to file their taxes.
When an individual fails to file their taxes, the IRS may file a substitute return on their behalf, which usually does not take into account the typical advantages taxpayers have at their disposal, such as deductions, exemptions, and other tax breaks. As a result, these substitute returns tend to hurt rather than help a taxpayer. If you receive a notice from the IRS of their intent to pursue a substitute return, seek legal representation to ensure you are best protected.
Another path the IRS may take to penalize a taxpayer is to place a tax lien on their property. This lien essentially acts as a claim against the person’s property for the unpaid amount of tax that is owed. Any property with a federal tax lien attached to it cannot be sold until the taxes are paid and the lien is removed. This tax lien could be placed on all kinds of property, including personal property, real estate, and any other assets owned by the taxpayer. Tax liens are serious business. Therefore, if you are notified of a potential lien, you should seek legal counsel in a timely manner.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
An Update
I'm way overdue for an update on how things are going. I've been trying to find time to do so over the past few months, but responsibilities kept getting in the way. As a result, I have so much to talk about, but I'll try to keep it pithy.
Last blog post I did, I talked about the drug Amantadine that my neurologist prescribed for me back in June. So I'm sure you've all been waiting with bated breath how it has turned out.
By way of remembering, this drug was prescribed to help me get rid of my dyskinesia (random movements resulting from using Sinemet and Azilect together, which for me was mostly head bobbing and left leg movements/toe curling).
When I first took it, it extended my dyskinesia from being a peak dyskinesia lasting about 2 hours, to extend it over most of the Sinemet dose, around 5 hours. Not good. But I remembered that my neurologist indicated I'd probably need to lower my Sinemet dosage, that I should experiment and find the right sweet spot of the mix of drugs for the best results.
So I cut my Sinemet dosage in half. That did result in losing my dyskinesia, but it also isn't as effective in controlling the tremors. The tremors weren't horrible, but sometimes get there between Sinemet doses. So it was a choice between having some tremors, or dyskinesia and very minor tremors.
The one benefit aside from that is Amantadine has helped my left hand to work better. It seems most effective, symptom-wise, in reducing my left arm's distonia (stiffness and muscle pain). That means I can type a little easier. That means, theoretically, I can do my writing easier. Which to a degree I have, though not a lot due to other high priorities on my to-do list. Because of that benefit, I've chosen to continue using Amantadine and put up with the tremors it leaves me with. For now anyway.
But the tremors are not all I have to put up with. There are side-effects, mostly minor. Increased constipation. More swelling of my left foot, especially if I don't get enough sleep. Slightly blurry vision, especially up close (that was happening before using the drug, which I think made it a little worse). A bit more sensitivity to light in my eyes; I've had a pair of prescription shades made to help deal with that while driving.
Thankfully, I've not experienced other side-effects which tend to cause some to stop using it. The most common is stomach upset. One of the more rare, but I know someone on a support forum who had this happen three months into using it, is hallucinations. No, that doesn't include my hallucinations of grandeur.
So for now, my prescription medications include Sinemet 14.5/50 mgs 3x/day (sometimes 4x/day), Azilect 1 mg 1x/day, and Amantadine 100 mgs 2x/day. That seems to be my best combo at this time, though not ideal. But I've yet to have a medication mix that is ideal--erasing all major symptoms.
CDP Choline
Another substance I've happened on lately is CDP Choline. A documented study showed the chemical compound increased dopamine production, as well as being neuro-protective, help cellular mitochondria perform better, and aided in improving memory function and/or slow the rate of dementia in those who have it.
It can be bought as a supplement. So I've been taking it in conjunction with Amantadine to help boost dopamine levels a little higher, as well as for its other benefits. So far, so good. I can't point to any specific noticeable symptom improvements, so if there are any, they are not particularly obvious. But I'm continuing to take it in faith that it is helping, and it may help fight the disease. I've also noticed no side-effects either, though the first dose or two, my body was adjusting to it.
I'm taking 1000 mgs 2x/day of it.
Inosine is a substance currently proceeding to a stage 3 clinical trial, as noted recently on the Michael J. Fox Foundation's website. It has shown evidence of being able to slow the progression of Parkinson's. It and a cancer drug, nilotinib, are the two most promising substances currently in clinical trials, with solid hope of slowing this disease down. Currently, no drug has proven in clinical trials to be able to do so. Consequently, there is much excitement and hope in the Parkinson's community about these drugs.
The difference between the two is the cancer drug nilotinib costs currently around ten thousand dollars a month. Meanwhile inosine is available as a cheap supplement; a monthly supply is around ten dollars. That means I'd need a doctor's prescription and be rich to use nilotinib, but inosine is available and affordable now.
You'll note the cautions about using it on the MJF article about it. But the trials have shown it is generally safe to use. But since they've not revealed the ideal dose for safety and effectiveness yet, I figure sticking with the prescribed supplement dose will be safe until clinical trials show what the dosage should be for the most effective treatment. If the supplement dose is too low, at least I'll be one step ahead when it comes out in drug form, assuming it does.
So I've been taking it for a couple months now. No noticeable symptom improvements, but I wasn't expecting any as I'm taking it to slow the progression of Parkinson's and that is something I won't be able to know whether it is happening or not. Nor have I noticed any side-effects. I'm currently taking 500 mgs 2x/day of inosine.
Vitamin D3 and Zinc
My friend, Michael Strong, brought my attention to the link between vitamin D and cognitive improvement in diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In my research, D3, when combined with Zinc and Magnesium, makes for an effective treatment for the prevention of dementia or the improvement for those with the condition. I was already taking magnesium, so I added a D3 and zinc supplement to my list of pills back in June.
I haven't noticed drastic improvements, but then again, so far I don't have dementia. That said, it seems I'm having an easier time thinking, especially in finding the right word to use. I still find myself struggling at times to find the word I'm intending to use, but now seems less frequent.
A word about dementia in Parkinson's. From watching a webinar on MJF website, and other research, there are two things I need to convey.
One, I've mentioned before that I've read 60% of Parkinson's patients will come down with dementia. But I qualified it saying it applied to those who start showing symptoms after the age of 60. I started showing symptoms at 51, so I don't fall into that category. But I recently read that overall, around 30% of Parkinson's patients will end up with dementia. So I wanted to give a more accurate picture of my potential to end up with that symptom.
Two, there are various levels of dementia, from minor to full-blown memory loss. The key thing to know is just because one has a minor dementia symptom does not mean they are destined to eventually have full-blown dementia. So suggesting that I might have some very minor cognitive difficulties as a result of this disease is not saying I'm destined to not know who my wife is at some point down the road.
Deep Brain Stimulation
I've discussed this before. My neurologist mentioned it to me two visits ago. At first I viewed it as a last resort, when the Sinemet no longer is effective in controlling my symptoms. After all, we are talking about sticking a probe down in my brain, and there is the risk of brain damage, however slight, to the process. So I was a bit squeamish about doing it.
But there has been a movement lately to do it earlier than later. One because it will be effective beyond the 5 years commonly quoted. It just means moving the probe on occasion to restore effectiveness due to the build-up of resistance over time to the electrical pulses around the probe. Two because if done earlier, it can eliminate the need for medicine like Sinemet, providing a longer quality of life. If done later, it only reduces symptoms and the amount of drugs needed to manage symptoms.
The prospects of being drug-free and somewhat "normal" again, allowing me to put more time and efficiency into writing, is very motivating. I'm now seriously wanting to look into this option. As a result, I expressed this desire with my neurologist back in June. He said the next step would be for me to see a Movement Disorder Specialist to be evaluated. So I indicated a desire to proceed. Strangely enough, I've not heard of anything happening on that front, or a referral being done. I need to check back with him, though my next appointment isn't too far off. In December if I recall correctly.
But there is part of me that would prefer a new procedure in development which is non-invasive using ultrasound and a MRI. Unfortunately, who knows how much longer it will be before it is widely available and approved by the FDA. The best I could do is find out how to sign up for a trial on it. Probably a long shot.
So, as I find out more about my chances for DBS, I'll let you know.
I'm still doing my exercises I mentioned before: Zumba 4x/week, Pilates 2x/week, Hydro Fit 1x/week at my local Y. According to one instructor, I've become an inspiration to many there, probably along the lines of "If he can do that dealing with his disease, then why am I slacking off?" Apparently I'm talked about regularly as an example of someone not resigning themselves to defeat and fighting back.
Despite that schedule, I noticed my left arm especially, but also my right arm, losing muscle strength. A common result of Parkinson's as muscles deteriorate from constant movement of tremors and distonia. So I decided to up my game.
On the cardiovascular front, I've added a class called Body Step. Essentially an intense cardio workout using a bench you step up and off of in various patterns, in this case, synced with music. Much more intense than Zumba, which at first was exhausting but now only slightly so. It also works on strengthening the legs, obviously. The first time doing it, I was huffing and puffing after each song. Now, about 4 weeks into doing it, I'm still huffing and puffing, but I've noticed it isn't as exhausting as it was at first, so I'm improving.
Then to help the rest of my muscles, I've started going to Body Pump once a week. As you might imagine, it is a workout with weights set to music. Like Body Step, it is pretty intense. I'm using very low weights, and I've learned my weakest exercise is full lunges. So far, I've not been able to do them all, but I'm getting close. But I can tell already that it is helping my strength return.
So now my weekly schedule is:
Monday - Zumba and Pilates
Tuesday - Body Step
Wednesday - Zumba and Pilates
Thursday - Body Pump and Zumba
Friday - none
Saturday - Zumba and Hydro Fit
Sunday - none
This is one reason I don't have as much time to write as you'd think I'd have not having a full-time job. But I do believe it is making a difference in fighting back on this disease. So I keep at it.
The funny thing is, my son who goes with me to Body Pump (he likes weight lifting) is out of commission for a couple days, while I'm continuing to go, go, go. Of course, he's using more weight than I am, but still.
Not much to say here. Only that my wife has been wanting me to apply for disability for quite a while. I've done some research into it, discovered I could qualify. But I had to get my 2014 taxes done first. That finally happened last week, so Friday I applied. It will help since lately we've been pretty tight financially. Not having both of us working, and the added expense of my medications and supplements, has taken its toll.
It won't be until probably this Friday that I'll know the status of the application, and who knows how long before I know if I'm approved or not. Sometimes I know it can take several appeals. So keep me in your thoughts and prayers for a quick positive decision.
That's all for now. Time for me to go to critique group, after I get dinner in the crock pot, and after that, Body Step. Woot!
1. Hi Rick,
Thank you for the interesting update. Its always a pleasure to read the things you contribute. I see you are taking several supplements. You did not mention TUDCA but I understood from your latest reply to the infamous thread on the Parkinson forum that you still take it.
I do too, among with others. Have you red about the Phillipson protocol? Its suggested by Oliver T Phillipson (neuroscientist from Oxford with over 40 years experience in PD etc) that a combo of OTC supplements might be beneficial for PWP.
The supplements are:
alpha lipoic acid,
coezyme Q10
vitamin E,
melatonine. (but perhaps only in case of insomnia)
Just of late, I discovered that this info was shared on the forum too:
I am still without medication but often feel that it wont be long before I ask my MDS for something, probably L dopa to start with. My left arm/hand is becoming so clumsy, weak and trembly that it's more and more difficult to even lift light dumbells.
When my workouts are compromized, I need something to be able to continue.In the mean time I move as much as possible, and incorporate daily meditation. During the sitting meditation, all trembling abates. Wonderful!
My most interesting find was that by bouncing a tennis ball, my walking improved quite a bit., After 10 minutes or so, the left arm moves more freely and the steps are even, at a fairly high tempo.
Just standing can be difficult at times, but tossing the tennis ball between my hands improves balance.
Keep up all the good stuff you're doing.
best regards,
1. Hi Hans,
Yep, still taking TUCDA. So far, so good. I'll expand a little more on that in the next comment.
Not sure I've heard of the Phillipson protocol, but I have taken most of those in the past. I believe the glutamate precursor I take has the first two in it, but I may be remembering incorrectly. The Q10 I used to take, but quit when I needed to trim due to cost in adding TUCDA, and because the studies done on it so far are not definitive that it does anything. Instead of Vit E, I take grapeseed which is also an effective antioxidant like Vit E, without the danger of Vit E building to toxic levels. Plus, if you eat right, you'll get plenty of Vit E. The last one I don't think I've ever taken. I sleep alright so far.
On the medication front, of course your doctor will have his own opinion, but I think there is wisdom in starting with a dopamine agonist if you don't have any bad side-effects from it (it made me a bit zombified groggy) or Azilect starting out. That said, the consensus appears to be that l-dopa only becomes less effective over time due to disease progression, not due to how long you've been on it. Where delaying it can make a difference for many is in how soon a person gets dyskinesia due to taking it. But both of those first mentioned ones are only good by themselves in the early stages. Eventually they'll need to be supplemented with l-dopa. But maybe by then a wonder drug will get approved by the FDA. One can always hope.
Interesting about the tennis ball. I was on my high school, and one semester in college, tennis team. Fun days.
Thanks for the comments.
2. Rick
Where do you stand with TUDCA?
1. Hi Unknown,
I'm still taking it. I've adjusted down to 950 mg/day (3 pills) just to help cost. I can't say much about symptoms on it now due to the addition of other medications, I don't have a baseline to compare whether I've improved any, lessened any, or stayed the same. Playing around with other supplements too has obscured that. So I continue to take it by faith that it is helping since it helped initially, and that it is helping to slow this train down some. I'll probably keep taking it until a doctor will prescribe me UCDA or if when it does get clinical trials and if it is proven not effective in slowing the disease and/or no symptomatic benefits. But based on my experience, the experience of others, and the positive results on all the studies so far (most pre-clinical, except for one clinical trial on ALS), I have solid hope that the eventual trials will show benefits. Time will tell.
3. Thank you for the update, Rick. You're in my daily thoughts and prayers!
1. Thank you. And you know you're in mine as well. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.972292959690094}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '98400', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QQFKMVYDA5NHT5GYWND35I2V7TDOMHBK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:51acf4ce-d264-495f-8ca6-f15df54fb918>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 20, 5, 44, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.161', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:DJSXVJIA7RMWCDDQX4UAQ6E5SRRKMND2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b72a2f73-a795-4094-be90-af27f7d6f980>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://rickspdjourney.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-update.html?showComment=1446044700839', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ea7a1619-e48a-4a82-a0dc-de3b68eaf7a1>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '2919', 'url': 'http://rickspdjourney.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-update.html?showComment=1446044700839', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-181-87-197.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.027438819408416748', 'original_id': 'a394fe442c3fdb4cce9b88e763183f225a6ecf0d822025c42c84337553cc76c8'} |
[COEXISTENCE OF ORBITAL VARICOSE VEIN AND THYROID ORBITOPATHY].
To describe a thyroid orbitopathy patient who had asymmetric progression of exophthalmos due to orbital varicose vein. A 55-year-old patient with thyroid orbitopathy had asymmetric progression of exophthalmos without complaints over 4 years of follow-up. In repeated computerized tomography (CT) of the orbit, a dilation of the superior ophthalmic vein was noted on the more proptotic eye, in addition to bilateral excessive orbital fat. This finding was also confirmed on color Doppler imaging in valsalva manoeuver. In patients with thyroid orbitopathy who have atypical progression course of their exophthalmos, repeated orbital CT scan is advocated to rule out other concurrent orbital disorders such as varicose veins. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ace6ae17aa0190cd023a0b44234f8bf5263d8a33e8e0bf6f8f6a9f50df8ab6ef'} |
Ione Challborn
Ione Challborn's Story
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Tell me a bit about yourself.
Hmmm. I believe in the transformative power of education and mentorship; I believe in service and kindness; I believe in hard work. I love to laugh. I believe in the goodness of people and that we all have the capacity to grow, change, and become our best selves.
How long have you lived in Edmonton?
I moved to Edmonton when I was 18 to attend the U of A. I lived in a small community two hours west of Edmonton. My mother was a school teacher there and my father was a journeyman carpenter. My drawer in the Chemistry Lab at the U of A had more supplies than the science room in my school.
Tell me about some of your hobbies and interests.
I love reading, gardening and belong to a dinner club. I like to know how to do things; fix what needs to be fixed, make what can be made. I rotate my reading through the following cycles: a book on leadership, a book on mental health, a nonfiction book and then ‘free reading’. I like to support Canadian authors when I can.
What is something that you are most proud of?
My beautiful daughter, beautiful inside and out. Margot is a Vanier Scholar and is beginning her third year of her PhD in Political Science at the University of Alberta.
What is your approach to philanthropy and community?
Service; why say no when you can say yes?
Why do you support United Way?
I support United Way because of its community impact, strategic thinking and bold goals.
What inspired you to give?
Seeing first-hand the difference a gift to United Way makes in the community.
How long have you been supporting United Way?
For 10 years.
Why is it important to give back to your community?
Because I live in the community; it is my obligation to support the community in being the best it can be not only for those who live here now, but to contribute to a legacy for our city of the future.
Is there anything else you want to share?
Just to thank you.
2016 Donors
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Opposites Attract
"Isn't it beautiful?" Misty asked.
"Yea, it is," Vance replied.
"Reminds me of that time we met in Japan," Keith added.
"Yea, it kind of does," Vance commented.
"Wait, you two were in Japan together? Did you plan a romantic getaway? Did you take long walks on the beach together too?" Misty said, unable to resist a chance to tease Vance again.
"Marines and Navy frequently use the same bases, and if we were at the beach it was for surfing," Vance protested.
"We were part of the small minority that did not spend liberty in either the bar or whorehouse," Keith explained.
"Hey, after being cooped up in a metal tube with a bunch of guys the last thing I wanted was to be cooped up with a bunch of drunken guys in a bar, and the Geisha thing kind of creeped me out." Vance said.
"I was just happy to be outside without worrying about being shot at or blown up," Keith added.
Misty considered making a snide remark about holding hands in the moonlight, but started asking questions about Japan instead. The two men told tale of bullet trains, noodle stands and tiny apartments as they walked down into the valley. Once they arrived at the project site Vance and Keith started up the chainsaws and made short work of the trees. They cut the stumps almost flush with the ground. It was hot, dirty work and the three of them were sweaty and muddy when they finally finished.
"I know a spot where we can clean up, it is kind of on the way back, not too much of a detour," Misty offered as the men put the covers back on the saws.
"I'm in no rush to get back," Keith answered "Me neither, although it is getting close to beer thirty," Vance added.
Vance found himself questioning the decision as he followed the older woman down a narrow game trail. He looked back at Keith, giving him a hand signal to keep an eye out for trouble. There were stories of meth labs and pot farms in some parks. He did not want to stumble into a booby trap. To his relief they walked into another meadow without incident. On the far side a waterfall splashed into a small pond. He followed Misty has she headed straight for the body of water.
"It's spring fed, so the water is a bit brisk," Misty said as she began to remove her clothes. She wondered if Vance would recognize her once she was naked.
Misty quickly stripped off her clothes and waded into the pond. The water was clear and cold. She felt refreshed as the water covered more and more of her body. When it was up to her neck she turned to check on the progress of her companions. They were both standing on the shore staring at her.
"Haven't you guys ever been skinny dipping?" She asked. "No," Vance answered flatly.
"Not in the daylight, and certainly not sober," Keith replied sheepishly.
Misty scolded them, "You two need to broaden your horizons. I'm feeling a bit frisky and sure could use some company."
Misty knew what she was doing was risky. Swimming around naked in front of two men she had met only hours earlier was careless to say the least. Her instincts told her they were not a threat, and it was a risk she was willing to take. Misty focused on physical sensations and pushed the negative thoughts to the back of her mind as she swam towards the waterfall.
"I promise not to judge you by the size of your cocks," she called out to Vance and Keith, "now come on in."
Vance stripped off his shirt, saying glibly, "Good, because I'm betting there is going to be shrinkage when I get in the water."
"I don't think so," Keith shouted back, "When I was at Jungle Warfare School in Panama they told us about some little fish that swims up a guy's pee hole and lays eggs. I'm not risking it."
Misty stopped swimming and turned back to face them. As she treaded water she stared at them, "That's in Central America. I don't think you have anything to worry about."
"Well," Keith replied, "maybe they migrated, like fire ants did."
"I promise I will remove any fish that tries to attack your manhood, now get in here." Misty shouted back.
Keith shook his head and began to unbutton his pants, "I know you won't let me live this down if I don't go in with you. I'd just like to be on record saying this is a bad idea, and you have to call someone to bail us out of jail when we get arrested for public indecency."
"I don't think we will get arrested. Worst case is we end up with a bad case of blue balls," Vance said.
"And best case?" Keith asked.
"We have something to write a letter to Penthouse magazine about," Vance replied with a smile.
Misty looked back at the men. She could see Vance standing on the edge of the pond. He was completely naked. He had a nice shape, his broad shoulders and hairy chest tapering to a narrow waist. He did not have six pack abs, but he did not have a beer belly either. His friend was not bad looking either, he was taller and thinner.
"You don't recognize me, do you?" Misty asked Vance.
"I wish I did," he replied.
"Maybe this will help," Misty said as she hoisted herself out of the water and sat on a large flat rock in the middle of the pond.
Misty was rewarded for her efforts by the sound of the two men entering the water. She wanted them, but in a very specific way.
Vance wadded out into the pond. He glanced back at Keith, how was holding his day pack above his head. Misty had not been kidding when she said the water was brisk; arctic would have been a more accurate description. His nutsack was so shriveled up he probably looked like a eunuch, but the cold water was not enough to discourage his erection. Vance looked back at Keith again and noticed his friend had one hand in the water. He was either already jacking off or protecting himself from the perils of little fish.
"Nope, and I think I would remember seeing you naked," he said as he approached her.
"Maybe from a different angle," Misty said as she reclined, pointing her feet at Vance. She stretched out on the rock and drew her legs up, then spread them apart.
Two of her fingers were enveloped by the wet slit between her legs. For a moment she stopped thinking about the two men, instead focusing on what it was like to be naked and aroused. Misty planted her feet on the rock, slowly raised her hips and put her hand between her legs. Unlike her skin, which was wet and cold, her pussy was wet and hot. She swore she could hear the light bulb go off in Vance's head as he realized who she was.
"Holy fucking shit that was you?" Vance blurted out. The moments the words passed his lips he realized there was probably a much smoother way to say it.
"Keep looking, I want you to be sure," Misty said has she put one hand on her breast. For a few minutes there was absolute silence as she stroked her pussy and caressed her breast. She briefly wondered if the cold water had any effect on the size of a man's erection, but that thought faded away has she pushed to fingers into the wet folds of flesh between her legs.
"I'm sure," Vance croaked.
"Then tell your friend," Misty said between moans.
Without turning away from the sight of Misty's naked body Vance explained to Keith that he had watched Misty masturbate herself to orgasm in the clearing near his tree stand, and then watched her disappear into the woods.
Vance continued to look at Misty. She was doing the same thing she had done in the meadow, but now he had a much better view. She had much better grooming habits than he expected for a hippie. Her legs were smooth and hairless and her pussy was clearly visible beneath a neatly trimmed patch of pubic hair. Two of her fingers disappeared between the smooth curves of her outer labia. Just a bit of her inner lips were visible. Vance slowed his approach as he watched her lift her hips off the rock and thrust against her hand. He wondered if she was thinking of him while she finger fucked her pussy. Vance noticed Keith walk past him, clearly focused on Misty's breasts.
"That's close enough," Misty said sternly when she sensed the two men were only a few feet away. She was not ready for them yet. She withdrew her hand from between her legs. Using both hands she grabbed her breasts, pushing them together and pinching her swollen nipples between her thumb and forefinger. She was in the perfect place where she had just a taste of orgasmic euphoria but not so much that her arousal started to fade. What made it even better was that she could feel them looking at her. One of them was staring at her tits; the other was fixated on her pussy. She opened her eyes and raised her head. Vance was framed by her thighs.
"You," she commanded," I want you on your knees right here." She motioned to Vance, and then pointed to a spot on the rock behind her head. Misty turned her attention to Keith, "And I want your face right here." Misty put her hand between her legs.
Keith set his pack on the rock then followed Misty's instructions. Vance pulled himself out of the water and knelt at the indicated spot. He lifted Misty's head and slipped the pack underneath it, quietly pulling two condoms out a side pocket in the process.
Grabbing Vance's wrists Misty tilted her head back to make eye contact with him. His deep blue eyes were flooded with lust. "I want you to watch for a bit," she said as she put her legs over Keith's shoulders and pressed her heels into his shoulder blades, pulling him closer. She shifted her stare to Keith just long enough to give him his marching orders, "Stop worrying about that fucking fish and start licking my pussy."
Without hesitation Keith put his arms around Misty's legs. She jumped a bit when his cold fingers pressed into her warm thighs. He buried his head between her legs, lapping at her vagina. His cock ached, jealous that it was stuck in the cold water when a hot pussy was so close.
Misty released her grip on Vance's wrists, "Don't move." She scooped her breasts up and began to caress them roughly. Using her thumbs she toyed with her erect nipples. A soft moan escaped her lips as Keith's tongue penetrated her pussy. Misty looked up at Vance, she could see the lust in his eyes and was impressed that he had the discipline to follow her directive.
"Do you like my tits?" She asked seductively.
"Oh hell yea," he replied,
"If you keep behaving I might let you touch them," she teased.
The aching from his cock was almost unbearable, but Vance stayed put. He shifted his gaze to look at Keith; he was noisily licking Misty's pussy. The cold water did not seem to have dampened his enthusiasm. Vance wondered why Misty had chosen to taunt him. He took in his view of her body. For an older woman she looked fantastic. Based on his initial assessment he had expected that she would have sun weathered skin and hairy legs. In fact quite the opposite was true. He watched as she pinched both her nipples and tugged on them until the skin was pulled taut. She did not have the perky breasts of a twenty year old, but they were still a sight to behold. The warmth of the sun was finally bringing his body temperature back to normal.
Putting her feet on Keith's shoulders Misty reluctantly pushed him away. She was thoroughly enjoying what he was doing, but she wanted to feel something larger and harder than his tongue. She sat up and turned to look at Vance.
"You," Misty ordered, "lie down on your back." She waited patiently while Vance assumed the position she had requested, and then picked up one of the condoms he had pulled out and slowly rolled it down his erection. Next she turned her attention to Keith, "Get up here, I want you on your knees."
Keith quickly obliged and she slipped the second condom over his frigid erection, then Misty straddled Vance's legs. She looked over her shoulder at Keith, "I want you right behind me, but don't get any ideas. I will tell you when it is your turn."
Vance groaned as Misty grabbed his cock and guided it between her legs. Even with the condom he could feel how hot she was. The moment he entered her Vance saw Misty grab Keith's hands and place them on her breasts, then pushed her hips down. Vance moaned again as Misty completely engulfed his erection. He felt her pin his wrists to the rock as she began to grind against him.
The feeling of Keith's cold cock nestled between her ass cheeks was a bit of a shock at first, but it warmed up quickly. She reveled in the feeling of being between two naked men. Misty rocked her hips back and forth, grinding her pussy and ass between their cocks.
She leaned forward, forcing Keith to put one hand on the rock to maintain his balance. She paused, letting her unencumbered breast hover just out of Vance's reach. Misty decided to make Vance wait just a little longer. She continued to ride him, delighting in the feeling of her pussy stretched around his swollen cock. She moaned loudly when Keith pinched her nipple between his fingers. When she had taken him in as far as she could she tighten up her muscles and squeezed his erection. Then she clamped her ass cheeks around Keith's dick. Misty relaxed and did it all over again.
"I love cock," Misty moaned as she writhed between Vance and Keith," I could do this all day."
Deciding that the teasing had gone on long enough Misty leaned forward enough for Vance's eager lips to reach her naked breast. He started off trying to return the taunting, circling her stiff nipples with the tip of his tongue. But he was unable to resist her charms and soon his lips were pressed against her breast as his tongue lashed at her.
This was not Keith's first threesome, but it was the first he did not pay for. Being told to wait his turn was also a new twist, and listening to Vance and Misty was certainly making him look forward to driving his cock into her hot, wet slit. He knew Vance would tease him about getting sloppy seconds, but at the moment he did not care. At least they had condoms on, so he would not have to deal with another man's spunk. He was more than happy to keep squeezing her tit in his hand as he rubbed his erection against Misty's firm ass. Listening to Misty get Vance off only increased his desire to fuck her brains out.
Testing Misty's resolve to keep him pinned down Vance tried to raise his hands to her tits, but she would not release him. He could easily overpower her, but he preferred to remain her captive. Vance tried to keep his mouth pressed against her breast, but as she began to ride his cock faster and faster he could not keep up. He lowered his head and watched her tits, one flailing freely, the other held tight in Keith's hand. He could feel his orgasm building; soon he would be past the point of no return.
"Come for me baby, I want you to come," Misty growled. She could feel her own climax building and she wanted to have Keith start fucking her before she came. She regretted that Vance was wearing a condom; she liked the feeling of being filled with cum. Misty looked into Vance's eyes; trying to gauge how close he was to orgasm. She could see that he was struggling to hold back.
"Give it to me. I want you to come inside me. I'm ready for it, I'm so ready for you to come," she said in a sultry voice. Misty slowed down, trying to feel every contour of Vance's cock and it slid against her labia. She squeezed him tight and stared directly at him. Misty licked her lips and then slowly mouthed 'Come inside me'. She felt Vance tense and then relax as his orgasm rushed out of his body. When she felt his erection begin to fade Misty let it slip out of her body. She reached back and grabbed Keith's cock, stuffing it into her pussy. The moment she had released Vance's wrist he had grabbed her breast. Although she enjoyed feeling him caress her, she enjoyed having him trapped more. She pulled his hand away and pinned him to the ground again.
"You got me half way to coming, let's see if Keith can do his part. Are you ready to watch me get fucked from behind," she said. This position was a bit of an experiment, she had never actually had sex like this before. She had fantasized about it many times, but this was the first time she had actually tried it.
"Fuck me hard, I want your cock," Misty said over her shoulder.
Taking his hand off her tits and putting them on his hips, Keith rammed his erection into Misty. He could hear his hips slapping against her ass. He could see her breasts swing from side to side as he pounded his cock into her over and over with long, hard thrusts. Each time his throbbing erection split her labia apart he inched closer to climax.
"Don't stop, don't stop, don't you dare fucking stop. Harder, harder, fuck me harder," Misty moaned. If anything, Keith was obedient. Each time his hips crashed into her ass she almost fell forward onto Vance. She looked down at him and decided she had teased him long enough. Misty released his hands and made a quick glance at her breasts. The encouragement was probably not needed. His hands were on her tits in seconds, stroking and caressing them. Having Vance play with her tits while Keith fucked her accelerated her towards climax.
"Oh yes, yes, yes. I'm going to come. Don't stop. Please don't stop. Make me come all over you hard cock, make me come," Misty begged.
Keith was pretty certain she was not faking. Even with the condom on he could her muscles contract as she was enveloped by her orgasm. He was on the verge of climax himself. Only after she collapsed onto Vance did he stop fighting to hold back and with a loud groan he let his orgasm wash over him.
The three of them lay in a heap for a few minutes. Misty was the first to snap out of post orgasmic bliss. She wanted more. And she wanted to see how far she could push the two men out of their comfort zone.
"It's time for a little sensitivity training," Misty said as she removed herself from the tangle of arms, legs and cocks. "I want you to stand back to back and hold hands."
Vance and Keith both looked at her like she was insane.
"I promise you this will be worth it," she said, licking her lips. She watched at the two men awkwardly complied with her instructions. She felt a rush of excitement as she watched them. There was no way she could match either of them in physical strength, and Vance was probably smarter as well. Yet both of them complied with every one of her requests, even the ones that made them uncomfortable. She circled them slowly, admiring their bodies and looking into their eyes. She could almost see the gears turning in Vance's head, like he was calculating all the possible outcomes and weighing the risks and rewards of each. Keith was quite different. He had a wild look in his eyes; she could see that he was struggling to comply with her order to remain still. She wondered if he would lose control before she was done with him. She put her hand on Vance's chest, pushing him back until his body was pressed against Keith. She circled them one more time. Vance's erection had returned first. It made sense; he had at least a few minutes head start of Keith.
"I'm going to suck your cock now, but tell me when you are close. I don't swallow," she said, "at least not today. I want you to cum on my tits."
Vance smiled as he watched Misty get on her knees, positioning them between his feet. She was so close she had to lean back to get her mouth near his erection. She grabbed his cock with one hand and pulled it down until it was almost horizontal. She opened her mouth and Vance expected her to wrap her lips around the engorged head of is erection, but she did not. Instead her tongue snaked out of her mouth and the tip gently caressed the sensitive spot just below the rim of his cock. Her other hand was on her breast, tugging on her swollen nipple. Her position gave him an excellent view of what she was doing. Watching her was so arousing Vance knew she could probably bring him to climax without ever taking his dick into her mouth. He decided if she made him come like this he would not warn her, but would shoot his load into her mouth and all over her face. His plan for a vengeful orgasm faded from his mind the moment she slid his cock into her mouth. She let go of his cock and her breast and extended her arms until her hands were on Keith's hips, then she pulled back. Vance did not care. He was completely focused on watching her head bob back and forth. The sensation of her lips sliding up and down the length of his erection, and her tongue swirling around his cock was amazing.
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A Cold War Missile Treaty That's Doing Us Harm
The U.S.-Soviet INF pact doesn't address the Iranian threat.
August 15, 2011
'Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: They last while they last." So said Charles de Gaulle a half-century ago, but he could have been describing the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. The INF Treaty has far outlived its usefulness in its current form—so it should either be changed or thrown out.
The Cold War strategic reality that existed in 1988 has passed into history. And yet the U.S. (and Russia) remain constrained by the INF Treaty's terms,...
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eradicate global povertyThere has been so much progress to overcome global poverty since 1990. About 10 percent of people around the world live on $1.90 a day, but The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals aim to completely eradicate global poverty by 2030. Here are 10 ways people can help speed up the process to eradicate global poverty.
10 Ways to Help a Developing Nation Out of Poverty
1. Fundraising: Fundraising is very important in the way that nonprofits, such as NGOs and other organizations, raise money to fund projects, operations, salaries and overhead costs. The money these associations raise will help them make people’s poverty-reduction efforts a reality.
2. Donating: Donations are voluntary gifts or contributions towards a specific issue or cause. Donations “comprise of a large chunk of NGO funding,” which also helps organizations fund projects to help eradicate global poverty. While a majority of nonprofit organizations depend on donations for their projects, a large amount of its funding is because of the wealthy individuals that donate massive amounts of money as well.
3. Calling Congress: Calling congress is one of the most effective ways to contribute to the eradication of world poverty because of the way that it can get congressional leaders to notice specific issues or bills. Political offices keep tally marks on every call they receive, so making multiple phone calls during the week will increase the chances of change, such as encouraging congress to protect the International Affairs Budget.
4. Mission Trips: Going on mission trips allows a person to personally and intimately help others living in poverty. These interactions can lead to a change of perspective and life after seeing and experiencing poverty first hand.
5. Advocating: Advocating for a developing nation ensures that the most vulnerable people in society have their voices heard on important issues. It also defends and safeguards their rights so that others take their views and wishes into consideration when making decisions about their lives.
6. Lobbying: Lobbying is important because it is the reason why the U.S. has a productive government. Lobbying bills or solutions to certain issues can help resolve them in developing nations, which positively influences the eradication process of global poverty.
7. Volunteering: Building a house, a fence, even handing out canned food are amazing ways to start helping those in poverty. Volunteering for nonprofit organizations, foundations and missions involve small acts of kindness that make the biggest differences in people’s lives.
8. Microlending: Microlending is when a development organization provides a small loan to start or expand businesses that can act as a push to a virtuous economic cycle. Not only does microlending improve the living conditions of developing nations, but it also encourages citizens that they are capable of starting a business of their own.
9. Saving services: Since people in developing nations receive low wages and irregular incomes, saving facilities deliver tools to help manage cash flow and risks. This minimizes citizens’ vulnerability. Saving services can be there to help whenever there is a necessity of money accumulation regarding events that a person either expects or does not expect.
10. NGOs: Non-governmental organizations are great associations that help with the eradication of poverty. They work to fundraise, advocate, lobby and volunteer in efforts of poverty-reduction. If a person joins an NGO, it is the best way to help a developing nation out of poverty.
There is always a way to help a developing nation out of poverty. Following any of these 10 steps will ensure the future of millions who are seeking a way out and eradicate global poverty.
– Isabella Gonzalez Montilla
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The heart of God’s Gospel is the Gospel of God’s heart.
There are 613 laws in the Old Testament.
During Jesus’ lifetime, the people who lived strictly by those laws were the Pharisees. They were the shining examples of religious piety. Jesus even taught that in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven a person’s righteousness must EXCEED that of the Pharisees; you must live out the law better than that of the Pharisees to experience Heaven.
In Luke 18 Jesus is confronted by a man who has “kept all these since (his) youth.” Six-hundred and thirteen laws. Since his youth.
Whether or not he is lying doesn’t matter, because Jesus takes him for his word and answers with what comes next anyway. Jesus says, “There is still one thing lacking. Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
Here is a list of all 613 Old Testament laws. Just skip down to the section on “The Poor and Unfortunate.” You’ll notice that not a single law requires the giving away of ALL possessions. In fact, most of them require that you leave the leftovers or “imperfect” portions for the poor and needy. The last law even flat out states to give charity “according to one’s means.” You aren’t even required to give to the poor if you don’t have the means, and even if you do have the means you certainly aren’t forced to give the good stuff.
However, Jesus has raised the standard. Jesus requires this man to sell ALL his possessions. We will come back to why he does this a little later.
Right now I want to turn our attention back to the man asking Jesus his question.
I have heard some argue that this man was another member of a group of religious leaders trying to trip Jesus up by questioning him (ex. Taxes, Divorce, Greatest Commandment, etc.), but this man was a “rich, young ruler.” He was not an “expert in the law” like others were; this fact paired with his response (he became sad, not angry like the others) at Jesus’ answer to his question, I believe, speaks to his sincerity in asking the question.
If the rich ruler was sincere in asking his question, then he must have been at least a little bit concerned that, despite his perfect law-abiding lifestyle, he still had not earned his way into Heaven. The ruler had some internal feeling or intuition that there is more that is required of him.
While he was correct (more is required), he was not expecting the answer he was given. A feeling I’m sure we’ve all experienced at one point or another. Right when we believe that we can handle more responsibility, more than we’ve bargained for is on our plates.
So why does Jesus require more from this man who has kept all 613 laws God provided through Moses and the Prophets? Why does God require more of us than what is outlined in the book of law?
Because God desires perfection. “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Perfection cannot be explained in one book, nor can it be derived by following 613 laws, or 813, or 1,013, or 1,000,013… you get the point.
Too often we allow the laws to define our view of God’s love rather than seeing how God’s love defines the laws. So let us first learn God’s character in order to properly understand the intention of the law and the prophets. Then let us live out the heart of the law, rather than the law itself.
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