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9 Back-to-School Tips for Serene Hills Parents
With Serene Hills spanning 456 acres, including a natural park, miles of hike and bike trails, and access to the Exemplary Lake Travis ISD, it’s no wonder Texas families have made their move to the Hill Country. And with the new school year just around the corner, now’s the time to make your move, too.
To help parents prep for the new school year, we put together a list of 9 helpful back-to-school tips.
1. Get all the checkups. Schools require specific immunizations, so it’s wise to schedule an appointment with the family physician during the summer to get a head start on the process. The medical office will check immunization records and make sure kids have the necessary shots before heading to school. Also remember to schedule dentist and optometrist appointments. Getting to school with a toothache or not being able to see assignments or math equations on the board is never a fun way to start the school year. Finally, turn in updated records to the school administration so that kids will be allowed to enter the school building on the first day of class.
2. Ask about allergy policies. Not all schools maintain the same allergy policies, so ask about them before sending a kid with a peanut or gluten allergy to school.
3. Practice good hygiene. Kids can play outside all summer long and not catch a whiff of a cold, but set them loose in a classroom and colds and flu become the common denominator. Help them stay healthy with good hand-washing and hygiene practices.
4. Visit the school. Even if kids return to the same school this year, they may be housed in new classrooms. Help them acclimate to the new semester by visiting the school and touring the classrooms with a schedule in hand before the school year.
5. Get to know the teacher. It pays to meet the teacher before classes start. It reveals how the teacher manages the classroom and how he or she might affect the student. If your child needs a gifted-and-talented program, it will be good to talk this through with their teacher prior to the semester.
6. Build friendships. If a kid is shy or nervous about going to school, find out which neighborhood kids will be in his or her class. Giving the kid a “buddy” before school starts will make the first day that much easier.
7. Re-establish routines. To help kids be “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,” reinstate both bedtimes and morning alarms about a week before school starts. The time period helps reset their body clocks and sleep rhythms.
8. Stock up on supplies. Send kids to school with all the pencils, erasable pens and Kleenex they’ll need. Let them get involved with the purchasing, too. Doing so creates anticipation about using a new lunchbox or showing off a backpack to friends.
9. Buy a heavy-duty backpack. Since kids don’t usually get lockers anymore, make sure they have a backpack that can hold up to the weight of books. Also look for ones with extra-wide straps so that the hefty backpacks don’t hurt kids’ shoulders and spines.
Meal prep. Eating healthy takes preparation, but it’s well worth the extra energy both kids and parents will feel. Buying healthy snacks and developing a weekly meal plan, even organizing meals for the week on Sunday, will make hectic mornings more manageable.
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While on a radio show reality TV star and businesswoman Lauren Conrad was asked what her favorite position and expected to disclose her bedroom secrets. She paused while reading the question, clearly uncomfortable then cleverly replied in a sweet voice, “C-E-O.” Though Conrad handled the sexual and extremely private question with grace, it prompts another question: what is the deal with men having an issue with women in a position of power?
The most used excuse in the book for why a woman can’t be President of the United States is that she might be in a crappy mood from her period and pushes the red button detonating nuclear weapons because she’s pissed off and has cramps. As if all women are incapable of rational thought.
Let’s face it, women have been bosses since birth. We boss men around, we carry children for nine months and we’re strong.
Wondering why we like high heels? The sound of the heels hitting the ground makes a satisfying statement. That click-clack of heels resonating throughout the hall says, “Pay attention, my shoes were named after a knife and are most likely bigger than your dick.” For those who don’t know, a stiletto is a type of heel named after a dagger.
When you talk to your parents, who is most likely to know everything you are doing and possibly blackmail you for that information? Hint: not your dad. Women are extremely intuitive. It comes with the territory of being “sensitive”.
When a woman asks for something to be done she is called a bitch, but when a man asks he’s your boss. The double standard still exists.
Even in the 21 century, the number of female CEOs is shockingly low. In a day and age where women are supposedly accepted in society why are only 23 of the Fortune 500 business companies run by women?
But women in business are even stronger than originally perceived. In America, jokingly or not, women are said to “belong in the kitchen” with a Father Knows Best stigma. However, in the U.S. today, 80 percent of women CEOs of current Fortune 500 companies also have children.
So not only do they need to carry a baby inside them and then push it out, but they help raise it while also maintaining a successful business.
Katherine Graham, the editor-in-chief of The Washington Post from 1972-1992, had four kids while also supervising the investigation of the Watergate scandal. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein certainly never had to deal with childbirth while executing the demise of President Nixon.
Really, it’s an insult for a successful woman to be asked, “hey what’s your favorite sex position?” Obviously all we are good for is sex and making sure your sandwich has all the crusts cut off, right sweetie? Except, we’re not.
All hail the Queen(s).
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Are you a bad interface between colleagues and your code?
Bob Salmon
As developers we need to care as much about how we communicate with your colleagues as we do about our code.
As digital professionals we are familiar with worrying about a graphic user interface or some other type of interface between a user and a computer. However, sometimes the interface is you – not between the computer and someone who will use it, but between the computer and someone who needs to understand it.
Just as programmers need to develop their skills in building computer systems, they also need to know how to explain those systems to others.
As developers we are the interface between management and the technology they rely on for business success.
Others need to understand your work
There are several types of stakeholders who might need to understand the development project you’re working on. People such as:
• Potential customers who need to understand your approach enough so that they have enough confidence in you before they will sign up;
• Customers who need to see that you’ve done what was agreed before they will sign the project off and pay you;
• Managers who need to understand why option A is riskier / cheaper / etc. than option B, before deciding between them;
• Fellow programmers who need to understand an area of the system you’re an expert in before they can work on it (otherwise you’re doomed to always be the person who works in that area).
Having knowledge of a system in your head is terrific, but it’s not enough. You are the interface between others and that knowledge of the system.
How to be a better interface between colleagues and your code
Just as a GUI can be a good interface or a poor one, your effectiveness can vary as an interface to others knowledge of a system.
A good user interface needs to consider the needs and abilities of the user – it’s meant to be their interface after all and not yours. So, If you don’t pay attention to the person you are speaking to, you can come across as tedious, go over their head or patronise them.
What does your user know?
What do they already know of the subject matter and to what level of detail? What similar things do they already know? Is there something else that they’re already familiar with that could help such as development practices, customers, markets or technologies?
What is your user’s objective?
Where does the user need to get to? What do they need to understand and to what level of detail? It’s worth digging into things a bit here. For instance, a user who is asking for a lot of detail might not be all that interested in the particular, but actually, they need you to address their fears that you’re going to build the right thing. They think all this detail is the best means to their real objective, but maybe it’s not. Going through the risks explicitly might be a more effective way of getting them to where they need to be.
Think about your presentation style
Think about structure, both conceptually (how all the bits that need talking about fit together) and over time (what you talk about when). When creating a GUI, you think about visual hierarchy, typography, flow and so on. Just as it’s not a good idea to present every element of a system on screen all at once, it’s rarely a good idea to attempt to dump all the details out of your head into someone else’s.
Some things to consider are:
• What are the key concepts you are trying to explain?
• What is the easiest thing to understand first?
• Why is something important?
• Are there concrete examples that bring together all the abstract stuff?
It is the same as designing an interface – arranging its elements (including leaving some bits out) so that the whole is as efficient as possible.
What is the best thing to convey a particular bit of information? Is it words on their own, or do you need to show a diagram or, e.g. an example bit of XML, and then talk about it?
Being the interface likely doesn’t come naturally, but then you probably weren’t immediately fluent in your current development technologies and tools. Instead, you worked on those skills over time – something you should do with your communication skills.
Why bother?
Customers, managers and colleagues can be annoying sometimes, for a variety of reasons. If you communicate with them effectively, so that they know what they need to know when they need to know it, and for as little effort on their part as possible, then you are reducing the number of reasons why they should be annoying.
They might still ask for unreasonable things by ridiculous deadlines, but now that’s despite your best efforts to help them do otherwise.
Just as it’s essential to design and build stuff, it’s important to explain it to others – as well as making the world a better place, it can be in your interests.
Know your user – what state they’re currently in and what they need to get to – is vital in designing the interface to fit your user. Notice how this article could have been phrased in more everyday language.
However, because I’m targeting it at a technical audience who might be sceptical of why and how to communicate well, I’ve phrased it in a technical language such as interfaces, states, bugs and so on.
You can have bugs in your explanations, but like designing and building, explaining is a skill you can work on so you can hopefully produce fewer bugs in the future.
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Contech Group SRL is a Romanian private company with over 15 years of history. Founded by experienced specialists in automation, telecomm and software industry Contech Group SRL has the power to offer fast answers to our customers' requirements!
We are able to provide complex projects involving mechanics, digital and analogue hardware, over modern radio or wireless solutions.And we offer also a large scale of products like radio chain parts,
sensors and transducers.
All we need to know from our customer is a short description of the problem ....and we design and finalize the solution from scratch!
Trust us! and you'll get a Fast, Low costs and Reliable solution, no matter it's a metal or fiber glass case, a rack, a power supply, a dedicated hardware with microcontroller and sensors, a measuring system or a complete monitoring / dispatchering system requiring in-field installation in mountains or towns!
And by the way....reliable means that our products are functional no matter low winter temperatures and moisture or the heat of the summer!
Contech Group SRL competences....
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Contech R & D team provides complete design from scratch...system architecture, mechanics, PCB, electric schemas, low or high level software and GUI's....
Implementation is full implemented in Contech's production matter it's a piece of software in Assembler or C++, a sensoror a mechanical part...
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Industrial measurements for :
pressure, liquid level, temperatures, liquid flows, pH,
conductance, dissolved oxygen concentration,
regulation loops for pressure and liquid levels (Danfossequipment for pump command), etc.
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Danfoss ,Vika ,Schott Geraete ,Heraeus,Interfels,Ott, etc..
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liquid level gauge ( resistive with floating magnetic coupling),rain gauge, environment and water temperature.
Data loggers
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Flowmeter data logger
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Power Ranking All of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Films
Yep. All 23 of them! There were more than a few factors to take into account when ranking these films, including production quality, general like-ability, the films’ villains, cultural impact, and more. These are the official power rankings from Top Shelf Takes. Be warned! Spoilers ahead!
Let’s get right into it.
23. The Incredible Hulk
This one placed last should not need much explaining, but I’ll bite. As the second ever MCU film in 2008, the idea for this entire cinematic universe hadn’t been hatched before the writing and filming began on Hulk. It is evident as there is little-to-no connection with the rest of the MCU. Its one redeeming quality is that it obviously introduced Hulk, which became a great character even if it wasn’t originally played by America’s father, Mark Ruffalo.
22. Thor: The Dark World
This movie sucked overall. The first time I saw it I actually fell asleep in the movie theather. The dark elves were a slow, Star Wars – esque race. The folklore, mythological explanation for them was a huge copout to add a new villain with little other background information… and why did NO ONE question the coincidence that the one person on Earth Thor knows ends up hosting the Aether? We do stan Natalie Portman, though.
21. Avengers: Age of Ultron
This movie was well-anticipated as the second Avengers film, and I was not a huge fan of the direction it went as far as the villain goes. Stark and Banner created it themselves. I mean, they are from Earth and the movie takes place in 2015… I know they had to have seen the Terminator or I,Robot. We end up losing Thor and Hulk for a while after this movie too, and this movie marks the end of Thor and Jane Foster. Nobody really knows why, but it does. That’s sad news bears. The good things this movie provide the MCU are that the big dawg JARVIS got a body creating Vision (whom can lift Mjolnir with ease???), the Mind Stone was introduced, and Scarlett Witch, our overpowered queen started playing for the home tea
20. Iron Man 2
I mean, yeah, this movie happened.
19. Spider-Man: Far From Home
With this being the first post-Endgame film, we obviously needed a good explanation of how the world has reacted to half the population disappearing for 5 years. This movie did pretty well to show that. Jake Gyllenhaal played an interesting character. What started as a good side-kick for Spider-Man ended up being a more greedy hero, and then we realize he is more like an Elon Musk meets Virtual Reality type villain. A villain causing havoc so he can save the day? Didn’t hate it, but there are definitely 18 better MCU films, so here we are. Unrelated to the film’s content, I am shipping a Zendaya / Tom Holland irl relationship.
18. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
An entire movie dedicated to Peter Quill’s daddy issues. Was it cool to see Quill’s celestial powers and did it set up GOTG 3? Yeah. Do we love a kid from Missouri guarding the galaxy? Yeah. Was this movie totally necessary in the MCU? Probably not.
17. Ant-Man and the Wasp
This movie could have also been called, “Scott Lang: Family Man.” His love for his daughter and Hope are what drive this film home for many viewers. I enjoyed the subplots of this film because of the moral strains we saw. Bill Foster, while just trying to help Ghost, fights with Hank Pym, just trying to bring his wife back from the quantum realm, all while the actual villain, Sonny Burch, fights with everyone to steal Hank’s lab and life’s work. Burch is just a human with truth serum, though. At the end of the day, he shouldn’t have been as big of a rival for Ant-Man and the Wasp. The movie takes place during the same exact same time as or just before Infinity War which we don’t realize until Thanos’ snap leaves Ant-Man in the quantum realm during this film’s mid-credits scene. Hope you didn’t leave early and miss that.
16. Spider-Man: Homecoming
Arguably one of the best Spider-Man movies made to date (sorry Toby Mcguire). Tom Holland was made to play Spider-Man. Were here for the nerdy and naive, yet brave Spider-Man. Seeing this new and improved Spider-Man after the monstrosity that was Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spiderman was awesome. Action-packed yet quirky in its own way. One of the only downsides to this movie is the choice of villain. The day they add Green Goblin into a Spiderman movie will be the day it breaks the top 15 in the MCU.
15. Thor
Not the best, but not the worst origin story in the MCU. Chris Hemsworth’s Thor is a very like-able character, as we can tell by his Trilogy, but this movie did him no justice. It is the first interaction we see between Thor and his brother Loki, which is massive for the MCU, as Loki goes from like-able foe to all-out villain to supportive anti-villain throughout the MCU timeline. Altogether though, this movie lacked the comedy and action that Thor should have in every movie, which is why he put it at #15 in our list.
14. Iron Man 3
One of the more slept-on movies in the MCU. One of the major comic book villains, the Mandarin, makes an appearance in Iron Man 3. The twist in this movie was an interesting move for production, but it paid off in the end. Tony Stark getting to show off all of his suits and Pepper getting the spotlight before her spotlight in Endgame made this movie a cool sequel in the Iron Man series. Also, the easter egg during Tony’s funeral in 2019 is a neat throwback to this movie, making it that much more important.
13. Doctor Strange
The special effects in this movie were absolutely unreal. Doctor Strange being the protector of an infinity stone was huge for the storyline of the MCU. Intellectually, Doctor Strange gives Banner and Stark a run for their money. Wielding the Time stone is an incredibly slept-on deal considering how unique and powerful these stones are, but also that Red Skull was cast off Earth just for touching the Space stone. This was a strong Origin story for an integral character in the final Avengers films.
12. Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel is the Superman of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is no reason she should ever lose a fight considering, like Black Panther’s suit, she absorbs energy and can dish it right back. The post-credits Infinity War scene that shows Fury’s call to Captain Marvel was such a powerful clip that hinted at the relationship she has with Fury, which is evidently strong in the Captain Marvel movie. This origin story did very well at showing Carol Danvers’ background, why she is the way she is psychologically, and it also tells us how physically powerful she truly is. It’s nuts. Lastly, RIP in peace Nick Fury’s left eye.
11. Black Panther
This was a great movie. Just missing a top-10 spot on this list, Black Panther was an extremely well-produced film that did justice to raise awareness for real-life systematic issues and increase POC representation within the MCU. This movie introduced Wakanda and a ton of characters that play key roles in later films. I believe Kilmonger was a top 3 villain in the MCU. Both of my top 2 are yet to come.
If you’re still following and need a break, take it now. We’re about to get into our top 10 ranked MCU films.
10. The Avengers
The beginning of an era. The Avengers was the bringing together of so many different superheroes for the first time. It does a lot for the character development of each and every one of the heroes, and it does the same for Loki, our villain. Though it is not the first movie based on fighting for the Tesseract, it does follow suit as this is the only Infinity Stone we knew of at this point in the timeline. This movie sets up a ton of other films, origin stories, sequels, spin-off series’, etc. and it is the first film that we get a glimpse of Thanos, in the post-credits scene when we learn that Loki was actually sent by Thanos to retrieve the Tesseract in the first place. The Avengers was an obvious top-ten spot, because of these impacts it had on the entire MCU.
9. Captain America: Civil War
Welcome, Spider-Man. We’ve been waiting for you. This movie was great for more than a few reasons, which lands it in our #9 spot. Spider-Man and Black Panther are both introduced to the MCU in this movie. That alone puts this film in the top-ten, but let’s dive deeper. Disagreements over the the Sokovia Accords, Zemo’s puppeteering, T’Challa’s death being blamed on Cap’s friend Bucky, and Tony Stark and Cap’s ever-growing sexual tension all divided the team into distinct sides. This movie changed so many dynamics, which was especially clear later on in the beginning of Infinity War.
8. Ant-Man
This is the probably the hottest take on this list to most readers. I am here to say Ant-Man DOES deserve this spot for a few reasons. #1.) This movie was comedy gold. #2.) The sheer normality of Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang was a new take for the MCU as we got an Origin story for someone that was not a billionaire, superhuman, or demigod. #3.) Endgame spoiler alert: Let’s not forget Pym Particles ended up saving the universe. Ant-Man’s Origin story was not just a great biopic of Scott Lang, but it also taught MCU fans of how Pym Particles could be used to go subatomic.
7. Captain America: The First Avenger
This movie shows us a kid with a lot of heart that just wants to do what’s right no matter what is at stake. Ranked here as the second best origin story in the MCU, Steve Rogers becoming Captain America was iconic for a few reasons. The historical significance is why I hold this movie in such high esteem. We first saw a young, scrawny Steve Rogers doing whatever he could to serve his country in World War II against the Nazis. He got his ass kicked up and down the street, because he would never back down, and he could do that all day. Combining a man with this level of heart with a best friend he gets the opportunity to save from a prison behind enemy lines and a love interest made The First Avenger an easy #7 pick on this list.
6. Iron Man
Being the first origin story in the MCU, this movie came with a lot of expectations. All of which were smashed. The creation of Tony Stark and the character development throughout this first movie are both what stand out for me. Also, the action portrayed with the Iron Man suit was well ahead of its time in 2008. This is the best origin story in the MCU, and you probably won’t change my mind.
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Spy/espionage movie meets superhero movie. Possibly one of the best mixes of these two genres to date (we’ll have to wait to see how Black Widow is to confirm). The return of Bucky is a phenomenal twist, and creates the whole plot for Civil War. The action in this movie is nothing special, but there are some memorable fight scenes throughout. The plot more than makes up for the lack of memorable action, and if you love psychological thrillers then this is a movie for you.
4. Avengers: Endgame
I think what makes this movie great is that nobody saw the plot coming. There were plenty of fan theories surrounding this movie, and nobody saw what happened in it coming. I mean, who guessed a rat in a storage unit would end up saving the universe? The pure emotion and nostalgia of Endgame makes it an easy choice for the top 5 for me. I can remember watching Iron Man movies throughout my whole childhood and falling in love with Tony Stark as a character. I’m not gonna lie, tears were shed when he died. Another great part of this movie is the final battle between Thanos and his army and the Avengers. I could go on for pages talking about how great this movie is, and if you’ve seen it you know why we hold this movie in such high regard. Also, Fat Thor was an all-time character (eat shit, Noobmaster69).
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
This movie is well-deserving of our #3 spot. The band of misfits led by Missourian, Peter Quill, includes Rocket the raccoon played by none other than Bradley Cooper, the love interest Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Vin Diesel’s Groot, and Drax the Destroyer played by Dave Bautista. All of these characters are lovable in their own way. Above all, this is one of the first Marvel movies to introduce comedy, which makes it that much better. The soundtrack for this movie is top-tier, and the story is super important to the MCU. This movie is universally loved by every Marvel fan, which is why it is ranked so highly by us.
2. Avengers: Infinity War
This movie is packed with action from start to finish. What makes this movie ranked so highly in the MCU how it ties everything that was building up the previous decade. We finally got to see the Infinity Gauntlet in action, the creation of Stormbreaker, and of course we finally got to see what Thanos’ plan was when he got all the Infinity Stones. The loss of many of the heroes we came to love really hit home, especially the emotional goodbye between Peter Parker and Tony Stark and the death of Gamora at the hands of Thanos. Infinity War had it all, and then ended with the home team losing, which is uncommon and had all MCU fans dying to see Endgame. If it is not obvious enough, Thanos is the number 1 power ranked Villain in the MCU. As far as movie Power Rankings are concerned, the #2 spot is Infinity War’s home.
Without further ado, the NUMBER ONE Power Ranked Marvel Cinematic Universe Film is ….
1. Thor: Ragnarok
Absolute banger. This movie is so good. 10/10 soundtrack. 10/10 visuals. 10/10 storyline. 10/10 villains. 10/10 comedy. As this is my #1 ranked MCU movie, I will dive a deep as we need to. We start off seeing Thor in a battle with Surter, a large fire monster threatening the prophecy of the end of Asgard. Obviously he would be the villain of the movie, right? Sike. Let’s go back to Earth to watch Odin warn Thor and Loki of Hela and then kick rocks. Hela’s entire backstory coming completely out of nowhere only further strengthened the entire family dynamic of the Odinsons. As the Goddess of Death, she was a bit OP, but that’s what makes her such a great villain. She destroys the strongest hammer in the universe with her bare hand, which was crazy at the time, considering Thor and the audience had been under the impression that his power came from Mjolnir. Like any great MCU villain, it will surely take an entire team of warriors to defeat Hela. She took out Asgard’s entire army in about a one-minute-long scene, but none of them were demigods. Thor and Loki both spend half the movie as slaves on another planet, leaving Hela to have her way with Asgard. I loved the story of Sakaar, and here’s why: Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster and Taika Waititi’s Korg are great comic relief from beginning to end. We get the Hulk back, and we get Valkyrie for the first time. Her fighting for vengeance against Hela was a great subplot for her character without straying away from the main story. The new look for Thor was great. It was revolutionary.
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These are my official Power Rankings of the MCU. Knowing these are VERY controversial, if you disagree with any, I’d love to hear your picks.
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It’s all about Mario now.
Investors are moving their fixation from one central bank to the next, with all eyes and ears now focused on what European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has in store. The ECB is expected to announce at 7:45 a.m. Eastern Time moves to support the euro at its ECB policy meeting, with Draghi’s press conference following soon after.
No matter what the ECB decides, the stakes appear to be even higher for Draghi than they were for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who disappointed investors yesterday by failing to announce any fresh stimulus.
The difference is Bernanke wasn’t the one parading around town setting expectations at a high level. That was Draghi, who boldly told the world last he’ll do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro, and “believe me, it will be enough.” Such audacious words prompted stocks to rally big.
One would think it’s time for him to back up all the chatter.
Or maybe not.
A survey of investors by Societe Generale found most respondents think the ECB will fall short of the hyped up expectations for aggressive intervention to address the euro-zone debt crisis.
Asked “Will the ECB disappoint?” 69% said yes.
But how that translates to market behavior later today is anyone’s guess.
A disappointment could constitute anything short of a new round of bond-buying. But the other question is, if so many think Draghi will fall short of his promise to do “whatever it takes,” then why have markets held up so well?
While investors might think they can get ahead of their own “disappointment” by simply expecting the worst, they can still be let down when those expectations are met.
Convoluted logic, perhaps, but who said markets are logical anyway?
Morning MarketBeat Daily Factoid: On this day in 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President FDR urging him to develop a nuclear weapon.
Stocks to Watch
American Eagle Outfitters got a pop in after-hours action Wednesday, rising better than 6% after the company reported a 9% jump in July same-store sales and raised its second-quarter profit target.
Beam is slated to report its second-quarter results. The spirits firm is expected to earn 54 cents a share on revenue of $582.3 million, according to the average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet.
And Yelp jumped 10% after narrowing its latest loss and nearly doubling its revenue.
But Green Mountain Coffee Roasters fell more than 9% after the company cut its financial targets for the second time since May.
Cardinal Health is also up and the company will post a profit of 72 cents a share on revenue of $27.3 billion if Wall Street’s best guesses are on the mark.
And GM will earn 78 cents a share with sales of $38.28 billion if it meets analyst expectations.
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The ability to interpret other peoples’ emotions is vital for social interactions. We recognize emotions in others by observing their body language and facial expressions. The voice also betrays one’s emotional state: words spoken in anger have a different rhythm, stress and intonation than those uttered with a sense of joy or relief. But how the emotional content of a voice is encoded in the brain was unclear.
Now though, Swiss researchers report that they have decoded the neural activity in the voice-sensitive regions of the brain, and demonstrate that this activity can be analyzed to predict which vocal emotion is being heard. The study, which is published in the journal Current Biology, is the first to show that different vocal emotions are encoded by distinct patterns of brain activity, and could lead to a better understanding of psychiatric disorders in which the ability to recognize the emotional information in voices is compromised.
The brain contains a number of voice-sensitive regions. All of these are found within the auditory cortex in the superior temporal gyrus, and several of them are also responsive to the emotional content of voices. Previous neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies, in which these regions have been investigated individually, have shown that their activity increases in response to emotion-laden, but not to neutral, voices. These findings therefore suggest that the voice-sensitive regions of auditory cortex do not discriminate between different emotions, but that their processing primarily reflects a distinction between emotional and neutral voices. The categorization of the emotion being expressed may occur at later stages, possibly in the frontal cortex.
Thomas Ethofer of the University of Geneva and his colleagues investigated whether vocal emotions might be represented in a spatially distributed pattern of activity in the auditory cortex. They recruited 22 healthy participants for their study, and scanned their brains whilst they listened to recordings of actors pronouncing a pseudosentence (“Ne kalibam sout molem”) in one of five emotional categories – anger, sadness, relief, joy, or neutral. The researchers used a method called multivariate pattern analysis to record the activity of all voice-sensitive regions of the auditory cortex, in both hemispheres, simulataneously. In all, they analyzed the activity in nearly 2,000 volume units of brain tissue. (Each unit is a volumetric pixel, or “voxel”, and corresponds to around 10,000 neurons.)
They found that each emotional category was associated with a distinct pattern of neural activity across the voice-sensitive regions of the auditory cortex (above). The five categories could be reliably discrminated from the activation patterns in each hemisphere alone, but the accuracy of the decoding improved significantly when data from both hemispheres were used. The accuracy also improved with the number of voxels analyzed, with optimal decoding obtained from analysis of 1,000 voxels in the right and 600 voxels in the left hemisphere. Having optimized their decoding algorithm, the researchers were thus able to predict which category of vocal emotion the participants were listening to, from the observed pattern of neural activation.
In line with earlier studies, the analysis showed that parts of the middle superior temporal gyrus had the highest sensitivity to vocal emotions. When other regions of the auditory cortex, which are less sensitive to vocal emotions, were used, the accuracy rate of the decoding was much lower. A key characteristic of emotions is the level of arousal associated with each: anger and joy are associated with levels of arousal, and sadness and relief with low levels. And indeed, the researchers also observed the biggest differences between the brain’s response to vocal emotions with different levels of arousal (e.g. sadness vs. anger); but even so, they could still distinguish between the responses to vocal emotions which produce similar levels of arousal.
Vocally expressed emotions differ in a number of properties, most notably the fundamental frequency of the vocalization. However, it is still unclear exactly which acoustic properties voices the auditory cortex is most sensitive to. Ethofer and his colleagues were able to distinguish between vocal emotions with a similar fundamental frequency, suggesting that other properties, such as the intensity and duration of the vocalization, may be more important. Further experiments using artificial stimuli in which these parameters are manipulated individually are likely to determine exactly which characteristics of the voice are most important for the recognition of vocal emotions.
The ability to recognize emotions in voices is compromised in various psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenics, for example, have an impaired ability to recognize anger and sadness in others’ voices, and depressed patients fail to recognise surprise. Future research based on these new findings may therefore shed new light on the deficits seen in these conditions. It could clarify, for example, whether they are linked to abnormal activity in the auditory cortex or elsewhere in the brain.
Ethofer, T., Van De Ville, D., Scherer, K., & Vuilleumier, P. (2009). Decoding of Emotional Information in Voice-Sensitive Cortices. Curr. Biol. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.054.
Johnstone, T. et al (2006). The voice of emotion: an FMRI study of neural responses to angry and happy vocal expressions. Soc. Cog. Aff. Neurosci. 1: 242-249. [PDF]
1. Another psychiatric diagnosis where these findings may have application would be in Psychopathy. Recent work suggests that psychopaths have impaired recognition of fearful vocal affect. A finding consistent with the low-fear and violence inhibition mechanism models of psychopathy. See:
2. I’m not an expert in reading this photos, but am I wrong or there is no connection with amygdala? It’s rather surprising as amygdala is responsible for creating emotional answers, so I always believed there have to be some connetions with recognising emotions as well…
3. #3 Mo
May 27, 2009
@wybory: Yes, the amygdala plays a crucial role in emotion, especially in recognizing facial expressions, but it is also known to respond to auditory stimuli. This study focused specifically on the voice-sensitive parts of the auditory cortex, but the amygdala is likely to be part of the wider network that encodes vocal emotions.
4. #4 Sudeep Bhaumick
June 9, 2009
interesting… what other applications could such a research have other than psychopathy… any ideas ?
on a different note maybe other animals do not have a complex language like ours but a more simplified language based on emotions… so perhaps we could learn to communicate with them through simple emotions…
do pardon my ignorance, i am not trained in neuroscience…
5. #5 Mo
June 10, 2009
@Sudeep Reduced sensitivity to negative vocal emotions is also seen in Parkinson’s Disease
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To understand the world of Zagunis' weapon of choice, it may be more apt to consult the Sex Pistols rather than a fencing historian. That's because sabre fencers, Zagunis says, are the "punk rockers" of her sport.
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The deal Greek officials are working on includes several more painful concessions. Among them, reducing the minimum wage.
Joanna Kakissis reports from Athens on how strong unions secured those wages and why some economists say those guarantees have to go.
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On Sunday, the New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. The wife of defeated quarterback Tom Brady. supermodel Gisele Bundchen, complained about receivers dropping his passes.
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As economists and activists fret over increasing income inequality in America, scenes like this one from journalist Katherine Boo's new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, are a forceful reminder of the extreme disparity of wealth that exist all over the world — and what people must do to survive.
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New research indicates excessive consumption of sugar leads to an increase in all kinds of chronic diseases. But how much sugar is too much? Would making sugary foods more expensive help to get consumers to cut back?
Minnesota holds non-binding GOP caucuses Tuesday. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul all campaigned in the state Monday. Each of front-runner Mitt Romney's rivals is looking at the state as a place where they can regain their footing.
Elizabeth was just 25 and visiting the then-colony of Kenya, when word came her father the King had died. The royals will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee by visiting the nations that once made up the British empire.
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The Republican presidential primary season heads into another phase this week, as Colorado and Minnesota voters choose their candidates tomorrow. Over the weekend, Mitt Romney scored a huge victory in the Nevada caucuses, besting his closest rival, Newt Gingrich, by double digits.
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BBA Challenge: Casatiello Bread
Bread Baker's Apprentice
This week's Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge is is Peter Reinhart's recipe for Casatiello Bread (starting on page 129-132). If you've ever wondered what a savory brioche would be like, the Casatiello Bread would be it. The buttery dough mixed with cheeses and salami makes this a flavorful bread all on it's own. I made this bread to take to a picnic later tonight and share with friends... so it came at a perfect time!
The recipe calls for a sponge to start... which is combined with eggs and added to a mixture of more flour, salt, and sugar. The dough rests for a bit before adding softened butter and kneading in cheese and salami (although I used a blend of shredded Italian cheeses and pepperoni instead.)
The dough is then placed in an oiled bowl to rise until it doubles in size...
Instead of baking it as a boule, originally called for in the recipe, I baked mine into smaller boules shaped into muffin pans. Since I plan on bringing this to a picnic to share, I thought it would be easier to make individual boules for everyone to enjoy. So I greased the muffin cups, portioned out the dough and allowed them to proof one last time before baking.
These baked for about 15-20 minutes (which is half the time needed for the original recipe if making the boule.) The casatiello rolls are going to be perfect for the picnic without having the need for a knife. It's also great if you are only cooking for one or two people since you can freeze the rolls and use only what you need.
1. I loved the little rolls. Great idea in the muffin pans! I made smaller versions too - gave as gifts...they look great! How perfect! Thanks for sharing!
2. The rolls are a great idea and it gives me an idea for Hamburg rolls for the next time I make this.
Great job.
Nice photos,
3. Once again, loving the use of the muffin tin.
4. Because of your wonderful pictures that keep popping up my in my Google reader, I think I may just have to get this book! Hope the picnic turned out great!
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What is Foreclosure?
It's when a homeowner is unable to make principal and/or interest payments on their mortgage. The lender, a bank or building society, can seize and sell the property as stipulated in the terms of the mortgage contract.
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Music is one of those colorful things in life that don’t serve any great purpose in our mammalian survival instincts. The pings, twangs, booms, strums, screams and swishes of a great song do something to us on another level that make them important to us.
For all the advances in technology and all the theorizing of time travel through the ages -music is still the best time machine there is. You know what I mean.
The #1 most important song in my life is (sometimes sadly) the one that is stuck in my head right now.
That song happens to be Witchy Woman by the Eagles. By the time I am done writing this sentence the most important song is Redfoo’s Ridiculous. You see people don’t actually think about songs they way they sit and think about an important decision. Lyrics and beats (at least for me) are floating around in my head like a swirl of unstable particles just waiting for that catalyst forcing a mini big bang in my brain. Every once in a while the stereo in my head decides to play a track based on my mood or something I’ve seen, smelled, touched or just experienced. Even a simple memory can illicit a new track to push play. DJ Brain knows what it wants me to hear so that is why his current pick is the most important.
The #2 most important song in my life is Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.
I’m not a super happy person. On the whole I’m quite depressed, much too reflective and have anxiety about everything. But I’m still here and I’ve remained here by using my brain when it wasn’t in these nasty states to help myself navigate my existence when things get rough upstairs. One such exercise was to think of activities that made me happy. I mean those instant mood changers that have the power to bring you back from diving head first into a depressed episode.
In the end I made a list of what my simple pleasures in life were at the time. These were small activities that I could do quickly to avoid a few days of self loathing.
My list of happiness magic bullets looked something like this:
1. Listen to Stairway to Heaven.
2. Look out the window on a nice day and take note of everything you can see.
3. Cook a meal with fresh ingredients.
4. Other things…
The list went on to about eight or so items but the importance of Stairway to Heaven to me is not going to be the same as it is for you or anyone else. My songs and YOUR songs are unique to us in how we are attached to them. Stairway to Heaven is a song that makes me feel adventurous, curious, excited for the future, happy to be where I am, proud to live in the time I live in and eager for what comes next. I feel these things because they are all tied to a specific emotional experience I’ve had. No other song has so many hooks in my mind so that is why it is the most important. This is of course behind the song currently playing which is now-Cage the Elephant – Ain’t no rest for the wicked.
The #3 most important song in my life is Neil Young’s Heart of Gold
This is a flex spot in the song list much like #1 but I feel pretty good about saying Heart of Gold is important. It is a song that I have played on the guitar alone in a room many times and I just like it. I don’t really need much more reason than that do I?
Writing Commitments
A small footnote here to round out the prompt for today.
Making a commitment to writing for X amount of time per day does not work for me. Committing to SOMETHING quantifiable works much better. Blogging for 20 days in a row and pushing the publish button is more motivating than forcing myself to sit and write about nothing for 15 minutes.
What are you supposed to take away from forcing yourself to write for 15 minutes anyway? You are already there against your will and now you are praying it motivates you to want to keep doing this when you have a good idea? Crazy.
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We Know Where We Come From, But Where Do We Go After Death?
Death 2Be happy you’ll die instead of being sad thinking of death.
Death is something many don’t like to talk about, because it’s an enemy that ruins home, takes away our joy and destroys a whole family, yet it’s inevitable.
Many do ask if we die “where do we go?” It’s hard to give a straight-forward answer. Even though I have cheated death many times in my life, I haven’t experienced it before to know how it is when you’re dead.
I don’t think a dead man has any memory after death to record his experience. According to the Bible: “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing… their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished” Ecclesiastes 9:5.
Many believe in reincarnation, others don’t, but the Bible promises that there is life after death—and that it lasts forever.
There is something we need to ask: Why many who have died can’t rest peacefully in their graves but often haunt people occupying the houses they were before they died? Does it mean that truly life goes on after death?
There are many verses in the Bible that speak about the resurrection. John 5: 28-29 reads, “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.”
Despite all the Biblical quotations, many may still have different opinions and beliefs about death. Death will always remain a mystery and the greatest fears of life connected to the unknown.
We fear death because we are imperfect or our sinful nature. According to Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord,” yet death is something we should not fear.
Many seem happy when they think of death in their old age. They don’t have anything to worry about because of their good deeds, genuine love and help they offered to people on earth. We can follow them to sow good seeds on earth. That’s where the happiness comes from till death.
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Aids And Ebola Are Not Curses From God, They Are Medical Crimes
By Joel Savage and Johan Van Dongen
Polio 3Diseases are easily inflicted on Africans through contaminated vaccines.
Africa is a continent dominantly influenced by beliefs, traditional values, and superstitions. Close observation or research could also reveal that lack of education and poverty play a significant role in the thoughts of people, tribes, and individuals. Influenced by many outdated superstitions many tribes in Africa ignorantly consider certain issues as taboo or punishment from God.
Madagascar, for example, is one of the strongest superstitions countries off the coast of Africa. They believe that twins bring bad luck to the community and to this day, still hold this primitive ideology and philosophy about twins. According to history, twins are immediately separated, killed or abandoned in the forest after birth.
Why? To avoid the harsh punishment from the traditional chief and the community, families don’t keep twins. One of the bad lucks they believe could happen to them if families keep twins is the whole villagers would die. Lack of education, poverty, beliefs and superstition influence Africans, in such a way that they blame gods, ancestors, witches, wizards, and God for every misfortune.
It is unfortunate that till now many Africans still believe that Aids and Ebola are curses from God, to punish Africa for something they have done that has provoked God. While many Africans hold such view, it gives more room for America and Europe to continue testing their devilish vaccines on Africans.
According to Professor Johan Van Dongen, the Dutch scientist, and micro-surgeon, who got into trouble after revealing that Aids and Ebola are medical crimes, almost every vaccine made in America and Europe are tested on Africans to see the result. This has created an easy access to inflict on Africa certain diseases, such as Aids and Ebola.
This is not an accusation but a simple fact because Africa is a continent easy to penetrate by the West and America. The desperate African leaders always depend on Europe and America for miraculous solutions to their problems. The leaders come to Europe and America with various sizes of bowls to beg for food and financial aid. Thus; it is very easy to commit medical crimes in Africa and they are done unnoticed, under the nose of African leaders.
My experience in Europe for many years, reveals that the West and America view Africans leaders as stupid, ignorant and foolish. As an African, I know that African leaders aren’t stupid, but rather weak and helpless, the reason they find it very hard to confront Europe and America over crimes they commit in Africa. How do you expect Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone leaders to confront the West and America over Ebola in those countries when they desperately need help from the West and America?
Unfortunately, that’s unprofessional and cowardly act by Africans leaders, especially Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, to remain silent over medical crimes in Africa. They want to remain humble and good servants in the eyes of the West and America, but they see them as ignorant, stupid and lazy. In fact, African leaders are the source of mockery in the West and America. You can easily notice this as a journalist residing in Europe than Africa.
African leaders have a long way to go. They have to know that Europe and America will not help them to develop Africa because they can’t stand competition. Question: if they need to help Africa toward its development, where will they continue testing their new vaccines to combat diseases? Again where would they dump their unwanted nuclear and biological waste materials? The reason poverty alleviation remains an illusion than reality.
African leaders have so many challenges to face and tasks to execute, to avoid the next serious disease, stronger than Aids and Ebola, to be inflicted on the entire population of Africa. This is easy like one-two-three for European and American scientists because they are intelligent and thirsty to destroy Africa. If Aids and Ebola diseases, which were created in laboratories, have taken such huge number of Africans into their untimely grave, then you should know what they can do today and in the future.
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Citi and Credit Agricole, join Computershare, S2iEM and Deloitte as shareholders in the company.
SETL was launched in July 2015 to deploy a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payment and settlements infrastructure based on blockchain technology. The SETL system enables market participants to move cash and assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate and final settlement of market transactions. The SETL system maintains a permissioned distributed ledger of ownership and transaction records, simplifying the process of matching, settlement, custody, registration and transaction reporting.
SETL’s Chairman, Sir David Walker, said: “I am delighted to welcome Mr Irving to the board and to thank our existing directors for their guidance and counsel over the past two years. Stuart Irving bring a wealth of experience in the financial, regulatory, IT and public company spheres. His contribution to the board process will be of significant benefit to the executive team and shareholders and stakeholders alike.
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OAKLAND (BCN) — Oakland’s community and economic development committee voted 3-1 Tuesday to approve spending up to $750,000 to conduct an environmental impact study for a new baseball stadium for the Oakland A’s along the city’s waterfront.
The environmental report will face another hurdle when it goes before the full Oakland City Council next Tuesday night, but Mayor-elect Jean Quan said she thinks there are enough votes for it to win final approval at that time.
The proposed site for a 39,000-seat baseball stadium is a few blocks south of Jack London Square and is called Victory Square.
It’s bounded by Oak Street to the west, the Embarcadero to the south, the Lake Merritt Channel to the east and Interstate Highway 880 to the north.
City of Oakland officials say that if the stadium is built, adjacent development will include up to 180,000 square feet of retail, 540,000 square feet of office space, and up to 700 residential dwelling units.
The lone vote against spending money to do the report was cast by City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, the vice chair of the board that oversees the Oakland Coliseum, where the A’s currently play their games.
“I think it’s a huge mistake for us to do this,” De La Fuente said, unless the city gets a commitment from A’s owner Lew Wolff and Major League Baseball that the team will stay in Oakland.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig appointed a committee in March 2009 to study whether the team should stay in Oakland or move to San Jose or Fremont, but the committee is still studying the issue and hasn’t made any recommendations so far.
Wolff previously proposed two possible stadium sites in Fremont, and currently is considering building a stadium in San Jose.
“I don’t think the study will only cost $750,000,” De La Fuente said. “It probably will be $4 million or $5 million, and the taxpayers will have to pay for it.”
But City Council President Jane Brunner said that if the city doesn’t conduct an environmental impact report, “We can’t compete” with San Jose and Fremont to be the future home for the A’s.
“Major League Baseball counted us out” in March 2009 as the site for a new stadium for the A’s, Brunner said. But she and other Oakland leaders, including Mayor Ron Dellums, were able to convince baseball officials to include Oakland in their study.
“We need to stay interested,” she said, calling the possibility of building a new baseball stadium “an amazing opportunity.”
City Councilwoman Patricia Kernighan, who also voted for doing the study, said the potential stadium project “is one of the biggest deals in Oakland, and people are very interested in it.”
The other vote for the study was cast by Councilman Larry Reid.
Brunner added an amendment to spend the money for the study as
slowly as possible and halt it if the A’s and Major League Baseball decide to have a new stadium built in another city.
Quan, who isn’t on the committee but attended part of its meeting, said, “If the negotiations (for a new stadium) don’t go forward, we will stop the environmental impact.”
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The Groundhog Day Scenario wiki last edited by Hailinel on 03/29/14 07:48AM View full history
A "Groundhog Day Scenario" refers to a narrative that features time moving in a loop, where at some point, the protagonist is thrust back in time to relive certain events. This loop could result in multiple visits to the same period of time before it's broken and time is allowed to move forward. The concept's name refers to the 1993 film Groundhog Day, in which an ill-tempered man is forced to relive the same day over and over countless times.
In Video Games
The following is a partial list of games that feature time loops in notable ways.
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
As the story of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger progresses, it is eventually revealed that the world has been trapped in a perpetual time loop spanning one hundred years due to the merging of characters Ragna and V-13. The loop is finally broken when Ragna manages to prevent V-13 from merging with him again.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the land of Termina will be destroyed in three days, when the moon will come crashing down on the land. Link is forced to repeat a three-day cycle in order to accomplish everything he must do in order to prevent this fate.
GrimGrimoire is set in a prestigious magic school where the protagonist, a new student named Lillet Blan, discovers on her fifth day at the campus that everyone has been killed. Before she is killed as well, she awakens in the past, on the first day of school.
Flower, Sun, and Rain
In Flower, Sun, and Rain, the main character Sumio Mondo is tasked with disarming a bomb that threatens to blow up an airplane. Distracted from the task by a variety of other issues, Sumio fails to prevent the bomb from going off, but when he awakens the next morning, he finds himself forced to repeat the same day.
The game Singularity takes place on an island where time constantly shifts. The protagonist occasionally encounters characters who are stuck in an endless time loop.
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
Upon finishing Astro Boy: Omega Factor for the first time, all the robots in the world are destroyed. Players must go through the entire game again and prevent this from happening to see the real ending.
Shadow of Memories
Shadow of Memories begins with the protagonist's death. He goes back in time to prevent it from happening.
In the visual novel Steins;Gate, the protagonist Rintaro Okabe keeps repeating the same several weeks over and over again in an attempt to save someone's life.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Though the main narrative of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII does not involve a time loop, starting a New Game Plus after completing the game, or accessing the Crystal of Atonement before completion, will result in the game restarting from the first day. When Lightning first talks to Hope upon starting anew, she experiences a sense of deja vu, and Hope speculates that it's possible they've relived these events countless times.
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A gymnastics facility on a busy weekday night is hardly the environment that a parent or therapist would think a special needs child could handle, especially one with sensory sensitivities. Late afternoon and early evening at gyms like Silver Stars have classes going on for all ages and skills, as well as competitive team practice. However, classes may be available for kids who cannot manage a typical class. At Silver Stars these classes, called Sparkling Stars, have included kids with low muscle tone, ADHD, autism, cerebral palsy, Downs syndrome, and a variety of developmental challenges. The most important thing is to find the best match for your child. If a gym, swimming pool, or other sports facility offers smaller classes or specially designed classes take advantage of that opportunity. Even if the classes are more expensive, their value can be seen in your childs success and enjoyment. Children gain confidence through instruction geared toward their needs and which allows them to master skills at their own pace. At Silver Stars, these Sparkling Star classes are small or even one-on-one depending on the childs needs. However, even the one-on-on classes are conducted in the midst of an array of other classes, so there are plenty of opportunities for the special needs child to observe and interact with the others.
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As for any child, gymnastics promotes whole body flexibility and strength. Balance is a major component of gymnastics, as well. Forward rolls, walking across a balance beam, jumping on a trampoline all of these require awareness and control of ones body. Gymnastics is a sport built on progressions. Skills are broken down into steps and taught one-by-one. All of these components, from strength to motor planning are useful to a child with special needs.
Gymnastics builds upper body strength by using apparatus such as parallel bars, monkey bars, and rings and rope for swinging. Handstands are done against a mat and also build upper body strength. Trampolines provide aerobic activity and proprioceptive input, sending sensory data through the legs and core muscles. Practice with balance, motor planning, and crossing mid-line occurs in many obstacle courses or stations that are used within class. A child who has been to occupational therapy or physical therapy may see familiar equipment used in multiple ways by all kinds of children. Seeing other kids climbing, swinging, and jumping helps children learn the movements and attempt new skills.
Gymnastics is more than a chance for added physical activity. Gymnastics classes offer additional experience with social contacts, regulation, sensory input, speech, and language skills. The large space, noise, and hustle and bustle of the lobby gives children experience with large public places. The allure of the trampoline or their favorite equipment is motivation to cope with many obstacles and sensory challenges. With patience and persistence almost all the kids adapt and manage the noise and environment. One child used headphones while adjusting, but that was only necessary for a couple of classes.
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What scheduled maintenance, tasks or jobs should be performed on Exchange Server and how often?
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Some people might say that you should perform an offline defragmentation of the IS on some schedule. I've seen E2K3 machines go years without ever having an offline defragmentation, so it's not a requirement for continued operation. Likewise, I've heard people swear by performing a fileystem defragentation of the volume holding stores with the database engine shutdown (assuming the filesystem is on DASD and not a SAN volume). I've also seen E2K3 servers run for years (with acceptable performance) having never had this done either.
The main recurring job that's necessary is a regular online backup. By default, E2K3 runs its database engine in a non-circular logging mode, so transaction logs are going to pile up until a full or incremental online backup is run. As such, you should be doing regular online backups.
Everything else is either automatic (IS maintenance) or can be schedule to run during production (address list rebuilds, mailbox manager policies).
I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this, though.
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I'm in agreement. In my opinion there should be only 2 scheduled maintenance "plans" on an Exchange server. #1 - online backups. #2 - OS/Exchange critical/security updates. The second should be done after you understand the implications of the patches and (IMO) let them be in the wild for a few weeks at least. Of course, do #2 after a full backup. I'm one of those that thinks that an Exchange server runs best if you don't touch it (other than above). – TheCleaner Jul 2 '09 at 13:22
+1 All the documentation i have every read states that offline defrags are NOT ment to be a regular task, but for situations where the online defrag isn't cutting it for some reason or you have some other issue with your exchange database. – Zypher Jul 2 '09 at 19:42
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I would tend to agree with Evan on this. We survive without doing regular maintenance or defrags at all.
The only thing I would say, is that if you delete accounts, you do not reclaim their mailbox space unless you do an offline defrag. At least, that is my understanding and I would love to be proved wrong on this one.
I think in a lot of organisations, maintenance on exch 2003 stuff tends to be left until its necessary, ie to fix corrupt message db's etc.
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Backups and patches are key. Integrity check and Defrag are, IMHO a best practice, especially as your Exchange DB grows above 50GB.
Integrity checks assist in ensuring no corruption. The Defrag reclaims (possibly precious) disk space -- not trivial, especially if you are in a company with a high turnover rate.
The problems with Integ and Defrag is the time they take to complete, and for the defrag, the disk space needed to run. You actually need empty disk space equal to 1.2x your current Exchange DB size to defrag.
I have had the integ/defrag combo take anywhere from 6hrs (20GB) to 22hrs (90GB) on 15KRPM U320 disks. Just painful, and in some instances impossible.
Another option to "defrag", though hokey, is to create an additional Mailbox store, and migrate users over. Then delete the old Information Store once empty.
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I'd question letting a store get to be 50GB+ in size (at least on E2K3). At that point, you may be running afoul with SLA's for restores anyway. (If it's a standard edition / enterprise edition type question at that point then I'd say "bite the bullet and go to E2K7".) The "move the mailboxes to another store" technique actually sounds like a rather ingenious solution, though you're going to lose single-instance storage when you do that. – Evan Anderson Jul 2 '09 at 20:24
Agreed Evan, however sometimes you have no choice. Small company -- 50 people, and management refuses to allow you to apply mailbox limits. Add to that file server space is 90% full (so archiving is not a reasonable request, except to DVDs) and spending halted/cut. Sometimes there really is no choice at all..... :-) – Scott the I.T. Guy Jul 6 '09 at 13:30
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Actually, backup software sets the archive bit, to show that has been archived or backed up. You can open a file with the A bit set over and over again and it will not change anything. However, if you modify any file and save it, the operating system will reset the A bit. If you do a full backup, it copies or backs up everything, regardless of the A bit status.
But the magic of the archive bit is when you do an incremental or differential backup, it will only back up the files that have the A bit cleared (meaning it needs to be archived). After the incremental backup, the A bit will be set again by the backup software. It's just an efficient way for the backup software to let the OS and user know what a file has been backed up, and an efficient way for the OS and user to let the backup software know that a file has been changed. The difference between incremental and differential backup is whether they look externally to when the last backup (incremental) or internally to when the last full backup (differential) happened for a new archive set.
Let's say you have 1000 files backed up on Sun, and modify a different set of 100 files every day, and need to rebuild a system on Fri morning. With incremental, you will have to restore 1 Full backup tape(s) and 4 incremental (Mon's 100, Tue's 100, Wed's 100, Thu's 100) tapes in order to have a full system again. With differential, you would have to restore 1 full tape and Thu's differential (400 files). Differential is easy (full plus differential = DONE), but requires more backup storage (100+200+300+400+500, while Incremental is fast and cheap, but requires more complexity during the restore process (and risk--what happens if Wed's tape is missing?).
The driving forces are usually how many tapes you have, how much data you have and need to back up on a daily basis, and how much of a backup window you have. Most people try to go with full and differential, if they can afford the backup storage (tape or disk), because it's easiest. Some people are forced to go with daily incremental, but don't have a lot of duplication on their incremental tapes like they would on the differential tapes.
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social proof
The social proof psychology has been used in marketing before we even started using the concept of social proof. For example, have you ever wonder how the shopping cart was introduced? Well, I guess you have never thought about it since it is something very natural for you but when the concept of supermarkets was created, people started shopping in paper bags, then they moved to the baskets and then the shopping cart.
The shopping cart was developed in the late 30s by Sylvan Goldman. Although, the prototype failed miserably and It was not until the 50s-60s that people started using them. Men thought it looked effeminate and women did not like it since it looked like a baby carriage. Nobody was using them although the product had an optimal design. Finally, it was not until Goldman hired some models to push this new invention around his stores so customers could see their functionality, that shopping carts started becoming popular.
Why do I need social proof in my online business?
As it happens in the real world, there is also social proof on the internet. We humans, tend to avoid unknown situations and therefore, we tend to look for that source of information that will help us feel comfortable with our decision.
In the online marketing, there are plenty of strategies to use in order to gain social proof on our websites and social media pages. As well, those same strategies can be use and adapt for PPC campaigns and landing pages.
Social Proof strategies
1. Testimonials. Those are statements by someone outside the company that have tried to product or service and is explaining his experience with it. Testimonials have to be real and most of the times are used to highlight the benefits of the particular product or service. Within this kind of strategy there is the influencer testimonial, which is a testimonial coming from someone with enough influence as for changing somebody’s mind. Most of the cases marketers use a celebrity or an expert figure.
Nespresso ad
1. Reviews and Ratings: Similar to the testimonials, reviews are made by the customers and are used to explain their whole buying experience. From the moment they start their purchasing process till the product gets home and they can test it. As you know, this is a very powerful weapon. Or haven’t you order or amazon based on the amount of ratings and positive reviews? The same happens when you want to choose a restaurant or you want to hire a new online service.
Example reviews on the Adinton website
1. Badges and certifications: Don’t you feel safer when you see that the online shop you are about to give your credit card information, has plenty of badges about security payment? Badges and certifications are very important if you want to convey trust.
1. Users and subscribers counts: As we have explain right at the beginning, we tend to do what the rest of the people does. So, if we are about to hire a service and we have to choose between 2 companies… Company A has a banner telling us to join the 200.000+ clients that are already satisfy with their services and company B has the same banner but with 50.000+ , it is pretty easy for us to tell which one at first glance will be the most likely we are going to hire. This is a very powerful call to action and is linked with the following strategy.
1. Social connections: We users are always judging. To get convinced we need to have several reasons for it. Sometimes with social testimonials is not enough, the more we have the more we will convince. Social connections is a great way to increase our social proof. If we have social media pages with a considerable amount of fans and connections, it is highly advisable to link this to our webpage and landing page.
Examples of social proof in landing pages
As we have learned, social proof can make us gain trust among other potential buyers. Once we achieve that, our potential buyers will be more likely to purchase from us rather than keep looking for another source. Following, you can see some examples of landing pages and how they have used social proof to connect with their potential customers.
1. Semrush
Semrush has used the users count to show their potential customers that many people from the same industry are working with their tool. So why shouldn’t you trust them?
1. SumoMe
In this website we can see many of the social proof strategies we have been talking before. 1- Customer count 2- Clients’ logo 3- Users reviews 4- Social connections
1. VWO
As we can see in this website we also have customers reviews (to extra show us that this is real they give us their twitter user). Moreover, they have their customers logos and even a counter.
How to build social proof
So as you have being seeing. Social proof is crucial for gaining trust and If you apply the suggested strategies, you can easily increase your conversion rate 🙂 . But, how do we manage to get customers reviews or testimonials? Well, it all depends on the kind of business you have and the kind of product or service you are offering but we can give you some ideas.
1. Make it easy
If you would like to receive reviews and testimonials from your customers, then, make it easy! Try to be active in social media platforms and consider building profiles in review pages such as tripadvisor, yelp or others.
1. Ask your customers
This is the easiest and more effective way get a fast answer from your customer. Just ask, if they are happy with your services, they will not have any problem on helping you out with a review. Moreover, if they compliment you via email, phone or person, just mention them you would appreciate it they could leave the same comment on an online review site or on twitter, facebook or any other social media platform.
In the case, they would not like to participate, give an incentive. Encourage them to give you a review by giving them something in return, a well performed reciprocity strategy always works!
1. Positive reviews (not too cheese)
Be real. People tend to manipulate their customers review to make it look like everything is perfect. If you do that you are going to sound too fake to be credible. Use real reviews and do not try to sell your product.
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Q:
Font is not available to jvm while converting a report from jrxml to pdf
I am using eclipse in windows.
I am getting this error while generating pdf file from jrxml file using jar jasperreports-4.1.1.jar. I have manually added font files in my jre from my windows folder and have added font path to path variable but still getting the same error.
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not load the following font :
pdfFontName : Arial
pdfEncoding : Cp1252
isPdfEmbedded : false
Another weird thing which I have observed is that when I try the same function for Cambria font, I get a different error.
Below is the error when I use cambria
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontNotFoundException: Font 'CAMBRIA' is not available to the JVM. See the Javadoc for more details.
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontUtil.checkAwtFont(JRFontUtil.java:358)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledText.getAwtAttributedString(JRStyledText.java:226)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.AbstractTextRenderer.render(AbstractTextRenderer.java:263)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportText(JRPdfExporter.java:2026)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:729)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportFrame(JRPdfExporter.java:2526)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:733)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportFrame(JRPdfExporter.java:2526)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:733)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportPage(JRPdfExporter.java:689)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReportToStream(JRPdfExporter.java:582)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReport(JRPdfExporter.java:376)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile(JasperExportManager.java:122)
at main.CopyOfTable.runReport(CopyOfTable.java:60)
at main.CopyOfTable.main(CopyOfTable.java:100)
A:
Hope this helps:
Define your fonts as "font extensions". This involves creating two
files: jasperreports_extension.properties and fonts.xml. See how it's done in the
demo/fonts directory in the JasperReports package you can download
from http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-library/releases.
Package your fonts and the font extensions into a JAR file that is available on the classpath.
This works for TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Also:
See Teodor's first comment here.
One of many helpful answers on this site is here.
Good luck.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Al-Anbar Awakening: [Much Needed] Iraqi Perspectives
We've heard a lot of perfectly legitimate crabbing over the last year or so that the so-called "dominant narrative" of the Surge has been based on an American-centric understanding of history, that there wasn't enough consideration given to the thinking and motivations of those who turned in the sahwa, or to Iraqi civilians, or to the Jaish al-Mahdi stand-down. By and large, I agree with this. The actions of Americans have probably been overstated in the (American) story of Iraq's (relative) stabilization.
That's this new report is so welcome: Al-Anbar Awakening, Volume II: Iraqi Perspectives; From Insurgency to Counterinsurgency in Iraq 2004-2009, a publication of Marine Corps University Press. The companion document is Volume I: American Perspectives. (h/t SWJ)
I haven't read it yet, so don't hold me responsible for the content. Three hundred and forty pages should help get me through my Christmas Eve flight (and if you add in the other volume, it's nearly 700)!
1. "I haven't read it yet, so don't hold me responsible for the content."
A new disclaimer for the blog!
2. As opposed to your usual 'I'm just kidding, so don't hold me responsible for my posts' disclaimer?
3. The new disclaimer should probably read something like this:
"I haven't read it yet, so don't hold me responsible for the content, but SNLII probably has and I have his email address, so if you like, I can put you in contact with him."
(But seriously, no, I can't, so don't ask.)
4. Since I'm all about the trash talking -- Mavs blow goat -- I'll just say that everyone is kinda yapping about MajGen Kelly's diss to the Surgistas, a leitmotif that follows throughout the volume.
I was given parts of the advance copy to read. I share some views with the authors and think other things about other aspects of it.
I very much appreciate that the authors chose to determine some of the motivations of the Iraqis in making the switch, but I probably would've pressed them more because -- and I say this with all respects to the authors -- they didn't fully compass the role Shiite death squads and torture gangs played in breaking the "will" of the people and forcing the "Awakening" sect to realize that AQIZ and other groups were more harm than good, especially since they couldn't win the civil war they kind of started.
I can't tell you the name of the author, but a new book is being writtn in the spirit of Bing West's classic "The Village," with a focus on the years of pacification in a very rough patch of Anbar.
We'll see, but it might be one of the defining works of this war, written by a USMC combat leader who was there leading a MiTT.
5. SNLII, was the ISCI (then SCIRI) Badr Iraqi MoI of 2005 and early 2006 a success? They sure killed a lot of resistance fighters . . . unfortunately not everyone they killed were resistance fighters. They were rough.
JAM was never as good as Badr.
Did you read the section by MG Kerry on the ISF? What are your thoughts?
I think that the perception that the IA was a capable fighting force in late 2006 and 2007, was an essential ingredient to what happened.
I think the role of 2nd/3rd/4th IADs up North, 4-6 IA (later became 17th IAD), 8th IAD, 1st/7th IAD in the victory in Iraq are understated. 34-9, 35-9, also did their part in Baghdad in 2007. There is something about Iraqi T72s, T55s, and IFVs that Iraqis like to rally behind.
It is because 2nd/3rd/4th IAD did so well up North in 2006, that so many MNF-I were able to redeploy South for the Surge. For that matter, large parts of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th IADs also redeployed South to Baghdad and Diyala in late 2006 and 2007 as part of the surge. They were better quality than the 6th, 11th, and 9th IADs that Baghdadis has seen previously. 4th IAD was a hell of a lot better than the 5th IAD in Diyala (although I think 4th IAD focused on the western parts of the province.)
With respect to Al Anbar, I think the way 7th/1st IADs treated the Al Anbaris that joined their ranks in 2006 and 2007 cemented the win in Al Anbar. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.981140434741974}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '213233', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:65G3UBQXNHBKCAYQIMGCNSWPTSGJ6X3P', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:77449d4b-3d19-4d9b-91a1-5fd2b8be0766>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 18, 0, 13, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.125.228.10', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:P735JVO54S6PZJ3TQ5H2ESLDOPKLTKGM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:53c4713d-be23-458e-afee-8f5841c77baf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2009/12/al-anbar-awakening-much-needed-iraqi.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:0845531d-2eca-4d10-baf8-0702c065ecf7>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '723', 'url': 'http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2009/12/al-anbar-awakening-much-needed-iraqi.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-15\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for April 2014\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': '0.11452186107635498', 'original_id': 'dc9adf91fdcffc7ee3be93028e48d30bc120d5d92c6584cd6ce7db2c5da5c8b0'} |
Jul 26, 2014
Mystery Rainbow of Babylon
~ Revelation 17:1-8
The Purple Reign
Dream 5/31/14: I found an old gay porn magazine from the ’70’s, very poor reproduction, a black and white desktop publishing effort. Inside was an interview with a man who had changed himself into the physical manifestation of his “ideal man”. He said he did it by a long process of working with his “wasps”.
Wow! Do I have “wasps”? Or maybe bees, drones, workers, machine elves, house elves, Umpa-Lumpas... of the subconscious?
Some kind of hive mind mentality down deep? It makes me wonder. So a few days later, I was over at mom's who had this amazing garden box full of lavender, and the bees were busy as... bees, all over the herb. I went into a trance, watched the bees buzzing all over the purple flowers like it was Sea-Tac airport.
I suspect bees like purple because that is the color next to ultraviolet, which bees can see, but we can’t. You can’t really sync on bees without syncing on the birds and the bees and sex. And combined with purple, that syncs royalty. Royal purple.
Image thanks to Adam GoRightly
So of course, I began to see purple all around me. It’s not even close to my favorite color, but hey, if my bees like it, then what am I to say? I began seeing purple logos, purple jets, purple flags - last week, Var and I visited Sequim (sun city), which happened to be hosting the Lavender Festival. Every damn business was flying a purple flag, in the hope of attracting some tourist honey bee.
And I began to wonder if I wrote to my subconscious bees in purple prose, would they actually listen?
The Harlot
The next thing I began to see was red, or scarlet, always showing up with purple. Such as:
And it reminded me of the color scheme of the Harlot of Babylon:
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour
It occurred to me that if purple is representing ultraviolet, then perhaps scarlet represents infrared.
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast
“The beast” is the sun, according to Aleister Crowley, who called himself 666, the Beast. Call him “Little sunshine”. If the Beast is simply an overly dramatic religious description (induced by the intake of entheogens) of a common celestial object, then what might be the Harlot?
Array: an impressive display or range of a particular type of thing
What if she represents an array between ultraviolet and infrared - the visible spectrum. If she is always “sitting upon the sun”, is that not a perfect description of a rainbow?
Your truly, the sun king
That was my little A Ha! moment: the Harlot of Babylon is the rainbow! So what to make of the fact that the gay rights movement carries the rainbow flag as its standard? And why is one of the most famous gay divas known for traveling “over the rainbow”?
Curiously, I found this pic at Newspaceman concerning the opening ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games:
Two things jumped out though, the first being the man-on-man kiss delivered by purple suited, John Barrowman, someone I had not heard of before. Apparently it was symbolic; intended to deliver a message to the 40 Commonwealth countries where homosexuality is still illegal.
Purple you say? Note the red St. George cross adding that touch of scarlet.
It is ironic that the Empire is using gay rights as a political bargaining chip, where in the past it was perfectly fine with the most grotesque violations of human dignity intent on demonizing and punishing homosexuals. All I can say is that they are not fooling anyone, and if it suddenly became politically advantageous to again criminalize homosexuals, they would do it without a second thought.
Be that as it may, the sudden de-criminalization of homosexuality is a powerful thing to my subconscious, as is the sudden de-criminalization of pot here in the state of Washington. I would not have connected the rainbow to the Harlot without benefit of the halfling’s leaf.
In a way, it appears that I am also working on de-criminalizing various notorious archetypes. I think the bees are trying to tell us something.
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The dexamethasone suppression test in dementia: a review of the literature.
To examine the utility of the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) in the differential diagnosis of depression in elderly demented patients, we reviewed the literature and focused on four components of this question: (1) cortisol nonsuppression rates in dementia; (2) cortisol nonsuppression and dementia severity; (3) cortisol nonsuppression in demented versus depressed patients; and (4) cortisol nonsuppression following antidepressant treatment. A combined analysis of 27 articles showed cortisol nonsuppression in 60% of patients with concurrent dementia and depression, in 47% of patients with depression only, in 41% of patients with dementia only, in 46% of patients with multi-infarct dementia, in 36% of patients with primary degenerative dementia, and in 10% of controls. The abnormal DST rate in demented patients was not significantly different from the abnormal DST rate in depressed patients. Eight of 12 studies (67%) did not find a significant relationship between DST results and dementia severity dementia patients without depression. Twelve of 13 studies (92%) did not find a relationship between age and DST outcome. The data we reviewed do not support the use of the DST in discriminating between depression and dementia or between dementia subtypes. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '4271d8f0ea87b7f3c2b0828bc4de350bdb5d3d63a3936755f01fd59a1b7b7870'} |
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#ifndef _PHP_TOKYO_TYRANT_SESSION_FUNCS_H_
# define _PHP_TOKYO_TYRANT_SESSION_FUNCS_H_
php_tt_session *php_tt_session_init(TSRMLS_D);
void php_tt_session_deinit(php_tt_session *session TSRMLS_DC);
char *php_tt_create_sid(char *sess_rand, int idx, char *pk, char *salt TSRMLS_DC);
char *php_tt_create_pk(php_tt_conn *conn, int *pk_len TSRMLS_DC);
zend_bool php_tt_tokenize(char *session_id, char **sess_rand, char **checksum, int *idx, char **pk_str TSRMLS_DC);
zend_bool php_tt_validate(char *sess_rand, char *checksum, int idx, char *pk, char *salt TSRMLS_DC);
char *php_tt_get_sess_data(php_tt_conn *conn, char *sess_rand, const char *pk, int pk_len, int *data_len, zend_bool *mismatch TSRMLS_DC);
zend_bool php_tt_save_sess_data(php_tt_conn *conn, char *rand_part, char *pk, int pk_len, const char *data, int data_len TSRMLS_DC);
zend_bool php_tt_sess_touch(php_tt_conn *conn, char *current_rand, char *sess_rand, char *pk, int pk_len TSRMLS_DC);
zend_bool php_tt_sess_destroy(php_tt_conn *conn, char *pk, int pk_len TSRMLS_DC);
zend_bool php_tt_gc(php_tt_server_pool *pool TSRMLS_DC);
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\section{Primitive of x cubed by Root of x squared minus a squared cubed}
Tags: Primitives involving Root of x squared minus a squared
\begin{theorem}
:$\ds \int x^3 \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x = \frac {\paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^7} 7 + \frac {a^2 \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^5} 5 + C$
for $\size x \ge a$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \int x^3 \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x
| r = \int x \paren {x^2} \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \int x \paren {x^2 - a^2 + a^2} \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x
| c = Primitive of Power
}}
{{eqn | r = \int x \paren {x^2 - a^2} \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x + a^2 \int x \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x
| c = Linear Combination of Integrals
}}
{{eqn | r = \int x \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^5 \rd x + a^2 \int x \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x
| c = simplifying
}}
{{end-eqn}}
Let:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = z
| r = x^2 - a^2
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = \frac {\d z} {\d x}
| r = 2 x
| c = Power Rule for Derivatives
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| o =
| r = \int x \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^5 \rd x + a^2 \int x \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^3 \rd x
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \int \frac {\sqrt z z^{5/2} } {2 \sqrt z} \rd z + a^2 \int \frac {\sqrt z z^{3/2} } {2 \sqrt z} \rd z
| c = Integration by Substitution
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac 1 2 \int z^{5/2} \rd z + \frac {a^2} 2 \int z^{3/2} \rd z
| c = simplifying
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac 1 2 \frac {z^{7/2} } {7/2} + \frac {a^2} 2 \frac {z^{5/2} } {5/2} + C
| c = Primitive of Power
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac {z^{7/2} } 7 + a^2 \frac {z^{5/2} } 5 + C
| c = simplifying
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac {\paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^7} 7 + \frac {a^2 \paren {\sqrt {x^2 - a^2} }^5} 5 + C
| c = substituting for $z$
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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What is the Current RV Market?
It has really heated up in the RV market in the last year! New units leaving manufacturers facilities hit a forty-two year high in 2017. Shipments of new RV’s were up seventeen percent over the previous year. That tells us that the demand for new units has increased dramatically.
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But what is even more interesting is that in the RV sales market as a whole, over sixty percent of the RV’s on the road are sold privately between buyer and seller. Who is certifying that these RV’s are fit for the road? These need to be inspected just like in a home inspection!
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Camping is one of the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the United States, whether it is in a tent at a campground, a recreational vehicle or even just the backyard. The Recreational Vehicle Industry Association reports that 2017’s sales were the highest since data has been collected.
According to the RVIA, a record 9 million households own an RV in 2017, a 64% gain since 1980. In the past, baby boomers have been the demographic associated with the bulk of active RVers due to their disposable income and the higher price of the larger RV’s that are manufactured. And with 10,000 of them a day turning 65, that is probably not likely to change.
But, there is a newer demographic entering the market! These are called the millennials. They are embracing the RV lifestyle and are becoming the larger market of RV owners. These 35 to 54-year-olds may not travel as much as their older counterparts, but they enjoy having the feeling of a rolling second home that they can use short distances from home.
It is true that if someone buys an RV, and has a good experience, then they will buy an average of seven over a lifetime. So, catching them when they are younger is certainly a focus of the RV industry! To do this they have to bring newer technologies into play that in the past may not have been as important to the baby boomers.
The RV’s that are rolling off the assembly lines have all the creature comforts of home along with all the high tech toys to keep the millennials happy while they are traveling away from their home base. To give an example, today’s RVer has valued WIFI right up there with toilet paper! So, the RV industry needs to keep up with the demands of its buyers!
Basically, we here in North America have a love affair with the great outdoors, and when we go we like to travel in style. Yes, you can drive a Mercedes three-liter diesel “home on wheels” and claim that your Mercedes is better than your neighbors because it has a toilet in it, WIFI, an inverter, a generator, and a kitchen with all the devices to keep the cook happy!
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The RV industry is solid! It’s growing! As thousands of baby boomers retire each day, they are flocking to the RV lifestyle! If you don’t agree come to Florida, Texas, Arizona, or any of the southern states in the winter and you will see the evidence of massive amounts of people traveling in RV’s!
Visit any RV show and evaluate the demographics of the show attendees. The demographics are broad as it appears all age groups that can drive dream of hitting the road in a home on wheels.
But, who will be sure that they are safe? The dealerships? They don’t always have the time or the manpower to do a good job. What about the millions of RV’s that are sold privately? Don’t those buyers also need help evaluating the RV being sold by an unknowing owner?
Just like a home that is sold and requires a home inspection, why should the RV industry be any different? At some point this may become a standard too!
What does that possibly mean for you? An opportunity to create safe and worry-free travels for these folks who want to enjoy RVing, as well a solid business model for those that love this lifestyle! I hope you will research this more and join us in this cause! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '22', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9628995060920716}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '215784', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:CHFP4J3A6PU6B5FRM6JFQMY4PL36UZXT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:da3a99e6-1a4e-453e-8bf7-872801e383f0>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 16, 23, 25, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '3.231.142.168', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KDPSW6O7XRGVGTE635ETJWCMVGS24PBA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ab8c726c-8c1a-404b-9ecd-c620dcca6935>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://rvinspector.org/what-is-the-current-rv-market', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5b8f7c90-0a26-4345-b408-5d440a8449c3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '699', 'url': 'https://rvinspector.org/what-is-the-current-rv-market', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-76.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-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': '0.028351247310638428', 'original_id': '0b3c4b8722edb1e8d4337ea0f078986f7e708519901c60db0719cbb02d2cfdcc'} |
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The Corinthian Helmet
The dark river of forgetfulness rolled by quietly as two shadows played a game of checkers. One was tall and wore a corinthian helmet; his javelin and spear were planted by an ash tree nearby. The other was in black jeans and a black shirt with stone beads on his wrist; he frequently looked at a palm-sized, rectangular piece of glass that lit up now and then, displaying the absence of time or showing colored tessarae that had various functions that failed to impress the warrior. The man in black was complaining about passive aggressives, virtue signalling, fake news, and other mysteries. For a long time the warrior listened politely, stroking his heroic beard and puzzling over the meanings of the strange words in his friend’s diatribe. At long last, he placed his calculus on the board and said, I think I know what you are describing! We had a similar problem until the time of the tyrants, thousands of years ago, when they first built the theatre. The tyrant took that whole class of citizens and gave them something to do. A whole class? the man in black repeated with astonishment. What did you call them? he asked. Actors, the corinthian helmet replied bitterly. They’re called actors.
The Mysterious Character
A mysterious character once lived on a mountain by the sea. Those who visited him claimed that he was kind. At times he seemed ancient like an old grandfather; at other times as young and strong as an adolescent. The mysterious character could fish, set bones, build boats and read. He especially loved teaching children to read. When the town coroner heard this, he suspected danger. A plague was imminent. The coroner and the gendarmes arrested the mysterious man, and began the interrogation. What is your name? they asked. When he told him, they said that others had the same name; he must be lying. They gave him anasthetic and removed one lung, one kidney, his spleen, and some of his intestines, all of which they put in jars. After he awakened from his coma, they showed him the kidney in the jar. It was too worn out. Then they showed him the lung. It was too fresh and new. The intestines looked more like eels or gigantic tapeworms than guts. They lined the jars up on a table in front of him. The sight of his glassed innards made him sad. Then they showed him his inked dactylographs and pointed out the imperfections and secret codes embedded in them. In his stomach they had found some silver coins and old nails—these were also in jars, and labeled highly suspicious. Clearly the man was not only an impostor, but also a robotic monster crafted from old and new corpses, machinery, and even strange creatures. He had been sent to deceive with heaven only knew what manner of wizardry. They decided to cut off his hands and feet while he was still awake. Who are you? the coroner demanded as he sawed into a wrist. Mercy! the man sighed. I am whole, and I am true.
The Scrawny Mackerel
In the north, they eat golden ammonia fish, black creosote eels, and mercurial prawns. Clouds are chimercal; water and stone is chemical. They sleep on gravel, and bandage their own wounds. They mine the endless snow and rain, and sometimes summer butterflies. They smoke their straw. In the northern seas, the oarsmen tell the tale of the scrawny mackerel. The mackerel lost its friends and family at a young age, and found it difficult to survive in the black waters. It went to a distant shore and met a marlin. It asked the marlin some questions about sea life. The marlin explained that the world was always eating itself. One had to beware of lying flora and destructive minerals. One was forever caught between the two. The marlin began to talk and to talk, weaving tale after tale to illustrate his points until the mackerel fell asleep. Suddenly the marlin swallowed it whole. Inside the belly of the marlin, the scrawny mackerel woke up in a dark, rosy twilight of brine and acid. It was not the end though. It would have to eat its way out of the eating.
The Resurrection
It was an ordinary lamp with a tall black stand of carved wood, an amber shade with tassels, and a long black electrical cord. And one evening, a confessor beat this lampstand to death. In the house where he was lodging, he had endured days of listening to the man and his wife argue over the item until he could bear it no more. Abandoning his books, he stormed out of his room into the living room, dragged the offensive thing outside onto the second floor terrace, and began to strike it against the cast iron balustrade. Exhausted from the attack, he jettisoned the lamp into garden below. Something had shattered—most likely the light bulb. The landlords laughed until they were in tears, but the confessor left that very night and went to live elsewhere. One evening, many years later, the confessor dropped by to visit the older couple, thank them for their hospitality, and give them some presents. As he spoke of his misadventures, he noticed the man and wife exchanging furtive, suspicious glances. And just as he began to recall his departure from their home long ago with a bitter laugh and apology, his words trailed off. For behind the old woman’s chair the tall, black lampstand with its golden shade burned in the corner, casting its warm glow on their explosive laughter. Long after, whenever he wandered alone through the night country of dark streets in ruined cities, the rare vision of lamps through windows filled his heart with their butterscotch glow and bitter sweetness.
The Twilight Sea
The lampreys are sad. They do not like the twilight sea. It only flows in one direction; its coloration is obscured by clouds of ink; it tastes of cold metals. It tarnishes their silver scales. What is worse, the lampreys never find anything to latch onto and suck. Instead, they feel as if they are being sucked forward, body and soul, into a great distance withour stars or starfish, where they cannot feel their innards, where they cannot feel the waves touch their outer skin. One lamprey who mysteriously escaped the twilight sea to return to our blessed waters said that even now, his hunting is obscured by that dreadful nightmare, and he is often blinded to things he could suck. It is hard to live. Moreover, despite the horror, he sometimes misses the sensation of having his body being vaccuumed by the great and unreachable maelstrom. Once, the souls who drift below asked him to summarize the sounds, tastes and textures of the twilight sea in as few words as possible. And the lamprey sadly whispered. Hunger. Time.
The Monastery
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“How I caught my cheating wife – she had sex with her boss”
I Am not really good at writing a composition but the whole thing started around last year November when I lost my job at a reputable company, things became really hard that my ex wife started with her attitude, someone I helped through her schooling, even opened a shop for her after our wedding.
She started losing interest in me because I was broke and there was no more love because I couldn’t meet up to her demands. She became the bread winner around that time, things didn’t go as expected for me, I needed to do a lot of things even pay for the rented apartment we were in and the landlord came with the eviction letter.
Things became really tough that she wasn’t sleeping at home anymore, she would leave home for days and come back home and give me some little change and leave again, she started to live with her aunt and I became so lonely and useless in her eyes.
Eventually when I came up with the apartment money and we paid I decided I wasn’t going to stay with her for a while and go out and look for a job, so as to avoid fight and arguments. She later called me that her boss from the USA was back and she was to go and meet him because they had a meeting to do so I said OK since I usually speak and text with his boss so I allowed her to go. So after I left home I got a job and I frequented coming home to see her and my baby. I later found out she began to lock her phone and I asked her for the password she wouldn’t give it to me so I began to suspect her.
One day I eventually found the password and I unlocked it while she was asleep. I found out through a chat she had with her friend that she had sex with her said boss and she even bought a land without telling me all through the years we were together. I felt so betrayed and angry. I woke her up and asked her about it and she started crying and begging me.
I left home angrily and jilted. I was so devastated that I smoked a lot of weed that day and drank so much beer. I called my mom explained to her and later told her mom too. The next day her mom called me that she wanted to poison herself because of what she did. I sent her boss a message on WhatsApp and that one didn’t even answer me because he knew what he did with my ex wife.
It’s been months now since this happened and her mom calls me almost everyday begging me to forgive and forget but how do I forget, it’s not easy for me because I can be having sex with her and be seeing her boss face.
I blocked her on Facebook and whatsapp but didn’t block her calls or text message because of my baby when I need to send upkeep money. She calls me but I don’t pick up. I know that I can’t be with her anymore but she has the wedding certificate we got at the court wedding. I told her to give the photocopy of the certificate to my mom but she wouldn’t do it.
Guys the reason why I wrote this is who has an idea on how to go about a divorce without the certificate because someone told me the certificate is important for the divorce. I don’t know anything about it and my uncle even said the divorce will cost me a lot of money about 650k. I don’t know it that’s true too. Lol.
Please guys help out here. I have the proof of the chat and the audio conversation of the sex escapade with her boss so that will help in the court. My lovely daughter is 2 years now. How do I even collect my daughter from her. I have left all my property’s for her because of my daughter and am starting my life afresh. Will the court be able to grant me my daughters custody although am not ready to train her myself but I have my mom who can do that for me.
In addition to all of this guy’s if your girl or woman passwords her phone and doesn’t show you her password be very careful she might be cheating because not only did I find out she had sex with her boss I also found out she was also on some random social media nonsense talking to some random guys and all that and that she also bought a land without telling me for 3 years we were together. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'fa972527b6667fa534c1e860f0e0b47a22551bd9e30416e9a7c9233b6c22dc08'} |
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Sunday, October 12, 2014
NYCC: Women Can Like Whichever Movies They Want (And Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise Can F*ck Off)
It seems like every day there's a new article (like this one) that generalizes what female audiences wants to see on screen, which films are for us and which films are boys only. In the words of the great Samantha Jones on Sex and the City, "Did someone just order a Victorian straight up?" Why are people still thinking like this? Why are we still designating films to a certain gender?
Thankfully, I'm not the only one annoyed by this trend. At a New York Comic Con panel I attended this weekend titled "Panel: Vulture Presents Carol Corps and Beyond: The Future of Female Fandom," it seems there's a whole community of women struggling to navigate their love of certain films and comic books that still have a strict boys only label attached to them. While the discussion focused on popular comic books, panelists and successful female comic book creators Gail Simone, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Sana Amanat dished about the problems with fandom gatekeeping which crosses all mediums.
First off, it's important to note that women loving superhero, action and other genre films (including horror and sci-fi) is not a new trend, it's not a hashtag that will eventually fade away in the next year or so. Women have been fans of these types of books and films for years. Thanks to social media and other platforms, it's given us a voice to discuss our fandom on a larger scale. "[Female fandom]," said DeConnick, "is not a revolution but a restoration."
But still, women have to fight to prove that they're legitimate fans of genre fiction (as ridiculous as this may sound, a woman in the panel audience revealed that she went to a comic book store and was actually quizzed by a male employee on her comic book IQ. WTF?). We're not only fighting for acceptance by film and comic book marketers, but also our male counterparts. Seriously, when will the madness end? Simone reflected that when she first attended San Diego Comic Con a decade ago, the attendees were about 80% male -- not because there were no women fans, but because they didn't feel welcome at the event. Now the ratio is more even, but we are still struggling to be accounted for. "I believe in another ten years female creators will change the way comics are," Simone said. (*fist pump*)
It's not enough, however, that we are represented on the page or the big screen just to fulfill a quota. Quality should should be a serious consideration that allows a female character to have agency -- and whose sexuality is her choice, not something the creator tacked on as the only way to distinguish her from her male cohorts. Please writers, consider using your imaginations when creating female -- and male -- characters (multidimensions are key). As DeConnick advised,"Pretend their people." And to that end, my fellow movie critics, I love you but the next time you get the itch to discuss whether a film is for women or men (or any one group of people), don't. You sound silly. DeConnick agrees: "No one gets to make you feel like they can decide what you like."
The panel conversation got especially interesting when an audience member mentioned the division in feminism in which it seems to only include white women and not all women. So how do we contend with that? And why isn't this more of a concern for not just non-white women, but all women? I mean, seriously, if we're going to discuss feminism in media, this needs to be all inclusive. The most memorable quote of the conversation was when DeConnick said, "My feminism is intersctional or it is bullsh*t."
The only panelist of color (specifically, of Indian descent), Amanat, who co-created Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan (featured above), discussed the idea behind the first Muslim character to headline her own comic book and the wide reception she instantly received. "We tapped into something that people wanted for a long time," Amanat said. She went on to say that in a country in which Muslims are one of the largest religious groups, there is still a prejudice against them. But it's obvious that there's a hunger for more diverse female characters, but there is still resistance in the industry--from both men and women. Default women characters are still white and even their personas are being policed by those less accepting of villain/antihero characters than the traditional protagonist. How can we demand better female characters and not welcome the plethora of personalities and motives they can have? "To put all female characters on a pedestal of goodness gets old," Simone said.
People, we must do better. Female fandom is in a good place, but it can be in a much better place. What are you doing to make it better?
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In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.[1] It is one of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empiricism emphasises the role of empirical evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than innate ideas or traditions.[2] However, empiricists may argue that traditions (or customs) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.[3]
Empiricism, often used by natural scientists, says that "knowledge is based on experience" and that "knowledge is tentative and probabilistic, subject to continued revision and falsification".[4] Empirical research, including experiments and validated measurement tools, guides the scientific method.
The English term empirical derives from the Ancient Greek word ἐμπειρία, empeiria (roughly ”in test”),[5] which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which the words experience and experiment are derived .
Early empiricism
The earliest Western proto-empiricists were the Empiric school of ancient Greek medical practitioners, who rejected the three doctrines of the Dogmatic school, preferring to rely on the observation of phantasiai (i.e., phenomena, the appearances).[11] The Empiric school was closely allied with Pyrrhonist school of philosophy, which made the philosophical case for their proto-empiricism.
This idea was later developed in ancient philosophy by the Stoic school. Stoic epistemology generally emphasized that the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it.[12] The doxographer Aetius summarizes this view as "When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of his soul like a sheet of paper ready for writing upon."[13]
A drawing of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) from 1271
Renaissance Italy
Significantly an empirical metaphysical system was developed by the Italian philosopher Bernardino Telesio which had an enormous impact on the development of later Italian thinkers including Telesio's students Antonio Persio and Sertorio Quattromani, his contemporaries Thomas Campanella and Giordano Bruno, as well as later British philosophers such as Francis Bacon who regarded Telesio as "the first of the moderns.” [18] Telesio's influence can also be seen on the French philosophers René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi.[18]
British empiricism
British empiricism, though it was not a term used at the time, derives from the 17th century period of early modern philosophy and modern science. The term became useful in order to describe differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as empiricist, and René Descartes, who is described as a rationalist. Bacon's philosophy of nature was heavily derived from the works of the Italian philosopher Bernardino Telesio and the Swiss physician Paracelsus.[18] Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza, in the next generation, are often also described as an empiricist and a rationalist respectively. John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the primary exponents of empiricism in the 18th century Enlightenment, with Locke being normally known as the founder of empiricism as such.
David Hume
David Hume's empiricism led to numerous philosophical schools.
Logical empiricism
See also
5. ^ Webster
8. ^ Engfer, Hans-Jürgen (1996), Empirismus versus Rationalismus? Kritik eines philosophiegeschichtlichen Schemas, Padeborn: Schöningh.
18. ^ a b c Boenke, Michaela, "Bernardino Telesio", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/telesio/>.
38. ^ Ward, Teddy (n.d.), "Empiricism", Eprint Archived 2012-07-14 at Archive.today.
41. ^ James, William (1911), The Meaning of Truth.
42. ^ Dewey, John (1906), Studies in Logical Theory.
• Aristotle, Posterior Analytics.
• Sorabji, Richard (1972), Aristotle on Memory.
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A priori and a posteriori
The Latin phrases a priori (lit. "from the earlier") and a posteriori (lit. "from the later") are philosophical terms popularized by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. However, in their Latin forms they appear in Latin translations of Euclid's Elements, of about 300 BC, a work widely considered during the early European modern period as the model for precise thinking.
These terms are used with respect to reasoning (epistemology) to distinguish "necessary conclusions from first premises" (i.e., what must come before sense observation) from "conclusions based on sense observation" which must follow it. Thus, the two kinds of knowledge, justification, or argument, may be glossed:
A priori knowledge or justification is independent of experience, as with mathematics (3 + 2 = 5), tautologies ("All bachelors are unmarried"), and deduction from pure reason (e.g., ontological proofs).
A posteriori knowledge or justification depends on experience or empirical evidence, as with most aspects of science and personal knowledge.There are many points of view on these two types of knowledge, and their relationship gives rise to one of the oldest problems in modern philosophy.
The terms a priori and a posteriori are primarily used as adjectives to modify the noun "knowledge" (for example, "a priori knowledge"). However, "a priori" is sometimes used to modify other nouns, such as "truth". Philosophers also may use "apriority" and "aprioricity" as nouns to refer (approximately) to the quality of being "a priori".Although definitions and use of the terms have varied in the history of philosophy, they have consistently labeled two separate epistemological notions. See also the related distinctions: deductive/inductive, analytic/synthetic, necessary/contingent.
Analytic–synthetic distinction
The analytic–synthetic distinction (also called the analytic–synthetic dichotomy) is a semantic distinction, used primarily in philosophy to distinguish propositions (in particular, statements that are affirmative subject–predicate judgments) into two types: analytic propositions and synthetic propositions. Analytic propositions are true by virtue of their meaning, while synthetic propositions are true by how their meaning relates to the world. However, philosophers have used the terms in very different ways. Furthermore, philosophers have debated whether there is a legitimate distinction.
Constructive empiricism
In philosophy, constructive empiricism (also empiricist structuralism) is a form of empiricism.
Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation. The term comes from the Greek word for experience, ἐμπειρία (empeiría).
After Immanuel Kant, in philosophy, it is common to call the knowledge gained a posteriori knowledge (in contrast to a priori knowledge).
Empirical research
Feminist empiricism
Feminist empiricism is a perspective within feminist research that combines the objectives and observations of feminism with the research methods and empiricism. Feminist empiricism is typically connected to mainstream notions of positivism. Feminist empiricism proposes that feminist theories can be objectively proven through evidence. Feminist empiricism critiques what it perceives to be inadequacies and biases within mainstream research methods, including positivism.Feminist empiricism is one of three main feminist epistemological perspectives. The other two are standpoint feminism and post-structural/postmodern feminism.
Feminist epistemology
Feminist epistemology is an examination of the subject matter of epistemology from a feminist standpoint. Elizabeth Anderson describes feminist epistemology as being concerned with the way in which gender influences our concept of knowledge and "practices of inquiry and justification". It is generally regarded as falling under the umbrella of social epistemology.
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze (; French: [ʒil dəløz]; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus. A. W. Moore, citing Bernard Williams's criteria for a great thinker, ranks Deleuze among the "greatest philosophers". His work has influenced a variety of disciplines across philosophy and art, including literary theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism.Along with several French and Italian Marxist-inspired neo-Spinozists like Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Antonio Negri, Deleuze was one of the central figures in a great flowering of Spinoza studies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries continental philosophy (or the rise of French-inspired post-structuralist Neo-Spinozism) that was the second remarkable Spinoza revival in history, after well-known Neo-Spinozism in German philosophy and literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As Pierre Macherey noted, "An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Bergson, etc. But a rather singular position in this list would be assigned to Spinoza, owing to the philosophical interest that corresponds to him."
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the “Berlin Circle”. Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle. He authored The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. In 1930, Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis (Knowledge). He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics.
In philosophy of science and in epistemology, Instrumentalism is a methodological view that ideas are useful instruments, and that the worth of an idea is based on how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena. Instrumentalism is a pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey that thought is an instrument for solving practical problems, and that truth is not fixed but changes as problems change. Instrumentalism is the view that scientific theories are useful tools for predicting phenomena instead of true or approximately true descriptions.The truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem. A successful scientific theory reveals nothing known either true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes. Scientific theories are assessed on their usefulness in generating predictions and in confirming those predictions in data and observations, and not on their ability to explain the truth value of some unobservable phenomenon. The question of "truth" is not taken into account one way or the other. According to instrumentalists, scientific theory is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of nature by formulating laws, which state or summarize regularities, while theories themselves do not reveal supposedly hidden aspects of nature that somehow explain these laws. Initially a novel perspective introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906, instrumentalism is largely the prevailing theory that underpins the practice of physicists today.Rejecting scientific realism's ambitions to uncover metaphysical truth about nature, instrumentalism is usually categorized as an antirealism, although its mere lack of commitment to scientific theory's realism can be termed nonrealism. Instrumentalism merely bypasses debate concerning whether, for example, a particle spoken about in particle physics is a discrete entity enjoying individual existence, or is an excitation mode of a region of a field, or is something else altogether. Instrumentalism holds that theoretical terms need only be useful to predict the phenomena, the observed outcomes.There are multiple versions of instrumentalism. Instrumentalism is a variety of scientific anti-realism.
Legal positivism
laws are commands of human beings
moral judgments, unlike statements of fact, cannot be established or defended by rational argument, evidence, or proof ("noncognitivism" in ethics)Historically, legal positivism sits in opposition to natural law's theories of jurisprudence, with particular disagreement surrounding the natural lawyer's claim that there is a necessary connection between law and morality.
Logical positivism
Logical positivism and logical empiricism, which together formed neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was verificationism, a theory of knowledge which asserted that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are meaningful. The movement flourished in the 1920s and 1930s in several European centers.
Efforts to convert philosophy to this new "scientific philosophy", shared with empirical sciences' best examples, such as Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, sought to prevent confusion rooted in unclear language and unverifiable claims.The Berlin Circle and Vienna Circle—groups of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians in Berlin and Vienna—propounded logical positivism, starting in the late 1920s.
Modern philosophy
Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with Modernism), although there are certain assumptions common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy.
The 17th and early 20th centuries roughly mark the beginning and the end of modern philosophy. How much of the Renaissance should be included is a matter for dispute; likewise modernity may or may not have ended in the twentieth century and been replaced by postmodernity. How one decides these questions will determine the scope of one's use of "modern philosophy."
Phenomenalism is the view that physical objects cannot justifiably be said to exist in themselves, but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. redness, hardness, softness, sweetness, etc.) situated in time and in space. In particular, some forms of phenomenalism reduce talk about physical objects in the external world to talk about bundles of sense-data.
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Its origins are often attributed to the philosophers William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce later described it in his pragmatic maxim: "Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object."Pragmatism considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes. The philosophy of pragmatism "emphasizes the practical application of ideas by acting on them to actually test them in human experiences". Pragmatism focuses on a "changing universe rather than an unchanging one as the Idealists, Realists and Thomists had claimed".
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith, this "paper [is] sometimes regarded as the most important in all of twentieth-century philosophy". The paper is an attack on two central aspects of the logical positivists' philosophy. One is the analytic–synthetic distinction between analytic truths and synthetic truths, explained by Quine as truths grounded only in meanings and independent of facts, and truths grounded in facts. The other is reductionism, the theory that each meaningful statement gets its meaning from some logical construction of terms that refers exclusively to immediate experience.
"Two Dogmas" has six sections. The first four focus on analyticity, the last two on reductionism. There, Quine turns the focus to the logical positivists' theory of meaning. He also presents his own holistic theory of meaning.
Verificationism, also known as the verification idea or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is the philosophical doctrine that only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cognitively meaningful, or else they are truths of logic (tautologies).
Verificationism thus rejects as cognitively "meaningless" statements specific to entire fields such as metaphysics, spirituality, theology, ethics and aesthetics. Such statements may be meaningful in influencing emotions or behavior, but not in terms of truth value, information or factual content. Verificationism was a central thesis of logical positivism, a movement in analytic philosophy that emerged in the 1920s by the efforts of a group of philosophers who sought to unify philosophy and science under a common naturalistic theory of knowledge.
Vienna Circle
Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 – July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States".
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Ever since I can remember being conscious of the idea of a body being either “good” or “bad,” I can remember wishing that my own body were different. I can’t tell you when it started, but I know I’ve felt this way so long that I can’t actually remember what it feels like to feel good about my body. Awesome, right?
I don’t really know what caused my extremely terrible body image, but I have a few theories.
Sixteen, stacked and totally clueless about what to do with my enormous boobs. Hiding them under that tank top is totally working right?
I grew up in this really lovely town in Northern California that happened to be full of white people who looked nothing like me. It wasn’t just that they were a different color than me (that’s a bag of issues I’ll save to unpack on another day) but their bodies were different too. My hometown is big on athletics, particularly water sports and soccer. So imagine if you will, a bunch of lanky, tanned, sun-bleached blonde amazons agilely prancing around and you might begin to imagine where some of my issues came from.
I still remember very vividly the summer my boobs arrived. I was 13 years old and over the course of 2 months I went from a very reasonable B cup to a staggering DD.
By the time I started high school I only had one bra that fit me and it was this awful white shiny floral thing that I’m pretty sure we got at Mervyn’s. I was already a pretty curvy girl and then you add on the monster cans and what I was left with really didn’t jive with the preferred athletic body type that surrounded me.
So there you have it, from the day I got these things, I didn’t want them.
I’ve thought about getting a reduction for about a million years, but because of the awesome thing that is the American Medical-Industrial Complex, I haven’t been able to make it happen. Now thanks to the grace of God (or something) and the IMMENSE generosity of my parents, it’s finally coming to pass.
That’s right, in less than two weeks I will be reducing my glorious chesticles from a J cup to somewhere around a D and finally, I am terrified.
At first I was just really excited about the prospect of smaller boobs, having hated mine for so long. I dreamed of delicate lacy bras that don’t look like something one would use to launch catapults in a medieval battle. I fantasized about walking into any old store that happens to sell bras and picking one up off the shelf and it actually fitting me. I imagined what it would be like to hate my spinning classes for the normal reasons (because spinning is torture sent up from hell) and not because I was constantly knee-ing myself in the boobs as I rode.
I rode that wave of excitement for a long time too. People kept asking me if I was nervous, and I could honestly respond that no, I wasn’t, I was just stoked.
However, sometime between my pre-op visit and some foolhardy late night googling I partook in the other night, I realized the enormity of what I’m about to do.
I have no idea what a cc is, but apparently I’m gonna have about 1,100 of them removed from each tit. Further late-night googling enlightened me that this is a little more than a liter. They are gonna take a liter out of each of my boobs. I am freaking out.
That is so much of me, and it’s just gonna be gone. Shipped off to some lab to be tested for malignancy (that’s good at least) and then what? What happens to all the fat that gets taken out of people after it’s tested? Is some jerk gonna take my boob fat and make soap out of it? Am I? Am I Tyler Durden?!
Sorry, I’m getting carried away now. But seriously, aside from the actual physical pain that I will be in after having a LITER OF FLESH removed from each of my boobs, what on earth is that going to be like, psychologically? Am I going to like the way I look with smaller boobs? Is my ass going to look huge without something to balance it out? Am I suddenly going to miss them when they’re gone?
For so long I have identified as a woman with huge boobs. It is probably the first thing people notice when they see me, and it’s one of the strongest identifiers I have. I know they don’t define me but they are (literally) a huge part of me and I have no idea what life will be like without them.
I’m glad I waited so long to get scared about things, but now that the fear has finally caught up with me I am FEELING it. I am hoping to be able to recapture some of that initial excitement because I know in the long run this will end up being such a positive thing for my quality of life, but it’s hard to find that positive spin when I’m reading about surgical drains.
Anyway, I’ll be documenting all the details the painkillers will allow me to remember. What will happen when I have to share my 450-square-foot apartment with another human being for 10 days? (Hi Mom!) How many times can I watch the first 3 seasons of Game of Thrones while I’m recovering before I get sick of it? (Pretty sure the answer is infinity) Is it true that bras aren’t actually supposed to leave horrible indentations on your shoulders? (This happens to everybody right?) I don’t know the answer to any of these questions but I’m going to find out, and I hope you’ll join me. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9596810936927797}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '69406', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6LGWPVHHZ4Y6XT3HFVUF4FVFIPKRLK3W', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:46324e78-9998-4ca4-acd4-91686537d577>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 18, 3, 9, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '204.9.177.216', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FTZ52TR7PB5V4WVGL3VE2TD6UEPGEQ4O', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ab33b2c5-913b-4af5-931b-7816c7e25278>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.xojane.co.uk/issues/breast-reduction-freak-out', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3f3f82ad-c9cc-4bd5-bffd-5ce86020a745>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '998', 'url': 'http://www.xojane.co.uk/issues/breast-reduction-freak-out', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-15\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for April 2014\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': '0.0339123010635376', 'original_id': '80bab7196ed2d046f92dc917dc782880bd3e8302ab441fdbd8ff75004e768447'} |
Why a Salesperson should go out of the way for customers
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Not sure if going by the book is the right way to go? Innovation happens when someone decides to not go by the book and take a path not many have yet ventured into. We cannot all be innovators but that does not mean we have to stick to the rules, cent per cent. A sense of entitlement pervades in our society and your customers demand to be given special care and felt appreciated.
All companies appreciate regular customers but do they always express their appreciation? Most companies get weighed down by the processes behind the scene, the work that needs to be done as soon as possible. Take a minute, breathe. Do you think your average customer is aware of your struggles behind the scene? And more importantly, do you think they care? The answer is no, as simple as that. Your customers have life and struggles of their own and it is your products and how well they are served that make an impression on your customer.
Take the stories of customers who received thoughtful gifts from companies. These stories often become viral, with millions commenting on the thoughtfulness on the part of the company and its employees. The story of the little kid who received a new phone in place of the one she lost or the regular customer who got a call of concern for his sudden absence is all stories worth sharing and celebrating. This general tendency can easily justify over-the-top customer services some companies provide.
These services work on two levels. Firstly, it develops a sense of loyalty in your customer as they feel appreciated and would not seek another brand or product simply because they like where they are at present. Secondly, it can prove to be an effective method for attracting new customers. People like to share their stories and when they share the story of your excellent customer service, the story is bound to attract attention and with attention comes affirmations from other customers and then comes the new customers whose interest you have successfully piqued.
Do you find yourself asking why it matters? It matters because we live in an age where FOMO(fear of missing out) and instant gratification abounds. We are never content and nothing ever satisfies us because a new desire takes the place of each desire we fulfil and the cycle is endless. Customer choices are no longer based on money alone. The budget does not matter that much in such a competitive environment, it is the service and delivery that matters more. And if the service you provide manages to please your customers, then you can set yourself apart from your competitors. To build up that reputation, make people gush about the excellent customer service you offer.
A salesperson becomes synonymous with the company they represent and their actions translate into the actions of the company. If you can treat a customer with warmth and consideration, you have consequently helped improve the reputation of your company. However, it can be a double-edged sword as the inappropriate behaviour of one employee can put the whole company into disrepute.
According to Defaqto research, 55% of customers would pay extra to guarantee a better service. How can you make sure that you are providing that ‘better service’ that your customers seek? Keep the following pointers in mind as you deal with your customers.
Communication does not end with Successful Sales
A customer needs to feel valued for them to become a regular customer. Follow-up on their order, collect their feedback and if they have any issues make it your job to resolve them as soon as possible. Got a call from a customer during your day off? Pick up that call and answer their queries because a quick response is a sure-fire way to win the approval of that customer. Go that extra mile and make that customer feel glad that they chose you over your competitor.
Personalise your Customer Service
From shampoo to operating systems everyone craves personalisation and today it is more a norm than an exception. So personalise those follow-up emails and those telephone conversations. Create customer personas and work on tailoring your services to suit your kind of people. Products in the same price range have become so similar that there is a dearth of ways by which your product could stand apart. To distinguish your company from the competition by providing excellent customer service.
Stay Organised
Keeping track of all your customers and remembering all their individual preferences can be highly taxing. Apart from the computer-generated data it always pays to make personal notes and keep a track of the observations and general tendencies that you may pick up as you create a bond with each customer. It’s a human impulse to trust a person who remembers something about us because of the fact that the person remembered automatically translates to concern and care. Staying organised can also prevent you from making mistakes like forgetting to follow-up with a particular customer. These seemingly minor omissions and mistakes can eventually tarnish your company’s reputation.
The Administration should Step Up
Offering your customers with the best customer service is no mean feat and it cannot be accomplished solely by a dedicated sales force. The salesforce needs the backing of an administration that provides the resources necessary for the same. Simple steps like decreasing the number of customers per sales personnel can enable an employee to focus more on a single customer and hence ensure that the customer is satisfied with the service. Allow your employees to think independently and refrain from curbing their freedom so that they are not forced to stick to standard procedures. Sticking to the book may seem easier and convenient but it will ultimately limit your employees.
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On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at approximately 1:31 P.M. Jasper County Sheriff’s Narcotics Deputy conducted a traffic stop on I-65 southbound lane at the 221 mile marker. The red 2015 Dodge Durango was stopped due to an observed traffic violation by the deputy. Upon making contact with the driver, he was identified as Kenneth L. Baker, age 38 of Chicago, Illinois and a passenger identified as Earl L. Amos, age 46 of Chicago, Illinois.
While the traffic stop was being conducted an Indiana State Police K-9 Trooper arrived on scene and initiated an open air K-9 sweep around the vehicle. It was also determined that the vehicle and occupants were the suspects in a prior investigation involving the sale of heroin to undercover officers. As the Jasper County Narcotics Deputy was issuing a written warning for the traffic violation the ISP K-9 unit gave a positive alert on the vehicle.
As Mr. Baker was the registered owner he was asked and gave consent for a vehicle search. While this was ongoing both subjects were secured for officer safety. An additional back-up unit from the Sheriff’s Office arrived on scene and observed the Baker subject making strange movements with his hands inside the rear of his waistband. When confronted on why this was occurring, Baker refused to cease the furtive hand movement and was being placed on the ground when a clear plastic bag became exposed from his rear waistband. Baker was physically shaking the bag, attempting to destroy the contents; a powder like substance resembling a known narcotic. This powder became airborne and contaminated the two deputy sheriffs.
Once the suspect Baker was under control a True Narc Spectrometer test on the powder was positive for heroin. Both Baker and Amos were transported to the Jasper County Law Enforcement Detention Center. Baker received decontamination due to heroin product inside his pants and both deputies were taken to the Franciscan Hospital due to the inhalation of the heroin during the struggle.
Kenneth Baker was charged with: Conspiracy to Deal Heroin, a Level 3 Felony, Possession of Heroin, a Level 5 Felony and Resisting Law Enforcement, a Class A Misdemeanor.
He is currently being held without bond.
Earl Amos was charged with: Conspiracy to Deal Heroin, a Level 5 Felony, Dealing in Heroin, a Level 2 Felony. Amos was later released after processing due to a serious existing medical condition that required treatment in the Chicago area. This medical condition was confirmed by the jail on duty medical staff.
Both deputies received treatment and were released from the Franciscan Emergency Department. The investigation is continuing on aforementioned charges.
ALL SUSPECTS ARE CONSIDERED INNCOENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9e400b80c1f071aa3a3aa05327a30165ab4fe8bc63985354f23c8d450870ad9a'} |
A fan-created pack for Fallout 3 swaps many of the textures in Bethesda's
post-apocalyptic RPG sequel with higher-resolution replacements, upgrading the
visuals in the game, though this also places greater demands on your system. The
pack is just under 400 MB, and the download can be found on
AtomicGamer,
eXp Download, and
Gamer's Hell.
Just at a glance they do look really really nice. They also color coded the map too so you can see things at a glance a little better. Everything looks much sharper and clearer, like it's really made for a PC and not showing alot of concessions as a console port.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Clarke's Third Law | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f9180fd25185158871a753e7e6cfb741553c4cad9cfc3ece2e5391022c1aebca'} |
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ICY Review
by forgottenlor, 2018-02-21
I'm nearly out of medicine and that's not good. In the post-nuclear winter world of ICY, medicine is the only way to heal your wounded party members, and it's pretty difficult to find throughout most of the game. So I set about trying to scavenge ruins that don't seem too dangerous, because the last thing I need is to get into another fight with no way to heal up. I really hope that I find some disinfectant or bandages, as those raise up my medical supply. No such luck. I move to the next point on the map and hope I don't trigger another event, since Carlos and Mobolaji seem to be at each other's throats, and while I'd be willing to banish Carlos from the group, I'd rather not lose his wife April. Luckily, no event is triggered, but I do find a house. There is a hole in the floor, but luckily, I have a rope, which I can sacrifice to explore the hole. Inside I at least find some chemicals. With those and some cloth, I can be craft bandages. My medicine supply goes up from 8 to 9. A small victory, but a victory nonetheless. ICY is a survival-RPG, which despite its low budget manages to pull off what few other low budget RPGs do, namely being a full blown RPG, with the all the RPG elements you could wish for, but within a fairly limited scope.
Before We Begin. . .
Just so it's clear, this is a review for the Frostbite edition of ICY. It was funded on Indigogo and at some date in the past released on Steam. The game received a lukewarm reception, so the developers decided to pull it from Steam, implement changes based on the criticisms and suggestions of the initial players, and rerelease it as the Frostbite edition. I never played the initial version, nor was I a backer, so this review is, for better or worse, not influenced by the game's history. I picked the game up during the Black Friday sale on Steam.
Story and Atmosphere
ICY takes place in a cold, harsh world, presumably suffering from the aftermath of a nuclear winter. The game is set in an isolated valley, with a few fortified settlements, plenty of bandits, and the dread red riders, a sort of post-apocalyptic horde of raiders, reminiscent of the Huns or the Mongols. You start as a newer member of a scavenger family. This basically is a group that wanders the wastes, hunting and scavenging and the trading with settlements. Your family found you after an accident and you have (surprise!) lost your memories of who you were.
This tree is one of ICY's unique story locations.
ICY is a story driven game. You search for your past, revenge and kidnapped comrades. Many locations you visit unfold as story vignettes, sort of like a choose your own adventure book, but taking into account your character's skills and equipment, sort of like much more intensive and detailed versions of Pillars of Eternity's vignettes, or like some encounters from Planescape: Torment. How you decide to handle these can have consequences as minor as gaining some extra food or taking minor damage, and as major as losing a companion. In addition, the game has multiple ending depending on your choices.
Your companions will often comment on events and locations.
In ICY you, through a tragic event, become the leader of your "family." Each member who joins you is a unique character with his or her own skill set and outlook. Your companions will often comment on the outcome of quests, the discovery of new locations, or the choices you make. In general, they are well done, and you get a good sense of whom you are travelling companions are. You can also, if you wish to do that, spend extra time talking with them and discussing their pasts
You can optionally talk to companions if you wish. Let's see what Carlos thinks.
The game does a good job of depicting its freezing post-apocalyptic world. While anyone who has played Fallout or Wasteland 2 will notice similarities to ICY, they will also notice distinct differences. ICY has the feel of a "modern" world, not a retro world of the 1950s or 1980s. It also is not a world covered with a barren radiation soaked wasteland, but has snow covered ruins and dark forests. Instead of giant roaches and scorpions, you will encounter roaming wolf packs and mammoths. In addition, ICY's mutants more resemble mountainous Yeti than say the Incredible Hulk.
ICY's writing, story, companions and atmosphere are well done, well enough so that they carry the game. On the other hand, ICY offers nothing that we have not seen in other games. Nor is there any surprising plot twists like one experiences in the best-written role-playing games.
Exploration and Survival
Nodes often have a variety of locations. The ones here are especially dangerous. In the forests I can hunt, in the cave I can scavenge.
Though writing and quests are an important part of ICY, you can pretty much travel around the game's world more or less at will, with only a few individual locations shut off until you get the correct quest. ICY's world is divided into a number of nodes. Each time you travel to a new location, you open up new paths to neighboring locations on the map. Some locations, such as a town open up another map, or possible quests. Most locations though offer the chance to scour ruins or to hunt in forests. Each ruin or woods have two bars. A white bar indicates the chance of finding something useful. A red bar indicates dangers. Danger is mitigated by your main character's exploration skill, and either their hunting skill (in the woods) or scavenging skill (in ruins). Depending on your skill, you can trigger positive or negative story vignettes, which often involve gaining extra loot, or taking damage. These in turn can often be mitigated by having a particular skill, or having a piece of equipment, you can sacrifice, such as a rope, a lock pick, or a torch.
My hunting had yielded a random encounter. Success at any of these three approaches will be dependent on my skills.
You need what you find in ICY for two reasons. First is you have two resources: food and medicine. Food is consumed when you move to a new mode. You will need medicine to heal up after a battle or dangerous event. Running out of either one is pretty bad. Your group also starts (which makes sense in context of the story) losing almost all of their equipment. Therefore, you will need to find replacements. At first, you will find makeshift items and later you can afford better equipment buy selling what you find.
My successful skill check yields extra meat and leather. (shown by the silver stars.)
ICY also has an effective but not overly complicated crafting system. Normally you can create an item by combining two others. For example, cloth and animal fat can be used to make a torch. You start out with a number of crafting recipes, but others can be bought in the various towns in ICY.
The exploration-crafting-equipment system works well in ICY. It motivates you to explore the game's relatively small world. It also gives you a sense of progression and need. The game really conveys the sense of being a hunter-scavenger and that adds to the game's atmosphere.
Unlike many RPGs, combat is not the focus of ICY. You can choose aggressive solutions, which will often result in combat, but you can often just as easily avoid combat, providing you have the right skills. Combat is always risky, because you usually take some damage in combat and repairing that uses your valuable medical supplies. On the other hand avoiding combat does not always mean you will escape damage either. In the end I felt ICY encourages to play to whatever skills you have invested in (i.e. to play your character) and I think that is a good thing.
ICY's combat is card based. I actually think this a good solution for the game. It avoids two traps that budget RPG systems can fall into. One is developing a boring combat system, which drags the enjoyment of the game down. The other is developing a good combat system at the cost of other systems and ending up with a game that is 95% combat. That is fine in a dungeon crawler, but not in a game like ICY.
In ICY there are about 10 distinct cards which are based on what equipment your characters are equipped with and what skills they have. Depending on the level of the skill or the quality of the equipment, each card can be bronze (the worst), silver, or gold (the best). In combat you can play cards either individually or in combinations of up to 3 cards. Combinations can be the same cards (3 bullets suppresses enemy fire, for example) or a mixture (stealth, aim, and bow yield a silent attack). This results in a fairly decent number of combat possibilities, dependent on what cards you draw.
First I buff my characters with unseen. . .
In addition to the normal cards, there are blank cards. You get a blank card in your deck if you are using shoddy equipment. In addition, if a character is wielding a weapon and has less than the maximum skill of 5, you get one blank card for every point lower than 5 that character's skill is. So a character with a bow skill of 2 wielding (3 blank cards) a shoddy bow (1 blank card) mixes 4 blank cards into the deck.
This means that at low levels you will often draw 50% blank cards, which limits your possibilities, whereas at higher levels you'll be able to use almost every card in your hand. Once you have emptied your hand of cards, the round ends and the opponent draws and plays their hand out.
. . . Then its time to do some damage.
The card based combat is well done for a number of reasons. First combat does not take overly long. Second, there is a definite progression in the game, where you are continuously getting more and better cards in your hand, so you get more combinations as the game advances. By the time you master the card game, ICY is also more or less over. If ICY was a longer game, I am sure the combat would get tedious, but for the game's short length, I believe the card game was the correct decision, and gave the developers valuable resources for the game's presentation and other systems.
ICY is a role-playing game with a skill point system similar to Fallout and many other post-apocalyptic RPGs. There are 3 different weapon skills and 6 different non-combat skills. 3 of these non-combat skills (exploration, stealth, and speechcraft) also give you cards which can be used in combat (like intimidate). The other 3 are essential for gaining food and loot, so there is in general a fairly nice balance to the skills. Level 1 in a skill costs 1 point, level 5 costs 5 points, so you can either choose to be fairly decent in all skills, or be really good in a few. There is a nice tradeoff here, in that in the story and visual novel episodes it is better to be good in many skills, but in combat it is better to have fewer gold cards than it is to have many silver and bronze ones. Your main character's skills are the only ones, which are used in the story segments. Companions, however, contribute skill based cards to combat. This really does mean your character's build is meaningful for the story segments of ICY.
I've given Demetra a melee weapon, but as you can see she'd be equally as good with a bow.
Each character has one weapon slot and one armour slot, and you can decide what armour and weapon you would like on each companion.
The system is fairly basic, but there are no junk skills, and at least for firearms and melee weapons there is a meaningful equipment choice (blade vs. blunt or pistol vs. rifle). Again, for a larger longer game where combat is a game's central pillar, this system would be disappointing, but it works well in the limited scope of ICY.
For a game in its price range and its budget, ICY has a very nice presentation. The character portraits are beautifully done, as is the game's map, and even the event and combat illustrations. The combat screen and the U.I. are sleek. The same can be said about all of the game's art assets. The sound and music are also decently done. The only thing it does not have is voice acting. All in all though for a modern indie RPG, I'd say the presentation is pretty impressive.
Though it is probably already apparent, I will now say that the Frostbite edition of ICY pleasantly surprised me. It's one of the few budget indie CRPGs you'll find, because trying to create a game with meaningful exploration, a good combat system, a well written story with consequences, and interesting companions is an overwhelming undertaking. It's also a text book example of how to meaningfully do it within a very limited budget. Each of ICY's systems is well designed for its playing time (it took me 9 hours to complete). Nothing is too complicated, but everything is well thought out and executed. However, in the end, ICY does not excel in any area, nor does it do anything particularly memorable. Still if you are looking for a good, short, cheap CRPG for in between, I can definitely recommend ICY.
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Developer: Inner Void Interactive
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Post-Apoc
Genre: RPG
Combat: Turn-based
Play-time: 10-20 hours
Voice-acting: None
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· Platform: PC
· Released at 2015-07-27
· Publisher: Digital Tribe Games
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• Detailed companions
• Interesting setting
• A good mix of story, exploration, survival, and combat
• Nice artwork for a low budget game
• Short playing time (9 hours)
• Relatively simple mechanics
• Excels in no area.
Rating: Good
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Character Protects Life
A talk given by Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari
on 7th January, 2004 at the Youth Meeting in Babuji Memorial Ashram, Manapakkam INDIA
Master: So what do you want to hear from me?
Abhyasi: What you expect the youth to do
Master: I don't expect the youth to do anything. I can only say what youth should be doing. Youth should not be doing what they think they should be doing (laughter)-Number One. You know people think that youth is a time for enjoyment.
(A few abhyasis request Master to speak in Tamil.)
Master: Most people understand English. I have to speak for the majority.
That is, in our youth, we should not be doing what we want to do. "No sir, I am still young. It's time for me to enjoy..."-that is incorrect. Suppose you plant brinjals or plantains in your garden, and they stay unripened, what would you do? Or if they rot before ripening? It would be of no use. So only when it ripens into a vegetable can we eat it, isn't it? Therefore, youth is a time for preparation.
Preparation-in what way? First is, education in the family, which is natural. Listen to your parents, honour them, respect them, most of all, love them. Of course, I hope your parents are all good parents, who will give you the proper guidance, because sadly, in modern life, parental guidance is lacking. And when they do guide you, they guide you in the wrong direction of ambition rather than aspiration.
You know the difference between ambition and aspiration? Ambition is perasai [greed], aspiration means munnetratukku oru abhilasai, oru asai [a desire for progress, a wish]-progress, not in your profession, but in education, in spirituality. Ranking first does not imply growth in education, because in any class, there can be only one top ranker. To say that he is the only one to have progressed is not correct. Success is about maximizing my learning in one field and mastering it to the extent possible-that is my goal. Not to come first-to educate myself is the goal. There are lots of people who were top rankers but are now nowhere to be found.
Successful people are people who never went to the top of the ladder, but learnt enough to manage. If you fall in water, you should know how to swim. You needn't be an Olympic swimmer.
"No, no sir, I want to get the Olympic gold medal."
"So that if I fall in water, I should be able to get out."
You don't need an Olympic gold for that; it's enough to know how to swim.
So, one must pay attention to academics; one must also pay attention to physical exercise. Both are essential. If one has a developed mind but an under-developed body, and is bed-ridden, what is the use? We are not philosophers, are we? We have many duties to fulfill-earn a living, get married, have children, take care of the family etc. So development of the body and mind are basic essentials.
The third aspect is spiritual development. There's training for this too, right from childhood. How? The Mission prayer has to be said in the morning and at night. It should be offered only once in the morning. Only once. One should not shout it out. (Gestures remembering the prayer with eyes closed.) Over. Before going to bed -last activity, after the movie, after the tiff with the parents, (laughter), after drinking milk, sit and recite the prayer once and go to sleep with that thought, in that remembrance. So this is the main thing.
Development of body, mind and character-if we lose any of these three, we are incomplete. So we should give enough time for sports
not for watching them on television. Playing cricket is far better than watching it on television. What is the use of him (the cricketer) scoring a century? Whenever I wield the bat, I sprain my back, I sprain my wrist, and then I need to visit the doctor. Therefore my participation is essential, not by looking but by doing. Understand? So, half an hour daily-going out in the open, and playing football or hockey or catch for ten to fifteen minutes refreshes the mind too. And one also goes back to study with a rejuvenated interest. If you remain seated at the desk all the time, what would you be called? A bookworm. Even that is of no use. Neither should we neglect the former, nor the latter.
Two wings of a bird-that is what Sahaj Marg philosophy says. Body, mind-both benefit the soul, isn't it? There is a proverb which says, only a healthy mind can sustain a healthy body. If one's mind is riddled with worries and tension, health is gradually lost-depression, as they say these days; promptly, medicine and a five hundred rupee bill. A person who is preoccupied can never be depressed. Only an idle man can get depressed, isn't it? When you are always busy, how can you be depressed?
So, growth of body, mind and soul must occur simultaneously. And there is an opportunity and a method for spiritual training, right in childhood. What is that? Reading the Puranas for half an hour, studying the life history of great personalities like Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, Vivekananda, Babuji Maharaj, Lalaji, always speaking the truth.
"Did you study today?"
"No, Dad, I did not."
"Why not?"
"I didn't feel like it."
"So will you study from tomorrow?"
"Yes I will."
So what should you do the next day? You must study, because you have promised to study. I am the beneficiary in a promise. There is no point in making a promise to please your father. I can bring peace, happiness and bliss to my parents only if my behaviour, my character, my activities at school and college, lead to my individual growth.
"Look at my son, sir. He goes to Mahabalipuram under the pretext of going to school. He gets phone calls from strange places. Teachers at school ask why he hasn't come for seven days. But he says he goes to school." Because lots of students have told me this, especially girls, which is something really sad. They go to college, keep their books, and go off to Mahabalipuram with their boyfriends. And they return at five in the evening, pick up their books and get back home with such an innocent look, as if nothing has happened.
"Lakshmi
"
"I am very tired, Mom."
Of course she would be tired. Who knows what she would have done at Mahabalipuram? All this has to be given up. It feels good to have boyfriends now. A girl once told me, "I like lovers' quarrels." I said, "As a girl, you get involved in lovers' quarrels, and what is the end result?" Unwanted pregnancy, isn't it? Don't feel bad that I am talking very frankly. I am here only because you called me here to talk.
"Pen kettaa kulame kettu pochu" [If the girl goes astray, the repute of the family is lost.] The Bhagavad Gita says, the character of a nation lies in the hands of its women. "Sthrishu dushtashu varshneya jayate varnasankaraha," [If women get corrupted, society gets corrupted] said Lord Krishna. Women are the protectors of our culture, of our morality, of our tradition. If they go astray, there is no hope for society. So especially for girls, all this is addressed. You will have all the boyfriends you want when you marry a good man. He will be your boyfriend, he will be your lover, he will be your romance, he will be your protector, he will be your provider, he will be the father of your children-legitimate, legal, religious.
Nowadays you see advertisements on buses-it is extremely embarrassing. The fact that all this is required in a country must make us realize how degraded this nation has become. Because unless it is necessary, why would they display it? I am not very proficient in Tamil
there were a couple of Tamil speaking girls with me. When I asked them about an advertisement on the bus, they turned red with embarrassment. How would they say it openly? Only when I saw them blushing, I understood what it was.
This is the state of affairs in our society today. We should not get lured by all this, because all these are temptations. You see the movies, you see half naked dances, songs have double meaning lyrics. Isn't it? Why do we need to see them? I was really glad when an eighteen-year-old girl informed me, when I asked her, that she hadn't watched any movies for the past ten years. I asked her the reason. She replied, "They are not worth watching. You would only get corrupted if you watch them."
Stop going to the movies. Stop watching serials on televisions. Utilize that time in studies, or playing carom, or even fighting with your father-even that is fine, but don't indulge in unwarranted activities.
In India, the ancient culture, the ancient tradition, says that the character of a nation is in the hands of its women. Where the women go astray, that society goes astray. It is degraded; it falls. And in no time at all, there is no society left. I don't say it; Lord Krishna said it in the Bhagavad Gita. So women must be protectors, cherishers, guardians of the real values of life. That is why in the Veda it says, "Matru devo bhava"-first. Not pita [father], not acharya [teacher], not guru, nobody. "Matru devo bhava"-think of your mother as a goddess. Because she protected herself, she saved her character, she saved her chastity, her morality, until she found the right man to whom to give herself. Therefore you are a legitimate child. Don't you owe it to your mother to preserve that culture and tradition, and go pure, unsullied, uncorrupted in body and mind to your husband? Shouldn't you do it? If your father gives you a Ganesh vigraham [idol] of mud, worth eight annas [half a rupee], don't you protect it, and take it to your married home and say, "My mother gave it to me when I was five years old." We are able to protect a mud toy and carry it from age six to age seventy-two, until you die, because your mother gave it. But all the lessons your mother gave, the teachings that your mother gave, about the need to preserve your character, not to go flirting with boys, not to watch lewd television programs or cinemas, go to school and come back...are we doing it? "No, no sir, my mother is old-fashioned."
So what does old-fashioned mean? That she only had one man in her life, but you must have three? So you are modern. And this modern danger you know, which is a craze-of the Internet. Girls chatting with boys they have never met, going to meet boys they don't know anything about, probably getting raped. It has happened two or three times. A girl who knows nothing about life, too innocent to know what a boy can do to her, starts chatting on the Internet, becomes friends. One day he says, "Honey, why don't we meet?" Hne, y u & I meet
? (spells it out). "Where?" she replies. And an address is given, she goes. Probably she comes back safe, chances are she will not come back as she went. So you see, all these things, boys must avoid, girls also must avoid-girls must avoid like poison.
There is no use coming to Youth Meetings to talk about, you know, Schwarzenegger, and how wonderful Sripriya acted, or how wonderful Srilaksmi looks, or how beautiful Sridevi is. You must come prepared to listen to bitter truths, necessary truths, truths which you must practice in your life, under penalty of losing your character, and your life. Remember, character lost, is not easily regained. Reputation lost is never regained. Once you have got a name attached
"That girl
?" If someone points you out like that, your character is sealed. "Oh, you can see her at all sorts of places." It's very tempting when you are young. "You are beyond compare. Your eyes are like Sridevi's, your nose is like Srilakshmi's
" "Really? Uh-huh?"
So what else do you want to hear? I think I have said enough, isn't it? Have I not said enough or you want to listen to some more?
Abhyasis: Some more
Master: You know, I find one very funny thing-our girls who go abroad to study, are more careful than our girls who remain in India. Because when they go abroad, they know that in foreign countries, there is going to be temptation, there's going to be this that and the other; they are very self- protective. Here they think because it's our own land
A Telugu girl, approached by a Telugu boy, says,
"Mana vaallu. yemi baadhaka ledandi" [our people only, so no problem.]
"Yemi baadha ledante yenti?" [How can it be okay?]
Just because he belongs to your own culture and your own language, you know
it makes it easier. So always behave as if you are in a foreign land. We are in a foreign land, this world is not our original home; it is somewhere else. This is a foreign country. We are all foreigners. We must behave with respect and, much more, with self- respect. I am what I am. I shall remain what I am, under any circumstance. This promise, you must make to yourself. There is no use making this promise to your father, or your teacher, or to me. You are the person who is most concerned with keeping your promise to yourself. If you don't do it, you will regret it. Father and mother may weep for three days, four days.
I remember seeing a movie, Arangetram, long ago, where there is probably a purohit [priest] family, father and mother with six or seven daughters, one son. Purohits don't earn enough. This girl went to Hyderabad, tempted by an offer of job, and she became a prostitute. She didn't know what it was. She was trapped into becoming one. Once she got into it, there was no escape. But she started sending money home. Cycle for the eldest sister, saree for Deepavali, until one day, the mother began to suspect, "How can my daughter earn so much?" She then goes to Hyderabad, and finds this is what her daughter is doing. And you know what they did? They were not grateful to that girl who sold herself to keep her family alive. They cut her off. "Damn you..." They sent her out.
So you see how and why girls have to be absolutely on the straight and narrow path all the time. There is no question of holiday for one day.
There was this boy in my office whom I sent abroad to Korea for a month and a half. He was an abhyasi. On returning he said, "Can I have six months of leave from Sahaj Marg?" I asked, "Why?" "Sir, these South Korean girls are extremely beautiful." Why would you need leave from Sahaj Marg? Because you cannot indulge in all this when we are in Sahaj Marg.
So Sahaj Marg is a protection. It is like building a compound wall around your house. Character is a protection around your life. Lose the character, life is lost. It is open to anybody to shoot at you, to destroy you. Understood?
I have told you very specifically, very exactly, without pulling any punches, what youth has to face in today's world.
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People who don’t work at work
Ruth Haag
Jul 9, 2013
Visit a unionize automotive factory sometime. The unskilled labor have become masters at avoiding work. All the foreman needed to do was walk into the bathroom and they would easily find several sleeping on a bench with a magazine covering their face. The problem is the union made sure they still kept their jobs. How's that for encouragement? Nothing like finding someone sleeping in the bathroom on the weekend when they were making triple time.
The Big Dog's back
I know 3 guys. 2 retired GM workers, 1 Ford worker. Each of them do not know one another. Each have the same story......they got paid great and messed around most of the time at work. Most would volunteer for overtime because of the pay and the lack of work they actually had to do.
The Big Dog's back
My cousin is UAW. Brags how little he works all the time. And he is an upstanding member of the county Demorat Party.
He's also one of the most racist people I have ever met.
The Big Dog's back
Why of course.
The Big Dog's back
I bet you have Black friends too.
I just have friends.
Do you segregate yours by the color of their skin? I don't.
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I had a friend that in 1976 would punch in at NDH second or third shift and sometime in there slip out under the fence and go out partying then slip back in later to punch out!
UAW members still do it today.
Union Workers Caught Drinking and Smoking Pot on the Job Again
I have to agree with GI Joe on this one. I used to cater dept. xmas parties and almost no work was going on. I really felt like I had the wrong job.
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The Hero Zone
Thanks for the good read, and also, for invoking several memories of one of my favorite films: The Shawshank Redemption.
It is not hard to spot these people right off. I have had the unfortunate experience of having to work with many that did not work and also many that got upset if you did a better job than they did. It's not hard to do a better job if you're working and they're not. One day I hope to not have to work anymore.
"I love to work at nuthin' all day."
- BTO, "Takin' Care of Business."
The Big Dog's back
Song made just for you.
Darwin's choice
Ms. Ard ?
Some are called managers. Others are family friends & relatives of the boss. While others are called migrant workers.
Omg this explains a lot about someone I work with or maybe it she is the she in the article
I have seen this. The people who aren't working, or are ineffective, blame one who is. The scapegoat is not a team-player, or an outsider. Until the failed leader is replaced, mediocrity continues.
Had to explain this to my kitchen manager. Some people take, take, take and then want more. This is the worst receipee for success. Remember that success breads success. Surround your self with successful people and soon you will successful. This column is negative. Is your glass half empty then take a good look @ your life...are you happy, do you feel like you have succeeded, do you live well, can you look @ your self in the mirror and say " I like me" , do you worry about what people say about you. Do you sleep well @ night. These are a fee of the things that I think!
Be successful sorry. Few of the things I think. Spelling is not my fortee.
I find at my job the more you screw off, miss work, carp and complain about how rough your job is non-stop, the more you are praised and pampered. Just can't figure it out.
Re: "the more you screw off,(snip)"
So if you bust your *ss, you're given more work?
If that's the general impression, it reads like an entity ripe for downsizing, buy-out or extinction.
Always preferred working on straight commission or being self-employed.
Simple formula: Ya don't work, ya don't eat.
Yep Contango--the more you bust your *ss the more work you are given simply because you've done your job as a person with a decent work ethic. Then again, I also have coworkers who are just down right plain stupid and if given a new task, appear like deer in headlights.
dorothy gale
I have several coworkers who have mastered the art of looking like they're working and several who don't even bother to disguise the fact that they are doing nothing. And they are protected by management, perhaps because they have also mastered the art of a$$-kissing. If you feed the ego of the boss you have nothing to worry about.
AMEN Dorothy!
Re: "you bust your *ss (snip),"
So why the kvetching if you seemingly have no qualms with the Marxian concept:
So very altruistic of you that you help the slackers keep their jobs and feed their families - you should be proud and less bitter.
The Big Dog's back
Capitalism pooh.
Just ask any local many guys have been fired because they are sleeping on the job, failing drug tests or working the system over......ONLY to be hired back months later AND paid for all the time they were off while they were fired. CRAZY
This is not just a union thing though! Some employees are just lazy. I used to hate to hire kids that are only working because their parents made them get a job!
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How to Deal with Stress Easily and Quickly
To get through a complicated task without getting burnt out, break it up into steps. Instead of trying to take on the whole task at once, set simple, achievable goals and take them on by one by one. As the task gets smaller, it will feel much more manageable, and completing minor goals will give you a much needed confidence boost.
Breathe deeply from your abdomen. This gets more oxygen to your brain, so that you feel relief from stress quickly. Many adults breathe from their chests, which causes shallow breathing that almost invites stress. Place your hand over your navel and visualize breathing from there and watch how much more relaxed you feel.
If you have constant worries, take a self defense class in your area. In addition to helping you learn to defend yourself, it will also increase your confidence, which will make you feel more comfortable in your own skin.
Develop a social network. Your social network can be the most important lifeline you have against stress. Sometimes all that you need to relieve stress is to have someone to talk to. Other times you might need someone to volunteer to take over one of the tasks that is overwhelming you. Well developed social networks provide for such needs.
Stress is a double-edged sword that can cause extreme exhaustion while also causing the inability to fall asleep. To get a good-night’s sleep, take a nice warm bath immediately before bed. Relax your body in the water one bit at a time and let your cares drain away with the bath water when done.
One way to relax and become in tune with nature is to start a garden or improve an existing one. Flowers are beautiful and invigorating, and a nicely kept garden is very rewarding. Tending your garden is very therapeutic, and it helps reduce your stress level considerably if you give it a try.
Avoid alcohol and nicotine as ways of dealing with stress. They may seem to help in a short-term situation, but you run a real risk of developing a serious long-term health problem that will be much worse than the stress you are currently experiencing. Becoming addicted, or even an increase in health concerns will raise your stress levels even higher. Better to avoid alcohol and nicotine all together.
Do not fight against the things that are in your life that stress you out that you cannot avoid. If you accept the fact that those things are in your life to stay, you are sure to find that you are far less stressed about them all of the time. Acceptance is important in these situations.
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White Couple, gang-raped... penis cut off. Savages...
Out of all the human races, Caucasoids have the weakest genes. Mentally and physically.
That is why:
1. They burn more in the sun than any other race.
2. They are terrible athletes.
3. More mentally ill.
4. More prone to cancer.
5. Lacking of ethical emotions.
etc.
Quoting: Lamp
Did you know full blooded aboriginals have an IQ of 60 ? The lowest in the world.
Whites average an IQ of a hundred. Whites also dominate strong man competition, especially the whites with nordic genetics. Oh and not to mention the klitchkos in boxing!
If whites had the weakest genes then it would have been impossible for whites to take over Australia or any other country. That alone indicates they possess superior genes. The strongest dominates and survives.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25007705
And those aboriginals will be here on this planet for another 100s of thousands of years while your white race will be relics of times past just like your Neanderthal ancestors. I.Q don't mean shit. It's all about adaptation and survival not technological advancements.
some scum do something horrifying and it devolves into a race focused bitch match.
this couple did not deserve what happened to them, noone deserves threatment like that..and that goes for whatever damn colour you are
the racists comments about how all blacks are sub human because of incidents like this are just stupid , so are the people trying to justfy atrocities like this with "whites have done worse" , you both suck
You racist moron, you excuse those evil murderers because of stuff that happened how long ago? Here we are in the 21st century, and the majority of African Americans (that aren't even 100% black anymore) are rejecting modern culture and society along with education. Explain to me why the Hell these people are so racist? 99.9% of them are part white anyway. The only real blacks are in Africa.
Also would you mind explaining to me why you Aussies are such arrogant andcclueless douchebags? Just about every Aussie I hear or read is so cocky and full of themselves. Shit starters. Don't you people realize that you were started from whore and criminals? Don't you realize that no one outside of your little island depends on you? If we sunk Australia, the whole planet would continue spinning and we would mourn the loss of kangaroos.
some scum do something horrifying and it devolves into a race focused bitch match.
this couple did not deserve what happened to them, noone deserves threatment like that..and that goes for whatever damn colour you are
the racists comments about how all blacks are sub human because of incidents like this are just stupid , so are the people trying to justfy atrocities like this with "whites have done worse" , you both suck
lol. white man leaves a critical comment and ops delete it. funny how they pick and choose what the comments are even if valid after two years visiting this sight i finally understand. glp is no diff. than msm.monitered and deleted for their own agenda f off glp
I say we're even on the grissle. We DID bad things. Now the MAJORITY of our problem is minority based.
Statisticssssssss.
Quoting: Anonymous Crook
"A chain was placed around his neck and he was dragged toward city hall by a growing mob; on the way downtown, he was stripped, stabbed, and repeatedly beaten with blunt objects. By the time he arrived at city hall, a group had prepared wood for a bonfire next to a tree in front of the building.[24] Washington, semiconscious and covered in blood, was doused with oil, hung from the tree by a chain, and then lowered to the ground.[27] Members of the crowd cut off his fingers, toes, and genitals.[24] The fire was lit and Washington was repeatedly raised and lowered into the flames until he burned to death. German scholar Manfred Berg posits that the executioners attempted to keep him alive to increase his suffering.[28] Washington attempted to climb the chain, but was unable to, owing to his lack of fingers.[29] The fire was extinguished after two hours, allowing bystanders to collect souvenirs from the site of the lynching, including Washington's bones and links of the chain.[24] One attendee kept part of Washington's genitalia;[30] a group of children snapped the teeth out of Washington's head to sell as souvenirs. By the time that the fire was extinguished, parts of Washington's arms and legs had been burned off and his torso and head were charred. His body was removed from the tree and dragged behind a horse throughout the town. Washington's remains were transported to Robinson, where they were publicly displayed until a constable obtained the body late in the day and buried it.[24]" - Wiki 'Jesse Washington'
my parents used to say, "if they jump off the bridge and die are you gonna follow? retribution gets us nowhere neither does living in the past. think about it. their tactics are working beautifully. look at history its repeating itself over and over
I say we're even on the grissle. We DID bad things. Now the MAJORITY of our problem is minority based.
Statisticssssssss.
Quoting: Anonymous Crook
"A chain was placed around his neck and he was dragged toward city hall by a growing mob; on the way downtown, he was stripped, stabbed, and repeatedly beaten with blunt objects. By the time he arrived at city hall, a group had prepared wood for a bonfire next to a tree in front of the building.[24] Washington, semiconscious and covered in blood, was doused with oil, hung from the tree by a chain, and then lowered to the ground.[27] Members of the crowd cut off his fingers, toes, and genitals.[24] The fire was lit and Washington was repeatedly raised and lowered into the flames until he burned to death. German scholar Manfred Berg posits that the executioners attempted to keep him alive to increase his suffering.[28] Washington attempted to climb the chain, but was unable to, owing to his lack of fingers.[29] The fire was extinguished after two hours, allowing bystanders to collect souvenirs from the site of the lynching, including Washington's bones and links of the chain.[24] One attendee kept part of Washington's genitalia;[30] a group of children snapped the teeth out of Washington's head to sell as souvenirs. By the time that the fire was extinguished, parts of Washington's arms and legs had been burned off and his torso and head were charred. His body was removed from the tree and dragged behind a horse throughout the town. Washington's remains were transported to Robinson, where they were publicly displayed until a constable obtained the body late in the day and buried it.[24]" - Wiki 'Jesse Washington'
Even huh?
Quoting: Lamp
Yep-I'd say even! Who the hell are you to judge suffering in either case?
I say we're even on the grissle. We DID bad things. Now the MAJORITY of our problem is minority based.
Statisticssssssss.
Quoting: Anonymous Crook
"A chain was placed around his neck and he was dragged toward city hall by a growing mob; on the way downtown, he was stripped, stabbed, and repeatedly beaten with blunt objects. By the time he arrived at city hall, a group had prepared wood for a bonfire next to a tree in front of the building.[24] Washington, semiconscious and covered in blood, was doused with oil, hung from the tree by a chain, and then lowered to the ground.[27] Members of the crowd cut off his fingers, toes, and genitals.[24] The fire was lit and Washington was repeatedly raised and lowered into the flames until he burned to death. German scholar Manfred Berg posits that the executioners attempted to keep him alive to increase his suffering.[28] Washington attempted to climb the chain, but was unable to, owing to his lack of fingers.[29] The fire was extinguished after two hours, allowing bystanders to collect souvenirs from the site of the lynching, including Washington's bones and links of the chain.[24] One attendee kept part of Washington's genitalia;[30] a group of children snapped the teeth out of Washington's head to sell as souvenirs. By the time that the fire was extinguished, parts of Washington's arms and legs had been burned off and his torso and head were charred. His body was removed from the tree and dragged behind a horse throughout the town. Washington's remains were transported to Robinson, where they were publicly displayed until a constable obtained the body late in the day and buried it.[24]" - Wiki 'Jesse Washington'
Even huh?
Quoting: Lamp
Jesse Washington raped and murdered the wife of his White employer. He signed the confession -- here's the kicker for all those who say he as coerced -- and gave the location of the murder weapon.
Manfred Berg is not a German, by the way. He's a filthy, degenerate Jew who has made a nice living promoting victim-hood on behalf of criminal races receiving their just desserts.
It says a lot about your degenerate agenda that your example rests on the [well deserved] suffering of some raping, murdering nagger whom you need to conceal the facts of the case in order to generate your Talmudic/Zinn-ish narrative.
Spewing hate out one side of your mouth, and Bible verses out the other. Better pick one side or another cause those 2 don't mix. You can't eat from the table of the Lord and the table of demons......and expect a positive result. You got some issues to work on girlfriend. I say this with love.
James 3:9-12 "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water."
That is because you don't WANT to believe it (It doesn't fit your agenda). Truth hurts huh.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33317160
Agenda?
I believe the traditional Aboriginals history.
Quoting: Lamp
I agree there is no doubt and ample evidence Aboriginals have been in Australia for thousands and thousands of years.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33317160
As well as New Zealand Aboriginals.
Quoting: Lamp
no, you fucking moran, they have only been there some hundreds of years as in less than a thousand years. like as in 900 years at the most. they came in boats at somewhere around 1200AD. they know that, we know that, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT... it appears that only YOU don't know that "lamp". THE STUPID>>>>>> it is burning even the glp cyberbrain which is virtually stupid resistant. but this one has the super stupids.
Out of all the human races, Caucasoids have the weakest genes. Mentally and physically.
That is why:
1. They burn more in the sun than any other race.
2. They are terrible athletes.
3. More mentally ill.
4. More prone to cancer.
5. Lacking of ethical emotions.
etc.
Quoting: Lamp
Did you know full blooded aboriginals have an IQ of 60 ? The lowest in the world.
Whites average an IQ of a hundred. Whites also dominate strong man competition, especially the whites with nordic genetics. Oh and not to mention the klitchkos in boxing!
If whites had the weakest genes then it would have been impossible for whites to take over Australia or any other country. That alone indicates they possess superior genes. The strongest dominates and survives.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25007705
And those aboriginals will be here on this planet for another 100s of thousands of years while your white race will be relics of times past just like your Neanderthal ancestors. I.Q don't mean shit. It's all about adaptation and survival not technological advancements.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30661172
funny all the prettiest black women are mixed with caucasion not like them pancake titty mignight black in rwanda white makes everything better.
Caucasians have win more than 80% of medals for USA and nearly 85% of medals as a race worldwide!
In last Olympics whites won 70% of medals in total (Europeans-Australians-White Americans) and in winter Olympics they are expected to win over 90 or 95% of medals as usually!Here this list includes the 430 multiple Olympic medal winners in history of Olympics and 377 of them are Whites and only 21 black and 32 Asians!
nah seriously, this one made me LOL.the olympics is a poor reference... for the ability of particular race's abilities at sport.. the premier sporting event in the ENTIRE WORLD and it's a poor reference HAHAHAHAHAAAAhahahahaabreatheHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Complete and utter bullshit.Your agenda is exposed. You can not bear to think that brown people could possibly traverse the high seas in our canoes (and take over NZ). That's unfair to us. Maori were Master Navigators of the Pacific Ocean.Tribes/Iwi trace their roots back to the CANOES WE ARRIVED IN! You are insulting our history and ocean faring ability.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33317160
Some Maoris say they were made in New Zealand.
Quoting: Lamp
WTF? Yes I'm sure people had sex and made babies on arrival. Good grief and you claim a superior intellect?You are exposing your own racism here I hope you are aware of that.
Out of all the human races, Caucasoids have the weakest genes. Mentally and physically.
That is why:
1. They burn more in the sun than any other race.
2. They are terrible athletes.
3. More mentally ill.
4. More prone to cancer.
5. Lacking of ethical emotions.
etc.
Quoting: Lamp
Did you know full blooded aboriginals have an IQ of 60 ? The lowest in the world.
Whites average an IQ of a hundred. Whites also dominate strong man competition, especially the whites with nordic genetics. Oh and not to mention the klitchkos in boxing!
If whites had the weakest genes then it would have been impossible for whites to take over Australia or any other country. That alone indicates they possess superior genes. The strongest dominates and survives.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25007705
And those aboriginals will be here on this planet for another 100s of thousands of years while your white race will be relics of times past just like your Neanderthal ancestors. I.Q don't mean shit. It's all about adaptation and survival not technological advancements.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30661172
funny all the prettiest black women are mixed with caucasion not like them pancake titty mignight black in rwanda white makes everything better.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1610668
Don't make a difference who mix with who the point is those same pancake titty, plate lipped daughters of Africa and the melanated people on this planet will be here thousands or even millions of years living peaceful existence while your racewill be relics of times past. Even your technology couldn't save you from total eradication. Look at the Caucasian low birthdate for example. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a8804e94de8553bf60033dbe544896fdffbd7ec0b28e9dd6604297eff9709715'} |
Felony weapons charges for 49ers Aldon Smith
KGO
October 10, 2013 11:35:04 AM PDT
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was charged Wednesday with three felony counts of illegal possession of an assault weapon and two misdemeanor counts of DUI for two separate cases in 2012 and last month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
Smith, 24, is expected to surrender on an arrest warrant for the gun charges later this month. If convicted of the felonies, he could face up to four years and four months in custody, prosecutors said.
The 49ers star faces the weapons charges after they were found by Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies in his home in unincorporated San Jose after a June 29, 2012, party that turned violent when gang members showed up and paid a $10 admission fee, prosecutors said.
Deputies recovered two rifles in Smith's bedroom, including an Armalite AR-10(T) rifle, and a subsequent search of the home two weeks later found three other firearms, including two Bushmaster assault rifles, Deputy District Attorney Brian Buckelew said.
None of the five rifles had been registered with the California Department of Justice, prosecutors said.
Deputies also located several large capacity ammunition magazines lying on the floor of Smith's bedroom and a cache of bullets of several different calibers, expended and unexpended, in his bedside table, prosecutors said.
Sheriff's officials submitted the case to the district attorney's office in July and prosecutors began a secondary investigation that determined three of the firearms were illegal assault weapons under California law, Buckelew said.
Smith bought three assault weapons on two separate occasions in Arizona in 2011, including two in Phoenix from a gun dealer on Dec. 10, 2011, a day before the 49ers played the Arizona Cardinals, prosecutors said.
The assault rifles are legal to own in Arizona but cannot be purchased or even possessed in California, according to Buckelew.
According to prosecutors, during a confrontation with guests at the 2012 party, Smith fired his .45-caliber handgun twice from his home's balcony and later fired several more times in the air.
Another guest shot and injured two people and Smith himself was later stabbed, prosecutors said.
Another person went into Smith's bedroom, removed one of his assault weapons and then walked around with it during the party, prosecutors said.
According to court filings in the DUI case, the California Highway Patrol arrested Smith on Sept. 20 for DUI and having a blood-alcohol level above .08 after he failed three field sobriety tests, tested at a .15 blood-alcohol level and had "slow slurred" speech.
A resident on Bentley Ridge Drive reported to the CHP seeing Smith back up the truck, speed and smash into a tree beside the resident's driveway, according to court documents.
The CHP reported that at the accident scene, officers saw tree branches on the hood of Smith's truck, burned rubber on the truck's body and a large amount of rubber tire debris where Smith crashed next to the driveway.
The truck "was stuck in the front yard" and its rear tires "caused damage to the front lawn and the tires became bald," a CHP officer reported.
A CHP officer asked Smith for his license and registration and Smith told him it was in the glove box, which was empty. In the center console, the officer found two white envelopes with one pill each inside, the CHP reported.
One envelope was labeled "Metaxolone," a prescription muscle relaxant, and the other labeled "Indometacin," a prescription pain reliever, according to a report by San Jose police.
San Jose police later reported that Smith's pickup, a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado, had license plates registered to Smith's 2013 Dodge Challenger and that the Silverado's registration was out of Kansas and had expired in 2012.
Smith also had a pipe in the center console of his vehicle that the CHP confiscated, according to the CHP.
The felony illegal weapons and misdemeanor DUI counts were charged today as separate, stand-alone cases, said Buckelew, who is prosecuting the felony case.
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Learn the basics of video conversion with FFMPEG.
FFMPEG is available on most Linux distributions.
A working Linux install with FFMPEG installed.
Video formats can be a real pain. Some programs and devices only support a select few. Others take up loads of space on your hard drive. Even worse, the playback on poorly converted media is terrible.
FFMPEG puts the power in your hands and all from the command line. You can use FFMPEG to wrangle your video files into exactly the right file formats without sacrificing quality or dealing with clunky and incomplete GUI tools that have more dependencies than functionality.
This guide covers some of the most common uses and functions of FFMPEG in handling video, but there are certainly more. Plus, as a command line utility, FFMPEG is fully scriptable, so you can think of some of the possibilities.
Converting Between Video Formats
Probably, one of the most common things that you'll want to do with FFMPEG is convert videos between formats. It's also one of the simplest things that you can do.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mkv
The -i flag tells FFMPEG that the next thing it encounters will be input. You can pass and arbitrary amount of input to FFMPEG from a variety of sources including streams and device input.
When FFMPEG runs out of inputs, it looks for options. When it runs out of them too, it assumes that everything else is output. FFMPEG can output to files or even to a URL for streaming.
Retaining Quality
Sometimes, videos lose quality in conversion. You can tell FFMPEG to do everything possible to retain the original quality of the video being transcoded.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -sameq output.mkv
The -sameq flag stands for, "same quality."
Using Targets
This feature is used mostly with DVDs. If you're looking to create a DVD, you want to make sure that the file that you're burning to it meets proper specifications. The -target flag lets you tell FFMPEG which specifications to use.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -target dvd output.avi
You can also give FFMPEG a specific region.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -target ntsc-dvd output.avi
Extracting Clips
It's pretty common to want to cut clips out of a long video or film. FFMPEG makes that easy too. You need to specify where you want FFMPEG to start and how long you want it to run for. After that, tell it that it's making a copy of the original. Take a look.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -ss 00:10:30 -t 00:05:24 -c clip.mkv
The command above will start recording 10 minutes and 30 seconds into the input file and run for 5 minutes and 24 seconds. It'll then copy that clip to a new file. Take a look at another one.
$ ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -ss 00:42:00 -t 00:06:12 -c favorite_scene.mkv
In this case, FFMPEG will start at exactly 42 minutes and run for 6 minutes and 12 seconds. It'll then make a copy of your favorite scene.
Formatting Video
You can use FFMPEG to better format your video. You can change the resolution, aspect ratio, and even crop the video. Check out an example.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -aspect 16:9 -s 1920x1080 output.mkv
FFMPEG will format the video with a 16:9 aspect ratio at a resolution of 1920x1080. Don't expect miracles when working with poor quality source material. FFMPEG can't make it high resolution. It can only format it that way. FFMPEG can also crop a video. Don't confuse this with scaling it down from a higher resolution. It'll actually cut out screen space.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -cropbottom 200 output.mkv
So, the resulting video would be missing the bottom 200 pixels. It would also display at an irregular resolution because the other sides weren't modified proportionally.
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -croptop 100 -cropbottom 100 -cropleft 50 -cropright 50 output.mkv
This example is purely theoretical, since there's no source resolution or target, but you can see that each of the sides is clipped off. In reality, you'd probably use this tactic to scale down a video by eliminating parts of it. You'd try to retain proportions, though.
Closing Thoughts
By now, you should have a fairly good understanding of how to use FFMPEG to manipulate and convert video. FFMPEG is an incredibly powerful tool, and with sufficient exploration, you can uncover even more advanced features, and that says nothing of what can be done with scripting.
If you're interested in more FFMPEG, check out our audio article to learn how to use FFMPEG to handle audio files.
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How Can We Help?
Chiropractic is primarily known as a method of treating back pain, but at Shifnal Chiropractic Clinic we have so much more to offer! As a basic rule-of-thumb, if it is a muscle or a joint, we can at least take a look.
The likelihood is that if you are having pain around a muscle or a joint, Chiropractic will be able to alleviate your discomfort. In the case of conditions such as osteoarthritis, naturally we can’t reverse the physical changes that have taken place in your bone, but we can still help relieve the pain and stiffness associated with that condition.
If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch, either by phone, text, email or by popping into the clinic to discuss your symptoms or find out more about how chiropractic can help you.
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A Middle Class Hero Is Something To Be.
Are working class people allowed to be satirical in Britain?
‘Last Week Tonight’ is huge in the United States. We don’t currently have anything like it in Britain.
Satire in Britain has always been dominated by middle class intellectuals. There was a satire boom in the 60s with the TV shows, ‘That Was The Week That Was’, and ‘The Frost Report’ hosted by the Cambridge educated David Frost. In 1961, another Cambridge alumni, Peter Cook started the satirical magazine, Private Eye and co-founded The Establishment, a London nightclub which became famous for satire.
These days the most satirical show on British television is ‘Have I Got News for You’ which is loosely based on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz. The tone of both of these shows is distinctly middle class.
John Oliver is a huge star in the USA but is virtually unknown in Britain, why is that? His parents were school teachers and he was educated at Cambridge so he’s as “qualified” for satire as the current guardians of the genre. Why did he have to go to America to be accepted?
Could it be that his West Midlands accent makes him sound working class to British ears?
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
A genuine exit strategy from this crisis
In 2010, the global economy enjoyed steady if unremarkable growth. By the third quarter of 2011, it teetered on the edge of recession. The post-crisis recovery lasted barely 2 years. Moreover, in many advanced economies, growth proved insufficient to ensure that GDP reached its pre-crisis level.
How did things get so bad so quickly? The answer lies in the public sector balance sheets of advanced economies.
When banking sector difficulties turned into an economic downturn, tax revenues took a hit, while expenditures on unemployment benefits rose. In some countries, the revenue decline was exacerbated by a long-standing dependence on asset prices and financial bubbles as sources of taxes.
Politicians believed that they could buy their way out of recession. With revenues already weakening due to the economic downturn, governments tried to stimulate activity by cutting taxes and increasing expenditures, pushing fiscal deficits up to levels not seen since the Second World War. With rising deficits came rising debt levels, which were already extremely high in many socialist leaning European countries.
Few were willing to acknowledge that, at best, the post-crisis fiscal stimulus was a dangerous gamble. Supporters of stimulus claimed that higher deficits would re-energize growth, tax revenues would increase, and economies could out run the rise in debt. Skeptics, on the other hand, warned that if growth did not resume, debt to GDP ratios would start to rise alarmingly and bond markets could turn nasty.
Two years on, the skeptic's scenario is playing out. Many European economies are growing far too slowly, and debt levels are unsustainably high. Markets doubt the ability of many European countries to tackle their fiscal problems. Equity markets have crashed around the world, wiping out mountains of household wealth. Financial flows have ebbed away. Banks are now far more risk averse, and have begun to tighten liquidity and accumulate cash.
In the past, central banks would have used monetary policy to counteract these adverse circumstances. Central banks lost that option when interest rates were slashed to zero during the last downturn. Monetary policy has no room for maneuver.
In the UK and the US, quantitative easing temporarily stabilized asset prices, but the gushing pipeline of cash could not ignite economic growth on a sustainable basis. Printing cash did nothing to calm the nerves of investors, workers, or entrepreneurs. It looked like a short sighted and dubious measure, driven by panic and fear. Ultimately, QE served to destabilize economies.
A renewed recession now seems unavoidable. There are no quick fixes available to policymakers. So what should governments do?
First, and most importantly, they must begin to take the long view; no more panicked measures; no more ill-conceived headline grabbing policies.
Second, fiscal sustainability is the defining long-term issue facing advanced economies. More bluntly, the problem is debt. Governments must begin to move towards lower deficits and lower debt levels.
Third, governments must recognize that reducing debts and deficits will incur significant short-term output costs. This reality must be soberly and honestly communicated to voters. There is no time for absurd anti-cuts campaigns. It is just as pointless to protest against austerity as it is to rage against the freezing weather in winter.
Finally, no more stimulus. Attempts to kick start the economy using deficits is doomed to failure. Fiscal stimulus spawns rapidly rising debt levels and creates a serious risk of a disorderly fiscal adjustment. If you want to see the future of the country trying to stimulate its way out of recession, just take a look at Greece.
The hope has to be that we have learnt something over the last four years. There are no shortcuts to prosperity. Governments must always balance their books. Central banks should not misbehave and recklessly cut interest rates to zero and inject the economy with obscene amounts of cash. What we need is monetary and fiscal responsibility and an end to cheap policy tricks.
Anonymous said...
There is a story that Reagan and Gorbachev were discussing the power of their weapons.
Reagan said "I have these missiles which can waste a city in seconds"
Gorbachev pointed to 3 other people in the room and said "I have these 3 economists that can cause more devastation than your missiles"
Electro-Kevin said...
And they did, Anon.
Alice - Parochially. Don't forget the raison detre' of this blog is house prices.
Thus far QE has been effective at keeping nominal house prices up.
That was the quid pro quo of high-tax high-spend. 'Feel good' through the housing bubble with everything else forgiven or ignored.
One extremely vexed and brassic generation is emerging. I hear that even over 55s are feeling the squeeze.
The only way out is austerity for all but those rich enough to avoid it.
Anonymous said...
Curious to hear what you think of pension funds.
chefdave said...
While I agree with what you say, I don't want to hear the government talk about cuts, austerity and sharing the burden so we can get through this together when there's nothing in it for me.
This isn't my mess to clear up, so I won't be too amused if they intend on reducing my living standards to pay off their debt.
The Greeks have got the right idea.
Mad Numismatist said...
The problem with Keynesian stimulus is the flipside to it. For it to work, governments need some discipline during the boom, in order to have something to use during the bust. Because most governments were themselves profligate during the boom, there was no room for them to pick up the consumption and by trying they have dug an even deeper hole.
Holistically, pensions are what this is all about. We work, save and invest in order to enjoy the golden years. Everything is pointing in the opposite direction. Bond yields/ interest rates are half of what is needed, stock market returns are half of what was modelled, house prices have collapsed, and even if you have managed to net a return on pensions, the thieving banks have taken half to cover their fee’s and bonuses. And to top it all off demographics point to no chance of a change; in 2020 the UK will have around 20% LESS teenagers than we have today.
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Camping in any weather can be difficult, but cold weather camping can be some of the most grueling. If you are considering a trip up north this fall or winter to camp in the great outdoors, you need to know just what to bring with you to stay safe, comfortable, clean, and prepared.
Preparing for a cold weather camping trip can be a daunting task. Since you will need additional clothing to stay warm, your pack can quickly fill up. Combat One has a list of the most important items you will need to bring with you to safely camp in a cold environment.
1. Warm clothes
It may seem obvious that you need to pack warm clothing, but it can be easy to forget when it comes time to pack—especially when it comes to extras. Don’t just pack a coat, gloves, and a hat—bring two of each. If you happen to get wet, having extra clothing will allow you to get into dry clothes and prevent frostbite or hypothermia.
There may also come a time when the wind and snow make it cold enough that you need more than one coat or pairs of gloves. Having extras is always a good thing when the weather can quickly become more brutal than expected. We also recommend wearing thermal underwear for additional protection against the elements. If you aren’t sure about wearing thermal underwear. Pack them and put them on if needed.
2. Shelter
You will need something to sleep in to protect you from the elements. In extreme cold, you should bring a tent and an insulated sleeping bag that is rated for at least 10°F lower than the coldest temperature you will deal with while camping. A sleeping bag liner will also provide more warmth.
Sleeping pads can also be very useful, but they are more difficult to carry around. If you have extra space, we recommend using two full-length sleeping pads to provide comfort and additional insulation. Since lying on the cold ground will cause you to quickly lose body heat, having sleeping pads under you will help you retain more body heat. Look for sleeping pads with high R-values, which signify a higher insulating power.
3. Fire supplies
Fire is one of the most important things to people who camp in cold climates. Not only does fire allow you to have clean water, but it also allows you to cook food and keep warm. Without fire, it can be extremely difficult to survive.
Instead of worrying about a water filter, boil snow to get drinking water. Not only does this eliminate an extra item to carry—an experienced camper would already be bringing a pot—but it also generates warmth throughout the process. Staying warm in the bitter cold and wind can be extremely difficult. Fire may be the fastest way to warm up.
Bring the tool or tools you are most comfortable using to start a fire. If you are bringing matches, store them in metal to prevent damage to the matches and bring way more than you think you will need. Matches aren’t foolproof and they don’t always strike properly.
4. Food and water
Bring enough food to last you for at least one extra day and have a way to create clean water. If you have followed our advice from the previous point, you will be able to boil snow to get clean water. Be sure to bring a water bottle that can hold the water you boil.
If there is no snow or other water source that you can boil in the area you will be camping in, you will need to bring water. Water can be heavy to pack, so be mindful of how you want to carry it and how much water you will actually need.
When packing for a trip of this nature, you want to pack food items that are lightweight, but nutritious. Consider packing protein or meal bars or ready-to-eat meals (MREs). Energy gels have also become increasingly popular for campers, because they contain both carbohydrates and caffeine.
There are hundreds of options for food to eat while camping, but many people still like to hunt for their food. While hunting will provide you with meat, you will need other foods as well. Make sure you bring food to supplement other nutrients. Regardless of what you pack for food, you will want it to be lightweight, highly nutritious, and easy to eat in the wilderness.
5. First-aid kit
To truly be prepared for anything, bring a first-aid kit with you on your trip. Accidents happen; you need to be prepared to treat minor injuries on the go. A small first-aid kit won’t take up too much room in your pack, and it is essential for a safe trip into the wilderness.
Be sure to pick up a camping specific first-aid kit, because the ones for your home won’t contain the supplies you may need when you don’t have quick access to medical treatment. Your kit should have supplies for cuts, bleeding, burns, and sprains. It should also contain medications that help with stomach aches, headaches, and dehydration.
6. Personal hygiene
Combat One’s Tactical Bath is the perfect option for cold weather camping cleanliness. Since it will be far too cold to get wet, you need a solution for getting clean that won’t put you at risk for frostbite or hypothermia. Combat One’s Tactical Bath Wipes will help you keep your skin clean without soap and water.
If you will also be hunting for your food while you are camping, these wipes can help you clean up after skinning and cleaning your food. Animals are covered in bacteria that could cause disease, and you need to be able to keep your skin clean. It isn’t convenient to carry around soap, clean water, and a towel, but Combat One’s wipes are lightweight and easy to carry. Hand sanitizer isn’t a good option while hunting and camping either, which makes Combat One Tactical Bath one of the most important items in your pack.
7. Knife or multi-tool
You may encounter things while camping that you never anticipated, so you need to be as prepared as possible when venturing out. Having a knife or similar tool can help you skin an animal or cut firewood. Bring something that is large enough to be useful, but not too big to be a burden to carry around. Make sure you also have a safe way to store your knife, as unexpected injuries are bound to happen when they are improperly stored.
8. Map or GPS
One of the worst things that can happen while you are cold weather camping is getting lost. If you wander away from your tent and other supplies and can’t find your way back, having a map or GPS can help you get back to your camp. We recommend bringing a map, GPS, and/or compass to help you navigate while you are camping. If you bring a paper map, be sure that you put it in some sort of protective case to prevent damage in the event that it gets wet. If you leave your campsite or move campsites, be sure to take your navigation method with you.
9. Sun protection
As silly as it sounds, sun protection is extremely important even during winter months. Snow can amplify the sun’s rays, which can cause you to get a sunburn even more quickly than you would in the summer. The combination of the higher altitude and the reflection of the UV rays makes the chance of sunburn much higher.
Since both snow and wind can cause sunscreen to wear off more quickly than normal, you will want to be sure to apply sunscreen to exposed skin often. Apply at least every 90 minutes.
You also need to protect your eyes from the sun. Wearing sunglasses or goggles can prevent eye damage when the sun’s rays are intense. Goggles can also help keep the wind out of your eyes. Ski masks are another great way to cover up skin. A ski mask would likely eliminate the need to carry around sunscreen while you are cold weather camping.
With these nine items, you are ready to get started off on your cold weather camping adventure. While this isn’t an exhaustive list of the things you should bring with you while camping in a cold climate, it is a list of the essentials. If you have room, pack other convenience and comfort items, too!
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Q:
How can I add an on click event on a div with multiple element inside
I have a div that is dynamically generated through draggable of jQuery ui the structure of the div that has been dragged to the sortable is something like this:
<div class="some-div" >
<label class="label"> Label caption: </label>
<input id="checkbox" type="checkbox" class="checkbox"/>
<input id="checkbox" type="checkbox" class="checkbox"/>
<input id="checkbox" type="checkbox" class="checkbox"/>
</div>
I want to put the event on the div and append an another div if the div or the element inside it is clicked.
What I tried so far is:
$(function() {
$(document).on('click', '.some-div', function( e ) {
e.preventDefault();
$(e.target).append('another-div');
});
});
But the code above also append the another div to the element inside the div.
How can i resolve this?
A:
this inside the event handler will refer to the clicked some-div element. e.target will refer to the element where the click originated it might be the label or the input elements.
$(function() {
$(document).on('click', '.some-div', function( e ) {
e.preventDefault();
$(this).append('<div>another-div</div>');
});
});
Demo: Fiddle
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Average Height1.7 meters[1]
Skin colorPale to dark brown [1]
Hair colorRed, blonde, brown, black (usually turning gray or white with age)[1]
Distinctionshumanoid, peaceful, enlightened, and artistic
Average lifespanUp to 100 standard years [1]
Known MembersList of known Naboo
The Naboo are one of the two species from the planet Naboo. Humanoid in appearance, the Naboo are not native to Naboo, but have evolved into the dominant species over the Gungans, the natives on Naboo. Originally, they were part of settlers seeking a new home coming from the distant planet of Grizmalt.[2][3]
Society and Culture
Theed, the Naboo Capital with its artistic architecture
The Naboo have developed into a classic feudal society with an hereditary noble class and common folk, though unlike most feudal societies, there is no record of a subservient serf class. Naboo city-states traded with each other and with the Gungans. Generally the city-states acknowledged a ceremonial "High King"—a position that at times rotated between the tribal or city-state princes, though at other times was vested in an hereditary royal house. This ceremonial position was largely powerless and a form of peerage democracy evolved, though by the time of King Jafan the position became more substantial. [3]
Naboo politics often involves large numbers of teenaged Naboo in government work, a result of the Naboo ideal of valuing inner purity and innocence over political ability. This often results in individuals receiving positions far beyond their own level of competence and being left vulnerable to manipulation.[3]
A typical Naboo male soldier
The polytheistic Naboo worship many allegorical deities, such as the goddess of Safety. The deity of Shiraya reflects many aspects common to lunar worship found in many human cultures. However, the Mother Vima occupies the paramount throne in the pantheon of Naboo gods as the Mother goddess, or Gia, common in many religious traditions.[3]
Naboo Ancient philosophers are revered and honored as enlightened gurus, and with the reverence of family ancestors, form an important aspect in Naboo religious traditions. Paired statues of semi-legendary or archtypical gurus are prominently displayed in ranks on either side of the steps leading to the Theed Royal Palace.[3]
Many devoted holymen and holywomen form monastic communities and orders, such as the Brotherhood of Cognizance, which focus on a particular deity or an enlightened guru. These religious orders are governed by a pontifex, and have a monastic hierarchy typical of many human religious orders. Often the more ascetic orders may be found in remote and isolated locations, preferring a life spent in solitude, without worldly distraction and centered on peaceful contemplation.[3]
"Oceanic" grass plains on the planet Naboo
Originally from Grizmalt, the Naboo sought out a new homeworld due to the dying wishes of their last Queen and discovered the planet of Naboo after many failed exploration attempts made in the past. First the Naboo were a pastoral and nomadic people, migrating in tribes and clans on the vast "oceanic" grass-plains, with few settlements of substance. Tribes traced their decent from the colony vessels that brought them to Naboo, and clans traced decent from the founding settlers. The Naboo continue to place great value on genealogical descent.[3]
Cultural differences led to tension between the natives and the Naboo—but direct conflict was rare. Over time there was more conflict between the various Human settlements than between the Naboo and Gungans. The Gungans believed the Naboo to be 'pompous cowards' while the Naboo believed the Gungans to be 'barbarians'.[3]
1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Human - As a humanoid race, the Naboo have the same physical characteristics as the Humans
2. 2.0 2.1 SWCombine Reference Guide on the Naboo
3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 SW Wikia on the Naboo
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Teacher appreciation ideas
5 ways to thank teachers
Hallmark staff
Teacher appreciation ideas
Think back. Waaaay back to your school days. There was at least one teacher who inspired you, who made you believe you could do anything. That teacher changed your life. Whether or not you knew it then, you know it now.
Teachers are still in the business of changing lives and making a real difference in our world. So maybe it’s our turn to make a difference in theirs. Here are 5 teacher appreciation ideas to help you do just that:
1. Write a letter of appreciation.
Here are some tips to think about as you write that letter.
• Be specific—how has this teacher made a difference for your child?
• Is there one thing about this teacher that stands out?
• Was there a specific incident—or something the teacher said—that particularly inspired your child?
2. Start a classroom supply bank.
Recruit parents and/or community members to buy extras of each item on the school supply list, providing a classroom supply bank for the teacher to discreetly pull from for kids who don’t have or can’t afford the proper supplies. Other ideas include general classroom supplies like construction paper, glitter glue, printer paper, music CDs for elementary classrooms, etc. This supply bank will save money for the teacher, save kids from the embarrassment of not having basic supplies and enrich classroom learning activities.
3. Get your hands dirty.
Honor teachers with a gift they’ll really dig: Plant a tree or a bed of flowers on school property to honor a special teacher (or teachers) at your school. (You’ll need to get permission first.) Install a sign that recognizes the teacher(s) with an inscription like “Dedicated to those who plant the seeds that help our children grow...”
4. Give a little time...make a big difference.
Contact your child’s teacher and ask how you can help by volunteering in the classroom. Maybe a particular student is in need of extra one-on-one tutoring. Maybe you could assist with a reading group. Do you have specific skills or experiences that you might be able to share in the classroom? Offer to be a “guest” teacher for a short lesson.
5. Tell on a teacher.
Know a teacher who’s doing an outstanding job and/or going the extra mile for students? Write a letter or “report card” telling the principal what a great job this teacher is doing. Give specifics on how hard he or she is working, and describe the results of that work. Send a copy of your letter to the teacher—and it never hurts to send these kudos to the district superintendent and school board as well.
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Wooden window shades, or wood venetian blinds as they are sometimes called, are an excellent option for many types of room.
One of their main advantages over other types of 'hard' shades (as opposed to fabric shades) is their warm and natural look. You can buy them in a wide range of finishes.
(Note: Blinds or shades? Strictly speaking, blinds allow you to control the amount of light which comes into the room when the blind is fully extended, while the amount of light shades allow through is fixed depending on how far down they are.
So vertical blinds and venetian blinds have adjustable louvres by which you vary the amount of light let through, while roller shades let all the light in when they are up, but when down there is no control over the amount of light allowed in.
But the terms are used interchangeably in everyday speech.)
Materials used
Some are quite economical, being made from readily available woods. Others can be expensive, but are made from furniture grade hardwoods and have a luxurious look. Some manufacturers offer the option to have them painted or stained to your own specifications. This way, if you can't find a suitable color off-the-shelf, you can make sure your new shades fit in perfectly with your decor.
Some wood finishes are flat and regular, while others are textured or have a natural wood grain finish.
You'll find prices vary considerably for wooden window shade from different suppliers, or even for different ranges from the same supplier. This is due to the quality of the wood used for the slats, and also the quality of the headrail, which houses the control mechanisms. Higher prices should mean better quality. Sometimes you'll have an option to go for a better headrail using the same slats. If your shade is going to be adjusted regularly (and by different family members!) then it might be advisable to go for the best quality.
wooden window shadeSlat sizes
There's a wide range of slat sizes available. Different manufacturers supply their shades in different sizes, but sizes from 1 inch to over 2.5 inches are supplied by most.
This wood shade has been chosen to blend well with the rest of the kitchen.
The size you use will depend on the size of the window(s). The slats of small shades will be suitable for smaller window sizes. Where you have a large window - and especially if there's more than one - then the 2+ inch size slats will be more in keeping.
Recess - inside or out?
The standard way to fit window shades is inside the recess, and there's nothing wrong with this. Sometimes it's the best solution. If you go for this option, the usual way when you order is to give the recess size - inside width and height - to the supplier and they will make the allowance so the supplied shade fits neatly into the recess.
One point to be aware of; when you raise the slats, they will still take up quite a bit of room. For more information on this see this page on venetian window shades.
The alternative is to fit your wooden window shades outside the recess, overlapping the window by anything up to a foot either side, and below by the same amount, if possible. This method works well if the slats are the same color as the walls, match furniture in the room, or match wood cornices or paneling.
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The use of new technologies (e.g. Bluetooth) can improve communication strategies in disaster management situations
Disaster management actors should try to harness the potential of new technologies in order to reach more people and establish a more direct relationship with them (e.g. by using dedicated mobile apps). This can prove beneficial, especially in cases where messages related to disasters are altered by the media.A communication strategy based on new technologies can be successful only if the citizens have access to them and trust them in disaster situations. According to existing research, the technology seems to play a more important role in the pre- and post-disaster stages, than during disasters when some of these technologies may not function or people would not resort to them as much.
Applicable to:
Stakeholders: Policy Makers, Disaster Managers, Citizens
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Response
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens, Active citizens, Entrepreneurs, Media
Hazards: Natural hazards, Man-made non-intentional hazards or emergency situations, Man-made intentional hazards
Cultural Map Entries:
EMSC (Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) tools for detecting felt earthquakes and for meeting witnesses' immediate information needs, via on social media, websites and a mobile app
EMSC (Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) earthquake tools' effectiveness depends on people's real-time reporting, reactions and testimonials
General description of the LastQuake app
LastQuake app earthquake colour scheme listing
LastQuake app earthquake notifications
Eyewitnesses as the most representative category of LastQuake app users
The development objectives of the LastQuake app
Cultural and interest differences among LastQuake users
Text messages, the most efficient and resilient mode of communication after a disaster
Efficiency of safety check notifications
User behaviour with regards to safety check notifications on the LastQuake App
Use of the safety check feature by region
Advantages and weaknesses of the safety check feature
Further research needed to determine country differences around safety check behaviour
The importance of adapting to users' needs and cultural diversity
The involvement of local emergency services is crucial for the development of international emergency-response digital tools
Use of mobile phone apps and social media usages in disaster situations
Citizens are generally receptive to training as a preparedness measure
Frequency of citizen training as a preparedness measure
Citizen trust or distrust in different types of responders
Smartphone apps vs social media
Correlation between citizen likelihood to use smartphone apps and social media during a disaster
Reactions to testing and using apps for providing information in case of a disaster
Positive reactions to the idea of using of disaster mobile phone apps amongst, largely elderly, citizens who are not active on social media
Training children and adolescents for disaster
Other groups that can act as volunteers during a disaster
Communication platforms that can be used to reach citizens during disasters
Usefulness of smartphone apps vs social media during disaster situations
Technology, gender and social control
Perceptions of technology
Professional cultures and technology use
The role of radio channels in disaster communication
Crowdsourcing in mapping natural disasters
The Community Flood Assessment crowdsourcing map
Citizen cooperation for developing software solutions
Developing innovative technologies for water management
The EMSC crowdsource earthquakes detector
The Citizens Observatories collection and utilization of citizen information
The EU-funded Citi-Sense project description
The EU-funded Citi-Sense project on data gathering strategies
The impact of religion on disaster information needs
Specific use of technologies during disasters
Innovation diffusion
Mobile phone and smartphone use during disasters
Technological adoption in the recovery phase
Age-related factors in technological adoption
Woman empowerment through adoption and usage of technology
Urban vs. rural divide in information seeking behaviours
Cultural impacts on EMSC tools usage
General association with cultural factors: Communication
Implementation steps:
Recommendations on overall principles in using different technologies in disaster communication
A. Cooperate with tech companies to avoid the spread of fake news or generate additional crisis linked to overload of infrastructure. Related cultural factors: Communication
B. Create awareness of possible unintended uses of new technologies (e.g. use of Waze in the Paris attacks). Related cultural factors: Communication
C. Encourage the adoption of new technologies among different age groups, genders and areas (including rural areas). This can be achieved by educating people about the best uses of technologies during all phases of a disaster. Related cultural factors: Communication, Gender roles, Age-related roles
Recommendations on using Bluetooth technology
D. Explore the possibility of using Bluetooth beacons to push messages that provide information about emergency procedures in the entrance areas or focal spots in mass gathering locations, or when entering tourist attractions, the latter ideally in multiple languages. Related cultural factors: Communication
Recommendations on using crowdsourcing and mobile phone-based technologies
E. Use crowdsourcing of information to assess damages done by disasters, raise situational awareness by crisis mapping, and then provide information back to the population. Related cultural factors: Communication
F. In multi-cultural areas and touristic regions, focus on the development and usage of mobile phone-based technologies, which provide foreigners with multi-lingual messages containing emergency information. Related cultural factors: Communication, Languages
G. If they are intended to merely provide information to citizens (rather than citizens submitting information to authorities, or information exchange between citizens), both social media and mobile phone apps are equally useful. Related cultural factors: Communication
H. To improve perceived usefulness and acceptance, any mobile phone app specifically designed for disaster-related information should: a) be seen to be led by public authorities, either on national or even supra-national (e.g., EU) level; b) allow authority-to-citizen, citizen-to-authority, and ideally also citizen-to-citizen communication; c) not only be useful in disaster response but also provide information in disaster preparedness; and d) be pre-installed when purchasing a new mobile phone. Related cultural factors: Communication
I. To encourage citizens to submit information to authorities in disaster situations (crowdsourcing, but also incident-related individual information), use specifically designed mobile phone apps rather than social media. Related cultural factors: Communication
Recommendations on selecting technologies adequate for different social groups
J. Use community radio as an information medium and a strong communication channel for marginalized and vulnerable groups. Related cultural factors: Communication, Social networks
K. Use Internet for communicating information to young people and groups with a higher education, as young people do not watch TV. Related cultural factors: Communication, Age-related roles, Educational system
L. Use television as a most effective technology for communication in terms of coverage especially when targeting households. Related cultural factors: Communication
M. Consider cultural factors in disaster communication. Related cultural factors: Communication
Further reading:
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Friday, December 16, 2016
I Could... But I Won't
but, I won't.
Have a wonderful weekend, denizens s.
1. They are unlikely to follow Obama's plans in any arena as that is what the ones who voted for him believe is wrong with what we're doing. One soothing aspect is that the Secretary of State guy, from Exxon, has said he believes we may be impacting climate change; so we shall see. Nobody though should be surprised at anything Trump is doing as he ran on it. It's why many of us, those who weren't upset by him personally, did not vote for him. The ones, who did, expect just what he's doing-- drain the swamp, stop illegal immigration, and bring back jobs. Bringing in outsiders, like himself, fits that goal. We shall see how that works-- hopefully not too painfully...
1. I'm still waiting for the outsiders (beyond Tillerson). It seems heavily weighted toward Goldman Sachs alumni (a bit of irony not lost on me) and DC insiders. As for Exxon and climate change, Tillerson was at the helm when Big Oil did what Big Tobacco did - began to impugn the science. And with the head of the EPA a climate change denier, I don't have much hope for "not too painfully"
2. I have zero hope for "not too painfully." We'll miss clean air and clean water. The hedge fund guys are licking their chops, waiting for Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to be released to them. Trump will profit from that, as well. Everywhere I look I see disaster befalling this country. It's a good time to be old.
1. I've been saying"I'm glad I'm old" since November
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Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England 1544
Kathryn Lasky
Historical Fiction Series
For ages 12 and up
Scholastic, 1999 ISBN: 978-0590684842
Though Elizabeth was the daughter of a king and was therefore a princess, she was not a happy person, for hers was a life full of uncertainty and not a small amount of danger. Elizabeth describes herself as being a "forgotten Princess" for very often she is out of favour with her difficult and temperamental father. Not only does she risk displeasing her father by her words and actions but she is also a constant reminder of the ill-fated second wife of the king, Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn. Anne was executed when Elizabeth was just a small child and Elizabeth seems to live almost permanently in Anne?s dark shadow. Anne was accused of being a witch and Elizabeth cannot help wondering if she is to be given the same name.
Because of this state of affairs Elizabeth has created several personas for herself. Each one helps her in a different aspect of her life and together they make her life manageable. There is the "respectful daughter-of-the-court" persona, a girl who is very careful of what she says and does, a girl who knows that her very life may depend on her discretion and tact.
Then there is the girl who loves to play silly games and who delights in going out on a May morning with the villagers. This is a lively, vivacious Elizabeth who is still young at heart.
Finally there is the Elizabeth who writes in her diary and who seeks solace there for it is the only place where she can be herself and speak her mind. This Elizabeth has periods of great loneliness, and unhappiness. This is the girl who craves her father?s love and who values a pinch on the cheek from him more highly than any other gift.
Through Elizabeth?s words we can clearly see what it must have been like to be a royal child in Tudor times, and how odd it was in many ways. For example, each of the royal children had their own house and establishment and they only came together when their royal parents wished it.
We also see how dangerous and volatile court life could be, filled with people who had petty arguments, rivalries, and where scandals were rife. It was also a horribly uncomfortable life for the palaces were dirty, smelly, unhygienic places. So bad did they get that every few months the whole court had to be moved to a new palace so that the old one could be cleaned and fumigated.
The overall picture of Elizabeth that Kathryn Lasky shows us in this fictional account is one of a girl who was isolated and desperately in need of someone stable to love. We also see how much she was a victim of her father and of the confusing standards of the period. There is no doubt that this is a very powerful and moving account of Elizabeth?s life and times. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9821426272392272}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '22900', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:A35KF2WEH2QP2VH6HISPXWB47HI46SK4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d4a0f7ad-9a85-496d-a163-e487f73d44b7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 18, 7, 7, 56), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.204.34', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EZLIB57IAUDBGTL3FZ4JOQW2ZCJNP5NZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:895bfd08-cb09-41b8-b07a-330d7f1e58c2>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://lookingglassreview.com/books/elizabeth-i-red-rose-of-the-house-of-tudor-england-1544/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3578b3bd-53bf-4522-8f13-c4d4e0c8b0e4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '523', 'url': 'https://lookingglassreview.com/books/elizabeth-i-red-rose-of-the-house-of-tudor-england-1544/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-126.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: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03884410858154297', 'original_id': 'd630c0fbec1193b1a2b781736767ee0025cb9ee65e34be7d1178755925faf711'} |
UNSC deplores chopper's shooting down in South Sudan
The members of the security council strongly deplored the helicopter's shooting down in Jonglei state of South Sudan, Xinhua quoted a UN statement as saying.
The UNMISS MI8 helicopter was performing reconnaissance flights to the area when it was shot down by the Sudan People's Liberation Army, leaving all four Russian flight members killed, it added.
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Life from the Loam in Dredge
I think we can all agree that the MVP of this week's Vintage Super League was Life from the Loam, with help from Riftstone Portal. Now I've used Riftstone Portal here and there, depending on what my SB looks like. Like, if I'm running Serenity and/or Abrupt Decay, I'm probably also running Riftstone Portal. But Life from the Loam has been curiously absent from Vintage Dredge at large, and I've never really understood why.
Did CFB happen to stumble on to something, and we should be testing this out? Or was this the result of a very specific metagame, and ultimately doesn't mean a thing?
Let me know your thoughts!
I've been playing Loam in Dredge for the last 3 years. Its a great card for the deck.
playing it a bit recently with maindeck pit to kill maindeck priest, even in fatestitcher/power lists. liking it.
that said this whole VSL list is interesting, though i don't want to admit that we live in the world where ancient grudge is better than therapy.
@blindtherapy I imagine the reduced Therapies has a lot to do with the deck building constraints of squeezing two dredge decks without 15 card overlap.
Ancient Grudge is also a very good card in the current meta though. There's no better counter to Tormod's Crypt. Its also a tailored hate piece for the two prevalent decks that can win game 1's outcome/shops.
@vaughnbros Is there anyway we could get your current list?
@vaughnbros Woah that's a super cool list. I'll have to scrounge up the tickets for force and unmask... I'd love to see it in action some time!
Oh its definitely not a budget dredge deck.
I think it works well in the Outcome heavy landscape though. All the answers are at 0 and 1 mana to keep the deck low to the ground, but it still has the grind factor against fair decks with the Loams+Pits+Canopies.
@vaughnbros Yeah it's got a bit of a price tag but it seems really promising, I'll have to buy a set of Loam's tonight and give it a shot, although I'll have to use mindbreak trap over force and think of a budget replacement for the canopy's and unmask.
Maybe I'll try tranquil thicket for now.
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I see you have completely cut Bridges now, interesting to see.
I've always really liked your take on Dredge. I noticed this iteration removes the dark depths SB package in favor of hollowed one. Do you find this to be fast enough against PO decks and other fast decks in games 2/3 where they are also SB'ing? I really liked how your older lists could use LftL to recur Depths/Stage through Containment Priest and Grafdigger's cage. The current SB seems much more susceptible to the usual hate. What have been your experiences with this SB in comparison?
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I've found Bridge just leads you to play a number of suboptimal cards to try and support it, while in reality its just a win more. In game 1, you dont need a bunch of zombies to win with a turn 2/3 Griselbrand and post board Bridge has always been fairly unreliable.
The Dark Depths combo was pretty slow too.
I liked the reliability of the uncounterable kill before, but that has become less true with the uptick of cards like Swords to Plowshares and Hangarback Walker. As for the speed of the "transform", you dont actually need to bring the Hollow Ones in for every game 2/3. The 8 pitch spells, 4 claims, 2 grudges, 2 pits is a comparable anti-hate package to a more traditional list and can fight through any type of hate.
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@vaughnbros This is beautiful. I might just have to take it out for a spin myself this weekend.
Any vids to see you/this list in action?
I saw LSV run his Dredge list a day ago, I think, but he runs 4 Bridge. I Don't really enjoy his streams much though.
I have not streamed in quite some time (a lot of issues trying to stream where I lived the last couple years), but may start again in a couple weeks after I finish moving into my new apartment.
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Does anybody have any more advice for this thread? I was wondering if a Bloodghast/Life from the Loam based Dredge deck would be any good. I was thinking it would be a really wacky build, with FoW, MM, Prized Amalgam, LftF, and one of all the utility lands like Cabal Pit and Barbarian Ring, a few Riftstone Portals, and other lands as seen fit. You could cut some number of Bridge from Below as @vaughnbros suggests and just focus on a Narcomoeba, Bloodghast, Prized Amalgam and Barbarian Ring beat down that would be resistant to most hate. If you really want to get interesting you could even play some number of Creeping Chill to buy you time to get around hate.
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@rat3de it's fairly feasible to just throw a loam or two, a pit or two, and a portal in a normal dredge deck, as you're already playing 4 bloodghast.
@BlindTherapy Thank you. How does this tend to work with Pitch Dredge? Also does this make it easier to hardcast your spells during games 2 and 3?
Loam is a pretty independently powerful card, pretty much no matter what version of dredge you are currently playing since all of the current builds have mana, and bloodghasts already anyway.
Loam doesn't help you get to 2 mana, but it certainly helps you cast anything beyond that as you can consistently hit land drops. You can definitely ramp up into a Golgari-Grave Troll and win via that in games where your opponent isn't applying a lot of pressure.
@vaughnbros What would you recommend cutting to put in Loams and support lands?
One of my decklists is above.
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EMC's sex-discrimination woes
This is pretty ugly. I've written in the past that the new blood entering the security industry could be good for ushering out a conservative and chauvinistic aura that can surround the marketplace. Apparently, the IT industry has chauvinistic problems of its own, as represented by storage giant EMC. There was a disturbing article on the front page of the Journal this week about the way women are treated there, and since EMC has made a security play already, I'm afraid I have to comment. It's a long article, so I'll highlight a few paragraphs (Journal's words in bold): EMC says it has long had a written antiharassment policy. It prohibits conduct that, "if unwelcome," could constitute harassment, including "sexual epithets, jokes...gossip regarding one's sex life" and downloading suggestive material from the Internet. The Journal is right to highlight the "if unwelcome" part, as it adds a ridiculous burden of proof. I can just hear a manager saying in a courtroom, "well, she seemed to welcome it at the time." Of course, at the time, she was trying to impress her boss or her coworkers with her tough salesperson-ness. I mean, what woman wouldn't want to go to a strip club, really? Only one who wasn't tough and savvy, I'm sure. Twelve former saleswomen who worked for EMC between 1997 and 2006 said sales offices often were places where men freely made disparaging remarks about women. Four former saleswomen said that between 2000 and 2003, EMC national sales meetings and meetings with customers were sometimes followed by trips to strip clubs. A saleswoman who used to work in the Denver office says that at the annual sales kick-off meeting in Atlanta in 2001, managers, from vice presidents on down, took groups to such clubs. Though the lawsuits are more about equal pay than workplace environment, this kind of stuff is completely baffling to me. What manager at any company would think it's appropriate to mix strip clubs and a workplace environment? Even if it's after hours, a gathering comprising only employees is essentially a business meeting and I can think of zero reason why naked women (or men, for that matter) would be welcome at such a meeting. Mr. Hauck says that when he took over the sales force in 2001, he tried to make it clear that EMC wouldn't tolerate a hostile environment for women -- consistent, he says, with previous policy. Shortly after he took over, he says, a controller showed him an expense account from a salesman who wanted to be reimbursed for taking a client to a strip club. Mr. Hauck says he told the controller to refuse to pay the bill and to tell the sales force EMC wouldn't reimburse that type of client entertainment. He says he was reiterating an existing corporate policy. Oh, what a big man Mr. Hauck is. He won't reimburse a salesperson who took a client to a strip club. No. He. Won't. Um, how about you fire that salesperson for embarrassing the company and insulting the intelligence of the client. Even if it was the client's idea, it shouldn't be that hard for a good salesperson to say something along the lines of, "gee, sir, I'd be pretty uncomfortable looking at naked women with you while we're talking about your company's storage needs." This is absurd to the highest level and shows that Hauck simply doesn't get why women aren't all that keen on working at his company. With women making up ever higher percentages of college graduates and advanced degree seekers, the security industry needs to make hiring and retaining women a higher priority than ever. One good way to retain female employees? 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COVID, COVID-19, teachers, coronavirus
Lily Altavena
Arizona Republic
The News Herald
Kids begged to go to Mrs. Byrd's classroom to do art projects.
And though she had once retired, Mrs. Byrd loved teaching so much, she couldn't help but return to the classroom, her husband, Jesse Byrd, said.
Now she's gone. Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd died June 26 after testing positive for COVID-19.
"It just feels like a bad dream that I can't wake up from," Jesse Byrd said. "We've just felt so lost without her."
The teachers who survived also say Byrd's death is a stark reminder of the risks teachers will face if school reopens too soon.
The news of Byrd's death comes as President Donald Trump wages a campaign to reopen schools on time, even suggesting federal funding from schools that don't open could be "cut off."
"Everything is safety, safety, safety," said Jena Martinez-Inzunza, a Hayden-Winkelman teacher. "What a contradiction to be threatened by the president. What a contradiction to be bullied: 'Do this, or I'm going to pull funding.' What a contradiction to say our kids lives matter … Why would you push to open schools?"
"We were very careful," Skillings said.
Byrd had asthma and several other health issues. Her doctor told her that she likely had a sinus infection, but her breathing continued to deteriorate, Jesse Byrd said. Her kids eventually convinced her to go to the hospital. He couldn't go in with his wife, who called and said she was being admitted for COVID-19.
"She called me, she could barely talk," he said. "And she told me that they wanted to intubate her and put her on a ventilator."
"Her body just couldn't fight anymore," Jesse Byrd said.
"It was a very dark, scary and very painful time because coronavirus hurts," she said. "It hurts your chest, it hurts your breathing. It's terrible."
Skillings remembers the last time she saw Byrd. At the end of the day teaching, they lingered, in conversation: It was the kind of conversation where they'd say, "OK now I'm leaving," and then would continue to talk.
"She was exactly what you would want to be as a teacher because she had the patience, the kindness, the discipline," she said.
Skillings said she will return to school if administrators decide to reopen, but she hopes they choose to stay closed until COVID-19 cases decline. She doesn't want anybody else to endure what she went through — or what Byrd went through.
"I think of our students and I know how many times a day they touch each other, how many times a day they're out of their seats, especially our younger kids and I can see germs spreading quicker than anything," she said.
"I know people die from influenza and other things, but this is something that hit hard and it's hitting us fast. I mean, look at today: 4,000 more cases," she said.
Jeff Gregorich, the district's superintendent, said he does not believe schools can bring students back safely as cases rise.
"We're going to lose a lot of teachers if they bring the kids back again," he said.
So much of the national conversation feels unfair, she said, when others haven't experienced what she has.
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Are Apples Good for Weight Loss?
are apples good for weight loss
Are Apples Good for Weight Loss?
If you’re asking yourself “are apples good for weight loss?” this article will shed some light on the topic. The answer is, yes and no.
If you are wondering what exactly are apples and how they are good for your health, the answer is that they are high in fiber, low in fat, contain a lot of antioxidants, and have several other nutrients in them that help your body function better. However, eating a bunch of apples is not going to help you lose weight, and eating too many apples is not going to do much good either. It is best to focus on eating apples in moderation. Just eat an apple here and there, or maybe even two. Don’t go overboard with it.
But, don’t think that fruit alone is a great way to get fit. If you want to lose weight you need a diet as well. If you eat more calories than you expend, your body will store those calories as fat. If you cut out the consumption of fruit completely, then you may notice that your body is losing weight.
As far as weight loss goes, fruits have a few things going for them. First, they tend to be low in calories, so if you take a diet that is low in calories and replace that with lots of fruit, you’ll end up feeling fuller longer. And, as far as fiber goes, fruits are also rich in this. This means that you’ll be able to have more fiber, which means you’ll have a fuller feeling throughout the day.
Another thing about eating apples is that they have a lot of fiber in them. This is going to help cleanse the colon and remove any waste material from your system. Fiber is often used to help cleanse the colon, especially when it is used as a laxative. Therefore, if you’re looking for a way to get rid of toxins from your body, it may be a good idea to include foods that have fiber in them as well.
When it comes to what you should avoid eating for weight loss, there are a few foods that should stay off your diet. Some of these foods are caffeine and alcohol, because they can cause dehydration.
So, when is it okay to eat apples for weight loss? Well, the answer is yes and no. Eating it is only recommended during pregnancy and after you’ve had a baby. When it comes to avoiding the foods that are bad for you, eating apples is one of the ones that are safe to eat all the time, and even recommended for women who are pregnant. If you are trying to lose weight, just be sure to eat your daily quota of fruits.
In summary, if you’re curious about what is the right way to go about losing weight, I’d recommend reading the article on “Are Apples Good For Weight Loss?” Now that you know what to eat and what to avoid.
Now that you know what you should and shouldn’t eat, the question on what’s the best foods for weight loss is still up for debate. However, by eating more fruits and vegetables, you’ll be eating a healthier, more balanced diet, and one that will help you burn more calories. And that’s something you want.
By eating more fruits and vegetables, you’ll also be eating more fiber, which will help with fat loss. and help keep your digestive system in tip top shape. Therefore, you’ll not only have more energy to work harder, but you’ll also lose weight, without having to rely on caffeine or alcohol.
The best foods for weight loss aren’t necessarily the ones that have the most calories, but those that are high in fiber, like apples juice, green tea, and bananas. And it’s also important to consume lots of fruits and vegetables, as these are the best ways to avoid weight gain and build muscle instead.
In the end, it’s important to remember that there is no “one” answer, and that it’s up to you to find out what works best for you, depending on what you are trying to accomplish. Just make sure that you are eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, and eating enough protein and fiber so that you can lose weight and gain muscle. Also, eat at least two small meals a day, and try not to overeat. It is all about balancing your food intake with exercise. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9769623279571532}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '17676', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NTNTALY4NNOXSSI7UCMXPTPA2BFXX6UZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ec7a8b46-18a1-407c-b4d9-dbab86927840>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 21, 4, 58, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '45.77.113.150', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:B47Z3NL36EQWT3TNI55JCE54IGQFILE3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bf876acd-612f-4dd7-b4c8-42ab4a260e06>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.wohesperus.com/are-apples-good-for-weight-loss/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9451b0cd-fc57-4706-be99-669c9ea373e3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '759', 'url': 'http://www.wohesperus.com/are-apples-good-for-weight-loss/', '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': '0.05009192228317261', 'original_id': '3685d97d34dd789ad3d8ea639c31beffa4a6a65b310d08f8ae9cccd39f3efbb0'} |
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Le Mans Audi first with hot VG turbo
Honeywell has developed a variable geometry turbocharger for motorsport applications
AE in Technology.
Audi's choice
The variable geometry turbocharger developed by Honeywell
Tier One Honeywell has developed a variable geometry turbocharger for motorsport applications. The first application was the Le Mans-winning Audi R15 TDI LMP1 car.
Similar technology is widely used in passenger cars because it improves transient and steady-state performance and fuel consumption. It gave the Audi race team the same benefits but Honeywell worked together with Audi Sport for three years to ensure durability at 1000°C exhaust gas temperatures.
Honeywell’s chief engineer for turbo technology Craig Balis said: “Racing turbos are similar to commercial turbos in terms of materials used. To ensure they perform reliably in a high temperature environment our engineers worked closely with Audi, gaining better understanding of the new race engines’ duty cycles.”
Like many passenger car applications the race turbos use electric actuators to adjust the guide vanes, but transient response was improved further using ball instead of plain bearings.
The Audi engine is a 5.5-litre 90° V10 developing 440kW and over 1050Nm torque. Each cylinder bank is fed by one turbo. Maximum boost pressure is 2.59bar absolute.
Passenger car engines run exhaust gas temperatures of around 850°; the Audi V10 around 1000°C. Gasoline engines run up to 1050°: “The latest Audi win at Le Mans opens up variable turbine technology making an entry into gasoline-powered race series,” said Balis.
Honeywell supplies the turbos for the global race engine programme. There is speculation in motorsport that F1 and Indycar will return to boosted engines to improve the relationship between race and road technology.
Peugeot’s Le Mans diesel used two fixed geometry Honeywell turbos.
Le Mans winner
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Repairing a Sofa Bed Frame
Common components on almost all sofa bed frames are wooden parts that may crack or split and metal parts on the folding mechanism that may loosen from simple wear and tear. Both types are relatively simple to repair with a few tools you probably already have around your house.
Cracks and Splits
Turn the sofa upside down. If you don't see anything obvious such as splintered wood or large cracks, grab the braces, legs, arms or anywhere that two pieces of wood are joined together. Push and pull on the frame to open up bad joints and cracks. Typical problem areas are the long, horizontal wooden beams in front. Too much weight centered over the beam causes them to crack or split. When you locate a crack, insert a putty knife or screwdriver into it and pry it open. Inject glue into it using a glue bottle and place clamps across it. Check all the wooden parts of the frame for cracks or splits. If you find any at all, glue and clamp them.
If parts of the bed frame are completely broken or cracked severely, you can overlay the part with 3/4-inch plywood. Cut a piece of plywood the same width as the broken beam, brace or part. If you can access both sides of the part, cut two pieces. Apply glue to the broken area or crack and one side of the plywood. Use a staple gun with 1 1/2-inch staples to randomly staple the overlay plywood to the broken beam or brace. Allow the glue to dry overnight before using the sofa bed.
Other problem areas are at joints where wooden parts are joined together at 90 degrees with screws or staples. The sofa sags or even collapses. This happens when screws or hardware lose their grip. You can't retighten them; they won't hold because they are probably stripped. Try drilling through the joints using a 3/8-inch drill bit. Drill up diagonally at about 30-degrees or through the corners and edges, but make sure the drill penetrates through both pieces of the joint. Inject glue in the holes, and hammer 3/8-inch dowels in the holes far enough so that they penetrate out both sides. When the glue is dry, trim the ends of the dowels off using a coping saw.
Missing Rails
Some sofa beds have a series of rails attached horizontally across the bed frame or sofa seat. Pull loose the backing fabric from the bottom to access the rails. If any of them are missing or broken, measure the thickness and length of an existing rail, and cut new ones from pine, poplar or fir lumber. Tap the broken rails off using a hammer. Screw the new ones in place. Staple the fabric back on using an upholstery staple gun and wide, flat staples that have a 1/4-inch leg and 3/8-inch crown.
Metal Parts
Sofa beds have a somewhat complicated metal framework that expands and contracts. The problem here is simple; bolts and nuts come loose. When you turn the sofa over, look for washers, nuts and bolts that may have fallen out of the mechanism. If you find any, try to find where they fit, and put them back on, making sure they're tight. If they're stripped, replace them. Examine the folding mechanism. If you see any loose arms that don't seem to fit anywhere, they may be bent. Look for a corresponding part with a loose end. The ends almost always have a bright, shiny spot where they came loose. Bend the parts back using diagonal pliers if necessary, and fit the mechanism back together using washers, nuts and bolts.
If the arms on the front of your sofa bed frame are shaggy -- a common problem when cats repeatedly sharpen their claws on the front of the legs -- it might seem irreparable, but it's really simple to repair. When couches are manufactured, a small, flat piece of plywood is wrapped with upholstery fabric. This piece of upholstered plywood, also known as a fillet, is custom-fit and nailed to the frame to hide staples that meet in the center. You can pry the fillets off with a screwdriver, wrap them with upholstery fabric using hot-glue or even a small staple gun, then nail them back on using 1-inch brads to make the front of the sofa bed look like new again. It's OK to nail right through the front of a fillet. It's done all the time by professionals. When you use a small brad, the head of the brad slips right between the fibers of the fabric and disappears. If there's a small divot left over, fluff the fibers with your fingers to remove it. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '23', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.934497594833374}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '125875', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QLC5BJGI3L2MT7573WI5A4DVWUILB7L4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8a72c644-7275-4f31-979e-e886c8cfc564>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 21, 3, 7, 5), 'WARC-IP-Address': '99.84.176.56', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QOCJH43KTO6ZTMETBIBO4Q7XB3KTTJHB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:14fcc914-a664-44ef-bcbe-7667119eeb01>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://homeguides.sfgate.com/repairing-sofa-bed-frame-63495.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c36ba564-2f33-4aa9-8fa9-96f8b29dfd01>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '790', 'url': 'https://homeguides.sfgate.com/repairing-sofa-bed-frame-63495.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-253.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: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.12347304821014404', 'original_id': 'afc5e7ebd836c02dca0c4075cc2cded1338f0041884abfe256f7e70fb0153cbf'} |
Did Apple Store employees in Alpharetta, Ga., refuse to sell an iPhone and an iPad to Farsi-speaking customers because they said they would be sending at least one of the devices to a friend in Iran?
That's what Sarah Sabet, a U.S. citizen of Iranian heritage, told WSB-TV, calling the experience "discrimination" and "very hurtful."
Sabet, a 19-year old student at the University of Georgia, was reportedly at an Apple Store in a local mall with a friend to buy a pair of new iDevices.
After Apple Store employees overheard Sabet and her friend speaking to one another in Farsi, they asked them what language they were speaking, where they were from and where the devices were headed. When Sabet said the devices were a gift for a friend in Iran, the Apple Store denied the sale.
"When we said 'Farsi, I'm from Iran,' he said, 'I just can't sell this to you. Our countries have bad relations,'" Sabet told WSB-TV.
The station sent a reporter to talk to a manager at the Apple Store, who said the store didn't make the sale because of strict limitations on U.S.-Iranian trade relations. According to Apple's export policy, the "exportation, reexportation, sale or supply" of Apple products "is strictly prohibited without prior authorization by the U.S. Government."
Sabet, though, didn't buy that explanation. In her opinion, she was racially profiled.
"He didn't have any business asking me what country I was from," Sabet said. "I actually walked out in tears."
After the emotional episode, Sabet called an Apple customer service agent, who was apologetic and told Sabet she could buy the equipment through Apple's website.
On Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called the Apple Store's treatment of Sabet and her friend discriminatory.
“Apple must revise its policies to ensure that customers do not face discriminatory treatment based on their religion, ethnicity or national origin,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “If the actions of these Apple employees reflected company policy, that policy must be changed and all employees retrained.”
Mashable has contacted Apple for comment, but has not yet received a response.
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Knight's Spider Web Farm is an art studio, retail outlet and residence located in Williamstown, Vermont. The farm was started by Will Knight in 1978 when he decided to use spider webs to produce art. The finished artwork uses whole spider webs as a form of textile art over painted or stained wood. He referred to his farm as "The Original Web Site". Will Knight died on June 12, 2017, but his family continues his work at the farm.
Spider webs as art
Knight (b. 1926) got the idea of harvesting spider webs to use as art with the help of his wife and begun in 1977 using spider webs found at their home. They started the farm in 1978 after Knight lost his job working for the state highway department. He claims the original idea was based on ideas from the Girl Scout Manual. His wife was an artist who used decoupage, and Knight says, "She knew that you could glue things onto things." As he had been a cabinetmaker and produced fine woodworking, it seemed logical to combine the two, and they eventually figured out how to glue spider webs onto wood.
Harvesting spider webs
The farm uses custom made square racks built from wood which are hung in multiple sheds in his back yard. The process consists of spraying the web with white paint so that it is more visible, then removing the rack with the spider web intact. The rack is then placed over a flat, smooth board that has been painted black or stained, to which the web will naturally stick. The entire surface is then coated with lacquer, providing a smooth finish. Because spiders are prolific web builders, webs can be harvested daily.
Because each spider web is unique, no two art pieces are the same. Once the webs are harvested and lacquered they are offered for sale. Often, they are used as canvases by other artists who then paint realistic flowers and plants on the lacquered surface. While the couple originally sold the spider webs at craft fairs (even renting a pushcart for a week at Faneuil Hall Marketplace), the artwork is now sold only online and in their own gift shop at the farm.
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Tourist attractions in Orange County, Vermont
Buildings and structures in Williamstown, Vermont
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Every food and beverage company knows that product loss is a major issue and can have a significant impact on their profitability. At this company, they track edible oil. They need to be able to measure oil consumption and loss from its arrival at the factory to final disposal or consumption. The problem was that they were tracking all of this information manually, which was causing oil loss variances over 10%. It was also a very time consuming process.
To remedy this problem, the manufacturer decided to automate their facility with a central host system. All flowmeters and tank level instruments were fitted with wireless upgrades and a gateway that captures and transmits the data back to the host system using Ethernet/IP.
After automating their process, human errors were eliminated as well as oil loss variances allowing the company to save thousands of dollars.
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
GameDay (37) -- Crapitals @ Pens
Nothing says the holidays quite like flicking your middle finger to the Washington Capitals.
What a joke organization from top to bottom.
Moment of silence for Mark Eaton's knee.
What a human.
You are out but not forgotten.
For the remainder of the season, we will honor Eaton before each game.
During the anthem no matter where you are.
Stand with one fist thrust in the air.
In Scuds we trust.
God Help Us All.
Vintage Therrien
Thanks to Eric P.
Pens fans are easy to spot in Washington.
The same pertains at the Mellon.
chris e said...
Let's do this shit!
Sean said...
For folks in the DC area (like me), the Pens game is on Comcast SportsNet tonight.
PittHockey said...
they are giving roberts the love tonight.
PittHockey said...
also, is there a hi res version of the igloo photo?
Sean said...
Who is Jeff Taffe?
Davy D said...
"Redeem yourself. Oh my God. Potash can shoot harder than that. Oh my God. What are we the muffin line?" - Laraque to Roberts
Staff said...
clicking that pic may make it a little bigger
but that was as hi-RES that we could get it
Anonymous said...
nothing helps you sleep like a sweet comeback win against the caps. sidethought: if the pens and cryers meet in the playoffs, i dont know what im gonna do
canaanregulatesblog said...
For tonight's game:
+'s Conklin, Kennedy, Malkin, Sarah Marince, Errey ("thirdiary" and "suck on that, kolzig")
-'s Gonchar, Hall, Gonchar, Eaton's ACL, Gonchar
Gonchar: 1G, 2A
i'll take it.
Master of the Obvious said...
Errey is just irreplaceable for the FSN Pittsburgh crew...
After the Jeff Taffe goal Steiggy comes out with "That's secondary scoring if I've ever seen it" To which Errey replied "Maybe thirdary scoring"
I think that's tertiary slick..
I'm a Rangers fan and I only get to see so much Penguins hockey, is this nugget something that happens on a nightly basis with this guy? Just curious...
jim said...
recchi scored again for atl, but in a losing effort. he now has 4 goals/4 assists in 8 games with them. but i still think it was a good move for us to release him.
i am so pumped for the winter classic. new year's can't come fast enough!
stokes said...
games like this drive me insane thinking about what would happen if the Pens would actually play closer to 60 minutes instead of the 40 minutes(if i'm being generous) tonight.
i called out a steeler jersey wearer tonight. surprisingly, it wasn't jamesharrisonjerseywearer that got pissed, it was his little buddy, who actually had pens gear on! they were both morons though. and the lovely section E16 had people busting for the exits with 5 minutes left. here's the kicker: the couple next to me came for the second period and 10 minutes of the third.
sorry for the rant.
any win is a good win.
canaanregulatesblog said...
Dear thepensblog:
i apologize for my lack of commitment as of late due to work.
let me lay a rumor to rest...
no, i am not disgruntled with my playing time with and i have not asked to be traded to a different blog in exchange for bandwith and a photoshopper to be named later. these are lies constructed by rumor mongers and i will not have them mentioned anymore!!!!
ReaverOfSouls said...
During warm-ups before the game, I saw Darryl Sydor tossing a couple of pucks to kids sitting near the Pens bench. Maybe that little bit of karma rubbed off on him to allow him to score the tying goal? Either way, I thought that was a classy gesture.
wilsmith said...
Master of the Obvious: No.
I'm surprised no one mentioned this one...
Steigy mentioned how the pens played the capitals in like 6 of 7 seasons in the playoffs, and won 5 of the 6, and almost like he was trying to get it in under his breath Errey says "suck on that."
mike m said...
Hey MotO,
bob errey can be hilarious at times. i can see what it turns some people off but he has had some gems.
-"the galloping gourmet, malkin that is. hes got some dishes he can really serve up!"
-"we saw jordan staal with his headphones on earlier. what do you think he was listening to steigy? some confidence tapes maybe?"
-"look at ruutu swinging like a rockem sockem robot!"
-"nittymaki kinda sounds like sushi or something"
-"now a say therrien has a birds eye view because the penguin doesnt fly so a birds eye view is right from the bench."
-and the absolute best is when we play in Ottawa and the glass breaks. I hope to God that happens this year.
"Oh man look at 'em go Steigy! What is this?! This is like Cirque Soleil, err, Cirque du Soleil? What is that, french??"
Oh and once he somehow compared Jordan Staal to a platypus.
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Q:
Recurrent neural network producing same predictions
I am trying to train a recurrent neural network that I built in keras on timeseries data to predict number of sales for next 10 days. For this, I've created my dataset as -
var(t) -> var(t+1)
var(t+1) -> var(t+2)
var(t+2) -> var(t+3)
var(t+3) -> var(t+4) and so on
I did Min-Max scaling on this data and the RNN code is as follows -
model = Sequential()
model.add(LSTM(20, input_shape=(1, look_back),activation='tanh',bias_initializer='ones'))
model.add(Dense(1, activation='linear',bias_initializer='ones'))
opt=adam(lr=0.1)
model.compile(loss='mean_squared_error',optimizer=opt)
model.fit(xtrain, ytrain, epochs=100, batch_size=1, verbose=2)
But the plot I am getting is when I did predictions on xtrain (green = ytrain, blue = ypred) -
The rnn isn't learning anything at all. Its producing same results for each dataset. I've tried adding hidden layers, increasing number of neurons, changing parameters (learning rate, momentum), optimizers (sgd, adam, adagrad, rmsprop), lstm activation fxn (tanh, softsign). I got little fluctuations in some cases in the graph. But the output is mostly constant.
Also, I've only 200 datasets.
Can someone please guide me what I am doing wrong here. What else I can try. Will small sized data not work using RNN at all ? If so, is there any other way to solve this problem (except ARIMA model) ?
EDIT - Increased batch size to 100 and epochs to 1000. Received some better results. Also, I did mean normalization [(x-mean)/std_dev] instead of MinMax scaling.
A:
Try increasing your batch size. If your batch size is small, the gradients are a rough approximation of the true gradients.
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Genital Herpes – Your Questions Answered
Before we start to explore genital herpes, it’s important to understand herpes in general. Herpes is caused by a virus known as the herpes simplex virus. Herpes simplex is categorised into two types, HSV-1 and HSV-2.
The main difference between HSV-1 and HSV-2 is the location in which they appear on the body. A majority of HSV-1 infections are oral herpes, transmitted through oral to oral contact. They mainly appear as blisters or lesions on the side of the mouth, known as cold sores. However, it is still possible to transmit the HSV-1 virus through oral sex, causing genital herpes or oral herpes (depending on who is carrying the infection).
HSV-2 is almost exclusively spread through sexual contact. The infection occurs in the genital region, causing blisters or sores to appear, known as genital herpes.
What are the symptoms of genital herpes?
• Small blisters around the genital, anus, thigh or buttock area that burst, leaving open sores that are usually red
• Burning, itching or a tingling sensation around your genitals
• Pain on urination
• Vaginal discharge that is unusual
Not everyone has the same symptoms. In fact, some people who have the herpes virus may never have a single attack (although they are still able to pass the infection on). However, it is more likely for herpes to be transmitted when active, usually at the start or end of an outbreak.
When and how should I get tested for genital herpes?
You should get tested for genital herpes as soon as you develop symptoms. You can get tested at your local GUM clinic or order a test kit from a reputable online source. The test involves swabbing a lesion, which is then analysed in a laboratory, so for the most accurate result, you should swab an oozing lesion. There is no routine test for those that do not display any signs or symptoms.
When do the symptoms of genital herpes appear?
Most people who have contracted genital herpes for the first time, experience symptoms within 1-2 weeks. This is known as the incubation period where the virus is multiplying inside your body until the point where it causes an outbreak. Re-infections can occur at any time, usually appearing after an episode of trauma or when the immune system is compromised, for example, after a cold.
How long do the symptoms of genital herpes last for?
The first outbreak of herpes is usually the most severe, lasting around 2-3 weeks. After this, outbreaks usually last for around a week, depending on when you started anti-viral treatment. Before an outbreak, you may notice a sensation of tingling, burning or itching around the genital region. This is usually a sign of an outbreak and the best time to start treatment, ideally before blisters begin to appear.
How often do genital herpes outbreaks occur?
Outbreaks of genital herpes vary, depending on the person. Whilst some people will never, or very rarely experience outbreaks, others will experience outbreaks of genital herpes several times a year. It is important to keep yourself healthy, as a strong immune system can help to suppress the herpes simplex virus.
Is herpes simplex curable?
There is no cure for herpes, but certain anti-viral treatments such as aciclovir and valaciclovir can relieve the symptoms of genital herpes. According to WHO (World Health Organization), herpes simplex affects over 4 billion people worldwide. It is a common condition that many of us live a normal healthy life with.
When can I have sex again after a genital herpes outbreak?
To avoid spreading the virus, you should wait until the symptoms of herpes have cleared up, as this is when you are most contagious. Even after symptoms have cleared up, it is advisable to use a condom, as herpes can be spread even when symptoms are not present.
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-- { dg-do run }
procedure Slice10 is
subtype Str is String (1 .. 3);
type T is record
B : Boolean;
S : Str;
end record;
for T use record
B at 0 range 0 .. 0;
S at 0 range 1 .. 24;
end record;
function Match (X, Y: T; Length : Positive) return Boolean is
begin
return X.S (1 .. Length) = Y.S (1 .. Length);
end;
X, Y : T := (B => True, S => "123");
begin
X.B := False;
if not match (X, Y, 3) then
raise Program_Error;
end if;
end;
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nant animus with which they may be regarded. If, indeed, the autobiographical pretensions of the book were veracious, its pages would make us acquainted with one " Priest " not a shade better than the dark fancies of Exeter Hall, only vain enough to parade his wickedness, and stupid enough to make it simply tiresome or revolting. And could we further rely on the word of such a reporter, we should have to believe that the Parisian priests in general are even more shameless hypocrites and profligates than himself, and are accustomed to pass straight from their holiest offices into ribald jests and atheistic blasphemies. But what credence, nay, what hearing in any honest court, can be given to an anonymous reviler, who at the very moment of assuming the role of offended virtue was, by his own admission, cele- brating mass for temporary hire, with the full consciousness of broken vows and utter unbelief ? The very attempt to procure reception for such statements, without the open voucher of the witness's name, appears to us a heinous offence against literary morals. We know of only one thing worse, viz., that the alleged witness should be not nameless simply, but fictitious ; invented to confer the semblance of fact on the suspicions of a malign imagination. Yet such a personage, the internal evidence inclines us to fear (and external there is none, the " Editor " being anonymous like the " Author," and of indistinguishable identity), this Hun- garian " Catholic Priest " must be. His story, from the moment of his exchanging the vows of the lover for those of the priest, to his adulterous passion and suicide at last, is without unity or verisimilitude. His descriptions have no touch of reality ; his personages, no life ; his reflections, no sincerity of actual experience. How far, indeed, a nature unhinged and demoralized may be brought to pass through life without a clue of continuous tendency, however low, and with only hazy perceptions of people and things, it is difficult to say. But we hardly think that any real career could be relaxed in its delineation to such shapelessness as this. We lay no stress, therefore, on the statements of our PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. It is no wonder that clerical character should be a favourite topic in the literature of domestic and social fiction. The sitter for portraiture is everywhere : he sits in public, so that every one can read the likeness ; and his presence throws off daily photographs in every variety of light. The lawyer and the doctor are indeed almost equally ubiquitous ; but people without parchments know nothing of the one, and the healthy have only bowing acquaintance with the other. The parson, be his nature ever so retiring, leaves a distincter and wider impression. He is not only seen, but heard ; and on the tones of his voice his personal- ity flows forth, reporting and repeating in others the life or death within himself. Genially or querulously we all criticize him, and take our measure of him. There are few who do not ponder, or at least feel, the two lives apparently co-existing in him, — that which prays in the church, and that which gossips at the table; the solemn heart that beats under the cassock, and the organ of flesh and blood that throbs in the world's hot race. He is the visible represen- tative of this mystery to all, to some perhaps its true inter- preter; and while shrewd people of course can believe only in his secular side, and young reverence only in the spiritual, observers with any depth as well as tenderness of eye see their own reflection in them both. In one way or other he is the object of a universal feeling ; even those whose pride it is to care nothing for him being pleased to see him treated with indifference. The novelist has but to set him up, and a whole host of ready-made sympathies and anti- pathies are at hand to give interest to the figure. If in 334 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. passing a print-shop you saw in the window a picture of your neighbour or your rival, you would stop to look at it. And on the same principle, the tale-writer who would bring a crowd of faces before his glass naturally sets an image there, friendly or frightful in the sight of all. To this must be added, without the least disparagement of such artists as Mr. Eliot and Mr. Trollope, that where there is a broad groundwork of class-characteristics, the delineation is sure of a certain grade of success on easy terms. Costume in portraiture is a great help to the recog- nition of likeness ; and it needs but an individual trait or two, added on to a given and familiar kind of character, in order to leave a sufficiently concrete impression. And no one can deny that the class is strongly marked by some- thing far deeper than " the cloth." In fact, there is a tempting facility about ecclesiastical natural history most seductive to the observer who is eager for specimens to fill his cabinet of character. The genera of the order Clerus are peculiarly distinct : — the Catholic priest, with his alien sympathies, his mediaeval training, his skill in the archaeo- logy of Art, his solitary life, his meek absolutism ; — the Episcopalian clergyman, insular and national, steeped to the lips in the academic tincture of Oxford or Cambridge, pre- sumed to be a gentleman without the trouble of proving it, and sure to be the scholar rather than the divine ; — the Nonconformist minister, bourgeois in his manners, American in his politics, cosmopolitan in his philanthropy, too little of a Heathen to be a great scholar, and too polemic a Christian to be ill-equipped as a special theologian, — with a weakness for eloquence, a dependence on popularity, and a contempt for quiet forms of strength. Nor are the species under each of these heads hard to discriminate. No one, for instance, could be five minutes in the presence of Dr. Pusey, Dean Close, and Bishop Thirlwall, and suppose them churchmen of the same complexion. And even further down still, High-churchism is conspicuously dif- ferent, according as it is Catholic or English, springing PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 335 from sacramental doctrine or from conservative reverence for the social hierarchy j Low-churchism again, according as it means a zeal for the Genevan type of dogma, with in- difference to ritual and insensibility to art, or simply ex- presses the infinite need to the human soul of a grace and communion open only to faith; and Broad-churchism, according as it is critical and rationalistic in its basis, or verges to the Christian Gnosticism of Lincoln's Inn Chapel, or is merely liberal, ethical, and whiggish. So well deter- mined is the moral physiognomy of all these, that they are not less attractive to the novelist than the face of Lord Brougham and the person of Lord John Russell to the caricaturist. To some of their parochial varieties we are introduced in the " Scenes from Clerical Life " ; whilst " Barchester Towers " never quits the precincts of the Cathedral, presents us to City society, and domesticates our fancy with the dignified clergy of the Deanery and the Close. It is foreign to our purpose formally to criticize these productions as works of art. But in gratitude for pleasant hours spent over them, a word is due to their respective merits. Mr. Eliot's strength lies in the conception of female character ; and each of his three tales is but a framework for the setting of a woman's portrait. The second of these, — an Italian orphan, adopted by a stately English house, and, in spite of its sedative world of kindly decorum and opulent trifling, asserting her heritage of music and of passion, is original and vividly wrought out. The effect in this instance depends on the surprises of so unique a combination, nursing in the still air of country gentility wild storms of love, revenge, and sorrow. In the other cases the pathos rather arises from the picture being not exceptional, but representative. The native grace and ladyhood of the poor curate's wife, her overplied strength worn down before his stupid eyes by his children and the impossible problems of his house, her genius for self- sacrificing contrivance and achievement, her all-harmonizing 336 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. tact and love bringing leaf and blossom of life out of sordid conditions, and the early sundering of so fine a fibre under so great a strain, — are drawn with tender truth, and raise the sadder sighs because in a hundred churches every Sunday that gentle lady kneels. The third picture opens the interior of a more afflicted home ; where, by brutal abuse, a hard-headed, hard-drinking country lawyer drives his noble, trustful, childless wife to secret intoxication. In a crisis of agony, turned out of her home, she falls under the influence of an evangelical clergyman, who himself had passed through an act of repentance into rare self-devotion ; and who, in spite of local resistance, led by her husband, is quietly conquering the heart of the place. It is only in this third tale that we have any interior " scene of clerical life," with events really hinging upon its spring of character. In the first story it is the outward lot, not the inward per- sonality, of the curate, that spreads the stage for the drama; and in the second, it is a mere accident that there is any clergyman at all. The title of the book is thus far a little misleading, the principal character-painting being thrown upon other personages than the clerical agents in the scene. With Mr. Trollope's clever novel it is quite otherwise. His humour delights in studies of ecclesiastical human nature. The snug dwellings, with trim gardens, that cluster within hearing of palace-rookeries and cathedral-bells, show him their interior as if made of glass. True, we miss in him any very deep and subtle penetration to the springs of feeling, any attempt to construct a character from within by the working of its living essence. But he well understands the artificial affections, of taste and antipathy, formed by the mingling of self with religion, — whether the gross self of mere personal interest and desire, or the refined self of cultivated intellect, tact, and admiration. The supercilious- ness of Anglican scorn, the meanness of Evangelical spite, the easy-going goodness of the old-school clergyman, kept right amid party storms by the gentlemanly moderation of PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 337 a Christian mind, are forcibly impersonated. And the very slightness of the plot, — all turning upon the appointment of a new Dean and a new Warden to a hospital, — serves to give point to the satire. The scale and quality of clerical life receive significant illustration from the mere fact that you are carried through three volumes of humour, excite- ment, and intrigue about these golden apples of the palace- orchard. Indeed, the one deep impression which we carry away from all these books is, that the order of men of which such things can be plausibly written must have, and deserve to> have, but very feeble hold of the world. Nor is there any- thing to relieve that impression in the glimpses into Non- conformist life opened by such biographies as that of Foster. Traces are found there also of embarrassed and waning professional power ; of indeterminate and therefore uneasy relations between people and pastor; of conditions im- posed which are repulsive to ministers of large culture and scrupulous sincerity ; of a certain style and standard of re- ligious pretension false to men's real reverence and out of harmony with the best facts of life ; and of the comparative rarity with which the pulpit rises above its heavy reputation. Into the cause of this last fact Mr. Christmas inquires, in his pleasant little volume on " Preachers and Preaching " ; without, however, any appreciable result beyond a personal estimate (sensible enough) of a few favourite Christian orators. For, with all his zeal to effect an improvement, he denies the inferiority of the best modern sermons to those of the most honoured ages of Christendom, and doubts whether a Basil or a Chrysostom would especially draw a London congregation. He does not admit that the average is lowered, or that, on the whole, church and chapel were ever taught by a more able and earnest set of men. He reminds us that the complaint of dulness is not new ; that to those who have no inward preparedness, spiritual addresses speak in vain ; that in every age the number was probably small, in comparison with the careless world out- VOL. II. Z 338 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. side, that thronged the pavement round the pulpit, and made it here and there a power and a name. If this be so, — if the grievance be of so old a date and such obstinate persistence, — how are we to meet it ? What does our author counsel should be done ? Choose your text with judgment : succinctly explain it in your exordium : clench it in your peroration : practise action before the glass : study punc- tuation and emphasis : give the hearers intervals to cough. Discreet advice, perhaps ; but a little out of proportion, surely, to the estimated difficulty to be overcome. The evil lies, you say, in the permanent sluggishness of human nature ; and you prescribe nice doses of rhetorical breath. Your frigate is becalmed : send for the bellows to fill her main-sheet ! The proposal of so petty a remedy in so great a case sounds to us more dreary than the dullest sermon. Fancy Isaiah " declaiming before the glass," or St. Stephen " attending to his punctuation." Not that we undervalue the personal gifts of pure speech and irreproachable utter- ance. By all means let the human organ of the Divine Spirit have what perfection it can. But in clearing away instrumental blemishes, let not the preacher be seduced into the paramount disqualification of all, — of setting his office before him as an Art, in which he plies his own dexterity and criticizes his own performance. If now, as of old and always, the Power of the Spirit declines to pass upon the world except through souls that can forget them- selves and yield their faculties as the vehicle of Higher Will, — then, wherever you create the attitude of self-atten- tion, you cancel the capacity for Christian preaching, and substitute the dead for the living Word. Leave it, we entreat you, to actors, whose business it is to represent and not to be, — to set their laugh to music, and accentuate the "crescendo" and "diminuendo" of their grief: but let the chief of all realities remain a first-hand simplicity. If it hurts the natural feeling of every sincere spectator to see an act of prayer put upon the stage, commit not the same offence conversely by putting the stage beneath the acts of PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 339 public prayer and forgetting the difference between the pulpit and "the boards." No true emotion bears tutoring as to its natural language : it becomes simulated in very act. The angry girl who cries and sobs " to pattern," — -the parting friends that should do their embraces " before the glass," — the mourner's lament that should rehearse itself beforehand, — would disgust us with their unreality, and none the less though the acting were " to the life." Why should the expression of religious affection be considered as more innocently open to the operations of the posture- master and the elocutionist ? For us the inefficacy of preaching would require no explanation in an age when clergymen should learn from stage-players how to " read the Service " of the Church. If the fact be so old and steady, that sermons are felt to be unprofitable things, it is at least curious that we hear so much of it just now. All the authors we have cited groan over it with more or less of anger or pathos. Some of them even profanely wish that such part of the Service as follows the text were altogether abolished. This remarkable hint, with the prevailingly disparaging picture of the preaching class connected with it, raises the doubt, whether there is not something unhealthy in the whole system thus com- plained of, — a fatal variance between the represented and the real religion of the living generation. Not only is the complaint more emphatic than ever before ; it has also this peculiarity, that it proceeds from a more serious-minded laity against a more earnest clergy. It is not the sceptical and frivolous who complain : it is not the negligent and incapable that are complained against. That the devout and thoughtful preacher should have uninterested hearers among the selfish or sensual, in whom love and reverence sleep, would be nothing new. That devout and thoughtful hearers should be aggrieved by a preacher without sym- pathy or insight for the deeper life of men, is natural enough. But neither of these cases corresponds entirely with the fact. Could a comparison be instituted between last Sunday's z 2 340 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. sermons all over the country, and those of any correspond- ing day fifty years ago, we feel convinced that the products, of the new time would show a vast and indisputable super- iority. And could account be taken of the yawners and grumblers at the two dates, they would be found, we believe, chiefly among the careless and unawakened in the earlier instance, but in the later among the reflecting and sus- ceptible. The modern discontent with the pulpit is the expression not so much of hardened indifference as of baulked capacity, — of wonder disappointed, of conscience unaided, of reverence unexercised, of aspiration sent thirst- ing away. The minister in such cases is not equal to the religious demands of his hearers. Yet because they, who are in the real battle of life, perplexed by its problems, and eager for sympathy in its duties and temptations, care little for his technical theology and commonplaces of morality, he often treats them as carnal-minded, and lectures them for their coldness in things Divine. How often may you hear this sort of consecrated libel from lips the least entitled to pronounce it, — uttered by some shallow-hearted closet- priest, made up of artificial venerations, in the presence of manly nobleness and womanly tenderness and childlike simplicity less far from the kingdom of heaven than him- self! The patience with which it is borne by hearers conscious of not deserving it, is part of that fatal English courtesy which is exceptionally paid to the professional representatives of religion, and which so much disguises their real position. The clerical mode of insulting the laity is by anathema and incontinent speech ; the retort of the laity is a studied politeness and careful reticence. In such a game the balance of success is certainly not with the clergy ; and the success, like every substitution of retaliation for sympathy, is pernicious to both. The real meaning, we fear, of the outward respect paid by men of the world to men of " the cloth " is often this : " We cannot stop your mouth on Sundays, and you must have your fling at us : it is the regular thing expected of you, and we shall not take PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 341 it amiss. How can it have come to this ? Whence the failure of the religious teachers in recognized possession to carry with them the responding convictions of their time ? It certainly arises from no want of opportunity; for what set of men ever found so commanding a position ready made for them? They have not to watch and seize the spare moments we begrudge, and fling themselves across the world's tide to stem it as it flows : it pauses of itself in their behalf, and freely leaves them the seventh 342 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. part of all the years. They have not, like the politician or the author, to win a preoccupied ear, and prove our concern in what they say : they find us waiting, not only without aversion and resistance, but with hope and longing sym- pathy. Say what they will of the natural distaste for Divine truth, they have unexampled advantages in the mood we carry to them. So lately worn and weary, we are fastidious about nothing that belongs to the new refreshing hour. In the recoil from too much action, there is a wel- come relief in thought j dazzled with the glaring surface of things, we gladly sink for shade into the invisible deeps ; the withering heats withdrawn, the pores of natural feeling open and lie thirsting for the gentle rain. And are our spiritual guides stinted in their resources for moving an audience thus prepared ? Is not the Revelation they inter- pret coextensive in its bearings with the entire range of human character and condition ? Is it not theirs to draw forth the sacred meaning from the common look of things, and take away the veil of every scepticism and scorn that hides the awful beauty underneath ? The materials for which the tale-writer racks his memory and invention are scattered in profusion at their feet. Domestic interiors lie open to their eye in strange variety, dark with troubled temper, or gleaming with pure affections. The young promise of life is consecrated by them at the beginning, and its story often recited to them at the end. They see the problems of conscience struggling to a solution under marvellous contrasts of condition. As occasional con- fidants of bitter doubt or temptation, they look into tragic depths concealed from the common eye. All that has an interest for the human heart, — from the daily cares and crosses of every lot to the rarest mysteries of grief and passion, — is part of the theme they are called to treat. Appointed to guard the springs of Pity and of Trust, they can never want a cause to plead so long as the world has sorrows unnoticed or unsanctified. Nor are they confined to the moral phenomena before their own eyes. As inter- PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 343 preters of an historical religion, whose Divine source lies far up in time, and whose scheme embraces the whole life of humanity, they have the scenery of the past placed at their disposal ; and can often leave the truest lessons by repro- ducing the images of sacred story, or presenting portraits of faithful men in the setting of a just reverence. On another side, the topics permitted them verge towards philosophy. Not only are the great bases of Natural faith which Christianity presupposes deeply laid in the human soul ; but the most familiar phrases and antitheses of Scripture, — Nature and Grace, — Spirit and Flesh, — Faith, Works, and Love, — Temporal and Eternal, — the Father and the Son, — have the very fibres of their life far down in reflective experience and speculative thought. There is therefore scarcely a special taste of the intellectual, or an affection common to us all, that is not open to the preacher's appeal. His scope is practically unrestricted. He may be poet, moralist, philosopher, historian, without prejudice to his function as a divine. Why does he not, with so many appliances, mould us as potter's clay within his hand ? Partly, perhaps, because of this very breadth of his scope, — too great for a definite official class to occupy with success. To constitute a distinct "Profession" there is need of distinct duties and powers ; and in proportion as the range is left indeterminate, energy and concentration become impossible. Inherent in Protestantism itself there is a difficulty in creating and practically working a separate profession for " the cure of souls." The Roman Catholic Priesthood is an intelligible thing, the necessary Executive of a Sacramental economy. If there be in the world a fund of supernatural grace, vested in a sacred corporation and inaccessible through other media, trustees are needed for its distribution : their qualification and their function are simply official and perfectly precise, — the one arising from regular appointment, the other consisting in the use of given forms. by any thing amiss in the personality of the sacerdotal agent, or by the total absence of any moral relation be- tween him and the objects of his ministration. He has been duly passed by the Spiritual-Service Examiners, and has his bureau for business, like any Comptroller of Cus- toms or Distributor of Stamps. Men of this kind, — with- out whose wet cross upon the forehead no baby can have grace, without whose benediction on marriage its children are illegitimate, and whose anointing of the dying body is the needful passport to the flitting soul, — have a clear and unmistakable status, and can give a consistent account of their separate existence. But this whole theory, in spite of Anglican attempts to patch together some shreds of it again, was practically torn to pieces by the Reformation. In one form or other, sacerdotal mediation has vanished from modern Christendom. It matters not whether you say, in the phrase of one theology, that all Christians are Priests, or, in the terms of another, that no Christians are Priests but only the Saviour himself, the result is the same: universalized on earth, or concentrated in heaven, the official order is gone. What room, then, it may be asked, is there any longer for a clerical profession at all ? What now can be its essence and idea ? It rests in fact upon a twofold need. The sources of Divine truth are written and unwritten, the Letter without, the Spirit within : the one, the depository of God's past dealings with mankind ; the other, his living Witness in the soul and in the world to-day. Both of these are certainly open in one sense to all : there is no outward hindrance barring access to them ; they are the property of none. But the inward fitness to use them is any thing but universal, and involves special qualities which form the groundwork of an exceptional class. To interpret and appreciate sacred records written in foreign and ancient tongues, to reproduce and explain the social and spiritual life of which they are the expression, to make intelligible the identity and the difference of human feeling in their day and in our own, to PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 345 trace, by gleaming lights of good and beauty, the steps of the Divine Guide through history, — all this requires ripe scholarship and disciplined thought, such as it were vain to expect but from a specially trained body of men. It is one of the incidental blessings, indeed, of a historical Revelation, that it snatches its believers from the tyranny and isolation of their own age, widens their Time-view, makes them con- scious of belonging to a rich and ripening world, and glorifies their heart with a thousand saintly sympathies and heroic admirations. Without a learned and accomplished Ministry this blessing, with all that it involves, would soon be starved out : they are the indispensable storehouse for its distribu- tion. And if, in Churches which give academic training to their clergy, no adequately ennobling contrast is presented, it is because they give a timid half-culture, full of insincerities and reservations ; with no hearty devout trust in reality, — turn out as it may, — but with foregone purpose to work up to a given scheme, and prohibit all paths that do not hit it. No man can serve two masters. Either scientific theology, or else doctrinal fixity ; but not both. If you are bound to a confession, you are not free as a scholar ; and your attainments, not reverently serving God's hidden ends, but skilfully securing your own preconceptions, sink to the rank of unconsecrated personal adornments. The erudition of a clergy pledged to certain critical and dogmatic results can have no judicial balance and breadth : it will be full of disproportion, empty and silent in one part, noisy and brow- beating in another ; ever tending to rabbinical trifling and antiquarian punctiliousness ; and will want the fresh, manly, hopeful, and believing voice which makes you feel the difference between patched-up conviction and unreserved faith. The poor results of the clerical teaching-function in 346 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. in this country can surprise no one who considers the restraints under which the whole professional mind lies. How can a man in the stocks rise up and show you the way ? At best, however, were the exposition of the records and history of our faith ever so well achieved, the result would only be a Theology, — a knowledge or intelligent scheme of Divine things ; not Religion, — the inward consciousness of God and reverent acceptance of his guiding will. Theo- logy, as the critique of Religion, always stands at one remove from its reality and essence ; and no more involves it than Scientific Ethics^involve personal conscientiousness. Take away every hindrance from the free development of biblical, historical, and philosophical studies, suppose even a clerisy, such as Coleridge imagined, at the head of all liberal knowledge, still they would thus far only form a body like the Divinity Professors of Germany ; from whom indeed, as prevailingly lay teachers, theological literature receives all its richest accessions, but who are in no closer contact with the moral life of their nation than the jurists or the physicians. By learning from the best-equipped instruc- tors the truest doctrines in the most demonstrative forms, no single soul was ever saved. There is need, therefore, of a yet higher function • which we have described as the interpreta- tion of the unwritten Word, the appeal to the Living Wit- ness of God in our humanity. That Witness is present in every movement of Conscience, every pure admiration, every secret reverence, — holy and gentle leadings that pass from us as a transient mood, unless some true diviner's voice finds their authority for us and awes us by what they are. The dim and mystic zone of our higher nature, where the human meets with the Divine, grows so clear to some, that they can divide the light from the darkness, and turn what to us is a confused chaos into a firmament of stars. The indeterminate suspicions that sleep within and make only a sadness there, they lift into vivid consciousness and set above us as our heavenly guide. Describe the fact as you PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 347 will, — say, if you please, in mere psychological language, that the sentiments of duty and worship are infectious and spread from mind to mind ; or, in what we deem the truer terms of Christian realism, say that God's Spirit abiding in us is recognized by all as soon as seen and shown by any, — certain it is that men there always are whose simple out- pouring of reverence, pity, and trust, finds ready in other hearts a solemn and loving response. This is the true prophetic function, the discovery in our nature and life of the meeting-place of God and man ; where alone is the key of all our force and the consecration of all our work. Those who can exercise this are God's natural ministers, with or without ordination : those who cannot are but secular, though their names be in the Clergy List. Here, it is evident, is the essence of religious power, without which historical Revelations lie off at a distance, and all churches and chapels are but as the glass-cases in a Museum to preserve and exhibit the sanctities dried and classified. The testimony of history to God's Providence, of Scripture to his spiritual dealings with our race, and of all things to his Being, is rich and various and worthy to be shown forth. But greater than any testimony is the thing testified ; that, with all his seeming silence, he hourly speaks with us, pleading with us in our temptations, appealing to our trust in sorrow, and living in all our better love ; that he is in our midst, forming, in communion with all willing fellow- workers, his kingdom of Heaven ; and that not death at last, but faithfulness and self- surrender at any time, will translate the soul into his life eternal. These realities, kindling in the light of immediate consciousness, cast all theological media into the shade. The mountain from which yesterday's sun was seen to set becomes sacred as Horeb or Tabor ; and the obscurest room in London where any sacrament of love is fulfilled to-day shines like that upper chamber in Jerusalem. When your Friend is with you, you no longer discuss the evidence that he exists. 348 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. Of the three conceivable functions, then, constitutive of a clerical order, — the Priestly, the Rabbinical, and the Pro- phetic,— the first is with us extinct. The other two agree in requiring a special class, with qualities separating them from the mass of mankind. They differ, however, in this, that the Rabbi can be made, the Prophet cannot. The one is a scholastic product ; the other, a divine gift. " Schools of the prophets," indeed, there must always be ; not, however, in the vain hope of inspiring the scholar, but, through humble patience, to make a scholar of the inspired. This, no doubt, it is often difficult to do. It has been the frequent error of enthusiasm (as among the Quakers and Moravians) to pronounce it impossible or superfluous ; nor is it uncommon among less eccentric believers to hear the heaviness of a preacher referred to the weight of his erudi- tion, the cold reserve of his affections explained by the polish of his intellect. A learned man is even expected to be dull. In these vulgar impressions there is a confused mixture of just observation and illusion. It is true that the temperament susceptible of high intellectual training is much more common than the gifts by which the depths are stirred of secret religion in men's hearts; so that great attainments afford no presumption of moral power. It is also true that there is no tendency in the study of scientific theology to change the climate of any mind, and give a tropic fervour to an arctic nature : so that from a man's " sacred " learning you can no more infer an earnest godly soul, than you can be sure from his acquaintance with the Flora of the equator that he is not a phlegmatic Swede. It is further true, that the native prophetic fire often burns into false heats of impatience and presumption upon young hearts, and tempts them to decline the toils and despise the discipline of steady culture. But this belongs to its human infirmity, not to its divine excellence ; and entails the vitiating curse inseparable from pride and haste. Where the religious call is faithfully and meekly answered, an anxiety will surely prevail to place at its disposal faculties PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 349 in highest order. If the Divine Guest proposes to take up his abode with you, it were a rude negligence to leave the house unclean and let the rooms be dark. The simplest reverence requires that, ere he " stands at the door and knocks," you have it " swept and garnished," and adorned with every grace attainable. Far from allowing the irre- ducible, uncontrollable nature of the prophetic impulse, we are convinced that if it is not eager for the yoke of patient discipline, if it fears to be stifled beneath any store of finite knowledge, it is a spurious glow not all from heaven. There is, then, a foundation in the natural specialties of men for an order of religious guides. And there is an im- perative reason in the constitution of the Christian faith for making them accomplished scholars and theologians. How far does this abstract defence apply to the system which exists ? How far does the natural sacred class coincide with the actual ? What provision is there for selecting per- sons of some religious genius, and excluding those in whom no incense ever kindled ? Every one familiar with Puritan history will remember with what devout care the gifts and graces were scrutinized of each young aspirant to the pulpit, and how it was deemed a downright sacrilege to choose one whom God had not chosen. Of those who were to be "his ambassadors" he had of right the prime and real nomi- nation, which we had only to discover and accept. Some faint remnant of this reasonable no less than pious usage is still found, we believe, among the Nonconformist bodies ; a large proportion of whose ministers are accordingly deter- mined to their profession by intrinsic fitness, real or sup- posed. But how is it with the parochial clergy ? What proportion of them would the tutors at Oxford and Cam- bridge report to be drawn to their office by true affinity ? In hundreds of families where a son is destined for Holy Orders, the question is never asked whether any divine mark is on him indicating a Higher Will. Mr. Christmas defines the Preacher the "Ambassador of God." How, then, was he chosen for so lofty a diplomacy ? His uncle 350 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. promised the lad " the living " at his park-gate ; or his father was a shrewd attorney, and bought an advowson cheap. Shocking as the contrast is between this shameless scandal and the sublime pretensions of High-Church office, the connection between them is perfectly natural. In a sacerdotal system, personal qualities go for nothing, or sink to non-essentials ; whoever can administer the sacraments, can dispense God's grace; and, so long as that condition is safe, a traffic in benefices which may put a blockhead at the altar is held to involve no fatal sin. Carry the theory fully out, — scarce a step indeed beyond the point it has reached at Rome, — and, as the human attributes are inoperative in the work, you would seem not to need a man at all. And when we read of the Archbishop at the Cherbourg festival baptizing the locomotives with holy water, we could not help asking why an engine, instead of a live dignitary, might not, after suitable consecration, be qualified to sprinkle as well as receive the drops of grace. But the Reformed Church, disowning material consecration, and throwing the whole stress of the evangelizing process on living faith within a conscious soul, — at once the gift and the vehicle of the Spirit, — must ever keep its eye on the personality of the minister, and shrink from taking any whom God has left. In humbler, yet not dissimilar things, we follow better rules. You would not rank yourself with poets from being Shakespeare's cousin, or because you inherited a studio write " Artist " after your name. Pro- fane not a greater sanctuary on guiltier plea. Nothing, we presume, but the system of patronage can account for the fact that our English Church, with a high average of clerical worth, contains more indifferent preachers than any Church in Christendom. All observant foreigners, resident for a while amongst us, are struck with the fact ; and we have heard from Swiss and German, from Swede and American, expressions of astonishment that a people with whom religion is not a farce, and who for their other wants are accustomed to insist upon the best supply, PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 351 can be content with such poor draughts for their spiritual thirst. Suppose, however, that by some happy device none but persons of the true prophetic type were admitted to the sacred office, the difficulty of constituting it as a profession would by no means be at an end. Its power is a subtle and mysterious essence, intense and deep till too broadly recognized ; but no sooner formulated than lowered, and perhaps gone. The ordinary division of labour out of which the several trades and professions arise affects only the outward employments ; assigning, indeed, different and limited tasks to our activity, and so far giving a partial direction to our development ; but leaving free the great currents of inward affection and character to work and play in their own channels. The doctor, the lawyer, the banker, may have each his special prejudices and incapacities ; but these need not hurt the moral staple of his mind or con- strain the action of his natural sentiments as a man. The basis of the sacred profession is different. Here the pro- posal is to build a life upon a particular order of feelings ; to detach these, and consign them to a representative class for their custody and nurture ; to gather them up from being the diffused function of our integral nature, and con- centrate them as objects of distinct attention and dis- quisition. Wonder, — Reverence, — Admiration ; these it is which the expounder of holy things has to keep alive in men's hearts, and rightly direct upon divine realities. Secret roots as they are of not only every gracious blossom, but every pure fruit of life, to bring down the dews upon them and open their withered cells is indeed a blessed office, if only it be possible. But can this miracle be wrought statedly and at will ? Can such highest affections be reduced to a business, and be acted on by rule ? Their whole excellence depends on their simplicity, spontaneous- ness, unselfishness, carrying us out in trust and love to what is above us. But if you create an art for taking charge of them, how can you, as a proficient in it, retain that simpli- 352 PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. city ? The emotions for which you have to contrive, you no longer healthfully experience ; in looking at them you lose them. It was their Divine Object that entranced you once ; but you turn the focus inwards, and the object slips away. The best inspirations of our nature are meant to re- main fresh and first-hand, and lose their identity in losing their originality. Charter them as a craft or guild; and passing into the hand of conscious skill, they contract the tincture of self, and awaken the vanity of possession. A class-interest in regard to them, a class-criticism, a class- technology arises, and chatters and chafes and scrutinizes till the bloom is all rubbed off. The verdant places of the heart have but a tender grass, and will not bear the tramp of too much speech. This, we think, is a serious danger to those who follow Art as a profession ; their pure sympathy with the expressiveness of nature, their creative instinct of Beauty, need great intensity to hold their ground against the tyranny of opinion and fastidious self-comparison : and hurtful as the slang of hardened criticism is to the re- verential faith of the young artist, is the technic of theology to the simple piety which it complicates, bewilders, and talks down. In an official class for sacred things the Primary devout- ness which lives in God must dreadfully tend to pass into the Secondary stage of " Concern for Religion " ; to slip from the Infinite reality to the ecclesiastical drama, and, wakened from its vault of midnight worship, detect itself kneeling before the glass. This self-conscious reflection busies itself with analyzing and estimating either other people's re- ligion, or else its own. The former habit is almost inevit- able in the presence of so many sects and schools within the nominal embrace of our common Christendom. The tangle, indeed, is too intricate and thorny for even profes- sional patience to unravel as a whole ; but when every lay- man falls in with people that carry some queer creed within their head and an odd hat without, — when every parson in his rounds meets rivals on the same field, — when the gilt PROFESSIONAL RELIGION. 353 cross on St. Nepomuc's looks loftily down on the thin brick Ebenezer, — when the church-going stranger in town, walk- ing on the wrong side of the street, gets shown by mistake into a Unitarian chapel, — it is not surprising if curiosity about the faith of neighbours, and the comparative anatomy of doctrine, should too much take the place and assume the guise of a more simple and childlike piety. Does any one doubt the evil of this, or suppose that the spread of theological connoisseurship is equivalent to the deepening of the Christian life ? Let him give his attention, for two or three months, to the newest offspring of this tendency,— the so-called " Religious Newspapers " ; and when he has watched the interior of which they give him a view, let him say whether on the whole any more bitter satire was ever produced on the unity, the guilelessness, the humility, and heavenly-mindedness of the Christian Church. 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Can machine learning improve customer service and what does an AI powered customer service experience look like? Does it go beyond chatbots? Will it add or destroy jobs?
Forbes has an interesting look. From the article.
Now, imagine a smart system where you are automatically redirected to a smart agent (or a digital agent) who knows that you are calling in to talk to a customer agent because you were on the website or app looking for answers to a particular question. You even interacted with the chatbot, but your question was not answered. Your calling number and voice can be used to verify your identity to search your record instead of spending the time to look up your information. There are machines behind the scene ingesting, processing and analyzing this interaction in real time and predicting that you are about to call the customer service.
The AI Today podcast has an interesting episode on the use of AI in customer experience and how chatbots, among other uses of AI, may herald a new age of better customer service.
AI Today Podcast #78: AI in Customer Experience
The fight for customer attention is fierce and companies are increasingly turning to technology to discover new ways to help. Artificial intelligence is playing a major role in creating connected customer experiences throughout the entire customer lifecycle. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer explore various ways AI is improving the customer experience.
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
I'm lost again...but closer to the finish line
If any of you has watched ben10: alien force you know about the 'high breed' .. don't call the psyche hospital just yet..
i like how they played around with the pun, you know, 'hybrid' and 'high breed' especially when they're a race that is totally against the existence of other species and who's worst nightmare would be to interbreeding. so, in the end of the first season(i think), ben10 and one of the high-breed -who's arm got severed, replaced with a plant arm, tried to kill himself because he wasn't pure and finally realised that other species matter too- stopped a giant tree creature, that was created by the high-breed, from blowing up the earth and consequently reversing the genetic damage that was caused by the high-breed's inbreeding, teaching them that they should embrace other species..
what was my point again? yeah!
so, imagine I'm the high-breed, everyone else is some other sort of specie and there's no ben10.. you guessed it, you all die and my race withers away because of all the inbreeding.. I need a ben10 to help me through this all.. someone to make me see clearly, like that moment you're sent to the eye doctor for glasses and you think you can see then pow! you realise you'd missed all that.. and all this feeling.. gosh! i was told i need to name it.. the emotion.. to get through it.. makes sense though..
anger.. not really..
guilt.. nope!
sorrow.. nah!
shame?? ah! ah!
confusion.. wait! is that emotion? no! but it does explain a lot..
Ah huh! frustration.. I'm frustrated
that was easy, i think........
but what am i frustrated about?
a long list can be drafted....
need to get a journal...
that should help...
or a writing pad..
jot it all down..
get the emotions on paper..
then sort that isht out....
this stale funk of neediness and emotional turmoil is cramping my style..
but the key reason I'm frustrated is because i have no control over anything.....
here's one more,
i'm scared
i'm scared that one of these days everything will crumble and fall....
that the people i care for will vanish....
i don't like waiting for bad things to happen but that's exactly what i'm waiting for...
i can't live life this way...
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The Technium
Flag of Earth
This is the first flag I feel I could fly with unalloyed pride. Now all I need is a lapel pin version.
The flag was designed by James Cadle. Prior to the US landing on the moon, there was hope a flag for humanity, rather than the American flag, would be erected on the moon. Some hoped the UN flag would fly, but that never happened.
Some time later, James Cadle, who lived on a farm in rural Illinois, was inspired by this debate to create the Flag of Earth. It is intended to be used for ANY purpose that is representative of Humankind as a whole, and not connected to any country, organization, or individual. James made it his life’s work to promote and distribute this flag everywhere. He and his wife made the flags on their kitchen table, and sold them for what it cost to make and distribute them.
The Flag of Earth is often flown at locations doing SETI work in order to indicate that the search is the “work of humanity and not a specific country or organization.” Cadle died in 2004, but he left the design in the public domain, bless him.
At the Flag of Earth website there are templates for printing them out or purchasing ready-to-fly sown ones.
• Jorge
I like it. It would be beautiful to have such thing, something that unites all us.
Save humanity!
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Vegan Fridge & Pantry Essentials
Whether you're new to the vegan lifestyle, or you've been vegan for years, this Vegan Essentials List is where it's at.
When your kitchen is totally stocked, preparing delicious, healthy meals is a breeeeeeeze.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel here!
Just a heads up - I don't really cook with oil at all anymore. But I know there are lots of you who do, so buy the oil or don't buy the oil - it's completely up to you. This is just a guide to get you started. Feel free to cross-off or add anything you'd like!
Make sure to download the FREE printable grocery list that goes with everything I mention in this video!
It's seriously SO helpful to have it with you while you're shopping for the week.
Now get your booty to the grocery store and get that vegan kitchen all stocked up!
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4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine (C10 H 14BrNo 2).
2C-B is also known by the names Nexus, Erox, Herox, Bromomescalin and BDMPEA, but is most commonly sold as Ecstasy in pill form. Acetate/hydrochloride/bromide salts (crystalline powder forms) and capsules are also available.
Medicine men in South Africa use it as a remedy which goes by the name of "Ubulawu Nomathotholo".
Dose: 5-25 mg swallowed, 2-15 mg snorted.
The effect is very dose-dependent. The drug's effect kicks in after 5-10 minutes if snorted and 30-60 minutes if swallowed. A high is reached after 1-1½ hours and can last 3-6 hours.
Effects depend on the user's emotional state, external factors and the dose. 2C-B can be sexually stimulating with an aphrodisiac effect, may bring about feelings of harmony and euphoria and distort the balance of the mind. It heightens all the senses and in most cases causes hallucinations.
2C-B can produce different effects and side-effects for every individual each time it is taken.
Short-term side effects
It burns the nasal mucous membranes if snorted.
The pulse rate rises slightly, both blood pressure and body temperature increase, critical faculties and responses are impaired, as is the ability to drive. With higher doses horrifying trips are more likely as users can find the loss of control and distorted sense of reality threatening.
Long-term side effects
We are not aware of any scientific research into the side-effects of long-term use.
As the active ingredients do not drain serotonin levels like amphetamines do, it is assumed that the known changes in the brain caused by taking (meth)amphetamine do not occur.
Latent (underlying) psychosis may be triggered, which can lead to permanent damage to mental health.
Interaction with other drugs
Complications from taking this drug with other substances have not been documented as yet, but take a lower dose than you normally would if using with other substances. Be particularly careful when mixing with downers (alcohol, heroin etc.).
Safer use
As 2C-B is a powerful mind-altering drug, people with anxiety problems should avoid taking it at all and especially in situations likely to cause anxiety.
As it is even more difficult to predict the effects when taken with other drugs, you are advised against mixing them.
People with mental illness, diabetes, epilepsy, heart problems, pregnant women and nursing mothers should not take 2C-B under any circumstances.
Take a break of at least a week between trips.
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Is There a New Kidney in Your Dog's Future?
Answer these questions to see if your dog can qualify for a kidney transplant.
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1. Has your veterinarian diagnosed your dog to be in the early stages of terminal kidney failure?
2. Are its blood urea and creatinine (measures of kidney function) abnormal and not improving with aggressive medical treatment?
3. Is it relatively young: less than 8 years old if a large breed or less than 10 if a small breed?
4. Do its own kidneys have a life expectancy of less than a week?
5. Does it still have an appetite and little, if any, weight loss?
6. Has it been free of infection - including skin, ear and bladder infections - for at least six months?
7. Is it free of underlying diseases that would worsen with strong immune-system suppression, such as cancer or pancreatitis?
8. Is its kidney failure the result of age or genetic defect and not the result of poisons, such as antifreeze?
9. Does it have an easygoing personality, and is it easy to handle and able to keep a happy attitude despite surgery, pills and injections?
10. Is it able to enjoy life confined to a house and without the company of other dogs?
If you've answered yes to the 10 questions, your dog fits the profile for a kidney transplant. But transplantation is a team effort, and the postoperative treatments are intensive, expensive and can be time consuming. Yes answers to the questions below suggest you could manage the sacrifices transplantation demands.
1. Can you give medication at least twice daily without fail for many years?
2. Can you afford to spend $10,000 the first year without borrowing?
3. Can you forego vacations during at least the first year to care for your dog?
4. Will you be able to see your veterinarian frequently - sometimes daily - for scheduled and nonscheduled visits, both day and night?
5. Can you avoid contact with other dogs? You'll need to groom at home, avoid kennels and make special provisions at the veterinary office to avoid minor infections, such as kennel cough, that can threaten immunosuppressed animals.
6. Can you handle the roller coaster of emotions as you live each day both in high hopes of long-term survival and lingering fears of losing your companion?
If you and your dog fit the profile, ask your veterinarian to refer you to a surgical center for evaluation. For information about programs with the highest success rates, call the Ontario Veterinary College at (519) 823-8830 or the University of California, Davis, College of Veterinary Medicine at (530) 752-1393.
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My dog Ivy is a 7month old Bullldog and needs a new kidney to live. Can you help? My cell number is 312-622-3423
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Here's a picture of me at the D-Day beaches in Normandy!
As I approach the end of my study abroad experience (with about 20 days left) I can't help but be a little nostalgic remembering how I first walked around not knowing where anything was sweating in the summer heat of southern France to now watching the leaves fall and the seasons change. There are a lot of people I have met through this experience that have shared the ups and downs of life abroad with me that I will be close to for a long time, but I remember on my flight over I kept thinking and stressing about how I was going to make friends in a foreign country.
Luckily for me my program had a pre-session which consisted of two weeks of intense language immersion while all 35 of the students in my program were staying in the same hotel. This created an immediate group of people for me to call my new friends but alas, they were learning French too and I was hoping to meet some native speakers to really improve my language abilities.
So when classes started up at my university, I tried chatting with people in class which is actually a little difficult when you are like me and don't know a lot of as the French would say "la langue courante" (or what people actually say in day to day life) instead of my practiced phrases which came out of meeting French people in that situation turned out to be a little stressful.
The thing that really helped me, as it does for any college student, is to join something. With common interests, the dialogue is already started making the transition a little more seamless. I joined a conversation group on Wednesday nights which is an exchange of English and French. So while I speak French someone else speaks English...which ends up working out quite nicely as both of us would stumble our way through phrases and unfamiliar pronunciations.
I think the main thing is that you can't be afraid like I was in my first week of classes - students throughout the world (wherever you might happen to study) are just as interested in you as you are in them. It is that sort of innate curiosity about the way other cultures live that drives young people to study elsewhere. So don't feel pressured to fit in perfectly or speak the language exactly like a native...because odds are you won't...and that is just fine because the best learning opportunities come from understanding those differences that make us special. So throw yourself out there because you've got nothing to lose!
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Fish and Marine Animals Named After Celebrities
December 21, 2020
Sometimes celebrities reach such dizzying heights of popularity, their fame can no longer be contained within the confines of film, TV, music or pop culture. In fact, some famous faces get so big, biologists name their latest fish and marine animal discoveries after them.
Believe it or not, there’s a whole host of creatures with celebrity names, including a spider named after Angeline Jolie, a pterosaur named after Steven Spielberg, and a wasp named after Shakira.
Here, we’re diving into the world’s waters to uncover some amazing fish and marine animals that have been named after celebrities.
Freddie Mercury
Species: Crustacean (Cirolana mercuryi)
The discovery of a tiny isopod in the waters off Bawe Island near Zanzibar, Tanzania led biologists to name it after a particularly famous figure, Queen’s iconic frontman, Freddie Mercury. Despite Queen being one of the most distinctly British rock bands in history, Freddie was born and raised in Stone Town on Zanzibar, where his father worked as a cashier at the British Colonial Office.
Elton John
Species: Crustacean (Leucothoe eltoni)
Believed to be native to the coral reefs of Raja Ampat, Indonesia, this crustacean was named after the legendary pop star and composer Elton John. With its large, shoe-like appendage, it was the oversized boots Sir Elton wore in the movie Tommy that inspired scientists to bestow the crustacean with its famous moniker.
David Attenborough
Species: Fish (Materpiscis attenboroughi)
It makes sense that someone who has dedicated their life to documenting wildlife would one day have a marine animal named after him. That’s exactly what happened when, in 2005, a scientific expedition to the Gogo Formation – a reef system in Western Australia – discovered the only known specimen of this prehistoric fish species. Found with an unborn embryo inside, it’s actually the oldest example of a vertebrate giving birth to live young.
Barack Obama
Species: Fish (Etheostoma obama)
When scientists Steve Layman and Rick Mayden discovered five new species while studying colour variations in another type of darter fish, they decided to name them after US politicians known for their conservation efforts. Sounding like a marine-y take on Mount Rushmore, their discoveries name-checked Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore, along with former US president Barack Obama. Obama was ultimately chosen by the scientists because of his work in the areas of clean energy and environmental protection.
Species: Acorn worm (Yoda purpurata)
Ok, so while the legendary Jedi master isn’t really a celebrity, he’s still a certified pop culture icon who definitely deserves having a marine animal named after him. On discovering a reddish-purple worm one-and-a-half miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists felt the same way, bestowing the worm with the name ‘Yoda’ because the large lips on either side of its head reminded them of the legendary Star Wars character.
Nelson Mandela
Species: Nudibranch (Mandelia mirocornata)
Scientists named this nudibranch, a soft-bodied mollusc, after one of the most inspirational and iconic figures in all of history, the legendary former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Thought to be endemic to Mandela’s home country, it’s been found exclusively in the waters stretching from the Atlantic side of the Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth country’s east coast. What’s the significance of this? Well, within this range lies Robben Island, the prison where Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years because of his role in the fight against South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Mick Jagger
Species: Artiopoda (Aegrotocatellus Jaggeri)
We’ll resist the urge to make a joke about the iconic Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger being a fossil in his own right, but it’s hard not to when scientists named an extinct arthropod after the Stones’ singer. Discovered in 1995 when Jagger was a spritely 52 years of age, he’s also been immortalised by other palaeontologists in the form of a fossilised mollusc called the Anomphalus jaggerius. His Stones bandmate Keith Richards has also been given the same treatment, when another similar species was discovered around the same time and given the name Perirehaedulus richardsi.
Bob Marley
Species: Crustacean (Gnathia marleyi)
It’s a little strange that a marine animal that undergoes such a bizarre cycle of events in its life is named after a musician that brought joy to many people, but nevertheless, that’s just what marine biologist Paul Sikkel did when he discovered this tiny parasitic crustacean in the US Virgin Islands in 2002. Naming it after his favourite reggae musician because he felt both were uniquely Caribbean, that’s seemingly where the similarities end. The Gnathia marleyi spends the first part of its life feeding on the blood and mucus of its host fish. After this lovely meal, it stops feeding and spends the rest of its life trying to reproduce, until it eventually dies of starvation.
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Have a Powerball ticket? You'd better check it carefully.
Odds are that there will be a million-dollar winner in this week's Powerball lottery who will never know they won.
About $2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed every year. Many of those tickets are worth between $1 and $5, but some folks never realize that they have a life-changing prize in their pocket.
Roughly 114 prizes worth $1 million or more went unclaimed in 2015, according to Brett Jacobson. He developed an app called Lotto Lotto that alerts lottery players if they have a winning ticket. The app will soon work with retailers in every state that participates in the lottery to make claiming rewards easier for winners.
As part of the research to create the app, Jacobson requested lottery collection data from all of the state lottery commissions in the country.
Related: Your chances of winning Powerball just got worse
There actually tend to be more unclaimed prizes associated with a massive drawing like the current estimated $1.5 billion prize, he says. That's because when people hear that they didn't hit the big jackpot, they often neglect to check whether they won any smaller prizes, according to Jacobson.
"People don't even realize there are secondary prizes," he said.
Related: Powerball's made 67 millionaires since November
The $1 million prizes are paid immediately to the winners, minus the taxes.
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Steins;Gate 20 - I Thought FB Was Facebook
What an amazing episode with an obvious cliffhanger that has been looming over us for quite some time. This was a pretty important episode with some huge spoilers, so this is the only warning to not read this if you haven't caught up yet. I don't want to ruin the epic-ness of this episode with my crappy writing. XD
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that noticed, but I believe that Mayuri is retaining some of her memory with all of these jumps, too. She mentions that Okabe hasn't talked to her recently - but, with all of these jumps, not much time should have actually passed. He keeps repeating these same days, so she must retain the memories of the jump to be able to tell that he hasn't talked to her lately. Just my thoughts; she is clearly connected deeper in this than what we see so far, at least.
To jump right into the big action piece of this episode... It was interesting to hear that Bruan's story was similar to Moeka's. He simply recreated it to pull more people in. My question is still about how Suzu fits into all of this if she helped him. What was his task? To get the IBN to SERN? Why would they need to decipher their own emails? It makes more sense that when they actually got their hands on the IBN, Moeka didn't need to look for one anymore, because they wanted Ookarin to have one to help them work on time travelling.
Poor Nae.
So, now a bit about the VN as I was spoiled as to what was cut out. Skip this paragraph if you don't want to know what was cut. Basically, Bruan doesn't kill anyone but himself, and Nae time-leaps from the future to kill Moeka and then torture Ookarin a bit. I would've loved to see Nae go on a psycho killing spree; I was pretty disappointed to see this section cut. If only this anime was 26ep and then they could include it... D:
Captain Obvious to the rescue!
It was so blatantly obvious and I even commented on it a few times before, but with the pacing of the last few episodes I totally forgot. It was that feeling of when you realize something you should have known all along. So, it comes down to a choice between Kurisu and Mayuri. I would pick Kurisu any day. I guess we will see if he can come up with a resolution to save everyone.
This was definitely a high note for this season, leaving me wanting more episodes. Translations are up to 7/11 chapters, and I can't wait to play through this. I definitely feel like I'm missing many of the small points that would tie things together neatly. Four more episodes to go; I need a time-leaping microwave to get me to next week faster! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.987632691860199}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '78603', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5MEWHWADNADIJGUEOW3SLK5BGTQXLGPK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5007431b-8ff1-400e-abaa-c26214875ee7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 8, 6, 57, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.13.83', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RLTA4HKDKVFFASOWK3HGV3XFI3HYQDQZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f0c44655-0f87-4db6-b028-062da0def4f3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.clanrain.com/2011/08/steinsgate-20-i-thought-fb-was-facebook.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d70bbbdf-675d-4328-b4ef-c19f0aababdf>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '481', 'url': 'http://www.clanrain.com/2011/08/steinsgate-20-i-thought-fb-was-facebook.html', '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-10-67-67-128.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': '0.03513973951339722', 'original_id': '418670d57d13544fbf7d2c176523c4f64c36f20cd0951daf480921bfbd898146'} |
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Homologs of genes expressed in Caenorhabditis elegans GABAergic neurons are also found in the developing mouse forebrain
Elizabeth AD Hammock12*, Kathie L Eagleson3, Susan Barlow46, Laurie R Earls47, David M Miller245 and Pat Levitt3*
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1 Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
2 Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
5 Program in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8240, USA
6 Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation, One Siskin Plaza, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA
7 St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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Neural Development 2010, 5:32 doi:10.1186/1749-8104-5-32
Received:8 July 2010
Accepted:1 December 2010
Published:1 December 2010
© 2010 Hammock et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
In an effort to identify genes that specify the mammalian forebrain, we used a comparative approach to identify mouse homologs of transcription factors expressed in developing Caenorhabditis elegans GABAergic neurons. A cell-specific microarray profiling study revealed a set of transcription factors that are highly expressed in embryonic C. elegans GABAergic neurons.
Bioinformatic analyses identified mouse protein homologs of these selected transcripts and their expression pattern was mapped in the mouse embryonic forebrain by in situ hybridization. A review of human homologs indicates several of these genes are potential candidates in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Our comparative approach has revealed several novel candidates that may serve as future targets for studies of mammalian forebrain development.
Proper forebrain patterning and cell-fate specification lay the foundation for complex behaviors. These neurodevelopmental events in large part depend on a series of gene expression refinements (reviewed in [1]) that commit cells to express certain phenotypic features that define circuit formation. Relatively subtle disturbances in development may underlie the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, especially when alternative cognitive phenotypes do not have an apparent malformation at the gross anatomical level. In the forebrain, cells producing γ-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic interneurons) have been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and schizophrenia [2-4]. These neurons are composed of a diverse class of cells providing a wide range of control of neural activity, and vary in neuroanatomical location, electrophysiological properties, transcriptome/proteome and innervation patterns as either local circuit or long-range projection neurons [5]. As with other cell types, the diversity of GABAergic neurons has its basis in different developmental origins, with timing and location of birth playing key roles in cell fate [1,6-8].
Despite the phenotypic variety of GABAergic neurons, all use GABA as a neurotransmitter. In mammals, GABA is produced by one of two GABA-synthesizing enzymes, glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)65 or GAD67. These closely related enzymes are orthologs of the Caenorhabditis elegans protein UNC-25, which is found only in cells that produce GABA. Because UNC-25/GAD and other components of the GABA synthetic pathway are highly conserved, it is likely that mammalian orthologs of some of the genes that specify GABAergic cell fate in C. elegans embryogenesis may also control GABAergic fate specification during mammalian embryogenesis.
We have explored this hypothesis in an effort to define new candidates for regulating forebrain GABAergic cell fate that may be highly conserved across evolutionarily distant taxa. This discovery-based approach (Figure 1) complements existing analyses of the transcriptomes of subpopulations of mammalian GABAergic cells [9-13]. Thus, by using data from the transcription profiling of GABAergic cells in embryonic C. elegans, in combination with bioinformatics analyses, we report here transcripts with sequence homologs that may also be involved in GABAergic fate specification in mammals. We focused our attention on transcripts with gene regulation ontologies. To probe the potential role of these conserved players in mammalian development, we mapped these gene products in the developing mouse forebrain, with a selective focus on the telencephalon. As a proof of principle, this strategy identified several gene products already known to play a role in the specification of forebrain GABAergic interneurons in mammals. Additionally, our approach identified several previously unexplored gene products that serve as promising candidates for future investigation of forebrain patterning.
thumbnailFigure 1. Summary diagram of experimental approach.
Materials and methods
C. elegans transcription profiling
A microarray profiling of C. elegans cells (MAPCeL) strategy was used to obtain a transcriptome profile of C. elegans GABAergic neurons [14,15]. A complete description of the methods used for this study and the GABAergic neuron expression profile will be reported elsewhere (S Barlow, L Earls, J Watson, C Spencer, K Watkins, D Miller, manuscript in preparation). Briefly, the unc-25::GFP marker was used to label C. elegans GABAergic neurons. unc-25::GFP-expressing embryos were dissociated with chitinase and cultured for 24 hours and viable unc-25::GFP labeled cells were isolated by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). Total RNA was purified from both the sorted unc-25::GFP positive cells and from the reference sample of all embryonic cells. The RNAs were amplified and hybridized to the Affymetrix C. elegans array. Average signal intensities were calculated from three independent isolates of the unc-25::GFP cells and from four replicates of the reference samples. A comparison of the unc-25::GFP and reference data sets identified 673 transcripts showing elevated expression (1.7×) in GABAergic neurons at a false discovery rate (FDR) ≤ 1% [14]).
Bioinformatics screen
Genes in the list of GABAergic enriched transcripts with Gene Ontology (GO) terms related to DNA and transcription regulation were analyzed for potential homology to mouse transcripts. Because functional homology is conserved at the protein level, we generated a list of C. elegans proteins from the list of corresponding transcripts and then used BLASTP [16] analysis available at WormBase [17] from June 2005 to November 2008 (wormbase releases WS144 to WS196) to identify the closest matching mouse protein sequence homologs. We then used this list of mouse protein homologs to generate the corresponding catalogue of mouse transcripts for in situ hybridization analysis. We did not distinguish among potential splice variants and/or protein isoforms for a given single gene locus. To further rank potential candidates, we performed BLASTP in the reverse direction; after generating the list of mouse protein sequence homologs, those proteins were used to identify the best sequence homologs in the C. elegans proteome.
Mouse care and use
Timed pregnant C57Bl6j mice were bred in-house from founders originating from Jackson Labs under protocols approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Vanderbilt University. Mice were maintained on a 12:12 light-dark cycle and were permitted food and water ad libitum. Noon on the day following a time-delimited overnight pairing was considered embryonic day 0.5 (E0.5). Pregnant females were readily identifiable at E14.5 and were deeply anesthetized with isofluorane vapors followed by rapid decapitation in order to harvest embryos. Expression patterns of genes at this fetal age were analyzed because it is a mid-point in the age-range for cortical GABAergic neuron production and migration in the mouse forebrain [8]. Thus, we hypothesized that expression patterns related to GABAergic neuron specification and differentiation likely would be apparent at this age.
Riboprobe labeling
I.M.A.G.E. clones were obtained from ATCC (Manassas, VA, USA) and Open Biosystems (Huntsville, AL, USA) for the mouse transcripts (Additional file 1). The identity of each I.M.A.G.E. clone was confirmed by sequencing at the Vanderbilt DNA Sequencing Facility. When necessary, due to cDNA size or the plasmid vector, we subcloned the I.M.A.G.E. clone into a separate vector (Additional file 2). These subclones were also sequenced to confirm identity and orientation. Plasmids were linearized and transcribed using T7, Sp6 or T3 polymerase (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) depending on the plasmid vector, by standard methods. Digoxigenin-11-uridine-5'-triphosphate (0.35 mM; Roche, Indianapolis, IN, USA) was included in the transcription reaction to allow for non-radioactive colorimetric detection of transcripts.
Additional file 1. Table S1. IMAGE clones used to generate in situ hybridization probes in this study.
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Additional file 2. Table S2. Primers used for the generation of subclones from IMAGE clones used to generate in situ hybridization probes in this study.
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In situ hybridization
Fetuses at E14.5 were harvested into cold phosphate-buffered saline and crown-rump length (11 to 12 mm) confirmed. Whole heads or microdissected brains were immersion fixed for 24 hours in 4% formaldehyde in 0.156 M NaH2PO4, 0.107 M NaOH, pH 7.12 with HCl. After fixation, brains were cryoprotected in graded 10, 20 and 30% sucrose in phosphate-buffered saline followed by embedding in TFM Tissue Freezing Medium (Triangle Biomedical Sciences, Inc., Durham, NC, USA) over liquid nitrogen. Brains were stored at -80°C until cryostat sectioning into 6 series at 20 microns each. Slides containing the tissue were stored at -80°C until they were fixed, acetylated and dehydrated, and then returned to -80°C until in situ hybridization was performed. In situ hybridization was performed on a Tecan Evo 150 (Tecan Group Ltd, Männendorf, Switzerland) following the Allen Brain Atlas [18] and GenePaint [19] protocols (Additional files 3 and 4). After the machine completed the described protocol, BCIP and NBT (Roche) were applied manually. The time in color development ranged from 30 minutes to 4 hours. After color development, the slides were rinsed four times with double distilled water and then twice with 4% formaldehyde. Slides were removed from the machine, dehydrated through a series of alcohols and coverslipped with VectaMount (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA).
Additional file 3. Table S3. Modified Allen Brain Atlas in situ hybridization protocol and Eurexpress II SOP on Tecan Evo GenePaint System.
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Additional file 4. Table S4. Buffer compositions for in situ hybridization protocol.
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Light microscopy
Microscopy was performed using an Axioplan II microscope (Zeiss, Jena, Germany), and micrographs were acquired with a Zeiss AxioCam HRc camera (Zeiss) in Axiovision 4.1 software (Zeiss). Low-magnification images were collected and linearly adjusted for brightness and contrast using Adobe Photoshop (version 7.0, Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA). No other image alterations other than resizing were performed. All figures were prepared digitally in PowerPoint 2007 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA).
Genes expressed in C. elegans GABAergic neurons
C. elegans embryonic GABAergic neurons were profiled by the MAPCeL approach in which unc-25::GFP labeled cells were isolated by FACS for microarray analysis. Comparison to a reference data set obtained from all embryonic cells revealed 673 transcripts with enriched (1.7×) expression in GABAergic neurons. Strong enrichment of established GABAergic neuron markers, such as unc-25 (glutamic acid decarboxylase; 61×), unc-47 (vesicular GABA transporter; 7×) and acr-9 (nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; 25×) [20,21] indicate that other transcripts in this data set are also likely to be highly expressed in embryonic C. elegans GABAergic neurons in vivo (S Barlow, L Earls, J Watson, C Spencer, K Watkins, D Miller, manuscript in preparation). Seventy five percent of the highly expressed transcripts had defined gene ontologies and of those, 17 transcripts (2.5%) in this list met criteria for DNA regulation-related gene ontologies (Table 1).
Table 1. Transcription regulation genes with enriched expression in embryonic C. elegans GABAergic cells
Bioinformatics assessment of mouse homologs
The original list of 17 C. elegans candidate transcription factors was used to identify 68 mouse homologs by BLASTP with an expectation cut off of ≤ E-3 (Table 2). The average number of mouse homologs was 3.8 for each C. elegans protein, with a mode of 3, a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8 sequence homologs. Because of the similarity among certain C. elegans transcripts, three mouse proteins (Hnf4A, Hnf4G and Ezh2) appeared on the list more than once. When considering these duplications, there were 62 unique gene products to pursue for expression analysis. This analytical strategy appears to be suitable for identifying neurodevelopmental candidates, as we found that several mouse orthologs with homology to C. elegans transcripts have a known role in forebrain patterning. In particular, genes with selective roles in determining GABAergic phenotype in mammals were identified, including known players in the forebrain (Nkx2. 1 [22], Arx [23], Cux2 [24]), midbrain (Pitx2 [25]) and spinal cord (Cux2 [26]).
Table 2. Mouse homologs by protein sequence homology
Performing the reverse BLASTP from mouse proteins to worm proteins informed the strength of the sequence homology for the mouse and worm proteins relative to the other potential homologues in C. elegans. This reverse BLASTP can help rank-order candidates for further functional assessment in the future. If the reverse BLASTP returned the original C. elegans as the hit with the highest E-value, then 'yes' was entered in the R BLASTP column in Table 2. If the reverse BLASTP had a different C. elegans protein as the top hit, then a value of 'no' was entered in Table 2. Of the 68 mouse proteins, 22 had the original worm protein as the top reciprocal hit for sequence homology in the reverse BLASTP.
In situ hybridization mapping of mouse sequence homologs
Our criterion for potential relevance of mouse gene products in the specification of telencephalic interneurons was that transcripts must be present in known GABAergic proliferative zones (such as the medial, lateral and caudal subdivisions of the ganglionic eminence), although they need not be exclusively expressed in those brain areas. Representative expression patterns are depicted in Figure 2 with complete results summarized in Table 3. In addition to the expression data generated here, other sources for assessment and/or confirmation of expression were used, including GenePaint [19], Brain Gene Expression Map (BGEM) [27] and the Allen Brain Atlas [18].
Table 3. Summary of transcript expression in C57Bl6j mice from E13.5 to E15.5
thumbnailFigure 2. Examples of the variety of expression patterns at E14.5.(A) Restricted; (B) broad; (C-F) proliferative zone; (G-I) post-mitotic regions. Scale bar = 500 μm. (A) Nkx2.1, (B) Cux1, (C) Suv39h1, (D) Ezh2, (E) Hist1h1a, (F) Ncl, (G) Cux2, (H) Fox1, (I) Myst3. CTX, cortex; LGE, lateral ganglionic eminence; MGE, medial ganglionic eminence; SVZ, subventricular zone; VZ, ventricular zone.
Of the 62 unique transcripts, 57 have sufficient data to ascertain brain expression (Table 3). Of these, 52 (91%) exhibited brain expression. We narrowed our focus to known areas of cortical interneuron generation, migration and maturation, particularly the ganglionic eminences. In particular, we closely examined the proliferative ventricular zone (VZ), subventricular zone (SVZ), mantle of the subpallium and the pallium. A majority (38 of 52, 73%) of transcripts from our list were detected in the VZ, although this expression was not restricted to ventral proliferative zones. Rather, these transcripts were more broadly expressed throughout the dorsal and ventral VZ. Sixty percent (31 of 52) of transcripts were expressed in the cortex, 35% (18 of 52) in the mantle and 33% (17 of 52) in the SVZ. Expression patterns that included multiple embryonic histogenic forebrain areas were evident for the majority of transcripts.
We observed three general patterns of expression (Table 3 and Figure 2): pattern 1, expression throughout the forebrain (for example, Ctnnb1, Tcfap4); pattern 2, expression in post-mitotic cells based on location in the mantle zone and cortical plate (for example, Cux2, Fox1, Myst3); and pattern 3, expression mainly in proliferative zones (for example, Hist1h1a, Ncl, Ezh2, Suv39h1). For patterns 2 and 3, expression was generally mosaic and limited to subsets of cells. Although more rare, we did observe expression of some transcripts in discrete areas, such as the well known pattern of Nkx2.1 in the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE; Figure 2) and Pitx2 (data not shown) in discrete nuclei outside of established forebrain GABAergic proliferative zones.
OMIM and disease linkage meta-analysis
Human orthologs of the mouse genes were identified through NCBI Homologene. Only one mouse gene, Refbp2, does not yet have an identified human ortholog. Manual pBLAST of non-redundant protein entries also revealed no significant human homology to mouse Refbp2. The genes identified in this work are scattered throughout the human genome (Figure 3; Additional file 5). In order to assess any potential bias in the distribution of the homologs, we tallied the genes on each chromosome as a percentage of the genes in this study. We then compared those fractions with the distribution of all the genes in the genome (data were obtained from NCBI Homo Sapiens build 37.1). A difference score of observed-expected was calculated for each chromosome. We then standardized the difference scores and estimated confidence intervals (degrees of freedom 23). In general, the human homologs of transcripts enriched in worm embryonic GABAergic cells were distributed evenly throughout the genome. The only exception was chromosome 14, in which the standardized difference score fell outside of the 98% confidence interval. Chromosome 6 was just inside the 95% confidence interval, although several of the genes (IP6K3, TAF11, TRERF1, RXRB, HIST1H1A) cluster near 6p21, a known site of suppressed recombination [28]. This region is associated with reading disability [29] and schizophrenia [30].
thumbnailFigure 3. Distribution of study genes throughout the human genome.
Additional file 5. Table S5. Chromosomal position of human homologs of all study genes.
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To identify known diseases or disorders associated with the identified genes from the C. elegans screen, each human gene was used as a search term in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). Of the 62 transcripts, 17 had OMIM entries. Of these, only three were relevant to neurocognitive phenotypes (Table 4). Mutations in ARX are causal for X-linked mental retardation [31], PHOX2B mutations are associated with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome [32], and mutations in NKX2.1 are associated with congenital chorea [33].
Table 4. Transcripts with brain expression were surveyed for evidence of gene association with neurocognitive disorders
In addition to OMIM analysis, we surveyed the literature for gene association studies that may implicate any of the genes identified in this study with neurocognitive disruption as evident in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), mental retardation, schizophrenia, seizure disorders or bipolar disorder. These findings are presented in Table 4. ARX (reviewed in [34]) is the best-known contributor to phenotypic disturbances among the transcription factors in our list. A2BP1 (human FOX1) appears to have a similar level of pleiotropy. While A2BP1 is relatively understudied, it has been associated with ASD [35], mental retardation and seizure activity [36].
Finally, the hypothesis that disturbances in GABAergic interneurons may play a role in ASD, combined with the emerging interest in endophenotype analysis in trait genetics in ASD, prompted a comparison of the 62 genes to chromosomal regions associated with ASD endophenotypes, rather than association with full ASD diagnosis. Specifically, we relied on summarized evidence from the literature of chromosomal association with autism endophenotype data reviewed by Losh et al. [37]. The chromosomal positions of selected genes are presented in Table 4 along with the associated autism endophenotypes for those chromosomal positions. There are several potential candidates for further analysis of autism endophenotypes. In particular, EZH2 stands out, as it is located at 7q35-36, within a replicated linkage peak for ASD genetics, including language, communication and developmental regression endophenotypes [38-40]. Additionally, A2BP1(FOX1) is included in a chromosomal position associated with autism [35,36].
In this report, we adopted a conservation-based bioinformatic approach to identify potential molecular regulators of GABAergic identity in the mammalian telencephalon. GFP-marked GABAergic neurons from the nematode, C. elegans, were isolated by FACS for microarray profiling. These data revealed enrichment (≥ 1.7×) of 17 transcripts encoding conserved proteins with potential roles in gene regulation in the nematode. BLASTP of these C. elegans proteins identified mouse homologs and 62 independent transcripts corresponding to these mammalian transcription factors were assessed for expression in E14.5 mouse brain. The data generated in our comparative strategy revealed several highly conserved players in GABAergic interneuron differentiation, including Arx, Nkx2.1 and Cux2 [22-24]. The positive identification of these transcripts supports the utility of our bioinformatic approach as a productive strategy for identifying conserved determinants of neuronal fate. Of the reciprocal BLASTP top hits, 14 unique transcripts showed relevant in situ hybridization patterns for telencephalic GABAergic neurogenesis, with 3 having known roles (Arx, Cux1, Cux2). Indeed, mutations in ARX have been associated with human brain function and interneuron pathology as identified in OMIM [41]. The 11 remaining top reciprocal hits with relevant expression patterns serve as novel candidate genes (Ip6k1, Ip6k2, Trerf1, C130039O16Rik, Ezh2, Taf11, Med6, Thoc4, Refbp2, Med8, Tcfap4). While not top reciprocal hits, based on striking expression pattern alone, Hist1h1a, Fox1, Myst3 and Suv39h1 warrant further attention. This is especially true as reciprocity is not a perfect predictor of candidacy, as two proteins with known function in GABAergic specification were not top reciprocal hits (NKX2.1 and beta-Catenin).
Mammalian GABAergic cells are generated in the preoptic area and ganglionic eminence of the ventral pallium during embryogenesis [8,42-44]. The three main subdivisions of the ganglionic eminence-lateral (LGE), medial (MGE) and caudal (CGE)-generate a diverse portfolio of GABAergic cells. The LGE produces GABAergic projection neurons of the striatum and interneurons of the amygdala and the olfactory bulbs whereas the MGE and CGE produce the majority of cortical and striatal interneurons, although each contributes a different repertoire of cell types. Cells from the MGE (for example, Nkx2.1-expressing cells) settle in cortical layers in an inside-out fashion based on cell birth date, whereas the most ventral MGE cells generate neurons of the globus pallidus and striatal cholinergic neurons [45]. In contrast, cells from the CGE tend to migrate to upper layers, independent of birthday, and comprise 15 to 30% of all cortical interneurons [46]. It is curious that of all of the transcription factors that we mapped, Nkx2.1 was the only one that was limited to one of the three progenitor pools.
It is clear that the gene regulatory transcripts identified in our study, with the exception of Nkx2.1, do not delineate these well-known pools of progenitor populations. The absence of tissue specificity could mean that these transcription factors exercise general roles in neuronal differentiation as opposed to functioning as selective determinants of GABAergic fate. However, the broader expression beyond the boundaries of these defined progenitor zones does not preclude a role for the protein products of these transcripts in contributing to the development of a selective neuronal type. For example, these candidates may be permissive for a particular fate or act in combination with other gene products with more limited expression patterns.
The data generated by our comparative approach blend with and add to the existing data on mammalian transcription factors that could play a role in the full development of GABAergic fates. There have been several efforts in mouse embryogenesis to use transcription profiling of microdissected GABAergic proliferative zones or fluorescent sorting of enhanced GFP (EGFP)-positive interneurons in dissected embryonic brain. For example, Batista-Brito et al. [9] used FACS to isolate embryonic interneurons from presumptive neocortex of E13.5 and E15.5 Dlx5/6Cre-IRIS-EGFP mice. They contrasted the transcriptomes of EGFP-positive (interneurons) and EGFP-negative cells (all other cell types) and identified several enriched transcripts, including Arx and Cux2, as in our study. Because of the region dissected, Nkx2.1 was not enriched, as its expression wanes as interneurons leave the medial ganglionic eminence. They also identified several other candidate transcription factors, including some with association with neurological disorders. Faux et al. [10] performed a similar experiment contrasting the transcriptomes of interneurons in the cortex versus the ganglionic eminence using GAD67-EGFP FACS isolated cells obtained at E13.5 and E15.5. Among other transcription factors, Faux et al. also show increased expression of Cux2. Cux2 was also identified in a similar study by Marsh et al. [11]. By changing the contrasted pools of mRNA, the Faux et al. study addressed a different question than the Batista-Brito et al. study. The purpose of the Faux et al. study was to enrich for transcripts that may play a role in the migration of interneurons, while the Batista-Brito et al. study addressed the question of what genes are differentially expressed in interneurons versus other cell types in the embryonic cortex. Clearly, the contrasted pool of mRNA makes a difference in what transcripts appear to play a role in aspects of interneuron specification [9], migration [10] and maturation [12]. Indeed, contrasting mRNA pools from CGE, LGE and MGE can provide candidates for specifying interneuron subtype [13].
While the comparative approach used here has identified novel potential candidates in the specification of interneurons, there are limitations. The experimental design would not detect elements of chromatin structure or microRNAs, for example, as mechanisms of transcriptional regulation. Our analysis was limited to transcripts that encode proteins involved in gene regulation; other protein classes (for example, receptor tyrosine kinases, ion channels) could also be involved. Moreover, the results are correlational; the expression patterns of these novel candidates overlap with areas that produce GABAergic cells, but do not show that these transcripts participate in GABA fate. Functional studies will be necessary to determine a role for these potential novel players. Additionally, while the comparative data used in this study are based on protein sequence homologies, the ultimate goal is to identify functional orthologs across species. Because true functional orthology is determined over time with experimental methods outside of the scope of this manuscript, we implore the reader to view these data as a first step on the path to identifying potential functional orthologs in conserved gene regulation networks to specify a GABAergic fate.
While this comparative approach revealed several highly conserved players in GABAergic neurogenesis, including Nkx2.1, Arx and Cux2, we failed to identify some known factors in mammalian forebrain specification, including Olig-2, although we did identify other basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors, such as Tcfap4. Also noticeably absent from the list were Lhx6 (lim-4 in C. elegans), Mash1 and Dlx1/2, all of which have been demonstrated to play a role in GABAergic differentiation in the mammalian forebrain. We note that a related LIM homeodomain protein, LIM-6, is required for differentiation and expression of UNC-25/GAD in a subset of C. elegans GABAergic neurons [47].
While unc-30 is the top candidate with the highest enrichment in GABAergic cells in the worm data set, none of the mammalian homologs (Pitx1, Pitx2, Pitx3) revealed expression in known GABAergic proliferative zones of the forebrain, even though there was expression in other brain areas at E14.5. Pitx2 is highly expressed in GABA neuron progenitors in diencephalon/mesencephalon [48], where it is known to drive Gad67 expression [25]. This role is also conserved in the C. elegans homolog, unc-30 [49]. In fact, both mammalian Pitx2 and C. elegans unc-30 can both be used to activate Gad67 transcription in vitro and in vivo [25]. While Pitx2 and unc-30 clearly give rise to a GABA phenotype, based on the absence of Pitx2 expression in the forebrain, there are other mechanisms that regulate GABA phenotype in the interneurons of the telencephalon. More than one type of transcription factor or combination of transcription factors likely can drive the GABAergic fate. Indeed, GABAergic fate regulation in the worm offers a striking parallel to the mouse: unc-30 drives GABAergic fate in ventral cord motor neurons but not in GABAergic motor neurons in the head where the LIM homeodomain lim-6 is required; similarly, Pitx2 is highly expressed in diencephalon/mesencephalon GABAergic progenitors and drives Gad67 expression but is not required for differentiation of forebrain GABAergic interneurons that depend on ARX. Additionally, alr-1, the worm homolog of ARX, regulates gene expression in worm GABA motor neurons [50].
Comparative transcription profiling across diverse taxa is a fruitful approach for generating candidate genes for brain development. Our comparative analysis has pointed to several interesting candidates for the specification of GABAergic cells in the mammalian telencephalon during embryogenesis based on their expression in regions known to produce or contain interneurons. While not exclusively expressed in these regions, Hist1h1a, Ezh2, A2bp1 (Fox1), Suv39h1 and Myst3 are all novel candidates for interneuron development. Furthermore, these candidates represent two relatively understudied classes of gene regulatory proteins in the context of interneuron development, including histone interacting proteins (Hist1h1a, Ezh2, Suv39h1 and Myst3) and RNA regulators (Fox1/A2bp1). As novel candidates for interneuron development, these transcripts may also be candidate genes for, or participate in, pathways giving rise to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, mental retardation and schizophrenia. Variation in function of these proteins and their interacting partners might also play a role in brain evolution. These hypotheses remain to be explored.
ASD: autism spectrum disorder; CGE: caudal ganglionic eminence; E: embryonic day; EGFP: enhanced green fluorescent protein; FACS: fluorescence activated cell sorting; GABA: γ-aminobutyric acid; GAD: glutamic acid decarboxylase; GFP: green fluorescent protein; LGE: lateral ganglionic eminence; MGE: medial ganglionic eminence; MR: mental retardation; OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man; SVZ: subventricular zone; VZ: ventricular zone.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
EADH completed the mouse and human informatics, mapped the expression of the mouse transcripts and co-wrote the manuscript. KLE, LE and SB participated in experimental design and edited the manuscript. DM and PL participated in experimental design and writing the manuscript.
We thank Eric Yetter, Christine Svitek, Frank Liu and Deborah Gregory for technical support and Phil Ebert, PhD for facilitating the implementation of the high throughput in situ hybridization protocols. Funding was provided by NIH T32 MH065215 (EADH), a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Hobbs grant (DMM, LE, PL), NIH R21MH077302 (DMM) and by the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center P30 grant NIH HD015052.
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Qualified Residential Mortgage — Some of you may have heard this phrase being thrown around on the news lately. This summary at the Wall St. Journal does a good job of explaining what it is.
The "fear factor" (what else is there in the news?!) has reached a fever pitch because everyone thinks that you will need 20% down to buy a home, which very few people can do. The truth is that more than 90% of loans are backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and they are already considered QRM loans. So the actual number of loans that would be affected by this is less than 10%. Still, it does put into place clear standards for the private mortgage security market. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9791236519813538}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '49006', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MTTZOO4S6ZVJWT3FHQGEO7NXTPVVAGCZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5c043f1f-d620-45b4-bc89-7788e553a366>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 13, 23, 14, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '107.180.24.243', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:35ERDAKC3PMXUSRMNDSPRSNPSJJTDGPD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ea5d0722-c7d8-4d79-9163-fa98075156eb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://drewshometeam.com/general/qualified-residential-mortgage/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e866c368-f912-4f38-bf6e-8fc51ec395bc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '130', 'url': 'http://drewshometeam.com/general/qualified-residential-mortgage/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-185-234-147.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': '0.23200470209121704', 'original_id': '6de3bf6c50fc4bdf6daed2cd322b14810a1cbeb7c2321390963c08abcbdef584'} |
Nodame and Frank decide to go to the Anime fest, while Chiaki goes off to his conducting competition.
Chiaki's biggest competitor is Jean, who is also Viera’s top student. Jean’s girlfriend, Yuko, really pissed me off xD. Chiaki also meets a new conductor, Katahira Hajime who conducts uniquely by jumping in time every now and then, as if he was “flying”. The episode basically goes through the competition, 1-3 of the preliminaries. LOL nodame’s “Mukii! Gyabo!” as she tries to pull Chiaki out of bed. Think the competition goes over 7 days with Chiaki being the victor!
- I’m making this quick since I have to make the other reviews to catch up, sorry if it’s vague =[
Only disappointing is they didn’t animate Chiaki’s winning performance, why didn’t they T_T it’s like the most important one lol, oh well, they probably ran out of time.
Chiaki uses the baton add-on Nodame put on :]
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Effective Government
Revise civil service rules for easier discharge
Make it easier to dismiss inefficient, lazy, corrupt, and incompetent government workers. Revise the civil service rules to allow for a fast disposition of adverse employment actions. This will reduce the overall cost of government, improve the quality of service, improve civil service morale, and improve the public perception of government.
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エーデルワイススキーリゾートは、栃木県日光市にあるスキー場である。鬼怒高原開発が設置および運営。
概要
高原山の西側斜面に位置する。近隣のハンターマウンテン塩原と同様に初心者が気軽にアクセスできる反面、降雪や凍結となる可能性が高い日塩もみじラインをノーマルタイヤで通行しての事故や、渋滞を引き起こしたりすることもある。駐車場は終日無料。コースの一部からは、閉鎖した鶏頂山スキー場のコースを見ることができる。
歴史
1961年にオープンした鶏頂山スキー場の盛況ぶりをみて、鬼怒川温泉街のホテルなどが資本金4000万円で鬼怒高原開発を1969年8月に設立し、同年冬に枯木沼リフトとレストハウス設置。翌1970年に見晴リフトと見晴ロッジを設置し鶏頂高原見晴スキー場として発展オープンした。1971年には増資を行い（このときには鬼怒川川治旅館組合も出資）見晴ロッジの増築や第2リフトの設置を行った。1975年には鬼怒川ライン下りを開始し、夏場の観光需要開発も行った。
年表
付近のスキー場についても記述、特記以外は塩谷郡藤原町（現・日光市）に属する。
1960年（昭和35年）12月 - 塩原町に塩原前黒スキー場開設
1961年（昭和36年） - 鶏頂山スキー場開業
1963年（昭和38年）1月 - 塩原町の前黒山にスキーリフト設置
1969年（昭和44年） - 枯木沼にスキーリフト設置
1970年（昭和45年） - 鶏頂高原見晴スキー場オープン
1987年（昭和62年）12月 - 塩原町にハンターマウンテンスキーボウル塩原開設
1989年（平成元年）12月16日 - メイプルヒルスキーリゾートオープン
1990年（平成2年）12月18日 - 鶏頂高原見晴スキー場をエーデルワイススキーリゾートへ改称しオープン
2000年（平成12年）頃 - 隣接のメイプルヒルスキーリゾートと鶏頂山スキー場の営業終了
ゲレンデ
リフトは2021年現在5基（クワッドリフト2基、ペアリフト3基）、11コース設定されている。
鶏頂山スキー場とメイプルヒルスキーリゾートが営業していた頃は連絡コースもあった。
交通アクセス
東北自動車道・西那須野塩原ICから国道400号を塩原温泉方面へ約30km。
日光宇都宮道路・今市ICから国道121号を鬼怒川温泉方面へ約35km。
東武鉄道鬼怒川線鬼怒川温泉駅近くから龍王峡駅を経由する無料シャトルバス（営業期間中のうち土日祝日のみ運行、要予約）。
鬼怒川温泉駅周辺に専用駐車場や有料の駐車場があるので、車で行きたいが雪道に不慣れな場合はこれらを活用できる。
脚注・出典
参考文献
関連項目
日本のスキー場一覧
鶏頂山
高原山
外部リンク
エーデルワイススキーリゾート
栃木県のスキー場
日光市のスポーツ施設
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Roger Schlesinger
Today I have uncovered a string of bad figures about the American public that isn't something that would make any of us proud. We are setting records for credit card debt, we are under-saved and thus under-prepared for an emergency and job losses in older workers increase the chances of heart attacks and strokes (see above). Those figures make me wonder why I got up this morning. The sad thing is the economy is just beginning to slow, which could accelerate these figures. The sadder thought is all of this could be avoided by every home owner.
Americans are pulling out the plastic faster than a gun slinger in the old west who caught a poker dealer dealing from the bottom of the deck. The average consumer has $7800 in credit card debt and that is continuing to rise. It is a figure that I thought would actually be higher as the average analysis I do for those who write to me @ have about $30,000 to $49,000 in credit card debt. Many approach or exceed $100,000 in debt! Could you imagine! How do they sleep?
The second dubious record has to do with reserves. The conservative financial approach is to have six months expenses in liquid reserves to ride out any storm, layoff or emergency. Today it was announced that only 4 out of 10 Americans have three months reserves, half of the conservation approach. It could be said that only 2 out of every American is really prepared for impending crisis.
One of the results of the two statistics above is that older workers over 50, who get laid off or fired, have double the chance of a heart attack or stroke. Is there any wonder why that figure appears? Without sufficient reserves and mountains of debt I am not surprised that everyone's chances for serious illness isn't increased.
The saddest part of this whole discussion is it needn't be. If you own a home we can help you as we have helped thousands of others by giving you a financial overhaul. In most cases we can take your short term debt and refinance it into your mortgage and accomplish the following:
1. Lower your payment
2. Create sufficient reserves
3. Rid you of all debt but your home mortgage
4. In a lot of cases shorten your amortization.
The net result is the credit card debt is gone, the reserves are established and the health risk is minimized. Call us at Manhattan West at 949-5553 or write to me @ If we can visualize the problem we certainly can provide the solution.
Roger Schlesinger
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Authorship in a small medical journal: a study of contributorship statements by corresponding authors.
The authorship criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) are widely accepted in biomedical journals, but many studies in large and prestigious journals show that a considerable proportion of authors do not fulfill these criteria. We investigated authorship contributions in a small medical journal outside the scientific mainstream, to see if poor adherence to authorship criteria is common in biomedical journals. We analyzed statements on research contribution, as checked by the corresponding author, for individual authors of 114 research articles, representing 475 authors, submitted to the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) from 1999 to 2000. Only 40% of authors fulfilled the ICMJE authorship criteria. The authors listed first on the by-line were more likely to fulfill the authorship criteria than all other authors on the by-line. The percentage of authors fulfilling the ICMJE criteria of authorship decreased with the increase in the number of authors listed on the by-line. These results indicate that poor adherence to ICMJE authorship criteria is poor across biomedical journals, regardless of the size of the scientific community. Authorship and contributorship in biomedical journals, as well as editorial ethical responsibilities towards authorship criteria need critical redefinition and education of both editors and authors. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '35f59155a9dc09f4c1426e3ed63761d3890f68a77a2dce776d59e10116c86fcc'} |
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