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Try these exercises vital to firefighters
Try these exercises vital to firefighters
by Fadil Ameerally
Firefighters have many exercises they should do for a long, healthy career, but some are more important than others.
The foremost one is more of a category: cardiovascular. Without doing some cardio, it doesn’t matter how much weight you can lift or your ability to drag a heavy person out of a fire, because you’ll be out of breath by the time you reach that person to save their life. You would deplete the air in your tank by breathing heavy because your heart rate would be skyrocketing and your respiratory rate would be out of control.
That’s why some form of cardiovascular exercise is necessary at least three times a week, such as running outside or running stairs wearing a weight vest. Either of these will increase your chances of making it farther into that building to save someone. I enjoy running outside for my cardio, and I’ve noticed I don’t breathe as heavy when I’m working a fire scene because I’m in better shape now.
The second kind of exercise firefighters should do is dead lifts. Dead lifts have a bad reputation because a lot of people think they will get hurt performing them. While this can be true it’s most likely to happen due to improper form. However, they are hands down one of the best exercises for building overall strength. Let’s face it, a firefighter should be able to carry at least 100 pounds. I’m not asking you to try to deadlift 500 pounds, but you should use good form by lifting with your legs and not lifting with your back to pick up something off the ground to prevent injury. So incorporating 3 sets of ascending weight dead lifts at 10 reps per set, once per week into your routine —with good form — will strengthen your core, back, legs and even your cardiovascular system.
The shoulder press is another important exercise. Firefighters need a lot of shoulder strength to check for hidden fire. The only way to do this is to tear openings in walls and ceilings with cumbersome tools. Without the proper strength, you’ll find yourself fatigued quickly, possibly to the point of being useless.
This is where the shoulder press comes in because it concentrates on overall shoulder strength. Pushing weight from the shoulders to overhead is a lot of what firefighters do, so I recommend incorporating 3 sets of ascending weight at 10 reps per set, once per week into your training regimen.
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
ENGLISH & MUSIC: A RIDE Through the Future
By Paul Ponce, PLS Teacher
Songs are always a great way to learn a language in context. And when the song tells a story, the music acts like the soundtrack. The story behind this song takes us to a future where things are less than ideal.
Of course, stories about future dystopian societies normally act as cautionary tales about what might happen one day. So they are usually not a lot of fun. However, this one is a little different.
First of all, it’s a rock song by legendary Canadian power rock trio Rush, which means powerful music and thought-provoking poetic lyrics (hence, a chance to improve your vocabulary). Second, it’s about a guy that breaks the law by escaping from a gated city to visit his cool uncle and enjoy the freedom of driving a real car, something which is illegal in this place and time. But not just any car, a stylish Italian sports car from a bygone era: a Barchetta.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITY: First, READ and understand the lyrics. Next, WATCH the short animated film - based on the song - which tells the story as you listen to the lyrics. The lyrics are provided below and have links to the meaning of some words. Afterwards, proceed to QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION at the end.
"Red Barchetta" Story Reel from Sant Arellano on Vimeo.
GRAMMAR NOTE: The story is told in present tense narrative and in many cases omits the subject when the protagonist talks about what he does. This is a poetic decision which makes the lyrics easier to match to the music, while still maintaining clear storytelling.
Red Barchetta by Rush
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And now on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire where my
White-haired uncle waits
(subject “I” omitted)
Jump to the ground as the turbo slows
To cross the borderline
Run like the wind as excitement shivers
Up and down my spine
But down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me
An old machine
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new
Has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant Red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
We'll fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge
Well-oiled leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide
Oh, I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase
Ride like the wind
Straining the limits
Of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside
QUESTIONS: Use the vocabulary in the lyrics to answer:
• What do we know about the boy's uncle’s country place?
• When does he commit his weekly “crime”?
• How long has his uncle kept the Barchetta?
• How does the boy prepare the car before driving?
• What are some of the sensations he feels as he drives?
• What appears across the mountain side?
• What's the boy's desperate plan to escape from the alloy air-cars?
• What does the boy do when he gets back to the farm?
SENTENCES: Create new sentences using some of the following: used to, elude, run like the wind, shiver, odd years, strip away, fire up, roar, gravel, surge, scented, chrome, allow, spin, shrieking, tires, straining, stranded
• What are some of the major themes of this story and how do characters, actions and events represent these themes?
• What does driving the car represent to the boy?
• What does driving a car represent in other places?
LIVE MUSIC: Here are Geddy Lee (bass, vocals), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums, lyrics) of Rush performing the song live at a recent concert. By the way, these guys are like the boy's uncle. Not so young any more, but still firing up their machines and having fun.
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Article 3
Crimes against humanity
The International Tribunal for Rwanda shall have the power to prosecute persons responsible for the following crimes when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population on national, political, ethnic, racial or religious grounds:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation;
(e) Imprisonment;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape;
(h) Persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds;
(i) Other inhumane acts.
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Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , Security Operations
Dissecting the OPM Breach
Ex-DHS Cybersecurity Leader Mark Weatherford Analyzes Hack
Dissecting the OPM Breach
Mark Weatherford (Photo courtesy of The Chertoff Group)
Mark Weatherford, the former deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, says the Office of Personnel Management neglected to take several basic steps that might have helped to prevent a breach that may have exposed the personally identifiable information of 4 million current and former government workers.
See Also: OPM Breach Aftermath: How Your Agency Can Improve on Breach Prevention Programs
OPM said that after it confirmed the breach, it instituted additional network security precautions, including installing anti-malware software, limiting remote access for network administrators and restricting remote network administration functions. That brought an exasperated response from Weatherford: "This is jacks or better to open; if you're not already doing this stuff, you're not even at the game."
In an interview with Information Security Media Group, Weatherford says these basic cybersecurity steps might not have prevented the breach, but would have made it far more difficult for the hackers. "If they're not deploying anti-malware in their systems already, come on, this is kindergarten stuff," he says. "If they're not monitoring remote access, shutting down remote access, it's embarrassing to me that somebody probably comes out and says ... that they're going to start doing that now."
Weatherford says he doesn't understand why the system OPM used to detect the breach didn't protect the employees' PII. "If all [the system] does is say, 'Bad guys are here,' what the heck good is that if it's letting all the intellectual property and PII flow out?" Weatherford asks.
The federal government concedes that the employment records of 4 million individuals might have been exposed to the hackers who breached the Office of Personnel Management computer systems, but it hasn't yet confirmed that data was removed from government computers. Weatherford and a number of other security experts, however, believe that's what happened.
Deploying Intrusion Prevention
All federal civilian agencies, including OPM, have deployed the Einstein 2 intrusion detection system, but most agencies have yet to implement the advanced Einstein 3A system, which has breach prevention features. DHS says that as of June 1, it's providing Einstein 3A services to 13 federal civilian agencies, protecting nearly half of federal civilian personnel, and has signed agreements with 52 other agencies to deploy the more advanced system. DHS and OPM spokesmen did not reply to inquiries about whether OPM has Einstein 3A in place.
At a White House briefing on June 5, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the implementation period to deploy Einstein 3A has been accelerated, and the system should be implemented in all federal agencies by next year, two years earlier than originally planned.
In the interview, Weatherford:
• Explains why it might have taken a month for IT security personnel to determine the anomalous traffic they noticed on the network was a breach;
• Discusses the value of federal government investment in cybersecurity;
• Describes the challenges government technologist face in getting buy-in for changes in entrenched programs, including IT security efforts, that have strong support in Congress.
Weatherford is a principal at the security consultancy The Chertoff Group. As DHS deputy undersecretary, Weatherford worked with national critical infrastructure sectors and federal government agencies to develop an understanding of the cyberthreat environment and create more secure IT network operations. Before joining DHS, Weatherford served as chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corp., where he directed its cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection program. He previously served as the CISO for the state governments of California and Colorado.
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21 B.R. 846 (1982)
In the Matter of Everette Darrell PAINTER, Debtor.
WESTMORELAND, PATTERSON AND MOSELEY, A Partnership, Plaintiff,
v.
Everette Darrell PAINTER, Defendant.
Bankruptcy No. 81-51129, Adv. No. 81-5267.
United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Georgia, Macon Division.
July 15, 1982.
J. Wayne Moseley, Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, Ga., for plaintiff.
Carl A. Veline, Jr., Warner Robins, Ga., for defendant.
ROBERT F. HERSHNER, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Defendant Everette Darrell Painter filed his petition with this Court under Chapter 7 of Title 11 of the United States Code on October 15, 1981. On December 11, 1981, Plaintiff Westmoreland, Patterson and Moseley (a partnership) filed a complaint to determine the dischargeability of a debt owed to it by Defendant.
After reviewing the evidence and considering the arguments and briefs of counsel, the Court is of the opinion that the debt owed by Defendant to Plaintiff is nondischargeable in bankruptcy. In support of its opinion, the Court attaches the following findings of fact and conclusions of law.
FINDINGS OF FACT
Defendant obtained a divorce from his wife on May 4, 1981. His wife, Hazel Painter, had engaged the law firm of Westmoreland, Patterson and Moseley (Plaintiff) to represent her in the divorce proceedings. The contract between Plaintiff and Ms. Painter required her to pay $440 to Plaintiff, a sum which was paid by Ms. Painter's stepfather. The contract further provided that "in the event any hearings are held or an agreement reached, my husband must pay a fee to Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley in addition to the fee . . . to be paid by me."
The interlocutory order entered by the state court in the divorce proceeding required Defendant to pay $100 to Plaintiff as attorney's fees. The final order entered by the state court granting a divorce to Ms. Painter and Defendant further required Defendant to pay $500 to Plaintiff as attorney's fees. Of the total award, Defendant has paid $30 to Plaintiff, leaving a balance *847 of $570. Wayne Moseley, a partner in Plaintiff and acting as Plaintiff's attorney, stated in his place that Ms. Painter was not obligated to pay the award of the state court and that Plaintiff considered Defendant to be solely liable to pay the award.
At the time of the divorce, Ms. Painter was employed as a production worker and earned approximately $95 a week. She was renting a house for $110 a month and was supporting both herself and her infant daughter. Her expenses each month were roughly equivalent to her earnings.
Plaintiff seeks to have the debt owed to it by Defendant, which arose out of the state court divorce proceeding, declared nondischargeable in bankruptcy, asserting that the debt is for nondischargeable alimony or maintenance. 11 U.S.C.A. § 523(a)(5) (West 1979).
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
Section 523(a)(5) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that:
(a) A discharge under section 727, 1141, or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt
. . . .
(5) to a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor, for alimony to, maintenance for, or support of such spouse or child, in connection with a separation agreement, divorce decree, or property settlement agreement, but not to the extent that
(A) such debt is assigned to another entity, voluntarily, by operation of law, or otherwise; or
(B) such debt includes a liability designated as alimony, maintenance, or support, unless such liability is actually in the nature of alimony, maintenance, or support;
11 U.S.C.A. § 523(a)(5) (West 1979).
The legislative history of the Bankruptcy Code states that whether a debt is a dischargeable property settlement or nondischargeable alimony is to be determined by bankruptcy law. H.R.Rep.No.595, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. 364 (1977), reprinted in 1978 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 5787, 5963, 6320. However, state law may be a guide in determining the true nature of an award by a state court. See Thompson v. Thompson (In re Thompson), No. RE-81-50973, Adv.Pro. 82-5127 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Ga.1982). In this case, both federal and state law lead to the conclusion that the debt represents nondischargeable alimony.
The leading federal case on the question of whether an award of attorney's fees constitutes alimony is Pauley v. Spong (In re Spong), 661 F.2d 6 (2d Cir. 1981). In that case, the majority first summarized the state of the law under the former Bankruptcy Act and concluded that an award of attorney's fees pursuant to a husband's support obligations was generally found to be nondischargeable alimony under the Bankruptcy Act. The majority went on to hold that, similarly, an award of attorney's fees under the Bankruptcy Code constitutes nondischargeable alimony. The court supported its conclusion by stating that alimony is designed to provide a spouse with the necessities of life and that an award of attorney's fees is a necessity because it enables the spouse to sue or defend a matrimonial action. Id. at 9.
The court in Pauley v. Spong rejected the argument that the award of attorney's fees was dischargeable under section 523(a)(5)(A) because it was payable directly to the attorney. The court deemed the husband's obligation to pay his former wife's attorney's fees as a third party beneficiary contract and not as a dischargeable assignment and pointed out that "dischargeability must be determined by the substance of the liability rather than its form." Id. at 9.
The Ninth Circuit has found statutorily awarded attorney's fees in a postdivorce child custody proceeding to be nondischargeable alimony. Marks v. Catlow (In re Catlow), 663 F.2d 960 (9th Cir. 1981) (Act case). In Marks v. Catlow, the state statute authorized attorney's fees only after a showing of financial necessity and required the court to consider the needs and income of each spouse. Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. § 25-324 *848 (1976). The Ninth Circuit found an award under the statute to be an adjudication of the spouse's need for support and therefore nondischargeable alimony.
Marks v. Catlow was decided under the former Bankruptcy Act, section 17(a)(7), 11 U.S.C.A. § 35(a)(7) (West 1968) (repealed 1979). The Ninth Circuit specifically reserved the question of "whether attorney's fees awarded to a bankrupt's former spouse or the spouse's attorney in a divorce or post-divorce action is dischargeable under section 523(a)(5) of the new Bankruptcy Act." 663 F.2d at 961 n. 1. The court did, however, summarize the positions taken by the various bankruptcy courts under the Bankruptcy Code. Id. The majority of bankruptcy courts have found attorney's fees to be nondischargeable alimony. A minority of the courts have found attorney's fees dischargeable on the ground that they were assigned to a third party. 11 U.S.C.A. § 523(a)(5)(A) (West 1979). See, e.g., Asgeirsson v. Delillo (In re Delillo), 5 B.R. 692, 2 C.B.C.2d 1045, 7 B.C.D. 38 (Bkrtcy.D.Mass.1980).
The facts of this case point to the conclusion that under federal law the debt of Defendant for attorney's fees must be declared nondischargeable. The former spouse was in poor financial condition and was supporting an infant child. She had been unable to make the initial payment to Plaintiff and had to obtain the money from her stepfather. Without the award, she would have been forced to pay Plaintiff from the money she used to obtain food and housing. The evidence shows that she needed the award in order to finance the divorce proceedings. The award of attorney's fees is therefore in the nature of alimony.
The award of attorney's fees is not made dischargeable because it is payable directly to Plaintiff. To hold that the money must be paid first to the former spouse and then to Plaintiff would be to exalt form over substance. Not being forced to spend her meager resources for attorney's fees enabled Ms. Painter to provide food, shelter and clothing for herself and her infant daughter. The same result would have been reached had the money to pay the attorney's fees been awarded directly to her.
State law also categorizes the award of attorney's fees to the attorney of the former spouse as alimony. In Leonard v. Leonard, 236 Ga. 623, 225 S.E.2d 9 (1976), the Georgia Supreme Court held that:
Attorney fees are awarded as a part of temporary alimony for the purpose of enabling the wife to contest the issues. . . . The trial court did not err in its findings that the award of attorney fees was an award of alimony and was not subject to discharge in bankruptcy. . . .
Id. at 9-10.
The Court is ever mindful of the fresh start objective of the Bankruptcy Code. However, debtors should not be able to avoid all of their domestic obligations by their filings in bankruptcy. In this case, Defendant had an obligation to supply his former wife with the resources by which she financed the divorce proceedings. Otherwise, as pointed out above, she would have had to sacrifice food, clothing or shelter in order to obtain the divorce. The Court is of the opinion that in balancing the fresh start objective of the Bankruptcy Code with the obligation of Defendant to provide support for his family, the more important consideration is Defendant's duty of support. Therefore, the debt must be declared nondischargeable.
Neither party having shown an entitlement to an award of costs, the Court is of the opinion that the parties' requests for an award of costs must be denied and that each party must bear their own costs.
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“Why did she have to leave like that?” Little Iman wondered. She lost appetite for her own meal and continued to stare at the door of the kitchen. Although she still was a child, she could tell from Ralia’s unease that something wasn’t right. Ralia had acted in a way that proved that she was hiding something. Iman had a feeling that the other girl may be in some kind of trouble.
Soon, Aisha’s visit came to an end because Umar had other important things to attend to but she promised to return soon enough.
“I enjoyed your visit thoroughly. You must find a way to return to the castle.” Umar stared into her eyes as he whispered those words.
Just as Umar had enjoyed her company, she had loved the time she spent with him. Aisha had come to realize that Umar wasn’t like the other rich men that she had encountered. He was totally different. Although he had a goldmine, he remembered humble and compassionate.
Also, he was a very hard working and intelligent man. Only few men could devote their time to studying the various kinds of diseases that always plagued animals. Umar didn’t just create time for study; he carried out research and tried to procure a quality form of treatment. He was a man of substance. He was the kind of man that would continue living without any hassle should his wealth come to an end. And these attributes about Umar made Aisha reconsider her plan. What if she allowed herself to fall in love with him? What if she focused on being his wife purely out of love and admiration and not because she wanted to swindle him like the other men she had been married to?
“Thank you. I must take my leave now; there is a lot of work to be done at the bar.” She lowered her head before him before leaving for her carriage.
Umar found it difficult to pull his eyes away from her. He couldn’t wait to see her again, to spend more time with her again…
“Aisha!” He bellowed.
Just when she had reached the door to her carriage, she paused and swirled round abruptly.
“Yes?” She swallowed while searching his eyes.
“May I come to the Cattle Song Bar tonight? I promise not to do anything untoward.” Umar begged.
A lazy smile took over her taut facial features. She offered no word to him. Aisha nodded, before climbing into the carriage. A sweet feeling consumed her heart as she realized that Umar was warming up to her, bit by bit. In a little while, she would become the mistress of his heart.
Tanko had been in the bar howling instructions to the boys who worked with him. Like always, he expected a large number of people at night. Although drinking was forbidden in Israr, Tanko could get away with it because he had connections with the lawmakers. When it came to Tanko, they were willing to look the other way.
“We have run out of wine.” One of the servers hurried to Tanko’s side.
“How? You should’ve mentioned this earlier!” Tanko tossed the rag he carried in his hand upon a table next to him. Quickly, he pulled a pouch from his pocket. It was his money pouch and many gold coins were stacked in it. After giving the servant some money, he turned around and noticed that his sister’s carriage was just outside the bar.
A smile played on his face as he recounted his experience at the ranch. He had been able to get information from the old man and it would help Aisha in her plan. At first, he had not wanted to be a part of her strategy to milk Umar of his mine, but he had a good thought about it. Opportunities hardly presented themselves twice.
“You return sister,” he walked towards her. From the look on her face, Tanko could guess that everything had gone well. Aisha looked confident and content. He was assured that she had left a mark upon Umar’s heart.
Aisha pulled in a breath before scanning the faces of the men in the bar. She had the sudden desire to take liquor. She felt like celebrating what seemed like a win.
“I have left my mark upon his heart. Soon, he shall come running towards me like fish to bait. I assure you of this.”
Tanko rubbed his palms together as he watched her face for more.
“Has he spoken anything of marriage?” He inquired.
“Surely, that would be too early. Umar is smitten with me. I can feel it. Fatima no longer has hold on him. I will tear what is left of them apart until he is intoxicated with my love.”
At this point, Tanko thought it wise to share the latest information with his sister. He explained to Aisha that he had changed his mind and was willing to support her fight for the gold mine.
“But you must not shed blood this time.” He quickly warned.
Aisha caressed the emerald rings on her fingers thoughtfully as she listened to her brother. Her brother wasn’t wrong in his advice. She had a secret that no one else could discover. Aisha had been married three times to different men. Each emerald finger represented a husband.
“What is it about the ranch that I must know of?” She pulled her hands away from the ring and adjusted her falling scarf.
“The ranch has fallen. Animals have caught the disease but there is no money to cure them. From what I hear, Fatima’s father borrowed a lot of money. He tried to bring the ranch back to life, but it had died a long time ago. The ranch only dwelled in its past glory. We can use this information to our advantage.”
At first, Aisha didn’t see the need to associate herself with Fatima.
“Brother, you have done well by trying so hard to collect this information from me. But I do not need it. My eyes have beheld Fatima. She is nothing compared to me in beauty. It is just a matter of time before Umar completely forgets her.”
Tanko knew that his sister had a point, but he quickly reminded her that they were in a battle field and in such a condition, overconfidence was a sin.
“Men may be moved by beauty, but when it comes to matters of the heart, beauty is the least that love desires. Fatima may want to get Umar back because of her condition. Umar is a wealthy man. He has the means to save her family and the ranch. He has a goldmine and he could help her procure the necessary treatments for the animals. Do not underestimate her. I say that you ponder on the information and look for a way to use it against her.” He advised.
Aisha knew that her brother was right.
“You have a point. Now, tell me. How was your meeting with Laila?”
Tanko’s heart skipped when he heard this. He felt confused by the reaction of his heart. Laila had insulted him without remorse. She had pushed him away at the ranch. He was supposed to despise her more. He was fighting a way with her sister, Fatima.
“You are not saying anything,” Aisha observed the lost look in her brother’s eyes when she had mentioned Laila’s name.
Tanko shrugged, “It went fine.”
Aisha allowed the throaty laughter to ring in his ears.
“You lie. If I didn’t know you better, I would assume that you had a thing for that girl.” Immediately after she said this, she walked away from her brother. She needed to get some rest and prepare for the night. Aisha couldn’t wait to see Umar once again. She had found someone that was worth loving and she intended to keep him for herself.
An uneasy feeling swept over him as he thought about Laila. He had swindled a lot of people and cheated them without remorse; but he couldn’t reconcile the guilt that washed over him as he thought of working with Aisha against Fatima. Why was he even thinking about her?
“I just hope that witch does not have any spell on my back!” He murmured under his breath. He had not been with a woman for a very long time. This had to be the reason for his odd attraction to Laila. He would find himself a woman of virtue and release the seeds that were buried inside of him. Tanko decided that he would do that night.
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Fatima had tried her best to ignore everything that had taken place, starting from the death of her favourite horse to the presence of Aisha at Umar’s house. She was still in the dark mood when she recalled what Laila had told her. All these years, she had been living a lie. Everyone on the ranch had kept the truth away from her. It was difficult for her to accept things now. How could she reconcile the fact that they had been living on borrowed money all these years? Clearly, Laila wasn’t lying. It all made sense now. The animals were sick and no one could do anything about it.
Sweat gummed her cheeks as she stirred the steamy pot of cabbage soup. Cooking was a way to distract herself from things. After her discussion with Laila, Fatima had decided to cook different meals to get rid of the depressing thoughts. But the more she cooked, the more images of Umar and Aisha’s laughing faces plagued her mind. If her thoughts could ignite a fire, then the whole ranch would have been destroyed by flames.
“You shouldn’t stir cabbage soup so hard,” Laila started. Her smooth voice broke the silence that Fatima once enjoyed. Laila knew that her sister was in love with Umar, but she was too proud to admit it. She also knew that Fatima was unhappy now that the debt issue had been shared with her.
Laila moved to a corner with ceramic bowls. She quickly washed her hands in it and moved to join her sister.
“The joy of cabbage soup is tasting the cabbage itself. If you stir too much, the pieces would melt away.” Gently, she collected the wooden spoon from Fatima and began to stir the pot on her own.
Fatima wiped her wet hands against her dress.
“You should stare away from me. All of you!” Fatima bellowed.
“I know that you are angry that I and Faiza did not tell you about father’s debt but you must understand why we did it. There are reasons people do things. There are good reasons and bad reasons. Our decision came from a good place.”
Fatima couldn’t blame her sisters much. She had no right to be angry with anyone, but she was just upset. She felt left behind.
“You both made a fool of me. How long would it have taken you to confess?”
Laila smiled, “I don’t know how else to make you understand that we are really sorry. But you know now, and the decisions that you will take after now will affect not just us, but everyone on this ranch.”
Fatima bit her lip. She felt frustrated. Where would she begin? How would they all clear the debts before them when the ranch wasn’t producing money?
“What are we going to do?” Fatima whispered.
Laila stopped stirring.
“You have to convince Umar to return your love. You must marry him. He is the only one to save us.”
Fatima shook her head, “I admit that I share in his affection, I was too afraid to let him know. But I cannot marry him out of desperation. What if I ask for a loan? He will surely give that to me…”
Laila strolled towards her sister and touched her face lightly.
To be continued…
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Like his Michigan State counterpart, Mason is hot head-coaching material
Both of the Rose Bowl’s defensive coordinators, Derek Mason of Stanford and Pat Narduzzi of Michigan State, have been pursued by schools looking to fill head coaching vacancies. Connecticut, for instance, went after both of them recently.
Narduzzi, who won the Frank Broyles Award as the top assistant in college football this year, turned down the Huskies but reportedly landed a better contract at Michigan State as a result. His defense was the best in the nation this year.
Mason also turned down UConn, he said Saturday, because “I’ve got the best job in college football.” That said, he still wants to be a head coach. He said he’ll decide with his family when the time is right for him to leave Stanford.
He became co-defensive coordinator with Jason Tarver in 2011 after Vic Fangio went to the 49ers with head coach Jim Harbaugh. Tarver left for the Raiders the following year, and Mason became fully in charge of the defense. The Cardinal have been Pac-12 champions ever since. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '82ef2d8bcc5576df05031ac0b2aa0063fc4c1e3e76f47c6e69177e10fda903c7'} |
Why You Should Consider Replacing Your Garage Door
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Who Should You Contact for Garage Door Replacement Services?
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How to Shop for a Mattress Video
Buying a mattress isn't easy, so Good Housekeeping's editors have some tips to get a good night's sleep
If you're looking for a good night's sleep, start with a good mattress. But shopping for one can be tricky. </p> <p>Comparison shopping is particularly tricky because similar models will go by different names in different stores. </p> <p>Good Housekeeping says when you find a mattress you like, ask to see the manufacturer's specifications on things like coils, padding, thickness and construction; then take that with you to other stores for comparison. You'll probably see a lot of promotion for memory foams. These mold around your body's curves and cushion heavy areas like the hips and shoulders. </p> <p>This can help some people sleep better because the pressure is evenly distributed across your body, which helps keep your spine aligned. But they can cost around $1500 or more. </p> <p>If you like the support of a memory foam but don't want to sink in, Good Housekeeping recommends the American Excellence Latex Foam, sold at 1-800-Mattress for $1459. </p> <p>Latex Foam mattress supports you in a similar way to a memory foam, but you don't have that feeling of being stuck in the mattress. </p> <p>Does your spouse's tossing and turning keep you awake? Good Housekeeping suggests you try a mattress with isolated coils like the Simmons BeautyRest Line for $1799. </p> <p>The coils are individually encased in fabric pockets to reduce the transfer of motion, so you feel less movement around you. </p> <p>And Good Housekeeping says if the salesperson won't budge on price, try negotiating for an extra mattress pad or pillow. I'm Edie Magnus for Good Housekeeping Report.
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How to add badge "new" to the post title which are showed in recent post widgets in wordpress
I want to add a "New" badge to the titles of recent post's widgets. whenever I add any new post from that time to 5 days this "New" badge should show after that it should disappear. this badge is a "new.gif" file. I also added an image for your reference.
A:
This should sort you out. I've commented as much as possible :)
Place the code below in to your functions.php file.
function your_recent_posts_by_category_with_badge() {
// WP_Query arguments
$args = array(
'category_name' => 'catname-1, catname-2',
//'cat' => 5,
//'tag' => 'tagname',
//'tag_id' => 5,
'posts_per_page' => 10
);
// Set today's date
$the_date_today = date('r');
// Create WP_Query instance
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
// Check for posts
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
// Set up HTML list & CSS classes for styling
echo '<ul class="recentcategorybadgeposts widget_recent_entries">';
// Loop through each post
// Default is latest posts
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
$the_query->the_post();
// Compare post date from todays date
$each_post_date = get_the_time('r');
$difference_in_days = round( ( strtotime( $the_date_today ) - strtotime( $each_post_date) ) / ( 24 * 60 * 60 ), 0 );
// Condition set for 5 days
if ( $difference_in_days >= 5 ) {
// If less than 5 days show IMG tag
echo '<li><a href="' . get_the_permalink() .'">' . get_the_title() .'</a><img src="new.gif"></li>';
} else {
// Else no show
echo '<li><a href="' . get_the_permalink() .'">' . get_the_title() .'</a></li>';
}
} // end while
// Close list
echo '</ul>';
} // endif
// Reset Post Data
wp_reset_postdata();
}
// Add a shortcode to use anywhere within your website
add_shortcode('recentcategorybadgeposts', 'your_recent_posts_by_category_with_badge');
// Enable shortcodes in text widgets
// Add a 'Text Widget' to your sidebar then in the input field, paste [recentcategorybadgeposts]
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
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Student visa for studying abroad
When you study abroad you usually need a visa. Without the right visa your study dream will be cut short already at the airport. Read more about student visas here.
The information below is based on the latest information we have. However visa regulations can be changed at any time so always double check the visa rules of the country where you want to study with your school or the country's embassy. We can not be held responsible for you not having the right visa.
Do I need a visa in the EU?
If you are a citizen of a EU or Schengen country no visa is needed. However if you are not a citizen of one of those European countries you will need to apply for a Student Schengen Visa.
To get an EU student visa you will need to show that you have enough money to cover your living costs. For example, to get a student visa to Germany you currently need to put 8640 Euro into a locked account in Germany. From that account you can then withdraw up to 720 Euro per month while you study there. You will also need some additional money for the trip to Germany, insurance etc. So in total you will need at least 10000 Euro per year to study in Germany, even if tuition fees are almost free.
Yes outside the EU you are almost always obliged to apply for a visa to study. The only exception is if you are going to take a short language course, then you can study on a tourist visa or visa vaiwer in some countries, double check this with your school. Courses that are longer than three months require a student visa almost everywhere.
Can you help me to get a visa?
We help you with free information on this page and in our visa guides for popular countries (see below). However we cannot do the visa application for you or answer detailed questions about your personal application.
How to apply for a student visa?
We have written extensive guides on how to apply for a:
Read more here about student visa to Schengen countries (most EU countries plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland). For other countries the procedure usually looks like this:
1. The first step is to apply to and get accepted by a foreign school. After you are admitted to the school and have paid the necessary fees the school will send you the visa documentation you need.
2. Then you can apply for a student visa which often can be done online these days. When you apply you will need your passport and visa documents from your school. In many cases you also need other documents like insurance, birth certificate, certified grade reports, bank account statements, photos etc. Each country has different rules. Check the visa information on the embassy’s website.
3. Almost all countries demand that you pay a visa fee before your application can be processed.
4. Visit the embassy to hand in your documents and in some cases make a visa interview. Some countries allows you to do the entire application online but many countries still demand that you visit their embassy. You might also be requested to make a health checkup.
5. In our experience you can often get your visa decision within a couple of weeks of completing the application but the time will differ depending on where you apply, how big their workload is etc. The entire process from school application to a finished visa will take some time so don’t apply too late.
If you think that it sounds complicated there are visa agencies that can help you with your application to many countries in exchange for a fee.
Study Abroad Handbook
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The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery has achieved its goal of moving the girl to a new facility for long-term care, but medical experts say it may be just a matter of time before her body functions shut down completely.
Jahi McMath's uncle said Monday that she is now being cared for at a facility that shares their belief that she still is alive.
While the move ends what had been a very public and tense fight with the hospital, it also brings new challenges: caring for a patient whom three doctors have said is legally dead because, unlike someone in a coma, there is no blood flow or electrical activity in either her cerebrum or the brain stem that controls breathing.
The bodies of brain dead patients kept on ventilators gradually deteriorate, eventually causing blood pressure to plummet and the heart to stop, said Dr. Paul Vespa, director of neurocritical care at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has no role in McMath's care. The process usually takes only days but can sometimes continue for months, medical experts say.
"The bodies are really in an artificial state. It requires a great deal of manipulation in order to keep the circulation going," Vespa said.
Brain-dead people may look like they're sleeping, he added, but it's "an illusion based on advanced medical techniques."
The family and their lawyer would not disclose where the 8th grader was taken on Sunday night after a weekslong battle to prevent Children's Hospital Oakland from removing her from the breathing machine that has kept her heart beating for 28 days.
The uncle, Omari Sealey, told reporters Monday that Jahi traveled by ground and that there were no complications in the transfer, suggesting she may still be in California. Nurses and doctors are working to stabilize her with intravenous antibiotics, minerals and supplements while she remains on the ventilator, but her condition is too precarious for additional measures, lawyer Christopher Dolan said.
The new facility has "been very welcoming with open arms. They have beliefs just like ours," Sealey said. "They believe as we do...It's a place where she is going to get the treatment she deserves."
The nearly $50,000 in private donations the family has raised since taking the case public helped cover the carefully choreographed handoff to the critical care team and transportation to the new location, Sealey said. The facility, where Jahi is expected to remain for some time, is run by a charitable organization that so far hasn't sought payment, Dolan said.
Both men refused to name the facility or reveal where it was located, saying they wanted to prevent staff members and the families of other patients from being harassed.
Jahi underwent surgery at Children's Hospital on Dec. 9 to treat severe sleep apnea, a condition where the sufferer's breathing stops or becomes labored while sleeping. Surgeons removed her tonsils and other parts of her nose and throat to widen the air passages.
While recovering in the Intensive Care Unit, she bled heavily from her mouth and nose and eventually went into cardiac arrest. Doctors at the hospital declared her brain dead three days later and moved Dec. 20 to remove her from the ventilator.
Her mother, Nailah Winkfield, refusing to believe her daughter was dead as long as her heart was beating, went to court to stop the machine from being disconnected and twice won injunctions prohibiting the hospital from acting. On Friday, the two sides reached an agreement allowing Jahi to be transferred if Winkfield assumed responsibility for further complications.
An Alameda Superior Court judge who had granted the injunctions refused, however, to force Children's Hospital to fit Jahi with the breathing and feeding tubes that Dolan said are necessary to get her placed in a long-term care facility. Under the judge's order, the hospital released Jahi directly to the coroner, who then released her into the custody of Winkfield.
A federal judge cancelled a hearing on the case scheduled for Jan. 7 after the family and the hospital reached an agreement to transfer Jahi, saying the request for the hearing was now moot.
Sealey, the girl's uncle, said Monday that his sister is relieved her persistence paid off and "sounds happier." He criticized Children's Hospital for repeatedly telling Winkfield they did not need her permission to remove Jahi from the ventilator because the girl was dead.
"If her heart stops beating while she is on the respirator, we can accept that because it means she is done fighting," he said. "We couldn't accept them pulling the plug on her early."
Dolan, the family's lawyer, said Jahi's condition suffered because the hospital refused to feed her once she was declared brain dead. The family plans to pursue a federal court lawsuit alleging that Children's Hospital violated their religious and privacy rights. Winkfield has described herself as a devout Christian. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday, although the hospital has moved to have it canceled on the grounds that it has become moot with the move.
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Brine Dragon, Old
A blue-green neck frill sweeps back from the head of this dragon, leading to a body of shiny scales and fin-like crests.
Brine Dragon, Old CR 14
XP 38,400
LN Huge dragon (water)
Init +3; Senses dragon senses; Perception +25
Aura frightful presence (240 ft., DC 23)
AC 31, touch 7, flat-footed 31 (-1 Dex, +24 natural, -2 size)
hp 207 (18d12+90)
Fort +16, Ref +12, Will +15
DR 10/magic; Immune acid, paralysis, sleep; SR 25
Speed 60 ft., fly 200 ft. (poor), swim 60 ft.
Melee bite +28 (2d8+18), 2 claws +28 (2d6+12), tail slap +23 (2d6+18), 2 wings +23 (1d8+6)
Special Attacks breath weapon (100-ft. line, 16d6 acid, DC 24), capsize, crush (2d8+18, DC 24)
Spell-like Abilities (CL 18th; concentration +22)
At willcontrol water, obscuring mist, speak with animals (fish only), water breathing
Spells Known (CL 11th; concentration +15)
5th (4/day)teleport, wall of force
4th (7/day)ball lightning* (DC 18), ice storm, greater invisibility
3rd (7/day)aqueous orb* (DC 17), deep slumber (DC 17), dispel magic, sleet storm (DC 17)
2nd (7/day)alter self, detect thoughts, invisibility, make whole, slipstream*
1st (7/day)color spray (DC 15), feather fall, flare burst* (DC 15), ray of enfeeblement, touch of the sea*
0 (at will)arcane mark, detect magic, detect poison, mage hand, message, open/close, prestidigitation, read magic, resistance
* – denotes spell from Advanced Player’s Guide.
Str 34, Dex 9, Con 21, Int 21, Wis 18, Cha 19
Base Atk +18; CMB +32 (+34 bull rush); CMD 41 (43 vs. bull rush; 45 vs. trip)
Feats Greater Vital Strike, Hover, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Initiative, Improved Vital Strike, Lightning Reflexes, Power Attack, Skill Focus (Swim), Vital Strike
Skills Bluff +25, Diplomacy +25, Fly +12, Heal +25, Knowledge (arcana, geography, nature) +26, Perception +25, Sense Motive +25, Survival +25, Swim +47; Racial Modifiers +8 Swim
Languages Aquan, Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Halfling
SQ water breathing
Capsize (Ex)
An old or older brine dragon can attempt to capsize a boat or ship by ramming it as a charge attack and making a CMB check. The DC of this check is 25 or the result of the boat captain’s Profession (sailor) check, whichever is higher. For each size category larger the ship is than the brine dragon’s size, the dragon takes a cumulative –10 penalty on the check.
Environment any aquatic (Plane of Water)
Organization solitary
Treasure triple
Although not inherently evil, brine dragons have little patience for kindness and philanthropy. As they age, they grow more and more opinionated and obsessed with power—by adult age, a brine dragon counts itself a failure if it doesn’t rule over a collection of “lesser beings” such as humans, merfolk, locathah, or even sahuagin. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '29', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7665325999259949}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '79599', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QG4SWDDQDZQE2INONIBXMOG46JFKF2KS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:79063ea3-e6d0-49bb-8851-96ba856b526c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 8, 18, 21, 45, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.164.217.55', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QEWPXC6PRU7GUPRWD5KM6AKWOROELOTD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:81144db5-8a29-4a7a-ba65-cdf9fe1ac3b9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/dragons/dragon/primal-brine/brine-dragon-old/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6d3ab7bb-cf8f-4593-8636-fc1d65317ea8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '404', 'url': 'http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/dragons/dragon/primal-brine/brine-dragon-old/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-34\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-43-195-133.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': '0.03879052400588989', 'original_id': '2810926f050cc3d81e4967673c5a86a1a7a1a71b8768e4849ff02ef61f69de66'} |
My Epilepsy Story, and acting like a fish out of water!
So I am doing this story to tell you, my dear readers, about me living with Epilepsy.
I was born in 1991. During the 90's there were two UK Prime ministers, they were John Major, and Tony Blair. In the US during the 90's the two Presidents were George H.W. Bush and William (Bill) Clinton. So you have an idea of the world I was born into.
My Mum said it was natural birth, though it required the help of forceps to get me out, as I decided I was too warm, comfy and getting free food, and didn't want to come out. I personally think this was very cruel, dragging an innocent helpless child out of the womb into the cold, bright hospital! In 1991 I was born, and at first the hospital and my Mum thought I was healthy... famous last...erm...thoughts?
My Mum says within weeks of being born it was obvious there was something not quite right (something I routinely think to this day!) Whilst I was in my cot sleeping I would shake and do weird stretching movements. When she saw this happening, she took me straight to the hospital where she was told "Stop fussing, it happens...she will grow out of it." My Mum's gut instinct was telling her different. As I grew I kept shaking and stretching and my Mum kept taking me to the doctors and hospital and again "she will grow out of it..." So finally, my Mum accepted it and to let me 'grow out of it.'
When I hit the terrible twos, not only was the shaking and stretching going on, but I was late in developing my speech. My Mum was worried but she was again told by doctors and health visitors not to worry as "she will talk in her own time." I started to walk age 2 and that is when I started to face plant the floor. Apparently I must have enjoyed the taste of concrete! My Mum said I never tried to stop myself falling and she couldn't stop me as the onset was so sudden. It was like I was puppet with my strings being cut. This face planting is now known as an atonic seizure.
Atonic seizures are where the muscles suddenly become limp. It can affect part or all of the body and will normally result in the person falling if they are stood. This is why you often see Epileptic children wearing head protection. In the 90's that wasn't the case, especially where I lived. Medical science and intervention was very different back then. You can read more about atonic seizures here.
When I was 2 or 3 years old my Mum and Nana decided to take me to a church in Nottingham where I lived at the time. There was a stage in the church, where Christmas plays were put on. I was running (I use the term loosely, it was probably more like stumbling at speed!) about on the stage, and according to my Mum I was pretending to fly and be a fairy. I ran to the edge of the stage and was shouting "Mum! Nana! Look" I was flapping my arms. The next thing my Mum and Nana said they saw, was that my face went blank and as they were shouting my name I had fallen off the edge of the stage and made best friends with the floor. I banged my forehead, so we went to the hospital, and that's when it was decided that we needed to see a specialist. I also had a spectacular atonic seizure during my first year of school, which you can read about here.
My Nana and I, aged 2 or 3
At age 5, after seeing a Pediatrician specialising in neurological disorders called Dr B, and after conducting an EEG, and an MRI on the brain, I was diagnosed with epilepsy. Dr B couldn't be sure if the epilepsy would ever go and he felt there was more to it.... From age 5 to age 8 I was put on Epilim (sodium valpourate.) During this time I saw an educational psychologist who said "I would get by on my looks" but had "nothing between my ears" You can read more about that in this post about my other medical monstrosities!
At age 6 I had my first tonic-clonic seizure. It was during the Easter holidays and I was playing out in the garden with my younger brother, sister and Mum. My Mum said I stopped watering the plants and I started to cry and complain about a metallic taste in my mouth, then my eyes went to the back of my head and I went all stiff. I then started to shake and my breathing wasn't steady. During this seizure I got abrasions from the concrete, which was just the icing on the cake as I couldn't dress up or wear a box on my head for weeks. These things are important to children! I was rushed to hospital where they cleaned my scrapes, reviewed my medication, and said to increase the Epilim. A tonic-clonic seizure is the type of epileptic seizure most people will recognise. They have two phases. The Tonic phase is where you lose consciousness and all your muscles go stiff, and you are at risk of biting your tongue. This is followed by the clonic phase where you convulse and your breathing can be affected. You can find more information about tonic-clonic seizures here.
Many people, including me, have a symptoms of a focal seizure, commonly called an aura, before a tonic-clonic seizure. For me, my aura is and has always been a metallic taste in the mouth, although it can manifest as many things, such as a sense of impending doom or auditory hallucinations.
Grandpa and I, when I was a hormonal teenager!
From the age of 6 to age 9 I had a mixture of atonic seizures and tonic-clonic seizures. At the age of 9 they suddenly stopped...then came back back with a vengeance when I was 11 years old. It was my Grandad's birthday and we had just sung Happy Birthday and done his cake. I felt a bit dizzy, so I went away from the party and sat in the front room to get my bearings again. I began to get a metallic taste in my mouth... all I remember is thinking 'oh no, not again.' Mum came in the room, and then the next thing I knew I had woken up on the floor. Mum said I had a tonic-clonic seizure. During that summer when I was 11 I had over 20 seizures. The consultant I was then under Dr M decided it was time I was put onto Lamotrigine, as this was more suitable for teenagers and hormones!
From 11 years onwards I mainly had tonic-clonic seizures with the odd atonic seizure.
Throughout my teenage life it was a pain and the seizures were so tiring. I would have to have time off school, which sucked as, oddly, I loved school. I loved my friends, I loved learning and I just loved life. Sometimes I would go into school looking beaten up because I had hit my head or something during a seizure. This was frustrating as it was a time when safeguarding was becoming a big thing and, no matter how many times we told the school the cause of my injuries, they kept suspecting I was being harmed. It took two years and many letters for them to realise I was in a loving and nurturing home, just not the healthiest bunny.
When I was at college I saw another conultant called Dr M, who took a different approach, and agreed I had epilepsy, but with the incidents with my heart, one of which you can read about here, he felt the heart could have influence over the Epilepsy. So the heart and Epilepsy were causing twice the trouble for me.
At university the seizures carried on, and I still looked beaten up at times...
Then this year in March 2018, I suffered a 25 minute tonic-clonic seizure. When I came out the seizure I woke up in hospital, where my specialist broke the news that I had suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury due to a lack of oxygen. My whole world turned upside down. I couldn't remember things. I couldn't talk properly, it took days for me to be able to talk again. My emotions were like a rollercoaster and I turned into this snappy and moody person I didn't recognise. I didn't want to see my friends. I became so anti-social. I was like a defenseless child scared of the world. I had to relearn everyday things that we take for granted, such as feeding myself and dressing myself. To this day I drop food on myself and I wear my clothes back to front. I now have horrific migraines that make me want to hide away in the dark. I have extreme memory issues - funnily enough I forgot about this part and had to put it in when editing. Fortunately, six months on I am finally starting to feel more like myself. My mood is more stable and the irrational fears, whilst present, are far more manageable.
Medication-wise I am now on 1500mg of Keppra (levitracetam) twice a day, 500mcg of Clonazepam three times a day, and a 400mg of Gabapentin. This has finally got me to a more stable stage where I only have tonic-clonic seizures once or twice a month, instead of once or twice a day!
Each day I make small improvement, but my consultant said its going to be a long battle. Well people, I am in for the long battle!
Me this week, recovering from my TBI with the help of mother nature
Oh shoot, I forgot to mention I also have absences, I go all spaced out, and away with the fairies, but I come back eventually. I think that is everything, though with my memory as it is at the moment...
Epilepsy isn't the easiest thing to live with, but with the love and support from my family, friends and pets I am getting through this. I couldn't ask for any more from my family and friends. I have to have someone with me at all times, as my seizures are very violent, but Mum and Gareth have stepped up to the plate wonderfully. Also, despite never having been trained in that way, Scarlett, my dog, has developed a sixth sense, and normally gives me thirty seconds or so warning of a seizure, before I have my aura. This gives me time to take extra clonazepam as a rescue medicine and reduces the impact of the seizure. Dogs really are wonderful!
There is one sad thing that has happened because of our government's recent policies and I don't usually mention this. In Yorkshire, Epilepsy nurses have been cut. I was told back in March 2018, that I should see an Epilepsy nurse within 3 months. To this day I have seen no nurse. When I contacted the neurology department they admitted there had been cuts to the epilepsy nurses, and because I was considered a lower risk due to the support network I have in place I could not be given one. This should not happen. The government needs to stop cutting funding to the NHS, in the long term it will only end up costing more anyway. Myself and others need the NHS, so, Theresa May, please leave our beloved NHS alone and fund it better! The NHS staff do an amazing job!
In the future, I am thinking of trying CBD oil, if my neurology team think it may be appropriate. CBD Oil room wrote a rather interesting article which you can check out here on the benefits, though it is definitely something I will discuss with the consultants first!
You are truly an amazing and courageous young woman. I am so very pleased to have met you on twitter and in awes of your inspiration! Much love always and many blessings!
Aww thank you for your kind comment Jose! 💜💜 I feel lucky to have met a kind, and wonderful person like yourself. You are an inspiration! 💜 Much love always and many blessings 😊🌸xxxx
Eline said…
Oh Ruth :-/ As someone with CFS/ME who went through a decade of either traumatic or non-existent treatment, I cannot put in words how my heart goes out to you and your mom for having gone through all of that.
Aww thank you for your sweet comment Eline. 💜💜 It was a lot to go through, but we got through it! Thank you for your kind and sympathetic words. ♥️♥️ Xxxx
you're brave for sharing! thank you and i hope this is helpful for others.
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Thank you for your kind comment Joy! 💜💜 I hope it helps others too. 😊🌸xxx
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read your personal story of your epilepsy. One thing I do know, though, is that the world is a better place with you in it. You're an amazing person whose spirit soars higher than any you come across who just can't understand you. Truly inspiring. Roll on, Alison (@LightEpilepsy)
Aww Alison! Thank you for your very sweet comment! 💜💜 I try and laugh and just get on with life. 😊 Wow thank you so much for saying that! 😃💜 Your kind words mean so very much to me! 💜🌸xxxx
Earthboundstars said…
Such a powerful read, I'm sorry you went through all that! It's terrifying how unwilling doctors have been to diagnose or even consider diagnosing children. It could prevent years of worry & suffering to parents and children.
I adore how you look so much like your grandmother, and yourself as a baby, and you've grown to mix both of those looks into a strong and beautiful individual who takes whatever life gives her and says "I can work with this!" You're so brave and I always appreciate your honesty and how you keep your writing so real. I'd be afraid to talk about my medical struggles and how they affected my mental health but you open up about them without rambling on anxiously and I admire that ability massively.
Aww wow! Earthboundstars! That comment put a huge smile on my face. Thank you so much for your kind comment. 💜💜 I think medical science has a long way to go before they consider the worry for parents and children. Aww thank you, a lot of people say I look like my grandmother. You are so kind for saying all these kind words. 💜 Thank you, ❤️ I just want to give a voice to the people who feel they can’t speak out. If I can help just one person I am happy, although I do hope I can help many. 😊🌸xxxx
John said…
I have to echo everyone else in admiring you and your attitude. I too suffered badly as an eleven year old with epilepsy but in my case medication has really helped. So much of what you said stirs my memories of how it was. Well done for speaking up. You are a voice for those suffering as you do
This was a really interesting post, thanks for sharing your experience I'm sure it will help many others in the same situation!!
Abby said…
Wow! Thank you for sharing! When I was 15 I started babysitting a six year old who had epilepsy. Hers was different from yours and I don’t know all the technical jargon but I know her episodes were getting better and doctors believed she would eventually grow out of them (and 8 years later and she has!!☺️). I just remember her mom telling me about it and as I had never seen or been around an epileptic episode I could only nod and not truly understand. It wasn’t until we were having breakfast one morning and her mom was in her office and I barely even noticed but she stopped talking mid sentence, her eyes were just staring off into neverland and her spoon in her hand began to shake. It was the scariest moments of my life which isn’t even fair because it’s not something that happens to me and I am so glad her mother was there. It was only a mini episode but it sure taught me to learn up quick in case it was ever more or her mom wasn’t there.
Sorry this is such a long comment, I just really appreciated reading this post! And I love the support system you have around you!! You are very strong and it is a joy to read about!!��
Wow thank you for the kind comment John! 😊 I am so glad your medication has helped, as no one deserves to go through the seizures. Thank you for your very kind comment. 😊🌸 xxx
Thank you for your kind comment Chal! 😊I hope I can help someone. 😊🌸xxx
Wow! Thank you for your kind comment Abby! 😊💜 I am glad the little girl has grown out of them. That is amazing news. I am so happy you enjoyed my post, and I hope I see you again! Thank you so much for your kind comment! 😊🌸 xxx
Pamela said…
Thank you for sharing your's not easy to talk about our chronic illnesses, but it always helps when we do. You are brave for being willing to tell your story and I'm sorry you've had things so rough. I hope that funding gets restored, and I wish you all the best with your health in the future.
Thank you for your very kind comment Pamela. 😊 It isnlt the easiest to talk about, but I want to help others. I hope the funding gets restored too, as so many people need help. I wish and hope you all the best with your health. 😊xxx
I was deeply touched by your story. What you've been through is heart-wrenching, and you write about it beautifully! You are a warrior!
Aww thank you for your kind comment Baby Boomer. 💜💜 Thank you I try my best to fight on. Your kind words mean a lot to me. 😊🌸xxxx
Leslie said…
What a story, I wish they’d get you in touch with a nurse. I think it’s crazy how the government decides to cut some of the most important parts of funding. I’m glad your pupper gives you a little time to take actions. I hope recover quickly from this latest episode.
Oh Ruth! I am so glad to be connected with you. Your indomitable spirit amazes me. As a fellow blogger I admire how you write about your personal struggle in such an easy breezy manner. Lots of love ❤️ and virtual hugs🤗
Thank you for your lovely comment Leslie! 💜💜 Yeah, the government needs to sort its priorities. Luckily I have a support network, but I worry about the peop,e who ha e no support network! 🌸😊xxx
Aww Suktara, thank you for your sweet comment! 💜💜 I am just grateful to be alive, and hope I can help others. Sending hugs back. 🤗🌸😊 xxxx
Laura said…
This was so hard to read :( thankyou for having the courage to share with others, I too suffer with epilepsy and absences but no where near as severe and it makes me think how lucky I actually am; I really do hope that your epilepsy improves and that you know you are an inspiration to carry on. What I also gained from this post is that everyone including drs family, have said how much of a good drug keppra is and ever since you've been more controlled your also on the same dose of it as me which has kept my seizures at bay. I also love how you still laugh and joke ev n though you've been through so much keep fighting 😘❤️
Aww bleas! I am sending massive hugs! 😘 Thank you for the sweet comment Laura. 💜💜 I am glad your Epilepsy isn’t too severe. 😊 Thank you so much for saying that. I will carry on. 😊♥️ I am so happy the Keppra keeps your seizures at bay. 😀 I promise to keep fighting! 😘♥️
Elisabeth Straw said…
I come from Nottingham originally but I live in Yorkshire now. My son had a very rare form of epilepsy which started at around 15 months of age. At one stage he was having 40+ fits a day. He was given epilim and it impacted his development significantly. Epilim is a sedative and so it is bound to stop or hinder speech and language development if given during childhood. My son has autism now but fortunately he has been fit free since he was seven. We were very lucky as we saw a brilliant consultant in Surrey who was incredibly knowledgeable about epilepsy. My son't epilepsy is the kind that may return. I just keep hoping that he will be fine as it is such a terrifying condition and parents feel so helpless when their child fits. I think you are an incredible woman and I admire you greatly.
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Equations and Expressions are closely related.
The primary difference between the two is an equals sign. An "equation" has a left side, a right side and an equals sign separating the sides. An "expression," by contrast, doesn't have any "sides" and is simply what the name suggests: An algebraic "expression." Though sometimes it is possible to combine like terms, we are generally not expected to "do" or "solve" anything regarding expressions.
For example:
3x - 7 = 2
This is an EQUATION, because it has a left side, a right side, and an = sign separating the two.
3x - 7
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Helping a hospital survive
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When the predominant insurer of rural hospitals left the state, one community’s healthcare provider was in serious trouble.
This healthcare organization faced large increases in medical liability premiums, as well as the reality of what those increases would mean for its hospitals and doctors. If the company couldn't find an insurance carrier willing to carry its risk at an acceptable price, its operating costs could become prohibitive.
Seeking an independent perspective
Milliman consultants were brought in to help the healthcare organization weather the crisis. The consultants performed a retention study and ultimately recommended the creation of a captive insurance company.
The captive program enabled the healthcare organization to form its own insurance subsidiary, allowing it to manage its own risk and finance its retained losses in a formal structure. This captive insurance company would afford the healthcare organization significant benefits. Some of the advantages included potentially accruing tax deductions, lowering insurance costs, improving cash flow, and giving control of underwriting, rates and forms, claim settlements, and investments back to the parent company. Also, by utilizing a captive strategy, the healthcare organization could retain premiums and investment income, and future profits could be distributed back to the organization. The healthcare provider would now hold the reins to more of its business, affording it the independence to carry—and even benefit from—its own risk.
Ensuring local access to healthcare
By providing an intelligent, independent analysis of the specific needs and variables affecting this healthcare organization, Milliman consultants were able to design a customized solution. Milliman evaluated the risk that a captive insurance company would create for the organization and helped the client prepare for the future. Most important, Milliman consultants helped keep critical healthcare services right where they’re needed: nearby.
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Who knows how much of a car enthusiast Kaufman considers himself—the mini-crash scene in Adaptation is, I think, quite memorable, even if he did hate it—but, in a way, his point meshes nicely with the exceeding expectations laid out for the future of cars, that is, how soon self-driving vehicles will become the norm.
“I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are,” Kaufman said in that interview with The Scotsman. “So you’re constantly being shown this garbage and you can’t get there.”
The car industry does the same to consumers. There’s Lyft’s co-founder suggesting car ownership will be an outdated concept by 2025, or Ford touting that it’ll have autonomous vehicles available for the typical motorist by then, as well.
The car world as we know it will convert to a vast sea of robots, dramatically reducing the number of fatalities from accidents and allowing people to go about their commutes with their mind focused on things beside what’s on the road in front of them.
It’s an idea that, in the short-term, seems plausible for coastal, elite cities. But is this extraordinary expectation even doable elsewhere?
Traffic in Mexico City. Photo credit AP
Cities Vs. Everywhere Else
Sure, maybe 10 million semi-autonomous cars could be on the road by 2020, but we’re ways off from living in a world where manually-operated vehicles aren’t in the majority. Christ, there’s 256 million passenger vehicles on the road in the U.S. today. So it’s hard to imagine car ownership will—in the next decade—become a thing of the past in major U.S. cities.
It’d be nice to have the ability to relax and take a nap while a flawless Model 3 guides you to work, or to solely rely on ride-sharing services while living in a major city. And indeed research has enforced the belief that younger people are driving less, opting instead for areas with access to tolerable mass transit, bikeable roads, or on-demand car services.
Still, not everyone has the means to afford a driverless car—the cost for one will remain relatively high for some time—or the desire to live in a dense, urban core. And who knows how long our heralded app-based shuttle services can even last?
In short, the vision of a dramatic shift will probably happen in high population centers. For most of the U.S, the shift will be noticeable, but not substantial. It will probably be more semi-autonomous than full-on submission to the machine. It will be fine.
Whenever there’s hand-wringing about what the future holds for enthusiasts, oftentimes there’s a penchant for making it seem like an imminent dystopia, where everyone’s relegated to the passenger’s seat, comfortably, like a New Yorker cover, and fixing up your car is nothing but folklore. The flipside, automation boosters tout the technology as a life-saving development that’s going to takeoff as early as the next decade. In the middle, your basic consumer has a wealth of concerns about everyday life and who honestly knows if they’ll dig the new tech gear?
In the past year, we’ve been told that Ford’s design chief is preparing for a driverless society. And on the heels of a high-profile automated crash by a Google vehicle earlier this year, TechCrunch ran an open letter to the company that pleaded for it to “consider regulations, infrastructure and ethics in order to achieve this hybrid reality” where humans and robots drive in concert. The writer, a blogger named John Thuma, asks the company, along with Tesla, to release the code for its driverless software and rely on open-sourcing and others in “order to achieve the goal of a driverless society.”
“It is not about the driverless vehicle, it is about the driverless society,” the letter reads. “One day our grandchildren may recall times when humans controlled an automobile. They will speak of us as barbarians who trusted a painted yellow line to separate combustible materials traveling at high rates of speed, only to miss each other by a matter of feet.”
Our grandchildren will probably still love us, despite automated vehicles. The piece goes on to discuss A Vision for a driverless society, and yet no one really has a clear idea of what, exactly, that means. Are we talking about a world where no one has their hands clasped to a wheel?
No One Can Predict The Future
The truth is, no one really knows for sure what’s to come. Back in June, just days before reports of the first fatal crash in a self-driving vehicle emerged, the Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Mims highlighted a glut of research that suggested self-driving technology is going to further accelerate suburban sprawl, contradicting data about millennials driving less and eagerly moving to urban cores. Younger people may not even be as interested in moving to cities as much as we’re led to think, Mims notes, pointing to studies that indicate that more might prefer living in the suburbs.
“Millennials with kids in school, that’s children 6 and older, are actually less urban today than the same age group was 15 years ago,” Jed Kolko, the former chief economist at real-estate site Trulia, says in the piece.
This isn’t terribly surprising. Take Detroit, a city that has literally spoon-fed the New York Times with features about up-and-coming twentysomethings and their entrepreneurial spirit and new coffee shops for several years.
It’s a fine point for officials and boosters to crow about the purported renaissance of the city’s downtown, in part thanks to an influx of millennials, but, in reality, Detroit’s school system is a complete mess.
If a couple settles down, wants to have a kid, chances are more likely than not that they’ll head for the burbs, where they might find a better educational offering. With that, almost certainly, they’ll need a car.
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But will they even want a driverless car? A couple years back, IHS Automotive released a report that claimed, “sometime after 2050,” nearly all vehicles on the road will be automated. This, expectedly, drew a wave of headlines—without much thought—that nearly all cars will be autonomous by mid-century. The more you dig in, however, the more it becomes less clear. In May, new surveys showed a majority of people aren’t even interested in driverless vehicles. The market for autonomous technology may be huge, but as Bloomberg noted: “All of this depends on people buying something they don’t currently want.”
This isn’t to criticize the notion that automated vehicles can save lives. It almost certainly can, though people will also die in new ways at times. But surely, with a majority of accidents being caused due to human error, it’s logical to assume that, in a driverless society, the number of fatalities from crashes would plummet. That’s great.
But 2050? It seems farfetched to wager that autonomous vehicles will cover the landscape by then. Even so, it seems far more of a stretch to figure, say, the remote confines of the upper Midwest will somehow transition within the next three decades. The industry has to figure out how to tackle weather before that could even be considered a possibility.
Autonomy Is A Luxury Right Now
This fall Tesla showed its self-driving technology can handle the pristine conditions of Palo Alto just fine—and we’ve done hundreds of miles seamlessly in a Model S. But autonomous tech isn’t yet to the point where driverless cars can handle the fog or snow, so it’s hard to figure where your uncle in rural Wisconsin fits into the equation. A robot car may avoid getting drunk, but if it can’t get over a little rain, there’s no value for it outside of sunny Southern California.
Then there’s cost. The IHS study also forecasts the price premium for self-driving technology will add $7,000-$10,000 to a car’s sticker price in 2025; the following decade, that figure will drop to about $3,000. Given that we’re completely failing to address growing income inequality in the US, is it safe to assume that a significant portion of the car-driving population will even be able to afford an autonomous vehicle in 30 years?
It’s notable that lawmakers and the federal government are starting to address how quickly the industry wants to push autonomous technology. But I’m left to wonder how we’re going to exactly pay for the infrastructure overhaul that’s needed to facilitate a sea of driverless vehicles. There’s the $305 billion highway bill proposed a year ago, but that’s just a start of what’s likely needed.
And there’s a simple conundrum for the industry itself: It’s hard to build a car. While Silicon Valley might be ambitious as hell, if they can’t survive a first-run of production, and the big automakers realize enough people can’t be convinced that autonomy is the way of the future, the question of whether driverless cars will ever catch on seems just as open-ended as the market for electric vehicles.
The Coastal Elites And The Rest Of Us
So what is a driverless society?
If I had to guess, in 30 years, it’s probably one that’s fractured and exists in pockets, likely on the coasts. Major metropolitan areas—New York, San Francisco—will adapt and the kinks to establish harmony between computer and human will, eventually, be worked out. You may see a sizable portion of hands-free motorists elsewhere in smaller cities like Ann Arbor, and perhaps on a commute from suburban Cleveland into the city’s downtown, a mishmash of manually operated and driverless vehicles will mosey together down the highway.
In smaller populations, the occasional resident may shock a town when they putter down Main Street in a driverless car, a proud, beaming display of the future. But when they arrive at a stoplight, next to them will be a beaten down Ford Ranger, a couple of raggedy sedans, and the friendly eccentric driving an ancient Grand Marquis. Tesla owners in middle America will probably continue to have to drive hundreds of miles for service repairs, and hobbyists will still have their garages and freedom to make their cars sing. High-speed police chases and routine traffic stops will still be things.
Many who are unable to purchase a driverless car will still rely on used vehicles. And with estimates of how many equipped with full-autonomy will be on the road in the next 30 years being just that—estimates—it’s hard to grasp how soon they’ll trickle down into the secondary market.
At the end of the day, the technology will be a luxury—at least for the foreseeable future. In this scenario, the dent in reducing the 90 percent of accidents that are caused by human error will feel more like a gradual lovetap than an abrupt wallop. Things will improve on the safety front, but for enthusiasts and regular consumers alike, the future will likely remain much of the same.
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Vasectomy Reversal Techniques | The Turek Clinic
Vasectomy Reversal Techniques
Vasectomy Reversal Surgery Techniques San Francisco
Dr. Turek utilizes a number of vasectomy reversal techniques depending on the individual needs of each patient. If you are ready to schedule a consultation to learn more about your vasectomy reversal options, please contact The Turek Clinic today.
Vasovasostomy Techniques
Figure 1. Suture Placement for Vasovasostomy Techniques
There are two microsurgical approaches available for a vasovasostomy and vasectomy reversal specialist, Dr. Paul Turek, has extensive experience with both. One surgical approach is the modified 1-layer connection (anastomosis) and the other is a formal, two-layer anastomosis. The technical differences in suture placement are shown in Figure 1.
Reverse Vasectomy Techniques Los Angeles
For this discussion, we will outline the 2-layer method. Using the technique, the freshened ends of the vas deferens are brought closer together by placing small sutures in the surrounding tissue. Once the two ends face each other, the formal microsurgical connection is begun. The connection begins with the backwall, then the inner layer, both held together with six sutures around the circumference of the vas deferens. Once the entire inner and outer layers have been connected, larger sutures are places around the vas deferens to create a tension-free vasal connection. The vas deferens is then placed back into the scrotum and local anesthesia is given to ensure a pain-free recovery.
Mucosa-Mucosa Epididymovastomy
End-To-Side Epididymovasostomy
Dr. Turek uses two epididymovasostomy procedures, the mucosa-mucosa method and the invagination method. In the mucosa-to-mucosa, end-to-side method of vasectomy reversal, an opened epididymal tubule is microsurgically connected to the cut end of the vas deferens with up to six simple sutures. This “inner” layer is supported with an “outer” layer of radial sutures to strengthen the epididymovasostomy.
Invagination Epididymovastomy
Invagination Epididymovasostomy
Recently, the idea of end-to-side connections (also termed mucosa-to-mucosa) has been challenged. A new technique, termed invagination epididymovasostomy, that does not use the edge-to-edge connection, has become popular over the last several years. The essential difference between this new technique and the edge-to-edge technique for vasectomy reversal surgery is that the epididymal tubule edge is not sutured to the vas deferens edge. Instead the sutures are placed such that the epididymal tubule is carefully pulled into the hole of the vas deferens or invaginated into it. This new technique uses fewer sutures and appears to be a more leak-free anastomosis than the edge-to-edge approach to vasectomy reversal surgery. Dr. Turek was an early adopter of the invagination epididymovasostomy and uses this new vasectomy reversal technique as much as possible.
After either method of epididymovasostomy, Dr. Turek limits physical activity for 3-4 weeks. He occasionally places small, painless rubber drains in the scrotum during the procedure to minimize any potentially harmful collections of fluid or blood. These drains are typically removed the day after your epididymovasostomy procedure.
Magnifying Lubricants
A new vasectomy reversal technique that was invented by Dr. Turek uses a novel lubricant to make vasectomy reversals easier to perform. This new technique involves a safe, nonreactive lubricating bulking agent called Viscoat® that has been used by ophthalmologists for years in delicate eye surgery cases.
Dr. Turek has found that when this new technique is used in vasectomy reversal cases, this substance helps make the vas deferens lumen larger for easier suture placement and magnifies the microsurgical view of the vas deferens lumen. It also helps visualize the connection without the need for cautery that can damage tissue. And this benefit comes without any loss of patency rate when compared to vasectomy reversal cases in which Viscoat is not used. This magnifying lubricant has become an important new technique or “tool” in Dr. Turek’s microsurgery cases and is an example of how a master microsurgeon is constantly looking for ways to improve outcomes after vasectomy reversal. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8661901950836182}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '72474', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QPGBZBVMLLFGR56U4QKLQHVG2OQNZYE2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4f28fe91-8bef-4a90-a239-3c03d5dacf68>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 11, 21, 30, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.27.137.173', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5IPPRJBAE3CCJUINXEEPKW2O3M6PEYDF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:17efb4f0-39e2-4476-b1c1-3df3d50d7e64>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.theturekclinic.com/vasectomy-reversal-techniques/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:158ff22a-be1e-4c60-a502-667fbc78ac91>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '654', 'url': 'https://www.theturekclinic.com/vasectomy-reversal-techniques/', '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-10-67-67-215.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': '0.040934085845947266', 'original_id': 'f8d160a22e493c27ed626225192033eb5b8d1abf179025f53e034041a2bc3d6b'} |
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RED PLANET LANDSCAPE: An image taken by the Spirit rover shows the rocky surface of Mars and the Gusev Crater. (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Talk about your cosmic pileups.
An asteroid similar to the one that flattened forests in Siberia in 1908 could plow into Mars next month, scientists said Thursday.
Researchers attached to NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, who sometimes jokingly call themselves the Solar System Defense Team, have been tracking the asteroid since its discovery in late November.
The scientists, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, put the chances that it will hit the Red Planet on Jan. 30 at about 1 in 75.
A 1-in-75 shot is "wildly unusual," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near-Earth Object office, which routinely tracks about 5,000 objects in Earth's neighborhood.
"We're used to dealing with odds like one-in-a-million," Chesley said. "Something with a one-in-a-hundred chance makes us sit up straight in our chairs."
The asteroid, designated 2007 WD5, is about 160 feet across, which puts it in the range of the space rock that exploded over Siberia. That explosion, the largest impact event in recent history, felled 80 million trees over 830 square miles.
The Tunguska object broke up in midair, but the Martian atmosphere is so thin that an asteroid would probably plummet to the surface, digging a crater half a mile wide, Chesley said.
The impact would probably send dust high into the atmosphere, scientists said. Depending on where the asteroid hit, such a plume might be visible through telescopes on Earth, Chesley said.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is mapping the planet, would have a front-row seat. And NASA's two JPL-built rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, might be able to take pictures from the ground.
Because scientists have never observed an asteroid impact -- the closest thing being the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter -- such a collision on Mars would produce a "scientific bonanza," Chesley said.
The asteroid is now behind the moon, he said, so it will be almost two weeks before observers can plot its course more accurately.
The possibility of an impact has the Solar System Defense Team excited.
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Working through the tough times
IMG_8130Is it better to work through the issue or end the relationship?
This time of year makes me reflective and think about the past. When I was younger, my view was very much ‘black & white,’ but through the years my views have become ‘it depends,’ or waiting to see the outcome. Even if I wait to see the outcome, it means I have to be patient and the result may not be clear since it is evolving. Lately, I started asking myself how does apply to relationships and threesomes?
To begin with, good and bad are not absolutes. Instead they are perceptual definitions that are defined by experiences and the context of the situation. A situation we initially perceive as bad may in a matter of weeks or months be seen as good. Likewise, a situation that we feel is bad but give it a bit more time may turn out to be good.
I believe how we perceive a situation influences how we relate to others, how we respond to them, and how we try to manage the ‘stress’ in our lives. For those who have had a bad threesome experience may find in a few months or years that they no longer see it as such. Instead they may view it as either indifferent to it (e.g. something they can tick off their sexual bucket list but will never do again) or maybe it is something they may want to pursue. This means, we should not have a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to a situation whereby we try to minimize the anxiety, ‘stress’ from it but try to work through each situation in order to find a solution.
Also, I believe how we perceive a situation depends on how much responsibility we are willing to accept. In my opinion, we see a situation as bad when we are not willing to accept responsibility for the situation and we try to assign blame to someone else. By doing this it leads to ‘stress’ and conflict which only makes things worse. I believe, by accepting responsibility for our choices then many of the bad situations are perceived as not being as bad.
Therefore, we have a lot of control over how we react, relate to others, and how we view the world. By understanding this, taking responsibility for our actions, and how we chose to perceive things influences our relationship. My advice, is to look for solutions and work through the issue instead of finding the quickest way to lower the anxiety that a situation creates. If we are able to do this then, I believe, we will take more pleasure from the things around us and be more open to the opportunities.
Planning a successful threesome
Threesome in the Corner
Successful threesomes do not just happen. They are the result of communication, a stable relationship, and time together as a couple. Does this mean that every couple that has a stable relationship, good communication, and have been together for several years are guaranteed a successful threesome? No, threesomes fail for a variety of reasons including good planning and so no couple should never feel that there is a guaranteed formula for a successful.
This article will explore some of the necessary ingredients and also explore some of the more common reasons as to why threesomes do not work. This article will look at relationships, third person choice, communication, and then finally at some of the more common reasons about why a threesome may fail.
What is necessary in a relationship for a threesome to work? To begin with the couple needs some ‘history’ together. This means that they have worked through some issues and gone through some stressful times together. By having these experiences they begin to develop a coping mechanism that allows them to discuss other challenges in the future. Typically a couple should be together a minimum of two years and preferably five years before considering having a threesome.
Another issue for couples considering having a threesome is the decision to have threesomes needs to be an egalitarian, decision equally made by both, in regards to having a threesome. This means that using pressure, manipulation, bargaining, or any other method to coerce an agreement to have a threesome will almost certainly make sure issues at a later date. Also this includes the reason for having a threesome. If there are feelings that a spouse will cheat if a threesome does not occur, that they will leave, or any other similar reasons then the couple should consider not having a threesome until these issues are resolved.
For a couple timing does become a consideration. If the couple has just met, recently married, gone through a major life stress, going through a major life stress, expect that they will be going through a major life stress then a couple does not have a threesome during this time. Major life events are those events that define a milestone in someone’s life. For each person and couple they are different; however they include issues such as:
• Major illness
• Surgery
• Loss of a job
• Birth of a child
• Death of a close family member (e.g. child, parent, sibling)
• Moving
• Change in job or promotion
• Debt or bankruptcy
Finally the couple needs to have developed a bond. This bond needs to be one that is special and unique. Each person needs to see the other as their life partner or soul mate. It is difficult to put into the words the unique bond that is needed. If the couple has not achieved the unique bond then taking some time to develop their relationship would be worth considering. Developing the relationship does not need therapy but taking time together. While they take time to spend together they use it to learn more about each other, develop their communication, and feel committed to one another.
Communication is an involved subject and much of it is beyond the scope of this article. This article will focus on the communication necessary for deciding on having a threesome. Essentially communicating about having a threesome involves three areas: discussion of the subject, boundaries, continued communication after the threesome. It also means that the communication in the relationship is at a point where each person can talk to the other without the fear of conflict, ridicule, or abandonment. It means that even though the other person may not agree with what is being said there is enough ‘respect’ in the relationship that allows the information to be communicated without fear.
Discussion of the subject
This area involves talking about all areas that relate, directly or indirectly, to having a threesome that occurs outside of the bedroom. It involves, but not limited to, talking about what ifs, scenarios, planning the threesome, and the type of person the two of you would invite. The discussions occur over a period sometimes weeks, years, and sometimes it resolves itself where no threesome happens. Anyhow the discussions have an aim of making an egalitarian decision about if the couple will have a threesome and if it does happen how it will be structured.
Boundaries do form a part of the discussion of the subject but are so important that they actually become a separate discussion. There are two components to discussing boundaries: relationship boundaries and threesome boundaries. Relationship boundaries regard how the relationship will run during the time the couple is active in having threesomes and how the couple will handle their threesome experience once the decision is made not to have anymore threesomes. While the threesome boundaries address the issues of the limits for the threesome. Since each couple is unique along with their own unique requirements there are no set boundaries. Instead the couples need to discuss and negotiate their boundaries.
One member of a couple may have a threesome out of fear of loosing their partner. Once they go through with it they have a lot of feelings such as guilt, anger, and disappointment. A lot of times they may have problems communicating to their partner that they did not like the threesome and this allows further problems to grow within the relationship until the relationship ends.
Communication after the threesome – debriefing
Once the threesome ends it does not mean that communication ends too. Instead it means that the couple continues to talk about their experiences and feelings about the threesome as long as necessary. Ideally after each threesome the couple has they should, as soon possible, talk about the experience including any feelings that it may have brought up.
Third Person Selection
For some couples they do not put any effort into it by choosing someone they know who they feel is a safe choice. However this can have some very devastating consequences for the couple.
As the couple talks about the type of threesome they want they need to include discussing the type of person they would invite and the type of person they would not invite. This means each couple takes the time work through who would meet their needs. The rest of this discussion will focus on issues surrounding third person selection.
No need to discuss when the time feels right
One fallacy, a couple may believe is, there is no need to discuss having a threesome and they will know when it feels rights. For most couples this is a major mistake. Reason being, the couple has acted impulsively and have not thought through all the potential issues thereby leaving themselves vulnerable to potential issues.
Choosing friends and co-workers
Friendships are put at risk when the subject of having a threesome comes up. Granted you may hear the odd story where a friend was more than willing to take part in a threesome with a couple. However the reality of the story 99% of the time the friend will not be receptive to the idea and even if they are receptive there are added risks that they bring that a ‘stranger’ would not bring. So it is very important that if you are considering asking a friend that the decision is weighed heavily against loosing them as a friend and loosing your partner too.
As for co-workers there are so many issues this author does not know where to begin. To begin with if there is a supervisory relationship or even the slightest remote possibility that at some point in the distant future that it may be a supervisory relationship then avoid it at all costs. Reason being too much of a risk for complaints about sexual harassment, unfair working practices, hostile work environment, and a host of other complaints could be filed. Which means your personal life now becomes the focus of internal investigation and an investigation by several governmental agencies.
Another reason for avoiding a co-worker is risk of exposure. Yes, they may not say anything now. However what will happen if they say no or worse yet, what will happen in the future especially when it goes sour? The last thing you want is to be the subject of gossip mill at work or begin to get the reputation that you are ‘easy’.
Finally the risk for exposure can diminish any career prospects for you when you leave your role. It is better to play it safe by keeping work and your personal life separate than trying to mix the two.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Chairs for Everyone
Boy, did I make a big mistake the other day. Someone posted an article that speculated about why fantasy literature has become so popular. I thought it was one of my Facebook friends who had posted it, because I was just moving too fast. I didn't even get a chance to read the article, but I commented (admitting this) about something I thought, thinking I was addressing my friend. I ended the post by saying I sometimes wish fantasy hadn't become so popular.
Which is better craft? This?
Turns out the person who posted it was a small press publisher and that my friend had only "liked" the post. The publisher responded to my little, nostalgic and half-serious final sentence by asking why I wanted to take food out of the mouths of writers. Popularity was good and it drives the business of publishing, etc., etc., etc. A bunch of other people chimed in, in his corner.
Despite my attempts to say I was just being nostalgic for the days when fantasy readers were "fringe" and when we had our little secret faves, I took some heat. It all sort of culminated in many of the commenters agreeing that "good" writing is in the eye of the beholder and that they (here comes the old standby from bitter former English majors:) didn't learn to appreciate good writing until they broke free of the chains of English departments.
I get it. English professors are sometimes snobs who seem to want to distill all plot out of literature. And I agree: Portrait of a Lady is a bore, but a brilliant bore that one should read and then feel free of. I once heard that Samuel Johnson [thanks to George, for the correction] said that "Paradise Lost is the greatest poem ever written in English, but no one ever wished it longer." I agree whole heartedly with that.
And, yes, when I was in grad school, I remember feeling as if the professors looked down upon those of us who chose to add the creative writing component to our degrees. (As if they ever would have had careers without us lowly writers...)
But I have a problem with those who would mention JK Rowling in the same breath as Margaret Atwood; or who think it is snobby to say Steinbeck is a great writer and that Stephen King is merely a competent one.
I have been plagued, in a way, all of my life by the arts I pursue: music and literature. If I try to draw a house and I can't, people are quick and able to say I am not a good artist. But if there is a band who thrashes about on their instruments like mittened orangutans and that band has the right "vibe," they might well be labeled as ground-breakers, even though they have zero competence on their instruments or as composers.
Or this?
There is a difference between what one likes and what is well-crafted. Who judges what is well crafted? Me, damn it. (Just kidding.) We each have to judge, but one should have some level of competence if one is going to say X is a great writer or Y is a great songwriter. Love what you want, but low standards (or the lack thereof) are not good for the growth of art.
It sure is nice to say "there is no good or bad" in the creative realms. It makes us all feel fuzzy, I am sure. But it just ain't true when it comes to craft. I really don't want someone who just likes to read to tell me that I am wrong to say that there is a difference in quality between Dan Brown and Toni Morrison.
That said, I love to listen to hard rock. I enjoy it, but I would never compare it, in terms of craft, to the compositions of Samuel Barber. I'd have to be an idiot. But, I am allowed (and so is everyone else) to enjoy whatever I want. I would never stand in the way of that.
My dad used to say that our society is becoming a game of musical chairs in which no one takes away a chair, ever. He had something there.
1. I don't disagree with the commenters, but I do think that there is a standard of quality that writers and artists of all kinds adhere to. I put a lot of effort into my writing, and it often causes me nights where I have dreams/nightmares aplenty about what I'm writing. I invest a lot in it. Not everybody likes my writing, though, and that's fine.
But at the risk of sounding full of myself, I hardly expect that someone who just throws a few plot devices into an otherwise "dead horse" novel should be treated as though they have superior or equal literary abilities to someone like myself, regardless of how many people like my story versus theirs, just because "good writing" retains some subjectivity. Again, even as I'm writing this it sounds narcissistic, but I think I have a point? I don't know, you let me know.
Why I don't disagree with them is because I think that we can like things that aren't necessarily expertly crafted. Hunger Games wasn't a literary masterpiece, but it gained a lot of attention. The Masque of the Red Death was gold (at least from what I could tell -- hey look, subjectivity still), but not nearly as many people have read it.
Otherwise, I completely agree with you.
1. To me, Alexis, good great writing shows us either truth or possible truth... That's not so say it has to be message over story; the truth can be wrapped up in the presentation of the story. It should shine a light on reality. That can happen with fun reads, too. For an example, check out Atwood's Oryx and Crake: a great read by a student of the human heart.
2. This is a complex subject; I hope it's okay if I respond with a few (possibly disconnected and aimless) points.
We're roughly the same age, so I know what you mean when you say you're nostalgic for the days when fantasy was fringey. I'm not sure where the generational cutoff for this is, but people younger than we are probably don't realize and can't imagine that not long ago, you were lucky if you found three or four kids in your high school who read fantasy or science fiction, and that that subculture was a vital refuge for shy kids, autodidacts, or others who were awkward and weird—nearly all of whom were boys. (Due to their extreme rarity, girl geeks had it even rougher.) Where do the weird kids go now, other than the school psychologist's office?
I also don't know where people get their perceptions of English professors: The 1980s? In many 21st-century college English departments, you're at least as likely to find a course on fantasy fiction, graphic novels, or SF movies as you are to encounter, say, Shakespeare or James Joyce. English profs these days, particularly the ones under 45, grew up with the mainstreaming of fantasy and science fiction. They're rarely snobs; they're far more likely to alienate undergraduates with esoteric literary theory instead. Can we update our stereotypes, please?
I also don't see why English professors need to endorse, say, "The Hunger Games," or, rather, why readers of fantasy or science fiction want that endorsement. And why would students pay thousands of dollars to read mainstream popular fiction? That's like taking out loans to major in music and then being assigned nothing but the best rap albums of 2013. Reading difficult and even "boring" works expands the mind, a desire for which is currently in short supply...
(That said: all the best to you during this back-to-school season!)
1. Hi, Jeff -- all perfect points. At the risk of sounding like a name dropper, Peter S. Beagle himself once wrote, in a letter in response to me, that he thinks writers "should stay as far away from English dept's as possible." There's a guy whose wisdom I value and he said it in response to my own complaint, to him, that my writing mentor thought fantasy was a waste of time. But, the best fantasy writers are the ones who know Shakespeare, BEOWULF, Proust, Pynchon and Milton -- as Beagle surely does. In fact, Beagle pointed out that Shakespeare, himself, wasn't above writing fantasy or murder revenge or whatever was popular. One writes what one writes; talent and insight can't be hidden. It's there or it is not, regardless or genre, I think.
3. I think what people are trying to say is that we can think something is "good" even when it's "bad." I love B movies, but I also think they're terrible. But I like that they're terrible. Maybe I'm being too generous, but if that's what they mean then I can see where they're coming from. Still, of course some writing is better than others. To suggest otherwise is insulting to the people who have studied literature for years and invested countless weeks of their lives into their writing.
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1. If they are saying that, Nick, I am in agreement, too! I loves me some bad movies. Thanks for the well wishes! hope everything is going well with you.
4. It was Samuel Johnson who said "none ever wished it longer."
Genre fiction may paint itself into its own corner. There is plenty of stuff in the stores one might call "military fiction", for example, but then there is War and Peace<. There are western novels, but who confuses Louis L'Amour with John Williams or Wallace Stegner. The question, I think, is whether the reader comes to the book to engage with it, or to use it as springboard for fantasies.
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What have you been doing these last twenty years?
Once the initial part of faking my death was over, it was very easy to just "disappear." Plenty of people do this and are reported by their families as missing, only to show up weeks or months later. The trick was staying away for so long. For the stunt to be successful, I had to go away for a very, very long time. I figured twenty years was a good, round number that was long enough and would be totally legendary. I've been keeping a low profile, traveling the world, working odd jobs and practicing transcendental meditation.
How can we be sure this is the real Andy Kaufman?
How do you ever know anything is really what you think it is? It would take a DNA or fingerprint sample to prove that I am the real Andy Kaufman, which I’m more than willing to do if need be. I’m sure there would even be doubters if I did that. People will believe what they want to believe. I’ve spoken to my parents and a few old colleagues, like Bob Zmuda. You can ask them if I’m the real deal.
Why did you lie to all of us, you bastard?
It was the only way to seal my status in history as a legendary performance artist. I want to be remembered for so much more than having played Latka on Taxi. The worst part was lying to my family and closest friends.
How did you fake your death certificate?
That was surprisingly easy. I had a friend who worked at the hospital who helped grease the wheels at Cedars-Sinai to pronounce me dead and sneak me out of the hospital. Once the first wheel was set into motion, everything else just fell into place as people believed what they were told by someone else.
What are your plans now that you’re back?
I don’t plan on returning to the media limelight. I might make an impromptu appearance here or there. I’ve grown accustomed to my new life and will likely maintain it instead of plunging back into the twisted world of Hollywood. It sounds boring and cliché by now, but the world is my stage. My biggest fans always knew this. They were in on the charade all along.
How can I reach you?
Email: andykaufmanreturns@hotmail.com
Where are you living?
I do travel quite a bit, and have lived in these places and more: Aruba, NYC, Key West, the Philippines, various rural Texas towns, throughout the Caribbean, and many more. I’m not going to put my current location, as it will probably change every few months as I go exploring.
Rand's question is my own, what did you think of Jim Carrey's interpertation of you? And your former colleague Danny Devito playing Bob in the movie?
Meanwhile Jen's got a good question that I thought was a good point to make about faking your ID... I'm not trying to express doubt over this but I think this would be an incredible homage to Andy/you if it indeed was faked...
It's surreal how you sound exactly like a twenty-something IT employee, and all of this reads exactly like every other internet hoax.. I was hoping that your wit was going to be exponential with your age, and if you really were alive, the human mind would implode just from having read your word. But for whatever reason, the inner lining of my skull seems to have remained intact.
Why would you have a hotmail account? Why would you decide to come back via a blog site? If you wanted to get the news out of your return to life, why not just go straight to a major network, or even Letterman, and announce the hoax there? Last question, why would your only evidence of being alive be photos of you as the character that you were known as sharing with Zamuda?
I'm sorry for this, like I said, I would love to know that you were alive and doing well, but there just simply isn't enough proof to satisfy most of the visitors to this blog. If it is true, I hope you are doing well.
I think the biggest prank in the world is making everyone believe, not just speculate that Andy Kauffman has come back from the dead. Even if you just spread a rumour that "you" were dead at the hospital and had someone sneak you out, that doesn't account for the missing body. Now that, would have been a scandal!
If you did not really die, who is buried in your grave? Is anyone buried in your grave? Did you actually think about that when you were planning this whole thing out...I suppose if people needed real proof they can dig into it and run tests on the body to find out if it's really you...
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you know what you should do if this is the real andy kaufman? get someone to go onto a TV show pretending they were you and then have them revealed during the show.
like the thing with tony clifton. i know your not supposed to do the same trick twice, but your not a magician so why not. anyways houdini only died when he did a trick twice, and so what is there to go wrong?
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What are the benefits of a China multi-asset strategy and how does it help investors? Gian Plebani, Portfolio Manager, Investment Solutions, explains in a one-minute video.
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China's complex universe
China has a complex and diversified investment universe.
On the equity side, there are onshore stocks like A and B shares, and all sorts of offshore stocks like H shares and ADRs.
On the bond side there is similar complexity between onshore and offshore markets and currency denominations.
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Source: UBS Asset Management, March 2020
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Therefore we have built a one-stop multi-asset solution for China investors where you get access to China's growth potential through equity investments and get income through investments in bonds.
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China multi asset, but with an active allocation style
We apply, however, an active allocation style.
We can move approximately 35% and 65% in equities and bonds, we can also divest up to 30% into cash in a negative market environment.
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Here is our asset allocation before a very successful year in 2019.
Source: UBS Asset Management, December 2018
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Life is Wild (the CW): Thought provoking. Life is wild, isn't it? This show makes you realize that you need a little more wild in your life.
Viva Laughlin (CBS): Dramatic look at the career of Lori Loughlin of Full House, but they spelled her name wrong.
Chuck (NBC): Lovable clown Chuck moves to the big city where he is a psychic and helps the lost souls of Manhattan reclaim their childhood dreams.
Samantha Who? (ABC): A high powered finance exec loses her memory and has to learn to love again.
Aliens in America (the CW): Hilarious take on the illegal alien problems as Martians try to take over the country and end up being forced to work middling jobs in kitchens in LA and New York.
The Big Band Theory (CBS): Stars Johnny Galecki as a brilliant but troubled young man who fights crime at night under the pseudonym The Big Bang. His nemesis is The Creationist!
K-Ville (FOX): Rhymes with "evil", if you say it in a weird southernesqe accent. Its about chefs.
The Reaper (The CW): This kid accidentally kills death and so he has to take his place Ala The Santa Clause.
Cavemen (ABC): We all know too much. Far too much.
Carpoolers (ABC): Hilarious look at the life of suburban families.
Cane (CBS): Magic cane falls into the hands of a troubled high schooler.
Private Practice: (ABC): Who the hell is Kate Walsh again? Does she just have an amazing agent or is it just me?
Back to You (FOX): Kelsey Grammer left his wife years ago and his life has not gone well so her tried to move back in.
Pushing Daises (ABC): Landscaping genius kid tries to get his horticulture business off the ground with hilarious results.
Kid Nation (CBS): Babies run a television station with hilarious results.
Kitchen Nightmares (FOX): I smell Gordon Ramsay. Oh god, his balls are on fire!
Gossip Girl (The CW): They ordered food from Lounge 47 when I worked there.
Dirty Sexy Money (ABC): Rich people have dirt.
Life (NBC): Reality show based off of the popular game!
Bionic Woman (NBC): Finally Robotic beings rule the world.
Big Shots (ABC): Three guys travel the world and take shots with Zane Lamprey.
The Next Great American Band (FOX): If you take the first two letters from the last four words it says Negramba.
Nashville (FOX): They put a camera down on a corner in Nashville and let it roll. Directed by Chantal Akerman.
Moonlight (CBS): People that work day jobs and night jobs with hilarious results.
Woman's Murder Club (ABC): Seriously? You named a show that? Really? You thought that was a good idea?
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Chiune Sugihara, c. 1930s
Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat. He served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania during World War II. He was best known for helping more than 6,000 Jews leave Lithuania during the Holocaust. He gave them visas to Japan. In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. He was sometimes called the "Japanese Schindler".
Sugihara was born in Yaotsu, Gifu. He was first married to Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova until their divorce in 1935. He was later married to Yukiko Sugihara. They had four sons.
Sugihara died on 31 July 1986 at a hospital in Kamakura. He was 86.[1]
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1. "Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience". The Japan Times. 11 July 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
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Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage: Chapter 181 (Part 2)
Chapter 181: Convicting The Crime (Part 2)
The food was very fresh and there were even meat mixed in it. Shen Dong Ling was somewhat happy as the prison food that they ate these days were all smashed else they were difficult to be eaten, thus she was somewhat surprise when she saw such a sumptuous meal and asked, “Older Brother, is this for us?”
That jailer glance at her and smiled strangely, “Yes. It is for you all.”
Wang Bi however seemed to understand something and his expression became ugly. He asked, “Older Brother… What is the meaning of this?”
“Oh. Finally someone who understands.” That jailer then said, “After finishing this last meal, it is better to be on one’s way.”
The chopsticks in Shen Dong Ling’s hands fell down and she could almost not believe her ears.
It was Wang be that sat down on the floor as if he had long understood. He seemed to have been exhausted out of all his energy in a short amount of time and could no longer stand up.
“Older Brother. What is going on?” Shen Dong Ling violently got up, she could not believe this fact and her voice became distorted and sharp as she asked, “When can we be let out? We are accused wrongly. The assassination of the Crown Prince of Qin country really has nothing to do with us. After being imprisoned for such a long time, isn’t matters already investigated clearly? When can we be released to return home?” She said very fast and urgently, as if this could dispeal the fear in her heart.
It was Wang Bi’s first time seeing Shen Dong Ling losing control of herself. He just stared at Shen Dong Ling and did not speak a single word.
That jailer’s brows frowned as he heard Shen Dong Ling’s shout and took two steps back before said annoyed, “Not to say you two, even His Highness the Crown Prince’s crime was confirmed. And you two still speak of innocence?”
Wang Bi was stunned and asked, “His Highness the Crown Prince had pleaded guilty?”
The jailer snorted and said, “Isn’t it so? No matter if you are guilty or not, it is considered your fortune to be able to be together with His Highness the Crown Prince. Anyways…” The jailer laughed somewhat maliciously, “Even if you are innocent, it is not a small offence for the Wang family to illegally sell salt.”
Wang Bis entire body trembled. He tried to control it as he asked, “This… How does one know about this?”
“How do I know?” The jailer waved his hands and said impatiently, “The rumours outside were like so.” He then glared at Wang Bi, “One heard that when others were ordered to confiscate the Wang family, the gold in the Wang family required to be brought out by boxes and an entire afternoon was use to carry them out. The riches was so much that one would not be able to use it all in this lifetime. Gentleman Wang need not need to think of anything else and just eat this bowl of rice before reincarnating to a good family in the next life.”
Shen Dong Ling’s entire heart stank straight down. If one said that previously there was still a strain of luck, then now with the sale of illegal salt being exposed, then she and Wang Bi really did not have a single road out.
Currently the national treasury was empty and Emperor Wen Hui was indeed not well off but the Wang family was in the business of illegally selling salt and it was an overflowing business so how would one not be able to disciplining them? Now that the Wang family assets were confiscated, one fear that not one of the Wang family could run away from it.
Shen Dong Ling only felt that the skies and earth were spinning around. She had tried all means and ways to exchange marriage with Shen Yue to find a good family for her to settle in and she was very satisfied with the Wang family. Even though the Wang family was not powerful, but they had money and there was no shortage of food and clothes thus days would only get better. However how did one get imprison and the riches disappeared like floating smoke and passing clouds?
She could not resign herself to it.
If she did not come out this idea for Wang Bi, could it be that she would be able to escape this calamity, WangFu Hao would not die and the Crown Prince would not be accused unjustly and they all would not be innocent victims? Why was she possessed that day to think about scheming Shen Miao? She clearly knew that those who went against Shen Miao would not end well so why did she personally go into in and get her head broken and blood flowing?
Shen Miao? Yes, Shen Miao.
For this matter to get to this state, Shen Miao definitely had a hand in it in the background.
Shen Dong Ling suddenly had a thought and took a bracelet from her wrist. Almost all of her jewelry was used to bribe the jailer and this bracelet was Wang Furen who gave it to her when she married in. It was very valuable that one of it is enough to buy a remote shop front. She place the bracelet in the hands of the jailer and said anxiously, “Trouble Older Brother to do me a favour, look for my Fifth Younger Sister and pass a message to her, saying that I have something to say to her.” She said earnestly, “Words when one is on the deathbed always comes from the heart. One hope that Older Brother would help me one last time.”
She was born with a good appearance and with such a pitiful expression and tears in her eyes, the jailer’s heart soften quite a bit. He took the bracelet and said, “Since it is the case, I will help you this time. However I would only be responsible to pass the message. One cannot guarantee if Fifth Shen Young Lady would come or not.”
Shen Dong Ling quickly said her thanks.
Wang Bi laughed coldly and his expression was somewhat beaten. He did not know he was laughing at himself or laughing at Shen Dong Ling when he said, “Could it be that you think that Shen Miao will come and save you?”
“I do not know if she will come or not.” Shen Dong Ling’s expression changed from the weak one she showed to the jailer to one with some viciousness, “If she is willing to save me, I do not fear of drooping one’s head and being insignificant. However if she have no heart to save me, then for what reason does the Eldest household of the Shen family be able to live in peace? Since we are all a family, naturally one has to go through the same difficulties.”
Just like Shen Dong Ling had thought, the jailer really brought her message to Shen Miao but Shen Miao was blunt and interrupted the conversation, indicating that she was not willing to go and even instructed Jing Zhe to pass a heavy pouch to the jailer.
The Shen family did not even have a residence anymore and only the Eldest household of the Shen family was still standing firm in the Ding capital. Two years ago Shen Xin was expelled from the Ding capital and one did not think that two years later he would return again. Not only that, as compared to two years ago, Shen Xin’s attitude was tougher than it was two years ago and no longer modest but others was unable to catch any leverage on him and even Emperor Wen Hui had to be somewhat polite to him. One was a prisoner and the other was a value military commander, in any case, the jailer would not chose the criminal and offend the General.
The jailer then left.
Shen Miao sat in front of the dressing mirror as Jing Zhe combed her hair and asked, “This servant thought that Young Lady would go and take a look at Third Young Lady.”
Gu Yu glared at her, “Why should Young Lady see her? After all, the Second and Third household of the Shen family have nothing to do with us at all. Moreover they had committed a crime of death and if Young Lady went to see her for no reason, what if others think more of it and implicate Young Lady?”
Jing Zhe stuck out her tongue, “Previously Young Lady also saw Second Young Lady and Eldest Young Lady for the last time right?”
“Shen Dong Ling is not an ordinary person.” Shen miao heard both of them arguing and said, “Dug a pit for me on purpose. I will not jump into it.”
“Dug a pit?” Jing Zhe’s faced changed to one of horror, “Does Young Lady meant to say that Third Young Lady want to harm Young Lady?”
“One must have a heart to defend against others.” Shen Miao said lightly.
Among the daughters in the Shen residence, Shen Yue and Shen Qing were spoiled by their mothers but the viciousness in their heart was not deep, most likely it was because of their young age that they were unable to see some things clearly. However Shen Dong Ling was different. Since young Shen Dong Ling and Wan YiNiang was suppressed by Ren Wan Yun and her birth Father, Shen Gui, was also one who had a did not care personality. Thus for Shen Dong Ling to survived such an environment, she had to be tougher than the average person. Staying in the courtyard for ten over years and making Ren Wan Yun lower her guard on her was enough to prove this point.
As for such enemies, Shen Miao never dared to underestimate. If Shen Yue and Shen Qing suffered a heavy blow, they would first panic but one feared that Shen Dong Ling would seize the last opportunity to scheme. As long as she is not death, should would be able to calculate how to get what she want till the last moment.
Seeing Shen Dong Ling’s cold treatment to her father, Shen Miao did not believe that Shen Dong Ling would have any emotions or feelings for her.
Gu Yu also said longwindedly, “Don’t know what is she thinking about. She is already in prison and one fear that she cannot do anything now.”
“No need to worry. As long as I do not go, nothing would happen.” Shen Miao appeased them, “If she wants to beg me for help, it would be useless for me to go since I cannot help. If she wants to drag me into the water, it would naturally be helpless since I am not going to see her.”
Jing Zhe nodded her head continuously, “Yes. It is right not to go.”
Shen Miao’s eyes hang down as she felt one matter was very strange. The Crown Prince and Wang Bi was naturally imprison due to the matter of HuangFu Hao but Emperor Wen Hui’s conviction was passed down so fast. Other than the urging of the Emperor of Qin country, one feared that it was due news of the sale of illegal salt.
Emperor Wen Hui could not tolerate people who seek wealth under his eyes, not even his own sons. With the urging of the Emperor of Qin country and Emperor Wen Hui’s anger, the decision was made that quickly.
It’s just… How did the news about the illegal salt spread out?
Was it done by Xie Jing Xing? She started to think hard.
In the Imperial Palace, outside Yang Xin Dian.
The Empress had been kneeling in the courtyard for the entire afternoon.
From when the day broke in the morning, she had been kneeling and it was useless when the servants came to persuade. Now it is already in the afternoon and the winter days were cold and iced had formed on the ground. After kneeling for a day, as there was no cushion underneath, it was easy for one’s knees to get cold and one feared that even one’s body would be stiff. The sun appeared in the skies and even though there were no problems with the Empress’s body usually, at this moment, large drops of sweat were rolling down. She gritted her teeth and did not speak a single word as she silently knelt and looked forward, as if she would faint the next moment.
The palace servant beside persuaded, “Your Ladyship, it is better to return first. One fear that His Majesty is busy with matter so why is there a need for Your Ladyship to harm one’s body? It is not good to catch a cold in such a cold day.”
“BenGong wants to kneel.” The Empress’s words were firm, “Will kneel until His Majesty changes one’s mind.”
When the eunuch passed the Empress’s words to Emperor Wen Hui’s ears, Emperor Wen Hui erupted in fury, “Then let her kneel. Let her wishes die before Zhen changes one’s mind.”
Ever since the confession of the Crown Prince’s crimes, the Empress wanted to personally see Emperor Wen Hui to plead but Emperor Wen Hui did not even face her at all. The Empress was worried about the Crown Prince and did not have other choice but to kneel at the courtyard outside Yang Xin Dian, thinking that once she had knelt for a long time, because of appearance, Emperor Wen Hui would let her in.
The Empress knew that the Crown Prince had committed a serious crime. If one were to talk about HuangFu Hao’s matter, people with discerning eyes could see there were something wrong with the matter thus Emperor Wen Hui was still protecting his son. However with the illegal sale of salt with the Wang family, the remaining guilt in his heart had disappeared. Currently Emperor Wen Hui was angry and hated the Crown Prince, how would he still be able to listen to the Empress’s advice?
The Empress also had no other ideas. After being husband and wife with Emperor Wen Hui for so many years, she was very clear what Emperor Wen Hui was thinking. But the Crown Prince was her only son and she was willing to even kneel for her entire life for her only son, so what did one day matter?
Just as things were a deadlock, one heard a chuckle behind and someone walked over with a sinister glamour, clad in a peach red gold embroidered robe. The robes were bright as she looked at the Empress, “Why is Older Sister kneeling here? Give this Younger Sister a fright and one thought that Older Sister is greeting this Younger Sister in a big bow. In the future, one must not make such a joke again.
The Empress gritted her teeth as she looked at her. This was Consort Xu Xian. Honestly speaking, the Empress was suspicious that the matter of the Crown Prince illegally selling salt was related to the Prince Zhou and Prince Jing. After all once the Crown Prince died, both bothers would lose an enemy.
It was just that there was no evidence thus she could not voice it out but Consort Xu Xian had the ability to add fuel to the fire.
Consort Xu Xian smiled prettily and asked, “Why is Older Sister not entering? Could it be that one had done something wrong and is currently kneeling and asking His Majesty for forgiveness? Why not this Younger Sister go in and intercede for Older Sister?”
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• I recon! I’ve been thinking if I am one who transmigrate (like most of the novels I read) ill definitely die without knowing why. Scheming in royal harem needs someone who has high IQ.. just by reading I’m already sweating to death much less living in it.. 😂
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• True, if I transmigrated I’d probably cry myself to death or run away or something. It’s scary plus I’m not even that smart, the heck would I know how someone was feeling just looking at their eyes!
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• I would choose the simple farmer life. Like wth. It’s just gardening.
I can have fun.
And all this royalty crap. Smh smh. Stepping far far faaaaar away. Useless and evil. And nothing but hypocrites. What blood ties?
Though I agree with the current emperor. He has to do this. Because it’s his only option. Everyone else is just selfish and cannot see the picture. Like this Empress. She just wants to protect her son
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• Transmigrated people are the entertainment fodder for modern readers. Want to farm instead of playing in the imperial harem? You suddenly get booted into a different light novel genre. You manage to use basic modern farming techniques on a small plot of land you manage to purchase. Your neighboring farmers are jealous and scheme against you. Suddenly, people are trying to trick you into revealing your secrets or selling your land. The long lost aunt of the body you transmigrated into arrives and demands you take care of her, or give her money. :V
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Aiya! SDL its too late to realize what you did, pitiful la~
Thank you for this awesome chapter..
I bet XJX will appear in the next chapter…regarding Pei Lang’s matter
I remember Lady Mishil in Queen Seon Deok “You must be swift in delivering punishment because if not they will take advantage of your kindness” hmmm..
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2. Ckckck unfortunatly shen dong ling didnt realize her position till her last breath 😕😕
Where is my invitation to the wedding ceremony 😍😍😍
Thanks for the chapter 😊😊😆
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3. Oh man… I really hope that SDL dosen’t leave a “parting gift” somehow.
Also, seeing all of the harem backstabbing, I can see how our Empress became so iron blodded.
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4. Thank you Zaza Translator-sama for the chapter 💕💕💕💕💕
SDL… Really like a wolf’s head, even in a death throes still wanting to bite people…
She finally realized that tangling with SM will be a death wish, and yet still tried reaching out for one last poisonous try…
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5. When will XJX planing to wipe out Ming Qi? Count me in! This Fu family really disgusting I cant stand it. Feel like watching a dog fight. 🙄
Our empress sure is smart. I worried if SDL harmed her, fortunately she choose the right choice not to come.
Thank u so much for your hard work 😄
6. SDL is really a devil incarnate. Even with a foot at death’s door, she still resort to scheme JJ. I guessed she has only weed/grass in her brain. Who is JJ!! Our JJ was an empress in her previous life. Would she fall into such trap? Dream on, SDL. At least WB has some grey matters.
As for the illegal salt biz, I believe this is Pei Lang’s work. I hope my guess is incorrect. If it is really PL n FXY, this would be extremely problematic. I hope I am wrong. Anyway, it is time for final showdown with the Satan incarnate (FXY).
7. Aiya! I can’t wait when everybody had to kneel in front of our Empress! 🙇🙇🙇 Even that emperor should suffer! Mwahahahahaha..
Thanks for the chapter! Too bad SDL was not dead here yet. 😁
8. 🤔 was thinking SDL’s mother should have made some noise right now for her daughter.
Thank you for the chapter | ू•ૅω•́)ᵎᵎᵎ fu!
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9. Yeah, another new part!!! Thanks a lot.
What a scary royalty family life….
By the way, I noticed someone posted the translation at Webnovel. Well, that person did mention it was not his/her work nor translation but is it really okay?
10. “would not chose the criminal” -> would not choose the criminal
“As long as she is not death, should would be able to calculate” -> As long as she is not dead, she would be able to calculate
The Empress is too naive thinking that her kneeling can compete with the fate of the nation.
11. Shen Dong ling for me is smarter than SM
SM needed to go through rebirth to be the way she is right now
SDL was smart and very observant of her surrounded from young age and thanks to that she was able to save herself and her mother from those evil people of shen family all those years and get her own freedom from them. it’s really unfortunate that she lets her ego get the better of her
but in the same time i find it realistic and normal to made this mistake after all we all seem to forget that she is just 18 years old girl unlike SM who is old women with experience in body of young girl
the reason she lost to this degree is thank to one thing XJX if he don’t give detail about the enemy and their scheme SM will never know what hit her
i like SDL character a lot i wish the author will give her rebirth story on her own🙏😊
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Sous Vide Pork Chops
How do you make delicious, perfectly cooked pork chops at home? With a Sous Vide Circulator!
Sous Vide isn't a new cooking technique, but it's one that has become more popular as the equipment has come down to consumer prices. What is Sous Vide? It's a technique wear you cook your food in a low temperature water bath for a long period of time. Because you're setting your water temperature at your desired doneness you can't over cook your meat.
What you'll need
• Boneless Pork Chops, 1"-1.5" inches thick
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• Oil
• Sous Vide Circulator
• 10 qt+ Vessel for water
• Vacuum Seal bags, or zipper bags
Prepare your Sous Vide water bath and set the temperature for 140 degrees.
Sprinkle salt and pepper on all sides of the pork chops.
Heat a tablespoon or so of oil in a pan on med-high heat. Once up to temperature sear both sides of the pork chops, about 1 minute on each side.
Place the pork chops into separate bags and vacuum seal. Place them in the water bath. Set a timer for one hour. If using a zipper bag place the pork chops in to separate bags and slowly lower them into the water bath. The water pressure will push the air out of the bag. When the chops are fully submerged zip the bag closed.
After an hour in the water bath remove the pork chops from their bags and sear again on the hot pan, about 1 minute a side. Enjoy!
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Humans, Serpentshrine (3.5e Race)
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Serpentshrine Humans[edit]
The ancient people of Serpentshrine Isle were all thought to have been annihilated when their cavernous shrine to their serpentine queen, collapsed upon their their city. Some survivors live deep within the caverns though. They have become barbaric and they have lost most of their technology and advancements.
The people of Serpentshrine are barbaric. They live off a diet of bugs, lizards, and other small animals. They don't harm snakes or any kind of serpentine creature for they are their goddess' chosen. They usually think with their stomach and with their religion.
Physical Description[edit]
Serpentshrine humans usually are between 4 to 5 feet tall. They usually weigh around 110 lbs. due to their poor diet. Their hair usually is snow white, sometimes they have other hair colors like gray or black. Their eyes are bright colors, they are usually shades of blue, green, or yellow that glow in the dark caverns.
Seeing as how they now think only with their stomach and their religion, Serpentshrine humans usually eat or sacrifice any human, elf, or dwarf they come across in their caverns.
Serpentshrine humans have an alignment of Chaotic Evil alignment. Some who are banished out of the caved in shrine (1%) usually switch alignment to Chaotic Good or Neutral to defy against those who banished them and their dark goddess.
Serpentshrine humans live in the Serpentshrine Caverns deepest recesses. They live within the ruins of their ruined city there.
Nearly all Serpentshrine humans worship Empress Sinestra.
Serpentshrine humans speak Undercommon and Abyssal. Those who are banished out of the caverns usually learn Common.
Serpentshrine humans have names that are strange and usually have at least one "S". They have no surnames.
Male Names: Ssedrin, Salazar, Sauros
Female Names: Sillia, Ssondia, Sannasa
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Swelling Earth population? Desire to relocate to a distant solar system? No problem, just get your star ship ready, as scientists say they have found a new exoplanet that may have the right conditions to support life. The new planet called HD 40307g is part of a six-planet system.
The new "super-Earth" is located in what is believed to be the habitable zone in this star system, or the "Goldilocks" zone. The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Mikko Tuomi at the University of Hertfordshire and Guillem Anglada-Escude of the University of Goettingen. It should be noted that this is a candidate planet, not officially confirmed, but believed to exist.
It was originally believed that this system surrounding dwarf star HD 40307 had only three planets, however scientists used techniques to avoid fake signals created by stellar activity and identified three new super-Earth candidates. The dwarf star is considered "quiet and old" perfectly capable of having planets that could harbor life. This star is dimmer, cooler and smaller than that of the one in our solar system.
Tuomi stated:
“We pioneered new data analysis techniques including the use of the wavelength as a filter to reduce the influence of activity on the signal from this star, this significantly increased our sensitivity and enabled us to reveal three new super-Earth planets around the star known as HD 40307, making it into a six-planet system.”
HD 40307g is the sixth planet from its star and orbits in 197.8 days. It is thought to be seven times larger than Earth and rotates on its own axis creating day and night effects. HD 40307 g is 42-light years from Earth, which means that its close enough that one day direct imaging telescopes may collect more data and images.
Tuomi went on to say that there is a 50 percent chance that HD 40307g would be a rocky planet like Earth, but there is insufficient data to know whether its a large Earth or a warm gaseous planet like Neptune. Average temperatures on HD 40307g might be around 9C or 48F if you scale up a similar terrestrial atmosphere. The orbit of the planet is a bit eccentric so there may be seasonal shifts in temperatures ranging between -17 to 52C (1.4 to 126F) which is still in the tolerable range for most life. Overall its radius is between 1.9 and 2.5 that of Earth's radius and 7 times as massive, at least on some calculations. Depending on the density of the planet and its size, it could actually have the same surface gravity as the Earth, meaning if you stood on HD 40307G you would weigh the same as here on Earth.
This isn't the first exoplanet discovered in a habitable zone. Others such as Giliese 581 g have been discovered. Giliese 581 g is thought to be the most likely candidate to hold life. It was discovered in 2010.
Source: Digitaljournal, herts.ac.uk
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Homes built with energy efficiency in mind should include roofing material that is durable, low maintenance, and reflective. White or light-colored roofs reduce heat gain, keeping the overall temperature of the roof low so that heat isn’t transferred into the house.
Many eco-friendly homes have standing-seam metal roofs, which are low maintenance and light in color and also reflect the sun. Photovoltaic panels are easily clipped on, or film panels can be nestled between the seams. Metal is also good for collecting rainwater to reuse in the landscape. Other options include light-colored concrete, clay, or stone tiles; wood shakes; asphalt composition; or tar and gravel for flat roofs. Asphalt composition shingles are a popular choice because of their low price point and long life. If you select them, choose a light color that helps reflect the sun rather than the typical black or gray.
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Ask your builder to include a radiant barrier in the attic. This material, which can come laminated to the back of OSB roof decking or attached on-site, blocks approximately 90 percent of a roof deck’s radiant heat from entering the attic, making your living space much cooler. The radiant barrier works in conjunction with the air intakes and exhaust in the roof, allowing heat from the roof’s surface to escape quickly so it isn’t pushed down into the attic. “Also include a waterproofing membrane under the roofing material as an extra layer of insurance against leaks,” advises architect Michelle Kaufmann.
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Up to 90 percent of a typical rainfall can be absorbed by a green roof, which reduces the drainage requirements of the surrounding building and the amount of rainwater that picks up pollutants on its way to storm drains. A water-retention layer sits on top of the waterproof membrane and under the plant, soil, and drainage layers of a green roof. Before installing a system, consult a builder or engineer to make sure your roof can handle the extra weight from heavy rainfall.
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For a most soothing Sedona experience, tuck yourself... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '37', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9323582649230956}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '46936', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VAA6J3DXD77V7XX5QVS5JNVHU6BGPRVG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b401d8e6-8c95-440d-8436-83ab003fb4bb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 19, 9, 27, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.62.6.91', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4LS7RYBV2GJBPBN2ZFKBGD22CAPGDGXB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7d809c9a-74b2-4d22-b5eb-cb45a74e5a29>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.sunset.com/home/natural-home/green-roofing-00418000074264/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bea6524f-6f12-44d3-b955-a271a8b63c78>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '865', 'url': 'http://www.sunset.com/home/natural-home/green-roofing-00418000074264/', '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': '0.021103262901306152', 'original_id': 'f80cd593d947d41485318673f65d50ba10d61ca7fb6b221db62ef2b0802dbbee'} |
This video gets me teary every time I watch it. NASA's work never ceases to amaze me. Make sure to watch it at full screen in high definition.
Here's our own homage to the 30 years of the shuttle: all the missions merged into one single video. [McLean FahnestockThanks Stephen!] | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '38', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9246984720230104}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '83184', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WJE5L3U77Y5AGFEVXBDNJMHNJBGDOQEA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2d872600-7700-4a4b-be33-9083918878bf>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 6, 2, 18, 13, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.156.81.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UL6QJHKHGHSLB5TR6UFYXTCZ5QQLRWHL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2bb8216d-464c-44f3-bbab-c855e9559a2e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://gizmodo.com/5924322/amazing-video-of-all-the-space-shuttle-launches-at-once', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:115c4ec5-fa1c-4595-b242-2a4802298ac8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '96', 'url': 'http://gizmodo.com/5924322/amazing-video-of-all-the-space-shuttle-launches-at-once', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-22\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02575099468231201', 'original_id': '304df21dd8e0089ebefe7af02cae18c9833c4e089d93f6abc0db8665346b256f'} |
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<string name="learnChess">ისწავლე ჭადრაკი</string>
<string name="byPlaying">თამაშით!</string>
<string name="menu">მენიუ</string>
<string name="progressX">პროგრესი %s</string>
<string name="resetMyProgress">განაახლე ჩემი პროგრესი</string>
<string name="youWillLoseAllYourProgress">დაკარგავთ თქვენს პროგრესს!</string>
<string name="play">ითამაშე!</string>
<string name="chessPieces">ჭადრაკის ფიგურები</string>
<string name="theRook">ეტლი</string>
<string name="itMovesInStraightLines">ის მოძრაობს სწორ ხაზებზე</string>
<string name="rookIntro">ეტლი ძლიერი ფიგურაა. მზად ხარ მართო იგი?</string>
<string name="rookGoal">დააჭირე ეტლს და მიიყვანე ვარკსვლავთან!</string>
<string name="grabAllTheStars">აიყვანე ყველა ვარსკვლავი!</string>
<string name="theFewerMoves">რაც ნაკლებ სვლას გააკეთებ, მეტ ქულას აიღებ!</string>
<string name="useTwoRooks">გამოიყენე ორი ეტლი რათა მალე მოიგო!</string>
<string name="rookComplete">გილოცავ! შენ წარმატებით დაეუფლე ეტლს.</string>
<string name="theBishop">კუ</string>
<string name="itMovesDiagonally">მოძრაობს დიაგონალურად</string>
<string name="bishopIntro">ახლა ვისწავლით კუს მანევრირებას!</string>
<string name="youNeedBothBishops">ერთი ღია-უჯრის კუ,
ერთი მუქი-უჯრის კუ.
ორივე გჭირდება!</string>
<string name="bishopComplete">გილოცავ! შენ იცი კუთი თამაში.</string>
<string name="theQueen">დედოფალი</string>
<string name="queenCombinesRookAndBishop">დედოფალი = ეტლს + კუ</string>
<string name="queenIntro">ყველაზე ძლიერი ფიგურის ჯერია, მისი აღმატებულება დედოფალი!</string>
<string name="queenComplete">გილოცავ! ყველაფერი იცი დედოფალზე.</string>
<string name="theKing">მეფე</string>
<string name="theMostImportantPiece">ყველაზე მნიშვნელოვანი ფიგურა</string>
<string name="kingIntro">შენ მეფე ხარ. თუ დამარცხდები, თამაშს წააგებ.</string>
<string name="theKingIsSlow">მეფე ნელა მოძრაობს.</string>
<string name="lastOne">საბოლოო!</string>
<string name="kingComplete">შენ იცი მეფით თამაში!</string>
<string name="theKnight">მხედარი</string>
<string name="itMovesInAnLShape">გადაადგილდება L ფორმით</string>
<string name="knightIntro">პატარა გამოცდა. მხედარი... ეშმაკი ფიგურაა.</string>
<string name="knightsHaveAFancyWay">მხედარი მაგრად დახტის აქეთ-იქით!</string>
<string name="knightsCanJumpOverObstacles">მხედარს შეუძლია ფიგურებს გადაახტეს!
აიღე ყველა ვარსკვლავი!</string>
<string name="knightComplete">გილოცავ! შენ მხედარსაც დაეუფლე.</string>
<string name="thePawn">პაიკი</string>
<string name="itMovesForwardOnly">მხოლოდ წინ მიდის</string>
<string name="pawnIntro">პაიკი სუსტია მაგრამ დიდი პოტენციალით.</string>
<string name="pawnsMoveOneSquareOnly">პაიკი გადადის ერთ უჯრაზე.
მაგრამ როცა დაფის ბოლოში გადის, ძლიერი ფიგურა ხდება!</string>
<string name="mostOfTheTimePromotingToAQueenIsBest">უმეტესად დედოფლად გაყვანა საუკეთესოა.
თუმცა ხან მხედარი უკეთესია!</string>
<string name="pawnsMoveForward">პაიკები წინ გადაადგილდებიან,
მაგრამ იყვანენ დიაგონალურად!</string>
<string name="captureThenPromote">აიყვანე, შემდეგ გაიყვანე!</string>
<string name="useAllThePawns">გამოიყენე ყველა პაიკი!
გაყვანა საჭირო არაა.</string>
<string name="aPawnOnTheSecondRank">პაიკს მეორე ჰორიზონტალზე შეუძლია 2 უჯრით გადაადგილება მხოლოდ ერთხელ!</string>
<string name="grabAllTheStarsNoNeedToPromote">აიღე ყველა ვარსკლავი!
გაყვანა საჭირო არაა.</string>
<string name="pawnComplete">გილოცავ! პაიკებზე ყველაფერი იცი.</string>
<string name="pawnPromotion">პაიკის გაყვანა</string>
<string name="yourPawnReachedTheEndOfTheBoard">შენი პაიკი დაფის ბოლოში გავიდა!</string>
<string name="itNowPromotesToAStrongerPiece">ახლა უფრო ძლიერ ფიგურად გადაიქცევა.</string>
<string name="selectThePieceYouWant">აირჩიე სასურველი ფიგურა!</string>
<string name="fundamentals">საფუძვლები</string>
<string name="capture">აყვანა</string>
<string name="takeTheEnemyPieces">აიყვანე მოწინააღმდეგის ფიგურები</string>
<string name="captureIntro">იპოვე მოწინააღმდეგის დაუცველი ფიგურები, და აიყვანე!</string>
<string name="takeTheBlackPieces">აიყვანე შავები!</string>
<string name="takeTheBlackPiecesAndDontLoseYours">აიყვანე შავები!
და შენები არ დაკარგო.</string>
<string name="captureComplete">გილოცავ! უკვე იცი ფიგურებით ბრძოლა!</string>
<string name="protection">დაცვა</string>
<string name="keepYourPiecesSafe">დაიცავი შენი ფიგურები</string>
<string name="protectionIntro">გამოარკვიე რომელ ფიგურებზე გიტევენ, და დაიცავი!</string>
<string name="protectionComplete">გილოცავ! ფიგურა, რომელსაც არ კარგავ, იგებ!</string>
<string name="escape">გიტევენ!
დააღწიე თავი!</string>
<string name="noEscape">გასაქცევი არაა,
მაგრამ დაცვა შეგიძლია!</string>
<string name="dontLetThemTakeAnyUndefendedPiece">არ ააყვანანინო არცერთი
დაუცველი ფიგურა!</string>
<string name="combat">შეტევა</string>
<string name="captureAndDefendPieces">აიყვანე და დაიცავი ფიგურები</string>
<string name="combatIntro">კარგმა მებრძოლმა შეტევაც იცის და დაცვაც!</string>
<string name="combatComplete">გილოცავ! უკვე იცი ფიგურებით ბრძოლა!</string>
<string name="checkInOne">ქიში ერთ სვლაში</string>
<string name="attackTheOpponentsKing">დაემუქრე მოწინააღმდეგის მეფეს</string>
<string name="checkInOneIntro">დაემუქრე მეფეს რათა ქიში უთხრა. უნდა დაიცვან!</string>
<string name="checkInOneGoal">დაუმიზნე მოწინააღმდეგის მეფეს ერთ სვლაში!</string>
<string name="checkInOneComplete">გილოცავ! შენ ქიში გამოუცხადე და აიძულე დაეცვათ მეფე!</string>
<string name="outOfCheck">ქიშის გარეთ</string>
<string name="defendYourKing">დაიცავი მეფე</string>
<string name="outOfCheckIntro">ქიში გითხრეს! უნდა დააღწიო თავი ან დაბლოკო შეტევა.</string>
<string name="escapeWithTheKing">გაიქეცი მეფით!</string>
<string name="theKingCannotEscapeButBlock">მეფეს გასაქცევი არ აქვს,
მაგრამ დაბლოკვა შეგიძლია!</string>
<string name="youCanGetOutOfCheckByTaking">ქიშს დაბლოკავ თუ შემტევ ფიგურას აიყვან.</string>
<string name="thisKnightIsCheckingThroughYourDefenses">მხედარი ქიშს გეუბნება!</string>
<string name="escapeOrBlock">დააღწიე თავი ან
დაბლოკე შეტევა!</string>
<string name="outOfCheckComplete">გილოცავ! შენს მეფეს ვერასდროს აიყვანენ!</string>
<string name="mateInOne">მატი ერთ სვლაში</string>
<string name="defeatTheOpponentsKing">დაამარცხე მოწინააღმდეგის მეფე</string>
<string name="mateInOneIntro">როცა შენს ქიშს ვერაფერს უხერხებენ, იგებ.</string>
<string name="attackYourOpponentsKing">დაემუქრე მეფეს ისე რომ ვერ დაიცვან!</string>
<string name="mateInOneComplete">გილოცავ! აი ასე იგებ ჭადრაკს!</string>
<string name="intermediate">საშუალო</string>
<string name="boardSetup">დაფის დაწყობა</string>
<string name="howTheGameStarts">როგორ იწყება თამაში</string>
<string name="boardSetupIntro">ორი არმია ერთმანეთის წინააღმდეგ.</string>
<string name="thisIsTheInitialPosition">ეს საწყისი პოზიციაა ყველა თამაშში!
გააკეთე სვლა.</string>
<string name="firstPlaceTheRooks">ჯერ ეტლები დააწყე!
კუთხეში დგანან.</string>
<string name="thenPlaceTheKnights">ახლა მხედრები!
ეტლის გვერდზე დგანან.</string>
<string name="placeTheBishops">კუები დაალაგე!
მხედრის გვერდით დგანან.</string>
<string name="placeTheQueen">დასვი დედოფალი!
თავისსავე ფერზე დგას.</string>
<string name="placeTheKing">დასვი მეფე!
მისი ცოლის გვერდით.</string>
<string name="pawnsFormTheFrontLine">პაიკები ფრონტზე დგანან.
გააკეთე სვლა.</string>
<string name="boardSetupComplete">გილოცავ! დაფის დაწყობა ისწავლე.</string>
<string name="castling">როქი</string>
<string name="theSpecialKingMove">სპეციალური მეფის სვლა</string>
<string name="castlingIntro">დაიცავი მეფე და გამოიყვანე ეტლი!</string>
<string name="castleKingSide">გადაადგილე მეფე ორი უჯრით
რათა გააკეთო მოკლე როქი!</string>
<string name="castleQueenSide">გადაადგილე მეფე ორი უჯრით
რათა გააკეთო გრძელი როქი!</string>
<string name="theKnightIsInTheWay">მხედარია შუაში!
გაწიე რო როქი გააკეთო.</string>
<string name="castleKingSideMovePiecesFirst">გააკეთე მოკლე როქი!
ჯერ შუა ფიგურები უნდა გაწიო.</string>
<string name="castleQueenSideMovePiecesFirst">გააკეთე გრძელი როქი!
ჯერ შუა ფიგურები უნდა გაწიო.</string>
<string name="youCannotCastleIfMoved">როქს ვერ გააკეთებ
თუ მეფე ან ეტლი უკვე
გადაადგილდა.</string>
<string name="youCannotCastleIfAttacked">როქს ვერ გააკეთებ ქიშის დროს.
ჯერ ქიში დაბლოკე!</string>
<string name="findAWayToCastleKingSide">ცადე გააკეთო მოკლე როქი!</string>
<string name="findAWayToCastleQueenSide">ცადე გააკეთო გრძელი როქი!</string>
<string name="castlingComplete">გილოცავ! როქი თითქმის ყოველთვის საჭიროა.</string>
<string name="enPassant">გავლით აყვანა</string>
<string name="theSpecialPawnMove">სპეციალური პაიკის სვლა</string>
<string name="enPassantIntro">როცა მოწინააღდეგის პაიკი ორი უჯრით წამოვა, შეგიძლია აიყვანო გეგონება ერთი უჯრით წამოვიდა.</string>
<string name="blackJustMovedThePawnByTwoSquares">შავმა ორი სვლით წამოწია პაიკი!
აიყვანე გავლით.</string>
<string name="enPassantOnlyWorksImmediately">გავლით აყვანა მხოლოდ შემდეგ სვლაზევე შეგიძლია.</string>
<string name="enPassantOnlyWorksOnFifthRank">გავლით მხოლოდ მაშინ აიყვან
თუ შენი პაიკი მეხუთე ჰორიზონტალზეა.</string>
<string name="takeAllThePawnsEnPassant">ყველა პაიკი გავლით აიყვანე!</string>
<string name="enPassantComplete">გილოცავ! გავლით აყვანა იცი.</string>
<string name="stalemate">პატი</string>
<string name="theGameIsADraw">თამაში ფრედ დასრულდა</string>
<string name="stalemateIntro">როცა მოთამაშეს ქიში არ აქვს გამოცხადებული და ლეგალური სვლა არ გააჩნია, პატი ხდება. თამაში ფრეა, არც იგებ, არც აგებ.</string>
<string name="stalemateGoal">პატისთვის:
- არ უნდა შეეძლოს სვლის გაკეთება
- არ უნდა ქონდეს ქიში.</string>
<string name="stalemateComplete">გილოცავ! წაგებას პატი ჯობია!</string>
<string name="advanced">გაფართოებული</string>
<string name="pieceValue">ფიგურის ღირებულება</string>
<string name="evaluatePieceStrength">გამოთვალე ფიგურის სიძლიერე</string>
<string name="pieceValueIntro">რაც უკეთ გადაადგილდება, მეტი ფასი აქვს!
დედოფალი = 9
ეტლი = 5
კუ = 3
მხედარი = 3
პაიკი = 1
მეფე ყველაფერს ნიშნავს, დაკარგავ - წააგებ.</string>
<string name="queenOverBishop">აიყვანე ყველაზე
ძლიერი ფიგურა
დედოფალი > კუ</string>
<string name="takeThePieceWithTheHighestValue">აიყვანე ყველაზე ძლიერი ფიგურა!</string>
<string name="pieceValueComplete">გილოცავ! უკვე იცი რომ
დედოფალი = 9
ეტლი = 5
კუ = 3
მხედარი = 3
პაიკი = 1</string>
<string name="checkInTwo">ქიში ორ სვლაში</string>
<string name="twoMovesToGiveCheck">ორი სვლა ქიშისთვის</string>
<string name="checkInTwoIntro">იპოვე ორსვლიანი კომბინაცია ქიშისთვის!</string>
<string name="checkInTwoGoal">დაემუქრე მოწინააღმდეგის მეფეს
ორ სვლაში!</string>
<string name="checkInTwoComplete">გილოცავ! ქიში უთხარი, და აიძულე დაეცვათ მეფე!</string>
<string name="whatNext">შემდეგ?</string>
<string name="youKnowHowToPlayChess">გილოცავ, თამაში იცი! გინდა უფრო ძლიერი მოთამაშე იყო?</string>
<string name="register">დარეგისტრირდი</string>
<string name="getAFreeLichessAccount">მიიღე უფასო lichess პროფილი</string>
<string name="practice">პრაქტიკა</string>
<string name="learnCommonChessPositions">ისწავლე ცნობილი პოზიციები</string>
<string name="puzzles">თავსატეხები</string>
<string name="exerciseYourTacticalSkills">ივარჯიშე ტაქტიკურ სიძლიერეზე</string>
<string name="videos">ვიდეოები</string>
<string name="watchInstructiveChessVideos">უყურე ინსტრუქციულ ჭადრაკის ვიდეოებს</string>
<string name="playPeople">ეთამაშე სხვებს</string>
<string name="opponentsFromAroundTheWorld">მოწინააღმდეგეები მსოფლიოს ყველა წერტილიდან</string>
<string name="playMachine">ეთამაშე კომპიუტერს</string>
<string name="testYourSkillsWithTheComputer">გამოცადე ძალები კომპიუტერთან</string>
<string name="letsGo">დავიწყოთ!</string>
<string name="stageX">ეტაპი %s</string>
<string name="awesome">კარგია!</string>
<string name="excellent">გადასარევია!</string>
<string name="greatJob">შესანიშნავია!</string>
<string name="perfect">იდეალურია!</string>
<string name="outstanding">ძალიან კარგია!</string>
<string name="wayToGo">ეგრე, ეგრე!</string>
<string name="yesYesYes">კი, კი, კი!</string>
<string name="youreGoodAtThis">კარგი ხარ!</string>
<string name="nailedIt">დაგლიჯე.</string>
<string name="rightOn">ზუსტადაც!</string>
<string name="stageXComplete">ეტაპი %s დასრულდა</string>
<string name="yourScore">შენი ქულა</string>
<string name="next">შემდეგი</string>
<string name="backToMenu">მენიუში დაბრუნება</string>
<string name="puzzleFailed">თავსატეხში ჩაიჭერი!</string>
<string name="retry">ხელახლა</string>
</resources>
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Archery at the 2019 Summer Universiade – Men's individual recurve
The men's individual recurve archery competition at the 2019 Summer Universiade was held in the Partenio Stadium, Avellino, Italy and the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy between July 8 and 13.
Records
Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows.
72 arrows ranking round
Ranking round
The ranking round took place on 9 July 2019 to determine the seeding for the elimination rounds. It consisted of two rounds of 36 arrows, with a maximum score of 720.
Elimination round
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 5
Section 8
Final Rounds
References
Men's individual recurve | mini_pile | {'original_id': '755e7fa8536d4e7de4325d632b21f0833a01e0cd32eb95e5e384ca72b6e0840b'} |
Q:
this. is not a function
This question was answered a lot but I have tried them all with no success. I tried binding the function but it still gives me this error:
_this3.toggleDrawer is not a function
Code:
class DrawerContent extends Component {
toggleDrawer() {
this.context.drawer.toggle()
}
_renderHeader(section) {
if (section.content.length === 0) {
var sectionID = section.title.match(/\d/g).join("")
return(
<View>
<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => {
NavigationActions.movie_grid({dataID: sectionID})
this.toggleDrawer()
}}>
<Text style={{color: "#000", padding: 15}}>{section.title.replace(/[0-9]|,/g, '')}</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>
</View>
)
} else {
return(
<View>
<Text style={{color: "#000", padding: 15}}>{section.title.replace(/[0-9]|,/g, '')}</Text>
</View>
)
}
}
}
A:
You haven't included all of your code here, but my guess is you aren't binding _renderHeader(). I assume this is being used in a ListView, so it should look something like this:
<ListView
renderHeader={this._renderHeader.bind(this)}
... />
That binds this within _renderHeader, which can then further bind this properly in your other functions.
| mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c3f7b3210be5f1b77dd9534f2302376bdda20337b7a1c985349068aa78c559b4'} |
destiny gunslinger guide
Gunslinger Modifiers Guide
Hey everyone, Dukaness here with the third part of the Gunslinger viability analysis. Part 1 and Part 2 covered Grenades and Throwing Knives. This article focuses on the all of the modifiers in the Gunslinger Skill Tree.
Some people swear by Keyhole, which effectively lets you get collateral kills with your Golden Gun if your targets are lined up. Although it has the potential to get some flashy multi kills, enemies in the Crucible don’t line up and funnel through frequently enough to warrant its use. This modifier is better used for cleaning up groups of ads in PvE.
Gunslinger’s Trance
Another option is Gunslinger’s Trance. This stacks stability improvements for each precision kill up to three times, for 14 seconds. Most players would agree they don’t consistently land 2 headshots in 14 seconds, unless they’re sniping, but in that scenario a stability buff is not all that important. So generally speaking, most guardians will only utilize one stack the majority of the time. I went ahead and tested the effects of one stack.
The video above shows footage of The Last Word being fired with and without the buff. First, the weapon was fired freely, then an effort was made to control the recoil. Free firing, the difference is obviously noticeable as the bullets aggressively climbed the wall without the perk active. When attempting to control the recoil, the difference between using and not using Gunslinger’s Trance is nominal. Certainly not enough to warrant the use of a whole perk. Conducting the same test with other weapons resulted in the same conclusion.
The Facts
Scavenger reduces the cooldown of your grenade and Throwing Knives when you pick up ammo. This was buffed by 33% in the June update. In the Crucible, when a guardian uses their Throwing Knife and grenade, it obviously resets the cooldown. Picking up only Special Ammo from a green crate will charge a player’s abilities by about 25%. That’s if the player was already full on Primary Ammo. Green crates actually drop both Primary and Special Ammo.
By firing one bullet from a Primary Weapon, the game recognizes the weapon to be under full Primary capacity. It will then register the character picking up Primary Ammo and offer another 25% reduction. Opponents can also drop Primary Ammo when they die. Picking those ammo boxes up also charges the abilities by 25%.
In the scenario in the video, I double dip into the Special Ammo by picking up both a green and white box. I then fire a shot from my Primary and pick up a white box dropped by an opponent. That’s 75% (3 boxes at 25% each), plus the cool down just from time passing, and the abilities are charged in 5 seconds. Intellect, Discipline, and Strength do not impact the cooldown reduction provided by Scavenger.
This perk can be optimized by making a few gameplay adjustments. Even if only 1 Primary bullet is picked up, the perk activates. So it’s recommended that when a player is full on Primary and lands a Special weapon kill, they should fire a random shot from their Primary. Follow this up by walking over the enemy’s corpse and the perk will trigger if they dropped ammo. Since the modifier works this way, my recommendation is to make sure you are always short at least one bullet of Primary Ammo. That way, when walking over ammo without noticing, your abilities will charge. By making a conscious effort to keep wasting Primary Ammo for a couple of games, you will not only start doing it by habit, but you’ll also notice your abilities charging significantly faster. In addition to forcing your Primary reserve below maximum capacity, keep an eye out for the little white boxes in combat. Also, make sure you get Special Ammo boxes as frequently as possible.
Chain of Woe
The results of Chain of Woe testing were similar to that of Gunslinger’s Trance. Most guardians simply won’t activate the full potential of the perk enough to warrant its use in Crucible. For Chain of Woe to activate passed the first stack, a player must land 2 headshots in 9 seconds. Even if 2 or 3 stacks were activated consistently, that player has now killed 2 or 3 players so they probably have time for a full reload, which nullifies the perk’s purpose.
Many players land single headshots multiple times each game, so it made sense to test the effects of one stack. By conducting a side by side comparison of reloads with and without Chain of Woe active, it was determined that the effects were virtually unnoticeable. Interestingly enough, the decrease in reload speed provided by the first stack is almost identical to the reduction when wearing a pair gauntlets that reduces the reload speed of a specific weapon (Hand Cannon Reloader for example). Chain of Woe could be combined with one of those pairs of gauntlets to obtain even more reload speed.
Over the Horizon
Over the Horizon increases the range and accuracy of the Golden Gun. Testing this proved to be more difficult than the other modifiers because the range and accuracy bonus are not easily quantified. It’s more a qualitative “feel” that makes this modifier useful. General consensus among Gunslinger’s is that they have a much easier time landing shots with their Golden Gun with this modifier active. In other words, it’s more forgiving to a less skilled thumb or a slightly inaccurate shot. Whether or not this is the modifier for you depends on your accuracy with your super. If you have an easy time hitting targets and rarely miss, you’re better off with another modifier.
Gambler’s Dagger
If you agree that Chain of Woe is rather lacklustre and you also don’t have trouble hitting your Golden Gun shots, you’re stuck with Gambler’s Dagger. Again, this is not a bad thing. Having an extra Throwing Knife always has the potential to come in handy, and you can spam them when combined with Scavenger. To further increase your viability, combining these with Circle of Life (precision kills with the Throwing Knife decrease your super cooldown by 10%) will drastically drop your super’s cooldown. This can be a lethal trifecta of perks and is the build that I personally run.
Chain of Woe and Gunslinger’s Trance are a super fun combo in PvE. Both of them get extended for every precision kill, so although it only stacks 3 times, they can be extended for an infinite duration if the player continues to land precision kills. Since significantly more enemies appear in PvE, this is a much more viable option as you can spend minutes at a time with lightning fast reload and crispy stability (Vault of Glass confluxes checkpoint anyone?).
As was mentioned before, it’s not a good PvP combination because the benefits of one stack aren’t significant, and you likely won’t activate more than one stack very often. The same applies to Keyhole. It is a great perk for groups of ads, but less useful in the Crucible where enemies aren’t as likely to line up. Over the Horizon is absolutely a viable option in the Crucible. Gunslingers get a significant portion of their kills from their super, so reducing the chances of wasting shots from a Golden Gun is certainly a good choice.
I maintain that Scavenger and Gambler’s Dagger are the best options for a Gunslinger in PvP. They are great individual perks, but also work phenomenally well in tandem. This is because a player can burn two Throwing Knives and have both recharge at a very fast rate if Scavenger is leveraged well enough. Remember that Circle of Life is deadly when combined with this combo. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.943193018436432}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '80074', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MDD2DELAVFQV4UI42D4CZY67EFUCPXF6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a9713640-ee87-4a5a-a1c6-bf862587f8aa>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 15, 23, 21, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '35.224.192.121', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HZ33F2NFBHFMIT2DKV4X2YQAGA4TA6PR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3be2be7f-4ed3-48a6-a5d6-ee283974d340>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://planetdestiny.pcinvasion.com/gunslinger-modifiers-guide/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:421a5f78-ea5a-485b-adb4-28214663d26a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1290', 'url': 'https://planetdestiny.pcinvasion.com/gunslinger-modifiers-guide/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-233.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': '0.027774930000305176', 'original_id': 'e6892977500425e599b46c729bf5e4c2b106edc9a13cb1fb864f150f68ac75a5'} |
The Secret Heart
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The Secret Heart Review and Assess
Robert P. Tristram Coffin 1. Whose memory is described in
Across the years he could recall
the poem?
His father one way best of all.
In the stillest hour of night
The boy awakened to a light.
5 Half in dreams, he saw his sire
2. What event is recalled in the
With his great hands full of fire. poem?
The man had struck a match to see
If his son slept peacefully.
He held his palms each side the spark
10 His love had kindled in the dark. 3. What quality do both the speaker
and the son recognize in the
His two hands were curved apart father?
In the semblance of a heart.
He wore, it seemed to his small son,
A bare heart on his hidden one.
15 A heart that gave out such a glow 4. The boy is “half in dreams”
No son awake could bear to know. during the incident. How might
It should a look upon a face
being half asleep affect his
Too tender for the day to trace. impressions?
One instant, it lit all about,
20 And then the secret heart went out.
But it shone long enough for one
To know that hands held up the sun. 5. What does the boy discover
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What Your Tongue Says About Your Health
Tongue analysis is an important part of Ayurvedic diagnosis. Ayurveda interpretation assigns different regions of the tongue to represent different areas of the digestive tract and major organs. Western medicine does not recognize this relationship but instead focuses on colors and shapes. When looking at the tongue, although there may be various items of unfamiliar appearance, the majority of what you see is typical and does not denote a problem.
When a problem does occur, however, sometimes it can be either seen on the tongue as the central focus of the problem, or the problem in other parts of the body can be reflected in the tongue appearance.
For example: recovering from an illness, or during use of antibiotics or steroids could encourage the overgrowth of yeast on the tongue (called Thrush) resulting in white spots or patches that rub off.
If the white lacy areas don’t rub off, that could be a result of an immune imbalance called leukoplakia. This can sometimes be a precursor to oral cancer so should be promptly evaluated.
Darker colors like black or brown are commonly caused by different strains of oral bacteria that can grow in the presences of cigarette or pipe smoke. Sometimes after taking antibiotics, the bacteria that colonize the tongue can produce darker colors than normal. Deeply colored foods and drinks can also temporarily change the tongue color to a darker hue.
Smooth areas next to bumpy areas are usually diagnosed as geographic tongue due to the resemblance to a map of the world. This is not usually regarded as significant.
Less common changes in the tongue can result from systemic disease. These include a strawberry red tongue from Kawasaki disease or from scarlet fever. A smooth tongue can result from inadequate iron, folic acid, or vitamin B3 intake.
Midlife hormonal changes can result in a painful condition known as burning mouth syndrome. Other health problems, like dry mouth from medications, acid reflux, or diabetes may cause it, too. Allergic reactions to certain foods such as pineapple some toothpaste or mouthwash ingredients, or other foods or candies can also make the tongue uncomfortable.
Painful tongue conditions also include canker sores, papillitis, or viral infections. Canker sores are a temporary painful but innocuous condition that is caused many times by food or toothpaste allergies. There are several over the counter remedies for this condition. Transient papillitis is a condition that causes the small papillae on the tongue to become irritated and swell temporarily. This may be frequently caused by trauma. Viral conditions can cause bumps on the tongue and are usually associated with fever. A lump on or under your tongue which lingers however needs the attention of your dentist or physician. Treatment of uncommon oral cancer should not be delayed.
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How does it work?
Similar to Boxtox® Cosmetic, Dysport is an injectable form of abobotulinumtoxin A, and once administered, prevents nerve impulses from traveling to the targeted muscles.
Where is Dysport® used?
I use Dysport® to soften and smooth wrinkles and creases on the forehead, Glabellar lines, those creases between your eyebrows, and around the eyes.
How does it work?
Frown or worry lines naturally develop from decades of exhibiting normal facial expressions- laughter, worry, pain, or surprise but they often can make you look angry, and older than you really are.
Once Dysport® is injected into the muscles through a series of five points above the brow, they can't contract, and frown lines and wrinkles are softened, leaving you with a younger, more rested appearance.
Does it hurt?
A majority of my patients tolerate the injections well because the needle is very fine. But for those patients who are more sensitive to pain, we can apply a topical anesthetic that should alleviate any discomfort or anxiety.
How long is the recovery?
There is no recovery period following Dysport ® injections and you may resume your normal activities immediately following the treatment.
Some patients may experience slight swelling, redness and bruising which generally subsides in a few days.
I recommend patients avoid taking ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil) or acetaminophen (Tylenol) which may promote bruising in some patients.
When will I see results?
You'll notice a change immediately after your injections with continued improvement over the course of a week.
How long does it last?
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July 26, 2017
Ability Scores: You're Doing Them Wrong
*An editorial by the Thumb*
Comments from the Thumb: This article expresses my own personal opinion and doesn’t necessarily represent an official explanation of ability scores or the opinions of the other Digits.
Let’s talk about ability scores. We all know them. Strengh, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. The first three are pretty self-explanatory, so we’ll skip those for now. It’s the last three, the so-called mental ability scores, that I see people time and time again getting into a tizzy over. Today we’re gonna talk about what exactly each of these scores means and settle the confusion once and for all. If you’ve been around the block a few times, you may’ve seen other articles, threads, or videos explaining what I’m about to tell you. If not, read on!
We’ll start with Intelligence. This one’s pretty straightforward. Your Intelligence score is a measure of how smart you are. You use Intelligence to think and reason. Creatures need a certain level of intelligence to be sapient (usually at least INT 5) and anything below that denotes a creature with a more primitive mind (such as an animal), all the way down to INT 1, which denotes a creature whose mind is dominated by instinct and little else (oozes are a great example of this).
You might use Intelligence to recall (or deduce) a piece of information about a particular subject (like history or arcana), or to determine the wisdom (I know, confusing names) of a course of action. You might also use it to provide clues to a riddle or puzzle that you, as a player, can’t figure out. Essentially, everything that involves critical thinking uses Intelligence.
Intelligence is also the casting ability for spellcasters that rely on magical formulae and practice to learn spells, such as wizards. A wizard has no special skill set aside from being particularly smart and well-read in the area of magic, and when they prepare spells they memorize a certain number from their spellbook. The smarter a wizard is, the more they can memorize. Some casters that use Intelligence, such as the eldritch knight, choose to permanently memorize a smaller list of spells instead of carrying a spellbook.
Next comes Wisdom, an oft-confused ability score. First thing you need to know: Wisdom is a stupid name for this ability score. I’ve often heard people use this simplified (and incorrect) explanation: Intelligence covers higher thinking and Wisdom covers pretty much everything else except social skills, which are covered by Charisma. I think this misconception stems from D&D 3.5’s saving throws. In 3.5, there were only three saving throws, each tied to an ability score. They were Fortitude (tied to Constitution), Reflex (tied to Dexterity), and Will (tied to Wisdom). Will saves were required from almost every mind-affecting spell in the book. The name implies that you make the save with, yes, a force of will. This is (in my own opinion, anyway) blatantly wrong, and I’ll explain why when we get to Charisma.
Simply put, Wisdom governs your perception. Not just your senses, but your intuition, your instinct, your general awareness of the world as it truly is. You use Wisdom to notice things in your environment like hidden traps or a particular person in a crowd, but you also use it to tell when people are lying or see patterns in seemingly random events, among other things. When a spell calls for a Wisdom saving throw, it’s not asking you to use your pure willpower to overcome the spell. It’s asking whether you notice the spell being cast on you. If you succeed on a wisdom spell against, let’s say, charm person, you aren’t throwing off the shackles of magic. You’re realizing, “Oh, I don’t actually like that guy, I must have been charmed!”
Wisdom is the casting ability for spellcasters like clerics, druids, and rangers, and the ability monks use to channel ki. They cast with Wisdom because their magic comes from their awareness, their connection with their god or with nature or with whatever makes monks magic. A Wisdom caster’s magic is bestowed upon them by that source. The more in-tune they are with it, the stronger their magic is. This is also why clerics and druids get access to all spells on their list, rather than keeping a spellbook. Preparing spells for them is basically praying for the knowledge of their casting to be bestowed upon them for the day. As far as I can tell, monks literally use the Force, but if you know much Star Wars lore, you’ll recognize that that requires Wisdom as well.
Now onto Charisma, the most misunderstood of the ability scores. Most casual players will tell you that Charisma is the measure of your personality and ability to interact with others. Well, yes and no. While it is true that Charisma governs your people skills, it’s so much more than that. Because hey, 3.5? It’s actually Charisma that governs your willpower. That’s right, Charisma is a measure of how mentally strong you are and how independent and confident your personality is. A more fitting name would be Stubbornness but I can see why Charisma has a better ring to it. Charisma is the single most varied ability score, because it can affect everything from how good you are at entertaining an audience to how good you are at lying to how scary (or friendly) you are. But beyond all that interaction stuff is the way Charisma interacts with magic, which is the primary reason for this entire theory. When a spell calls for a Charisma saving throw, this is where you are using your mental fortitude to throw off some debilitating effect. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many spells or abilities that call for Charisma saves, and many spells that should do this instead call for Wisdom saves for some reason.
Charisma is the casting ability for spellcasters like bards, paladins, sorcerers, and warlocks. But if you go with the layman’s definition, that makes no sense. How can being likeable or persuasive help you cast spells? Once again, Charisma is incredibly varied in how it works. A bard learns to use their performance skills to influence the weave of magic, literally singing, dancing, or playing their spells to life. A paladin uses their sense of purpose, their conviction in the tenets that they live by, to fuel magic bestowed upon them by some divine power. That’s why if a paladin breaks one of their oaths, they lose their powers. A sorcerer is born with an innate ability to use magic, and can use it by simply willing it to happen. A warlock makes a bargain with a powerful entity from whom they get magic, and similar to a sorcerer, they will the magic to happen.
Wrapping It All Up
Now comes the part where I tell you why you should care. Understanding the nuances of ability scores can strengthen your roleplaying and make you a better player and DM. As a player, being able to play your character true to their stats makes the immersion that much stronger and avoids DM/player disputes. As a DM, you are prepared if a situation involving these ability scores comes up that isn’t covered in the rules. Understanding the intent of the rules that are there goes a long way in allowing you to make a ruling on the issue.
Of course, that’s the beauty of tabletop games. Ultimately, what the players can and can’t do is the DM’s decision, and your interpretation of the rules is essentially law.
Well, as long as you’re the DM.
1. This is amazing
A personal aside tho: I always thought warlocks used CHA because it has to do with diplomacy. The better negotiator you are, the more you squeeze out of your deal with the devil, the more powerful your magic it.
1. He did make mention of the deal with your patron. The better your negotiation skills (I.e. Charisma) the stronger your spells and effects are as a Warlock. On top of that, the Warlock still has to have the will to pull that power from their patron time and time again without potentially losing themselves to their patron.
I always thought that way about the scores myself, and always thought charisma should be the save for many mind-control effects, but this article clarified very well why wisdom IS relevant to many of those.
I'd also like to add one thing: Wisdom comes not only with perception (both senses and intuition), but also empathy and direct connection to the world. That also helps to explain why clerics, druids and rangers use wisdom- their magic is external, while the magic of sorcerers and paladins is internal.
3. Great work as always. The Charisma part really sheds light on what the PHB kinda left lacking in my opinion as a 5e greenhorn.
Did I miss the part where Intelligence Saving Throws are explained though? I reckon it has something to do with realizing that a phenomenon is a spell and recalling or thinking of a way to resist or avoid it. Or it could be like innate and involuntary mental defense, whereas willpower is more voluntary or subject to a modicum of control.
1. Sorry for the delayed response; I was on vacation. I actually neglected to put int saves in, since there are only like 3 Spells that call for them. I'd say an int save would equate to a "mind over matter" response. Phantasmal Fprce, Symbol, and Feeblemind all directly attack a creature's sense of reasoning and logic, and a stronger mind has a better chance of resisting them. So an int save would be realizing a mind-altering effect is illogical and ignoring it.
4. Actually, I have at least one player who might be able to use a primer on the physical ability scores as well. His minotaur character is currently walking around with 350 pounds of pure, bulging, rippling muscle... and 12 Strength.
Interesting take on Wisdom saves though, I have to say I've never thought of it that way. I agree with wolfspoors that I'd like to see a little of your opinion on what an Intelligence save represents, as well.
5. (My take on)
Intelligence Saves: Have you ever read a complex piece of literature that uses an older style of syntax and cadence (think Shakespeare) and after a while of reading (and possibly re-reading) your head starts to hurt and you take a break to relax.
Maybe you are working on an advanced mathematics problems or looking at a formula (something like The Standard Model maybe) and your eyes wander over the symbols and glyphs- you know if has meaning but you have NO idea how to achieve that meaning.
Ever tried to remember that word that means EXACTLY what you want to say right now, but you can't quite figure it out. You KNOW the word, you have even used the word before. It is a good word and right now it would be GREAT. You know the second you stop trying to think about that word it will come to you...
Except there is no break to stop the pain, you can't leave the Standard Model behind, and you can never stop trying to come up with the word. Your thoughts are lost in a maze of confusion and strain. You can keep trying... A monkey with a type writer has a CHANCE of clicking out Shakespeare after all.
6. Regarding Int and Wis, I always went by the following:
Intelligence is knowing that strawberries are not berries and that tomatoes are fruits.
Wisdom is knowing to not put tomatoes on a Fruit Salad.
7. why charisma is a spell casting ability: bards tap into their ability to affect minds to cast their magic.
paladins use their strength of personality to cast their spells.
sorcerers have innate magic and use their desire to use it on the world to cast.
warlocks don't make sense. they say they draw magic from esoteric knowledge, meaning intelligence would be more appropriate (at least for great old warlocks)
1. Warlocks are a really mixed bag compared to other spellcasters.
4e (I know that mentioning it is heresy, but bear with me) even had Con-based warlock spells.
The idea behind this being - your patron doesn't care about you, they're cramming as much power through you as you ask for and you have to be able to survive that much arcane power flowing through you.
Thematically, this was fantastic, mechanically it wasn't so great (spells were just as good as Cha-lock spells, but, as a Con-lock you had more health).
Realistically, warlocks should have to come to an agreement with the DM about how their pact works and what ability score they should be using for it. This is quite hard to write rules for though.
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Reading On Six Thinking Hats
Reading on Six Thinking Hats
The Subject of “Creativity”
Creativity is a messy and confusing subject. Much of the difficulty arises directly from the words “creative” and “creativity.” At the simplest level “creative” means bringing into being something that was not there before. Understanding the need for creativity in business and industry today is the easy part. Everyone is faced with the need to create a new product or service, solve a problem, or have the leading edge over the competitors. Understanding the process of creativity and how individuals can learn skills to be creative is what causes the confusion. This creation requires a special skill. The Lateral Thinking program teaches individuals creativity and the skill of generating ideas while using their knowledge and experience.
Lateral Thinking® and Dr. de Bono
Dr. Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading world authority in the field of creativity. He is the inventor of the phrase “Lateral Thinking” which is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. His Lateral Thinking tools are based directly on how the brain functions as a self-organizing information system. He has worked for over thirty years in the field with major corporations all over the world.
Here are some notes from Dr. de Bono on the definition of Lateral Thinking.
There are a number of ways of describing or defining Lateral Thinking.
1. “You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
2. “Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perceptions instead of trying harder with the same concepts and perceptions.”
3. “In self-organizing information systems, asymmetric patterns are formed. Lateral Thinking is a method for cutting across from one pattern to another.”
In my writing and seminars, I use the terms “lateral thinking” and “creative thinking” interchangeably because creative thinking is much more widely known. I introduced the new term “serious creativity” in my book Serious Creativity (HarperBusiness, New York, 1992) in order to make a distinction between formal creative techniques and just messing around and hoping that an idea will happen.
The word “creative” in the English language has a very broad meaning and includes the bringing into existence of something new. We do not accept creating a mess as being creative because the new thing is supposed to have value. For example, artists are creative because they create new things that have value. Yet many artists are productive stylists who produce within the same perceptions and style of expression. There may be very little of the change in perceptions and concepts that is central to Lateral Thinking.
So one of the reasons for creating and using the term “Lateral Thinking” is to distinguish this kind of artistic creativity from the thinking involved in creating new perceptions and new concepts. There are, of course, artists who also change concepts and perceptions and who do use Lateral Thinking as such. This seems to particularly apply to musicians in both popular and classical music. There are also playwrights, novelists, architects, and others who have used Lateral Thinking to open up new concepts and perceptions. Even so, the Lateral Thinking course does not pretend to turn a participant into an artist.
Misconceptions about Creative Thinking – Have you ever heard the following?
“You have to be an artist to be creative.”
“Ideas have always happened.”
“Creativity is a talent that some people have and others do not.”
“Creativity comes from rebels.”
“Being liberated is enough.”
“Tools and techniques are confining.”
Here are some thoughts on these misconceptions.
“You have to be an artist to be creative.”
This is totally untrue. There have been many creative engineers, scientists, financiers, entrepreneurs, etc., who have not been artists. Creativity, and especially Lateral Thinking, are also concerned with changing perceptions, concepts, and ideas. In any situation where perception and concepts are important, creativity is also important. That applies to most situations.
Because artists are creative in their own field does not mean that they have a general skill of creativity that can be applied to any field. An artist usually has the motivation to try something new, and sometimes the artist can provide an “innocent” mind on a subject. But it is certainly not true that creativity is limited to artists.
“Ideas have always happened.”
There is an attitude which says that great new ideas have always happened in different fields and that they will continue to happen from time to time. So there is no need to pay special attention to creativity. It is enough just to wait for new ideas to happen. A related version of this says that new ideas happen by evolution and that this cannot be speeded up.
There is a story about the origins of roast pork. It is said that roast pork was discovered when a pagoda burned down in China and a pig in the yard was also burned.
Pagodas will burn down from time to time, but we do not have to wait for such occasions to get roast pork. We can roast pork more directly whenever we choose. In the same way new ideas will continue to happen from time to time, but we can also seek to get ideas in a more direct way through the use of deliberate creativity. One does not exclude the other.
“Creativity is a talent . . .”
This is a very traditional view and one of the best excuses for not doing anything about creativity. It is true that some people have a natural curiosity. It is true that some people have an active imagination. It is true that some people are always trying to change things. But all these effects can also be obtained through developing the formal techniques of Lateral Thinking.
If a number of people run a race, someone will come in first and someone second and someone last. This is determined by natural running ability. Ability can be altered by coaching, training, and fitness regimens. If everyone who ran in this first race is now given a set of roller blades and is taught how to use them, then everyone will go farther in the same amount of time. Someone will still come first and someone last, but not necessarily the same person as before.
It is the same with creativity. If we do nothing about it, then we can only depend on natural talent. But if we develop formal techniques and offer training in these techniques, then everyone will be much more creative than before. Some people will still be more creative than others, as with any acquired skill.
“Creativity comes from rebels.”
Rebels are creative because rebels want to be different. They are not much good at playing the game everyone else is playing. They may not even want to play the game at all. They want to play their own game. This has been a good starting point for creativity in the past.
Today things are changing. We are beginning to understand the “game” of creativity. We can understand how self-organizing information systems form asymmetric patterns and how we can move across patterns. From such an understanding comes the formal tools of Lateral Thinking. It may well be that the conformists will also be better at playing this new game of creativity. The rebels will not want to play this game and may not be any good at it. So we may have the very strange paradox that the conformists may actually become more creative than the rebels.
Of course, the conformists have to want to be creative. They have to want to learn the game of creativity, and they have to want to play that game. The rebels always have the motivation to challenge and to be different. So the conformists can become creative but they have to want to.
“Being liberated is enough.”
Many of the approaches to creativity in North America are based on the notion that everyone is creative but is inhibited. So the effort is toward freeing people up and liberating them so that they can be creative. People are encouraged to be playful and childlike. Traditional brainstorming itself is an attempt to liberate people by permitting them to say what they like without fear of censure.
But this notion of liberation is not enough.
An ordinary person tied up tightly with a rope cannot play a violin. That is obvious. But if we now cut the rope, does this make the liberated person a violinist? Cutting the rope is indeed a necessary step but only a small step. The person still has to acquire the skill of violin playing. It is the same with creativity. Being liberated may be a necessary step, but it is by no means the whole process. It is also necessary to acquire creative skills. Indeed, understanding the logic of provocation achieves the same effect as liberation.
The analogy comparing creativity with the playfulness of children is not a good one. Children have the creativity of innocence because their minds have not yet formed many patterns. But the minds of adults are full of patterns, so the creativity of innocence does not work. We have to develop techniques for getting out of these established patterns.
“Tools and techniques are confining.”
Some people protest that any development of systematic tools and techniques will be contrary to the very nature of creativity, which must be “free.” This shows a complete misunderstanding of tools.
Language is a formal tool that allows us to have and to express creative thoughts. A ladder is a tool that allows us to get to places that might otherwise be difficult to get to. A carpenter’s saw is a tool that allows the carpenter to make beautiful furniture. Mathematics is a tool that allows us to handle complex relationships.
Tools are liberating devices that amplify our skills and enable us to do things that would be very difficult to do otherwise. A key is a formal tool that allows us to escape from a locked room. But the key does not determine where we then go.
In general, a lot of the thinking about creativity is very old-fashioned and much influenced by notions of artistic creativity. Too often creativity is just seen as “being different.” Creativity is also seen as the opposite of being formal. Yet music and ballet are both creative and formal at the same time.
Using Tools and Techniques
Attitudes are fine, but tools are more reliable. Many people attempt to teach creativity by encouraging attitudes of “freedom” and “playfulness.” These attitudes may work in the presence of the instructor but are difficult to resurrect later.
Tools are much more concrete. Once you have built up skill and confidence in the use of the Lateral Thinking tools, then you can apply these to any situation at any time. You do not have to wait until you feel inspired.
It is sometimes argued that tools are fine, but without motivation tools never get used. There are two approaches here. You can motivate and inspire people to be creative and then teach them the tools. Or you can teach them the tools and when they find they can use the tools and get new ideas then they become motivated to be creative. That’s because now they have seen how it can be done and how it works. The second approach can be very effective. People who have never considered themselves to be creative learn the Lateral Thinking tools and surprise themselves with their creativity.
Over the years, many people who are highly creative in their own fields have said they get the best ideas when they use the Lateral Thinking tools systematically. Such people are never short of ideas, but they surprise themselves with a new idea only when they use the tools deliberately.
The Learning Process
At first, as a participant, you may have to fight the urge to start thinking of creative ideas without bothering to use the tools. The systematic formality of the tools may seem to slow you down at first. It is easier to have spontaneous ideas on a subject. At first, the tools will seem awkward to use. Learning the tools is just like learning to ride a bicycle. At first, riding a bicycle is awkward, and you would get there faster by walking. But when you pick up the skills of cycling, then it becomes greatly superior to walking.
Do the Tools Work?
The tools laid out in this course have been used over the years by many different people in different jobs and in different cultures. The tools do work and have produced powerful results. If someone claims that the tools do not work, the answer is that maybe the tools do not work for that person because he or she has not yet developed a skill in using the tools. We know that skis work, so it is not much use for a novice skier to complain that skis do not work. Mathematics works even though some people may not be very good at mathematics.
Precise Use
Because creativity seems vague and open-ended and because you cannot be sure of a result at a defined point, many people have come to believe that it is enough mess around. For this reason, the precise use of the tools may seem strange to some participants of creativity. Yet the tools work best when used in a precise way.
1. At any moment, know exactly what you are doing.
2. Be aware of the next step.
3. Follow the technique and do not allow yourself to be distracted.
Time Tested
There are many instructors who come new to the field of creative thinking. They pull bits from different programs (and even blatantly steal them), change them around a bit, and offer themselves as instructors in creativity. Such people can do a lot of damage and can turn people away from creativity.
All the material in Lateral Thinking has been tried and tested over many years – in some cases, over twenty-five years – with thousands of students. There are today many thousands of people in the world who regularly use the tools of Lateral Thinking, sometimes with spectacular results.
Systematic Use
The importance of the systematic use of the Lateral Thinking tools is stressed in this introduction as well as the course itself. The goal of the course is mastery of the tools. With many of the examples, you may indeed feel that you can generate a wonderful idea without using the tool at all. But this is not going to be of much use to you because the purpose of the course is to develop skill in the use of the tools, not just to have some ideas about the exercise. Until you master the tools, it is not surprising that your use of them will not be very productive.
Being systematic about learning and practicing tools is essential. But even when you have mastered the tools, you will still get the best results when you use the tools systematically. Many people who are highly creative in their own fields have told me that they still get the best new ideas (the ones that really surprise them) when they use the tools systematically.
A carpenter has a full set of tools and uses them systematically to make beautiful furniture. Mastery of the woodworking tools is essential. So is the deliberate use of the tools. A carpenter does not flop about and hope that things will happen.
This material may not be copied, reproduced, reprinted, used in films or video recording, or stored in electronic devices without written permission of the copyright holders. The material may not be incorporated into training programs except under the supervision of a certified Lateral Thinking instructor.
Published by Advanced Practical Thinking Training¨, Inc. Des Moines, Iowa 50322
Copyright 1999. The McQuaig Group Inc.
Printed in the U.S.A.
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Shobak Castle
It’s a slight shame that Shobak tends to get overlooked in favour of Kerak. Admitadly, Kerak is more complete than Shobak, but the position of the castle atop of Royal Mountain is hard to beat.
Shobak was constructed by Baldwin I in 1115, and withstood countless attacks by Saladin until it fell in 1189, after a mighty 18-month siege. There is an interesting secret passageway that leads to a subterranean spring (hence why they could hold out for so long). Explore small churches, the prison, baptistery, watchtower and catacombs.
Grand Tour of Jordan
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Stabenow, Pompeo spar over PTC
Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Mike Pompeo clashed Wednesday over the future of a key wind energy tax credit, underscoring the many hurdles lawmakers face in their push to reform the tax code
Pompeo, a conservative Kansas Republican, criticized a deal to avert the fiscal cliff that extended the production tax credit for wind by one year — just one day after the credit expired.
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“We got rid of the wind production tax credit. I worked really hard on it. We got rid of it for 23 hours,” Pompeo, a vocal critic of the tax credit, said during a POLITICO Pro's Deep Dive on energy and taxes. “But in the Senate they snuck it in — in the dark of night.”
Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee’s energy panel, shot back, “There was a light in the room. It wasn’t dark.”
The sharp exchange underscored the wide gulf between Democrats and conservative Republicans on energy taxation. Democrats and some Republicans want to extend tax credits for wind and solar power, arguing the industries need short-term support to thrive. But conservative Republicans like Pompeo counter that renewables should stand on their own without government support.
“Wind, solar … let’s let them go compete. … What they don’t need is somebody else’s money,” Pompeo said during the event at the Newseum in Washington. He added that too many tax breaks go to “energy sources that have political patrons, not customers.”
But Stabenow said it’s the oil and gas industry that has benefited from nearly a century of tax breaks embedded in the tax code and that it’s time to level the playing field by eliminating breaks for the largest, most profitable companies.
“We’ve been picking winners for 100 years,” she told Pompeo, referring to deductions in the code for oil companies. “You’re right, we’ve got some special deals in the tax code.”
“We made a policy decision to pick a winner. We picked a winner. They won. And they’ve been doing great,” she said of the oil industry.
Stabenow said the wind production tax credit isn’t going to be eliminated without a fight.
“Now we have an opportunity when everybody is racing to clean energy technologies to win again,” she said. “I’m going to fight like crazy for that production tax credit.”
Summing up his position on Stabenow’s views, Pompeo said: “I disagree with just about everything.”
“This is where it gets interesting,” she said.
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\section{Four Ninths as Pandigital Fraction}
Tags: Pandigital Fractions
\begin{theorem}
$\dfrac 4 9$ cannot be expressed as a pandigital fraction.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Can be verified by brute force.
Category:Pandigital Fractions
\end{proof}
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Date: 2011-10-24 10:41:01 -0700 (Mon, 24 Oct 2011)
New Revision: 6734
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Log:
[giow] (2) <base>.href reflects, apparently.
Fixing <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13859">http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13859</A>
Modified: complete.html
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--- complete.html 2011-10-24 17:33:21 UTC (rev 6733)
+++ complete.html 2011-10-24 17:41:01 UTC (rev 6734)
@@ -13506,13 +13506,8 @@
with <code title=attr-base-target><a href=#attr-base-target>target</a></code> attributes, all but
the first are ignored.</p>
- <p>The <dfn id=dom-base-href title=dom-base-href><code>href</code></dfn> IDL
- attribute, on getting, must return the page's <a href=#document-base-url>document base
- URL</a>, and on setting, it must set the <code title=attr-base-href><a href=#attr-base-href>href</a></code> content attribute to the given
- new value.</p>
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- <p>The <dfn id=dom-base-target title=dom-base-target><code>target</code></dfn> IDL
- attribute must <a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the content attribute of the
+ <p>The <dfn id=dom-base-href title=dom-base-href><code>href</code></dfn> and <dfn id=dom-base-target title=dom-base-target><code>target</code></dfn> IDL attributes
+ must <a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the
same name.</p>
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Modified: index
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--- index 2011-10-24 17:33:21 UTC (rev 6733)
+++ index 2011-10-24 17:41:01 UTC (rev 6734)
@@ -13506,13 +13506,8 @@
with <code title=attr-base-target><a href=#attr-base-target>target</a></code> attributes, all but
the first are ignored.</p>
- <p>The <dfn id=dom-base-href title=dom-base-href><code>href</code></dfn> IDL
- attribute, on getting, must return the page's <a href=#document-base-url>document base
- URL</a>, and on setting, it must set the <code title=attr-base-href><a href=#attr-base-href>href</a></code> content attribute to the given
- new value.</p>
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- <p>The <dfn id=dom-base-target title=dom-base-target><code>target</code></dfn> IDL
- attribute must <a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the content attribute of the
+ <p>The <dfn id=dom-base-href title=dom-base-href><code>href</code></dfn> and <dfn id=dom-base-target title=dom-base-target><code>target</code></dfn> IDL attributes
+ must <a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the
same name.</p>
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with <code title="attr-base-target">target</code> attributes, all but
the first are ignored.</p>
- <p>The <dfn title="dom-base-href"><code>href</code></dfn> IDL
- attribute, on getting, must return the page's <span>document base
- URL</span>, and on setting, it must set the <code
- title="attr-base-href">href</code> content attribute to the given
- new value.</p>
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- <p>The <dfn title="dom-base-target"><code>target</code></dfn> IDL
- attribute must <span>reflect</span> the content attribute of the
+ <p>The <dfn title="dom-base-href"><code>href</code></dfn> and <dfn
+ title="dom-base-target"><code>target</code></dfn> IDL attributes
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World Church of the Creator
World Church of the Creator
ALTERNATE NAME: Creativity Movement
LEADERS: Ben Klassen, Matthew Hale
ESTIMATED SIZE: Less than 500
The Creativity Movement was founded by Ben Klassen in 1973 with its original name, Church of the Creator. Klassen described the group's ideology as a replacement for "Judeo-democratic-Marxist" values, based upon the foundation of race. The group's foundational teachings are a list of sixteen "Commandments of Creativity," each of which deals with loyalty to, and proliferation of, the white race. The group denies the existence of the Holocaust, rejects interracial marriage, and works to promote the advancement of white individuals and institutions in all phases of life.
The group's name was changed in 1996 to World Church of the Creator and then again in 2003 to the Creativity Movement, in response to a copyright infringement suit. The Creativity Movement, under all its various names, has compiled a lengthy history of violence and bloodshed. Following the 2005 sentencing of leader Matthew Hale to forty years in prison, the movement appears to be in a state of disarray.
The Creativity Movement was founded in 1973 by Ben (Bernhardt) Klassen. In his writings, Klassen describes his religious and ethical pilgrimage from his parents' conservative beliefs to his own white-supremacist views. He discusses his experiences in politics and his eventual disillusionment with Christianity, concluding that the New Testament is in fact a book of suicidal teachings intended by Christ and his apostles, all of whom were Jewish, to lead to the eventual destruction of all non-Jews.
Klassen's beliefs were simple: any practice beneficial to whites is good, while any practice harmful to whites is evil. Klassen's simple creed resonated with white supremacists around the world, and he was able to attract several hundred "creators," as church members are known, to his movement. Klassen's inflammatory rhetoric inspired his followers to work toward his ultimate goal, what he described in his writings as, "a whiter, brighter world."
Klassen wrote that his movement was peaceful, stating that every step of his group's plan for a brighter future was legal and non-violent. Despite these public assertions, group members were repeatedly linked with acts of racial violence. In 1991, "creators" George and Barbara Loeb were charged with murdering an African-American military veteran in Neptune Beach, Florida. While the couple claimed they acted in self-defense, George Loeb was sentenced to life in prison. One year later, the victim's family successfully sued the Creativity Movement and was awarded $1 million.
Following the verdict, Klassen sold the group's headquarters and appointed Richard McCarty as the group's new leader. Soon thereafter, Klassen took his own life with an overdose of sleeping pills, calling his action an honorable choice, given that life no longer had any meaning for him. The group continued its activities, including the firebombing of an NAACP office and other attempted attacks.
In 1996, Matthew Hale was appointed Pontifex Maximus (supreme leader) of the organization. Hale had a long history of violence and racism; at age 12, he had organized a group he called the Little Reich at his school. In 1991, Hale was arrested for allegedly threatening three African Americans with a gun and for obstruction of justice. In 1992, he attacked a mall security officer, for which he received thirty months probation and six months house arrest.
Upon taking over the movement, Hale added the word "world" to the group's name, emphasizing the group's ambition to spread its doctrine of white superiority across the planet. Hale was handsome and intelligent; in 1998, he graduated from Southern Illinois Law School and passed the state bar exam. However, the Illinois Bar refused to grant Hale a license to practice law, stating that his racial views made him unfit to practice law in Illinois.
Two days after Hale was denied his license, a church member named Benjamin Smith began a three-day shooting spree in which he randomly attacked minorities in Indiana and Illinois. Smith killed two people and wounded nine before killing himself. In television appearances after Smith's death, Hale said that his church did encourage hatred of anything that threatened his racial group. The group's membership grew slightly in the months following the killings.
The final chapters in the church's history were set in motion in 2000, when an Oregon Christian group operating under the name "Church of the Creator" filed a trademark infringement suit against Hale's organization. Hale and his followers received a favorable ruling in early 2002, allowing them to use the name. But in December, U.S. District Court Judge Joan Lefkow reversed the decision on appeal, awarding the use of the name to the Oregon group.
Following the ruling, Matthew Hale legally changed the group's name for the final time, trademarking the title "Creativity Movement." On January 8, 2003, Hale was arrested and charged with soliciting the murder of Judge Lefkow; Hale had been turned in by his security chief, who was in fact an FBI informant. Hale was convicted in April 2004, and sentenced to forty years in prison. Little has been heard from the group since Hale's imprisonment. The group's web site lists Matthew Hale and George Loeb as POW's.
Born in 1918, Bernhardt (Ben) Klassen was a Polish immigrant. His early views of religion were shaped by his reading of Mein Kempf and other right-wing works. Following his involvement with the John Birch Society (which later repudiated his extremist views) and other political groups, he formed the Church of the Creator in 1973. Klassen led the group, which worked for the ascension of whites to world dominance, until he stepped down shortly before his suicide in 1993. At the time of his death, the group numbered several hundred.
Klassen's teachings are still held in high regard by the movement today. His contributions include books such as The White Man's Bible (1986), Expanding Creativity (1985), and Nature's Eternal Religion (1992). Klassen is also credited with popularizing the term "racial holy war," which his followers shorten to "RaHoWa" and continue to use as a rallying cry. Klassen consistently denied that his organization taught or condoned the use of violence for the achievement of its goals.
Following the death of founder Ben Klassen in 1993, the Church of the Creator found itself in disarray, although violence by its members continued. In 1996, Matthew Hale was named the group's new supreme leader. Hale directed the group's operations from an office in his father's home in Illinois, where he reportedly used an Israeli flag as a doormat. Hale was married for three months to Terra Herron, a 16-year-old member of the church. Despite completing law school and passing the Illinois Bar, he was refused a law license based on his moral beliefs.
Hale rose to national prominence following the Benjamin Smith shooting spree, when Hale appeared on national television defending the church's teachings of white superiority and hatred for other racial groups. Hale was entering a federal court building to answer charges of contempt of court when he was arrested and charged with conspiring to murder a federal judge. He was convicted and is currently incarcerated at a high-security federal penitentiary in Colorado.
The Creativity Movement holds a white supremacist perspective, with the ultimate goal of creating a world populated solely by people of Western European ancestry. Members of the group believe that a person's race is his highest defining trait and hence should be protected from contamination or dilution. In practice, they reject interracial marriage as well as social interactions among different racial groups. They also consider blacks and Jews to be inherently inferior to whites.
Church members are called "creators," and are encouraged to relocate to central Illinois where the church is headquartered. In keeping with founder Ben Klassen's philosophy, the church encourages members to practice "salubrious living," which refers to eating natural foods and avoiding chemical contaminants or intoxicants. In deference to the church's founding in 1973, members reject the Gregorian calendar in favor of one that begins in that year. With 1973 labeled "Inception of Creativity" (I.C.), 1974 becomes 1 A.C. The years prior are labeled P.C., making 1972 the year 1 P.C. The church celebrates several holidays, including the founder's birthday, and the last week of the year is dedicated to white racial pride and purity.
Church members are encouraged to disseminate their beliefs using a variety of methods. In some cases, members have been encouraged to employ call-in radio shows as a pulpit. Some creators have been taught to cold-call when recruiting, choosing numbers at random from the phone book, and claiming a wrong number was dialed if the person answering does not sound white. Creators are also taught that if national laws prohibit the distribution of hate literature, they are expected to ignore those laws.
Violence is a primary tool used by the organization. White supremacists distributing Creativity literature outside a rock concert in 1997 noticed an African-American man and his son nearby. Eleven of the group attacked the two, and several were convicted and sentenced for the crime under the stricter hate-crime sentencing guidelines. Group members also continue to use other forms of harassment, though in one recent case, the tactic apparently backfired. A May 2005 federal court ruling ordered the church to pay $450,000 in attorney's fees, in part because the court found compelling evidence that church members left threatening phone messages for opposing attorneys in an ongoing legal case.
Definitions of right and wrong are uniquely provided by the Creativity Movement's philosophy. Whereas most world religions look to an ethical code such as the Bible or the Quran for guidance, Klassen offered his own set of moral teachings, all tied to race. At its core is the belief that actions that benefit the white race are inherently right, and the greater the benefit, the more valuable the action. Conversely, actions that are detrimental to the white race are reprehensible and, in Klassen's doctrine, constitute sin.
Like many other religious thinkers, Klassen wrote from a position of dissatisfaction with American culture. However, he framed America's struggles as issues of race, blaming interracial marriage and a lack of racial identity among whites for the country's problems. He also taught that health and well-being can be achieved only when one experiences both love and hate. In the case of Klassen's church, this prescription was expressed in the group's powerful love of whites and its equally powerful hatred for non-whites.
Ben Klassen forms the Church of the Creator.
Church member George Loeb is convicted of murdering an African-American veteran in Florida.
The victim's family successfully sues the church for $1 million.
Ben Klassen commits suicide.
Matthew Hale is appointed the group's new leader, changes church name to World Church of the Creator.
Judge Joan Lefkow rules against the church in a copyright infringement suit. In response, Hale legally changes the group's name to the Creativity Movement.
Hale is sentenced to forty years in prison for soliciting the murder of Judge Lefkow.
Both Ben Klassen and Matthew Hale have taken seemingly contradictory public positions, openly advocating hatred for non-whites while carefully avoiding any suggestion of violence or other illegal activity. A church document, The Creator Membership Manual, states that members who commit crimes or incite others to do so will be expelled from church membership, though Klassen's earliest writings admonish readers to see racial differences as a "fight" that whites must accept and win.
Pontifex Ex: The Trial that Sent neo-Nazi Matt Hale to Prison Also Revealed the Shabby Reality of His World Church of the Creator
When Matt Hale shambled into a small Chicago courtroom on April 6, commencing the first day of a trial that could land him in prison for life, nobody gasped audibly. But the first glimpse of Hale, David Duke's only serious rival for the title of America's most famous neo-Nazi, left looks of profound confusion on dozens of faces around the courtroom.
Looks that said: That can't possibly be him, can it?
But yes, this was him. This was the man who had spent more than a decade crafting a public image as the handsome, clean-cut, suit-and-tie-wearing boy genius of American neo-Nazism.
Now, for the most critical three weeks of his life, Hale had decided to eschew his Sunday best and come to court in an orange prison jumpsuit, carelessly unbuttoned at the top, a stretch of white T-shirt showing underneath.
Puzzled reporters later discovered that Hale had chosen his attire as a way of protesting his incarceration, of marking himself as a "political prisoner" for all the world to see. But since the judge reportedly refused to let Hale's attorney explain his appearance to the jury, the prison jumpsuit only served to mark him as a criminal.
It wasn't the first time Hale had left people scratching their heads. The reality of Matt Hale—like that of the neo-Nazi group he commanded—has never come close to the image. He made grandiose claims about the World Church of the Creator's membership, for instance, sometimes telling gullible reporters and supporters there were as many as 80,000—when the real number never reached one thousand.
But Hale exaggerated so expertly that even the normally sharp New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof fell for it, calling WCOTC the standard-bearer of "Hate, American Style."
Nothing mattered more than the personal image of Hale himself. A mere 25 years old in 1996, when he was crowned Pontifex Maximus (high priest) of an obscure, nearly moribund organization called "Church of the Creator," Hale quickly displayed a rare gift for attracting publicity.
Like Duke, he recognized that a presentable, well-spoken, youthful neo-Nazi leader would certainly have novelty on his side. Especially one who, like Hale, could boast about being a law student at a reputable university.
As he traveled the country, mingling with his fellow neo-Nazis at rallies and watering down his message of racial holy war ("RaHoWa") for small-town library audiences, Hale always made one thing perfectly clear: He was a cut above the herd.
To reinforce this illusion, Hale added "World" to the name of his group. He christened two upstairs rooms in his father's humble house in East Peoria, Ill., the "World Headquarters." Wherever he went, he made sure he was accompanied by his "elite security force," the White Berets. His thin, quavering voice spoke in measured, lofty tones.
When reporters from big magazines like GQ came calling, he might even break out his violin, emphasizing that he was not only a law student but—get this!—a classically trained musician, as well. For photos, he would often remove his glasses and clench his jaw, making his face look fuller, more dignified.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center, 2004
Writing in The Little White Book, Klassen outlined his plan to overcome what he described as tyranny against the white race. In opening the discussion, he declares his opposition to violence, but quickly moves to tactics such as boycotting Jewish-owned businesses, driving other races from society "just as Hitler did in Germany," and forcing these "parasites" to leave the United States. The final three of Klassen's eight points deal with weapons and violence, which would be held as a reserve plan should the non-violent approach fail to achieve the group's objectives.
The seeming contradiction between the group's non-violent claims and its hate-filled rhetoric may be partially resolved by considering the history of group members' actions and the church's response. For a relatively small group, the church's members have been linked to a disproportionately large number of violent attacks. From 1991 to 2003, church members were involved in the murder or attempted murder of fifteen people in the United States and abroad, as well as a planned series of terrorist bombings that police discovered and thwarted. In none of these cases, some of which involved church leaders, did the church or its representatives express regret or outrage at its members' actions.
Though the white-supremacist rhetoric of the World Church of the Creator is similar to other supremacist extremists, the group does not often partner with other groups. Members of the World Church of the Creator vehemently oppose the use of religious-based messages and ideology such as those used by the Christian Identity Movement. Despite its ideological discord with similar organizations, Hale and the World Church of the Creator received significant financial and other support from fellow supremacist organizations during Hale's trial.
Founded in 1973, the Creativity Movement (formerly the Church of the Creator) is a white supremacist group committed to advancing whites and reducing or eliminating black, Jewish, and other non-white populations. Ben Klassen, the group's founder, believed that all of the meaningful contributions to human progress have been created solely by whites, and that whites are the rightful rulers of the Earth. His writings advocated non-violence, but frequently strayed into discussions of when violence might be used. He committed suicide in 1993.
The group's second significant leader, Matthew Hale, led the group beginning in 1996, and is currently in federal prison for soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Hale is the latest of several church members tried and convicted for acts of violence. Since his conviction, the group has drawn little attention and appears to be without direction. Some analysts suggest that the eventual emergence of a new charismatic leader will be required if the group is to survive.
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. The Church of the Creator: Creed of Hate. New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1993.
Web sites " Klassen's Teachings." 〈〉 (accessed October 1, 2005).
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Filling the gap: Anti-ship missiles and the Royal Australian Navy
24 Feb 2016|
On 4 February, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that the US Navy had developed a new anti-ship missile (ASM)—the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6). But that ‘new’ missile isn’t as new as it might seem. The SM-6 has been in limited service with the US Navy as its most capable long range anti-air and anti-missile weapons system since 2013. The SM-6 is estimated to have a range of over 200 nautical miles (370km) and flies at Mach 3.5, giving it the ability to hit an adversary at a long range with little to no warning from defensive radars.
That news comes at a welcome time for many around the world lamenting the US Navy’s lack of a long-range ASM capability. Since retiring the anti-ship variant of the venerable RGM-109 Tomahawk in 1994, the US Navy has been in want of a long range supersonic ASM and has relied upon the slower and shorter ranged RGM-84 Harpoon and SM-2 (the SM-6’s predecessor which had a limited anti-ship capability) missiles to satisfy its surface-to-surface requirements. However, the US Navy isn’t the only state with this capability gap. Years of disinterest in surface warfare, caused by a lack of credible adversaries, have left many western navies (including Australia) far behind the likes of China and Russia in the development of those types of missiles.
Since the 1980s, RAN has relied upon the Harpoon for its ASM capabilities. While extremely versatile (it can be launched from aircraft, ships, and submarines), the Harpoon is capable of only subsonic speeds and has a range of approximately 70 nautical miles (130km). By comparison, China’s newest ASM, the YJ-18, is supersonic and is estimated to have a range of 290 nautical miles (537km). That means that RAN vessels equipped with the Harpoon are not only out-ranged by many potential adversaries, but also have less time to react if fired upon.
That leads to some potentially deadly scenarios for RAN vessels, especially in a contested area of operations. To compensate for the Harpoon’s short range and lower speed, RAN has typically relied upon satellites, submarines, and long range patrol or strike aircraft to find and defeat potential surface threats long before they can target RAN vessels. In an area of operations where access by friendly ships or aircraft (and the targeting data they provide) may be limited or denied—as is increasingly the case in the South and East China seas—RAN vessels can be ‘out sticked’ by the longer ranged and speedier ASMs of their adversaries.
The new anti-ship variant of the SM-6 is good news, then, for Australia as well. A future acquisition of the SM-6 would provide RAN with a means to partially remedy that capability gap. The incoming three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers (AWDs) incorporate the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) which allows them to be equipped with the SM-6. In fact, the Department of Defence’s SEA 1360 project intends to do just that. Under SEA 1360’s timeline, the SM-6’s on the AWDs would reach initial operating capability between FY 2021 and FY 2024.
However, relying on the SM-6 as the AWD’s primary means of long-range attack and defence in the long term could see ship commanders face a worrying dilemma. Using a SM-6 against an enemy surface vessel means that one less that can be used for the AWD’s primary task of air defence. The Mark 41 VLS on the AWD can hold up to 48 individual SM-6 missiles but once its missile supply is exhausted, it can’t replenish stocks until it returns to port. Ship commanders would have to use the SM-6 sparingly in some instances, which isn’t exactly ideal in combat situations.
Part of the long term solution to that problem is a dedicated long range, supersonic ASM capable of destroying enemy vessels. Absent this, RAN still possesses several options that would be compatible with the Mark 41 VLS fitted to most current and future RAN vessels. One is the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) under development by the US Navy. While the LRASM’s subsonic speed isn’t ideal, it makes up for it with a range of over 500 nautical miles (926km) and stealth features. It’s designed to use its low observability design and anti-jamming capabilities to get in the ‘kill box’ where it can autonomously identify and attack its target.
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"There's a real comfort in being a nobody like me, Master Griffin. As long as I do my job, everyone leaves me alone. I recommend trying a like-minded approach, sir."
Logi to Max Griffin in Escape From Lucien
Logi is a servant of the Elf King's palace, and his most obsequious subject.
Logi previously served Virgil, the uncle and caretaker of Trellis and Luger. However, he was later forced to serve the Elf King as a contract that would ensure his life. Logi initially appeared when two elf soldiers returned Trellis to the king's palace. Later, he welcomed the assassin Gablian and lead him to the Elf King. Logi was also assigned to watch Max Griffin, even warning him on his next moves.
Logi in Escape From Lucien
• Logi is initially hairless and goblinlike in appearance, but hairier and almost rodent-like following Escape From Lucien and Supernova.
• This may be because of Kazu’s art changing, which impacted his appearance.
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1. Introduction {#sec0005}
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Healthy brain development *in utero* is imperative for achieving optimal long-term neurobehavioral outcomes. Processes that interfere with normative prenatal development, such as toxin exposure, injury, and infection, can have dramatic consequences ([@bib0005]; [@bib0205]; [@bib0280]), and current evidence suggests that it is by acting on formation of brain circuitry *in utero* that these exposures exert their pernicious effects ([@bib0325]). Furthermore, developmental disorders are increasingly conceptualized as disorders of the brain's functional and structural connectome and it has been suggested that a better understanding of neurodevelopmental processes in the womb may bring us closer to understanding the developmental origins of disease ([@bib0045]; [@bib0080]). However, current models of healthy gestational brain development lack sex-specific effects. Though sex-related variation in hormone levels are detectable by the 8^th^ week of gestation ([@bib0165]), *in utero* sexual dimorphism in the development of functional brain networks has yet to be described.
Elegant work spanning decades has born considerable insight into the timing and order within which *structures* of the brain mature ([@bib0175]; [@bib0200]). In recent years, however, methodological advances have led to a surge in studies attempting to map development of human *functional* brain systems before birth using resting-state functional connectivity (FC) MRI ([@bib0010]; M. I. [@bib0335]). Studies that have assessed FC in human preterm or fetal brain development have described overall network properties and have characterized changes in functional connectivity associated with advancing post-conceptual age. These studies have demonstrated that during early brain development: i) cross-hemispheric, cortico-subcortical, and long-range connectivity increase, ii) connections develop in a medial to lateral gradient, and iii) efficiency and modularity increase ([@bib0090]; [@bib0105]; [@bib0110]; [@bib0125],[@bib0130]; [@bib0120]; [@bib0150]; [@bib0180]; [@bib0295], [@bib0290]; [@bib0310], [@bib0305]; [@bib0315]; M. P. [@bib0340]). However, sex-related variations in functional network formation *in utero* have yet to be elucidated.
Sexual dimorphism in brain structure and functional connectivity are robustly reported findings across the lifespan ([@bib0050]; [@bib0195]; [@bib0210]; [@bib0255]; [@bib0260]; [@bib0330]). However, limited research has assessed sexual dimorphism in the brain before birth. One prior study assessing sexual dimorphism in utero did not observe any brain volumetric differences between 20--32 weeks ([@bib0265]). However, ultrasound studies demonstrate that males have a larger head circumference than females as early as the 2^nd^ trimester (i.e. 14--27 weeks) ([@bib0025]; [@bib0225]). Further, studies in newborns and infants have shown that males and females vary in brain volume and cortical thickness ([@bib0055]; [@bib0145]; [@bib0190]), implicating a likely emergence of sexual-dimorphism in the brain before birth. Gao and colleagues assessed brain functional connectivity development at birth, at age 1 year, and age 2 years and observed greater age dependent increase in frontoparietal connectivity in males than females ([@bib0130]). No other differences in network connectivity were observed between males and females. Similarly, Deoni and colleagues observed no differences in developmental trajectories for cortical growth or myelination of brain regions between male and female brains between the ages of 1--6 years ([@bib0075]). Taken together, changes in hormone levels early in gestation, followed by differences in head circumference observed *in utero*, and differences in brain structure apparent at birth point towards sex differences in the development of fetal functional brain connectivity. However, differences in brain connectivity between male and female fetuses *in utero* have not been previously described.
In the present paper we examined the neurodevelopment of human fetal functional connectivity *in utero* and associated sexual dimorphism in functional network development. While there are many available tools to examine sex differences in functional connectivity, we chose to utilize statistical tools known as enrichment analysis. Enrichment analysis encompasses data-driven statistical approaches first utilized in massively univariate genome wide association studies ([@bib0300]), and more recently applied to functional connectome-wide association studies in children age 1--2 years ([@bib0095]; [@bib0220]) and 12 years ([@bib0350]). We used these innovative statistical approaches to characterize how the functional connectome varies *in utero* with respect to sex and GA. Our aims were to i) define functional brain networks of the developing fetus, ii) compare network development across gestation between sexes, and iii) examine network development associated with GA. We hypothesized that fetus FC would form 'proto networks' with even greater network fragmentation observed than in neonatal brain networks or networks at age 1--2 years ([@bib0130]; [@bib0285]). Further, we hypothesized that increasing GA would positively correlate with increases in long-range network development. Finally, we hypothesized that male and female fetuses would differ in network development across GA.
2. Materials and methods {#sec0010}
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2.1. Participants {#sec0015}
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Participants were recruited during routine obstetric appointments into a study of longitudinal fetal brain development. Inclusion criteria included no contraindications for MRI, maternal age \>18 years, and singleton pregnancies. In total, 166 pregnant women were recruited and underwent MRI between 25 and 39 weeks gestation. Gestational age was determined by a study physician (E.H.-A.) by ultrasound examination within 1 week of MRI testing. For a subset of participants, women were selectively scanned between the 26--30 t h week of gestation and were scanned again between 35--37 weeks gestation +/− 1--2 weeks. All study participants provided written informed consent prior to participation. All study procedures were approved by the Wayne State University Human Investigation Committee. Fetal cases were subsequently excluded from analysis if birth records were inaccessible (N = 5), if born preterm and/or low birth weight (\<37 weeks, \<2500 g; N = 35), 11 of which were also exposed to pregnancy complications, including preterm premature rupture of membranes (N = 7) and intrauterine growth restriction (N = 4). One case was born with a congenital central nervous system abnormality and was thus excluded from analyses. After preliminary exclusion, our sample consisted of 125 pregnant women. Seven of these cases were subsequently excluded due to high fetal motion during fMRI, leaving a final sample of 118. Functional connectivity analyses from 105 of these fetuses have been reported previously ([@bib0310], [@bib0305]; [@bib0320]; M. I. [@bib0345]).
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MRI data were acquired on a Siemens Verio 70-cm open-bore 3 T MR system using a 550 g abdominal 4-Channel Siemens Flex Coil (Siemens, Munich, Germany). Resting-state fMRI data were acquired using a gradient echo planar imaging sequence: TR/TE 2000/30 ms, flip angle 80°, 360 frames, axial 4 mm slice thickness, voxel size 3.4 × 3.4 × 4 mm^3^). Between 12--24 min of fetal resting-state fMRI data were collected per participant, and average specific absorption rate (SAR) was 0.22 W/kg, SD= 0.09.
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Resting state fMRI preprocessing followed previously described methods ([@bib0310], [@bib0305]; [@bib0320]; M. I. [@bib0345]) (Supplemental Fig. S1). In brief, periods of fetal quiescence were manually identified using visual inspection with FSL image viewer. Fetal brain masks were then created separately for each low-motion epoch from a single reference image using Brainsuite ([@bib0275]). Masks were then binarized and applied across frames corresponding to each previously identified low-motion period. After masking, each temporal segment was reoriented manually, realigned to the mean BOLD volume, resampled to 2 mm isotropic voxels, and normalized to a 32-week fetal brain template ([@bib0270]) using Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM8) software implemented in MATLAB. Motion parameters for each manually identified quiescent period were checked to ensure only segments that consisted of at least 20 s (10 frames) of low motion (less than 2 mm translational and 3 ° rotational movement) were retained in subsequent processing steps. This level of censoring has been reported previously ([@bib0310], [@bib0305]; [@bib0320]; M. I. [@bib0345]). Only these censored data were retained for analyses. The realigned and normalized volumes from each quiescent period were then concatenated into one run for each subject. The concatenated, normalized time series were then realigned to the mean BOLD volume and smoothed with a 4 mm FWHM Gaussian kernel in normalized template space. The six head motion parameters generated from SPM realignment of the concatenated time series (X, Y, Z translation and P, Y, R rotation) were included subsequently as motion covariates. Data quality criteria for fMRI in these analyses required volumetric time traces used in further analyses have at least 100 volumes (3.33 min) of low motion data. For these datasets, an average of 40% of data were discarded due to high fetal motion; after motion censoring, an average of 160 frames (M = 5.33, SD = 1.5 min) were retained for males and 157 frames (M = 5.23, SD = 1.3 min) were retained for females. Further preprocessing was performed in CONN functional connectivity toolbox (v14n) ([@bib0355]) in MATLAB including linear detrending, nuisance regression using aCompCor of five principal components extracted from a 32-week fetal atlas white matter and CSF mask, six head motion parameters, and band-pass filtering at 0.008 to 0.09 Hz. See Supplemental Fig. S1 for depiction of processing stream and description of quality control procedures.
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Pycluster (Craddock et al., 2012) was used to generate 197 spatially contiguous, similarly sized regions of interest (ROI) in a spatially normalized fetal atlas space, that have been previously described ([@bib0345]), and are available for download at [www.brainnexus.com](http://www.brainnexus.com){#intr0005}. CONN Toolbox was used to calculate functional connectivity (FC) as zero-lag Pearson correlations between these 197 ROIs for each subject in the 32-week fetal atlas space. To create a network model of the fetal brain, the complete set of unique n = 19,306 ROI-pair FC (Fisher-z) data from all participants were averaged, producing a group-wise 197 × 197 correlation matrix ([Fig. 1](#fig0005){ref-type="fig"}). The set of averaged correlations across subjects was thresholded and binarized at multiple Fisher-z values, corresponding to edge density sparseness thresholds ranging from 1% to 10% of all possible surviving connections at steps of 0.1%, to generate 91 total adjacency matrices. Connections between ROI pairs separated by \<10 mm were removed to minimize the effects of blurring in the spatially normalized fMRI data. The Infomap community detection algorithm ([@bib0250]) that assigns ROIs to communities of putative networks based on maximization of within-module random walks was then applied to adjacency matrices at each threshold. Solutions for each threshold were combined using an automated consensus procedure to provide a single model of the community structure by maximizing the normalized mutual information of groups of neighboring solutions and then maximizing modularity ([@bib0095]). This cross-gestational age network solution ([Fig. 1](#fig0005){ref-type="fig"}) facilitated network-pair-level analyses for each group.Fig. 1Networks of the fetal brain. Networks were generated using functional connectivity data from 197 ROI acquired from 118 fetuses. The fetal connectome is mean Fisher - z transformed Pearson-r correlation values between every pair of ROI. The spatial location of each ROI is displayed on the surface of the brain with coloring representative of the functional network assignments. PFC, prefrontal cortex; SFG, superior frontal gyrus; SMA, somatomotor area; aIN, anterior insula; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; Vis, Visual; pParietal, posterior parietal; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; CB, cerebellum; inf Temp, inferior temporal; pIN, posterior insula; TPJ, temporo-parietal junction; SC, subcortical grey matter (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).Fig. 1
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### 2.5.1. Demographic and outcome analyses {#sec0040}
Independent samples *t*-tests were used to assess differences in GA at scan in addition to comparing GA at birth, maternal prenatal stress, maternal age at scan, maternal prenatal health behavior, birth weight (g), frame count, and motion measures between males and females. Nonparametric tests of differences (*i.e.,* Mann-Whitney *U*) were used for behavioral measures that were non-normally distributed based on the Shapiro-Wilk test.
### 2.5.2. Enrichment analyses {#sec0045}
Enrichment analysis was performed to identify significant clustering of strong FC-GA correlations within and between network pairs, separately for males and females. These enrichment analyses were performed following previously published methods ([@bib0095]; [@bib0350]), and were adapted from existing large-scale genome-wide association studies ([@bib0020]; [@bib0185]; [@bib0240]). First, correlations between Fisher-z-transformed FC and GA were calculated separately in each group for each ROI-pair (n = 19,306). Due to the non-normal distribution of GA at scan, non-parametric Spearman rank correlations were used to calculate FC-GA associations. We then applied an uncorrected p-threshold of 0.05 to the resulting FC-GA correlations. Next, we used a χ^2^ test to assess enrichment for each within- and between-network pair. Additionally, a McNemar χ^2^ test was used to assess differences between male and female patterns of significant FC-GA correlations within- and between- network pairs. Significance for both χ^2^ enrichment and McNemar χ^2^ tests was determined through randomly permuting the subject pairing of FC and GA values 10,000 times ([@bib0020]; [@bib0095]). Networks that were significantly enriched for FC-GA (χ^2^, dof = 1, p \< 0.05) for either sex and/or also significantly different in their network-pair patterns of association with GA at scan between males and females (McNemar χ^2^ p \< 0.05) are herein considered as significant findings. All analyses and visualizations were performed in MATLAB (Release 2016a, The Mathworks, Inc. Natick, Massachusetts, United States).
3. Results {#sec0050}
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3.1. Study cohort {#sec0055}
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Of the 118 fetal cases, 48 were female and 70 were male), with a maternal mean age at scan of 25.1 years (*SD* = 4.6). Additionally, for each of the 21 participants scanned twice during pregnancy, functional data from only the time point with lower motion data was selected. The median fetal age at the time of MRI was 33.6 weeks of gestation (*SD* = 3.9) and mean age at birth was 39.4 weeks of gestation (*SD* = 1.1), see [Table 1](#tbl0005){ref-type="table"}. A Mann-Whitney U test was used to assess differences between males and females on variables that were non-normally distributed (GA at scan, maternal age at scan, maternal prenatal health behavior, birth weight, frame count, and motion). Relevant to the present study, males and females did not differ in GA at scan, number of retained fMRI frames, or in average XYZ and average Pitch Roll Yaw (PYR) motion, and demonstrated similar bimodal distributions in GA (p \> 0.05; [Fig. 2](#fig0010){ref-type="fig"}; [Table 1](#tbl0005){ref-type="table"}). GA at scan did not correlate with maternal health, maternal stress, head motion, frame count, birth weight, or maternal age at time of scan (*p* \> 0.05) (Supplemental Table S1). Finally, head motion did not correlate with GA in either the group of male or female fetuses (Supplemental Tables S2 and S3; Fig. S2).Table 1Demographic Information.Table 1MeasureMales (M ± SD) N = 70Females (M ± SD) N = 48dft*p*Gestational Age at Birth (weeks)39.5 ± 1.239.3 ± 1.01161.070.29Maternal Prenatal Stress−0.1 ± 0.70.0 ± 1.0116−0.450.66MedianMedianUZ*p*Gestational Age at Scan (weeks)35.1434.361492−1.030.30Maternal Age at Scan (years)23.7024.681575−0.580.57Maternal Prenatal Health Behavior198.50187.541545−0.740.46Birth weight (g)334832101262−2.290.02Frame Count1481471640−0.220.83XYZ Motion0.220.211510−0.930.35PYR Motion0.390.381504−0.960.34[^1]Fig. 2Male and female fetal gestational age *in utero*. Due to study sampling design across other projects (i.e. women were selectively recruited and scanned between the 26^th^-28^th^ and again at 35--37 weeks), gestational age at scan demonstrated a bimodal distribution. Thus, non-parametric tests were used to assess brain-behavior interactions between sex and gestational age.Fig. 2
3.2. Fetal brain networks {#sec0060}
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To ensure that the FC data were not contaminated by motion-based artifact in the BOLD signal, we tested for a motion dependence on the correlation between the FC data and motion quality control (QC) measures as well as the relationship between QC-FC and Euclidian distance between ROI pairs ([@bib0060]) for both male and female fetuses. A comparison of median absolute QC-FC for male (r = 0.0855) and female (r = 0.1007) fetuses demonstrated the motion preprocessing in the present paper performed as well or better than half of the motion correction techniques tested by Ciric and colleagues (i.e., [Fig. 2](#fig0010){ref-type="fig"} from [@bib0060]). In contrast, QC-FC-distance dependent effects for male (r=-0.0301) and female (r=-0.0032) fetuses outperformed almost all motion correction procedures reported by Ciric and colleagues (i.e., [Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"} from [@bib0060]), suggesting the distance between ROI and the strength of FC was not contaminated by motion (Supplemental Fig. S3). Community detection analysis was run on the 19,306 ROI pairs and generated a16 functional network consensus model ([Fig. 1](#fig0005){ref-type="fig"}, Supplemental Table S4).Fig. 3Associations between functional connectivity (FC), gestational age (GA), and sex. Red squares indicate network pairs that were significantly more enriched with strong rs-fMRI correlations with GA in female fetuses than male fetuses. Blue squares indicate networks exhibiting stronger enrichment of FC-GA correlations in male than female fetuses. PFC, prefrontal cortex; SFG, superior frontal gyrus; SMA, somatomotor area; aIN, anterior insula; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; Vis, Visual; pParietal, posterior parietal; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; CB, cerebellum; inf Temp, inferior temporal; pIN, posterior insula; TPJ, temporo-parietal junction; SC, subcortical grey matter (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).Fig. 3
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### 3.3.1. Stronger systems-level associations in females than males {#sec0070}
Females exhibited stronger clustering of FC-GA associations between left temporal pole (L TempPole) with posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) (McNemar χ^2^ = 8.1, *p* \< 0.05) and cerebellum (CB) connections with left superior frontal gyrus (SFG) (McNemar χ^2^ = 17.39, *p* \< 0.01) ([Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"} red squares). Specifically, older GA was associated with increased positive FC between the CB with L SFG and between L TempPole and PCC ([Fig. 4](#fig0020){ref-type="fig"}A red box). Significant clustering of strong FC-GA correlations between these regions was not observed in male fetuses (Supplemental Table S5). There were three additional networks which demonstrated greater FC-GA correlations in females than males which were not significantly enriched within the female fetus group. Specifically, increased FC-GA correlations were observed between prefrontal cortex (PFC) and subcortical (SC) grey matter (McNemar χ^2^ = 7.26, *p* \< 0.05), left visual (L Vis) with SC (McNemar χ^2^ = 7.11, *p* \< 0.05), and PFC with L TempPole (McNemar χ^2^ = 11.25, *p* \< 0.05). In total, five network pairs demonstrated significantly greater FC-GA association in female than male fetuses ([Fig. 4](#fig0020){ref-type="fig"}A; Supplemental Fig. S4; Supplemental Table S6).Fig. 4Between group McNemar chi-square differences in network FC-GA associations. A) Female fetuses demonstrated greater FC-GA in five network pairs than male fetuses, though only two of these network pairs were significantly enriched (chi-square) within the female fetus group (red box; same data as [Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"}). B) Male fetuses demonstrated greater FC-GA in two networks compared to female fetuses, though only one of these networks demonstrated within-group enrichment in male fetuses (blue box; same data as [Fig. 4](#fig0020){ref-type="fig"}). Blue lines represent negative FC-GA correlations, red lines represent positive FC-GA correlations. All connections between networks significant at Spearman rho p \< 0.05. PFC, prefrontal cortex; SFG, superior frontal gyrus; Vis, Visual; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; CB, cerebellum; SC, subcortical grey matter; Temp Pole, temporal pole; L, left; R, right (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).Fig. 4
Several network pairs exhibited significant clustering in females that were not significantly different from male fetuses (McNemar χ^2^ *p* \> 0.05) (pink squares [Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"}). These network pairs included intra-network connections within prefrontal cortex (PFC) (Enrichment χ^2^ = 18.85, *p* \< 0.05), PFC connections with PCC (Enrichment χ^2^ = 11.92, *p* \< 0.05), left posterior insula/temporoparietal junction (pIN/TPJ) connections with superior L SFG (Enrichment χ^2^ = 18.85, *p* \< 0.05), subcortical (SC) grey matter connectivity with L TempPole (Enrichment χ^2^ = 10.60, *p* \< 0.05), SC connections with CB (Enrichment χ^2^ = 10.95, *p* \< 0.05), and SC connections with right insula (Enrichment χ^2^ = 10.15, *p* \< 0.05).
### 3.3.2. Stronger systems-level associations in males than females {#sec0075}
Male fetuses exhibited an enriched association between GA and CB connectivity, while females did not (McNemar χ^2^ = 7, *p* \< 0.05) ([Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"} dark blue square). Connectivity within the CB was positively correlated with greater GA in both male and female fetuses ([Fig. 4](#fig0020){ref-type="fig"}B blue box), though the number of associations was sparser in female fetuses (Supplemental Table S5). An additional network exhibited greater FC-GA correlations in male than female fetuses, though this did not reach within-group significance for enrichment in male fetuses. Specifically, male fetuses demonstrated increased FC-GA correlations between PFC and R SFG than female fetuses (McNemar χ^2^ = 12.19, *p* \< 0.01) ([Fig. 4](#fig0020){ref-type="fig"}B; Supplemental Fig. S4; Supplemental Table S6).
Additional network pairs exhibited FC-GA enrichment in males, though these network associations did not significantly differ between males and females (McNemar χ^2^ *p* \> 0,05) (light blue squares [Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"}). These FC-GA associations included cerebellum to left temporal pole (Enrichment χ^2^ = 11.59, *p* \< 0.05), left visual cortex to posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) (Enrichment χ^2^ = 12.93, *p* \< 0.05), and right visual cortex to left posterior insula/temporo parietal junction (pIN/TPJ) (Enrichment χ^2^ = 9.33, *p* \< 0.05).
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In order to understand the role of GA independent of sex, GA for the entire fetal cohort (N = 118) was correlated with FC. Changes in GA were significantly associated with FC involving eight out of sixteen functional networks (black squares [Fig. 5](#fig0025){ref-type="fig"}; Supplemental Table S7). Networks showing significant age-related change include R SFG, PCC, visual, CB, pIN/TPJ, inferior temporal, SC, and insula ([Fig. 5](#fig0025){ref-type="fig"}, [Fig. 6](#fig0030){ref-type="fig"}). Networks with the most internetwork FC-GA associations included the right SFG, PCC, and left visual (LVis) ([Fig. 6](#fig0030){ref-type="fig"}). Overlap between GA enrichment and sex-GA interaction occurred within one network pair (L SFG-CB). Enrichment of associations with GA within this network is driven by females ([Fig. 3](#fig0015){ref-type="fig"}, [Fig. 4](#fig0020){ref-type="fig"}; Supplemental Table S5).Fig. 5Associations between gestational age (GA) and whole group (N = 118) functional connectivity (FC). GA changes associated with FC (black squares) are implicated in 8 out of 16 networks. SFG, superior frontal gyrus; SMA, somatomotor area; aIN, anterior insula; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; Vis, Visual; pParietal, posterior parietal; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; CB, cerebellum; inf Temp, inferior temporal; pIN, posterior insula; TPJ, temporo-parietal junction; SC, subcortical grey matter (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).Fig. 5Fig. 6Associations between whole group gestational age (GA) and functional connectivity (FC). Blue lines represent negative FC-GA correlations, red lines represent positive FC-GA correlations. All connections between networks significant at Spearman rho p \< 0.05. SFG, superior frontal gyrus; SMA, somatomotor area; aIN, anterior insula; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; Vis, Visual; pParietal, posterior parietal; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; CB, cerebellum; inf Temp, inferior temporal; pIN, posterior insula; TPJ, temporo-parietal junction; SC, subcortical grey matter (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).Fig. 6
4. Discussion {#sec0085}
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Characterization of human fetal brain network functional connectivity provides fundamental insight into the developmental origin of brain network architecture. While sex-related differences in brain structure and function have been reported across the lifespan, no prior research has investigated the sex-related brain development *in utero*. In the present study we used graph theory to identify 16 prenatal functional connectivity networks that were characteristically lacking in bilateral homotopic connectivity. We then examined sex-related changes in FC within and between networks across gestation. We observed differences between male and female fetuses in FC within and between seven networks. Further, we investigated GA-related changes, independent of sex, within and between networks. In the largest study to date, we identified variance in fetal brain network connectivity associated with GA. Cumulatively, the present study demonstrates that prenatal FC is organized into highly fragmented prenatal brain networks, and that prenatal FC varies significantly with regard to both sex and GA.
4.1. Brain networks in utero {#sec0090}
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This present study utilized graph theoretical community detection algorithms in order to identify prenatal FC brain networks. While Infomap community detection algorithms have been described previously in adults ([@bib0235]) and in infant-toddler network models ([@bib0095]), this is the first time that Infomap has been used to estimate brain networks from human fetuses *in utero*. Research examining the developmental trajectories of the human brain suggests that, at younger ages (i.e. \< 3 years of age), the functional connectivity structure relative to adults is highly fragmented and contains constituent 'proto networks' - precursors to adult functional network counterparts ([@bib0150]). Consistent with prior prenatal work from our lab, we observed 'proto networks' in the fetal brain ([@bib0310]). Unlike networks identified in neonates, infants, or toddlers ([@bib0095]; [@bib0125],[@bib0130]), the prenatal networks identified in the present study were not connected bilaterally, with the exception of the 'supplementary motor area' which encompassed an extensive dorsal portion of the brain. This finding of a large dorsal network, and lack of bilateral homotopic FC is consistent with prior research in prematurely born infants which suggests only weak bilateral connectivity is present prior to 38 weeks GA ([@bib0285]). As with prior Infomap analyses in adults ([@bib0235]), we observed that Infomap was capable of discerning smaller networks (i.e. 16 networks in the present study) as compared to the 5 or 6 networks previously identified using Louvain modularity ([@bib0310]). Taken together, the present work adds an exciting new piece to our understanding of human brain development by demonstrating 16 unique fetal networks, precursors to infant-toddler 'proto-networks' ([@bib0095]); networks that will likely develop into their eventual adult network counterparts throughout early childhood.
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Sexual differentiation is apparent in both neural and physiological development in the first weeks of life ([@bib0165]). One of the most consistent dimorphic findings is that male infants, children, and adults have greater whole-brain volume than females ([@bib0145]; [@bib0195]). However, it is important to understand not just regional differences in structure, but also the connectivity between regions and how these connections differ early in development between males and females *in utero*. Specifically, males have been documented to have larger prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampi than females ([@bib0255]). These volumetric differences may predispose individuals to certain vulnerabilities ([@bib0085]). Understanding regional differences in brain function and FC *in utero* may inform health outcomes and susceptibility to environmental stressors and the development of psychopathology.
In the present study, we observed developmental differences between males and females in fetal brain network FC between 25--38 weeks. We observed differences between male and female fetuses in FC within and between seven networks across GA. Females demonstrated greater change in long range FC across gestation while male fetuses demonstrated local FC-GA associations. Specifically, female fetuses demonstrated long range GA related changes in FC between subcortical and cortical regions (i.e. CB and SC connectivity with SFG, PFC, and Visual cortex). This pattern of FC-GA relationships within these network pairs was almost completely non-existent in male fetuses. Meta analyses of sex differences across the lifespan suggest that females have greater frontal gyrus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus volume than males ([@bib0255]), and female infants have greater volume within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (including the SFG) and visual cortex ([@bib0190]). It seems likely that these volumetric differences are mirrored by SFG FC differences observed in the present study. Further, prior studies in large samples of adults ([@bib0030]; [@bib0035]) and infants ([@bib0155]) demonstrate that the CB possesses multiple representations of the cerebral cortex. However, these prior papers did not examine gender differences in CB FC. It is possible that the SFG-CB connectivity observed in the present study supports future dimorphic functional and cognitive representations within the CB later in life.
In the present study, males demonstrated greater FC-GA associations within the CB and between dorsal and ventral regions of the PFC (i.e. PFC -- R SFG) than females. While this association was stronger in males, females also demonstrated a similar pattern of FC-GA associations within the CB. Within the CB, as GA increased, intra-cerebellar FC increased, suggesting strengthening of functional connections within the cerebellum is crucial for typical brain development across gestation. The CB experiences the largest growth of any brain region following birth ([@bib0055]; [@bib0170]), and studies consistently report that males have larger cerebellum grey matter volume than females spanning from childhood to adulthood ([@bib0195]; [@bib0255]; [@bib0330]). Taken together, the present findings suggest that greater cerebellar volume in males is mirrored by greater FC integration within the CB network in males than females during gestation. In contrast, FC within the ventral (PFC) and dorsal (R SFG) prefrontal cortex decreased as GA increased. Both groups demonstrated this FC-GA relationship within the PFC, though it was more pronounced in male fetuses. While some research would suggest that connectivity between dorsal and ventral PFC should grow stronger with age, ultimately leading to the formation of the anterior portion of the default mode network ([@bib0235]), other research suggests distinct functionality exists in dorsal and anterior prefrontal and cingulate cortex ([@bib0040]). Perhaps these GA related changes in FC between dorsal and ventral PFC will come to support cogntive and affective processes during later development ([@bib0040]).
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Early in development, vast and rapid brain growth occurs. Specifically, data from preterm infants scanned between 28--38 weeks demonstrates a rapid increase in brain volume and cortical folding in regions including motor, SMA, visual, and insula cortices, while at later GA these regions slow in their growth and are surpassed by growth and folding in lateral parietal, temporal, and frontal regions ([@bib0135]; [@bib0140]). Further, research demonstrates that gyrification of the fetal brain increases across GA, and that the rate of gyrification peaks at approximately 30 weeks ([@bib0360]). Determining the FC changes corresponding to these structural changes during *in utero* development has received less attention.
Studies of functional connectivity fMRI in infants and young children have availed further important insight into processes governing the development of FC within and between regions of the brain. Specifically, while bilateral connectivity between homotopic regions appears present in typically developing infants and toddlers ([@bib0090]; [@bib0110]; [@bib0125],[@bib0130]), association networks are often fragmented into disconnected, or weakly connected, anterior and posterior segments. Limited prior research suggests that functional brain networks are further fragmented during gestation (i.e. \< 40 weeks gestational age), and lack bilateral homotopic network connectivity ([@bib0285]; [@bib0310], [@bib0305]; [@bib0315]). However, these prior fetal and preterm imaging studies were conducted in relatively small samples (n \<38) and were thus limited from well-powered age and gender comparisons. An exception comes from a recent study by our group that sought to isolate connectome "hubs" using data from 105 fetuses (M. I. [@bib0345]). We reported degree and betweenness centrality across the full sample, and in a secondary analysis compared consistency in identified hubs across median-split age groups. In contrast, here we examine gestational age as a continuous variable assessed in 118 human fetuses and use enrichment analyses to identify between and within network connections that show significant age-related change.
As expected, the present results suggest that increasing GA is associated with widespread change in FC across the brain. A notable number of FC changes were observed involving SFG, PCC, and visual cortex connectivity with other cortical and subcortical networks. While prior research demonstrated an increase in cross-hemispheric connectivity with increasing age ([@bib0295]), we did not observe a pattern of increasing cross-hemispheric connectivity in the present study. In contrast, many of the connections which changed with increasing GA appeared to be long distance anterior-posterior connections. In interpreting these differences, it is important to note that fetuses in the present study were less than 40 weeks GA, while prior work ([@bib0295]) included term born infants (\> 40 weeks GA). The present study suggests that bilateral homotopic connectivity does not begin to mature until the final weeks of gestation (i.e. after 38 weeks) or even until after birth.
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Assessing functional brain networks in the human fetus presents multiple significant methodological challenges, including the potential for differing hemodynamics as compared to infant or older human participants. Indeed, multiple key components of neurovascular coupling, from gene networks to local cellular contributors like astrocytes and pericytes to network-level brain connectivity, undergo significant changes during both fetal and postnatal development ([@bib0010]; [@bib0160]; [@bib0230]). More generally, prenatal hemodynamics in animal model studies ([@bib0065]) have been shown to display similarity in the maturation of the hemodynamic response of human participants at equivalent ages that are imaged in this study ([@bib0015]). Though this is a period of rapid development, previous foundational studies have illuminated the emergence of the spatial structure of low-frequency correlations in early life human resting state networks and their relationship to normative function and neurodevelopmental disorders ([@bib0095]; [@bib0100]; [@bib0110]; [@bib0115]; [@bib0215]; [@bib0245]; [@bib0290]; [@bib0305]). In the present study, because we are not assessing shape or amplitude of blood flow changes, we expect that hemodynamic variation is less likely to bias inter-individual results over the age range of focus. Additionally, as with other resting state functional connectivity analyses in early development, we do not assume an explicit hemodynamic response function (HRF). This is in contrast to effective connectivity studies that aim to assess the causal influence of one brain region on another by deconvolving an assumed shape of the HRF from the fMRI time series. To utilize such HRF-dependent methods, future fetal fMRI studies may optimize model parameters through estimation of oxygenation possibly through the BOLD activity of the placenta ([@bib0070]).
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Imaging and analyzing prenatal FC data presents several unique challenges (as summarized by [@bib0335]). The ROI utilized in the present study are in fetal atlas space based on a 32-week template. The general utility of these ROI to data in other template spaces is limited. However, due to rapid and non-linear changes in fetal brain structures (e.g. the cerebellum), transformation of fetal data to adult atlas space should be performed with caution. Due to challenges inherent to fetuses moving inside the womb, standard segmentation and reorientation algorithms used in adult data could not be performed. Therefore, the BOLD volumes used in the present analysis were derived from manual segmentation and reorientation. Future analyses with this data may endeavor to automate this process with computer routines and algorithms catered to this unique dataset. Further, we acknowledge that the resolution of functional data here (3 × 3 x 4 mm and 2 mm isotropic after resampling) is fairly large considering the size of the fetal brain and raises concerns of partial voluming of anatomical structures in our parcellation strategy. We recommend other groups take resolution into consideration when developing scanning protocols and when considering parcellation strategies. Lastly, the large GA range analyzed as a continuous variable (as opposed to binning age ranges as prior studies have done) is both a strength of the study design but also a consideration for interpretation of the data. Rapid changes in cortical growth, thickness, folding, and connectivity across the 13 weeks measured in the present study might result in a different set of consensus fetal networks than a consensus network determined using fetal data from a more limited GA range.
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The study of brain development *in utero* is imperative for understanding typical and atypical brain development trajectories and achieving optimal long-term neurobehavioral outcomes. The present study demonstrates for the first time that development of fetal brain FC varies with sex. The differential development of FC over gestation in male and female fetuses likely acts as a precursor to sex-related brain connectivity differences observed across the lifespan. Further, the fetal brain networks observed in the present study likely serve as the building blocks for nascent neonatal, toddler, and adult networks.
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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health \[T32 MH100019 to MDW, K01 MH103594 to ATE, MH110793 and ES026022 to MET\] and by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award to MET. This research was also supported, in part, by the Perinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, *Eunice Kennedy Shriver* National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (NICHD/NIH/DHHS); and, in part, with federal funds from NICHD/NIH/DHHS under Contract No. HHSN275201300006C.
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The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Appendix A. Supplementary data {#sec0135}
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The following is Supplementary data to this article:
We would like to thank Dustin Scheinost for the contribution of a fetal surface mesh for visualization purposes. The authors thank Pavan Jella, Sophia Neuenfeldt, Toni Lewis, Tamara Qawasmeh, Fatimah Alismail, and Nada Alrajhi for their assistance in data acquisition and analyses. We would also like to thank the participant families who generously shared their time.
Supplementary material related to this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100632>.
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"new" calvinism
Discussion in 'Calvinism & The Doctrines of Grace' started by presbyterianintexas, Apr 30, 2010.
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1. presbyterianintexas
presbyterianintexas Puritan Board Freshman
I have been hearing alot of harsh statements from the reformed/Calvinistic community about the “new” Calvinism over the last year. Seems like its pretty much 3 issues the “traditional” reformed, is complaining about this “new”Calvinism.
1)that they not “truly” reformed cause they don't follow the “traditional” a Presbyterian/reformed church government. Well lets see the particular baptists did not have “reformed” church government. They were just as bit as Calvinistic as the Presbyterians and congregationalists. Either do the congregationalists, but one would be hard pressed to say that Johnathon Edwards was not Calvinist.
2)The new Calvinism is not truly “Reformed” cause they may not in some churches follow the “traditional” reformed confessions like the Westminister Standards or Three Forms of Unity or neither of London Baptist confessions. This is totally not true. I have seen some “independent/bible” type churches confessions of faith over the years and their pretty calvinistic
3)that these new Calvinists are too “spirit-filled”,”fruits of the spirit”. Well im sure the first Great Awakening was that way and it was very Calvinistic
I guess my point is just cause a church or a movement is not your “type” of Calvinism. That doesn't mean they are not true blue Calvinists. I mean if u follow the 5 points”Tulip” in your theology, you are considered Calvinist.
2. au5t1n
au5t1n Puritan Board Post-Graduate
You are confusing "Calvinism" with "Reformed." One is primarily a reference to the five points nowadays; the other is a theological movement that includes other distinctives, such as the Regulative Principle and Covenant Theology.
3. presbyterianintexas
presbyterianintexas Puritan Board Freshman
well i know what ya saying but as i stated in post. when most folks think of calvinism its the tulip soteriology. meaning you can be calvinist with out being reformed like baptists and congregationalists were few hundred years ago
4. PuritanCovenanter
PuritanCovenanter Moderator Staff Member
New Calvinism is a different bread. It is not Calvinism. The 5 points are a good place to start in understanding soteriology. But it is not what Calvin would necessarily endorse outside of the whole of the Bible like the New Calvinism does. I has to do with Worship and a New Creation which is not necessarily tied together in the New Calvinism. Calvinism has to do with seeing the whole Bible as a book that is one book and Covenantal.
5. presbyterianintexas
presbyterianintexas Puritan Board Freshman
mmm well i guess some folks believe you have to believe in the presbyterian form of governement and/ or the covenants. to be a true blue calvinist. Sorry Mr. SPurgeon and Edwards your not calvinist by the defination that some are giving. lmbo
6. Herald
Herald Administrator Staff Member
I never had the old Calvinist bread. I wonder how the new Calvinist bread is toasted with butter.
7. Sam Owen
Sam Owen Puritan Board Freshman
Anyone seen a store that sells Calvinist Crumpets?
8. Herald
Herald Administrator Staff Member
No, but I heard cranberry Calvinist scones are really good.
9. Sam Owen
Sam Owen Puritan Board Freshman
Bwah ha haaa ... Ooooh that's just norty :p
10. Philip
Philip Puritan Board Graduate
I asked a reformed church historian once about what he thought of new Calvinism and he responded with admiration for the way that the new Calvinists are embracing and studying the Puritans, but expressed concern over their lack of unity and lack of a confession. I think they're headed in a good direction, as long as they keep going (and judging by their enthusiasm for sound doctrine, it looks like they will).
11. raekwon
raekwon Puritan Board Junior
Could someone define "new Calvinism" and/or give some real-world examples? I've seen it much bally-hooed (both in positive and negative lights) with no real definition.
12. CIT
CIT Puritan Board Post-Graduate
1.the doctrines and teachings of John Calvin or his followers, emphasizing predestination, the sovereignty of god, the supreme authority of the Scriptures, and the irresistibility of grace.
13. DMcFadden
DMcFadden Puritan Board Doctor
Brian, welcome to the PB!
After you have been around here a bit longer, you will learn that a couple of professional historians here (and not a few members) do not believe that Baptists are Reformed, as a matter of fact. Most of the operational definitions for "Reformed" on the PB include a more full bodied feature-rich panoply of items that typically include a coupling of Calvinist soteriology with covenant theology and a traditional confession (e.g., WCF or the 3FU). This excludes as well as includes. Dr. John MacArthur, for instance, is a powerful preacher and author who upholds the sovereignty of God and TULIP. He is, however, dispensational, pre-tribulational, and . . . non Reformed.
Some of us who are non Presbyterian rankled at the apparent exclusivity in the beginning. However, this is not to say that God only works through Reformed bodies. TULIP soteriology is a thing to be appreciated, no matter who holds it. Many non-confessional and non-Reformed "new Calvinists" are doing a wonderful job of challenging the secularism of our culture, building churches, and presenting the Gospel. They are found in independent churches, Baptist churches, and the like. They are not, by most accepted definitions, fully Reformed. Mark Driscoll, for example, preaches from the "right" Bible (ESV), holds firmly to Calvinistic theology, etc. He would probably not, however, consider himself "Reformed" and few on the PB would argue with him.
14. Kiffin
Kiffin Puritan Board Freshman
This is not a "real" definition but my observation-
New Calvinism is a movement of 18-30something year-olds who have embraced Reformed soteriology through the ministries of John MacArthur, John Piper, RC Sproul, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, Ligon Duncan, etc., and who are not afraid to be dogmatic despite postmodernity's influence. The majority are dispensationalists who are reforming and a close second are confessionalists who find exceptions.
Synonym- Togetherforthegospelism
15. Herald
Herald Administrator Staff Member
That's a pretty good definition. But without adopting Reformed theology, Neo-Calvinism will eventually become subservient to the egalitarianism and relativism of the day.
16. jwright82
jwright82 Puritan Board Senior
17. presbyterianintexas
presbyterianintexas Puritan Board Freshman
i agree Dennis. You basically said samething i was saying but in a different way. When i started the post Mark Driscoll was what i had in mind
18. JOwen
JOwen Puritan Board Junior
19. Prufrock
Prufrock Arbitrary Moderation
I would suggest that this conversation is based upon too high a view of the "5 Points" *as* "The 5 Points." We need to remember that these weren't something that a group of theologians sat down and thought of one day as a good representation of our theology. Rather, there was already a full, coherent system of theology, and this system was challenged by the Remonstrants on 4 points; in response, in order to protect the truths of this system of theology, the fathers met at Dort and affirmed the necessity of 5 key points within the Reformed system. What does this mean? It means that these 5 things were never designed to stand alone; nor, I would submit, *can* they stand alone.
Let me give an example. Let's pretend that I am a Rock and Roll musician. I stay with my sister for a week, and she loves to listen to Baroque-style music -- especially to Bach. Now, while my Rock sensibilities cannot stand her music, nevertheless I am very intrigued for some reason by the overall concept of a fugue. I don't like all the formal rules, the constraints, the styles, (the harpsichords), but I love the idea of the fugue. So later on, when I am writing new music, I attempt to incorporate the basic idea of the fugue into one of my songs. It's a wild song, full of screaming guitars, driven by drum loops, ever-changing in traditional rock fashion. BUT, it has some basic elements of a fugue. Now, under no circumstances would it be honest or a fair representation of Baroque music to claim that I am now a Baroque musician. The most that can be said is that I have incorporated a certain element of Baroque style into a fundamentally antagonistic form of music.
I would suggest to you that these "5 Points" are of a similar nature: they simply cannot be separated from their Reformed context and grafted into some other theological system/view and still retain any true, meaningful significance. This is not to discourage those contemporary churches and Christians who are beginning to discover the wonders of aspects of Reformed theology -- they should be greatly encouraged! And we need to be thankful that such truths are beginning to be rediscovered and embraced! Nevertheless, speaking abstractly, without the framework provided by the Heidelberg Catechism and the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort cannot represent any basis for theology. They need to exist within a framework. Without a proper understanding of God as he is a Trinity, and of the nature of his will, knowledge and decrees, the 5 Points cannot stand; without a proper understanding of the role of each of the Three persons in salvation, the 5 Points cannot stand; without a proper understanding of Justification by Faith, the 5 Points cannot stand; without an understanding of the Covenant of Grace, and the means by which salvation is applied (the Word and Sacrament), the 5 Points cannot stand; without a proper understanding of the mediatorial and economic work of Christ in his person, natures, three offices and two states, the 5 Points cannot stand; without an understanding of Reformed piety, and the means of walking in the grace purchased and applied; without an understanding of the law-gospel distinction and the third use of the law; of the role of the gospel and the sacraments in our sanctification -- the 5 Points cannot stand. All our doctrines are inter-related, and you cannot simply remove 5 certain parts from their context and hope that they will still function properly.
You might be interested in reading this short article by famed historian Richard Muller, entitled "How Many Points." It was originally published in Calvin Theological Journal, Vol. 28 (1993): 425-33, but may be read with permission online here: Riddleblog - "How Many Points?"
Welcome to the Puritan Board; I do hope that your time and conversations here will be profitable for all!
20. DMcFadden
DMcFadden Puritan Board Doctor
Well stated and elegtantly framed, Paul. :up:
I think that is what Bill was referencing when he suggested that much of the new Calvinism is intrinsically unstable and will eventually devolve into the Zeitgeist of today: egalitarianism and relativism. The confessional Baptists on the board might argue that they are able to hold it together without paedobaptism. But, ALL of us could probably agree that the Burger King ("have it your way") pastiche of a little Calvinist soteriology and a little emergent church ecclesiology with a large dollop of dispensationalism will never hold together over time.
I celebrate the dissemination of truth (the 5 pts.) whether by Ligon Duncan, John MacArthur, or Mark Driscoll. However, unless it is wedded to a more appropriate ecclesiology and view of the covenant, it will not have much shelf life.
21. Semper Fidelis
Semper Fidelis 2 Timothy 2:24-25 Staff Member
While dogmatic, new Calvinists are giving into some of post-modernity's fluid use of language. While I'm encouraged that people are landing on Calvinistic-ish ideas, the eclectic theological choices they make are still, in many cases, rooted in a modernist way of thinking that our minds are the organ of truth by which we interpret the data from many voices and settle the issue for ourselves. Once they've collected their sources, they perform their own unique mashup of Soteriology, Ecclesiology, Pneumatology, etc, and call it Reformed or Calvinist. Remind them that Reformed or Calvinist had a historic meaning and you're a legalist because their deconstruction of the word is now normative.
Hermeneutics is a complicated science. I don't think I recognized how many ways exegesis and systematics interplay in the building up of doctrines from verses and then informing contexts from the systems. What worries me about many new Calvinists is a kind of pragmatism that's never done any of the "dirty work" to try to get a solid hermeneutic into place but then having the arrogance to claim that Historic Confessions are "legalistic" or stifling on the basis of a theology of the first glance.
Ironically, one of the first principles that many new Calvinists agree with is Total Depravity but I don't think many of them stop to consider the fact that indwelling Sin actually affects the interpretative process - including their own. One of the fundamental reasons that the Reformed have deliberated in Synods over the years is the collective "protection" that a group of men give to each other in their respective theological "blind spots". Again, however, I think that many new Calvinists are operating on a basic modernist assumption that they can trust their own "spider sense". It's an unstated assumption but I see it operating as a consistent undercurrent.
22. Theoretical
Theoretical Puritan Board Professor
23. presbyterianintexas
presbyterianintexas Puritan Board Freshman
i agree more with dennis than Paul that you can be calvinist in soteriology without being calvinist in church government etc. but if in order to be a true blue calvinist you have to have a presbyterian form of government etc. then like i said before, i guess the historians etc were wrong about johnathon edwards and charles spurgeon, among others being calvinist. Since they didnt follow a reformed government. And in order to be calvinist u have to follow a reformed government according to some folks. guess to me theres no logic in having to be reformed in government and theology in order to be a true blue calvinist. i dont have any more of a high view of the 5 points than any other calvinist. that the way most folks have known calvinism by for centuries
24. Prufrock
Prufrock Arbitrary Moderation
Brian, I'm not sure you fully read my response, since it, in fact, included nothing about Presbyterian government; it might be worth noting to you that a good deal of Reformed theologians attribute presbyterial government to bene esse, or well-being, of the Reformed church, not to the esse, or essence, of the Reformed church. While I am very opposed to the independency of theologians such as Goodwin or Owen, I'm not sure I am aware of any who would even contemplate declaring that these men were not, in fact, Reformed theologians; and Edwards was certainly a Reformed theologian.
Since you made the claim, do you have evidence that "calvinism" has been defined "for centuries" by "believing the 5 points"? Sometimes it could be used in a specific, narrow context polemically to define the Calvinist understanding of 5 select points of soteriology against those of the Remonstrants, but that in no way indicates that people thought that "Calvinism" = "Five Points."
I press you on this, not because I want us Reformed folk to be elitist or exlusivist, but because I am troubled by the minimalist ecumenism in which our culture is immersed. Thus, my statements are not aimed polemically against those who would be called Reformed Baptist -- my quarrel does not concern this topic. There is troubling trend, however, to elevate these "5 Points" to be a sort of theological common ground, where, as long as we agree on these things, that's enough. [We have much more in common with Confessional baptists than with the "new Calvinism" movement]. I am not sure why people want so badly to label their theology with the name of a man (Calvin) to whom their theology and church would simply not be recognizable as common with his own.
For what it's worth, I think it probable (I can't claim this as a fact) that there are more cases from at least the first half of the 17th Century where the term Calvinist is used to distinguish the Reformed from the Lutherans, not from the Arminians. Thus, the term "Calvinist" had more to do with such teachings as the sacraments, the law, etc., than with the synod of Dort.
25. Semper Fidelis
Semper Fidelis 2 Timothy 2:24-25 Staff Member
1. Please provide the courtesy to your readers to take the time to use proper punctuation and capitalization. You are very difficult to read.
2. It seems like you're "shadow boxing" here. I'm not sure what your point about Edwards and Spurgeon are with respect to Church Government. Nobody has made the claim that one has to be Presbyterian in their form of government to be "true blue Calvinist". Independents were invited to the Westminster Assembly. Edwards considered himself to adhere to the substance of the Westminster Standards as this quote from Edwards demonstrates:
3. I don't know what you think Dennis was agreeing with but it wasn't what you just stated. The only thing he was pointing out was that, historically, Baptists were not called "Reformed". They, themselves, didn't call themselves Reformed but Particular Baptists. They were careful to distinguish where there was agreement on certain Reformed principles but also understood where they differed on key aspects of Covenant Theology and recognized that "Reformed" had become attached to a particular type of Covenant Theology.
The overarching question has to do with what is Calvinist or what is Reformed. Are they fluid terms historically or only today? I suppose, in your mind, they must be the latter as you have to qualify something as being "true blue" Reformed to distinguish it from another type of Reformed. Perhaps you could define your terms: Calvinist and Reformed.
26. Willem van Oranje
Willem van Oranje Puritan Board Junior
Either that, or, they will gradually be drawn by their love of the Scriptures and growing appreciation of church history towards full Reformed confessionalism. Stranger things have happened!
By the way, I thought Ligon Duncan was a confessional WStds guy. No?
27. DMcFadden
DMcFadden Puritan Board Doctor
I was trying to describe a range from a full-on Presbyterian (Duncan), to perhaps the most famous of the dispensational "Calvinists" (MacArthur), to a widely respected Baptist with strong Calvinistic leanings. My point was that I rejoice in the 5 pts. being proclaimed, whether by a confessional Presbyterian or a "leaky" dispensationalist. However, unless it goes beyond the 5 pts into a more integrated Biblical-systematic theology, it will not remain (in my opinion).
28. jayce475
jayce475 Puritan Board Freshman
Attacks on cessationism never cease, not even on the PB.
29. py3ak
py3ak They're stalling and plotting against me Staff Member
That is an excellent description, and does nail a lot of theology today. In our culture of instant gratification and easy access to an enormous array of information, it is easy to fall into the tendency of looking something up and assuming expertise, when in reality we don't have the background intellectual context to really even appreciate what a source is saying. You could skip a lot of books if someone would just take the time to stamp on the inside cover, "Theology of the first glance".
30. DeborahtheJudge
DeborahtheJudge Puritan Board Freshman
I have some sympathy... I am a product of this movement, after all! I think for me it was a great feat simply to understand the 5 points. I mean, I had to push through all of the Campus Crusade material, read the entire bible (and new testament like 10 times) before I could see coherence. Even then it took an apologetics class with some guy talking about "the antithesis" and blowing my mind with scripture references. When I joined a reformed church, it was because I was convicted by ecclesiastical and worship doctrines.
"Choosing a church" based on what is true to scripture (well, past "The Gospel" which is evangelicalism-speak for Christian fundamentals) was not emphasized. Becoming a member of a church was not emphasized. But what is emphasized is every new book and musical fad and conference that comes about. And reading yourself into every passage of scripture.
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As the 2012 race in Colorado’s always hotly contested 4th congressional district officially kicked off this week, Republicans in Larimer County, the most populous county in the district, are suffering through another humiliating chapter in the unfolding history of incompetence and corruption that plagued the county party under the recent direction of Larry Carillo. Police issued a felony theft arrest warrant for the former party chairman Tuesday, accusing him of stealing more than $17,000 to pay bills and gambling debts. Carillo is alleged to have unwittingly set up payments to a company created by the Department of Homeland Security to fight online gambling and money laundering. Carillo paid more than $27,000 in online gambling debts while he was party chairman.
Mounting evidence suggests Carillo was struggling personally and part hapless and part opportunist as party chair from February 2009 to February 2011. He failed repeatedly to file campaign finance reports, racking up roughly $65,000 in state fines.
State Senate President Brandon Shaffer, a Longmont Democrat, announced Monday he was running to unseat CD4 Republican freshman Congressman Cory Gardner in 2012. The race is sure to be hard fought. Shaffer has eyed the seat for some time, running briefly to represent CD4 in 2008, before withdrawing to make room for Democrat Betsy Markey, who that year unseated Republican social conservative Marilyn Musgrave.
Carillo was replaced as Larimer GOP chairman by Tom Lucero, one-time CU regent and Republican CD4 2010 candidate. Lucero told Bob Moore at the Fort Collins Coloradoan that the warrant for Carillo’s arrest represents a big step forward out of the swamp of mismanagement and bad news that has dogged the local party for months.
“We’re finally able to bring closure to this and we’re able to move on to the final step, which is our [campaign finance fine] appeals process with the secretary of state and we’ll be able to very soon put this chapter behind us and close the book on it.”
Carillo on Tuesday afternoon told Moore he was planning to surrender to Fort Collins police. The Coloradoan has owned the story of the struggling Larimer County GOP. Read Bob Moore’s story posted today for rich detail.
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Major update. Poor in game performance. i7 8700k, GTX1080
Sep 4, 2018
Long story short. That was my previous build:
1. Zalman Z3 PLUS mATX ATX
2. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970, 4GB GDDR5 (256bit) HDMI, DVI-I DL, DisplayPort (GV-N970G1 GAMING-4GD)
3. Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 2133MHz CL14 (HX421C14FBK2/8)
4. Intel Core i5-6500 Skylake, socket 1151, 64bit, 3.6GHz, 65W, cache 6MB, BOX (BX80662I56500)
5. MSI B150 GAMING M3, B150, DDR4, SATA3, USB3.1, ATX (B150 GAMING M3)
6. Thermaltake Smart SE Modular 530W (SPS-530MPCBEU)
I changed motherboard, CPU, and GPU to MSI Z370 A Pro, i7 8700k and Gigabyte Windforce 1080 OC 8GB GDDR5. No overclocking yet until i change my PSU.
My in game performance is quite dissapointing. I barely hit 60 FPS(sometimes around 40-50FPS) in 1080p on both ultra or v. high settings in games like AC Origins. Little more than 60 FPS in Witcher 3. CPU usage in both games is around 50-90%. Both games are installed on SSD.
I want to make sure could it be the fault of PSU or slow memory? Will changing it help me get better performance?
Have you checked to see if your BIOS is up to date? Also, the PSU output you've got is likely not enough to run that card at full tilt along with everything else. The minimum suggested output for the 1080 is 500w and that's not taking into account anything else. You said you're going to swap out your PSU before you overclock but I'd be inclined to suggest you swap it out now.
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Whenever I start to read a review for a new “bloat-free” MS Office competitor, I know what the script is going to be:
1. Office is overpriced and “bloated” with too many features that you “don’t need”
3. But I’m never going to use it, because it doesn’t have <insert my favorite feature> or word count.
It’s actually quite amusing how often this exact script, including the “word count” gripe, recurs. Here’s one from 2001. And another from 1997. Oh, look, it happened again.
Remember, kids, the trouble with the “everyone only uses 20% of the features” myth is that everybody uses a slightly different 20%, and the journalist who has to review your exciting new BloatFreeWrite has been told to write a 250 word story.
About the author.
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2014 Cadillac CTS: Seriously Light
Here’s a look behind what went into engineering the 2014 Cadillac CTS, which is the lightest car in its class. Why is that important? Says Dave Leone, GM Chief Engineer, Performance Luxury Cars, “We did that to enable the driving character we wanted to achieve.”
As Dave Leone has it, in developing the 2014 Cadillac CTS, he and his cadre of engineers—a group of people who had worked on the Cadillac-redefining ATS—went to school on the competition. As the Chief Engineer, Performance Luxury Cars for GM, Leone knows that if they’re going to attract people to Cadillac, those people are probably going to be inclined to shop BMW or Mercedes, so Cadillac needs not to be competitive, but flat-out better.
One of the reasons that the ATS has proven to be so popular is because of its performance. This is predicated on a variety of things, notably the fact that the car is comparatively light. The mass for that car ranges from 3,315 lb. for a vehicle with a 2.5-liter engine, automatic transmission and rear-wheel-drive to 3,629 lb. for an ATS with a 3.6-liter engine, automatic transmission and all-wheel drive.
So because the CTS is based on the architecture of the ATS, and because, Leone says, they realized the importance of weight vis-à-vis not only ride and handling, but the mass that the engine must move, they had a mantra when developing the CTS—“Lower, Longer, Leaner”—and while the design team could address the lower and longer parts (with the executional assistance of their colleagues in engineering and manufacturing, of course), Leone’s people went hard at the “leaner” part. “Within the engineering team we said we’re going to count every gram, every engineer, every day,” Leone says. “Every gram had to earn its way on the car or it didn’t get there.” And they executed changes to things that already seemed light on the previous-generation CTS, changes that are based on materials, changes based on design.
Leone estimates that when all was said and done, about 70% of the improvements in weight can be accounted for by clever design engineering and 30% by material replacement.
What did they achieve? Compared to the second-generation CTS, “Our body is 8.5% lighter and 40% stiffer. The overall car is 7% lighter.” So, speaking to the torsional stiffness, Leone says base car to base car, the torsional stiffness of the 2013 model is 19.2 kN•m/°and the 2014 is 26.8 kN•m/°. Lighter. Stiffer.
So that’s CTS-to-CTS.
What about the aforementioned competition?
Leone makes a comparison between the 2014 CTS with a 272-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter I4 and the 2013 BMW 528i with a 240-hp turbocharged I4. He says they are comparably equipped. The CTS has a curb weight of 3,616 lb. The 528i comes in at 3,814 lb, a 198 lb. difference. Leone points out that this means the CTS needs to move 13.3 lb per horsepower and the BMW 15.9 lb.
A similar situation holds when six-cylinder models are compared. The CTS has a curb weight of 3,745 lb. and the BMW 535i weighs 4,090 lb.
Getting to a reduced mass was essentially a component-by-component exercise. And here are some examples.
B-pillar. In the 2013 model it is made with high-strength steel. It is a combination of eight pieces with a constant gauge that are welded together. The 2014 B-pillar is a two-construction, with the main pillar being a tailored rolled blank made of ultra high-strength steel. It varies in thickness from 1.4 to 1.9 mm, with the greater thickness located where there is greater strength needed. Additionally, there are scalloped edges on the 2014 B-pillar, with material removed where it isn’t needed for structure. Not only is the 2013 B-pillar more complicated to produce (i.e., the blanking, fixturing and welding), but it weighs 14.02 lb. The 2014 B-pillar weighs 10.19 lb.
Doors. A material change. In 2013, both doors are steel. For 2014, aluminum. The front door is 33 lb. lighter and the rear 22 lb.
Instrument panel structure. It is a cast magnesium component in the 2013 CTS that weighs 21.6 lb. The 2014 replacement is made of aluminum, using a central tube to which extrusions and brackets are welded. It weighs 14.4 lb. Not only is it some 36% lighter, but Leone points out that to produce the magnesium casting, they had to deploy a 500-ton press. The 2014 alternative mainly requires a few welding fixtures. “The aluminum structure is lighter, stiffer, and cheaper. Appreciably,” Leone says.
Engine cradle and support. In the 2013 CTS, a 61.4-lb steel component. In the 2014 CTS, it is an all-aluminum assembly (extrusions and castings) that weighs 24.4 lb.
Engine mounting bracket. For 2013, they’re made with cast aluminum and weigh 3.6 lb. For 2014, they’re cast magnesium and weigh 1.5 lb.
Front lower control arms. In both 2013 and 2014 they’re aluminum. But doing a redesign of the structure, the weight was taken from 12.9 lb. to 6.1 lb.
Rear suspension lower control arms. Again, for both models, steel. But the redesign brings the weight to 4.8 lb. from 8.3 lb.
Rear cradle for the differential, springs, and suspension attachments. Steel for 2013 and ’14. But 69.4 lb for the former and 54 lb for the latter.
But a question arises.
Leone worked on the first-generation CTS and headed up the engineering efforts on the second and third generations. They did smart engineering back then. But when you look at the differences made in engineering for this third-generation vehicle, it is astonishing how different things are on a component-by-component basis. So what happened?
“We had a change in design philosophy,” Leone answers, and then goes on to explain the difference in the genesis of the first-generation CTS, which appeared in 2002 (the second appeared in 2008) compared with the third. “When we designed the original CTS, it was also to have the SRX and the STS as part of the family,” he says. That is, both a crossover and a larger sedan. “The platform”—code-named Sigma—“was scalable, but the CTS was the little guy and it carried what we call ‘scar mass’ so that it could handle the components that went across the larger, heavier vehicles.” What they did was considered the biggest possible powertrain, the largest tires and wheels, and the worst load cases possible and engineered accordingly.
“What we did for the ATS and the CTS”—both are the Alpha platform—“is took the highest penetrating options and packages, the most popular configuration—in this case the 2.0-liter turbo with 17-inch tires and wheels—and took the most heavily penetrated market, the USA, and designed it to withstand the loads.”
That is, rather than designing the vehicles to not only accommodate the largest, the heaviest, and the worst-case scenarios, they engineered the vehicle for the most-likely scenarios. Leone says they took “intelligent risks.” Reinforcements are deployed as needed, not everywhere. The fundamental platform, Leone says, is capable and durable: “You can take it anywhere, and it feels rock-solid.” It is engineered for what it needs to do.
But there is the materials cost question, as well. “Is it more expensive? Yes it is, because aluminum doors are more expensive than steel doors,” Leone admits. He continues, “But it is not as expensive as you might think, because the designs are more efficient. The premium materials aren’t free, but the efficiency is.”
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BUNKER HILL, W.Va. (AP) - Out of a childhood pastime, Michael Cox turned wine making from a hobby into a family-run business ready to expand toward becoming an established presence in the region.
Operating Cox Family Winery on his family’s land in Bunker Hill since 2009, Cox recently signed an agreement with the Berkeley County Landmarks Committee for a 20-year lease on 44 acres in Shanghai to expand his vineyards.
Now an established winery with a signature label and eight flavors of Cox Juice, Cox Family Winery first began as a hobby between Cox and his uncle, Rodney Cox.
“My first time ever making wine, it was plum wine in a yellow trash can. I was 7 years old - my uncle’s about 17 years older than I am. I couldn’t drink it, but it was a fun making it because he was a lot older,” Cox said.
After Cox returned to West Virginia following a career in law enforcement, Cox and his uncle began experimenting with wine and produced 17 bottles in 2009. Word-of-mouth grew, and soon, Cox had friends and strangers asking to buy bottles, beginning the idea to develop the hobby into a full-time passion.
“They said they liked it and asked for more. (My uncle and I) sat in the doorway and crushed the grapes in white pillowcases; it was exhausting. We asked people to donate wine bottles for it,” Cox said.
Slowly building a presence over the years through wine and art festivals, wine judgings, and a loyal customer base, Cox has been in negotiations with the county Landmarks Committee for about a year to lease the land and expand the business.
“It’s a West Virginia law that we have to grow 25 percent of our own fruit, and we’ve topped out. We can’t buy any more fruit from anyone else until we grow more fruit of our own,” he said.
Through the land lease, the winery will expand from 129 vines on Cox’s land and access to three acres of fruit to the ability to plant 10,000 vines.
“Not only are we going to be growing grapes, but we’re going to be putting peach trees in there, we’re going to put a whole bunch of raspberries and blackberries. Right now we’re bottling wineberries, a wild raspberry. When we go to festivals, people are looking for the fruitier wines,” Cox said.
When choosing a location for the new vineyard, Cox said it was important to remain local, a philosophy he and his family try to incorporate in all aspects of the business. In addition to staffing family, Cox Family Winery also offers internships to local high school students, adding to their agricultural credits.
Along with using the fruit produced on the new site, Cox hopes to eventually grow enough grapes to sell to other West Virginia and Virginia winemakers.
However, before vines and fruit can be planted at new acreage, a fence must be erected around the property to protect the crops from animal life. Cox anticipates to begin planting next year.
To help defray the cost of fencing, Cox Family Winery will apply for a grant through the Eastern Panhandle Conservation District and is part of a small business grant competition through FedEx. The winery is one of 100 finalists, selected from among 5,000 applicants nationwide, in competition for a $25,000 grant.
The new site is the foundation to Cox’s long-term plans for the winery, including expanding the direct-to-consumer sales, finding at least six distributors nationwide to stock and sell the wine, and expanding the local liquor and grocery stores that sell the wine.
Cox Juice is currently sold at Penn Liquors, in Martinsburg; Big Apple Liquors, in Inwood; Inwood Farmers’ Market; Grapes and Grains Gourmet, in Shepherdstown; and Top Shelf Liquor, in Berkeley Springs.
“I do miss law enforcement. It’s probably the best job I ever had. But with this business, I think anybody would want to work with their families. I have my father, my uncle and close friends,” Cox said. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '65269902ada2b9227859089d98015c654210c22ed0055e62ef6aba1063d989a5'} |
044 Historical Relics w/ John Cha (@authorjcha), Flip Cuddy (dosan.org), and Han Kim (@inthekimchijar)
Never in my wildest dreams or deepest darkest nightmares did I ever think that I would be back in the Valley sitting in a room filled with Korean dudes, nor did I think that I would have a great time, but I did!
John Cha is an author who writes about the Korean and Korean-American experience, and was the first person to interview a high-ranked defector from North Korea. He was instrumental in breaking through the Ginseng Curtain, allowing the US to learn about North Korea's inner workings for the first time. For the record, I made up the term Ginseng Curtain.
Flip Cuddy is the grandson of Dosan Ahn Chang Ho, a Korean independence activist and leader of the burgeoning Korean-American community in California. Flip is a surfer, carpenter, geographer, hydrologist, and many other things that you might think was total bullshit, but the dude is the real deal!
Han Kim, is a podcaster, my cousin, and a real righteous dude letting me and my dog crash at his place despite the fact that he has pet allergies! Do you hear me! He is compromising his immune system for me! I am forever indebted and grateful for his generosity, and his podcast, In The Kimchi Jar, which he puts out weekly with Flip. It will surely become a repository of knowledge and a great resource for people more interested in Korean-American History.
We talk a great deal about history, Korean and otherwise, the nature of reality, climate change, the invention of LA kalbi, North Korea, whether Japan should be allowed to have nuclear weapons, and much more. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9654318690299988}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39348', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NBRPRAHOXDGGUODMKNXQQA5HLMQTOA57', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a3cf1229-5f84-4d36-b6e9-50dd9536682b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 16, 13, 53), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.49.23.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:75W6CFX7FYCFNHTNHFU22V62SPD52PHV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1afeb0c5-6d8c-47f6-b897-bf428905184c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.roginkim.com/the-rogin-kimcast/2016/10/3/044-historical-relics-w-john-cha-authorjcha-flip-cuddy-dosanorg-and-han-kim-inthekimchijar', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bfa50cb8-f396-47b3-a894-588205e5714c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '279', 'url': 'http://www.roginkim.com/the-rogin-kimcast/2016/10/3/044-historical-relics-w-john-cha-authorjcha-flip-cuddy-dosanorg-and-han-kim-inthekimchijar', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-97-181-44.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (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': '0.02963852882385254', 'original_id': 'c3eca282d32347c1b592b0d7f423fef0737ac6c2df8a6e2303528ce5e77f86b0'} |
In Mississippi, according to the law, hunting from a motorized vehicle is illegal.
However, according to the chief of enforcement for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, the intent of the law is to prevent hunters from riding in an automobile or ATV/UTV with a loaded firearm and looking for a deer, or a rabbit for that matter.
“That you cannot do, legally,” said Steve Adcock. “But, if you are just using the ATV, or UTV, to stand on, and the motor is off, that is OK. The intent of this law is to prevent people from riding and looking for game, actually using the vehicle to hunt.
“But, there is something else to consider. If you are riding in or on a motorized vehicle during the hunt and your gun is loaded, then you could be cited for hunting from a motorized vehicle.”
Adcock said that is illegal to use an ATV or UTV to push the dogs or rabbits, but it would be legal to use the vehicle to stay ahead of the dogs, as long as the firearm is completely unloaded.
To use it as a hunting stand, a hunter would have to park, kill the engine and then load his or her firearm.
“That is OK, as long as you are on private lands,” Adcock said.
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TITLE
antiOsLIC collar chip
ORGANISM
Oryza sativa
SUMMARY
30 collars were taken from wild type plants or antiOsLIC transgenic plants respectively. One collar from one plant only. The leaves are just sprout 2-3 cm (about 1-2 days) from the stem. For measuring the genes expression level, Wild type plants were taken as control. The developing collar from both line2 of OsLIC antisense transgenic plants and wild type were harvested at the heading stage. The position of the collar was about 1cm above the last developed collar. Total RNA was extracted from the collars using TRIzol regeant (Invitrogen, P/N 15596-018, USA) and purified by using Qiagen RNeasy columns (QIAGEN, Cat. NO. 74104). All the processes for cDNA and cRNA synthesis, cRNA fragmentation, hybridization, washing and staining, and scanning, were conducted according to the GeneChip Standard Protocol (Eukaryotic Target Preparation, Affymetrix). Poly-A RNA Control Kit and the One-Cycle cDNA Synthesis kit were used in this experiment as described in the website: http://www.affymetrix.com/products/arrays/specific/rice.affx.
DESIGN
To identify genes differentially expressed between the OsLIC antisense transgenic lines and the wild-type plants.The developing collar from both lines of OsLIC antisense transgenic plants and the wild type was harvested at the heading stage. The chip experiments were performed according to standard protocol from Affymetrix.The overall intensity of all probe sets of each array was scaled to 500 to ensure equal hybridization intensity; each probe set was assigned “P”, “A” or “M” and a p-value from the algorithm in GCOS, a log2 transformed signal ratio of each gene was calculated with use of the GCOS baseline tool, and log2 (ratio) ≥1 (2-fold change) was used as a cut-off.
PLATFORM
GPL2025 [Rice] Affymetrix Rice Genome Array
CITATIONS
18953406
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Remove a subdatasheet
A subdatasheet is a datasheet that is nested within another datasheet and contains data related or joined to the first datasheet. Microsoft Access automatically creates a subdatasheet when you create a table that is in a relationship. However, you can always add a subdatasheet to a table, query or form (if the form is saved to be displayed in Datasheet view).
This article describes how to identify a subdatsheet and remove it. Removing a subdatasheet does not delete the table, query, or form that it is connected to, nor does it modify any relationship between the associated tables.
Identify a subdatasheet
In Datasheet view, you can tell if a table, query, or form has a subdatasheet, because the expand indicator (+ sign) will be visible. If a subdatasheet is open, the expander sign changes to a - sign.
Subdatasheets can be nested in a subdatasheet for up to eight levels. The benefit of using a subdatasheet is that it enables you to see the information from more than one data source at the same time. For example, in the Northwind sample database, the Suppliers table has a one-to-many relationship with the Products table; so for each row of the Suppliers table in Datasheet view, you can view and edit the related rows of the Products table in a subdatasheet.
Remove a subdatasheet
1. In Datasheet view, open the table or query that contains the subdatasheet that you want to remove.
2. On the Records menu, click More, point to Subdatasheet, and then click Remove.
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Q:
Array Picture cycle timer
Hi I have a slight problem I created a timer to display 6 pictures it cycles though the picture in picturebox 1 and 2 but for some reason it doesnt display any picture just an x mark.
I got the picture format right but I am not sure what the problem is can anyone help?
string[] picture = {
@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die1.jpg",
@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die2.jpg",
@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die3.jpg",
@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die4.jpg",
@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die5.jpg",
@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die6.jpg"};
int index = 0;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pictureBox2.ImageLocation = string.Format(@"ImageResource\Die_Images\{0}.jpg", index);
pictureBox2.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage;
index++;
if (index >= picture.Length)
index = 0;
else
pictureBox1.ImageLocation = string.Format(@"ImageResource\Die_Images\{0}.jpg", index);
pictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage;
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
timer1.Start();
}
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
timer1.Stop();
}
A:
Should this
pictureBox2.ImageLocation = string.Format(@"ImageResource\Die_Images\{0}.jpg", index);
be this?
pictureBox2.ImageLocation = string.Format(@"ImageResource\Die_Images\die{0}.jpg", index);
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--
-- SD/MMC Bootloader
--
-- $Id: tb_rl-c.vhd,v 1.1 2005/04/10 18:07:26 arniml Exp $
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
configuration tb_rl_behav_c0 of tb_rl is
for behav
for dut_b : chip
use configuration work.chip_full_c0;
end for;
for card_b : card
use configuration work.card_behav_c0;
end for;
for rl_b : ram_loader
use configuration work.ram_loader_rtl_c0;
end for;
end for;
end tb_rl_behav_c0;
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Negative tests, but a positive instinct
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I think I would've been ovulating around the 21st-24th, I already have so many symptoms and this gut feeling that won't go away. The at home tests keep coming back negative, but I even had what I think is the implantation bleeding yesterday. I don't know what to do. I talked with my doctor, but she said to wait till the 10th to be positive! I don't think I can wait that long. Help!
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You just have to wait. If you can't, that's fine but it might just be a waste of money or a huge letdown if the results are not accurate.
I had the same feeling. I just knew I was pregnant and didn't want to wait so I took a home test right around when I should've had my period. It was so light I thought I was imagining that it was positive. But it was there. I would give it atleast a day or so and try again if you really can't wait the whole time.
Yeah, I've taken one but it was negative. I'm hoping it's just because it's way early! I think I'll wait till the 8th or 9th and try then. Then if I have to go back to the doctor the tenth for a blood test. Thank you for all the advice! What sort of symtoms did you have that just made you "know"?
One morning, two weeks before I missed my period, I woke up and I knew for a fact I was pregnant. It was too early to test, but I told my husband that I'm pregnant. The next two weeks dragged by so slowly, and I couldn't wait anymore so I tested a couple days early. The BFP was so light I thought I imagined it. So I waited a few days and used first morning's urine and got my blindingly bright +. :)Hoping your next couple days go by quickly and you get your BFP!
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Elephants in the Room
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization Is a Bad Idea
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood, a non-state, multinational, and multifaceted organization, would be imprudent and hasty.
As President Donald Trump ramps up a war on what he calls “radical Islamic terrorism,” now is a good time to reflect on which organizations should actually be tagged as terrorist. Consider Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
As we have written elsewhere, there are strong arguments for designating the IRGC, which is a state-sponsored, national military command. But designating the MB, a non-state, multinational, and multifaceted organization would be imprudent: risks of designating the MB as a terrorist organization outweigh the benefits.
On February 8, CNN reported the Trump administration was seriously considering designating the IRGC and the MB as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). But a day earlier, Reuters reported the White House had placed on hold any executive order designating the MB, while the administration determined whether to designate the IRGC.
Two versions of the same bill designating the MB have been introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives: S. 68 – Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017, introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Jan. 9, 2017; and H.R. 377, introduced on the same date by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL).
There are some potential benefits to such a designation. For one, it would severely restrict the ability of MB persons to operate openly. Among other restrictions, designation makes it unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States knowingly to provide “material support or resources,” including training, teaching, or expert advice. Also, any non-U.S. citizen members of an FTO are inadmissible and any funds held by a U.S. financial institution would be frozen.
These restrictions would have a serious impact on MB efforts to build new mosques, community centers, or other “outposts” for the spread of their ideology. Shutting down the spread of MB-affiliated mosques and community centers would stymy efforts to create a support network for any members prepared to engage in violent acts against U.S. persons or vital interests. Because this prohibition extends to any funds moving through U.S. banks regardless of origin, this salutary constriction of MB building efforts would take place worldwide.
The restriction of material support for MB would also reduce the ability of violent elements of MB to acquire weapons and bomb-making materials. U.S. designation of Hamas, an MB affiliate in Gaza, has allowed for severe restrictions on Hamas’s ability to wage war against Israel. One shudders to think how much worse the attacks from Gaza against Israel would be if Hamas had even more ability to import weapons, construct tunnels, and develop bombs to harm Israel. (MB terrorist designations by Muslim-majority countries include: Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Syria; notable exceptions are Qatar and Turkey.)
That said, there are significant risks to designating the Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO. First, while MB-affiliated Hamas is a state-sponsored organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel by any means, the MB more generally is a political movement. As Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch notes, “The Muslim Brotherhood is a large and complex political organization operating in many countries.” By calling the whole group a terrorist organization, the Trump administration would be making a wide policy determination that, experts warn, could harm participation of Muslim groups in democratic processes. Since only some groups connected to the MB are engaged in violent activities, the large number of peaceful groups pursuing legitimate activities raises the question of whether designation would meet statutory criteria.
Second, given the serious impact of designation on U.S. financial institutions in enforcing its provisions, especially overseas, a broad consensus across the political spectrum in Washington is necessary for designation to be sustained. Designation comes up for review every two years. There is already pushback in Congress: Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has said the Muslim Brotherhood “is a terrorist type organization” but called on the United States to consult with allies to understand the possible fallout from designating the group. “Before we do official action, it’s important that we weigh the consequences of what we do,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
Third, the Washington think-tank community is split — with most opposed to designation. Specialists on U.S. foreign affairs generally adhere to the position that the MB is more a legitimate political and social organization than a terrorist organization, and its multinational character reflects a diversity of sub-groups, many of which are not terrorist organizations.
Fourth, critics of designation make good points, particularly their concerns about blowback. Perhaps the most important statement of risks of designation comes from Eric Trager of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, a preeminent think tank on Middle East issues. Trager states, “If the Trump Administration tries and fails to designate the Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, it could backfire: Brotherhood organizations would likely hail this as a victory and use a failed designation as evidence to claim — falsely — that they are nonviolent.”
Because risks of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization outweigh the benefits, there is no need to rush the process. Possible executive orders and congressional bills need careful consideration of benefits and risks.
It is important for the president and Congress to move along similar lines to enhance the impact of executive orders. Interagency coordination and congressional hearings allow for such augmentation of presidential authority. They also alert the judiciary and fourth estate of legality and legitimacy of unified governmental action.
Finally, the Trump administration should review options to craft a targeted form of designation. Going after parts that are violent have a higher likelihood of success against the MB and enjoy backing of foreign partners and American skeptics alike than going after the “mothership,” per Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and senior vice president at Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
There’s a better path forward that painting with a broad brush, too hastily.
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Sunday, February 25, 2018
Make My Day
It's Sunday morning and some of you are sleeping in - not me. As usual, I was up at 0500. And, while some of you are still snoring, I just finished 59 minutes of cardio - 528 calories. The only problem I had was Garmin updated the Fenix 3 HR and my elliptical app didn't reload so I ended up using their treadmill app - not the same thing. After I finish writing this I'll reload the app.
Not only have I decided on the new ceiling fan, I've already ordered it. I'm getting a Vento Fiore with retractable blades. Originally I saw it on the Home Depot website with a price point of $399 - way more than what I wanted to spend.
So, when I got home from work I Google'd it - Amazon had it for $111 less (that's right!) I ordered one and paid with my Amex using my points and paid quite a bit less.
I understand the Idiot Jerk in the White House called Faux News and had a bit of a meltdown. Oh, my, this is becoming old hat, don't you think? He wants to arm teachers and people call him a dumb shit - and you know he hates that. And then we find out that armed Security didn't rush inside Parkland - and the Idiot Jerk calls him a coward. Tell me, do you really think the Idiot Jerk would have rushed inside? Hell, no, he's as spineless as most Republicans. Then we find out that 3 deputies arrived on the scene and they didn't attempt to take down the shooter. And the Idiot Jerk says these are the people who are supposed to take down the "sickos?" He is so damn stupid. No one wants to rush into a building just so they can take a bullet from an AR-15 in the mouth.
And those kids from Parkland, the ones the NRA is really beginning to hate? Don't they make you proud!! Talk about having big brass balls!! Not only are they turning the tables on the gun lobby, one of the most powerful in America, those kids are also shoving their fingers into the faces of all those NRA crazies, and they're turning into Dirty Harry as they do so. Can't you hear them? With power and anger they are saying "Make... My... Day." How many people ever thought that the NRA would be blown away... with words.
1. the kids inspire me to keep on fighting against the dump, the NRA, faux noise, the GOPricks...
that ceiling fan looks nice. no wonder people "window shop" at a big box store and then purchase somewhere else!
1. Not only are those kids an inspiration, they've ripped the ugly mask off of the NRA.
My motto has always been "window shop, window shop, window shop... then go online and buy."
2. There's a March for Life in Columbia next month and Carlos and I are going.
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Unholy War
Randall Price
Unholy War
Why has terrorism spilled over from the Middle East to America? The answer is clouded by many misunderstandings about the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian problem, terrorism, and the Islamic religion. Randall Price provides clear, concise answers in his book Unholy War. His exceptional expertise on the Middle East along with his intimate knowledge of Judaism, Islam, and modern-day controversies make this an ideal reference for understanding the complex issues behind today's news headlines. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '11', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9231200218200684}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '122334', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LUCQ3X4MNGI5H2V4JW5YDOS2F4W5GJFF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9d8fb738-01d0-4ad6-98fb-6daea955fb48>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 28, 7, 14, 52), 'WARC-IP-Address': '35.241.35.200', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NLPLDUW3THZV5F6BO7HTYD2QIHILBOTK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b08c3ae0-6584-4189-82bc-cbf9ceb81a31>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://shop.jewishvoice.org/unholy-war/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:11ff6dfa-5190-4c20-b762-d3fe06c2cb9c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '83', 'url': 'https://shop.jewishvoice.org/unholy-war/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-142\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': '0.8912153244018555', 'original_id': '5e8c98003a6d3bb3b1c238c26c7f5a4ba75d68cd6bb1c1f242755b9cae84e404'} |
Nicet de Lió o Niceci, en francès Nizier i en llatí Nicetius o Nicetus (ca 513 - 2 d'abril del 573), fou un bisbe de Lió que va jugar un gran paper en els concilis on va participar. És venerat com a sant en diverses confessions cristianes.
Biografia
De família senatorial, va succeir el bisbe Sacerdot de Lió, de qui era nebot, el 19 de gener de 553. Al seu torn, era el besoncle de Gregori de Tours, qui en va escriure la vida en les Vitae patrum.
Va rebre del papa el títol de Patriarca. Va ser també un exorcista. Fou enterrat probablement a l'església que porta el seu nom a Lió, Saint-Nizier, que ha estat anomenada després església dels Sants Apòstols.
Veneració
Li són atribuïts alguns miracles que van esdevenir després de la seva mort. El bisbe Eteri (Aetherius), que coneixia bé Nicet, va contribuir a la difusió del seu culte.
La seva festa com a sant cristià se celebra el 2 d'abril.
Bibliografia
Patrice Béghain, Bruno Benoit, Gérard Corneloup, Bruno Thévenon, Dictionnaire historique de Lyon, Stéphane Bachès, 2009, Lió,
Antoine Péricaud; Notice sur S. Nizier, évêque de Lyon au VIe siècle ; Edition Barret; 1830; Lió.
André Gouilloud; Saint Nizier, évêque de Lyon; Editions Delhomme et Briguet; 1886; Lió, París.
Referències
Bisbes de les ciutats de França
Sants lionesos
Sants de l'Església Catòlica
Sants de l'Església Ortodoxa
Sants morts al segle VI
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The Key is to Persevere
Step by step, I’m rewriting the most difficult sequence of scenes in the entire current work-in-progress. The task is difficult; yet, with each completed step, I feel great elation.
My struggle is caused by my mind’s rebellion against the perceived complexities of capturing a pivotal character’s shift from sweet and innocent to dark and malevolent while revealing key plot elements and setting up the story’s darkest moment.
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You Failed Appen Yukon project Lionbridge Internet Assessor Exam – Now What?
Yukon project exam retake opportunity
Many people fail the Yukon exam at their first attempt because they don’t fully understand Google algorithms’ way of thinking, and you’ve only got a week to study the 164 page guide. Many people fail the first time because this is not an easy exam. Appen and Lionbridge are aware of this fact, and even mention in the welcome email that many people fail the test. In one week after an unsuccessful attempt, you will get the second and last chance to re-take the exam. You will have to go through all parts of the exam again, practical tasks in part 2 (Page Quality) and part 3 (Send to Device) will be different from those you had on your first exam, although there may be a few tasks that come from previous exam.
Why do candidates fail the Appen Yukon and Lionbridge qualification exams?
Lack of effort and sufficient preparation
The most common reason that people fail the Yukon project exam, is that some candidates think that they may get lucky and pass the exam without proper studying, or you may think you know enough about the internet or have good search skills. Be aware that all parts of exam are designed in a way to assess your ability to understand and apply rating concepts and rules based on a 164 page guide. Its not possible to demonstrate the knowledge of these guidelines without investing a significant amount of effort within the one week they give you to study for the exam. If you don’t at least study the guide, or go over it a couple times, you will most likely fail the theoretical part (part 1) of the exam.
Poor time management
One of the common reasons for unsuccessful attempt to pass the exam is poor time management. People do exam preparation and taking all 3 parts within 1-2 days. This strategy in many cases leads to exam failure, because the exam requires lots of concentration and attention to details…Thus plan your exam carefully so you have enough time for studying the material and taking the exam without rushing. Basically, don’t wait till the last minute.
Inappropriate understanding and/or implementation of rating rules and concepts
Have you failed the Appen or Lionbridge exams after carefully studying for them? Don’t worry, a lot of people have. Even people with experience in Search Engine Optimization, or even experience in taking exams have failed this test. In fact it is the first thing that Appen mentions before you get the exam. That it is very difficult and many fail. If you have failed, it is most likely you misunderstood the rating concepts and/or applied them in a wrong way; e.g. used personal judgment/common sense, or did not pay attention to details where it was required (e.g. user location for local queries). In this case I recommend you get assistance from an expert, such as myself
Yukon exam and Lionbridge Internet Assessor tutoring and assistance
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Appen Connect Paradise Project (Falcon Megataxon)
Text-AnalyticsParadise project overview
As you may know Appen acquired Leapforce in 2017, since then the company has decided to close it is own project management platform known as Appen Global and move all projects to Appen connect. The group of projects known as Falcon (mainly Facebook related projects) now is no longer actual, these projects also have been moved to Appen connect platform.
Lionbridge & Appen Connect Platform – List of Projects and Code Names
Appen usually has a lot of new and different projects, and a new project has recently come out called Paradise (previously known as Megataxon) which is an Facebook ad review job. This is an interesting project because most of the Falcon Facebook projects usually are rating social network stuff like actual videos from pages or the actual content on Facebook or Instagram. This project focuses on the types of ads that you would see on Facebook. The objective on the project is to decide if the core purpose of the ad is presenting a product, service, or advertising content such as getting you to go to a Facebookpage and subscribing to that pages feed.
Rating process
Once you understand what the ad is about, you categorize the ad by using a tool that is specially designed by and for Facebook.For each ad there are basically 3 steps to putting each one in the proper category. For the first step, you have to choose the core purpose of the ad and decide if it presents a product, a service, or content.
Along with the tool, you get the project's guidelines that go over all the categories, and it does a very good job of explaining the categories and how you should categorize them. As previously mentioned, the object of the job is to categorize ads as you see them, and you are asked to spend no more than 60 seconds on each ad. This is likely due to the sheer volume of ads that are currently cycling on Facebook. However, there is no minimum view time to apply the tags. With that said, if you are on this project it might take some time to get used to deciding what ad should be categorized where, but after time it is likely that you will pick up speed. It should be noted, however, that if you rush through the ads and categorize them wrong, you could be taken off the project. Once again, they want you to spend no more than 1 minute on each ad with no minimum view time, but you also shouldn’t spend more than a few minutes on each ad. Doing this will surely get the attention of a project manager asking you if there is a problem.
There are times when you can automatically skip the ad if you run into errors, the ad won’t load, the ad is not in the target language for your region, for example the ad is not in English, or there are other issues where you immediately see that the ad is illegal, offensive, or needs to be immediately escalated such as in a case of child exploitation, child nudity, hate speech, acts of terrorism, etc. If you see this bad stuff you have the ability to escalate the Job ID to a manager who handles escalations. If you have to skip the ad for any of these reasons, you just indicate the correct option at the bottom of the Facebook tool.
After you select the purpose of the ad, the next step is to choose a top-level category for the ad. Some of the top level categories have some sub-categories and you will see these appear below the top level categories if there are sub-categories available. This is an extra categorization for some top-level categories. If you select a top level and see a sub-level category appear, you simply choose the best one that fits.
Defining the purpose of the ad simply asks you to choose whether the ad is a Product, a Service, or Content which is defined as the sharing of information that doesn’t provide a specific physical product, service that the reader can buy. Content includes all digital content, articles about an experience with a product, photos of products with no specific call to action, or if the ad uses the ‘Learn More’ button which more than likely leads to content.
Choosing the purpose of the ad should become second nature and you should simply ask yourself ‘What is the core purpose of this ad?’ Ads might reference many different products, services, or content, but your goal is to consider and categorize what is most important for the reader.
The tool itself isn’t difficult and is fairly straightforward. Under the ad, you simply choose the appropriate categories by clicking the radio buttons. Each one of the radio buttons opens with different categories or sub-categories. After you have selected the categories, then on the bottom under that is the submit button. You want to be sure that you have chosen the most correct categories for each ad. Also at the bottom next to the “Submit’ button are the other buttons that we previously mentioned. Those are that the ad has some error, the ad won’t load in the tool, or the ad is not in the English language. You will also see the ‘Other Issue’ button here where you would report an ad that contains something that it shouldn’t that may be offensive or illegal. In this case, the ad would go to one of the managers of the project where its escalated and they take action to remove the ad altogether. You should understand that you have to be careful using this and that the ad should really be offensive and not just something you disagree with or don’t like.
One of the things that is not mentioned in the guidelines is that you might see the ad appear more than once during the week or the month. You should try to remember what you have categorized this ad as and not change the results on the next day if you see the ad again. It’s important that Appen collects precise data. An example of this could be categorizing an ad as something different one day, as opposed to the day before. This will surely get the attention of a product manager. Try to fully understand the categories and email your project manager if you have a question. This will ensure you are able to stay on the project if there is something you don’t understand. Admittedly, there are a lot of products and services on Facebook and categorizing them all correctly might be confusing at first.
The guidelines are really concise and fully detailed and go over the majority of products and services in order to help you categorize them. The guidelines are also very helpful when it comes to deciding what is content or not, and discusses what should fall into those categories.
In conclusion, the Megataxon Falcon project looks to be a very easy job. It might be interesting for some people who want to make a difference in what ads are seen on Facebook, however, after 4 hours of doing this job, it might become tedious on a day to day basis. But for those who don’t mind doing this kind of job, it’s definitely not something incredibly vague or difficult such as some search engine rating jobs.
If you are working on this project, we would like to hear from you and your experience with it. And if you have any questions, you can email me or leave a comment and I will reply as quickly as possible.
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Common Issues of New Raters: Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads Evaluator Projects
Support_636x350-600x330Arrow & Lionbridge Ads Evaluator projects workflow
After you have passed either the Lionbridge Ads or the Arrow ads exams, you will start getting access to different tasks. There are some things to keep in mind here. You should understand that if you are in a different market that the USA market, the training tasks are going to be in English. And as a side note, it’s going to be a good idea to have someone that is fluent in English ready in case you don’t understand something. Once you have passed all the initial training tasks, you will start to see tasks appear in the language, or region, that you applied for. There is a high chance that you will still see some English tasks come through. In fact, 70% of all tasks will be in English language.
RECORDING AND INVOICING WORKING TIME Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads Assessor project
Time management is one of the most important things you need to keep track of when you are doing your tasks. It’s recommended to track your time manually including the amount of tasks that you have completed. There are some free apps out there you can download for your computer, or you can use your timer app on any smartphone. I keep a small notepad and a pen handy and just cross down a line on paper for each task. Depending on how organized you are, it might take you some time to get used to this. Times sheets are reviewed every weeks starting on Monday and ending Sunday. Make sure you are entering the actual time it takes you from getting the task, to submitting it.
One of the tough things that a rater has when they first start is getting the quality up high and improving the quality of your rated tasks and keeping them there. That is likely because of the overwhelming amount of information to swallow at the beginning. The guidelines that you get need to become your bible so to speak. You should have them open always or easily accessible when you are rating so you can check some of the examples if you are confused about something. If you have some extra time to study the guide while not rating, then it’s a good idea to do this before rating. Don’t spend too much time going over the guide while rating. You are only allotted a certain amount of time for each task. So you can’t spend 15-20 minutes on one task and then bill for that if the task should only take you 5 minutes. Bookmark the examples in the guide for quick reference. Your tasks are reviewed and you will get some feedback concerning your rated tasks and where you can improve. You need to be prepared at all times so that when your quality is personally examined, you get good scores. All of this is very important because the client has a strict process that must be followed. By not following the process, you won’t supply the valuable data that is needed. Read the guidelines even after you passed the exam, and read them again and always refer to them when rating. Even the most experienced raters refer to the guide for help.
Appen Arrow blind test and Lionbridge Ads Assessor quality review tasks
Blind sets as they are called, are rating tasks that have the correct rating answers already correctly completed as they should be as per the guide. You will have no idea when these blinds sets come, or be able to identify them, but generally the blind quality tasks are uploaded to the system throughout the month, and you are graded on these to see if you are following the guidelines correctly, and applying the correct ratings. This is why it’s important to follow the guidelines at all times. In fact, it might be even better to not think about the blind sets at all since you will have no idea when you are doing them. We just thought it would be important for you to know that they are there. In total during a month working cycle there are will be about 150 blind test tasks of different types of tasks, raters are expected to obtain at least 70% of correct answers in the pool of blind test task, raters with lower quality score will be removed from the program.
Reasons for losing your service as an Ads Quality Rater
It can happen to anyone at any time. You could end up getting a short email from the company you work for at any time saying that your contract will not be renewed or that your service is no longer required on the project. We hope this doesn’t happen to you, but if it does it could be from some of the following issues.
Quality of service is really the big one here as the client needs each rater to strictly follow the guidelines and the processes of doing each rating. There are levels of quality and you should be sure to try and get the highest quality rating possible. Also its important to remember that just because you are at an acceptable level doesn’t guarantee job security. If there are a lot of raters for a project and a group of raters are providing much higher quality, then the ones at the bottom are likely to go first in the event of a downsizing or, the client just needs the best quality possible. It is advisable to keep striving for perfection when it comes to rating.
Participation in the program means that you must put in a required amount of hours or ‘minimum hours required’ which for most of these programs is 19-20 hours per week. Some programs require you to work at least one weekend day as well. If you miss a day or two on some projects, it will be OK but be careful because if you don’t participate on a regular basis then you end up losing access and are removed from the system. Regular participation in the projects also guarantees that you see a larger portion of different types of ads, and will certainly help you build up your quality levels.
IP address conflict/Internet Network sharing
In some cases people may share their Internet network, while working as search engine evaluator make sure that you have your personal unique IP address and no one uses the same IP to go online for rating project.Once you are in the Project, you may change your IP address many times, it will not affect your project status. Make sure that you do your project tasks in a private place as it stated in the contract.
Be informed that it is prohibited to have multiple accounts, without special arrangement. The customer can find duplicate accounts very fast (even if you are in different Google projects which administrated by different vendors), and as a result, you will lose both accounts.
No tasks are available, all task options are not available anymore except the QR code
This is a sign that system automatically cut your account from receiving tasks. Unfortunately this is an indication that your account has been deactivated due to unacceptable quality, such raters will be removed from the program shortly.
Lionbridge (Ads rating project) vs Appen (Arrow)
In this project, most of the tasks do not have any recommended time limits. Raters have to manage their own productivity and their own time. The customer does not indicate average estimated time because the priority is quality in rating the tasks rather than productivity, or how many tasks you rate. In this respect, Lionbridge is very loyal, and most invoices are approved without any issues. Of course, raters have to keep in mind that the productivity and time invoiced should be within reasonable metrics. It is OK to spend more time in the beginning and increase your productivity when becoming a more experienced rater.
Appen has it is own internal productivity metrics called RPH. It is assumed these metrics are based on the average raters’ performance in the project which is calculated as the ratio between the number of tasks and the time spent within an invoice period completed by all raters. In my view this metric is not useful, because in many cases raters get different types of tasks which require a different amount of time to complete, therefore the RPH metric is not accurate at all. This can lead to a situation where if your productivity doesn’t fall within their RGP metrics, your invoice will be returned for correction and they will ask you to align your RHP to average even though you spent a reasonable amount of time for completing more time-consuming tasks. The customer understands this issue. That is why they do not indicate the average estimated time. But it would seem that Appen(Leapforce) has again invented their own metrics to pay less to its raters.
Working hours and flexibility
At Lionbridge, there is no minimum requirement for working hours. However, the maximum normally is 20 hours and in some cases, the max might be increased.
At Appen there is a strict requirement to work a required number of hours as indicated in the consulting agreement (15-20 hours), not meeting this requirement may lead to removal from the project.
Lionbridge normally pays via direct deposit for US raters or wire transfer for raters in other countries. Non-US raters will receive their first payment only on the second month of work this due to their specific payment cycle set up.
Appen(Leapfroce) pays on a monthly basis via the Payoneer payment system, normally on 14th of every month.
Payments rates
In most markets, the Lionbridge payment hourly rate is 15-30% higher than what Appen pays for the same work. The customer sets the basic pay rate which is the same for all vendors (Lionbridge, Appen), and part of this rate goes to the vendor for project administration services and the other part is paid to raters. As some of you may know this project was previously administrated by Zerochaos and at that time the payment rate was 2 times higher than it is now. After Google outsourced this project to Appen and Lionbridge the payment rate was significantly reduced including US market.
More info about payment rates is available here:
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General Support
The project itself is fully automated and was designed in a way that raters should manage their training and education, and work with minimum support. Those who fail are automatically removed from the project due to low quality etc. In general terms Appen provides better support by means of a monthly practice test and detailed feedback on those practice tasks, Lionbridge does not provide this type of support.
Optional Agreements
It might be beneficial to know that there is an optional agreement that you can sign that gives the vendor your personal browsing history that personalized tasks are generated by. Basically what that means is that you would get tasks to rate that would be based on your own personal browsing habits. A lot of people don’t want to do this for fear of sharing personal data with an employer. However, your data still remains private and the vendor will not see what websites you are visiting. It does add a little more personalization to your tasks though. This history is associated with the Google Account that you are signed into at the time of browsing, like if you were logged into Chrome and browsing the internet. It’s important to understand that Google has access to this data anyway, but it’s an optional thing whether you want your own personal history used for generating tasks.
The Final Word
If you can get in on this project, it can be very interesting while you are contributing to search engine or ad algorithms. Your direct contributions help to train specially written algorithms that help ads and search engine results become more relevant to the user. So it’s a very important job, and one that you should take seriously. However, this job is not for everyone. Unless you find looking at ads and webpages 4 hours a day, you might get bored very quickly. But for some this is the perfect part-time job because as long as you meet your productivity, deliver high accuracy and quality, then you could be on the project for as long as you want. As with all other Appen projects, you may even be invited to work on other projects too.
Appen Arrow invoice correction required due to low RHP
what is mystical RHP and is this practice legal?
In my view this metric is not useful, because in many cases raters get different types of tasks which require a different amount of time to complete, therefore the RPH metric is not accurate at all. This can lead to a situation where if your productivity doesn’t fall within their RPH metrics, your invoice will be returned for correction and they will ask you to align your RHP to average even though you spent a reasonable amount of time for completing more time-consuming tasks. The customer (Google) understands this issue. That is why they do not indicate the average estimated time. But it would seem that Appen invented their own metrics to pay less to its raters and make more money by invoicing actual time spent on doing task by all raters to Google. Good business, in fact. In this respect Lionbridge plays a fair game and most of raters get their time sheets approved without any issue.
The example of the email is bellow:
Dear Search Engine Evaluator,
Our records show a significant discrepancy between the hours you’ve written in your invoice and the amount of work completed. You over-billed more than xx hours for the week of x/x/201X – X/X/201X.
Please check our Chat feature, review our project information page and Intl FAQ.
Do not write your missed hours in your invoice time card as the entry will be considered billable.
In the meantime, these hours will not be approved until clarification has been received.
Please let us know if there’s ever an issue outside your control that is impacting your overall productivity such as tool errors.
The productivity rate/ rate per hour (RPH) is calculated by looking at the average of team who worked on a particular task. When you have a low RPH it negatively impacts the RPH average of the entire team and project. It is our expectation that raters meet the average rate per hour on a consistent basis. Listed below are some tips to try if you have not done so already, to hopefully push your rate per hour to the average:
• Time Management: Refrain from multi-tasking while working on EWOQ. Watching videos or listening to music not associated to a task may impact your focus and performance.
• Timing Devices:
In order to get a better feel for how fast or slow you are working, you might consider using a desktop timer, Toggl, or stopwatch. Always exit EWOQ when taking a break, no matter how short. Do not count the time spent on breaks towards your billable hours.
A company can’t just suddenly take away your pay when you put in the hours and did the required tasks to the best of your ability and as per your contract. There are some laws that protect freelancers and independent contractors, and if you are doing the work, then you should be paid. But for freelancers and independent contractors, your options are limited depending on what country you live in.
What raters can do in this situation?
1. Before making any invoice correction, ask Appen for detailed clarification about RHP: what is the RPH ratio for all raters; what is your own RHP ratio, what is recommended RPH ratio, what is average recommended time for completion each type of tasks, ask them to provide list of average estimated time for completion for each type of tasks, ask why customer does not indicate recommended time for completion for many types of tasks. Be ready that they will not provide any info, because there is no official RHP approved by customer (Google).
2. Point out that fact there is neither any policy regarding RHP can be found on Appen connect project platform nor customer (Google) does not provide any recommended time for most of tasks.
3. Notify Google about the issue by sending email to the ads rating project admin (Google Ads Eval: to make them aware that this is some kind of issue that really needs to be investigated. The message should be the following: actual time spent on doing live tasks was not approved due to RHP, what is the RHP ratio for all raters; what is your own RHP ratio, what is recommended RHP ratio, what is average recommended time for completion each type of tasks, ask them to provide list of average estimated time for completion for each type of tasks, ask why Google does not indicate recommended time for completion for many types of task. FINALLY ask them – is it legal that Appen cuts hours based on mystical RHP which is not trasparant?
Perhaps if the right people receive a large response on the issue, someone will take a look and fix the problem. But as of right now things aren’t looking too good. For those of you who have lost wages, hang in there and hopefully, someone will get this straightened out.
If you have questions or comments then leave them below.
The Evolution Of Human Data Collection Companies In The Last 5 Years
A lot of interesting things have happened over the last five years when you take a look at the three big companies that offer work at home opportunities with jobs in social media evaluation. Those big three companies are of course Appen Global, Leapforce, and Lionbridge.
To get a good idea of the geographical presence of these three companies, you need to look no further than Google trends as far as interest over time along with the search different search terms.
The confusing part of how and when Raterlabs came into play leaving many people wondering if they were the same company as Leapforce. The website looked the same except the logo was changed, and this time when someone went to apply for the search engine rater job, you were redirected to the Raterlabs website. This also had people wondering if the two companies were the same or not.At one point, one of the clients for RaterLabs decided to only work with companies that hire raters as employees and not independent contractors. It’s not known who this is exactly, but considering what happened with the legal situation with Leapforce and Google, it was quite obviously the search engine giant Google. In order for LeapForce to keep their client they created the company RaterLabs and hired people as actual employees, but this is only for the USA.
This brings up two things. You might remember that Leapforce was recently acquired by Appen Global and that there was a situation in where there was confusion on whether independent contractors were considered full-time employees of Google if they were simply independent contractors. One of the biggest mysteries for raters at Leapforce is who they actually work for. After all, paychecks come from Leapforce, but their work all seems to take place via Google’s Raterhub service. Despite all this stuff going on, the press release that Appen was going to acquire Leapforce came out on November 29th, 2017.
From the Google trends charts, you can see a steady rise in interest for Appen Global while the other two companies Leapforce and Lionbridge took a sharp decline. Leapforce as a company still exists, but all hiring is done by Appen Global now since the acquisition. The main reason for this is because it’s easier to simply acquire a company and use their already hired staff. In this way Appen is able to completely control the company and while at the same time, grow much bigger. And while it sounds like company growth would be a good thing for everyone involved, it’s not. As Appen becomes bigger, it can hire more people and pay them less money, which is what is currently happening. The pay rate at Appen has decreased for raters, and because they have so many people internally from their ‘crowdsourcing’ pool, it’s harder to apply and get a job for this position. By the way, Lionbridge also has changed the way they do business in USA (Google rating project) and also made it is raters as part time employees. With this in mind, we wonder why, Appen continues hiring raters as independent contractors for the same project (Inca also known as Yukon) for less pay at $9.00 per hour as opposed to $12.50 per hour at Raterlabs simply because they haven’t had any legal cases so far and they tend to hire people in states with minimum payments rates at the $9.00 per hour rating. This comes even as most states in the USA have a minimum pay rate of $10 per hour and some states even signed a law to increase the min. wage to $15 an hour. It’s almost a guarantee that if you live in these states, you will not likely be hired when they can pay cheaper wages in another state.
Update:Project Inca at Appen, Part-Time team members
On July 1, 2018, independent contractors will move from Appen to RaterLabs. RaterLabs is a separate legal entity owned and operated by Appen. The contractors will become part-time employees amd most likely their hourly rate will be increased. This decision most likely is forced by the customer (Google) and US legislation.
However, it is worthwhile to mention that Leapforce had its own problems in the past when it came to pay as they claimed you would be making a certain amount of money per hour, but that wasn’t accurate. You were actually paid for the time it should have taken you to do the work rather than how long it actually took you to do the work. In other words, they calculate how long they think each task will take you, and pay you for each task no matter how long it took. Work wasn’t consistent enough to make the hourly pay rate either. And the biggest thing, of course, is that training that takes a long time and you’re not paid for it.
This is something that Appen hasn’t changed either. They’ve basically adopted the system which Leapforce uses, but instead, they pay far less than Leaforce did or even as Lionbridge pay. Speaking of Lionbridge, we’ve been talking about Appen and Leapforce. But what about Lionbridge?
If you look at the 5-year chart on Google trends and compare the three companies together, you can see that Lionbridge has just barely managed to stay above the interest level of Leapforce which of course is old news now because of Appen. At the same time, you can see that interest skyrocketed for Appen in January right after it acquired Leapforce. It was the big story at the time, and people that didn’t know about Appen finally found out about them and the work at home jobs they offered.
However, it might be worth mentioning that Lionbridge is probably still the best place to work for when it comes to being a search engine rater. They are known to have a higher pay rate that Appen offers the same job. There are however a couple things that seem to be problems still and that is the 20-24 hourly cap they have for each week, and the fact that there appear to be full-time jobs but part-time employees have no idea how to get into these jobs. With that said, these have been issues for quite some time. Otherwise, Lionbridge is more stable and more rater oriented than Appen which offers a ton of different jobs and doesn’t focus on search engine raters. That is just what you would logically experience from such a big company whose main goal is to increase their client list while utilizing their crowdsourcing at low pay rates.
If you were looking at these companies from a market share perspective, anyone knows that Appen is taking a huge share of the market when it comes to data gathering, translation services, and human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. But Appen seems to be getting too big for its own good and the bottom line is that the people who work for this company are the ones who miss out on the benefits. Appen seems to also be getting a lot of negative reviews lately and even some people are calling them a ‘scam’ company. Leapforce, since it was acquired, will likely end up being broken down and dismantled and ‘enveloped’ if you will, as more time passes. By the way process has already started as we got confirmation from lots of markets regarding decrease in payment rates in Yukon project at Leapforce. As you may remember we predicted this when Appen acquired Leapforce.
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The future for Lionbridge lies in its ability to separate itself by doing things that Appen doesn’t do. If this company is going to survive, they should make a few changes, such as hiring full time employees with benefits, pay for the long training that one needs to go through as a search engine evaluator, and make the pay competitive enough so that people will want to work there instead of the big competition, who doesn’t really have much to offer in the terms of well-payed employment.
We just might get lucky and see Lionbridge make these changes in the future.
Have you had experience with Appen, Leapforce, or Lionbridge? Let me know in the comments and as always, if you have a question, let me know and I’ll answer as soon as possible.
Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads Rating (Ads Evaluator) Project Review
deep-links-within-mobile-app-engagement-search-adsAppen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads rating projects overview
The Arrow Ads project and Lionbridge Ads rating are similar search engine evaluation project that is using the same Rater Hub platform that the other two large companies Appen and Lionbridge are using to rate search engine results depending on a query or intent of the user. Basically, you are doing the same thing as other search engine evaluators, but the difference is that you are judging the quality of ads and advertising-related data as they are calling it. Feedback that you provide is supposed to help the client monitor and improve their advertising as well as functionality.
So what you are doing with this certain project is taking a look at different ads on web pages, and using the Rater Hub tool, you answer some questions on your findings. It sounds easy but answering these questions, and the answers that you provide are coming from guidelines that need to be closely followed. It’s not simply about providing your own feedback, but providing the feedback based on the guidelines themselves and specific metrics.
Appen Arrow and Ads Evaluation program purpose
As a human evaluator, you are not approving or disapproving the ads you evaluate, and you are not deciding directly which ads get shown or don’t get shown. In fact, even though you are providing scores and feedback about individual advertisements and advertisers, your evaluations don’t generally have any direct effect on those advertisements or advertisers. Sometimes the ads you rate are from a long time ago. Sometimes they are in a different form than they originally appeared. Sometimes they were never shown by Google at all, in any form. Basically what you are doing is collecting data to help train the algorithms that will eventually assess the ads being shown on their own. Without human interaction this would not be possible. So this job is very important to the engineers who are collecting the data from you.
This is the main reason why it’s very difficult to pass the assessment part of this project. Your judgments are used to determine whether ads are getting better or worse over time, to see whether particular kinds of ads are working well or not, to see what kinds of ads cause problems, and to see what kind of impact a particular change to our systems will have. When Google engineers design new systems or propose changes to existing systems, the human evaluation data you provide is used to judge whether those proposals succeed or fail. This data is fed to computers that train the automatic algorithms.
This is also a big reason that a lot of raters end up being terminated or losing their contracts. Accuracy and quality of your ratings are very important. You should always check the Ads Guidelines if you aren’t sure about something that you are looking at. Even some raters that have been doing this job for a while still refer to the guidelines.
Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads rating program requirements
Getting on this project can be difficult. There is a long assessment required. Its mentioned early on that you will perform all work and including the assessment tasks on a non-shared and non-public computer. That’s pretty straight forward. You’ve got to have your own computer with a high speed internet connection. And according to them you can’t take your laptop to the coffee shop and work from there. So it’s a very good possibility that your home IP address is recorded in the RaterHub, and you need to use this same connection to perform all work. Anything else is strictly prohibited.
Another thing to mention is that you’re going to need to use either Firefox or Chrome web browser but that should hinder anyone since those seem to be the main web browsers being used by the masses. This is because the Rater Hub tool will not work on other browsers.
If you do pass the assessment, then you may be offered a contract position. Usually the contract hours are part-time 20 hours a week, but Aztec states 19 hours, Monday through Sunday. Once you complete the assessment, the results are usually sent within 48 business hours after your deadline to complete the assessment has passed, not 48 hours after you submit the assessment.
As with all projects we can’t stress enough the important of one thing. Thoroughly read the guide they send you and have it open and ready while you are taking the tests. Make sure the minute you get the link to review the guide, that going over it is the first thing you do. Give yourself enough time to digest everything in it at least 1-2 times before taking the tests. The guide itself has to be accessed directly through EWOQ which is part of the RaterHub portal. You’ve got to be logged in using the Gmail address you used when you signed up at Appen/Lionbridge. This Gmail account should be a dedicated email account.
Since you are not able to download the guide, you should bookmark the page with the guidelines so that you can access it quickly and easily. We said that it cannot be mentioned enough and it’s very important that you read and understand the guidelines completely before starting or you will fail the test.
Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads program payment rates
Wages on each contractual hour depend on the country and can vary between $4 to $15 per hour. For more information on wages read here:
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Agents will invoice vendors for rendered services once per calendar month. Fees to independent agents are paid (via direct deposit) within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice. The payment is made on monthly basis via direct deposit into your bank account. Appen projects are paid now by Payoneer. If you do not have a Payoneer account yet you can get yours here:
Note: By using this link for applying for a Payoneer account/card we will both benefit by earning 25$.
Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads program exam
The first set of tasks are multiple choice questions (in total 45 questions) that come straight from the Search Ad instructions in the Ads Guide itself. After you have completed the comprehension questions, you will be shown a set of assessment tasks (in total 190 tasks of different types: search ads evaluation, user interest, key words, etc) that asks you to rate just the first section of a Search Ads task. Once this is done you’ll get a set that asks you to rate just the second section. Finally, you’ll get a set of complete Search Ads tasks, User to Keyword, Close Match Evaluation to rate.
The typical exam tasks is a query and an ad creative generated by a search engine in respect to the user query. You as a rater will need to apply rating rule to determine how much promising or unpromising is the ad in respect to user intent. Once you evaluate the ad then you will be asked to evaluate a landing page associated with the ad and to determine how satisfactory is the page and website content in terms of meeting the user intent needs.
Lionbridge Ads rating project/Appen Arrow Exam Tips
Additionally I would like to give general tips on how to proceed with Aztec/Ads Rating Project qualification:
As usual before proceeding with rating you need to make sure you clearly understand user intent. If not, use Google search to research the query and establish the dominant intent, and the secondary intent if one exists. Sometimes it’s hard to understand what the user intent is without doing the search yourself;
Search Ads Evaluation Tasks
Select appropriate query flag if required. For instance, if the query is in foreign language, or it is clearly a porn related query, make sure you select the appropriate flag. Remember that when you are doing ratings, the language should be in your contracted regional language. So if you are working in English, and you get a page in another language, then flag it appropriately.
Examine the ad creative and answer the question of how promising the ad is. You should refer to a specific section of instructions, and not evaluate the ad creative based on your own perception or personal likes or dislikes. Pay close attention to wording of the ad and the URL. In many cases, wording of the ad may indicate the ad deserves a porn flag, or has reference to another search engine.
Check the query and ad creative for the navigational flag. If the query is looking for a specific page or website and the ad suggests the website, then the ad and the query should be given a navigational flag.
There are a few scenarios in which you should pay special attention to. The first one is when the ad offers to repeat the search in another search engine. In this case, the appropriate rating for ads and LP (Landing Page) are somewhat unpromising, and don’t satisfy the query because the action won’t bring the user closer to his goal. Google wants to provide the user with the quickest possible and satisfying solution for the user intent and query. Sending a user to another search engine defeats that purpose entirely.
Select the ads creative rating, or how promising the ad is in relation to user intent. Once you’ve completed the first part of the task you will then be directed to the Landing Page section.
Visit the landing page and examine the page based on the guideline rules of how satisfactory the page is based on the query or intent. Once again, you should not use your own judgement but instead learn how to apply the guidelines rules. In many cases research on the website is required, for instance a quick product search will show you more information about the page, and help you understand if it meets user intent based on the query.
Make sure to pay special attention to the user location. If you see that the user is looking for something in a specific location, such as a restaurant in a specific location, and you get a restaurant in a completely different location, you should apply a negative rating. In this case it’s a good idea to refer to the guidelines and review typical user location scenarios.
User to Keywords/User Interest Tasks/Close Match Evaluation
Before proceeding to these types of tasks make sure you read and understand instructions, because the logic is different comparing to approach required for search ads evaluation tasks. You will be asked to rater how much is interesting for a user the suggested page/url based on examination of a user current web interest.
Once you have completed all assessment tasks, including the survey, you will temporarily run out of tasks. This is because your answers will be checked before you will be allowed to move forward. Either you will pass this part or not. You will not see the Acquire Tasks button at this time. Remember that you need to wait 48 hours after the assessment deadline and not 48 hours after you submit. The assessment will be complete after you submit all tasks available.
Keep in mind that unlike Yukon project/Personalized Assessor and Maps Analyst (Shasta) projects’ qualifications, the Ads Assessor/Arrow project qualification allows only one attempt to pass the exam. In most cases you will not be allowed to attempt the exam for the second time.
Arrow and Ads Evaluator Expert Support Available
If you are not confident about going through the Appen Raterlabs or Lionbridge qualification exam, you may always get my expert support and advice. For detailed information contact me here.
Appen Arrow vs. Lionbridge Ads rating project
Many people ask me which project is better and which one should I join. In my opinion I think that Lionbridge is definitely better in terms of offering a better payment rate compared to Appen. It’s also important to note that the exam qualification and training are paid by Lionbridge where at Appen it’s not. So take this into consideration when you apply for both of these companies. Three days of unpaid training is a lot for people to deal with and really when you think about it, no one wants to do an exam for three days, and then fail it having put all the time and effort into it to get a job.
As always, if you have any questions or thoughts leave a comment or shoot me an email.
Wishing you great success in your work at home career!
Common Issues of New Raters (Appen Arrow and Lionbridge Ads Rating Projects)
Leapforce (Raterlabs)/Lionbridge Third Party Extension Ban:What Are Alternatives?
Appen Yukon & Lionbridge Internet assessor Third Party Chrome Extension Ban
banned-1726366_960_720If you are a search engine rater for either Appen or Lionbridge, you probably got an email from both of these companies talking about how the use of extensions to track time and your tasks would end up being banned, and they explained their decision in a couple of emails with this one being their last warning to remove them.
“As a follow-up to our communication sent out on March 12th, we wanted to remind you that as of Monday, April 9th, all 3rd party browser extensions must be uninstalled when working on Yukon Search tasks. While 3rd party extensions were developed to aid in rater work, some actually pose security risks and compromise the integrity and the quality of work.”
While it’s not known exactly how and when these security issues were found, or what types of exact security problems were identified, it does put raters back to a problem of keeping track of tasks and time while doing their jobs. It was a lot easier to use some of the extensions that you could add to Chrome such as Rateraid, Greater Acceptor, and LBTimer which were all great extensions for keeping track of your time and tasks.
So now what do you do when it comes to keeping track of your tasks as a Search Engine Rater? Well you could resort to using a pen and paper like they used to do back in the good old days, or you could find some alternatives to these tools that can’t be tracked. And before we get into that, we really have to mention that although we are here to help everyone in any way possible to make their job easier, we are not responsible if you start using some tool that ends up on the banned list and you get caught for it. And for anyone wondering if they can detect these tools being used, they can, and if you get caught using them after the fact, you can lose your job.
Of course we don’t want that to happen to you so we will take a look at some things out there that can help pick up where these tools that were banned left off.
What are alternative and approved way of tracking your time in effective way? Apparently there are some tools out there that can keep the integrity of the browser intact without opening any security holes. And while it’s not fully understood how using these tools compromises the quality of work, it is very possible that the makers of these tools are being used to scrape data as you are using them as time keepers. Anything is possible and the data you are collecting is an invaluable asset. We are not sure if that is the case with these tools, but you might be aware that RaterAide was released in July 2012 and has since become the de facto time tracking tool for raters around the world. It is produced by an independent developer and fellow rater which is probably the reason that both companies decided to ban use of the tool.
But this was not the only tool that was banned. Greater Acceptor is also banned and cannot be used as well as the well-designed LBTimer. All of these tools are designed by third-parties and was likely the main reason behind the decision to ban these from being used in connection with tracking your time and your tasks. If someone really wanted to steal something, it wouldn’t be the time you have spent, or even the tasks that you are working on. However, these tools like any other type of software could be used to track everything else and even spy on your activities and compiling a log of results with your data input. We’re not saying that this has been done, but if you are the companies that offer search evaluation jobs, then you probably should tighten things up a little bit when it comes to data collection. And aside from this, no one knows if these tools were used to exploit or farm data. It’s not likely that either Lionbridge or Leapforce would speak of the specifics about such a topic. And as far as Leapforce is concerned, many of you know that this company was acquired by Appen Global who probably also decided it’s time to tighten things up a little bit when it comes to security.
So now you are a rater and you’re stuck with no tools to use to track tasks and time. Well there are some extensions that you might be able to use and be OK with. Some of these things are tools that were not designed with search engine rating in mind, and work offline. Something that keeps track of your time while being offline is probably key in that the program works as a standalone application and doesn’t need the internet to function.
One of those tools is called Task Timer which can be found here
Task Timer
This tool allows you to create a list of tasks along with time goals represented in hours. It does keep track of each task that you perform and it has a lot of options so that you can customize it. You can input any amount of tasks and include goals, which could be the time you are allowed on each task which is handy for Yukon or other search engine tasks, and you’re able to start, pause, reset, and edit tasks on the fly. This makes it a perfect replacement for the stuff that these companies have banned. Task Timer is available on Chrome Web Store.
Manual recording of time spent and tasks done in excel file
There are some people who love Excel, and some people who loathe it. However, if you need something right now that is completely standalone whether you have internet or not, and you need to keep track of things, Microsoft Excel can fit the bill. It is also worth mentioning that you can customize Excel beyond your typical applications and even create a template for adding time and tasks.
Auto Page Refresh
As you all probably know, refreshing the page when you are logged into the backend of Lionbridge or Appen to check if new tasks are available is quite a pain. There is a tool that is available that can help with this called Auto Refresh Plus. It is a simple add-on for Chrome that acts as a page refresher which sends notifications to your email about tasks availability/ and new content on the page, such as when tasks show up. Auto Refresh Plus is available on Chrome Web Store.
These are just a few tools that can help you out while Lionbridge and Appen have banned the use of these tools. It could be possible that both companies are coming up with their own solutions for helping track time and the amount of tasks that you do, but for now, this is what we have as Search Engine Raters. Of course the moment that we find something new that will help your job go by a bit easier, we will let you know. As always, if you need help with something pertaining to Search Engine Rating, leave a comment or drop us an email and we reply as soon as possible.
uTest Software Testing and Feedback Platform
More and more people are looking for freelance jobs these days. Not so long ago a variety of online jobs included just a few options, such as copywriting, customer support, search engine evaluation, and the social media jobs offered by the big companies such as Appen and Lionbridge. Lately, a lot more types of businesses are showing up online needing help from people that own computers or smartphone devices. Now any independent freelancer can choose from a handful of companies that offer jobs like application testing, software testing, and other types of jobs where installing applications and running them for stability which are options to make some extra money. Sometimes an independent contractor can find full-time jobs and become skilled specialists. Some companies come and go and some stand out, being especially interesting and worth everyone’s consideration. With that said, there is a new company that just started out recently called
uTest offers new opportunities to get paid while making a contribution to modern software markets and improving different applications and giving feedback on bugs. The service is dedicated to software and application testing. Professional software testers, developers, and web enthusiasts are able to register on this website and test various apps and writing bug reports that get sent back to the developers. Right after this, they can get offers on their first paid projects. Each one of these offers has some short questionnaire on your equipment and checks to see if you qualify.
The interface of the platform is quite simple, and the payment policy is clear with the ability to get paid by either PayPal or Payoneer. The service also has a friendly community of testers who share their experience with each other. In addition, uTest has its own Academy which helps beginners from all over the world in learning software testing.
To become a freelance software tester, you must be at least 18 years old and have a device such as a PC, tablet, smartphone, and even gaming consoles. uTest works with freelancers from all over the world. No previous testing experience is required. Moreover, on uTest, you can find thousands of free online courses, guides, and webinars to learn more about functional testing and sharpen your skills.
Registration of a new account is fast and simple. You have to fill a form, providing basic information about yourself, such as the full name, location, email address and native languages. After this, you will need to specify the types of devices you own, the models, operating systems of your PC. You can choose multiple devices to expand the range of available software that you are able to test. The service claims that testers are allowed to work on any device that provides a stable internet connection, including smart TVs, gaming consoles, and even fitness trackers. However, currently, mobile devices comprise 70% of all the projects on uTest. That will likely change in the future as the company becomes more well-known and picks up other clients that need software testers.
uTest registration is absolutely free, without any hidden fees.
Getting Started
First of all, you must complete your profile. To do it, select “Expand my Profile” or “Go to Platform” in the navigation menu. The more accurate information you provide; the more projects that you will get matched up with. Thus, we suggest updating your profile anytime you get a new device.
Once you’ve registered an account, you have to prove your qualification skills for certain projects by completing the uTest Sandbox Cycle. You shouldn’t worry about this as it’s all relatively easy stuff. This is a mixed testing cycle that includes elements of exploratory testing as well as a test case. Usually, you get your invitation to the Sandbox within two weeks after the account is registered. But in our experience the moment we registered we started getting invitations to join certain projects. You may also contact community managers to request an invitation. We received several invitations for different jobs that had different requirements such as age or device specific projects.
Generally, the number of test cycle invites depends on your statistics. The more bugs you report; the more jobs you get. This is somewhat how Appen Global works. Thus, we suggest participating in more test cycles and collecting more experience in your profile. After the Sandbox, you can check out the uTest Academy section to find more cycles that will give you basic experience. Another way to make your profile more attractive is the uTest 101 Quiz that is focused on your expectations and rules of the service. The completion of the uTest Quiz gives you higher priority in the distribution of test cycles.
As mentioned previously uTest supports Payoneer and PayPal systems. Testers get paid twice a month, on the 15th and the last day of every month. The transfer to a PayPal or Payoneer account may take up to 24 hours, which is a usual time for these payment services. However, PayPal payments once sent are usually immediate.
Keep in mind that if you use a Payoneer account, you won’t be able to link it to your uTest account unless you’ve earned at least $10. In case your Payoneer account is set up to transfer payments directly to your bank card, you’ll need to have at least $50 in uTest to transfer money to the Payoneer account.
Payoneer now has a sign up program that’s a good incentive to join, lets benefit together!
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U.S. citizens who earn more than $500 a year on the website may also need to complete a W-9 form for taxes. You are always responsible for doing your own taxes as uTest will never take out taxes. In this case, you can find all necessary information in Accounts & Settings > Payments.
All freelancers get paid in USD only, though the website allows them to see their earnings in any local currency.
Rating System
uTest has its own rating system, rating freelancers based on their activity and the quality of their work. Ratings are calculated every day. Any tester can be classified as Rated, Proven, Bronze, Silver, or Gold. However, you won’t see any badge on your profile unless you have enough activity points. This rating system considers various parameters of your performance. For example, you can be unrated in some types of testing while being rated Gold in functional testing.
Higher ratings allow you to get higher payout rates. For example, Gold testers earn 10% more on every approved report. Silver and Bronze testers receive additional 5% and 2,5%, respectively. These extras are calculated only for a certain testing type. For example, if you’re a Gold Usability tester, you won’t get extra 10% for Security tests.
The rating system takes into account the percentage of approved and rejected reports. All bugs are classified by their importance. Thus, you don’t have to go for a higher approval percentage. Instead, try to find more valuable bugs. Some testers have 98% of reports approved, but their bugs mostly fall into the “Somewhat valuable” category. Their ratings are lower than those of testers who have more reports approved and end up having a higher percentage of exceptionally valuable bugs.
The important thing that often affects ratings negatively is the submission of test reports. If a tester accepts a test cycle without providing at least one report, this will cause a negative impact on his or her rating. It’s better to decline a test cycle from the very beginning than to accept it and get a negative rating.
If a report was rejected but a tester doesn’t agree with the customer on such a decision, he or she can use the Dispute feature built into the website to provide the customer with more information. However, we suggest avoiding unnecessary use of this feature because a rejected dispute will have a more negative effect on your rating than an initially rejected report.
uTest is a convenient and reliable platform for professional software testers as well as for those who want to try something new. The friendly environment and clear payment policy guarantee the best experience for freelance testers of any skill level. In addition, you can register here for free and join the uTest Academy to learn more about testing and to try this service. If you are a uTest member, let us know what your experience has been in the comments, and as always, leave any questions you might have in the comments and we’ll answer them.
Appen Nile Project for Facebook
Nile project – Ads Evaluation for Facebook
Appen offers more than just rating projects for Google. Currently there is a project called Nile where, as a rater, you can review ads based on your likes, your interests, or your web viewing habits.
You can change these settings in Facebook to adjust what ads you get ‘served’ when doing the ad ratings. The ads are not based on companies that you have already manually liked, but ads that are similar. When starting the project, you get 20 ads to rate. These can be anything from video ads, to just plain text ads or ads with a photo.
Before you are accepted to the Nile project, you are asked for your Facebook profile URL. You must have at least 50 friends on this Facebook profile. Appen simply checks this and nothing else about your profile. You will hear back from Appen within a week if you are accepted into the program. In order to stay in the Nile program, you must work no less than 5 hours per week.
When rating you are asked ‘How much do you feel that this ad is ‘relevant, useful, entertaining, if the ad is offensive, or misleading. You can rate each one of these on a scale from 1-3 using radio buttons.
You are then asked ‘How much do you want to see this in your news feed’ and are shown a scale from 1-5 from ‘I definitely do not want to see this in my feed’ to ‘I definitely want to see this in my feed. Once you have done this, there is an explanation that asks you ‘In your own words, why do you feel this way about the ad.
It is not known if the comments are actually looked at in the ads or not. You don’t need to create a huge explanation. A simple reason why you do or do not like the ad is good enough. When you are finished rating the 20 different ads, you are then asked to wait for one hour to complete what is called a ‘Bakeoff’ task. The Bakeoff task determines which ads you liked and which ads you didn’t. It asks you to choose out of 6 ads in a side-by-side comparison, which one you would like to see in your feed over the other. This task should be completed exactly one hour after you’ve rated the ads. Currently you are allowed to only work one hour per day on Nile. The hour that you wait for the Bakeoff tasks is not paid. So you charge 1 hour for the Nile ratings and the Bakeoff task which takes you less than a minute to do since all you are doing is clicking which ad over the other you want to see.
You must work at least 1 hour per day to Nile is an interesting project and will probably go full time, but currently there is just one hour allowed per day. That’s an extra 30 plus hours per month and totally worth the time. It also pays the same hourly wage as the Google rating program.
Appen Nile Project Qualification
Appen has introduced qualification exam for Nile project. The Nile project exam consists of 30 questions designed in a way to assess your understanding of basic concepts of how to evaluate ads and search results. Again before taking this exam you will be given an access to specific guidelines which you need to study carefully before proceeding with the exam itself. Do not underestimate the complexity of the Nile qualification exam; some of the questions are tricky and confusing in its wording, so without preparation and thoughtful approach you have a very low chance to pass this exam. One attempt of taking this exam is allowed. Once the exam is passed (you will get result immediately after completing the test), you will be offered to sign a contract.
Taxation for Independent Contractor’s Pros and Cons
contracting-with-an-independent-contractorIf you are working as a Search Engine Rater or Social Media evaluator for any company that doesn’t hire you directly, then you are known as an independent contractor. Regardless of whether you are an independent contractor, a freelancer, or consultant, you will be considered as ‘self-employed’. What this also means is that you are responsible for doing your own taxes. There can be some advantages to this and also some drawbacks.
Independent Contractor Tax Payer status
If you’ve been working for companies like Appen or Lionbridge, you know that you are basically your own boss. It’s very rare that you have to work with other people in these jobs or have much interaction at all. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. Keep in mind that the people you are working for are not your supervisors. You’re a contract worker which simply means that you provide your services in exchange for a set wage or price. You are largely in control of when, how, and where the work is done. And you can do the work when you want to as long as it gets done.
Another advantage of being an independent contractor is that you will make more money than if you were simply an employee. The reason for this is because companies are willing to pay more for an independent contractor because there aren’t any expensive long term commitments and the company doesn’t have to pay extra money for employment benefits.
The other great thing about being an independent contractor and working on your own is that you get to deduct more business expenses than a typical employee can claim. Think about everything you need to do your job, your computer, your desk, your chair, even the internet connection you are paying for can all be deducted as an expense at the end of the year. This basically means free office equipment.
One of the first things that you will want to do is come up with a plan to save enough money to pay your taxes at the end of the year. Working as a freelancer means that no one is doing your taxes. Your pay is given to you all in one lump sum with no taxes taken out. It is important to understand the basic tax laws. If you are not sure what to do, it is advised to talk to a tax specialist in order to help you save enough tax out of your paycheck.
cons of working as an independent contractor
One of the big things is that contractors aren’t eligible for any type of health or unemployment benefits because you are basically self-employed. So if you need health insurance, you would have to find something on your own that you could pay per month. Now you see why being an employee has its benefits when it comes to taking care of taxes and health insurance. You can still do all this stuff on your own, and it’s not impossible to get your own health insurance, but all that stuff takes time to keep track of.
It should be noted that if you are a US Yukon project rater then you’re a part time employee and your taxes are done for you. There still are other projects that are done on contract basis.
Knowing your taxes and how much you need to deduct is the most important part. As long as you keep enough money to cover taxes then you won’t have to pay anything. The biggest problem here is not withholding the right amount or not enough taxes. A single person in the USA will pay more taxes than a married person will. So it’s important to know exactly what you should be deducting from your pay.
For the USA you must take out self-employment taxes which are Social Security and Medicare contributions.
things that can help you with tax issue
There are some tax calculators online that can be used to accurately deduct the correct amount of money in taxes, including the self-employment taxes. That money should be kept in a separate bank account always so that if anything happens with the main bank account, that money is safe. So create a savings account and put that money into the account and don’t touch it until the end of the year when it’s time to do taxes. It is important to remember that it’s better to save too much than not enough.
When it comes time to do your taxes, it might be good to hire someone that can put together everything for you including your business deductions such as your office equipment or computer that you use to do your work on. There are some limits of course on what you can deduct. Find out exactly what you should have paid and make out a check and send it to the tax government in which you live. In the USA it’s the Internal Revenue Service.
As an independent contractor you won’t pay less or more taxes than if you were an employee. The only difference is that you have to do all the paperwork yourself. However, you are able to take more physical deductions than an employee would because you provide yourself with all the tools you need to do your job on your own.
In closing, it shouldn’t scare you to do your own taxes. It’s not any more difficult than doing your taxes as if you were an employee, and you might actually get the tools you need to do your job for free.
Appen Falcon Typeahead Project
Appen Typeahead Project
This article goes over the guidelines of the project at Appen called Typeahead e2e. This project is somewhat the same as being a search engine rater and rating queries and results, but you are rating queries for Facebook and their website search engine. They may be trying to get this search engine as tuned as Google, except it’s based on their platform. Facebook is considered a family website, and they are trying to make sure that none of the bad stuff gets through. The main purpose of the job you perform is to detect low quality suggestions, and the ratings tasks are mostly based on your own point of view, which is unusual for a project of this type.
Appen Typeahead e2e – requirements and payment rates
E2E stands for ‘end to end’ but that seems irrelevant at this point. In order to work on this project, you must have a Facebook account. The project has a work volume from 1 to 4 hours per day. This is the usual amount of time on Appen projects. The pay range for this project depends on where you live, but it can range from $6 an hour to $14 an hour. This project is exclusive of Appen and runs in many markets.
Typeahead e2e Qualification
Qualification process is straight-forward, before proceeding with actual exam you will be given a chance to do a practice test which consists of 20 tasks and covers all possible rating scenarios. Once you complete the practice set you will receive feedback and recommendations on your ratings. The next step will be actual exam which also consists of 20 tasks. If you pass this exam successfully you will be moved to production.
Typeahead e2e working process
Typeahead are queries that are given with suggestions when you type something in the search box on Facebook.
The search Typeahead provides suggestions, and it’s your job to see if the suggestions are relevant, or if suggestions are bad. There are a lot of different things that can make them bad. You might recall that Google at one point had a big problem many years back when Google ads were coming up with some violent and hateful content that caused them to lose some advertising with big names. It wasn’t until this happened that Google wanted a real human to look at what ads were being displayed, and what websites were providing as far as search content. The same thing is happening at Facebook and they want to make sure that people are not getting bad results with violent, offensive, hateful, or pornographic content. That is where the human rater comes in, and it’s your job to determine if the results are good or bad, or if they should be flagged.
As mentioned previously, the workflow of this project is to determine the quality of suggestions in the search bar drop down. There are some things that the guidelines go over.
You are presented with a list of categories when doing the search. You make a decision based on what the results are. You would follow these labels and determine what is acceptable and what is offensive/porny (cute new word that Appen or Facebook apparently made up), junky, or acceptable.
It is important to remember that you are rating the quality of the suggestion, and not the quality of the query. Quality doesn’t have anything to do with the query. The query should be looked at to determine if it’s in a foreign language other than the language you are contracted to work in.
Furthermore, a suggestion should be rated 1 if it is offensive, violent or porny, such as “hot girls”, “sexy videos”, etc. The suggestion, at first glance, needs to be obviously offensive or seeking offensive material.
You need to remember that you are not rating the results generated by the Facebook search engine but the suggestion itself. Many common names may generate pornographic results (ex.“mary ann”) but should not be rated as offensive. If it’s junky, then it is because the suggestion is unrecognizable and, most importantly, you think the suggestion is junky/gibberish. Junky entails the suggestion is difficult to understand or is entirely nonsense. If you rate the suggestion as junky, you would then choose a category to support your decision.
A suggestion gets a 3 – Acceptable if it is not junky. This is considered a good suggestion which doesn’t contain foreign language or anything offensive. It is spelled correctly and free of grammatical errors. If a suggestion is rated acceptable, then it must receive an additional rating to indicate whether it is personally recognizable to you. This is a weird task, because you wonder how it can be acceptable if it’s not recognizable. They clear that up by saying ‘The suggestion is UNRECOGNIZABLE based on your own point of view but still makes sense’. They say that you can use Google/Bing to determine if the suggestion is acceptable or junky. But once again, the rating is based on your own personal view.
The job itself doesn’t look very hard, and the work flow should go pretty fast since you only have to choose from 4 different categories, and then choose a label from one of those 4 categories. There are a lot of examples in the guidelines that show you what to do in certain cases in case you are unsure of what to select.
It is interesting to know what this will end up doing to the Facebook pages that rely on certain words that are brought up. Some searches may end up disappearing from the suggestions at all.
As always, if you have any questions about this project, or you are working on this project, leave us a comment and tell us how it’s going.
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Your gut does much more than just digest food. A balanced gut helps improve your digestive health so you do not suffer through constipation, diarrhea, or IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). Research shows that your gut also acts as a second brain that is constantly communicating with the CNS or central nervous system to ensure that your body and allied processes are running seamlessly.
A balanced and healthy gut impacts your mood, making you feel less depressed and more energetic. Keeping your gut healthy is in your best interest, and there are a number of effective tools like water and probiotics that can support your digestive health. Though probiotic supplements are the ‘new kid on the block’, they have a whole lot more in common with plain old water than you would think.
Water and probiotics are friends of digestion.
The human body is made up of about 60% of water. Keeping yourself hydrated, especially during the draining summer months, is one of the best ways to avoid a host of digestive health issues, dips in energy and acne breakouts.
Probiotics or live cultures of beneficial gut bacteria offer well-researched digestive health benefits. By promoting good bacteria in your body, probiotics help to improve the overall process of digestion, alleviate gastroenteritis and diarrhea, and ease constipation.
Both offer skin benefits.
Your skin is an organ made up of a multitude of cells. Cells are made up of water, and as such, they do not function optimally without adequate hydration. The lack of water is visible in the form of dry and flaky skin that is prone to breakouts and wrinkling. Drinking adequate amounts of water as well as using moisturizers to keep your skin hydrated gives your skin a radiant glow.
The story of clear skin starts in the gut. You may have noticed how eating certain food items affects your skin in a direct way. For example, the addition of wheat-based products, processed sugar, and dairy is known to cause skin problems. Probiotics soothe the skin by reducing the levels of inflammation in your body. An imbalanced gut led by bad bacteria results in chronic inflammatory issues that cause acne and other problems. The simple addition of probiotic supplements to your diet aids improved digestion, clear skin, and robust immunity. Research is also being conducted on the benefits of probiotic products applied topically on the skin.
Probiotics and water help maximize physical stamina and performance.
During intense exercise, you are likely to lose 6-10% of your body’s water content. Even with a loss of just 2%, the effects of dehydration can be seen and felt in the form of changes in optimal body temperature, increased fatigue and irritability, lack of motivation, and lowered stamina. So if you are training for increased strength or to lose those extra pounds, water is one of your best allies.
Similarly, probiotics also help maximize physical performance. By improving your digestion and increasing the absorption of nutrients from the food you eat, good bacteria help improve your recovery time after workouts, boost your immunity for better performance, and reduce muscular inflammations so you can get back to your fitness routine faster and with more energy.
Both help your body handle heat better.
The summer heat can be too much for some people to handle. It is always a good idea to have a few heat-based coping strategies in mind so your body can prepare for the summer months. One of the most common strategies is to keep sipping on water through the day. Your body loses a lot of its water content in the form of perspiration to cool down your body. This lost water needs to be replaced in the form of fluids.
Research has also found that supplementing your body with probiotics helps increase the amount of time that it takes your body to reach fatigue during hot months and while exercising.
Hydration and probiotic supplements improve brain function.
The amount of water in your body has a direct effect on the condition of your brain. Research shows that even mild dehydration (1-3%) may cause certain brain functions to run less efficiently. Not only can dehydration impair brain function, reduce energy levels, and cause bad moods, it may also lead to major impairment of mental performance and memory.
An increasing amount of research now connect the state of your gut with your mood and mental health. Probiotic supplements have been shown to have positive effects when it comes to alleviating mood swings, memory problems, anxiety, depression, and reducing stress by manipulating the levels of the stress hormone, cortisol.
Water and probiotics can help you reach your weight loss goals.
If you want to lose those extra pounds and maintain a fit and healthy body, water and probiotics are your best friends. Drinking ample water ensures that you feel satiated and have a higher metabolic rate. By keeping you fuller for longer, water acts as a great appetite suppressant. The total amount of water you need to drink daily depends on factors like your weight, activity levels, and overall weather. However, as a rule of thumb, adults should consume at least 8 glasses or 2 liters of water through the day.
Probiotics, on the other hand, help you lose weight and specifically target that stubborn belly fat. Studies show that certain strains of bacteria act as appetite suppressants, cause your body to burn more calories, store less fat, and produce hormones like GLP-1 that support weight loss.
Keep in mind that certain probiotic strains help weight gain so choose the right probiotic supplement to suit your needs. For example, Here’s the Skinny is an effective supplement that is specifically designed to ease digestive health issues, repopulate your gut microbiome with beneficial bacteria, and bolster weight loss. With the patented BioTract delivery system, these tablets are 15 times more effective that other capsules.
Drink Water + Add A Probiotic to Your Daily Diet
Use the dynamic duo of water and probiotics to your advantage today. Drinking plenty of water and adding the right probiotic to your diet can support your body and give you the energy you need to finish each day strong.
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Swim Better Tips - Look Down, Kick Right, Shoulder Roll
Looking for some things to think about to help you maintain or refine your swim technique during a workout? Look for swim drills that work for you or your swimming technique. Try different ones to see which you like, and which you do not. You may find that the ones you like the least are the best ones for you to use. Here are a few swim drill thoughts that might help you improve your freestyle swimming skills.
One tip up front. Do not try to think about two stroke improvement items or tips at one time. Pick one to work on, check it as you swim for a short while, then move on to something else, then come back to that first item and check it again. Trying to think about two things at once usually results in neither one being improved, and thinking about one thing too long can lead to over-analysis and boredom!
Look Down
This is not really a drill, it is a focal point, a thing to check while you swim. During freestyle, you should aim for the best possible body alignment from the top of your head to your toes. Think a long, straight line, or think "swim tall" with good posture. You will be more efficient if you can swim in a straight line, with your head leading that line. Keep your body inside an imaginary cylinder a little wider than your shoulders. Imagine a tube a little larger or wider than your shoulders. A tube you could slide through head first and have some extra room all around you. Your body should swim inside that cylinder in a straight line, not a curved one.
If you keep your eyes looking at the bottom of the pool, except when you breath, you will be in a neutral posture, and that will help you stay straight. A high head often results in low legs. Avoid that by keeping your head in a neutral position. A good drill for this is head-point drill.
Kick Just Right
Another item to check while swimming freestyle is your kick. Too small and it does not do much for you; it might aid in body balance or in helping initiate shoulder rill, but a very, very small kick will not do much else. That is OK in some cases, and it may be in yours, but do not be afraid to test other kick sizes. The other side of the equation is kick rhythm - 2, 4, 6 beat, etc. What kick rhythm works best for you? Figure that out with a kick test.
Kicking too big and your feet move out too wide, causing excessive drag. The kick may be powerful, but if it is too big, if your legs move too far up/down/right/left, then they are dragging you down.
Kicking just right is someplace in the middle. Your legs will generally stay within a space a bit larger than your shoulder circumference. If your kick gets too big, it hits the sides of that tube. A good kick is big enough to almost hit the sides, but not so big it would crash against the sides of that tube. Head point drill can help you figure out kick size; as you do the drill, try it with different kicks and see what happens!
Roll Your Shoulders
To swim good freestyle you have to engage your pectoralis and latisimus muscles for the pull, and you have to recover your arm above the water. If you lay flat in the water, both shoulders staying at water level, it is very hard to properly do either one, and it is hard to turn your head far enough to get a breath. By rotating or rolling your shoulders (and chest/trunk/waist) you can get your arms in the right position to engage those big muscles, and you can get your arm out of the water for the recovery without getting a bad case of swimmers shoulder. Head point drill is also useful for working on body rotation or body roll.
Try thinking about these - or other stroke improvement tips - during parts of your next workout.
Swim on!
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When I first traveled to Israel-Palestine in 1994, during the heady early days of the Oslo peace process, I was expecting to see more of the joyful celebrations I’d watched on television at home. The emotional welcoming of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat back to Palestine. The massive demonstrations for peace on the streets of Tel Aviv. The spontaneous moment when Palestinians placed carnations in the gun barrels of departing Israeli soldiers. And though the early euphoria had already begun to ebb, clearly there was still hope.
It was the era of dialogue. Many Palestinians stood witness to Israeli trauma rooted in the Holocaust. Groups of Israelis began to understand the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when 750,000 Palestinians fled or were driven out of their homes during the creation of Israel in 1948. In the wake of the Oslo Declaration of Principles, signed on September 13, 1993 — a quarter of a century ago today — polls showed that large majorities of Israelis and Palestinians supported the agreement. Israelis, weary of a six-year Palestinian intifada, wanted Oslo to lead to lasting peace; Palestinians believed it would result in the creation of a free nation of their own, side by side with Israel.
“People thought this was the beginning of a new era,” says Salim Tamari, Palestinian sociologist and editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly.
“It was miraculous,” recalls Gershon Baskin, founder of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, “a high peak of optimism and hope.” Baskin, an American who emigrated to Israel nearly 40 years ago, remembers the emotional power of “these two parties who refused to recognize each other’s right to exist coming into a room and breaking through that and putting down a formula which, at the time, looked reasonable.”
Euphoria Never Lasts
Even then, however, there were disturbing signs. During that first trip, still in the glow of Oslo, I found myself in the heart of the West Bank, driving down new, smooth-as-glass “bypass roads” built for Israeli settlers and VIPs on my way from Bethlehem to Hebron. I was confused. Wasn’t this the territory-to-be of a future independent Palestinian state? Why, then, would something like this be authorized? Similarly, the next year, when Israeli forces undertook their much-heralded “withdrawal” from Ramallah, why did they only redeploy to the edge of that town, while retaining full military control of 72% of the West Bank?
Such stubborn facts on the ground stood in the way of the seemingly overwhelming optimism generated by that “peace of the brave,” symbolized by a handshake between Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in front of President Clinton on the White House lawn. Was it possible we were witnessing the beginning of the end of generations of bloodshed and trauma?
Already, however, there were dissenters. Mourid Barghouti, a Palestinian poet who, like thousands of his brethren, returned from exile in the early days of Oslo, was shocked to find former PLO liberation fighters reduced to the status of petty bureaucrats lording it over ordinary citizens. Israel, he wrote in his memoir, I Saw Ramallah, had “succeeded in tearing away the sacred aspect of the Palestinian cause, turning it into what it is now — a series of ‘procedures’ and ‘schedules’ that are usually respected only by the weaker party in the conflict… The others are still masters of the place.”
Another Oslo critic, Edward Said, the Palestinian intellectual and professor of comparative literature at Columbia, refused a White House invitation to attend the signing ceremony between Arafat and Rabin. Oslo, he wrote, should be considered “an instrument of Palestinian surrender… a kingdom of illusions, with Israel firmly in command. Clearly the PLO has transformed itself from a national liberation movement into a kind of small-town government… What Israel has gotten is official Palestinian consent to continued occupation.”
At the time, many Palestinians wrote off Said as someone intent on obstructing real, if incremental, progress. Arafat himself said that, living as he did in America, the famed professor “does not feel the suffering of his people.”
Or maybe he did. In my nearly 20 trips to the Holy Land over the quarter-century since Oslo, I watched the West Bank settler population quadruple, new settlements come to ring Jerusalem, and Israel keep full military control over 60% of the West Bank (instead of the previous 72%). All those settler “bypass” roads and limited troop redeployments turned out to point not simply to obstacles on the road to the culmination of the “peace process” but to fatal flaws baked into Oslo from the beginning. Indeed, the Oslo Declaration of Principles, which mentioned security 12 times but never once independence, sovereignty, self-determination, freedom, or Palestine, simply wasn’t designed to stop such expansion. In fact, the accords only seemed to facilitate it.
“It was designed to make sure there would never be a Palestinian state,” says Diana Buttu, Palestinian analyst and former legal adviser to the PLO. “They made it clear that they weren’t going to include the phrases ‘two-state solution,’ ‘Palestinian state,’ or ‘independence.’ It was completely designed to make sure the Palestinians wouldn’t have their freedom.”
The Failure of Oslo
The question worth asking on this 25th anniversary of those accords, which essentially drove policy in the US, Israel, the Palestinian occupied territories, and European capitals for a quarter of a century, is this: Were they doomed from the beginning? Billions of dollars and endless rounds of failed negotiations later, did Oslo ever really have a chance to succeed?
“I think it’s wrong to retroactively say that it was all a trick,” says Salim Tamari from the Jerusalem Quarterly’s editorial offices, once located in that holy city, now in Ramallah. The initial agreement was void of specifics, leaving the major issues — settlements, Jerusalem, control of water, refugees and their right of return — to “final status negotiations.” Israel, Tamari believes, unlike the Palestinians, achieved a major goal from the outset. “The Israelis wanted above all to have a security arrangement.”
In “Oslo II,” implemented in 1995, Israel got its cherished security cooperation, which meant that Palestinian police would control Palestinian demonstrators and so keep them from directly confronting Israeli forces. Those were, of course, the very confrontations that had helped fuel the success of the First Intifada, creating the conditions for Oslo. Today, that’s a bitter irony for Palestinians who sacrificed family members or limbs for what turned out to be such a weak agreement. But at the time, for many, it seemed worth the price.
For Palestinians, Oslo remained a kind of tabula rasa of hopes and dreams based on the formula of getting an agreement first and working out the details later. “Arafat thought that if he was able to get into the Palestinian territories, he would manage his relations with the Israelis,” says Ghassan Khatib, former minister of labor and planning for the Palestinian Authority (PA) as well as a prominent analyst and pollster. “And he did not pay attention to the details in the written documents.”
More important to Arafat was simply to return from exile in Tunisia and then convince Israel to end its settlement policies, give Palestinians East Jerusalem, share the region’s water supplies, and come to an equitable agreement on the right of return for Palestinian refugees dispossessed in 1948. Yet Arafat and his cadre of fellow PLO officials from the diaspora, Khatib argues, “had no real understanding of or expertise in the Israeli way of doing things, the Israeli mentality, etcetera, etcetera.”
Just as bad, says Omar Shaban of the Gaza think tank Pal-Think, was the ineptitude of Palestinian institutions in convincing Israelis that they could govern competently. “We didn’t do a very good job… We did not build good institutions. We did not build real democracy. And we did not speak enough to the Israeli public… [to] convince them that we are here to work together, to build together,” and that “peace is good for the Israeli people.”
For Gershon Baskin, however, the failure of Oslo had far less to do with any cultural misunderstandings or bureaucratic mismanagement and far more to do with an act of political violence: the assassination of Rabin by an Israeli right-wing extremist in 1995. His death was “the major event that changed the course of Oslo.”
As Baskin, who served as an adviser to Rabin’s intelligence team for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, recalls, “I know what kind of direction Rabin was moving in when he agreed to Oslo.” In the early Oslo years, the prime minister’s deputies were at work on secret negotiations with the Palestinians — the Geneva Accords and the Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement — that would have made major territorial concessions and called for East Jerusalem to be the future Palestinian capital. Some Palestinians were not impressed; they noted that by approving of the Oslo accords, they had already agreed to cede 78% of historic Palestine, settling for the 22% that remained: the West Bank and Gaza. And they pointed out that some settlements remained in both of these unofficial agreements and that neither included any kind of Palestinian right of return — considered by Israelis as a potential death blow to their state and by countless Palestinians uprooted in 1948 as a non-negotiable issue.
“There’s so much revisionist history,” Diana Buttu says. She points out that when American settler Baruch Goldstein assassinated 29 Palestinians praying in a mosque in Hebron in 1994, Rabin could have seized the moment to end the settlements. Instead, she points out, he “entrenched the army, entrenched the settlements. It’s very cute for them to say it all related to the assassination of Rabin. But it really relates to what he intended to do in the first place.”
The Soldiers Take Control
Yet Baskin believes that when Rabin, having just addressed 100,000 Israelis at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, was gunned down, Israeli priorities changed strikingly. “It was a peace process taken over by the military and the security people who had a very different understanding of how to do it.” This “change of mentality,” he adds, went “from cooperation and bridge building to walls and fence building — creating a system of separation, of permits, of restriction of movement.” The division of the West Bank into Areas A, B, and C, or ostensibly full Palestinian control (18%), joint control (22%), and full Israeli military control (60%), was supposed to be temporary, but it has remained the status quo for a quarter of a century.
Whatever the motives and intentions of the Israeli architects of Oslo, they were soon superseded by Israelis who saw the claim of Eretz Israel— all the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River — as a prime territorial goal. As a result, the endless expansion of settlements (and the creation of new ones), as well as seizures of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and even of individual Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem neighborhoods, has become the endgame for successive Israeli governments, abetted by their American counterparts. “The basic fact is that Israel has their cake and they’re eating it,” says Tamari. “They have the territories. They’re not withdrawing. They’re happy with the security of A, B, and C. There’s no pressure on them from the Americans. On the contrary.”
In the Oslo era, American presidents and secretaries of state, at most, issued mild diplomatic rebukes for settlement building, never threatening to suspend US aid if Israel didn’t stop undermining the “peace process.” The last time that happened was when Secretary of State James Baker threatened to suspend $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel during the presidency of George H.W. Bush in 1992.
And so, steadily, with every new visit to the Holy Land, I would witness the latest evidence of an expanding occupation — new or larger settlements and military bases, more patrols by jeeps and armored vehicles, new surveillance towers, additional earthen barriers, giant red and white warning signs, and most of all, hundreds of military checkpoints, ever more ubiquitous, on virtually every mile of the West Bank. Less visible were the night raids on Palestinian refugee camps and the nearly 40%of Palestinian adult males who have spent time in Israeli prisons, where the military court conviction rate for them is 99.74%. Also on the increase was the Palestinian Authority’s expanding “security cooperation” with Israel. That, in turn, often pitted Palestinians against each other, embittering villagers and city dwellers alike against the governing PA.
As the system of control grew, draconian restrictions on movement only increased. Adults and children alike were forced to wait hours to return home from school or work or a visit to a hospital or relatives in Jordan. Meanwhile, occupied Palestine was slowly being converted into an archipelago of Israeli military control. Clearly, the “peace process” had made things far worse for Palestinians.
“I remember the nice days where there was peace without agreement,” says Shaban of Pal-Think, his tongue only partly in cheek. “Now we have agreement without peace.”
When “Peace” Is a Dirty Word
And so, in the post-Oslo decades, even “peace” became a dirty word to many Palestinians. “They thought that this agreement would lead into an independent Palestinian state,” says Ghassan Khatib, whose initial tracking poll, shortly after the iconic handshake on the White House lawn, showed 70% Palestinian support for Oslo. But when, he adds, “the public realized that this agreement was not good enough to stop the expansion of settlements, they realized it’s good for nothing. Because the peace process for the Palestinians is about ending the occupation. And settlement expansion is actually the essence of occupation.” Twenty-five years later, his polling finds that support for the “peace process” among Palestinians is now at about 24%.
On the ground, what now exists is not two states, but essentially a single state that leaves Israel in de facto control of land, water, borders, and freedom of movement. What connections existed between the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem have been splintered, with little prospect of any kind of reunification any time soon.
Today, when you travel to the West Bank and drive through what was to be the landscape of a free and independent Palestine, you find yourself surrounded by a militarized colonial settler regime. The word “apartheid” inevitably comes to mind, despite its unpopularity among the pro-Israel lobby and their charges in Congress. Sometimes, I wonder whether “Jim Crow” doesn’t best describe the new Palestinian reality.
For me, each successive trip has revealed a political situation grimmer and less hopeful than the time before. Israel’s pursuit of land over peace and the complicity of the American government essentially killed “the two-state solution.”
The final blow came this May when the Trump administration moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In the process, it became clear that US Mideast policy is now largely directed not only by the pro-settler triumvirate of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and Middle East adviser Jason Greenblatt, but also by the Armageddon lobby. Those evangelical Christians are spearheaded by John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, which has surpassed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as the largest pro-Israel group in the US. They believe that Israel must remain in control of the Holy Land so that Jesus can return and mete out justice to sinners, after which believers will rise to heaven in the rapture. Hagee, who has described such a moment in detail from his pulpit, is a major contributor to the Israeli settlement of Ariel (population 20,000). It was no happenstance that he was the minister who gave the benediction at the US embassy dedication ceremony in Jerusalem in May, as Israeli forces were gunning down unarmed protesters in Gaza.
Now, in an effort to end the long-standing right of return of Palestinian refugees, the Trump administration is canceling funding to UNRWA, the UN refugee agency that has provided food, shelter, education, and housing in the Palestinian refugee camps for nearly seven decades. The move, spearheaded by Kushner, is part of a broader “deal of the century” to pressure Palestinians into a peace agreement on American and Israeli terms. Clearly a bad deal for Palestinians, it is sure to sharply increase poverty and hunger in the camps, especially in Gaza. Strategically, it appears to be an attempt to force Gazans to give up their long-standing national rights, while increasing their dependence on humanitarian aid.
There is another solution, says Buttu. Instead of approaching this as primarily a humanitarian problem, the international community could “put pressure on Israel to end the [economic] siege, and allow us to live in freedom. If we were able to have a seaport, an airport,” to import, export, and travel freely, “we wouldn’t need handouts.” Yet most of the world, she says, is “too terrified to confront Israel.”
Failed peace, dashed hopes, hunger, apartheid, Armageddon. Not much to celebrate, is there? And there may not be for quite a while. “The dream is still there,” insists Tamari, but he adds that, for the foreseeable future, “I think we’re going to continue to have the status quo. State of repression, colonization for many, many years to come. Until the global scene changes.” Say, a major decline in US influence (something not so hard to imagine right now) or some other less predictable set of events. “Or until the Palestinians undertake a massive civil insurrection. That may tip the balance.”
An Ode to Joy
Many Palestinians see the recent Gaza March of Return and the nonviolent boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which advocates cultural and economic boycotts of Israel, as examples of such civil insurrections. BDS supporters recently celebrated a genuine victory, with the announcements by Lana del Rey and 15 other artists that they were bowing out of the Meteor concert festival in Israel. Yet taken together, BDS and the March of Return don’t come close to the First Intifada, a six-year uprising involving virtually every sector of Palestinian society, which brought Israel to the negotiating table — ironically, for the failed Oslo Agreement.
Still, few are the Palestinians likely to tell you that the national dream is dead. In late July, for instance, I spoke with Laila Salah, a 21-year-old Palestinian cellist, then rehearsing to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Jerusalem in an orchestra led by Palestinian violist Ramzi Aburedwan, the founder of the Al Kamandjati music school. Many of Laila’s fellow Palestinian musicians, risking arrest, snuck into the holy city, in part to play Beethoven but also to assert their right to be in their beloved Jerusalem, which they still dream of as their capital. When I asked Laila if she thought Palestine would have its own state one day, she compared her people’s freedom to the fourth movement, or Ode to Joy, in the 9th Symphony. “The fourth movement embodies our freedom,” she told me. “Or at least, being able to go freely around Palestine. It’s a wish to come true. I don’t know when. We might not be alive to see our fourth movement.”
With the endless march of settlements, Israel’s continued impunity, a fractured Palestine divided between the West Bank and Gaza, and a Trump administration empowering people who believe Armageddon is near, a solution to the Israel-Palestine nightmare may seem impossible. But maybe a just peace is coming sooner than we think.
After all, who predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall or the end of apartheid in South Africa?
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Just wondering if anyone knows any good hot dog places. I've been to Pink's a couple of times and they make great hot dogs. Can you think of any more?
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1. There is a parallel thread on hot dog size that you might want to check out.
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1. My favorites besides Pink's are Carneys (locations on Sunset and Studio City) and Skooby's on Hollywood Blvd. Check out http://www.hotdogspot.com/
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1. NATE AND AL'S, they bring the Saurkraut to the table as a starter.
1. If you're in OC, try Jerry's Dogs (locations in Santa Ana and La Habra). Truly one of the best dogs I've had.
Here's my review of it with photos.
1. Never had Pink's..heard the line wasn't worth the dog.
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1. re: Diana
the line actually moves pretty fast. the main problem is finding a table to eat.
1. re: Diana
its not.
so many other better hot dog places.
2. You can browse Steve Doggie-Dogg's blog at: http://hotdogspot.com/ - for some reason the blog looks odd today - the right-hand list of reviews is at the bottom of the page when I go to the page. Go figure. Anyway, I don't agree with all of the reviews (but that's why I'm a Hound), but it's entertaining and informative reading and he's found some excellent places.
1. Tommy's has a good dog. But, sadly, they don't have sauerkraut.
Carney's is my favorite, though.
1. If you're in OC, try Portillos (from Chicago). Famous for their dogs, and also have great italian beef.
1. One of the best is Weiner Factory 14917 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks at Kester and Ventura Blvd. 818.789.2676. They have awesome dogs but I favor the polish dogs-mild or spicy hot. They open at 11am every day and close at different times depending on if it's a weekday or weekend. No alcohol served. See http://hotdogspot.com/2004/07/wiener-... for a great review,.
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1. re: burnnemmdownn
Check the date, Simihound's post is almost three years old. (Believe me, it would've been difficult to have missed the news on this board when Wiener Factory closed down.)
1. Any places like Top Dog (i.e., the Bay Area chain)?
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1. re: a_and_w
Top Dog is the best!! Hands down the best. NO HOT DOG in Los Angeles comes close and most of the places mentioned here (Pink's, Wiener Factory, etc) can't even compare to a pre-packaged 6-pack of Hebrew National dogs. I order Top Dogs by the 5lb bag and have them shipped down to me. My friends BEG me to cook up Top Dogs and I've even given 5lb bags as Christmas gifts to absolutely elated friends. Save your pennies on the generic junk dogs of Los Angeles and order up some Top Dogs to cook at home (www.topdoghotdogs.com)... and no, I don't work for Top Dog.
1. re: mrshankly
Yes, I think mail order is the way to go, though it's still beyond me why someone doesn't just open a clone down here. BTW, someone recommended the Stand to me as a possible substitute. I tried the Century City location -- it's tasty but *nothing* like Top Dog.
1. re: a_and_w
There is actually a stand version of Top Dog originally franchised by them but they've since removed themselves from the process. The place is called The Dog Out and they're located primarily in northern San Diego County. I looked into franchising but the cost is astronomical... almost as much as franchising a Quiznos.
2. re: mrshankly
C'mon, mrshankly. I agree that Hebrew National dogs are great, but you know they come in a seven-pack, except for the thicker-dog four-packs.
1. re: nosh
Oops!! My mistake. 7 pack it is!!
3. Ditto Carney's and the line at Pink's is not worth the wait.
1. My favorites are the bacon-wrapped dogs from the street carts outside major events. For a surefire bet at finding one, you can try Spring Street just south of Cesar Chavez on any Sunday afternoon. (It's by Olvera Street)
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1. re: lil mikey
they can be found on most street corners in the garment and toy districts as well.
2. I also love the bacon-wrapped dogs. I am not a fan of Pinks, oddly. Just don't like them that much. Probably my favorite dog in LA is at the Los Feliz Costco. Those are some good dogs. And only a buck-fifty, including drink!
1. Qt's in Sherman Oaks, Taste Chicago in Burbank and Portillo's in Buena Park. Pink's is overrated and Weiner Factory is underwhleming to say the least.
QT CHICAGO DOGS
4344 Woodman Av, Sherman Oaks
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1. re: chowchi1
Last time I went to The Weiner Factory(a couple of months ago) I found their dog mushy and bland. But some people prefer that.
1. re: chowchi1
I loved the WEINER FACTORY...went last week and I chose it as my favorite chili dog during my week of dog-crawling through the valley...whadda I know, I like Doger Dogs and Dogs from TOMMY"S.
1. re: tatertotsrock
Tater, did you get to Cupid's during your valley crawl? Also, Larry's in Burbank has a great chili dog.
1. re: WildSwede
AHDL (Another Hot Dog Link)
Larry's Chili Dog
3122 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
1. re: maxzook
Thnaks, maxzook, for the info...makes for easier dog hunting.
2. re: WildSwede
Hi WildeSwede,
Sad to say that I wasn't knocked off my seat by Cupids. Nothing bad, but nothing good enough for me to do the drive to get there again.
Never heard of Larry's....guess I gotta go try 'em out now.
I'll report back.
1. re: tatertotsrock
That's okay. Everyone has their own tastes. Maybe Larry's will knock you off your seat!! ;-)
2. awhile back i asked fellow chowhounds for recs on burgers in el monte/baldwin park - yesterday, i was in that area and paid a visit to art's on valley and i also tried to hit a 2nd burger place recommended yanniki's, also on valley, after sitting at the drive thru intercom for 5 minutes without a response , i went up to the window and tried to get someone's attention - no luck...i drove off and remembered seeing another burger place on valley bld, just west of the 605 fwy ( southside of valley ) - i believe it was called big d's - noticed that they had a worn out hot dog sign ...so what the heck..let me try a chili-dog - cheese, onions....wow...what a surprise - the dog had the "sap" similar dog to tommy's, but the chili was much better - a firmer chili with noticeable meat as opposed to the "stuff" tommy's serves ( and don't get me wrong...i kinda like that slop ! ) it cost $2.35...i think it's worth a try !!
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1. I'm sure I'll get flamed, but one of the best deals is the hot dog at costco. Its a good big dog. I get one EVERY time I go to the store. You have to ask for Saurkraut but its free and it comes with a drink.
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1. re: Scotty
no flame here !!! i agree it's a good dog....and the price !!!! how can you go wrong ?
1. re: Scotty
Gotta disagree, the Costco dogs are overrated. They seem to be just a Hebrew National Dinner Frank, steamed, and steaming is not the way to go with a casingless dog, should be grilled. Also tried their Polish dog, tasted just like their regular dog.
1. re: ChinoWayne
"..just a Hebrew National Dinner Frank.."
Thats *exactly* what it is. So don't bother going to Cosco, just pick up a pack at the supermarket the next time you're there.
1. re: spankbot
If you're going to the market go to Ralphs and get the PS brand. Crisp snap and great seasoning. In chubs with the meat, NOT in with the other inferior dogs.
1. re: Wes
Absolutely! Those are my faves - found them several years ago!
2. re: ChinoWayne
Now, I am one of those blasphemers who hates crunchy/chewy/snapcracklepop casings on any sort of sausage. Always looking for a good dog that doesn't make me work.
1. re: djquinnc
Try Costco (I'm serious). They use Hebrew National dinner franks and are quite hearty without the casing.
3. re: Scotty
no worries....my dad loves gas station hot dogs.
1. re: Scotty
Agreed!!! Costco dogs are truely great. Then again, you can't go wrong with the price and the sausage that they use... Hebrew National Dinner Franks.
1. re: mrshankly
Agreed! $1.50 for a large Hebrew National hotdog & 20 oz fountain drink... plus, some fair condiment options (yellow mustard, deli mustard, onions, etc...).
Also a fan of Skooby's on Hollywood Blvd (near Cherokee) is awesome! Their buns are amazing. I'm a big fan of the garlic dog.
I have heard good things about the Edison (downtown) though I can't verify and I'm not a fan of pink's.
Also, it is worth noting that the arthouse movie theater on Wilshire in Beverly Hills sells bagel dogs at their concession stand, which I think is pretty awesome.
2. So...didn't you guys read The Jungle? I stopped eating hot dogs for a long long time after that. And it still pops into my head when I bite into a hot dog. :(
However, that has not stopped me from eating the street cart ones with bacon. As for Pink's, I never understood the lines, it's not that good.
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1. re: slacker
i'm thinking that i definitely don't want to read "The Jungle".
1. re: slacker
Is there anyplace in the Hollywood area to get a bacon wrapped dog during the daytime?
1. re: Josh90004
Pink's is the obvious answer. As has been noted upthread, the line can be long but it moves fast, and seating can be a problem ... I like Pink's but I don't go out of my way, esp. when the parking lot is full.
My favorite local dog remains the Stand, but I admit I tend to favor places that feature New York-style red onions. I used to favor Weiner Factory until they got rid of the NY onions, but if I'm in the neighborhood I'll stop by for a dog with hot potato salad. Art's and most of the quality delis usually have good dogs.
709 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Art's Delicatessen & Resturant
12224 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604
The Stand
17000 Ventura Blvd Ste 204, Encino, CA 91316
The Stand
2000 Avenue of the Stars Ste 600N, Los Angeles, CA 90067
Wiener Factory
14917 Ventura Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 91403
1. re: maxzook
Moves fast?? Oy is all I can say if you think that is fast. Pink's inane ordering system creates the huge line, just as they want it to. But to wait an hour+ for a mediocre dog is a fool's game.
1. re: maxzook
I second The Stand. Check out Monday Dollar Dog Nite.
2. If you want a good dog you have to eat at Chronies in East L.A., you will not be disapointed. The dogs have a great casing that pops when you take a bite. I have had Pinks and they are good, but Chronies blows them out of the water. Try their chili cheese dogs and you will know what I am talking about. It is located at the corner of Keenen and Whittier Blvd.
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1. re: iknowfood64
This is a fantastic place for dogs! Excellent, inexpensive, good fries too. Outside covered patio seating so great for a nice day when you have time to get there from downtown -- easy parking, efficient service. They do it right!
2. The best hot dogs I have had in LA come from a little hole in the wall in the east Valley, the European Sausage Factory. Of course you have to take them home and cook them, but how hard is it to cook a hot dog? It's in a little industrial park on the south side of Saticoy just west of Coldwater. They make their own sausages as well as carrying a bewilderingly large line of imported delicacies. It's worth a trip, and the dogs, a traditional casing style a bit more garlicy than Nathan's, Hebrew National, or Vienna Beef, are sublime.
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1. re: ebethsdad
i'm partial to costco dogs (1.62 with a drink is hard to beat) and oki dog. their chili is quite tasty.
1. re: ns1
Larry's in Burbank or Weiner Factory in Sherman Oaks
2. re: ebethsdad
Euro Sausage is a unique place...They have all sorts of fresh meats and sausages including chicken and turkey, smoked chicken, deli meats, some cakes including mun-poppy seed, and a small selection of european products. BTW if you like Polish red cabbage, like Weiner Factory serves this place has it.
12926 Saticoy Street North Hollywood, CA 91605
(818) 982-2325 (may be the number for the manufacturing side of the house)
3. I just had one of the best hot dogs in LA right in my own home. I bought hot dogs from Brents deli in Northridge--gigantic, crisp bite, delicious.
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1. re: brandygirl
Wow...I have been going there for years and never tried the hot dogs. Does anyone have an idea where they get them from? I simply can't believe they make them there.
2. See http://www.chowhound.com/topics/57177 for an unfortunate reawakening of an ancient parallel Topic. See Place links for maps and company web sites.
I hate to sound morbid, but has anyone heard from Steve Doggie-Dogg recently? His blog has been inactive for ~11 months. That's not like a real chowhound.
QT Chicago Dogs
4344 Woodman Ave, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Nate 'n Al's Deli & Restaurant
414 N Beverly Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tommy's Original World Famous
2575 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Jerry's Dogs
2276 E 17th St, Santa Ana, CA 92705
European Meat Sausages Mfg
12926 Saticoy St, Los Angeles, CA 91605
Eureka Sausage Co
6835 Tujunga Ave, North Hollywood, CA 91605
6654 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
12601 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604
Portillo's Hot Dogs
8390 La Palma Ave, Buena Park, CA 90620
Taste Chicago
603 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505
Larry's Chili Dog
3122 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
5825 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Brent's Delicatessen & Rstrnt - duplicate
19565 Parthenia St, Los Angeles, CA 91324
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1. re: DiveFan
I was just thinking of him this weekend. I miss seeing him chime in on these 'dog posts. Hope all is well with him.
You left out Cupid's - 2 locations: Lindley just south of Nordhoff in Northridge and Vanowen just west of Winnetka in Reseda. Also, there is another QTs on Reseda and Parthenia. Larry's (which you already mentioned) is one of my faves.
Still have to make it to Portillo's and Chronis.
1. re: tritip
No, thanks for the info. I miss him!! ;-)
1. re: maxzook
Good. If you know him, would you ask him to chime in now and again?
2. i Like OKI DOG It's a Flour tortilla wrapped around 2 extra long hot dogs, covered with chili, cheese, & Pastrami. I always ask the grill guy to add "YASAI" Japanese for vegetables grilled onions, peppers & Cabbage. If you go to the Pico Location Tell them Hiroshi sent you.....
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1. re: Skunk2Racer
oki dog is delicious. the most amazing thing is the dogs are presented perfectly neatly, when things exactly where they are supposed to be. the chili dogs are perfectly sized, fitting neatly into your mouth. the chili stays on top of the hot dog. truly a fantastic hot dog shack.
2. I have to qualify that it's been years since I've had a Barney's Beanery hot dog, which was really more of a barbecue-grilled knockwurst. I usually prefer my tube steaks steamed since grilling tends to dry them out, but the Barney's dogs were big enough that they could get the outsides crisp and dark without overcooking the insides.
Curious to know if they're still as good ...
Barney's Beanery
8447 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
1. A hot dog convo without anything from Steve Doggie-Dogg? Where are you sir? The Dog-Lovin' masses await.
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1. My all time favorite is Chroni's Hot Dogs in ELA on Whittier Blvd. The Chili Dog is amazing. It's completely worth whatever drive you have to make to get there.
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1. re: diaz
YAHDL (Yet Another Hot Dog Link)
5825 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90022
2. fab dogs in reseda has the best hot dogs that ive ever had.
theres a place called jerry's dogs in the valley i think that has good wood fire dogs, its like the subway of hot dogs, you tell them the dog you want then they take it to a little stand where they have all the condiments and they ask you what you want on it. its amazing. theyre home made chips are great aswell. :)
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1. re: burnnemmdownn
Fab is truly fabulous. The steam dog with simple condiments is one of my favorites. The more elaborate toppings/preparations are really good and flavorful but often mask the flavor of the dog.
1. re: burnnemmdownn
my exp at fab's was the very opposite. the dog had a very funny taste.. like some imitation meat.. couldn't even finish it. i'd even rather have a boring oscar mayer than that again. blechh. on another note, the frito pie wasn't bad.
1. re: namstermonster
After having a hot dog from Let's Be Frank, all other hot dogs will pale by comparison.I tried the regular hot dog and the bratwurst. I loved them both. These are fabulous dogs.
I had mine at their Truck in the Helm's Bakery complex. I understand they also have a location on Abbott Kinney.
1. re: maudies5
Okay, I'm opposite both you guys! All the dogs I tasted at Fab's were drop-dead delicious; we were all swapping bites and to hell with the cooties, like a bunch of starved kindergartners. As for Let's Be Frank, those are cool people in a cool truck and it was a cool scene - out in front of Silver Lake Liquor on a big wine-tasting night - so what's not to like? The weirdest excuse for a bratwurst is what. Bad enough that it was skinny and brown, but what a strange flavor. Not BAD, just... really not bratwurst. Mrs. O had a bite and said she wouldn't eat it; I didn't think it was inedible, and I don't throw food away unless it's gonna make me ill...
1. re: Will Owen
My experience with Let's Be Frank has also been the same as WIll's. The dog was practically inedible and I wanted to enjoy it. It had a bitter aftertaste with a "grainy" texture like I've run into with certain tofu products imitating meat counterparts... only worse I tried their dog again a few weeks later in an effort to gain some perspective and give it another shot and the experience was the same. Such a shame because the owners seem really nice with good intentions with regards to the quality and composition of their dogs. It's just not the same or even close to a good hot dog.
1. re: Will Owen
I am just finishing up the last bites of a Fab's ripper with chili and cheese and I have to agree: this is the best hot dog I've ever had. And I don't even *like* hot dogs that much.
My son had the texas burrito concoction (it's two dogs with chili, cheese, fritos and I think bacon) and for the first time, I've experienced this 'snap' that everyone talks about and I realized...this is why I've never cared for hot dogs: because they don't taste like this.
2. re: maudies5
I like the dogs at Let's Be Frank. I'm not usually a fan of grass-fed beef in dogs and burgers, but I thought these had nice flavor and snap. I also enjoyed the "hot" (i.e., spicy) dog, though there was some gristle. Like Will, however, the bratwurst tasted weird to me. I've never encountered the grainy texture Mr. Shankly describes, but have had dogs that lack snap on occasion. I think it might have something to do with low turnover at non-peak times.
PS: Would still kill for a Top Dog clone in LA.
1. re: a_and_w
I love hot dogs and Let's be Frank just didn't do it for me as much as I wanted to like it. For me it's Carneys , Cupids and my favorite Portillo's
1. re: wienermobile
I think you mean Portillo's ... ?
Portillo's Hot Dogs
8390 La Palma Ave, Buena Park, CA 90620
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Can't be carried
Here is a general warning to new hunters thinking about going Marksman for raid content: Don't expect your spec to carry you. Just like the merciless fights of Archimonde, Illidari Council, and Sarth + Three Drakes, you have to be on top of your game to play MM well - one ability will not carry you to good DPS.
This spec isn't like Survival, where one shot+auto shot will comprise over half of your DPS, nor is it BC Beast Mastery, where a Steady Shot macro is your only keybind. MM requires you to be alert and focused - that shot rotation is your life's blood.
Today was not one of my better days in Naxx (it was a crappy run all around, despite it being one of our fastest). I was distracted by RL stresses, not to mention tired from studying, and lax in my playing. The difference in my DPS was staggering. I was at the bottom of the top ten DPS constantly - even second to last on Thaddius, barely above the tanks! It was embarressing and very much unlike me, but it goes to show how much even the slightest distraction can hurt a MM's rotation.
Unless you want to work, and work hard, for your DPS, don't go Marks. BM had its difficulty bumped with more emphasis on some shot weaving and even more pet realiance, so it's a good intermediate. I dislike Survival's heavy emphasis on Explosive Shot, but hey, if you want to trap dance, have fun with that. Otherwise, roll a mage. We hear magic is easy.
Väkis said...
The typical Marks rotation (afaik) is comprised of Chimera (after SS is on the mob), Aimed and Steady; with the added ease of never having to refresh serpent sting.
SV has Explosive, Aimed, Steady and Sting re-application as well as Lock and Load procs.
Not to suggest either is more "skillful", but it doesn't appear at first glance that MM should be any harder than SV to pull off; both require you to watch CDs and procs like a hawk.
Pike said...
@ Vakis - Marks is Chimera/Arcane/Aimed/Steady. You forgot one ^^
BM as of Tuesday appears to be needing more than just Steady/Arcane/Serpent to pull off well; BRK was using Multishots as well and I'm wondering if Aimed is a possibility. I say: bring it! Blizz has done great with making the hunter class as a whole a very interesting and deep class this time around.
Neggles said...
I didn't necessarily say playing SV was easy - I just remarked on its reliance on one shot for the majority of its DPS, not unlike BC BM. Obviously skilled players do more than just spam that one shot.
Rilgon Arcsinh said...
And MM has ISS procs to watch and (ideally) use intelligently - it requires a LOT of on-the-fly math along the lines of "is it more DPS to hold off my rotation until Chimera's up and get the 20% on it, or to just plow through and use ISS on an Arcane", and stuff like that.
There's a LOT of snap decisions and on-the-fly rotation mutation that has to be done as MM to optimize. :P And that's why I love it.
Väkis said...
@ Pike - Dammit I was stuck in "NEVER EVER USE ARCANE IS SHARES CD" mode from SV :P. Thanks for reminding me >.<
MM was certainly interesting to use for the short period I specced it @ 80, though the ISS decision was always an irritating one; it always proc'd when Chimera had just gone onto CD. Same as Lock and Load is clearly designed to only proc 0.5 seconds after you hit Explosive shot... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.973864495754242}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '73366', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:37PQRR7HOOS42MNEJF7I5KRIFJ3DKZY4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ea16b51c-c867-4954-9384-9e3d60658687>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 18, 5, 26, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.58.217.97', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WGIQZA5LJW6TUGEVAAHSIHGYOI2AHTFN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:474ced75-5de7-445c-a9d7-c2d128439a4c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://theangrybutterfly.blogspot.com/2009/02/cant-be-carried.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3b87feb5-6006-40fd-a304-ff6a34c0e1f6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '605', 'url': 'http://theangrybutterfly.blogspot.com/2009/02/cant-be-carried.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-142-166-51.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019679367542266846', 'original_id': 'c36dd96a302423070593e5582c10084b2dbde96b114c6ca92cf71be839ec078b'} |
Can I Escape Student Loans by Fleeing to Another Country?
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For people with hundreds of thousands of dollars in higher education debt, it may be comforting to dream about catching a flight to Paris, Berlin, or Latin American countries that lack extradition treaties with the United States.
VICE recently published a story on multiple graduates who fled to Europe to escape their student loans. In the article ‘Debt Dodgers: Meet the Americans Who Moved to Europe and Went AWOL on Their Student Loans’, four college graduates share how they left the country to flee from higher education debt. Did these students make the right choice? Here are some consequences to consider if you are planning a move to Europe to escape student loans.
Cosigners: Before packing your suitcase for Amsterdam, it is only fair to check and make sure your parents or another family member did not cosign your student loans. Although leaving the country would get you off the hook for repaying student loans, your cosigner would be stuck footing the bill. Any consequences that come with defaulting on loans would be passed along to your cosigner.
Returning to the US: Although you might be going to Europe, your student loans will be waiting should you ever return to the United States. The consequences of defaulting on student loans cannot affect you in Europe, but should you ever return, wage garnishments, poor credit and other financial difficulties will be waiting.
Some Other Possibilities for Escaping Student Loans
While it is possible to escape student loans by fleeing the U.S., it is an extreme measure that would not work for most people. Gaining citizenship in another country can be a difficult and long process, and the consequences of student loans never really go away in the United States.
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Insoluble fiber is very hydrophilic. This means it has a high affinity for water.
Insoluble fiber absorbs and retains water as food moves from your stomach, small intestines and large intestines. Digestion mainly occurs in the duodenum. The by-product of digestion is eliminated through successive contractions and relaxations of the intestinal walls.
Your large intestines consist of three main parts: the cecum, the colon and the rectum. We are concerned with the rectum. This is where the by-product (waste or stool) of digestion is stored. When sufficient stool has accumulated in the rectum, your body sends signals to your brain and you feel the urge to take a dump.
It is the pressure in the rectum, that determines whether, you’ll contract piles or not. Anything that affects the pressure in the rectum can either accentuate or alleviate your piles.
Fiber significantly affects this pressure.
Here is one nugget you absolutely need to retain. Your body cannot break down insoluble fiber. The insoluble fiber that, you consume is ejected from your body in the same form.
Soluble fiber slows down metabolism. Insoluble fiber speeds up metabolism. Nutritionists refer to insoluble fiber as the “hurry up” component because it hurries food along the digestive track. Both types of fibers absorb and retain fluids. As a result, the wastes that arrive at the rectum are soft, bulky and gelatinous.
Soft, gelatinous stool keeps a normal pressure in your rectum. This makes your stool normal and easy to pass.
Watery stool (diarrhea) causes high pressure in your rectum and could cause your rectal veins to swell. Dry and hard stool (constipation) also causes low pressure in your rectum and could lead to inflammation of your rectal veins.
The normal pressure in your rectum needs to be moderate. It should neither be too high nor too low. High fiber foods help retain normal rectal pressures.
Recommended High Fiber Foods
for Hemorrhoids Relief
Eat both soluble and insoluble fiber (ruffage or roughage). Fruits, grains and vegetables will give you both types of fiber.
Here are the top 5 foods with the highest fiber content for each category.
Whole Grains
Rice, corn, oats and wheat are among the whole grains with high fiber content. A bowl of cornflakes in milk will make your day.
Vegetables and legumes
Greens vegetables are always a safe bet _ the greener the better. Other foods with high roughage content include spinach, potatoes, carrots and artichokes. When you scour through the vegetable shelves at the market, go for lentils, soybeans and peas. They’ll make a marvelous contribution to your roughage intake.
The most prized fiber rich fruits include oranges, apples, bananas, figs, strawberries and grapes.
Fiber Foods that can
Worsen Your Hemorrhoids
Refined sugars have low fiber content. Refined sugars are abundantly found in these major food categories: beverages, confectionaries, biscuits and cakes. Besides their propensity to cause hemorrhoids, these foods also foster obesity. Refined sugars foster the accumulation of fat.
Overweight is equal to consumed calories minus spent calories.
Your body converts the extra calories consumed into fat. You gradually become overweight as increasing layers of fat are stored in your body over time.
Spicy foods such as mustard and red (chili) pepper have been shown to exacerbate the pain, irritation and itching caused by hemorrhoids.
Alcohol, coffee and tobacco are vasoconstrictors. Avoid those big three like the zombie apocalypse. They will exponentially exacerbate your hemorrhoid condition.
Tobacco constricts blood vessels. Less blood flows to your rectal region, when your veins become smaller. This can lead to thromboses. Thrombosis is the blockage of circulation due to the clotting of cells in blood vessels. Thrombosed hemorrhoids are intolerably painful.
You are probably not ready to give up the world’s most cherished stimulant: caffeine. And Starbucks is extremely grateful for your addiction. However, you totally have to put a rain check on caffeine, when afflicted by hemorrhoids.
Caffeine is a stimulant and has the effect of a laxative. Excessive caffeine boosts blood circulation. You get stimulated because more oxygen arrives at your brain and other vital organs. Unfortunately blood is also pumped into inflamed hemorrhoidal bulges.
You probably won’t like this but you’ll have to put a rain check on beer too. Alcohol dehydrates your system. It has the opposite effect of water. Alcohol will make your stool dry and hard. Avoid alcohol or reckon with constipation.
Do yourself a favour and eat high fiber foods. They will speed up your relief from haemorrhoids.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
10 things I never thought I'd hear myself say.
As I stood in the garden the other morning, child's scooter in one hand furiously swinging it into the 30ft hedge to try to get the school shoe that was lodged firmly in it, I found myself shouting at the boy 'If you throw one more thing in this hedge I'm going to throw you in after it!'
The ridiculousness of the situation immediately hit me and I thought to myself 'now that's something I never thought I'd hear myself say' (to be clear I never thought I'd be beating a hedge with a scooter either but there you go).
I then realised that I was not only uttering ridiculous statements such as this, I was frequently coming out with 'oh my God did I just say that? I am so old' phrases too.
So, just for you, here's 9 other things I never though I'd hear myself say:
9. Is that a Power Ranger in the fridge?
8. Just stop right there mister.
7. Did you just throw that garlic at her?
6. You could poke someones eye out with that.
5. Who just pooed on the carpet?
4. Thats an accident waiting to happen.
3. There's naked blondes in the bed again.
2. Because I said so.
1. What's that floating in the bath? Oh God. Ok everyone out.
So not only are they turning me crazy, they're turning me into my mother. Is it just me or is this just part of becoming a parent?
This post was re-written from memory due to Blogger-gate that resulted in me losing my last post and all your lovely comments. I'm hoping that I can now move on and stop grinding my teeth every time I pick up my laptop. Some more fabulous comments would certainly help :)
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GARDENA smart systems
A creative toolbox to market the new connected smart system from GARDENA
Role: Concept | Design | Graphic production
GARDENA has created a connected garden system, where users can control and monitor their garden. Across media, the task was to create marketing and communication for this new system to customers Europe.
We developed a story highlighting the remote control and empowerment of the system. The system is targeting wealthy men who are interested in technology, so we felt the style and feel had to deviate somewhat from the usual rich garden and authentic feel of the brand.
We created TV commercials, pre-rolls, key images Print, Banner ads, photography, 3D product imagery, web, social media and instore films for all markets to activate.
Some of the print ads.
Commercials for TV and digital. (With Director Rune Milton).
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DMI Blog
afton branche
Local Immigration Enforcement, Coming Soon to A City Near You
It’s official: cities have no way to get out of Secure Communities, the Obama Administration’s fastest growing local immigration enforcement program. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed this at a recent press conference, where she also announced that the program contributed to the deportations of a record 392,000 immigrants in FY2010.
How does Secure Communities work? When an individual is booked by a police officer in a participating agency, his fingerprints are automatically sent by the state to federal immigration databases to check for violations; if there is a match, ICE agents then decide whether he’ll be targeted for deportation. The agency reserves the right to deport any individual who can legally be removed, whether they are legal permanent residents or undocumented immigrants.
ICE’s stated priority is to identify the most dangerous “criminal aliens,” but it is hardly a requirement; analysis of ICE’s own data shows that 79 percent of people deported under the program this year had committed low-level offenses, or none at all. Secure Communities sends an individual’s fingerprints to federal immigration databases when they are arrested, before they have been found guilty or innocent of any crime. ICE is slowly improving its record when it comes to targeting foreign-born criminals, but the fact remains that large numbers of immigrants removed for traffic or other minor offenses could not be considered threats to the public.
Napolitano’s latest announcement is a disappointing end to months of confusion over whether localities could opt out of enforcing our broken federal immigration laws. From San Francisco and Santa Clara in California, to Washington, D.C and Arlington, Virginia, advocates and city officials have struggled to put the brakes on Secure Communities, lacking clear answers from an agency more concerned with rapidly expanding the program than respecting the policing strategies of local police departments. A spokesperson from the San Francisco Sheriff's Department said: "The ground rules in the jails have changed, but not due to any decision on our part." San Francisco and many other cities intentionally keep local police out of federal immigration enforcement, as part of a strategy that leverages police-community relationships to bolster criminal investigations. When encounters with police can lead to deportation, immigrants are less likely to come forward when they are victims or witnesses of crimes. We should all be concerned about the growth of a program that risks undermining police work and hurting public safety.
A senior ICE official quoted in the Washington Post maintains that "Secure Communities is not based on state or local cooperation in federal law enforcement. The program's foundation is information sharing between FBI and ICE.” But Secure Communities couldn’t work without the local law agencies that are responsible for fingerprinting and detaining immigrants until ICE can pick them up. Obviously Secure Communities requires some sort of cooperation, but apparently it doesn’t require consent from “partner” agencies.
Secure Communities is expanding at a breakneck pace: in just one month, the number of jurisdictions enrolled spiked from 574 to 658; by 2013, ICE plans to cover every city and county in the United States. This is just one of Obama’s tough-on-immigration policies ignored by certain members of Congress who continue to dismiss any discussion of immigration reform without more enforcement. How much more are we going to spend on costly, ineffective enforcement-only policy? In reality, better enforcement must wait until better immigration laws can actually be enforced.
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Posted at 5:14 PM, Oct 08, 2010 in Immigration
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Hey look, Star Trek comics
Both from the webcomic AmazingSuperPowers.
Star Trek.
Replicators are one of four reasons why there will never be a zombie apocalypse in Star Trek (excluding the Borg, of course); they can just replicate the delicious human brains that zombies crave. The other three reasons are:
Transporters. Kind of hard to noms on people if they beam your undead ass into space.
Phasers and other directed-energy weapons. Screw headshots, vaporize the suckers!
Doctors McCoy, Crusher, Bashir, EMH, and Phlox. Each of them are likely to find a cure to whatever is creating the zombies before the episode even ends!
Klingons and Hirogen get honorable mentions, because those guys would just have a field day.
Star Trek: The Wrath of Comic.
This is why I said in this post that I would rather have Kirk as captain during a battle than Picard. Picard is great at diplomacy and whatnot, but Kirk is a fighter and just handles combat situations better.
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The 4 Most Unanswered Questions about
Factors to Consider When Choosing a Storage Facility
Storage facilities are of great help to families since they help us reduce the clutter that we have in our homes. If you have some things that you do not necessarily use in your house you could store them in a storage facility. Some of these items are valuable and we may not want to dispose of them but store them for later use. Storage facilities are many and you need to ensure that you check on the key factors before making a choice. This will help get a secure place that is reliable and will ensure that the goods are safe. You need to determine the amount of space that you require before calling the storage facility. This will help in getting the right space for the property. Below are the factors you need to consider when choosing a storage facility.
First, you need to check on the safety. This is crucial since it ensures that your property is safe from theft or damage. The facility needs to have a 24-hour surveillance system that monitors the movements in and out of the storage facility. They also need to have a good system that indicates the place and location where all the items are and their owners. This ensures that only the right people have access to the property that is stored in the facility. A guard will ensure that the movements are recorded in case of any suspicious activity or persons they can be identified and the issue handled. Always go for a facility that assures you of the best security and this may have an impact on the price.
Secondly, you need to check on the cost. There are storage facilities that are cheap and may attract customers. You need to know that this may be a reflection of the poor services and security. Ensure that you do thorough research before making the final decision. Check on the key factors as you shortlist and once you have the best facilities you can compare the prices. This is because the price should not be the determining factor. Ensure you choose the facility that offers a reasonable price and you can be guaranteed that you will get the value for your money.
Lastly, you need to check on the location. These will go hand in hand with the consistency of access to the things that are in stores. Some businesses need to store their items on a daily basis, and in such a case you may require a facility that is in your proximity. Though they may charge more, these costs may be the same when you store in a far location since you will need to pay for transport costs. Therefore, you need to check on convenience and if the items are not to be used for a long time then you can find a facility that is a far location. These are the factors that you need to consider when choosing a storage facility.
Lessons Learned from Years with
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