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TY - JOUR T1 - Interaction of Rac Exchange Factors Tiam1 and Ras-GRF1 with a Scaffold for the p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade JF - Molecular and Cellular Biology JO - Mol. Cell. Biol. SP - 4073 LP - 4085 DO - 10.1128/MCB.22.12.4073-4085.2002 VL - 22 IS - 12 AU - Buchsbaum, Rachel J. AU - Connolly, Beth A. AU - Feig, Larry A. Y1 - 2002/06/15 UR - http://mcb.asm.org/content/22/12/4073.abstract N2 - Tiam1 and Ras-GRF1 are guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that activate the Rac GTPase. The two GEFs have similar N-terminal regions containing pleckstrin homology domains followed by coiled-coils and additional sequences that function together to allow regulated GEF activity. Here we show that this N-terminal region of both proteins binds to the scaffold protein IB2/JIP2. IB2/JIP2 is a scaffold for the p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade because it binds to the Rac target MLK3, the MAP kinase kinase MKK3, and the p38 MAP kinase. Expression of IB2/JIP2 in cells potentiates the ability of Tiam1 or Ras-GRF1 to activate the p38 MAP kinase cascade but not the Jnk MAP kinase cascade. In addition, Tiam1 or Ras-GRF1 binding to IB2/JIP2 increases the association of the components of the p38 MAP kinase signaling cassette with IB2/JIP2 in cells and activates scaffold-associated p38. These findings imply that Tiam1 and Ras-GRF1 can contribute to Rac signaling specificity by their ability to form a complex with a scaffold that binds components of one of the many known Rac effector pathways. ER - | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8402544260025024}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '2737', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YHI4B5JBZC6CMQIGFP2SNDLWGMBIWWEF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:418198c6-b809-49da-92fa-e783230a225c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 6, 16, 53, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.16.153.14', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/plain', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4VMKKRBX2VJYQSGFJEVNI7GPUDNSFIFJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b7e700d1-d081-4b01-a8ab-e8ab2cac5523>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://mcb.asm.org/highwire/citation/56914/reference-manager', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:56691834-6b9b-4926-af73-55c5d16bc5ae>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '231', 'url': 'https://mcb.asm.org/highwire/citation/56914/reference-manager', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-206.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': '0.032342374324798584', 'original_id': '973c0a58f2905205816301249bc33aa63cee53c93771ed03e7a72e4176354452'} |
Pentagon justifies military expansion in Africa as key to ‘global strategy’
Speaking from the Pentagon on Monday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford told reporters that US troops in Niger do not go on patrol with local forces unless the chances of enemy combat are “unlikely.” He confirmed the four US service members killed in the October 4 ambush were taken by surprise when they were attacked by a group of 50 militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
US forces in Niger were ambushed by fighters from Mali, which became a terrorist stronghold after Libya collapsed into chaos and anarchy following the US intervention in 2011. Since then, neighboring countries have seen an increase in the number and severity of terrorist attacks.
Dunford described Niger, where there are currently at least 800 US soldiers, as “inherently dangerous.”
On Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) both said on NBC’s Meet the Press that they were unaware there were so many troops stationed in the area.
“I didn’t know there [were] 1,000 troops in Niger,” Graham said, adding that he expects to be briefed on their purpose and mission later this week.
READ MORE: McCain threatens White House with subpoena for info on Niger attacks
Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, has clashed with both Graham and McCain over war policy. He attacked Graham on Twitter on Monday as a “warmonger” who should have known about US troops in Niger.
Speaking to reporters Monday, General Dunford echoed Graham’s statement, describing US troops stationed around the world as a “part of a global strategy.”
Dunford said that the US has been sending troops to Africa and other parts of the world in order to “put pressure” on terrorist groups “simultaneously wherever they are” and “anticipate where they will be” in the future.
He added that the US is building up a “relatively small footprint” of troops around the globe to enable local forces to deal with terrorists “before they become a threat to the American people.”
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Puma Ranra (Condesuyos)
Puma Ranra (Quechua puma cougar, puma, ranra stony place) erroneously also spelled Pumrangra) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Arequipa Region, Condesuyos Province, Cayarani District. Puma Ranra lies south of Janq'u Q'awa and Saxa Q'awa at the Puma Ranra valley (Pumaranra) in the west.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I wash my organic cotton from Birch Fabrics? We suggest that the fabric is washed on a gentle cycle in cold water with like colors using a fragrance free, non-chlorinated detergent that is preferably environmentally friendly. We recommend drying your fabric on a low heat cycle, but the most environmentally friendly way to dry your fabrics is the good ole’ fashion way… hang dry. Not only is it better for our planet, but it will also increase the longevity of your fabric and clothing.
How does organic cotton differ from regular cotton? The most notable difference between organic cotton and regular cotton is that the cotton is grown without the use of harmful pesticides. Traditional cotton is accountable for almost 25% of all chemical pesticides used in agriculture. Nearly 50% of the textile market uses cotton, which means a lot os chemicals are seeping into our earth and over time this increases green house gases and the likelihood of contamination of the same soil that may grow our children’s, children’s vegetables. We think that is a BIG deal.
Is there any difference of durability of organic cotton vs. traditional cotton? Initially there will be no noticeable difference in quality of organic cotton vs. traditional cotton. However, over time, we believe with proper care, organic cotton will actually last longer than traditional cotton because it has not been subject to chemicals and metals, that inevitably alter the quality of the cotton.
What makes your cotton 100% organic and is it certified? To be considered 100% organic, our cotton has to go through a very strict approval process. The certifier (Global Organic Textile Standard) has approved every step in the process from the farming of cotton to the finished goods. The process covers the how the cotton is grown, how the cotton is transported, how it is milled, how it is bleached, the ink used to print, and notably our mill must meet a standard of fair working conditions. At the end of the process a certificated is provided to ensure that all of these standards have been met and approved.
Where is your organic cotton produced? Our cotton is milled, woven, and printed in India, the World’s leading provider of organic cotton. Our dream is that one day we will be a company in the United States that will produce and print 100% organic in a method approved by the GOTS at a rate that is economically viable.
What are Low-Impact Dyes? Low impact dyes do not contain toxic chemicals or mordants, require less rinsing and have a high absorption rate. High absorption rates and a decreased use of rinse water create less wastewater and runoff.
Are your Low-Impact Dyes wash fast? Our Certified Low Impact Dyes are wash fast, and like all dyed fabrics will fade over time with repeated washing. Please see above for recommended washing and drying instructions to ensure the longest possible life of your organic fabric.
What is your refund/exchange policy? Please see our Store Policies Page for our refund and exchange policy.
My fabric appears to have defects. What should I do? Organic fabric will have some natural imperfections due to the process in which it is bleached and printed. We feel that these imperfections only add character to the fabric. Please thoroughly inspect your fabric before cutting to be sure that you are pleased with the quality before you cut into the fabric. We will only exchange or refund fabric that has not been cut or washed.
What is a backorder? Backordered items are fabrics that are not yet produced. If an item is backordered, it means that we are currently in the process of producing it. Once the backordered items have been produced and received at our warehouse, we will promptly ship your ordered items.
Do you ship short bolts? Our standard bolt contains 15 yards or 10 yards. It is common for some bolts to contain slightly shorter or larger yardage than the standard bolt. You will be invoiced according to yardage shipped.
Can I purchase my yardage ROT? Currently we can only accept ROT orders if arranged prior to production. We DO NOT keep ROT stock on hand. Email for more information and minimums.
What is the shrinkage rate of Birch Organic Fabric? You can expect your organic cotton to shrink less than 5%. Please follow our recommended washing instructions for lowest possible shrinkage.
Can I request swatches? As long as we have the requested fabrics in possession, we are able to send out swatches. Some exclusions apply. Please email for more information.
Do you offer a discount for large quantity orders? Yes we do! Please email us for more information.
Do I have to pay sales tax? Wholesale accounts do not have to pay sales tax.
When will my credit card be charged? Your credit card will be charged within 24 hours prior to shipment of your items.
Will you add me to your Stockists page? We will add you to our Stockists page upon approval. We are sorry to say that we do not add Etsy Shops or Facebook Stores to our Stockists page.
Can I sell your fabrics in my Co-Op or on Facebook? We do not approve the selling of our products in Co-Ops. Any potential accounts selling on Facebook or Co-Ops will be subject to review before we can approve your account. If we believe you are in breach of the terms and conditions agreed to upon opening up an account, we may terminate your account without warning.
Can I manufacture with Birch Fabrics? Yes you may! However, Birch Fabrics is not responsible for any product manufactured from Birch Fabrics. Birch Fabrics are not intended for children’s sleepwear, as this violates the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s, Children Sleep Ware Regulations. Other terms and conditions apply.
Can I purchase exclusivity of any particular Birch Fabrics, or have Birch Fabrics design an exclusive line? We cannot offer exclusivity of our current catalog but will be happy to discuss original and exclusive designs with interested parties. Please bear in mind there will be minimums, and scheduling, among other concerns to consider. Please e-mail for more information.
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Roman Janecka
attore e assistente alla regia ceco
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actor checo
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Roman Janecka gjinia mashkull
Roman Janecka shtetësia Republika Çeke
Roman Janecka profesioni aktor
Roman Janecka profesioni aktor filmi
Roman Janecka emri Roman
Roman Janecka data e lindjes 1972
Roman Janecka vendi i lindjes Bratisllava
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Roman Janecka
tsjekkisk skuespiller
Roman Janecka IMDb-ID nm1428742
Roman Janecka forekomst av menneske
Roman Janecka kjønn mann
Roman Janecka statsborgerskap Tsjekkia
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Roman Janecka beskjeftigelse filmskuespiller
Roman Janecka fornavn Roman
Roman Janecka fødselsdato 1972
Roman Janecka fødested Bratislava
Roman Janecka etternavn Janecka
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Implantable medical devices are used to deliver neurostimulation therapy to patients to treat a variety of symptoms or conditions such as chronic pain, tremor, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, incontinence, or gastroparesis. Typically, implantable medical devices deliver neurostimulation therapy in the form of electrical pulses via leads that include electrodes. To treat the above-identified symptoms or conditions, for example, the electrodes may be located proximate to the spinal cord, pelvic nerves, or stomach, or within the brain of a patient.
Typically, a clinician uses a programmer, e.g., a computing device capable of communicating with implantable medical devices via device telemetry, to program an implantable medical device for delivery of neurostimulation therapy to a patient. In some cases, such clinician programmers take the form of handheld and/or tablet-type computing devices. Handheld and/or tablet-type clinician programmers can allow for a more natural “bedside” interaction between clinicians and patients during the programming process. Handheld and/or tablet-type clinician programmers can also allow the programmer to be handed off to the patient for entry of symptom and/or efficacy data, e.g., for patient-interactive programming as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,308,102, issued to Sieracki et al. (hereinafter the Sieracki '102 patent), which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
During the programming process, a clinician may select values for a number of programmable parameters in order to define the neurostimulation therapy to be delivered to a patient. For example, the clinician may select a voltage or current amplitude and pulse width for a stimulation waveform to be delivered to the patient, as well as a rate at which the pulses are to be delivered to the patient. The clinician may also select as parameters particular electrodes within an electrode set to be used to deliver the pulses, and the polarities of the selected electrodes. A group of parameter values may be referred to as a program in the sense that they drive the neurostimulation therapy to be delivered to the patient. The process of selecting values for the parameters that provide adequate results can be time consuming, and may require a great deal of trial and error before one or more “best” programs, e.g., programs that are better in terms of clinical efficacy versus side effects experienced than other programs tested, are discovered. The clinician may be required to make notations describing a number of programs and feedback received from the patient regarding the perceived efficacy of each program. In some cases, the clinician collects detailed graphical information describing patient symptoms and program efficacy, e.g., pain and paresthesia maps as described in the Sieracki '102 patent. In some cases, such as the patient-interactive programming systems described in the Sieracki '102 patent, complicated algorithms provide automated or semi-automated routines that involve generation of numerous potential programs with complex stimulus patterns, testing of the programs, and recordation of efficacy information for the programs. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a3399cfe8a76645f62ec8fbf5ec55ed339f171ce6293e62086c05ffd6539fccb'} |
Covenant University Secondary School
Covenant University Secondary School is a Nigerian Christian secondary school located within the Covenant University campus in Ota, Ogun State. It was established on 14 October 2010, primarily to cater for the educational needs of the children of academic and non-academic staff of the school.
See also
Christianity in Nigeria
Education in Nigeria
List of schools in Nigeria
References
External links
, the school's official website
Category:2010 establishments in Nigeria
Category:Christian schools in Nigeria
Category:Covenant University
Category:Educational institutions established in 2010
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GOP fears steep losses in state legislatures
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By Reid Wilson, The Hill
Republicans hoping to hold on to their majorities in state legislative chambers across the country are nervously eying President Trump's anemic approval rating, concerned that a wave of voter anger could undo years of gains.
In interviews at the National Conference of State Legislators annual meetings last week, Republican leaders from purple and red states said they were worried that their members - most of whom are little-known even inside their own districts - are most vulnerable to an electoral atmosphere that even slightly benefits Democrats.
"There is more Democratic enthusiasm than I have seen in the last few cycles. That's a reality I can't ignore," said Robin Vos, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly. "Almost everybody has an opinion on national politics today. Even if you're totally uninformed, you still have an opinion."
[post_ads]After notching major gains in 2010 and 2014, when Republican waves cost President Obama's party about 1,000 state legislative seats across the country, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 31 states.
They hold a total of 68 of the country's 99 legislative chambers, including Nebraska, which is ostensibly nonpartisan, but is in practice controlled by Republicans.
Democrats, by contrast, control both the state House and Senate in just 15 states, and 25 legislative chambers overall, including Connecticut, where the Democratic lieutenant governor casts tie-breaking votes in the evenly-divided state Senate.
Party control of a substantial number of legislative chambers sit on a razor's edge. Republicans control legislative chambers in swing states like Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota and Wisconsin by five or fewer seats. They control chambers in Florida, Iowa, West Virginia and South Carolina by margins of five to ten seats.
Many legislators pointed to Trump, whose approval rating stands between 41 percent and 45 percent in recent reputable polls. While they praised Trump and his accomplishments on the record, many privately said his leadership style and polarizing nature would make their re-election bids more difficult.
State senators and representatives, who raise and spend just a fraction of the money spent on congressional or U.S. Senate races, are uniquely vulnerable to national trends, even if they ultimately have little say over federal policy or the president's agenda.
"The drama around D.C. does sometimes weigh into the equation," said Jeanette Nunez, a member of Florida's House Republican leadership team. "There's this air of anti-elected official, anti-career politician."
Elijah Haahr, a member of Republican leadership in the Missouri House, said Trump will aid the GOP in certain districts - but that his members will have to talk about their own accomplishments in Jefferson City.
"We can go to voters and say, we cut your taxes and we did it in a fiscally conservative way," Haahr said. "We have a broader coalition than we used to. That old school Reagan Democrat has returned to the fold."
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which raises and spends money on these low-level races, has spotlighted state Senate chambers in Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Hampshire and Florida; in those eight chambers, Democrats are just a combined 17 seats away from winning control.
A wave of special elections that Democrats have captured from Republicans in recent months has exacerbated the sense of dread among GOP leaders. Since President Trump took office, Democrats have won 24 seats formerly held by Republicans in special elections, while Republicans have flipped only four seats the other way.
"There's always challenging environments out there, and you have the long-term historical trends that you have to be aware of," said Matt Walter, who heads the Republican State Leadership Committee. "There are people who want to have a national conversation, to the extent that that ultimately winds up benefitting them."
Some of those races that Democrats won came in deeply conservative districts Trump won by wide margins, including states like Georgia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin.
"There is unmatched Democratic volunteer enthusiasm out there," said Jessica Post, who heads the DLCC.
Democrats cautioned they still have hard work to do in the three months before Election Day. Some said that Trump's outsized presence in politics today will make his impact on the election unavoidable.
"Complacency is our number one enemy," said Brian Egolf, the Democratic speaker of the New Mexico House. Trump "is historically unpopular. The more he keeps it up, the more people are encouraged to restrain him.
Others said they planned to avoid Trump as an electoral issue, focusing instead on kitchen table issues concerning everyday Americans.
"We have to continue to speak to average people about what average people care about," said Jason Frierson, the Democratic speaker of the Nevada Assembly. "I'm not interested in talking about the president."
And a few Democrats worry about some liberal issues that factions within the party are taking up, from offering Medicare for all to abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"There are a certain percentage of voters who will be scared away," said Anthony Rendon, California's Democratic Assembly Speaker. "We're a pretty diverse party with a lot of cleavages."
Republicans are not bereft of hope. Walter pointed to 400 seats held by GOP state legislators that Hillary Clinton won in 2016, a sign that Republicans can survive even in adverse conditions.
Democrats have their own narrow majorities to defend, albeit mostly in blue states like Connecticut, Washington, Oregon and Delaware. One exception is Nevada, a swing state that is the focus of tremendous outside money as the two parties battle over a governorship, a Senate seat and two open House seats.
Both sides said they will urge their candidates to look forward, and to offer voters solutions rather than re-litigating races past.
"We have the ability breakthrough some, not all, but some of the political division that we see these days," Wisconsin's Vos said. "Two-thirds of your campaign should be about discussing the future, and one-third should be about your past."
Politics - U.S. Daily News: GOP fears steep losses in state legislatures
GOP fears steep losses in state legislatures
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Inductive vs Deductive Methods in TEFL
Alternatively, deductive teaching begins by giving students the rules and working with them to produce…
Dogme in TEFL
Dogme language teaching is a methodology (and also sometimes thought of as a movement) for teaching English which encourages teaching through conversation and without textbooks in a naturalistic fashion.
It aims to take language teaching back to its roots and was initiated by Scott G. Thornbury in an article for IATEFL some 10 years ago (see here). The idea was that teaching had become too reliant on textbooks and…
Interrupting Students in your TEFL Class
Interrupting Students is not a good idea in your TEFL classroom.
Interrupting them just breaks this silence and can…
Behaviorist Method in TEFL
What is the Lexical Approach?
You don’t speak the local language but you need to communicate.
So you learn a few phrases and head out:
Good morning!
A coffee, please.
A croissant, please.
Full Immersion in TEFL
Full Immersion or Total Immersion is throwing your students in at the deep end: a strategy for teaching English to students.
Essentially the students are given input in English only which means that the teacher does not speak any other language other than English. It is a very effective method of teaching but can take some time before the students are confident enough to produce (i.e. speak/write)…
Total Physical Response in TEFL
TEFL Methodologies
TEFL Teaching Methodology looks at the general approaches or methods used to teach English as a foreign language. Over time they have changed and borrowed from research, developed from each other and expanded on previous methodologies.
As you will see below, many of these methods overlap and often teachers will not use a single method but blend them and mix them according to their preference and the…
Competency-Based Approach to TEFL
The Competency-Based training method was developed primarily for Industry. The training was based on what people were expected to do in the workplace. It emphasized what people could actually do as a result of their training rather than simply looking at the amount of training that the employees attended.
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Daisy Twells
Graduation year 2017
Area of Study Diploma, Track A
Specialty Triple Threat
Daisy first heard of Urdang while training in dance at the Hammond school in Chester where she focused specifically on ballet.
Urdang’s then-reputation as a general dance school with modern and commercial training felt like a great match for Daisy’s background and she decided to apply.
Daisy applied to nine other colleges and when she was accepted to them all she had to decide which one she’d call home for the next three years. This was an important decision for Daisy; it would determine the quality and type of training she’d receive but also the training options available to her over the next three years. As it often does, the decision came down to Urdang or Laine’s.
"When I first walked into Urdang I thought ‘yeah, this is the place’, it just felt right. I felt like I was in Fame, the movie, it immediately made up my mind"
Daisy Twells
Diploma, Track A
From her first audition, Daisy saw the different personal and training backgrounds of those who attend and teach at Urdang; she couldn’t pass up the variety that Urdang offered and the gut feeling she had about Urdang. She accepted her placement in the diploma programme.
Within her first year, Daisy’s interest in dance and ballet quickly evolved into a universal interest for all three of the performing arts: singing, acting and dancing. Daisy’s background in ballet prepared her to excel across all three by preparing her with the core knowledge and strength to be a ‘performer’. But it’s the range of training and Urdang’s dedication toward its students that developed the whole performer in Daisy.
Daisy now has a job lined up in Disneyland, Paris and she’s leaving Urdang, even before graduation. Although she has to say goodbye, she knows she’s never really ‘leaving’ because Urdang has become such a part of her.
"We’re really lucky to have such variety, people from industry coming in as our tutors… and I feel totally looked after, like they will help me to achieve everything I want to. And they will make sure I’m happy too"
Applications
Auditions commence in November and last a whole day. Once you have registered, you will also be able to sign up for a free Open Day with up to two named guests. (see KEY DATES)
If you registered prior to 25th September 2018, you will have to reset your password* as we have now improved our security systems. No previous applications will have been saved. We apologise for any inconvenience. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '3a022d82fdf26059a6d866462f6c03754f630c9cc10aeb793fa3fbee50161e5b'} |
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Mentorship Guidelines
The GGE Mentorship Guidelines were prepared by the EGSA Mentorship Committee as part of the overall student review of the Ecology Graduate Group conducted during the 1997-98 academic year. Specific recommendations found in the document were drawn from committee members’ own experience, informal discussions with other graduate students, and from interviews with six GGE faculty members selected for their reputation as good mentors. Two additional faculty members helped with comments on the final draft. The guidelines were formally adopted by the Executive Committee of the GGE in Spring 1998.
GGE Mentorship Guidelines (pdf)
"Natures Guide to Mentors" (pdf) - Nature: June 2007. Having a good mentor early in your career can mean the difference between success and failure field. Adrian Lee, Carina Dennis and Philip Campbell look at what makes a good mentor.
"Entering Mentoring”, University of Wisconsin (see upper right).
Comments/Advice from Mark W. Schwartz, Former GGE Chair:
1. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they establish the kind of mentoring relationship that they want with their major professors. Frankly, many of us did not receive any mentorship training, and we may or may not be good at it. Thus, students should take control of the situation and talk to us about their mentorship expectations.
2. Mentorship relationships can take many forms, but everyone deserves to have frank and clear conversations with their major professors about the following topics:
1. The frequency of one-on-one meetings.
2. The frequency and nature of lab meetings.
3. Expectations regarding seminar attendance.
4. Expectations regarding attending national meetings.
5. Expectations regarding society membership.
6. Expectations of professional conduct, in general.
7. Academic issues: classes, advice on committee membership, etc.
8. Authorship of papers produced by the student.
9. Money.
10. Professional placement and job opportunities.
3. The student should also get a clear vision of the role that their major professor expects of them in the lab and professionally. In turn, the faculty should clarify their role as advisor, in defining a research agenda for the student.
4. Finally, the faculty mentor and the GGE have the capacity, willingness, and obligation to help students work through academic issues. In addition, people have personal issues. Although these are personal, they often have an impact on our professional progress. There are University resources available for those who need them. The graduate group is willing to support students in everything from casual consultation to facilitating professional counseling. Students should find someone they can go to if these personal issues become overwhelming. The GGE can help.
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My royalty would not pay me enough to board me three months; whereas my eastern contract, if carried out, could be profitable to me, for I had a sort of reputation on the Atlantic seaboard, acquired through the publication of six excursion letters in "The New York Tribune" and one or two in "The Herald." In the end, Mr. Mac agreed to suppress his book, on certain conditions: in my preface, I must thank "The Alta" for waiving its "rights" and granting me permission. I objected to the thanks. I could not with any large degree of sincerity thank "The Alta" for bankrupting my lecture raid. After considerable debate, my point was conceded, and the thanks left out. Noah Brooks was the editor of "The Alta" at the time, a man of sterling character and equipped with a right heart, also a good historian where facts were not essential. In biographical sketches of me written many years afterward (1002), he was quite eloquent in praises of the generosity of "The Alta" people in giving to me without compensation a book which, as history had afterward shown, was worth a fortune. After all the fuss, I did not levy heavily upon "The Alta" letters. I found that, they were newspaper matter, not book matter. They had been written here and there and yonder, as opportunity had given me a chance working moment or two during our feverish flight around about Europe or in the furnace heat of my state room on board the Quaker City; therefore they were loosely constructed, and needed to have some of the wind and water squeezed out of them. I used several of them, ten or twelve, perhaps. I wrote the rest of "The Innocents Abroad" in sixty days, and I could have added a fortnight's labor with the pen and gotten along without the letters altogether. I was very young in those days, exceedingly young, marvelously young, younger than I am now, younger than I shall ever be again, by hundreds of years. I worked every night from eleven or twelve until broad day in the morning, and as I did two hundred thousand words in the sixty days, the average was more than three thousand words a day, nothing for Sir Walter Scott, nothing for Louis Stevenson, nothing for plenty of other people, but quite handsome for me. In 1804, when we were living in Tedworth Square, London, and I was writing the book called "Following the Equator," my average was eighteen hundred words a day; here in Florence (1004), my average seems to be fourteen hundred words per sitting of four or five hours. (With the peri; I mean. This autobiography is dictated, not written.) I was deducing from the above that I have been slowing down steadily in these thirty-six years; but I perceive that my statistics have a defect: three thousand words in the spring of 1868 when I was working, seven or eight or nine hours at a sitting, has little or no advantage over the sitting of today, covering half the time and producing half the output. Figures often beguile me, particularly when have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." To be continued Sunday after next STORY OF THE TRAMP STEAMER By ROBERT H. ROGERS Drawing by L. A. Shafer DON'T laugh at the battered appearance of the crazy-looking old tramp steamer which wallows clumsily in the wake of the speeding ocean liner. To do so would be to confess ignorance of a stirring business of the sea, that of ocean freighting by steam. The dilapidated hulk on which one always looks with curious interest may have made twenty thousand miles since she weighed anchor from her home port. A closer inspection might reveal a battered funnel, staved bulwarks, and a smashed bridge, mute witnesses to a more or less unequal struggle with furious gales. If the Captain of the vessel is communicative, he may decipher the long string of code flags fluttering from the freighter, the only bright spots, by the way, in the picture: "Condenser out of order. Report me" Died but making repairs. Will not require assistance." And he will add that a tramp will never take a tow line so long as a plank remains afloat. Passenger steamships will come and go, sensationally heralded occasionally in the daily papers, telling graphically of a broken shaft mended in heavy seas, or of a fire in the hold of which the passengers were kept in ignorance until it was subdued; but it remains for the old tramp to stand as the exponent of all that is daring, combative, and energetic in the entire category of human resourcefulness. All wondered when ten years ago the Umbria's engines broke down, and it was learned that though nine days overdue she still limped safely into port; but, apart from the owners, consignees, and crew, who remember that the Spanish tramp Eolo ran out of coal when nearing the Delaware breakwater in December, 1900, on a voyage from Hamburg for Philadelphia, and how Captain Egorodo burned the very woodwork of the ship before he would consume as fuel under his boilers the cargo of Christmas toys which meant so much to the little children of the Quaker City? The Captain of the Jupiter The annals of shipping circles are replete with such stories, woven about these roustabouts of the ocean, and all of them would be well worth the telling. No greater heroism and devotion to duty was ever displayed than that of Captain Cremonini of the Italian steamer Jupiter, which, like the Eolo, ran out of coal. It seems that this unenviable condition is frequently the portion of ocean tramps. Always, from a viewpoint of doubtful economy, they start on their voyages with a meager supply in their bunkers. This is taking the chance that all will go well and the run will not be unduly prolonged; but frequently obstacles intervene. For instance, the Jupiter sailed from Girgenti, Italy, on February 3, 1901, for New York, loaded with brimstone and sulphur. She was one of the largest freight carriers, and her cargo was worth at least five hundred thousand dollars. For the sole reason that the salvage claim, due to whoever might be so fortunate as to pick her up disabled, would reach tremendous figures, Captain Cremonini would not abandon his ship after she had run out of coal and lay helpless in bad weather. With his chief engineer and steward he remained for forty fearful days and nights, deserted by his crew, without fuel and practically without food, facing death in every wave, heartsick and despairing, yet thrice refusing succor when succor meant the abandonment of the staunch but stricken vessel in his trust. The coincidence is singular from a mythological viewpoint, that the tramp steamer Juno, bound from West Hartlepool for Pensacola, should have been the one finally to pick up the Jupiter and tow her safely into fearbacbs. "Why did you not leave your ship when your crew were taken off by the Citta di Messina on February 3?" asked the astonished skipper of the Juno, when he discovered the three famished wretches. "Because," replied Cremonini, "you should know that the mere presence of the Captain on board the Jupiter when taken in tow cuts the salvage claim one-half. I did not want a tow then; I thought I could get into port. I owed this duty to my owner." They Act; Don't Talk "The steamer Captains, irrespective of duty, do things; they seldom talk of them. One might sit for hours in one of their cabins, and, unless he had previously been posted on some novel experience in which their vessel had figured, her master would never volunteer the story. A rough entry in the log and verbal mention to his consignees suffices for the Captain to dismiss the incident, no matter how extraordinary it might appear to a landlubber. Captain John Davis of the steamer West Point stood by the disabled La Flandre for nine days before he could put a hawser aboard her, and, after an incredible struggle in the face of every conceivable adverse condition, towed her safely into port; but nevertheless failed to mention the circumstance to the ship news reporters who boarded his vessel at Philadelphia. How ocean freighting by steam is successfully and profitably carried on is an interesting matter of which the public knows very little. One hears and reads much regarding schooners, brigs, barks, and ships, and in a general way can discuss them and their business; but when it comes to the craft popularly known as the "tramp," many of those whose interests are centered in shipping circles plead ignorance. A tramp steamer is a singular vehicle of transportation. To begin, the class it represents carries seventy percent of the world's cargoes. America has not a single one in the foreign trade; but the English tramp sails every sea. Its flag will be found in every part of the world, and it more than divides with the deep sea sailing ships this country's imports and exports. The method of operating such a vessel, from a business viewpoint, becomes of as much interest as the relation of their inevitable perilous experiences. They are a profitable investment, and, contrary to popular opinion, the running expenses are not heavy. Those engaged in the grain trade pay their owners at least eight percent profit, and sometimes ten and twelve. Often a special charter will net fifteen percent. Why They Are Built ?THE majority of tramp steamers are built in England. When a new one is to be constructed the company owning others takes in additional stockholders. This is done so that in case the new ship should incur damages the other vessels of the line could not be tied up. Although really belonging to the same owners, she is said to be operated by her own company. After going into commission, if she is of three thousand tons net, a large size, she will have a crew of about forty-five men, and is then ready for the vicissitudes of business. Necessarily the latter will be of a somewhat uncertain character. In the matter of securing this business, three parties figure. First, there is the shipper, who may be in any quarter of the world; second, the owners, represented by one person; then the broker, who is the middle man between the two. For instance, John Smith has twenty thousand quarters, which means one hundred and sixty thousand bushels, of grain, somewhere in America, which he has sold in England, for which he desires transportation. He writes to a ship broker and asks if he can be supplied with a vessel. The broker is daily in touch with the owners of tramp steamers abroad, through means of a list showing those at present disengaged. When he receives Smith's order, he consults this list, and finds that the steamers Blackmoor, Redmond, and Clearwater are available. He then endeavors to get the lowest freight rate for his client, with the knowledge that the ruling freight quotation at that time is, say, three shillings six pence for eight bushels. He cables the owners of these vessels, and finds that their rates are slightly at variance. Often a spirited bidding ensues; but finally the Redmond is secured at three shillings seven pence. If this vessel is in the loading port at the time the charter is made, she is called "on spot"; if abroad, a clause specifies the date on which she must be loaded and cleared ("between December 1 and 15"). This is all that Smith has to do with the transaction. His freight bill is not due until the cargo is delivered on the other side. The ship broker does not make anything out of Smith, and he is only too glad to get his order. The owners from whom he secured the ship pay him about ninety or a hundred dollars, and he is out of it. Orders are then sent to the Captain of the Redmond to proceed to the loading port as soon as possible, and circumstances often are such that he must hustle to do this. If he should come under the spouts of the grain elevator too late to load within the limits, the shipyev could insist on a cancellation of the charter. One hundred and sixty thousand bushels of grain can be loaded in a fifteen-hour day. 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7 Reasons Why Teachers Struggle to use Technology in the Classroom
Schools all over India are integrating technology in their classroom. But despite the significant resources being allocated for teacher training and technology integration, many teachers have struggled with the technology. While some have faced disruptions with new devices, others have had their work impacted negatively by ICT classroom, leading to inefficient use of the technology. Here are 7 reasons why teachers are struggling to use the ICT classrooms to their full advantage: –
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1. Technology is not always preferred
Technology isn’t always welcomed. There have been instances where teachers have shown preferences for manual writing instead of typing, and have spent extra time writing notes. Students too have shown preference for reading print. All this leads to teachers shying away from introducing new technology when they feel it adds nothing new to their classroom.
1. Differing Device Capabilities and Instructions
Many a times, schools require students to bring their own devices to school, which can lead to huge differences in the devices. For example, a student may bring in a cheap android device while other students may bring an iPad. Students may also face difficulty in writing on small devices, especially over long periods. Teachers will also need to give different instructions depending on the number of different devices.
1. Students are Easily Distracted
Today, students are regularly using devices for social media, instant messaging, text messaging and playing games instead for studying. With the usage of electronic devices, students can easily use the other features and get side-tracked from the lesson.
1. Technology affects Lesson Time
Introduction of technology often leads to interruptions that reduce lesson time. These interruptions are due to students remaining engaged with their devices even when asked not to, concealing the screens from teacher’s view or pretending that the device is not working properly.
1. Need for Teacher Training
To successfully implement the changes and fully utilize the technology in an ICT classroom, there is a need for teacher training. The training methods need to provide teachers with way to integrate technological resources in their lessons without causing any problems to the students. Yet, in most cases, either there is no teacher training or the training is sporadic in both quality and scope.
1. Not Every Student has Technology at Home
Not all students or for that matter even teachers have a computer at home. Even if they do have a computer, chances are that they will be lacking sufficient data or internet access. This digital divide, which is prominent in India, can create challenges for teachers as they need to assign different tasks for different students.
1. Lack of Adequate Infrastructure
While schools are gung-ho about ICT classrooms and interactive whiteboards and often get these new technologies installed in their classroom, they often forget a vital thing or two for their proper integration. Most schools fail to provide teachers with appropriate technical support, along with proper infrastructure and policies regarding the usage of these technologies.
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Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains
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Lively and long discussions took place between Peter Naur and his guest Edgar G. Daylight at Naur's home in Gentofte, Denmark in spring 2011. The nuggets are bundled in Lonely Scholar Conversations first issue.
Peter Naur, at his home in Gentofte on April 5th, 2011 (C) 2011 E.G.Daylight
What an absolutely cool guy!
— Dennis Shasha, New York University
Fascinating... the interview is a very worthwhile contribution to documenting the history of the field, and will be of strong interest both to computer scientists and to professional historians.
— Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University
What mathematical rigor has (not) to offer to software engineers
Peter Naur wrote his first research paper at the age of 16. Soon an internationally acclaimed astronomer, Naur's expertise in numerical analysis gave him access to computers from 1950. He helped design and implement the influential ALGOL programming language. During the 1960s, Naur was in sync with the research agendas of McCarthy, Dijkstra, and others. By 1970, however, he had distanced himself from them. Instead of joining Dijkstra's structured programming movement, he made abundantly clear why he disapproved of it. Underlying Naur's criticism is his plea for pluralism: a computer professional should not dogmatically advocate a method and require others to use it in their own work. Instead, he should respect the multitude of personal styles in solving problems.
What philosophy has to do with software engineering
Though Peter Naur definitely does not want to be called a philosopher, he acknowledges having been influenced by Popper, Quine, Russell, and others. Naur's writings of the 1970s and 1980s show how he borrowed concepts from philosophy to further his understanding of software engineering. In later years, he mainly scrutinized the work in philosophy and mathematical logic & rules in particular. By penetrating deeply into the 1890 research of William James, Naur gradually developed his own theory of how mental life is like at the neural level of the nervous system. This development, in turn, helps explain why he always opposed the Turing Test and Artificial Intelligence, why he had strong misgivings about the Formal Methods movement and Dijkstra's research in particular.
Peter Naur was born in 1928 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He graduated from Copenhagen University in astronomy in 1949 and was a research student at King's College, Cambridge in 1950-51 where he programmed the EDSAC in order to solve an astronomical problem. After a year's stay in the USA and a brief return to Cambridge, Naur spent the rest of the 1950s in Copenhagen. In 1957 he received his PhD in astronomy and in 1959 he joined the staff of Regnecentralen, specializing in high-level programming languages. He became heavily involved in the design and implementation of ALGOL60 and organized the ALGOL Bulletin. From 1969 until his retirement in 1999 he was professor at the Copenhagen University Institute of Datalogy. Since the mid-1990s until this day, Naur actively studies and writes about psychology and in particular about how human life is like at the neural level of the nervous system. He has received several awards, including the Computer Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 1986 and the ACM Turing Award in 2005.
Product details
Conversations Volume 2011 Issue 1
Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains
Paperback, 127 + iii pages
Published October 2011
ISBN 9789491386008
Conversations ISSN 2034-5976
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An online hoax claims that former president Barack Obama has fled the United States due to some "criminal confirmations" discovered by President Donald Trump.
"Obama secretly flees U.S. - leaves stunning evidence behind," read the headline on March 22 on Viral Truth Wire, a website promoting sensationalized headlines.
Facebook users flagged the post as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social network’s efforts to combat misinformation.
The Viral Truth Wire story claimed Obama’s recent trip to New Zealand was because he wanted to go into hiding due to evidence that he has colluded with Russia and attempted to spy on Trump. The article noted the timing of the trip was also due to the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.
But Obama’s trip to New Zealand was already confirmed in late February, long before McCabe’s firing. Obama visited the country to meet with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and discuss topics such as climate change and social media’s impact on politics.
The article also claimed that Obama left a "trail of proof" through the presidential daily briefings inside the White House proving that he plotted with Russia to obstruct Trump amid the presidential decision.
The hero of the article is depicted as U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, who compiled a memo that accused top FBI officials of alleged wrongdoing. It concluded that Nunes was the one who found that Obama’s presidential daily briefings included illegal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) activity and "spy games" targeting Trump. We found no evidence that Nunes has ever made such allegations against Obama.
In March 2017, Trump tweeted that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign, an accusation that the heads of both the NSA and the FBI denied.
What actually happened is that the FBI and the Department of Justice put together an application to the FISA court that approves surveillance warrants pertaining to national security and foreign intelligence.
Obama himself, however, would have no role in authorizing or requesting wiretaps.
Our ruling
A hoax website claimed that Obama fled the country due to new evidence that he was involved with spying on Trump and responsible for colluding with Russia.
We found that Obama’s trip abroad to New Zealand was to speak about issues with the prime minister, and he was not involved with ordering any wiretaps to spy on Trump during the election.
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Do Deer Eat Tomatoes?
Deer eat tomatoes as well as a variety of other crops, according to Buck Masters. Deer can be a problem for many tomato growers. However, there are several ways to prevent deer from eating tomato crops.
One way tomato growers prevent deer from consuming their tomato crops is by placing strong-smelling deterrents around the crops, according to the Home Guides on SFGate. Deer do not enjoy scents such as pepper spray or soap. Another way gardeners can deter deer from crops is by placing human hair clippings around the crops. However, scent deterrents need to be changed frequently to ensure the deer do not grow accustomed to the scent. Another way to deter deer from tomato plants is by building adequate fencing around crops. Typically, fences must be at least 9 feet tall to keep deer out. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9688043594360352}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '76943', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XAUECH227COR6DDQTG3FTY3JXJ5PXBTW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:27d7429d-e3fb-4042-9f1c-46c8be999b26>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 7, 16, 14, 32, 33), 'WARC-IP-Address': '199.232.66.114', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:DXOHDJ6RI4K5LRNAJZNKH4OL7AZMCLW3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e5a74a33-1e11-4b4e-8269-c221ddaa07fd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/deer-eat-tomatoes-ad435c8e279ee687', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:73d17ae8-a891-4caa-89ee-cb28ca8dc57a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '141', 'url': 'https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/deer-eat-tomatoes-ad435c8e279ee687', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-29\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-95.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': '0.02656686305999756', 'original_id': '48a3f7d877aab31323da262a2f812e5c75433be22321c8afc1e417351ae19ce5'} |
ThinkProgress and the US HHS Strategic Plan: Abortion, Contraception and Progressivism
ThinkProgress published an article, penned by Amanda Michelle Gomez, this month entitled “Trump’s Health Department declares that life begins at conception”. It was written in response to a drafted document by the Department of Health and Human Services, pushed forward by the Trump administration, outlining the department’s “priorities”. In one line, the draft mentions that life “begins at conception”. And so a social progressive website, and a host of others, gives a response.
Now, I’d like to respond to their response only because I would like to highlight the inconsistencies and fallacious nature of the Progressive worldview, the worldview that affirms absolute freedom, total equality and all-inclusiveness but is unwilling to define what all of these things mean. Moreover, I’d like to touch on the issue of contraception as it is, I think, relevant to discuss as a moral issue related to that of abortion and it is a problem brought up by Gomez repeatedly in her article. My goal is to examine some of the content of the draft document and engage with the ideas presented by Gomez on abortion, contraception and the progressive counter-perspective.
The HHS Draft and its Meaning
First let’s establish the actual purpose of the document which is entitled the “HHS Strategic Plan, FY 2018-2022”. It will serve to re-establish the goals and priorities of the department over the coming term. Here is part of its introductory statements:
Now, the line popping out of the screen is this, “HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.”
The Strategic Plan has for its mission five goals:
I don’t wish to give a full summary of each point. It is presenting the means by which the department will be achieving the Trump administration’s health care vision, I think. It’s really a giant list of to-do’s. A lot of it isn’t immediately interesting to me. Rather, I’d like to point out the key statements in the document relevant to the greater discussion on abortion rights and such.
Within the first point, there is already an attempt being made to be inclusive of faith-based groups in the plan itself. The line “including faith-based and community organizations” is repeated consistently throughout. So, right away, this will nudge some the wrong way, others in a positive direction.
The second goal clarifies what exactly is intended on being protected on an individual level from a health care perspective. Among other things, objective 2.1 states the following:
Moreover, under Goal 3, there is stated interest in increasing safety net programs, support for families and child development, and reducing service disparities. Goal 4 promotes scientific research for the betterment of health care services.
Under objective 4.3, among other things to do with the breadth of research to be conducted, it is stated:
This is really a reiteration, though with more a specific application, that humans, from conception, are to be protected.
Goal 5 was to do with guiding human management and general financial responsibility.
Most of the document was kept relatively broad and with limited specificity. Most of it, by intention at least, agreeably sought the promotion of education, leveraging of modern technology and the protection of vulnerable people. There is little to no explicit pro-life (or “anti-choice”) jargon in the actual content of the document aside from the one line in the introduction and in 4.3. Now, this is important because, from reading Ms. Gomez’s article, it would seem like this new draft would be more constructed from pro-life vernacular than it was. The only thing that was explicitly pro-life however were the two stated affirmations of life’s beginning at conception which has been affirmed by science.
The Progressive Thought
The progressive ideology holds a number of things as being of the utmost importance in terms of manufacturing an ideal society in which to live, namely, that human beings be absolutely free, all regarded as equal in every possible sense of the word, and included universally as persons deserving of rights. Now these things, I’m finding, are not often defined.
How free should people be? Absolutely? Are there any foreseeable negative consequences to this?
Is everybody free in every possible way? Including biology, belief and psychology? Are all beliefs equal? Are all genders basically the same? And so on.
How inclusive should the law be of all people?
Now I am pro freedom of speech, religion and that granted by autonomy, possession and privacy rights. I am also hugely in favor of human equality. I also really enjoy inclusivity. But what do all of these things mean?
I don’t believe people should be to do absolutely free to do absolutely anything. Obviously not. And our restriction on human freedom should be based upon moral principle which aims at human flourishing.
I believe all human beings are to be treated equal under the law as persons endowed with basic rights (speech, religion, privacy, possession (to some extent), autonomy, liberty, security and life) but that there are certain distinctions to be made. An adult is not an infant and therefore, in certain ways, under the law and in social terms, they should be treated differently, for example. Therefore, not all human beings are equal in every single way.
I believe in inclusivity. Should children be legally permitted access to pornography? No, I don’t believe so. But I believe everyone should have access to education and work so long as they are contributing citizens, and they should not be held back, by law or otherwise, on the basis of ethnicity, age, religion or some other physical distinction.
The progressive left, I find anyways, often doesn’t define these things in responsive articles like the ThinkProgress piece. Moreover, the worldview as a whole doesn’t hold up because the faulty idea of Progress, embedded in the “progressive” label, is built on the premise that human beings get better and wiser over time and learning from mistakes. Those who don’t learn are on the wrong side of history. Those who do are on the right side. Of course, this seems to make things about some sort of political tribalism where its all about which team wins the long game. The point shouldn’t be about which team you’re on. The point should be about which team gets it right. Our end shouldn’t be to not be like our ancestors. The end should be to uphold truth in all matters of life, ethics, government and religious inquiry. But not only this much is true, and possibly many progressives would agree with me, history has never shown ultimate human progression towards moral betterment on any macroscopic level. It has only shown cyclical errors on repeat. Technology has not helped us. Economics have not helped us. Science has not helped us.
From a Christian theological point of view, progressivism has no stay in the Church. It can’t. And the reason being is it is, I think, a fundamental denial of the doctrine of Man’s Sinful Nature. Moreover, it is an anthropocentric doctrine that asserts the necessity of human activity in personal improvement rather than the grace of God continuously acting, by the work of the Holy Spirit, in our lives. Grace is suspended while the hope of the world for an illusion of a prize called global peace is placed in the hands of fallen men and women. The worldview, thirdly, is by and large an intrinsically materialistic-naturalistic one which generally sidelines the role of the Church in society and the inclusion of the faithful in dialogue. It tends to deny any holding a presuppositional stance that God exists and all good must come from Him.
The ThinkProgress Article
Gomez writes:
The Trump administration has repeatedly delivered on a campaign promise to the religious right that he’d prioritize a faith-based, anti-choice agenda. The latest evidence comes in the form of the draft strategic plan released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which defines life as “beginning at conception.”
Trump is not my president nor is he my leader in politics, religion or ideas. Sources could have certainly been cited for his supposed prioritization of “faith-based, anti-choice” agendas. If he has used, in fact, those explicit terms “anti-choice”, then I would only state that Trump isn’t an exemplary model of pro-life advocacy even on a political level. Not for me.
The common equalizing of “pro-life” and “anti-choice” also bugs me to no end. It’s as if I were to say pro-choice people are pro-murder. It’s a straw-man.
While the Strategy Plan does go at lengths to include faith-based organizations, I’m not so sure that that the agenda can accurately be assumed to be faith-based. Rather, to me, its more likely that he is trying to include people in the discussion, religious or non-religious, that have “historically” contributed to the improvement of health care services, as was stated in the document.
She continues:
The draft was released two weeks ago, before HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned, and it outlines the priorities of the agency and its governing offices. As Dr. Jen Gunter, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, pointed out, HHS went beyond the normative promise from conservatives to promote faith-based partnerships, and declared that the life of each human begins at conception.
So, the HHS went beyond promoting faith-based partnerships to declaring a stance on human life’s origin.
It’s been a while now that either this view has been snuffed out of American law (and Canadian law) or been relatively silenced. I can see why the left might be rattled by the statements being made by the HHS but what should be considered is that if you’re pro-life, this is a step in reversing what has been legalized for a long time now. Decades. The reason I would think that the affirmation of life’s origin at conception is included explicitly is because the government wants to take a real stance and counteract the view that personhood gradually evolves, the life appears at birth, which are views that have been affirmed by the law since abortion legalization via Roe v. Wade. The HHS is making a purposeful truth statement.
“It’s concerning because HHS isn’t just a theoretical group that writes think pieces no one reads,” Dr. Gunter told ThinkProgress. “We are replacing science with beliefs.”
This quotation comes with a hint of irony because this article by Gomez includes zero scientific discussion beyond source citation and is composed exclusively of beliefs. Gomez believes women have the right to abort their baby. I believe they don’t. And any government that wants to form policy, whether conservative or not, must do so on matters of principle and belief and not solely on science. After all, any assertion of equality, women’s rights and so on don’t come solely predicated on science. That’s absurd. These are beliefs and moral assertions.
This, I think, gets back to the materialistic nature of the progressive worldview. It assumes all moral assertions must have their basis in scientific discovery which is preposterous. Morality cannot be just a social construction. Or an evolved faculty of human cognition. Not if it is objective, anyways. And science doesn’t yield moral values because they are non-material, non-physical. This assumption becomes painfully obvious when people, like Trump, say life begins at conception, or anything else that progressives disagree with — it is now a matter of “belief”, not science. This is an easy way to dodge the argument.
And there is science to demonstrate the life of a newly conceived human being. But science hasn’t and won’t settle anything. Our conclusions on the morality of abortion must necessarily transcend scientific theory and exert from the realm of belief about human value (if human value exists at all). Human equality is not a scientific statement. Human rights is not scientific theory. These are beliefs reflective of our worldview. And it is from a certain worldview that governments, and the HHS, will write policy, laws and strategies aiming to protect people. It is the people in question that they are contending.
Dr. Gunter’s statements sound confused and panicked with the usage of these mis-defined, misunderstood terms bordering an anti-faith sentiment.
Even guidance issued under President George W. Bush’s secretary was tamer, as it prioritized faith-based partnerships but did not use such overt anti-abortion language.
Again, the HHS is taking a real stance in disagreement. What does one expect?
This so-called anti-abortion language, one must realize (if you’re pro-choice), is not an attempt to restrict the freedom of people under authority but rather is an attempt to responsibly protect people (who are truly viewed and defined as people) who are entirely dependent upon their authority figure for survival. The government has a job to protect all people.
“This is a politically motivated change,” said Guttmacher Institute’s Elizabeth Nash. “This is not being brought up by public health officials. The medical consensus is a woman is considered pregnant during the implantation of a fertilized egg in the wall of the uterus.”
This is quite possibly a politically motivated change. I don’t deny that Trump is a strategist and competitor at every stage and it is hard to discern which, if any, of his beliefs are sincere. For this reason, I am not pro-Trump. I am however inclining my ear to any proposed strategy that will protect previously or currently oppressed people.
Nevertheless, Nash, and Gomez, are responding with more “science”.
The language used in the recent HHS draft — which is open for public comments until October 27 — is largely seen in fetal personhood bills, which try to establish that life begins at conception and declare that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion, said Nash who tracks state policies. These bills have not been successful, and voters from both progressive states like Colorado and conservative states like North Dakota and Mississippi rejected them. (There is a ballot initiative in Alabama this November.) Now, HHS is championing the rhetoric that abortion opponents have used for decades.
If life begins at conception, then a fetus from conception is a living human being. If we believe all human beings are persons, then the fetus is a person from conception. The logic isn’t hard. The obvious moral implication of this logic is that abortion is wrong. It has to be. No person has a right to kill another. No matter the circumstances. So why wouldn’t a person, or government, upon recognizing the life of a newly conceived individual propose to strike down abortion rights? One can call it rhetoric all they want. But what if the insistence on calling logic rhetoric without fair or consistent interaction with the logic exposes a refusal to accept truth? Or, at least, maybe, a dishonest approach to criticism?
Another piece of this, says Nash, is that fetal personhood extends beyond abortion rights and influences contraception access. “How would this interplay with programs designed to support contraception services?” asked Nash. She and Gunter speculated whether Medicaid and Title X funding that covers contraception would be called into question.
Of course fetal personhood affects contraception because the fetus, if a person, has rights.
My view is that contraception to prevent pregnancy (e.g. condoms) is morally acceptable and should be accessible, but any form of contraception that terminates the life of the embryo or fetus is morally unacceptable. It’s wrong to use, again, because it means killing an innocent human being deserving of rights.
The HHS directive should come as no surprise. The Trump administration’s targeting of contraception access has gone further than just mere guidance. On Friday, the administration rolled back an Obama-era requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans. The new rule cited doubtful science, as pointed out by several health writers. Like the HHS directive, the rule ignored science-based evidence that improved contraceptive use correlates with a decline in overall adolescent pregnancy and instead cited research largely argued by the religious right. Also on Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a memorandum on religious liberty protections for all executive departments and agencies, which could influence LGTBQ rights in addition to reproductive rights.
So, again, I am not an advocate of Trump’s decision-making. Regardless of the science, though, the correlation mentioned is actually irrelevant. Contraceptive use is fine so long as it doesn’t kill people. If teens are accidentally killing people by the use of contraception, then we have a problem. (I am not saying the teen should be punished in this case.) If we’re pitting saving lives against reducing teen pregnancy, saving lives is more important.
None of this should come as any surprise, as Trump made his anti-choice stance clear throughout the campaign, when he called for doctors who provide abortions to be punished (a comment he later walked back) and coalesced around pro-life members like Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. His vice president is Mike Pence, who has fought against reproductive health activists for years. He has also packed his health agency with anti-choice employees like Matthew Bowman, a former lawyer to the Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, and Theresa Manning, former lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee.
Again, there’s this over-used attack-word “anti-choice” employed not only to characterize Trump but Mike Pence and their employees. They are anti-choice. They are anti-autonomy. Pro-life and anti-choice to do not represent the same thing. Pro-lifers do not stand to take away Womankind’s ability to make free decisions. They stand to ensure that all people are protected and that all human rights violations are held accountable. Not all free decisions, after all, are good and beneficial for society.
While I disagree with Trump on many things, let’s take so far the logic I’ve presented with all of its implications. If abortion is the unjust act of killing an innocent human being (this isn’t rhetoric, just defining terms and following the logic consistently), then justice would mean that someone must be held accountable. I don’t believe women should (necessarily) be punished, and I’m not entirely sure of doctor’s should be, but if an individual deliberately brings harm to another person knowing full well what they are doing and whom they are doing it to, then justice means they are held accountable.
Religious affiliated organization have always partnered with federal government government, but every religion should be treated the same — and in this case, only the most conservative interpretations seem to be heard. Take fetal personhood: many religious traditions are not in agreement about when life begins. Even denominations within Christianity do not believe abortion is akin to murder.
This is all sort of irrelevant. What this paragraph further solidifies, in my mind, is that many progressives seem to view the pro-life movement as a homogeneously religious movement. The pro-life movement, in case anyone hasn’t noticed, is primarily a human rights movement. But, still so many on the left remain convinced the whole pro-life agenda is a faith-based, religious belief system that fundamentally rejects science and reason.
Of course, not all religious groups agree that life begins at conception. And there is an entire cluster of liberal Christians who somehow disagree as well. But that’s not the point. The point is that if the truth about the pre-born child is that he or she is a living human being from conception, then he or she deserves the same rights as you and I. And this person needs protection.
If Trump’s approach to pro-life policy necessitates a religious stance, then he is most certainly doing it wrong. If he were to avoid the trappings of the term “faith-based” (if that really is his approach) and rather frame it as a human rights issue, it would serve better to clear up these misunderstandings, I think.
For now, the influence of these interpretations of faith in the administration aren’t going anywhere beyond the rollback of the contraception mandate. Many within the religious right told The Hill they hope that whoever replaces Price will apply the Weldon amendment, the so-called conscience clause protecting entities that decline to give abortions because of religious objections. The Obama administration neglected to enforce the so-called “right of conscience.”
Hopefully, if abortion isn’t banned, then the “right of Conscience” will be upheld in order to preserve the rights to religious liberty and expression and one’s freedom to simply follow what their conscience instructs.
The movement to end abortion never has been a grand conspiratorial effort to constrain and limit the freedom and happiness of women and families. Rather, it has always been an attempt to uphold the values of fundamental human dignity, justice and compassion for not only the child but the mother also. If any person does not uphold these, they are not part of the movement. They are acting counter to it. And as I’ve affirmed before, a true pro-life apologetic must take into sincere consideration the plight of ill, single, abandoned and impoverished mothers. Abortion is no solution. It is a false promise that ends in a life lost. There are other, better solutions available.
A final word is this: If there is a government, an organization, a group, a company or a single person in the world that is willing to propose and execute a plan to end abortion, which can appropriately and rightly be called murder because of the terms defined and logic followed, then I do not hesitate to incline my ear though I may question the author.
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The urban area of Beijing is in the south-central part of the municipality and occupies a small but expanding portion of its area. The core city districts are surrounded by urban districts, which in turn are surrounded by suburban districts. The northern part of the municipality contains less populated counties. The inner city, which was walled off in ancient times, is divided into eastern and western halves by Dongcheng and Xicheng Districts. Dongcheng contains Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, which form the center of Beijing and are the former home of the Ming and Qing emperors of China.
From the center, Beijing spreads out in bands of concentric ring roads starting at the Second Ring Road; the outermost Sixth Ring Road passes through several satellite towns. The Ring Roads are commonly used as reference points. Four other main districts, Haidian, Chaoyang, Fengtai and Shijingshan, were once considered on Beijing’s outskirts but are now integral parts of the city and within the Fifth Ring Road. These districts contain the CBD and the Olympic Green. Suburban Tongzhou and Shunyi to the east are rapidly urbanizing and popular with expats.
Downtown Beijing has several lakes. During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol rulers expanded them and built the imperial palace of Dadu around them and subsequent emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties used the lakes as imperial gardens, although today they are surrounded by popular bars and cafes.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Oct. 23 that he expects the next International Space Station crew to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft in December as an investigation into an aborted launch earlier this month wraps up.
In comments at a meeting of the National Space Council in Washington, Bridenstine expressed confidence that the cause of the failed Oct. 11 launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft was understood, allowing flights to resume.
“NASA is regrouping. We’re replanning and we’re getting ready to go again,” he said at the meeting, most of which was devoted to issues about a proposed Space Force.
A Russian state commission is investigating the failed launch, which suffered a problem about two minutes into the flight that triggered the Soyuz spacecraft’s abort system. Roscosmos, the Russian state space corporation, said Oct. 20 that it had received a preliminary report into the accident, with a final report due on Oct. 30.
Roscosmos did not disclose the contents of that preliminary report, but speculation has centered on a problem with one of the four side boosters that separated around the time of the launch abort. One Russian media report, citing unnamed sources, claimed that the side booster was improperly mounted to the core stage, damaging a mounting lug.
Bridenstine did not discuss any potential causes in his comments at the council meeting, but said that the cause appeared to be known. “We have a really, really good idea of what the issue is. We are getting very close to understanding it even better so we can confidently launch again,” he said.
Bridenstine confirmed that Russia will perform several Soyuz rocket launches before flying a crewed Soyuz spacecraft. That next crewed mission, Soyuz MS-11, will likely take place in December.
“We have a number of Russian Soyuz rocket launches in the next month and a half, and in December we’re fully anticipating putting our crew on a Russian Soyuz rocket to launch to the International Space Station again,” he said.
Bridenstine said that NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian crewmate on Soyuz MS-10, Alexey Ovchinin, were in good health, even if they were displeased about the situation. “While our astronaut and their cosmonaut are home safe, they are not happy,” he said. “They want to be on the International Space Station, and they cannot wait to go again.”
“I hope you will pass along our compliments to astronaut Nick Hague, for being willing to get back on the horse,” Vice President Mike Pence said at the meeting. Bridenstine noted that, while Hague will get another opportunity to fly to the station, he won’t be on the crew launching in December. “I’ll bet he’ll be crowding to the front of the line,” Pence responded.
Bridenstine also used his time at the council meeting to discuss the agency’s work implementing Space Policy Directive 1, which directs NASA to return humans to the moon. He emphasized NASA is developing “a reusable and a sustainable architecture” for lunar exploration, anchored by the Gateway in lunar orbit.
He cited strong international support for those plans, highlighted by the interest he said he saw from potential partners at the International Astronautical Congress in early October in Germany. “When I talked about the United States leading an international effort to get back to the moon, the response was overwhelming and spontaneous,” he said. “People around the world have been waiting for the United States to get back to the moon.”
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Rhinoplasty for Just the Tip of the Nose
Tons of people are fine with their overall nose shape. However, they may want to get rhinoplasty to change the way the tip of their nose looks.
Many people can get rhinoplasty for just the tip of the nose for aesthetics purposes. It is called nasal tip rhinoplasty/refinement. This procedure will only change the nasal tip, which is ideal for people who do not want a full-blown rhinoplasty.
Can I Get Rhinoplasty On Just the Tip of My Nose?
Many people can get rhinoplasty on just the tip of their nose. The name of the procedure is nasal tip rhinoplasty or nasal tip refinement. This cosmetic surgery is for the lower third portion of your nose.
A lot of people may be fine with the general shape of their nose. However, they may be very unhappy with the tip of their nose. If the tip is too large or small, it can throw your whole face off. Therefore, you can get surgery on the tip of your nose if you do not want to change your entire nose structure. It is a slightly less invasive procedure for people who want only one part of their nose fixed.
Traditional rhinoplasty will often change your whole nose, meaning that a surgeon will perform a 1-4 hour procedure to reshape your nose completely. However, nasal tip rhinoplasty focuses on a much smaller location, making it a less invasive procedure.
Most nasal tip refinement procedures will last for 1-2 hours. That means that you will be under anesthesia for a shorter period.
Reasons Why You May Only Need Rhinoplasty for the Tip of Your Nose
Hooked or Upturned Noses
Source: Dr. Stephan Bessler
A prominently hooked or upturned nose can ruin your aesthetic. A simple nasal tip refinement procedure can shave and reshape the cartilage to enhance your nose.
Wide Tip Correction
Bulbous, boxy, or wide nose tips often occur because of thick nose skin. Additionally, it can also happen because of widely spaced-apart and large nasal domes. Typically, it is a mixture of both of these factors.
Nasal domes are the tip’s cartilage defining points. For most people, fat or a thick ligament separates the nasal domes.
Adding Projection to the Nose Tip
Some people may feel like their noses are a bit “flat.” Nasal tip projection often addresses overly hooked or upturned noses, but it can also add projection. For instance, nasal tip rhinoplasty can help you achieve an upturned nose.
You may be fine with the actual shape of your nose tip. However, an asymmetrical nose tip can be a huge distraction. Nasal tip refinement can reshape or straighten your nose tip to enhance your facial harmony.
Nostril Flare Reduction
Typically, alarplasty fixes flaring nostrils. This surgery usually makes the base of the nose smaller.
In some cases, a patient may get open rhinoplasty to address flaring nostrils. Typically, it is for people who have static flared nostrils when a person has permanently flared nostrils. The surgery will not change how your nostrils naturally get larger when you laugh or breathe excessively.
However, nasal tip refinement can occasionally address flaring nostrils. The nasal tip cartilage could be the cause of your flaring nostrils, which is where nasal tip refinement can come in handy.
Typically, tip rhinoplasty to address flaring nostrils will involve trimming and reshaping the cartilage. That will relieve any excess curvature. Changing the shape of the nose tip can also make the nostril edges straighter.
Rebalancing the Nostrils
Similar to how nasal tip refinement can reduce flaring nostrils, it can also rebalance nostrils. If you have unbalanced nostrils because of your nose tip cartilage, tip refinement can reshape the cartilage to make the nostrils more symmetrical.
Revisions for Previous Rhinoplasty
Not all rhinoplasty procedures go to plan. Suppose a patient experiences an unwanted complication while they healed from their original rhinoplasty but do not want to get another full-blown nose job. In that case, they can opt for nasal tip refinement if the issue is only on their nasal tip.
Many patients may not be fully satisfied with their initial rhinoplasty. After some time, they may realize that they want a minor enhancement. If that area happens to be on their nose tip, then they can get nasal tip refinement.
How Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty Is Performed
Traditional rhinoplasty involves rather substantial changes to your nose’s inner structure. For instance, some rhinoplasty procedures fracture the bone to change the shape, which will make the recovery process longer.
For most nasal tip refinement procedures, a surgeon will make 2-3 incisions to access the underlying cartilage. The surgeon will then reshape the cartilage to get the desired results and then close the incisions.
Of course, the procedure will change depending on your needs. For instance, a surgeon may tweak or shave off the cartilage structure under the skin to make it slimmer.
Another example is how a surgeon addresses widely-spaced and large nasal domes. A surgeon may shift the domes and soft tissue to fix the nasal domes. If the patient has thick skin, the surgeon may put a graft onto the nose tip.
Nasal Tip Refinement. Source: Carolina Facial Plastic Surgery
The majority of the swelling you would get from traditional rhinoplasty will go down 2-4 weeks after the surgery. It usually takes about 1-3 years (depending on your skin’s thickness) to heal completely and for the swelling to fully subside from traditional rhinoplasty.
While nasal tip refinement surgery can help decrease an excessively hooked or upturned nasal tip, it can also add projection to the tip. A surgeon may add grafts to improve the tip’s projection or rotation.
In some cases, a surgeon may perform a closed rhinoplasty procedure. However, it is very common for a surgeon to need to create small incisions. Most nasal tip refinement procedures will leave a very minimal scar or no scar, but it will depend on how you heal.
As for nasal tip refinement, most of the swelling fades after 2-4 weeks. You will see the final result 6-12 months after the surgery.
How Long Does It Take to Recover from Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty?
It usually takes about 6-12 months to recover from nasal tip rhinoplasty fully. The majority of that recovery time is due to the swelling of your nose. Most patient’s nasal tip swelling fully goes away 6-12 months after surgery.
However, you may be able to go back to work after nasal tip refinement 1-2 weeks after the operation, depending on your specific procedure. People who get traditional rhinoplasty often have to wait 3-4 weeks before going back to work.
Tips to Heal Properly After Nasal Tip Refinement
While these tips may not guarantee a perfect and quick recovery, it can help make it as safe as possible.
• Do not touch your scar or bandages.
• Take any prescribed antibiotics.
• Use ice compresses as needed.
• Limit your salt intake.
• Keep your head elevated.
• Avoid strenuous physical activities.
Is It Safe to Get Surgery Only on the Tip of the Nose?
Nasal tip rhinoplasty is typically safe, given that you are eligible for the procedure. Additionally, you need a highly-skilled surgeon to perform the procedure. The nose tip is a very delicate area of the nose, so it requires skill and precision.
Nasal Tip Refinement. Source: Dr. Stephen Kleid – Coco Ruby Plastic Surgery
Can Anyone Get Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty?
Most people can get nasal tip rhinoplasty. However, it may not be an option if the doctor says you have very thick skin.
Skin thickness ranges from very thin to very thick. People who have fragile skin may be able to get nasal tip rhinoplasty. The surgeon needs to ensure that every bump gets smoothed out to avoid making any irregularity noticeable.
However, the same may not be said for people with very thick skin. Thick skin will almost always grow back as thick skin, even after surgery. Unlike cartilage, the skin will stay the same no matter how much a surgeon tries to change it. Thick nasal tip skin will always look the same after surgery. In fact, the nasal tip may look bigger after rhinoplasty, especially if you reshape the other parts of the nose to be smaller (Taylor et al., 2010).
For instance, let’s say that you had the bridge of your nose done to be narrower and tried to make the cartilage on your nose tip smaller. If you have very thick skin, the nasal tip may appear even larger in size because you made your nose bridge slimmer.
Is Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty Better Than Regular Rhinoplasty?
Nasal tip rhinoplasty can be better than traditional rhinoplasty if you only want to change the tip of your nose. It is a less invasive procedure, and the recovery time is usually quicker. Of course, it will vary from person to person. If you do not like how your nose looks on your face because of its overall size, then traditional rhinoplasty may be better for you.
You may not need the traditional rhinoplasty if you want more done to your nose. For instance, you may get nasal tip rhinoplasty and dorsal hump reduction if you want to reshape the tip of your nose and reduce the size of your dorsal hump.
Is Nasal Tip Refinement Safer than Traditional Rhinoplasty?
Nasal tip refinement can be safer than regular rhinoplasty. It is less invasive since it will likely not include other procedures like bridge adjustments, open techniques, etc. However, that does not mean it is definitely safer than traditional rhinoplasty. It still carries similar risks that traditional rhinoplasty has.
The main reason why it could be safer is that the procedure is quicker. Additionally, the healing time is shorter. However, complications during and after the surgery are still possible.
Alternative to Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty
Liquid Rhinoplasty
If you do not want to get surgery at all or wish to see what your nose would look like before opting for nasal tip refinement, then liquid rhinoplasty may be a good option for you.
Liquid rhinoplasty often temporarily fixes problems like asymmetry and a dorsal hump. However, it can also improve your nose tip, particularly if you have a drooping nasal tip.
Liquid rhinoplasty is a procedure where a surgeon injects fillers strategically into your nose to reshape the nose and improve the contours of your nose. The filler is often made out of hyaluronic acid, which is the same kind of filler you can find in most lip and cheek fillers.
Liquid rhinoplasty often temporarily addresses the aesthetic problems of the nose. However, liquid rhinoplasty can also temporarily fix issues caused by a rhinoplasty.
Liquid Rhinoplasty (Dermal Fillers)
One study proves that it can also fix nasal problems that are hard to fix through surgery (Hedén et al., 2016). The effects lasted for one year for most patients, while some patient’s effects lasted for five years. The study also notes that there were no serious complications.
A huge bonus that liquid rhinoplasty gives you is that it only takes about 15-20 minutes to complete. You also get immediate results from it compared to the 6-24 months that it would take for traditional and nasal tip rhinoplasty.
You may have to be careful about touching your nose for the first few days after getting the fillers to allow the fillers to set into your face. Your surgeon may also advise that you avoid certain sleeping positions.
However, liquid rhinoplasty may not help you if you want to fix a very large or upturned nose. The filler can add volume to smooth out bumps and fix a droopy nasal tip. However, it cannot reduce or reshape the nasal tip. Liquid rhino can only add. It can’t remove anything. For that, you need a rhinoplasty.
Additionally, the results usually last for only one year. Therefore, you would need to keep getting fillers injected to maintain your results.
Celebrities Who Changed the Tips of Their Noses
Angelina Jolie
An excellent example of a celebrity who got rhinoplasty for just the tip of the nose is Angelina Jolie. The procedure done was very subtle, but it greatly enhanced her features. For instance, her nose is in perfect harmony with her lips.
The photo on the right shows that she used to have a boxy, large nasal tip, which distracted people from her other features. The procedure made her tip cartilage more compact, pointer, and smaller.
Jennifer Aniston
As you can see from the photo on the right, the tip of her nose looked large and off-center. She had surgery to straighten it to enhance the function and appearance of her nose.
However, the surgery that Jennifer Aniston got was likely not nasal tip refinement. She had a deviated septum, so the procedure she got was probably septoplasty, which straightens the cartilage and bone dividing the septum.
Despite the surgery not being nasal tip refinement, she is an excellent example of how adjusting the nose’s tip can make a huge difference.
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Human flea
The human flea, Pulex irritans, is a cosmopolitan flea species that has, in spite of the common name, a wide host spectrum. It is one of six species in the genus Pulex; the other five are all confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.[1] The species is thought to have originated in South America, where its original host may have been the guinea pig or peccary.[2]
This species bites many species of mammals and birds, including domesticated ones. It has been found on dogs and wild canids, monkeys in captivity, opossums, domestic cats, wild felids in captivity, chickens, black rats and Norwegian rats, wild rodents, pigs, free-tailed bats, and other species. It can also be an intermediate host for the cestode Dipylidium caninum.
Flea bites are typically red and inflamed. Overall symptoms include itchiness and rashes. Fleas can spread rapidly and move between areas to include eyebrows, eyelashes, and pubic regions.
Common treatments include body shaving and medicated shampoos and combing.
1. ^ Michael F. Whiting, Alison S. Whiting, Michael W. Hastriter & Katharina Dittmar (2008). "A molecular phylogeny of fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): origins and host associations". Cladistics 24 (5): 1–31. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00211.x.
2. ^ Paul C. Buckland & Jon P. Sadler (1989). "A biogeography of the human flea, Pulex irritans L. (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae)". Journal of Biogeography 16 (2): 115–120. doi:10.2307/2845085. JSTOR 2845085.
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Mechanism for Aiming Lasers with High Precision Anti-jamming Applications
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Among the critical challenges facing optical communications network developers is the security of very high bandwidth optical data links. Desired capabilities include essentially global access to multi-satellite, multi-site terminals that must be allocated and managed to insure quality of service, multi-level security, and virtual private networks, thereby necessitating authentication in an internet protocol networking environment. Therefore, apart from the degrading effects of weather, effective utilization of free-space optical communications requires the solution of two significant challenges: highly stable laser pointing to/from moving platforms and a robust authentication capability.
Current systems have used gimbaled optical components for pointing and tracking. On the other hand, small micro mirrors have much less mass and size, and lower cost than traditional bulk optical components, and such mirrors effectively provide multi-channel capabilities. Furthermore, the use of such mirrors provides the capability of scaling to large numbers of independent communications channels.
The JHU/APL invention is an optical architecture that would enable secure communications via multiple narrow laser beam transmission and reception using MEMS technology in conjunction with classic post-detection signal processing logic for beacon authentication. This concept would very precisely aim multiple laser transmitter beams to reduce the chance of interception, very precisely control multiple receiver fields-of-view to reduce susceptibility to (or suppress) jamming lasers, and isolate individual beacons for authentication. The invention thus enables a more effective and robust means of securing optical links.
In summary, the invention provides secure multi-channel free-space transmission and reception from a single platform; independently controllable optical channels; and selective denial of interference from adjacent channels or unintended sources (jammers).
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I guess you know you're an adult when the prospect of purchasing new appliances is met with something other than wishing to throw yourself in the floor, kick and scream and cry and pout about the unfairness of it all.....
When I bought my townhouse, it was not yet built. The builder provided certain appliances which I was sure were the cheapest things they could lay hands on. They offered 'upgrades' but I figured I'd just pay more for less and wouldn't really have any choice in the matter. So I decided to go with the 'crap' and then replace them as soon as possible.
Then the recession hit. Bummer! New appliances were pushed to the bottom of the list.
This summer, the dishwasher went from noisy and inefficient to deafeningly loud and inefficient. I figured it's time was short. The dishes are clean but the noise it takes to get them that way is really no fun for anyone.
Luckily, we got a bit of a bonus this Christmas, so on Christmas Eve, I headed down to H.H. Gregg to shop for a new machine. I had done some research on the ones in my price range and decided on either an LG or a GE. When I got down there, the nice salesman showed me this KitchenAid, which was on sale and nicer than either of the other two I had picked out, so I went with it.
They delivered it on Sunday (yes, the day after Christmas in a snowstorm - H.H. Gregg is cool like that).
Here it is in the kitchen.
Yay!
I am happy to report that in addition to being good looking, it is also quiet - as well as energy and water efficient.
The other night I woke up at like 3 in the morning and I started to worry about some little thing or another.
And I said to myself "Is this really what you want to do? You want to seriously tell me that you want to lay here, in your bed, in the dark and worry about bullshit? Would you rather do that or think about... Johnny Depp?"
I decided to go with thinking about Johnny and drifted back off to sleep with happy thoughts.
And yes, I have seen The Tourist twice. And yes, I'm going to see it again. And buy it on DVD. My lust knows no boundaries.
12.28.2010
"I do think New Years' Resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also, dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea, as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions begin generally on January the second."
12.27.2010
Hi! Are we all back? In one piece? I hope no one had to sleep in an airport!!!
This is a super quick post to say "Hi" and "I'm still here" and "I have TOTAL Christmas hangover!"
It was a wonderful holiday - full of [actual, genuine] cheer, good friends, good food, puppy kisses, gifts, naps, an amazing candlelit Christmas service and finally, a lovely snow storm here in the Queen City.
We couldn't have asked for a nicer Christmas.
I'll be sort of 'micro blogging' this week - whatever that means. To me it means that I need to think of something profound to say but I'm running in 5 different directions so I'll just give you little blasts now and then.
Hopefully, everything will settle down a little after this week and I can actually begin to think about something more meaningful to say. Keep your fingers crossed.
In the meantime, thank you all so much for stopping by to spend a little time with me. I really appreciate it.
Let's hope for a great week. We all have some resolutions to think up, don't we? I know I'm kinda working on them.
First, I have a serious handbag addiction. Serious. And in my defense, in 2009 I went for almost 12 months without buying a bag or even seeing one that I really wanted. I thought that maybe - maybe - I was getting over it.
In 2010 I think we can all agree that I have fallen off the wagon.... miserably. But there has to be an upside to spinsterhood and childlessness, so I figure as long as my bills are paid and my 401K is funded, I can have a bag every now and again.... Or two bags. Or whatever. As the case may be.
Second, lately my bag lust has been focused on Rebecca Minkoff. Probably because I want something a little more fun and also because these bags are sort of rare for Charlotte. Everybody has Coach and Kate Spade. Even Louis Vuitton and Prada are fairly well represented. Rebecca Minkoff - not so much. And I like to be different.
This brings me around to the purpose of this post.
The other night I was walking down the Mall and when I went past the Seven for All Mankind store, I saw this little darling out of the corner of my eye - the Heavy Metal Flame bag.
I said "I didn't know they carried Rebecca Minkoff! I must investigate!"
So I went in - you know, just to look......
They said "You know, they are all on sale for 30% off."
Well, that's like dangling raw meat in front of Old Yeller, isn't it?
So I said "OK. Ring me up".
And she did - but here's the good part.
This bag retails for $495. Not cheap. But 30% off is better. But it rang up as $199. And she sold it to me for that..... She said "Well, huh. OK. That's what it rang up as and that's what you get it for."
I said "I like you."
And I feel that it was a message from God. You know. "You've behaved this year. You deserve a cute leather bag."
12.20.2010
I hope everyone had a happy weekend before Christmas. Mine was not as productive as I had hoped but I did manage to get everything wrapped and ready to ship.
I also picked up the house a bit and finished all the laundry.
Oh - and I saw The Tourist. I know it got bad reviews but I have to say that I really liked it. It was silly and escapist and that's what I wanted it to be so I have no complaints. And did I mention Johnny Depp. You know if he's there I just feel like it would be pretty impossible for me not to have a good time.
I'm hoping this week is slow and easy. Having said that, some shit will probably explode in my office. But then again, it is Christmas. Hopefully, everyone is like the court system - mostly on vacation.
12.17.2010
I'm beat. And I'm still not done shopping for Christmas. I've got to get it done and get everything wrapped.
*heavy sigh*
But I'm having fun and am not at all grinch-y so I guess everything is ok, huh?
This weekend is shaping up to be contentedly busy but not so crazy as last weekend ('cause I really can only take about one of those weekends a month...). I'm getting my bangs cut on Saturday (or my 'fringe trimmed' as the Aveda people would say) and then I'm going to finish up my last minute gifts and get everything wrapped.
Other than that, I hope to get a pedicure and make time to see "The Tourist" at some point. I know it's gotten horrible reviews, but I'm willing to be bored as long as I can lust for Johnny Depp in the meantime. Is that wrong? 'Cause if loving him is wrong I don't wanna be right.
So I hope everyone has a great weekend full of happy and presents and running around and all that nonsense. Have a great time!
I am a crazy, do it right now, check-three-times-before-I-go-to-bed door locker. I lock every door behind me right after I come in the house. And I double check it to make sure.
You are all going to think that I'm completely paranoid and/or crazy, but I don't care. And you may also think I'm telling you something that you already know but I'm going to say it anyway:
Lock your damn doors.
I'll say it again: Lock your damn doors!
I'm talking about your back doors, your storm doors and your basement doors. And I'm talking about locking them all the time. And I mean go do it right now. And if you're not sure if it's locked, go check it. And if you have a lock and a deadbolt, lock both of them.
Did you know that last year the president of the student body at UNC Chapel Hill was brutally murdered by two psychopaths? Well, she was. They came into her home in the middle of the night and then they murdered her after they took her out and made her withdraw the money from her bank account. They pushed her out of the car in the middle of an intersection and blew her head off with a shotgun.
They walked in through an unlocked door.
Have you been following the murder trial in Connecticut involving the Petit family? Those monsters walked into their house through an unlocked basement door.
A few years ago a young woman in Clemson, South Carolina was raped and murdered in her apartment. The guy followed her home from jogging and just followed her into her home. She didn't lock the door behind her.
And the anchorwoman in Little Rock who was raped and beaten to death in her bed - the guy walked in through a door she left open for her dogs.
So if you're home, lock your doors. Lock them now. Lock all of them. And your windows, too. Lock them behind you when you walk in the house. Don't wait and do it later. Don't think it won't matter.
Don't make it easy for anyone to come in and hurt you.
Unfortunately, those people are out there, even in the safest neighborhoods.
Dr. Petit was on Oprah last week. I have never seen a more pitiful, absolutely broken person. He told her he ran through all the 'what ifs' in his head. When she asked him what the 'what ifs' were, he said "What if someone had just slid that latch shut (on the basement door)".
So take care of yourselves. Please. Lock your doors. Image: Doorknob by Jennopolis.
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4 thoughts on “Quote of the Day”
1. You know you’ve been reading too much TV tropes when your mind immediately takes that out of context and uses the -other- meaning of “shipping.”
1. Didn’t Harry Potter really get that going first? Hell, I’d never heard of “shipping” before the glut of HP fan fiction, podcasts and websites.
1. AFAIK, the word originated in X-Files fandom as a designation for those more interested in “relationshipping” Mulder and Scully than the actual plot of the series.
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Leo Man And Virgo Woman
Are the Leo man and Virgo woman made for each other? Know about the love compatibility of Leo man and Virgo woman.
Leo Man - Virgo Woman Love Compatibility
What is it about the Virgo woman that makes the Leo man go weak in his knees? It may be her practicality or her innocence but initially in the relationship, there isn't much that holds the two individuals together.
Leo's are represented by fire whereas Virgo is an earth sign. The crackling of the fire and the intensity with which it burns characterizes the Leo individual only too well. Just like a raging fire, a Leo man will shine bright and burn everything that comes in his path. However, he can also be docile like the candle flame, a side which will be revealed only to the closest few in his inner circle. A Leo man will choose his confidants carefully and will rely on him/her only when he trusts them completely.
Chances are plenty that a Virgo woman might come into his circle of friends by sheer luck or by conscious picking. Initially, the fire sign will be attracted to the earth bearer only because of the balance and practicality that it will provide. The earth will give fire the platform to grow and for that one reason, it may be said that a Leo man and a Virgo woman will make an excellent pair.
The Virgo woman will come into a Leo man's life and alter his life completely. She will initially come in to give the Leo man much needed stability but will slowly take over his life completely. Her critical eye will keep the Leo man attached firmly on the ground and will ensure that he does not go far beyond his arena of expertise. She will keep him like her pet, take care of him, be a mother to him and nurture him till her heart desires so. She will attempt to walk into his life and make it hers but will only use her intelligence to do so.
A Virgo woman is witty and is quick to think on her feet. Put her in a tense situation and see her emerge victorious as effortlessly as a butterfly flies out of its cocoon. A Leo man and a Virgo woman might meet in circumstances where tense situations bring them together and the Virgo woman rescues him. Though not necessary, this may be how they get acquainted with each other. This opportunity will also be a time where the Leo man will recognize the power and the thrill of being in the company of a Virgo woman and may continue to look for such situations to be around her.
The relationship will balance itself and will give each individual what it wants from the other half. A Leo man and a Virgo woman have the ability to flourish seamlessly in any environment. They can make their relationship work if they put in some effort to overcome the tough times.
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Does SXSW Still Matter?
There's a famous photo from SxSW taken 10 years ago, with just about every significant blogger at the time all gathered around one table. Many of them went on to form incredibly influential companies, like Flickr, Twitter, and yes, Gawker. Today, a lot of those same people are skipping the conference. And if you believe the backlash, South by Southwest has lost its cool. It's just a marketing hypefest, where the most common achievement is barbecue bloat.
Bullshit. It's cooler and more important than ever. Just not in the same way.
Twitter. Foursquare. GroupMe. You use them everyday, but if it hadn't been for this uncool, overcrowded, lost-all-meaning version of South by Southwest you may never have even heard of them. What's come out of South by Southwest in recent years aren't apps for the hipster tech elite. It's the everyday technologies that regular people take to. Buzzwords that graduate to everyday vernacular.
You wouldn't know it, though, if you follow the SXSW backlash. To paraphrase notable late-stage VC Yogi Berra: No one goes there anymore, it's too popular.
Scott Lamb profiles this nicely over at Buzzfeed's tech channel, tying it to the end of Kick, an independent kickball tournament run by Anil Dash. (That, sadly, was rained out in this its final year.) Meanwhile Austin's own Ben Brown also wrote something describing why he's not going, and what he sees being wrong with the culture of South by Southwest. Michael Pusateri describes it in a dry-eyed post simply titled "why I'm not going to SxSW this year." I've seen and heard quite a few other longtime attendees express similar sentiment, and of course the backlash on Twitter is six kinds of fierce.
But why? What's so different? What's changed? Well, a lot. But nearly all of it's for the better.
South by Southwest Interactive used to be an intimate little conference where independent developers came together and traded ideas. It was a tagalong to the larger music festival, and geared very much towards makers. And those bloggers and developers sat down and ate barbeque together, and got to know each other, and came up with some good stuff. Then they went home and wrote about it on their blogs. They published pictures of themselves all hanging out together in Bruce Sterling's bathroom, of all places. It looked fun and cool and had a high signal to noise ratio of Very Important Web People. Which made more people come, who desired to be very important. As more people came, apps and services started to break out there, and become the next hot thing. Which meant money. And money meant way more people. Which created a cycle of hype.
And pretty soon, the original blogsters felt squeezed out.
So sure. If you think of cool as being something small and independent, Southby may no longer be the festival for you. But I think there's something even cooler going on.
What you are seeing is the death of elitism. Southby is no longer the elite event it once was. But neither is the Internet itself. And as both have gone mainstream together, both matter more than ever. Because both touch peoples lives, in the form of apps and information, than ever before.
South by Southwest is a hot zone. An infectious vector where lots of people, from all over the world, come together and often end up all using the same apps—especially social ones. It's a trial by fire for ambitious social start ups. If an app sucks, or its server can't handle the load, or it just isn't useful, maybe nothing happens. But when it catches on, bang!
And it doesn't stop at the conference itself. Influential attendees bring the prize apps back to their influential tribes. And suddenly you can't make a left turn on the internet without bumping into Twitter, to Foursquare, to GroupMe. And you use it, and your friends do, and it becomes as ingrained into your everyday life as three square meals. In a few months, it'll happen again with Highlight and Glancee and maybe even Pinwheel.
And yes, there are some decidedly uncool things happening there. It's awash in branding and the level of smug coming out of Austin right now is at east coast boarding school levels.
But even so, it's a proving ground for the rest of the country and world. It's got an enormous impact, not just on tech snobs, but upon all of us. It's a place where things are happening, products are being introduced, that will affect real people's lives. Sure, getting together with your friends is fun, especially when those friends are the kind of smart, forward-thinking people who made South by Southwest the place to be in those early days. And everyone loves a nice game of kickball.
But changing the world? That's pretty damn cool. Plus, hey, you know, Jay-Z played.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
I'm a femininist
I'm thinking of inventing a new word: femininist.
I'm a convinced feminist, but the word feminism has been associated to too many values that are hard for me (and for loads of other people) to accept. Prejudices. Such as that feminists hate men and are ugly and unsexy, which may be true for some, but no more so than among any other group of women. Or men for that sake.
There is also a quite strong opinion among some feminists (such as the friends of a friend of mine, one of his girl-friends hated me from the moment she saw me, based on her own prejudices. We didn't even talk until she had judged me, unbelievable) that if you like to wear make-up, short skirts or high heels you're not a feminist.
To me it's the opposite; I refuse to be deemed as a less capable or less intelligent person because I'm a woman, I refuse to dress less feminine to prove myself and if people want to judge me by my choice of clothes and shoes then they are quite stupid and simply don't deserve my attention (but they do annoy me).
So, I'm a femininist. I love being a woman (except when I meet biggots), I love men (especially non-sexist men), and I am completely convinced that you should never judge someone primarily by their sex. Yes, there are differences between men and women, but there are even bigger differeces between different men and between different women. We are all unique and should be allowed to be. I will always fight for womens right to be taken seriously even though they are sexy and feminine women (and men's right to be taken seriously even if they are not macho enough to fit the norm).
And I'd like to quote Gloria Steinem:
The "truth" here is referring to the fact that there are gender powered structures in society, that restrict both men and women. Most of all they restrict all the men and women who don't fit into the stereotype of what a man or a woman should be. And since the structures in society tend to favour men, and to make men the norm, they generally restrict women more than men.
If you understand Swedish there is a very interesting radio-program about the way fashion has shaped the general view on feminists here (mp3) or here (streaming). It's the program from December 11th, also about the story of the Vanderbilts.
1. Yup, I'm a femininist, too! ;-)
I was lucky to have a job where I am surrounded by lots of great men, who accept me as I am, and who don't look down on me just because I'm a girl. However, the society (in general) really needs to make some changes and to respect women more than it does now.
2. What an unexpected post on this blog. Or perhaps not... perhaps it is just in the right place.
And I agree. Let me expand on the subject.
There is that less-than-charming stereotype of the red stocking feminist that seems to prevail in the public debate. And certainly, a part of that stereotype is anti-fashion. So much to the point that the more zealot-prone feminists are often mislead into believing that fashion is their enemy and they are to dress as uniformly as possible, wary of playing up to any inherent female values (a certain political belief system comes to mind at this point).
This is, of course, a sad mistake on the part of the ideological forces because it only works to deepen any gender issues that might have been the problem to begin with. Nothing in the issue of equality between the sexes is improved from a bad package (and nothing is better in the head-over-heels approach of blatantly denying the very obvious, and required, differences; just as you point out). We all like to look well, or at least nice and pleasing to the eye, regardless of our cause. Men and women. Regardless of what we say outwardly. In fact, there is nothing so rebellious as fashion itself and not following it is a fashion statement in itself. So there we go. There is no escape.
Any movement, for any cause, will profit from a fair bit of grace and feminine flair. Sometimes that grace is achieved by a nice piece of clothing, sometimes it will be a warm gesture. Sometimes both.
I think that just about every female I've ever spent any serious time with has been a feminist in the sense of being a woman, not in the sense of hating men or fashion or wanting to make a political statement.
But it is also true that we play as well as our partner, or opponent for that matter, will allow us. Conversely, all femininity or appreciation of it, must be reciprocated and acknowledged.
I used to have a photo of the Swedish author, Stig Dagerman with the words: "All feminism must begin with the man", written over it in blue ink. The idea was that once, men knew the difference between women and girls and there was an appreciation in knowing that difference. It was called being a gentleman. And gentlemen need their ladies, for sure.
Femininity at play is a dance that needs a partner. That particular dance has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with grace. Its sad to see that the modern take on this is as shallow as it is unappreciating of the details: The flair of fashion, that wonderful interaction between us all, the socialite rules to govern that dance.
Finally, there is some truth in van der Rohes quote: "God is in the details" (i'm pretty sure that quote is accredited to a number of sources) - but I'm wondering if that quote shouldn't be re-written to better suit the crudities of the world of today: "God is in retail".
3. Although all of you state very valid point, I have to say that as a Dutch girl, I'm a bit surprised. The anti-fashion feminist stereotype is one we know here as well: she's the arch-feminist last seen en masse in the 1970's (actually, an eco-brand I sometimes work with was dressing a lady from that movement for an event. we asked her by email to wear heels. she responded stating that heels were only good for self-defence... but on meeting her, she wasn't judgemental about us being 'fashion-women') however, at least in the Netherlans, she was followed by another feminist stereotype: the 1980's power-woman, the glamazon, the heel-wearing, man-eating carreer-tiger. This woman is as much of an exaggerated and actually quite negative creature as her predecessor. And probably just about as non-existent in her pure form. However, because of her existence, modern-day feminists don't really have to appologize for looking good or being fashionable (of course, looking very girly might give people the wrong impression but that's not really the point here). There may of course (and that's what the friend's friend from your describtion sounds like) always be the type of woman ready to hate any girl prettier or thinner than she is, using feminism as a pretext. But really, we all know who the anti-feminist is in that little scheme, don't we sisters ;)
4. hello! just popping in to say hello! thanks for the link. Great blog, i shall be visiting regularly! xx
5. AnaJan: Great! Appreciate your colleagues, they seem to be so worth it!
Anonymous: Very interesting comment. I agree with most of it. I'm a bit dumbstruck actually ;-).
Lauriana: Hm, I think I know what you mean. Let me explain the situation here. Like Holland, Sweden is almost extremely equal in many ways. We have laws against sexual discrimination, and equal rights for fathers and mothers to go on PAID maternity/paternity-leave. Compared to many other countries there is really nothing to complain about, and I think that's part of the problem. We are so equal on the SURFACE that it's become almost taboo to call yourself a feminist, I know many women who have very feminist values who will not use the word, because of what they connect with it. And also because if you call yourself a feminist you claim that there is a problem, and if you complain about problems it's a bit like showing weakness. But still, we are so NOT equal. Traditionally male qualities and attributes are valued much higher than female. For example, girls who behave and dress like boys are considered quite tough while girly boys are seen as a bit of a problem. It's a well known fact that it's bad if a branch becomes too dominated by women, since the salaries WILL become lower if it is. Women study to a much higher degree than men, and get better grades, but men are still better paid, even compared to women who do exactily the same job, and even at the very first job after graduation (so it cannot be a case of women performing worse at work). In rape-trials, it's common to question the woman about her previous sexual expereinces, and if she's had any experiences that are considered other than "normal" they make it less likely the man is convicted, no matter what the circumstances around the actual rape are. The same is the case if she's worn a low cut blouse or a short skirt, or if she was drunk when she was raped.
And it's still taboo in large groups of society to call yourself a feminist (even though it was quite modern among male politicians a few years ago).
And I think you may be right about the jealousy...
JuliaB: Welcome!
And I would like to add to the discussion that I love to lounge around without make-up, in comfy jeans, a t-shirt and wellington-boots when I'm off work (it can actually be a rather sensual dress-code). It's not all about heels and make-up ;-)
6. Thats really very good work by them, Appreciative and I like a lot. It should be done some time ago and you have explained a very nice blog here too...
7. Hi Karin,
I happened to stumble on your blog today and was attracted to this post. I don't have a lot to add, because I totally agree with you all, I'm so glad I found this!
I also do a lot of thinking on the apparent equality there seems to be, especially when I discuss with my boyfriend on the value attributed to exact sciences vs humanities and the link to the rates of boys and girls in those branches...
Thank you all for explaining my opinions so well ;)
8. Got here from Burdastyle and was so surprised to see this post.
I've never been a feminist, cause in Italy it means it's 1970s and I have to go on strike, can't shave my legs and must scream "go abortion".
Recently we had a "woman's day" here in Milan with 50-60 year old women screaming "make abortion legal". I was staring in disbelief wondering 1. don't they know abortion has been legal for a while?!; and 2. they are 60 ys old, how is this their problem... 3. why do they look like hippies and sneer at me for being out for a stroll with my boyfriend and I dar to wear red lipstick.
So I guess I am a femininist.
Which is really hard. Cause Italy is not Sweden. And we need to fight sleezy old men and angry old feminists alike...
By the way: recently we had a young woman who was nominated minister for the Equal Opportunities. And the above-mentioned feminists called her all sort of names, saying she must have slept with someone to get the job. WTF??
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Greg Hansen: 1997 Cats enjoyed a magic moment
Mike Bibby cuts down the net after the Wildcats defeated
Kentucky, their third # 1 seed that they knocked off during their
championship run. Photo By David Sanders.
In celebration of Arizona's centennial, the Star is
featuring our picks for the 100 best athletes, moments and teams.
Throughout the summer, we have been showcasing our list. Here is
the ninth of Greg Hansen's top 10.
1997 National Championship
In the final hours before Arizona was to meet No. 1 Kansas at
the 1997 Sweet 16, Lute Olson embraced the psychology and magnified
the burden of playing the 34-1 Jayhawks.
He looked into the TV lights and asked, defiantly, "Who is David
and who is Goliath?" which seemed to be coaching suicide. What
coach would provoke the Jayhawks, who had won 16 consecutive games
and were 10 1/2-point favorites?
At his team's shoot-around several hours before the game in
Birmingham, Ala., Olson tossed white towels to his interior
players, A.J. Bramlett, Donnell Harris, Gene Edgerson and Bennett
Davison.
"White towels," Olson said. "Surrender flags. Step up if you
want to surrender."
Edgerson threw his towel to the floor and stomped on it. The
others followed.
Arizona stunned KU, 85-82, and Olson announced that "the ghosts
are now gone."
No longer would he, nor his basketball program, be remembered
for stinging NCAA tournament exits against Santa Clara and East
Tennessee State, or for tears-inducing setbacks at the doorstep of
1988, 1989 and 1994 national championships.
Olson's 1997 team - with no seniors in the playing rotation -
finished fifth in the Pac-10, its worst finish in Olson's final 23
years at the school. And yet it became the defining team in the
history of UA and Arizona college sports.
After eliminating Kansas, the Wildcats survived an overtime game
against Providence and then swept the bluebloods of college
basketball, North Carolina and Kentucky, in a classic Final
Four.
"It was one of the all-time marches," said assistant coach Phil
Johnson, now an assistant coach at UTEP. "Beating Kansas was like a
national championship game to me. And then beating North Carolina
was like a national championship game, too. It's almost like we had
three national championship games. Every game was a mountain to
climb."
Arizona reached the summit when it was least expected. Southern
Arizona was engulfed by the madness. Remember?
• Driving to the airport for a flight to Indianapolis, I stopped
at the corner of Benson Highway and Park Avenue to chat with a man
at a makeshift souvenir stand.
"A guy from Willcox just stopped and bought 20 T-shirts," the
vendor said. "He said you couldn't get them in Willcox and that he
was sure he could sell 50 or 60 of them when he got home. But he
only had money for 20."
• On game day, workers at the Viscount Suites Hotel rolled out
eight big-screen TVs. Fans began to arrive at 12:30, seven hours
before tipoff. By 3 p.m., the capacity of 480 people had been
reached at O'Malley's tavern on North Fourth Avenue and the doors
locked.
• Later that day, the electronics department at the Park Mall
Sears was to close at 9 p.m. That's when the Kentucky-Arizona game
hit the homestretch. Scores of fans stood next to the 25 TV sets,
watching to the end. The store closed an hour late that night.
• After midnight, legendary UCLA coach John Wooden walked in the
lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Indianapolis. "This was Lute's
turn," he told reporters. "He's been maligned and it's not very
fair. I was very impressed."
• At 5:30 a.m., the morning after the game, I saw freshman guard
Mike Bibby walk out of the Steak N' Shake restaurant in downtown
Indianapolis. He was surrounded by fans, signing autographs in one
hand, chomping a hamburger - breakfast - in another.
• Olson slept for 25 minutes, arose, made himself presentable
and sat for a live shot on Good Morning America. "I didn't want to
sleep," he said. "I wasn't ready to let go."
About 50,000 people jammed into Arizona Stadium later that day,
capping a parade from the airport.
The '97 champs soon splintered, and not all of the splintering
was good or predictable.
MVP Miles Simon would sue the UA, accusing his school of leaking
academic transcripts to a Kansas City newspaper. Beloved sixth-man
Jason Terry, who slept in his jersey the night before the last four
tournament victories, would admit he took money illegally from an
agent. The NCAA forced Arizona to repay $45,000 from 1999 TV
revenues and decreed that Arizona could not retire Terry's
jersey.
Donnell Harris, who played so well as a reserve center in
victories against Providence and Kentucky, was kicked off the team
a year later for off-court issues. And, after returning intact for
1997-98, picked unanimously to win a second championship, the
Wildcats came apart in an embarrassing 25-point loss to Utah in the
'98 Elite Eight.
If nothing else, Arizona's national championship proved that the
magic is the moment. The future would never be as good as those six
unforgettable games in March and April 1997. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e10e41d4c705624de747fd869d477272952b98bdc0bca39e5079ba118fa3a091'} |
Sunday, January 31, 2016
DigiLit Sunday - Balancing Rubrics
Credit for photo goes to The Inspired Classroom blog
Margaret chose BALANCE as the theme topic for today's DigiLit Sunday posts. I almost skipped writing today because I didn't have an idea for BALANCE right away, but then I thought of an experience with my 6th graders this week and a dinner conversation with teacher friends. The experience and discussion revolved around rubrics.
I teach gifted 5th and 6th grade ELA. I'm the teacher of record, and I have the same group (give or take a couple of newly identified kids, move-ins, or opt outs) for two years. This is a wonderful thing because I can see amazing growth and can build on skills I've taught. I know my students well and can plan accordingly. One of the things I consistently do is provide rubrics for all our papers and projects. Some of these rubrics I make myself, while others are written by district teachers from Common Core guidelines. I post them on Google Classroom along with examples or patterns for the kids to consult when they do an assignment. They've become very efficient at using these guidelines and expect them for everything we do. They certainly make writing and grading easier.
Earlier this week, I posed two questions over a play and an article we read. They were to synthesize the texts and compare the subjects of both in order to answer the questions. Right away, one of my brightest and best writers asked, "Where is the rubric for this?" I responded that there wasn't a rubric. They needed to make their own decisions on structure and content. I told them they know a lot as writers by now, so they can pull from their experiences and answer the questions effectively and thoroughly. They could pull from past rubrics and patterns. Twenty faces looked back at me blankly. They started protesting and arguing. I had a mutiny on my hands (I'm exaggerating, of course)! They were at a loss and very uncomfortable.
Uh oh. What had I done? Had I created automatons? Were they so conditioned to write and "create" within boundaries and expectations that they didn't know what to do when left to their own devices?
Not long ago, my friend who works in higher education posted this commentary, "Resolving to Be Better (Rated)", by a professor, Rob Jenkins. In it, he remarked, "I do give credence to a few reviews that made a related complaint: I’m not always as clear as I could be about my expectations. While I explain my grading standards and process early in the semester, I’ve never been a big fan of rubrics, which I find limiting and artificial. However, I see now that I probably need an actual document, something rubric-like that I can share with students to help them understand what’s expected of them and how they will be evaluated." This sparked a reaction by an art teacher friend who is frustrated by the lack of rubrics at her daughter's university. At dinner on Friday, we talked about how kids need/want to have clear expectations, so rubrics are necessary and good. However, I told my friends about my 6th graders' reactions when not provided with a rubric and said it was good for them to have to figure out what to do on their own once in a while - for the exact reason that, in the future, they won't always have specific guidelines for assignments and projects. They don't always provide rubrics or frameworks in business, either.
I talked to my daughter and husband about this - they're both business people - and asked their opinions. Libby said she loved rubrics in school because she didn't like being docked for things that weren't explicitly called out. Understandable. However, she said experiences with more ambiguous assignments would have been good because that's how real jobs are. Ed shared that successful businesses value people who can be given a project and construct their own "road maps" on how to accomplish the task. Collaboration is accepted and encouraged during that process, but ultimately, businesses want people who can move forward based on past experiences and knowledge without specific, step-by-step guidelines.
Through these conversations, I conclude we need a balance. When something new is given to kids, they need specific guidelines. We're teaching in an outcome-based educational system right now, so we have to give kids specific steps to reach those outcomes, but that is not necessarily all good - it's possibly stifling creativity and critical thinking. With such specific outcomes, we're not encouraging kids' own thinking. In the beginning of teaching a new kind of structure or format, we need to be specific and provide rubrics. After that, however, we need to be encouraging kids to construct their own plans and rubrics - they could collaborate on that kind of activity. Put the learning and outcomes in THEIR hands. Jason Augustowski, a teacher I heard speak at NCTE in November, talked about that (his students were part of the panel, and they were awesome). He shows his kids the Common Core standards, has them break down what the standards mean, and then leaves it up to them to design how they'll show mastery. Wow.
You may already be doing these kinds of things with your students. What are your thoughts on balancing rubrics and ambiguous assignments? How do you use rubrics in the classroom? Who writes them? How are they written? Do your kids write their own rubrics? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
1. I am so glad you chose to write today, even though I didn't give you a rubric. I was recently evaluated by an administrator who asked where the rubric was. I had been specific about planning and talking with one group, but not with the second group (which she observed). Most times the students and I create the rubric together. On some assignments the rubric stays the same every week. (Reader response, for example) But like you, I would really like my kids to move forward without formal expectations. It's almost as though the rubric becomes a crutch to their own possibilities. Hm. Lots to think about.
2. I go back and forth about using rubrics for the reasons you mentioned. I've often wondered what would happen if I showed kids the standards and asked them how they wanted to show their learning. I'm going to check out your link to Jason.
3. I have finally resolved myself to having my students help me create every rubric. What I haven't figured out yet is timing..before (love because they know expectations) during (because they have more knowledge of project) after (because they totally understand the end result) I have to admit I have tried all three this year and still up in the air.
4. Holly,
Fascinating post! I view rubrics as a scaffolded mentor text. They spell out what we need to do. Or how it should look. What it should contain. Students and parents love seeing what they need to do to succeed. Considering the high stakes world we live in, I don't blame them. But, just like your husband and daughter noted, life and work don't have rubrics. There isn't a road map and it isn't fair. We do need to teach our students how to operate on their own. I suppose if we do this in low stakes or no stakes environments the anxiety will lessen, giving them permission to fail. Hmm, thinking about this further, is taking away rubrics inviting the opportunity to meet with failure or self generated success? Interesting. Thanks for making me think! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '16', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9682929515838624}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '133815', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6633KU53UTPXUN3ZU4BBX6CPFP5DJFCX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ad1c32f8-136f-42cc-86a2-f0aacd8adacc>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 23, 5, 14, 50), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TY6VDY2GUFNB6HLYYPCWBEGHKKBWOWTF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ce7a8471-5117-4689-b531-7ccc2af77790>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://hollymueller.blogspot.com/2016/01/digilit-sunday-balancing-rubrics.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d6f3baeb-2408-4e62-8c98-1eecd2750f5f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1277', 'url': 'https://hollymueller.blogspot.com/2016/01/digilit-sunday-balancing-rubrics.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-65-123-119.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': '0.12645483016967773', 'original_id': '5df687c7fe8b8335f5ed93f3efeb28a55e6555f2fbaa37eed226903f88e7aff1'} |
3 Useful Tips To Keep Your Mind Sane Amidst COVID19
During this global pandemic, there is a greater emphasis on maintaining one’s physical health as it is the second line of defence against contracting the virus – with good personal hygiene being the first.
That said, it shouldn’t be the only thing you should be focusing on. Your mental health takes as much precedence and it’s especially vulnerable during this period.
Not only are the signs of breakdowns harder to pinpoint, the root of the problem cannot be uprooted as easily as one wants to.
The abrupt disruption to our lives, the depressing news and also the reality of the coronavirus are all factors that have subconsciously affected our psyche, whether we realise it or not.
To help prevent all these negative thoughts, instead of our typical articles on underarm or facial hair removal – we’ll be bringing the focus back to yourself! Keep reading onLetand discover ways you can take care not just your physical health, but also your mental health.
Consume healthy foods
It always starts with what you put in your body. Studies have shown that there exists a close relationship between diet quality and common disorders.
Since the foods you eat act as a source of fuel for your brain and its inner workings, it will also mean that the foods you eat will affect your mood.
To illustrate, one of the consequences of eating foods high in refined sugars is a spike in inflammation and oxidative stress. This translates to brain tissue injuries, which will later result in the worsening symptoms of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression.
Thus, ensure that your diet is full of foods rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. This will give a positive gut brain axis reaction and your body will automatically release ‘feel-good’ hormones that will positively affect your mood.
Engage in regular exercise
Exercise is not just about losing weight and looking good.
The benefits of engaging in regular physical activities are endless, and one of them is being a powerful medicine for numerous mental health issues.
By promoting neural growth and production of powerful chemicals and hormones such as endorphin, your brain will slowly get rewired.
Once your body feels better, so will your mind.
Take a breather
The numerous bouts of commitments and obligations to be completed on a daily can already be overwhelming, what more during a global health scare?
The number of adverse news that plagues our screens can give rise to an emotional overload, which will cause your mind to shut down.
To prevent mental breakdowns, you’ll first need to separate yourself from the overwhelming news. Be responsible for the content you subscribe to by dedicating a specific amount of time you spend reading the news or giving it a quota.
Once you’ve realised that you’re not feeling too well due to the articles you’ve read, it’s a sign that you should stop.
Take a moment to also spend time just existing. Spend 10 minutes and bask in absolute silence as you do nothing but sip your tea. Use this time to simply be and you’d notice you’ll feel infinitely better.
Whilst these tips are helpful when dealing with mental stress and mental issues, it is not to say that they’re the end all be all.
If you’re having bouts of mental breakdowns that you cannot deal with yourself, seek out help from your close family members and friends, or seek a professional. There are several professional psychologists and mental health support group who are giving out free or discounted sessions.
Unfortunately, the global pandemic has effectively disrupted the lives of many, and it extends to businesses as well. In hopes to keep the contagion to a minimal, we have decided to temporarily cease all operations until further notice, as required by the circuit breaker measures.
Once this pandemic blows over, we hope to serve and aid you to achieve that smooth and hairless skin with our permanent hair removal treatments! In the meantime, we hope that you stay safe – both in body and in mind.
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Iraq: Kuwaitis Re-live Gulf Crisis In Treason Trial
• Charles Recknagel
The trial of the man Iraq made the head of its puppet government in Kuwait when it invaded the emirate 10 years ago has Kuwaitis re-living the tense days of the Gulf crisis. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel reports.
Prague, 27 April 2000 (RFE/RL) -- When Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait in 1990, one of the first things it did was create a new government to rule the emirate in Baghdad's name.
But the overnight creation lasted less than a week. Almost immediately, Baghdad decided instead to annex Kuwait as a province. The puppet government was disbanded and became a mere footnote to the invasion and the Gulf War which followed.
Now, almost 10 years later, that ephemeral government is very much on Kuwaitis' minds again. The reason: its head is on trial in Kuwait City for treason and the case is creating an emotional debate over whether he deliberately collaborated with Baghdad or -- like other Kuwaitis -- was merely forced to do Iraq's bidding.
The defendant is Alaa Hussein Ali, whom Iraq made prime minister of Kuwait soon after its troops crossed the border on the night of August 2, 1990. When a Western-led coalition army forced Iraq from Kuwait in the Gulf War the following year, Ali went to Iraq and lived there and in Turkey until 1998, when he fled Iraq and was granted asylum in Norway.
In 1993, after the Gulf War, the restored government of Kuwait lost no time in sentencing the short-term premier to death in absentia. But he did not set foot in Kuwait until the beginning of this year, when he came back voluntarily, saying that he was determined to prove his innocence. He also said that he had been promised a pardon by Kuwait's information minister, something that official has since denied.
The proceedings have riveted the public because Ali, now 41 years old, has maintained he is an ordinary Kuwaiti who was forced by the Iraqis to serve them. He says that's a choice any of his countrymen might have faced if they had been unlucky enough to be chosen.
Defense lawyers told the court that Ali, then a colonel in the Kuwaiti army reserve, was captured by the Iraqis the day after the invasion as he was heading, in uniform, to a camp to join resistant fighters. They said that Ali's younger brother also tried to reach the camp and succeeded -- later winning a decoration from the Kuwait government along with some 2,200 other resistance fighters.
But the prosecution has rejected the contention that Ali was the victim of bad luck and argued the defendant went out to welcome the Iraqis and join their ranks. As the lawyers concluded their arguments earlier this month, the prosecution called for upholding Ali's original death sentence.
Much attention has focused on the fact that, after the Gulf War, all members of the puppet government except for Ali immediately returned to Kuwait from Iraq and were cleared of wrongdoing. Several of them have testified that in the beginning Ali was as afraid to be enrolled in Iraq's service as they were. But they said that later he started to take his role as prime minister seriously and even threatened to have them executed if they did not obey his orders.
To gather more evidence, Kuwait originally said it also would seek statements from prominent Iraqi officials who have fled Iraq since the Gulf crisis and have detailed knowledge of the period. Some of those officials are now key figures in the Iraqi opposition in exile.
But the contacts between Kuwait and the opposition figures broke down over public statements by the prosecutor that the former Iraqi officials have Kuwaiti blood on their hands because of their own roles at the time. Those charges prompted angry rebuttals by the former Iraqi officials, who have since refused to cooperate with Kuwait.
One of the former officials is Wafeek Al-Samarra'i, a former military intelligence chief who fled to London in 1995. He told Radio Free Iraq in a telephone interview that the Kuwaiti officials were more interested in slamming Iraq then in gaining former Iraqi officials' cooperation.
"We won't allow some pygmies and notorious people to harm our country and our countrymen. That is why we responded to these people in a very strong way. We told them: don't force us to reveal things which will change a lot of equations [and which you yourselves will regret]."
The Kuwaiti prosecutor has also angered Iraqi opposition figures by charging publicly that Ali willingly cooperated with Baghdad because he is partly of Iraqi parentage and has other personal ties with the country. Ali's mother and wife are Iraqi and he attended university in Baghdad before the 1990 invasion. In response, Iraqi opposition figures have called the implication that Ali cooperated with Saddam's regime because he is partially of Iraqi descent -- as are a large number of other Kuwaitis -- a racist charge.
As the debate over whether and why Ali collaborated with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait continues, the court is preparing to deliver its verdict next week. Presiding Judge Nayef Mutairat said earlier this month the court will rule on the case Wednesday (May 3).
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Tune In To Your Body This Month!
~ Deepak Chopra
Hello, Lovelies!
Have you felt a shift this month, especially in regard to your health and wellbeing?
The students who attended my recent Connect to Your Calling Retreat certainly have. And so have I. Before Retreat I asked them to give up coffee, alcohol, sugar and red meat for the week before our time together and then during the event itself. Now they are home and most of them have found that the taste for coffee and several other things just hasn’t returned.
But it’s not just them. The energies around us now really support you reconnecting with your body’s own wisdom. If you tune in to your body it will clearly show you what it wants more of, and what it wants less of.
Pay attention. Has your regular morning latte been tasting less yummy? Have you been craving fruit or vegetables? Do you have a sudden urge for early nights or yoga or a walk around the block? Maybe you don’t feel like eating breakfast, or you are suddenly starving at breakfast but aren’t hungry at dinner. Honour that!
Where are your preferences changing?
Where are your rhythms changing?
Your body knows what it wants and if you listen to those gentle urges and signs it will reward you with more balance, energy, health and flow.
I’m really curious to hear if you have noticed a shift around your awareness in regard to diet, exercise, sleep or other factors that impact your wellbeing. Let me know in the comments below.
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Do Opposites Attract?
The old adage has some truth to it
Differences and Opposites
Photo: Shalom Ormsby / Getty Images
Bob liked the meat and potatoes type of dinner.
Sheri likes the pasta or vegetarian type of meal.
Bob liked Ray Charles music.
Sheri has been a Henry Mancini fan forever.
Bob liked a vacation out in the woods, in a tent.
Sheri prefers a nice condo on the beach.
Bob usually got up early in the mornings.
Sheri believes the day should start around 10 am.
Bob liked flannel sheets.
Sheri likes silk ones.
And the list can go on and on ...
different tastes in movies, clothes, softness of mattress, books, TV shows, drinks, hobbies, food, sports, temperature of the room, size of dog, height of mirror, furniture styles, and how to spend free time.
So how does a couple like us, who are so very different, stay married for nearly 50 years?? Well, we believed it is because we weren't attracted to one another by what we liked or ate or which movie we liked best. Sheri was attracted to Bob's spontaneity, kindness, creativity and ambition and his being over 6 feet tall was an additional bonus! Bob liked Sheri's wiggle in her walk and her intelligence, compassion, and humor.
What is interesting now, years later, is that what initially attracted us, can really bug us later on. Bob's height meant Sheri's hanging plants were a no-no. Sheri's love of reading made Bob feel like he was playing second fiddle to her books. Bob's spontaneity was no longer fun when it meant Sheri had to get their kids ready in a half hour for an unplanned trip to a neighboring state.
Some couples find that their spouse's playfulness is really annoying, or the predictability they so highly praised is now boring them to death.
This is normal. The old adage of opposites attract has some truth to it. All of us often look for someone to sort of complete us. But then, we can begin to resent it.
The key to dealing with this is a willingness to talk about it with one another.
Why do opposites attract?
"Why do opposites attract? Evolutionary psychologists believe that one reason we find partners who are different from ourselves is to spice up our gene pool. Our chances of survival as a species increase if we sniff out a partner with genetic strengths we don't possess. Another reason that opposites attract is the opportunity to learn skills from a partner with a different background or abilities. The last and most important reason is that partnering outside our "clan" allows us to appreciate and adapt to people who are not related to us. This is beneficial because we must continue to grow and stretch our abilities to adapt to an ever-changing world." Marti and Michael Laney in The Introvert & Extrovert in Love.
So, it is likely that you will be with a partner who is alt least somewhat opposite to you in some ways. How do you best cope so that you do make it for the long haul?
• Express your expectations and feelings. It is not fair to expect your spouses to change, and in reality, most of you really don't want that change to occur. (Besides, would you want to change?) For example, Sheri really did value Bob's spontaneity and would be upset if he had lost that trait.
• It can be fun to list what attracted you to one another when you first met, and what you continue to appreciate in one another. Do it on a day when you can relax together, share some memories, and talk about your love for one another.
• Practice empathy, patience and acceptance.
• Make sure you are doing a lot of fun and novel activities together. You can take turns planning them so as not to clash if this is one of your opposing traits.
• Become master negotiators.Compromising is a skill that you can develop to take you through a long and healthy marriage!
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library(tidyr)
library(lubridate)
library(stringr)
library(dplyr)
read_obs_data <- function(countries){
# Read the deaths and cases data
d <- readRDS('data/COVID-19-up-to-date.rds')
colnames(d)[colnames(d) == "Countries.and.territories"] <- "Country"
d <-d[d$Country %in% countries$Regions, c(1,5,6,7)]
d$DateRep <- as.Date(d$DateRep, format = '%d/%m/%Y')
return(d)
}
read_ifr_data <- function(){
ifr.by.country <- read.csv("data/popt_ifr.csv")
ifr.by.country$country <- as.character(ifr.by.country[,2])
ifr.by.country$country[ifr.by.country$country == "United Kingdom"] <- "United_Kingdom"
return(ifr.by.country)
}
read_interventions <- function(countries){
interventions = read.csv('data/interventions.csv', stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
names_interventions = c('Schools + Universities','Self-isolating if ill', 'Public events', 'Lockdown', 'Social distancing encouraged')
interventions <- interventions[interventions$Type %in% names_interventions,]
interventions <- interventions[,c(1,2,4)]
interventions <- spread(interventions, Type, Date.effective)
names(interventions) <- c('Country','lockdown', 'public_events', 'schools_universities','self_isolating_if_ill', 'social_distancing_encouraged')
interventions <- interventions[c('Country','schools_universities', 'self_isolating_if_ill', 'public_events', 'lockdown', 'social_distancing_encouraged')]
interventions$schools_universities <- as.Date(interventions$schools_universities, format = "%d.%m.%Y")
interventions$lockdown <- as.Date(interventions$lockdown, format = "%d.%m.%Y")
interventions$public_events <- as.Date(interventions$public_events, format = "%d.%m.%Y")
interventions$self_isolating_if_ill <- as.Date(interventions$self_isolating_if_ill, format = "%d.%m.%Y")
interventions$social_distancing_encouraged <- as.Date(interventions$social_distancing_encouraged, format = "%d.%m.%Y")
## using interventions as dates we want
interventions$schools_universities[interventions$schools_universities > interventions$lockdown] <- interventions$lockdown[interventions$schools_universities > interventions$lockdown]
interventions$public_events[interventions$public_events > interventions$lockdown] <- interventions$lockdown[interventions$public_events > interventions$lockdown]
interventions$social_distancing_encouraged[interventions$social_distancing_encouraged > interventions$lockdown] <- interventions$lockdown[interventions$social_distancing_encouraged > interventions$lockdown]
interventions$self_isolating_if_ill[interventions$self_isolating_if_ill > interventions$lockdown] <- interventions$lockdown[interventions$self_isolating_if_ill > interventions$lockdown]
return(interventions)
}
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Saturday, February 02, 2013
They'll never love me
I know that no one reads this anymore. Hell, I don't even narcissisticly go and read backlogged posts anymore either. But I just can't have one more slutty tale to tell my friends that winds up being mostly me pseudo-apologising for being slutty in the first place. So hello Floygn my old friend, I've come to talk to you again.
A boy came over last night. 20 years old may fall into 'guy' territory but the entire experience felt very 'boy' so just go with it and stop interrupting me. He is from a small, extremely religious town a little over an hour outside my city. We'd been chatting via Grindr since the previous weekend. He appeared precocious, enthusiastic and far too complimentary to not throw up about a dozen red flags, none of which I saw.
We were chatting last night and the conversation veered into, shall we say, erotic make-believe.
"I'll come over. Right now. I'll do it lol"
We discussed it, I myself rationaling that I was less interested in a late-night hook up than meeting in daylight and just letting things unfold. But no, he was determined, and as exhausted as I was, it was pretty exciting.
He arrived and presented pretty much how I'd imagined. Tall, slender, an oversized hoodie over his gangly frame.
Clothes disappeared quick. Inhibitions soon followed. He responded to every touch like a man quenching his thirst after a month in the desert. The enthusiasm was...appreciate, but probably a bit telling.
After about an hour he came. As the last wave of his orgasm left him, it was replaced by a tidal of guilt and shame that gushed forth, tears spilling down his face.
This was so wrong. I shouldn't be here. They'll all hate me. I can't be gay. I can't. It's so unfair. I'm so alone.
No amount of soothing, physical nor verbal, helped at all. He cried himself to sleep before awaking suddenly, lying stiff as a board in my bed, not wanting to be touched, not wanting to talk. I tried curling around him, respecting his space but trying like an asshole to show that should he just roll over onto his side a wee bit, I was ready to be the all-comforting big spoon.
This did not happen. Instead at 3:30am he got out of bed, got dressed, whispered, "I'm sorry, David," into the darkness and left.
I sent him this message: I know we'll probably never speak again, but if at some point in the future you would let me know that you're alright, I would appreciate it.
But we and the internet know that isn't going to happen.
Brandon Smith said...
Did you ever hear from him?
Also are you still alive?
The Illustrious D said...
No, I didn't.
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TSU’s Council has big opportunity
Linebacker Rico Council may only be on the Titans’ practice squad right now.
But the way injuries have piled up at the linebacker position for the Titans, it may not be long before Council earns a spot on the 53-man roster.
The Titans signed the 6-1, 255-pound Council, a former Tennessee State standout and a Chattanooga native, to the practice squad on Wednesday.
Three of the team’s linebackers – Colin McCarthy, Patrick Bailey and Xavier Adibi – are currently dealing with injuries. Linebacker Will Witherspoon is just returning from a hamstring injury and linebacker Zac Diles was placed on injured reserve earlier this season.
“We’ve been looking for young linebackers that can come in and show us what they can do,” Titans coach Mike Munchak said. “We’ve been having such a run on linebackers this year as far as guys getting hurt, so you never know when you’ll have to elevate one.
“So we’ll just bring in some young guys and see who may develop. Who knows? You may be on the practice squad one day and running down special teams the next.”
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With due respect to those people who is on a relationship with the same gender, and a royal or normal family that was into a romantic relationship with each other. I would like to have a serious argument and also open-mindedness of the participants of this said debate.
Homosexuality and Incest were both morally, ethically, religiously, socially, and anatomically forbidden by most society. Apparently some said that incestous relationship is worst than homosexuality because their reason is, homosexuality was only sexual preference while incest conducts sexuality which is in my concept, its invalid since homosexuality sometimes involve the said activities as incest but the difference is that it was impossible for the same gender to have a child naturally.
So this is the question:
Which is more acceptable
The poll was created at 05:49 on January 20, 2016, and so far 8 people voted.
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December 22, 2010US Economyby EconomyWatch
Business and Economy
Growth and welfare of the US economy crucially depend on the performance of business sectors and related activities. Per capita GDP of the United States has turned out to be $46,000.
US economy is a market-oriented one. Business firms and private individuals play a major role in decision-making.
Both US federal and state governments provide business firms with great operational flexibility in all areas of their businesses. US business firms make use of latest technology to beat their counterparts in the other nations of the world.
As per the 2007 estimates, agriculture sector contributes 0.9% of the total US GDP. Contribution of the industrial sector stands out to be 20.5%; whereas contribution of the service sector amounts to 78.5%. The real growth rate of US GDP stands at 2.2% as per the 2007 estimate. GDP at Purchasing Power Parity has turned out to be $13.48 trillion according to the estimate of 2007.
Performance of the US economy is driven by the diverse business sectors. The US federal government takes a number of policy measures to facilitate the economic prosperity of US business firms. Mining, finance and insurance, manufacturing, real estate, food services and accommodation, transportation and warehousing, information technology, construction, educational services, wholesale trade, healthcare services, scientific, professional and technical services and many other services come under the purview of US business.
US industrial sector has emerged as the most important industrial power of today’s world. Use of state-of-the-art technology distinguishes its industries from other industrial powers of the world.
Export and import figures are also highly important. Major exportable products include consumer goods like medicines and automobiles, industrial supplies mostly organic chemicals, and capital goods like parts of motor vehicles, transistors, telecommunication devices, computers, and many more. The US export volume (estimated) for the year 2007 has been $1.149 trillion f.o.b.
As far as imports are concerned, the United States imports consumer goods like furniture, clothing, automobiles, medicines, and toys, industrial supplies like crude oil, agricultural products, and capital goods like office machines, electric power machinery, computer software, and many more. The import figure of the US economy has turned out to be $1.956 trillion f.o.b. as per the 2007 estimate.
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Occasionally when delving through archaic tomes about the prehuman denizens of the world, one comes across references to the Lost City of the Naga Queens somewhere around the Donon Basin. The city is supposedly home to arcane technologies that the Naga Queens once used to attempt to wrest domination of this world from the elven empire.
Lost City of the Naga Queens
Lost City of the Naga Queens
Turns out the Nagas never lost it – the defensive energy screen is still in effect, held in place by the pylons their servants maintain to keep the city safe. They just prefer that everyone else forget about the place so they can go about their business. The energy screen protects the city from scrying, teleportation, and from being accessed via other dimensions or planes.
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<?php
/**
* INTER-Mediator
* Copyright (c) INTER-Mediator Directive Committee (http://inter-mediator.org)
* This project started at the end of 2009 by Masayuki Nii msyk@msyk.net.
*
* INTER-Mediator is supplied under MIT License.
* Please see the full license for details:
* https://github.com/INTER-Mediator/INTER-Mediator/blob/master/dist-docs/License.txt
*
* @copyright Copyright (c) INTER-Mediator Directive Committee (http://inter-mediator.org)
* @link https://inter-mediator.com/
* @license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT License
*/
namespace INTERMediator;
use INTERMediator\DB\Proxy;
class FileUploader
{
private ?Proxy $db;
private ?string $url = NULL;
private int $accessLogLevel;
private array $outputMessage = [];
public ?array $dbresult = null;
public function __construct()
{
$this->accessLogLevel = Params::getParameterValue("accessLogLevel", false);
}
public function getResultForLog(): array
{
if ($this->accessLogLevel < 1) {
return [];
}
$this->outputMessage['name'] = $_POST["_im_contextname"];
return $this->outputMessage;
}
public function finishCommunication(): void
{
$this->db->finishCommunication();
}
/*
array(6) { ["_im_redirect"]=> string(54) "http://localhost/im/Sample_webpage/fileupload_MySQL.html" ["_im_contextname"]=> string(4) "chat" ["_im_field"]=> string(7) "message" ["_im_keyfield"]=> string(2) "id" ["_im_keyvalue"]=> string(2) "38" ["access"]=> string(10) "uploadfile" } array(1) { ["_im_uploadfile"]=> array(5) { ["name"]=> string(16) "ac0600_aoiro.pdf" ["type"]=> string(15) "application/pdf" ["tmp_name"]=> string(26) "/private/var/tmp/phpkk9RXn" ["error"]=> int(0) ["size"]=> int(77732) } }
*/
public function processingAsError(?array $datasource, ?array $options, ?array $dbspec, int $debug, ?string $contextname, bool $noOutput): void
{
$this->db = new Proxy();
$this->db->initialize($datasource, $options, $dbspec, $debug, $contextname);
$messages = IMUtil::getMessageClassInstance();
if (count($_FILES) === 0) {
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3201));
} else {
foreach ($_FILES as $fileInfo) {
if (isset($fileInfo["error"])) {
switch (is_array($fileInfo["error"]) ? $fileInfo["error"][0] : $fileInfo["error"]) {
case UPLOAD_ERR_OK:
break;
case UPLOAD_ERR_NO_FILE:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3202));
break;
case UPLOAD_ERR_INI_SIZE:
case UPLOAD_ERR_FORM_SIZE:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3203));
break;
case UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3204));
break;
case UPLOAD_ERR_NO_TMP_DIR:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3205));
break;
case UPLOAD_ERR_CANT_WRITE:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3206));
break;
case UPLOAD_ERR_EXTENSION:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3207));
break;
default:
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3208));
}
}
}
}
if (!$noOutput) {
$this->db->processingRequest("noop");
$this->db->finishCommunication();
$this->db->exportOutputDataAsJSON();
}
}
public function processing(?array $datasource, ?array $options, ?array $dbspec, int $debug): void
{
$contextname = $_POST["_im_contextname"];
$keyfield = $_POST["_im_keyfield"];
$keyvalue = $_POST["_im_keyvalue"];
$field = [$_POST["_im_field"]];
$files = $_FILES;
$this->processingWithParameters($datasource, $options, $dbspec, $debug,
$contextname, $keyfield, $keyvalue, $field, $files, false);
$this->db->finishCommunication();
if (!is_null($this->url)) {
header('Location: ' . $this->url);
}
$this->db->exportOutputDataAsJSON();
}
public function processingWithParameters(?array $datasource, ?array $options, ?array $dbspec, int $debug,
?string $contextname, ?string $keyfield, ?string $keyvalue, ?array $field,
?array $files, bool $noOutput): void
{
$this->db = new DB\Proxy();
$this->db->initialize($datasource, $options, $dbspec, $debug, $contextname);
$this->db->logger->setDebugMessage("FileUploader class's processing starts: files=" . str_replace("\n", "", var_export($files, true)));
$contextDef = $this->db->dbSettings->getDataSourceTargetArray();
$dbClass = ($contextDef['db-class'] ?? ($dbspec['db-class'] ?? Params::getParameterValue('dbClass', '')));
$className = $this->getClassNameForMedia($dbClass);
if (isset($_POST['_im_redirect'])) {
$this->url = $this->getRedirectUrl($_POST['_im_redirect']);
if (is_null($this->url)) {
header("HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error");
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage('Header may not contain more than a single header, new line detected.');
$this->db->processingRequest('noop');
if (!$noOutput) {
$this->db->finishCommunication();
$this->db->exportOutputDataAsJSON();
}
return;
}
}
if (count($files) < 1) {
if (!is_null($this->url)) {
header('Location: ' . $this->url);
} else {
$messages = IMUtil::getMessageClassInstance();
$this->db->logger->setErrorMessage($messages->getMessageAs(3202));
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shamza 07-08-2005 05:13 AM
squid management with IPtables
I am using RedHat Linux A.S 2.1 with squid-2.4.STABLE6-1.7.2 and IPTABLES for Transparent proxy . I want to manage my proxy I want to allow limited download to my client like maximum 1MB in business hours and more then 1MB downloads are allowed after business hours and i also want to block massenger. my squid ACL are blow
http_access allow SSL_ports
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow ncsa_users
http_access allow supper_access
http_access deny deny_domain
http_access allow neta
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
My iptables script are blow
$iptables --flush -t nat
In this scenario How can i restrict my client for downloads and messanger???
any one can help me?
Thanks in Advance
fouldsy 07-08-2005 04:13 PM
Not sure whether there is a way to have Squid limit the available bandwidth for downloads during certain times of the day.
As for blocking MSN, it uses multiple different ports to access servers - I tried blocking certain ports and ranges, but the most effective is to ammend your iptables rules to drop all outgoing TCP connections except, say 21, 25, 80, 443 which would still allow your main internet protocols to work, but drop all others. this was pretty effective, but there are quite a few web-based messenger services such as and so on, so then you start blocking sites through squid,squidguard or whatver and it keeps going on and on! hope this helps a little though!
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49 S.W.3d 295 (2001)
Billie Mae MANIS
v.
Donald Ralph MANIS.
Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Section, at Knoxville.
January 25, 2001.
Permission to Appeal Denied June 25, 2001.
*297 F.D. Gibson, Maryville, TN, for appellant Donald Ralph Manis.
Scarlett Beaty, Knoxville, for appellee Billie May Manis.
Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court June 25, 2001.
OPINION
SWINEY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which FRANKS, and SUSANO, JJ., joined.
Wife sought a divorce after 41 years of marriage on grounds of inappropriate marital conduct. With Husband acting pro se, the parties filed a Marital Dissolution Agreement. After retaining counsel, Husband withdrew the agreement and filed a counterclaim for divorce, also alleging inappropriate marital conduct. The Trial Court appointed a Special Master, who conducted two hearings and filed a lengthy and comprehensive Special Master's Report. Both parties filed Objections to the Report, and the Special Master held a third hearing addressing the issues raised in the parties' objections. Husband filed Objections to the Special Master's Amended Report. Wife had no objections to the Amended Report. The Trial Court held a fourth hearing, at which arguments of counsel and Husband's offer of additional proof were made. The Trial Court's Final Judgment adopted the Report of the Special Master, as amended, and affirmed the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Special Master with minor exceptions. Husband raises ten issues, primarily involving the Special Master's valuation and distribution of marital assets and the amount of alimony he was ordered to pay. Wife contests the amounts awarded to her for periodic alimony and for her interest in the marital estate, and also claims that the Trial Court erred in not placing more restrictions on Husband's future business transactions so as to more fully protect her interest in her marital share. We affirm the judgment of the Trial Court.
Background
Ms. Billie Mae Manis (Appellee, hereinafter "Wife") and Mr. Donald Ralph Manis (Appellant, hereinafter "Husband") had been married for 41 years when Wife filed for divorce on the grounds of inappropriate marital conduct. Husband and Wife both are 68 years old. Wife has worked outside the home for less than two years during *298 her married life, at stores such as K Mart, and in Mr. Manis' businesses. Husband has owned and managed various businesses in Sevier and surrounding counties, including pawn shops and horseback riding enterprises, throughout the marriage. He testified that he retired from salaried work in those businesses during the course of this litigation. The record shows, however, that he still controls these businesses and receives income from them.
When Wife filed her Complaint for divorce, Husband was not represented by counsel. Four days after the Complaint was filed, the parties filed a Marital Dissolution Agreement ("MDA") with Husband still unrepresented. The MDA provided that Wife would be granted a divorce based on Husband's inappropriate marital conduct. The property settlement portion of the MDA provided that Wife would receive the marital home in Powell, Tennessee, and would assume the mortgage thereon, as well as another house in Powell, and a one-half interest in a residence in Sevier County, which each of the parties would have the use of for six months each year. Four other parcels of real estate were to be held jointly by the parties, and if any of these were sold, the proceeds were to be divided equally. Husband was to pay $8,000 monthly in alimony "until [Wife] dies or remarries and for as long as the Husband makes a gross income of $200,000 per year."
One year later the Trial Court permitted Wife's counsel to withdraw because Wife refused to prosecute and apparently had abandoned the case. The Trial Court ordered Wife to obtain new counsel within thirty days. Five days later Wife, represented by new counsel, filed a second Complaint for divorce in Knox County, which was later dismissed. Husband retained counsel and filed a Counterclaim for divorce in which he charged that Wife was guilty of inappropriate marital conduct. Husband asked the Court to enforce the MDA or, in the alternative, upon a hearing, to make a fair and equitable division of the parties' real and personal property. Husband, however, soon moved to withdraw the MDA. Wife did not oppose the withdrawal of the MDA. The Trial Court granted Husband's motion to withdraw the MDA and appointed a Special Master to review the personal and business financial situations of the parties, conduct an accounting, and submit findings to the Court. The Trial Court also ordered Husband to pay Wife $5,500 per month as alimony pendente lite.
Both parties were deposed. The Special Master conducted hearings on May 21st and June 26th, 1998. Both parties and six other witnesses were heard and fifteen exhibits concerning the parties' financial situation were introduced. The witnesses included real estate appraisers, pawn brokers, and James Shaver, CPA, who provides financial reporting services including tax returns for Husband's businesses. The exhibits included property appraisals, bank account records and monthly income and expense statements. By agreement of the parties, the Special Master also met informally with Husband's CPA.
On November 30, 1998, the Special Master filed a detailed and comprehensive 20 page Special Master's Report. That Report states that the witnesses' testimony at the hearings "was at many times conflicting, contradictory and irreconcilable, requiring the Special Master to make difficult decisions regarding credibility." He itemized the parties' assets and meticulously described the valuation methods used to prepare his Report. Applying the described valuation methods, the Special Master determined, among other things, that Husband's business Horsing Around, Inc., had a value of $85,000. He also *299 determined that Fortunes Untold, Inc., which operates four (now five) pawn shops, had a value of $579,289, which he reduced by 30 percent to account for the 30 percent of stock owned by the parties' daughter, Donna Manis. He then discounted Donna Manis' interest by 25 percent because Husband retains the controlling interest, thus leaving a marital estate value for Fortunes Untold of $448,949.28. The parties, through counsel, earlier had agreed that the Trial Court should accept certain amounts as the marital estate values of their remaining real properties, and the Special Master accepted the agreed values. This resulted in a total marital estate of $847,949.
The Special Master then determined that the marital estate should be divided equally, with Wife receiving a total award of $423,974.64. To accomplish the division of marital assets, he awarded Wife the marital home on Della Drive in Powell, Tennessee, with equity of $120,000, and onerated Husband with the mortgage. Wife was also awarded property on North Ridge Road, valued at $100,000. To secure her remaining $203,974.64 share of the marital estate, the Special Master granted her liens against Husband's business properties and required Husband to deposit his shares of stock in Horsing Around, Inc. and Fortunes Untold, Inc. with the Clerk of the Circuit Court as security. Husband also was enjoined from issuing additional stock or otherwise divesting his 100 percent stock ownership in Horsing Around, Inc. or his 70 percent interest in Fortunes Untold, Inc. without judicial approval. All sales of real estate owned by Husband were to be conditioned upon and subject to Court approval, including price and the amount of the proceeds to be applied to satisfaction of Wife's equitable distribution award. The Special Master made other findings and dispositions as to specific assets and liabilities.
Finally, the Special Master found that Wife is in need of alimony and Husband has the ability to pay. He opined that, although public policy and the legislative intent in Tennessee favors alimony in solido or rehabilitative alimony, Wife's lack of earning ability, Husband's high earning ability, Husband's fault, the 45 year marriage, and Wife's need preponderate in favor of periodic alimony in this case, payable until death or remarriage of Wife or death of Husband. The Special Master found that Husband had been required to pay $1,000 per month in excessive alimony from his first payment under the Court's pendente lite award, and awarded Husband a credit for this excess against any accrued alimony arrearage or against future alimony payments. He ordered Husband to pay $2,327.67 in base alimony per month, plus $744.77 to extinguish the mortgage on the marital residence and to pay, as alimony, the cost of two life insurance policies upon his life. Husband also was ordered to make a payment on March 1 of every year to offset Wife's tax liability for the alimony, to maintain health insurance for Wife, and to pay Wife's unreimbursed medical and medication expenses. Wife was awarded reasonable attorney fees, and fees of the Special Master were taxed 2/3 to Husband and 1/3 to Wife. The Special Master ordered that "any further issues for which the parties desire an explicit finding of fact or ruling may be raised within 15 days of this opinion."
Both parties filed numerous Objections to the Special Master's Report. Husband objected to the amount of alimony awarded. Husband argued that the Special Master was appointed in January 1998 but did not file his report until November 30, 1998, and in that interim, Husband had retired, so that he no longer had an income sufficient to pay the amount of alimony ordered. Further, Husband argued that *300 he had voluntarily given Wife $8,000 each month from July 1995 through October 1, 1998 for her support, for a total of more than $300,000, and that the Special Master should have considered these payments as part of Wife's share of the marital estate or as excess alimony. He sought credit against future alimony for those voluntary payments. Husband further alleged that the Special Master had erred on virtually all of the findings of fact and conclusions of law as to the valuation of marital property. Finally, Husband stated that he was in the process of retaining new counsel, and he "specifically reserves the right to amend this pleading after his new counsel has had an opportunity to review the pleadings and transcripts of this cause."
Wife raised a dozen Objections and Requests for Clarification to the Special Master's Report. She complained about the Special Master's acknowledgment that Donna Manis, the parties' daughter, is one-third owner of Fortunes Untold, Inc. She sought an interest in the proceeds from Husband's recent sale of exotic animals, inquired about the value of a lot in Chalet Village, requested that Husband be onerated with the expense of the property taxes on the marital home, and complained about the Special Master's deduction from the value of real property for Husband's potential obligations on a civil suit and a bond. Wife objected to the Special Master's finding that her pendente lite alimony was excessive and to the amount of permanent alimony awarded. Wife asked that the remaining portion of her marital distribution be paid in increments of $50,000 on July 31, 1999 and $50,000 each six months thereafter, to be paid in full by December 31, 2001, plus the statutory judgment rate of ten percent until paid in full. Finally, Wife asked the Special Master to take into account Husband's lack of credibility and determine that the estate valuation "be considered an absolute minimum," and that Wife's share be increased because Wife "believes that the Defendant has much more property, assets and cash than he acknowledged before the court."
Husband retained new counsel and filed various motions, including a motion seeking to reduce the alimony pendente lite and raising further Objections to the Special Master's Report. The Special Master held a third hearing to deal with seven issues, including Husband's retirement from active employment in his business enterprises, his sale of some exotic animals which had been business properties, two business liabilities which had arisen, and Husband's transfer to the parties' daughter of additional stock of Fortunes Untold. The Special Master examined those transactions and filed an Amended Special Master's Report which adjusted the division of the marital estate in accordance with some of them. He found that Husband's retirement should not cause a reduction in Wife's alimony for various reasons.
The matter was heard before the Trial Court on April 26, 1999, on the pleadings, the record as a whole, including the Special Master's Reports, and arguments of counsel. Husband sought to introduce further testimony at the hearing, but the Trial Court held that the evidence should have been presented to the Special Master. The Trial Court rendered a Memorandum Opinion adopting the Report of the Special Master, as amended, and affirming the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Special Master with some exceptions. The Trial Court found that much of the proof had been contradictory, convoluted, vague, uncertain, and incapable of reconciliation. Neither party had produced accurate records of income and expenses, and the credibility of the parties had been an issue from the beginning. The Trial Court opined that "... given the complexity, given the issues and the very thorough investigation *301 by the Special Master, the Court will adopt the report of the Special Master, as amended, and affirms the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Special Master with some exceptions...."
The Trial Court granted Wife a divorce on grounds of inappropriate marital conduct. Based on specific findings of fact as to Wife's age, education, health and other factors, the Trial Court awarded her the amount of periodic alimony set by the Special Master. The Court modified the Special Master's findings so that Husband will receive a credit for any income tax liability he is ordered to pay on Wife's alimony and for any amount of Social Security benefits Wife may receive in any year. The Court further modified the award of alimony by reversing the Special Master's finding that the amount of pendente lite alimony Wife received was excessive. Finally, the Court reversed the Special Master's award of Wife's attorney's fees and ordered that each party pay his or her own attorney's fees, and that the fees of the Special Master be divided equally between the parties.
The Final Judgment values the marital estate at $884,997.94. The one-half of the estate awarded to Wife is comprised of the aforementioned real property plus a judgment and lien against the assets awarded to Husband for the remainder of her equitable division in the amount of $221,249.49. After entry of the Judgment, Wife filed a Motion to Alter or Amend, asking the Trial Court to order Husband to make lump sum payments of at least $50,000 every six months until the judgment is satisfied and to encumber Husband's businesses, as well as Husband's personal interests in those businesses, until the Judgment is satisfied. Husband responded that the Court was without authority to encumber the corporations, that the Judgment provided adequate protection of Wife's interests, and that he was financially unable to make the demanded $50,000 payments. The Trial Court denied Wife's Motion.[1]
Husband appeals, raising ten issues concerning the Special Master's valuation and distribution of the marital estate, the amount of temporary and permanent alimony and the Trial Court's refusal to hear testimony on his objections to the Special Master's Amended Report. Wife complains of the valuation and distribution of the marital estate, the amount of permanent alimony awarded, the Court's refusal to order a lien on any dividends distributed to Husband from his corporations, the Court's refusal to require Husband to obtain Court approval before selling any corporate property, and the Court's refusal to award Wife her attorney fees.
Discussion
The Trial Court's order referring certain matters to the Special Master, the Special Master's Report, and the Trial Court's Order adopting the findings and conclusions of the Special Master affect our standard of review on appeal. A concurrent finding of a Special Master and a Trial Court is conclusive on appeal, except where it is upon an issue not proper to be referred, where it is based on an error of law or a mixed question of fact and law, or where it is not supported by any material evidence. Long v. Long, 957 S.W.2d 825, 828 (Tenn.Ct.App.1997); Aussenberg v. Kramer, 944 S.W.2d 367, 370 (Tenn.Ct.App.1996); Archer v. Archer, 907 S.W.2d 412, 415 (Tenn.Ct.App.1995).
Husband raises ten issues in this appeal, which can fairly be summarized as:
*302 1. Whether the Trial Court erred in the valuation and distribution of the marital estate?
2. Whether the Trial Court erred in the amount of alimony pendente lite or the amount of periodic alimony awarded or in requiring Husband to pay Wife an additional sum for her federal income tax obligation arising from alimony?
3. Whether the Trial Court erred in refusing to hear additional testimony after the Special Master had conducted three hearings in this matter?
Husband's specific complaints about the Trial Court's valuation of the marital estate include: (1) the Special Master erred in accepting, with the concurrence of Husband's first attorney, Wife's valuations on certain marital property; (2) the Special Master erred in determining that the proceeds from the sale of exotic animals were marital property; (3) the Trial Court erred in refusing to grant him "credit either in the property division or as an off-set of future alimony" for an estimated $90,000 in voluntary support payments made to Wife after she filed for divorce but before alimony pendente lite was ordered; and (4) the Special Master erred in refusing to reduce the value of the marital estate by the amount of a note ("the Cameron Brubaker note") alleged to be outstanding. As stated, we must affirm the Trial Court's Order adopting the findings of fact of the Special Master if those findings are supported by any material evidence. Long, 957 S.W.2d at 828.
The Special Master and the Trial Court accepted Wife's valuations of several pieces of real property after Husband's counsel agreed that those values should be accepted:
The Court: Okay. Somewhere you all have stipulated to the market value.
Ms. Beaty: Yes and I have written those down. I went through her deposition to see what those were, and Della Drive was $120,000, North Ridge Road was $100,000, the 14 acres on North Ridge Road at $40,000, 1816 Chapman Highway at $150,000, 6140 Clinton Highway at $250,000, 4208 Airport Road at $150,000, 7216 Old Clinton Highway at $40,000.
Ms. Meador: Your Honor, just for clarification, we accept Ms. Manis' valuations on the property, which is not to say exactly that we are stipulating that those are the amounts. We agree to accept those as the values for your purposes in determining the assets.
After Ms. Meador withdrew as Husband's attorney, his new attorney decided that Ms. Meador's agreement to "accept those as the values for [the Court's] purposes in determining the assets" should be withdrawn. Husband's CPA testified that the total value of the listed properties was between $825,000 and $905,000. (Transcript, Vol.VI, Exhibit 2). Wife testified that the total value of the same properties was $850,000. (Transcript, Vol.VI, p. 295). Wife's estimates, therefore, are within the range of Husband's estimates. Wife's estimates are somewhat lower than Husband's on several pieces of property and somewhat higher than his on others. We find there is material evidence in the record to support the Trial Court's adoption of the Special Master's determination that the values as agreed by the parties should be used in determining the marital assets.
Husband complains about the determination of the Special Master that proceeds from the sale of certain exotic animals were marital property. The record shows that on December 3, 1997, during the pendency of this litigation, Husband *303 sold $71,366.84 worth of exotic animals and horses, and that the sale of exotic animals accounted for $45,000 of the proceeds. At the time of the sale, an injunction against the sale of marital assets was in force. Husband paid himself $36,548.65 of the proceeds from the sale. It was his customary business practice to sell horses before winter to avoid wintering costs. He testified that he sold the exotic animals because the petting zoo was losing money. Husband deposited only $35,318.93 of the proceeds back into Fortunes Untold, and kept $36,548.65 for his personal use. The Special Master found that Wife was entitled to one-half of this amount as her marital share. We find there is material evidence in the record to support the Special Master's finding as adopted by the Trial Court.
Husband argues that the Special Master erred in refusing to grant him credit in the property division or as an off-set of future alimony for voluntary support payments made to Wife after she filed for divorce but before alimony pendente lite was ordered. Wife testified that she used the funds for her support and that none of the funds remained in her possession at the time of trial. There was no contrary testimony. Marital property is to be valued "as of a date as near as reasonably possible to the final divorce hearing date." Tenn Code Ann. § 36-4-121(b)(1)(A). Husband argues that the payments were not a gift or voluntary because they were "memorialized and paid pursuant to a contract prepared by the attorney for Appellee." Not surprisingly, Husband does not suggest that the funds he used for his own support during that same time period be returned to the marital estate for distribution. Moreover, when asked why he had given Wife the monthly support payments before the Court ordered him to do so, Husband testified, "Because at one time I loved the damn woman, okay? That's why." He went on to state that when the Court ordered him to make the payments, they became "blood money ... it used to be voluntary money. I wanted her to have the money...." We find there is material evidence in the record to support the Special Master's finding that the payments Husband made to Wife before the Court ordered alimony pendente lite were voluntary and not part of a division of marital property.
Husband argues that the Special Master erred in refusing to reduce the amount of the marital estate by $100,000 to account for an alleged outstanding note which he owes to a Mr. Jim Cameron or a Mr. Jim Brubaker. The Special Master found:
The witnesses' testimony was at many times conflicting, contradictory and irreconcilable, requiring the Special Master to make difficult decisions regarding credibility.
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[Husband] testified that he borrowed $100,000 from Jim Cameron and Jim Brubaker, as evidenced by Exhibit 6 to the hearing. The amount of money actually borrowed is unknown, but was definitely less than $100,000 since the $100,000 to be repaid included interest. The note was secured by a deed of trust dated September 21, 1996 and notarized by Donna Manis. This deed of trust was later released by Jim Cameron who testified that he was no longer owed any money by Don Manis. Don Manis testified that Jim Cameron only sold his interest in the note to Mr. Brubaker, as opposed to simply releasing the lien as indicated by the deed of release. Mr. Brubaker was not called to testify on either hearing date, and the issue of the genuineness of this debt became apparent *304 to all counsel and parties during the first day of hearing. Mr. Cameron did not testify he sold his interest to Mr. Brubaker. The Special Master specifically finds this debt was extinguished and is not a marital debt.
When a Trial Court has seen and heard witnesses, especially where issues of credibility and weight of oral testimony are involved, considerable deference must be accorded to the Trial Court's factual findings. Seals v. England/Corsair Upholstery Mfg. Co., Inc., 984 S.W.2d 912, 915 (Tenn.1999) (quoting Humphrey v. David Witherspoon, Inc., 734 S.W.2d 315, 315 (Tenn.1987)). We find material evidence in the record to support the finding that the debt was extinguished and is not a marital debt.
Husband's issues concerning alimony are: (1) the amount of temporary alimony; (2) the amount of periodic alimony; (3) the failure of the Trial Court to offset from alimony vested social security benefits due to Wife; and (4) the Trial Court's order that Husband make an annual payment to Wife representing the amount Wife pays as federal income tax on her alimony. We first note that the Trial Court did grant Husband a credit toward his obligation to reimburse Wife for her tax liability for any amount of Social Security benefits Wife received the prior year.
There are no hard and fast rules for spousal support decisions. Kinard v. Kinard, 986 S.W.2d 220, 234 (Tenn.Ct.App.1998). Trial judges have broad discretion to determine whether spousal support is needed and, if so, its nature, amount and duration. Garfinkel, 945 S.W.2d at 748. Appellate courts are generally disinclined to second-guess a trial judge's spousal support decision unless it is not supported by the evidence or is contrary to the public policies reflected in the applicable statutes. Kinard, 986 S.W.2d at 234. The purpose of long-term spousal support is to provide support to a disadvantaged spouse who is unable to achieve some degree of self-sufficiency. Id. Spousal support decisions hinge on the unique facts of the case and require a careful balancing of the factors in Tenn Code Ann. § 36-5-101(d)(1). In virtually every case, the two most important factors are the demonstrated need of the disadvantaged spouse and the obligor's spouse's ability to pay. Kinard, 986 S.W.2d at 235.
Wife is 68 years old and has an eleventh grade education. The Special Master found that she has health problems, including high blood pressure, a hiatal hernia, stomach and thyroid ailments. He further found that she has no savings account, no retirement account, no money market accounts. She virtually has never worked outside the home during the parties' 45-year marriage. She has no source of income or support aside from her Husband, who owns a number of successful business enterprises and remains well able to accommodate his personal income needs despite his recent decision to retire from salaried employment in those businesses. The Special Master carefully reviewed Wife's affidavit of income and expense, allowing some of the items and disallowing others. He ordered that $744.77 of Wife's monthly alimony payments would cease when the mortgage payment in that amount on the marital home was extinguished, either by monthly payments or by Husband's paying off the mortgage. He also ordered Husband to make an annual alimony payment on March 1st to reimburse Wife for the income tax liability she will incur as a result of receipt of her monthly alimony payments. It appears the Special Master awarded Wife a monthly alimony amount that closely tracks her reasonable monthly expenses, and therefore the annual payment for her income *305 tax liability is necessary as she will not be able to accumulate income from which to pay this expense. Considering the familiar factors set forth in Tenn Code Ann. § 36-5-101(d)(1),[2] we find the Trial Court did not err in the amount of alimony awarded to Wife.
Husband's tenth and final issue is whether the Trial Court erred in refusing to permit him to present witnesses at the hearing on his objections to the Special Master's Report after all of the testimony had been concluded before the Special Master. The record in this case shows Husband changed counsel after hearings before the Special Master but before the matter came before the Trial Court. With new counsel, Husband had different complaints and theories about the marital estate and wanted to present additional witnesses. The Trial Court stated, "I thought I made it very clear before that this was not going to an evidentiary hearing. That should have been done before the Special Master." Husband's new counsel objected, "... I was not the lawyer and I don't want to second-guess the other lawyer, but they didn't ..." The Trial Court responded:
All that should have been presented to the Special Master. We waste our time if we don't present our evidence to the Special Master .... if you don't present your proof to the Special Master, the Special Master does not have the benefit of that evidence in arriving at his opinion, and basically what we have to do, is to do it all over again.
The Trial Court had the benefit of two lengthy previous hearings before the Special Master and a third hearing on the parties' objections by the Special Master and thought that was enough. The Rules of Civil Procedure provide that "[T]he Court after hearing may adopt the [Special Master's] report or may modify it or may reject it in whole or in part or may receive further evidence or may recommit it with instructions." Tenn.R.Civ. P. 53.04(2). Accordingly, the Trial Court has discretion to receive or refuse further evidence. Trial courts are given wide discretion in the conduct of trials, and testimony which is repetitive or cumulative may be excluded. See Bowers v. Bowers, 956 S.W.2d 496, 499 (Tenn.Ct.App.1997); Cordell v. Ward School Bus Mfg., Inc., 597 S.W.2d 323 (Tenn.Ct.App.1980). We have carefully reviewed the record and find no abuse of discretion in the Trial Court's refusal to receive further evidence.
*306 Wife is not satisfied with the distribution of marital property in several specific respects: (1) the Special Master's decreasing the value of the marital estate in Fortunes Untold because the parties' daughter owns some of the stock; (2) the failure of the Special Master to give Wife a lien on any dividends distributed to Husband from the Corporations and to require Husband to obtain prior Court approval before Husband consents to sales of any corporate property; and (3) the Trial Court's reducing Wife's share of the marital estate by contingent liabilities which may never materialize. In addition, Wife complains generally that Husband has not revealed all of his assets and has dissipated assets, and that the Special Master's valuation was "at the very low end of the range of evidence."
The trial judge's goal is to divide the marital property in an essentially equitable manner. A division is not rendered inequitable simply because it is not precisely equal, or because each party did not receive a share of every piece of marital property. Kinard v. Kinard, 986 S.W.2d 220, 230 (Tenn.Ct.App.1998). Dividing a marital estate is not a mechanical process but rather is guided by considering the factors in Tenn Code Ann. § 36-4-121(c). Trial judges have wide latitude in fashioning an equitable division of marital property, and appellate courts accord great weight to a trial judge's division of marital property. Id. Thus, we will ordinarily defer to the trial judge's decision unless it is inconsistent with the factors in Tenn Code Ann. § 36-4-121(c) or is not supported by a preponderance of the evidence. Id. In this case, where the Trial Court has adopted the findings of a Special Master, we will defer to the Trial Court if there is any material evidence to support its findings. Long, 957 S.W.2d at 828.
We next address Wife's concerns about the Trial Court's valuation, i.e., the consideration of stock owned by the parties' daughter, the consideration of contingent business liabilities, and Wife's insistence that Husband has not revealed all of his assets and has dissipated assets, and that the Special Master's valuation was "at the very low end of the range of evidence." All of these issues are complaints about decisions made carefully and after much consideration of the evidence by the Special Master and then adopted by the Trial Court. We are convinced that the Trial Court achieved an assessment of the parties' marital assets which is as accurate as could be hoped for under all of the circumstances, and there is material evidence to support the findings of fact.
Wife complains about the failure of the Special Master to give her a lien on any dividends distributed to Husband from the Corporations or to require Husband to obtain prior Court approval before consenting to sales of any corporate property until Husband has paid Wife for her interest in the marital estate. All of the parties' income, including Wife's permanent alimony, is derived from Husband's business operations. We are not inclined to hamper those operations because we do not think such a course of action is required or wise. It appears the Special Master and Trial Court found Wife's interests to be sufficiently protected by the measures ordered, including placing Husband's stock in the custody of the Trial Court and placing liens against Husband's real property until Wife's marital distribution has been completed. We agree. Tenn Code Ann. § 36-4-121(e)(2) permits the Trial Court to "impose a lien upon the marital real property assigned to a party as security for the payment of spouse support or payment pursuant to property division." This is what the Special Master and the Trial Court did, and we think it is sufficient.
*307 Wife also raises the issue of whether the Trial Court erred in not requiring Husband to pay her attorney fees. Trial Courts have wide discretion in awarding attorney's fees, and the appellate court will not interfere unless there clearly has been an abuse of that discretion. Garfinkel v. Garfinkel, 945 S.W.2d 744, 748 (Tenn.Ct.App.1996). In this case, Wife was awarded $443,000 in marital assets, including a judgment and lien for $221,249.49 against Husband's assets. We find the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion in holding that Wife was able to pay her own attorney fees. For those same reasons, we also decline to award Wife her attorney fees related to this appeal.
One final issue remains to be addressed in this case. Husband filed a Motion to Consider New Facts in this Court asking that we consider the fact that Wife sold the North Ridge property for $130,000. The Special Master's finding of fact as to the value of the property was made on November 30, 1998, and that finding of fact was adopted by the Trial Court on June 21, 1999. The Special Master and the Trial Court accepted the stipulated value of that property as being $100,000. The sale of the property for $130,000 was on February 10, 2000. The fact that the property was valued at $100,000 in November 1998 but ultimately sold for $130,000 in February 2000 does not change our opinion that the overall marital estate was properly valued and distributed by the Trial Court at the date of the final Judgment of Divorce, June 21, 1999.
Conclusion
The judgment of the Trial Court is affirmed and this cause is remanded to the Trial Court for such further proceedings as may be required, if any, consistent with this Opinion, and for collection of the costs below. The costs on appeal are assessed equally against Donald Ralph Manis and Billie Mae Manis, and their sureties, if any.
NOTES
[1] The record indicates that at this point, counsel for both parties attempted to withdraw from representation of their clients.
[2] Those factors include: (A) The relative earning capacity, obligations, needs, and financial resources of each party, including income from pension, profit sharing or retirement plans and all other sources; (B) The relative education and training of each party, the ability and opportunity of each party to secure such education and training, and the necessity of a party to secure further education and training to improve such party's earning capacity to a reasonable level; (C) The duration of the marriage; (D) The age and mental condition of each party; (E) The physical condition of each party, including, but not limited to, physical disability or incapacity due to a chronic debilitating disease; (F) The extent to which it would be undesirable for a party to seek employment outside the home because such party will be custodian of a minor child of the marriage; (G) The separate assets of each party, both real and personal, tangible and intangible; (H) The provisions made with regard to the marital property as defined in § 36-4-121; (I) The extent to which each party has made such tangible and intangible contributions to the marriage as monetary and homemaker contributions, and tangible and intangible contributions by a party to the education, training or increased earning power of the other party; (K) The relative fault of the parties in cases where the court, in its discretion, deems it appropriate to do so; and (L) Such other factors, including the tax consequences to each party, as are necessary to consider the equities between the parties.
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[Video review] iPhone 6S Plus — secrets of phablets from Apple
Given the difference in size of the two new Apple smartphones, it is logical to assume that the larger the machine you need to spend more time.
After overview the iPhone 6S, we introduce the enhanced version of the Plus.
The Boxes are a little different due to the difference in size. However, completing the same: smartphone, USB-cable, AC adapter, EarPods, and an abundance of literature with branded labels.
Unlike pink 6S, Plus got Droider in color Space Grey. Shades of the past generation hasn't changed.
Changes are almost the same as that of the Junior 6S, adjusted for screen size and battery. So, under 5.5-inch FullHD display hide new A9 processor, long-awaited 2 GB of RAM and the camera is 12 and 5 megapixels. Individual attention the second generation of a fingerprint scanner and a new 3D Touch technology that responds in real-time.
With lightning fast fingerprint sensor is likely to never see the lock screen smartphone almost instantly recognizes the owner and unlocks the desktop. So to see a notification, without unlocking the device can only c Apple Watch.
As for the 3D Touch, something about it we told in the review of the original iPhone 6S. Touching the screen with different strengths, you can view the page in the browser, get quick access to specific application functions and so on. Interesting to see how 3D Touch will find third-party developers.
IPhone 6 Plus leaves a lot of positive impressions. A large high quality screen, excellent camera in its class, a quick fingerprint scanner and a promising 3D Touch technology.
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Introduction
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Over the last 15 years, Italy has experienced a great increase of separations and divorces. From 1995 to 2011, separations increased by 68.8% and the rate of divorces nearly doubled. Official statistics show that in 2012 the separations were 88,288 and 51,319 divorces and that the children involved were 112.253 in separations and 53.553 in divorces. Slightly less than half (48.7%) of separations and one--third (33.1%) of divorces involve marriages with at least one child less than 18 years ([@B22]). The prevalence and consequences of marital instability and divorce in Italy have stimulated a large interest from a host of public and private sectors, including policy makers, scholars and practitioners, women's and fatherhood associations.
In the Italian courts always more frequently separations and divorces are characterized by high and persistent conflicts. Individual problems and psychological distress during marital dissolution may interfere with parenting practices and affect the parent--child relationship. Mothers in high conflict marriages are reported to be less warm, more rejecting, and use harsher discipline, and fathers withdraw more and engage in more intrusive interactions with their children compared with parents in low-conflict marriages ([@B19]; [@B28]).
Divorce has several direct and indirect economic consequences that are absorbed not only by individuals, but also by communities and governments. Health professionals and social workers offer notable support to families who are in high conflict to achieve agreement between parents and to decrease the effect of disruption on the quality of parent--child relationships during marital dissolution.
Moreover, following separation or divorce, in some instances of parental conflict, the child may be asked or expected to take action (as opposed to being a passive recipient of one parent's negative view of the other parent) and may respond by aligning with one parent, sometimes referred to as triangulation in the family systems literature ([@B32]). Research on family postdivorce shows that high and persistent conflict is more likely to be destructive when parents use their children to express their anger and are verbally and physically aggressive ([@B24]; [@B23]). Parents put their children in the middle by asking children to carry hostile messages, by denigrating the other parent in front of the child, or by prohibiting mention of the other parent in their presence. Parental alienation (PA) is the term used to describe a range of parental behaviors that are likely to foster a child's unreasonable and unwarranted rejection of the other parent, referred to as the "targeted parent." From the studies, 17 specific behaviors have become known as the primary PA behaviors ([@B5]; [@B8]), such as "limiting contact between the child and the targeted parent," "withholding love and affection from the child when the child is affectionate or positive toward the targeted parent," "forcing the child to reject the targeted parent, telling the child that the targeted parent does not love him/her." PA behaviors produce conflict between the child and targeted parent and create a psychological cohesion between the child and the parent engaging in these behaviors. In some cases, the child becomes so affected by these PA behaviors that s/he will cut off all contact with the targeted parent. In this context of court-mandated, reunification efforts attempted by mental health professionals and social workers often have a high failure rate. While the targeted parent is highly motivated to treatment, the alienating parent--child dyad is highly motivated to see treatment fail. This is because for them, the rejection of the targeted parent is not the problem, rather it is the solution to the problem ([@B16]).
The psychological base of PA -- lack of empathy and the inability to tolerate the child's separate needs and perception ([@B5]; [@B6]) -- could be also the expression of a specific parenting style characterized by low care and high overprotection. Parents who engage in alienating behaviors can be cold, rejecting, disengaged as well as intrusive and psychologically controlling.
What are the negative outcomes of these dysfunctional parental behaviors? The literature on the impact of divorce on young adults shows that divorce, and inter-parental conflict can negatively affect children throughout their lifespan. Studies demonstrate that even when parents initiate a divorce when their offspring are over the age of 18, the impact can be substantial ([@B1]). Some of these relational patterns remain during young adulthood and may interfere with the individual's ability to separate and become self-sufficient ([@B33]; [@B3]; [@B2]). Children of divorce who feel caught between their parents' conflict have been found to have a more problematic adjustment and internalizing problems than those who do not feel caught ([@B12]). According to [@B2] youth who are involved in their parents' conflict can feel caught between their parents and hence experience stressful loyalty conflicts and cognitive dissonance. Although such an alliance can resolve the child's immediate feeling of being caught in the middle ([@B16]), it can entail its own set of problems. For example, [@B2] suggest that when children become turned against one parent, they lose the support and guidance of the now rejected parent, and they may experience feelings of guilt and shame for rejecting and betraying the other parent. Several studies have shown significant associations between recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflicts behaviors and negative outcomes in adulthood as a low autonomy, low cooperativeness, low self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and psychological distress ([@B6]; [@B10]; [@B42]; [@B11]). Therefore is not simply the degree of parental conflict that seems to affect youth detrimentally following the divorce of their parents, but rather the degree to which they are drawn into their parents' conflict (and hence likely to be exposed to PA behaviors).
Parental bonding is considered as a main developmental task that is critical for adequate functioning. Comfortable bonding with caregivers is assumed to provide the psychological foundation for healthy functioning in adulthood. Many studies have found associations of parental care and overprotection with domains of adult functioning ([@B21]; [@B44]) and with development of psychiatric disorders ([@B31]; [@B17]). Living with competent parents is a protective factor associated with positive outcome in children ([@B19]; [@B25]; [@B41]). When parents provide warmth, emotional support, adequate monitoring, authoritarian discipline, and maintain age-appropriate expectations, children and adolescents experience positive adjustment compared with children whose divorced parents are inattentive, less supportive, and use coercive discipline ([@B19]; [@B28]; [@B29]). The long term outcomes of children are dependent on many factors, among them the quality of parenting they received before and after divorce, and the encapsulation in the conflict between parents that they experienced during the marriage and after divorce.
Many authors have emphasized the role of early relationships with parents in determining the way in which the children develop their beliefs about their worth as a separate, unique person and where they stand in relation to others ([@B40]). Self-esteem is a significant psychological construct and a central component of individuals' daily experience. It refers to how individuals feel about themselves and reflects and affects their transactions with the environment and the people they encounter ([@B38]; [@B27]). Self-esteem was found to be positively related to mother and father care and negatively related to parental overprotection for people with Anglo and Vietnamese cultural backgrounds ([@B20]). Other studies found that family environment, especially the problematic parental relationship, is a predictor of self-esteem ([@B30]). Moreover, research on the relations between self-esteem and psychopathological symptoms, both in children and adolescents and in adults, show inverse relationships between these constructs ([@B45]; [@B18]).
Another important issue is that the negative outcomes of divorce on children do not depend only on family processes, such as family dysfunction and parental conflict. Literature has demonstrated that children and adolescents vary as to their vulnerability to the effects of marital conflict ([@B19]; [@B26]). Negative life events -- in which we might include also separation/divorce with high conflict -- may trigger psychological stress which can also be influenced by individual factors, including self-esteem ([@B35]). Therefore, an important question is to explore whether certain children are more or less vulnerable due to their own personal qualities. The study of these individual qualities may provide information on potential protective factors to help them even in at-risk contexts ([@B13]) and to direct intervention programs aimed to disrupt the intergenerational cycle of dysfunctional relationships. In the Italian context, international psychological literature is frequently used because there is a lack of national researches on some crucial issues that may have significant implications for what is in the best interest of children in divorced families who are in legal conflicts. To date, no researcher has attempted to examine how the associations between parental functioning -- in terms of parental bonding and PA -- and self-esteem could affect psychological distress in adults whose parents are separated/divorced. Since individual protective factors are a meaningful variables for psychological adjustment, we are interested to know the extent to which family variables (i.e., parental bonding and PA) and an individual variable (self-esteem) could predict psychological distress in adulthood.
The specific questions in the current study included: (1) What is the prevalence of recall of childhood exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors in an Italian population of adults whose parents had separated or divorced?; (2) What kind of parental bonding perceived adults whose parents had separated or divorced?; (3) Did recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors vary by parental bonding?; (4) Were reports of parental bonding and recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors associated with self-esteem?; (5) Was psychological distress predicted by parental functioning and individual self-esteem?
Material and Methods
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Participants and Procedure
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Between April and December of 2013, flyers were delivered to a variety of employment, recreational, and university settings in the southern region of Italy as well as distributed to friends and colleagues who were encouraged to forward it to others. The flyers stated that a researcher in the Clinical Psychology Laboratory at University of Chieti was "Seeking adults whose parents are separated/divorced." Interested individuals were invited to contact the researcher via telephone or e-mail. Once individuals came to the Laboratory were asked for their willingness to take part in a research study related to parental relationships. Those who were interested were informed of the voluntary nature of their participation and they right to withdraw at any time. All participants received and signed an informant consent. Individuals who provided consent were escorted to a private area where they could sit and complete the questionnaire packet. The packet contained two demographic questions that would provide certain information about participants regarding specific inclusion/exclusion criteria. Specifically, only those individuals were selected for the final sample who experienced parental separation/divorce and who had both parents alive until the age of at least 12 years.
A non-random convenience sample of 497 participants was recruited. Nineteen cases were eliminated due to incomplete data, and an additional eight participants were excluded because they only had one parent. Thus, the final sample was made up of 470 adults whose parents are separated/divorced residing in southern Italy. Mean age of participants was 25.4 (*SD* = 6.13), and 55.5% were female; 76.4% of the participants had a high school degree or less, 41% had a job, and 40% were students. Mean age at first parental separation was 12.7 (*SD* = 6.10). The protocol was realized according to the ethical guidelines of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) and was approved by the local ethics committee.
Measures
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The paper and pencil measures consisted of a series of demographic questions (age, age at first parental separation/divorce, gender, level of education, and employment) and a series of standardized questionnaires, four of which were examined for this study.
Baker Strategy Questionnaire (BSQ; [@B7]). The BSQ is a 20-item measure comprised of a list of 19 specific behaviors and one general behavior that parents might engage in to induce loyalty conflict in their child. The respondents answered separately for mother and father on a five- point scale from never (0) to always (4). Total scores could range from 0 to 80 for each parent. For the mother total scores ranged from 0 to 80 (Mean = 13.5, *SD* = 14.7) and for the father total scores ranged from 0 to 66 (Mean = 10.6, *SD* = 12.4). In the present study, the measure demonstrated high internal consistency for the mother and for father (α = 0.94). Scores across parents were also combined to create a "total exposure to PA measure" which could range from 0 to 160 and did range from 0 to 122 (Mean = 23.8, *SD* = 23.7).
Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI; [@B34]; [@B39]). The quality of the parent--child relationship was measured with the Parental Bonding Instrument, a widely used research tool for assessing adult retrospective accounts of two dimensions of the parent--child relationship: care (12 items) and over-protectiveness (13 items). Respondents completed the scale twice, once for mother, once for father. The Care scale consists of items tapping warmth, understanding, and acceptance (e.g., "Enjoys talking things over with me," "Makes me feel better when I'm upset"). The Overprotection scale measures control, intrusiveness, and encouragement of dependence (e.g., "Tries to control everything I do," "Invades my privacy"). Total scale scores could range from 0 to 36 (Care scale) and from 0 to 39 (Overprotection scale). The mean scores in this sample were: mother care = 25.22, *SD* = 7.7, mother overprotection = 13.81, *SD* = 6.7, father care = 20.53, *SD* = 8.4, father overprotection = 12.10, SD = 6.6. Cronbach's alpha for the four scales were: mother care = 0.93, mother overprotection = 0.85, father care = 0.92, father overprotection = 0.83. Additionally, scores can be assigned to four quadrants reflecting variations in care and control: (1) high care/low control = optimal parenting, (2) high care/high control = affectionate constraint, (3) high control/low care = affectionless control and (4) low care/low control = neglectful. Assignment to 'high' and 'low' categories is based on the following cut-off scores: mothers, 27 for care and 14 for protection; fathers, 24 for care and 13 for protection ([@B34]). Overprotection and Care scales were created for each parent and then summed to create an overall Overprotection and Care index.
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES; [@B38]; [@B36]). Self-esteem was assessed with the 10-item self-report Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in which each item was rated on a four-point Likert scale from strongly disagree (0) to strongly agree (4). Total scores were created by summing the 10 items after reverse coding. In this study the summary score ranged from 16 to 40 (Mean = 29.4, *SD* = 4.8) and had an internal consistency coefficient of 0.82.
Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R; [@B14]; [@B37]). This is a self-report questionnaire applied as a psychiatric case-finding instrument, as a measure of symptom severity, and as a descriptive measure of psychopathology in different patient populations. The SCL-90 is intended to measure symptom intensity on nine different subscales and three global indexes of distress. The 90 items of the questionnaire are scored on a five-point Likert scale from none (0) to extreme (4), indicating the rate of occurrence of the symptom during the time period in question. The instrument's Global Severity Index (GSI) is created as the mean value of all of the items and ranges from 0 to 4. The GSI is the most often used SCL-90-R global index when a single measure of psychological distress is warranted \[40\]. In the current study only the GSI was used as a measure of global psychological distress. In this sample the GSI ranged from 0 to 3.26 (Mean = 0.74, *SD* = 0.58), with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.98.
Results
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All data were checked for invalid values, out-of-range data, and counting of missing values. Missing items were replaced with the individual's mean item score of the completed items as recommended by [@B15]. In addition, the scores were checked for normality, and parametric tests were then applied.
Descriptive statistics were calculated for the sample. Preliminary analyses were conducted to test whether any of the demographic variables (age, age at first parental separation, gender, and educational level) were significantly associated with the dependent measure. Only participant's age was significantly associated with GSI score; consequently it was included in subsequent analyses.
What is the Prevalence of Recall of Childhood Exposure to Parental Loyalty Conflict Behaviors in an Italian Population of Adults Whose Parents Separated or Divorced?
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To address the first research question about the prevalence of childhood exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors, the proportion of respondents who endorsed each of the 20 behaviors was calculated with frequency distributions (see **Table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"}**).
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Frequency distribution of endorsement of 20 specific loyalty conflict behaviors.
Behavior *N* \%
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Made negative comments 378 81.4
Discomfort at other parent 288 62.1
Confided in child 277 59.7
Encouraged reliance on him/herself 255 55.5
Upset at child's affection with other parent 244 53.4
Required favoritism of child 247 53.3
Tried to turn against other parent 216 46.1
Asked child to keep secrets 208 44.7
Made child choose 189 40.7
Limited contact 184 39.8
Fostered anger/hurt at other parent 167 35.8
Encouraged disregard of other parent 162 35.2
Asked child to spy 159 34.4
Said parent was unloving 152 32.9
Said parent was unsafe 135 29.1
Hard to be with extended family 134 29.0
Made communication difficult 124 26.6
Called other parent by first name 82 17.8
Withheld or blocked messages 71 15.3
Referred to new spouse mom/dad 46 9.9
As can be seen, all 20 behaviors were endorsed by at least some participants. Looking at the proportion of endorsers of each behavior, it can be seen that 19 of the 20 items were endorsed by at least 10% of the sample. Two items were endorsed by over 60% of the sample (made negative comments, indicated discomfort about other parent). Seven of the behaviors were endorsed by between 40 and 60% of the respondents (made child choose, asked child to keep secrets, tried to turn against other parent, required favoritism of child, upset child affectionate with other parent, encouraged reliance on himself or herself, confided in child). Eight of the PA behaviors were endorsed by 20 and 40% of the respondents (made communication difficult, hard to be with extended family, said parent was unsafe, said parent was unloving, asked child to spy, encouraged disregard of other parent, made it fostered anger/hurt with other parent, limited contact with other parent). Three behaviors were endorsed by under 20% of the respondents (called other parent by first name, withheld or blocked messages, and referred to the new spouse as Mom or Dad).
What Kind of Parental Bonding have Perceived Adults Whose Parents had Separated or Divorced?
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To address the second research question we examined the parental Care and Overprotection data. The distribution of cases across the four possible parenting types revealed that for mothers 151 (35%) of the sample were in the "optimal parenting" quadrant, 83 (19.2%) were in the "affectionate constraint" quadrant; 113 (26.2%) were in the affectionless control quadrant, and 85 (19.7%) were in the neglectful parenting quadrant. For fathers, the percentages were 29.4% for optimal parenting, 14.5% for affectionate constraint, 28.5% for affectionless control, and 26.4% were in the neglectful parenting quadrant.
Did Recall of Exposure to Parental Loyalty Conflict Behaviors Vary by Parental Bonding?
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In order to examine the relationship between exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors and parental bonding, we examined mean differences in BSQ scores by PBI quadrants (optimal parenting, affectionate constraint, affectionless control, neglectful parenting). One-way ANOVA's were conducted to test the hypothesis that perceived lack of care and overprotection during childhood would be associated with exposure to parental loyalty conflict behavior by mothers and by fathers. Mean scale scores are presented in **Table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"}**.
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Means of parental alienation behaviors by PBI bonding quadrants of parents.
By Mother By Father
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Optimal 151 8.4 (10.5) 6.75, 10.13 127 6.9 (8.1) 5.53, 8.37
Affectionate 83 8.4 (9.7) 6.24, 10.49 63 6.4 (7.6) 4.47, 8.32
Affectionless 113 22.7 (17.8) 19.39, 26.04 123 18.2 (16.4) 15.25, 21.10
Neglectful 85 15.0 (14.7) 11.87, 18.20 114 8.9 (9.9) 7.02, 10.73
CI, confidence interval. Optimal (parenting); affectionate (constraint); affectionless (control); neglectful (parenting).
The results indicated significant differences across PBI quadrants (mother) for exposure to maternal loyalty conflict behaviors \[*F*(3,431) = 28.975, *p* \< 0.001\]. *Post hoc* test Bonferroni revealed that, compared to individuals who reported optimal parenting and affectionate constraint, individuals who experienced affectionless control reported significantly higher exposure to maternal loyalty conflict behaviors. Moreover, individuals who reported neglectful parenting had significantly higher recall of exposure to maternal loyalty conflict behaviors compared to participants who reported optimal parenting and affectionate constraint, and lower recall compared to adults who experienced maternal affectionless control.
For paternal parenting, differences across PBI quadrants (father) on measures of exposure to paternal loyalty conflict behaviors were significant \[*F*(3,426) = 25.702, *p* \< 0.001\]. *Post hoc* test Bonferroni revealed that, compared to individuals who reported optimal parenting, affectionate constraint, and neglectful parenting, individuals who experienced affectionless control reported significantly higher recall of exposure to paternal loyalty conflict behaviors.
Were Reports of Parental Bonding and Recall of Exposure to Parental Loyalty Conflict Behaviors Associated with Self-esteem?
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Pearson correlations were conducted between RSES score and both the PBI and BSQ overall indexes. These data are presented in **Table [3](#T3){ref-type="table"}**. As can be seen parental care, parental overprotection, and recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors were statistically significantly associated with self-esteem. Higher care scores, lower overprotection scores, and lower recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors were all associated with higher self-esteem scores.
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Bivariate correlations for study variables.
1 2 3 4 5 6
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\(1\) SCL-90-R -- global severity index 1 -0.114^∗^ -0.244^∗∗^ 0.193^∗∗^ 0.239^∗∗^ -0.537^∗∗^
\(2\) Age 1 -0.203^∗∗^ 0.144^∗∗^ 0.042 0.132^∗∗^
\(3\) PBI -- parental care 1 -0.313^∗∗^ -0.410^∗∗^ 0.273^∗∗^
\(4\) PBI -- parental overprotection 1 0.251^∗∗^ -0.230^∗∗^
\(5\) BSQ -- parental alienation 1 -0.232^∗∗^
\(6\) RSES -- self-esteem 1
SCL-90-R, Symptom Checklist-90-Revised; PBI, Parental Bonding Instrument; BSQ, Baker Strategy Questionnaire; RSES, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
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p
\< 0.05.
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p
\< 0.01.
Was Psychological Distress Predicted by Parental Functioning and Individual Self-esteem?
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To address the last research question we began with Pearson correlations between age, PBI and BSQ overall indexes, RSES and GSI scores. Results revealed that GSI score was statistically positively associated with parental overprotection (*r* = 0.193, *p* \< 0.01) and recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors (*r* = 0.239, *p* \< 0.01), and was statistically negatively associated with age (*r* = -0.114, *p* \< 0.05), parental care (*r* = -0.244, *p* \< 0.01), and self-esteem (*r* = -0.537, *p* \< 0.01).
All of these variables were entered into hierarchical regression to test whether psychological distress was predicted by parental functioning (in terms of care, overprotection and exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors) and by self-esteem. In regression a GSI score was the dependent variable and parental care, parental overprotection, and age were entered as a first block, recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors was added in the second block followed by self-esteem in the third block. The data are presented in **Table [4](#T4){ref-type="table"}**.
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Hierarchical regression analysis predicting global severity index (GSI) from familiar and individual variables.
Predictor Δ *R^2^* β
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Step 1 7.8^∗∗∗^
PBI -- parental care -0.220^∗∗∗^
PBI -- parental overprotection 0.114^∗^
Age -0.150^∗∗^
Step 2 1.9^∗∗^
PBI -- parental care -0.161^∗∗^
PBI -- parental overprotection 0.090
Age -0.139^∗∗^
BSQ -- parental alienation 0.155^∗∗^
Step 3 19.4^∗∗∗^
PBI -- parental care -0.056
PBI -- parental overprotection 0.022
Age -0.046
BSQ -- parental alienation 0.101^∗^
RSES -- self-esteem -0.474^∗∗∗^
Total *R*^2^ 29.1^∗∗∗^
*n* = 423
PBI, Parental Bonding Instrument; BSQ, Baker Strategy Questionnaire; RSES, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
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p
\< 0.05,
∗∗
p
\< 0.01,
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p
\< 0.001.
The hierarchical regression revealed that at Block 1 all of the variables contributed significantly to the regression model, *F*(3,419) = 11.77, *p* \< 0.001 and accounted for 7.8% of the variation in global psychological distress. Introducing parental loyalty conflict behaviors (Block 2) explained an additional 1.9% of variation in global psychological distress and this change in *R*^2^ was significant, *F*(4,418) = 11.23, *p* \< 0.001. Each of the variables entered in Block 1, with the exception of parental overprotection, remained significant predictors once parental loyalty conflict behaviors were added to the model. The addition of self-esteem to the regression model (Block 3) explained an additional 19.7% of the variation in global psychological distress. The change in *R*^2^ for self-esteem was statistically significantly associated, *F*(5,417) = 34.30, *p* \< 0.001, with global psychological distress over and above the effects of age, parental care, and parental overprotection, (29.1% of the variance in global psychological distress).
Discussion
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This study investigated the prevalence of recall of childhood exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors, the kind of parental bonding perceived by adults whose parents had separated or divorced, and the link between parental functioning, individual self-esteem and psychological distress. The current study extends our empirical knowledge of the childhood exposure to dysfunctional parenting in families postdivorce. A number of important findings were shown in the data.
First, 46% of the sample endorsed the item "one parent tried to me against the other parent," a similar proportion than in [@B42] for the subsample of participants whose parents divorced or separated, indicating the high prevalence of this problem for children of divorce. Results revealed that all behaviors measured by BSQ were endorsed by at least some participants. Rates of endorsement for the specific types of parental behaviors assessed ranged from about 10% (referring to a stepparent as "Mom" or "Dad") to about 81% (made negative and untrue statements about the other parent to the child). Behaviors endorsed at a particularly high rate included making negative comments about the other parent, indicating discomfort when the child speaks or asks about other parent, confiding in child, and encouraging the child's reliance. These data are consistent with what is known about the prevalence and the quality of PA within divorcing families ([@B7]).
Second, a significant finding is that about 65--70% of the participants has perceived by both parents a dysfunctional parenting characterized by low care and high overprotection (affectionless control) or by high care and high overprotection (affectionate constraint) or low care and low overprotection (neglectful parenting). This finding is consistent with specialized literature reporting how separated or divorced parents are less effective in monitoring their children and more emotionally detached from their role as parents ([@B19]; [@B28]; [@B43]; [@B29]).
Third, the recall of exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors varied by parental bonding perceived. Interestingly, parents perceived as less caring and more controlling are also described as more engaged in PA behaviors. This was true for ratings of mothers as well as fathers. This finding provides the empirical confirmation of the theoretical definition of the PA behaviors as a lack of empathy and inability to tolerate the child separate needs and perceptions ([@B5]; [@B6]). Encouraging disobedience in the children and blaming behavior on the other parent, or disparaging the children's image of the other parent, or sharing excessive information with the child and promoting parentification are all behaviors that involve low care and high psychological control. Likewise, these data contribute to the growing body of knowledge about how rapidly identify parents at risk to engage in alienating behaviors.
Fourth, the results revealed that self-esteem was associated positively with parental care and negatively with parental overprotection and PA. That is, Italian adults' perception of comfortable bonding with caregivers defined by affection, emotional warmth, empathy, closeness, and promotion of independence and autonomy is associated with a positive self-concept. These results confirm findings from previous studies ([@B20]; [@B9]) and extend the evidence into Italian adults whose parents are separated or divorced.
The final significant finding was that high exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors and low self-esteem were associated with psychological distress even after controlling for quality of the parent--child relationship. Therefore, the current data demonstrate that exposure to parental loyalty conflict behaviors and low self-esteem can also increase an adult's risk of psychological distress. These data are consistent with literature regarding negative consequences of exposure to PA in adulthood ([@B6]; [@B10]; [@B11]). The results also support the role of self-esteem as an individual factor to cope with psychological distress ([@B42]) after experiencing negative life events as parental separation/divorce. One possible reason is that low self-esteem could bring a person to perceive only negative aspects of situations or to have a poor perception of one's capacity to cope with stressing environments.
Limitations
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There are a number of limitations in this study that should be taken into account. The first is the cross-sectional nature of the design. Although this is a common design in studies of PA, we emphasize the need for prospective studies for establishing causal pathways. The second limitation is the retrospective nature of data collected through self-report measures. Data did not necessarily reflect the full complement of parental loyalty conflict behaviors to which the person had been exposed. Nevertheless, [@B4] reported some overlap between retrospective and independent measures of parental behaviors noting that the perception of the parental relationship is more important than the actual parental relationship. The third is the limited generalizability due to the convenience nature of the sample. The findings should be replicated in other settings and in other samples of various ages, backgrounds, and life experiences.
Despite these limitations, the current study also had several strengths. All of the measures have been used in prior research and most are standardized measures with established reliability and validity. Also, there are methodological advantages of a large community sample used in this study. Furthermore, this was the first study conducted on a general sample of adults whose parents are separated/divorced in Italy highlighting the importance of subsequent research on the causal linkages between dysfunctional parenting and individual resilience and psychological distress. Future research with varied ages and diverse populations as well as other individual variables will complete these findings on how familiar and individual factors affect the adjustment in adulthood following parental divorce.
Implications
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In this study there was strong support for a link between crucial variables to the psychological climate of the divorced families (e.g., parental loyalty conflict, low caring in terms of emotional coldness, indifference, neglect, and high control in terms of overprotection, intrusion, excessive contact, infantilization, and prevention of independent behavior), self-esteem and well-being in adulthood. The results of the present research bring to light several important implications for policymakers and practitioners working with divorced families and suggest the need for interventions based on a greater knowledge of the dysfunctional family processes.
Clinicians and forensic psychologists should be aware that improve parenting practices and promote self-esteem in children or adolescents after marital dissolution may prevent the development of negative outcomes. As can be seen in literature there are many variables (biological, psychological, familiar, interpersonal, etc.) to be considered in the prevention and treatment of psychological distress, but our results about the offspring of divorced parents corroborate the evidence that exposure to PA and individual self-esteem significantly affect their well-being in adulthood.
Prevention programs could be directed to reinforcing health and social services to support divorcing and high conflict families. Health professionals and social workers should receive training specifically about the PA strategies that parents can engage in, dysfunctional parenting practices, and specific negative outcomes for children.
Other prevention programs directed at high risk parents (those divorcing or involved in high conflict) could involve mandatory training for high conflict parents. Psycho-educational programs should focus on interventions for enhancing parenting skills and appropriate child rearing and co-parenting practices. Psychological interventions for children of divorce exposed to dysfunctional parenting could also be carried out to increase coping strategies and resilience in order to protect them from the long-term damage to their sense of self.
Given the potential detrimental impact of parental loyalty conflict behaviors on the well-being of children, it is critical to develop interventions to address this phenomenon. Despite a recent awareness of this problem, very few health and social services use adequate strategies for the management of their clients. Therefore, policy changes in health and social care to promote training on this issue could aid in disseminating of professional training in this area. Practitioners should receive training specifically about how: (a) to create a buffer zone to facilitate crossing the co-parental boundary, (b) to help the child separate from the enmeshment with the alienating parent, (c) to block intrusions from the alienating parent, (d) to strengthen the bond with the targeted parent, and (e) to weaken the coalition around the alienating parent--child dyad ([@B16]).
Finally, this information about family dysfunctions in marital dissolution should be widespread to the family court judges in order to decide an arrangement that will promote the best interest of the child.
Conflict of Interest Statement
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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
[^1]: Edited by: *Gianluca Castelnuovo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy*
[^2]: Reviewed by: *Suzie Xu Wang, Leeds Beckett University, UK; Jimmy Thomas Efird, Brody School of Medicine, USA*
[^3]: This article was submitted to Psychology for Clinical Settings, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Articles of Dragon: Ares
I'm going to cheat for today's installment of this series. Rather than focusing on a single article from issue #84 of Dragon (April 1984), I'm instead going to talk about Ares, the magazine's new science fiction gaming section. First, a bit of background. Between 1980 and 1982, SPI published a gaming magazine entitled Ares. The magazine included a complete game in every issue (as was once typical of wargaming magazines), along with articles and reviews. Though not limited to sci-fi by any means, Ares did have a slightly science fictional bent to its content. There were eleven issues of Ares before TSR acquired SPI in 1982, followed by five more issues after the acquisition. The last stand-alone issue of Ares was published in "Winter 1983." TSR never really knew what to do with SPI's properties and wound up frittering them away over the course of the next few years, in the process alienating the company's considerable fanbase, many of whom (quite rightly) felt that TSR had handled the situation very badly. Though TSR tried to make some use of SPI's name and products, only the Ares name survived for long -- and even then, "long" is a relative term.
From issue #84 to issue #111 (July 1986), Ares was one of my favorite sections of Dragon, since I've always been more of a SF fan than a fantasy one. The section featured articles on games like Traveller and Star Trek and Space Opera, as well as Gamma World, Star Frontiers, and a host of superhero games, especially Marvel Super Heroes. Because sci-fi has always played second (or third) banana to fantasy, you'd have expected that the pool of articles would have been pretty shallow in Ares but that wasn't the case. In my opinion, the quality of the articles in this section was consistently high, higher even than that of the rest of Dragon (which is saying something). However, its appeal was definitely more limited, which is why I suspect it was eventually killed. Why devote some many pages of each issue to genres that are also-rans compared to fantasy, especially D&D's brand of fantasy?
To this day, though, when I look back on the years when I subscribed to Dragon, the Ares articles are among those that stick out most prominently in my mind. Its coverage of Gamma World, for example, was truly excellent and I used a number of its Traveller rules variants over the years. And of course Jeff Grubb's regular "The Marvel-Phile" column was invaluable if you were running a Marvel Super Heroes campaign (or even if you weren't and were just a fan of the comics). I've always thought it a pity that a non-fantasy-centric gaming mag never really gained any degree of prominence. GDW's Challenge, where my first published writings appeared, was a decent stab at such a thing, but it eventually folded, too, much to my disappointment. Like Ares, Challenge filled a hole in the hobby that needed filling. In my opinion, it still does.
1. I particularly liked the article on powered armour heroes that they published later on.
2. I loved that article about Ginny's Delight, a starship for the Star Trek game in issue #96 of the monthly adventure role-playing aid. The deckplans were great!
3. I loved the Ares section in Dragon. My first exposure to MSH was there (I played V&V a bit back then).
4. I was disappointed that SPI's (and later TSR's) FRPG Dragonquest didn't get more of an audience. Yes, it showed its ancestry in SPI's wargames, but there was a lot to like about it.
5. As a Dragonquest player Ares was a great thing to have. And all that cool Tim Truman artwork.
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Indeed, we are only left with ezines, blogs and forums. Although, the last seems to be heavily produced by the companies that produce the content. And, it is this policing of intellectual property that is stifling the creativity that led to these games to begin with.
The second problem is that there is no industry leader, just lots of weak individual games moving in a swarm like fashion or licensed properties which have their own problems of being too closely tied with IP protections thus preventing the emergence of a magazine. However, I do see the ray of hope with the ezines as they are like fanzines of old which nominally paid attention to the rules and were all about being a sounding board for new ideas.
SFRPGs and Science Fiction publishers should and ought to get together to produce something generic yet supported. As we have also seen the wane of generic SF magazines (here I am thinking of Starlog) and the rise of specialized magazines devoted to one movie/TV Show which are all about control over IP.
7. I'm probably going to be against the grain but I'll go on record as saying I disliked the ARES section in Dragon mags. I didn't play any SF RPGs, and thus for me the section was really a waste of space. I was buying Dragon for the D&D and fantasy content, not articles on Star Frontiers or Marvel Superheroes, and I suspect many others were like me (one of the big complaints at the time in my gaming circles was the ARES section in Dragon).
I don't know the final reason it was killed but I will say everytime they had some sort of survey I consistently wrote in the ARES section as the one part of the magazine I disliked the most.
8. Oh how I loved the Ares section of Dragon back in the day... the sci-fi and superhero RPG content was some of my favorite.
9. Count me as someone who would have loved the Ares section had I been playing RPGs and reading Dragon during this timeframe.
I loved Dragon when it wasn't just a house organ for TSR and AD&D. I didn't like Dragon when it became what most gaming mags seem to be required to be these days.
Stuff for systems and genres you don't play is a way to maybe make you want to play them as you get exposed to SOMETHING NEW which is never a bad thing.
10. I didn't play the Marvel game because I didn't like the game system, and the fact that you pretty much had to buy a second box set just to REALLY create you own characters without all that random power B.S. from the original box. We played D.C. Heroes so the Ares section was always of interest to me because there would be a one page ad for it by Mayfair which would have stats for a character or whatnot....maybe some rules alternates IIRC. The Marvel bits were great as well, even thought I didn't play the game. Even though I didn't care for the system, reading the stats was a bit of a treat for me.
11. I picked up a handful of issues at a used bookshop last summer and fell in love. I'd never heard of it previously and was elated to see Marvel, Gamma World, and a slew of other games I'd never heard of before. Man do I wish there was something like this now.
12. Loved the Ares section.
Especially the Marvel-Phile (it was only about 10 years ago I go the entendre). It was better than the Official Guide the Marvel Universe as far as I am concerned.
I always remember the one with all the different Iron Man suits, the one with the Serpent Society, and the one with the Soviet superheroes.
I enjoyed the Gamma World ones as well. The one on secret societies was a favourite.
So, was Ares the last place Dragon had articles for non TSR products?
13. When Dragon cancelled the Ares section and pulled adventures (in #100 I think) was exactly when it started seriously going downhill.
14. I remember Ares from its days as a stand-alone SPI magazine. It was basically created in the late 1970's after SPI's Strategy & Tactics subscribers started to bitch as SPI dipped its toes further and further into Science Fiction and Fantasy, first with wargames, then with RPGs.
I've actually been of the opinion that TSR didn't buy SPI so much for its wargame titles, but rather to get its RPG titles, DragonQuest (a Tolkeinesque fantasy RPG) and Universe (a Traveller-esque hard SF RPG) off the market. SPI was one of about three companies with the marketing clout in those days to get their games into places besides game stores (along with Avalon Hill and TSR), and they were the only one that was publishing a competing RPG products (Avalon Hill wouldn't dip their toes in the RPG waters for another year or two).
Ares was a great magazine. Like Strategy and Tactics, there were frequent board game releases, ranging from the bizarre, to the campy. It was also the main source of support for Universe and Dragonquest (Universe's ship combat system was first published in Ares, for example).
Truthfully, as much as their wargames titles slipped in quality the last year or two SPI was still function, Ares and the two RPGs were about the only things worth saving from SPI.
As you say, TSR made a number of missteps, starting with not acting quick enough to keep SPI from selling the rights to some of their better selling titles to AH, followed by telling a bunch of New York based game designers that if they wanted to keep drawing a paycheck, they needed to move to that cultural capital of the world, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin...yeah...good luck with that. The design staff walked, met with Avalon Hill's parent company, and became Victory Games.
Net result was that it was a boneheaded buy out by TSR. They were left with SPI's second-tier titles, no design staff, and a bunch of former customers who were pissed off when TSR cancelled all the old subscriptions to Ares and S&T.
15. I was a fan of the Ares articles as well. Super hero rpg material couldn't be found all over the internet back in those days, so Ares was my fix. I missed most of the really good articles on Star Frontiers and Gamma World, and remember spending a good amount of time (and money) trying to track down back issues.
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Men's Y chromosome is not about to go extinct
Life 22 February 2012
Y chromosome is holding its own
GOOD news for men: the Y chromosome will not mutate itself out of existence a few million years from now – confounding expectations.
Once upon a time, the Y sex chromosome looked much the same as the X sex chromosome. Both were X shaped, and matched up neatly. Like our other pairs of chromosomes, the two sex chromosomes exchanged genes as necessary to repair DNA and avoid harmful mutations.
Then something went badly wrong. Around 166 million years ago, a huge chunk of the Y chromosome in one of our mammalian ancestors was turned upside down and reinserted. The change was so extreme that the Y chromosome no longer matched the X, and it became impossible for the two to swap genes. The Y chromosome began collecting mutations and losing genes, ultimately taking on its characteristic Y shape as a result.
In humans, it now carries a mere 19 of the 800 genes it originally shared with the X. Given that rate of loss, some geneticists have predicted that the chromosome will lose its final gene in 4.6 million years.
Not so, says Jennifer Hughes at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She and her colleagues have just sequenced the Y chromosome of the rhesus macaque – a primate that diverged from humans around 25 million years ago.
They found that the monkey’s Y chromosome contains 20 genes that match its X chromosome, and 19 of them are the same as human Y genes. This suggests that the human Y chromosome has lost only one gene since humans and macaques last shared a common ancestor (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature10843).
“We finally have empirical data that the Y chromosome has held steady over the last 25 million years,” says Hughes. “Most of the Y chromosome’s gene loss happened almost immediately after it stopped recombining with the X chromosome.” The 19 surviving genes probably have vital biological functions, she says, and so aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
“It’s a very nice piece of work,” says Jenny Graves at the University of Melbourne, Australia, a proponent of the disappearing Y chromosome theory. However, Graves remains unconvinced that the Y will stick around for much longer. If versions of its 19 genes crop up on other chromosomes – which could happen at any time – those on the Y chromosome could be replaced, and males would no longer need the Y. They would become X0, because they would carry an X and an empty space where the Y used to be.
There is a precedent for this. Male Japanese Ryukyu spiny rats (Tokudaia osimensis) lack a Y chromosome. Darren Griffin, a geneticist at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, says male rats “carry on nicely” without it.
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Looking for Affordable Apartments for Rent
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162 Ga. App. 471 (1982)
291 S.E.2d 776
PHILLIPS
v.
THE STATE.
63524.
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Decided May 27, 1982.
Floyd M. Buford, for appellant.
Joseph H. Briley, District Attorney, Craig M. Childs, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
CARLEY, Judge.
Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, reckless driving, laying drags, operating a motor vehicle with defective tail lamps, and speeding. Following the denial of his motion for new trial, appellant appeals.
1. Error is enumerated on the trial court's overruling of appellant's demurrer to count one of the indictment which charged him with the offense of attempting to elude a police officer. "As long as the defendant is informed of the charges against him so that he may present his defense at trial and not be surprised by the evidence against him, as well as protect against another prosecution for the same offense, the indictment is sufficient. [Cits.] We find these criteria are met here and hold the indictment sufficient." Hopper v. Hampton, 244 Ga. 361, 362 (260 SE2d 73) (1979). Accord, Carter v. State, 155 Ga. App. 49 (1) (270 SE2d 233) (1980). See Bill v. State, 153 Ga. App. 131 (1) (264 SE2d 582) (1980).
2. Appellant next asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motions for directed verdict of acquittal and new trial which raised the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence in connection with the offense of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.
"No person shall be convicted of a crime unless each element of such crime is proved beyond a reasonable doubt." Code Ann. § 26-501. Sowards v. State, 137 Ga. App. 423, 424 (3) (224 SE2d 85) (1976). Code Ann. § 68A-904 (a) which makes it a misdemeanor for any driver of a vehicle to flee or attempt to elude a police officer when given a signal to stop specifically provides that: "The officer giving such signal shall be in uniform prominently displaying his badge of office, and his vehicle shall be appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle."
The record in the instant case is devoid of any evidence that the officer who signaled appellant to stop was in uniform prominently displaying his badge of office or that the officer's vehicle was appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle. Since *472 the state failed to prove essential elements of the offense charged, the trial court erred in denying appellant's motion for directed verdict of acquittal and in overruling his motion for new trial predicated on the general grounds. Since no violation of Code Ann. § 68A-904 (a) is shown unless the evidence demonstrates that the officer allegedly eluded was in the required uniform and that his vehicle was appropriately marked, the state's contention that any evidentiary deficiency in this regard is harmless is meritless. Sowards, 137 Ga. App. at 424, supra. Accordingly, appellant's conviction of count one of the indictment must be reversed.
3. We find that a rational trior of fact could reasonably have found from the evidence presented at trial proof of his violation of Code Ann. § 68-1705 (a) beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979).
4. Appellant's convictions of laying drags, reckless driving and speeding are not violative of Code Ann. § 26-506. Each offense was established by proof of different facts and the evidence shows that the three offenses occurred at separate times and locations during the pursuit of appellant's vehicle. Neither offense was included in the other as a matter of fact or law. See State v. Estevez, 232 Ga. 316 (206 SE2d 475) (1974). Cf. Rollins v. State, 154 Ga. App. 585, 588 (6) (269 SE2d 81) (1980). Accordingly, a separate sentence for each offense was properly imposed.
5. Appellant contends that the trial court's charge on alibi was incomplete. The charge on the defense of alibi was substantially similar to that approved in Jordan v. State, 235 Ga. 732, 737 (8) (222 SE2d 23) (1975), and Jackson v. State, 141 Ga. 567 (1) (234 SE2d 94) (1977). "Accordingly, we find no error and if [appellant] had desired `(a)ny fuller instruction' [he] should have requested it. [Cit.]" Collins v. State, 146 Ga. App. 857, 861 (3) (247 SE2d 602) (1978). Moreover, the transcript reveals that appellant has waived any right to enumerate error with regard to the trial court's instructions on the alibi defense. "In order to avoid waiver, if the trial court inquires if there are objections to the charge, counsel must state his objections or follow the procedure . . ., of reserving the right to object on motion for new trial or on appeal. Here defense counsel neither objected nor reserved the right to later object, and under such circumstances, [appellant] has waived the right to raise the issue on appeal." Jackson v. State, 246 Ga. 459, 460 (271 SE2d 855) (1980).
6. "No demonstration of reversible error has been made with regard to [appellant's] contention that. . . the district attorney, in violation of Code Ann. § 81-1009, improperly expressed opinions or made improper argument to the jury." Boatright v. State, 150 Ga. App. 283, 284 (3) (257 SE2d 314) (1979).
*473 Judgment affirmed in part and reversed in part. Quillian, C. J., and Shulman, P. J., concur.
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Guide To Drinking Wine
Wine is a drink that is best to enjoy by following some guidelines. However, these guidelines can be a bit confusing. Of course, you can’t just pull the cork and drink the wine straight out of the bottle, like other drinks. That technology can leave a little to be desired when it comes to enjoyment. Following some guide to drinking wine more enjoyable.
Have you ever wanted a cold drink when you are thirsty? Most people automatically think that the cooler a drink is, the better it will taste. Well, that’s not the case with wine. Wine contains tannins, a natural substance found in grape skins. Some winemakers even add more to taste. As a rule of thumb, the darker the wine, the more tannins it contains. Tannins taste bitter when they are too cold. White wine and Champagne contain little or no tannins, as evidenced by the color, and can be cooled to preference. Red wine, on the other hand, is best at a temperature between 50 and 65 degrees, depending on your taste. Most of the red wine is good when it is cooled to a temperature of about 62 degrees.
How do you know when your wine has the right temperature? Well, you can use a winter meter that attaches to the bottle. If you do not have one of them, fifteen or twenty minutes in the refrigerator should cool your wine to good drinking temperature. Be careful not to make the wine too hot. A wine that is too hot doesn’t taste good either.
You probably have noticed different glasses available. They are made of different materials and come in an assortment of shapes and sizes. The large supply can be confusing, but there is a reason. Just as wine tastes better at the right temperature, it also tastes better from the ideal glass. Crystal wine glasses are the best. They should be lead-free, of course. It is not known why wine tastes better from crystal wine glasses. Perhaps it is the aesthetically pleasing beauty of the glass or perhaps there is a chemical reason. Whatever the reason, the wine tastes better in crystal glasses.
Why are there so many shapes and sizes? The answer is not just to confuse you. It also has to do with maximizing the taste. The shape of the glass determines where the wines will be delivered in the mouth. Meeting the right taste buds for different types of wines is the goal of different shaped glasses. For example, white wine can be enjoyed with oval shaped glasses. Red wines often have more aromas and are best to enjoy glasses that are rounded at the bottom with a narrow border to concentrate the aroma.
The wider base not only allows the wine to “breathe” but lets it be swirled to enjoy the color as well. Wine glasses should not be filled more than halfway to allow swirling. Dessert wines are the exception because they are often consumed in smaller quantities. Sparkling wines should come from a long, narrow glass to prevent the bubbles from escaping like a tulip-shaped glass or flute.
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Our own member Les Baxter was the guest speaker. He gave an overview of his time in Bhutan.
During that time Les was an Agricultural consultant, working specifically on a dis-ease in their citrus crop called ‘Citrus Greening Disease’ which had the potential to have a devastating effect on this important crop for them.
He started with a summary of this country, though. It is adjacent to India and Chi-na, and is in the Himalaya precinct. As such it is very high in elevation, which brings its own problems, I has a population of 800,000 people and quite a small GDP. Only 2.6% of it is arable due to the mountainous terrain. Farms have to be terraced into the mountainsides.
The main religion is Buddhism, and many superb temples exist. It is very picturesque, nutrition is generally very good, and a pleasant country. People are welcoming to outsiders, and seem to be peace loving in general.
The main products are mandarins and potatoes, and it was the concern with the former that lead to Les’ project. It was undertaken through the International Agricultural research arm of DFAT (known as ACIAR). Les’s work resulted in a successful conclusion. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9846412539482116}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '29544', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2NMTVDIRIPGRSNHS2OUQR6AGKS5JUHNO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:355a7174-710c-43a0-83b3-a14cede0caa1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 20, 40, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '113.212.96.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2H2UWFZXT6ZBB6IOWVSINGKO7RCCEPB5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6017e3bb-f3df-4921-87aa-204f28f801d6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.rotary-sthlaunceston.org.au/2019/02/06/last-weeks-guest-speaker-was-rotarian-les-baxter/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e8fd270a-08d9-4e37-ada2-f41c8f1be8ac>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '195', 'url': 'https://www.rotary-sthlaunceston.org.au/2019/02/06/last-weeks-guest-speaker-was-rotarian-les-baxter/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-47-182-244.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': '0.10236632823944092', 'original_id': 'd42e7fa6f685d5c2c6aa8da44cca1b7c6486bec3e6bc06a6b6daeb2e24854170'} |
Ingredients (serves 2)
400 g blue marlin fillets
2 bunches kang kong, washed and hard stems removed
1 cup whipping cream
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsps bagoong (shrimp paste)
4 tbsps vegetable oil
1. In a sauce pan, saute the kang kong and garlic in 2 tbsps of oil for 2-3 minutes or until the leaves are wilted.
2. Add in the bagoong and saute for 1 minute more.
3. Pour in the cream. You may add 1/2 cup of water if it’s too thick. Let the sauce simmer gently for 5 minutes.
4. In another pan, sear the the marlin fillets in the remaining oil, browning both sides, about 2 minutes on each side (if 1 inch thick).
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Tag: cocoa
Changing the Application Language in AppCode
When developing apps that support multiple languages I used to set the system language in the iOS Simulator settings, which required a complete reboot of the simulator. I then discovered the Application Language setting when editing build schemes in XCode under the Options tab.
Unfortunately, AppCode doesn’t have this option (or maybe I just didn’t find it). But an easy workaround is to choose Edit Configurations… in AppCode and specifying the following as Program Arguments:
-AppleLanguages (de)
where “de” specifies the language, in this case German, although “German” or “de_DE” will also work.
To easily switch between different languages, you can copy the configuration for each language and set the corresponding language code.
Automatically Update the Title of a View-Controller Based NSTabViewItem
Currently I’m working on yet another Mac app, where I have a NSTabView with multiple tabs that each represent a view controller.
I noticed that when I set my view controller’s title with
self.title = @"some other title"
nothing changes. So I wrote a small NSTabViewItem subclass that updates the title automatically by observing the title key of the view controller.
The code is on github and you can find the important part below.
@implementation GNTabViewItem
-(void)dealloc {
[self.viewController removeObserver:self forKeyPath:@"title"];
-(void)setViewController:(NSViewController *)viewController {
[self.viewController removeObserver:self forKeyPath:@"title"];
[super setViewController:viewController];
[self.viewController addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"title" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
if([keyPath isEqualToString:@"title"] && object == self.viewController) {
self.label = self.viewController.title;
[super observeValueForKeyPath:keyPath ofObject:object change:change context:context];
A Small Speed Comparison – Objective-C and Swift
Today I thought about migrating Apricum to Swift as I did remember the WWDC announcement saying it’s about 50% faster than Objective-C.
Click for the stackoverflow post regarding swift’s performance
I rewrote the necessary parts (just 3 classes) of the Apricum patch programming core in Swift and tested a simple add patch with 1000 different input values (two random numbers for input a and b).
The Objective-C version (which uses the Apricum Core framework) took 0.0087s and the Swift version (not nearly as big as the Apricum framework) took 0.0211s.
I’m not saying that this is a good test as both versions are quite different so I made two similar versions and compared them.
// Objective-C
@interface SimpleAdd : NSObject
-(NSUInteger)add:(NSUInteger)a and:(NSUInteger)b;
@implementation SimpleAdd
-(NSUInteger)add:(NSUInteger)a and:(NSUInteger)b {
return a+b;
@autoreleasepool {
SimpleAdd *add = [[SimpleAdd alloc] init];
NSDate *start = [NSDate date];
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {
NSUInteger a = arc4random()%(UINT32_MAX/100);
NSUInteger b = arc4random()%(UINT32_MAX/100);
NSUInteger res = [add add:a and:b];
NSDate *end = [NSDate date];
printf("Duration %f\n",[end timeIntervalSinceDate:start]);
return 0;
// Swift
class SimpleAdd {
func add(a: UInt32, b: UInt32) -> UInt32 {
return a + b;
let add = SimpleAdd();
let start = NSDate();
for _ in 0...100000000 {
let numA = arc4random() % (UINT32_MAX/100);
let numB = arc4random() % (UINT32_MAX/100);
let res = add.add(numA, b: numB);
let end = NSDate();
let dif = end.timeIntervalSinceDate(start);
print("Duration: \(dif)");
Now Objective-C took 4.1378s and Swift 4.3653s, which doesn’t seem like a big difference. But Swift doesn’t have dynamic method calls (well it supports the target/actions, but only by using Objective-C) unlike Objective-C where every call to a NSObject is a dynamic method call.
I personally will continue to use Objective-C over Swift, not because Objective-C is in one arbitrary test 0.2275s faster than Swift. It’s mainly because I’m not the biggest fan of the Swift programming language. It’s easier to read if you know Java/JavaScript already, which is a big advantage if you want to get into iOS Development and already know one of them, but I’m missing the features I love about Objective-C.
Additionally the freedom to choose whether you check objects for nil or just call a method is far, far better than those nested ‘if let’ checks you see all over Swift code. Most of the time the code I’ve read ends up using var xyz: ExampleType! which is even worse, as it’ll end up crashing your app if xyz isn’t set somehow, which although it should not happen, might happen.
Another part I really dislike is the lack of backward compatibility in Swift. While programming Objective-C, it happened once, that a change has been made that needed code changes. That was the migration to ARC, where you can still (to this day) mix ARC code with non-ARC code.
The complete opposite is Swift, where changes are frequent and mandatory. I was working on a project and over night Xcode updated to version 7.0 with a slightly different Swift syntax, making it necessary to change small parts all over the project (Fortunately one team member already did change most parts to the new syntax). This incident drove me away from using Swift for big projects, as I can compile more than 5 year old Objective-C code, but can’t compile Swift code I wrote a few months ago.
Although it probably sounds like it, I don’t hate Swift. Every programming language has pros and cons and you have to pick the one that matches your requirements and personal preferences. Swift is quite simple (I’d put it somewhere in the middle between JavaScript and Java) yet quite efficient, which actually isn’t that important anymore. Whether you wait 1ms or 2ms for your app to load doesn’t make any difference and if there are some parts that need to be faster you can still write them in C (and therefore also directly in assembler) to speed them up.
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Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Unterart der Art Marderhund (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes wissenschaftlicher Name Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, Autor(en) des Taxons Oldfield Thomas, veröffentlicht im Jahr 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxonomischer Rang Unterart
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes übergeordnetes Taxon Marderhund
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ist ein(e) Taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes MSW-ID 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes GBIF-ID 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ITIS-TSN 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes CoL-ID 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
subspecies of mammal
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxon name Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, taxon author Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas, year of publication of scientific name for taxon 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxon rank subspecies
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes parent taxon Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes instance of taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes MSW ID 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes GBIF taxon ID 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ITIS TSN 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes Catalogue of Life ID 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nome scientifico Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, autore tassonomico Oldfield Thomas, data di descrizione scientifica 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes livello tassonomico sottospecie
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxon di livello superiore Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes istanza di taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificativo MSW 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificativo GBIF 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificativo ITIS 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificativo Catalogue of Life 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nombre del taxón Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, autor del taxón Oldfield Thomas, fecha de descripción científica 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes categoría taxonómica subespecie
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxón superior inmediato Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes instancia de taxón
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador de especies MSW 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador de taxón en GBIF 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador ITIS 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador Catalogue of Life 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nom scientifique du taxon Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, auteur taxonomique Oldfield Thomas, date de description scientifique 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes rang taxonomique sous-espèce
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxon supérieur Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nature de l’élément taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identifiant Mammal Species of the World 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identifiant Global Biodiversity Information Facility 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identifiant Système d'information taxinomique intégré 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identifiant Catalogue of Life 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes име на таксон Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, автор на таксон Олдфийлд Томас, дата на публикуване на таксон 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ранг на таксон подвид
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes родителски таксон енотовидно куче
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes екземпляр на таксон
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ITIS TSN 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes международное научное название Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, автор названия таксона Олдфилд Томас, дата публикации названия 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes таксономический ранг подвид
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ближайший таксон уровнем выше енотовидная собака
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes это частный случай понятия таксон
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes идентификатор MSW 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes идентификатор GBIF 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes код ITIS TSN 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes код Catalogue of Life 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes wetenschappelijke naam Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, taxonauteur Oldfield Thomas, datum van taxonomische publicatie 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxonomische rang ondersoort
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes moedertaxon Wasbeerhond
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes is een taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes MSW-identificatiecode 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes GBIF-identificatiecode 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ITIS-identificatiecode 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes Catalogue of Life-identificatiecode 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxon nomen Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, auctor descriptionis Oldfield Thomas, annus descriptionis 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ordo Subspecies
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes parens Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes est taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
підвид ссавців
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes наукова назва таксона Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, автор таксона Олдфілд Томас, дата наукового опису 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes таксономічний ранг підвид
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes батьківський таксон єнотоподібний собака
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes є одним із таксон
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ідентифікатор MSW 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ідентифікатор у GBIF 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes номер у ITIS 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ідентифікатор Catalogue of Life 5JXJY
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nome del taxón Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, autor del taxón Oldfield Thomas, data de publicación del nome de taxón 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes categoría taxonómica subespecie
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxón inmediatamente superior Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes instancia de taxón
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador ITIS 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes ainm an tacsóin Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, bliain inar foilsíodh ainm eolaíoch an tacsóin 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes rang an tacsóin fospeiceas
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes máthairthacsón Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes sampla de tacsón
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nume științific Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, autorul taxonului Oldfield Thomas, anul publicării taxonului 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes rang taxonomic subspecie
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes taxon superior enot
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes este un/o taxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificator Global Biodiversity Information Facility 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes nome do táxon Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, autor do táxon Oldfield Thomas, data de descrição científica 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes categoria taxonómica subespécie
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes táxon imediatamente superior cão-mapache
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes instância de táxon
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador de espécie MSW 14000828
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes identificador Global Biodiversity Information Facility 6164329
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes número de série taxonômico do ITIS 726879
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes naukowa nazwa taksonu Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes, autor nazwy naukowej taksonu Oldfield Thomas, data opisania naukowego 1923
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes kategoria systematyczna podgatunek
Nyctereutes procyonoides orestes takson nadrzędny jenot azjatycki
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Metro: Last Light - Sensitive Media vs Sensitive Content
There is, certainly in the last few years, a heightened sensitivity when it comes to adult game content. In particular, sexuality and violence are subjects that are closely watched and reprimanded whenever their graphic approach even borders on distasteful. Despite being in line with its narrative, Tomb Raider was criticized for even mentioning a possible rape scene and the developers had to apologize. Hitman Absolution was tackled even harder for a silly trailer, where it showed sexualized nuns being torn apart by Agent 47. In all fairness, Square Enix has some terrible PR campaigns, but I digress. Even God of War was called out for simply choosing the wrong words for a trophy.
Recently, Metro: Last Light released with a story containing all of these themes. Players come across several stages of human suffering; among them a graphic rape scene with some brutal dialogue. Sexual exploitation, objectification and abuse of women are also not shunned. So, why did so few media outlets pick up on this atrocious behavior? Is the game just not popular enough to register or might there be another reason for this omission? To answer that, we should look at these situations without tearing them apart from their context. This is something we should do with more games, deserving the same benefit of the doubt.
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As suggested by its name, Metro: Last Light takes place in the underground railways of Moscow. Therefore, its universe is condensed into these confined spaces, forcing its people closer together. This proximity creates new and more capricious tensions, where groups of people become more radical in their behavior. Inhabitants have found ways to split up in factions and resent other parties with vigor, to the point of warfare. Its this constant invasion, intruding on territory necessary for survival, which Metro: Last Light aptly depicts by showing us what happens when mankind is cornered. Just like wild animals, men become feral and lash out with extreme measures.
In essence, this world is distilled to its primal state. It's kill or be killed and anyone venturing outside the limited comfort zones has to stay armed and vigilant if they want to live another day. Yes, this is partially due to mutant monsters roaming the earth, killing anything in sight, but man is their own enemy here as well. If anything, Metro mirrors the similarities of man and beast in their dark boundaries. Visuals follow this somber theme, with light being a sporadic yet vital element in a world reigned by darkness. Death is everywhere, corpses plague the floors and any small hint of growth is a beautiful rarity indeed. For a shooter, Metro is quite poetic in its position. It proves that in this world there is little place for kindness.
This Is Not A Joke
This game is serious business. As shown above, this is the apocalypse which means that the time for pleasantries are over, which is a good thing. There are no exaggerated physics, no skill shots, no bonus points or other superfluous mechanisms. The closest that this shooter will come to graphic content is during executions, where players brutally slit the throat of their enemies. However, this is the reality of conflict. Sometimes, things get ugly. None of its content is facilitated either; everything is hard down in the metro. Even breathing requires a gas mask.
As such, the game's setting doesn't make light of any position. A kill isn't a glorious victory, but a necessary means for existence. People aren't singled out and objectified, as life in itself is a commodity in the current, fragile state. Power is stripped from both gratification and objectification in the game, as rarely does it feel like players are above their situation peering down. If anything, protagonist Artyom starts at the bottom, proving his worth to his comrades. He isn't rewarded with a sexual scene by a partner of his; he has shown that he is a soldier, a vital asset. His partner therefore chooses Artyom and allows him the privilege of being their bed partner. That's a stark contrast from simply being able to take what he wants.
The Choice Is Yours
Another strong concept in the game is that players have leniency when it comes to dictating their stance. One of the most critical points, particularly the rape scene, is the pinnacle of this choice factor. When roaming the railways, Artyom suddenly hears a woman crying for help. Shortly after, several male voices spout things that make your gut sink. It's a highly uncomfortable situation, as the severity of this scene is poignant. Still, to rescue the damsel, players need to actively halt their progress and explore a dark sideline. Even after intervening, soldiers around the corner snicker and ask if they need to help with dealing with the woman. Each word is like a dagger to the heart.
Alternatively, it is possible to simply drown out the sound and move on. There is so much ugliness down in this world that not all of it can be addressed, which heightens the sense of helplessness. Players aren't forced to be the hero, gallantly rescuing lesser people in some power fantasy; it's up to them to decide to risk their lives for another. Yes, rape and violence are present, but those that want to shun it, can do so periodically. The metro will have plenty more of this to offer in any case.
For Adult Eyes Only
Above reasons have shown that Metro: Last Light is not meant for younger audiences. It takes a certain understanding to assess this setting completely. There is little fun about the overall experience. Rather the contrary, tense moments are so frequent that this game will take from players, more than it gives in return. Dealing with so much tragedy becomes exhausting.
Doing so, Metro offers a great example of what mature gaming truly means. It's a complex and tough to handle game, leaving a mark long after it gets put down. Unlike its flashier peers, this isn't a shooter that one can just pick up and play. The struggles of Artyom and his people are too dark to simply skim past. It is comparable to a good book, which is doubly fitting, as the game is molded by a novel. Games like The Witcher series have had a similar life; spawning from books and depicting graphic moments. It all depends on how it's presented and with the constant reminder of powerless situations, players remain grounded when exploring the dark world of this game.
Getting Away With Murder
Metro: Last Light deserves commendation for its ability to employ a periodic recurring of frowned upon subjects, while still promoting a quality game. Certainly in this age of apprehensive behavior, where every piece of skin is put under the microscope and every drop of blood is weighed, it is astounding that the developers managed to put so much of it in their story.
By giving this content the attention and mature attitude that it needs, Metro: Last Light surpassed its peers, the Tomb Raiders and Hitmans or even Call of Duties of this world. It lurked in the shadows, came out fighting and proved its worth with an impactful narrative that keeps its players humble, never giving them an inch. Let's hope that this is taken as an example, both by gamers and the media, to open up the current trend of political correctness in games. If anything stays open for discussion, without immediately being shot down, it is possible to procure a splendid title in return. Metro managed to give us just that; others could as well, rape or not.
Posted: 5th Jun 2013 by Daav
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The Old Woodward's Building
weather: mostly sunny
outside: 14°C
mood: nostalgic
If you Google for the old +"Woodward's building" (100 W. Hastings Street) in Vancouver, you'll see that it's been a point of contention in the city. Since 1993, it's been a bloody mess of local politics, urban planning and social issues. It's been sitting empty but it looks like they're starting to make progress again on deciding what to do with it.
But there's almost nothing about it before 1993 which I find really sad, considering all the good memories I had of it before that.
The "W" sign is a local landmark. It used to slowly spin in place and the four sections of lights underneath it would come on in sequence, from bottom to top, then flash once together and repeat. I'm pretty certain I'm only one of thousands of kids who used to watch it, unblinkingly from a window at the top floor of a house.
Every Christmas, there were animated window displays at the street level. Each display was a different scene with motorized wooden figures. One was a group of carollers, one was a bunch of elves packaging gifts, bears playing in the snow, a sooty-faced chimney sweep on a ladder, etc. Since 1993, they've all been showcased every year at Christmas at Canada Place.
Woodward's was a giant department store with six floors that sold absolutely everything. Well, there was a seventh floor but it was Administration and was not accessible to the public. Department stores in Japan are like this. But, it's really no wonder they couldn't keep it going here. Shopping malls and warehouse-like places are probably much more cost efficient. Woodward's was The Bay and Eaton's biggest competitor. Eaton's has since disappeared, tried to make a come-back, wobbled around a bit and I think it's disappeared again. I think the only reason The Bay is still around is because of the Canadian historical and heritage aspect of the Hudson Bay Company.
The basement of Woodward's was the grocery floor. We never got anything there. Either their produce was never as fresh or it was much more expensive than Chinatown.
The Men's Department was half of the main floor. I think my Dad might have bought a belt here once. Most of the stuff was too expensive. I don't remember what the other half was... probably miscellaneous, jewelry repair, customer service, etc. Cosmetics and fragrances might have been on the main floor.
The second floor was the bargain floor, housewares, kitchen gadgets and appliances, outdoor gear (camping, fishing and what-not). I think the bargain floor was the only reason my family shopped at Woodward's. Especially on $1.49 Days. I still remember the jingle: "dollarfortyNINEday... TUES-day." =)
There was an old weigh scale that stood up against a pillar, on one side of this floor where we all went to weigh ourselves every week. It was one of those tall warehouse weigh scales with a big round face with a Metric and Imperial markings along the outer rim. The pointer needle would swing up when something was put on the platform. This one had a transparent face and you could see the gears moving inside it. And there was a sign on the wall behind it that said, "No springs! Honest weight!"
The first weight I remember being was 20 pounds on our first trip there shortly after we arrived in Canada. Yes, I was underweight for a 3 year old. The last time I was there as a teenager, I had just broken 100.
I watched my mother's weight go from 110 pounds to 135 pounds over the years. My Aunt Dorothy always hovered around 155-160. Aunt Alice, about 130. I made it a game to guess before they stepped on and then see if I was right. None of them made a big deal about their weight. They didn't make a big thing about me quipping, "Wow, you're heavy".
The third floor was the Women's Fashion. Clothes and shoes were on the third floor. The skywalk to the parkade was on the far end of this floor. There was a portrait studio near the parkade entrance where we got our citizenship photos and a few family portraits taken.
I'm pretty sure the parkade is now owned and operated by Imperial Parking Corp. Anyone and everyone who has gotten a $40 violation ticket for being there 5 minutes past 6pm would know. =P
The fourth floor was bed, bath and baby stuff. We didn't spend a lot of time here. It was a lot of expensive things that were not our style.
The fifth floor was furniture and home electronics. About a quarter of the floor was taken up by the pianos. I loved it when there was someone in the music department and they actually played when it wasn't busy. Over time, they just left the department unattended more and more often. I can't imagine inventory turnover would be very high for pianos and it was just useless to staff it fulltime.
SIXTH FLOOR - TOYS!!! Yeah, guess where I spent most of my time. My parents would drop me off here. In later years, I'd just go up there by myself. It was a safe enough world back then to be able to do this.
I'd read and play with stuff here while they shopped. I knew that if I broke anything or got it dirty, my parents would have to pay for it, so I was extra careful with everything I played with. I'd flip the pages of the books I read very carefully. And that made me careful about using anything that I owned and didn't own.
This is why I wasn't too traumatized to not have a lot of toys of my own. I'd never be short of anything to play with. For the hour or so that I was at Woodward's, all their toys were mine. They just couldn't come home with me, but they'd be there the next time we went. And I always got to play with the newest stuff.
Every year, at Christmas, they'd set up a section along one wall of the floor for the Enchanted Village (or something like that). It was more of the same type of motorized wooden figure displays as the ones at the street level. And at the end of the Enchanted Village was the Santa Photo booth. I don't think I ever got a picture with Santa, even when they didn't charge for the photos. In my family it was, "who the hell is Santa Claus and why do you need a picture with him?"
I don't really have an opinion as to what they should do with it. It would be nice to be able to keep the old "W" sign; it would be nice for the animated displays to be able to return home; it would be nice to clean that neighbourhood the hell up. But in the end, I just want them to do something and not let the space go to waste. It's been 11 years.
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Sep. 24th, 2004 06:06 pm (UTC)
Wow, thank you =)
So, where's the entry concerning your age?
End of October. Patience ;)
Sep. 26th, 2004 03:11 am (UTC)
Thanks for sharing the memories. ^__^
Though..I can't say I've ever been to woodwards...
I love reading your entries though, have you ever written stories or a book before?
Sep. 26th, 2004 10:33 am (UTC)
Thank you =)
Nope, I only write little gib and gabs. I nearly failed English every term in highschool, so I never thought I could write worth squat.
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Herod’s Wealth
Herod’s construction of Masada and many other massive building projects leave no doubt that Herod the Great had access to large amounts of gold and silver. But where his wealth came from and how much he had is not entirely clear. Several clues, however, concerning the sources and relative amounts of Herod’s immense wealth and his use of this money to achieve political ends can be found in the historical remains and from the records of Josephus Flavius. This article briefly identifies the main financial information known about Herod, outlines his political uses and principal sources of income, and appraises his economic resources in order, ultimately, to shed light on certain sums of money mentioned by Jesus in the New Testament.
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Microprobe Mapping of Rare Earth Element Distribution in Round Top Yttrofluorite Deposit
Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry
Vol.08 No.01(2018), Article ID:81920,17 pages
Microprobe Mapping of Rare Earth Element Distribution in Round Top Yttrofluorite Deposit
Nicholas E. Pingitore Jr.1*, Margaret Piranian1, Lorraine M. Negron1, Daniel Gorski2
1Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
2Texas Mineral Resources Corporation, Sierra Blanca, TX, USA
Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
Received: November 21, 2017; Accepted: January 21, 2018; Published: January 24, 2018
The electron microprobe maps the spatial distribution of elements in a rock at a sub-mineral-grain scale to provide a basis for understanding mineralization processes and to determine optimal strategies for extraction of valuable target elements. Round Top Mountain (near the town of Sierra Blanca, Hudspeth County, west Texas, USA) is a peraluminous rhyolite laccolith that is homogeneously mineralized at over 500 ppm rare earths, more than 70% of which are yttrium and heavy rare earths (YHREEs). The massive deposit is exposed at the surface as a mountain some 2 km in diameter and 375 m in height. Round Top Mountain also contains Li, Be, U, Th, Nb, Ta, Ga, Rb, Cs, Sn, and F. The valuable YHREEs are hosted in yttrofluorite, which is soluble in dilute sulfuric acid. Texas Mineral Resources Corporation proposes to surface mine, crush, and heap leach the deposit. The distribution of YHREEs, and that of other trace elements, is remarkably homogeneous at outcrop drill hole scale. Here we document that YHREE mineralization appears pervasive through the rhyolite at a millimeter scale. Back scattered electron (BSE) and characteristic X-ray maps reveal the fine grain size and apparently random and dispersed spatial distribution of the yttrofluorite that hosts Round Top’s valuable YHREEs. The yttrofluorite grains do not appear to cluster at special mineralized locations, e.g., in pores or along cracks in the rhyolite. The same is apparently true of such other potentially valuable minerals as cassiterite and uranium species. These findings confirm that the distribution of YHREEs in Round Top Mountain rhyolite is homogeneous through different orders of magnitude of scale, i.e., from outcrop (as seen in the companion work in this volume) to sub-thin section. The material thus is ideal for a heap leach operation where homogeneous feedstock is crucial to consistent and economic operation. The findings also confirm and explain why mechanical separation would prove very difficult and expensive due to the astronomical number of yttrofluorite grains in even a golf-ball-size piece of Round Top rhyolite.
Heavy Rare Earth Elements, Yttrofluorite, Electron Microprobe, Micromapping, Round Top
1. Introduction
The invaluable electronic, optical, and chemical properties enabled by compounds incorporating the rare earth elements (REEs) are prime drivers of new and emergent technologies. Advanced REE-based materials are fundamental to, for example, optical communication fibers, numerous types of lasers, the powerful permanent magnets found in the motors of hand tools and generators of wind turbines, various metal super-alloys, and catalysts for petroleum refining. Such additional future applications as widespread use of high-strength scandium-doped aluminum alloys depend on large, reliable supplies of specific REEs that are not currently available [1] [2] [3] .
Because some 90% or more of the global REE supply is sourced from China, there are concerns in the rest of the world about the stability and security of the REE supply chain [4] [5] . Growing domestic REE needs for a fast-expanding economy in China could limit the amounts of raw rare earths and rare-earth-containing products exported into the global trade [6] . The geologic extent of REE reserves and resources might be not be sufficient to ensure supply at reasonable cost in the future as REE applications expand [7] . The REE supply chain is also being challenged by possible mining curtailment due to growing concerns in China about environmental pollution from REE extraction [8] - [14] . Finally, geopolitical uncertainties in a world of shifting interests and government relationships represent an unpredictable challenge to a robust and uninterrupted international supply chain.
The most vulnerable REEs are the scarce heavy rare earths (HREEs), Gd to Lu, and typically including Y, herein labelled as YHREEs [1] [8] . These are almost exclusively sourced from the south China ion adsorption clays, and extracted by in situ caustic leaching [9] [10] . There is growing concern and regulation of artisanal and often illegal mining of these deposits due to the extensive environmental damage that often accompanies extraction [11] [12] [15] .
In response to potential and actual shortages or high costs of specific REEs, there is a search for new traditional deposits, as well as for exploitation of non-conventional deposits, and efforts at recycling [16] [17] [18] [19] .
A potential supplementary source of YHREEs is yttrofluorite ((Ca1−xY,HREEx)F2+x, isometric), a variety of the common mineral fluorite (CaF2, isometric) in which trivalent (3+) Y and HREEs substitute for bivalent Ca2+ to the extent of from 5% to 30% [20] . At present Round Top Mountain, near the town of Sierra Blanca in Hudspeth County, west Texas, USA, is the only documented site of extensive yttrofluorite mineralization [21] [22] .
The mountain is a laccolith, a mushroom-shaped igneous intrusion formed by magma squeezed up toward the surface that then spread out between older flat-lying rock units. The rock type at Round Top is rhyolite, a fine-grained relative of granite; it is 36 Ma (million years) in age as determined by radiometric dating [23] . The overlying weaker sedimentary rocks have gradually eroded, leaving most of the laccolith exposed as a mountain nearly 2 km in diameter and over 375 m high [24] [25] .
REEs are present in the rhyolite in excess of 500 ppm [26] . In contrast to most igneous REE deposits, at Round Top YHREEs are 72% of the total REEs (TREEs). Additional incompatible elements (those whose charge and size restrict their incorporation in most common rock-forming minerals) also are present in the rhyolite: Be, Li, Sn, Rb, Cs, Ga, Nb, Ta, U, and Th [26] .
After performing extensive laboratory tests, Texas Mineral Resources Corporation has proposed to extract the YHREEs via a heap leach with dilute H2SO4 [27] [28] [29] . The YHREE host yttrofluorite was found to be soluble in dilute sulfuric acid, a relatively inexpensive and widely available industrial chemical. The company also anticipates that they would be able to recover such byproduct elements as Li and U, also hosted in acid-soluble minerals.
In a companion paper in this volume (Remarkably Consistent Rare Earth Element Grades at Round Top Yttrofluorite Deposit) we documented the unusual homogeneity of the mineralization grade of the deposit at the scale of a set of exploratory drill holes that sampled roughly half of the exposure of massive Round Top Mountain [30] . In this current contribution we examine the rhyolite at a much finer scale to understand the microscopic distribution of the acid-soluble yttrofluorite that hosts the primary target YHREEs. We also examine the micro-distribution of potentially valuable byproduct elements.
Our primary purpose in creating and interpreting these maps is to delineate the distribution of the YHREE host mineral yttrofluorite at the microscopic level. This can help in the design of a heap leach that maximizes dissolution of the mineral and release of the YHREEs to the pregnant leach solution, without excessive cost of sulfuric acid. Likewise, one would like to maximize recovery of such valuable byproduct elements as U, Li, Be, and others. For example, if microprobe maps indicate that a particular element is present chiefly in an insoluble mineral, one would realize that it cannot be effectively recovered by the acid leach. Our secondary purpose is to provide insights to better understand the mineralization process, which would help in exploration for similar deposits elsewhere.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Rhyolite Sample Source and Preparation
For various mechanical and chemical laboratory studies TMRC produced a large composite sample by mixing several hundred kg of aliquot material recovered from >100 reverse circulation drill holes scattered across much of Round Top Mountain. We chose at random, subject to the selected pieces being large enough (about 2 - 3 cm), 15 rhyolite fragments from that material, to be cut and ground for fashioning into petrographic thin sections. The thin sections were ground down to the standard 30-µm thickness and mirror-polished (0.05-µm gamma aluminum oxide final step) for examination with the electron probe microanalyzer. The polished thin sections were cleaned in an ultrasonic bath followed by an ethanol rinse immediately before carbon coating. Under rough-pump vacuum a minuscule layer of carbon was sputtered onto the surface of the sections to provide electrical conductivity to drain electrons received from the microprobe beam.
2.2. Electron Microprobe Mapping
Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) was performed on a Cameca SX-50 (upgraded to SX-100 capability) instrument with 4 wavelength dispersive spectrometers (WDS). Image scans of a total of 16 elements (Y, Dy, Yb, F, U, Th, Nb, Sn, Zr, Rb, Ca, Na, K, Fe, Al, Si) plus back scattered electron (BSE) images were collected on multiple thin sections. Characteristic X-ray mapping was performed in WDS mode by continuous stage raster across a 2 × 2 mm field at a 512 × 512 pixel resolution, or more than 250,000 individual analyses for each element on each map. Beam conditions were 20 KeV accelerating voltage and 200 or 250 nA current. These specific conditions are given at the bottom of each map image.
Time for each run, typically using all 4 spectrometers, ranged from 1.5 to 12 hours, depending on the concentrations in the element set being analyzed. Low- concentration minor and trace elements required longer analysis times than the high-concentration major and rock-forming elements. Dwell time per pixel was 140 msec for minor and trace element scans, and 20 msec for major element scans.
Na was analyzed using the K-α line on a TAP diffracting crystal; Al using the K-α line on a TAP crystal; K using the K-α line on a PET crystal; Fe using the K-α line on a LIF crystal; F using the K-α line on a TAP crystal; Si using the K-α line on a TAP crystal; Sr using the L-α line on a TAP crystal; Rb using the L-α line on a TAP crystal; Y using the L-α line on a TAP crystal; Sn using the L-α line on a PET crystal; Nb using the L-α line on a TAP crystal; Dy using the L-α line on a LIF crystal; Yb using the M-α line on a TAP crystal; U using the M-α line on a PET crystal; Th using the M-α line on a PET crystal; and Zr using the L-α line on a TAP crystal. LIF is lithium fluoride, PET is pentaerythritol, and TAP is thallium acid phthalate. Spectrometers were peaked and optimized to the specific emission lines using appropriate Astimex and Cameca microanalysis standards.
Gray scales of images were manually adjusted to best depict mineral and elemental features of particular interest. Adjustment of gray scale is useful when studying and interpreting a particular map, especially for establishing background signal. In the maps in the following section we have chosen an appropriate gray scale that best presents the salient features of interest.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Optical Views: Major Minerals
Figure 1 presents, for reference, several blocks of Round Top Mountain rhyolite and two photomicrographs of the rhyolite taken in reflected light. Pinkish color of some material is caused by incipient or partial oxidation of magnetite (Fe3O4, isometric) grains. Large geometric forms in photomicrographs are feldspar phenocrysts with albite (NaAlSi3O8, triclinic) cores and K-spar (orthoclase, KAlSi3O8, monoclinic) rims. Quartz (SiO2, trigonal) is present as gray-to-clear material in the groundmass surrounding the large phenocrysts. These three common rock-forming minerals comprise 90% - 95% of the rhyolite.
The fine-grained groundmass, which contains the REEs and other potentially valuable elements, typically ranges in size from perhaps 20 µm to sub-micron grains. The groundmass has proven difficult to study by conventional petrographic optical microscopy with standard polarized transmitted light due to multiple scattering at grain boundaries, creating hazy images. Here we use reflected light to discern the major rhyolite mineralogy.
3.2. Electron Microprobe Maps: Major Elements―Iron
Figure 2 presents, left, the backscattered electron (BSE) image of a 2 × 2 mm portion of a typical thin section of Round Top Mountain rhyolite. In a BSE image the brightest areas are those from which the most electrons from the
Figure 1. Left: Four blocks of Round Top rhyolite, largest 5 cm in length. Pink samples result of oxidation of iron minerals. Right: Phenocrysts of albite (NaAlSi3O8, triclinic) overgrown by K-spar (orthoclase, KAlSi3O8, monoclinic), approximately 200 µm in both reflected-light photomicrographs. Quartz (SiO2, trigonal) seen as gray-to-clear material in the groundmass. Black in lower photo (pink sample) is magnetite (Fe3O4, isometric).
Figure 2. Left: BSE image of 2 × 2 mm area of petrographic thin section of Round Top Mountain rhyolite. Bright areas correspond to minerals containing higher-Z elements. Right: X-ray map of same area with detector optimized to count photons of only a specific Fe emission wavelength. Brightest areas have highest Fe content. Note correspondence of these areas to bright areas in BSE map. Mineral is magnetite, Fe3O4, which also commonly is observed in hand specimens and in optical microscope examination of the rhyolite. Note square form of some white areas, reflecting the common cubic crystal habit of this member of the isometric crystal system. Gray areas correspond to other minerals with lower Fe content.
bombarding source beam of electrons are expulsed from the sample and collected at a ring of overhead detectors. High-Z (Z = atomic number) elements expel more electrons than low-Z elements. Thus the brightest areas represent minerals that are composed of or incorporate high-Z elements. For multi-element minerals, the BSE brightness is determined by the average Z of the material. For reference, the igneous-rock-forming minerals in rhyolite contain chiefly low-Z elements, e.g., O, Si, Al (aluminosilicates), plus varying amounts of K, Na, Ca, etc.
3.3. Electron Microprobe Maps: Major Elements―Potassium, Silicon, and Aluminum
Figure 3 shows the distribution of the three major minerals that comprise 90% - 95% of Round Top Mountain rhyolite: albite, quartz, and orthoclase or K-spar. All three are common rock-forming minerals. Both feldspars contain nearly the same amounts of Si and of Al and thus appear as single shades of gray on their respective elemental maps. The difference between the two minerals is apparent in the K map: black (no K) for the Na-rich albite cores and white for the K-spar (high potassium) rims. The BSE image of the K-spar (KAlSi3O8) is brighter than
Figure 3. Left: BSE image of 2 × 2 mm area of petrographic thin section of Round Top Mountain rhyolite, and X-ray maps of same area for K, Si, and Al. Bulk rhyolite is approximately 74% SiO2, 13% Al2O3, and 4% K2O. Examples of the three major minerals are identified both by their shape (feldspars) and by their elemental compositions. Black areas on X-ray maps indicate that a particular element is not present in that region. Note, for example, how Si here is black at loci of Fe in Figure 2, or how K map exhibits the most black since it is the least abundant of the 3 elements displayed.
that of the albite (NaAlSi3O8) due to the higher Z of K than that of Na, giving a higher average Z to that mineral.
3.4. Electron Microprobe Maps: Minor Mineral―Cryolite
Cryolite (Na3AlF6, monoclinic) occurs as a minor mineral at Round Top, present at levels up to a few percent reported in some samples. The identification and distribution of cryolite is illustrated in Figure 4 [24] [25] [31] . This particular sample displays several large grains in addition to dispersed smaller crystals. The formation of cryolite is associated with significant amounts of fluorine in the residual magma. This particular thin section contained more than the typical amount of cryolite characteristic of the Round Top Mountain deposit.
In the past, cryolite was sought as a flux for electrolytic aluminum production and therefore had significant commercial value. That market has been superseded by the industrial production of synthetic sodium hexafluoroaluminate.
3.5. Electron Microprobe Maps: Yttrofluorite
The next two X-ray maps indicate the distribution of YHREEs in two samples of Round Top rhyolite. In Figure 5, ten corresponding (identical position on map)
Figure 4. Left: Sodium map. Right: Fluorine map. Top right: Al map. Cryolite (Na3AlF6, monoclinic) is observed in the pixel areas where bright gray levels of Na, F, and Al superimpose. Cryolite is a common minor mineral at Round Top. Dull gray in Na map shows outlines of albite feldspar cores (compare to Figure 3).
Figure 5. Left: Yttrium map. Top right: Ytterbium map; Bottom right: Dysprosium map. Note strong correlation of Y and Yb locations, indicating their presence together in a mineral, here yttrofluorite. Dy map, with a lower intensity brightness level, shows similar pattern on careful inspection.
grains enriched in Y and Yb are relatively easy to discern; several additional fainter spots are possible grains. The Dy map is fainter and fewer correspondences are obvious. (Large, hazy gray areas, seen on close, enlarged inspection, correspond to magnetite grains. An Fe emission line tails off to the Dy emission line, an interference that leads to the apparent, but false, presence of a small amount of Dy). Note that the composition of yttrofluorite is quite variable because it involves substitution of Y and each of the HREEs for the Ca2+ cation in the fluorite lattice. The levels and proportions of these substitutions differ and are independent of each other. Thus one yttrofluorite grain can have, for example, more Y and less Dy than another grain.
Figure 6 presents a typical electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of the REE content of an yttrofluorite grain. The relative concentrations in this EPMA analysis are reasonably similar to the overall bulk HREE content of Round Top rhyolite, as seen in Table 1.
Figure 7 is intended to permit visualization of the spatial intersections of Y, Ca, and F X-ray maps. The overlapping areas correspond to yttrofluorite grains. Between 10 and 20 yttrofluorite grains occur in each Figure 5 and Figure 7. That number of grains is typical of the 15 thin sections that were studied and mapped (at least one 2 × 2 mm area on each). Most grains were under 10 μm in 2-dimensional size. For the following inquiry, we choose a conservative 10 grain figure of merit as the minimum number of target yttrofluorite grains per 2 × 2 mm
Figure 6. Wavelength dispersive (WDS) X-ray emission spectrum of an yttrrofluorite grain, using a synthetic LiF (lithium fluoride) diffracting crystal. Horizontal scale is sinθ × 105, angle of diffracting crystal; vertical scale is relative intensity, based on number of emitted characteristic X-ray photons detected. Labels, above actual ragged spectrum, identify element and specific electronic transition (Lα, Lβ). Relative height of peak corresponds roughly to concentration level of the element relative to neighboring elements, for a given transition, but over the entire scan range sensitivity of the detection system changes. Lα peaks as a group always exhibit higher intensities than Lβ peaks.
Figure 7. X-ray map of a different sample than Figure 5. Left: Yttrium map. Right: Calcium map: Top right: Fluorine map. Circles on Ca map delineate Ca bright spots that correspond to bright spots on Y map. (More corresponding spots of lesser intensity are found on careful inspection of the two maps). Several correspondences are highlighted on the F map; more also are seen by close inspection. At least 12 and perhaps 20 yttrofluorite grains are present.
Table 1. Average REE content at Round Top Mountaina.
a: Data from NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment [27] .
area in the rhyolite, or 2.5 grains per square mm. Next we assume that the EPMA sampled to a maximum depth of 5 μm (penetration of electron beam) and that sampled grains at the surface did not extend below that depth in size. A 1-mm (1000-μm) cube of the rhyolite can be considered to comprise 200 such 5-μm-thick “layers” and thus the cube contains 200 × 2.5, or 500 yttrofluorite grains. Viewed from a mining processing standpoint, each crushed chunk for the anticipated TMRC heap leach, with a nominal crush size of ~1 - 1.5 inches (~25 - 38 mm), would contain, rounded off, on the order of 10 to 25 million yttrofluorite grains.
3.6. Electron Microprobe Maps: Other Elements―Rubidium
Rubidium has a number of specialized industrial and scientific applications but overall its market as a commodity is limited in value. For example, the US currently does not produce any rubidium, but has been importing its needs from a single pegmatite mine in Canada, which is now closed and exporting stockpile supplies. Some Rb, and its partner element Cs, have been recovered in leaching experiments with dilute sulfuric acid performed on Round Top Mountain rhyolite.
Figure 8 indicates that most of the Rb, and presumably the Cs, in the rhyolite substitutes for K in the orthoclase feldspar. Since the feldspars are largely insoluble in dilute sulfuric acid, the source of most of the leached Rb is presumed to be the annite-type mica that is an accessory mineral dispersed throughout the rhyolite [24] [25] [31] [32] . The small, white spots on the Rb map are presumed to be grains of annite mica, with a higher Rb content than the K-spar.
3.7. Electron Microprobe Maps: Other Elements―Uranium and Thorium
Uranium is an important potential byproduct at Round Top, one that is saleable with a reasonably long-term and transparent marketplace demand. Much of the U is recovered in bench-scale leach tests with dilute sulfuric acid. Thorium, however, is also released in that process. This mildly radioactive element has only a small current market; the promising thorium nuclear power reactor is not yet a reality so a market for Th fuel has not developed. Thorium is seen as a penalty in mining since it is regulated as a radioactive waste in many venues and therefore by legislation it requires proper isolation and secure storage.
In Figure 9 the U and Th bright spots coincide, indicating residence in similar host minerals. The figure informs us that U and Th will leach together since they reside in the same host minerals. Other optical microscopy and electron probe microanalysis studies have identified a number of U-Th minerals in the Round Top rhyolite [24] [25] [27] [31] . Note that as is typical for Round Top mineralization, the distribution of U- and Th-containing minerals is both disperse and random.
3.8. Electron Microprobe Maps: Other Elements―Tin and Zirconium
Tin and zirconium also are potential valuable byproducts at Round Top. Figure 10 shows that these two minor elements are dispersed in the rhyolite in their chief mineral hosts, cassiterite (SnO2, tetragonal) and zircon (ZrSiO4, tetragonal). These minerals have been identified in prior studies by optical microscopy and electron probe microanalysis. The zircons also contain zirconium’s highly valued cousin, hafnium, which assays in the bulk rhyolite rock at a level of nearly 80 ppm.
Unfortunately, neither of these minerals is soluble in the dilute sulfuric acid that would be used at Round Top Mountain to recover the YHREEs. Extraction would require mechanical beneficiation with expensive fine grinding to release the cassiterite and zircon from their locked positions in the groundmass of the rhyolite. Preliminary laboratory studies suggest that fine grinding of the spoils after the acid heap leach could be feasible. The leaching damages the integrity of
Figure 8. Left: Rb X-ray map. Right: K X-ray map. Most of the Rb is seen to be substituting for K in the K-spar, light areas surrounding dark albite feldspar phenocryst cores. Several small brighter areas are present on the Rb map. These most likely are grains of annite (KFe2+3AlSi3O10(OH)2, monoclinic) or related mica in which Rb has been concentrated.
Figure 9. Left: Uranium X-ray map. Right: Thorium X-ray map. Not surprisingly, the distributions of U and Th in the rhyolite are seen to largely coincide. The half-dozen brightest grains closely overlap, as do several less intense bright spots.
the rhyolite and could result in lower costs to reach a fine particle size by grinding.
3.9. Electron Microprobe Maps: Other Elements―Niobium and Tantalum
Niobium and its close geochemical relative tantalum are both enriched in the Round Top Mountain rhyolite. They are found chiefly in the mineral solid
Figure 10. Left: Tin X-ray map. Right: Zirconium X-ray map. The four bright Sn spots do not coincide with any of the Zr bright areas. (Careful measurement of the location of the Sn spot on the right side of the map shows it does not overlap either of the two large Zr areas).
solution of columbite ((Fe,Mn)Nb2O6)―tantalite ((Fe,Mn)Ta2O6), both orthorhombic. Nb is an important alloy in high strength metals and “coltan” ore is widely sought to extract Ta for use in the capacitors essential for cell phones and other electronic devices. Despite the relatively high value of these elements, Figure 11 suggests that extraction of the columbite―tantalite grains would be extremely difficult. The fine grain size and the dispersed and random distribution of the material would require expensive grinding to create particles that free the target mineral. As with the cassiterite and zircon, post-leach grinding and release might be economically feasible if the acid leach attack sufficiently weakens the rhyolite and favorably lowers its crushing strength.
3.10. Significance
BSE and characteristic X-ray maps reveal the fine grain size and apparently random and dispersed spatial distribution of the yttrofluorite that hosts Round Top’s valuable YHREEs. The yttrofluorite grains do not appear to cluster at special mineralized locations, e.g., in pores or along cracks in the rhyolite. This supports the model of a pervasive late magmatic stage mineralization effected by a supercritical fluid phase [22] [25] [31] .
The microprobe maps indicate that mechanical separation of the minuscule yttrofluorite grains would require breaking down the rhyolite to a sub-millimeter scale. Such an operation would be inefficient and prohibitively expensive.
Random and dispersed distributions, and generally small grain sizes, also characterize the occurrences of such other valuable minerals as cassiterite, zircon, and uranium species. Considerable amounts of uranium are recovered by sulfuric acid leaching, but little tin and zirconium. These elements would require fine
Figure 11. Niobium and tantalum X-ray map. These two elements occur together at Round Top in the mineral solid solution columbite―tantalite. Distribution of grains appears random and disperse. Only Nb was actually mapped; Ta is included by association.
grinding for release and extraction from the rhyolite.
3.11. Future Directions
Mapping of additional elements by electron microprobe would complement the current study. This could add data to the current mineralization model. Also, mapping of larger areas, but at coarser scale, would provide additional insight into the distribution of the major minerals, i.e., quartz, albite, K-spar, annite and magnetite. This would assist in understanding the earlier phases of magma cooling and mixing processes.
We currently are deriving detailed mineralogical maps from these X-ray maps using a combination of multivariate statistical analysis and GIS (geographic information system) techniques. This approach, using a published software tool, automates the presentation of the relationship between mineralogical composition and rock texture [33] .
A comparison study of crush strengths of the rhyolite pre- and post-leaching would suggest whether the acid corrosion weakens the rock sufficiently to render crushing and milling to a fine grain sizes economically feasible. If that should prove to be the case, it would be possible to evaluate the economics of recovery of cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, and zircon.
4. Conclusions
These findings confirm that the distribution of YHREEs in Round Top Mountain rhyolite is homogeneous through different orders of magnitude of scale, i.e., from outcrop (as seen in the companion work in this volume) to sub-thin section. The material thus is ideal for a heap leach operation, where homogeneous feedstock is crucial to consistent and economic operation. The findings also confirm and explain why mechanical separation would prove very difficult and expensive due to the astronomical number of yttrofluorite grains even in a golf-ball-size piece of Round Top rhyolite.
Microprobe mapping has proved important to our understanding of rock processing on a bulk scale. It helps to explain why some elements leach effectively from the rhyolite and others do not. That knowledge can guide optimization of the recovery process, a change in technical approach to recovery, or abandonment of the pursuit of a potential byproduct target element.
The authors thank Texas Mineral Resources Corporation for providing samples for this study and access to company proprietary technical data. This project was supported by joint research contracts 26-8211-12 and 26-8211-16 between TMRC and the University of Texas at El Paso. Funds to cover the costs to publish in open access were obtained from this source.
N.E.P. serves on the Board of Directors of TMRC. He is not and has never been an employee of TMRC, nor has he received any compensation from the research contracts that supported this research. M.P., who managed the UTEP Microprobe Laboratory and performed the analyses, declares no potential conflicts. She received no compensation for participating in the project. L.M.N. declares no potential conflicts and received no compensation for project participation. D.G. is the CEO of TMRC and serves on its Board of Directors. The funding sponsor, TMRC, had no role in the decision to publish the results.
Cite this paper
Pingitore Jr., N.E., Piranian, M., Negron, L.M. and Gorski, D. (2018) Microprobe Mapping of Rare Earth Element Distribution in Round Top Yttrofluorite Deposit. Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, 8, 15-31. https://doi.org/10.4236/ampc.2018.81002
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Daddy, I Love You
Light streamed in from the bedroom window and Kim's alarm clock blared in her ear. She squeezed her already closed eyes and took a deep intake of breath before tensing her muscles and stretching her arms above her head. The bed shifted beside her and she cracked a single eye open, catching her spouse heading toward the bathroom. The redhead sighed and turned over to slam off the stupid noise maker.
Lazily, she rolled out of bed and shuffled out the door. The soft carpet of the bedroom soon gave way to the cold hardwood of the hallway and kitchen. Fatigue pounded her all over and her body begged her to just go back to bed and sleep the day away. But the woman knew she could do no such thing. So instead, Kim walked into the kitchen before starting the morning coffee. It was already ten. He should be up by now. Right?
Kim stood at the counter forever just staring at the phone lying in its cradle. The red light on the side told her it was charging. The little crimson dot seemed to hold her focus more than such a meaningless thing should.
The woman jumped when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her waist and the pressure of the captors protruding stomach touched her back.
"Just call him," her wife whispered, burying her face in the redhead's neck.
Kim sighed and summed up the courage before reaching forward and picking up the phone. Quickly, she typed in the familiar number and held it to her ear. It rang once, twice, three ti-
"Hello?" came her mother's voice.
"Mom," the woman said with a smile. "Hey."
"Kim? Kimmie? Is that you?"
"Yeah," she breathed. "Yeah, it's me. Um…is…is Dad around?" She tried to make her voice as light as possible. Shego pressed a reassuring kiss to her shoulder.
There was a pause. "Hold on. I'll get him." Again there was a pause. Kim felt a round of nervousness spike through her and her knees started shaking. Her wife held her tighter. The redhead could hear voices in the back ground.
"I don't want to talk to her." Her father.
"Honey, please, she's still you daughter," her mother pleaded.
"Not until she leaves that woman."
Tears welled up in her eyes and Kim took a deep shuddering breath. Shego squeezed her. Then Kim turned in the pale woman's arms so she was facing her. She reached up and caught a tear sliding down the redhead's cheek, whipping it away.
The line went silent for a second or two before her mother's voice filtered back through the phone. "Kimmie? He's a little busy right now."
"Oh," the woman said neutrally but her heart broke in her chest.
"So how are things?"
"Fine. Everything's fine."
"Yeah? Did you get that promotion?"
The redhead gulped down more tears. "Yeah, but I turned it down. I decided I'd take a break from GJ for a little while. I'm writing a book right now."
"That's great, honey. How's Shego doing?"
The tightening of her chest relieved a bit a she let a small smile touch her lips as she looked up at her beautiful wife. "She's doing okay."
"And the baby?"
Kim's smile widened and she reached forward to rub the bulge under Shego's tank top. "She's fine, too. Only four months now."
"That's wonderful. I'll pass the news on to your father."
The younger Possible paused and took a breath. "Mom," she stopped again and sighed. "Why does…why does he hate me so much?"
"Kimmie," her mother said in a soothing, maternal voice. "He doesn't hate you."
"Yes, he does, Mom."
"No, he just…doesn't like…"
"That I'm gay?" she finished for the older woman.
"He doesn't understand. Give him time."
"It's been four years."
"I know. He'll come around. You'll see."
"Sure, whatever you say." Kim sighed again and looked down, crossing her free arm under her breasts. "Look, I've got to go. Shego has an appointment this morning. Tell Dad I say, happy birthday. Please?"
Mrs. Possible paused then, "Of course, sweetie. Good luck with the doctor and don't wait so long next time to call."
Kim smiled. "Don't worry, Mom. I won't. In fact, I'll call you right after we get home. Okay?"
"I'd like that."
Kim paused for a moment before saying in a small voice, "Bye."
"Bye, Kimmie."
The woman sighed before pulling the phone away from her ear and ending the call. She absently pressed it to her lips as she stared off into nothingness.
"Hey," Shego called softly, breaking Kim from her haze. "It'll be okay."
The redhead forced a smile and leaned up to peck her wife's lips. "I know. Still hurts though."
The ex-villain nodded and reached up to cup the younger woman's face. "It will for a while. But soon enough, you'll hardly notice it."
Kim smiled and playfully turned her wife around and slapped her butt lightly. "Go get ready. We gotta leave here in half an hour."
Shego smirked back at her before walking back to the bedroom. Once she was alone, the redhead's smile faltered and she sighed. She closed her eyes and leaned against the counter.
Would it really get better someday? She hoped so. God, she really hoped so. Her father would never let it go. He'd never understand. And eventually, her mother would stop trying to make him. Kim knew this. Shego knew this. Hell, even Mrs. Possible knew this.
Kim sighed again and followed her spouse's path to the room. Oh well. His loss. He'd never get to know his daughter. Or his granddaughter. Or his daughter-in-law. Or how truly happy Kim was. He'd just see her though those wickedly judgmental eyes of his. Well, if that's the case, screw him. Just screw him.
A small, almost evil smile touched the woman's lips. Yeah, screw him. She'd live her life happily. And her own way. He can't accept that, than too bad!
Kim spent the rest of the day ignoring the dull ache in her heart.
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
A Dry Heat: My Grand Canyon Adventure
Running the Grand Canyon was something that had interested me for a couple years. I first learned about it from a work acquaintance and now friend while attending a work event in Indianapolis. As I immersed myself further into distance, trail, and ultra running (defined as anything farther than a marathon - 26.2 miles), I heard of more people attempting what's known as a Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim, R3, or double crossing. Depending on the route, it's between 42 and 48 miles with more than 10,000 feet of climbing.
Having spent a lot of time over the past few years running on roads, I decided to run a trail 50k (31.1 miles) this spring. Running roads can get mundane and be hard on legs. Trails ease the impact and provide much more diversity - there are substantial elevation gains, elevation descents, roots, rocks, creeks, and more scenic landscapes. While I don't like the time it takes to do the long training runs it takes to complete an ultra, there are many more trail ultras than short trail races and my ability to finish toward the front of the field seems to be better in longer races.
I ran into a different work acquaintance, friend, and fellow endurance athlete this past January and mentioned to him my interest in doing an R3 this fall. Coincidently, he had plans to run it the first weekend in June. I told him I'd love to do it with him, as running with others would be much safer but that I was nervous to do it during the summer months. The Grand Canyon has extreme temperature variations. In the winter, there will be snow in the high elevations and several of the water stops will be turned off. In the summer, temperatures are typically well over 100 degrees in the canyon. The ideal times are therefore either Spring or Fall.
After giving it a lot of thought I decided to do a double crossing of the Grand Canyon the first weekend of June. Despite the risk of high temperatures, it was a convenient time for me to go because I needed to be in Las Vegas for work the following week and could simply extend my trip by 2 days. Furthermore I knew I'd be in great shape coming off the 50k race in mid May. Unfortunately my buddy was going to run it June 3 and I didn't want to miss my son's birthday, so I couldn't go with him. I therefore decided June 5 would be the day and I would do it solo.
Although going solo poses some additional risk, there were several reasons I was in favor of it. First, by going solo I could go at my own pace and know that I wouldn't accidentally push someone beyond their limits and someone else wouldn't push me beyond mine. I could go at my own pace and as fast as my body would safely allow. Furthermore, running is something I do to put my mind in a meditative state. I rarely run with others or with music. Running alone for that amount of time would surely have cognitive health benefits I would not be able to achieve if running with others.
My first 50k trail race on May 14 went well. I finished 8th overall (209 finishers) and 2nd in my age group. The plan was to use the 3 weeks between the 50k and the Grand Canyon to make sure my body was fully healed from the damage of the 50k race and to acclimate myself to being exposed to extreme heat. Following the race, I took 6 days off and then began logging miles with multiple layers of clothing. I also sat through 6 sauna sessions at 180 degrees, whereas I would sit as long as I could handle it, run 2-4 miles on the treadmill and then revisit the sauna. On the Thursday before the R3 I made it for 2x 30 minute sessions with a 4 mile run in between.
My flight was scheduled to leave Madison for Phoenix at 5:30a Saturday morning, and the plan was to start my run from the south rim of the Grand Canyon Sunday morning shortly before dawn. The day before I was supposed to leave, I began to get really nervous. The forecast was calling for record temperatures of 111 degrees at Phantom Ranch, which is at the bottom of the Canyon. Although I knew I was in good shape and worked to acclimate myself for high temperatures, I was very inexperienced when it came to adventures like this. On a Facebook group dedicated to running the Grand Canyon, a concerned moderator posted a note, asking if anyone in the Facebook community was going to run that weekend. I replied and stated I was planning to run but that I felt confident in my preparation. My post triggered a series of responses from several concerned people, some of them calling me an idiot and others expressing genuine concern. The moderator composed an extensive post making several suggestions - one of which was to leave at 6p Saturday evening in order to minimize my time running in the heat of the day. I agreed to consider his suggestion, depending on how I felt when I arrived at the Canyon Saturday afternoon after a long day of travel.
At about 10p Friday night, as I was finishing my packing, my buddy who ran it that day gave me a call. His crew of 3 people had made it from the South Rim to the North Rim but decided to spend the night before heading back to the South Rim. They had some other friends who were hiking the Canyon and therefore had access to hotel rooms on the North Rim. He said the heat was unbearable and that one of the guys in his group suffered significantly the last several miles, moving very slowly and at times appearing as though his health may have been at risk. He was completely caught off guard on how difficult the run was and how the heat affected them.
At this point I was really getting really nervous. I questioned, "Should I cancel my trip? Should I cut the run short and do a Rim to River to Rim? There's no shame in staying safe." I decided it was too late to cancel my flight so after four hours of sleep, I grabbed my bags and headed to the airport.
I landed in Phoenix at about 10:30a that Saturday morning, picked up my rental car and made my way north. I made a detour to see Sedona, which is a beautiful town about half way between Phoenix and the Canyon. A hiker or runner could easily spend several days exploring its beauty.
I eventually made it Tusayan, AZ, which is about 6 miles south of the Canyon, and checked into my hotel. I was able to get about 45 minutes of sleep and then began packing for the night that lie ahead.
The goal was to pack light - whereas I'd minimize the beating my legs would receive that would inevitably come with almost 11,000 feet of descent. However, I wanted to bring enough nutrition and emergency supplies in case something went wrong. Traveling in the dark, with incredible heat, and in a place I'd never been created so many opportunities for things to go poorly. In my pack I included the following:
• 3L of total fluid carrying capacity (a 2L bladder and 2x 500ml flasks)
• Almost 3,000 calories of bars and gummies - the goal was to pack the most calorie dense, healthy items I could find with a mix of carbs, protein, and fat
• 4 pouches (1,000 calories total) of Hammer Perpetuem drink mix which I used in one of the two 500ml flasks)
• Enough Endurolyte (electrolyte capsules by Hammer) to allow me to maintain a safe electrolyte / water balance in excessive heat for up to 30 hours; a common mistake made by endurance athletes in extreme heat during prolonged events is taking in too much water without sodium, causing Hyponatremia - a potentially deadly condition resulting in brain swelling
• Amino acids to minimize muscle damage
• A headlamp, a backup battery, and a spare headlamp
• Collapsable carbon trekking poles
• Body glide for inevitable chaffing
• Bandaids
• Sunscreen
• Extra contacts
• An emergency blanket
• A water filtration system
• A backup battery charger for my phone and watch
• An ambient temperature sensor
• My phone
• A selfie stick
• Sunglasses
For clothing I wore Altra trail shoes, blister resistant socks, very lightweight running shorts, a shirt designed to cool the skin, cooling sleeves, and a lightweight hat.
While on my drive from the hotel to the Canyon I was greeted by several elk, including this big guy.
I made it to the South Rim of the Canyon at about 6:15p that Saturday evening with the temperature at 88 degrees. The enormity of the Grand Canyon is something that pictures cannot represent. I had seen so many pictures and read so many tales of Grand Canyon adventures that I thought I knew how it would feel to stand at the South Rim; I truly had no idea. I had intensely conflicting feelings of both excitement and fear. At this point I tried to call home twice in order to tell my kids I loved them.
I grabbed a shuttle from the Visitor Center to the start of the South Kaibab trail. There are two commonly used South Rim trailheads for R3 runners - Bright Angel and South Kaibab. South Kaibab is at a slightly higher elevation, is about 3 miles shorter, and has no water stops. I elected to go down South Kaibab and back up Bright Angel which I anticipated would be the most difficult and hot part of the trip. Even though Bright Angel would be a few miles longer, having 3 water stops in the last 4.5 miles of the journey would likely be needed in order to make it out safely.
At 6:38p I began my journey. I ran as much as I could while taking care of my quads. The path was rough, requiring me to walk more than I was hoping. Running along the South Kaibab trail while the sun was setting in the Grand Canyon was incredible. The pictures below do not do the intense colors caused by the setting sun reflecting off the red canyon rocks any justice.
I eventually made it to the Colorado River. The frequent stops to take pictures and challenging trail conditions meant it took me almost 2 hours to go the first 7 miles. Oddly, even though the sun was setting, the temperature climbed. By the time I made it Phantom Ranch, at the bottom of the Canyon and on the other side of the Colorado River, the temperature was 95 degrees. Just before Phantom Ranch is Bright Angel Campground. As I walked through the campground, I was approached by a barefooted man asking me where the Ranger station was located. His wife was feeling the effects of the extreme heat and needed medical assistance. I helped him find the Ranger station and then found my first of many water spigots.
While I was filling up, I met a couple (Troy and Eefy - a shortened Nigerian name) from Phoenix who were hiking R3. Troy had hiked in the Canyon before and has had multiple encounters with rattlesnakes. He warned that they're nocturnal, especially in summer months when the temperatures at hot. This advice, although much appreciated, made me incredibly paranoid. As if it wasn't nerve racking enough to be moving swiftly through a foreign place with the only light coming from a headlamp. The added stress of thinking every stick was a snake surely raised my heart rate by 5 bpm.
With high temps, climbing elevation, dark night, and fear of rattle snakes, I walked most of the remaining 14 miles to the top of the North Rim. I took care to make sure I consumed plenty of water, electrolytes, and calories. I'm guessing I probably went through 6 liters of water that evening before finally making it to the North Rim at about 2:20a Sunday morning. Despite feeling like I was drinking a lot, my urine was dark yellow and I wasn't urinating frequently which meant I needed to drink more. The dry air and extreme heat was taking more fluid from my body than I thought.
After 21 miles I made it to the North Rim; the temperature was a mere 44 degrees and it was windy. Although the air left my arms, legs, and torso dry, my back - covered by my hydration pack - was completely drenched. I was so preoccupied by the heat and forecast at the South Rim (a lesser elevation than the North) that I didn't think about how cold it might be at 8,200 ft in the middle of the night.
Instead of immediately heading back to the South Rim, I decided to camp out on the North Rim for a couple hours. I was tired and really wanted to see the North Rim in daylight. Luckily I packed an emergency blanket and tried to stay covered and warm on a park bench. Unfortunately all I could do was stare up at the sky, filled with amazingly bright stars, and shiver. Eventually I decided it would be best to move into the bathroom, where I was able to curl up in the corner and catch 30 minutes or so of sleep. When I came out, Troy and Eefy were there. They had made it and were going to head back as well.
At about 4:20a with the sky still dark, I headed South - again, trying to run as much as I could without doing crippling damage to my quads. I was so happy I waited to make the return trip. The North Rim was so beautiful and very different than the South Rim. Again, the pictures on this page do not do what I witnessed that morning any justice.
As I moved South, the temperature rose in a hurry. I'm guessing that within 30 minutes of it getting light, the temperature was already 75 degrees and by the time I had dropped from 8,200 feet to 2,800 feet the temperature was over 100 degrees. Perhaps what was more difficult was the pain I felt in my legs and feet. By mile 30 I had descended approximately 9,000 feet with a pack on my back and at times as much as 3L of water. Every step hurt and running was not an option. There were times I'd try but only make it 40 or 50 feet before slowing to brisk walk. I convinced myself that walking was good though, because I was going to need the energy to get back up the South Rim.
I spent a bit of time at Phantom Ranch, resting my feet before choosing the Bright Angel fork in the road and crossing the Colorado River. I checked the temperature at the Colorado and it was 104 degrees. I took a picture of the temperature reading on my watch, as part of my effort to document the journey and thinking that his would be the highest it would get. A few minutes later it was 106. I took a picture. Then it was 109. I took a picture. Then it was 112. I took a picture. The last temperature picture I took read 121 degrees and my watch logged a max temp of 126. I ended up veering off the trail and soaked my sore legs and feet in the Colorado. This made them feel a ton better, and I began climbing the remaining 9 miles of my journey.
Between Phantom Ranch and the next water stop was only about 5.5 miles but it seemed like forever. GPS readings were inaccurate due to the signal bouncing off the Canyon walls and I was rationing water, not knowing how much further to the next water stop. This was the only point in the trip where I was concerned about dehydration. I was never dangerously in trouble though, because I carried a water filtration system and there as a creek that kept me company along much of the Bright Angel trail.
At one point, with temps in the 120s, I decided I needed to cool my core temperature. I was able to find a creek and laid my entire body in it for several minutes. It was amazingly refreshing and gave me a much needed boost in spirits.
I'm guessing the average temperature from the Colorado River to the top of the South Rim (9 miles and 4,400 feet of climb) was 114 degrees, and there was no shade. Thankfully there were 3 water stops the last 4.5 miles. Without needing to ration water those last few miles, I would guess I consumed at least a liter per mile.
I made it to the top of the South Rim at about 2:30 that Sunday afternoon, after 45 miles and more than 10,000 feet of climbing. It was a journey I will surely never forget. There were so many moments that Sunday when all I could do was pause, smile, and try to take it all in. I was so grateful to be there not only to see the Grand Canyon but also experience the Grand Canyon. I truly believe that if there's a higher power, he was there with me in the Canyon that day.
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Is this actually a franchise? A franchise has a continuity/ies associated with it in every other use we have. This has like 4, most of which predate Universe 2008. This feels more like an umbrella title for a product 'line' containing offerings from multiple franchises than than a franchise itself. -Derik 01:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Judging by the list of "franchises" on the Franchise page (Commemorative Series? Machine Wars?), yeah, this fits. Maybe we need to revise our definition. JW 01:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
As the guy who's put most of that list together, I will say that it includes every toy line, regardless of the amount of fiction associated with it or the universe that the fiction falls under. Some franchises are little more than toylines, but every toyline has some kind of fiction associated with it, even if it's just a lame quote for the character. Maybe that list is more toy lines than true franchises, but I don't know how or where you'd draw the line. But, re: Derik's concern, if "continuity" was the sole requirement for being a franchise, then BW and BM would get sucked up by G1. All the new Universe stuff is being marketed under a common packaging style and title -- that to me is the very definition of a franchise. -- Repowers 02:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
So, what do we call this on the front page? Universe 2008? --FFN 04:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Sweet! (fangirl squeal!)
Think there's any chance in high heaven they *might* consider cgi-ing the rest of the '86 movie? I would sssssoooo love to see Soundwave like that!
Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?--Nightshade83 13:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
As of Botcon...
This is shaping up to be a helluva toyline. I thought Classics spoiled us, but I daresay this is better.--RosicrucianTalk 02:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Wow... Hot Shot is getting a classics toy...
Please let it be a new mold... And have a reference to JaAm!11--Dynamus Prime 12:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
It is a new mold. They showed us an early prototype, and it comes with a new Jolt. --ItsWalky 12:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Aerial Rivals ?
Where'd we officially learn the identities of the Aerial Rivials (and did we learn about the K-Mart minicons?). Kyde said they'd be up of but they weren't yet last time I checked. -- 13:56, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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Sunday, 22 April 2007
Marathon passed
Just over an hour later the runners have passed. We're just after the two mile marker, so some of them are already getting quite tired! A big well done to all the runners - to all the Bens, Lucies, Tims, Julies and all the others whose names I never saw. Nearly everybody seemed to be running for something. I saw at least 20 people running for the MS Society (go guys!) and heaps of other charities too. We had Wombles, Star Wars, Elvis, several Rhinos, and goodness knows what else. One of my favourite moments was two ladies who passed us just after a chap in an ostrich suit, overhead to say "that ostrich has passed us three times now"! | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'b9a9b64fe40760d60913e2147e065ea0e65f235e34f1c8277a3b2a0a7b578490'} |
Louis Sams
Louis Sams (26 August 1863 – 6 July 1941) was an Australian cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Tasmania between 1883 and 1884.
See also
List of Tasmanian representative cricketers
References
External links
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Category:1941 deaths
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Tasmania cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Tasmania
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The clash broke out shortly after cops escorted McInnes and other Proud Boys outside the Upper East Side club. Some Proud Boys left the escort to confront antifa members on the block after protesters threw a bottle toward them.
Video released by the NYPD, along with recordings from photojournalists Shay Horse and Sandi Bachom, indicate that both groups initially clashed before Proud Boys overcame antifa members.
The evening before McInnes’s controversial speech, suspected vandals tagged the club with spray-painted anarchy symbols and smashed windows.
—Pervaiz Shallwani contributed reporting. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '8cbb1f868fe0179aa9d415fe02677148f499dc3ee43066f72989b55caf53a18d'} |
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Keep out: adults at play
Children, children everywhere and not a place to think? Build yourself a Wendy house and escape, says KATE WORSLEY
You've been stuck in the house all day, the kids are playing up and you can't remember the last time you had a quiet moment alone with your partner. Or for that matter, a moment alone with yourself.
Since the children came along, your home has mutated into a giant kiddie castle, with toys and noise everywhere. A week in the Caribbean would be nice, but the answer to your problem could be an adult Wendy. No, it's not some dodgy New York sex toy, but a private place where the grown-ups can play - at home.
Barrister Rupert Overbury and his wife, Claire, a pharmaceuticals rep, have designated a shady spot under a large beech tree in the seven-acre garden of their Victorian shooting lodge near Ipswich as the site for their adult Wendy.
"There was a concrete base there already," explains Rupert, "so I had a little retreat built there last summer as a birthday present to my wife, so she can have a bit of peace and quiet. It's got a pitched roof and the breeze comes through little bars at the side. Only we can go in there. It's mainly for her, although I must admit our five dogs quite like it too."
He sketched what he wanted for local firm Country Cottage Products. "What I got was absolutely perfect and it looks like it's been there for ever. The stained wood looks lovely in autumn, when the beech tree is turning. And in summer it's completely hidden by the leaves."
The Overburys have two boys aged 12 and nine, who play elsewhere in the garden. "It's one of those unwritten family rules," says Rupert.
Family homes are now focused around the well-being and needs of children - all safety switches and child gates, toy hampers and computers in the living room, and little pyjamaed bundles at the bottom of the bed every morning. It's no longer automatic for kids to be pent up in the nursery in the attic or, indeed, sent off to play in their own Wendy house or tree house at the bottom of the garden. But too often the anxiety to integrate children into adult lives ends up drowning parents in family life. Designating somewhere in the home as adult space leaves parents room to breathe. Just as if you're working from home you don't want to use the kitchen table, then a Lego-strewn sofa is probably not the best place to work on your romance.
Christine and John Forsaith of Windsor, Berkshire, who have children from previous marriages, also wanted a "special place" to call their own. "You've got to get away sometimes," says office services manager Christine. "It's private but it's also within earshot of the house." When they bought their period house with a large garden two-and-a-half years ago, they earmarked an elevated spot at the bottom of the garden for their private chalet, where they could go for drinks and a chat at sunset, or take some time out during the day. "It was my husband's suggestion," says Christine.
The chalet is snug, about 8ft by 6ft inside, and as cute as a child's drawing, with a railed deck and twin windows either side of a pair of double doors. "We'd quite like to be able to sleep in it too. Next year we will plasterboard the inside and add power."
However much Virginia Woolf insisted on a woman's right to a room of her own, it may sound harsh to set out deliberately to exclude your children from a space. Locking the bedroom door on a Saturday morning is one thing, but surely lavishing all that money on a private retreat so you can run away together down to the bottom of the garden will come as a slap in the face for your kids? In fact, the experts couldn't be more in favour of the idea.
"If doing this supports the parents and consolidates their relationship then it's actually a very positive thing for the children to see," says Susan Littlemore of parents' support network Parent Line Plus. It actually benefits children when they see a concrete manifestation of their parents' need for their own play time. "One of the great myths parents suffer under is that they can't express their own needs to their children. If the need is for some personal space, then by and large that will be OK with the children."
In fact, says Littlemore, having an adult Wendy can help to teach your children an early lesson about the importance of personal boundaries. "It can help to set up a life-long understanding of other people's needs."
The key is to explain to children what the space is for, and why you are making it. Building barriers between you and your children may sound positively Victorian but, as Littlemore puts it, "It's the 'not heard' part of the Victorian approach that's the problem. What's important is the amount of information you give children and how involved they are."
The Gordon family discovered that sound carried so clearly in their five- storey Sixties Surrey home that when her sons' friends came round, mum Vanessa ended up cowering in the kitchen. But next week she will get her house back. Son James,13, will move into the basement pad he and his dad Gordon have worked together to convert. Nine-year-old Alistair, who sleeps on the top floor, has earmarked his brother's old bedroom next door as his "office". And the open-plan living, dining and work area will revert to an oasis of adult tranquillity. "Before, the kitchen was the only place that was our space," says Vanessa. "But the nicest thing is the amount of work James has put in. He's so excited."
"You just need to give children a valid reason," confirms Littlemore. "They might ask questions or make fun, but they will know they are not the problem."
5 You won't need planning permission for a basic adult Wendy, if you build a sectional building, ie a glorified wooden shed. But check you don't block neighbours' views or sunlight.
5 Get quotes from a few local garden building companies: one adult Wendy owner found a 50 per cent difference between two quotes. Homelodge Buildings (England and Wales, tel: 01962 881480, Scotland tel: 01555 880692) makes a luxury range of insulated models from pounds 9,635. Poulton Portables of Essex (tel: 01245 222550) will knock up basic models from around pounds 1,000.
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Defining Slump Week Tysabri
Recently, I have had several people ask me to define or explain “slump week” as it pertains to taking Tysabri. As I sat trying to come up with a “blanket answer”, I realized that there isn’t one. Each person that has MS is going to have a different form of MS. Their symptoms and ways of dealing with those symptoms will also be different. Then I thought, “who is the person asking the question”? Do they have MS? Have they recently started Tysabri and they are afraid of “Slump week”? Maybe they are trying to explain what slump week feels like to someone else that doesn’t have MS?
While I am always happy to talk with people and try to explain, not everyone is comfortable talking on the phone, meeting in person, or even just reaching out to someone in email. So, I will attempt to explain it here and hope that it helps answer the question for some of you.
For those of you that are afraid of slump week, let me start by explaining what it is NOT.
It does not mean your MS is getting worse or that you are experiencing a flare up. It may feel like it in the beginning, because your MS symptoms may be a bit more noticeable. You may be a bit more “foggy” than normal. Your legs may feel heavier than usual. If you fight fatigue, you may feel like you haven’t slept in days even though you just woke up from a full eight hours. Basically, it feels like your MS symptoms are more pronounced than your personal norm. Everything feels a bit “off”.
It’s also Important to know that not everyone goes through slump week. For those that do, it isn’t necessarily a full week of more pronounced symptoms, and it may not happen every time before your next infusion. If you have MS, you hopefully have learned by now that there are ways to work around your challenges. Maybe you can’t walk as long, or as far as you used to, but have learned that a cane or frequent breaks can help. The cool part is knowing that, IT WILL PASS!!!!!
For those of you looking for a way to explain it to someone that doesn’t have MS or has not experienced Slump week, think about your audience and try to use something from that person’s life to explain. For example, if you are explaining it to someone who is a caffeine addict, ask them to think about the way they feel before they have had caffeine for the day. What if they had no way to get that caffeine fix? They would spend a lot of time trying to come up with a work around for it, and that is probably time that they were supposed to be accomplishing something else. Maybe they would be late for work, because they had to stop to buy some form of caffeine. Or worse, while they were driving to pick something up they almost got into an accident because they didn’t have enough caffeine to focus on driving. Of course, this example would not work for someone that doesn’t drink caffeine, but you can try to find an example from their personal life to use. You can also explain that it’s like having a full week’s worth of Mondays in one day. Another example is sitting in road construction, you will get where you are going eventually. It doesn’t actually cause you physical pain, but it does make you uncomfortable.
Ask them to imagine being given a task or several tasks, but not being given the tools they need to complete the task. Sure you can probably find a way to make it work or wing it, but that is frustrating and tiring, not to mention very time consuming and usually unproductive.
As I sat trying to think of an analogy that would work for everyone to explain slump week, I came up with quite the list of examples of life experiences that cause “regular”people to feel frustrated, or unproductive that you might be able to use when trying to explain slump week. Ask people to think about how they feel when these things happen to them, then tell them they have to do it over and over again numerous times in a day. THAT is what slump week FEELS like. It’s not gonna kill you, but it’s not any fun 😦
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Get mean, already.
That was the unsolicited advice I offered to President Obama last year. The administration was reeling under a relentlessly anti-intellectual right-wing assault on healthcare reform. The program finally got passed, but the Democrats looked hopelessly feckless in the attempt.
Today the Democratic agenda, like the party’s weight in Congress, has dramatically shrunk. Hard-fought reforms on healthcare and consumer finance could be nullified by legislative meddling. Social Security, which keeps millions of older Americans out of the poorhouse, is under fresh assault.
Is the retreat underway? Last week, Democrats were on the verge of giving in to a GOP demand to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. But the latest horrific job numbers underscore the point that what’s needed more than payoffs to the top echelon is more direct economic stimulus and assistance for the working class.
My advice to Obama now might be: “Give ‘em hell, Barry.” Except it’s not Harry Truman whom Obama should look to for inspiration, but Franklin Roosevelt. No one was better than FDR at batting his opponents’ pitches back down their throats, to cheers from the grandstands.
FDR’s best-known retort to his critics on Wall Street, uttered in a 1936 campaign speech, was “I welcome their hatred.” But in that speech he also drew a razor-sharp distinction between his administration and the previous dozen years of GOP rule, which ended with three years of depression.
“Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge!” Roosevelt said. “Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the bread lines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that government is best which is most indifferent.”
Have you heard anything that colorful or direct from President Obama? Me neither. Did Roosevelt make a rowdy fight of it? You betcha.
It’s true that the political landscape was much different then. Both parties had moderate, progressive and conservative blocs — in fact, FDR’s toughest political adversaries were Southerners from his own party. Today we seem to have one party with aspirations to reform and another with aspirations to obstruction. Yet even reform-minded Democrats act as if they’re embarrassed by the thought that government should do anything.
If so, why are they in Washington? Roosevelt, for his part, refused to shy away from the principle of government action. “I have never had sympathy with the point of view that a session of the Congress is an unfortunate intrusion of what they call ‘politics’ into our national affairs,” he said in a 1937 Fireside Chat. “Democratic government can never be considered an intruder into the affairs of a democratic nation.”
Roosevelt had other principles that seem to be overlooked by his successor today. He rarely let a political slur go unanswered. In 1936, Al Smith, the former Democratic presidential candidate, surfaced as a front man for the right-wing Liberty Lobby and labeled the New Deal as “socialist.” (Sound familiar?) Roosevelt squelched him by unearthing a speech Smith had delivered during his 1928 presidential campaign.
“The cry of socialism,” Smith had said then, “has been patented by the powerful interests that desire to put a damper on progressive legislation. Is that cry of socialism anything new?… I have heard it raised by reactionary elements and the Republican Party in my own state for over a quarter century.”
Why don’t today’s Democrats play hardball like that? I suspect it’s because deep down they fear their fellow Americans are idiots. When conservatives attack healthcare reform with a ridiculous claim about, say, healthcare “death panels,” the Democrats assume most Americans will believe it on faith. And you can’t argue with faith.
So this year they were afraid to base their reelection campaigns on the achievement of healthcare reform. Their campaign slogans should have been: No more chicanery by health insurers! No more rejections for preexisting conditions! No more rip-off deductibles and undisclosed co-pays!
They passed an economic stimulus program which, according to the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office, has increased employment by up to 3.6 million people, lowered the unemployment rate by as much as 2 percentage points and increased gross domestic product by up to 4.1%. Yet they failed to challenge their opponents’ claims that the stimulus “failed.”
They seemed to hope that voters would forget their accomplishments. That was stupid and spineless, and the harvest was a deserved trouncing at the polls.
Yes, I’ve heard the argument that conservatives and Republicans have their own cable TV megaphone in Fox News. That’s no excuse. Democrats and progressives had their own megaphone: the White House and a commanding majority in Congress. They just didn’t use it.
We are today gripped by the curious superstition that government is ineffective and sinister. The same phenomenon appeared in the late ‘30s, recalled Thurman Arnold, a penetrating political analyst during the New Deal. In such an atmosphere, Arnold observed, “mystical attacks on practical measures achieved an astonishing degree of success.” Politicians became more obsessed with upholding their ideologies than with “the day-to-day distribution of food, housing and clothing to those who needed them.”
Arnold was writing in 1937 — his book “The Folklore of Capitalism” should be required reading for every politician and business leader today — but I haven’t seen a better critique of today’s nattering political mythologists this side of Joe Scarborough.
Obama should take heed and stick to the goals he was elected for. He might think about these words from a Fireside Chat in 1938, when FDR was struggling to cope with a recession caused in part by his abandonment of fiscal stimulus. “To reach a port, we must sail — sail, not lie at anchor. Sail, not drift.”
Michael Hiltzik’s column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Reach him at mhiltzik@latimes.com, read past columns at latimes.com/hiltzik, check out facebook.com/hiltzik and follow @latimeshiltzik on Twitter. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ecd91ef72e0bd0df036f42feb216a30fd931f778781e5b769c41b6e6085297f7'} |
Linux Mint 15 has been Released with the code name Olivia. Tried a quick hand on this and still exploring…
History
Linux Mint a Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu and is supposed to be one of the easiest and user-friendly distribution available today. Linux Mint comes with certain proprietary software’s which gives user a out-of-box experience without having to build and install such packages. Linux Mint introduced its 15th release named “Olivia“.
Olivia was released on May 29, 2013 and will be supported until January 2014, actually Linux Mint is released nearly within a month from the release of Ubuntu.
What’s New
MATE 1.6 is and Cinnamon 1.8, which are the desktop environment of Mint is nicely improved and contains thousands of new features some of which we will be going through.
Mate 1.6
Improved MATE 1.6 desktop Environment
Mate 1.6 Desktop
Cinnamon 1.6
Thousands of new features added in Cinnamon 1.8
Cinnamon 1.8 Desktop
Software Sources
Software Sources also called as Mint Sources (only implemented in Olivia and was not in previous release). This tool perform a quick speed test and switch to faster mirror in a single click.
Software Sources
Driver Manager
A Mint Driver Manager (Feature of Olivia) lets you manage your drivers in a nice and effective yet simple manner. Independent application and contains Name and Logo for Famous Products Viz., NVidia Graphics Driver.
Driver Manager
MDM
Mint Display Manager (MDM) has greatly improved on custom and advanced login greeter (GTK, GDM-Highly Customisable, Thousands of themes to be applied, HTML-SupportsHTML5 and CSS can be animated). MDM Improvement is enough to Seduce you.
MDM Display
Nemo File Manager
Nemo File Manager is improved to provide better Desktop integration.
Nemo File Manager
Desklets
You can add several Desklets to your desktop similarly you add application in doc bar. Olivia comes packed with three Desklets – Launcher,Clock and Photoframe.
Linux Mint Desklets
Screensaver
A completely new, featured set of its own screen-saver.
Linux Mint Screensaver
Set Own Message
Define Your Own Message before screen Lock, to acknowledge other, who might be searching for you.
Set Own Message
Control Centre
You now don’t need to look back at gnome Control Centre but now are provided with Mint Control Centre for Better integration.
Control Center
Spices Management
In OliviaApplets, Desklets, Themes, Extensions can directly be installed from Desktop and User need not to switch to Cinnamon website frequently.
Download Applets. Themes, desklets
Smart Notification.
Notifications are smarter and it’s now possible to add which monitor is used to display them.
Notifications
Desktop Background
Linux Mint added a collection of beautiful sets of Desktop background photographs from 12 different artists.
Background Wallpapers
Other Features
Fallback Mode and Render Detection improves the overall system performance.
Applet/Desklet developer, don’t need to use settings anymore. settings API – will perform all this automatically.
Windows can be maximised Horizontally as well as Vertically.
Close windows using middle-mouse-click.
Compositing is available.
Support for MPRIS2 to control Media-Player.
Customised, category based search.
Easy installation with graphical booting.
Since Olivia is inspired by olive, as the name suggests. Olive green is the dominating colour, default and gives a sneaky, glass look to Olivia.
It is always said a single Ounce of practical is more productive than tons of theory. Why Don’t you Download it in Virtual Machine or boot using pen drive and if it gets successful in seducing you, Installing it into your master drive is not way behind.
Use torrent to Download the ISO Image from Mint server which reduce load on server and lets you pause your download thus lesser chance of corrupted or invalid download. Before writing the ISO Image to disk it is always advised to check the integrity of download using md5sum hash.
Don’t forget to give your valuable comments. I will soon be returning back to Tecmint.com with new article, Stay Tuned.
I am a major in computer science, love to research nix. I love to write codes and scripts, review distros, experiment Foss Technologies, write technical articles, Hack, of course Ethically. I am working as System Administrator (nix) for a NGO.
Have just downloaded and installed Linux Mint (MATE) v15 as second OS on dual-boot machine. Have to say I was very impressed with install process having tried (unsuccessfuly) a number of other ‘user friendly’ distros. Everything went very well and quickly too. End result looks a rich environment, looking roward to exploring more!! | mini_pile | {'original_id': '322b2e8da90ef6adad0de12fe0b917919cf8b84b472ecd3c02ba5288e36c864c'} |
Diamond Dictionary
When you enter the world of diamonds be prepared to be faced with an entirely new vocabulary. It isn't as simple as the 4 C's of carat, cut, color, and clarity! There is a lot more to detail and specific nuances to every single diamond than those 4 main characteristics. In this post we'll give you the rundown on words used in regards to diamonds that are not as commonly understood but will really help you sound liked a seasoned professional!
Spready- a diamond that has a large face up appearance. This type of diamond is desirable because it has been cut with the intention show its maximum carat weight. The spread doesn't refer to its carat weight though, it is signifying how large the measurements of the diamond are. For example you can have a 2 carat oval diamond be 9.7mm which is a normal measurement or, there can be a 2 carat oval diamond with measurements well over 10mm for a much bigger face up look. So you will basically pay less for a smaller carat weight diamond but obtain the look of a larger size diamond. Cha Ching! See this video for a comparison of an average 2 carat round diamond vs a more spready 2 carat diamond.
**Note- you don't want a diamond that is TOO spready as this will be a flat diamond and result in light leaking through and not sparkling enough. There is a perfect balance that can be found and we are experts are tracking these beautiful diamonds down for our clients.
Ideal cut diamonds will have more even proportions while a deeper diamond will look small face upChubby- a diamond that is cut too deep and does not have an appropriate face up size. For example, a 2.5 carat diamond that measures 7mm is cut too deep and will look like a 2 carat. This means you are paying extra for a diamond that weighs more but it actually does not look it's carat weight face up.
Crushed Ice- often this refers to cushion cut diamonds that do not possess brilliant style faceting. A brilliant style cut cushion is where the pavilion facets reach the edge of the diamond. When a cushion brilliant cut hits the light, there are few sparkles however, the sparkles are broader and blinding reminiscent of a round cut diamond. In contrast, a crushed ice cushion is a version of cushion modified brilliant cut where the pavilion faceting does not reach the edge of the diamond. This creates a more glittery / crushed sparkle, i.e. there are many small flashes of light. This video is a perfect example of the differences between a cushion brilliant cut and a modified crushed ice diamond
Eye Clean- a diamond that is clean from imperfections to the unaided eye. All diamonds, even VVS clarity diamonds will, have some sort of microscopic blemish within the diamond. For argument’s sake we will call this at an arm’s length of distance away from your eye.
Jeweler's Loupe for Inspecting a DiamondLoupe- the tool used to magnify diamonds. It is a small magnificent device that you hold up to your eye. These are commonly in 10x magnification but also in 20x, 30x etc for a more detailed view.
Loupe Clean- refers to a diamond that even under magnification it is nearly impossible to see any inclusions. This usually only occurs in VS1 or higher clarities and sometimes even a VS2 grade.
Hazy or Milky- refers to a diamond filled with clouds to the point where it lacks luster and brilliance. Most clouds are invisible on inclusion charts for a particular diamond so this is an especially important factor to access in person or in a video where you can actually so how the diamond performs in different circumstances. If a diamond is hazy it appears as if a fog has taken over a bit of the diamond and it then lacks the capability to sparkle.
Bluffy- a diamond that appears at first glance better than it actually is. For exmaple, you might have a flat diamond (undersirable) that does actually give a massive face up look once set in a ring. We would call this bluffy because it appears larger and more expensive than it is. You can also have a diamond that is very white and high on the color scale however it might be in the Included clarity range where imperfections can be seen to the unaided eye. At first glance, when worn on the hand you will only notice the diamond being white however upon closer inspection you will view the imperfections within the diamond easily without maginication.
Ratio- refers to the length to width ratio of a diamond. Every diamond has a certain millimeter measurement for how long and wide it is. If you divide these numbers you come up with the ratio. There are desirable ratios for each diamond as an average, so for example an oval ratio should start at 1.3 l:w ratio for a rounder look and up to a 1.5 ratio for a more elongated look. In this video you can see two cushion cuts side by side. They weigh the same however one has a longer ratio for a more rectangular shape and the other has a lower ratio resulting in a square appearance. Click to watch a simple comparison video of a more square cushion cut vs and elongated cushion cut diamond.
X / Triple X- This refers to Excellent as either one of the cut, polish, or symmettry grades. Triple X means that a round diamond has all grades as excellent straight through. Fancy shape diamonds can have Excellent polish and symmettry grades but do not receive a formal cut grade from GIA.
Cert- a short term way of saying the certificate for a diamond with its grading report. Time is of the essense ;)
The Make: has to do with the way a diamond is faceted or cut. It is more of general term and if you hear the diamond has a “great make” you can expect a beautiful diamond with great proportions, sparkle and visual appearance.
example of oval diamond with bowtieBowtie: refers to a dark shadow that appears across the center of a diamond- this only occurs in elongated shapes and most commonly found in ovals, pears, marquise and elongated radiants or cushions. Almost all of these elongated shapes will have a bowtie to some extent but should be measured by how distracting or noticeable it is. This is a negative aspect so something you should try to avoid as much as you can.
Canary: refers to natural yellow diamonds with a strong saturation of color usually in fancy intense to fancy vivid range
Shank: used interchangeably with “band” to describe the part of the ring that goes around the finger
Internet Diamond: when you hear this term it refers to diamonds that may look good on paper and priced very aggressively to make them look like a good deal. However, in real life it will lack the beauty and sparkle you might have expected
Off Size: We all know about the magic numbers like 1 carat, 1.5 carat, 2.0 carat and so on and so forth. The sizes right in between these are usually referred to as off-sizes and can be very desirable because they will offer you a similar face up appearance without paying the hefty price tag. For example a 1.70 carat could go for $10,000 and with all quality/cut aspects being equal would jump to over $13,000 for a 2 carat even though there may be only an incremental size difference noticeable to the untrained eye.
This is just a sample but we hope this diamond slang list will help you navigate through the terms and words used. We are always available to guide you and give specific advice based on your diamond needs. Email us at [email protected] to start working on your custom ring today! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9392136931419371}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '261575', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MZ5K22ZYMQURDU2PBMQ6ZOJV7YANXSZU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c7cd5e8e-e9bb-465d-920c-b6c61da58b69>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 2, 27, 10, 23, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.13.67', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JZWJCVGQOBYN5X6ACXTQTDVJVAGC46ET', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7981e1bf-91ac-4a3a-97dc-1bd848176621>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.laurenbjewelry.com/blog/diamond-dictionary/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2a6f8040-674e-4774-89d7-234aab6143d6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1319', 'url': 'https://www.laurenbjewelry.com/blog/diamond-dictionary/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-39.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5132543444633484', 'original_id': 'b48bd172e1069d2d25fd3d90b43ab91252f250bb2430aae99a64309f55011a6e'} |
Outside polling location in Spring Tx. Police speaking with man sitting by sign: FAGGOTS VOTE DEMOCRAT. pic.twitter.com/Zkia6h2fil — Andrew Kragie (@AndrewKragie) November 8, 2016
A man with a “Faggots Vote Democrat” sign and a Glock handgun was detained by police outside a polling place in Spring, Texas — near Houston — on Tuesday.
Guns are prohibited at polling places in Texas, but The Houston Chronicle‘s Andrew Kragie reported on Twitter that police didn’t initially intervene because the man was more than 100 feet away as required by law.
However, police apparently handcuffed the man and confiscated his handgun after he moved closer to the polling location, according to Kragie. It’s unclear whether he was arrested.
Here’s Kragie’s report from the Chronicle‘s website:
One anti-Democrat activist carrying a visible hand-gun stood next to an insulting sign was questioned by police around 1 p.m. No details were immediately available.
Meanwhile, another man dressed in a Make America Great hat, a Trump mask and an old-school rocker danced around the polling place.
Man with "FAGGOTS VOTE DEM" sign + handgun detained after moving closer to polls in Spring Tx @HoustonChron #Houvote pic.twitter.com/jlroxheZwP — Andrew Kragie (@AndrewKragie) November 8, 2016
This guy says he has a Glock on his hip https://t.co/POyimIkjvm — Andrew Kragie (@AndrewKragie) November 8, 2016
Another charmer: man in Kiss outfit, Trump face & hat chants Trump's name as man arrested for sign placement pic.twitter.com/Ya4Y280Vn3 — Andrew Kragie (@AndrewKragie) November 8, 2016
UPDATE. The man in questions has been released and not charged according to police. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '973cd68b9304b9f29411603d7d1d586d36cc184ab8dede7f4b8cb7aea9d3ccf1'} |
Brethren Life & Thought Vol 53 No 3 (Summer 2008)
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This issue of Brethren Life & Thought presents four feature articles and five book reviews. Two articles are on atonement, which has traditionally been a doctrinal balance sheet of sorts for Christians. The first article, authored by Thomas Finger, defines atonement as "at-one-ment" or reconciliation with God which can be accomplished not only by turning away from sin but by living according to the teachings of Christ. The second article, authored by Kate Eisenbise, critiques the eschatalogical implications of J. Denny Weaver's "narrative Christus Victor" model of atonement. The third feature article, authored by Val Freidell, offers a new look at the beloved tradition of Love Feast. In the fourth article Jeff Neuman-Lee contributes "The Map," a chapter from a primer on theology he has written for Christians called God With Us. This article helps Bible readers navigate scripture using a variety of vantage points.
With this issue we are introducing a new study resource. Below you will find initial study questions, with links to more questions. We hope these questions will stir your mind to deeper understanding of faith and practice. Use them for yourself, and/or as resources to lead a group discussion!
Atonement, Ethics, Society, and Violence
by Thomas Finger (BLT pages 1-8)
Finger argues that a central purpose of our faith is to search for "at-one-ness" with God. How have you, in your life, become at one with God? Can you point to a moment or to someone who helped you see the way?
Finger asks his own question. If the death of Jesus is the key action in the New Testament, why do the Gospels give so much attention to the teachings of Jesus?
For further study: more questions for reflection (pdf)*
Resurrection as Victory?
by Kate Eisenbise (BLT pages 9-22)
J. Denny Weaver writes "Neither the purpose nor the culmination of the [Christ's] mission was to die. God did not send Jesus to die, but to live, to make visible and present the reign of God." If Jesus' death was not necessary, is it meaningful nonetheless? What does it mean to you?
"Suffering is not itself salvific; it is a by-product of opposing evil, the price for beginning to resist." In this respect, people suffer for faithfulness and people suffer for sin. Which actions produce the "right" suffering? For example, is the suffering associated with parenthood the kind of suffering produced by faithfulness? Why or why not?
For further study: more questions for reflection (pdf)*
A Community of Friends: John 13: 1-17
by Val Friedell (BLT pages 23-32)
In what ways does the Love Feast depict service? Cleansing? Jesus' approaching death and resurrection? The beginning of the church? Love for friends? Other? Which is most meaningful to you? Why?
Raymond E. Brown believes Jesus provides an example in John 13 of laying down one's life in order to create life. How does the sacrifice of Jesus' life create new life?
for further study: more questions for reflection (pdf)*
The Map
by Jeff Neuman-Lee (BLT pages 33-45)
One problem with analogies or comparisons is that we sometimes confuse the symbol for the real thing. What danger, if any, is there in comparing God to a shepherd, a rock, a fortress, a garden, or any other common object?
Jesus scoffs at the need for signs of his true identity. Proof of the truth seems worthless to him. Why? How might Jesus describe the difference between faith and knowledge?
For further study: more questions for reflection (pdf)*
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The more the Lakers play, the more I think they just don't have the talent to be as good as everyone thought they were. The dead weight with horrible contracts on this team is killing them.
Metta World Peace - He makes 7.2 a year and in my opinion is no better than vet's minimum level player. He is way overpaid and at this point, it's not that he's just underachieving. With the salary chunk he takes up, he's hurting the team far more than he's helping.
Pau Gasol - He's making over 2x as much as he should. He should be around Metta's current salary in my opinion, and that's assuming he can be even a shell of the player he was in 2009. He could be done as a productive big man. But I think if he was a 7 million a year player the expectations would be more in line with his abilities and he wouldn't be so bad anymore. I've tried to defend him for years but it's just getting to the point where I can't anymore. Either he's no good or he's not right for the system. Either way, at 19 million he's hurting way more than he's helping.
Steve Blake - Definitely a veteran's minimum player. Overpaid and doesn't contribute enough to warrant a 4 million a year salary when he's on the court.
Jordan Hill and Jodie Meeks - These are the types of players/contracts we need to have outside the stars. They're players that fit a certain role and are on really good contracts. Also it's much more tolerable to have a 2-3 million dollar player under-perform than a player of Gasol's contract.
I honestly don't know if we can compete until after next year when all the contracts come off the books and we can reload with players that are worthy of their contracts and role players that don't make 8 million a year and actually contribute. As it stands now we have the highest paid role player in the league in Pau Gasol. He contributes nothing more than a good role player but makes among the highest salaries in the league. That is not a recipe for a championship team. Our cap situation is no better than Brooklyn, who has too much money tied up in Joe Johnson and Lopez. They're stuck in cap hell and so are we. Luckily we get some relief in two years.
I also think the chemistry of this team is a problem, whether people want to say it's overblown or not. It may not implode like Shaq and Kobe did, but their lack of chemistry is a problem.
I'm going to continue to watch every game and be a fan, but I'm officially a member of the doom and gloom group. I hope they can prove me wrong.
Ive been saying this for years every single time Mitch over paid for underachievers such as LO, Puke, Sasha, Blake, Duhon, Artest, & Pau.
There's dead weight on this team but these are the players that can be classified as that:
EbanksClarkMorrisDuhonJohnson-Odom
That's five players that do not provide a damn thing for this team. Everyone else at least provides something.
With an older team, we need more depth on this bench.
This ^^^Is Coach D fault Period. He decides not to use them. Ebanks, Clark & johnson -Odom 3 of best athletes on the team & get no chances to make a difference towards the record. They are only dead weight cuz they dont get opportunities. Dead Weight are the guys that get meaningful mins & are not reliable nor consistent.
It's obvious that kobe isn't enough anymore. He's incredible but he's not going to drag the team to the playoffs with consecutive 50 point games anymore. The problem is I don't think he realized that. And we don't have the players around him to care enough to pick up the slack even though they do definitely have the talent.
If we had Kobe, pau, Dwight, and Nash playing with heart and chemistry and surrounded them with competent role players who could do the running, who could beat this team? They're more top heavy on talent than the spurs, who have aging superstars. But they're winning games and so could we. If we had better role players and we weren't paying 26 million dollars to Pau and Metta.
It's obvious that kobe isn't enough anymore. He's incredible but he's not going to drag the team to the playoffs with consecutive 50 point games anymore. The problem is I don't think he realized that. And we don't have the players around him to care enough to pick up the slack even though they do definitely have the talent.
If we had Kobe, pau, Dwight, and Nash playing with heart and chemistry and surrounded them with competent role players who could do the running, who could beat this team? They're more top heavy on talent than the spurs, who have aging superstars. But they're winning games and so could we. If we had better role players and we weren't paying 26 million dollars to Pau and Metta.
^^^No the Lakers are not top heavy better than Spurs! Like you think Kobe needs to learn = you need to learn we have Kobe & D12 who are playing well right now for the starters only! The bench is like it always is = pathetic mostly because the coach refuses to play the talent on the roster. Duncan is only aging superstar. TP is fine & so is Manu (he may get injured alot now but he isnt max'd out of his prime like Pau is!) Manu does not make $20 mill neither. Spurs have multiple spot up/ catch & shoot reliable scorers vs LA who has NONE. We need 2 better starters at SF & PF. We need another combo guard like poormans version of Kobe who can do everything ala JR Smith(4 example)
^^^No the Lakers are not top heavy better than Spurs! Like you think Kobe needs to learn = you need to learn we have Kobe & D12 who are playing well right now for the starters only! The bench is like it always is = pathetic mostly because the coach refuses to play the talent on the roster. Duncan is only aging superstar. TP is fine & so is Manu (he may get injured alot now but he isnt max'd out of his prime like Pau is!) Manu does not make $20 mill neither. Spurs have multiple spot up/ catch & shoot reliable scorers vs LA who has NONE. We need 2 better starters at SF & PF. We need another combo guard like poormans version of Kobe who can do everything ala JR Smith(4 example)
I don't know how you can say that at full potential, Dwight is not better than Duncan at this point in his career and the combination of Nash and Kobe is not better than Manu and TP. No one's playing up to their potential except for Kobe at this point, but at their best vs the Spurs' best, I don't know how you can even make that argument. Then outside of that we have Pau, who, if he played with any heart or aggression, is better than any of the Spurs' players outside the big 3. But I agree on the rest. The Spurs' have a much better salary situation and they have other players who actually contribute and can shoot. We have none of those type of players.
The people we need to focus on moving is Duhon, Blake, Ebanks, and Pau... they don't fit this team AT ALL and their defense is what kills us most games... and MWP defense isn't what it was either we need someone younger
At this point, anything for Pau would improve our team. Barea and Williams would be a good return imo. But I wouldn't be surprised if the FO passed on multiple deals if they had to take on contracts that extend past Gasol's. That'd mess up their plans for the 2014 free agency.
I don't know how you can say that at full potential, Dwight is not better than Duncan at this point in his career and the combination of Nash and Kobe is not better than Manu and TP. No one's playing up to their potential except for Kobe at this point, but at their best vs the Spurs' best, I don't know how you can even make that argument. Then outside of that we have Pau, who, if he played with any heart or aggression, is better than any of the Spurs' players outside the big 3. But I agree on the rest. The Spurs' have a much better salary situation and they have other players who actually contribute and can shoot. We have none of those type of players.
Kobe & D12 (when healthy are better than the Trio) however in a team game 3 is better than 2 especially when those 3 are surrounded by spotup/catch & shoot players & above all else the Spurs play smart cuz their coach is a no nonsense guy. He doesnt stand for the starters playing below their level. Coach Pop is not afraid to bench guys & or flat out not dress guys for games if he feels the need. You dont see the Spurs committing the same stupid dumb plays that the Lakers make 10-15 times every game. I dont think you understand what is wrong with PAu! He is max'd out. He will never get any better he has gotten worse the last 3 yrs str8. This trend will only continue. He is not built to last in a PRIME window for longer than the 3yr run he gave us. Right now Pau isnt better than TD (he is a shell of himself but still understands how to make an impact even as a slow unathletic big now)
Now when it comes to a regular season gm = Spurs will always be better. Come playoffs I ride wit Kobe & history tells me he gets the best of TD when it comes to head to head playoff series. But that doesnt mean Lakers are better team.
The people we need to focus on moving is Duhon, Blake, Ebanks, and Pau... they don't fit this team AT ALL and their defense is what kills us most games... and MWP defense isn't what it was either we need someone younger
Ebanks plays good defense & plays well when he gets his minimal ops. He is better defender than Jamison, Meeks, Duhon, Pau, & has the length & athleticism to recover when he gets beat initially.
Kobe & D12 (when healthy are better than the Trio) however in a team game 3 is better than 2 especially when those 3 are surrounded by spotup/catch & shoot players & above all else the Spurs play smart cuz their coach is a no nonsense guy. He doesnt stand for the starters playing below their level. Coach Pop is not afraid to bench guys & or flat out not dress guys for games if he feels the need. You dont see the Spurs committing the same stupid dumb plays that the Lakers make 10-15 times every game. I dont think you understand what is wrong with PAu! He is max'd out. He will never get any better he has gotten worse the last 3 yrs str8. This trend will only continue. He is not built to last in a PRIME window for longer than the 3yr run he gave us. Right now Pau isnt better than TD (he is a shell of himself but still understands how to make an impact even as a slow unathletic big now)
Now when it comes to a regular season gm = Spurs will always be better. Come playoffs I ride wit Kobe & history tells me he gets the best of TD when it comes to head to head playoff series. But that doesnt mean Lakers are better team.
I think you're arguing something different than what I'm saying. I'm agreeing with you about the Spurs and why they're better. and I'm also saying Pau is finished. The big 3 I'm talking about is Nash, Kobe, and Dwight. Not Kobe, Dwight, and Pau. My entire first post was about how I can't defend Pau anymore. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ed731b84f314a164623b69e41bdb22b69f947738917cd0e0563832ef49ff5478'} |
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\section{Condition for Incommensurability of Roots of Quadratic Equation}
Tags: Euclidean Number Theory
\begin{theorem}
Consider the quadratic equation:
:$(1): \quad a x - x^2 = \dfrac {b^2} 4$
Then $x$ and $a - x$ are incommensurable {{iff}} $\sqrt {a^2 - b^2}$ and $a$ are incommensurable.
{{:Euclid:Proposition/X/18}}
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
We have that:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = x \paren {a - x} + \paren {\frac a 2 - x}^2
| r = a x - x^2 + \frac {a^2} 4 - 2 \frac a 2 x + x^2
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac {a^2} 4
| c = simplifying
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = 4 x \paren {a - x} + 4 \paren {\frac a 2 - x}^2
| r = a^2
| c =
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = b^2 + \paren {a - 2 x}^2
| r = a^2
| c = from $(1)$
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = a^2 - b^2
| r = \paren {a - 2 x}^2
| c =
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = \sqrt {a^2 - b^2}
| r = a - 2 x
| c =
}}
{{end-eqn}}
Let:
:$a \smile b$ denote that $a$ is incommensurable with $b$
:$a \frown b$ denote that $a$ is commensurable with $b$.
\end{proof}
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Those countries whose nationals may be granted E status for either trade or investment (E-1 or E-2) are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Canada, China (Taiwan only), Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Liberia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, and United Kingdom. Treaties providing only for trade (E-1) are in existence with the following countries: Bolivia, Brunei, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, and Israel.
Unlike many other nonimmigrant categories, a treaty foreigner does not need to maintain a foreign residence and does not need to specify a date by which s/he intends to depart the US permanently. The alien can remain in the US indefinitely, as long as the trade or investment continues to qualify for treaty classification and the foreigner maintains valid status.
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This is How Your Car Brake Works in Case You Are Wondering
It’s typical understanding that the brakes are what stop our cars. We trust those brakes to bring our vehicle to a stop when we need them to. But, what the majority of us have no idea is how our disk brakes or brake pads really work. When you get routine automobile service, you might find it useful to not only have them look after your brakes, but also teach you the mechanics of how your car brakes work.
There are 2 normal kinds of brakes: disk brakes and drum brakes. Disk brakes are generally found on the front of your car, with drum brakes typically found in the back. Depending upon the make and year of your car, you might also find disk brakes on the rear brakes. The mechanics supplying your car service in Delaware County will have the ability to inform you which type that you have.
The Process
In order to put your brakes into action, you need to compress the brake pedal on the motorist’s side of the car. Once the brake pedal has been lowered, it will signal the master cylinder to press fluid out to the calipers. The calipers will then squeeze both brake pads versus the disk or rotor to stop the car. When you consider this procedure, compare it to the rubber pads on a bike rubbing versus the wheel rim to develop friction and to stop the bike.
Drum Brakes
For those vehicles with drum brakes, fluid is pushed into what is referred to as the wheel cylinder. When the fluid is pushed into the cylinder, the pressure from the fluid then presses the brake shoes out so that friction is produced versus the drum to stop the car. The brake shoes are on the within the drum, instead of on the exterior like a disk brake.
Naturally decreasing triggers friction, which produces heat. This procedure ultimately wears the brakes on your car, leading them to need changing.
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A Hilton teenager has been given a suspended prison sentence after driving while banned from the roads and damaging property.
James Deas, a 19-year-old boy of Thames Way, Hilton appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Courts on Tuesday, September 5, where he pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and damaging a neighbour's vehicle and fence.
Deas was driving a Vauxhall Corsa in Egginton Road, in Hilton, on Thursday, April 20, when he was spotted by officers from the Hilton Safer Neighbourhood Team.
The car was seized after being found abandoned on Thames Way, near to a damaged van and fencing.
Deas was interviewed and summoned to appear at court, where he was given an eight-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, ordered to pay £200 in compensation to the victim for the damage and must pay a further £85 in costs.
Sergeant Graham Summers, from Derbyshire Police has said: "We are pleased that justice has taken its course in this case. The young man had dangerously ignored his disqualification from driving and got behind the wheel again.
"It shows that the local safer neighbourhood team strive to have a good knowledge of those offending in the area and will not hesitate to bring them to justice when and if they continue to offend.
"I hope that Mr Deas can learn from his mistake by realising how close he was to going to jail and so will now not cause the potential risk to other road users by continuing to drive whilst disqualified."
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I have permission to post a couple of responses from scientism in a non-public discussion around the issue of social norms and forms of rule. I will add further comment after the text of the post, as I think this issue is extremely interesting, and deserves some form of public exposure and discussion. The posts are as follows:
Post 1
“I think there’s a simple way to unify all our interests around the “Confucian insight”:
1. The central difference between Chinese civilisation and Western civilisation is that Western civilisation has (or had) separate political and religious hierarchies. “Rule by virtue/rites” was essentially the responsibility of the Church hierarchy (note how illiberal and “totalitarian” this rule was, they had representatives in every village, telling people what to think). Much modern confusion about society stems from this separation – for example, people tend to think religion is in the “private sphere” whereas government is the “public sphere”, but really you’re just governed by dual institutions. More importantly, if the Church represents rule by virtue/rites, what would its abolition look like? Wouldn’t it look exactly like Protestantism? “Every man his own priest” is the decisive move.
2. The account of human nature given by Aristotle fits neatly within the Confucian framework and made sense for the semi-integrated Medieval Western world, but it’s a poor fit for the modern, post-Reformation world. The modern world needs an account of man that is solipsistic and hyper-individualistic, who has no need for virtue and rites. Descartes and the British Empiricists provide this account. Liberalism is its mature politics.
3. The Carlylean critique can be interpreted as a critique of the transition from an informal world of customs that play a constitutive role in human ability to a legalistic world of externally imposed protocol (by means of punishment/reward) that increasingly displaces human judgement as it consumes itself like an ouroboros. The ultimate, Satanic expression of the latter would be the LandPlan: www.xenosystems.net/the-nrx-moment/ Contrary to Land’s claims, democracy is an obvious expression of the same thing. It’s inherently opposed to rule and so inherently disposed to produce convoluted systems in which leadership is obscured. The West seems to have an unfortunate history of flirting with such systems, such as Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic.
4. Both liberal “rule of law” and “free market” capitalism fall under the type of rule (hegemony) Confucius deems lesser than rule by virtue/rites. They are both concerned with rule by punishment/reward. Both, in fact, valorise punishment/reward as the highest good and recognise no other possibilities. Systems of “incentives” are seen as “realistic” whereas systems that involve a more complete account of human nature are seen as “idealistic”. It’s notable that Marxism actually falls firmly into the liberal camp and Soviet economics is a flat command structure involving punishment and reward. Japan is probably the only real example of an economy that deviates significantly from the perverse ideals of liberalism. Regardless, liberalism and free market capitalism are clearly two sides of the same coin, having identical origins and ideals and an identical account of the human individual.
(added: “The Master said, “If you try to lead the common people with governmental regulations and keep them in line with punishments, the laws will simply be evaded and the people will have no sense of shame. If, however, you guide them with Virtue, and keep them in line by means of ritual, the people will have a sense of shame and will moreover reform themselves.” Analects, 2.3)
5. The spread of degeneracy appears to be just a part of this general move from rule by virtue/rites, to rule by punishment/reward. It probably can’t happen without perversion spreading through the elite and then being promoted to the population at large.
6. It’s notable that classical Western education (the 7 liberal arts) looks a lot like it was training the elite to be exemplars in the rule by virtue/rites model, similar to classical systems of education in other civilisations. Modern education appears empty by comparison (learning a bunch of stuff you might find in an encyclopaedia).
7. Hierarchy is essential to rule by virtue/rites, but completely inessential to rule by punishment/reward, where you instead have an impersonal state that rules over an extremely flat structure. This is because a system based on human judgement has an inherent need to order people, so everybody has some sort of leadership available, whereas a system based on law and punishment simply needs a handful of all-powerful institutions that can enforce the law on the masses. The Soviet systems looks to me simply a different version of the liberal system in this respect. Capitalism tends to allow leadership within private corporations (although this is increasingly being stamped out, both from Left, in the form of workplace regulation, and the Right, in the form of making executives beholden to “the market”), whereas the communists removed even that, creating a “purer” system in certain respects. Constitutionalism, rule by law, etc, are all part of this sort of monstrous system. The Fascists gained some understanding of its shortcomings, but still seemed to view power in liberal terms and not understanding the central role of virtue/rites.
ADDED: There’s something very striking to me about this “legalistic” approach to government. Note that it has to actively oppose hierarchy, human judgement, etc, because, from its perspective, these are forms of corruption. Everybody must be “equal before the law” and this means systematically crushing systems of “privilege” (a “privilege” can be seen as anything the legalistic state cannot account for or anything that obstructs its system of “justice”). In fact, it has no need to uphold culture at all. The only thing it concerns itself with is, “Are you breaking the law?” Everything else must go, since it has the potential to obscure this concern. Moreover, it’s only concerned with things that will meet its standard of evidence. So it’s focused on supposed “harms” that can be subjected to the system (a “harm” is defined entirely in terms of the systems ability to process it, in terms of so-called “standards of evidence”). This is felt in society in two interrelated ways. Firstly, the legalistic state will actively seek to destroy anything it can’t process (as corruption/privilege). Secondly, the only alternative is for something to be elevated to the status of a legal issue and so the only way to gain acceptance by the legalistic state is to promote your cause as a legal issue. Hence gay rights, etc. The legalistic state isn’t concerned with moral correctness or even the sustainability of its rule, but rather is wholly concerned with what it is able to see from its narrow legalistic perspective. If you can turn your cause into a legal issue, it will accept you. If you cannot, it will crush you. Doesn’t this explain the entire course of modern Western history?”
Post 2
“I’m going to attempt to introduce some terminology, although I don’t think it’s perfect.
There are three basic types of rule:
1. Normative – rule by upholding and propagating norms; Confucian rule by virtue/rites
2. Punitive – rule through legal institutions, which effectively means through punishment and reward, according to some system
3. Coercive – rule through force and threat of force, in the absence of a system of formal law for its application
I think this also fits the Confucian categorisation of sage-king, hegemon and tyrant.
There are distinctions to be made between the “self-images” of each kind of state. For example, a punitive state sees the basis of its power as essentially coercive, but takes itself to be better than a purely coercive state only because it’s orderly in some sense (essentially, you know what’s going to happen to you if you break one of the many rules). Under liberalism, this becomes extremely pathological, and everything must be subject to formal law in order to be “good”. But it’s interesting that the punitive state has this supposedly “realist” tendency; it sees the fundamental basis of power as force. To the degree that those in a punitive state believe that the state can be a force for good (social democrats or communists, for example) it’s only to the degree that the state itself is subject to law at all levels. This contrasts with the normative state. The normative state sees the fundamental basis of power as normative mastery. There’s an obvious argument for this: no state can deploy any kind of force unless it at least has the loyalty of its military. Indeed, another way of looking at the three types of rule (only available from the normative perspective) is this: under the coercive state, the state only has the loyalty of the military, and this is the only means to enforce its rule; under the punitive state, the state has the loyalty of the military and the bureaucracy and so it can formalise its power in a system of law; but under the normative state, the state has the loyalty of the people, so it isn’t reliant entirely on the military or bureaucracy, but can count on the wider population to regulate itself, more or less. The normative state also has a different view of the relationship between the different types of rule. Normative rule is more effective than punitive rule and punitive rule is more effective than coercive rule. This means that all three means can be employed by the normative state. Punitive rule is to be used where normative rule fails and coercive rule where punitive rule fails. This contrasts with the punitive state, which either doesn’t recognise normative rule at all or sees it as hopelessly idealistic or even mystical. The punitive state’s relationship to coercion is also strange. It sees it as the basis of its power – the means by which it enforces the law – but it also sees it as illegitimate unless it is entirely subject to formal law. We can see that this is because it lacks the normative state’s moral dimension; it cannot recognise any action as legitimate except in legal terms. So the punitive state cannot “fallback” on purely coercive means. It has to generate convoluted reasons to put down uprisings, go to war, etc. It is incapable of handling exceptions and this has knock-on consequences because it must handle every exception systemically, by altering laws in ways that will set dangerous precedents and have unwanted repercussions at later times. So the punitive state will gradually unravel. This inability to handle exceptions as exceptions also opens the possibility of being hostile to leadership as such and is probably the source of its pathological need to subject everything to law. It has an inherent need to expand and destroy sources of legal unpredictability. The normative state, on the other hand, can, if it errs, fallback on punitive and coercive measures. Although it hopes to avoid both the growth of the legal bureaucracy and the use of unchecked violence, it will employ either in circumstances that call for it.”
The shift to rule by laws is something which can be said to be very much the trend of modernity, and it must be noted that as pointed out by Scientism, constitutionalism etc. and liberalism proper are totally law based, whilst prior social structures were not. We now have laws that are created in areas in which it has no conceivable place, and the growth of laws has reached obscene levels. Governance in a punitive system has to do so, because it has no other means of governance open to it, as it renounces the possibility of governance by virtue/ rites. In fact, such a governmental system systematically rejects any claim that such a thing is possible at its very core. The problem is that this process becomes so widespread and ingrained, that even opponents of this spread of punitive rule can only process it through the Cartesian/ British Empiricism philosophical system which accompanied and articulated this change (take a look at the excellent Hoppe analysis of De Jouvenel for an articulate example.)
In modernity (and this is noted by Tocqueville in Democracy in America) the legal profession becomes key, but unlike in Tocqueville’s conception, it does not form a visible ruling class. Lawyers and the legal profession stay very much in the background and do not rule directly. Tocqueville however, was very astute in noting that all political issue eventually become legal issues in a democracy, because in effect democracy is law based and completely blind to non-legal aspects of society – “The third characteristic of the judicial power is its inability to act unless it is appealed to, or until it has taken cognizance of an affair. This characteristic is less general than the other two; but, notwithstanding the exceptions, I think it may be regarded as essential.” Democracy in America.
Another observation of Tocqueville’s which accords with Scientism’s observation is the following, also from Democracy in America- “”In the Middle Ages they [lawyers] afforded a powerful support to the Crown, and since that period they have exerted themselves to the utmost to limit the royal prerogative.” – this describes the flip to modernity perfectly. The crown in England for example employed the royal court to engage quo waranto campaigns to nullify the local courts powers, and take away the charters granted to manors- in the name of the people.
Of course the lawyers did not take overt control because with punitive regimes, the question of who is in charge is evaded by pointing to the laws as being in charge A.K.A rule of law. We obviously see in reality that this is not the case, and in effect those who interpret the rule are in charge, but their very position is based on a denial of rule by judgement and what Scientism has termed “normative” rule and as such we see extremely complex screens and charades to deny anything but rule by impartial law. This process is not planned in advance, but really a natural occurrence as dictated by the logic of the situation.
Further to this, most of the agents of modernity have been either lawyers, or those connected with the legal tradition, and even in circumstances in which even partial and imperfect rejection of liberalism occurred, it was always lawyer/ legal profession led. The legal dominance of society in modernity is taken as a given, whilst in reality it is a very perverse development. The recent excitement with Bitcoin and the potential for private law is clearly an extension of this process to infinity. Not only can everyone become his own priest under liberalism as noted by scientism, they can now become their own legal system. The idea of Norms, Virtue and Rites so far banished from our thought that human interaction can only be seen legally ( recent developments around sexually consent are relevant.)
Law then, we can see, extends far beyond its reasonable limits in a punitive state, as that is its only means of control. Everything must be subject to a law, and elite led norms and social organisation encoded in culture and natural interaction are invisible, only to be abused as a means to push acceptance of new laws thought societal pressure even when such means directly contradict the basis of liberalism.
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But this ash often contains significant amounts of precious metals, such as zinc. A unique method developed by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, can now help extract these precious metals, potentially leading to reductions in environmental pollution, landfill and transport.
During waste incineration, the released flue gases are purified and the small particles present are separated, leading to the formation of fly ash. This fly ash contains toxic substances, such as dioxins, and so is normally classified as hazardous waste and landfilled. But it also contains valuable metals, such as zinc, which are thereby lost.
But a new method from Chalmers University of Technology, tested at pilot scale and detailed over several years of research, involves treating this waste with an acid wash, also separated from the flue gases, to separate the zinc from the fly ash. The zinc can then be extracted, washed and processed into raw material.
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The patient remained stable, with oxygen therapy, until 4 days later, when dyspnea, right PE, and right atrial compression reappeared. They resolved once again following the drainage of mL of pleural fluid.
Serological and cytological tests and sputum, and blood cultures were negative. Once the patient was stable, and with the suspicion of HPS, contrast-enhanced echocardiography was performed using agitated saline, which revealed the presence of bubbles in left chambers 5 beats after they were detected in the right chambers.
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The finding on echocardiography of the collapse of the right chambers is highly sensitive and specific for tamponade. There are very few cases of "tamponade" due to PE; of special interest are one involving Budd-Chiari syndrome with bilateral PE6 and certain cases of nonsevere PE in patients who have undergone cardiac surgery.
Despite the small number of cases of PE that cause right chamber collapse, that is, that behave like a tamponade, we consider that this case helps us to keep in mind that possibility in the differential diagnosis, especially in cases in which there are low intracavitary pressures due to reduced right ventricular afterload, as occurs in HPS.The himself aloud to do whatever is forbidden in the real world, audience can look around, there is no favourite point of view.
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développer le sport, particulièrement celui des boules; nommer ou proposer divers délégués aux fédérations boulistes de France ; développer au sein de l'association l'esprit de camaraderie ; créer dans ce but ies propagandes utiles au sport bouliste | common_corpus | {'identifier': '196700040092', 'collection': 'French Open Data', 'open_type': 'Open Government', 'license': 'Licence ouverte', 'date': '1966.0', 'title': 'La Boule entraiguoise', 'creator': 'ASSOCIATIONS', 'language': 'French', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '37', 'token_count': '53', '__index_level_0__': '2803', 'original_id': '475d1ac90de730362d9c3dcf1c3bbaa47a0bf5afdced6dcabe96f40d4c2e9227'} |
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
The McKay's Summer Vacation
A trend that has involuntarily occurred since the beginning of our marriage is that we've never gone on vacation. We've had "staycations" which normally involve fun things like organizing closets. We've had weekend getaways, which most of the time isn't worth the fuss of packing and traveling, you're right back home before you know it. And lately, the new thing is going on trips that are all derby related. I'm not complaining about that, I love that my husband loves the sport I'm obsessed with, but they aren't really vacations.
This summer, we promised to take a trip down south to visit my inlaw's new house. They built a house to retire in, even though they are still living up here for now. So their gorgeous house snugged up against a golf course has become their vacation home for the time being.
We went for six days and it was delightful. I never realized how important it was to get away for a bit. It also made me realize that you can take Mr. McKay and I out of our element, but that doesn't change us in the least.
We were walking through an antique store with my mother in law—only it wasn't really an antique store, it was new stuff made to look old that gets sold to rich people. Anyway, for whatever reason there were giant bird cages in there. Mr. McKay made some comment to the effect of, "Casey doesn't like these." Gesturing at the assortment of cages. I thought he was referencing my fear of birds.
His mother ambled away browsing around and he tugged me toward an oversized cage that was probably about four feet high.
"What kind of bird would you put in there?" I asked. I realized it was probably just for decorative purposes, but I was having a hard time even visualizing what one would do with a four-foot tall bird cage.
"You could fit in there," he said. Then leaned in closer. "I could lock you up, it'd be kinky."
I whipped my head around to check the proximity of his mother and then punched him in the arm. He never fails to be amused by my talk of BDSM likes and dislikes. I've read books where submissives are locked in cages, and I get that it is a thing people like. I just don't think I ever would want that in real life. I brought this up to Mr. McKay one day. Not that I think he would ever ask to lock me in a cage, but just putting it out there that I'm not okay with it.
He had so many questions. What was I reading? Where was this cage and how did this get brought up in the story? Now he just likes to tease me with this bit of information at inopportune moments, like say, when we're antiquing with his mother.
Antique stores have a lot of weird things in them. It makes you wonder why people save certain things and why they think other people will want to buy the crap they held on to.
Aside from antiquing, it was too hot to do anything of note except lay inside the air conditioning all day and then go out to dinner. So we mostly laid around, drank and watched the Olympics. Then went to dinner and drank some more. It was the perfect vacation!
There were a few things I learned:
1. Air mattresses are not meant for long term sleeping arrangements and will make you feel like you are 80 when you get up in the morning.
2. The Olympics make me cry, from the little touching stories they put together of the Olympians, to an underdog winning gold, to the medal ceremonies. I teared up too many times to count.
3. I like grits. And shrimp and grits are my new favorite thing!
4. Doing nothing on vacation away from home is far more relaxing than doing nothing in your own house.
5. I can map out an entire book on a nine hour car ride home. I think I remembered most of it too!
Anyone do anything fun this summer? The season is rapidly drawing to close. I like the fall and everything but it always makes a little sad to see the summer come to an end.
Friday, August 19, 2016
A Spanking to Heat Things Up!~ Constance Masters Visits!
This is definitely next on my summer reading list! I love the way Constance Masters writes and the set up for this book sounds like a comedy caper reminiscent of the old classic movies I like to watch. And then also, there's spanking, the best of all worlds :)
Trickery by Constance Masters
“But I?” Morgan squirmed uncomfortably.
“I’m scared,” Morgan whimpered into her arm.
“Good, you deserve to be scared.”
“I’m sorry Jackson, I really am.”
“And I’m not a criminal!”
“I can see that now!”
“Hush,” he whispered.
“But it burns—and my name is Morgan.”
“That hurt.”
“What are we gonna do?”
“Does she even know what was in the bag?”
“I am an adult.”
“And you have demonstrated that so well.”
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August 2007
From humiliation to peace
Of all that threatens peace in our world, one of the strongest weapons of destruction is humiliation. It causes great pain and a sense of alienation and marginalisation. It crushes people's dignity and leads to despair. Persistent humiliation and injustice drives individuals, militant groups and nations to respond with violence, to kill and mutilate.
We cannot despair of ourselves
We cannot despair of humanity since we are ourselves human beings.
Genocide and cultural ethnocide
Genocide is preceded by cultural ethnocide, or the gradual and deliberate erosion and manipulation of cultural values and practices by political authorities. The dissolution of this cultural foundation (...) makes people incapable of protecting themselves and their communities from the descent into the abyss of mass atrocities; it allows them to be manipulated to commit execrable acts counter to their own time-tested values and traditions. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8560842275619507}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '63753', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:353KVOYBJ2U63ML5CCJY6S53XFNEPU65', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3debef73-d401-4ba9-9783-ab5e32cc1fe3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 6, 14, 8, 53, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '84.16.72.41', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CPHEODMS7JJ44HASKBQN6VFGPRAG5QWZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:92eddb6b-c888-475c-9a1b-7d05075be04e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.grainesdepaix.org/en/resources/fun-zone/humour/theme_view?theme=humanite', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b6c4fdbd-64e3-46c4-a44d-b18d3945ce3e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '176', 'url': 'https://www.grainesdepaix.org/en/resources/fun-zone/humour/theme_view?theme=humanite', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-242.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.037226080894470215', 'original_id': '7b0399048fa30ef854c8636539ffec168c4d2c2ff0e2687f4743b2a56428bfd4'} |
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Mark Webber has been handed a reprimand by U.S. GP stewards for failing to enter the weighbridge for a random check during qualifying.
According to Rule 26.1 of Formula 1's regulations "cars taking part in Q1 and Q2 will be selected at random to undergo the weighing procedure...When signaled to do so the driver will proceed directly to the FIA garage and stop his engine."
However, Webber missed the light at the end of the pit-lane alerting him to the check and proceeded straight to the Red Bull garage - an oversight Sky Sports F1's Anthony Davidson could understand.
"The light is on the right hand side as you come in, but Red Bull is the first garage on the left and that is where Mark will have been looking so it is easy to miss," the former Super Augri driver said.
The stewards could have handed the Australian a grid penalty, or excluded him from Sunday's race, but in the hours after the end of qualifying the FIA confirmed that only a reprimand would be issued against the driver.
"Driver failed to proceed directly to the FIA garage for weighing when signalled to do so. However upon realising the error, the team brought the car back to the FIA garage immediately," the stewards' reasoning read.
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The outcome is therefore a relief to Red Bull as they go in search of a third straight Constructors' Championship in Sunday's race. Webber will start from the head of the second row directly behind pole-sitting team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
Michael Schumacher was also called to face the stewards after qualifying in Austin after Ferrari complained he had obstructed Fernando Alonso during Q2, but escaped sanction.
The German was very slow on the apex of turn 15 as he created a gap ahead of him before attempting a flying lap - forcing Alonso to abandon a timed lap of his own.
The Ferrari driver gesticulated from the cockpit at the rear of the Mercedes whilst shouting "unbelievable Michael, unbelievable Michael" on the radio to the pit-wall.
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Question: What are your political & economic views & how have they changed? Response: My mom is a republican and has many opinions. For example, a couple is: she is against abortions, gay rights, and keeps a strong stance in holding to the standards of our fore fathers. She thinks that we should keep more of our manufactured goods rather than trade out of the country so much, in doing so we should take the expense to produce in American more than in other countries. If we kept the work in America we wouldn’t have so many people on unemployment. Foreign trade has escalated intensely. Economics have been a series of tax increase for as long as she has known. This is how inflation has gotten – you can pay $0.69 for a two liter of coke at the grocery store and then go to a convenient store and pay $1.75 for a 16oz coke, just for the convenience. Supply & Demand – examples would be, when everyone lost their job and no one could get work anywhere. Supply went down because the demand went down; if there is no supply then there isn’t any demand for it. People said that Americans spent more money during Christmas season than any other time of the year. But the past couple of years, we gave no reason for people to say that anymore. Reason being is that job loss and the instability makes it hard to have money to spend. The economy has gone way down here recently and could possibly just keep getting worse. In the stock markets you may be able to make a profit IF you’re lucky. For example, my mom’s friend lost $100,000 because the economy went so far down, that it crashed.
Question: What are your religious & scientific views and how has it changed? Response: The government has taken prayer to vote the Bible out, which is one example of how the religious views of back then have changed dramatically. The government has created an entirely new generation of thinking and it’s all scientific. There is nothing based on Christian beliefs teaching...
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Q:
C# create two arrays for the same type
Our senior dev is out of the office and I need some help with to create two arrays for the same node. Below is an example of what I need in XML format;
<RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers>
<numberOfQualifiers>
<nbrOfQualifiers>
<Value>2</Value>
<Qualifier>Person</Qualifier>
</nbrOfQualifiers>
</numberOfQualifiers>
<numberOfQualifiers>
<nbrOfQualifiers>
<Value>3</Value>
<Qualifier>User1</Qualifier>
</nbrOfQualifiers>
<nbrOfQualifiers>
<Value>3</Value>
<Qualifier>User2</Qualifier>
</nbrOfQualifiers>
</numberOfQualifiers>
</RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers>
However what I am getting is this;
<RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers>
<numberOfQualifiers>
<nbrOfQualifiers>
<Value>2</Value>
<Qualifier>Person</Qualifier>
</nbrOfQualifiers>
<nbrOfQualifiers>
<Value>3</Value>
<Qualifier>User1</Qualifier>
</nbrOfQualifiers>
<nbrOfQualifiers>
<Value>3</Value>
<Qualifier>User2</Qualifier>
</nbrOfQualifiers>
</numberOfQualifiers>
</RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers>
Below is my code;
public static RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers ServicesRequest(string person, List<string> users)
{
RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers services = new RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers();
List<RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiersNbrOfQualifiers> qualifier = new List<RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiersNbrOfQualifiers>();
qualifier.Add(new RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiersNbrOfQualifiers { Qualifier = 2, Value = person });
foreach (var userNo in users)
{
qualifier.Add(new RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiersNbrOfQualifiers { Qualifier = 3, Value = userNo });
}
services.numberOfQualifiers = qualifier.ToArray();
return services;
}
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Dave
A:
It seems like your object/model should be something like this:
public class nbrOfQualifiers
{
public int Value { get; set; }
public string Qualifier { get; set; }
}
public class RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers
{
public List<List<nbrOfQualifiers>> numberOfQualifiers { get; set; } // note that I have
// List<List<T>>
}
Here is your object
var foo = new RequestServiceNumberOfQualifiers()
{
numberOfQualifiers = new List<List<nbrOfQualifiers>>()
{
new List<nbrOfQualifiers>()
{
new nbrOfQualifiers(){ Value = 2, Qualifier = "Person"},
},
new List<nbrOfQualifiers>()
{
new nbrOfQualifiers(){ Value = 3, Qualifier = "User1"},
new nbrOfQualifiers(){ Value = 4, Qualifier = "User2"},
}
}
};
If you serialize the above object into XML, it should give you your expected result.
The key is that you need to use a List<List<T>> for your numberOfQualifiers.
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"(Male announcer) Previously on Fringe..." "The last will and testament of William Bell." ""Nina, a memento of me."" "I need Belly." "I need his help." "I can't do this alone." "I have to protect our world." "Remember how good we were together." "William is gone." "You can't bring him back." "Wherever Belly is..." "He will find us." "[Chimes]" "(Bell as Olivia) The decoder key is in my office." "At the FBI?" "No, at Massive Dynamic." "Hello, Peter." "It's nice to see you again." "(Bell as Olivia) I understand your concerns, but I assure you," "Olivia is perfectly fine." "She is simply resting." "(Broyles) What do you mean, she's resting?" "Well, not exactly of course." "Just in the sense that her conscious mind, her awareness, is at a state of rest." "But I assure you, she is totally safe." "This is all exactly as I planned it." "[Chair squeaking]" "You haven't heard the best part." "Ask him when he planned it." "(Bell as Olivia) Several months ago when I first met Olivia in my office on the other side." "I gave her a cup of tea." "The soul magnets were in that tea." "(Broyles) So these soul magnets drew your consciousness into Olivia after you died?" "Well, after my physical body died." "As you can see, I am quite alive." "Indeed." "Look at this." "Two distinct patterns of electrical activity." "This one... active." "That's you, Belly." "[Laughs]" "The other one inert." "Like the brain waves of a long, dreamless sleep." "Which suggests that Olivia was aware of none of this." "Now I understand that this could take some time for you to get used to." "Imagine how I feel." "I never realized that a bra was so binding." "[Snickers]" "Astrid, you can start taking the electrodes off her... him." "(Broyles) How much time?" "You're not suggesting this is permanent." "Oh, no, no." "We simply need to find a more suitable home for me to move to." "Now Olivia's brain can accommodate my consciousness for several weeks before anything would happen to her." "Weeks?" "Not a chance." "And I am confident that Walter will find a more stable home long before that." "Same question." "How long?" "24 hours." "48 at the most." "Has anyone ever told you, dear, that you have lovely hands?" "Thank you." "You're not seriously considering sanctioning this, are you?" "Well, what would you suggest, Peter?" "If I leave Olivia's brain now without finding a suitable host, I would die." "And don't you think that my life is worth an extended nap?" "And besides, William can help us understand Walternate's plan, can't you, William?" "Walter." "What he intends to use the machine for." " And how to keep Peter out of it." " Stop." "I want to know how we get Olivia back." "(Broyles) 48 hours to find a new and suitable host." "Then I want you out of my agent." "Or I'll have Dr. Bishop figure out how to drive you out." "Agreed?" "You have my word, young man." "Now I need to retrieve my files from Massive Dynamic." "There is a box labeled "Reentry."" " I'll get it myself." " As fast as possible." "You don't have to tell me twice." "[Thunder crashes]" "That was fast." "You said I didn't have much time, Jim." "You didn't." "You don't." "[Thunder crashes]" "You were right." "It's gonna rain." "There is hope in raindrops." "Isn't that what you said?" "What does that even mean?" "It means..." "That every drop of rain holds the promise of regrowth." "Each has a purpose." "Even if they don't know it." "I think we can feel that way." "That we don't have a purpose." "But we do." "Jim." "Do you believe what you're saying?" "About purpose?" "You said you know how I feel." "You said you know pain." "And you wanted to kill yourself too, you said that." "Yes." "So?" "What's your reason to stick around?" " My reason?" " Have you found your purpose?" "Jim." "It's okay." "You did your best." "I don't believe in hope anymore." "All I know is we're all gonna die." "(Peter) Okay, here are the reentry files." "You need anything else?" "Uh, a computer with access to social service and medical databases would be useful." "Now the host needs to be biological, able to cognate, but without its own governing consciousness." "A human brain would be ideal, but not a prerequisite." "What?" "Peter, your father wouldn't want to hear me say this, but even if he does find out more about this machine, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll be able to prevent the events depicted in that picture." "I mean, that just could simply be your fate." "Thankfully, I don't believe in fate." "Whatever Walternate's plans are for me, I promise you," "I'm not getting in that machine." "Well, son, it isn't always that simple." "I've lived a long time, Peter." "So believe me when I tell you that sometimes when one walks away from his fate, it leads one directly to fate's doorstep." "[Footsteps]" "Hey, Broyles just sent something over that you need to see." "(Peter) Excellent." "Do it again, and I'll show you." "Holy!" "This video was taken last night just after 10:00 in Roxbury." "Nobody could have survived that impact." "And yet she did." "What are you thinking, Walter?" "Maybe it's not the woman at all." "Maybe it's the location." "Walter, you think that this is spatial decay, don't you?" "Caused from a soft spot between the universes." "We're beginning to see signs of degradation on this side." "Well, it was bound to happen." "I'm surprised that it's taken this long." "All right, we need a geiger counter." "No, no." "We don't need anything." "We can handle this." " You need to..." " What?" "Go to my room?" "Sit on my hands?" "The computer is searching all the local hospitals for a potential host based on the parameters that you retrieved from Massive Dynamic." "Now I am not someone who can make that occur any faster." "What I am is the only person on this universe who has extensive experience in inter-dimensional decay." "(Peter) Fabulous." "Fantastic." "Agent Lee!" "You're gonna want to see this." " Where is she?" " Boston." "(Bell as Olivia) We have more advanced ways to detect molecular degeneration over there, but a simple radiation test should be enough to see whether the fabric of the universe has begun to decay." "And?" "Well, everything's within normal range." "Nothing unusual here." "So if it's not the place, then it's got to be the girl." "Must be something about her that allowed her to survive the fall." "Well, then we need to get to know more about her." "DNA." "Excellent." "[Laughs]" "I'll take the samples from the passenger's side." "Look at this." "Me and Belly collecting human tissue and fluid specimens." "Just like when we were kids." "Glad you guys are enjoying yourself." "This is Peter and Dr. Walter bishop, the civilian consultants I told you about." "This is special agent Lincoln Lee from Hartford." "He has some information regarding this case." "Hi." "Uh..." " (Peter) This is..." " Agent Olivia Dunham." " Fringe Division." " What division?" "So what you got?" "The woman who jumped and walked away?" "Her name is Dana Gray." "She was murdered eighteen months ago." "Two bullets in the head." "M.E. said she died instantly." "She was killed with her husband and her children" " in a home invasion robbery." " (Bell as Olivia) Ooh." "That's grisly." "I can't argue." "This was a tough one." "They ever find who did it?" "Yes." "We tried to bring him in, but he drew on us." "Two agents ended up putting him down in a shootout." "So case closed." "That is, until I get a call about Mrs. Gray's body disappearing from the morgue." " I assumed it was stolen." " It's a reasonable assumption." "I didn't think anything of it until I saw this." "Witnesses reported seeing two people jump out of a dorm window." "Cops get there." "One body." "Grad student who lived there." "But the cops find two sets of fingerprints on the ledge during their investigation." "Second set, those fingerprints were identified as Dana Gray's." "Which is insane because she's dead." "Well, you know, stranger things have happened." " Um, no, they haven't." " Don't listen to him." "Her." "Sorry." "Go on." "Not knowing what to make of it, I flag Gray in the system." "Over the next two months, we found prints at three other double suicides." "Now security photos show her there, and eyewitnesses report seeing her die." "First responders show up, there's only one body, and it's never hers." "I know this sounds insane, but I don't think this woman can die." "Isn't this our lucky day?" "Hello?" "(Astrid) Hello." "(Peter) What's he doing here?" " I invited him." " Belly invited him." "(Astrid) That's Gene." "[Moos]" "(Walter) Come down here." "I've got something." "Um, what is this place exactly?" "This is the place where the mysteries of the universe get answered." "And congratulations." "Whatever your security clearance was, it just got about seven levels deeper." "Something to show you." "We found two sets of DNA in the specimens we took from the scene." "Two different people." "But in performing the tests, we noticed something odd in the molecules of Ms. Gray's body." "They didn't want to come apart." "They were held together by an unusually strong electromagnetic bond." "Um, I'm confused." "You're saying that her body's being held together by magnetism?" "Well, we're all held together by magnetism." "Our molecules are like these hematite rocks." "Magnetism is what keeps us from flying apart." "It's what keeps us solid." "(Walter) In Ms. Gray's case, the attraction was almost unbreakable." "It's a miracle she left any blood behind at all." "I think it suits you, dear." "Um, but..." "But how?" "I mean, why did she get magnetically supercharged?" "Belly, what if she took the energy from her victims?" " Victims?" " The people she's jumping with." "Yeah, that'd make sense." "She absconds with their life force at the moment of death." "Life force?" "You mean like a soul?" "Is that even a scientific concept?" "(Bell as Olivia) You know, it's best to try not to be reductive." "I mean, after all, every living thing is simply bundled energy." "And perhaps Ms. Gray has found a way to capture some vital portion of another person's essential energy and therefore has extended her own life." "Extending her own life." "A soul vampire." "As it were." "It says in the file that each one of the victims tried to commit suicide previously." "Perhaps simple compassion, Belly." "Yes, that's brilliant." "She only wants to take the souls of those people that are already prepared to surrender their own." "A compassionate soul vampire." " Both:" "Yes." " Oh, boy." "Um, who are you guys?" "Why don't I explain that to you as we go?" "Are we going somewhere?" "If you were looking for victims who had previously tried to commit suicide, where would you go?" "Suicide hotlines, therapy groups?" "(Peter) Exactly." "Walter, give me a call if you can figure out any more about why Dana Gray can't die." "[Cell phone ringing]" "Helpline." "This is Joan." "Hello?" "I think I'm gonna hurt myself." "Okay, sweetie, what's your name?" " I'm Brian." " Hi, Brian." "I guess you're in a bad place right now, huh?" "I'm tired." "I know, sweetie." "Life can be tiring." "[Sighs]" "I know." "Listen, Brian," "I really want to help you, but you have to let me do that, okay?" "And this is too important to do over the phone." "You're just trying to trick me." "You're gonna send the police to stop me." "No, listen to me, Brian." "I would never do that." "I promise, okay?" "Now, sweetheart, just tell me where you are." "That's her." "Yeah, that's Joan." "Is she working today?" "No, she hasn't been in for a few days." "Is she in some kind of trouble?" "(Lincoln) Was she close with anybody in the office?" "Well, she was friendly, but I wouldn't say she was close to anyone." "She did her job and went home." "Here's her desk." "I hope nothing's happened to her." "She's one of our best counselors." "How so?" "Well, if there was a particularly challenging call, a person who was at risk, we'd forward it to her." "She was amazing." "In three months, she saved at least 37 lives." "She had an uncanny way of connecting with people feeling hopelessness." "I mean, anybody who gets struck by lightning twice and survived has to have a perspective on hope, right?" "Do you have her address?" "Yeah." "Let me go get it." "If Dana Gray is stealing people's souls as they die..." "Then why is she so committed to saving their lives?" "Brian?" "Hello, Brian." "You're not scared." "I know when people are scared." "And you're not." "Why?" "Why are you doing this?" "You think you convinced me to allow you to come here." "But it was me who wanted you to come." "Okay." "I don't want to hurt people." "But I always do." "Who do you hurt?" "I have no hope." "Like those raindrops that you mentioned on the phone." "You said they have a purpose." "Well, I don't like my purpose." "Do you think the raindrops will help those people on the train?" "What people on the train?" "(Brian) I don't want to hurt them." "But I will." "And that's why you're here." "You have to save them." "There's a duffel bag with my bomb." "And that's why you're here." "East Bay Railway train 67." "Car 2." "Seat 17." "[Dial tone]" "[Dialing]" "[Ringing]" "(Brian) Like Azrael, let his angels carry my damned soul to heaven." "[Gunshot]" "(Man) 911." "What is your emergency?" "Hello?" "[Beep]" "No." "Nothing." "None of them fit the parameters." "[Sighs]" "Here either." "We're looking for such specific conditions to accommodate your transfer, William." "A brain-dead patient like this could be one in a million." "[Moos]" "Huh." "William." "No." "No." "[Laughter]" "(Lincoln) There's not much in here." "No friends, no acquaintances." "No one that can tell us where to find her." " You?" " Mm-mm." "Just a bunch of books and a receipt from a flower shop for a dozen roses, but she paid in cash." "Hmm." "One of these things is not like the others." "What's that?" "You never watched Sesame Street?" "The Afterlife of the Soul." " These other books are clinical." " But this one's religious." "Exactly." "All the highlighted passages are about what happens to us after we die." "What's she doing, trying to convince people to jump by telling them how great heaven would be?" "[Chuckling]" "What if we're thinking about this backwards?" "What if that book's not for other people?" "It's for her." "Maybe she's the one that wants to die." "Even if we were able to transfer your consciousness safely inside Gene, there are other matters to consider." "Well, we would communicate through my brainwaves." "You would hook me up to an E.E.G. machine and decipher my thoughts." "That may work, but still..." "I'd have to milk you." "Well, we could assign Astrid." "[Snickers]" "[Laughter]" "Walter?" "Walter?" "Oh, not now, son." "We're on to something." "Look, if Dana Gray was hit by lightning twice, do you think that would help to explain why she's so overly electromagnetic?" "I suppose that's possible." "The ions due to the multiple lightning strikes could cause her molecules to be supercharged." "And possibly intensify the electromagnetism." "Why do you ask?" "We don't think that she's trying to live forever." "We think she's trying to die." "(Lincoln) Dana Gray's description just went out over the police bulletin in Dorchester." "Somebody spotted her." "You're sure this is the woman you saw leaving the apartment?" "Like I already told the police," "I was making dinner when I heard the gunshot." "I came out into the hall, and I saw that woman leaving." "Did she kill him?" "This is an ongoing investigation." "I'm afraid I can't comment." "Oh, I see." "You're the only one who gets to ask questions?" "Thank you for your cooperation." "So M.E. says that the angle and wound powder burns are consistent with suicide, but the gun only discharged once." "It only takes one bullet to blow your brains out." "Yeah, sure, but up until now, her M.O. has been to try and kill herself either with or directly after the suicide victim." "Why?" "If she can't die and her soul, energy, whatever you want to call it is bound to her body, maybe she's trying to go with theirs." "Like a hitchhiker." "[Laughs]" " A stowaway to heaven?" " Yeah." "Yeah, but she was here." "And Dana Gray, why didn't she just pick up the gun and try to shoot herself?" " Try to catch a ride?" " What changed?" "I think this is the story you were looking for." "I'm surprised you've heard of it." "I'm taking a night class, and we're doing an essay on the journey of the soul to the afterlife." "Then you'll find this very interesting." "The ascension of Azrael." "It's about a sinner named Azrael whose soul was condemned to purgatory." "After years of watching him suffer, the angels asked God to let Azrael free." "But God ignored them." "So the angels went down into purgatory and lifted Azrael up to heaven." "When God asked why they did this, the angels said Azrael had suffered enough." "And the combined innocence of the angels' souls outweighed Azrael's sins." "Finally, God agreed." "And Azrael's soul was welcomed into heaven." "Good luck with your assignment." "[Creak]" "Hello, freak show." "It's some kind of shrine." "More like a trophy room." "So clearly this guy was nuts." "I believe the clinical term is sociopath." "But yeah." "He was." "So why was Dana Gray here?" "(Agent) Agent Broyles?" "We found this invoice in the bathroom." "Twenty pounds of plastic explosives." "This guy was making a bomb." "So where is it?" "(Man) Okay." "I'll pick them up on the way." "Yeah, I said okay." "All right." "See you soon." "My sister." "She had another baby." "Her and her husband, they're like rabbits." "I'm heading to Providence to see 'em." "What about you?" "Where are you headed?" "I'm on my way to see family too." "(Broyles) Alert BPD and put the bomb squad on standby." " Let me know when it's done." " Hey, Broyles, timers." "And the wires are stripped." "Looks like he was getting ready to attach it to a power source." "He's rigged the bomb with a time detonator." "(Lincoln) We went over every inch of this place." "It's not here." "Check his credit cards, A.T.M. withdrawals, Metro cards." "I want a list of possible targets," " any places guy'd want to blow up." " Yes, Sir." "What if you're tracking the wrong person?" " Dana Gray was here." " You think she took the bomb?" "Why would she do that?" "No." "She didn't take it." "I think I know what's going on here." "It sounds insane, but here's my theory." "She can't die." "But she wants to." "And she's been trying anything and everything she can to move on." "Right?" "She's been trying to stow away on the souls of the recently dead." "Which is why she's been using suicide victims." "And how is that related to the plastic explosives about to be detonated somewhere in the city?" "'Cause her plan isn't working." "She's looking for another way." "See, Dana was here when this guy committed suicide." "I think that he told her where the bomb is, and the only reason she didn't pick up that gun and follow suit is because she's gonna try something new." "So you think she's trying to increase her chances of making it to the afterlife by killing herself with a group of people?" "It would explain why she's not here." "This woman lost her entire family." "She's desperate." "Even if you're right, that still leaves the same problem." "How do we find the bomb?" "Hey, is this the suicide's phone?" "[Dialing]" "Placed a phone call half an hour before he shot himself." "Boston area code." "How much you want to bet that's Dana Gray's phone number?" "[Woman giggling]" "[Cell phone rings]" "(Dana's voice) You've reached the crisis helpline." "This is Joan." "If this is an emergency, hang up and di..." "She's not answering." "Can't run a trace unless the line's open." "She has to pick up." "Can you change the outgoing caller I.D." " On this phone from here?" " Yeah, sure." "What are you thinking?" "She may not answer this number, but I know whose number she will answer." "[Cell phone ringing]" " Hello?" " Dana, please don't hang up." "Who is this?" "My name is Peter Bishop." "The number that you're calling from, how did you get it?" "I work with the FBI, Dana." "Well, then I'm sorry, Mr. Bishop, but we have nothing to talk about." "Dana, please, I know what happened to you." "I know about your family." "I know how they died." "And I know that you're only doing this because you want to be reunited with them." "Just because you've read some files about me," "Mr. Bishop, doesn't mean you know the hell that I've been stuck in or what I have to do to make it stop." "But I can help you to make it stop." "The people that I work with are scientists." "They are the best at what they do." "And if you come in," "I promise you they can help you." "Can you promise me you'll reunite me with my family?" "Can you promise me that killing a bunch of people will?" "It's the best chance I've got." " I'm sorry." "I have no choice." " Dana, that's not true." "You have a choice." "We all have a choice." "Not me." "I should have died that night with my family." "But for some reason, some impossible cosmic joke," "I'm stuck here." " I didn't ask for this." " As strange as this sounds," "I know exactly what you're going through." "But believe me, Dana, this is not the solution." "I guess we'll find out soon enough." "Did you get it?" "(Dana) I should have died that night with my family." "There." "That in the background." "Can you isolate that?" "(Train conductor) Next stop, Norwood station." "(Astrid) Here it is." "I've got it open." "There are three different trains from three different points of origin that stop in Norwood at this time of night." "You sure?" "Yeah, the 6:15, the 6:25, and the 6:45." "She could be on any one of them." "Ask him when they spoke to her." "What time?" "Hey, when did you speak to her?" "What time?" "I don't know." "It was ten minutes ago." "Ten minutes ago." "Oh, good." "I love word problems." "Three trains all passing through Norwood." "Each traveling at its own constant velocity." "Not accounting for station stops." "What are they saying in the background?" "I have no idea." "They're doing that thing again where they don't finish sentences." "I merely need to insert the parameters based on the train schedule." "That is too early." "(Both) She's on the 6:25." "She's on the 6:25." "Excuse me." "Can you keep an eye on my stuff here?" "I have to use the bathroom." "[Sirens wailing]" "FBI." "We need to clear the train." "There may be an explosive on board." "We think it's due to go off in about eight minutes." "[Chatter]" "This is the suspect." "There are over 300 people on this train." "That girl's in the next car." "(Man) She was right there." "Bring the dogs in now." "(Broyles) I need everyone to stay calm." "I need a single file line." "Move toward the nearest exit." "Leave your belongings where they are." "You can get them later." "[Sobs]" "I don't understand." "She's gone." "[Explosion and screams]" "(Agent) Hey!" "I've got something." "Just down here." "She's dead." "(Lincoln) So what changed?" "After all that time trying, why is she able to die now?" "Welcome to the Fringe Division." "Every answer you get just leads you to more questions." "That may be." "But it's a lot more exciting than Hartford." "Feel free to give me a call if you ever find yourself needing some help." "Be careful what you wish for." "(Bell as Olivia) Hello, Peter." "Walter thought that it would be a good idea for me to stay here tonight." "I just made a pot of tea." "Would you like a cup?" "Yeah." "Why not?" " So I've been thinking about Dana Gray." " You're not the only one." "Well, I have two thoughts." "My first thought is that the energy emitted from that bomb somehow reset the electromagnetic charge in her body and that it was that unique charge that enabled her to die permanently." "Okay." "That makes sense." "What was your second thought?" "That my first thought is wrong." "And?" "What if, Peter, this isn't about biology or physics?" "What if what we witnessed was the very reason that Dana Gray couldn't die?" "Why?" "Because she needed to be here to save those people's lives." " You think it was her destiny." " Well, destiny, fate." "Jung called it synchronicity, the interconnectedness of apparently unrelated events." "I mean, don't you think that it's curious we meet a woman who is unable to die at the exact moment my consciousness seemingly returns from the grave." "Now as a scientist, I like to believe that nothing just happens, that every event has some meaning." "Some sort of message." "You just have to be able to listen closely enough to hear it." "[Church bells ring]" "See." "It's a church bell." "So tell me, what's the meaning?" "You okay, Bell?" "(Olivia speaking) Peter..." "Olivia, is that you?" "(Olivia as Bell) Oh, no." "What the hell just happened right there?" "I think that I may have been wrong." "This may be a little more complicated than I first thought." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'b7a2d0401b1a41d47cbb93eef5757ef7b2f9126ffab708bfd0695a1c311a3cf2'} |
Keep a Healthy Eye on Your Game
Keep a Healthy Eye on Your Game
Professor Andrea Holmes, PhD
Member of SummaForte Advisory Committee
Founder/Director of the Cannabis Studies Department, Doane University
Amanda McKinney, M.D.
Board Member, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Keep a Healthy Eye on Your Game!
While screen time is an inescapable part life, it IS life for gamers. Feel that dryness and strain in your eyes after looking at a screen for hours? A steady stream of short wavelengths blasting your eyes cause some longer-term damage. Casual gamers tend to spend 2-4 hours a day in front of screens while professional and performance gamers can spend 10 hours or more gaming daily. The blue light emitted by their screens has a short wavelength that releases enough energy to create digital eye strain (“DES”). As many as 60% of Americans have symptoms of DES, and the proportion is likely higher with gamers. Additionally, overexposure to blue light – like sunlight – can exacerbate macular degeneration that in turn can cause vision loss. So gamers need to be aware of these risks to their health and performance and make sure they are addressing them.
What is Lutein and how can it help with DES and Macular Degeneration?
Lutein is a carotenoid vitamin in the same family as beta-carotene and vitamin A. It is often called "the eye vitamin" and is used to prevent age-related macular degeneration (“AMD”) and cataracts, both of which lead to vision loss. As a color pigment in the macula and retina of the eye, Lutein acts like a filter to protect the eye from damage from blue light and sunlight. Lutein supplementation could also help reduce the symptoms of visual fatigue (closely related to Dry Eye Syndrome) which would likely impact gamers’ ability to focus and accurately react. This is great news for gamers!
How can you bolster lutein?
Lutein is found in foods that are yellow or orange in color like carrots, cantaloupe, corn, orange and yellow peppers, salmon and egg yolks. It’s also present in green leafy vegetables like, kale, spinach, broccoli, peas and lettuce as well as certain wheat products like pasta. But many people either don’t like the taste or simply don’t find the time to eat enough of these foods. SummaMix contains 10 mg of lutein which, if taken daily with a meal for about 30 days, can improve the health of your eyes. Give it a try! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9334462881088256}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '230874', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2RHZ7BLRDZUZX4YL5JIIVBN3QSLSZ4AI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:51c03336-61f1-4902-9fe2-84c06cb11ebe>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 29, 23, 32, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.227.38.32', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:V7P4HGJJWWMGL4Q33AUTXKIPFKQFGADJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c570f13d-443a-4c65-a595-4869942703a1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://summaforte.com/blogs/summaforte-blog/keep-a-healthy-eye-on-your-game', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e604e4bf-0803-4959-a267-b649f65347b3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '397', 'url': 'https://summaforte.com/blogs/summaforte-blog/keep-a-healthy-eye-on-your-game', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-88\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.21909528970718384', 'original_id': 'fb161eb279e9bbb1f074628f48bc53132243349b672b5199360912abf7031894'} |
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